Penn & Teller Bullshit! Season 1, Episode 1:Talking to the Dead (3/3)

[MrBenzoProd]

Just smoke some DMT

[OcoryustheBold]

If I died the last thing I would be doing is just floating around talking to these assholes.

[IseeRightThrough2you]

"John Edward is biggest douche in the universe" = total South Park reference!

[Amet45]

only in america you get sued for calling a liar, a liar

[SamonMarquis]

Once I become a ghost, I plan to tell these "Psychics" what teenagers do their bedrooms, when no one is watching.

[pvszrox1997]

Rollercoaster tycoon music!?!

[bricbob1986]

as a human being, i want to think that these assholes, through some crazy self empowered crap, really think that they have paranormal abilities, and are not just exploiting grieving people, but thats all they are doing, they know it is fake, but they do it for themselves, not for others, they are emotional rapist.

[hairypolack]

she describes the black guy except an older version...... assuming a man of his age had a deceased Father

[matoluk]

It's near impossible to get conclusive data on this subject. Let me be clear; I am an atheist and (open minded) skeptic. I don't buy into any religion or god. I'm a qualified hypnotherapist and well versed the arts of cold and warm reading.

I have sat with 'mediums' who turn out to be complete charlatans. But I have also sat with some, and also witnessed accounts, I have no reasonable explanation for.

We're not ALL as gullible as some make out. See lab studies by Dr. G Schwartz, PhD.

[rdoetjes]

I think when Rosmary said with that back guy: "I see a young guy about your age.... He loves rap/hiphop music... He ate a lot of fried chicken... Suddenly he died... I feel immense fear of the sudden confrontation with death from him. Was it gang related?" Those odds would be a lot higher to guess correct :D

[matoluk]

Perhaps Penn would like to be cross-examined by Victor Zammit? Google Victor Zammit.

[rdoetjes]

@matoluk He's just on the ride to get some extra dollars from people who are scared of dying and confront eternal darkness. Its okay to research life after death but don't be amazed you come up empty handed. Much like 2 scientists that invest paranormal claims and been add it for almost 40 years and still nothing conclusive.

[1337DementedOne]

@matoluk In just the few pages I've read, I've seen several logical fallacies, such as placing the burden of proof on the negative, ad hoc, appeal to authority, and ad hominem.

With those kinds of mistakes, even if it's true, only those who already want to believe will take any of it seriously. If anything, Victor Zammit is working "against" proving the existence of afterlife.

[atarturk]

south park reference

[redelman43199]

Funny how Penn and Teller are magicians and they criticize psychics. But I like them because of that.

[Ameria]

@redelman43199 It's definitely amusing, but at the same time it's not that funny when you think about it. Penn explained it best at the beginning of the episode: The difference is that the honest magicians TELL you that they're just entertainers tricking you, and honest magicians like P&T know better than most how easy it is to fool people, so when they see tricksters pretending it's real to exploit the grieving they'd have the best insight into showing how it can be done by more earthly means.

[TheLagunaSunrise]

5:02... that woman is so fucking beautiful... wow...

[Killieguy84]

amen

[Metal1998]

Damn con artists exploiding beliefs of others, THATS BULLSHIT

[MrWagman11]

Completely crooked scamp artists. And people still pay for their services. People get what they pay for.

[cheshirepixie]

Did they ever do a Bullshit on Libertarians?

[I21GenieLee]

John Edwards and the guy w the thick mustache both seem GAY.....they lie to there own biological make up..why would they be honest to anyone else?

[IamNaphula]

The cancer was very very slow and then it was very very fast.

[bztheman]

does teller say a single word in this series? lol

[Venomine95]

@bztheman no hes sorta the silent sidekick who does all the pantomimes. hes pretty cool. :)

[Urchie2009]

@Venomine95 He does speak sometimes though, he just mostly chooses not too.

[pabobfin]

lambs'll eat ivy too, wooden shoe

[ilfonti]

This seems so easy I feel I could do it myself! Easy money....

Actually no, I'm not such a bad person!

[UglyPratFace7]

Wow, this reveals alot... TV and the media are able to manipulate the viewer in so many ways. . . In today's world you need to have a sense of skepticism about eveything, it's revolting. . . I'm 15 and going have to put up with this ridiculous paranoia which will just keep escalating.

[popeye2mil]

Black guys are inmune to bullshitters

[popeye2mil]

@EVERYVERSER joke bro joke...

