An Honest Liar Page #6

on the street? Why isn't Uri Geller here?

Really pull, come on, make it tight.

OK, I need... I need this chair.

Sir, would you take the chair and pull it up front?

- I got an old one!

- First edition. Yes!

The amount that he travels

and the amount of people that he engages with,

he has genuinely changed thousands and thousands of people's lives

by opening their eyes.

I've got to bring my camera down here and get some shots of it, too.

Just to make Jose crazy.

Is he on your mind?

Always!

Every minute.

Every minute, because he's not here.

Sometimes I think... what an odd couple we make.

He's very rational and very much driven

by the sceptic thinking and all of that.

And sometimes I feel I'm a little bit or a lot of the opposite.

And somehow we have managed to build a life together.

And I like it. I like the fact that we are completely opposites.

Randi's always been supportive of my career and my persona.

All the way through. From the moment we met up to now.

It's just an amazing...

No pun intended. ..life,

being with him.

I cannot imagine my life without him.

OK, so just let me know as soon as you leave the airport.

OK, bye.

He said they are waiting for luggage.

So...

People find it funny that I call him Amazing!

But I like to call him Amazing.

I'm a bit tired, you know that?

Oh, it's so good to be back.

So good to have you back, Amazing.

Good to be here after all that travel.

- So good to have you back, Amazing.

- Now I gotta show you something.

- Yes.

As you can see, I got a new cane.

Yes, oh!

Yes, and you've got to get the full effect of it now. You ready?

OK, let me see. That's pretty awesome, Amazing.

This was given to me by CICAP and Massimo.

Oh, oh, nice.

Oh, I remember this place.

Yeah, we used to live here.

- We are cute, aren't we?

- Yup, we are.

- It's a good picture.

- I love that picture.

This is the guy that left his home at 17 to join a circus

and go through all the crazy stories

that he has lived.

- Ooh, the inside of this one is icky.

- Well, then take it out.

- No, no.

- There's lots that can be saved here.

- No, no, no, no.

- Yes.

- I'll take it out later, then.

- You probably will.

'It's quite an amazing ride

'and I just feel very privileged to have been part of it.'

Once more, let me hold it here gently.

I'm not even touching it and it's...

Look, you see, it's plastic.

When Geller was on the Tonight Show and Randi had helped Johnny

set it up such that he would not be able to perform his tricks,

it sure looked like that was the end of Geller's career.

Over, done, three strikes and you're out - gone! No!

Two days later, he's on the Merv Griffin Show.

And all I'm saying is "bend".

Bend, bend.

OK, look, can you see it?

- I mean, it's bent, you know.

- That is a very bent key.

Now what happens, it's an energy that leaves my mind, nothing to do

with my finger, penetrates the metal and alters the molecular structure.

Now, instead of bend, I say to the broken watches, "Work!"

- AUDIENCE:

- One, two, three. Work! Work!

- Just a second. It's working!

- Oh, my goodness, it's working.

Your mother's watch is working. Is that like a miracle?

They all started, they're working!

The "I Am Not A Crook" watch.

First of all, I was born with this.

When I was four years old I was eating soup -

and that's four years old -

and suddenly the spoon started bending in my hands!

Now, Geller probably became the first superstar psychic

to be apparently accepted by science and by scientists.

Uri has subjected himself or has been subjected to some scientific

study, what they call cheat-proof, under rigid controlled conditions.

I want to tell you this, that this is not a trick.

These are scientists who are putting their whole life at stake

in validating these powers.

Randi was very upset by Geller's

using trickery to deceive scientists.

He thought that that was very immoral

and he felt that this was a prostitution of his beloved magic.

Randi, you've been going around the country,

somewhat as Houdini used to in the past, trying to debunk those

who say that it's psychic power.

You say it's magic. This is my house key. Uri Geller took it.

He went like this with it, with his finger, that's all, no pressure,

and the key bent, you can see that,

and I've carried it around because I found that I'm a believer now.

Here is my identical key. Touch it and make it bend.

Would you hold the end of it very lightly in between your fingers,

Barbara, and I'm just going to stroke it.

- Now, I'm not putting enough pressure on it to bend it?

- No.

- OK.

Will you show it to the camera, please?

Now, is it bent as much as this key or not?

Are you going to keep this key too, Barbara?

APPLAUSE:

In one way I almost followed Geller around the country

because if he appeared on some major show,

I simply went on the show and did his same routine.

Now, when Mr Geller does this, he says, "Bend".

I don't say that, I say, "Broccoli,"

because it's a simple conjuring trick that used to be on the back

of the Cornflake boxes when I was a kid.

Heavens to Betsy, look at that. Would you say that key is bent?

I decided to write a book about him.

I wrote a book, The Truth About Uri Geller,

that hit the market when the interest in Geller was at its peak.

The psychokinetic energy melts the molecular structure of the metal.

It seems to be... Oh, my!

- I want it to bend, I just say "bend".

- Oh, my God!

SHE SCREAMS:

THEY SCREAM:

Randi and Geller just went back and forth like gladiators.

- It was fun to watch.

- Can you do the spoon-bending trick?

Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?

There's no heat at all. Touch it.

They wrote that I have laser beams in my buckle belt

and with that, I bend keys.

Look at this. You can actually see it bending over and turning liquid,

right in front of your eyes.

These things used to be on the back of Cornflake boxes, Larry,

but apparently some scientists either don't eat Cornflakes or

they don't read the back of the box.

This is my trademark and you will NOT find it on any cereal box.

- How did you do that?

- Very well, I thought.

It's sleight of hand.

To explain the tricks to you would give you one solution,

but it wouldn't give you all of the solutions.

'In many cases, if not most cases, I simply went on the show

'and did his same routine.'

But then I would get the MC sometimes saying,

"Oh, yes, well, it's all very well for magicians to do this,

"but Mr Geller doesn't use magic tricks."

But what about the people who DO come up with the cards?

Do you hear about the times they don't come up with them?

Do you know that Uri Geller did 100 tests with sealed envelopes?

You think it's all fake?

What is the difference between what I did and what Uri Geller did?

Is, uh...because, uh...

Well, I guess I really don't have a...a...a real answer.

Because magicians can duplicate some of these things with trickery

does not mean that genuine psychics do it with trickery.

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