James Randi exposes Uri Geller - part 1 of 4
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- Excerpt from "James Randi's Solved Mysteries Workshop", a talk given by Randi during the 1998 Skeptics Society Convention. The complete lecture was released by Skeptics Society in three DVDs.
This man destroyed literally millions of perfectly useful keys. Bastard.
Jonathan Gorr is about time because some of people got fooled
@Father Thomas I think he meant they could have been made into useful keys instead of being crumpled and thrown away
@Father Thomas 1. If you got upset at my very mild comment you have skin as thin as paper mache and 2. you have no authority on the internet
_ooooooo i c_
I take everything back Father, please don't smite me.
@Father Thomas the battle of the order of noah was my favorite bedtime story.
I liked the part where noah got surrounded by ravenous lions, but did not lose faith and instead got the power to do sick kickflips over his enemies.
James Randi is such a good man. The government won't protect people from scammers so he steps up. He could do every scam he exposes and many more but he uses his talents to educate people and plant a healthy seed of skepticism in them.
I love how polite he is also.He is the Man.Big respect and thanks for his job.
Randi is a CON MAN. He was a magician, he was an entertainer. Randi sets the mood. He controls their "illusions". On another note, there's been quite a few people who have contacted the foundation, yet were never replied too. Why? Well, because they had evidence/proof of their psychic abilities, or "magical" abilities. Randi is a scam.
Brad V
Care to name drop who exactly had psychic abilities that the Randi Foundation didn't connect with? Feel free to name names or stfu.
Brad V
It's because most of them don't go through with it. They sign up and back out. Most people believe things that they want to be true. The rest of us like to try to live as close to the real world as is possible. Some of us just aren't very smart.
Chris Foote No, no, no. Not most people back up. There's been tons of videos by Steve Trueblue and a few others, I've posted the links against other comments on here and people have tried to go through, but Randi stopped it and never called back.
"And this idiot is rubbing himself silly." Lol!
+Bouchon211 I have to admit. .. I have rubbed myself silly many times. .. I need a wife.
+auaiao9 lol!
You think that will stop if you get a wife? I have some news for you, buddy....
Hahaha!!!! So true!
Bouchon211 I was laughing at that too!
An easy way to expose this fraud would be to say "Ok, you've bent the key, now bend it back"
He could just do the same trick again... "demonstrate how he can't bend it back while bending it back"
2:08
Bend...giggity
Bend...giggity
Bend...giggity
why?
+Raxio ra i did understand the video. And since when was Italian the most important language in the world? The fact you've bothered to learn English seems to indicate otherwise.
@@MrSabbath2011
But without Italian we would not know how to make the pizza the calzone or mama's favorite spaghetti
it says pliegate XD
Bend...giggity.
What is so despicable about Geller, is that he kept insisting he had genuine supernatural powers, unlike other stage magicians who are happy to say that they are using various skills which anyone could learn.
“When I die, I want to be cremated and have my ashes blown into Uri Geller’s eyes.”
- James “I Smell Bullshit” Randi
RIP James, Absolute Legend
Yes Allah bless him.
If you knew Randi at all then you'd know that he doesnt believe in "resting" or "peace" after death. He was a staunch atheist who did not believe we have souls. He believed our bodies simply just went into the ground and became compost and organic natural material. Sad huh?? Just because there are fraudsters and crooks in the name of religion doesnt mean there is no God.
I didn't know he died :( legend rip
@@thebrummieyorky lol
@@reneesantiago6496 Dude just let him believe what he wants Who are you to judge someone's religion
The power this man had to get a whole room to stroke their keys....AMAZING. even with all the evidence against him he still made a fortune as a fake!
If an audience member successfully bent his car key he'd feel a bit stupid if he couldn't drive home, lol
***** He's a total fraud
rockys201 yes. he was stumped by johnny carson. johnny carson was an illusionist and challenged uri to a controlled environment. he (uri) said his power was weak that day.
MASTER OF MUPPETS Uri Geller is a fucking liar, end of discussion!
He'd have to drive around the bend
Can't drive anywhere if the key won't go in the ignition you dumbfuck.
I admire James Randi so much. He was a true gentleman, mentor and someone who truly CARED about people - unlike the televangelists, mediums, psychics and faith healers who only act like they do!
"What is so despicable about Geller, is that he kept insisting he had genuine supernatural powers"
So did Lance
so does every christian
@@martinkuliza Wrong dip shit
@@martinkuliza any any other religious nutjob go be fair
Lance was a talented cyclist. You can’t win a race JUST by taking drugs, otherwise all the riders would have crossed the line together.
