Psychics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2019
- Psychics may seem harmless and fun on TV, but they can make a lot of money by exploiting vulnerable people.
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I remember driving with my mom, and we past by a psychic office that said out of business, my mom said bet she didn’t see that coming.
I wulda died laffing go ahead mom🤣
GO AWF KWEEN
I bet they didn't either.
I don't know who you are but I already like your mom.
my psychic's name is 'Claire Voyant' :)
"it's like learning that the second richest person in the world is this GameStop employee named Greg" hits a little different in 2021
Greg == DFV
So basically, John Oliver is a psychic himself???
He obviously took part in the buying blitz. He owns so much of the company stock that he's now the CEO.
@@GGsorensen Holy crap! You’re right!
Greg got diamond handzz
Ha, I was 18 and a family friend asked if I'd play a psychic for an end of the school year school carnival. It was ridiculous how much people believed I was real. I wrote a bunch of words on little slips of paper and would have the person pull a couple from a bag then work those into my "reading". A bleached blonde but very tan wealthy looking girl came to my table and I told her I saw her on a boat, and in the sunshine. She was shocked because she had a vacation on the river planned. Oh really? Wealthy girl has access to a boat? *gasp* Who could imagine that to be the case?!
you should have told her you saw her sucking on your cock that afternoon
Lol that's hilarious!
My 21 year old friend was amazed when a psychic knew she lost a close friend. You’re 21, seeing a psychic and have red eyes from crying for days, it’s a pretty easy guess.
I have foreseen this RUclips comment of yours :)
@@michellegault4122how much do you charge per minute?
My cousin used to believe in psychics. Till something happened to a friend of hers. Her friend’s teenage daughter walked out on her after a fight, and went missing. Mom went to a psychic, who told her the kid was dead in a ditch somewhere. Poor woman nearly killed herself from guilt and grief. The daughter came home next day, alive and well. She was just hiding out with some friends of hers. Not harmless!!!
😮😢 That’s just harsh! Sorry your friend went through that! There isn’t anything wrong with saying I don’t know but I will call the cops/authorities or stay with you while you call? Having kindness in a situation like that goes so far.
That's just ruthless. They have no soul nor empathy, they are predators and have your life at their disposal because of the relationship they have built.
I'm so sorry that happened to them. I'm fortunate my mom doesn't believe in psychics. She has made a somewhat credible threat to end her own life if I ended mine, so if someone told her I had, if she believed it, that might just be the end of my family
psychic once told me not to drive home drunk or someone would get killed!!! stupid psychic! the closest thing to something bad happened the NEXT DAY when i had to wash some deer blood off my bumper and pull some bits of the deer's jeans out of my grill. i guess i hit a deer on the way home. weird, i live in a big city and there arent any deer anywhere around ever. but oh well. dumb psychic confused a deer for a person!!!
Next up on Things That Never Happened...
So does a "medium" turn into a "well-done" when they're grilled on TV?
The rare ones do.
PortCharmers fantastic 😂
PortCharmers yo medium rare the best kind of steak
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Shut the fuck up dude. You win.
Me: a engineering student with dyslexia, stoked to see John oliver talk about physics...
Same!
I bet with today's standards, 10% of the people that read that joke got it.
@@dabearsfan811 expalain the joke pls
@@captainprice4776 oh sweet child
I swear i saw physics
I went to a group reading once. When she went through her cold reading with me she didn't get anything correct - wrong letters (and I've lost quite a few people), no chest pains... She finally announced to the room that I was blocking her and moved on. The rest of the room fell hook line and sinker. Later my boyfriend overheard a conversation between people raving about her "powers" but also mentioned there was a 'difficult person' in the audience. I find that hysterical, if she had gotten ANYTHING correct I would've gone with it - but she didn't.
I would have laughed in her fucking face. It's one thing to scam, but at least be good at it.
@@Montesama314 I think the really low point was when she told a woman she needed to get to the doctor because she saw cancer... that's audacity!
So you missed a bullet, then.
The fact that she used stan twitter language is breaking me down
If she were really connected with the body electric she would, on some level, at some point, feel my derision
A good psychic will always be able to find an out, a way to come out ahead even if they are wrong. I could ask "Do you work with somebody named Roger?" If the answer is no, I could say "Then you better watch out for that name and stay away from him when you do work with him." Always have an out if you're a psychic.
I have a deep hatred of psychics after a personal experience with one. When I was 3 years-old, my mom passed away suddenly from a bad seizure; she had epilepsy and had stopped taking her medications because she discovered that she was pregnant with my little brother/sister. She was only 26. My grandmother, naturally, was absolutely sick with grief. This was in 1988 and there was a very popular psychic fraudster at the time named George Anderson; he would write books and give lectures and of course, do “private readings” for an astronomical fee. My grandmother reached out to him and he agreed to see her. She was barely able to function or get out of bed at the time, so the family figured, “It couldn’t hurt. If it makes her feel better.” My family does not have a lot of money; we wouldn’t even qualify as middle class. Even so, my grandmother booked a flight to New York City, made reservations at a hotel and paid the exorbitant fee for this quack’s time. I was too little to accompany her but the session was tape recorded and I listened to it years later when I was older. Predictably, the session was nothing more than a bunch of vague generalizations and sappy, asinine messages. “She’s telling me that she died unexpectedly” (this could easily be gathered, here was an elderly woman seeking to connect with her deceased daughter; parents usually outlive their children so obviously something unexpected happened). “She says to tell you she is fine and loves you very much” (typical of every psychic). He would ask leading questions and then come to conclusions based on information he had gathered by asking said questions. He didn’t say one thing that was unique or something only my mother would have mentioned, like, oh, I dunno, her 3 year-old daughter? Her fiancé, my stepfather, who she was planning a wedding with? It was so absurd. It made me angry he took advantage of a grieving mother to make a fortune off of, how many others has he done this to? I believe in an afterlife, I do not believe in psychics. They may seem harmless to some, but they are taking advantage of people’s pain and misery
Have you ever thought that your mom was gifted? I saw your post about your mom’s seizures and I’m so sorry you lost her when you were so young. I know what it is to yearn for nurture from a mom. Probably why I call God Big Mama. If the fairy stories are true… then we must follow that yearning because I’m betting that there is treasure to be found within our own Soul.
