Let's all bow our heads and take a moment of silence for our brothers and sisters who warned us in the comments. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your service.
Fun fact if everybody switched our smart tech off and refused to switch it back on until our demands were met , the virtual crippling of their big data economy and digital infrastructure would bring the cabal to their knees . It's all about big data , data collection is worth more than oil , the future is gene therapy doing away with millenia of medicine the jabbing will never stop , but they couldnt achieve it if everybody refused their tech , hell even just for a day or a week even switch it off when you go to bed would be a start ,we hold all the cards.
I met James Randi at the Flamingo in Las Vegas in 2019 while he was having coffee with Penn Jillette. My daughter had spied Penn at the small lobby cafe we were in line at and pointed him out. I immediately recognized the old gray-haired man he was with. Penn had just wheeled him by in a wheelchair to the patio of the cafe. I saw a lull in their conversation and got the courage to introduce myself to them both. While Penn excused himself to get the coffee, I got to chat with James a bit and expressed my enjoyment of his debunking videos. He was a very gracious and soft spoken man. I didn’t visit but more than a couple minutes, as I didn’t want to intrude on the two close friends time together. Later that night, at the meet and greet after the Penn & Teller show, I reminded Penn that I had met him and James earlier that morning. He said he remembered, and that James appreciated me talking to him about his debunking stuff and that it meant a lot to him. That’s my story of meeting James Randi and Penn together.
Thank goodness that was all an April fool's! Initially I was thinking "well, all it takes to win a million bucks is to use technology that grandpa doesn't understand" 😂
Obviously you children have never seen James Randi before. He was a very intelligent person with a long career in debunking paranormal psychic nonsense. He was not some ignorant old man that doesn't understand tech. Yet what am I to expect from obviously YOUNG inexperienced children that know nothing of the world yet.
To all the people crying that this was a waste of 27 minutes and they want it back it's your own fault for being a rookie of the internet, I'm a professional RUclips viewer and that entails always having a second monitor with porn playing and simultaneously watching both monitors to never risk wasted time. I have completed RUclips 3 times now but in return I suffer from carpal tunnel in both wrist and one ankle and exhausted over 14,000 boxes of tissue paper.
It's an April fool's joke. I hopefully just saved you 20+ minutes. If it was more clever it'd be worth the watch. I unfortunately will never get that 27:01 minutes back but hopefully you comment viewer can save yourself before it's to late.
Son of a bitch. I read this comment at 25 mins and 23 seconds. I hate my life!!!!! I think I was more upset by reading this, since I was so far through the video. I would have just rathered found out myself! Thanks jackass 😂😂. You would have been a savoir if I would have read it within 2 mins of it playing !!
Wow. Extremely disappointing from both parties. Seth you need to include the truth of this video in the description and James should never have agreed to this. What a waste of time. Someone please upvote this comment so everyone can see at 26:40 it is an April Fools prank...
The whole point of an April fools prank is that you don't announce ahead of time that you're about to play an April fool's prank. I brought some balance to the force with a downvote on that silly suggestion.
Keira Churchill Too true! But considering this was posted on September 8th, and there are usually 364 days out of the year that it is NOT April 1st, I feel my warning is valid. I have downvoted your reply to put back the balance you disrupted. ;)
James Randi was a friend of mine, and I know a lot of people rightly claim that honor, but I will never forget how generous he was to me and how, in some inexplicable way, I always felt better knowing he was around, doing what he did best for the betterment of all. Having passed away almost exactly one year ago, I feel a void and an uncertainty about the future of science in this chaotic, profoundly, ignorant, violence-prone country because we have lost one of our greatest champions of science, truth and education. All that considered, James Randi and his remarkable life’s work, indeed, left us in a better place than we could have ever achieved without him. RIP old bean.
Hey Sa, I don’t know Randi personally, but I feel exactly the same way about him as you do. It’s not often these days to come across a truly authentic person. He’ll always be an inspiration for me.
i never heard of the cat but i can feel the emotion and passion in what you write...thank you for introducing me to a guy with your incredibly well articulated description...i can tell i wouldve liked him
His was the 2nd book on magic I ever read. The first was about Houdini. I never wanted to be a magician. Just wanted to know how it worked. I guess it's the mechanic in me. He exposed it, I loved it.
*"James Randi and his remarkable life’s work, indeed, left us in a better place than we could have ever achieved without him."* His spirit is in a much better place right now, I'm sure much to his utter shock and amazement.
Back then he was a balding, grey-bearded and bespectacled man. He already looked older than many his age. People in their 50s also tend to dress differently in their 80s, but not Randi. That's why his age progression is less dramatic than most people's.
Still angry, James should know better. April fool's day pranks is hardly something he should be encouraging in a skeptical educational foundation, and on top of that this muddles the integrity of JREF... How many people only read the title, or didn't watch the final 10secs? There's bound to be people who now think there's been at least one winner ergo supernatural may be real after all. It even sounds like a breakthrough when the guy said, "I won't be needing your million dollars (just your admission will make me 100x that.)" Very disappointed personally.
@@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid using a computer disqualifies you from the prize, because the computer is just technology and explicable. I knew something was up because you cannot read memory of a computer that is off by touching it. Common sense and if you even watch just one other of his challenges, they are not even close to getting it right let alone spot on 3/3.
@@niwempleh Yes I would agree, it's impossible, but no more so than psychics and tea leaf readers lol. My mild anger was specifically about having a headline that says "Randi's prize claimed" and 30 minutes of James acting like this is something! I'm better now, but at the time I was choked lol.
@@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid I think it's actually a good way to show people who kinda believe...maybe want to believe that such things exist, that they don't. And I loved the methodical presentation that turned out to be very dry humor.
