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@@mostawesomecomment6553 Lol, psychic powers never have been proven in the first place! It's so refreshing to see how all those mumbo-jumbo folks make an utter fool of themselves!
i am obsessed with the fact that not a single one of these individuals had the psychic foresight to predict that agreeing to publicly debunk themselves would destroy their credibility
Unfortunately both Uri Gellar and Peter “The Ripoff” Popoff kept many devout followers. To them, keeping the faith no matter how ridiculous it was was more important to their lives than giving it up. I do not necessarily criticize them because it is even worse today then it was back then and many of us today are guilty of the same thing.
That's exactly what testing is. He's not there to debunk anyone, just test if they're correct. If they are correct, they should be able to pass the test
Theres a very important reason why he only does so indirectly. People get very defensive over their beliefs, and challenging a belief is the same as a personal attack to 99% of people.
What he should've done the same thing as usual, I mean when the Styrofoam fly's everywhere because of his blowing he could've just said "I can't focus my powers on the page alone" or something, that way he wouldnt have looked like a total buffoon
@@Arizona_lilly And yet both sell there services all the time. They just don't ever seem to do them in situations where they can't con their way out when things go wrong.
@ IRBADL TALD - Some hospitals actually using healers to this very day, and i´m talking about USA, Europe etc.. Scary how those Quacks, can get their tentacles in anywhere.
"We said that by chance you would find it on your third or fourth attempt, you found it on the third attempt so your results, sadly, seem to be no better than chance." That was just a completely hilarious and spot on conclusion to that segment :D
You do know that is physics anyone can do it lol chi is real but not what we are lead to believe ! its not some super power . Power lol maybe wrong word for it its a form of energy it can after effect throw a stone into water and that is it ! . sorta like how kinetic energy works
Especially in the age of cell phones. Hmmm better use my super power to look up the number for the bat cave...oh sh.t phone books dont exist anymore because we have digital contact lists...better use my other super power...crawling into a hole and dying kapow!!!!
The 37 names she gave were coincidentally the 37 most common names of the time, giving her the best shot of matching . "Bill, David, Mark, Michael, Rob, Steve " were all in there, and the most common men's names of the time
@@costilla1212 RIP common sense. Wanna know what the most common US names are now? You can look it up online. I just did on the social security website which goes up to the 2010s and they are as white as you must think you are. Noah, Liam, Jacob, William, Mason, Ethan, Michael… Unless Mohammeds, Ling Lings and Tyrones have replaced over half of the population in the last ten years, I’m pretty confident that this data is still accurate.
@@costilla1212 Yeah, that doesn't sound like a racist take at all. The U.S. has a multitude of problems, but cultural diversity and names you think are weird aren't anywhere on that list of issues.
You see the fabric had not been appropriately tuned for the air polarity, this means that my telekinesis cannot be emanated from my puckered asshole. My sphincter magic is very delicate, you see.
It would’ve been funny if James said ok then and removed the foam and put a couple of lit candles in front of it instead. That way we could see the flames being blown instead of the foam lol
One of the reasons why Styrofoam was even invented in the first place was because it DOES NOT CONDUCT ELECTRICITY in any way. Jeez, Hydrick, I learned that in high school!
Yeah, but if he "read" the name Muhammad, he would probably get about 20 people he/she knows. It is the most common name in the world. Unless that person he is doing a psychic reading for is from, say, Taiwan.
Wow, this James Randi guy sure is a sneaky devil. Can't believe he cheated that poor guy out of 10k by putting magical styrofoam around the phone book to block all the psychic energy like that. Outrageous!
Historical TV moment 1: Hydric dressing like a chess piece. Historical TV moment 2: the look on Hydric’s face when Randi pulls out the jar of foam pellets.
And not a single person has claimed Randi's prize to this day. Guess people with powers are very, very _humble_ and none of them actually wants to win millions of dollars instantly. Yeah, that's the only explanation.
I love that James never shakes their hands after their failed 'demonstrations.' The act of clapping and walking away without a backward glance is just so dismissive. Great stuff.
In a lot of ways I think it's terrible and wrong but I feel like there is a silver lining to it, it really depends on the tactfulness of the preacher. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with telling an old, dying woman "your son is going to be okay thanks to all your prayers". Even though that message obviously didn't come from God, it's still a thoughtful message. It may be a message delivered under false pretenses, but sometimes lying is better than telling someone the truth. If it makes someone happy and nobody is actually getting hurt from it, I think it's honestly thoughtful. It's like telling someone what they want to hear, versus what they need to hear. If it makes them happy, that's all that matters in my opinion. What is wrong is when these people act like they are healing terminal illnesses. It's one thing to be realistic and tell someone it'll be okay, you've got a long life left to live, etc. It's another thing entirely to prey on people's beliefs and make them think they are genuinely healed of all their ailments. Especially in exchange for money. These types of people are just a small part of what gives religion a bad name.
spartan456 you’re defending the wrong guy if you’re sticking up for Peter Popoff. Believe it or not, he’s still going and still on tv (though nowhere near as large as he used to be) and still conning anyone and everyone out of their money! Personally, I think Popoff is one of the most disgusting con men out there. He’s one of those preachers who try to convince the gullible into buying into his ‘supernatural power’ (or ‘miracle spring water’) and that the more they donate to him the more ’unexpected’ or divine rewards they will receive. They will try to convince you that if you donate to them even with the last of your money rather than paying bills like you should that a large chunk of money will ‘supernaturally’ appear in your bank account or your bills will suddenly and ‘supernaturally’ be paid. When that doesn’t happen they just tell you that you didn’t have enough faith! It was already terrible when Popoff and his people were fake healing but now they’re trying to take peoples last dollars with the promise of winning the lottery! I’m not religious but this almost makes me wish I was so I could imagine Peter Popoff and his staff burning in hell for all eternity!!!
@@pat5star Oh nah, that guy can go fuck himself. I was just saying that in some ways this kind of thing isn't inherently evil if it's done in a certain way. The way Popoff and others like him do it are purely predatory and malicious.
I think he was also trying to fold the page a little to give a little lip that he could blow under without moving the foam.. Then the presenter turned over a bunch of pages and scuppered his only chance of pulling it off hahaha
I love the way they send them off after failing miserably: "Well, sir - you´re a hack. Thank you for coming." [Applause. Takes emergency exit and boards the Shame Express to oblivion]
The guy at 4:15 is James Alan Hydrick who was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 1977, for which he was imprisoned. Hydrick was imprisoned for child molestation in 1989; he remains in a psychiatric hospital. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hydrick
"He escaped three times: he allegedly kicked through a concrete wall in a Georgia jail, broke through gates at a South Carolina prison, and finally, in 1982, he pole-vaulted over a fence at a state prison in Utah." now THOSE are some real Psychic powers!
James Randi is a hero. I'm so glad he outlived Sylvia Browne who he was after for years. I could imagine if he had died first, Sylvia would have told everyone that Randi contacted her from "the spirit world" and said she was right about everything, topped with an apology.
