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  • there is only 1 explanation for this...james randi is a psychic too

  • "I have a wisdom tooth..." More entertainment coming from the stooge than from Uri's entire act.

  • I figured out how to debunk the bible. READ IT!

  • I do it all the day, wanting stuff and getting them. I even manage to have the power of the mind over matter. It happens all the time. The matter of my body reacts whenever I wants it. Those muscles just do what I order them to do. I think about it with my mind and miraculousely matter obeys. Strange stuff, and it happens all the time. I don't even know how I do it, do you?

  • Need to see what lies beneath?Tired of running endlessly looking for meaningful teachings?Unleash your true psychic powers.Enter THE-HIDDEN-SPIRITdotCOM and finally get what you've been looking for.

  • @MeganHainesify Are you trying to be funny?

  • James Randi is my HERO since 2007

  • Could any one explain what he siad at 3:30? I didnt get the chair thing

  • @OneAvsta On how he bent it? If that's what you mean then watch at 3:26 that's when he bent it

  • Statistics and educational records show that it does not take skill to "fool and fleece people" especially the type that generally fall for this stuff.

  • There is no spoon.

  • People dont like this guy because they dont want to realise that they will die without the afterlife.

  • Why, I don't believe James Randi is psychic at all! >:O

  • Real psychic abilities would not require for him or anybody else to touch or rub the object that is being bend. Just use the mind, no touching allowed period!

  • 2:22 you people at home, keep stroking your piece more....

  • @marcjtdc lol

  • 16 dislikes = Hardcore Geller fans? lol

  • Uri Geller claimed his magician tricks were genuine psychic powers. In doing so, he made a lot of people waste their time and he made millions of dollars and he now lives in a mansion as a result of his deception. In his book he even admits he was a conman. I hope there's some kind of "equal and opposite reaction" even for things like this, because otherwise the conclusion would be "there is more incentive to lie and cheat than to work hard".

  • I WANT MY CAR TO RUN ON EMPTY...

  • James Randi has started as a magician, in a same way, like Uri Geller, but failing to become a true magician, like Uri Geller, he now "exposes" other magicians.

    Magicians have been doing this for centuries. There is nothing strange in creating an illusion by saying that is true "power". Magicians say that all the time.

  • @Magikomik

    Randi is a much better magician then Geller and performs his tricks with much better believability, the difference is that Randi is honest and Geller is not

  • @dummbatz48 What? Randi performs nothing for decades. The only tricks he has done in last 3 decades were children tricks. While Uri Geller performs for last 4 decades and still does.

  • @BosnianReality

    He demonstrates how Geller does his tricks and if Randi didn't disclose that it was indeed a trick I'd say Randi would be much more believably have psyhic powers =P

  • It's always funny to me how "psychics" or "mentalists" use their powers to bend spoons, of all things. Why not bend a crowbar, or I-beam? Even an infant could bend a spoon.

  • james randi sexiest man of the century award in my books for his polite attitude and quiet manner when slowly but surely ridding society of frauds

  • Uri is very weak as stageman.

  • haha... at 2:10 you see when Uri suddenly stops the host from touching the wrong part of the spoon? The panic in his voice? That should be enough XD

    BTW: You can find here on youtube, but look up uri geller's confession. He himself announces it was all a lie to try and see how long he could fool everybody.

  • he is gay now

  • I love randi james,  yeeeha

  • Geller is an attention whore, soon after MJ's death he claimed to be good friends with him.

  • gotcha!

  • The US government should've supported James Randi more, as he's performing a great public service: protecting American consumers from fraudsters.

    Why is James Randi so successful at exposing these charlatans? As the saying goes, it takes one to know one...what I mean by that is, James Randi is a stage magician and knows how people use slight of hand and trickery to create illusion. Unfortunately, some people use such skills to fool and fleece people. James uses his skills to expose them.

  • Geller is still popular,even had his own show in Israel! Unbelievable how people still watch him.

  • he is brilliant!!!!!

  • of course..

    Randi is just as bad as what he claims to dislike. I admire him, but I also think he himself could be exposed also.

  • @jiaoyinyang Exposed as what?

  • @jiaoyinyang Exposed of what? What do you think he is hiding?

  • @Atheist6804 best user name on youtube =)

  • @inityminiwur yes he is,but same time he is a self asteemed ass hole,and sugests things that are total fiction,like evolution,he does,nt know the first thing about creation,and the mathmatics behind it

  • @georgeeboy2222 Really, what mathematics do you have that prove creationism? Since such formula would also prove the existence of a deity, and if you had these they would surely be trumpeted from every religious institution and news organization, finally having true scientific proof of a deity and all that. Or are you parroting an argument from people like Kent Hovind or the Discovery Institute?

