cloudy chill Uh, yes, I think you're referring to me. I've got a Big Schlong. Brother you're amazing and talented at this. Your sexy female neighbor can confirm my bs.
James Randi is a treasure. The sarcasm at work here is hilarious: after some quack has demonstrated their total absence of psychic powers - "thank you *so* much for helping us explore psychic powers"
46:59 right. listen to the awkward reaction the audience gave when he roasted Yuri at the end there 😂 the long applause Yuri got after his little "you can do it too" speech was wild... people were really eating his shit up back then...and I feel like that's why James is so indignant
The thing I've never understood about his shows... Who the hell agrees to go on any of them, *knowing* that his entire purpose is to expose his guests? 🤣 The frauds legit believe they will fool a dude that has made it his life mission to out them. Dumber than they look 🤷♂️🤣
My Dad worked with Randi & Ray fighting health fraud. It was fun growing up around magicians. I also got to meet reporters like John Stossel hanging out in his office. I didn't realize how good I had it.
Anytime James Randi comes knocking on your door if you're a psychic it's best to pull down your blinds. take your phone off the hook and pretend you're not home
49:40 >Talks to a woman of about 50 years, would have been born around 1940 >Amazingly, he knows she would have known a man who was in the military (between two World Wars? Unthinkable!) >Incredible gifts lead him to the arcane knowledge that she knew a man called John >Asks about the highly rare and unusual possibility that she's changed her hairstyle in the past few years Absolutely astounding, I'm a believer
You can tell her husband is not on board... I find it funny how the women are all incredibly invested while the men are just like yeah whatever he/she is full of shit
And the guy had access to her records. And these are people who self-selected to be believers so just about anything that guy said, they would have believed.
The live psychic womans interaction with the audience is a perfect example of how cold reading only works when the audience is filled with ppl who are desperate for it to be true and make a link, however tenuous, with things the psychic says and then unwittingly give over information. I've seen it done and even when ppl are good at it (she isnt) it's still realy obvious what is happening.
Gotta love Sylvia's "Oh, well, a lot of times, these things can be in the future." The ultimate cop-out. No matter what she says, no matter how wildly wrong it is, she can claim, "Oh, well, not YET, it's in the future."
I love psychics who tell their clients "I don't care". P: I'm sensing that your husband is dead, is that true? C: Yes. P: And I'm sensing that there was a fire. C: My husband drowned. P: I don't care. I'm sensing a fire so that's how he died. I'm the psychic, not you. C: There was no fire. P: Was the water slightly warm that day? C: Sure...why not. P: Well there ya go.
i heard a psychic tell a lady her husband had died (which he had) she said he had drowned (he hadnt) asked if she was sure she said yes....I see water (he was a fireman) he did drown, (no he didnt he died in the 9/11 his body was never found) so he could have drowned there would have been water!!! Im a psychic and you are not!!!!! That bloody woman should have been locked up so she could NEVER speak to anyone ever again. I felt so sorry for the lady who had lost her husband in the 9/11. what she did to her was so cruel
Another good sylvia idc quote- Mom- i wanna know how my daughter died. .. Sylvia- she was shot Mom- uhh Person in the backround i assume montel- what were the circumstances behind her death? Mom-she collapsed in her room... Sylvia- i dont care she is showing me a blow to the chest... I cant believe ppl are stupid enough that they gave that cow 750 for 20 mins of a phone call.
he doesnt bash illusionists be exposes people claiming to be psychic who take advantage of people and make them spend thousands of dollars for readings. Also, he did go after a faith healer named peter popoff ua-cam.com/video/b47KbwkCRGY/v-deo.html
I was a Deputy for a NYS Sheriff's Dept in my youth. My Sgt and I went to a farm pond drowning. It was in a fairly large pond, spring fed with an over flow pipe outlet. The body could not be seen from shore due to the murkiness of the water. I pointed into the water and said "That's where the body is. Divers searched the pond and eventually found the body where I said it was. My Sgt was impressed. He asked how I knew. I said "That's where the over flow pipe (visible from shore) is. There is going to be a current to it". It pays to analyze the environment before acting
Kelly Stout Some genuinely believe they have powers. They don't realize they are relying on chance and selective memories of their subjects. Some, like the aura reader, know they're frauds, but midst are probably surprised.
Kelly Stout Some people have this mental illness where if you show them that they *could* win 100k, the *only* thing they can see is 100k. Take a look at pretty much any TV quiz show - you'll find an endless supply of contestants so keen to win the prize that they completely forget about the fact that they actually need some general knowledge to win it! It seems they think they're going to fluke it, despite it being incredibly unlikely that they'll suddenly know things they've never known before...!
I am the woman who read the ESP cards. I have to set the record straight after reading these comments. We had to sign documents agreeing to the protocol of the tests. I agreed to read 10 decks of cards, and they were to be sealed when presented to me. They agreed that I could do the reading in a quiet place so I could concentrate. But instead, the producer came out with 250 loose cards at the start of my test, when the live show was going on. I protested, but she said, "They were sealed when we got them, but I went through them to make sure they were OK". This sounded fishy but I had no reason to doubt them at that point and I went ahead with the test. Instead of a quiet environment, there was a parade of people going in and out of the room I was in. After the show was over, I asked to see the cards I had read. They refused. Why? The show was over, there was no valid reason to deny me seeing the cards. Then a few days later, one of the other psychics called me and said that two stage hands came forward to say they witnessed tampering on the tests. We were all broke psychics and couldn't afford a lawyer to sue. I am a good psychic - I won Fantasy Five a few years ago (odds are greater than 1 in 500,000). I predicted the Loma Prieta quake, Kobe, Northridge, the 2004 quake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and many more. I made a good living for many years predicting the stock market , and I traded futures based solely on that. James Randi has been accused of cheating on his tests to psychics. He has based his career on debunking them and cannot allow them to win. Randi is the one you should be skeptical of.
