James Randi exposes Hydrick

[ThePeter74Peter]

Randi should've shouted, "IN YO FACE!"

[videogamegenius]

hahhaa

[westxtsew]

just put a piece of scotch tape on hid lips. duh

[iwin371220]

EPIC FFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

[edwinshap1]

why is the one guy dressed like a chode?

[Psykolord1989]

My question is, is Hydrick still alive after the prison time? I mean, child molestors don't usually do well in prison.

[stevebroskim]

"In 1989, James Hydrick received a 17-year sentence for molesting 5 boys.[5] He is currently incarcerated at a California prison"

haha holy shit

[ballbagbaggins]

@stevebroskim

that was james randis' fault for messing up his career lol if he had let him persue his career it may have never happened :P

[Piggie822]

@ballbagbaggins

Well James Hydrick offered to do the show. So no, it wasn't James Randi's fault. And even if James Hydrick's career took off, it doesn't change the fact that he liked little boys.

[34jake34]

I love how he tries to show that static is interfering with it and when he does it falls down the way it was supposed to have been turned.

[ChrisakacIoud]

"should I lift the pencil off the table?" he should have said eh no actually you lift it off with your "psychic ability"

[StretchDouche]

Was James Randi ever young?

[vulnerabledonkey]

And now Hyrdrick is an oral rapist serving time in prison. Oh life, you so crazy.

[TheLordmewtwo]

hydrick hair looks disgusting.

[98bigbutt]

Isn't the host is Bob Barker?

[cartesiandualism]

@98bigbutt

Yes it is! I thought I recognized his voice so I looked it up. This is a clip from That's My Line in 1980s.

[Smithpolly]

And I thought styrofoam was simple packaging material. When really it's psychic kryptonite.

[romanvanpersie]

Should have asked him to wear a mask over his mouth instead...no silly satic excuses then.

[jkono29]

@romanvanpersie I thought that, too, but he could make a similar excuse about the mask preventing his psychic energies from flowing or whatever.

[diabolusdc]

One thing it doesn't mention, the phone book one is not done by blowing on the book as such, I believe it's done by blowing on the table top in front of the book, which then catches the book on the underside... when there isn't a load of styrofoam in the way of course. :-)

[richogem]

SPOCK!

[Kullg4r]

4:04 ultimate fail

[DrSpooglemon]

He gets his psychic powers from his hair...

[etampier]

The Amazing Bitch Slap!!

[sniggity]

Wow, that was....uncomfortable.

[al3699]

a simpler way with the phone book would be to ask him to move the pages TOWARDS him

[jarleg80]

You don't think t Hydrick suck that much?

[hazahaxa]

@al3699 He had actually done that before though lol

[apfrezende]

@al3699 nice idea man, that would be very funny

[Hamhark98]

@al3699 He can push but not pull. Easy cover.

[farerse]

@al3699 or they could cover his mouth .. but i guess that would block the "psychic power"..

[BLAMBANGBAM]

looks more like a boring bruce lee.

[justaman6972]

maybe Mr. Randi should contact Ingo Swann, or Joe Mcmoneagle,both were members of SRI/Stanford Research Institute, a CIA cover op that was used for over 18 years. Remote viewing of locations,files,people regardless of time ,or space. See the YT vid called Hemi-sync #4 where Joe makes actual contact with the ancient extinct inhabitants of Mars. Proof would be to bring back a huge list of prime numbers, on the order of 25,000 digits. That would prove it to me, and I'm sure to Randi.

[ebrobaru]

@justaman6972 Those people have been debunked over and over. Of course they continue to milk this nonsense for their own profit.

[justaman6972]

@ebrobaru well then maybe you'd like to show evidence of the party who did the dubunking of Joe Mcmoneagle and Ingo Swann? 18 years of military service and multi million dollar defense contracts suggests that you're incorrect about both of these men. SRI and the Monroe Institute held contracts for nearly 2 decades with the ARMY, AIR FORCE, NSA,DARPA and the IAO among others. So to randomly suggest they have been debunked w/o a smidgen of proof lacks in credibility. So let's see it...

[ebrobaru]

@justaman6972 Nobody is disputing the time that Joe Mcmoneagle spent in the military. Nobody is disputing the millions of dollars that the military and the CIA spent on research on the subject. The thing is that, no results were found. Nothing. They shut out the funding because no credible evidence was found. Of course that didn´t stop Swann of milking it for ever for profit. SRI was just performing "experiments" that were so faulty that they cannot even be called experiments.