I know right... 27 minutes long I could have watched something else. I thought he was giving in way to easy. Like why wouldnt he whip out his own deck of cards to use etc...
I Wasted 27 Minutes..Of My Life...Watching This....BULLSHIT I Knew Their Was Something Wrong In The Begining When The Lady With The Stupid Hat Was Talking... 💀💀
I saw this years back and it just popped up on my feed. I remembered that is was a trick, but what was the ending? I watched through it again and was like that’s right, April Fools 😂
I was thinking no way, even if supernatural powers exist nobody’s ever gonna prove it, and claim the million dollars. So I’m not wasting 27 minutes on this. Read the comments, saved minutes.
Why shouldn't you "fall for it?" You undoubtedly trusted Randi as a "man of science," when he is nothing more than a retired magician, or should I say a con man or liar.
@@brianmueller7913 randi was quite well-spoken and pragmatic. are you trying to make an appeal to university degreeship? or do you actually believe you can cast magic spells?
Well that's 27 minutes i wont get back...btw, to avoid you wasting 27 minutes of your life, its just a joke on here, they are playing an april fools trick on the audience. Dont waste your time watching it all.
I originally thought this must be some kind of scam. I was pausing the video and constantly trying to think of logical solutions to these tricks. I reached the end just to find all of my effort was pointless, the whole thing was an April Fools' Day joke.
My favourite P&T guest was the blind card manipulator guy. If you haven't seen it, look it up. It's insane, literally impossible to see what he's doing, even though he's telling you what he's doing as he's doing it.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 It depends on whether the prank was contrary to his code of ethics about dis-information. Maybe James did not foresee a lecture during his lifetime being watched on YT by folk with a short attention span that skip through clickbait and miss the punchline.
You people complaining about wasting your time. This is exactly the point of the video! The way they staged this is not too far from a con man. it's like a magic trick, sometimes the entire audience is in the trick to fool a bigger audience.
Awesome, just plain awesome. I especially love the way they pulled it at MIT and had people over who consider themselves to be fairly intelligent and I would imagine they wouldn't consider themselves easily fooled :~) Brilliant. Made my day. I was particularly confused as to how he could read the contents of volatile memory when the laptop had been turned off considering volatile memory is memory that the data in it is gone when electricity is no longer flowing through the chips.
MacBooks running MacOS were definitely configured to store recent app data in RAM at shutdown, even back in 2008. @carloscortez6024 Even so, reading that data with the palm of one's hand... good one!
Poor old Randy just doesnt know how computers work. Anydesk was created around this time i think. He just has cameras all around, someone else with access to his desktop, and a whole heap of distraction.
Randi sure has a sense of humor but this one shocked me until the end. I was wondering what was wrong with Randi's otherwise usually good judgement though, since the controls of this test were not good. Also two out of three tests were not demonstrating a paranormal ability, but a technologically plausible method. Also the third test was contingent on Randi choosing to think of the actual geometrical image that he had on the paper and Randi could have chosen to cheat by thinking of something else that wasn't on the paper so that test was also not rigorous enough in design. I am relieved to see that these test procedures were after all not genuine, because they were not sufficient for a number of reasons.
For the third I had to fall back on Randi's integrity. That was enough to convince me he wouldn't think of a different shape. That third one, though, was such a joke. It was displaying the data as ASCII, rather than in some graphical form to correspond with the sensors and brain regions. It was like the intro to The Matrix with the green numbers.
Yeah...all very interesting - but, I'd like to know what the backstory is to that cosmic haircut that guy has! Not one comment was made about it - and that's usually something Randi would have zeroed in on. LOL! 🤣😆
I found the link while in the RUclips vortex after clicking a completely different link in Reddit. I was in private mode I guess and couldn’t upvote your comment. I took the time to leave Reddit and use my browser in regular mode just so I could tell you I laughed out loud by myself after reading your comment. You deserved more than an upvote lol. What sealed the deal was “...I didn’t have to be a psychic to know that.”
I don't see why people are complaining. It was still entertaining to watch thinking it was real because I sat there trying to figure how on earth it would work. The end result doesn't have to change the experience of the journey there
I agree, I enjoyed it. I love James Randy. I honestly had no clue. I was so surprised when I came across this video. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard about someone finally winning the million.
@@Jedi_Are_Scum it's not about wether he can figure it out or not, it's about wether it passes the test, and you can find info of all of the tests done online and see clearly that no one even came close to passing the test, psychics are the scammers not Randi
By looking at the like to dislike ratio, I can read your minds and what my psychic abilities are picking up is that many people are pissed about this April Fool’s joke haha and it’s great. I love it 😄
you won´t get back any number of minutes in any situation. Even if you had enjoyed this video there would be no way for you to get back time. Therefore your comment is utterly useless and nonsensical.
fabsie fabsy(I will neglect your grammatical and orthographical errors for once.) He certainly has the right to say whatever he wants to, but so do I. And freedom of speech does not guarantee that you won´t be criticised or held accountable for what you´ve said. Criticisig a comment that has been posted on an open platform does not infringe upon any rights that person might hold.
+Konsti SomethingMore I think what he's trying to say is you're making a fuss over nothing. "Your comment is useless and nonsensical" big whoop. Who cares if it's useless? Did you not understand his figure of speech? Essentially what Connor Faulds is saying, is that this video was a waste of time. It's either A: you understand the statement and your just being controversial, or B: you haven't an idea as to what he means.
I think Seth Raphael,, has been using the device more often, it gave him very a unique hairstyle 👶🏻 And maybe now with the million dollars he can have a different hairstyle🧑🏻🎤😅😉
It was a joke the same way, it would be a joke if someone married someone and told them they would be faithful and honest then lied and cheated for a year and said HAHA I fooled you when I said I would be faithful to you, but we got married on April 1 you fool!. Before you call it a straw man, tell me how misleading and how much of a persons time you have to waste before it stops being a joke. The only April fools are the fools who take part in the stupidity.