@@vs52217 Why haven't you gone for the $1000000 prize? If you really believe in your powers and can prove they are rigging the experiment bring a lawyer and other credible witnesses who will agree they cheat. You can can pay them with your prize money.
Sylvia Brown in this video is hilarious... I've never seen such old footage her... She's just shotgunning her way around the crowd, and nothing sticks, lol. It's a perfect example of how much of a crock she is... I have no idea how she became so famous with such little talent.
I honesty don’t understand what happened with her reading. Like she starts of by saying that some things could be incorrect cause they are yet to happen, but then every single reading she does is set in the future from the get go, like “you ARE GOING TO do this, you WILL meet this person” like she didn’t even bother trying to read stuff from the past, she just shotgunned random statements that couldn’t be invalidated cause how can you claim that you won’t meet a Kathy, it could happen
Did it break down and stop working? It could be a fuse that blew or a part wore out. I think it may have been a coincidence that your TV stopped working when Uri Geller appeared on your television. (Or was it?, did Geller’s appearance affect the television?)
Except they tell you clearly that you'll be charged 2 dollars so you can make an informed choice. I doubt Sylvia informed people that for 75 dollars per call, they'd get jack shit but a lie. 🤷🏽♀️
Yeah. If if they could really talk to the dead, they would say something like, "Your Aunt Kathy says hi and that she never had sex with your dad, but she did bang the piano tuner." That would be worth paying the psychic for.
You're kidding me right? I mean that's great on paper and all, but modem school systems are doing things like prohibiting teaching things like evolution... And you think *this* is going to make it in? I believe the phrase is "good luck with that". That said I fear your "yearly rewatch" is a bit concerning 🤣
Wow - Sylvia Brown bombed big time. Like how she picked a guy that only spoke German, who had no idea what she was saying. You'd think her psychic ability would have clued her in!
LOL ... Sylvia Brown ... what a colossal failure of a "demonstration". My favorite is the part where she excuses her errors by saying that very often these things are "in the future". LOL. Nice one, Sylvia. That way, even when she's wrong, she's still "right". Then she finishes by only telling the last guy something that will happen in the future and never mentions his present or past. You know, when normal people have a hard time telling the difference between past and future, we call that a mental disorder, but psychics get a free pass because they have "SUPERNATURAL POWERS". What a joke.
Yep...It's so much fun watching psychics fail but watching Sylvia Brown get exposed is another level of fun...there are many of her fails on UA-cam...what a vile creature.
What's interesting is the kind of act she was doing is very common, and not that hard to do successfully. She probably did this all the time with people who were prone to believe that psychics are real, and it worked well, because those audiences went along with her suggestive techniques or gave her the clues she needed to end up saying something they confirmed as true. It reveals some hubris on her part not to consider that doing her act on this show means she's got a crowd of skeptics, and it might not go well!
Gotta love the whole "some of my readings will be in the future" bullshit. That essentially makes it so that she's never wrong. It's like trying to prove that there's no God.
The thing I admire about Randi is that he never sought to debunk anything: he always went in with an open mind and tried to prove the truth. He always said he wasn’t a “debunker” because that implies he’d already decided something was untrue before testing it, which is not the way of science.
You'd think after all those years of Sylvia Brown getting caught *failing* at "being psychic", she would have communicated with a few people after she *died*, or at least *haunted* some of her enemies - just to say "I'm a ghost now, but see, this is real!" But no of course, strangly she seems to have "just stopped existing" after she passed. Very *weird* ☺
CWP3_ TheMartianArrowhead actually it's not important for spirits to do such ridiculous things after death. They actually understand the reasons behind skeptics and atheist existing. It's a life lesson people must learn on their own.
CWP3_ TheMartianArrowhead is funny how phycics n mediums proove their power by telling people about their past, yet call it prophetic. But it obviously cold reading, and quick talking, and saying yes every time regardless of if it's a hit or not
+Mary Teryan Wait, what? How do you know this? How have you independently confirmed, attempted to falsify and examined evidence for any of your claims? Did you know it's not important to extra-dimensional vortiguants to reveal to you that you're just a brain in a vat being fed an elaborate illusion via their hands? They prefer you to learn this for yourself.
+lezbnlvr32 ^^^ You can do bold, italics, and strike-thru on words in comments now. Put * in front and back of each word or phrase to *bold* -- Put _ in front and back of each word or phrase to _italics_ -- Put - in front/back to -strikethrough-
So true I saw uri a few yrs ago and the jist of his show was cash generation. He invited people back to his place to ring Michael Jackson for just £250 a go and the more the merrier
It's also how god answers prayers. If your prayer is granted, that proves god exists. But if you prayer isn't granted, that does NOT prove god doesn't exist. It proves that god knew that granting your wish, err, I mean prayer, was not what god planned to happen to you before he created you, created the universe, and of course created himself.
When the aura-reading lady finished, Bill said "What is going on here?" When Uri came on, he said "What is going on here?" Did Bill accidentally read Uri's teleprompter? Lol
Not sticking up for him at all but I have met one lady named Shelly-Anne (to this day I swear the parents had to have fucked up and put the first and middle name together instead of separate lmao) and a 2 girls named Michelle that went by “Shell” or “Shelly” granted though the two Michelle’s did that because of multiple Michelle’s where they worked or went to school.
There's a certain dignity to the presentation of this and other shows from the same era, even for something as trivial as psychic powers. You really don't see that kind of standard any more.
Please call this hotline number today and pay 2 dollars for absolutely no reason and no reward but quickly before the end of the show. Who the hell would waste money like that damn that’s just dumb🤣
Bill Bixby in the beginning saying nothing, yet saying everything. Peering into the dark depths of my soul. His eyes ever searching, exploring all that is unknown.
