B.A. In Heaven Studies

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Commercial Break — "B.A. In Heaven Studies" (June 21, 2024)

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Episode Overview

In this lively and irreverent episode, hosts Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley carry on their comedic deep-dive into the world of psychic mediums, focusing specifically on TV-famous psychic James Van Praagh. Picking up where they left off the previous week, they gleefully dissect Van Praagh's cold reading techniques, his dubious claims, and the sometimes cringeworthy moments from his various television appearances. The episode blends skeptical analysis, personal anecdotes, and the hosts’ signature offbeat banter, making it a quintessentially chaotic and “unpolished” entry in the TCB catalog.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Live Show Announcements and Listener Shout-Outs [00:00–07:26]

• Bryan and Krissy excitedly announce upcoming live shows in Orlando (Sept 25) and Tampa (Sept 26), joking about selling just six tickets to fill half the room.
  • “If we can sell just six tickets, Chrissy, we're gonna fill half the place!” — Bryan [02:16]
• Plans to negotiate for half-priced drinks instead of pay, hinting at their priorities for the events.
• Shout-outs to various active listeners (Sean Morris, Darren, Tiffany, Caitlin, Jennifer from Wyoming, Bill, Bob, and Darren from Chicago, Synth, Karen, Julia, Ryan Brewster, etc.).
  • “I want to say hi to Sean Morris...they’re always pretty funny.” — Bryan [04:51]
  • “I think I had a dream last night about a possum.” — Chrissy [05:52]
• Light banter about possums, dreams, and listeners texting in from various locations.

2. Smoke Detector Stories: Domestic Chaos and Comic Relief [08:00–15:15]

• Bryan tells a detailed, comedic story of a 2:30am smoke detector battery crisis, complete with baby-saving heroics and the absurdly long “silence” alerts.
  • “Silence has been pressed. Your monitor will be muted for 12 hours. In 12 hours, your monitor will alert once more.” — Bryan impersonating the smoke detector [13:10]
• Both hosts commiserate about fire alarm mishaps and the way small annoyances spiral into adult anxiety.

3. James Van Praagh: Cold Reading Analysis, Exposed [17:13–29:11]

• Bryan pushes back against claims that some TV psychics are the real deal, calling Van Praagh’s style “a circus trick...a parlor trick,” akin to magic and sleight of hand [17:54].
• They revisit Van Praagh’s TV reading for a mother who lost her son, noting the formulaic, overly broad nature of the supposed revelations:
  • Guessing about “car problems,” “having his clothes,” “shrines,” “sports jerseys,” “stuffed animals,” etc.
  • “Did you ever have a car problem?” [19:55]
  • “I want to say, sweetheart, that he's always with you. He's your shining star, and you know it.” — Van Praagh [23:56]
• The hosts mock these generalizations, highlighting how easily the segments become cringeworthy.
  • “‘Did your mother go to church?’ I mean, how many mothers went to church? Almost all of them, right?” — Bryan [18:01]
• Discuss Van Praagh’s claim that spirits are continuing education (“finishing school in heaven”), and joke about how this must be a new afterlife perk:
  • “I didn't know you could get an education in heaven. I'm really looking forward to finishing out my college years.” — Bryan [24:40]

4. Skepticism, Controversy, and Host Banter [29:12–34:53]

• Deep skepticism about Van Praagh’s claims, including a story where he allegedly told Barbara Walters she had cancer, which proved untrue.
  • “He’s been offered a million dollars to prove...that he is indeed clairvoyant...He has never, ever responded to that call.” — Bryan [31:00]
• Discussion of the movie “Living with the Dead,” where Ted Danson played Van Praagh (and Jennifer Love Hewitt played a character based on his experiences in "Ghost Whisperer").
  • “Come on, really? Jennifer Love… I was played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Who do you want to play you when you die?” — Bryan [34:24]

5. Deep Dive: The Circle (Australian TV) “Bomb” [36:14–51:47]

• The hosts play and react to an old Van Praagh segment from The Circle (Australian morning show), where his cold reading attempts repeatedly fail:
  • Repeatedly guesses wrong on ailments, family members, religion, and more.
  • “Leg trouble…Now he just throws it out there.” — Chrissy [40:04]
  • “What about our legs? Legs, arms, vagina. Did she... Did she ever get checked?” — Bryan [39:33]
• The audience (older women) politely but firmly rebuff his increasingly outlandish and broad claims.
  • “No. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail.” — Bryan [43:14]
• The hosts delight in Van Praagh’s visible struggle, noting that Australians aren’t as easily fooled or led as typical US audiences.
  • “He is bombing down under.” — Chrissy [45:10]
  • “You Australians, I love you...You don’t take no, I love it.” — Bryan [51:24]

6. Meta-Commentary and Future Ideas [51:48–end]

• Bryan and Krissy plan to implement their own “cold reading” at live shows, complete with fake turbans and over-the-top psychic shtick.
  • “We’re gonna do this. There’s gonna be a portion of this show that’s dedicated to Brian and Chrissy doing a cold reading.” — Bryan [52:06]
• Final reminders to connect, get tickets, and follow on social media.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Live Shows and Comedy Hustle:
  • “If we can sell just six tickets, Chrissy, we're gonna fill half the place!” — Bryan [02:16]
• On Psychic Mediums’ Techniques:
  • “‘Did you ever have a car problem?’” — Chrissy [19:55]
  • “This is bordering on completely insensitive.” — Bryan, on Van Praagh’s reading [21:37]
  • “He's finishing school after life again.” — Bryan [24:29]
• On Skepticism:
  • “He’s so full of … and he’s just a grimy, slimy… That’s my take on him.” — Bryan [36:14]
  • “He is bombing down under.” — Chrissy [45:10]
• On Cold Reading Fails (Australia):
  • “What about her legs? Legs, arms, vagina. Did she…?” — Bryan [39:33]
  • “No. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail.” — Bryan [43:14]
  • “You Australians, I love you. Honestly.” — Bryan [51:24]
• On the Comedy of Life:
  • “As you get older, you realize that life does not always roll in your direction. As a matter of fact, it's about 50/50 if you're fucking lucky.” — Bryan [14:09]

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00–07:26: Show announcements, listener shout-outs, and fun banter.
• 08:00–15:15: Smoke detector story; comic takes on parenting and technology.
• 17:13–29:11: Analysis of James Van Praagh’s cold reading, skepticism, and infamous TV moments.
• 29:12–34:53: Further exploration of Van Praagh’s background, TV portrayals, and controversies.
• 36:14–51:47: The Circle (Australia) segment — Van Praagh repeatedly fails; hosts revel in the skepticism.
• 51:48–end: Host reflections, future gags, and wrap-up.

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Tone & Style

True to TCB’s reputation, the hosts use unfiltered, conversational humor and a healthy dose of sarcasm to tackle the episode’s topics. While very self-aware of the “chaotic, unpolished charm” of the show, Bryan and Krissy’s chemistry, quick wit, and willingness to call out absurdity is front and center.