Amen, Sara. They're frauds. All of them. I'm sorry for your loss.
@@wellcord shut up you ass. This shit isn’t true. Humans don’t have that ability and these quacks need to be called out.
@Well Cord Gifted? Seriously? Stop mystifying illness. All you're doing is publicly doubting this person and many other "indigo child"/"gifted"/chronically ill and autistic human beings and their relatives' lived experiences. Its disrespectful as fuck. Just because someone had a seizure or doesn't behave "normally" doesn't mean they're "gifted". Indigo children and gifted children are not a thing, theyre a coping mechanism people who cant handle mundane, physical losses or changes to their loved ones use to make it magical and meaningful instead.
Some people just die, some people can just be sick. It doesnt mean the universe bestowed on them the responsibility to suffer for all other humans or that they have a special purpose in their life or death. It just means that theyre people. The more often one insists or questions other's expiriences by labeling them as "gifted", the more harm one does to both that person and their friends'/family's mental, and sometimes physical, health.
I'm not saying people who believe in "gifted" children are trying to do anything but soothe themselves/someone else the only way they know how, and i'm not trying to come at you or call you a bad person, but you need to know that by spreading these ideas, you are causing real tangible harm to real tangible people.
@@wellcord I sure hope you're a rampant algorithm and not an actual human...
At 15 I thought I was having psychic dreams. I would dream something and find out later that day it actually happened. I was falling asleep to music on the radio, and it turned out the news came on about an hour before I woke up.
That's hilarious
Still more legit than "professional" psychics.
@@Gameshunter3012 He at least _thought_ it was real.
Perfect! Love the earthquake story below too.
that wil do it, my afternoon naps had something going on similar, i was so exhausted caus i didnt sleep well at night i would feel things or reenact moments happening.... but i think it is just caus people were listening to the news.... either that or i have a troubling habbit of losing my body when i sleep
The funniest of debunk of all time....a psychic told Houdini that she was talking to his mom....his response, "I didn't know you were bilingual"....she said "i'm not"....his response, "thats funny because my mom didn't speak a word of English"
Another way he would debunk them is that they would say she's referring to him as "Harry". His mother never used his stage name.
All ghosts speak english! Silly Houdini!
By "a psychic" you mean Arthur Conan Doyle's wife. His lack of belief actually ruined their friendship, because he wouldn't believe in his cookey wife. Strange the man responsible for tales about using logic believed in all this jazz
@@marw9541 i think it was actually because houdini's mother was jewish but the psychic said she was Christian,
@@aishaaofthedays Well I just know the quote from Houdini is literally something to the effect of "Lady Doyle said this long drawn out english statement was my mom. My mom speaks broken english."
i'm glad he mentioned Amanda Berry. her mom died thinking she was dead, too, since Amanda was in captivity for a literal decade. it's extremely sad and sylvia brown should have been held responsible.
fuckkkk that's absolutely breaking
Well Sylvia is dead too. Probably in hell.
I am curious if any of these families sued her for intentional/negligent infliction of emotional distress, violation of privacy, fraud or defamation
The irony of John Oliver being a psychic about Game Stop stock during a segment disproving psychics. What an amazing reality
Yup😊👍! I thought I was the only one who had this thought on my mind while that segment happened
Proves that God is messing with him.
@@troyterry6919 yeah... millions of children dying of sickness or starvation all over the world and God chose to use His powers to mess with a comedian.
@@reieguiang8yeah… if you believe in god that seems to be how he operates in general 💞
@@119793 How did you know? Can you talk to him?
If my dad tries to communicate with me through someone like Teresa Caputo, I will never speak to him again for the rest of my afterlife.
Lady V LMAO!!!
:D love you
Lmfaoooo
Love this 😂 😂
I told my mom the same thing.
Rich Gamestop employee is a great 2021 reference... clearly John is a psychic...
Exactly! And this whole episode was a ploy to get rid of his competitors.
😂😂😂😂
@@jdas5842 haha
@@tommcrae6993 it's what some people might recognize as a joke.... and I'm sure SOME Gamestop employees (or former employees) bought shares...
I also don't really like edibles, I prefer my grass smoked
diamond hands?
I'm 3 years late and probably no one will see this but I went to their free psychic website that would be "exactly as accurate as any psychic reading that you would pay money for" and the first video I got after clicking on the psychic reading button was "Does the mid-sized Korean fishing city of Gunsan have any significance to you?" I'm an American expat living in Korea and actually lived there for 6 months! It's an insignificant place even in Korea and when I mention having lived in Gunsan (now having moved to a much bigger city), Koreans are always flabbergasted how I ever ended up there. The chances are hilarious and certainly more accurate than what I would get from a paid reading!
The chances of a website knowing your location are 100%. Try again with a VPN. 😁😋
@@dest8401 The website is just the same 10-15 pre-recorded short videos played on a random loop. If you go there and click enough, you'll also hear about Gunsan. It had nothing to do with VPNs (which I use) and was purely dumb coincidence.
Wow I saw this too. I'm getting a license plate, Ohio, STARBUY
It's a year after your post, but I am getting a very strong message from beyond that your grandmother was a bit*h!
@@dest8401little different for a video mate - also, he said he ‘lived’ there. maybe try reading something twice before excitedly showing off something you learnt ;)
I am disappointed James Randi (who made an entire career over having so-called psychics prove their abilities) wasn't mentioned. He had a $1,000,000 prize to anyone who could prove that their 'abilities' were real and not just due to probability. No one ever claimed it.
Folly and fakery has always been with us… … but never before have we been able to afford it less.
I saw him on TV once working with a college class. He asked each class member what their sign of the zodiac was, and handed each one a slip of paper with a horoscope for their sign. He asked them to raise their hands if anything in their horoscope was true and the whole class raised their hands. He then had them read out their horoscopes. They were all exactly the same.
@@robertbarron4274 sounds about right. I think I've seen that too
Same!