[scw55]

@popeye2mil The first reading of the black man was just a list of black stereotypes. I was expecting her to mention chicken :Z

It was painful to watch. More so than the other heartless readings.

[TheOnlyAlessio]

psychic = bullshit

[Md2802]

5:33 Loved the South Park reference!

[kokoyakyu]

Haha!! This fits in so well with the south park episode making fun of psychics

[vulnerabledonkey]

I'd like to see a single "psychic" explain the mechanism through which dead people enter the swirly-netherworldy-magic-supe­r-happy-funtime-land they contact them in. How exactly does decomposed brain matter, dissapated electrical energy and stewed brain chemicals recompose itself as its old human personality, and where the hell does it do that? Oh wait, they can't explain that?

inbe4 "science doesn't know everything!" Well no, it doesn't, but it knows a fuckload more than you assholes do!

[guineapiggyman]

@vulnerabledonkey so im guessing you dont think you have a soul? im not saying this is real, but why cant we reanitmate people with absolutely no bodily injuries?

[prunt23]

jesus how many racial stereotypes did rosemary pull into describing the 'first person' she 'contacted'. she might have well have said he had a wide, flat nose, thick lips, an afro, liked chicken and watermelon, was a crip and died from gunshot wounds in a gangland shot out with the bloods.

[cyanmanta]

@prunt23 Yeah, and it's as if she just assumes every black man's father and grandfather dies of heart disease or cancer. All she had to do was follow up with an AIDS guess and he could have just punched her right in the face with my blessings.

[JoshRobertson142]

@cyanmanta

i was expected her to tell that black guy that his father died in a shootout between west coast and east coast rappers.

[joctheviper1]

I'm John Edwards and I',m not a douche!!!!!

[eatpigsnot]

this episode threw the light on some frauds. but it did not prove communicating with the dead is impossible. Coast to Coast AM has shows that deal with this topic in a deeper manner. granted, they have up to 4 hrs to do so. it makes sense to me some people can be more "tuned in" than others. for every person who can be shown to be a fraud, there is someone P&T have not debunked. i know, there isn't enough time to challenge everybody, but i'd like to see P&T vs the CTCAM guests

[karahamilton]

wether it bullshit or not its how these guys deal with their loss, poor poor idiots lol

[arkie74]

4 people watch john "THE BIGGEST DOUCHE IN THE UNIVERSE"edwards

[colbtucount]

Fuck Rosemary and john edwards, fuck them up their stupid fucking asses.

[MrSnitchkilla187]

It's hard to feel sorry for someone stupid enough to believe in "psychic" bullshit! Thx Penn & Teller

[arkie74]

@MrSnitchkilla187 no they arent stupid, they are all fucked up,and still greving. and they are kinda vulnerable. and these fuckin bastards are like vultures,preying on people when they are weak

[daven58100]

If she communicates with the dead, she must be a witch. BURN HER! :p

[phildirt3]

rosemary is a fuckin horrible cunt oh and joni go fuck yourself you evil fuckin whore

[phildirt3]

rosemary is a fuckin horrible cunt

[heus199]

i mean i know they do this for the money but if people believe it then let them have their closure

[flexwheelR]

hey, i knew a lady that was tall and short...

[djtrumpet11]

Now these people are never going to be able to move on.

[narmolania]

ouch, that was PAINFUL to watch that woman try and cold read that black man. there were so many acward misses! should ahve been a lot more vague to sound the least bit convinsing, and not go immediateley to some sertaint type of cause of death and physical appearances...

[alexandermccarthy]

Giant douches, all of them. And while we're at it, fuck religion too!

[chocolat80]

Yes it may all be bullshit, but can you explain my dreams that have come true?

[sanechipmunks]

@chocolat80 What unlikely and specific event did you foresee?

[LeePritch5]

it makes me laugh so much how she was supplying her own clients, and then how shit she was when she was with someone she knew nothing about haha!

what a dick.

[CRISNCHIPS12398]

It is absolutely pathetic that people like Rosemary take advantage of vulnerable people just so they can make some money.

[NiamhFrancisPianist]

It's sick to make money out of lying to grieving people. It prevents them from ever accepting the passing of their loved ones, thereby inhibiting recovery from the pain. It never goes away fully, but acceptance is the first step to making any level of recovery, and lying as if the person who has died is actually walking around invisibly and talking and communicating, therefore not really dead, is sick and counterproductive.