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For new listeners:
If you enjoy debunking “paranormal experts,” tongue-in-cheek humor about everyday irritations, and hosts who love poking fun at themselves as much as their subjects, this episode is a must-listen.

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Best to you, and best to you out there in the podcast universe!

Transcript

[Brian Green]

Foreign. On this episode of the Commercial Break. I love it. I love this. This is my favorite thing ever. Oh, my God.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Leg trouble. I mean, now that he just throws it out there.

[Brian Green]

My father had hip replacements and he's having trouble walking. No, he walks quite well.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Great.

[Brian Green]

Now he's taking a jog right now. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. Oh, yeah. Guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this incredibly ad lib here podcast, Chris and Joy Hly. Best of you, Chrissy. Best of you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That's my favorite sound.

[Brian Green]

I love it. I love it. Every time I hear that noise, it reminds me of the podcast panel on someone's father dying while this guy's outside.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Like.

[Brian Green]

So bad. It was so bad. All right, so here we are, it's Friday, so we are going to pick up where we left off with James Von Praw, who is. Oh, maybe it's Prague. I thought the GH was silent. James, Prague is a telepsychic. That's what he does. He does just like Teresa Caputo. We reviewed some of his cold reading last week. We're gonna finish it up this week as it is Friday. We do like to break down videos on Friday. So super excited about that. Also, I'd like to remind you that it does appear Chrissy and I will be making our way to South Florida. So Central and South Florida in September, September 25th and 26th, Orlando and Tampa. Orlando first, then Tampa. If you're gonna be in the area, if you live in the area, if you want to come to the show, please do let us know. 212-4333 TCB. Text us and let us know you'll be there. And we're gonna have more information on how to get those tickets very soon. So I just wanted to shout that out. We'll probably be saying that ad nauseam until we actually get there because if we can sell just six tickets, Chrissy, we're gonna fill half the place. Yes. Yeah, we're go start off small. Yeah, we got to start off small. And then we'll see how many people we can actually get in the room. Yeah, it's exciting. It's exciting.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

It's a whole new experiment.

[Brian Green]

It's a whole new thing for the commercial break. And I don't know exactly, you know, how it's going to go, what we're going to do or how we'll get there.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That's kind of the exciting part.

[Brian Green]

I agree. We are definitely flying without a net on this one. I mean, that is for sure. Ah, we'll put something together.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

We will, yeah.

[Brian Green]

What are we going to do? What are we going to do? I don't feel like this is the right event to, to invite any special guests. Now I have this dream that we're going to be playing like, I don't know, Madison Square Garden and we're going to get Frankie B. To come out and do a little number for us. Teach us how to make our way up. Tuna, eggs, he's so famous for.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Cooking demonstration.

[Brian Green]

I would love it. I would love it. Make a smoothie for us, Frank. Take up an hour of our time and make a smoothie for us. Put as much as possible into your smoothie. So anyway, 25th, 26th, Orlando and then Tampa. If you're interested in coming, let us know. And because we'd love to meet you if you're, if you know, you're one of our listeners and we communicate with you, we'd love to meet you, but we have to let security know. So we'd let security knows that you could get access to us.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Right.

[Brian Green]

We'll probably be the two people at the bar.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Drinking, wondering what exactly just happened. Do they give us a tab at those places? I hope so. Is that negotiated in the contract?

[Christina (Producer/Promoter)]

I don't know.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

We need to look back at that.

[Brian Green]

Well, the good news is if they like, in some instances, they give you a piece of the bar. Right. They'll say, okay, you can take 20% of the bar, 30% of the bar. I say we just negotiate 50% of the bar. Which essentially means we'll just be drinking at 50% off. Yes, that's what I say. That sounds like a good deal. Don't worry about paying us anything, just give us half price drinks all night long. Yeah, we promise it'll be entertaining. For who? I don't know. Probably more for us than them. That's okay. So I wanted to shout out to a few of our listeners who have been writing in and calling in and we just don't do this enough, I feel like. And I wanted to say hello to a couple people, I like it out there in the podcast universe who actually have been communicating pretty frequently and I do appreciate it. I want to say hi to Sean Morris. We've seen S. Morris on our reviews here and there. I think he changes his review every once in a while and they're always pretty funny. So say hi to Sean in Here in Georgia, actually, he's down in Georgia.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Hello, Sean.

[Brian Green]

I want to say hello to someone like Darren. Darren and I assume his wife, they were flying through Atlanta so they let us know that they were coming to Atlanta. It wasn't going to work out that I would actually be able to go and meet them right down at the airport because Darren may not be aware. But getting to the airport is like an act of Congress. Yeah. It doesn't matter if It's Saturday at 3am in the morning it's going to take you seven hours to get to the airport. And it's a big ordeal. And since 911 they don't let you actually go into the airport and do anything. But Darren was here and he was kind enough to let us know. Darren from St. Louis, I want to say hello to Tiffany who, who actually found that our possum hatred goes much deeper than the episode. Just a month ago she found another episode where we were talking about possums and our dislike for them. I'm not going to play that content because I'm getting, I'm getting a little sick and tired of the possum thing. But I did want to say hi to Tiffany.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I think I had a dream last night about a possum.

[Brian Green]

Did you really?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Now that I think about it.

[Brian Green]

Did you really?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Now that you brought it up.

[Brian Green]

I saw one when I was walking to Starbucks. I saw one on the side of the road. It was dead, but yeah, usually.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That's the way you usually see them. Really?

[Brian Green]

Well, well yeah. Cuz they scurry around in the corners and stuff. They walk up against fences. They're like in the shadows. That's. That's the thing I think that bothers me maybe more than anything is that you never quite know when the possum's around. You know what I'm saying? They kind of sneak up on you.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

They do. Like the little baby.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You know the first thing that you see and the thing that freaks you out the most is those beady little eyes. Yeah. And they're. Aren't they blind?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, I think, I think they're blind.

[Brian Green]

Like mostly blind or something like that.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Partially, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Evolution hasn't kept up with their evolution and their eyeballs haven't, you know, married each other. So anyway, want to say hi to Tiffany. And then of course our good friend Caitlin is always writing in love. Love me some Caitlin. And then someone wrote in Spanish to us, which I thought was very nice. And I want to make sure I get their, their name right.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

They knew that Asteroid could translate.

[Brian Green]

What's that?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

They knew that Astrid could translate. Or I guess you're faster.

[Brian Green]

Katrine's like, yeah, okay. I want to say hi to Jennifer from Wyoming. I want to say hi to Bill, Bob and Darren, another Darren from Chicago. Thanks for listening. Bill, Bob and Darren. Three guys from Chicago keep on texting me. And then a bunch of people from New York are texting me. We have Julia, we have Synth. His name is Synth. Synth.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

What is.

[Brian Green]

Your parents named you after a 1983 Casio keyboard?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, that's okay.