Lol you're so mad that you were called out. Your comment shows that you didn't watch it all, so stop acting like it "wasted your time." You were fooled; get over it. Your angst is showing bro. I'm sure you wouldn't have spent that half an hour doing something productive anyways.
Randy saw the audience members picture choice. The guy tilts the laptop screen towards randy just before too. They likely worked out a form of secret communication.
I knew this has to be a trick. It looked like Randi wasn't even trying to catch him. It screamed that it's a trick. I knew randi was going to get him I just didn't think it would be a April fools
At first, I was quite intrigued by whatever the hell that woman was wearing on her head... ...but then I saw her student. Wtf is going on with these peoples' heads? Is she teaching a class on "How To Make Yourself Look As Ridiculous As Possible?"
@@texasrox2010 ... we're not paying them for their hair... or at all? MIT is a private school and MIT Media Lab in particular receives a majority of its funding through corporate sponsorships, the rest from donations, licensing fees, royalties, etc... As far as the woman in the beginning goes it looks like some sort of shawl, it's not really too weird... and I haven't seen the guy yet Edit; just saw him... I'm pretty sure they're playing off the joke... this entire thing is a joke/troll so that makes sense to me... more sense than that actually being someone's haircut unless they were incredibly sick and it happened so fast he wasnt able to grab some clippers or go to the barber. Edit 2; hes not a student at MIT, hes a magician/entertainer
This just popped on my feed...as a software engineer, I watched it while reverse engineering it in my mind. Interestingly enough, you can reproduce the first two tricks with some clever software. First one you could use the webcam with CV to identify the time the eyes focus on a specific card while showing the deck. Then start narrowing down and presenting in different orders to increase accuracy. The second one you could tap into the OS's screen reader (or the webpage html code itself), save the metadata content of the flickr image, and have the hard drive (or fan) vibrate in morse-like language that, by touching it, he'd be able to get a general idea of the image contents. As we know, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Really cool prank though! Cheers!
Pause at 14:52 and set it to .25 speed. Look in the lower right hand corner of your screen. Hit Play. You will see that he has a screen embedded into the pad. This pad is likely screen sharing with the laptop, showing exactly what picture he is looking up.
The card trick could simply be that the cards have transmitters embedded in them, RFID chips if you will, and placing one card further away from any of the other cards would single that card out as the one. I mean, look at what they want to do with your phones now. They want everyone 6 feet apart so as to be distinguishable from other people.
Zootown Montana Look at the MIT media manager's head gear right at the start of the video, the monitor in the front seat of the audience showing Seth everything on the computer. It's a lesson in deception.
I think the biggest question most of us are all thinking is what the hell is wrong with that man's hair?
Don't look up elapesia or you'll be none the wiser...try looking for alopecia - most people just shave their head.
Scally __ Thanks Scally :-)
+Chi sey 😆😆
Misdirection.
Misdirection, haha that sure is fitting! And it's one very screwed up hair style.
Let's all bow our heads and take a moment of silence for our brothers and sisters who warned us in the comments. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your service.
They fucked up a perfectly good joke 😅
@@JoeZUGOOLA Or saved us all 27 minutes of sitting through one.
Yes. For all of those who lost almost 30 minutes of their lives, so we could be saved
Good thing that I fast forward to the end
Fun fact if everybody switched our smart tech off and refused to switch it back on until our demands were met , the virtual crippling of their big data economy and digital infrastructure would bring the cabal to their knees . It's all about big data , data collection is worth more than oil , the future is gene therapy doing away with millenia of medicine the jabbing will never stop , but they couldnt achieve it if everybody refused their tech , hell even just for a day or a week even switch it off when you go to bed would be a start ,we hold all the cards.
I met James Randi at the Flamingo in Las Vegas in 2019 while he was having coffee with Penn Jillette. My daughter had spied Penn at the small lobby cafe we were in line at and pointed him out. I immediately recognized the old gray-haired man he was with. Penn had just wheeled him by in a wheelchair to the patio of the cafe. I saw a lull in their conversation and got the courage to introduce myself to them both. While Penn excused himself to get the coffee, I got to chat with James a bit and expressed my enjoyment of his debunking videos. He was a very gracious and soft spoken man. I didn’t visit but more than a couple minutes, as I didn’t want to intrude on the two close friends time together.
Later that night, at the meet and greet after the Penn & Teller show, I reminded Penn that I had met him and James earlier that morning. He said he remembered, and that James appreciated me talking to him about his debunking stuff and that it meant a lot to him.
That’s my story of meeting James Randi and Penn together.
Well done.
Thank goodness that was all an April fool's! Initially I was thinking "well, all it takes to win a million bucks is to use technology that grandpa doesn't understand" 😂
Please answer
Same thought lol 😂
Obviously you children have never seen James Randi before. He was a very intelligent person with a long career in debunking paranormal psychic nonsense. He was not some ignorant old man that doesn't understand tech. Yet what am I to expect from obviously YOUNG inexperienced children that know nothing of the world yet.
@joetheman74 stop talking to young children on the internet then
@@joetheman74*whoosh*
To all the people crying that this was a waste of 27 minutes and they want it back it's your own fault for being a rookie of the internet, I'm a professional RUclips viewer and that entails always having a second monitor with porn playing and simultaneously watching both monitors to never risk wasted time. I have completed RUclips 3 times now but in return I suffer from carpal tunnel in both wrist and one ankle and exhausted over 14,000 boxes of tissue paper.
lol 😂😂
fucking funny shit hopefully one day I can complete youtube
So you are saying your in pain and can not acess the button to quickly get to another channel. To bad for you.
