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IT'S TIME FOR MORE PSYCHIC FAILS.
Everyone hates psychics, right?
Everybody every deep down everyone truly truly thinks they're just creepy and they're liars. Like we even did that whole video about that that website where you can go like talk to them, right? And they they charge you like by the minute and they have like tens of thousands of reviews, but they're all available all the time.
>> They're always available.
>> Yeah. So scam scammers scam artists in my opinion. And that's what we're going to have here with old James Randy. This old dude right here used to have a show where he'd bring psychics on and just embarrass them. And we've done this before and it's it's enjoyable.
>> It's a true scam.
>> Using this collection of instruments which might have been used to commit crimes and then again they might not. Is it possible for a psychic to read the history of an instrument just by touching >> the we these may have been used in a murder and THEY MAY NOT. WE DON'T KNOW.
>> WHY DOES JAMES RANDY just have these around? I don't understand. That's what happened.
The last cross.
>> Any or all of these could have been connected with a serious crime. Which ones do you think are most like?
>> I think could have been quite innocent, but getting into a lock of some sort. I felt blasted with that one as if it could have been used to >> I feel glass.
>> So, and it said neither one of those two have been used for anything.
>> Yeah. So, >> she filled some glass. So maybe someone broke some glass. You know when you when you feel like a hammer, you know, just like I don't know, rubbing a tool. AH.
>> OH, REALLY? IT'S GLASS.
>> DOING BAD, are we? This one. God knows why. I'm picking glass. Not doing bad, are we? This one. God knows why. I'm picking up.
>> That was an actual murder. She's actually holding a murder weapon. Used in a domestic murder Manchester 1979.
>> Okay. Someone was killed with his axe.
Oh my gosh.
>> Picking up a heavy tire. A heavy vehicle tire. So, I don't know what that's being used for. Sorry, my darling. Best I can do.
>> She didn't do much of anything.
>> Right.
>> This is an axe. Something with a tire.
People are always I mean, she could have >> tire stuffing.
>> She could have even played it safe and like said wood, you know, trees. Yes.
That tire though. I better ax that up. I got to chop it up. No, it was used to murder someone. And then she smiles about it. That's the best I can do.
Super vague.
>> See, what she really means is that person who murdered him HAD A FLAT TIRE >> ON THE WAY. And so they used it as bait to get him over there.
>> HELP ME WITH this tire.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> To examine six objects. You got no information from three of them, and you got incorrect information from the remaining three. It's been a most intriguing demonstration and we'd like to thank you very much, Nella, for taking part.
>> What a savage. It has been very interesting. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I wonder what the police would have thought about that crap.
>> Thanks for coming on our show. Have a seat.
>> I hope to be able to make a link with someone here tonight. Someone here tonight either is Mr. Taylor or the name of Taylor will have a close connection with you.
>> Uh my mother's maid's name is Taylor.
>> Because you see I have a gentleman here who links with that name very clearly.
>> The old the old mediumh I hate these so much. What's a common name? Taylor. Yes. Someone's name here is either Taylor or you know someone named Taylor.
John. Maybe we'll lower it down a little. John. IS THERE A JOHN? IS THERE A SMITH IN THE IN the building? It's just like a play on words in there. Like you just kind of like give extremely vague information and let the person you're talking to connect the dots for you because they buy into it. Right >> now she's like she's going to she's going to connect it to a woman >> because that's his mom's maiden name.
>> Oh yes. Yeah. He gave her too much information.
>> Yeah. She's going to she's going to tie it together.
>> Yeah. She's got that tiny tiny watch on her wrist. It's bothering me how small it is.
>> How do you tell time with that? M >> you got to have glasses.
>> You got to ask the ghosts.
>> I feel he's your granddad. Does that make sense to you?
>> Yeah.
>> Who's Who's Jimmy?
>> Do you know who Jimmy is?
>> Come.
James.
>> There she goes with the names. Jimmy. I don't know a Jimmy. James. How about a Jonathan?
>> Yeah. J name?
>> Hang on a minute. Do you know who Doris is?
>> No, I can't picture that either.
Let me just go through a bunch of names.
Wait a minute. HOW ABOUT UH BILLY BOB?
BILLY BOB. WHO DO YOU KNOW?
>> WHO DO YOU KNOW, GUY?
>> WELL, I WANT US TO LOOK CAREFULLY AT the connections that you say you made. Let's take a vote. First, how many people in our audience tonight can connect with the name Taylor?
>> About a Here we go. Let me just show you how this works, y'all. So to sum up, about a third connect with the name Taylor, and over half connect with the details of the grandfather. Marine statements seem to be more general than each of you thought before we took the vote. Make of that what you will.
