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00:00 Tonight, a small, specially invited audience will be joining me in a secret location in London
00:05 for a one-off special live performance.
00:08 Where are we going?
00:09 Where are we going?
00:12 Everyone's in blacked-out coaches, so they can't see where they are.
00:15 And at the moment, one of those blacked-out coaches is arriving
00:17 that bears our celebrity quota for the evening.
00:20 Where the fuck are we?
00:21 The other coaches, which are slightly grubbier and don't have power steering,
00:24 contain the ordinary people, the non-celebrities.
00:27 And I've invited people who I know are interested in my work.
00:30 So there are psychologists, hypnotists, salesmen, one or two psychics,
00:35 some magicians, even some cabbies.
00:37 And I've also invited some students as well,
00:39 as I do tend to do this around universities sometimes,
00:41 and students tend to respond quite well.
00:43 So I've invited some of those along too.
00:45 Enjoy it.
00:46 (MUSIC)
00:49 (MUSIC)
00:52 OK, it's time to start.
01:19 None of them know where they are.
01:20 Let's bring down the house lights.
01:21 Good evening.
01:23 Good evening.
01:26 Very nice to see you all. Thank you for coming.
01:27 Obviously, a show like this is going to involve
01:29 a certain amount of audience participation.
01:32 So I thought I'd get rid of that whole awful embarrassment factor.
01:35 Now...
01:36 Jean-Christophe Novelli,
01:39 you're sat a couple of rows back, couple in from the aisle.
01:43 Would you stand up for me, sir?
01:45 You have to stand up.
01:46 Stand up for me, Jean-Christophe, please. Stand up.
01:48 (APPLAUSE)
01:51 Jean-Christophe, thank you. Please listen carefully.
01:57 If you look over to the left-hand side of the stage for me,
02:00 you'll see a tall table, and on top of the table is a stuffed kitten.
02:03 Can you see that, Jean-Christophe?
02:04 Yes, I do, yes.
02:05 Excellent. What I would like you to do for me is to go and get the kitten...
02:08 Oh, no. Hang on.
02:09 (LAUGHTER)
02:11 It's my night off.
02:12 Listen carefully. I'd like you to go and get the kitten off the table.
02:15 I don't want to embarrass you in front of 200 people, of course,
02:18 so I'd like you to try and get the kitten without anybody seeing you.
02:21 (LAUGHTER)
02:23 Go on. Off you go.
02:25 Please. It's my night off.
02:28 (LAUGHTER)
02:31 Right, I think I can see you.
02:33 Take the kitten back to your seat for me, Jean-Christophe. Thank you.
02:36 (LAUGHTER)
02:38 Thank you very much indeed.
02:40 (APPLAUSE)
02:47 All right. Listen carefully.
02:49 In a moment, I want you to throw the kitten backwards,
02:52 over your shoulder, into the audience. Not yet.
02:55 This will then select a random volunteer.
02:58 Of course, this means everybody behind Jean-Christophe
03:00 will now pretend they don't exist.
03:02 (LAUGHTER)
03:03 If the kitten comes at you, you just catch it.
03:05 Jean-Christophe, throw it backwards now into the audience.
03:07 Go. Over your head. Throw it for me.
03:09 Whoever that's nearest, pick that up for me.
03:13 Jean-Christophe, you can now sit down. Thank you very much indeed.
03:16 (APPLAUSE)
03:19 Whoever's got the kitten, will you please stand?
03:24 Excellent. What's your name, madam?
03:26 Jeannie. Jeannie. Very good to meet you, Jeannie.
03:28 Jeannie, first of all, we have never met before, ever.
03:31 I have prepared nothing with you, correct?
03:33 I don't know who you are. Excellent.
03:35 (LAUGHTER)
03:37 Thank you for coming.
03:39 Jeannie, if I was to ask you to name any country in the world...
03:44 Now, don't name maybe France or England or even America.
03:47 Maybe they might seem a little bit obvious.
03:49 And bearing in mind, you can change your mind as many times as you like.
03:52 What would you say? Africa. Africa.
03:55 Excellent. Well, that's kind of what I hoped.
03:57 It tells me that you are clearly sharp enough to try and keep me on my toes,
04:00 yet you're not going to try too hard to catch me out,
04:03 and that you have massive emotional damage.
04:06 Jeannie... How right you are.
04:09 Jeannie, it would be a little bit ambitious of me at this point
04:12 to try and control your choice of any country in the world,
04:15 but I think I can control your choice of one of three shapes.
04:18 If you look in the centre of the stage,
04:20 you'll see a board with three shapes mounted on them.
04:22 Can you see that? Yes. Excellent.
04:24 In a moment, Jeannie, I will ask you to name one of those three shapes.
04:28 I think I know in advance which one of those shapes you're going to choose.
04:31 So I will give you three seconds of silence,
04:34 and during that time, I want you to make up your mind
04:36 and choose one of the shapes.
04:38 Whatever you say, Jeannie, I will take as your absolute final decision,
04:41 and I will not let you change your mind. Is that clear?
04:44 OK. Yes. All right.
04:46 And you'll notice, by the way, I haven't tried to attract your attention
04:49 to one shape more than the others.
04:51 I'm sure you'll agree everything is fair and square.
04:54 Here are your three seconds.
04:56 Your three seconds of silence starts now.
04:58 One...
05:00 Two...
05:02 Three.
05:04 I will not let you change your mind. Is that clear?
05:06 Which shape would you like? Triangle.
05:08 The triangle.
05:10 Right. Would you like to change your mind?
05:12 No.
05:14 A free choice. Yes?
05:16 Yes. All right. Here's what I want you to do.
05:18 Leave the kitten with the person next to you.
05:20 I'd like you to walk down onto the stage and stand next to the microphone.
05:23 That's just next to the board with the shapes on it.
05:25 Give Jeannie a big hand as she heads up and saves. Thank you.
05:28 APPLAUSE
05:30 The mic is just to the right of the shapes.
05:35 If you can just stand so you're facing the audience. Lovely.
05:38 Now, Jeannie, just behind that board with the shapes on, there's a card table.
05:41 Will you just pick the brick up off the card table, please?
05:44 Thank you very much. Pick it up.
05:46 And then with your other hand, I need you to pick up the black envelope that's just there.
05:50 Pick up the black envelope that's just on the card table.
05:52 Thank you. And then put the brick back.
05:55 Thank you. All right.
05:57 So, take the envelope that was under the brick, take it to the microphone.
06:00 I'd like you to undo it for me and take out what's inside.
06:03 A folded sheet of paper. Good.
06:05 If you can undo the folded sheet of paper for me.
06:07 I would like you, please, in your nicest, clearest voice,
06:10 to read out what it says right from the top of the page.
06:13 Nice and clearly, please. Off you go.
06:15 OK, Deren. But before I start,
06:19 may I just say how much I've enjoyed the recent series.
06:22 Oh, Jeannie, that is so sweet of you. Thank you so much. That's lovely.
06:25 You can read a little quicker if you like.
06:27 If my abilities are well honed tonight,
06:29 you will be a tall, well-dressed and sexually attractive lady.
06:33 I do apologise.
06:35 Upon being asked to choose a shape,
06:37 there is only one shape you can choose.
06:40 That shape will, of course, be the triangle.
06:44 However, what will really bug you
06:54 is how I also knew that you would choose the country Africa.
06:58 Africa it was, Jeannie. Back to your seat. Keep it going for Jeannie.
07:02 Head back to your seat, Jeannie.
07:04 Thank you.
07:06 Thank you very much.
07:13 Thank you enormously. Thank you very much indeed.
07:19 That is excessively kind of all of you. Thank you very much indeed.
07:23 And thank you for bearing with our arrangements this evening.