Save money on tissues by re-using an old sock!
WHAT DOES "COMPLETED RUclips" MEAN
Well there goes 2 seconds of my life I'll never get back.. Thank you comment section.
Your mom agrees
@Jay Gan you still got burned.
🤣
If you cut out alcohol and fast food you will get those two seconds back.
Time is a virtue.
It's an April fool's joke. I hopefully just saved you 20+ minutes. If it was more clever it'd be worth the watch. I unfortunately will never get that 27:01 minutes back but hopefully you comment viewer can save yourself before it's to late.
you hero
Adam DeNio thanks I stopped in 10 seconds
Came here looking for comments about his hair, this is much better thanks.
Son of a bitch. I read this comment at 25 mins and 23 seconds. I hate my life!!!!! I think I was more upset by reading this, since I was so far through the video. I would have just rathered found out myself! Thanks jackass 😂😂. You would have been a savoir if I would have read it within 2 mins of it playing !!
Damnit! I should have read the comments! The while time I was like...there is no way this is real 😂
Awesome! Never met Randi but had some email conversations with him. He was my hero growing up, I'm a proud skeptic and scientist as a result.
You guys got me good. But I wish you would've kept the April's fool joke to 5 minutes instead of 27 ****ing minutes.
i think it was a good joke, pretty entertaining
Thanks for the heads up. Based on title, I didn't watch this video at all, and went straight to comments
I made it twelve minutes, yup five would have been about right.
They got me for six minutes before I knew something was up.
The longer the prank, the better the joke 😁
Wow. Extremely disappointing from both parties. Seth you need to include the truth of this video in the description and James should never have agreed to this. What a waste of time. Someone please upvote this comment so everyone can see at 26:40 it is an April Fools prank...
The whole point of an April fools prank is that you don't announce ahead of time that you're about to play an April fool's prank. I brought some balance to the force with a downvote on that silly suggestion.
Keira Churchill Too true! But considering this was posted on September 8th, and there are usually 364 days out of the year that it is NOT April 1st, I feel my warning is valid. I have downvoted your reply to put back the balance you disrupted. ;)
Maybe people will start to recognize sarcasm, jokes, and trolls better after this.
booooo
thanks for ruining it!
Seth's hair is still loading.
lmao!
Lmfao!!! 😂😂😂😂😣👌👌👌
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the best comment!!! You deserve million likes
Lmao buffering......
The twist is that the paranormal was in his hair like Samson's Strength
James Randi was a friend of mine, and I know a lot of people rightly claim that honor, but I will never forget how generous he was to me and how, in some inexplicable way, I always felt better knowing he was around, doing what he did best for the betterment of all. Having passed away almost exactly one year ago, I feel a void and an uncertainty about the future of science in this chaotic, profoundly, ignorant, violence-prone country because we have lost one of our greatest champions of science, truth and education. All that considered, James Randi and his remarkable life’s work, indeed, left us in a better place than we could have ever achieved without him. RIP old bean.
HOLY KATZ! I was not aware that the Amazing Randi had passed. Godspeed, Mr. Randi.
Hey Sa, I don’t know Randi personally, but I feel exactly the same way about him as you do. It’s not often these days to come across a truly authentic person. He’ll always be an inspiration for me.
i never heard of the cat but i can feel the emotion and passion in what you write...thank you for introducing me to a guy with your incredibly well articulated description...i can tell i wouldve liked him
His was the 2nd book on magic I ever read. The first was about Houdini. I never wanted to be a magician. Just wanted to know how it worked. I guess it's the mechanic in me.
He exposed it, I loved it.
*"James Randi and his remarkable life’s work, indeed, left us in a better place than we could have ever achieved without him."*
His spirit is in a much better place right now, I'm sure much to his utter shock and amazement.
Amazing Randi should get a prize for looking exactly like he did in the 80s What's my Line TV show. He hasn't aged a bit.
Maybe it''s the beard?
He does look for being in his 80s, doesn't her? But the show was "That's My Line", aired in 1981. "What's My LIne" aired in the 50s and 60s.
Back then he was a balding, grey-bearded and bespectacled man. He already looked older than many his age. People in their 50s also tend to dress differently in their 80s, but not Randi. That's why his age progression is less dramatic than most people's.
yeah he never been young lol
Him at the barber: Just fuck my shit up.
The only reason I'm not mad about wasting 27 minutes of my life is because of my respect for James Randi
Still angry, James should know better. April fool's day pranks is hardly something he should be encouraging in a skeptical educational foundation, and on top of that this muddles the integrity of JREF... How many people only read the title, or didn't watch the final 10secs?
There's bound to be people who now think there's been at least one winner ergo supernatural may be real after all.
It even sounds like a breakthrough when the guy said, "I won't be needing your million dollars (just your admission will make me 100x that.)"
Very disappointed personally.
@@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid using a computer disqualifies you from the prize, because the computer is just technology and explicable. I knew something was up because you cannot read memory of a computer that is off by touching it. Common sense and if you even watch just one other of his challenges, they are not even close to getting it right let alone spot on 3/3.
@@niwempleh Yes I would agree, it's impossible, but no more so than psychics and tea leaf readers lol. My mild anger was specifically about having a headline that says "Randi's prize claimed" and 30 minutes of James acting like this is something!
I'm better now, but at the time I was choked lol.
Because this was sooo fun. This was amazing, a prank totally worthy of James Randi...
@@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid I think it's actually a good way to show people who kinda believe...maybe want to believe that such things exist, that they don't.
And I loved the methodical presentation that turned out to be very dry humor.
He's bald He's not bald He's bald He's not bald He's bald He's not bald.
