Live Million Dollar Challenge - TAM 2013

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 2013 million dollar challenge thank you very much I think most of you know my esteemed colleagues over here Richard Santos Jamie and Swiss and chicken now I do want to apologize I haven't been around this convention as much as I probably should have been but I've been very hard at working on the Criss Angel new television show for the last I know for the last four months which takes my on my time but I am here this evening and thank you all for showing up thank you all very much um last year how many of you were here last year when we tested Andrew needles okay good so there's some current news about Andrew and I'm going to leave it up to a very good friend of the jrf a gentleman who helped us out last year also the president of the Australian skeptics mr. Richard Saunders please okay thank you very much Jamie and banachek it's a great pleasure to be back here again at the amazing meeting and to be here again to do my small part in helping out a million dollar challenge it's very exciting indeed so I'd like to talk briefly if I may about last year's challenge especially for the benefit of those people who weren't here and we might get better keynote slide up if we may there we go last year for those who are hearing for the benefit of those who were not we tested a man by the name of Andrew needles now some months before mr. needles who's lives in California had written to me directly in Australia because he had seen some of the work I'd been involved with in exposing the power band band which I always carry some with me anyway and in what is a sign to me of his genuine outlook is that he was very keen to convince me that his power device his band weren't people who sincerely believed in what they're doing a very keen to convince the skeptic and as far as he could see I was the chief skeptic involved in this area and I should be the one who was convinced very long negotiations ensued between myself Banacek and mr. needles going over protocol after protocol after protocol in fact I suggested to mr. needles that this would be the opportunity and the event that he could show the world that his device actually worked and basically the claim was that if you were wearing his device his band you would show an increase in your core strength amongst amongst other things and we have a video clip to show you in just a moment which illustrates how he went about doing the tests which were very soon to the same sort of test we've seen with the likes of Power Balance and so on in fact if we have that clip ready I think we can run it now this is the million dollar challenge from last year in the back of my mix if I get number seven to step on into the box please good and if you'll take it right hand reach in the bag take out the box again make sure it's against the poem the line around face Angeles thank you I said a night please change hands yeah not yet it's an innate thank you step back over there face us reach it make sure the line goes against the farm turn around please my sandy place when we switching hands are switching hands do me a favor yep switch hands make sure the line goes into the farm please yep and if you'll turn around thank you the back in her place man got it it will turn around face in the woods if if you'll have a seat please it's a dynamic bracelet in a will be it's an a target is a to the my place here okay okay alright if we went up there please and also open up being let's see boys in a and the dynamic grace lives in be and would you mark that as a passport failure and at this point you do understand that the test has failed but we agreed that we would go through every trial until we do all 20 right good yes we're not going to put you through the rest of the test that's quite all right you can just imagine about 18 more hours of that but because the point is on the occasion mr. needles failed to demonstrate that his device worked any better than a placebo band which we had in the in the other box and I think at the time he took it in his stride and he was here even answering questions from the audience and it's all well and good but not so long ago we discovered that he's put something on his website under the banner of Thank You J Rev he now considers that those tests in fact proved his device works we get back to what Belichick and Jamie and Swiss was saying earlier and indeed the subject of my talk yesterday is it's to us it's a big indication a red flag the sincerity of these people that they'll come up with ways to explain failure and to protect their own belief systems it's worth looking at if you google Thank You J ref and Dan active or Andrew needles you'll see that Paige makes a very very interesting reading indeed well now to this year's million-dollar challenge we have mr. Rahim adun in Algeria and that's where he is right now standing by we're going to be hooking up with him very soon his claim is one of remote viewing in other words by methods that both ways we don't quite understand mr. Rahim in Algeria can sense or view objects in another location in this case the other location is this very hotel we have been fortunate to be working with mr. Adams's representative Mustafa who will be meeting shortly what we were asked to do in order to make this test the reality was to find 25 everyday objects they couldn't be too small and they must be objects that one could easily see from the other side of the room in other words no fine details or anything like that so we did manage to find 25 objects we pass those on to mr. Adam and his representative from staffer who eliminated five of those objects to leave us with twenty a few points that things I must point out now mr. ADUN wants us to remember that normally