07:25 Just to be careful when gasping tonight,
07:27 we do have some quite bad asbestos problems in this room we can't do very much about.
07:30 Everything I do before you tonight, I do unaided.
07:33 I've purposely chosen quite a big open spaces,
07:35 so you know there's not anybody hiding, holding up things or giving me any information.
07:38 Equally, I'm not wearing any earpieces or anything like that.
07:40 I'll get you to check, please.
07:42 No earpiece. Check that for me. Nothing there?
07:44 Nothing. Sure? Nothing there?
07:46 No. Nothing at all. Sure? OK. Great. Thank you.
07:48 I stand before you naked, apart from this rather nice suit and two pairs of pants.
07:52 So, with that gently arousing image in our minds,
07:55 let's choose one of you at random, see how it goes from there.
07:57 So let's throw the kitten again. Where is it at the moment?
07:59 Should be somewhere around Jeannie. Give it a good throw anywhere you like, Jeannie.
08:03 Excellent.
08:05 I think that's you. Would you stand up for me?
08:07 What's your name, please? Henrietta.
08:09 Henrietta. Henrietta, why don't you leave the kitten where it is and head off.
08:11 Henrietta, ladies and gentlemen.
08:13 Hello. Very nice to meet you.
08:17 Come over here for me. I'm just going to bring the mic forward for you.
08:20 And I'll ask you to stand right there, Henrietta.
08:23 Thank you so much for coming up.
08:25 I'm going to suggest a little game you might like to play.
08:27 If you take out what's in there. There's nothing else in there.
08:29 Would you take it out as well? Empty? Yep.
08:31 Can you take out what that is nice and clearly for me?
08:33 Oh, it's a lovely cheque for £1,000.
08:35 A cheque for £1,000, ladies and gentlemen.
08:38 A cheque for £1,000.
08:40 It's exciting already, isn't it?
08:42 Could you also take out what's in the other one here?
08:44 And again, as you take that out, please check there's nothing else in there.
08:46 Empty? Yep.
08:48 Yes? That is a picture of a...
08:50 A parrot. A parrot.
08:52 Absolutely right. This is not any parrot.
08:54 This is my parrot. This is Figaro the parrot.
08:56 He is delightful.
08:58 This picture will serve as a consolation prize for you
09:00 in the money. Okay.
09:02 Let me ask you to face that way for me.
09:04 I don't want you seeing now which is which.
09:06 Can you close your eyes for me as well?
09:08 I'm very aware there are some big shadows up there on the wall.
09:10 Please close your eyes while I mix these up.
09:12 And you'll keep track of which is which. Yes?
09:14 (Laughter)
09:16 While your backs turn, please no looking. Keep your eyes closed.
09:18 I will show you all the envelope that I will make Jeannie pick.
09:20 Just so you're all that one step ahead.
09:22 Okay?
09:24 This one here.
09:26 This one.
09:28 Turn around now for me.
09:30 Jeannie, you can turn around now.
09:32 I'm so sorry. It's not Jeannie, is it? No.
09:34 Henrietta.
09:36 (Laughter)
09:38 You can turn. Yes, thank you. Turn around.
09:40 Henrietta, Harriet.
09:42 I'm going to put this over here.
09:44 Okay.
09:46 And this one over here.
09:48 You'll love this game.
09:50 All you've got to do is...
09:52 Actually, I got confused there.
09:54 Let me just check.
09:56 Good.
09:58 All you've got to do is choose an envelope.
10:00 If you choose the one with the check in it, I will make that out to you.
10:02 I'll write it out, sign it. You can have it.
10:04 No embarrassment. The money's yours.
10:06 My task is to somehow try and influence you to choose the envelope that does not contain the check.
10:10 So for a thousand pounds, do you want to go for that one?
10:12 Or do you want to go for that one, which you're sort of slightly looking in the direction anyway?
10:16 It does make it a little bit easier to point at.
10:18 That one.
10:20 You want to go for that one?
10:22 A wise decision. A superb choice.
10:24 You're under a lot of pressure. There's cameras and lights and so on.
10:26 So we'll give you the rest of the show to change your mind if you like.
10:28 Okay.
10:30 Just so you don't feel manipulated or pressurized in any way, okay?
10:32 That's for you for later. Please don't open it yet for now.
10:34 Henrietta, thank you so much.
10:36 I'll ask you to go and sit back down. Henrietta, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
10:38 [Applause]
10:40 Excellent. Thank you, Henrietta.
10:42 Let's get a guy and a girl up here.
10:44 So let's throw the kitten again over your shoulder any way you like.
10:46 There's our random person.
10:48 Oh, a straight... Rhys!
10:50 Rhys just stood up for me. Thank you.
10:52 Let's throw that again for me. We've got a lady up here too.
10:54 Great. Stand up for me there.
10:56 What's your name? Debbie.
10:58 Debbie and Rhys, would you both come up?
11:00 Let's give them both a big hand. Down you come. Thank you very much indeed.
11:02 [Applause]
11:04 I'm going to put you over here. That's all right.
11:06 Just stand right there for me. Turn and face me.
11:08 Thank you so much. Rhys, Debbie.
11:10 Hello. Would you go and stand by the mic for me?
11:12 I'm just going to talk to Debbie for a second. Please stand there.
11:14 Don't run off or touch anything.
11:16 Good. Debbie, face the front for me.
11:18 I'd like you, please...
11:20 Is the name of someone that you knew when you were young?
11:22 Okay.
11:24 I will tell you this person's name.
11:26 Now again, as for all of you, I have prearranged nothing with you.
11:28 I haven't met any of you before, correct?
11:30 Have you got somebody in your mind?
11:32 I will tell you this person's name.
11:34 It is the surname I'm going to go for.
11:36 Christian names are a little easier to stumble across sometimes.
11:38 So it's the surname I'm after. If you know it's like Smith or Brown or something like that,
11:40 please do change it for something not so immediately common.
11:42 Equally, if it's a very long name, more than six or seven letters, again, change it.
11:44 Are you happy with what you've got?
11:46 Mm-hmm.
11:48 Okay, great. So you just say the surname to yourself over and over again, please.
11:50 Just keep repeating that in your mind.
11:52 Nothing out loud. Don't move your lips. Just keep saying it to yourself.
11:54 Thank you. All right.
11:56 Reese, is there a double meaning in it, the surname?
11:58 No.
12:00 Like a word within the word.
12:02 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:04 Just focus on the image a little clearer.
12:06 Make it as bright and vivid.
12:08 Genuinely, please do this for me, as you can.
12:10 If you imagine the name itself is written in the air...
12:12 We'll get you to write this down.
12:14 This will help lock it in your mind.
12:16 Also means if we need to, we can prove what you were writing.
12:18 Obviously, people don't think you're just going to say, "Yes," to help me out,
12:20 but obviously don't let me say this,
12:22 because it does take the challenge out of it somewhat.
12:24 So just the surname, please. Large, clear, block-cabin letters. Great.
12:26 Done that?
12:28 Yeah.
12:30 Great. If you can fold up the bit of paper for me again, Debbie.
12:32 All folded up?
12:34 Yeah.
12:36 Great. Okay. Can I take the pen back off you?
12:38 Just the pen, not the bit of paper. Thank you.
12:40 Just for the record, though, if you just hold the bit of paper, I won't look,
12:42 but you cannot see through the paper.
12:44 Cannot read any writing or see any letters through the paper, correct?
12:46 Yeah.
12:48 Great. Thank you very much. You can hang on to that.
12:50 Just put it in your pocket or hang on to it for me. That's great.
12:52 All right. Face the front for me. Stay right there. Just keep thinking of the name.
12:54 I'm going to ask you, Rhys, you're going to draw something for me.
12:56 Right.