  • James Randi is awesome but many are just too naive and stupid to appreciate him.

  • @prisiv like barbara walters

  • If you still believe Uri Geller to be true watch some videos by user "TheFriendlySkeptic". One titled "Uri Geller Bends a Spoon - With his HAND!" shows how he distracts the audience while bending spoon with his hand. There's another video where his puts a magnet on his thumb to move a compass.

  • Geller's powers served him so well predicting Michael Jackson's death

  • hes a showman i guess a fake one

  • Crappness. My laptop is still broken! And yes, I want it to work!

  • show me the proof for your statement !!!!

  • uri geller is so lame

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  • It santa! It Santa! Give me a psychic for christmas with a bending 8:::D

  • the guys a fake...but still i have NO clue how he did 2:30?! can anyone here tell me?!

  • The spoon is bent beforehand. It's geller's spoon.

  • are you even watching this?

    look at 4:20 - 4:40

    He explains it

  • yea i see that but all he basicaly says is its takes a lot of preperation. so im guessing he worked that spoon down previously, but then how does he display it to the other person as a normal sturdy spoon, before he bends it down and eventualy brakes it?

  • If you bend it a few times it still looks normal its just weaker.

    try it your self.

    Once you weaken the spoon all it takes is a few more bends to make it break.

  • get some crappy spoons and try it out.

    I havent done it myself in a while but if i remember it right you can break a fresh spoon by just bending it back and forth enough times.

    Im sure that part of his preparation was to weaken it just enough so it doesnt show.

  • Okay. On all those magazine covers at the beggining, Uri Geller looks almost exactly like Ted Bundy (with longer hair).

  • Randi looks like Santa Claus!

  • Slow down Riva, he's my dear grandfa.

  • haha but he DOES, though!

    Which means there is yet another reason that James Randi is AWESOME!

  • He is santa

  • :-) He is awesome. I just recently started to see all his videos and reading his articles on JREF. He truly is...Amazing!

  • No, Santa Claus looks like Randi.

    They totally based his mannerisms and speech off his.

  • Holy crap! Randi is a hunt and peck typer!

    Learn the home keys, my man : )

  • Settle down, home slice. I love Randi, and I'm planning to drive 500 miles in April to see him speak at Baylor. I just think it's cute that he's a hunt and pecker : )

  • What does James do about the paranormal? I think he would be great at debunking all of this ghost footage floating around from Ghost Adventures.

  • There's millions of ghost videos out there. Taking the time to debunk something that's easily faked and incredibly common would be too tedious.

  • All the people at home (watchin it on their TV presumably), if your radio or TV is broken - want it to start working! DuH!

  • Keep up the good work.

  • "magical thinking" is an altered state of believing that you can do things in your favor. read it in a book bout altered states and perceptions it was a dictionary for numerous states of the human mind

  • such as?

  • I saw it once on TV, there were these rare balls of lighting on the sky that scientist still don't know how they're formed

  • That definitely does NOT mean that it is paranormal.

  • it wasn't my point. I don't believe in the paranormal either, however I believe in the perinormal. For instance the reason why Mercury is so dense makes it perinormal

  • Ah, my apologies.

  • how long have you got?

  • Ergo it must be a supernatural explaination? Maybe thats all the evidence you need, other people are more rational.

  • does this mean david copperfield is psychic?? lol

  • We watched this video in one of my psychology courses :D

  • Randi is my hero.

  • cthulhu ftaghn!

  • Hahaha, you fucking moron.

  • Sorry, that was for the nutcase davidmabusa. I didn't just call everyone morons. =)

  • I like this guy too. I never believed in this telekinesis stuff. It's magical illusions (learned by magicians such as Randi).

  • self-deluded? Are you talking about people with logic and common-sense, or are you talking about the other group who believe in an invisible man who dwells on the clouds, and performs miracles? I wonder which one is self-deluded? hmmm..

  • i like this guy!

  • lol randi is like the nemises of uri geller

  • lets go randi lets go woo woo!!

  • Mike Douglas must have been a total idiot.

  • James randi the man.

  • That is not tru, he was succesfull.

  • Nonesence. Randi was no failure as a magician and he has no beef with other magicians or illusionists.

    He does have a problem with people claiming to have supernatural powers and then convincing people to part with their money.

    Uri Gellar isn't just "saying" he has psychic abilities for his stage persona. He has sued people who've accused him of trickery.

  • Actually he was a good "magician", and he's not bitter.

  • James debunks the fakers, but the real people don't seem to really know him well. My grandmother never met James Randi. My aunt hasn't, I sure haven't. So its the people who perhaps have something to prove who go face to face with James.

