The "That's incredible" show

[steve s]

Anybody remember Real People? The current 'reality TV' craze owes its existance to shows like these.

Steve S.

 

[tube]

Yeah, I used to watch that show all the time. Once they had this guy on who swallowed a mixed-up Rubic's Cube. Then he twisted his stomach around for a while with his hands, before coughing up a fully-solved cube.

There are two ways I can think of that he may have performed the trick:

1) He never actually swallowed anything, but did some sleight-of-hand that made it look like he was swallowing/regurgitating stuff. He had a solved cube hidden the whole time.

2) He swallowed a solved cube before the show, and somehow coughed that one up instead of the mixed-up one.

That sounds like Stevie Starr, he's been on TV quite a bit. http://www.steviestarr.com/

 

[Rodney]

It was indeed Randi! The "pyschic" he exposed was James Hydrick who was trying to win the Paranormal Challenge ($10,000 in those days) on TV in 1981.
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I think you'll find that John Davidson exposed Hydrick first. While Hydrick impressed Fran and Cathy Lee, Davidson detected Hydrick blowing on the pages of the phone book and said so on the show.