12:58 All right. Put your hands by your sides for a second.
13:00 Now, if ever you see a psychic attempt this...
13:02 Not this. Obviously, there's nothing psychic about that.
13:04 That's just fingers.
13:06 Um...
13:08 My fingers are bending.
13:10 Everybody. One, two, three.
13:12 They're, um... No, no, please.
13:14 They are relying...
13:16 Please. They are relying on you drawing something familiar or predictable.
13:18 Right.
13:20 So, Rhys, your task here is to, you know, try and catch me out a little bit,
13:22 draw something you don't think I could just guess.
13:24 Right.
13:26 All right? So, please, you know, don't draw a house, don't draw a stick man, all right?
13:28 Please don't draw a penis. Right.
13:30 He's got that look in his eyes.
13:32 But something that you can draw clearly and vividly.
13:34 Don't go overboard on detail. Try and keep it relatively simple.
13:36 Right. Got something? Absolutely.
13:38 All right. Great.
13:40 I'm going to ask you to grab a pen and paper to do that for me.
13:42 When you've drawn it...
13:44 Yeah. You draw it nice and big and clear.
13:46 You hold it up against yourself like this so nobody can see.
13:48 Mm-hmm.
13:50 But you stare at the easel and you imagine that that picture that you've drawn is on there.
13:52 Does that make sense? Absolutely.
13:54 All right. So do that for me now, nice and large and clear.
13:56 Don't let anybody see you when you're done. Hold it up against yourself.
13:58 All right. Face in the front for me.
14:00 Two rules. The first rule is this, Debbie.
14:02 You need to look at something that you can focus on comfortably.
14:04 The lights might be a bit bright up there, but just pick something that you can focus on
14:06 and just look at for me.
14:08 The second rule is this. Let me just get that there.
14:10 All right. Second rule is this.
14:12 You just think of the name. You just say the name to yourself over and over again.
14:14 Or if I ask you to think of a letter in the name,
14:16 you just think of that letter over and over again.
14:18 All right? It means if you get nervous or flustered,
14:20 you can just bring your mind back to that letter or back to the words.
14:22 So let's start with the letter somewhere in the middle.
14:24 If you can just think of a letter somewhere in the middle of this name for me.
14:26 Have you got one?
14:28 Yeah. Okay. So just looking out there.
14:30 You don't even need to say yes for me. Just keep thinking of the letter.
14:32 Actually, I may not be able to do this with you. I may...
14:34 Frustratingly need to send you back.
14:36 Is that an N?
14:38 It was? Yeah. Excellent. Okay.
14:40 Well, maybe this will work. Can you think of another one?
14:42 Maybe at the end somewhere.
14:44 Got one?
14:46 Or you flick it. S. Yeah.
14:48 Yes. Okay. All right. I'm going to use you.
14:50 Can I put your hair behind your ears? Is that all right? Yeah. That's fine.
14:52 I'm just going to bring your hair around like this.
14:54 Okay. Rhys, keep hold of that and make sure I don't see it.
14:58 Just keep it up against yourself.
15:00 I want you staring, please, at the card on the easel,
15:02 imagining that picture's there. You're doing great, Rhys. Thank you.
15:04 I'm going to try and make you say the name out loud.
15:06 You must not say it. You say nothing at all.
15:08 Don't even say a word until I tell you what I think it is.
15:10 Then you can say yes or no or freak out or whatever.
15:12 But until that point, you say nothing, all right?
15:14 And whatever you do, do not say the name.
15:16 Okay? So what is it?
15:18 What is it? Okay.
15:20 Plosive sound at the beginning. You can see it.
15:22 Plosive sound at the beginning. So that could be like a B or a P or something.
15:24 Careful.
15:26 A B at the beginning, I think. Please be careful. Don't give anything away.
15:28 All right. So we've got a B at the beginning.
15:30 Just keep saying it to yourself over and over again.
15:32 Nothing. Don't move. And B-A-R-N-E-S.
15:34 Yes? Yes.
15:36 Yes? Thank you very much indeed, Debbie.
15:38 Thank you so much. Debbie, ladies and gentlemen, let's get going.
15:40 Well done, Debbie. Thank you so much.
15:42 Well done, Debbie.
15:44 [Applause]
15:46 [Applause]
15:48 Thank you very much indeed. All right.
15:50 Don't let me see the drawing. Put the whole thing in the envelope for me.
15:52 The whole thing in the envelope. Just drop it in for me.
15:54 Drop the whole thing in. Please don't let me see it.
15:56 If any of you see it, please don't say anything.
15:58 I'd like you to head over to the mic for me. Thank you.
16:00 So, Rhys, I lied to you.
16:02 All right. I lied to you because I told you that by not drawing all of those things that we do tend to draw,
16:06 like houses and stick men, that it makes it more difficult.
16:08 It doesn't. It makes it easier.
16:10 Because it means that instead of drawing all those kind of things,
16:13 you end up sort of going into yourself a little bit and drawing something that reflects a side of you.
16:17 Or your emotional state or your response to being here or any of those things, personal things.
16:21 So the question is, what can we tell about Rhys just by looking at him?
16:24 [Laughter]
16:26 Hmm. You're obviously going to be clearly very confident as a performer.
16:29 Of course you are. So what you've drawn will tend to reflect a kind of a friendly, relaxed thing
16:33 rather than a kind of aggressive or pointy thing.
16:36 That's immediately the first thing I'd say.
16:38 Uh...
16:40 [Clicks tongue]
16:42 I think also whatever it is, you'll decorate it.
16:44 You'll do something to it that will make it that little bit more.
16:46 Because this is what you're like. You're that little bit.
16:49 It'll be something that... Okay, I've got to face the front. I've got an idea.
16:52 Friendly and soft. Just keep facing the front. Don't look.
16:55 Keep facing out the front for me. I'm going to go for this.
16:57 [Laughter]
17:00 Please don't look.
17:02 [Laughter]
17:10 No looking. Don't look, Rhys.
17:13 But there'll be something else to it, and I think it'll be probably...
17:16 that.
17:18 Alright. Do not look, Rhys.
17:20 But I'd like you to... Oh, you know what? I'm going to change it.
17:23 I'm going to change it.
17:25 Don't look.
17:27 Oh, God.
17:32 [Laughter]
17:46 It's going to be something. Either that or...
17:50 It's the little details. I'm not sure. There'll be some little details.
17:53 Alright, Rhys.
17:55 Into the microphone. Nice and clearly. What did you draw?
17:57 - A cat. - A cat? - Yes.
17:59 - Wait. Hang on. Any details? - Stripy cat.
18:01 Stripy cat! Oh, it was the... Show me. Show me. Show me.
18:03 Show me what you've got. Show me. Show me. Show me.
18:06 Oh, I'm going to give myself that. It was the first one.
18:08 Rhys, look. I'll show you.
18:10 I got rid of it, but I did do that one first.
18:14 I did do that one first. Thank you very much, indeed, Rhys.
18:16 I'll let you go back. Rhys, here's to the ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.
18:21 Okay. Henrietta, where are you? Stand up for me.
18:24 Henrietta, so it was this one there that you chose, yes?
18:28 - That one. - That one over there. I'm so sorry. My mistake.
18:30 Let me confuse... Let me mark them so there's no confusing which is which.
18:34 Put a little sticker on this so we all know this is the one that Henrietta would like.
18:38 Okay?
18:40 Although you may now think, Henrietta, of course, that I'm trying to attract your attention over this side
18:44 by putting a sticker here and no sticker on the other side.
18:47 So I'll put a little sticker on the other side. A different sticker.
18:49 Just so you all know, this is the one that Henrietta does not want.
18:54 Of course, the idea of Henrietta is to ignore me completely, all right?