"And this idiot is rubbing himself silly here." 4:30
phxsns1 story of my life...
Even as a kid I didn't think he had magic powers, but I'll admit I was initially impressed and a little stumped, but my first thoughts were always to figuring out how these tricks are done.
El libro de uri es muy interesante
I came here after Uri Geller "apologized" on Twitter for threatening with a lawsuit on a Pokemon character and taking his lawsuit back.
Link to his Tweet?
@@assaultwolfex7700 Finding the tweet would take forever. But there are plenty of Poketubers that covered it.
So you can see their videos.
I'd love to go to one of these shows just so I can sit in the back and yell "YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT!!!"
+LJ3783 get a life.
+madhu mangala get a sense of humour
+madhu mangala fuck off..
What would be the point? You'd just ruin a show that people had paid good money to see. I highly doubt anyone there would hand you a medal for your bravery. The point isn't whether it's 'real' or not. Do you go to plays and sit there screaming 'you're all full of shit' at the actors?
@@ponchred No, the point of Uri's shows always was that he claimed they were real. By doing that, he could filter for people with the least amount of critical thinking and sell them scammy courses and bullshit ideas about supernatural. Actors never seriously claim that they actually are the characters they play in real life, and if they do, they are restrained and sent to a mental hospital.
2:10
Uri: Bend!
announcer: Giggity.
Uri: Bend!
announcer: Giggity.
Uri: Bend!
announcer: Giggity.
😂😂😂
4:28 "and this idiot is rubbing himself silly here." XD
EKS DEE.
Guy has a look on his face like "hey I think I bent it a little bit heh heh heh"
Hahahhahahahaha
his beard. my God. the dedication is inspiring.
It's called patience. I am 20, and my beard is more than double that of his.
Kolsyrad Mcluvin
good for you.
Gentlemen! I posted this to honor Mr. Randi and all men with beards. We must not quibble. On the contrary. We must unite in solidarity, in harmony, and above all- the beard!
Beards these days have become nothing more the a side accessory to a vapid youth sub culture unfortunately. Fortunately though if you want to be different from the crowd just go clean shaven with no tattoos. That is what is unique today. Good.
thompson haire
I’m going my goatee.
I’m hoping that it will grow to great lengths.
I have to have patience and wait however.
@3:30 this part made me genuinely laugh out loud, both at the absurdity of what James is pointing out, and even more so at the reality that so many people can so easily fall for it!
He's not THAT stupid. He lives in a mansion in an exclusive neighborhood in London. He has made a fortune as a "mystifier" (read ... fooling people). He surely can do better things with his intelligence to contribute this world, but he has chosen the path of fraud.
off course he is not stupid... to fool milions of people in TV live shows and many skeptical presenters he must have very good EMOTIONAL CONTROL AND ice nerves... and some high level of psicopathy and mental illness too... normal people simply cant stay COOL when fooling lots of people in live TV... BUT HE COULD STAY VERY COOL.... THATS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELIGENCE...
Stupidity is a relative term!
I never thought of it as fraud though. I thought of it as tricks, like magicians do tricks. It's entertainment. When I was a kid I thought he was really bending things, but I also believed magicians were safely cutting women in half too. I don't see the harm in what they do. Maybe I'm missing the reason it's a bad thing?
Lying
@@Bevity yes but the problem with this guy was his ego didn't want to be called a magician. He learned 1 single illusion and never ever expanded on that and said he was just a magical gifted human being. Just learned today that he sued companies that ever so as referenced him. He's pathetic controlling human garbage
Thank you so much for uploading these videos . The Amazing Randi is such a hero . Peace from Luca in Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
He was a great Bender
Still sorta shocked Mr. Randi passed today. It seemed like he would go on forever! RIP
my idea of bending it with your mind is, you hold it up by one end, in plain sight, and its bending by itself, why do you even have to rub the damn thing, if its your mind bending it
@@hurstiwursti r u wondering y he is concidered bad? Or are u saying u don't get how he can suck at bending things. ? The bad thing is subject because he pretends he has powers.
randy you rule,respect .
I love that in the 1998 Skeptic's Society Convention they had to rewind and fast forward through a VHS tape.
I remember when he was going to be on tv you were told to put a broken wristwatch on top of the set and it would be mended by the end of the show hahaha
Do you remember the pyramid power craze? Supposedly it focused some sort of power under the pyramid. Places on your head it made you smarter. Placing a dull razor blade under one made it sharp again.