>> MAKE OF THAT WHAT YOU WILL. Y'ALL JUST pointed out. Yeah. I love this dude. I like this. This guy hated psychics so much they just made a whole show.
>> Dude, he really did. He hates him. We begin our quest with a lady who sketches what she believes to be portraits of spirit people and these are examples of her work. Could you tell us now what >> those are also like some of the most generic old people >> I know >> ever.
>> I thought the first one was James Randy like she drew me.
>> We don't understand quite how this works but we have to make the link with the spirit and then hope that it will make sense to somebody in the audience. Ah, yes. The same the same scenario. We just have to we just got to hope and pray, you know. I'm just going to draw something AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO BE LIKE, "OH, I KNOW WHO THAT IS." I'M LIKE, "YES, OF COURSE YOU DO.
>> OF COURSE YOU DO." YEP. AMAZING.
>> I will try to draw someone from the world of spirit. Steven will tune in to the same spirit. And if what we're getting makes sense to one of you, will you please answer? Put your hand up. So, is he going to like is is he going to get possessed and start speaking a little bit?
>> I think so. That's his job to get possessed by the picture.
>> Oh, >> she would have suffered either with heart trouble.
>> I wonder if there's anybody in our audience that either holds the surname of Butler or knows that name well, please. Do we have anybody there?
William Butler.
>> Sorry.
>> Don't make it fit. Whatever you do.
>> I guess right. All right. Does anyone uh anyone know a butler with a will? Will William Rodney John James?
>> All right. Somebody else. She said something that she said like don't don't make it fit, you know. Okay. So, yeah, we we'll try again.
>> Is this making sense to you of a lady that passed in the way I described possible heart condition angina? I feel she went silently, quietly.
>> Whoa, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.
THERE.
>> WOW. OH, YOU CAN'T be >> nginina. Can't be throwing that out like that, man.
I know you got the the mustache pillagers, BUT PUMP THE BRAINS, RIGHT?
>> Possible heart condition angina.
>> Heart conditions and bad what or >> I know a man called William Butler.
>> Good.
>> Whose wife passed away with angina. Yes.
>> But I've got to say that that picture doesn't look like >> the picture doesn't fit with her. That's fine. We're working under very difficult uh circumstances here.
>> You see, we're kind of put on the spot here. This is difficult. You know, usually can control the scene a little better than this. So, he he know he knows a man with that name and his wife passed away from China.
That ain't her though. But if you take this back to that connection, you will find you sent a photograph Carl of this lady and it's something to do with the bombing. So I would like to say to you the >> a bombing.
>> A bombing or imbalming. I like to think bombing.
Sort of the bombing. Now >> yeah. She's skilled though. She's she's got some skills.
>> Angel drew that up like that. Pretty cool.
>> I would like to say to you the audience and the television station to to follow you back and have a look and see if you can place her. At least try that.
>> Certainly will.
>> Would you do that?
>> Thank you very much indeed.
>> Good save. Good save. So, we couldn't show you it here, but I I mean I ain't got I got Oh, Randy, get out there and let him know.
>> Now, Carl said that the face she has drawn should mean something to somebody in our audience. Is there anybody here who can relate to this?
>> You know what? Me, what's up with that nose though?
>> Yeah, it's a little >> must be a little crooked.
>> It must be that China.
>> She she must have face planted a few times.
>> Yeah, I was over here talking about how good that drawing was and that nose come out like goodness gracious.
Maybe she was leaning a little bit when she drew the nose, you know, just off to the side.
>> She's got like one of the one of the the greatest cocaine nose I've ever seen.
Just hit the whole thing, slide it across, you know.
>> Yeah.
Now she likes cigars and you got to rub the cigar across.
>> Ah, yeah. Yeah.
>> Please vote if you think you recognize the face.
Well, 10 people say they recognize this face, which is odd since you said, Carl, that only one person should relate to it. Perhaps this drawing is not as specific as you think. Well, thank you very much. Anyway, Coral and Steven, >> I wonder if people just like don't know what the show is about and they're like, "Hey, we want to come on and uh show us what you got." And they do and he's like, "Well, you suck."
>> Oh, this was a scam.
>> They always just sit there at the end like Like we kind of hate this guy.
>> Yeah, I wish I didn't sign that release form.
>> I bet old James got his tire slashed a blank.
>> BUT HE'LL NEVER KNOW WHO DID IT.
>> What I want to try to prove is that thoughts can be transmitted from one person to another >> and detected by this machine.
>> And it's detected by this machine.