18:58 Don't get stressed, you know, don't get cross, and just go for whatever feels right.
19:02 - Would you like to change your mind? - No.
19:04 - No? - No.
19:06 Fair enough. Sit down there and follow me. Come back to you later.
19:08 Let's get a face-up here that we would know.
19:11 Krishnan, could I ask you to stand up for a second?
19:13 Thank you very much. And let's...
19:17 Yeah, actually, I think you'd be absolutely perfect. Would you head up here for me, Krishnan?
19:19 Ladies and gentlemen, up you come. Just head around here for me.
19:21 Good. Also, Krishnan, come and stand right there for me. Right there. Excellent.
19:26 Okay, thank you very much.
19:28 Just turn and face me. Thank you very much.
19:30 Krishnan, look at me just for a second and just relax there and just sleep down there for a second.
19:33 As you do this, you just need to focus on me for a second.
19:35 I'm not really going to hypnotize you.
19:37 All I'm going to do is just place you into a state where you can really focus and concentrate on what I'm doing.
19:41 So as you do this, and just listen to my voice right there in the centre of your head
19:44 and take a moment just to carry on sinking and drifting and just floating down
19:48 so you can really understand what I'm telling you, so these words really make sense to you.
19:52 Here's what you're going to do. I want you to think of a phone number that you know.
19:56 Don't say anything out loud, but please, Krishnan, obviously don't go for your own phone number
20:00 or one of anyone that's very close to you, anything that you think I could know or have found out.
20:04 So take a moment to just go through different numbers in your mind and then just find one and settle on one.
20:09 Okay, I'm going to do this slightly differently with you, I think.
20:11 I think I'd like you just to pick two digits from that phone number.
20:15 They don't need to be next to each other, just get them in your head. Good.
20:18 And just lock those in your head for me. Good, I can see you've done that.
20:20 Lovely. Focus on those two for me.
20:22 And what I want you to do now, Krishnan, irrespective of what you've believed up to this point,
20:26 you can absolutely believe for me now that you can take those thoughts, those numbers,
20:29 and send them from your mind into somebody else's.
20:32 And I know then that you will enter into this with concentration and imagination,
20:35 and that is all that I ask you to do.
20:37 So here's what I'd like you to do now. Just take a few seconds just to very slowly reorientate yourself back to this room.
20:42 And when you're quite ready, I'd like you to open your eyes.
20:45 And stand up straight again. I'll take your hand, put it down there. You alright?
20:48 Excellent, thank you very much.
20:50 Alright, I'm going to get you to write those numbers down, I think, so they don't come out of your head.
20:54 And again, if we need to, we can prove that really is what you were thinking of, if anybody doubts you later on.
20:58 Alright, please do that now. Again, I will look the other way.
21:00 Obviously don't let me see.
21:02 Don't let anybody in the audience see either.
21:04 Don't be thinking anyone could see and then let me know. This is entirely private, just for you.
21:08 Done that? Done.
21:10 Just fold a bit of paper up, please.
21:12 Again, I make this point, it's very important, because if I'm going to get you to write it down, you need to know I can't see it.
21:16 Will you just hold it in your hand? You cannot see through there.
21:18 No. You cannot see what number's written.
21:20 Alright, then put it in your pocket, please, and you can get it out of the way. That's great.
21:23 Alright, here's what I want you to do.
21:25 We're going to choose a lady, actually, to come up here with you.
21:27 So let's just do this first. Where's the kitten at the moment?
21:30 Kitten's up there, great. Will you throw it?
21:32 We're going to pass it to the newest lady, so wherever it lands, we'll just pass it to the newest lady.
21:35 Give it a throw, any way you like.
21:37 Actually, let's give it another throw as well, just to get it out of this central block.
21:39 And also, that's my mother, so that would be...
21:41 [laughter]
21:43 Great, stand up for me. What's your name?
21:45 Charlie.
21:46 Charlie, very good to meet you. Why don't you leave the kitten there and head up here.
21:49 Charlie, ladies and gentlemen, come and sit in the chair there for me. Thank you very much indeed.
21:53 [applause]
21:57 Charlie, if you'd just take a seat over there for me.
22:00 Excellent, and put your feet flat on the floor, great.
22:02 Face the front for a moment, then look up at me.
22:04 Take a deep breath in, and then sleep.
22:07 And just sink right the way down and right the way deep, and right the way sound asleep.
22:10 Again, still hearing, understanding everything that I do.
22:12 And again, I'm not really hypnotizing you, I'm synchronizing you over here with Krishnan.
22:16 So this will allow it to work.
22:18 So as you do this for me, I want you to remain in that state, but at the same time,
22:22 I'm just going to sit you back a little bit in the chair.
22:24 And you can let this relax you even more, because you can become more comfortable.
22:27 Good. As you stay there for me, I'm going to place a blindfold on you.
22:30 So you know that Charlie is not going to receive any clues that she shouldn't, any visual clues.
22:34 So I'm going to put this on you. I know I'm going to catch all your hair out, but it will only be for a second.
22:37 Okay, I'm also going to give you a whiteboard and a pen.
22:42 I'll just give you this to hold. So you're going to hold that there, it's a whiteboard, and that there.
22:46 I'm also going to give you a pen. Please mind your fingers on the nib.
22:49 I'll just give it to you like that. You're going to place that against the board like that for me.
22:52 Perfect. All right, Charlie, let me explain what I want you to do.
22:55 In a moment, I'm going to ask you to start counting out loud, backwards, from 500.
23:01 You don't have to go all the way to zero, and it doesn't matter if you lose track.
23:03 You can just carry on from wherever feels right.
23:05 But what's important is that as you do this, as you count out loud,
23:09 you're just going to allow the pen to move at the same time.
23:11 So in other words, you're consciously focusing on the counting,
23:14 but unconsciously you're letting your hand write whatever it's going to write.
23:17 So you only focus on the counting, but you must keep the pen moving and writing, drawing, scribbling, whatever.
23:21 Does that make sense? Okay, don't start yet. You'll start when I tell you to.
23:25 All right? Stay there for a second for me.
23:27 Krishnan, if you could just face the front for me.
23:29 You've got two digits in your head. You're going to send these two digits across to Charlie.
23:32 Take a moment just to turn and look at Charlie.
23:35 And then look back there again.
23:37 And I want you to start sending those two numbers just in your head.
23:39 You say nothing out loud. Start sending them now.
23:42 Charlie, start counting now, out loud. 500, out loud.
23:44 500, 499, 498.
23:47 Keep counting. Start the pen moving. You're sending those two numbers across now.
23:50 So in your mind, you're sending them across the stage, starting to turn up the volume.
23:53 Keep the pen moving. Keep the pen moving, Charlie. Moving.
23:56 And 496, 495, 494. Keep counting.
23:59 One and then the other. Over and over and over again.
24:01 Until you're turning up the volume so loud that it's as if you're screaming the matter.
24:04 Screaming it like you want to pick her up and shake her.
24:06 Keep going. Keep counting. Keep counting.
24:08 Screaming the matter in your mind, what those numbers are.
24:10 Over and over again and over and over again.
24:13 Then both of you stop right there. Both of you stop.
24:17 Okay. I don't want you seeing what she wrote.
24:20 I'm going to ask you just to face this way for a second, Christian.
24:22 Please don't look. Alright? Just keep those two numbers in your head for a moment.
24:26 Um, okay.
24:30 Alright, I'm going to take the pen off you. Just let that hand just relax on your lap.
24:35 And put that hand on the lap as well. Alright, okay.
24:39 If you see a number here, please don't say anything.
24:43 I can sort of see one, and I'm not sure about this one here.
24:46 If I just get the camera to see that too.
24:48 I would say, you've got to help me out if you think I'm wrong, but please don't say anything out loud.