@@robertbarron4274 That's the Barnum-Forer effect test, I think Derren Brown also applied it on TV once. Very effective in demonstrating that bias and how easily it can be exploited.
One time I was at a psychic thing and I said “I never got a chance to come out to my grandma before she died. I just wanna know she’s okay with that.” And the psychic was like, “she forgives you for not being able to come visit her. She knows you had a lot going on.” And I was like, “oh uh no I VISITED her every day before she died. I meant like come out as bisexual.” And that woman’s face bro. Oof
Sylvia Lorson lol
That psychic needs to master speaking to living people before trying to speak to dead people. :-)
Lmao
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
John Oliver's commitment to constantly naming and shaming abusers makes me inordinately happy.
this should be top comment
His tucker Carlson segment is seriously unlike anything I've ever seen, it's raw, it's honest, and he's not beating around the bush. I love him for that
Naming and shaming the TV shows that legitimize these frauds is a huge public service. Now if he could tackle those who legitimize occult supernatural religion... essentially any religion that worships things that transcend nature. Like Abrahamic god. Sadly, even John Oliver couldn't touch the folly of god-belief. The closest he can get is shaming people like Creflo Dollar or Joel Ostein. My Lord and Savior Jibbers Crabst definitely exists though.
@@selenem3384 Thy wish is granted
@@selenem3384CB vqd❤
My niece was amazed at a reading she payed well for. She was adamant that this woman told her things she could not have possibly known. Until I asked her if she had mentioned any of them on line. She had mentioned every one of these revelations on one platform or another. Psychics have a whole new way of reading your future since the advent of the internet.
Very good observation. Makes a lot of sense.
Good point.
@@ctdieselnut A good point, but not always true. Each person is gifted with ESP. The difference is in cultivating it. Like muscles, lack of exercise and the skills atrophy. Even so no one controls these very special skills for themselves. But every one has them. Getting past the ego is the stumbling block for almost everyone. Conmen make all of us losers. Good luck.
Repo men, police, etc, use social media to dig up dirt on you, sometimes locate you based off your pics and places you visit. It's not just big tech, the gov, advertisers who track you, I guess we can add 'psychics' to that list. Ugh.
I'm a 21 year old out on a Friday night and I'm thinking I'll just check this out for 2 minutes while I wait to get into the club. I'm in the club now and still listening to the whole damn thing. Please keep doing this Mr. Oliver.
Stay out of clubs. They'll rot your brain.
Your time is better spent watching this anyway!
Enjoy the club and the knowledge
-a 27 year old who knows it’s possible to be intelligent and have fun
@@simplyselina 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
John Oliver is funny as shit -- but he's also one of the best news analysts out there. He's the next best thing to "60 Minutes."
And actually, his show is quite similar to "60 Minutes" -- in terms of deep-dive research into a given subject of social or economic importance to Americans.
Basically, it's serious, long-form investigative journalism -- by a comedian.
He does a hell of a lot of research -- and editing -- for each weekly, half-hour episode. Absolutely does his homework.
nobody believed you. everybody knows you were and are still in mom's house.
That "Game Stop" joke aged like a fine wine...
Maybe John Oliver is psychic...
@@grimgoblinjack just brilliant (edit: @Grim Goblin Jack, I hope you know I meant your comment.)
was thinking the same thing and then i looked down lol
I laughed,hard. 🦍
What if told you, that Gamestop employee and shareholder are not the same thing?
I thought that John Oliver was gonna talk about physics.
Portantes Beneficia ditto
Yeah me too. My bad tho...
I read the same thing as well. lol
BITCH SAME 😭
Hahahaha, me too. This is way better though.
I'm autistic and my mom believes in psychics and they used to bully me all the time whenever my mom would try to have a psychic reading done and said that I just had a lot of negative energy and was possessed by demons
That makes sense - their profession is entirely based on reading facial expressions, constantly and subtly (if they're any good at it). I know I've been told I don't make normal facial expressions and I've noticed the same in the other autistic folk in my life. So to them yeah, the strangeness is way more amplified. And if you wanted to be a real ass you could even say we are 'possessed by the demon of autism'. They're scared and gross, I'm sorry you went thru that.
That’s cruel! I’m so sorry you went through that
Really sorry to hear that
And they have the audacity to claim something is wrong with us (fellow autistic person).
tard tard
When my aunt died my mom became obsessed with psychics and finding someone to connect her with my aunt. One day , we travel for 4 hours to visit this church that had psychic reading and a woman came to her and ask her things about my aunt to "find her on the astral side easier", the issue is my mom didn't tell everything, she only talked about my aunt 2 kids, but left the younger out, and didn't mention me , even though we were super close and i was there. Shocking but the letter only talked about my mom, nothing on the other siblings nor my grandparents, and her 2 kids , ignoring the younger. After that my mom lost faith on those things and im glad she did. Some of these things designed to bring confort can make things way worst when controled by money hungry manipulative monsters
So glad to hear she lost faith instead of doubling down
have you ever thought about the fact that both your mom and your aunt probably got fucked really hard back in the day? the chances are they both did anal. have you considered that both your mom and your aunt have had anal prolapses, where the anus protrudes out of the body from extreme penetration like fisting? there's a good chance one or both of them have experienced a prolapse from a sexual encounter! you should ask them and post about what they say!
When I was in 12th my psychology teacher told us he was a psychic and had a show he did in Manhattan and he wanted to try his powers here. He had people pick up dictionaries and could guess the word they picked. Guessed cards people picked. And guessed numbers we were thinking. With perfect accuracy. By the end I was completely convinced that psychics were totally real. On Monday he told us everything was fake, he doesn't have a show in Manhattan, it was all set up, we're all idiots.
Awesome teacher with a real lesson!
wait so how did he do it?
But how did he know what word someone picked out of a dictionary? Did he reveal how he did it?
It was probably prearranged with a few students
Sounds like a cool guy, that's doing his job right.