[Brian Green]

Kind of weird, huh? There's Karen. Hey, Karen. She's from New York. Want to say hi to Ryan and then Ryan from New York and then Ryan Brewster. All these people texting in and saying hello. So I want to shout out, I don't feel we do enough. Yeah, I mean, we talk to everybody on the text message, but I don't feel that they get enough on air, love. So I'm going to do that. We have an ask TCB that I put together. We'll do that next week. And then I think my mom is coming in the first week in July.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

She'll be on. We'll be on vacation, but we'll run an episode.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That's exciting.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Mom's doing know mom had an accident. She fell and because of her age and some other things, she ended up in one of these like long term rehabilitation facilities, which is very nice. It's a lovely place. I mean, lovely is, you know, as a lovely facility is going again. And she's doing fine. She's well taken care of. She's fed roof overhead. The people there are very nice, but it's been a long, slow recovery. She got a bunch of pins in her leg and I. I don't have any metal. Do you have any metal in your body?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I don't.

[Brian Green]

You don't have any metal in your body? Okay. I'm getting to that age where I fear I'm going to need some metal in my body. Do you know what I'm saying?

[Christina (Producer/Promoter)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Mainly in my penis, but if it goes somewhere else, Rod, they gotta have. They gotta have something. I know that. I know the people that transition, they can get like one of those balloons inserted where they can pump it up. It's kind of like the people that transition. People that transition like to death, to. From female to male.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, I thought you meant transition like out of this world.

[Brian Green]

No, transition out of this world. And then you. Then you could get.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I was confused, as you can see.

[Brian Green]

No, but they have like I, I've heard, I haven't seen, but I've heard that they can like, you know, you have a mechanism by which you can pump up the, the new penis to then get hard. So. Okay, I imagine I'll get one of those inserted any day now. Or a metal rod that like works on a little servo that just goes up and down. Would that be cool? Yeah, get on that. Who's a urologist out there who can help us out with that venture? Oh my God, Chrissy, I just heard the noise again. I have to tell you, last night I was dead asleep. It's like two. Here it is. Yep, there it is. The fucking smoke detector.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That, that is. That sneaky noise of the smoke detector is really very, very sneaky.

[Brian Green]

It's sneaky, it's obnoxious because it' it's just beep. Yes.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

And then it's a weirdly long time again before it does it again. It's like you forget about it and then it does it again.

[Brian Green]

So here I am, I'm asleep at like 2, 2:30 in the morning. The whole house is asleep, right? And I wake up and I got my phone, pillow and my. And you know, I'm watching something, so I, I turn off and I like, you know how you wake up sometime, you think you woke up because you heard something, but you. Yeah, but now you're awake, so you don't know if you heard it, if it's just in your dreams. Well, I wake up and I thought I hear something, but I don't really don't know what it is. So I turn off the phone and then I just kind of sit there laying down, listening, and I'm like, what, what is that?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I know, you forget about it.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And then it starts accelerating. It's right outside the baby's room. Baby is dead asleep. Never wake a sleeping baby. And I'm like, oh my God, it's 2:30 in the morning, I have 10 foot ceilings. What am I gonna do? Get out a fucking ladder at 2:30 in the morning, turn on all the lights in the house to figure out what's going on with the alarm? Because I know for a fact that if I touch that alarm and I press the test button. Oh yeah, there it is again. Just did it again. I know for a fact if I touch that alarm, it's gonna go off. And it's gonna go off for like at least a minute, right? Anytime you touch those alarms, they go off by default. That's what they're supposed to do.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

They Do.

[Brian Green]

So I'm like, holy, what do I do now? So after a couple more beeps and I. Now I know it's accelerating. It's letting me know that the battery is low. Right.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Of course.

[Brian Green]

And so it's accelerating. And so I'm like, oh, fuck. I guess the baby's gonna wake up. Everybody's gonna wake up if I don't do this, because it's really fucking loud.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

And annoying.

[Brian Green]

And annoying. 2:30 in the morning, Brian in his underwear gets up, goes into the storage closet, pulls out the ladder, sets it up, turns on as few lights as possible, which is every light in the fucking house. And now this thing is really going.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Does it accelerate?

[Brian Green]

It accelerates.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

So now I'm like, fuck. I get up on that ladder and then the second that I touch the button to turn it to make. To take it off so I can see if I can undo the batteries. Yeah.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, no.

[Brian Green]

I'm like, oh, no, please don't wake up the baby.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Your heart starts.

[Brian Green]

My heart starts beating.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You're sweating.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Now I'm trying to do all this stuff, and finally I get the thing. I. I noticed that there's a button. When I twist it, there's a button. And the button says, test silence. So I'm like, okay, that's the thing that I need to. That I need.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Silence.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Silence.

[Brian Green]

So now it's just going off. And I touch the button and even louder. This is what I hear. You ready for this? Yeah. Silence has been pressed. Silence has been pressed. Silence has been pressed. Silence has been pressed. Your monitor will be muted for 12 hours. In 12 hours, your monitor will alert once more. Silence has been pressed. Thank you. Go back to bed now. Gives me this. Sorry. It gives me this whole fucking, like, spiel for like a minute. And I'm like. I'm like, standing in front of the baby's room trying to protect her from the sound waves. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even try it because. Silence has been pressed.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

In 12 hours, I will bother you again.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

And there it was.

[Brian Green]

And there it was. There it goes again.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

She arrived on time about 2:15.

[Brian Green]

That's right. There it is. Look at that. 12 hours later, it starts going. And I knew it the second I heard it. I was like, yep, she warned me in 12 hours, you dumbass. I will say this again. Great.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Did anybody wake up?

[Brian Green]

What's that?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Did anybody wake up?

[Brian Green]

Oh, nobody woke up.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

No.

[Brian Green]

Luckily, nobody woke up.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Got away with it.

[Brian Green]

I did. I got away with it. It only took me about 15 minutes for this whole thing. And then of course I can't go back to fucking sleep because now my mind's going about what am I going to talk about on the show? And you know, who's going to call me tomorrow that I owe money to and you know, what's next? What's next? I feel like the older you get, it's just a series of. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I really do feel that way sometimes. I'm like, as you get older, you realize that life does not always roll in your direction. As a matter of fact, it's about 50, 50 if you're fucking lucky. And so all is, I'm just waiting for the other 50%. If I had like a kind of a good day, I'm like, well, it's gonna be shitty tomorrow, so just wake up.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You can't think like that.

[Brian Green]

No, I don't think like that. But when you get woken up at.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

2:30 in the morning, your mind just goes.

[Brian Green]

Your mind goes there because you're like, yep. It starts with the fire alarm. That's where it all starts now. I just silenced it. The house is going to set on fire in an hour and it's gonna go. There's a fire. But I can't tell you about it because silence has been pressed.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Exactly.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh my God. We had a whole fire alarm situation too while we were at Jeff's last festival. All of a sudden we're like, I mean, he's in the middle of working, we're in the middle of talking to some people. All of a sudden he's getting phone calls that the smoke alarm is going off and our daughter was there at the house.