[hornywigger]

lol VERY BLACK wtf was that

[Inuyashachick12]

Points to P&T for referencing South Park. I love that episode.

[ThePussyNigger]

3:02 That's the most racist psychic reading I've ever heard.

[agoradzwn]

@ThePussyNigger ...yeah, so racist for acknowledging someone's skin color as a reality; she should have denied who he was!

[ThePussyNigger]

@agoradzwn She should have said "I see your grandfather swinging from the rafters. Oh now hes trying to pick bugs out of your hair."

[glaxko2]

@ThePussyNigger saying "I see someone so black they'd be marked absent at night school"... THAT would be racist.. but funny.

[Infrardec]

@glaxko2 why is that racist, that like saying you're so white you'd be marked absent at day school, and i bet people don't think it's racist if i use the color white..

anyway it is kind of funny:)

[glaxko2]

@Infrardec I was trying to make a point to a pussy nigger, named ThePussyNigger

[Ayanami1000]

These kind of "psychics" really are despicable, they only exploit peoples emotions and gullibleness to line their own pockets with gold. Either if they know themselves it's only bullshit or really do belive they have some kind of ability to talk to the dead, they are taking advantage of people.

[1IntrovertedLuddite]

4:10 Fact: Random dead people just hang out next to random black guys.

[bealtespip123]

Man,I fucking LOVE this show! :D

[1ND1G0O]

You cant heal a broken heart by pretending its not broken! Very insightful!

[LuvStruckMess]

I love all the comments about South Park. Bullshit! & SP lovers? You're all ok with me :)

[scottieman2]

The sad thing is that there are going to be people that will give psychics "answers" and call it hits and the people will believe them.

[mafiamitzy]

Jezus christ, its like they shoot bullshit at gatling gun speed,, just shooting all over the fucking place. For fucking fuck's sake, even a blind fuck would hit a target at some fucking point. FUCK those Fucking Fucks, its a bunch of fucking bullshit.

[fiestapais]

Love the South Park reference!!

[easyas314]

My girlfriends friend is a “psychic”. In reality all that it is is an attention getting gimmick. Think about it; if you’re lonely just say that you are a seer and the dullards will flock to you in droves. I’ve seen what I thought were logical, reasonable adults lust for her “knowledge”, and it absolutely baffles me. Sadly as seen here, it can be a money maker.

To think that ANY human has any special powers of any kind is just........bullshit.

[ROARfatassROAR]

That guy from CFI looks like Arnold Swarzeneggar.

[teatimetime]

i think it is inhumane to exploit people like this wtg p@t

[teatimetime]

@teatimetime whoops meant wtg p&t (way to go penn and teller) heh

[therush1892]

With the plant rosemary was basically like "You're a big black guy so you probably know a big black guy who died tragically." Are you kidding me?

[rich2rock]

She forgot to say how financially beneficial it was for her.

[FlashTwister]

very black! he's so black he's charcole black.

[trafficjam10]

@FlashTwister LOL

[TheLagunaSunrise]

@FlashTwister lmaooooooooooo

[mmmarinakis]

People that attend these events are looking for closure, acknowledgment, and reassurance, so they are quick to latch on to anything that remotely fits their situation and make it real. If you're good at reading body language/responses, you can make up something on the spot that anyone will relate to and get specifics down by adjusting your 'guesses' as you read their body language responses. I did this with some friends that swore John Edwards was legit. They were amazed at my 'accuracy.'

[foxhanson]

i'd love to hear john edward rip into this loud mouth. too bad he has class.

[HeyLookItsTorizu]

@foxhanson John Edward....class...LOL that's a good one. John and all the others like him are scumbags as P&T stated. Also if Edward did confront Penn, Penn would tear 10 shades of shit out of him.

[Kjernekar]

@foxhanson

looooooool

[isaywhatisayhateme]

That sucks for the black guy. She told him that he has 2 big black guys that are sick following him around! LOL!!!

[DiggerPat]

Ever listen to one of these quacks? Their misses are so rapid fire it's sad.

[fantasticanime2010]

very black. wtf. of course he's black.

[kelii777]

I once read that rosemary altea inherited a farm from a sick elderly woman. The woman apparently removed her family from her will and gave her farm to rosemary. The woman said to maintain it as a farm; well she didn't. She had turned it into a "healing center." Seems to me that she likes to con those that are about to be departed...the BITCH!!!