[ebrobaru]

@justaman6972 In short, it was a nice idea, but it never worked. But a few con men continued to milk it so long and defraud gullible people. Here´s a link for you to start investigating if you really mean it. skepdic DOT com /remotevw DOT html

[RuskePerson]

Damn, James Randi has been old forever.

[Cameljockey213]

@RuskePerson He must be a wizard.

[Ebrainiac1]

@RuskePerson

He reached the level cap a while ago. He's just stopped leveling.

[pyramidheadkitten9]

well if super mutants with psychic powers ever try to attack us, well just thank god we have Styrofoam armour to keep them from annoyingly displacing our pencils and making us lose our spot in a book.

[Kukulcan88]

5:02 is like my frustation face when nothing happen using telekinetik powers

[1madDogz]

@MaxAC40 no it was from his mouth.

[mlawren7]

If a man who has spent years developing his psychic powers can only just manage to move a pencil and turn pages in a book, then apparently psychic powers aren't very useful anyway.

[Ledwix]

"I can't just come up, bang bang, and it's over. I have to be to where I can work with something small and then big...you know, to build up my own self." Wow, great excuse.

[Bossradamus]

I think James Randi was born with a white beard.

[Whit3King]

its creating static electricity and pulls the pages downward... no Hydrick..THAT is called GRAVATY!!!

[raven66614]

Ok whoa is this for real ? D:

THATS AMAZING ;o

[Sidleyhatesyou]

Haha That guy made himself look like a total asshole XD

Who would go up on stage with that weak of an act..

[ys00ndr3]

egoraptor.

[slappytheclown1]

@ys00ndr3 fag

[winterstellar]

He actually "discovered his supernatural powers" while he was in prison, he said so later himself. I guess he had lots of time to practice his tricks in the prison cell.. : )

[TheRickmurray]

Love it!

[MOPEDBRAD]

Haha!

I would have put the phonebook in a glass case, and given the psycho another shot.

[isocrate27]

I vote for the foam. Static foam ruined my marriage.

[ieBrazil]

Hi. Why do those things Sr. Randi put around the book make the 'power' (magic) not to work?

I just dont get it.

I hope it's a matter of language limitation (it's not my mother tongue) and not of intelligence :-)

Thanks for any easy explanation here.

[ebrobaru]

@ieBrazil That´s what Hydrick claims. It´s just an excuse.

[fkoff99]

Booooooohhhhhh loserrrrr

[genericmember1]

The electricity pulls the page down Hydrick? No, I think you will find that's called gravity.

[Antepenult]

You skipped several minutes of Hydrick's awkward silence.

[Marakulous43]

I wish Randi would expose SHAMWOW!!!

[undisputedgreatest]

Really...what can that guy say/do, other than just admit he is lying. He did his best to improvise. But, Randi is "Amazing"...and that's no joke.

[theanvilcracks]

WTF at the video response!?

[beeroosterm]

By the way, what you didn't see is the 20 minutes of "trying" that everybody sat through while he sat there trying to think of a way to beat Randi's simple control in the form of styrofoam pellets. Long love James Randi !!

[uriituw]

People still believe this kind of bullshit.

[bersa888]

He's obviously a conman... but I'm gonna use his costume next Halloween!!!

[jatheist25]

Randi is an artist! Do you think when Randi was pouring the foam out, Hydrick was thinking "ooooooohhhh shit...."?? I seen this and other videos of lairs and frauds being exposed and I just can't get enough. People like Randi, Michael Shermer and Penn & Teller restore my faith in humanity! Thank you for the much needed reality check guys!

[InuyashanKag]

James Randi, I want you to test me :D!!

The other James dude was so pathetic XDDDDD

I can even turn a page with out blowing on it D< like my god!

Now, I CAN turn a page with TK... but... it takes like 3-10 minutes XDDDDDD

annyway, I believe in TK

as well as believe almost every psychic out there is fake 8D

yey<3

[Dimy761]

It seems that psychic powers are afraid to reveal themselves in the presence of James Randi's bad aura.

[lihao]

@Dimy761 i agree, James Randi has some type of aura or energy that can prevent others to use their powers, unless others are extremely powerful... I guess

[Dimy761]

@lihao If such things exist at all

[lihao]

@Dimy761 my grandma went to a fortune teller last year and the fortune teller said my grandfather will die after the chinese new year. When the Chinese New year came, my grandfather died from the car accident. Is it a coincidence?