  • One million dollar for just showing him some abilities you already can do? Why not do it?

  • when i die i am going to donate my fortune to thejames randi educational foundation. the world needs more people like him. how people keep getting sucked into physcho babble scams and cults is beyond me.

    james randi keeps reminding me that i'm not the only one who just cant fathom this bullshit. he rocks.

  • uri sounds like the criss angel of the 70's

  • thats right ( bobdylan4evr ) that is where he got his inspiration from, and b4 The Amazing Randi Was the one who outshone us all *HOUDINI*

  • But Criss Angel is a magician. he makes no claim that he actually has paranormal power. In fact, Criss Angel is friends with James Randi!

  • Criss angel is a debunker as well...most good magicians are.

  • from what i've seen, I really like him

  • What do you like exactly from this person?

  • I hate the fact people lie so blateny. Take Uri. Though i guess you could call that playing his act/part. But when it changes peoples lives like peter poffet(sp)they should be exposed.

  • i for one like that he thinks and acts absolutely logical, while not completely relying on the "current thruth" science has to offer - which explains thoughts as electrical impulses, that are thereby bound to a certain area which can conduct electricity in an orderly fashion, aka the nervous system(s) (so the "best" thing you could do by "using your powers" is to create a very weak electrical field)

    he says that he's ready to believe anything as long as there is a solid proof backing the claims

  • As Uri says want it, I want a billion dollars in my bank accounc, it hasn't happened yet. Guess Uri is thiss full of shit.

  • You stupid boob. How is James Randi a con artist? That is who he has been fighting for decades. That is like calling Indiana Jones a Nazi.

  • James Randi kicks ass

  • im a believe for many many reasons but geller is a fucking fake bastard.

  • wow. people were retarded in the 70s

  • he was using his middle finger aha

  • "I got a call after they booked him to appear....so I crashed his little party and handed him his ass."

  • I loved the part where he bent the key and said "which is exactly what I just did. Did I fool you?".

  • I didn't, and i wasn't fooled by it. And i haven't seen geller do this.

  • Riiiight. Just like when Uri kicked Johnny Carson's ass. LOL!

  • Actually my negative vibrations are stronger than Johnny Carson's and I would block Uri's magical powers to keep him from bending the key. Actually I am sending my chi flow at you right now as you are reading this. It is making your asshole tickle and your head kind of hot. Was I right? Damn I am good!

  • lmao you crackhead

  • gary, he did that FOR the camera... he wanted you to catch it. randi was a stage magician for years and could have easily hidden the bending from view but chose not to. you're not proving anything by pointing out you saw him do it. uri geller is a hack.

  • Surely you mean "were" not where referring to a location, child. You miss the point entirely, without having access to the spoons or objects he intends to manipulate, before the show, he wont even attempt it.

  • English is not my first language, so i mixed the words up...Since you obviously look at yourself as a very mature person, of course you feel it is important that you correct me, "a child", even tho (there's another word you can fuzz about) it has nothing to do with the thread and you perfectly understood my post. Oh you can't believe how ashamed you make me feel! :P

  • Gary, "Uri does it much better." So, all you're saying is that Geller is better than Randi at making made-up shit look real. But it's still made-up shit! Just because Geller does it more convincingly doesn't mean it isn't made. up. shit.

  • Yes, you got it. congratulations. Btw, i think Randi does much better use of his time in debunking evil charlatans like sylvia browne etc. since they prey on people in sorrow. Uri is all about entertainment.

  • garyopenhil, I wish someone would shoot that vile woman, not just expose her shams.

  • no, harry potter wins. haha rat

  • yep, uri's about as real as potter

  • I love scam artist lovers.

  • I WANT the universe to collapse upon itself, essentially ending life as we all know it and erasing everything that has ever happened in its existence.

    ...nothing yet.

  • Lmao!!

    why dont you try divining for oil? apparently Uri has made millions that way! lol

  • i want that tooo!

  • Here is a tribute poem:

    James Randi, James Randi, often comes in very handy, says psychic powers are not true, to Uri Gellar, who is Hebrew.

  • rofl

  • LMAO!

  • Uri Geller's a real smart fellar and he can speak Hebrew

    When he appeared on Carson you can really say HE BLEW.

  • Holy shit, James Randi is the goddamn Neo

    THERE IS NO SPOON

  • I never understand why people attack Randi. "Psychics" like Geller make fortunes from their supposed powers and are rarely challenged to prove themselves. If they make such outrageous claims then they should be prepared to defend them against a scientific test.

