Latest / Journey to the Fringe / Before the Spoons Bent - Uri Geller part 1 of 3
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- 0:03From the unexplained to the mundane, come join
- 0:06us on a Journey to the Fringe. Love that for
- 0:21us. We are your podcast hosts who really don't
- 0:24have a physical form that you're going to be
- 0:27intaking, which is why we can tell you all about
- 0:29that, Taylor and Chelsea. I'm really glad we
- 0:31finally passed that testing. I know. We actually
- 0:35had to make a few cutbacks on our end to get
- 0:37to that level. Let's not worry about the lead
- 0:39that actually came up on it. Don't worry about
- 0:41it. Don't think about it. It's fine. That's how
- 0:44environmental impact works. If you don't think
- 0:47about it or if it's inconvenient for profit,
- 0:49it doesn't actually do anything bad. Exactly.
- 0:51If that's one thing that we've learned this week.
- 0:54We're here today doing one of those things that
- 0:56we probably should have done many, many years
- 0:59ago when we started this podcast. And that is
- 1:02going over somebody who is fundamental, not necessarily
- 1:06in like anything we specifically talk about,
- 1:09but within the fringe community. And that is
- 1:11a man by the name of Uri Geller. Uri Geller,
- 1:14who has come up on an episode or two already.
- 1:18Yeah, he's come up on at least two episodes that
- 1:20I can think of off the top of my head, if not
- 1:23more. We're finally doing it. He sits in a weird
- 1:26fringe category that doesn't quite come up perfectly
- 1:30with anything we really talk about, other than
- 1:32specific topics and people. But he's very well
- 1:35known, not just in paranormal and fringe communities,
- 1:39but world renowned. Yeah, I think he's been on
- 1:42a lot of like talk shows and stuff like that.
- 1:44He's probably a little bit more mainstream than
- 1:46people we usually talk about. Yeah, it's gonna
- 1:49be I think a three -part look at him. First part's
- 1:52gonna be looking at basically his start to where
- 1:55he starts to get famous. From there we're gonna
- 1:57go from where he is famous to what happens for
- 1:59the rest of his career. And then we're gonna
- 2:02look at a few other things on the third part
- 2:04outside of those. That's fun. Just to keep it
- 2:07vague because there's a lot of twists and turns
- 2:09we're gonna have. to go through. Don't spoil
- 2:11it for me yet. I'm just excited to hear how he
- 2:14gets famous. Okay, and I'm just curious, when
- 2:17you hear the name Uri Geller, or Yuri Geller,
- 2:20what comes to mind for you? His spoons bending,
- 2:23watches stop and working, first and foremost,
- 2:26and men who stare at goats, right? Yeah, Project
- 2:30Stargate, right? Or Stargate Project. There's
- 2:32a lot of things I learned that surprised me.
- 2:34I'm gonna really enjoy seeing where he falls
- 2:37in the asshole ranking at the end of the year.