Houdini waged a hard-fought war against psychics for exactly these reasons. When his mother died, he tried using psychics to talk to her, but as an expert magician himself he caught on to their tricks quick. Then he started going all over the country debunking psychics left and right. He often went to seances in disguise until he figured out the trick, then ripped off his disguise and told everyone present exactly what was going on. He swore to his loved ones that when he died he would try to contact them no matter what, and devised a secret code with his wife so that no psychic could just bluff their way into convincing her. When he died her wife offered a reward to anyone who could contact his spirit, which means he kept debunking fake psychics even after his death. Only one medium was able to have "Houdini" speak to his wife matching the code. So for all we know that guy is the only legit psychic. Or at least, he was. He died in 1971. His name was Arthur Ford. Insert hitchhiker's guide reference here.
...
But wait, there's more! After Arthur's death, the person writing his biography found evidence that many of his seances were faked, and that he did a lot of hot reading on his clients. On top of this, the code that Houdini and his wife used in their early acts was published in page 105 of Houdini, His Life Story. It's possible that this was the basis of Houdini's ghost code, and Arthur could definitely have read it.
I personally like to believe that Houdini appears at every seance. Not because he was summoned, but to give the psychics a disapproving lecture about ethics. A lecture that they can't hear because, well, they're fakes.
Marcos Medina I just started tearing up 😭
Very educative and interesting comment. Thanks for sharing.
Skeptics will offer a reward to prove them wrong without any intentions to deliver the award regardless of who proves what. That's a scam, so they're the charlatans. Shame on John Oliver for deliberately lying on television. Being entitled to opinions doesn't justify maliciously lying to a vulnerable populace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ford_(psychic)
Medium:"SHUT UP, Houdini. I can only make $3.50 telling people their dead dad fucking hates them. The comforting lies are more profitable."
Customer: what the fuck?
Psychics are amazing! A psychic told me that my grandmother was going to die, and sure enough, 12 years later, she did!!!
I bought a used car and boom, 6 yrs later, herpes. I'm never buying a used car again.
😂😂😂
i fucked your mom and boom, 6 yrs later, abortion. i'm never going to mexico again.
I remember many years ago that my supervisor was going to the state fair to see a psychic that is there every year and everything she says comes true. So the next day I asked her what she said and she told me that the psychic told her something significant would happen on November 12th. So I waited for November 13th and asked her if anything significant happened. She looked at me with a puzzled look. I reminded her about the psychic and she looked away and blew it off. I remembered because it was my birthday but she completely forgot.
did not get promoted and boss did not disappear probably🤣
I'm having a psychic vision right now...
The significant thing was, that she would forget your birthday.
Boom! Case closed! 😆
Not to mention, Amanda Berry’s mom died of grief before Amanda was found. I don’t know how you could be a psychic and not feel horrible for contributing to stuff like that
That's horrible. I hope they locked up the kidnapper creep for life.
@@grimgoblinjack he committed suicide in jail. ariel castro. it was the right move.
@@billybones6463 yeah but he enjoyed that suicide bc it was auto erotic asphyxiation! So ehhh he never suffered truly
One could ask that same question any religious institution!?
Why would my baby end up in hell?
Letting a pedophile dunk her/him in "holly" water shouldn't matter in the first place.
Your cousin is up there on the clouds molesting his harem of virgins right now!?
Why?
A sky fairy told you!?
Killing another (sentient) living being shouldn't be something anyone gets rewarded for.
@@arkin4697 pedophiles aren’t exclusive to priests. They can be teachers, doctors, or really any other profession whatsoever. And I’m sure a molester wouldn’t get into heaven. And priests never claim to talk to angels. There are problems with religion but you have named none of them
What I want to know is why are there dead people whispering initials into psychics' ears? "Tell her my name has an M or a J in it. She'll know it's me."
Apparently once you're dead you can only communicate via the rules of Pictionary... 🤷🏼
Now, all good psychics will tell you it doesn’t work like that. Sometimes they are only given so much info from the other side. I’m going to be a pet psychic in my next career. They can’t say you’re wrong.
@@sfvaitkus "good psychics" what a joke
@@brenosilvamorais2510 "good" in this context means doing his thing without getting caught (:
Like a "good scam artist", a "good thief" or a "good professional assassin"
@@sfvaitkus wait, animal can speak in human language after died?
"He's a sophisticated, Manhattan, sex monster." John's one-liners are pure gold!!! 😂
Best psychic ever Tony Soprano. He has a 99.9% accuracy on knowing when someone will no longer be at the Thanksgiving reunion.
right. the fictional character that doesnt exist outside of a tv show. are you a sheltered little kid or just REALLY behind intellectually?
@@itchiegameshow dopey are you? He was making a joke. Numbskull
I'm a psychic
John Oliver, Abraham Lincoln wants to tell you that yes, you do bear a turtle like resemblance
It’s good to know that’s the kind of thing old Abe thinks about in his free time in the afterlife. Turtles and people that resemble them. Makes him very relatable, let me tell ya.
I'm sure he has other thoughts
Turtles are adorable.
Except for Mitch McConell.
Mic drop ......Exit Stage right ( i bet lincoln can relate to that comment )
did u see this episode coming
I misread this as "Physics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"
Edit: *How in the fuck did this get over 2K likes*
MechanicPluto24 WORD!!!
same
Nah, they only bash physics and other verifiable sciences over on Fox News!
yeah me too! I was super excited! haha
@@tonyj9743 Every news network sucks man....
I always laugh when a medium first makes contact with someone on the other side, they don’t know their name or even their first name initial. However, by the time they are finished talking to the deceased they are chatting in complete sentences …… amazing!
Exactly. And, wouldn’t you want to ask where they are. And, Is there a heaven? Or are you in Hell?
Pointing out Dr Oz is a walking joke is even more appropriate now than the 2 years ago he first said it
One thing that John didn't touch upon with the Pamela Brown/Amanda Berry incident, is that Amanda's mother died before Amanda escaped. Pamela Brown sent Louwana Miller to her death bed believing her daughter was dead, and that is beyond unforgivable.
EDIT: Sylvia Brown NOT Pamela Brown
Recent experience and this show have convinced me that their is no depravity that an apparently ordinary, respected ( oz, montel, etc...) person is not capable of. Better late than never.
FTR... Sylvia Browne, not Pamela.
@@Astrobrant2 thank you for the correction. Idk why I was thinking Pamela. CNN I guess. Yes sylvia brown. John even said it in the video. Will edit
Amanda’s mother in Heaven...
