Psychics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Psychics, the only people with more off-kilter confidence than Michael Avetti, now you probably haven't thought about

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in a while, which is strange, there's not really much else going on, but if you watch TV for day, you will see her appear all the time when she was just a little girl, she is a wife and mother, and she also talks to dead people, please welcome the famous psychic pet, our next guest is a clairvoyant of the bond of the Stars, they're all psychic, okay, I guess it's good. that at least dr. oz isn't wearing a medical gown in that clip, but I still wish he would do more to point out that he now lacks credibility as a medical professional.

I think a walking joke sandwich sign is the clothing choice I would feel comfortable and look good in. Before I continue, I am NOT going to litigate whether

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are real in this article, because you fail to see that litigation is not required either for anyone who believes in psychic powers. I know there is nothing I can say that will convince you. Otherwise logic isn't the reason you believe in them and it won't be the reason you stop, which isn't to say I won't show you clips of psychics, but that's just because it's really fun. a girl you said was beaten and killed, okay this girl is me and you told someone she's dead, wait a minute, you didn't disappear, I'm here, well that's interesting, right?

Yes, that's interesting. I guess she's psychic. Her skills didn't include predicting when she would be completely humiliated on national television and look, it's easy to dismiss psychics as a joke, very easy and fun too, but the fact of the matter is that a recent survey found that 4 in 10 Americans They believe in psychics. just think about it statistically, that means that of all the people who saw John Travolta's movie Gotti, four of them believed in psychics, so whether they are real or not is incidental, what matters is that a lot of people think that They are and the psychic industries are bigger and bigger.

Darker than you might assume, by one estimate, it's a two-point-two billion dollar industry and there has been a lot of predatory behavior when the FTC settled charges with the companies behind these psychic readers Network in 2002, which featured Miss Cleo, they discovered that over a three-year period they had charged people about a billion dollars and took half a billion dollars out of the collected money. I had no idea psychics could make so much money. It's like discovering the second richest person in the world behind Jeff. Bezos is this Gamestop employee named Greg. I guess it's good for Greg, but right now I have a lot of questions about Gamestop and literally everything else, so

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let's take a look at the psychic industry, particularly one of the most insidious parts of media. people who claim to be able to communicate with the dead are everywhere on television some even have their own reality shows she is a professional psychic mary tastes bad 9:00 on tlc spirit is important to me as important as my hair and nails half only on TLC, the crazy thing about these shows is how they choose to focus on the personal lives of psychics, who cares?

If I truly believed they could communicate with the dead, that's the only thing I'd like to see them doing. The island medium can ask Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi and Shakespeare whatever she wants, so tune in next

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as she thinks about getting bangs. I want mixed media to be compelling television. Most people have seen at least one of them make someone cry with messages from their dead loved ones. In people like this, did you lose your husband? Man, your husband wants to thank you for taking care of him and allowing him to leave the physical world with dignity and grace now that that woman is clearly genuinely moved, although I will say that it is strange that the conduit to the afterlife is, for some reason, the test.

Theresa Caputo's living account of what would happen if you added too much baking soda to Edie Falco and, although we see people cry, it may seem incredible, the techniques that psychics use to achieve those moments are significantly less incredible because there are two techniques basics that psychics tend to use. The first is called cold reading. It's basically making high probability guesses, like if you're feeling for a loved one who had problems in the chest area or if there's a J or an M in a loved one's name here. it's some cold reads in action okay and they're there like Daniel David like there's a big D so for me it's the initials it's usually in months of the year like December being important who the mRNA brand is Mary Marie, you don't have to. have passed, they could be here in the physical world, you know, Maureen Mary Ann, there is a name M, where is the M connection with you?

Does anyone have a scar and lump on their foot? I appreciate it because your dad is telling me that there is a scar on your foot, she left with Alzheimer's or some type of dementia or something about the brain and that you had to make decisions related to her departure. Did anyone have a brain tumor, a brain aneurysm or a brain hemorrhage, not related to him, not connected to you? Someone behind you had that, Oh, someone was below, had that kind saving companion. Interestingly, it often turns out that a psychic's mistaken assumption is just energy from somewhere else in the room - a room, by the way, most likely containing someone who had one of the problems you just had. on the list because cerebrovascular disease is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States.

