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  • OMG people really fall for this shit? "Is there an M?" REALLY? What a fake bitch. She should have just started with fucking A and be done with it.

  • Have you ever met someone who has an M in their name?

    Yes.

    Were they male or female?

    Yes, one of those options.

    See! I'm psychic!

  • LOL!

  • Fishing expedition.

  • Does your daughter have a boyfriend? Ans: She only six. LOL

  • The guy came up with a totally rational argument, and they call him 'close-minded?' As though openmindedness is just a synonym for 'agreeing with everything I say.'

  • Why does she say "duh, duh". Did she find out the family member's names beforehand?

  • fail, double fail, multi-fail, FAILING SPREE!!

  • STUPID BURGLAR!!!!!!! jajajajajaja. If you are a "medium", and ask for respectfull, is because you can't support your own affirmations. Miss, Margolis... Please Don't use the cold reading in tv. It's too much hilarious and dangerous.

  • You're allowed to be open-minded and leave your brain fall...

  • Do you know a J or an M...hmmm...I'll bet those are the most common first/last names you can find.

  • Larry is a bad ass

  • It's pretty great that the show actually uploaded this video

  • "I said it was her daughter" No, she said she was her mother. Bold-faced lying, just hoping people won't remember 2 minutes ago. Sad that it works so often...

  • I like how the guy hosts weren't afraid to call her out. Most hosts are just pushovers trying to avoid awkwardness.

  • Pwned.

  • This is not "classic" cold reading. This is "terrible" cold reading.

  • Psychic's are the close minded... Not the other way around.

  • @Tornado2251 No, they're open-minded alright? Their brain just fell out.

  • Stupid are stupid :D

  • Char Margolis telling a TV anchor HE needs to be honest?!? She needs to be honest.

  • "Is she starting a new project or new after school something............? (hurry fill in the blank for me so I don't look stupid)"

    This takes no intuition or communication with the spirit world at all.

    I bet you money people pay her money for this BS.

  • Ouch. Painful. Cold reading is so embarrassing. I also like how pointing out the glaring obvious is somehow disrespectful. Lady. You have no clue what respect means. Your certainly have no respect for others intelligence.

  • Great job Larry

  • That was embarrassingly bad. Not only not psychic, but not even a good fake.

  • Listen closely at 0:25 in this video. There's a "cuckoo clock" noise. It's subtle, but it's definitely there.

  • If a member of any real profession (e.g. doctor, car mechanic, IT support dude, financial advisor) failed like that, the recourse "you weren't open-minded" wouldn't make sense. It's not the customer's fault. It's unacceptable in any profession that actually does work. But I wonder how many people think this lady is a disgusting con artist, and then turn around and donate money to a church.

  • oh for fu*k sake.

  • LOL, I like how being skeptical isn't respectful, according to this fraud.

  • "I picked up on Mary. I said it's her daughter." um... no ..... you didn't get "Mary", you fished one letter at a time. Then, you said it was her mother, and She said it was her daughter. Crooks like this make me sick. You know she preys on grieving parents and widows and widowers to "help them get closure" while lining her own pockets.

  • @pyrobryan I picked up on that, too. It's a common cold-reading technique to claim responsibility for information that the subject provided after the fact.

  • This is called 'cold reading'. It's asking loaded questions where the answers are mostly yes (e.g. "M or a J name" - the two most common starting letters for names in the USA; or asking if "money is an issue" with a dead person - money is almost always an issue when people pass away). People who are easily impressed (or to be less polite, fucking stupid), it seems like she has knowledge she shouldn't have. Everybody else can see they're just leading questions.

    It's a con, and it's retarded.

  • Wow, the spirits must be total dicks! They tell her everything she needs to know to be wrong on national television. I bet they were just leading her on all these years until she got a TV spot so they could ruin her day.

  • fucking americans believe anything

  • @JeefCakes I'm sorry, is the guy saying that she failed European?

  • she asks all leading questions. she didn't know how old her daughter was, what a joke.

  • my bother, dad, 2 uncles and my mothers names start with J..although no one in my family with a name starting with m...

  • That was some of the worst cold reading I've ever witnessed.

