After Hours video viewing

[Oso]

Apparently I'm not the only one desperate to see Penn & Teller's Showtime appearance. I just talked to Linda and she said she is also eager to see it. In fact she said (if I remind her Thursday) that she will see to it that a VCR is available and we can use the meeting room after hours to view it, plus any other tapes people may bring, such as old Johnny Carson shows, "The Biggest Douche..." etc.

So the question is, who can bring what? I think Buddyh said he would bring a copy of Penn & Teller, but the more copies the better. What else?

[darling]

I can also bring along copies of the Horizon program and the very cool Derren Brown shows from England.

Must remember to transfer them tonight!

[Oso]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank You!
You are my hero budddyh!
The first pizza's on me.

Oso (aka Bill Morrow)

[Segnosaur]

I can bring some episodes of "The 5th Quadrant"... its a show appearing on the Comedy Network here in Canada, that makes fun of the paranormal by having 'fake' segments. (Kind of a cross between the Daily Show and the Red Green Show.)

Not a great show, but it has its moments.

I can also make copies of it for anyone who wishes.

[Jack of Hearts]

You'd better sell tickets for this -- oh, wait, you are! :D

Can you imagine a room filled to overflowing with skeptics laughing their butts off at the JE "South Park" episode (aka "The Biggest Douche...")?

Can we see any of the old "Carlos" stuff? How about some secret footage of Uri Geller bending spoons the easy way? Or that old 8mm of Randi levitating! :p


John

[Reager]

The JREF also has an extensive video library with many (most?) of Randi's media appearances. Although I've never checked, I would be shocked if it did not include his Tonight Show spots.


Mike

[markb]

If the hotel gets Showtime, we can get together Friday night to watch episode 2 of Penn & Teller: Bullsh!t.

[Oso]

from Segnosaur:
Can you imagine a room filled to overflowing with skeptics laughing their butts off at the JE "South Park" episode (aka "The Biggest Douche...")?
Oh yes... I can!
OK who's got the South Park tape?
from markb:
If the hotel gets Showtime, we can get together Friday night to watch episode 2 of Penn & Teller: Bullsh!t.
Agreed, so we'll (I'll) also need to see if we can get a TV into the meeting room. If not we can adjorn after showing the 1st episode of ******** then re-adjorn.

We'll probably need to do it again Saturday (and Sunday?) because lots of people will be gone to the planetarium. on Friday and the pub crawl on Saturday.

[AtheistArchon]

- Heh heh... "after hours video" viewing. :D That sounds a little naughty. However, if you guys INSIST, I can bring some tapes...

[Dinonychus]

Originally posted by mfeldman
The JREF also has an extensive video library with many (most?) of Randi's media appearances. Although I've never checked, I would be shocked if it did not include his Tonight Show spots.

Randi was on the Tonight Show? When was this and where was I?

[hal bidlack]

He was on over 20 times, starting with Jack Parr, and running into Johnny Carson. I saw him doing 'pychic surgery" once, very amusing.

[Skeptu Maloo]

I can bring Randi's "Secrets of the Psychics" NOVA program. It features Randi on Johnny Carson doing the Psychic surgery, as well as Uri's FLOP on the Tonight Show, among many other things. of course, some of you may be buying this video there, but I can bring it just in case.

—John Crisp

[Reager]

Originally posted by hal bidlack
He was on over 20 times, starting with Jack Parr, and running into Johnny Carson. I saw him doing 'pychic surgery" once, very amusing.

Don't hate me, but I'm too young to remember any of Randi's appearances, or the PLNW (pre late night wars) Tonight Show. My only memory of watching Carson (not including clips and recent compilations) is of his very last show.

Mike

[Oso]

From Hal:
He was on over 20 times, starting with Jack Parr, and running into Johnny Carson. I saw him doing 'pychic surgery" once, very amusing.

So how about it Hal, can we dip into the library and show some of the Johnny Carson/Jack Parr appearances? That'll get people eager to buy "Secrets of the Psychos" (oops... sp -1). I've never seen any of the Jack Parr shows.

[darling]

Originally posted by budddyh
I can also bring along copies of the Horizon program and the very cool Derren Brown shows from England.

Must remember to transfer them tonight! Can't find the Horizon tape. If someone else has it, that's great, otherwise I'm sure the JREF is supposed to have a copy.

Plenty of other things to keep us amused though...

[hal bidlack]

I don't know if any dipping can be done for this meeting, as our hands are quite full already. But that does seem like somethign to think about on the website later, if the copyright issues can be resolved.

Lawyers?

[Electric Monk]

Originally posted by Oso

Oh yes... I can!
OK who's got the South Park tape?


I didn't see a response to this, so I've made a tape of both the John Edward South Park and first episode of Penn & Teller, and will bring them with me.

--JAH

[Dinonychus]

Originally posted by hal bidlack
He was on over 20 times, starting with Jack Parr, and running into Johnny Carson. I saw him doing 'pychic surgery" once, very amusing.

IOW, before I was born.

I knew Randi was old, but I didn't think he was that old. He was on the Tonight Show when Jack Parr was host? Damn.

[Linda]

Randi's birthday is August 7, 1928. Do the math.

[Jack of Hearts]

ON THIS DATE: August 7

1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
1928 James "Amazing" Randi born in Toronto, Ontario
1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban "Ulysses"
1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1953 Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
1970 1st computer chess tournament
1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
1974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center
1976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1976 Scientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

[dimossi]

I may bring CDs with me that contain video of the following:

South Park - The Biggest Douche In The Universe

Penn and Teller - Bullsh!t - Talking to the Dead

...and more.


Send me a PM or just look for me at the meeting if interested.

[Oso]

Well, the late night video shows on Friday and Saturday night turned out better than I could have possible hoped for. You just can't beat Penn & Teller plus South Park's 'Biggest Douche In The Universe' shown back to back. Then to top it off citytom, who lives nearby, taped Friday nights ******** and brought it in so we could see it Saturday night. What can I say but... Amazing!

Linda said she got a lot of positive feedback and we'll plan on doing it again next year. But it'll be hard to top. The coincidence of South Park having just aired the John Edward dig and Penn & Teller starting their ******** series provided a hard to duplicate combination.

Of course the man who deserves ALL the credit is Dave the video guru. I actually didn't do anything but announce what was going to be shown, Dave did ALL the work.

I didn't get all the video's that were volunteered returned, so what was left behind was given to Linda. The two that were left were the Derren Brown 'Mind Control' tape (we didn't have time to show it, hopefully next year) which buddyh provided and Penn & Teller's 1st show in the series (I don't remember who left it, we had several brought in), so Linda's got them both.

Of course I kept the 5th quadrant tape that segnosaur brought myself. I need to 'review' it closely before showing (I'm a big 'Red Green' fan and it's done by the same people). I promise I'll bring it back next year.

And let's thank Dave one more time. Not only did he provide a great copy of 'The Biggest Douche...', he had edited all the commercials out of it. What a guy!


Oh, and if you wondered why you didn't see my nick on the 'Attendees' list, it's because Linda used my full nick, osoalegre (happy bear in Spanish).

[darling]

Originally posted by Oso
I didn't get all the video's that were volunteered returned, so what was left behind was given to Linda. The two that were left were the Derren Brown 'Mind Control' tape (we didn't have time to show it, hopefully next year) which buddyh provided and Penn & Teller's 1st show in the series (I don't remember who left it, we had several brought in), so Linda's got them both. They would both be mine. But I was figuring I'd lose them, so there's no urgency to get 'em back to me.