Talk:James Hydrick

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1 James Hydrick today
2 Technique?
3 Video Available
4 Broken link
5 Length of time

[edit] James Hydrick today

Unsourced negative info removed per WP:BLP. Please do not add again without confirmation in an independent, reliable, secondary source (see WP:NOR and WP:RS). AvB ÷ talk 01:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technique?

In the show, Hydrick performed his stunt with the mouth covered with host's hand, so how could he use blowing air. Pictureuploader 07:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Reply to the above: He made the air current with his hands. Try it yourself and you will see. James Randi demonstrated this when he exposed him on "That's My Line." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.219.130.35 (talk • contribs). 03:17, 18 January 2007

[edit] Video Available

$24.95 gets you "PSYCHIC CONFESSION—Video" where "Investigative journalist, Dan Korem, not only exposed on camera how each of Hydrick's tricks worked, like moving objects without touching them, but his eighteen month investigation also resulted in obtaining the only known confession of a cult-like figure." See http://www.ifpinc.com/New%20Materials.htm TV programs are notorous for loose controls, letting fakers get away with all sorts of nonsense. AaronWL 22:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broken link

(The first link following this article's text is broken and should be removed.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.94.4.133 (talk • contribs). 05:48, 11 November 2006

[edit] Length of time

I presume Hydrick stared at the phone book for ninety seconds not minutes on "That's My Line"... Oogrooq 04:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

No, it was for 90 minutes. The show was edited for time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.197.217.20 (talk • contribs).

Also, article states that Randi performs said trick just after judges say it is not supernatural. I have just watched the video on Youtube, this does not seem to be the case, with the show going to commercial straight after the debunking. Did this element happen after coming back from the break? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.6.155.54 (talk • contribs).

Yes, it was at the end of the program. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.197.217.20 (talk • contribs).

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