  • Classic cold reading. The worst part is, she might be one of the cold readers that actually believe in their own abilities. She may honestly think she's "in contact with the spirit world"....

  • M and J? That woman was obviously related to Michael Jackson!

  • "A 'J' or an 'M'..." Well, gee. Names that start with 'J' are the second most common, and names that start with an 'M' are the fourth most common.

  • My mother and two of her sisters are called Maria. My father also starts with an M. Two of my cousins are M and two of my cousins are J. Many of my closer friends are M and J. An old dog in the family was a J.

    Oh gawd, it must be a ghost dog! It's the most likely explanation.

  • Its like watching a crippled person be pushed down the stairs.. this is hard to watch.

  • " i said it was her daugher..." Well no you didn't, you ASKED if it was her MOTHER OR HER DAUGHTER...

    what a phony.

  • Show just how bad you can be at being a crook and still get published and rip money from the rubes.

  • She could have combed her hair?!

  • I do have an open mind; I'm open to the possibility that you're a con artist.

  • I think I could do better than this.

  • Worst. Reading. Ever.

  • I see that you have a mom. Do you have a mom?

  • Obviously, she plans to do some research on Larry Potash before doing her "reading." She'll make sure the "spirit world" does a better job next time.

  • Good response, Larry. Nobody has to be kind to charlatans, con-artists, and other pond scum.

  • You Failed!

    Larry is my new hero. :)

  • That's the best line ever! I'll shamlessly steal it.

  • They are called "Mediums" because what they do is not rare and not well done.

  • @Wilbur665

    No, THAT was the best line ever. I'll steal that too, shamelessly.

  • @Wilbur665 Well said, my good sir.

  • @Wilbur665 Best comment I've ever seen! Haha.

    

  • @Wilbur665 I think that was stolen from The Amazing Randi...

  • @Wilbur665 Kinda like half baked?

  • @Wilbur665 Glorious.

  • @Wilbur665  ROFL!!

  • Before I perform the reading, I have to ask for one thing: You have to be completely gullible, I mean... ~open minded~, for this to work.

  • I fucking love this guy.

  • FAIL at the spirit world!

  • "You need to be honest, though."

    Wow, she really said that.

  • She used to be pretty big in my country of the Netherlands. Having her own show on a commercial channel. One that cared more about ratings than the fact they were fleecing and defrauding people. Then some intrepid journalists on public television ran an exposé on her and she was finished here. Sad to see she's making something of a comeback

  • Nice to see at least one person who was truly open-minded and followed the evidence. Too many are so close-minded that they refuse to even consider the possibility that they're talking to an obvious charlatan.

  • Wow, she really sucks at cold reading.

  • Telling her she failed isn't unkind or disrespectful. She is a phony.

  • What's this bullshit with "starting with M and J"? Do ghosts in the spirit world wear only monogrammed robes?

  • @lagerbaer someone's visiting pharyngula.

  • @BoredInfidel Correct.

  • Another "psychic'" crashes and burns! Details at 11:00.

  • I'm glad to see frauds get called out. But seeing how this works, it's amazing that people believe that the convincing cold readers are real psychics or whatever.

  • Kudos to Larry for acting like an actual journalist. Too bad this is the exception and not the rule.

  • What a fail. And nice to see some reason from the hosts.

  • Got halfway through this and felt like throwing up.

    What a disgrace.

  • Also, you can be wrong 100% of the time and get paid in another profession: lawyer. Everyone please check out the James Randi Educational Foundation, and have fun on You Tube looking at an old Carson clip (Jonny used to be a magician) where he just demolishes Uri Geller. Some great stuff.

  • she did NOT say that mary was her daughter...she ASKED!! These people make me sick. How do they sleep at night? On a gigantic stack of money given to them by boneheads.

  • @MsTimetowaste In fact, she said that Mary was a mother or a Grandmother, it was the host that said, no, Mary was her daughter.

  • @HumanisticJones That's another cold reading trick. You ask the question like "Is it your grandmother?". If the answer is no, well, no big deal, you just asked. If the answer is yes, then WOAHH THAT PSYCHIC KNEW IT WAS HER GRANDMOTHER ZOMG

  • Ohhhhhhhh SMACK! :) 

  • One of the worst cold readings I've seen. Props to Larry though, when the bullsh*t starts he tells it like it is.