24:54 This one here is probably that. Would you go with that? We've got that first.
24:57 Can you guys see that too?
25:00 The second one could be twice that.
25:04 Or, there is a sense of it being that as well.
25:08 Yeah? You think that as well? Okay.
25:12 Would you go with that? Can you guys see over there as well? Yes?
25:15 Okay. I'm just going to give you this to hold.
25:18 And that there as well.
25:20 Okay, I think I'm just going to write this up on the board, just so you guys can all see what we're looking at.
25:24 We're looking at one of those.
25:26 Pretty much definitely.
25:28 And then, either that, or maybe that.
25:33 Yep.
25:36 Christian, please no peeking. Face the front for me.
25:39 This may not work. Let me get you the mic. Stay right there.
25:43 This may not work.
25:45 All right, Christian, you were trying to send two numbers across there.
25:48 Okay, without looking at what she's written, what was the first?
25:51 Actually, what was the second number you were trying to send?
25:53 Five.
25:55 Okay, we'll allow ourselves that.
25:57 And what was the first number?
25:59 Four.
26:00 Then you got it absolutely spot on. Christian, thank you so very much.
26:05 Hang on, hang on a second.
26:07 There's something even weirder, which is the telephone number that that has come from is somebody called Charlie.
26:15 Really?
26:17 Who can explain these things? Thank you very much indeed.
26:19 Christian, ladies and gentlemen, back you go. Thank you so much.
26:22 And let me just take this off you. Take a few seconds just to come back to us. Are you all right?
26:27 With this refresh that you did get it, you pretty much got it. Thank you.
26:30 Thank you so much, Charlie, ladies and gentlemen. Back you go. Well done, Charlie.
26:34 All right, something I'd like you all to do for me, please.
26:37 Put your feet flat on the floor.
26:40 And then take a look up at the light up there in the center.
26:45 If you can all just do that for me and get comfortable.
26:47 I would invite you, as you look up at that light, just to notice, first of all, that you're breathing.
26:51 As you relax, your breathing will become a little more regular, a little heavier, and that's fine.
26:55 And also that you'll begin to notice your eyelids getting a little bit heavier.
26:58 And I would invite you to look up at the light.
27:00 Just to begin to let your eyelids get heavy.
27:03 Now, if you don't want to do this, it's fine. You just keep your eyes open and that'll be absolutely fine, too.
27:07 I'd invite you to let them grow heavy and just close quite comfortably so that I can talk to you at a level that you can really kind of understand what I'm saying.
27:14 Now, the reason why I'm doing this, the reason why I'm asking you kind of to relax and to focus and just experience in this way for a moment,
27:20 is because all the way through this show up to this point, there's something that I've been doing.
27:24 I've been doing this for a long time.
27:27 And all the way up to this point, there's something that I've been doing.
27:30 I've been dropping little things in to make you forget the show when you leave at the end.
27:36 I'm just letting you know this now so you're not too alarmed.
27:38 It won't work on all of you, but those of you that have the best gift for picking up on this kind of thing
27:42 will find that when you leave, you won't be able to remember anything in the show.
27:47 Your memory of the show will go as soon as you walk out of this door.
27:51 And it is, for the moment, a little bit like walking down a staircase, isn't it?
27:54 Relaxing a little more with each step that you take and sinking right down into it.
27:57 But I'm going to count you back.
27:58 When I say zero, you can open your eyes.
28:00 You'll be absolutely fully back here listening to me.
28:03 Of course, I'm not hypnotizing you.
28:04 I'm just talking to you at a level that you can really understand what I'm saying.
28:07 So, from five, four, don't open them until zero.
28:10 It makes it easier.
28:11 Three, two, one, zero.
28:15 You can open your eyes.
28:16 And of course, you're absolutely wide awake as you've been throughout that whole thing.
28:20 Lovely.
28:21 Good.
28:22 So, a slightly weird thing was happening.
28:24 When I was inviting you all and sending your invitations out and kind of working out who was going to come,
28:29 I wanted to make sure that you kind of covered a fair sort of part of London,
28:33 like a big sort of range of London.
28:35 And I ended up going through the A to Z, as I was sending them out,
28:37 just to make sure that I was covering all areas of the map.
28:39 And inadvertently, I realized that I was remembering the grid references of where you live in the A to Z.
28:47 So, in other words, I realized that when I knew your streets,
28:50 I would also know your grid references, or if somebody told me the grid references,
28:52 I'd be able to get your streets.
28:53 So, I just want to try this as a kind of a memory exercise.
28:56 If you are happy for us to say the street that you live on, and you live in London,
29:01 I mean sort of Greater London, this is the big A to Z I was using.
29:03 Would you just put your hand up for me?
29:04 I'd love to just try this.
29:05 Just put your hand right up.
29:06 Okay, great.
29:07 Now, whoever's got the kitten, you need to just throw it out to somebody.
29:10 Keep your hands up for me.
29:11 Just going to be somebody who's got their hands up.
29:14 Great.
29:15 I think that's going to be you then.
29:16 Would you stand up for me?
29:17 Okay, all right.
29:18 And again, just to reiterate, so you don't think anyone's helping me,
29:21 you're welcome to take a look around the back.
29:23 No one's going to be holding anything up to help me.
29:25 And again, please, no earpiece or anything like that.
29:27 Do check for me.
29:28 Nothing in there?
29:29 Nothing in there?
29:30 Sure.
29:31 All right.
29:32 It's just important you know this.
29:33 It's just me doing this.
29:34 All right.
29:35 So, what's your name?
29:36 Masood.
29:37 Masood.
29:38 Okay, you can put the kitten down.
29:39 You look slightly silly, so that's good.
29:40 Masood, will you just tell me then, just tell me the road that you live in.
29:42 I don't want to know what area of London it is or anything like that.
29:44 Just tell me the road, the street name.
29:46 Harbridge Avenue.
29:47 Harbridge Avenue.
29:48 Is that H-A-R-B-R-I-D-G-E?
29:51 Yes.
29:52 Harbridge Avenue.
29:54 Great.
29:55 I'm going to pass you an A to Z.
29:56 Okay, I'd like to get this up there.
29:58 So, if you can pass that up to Masood.
30:01 You can just start looking it up.
30:02 If you do find it, please don't let anybody see where you are on the map.
30:05 I think I can tell you, if you're looking it up in the internet,
30:07 I think I can tell you it is 7 -- it's square 7B on page 100, I think.
30:16 Can you go to page 100 and take a look at 7B?
30:19 I think I'm right.
30:21 Go to page 100 for me.
30:24 It's just below Harbour Yard, I think.
30:27 Is that right?
30:28 Yes.
30:29 Have you got it?
30:30 Is that it?
30:31 7B, page 100, yes?
30:32 Excellent.
30:33 Thank you very much.
30:34 All right.
30:35 Okay.
30:36 Okay, I lied to you.
30:39 I didn't really do this.
30:40 I didn't really send out your invitations and then cross-referenced you with the A to Z.
30:43 That would be ridiculous and impractical.
30:45 In fact, what I did was a lot simpler.
30:47 I just learnt all of that.
30:50 I've learnt the whole of the A to Z for Greater London.
30:52 I'm not making that up.
30:53 I've genuinely done this.
30:54 It's taken me about four months to do this.
30:56 I'm not 100% on all of it, but I will do my best for you.
30:59 This sort of taps into when I was studying law at university,
31:02 and I had to memorise huge chunks of legal information that I had no interest in at all.
31:06 So I'm going to try and do this with a few more.
31:08 So why don't you just give it a good throw, somebody.
31:10 Just please, somebody catch it, because it's heavy.
31:12 Any way you like.
31:13 Just throw it to somebody else.