[Brian Green]

Oh, really?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

She didn't know how to turn it off. She's freaking out. She was cooking something, you know, that smoked up. And did the fire department show up? No, we were able to not get them to show up. But then at like 6 o' clock in the morning, I started getting a phone from the security company. There was the saying, we're gonna send the fire truck. And I'm like, no, don't.

[Brian Green]

I think everything's okay.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

And they're like, but you're telling me you want us to silence it?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Yes, I'm telling you I want you to silence it.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

But I'm talking to a live person.

[Brian Green]

Silence has been pressed. I'll fix it during the break. And you listen to what she says. She has this whole announcement. It's crazy. It's insane. All right, so let's do we take a break and when we come back, we're gonna finish what we started last week with James.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

There are two A's.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, there are two A's. So it makes you feel like maybe the von. Okay, so we're gonna do that and then we'll be back.

[Christina (Producer/Promoter)]

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[Brian Green]

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[Christina (Producer/Promoter)]

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[Brian Green]

All right. Last week, Chris, Last Friday, Chrissy and I broke down a video we. I had been getting a lot of. Not a lot of, but I have been getting some people who had been writing in saying, you know, Teresa Caputo may not be, you know, the psychic that does it the best, or you might not believe her. Yeah, she might be a fraud. But there are certainly other people who do do this. You know, they do it well. And I asked for some examples and I got a couple of responses. None of them were James Van Praag, but James Van Praag. But I'm telling you right now why I wanted to bring this video out is because I'm telling you right now that this cold reading bullshit is a circus trick. It's a parlor trick. That's all it is. It's like magic. It's sleight of hand. It is right beneath your nose. We've talked about this ad nauseam. Right beneath your nose. These people.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, if you go broad enough. Yeah, if you go, you're gonna hit something.

[Brian Green]

Talk fast enough, don't allow people to respond in a way that makes you seem like you're faking it. If you just roll them over and keep going, keep going, keep going. Eventually you're going to hit on something like, did your mother go to church? I mean, how many mothers went to church? Almost all of them. Right? I gotta imagine a lot of them went to church. And this guy last week, he did the same thing. And he's not doing it very well because. Unconvincing. Unconvinced. Excuse me. These people are. Most of these people who he's talked to so far are just looking at him like he's got four eyes. He's. They don't. They don't know what the he's talking about.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, I mean, he's hitting on a couple of things that are right, but they're so general.

[Brian Green]

He's also, like, making generalized, like, kind of sneaky, racist conversations with people based on their color.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You have two fathers.

[Brian Green]

Yes. You have two fathers. And the lady was like, no, that doesn't resonate. And he's like, okay, okay, we won't talk about that. Yeah, then we won't talk about that. You know, did you have a father that was out of the picture and he's talking to a black lady? It just all feels, like, grimy and greasy and weird. Anyway, so we're going to repeat it, and we're going to go and, you know, have more. Listen to more conversation from James Von Brock. Here he is. All right, well, I guess I should press play. Maybe. I did, and I just. It's silenced. There we go.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Ben. Accent, but a little problem with the car.

[Brian Green]

Oh, okay. I want to say this. So James is at a local television station in Chicago doing a cold reading for about 10 people who have, quote, unquote, been randomly selected from the audience, even though they are all dressed very nicely, like, they wore their best outfits. So it's clear to me they knew exactly what was going on before they stepped on this stage. So we're going to listen to the end of this lady that we were hearing last week, and then we'll. We'll listen to him do some more.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

You be careful. You can't trust everybody. Now, which one of you had a car park, a park, a car problem, or bender?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Which one of you ever had a car problem?

[Brian Green]

I just got hit by one.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah, not an accent, but a little problem with the car. Your sister.

[Brian Green]

Your sister. My sister. Does anybody ever know anybody that's had any car issues? He's talking to me right now. This is amazing. He's coming through loud and clear. He says he had a car issue. He had to get the oil change. Anybody ever done an oil change? Yes. No. Okay. Your sister's sister did. Oh, that's wonderful. Well, I'm on fire today. By golly. I'm hot today.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

That's what I want to go to the con. That's okay.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That's where I want to go.

[Brian Green]

That's where I want to go to. That's the. I want to dive into.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I want to talk about the boy. The boy here. Okay. So your name is Naomi. Naomi. Naomi. So your past. Very quickly, I want to say that when he comes in here, he comes right from. Your mother brought her. Him through. Your mother brought him through. So I don't know if you guys know each other.

[Brian Green]

Your mother brought him through.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He's talking to another woman, the woman he was just talking to, saying, your mother brought him through. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So now he's. And now he's asking, do you two know each other? And they're both like, no.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

This lady, she. She helped to bring him through. Your boy has brought me through. And he's. I feel he's. You have his jacket. You have his shirts. He said, you're just looking at my shirt, my T shirts.

[Brian Green]

You have his clothing. She's his mother. What do you think? Did you think he would. What was she gonna do with it? He took them with him. I mean, come on.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Clothes. My. My jeans. Yeah, my jeans. There's something to have that big. Big clothes. Some of baggy clothes or bigger clothes. Right.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. This is like. This is bordering on completely insensitive. Yeah, actually, it's not bordering on. It is.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I'm saying, like, bigger clothes. Bigger clothes. But that. That's the sort of thing. And I want to say, you have my caps, you have my hats, and you have them all there, and you collect them all. Isn't that. And you have, like, a shrine to him he's talking about. Yeah, my shrine. And I know that if I go in there, I have a photo.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Because no one has ever put memorabilia in a. In a small place about someone that has passed.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

And she's not that old, so it had to be a younger son.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, this is. God, I could do this. I feel like I could do this. I could make a million dollars a year, too. Career change. It's now called the psychic break.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

We'll put it in the notebook.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Then I have several other little photos. Understand that. Yes. And I know you like to also do a little thing with the stuffed animals, right?

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Right? Am I right?

[Brian Green]

You're a little creepy. A little freak in the sheets, Am I right? You've done anal. That's what your son is telling me.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Stuffed animals. Show me the stuffed animals all around. Now, if I go into the house, in the hallway, there's either, like, a little cupboard there, a little, you know, a little table there. And would you have lace? A lace Cover on that. Yeah, you would, wouldn't you? Lace cover is always.

[Brian Green]

You would, wouldn't you? She's like, no, no. Yeah. A table in the hallway. Well, no one ever grew up with a table in the hallway. Chrissy. This is. This guy's awesome.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I'm confused why he's seeing, like, going into her house.

[Brian Green]

He can't. He's full of. Because he claims he's clairvoyant. Like, he can travel into people's homes.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And there's a main. A big photo of him, but then little photos around that.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yes.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I also see a candle there as well.

[Brian Green]

See?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And I see also on the wall, you have some of his things as well.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And Would you understand. And she goes, sweetheart, about the jersey. A sports jersey or something about him in sports at one point. And when he. When he. When you had a memorial service for him, didn't you have photos of him all over?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Because. Yeah, that is what you do.