Mom: Where’s my daughter?
God: Um... yeah.. she’s still alive.
Mom: What?!
God: Yep, still on earth... held in captivity.
Mom: But the psychic-
God: Yeah she lied. She has no psychic abilities whatsoever.
That is gonna be awkward
MrEvitcartta that’s disgusting
The second-hand embarrassment of the psychics being wrong nearly killed me
Right!? Me too, isn't that weird? Like, they're ACTUALLY bad people, why am I embarrassed for them!? I was actually thinking about this while watching.
@@kevind7556 It's called cringe
I had to pause and regroup more than a few times watching this
I felt like my face melted off due to the amount of second hand embarrassment I felt, lol.
@@kylecoleman8745 same >.
Oh, dearest Randi... How much do we miss you....
🌹❤️🌹
The best illusionist and absolute master in debunking "psychics", teaching scientists and us to recognise all their mean tricks and laying bare their greed for all to see.
I so wished, someone like you would step up and continue your wholesome legacy!
Cheers!
I just imagine a ghost hanging out next to the medium, whispering to them "Psst, Pssst, say that there's a "R" somewhere in my name, or in an important month or a place we meet once."😂
You didn't disappear?
"I'm right here." Lol
"That's interesting...So who did I kill...?"
Chick thought she was Thanos
Lol I watched that episode live and I was dying
😂😂😂
It's a miracle!
Damn. I came here because "Why the hell is John Oliver doing an episode on Physics?"
Gravity isn't real !!!
thextrmntr Same here. :D
Same lol
I guess we‘re all dislexic
@@IFZEX09 Neither is Theaoretical science of quantum phisics in the pursuit to prove that multiverse realities exists
"It is weird to envision a scenario in which something happened at the Today Show offices and then *Matt Lauer* was the one who went home and cried."
Just a perfect delivery of that insane line.
A friend and I went to a psychic for shits & gigs. We both talked about our love lives. The psychic told us both the EXACT SAME THING. My friend was excited to tell me first how it went, and I never had the heart to tell her otherwise.
Either you got em on a heavy day, or YOU LAZY AS FUCK, PHONEY!
SERIOUSLY!
XD
"My friend was excited to tell me first how it went"
Doesn't sound like youse went for shits and/or giggities
“Yup, that boy is indeed in the opposite of heaven: he’s in a Denny’s”
I died man
Me too
I know you died. You told me. Didn't you also tell me my grandmother's a bitch?
I strongly disagree. Denny's is heaven lol.
As a former Denny's dishwasher (2 months), I can confirm
Same!
"This week's meeting of the Clairvoyant Society has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances..."
fury.....
@@yupster123 what does intense anger have to do with anything?
😂😂😂 Cheers & mabuhay from tropical Philippines!
mint
I love Wanda Jo Oliver. I wish she were on the show more often.
rachel dratch rocks the house
This stuff is 100% totally real and I'm going to prove it to you. "Uranus will help land you a job," my psychic said. "How is that possible?" I wondered to myself. Then one day while I was going on interviews, I got this bad case of diarrhea. After I went to the bathroom and was done relieving myself, I noticed that I had made a mess and started cleaning up the toilet and the area around it with toilet paper and paper towels. After I exited the stall, low and behold, there was a man standing in front of me. "How would you like to be our next janitor?" he said. 😄
Correlation does not mean Causation
@@Writer-Two 💀💀no one tell him
@@ElkCitySucks That's one N too many. Sorry, try again.
@@nagilumsnangilima Goodie for you, how's that shit cleaning detail wokin' for ya?
@ Elk City Sucks - I never wrote I took the job: only that my psychic predicted I'd find one.
I once had a psychic tell me over and over again that I was having a lot of problems at work, he was very adamant about it.
At the time, I was in college and didn't have a job. At all. He didn't like hearing that.
"Well, you must at least be struggling through your classes"
"No, I'm actually holding onto an A average with a solid B making it's way to a B+. Not struggling much there."
let me have a shot at it....I'm hearing ... Work..work out..?...some sort of exercise ...that's very difficult? Am I Right? ;)
yes , I do believe I have the shining (pronounced chin-ing)
Well duh, that's why you didnt have a job, because you had so many problems at it🤣 psychics are so gifted
A psychic once told me that I needed to be careful with a friend of mine, because she was going to betray me. I didn't have any friends.
r/technicallytrue
Apparently this episode shouldn't have been about informing people of the terrible nature of psychics, but instead about how to differentiate between the words "psychic" and "physics"
Not gonna lie, I read "physics" the first time I looked at the thumbnail, only to realize it says "psychics" after clicking on the video :D
I dunno, quantum entanglement is pretty freaky. Plus, two brain cells can communicate with each other even if they are severed, spooky stuff.
Same, I was exited that they where going to talk about science again...
Turns out I was the fool
@@Schradermusic Same :D
@@Schradermusic It is nice to know I was not the only one.
I love John Oliver's dimples. And his brain. And his cute accent. And the snark! John Snarkiver! Thank you!
I love how when Meredith Viera is interviewing Theresa Caputo at 12:00, you can tell she's just thinking "This is such B.S." but has to remain professional.
I just came here after seeing a rerun of Drew Barrymore having Theresa Caputo as a guest on her talk show. Every time I see self-proclaimed "mediums", I immediately think of John Oliver as well as South Park's take down (in particular, John Edward) in their "Biggest Douche in the Universe" episode.
Let me just say that as a pediatric nurse, it's so frustrating to see your patient's parents make decisions about their care based on what a psychic told them. They need to honestly outlaw these scam artists.
And call CPS the moment a parent takes advice from a "psychic" over a medical professional. 🤦🏽♂️
This makes me so sad...and what monsters to give parents completely made up medical advice.
Wait what? Is that a real thing?
Darwin Awardees
that's horrible that people use them for life-choices. omfg.
Another reason for John to love New Zealand. Here and old law "Acting as a medium with intent to deceive" is still a punishable crime and is still actively enforced.
you ought to email that tidbit to the show.