I actually remember thinking that at the time, you brought it right back! The nasty piece of work definitely would have pulled some awful thing like that. Vile woman. The whole lot of those cold reading, magic trick using charlatans are scum who prey on anxiety, love, fear, and bloody charge for it!
I once had a fantastic psychic reading. The psychic not only knew that I had eaten in a restaurant within the last 3 months, but he even knew that the restaurant's name had a vowel. But what was truly stunning was that he knew the waiter or waitress asked me if I would like a beverage at the start of the order process. Now, I ask you, how could anybody in the world have guessed all of those things? Impossible! I'm a true believer now.
You know, if I were James Randi and someone would admit something like that, I'd give them the money. If any of the people were like "okay, it's fake", I'd respect it.
Uri gellar went on to have a very successful career becoming extremely well known in multiple countries worldwide and becoming a multimillionaire in the process all on the back of basically spoon bending.
@@bubblegumxo and he's thinking f..k me.I just bought this psychic outfit yesterday...well the guy who sold it to him definitely saw him coming!!!! or perhaps the psychics barber was good friends with the outfitter," hi George I've just sold an outfit to a loony tune, he wants a crazy haircut, George " ok send him over I'll do my worst "
Abelhawk I've had the theory that he's actually a wizard, a wizard that feeds off the psychic force of others. That's why they all feel weak around him.
Styrofoam can hold an electric charge and I think paper does as well, but you’d be able to see some styrofoam stick to the paper when he moved the page.
Joe C paper is one of the well known insulators. Which means that it really doesn't like to add or remove electrons. It's not impossible, but unlikely you'll get it to hold a charge.
My mustache and my Asian kung fu outfit is causing psychic anomalies.... maybe static charge? Can that be it? Oh it can't. Huh. so I can't do it, since obviously I am breathing on it. Now if you RIP a telephone book in half, that's a real thing, and not as hard as people might think. Actually, telephone books are pretty funny, member when those were a thing? All the numbers didn't start with 555 either. Cause fucking morons would call them. I blame Jenny and Tutone.
3:57 I remember seeing Hydrick do that trick on the show, "That's Incredible", on ABC, early 1980's. It never occurred to me till much later why he had to squat & get so close to the book. I also remember seeing Randi expose him, (this clip), on this special with Bob Barker, a week or so later.
James hydrick.... there’s a hilarious documentary on here about him.... it’s his ‘‘ martial arts” outfit.... he went to prison for molesting young boys and is now in an institution I believe for life after his prison sentence..... kind of a sad story actually..... his dad used to beat the living shit out of him as a kid.... you should watch it, quite interesting actually
That's the way to do it in my opinion. When you have to be condescending and rude, it makes people think your arguments are weak and don't stand on their own. Some debunkers on TH-cam are like this. (I admit I'm being a bit of a hypocrite since I can be very rude if I get mad, but it's still true.)
"the styrofoam and the light forms electricity" but why should that matter if you're NOT using science to turn the page. gave himself away with thaf sentence
more interestingly< when he showed how the pages were sticking due styrofoam , page fell down, and rolled AWAY from styrofoam. so if anything, that should´ve helped him
These are always hilarious. When i was a kid growing up in the UK Uri was always on it. Had moments on shows saying put a spoon on top of your tv, then a circle would appear on the screen he saying say put your hand on it and say.... jump.... jump spoon.... jump... ahhhh. Holarious looking back
The sad thing is he went on to have good career on TV and people loved him. I remember in the 90's people used to put spoons on top of they tv sets when Geller was on and say that they spoon bend lol.
I am sure Allen, Alfred, Alice, Ann, Bill, Charlie, Colin, Connie, David Derek, Eileen, Ellen, Florey, Frank, Fred, George, Jim, Joe, John, Karen, Kathern, Kevin, Lilian, Lisa, Liz, Lynn, Mark, Mary, May, Michael, Rob, Ron, Shirly, Sidney, Stanley, Sid and Steve all agree.
Sad part is that he is part of that bunch... I did challenge his people over at his own forums and was banned without breaking a rule. Calling out their lies.
@@RightfootWestHam It depends. If your challenge was highly moronic it makes sense to just wave you away. And lets be frank, there are a lot of people trying to prove bullshit using the same moronic arguments over and over and over again, without checking if what they are saying has been debunked OUTSIDE their echo chamber forums/church groups. The dumb arguments/people vastly outnumber those who have the time to waste answering them, so yeah...
@@gerasimosskarakis811 It was well documented highly respected person that no one dared to look in to. Can you do me a favor, go and read those rules for the test. Then come back to me and tell me the issue with that contract. If you cant, then I explain it to you and you can sit there like everyone else: "Yeah that is not cool" . You are displaying the same issue as back in the day in those forums, you dont want to put in effort and time to research something. But go ahead, prove me wrong. I be waiting. Everything I have stated stands as truth.
I read comments about him somewhere else with these clips people were saying he got in trouble later for other things I don't want to get into details but you might be able find something about him?
Funny how when he was confronted by a test which would indicate if the page was being blown over, rather than turned with psychic power, he became helpless.
D sTRUTHers scientifically it is impossible.. the closest we’ll come to telekinesis would be computers that you could control with thought. Like those prosthetics that can be moved with your mind
@@Quiscalus777 I low key felt so sorry for him. It's just embarrassing to watch to him fumble his way through the static story, but you could hear thr defeat in his voice. And in his little martial art suit. Oh, it's all too much. 🤣🤣
@@JudeTavonFenwick no I know. It's just hilarious that they have a team of scientists and an expert magician to debunk such a pretty basic trick. Like it was bound to humiliate this guy
@@Loctorak I think they mean that there are more people in the world who prefer their “woo” nonsense than there are skeptics. E.G. Uri Geller & Peter Popoff were absolutely exposed as frauds by Randi on Johnny Carson, which was the biggest tv show at those times, and both of them were still able to continue to flourish with successful careers. After the Popoff exposure, people were mad at Randi, not Peter Popoff…wtf!??
The famous Harry Houdini also made it a life's mission to expose psychic frauds. Too bad there weren't any videos in those days. It's really fun reading about it.
“I heard the question, but the question is not valid because it’s making an assumption that is not true.” I’m definitely remembering this the next time my girl wanna argue.
The thing is , in the 1970’s when URI Geller was a huge famous worldwide household name. My father and us 3 boys and me all believed what we saw on the tv, when we saw URI Geller bending spoons and forks. We all tried to bend spoons but to no avail! 😂 This guy fooled the whole world!
I'm waiting for The Amazing Randi To reveal that he is 972 years old and the one and only true psychic and that he has just been looking for his true equal all of these years
The “lights, static, and the electricity” bit is super embarrassing! 😂 He picked up the page 2-3 times, and EVERY TIME it went the opposite way the “psychic” wanted it to go! 😂
@ lol right. It was just super funny to me that he tried however many times to flip the page, and every single time, even with him having it half way there, he failed every time. Cracked me up.