People like Sylvia Brown are not "psychics". She is just profiling people by the way they look, and goes off chance. Like the German guy clearly looked like some kind of sales man, the young girl obviously could of had a school friend with black hair that she did paper work with (oooh so profound), and she was soft spoken so she seemed like someone would be a counsellar. Asking an old guy if he knew a Bill? Like one of the most common American names? Really, anyone could go people watching and make these presumtions.
Naruga Kuruga I was thinking they put the numbers on the back of the card, not a shape, and they *wouldn't* give multiple choices. I thought that was going to be really smart and a great authentic way to get more people. But then they do the shapes thing instead?.. I completely believe it's only to make money
They even have a line for you to call if nothing happened in the Uri Gellar wank lol. 'Hello! Is this the $2 a minute line to the tv show if nothing happened? That's great. Well I just phoned to say nothing happened' XD Did people actually waste money on phoning that particular number? Me and my mate watched this and we were rolling in agony. We laughed so hard it physically hurt.
In a hall full of 80 year olds. How do you explain how he predicted that at least one of them had suffered some sort of loss? I guess some people just have a gift
@@censusgary That is like when my friend told me once he knows who my grandfather is. Than he said "He have a beard, right?" Than I told him, "If you really saw him you would know something else about him" Somehow he did not notice how the right side of my granpas body is paralyzed. Yea I knew he was lying.
Sad rewatching this, I bet 3.50$ that this scams will make a comeback in the modern dumb age of social media. Time is ripe for dumb people of today and easy money to be made.
I miss this kind of professional, low-key presenting rather than the very tacky shrieking on so many programs these days. Subtle, scientific and with a touch of class, this is much more impressive. The jokes are actually funny because they are well made and mildly self deprecating. It may be a little outdated, but I appreciate the respect these presenters give the psychic challengers, even if the psychics do fail. You feel more valued as an audience member, because everything is presented logically, in a suitably respectful manner, politely. The challengers fail on their own basically tie themselves with their personally extended rope.
41:59 -- "Let's be positive about it." We need to cut Geller some slack here--he's not a native English speaker. What he meant was, "Let's be gullible about it."
There is someone in your life. The name starts with a "b", maybe a "t" or even an "m". They're a tallish person of relatively normal height. They have many features, and I think they had hair when they were young. They're very important to you. There's travel involved. You may have met them while traveling, or they may have traveled with you, or they may be from some distance from you. This might take place in the future. Also, I think in the future you're going to be involved with water. Maybe a plumber, a lifeguard, or you might just drink it. That'll be $29.00. I'm not God, but I take PayPal.
Lol. Sylvia Brown...the man is German and nothing related to that was seen...she picked marketing and sales just like I would have guessed...suit and tie. Total fail, like every other time she has opened her mouth.
She was talking about a boy who comes and goes when she talked to the young lady in the audience, someone dying from heart problems to the old lady, and about business to the 30 or so year old man in a business suit. How could she have known all of this if she didn't have powers????? Haha
they should have tested her ability, by taking men who look vaguely similar , putting them all in the same outfit with something that covers their hair style, gloves so she can't see the hands, and gotten her to psychic read them. Edit: also blindfolds. lol. So she can't read the emotions in their eyes
These people have always made my blood boil! They prey on people's grief and vulnerability. Once they hook a person, they're like a vampire bleeding them for every drop. I've seen other James Randy documentaries where entire families sit and talk about how the life's saving was withdrawn and 2nd mortgages taken out.... The family was ruined! Those stories are a heart breaker.
As someone from the "new"-tv generation, i feel like old TV shows had a special atmosphere that doesn't exist today, the way they speak and act.. magnificent.
What you're looking at is the result of years of "try and true". Things that worked stuck. Things that didn't, got tossed. The reason "new TV" looks so much different is because somewhere along the line, all this wisdom was tossed, only to be getting slowly learned again. Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time.
8:53 Randi = “You know a psychic who at one time was doing this sort of trick is no longer doing it because every 12 year old magician has learned how to do it.” What a burn of URI Geller!! 🤣
lolololol this is the type of entertainment we had back in the late 70s and early 80s. What the heck were we thinking? The astrology guy was pissed, he had been made to look like a fool
I spent the first five minutes using my psychic powers to hear what Bill Bixby was saying...
Yeah me too .LOL
batlin good one
Good, i thought i was alone
Don't make Bill Bixby angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry!
Pyke Bishop I understood that reference.
I'm getting a B and an S, can anyone in the room relate to a B or an S? BS anyone?
cloudy chill Uh, yes, I think you're referring to me. I've got a Big Schlong. Brother you're amazing and talented at this. Your sexy female neighbor can confirm my bs.
Breakneck Yes that's it. I meant Big Schlong from the beginning of course. How could I have possibly known that? hahaha
cloudy chill .
Omg, you are soo brilliant.
I like how they didn't even have too set anything up for her at all, she already disproves herself.
0)Uh yes my name starts with B and S is for september (my birthday). You are truly amazing haha
"What's your name?"
"Shelly"
"Hi, Sharon"
Hell of a psychic connection!
When Geller was fixing broken appliances, my dishwasher started working again. Which is exciting, because my wife hasn't worked in 4 years.
Made me laugh :D thanks
I don't know whether its just me or this old show seems to me more genuine, positive, classy and heart warming than most tv shows today
Daniel jenkins no it’s not just you, I feel the same as you.
I think it's the people they put on t.v nowadays, they're just so unlikable
Definitely 70s and 80s TV shows but very wholesome even the bad ones interesting things going on
Things were not the same society believes today it progresses it's regressed
Nah, it's definitely just you.
I therefore conclude that James Randi was born old.
alrick3000 Yeah hes got to be like 110 years old buy now. Do u no if he is still even alive?
jaime adametz He is.
alrick3000 Yes he's actually Darwin
I have this mental image of him being born with a white beard.