  • No he is not!Magic is made by magicians or ilusionists....everybody know it's an ilusion so you won't take it for real...But to claim you have supernatural power or that you can heal people with supernatural power just to make a lot of money-those are the ones who take advantage of desperate people!Put your self this question:"Why doesn't Randi reveals Criss Angel or David Blaine?"Keep it real!

  • yes, because sylvia browne was not an asshole when she told shawn hornbeck's parents he was dead...k thnks bye James Randi just wants psychics to be true

  • this guy is just trying to be an asshole. he's taking the fun out of magic.

  • I don't see how that is relevant. People with no argument on the subject LOVE to attack ppl personally. I guess if it's the last resort--more power to you.

  • is he criticizing someone for infidelity? No. So why would that be relevant (if true)? Of course, it isn't relevant, but that's all you can come up with to defend these awful vultures who prey on the desperation of people.

  • And I thought I couldn't like him any more.

  • I REALLY wanted my old computer to work, but it never did. I really did want it to. But alas, it did not. Hence, it is my "old" computer. I suppose I just don't have the gift.

  • No, it was probably just Windows.

  • why is all this spoon stroking gettin me hard?

  • Odd that this video has been edited from the original, so it doesn't show gellar's "hit" with the drawing on the TV show. I rather liked the full version better, as it makes Randi's later debunking more compelling.

  • "keep stroking it here" - "no, don't, don't" kinda funny dialogue :-p but seriously, he starts out stroking the spoon, then the host is doing it - exactly who has the magical power here? obviously a pre-fabed prop.

  • Randi HAS debunked John Edwards, as have a lot of people.

    It's called "cold reading," and James Randi has demonstrated how it works many times. It isn't a new trick. I can do it. I'm not psychic. It isn't hard. And when you combine skillful cold reading with editing, as John Edwards does, it looks particularly impressive. It isn't.

  • true

  • since hes still alive how about he try to debunk these people on DEAD FAMOUS or john edwards?

  • He has a million dollar challenge that they can take if they DO dare to be tested. Randi cannot go and debunk everyone especially the ones like john edward who KNOWS he has no powers and will do everything he can do NOT to be tested by Randi. NONE of these people want to be proven frauds and have their source of income taken away from them!

  • Actually he has, he offers them 1 million dollars to come PROOVE they have any special powers, yet NONE even attempt it, because of his libraries of failed attempts and ruined careers

  • James Randi has never professed to be anything but an entertainer. The people whom he debunks are actually attempting to convince people that they really have supernatural powers.

  • Nobody sholud be debunking these guys, they're just trying to make a living, I mean should you go around poking mimes to show people that they really talk? Randi's right of course, but he's still a hater throwing salt in folks game.

  • A mime or a magician is a performer, an entertainer, a "psychic" is a fraud, trying to take away the money of innocent people by means of lies and tricksters. That is why it is always usefult to keep a critical perspective at everything. i think critical thinking is simply put what Randi promotes.

  • Magicians are harmless enough. They call themselves magicians and everyone knows it's a trick. It's psychics, faith healers, televangalists, etc, who charge people a hellava lot of money for nothing. Or worse, making people think they've been healed when they really should still see a doctor.

    It's like the difference between Douglas Adams and L. Ron Hubbard. "Hitchhiker's" is harmless enough, everyone knows it's fiction. I won't even get started on the problems caused by L. Ron.

  • Your analogy is off. First, a mime's schtick isn't based on making people believe that they can't talk --that's not the point of their act. Second, pretending you're in an invisible box isn't comparable to making people think they've received messages from long-dead relatives, or their leukemia is cured (when it's not) or their abducted children can be found at Address X.

  • He does not claim to read peoples "mimes."It is "minds."

    I had a mime at home in my basement & I could read it,but only in German & braille.

  • EVERYBODY should be debunking these guys! What would you have to say to these scam artist if it was your grandmother giving money to them!? It's all fine and good as long as it's not YOUR loved one getting scammed, right?! Have a little sense. All these frauds need to be put in jail unless they take no money and admit it is a trick.

  • Old people getting scammed by someone claiming an unproveavble 'truism' is an american institution. Catholics call it tithing. Some republicans call it Swift Boat Vets and Liberals call it Social Security. Every group does it, its just the upstarts that get 'debunked'. Can Randi prove that Jesus isn't Bush's top advisor? That is one I think people should know!

  • How easy it is to be fooled. We need people like Randi to keep reminding us to use our minds intelligently.

    If you're interested in Uri Geller and his tricks, do look at the recent videos posted by TheFriendlySkeptic where you can see him caught in the act!

  • so the guy who "melts" metal is a fake?

  • Who "melts" metal?