[ebrobaru]

@lihao Yes it is

[lihao]

@ebrobaru the fotune teller also predicted that i have 5 sibling that had pass away. Only my mom knows and no one else. Is that also a coincidence? You might say, if so, then they can make plenty of money...their maximum accuracy is 80%. and I chose not to believe in fortune telling, but rather chose to control my own destiny...

[Dimy761]

@lihao you made the right choice

[ebrobaru]

@lihao There are multiple techniques that are used by those people to make you believe that it was them that came up with some information. The truth is that you yourself provided that information without knowing it. Their maximum accuracy is what we would expect from chance alone

[mandolinic]

@lihao "the fotune teller also predicted that i have 5 sibling that had pass away. Only my mom knows and no one else."

It's a technique called "Cold Reading". It involves picking up on little clues and making lots of guesses. Guesses which come to nothing are forgotten but the correct guesses are remembered. There's no mystery to it, and no magic.

It seems very convincing at the time, but a little bit of research on the net will show you how it's done.

(cont)

[mandolinic]

@lihao (cont)

Medium: I'm getting a name. It sounds like R? ... Rob? ... Rich? It's difficult to hear ... Arthur?

Victim: That could be my uncle Arnold!

Medium: Arnold, that's it! ... He had lung problems...?

Victim: Heart. He died of a heart attack.

---

Notice how Rob, Rich and Arthur never get mentioned again.

Later on, the victim is convinced that the medium knew all about uncle Arnold and his bad heart ... but it's just good guessing combined with good observation.

[lihao]

@mandolinic most of the fortune tellers are like that, but in China, in my hometown is not. We just go to the fortune teller and give them our "birth date" and we don't say or ask anything. The fortune teller would tell all about the person that the fortune teller can predict. The prediction starts from the person's birth until death. After it's finish, we pay and leave. Then we will know whether the prediction is accurate or not in our heart. (To be Continue)

[lihao]

(Continue)

My grandma gave my birth date to the fortune teller, and somehow the fortune tellers said "the boy is handicap, he is unlucky when he was young, he has five sibling that had pass away (only my mom knows), he was born outside the country...etc" The fortune teller can look at my birth date but he/she cannot know that I am live outside the country and I am disable. The birth date can by my cousins or someone else.

[ebrobaru]

@lihao In cultures such as the Chinese and Indian (which I respect and admire deeply), it is very common to pay great tribute to these so called "seers". It is unheard of that someone maybe even think to challenge their sayings. The are seen almost like demi-gods. It is normal to accept whatever they say as law even though they might be clearly wrong.

[mandolinic]

@lihao That is a truly fascinating story.

Are you completely sure there's no way the fortune teller couldn't know this information about you? How many other predictions did the fortune teller make which didn't come true? If you visit a different fortune teller in a different city and give him/her the same birth date do you get the same predictions?

[lihao]

@mandolinic We know that if we communicate with the fortune teller, they can understand or know about us through talking, so we keep ourselves quiet. I am not saying they can predict us 100% accurate, but about 70-80%. Many fortune tellers' predictions are very similar. No one said prediction will be 100%, but at least we have a bit of understanding of our future, but I chose not to believe and control my own destiny.

[greasegunx]

@lihao With the greatest respect, that figure you quote for the accuracy is highly questionable. The overwhelming majority of statements that psychics/clairvoyants make are broad and general and include the escape clause with a "but could be otherwise".

If a net is cast so far and wide it can include just about anything and everything.

Which makes the body of predictions made by psychics indistinguishable from cold reading or just random guessing with vague and general statements.

[Dimy761]

@lihao 7 billion people live in the world and god knows how many fortune tellers, so i think that is statistically possible that one of them guessed it by chance. If your grandfather knew about this prediction, it could affect his actions unfavorably.

You can try an experiment. Visit this fortune teller and ask about the future of some celebrity, put this prediction on your channel and people will know that such things exist or not.

[lihao]

@Dimy761 most chinese fortune tellers predict one's future with the person's birth date, year, month, day and time. without it, it's useless

[mandolinic]

@lihao "fortune teller said my grandfather will die after the chinese new year."

Very sorry to hear about the death of your grandfather.

Since no one lives forever, the only options are that someone will die before, on, or after any particular date. Provided the date chosen is reasonably close to the current date and the person concerned is in good health, then saying someone will die AFTER a particular date is a pretty safe bet.

[beeroosterm]

@lihao Yes - it's the energy of his mind! He uses logic and reason to expose charlatans.