+jrny20 I have that image when I jack off.
James Randi is a treasure. The sarcasm at work here is hilarious: after some quack has demonstrated their total absence of psychic powers - "thank you *so* much for helping us explore psychic powers"
I love him 🤣
was... he died.
Both him and Bill Bixby, so classy, real gentlemen, smart and witty.
46:59 right. listen to the awkward reaction the audience gave when he roasted Yuri at the end there 😂
the long applause Yuri got after his little "you can do it too" speech was wild... people were really eating his shit up back then...and I feel like that's why James is so indignant
The thing I've never understood about his shows...
Who the hell agrees to go on any of them, *knowing* that his entire purpose is to expose his guests? 🤣
The frauds legit believe they will fool a dude that has made it his life mission to out them.
Dumber than they look 🤷♂️🤣
I called 5 different times. I know I guessed the card right.
Which one did you guess???
@@AHNOYTED Chris Hanson
$10 well spent
Ahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! I love this comment most!
It Says It all! They do know their audience!
I predicted whether each psychic would succeed or fail. My predictions were 100% accurate. Where do I pick up my prize?
................Danm. Pay the man
You don't.
@@ophiolatreia93 You're right. Why pick up the prize when I could just levitate it with my mind?
@@huruey 😂👏
😂
Why don't they play awesome shit like this on TV anymore?
BEcause people accept shit too often and shit is cheaper and easier to make.
Because TV executives figured out that is more money to be made selling quackery on TV than debunking it.
Because the Mexicans took are jerrbbsss
Amazing! You must be psychic too as I was just thinking the same thing!! Lulzzz 😹😹😹
because all of the so called psychics are locked up in mental facilities now
My Dad worked with Randi & Ray fighting health fraud. It was fun growing up around magicians. I also got to meet reporters like John Stossel hanging out in his office. I didn't realize how good I had it.
So lucky you were! Love from Sweden 💙💛
Another Swede casually strolling by
Ironically, John Stossel is now a complete health fraud.
How did they get Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos box decades ahead of time?
🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂
Best Comment!!! 😂😂😂😂
If they were psychic,they would have known to stay home.
Jack Landone I am psycho and going to tell Chris angel what he has in that envelope to get the money.
Jack Landone 🤣😂Real talk!!😅
@@frogprince7029 Didn't Chriss claim he got it right?
Anytime James Randi comes knocking on your door if you're a psychic it's best to pull down your blinds. take your phone off the hook and pretend you're not home
@@frogprince7029 ... Being "psycho" is not the same thing as being psychic.
49:40
>Talks to a woman of about 50 years, would have been born around 1940
>Amazingly, he knows she would have known a man who was in the military (between two World Wars? Unthinkable!)
>Incredible gifts lead him to the arcane knowledge that she knew a man called John
>Asks about the highly rare and unusual possibility that she's changed her hairstyle in the past few years
Absolutely astounding, I'm a believer
Lmao
edwardmashberg1 horse shit is good for the garden
You can tell her husband is not on board... I find it funny how the women are all incredibly invested while the men are just like yeah whatever he/she is full of shit
And the guy had access to her records. And these are people who self-selected to be believers so just about anything that guy said, they would have believed.
I predict she also owns a car, with 4 wheels! And she's eaten a sandwich in the last year, with bread!
The live psychic womans interaction with the audience is a perfect example of how cold reading only works when the audience is filled with ppl who are desperate for it to be true and make a link, however tenuous, with things the psychic says and then unwittingly give over information. I've seen it done and even when ppl are good at it (she isnt) it's still realy obvious what is happening.
Gotta love Sylvia's "Oh, well, a lot of times, these things can be in the future." The ultimate cop-out. No matter what she says, no matter how wildly wrong it is, she can claim, "Oh, well, not YET, it's in the future."
"Well you don't know, you're not a psychic"!
@@MamaMia...., "Your mind is closed, you're simply not prepared to receive my powers!"
Should have called Ms Cleo
Shoulda called 'er NOW, mon!
I love psychics who tell their clients "I don't care".
P: I'm sensing that your husband is dead, is that true?
C: Yes.
P: And I'm sensing that there was a fire.
C: My husband drowned.
P: I don't care. I'm sensing a fire so that's how he died. I'm the psychic, not you.
C: There was no fire.
P: Was the water slightly warm that day?
C: Sure...why not.
P: Well there ya go.
Malhaloc Wow can tell me the best stocks?
i heard a psychic tell a lady her husband had died (which he had) she said he had drowned (he hadnt) asked if she was sure she said yes....I see water (he was a fireman) he did drown, (no he didnt he died in the 9/11 his body was never found) so he could have drowned there would have been water!!! Im a psychic and you are not!!!!!
That bloody woman should have been locked up so she could NEVER speak to anyone ever again.
I felt so sorry for the lady who had lost her husband in the 9/11. what she did to her was so cruel
@@libbyreesbarresi7459 That actually was the very same psychic... Silvia Browne. I saw that clip before I came here.
"It was a fire."
Sylvia "Are you sure he didn't drown?"
Another good sylvia idc quote-
Mom- i wanna know how my daughter died. ..
Sylvia- she was shot
Mom- uhh
Person in the backround i assume montel- what were the circumstances behind her death?
Mom-she collapsed in her room...
Sylvia- i dont care she is showing me a blow to the chest...
I cant believe ppl are stupid enough that they gave that cow 750 for 20 mins of a phone call.
"It looks like you're gonna get into show business."
"Uhh, no."
"No, well you don't know that yet, you're not a psychic."
Neither are you Sylvia.
Thanks for helping us with that, Mr. Mayhem.