>> I see. And it's connected to your colleague, Mr. Ron Turner. Are you connected, Ron?
>> I am. Thank you. I'm glad to know a man who feels well connected.
>> All right, charging him up.
Breathe.
>> I am. Thank you, >> my man. He's about to he's about to transfer his thoughts through his thumbs.
>> How do you feel about this? Oh, I think he likes it. He likes it.
>> He likes it. How about Oh, he he doesn't like that one. I can tell the thoughts are being transferred.
And >> I understand that this also involves your wife, Norma, who is in our audience. And I understand that Norma is going to send pleasant thoughts over to Ron and that the machine will pick up the thoughts as Ron receives them. Is that correct?
>> Oh, so she's just going to transfer thoughts.
He's going to receive them and the machine is going to do something to prove that.
>> Ah, what is it even going to do? Detect foreign brain waves or something? I don't understand.
>> It just catches the thoughts out the air. The dial will show a rise and also there will be a rise in the sound. I'll signal you like this. Okay, that's the official signal. And you will signal Norma to start sending thoughts. Okay, Norman.
>> Look, he's getting some thoughts already.
>> Yeah, >> he's over there.
>> Her thoughts are meowing at him.
>> I like to think that he can like move his thumbs closer together to like make it, you know, Yeah.
Stop.
Very good. Of course, it's possible that this happened. Oh. Oh. I said stop.
LADY, STOP. I'M SITTING. GOD, CHARLES, GET OUT OF HER HEAD.
Professor X, not like this.
>> Of course, it's possible that this happens through visual interaction between Ron and Norma. Ron, would you swivel around, please? I will give the same signal. Turn to about seven here.
>> Sometime within the next few seconds or so.
>> I wish you would bet he never gives the signal. Yeah, I was going to say >> he just sits there.
>> All right. So, he can't see. They turned him around because there's no visual connection no more. He can't look at her to see when she's channeling them thoughts.
>> All right, stop. Now, let's give it a second try if you will.
>> Nothing happened.
>> He thought maybe he was one step ahead.
maybe thought he wasn't going.
>> Yeah. He's like, he's not going to give me the thumbs up. He's busting all these other folks out.
>> Yeah. Okay. Then he immediately did.
Okay. All right. And now he's gonna he's going to hit with the UN reverse card now. And >> yeah, now he's about to really get him.
>> Few seconds or so. I will give the signal by holding my thumb up.
>> Stop it. I guess we having a hard time stopping it, Norman. Or can you readjust it?
>> No, no, no. SHE'S >> She's over there cracking up. SHE LIKE, "STOP. STOP. STOP."
>> OH, hit the readjustment on there, man.
He is a little attuned. No signal given.
>> Norma, will you stop?
>> All right. Sometime in the next little while, I'm going to give another signal.
is beginning to slow.
>> So, isn't he?
>> NORMA, GET OUT OF HIS HEAD.
>> RIGHT. NORMA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS MAN?
>> SHE'S TRYING TO RUIN THE TEST. OH, he just gave the thumbs up as it was going down.
>> Okay, Norma, would you stop the signal, please?
Well, under these conditions, there doesn't seem to be a correlation that I can see. Perhaps >> under these conditions, I I don't think it works, MAN.
IT'S GOT TOO far for the thoughts to travel. All right. It's just just everyone knows it's a distance.
>> Perhaps Norma failed once and perhaps succeeded once, but I think it's very hard to tell. Norman, would you allow electrical engineer to take a look inside that box?
>> Most certainly not.
>> Well, that's >> I would rather get it patented first.
>> Well, that's a pity. I'm sure our audience would like to know what's going on in there. However, I would like to thank all three of you. None of us.
>> Oh, man. We want to put our radio specialist in here and just see if that's just A RADIO.
>> NO, NO, ABSOLUTELY. Absolutely not. I'm waiting on a I'm waiting ON A PATENT.
>> OH, CONVENIENT. Very convenient.
>> You're going to steal that, James.
>> Yeah. Yeah. We don't want to a thought reading technology guy here. Yeah. Which be it' been way better if the guy like stand there beside it actually like had some control over it, right? Like like it's on his shoe. He like like >> lifted his shoe over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So he could watch. But no, I I wonder what they actually got going on. It's pretty wild.
>> Earlier in the day, we gave you five examples of handwriting, each one from a different career. Saleswoman, computer training officer, an artist, a secretary, and a farmer. And so, I understand that on the basis of graphological analysis, you've tried to allocate each sample to its author.
>> My man just hit an old dude here with some big old words, and he's he he's on board, he thinks.