Schrodinger's hair(less)
Underrated comment
I h8 when I don't read comments first
Same....
I know right... 27 minutes long I could have watched something else. I thought he was giving in way to easy. Like why wouldnt he whip out his own deck of cards to use etc...
Tintamar5678 I think less of you for your spoiler. No need to comment on everything
@@leopiccione8523
Spoiler?!? No, it's a lame joke that wastes time.
I just watched that entire thing. What a waste, next time I'll read the comment section first lol
When you drop a lolly on the carpet and you pick it back up
this made me laugh harder than it probably should
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You sir, win my attention.
I laughed so hard i farted
I can’t believe you said this. 🙀😂😂😂😂😂😂
There's 27 minutes I can't have back...
Fuck you guys.
+EdenX Good point! It seems so obvious now!!
Bob Yost Should have listened to you...
Tried to warn ya!!!
I Wasted 27 Minutes..Of My Life...Watching This....BULLSHIT I Knew Their Was Something Wrong In The Begining When The Lady With The Stupid Hat Was Talking... 💀💀
I can't believe I fell for a 10 year old April fool. Very well played.
Best part was when he took out the envelope to prove he couldn't cheat either
I saw this years back and it just popped up on my feed. I remembered that is was a trick, but what was the ending? I watched through it again and was like that’s right, April Fools 😂
I was thinking no way, even if supernatural powers exist nobody’s ever gonna prove it, and claim the million dollars. So I’m not wasting 27 minutes on this. Read the comments, saved minutes.
Why shouldn't you "fall for it?" You undoubtedly trusted Randi as a "man of science," when he is nothing more than a retired magician, or should I say a con man or liar.
@@brianmueller7913 randi was quite well-spoken and pragmatic. are you trying to make an appeal to university degreeship? or do you actually believe you can cast magic spells?
@@brianmueller7913James Randi is the farthest thing from a con man or a liar as you accuse him of being.
Skip to 26:25 if you value you time.
This comment should be at the top!
Thank u!
Don't skip if you like to be entertained.
J Anthing Saved my ass from a half hour of bullshit.
Dang I wish I saw this at the beginning of the video
Longest troll video I've ever watched. This man is truly a genius.
Next time I skip to the end. Lol
truly an asshole more like -- I'll be skipping to ends, or just skipping more videos
Glad I skipped to the end right away
So did I, and I'm surprised more people didnt, considering what the subject matter is, and the length of the video.
Makochild The Destined I skipped to the end right away cause I new something wasn't right.
Why does that psychic look like he should be praising Atom in the Glowing Sea?
Eldritch Guy Haha! Nice Fallout reference, bro.
nice! i couldnt believe that when i read it
Eldritch Guy Lmfao
Eldritch Guy omg what an awesome and perfect reference! Haha
Wasn't that amazing, tbh.. Don't get me wrong it was good but it's not like I haven't seen better ones.
Audience member: I’m suing you for a million dollars. You will be hearing from my lawyer for wasting 27 minutes of my time. 😂
I’m honestly not even tripping I was so happy to find out Randi is still the thug of thugs
Well that's 27 minutes i wont get back...btw, to avoid you wasting 27 minutes of your life, its just a joke on here, they are playing an april fools trick on the audience. Dont waste your time watching it all.
THANK YOU SCOTT! Much appreciated!
Thank you for the heads up
Thank you
Thanks!!
Count me in too. Thanks Scott.
I specifically didn't read the comments because I didn't wanna ruin the suspense.
Now I've ruined 27 minutes of my life.
SAMEEE ugh
LMFAO I'm outta here. I read the comments 😂🤣
Al El me too! Lol
I didn't either
So many pepole have the same pic
Well, that was 27 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Aside from Seth's hair, has anybody wondered what's on that ladies head at the beginning?
Yeah i trew out my carped.. looked a bit like that
Wee Willy winky night cap
Hahahahahahaha THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! I totally fell for it.. Nice!!!! didn't see it coming at all Lol Great work guys.
I gave this a thumbs up under the assumption that it is sarcasm, if it is not, please let me know and i will reverse my vote.
Thanks to reading the comments, I skipped ahead to 26:35 and didn't waste half an hour watching this...
+whomee2 Wish i'd done the same mate.
+whomee2 Ha! Thanks for saving me the time man. I was a few minutes in before I read your post.
Thanks dude
+whomee2 lol thankya
+whomee2
hahah.... thanks
Cant believe i fell for it... watching in awe for the whole video, very well played fellows. 😅
The best April fools joke that lasts 27 minutes by far. James Randi was a good man
That would have been a much lamer april fools prank
world need more persons like james randi
Man, you suck. Way to ruin the payoff. What a buzzkill.
Thanks for spoiling. Congrats.
@@dench2695 Cry about it 'Dench'
Hahahaha oh man I love this guy. Debunks fraud psychics and plays miraculous practical jokes on people
I think we just got Rick-Rolled
I know right.
*****
hahahahahahah
This was by far my favorite prank ever to watch on RUclips
reminds me of when Joe Pesci did a handstand on toilet after getting his head set on fire in home alone 2.
That was joe pesci? Fml. How did i not know that.
this is the best comment on all of youtube
Hsha
Oh man ! Thanks for keeping my faith that EVERYTHING has an answer! That was fun though.
April Fools joke still catching suckers 8 years later.
This is why I love comments.
if people were fish, we'd be fucked.
Thanks for the heads up.
He should get the money 💰just for walking 🚶♂️around with that hair 🤣🤣🤪✌
I'm actually so much angrier than I should be
I'm really fucking angry
punch someone - you have an extra fist in your beard !
chill - we will make better joke !
Deca Hedron mostly angry at that dudes radiation sickness hair.
like Jim cary as fire Marshall bill.