For the cold readings; I’d love to see these British and US psychics go to China or Japan, do their readings and try to guess names. “I’m getting a...ummm....uh.......Carl?”
*Summary of clips* 0:00 Unknown show. Maureen Flynn uses cold reading: the art of using ambiguous and likely-sounding guesses and responding based on the mark's reaction (verbal or in body gesture) to these guesses to pretend you magically know intimate details that the mark is actually telling you as you go. In some cases, the reader has actually stalked you and looked up pertinent information ahead of time (hot-reading) before finding you in the audience. 2:02 The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Uri Geller specialized in bending spoons and other illusion stage magic. At Randi's advice, Carson (a former stage magician himself) selected the props and prevented Geller and his team from rigging them, so Geller couldn't perform his tricks. 3:56 That's My Line, hosted by Bob Barker, about 1980. James Hydrick used air movements to turn book pages, move pencils, etc - Randi copied all of these stunts to show they were not paranormal. Hydrick had been raised by an abusive father and learned karate to protect himself after his brother was beaten to death. He escaped from prison three times following a '77 conviction for kidnapping & torture by KICKING THROUGH A CONCRETE WALL and POLE-VAULTING OVER THE PRISON FENCE. Unfortunately, Hydrick used his martial arts talents and the promise of teaching psychokinetic powers as a manipulation technique to coerce children into sex, and was convicted of sexual assault against a minor in 1989 (for raping five underage boys.) 8:48 James Randi - Psychic Investigator, episode 4. Dowsing is the idea that a stick, either attuned to a psychic plane or wielded by a psychic, can respond in some meaningful way to arbitrary information. Assuming that the dowser is not intentionally lying, the floppy donkey dick response of the rod is popularly attributed to the ideomotor effect, which causes unconscious and goal-orientated muscle movement to falsely support a desired outcome. This effect is also behind Ouija boards. 13:41 Randi has exposed many aura readers with similar tricks to this one. Another one was given many, many partitions and claimed they each had a human aura behind them, but when opened, very few if any actually did. 17:01 Infamous faith healer Peter Popoff. Not only was his wife feeding him stalker-style information through a wireless device, but she and the rest of the crew made crude asides about some of his clientele, including racial slurs and sexual remarks.
First clip is also Psychic Investigator, first season (was there ever a 2nd one?). Thanks for putting this list together, it should be in the video description.
I think that's important (that he's calm) and it's where a lot of people trip up. If you stay calm and talk rationally and politely you'll lose the arguement and not make any headway at all
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Everyone knows that foam static blocks phycic powers.
This whole video is just more propaganda from Big Science.
Happy this video is blowing up again
@@mostawesomecomment6553 Lol, psychic powers never have been proven in the first place! It's so refreshing to see how all those mumbo-jumbo folks make an utter fool of themselves!
People want to believe and are therefore easy marks. These people are nothing more than scammers and fakes.
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i am obsessed with the fact that not a single one of these individuals had the psychic foresight to predict that agreeing to publicly debunk themselves would destroy their credibility
That is because some of these individuals actually believed their own lies. The best lies are the ones you tell yourself I guess.
I don't think they knew
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Hubris?
Unfortunately both Uri Gellar and Peter “The Ripoff” Popoff kept many devout followers. To them, keeping the faith no matter how ridiculous it was was more important to their lives than giving it up. I do not necessarily criticize them because it is even worse today then it was back then and many of us today are guilty of the same thing.
science has yet to explain the link between psychic abilities and awful hairstyles.
styles change throughout time. that was IT back then
John Tower it's beyond human understanding
There are some things man is just not meant to know.
Pfffft, shows how much you know! That hair's totally in fashion on "the other side" right now.
and sequins
I like how he let's them expose themselves, never directly accuses.
Captain Ron That is the secret of his power, and the weakness of their "power"
That's exactly what testing is. He's not there to debunk anyone, just test if they're correct. If they are correct, they should be able to pass the test
Normally whenever people expose themselves in public it is a bad thing.
They think or want to prove they can fly, he provides them with the building and camera crew to show off their abilities.
Theres a very important reason why he only does so indirectly.
People get very defensive over their beliefs, and challenging a belief is the same as a personal attack to 99% of people.
James Randi a man of his time, exposing the charlatans that TV was so happy to promote.
Imagine if you actually had psychic powers but you were only strong enough to move the page of a book. How sad
And Then a bit of static between the pages ruins it all 😂.
@@bastrixer Curse you, electrostatic forces!
you have no place in the universe.
@jason lul wait for real
Psychic powers are more about feeling your surrounding and less about breaking the physical law
That moment when he squats down and kind of laughs, you know he's thinking "jesus chrsit what the hell am I gonna do, I'm stuck now."
@@noomiidwr what's his name
@@traitorjoseph1893 James hydrick
What he should've done the same thing as usual, I mean when the Styrofoam fly's everywhere because of his blowing he could've just said "I can't focus my powers on the page alone" or something, that way he wouldnt have looked like a total buffoon
It's that feeling when you're on national tv, with a dodgy haircut and in your pyjamas. What the fuck do you do?
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 Now in prison!
This is why psychics dont win the lottery and healers dont work at hospitals
they say they lose the gift if they do it just for financial gain
@@Arizona_lilly right lol except they charge ppl hundreds of dollars for these readings... 🤔🤔🤔
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@@Arizona_lilly And yet both sell there services all the time. They just don't ever seem to do them in situations where they can't con their way out when things go wrong.
Lol. You’ve commented this on more than one video
@ IRBADL TALD - Some hospitals actually using healers to this very day, and i´m talking about USA, Europe etc.. Scary how those Quacks, can get their tentacles in anywhere.
"We said that by chance you would find it on your third or fourth attempt, you found it on the third attempt so your results, sadly, seem to be no better than chance."
That was just a completely hilarious and spot on conclusion to that segment :D
Sad part is he got lucky 3/7 is better then 4/7 haha
I'm psychic too. I knew that all of them were gonna fail
Whoosh me all you want, but you ain't psychic, you're just sensible.
@@EdwardNavu I'm not gonna r/woosh you. I'm just gonna tell you that you cant take a joke.
Edward knave Chris is just joking.
Chris is a god
Amazing teaches me sempi
Being able to flip a page in a phone book is the lamest power possible.
You do know that is physics anyone can do it lol chi is real but not what we are lead to believe ! its not some super power .
Power lol maybe wrong word for it its a form of energy it can after effect throw a stone into water and that is it ! .
sorta like how kinetic energy works
Especially in the age of cell phones.
Hmmm better use my super power to look up the number for the bat cave...oh sh.t phone books dont exist anymore because we have digital contact lists...better use my other super power...crawling into a hole and dying kapow!!!!
@B lmao
Its DC's newest superhero
“Hey, girl...”
It's like 'To Catch A Predator' for psychics.
"To catch a psychic, who couldn't foresee his trap"
Third dude with stache was actually a predator
@Miss Anthrope they merely amuse me. I'm fine with it 😊
lol hahaha
Not so fun fact... The one at 4:00 was actually a predator and a horrific one at that.