- 2:39Who knows? Maybe he's a nice guy. And... I feel
- 2:43like you know. We just owe him an apology for
- 2:46saying things like that. I know, but you guys
- 2:48don't at this point. I'm soon to know. There's
- 2:53a bunch of places I had to take from for this
- 2:55episode. Yuri Geller has a website. I took some
- 2:58information from there. Wikipedia is always a
- 3:00great source. Yeah, it is. And there's just a
- 3:03ton of stuff written about him in the Times of
- 3:05Israel, Jerusalem Post, and many just different
- 3:08news articles where I pulled from. But for the
- 3:10most part, a lot of the stuff's gonna come from
- 3:12him himself or Wikipedia. If I've learned everything,
- 3:15it's always he himself is a good source. Yes,
- 3:19Uri Self. Uri Geller was born in Israel on December
- 3:2320th, 1946. His parents were Hungarian and Austrian
- 3:27descent. This part comes directly from his website
- 3:29and claims he's a distantly related relative
- 3:32to Sigmund Freud on his mother's side. So sometimes
- 3:35he'll call himself Uri Geller Freud or Uri Freud
- 3:39Geller. but like not actually proven. He might
- 3:43be. I didn't look that far into it just because
- 3:45I don't understand he's a psychic. Why does it
- 3:48matter if you're related to Sigmund Freud? It's
- 3:50true, a psychologist. So I just didn't find it
- 3:56that important to get to the lowest of it And
- 3:58also once we get going you're gonna realize there
- 4:00are too many stories to look into to stop it
- 4:03every single Like this next sentence at the age
- 4:08of four He had a mysterious encounter with a
- 4:10sphere of light while in a garden near his house
- 4:12a retired Israeli Air Force officer who was an
- 4:15eyewitness to this encounter Validated this mystifying
- 4:18event decades later. No, that's it. That's all
- 4:21he says there is way more about that out there
- 4:24the guy just says it happened yeah he's like
- 4:27oh yeah I remember seeing this little kid see
- 4:28it and this was like 30 years after the event.
- 4:31That's fucking weird. Okay. He seems to try to
- 4:34place that as like where his powers came from,
- 4:36but like he's got like five different stories
- 4:39of where his powers came from. That's the one
- 4:41in his bio though, so that's the one he's sticking
- 4:43to for now. I do seem to remember this aspect
- 4:46of Irugiela from wherever I've heard about him
- 4:49before. He first became aware of his unusual
- 4:51powers when he was about five. One day, during
- 4:53a meal, his spoon curled up in his hand and broke.
- 4:57Although he had applied no physical pressure
- 4:59to it. His parents were somewhat shocked, and
- 5:01Rory did not mention the incident to anyone else
- 5:04at the time. He developed these powers in school
- 5:06by demonstrating them to pupils, which directly
- 5:09contradicts that last sentence, but anyhow his
- 5:11mother thought he inherited this from Sigmund
- 5:13Freud. You ever hear that about cigarettes, right?
- 5:20Yeah, how these spoons just curled up. Yeah,
- 5:23it's like the number one thing people know about.
- 5:24And sometimes a cigar is just a bending spoon
- 5:26that you cannot control in any way. If there's
- 5:29one thing that I learned in college, it was that.
- 5:33When he was 11, he went to live in Cyprus, where
- 5:35he remained until he was 17. And this is outside
- 5:38of both Wikipedia and his own bio. He claims
- 5:42that this house also doubled as a safe house
- 5:45for Massad, so he got like spy connections during
- 5:48this time. Whether or not we can verify that,
- 5:52like I said, all these stories, there's just
- 5:54so many of them that you can't look into every
- 5:57single one of them. Did you check with Mossad?
- 5:59I put an email out and now we're on a list. That's
- 6:03all they said. Hopefully we'll get an email.
- 6:05No, that's what they said. They responded, we're
- 6:07on a list. Okay, good. We've got one email now.
- 6:11He then returned to Israel, served as a paratrooper
- 6:14in the Israeli army and fought in the Six Day
- 6:16War of 1967 during which he was wounded in action.
- 6:19From 1968 to 69, Uri worked as a model being
- 6:23photographed for many different ad campaigns
- 6:25and in 1969 he began to demonstrate his powers
- 6:28of telepathy and psychokinesis to small audiences.
- 6:31By the end of 1971 he was a household name throughout
- 6:33Israel thanks to his numerous stage appearances.
- 6:36He was given a huge boost by then Prime Minister
- 6:38Golda Mir who when asked on a national radio
- 6:41program what she predicted for the future of
- 6:43Israel she replied don't ask me ask Uri Geller.
