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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 5:18 pm
Anybody else watching? I loved that first guy 
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 7:11 pm
I watched. It was okay, but most were predictable.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 12:40 am
URI geller freaks me out. I never watched the show LOL The man has gone on Coast to Coast with George Noorey (radio) and was stopping starting people's watches on command. Interestingly, when they played the Replay months later the SAME THING happened to people across north america AGAIN. there is something about that guy's voice. Strange
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Surfgirl
Member
10-11-2003
| Friday, October 26, 2007 - 2:39 am
What network??
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Angelicfairies2
Member
07-19-2004
| Friday, October 26, 2007 - 5:50 am
Is it coming on again?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 26, 2007 - 6:40 am
It is on NBC on Wednesdays at 8:00. I'll see if I can do a little banner for it.
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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Friday, October 26, 2007 - 7:02 am
I likes the first guy also! I didn;t watch the whole show because for some reason I can't stand Criss Angel. I don't know why LOL but I never watch him even though I have heard he is good!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 12:03 pm
The full shows are online at nbc.com, if anyone wanted to catch this. My trouble with shows like this (and Criss') is the gross factor. I don't even want to watch acts like the nail gun guy, however clever. At the same time I'm fascinated by how they do what they do. Odd how the two main guys are Criss Angel, who always declares that everything he does is just manipulation, and Uri Geller, who has always maintained everything is real.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 1:33 pm
do do do do do. do do do do. do do do do do do do do do do do do. PHENOMENON. rinse and repeat. 
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 12:06 pm
You're a little bit loopy sometimes, Ketchup 
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 12:34 pm
The only act we caught was the nail gun guy. My son caught on to the trick right away - he said that of course the loaded gun with all the nails in it would be heavier than the others!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 12:55 pm
You know, I'm not sure if that is the trick, I don't think the nails make that much of a difference, or not a reliable difference. There was something similar on a Derren Brown show this summer, and he likes to reveal what's going on, and he said it was all just training in listening to lies, and how people say things. I'm shocked they let him do it on live tv.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 5:29 pm
Criss Angel looked so bored when the camera went over his head after the LIR did her schtick. Uri read my mind!
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 7:54 pm
A good question is... Do you BUY the reactions of the celebs? For instance, the guy that "stopped" his heart. People I watched it with didn't buy any of it. They felt that it was all set up. I felt that if it were set up, then there would have to be a lot of people in on it. I did feel that the fight between Angel and the "medium" was staged. I also felt that Angel wasn't really being very critical of the others. for instance... the girl with the knife. Easy one. There was a mark on the base that she put the knife into. She knew all along where it was. She was just acting. Angel didn't call her on it. That was bullshit. It was nice when Angel called his bluff and offered a million dollars if he could say what was in that envelope he was holding. I loved that. The guy with the matchbooks thrown up on the stage? When he took the pendulum out of his pocket, he let the TARGET matchbook drop to the floor from his pants. Funny how the ONE he had to match up with the card that he forced happened to be right in the area of the stage where he had walked before. Not impressed. Might have been more impressed had the audience been asked to write down what matchbox number they had before they threw them. There were a few that were entertaining... but once you get the impression that things are set up and that Angel is holding back... then you just have trouble BUYING ANY OF IT. Credibility is the key. I tuned in expecting to see Uri and Angel call the bluff of each and every one of them. I wanted to see the hosts explain how they did it and state that they were not impressed. Oh... the English or Aussie accented host is getting tired. Very tired. Perhaps they should try a new accent.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 4:42 pm
I think they purposely choose celebrities who are already believers. I think Raven would have believed most things. The stopped heart guy - I totally believe if you work on it you can slow down your pulse considerably. That fools the manual checks and I assume the ekg machine was a trick somehow. I think there was some trick to the knife stabbing. The medium was AWFUL. I agreed with Criss that it was comical. Clearly a stunt. Clearly everyone knows it's a stunt. I just don't get why people get any entertainment out of that. I thought the fight was staged too, although I didn't think the medium knew about Criss Angel's bluff, so maybe it wasn't. Matchbooks - I like stunts where I have no idea how things are done. I didn't know how this was done but I have no doubt it was just a slight of hand somewhere. Now if she controlled the pendulum I'd have been more impressed. I like the "mind reader" with the murder mystery, because I don't know how that's done. The assistant guy steals the show though whenever he's on. I liked the ying-yang guy, although he had sweated off his "tattoo" which kind of spoilt it a bit. To be honest I've been very unimpressed by all of them, and not even entertained by most. I much prefer the mentalists who admit it's all a con, and just make you wonder how it was a con. Tim Vincent was a children's tv presenter. I don't think he's suited to anything that is meant to be serious.