Everyone's talking about the lady's hat, what about the guy with patches of hair on his head. He told the barber "Just give me the insane look"
"say no more"
Jeff Spicoli I said a "wall street tycoon!"
I got you fam.
Spicoli!!! (classic dude) I was thinking he asked for the Hiroshima look...
What? Too soon?
You may find he has a medical condition called Alopecia.
Good April Fool's joke...totally had me, lol
Argh spoilers >8(
***** My bad! D:
That was a half hour of my life I’ll never ever get back. And to have to look at that hair on top. Oboy.
Please tell me part of the gag was this dude's fucked up dome?
It was aired on April 1st ...
Yeah, but was the HAIR a part of the joke, or does that guy just have it that way naturally?
chadakaira nada he's battling cancer
Those were sensors, not hair patches.
Trust me, if you have an MA from MIT you don't have to worry about your haircut any longer.
*Barber:* what would you like?
*Seth:* See those excess pieces of hair on the floor? Can you glue them to my head?
*Barber:* say no more
“Hello sir, I’m a psychic. What’s your name?” 😂😂
“My name is uh, Comm...(looks around) ent. Comment.”
I guess Seth forgot to completely charge his shaver the night before.
I originally thought this must be some kind of scam. I was pausing the video and constantly trying to think of logical solutions to these tricks. I reached the end just to find all of my effort was pointless, the whole thing was an April Fools' Day joke.
Liam Dye I’d be fucking pissed if I spent 27 minutes to find that out. Glad you spared me that.
Thank you.
I really should've read the comments first.. It's 3am and I was gonna a go to sleep. Fuck. Wasted 27 minutes lol
Liam Dye same xD
As soon as he stood up, I would've yelled, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR HAIR!?!?!?!
Snootchie Bootchies It's capillary diarrhea you fucking moron.
Rich Grizzly Cretin.
how do you fookin get diarrhea on your hair brah?
That was awesome! Laughed so hard at the reveal! Both Randi and Magic Seth are awesome!
Magic Seth went on Penn and Tellers show FOOL US and completely blew their minds. He's truly AMAZING.
My favourite P&T guest was the blind card manipulator guy. If you haven't seen it, look it up. It's insane, literally impossible to see what he's doing, even though he's telling you what he's doing as he's doing it.
Had to go find it cos I couldn't remember his name lol. Richard Turner.
@@noone3216 I know exactly who you're referring to. He was absolutely amazing
I feel absolutely betrayed by this video
me to. I just wasted 27 minutes of my life.
@@tomjones3013 Yeah, it just killed my fond memory of James. Staged - Clickbait.
It was an April fools joke you silly kids. Are you saying you can't take a joke??
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 It depends on whether the prank was contrary to his code of ethics about dis-information.
Maybe James did not foresee a lecture during his lifetime being watched on YT by folk with a short attention span that skip through clickbait and miss the punchline.
You people complaining about wasting your time. This is exactly the point of the video! The way they staged this is not too far from a con man. it's like a magic trick, sometimes the entire audience is in the trick to fool a bigger audience.
Your intelligent comment has rationalized my thoughts and made me less angry. Fuck you.
Daniel Molineux Dude, that gave me a good laugh.
I FELL FOR THIS 8 FULL YEARS LATER
You fell for this 13 years later. And so did I. This was 2008.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge
Same! Arrggggg
Well done. You had me all the way through!😊
I'm so glad i didn't read the comments before watching the video :) Excellent!
+Rogers Digital World Yessss!!!!!!
Agreed lol
+Rogers Digital World I didn't either but I had an idea something was fishy by just looking at the number of downvotes.
Same here. Got me good.
I guess jumping into a vat of nuclear waste didn't give him psychic powers after all
Toxie, the Toxic Avenger.
cancer he got cancer
Runi LOL
Tony?
Awesome, just plain awesome. I especially love the way they pulled it at MIT and had people over who consider themselves to be fairly intelligent and I would imagine they wouldn't consider themselves easily fooled :~) Brilliant. Made my day. I was particularly confused as to how he could read the contents of volatile memory when the laptop had been turned off considering volatile memory is memory that the data in it is gone when electricity is no longer flowing through the chips.
He has a chip implanted in his brain that’s connected to the laptop.
@@diskippa8451 Lol You did watch until the end, right?
Well, it is a laptop and it has a battery that could keep giving power to the memory if configured to do that
Google reads my mind every day so that part made sense but not him communicating with the laptop when it is turned off. I love the Amazing Randi.
MacBooks running MacOS were definitely configured to store recent app data in RAM at shutdown, even back in 2008. @carloscortez6024
Even so, reading that data with the palm of one's hand... good one!
Poor old Randy just doesnt know how computers work. Anydesk was created around this time i think. He just has cameras all around, someone else with access to his desktop, and a whole heap of distraction.
Randi sure has a sense of humor but this one shocked me until the end. I was wondering what was wrong with Randi's otherwise usually good judgement though, since the controls of this test were not good. Also two out of three tests were not demonstrating a paranormal ability, but a technologically plausible method. Also the third test was contingent on Randi choosing to think of the actual geometrical image that he had on the paper and Randi could have chosen to cheat by thinking of something else that wasn't on the paper so that test was also not rigorous enough in design. I am relieved to see that these test procedures were after all not genuine, because they were not sufficient for a number of reasons.
I spent almost all the time thinking of all the ways it was not a valid test.
He really had me here.
Eva Draconis I was thinking the exact same thing
For the third I had to fall back on Randi's integrity. That was enough to convince me he wouldn't think of a different shape.
That third one, though, was such a joke. It was displaying the data as ASCII, rather than in some graphical form to correspond with the sensors and brain regions. It was like the intro to The Matrix with the green numbers.