Indeed! Here's the actual legislation. As you can see it allows for the entertainment side of it. ... www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1981/0113/latest/DLM53553.html
Lol I'm a kiwi and didnt know that
John Oliver comments section, always informative...
What about acting as a medium *without* the intent to deceive?
In Canada it isn't legal to pretend to practice witchcraft. However, it is completely legal to actually practice witchcraft. XD
Watching this after my Mom passed away and I can definitely see how easily it would be to fall into these sorts of scams.
I’m sorry for your loss. My dad passed in August, and the thought of being able to know he’s ok is very powerful.
Well, these folks might not be able to predict the future but the writers of the Game Stop joke sure can.
The Sylvia Browne clip infuriated me. Amanda’s mother died before finding out that her daughter was alive. I hope Sylvia is rotting in hell for telling Lawauna that Amanda was dead. That is disgusting and shameful. It makes me sick to think about Amanda being abducted, terrorized in captivity daily, and forced to watch her mother be told that she’s dead on national television. RIP, Lawauna.
Jeeeezus.
Holy shit how sick and terrible
She told Sean Hornbeck’s family that he was dead and thrown in a mine shaft or ravine or something meanwhile he was VERY MUCH alive. She robbed that family of their hope and I only wish there was a hell for her to rot in.
@@mjallen1308i went to school with his cousin
@@itsROMPERS... Taking away a grieving mother's sense of hope is a lot worse than "false psychic reading" makes it sound
Wow. These shots against Matt Lauer were BRUTAL and i love it.
lib. lol trump 2020 we win
The Mysterious Gravity Falls Person derp. Lol derp derp number derp
And Avenati. That was great!
@@themysteriousgravityfalls Trump 2020? Nobody wins.
haha rights the libs don’t win but we AMERICANS do. Lol suck it lib!!!!!!
This made me think about an anecdote Christopher Hitchens once told about the writer of horoscopes for the New Statesman, who was fired with the words: "As you probably already know, I regret to inform you that you're fired."
Wow, good for Greg, negotiating for shares of the company in his benefits package, that was real savvy of him
Brains are funny. I read the “Psychics” in the thumbnail as “Physics”. I was incorrect, but I was not disappointed.
Same bro
same
Same
Same omg
Omg same! It’s like your physics or something!
Read this as “Physics” and was sorely disappointed that this wasn’t a science documentary
1. learn to read
2. get into physics
When you do it the other way around, things get complicated.
@@alfreddelatourquipenche8287 Yuo konw taht, pepole dno't raed evrey lteter. And I know for a fact that you can read that.
R/imverysmart
Bro same😂
Not alone buddy
I'm still waiting on a psychic to win the lottery.
That would actually 100% clinch it. Why tf would you not?
Or make it rich by investing in stocks, currency trading etc.
Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid, given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
This has been so relevant over the years between politics, religion, and even with stuff like this psychic episode~
“This child was kidnapped and murdered” That’s me...”you weren’t kidnapped?” LMAO! Ummm she clearly wasn’t murdered either! This was gold!
Are you absolutely sure you weren't murdered? I can't tell you what you want to hear, I can only tell you how it is and the spirits really think you should be murdered........
Why is that their go-to? It’s like the opposite of cold reading’s rational: how many kids get kidnapped and murdered vs getting sick or in an accident or are run-aways or are just estranged when the parent lost custody? It’s such a specific, improbable, high-risk claim to make.
"I'm not calling your mom a bitch, but this ghost is!!"
@@AnkhAnanku Probably because it's more dramatic. I imagine the kind of people who claim to be psychic are also the kind to jump to the most violent and tragic way a kid can be lost.
@@hazukichanx408 run she's a ghost and a bitch!
With the psychic woman in the Denny's, they should've had the boy walk past her but everyone around her pretends they can't see him
or have the boy sit next to her and try to talk to her and nobody acknowledge it
Awesome idea!
Awesome!
This is the first thing someone has to arrange when time travel is possible.
@Ariel Nieman or the journalist talking to her
The Matt Lauer jokes landed soooooo smoothly lol
The brilliance in this man. It never disappoints. The segment about finding missing family, classy answer that seems like it should be the obvious response
I love the Dad who communicates from the afterlife to let his daughter know she has a scar on her foot. Like thanks for that indispensable information, Dad. Any other priceless nuggets of wisdom from beyond the grave? Is the sky blue?
It was probably supposed to be a "See it IS your dad, not anyone else (And I'm not a total fraud), because he knows about a hidden injury."
No its green
"oh father, speak to me from the depths of the underworld and shine upon me the otherworldly knowledge of the spirits"
"ya got a pimple on yer forehead"
@@navaryn2938 nice
Not only that, everyone I know has scars on their feet. Who didn't injured that very, easily damageable part of their bodies?
I got multiple injuries, including a knife dropped on my poor, bare appendage while cleaning the kitchen. The scar is still very much apparent...
There's a "psychic" who lives in the Milwaukee area and happens to share my name. When I still had a land line, I'd get calls from people wanting an appointment with her. Without knowing the circumstances that prompted the call, and not wanting to be the person who drove somebody over the edge, I kept my skepticism/mockery to myself. But here's what I very much wanted to say: "I'm not her. But don't worry; if she's as good as you think, she'll call you."
I'd love to take advantage of that lol
what's even worse about the reading about amanda is that she was sitting on the couch next to her captor. he burst out laughing when the psychic said she was dead, and then he turned to amanda and taunted her about it. if i recall correctly, her mother passed away before she was able to escape. she was trapped in that man's house for years.
John Edward is a master class in how confident people are influential, that you can watch in real time.
Amanda Berry.... One of the three women who were held captive for 10 years.... used to love watching Sylvia Brown with her mom. She actually watched an episode of a talk show while kidnapped where Sylvia was a guest and Amanda's mother was there to get a reading. Amanda was elated that Sylvia was going to tell her mother she was still alive. Then she watched in horror as Sylvia told her mother she was long dead and gone... Never coming back. She knew because Amanda's spirit came and told her so. Her mom was so devestated and Amanda was so angry she ever believed in her. These people do real damage to people already suffering. It should be illegal....