he would prefer to do this sort of thing outside the Holy period of Ramadan we acknowledged that that's what he's told us but we acknowledged that he has given us his complete confidence even though it is Ramadan he can still achieve the result that he claims so we do acknowledge that and in choosing our 25 objects excuse me we were asked to keep in mind various Islamic sensibility so we didn't choose a wine bottle for example and that was completely alright in fact it was up to us the representatives of the jrf to collect these objects it wasn't up to the claimant here are the final 20 and as you can see I think given we were under somewhat limited time we came up with the final 20 objects which are quite quite different quite distinct I don't think you could confuse one with another and that certainly is our goal and you'll notice each of them is on a large piece of paper with its corresponding number some numbers are missing they were the objects that were eventually disregarded mr. Doon must give us three of those objects that we chose at random those three objects have been secured in that room across the hall you've no doubt seen which say million dollar challenge and the door seal the odds we'll get into later with chilli that will come up soon for your interest the five objects that were considered unsuitable were a towel a book a notepad a little brush and a deck of playing cards that's fine we're quite happy to accept that those those items were not acceptable here is a photograph of the door again which you've no doubt seen when it came time to secure the objects one person and one person only knew what the objects were smuggled them into the to the room put them on the table in a very specific order as requested by mr. Odom in Algeria with a personal item of our friend Mustafa in the middle that person left the room locked the door and applied the first lot of seal of tape you can see on the door then he beckoned to Jamie and Swit myself and chip and Mustafa who were all down the other end of the hall we walked up examined the door and then Mustafa continued to seal the door all the cracks and he wrote on a large piece of card some writing as you can see in the close-up put some more tape on I can't assign them as you can see down the bottom even more tape and that's where those objects have remained for the past three days as requested by mr. doom now ladies and gentlemen given the limitations of such a test in such a hotel at this amazing meeting when we're all quite busy doing other things and having a great time given those limitations I think we've come up with a bloody good protocol and I hope we'll have a very interesting result for this year's $1,000,000 challenge thank so as you just heard Richard say three objects were chosen at random and and kept secret the test requires that all three be identified correctly but we don't care what order as long as the three are identified now let's take a look at some of the probabilities here in if he were merely guessing we should be not terribly surprised if he gets at least one there's about a 40% chance of getting at least one of those three objects in fact there's about a one chance in 20 or 21 that he would get at least two but to actually succeed and pass the preliminary trial he must get all three and the chances of that are one in 1140 in fact if we had asked every single person here at Tam this weekend to participate and take a guess we might reasonably expect that just one of you would have gotten lucky and succeeded but in this particular case it's up to our one individual in Algeria and he has the burden of one chance in 1140 so of course mr. every dune could not be here he's in Algeria but he has a representative here and when I asked that representative to come up here mr. Mustafa please would you come up please give him a round of course hello sir how are you good if you'll step right over here please and as the legal representative of mr. mr. Dewan you've read the protocol you've agreed to the protocol he also took a look at the room ahead of time it was satisfactory is that correct yes and you've agreed to the protocol and this doe doing this query to this protocol is that correct yes what I need you to do is to make it really official and if you just sign that and put today's date on there as well please thank you all right thank you very much this passes over here so we don't lose that if you will take that police thank you just hold on that for me at this point we need to get mr. are doing it up on skype so if we can get mr. doing up on the Skype that would be fantastic please still having issues right now so we have a back-up plan if the sky doesn't come up they've been trying to get it once Skype this entire time um speaking of it yes okay and if we can just you know as he speaks if you put on it's a way to put that on speakerphone because you do want a Skype call right like I can do a good and you will be interpreting for him as I correct not having a looking at an end you'll get you added in laughs sorry ladies and Joanne technical difficulties we were afraid a little bit of this and we had a back-up plan but the back-up plan is well not working either the cooling oh my god when you have your own a homo let everyone get ready so sorry I have to consult with my colleagues for one minute can you play it in please as many like for a Lumpkins habit of Pullman's the platicas object Halligan saber it's not comparable utterly numero uno Schwab shape real quickly though is there a way he can Skype buzz I would much rather see him and just hear wonderful and finished unit area to look at it can we do this in French then you try anything in French yeah you know he's yeah he's gonna have to try and do all right you can speak to him in his