[Brian Green]

That's a memorial. That's what a memorial is. You. You remember people. What an ass clown.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Should have had either a sports jersey or something about that. Is that significant?

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Okay. Okay. Just.

[Brian Green]

She's lying. She's like, yeah, okay. I just want this guy to get away from me.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah, I understand that. I. I want to say, sweetheart, that he's always with you. He's your shining star, and you know it. And I know that you're gonna. He's. And I get the initial J. I just get this J. I don't know what that means. Maybe not him, but J. I want.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

To tell you that.

[Brian Green]

She says, I don't know. I love it.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

He's taken. He feels that I'm responsibility. He takes full responsibility. And sometimes in life. He didn't take responsibility, but he wants you to be proud of his. I'm proud of my boy because he takes responsibility. That's a big step for him. He's finishing some school. He wants to tell you about school. Is that a big deal?

[Brian Green]

He's finishing school after life again.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Like, he said that with the other.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, this is the second time that he said this.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

They've gone back to school.

[Brian Green]

What is going on up there?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

They're getting their master.

[Brian Green]

I didn't know you could get an education in heaven. I'm really looking forward to finishing out my college years. School.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

You want to push him. Push him. Push him through school. He's finishing school. Isn't that lovely to hear that? That is lovely to hear that. So I want to sell.

[Brian Green]

That is lovely to hear that. Yes. He agrees with himself. That's lovely. He's finishing.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I want to say June is very significant as well. The month of June will be significant to see the passing or a death day. Something with June. And I also want to say to.

[Brian Green]

You, you have something with June.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

She doesn't confirm.

[Brian Green]

I know. That's why he goes. Something with Jude.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, I'm still there.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

No, no, but you have photographs of his room. He said he was watching these photographs. And I'm looking at, like, photograph album. Looking at these photographs. And I also see you have his writing. He's telling me, writing.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, she probably saved a card that he had given her.

[Brian Green]

Chrissy, this guy is like. He's. He's even worse than Theresa. Yeah, yeah.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And I also want to go, do you have a cell phone that belongs to him? Did you understand that?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I had it.

[Brian Green]

I had one.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

You had one. You had the photos on there?

[Audience Member / Participant]

Because he told me.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And I know that you still have either some social media, Facebook or something with his memorial to him. Isn't that right? And he wants me to say thank you.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Our producers found it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, our producers found it, and they're looking at it right now. And they see you with his cell phone, and they see pictures of the memorial service where you put pictures of him. They also see your hallway where you took a picture of your little shrine to your son.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah, Mama. He's calling Mama. Mama. Not Mama. Mama. He's Mama. And he said, I'm still very much alive. Don't believe in death. It's not real. This is real, and our love is real, and that's what carries us on. And he doesn't want you worrying about him. And is there a little sister, by the way? Is there a sister of his? He has a sister because he doesn't want his sister to worry about him either. She's got to take care of herself. What you put in your mind comes into your body, so be very careful. He said.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

He loves you very much.

[Brian Green]

Wow. Here come the hosts to blow more smoke up his ass.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

It is Windy City live.

[Brian Green]

It is Windy City live. Nothing like a little Windy City Live. Thank you so much for being here today. Of course.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Thank you very much.

[Brian Green]

I remember the first time I ever saw you was on the Oprah Show. Same with you, probably. You've done so many shows all around the world. You have this amazing talent. When did this talent start?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

When I was a little child, when I was three years old. I remember my grandfather used to be.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Over, I guess, the crib or whatever.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

That bed was. And he was deceased at the time. I remember he used to hold this.

[Brian Green]

Like no one remembers anything from when they're three years old, by the way. That's complete horseshit. Try and think back to when you were three years old. Tell me if you remember anything. And this guy is probably 20 years older than I am, maybe 25 years older than I am.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Puppet thing. And I'd asked my grandmother years later I saw my grandmother had a photograph album and she was going through pages and I said, who's that man? She said, that's your grandfather. He died before you were born. I said he used to visit me every night and that was the very first time.

[Brian Green]

Wow, that's advanced conversation for a three year old, don't you think?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Many, many times I've seen spirit and it runs my family. Mother has it, my grandmother had it.

[Audience Member / Participant]

My grandfather the other side.

[Brian Green]

So yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

So we're all just get. It gets passed down through the genes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. All been lying for money for a long time. Difference between a psychic and a medium.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Everybody's psychic. So everybody has that intuition, that gut feeling.

[Brian Green]

Okay, that's good news for us, Chrissy. Yeah. And we're psychic.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

You know, something, you know, something happens, you're thinking something, the phone rings, it's that person. And so that's. The psychic has intuition. It's the soul's language. A medium is someone who's very, very psychic, but also able to open up frequencies of a higher energy, go through higher realms, if you will dimensions, and hear, see or feel spirit on a higher level.

[Brian Green]

Spirit. Oh, spirit's telling me to come on down. I love the spirit. I'm in spirit.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Every medium is a psychic. Not every psychic is a medium.

[Brian Green]

Very good. So as you're sitting here right now. Yeah. I want to bet, I want a workplace bet. I said, can every psychic be a medium or is every medium a psychic? You just answer it. Uh huh. That's why they pay me $300,000 a year and do my hair in the morning energy.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Are you seeing spirits when I begin? I will. Not right now, but I will.

[Brian Green]

So you can turn it on and off?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah. You have to be able to do that in development. You learn how to open yourself up and close yourself down.

[Brian Green]

In development? Yeah. What development for a TV deal. What?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Right.

[Brian Green]

What kind of development do you go through?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He's different though too from Teresa, who normally says they're all the time.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they're all, all the time. I can't control it. They come in, they come out. But I'm always. It's just friendly conversations. Nothing bad. Can't say anything bad, but you don't.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Need walking around just being crazed with a lot of spirits. It doesn't work that way.

[Brian Green]

We see some of those people on State Street.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah, I noticed that coming in. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, sure. What do you say to the skeptics and the naysayers who say your abilities just aren't real?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I say to them that they have the right to their opinion and they should come to see the work being done.

[Brian Green]

And for $126, you can see. That's right. You can see me at the Chicago Coliseum next Tuesday with these skeptics who.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Were picketing my show. And I invited them into the show, and afterwards they looked at me and said, okay, well, okay, we're leaving now. We kind of believe this. I kind of made.

[Brian Green]

I find that absolute horseshit video. Or it didn't happen. Pics, or it didn't happen. You're telling me that a bunch of critics showed up to your show? A bunch of people who didn't believe you, like Brian and Chrissy showed up, picketed your show. You invited them in and they all converted?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yep.

[Brian Green]

I. There's no way. There is no way. So they accepted your invitation to come?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah, they did.

[Brian Green]

Good.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And I said, no other medium ever did that.

[Brian Green]

And I said, well, this is a smart newscaster. She knows that. He's full of fucking shit.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I mean, you should. You know, you can't really make judgment on something unless you've had the experience of it. So I invite them in. I was skeptical when I first began as well, but I had to have the experience.