Giving government more power is never a good idea, even, perhaps especially, to protect people from their own stupidity.
I've never heard of this Sylvia Browne but hearing that story made me so angry that it made me wish worse things happened to her than the things I wish upon my worst enemies...
@@hittingyouoverthehead Just look her up on RUclips... She charges $400 to give readings on kidnapped/missing children. Famous in the 90s.
@@leviblevins513 I did soon after I posted this comment. Apparently she's dead now. Good riddance!
I don't understand how she can't be sued for slander. It's false and it's damaging, isn't that the definition for slander?
If I was murdered, I'd not only be naming names, but also making life as hard as possible for whoever did it.
I meeeaaan.... maybe? Who knows how things work in any afterlife, if we're to assume there IS one for the sake of hypotheticals. Maybe once you're free of your body and no longer bound by the restrictive limitations of the egg salad between your ears, you see things differently. Maybe your soul has a whole different thought process than your brain. Maybe you see MUCH larger pictures after death than you do now. MAYBE, once you're dead, your life and how it ended don't seem like that big a deal anymore, in comparison to the eternity you're now in. Maybe once you die you have about 6 seconds to deal with that fact before you're reincarnated as a fungal alien lifeform on a planet hundreds of thousands of galaxies away.
None of us can say for SURE how we'd behave in the afterlife because none of us can say for SURE what the afterlife is, where it's located, how it works, or even if it exists at all.
It reminds me of people who tell you what they'd ABSOLUTELY do in a fight, glazing over the fact that "in a fight" could mean anything from arguing with your sibling over Scrabble to being an active combatant in literal warzones, and a trillion other possible scenarios. Even the greatest fighter in the history of all Mankind would find it factually impossible to plan for them all, and a LOT of those scenarios work so differently that trying to form a plan is a ludicrous idea. They DON'T know what they'd do in a fight, simply because there are so many different kinds and intensities of fights.
We can talk about how you'd react to being murdered in an ABRAHAMIC mythos, for instance, because now we're addressing a specific set of parameters. But in a good chunk of Hindu afterlife myths you wouldn't react to being murdered at all because you'd already have returned as a duck or something. Actually that wouldn't be so bad. Quack quack.
@@Deseis That was a really great reply, but I can’t help but feel that you might have smoked an entire doob before you typed this out. Not a criticism, as your reply was incredible and a wonderful read. 😉👍🏽
@@jenniferpatterson4964 Thanks and actually I smoked several, but I've already forgotten it because I am now a duck ^_^
@@Deseis Capital sense of humor, too! Hats off to you, friend. You just made my evening. 🤣
@@Deseis Bravo.
John Oliver… thank goodness for you! Truth, facts, reality! Calling out the horrible people out there! Thank you!
Tyler Henry is also really good at his job because his voice is perfect for causing ASMR and he intentionally talks softly. I bet a lot of people feel like they're "feeling the energy from him" or "feeling the spirits in the room" because he gives them back of the head and down the spine tingles and chills. It's actually the same technique a lot of other grifters, like hypnotists, energy healers, and literally everything about every religion throughout history, use to manipulate people into having a "spiritual experience".
I'm so absolutely delighted about the existence of the internet enabling us to communally discover ASMR, because boy is it a weird thing to just disclose to all your friends and acquaintances hoping someone knows wtf you mean. I hope it can be more well-known so that people take a second to question WHY they're feeling what they're feeling
The interesting thing about Hypnotism specifically is that, the actual performative hypnotism/trance like state isn't necessary for hypnotism to work. Recent studies show that some people are predisposed to be more suggestible than other people, and we're susceptible to suggestion merely by repeating phrases they were focused on to them for a long enough period of time, whether the performative "hypnosis" theatrics were employed or not. Likewise people who weren't predisposed to be more suggestible were unaffected both with and without the theatrics. It's the same underlying phenomenon as preachers talking in that specific emotionally evocative cadence.
It bothers me that he tells people that he doesn’t watch tv and that he doesn’t know anything about the CELEBRITIES he reads. These are people in the public eye and you really expect me to believe you don’t know anything about them?
"Logic isn't the reason you believe in them, and it won't be the reason you stop." Oh the burn
The same can be said about organized religion.
A friend from high school who I had lost contact with (I'm now a college grad, so it's been a while) reached out to me out of the blue because a psychic at a convention he went to "described me perfectly" and told him I was murdered. I mean, it's great that it got us into contact again, but holy shit.
🤣🤣🤣 does he still believe in psychics now that he knows you’re alive?
@@skylar_kada Unfortunately, yes.
Kieran wow 😶 people will believe anything they want to if it suits them, I guess. This is how religions work too 🤷🏻♀️
@@skylar_kada no, it's not. It's the opposite of how religion works.
Scott Miller
You have a right to your opinion but I’m going to keep mine.
“Ghost snitches get ghost stitches.”
Dead 😂
I see what you did there
This man is a treasure, if he ever quits we lose a massive help to this nations intelligence deficit. Pay him well, pay his team well. As always, good work please keep it up!
Wait a minute... This isn't about *_Physics!_*
I read that too, but psychics are a way easier target for mockery.
They fixed it now
That's what I thought when I saw the thumb nail
We've all been tricked by Joni boy again...
@שחר א.gravity?
the only psychic i like is Shawn Spencer from _Psych_ because it's a fictional TV show about a guy pretending he's a psychic detective.
Addendum: Using skills that you _can't_ learn from half an hour reading a book on cold reading.
Shawn at least told the truth by calling his business “Psych”, and the damn police couldn’t figure it out, even though they knew his dad was a detective
I love that show 😂
Hell yes! Lol... Loved that show
They're doing a second movie!!!
"Wait: you didn't die?" Anyone who tells you there are no stupid questions needs to add an exceptions list to that.
Wow, that reading from Wanda Jo was so right, I called my late great-grandmother GraMcracker. Wow, I’m going to cry all the way home now.
Oh! I thought it said _Physics_ . I expected something different.
Ditto
LOL! Same here. :D
Yep same!
Unexpected dyslexics untie!
I definitely wouldn’t have clicked if I thought it said psychics. This was pretty enjoyable though.