language if he could just reveal it to us in French that would that would have fun but not yet first of all I want to make sure that he is certainly it was happy with the protocol yes we can get him a set of points ibrahim is good protocol satisfactory tomorrow dinner I don't know who's good Your Honor we ask in protocol the class satisfactory this man a Galilean relativity oh yes okay we can I get him to identify himself by name please we can doubt of bra slowly running the peloton will be fancy that banana kaaya do not have a brain oh no is mad flow from difference even when they're not own um and and how well does he think he is going to do on this test morning sue Gill visual slam be better the pacientes estimate is properly really the art authority the colonists would capital a filter to the top of the governor himself how confident is he that he is going years yes very good confidence the circumstances of the time it's it's a bit harder for him to do it but he still confident but he's very confident that he has passed his test all right good um exactly yes yes we've been in contact with him and he just said he asked Matt so yeah yeah okay good so can he give us the number and the name of the first item please okay object dogs in do people emigrate to the time the window will appear numeral sank the pathogenic which means number five pepper power five paper towel can I get him to repeat that one more time please never nearly wrap em up in you perfect each other yep yes okay okay number two balls do see emotions hello Brian a loop we buy lots money at all yeah we're going to common back now I do what you I would like you all to keep in mind that even though I'm saying one two I'm getting in that order the order does not matter at all he just has to get the items themselves not in any particular order first a second yes exactly yeah that's good yeah caught myself on that so now we're running after never dizzy emotions on the racks dr. blank give you a cab from the tanker bundle they said Nemo has the scent which is the number 13 13 the coat hanger content outline need military pant and pork knuckles and the final object lesson the real problem in the remember unglued they have the up chips book he said you know ventilator-associated chips which means number 22 of the chips and can forget him to repeat that points and I can tell him to do me alone good because the chaos interrupts just to say very good few because the call was interrupted in the middle can he just call off all three numbers again please for it's okay Brian different applause thank the e- stamp for augmenting it will the numeral until I finish it Travis all right perfect good I just put the phone down for right now if you would and what we're going to do at this point is I am going to ask the only person who has the key to that particular would come out and that would be DJ growth DJ which command please thank you very much I'd like you to give the keys to Richard please if you will because Richard also sign the door as well and we're going to take a little journey we're going to head over there you guys will get to watch it on the screen and you can see the door open if you just let them know what we're doing please wait Wei Brian Vaughn another Hindu couple they can come in under a little bit too I pursue the cupola so she happily was good I'm going to learn to walk about ten minutes are probably less than that but yes two units at same but don't tell town not to go anywhere please so DJ can afford the car yes philosophy band got a downline Annette Annette fashion look what the maximum diamond yeah okay sir okay all right you take care what okay Jamie's gonna take over it you know you know see it on the screens becomes a thousand three of them are now going to head to the room and Ragini was gonna come along with us to the way the way we originally sealed it very good we originally sealed it was the put the objects were put in place only the person who was only one person who knew what the objects were only one person who was present to put them in place and then the room was initially sealed at which point all of us came to the door along with his representative Mustafa Mustafa and Richard both signed that card you probably seen and then the doors were more thoroughly taped everyone satisfaction so now you can see them on video going to the room and so down what's going to happen is they're going to unseal the tape remove that signed paper etc I do want to point out Jamie I know you can hear me in there I'm sorry to interrupt you I want to point out we are now outside the door the door was signed by Mustafa it was also signed by Richard Santos would you rich it please check and make sure your signatures on there please mr. Mustafa would you take a look and make sure that your signatures on there and hasn't been tampered with yes okay good I'm going to ask you mr. Mustafa to please start to remove the tape if you will so what's all the Tabas I'll know wait until after then well the last thing will be to unlock the door now we were given instructions as to exactly what the configuration was of the objects on the table and there we removed everything else from the room other than the table and the target objects and the perd one personal object and so the first thing that's going to happen when these doors are open is we will ask that a staffer confirm that everything is according to the originally requests and designs protocol we didn't want to take a pick sure of that ahead of time I have any other conversation of that because we didn't want any chance leaking that information I'd like you to unlock the door if you up and with some stuff I'd like you to come stand right over here if you were please thank you very much and as I say so I'd like you to