Recap of the latest Montel...

[Kilgore Trout]

Cursed Husband's Civil War memorabilia. Sylvia: Just get rid of it. Montel: You don't have to get rid of it, just box it up in the garage or put it under your husband's side of the bed.

A heavy set woman. <confusion> Not fat but thick. <pause... Maybe my step mother?> Very pretty eyes. She would raise her eyebrows when she was surprised. <blank nod> Montel: Ask your family. (Curiously, Sylvia doesn't even get a hit with 'raised eyebrows.' Doesn't everyone do that? :eye-poppi )

What about a heart shaped ring? <sniffles and shuffles around a little> He wants you to keep wearing it. Oh you know I didn't see that. <nods to the woman's hand and audience chuckles>

Magical Billy Bass - runs without batteries and warns of danger.

Sylvia says a dying mother's final, unintelligible words were: "Your father is not your father." (Hilarity ensues. Montel sneaks in, 'let it go, you don't have to say anything to him..')

Some kind of chain or a ring? 'Key chain' pulled from the woman's sock: close enough.

Restless dead father inadvertently terrorizing daughter. "Just tell him to stop."

Orbs are always angels. Good to know.

Will my friend find love? Yes, but not for six years. Montel: Why is that person going crazy? Oh that's the friend! You're going to have a lot of Mr. Mediums until Mr. Right. You can have some fun just remember they all have expiration dates. (then a more interesting moment, over the laughter and Montel Sylvia shouts that the woman hasn't been a good judge of men; the reply is "Oh yes I have." Montel points out that if she were, she'd be with someone.)

Finally good news for a woman with bad luck with men, a dark haired man by the end of the year. How bad of luck? Her last boyfriend was taken away by federal marshals. Montel says that's one but she said 'all bad luck, how about another?' Her ex-husband is a wanted felon. Oh, and she wants to work at a prison. This has little to do with Sylvia, but the comedy was was just ripe.

[Miss Whiplash]

I wonder if the woman with the CW artifacts had the cannonballs defused. People still turn up cannonballs from the Civil War around here. And sometimes they go "BOOM!"in the night. People forget these are unstable unexploded ordinances.

Strange, even though a battle was fought on my family's property, I've never encountered a ghost.

[MelBrooksfan]

Magical Billy Bass - runs without batteries and warns of danger.



I have got to see this.

[Miss Whiplash]

I have got to see this.

It was the ghost of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero. :D

[MelBrooksfan]

It was the ghost of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero. :D

What could he have possibly done to deserve being forced to inhabit a plastic singing fish?

[Lisa Simpson]

Please to enjoy:

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[RSLancastr]

Sylvia says a dying mother's final, unintelligible words were: "Your father is not your father." (Hilarity ensues. Montel sneaks in, 'let it go, you don't have to say anything to him..')This is disgusting.

And explains why the disclaimer audience members have to sign talks about the possibility of being embarrassed by what Browne says.

If this segment is how it has been described to me, it is another article in the making.

[LostAngeles]

That can't be serious. They had to be putting Sylvia and Montel on...

[Stellafane]

...Sylvia says a dying mother's final, unintelligible words were: "Your father is not your father."...


If Sylvia was at all serious when she said this, she's just plain evil.

Yeah I know, well duh, but this is sadistic. If the father is still alive, it would have been less destructive if Sylvia claimed the mother's last words were "I always hated you!"

[Lisa Simpson]

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[Just thinking]

Amazing how she fell dumb when asked who it was.

(The truth is out there ... just look.)

[Kilgore Trout]

This is disgusting.

And explains why the disclaimer audience members have to sign talks about the possibility of being embarrassed by what Browne says.

If this segment is how it has been described to me, it is another article in the making.

Maybe it was because it was just so absurd that I didn't pick up on some clues, but my take was that, although the 'information' was potentially a powder keg, the woman wasn't aghast or even really embarrassed. Perhaps she isn't much of a believer and thought it was "entertainment." Or perhaps she's such a believer of Sylvia she took it as absolute fact. Or, I suppose, perhaps she doesn't think it too far from believable that her mother could have done such a thing. Or maybe I'm becoming oddly desensitized to Sylvia's callousness and reacted like a fan of Jerry Springer.

Was there a little more to that segment? I could have sworn Montel said something like she didn't need to tell anyone (or her father?) about it.