The 37 names she gave were coincidentally the 37 most common names of the time, giving her the best shot of matching . "Bill, David, Mark, Michael, Rob, Steve " were all in there, and the most common men's names of the time
Nowadays you'd have to give names like Tyrone,Juan,Ling Ling & Mohammed 😂
RIP America
@@costilla1212 this
@@costilla1212 RIP common sense. Wanna know what the most common US names are now? You can look it up online. I just did on the social security website which goes up to the 2010s and they are as white as you must think you are. Noah, Liam, Jacob, William, Mason, Ethan, Michael… Unless Mohammeds, Ling Lings and Tyrones have replaced over half of the population in the last ten years, I’m pretty confident that this data is still accurate.
@@costilla1212 Yeah, that doesn't sound like a racist take at all. The U.S. has a multitude of problems, but cultural diversity and names you think are weird aren't anywhere on that list of issues.
@@costilla1212 Holy hell... just being straight racist now huh? Get out of here with that hate.
The way he tossed the transcript at him killed me 😂😂
Angelina Vargas
He was like “you bitch!” 😂😂😂
'here, go on, catch this. You stupid fucking dickhead, what does it say?'
@@JT-km6th you made my day.
Time stamp?
@@Soapia99th 1:44
Imagine having your supernatural powers foiled by styrofoam
grindamadurin what if we were all psychic and styrofoam ate all our powers?
@@CanadianBullFrog im crying now! Boycott styrofoam
grindamadurin just like bolt
In other words kryptonite
God forbid he's ever attacked by a mad man wielding a Styrofoam weapon.
What if these people really are Psychic but James Randi is a better one and is being an epic troll by stopping their powers?
that'd be the best thing ever.
'Lol nah, this my spot'
agree. i think randy has psychic too
Banjo The Fox some "psychics" actually claimed that to be the case
Banjo The Fox Ah, No!
The guy trying to turn pages had problems with static electricity, I'm sure it was his funny costume that was the cause of the static 😂
Dude was a child molester and murderer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hydrick
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Or that hair cut and wierd little mustache
You see the fabric had not been appropriately tuned for the air polarity, this means that my telekinesis cannot be emanated from my puckered asshole. My sphincter magic is very delicate, you see.
He would have turned a few pages since, he is in prison to this day
The heat from the light is creating static electricity on the foam
Clearly.
i am a lizard
It would’ve been funny if James said ok then and removed the foam and put a couple of lit candles in front of it instead. That way we could see the flames being blown instead of the foam lol
@@babycakessr.8704 Or just told him to turn the pages towards himself.
One of the reasons why Styrofoam was even invented in the first place was because it DOES NOT CONDUCT ELECTRICITY in any way.
Jeez, Hydrick, I learned that in high school!
The best part is watching him attempt to demonstrate the static cling, and every time he drops the page it falls in the opposite direction. Hilarious.
Now this is what I call entertaining television. Calling out scammers scams on live television and watching them act like fools
Nowadays they just give them TV shows
@@SpilcedJeans Or elect them to public office.
@@toddgaak422 you can just say you support Trump you bigot. He's not the president anymore.
yup this is quality tv. they should bring it back
@Todd Gaak. Exactly. 😂
I'd like to watch a "psychic" do a reading for a foreigner. They couldn't come up with any names hahaha.
Hahahahahaha!!!! XD
Yeah, but if he "read" the name Muhammad, he would probably get about 20 people he/she knows. It is the most common name in the world. Unless that person he is doing a psychic reading for is from, say, Taiwan.
is it the most common name in the world? or most common in the muslim majority countries??
Both I believe. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it states in the world, however that source is from Wikipedia.
+Fuck Google
Don't be that dude
That's why magic sets come in styrofoam packaging, it keeps powerful magic under control.
“The paper is being PULLED down, see?”
*proceeds to lift the page and have it fall the opposite way he said it would not once, but THREE TIMES*
The cringe was suffocating. Lol
LoL 😂
He should have then said the foam was causing reverse electronic gravitational rotational circolosis.
@@RoyalCaymanian 😂😂😂
@@spartanstick4556 The foam was causing static which prevented him using his psychic power. Don't you get it?
@@PreservationEnthusiast
*Slaps forehead*
Duh, I can't believe I didn't understand that. I'm an idiot. Lol
''we have the transcript right here'' WHIPS IT AT HIM.
Shawn Senior A wizard never throws a transcript too hard, nor too soft... he throws it precisely as he means to.
@@keirantalent nice one ;)
I seriously LOST IT when I saw that 😂😂😂😂 I’m still laughing about it
It was definitely passive-agressive :D Love it !
that wasn't a fnck passive!
Wow, this James Randi guy sure is a sneaky devil. Can't believe he cheated that poor guy out of 10k by putting magical styrofoam around the phone book to block all the psychic energy like that. Outrageous!
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Had us in the first half
Psychic Kryptonite.
the nerve!
Doesn't say much for psychic ability when it can be negated by a packing peanut.
Historical TV moment 1: Hydric dressing like a chess piece.
Historical TV moment 2: the look on Hydric’s face when Randi pulls out the jar of foam pellets.
This dude had a huge reward for anyone that could prove they had abilities. He destroyed so many careers but it's their fault.
Gavin star honestly what’s reality TV?
Unfortunately they are probably thriving thanks to our inability to use common sense.
@Gavin star have you heard of politicians?
And not a single person has claimed Randi's prize to this day.
Guess people with powers are very, very _humble_ and none of them actually wants to win millions of dollars instantly. Yeah, that's the only explanation.
He still does. He's offering a million dollars to anyone who can prove the existence of God or psychic powers.
I love that James never shakes their hands after their failed 'demonstrations.' The act of clapping and walking away without a backward glance is just so dismissive. Great stuff.
Yeah he made that last guy say his silly claim again and then just left him hanging like a total idiot. That's got to be the Randi slamdown.
I think it may be a sign of great restraint on the part of Randi, not to just tell them they are frauds and should piss off.
"Thank you for coming to the show"
He's a hero who has no time to shake hands with these criminals.
Thats a great observation, love it :-)
I hated the healer who made the old ladies believe in that. It made me want to cry at how manipulative it was :(
To be fair, they are not the smartest to believe him in the first place. Still a dick move though.
Jim Jones lasting legacy is preachers like that . They saw how much money he accrued by taking everyone's possessions
In a lot of ways I think it's terrible and wrong but I feel like there is a silver lining to it, it really depends on the tactfulness of the preacher. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with telling an old, dying woman "your son is going to be okay thanks to all your prayers". Even though that message obviously didn't come from God, it's still a thoughtful message. It may be a message delivered under false pretenses, but sometimes lying is better than telling someone the truth. If it makes someone happy and nobody is actually getting hurt from it, I think it's honestly thoughtful. It's like telling someone what they want to hear, versus what they need to hear. If it makes them happy, that's all that matters in my opinion.