open the door and just kind of step back to the side I would like the camera to see what the objects are before we even really get to see what this object okay there yeah okay we already if you look for this door so it looks like we have number 11 which is the necktie number 23 which is a stuffed elephant a number 10 which is just a little tea salsa yes so it looks as if none of them were correct so we can now step in if you would just bring the camera to see the person object there in the middle would be number 11 that was the personal attention at number 23 which come on men in mr. mostafa and everything is kind of as it was except for the objects before correct yes and you would agree that this was indeed of just a failure this time this yes so they're going to be kind of on the whole time yep okay not that no you would know all right so let's take the objects back in there come from you here I'm occupied with a lot contact our test subject and I have no the results and up no definitely not so we stopped of you you're going to reach go back to the phone and give the information but can I ask I'm not sure just to make sure this was completely asked you can confirm that what you now saw in the room for the first time was completely consistent with all of the probe met the requirements of the protocols it was on the table according to the manner in which it was designed everything was was consistent with that yes absolutely okay thank you very much and I will have to sell Rodya - show me an open connection yep whoops maybe not now oh it's DJ's phone the latter domina any questions yes I'd like to take questions if that's at all possible so my first question is was he surprised by the result and what does he think about the room about the result yeah delco shoot ellipta Kenya was great ladies if I marry Rama Hari and on the lesson eleven ten and twenty three layer juice a owns a ladies another one same time so like Roberto tops a haddock will radically relief on he did is like more than what he can like his efforts and and it looks like the time it was was really the the factor of timing was more than more than what he has anticipated that it would affect him so he's effectively working like seventh of his normal power as outsider but he's not he said he's not he's not giving any excuses I mean this is this is what it is and can I get you just to ask him one question because even before we started this we did ask you know how well he thought he would do and he did say that he thought he would succeed and then he'd be successful I mean it wasn't at that point where he did say that you know it's only one seventh of my ability at that point but so now you know we're saying that and we understand you know respectfully so it is during Ramadan he did say you know it's not the optimal trifle and I'm thinking would be six when that aspect was discussed yes even though he mentioned that we then asked nevertheless a confident that you can ancillary this time or do we have to do the test at another time yeah he absolutely agree that and he could have made that choice Cyril yeah yeah he could have made that choice but at the time we asked anyone he really wanted to to do it during this event so that's that's what what he was hoping for so we have time for maybe just a couple of question and answers ready well we are Athenians Midori Reseda yeah I want to ask what was the significance of the arrangement of the items or why was that chosen why would that help him I suppose bomb prime Pakistan say Toria Tolley hot OB handle is obvious cookin fake and under the theorem Allen f1-style couilles makkac on three young as cuss and has a special last night for example over the television is a venerable maha that I don't even know her name and remember right so he said no none of that affected it its he repeated again it's just I think I think the question was what was significance of like the distance you know that you could actually see the objects and the fact you have the lights on and those things is that the question right the t-shirts in the center why the objects around it what is the significance of that yes he said I mean it there is there is no significance as the orientation of the a of the objects so but very specifically he wanted your t-shirt had to be in the center yes no no he's just so that it's it's within equal distance from all the objects because he uses that as as a beacon kind of thing to to find the other place so yeah okay next question magnify what what media network what made you think that it was the paper towels the coat hanger and the chips what kind of sense is that he get to make him conclude that those are the items but I him like his symbolic virtually select isma wonderful deck Herman Billy ha comedies object and Papagena Cassandra will with chips ask miss Michelle has analytics data said Billy Atacama the anomaly by becoming the recession Hollinger the ground wave and the greatest athletic community - hello Duncan on the rocking completely negates or another community that a lot of example of when I have a big Libyan people come here for my grandfather into the Ascension said that I mean he tried his best to he doesn't see them very clearly so it's up to him to to kind of rule out so if he sees something that looks like a hanger he has to somehow rule out that is it for example a tie that that is oriented as the hangar or it's the angle so it's there's a kind of firm we call it ruling out process that he has to go through and and maybe he made a mistake due along the way so next question yes could I clarify something yep it sounds like it's a visual thing that he's getting is that correct yeah that's that's actually why one of the things that we really wanted is that he would choose the objects like say for