The World’s worst X-Men powers.
02:11 - 02:15
"Giggity, giggity, giggity."
+Raxio ra
Likewise, I don't care about Italian, but such is wholly irrelevant. My comment was clearly made in jest. It's attempted comedic value was grounded in the perceived similarities between the narrator's words and the fictional term "giggity," regardless of which language was being uttered by the commentator.
However, you seem to have missed the heart of my response. Whether or not you care about English, you ought to at least use the language correctly when demanding that others "learn Italian." I could have just as easily responded by writing, "Learn English, stupid asshole." But I decided against this course of action for various reasons, most of which pertain to my ideals on maturity in discourse. Nonetheless, my advice is intuitive and reasonable. If you're going to demand that others learn a particular language, such as Italian, you ought to observe the correct use of the language (English) which you are using as a vehicle for your admonishment.
+Raxio ra
I suspected that our discussion would take this course.
You read my comments, but you're incapable of refuting them. Thus, the default response for your kind is to pretend as if you could easily handle my argument, but you know...TL:DR.
This way, you avoid having to acknowledge my arguments while also avoid having to concede the failure that is your position. You represent Italy well.
"Giggity, giggity, giggity."
Alright.
The text was giggity, giggity, giggity. My mind pictured Quagmire. It was a good moment.
4:29 "And this idiot is rubbing himself silly here." That is honestly one of the only clips that will make me laugh every single time I watch it.
Yes I agree the chapshoouldd really take himself in hand----++-+----Er on second thoughts may be not!
@ lordeden2732 yeah maybe that dude better not err take himself in hand 🤪
RIP James Randi, an absolute Titan in the battle against the enemies of reason.
Great Bender
The more of Randi's videos I watch, the more important he is to the truth
Uri Geller maintains to this day that what he is doing is real
I met James in Indinanpolis, lecture I.B.M. LECTURE, awesome person..
Well done Mr Randi for exposing Geller for the charlatan that he truly is .
My admiration
“Look at this idiot rubbing himself silly” 😂😂😂😂 love this guy
hidden in plain site, the best illusionist trick method.lol
Suddenly, all my keys and spoons are bend!
Will Uri Geller pay for the damage? :P
There is only one thing that is properly bent in this video and that's uri gelller himself!
As in Gay? Who uses bent to descorbe someone's sexuality these days, my gawd man!
carly keeney did u just respond to a 4 year old comment with a homophobic insult lmao stfu
Well if that's what we're going by, Randi actually IS gay so I suppose he'd be bent too.
Haha, I do believe he did...what a schmuck!
Bent means dishonest. Bent copper, bent ref etc. It can also mean gay, which comes from “gender bender”. I don’t use these kinds of words but I’d rather be a homophobe than someone who fights that tired old fight to prove how enlightened one is! It’s boring, let it go
Go on James...... Bless you always.
Geller is not a fraud, he shook Elton Johns hand back in the 70's and he's now bent lol
Call me cynical but I don't see anything impressive or dazzling about bending a key. I certainly wouldn't pay money to sit in an audience and watch some guy do that.
Simple times, simple entertainment.
People were so dumb in those days man it was so easy to become a millionaire in the 80s just pretend to have magic powers
People are eating tide pods, I don't know if anything has changed regarding general intelligence.
I agree with you, not trying to sound pretentious but even watching as a kid I never got it and just thought what’s the big deal he’s just bending it.
You can put a key under a flame and then bend it quite easily lol
"and this idiot is rubbing himself silly here" lmfao
"And this idiot is rubbing himself silly here", I just about pissed myself.
I remember seeing your gallery on television when I was a kid in the seventies. Even as a kid I knew it was just some sort of trick and couldn't believe people thought it was real.
if Uri had not said he has superhuman powers James would not have been interested in calling him a fake remember Uri was being paid thousands because he said he had special powers. Uri should have been arrested for fraud and he should have been made to give all the money back that he cheated people out of. The only true magic I can see is why was he not arrested now that is what I call real magic..lol
+mark caine See ' Uri Geller at, 'Stanford University', where he's being closely observed by six researchers.
+Stephanie ......Steph......I was around when UG. arrived in the UK.1965 he was a hero.......!;
on that occasion you refer to, UG. was unable to find which tin had the water inside..
if you go look at Uri Geller @ Stanford university.....
you'll find it...if you cant find it....it.s coz you dont want to.
