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Banachek on John Edward, Project Alpha

I couldn't see how he cheated and he seems such a nice person so he must be for real.

I just hate it that the cult of science has obviously made it impossible and unsafe for someone with super-psychic powers like him to come out and be truthful. Instead he has to pretend he's just a mentalist...
 
The card was flipped over when he removed the cloth (revealing the word that was underneath), but he must have been manipulating the cloth somehow (maybe a something solid on the cloth or in the cloth that could be lifted somehow.

The girl must have been given the word at some point for the show.

The spoons can have some soft metal on it that could bend when heated by body heat? Maybe not the whole spoon is made of it, but certain points to cause it to bend?

Can anyone else form a hypothesis about how he did all that?
 
Response to Darat

You couldn't see how he cheated because he's a brilliant magician. After some thought you could probably see through the trickery, rather than come to the erroneous conclusion that he's a real psychic and is covering that up so he doesn't offend the "cult of science" as you put it.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
The girl must have been given the word at some point for the show.
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Bad assumption. The effect is quite readily done with no "pre-show" work.
The spoons can have some soft metal on it that could bend when heated by body heat? Maybe not the whole spoon is made of it, but certain points to cause it to bend?
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Think occams razor here. You're complicating the issue and that's all I'll say.

Can anyone else form a hypothesis about how he did all that?
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The rules of this forum ask that we not expose a working performers repertoire.
 
wert said:
Bad assumption. The effect is quite readily done with no "pre-show" work.
Think occams razor here. You're complicating the issue and that's all I'll say.

The rules of this forum ask that we not expose a working performers repertoire.
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I didn't say pre-show, I said at some time...could have been during the show,

Otherwise,
Rats, you're no fun :p

Must go read rules again...
 
Posted by Yeah Right

You couldn't see how he cheated because he's a brilliant magician. After some thought you could probably see through the trickery, rather than come to the erroneous conclusion that he's a real psychic and is covering that up so he doesn't offend the "cult of science" as you put it.
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Relax, Yeah Right! Darat is a skeptic, too.

He was just channeling !Xx-Credulous-xX! for a moment (apparently a risky thing to do without the right nick....)
 
Eos of the Eons said:
I didn't say pre-show, I said at some time...could have been during the show,
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He was told the word openly during the interview. The routine he did requires no extended previous knowledge of the word chosen. (and yes, it was likely a freely chosen word that he didn't hear until you saw her mention it to him in the course of the effect) Something to consider while honing occams razor.
 
The spoons can have some soft metal on it that could bend when heated by body heat? Maybe not the whole spoon is made of it, but certain points to cause it to bend?
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Wrong!:D
Hey, just sit back and enjoy!
 
Voob said:


Wrong!:D
Hey, just sit back and enjoy!
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No, it drives me nuts, I hafta know :p

The girl musta known what word to say. It was written down before he put the paper under the cloth.

Heh.
 
Relax, Yeah Right! Darat is a skeptic, too. He was just channeling !Xx-Credulous-xX! for a moment (apparently a risky thing to do without the right nick....)
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Sorry about that, I don't spend that much time on the forums so I jumped to an erroneous conclusion. Sorry to Darat if he reads this post.
 
wert said:
^^^ I wouldn't bet the farm on that.
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^^^^^^I would, and would still have a farm to come home to. :)

I'm saying the girl was in on the 'bean' part, not the other tricks.
 
wert said:
He was told the word openly during the interview. The routine he did requires no extended previous knowledge of the word chosen. (and yes, it was likely a freely chosen word that he didn't hear until you saw her mention it to him in the course of the effect) Something to consider while honing occams razor.
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I suppose he could have written it after he heard the word, I just don't see how he had time. His hands only were out of view for half a second :con2: :confused: I think I know how he does some of the spoon bending though. Still it is impressive.
 
T'ai Chi said:


^^^^^^I would, and would still have a farm to come home to. :)

I'm saying the girl was in on the 'bean' part, not the other tricks.
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You're obviously unfamiliar with methodology here.

I'll leave it at that.
 
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