- 6:46His performance included his trademark spoon
- 6:49bending describing hidden drawings and making
- 6:52watches stop or run faster. Geller said he performed
- 6:55these feats through willpower and the strength
- 6:57of his mind alone. His apparent ability to bend
- 7:00metal objects during his television appearances
- 7:02came to be known as the Geller Effect and made
- 7:04him a celebrity. That's where he starts to get
- 7:06big in Israel, and for a second here we have
- 7:09to adjust what we're looking at with the story.
- 7:13away from Uri Geller and towards a man by the
- 7:15name of Andrija Poricic. Poric, it's a hard name
- 7:19to say, but he's an American medical doctor.
- 7:21He lives 1918 to 1995. He's an inventor, doctor,
- 7:25researcher, and he's really big into the UFO
- 7:29paranormal psychic community. He made a ton of
- 7:32money off of basically creating hearing aid technology.
- 7:35So he devoted his life to studying psychic phenomenon,
- 7:38and he identified gifted individuals, which included
- 7:41people who I haven't looked into at this point,
- 7:44but probably are future episodes, Eileen Garrett,
- 7:47Peter Herkos, and the Brazilian psychic surgeon,
- 7:50Eriko. As well as looking into UFOs and extraterrestrials,
- 7:53psychedelic mushrooms, and altered states, in
- 7:551971 he stumbled across Uri Geller. So Puharich
- 7:59heard from inventor Itzjak Bentov that a young
- 8:02Israeli performer was doing things that didn't
- 8:04look like stage magic. Buharach was intrigued
- 8:07and he flew to Israel to meet Uri Geller and
- 8:09he became instantly convinced that Geller's abilities
- 8:11were real, and possibly extraterrestrial in origin,
- 8:15which is also why he upplays that orb story from
- 8:17when he was four. In Puharich's book, Uri, 1974,
- 8:22he describes his belief that Geller was in contact
- 8:24with a non -human intelligence called Spectra.
- 8:27This framing is what permanently welds Geller
- 8:29to UFO lore, but also keeps him separate. Puharich
- 8:33arranges Geller to basically move to the US in
- 8:371973, and he puts him in touch with the Stanford
- 8:40Research Institute, SRI, and Edgar Mitchell.
- 8:43of Apollo 14 and previous asshole lore. Through
- 8:47Puharich, he secures experiments at the Stanford
- 8:50Research Institute with physicists Hal Puthoff
- 8:53and Russell Targ on Uri Geller, and this positions
- 8:56Geller as a subject of interest for US intelligence
- 9:00agencies. And basically, this guy sets him up
- 9:03for everything that we remember him for. This
- 9:05is basically putting him at the forefront where
- 9:08he's going to go on his media campaign as well
- 9:11as be researched by actual scientists who think
- 9:14that ESP is a real thing. Like the Men Who Stare
- 9:17at Goats thing, right? Exactly. Which we did
- 9:19a full episode of. And that's why, Chelsea, you
- 9:22think it's interlocked, these two, Uri Geller
- 9:24and Men Who Stare at Goats or Stargate, correct?
- 9:27Interlocked as in... They're inseparable, like
- 9:29he is a key fundamental part of Project Stargate.
- 9:33He's in it? I think that's... good enough. Anyhow,
- 9:35the first thing he does when he gets to the US,
- 9:38he does some like off the books experiments and
- 9:41talking to the scientist SSRI, but the first
- 9:44thing he gets booked on is Johnny Carson. Right,
- 9:47yeah. And he goes and does the Johnny Carson
- 9:49show and I'm gonna share my screen with you Chelsea
- 9:51so you can see what happens here. Okay, this
- 9:54is before Project Stargate or whatever. This
- 9:57is before Project Stargate, this is even before
- 9:59any scientific papers are written about him.
- 10:02which is going to happen at a certain point it's
- 10:04just that hasn't happened yet and you we're gonna
- 10:06watch this i'm gonna describe it once you watch
- 10:08it so that everybody can kind of know what's
- 10:10going on here i prefer that they don't Basically
- 10:13what happens here is he thought he was on here
- 10:15for an interview, is what he says, but Johnny
- 10:18Carson has a table set up of all these different
- 10:21experiments that he says he's able to perform.