LOOK FOR Chriss angel gets owned by uri geller
OK steph, you're an idiot .
Mark Caine? Did you work at conservation corps Minnesota? I am randomly coming across this comment lol
RIP James, a beacon of reason has been extinguished...
Great Bender
Hey uploader, do you have James Randy doing magic show?, I would love to see it. thanks!
I went to a Uri Geller demonstration years ago and he did in fact bend my spoon. I brought a spoon from home and he came over to me in the audience and without taking the spoon out of my hand ever, he rubbed it and it bent as I was holding it ! I still have the bent spoon. So go figure!
You could be a lier
@mandalorian957 that's liar my good man
I asked Dennis Prager, after Geller was on his radio show, why did he not simply have Geller bend the key back straight? He didn't think asking him at the time. If this is a genuine psychic act it shouldn't be such a problem taking bent spoons and keys and bending them back to their original state. It's by the "mind" right, so it shouldn't be any physical problems with doing that, right? And what's with the stroking keys so heavily as shown here?
A psychic acquaintance once asked me where I’ve been all day ....... I responded with ‘you should know shouldn’t you’ ....... the look on her face was priceless lol 😂
“Bend”
“Giggity”
“Bend”
“Giggity”
“Bend”
“Giggity”
"...saying you can't bend these keys, as he bends them."
lol
Even back in my teenage years I started having a very strong disliking for psychics, mediums, tarot card readers, horoscope astrologers, and others who manipulate the actuality of things in order to fraudulently deceive others
I don't get why Randi is talking about Uri Geller like he's a criminal. He's just a magician. Or am I missing something here.
Liar, fraud, charlatan, crook...
He claimed to have supernatural powers, and that's overstepping the mark.
Uri Geller: Bending keys from strangers and spoons since 1970. *rolleyes*
Uri Geller was just a magician, an art in itself. It didn’t have to end that way 😢
Uri gayler didn't do any magic so he can't be a magician he bent keys. He was a famous bender. Of things like wire or keys.
@@michaelpearson1272homophobic much?
@@user-zz5je1ry1o no.
No he was. That's what he did for a living. He bent things
"I’m laughing all the way to the bank."
You mean laughing all the way to the bank to withdrawal money to give to your "church?"
funniest post i've ever read. period. still laughing...
The Amazing Randi designed the working Guillotine for Alice Cooper's stage show.
Randi is the man at exposing frauds! 5 enthusiastic stars:)
3:43 I love how James makes fun of Uri’s accent 🤣
that actually was an acurate analogy, alliterated.
keep the insults coming, you doing a great job making yourself look a fool
But how can he bend the key even with his hands? That in itself is impressive 😮
Maybe have worked on weakening the key prior to the show
Come on people, did any of you tried bending a key with your hands? Keys are sturdy objects. They are made NOT to easily bend, otherwise they would be useless when opening a lock. This doesn't prove a thing, one way or another.
+Dean Marte "Exactly", and also impossible to bend a hard object like a key in less than a second on camera.
So you really think he can bend keys with his mind?! Just goes to show people will believe anything they want to believe, regardless of how impossible it is.
+Qlicky first of all remember James Randi went behind Uri Geller's back and used hidden cams. Many people also had answer no
for someone doing something that can't be explained and further more I never said personally that bending key's with your mind is possible or not possible."Now you can try this in your home and "You can say bend, bend and sometimes bend baby okay.
They are both con men. One with the use of tricks yet to be determine and the other with "brilliant" explanations such as this one. They both got what they wanted: money and fame.
I remember Uri doing the rounds on TV, and even as a kid I wondered why someone with alleged psychic powers had hold and rub the keys or spoons! If he had real magic mind powers all he need do was just put the keys on the table then bend them with his mind.
Some of the direction by the director was terrible in this video...when Uri suggests how to hold the keys, the director is using every camera except the one on Uri!
Not only that but if you really had some kind of supernatural power why would you waste it just bending keys and spoons for no good or useful reason?
This comment made me really to reflect on my actions and the philosophy of religion. Great comment, it will change the world.
OMFG my room's key bend just watching this!! LOL
I had always thought this was accomplished with specially made bimetallic alloy keys responding to body heat - leave it to an egghead to overthink things. D'oh.
its done primarily with gimmickry. but what you state is plausible and can be done with plastics that respond to body heat. for example a plastic fish that seems to flop around on its own
Jim Vicious I think you could be on to something here. Don't stop thinking Jim.