[MelBrooksfan]

Montel seems to be playing damage control, here. Could it be that, perhaps, he's moving toward turning over a new leaf or is that his usual role when Sylvia is on the show?

[Lisa Simpson]

Montel always does damage control for Sylvia. Like with the woman whose fiancee was a firefighter in the WTC on 9/11. Sylvia told the woman he had drowned, and then after the woman stated he was firefighter on 9/11 Montel pipes up with something like "he could have drowned from the firefighting water."

[Lisa Simpson]

Was there a little more to that segment? I could have sworn Montel said something like she didn't need to tell anyone (or her father?) about it.

He says "Is there anyway to find out" then he says she should "let it go". Sylvia says something like "your father is your father."

[Kilgore Trout]

In this latest one a woman's brother was in a car accident in a Jeep, and Sylvia brought up water again, going so far as to just ask if it was marshy, but the Jeep had overturned near a church. Montel asked about a sprinkler system which got the woman to light up. Turns out they were there some time before and the sprinkler system came on.

[MelBrooksfan]

Montel always does damage control for Sylvia. Like with the woman whose fiancee was a firefighter in the WTC on 9/11. Sylvia told the woman he had drowned, and then after the woman stated he was firefighter on 9/11 Montel pipes up with something like "he could have drowned from the firefighting water."

I was thinking more along the line of trying to stop people from acting on the extremes Sylvia was recomending (throwing out her husband's valuables, for example). He has no excuse for trying to justify Sylvia's misses. And your example is a hell of a miss.

[grayman]

I wonder if the woman's father is still alive and can he sue for defamation of character or something...anything?

[MelBrooksfan]

If he were a litigous person, I suppose he could make a case for slander. But, he would have to demonstrate that his reputation was harmed by the statement.

[grayman]

Magical Billy Bass - runs without batteries and warns of danger.


I have got to see this.

Here's a Billy Bass (http://www.killfrog.com/joomla_folder/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=27) that's better. Hope the link works.

ETA: Sorry for the derail if you follow the link. :boxedin:

[RSLancastr]

Montel always does damage control for Sylvia. Like with the woman whose fiancee was a firefighter in the WTC on 9/11. Sylvia told the woman he had drowned, and then after the woman stated he was firefighter on 9/11 Montel pipes up with something like "he could have drowned from the firefighting water."No, he was totally at a loss to do any damage control on that one.

The transcript can be read here:

http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/articles/montel_911fireman.shtml

It was one time even Montel couldn't seem to stomach it.

[Lisa Simpson]

You're right...for some reason I remembered it as Montel saying the firefighting water part, but it was Sylvia.

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Does she say anything that would indicate if her father is still alive or not?

The woman in the video is lovely, btw. Sylvia's flattering description of her mother is probably based on the woman's looks.

[JoeTheJuggler]

Sylvia's spirit guide must be a dowser--you know, the kind of person who thinks it's meaningful that any particular place is somehow near water.

[Zep]

Most inhabited places are "near" water of some sort. For various values of "near", and "water".

[Just thinking]

Does she say anything that would indicate if her father is still alive or not?

As I said in Post 11, she immediately fell dumb when Montel asked who it was, as if she was surprised that anyone would even ask. That reaction alone shows how fraudulent the whole thing was. And to think that no one (at least in watching) in the whole audience picked that up. For me it just jumped out screaming "FAKER!!"

[Lisa Simpson]

Does she say anything that would indicate if her father is still alive or not?

The woman in the video is lovely, btw. Sylvia's flattering description of her mother is probably based on the woman's looks.

I believe her father is dead, as the woman says "I loved my daddy".

Yeah, I got that too. The woman had sort of a gypsy quality to her, so saying that about her mom was a pretty good guess.

[ObscureReferenceMan]

Is it just me, or is Sylvia's voice getting more and more "gravelly"? I'm guessing she's chain-smoking even more, what with Robert's site, the jewelry debacle, the collapse of the Canadian branch of Novus Spiritus. Did I miss anything?

[Reno]

She's certainly looking more and more like Jabba the Hutt as time goes by.

[Pythra]

I wonder what's going through her head when she does these shows and readings. She must know that if she says something really disastrous it's going to be picked up in no time by her critics. Has anybody noticed if she's trying to make 'safer' predictions now than before StopSylviaBrowne went up?