  • @WalderFrey For real. "Ooh, peace on earth!" So awesome.

  • "I picked up on Mary , I said it's her daughter" actually you asked if it was her mother. What a total fraud classic cold reading m and j ....

  • "Psychics" are simply confidence tricksters performing an extremely limited repertoire of cold and hot reading tricks. If they constrained themselves to "entertainment" then perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. But these ghouls are deliberately exploiting gullible and vulnerable people, people who have lost parents, siblings, even children for financial reward. They are the scum of the earth really and it is a wonder that any television channel gives them a platform to perform their act.

  • “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”

    ― Carl Sagan

  • DUHHH. 3/4 of my grandparents (all living ) have names that start with M or J.

    In the US, James, John, Robert and Michael are the most common names. Excluding Robert, that makes up over 9% of the US population. By including a J, she just included 1 in 10 males in her vague question.

    For females, the most common name is Mary. Over 2.6%!  .8% named Maria. 0.9% named Jennifer. .49% named Jessica. .5% named Michelle. With J&M for women, that's over 5%.

    See how easy it is?

  • @frankvonfrauner HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL THAT ARE YOU A WIZARD???

  • @Dentarthurdent54 For only $49.95 per minute, you can call my psychic hotline, and I'll tell you the secrets to the universe, your horoscope, and your lucky numbers!

  • @frankvonfrauner THAT SOUNDS LIKE A BARGAIN TAKE ALL MY MONEY PLEASE

  • I knew 2 people wouldn't like this video

  • @athorist I knew there would be a comment I would upvote.

  • That was a really crappy, standard cold-reading attempt by a consummate failure. This cunt is the bottom rung of the scumbag ladder that includes Edward, Van Praagh, Altea and other frauds. Honestly, this was pathetic and hilarious. Kudos to the newsmen for calling this lying, criminal asshole on her incompetent performance.

  • What a load of shit.

  • It's as if these "psychics" aren't even trying anymore....This must be the only "job" in the world where you can be wrong 100% of the time and still get paid.

  • More people need to stand up to psychics like the one anchor did and not be so worried about hurting their feelings...they're scam artists and frauds and should be treated as such.

  • So if I don't believe in bullshit I'm close-minded? Open-mindedness isn't measured in how many things you believe in, but rather your willingness to (critically) consider new and different ideas and concepts.

  • fucking bitch

  • so we went from a dead m or j to her living 6 year old daughter's friends... hmm

  • "there IS duh!" bullllshhhhhhhhhhhh

  • This is unreal. Makes me want to squirm. This woman passes herself off as "psychic"?

  • If she were a "real" psychic she wouldn't ask them questions. She's a good con-psychic. Honestly.

  • @theholychic "good con-psychic"? How was that performance in cold-reading even close to being in the good category? Cold/Hot-reading can be impressive skills in their own right, but Char botches it up really badly here.

  • Uhhh Char.. you didn't tell it was her daughter.. you didn't.. really..

  • Didn't she see this coming?

  • What a bullshitter

  • Cunt

  • @buck78 "you can tell she means well in her heart"... she exploits people when they are vulnerable by pretending to communicate with them. she gives them false hope in exchange for money. she is a fraud and a neussance to society

  • @buck78 the only thing we can tell is that ur a gullible fool, if she had a good heart and meant well she wouldnt be making millions of off suckers like u

  • Should be nominated for BIGGEST DOUCE IN THE UNIVERSE!

  • @ivysmash after J.Edward

  • @alexstavi no doubt lmao

  • Is this a psychic fail or a mothering fail?

  • btw if she could communicate with the "spirit world" she could read minds.

  • She actually uses a simple method of asking questions in a certain order, but it never really goes far.

  • I really want to curse Char for life. I want to beat her up so badly for playing with people's emotions. People who lost their father, their brother, sister, mother, wife,husband. How can you even be so cold to dot that. However I'm not going to judge. You'e a millionaire by frauding people. The police won't get to you. The FBI won''t get you but Char, God is watching. I'm not going to judge. He is.