I always treasured my spoons so I didn’t bother with his bs
Fabulous, stupendo
James Randi is the Master, he has an answer to everything!!!!! I believe in You Randi, keep up the good Work.
Haha,, incredible!! ^^ I can never tell, but i love to see these frauds being debunked!
If he was a psychic, rubbing on a key for 10 minutes and maknig it bend 5 degrees is such a cool power!
It was FAKE. He’s scamming you as well bro.
OK quick question.....how on earth do you bend a key?
I thought quagmire was the only one that said giggity lol
Galileo also had to put with this kind of scrutiny and what do you know the world was not flat! A mind like a parachute is not much good unless its open
The flat Earth myth was just that - a myth. Galileo was not unique in his beliefs.
No disrespect you need to do your home work look up Aristotle Good bye
mollyfluffy I've studied history, science, astronomy and philosophy at great lengths. I don't need to do any homework. Throwing Aristotle's name at me doesn't show anything. I'm specifically referencing the myth that the greatest minds in humanity thought the world was flat almost exclusively for centuries. That is not the case and the myth was perpetrated by religious scholars more than anything else to cause friction between the leading figures of science and the church. So... go do your homework.
See the difference is that Galileo's claim could be confirmed. Having an open mind does not mean you have to be gullible. What good is an open parachute if it has a big hole in it.
However a parachute isn't much use when it's full of rubbish neither and that's all that Uri is, rubbish!
This can also be done with soft, polished lead. You can break a spoon in half and "weld" it back together with lead and the heat from your hands will melt it, making it seem as though the spoon is bending. You could also make an entire spoon from lead if you had a mold. Just polish it on a buffing wheel very carefully and it will look legitimate until warmed up.
Perhaps a gallium alloy
BS lead melts at 327 C, your hands won’t provide that heat!!
Wasn't there the whole thing with watches, that turned out that quite often a broken watch will start ticking for a while because of the movement and heat from being handled, but will go kaput again soon after being left?
Whenever Uri shouts BEND! he litterally bends the key. The easiest debunk would be for someone to hold the key themselves and have him bend it with his touch.
Lol! Thats galium a kind of metal melts when u rub.yep. Most magician use that spoon bending.
Folks during the 70s were more gullible.
Like there aren't any gullible people now? How about conspiracy theorists and their followers who claim everything is a conspiracy but can never prove it, and then tell the rest of us that we are 'sheep' for believing things they can never disprove? Believing that everything is a cover-up without ever being able to back it up is an extreme form of gullibility ordering on paranoia.
have you seen people from 2010's ?
2:10 lol giggedy giggedy giggedy
Looks like he also did it at 1:30. When some keys drop on the floor around 1:26,the host bends to pick them up and it looks like Geller did some quick bending moves moves with the keys in his hands just after the host is distracted.
James Randi is my hero. ❤️💪
Geller looks kind of weedy to be able to just quickly bend a key. Keys are sturdy items. The blurred film footage didn't prove jack, one way or another.
So the whole presentation was pointless. Essentially, Randi was telling us what to see and telling us what we saw, and telling us what to believe.
Well, it's either reality or hobgoblins. I know I'm one of the few that prefer reality but still...
Mike Ryan
LOL
OMG I just rubbed my key and it bent. Then I realized the key was in my mind... and I'm on LSD.
Please explain to me how you feel how eyes appeared. I did not ask if you knew, what is your most plausible explanation.
Wow!😮 All my keys have bent...😂
@NationsDevice I think that question one of the best I've seen in youtube :D
04:28 "and this idiot is rubbing himself silly here..." hahahahahahah!!!!
Why didn't you just put all the parts into one. It's much easier
What else would they use?
I don't get it, what exactly does he do to bend the key, obviously he's not magic or whatever but I want to know
This idea came to him while he was taking a shower. He dropped the soap and bended over. Then the spoon trick came to life. lol.
@asdrubalamv It's actually "piegate" which is the plural imperative form of the verb "piegare"
In another video Randi says keys can be bent By pressing it against a table but here it can be done with your fingers. Did they have weaker keys in the 70's? I just tried bending one and wrecked my fingers
What's the use of bending keys or spoons?
As a design engineer I giggle at your child-like faith that the central nervous system is a happy accident.....giggle.....
DID ANYONE NOTICE HE HAD THE SPOON IN HIS HAND WITH THE KEYS AT THE VERY BEGINNING. HE BENT THE SPOON, THEN FUMBLED TO HIDE IT. SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS. KEYBOARD IS KERPLUNK.
Oh my lord that's beautiful