Comments on: Randi on Larry King TONIGHT!

By: Larry King, menace to thinking | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Larry King, menace to thinking | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:02:17 +0000

[...] sorts of fraudulent "psychics " on his show, and UFO people, and and and. To his credit, he had Randi on once, but he still promotes all manners of irrational [...]

By: Marko

Marko — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:25:19 +0000

“She doesn’t know how to use a telephone book?” I always laugh when Randi responds to Browne’s stale, old statement, that she didn’t know how to reach Randi.

Thanks for the youtube links, folks. I guess you know that Phil Plait goes by “TheBadAstronomer” over there with some interesting clips about eggs and comets.

By: Mark Trodden

Mark Trodden — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:49:32 +0000

Hi Phil.

I never watch Larry King, but on your advice I did watch the Randi clip. He was magnificent. You can see how much he has to work to control himself on TV in the face of such absolute nonsense and it does me good to see such passion about this cause. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:27:26 +0000

I always wanted Larry King to have the big one (heart attack) and get his abrasive pseudoscientific butt off of t.v., but then I saw he has a nice (and surprisingly young) family so I don’t really want to see that anymore. I read the transcript I thought Sylvia was going to be on it, but I guess she has decided to lay low for a while. Probably 3-6 months. Psychics do know one thing that our national attention span is about that long and it’ll die down soon enough. Uri Gellar and Peter Popoff are a bit like immortal hydra heads that come back in pairs after you cut one off.
I love that picture of the amazing Randi. I’d love to see him in a movie!
Another thing Randi is a much more competent as a trickster than Sylvia Browne, that’s why he can tell you he is playing a trick. You’re still fooled: If Sylvia Browne told everyone that her career would be over!

By: OneLess

OneLess — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:13:45 +0000

I laughed out loud at that Altea woman, especially the way she was introduced at the beginning of the program. Something like “This psychic says that most psychics are actually frauds, but she’s the real thing”.

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:49:29 +0000

My predictions: the show will change no minds.

1. That’s humanity, folks. Sorry.
2. If everyone on this thread watched the show, that effectively doubled Larry King’s ratings for the night.

Randi should do O’Reilly. Yeah, I know the guy is demonized in many people’s minds, and he’s a devout Catholic, but I believe he’s fairly skepical about other paranormal things. And he reaches a few more people than King.

Oprah?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:23:58 +0000

I haven’t found a video yet, but the transcript is on line:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/26/lkl.01.html

By: SMEaton

SMEaton — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:47:37 +0000

Larry said ‘ESPN’ instead of ESP a couple of times before he realized he’d goofed. There was also some weird caller towards the end, wasn’t there? I only caught the last few minutes, but it had so much concentrated absurdity that it’s hard to distill!

By: Andrew Staroscik

Andrew Staroscik — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:46:39 +0000

Someone put it up on youtube already:
pt 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkgskUkOlE&NR
pt 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYIXAbM3Ss&NR
pt 3 http://youtube.com/watch?v=5nqBNUDxzk8

By: Craig Orr

Craig Orr — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:50:14 +0000

Here you go:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkgskUkOlE

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYIXAbM3Ss

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nqBNUDxzk8

By: Dean Baird

Dean Baird — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:30:06 +0000

Scroll down this page to Lisa Simpson's contributions http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=2291091.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:40:04 +0000

Has anyone put the clip on youtube or something like that?

By: Kaptain K

Kaptain K — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:21:04 +0000

Sorry I missed it.

1) It’s 2:00 am CST and I’m just reading the BABBlog.

2) I’m Just reading the Blog because I was at a local dance hall listening to my brother’s band (http://www.thebandhaywire.com/) play. Live music beats “live on TV” talking heads any day (or night)!

By: Sticks

Sticks — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:45:29 +0000

Foor those of us out side the US, is this on the net somewhere?

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:22:43 +0000

Thanks for the notice. Randi was great but the show was stacked against him with both Larry & Rosemary trying to justify the unjustifiable.

By: Jamas Enright

Jamas Enright — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:01:06 +0000

“ESPN” I like it. And probably true! (Which makes him superior already to most other psychics!)

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:01:32 +0000

Ay one point, Larry King said that someone had "ESPN".

By: Ray Gray

Ray Gray — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:46:15 +0000

That black and white photo of Randi looks like Rasputin. I am glad that Randi’s health is back. Television is filled with too many cosmetic types with their talking heads. Randi looks like a cosmic type with a talking mind.

By: Astrogirl

Astrogirl — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:26:57 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, BA! I only got to see the last half of the show, but it was great! I mean Rosemary made herself look so stupid to anyone with an ounce of critical thinking in them. Montel was too chicken to go on the show…
And Larry King, while I respect him for putting Randi on, did say something pretty dumb. He said something like, “Randi, Sylvia did do a pretty good job of describing the suspect though, didn’t she?” And then Larry paused (I thought he was being sarcastic). And Randi went on to descride the obvious – that Sylvia didn’t describe the suspect good at all, and then Rosemary jumped in, it was then clear Larry had been serious and it was a whole mess…
Yes, we’ve got a fight on our hands, a BIG one. I mean, if the psychics aren’t even willing to try and prove themselves for a million dollars, what will they do it for?

By: Nils

Nils — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:13:38 +0000

Sweet! I read this about 15 minutes before the show started (we get Larry King relayed live on CNN International), so thanks.

But, boy, who are these people? I had no clue about what the actual news story was, but this Altea person was definitely a big joke.

Randi, whom I’d never actually seen before, was fab. Hogwash with a capital H! Loved that. Don’t know if we have any ‘psychics’ like that here in Belgium, but they’re certainly not allowed to roam freely on television like that.

Thanks for the laugh.

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:04:06 +0000

Rosemary Altea is a nasty patronizing condescending lying sleaze-bag.

I hope the Randi foundation goes after her in a big way this year.

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:45:29 +0000

Go Randi!

He’s on the attack.

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:39:45 +0000

BTW- everyone should read Randi’s page today in which he writes about Sylvia Browne.

http://www.randi.org

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:36:49 +0000

Great picture of the amazing one.

Try reading scary stories to children with a flashlight held below your face in the dark (like in the pic). With any luck you can scare them silly.

Nic: I’d try You-Tube in a couple of days. (I’m assuming you will have written permission from Time Warner, the James Randi Educational Foundation and Google labs to view the video.)

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:30:39 +0000

Aah! This sounds great – but I live in England. Oh yeah, and I don’t watch TV. Guess I’ll have to wait for a prÃ©cis. Just ain’t the same though.