example I want a small chair a ball a car etc etc but just given the time of this test we weren't able to accommodate that so that's one other you know that that's one another factor that that he it would be ideal for him if he chooses their choses the objects of course jf would be will get the actual object so that there's no trickery there or there is no GPS chip or something but it's it would be better if he chose the the objects so yeah Jamie another question does the does this result make him doubt his ability and if not what kind of evidence would it take what would it take for him to doubt that he does in fact have visibility him look tomorrow hello no way Garrick asked ahead Louisa terra ethylic chick-fil-a Phil Matier attack who was one shoulder is another - dick check is mike shanin test doesn't do the show the check I am after deciding finale thank God remember no well nothing to new niggy the arm he said we would never doubt his his abilities just because for the simple fact that they have been confirmed by him and by other people and it's it's not like something that he's imagining or it's just the timing again he said the timing could have a the results but this point is not he has no doubt in his abilities we'll take one more question one last question right here yes I I'm just trying to understand the process a little better the room was sealed for three days did he find one object each day did he go to the room more than once I'm just trying to figure out how he I would get the process of getting these three items or water is Madison theater Ozawa's kinetic energy no ability to mechanically neither shall apparent Anna Nagar Chennai efficient concessions he - technically pregnant people are given the lack of complex method cloud I lived on as much Wesker's good at this yes so the he would need three days regardless of the number of the object it's just he said again it's under the normal circumstances it would be much clearer that because he he kind of sends the question and then he gets the answer after three days and usually he gets it extremely clear but because he had never worked during the month of ramadhan this is a kind of a contract but that he he follows and this time it was a kind of fog so he will he he had to really work and try to you know rule out or or try to guess which object it is so so that's stuff could you please convey to mr. doom because we realize this is the time of Ramadan the James Randi Educational Foundation is willing to forego the normal 12 month waiting period and if he wishes to reapply again he can do that when he feels comfortable willing to reschedule attest as soon as he wishes outside of Ramadan one-way blind baggage is attributable to their tests at the Fethullah Gulen from pumpkin exceptional and third apply of death on the horizon yes he appreciates that and and he said then then it will be fair because he will be what it is full capacity and then he appreciates would you convey an hour our greatest thanks for him for being part of this tamil eesha please and tell him we will be in touch thank you we do want to say Randy want one make sure that we said that our applicant and also his representative to stop and absolutely forthright easy to work with throughout and made every effort to make sure that everything was communicated clearly for both sides and we're very grateful absolutely yeah thank you very much yeah from from my side I'd like to to thank Jeff and and really the designing the the protocol was really a very unique experience for for me and it's I get I get to know that I'm working with professionals I mean professionals this in this specific area right and and again I'm wearing the the t-shirt of you know sorry young I'm actually as passionate as any one of you here in fighting the fakers as any one of you and and again we're still looking for that paranormal supernatural if it exists or if not that's that's a you know that's the right mindset right open but but very skeptical that this knowledge on so we come to the end of not just another MVC when we come to the end of another town sadly so but also excitingly so because that means we have to start getting ready for the next year and that starts now so once again ladies and gentlemen I'd like to thank each and every single one of you for coming here I know some of these MDC's take a little bit long and even like here with a communication back and forth is a little bit awkward but I'm sure you understand what we have to go through and you get a much better look at what it is that we we all go through and this is a collective effort we are definitely a team and none of us could do any of this without each one of us and especially without the amazing Randi I mean his guidance is invaluable is something to say and we also really appreciate your enthusiastic attention to this last year I have to say we were really worried up here about the amount of time it took and it was really kind of a difficult process and later on tonight at the Del Mar where I will be in mere seconds from now III will be there for a look that I've got to pick up a dead body race you there mofo but you know people more than one the first thought I thought it was a joke I thought I was being punked but you know by the third time the night people came up and said you know the MDC event was our favorite event of the conference and I think what that speaks to is people who really understand what we're trying to do here at the J Reve what the MDC represents about our mission in the larger sense of it and your focus and your attendance that attention to that means a tremendous amount to us all so thank you very much I said thank you good night thanks a lot

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Published: Fri Feb 14 2014