What is wrong is when these people act like they are healing terminal illnesses. It's one thing to be realistic and tell someone it'll be okay, you've got a long life left to live, etc. It's another thing entirely to prey on people's beliefs and make them think they are genuinely healed of all their ailments. Especially in exchange for money. These types of people are just a small part of what gives religion a bad name.
spartan456 you’re defending the wrong guy if you’re sticking up for Peter Popoff. Believe it or not, he’s still going and still on tv (though nowhere near as large as he used to be) and still conning anyone and everyone out of their money!
Personally, I think Popoff is one of the most disgusting con men out there. He’s one of those preachers who try to convince the gullible into buying into his ‘supernatural power’ (or ‘miracle spring water’) and that the more they donate to him the more ’unexpected’ or divine rewards they will receive. They will try to convince you that if you donate to them even with the last of your money rather than paying bills like you should that a large chunk of money will ‘supernaturally’ appear in your bank account or your bills will suddenly and ‘supernaturally’ be paid.
When that doesn’t happen they just tell you that you didn’t have enough faith!
It was already terrible when Popoff and his people were fake healing but now they’re trying to take peoples last dollars with the promise of winning the lottery! I’m not religious but this almost makes me wish I was so I could imagine Peter Popoff and his staff burning in hell for all eternity!!!
@@pat5star Oh nah, that guy can go fuck himself. I was just saying that in some ways this kind of thing isn't inherently evil if it's done in a certain way. The way Popoff and others like him do it are purely predatory and malicious.
Basically a guy in pajamas blowing phone book pages
I LOVE the fact that when he tried to "demonstrate" that the light and styrofoam made the page fall back, it instead just fell forward (three times).
He tried to manipulate science 🧪🤣.
I think he was also trying to fold the page a little to give a little lip that he could blow under without moving the foam.. Then the presenter turned over a bunch of pages and scuppered his only chance of pulling it off hahaha
Hm
i laughed each time bro
@@gemstar7286he must be a Democrat!!!
RIP James Randi, the world desperately needs more people like you, especially now.
He died?????????
@Mansoor Shakeel Hell is not metaphore for bad events
I didn't know he had passed on. This year has been the worst
@ what do you call a decade of bad shit?
2020 :(
We still have penn and teller to debunks
I love the way they send them off after failing miserably: "Well, sir - you´re a hack. Thank you for coming."
[Applause. Takes emergency exit and boards the Shame Express to oblivion]
Lasse Bauer 13:24
Lasse Bauer Hahahaha awesome comment
Lasse Bauer shame express lol, good times!
Lasse Bauer that's why James Randi is one of my favourite people
He even looks at the guys hand like he was going to shake it, then claps to silence the guy lol
The guy at 4:15 is James Alan Hydrick who was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 1977, for which he was imprisoned. Hydrick was imprisoned for child molestation in 1989; he remains in a psychiatric hospital. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hydrick
what in the world.... I mean, he kinda looks like one but for real...
"He escaped three times: he allegedly kicked through a concrete wall in a Georgia jail, broke through gates at a South Carolina prison, and finally, in 1982, he pole-vaulted over a fence at a state prison in Utah." now THOSE are some real Psychic powers!
@@roxteratShazam.
"Hydrick was born in South Carolina to 36-year-old father Billy Hydrick and 13-year-old mother Lois Hydrick." Seems being a p3do runs in the family
A shame he used up all his psychic powers on flipping a flimsy page instead of predicting his fate.😂
The way he politely thanks and dismisses them after proving that they're full of shit is so passive-aggressively savage!
This is my favorite part, too. Then has the audience applaud them like he didn't just destroy their entire livelihood......ha. Savage!
too bad he was such a nasty negative and angry human being
They way he left them standing there looking is 🤣 😂😂😂😂
But also very professional.
@@jjaniero He was? How so? I'm new to knowing about him so this is news to me.
James Randi is a hero. I'm so glad he outlived Sylvia Browne who he was after for years. I could imagine if he had died first, Sylvia would have told everyone that Randi contacted her from "the spirit world" and said she was right about everything, topped with an apology.
Agreed. We need much more people like him promoting critical thinking rather than superstitious beliefs.
I can't stand Sylvia Brown
@@kenmaddock7469 Yes!
I actually remember thinking that at the time, you brought it right back! The nasty piece of work definitely would have pulled some awful thing like that. Vile woman. The whole lot of those cold reading, magic trick using charlatans are scum who prey on anxiety, love, fear, and bloody charge for it!
I wish he was here for that stupid scam artist with the Karen hair from Long Island.
"The styrofoam and the lights create electricity...that pulls the page down..."
Um....nope, that's called gravity.
P smith003.5 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Zack Vahn THATS WHAT I SAID!⬇🌍⬇
Zack Vahn that actually made me lol
Zack Vahn why have you taken "GradeAUnderA's" picture as you're own
Probably because this is the internet, and that stuff happens. A lot.
5:23 how I sound to my probation officer when I fail my drug test after the 3rd attempt
funny, got me chuckling so thanx!!
I once had a fantastic psychic reading. The psychic not only knew that I had eaten in a restaurant within the last 3 months, but he even knew that the restaurant's name had a vowel. But what was truly stunning was that he knew the waiter or waitress asked me if I would like a beverage at the start of the order process. Now, I ask you, how could anybody in the world have guessed all of those things? Impossible! I'm a true believer now.
Ralph…f’n funny 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
😄😄😄😄
I actually had the best psychic reading inside a restaurant. The waiter or waitress asked me if I would like "a beer as usual".
Lmao they all ask if you want a drink at the start, and most people go out every few months. Specially now days just to show social media.
"So, what's your special power?"
"I can make me carreer disappear instantly"
"really? how can you manage that?"
"i was dumb enough to come here"
You know, if I were James Randi and someone would admit something like that, I'd give them the money. If any of the people were like "okay, it's fake", I'd respect it.
Hahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
@darth geekboy
Wow. Talk about hanging in there
Uri gellar went on to have a very successful career becoming extremely well known in multiple countries worldwide and becoming a multimillionaire in the process all on the back of basically spoon bending.
🤣😆🤣
Its so funny seeing that phone book guy try sizing it up, thinkin "damn how am i gonna blow around all this shit??"
Probably more thinking "I'm never going to live this down." 😂
@@bubblegumxo and he's thinking f..k me.I just bought this psychic outfit yesterday...well the guy who sold it to him definitely saw him coming!!!! or perhaps the psychics barber was good friends with the outfitter," hi George I've just sold an outfit to a loony tune, he wants a crazy haircut, George " ok send him over I'll do my worst "
@@peterfitzgerald7327 😁😆😅🤣
haha funny asf
Hahah I bet that guy with the phone book was actually trying to move the page with his mind for the first time ever when he was kneeling down lol
Then probally realized he has no power at all
“One minute later” you can see this guy sweating and trying to figure out how he can weasel out of it. Probably the longest minute of his life.
Thanks for that laugh m8 i needed it lol
“...and the neighbors’ dog.”