Please follow my latest video
I wanted to see an psychic once. I went there, knocked the door and she answered: "Who is out there?" So I went away disappointed....
Nice dad joke from the 90s
Haha, dad jokes are pretty funny
As someone who lived with an aunt who believed this kinda shit, I take great pleasure in watching people take the piss out of these snake oil selling snakes.
... are they selling their own oil, or have they squeezed other snakes to sell their oil?
I was talking to co workers about this BS and at least two were like "Oh yeah, but such an such is actually psychic."
James Randi devoted his career to exposing these frauds! There's still a $1,000,000 prize for ANYONE that can prove they have powers. Its been over 30 years and NOBODY has been able to claim it. The video of Randi exposing Uri Gellar is one of the most awesome things ever recorded!
I found a four part series on just this, if anyone is interested: ruclips.net/video/NnDHPOWXFVI/видео.html
Not sure if it's the one you're referencing, Evil Empire, but it was definitely entertaining to say the least.
@@robbadob9929 ruclips.net/video/N3vGGf-ZIkc/видео.html
@@robbadob9929 This is one of my favorites. But yea you got the idea. Theres a lot of James Randi videos on here and they're all pretty great.
@WesIsaLeo there's a great video of when Randi goes to Russia and exposed this cult type healing place (sorry been a while since ive seen the video) and they bring in millions of dollars every year by "healing" people. They claim to sell Holy water that good for you well long story short he embarrassed them lol
Another example is what he did to Peter popoff. If you havent seen THAT it's probably the best example.
@@marthameza6033
No thank you
I would actually regularly watch a show called "Wakey, Wakey" with John Oliver.
SAME!!
Will Wakey Wakey feature a dead parrot as a co-host?
@Josie Authers locos
You could be part of the audience!
I'm just kidding there is no audience. It's a laugh track. Canned laughter. Hard to watch after you realize it.
Same!
cold reading woman "its a BIG D" 😆 🤣
John Edward did a show at a venue I used to run, and had the NERVE to ask me where the nearest vending machine was. Ask me?? Ask my dead grandmother!!
SO much shade thrown in this episode. lmao. I love it
Oooh, are you going to make a Uri Geller or project Stargate episode?
Sup, funny to see you here lol
idk why it surprises me that Telltalte would watch John Oliver.
Yeah this seems like something you would watch Telltale
Lol it’s funny I just discovered ur channel and I come over here and ur here too. 😂
After my child died, I joined a number of online support groups. All of them were full of people claiming they got a reading from a medium about their dead kid. When I voiced my concerns, people told me I'm taking away the hope from them and practically ostracized me.
Grief support groups would be great, but this frenzy about psychics is really making it impossible for non-believers like me to participate.
txnygotw I’m really sorry to hear that. Hope you’re doing okay
Sorry for your loss, I hope you are finding some peace during this difficult time.
txnygotw, Sorry about your loss. Hopefully, you can find a support group that doesn’t believe in that nonsense. Take care.
I can't imagine the pain of losing a child. I'm sorry for your loss. It's horrible that people prey on the vulnerable in their time of need.
I'm so sorry your child died.
I clicked on this video because I misread it as "Physics" and thought John was going to rant about High School science classes.
I came looking for copper, and I found gold.
Ps: can we get an episode on HS Physics John? Please?
You are the best of the best, John Oliver!!! 😊🎉
As much as I love making fun of them failing, I hate that they take advantage of people who are genuinely hurting and seeking answers to questions about really personal problems
That’s precisely why we don’t feel bad for making fun of them. 🤘
It's like megachurch hucksters but they charge direct instead of begging for, "donations."
And they're always taking total advantage of grieving ppl, to further their scam while they're just raking in the dollars for all this nasty, total B.S. they're promoting. Sick bastards, ALL of them. And those psychics & mediums, readers & seers who have passed on already themselves?? Do NOT bother to haunt me as I will just chew your bloody ASSES out for all of this!!!!!
natural selection, fuck em
Dont
As a clinical mental health counseling student, I want to thank you for using your platform to shed light on this predatory industry. People who have suffered any type of prior trauma or still struggle w/ losing someone they loved, needs to see a health-care professional that can actually help them process their feelings, thoughts, and emotions
The sad part is that this stuff has infiltrated the mental health field.
Brains are funny. I read the “Psychics” in the thumbnail as “Physics”. I was incorrect, but I was not disappointed.
By prescribing them heavy medication, he should make similar video about your industry and sponsors behind.
This industry has preyed on my family and instead of seeing any actual professions to deal with family trauma and losses, it has only made problems worse and the problem is any chance at helping is seen as an attack and being ignorant and close-minded.
@@charlesm.2604 There are many different types of therapy, if you seek the same type of therapy which isn't working, you'll come out feeling unheard and it possibly can bring up old traumas and feelings. Not all CBTs or other forms of therapies are going to work for you. It's also important to find a therapist (or even a psychologist)who has a specific expertise in your needs and is qualified. There is a difference between expertise and exposure. This is a huge problem where certain types of therapy can end up harming those with certain mental disorders that need specific types of treatment. It's difficult to find a therapist that works for you but you need to also look for what TYPE of therapy you need and how qualified and knowledgeable the therapist is. Personally, DBT works best for me and I've had many therapists in the past that were fairly ignorant about my needs or I didn't like their style and we butted heads but I currently have one that works for me. It can be a long and arduous task, not everyone has the money for therapy, and it's nowhere near perfect but the alternative should NOT be a psychic. Psychics are not medical or health-care professionals, their advice is toxic, harmful and ignorant. People should not be only seeking to fill a spiritual hole when they're suffering from loss, traumas, and mental illnesses. They're disorders, illnesses, diseases of the mind and you NEED an expert especially when you're in such a vulnerable place. You wouldn't use alternative medicine to treat your stage 3 cancer, would you? It's a predatory business whether or not the psychic actually beliefs they have special powers, 99% of psychics know they're exhorting and BSing you.
I love that they actually bought the domains that he mentions at the end and put an extra bit on there.
There are SO many examples of psychic experiences that do turn out to be true. Except I don't see that happening in people who charge others for the service.