Fucking dumb bitch lol. She was right about a guy being a telemarketer though... lmao. Fucking quack's man who need money lol.
he doesnt bash illusionists be exposes people claiming to be psychic who take advantage of people and make them spend thousands of dollars for readings. Also, he did go after a faith healer named peter popoff ua-cam.com/video/b47KbwkCRGY/v-deo.html
I was about to write the very same comment lol
Wim did you even watch the video
"No connection to this thing I predicted? Oh, that's because it's from the future." What a convenient cop-out.
I was a Deputy for a NYS Sheriff's Dept in my youth. My Sgt and I went to a farm pond drowning. It was in a fairly large pond, spring fed with an over flow pipe outlet. The body could not be seen from shore due to the murkiness of the water. I pointed into the water and said "That's where the body is. Divers searched the pond and eventually found the body where I said it was. My Sgt was impressed. He asked how I knew. I said "That's where the over flow pipe (visible from shore) is. There is going to be a current to it". It pays to analyze the environment before acting
These people were seriously willing to bet their reputations by going on this show to try to win 100k. Like, did they not see their failures coming?
Kelly Stout Some genuinely believe they have powers. They don't realize they are relying on chance and selective memories of their subjects. Some, like the aura reader, know they're frauds, but midst are probably surprised.
Kelly Stout Some people have this mental illness where if you show them that they *could* win 100k, the *only* thing they can see is 100k.
Take a look at pretty much any TV quiz show - you'll find an endless supply of contestants so keen to win the prize that they completely forget about the fact that they actually need some general knowledge to win it! It seems they think they're going to fluke it, despite it being incredibly unlikely that they'll suddenly know things they've never known before...!
I am the woman who read the ESP cards. I have to set the record straight after reading these comments. We had to sign documents agreeing to the protocol of the tests. I agreed to read 10 decks of cards, and they were to be sealed when presented to me. They agreed that I could do the reading in a quiet place so I could concentrate. But instead, the producer came out with 250 loose cards at the start of my test, when the live show was going on. I protested, but she said, "They were sealed when we got them, but I went through them to make sure they were OK". This sounded fishy but I had no reason to doubt them at that point and I went ahead with the test. Instead of a quiet environment, there was a parade of people going in and out of the room I was in. After the show was over, I asked to see the cards I had read. They refused. Why? The show was over, there was no valid reason to deny me seeing the cards. Then a few days later, one of the other psychics called me and said that two stage hands came forward to say they witnessed tampering on the tests. We were all broke psychics and couldn't afford a lawyer to sue. I am a good psychic - I won Fantasy Five a few years ago (odds are greater than 1 in 500,000). I predicted the Loma Prieta quake, Kobe, Northridge, the 2004 quake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and many more. I made a good living for many years predicting the stock market , and I traded futures based solely on that. James Randi has been accused of cheating on his tests to psychics. He has based his career on debunking them and cannot allow them to win. Randi is the one you should be skeptical of.
@@vs52217 Why haven't you gone for the $1000000 prize? If you really believe in your powers and can prove they are rigging the experiment bring a lawyer and other credible witnesses who will agree they cheat. You can can pay them with your prize money.
@@vs52217 Just noticed someone else asked the same question. What's the problem?
Sylvia Brown in this video is hilarious... I've never seen such old footage her... She's just shotgunning her way around the crowd, and nothing sticks, lol. It's a perfect example of how much of a crock she is... I have no idea how she became so famous with such little talent.
lol you would be surprised how many gullible people there are.
She became popular because of celebrity endorsement
Hasn't hurt her a bit though
She died in like 2013
I honesty don’t understand what happened with her reading.
Like she starts of by saying that some things could be incorrect cause they are yet to happen, but then every single reading she does is set in the future from the get go, like “you ARE GOING TO do this, you WILL meet this person” like she didn’t even bother trying to read stuff from the past, she just shotgunned random statements that couldn’t be invalidated cause how can you claim that you won’t meet a Kathy, it could happen
Did something strange happen in my home when Uri Geller came on ? yes, My TV went off
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1 million calls @ $2a call is $2000,0000,00 . How many people across America called ? 5 million? More? What a SCAM !
Did it break down and stop working? It could be a fuse that blew or a part wore out. I think it may have been a coincidence that your TV stopped working when Uri Geller appeared on your television. (Or was it?, did Geller’s appearance affect the television?)
2 dollars per call? That seems as big a scam as the physics on this show.
Haha yeah! 😅
Scammers, scamming, scammers 💩
And according to many of the comments people are still buying the bull 🤔
Except they tell you clearly that you'll be charged 2 dollars so you can make an informed choice. I doubt Sylvia informed people that for 75 dollars per call, they'd get jack shit but a lie. 🤷🏽♀️
Maybe it was to stop people spamming the lines or calling just to make a joke.
Phone calls were expensive for just about anything back then, that used to be the norm.
@@niche9015 exactly, I don’t think 900 numbers even still exists. Lol.
"Alright, who is Kathy?"
"Uh, I don't know, shouldn't you be able to tell me?"
Yeah. If if they could really talk to the dead, they would say something like, "Your Aunt Kathy says hi and that she never had sex with your dad, but she did bang the piano tuner." That would be worth paying the psychic for.
@@ladyv5655 And I was that Piano Tuner :)
Sylvia Brown, "if I get this wrong, it's cause it's in the future" 🤣😂
Yeah it's somewhat win win
Angela Duffy she actually predicted she would die at age 88 but she died at 77 so I guess that shows you what kind of superpowers she had...🤣🤣🤣
Holy f- that calculator kid was amazing!
Geller is a liar, but was at least smart enough not to go up against Randi. But we did get him on Carson. Priceless.
I think he sued Randy at one point lol
I just tried to call. the number is inactive. this whole show was a fucking hoax.
That physic woman who went into the crowd covered up her BS by saying "It's in the future."
The greatest scam was the $2 per minute call to guess the card.
I watch this video at least once a year. It’s a world treasure, and Should be required viewing in classrooms
You're kidding me right?
