Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Season 1

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003 - 2010), also known as Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!, Penn & Teller: Bullsh**!, Penn & Teller: BS!, and informally as Bullshit!, is an American Emmy-nominated television series on the premium cable channel Showtime. It is h… more »

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One of the weird things Houdini discovered is that some of these mediums actually slip into believing their own bullshit. They forget their own misses, or as John Edward, the Biggest Douche in the Universe, does, rewrite them as hits that we're just not able to recognize. Cold reading can be done accidentally. That doesn't mean the psychic is a better person. Lying to themselves does not make lying to others OK. It can make intellectually lazy scumbags more convincing and dangerous. But even if these f***s know they're just making this shit up and pushing people's buttons, they tell themselves, "At least I'm comforting the bereaved." Who the f*** are they to decide that lying about the universe and a dead loved one is what the bereaved needs!? That's condescending bullshit!

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