[Brian Green]

I was skeptical of myself when I.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

First began that I could get on.

[Brian Green]

The show and I learned how to lie.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And it. And they did. And everyone's. You know, it's entitled to their opinion.

[Brian Green]

Do you ever not want the gift?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

No.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I think it's the greatest thing in the world to help other people. To help people realize there is no death. That death is.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah. Like, to help Barbara Walters know that she has cancer, and then not then, she doesn't.

[Brian Green]

In case you missed the first episode of this, it was last Friday's episode, so you can go take a listen to it, which I think is 549. No, 548. The scuttlebutt on this guy is that he's been offered a million dollars to prove in any way, in any scientific way, shape or form that he is indeed clairvoyant, psychic, medium, whatever. He has never, ever Responded to that call. If I had a million dollar offer, I would try. If I got embarrassed, I got embarrassed.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

But a million dollars believed what you had was real.

[Brian Green]

That's right. That's a life changing money. But then there's other controversy around this gentleman because one of the most notable things that he did that caused controversy in his career is that he went to a private reading with Barbara Walters where he told her that, that he was seeing, hearing someone was telling him that she had a very high white blood cell count and it was likely cancer. She needed to get it checked out. She went to multiple doctors, got multiple tests done to find out that her white blood cell count was not elevated. And I don't believe that's what she died from. Was it?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I don't think so.

[Brian Green]

I don't think so.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

The people that pass over, there's no death, it's only life. And once you have that, you. You fear it's taken away from death. You can live life.

[Brian Green]

Right. You know, sometimes I ask guests, who would you want to play you in a movie? But Ted Danson actually played you in a movie. Of course. Did you get to pick Ted?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

It was a really weird thing.

[Brian Green]

Wait, hold on. Ted Danson played him in the movie. What? What? Okay, all right, wait.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Now they're showing a picture of Ted Danson and it has a little thing that says Living with the Dead. That was on cbs.

[Brian Green]

Okay, all right. You know, Brian's on top of that, kids, don't worry, I'm on. Looks like Brian's watching a movie of the week on cbs. What is that?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Living with the Living with the Dead.

[Brian Green]

Okay, let me write that down. Living with the Dead on cbs.

[Christina (Producer/Promoter)]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Okay. Am I gonna have to get like Paramount plus or something?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I'll give you my login.

[Brian Green]

Okay, thank you. Appreciate it.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Because I've got them all.

[Brian Green]

Because I'm maxed out. I'm maxed out.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I think I actually gave you my login already.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, you might have.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yeah, because it's really.

[Brian Green]

I need it again.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Okay. Okay.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Weird. I was doing a reading for Ted and Mary Steenburger at their house two weeks beforehand, and Ted's father came and with incredible detail about a herringbone jacket he was wearing before he passed over. He died in front of a fireplace with a glass of whiskey. And Ted goes, how did you know that? I said, he's telling me that. And really about two weeks later, CBS called up and said, we can't find anyone to play you in this movie, but we might go to Ted Danson. Because we know him. And they don't say we know him.

[Brian Green]

We know him because we know him. No one's agreeing to play you in this movie but Ted Danson. We know him. We know him. Yeah. And because you told him his dad had a herringbone jacket, he's like a glass of whiskey. I can guarantee you can find probably a lot of information about Ted Dance's dad online.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

To the reading for him. They said, well, can you ask him? I said, I can't do that. I can't ask him because that's crossing the line. So somehow CBS to get to him because he had that experience with me. I think he said yes to the part and the movie did very, very well.

[Brian Green]

I think he said yes because they gave him $2 million to play you in a movie. I think that's why he said yes. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I don't know Ted Danson, but he seems like a rather sharp guy. Right. And I just have a feeling that Ted Danson, A, probably did not believe a word that you said and B, got offered a lot of money to play you in a movie because they couldn't find anybody to play him in a movie. So they said, if we're going to do this, we got to pay somebody. And it was Ted Danson for cbs.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And because of that series, that miniseries that did so well, it created Ghost Whisper with Jennifer Love Hewitt.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

So then I was kind of played by Jennifer Love Hewitt.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And that was also. Come on, really? Jennifer Love. I was played by Jennifer Slay. Queen Slay. I was played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Who do you want to play you when you die? Jennifer Love Hewitt. Your real life experiences?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Certain experience of mine. I was a creator of that and I helped.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, very exciting stuff.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I helped put together this fictional show.

[Brian Green]

I helped put together this completely fictional show. I got a picture on set with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Check me out, Prague. We also have several volunteers from our audience. Okay. All right. All right. So that's. So that particular video is ended. I do have another clip of James. Prague, you want to watch that? Yeah, we'll take a break and then we can watch it. Okay, let's take a break. I know we're turning this one around quickly, but we'll take a break and when we come back, we'll watch more James Vaughn. Prague, we'll be back.

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[Brian Green]

All right, we're back. We're doing a deep dive into James Von Prague, who is our new Teresa Caputo. Quite frankly, we're enjoying this so much because he's so full of. And he's just a grimy, slimy. That's. That's. That's my take on him. So far, from what I've read, from what I see, from the way he talks, from the way he carries himself, he is really scuzzy. That's my opinion. What do you think, Chrissy?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, I agree. Well, I don't like how he's. Well, obviously it's stereotyping, and I don't like the stereotyping.

[Brian Green]

I hate the stereotyping. That drives me crazy. Teresa Caputo does it, too. She makes assumptions based on people's color or what they're wearing. It's just a shitty, shitty thing to do. But when you're playing this game, you have to go on broad generalizations. That is what you do. I don't like where. Where he's taking it, but it's not unique to James. Teresa does this also. Okay, I found an older clip where he's doing a cold reading, and we'll be watching this for the first time together. This is from some show called the Circle. The Circle. I think everybody's trying to be the View, and so the Circle, the women, the channel, the thing. Oh, but I do like the music.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I do, too.

[Brian Green]

I wish we had that kind of transition music.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Well, we're back with Medium.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

James Van Prong, who has had us.

[Brian Green]

Fascinated all morning about the world of ghosts in the unknown. For anybody that's wondering, this is rated pg, as they put it right on the channel.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Is it from Australia?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I am assuming this is in Australia. Yep. And there's a much younger James Prague, so it's probably 15 years old to you with our studio audience. Now take it away and see what you can see.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay, sweetheart. Great.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I'd like to start with this lady.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Right here who's sitting right in the first row. I have a mother figure, very strong coming around you. Okay. And with the name of either Mary Margaret.

[Brian Green]

Mary Margaret, Karen, Kathy.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Also, he picked out, like, a pretty old woman.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

So, yes, her mother is probably gone.

[Brian Green]

Of course, this lady is clearly in her 70s, maybe older. And, you know, if her mother's still around, God bless her mother, Margaret Mary.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay, Margaret Mary. And I gotta tell you that I feel before she passes over, though, there's a lot of hard time to walk or hard time to get up and get things going. Do you understand that?

[Brian Green]

That.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

And.

[Audience Member / Participant]

And also.