- 10:23One is that they have ten vials of water that
- 10:27are in metals so that you can't tell which one
- 10:30has water in it, only one does and he's able
- 10:33to identify it. They have stopwatches there so
- 10:35you can stop time, they have spoons that he can
- 10:37bend, they have envelopes of things that people
- 10:40on the cast have drawn. guess what they are and
- 10:43they just said like pick whatever you want yeah
- 10:49so he takes a shot at guessing which one of these
- 10:51has water in it so he does this for a while and
- 10:56then he's like no I can't do it just not feeling
- 10:58it today Johnny just not feeling it and then
- 11:02he's like okay I'll move on to the spoon fair
- 11:04enough Also, I love just like offhandedly Johnny
- 11:08Carson smoking like non -stop this whole episode.
- 11:11Look at the carpet, too Yeah, so he makes somebody
- 11:15else hold a spoon and then he starts rubbing
- 11:17the spoon and then he's like Oh, oh look at that.
- 11:21It's bent. I bent it. I Was expecting Johnny
- 11:25Carson to light another cigarette with that cigarette
- 11:28he just went out. Yeah That's amazing what you're
- 11:33allowed to get away with He doesn't want to do
- 11:38anything That's more or less the show Chelsea
- 11:41gave him a bunch of experiments where he wasn't
- 11:44able to bring anything They just provided it
- 11:45and it goes completely flat and he's like, no
- 11:48you don't believe in me. So I can't do it. You
- 11:51can't make me do it on the spot because I only
- 11:53got 20 minutes. Plus I didn't bring these spoons,
- 11:56so this is just not feeling right. How do I know
- 11:59you didn't rig them so they can't? These are
- 12:01unbending spoons. These are unbendable spoons,
- 12:03of course. So to give people an idea of what
- 12:06we just saw, on August 1st, 1973, Geller appears
- 12:09on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. James
- 12:12Randi says that Johnny had been a magician himself
- 12:15and was skeptical. We're going to learn about
- 12:16James Randi in the second part of this three
- 12:18-part series. He was skeptical of Geller's claimed
- 12:21paranormal power, so before the date of taping,
- 12:23Randy was asked to help prevent any trickery.
- 12:26Accordingly, the show's staff repaired its own
- 12:28props without informing Geller and did not let
- 12:30Geller or his staff anywhere near the props.
- 12:33When Geller joins Carson on stage, he appears
- 12:36surprised that he was not going to be interviewed,
- 12:38but instead was expected to display his abilities
- 12:41using the provided articles. Geller's point says,
- 12:44and you heard this, this scares me. And as you
- 12:47know, I told your people what to bring. and I'm
- 12:49surprised because before this program your producers
- 12:51came and he read me at least 40 questions you
- 12:53were going to ask me." Geller was unable to display
- 12:56any paranormal abilities, saying, I don't feel
- 12:58strong, and expresses his displeasure at feeling
- 13:01he was being pressed to perform by Carson. And
- 13:04according to Adam Higginbotham, the result was
- 13:06a legendary emulation, which Geller offered up
- 13:09flustered excuses to his host, as his abilities
- 13:11failed him again and again. Quote, I sat there
- 13:14for 22 minutes humiliated, end quote Geller told
- 13:16me. When I spoke to him in September, Quote,
- 13:18I went back to my hotel devastated. I was about
- 13:20to pack up the next day and go back to Tel Aviv.
- 13:22I thought that's it. I'm destroyed. End quote.