>> All right.
>> Not too sure what we've been talking about, but he's going to match the handwriting back to who wrote it, I guess.
>> Yeah. I mean, we can do that, though.
>> Yeah, >> we match crimes to criminals sometimes.
>> True. Easy. You know, I I just I see somebody, I just look at them and I judge their entire life in like a span of seconds.
>> Yeah, we can do this.
>> I'm something of an empath, you know, on a medium level.
>> Yeah, we should charge for that.
>> And there's a less than 1% chance of your getting all five correct. I had a tussle whether it was the the computer or the saleswoman, and I went for the saleswoman.
>> Thank you very much. Will lady A please go to the sales lady's section. Now put her uh as computers.
>> I know he's got less than 1% chance. I can barely understand the guy saying got a very very thick accent.
>> Yeah. Imagine if he he writes like that.
>> Particularly definite here. And you can tell me what's right or whether it's wrong. Do you have a scar in your abdomen?
>> Wrong.
>> No, you don't.
>> No scar in the abdomen. What profession did you allocate this? I saw I chose a line. That's >> all right. This lady >> All right. All right. He tried He tried He tried to get some information out.
>> Yeah.
>> DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY NAMED JOHN? OKAY.
All right. Sorry. I had to >> Did you have a C-section? No. Okay. All right.
>> Do you have any farm animals? That would help out.
>> Yeah.
>> There's a lightness and uh delicacy to the handwriting.
>> So, this lady is the artist in your estimation. Very well. Would you step over behind the palette and the brushes, please? And um finally I >> She thinks she's over here just like Yeah.
>> laughing on the inside.
>> Number one, are you indeed a salesman?
Vote with yes or no. You are not the saleserson.
>> Wrong. You got the noise, too.
>> She was the farmer.
>> And number two, are you a computer expert? You are not. Number three, are you the artist?
Ah, you are. And number four, >> he did it. HE THAT'S ALL HE TO EVER DO.
>> HE CAN DO IT. HE CAN DO IT.
>> MY GOODNESS. THIS ALMOST I mean the artist is probably the easiest one to pick out.
>> I would assume you know >> their handwriting is probably like artistic to them as well, you know.
>> Yeah.
>> Are you a farmer?
>> I see the four ladies that were not correct. Would you move to the correct positions?
>> Jeez.
>> Now we know who is really.
>> He's almost HAD IT COMPLETELY BACKWARDS.
>> WOW.
YOU SEE, I'm James. I'm getting something.
I I was looking through a mirror when I picked him. So, it was reversed. You see?
>> Yes. Yes.
>> And that's why the middle one was correct and the other ones were inverted. Yes. So, now it all makes sense. Of course, >> in that profession, we expected that according to chance, Duncan, you would get one correct and you got exactly one correct. My first guest is an astr like how they cover that, too. We figured you'd get at least one right and you did.
>> Got him.
>> Correct. My first guest is an astrologer whose work is read by millions of people in Britain every day. We gave you the details of one person selected from that audience. So please give us your reading for that person.
>> So this guy's famous apparently.
>> Okay.
>> And he's astrologer. People, you know, thousands of people, millions read his article or whatever >> based on the stars >> on the day every day.
>> Horoscopes.
>> Oh, my man.
>> God, horoscopes.
>> I'm a Virgo.
>> Me too. Yeah, they're like, "Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, your whole personality is laid out." Even though our personalities are >> vastly different, >> very different, >> but there's similarity to this is the same thing as any like the the the spiritual readings where it's like vague enough to where you can attach some part of you to it because people are very complex.
>> Like, OH YEAH, I HAVE HAD a feeling before. That that's that's totally me.
That's totally me. But then people swear by it too like, "No, kid. It's real."
I'm like, "Oh, yeah. No, it's not." your your personality is based more off of like not only your genetic makeup, but also just like your surroundings as a child growing up and the people that were your friends and like how your parents acted. That's what makes you like >> Yeah, >> that's what ends up shaping you as you grow up. Not like what celestial being was in the sky whenever you were conceived.
>> Have you ever have you ever heard of numerology?
>> Numerology?
>> Yeah.
>> Tell me about numerology, >> dude. All right. Numerology.
>> All right. So, numerology is like you take your name and I forget how the numbers you subtract or add. Anyway, you kind of get them down to >> This is like one of those things where you go to like the the carne, you know, at the at the park like tells you how old you are based off of like they ask you like one question and tell you like when you were born.
>> No, no, no, no, no. So, this one will tell you your this one will give you your entire personality. based on your name.
>> Gotcha.
>> Yeah. Yeah. It's your destiny really.