[MentosMan727]

This guy, james randi, is fucking epic. Seriously. Check out the other videos with him. This guy is a dose of reality so many people need.

[MalevolentShockValue]

Is that host fucking Bob Barker?

[MentosMan727]

@MalevolentShockValue

I was wondering the same thing. Sounds just like him.

[Marakulous43]

@MentosMan727 You mean to tell me that's NOT BOB BARKER???

[YoeriYoeri]

I like his shoes tho.

[tuseroni]

was james randi ever young?

i see bob barker(sp?) from the price is right and he is like 20 and james randi still looks like he is in his 70's

i suspect if you look at his kindergarden photo he looks just like that, beard and all.

[conyo985]

@tuseroni

Haha! I swear James Randi is so strong he might live up to more than a hundred.

[tuseroni]

@conyo985 probably, he defied the odds when the doctors thought he would never walk again, last i heard he is winning his fight with cancer...

clearly he has reason healing, like faith healing but it works.

[winterstellar]

Yes, he was a "psychic" fraud and a sex offender. He thought out the "psychic"-scam while he was doing time in prison. Hehe, like many other "faith-healers", "mediums", "ghost-hunters" or what-not.: )

[InuyashanKag]

@winterstellar yea I agree owo

but there's still real ones

though, the real ones never use powers for money

that's how you know whose real and not

haha just kidding... most psychics are fake =w=

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

According to Wikipedia, James HYDRICK is a Sex Offender on the Lam!

(Reference #4)

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

James Hydrick: "Shit. I'm Styro-fucked."

[genericmember1]

It's so awkward when he's making up reasons to not do it. You can even see the "This is bad" smirk on his face.

[Cruzito3000]

Also: "styrofoam and lights pull the page down". son. thats called gravity. it tends to do that. from time to time and ONLY when the amazing randi is present.

[Cruzito3000]

uncle randi makes me jizz in my pants from the epicness of his massive balls for exposing these nutjobs.

[ScumbagKorain]

Randi should have poured flour around it. So Hydrick couldn't blame the "static".

[Cruzito3000]

@ScumbagKorain yeah but then he would have to go into his "the planets are un-alligned at this particular time, please try again later" mode.

[teejaynumber13]

I guessed he was using an air tube or something in his sleeve before Randi said anything. Damn I'm good. I wanna be like Randi.

[TheFriendlyFriends]

Uncle Rico off Napleon Dynamite.

[jeffgorc]

at 4:58 He's thinking "Damn, he got me!"

[setmedic]

The amazing party pooper!!!

[MrBrownstone1475]

burned

[Exarian]

holy crap Randi is way older than I thought he was... Old people rock.

[FeelOfFriction]

He's a kiddie raper!

[andy4226uk]

Is it a surprise that Hydrick is now a convicted sex offender?

[taitaisanchez]

@andy4226uk no. that's horrible. :(

[Dtrollmancan]

@andy4226uk

not with a hair cut like that nop

[fordxbgtfalcon]

epic fail

[Zeldakitteh]

Maybe we could make him try to do it in a vacuum.

[lordtyamat]

REASON always conquer..

[luiseduardo586]

LMFAO......those times are when you really need an big earthquake...NInja FAILED

[Narwal88]

Another anti-scam measure would simply be to ask Hydrick to wear a surgical mask. That way there is no chance he can blow on anything.

[ElvisPresley42]

hahahahaha he blow hahahahaha

[Galactu5]

Just blow on the foam damn it! hahah

[kb1kb1]

what i would do to walk around in that outfit for a day. of course, i look even crazier than if i was calling myself a psychic.

[doh1959]

hes cut his hair to look like bruce lee and dresses and twitches like him id like to punch him so fucking hard then ask him why his cheap bruce lee look didnt see it coming

[veerocks]

Long live Randi.

[HannibalFL86]

lol

[MilesB1975]

Even if he was telepathic, all he could do is move a pencil and a page.

At least he won't have trouble filling out the parole forms or signing up for welfare.

[nonsanekp]

It is so epic to have Bob Barker and James Randi together. That's like diving by zero!

[GameHead332]

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[Tagger24]

i would be sweating and panicking so much if that was me but wait...i wouldn't be stupid enough to do that in the first place so...

[imgordonfreeman]

"it pulls the page down" thats gravity you dummy

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[undisputedgreatest]

@BioRage1920 Awesome!

[GlorifiedTruth]

Hydrick should have psychically improved his haircut.