My sides are in orbit.
ranger1986ka I’m laughing ,too.
@ranger1986ka nah youre probably just autistic or something
I laughed too
The way he says it is the best part. Like as if asking, "Are you fucking serious?"
I peed my pants!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🐶
Plot twist: James Randi is the only real psychic in the world and he wants to throw everyone else off his trail.
Abelhawk I've had the theory that he's actually a wizard, a wizard that feeds off the psychic force of others. That's why they all feel weak around him.
Yeah something weird going on with this shit lol
Lol
Watch Red Lights...it's exactly what you just said. LOL
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That guy with pages made me laugh far more than I should have
Shazam Guy convicted
Jimmy Page
Masqerader ahhh damn, I actually felt bad for that disgusting piece of shit ...
first sentence of his Wiki bio.."James Allen Hydrick is an American former stage performer, self-described psychic and convicted child molester"
samira sadiq fuck that
I went to see a psychic once. I knocked on the door and she said “who is it “. So I left Lmao
reminds me of a joke i heard in Fallout 3: ''I was going to attend the clairvoyants meeting, but it was cancelled due to unforeseen events.''
🤣🤣
We have a few local here. I've often thought about bursting through their door and asking if they knew I was coming.
@@_Clayton.Bigsby_ 😂😂😂 Hilarious
@@_Clayton.Bigsby_ "Well, I didn't know. But what are you here for?"
And then you go "You tell me"
Guy: Probably half a dozen
James: *mentions 37 names*
Why can't he just say 6 . There's no need to use the word dozen!!! Lol jk
@@mwg911hk ikr
Notice how they never say, LaSean, Shaquille, Dino, Poindexter, Tito or Prince.
mwg911hk
Based on that logic, there’s no need to say 6 either.
@@mwg911hk I guess half a dozen means anything around 6, not 6 exactly.
liars exposed. never gets old.
"The styrofoam and the lights form electricity which pulls the page, look it pulls the page down"
Bruh no that's gravity
Rose Cake RIGHT
Styrofoam can hold an electric charge and I think paper does as well, but you’d be able to see some styrofoam stick to the paper when he moved the page.
Plus it kept falling on the wrong side each time he tried
Joe C paper is one of the well known insulators. Which means that it really doesn't like to add or remove electrons. It's not impossible, but unlikely you'll get it to hold a charge.
My mustache and my Asian kung fu outfit is causing psychic anomalies.... maybe static charge? Can that be it? Oh it can't. Huh. so I can't do it, since obviously I am breathing on it. Now if you RIP a telephone book in half, that's a real thing, and not as hard as people might think. Actually, telephone books are pretty funny, member when those were a thing? All the numbers didn't start with 555 either. Cause fucking morons would call them. I blame Jenny and Tutone.
The way he threw those papers was some Thug life kind of stuff.
Shut up
Shit was like be some fucking man
same thing I thought lmao
Hotboytrue you should take your own advice
Beautiful Diva 🤙🏾💯💯💯💯💯😭😂🤣
The ability to psychically detect zinc ore is probably the most pointless "talent" that man could think of.
It's everywhere.
You'd eventually get tired of those constnt tingles, then, used.
It'd be as another sense
It is similar to having the psychic ability to tell if popcorn is salted or not.
Unless you're a thief
*That man*
*That man is carrying a lot of pennies*
Rattlesnake Biscuits This comment is underrated as fuck hahahahah
@@HerecomestheCalavera oh my god, are you referencing Angry Video Game Nerd pre-fame short film? lol
3:57 I remember seeing Hydrick do that trick on the show, "That's Incredible", on ABC, early 1980's.
It never occurred to me till much later why he had to squat & get so close to the book.
I also remember seeing Randi expose him, (this clip), on this special with Bob Barker, a week or so later.
Imagine having such pathetic psychic powers that a couple peanuts of styrofoam can totally disarm you.
Cryptonite
Wasn't that a South Park episode?
Not exactly pulling an X-Wing out of a Swamp.
He could have said that his power is too strong and would move styrofoam along with page. Strange that he didn't think of that.
Worst Xman ever! lol
Damn, wonder how he felt sitting there for 30 seconds, knowing damn well he got no psychic abilities 😐
With that silly hairstyle and outfit!
Kmsl!!!!
i bet he spent that entire 30 second period thinking of what his next excuse would be
I think he spent the entire 30 seconds going “ok maybe there’s a slim chance I have psychic powers after all” and actually trying
@@Moondial I was thinking that, but at the same time I was thinking "Dear God, I hope he's not thinking that".
So this is what Dumbledore does whenever he's not at Hogwarts.
Pretty much
Watch out if you diss him he might turn u into a frog
Lmao
Dumbledore wishes he was 1/2 the badass Randi is.
doubledoor 🤣😂🤣
Once again south park summed it up best in the John Edward episode:
"...I'm getting a Buh, Guh, Duh, Tuh, Kuh..."
"Kenny!"
"...Kenny says Hi"
"This isn't a magician's trick."
Dresses like a magician
he wasnt lying. it was a scam artists trick.
😅😂😆
James hydrick.... there’s a hilarious documentary on here about him.... it’s his ‘‘ martial arts” outfit.... he went to prison for molesting young boys and is now in an institution I believe for life after his prison sentence..... kind of a sad story actually..... his dad used to beat the living shit out of him as a kid.... you should watch it, quite interesting actually
But yes he’s def a fraud just blows air out of his mouth obviously
Those are raditional chinese wizard garb
" Oh no. My only weakness. An older man with 10k Dollar and styrofoam " 🤣🤣🤣
Bullets ....... My only weakness
THEBEAST911 BEAST911MODE how did you know...? XD
@@JoseDKira11 lmao
Wouldn't that suck if dudes kryptonite was actually Styrofoam and paper with ink on it?
“What’re your powers?”
“Do you have a phone book? I’m about to blow your mind “
Soooo... Nothing changes for me?
"Use the styrofoam, Luke."
What a load of crap.
The last one shame on you.
You've got access to a supernatural ability that only a few humans possess, and what you can do with it? Move a single page of a nearby book
7:30 that expression is like when a child realizes an adult isn't believing their phony story
Randy was so incredibly deferential and polite to those frauds, who certainly didn’t deserve it. He was a classy guy.
Handed their asses in class. Respect.
Treat people how you want to be treated
That's the way to do it in my opinion. When you have to be condescending and rude, it makes people think your arguments are weak and don't stand on their own. Some debunkers on TH-cam are like this. (I admit I'm being a bit of a hypocrite since I can be very rude if I get mad, but it's still true.)
He was a pedophile moron....
@@caspers.8846 And it seems you are a detractor
"the styrofoam and the light forms electricity" but why should that matter if you're NOT using science to turn the page. gave himself away with thaf sentence
Also, we should all take note. Free electricity from styrofoam.
Lukeor max planck is looking down at us all pissed and whatnot
more interestingly< when he showed how the pages were sticking due styrofoam , page fell down, and rolled AWAY from styrofoam. so if anything, that should´ve helped him
Lol
Considering the lights are only functioning due to electricity kinda kills his argument.