[TheRadar77]

Who the hell wants or believes their dead family and friends are looking down on them at all times? Oh, hi grandma! What am I doing now? Oh just lying naked on the floor while I choke myself out to anime porn. How's heaven? There damn well better be an intermediary between the two of us. ' Your grandson's kinda busy right now. How 'bout tomorrow'?

[derKingChris247]

3:10 "very big,very black,with a big grin on his face"

did she just go there??

[moshos]

I like the south park nod at 5:34

[Bakazuraz]

"John Edwards, the biggest douche in the universe." lol, this is a reference of a South Park episode where they said the exact same thing :D

[tweethang1]

@Bakazuraz His show got cancled!! Fuckin douche bag! They revealed him to be more then a sham

[opaquetranslucence]

i'm sensing a man... he had endocytosis all over his body ever since he could remember. he was not a vegetarian and his favorite color was red,except when he didn't particularly care for that color... like the day his head exploded.

i'm also seeing a doctor..big, tall.... no really, i'm seeing a doctor. he tells me i'm fecking nuts.

[alienisuntverus]

"biggest douche in the universe"

Could swear I've heard that before.

[NoMeRevientes]

@alienisuntverus south park, i bet you knew haha

[pimp4u803]

BULLSHIT!!!!

[Descente36]

there's a simple way for anyone or any TV show to easily expose these frauds. Just go to them and pretend you want to connect with someone, and when they start making shit up you catch them in the act.

[jimbrown257]

No way; that lady is totally psychic! How could she have known about something occured in the chest area of the dead guy? And how could she have possibly known that one guy's father was older than he was??

[Obelisk2290]

and related to him, close, and male

[EtuomasH]

we already saw on this episode how they gather information by fishing and guessing sneakil from their "clients".

= Talking to dead is BullShit

[jimbrown257]

@EtuomasH

Really?  You mean she didn't really use psychic powers to figure out that the man was older than his son??:)

[EtuomasH]

@jimbrown257 lol

[ManlySlut]

Who do you want to connect with?

My mother.

Who do you want to connect with?

My mother.

My mother.

My mother.

Your mother?

[Adventfred]

Debunk bush now :)

[flopp78]

Why cant they debunk Lisa Williams also!

[wizard1269]

Thank you for posting this episode. I am the guy who lost his mother and they read my letter at the end. I am so glad P&T did this because these frauds really play with your heart and memories. You REALLY want to believe so you can say your last goodbye. Luckily I am smart enough to see through their bullshit

[starquant]

I can't imagine how it must feel to have someone play on your emotions like that. You must have felt exhausted afterwards and then on the trip home (after talking with your wife) and realising that you had been taken in, would have added to your distress. I imagine how emotionally "sapped" you must have been at the time. When someone does a nasty thing like that, the effect can last a long time.

[wizard1269]

I did...but it opened me eyes to these scam artists. I am so thankful that Penn & Teller do these shows!

[stfwho]

yooo =)

[RetardedChronicles]

After watching this, I could easly pull those same tricks on a friend of mine. Would I though? No, because I have a heart.

[wiki223]

psychic reading is a shell game

[guardiangirl777]

While it may seem draconian to some people, I wish there was a law that required "psychics" like Rosemary to prove their "gift" as such or get arrested and charged for fraud.

[basonparkway29]

@guardiangirl777 if the morons believe them its there own fault

[cdoftx]

@guardiangirl777 You have to understand that the psychic world is there to be invisible to us. That's why only some people have the gift to detect it. It doesn't lend itself to the scientific method. They tried banning such beliefs in the USSR. Millions died in the greatest genocide known to man.

[Renan9395]

@cdoftx Congratulations, you eat bullshit on breakfast

[zapopaul]

@guardiangirl777 i'd suggest going the whole nine yards at them(literally), although that would make getting them arrested somewhat useless.

[ontariobuds]

@guardiangirl777 like the vatican, they don't just accept miracles. They have very heavy and lengthy investigations, and a lot of times they conclude nothing happened.

[phildirt3]

@guardiangirl777 add religion to that it aint gonna happen

[forestskog]

@guardiangirl777 Good idea. It should be simple. Issue a license, like for law or engineering. You can be an approved psychic IF you pass a number of exams proving scientifically that you have psychic ability. Voila.

[arkie74]

@guardiangirl777 thats a damn good idea!!

 fuckers!!

[phildirt3]

@guardiangirl777 james randi offered her a million dollars to prove it she cant because it doesnt exist

[trafficjam10]

@guardiangirl777 I'm all for it

[Moth366]

I hate that line the "psychics" try to pull; "at least I'm comforting the bereaved."