31:14 Nice and hard.
31:16 Great. Perfect. Stand up for me.
31:18 Stand up for me, sir.
31:20 OK, what's your name?
31:21 Lee.
31:22 Lee, yes?
31:23 OK, Lee, here's what I want you to do.
31:25 I'm going to ask you, Lee, just to open the map up any way you like and go to a page.
31:28 If possible, don't let anybody look over your shoulder.
31:30 I don't think anyone's going to help me.
31:31 But can you just tell me the page number that you're on, Lee?
31:33 132.
31:34 132.
31:35 Yeah.
31:36 132.
31:39 OK, all right.
31:40 Now, what I want you to do to find--I'm just trying to picture that in my mind.
31:42 I want you to find, on page 132, something that dominates one square.
31:46 Because the idea is I'm going to get you to tell me a grid reference,
31:49 and I'll try and tell you what's in that square.
31:51 So please don't pick a square that's got loads of tiny little roads in it,
31:53 otherwise I won't know which one you're thinking of.
31:55 But just--if you can find something like a playing field or a building or a clear road
32:00 or something that dominates one square.
32:03 Have you got something?
32:04 Yeah.
32:05 OK, and then just tell me what the grid reference is, and I'll try and tell you what's in it.
32:07 4C.
32:08 4C. C for cat.
32:10 Yes.
32:16 OK, here's what I've got.
32:17 I've got 132.
32:19 The image I have in my mind for that is a ventriloquist doll.
32:22 And 4C is for the sea.
32:27 So he's got--ah, it's water.
32:30 Hang on.
32:31 There's a lot of water, and it's something like--in my mind I've got a snake in water.
32:37 It's something a boa--I think it's a boa reservoir.
32:40 It's a reservoir something, boa reservoir.
32:42 What is it?
32:43 What are you looking at?
32:44 Besbara Reservoir.
32:45 Besbara Reservoir.
32:46 Yes, that's great.
32:48 Thank you very much.
32:49 All right.
32:50 Thank you.
32:51 Let's try this again.
32:53 Boa and borough mixed up in my mind.
32:55 That's frustrating.
32:56 All right, OK.
32:57 Why don't you--we'll throw it again.
32:58 Just do this slightly differently.
32:59 Anywhere you like.
33:00 You can go over there if you like, or back over here.
33:01 Don't mind.
33:02 Give it a chuck.
33:03 Anywhere you like.
33:04 Mind your head.
33:05 Lovely.
33:06 OK, what's your name, sir?
33:07 Bill.
33:08 Bill.
33:09 Why don't you head down with the A to Z, Bill.
33:10 Let's give Bill a hand.
33:11 Down you come, Bill.
33:12 Bill, I'd like you to come over to the mic for me.
33:21 And there's a highlighter pen.
33:22 I've just put that table there, and there's a highlighter pen there for you as well.
33:25 Little tip, you want to take your coat off in the theater or else you won't feel the
33:28 benefit.
33:29 Here's what I want you to do.
33:30 I want you to go to the index at the back of the map.
33:34 All right?
33:35 Yeah.
33:36 And I'm going to ask you, because basically what I've learned is the index, the index
33:39 and the grid references.
33:40 I'm going to ask you to give me any road that you like on the -- you're not one of our cabbies,
33:44 are you?
33:45 Yeah.
33:46 You are?
33:47 Excellent.
33:48 That's great.
33:49 That's great.
33:50 You've got a sort of a cabbie thing about you.
33:51 I want you to have a look at any road that you like in the index, but please -- now,
33:54 you'll know this is great, because you'll know this.
33:56 Don't pick a road that you know is very well known or huge, all right?
33:58 Try and pick one that you think is pretty obscure.
34:00 Ideally, you know, one that you wouldn't even know yourself.
34:02 Have you got one?
34:03 Yep.
34:04 All right.
34:05 Into the mic, just tell me what the road name is.
34:06 Into the mic, please, so we can all hear.
34:09 Halkin Street.
34:10 Can you spell that for me?
34:11 H-A-L-K-I-N.
34:12 H-A-L-K-I-N.
34:13 Halkin Street.
34:14 Okay.
34:15 That's a good one.
34:16 Can you pick up the highlighter pen there?
34:17 I'd like you to highlight that for me, please, so you don't lose it.
34:18 And just hang on to that for a minute.
34:19 Okay.
34:20 Let me just try this again.
34:21 Can I just ask you just as quiet as possible for a second while I try and do this?
34:22 Lee, I need you to keep facing the camera.
34:23 I'm going to ask you to keep your eyes on the road.
34:24 I'm going to ask you to keep your eyes on the road.
34:25 I'm going to ask you to keep your eyes on the road.
34:34 Lee, I need you to keep facing the front.
34:35 Please do not look back here.
34:36 Keep facing the front.
34:37 And don't let me look in the book either.
34:38 If you want to hold that up to you a little bit, that's great.
34:39 Okay.
34:40 Let me try and do this.
34:41 I'm going to try and do this.
35:08 Okay.
35:11 All right.
35:12 Please just keep facing the front for me.
35:13 Let me just give this a go.
35:14 All right.
35:15 You've highlighted the road.
35:16 The road again was?
35:17 Can you spell it?
35:18 Halkin Street.
35:19 Oh, spell that again for me?
35:20 Halkin.
35:21 H-A-L-K-I-N.
35:22 Halkin.
35:23 Yeah.
35:24 Okay.
35:25 I think I've got this right.
35:26 Okay.
35:27 Halkin Street.
35:28 Okay.
35:29 Here's what I want you to do.
35:30 I want you to look for the moment.
35:31 Forget the grid reference.
35:32 I want you to look at the page you're actually physically on in the map.
35:33 So if you look down at the bottom corner of the page in the end,
35:34 you'll see the map.
35:35 I think it's the left corner, I think.
35:36 Yeah.
35:37 What is the page that you're on?
35:38 224.
35:39 224.
35:40 Excellent.
35:41 All right.
35:42 Hang on.
35:43 Don't look behind you, Nick.
35:44 Keep facing forward.
35:45 All right.
35:46 There are five columns.
35:47 Please be right.
35:48 There are five columns going from left to right.
35:49 Which column are you in?
35:50 Third.
35:51 The third column.
35:52 So we're going to do this.
35:53 I'm going to give you a minute.
35:54 I'm going to give you a minute.
35:55 I'm going to give you a minute.
35:56 I'm going to give you a minute.
35:57 I'm going to give you a minute.
35:58 I'm going to give you a minute.
35:59 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:00 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:01 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:02 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:03 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:04 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:05 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:06 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:07 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:08 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:09 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:10 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:11 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:12 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:13 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:14 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:15 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:16 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:17 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:18 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:19 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:20 I'm going to give you a minute.
36:22 And then I want you to read out the one below it.
36:27 The below the one that you've highlighted.
36:29 Okay, what's the one below the one you've highlighted?
36:31 It's 5D126.
36:33 5D126!
36:34 Which means that Halkin Street, hang on, which means then that Halkin Street,
36:42 the one that you've highlighted, is 2E84, is that right?
36:49 That's correct.
36:50 Yes!
36:51 Excellent, thank you very much indeed.
36:52 Lee, thank you so much.
36:53 Hang on for that.
36:54 Keep listening to me.
36:55 I want you to go back.
36:56 Thank you.
36:57 Lee, ladies and gentlemen, well done, Lee.
36:59 Excellent, thank you.
37:03 So, where's Henrietta?
37:05 Where are you, Henrietta?
37:06 Excellent, stand up for me again.
37:07 So, you chose this one.
37:10 Yep.
37:11 And you stuck with that one all the way through.
37:12 You haven't changed your mind.
37:13 Yep.
37:14 You've been quite strong-minded about that.