  • @michaelyouth i could have sworn u just did judge her...u religious people are hilarious

  • @joshieberger You are insulting my , no you your insulting your own intelligence if you say that. I'm not judging, I'm just saying that God is watching. She obviously is a fraud, I'm not saying what God will do, I'm just saying that she won't be able to do this without having to explain one day.

  • @michaelyouth im not sure u are familiar with the definition of the word 'judge' look it up u did it, we all do it, its not always a bad thing...have a lovely day

  • @joshieberger You are insulting your own intelligence. Judging means to ''pass judgement'', meaning you have a verdict. I'm just saying that she might hide this from whomever, but I'm saying God is watching and she will have to explain to him. That is not judging, that is what will happen.

  • @michaelyouth stop telling me what im insulting and stop defining words as u see fit...judging does not mean delivering a verdict it means making a decision, u decided, as we all did, that this person is a charlatan...and keep ur god talk to urself, ur make believe friends are ur business, not mine

  • @joshieberger She is a charlatan, you don't have to be a genius to realise this. This is no judgement. Once more you are insulting your own intelligence.

  • @michaelyouth here idiot: To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration: judge heights; judging character....thats the definition, which is what u did, do i have to hear again about ur opinion of my intelligence..ugh, religious people are just fucking idiots like jim jefferies says

  • @joshieberger Once more: you are insulting your own intelligence if you can not see the difference between judgement, as throwing a verdict, or seeing a fact.

  • @michaelyouth yeah whatever im done with u, go pray or whatever u idiots do to waste time and pretend ur doin something useful

  • @joshieberger Silly! It's not judging if you invoke a god to judge for you :D LOL.

    But for serious, this "psychic"(as if such a thing exists, hah) actually should be judged, criticised, ridiculed, all that jazz, for being a liar and a scam artist.

  • I say it again. What a crock of shit

  • @CarlSagan6

    with corn in it.

  • a fake and a sham. She should be ashamed of herself.

  • "how do you explain you failing miserably here?"  hahahahaa

  • hahahaha. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL i hope this book dosent sell a single copy and if you do get it shame on you your an idiot go burry yourself alive

  • What an stupid assholes at WGN Morning News ...? very rude

  • Im glad James Randi exposes these fucking fakes...phychic powers dont exist!

  • Oops, I didn't know there was a character limit on comments. Anyway, the point is all psychic readings are fake, but this one would have gone better if the newslady wasn't such a dimwit.

  • I think I know why this "psychic" failed so miserably.

    Before she appeared on the news, she somehow found out about a relative of the newswoman's husband. She probably had set up her whole act around this person. That's why she got frustrated when the newslady said she didn't have any relatives with an M or J name and she said, "Yes you do, duh!" And then she specifically asked if her husband had any relatives like that and the lady said no, the psychic said "I think you do"--but the oth

  • @Paulthegorilla One of the tactics these fraudsters employ is to seed doubt, blame their failure on the client for not "remembering" and insist that they are getting it right. Derren Brown did a good job exposing a British psychic named Joe Power in one of his shows. He explains(and performs) the tricks and methods used by psychics/cold readers, and seeding doubt is a classic one. I think some psychics claim that Derren Brown is actually psychic, lol. You can find it on YouTube.

  • @hamneggwich I loved how Derren Brown exposed these "psychics".

  • @stephenwalls1 He's a good guy, he hates that these people take advantage of vulnerable people. I had to snicker when Joe Power had a tantrum after he completely failed at a filmed reading Derren set up for him. He accused the woman he was reading for of being an actress, and complained that the house was tainted the moment someone as skeptical as Derren entered it. So skepticism scares away ghosties? How convenient!

  • Has that newswoman ever met her own daughter?

  • ''I need you to be open minded and receptive to the load of bullshit i'm about to unload upon you''

  • @dw5903 Thumbs up

  • cold reading, thats not to say mediums don't exist but 95 percent of them are bullshit.

  • She asked: do u know a J or an M living or deceased. Who doesn’t? Next: ‘Is it a J or M? SHE doesn’t know. She guessed male: no response “or female, I don’t know” (Cold reading). Still doesn’t get the name, starts with individual letters. Next: grandmother? (she tried to influence the woman mentioning grandparents) (To cover up: Is another marie/ middle name? etc.) She guessed boy friend(based on the woman’s age she thought the girl was a teen) She wasn’t correct once. No hits. Weird.