- 13:25This appearance on this tonight show with Carson
- 13:26and Randy had orchestrated to debunk Geller's
- 13:29claimed abilities backfired according to Kickin'
- 13:32Bottom. To Geller's astonishment, he was immediately
- 13:34booked on the Merv Griffin show and he was on
- 13:37his way to becoming a paranormal superstar. That's
- 13:39crazy. Quote, the Johnny Carson show made Yuri
- 13:42Geller. End quote. Geller said, to an enthusiastically
- 13:44trusting public his failure only made his gifts
- 13:47more real if he were performing magic trips they
- 13:50would surely work every time so like just failed
- 13:53up with it interesting and then of course after
- 13:56that is the famed Stanford Research Institute
- 13:59experiments on Uri Geller I should say I do say
- 14:02I do apologize interchangeably Uri Geller or
- 14:05Uri Geller it is he will always say worry Geller
- 14:08but he always says Western people call him Uri
- 14:11Geller and that's just like what they do so I'm
- 14:13gonna fall back to that sometimes too by accident
- 14:15because it feels more natural, but his name is
- 14:17technically properly said Uri Geller. So Hal
- 14:20Puthoff and Russell Targ. Do this experiment
- 14:24on him, and here it is. SRI performs an eight
- 14:26-day experiment on him in August of 1973 between
- 14:29August 4th and 11th. This was designed to test
- 14:32Rory Geller's paranormal perception using picture
- 14:34drawing tasks under controlled conditions. Geller
- 14:37was usually placed in a locked, acoustically
- 14:40and electrically shielded room, while Target
- 14:42drawings were created elsewhere, sometimes in
- 14:44another building, sometimes on the East Coast,
- 14:46sometimes on a computer screen. The authors,
- 14:48Putoff and Targ, present this series as evidence
- 14:51that Geller demonstrated Okay, that was going
- 15:19to be my next question. August 4th, Saturday.
- 15:23Geller is locked in a shielded room. Targets
- 15:25are chosen by randomly opening a dictionary and
- 15:27drawing the first drawable, drawboard. Target
- 15:301 found Fuse, drawn as a firecracker. Geller
- 15:33says he sees a cylinder with noise coming out
- 15:35of it and draws a drum and cylindrical shape.
- 15:38Target 2 finds Bunch, draws a bunch of grapes.
- 15:41Geller reports drops of water and purple circles
- 15:44and then draws a bunch of grapes. Both Target
- 15:46and Geller's drawings have 24 grapes. The authors
- 15:49emphasize that they found no sensory leakage
- 15:51in the shielded room protocol. Quote. In our
- 15:54detailed examination of the shielded room and
- 15:56the protocol used in these experiments, no sensory
- 15:58leakage has been found, nor has any defect in
- 16:01the protocol been brought to our attention. Day
- 16:032, August 5th, Sunday. Geller is again in the
- 16:06shielded room, target drawn in an office half
- 16:09a mile away. Target 1. Outland of a man that
- 16:12evolves into a devil with a trident. Geller produces
- 16:15several drawings. Moses. Tablets. An apple with
- 16:18a worm and snakes and a composite of the Ten
- 16:20Commandments. God and a trident. He does draw
- 16:23the trident, but not the figure. Target 2. A
- 16:26simplified solar system. No orbit lines. Geller's
- 16:29immediate reaction is space. His drawing resembles
- 16:32the target's and also omits orbit lines. From
- 16:41this, it seems clear that Geller does not simply
- 16:44copy lines from the target picture, but rather
- 16:46he does perform some mental processing on them
- 16:49before drawing them himself. August 6th, Monday,
- 16:53a picture is drawn by a scientist outside the
- 16:55usual group and locked in the shielded room before
- 16:57Geller arrives. Geller is then led to the room
- 17:00and asked to reproduce the picture from inside.
- 17:03He draws several images, rejects them all, and
- 17:06says he gets no clear impression. Target draws
- 17:08a rabbit. Port states, he drew a of pictures,
- 17:11all of which he rejected as not being applicable.
- 17:13He said that he got no clear impression and passed.
