413: Mark Edward | True Confessions of a Fake Psychic
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Mark Edward is a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind -- including a convincing stint as a fake psychic. He's the author of Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium.
What We Discuss with Mark Edward:- What is mentalism, and how does it use our desire for the outlandish to be true against us?
- Why all so-called psychics are frauds, though a small percentage genuinely believes their own hype.
- Cold reading vs. hot reading, and how psychics use the results of these readings to convince you they're able to consult supernatural entities.
- What it was like to work for the Psychic Friends Network, and how Mark used his mentalist superpowers to mine information from people over the phone -- and keep them calling back.
- How big-name celebrity psychics ply their trade in front of large studio audiences while keeping the scam safely under control.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | That's a magic trick. |
| 0:04.4 | In mentalism, it's called pre-show. |
| 0:06.8 | Pre-show means everything is set before you even walk on. |
| 0:10.7 | And when you walk on, you just have a blast with it. |
| 0:14.3 | And you're not always right, sometimes you're wrong. |
| 0:16.9 | That's the way to entertain people. |
| 0:19.4 | But nowadays, it's go for the jugular. |
| 0:22.7 | You want somebody to start crying and break down. |
| 0:25.1 | Which to me is not entertainment. |
| 0:27.1 | That's where I draw the line. |
| 0:28.7 | That's not entertaining to tell somebody. |
| 0:31.0 | Their missing daughter is dead. |
| 0:33.0 | When they've later on, they're found alive. |
| 0:35.2 | That kind of stuff is, OK, I'll get off my soapbox. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Jordan Harbanger. |
| 0:45.6 | On the Jordan Harbanger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, |
| 0:48.4 | and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:50.6 | If you're new to the show, we have in-depth conversations |
| 0:53.1 | with people at the top of their game. |
| 0:54.8 | Astronauts, entrepreneurs, even the occasional rocket |
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