[Brian Green]

No. She shook her head.

[Audience Member / Participant]

No hard time. Did medicines before she passed.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I mean.

[Brian Green]

No, no one takes medicines at an older age. She was on medication.

[Audience Member / Participant]

That's what I'm asking. Okay.

[Brian Green]

Have any painkillers?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Right.

[Audience Member / Participant]

But there are medications she took because I feel this very, very much before I. When she's coming in here and I feel so arthritis.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You feel her medications?

[Brian Green]

You feel her medications. This is really. Wow, this is brilliant way.

[Audience Member / Participant]

There's a lot of arthritis and there's a bone problem. There's also something with the back. So I don't know if she sees us. A pillow at the back of her or. Is that you?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

No, no. Again, he was trying with the broad. Because, I mean, who in their older age doesn't maybe have a back problem and maybe sits with a pillow?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, sits with a pillow. I sit with a pillow. I'm nowhere close to being old and I sit with a pillow.

[Audience Member / Participant]

That doesn't make sense to you?

[Brian Green]

No. Okay.

[Audience Member / Participant]

And we're not trouble with legs?

[Brian Green]

No.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Let's just go throughout her whole body.

[Brian Green]

What about our legs? Legs, arms, vagina. Did she. Did she ever get checked? Do you have a vagina checked by a doctor? That's it. That's it. That's what she's telling me. This is crazy. This lady is not viable.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

No. She's like, no.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay. I. Who has trouble with the legs now?

[Brian Green]

My father's had two hip replacements.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Two hip replacements. He cannot walk as well as he used to. Oh, no.

[Brian Green]

He walks very well.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I love it. I love this. This is my favorite thing ever. Oh, my God.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He has had leg trouble. I mean, now that he just throw it out there.

[Brian Green]

My father had hip replacements and he's having trouble walking. No, he likes. Walks quite well.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Looks great. Now.

[Brian Green]

He's taking a jog right now.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay. Right.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he is struggling here. O. This is a rare this is a rare moment in television psychic history where the psychic is definitely offbeat. Now he doesn't know what to do.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Was your mother buried?

[Brian Green]

Yes. Oh, come on. Was your mother buried? He went to the most broad question you could ever ask of a dead person. Was your mother buried? 75% of people I believe I read, are buried. Yeah. 25 get cremated.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Because she's talking about being buried and about an awake or a funeral, rather. And.

[Brian Green]

Oh, is. She's talking about that. She's talking about the funeral that happened when she died. Okay, all right.

[Audience Member / Participant]

She knows about it. She was very surprised by it all. And who's Kathy or Cat?

[Brian Green]

She was surprised by it. All right, listen. She thought it was a surprise party for surprise. You're dead.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Kathy. Is there Catherine or Kathy? Kathy. Catherine or Kathy?

[Brian Green]

Nope, he picked the wrong to with.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

She is not at all impressed.

[Audience Member / Participant]

You know about this name.

[Brian Green]

Well, Kate.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Kate, Katie.

[Brian Green]

I have a cousin now that's just. Just.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Just passing right now.

[Brian Green]

Come with me today. But she just had to have surgery.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Let's talk about her. And she's praying with her. Okay. I also know who's Catholic.

[Brian Green]

Oh.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, I have a cousin named Kate.

[Brian Green]

I have a cousin named. Not Kathy. Kate. Oh, she passed. No, she's having surgery right now. No.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Well, your mother's praying with her.

[Brian Green]

My mother's praying with her.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Someone's Catholic background.

[Brian Green]

And we all are.

[Audience Member / Participant]

You all are. Okay. So there was a mass said, for instance. Thank you for a mass that was said. And there are prayer cards that are said. There's a picture of Mother Mary.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, now he's just gonna go down my hall.

[Brian Green]

He's just gonna go on the list. She wants to thank Jesus Christ for all of. For dying for our sins.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah, yeah.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Picture Mother Mary. Would you know about this? Do you know about this?

[Brian Green]

Catholics have Mother Mary ran some way.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That's what I was saying. He's just going down the Catholic checklist. There was a mass. There were prayer cards.

[Brian Green]

There were candles, and she responded appropriately. She said, we're Catholic. All Catholics believe in Mother Mary. That's kind of an important figure in the. In the church. These two human beings are my favorite human beings ever.

[Audience Member / Participant]

You know, of course, that was years ago.

[Brian Green]

That still goes on. But Nola's mother's name is Mary, and Nola's mother died when nola was only six.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Ah, okay.

[Brian Green]

That was in 1950. Do you go backwards? Do you go backwards?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You have a time machine. Can you just go back to 1920?

[Brian Green]

Is this a DVD player, do you go backwards? Do you do rewind backwards?

[Audience Member / Participant]

I go backwards from sideways also. So I want to talk about something else with you, though. Music, Music, music. I don't know why about music. Did you not do music? Were you going to do music when you were younger and you stopped doing music?

[Brian Green]

No.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

No. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail. He gets to talk out every time. And these are extraordinarily broad questions he's asking. And these ladies are absolutely keeping their head on their shoulders by saying, no, you're wrong. This is not me. I have nothing to do with this.

[Audience Member / Participant]

To play the piano. Okay, who was that one? To play the piano or music? Don't know.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Okay, once again, he threw out the piano, just as he did in the other.

[Brian Green]

He did in the other one.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

So we were just watching because it's such a broad thing. A lot of kids take piano lessons when you're young and you maybe don't finish them.

[Brian Green]

And what I noticed also about the last reading that he did, that we did last Friday and then today is that he asked only, except for one guy, he asked four women questions. He brought up that there were two males. In every situation he brought up, there were two males. As if, you know, it's like a. He just keeps repeating himself over and over again. These are. Not only is he so broad and still getting it wrong, but then on top of that, he just repeats himself.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Did he hear your father, your husband's passed over or your father's passed over, rather, father passed over.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

I don't know if he liked cars.

[Audience Member / Participant]

No thing about cars. But there's something about cars with him. I mean, told me about this. Okay, did he drive a car?

[Brian Green]

She said no. She goes, no. What if she says he never even had a license?

[Audience Member / Participant]

They got a car. There was talk about getting a car.

[Brian Green]

There was talk about getting a car, having a car. He saw a car. Once he told you there was a car, a car passed you at some point. I'm getting a car. Is there a car anywhere? Have you ever seen a car.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Living your dad? Do you understand? Do you understand the cars?

[Brian Green]

No. No.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

This is amazing.

[Brian Green]

This is the fourth woman he's talked to. And all of them have said no to every question. No.

[Audience Member / Participant]

No.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He is bombing down under.

[Brian Green]

What it's going to feel like in Orlando on September. Does anybody find us funny? Does anybody know about the commercial?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Have you ever heard something funny?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Have you ever heard something funny? Have you heard the term the commercial break? Yes. Okay, now we're on somewhere. I should do A cold reading. We should do a cold reading of the.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Do it.