>> I'll put I'll put a little bit of faith in that because people with the certain names you can they they kind of have similarities, you know. Oh, yeah. I knew I knew you would be a dean, you know.
Okay.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> You see that one girl named Haley and you're like, "Oh, yeah. You got you got just enough of that just just enough of that bad girl on you." I Yeah. Yeah.
>> Carl, you know he's crazy. This horoscope is unusual and it suggests to me that you are a very extrovert person, unusual, larger than life, full of confidence, um, with a very zany sense of humor.
>> Okay. So far, he's just said this person's an extrovert and has gone through all of the different like personality traits of people of an extrovert.
>> That's an extrovert.
>> So, we got a 50-50 shot here. Introvert or extrovert. Let's see what we got.
There's something about you which is rather professorial and intellectual and it makes me think that we're dealing with someone who's um had a a well-trained mind, is very speedy and alert and quickwitted.
>> Okay, someone in this audience is an extrovert and they also don't think that they're dumb.
>> Yeah, it should be a lot of people in the audience.
>> How many people in the audience think this reading sounds like theirs? Let's see a show of hands. Well, we've got what? Four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, about 15, maybe a few more.
>> They must have the introvert crowd here today, but I doubt that. They would have left their house.
>> Now, let's meet our real subject of that reading. Uh, please welcome Hugh Lur.
>> Dr. House. I think it is. I think it is Dr. House.
>> That is It is.
>> IT IS.
>> IT IS. GOD DANG IT, DR. HOUSE. WE they got they got they they do have the intellectuals in here in this crowd. The guy next to him is the freaking >> it's the other comedian guy, right?
>> Can't remember his name. Yeah, they got some famous people here. Anyway, >> so tell us you uh what did you make of that reading? Is there anything is it anything like >> Oh, it's supposed to match to him. Oh, okay. I see. I see.
>> Apply to you?
>> Uh I wouldn't say very much. No. Um uh extrovert. I don't think so.
Professorial. I got the lowest possible degree at the university I went to.
Although you did go to university, >> he's just like talking down on himself.
Come on, man. Be you be Dr. HOUSE. YOU GOT GREAT THINGS COMING, MAN.
>> Got pills to pop.
>> At the university I went to.
>> I mean, you did go to university.
>> Oh, that's right.
>> That's a start.
>> You think you take take the win?
>> My win.
>> Take the one. Get him. Jeez. That's a small one.
>> You're very generous. I call that a draw. Yeah. All right. Um uh >> call it a draw. All right. Sure.
>> Did I say you had a good sense of humor?
I think I did.
>> Hands up in this audience who thinks they have not got a sense of humor.
>> Oh, there you go.
>> Post him out. If you don't have a sense of humor, raise your hand. Goodness.
Steven Fry. There we go. All right.
>> Uh, he's certainly not extroverted.
Stupid. I wouldn't have guessed, but not in the least bit stupid, very intelligent, but not in a proposal or academic kind of way. He gets nervous and he he dispenses.
>> I think you do your friend a grave injustice. I've looked at his horoscope and I'm sure he's capable of far more than that. Yeah, but I looked at him.
You see, >> he's trying he's trying to say GIVE HIM SOME MORE CREDIT. You know, he's exactly what I said he is. Come on now.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's just hating on his buddy. You know what I'm saying?
Roasting him with a hater.
>> Well, from my experience, readings in newspapers are very general. And perhaps that's why in America, some of them now carry a health warning, which makes it clear they're for entertainment purposes only.
GOLLY.
OH MY GOSH, DUDE. JAMES DON'T CARE. He's He's up on him. He's already dead.
The way he wraps up his guest is like a genuine exec or gentleman's execution.
But yeah, I love how how he's polite, professional, and smug all at the same time.
>> Yeah, >> YOU'RE A FAKE. THANKS FOR coming in to make a FOOL OF YOURSELF. NOW, LET'S CLAP.
>> This is looks like a crowd of 200. Do you know anyone who's died?
Does anyone know anyone who's passed away?
>> Oh, man. Oh, I need a good old laugh on that one. Thank God. I hope you guys enjoyed that as much as we did. IF TODAY'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
You know, so if if anyone out there has a birthday or know anyone who has had a birthday recently or soon within the next six months, wish them happy birthday for me >> cuz I'm also playing the the numbers game of we upload every other day. So 50/50 we'll hit someone's birthday and they'll be like it is my birthday.
Perfect. Ah, I'm channeling I'm channeling you. You will subscribe. I Yep. And happy birthday. Bam. Stay my friends.
Bye-bye.
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