I mean that's great on paper and all, but modem school systems are doing things like prohibiting teaching things like evolution...
And you think *this* is going to make it in?
I believe the phrase is "good luck with that".
That said I fear your "yearly rewatch" is a bit concerning 🤣
Even way back then Sylvia Brown was still getting it wrong.
Yea, she was a real piece of work.
aww.... Penn and Teller are so young!
Ghost_in_Wolf_skin and they have HAIR! Such majestic hair at that.
Ghost_in_Wolf_skin Teller didnt age a day. Might be a ghost...
i know! i barely recognised Penn at first!!!
Ghost_in_Wolf_skin:do you watch their “fool you”?
47:40 "Norman! Get downstairs! There's a strange man dowsing the front yard for corpses and he's trampling the rutabaga!"
At 2:40 i will use my psychic powers to stop the sound coming through your computers, for nearly one minute!!!
prankman49 wow...It worked.
Are you psycho?
prankman49 wow you good haha
you have the gift!!!!
WOW How'd you do that?! Btw, nice baby pic.
I could still hear it because my headphones are made of Styrofoam!!!
Wow - Sylvia Brown bombed big time. Like how she picked a guy that only spoke German, who had no idea what she was saying. You'd think her psychic ability would have clued her in!
Well maybe he was going to learn how to speak English in the future, how would you know you're not psychic. XD
My powers tell me you shouldn't make that presenter angry.
Someone pick up these shows on a streaming services. So interesting.
LOL ... Sylvia Brown ... what a colossal failure of a "demonstration". My favorite is the part where she excuses her errors by saying that very often these things are "in the future". LOL. Nice one, Sylvia. That way, even when she's wrong, she's still "right". Then she finishes by only telling the last guy something that will happen in the future and never mentions his present or past.
You know, when normal people have a hard time telling the difference between past and future, we call that a mental disorder, but psychics get a free pass because they have "SUPERNATURAL POWERS". What a joke.
LeoMDK A very well written comment. Thank you.
Yep...It's so much fun watching psychics fail but watching Sylvia Brown get exposed is another level of fun...there are many of her fails on UA-cam...what a vile creature.
What's interesting is the kind of act she was doing is very common, and not that hard to do successfully. She probably did this all the time with people who were prone to believe that psychics are real, and it worked well, because those audiences went along with her suggestive techniques or gave her the clues she needed to end up saying something they confirmed as true. It reveals some hubris on her part not to consider that doing her act on this show means she's got a crowd of skeptics, and it might not go well!
My name is Marty McFly, and I swear that I have been to the future in the past, and I actually have proof.
Gotta love the whole "some of my readings will be in the future" bullshit. That essentially makes it so that she's never wrong. It's like trying to prove that there's no God.
Sylvia Brown. Hmm ... she died a couple of years ago I think.
Don't hear too much from her these days...
Adam Mangler think she knew she was dying..lol..sorry
His point is that, if she really had magic powers, you'd think her ghost would come back and say something like: "Ha! Told you so!"
Well hey, now she can talk to herself
Volderghast .
Not a "BOO" from her since...😊
@Kris Nicholson 😂😂😂😂😂 good one👍
These shows were part of good old days. Miss them dearly.
What are you blabbering about, what planet are you on. James Randi making an appearance was a huge highlight. This wasn't typical television
The thing I admire about Randi is that he never sought to debunk anything: he always went in with an open mind and tried to prove the truth. He always said he wasn’t a “debunker” because that implies he’d already decided something was untrue before testing it, which is not the way of science.
You'd think after all those years of Sylvia Brown getting caught *failing* at "being psychic", she would have communicated with a few people after she *died*, or at least *haunted* some of her enemies - just to say "I'm a ghost now, but see, this is real!" But no of course, strangly she seems to have "just stopped existing" after she passed. Very *weird* ☺
CWP3_ TheMartianArrowhead actually it's not important for spirits to do such ridiculous things after death. They actually understand the reasons behind skeptics and atheist existing. It's a life lesson people must learn on their own.
CWP3_ TheMartianArrowhead is funny how phycics n mediums proove their power by telling people about their past, yet call it prophetic. But it obviously cold reading, and quick talking, and saying yes every time regardless of if it's a hit or not
+Mary Teryan Wait, what? How do you know this? How have you independently confirmed, attempted to falsify and examined evidence for any of your claims? Did you know it's not important to extra-dimensional vortiguants to reveal to you that you're just a brain in a vat being fed an elaborate illusion via their hands? They prefer you to learn this for yourself.
+lezbnlvr32 ^^^ You can do bold, italics, and strike-thru on words in comments now. Put * in front and back of each word or phrase to *bold* -- Put _ in front and back of each word or phrase to _italics_ -- Put - in front/back to -strikethrough-
*hey* *i* *did* *it* *haha* _italic_ _haha_
Something strange happened to me when uri came on stage,I got the urge to punch him out
41:15 makes me sad that live TV like this isn't around anymore.
Only actual, REAL psychics can hear what Bill Bixby says before the first commercial break 😂
Or deaf people who are good at reading lips
Ms Cleo
That Uri guy became a millionaire by bullshitting everybody. Impressive.
So true I saw uri a few yrs ago and the jist of his show was cash generation. He invited people back to his place to ring Michael Jackson for just £250 a go and the more the merrier
So do politicians.
It's not that impressive.. churches do it all the time
Good Lord, Sylvia Brown was simply spitballing. You don't know a Bill - well, then you will in the future. That's how psychics work. 🤣🤣🤣
Pen and teller looking young
That and the "it won't happen to everybody, and it won't happen every time" cop out.
What is a spit balling please, it’s the future and that term is not know by my professor.
@@KARREN-KRASS just throwing shit out
It's also how god answers prayers. If your prayer is granted, that proves god exists. But if you prayer isn't granted, that does NOT prove god doesn't exist. It proves that god knew that granting your wish, err, I mean prayer, was not what god planned to happen to you before he created you, created the universe, and of course created himself.