But it is a valid test.
It shows how easily people can be fooled when you gain their trust. We all trust JR. So what's not to believe?
I agree. This was science, not the supernatural
The sounds of disappointment in the audience when the joke was revealed.
Watching from 2019.
You got me here. Even 7 years after.
Me too D
Yep
2020 here, im in the future 🔮,
Tp
After all this time?
Yeah...all very interesting - but, I'd like to know what the backstory is to that cosmic haircut that guy has! Not one comment was made about it - and that's usually something Randi would have zeroed in on. LOL! 🤣😆
This guy got into a fight with a lawnmower and by the looks of his hair I'd say he lost and I dont need to be psychic to know this lol
He may have alopecia...
I found the link while in the RUclips vortex after clicking a completely different link in Reddit. I was in private mode I guess and couldn’t upvote your comment. I took the time to leave Reddit and use my browser in regular mode just so I could tell you I laughed out loud by myself after reading your comment. You deserved more than an upvote lol. What sealed the deal was “...I didn’t have to be a psychic to know that.”
Your savage lol
Nice!
SPOILER:
Oh for fuck sakes I just wasted 30 minutes of my life, its all fake everyone, it was an April fools prank.
i should have seen this before 30 minuts.
im mad too
Oh my god. I feel like such a fool for going...huh that's impressive lololol. I got trolled so so hard.
lmao good thing i only wasted 1 min reading this
Ha ha
I once had hairdo like that. I was 3 and found out what scissors could do.
Idiot...we all know exactly who l mean
I’ve watched this video so many times and I literally forget it’s a joke every single time...that’s how convincing this is
No my friend ,the reason that you forget is that you are a DEMONCRAT!
If you “literally forget it’s a joke every single time”, then your memory really sucks. No offense, but my goodness 😬
Then,you should be concerned about your failing memory.
@Bingus Randy would’ve hated conservatives Lmao
@@cheapshot36 yeah sorry wrong 😅 again. Only on April fools day did he hate conservatives 😆 🤣 😂
It's all an April fools joke... this video was posted in september. I've just wasted 27 minutes of my life.
gone forever
+Slows I knew there was something fishy going on, I was like woah test it properly with the double blind n everything.
+Slows trollolololololololo! u mad? XD
+Cecilie Hansen not remotely mad... are you trying to be funny?
Slows yass!
I don't see why people are complaining. It was still entertaining to watch thinking it was real because I sat there trying to figure how on earth it would work. The end result doesn't have to change the experience of the journey there
I agree, I enjoyed it. I love James Randy. I honestly had no clue. I was so surprised when I came across this video. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard about someone finally winning the million.
This was such an absolutely entertaining prank to watch! What a wonderful perfomance!
LOL Despite at the end it being revealed as an April Fools gag all the comments eagerly debate how incredible this is.
Fools!
I'm glad to see he's still doing good stuff with his money after his island full of dinosaurs idea really didn't work out well.
@@Jedi_Are_Scum it's not about wether he can figure it out or not, it's about wether it passes the test, and you can find info of all of the tests done online and see clearly that no one even came close to passing the test, psychics are the scammers not Randi
@@Jedi_Are_Scum Yeah dude, it was a joke about how he looks like Richard Attenborough from Jurassic Park. Sorry if it confused you.
Rest in peace, Amazing Randi.
I hadn't heard he had passed... just a week ago... loved his attitude towards scammers.... an honest liar was awesome, my wife even really enjoyed it
Aw man I didn't even know he passed. What a bummer. Cool guy.
Noooo
He said to say he was wrong 😳
@@Rocko1990 he is alive and kicking
By looking at the like to dislike ratio, I can read your minds and what my psychic abilities are picking up is that many people are pissed about this April Fool’s joke haha and it’s great. I love it 😄
God fucking dammit, I just got trolled by James Randi
well there is 27mins i wont get back then
you won´t get back any number of minutes in any situation. Even if you had enjoyed this video there would be no way for you to get back time. Therefore your comment is utterly useless and nonsensical.
you are the type of person that would correct an espn reporter for saying he caught some good air
fabsie fabsy Making yourself look a fool.
fabsie fabsy(I will neglect your grammatical and orthographical errors for once.)
He certainly has the right to say whatever he wants to, but so do I. And freedom of speech does not guarantee that you won´t be criticised or held accountable for what you´ve said. Criticisig a comment that has been posted on an open platform does not infringe upon any rights that person might hold.
+Konsti SomethingMore I think what he's trying to say is you're making a fuss over nothing. "Your comment is useless and nonsensical" big whoop. Who cares if it's useless? Did you not understand his figure of speech? Essentially what Connor Faulds is saying, is that this video was a waste of time. It's either A: you understand the statement and your just being controversial, or B: you haven't an idea as to what he means.
If the hair didn't give it away, maybe the fact this was filmed April 1, 2008 will.
Floyd Palmer It doesn't say anywhere that it was filmed on April 1 though
Kasper Thoresson Go to the Wikipedia page on it.
Floyd Palmer Who does that before watching a video xD
Kasper Thoresson
Who says I did?
Floyd Palmer This makes no sense.
i would've given that mo'-fo' a million dollars (alone), for being brave enough to wear his hair like that in public.
You got us good. Watched the entire 27 minutes before learning it was, what it is ! May he rest in peace.
ANYONE THAT CAN PROUDLY WALK AROUND WITH A HAIRCUT LIKE THAT IS A FUCKING SAVAGE!!!
Hope you never get a disfiguring medical problem, you idiot!
I literally skipped the comments because I wanted to figure out for myself...
Turns out I was in for the trolling of a life-time. Well played sir.
Well played is an understatement.