It's like asking a room full of praying mantises if anyone here has lost a loved one because they ate them after having sex, you know, all of them. those little green hands are uploading the secret of Cold Reading is the broader the generality, the greater the chance it will resonate with someone. It's the same reason why fortune cookies predict romantic developments in the future and not your wife will seem cold and repressed around the 12th of the month. That's because when she asked you to take charge. The grouting in the shower thing didn't mean she was the plumbers point of contact, we stay up to date with every step of the grouting process, she meant she wanted to get it off her back and it just feels like she's sending a text message in the middle of the work day. ask him if he thinks the landlord is going to ask him for plumbers insurance that's off his plate that's just new air and filling the plate instead of the plumber makes sense Aaron it's not installing the garbage disposal again lucky numbers 8 14 and 23 and sometimes psychics can make ridiculously safe bets, for example, here's John Edward in Huntington Long Island, a town where nearly 1 in 5 residents are of Irish descent.

Is there a Brian Flanagan or a Flynn or O'Sullivan or O'Reilly or some guy whose past Brian Oh something Flanagan Sullivan something like that what are you doing Brian Flanagan or Oh Flynn or Oh something is supposed to be talking directly to the people's dead relatives without trying to guess the pet's name Lucky Charms for the record that elves call ibrahim? abdul hameed has been selling, if that surprises you, maybe update your old-fashioned Irish stereotypes and, once a psychic has you hooked, use your responses, as well as any non-verbal cues you can give them, to make increasingly narrower guesses until you're amazed at what they just did, of course, it's not an exact science, it's not a science at all and sometimes things go wrong, in fact, let's go back to John's directions he reads with the family by Bryan.

Oh, something while doubling down on a bad guess. I'm It's like having the feeling that you don't like the older woman, like you don't like the mother figure, so if you tell me that you don't like being your father's mother, then I would understand that I don't think that's the case. I think so, I just want to be very clear because I can't tell you what you want to hear. I'll tell you what they're showing me and if he's calling your mom, I'll pass it to him, so what? you want about John Edward he stands his ground there none of that maybe this energy is coming from somewhere else in the room nonsense this time no no this time he chooses to go for it yes Bryan thinks grandma is one and you know what me too Now, actually, wait, Amelia Earhart just came in and she just called Grandma the C-word, so don't be mad at me, be mad at Amelia Earhart.

Cold reading is basically just a magic trick, and yet prominent and intelligent people are willing to collaborate. Sign up for psychic abilities A few years ago, Tyler Henry, the Hollywood medium and Jared Kushner cartoon, went on the Today Show to read one of their hosts and I'm afraid it's exactly the Today Show host you'd expect to fear . there is a reference to fishing, but he is talking about being spoken to out loud. I know what this really is. I don't know if you're aware of this, but he recognizes that an individual will be on a boat and it's like I.

I'm sitting alone and I'm fishing and I'm thinking that and he makes me recognize this feeling that I'm there with you, I'm there with you, you know, my dad shared two passions with me, he shared golf and fishing. At night I go fishing a lot alone in a boat and the idea that that could be a moment to communicate with him or that he is trying to communicate is phenomenal to me, yes, phenomenal, it is clear that Matt Lauer is moved and this. The time he didn't even have to push they were subservient to do it, maybe Tyler Henry just took a picture that an older straight white guy was rather lukewarm about fishing, if he did that would make for cold reading, but it's You may have been using the other technique.