- 17:15The target was a rabbit and nothing Geller drew
- 17:18in any way resembled a rabbit. Crucially, the
- 17:20author adds that the picture was drawn by a scientist
- 17:22Geller is not fond of, and that Geller guessed
- 17:26this at the outset and later felt vindicated
- 17:28when he learned he was right. August 7th, Tuesday.
- 17:35Two target pictures attempted while Geller is
- 17:37in the shielded room and hooked up to EEG. Targets.
- 17:40They drew a tree in an envelope. De Geller. Experiences
- 17:44difficulty. Produced no matching drawings and
- 17:46passed again. Report notes. Quote. He experiences
- 17:49difficulty. Did not make a drawing that corresponded
- 17:51to either drawing and then passed. End quote.
- 17:53And then key lines again. Quote. The same skeptical
- 17:56experimenter who drew the rabbit was the EEG
- 17:59operator on this second unsuccessful day. End
- 18:02quote. Wednesday, August 8th. Three targets this
- 18:07time. Geller feels unsure and passes on the first
- 18:10drawing. He says it might be a horse, but the
- 18:13target drew a camel. Geller draws for the second
- 18:15target a curved line with squares underneath.
- 18:19This says he doesn't know what it is and passes.
- 18:21It was the Golden Gate Bridge. And Geller quickly
- 18:23says he sees a flying swan for the third target
- 18:25over a hill. Draws a bird and is confident the
- 18:28target is flying as a flying seagull. His drawing
- 18:30is judged correct. Then comes the important part
- 18:33here. Quote, in these experiments deducted with
- 18:36this shielded room, six days' work was done.
- 18:39Good results were obtained on the four days where
- 18:41there was no openly skeptical observer, except
- 18:45the experimenter whom Geller had learned to accept.
- 18:48End quote. So, of the first six days, there's
- 18:52what they deem four good days, unless of course
- 18:54somebody who's skeptical in any way of Yuri Geller
- 18:57is present, in which case they fail completely.
- 18:59It continued from there. August 9th, Thursday
- 19:02experiment moves to a different shielded room
- 19:04near the computer facilities. Target is drawn
- 19:05on a computer graphics screen. It's a kite. Geller
- 19:07in the shielded room asks via intermediaries
- 19:10whether the target is a geometric or an object.
- 19:12He first draws a square with a diagonal and then
- 19:15some triangular airplanes and then passes. The
- 19:17author considers his first drawing a good representation
- 19:19of the target. Friday, August 10th. Again, two
- 19:22computers store targets. First one's a church.
- 19:25Picture drawn and stored in computer memory.
- 19:27No visible trace remains. Geller's attempts share
- 19:29some elements common, but he doesn't identify
- 19:31it as a church and passes. Second one is an arrow
- 19:35through the heart. Target is stored with the
- 19:36TV intensity off, so it's invisible in the lit
- 19:40room, which I don't quite understand what that
- 19:43means. Geller immediately draws an arrow under
- 19:45a rounded brick and then an arrow inside a suitcase.
- 19:48And the author says, quote, we consider the arrow
- 19:50in the su - case similar to the target, which
- 19:51was an arrow through a heart." End quote. And
- 19:53I think we can skip just to the conclusion of
- 19:55the report here, Chelsea. As a result of Geller's
- 20:00success in the experimental period, we consider
- 20:02that he has demonstrated his paranormal perceptual
- 20:05ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner.
- 20:08They frame the week as a success overall and
- 20:10emphasize the hits and treated the failures as
- 20:13either unsuitable targets, emotional issues,
- 20:17or experimental complications. And they're very
- 20:19critical. They even say at this point good results
- 20:22were obtained on the days where there was only
- 20:24no openly skeptical observers present. Every
- 20:28day that they have bad things happen, they're
- 20:30like, yep, skeptical person's there, so it's
- 20:32just not pro - that's not good. I feel like that's
- 20:35not the answer though, so is there more to -
- 20:37What's going on here? That's what Stanford Research
- 20:42Institute's conclusion is, is that he has psychic
- 20:45powers unless somebody who's skeptical is anywhere
- 20:48near him. I don't know, I'm just so skeptical
- 20:50of Uri Geller. I just - Oh, don't worry, we're
- 20:53gonna learn more about what happens from there.