[tempemonkey2323]

The title of this looks like it says, "James Randi Exposes Hisdick"

[Paralyzer]

JAMES HYDRICK IS A SEX OFFENDER,James Hydrick was convicted as a sex offender (forced oral copulation), and was incarcerated in a California prison. Currently, he is at a California State Mental Hospital undergoing "treatment" as a Sexually Violent Predator LOL

[ep0k]

@Paralyzer Could have told you that just by looking at his mustache.

[RS1963]

@Paralyzer That's very very old news and has been mentioned many times before on this thread. So you are a bit late there.

[JeanLouie1106]

Wow this is so embarrassing... lol man

[snake520]

Bob Barker!

[drjoli89]

hahaha I guess this killed this ninja's courier!

[weckar]

it's quantum physics really, The observation changes the effect (see: double slit experiment)

[ebrobaru]

@weckar ah, the problem is that what you describe only works in the subatomic level

[weckar]

@ebrobaru Afawk PK could be a bunch of subatomic processes directed enough to be noticable on a superatomic level.

(and it's just a way better excuse than static)

[ebrobaru]

@weckar nice idea, too bad that it just doesn´t work that way. If it did, it would change forever physics.

[weckar]

@ebrobaru Which would be nice, as the current theories on subatomic physics lack in something called proof.

[ebrobaru]

@weckar you are right. But the theories are based on something and not just wishful thinking.

[Risti2ss]

Hydricks haircut is  really funny.

[jolemez]

@Risti2ss He is trying to look "Oriental" and hence the dopey hairstyle.

He ends up looking more like Moe from 'The Three Stooges' then Bruce Lee.

[Chinosst13]

MAGIC FAIL!

[Electroposit]

@Chinosst13

Everything is, nothing is magic

[Kalex1975]

All psychics are either liars or self-deluded.

[jolemez]

@Kalex1975 I knew you were going to write that...

...before you did.

Coincidence OR psychic phenomena? YOU decide!

[kshayk0]

pwnage .

[SFPhoenix]

Should of made him war a mask or something to cover his mouth / nose, would of still had the same result, but at least the guy couldn't come up with some bullshit like "static".

[Royaleah]

That could have been done with flour too. Would he say the static from the flour was causing the pages to stick? Maybe talcum powder, powdered sugar, ...

[omelettecrap]

I don't get why they don't just change the control and make him cover his mouth or put a cloth over his mouth. Then there would be no more "static" and he would be revealed for real. Someone explain please...

[R3unbreakable]

@omelettecrap becasue then he'd say the cover is "blocking his energy" or something.

[omelettecrap]

@R3unbreakable I know, then at least he had a second chance and he will mess it up. Because it's obviously fake if you used the same reason twice.

@ruskeperson if you can use arms and body to create wind currents to move a page, thats impressive enough...

[RuskePerson]

@omelettecrap The movements of his arms and body could also be the cause of wind currents.

[metsesell]

@omelettecrap trust me, whatever the control is, they will find a "reason" why their psyhic powers stop working ... the most common one, is that a skeptic nearby is influencing( "blocking") the whole process with his/her negative energy

[MaMaX5]

@metsesell That is true, but they could conquer it by saying that Randi was at the back stage blocking his energy in the first successful try. Also, they could have used ripped paper flakes, flour, etc. to prevent static, or just put a glass panel in front of it. They could also ask the fraudster what would not block the energy or form static.

[chiptopher1986]

wtf is that bob barker?

[TanukiTensai]

I like how Randi has no couth at all. He always acts like a pompous jackass saving the world from superstition...

[ebrobaru]

@TanukiTensai Well, he is.

[SupermarketsRevil]

@TanukiTensai Stating the truth is being a pompous jackass? BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[stayjit1]

poor fellow, is static the best he could think of ?

[TheCyclomethicone]

Why does everyone with "psychic powers" have a bad fashion sense?

[macnos]

@TheCyclomethicone Because they are all sick in the head.

[qazzzie]

I love James Randi

[lagerbaer]

The problem is that the guy insists on not using a "magic trick" but true psychic power. Now you might ask "Where's the harm?" and I can tell you. The harm is that gullible people get the impression that there really are people with psychic powers around and then seek advise and counseling from those frauds.

[Desrinify]

has james randi meet Gasparetto

[BECK26x]

so what. he's an illusionist. he came up with something no one else did, so props.

[grendelee]

@BECK26x if an illusionist fails, is he still an illusionist?

[Bhodisatvas]

this video should be titled "watch a man slowly fall apart live on TV" :)

[smillar98]

And now can you guess the price of that pencil?