This is exciting reading that involves carrying out prior research on a topic, so, for example, you could have read articles in which Lauer talks about his father's passion for fishing or seen interviews that Little Hour gave like this one that my dad taught me I had a fish when I was standing in a trout stream now and I have my waders on and I have a fly rod in my hand or I'm fishing for bass. I think about sitting on a boat with my dad. Look, maybe Tyler Henry really did tap into the afterlife, an action that would fundamentally change our understanding of everything on earth, or maybe he just Googled Matt Lauer's dad and hit the jackpot for recap reading hot reading by researching people beforehand is the even lazier skill than cold reading which basically involves indiscriminately shouting the names of dead Irish people in a hotel ballroom and the surprising thing is that whatever technique Tyler used, Lauer he fell in love and he's smart, he's a sophisticated sex monster from Manhattan, but he fell in love so much that he wanted to make it clear to viewers at home that this was much more than just your standard television I tell you I came home I cried I cried a lot when I got home It's incredible we want to inform you about the second season of Hollywood Medium with Tyler Hannah it almost seems strange to do it as a promotion at this moment because it was It's much more important to me than a promotion, it premieres on Wednesday, August 10 on our sister network and well, everything about that is a little strange, especially the fact that it's strange to imagine a scenario where something happened in the Today Show offices and then Matt Lauer was the one who went home and cried.

Look, you can see why people are vulnerable to psychics. A message from a lost loved one is something many grieving people would do anything for, and psychics may tell themselves they offer a harmless solution. way to deal with a painful loss, in fact, just watch how Theresa Caputo explains it in answer to a pretty obvious question, so when a tragedy occurs, say a murder, if someone turns to a loved one and to the person's spirit that was murdered. Could that spirit potentially tell you who did it? They may recognize the relationship, but they will never call someone by their name.

Why is it like this? The way I use my gift is that I only want messages that I received to help someone heal. process oh let's first be clear, if I was murdered I would definitely name names like a ghost, it's not like one of the rules in heaven is to go to snitches and get points, as we all know the only rule in heaven is not the clouds, seriously, it's There's a real problem up there and to be fair, I get it, they're so fluffy and you could say at this point, wait, what's the downside of telling people that your grandmother got them? loved?

But I'd say it's reckless at best. Having a stranger try to acquire ventral loss is complicated and grief doesn't look the same for everyone, but at its worst, when psychic abilities are presented as authentic, it emboldens a vast underworld of unscrupulous vultures more than happy to win. money by offering an open line to the afterlife, as well as many other services, take Rose marks, ran a lucrativepsychic network and in 2014 went to prison for defrauding clients of more than $17 million, much of which came from best-selling author Judy Burrow, who had promised to reconnect with her dead son and the sick thing is that Parents in crisis are often actively attacked by psychics in their most desperate moments.

John and Joann Lowitzer have been searching for her 17-year-old daughter Ally since she disappeared

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year, but when the case made national news Houston parents say they were inundated with calls from so-called psychic detectives. They say some even showed up at her door promising that their psychic visions could help bring Ally home. He guaranteed me that they needed to find Ally in three days and what. A father would not be thrilled to know that he will have his daughter home in three days, which is absolutely horrible because the

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thing a father needs in that situation is to have to defend himself from an attention-seeking parasite that feeds on personal tragedies like a human-sized deer tick and the problem is that television actively enables that ghoulish nurse.

The Montel Williams Show regularly featured Sylvia Browne, a well-known psychic who advised parents of missing children on how to locate their children. In one episode, she advised the mother of Amanda Berry, a missing girl who had been kidnapped, now a man who was actually alive and watching that episode from captivity and after she finally escaped, talked about how he had felt watching it. I watched her every time. she was in Montone, I mean, I wish my mom would go in there and then I could tell my mom that I was alive and then I'm fine, her, but Sylvia Browne breaks into Luana's house.

I hate this, she's not alive, I just burst into tears. because I couldn't believe she said that and that hurt even more, it's heartbreaking and Sylvia Browne is clearly a horrible person for doing that, but I'd say Montel is also partly to blame for giving Browne a platform to begin with, say it this way manner. If Oprah interviewed a live alligator and it ate four members of her audience, he would be angry at the alligator, but he would also be a little angry at Oprah. Sylvia Browne actually died a few years ago or people were wrong about it. something like that before maybe she's alive and sees me refer to her as dead, the only thing I know for sure is that Montel Williams, her show has definitely passed away, but daytime shows are still going strong with this from last month , dr.