[Miss Whiplash]

She seams to be saying less and less on the show.

Edit: Pythra, I've noticed it, too.

BTW: Look for the miss she made yesterday.

My Weekly Sylvia Report (http://www.mondoskepto.com/node/134)

[Miss Anthrope]

Oh boy, I would love for someone to go on with the fake diamonds and ask her about that. This woman is disgusting!

[Skeptic Guy]

Please to enjoy:

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The woman with the "Bass" has to be making it up and I can only assume that it is in order to gain attention and get her face on national television.

EUMpsEvz12M

That is just evil. If her father is still alive, I hope they at least do a DNA test to prove he's her father.

Is it just me, or is Sylvia's voice getting more and more "gravelly"? I'm guessing she's chain-smoking even more, what with Robert's site, the jewelry debacle, the collapse of the Canadian branch of Novus Spiritus. Did I miss anything?

Randi on Anderson Cooper's 360 report a few months back?

[Moochie]

She's certainly looking more and more like Jabba the Hutt as time goes by.


They found a cane toad in suburban Melbourne today. Its appearance was spookily familiar...

M.

[Tamazon]

If her father is still alive,

I heard her say "I loved my daddy" - past tense. So it sounds like he's dead. But she sure didn't seem to distressed to find out her mother was a trollop.

[Skeptic Guy]

I heard her say "I loved my daddy" - past tense. So it sounds like he's dead. But she sure didn't seem to distressed to find out her mother was a trollop.

Yeah, heard that too. Maybe that's what it means... When she was first told, it seemed that she was taken aback. At least that's how I interpreted her face, but you're right, she got over it real quick, or was just making the best of it.

[slyjoe]

She's certainly looking more and more like Jabba the Hutt as time goes by.

:)

[T'ai Chi]

She's certainly looking more and more like Jabba the Hutt as time goes by.

Thanks for that 'critical thinker' reply...

[PastBrowneFan]

Is it just me, or is Sylvia's voice getting more and more "gravelly"? I'm guessing she's chain-smoking even more, what with Robert's site, the jewelry debacle, the collapse of the Canadian branch of Novus Spiritus. Did I miss anything?

Ministers resigning, the separation of the Delaware Church from Novus, various law enforcement agencies starting to look into the jewelry debacle, the GSB website losing steam, "Churches" that only hold services once a month, Study Group numbers declining, property tax bills, spies feeding RSL information, and the still untapped information that is yet to come out....................

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

God, I'm going crazy waiting for my show to air. You don't think that...

[RSLancastr]

Hang in there, Eeney!

[LostAngeles]

This episode and in particular, the clip of, "your father is not your father," made Clip of the Week on The Soup today. They called her the, "Apathetic Psychic," and the host, Joel McHale, made constant requests for Benson & Hedges 100s while imitating her voice.

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

The way I explain the "embarrassing information" in the contract is that any real psychic would be able to unearth all your secrets and embarrassing episodes from your past. They'd know everything that you don't want anyone to know.

That's why it's for the better that psychics don't exist cause it would be such an invasion of your privacy.

That's also one reason they don't exist- they never tell you anything you don't want to them to know about because cold-reading depends on them repeating the information the sitter will share.

Same thing about "information that might be surprising and/or funny": you'd think a psychic would be able to tell you alot of things you don't know and alot of things about you that are funny and surprising but cold-reading depends on extracting what you know.

You'd think one danger of psychics would be that they'd embarrass you by telling everyone about your loss of virginity, the first time you got drunk, fights with your family, your adulteries etc.

Psychics can't tell you any secrets- but the audience of Montel thinks so!

[Lisa Simpson]

This episode and in particular, the clip of, "your father is not your father," made Clip of the Week on The Soup today. They called her the, "Apathetic Psychic," and the host, Joel McHale, made constant requests for Benson & Hedges 100s while imitating her voice.

Oh Someone's God, I love The Soup. I don't think I've ever seen Sylvia make The Soup before.

[LostAngeles]

Oh Someone's God, I love The Soup. I don't think I've ever seen Sylvia make The Soup before.

I think she has once or twice. When I look up transcripts of her before 2000 I get a lot of hits for Talk Soup, interestingly enough.

No actual transcript though.