37:15 I'm going to ask you to come up and just make your final decision.
37:17 Let's have another hand for Henrietta, please.
37:19 As she comes up.
37:20 Thank you so much indeed.
37:21 I'll ask you to stand right there for me.
37:25 Okay, I'm going to give you a clue here before you make your final decision.
37:29 All right?
37:30 I wouldn't normally do this, of course.
37:31 It's a special night tonight, so I'm going to give Henrietta a big clue.
37:34 Here is your clue.
37:35 You're wrong.
37:36 It's in that one there.
37:38 That is your clue.
37:39 Okay.
37:40 Now, I realize, of course, that you're going to be saying that,
37:41 "Henrietta's not going to believe me.
37:42 You're not going to believe me.
37:43 Why would I tell you it's in there when I'm trying not to make you win the check?"
37:46 I could probably guarantee that would make you just want to stick with that one even more.
37:49 Of course, if you think about it.
37:50 So you might think I'm saying this just to catch you out, just to make you stick with that one.
37:54 So if you think I'm trying to catch you out, catch me out, Henrietta, and go for that one.
37:58 Or if you think I'm just being honest with you, it's still there.
38:02 Tell you what, before you make up your mind, open up the envelope I gave you,
38:06 and I want you to read out nice and clearly right from the very top, please, into the microphone, what it says.
38:10 So three brief points before you make up your mind.
38:14 One, I told the audience you would pick the envelope on the left, the one that now bears a cross.
38:19 I then made you pick it.
38:20 I told you I did this, but despite the fact that you knew this throughout the show,
38:25 you'll still stick with it and not change your mind.
38:28 Two, after you've read this out, I'll give you three seconds of silence to make your final decision.
38:34 You still won't change your mind.
38:36 To do so would seem like a sign of weakness.
38:39 Fair point, I think.
38:41 Three, even though you've just read this, even though I told everyone, including you, which one I wanted you to pick,
38:47 even though everyone knows you've been making the wrong decision,
38:50 even though I'm telling you that I always make it happen this way,
38:53 despite all these things, you are still going to refuse to change your mind.
38:57 Henrietta, if I could just genuinely take this opportunity to wish you the very best of luck.
39:03 For a thousand pounds, are you going to change with that one, or are you going to stick with that one over there?
39:10 Here are your three seconds of silence. I'm going to give you three seconds. Look at me.
39:15 Three, two, one.
39:19 Into the mic, please. Which one do you want? Say clearly which one you want and point at it.
39:23 I'll take that one.
39:24 That one there? You're sticking with this one here?
39:26 Yep.
39:27 All right. Not the first time this has happened.
39:29 Slightly excruciating it's happening tonight, but actually, congratulations.
39:32 It's great that this happens sometimes, and you all know that it's real and so on.
39:36 Please do go and help yourself. I won't touch it. Just reach in, take it out.
39:39 Show them very clearly, please, as you take it out.
39:44 Just pull it straight out the top and show them.
39:47 Do show them clearly. I recommend a gold frame, by the way. It really brings out those chest feathers.
39:52 Thank you so much. If you want to just reach in there, take out what was in the other one.
39:55 Take it out for me, and then you hand that straight back.
39:57 I'll send you back to your seat, Henrietta. Back you go.
40:00 As I wave goodbye to you with a check for 1,000 pounds.
40:03 Thank you very much indeed. Henrietta, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.
40:06 Thank you, Henrietta. Well done. All right. Thank you.
40:12 There's just one thing I want to do before I let you actually go.
40:14 Because I've got-- I did all that work with the A to Z. I've got it all in my head.
40:17 There's just one more thing I want to do before you actually go.
40:20 Where are the cabbies again? Can I just get you to stand up?
40:23 Thank you. I'm just going to ask you your names. I just need to see you and just hear you for a second.
40:26 First of all, I have not met any of you before. I have not spoken with you or met you, correct?
40:31 No.
40:32 All right. Great. What's your name, please?
40:33 David.
40:34 David. Thank you, David. Okay. Great. Let me just-- just need to look at you for a second.
40:38 And what's your name?
40:39 Freddie.
40:40 Freddie. Good to meet you, Freddie. Thank you very much for coming.
40:42 Okay. And your name, please?
40:44 Paul.
40:45 Paul. And-- I'm sorry. Are you up there? I didn't see you.
40:49 George.
40:50 George. Great. And not Ringo, is it, by any chance?
40:54 Me.
40:55 I'm going to go-- Paul, I'm going to go for you. Is that all right?
40:57 The rest of you can sit down. Paul, why don't you head up here.
40:59 Let's give Paul a big hand as he comes up.
41:03 Thank you, Paul. As I went about you, I told you, you'd be fine. Come head over here for me, Paul.
41:07 Okay, Paul. These are the pages from the A to Z.
41:12 These are the pages you can see. I've torn them out and I've literally just put them all next to each other.
41:16 You can see that really is what these are, yeah?
41:18 Yeah.
41:19 How long have you been a cabbie for?
41:20 Eight years.
41:21 Eight years. Great. So you've got a good working knowledge of most of this, yeah?
41:23 A lot of this is, you know, clearly in your mind, yes?
41:25 Yes.
41:26 Just that one little bit there.
41:27 Okay. You've got a working knowledge of the whole thing, I hope.
41:30 I mean, you guys are amazing. Here's what we're going to do.
41:34 I'm going to give you this. I want you to hold it in your left hand.
41:37 Great. Thank you very much for coming up and doing this, by the way.
41:39 Just look at me. I'm just going to leave that there and just sort of let that just sleep there for a minute.
41:42 You can just look right at me. Good. As that just stays right there.
41:46 Here's what we're going to do. I want you to imagine now that someone's got into your cab.
41:49 And we're going to play an imaginary game.
41:51 I want you to imagine they've asked to go to a destination.
41:53 All right? We're going to call this Destination X.
41:56 So they're going to go to Destination X.
42:01 Don't be distracted.
42:04 I think that's one of the pyros for the end of the show.
42:06 We'll just keep going.
42:08 So, what I need you to do for me, just to spend a moment,
42:10 as you think about that destination that they want to go to,
42:13 is any picture that you can make of wherever it is they want to go, of that destination.
42:17 Just try and do that for me now.
42:19 Just spend a moment just forming a picture in your mind, nice and clearly.
42:22 Okay? Have you got a picture now?
42:24 All right, great. Thank you. Just going to put your hand down there for a second.
42:26 You can just relax that down to your side there too.
42:28 All right, now you know where the destination is.
42:30 Let's think about the starting point.
42:31 Let's imagine you're in your cab, but you're no more than a mile and a half away from Destination X.
42:35 Okay?
42:37 So let's imagine that they get in the cab.
42:39 Now, you can see this guy doesn't know London very well.
42:41 You can see he's rich.
42:43 And he's foreign as well. Let's be frank, Paul. Let's not use words.
42:46 You're going to give him a little bit of a ride, all right?
42:48 You're going to take him on a bit of a roundabout route to Destination X.
42:50 Not for a moment does this reflect on you. I'm sure you would never do this.
42:52 But purely as a kind of an imaginative game, as a thought exercise,
42:55 you're going to take him on a roundabout route to get from wherever you are to Destination X.
42:59 Does that make sense? Great. Okay.
43:01 Now, take your hand here.
43:02 I want you to look right at me.
43:03 As I bring your hand up, it's going to let your eyelids just start to close now.
43:05 Just like that. That's great.
43:07 And as your hand comes down, you can just relax more and just sink right into this for me.
43:10 So you can really sink and just drift.
43:13 That's great. And just float.
43:15 And as you do this for me, I'm going to take your hand here.
43:17 And with your eyes closed, that's perfect.