Phil had a psychic detective to help solve a cold case and why would he do that? The only logical explanation for letting a professional guess would be if dr. Phil was actually the killer and he was trying to throw people off, but other than that explanation which now makes a lot of sense, there is no explanation, although I will say this from time to time, when handling a psychic on television responsibly, it is a delight Just look at this spectacular local news investigation about a psychic named Deborah Dominique who in exchange for $160 met an undercover reporter at Denny's.

Our producer found her in a coffee shop and told her that he wanted to know what happened to Matthew, the ten year old boy in In this photo, after looking at his photo, she uses a special pendulum stating that it allows her to talk to the day and then claims it's directly connected to memory, but it's him because we're pretty sure Matthew, the boy in this photo, isn't wearing white. or in heaven, in fact, we know he's dressed in black and alive because you're looking at him sitting on the boat right behind her, yeah, that guy is in the opposite of heaven, he's in a Denny's, but wait, wait until You look exactly like Buster because he's perfect.

I'm Curtis and I'm from Channel 13. How do you show him Matthew's photo? She tells me that she believes they took him. I understand you said you thought he had passed away. Yes, I think she might be. I have news for you it may be a shock but he is very much alive oh that's great he's actually standing right behind you right now it's great it's great it's absolute perfection the only way it could have been better is if he first the kids I said, Hi Mom, and I would say that's the only responsible way to put a psychic on TV by humiliating them with a ghost kid in the Denny's parking lot because this surprisingly large and often predatory industry depends on the culture. popular to give it credence and validity to say it another way every time a psychic makes a grieving widow cry by dr. oz 10 scammers get their wings and that's a problem because there will always be people who feel the need to approach psychics in their time of need so if you or someone you know is one of them you may have a little way to do it. help here unfortunately this isn't really the best format to show you so join me on the set of my new daytime talk show, welcome back to wakey-wakey with John Oliver, it's between 9:00 and 3: 00.

So, in the afternoon, but my next guest is a psychic from Staten Island and author of the book These Damn Spirits, let me tell you, please, welcome Wonder Joe Oliver, thank you for having me, John, thank you, it's a pleasure to have you here now, Wanda, if this sounds familiar to you. For some viewers it could be because you are also my beloved wife. I'm a fucking angel. It's not a quick question. Wanda Joe. What happened to your accent? Are you from the south? I'm not from there anymore. That makes sense. Did you first realize that you had incredible psychic abilities?

Oh well, it was right after I saw something on TV about how much money psychics can make and I suddenly thought that I too was tagging myself with the hashtag oh no, no, that's it, that's not it, it's actually different. year my gift to the world no Joe I understand that you have kindly offered to give our viewers free bingo bango psychic readings as part of a court ordered settlement. I have been forced to create a website Wanda Jo, the free psychic calm. Just log in now and you can breathe for me. Wanda joke like this.

Okay, they want her to recognize an EM connection that could mean Mark or Mary or Megan. She could be someone who passed away or is still alive. It doesn't have to be that way either. be a name, it could be any word that starts with M or has an M somewhere, maybe Museum Oh basket, it could be backwards and like a W or sideways, then like a three or an E, of all anyway, that person he or she loves. I want to tell you that the time you spent together was very special for him or her.

Wow, that's phenomenal to me and it almost seems strange to be doing this as a promotion right now because Wonder gave me a reading yesterday and it was so much more. It's important to me that a promotion. I cried all the way home. I told them that none of his dead relatives wanted to talk to him. That's right, so the point is to ask Joe, the free psychic or medium, with impressive calm and get a free psychic reading. I promise it will be exactly as accurate as any psychic reading you would pay money for. Oh wait, wait, I'm getting a voice for someone at home.

Wait, your grandmother is a Wow.