- 20:55Yeah, I just - the odds of getting something,
- 20:57I'm just wondering what the odds are of rightfully
- 21:02guessing something. Like, if I was in a room
- 21:04for eight days - Not only that, Chelsea, from
- 21:07me describing those days, did It did not seem
- 21:09like he was having open conversations with the
- 21:12scientists who believed him. Now that you say
- 21:15that. If you're somebody who's able to glean
- 21:17information easily from conversation with people
- 21:21who especially believe you have powers, it would
- 21:23be very easy. That's true, as if you're a grifter
- 21:26for a career. And they even said at one point
- 21:29he asked whether or not it was geometrical or
- 21:31objects for the kite and then started drawing
- 21:34a kite and then was like, no, that's not it.
- 21:36okay so i don't know why i just glossed over
- 21:40that while i was listening to that because i'm
- 21:42thinking there has to be something logical to
- 21:45what the hell is going on here and don't worry
- 21:47chelsea we'll get to that next episode But the
- 21:51SRI study is so fundamental that in the project
- 21:54Stargate, which started in 1970, the United States
- 21:57intelligence sources believe that the Soviet
- 21:59Union was spending 60 million rubles annually
- 22:01on psychotronic research. In response, the claims
- 22:04that the Soviet program had produced results,
- 22:06the CIA initiated funding for a new program known
- 22:09as Scan8, scanned by coordinate in the same year.
- 22:12Remote viewing research began in 1972 at SRI
- 22:15in Menlo Park, California, and proponents, which
- 22:18included Russell Targ and Hal Puth, of the research
- 22:20said that a minimum accuracy of 65 % required
- 22:23by the clients was often exceeded in the later
- 22:26experiments. Targon put up began testing for
- 22:29psychics for SRI in 1972, and this included this
- 22:32experiment on Ori Geller. This apparently successful
- 22:36result garnered interest from the US Department
- 22:39of Defense. And because it was so interesting
- 22:42to the Department of Defense, they brought in
- 22:44a guy by the name of Ray Hyman, professor of
- 22:46psychology at the University of Oregon. They
- 22:48said, hey, Can you look at this to make sure
- 22:50everything's above board? Uh huh. He was specifically
- 22:53asked to evaluate Uri Geller. And that's where
- 22:56I'm gonna end this episode. Somehow he seems
- 22:59to be failing up with sheer coincidence and I
- 23:03don't know skeptics be damned because the skeptics
- 23:06are the thing that stop him. This is like I I
- 23:10don't even know okay first of all what a cliffhanger
- 23:13to leave this on and second of all I wish I had
- 23:17this talent. What a talent to have! Yeah, the
- 23:20talented bullshit people. Sorry, sorry to Ben
- 23:23Spoonz. To Ben Spoonz. Well, I will say, I don't
- 23:27know if this is the place to put it, but I'm
- 23:29going to say it before I forget it. When he's
- 23:32been on Coast to Coast AM, people have reported
- 23:35watches stopping while he's talking on the radio
- 23:39in various places where they're just listening
- 23:42to him on the radio or old watches start going.
- 23:46And so George would always give or art George
- 23:49one of them That's actually a great comment to
- 23:52make because I do think it's gonna come up in
- 23:54the next episode something along those lines
- 23:57So I want you to keep it in mind as we're going
- 23:59forward. I'm gonna try I really I literally just
- 24:01said I have to say it now before I forget it
- 24:04Because yeah, I think there's almost something
- 24:07directly quotable that happens in the next episode.
- 24:09That's very similar to that. Okay, I just remembered
- 24:13but for now I have been Taylor, here with Chelsea.
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