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Smartypants
Member
03-09-2007
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 6:37 pm
I have never seen Cris's show but it seems to me that he is the type of "mentalist" (and I have to admit I have never heard that term before this show) that is a realist. And what I mean by that is he puts on a "show" and I respect that more than those people who swear its real and they are just "magical" or "psychic" or whatever...b/c even if I know it's just a "con" it's still pretty incredible to me, I'm always amazed at these things. And I also think that is why Cris was so irritated with the Medium guy, b/c he was sticking to the schitch that it was real and he was really communicating with the dead and Cris just called him out on it. And I also think that is why he doesn't call those others "out" on it, b/c they are putting on a show, they have to act scared or nobody watching would care, ya know?? Though I thought that women was a bit over the top. At any rate I'm always pretty amazed at the abilities of all the... mentalists... as they say these days...
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 10:53 pm
So if the EKG was a planted and fixed machine, were the producers in on the con? Was the doctor a real doctor? The tat on the shoulder was totally bogus. They were clearly lying to the viewers with the clip of the tat going on. I hope Chris asks to see the tat next week.
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Smartypants
Member
03-09-2007
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 11:51 am
once I heard or read that some people can slow their heartbeat so much so that it is indetectable, they just get into this zen like trance or meditation. I think this is what the guy did. as far as the machine who knows..that is why these guys are so good. they figure out how to make it look real... but then again it could be a mind over matter thing with him and maybe it was real...like the people that swallow knives, walk on fire, sleep on a bed of nails...that stuff is real but they have such increadible mind over body control they don't "feel" the pain and such...it's all so crazy to me though
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 3:25 pm
we figured the matchbook. forced choice of cards (any slight of hand magician knows how to get a person to select the desired card). the planted matchbook was dropped by the performer when we were distracted by the audience throwing the boxes. it landed near his heel. the hidden knife is another 'old' trick. but picking a very emotional assistant (Ross) makes it easier, cause he'll flinch if she goes near the knife. there could also be a very small mark on the pedestal since she selected where the knife would start. the selected murder mystery stuff was great fun. picking 3 men who just happen to have the 3 different names? the input of the words into the scroll? but the best part was the time selected turned up to be prestamped on the audience hands. priceless!!! seance guy is easily gone - even I could fake that one (just look at the objects LEFT on the table after Raven selected the car, you know which is missing and has to be in the box, duh!!). heart stop guy should be gone also (EKG machine can easily be set up, slowed pulse can be hard to detect by a non-medical person such as Raven). tatoo was pretty ok (but, yeah, obviously rubbing off and took a chance that his subliminal messages wouldn't get through - but i think that celebrity was hyponotized and easily susceptible to suggestion, hence the reason she was selected for that act).

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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 5:59 pm
hyponotized ??? When did that happen? Did I miss something?
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Chupey
Member
07-03-2005
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 2:29 pm
I don't know if I'm going to watch this anymore. I was hoping it was real or at least very well done tricks. But dang it.. did anybody else see that TOTAL SCREWUP with the "magical lifting of the sunglasses"? He had the ladies rubbing their hands together and then the sunglasses lifted up. WELL... the lights on the stage totally lit up the wires attached to the glasses! I couldn't believe it, so I rewound to watch it again. Yep. Totally fake. How stupid. My brother did better magic tricks when he was nine! And what upsets me even more is that this proves that the celebrities are in on it! There's no way those could have been normal sunglasses at any time. They are all lying to us and I don't appreciate that! Grrrr....
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 9:03 pm
I saw the wire as well. I'll watch a little longer, but I feel like the producers and the network and the stars are all in on the fraud.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 7:00 pm
good show eh?
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 3:15 pm
Watching it now. I presume the snake guy intended to get bitten the first time, and weighed the pain against the effect and thought it was worth it. For the first guy with the voodoo dolls I wonder if the chair was rigged to produce the feelings. Then with the hands it was just suggestion and sleight of hand to mark them. I guess whatever he intended to do to the other two female assistants didn't work. What's with the woman burning herself?! But I have no idea how she did that. Presumably she got the red ink onto the towel to press on herself but... good I thought. Not very entertaining but clever. The paint gun guy - entertaining but I think they were squibs or whatever they use when they're shot in the movies. The actual paint balls didn't produce the splats. The "acid" - I'd guess it wasn't acid, as he could use a mixture to create the effect - I expect it's something as simple as whatever the "acid" is has a different meniscus to water. The assistants weren't very good - too much posing and saying things when it was really the magician's turn to be in the spotlight. I think the female was my favourite tonight.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 4:10 pm
I think the 2 blonds at the end of voodoo guy's act messed up. They reacted off-cue. LOL
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