When the aura-reading lady finished, Bill said "What is going on here?"
When Uri came on, he said "What is going on here?"
Did Bill accidentally read Uri's teleprompter? Lol
There’s another moment when they switch from the Geller pre-roll and Bill steps into the frame talking to a crew member.
@@mattfugate This show was broadcast live and that happened a couple of times. When live, there are no second takes.
It's the Pope!
Better place than Stonehedge to demonstrate magical thinking? How about DC?
I can see my future: cheese enchiladas and rice for dinner tonight.
Harlotte O'Scara The spirits have informed me that there is constipation in your future.
@@superscatboy sounds delicious
Was it good?
"Amazing" standing ovation.
Did it happen?
Silvia BROWN WAS RUDE...That's not a sign of psyhic..
There is no such thing, so therefore there is no sign. They're all con-artists.
@@tonyboleno8191 There aren't any real psychics.
@@tonyboleno8191 I knew you were going to say that!
Thankyou very much for uploading this awesome show altogether!!
Uri Geller is such an amazing psychic that at 1:21:28 he couldnt get Sharon’s name correct even when she said it was Shelly. Awesome!
Not sticking up for him at all but I have met one lady named Shelly-Anne (to this day I swear the parents had to have fucked up and put the first and middle name together instead of separate lmao) and a 2 girls named Michelle that went by “Shell” or “Shelly” granted though the two Michelle’s did that because of multiple Michelle’s where they worked or went to school.
@@michealstrom4425but his supposed to be psychic….".
@@neromauritzen6170 such an obvious con
@@neromauritzen6170 yet he made millions…
@@neromauritzen6170 uh, assume much?
That’s a criticism of the idiots who buy it.
James and Penn and Teller sketch was just epic
There's a certain dignity to the presentation of this and other shows from the same era, even for something as trivial as psychic powers. You really don't see that kind of standard any more.
The kind of dignity that charges you $2 for a phone call?
@@infinity6376 I'd rather have the show be dignified and cost $2/call.
However what I was suprised by is, they didn't put the fakes on the hot seat.
Riga T. Derren Brown is pretty good!!!
Less yelling maybe?
Riga T. Same shit just hid better back then
Please call this hotline number today and pay 2 dollars for absolutely no reason and no reward but quickly before the end of the show. Who the hell would waste money like that damn that’s just dumb🤣
"Our exploration tonight begins with a raincoated child beating a stick, otherwise known as E.S.P."
Bill Bixby in the beginning saying nothing, yet saying everything. Peering into the dark depths of my soul. His eyes ever searching, exploring all that is unknown.
Renegade Dragon 57 😂😂😂
Renegade Dragon 57 did he find gamma radiation there?
🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahahahahahahahah
People like Sylvia Brown are not "psychics". She is just profiling people by the way they look, and goes off chance. Like the German guy clearly looked like some kind of sales man, the young girl obviously could of had a school friend with black hair that she did paper work with (oooh so profound), and she was soft spoken so she seemed like someone would be a counsellar. Asking an old guy if he knew a Bill? Like one of the most common American names? Really, anyone could go people watching and make these presumtions.
Mayonnaise The ghost is speaking and says you like ham.
Frog Prince
Gaaaaaaaassp! I don't like it...I love IT you're wrong.
It's weird how she got away with it because she's not even very good at cold reading.
Cold reading and she wasnt even good at it !
@@hamneggwich right?! I blame the mindless morons who blindly follower her shit. Infact it is as bad as Christianity and other religious nuts.
“I can make this seed grow” *about one mm then it cannot grow at all
Man what a great show. Entertaining, funny, educational and well explained. Thank you for sharing it
callers will be charged $2.00... LOL
And I thought the psychics were the ripoffs. :D
Hahahhah yeah that's how ppl were trolling before the internet was a thing!
It's smart, so anyone who thinks they can use some sort of power to identify that card (and I'm sure many tried) they would spend money to find out.
Naruga Kuruga I was thinking they put the numbers on the back of the card, not a shape, and they *wouldn't* give multiple choices. I thought that was going to be really smart and a great authentic way to get more people. But then they do the shapes thing instead?.. I completely believe it's only to make money
They even have a line for you to call if nothing happened in the Uri Gellar wank lol.
'Hello! Is this the $2 a minute line to the tv show if nothing happened? That's great. Well I just phoned to say nothing happened' XD
Did people actually waste money on phoning that particular number? Me and my mate watched this and we were rolling in agony. We laughed so hard it physically hurt.
In a hall full of 80 year olds. How do you explain how he predicted that at least one of them had suffered some sort of loss?
I guess some people just have a gift
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He also predicted that one of them knew someone named John. Amazing!
Gary Cooper they do that a lot john is a very common name
Mim Moon i was high when i commented that don’t be a bitch
@@censusgary
That is like when my friend told me once he knows who my grandfather is.
Than he said "He have a beard, right?"
Than I told him, "If you really saw him you would know something else about him"
Somehow he did not notice how the right side of my granpas body is paralyzed.
Yea I knew he was lying.
I was recently listening to loud music before I watched this . And when I seen this 3:19 my first thought was oh noooo the doctor warned me
The phone line doesn’t work anymore lol
Something strange did indeed happen in my house. My 12 o'clock fart didn't come until 12:30.
illuminati confirmed
1-2= 11
3*3= 9
0= turn them around
9/11 0_0 wow
Kelsey Arnold .
Not funny...
pics or didnt happen
What did you eat at 11:30?
Uri Geller was burnt for years. He couldn't refuse a fee for a TV show in order to pay the rent...
Sad rewatching this, I bet 3.50$ that this scams will make a comeback in the modern dumb age of social media. Time is ripe for dumb people of today and easy money to be made.