  • I love her reaction when she says "I don't know any of her friends!"

  • @Smithpolly people think she is guessing, but how can she be guessing the right letters every single time she does a reading? So she couldnt be guessing.

  • @dreamlovehope96 the sad thing is people like u get to vote

  • He wasn't close minded. He listened to her and was totally unimpressed because she did nothing impressive. And when she tells him that he needs to be kind to people at the end, she's basically saying "Don't ask me any awkward questions about what I'm doing."

  • Robin Baumgarten is such an idiot, can't stand watching morning news when she's there, ignorant buffoon.

  • @michealyouth she is using her intuition! Lets see you come up with the correct letter! U dont have to believe, im not forcing you too, but dont hate on her. She cant guess and get it right all the time, so therefore she cant be guessing.

  • @dreamlovehope96 I don't understand what you mean by she can't guess and get it right all the time, so therefore she can't be guessing.

  • I want to believe, even just so that Char and fake charlatans who prey on the people who are mourning, burn in hell.. I really can't believe this. Char is making millions of dollars, with lies.. I can't even tell the anger I am feeling, when I see people ike this, it makes me sick.. So nobody dare to say that she is telling the truth, unless she comes with a fucking name for once, and no bullshit like is it a a? a b? a c? a d? im seeing a j? je no? ja? is it jake? jack, jacob etc. etc.

  • AWKWARD!

  • Larry, perhaps you should stop playing with your nipple long enough, stop trying to get a boner, and listen, respect, and be kinder. Then maybe you will go national.

  • LOL Larry Potash FTW

  • "You're failing miserably here!"

    Whahahaha!

    Most people are very nice about it. Yeah well, most people are nice to mentally handicapped too, so...

  • What nonscence! She is making such a fool of herself and doesn't even see that!

  • I guess spirts stutter alot cus these psychics can never get one clean word from them. Ummmmmm I'm getting a j or an m I don't know the dam accent is too thick

  • I don't know what's sadder. The woman pretending to be psychic or the anchor who knows nothing about her daughter.

  • This woman isn`t psychic. If she were psychic she would have all the answers and not need to ask questions.

  • As for char's other youtube vids, check out "Char Margolis with Host Kelly Ripa", "Char Margolis Discussed on Live. July 2010", "This is amazing Char Margolis: Psychic Intuitive."and "Char Margolis amazes again". Psychics DO exist. U think all those ppl in Australia's or wateva country Most Gifted Psychics are all fake?? U take this vid as full evidence that they dont exist. That is why u guys are very narrow minded ppl and I feel sorry for all of u.

  • @trancefixed1 Psychics are not real, just simply naive and irrational. These con artists have been put up to the test several times through the years. When it comes to a controlled experiment they ALWAYS FAIL. Simply youtube: the amazing randi or James randi psychics. or better yet youtube Dawkins interviews Darren Brown. Brown tells all the secrets to what he does and how you fucktards fall for it.

  • @trancefixed1

    Don't be a fool. Why do you think that spirits give out only the first letter of their name? Don't you think that if they were there they would do anything to give their name and personal information so that their love ones could believe?

    Look at 0.53 minute.. Char says: Is it your mom? The woman says no it's my daughter.

    When Larry just says that she is failing miserably at 2.24 minute, she says at 2.29 minute that she told that Mary was her daughter but she didn't.

  • i ask again, did u watch her other vids on youtube? I wanted to make another post shortly after, but youtube kept failing to post my comments. So hope this one works >.>. Anyway, watch her other vids. The way u talk though makes me assume u will come up with other excuses to say she is fake. She is not the only well known one..there is John Edward and Mitchell Coombes. One had his own show the other featured in Australia's Most Gifted Psychic. Both wrote their own books.

  • Gee, guessing games? WTF? Pretty crap psychic, does nothing ask questions and wait for the answer! Oh wait, they ALL do that, she's just not as good.

  • @pbsjones I've seen Char perform on other occasions where she was dead on with all her information.