Bullshit, assholes. You just love the money, and don't care who gets hurt or deluded as a result.

[ShadowVandale]

I almost died laughing when Penn said "Biggest Douche in the Universe". That was one of my favorite SP episodes and I've never been able to look at Jon Edward the same without thinking, "I'm NOT a DOUCHE!" XD

This was a great episode, but I was kind of hoping they'd take on Sylvia Brown. I can see why they wouldn't, but I think she's by far one of the WORST of these "psychic mediums" for making a profit on it.

[RottenAnatomy]

Why wouldn't they take on Sylvia Browne? I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly don't get it.

[JIMITAPP]

@RottenAnatomy If you look her up on wikipedia, it shows she has a criminal record , and James Randi has offered her a million dolars to prove her powers in 2001... no answer still

[NeverAloneForever]

@ShadowVandale P&T actually told M&T that they didn't feel the need to go after John Edward because of that episode. At least not as much as the others.

That's also one of my favorite episodes. Even my mom loved it and she despises SP and animation.

[madderbass]

@ShadowVandale Sadly, my mother really likes her and buys her books (Sylvia Brown.) I don't want to hurt her feelings though telling her she's just full of shit making books for profit. :(

[skellion6969]

@madderbass Sadly that makes you an enabler and one of the reasons these people get away with it, yes it might hurt your mothers feelings, but its better then letting her get lied to, or atleast i would think so.

[madderbass]

@skellion6969 Perhaps... I won't hurt her feelings I don't think, it would just be a hard subject to bring up and she isn't hurting anyone with her beliefs.

[nirvana2465]

@ShadowVandale sylvia brown is scum, she even works with police!

[dolphinsneu]

@ShadowVandale plenty of people have debunked sylvia brown. 

[Cosmicslop55]

haha The Biggest Douche In The Universe.

[ElZomboFantasma]

Episodes like this is the reason I love this show so much: Exposing scumbags as the pieces of shit they deserved to be ousted for.

[SammyD96Alwayz]

I hate these people that say they can seak to the dead, i perform magic tricks, which is still not real but i dont depress people about lost loved ones, lamewads.

[rberg42]

mundus vult decipi

[pitifulpotato]

i love those guys

[Greenacres88]

This is so damn depressing.

[harleyspringer1]

sounds like religion uses the same tools

[blackfiretwentynine]

I expected something about Sylvia Browne, the worst fraud among them.

[RichieEastside]

lol

[rmhanzel]

Was this aired before or after the farmiliar South Park episode? Just wondering if one inspired the other.

[NakedCreep]

I believe the biggest douche of the universe sounded like it was a quote from South Park.

[JaexHoon]

IM NOT A DOUCHE

[NoNameC68]

You are so a douche! I am nominating you for the biggest douche in the universe award you douche!

[KKinsane2009]

...and that is why south park RULES!!!

cartman singing pokerface nearly gave me a heart attack XD

@3:10 onward =O she really didn't do very well did she XD i'm not racist, we're all human so we're all one race. end statement.

[P0mt3]

Yeah, Penn and Teller are friends with Parker and Stone, so that would make sense.

[seasofluck]

After. It was a cool way to throw in a South Park joke.

[andyrooney11]

Rosemary Altea showed up on some news program & argued with James Randi. I can't believe after this program was aired how she has still managed to find work.

[HammandClov]

guess more people need Showtime.

[andyrooney11]

LoL I don't have Showtime...all the P&T episodes I've seen have been from YouTube. Damn I love this website...people can get everything from ridiculous waste of time videos about babies burping to important Presidential Debates.

[Danovio]

These kind of people are sick

[spagerbot]

Damn these cold readers are smart. I gotta' get in on this.

[colafroggy]

Phishing with illness is so amateur. Everyone has someone who has died of an illness.

[tonip420]

"was she tall and short too?"...lol

[ZeroToNowhere]

thats pure racial profiling

[spagerbot]

I know! She wasn't exactly subtle; just throwing out random black stereotypes, hoping they would fit. What a cunt.

[MrJo23]

Awesome episode!!!!

[Jeremy092387]

That Psychic lady is a bullshitting cunt fucker.

[beavis46]

Yeah, i was fucking hating her. And the way she tried to cold read that guy who worked for the show, she's a tard.

[Glacies12]

Agreed.