[Brian Green]

Oh, we're gonna practice this. I'm gonna get good.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Yeah.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Okay.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay. Okay. Who had the heart problem?

[Brian Green]

Oh, possibly my mom.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Audience Member / Participant]

She's passed over as well. Don't you know if there was heart situation before she passes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay. And there was situations that she was going to either get an operation, a procedure done, something before that. Okay. So I don't know if you know that. That she didn't get that.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I don't know if you know that.

[Brian Green]

I don't know if you know that. But she had other illnesses. She died from that. She didn't get treated. That's what a man am.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I want to ask who I'm with. With Teresa or Terry. But I am. Okay. I gotta tell you that.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Teresa or Terry?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Teresa.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Teresa. Terry. And was there a divorce?

[Brian Green]

She said no.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Teresa or Terry or Terry.

[Brian Green]

Anything with a T. Yeah. So far he said Janet or Janet. Kate or Kathy. Michelle or Michaela. He's going through all of the letters, just trying to get something.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Never. You never married?

[Brian Green]

No.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Okay.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised because I want you to love yourself more.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I'm not.

[Brian Green]

I'm not surprised.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You never married.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

Whoa. Wow. I know this is like 15 years ago, 10 or 15 years ago, but still. Is that something you should ever say to someone? No. No.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Don't. I need you to love yourself more.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I need you to love yourself more. What are you, fucking Dr. Phil? You went from psychic to Dr. Phil in two seconds.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I also want you. There's something about the car here with your father. I don't know, but I'm talking about a car here. I don't know what it means if you're just getting a new car. He got a new car.

[Brian Green]

Oh, here comes. This is going badly. We got to stop this right now. This is live tv. I have. I have an assumption. This is live tv.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay. I gotta tell you that I'm gonna come over here. This lady. Are we almost closed?

[Brian Green]

We're nearly there. Just to see if you can.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

If you think you can just get it right.

[Brian Green]

We just want to see if you can actually say something that actually resonates with anybody in the audience, and then we'll move on without you here.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Do you have his ring or his watch also?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Are you wearing it?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Thank you. Just tell me that in my head. Okay.

[Brian Green]

Is anybody. Does anybody have a ring from their deceased love? From their loved one? Are you wearing it? Yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

You're very open. I want to talk about a picture that you had redone of him after he passed over or you moved the paint the picture of him.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Correct?

[Brian Green]

Correct.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes or no?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

You moved a picture.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. First of all, this lady looks like she has had a few too many Vicodin this morning. She is out of it, clearly. And she's like. Yes, yes. She sounds like a robot. Honestly, she's. It's a weird voice she's got. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Also, I want to tell you that he's sitting right next to you on that. Do you call it the couch? Do you call it the couch or the. He's sitting there with you. He smoked cigarettes.

[Brian Green]

Did he? No, no.

[Audience Member / Participant]

He's smoking the cigarettes. Are you smoking cigarettes?

[Brian Green]

Yes. Right now? I'm smoking right now. Yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Would you please stop? Cause he's there in the settee with you smoking the cigarettes. He's showing me cigarettes. Cigarettes, cigarettes.

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Okay?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He's sitting at the sitay.

[Brian Green]

It's not a sitay, you asshole. We're in Australia, not Mars.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I don't know who Paul is or Paulie or Paula. The name Paul. You understand that?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Who is that, please?

[Brian Green]

Friends.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay? He wants to say hello or thank.

[Brian Green]

You to a friend. The man I carried on an affair with for 30 years of my relationship. We were swingers.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Holy.

[Brian Green]

We were swingers. We call him Paulie Poundstone.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, my God.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Because they helped when he died. They were there, they were here, they were around.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no. Please thank James, the host.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Totally just got involved.

[Brian Green]

We gotta go. Okay, let's listen again. James Van Prague. Please thank James Van Praag. Hold on.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Paul, you understand that?

[James Van Praag (Psychic Medium)]

Paula?

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes. Who is that, please?

[Brian Green]

Friends.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay? He wants to say hello or thank you to them because they helped when he died. They were there, they were here, they were around. You don't know that.

[Brian Green]

No. Please thank James Van Prague. And cut. You know that he had a producer or an assistant or someone there that was freaking the out. Like, get him out of there. Get him out of there. He's not on his game. Yeah, he's bombing. You got to get him out of there.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I mean, he didn't get. He did not get anything, right?

[Brian Green]

No, he got nothing. Right. Except for the lady was wearing a ring of a deceased loved one, which probably is not that uncommon amongst a group of mainly women whose average age is 70 years old. But then the other thing is too, that you didn't see, if you're listening, is that on the bottom, they were running A ticker that said, tonight at the Melbourne, whatever, civic center, you know, get tickets. And so I wonder exactly how many tickets got sold because of that. Probably zero. Yeah.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, wow. That was amazing.

[Brian Green]

That was amazing. That was my favorite ever.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

That was brilliant. I want to watch it again.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Bomb.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He bombed with, like, five people.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I mean, listen, he really bombed the first time, too, but I think in his older age, he got quicker.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

He did, like, talk.

[Brian Green]

Talks faster. He talks faster. He bowls people over. Yeah. He doesn't give them enough time to say no. He senses that they're not. But here, no way. These ladies went right at him. You Australians, I love you.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I know.

[Brian Green]

I love you so much, Honestly. That's right. If I could live anywhere, if I was born, if I was, you know, somewhere else in the world, it would be the uk But Australia would be right behind it because you don't take. No, I love it. Good for you. Good for. Well done, Australia. Well done. I like that circle. I'm gonna. I'm gonna check out more of that. The circle, the circle, the circle.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Don't break it.

[Brian Green]

All right, well, before you go check out the circle, though, do us a favor. Let us know if you want to come see us 25th, 26th in Orlando, then in Tampa on the 26th. Orlando on the 25th. Tickets available soon. We'll let you know how. But more importantly, we'd like to know if you want to come, if you will come. 212-43.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

Especially if we're doing a cold reading.

[Brian Green]

Oh, we're gonna do this. There's gonna be a portion of this show that's dedicated to Brian and Chrissy doing a cold reading. We're gonna get, like, those old, like, you know, turban traveler hats circling your head. Have you ever owned a hat? No. Have you ever had. I see your son was in the. In the hats. Let us know by texting. 212-4333. TCB 212-433-3822. Let us know if you want to come to those shows. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. Ask Brian's mom, ask tcb you want to be on the show. All that stuff. Just text us and we'll communicate back with you. You can also leave us a voicemail. Please do us a favor. Go to the website, tcbpodcast.com all the audio, all the video, all the links to our sponsors, to our guests. DEZ Bishop was our guest this week, and we love him. Desbishop.net Add the commercial break on Instagram tcb podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break. All right. Also get your free sticker. Go to the contact us button on the website. All right, Chrissy, I think that's all that I can do for today.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I think so, man.

[Brian Green]

Was it a good one?

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

That was amazing.

[Brian Green]

I love you.

[Chrissy Joy Hly]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say, and we must say goodbye, Sam.