Damn that foam static!
They don't make sleepwear like that anymore.
That must be what Magneto made his helmet out of!
These are always hilarious. When i was a kid growing up in the UK Uri was always on it. Had moments on shows saying put a spoon on top of your tv, then a circle would appear on the screen he saying say put your hand on it and say.... jump.... jump spoon.... jump... ahhhh. Holarious looking back
''I'm not feeling strong tonight.''
lmao
The sad thing is he went on to have good career on TV and people loved him. I remember in the 90's people used to put spoons on top of they tv sets when Geller was on and say that they spoon bend lol.
"In the 90's"?
Not so much.
His heyday(the silly spoons and watches routine) was "in the 70's"
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
😂😂
I'm not feeling strong tonight.
i cant get it up either
Sounds like me during an exam 😂
@@mathieuwojtylo3091 😂😂😂
That should've been the name of this show.
@@ambiank4980 so true lol
I love the way James calls people a liar in the most polite way possible
I am sure Allen, Alfred, Alice, Ann, Bill, Charlie, Colin, Connie, David Derek, Eileen, Ellen, Florey, Frank, Fred, George, Jim, Joe, John, Karen, Kathern, Kevin, Lilian, Lisa, Liz, Lynn, Mark, Mary, May, Michael, Rob, Ron, Shirly, Sidney, Stanley, Sid and Steve all agree.
Yeah he comes across as a genuinely kind person even when he’s telling someone they don’t have a leg to stand on
Sad part is that he is part of that bunch... I did challenge his people over at his own forums and was banned without breaking a rule. Calling out their lies.
@@RightfootWestHam It depends. If your challenge was highly moronic it makes sense to just wave you away. And lets be frank, there are a lot of people trying to prove bullshit using the same moronic arguments over and over and over again, without checking if what they are saying has been debunked OUTSIDE their echo chamber forums/church groups.
The dumb arguments/people vastly outnumber those who have the time to waste answering them, so yeah...
@@gerasimosskarakis811 It was well documented highly respected person that no one dared to look in to.
Can you do me a favor, go and read those rules for the test.
Then come back to me and tell me the issue with that contract.
If you cant, then I explain it to you and you can sit there like everyone else: "Yeah that is not cool" .
You are displaying the same issue as back in the day in those forums, you dont want to put in effort and time to research something. But go ahead, prove me wrong. I be waiting.
Everything I have stated stands as truth.
16:35 I love how he doesn't even agrue with him, he just makes him double down on his lie to humiliate him
The bowl cut guy that doesn't want to admit he was blowing the pages is hilarious
Imagine the internal “ah fuck!” moment when he saw what James Randi was doing.
Have to give him credit to appear in public looking like that
I read comments about him somewhere else with these clips people were saying he got in trouble later for other things I don't want to get into details but you might be able find something about him?
@@davemustaki134 not that interested
@@paulbrown6464 good
Dude with the styrofoam problem was straight up laughing cuz he knew he wasn't gonna be able to do shit to those pages, LMAO.
that dude was actually a child molester...glad he's still locked up
the guy name James
The outfit & hair cut were pretty good clues that he was full of shit….
Yet his fancy suit almost guaranteed success , perhaps some lacy frills or a purple velvet sash would have amplified his psychic resonance .
Funny how when he was confronted by a test which would indicate if the page was being blown over, rather than turned with psychic power, he became helpless.
5:37
"Pulls the page down."
Page goes opposite direction
XD
Twice lol
that had me dying XD
From an actual source or just his facial hair?
It's called "gravity"
no... its psychic honest! LD LOL
"I want to join the xforce "
"I can move pages with my mind...sometimes "
“The styrofoam and lights create electricity, look.”
*starts to demonstrate gravity*
Turns out hes a prolific nonce! Locked up for life!
The greatest magic trick of all.
His mama cut his hair and sent him to the stage in his pajamas.
Slightly smarter than flat Earthers then.
imagine spending hours warming your psychic abilities up just to move a very very thin sheet of paper a little bit
Souns like mob psycho series
Mind over matter. Telekinesis. Even little motion is a BIG accomplishment
@Tekboy 808 nah I'm pretty sure it's physically impossible so yeah it's simply impossible
Its just... Its just POWER xD
D sTRUTHers scientifically it is impossible.. the closest we’ll come to telekinesis would be computers that you could control with thought. Like those prosthetics that can be moved with your mind
if i had psychic powers and all it enabled me to do was turn the pages of a book, i'd feel a bit cheated!
And only be able to turn it in the absence of foam lol.
@@Quiscalus777 I low key felt so sorry for him. It's just embarrassing to watch to him fumble his way through the static story, but you could hear thr defeat in his voice. And in his little martial art suit. Oh, it's all too much. 🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
But just imagine back in the day when people actually brought porn magazines how handy that would of been as a teenager 😂😂
@@pinkypete6079 before or after they were stuck together?
Lloyd Christmas called- he wants his haircut back.
I like how they have scientists on standby to immediately call out their bullshit
Uhhhh, the purpose of this video was to debunk scammers…. How did you miss that???????
@@JudeTavonFenwick no I know.
It's just hilarious that they have a team of scientists and an expert magician to debunk such a pretty basic trick. Like it was bound to humiliate this guy
@@JudeTavonFenwick that is what he is saying thought, wth
But the static….
@@JudeTavonFenwickno offense but it sounds like
You don’t know what the Fawk
You’re saying
We need a guy like this to catch the politicians lying.
newstart49 🙌🏾🙌🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾💯💯💯💯💯💯
Trick question. Politicians always lie...
He's never be out of work.
You know they're lying when their lips are moving.
They’d kill him I’m sure 😔
“How many names did she reveal to you?”
“About 1/2 dozen”
“37 names”
Static electricity my ass,he has foam for brains.
@@evelynbell5288 fake!
about 3.6 roentgen
@@gabinhok Watching HBO's Chernobyl, huh?
3000 they were all my dead uncle.
I am glad that people like James Randi exist. Such people are becoming more and more important, especially nowadays.
existed* Randi died a few years ago, unfortunately
wait... so Psychic types are weak to Electric?
James Randi used Electric Terrain.
Psychic moves are weakened!
if you just rub your feet on the carpet you can beat them lol
Psychic armor= a well rubbed balloon.
James Randi did the world a service that it just didn't appreciate. Rest in peace, you are a legend in my eyes.
Wym? Loads of people (myself included) appreciated it then and continue to appreciate it now.
People don’t like it when their fantasies are dispelled.
@@Loctorak I think they mean that there are more people in the world who prefer their “woo” nonsense than there are skeptics. E.G. Uri Geller & Peter Popoff were absolutely exposed as frauds by Randi on Johnny Carson, which was the biggest tv show at those times, and both of them were still able to continue to flourish with successful careers. After the Popoff exposure, people were mad at Randi, not Peter Popoff…wtf!??