I think Seth Raphael,, has been using the device more often, it gave him very a unique hairstyle 👶🏻
And maybe now with the million dollars he can have a different
hairstyle🧑🏻🎤😅😉
That moment that you reach the end after watching for 27 minutes to get told it's a April fools joke on july 😑
same here... :D
LMAO
Legit...
Love it Randi proves again how gullible we can be
No he did not prove shit, everyone already know that people can lie, all he did was show that he is not to be trusted which is counterproductive.
René Kruse it was an april fools joke you fucking clown, how does that make him untrustworthy?
Lol watch the entire video. It was a joke idiot.
It was a joke the same way, it would be a joke if someone married someone and told them they would be faithful and honest then lied and cheated for a year and said HAHA I fooled you when I said I would be faithful to you, but we got married on April 1 you fool!. Before you call it a straw man, tell me how misleading and how much of a persons time you have to waste before it stops being a joke. The only April fools are the fools who take part in the stupidity.
Lol you're so mad that you were called out. Your comment shows that you didn't watch it all, so stop acting like it "wasted your time." You were fooled; get over it. Your angst is showing bro. I'm sure you wouldn't have spent that half an hour doing something productive anyways.
i thought the whole time he had a brain reading machine on his head with my low quality signal but comes out to be his hair!! 😂😂😂
RIP James Randi... legend
Got me twice. I seen this video a long time ago and forgot the outcome . Fooled me twice! Smh
Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again
Lol 😆 me too
Fuckin stoners
This is why we can't have nice things!
This comment made my day. Haven't heard that one since I was a kid.
TruthMan dumbass liberal
I think some of you miss the point ...April fools...a gag was set up , to set it up they both had to be in on it .
All three of them, including the audience member.
Randy saw the audience members picture choice. The guy tilts the laptop screen towards randy just before too. They likely worked out a form of secret communication.
Rick The Epilepsy Guy here we go another conspiracy
I got it. It just isnt funny or a good joke.
it's not even a conspiracy dude, it was an april fool, so it was a skit
I knew this has to be a trick. It looked like Randi wasn't even trying to catch him. It screamed that it's a trick.
I knew randi was going to get him I just didn't think it would be a April fools
Thank you comment peoples for saving me half an hour of my life.
It's an April fool's joke. do not waste your time. pretty irritated I watched the whole thing
Carson Dodd yeah me too! Wtf! Lol
I wish I read this comment before watching the video.
Carson Dodd his hair or the video?
Wait the women wearing the jester hate didn't tip you off.
Yeah that's was fucked up I was honestly pissed it was only April fools
At first, I was quite intrigued by whatever the hell that woman was wearing on her head...
...but then I saw her student. Wtf is going on with these peoples' heads?
Is she teaching a class on "How To Make Yourself Look As Ridiculous As Possible?"
It was the hair cuts before our time , somebody will probably make fun of ours in the future 😉😉
@@texasrox2010 ... we're not paying them for their hair... or at all? MIT is a private school and MIT Media Lab in particular receives a majority of its funding through corporate sponsorships, the rest from donations, licensing fees, royalties, etc... As far as the woman in the beginning goes it looks like some sort of shawl, it's not really too weird... and I haven't seen the guy yet
Edit; just saw him... I'm pretty sure they're playing off the joke... this entire thing is a joke/troll so that makes sense to me... more sense than that actually being someone's haircut unless they were incredibly sick and it happened so fast he wasnt able to grab some clippers or go to the barber.
Edit 2; hes not a student at MIT, hes a magician/entertainer
@@texasrox2010 Well I sure hope my tax dollars aren't funding anyone based on hair.
@@texasrox2010 for which part? Do you not have google? Everything I said is incredibly easy to find...
Joelynn Carter right... but I said a few things, and it’d be far easier for you to just google them rather than do this whole spiel...
This just popped on my feed...as a software engineer, I watched it while reverse engineering it in my mind. Interestingly enough, you can reproduce the first two tricks with some clever software. First one you could use the webcam with CV to identify the time the eyes focus on a specific card while showing the deck. Then start narrowing down and presenting in different orders to increase accuracy.
The second one you could tap into the OS's screen reader (or the webpage html code itself), save the metadata content of the flickr image, and have the hard drive (or fan) vibrate in morse-like language that, by touching it, he'd be able to get a general idea of the image contents. As we know, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Really cool prank though! Cheers!
Pause at 14:52 and set it to .25 speed. Look in the lower right hand corner of your screen. Hit Play. You will see that he has a screen embedded into the pad. This pad is likely screen sharing with the laptop, showing exactly what picture he is looking up.
@@mrmr2488 lol wat??
The card trick could simply be that the cards have transmitters embedded in them, RFID chips if you will, and placing one card further away from any of the other cards would single that card out as the one. I mean, look at what they want to do with your phones now. They want everyone 6 feet apart so as to be distinguishable from other people.
whole time I'm thinking, So, you say you can't read minds... But your computer can, and then you can mind read your computer. lol Crafty... lol
Fantastic. The hair was a nice touch. lol
WTF
Never go to a blind Barber
He said he wanted "a little off the top, close in back, and sides," and to make him look nice, cause he was gonna be on TV...
That guy, Seth, doesn't look like a crazy person at all!
Mmo
That hairdo is bazed EPIC
April Fools Joke lmao is that why the dude's hair was all fucked up?
Zootown Montana Look at the MIT media manager's head gear right at the start of the video, the monitor in the front seat of the audience showing Seth everything on the computer. It's a lesson in deception.
Brek Martin h
Anand bopaiah ??
+Zootown Montana
Nah James Randi's hair always looks like that.
Brek Martin that’s the teleprompter
The man viewing the screen should be wearing sunglasses as the computer can read his eye reactions.
Did someone give that guy a haircut at a frat party?