I miss this kind of professional, low-key presenting rather than the very tacky shrieking on so many programs these days. Subtle, scientific and with a touch of class, this is much more impressive. The jokes are actually funny because they are well made and mildly self deprecating. It may be a little outdated, but I appreciate the respect these presenters give the psychic challengers, even if the psychics do fail. You feel more valued as an audience member, because everything is presented logically, in a suitably respectful manner, politely. The challengers fail on their own basically tie themselves with their personally extended rope.
41:59 -- "Let's be positive about it."
We need to cut Geller some slack here--he's not a native English speaker. What he meant was, "Let's be gullible about it."
You say wavy lines, I say bacon.
I know, I love bacon. I see it everehere.
Even the star looks like bacon
There is someone in your life. The name starts with a "b", maybe a "t" or even an "m". They're a tallish person of relatively normal height. They have many features, and I think they had hair when they were young. They're very important to you. There's travel involved. You may have met them while traveling, or they may have traveled with you, or they may be from some distance from you. This might take place in the future. Also, I think in the future you're going to be involved with water. Maybe a plumber, a lifeguard, or you might just drink it.
That'll be $29.00.
I'm not God, but I take PayPal.
We need shows like this. Too much garbage on tv these days.
Lol. Sylvia Brown...the man is German and nothing related to that was seen...she picked marketing and sales just like I would have guessed...suit and tie. Total fail, like every other time she has opened her mouth.
She was talking about a boy who comes and goes when she talked to the young lady in the audience, someone dying from heart problems to the old lady, and about business to the 30 or so year old man in a business suit.
How could she have known all of this if she didn't have powers????? Haha
they should have tested her ability, by taking men who look vaguely similar , putting them all in the same outfit with something that covers their hair style, gloves so she can't see the hands, and gotten her to psychic read them. Edit: also blindfolds. lol. So she can't read the emotions in their eyes
How about how she straight up admitted that she figured the younger girl was in school because usually younger people are in school
Let me guess, you work in Sales or Marketing? And your name is Brad and you have a relative who's name Starts with M...
B...
C...
D...
R...
Fix Bill Bixby's sound...don't make him angry...you wouldn't like him when he is angry...
Birdy I don't like him now!
Birdy LOL That's great. The Incredible Hulk omg i use to love that show when i was little;
I thought he SOUNDED familuar
The human calculator was by far the most impressive and cool thing.
They said he's a savant. Before we had the word Autism, that's what they used to call it. Like the movie Rainman. Or Mercury Rising
41:16
"Bixby, we got your script modifications here"
"I don't need that- already memorized."
"You're good?" 👍
"We're good." 👍
Camera tech: "Shit."
I can always feel my boss's aura after he has pizza for lunch
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"Oh you don't understand it? That's means it's from the future."
evilsWa - beyond pandorai
Oh.
22:59 "A woman who fashioned herself as a chiropractor, but she wasn't."
*[perfect definition of an actual chiropractor]*
Sylvia brown even defied the law of averages and the punchers chance theory. She literally got everything wrong.
That human calculator was insane.
If nothing special happened in your house, CALL NOW!
hahahaha!!! I thought the same.
bukifuriku Here's a test ask the psycho for the Wi-Fi password.
I just tried calling the number but I just got a Turkish guy yelling at me about money I owed him for some meat. What's up with that?
PROOF OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENON!
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i do what i want cause a pirate is free
I see the star.
I'm not that gullible to pay for... o wait! Damn take my money.
IrkMcSpamtroll
bet
i want my $2 back, i replied to the wrong comment
One thing's for certain. These 80s and 90s shows had killer intros and title cards
You can hear in Barbara voice when asked if all the conditions were correct that she knows she is about to be exposed.
2 dollars per call for "No?" A scam exposing scams.
Tyler Nicolo I think the squiggly lines were popular because it was less common. If psychic could see throw cards they would black jack pros.
These people have always made my blood boil! They prey on people's grief and vulnerability. Once they hook a person, they're like a vampire bleeding them for every drop. I've seen other James Randy documentaries where entire families sit and talk about how the life's saving was withdrawn and 2nd mortgages taken out.... The family was ruined! Those stories are a heart breaker.
I remember watching this as a kid lol
"Fake" psychics? There is no other kind.
The Lightening Calculator impressed me infinitely more than any psychic could. Math scares me more than dead people. 😐
When I watch Sylvia Browne, I feel sick, ashamed and amused all at the same time.
Anthony W.
1 year ago
When I watch Uri Gleller I cringe and run for the toilet.
She was wrong on everything, as she always was
That's how I feel looking in the mirror.
As someone from the "new"-tv generation, i feel like old TV shows had a special atmosphere that doesn't exist today, the way they speak and act.. magnificent.
True
What you're looking at is the result of years of "try and true".
Things that worked stuck. Things that didn't, got tossed.
The reason "new TV" looks so much different is because somewhere along the line, all this wisdom was tossed, only to be getting slowly learned again.
Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time.
@@neromauritzen6170 Hahahaha Now I've heard it all.
You're *obviously* less than about 30.
@@neromauritzen6170 Oh? Well in that case that only leaves one possibility.
That I lived thru the time and that you are ignorant AF 🤷♂️
8:53 Randi = “You know a psychic who at one time was doing this sort of trick is no longer doing it because every 12 year old magician has learned how to do it.”
What a burn of URI Geller!! 🤣
For anyone curious, this aired in 1989.
The reason everyone picked the wavy lines is cuz everyone loves bacon!
I love how Penn has a perm mullet and Teller looks almost the same.
Syd Franklin Exactly the same***
lolololol this is the type of entertainment we had back in the late 70s and early 80s. What the heck were we thinking? The astrology guy was pissed, he had been made to look like a fool
Yes something happend in my house....my wallet was suddenly completely empty