The famous Harry Houdini also made it a life's mission to expose psychic frauds. Too bad there weren't any videos in those days. It's really fun reading about it.
@@LoctorakName one person under 30 who even knows the name James Randi.
Thats the point he's making dude
“I heard the question, but the question is not valid because it’s making an assumption that is not true.”
I’m definitely remembering this the next time my girl wanna argue.
Just say “youre making unsupported assertions, which hold no merit by definition”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
gotta reach that 3000 thousand word count.
@@kalstonii I'm using this to shut someone up in an argument XD.
The loaded question fallacy
James Randi is that one professor when the student cites wikipedia 😂
It's the stupid hair and clothes that's causing static.
Hey, have some respect to Hong Kong Fool
Tries to convince people he can move paper with his mind, fails to ask a barber to give him a decent haircut.
Like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber!
It's the 70's man, give him a break.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
probably tried to do it with his powers and some scissors
It was the fashion of the time
It’s the costume that makes him look fucking weird
Watching an old guy waving a stick around pretending he's psychic is both sad and hilarious
What is really sad is that he seems to believe that his efforts will actually succeed. Delusional.
More hilarious than sad ... But yes I also feel the sadness
"I'll come back to that "
Reminds me of the episode in Community where Chevy Chase's character get a "magic robe and wand" that he waves around. One of the best episodes.
All I can assume is people like him don’t have a family that loves him. If he did, they would surely have stopped him from embarrassing himself on tv
I like how respectful Mr. Randi is even after debunking these people.
The thing is , in the 1970’s when URI Geller was a huge famous worldwide household name. My father and us 3 boys and me all believed what we saw on the tv, when we saw URI Geller bending spoons and forks. We all tried to bend spoons but to no avail! 😂 This guy fooled the whole world!
You have pyschic powers. You choose to turn book pages. Like...REALLY?!
There's usually too much static around everything else 😂
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lol, no shit, right? The first things I'd be moving are women's skirts and blouses!
Who dressed that fool? Prince Valiant?
@@erldagerl9826 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm waiting for The Amazing Randi To reveal that he is 972 years old and the one and only true psychic and that he has just been looking for his true equal all of these years
omg yes x'D
Ah////// He already revealed he is gay, and he has a boyfriend.
k0smon what has that got to do with it?
😂😂😂💀
Styrofoam and lights form electricity. UNLIMITED ENERGY, WHY HAVE WE NOT BEEN USING THIS.
Ha ha!!! For real!! Lol
Ha ha!!! For real!! Lol
Speak for yourself Lance... I'm at the patent office now...
Does Thunderf00t know about this?
@@donovanroberts9063 lmao
The “lights, static, and the electricity” bit is super embarrassing! 😂
He picked up the page 2-3 times, and EVERY TIME it went the opposite way the “psychic” wanted it to go! 😂
And that pesky traitor gravity getting in the way and making things fall down !
@ lol right. It was just super funny to me that he tried however many times to flip the page, and every single time, even with him having it half way there, he failed every time. Cracked me up.
For the cold readings; I’d love to see these British and US psychics go to China or Japan, do their readings and try to guess names.
“I’m getting a...ummm....uh.......Carl?”
Chen zhab zzi han han its chen han isnt it he want his rice back
OwO does the name one punch man mean anything to you? No? What about yu gi oh?
@@MsHarpsychord yes my uncle was onea puncha mannn
Does Hiroshima, Fukushima or Yokohama mean anything to you? Lol
I wonder how many psychic frauds there are in Japan or any other Asian place even in my own.
*Summary of clips*
0:00 Unknown show. Maureen Flynn uses cold reading: the art of using ambiguous and likely-sounding guesses and responding based on the mark's reaction (verbal or in body gesture) to these guesses to pretend you magically know intimate details that the mark is actually telling you as you go. In some cases, the reader has actually stalked you and looked up pertinent information ahead of time (hot-reading) before finding you in the audience.
2:02 The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Uri Geller specialized in bending spoons and other illusion stage magic. At Randi's advice, Carson (a former stage magician himself) selected the props and prevented Geller and his team from rigging them, so Geller couldn't perform his tricks.
3:56 That's My Line, hosted by Bob Barker, about 1980. James Hydrick used air movements to turn book pages, move pencils, etc - Randi copied all of these stunts to show they were not paranormal. Hydrick had been raised by an abusive father and learned karate to protect himself after his brother was beaten to death. He escaped from prison three times following a '77 conviction for kidnapping & torture by KICKING THROUGH A CONCRETE WALL and POLE-VAULTING OVER THE PRISON FENCE. Unfortunately, Hydrick used his martial arts talents and the promise of teaching psychokinetic powers as a manipulation technique to coerce children into sex, and was convicted of sexual assault against a minor in 1989 (for raping five underage boys.)
8:48 James Randi - Psychic Investigator, episode 4. Dowsing is the idea that a stick, either attuned to a psychic plane or wielded by a psychic, can respond in some meaningful way to arbitrary information. Assuming that the dowser is not intentionally lying, the floppy donkey dick response of the rod is popularly attributed to the ideomotor effect, which causes unconscious and goal-orientated muscle movement to falsely support a desired outcome. This effect is also behind Ouija boards.
13:41 Randi has exposed many aura readers with similar tricks to this one. Another one was given many, many partitions and claimed they each had a human aura behind them, but when opened, very few if any actually did.
17:01 Infamous faith healer Peter Popoff. Not only was his wife feeding him stalker-style information through a wireless device, but she and the rest of the crew made crude asides about some of his clientele, including racial slurs and sexual remarks.
First clip is also Psychic Investigator, first season (was there ever a 2nd one?). Thanks for putting this list together, it should be in the video description.
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Peter Popoff sounds like Michael Scott to me lol
Grapes
Hello! I've updated the first post with more information on Hydrick and how his alleged psychic powers were part of his child molesting strategy.
I'm embarrassed watching this
Yeah, it's quite uncomfortable. Imagine the audience... they must've been cringing
WhoWantsToKnow81 I would have gotten up and left
Serenity Affinity its hard to believe no one was bursting out in laughter
John Conway
Lol at least you're honest
Same. so hard to watch but I can't stop watching.
I love when James just throws the transcript at the guy 😂 🔥
The calm cold savagery in this is amazing
And funny too.
Chiafade now I would have loved it if James had said "here you go bitch" but James is way too classy for that
Savagery is best served cold
I think that's important (that he's calm) and it's where a lot of people trip up. If you stay calm and talk rationally and politely you'll lose the arguement and not make any headway at all
But none admitted to doing wrong, so this was all really just a pissing contest at the least, a furthering of mental illness at most.
Why haven't we tapped into this infinite renewable energy of light on foam?
Haha that was pretty funny
Ffs don’t tell Greta
We have it's called static.
if it were it would not be infinite
@@DestroyerWill 🤣🤣
Whenever someone throws a transcript in your lap, you're not having a good day.
😂 definitely not
Haha this really made me laugh
Lolol
😂😂😂
😂good one!