43:19 In a moment, I'm just going to touch you on the shoulder.
43:21 And I want you then to start imagining the journey
43:24 from the starting point to Destination X, going a roundabout route.
43:28 Now, the route that you take and the turnings you take are entirely up to you, of course.
43:32 You're going to make this up as you go along.
43:34 All I ask is that as you do it, that you really clearly in your mind visualize
43:38 and almost feel the turnings that you're taking, whether they're to the left or to the right.
43:42 So what I'd like you to do is to start that for me now.
43:47 Visualizing that journey, really taking each turning and just really feeling each time that you take a turning.
43:55 Visualizing it, so you remember this route.
43:59 Keep going, take your time. You take as long as you like.
44:01 When you're finished and you've arrived at the destination, you're just going to say, "I'm here."
44:05 And then you're going to open your eyes for me. You take all the time that you need.
44:12 I'm here.
44:13 Great. Open your eyes for me. Put your hand down.
44:15 Okay, great. Apologize for holding your hand. I know a lot of cabbies are uncomfortable with that.
44:20 Especially when they're driving.
44:22 Will you just find where you started? Where was your starting point?
44:25 Will you point that out for me?
44:28 Where's that?
44:29 Buckingham Palace.
44:30 All right, great. So I'm going to put a little cross there at Buckingham Palace.
44:33 Okay. You're going to talk the route through with me from Buckingham Palace all the way to wherever your destination is.
44:39 All right?
44:41 Where are we going from here? Just talk me through.
44:43 We're on Buckingham Palace Road. Do you want to go down there or where did you end up?
44:46 Constitution Hill.
44:47 Constitution Hill. Coming along there. So I'm going to start to draw the route and you're going to tell me where we're going to go.
44:52 Hyde Park Corner.
44:53 Hyde Park Corner. Where from Hyde Park Corner?
44:54 Up Park Lane.
44:55 Okay, this is the route that you took. Please do not change it.
44:57 Whatever that route was in your mind, you mustn't change it now. All right?
44:59 So going up Park Lane, yes?
45:01 Right to the top?
45:02 Yeah, to Marble Arch.
45:03 To Marble Arch. Where now?
45:04 Bayswater Road.
45:05 Bayswater Road. We're going to go along here. We're going down Bayswater Road. Past Lancaster Gate?
45:09 Yeah, into Notting Hill Gate.
45:10 So Notting Hill Gate right to the end here. So now we're here. Where from Notting Hill Gate?
45:14 Into Holland Park Avenue.
45:15 Into Holland Park Avenue. So we keep on going straight?
45:18 Yeah.
45:19 Right the way across?
45:20 Yeah.
45:21 Right the way to Holland Park?
45:22 Yeah.
45:23 Are you sure?
45:24 To Holland Circus, yeah.
45:25 To Holland Circus. Okay, where next? Where from Holland Park?
45:26 Straight over.
45:27 Straight over. Where to?
45:28 Into Shepherd's Bush Green.
45:29 Shepherd's Bush Green. Here? Where from here?
45:32 That's it.
45:33 That's it? So that was your final destination?
45:35 Yeah.
45:36 Okay, that's a bit of a roundabout route. What route would you have normally taken then?
45:40 Along here and up here.
45:41 Along here and up there. So you've taken a longer route, which is great. Okay, so thank you for that.
45:44 I mean, what would that... What are we talking? How much would that cost?
45:47 Eight pounds.
45:48 Eight quid or so, which is a lot more than you normally get for that journey, yeah?
45:52 Okay, great. Okay, that's fantastic. So we end up at Shepherd's Bush Green. Let me write that up there.
45:56 Shepherd's Bush Green.
46:05 Okay, and the grid reference for that, can you just check that for me? We're on... Just come in so you can check this for me.
46:09 It's 2E, yes?
46:12 2A, yeah.
46:13 2E and page...
46:14 82.
46:15 82, yeah. That's 83 that just sort of starts there. So you're happy with that? 2E, 82, yes?
46:19 Yep.
46:20 Yep, okay. 2E, 82. All right. Does that feel fair?
46:26 Yep.
46:27 Yep, okay. I mean, you started anywhere you like. I mean, actually, bearing in mind you could have gone anywhere, you've gone for a...
46:31 If you don't mind me saying, a fairly conservative route. Obviously it shows you're a nice guy and an honest cabbie, but that's great.
46:36 Bearing in mind you had free permission to go anywhere, but you've clearly gone around the houses a bit.
46:40 Right, that feels fair, yes? Let me show you how fair it was. You've got the envelope behind you there.
46:44 Open up the envelope. You need to take out a sheet of white folded card. Just take it out and hold on to it. Don't unfold it yet.
46:49 Just hang on to it for a second for me.
46:51 Shepherd's Bush Green, 2E, 82, yes?
46:56 Unfold that. Show everybody we've got 2E, 82 is what it should be. What have you got?
47:01 2E, 82. Spot on. Let me take that for you. 2E, 82. Have you got that?
47:07 Thank you very much indeed. Well done. You've got it spot on. Thank you. Thank you, sir.
47:11 All right. Wait, wait, wait, wait. It feels weird, doesn't it?
47:16 It feels weird because you could have started anywhere. You started over here by Buckingham Palace.
47:21 And those turnings that you were taking, the routes that you decided to go left or right, entirely up to you as you went along.
47:26 You were making that up as you went along, yes? It feels weird.
47:29 Open up the envelope as well. Inside there's also an acetate sheet, which you would have seen if you'd taken that out for me.
47:34 And if you open that up, not that, just the acetate sheet, put that back in for a second.
47:38 Okay, and what is that? What can you see on there?
47:41 This way round. It says this way round and a red line.
47:44 This was the route that I wanted you to take, the last bit of the journey. If you just lay that over it.
47:51 That is the route that I wanted you to take, even though I gave you permission to go anywhere you like.
47:54 You still went in a straight line. Thank you very much indeed. I'm going to give you that.
47:58 You did it perfectly. One more thing. There is one more thing in there. Just take it out for me.
48:05 Hang on a second. One more thing. Take it out for me. What is that?
48:08 A receipt. A receipt for how much? Eight pounds. For eight quid. Of course it is.
48:12 You can have that as soon as you get back to your seat. Thank you very much indeed, Paul.
48:16 Thank you, Paul. Thank you all very much.
48:20 Thank you for choosing TUI 82 and thank you for choosing the destination I had in mind.
48:27 Thank you all very much for coming. Thank you for your attention tonight.
48:31 And thank you for playing. Goodnight.
48:34 (Applause)
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49:05 I can't actually remember what happened in there at all.
49:09 It's quite uncomfortable and very confusing.
49:12 I remember a large room, lots of clapping, a brick wall, lights.
49:21 But I can't remember anything else. No specific incident. It's really weird.
49:27 I didn't think I was susceptible to things like that.
49:30 When I said think of a number, I thought of a couple of numbers and then I thought of my friend down the road
49:35 who works in a lawyer's office and bizarrely her name was Charlie,
49:41 which was also the name of the girl we were guessing.
49:44 And then I thought of four and five and that was it.
49:47 I'm an NLP practitioner. I don't know how he does that.
49:51 I'd like to know how he leads the person into saying and thinking what it is that he is.
50:00 So he does a lot of transference. He's very, very clever at it.
50:03 I remember a loud bang. I remember Krishna. I remember Krishna going...
50:06 falling asleep. That was hilarious. But I can't remember much more than that.
50:10 I see on the street. I remember the loud bang and Shepherds Bush Green.
50:13 I don't think I could do what he's done. He's memorised, as I say, 25,000 different street names
50:19 with references. He's good. He should take up the knowledge.
50:24 I remember something about mice or a mouse or something like that.
50:29 I've gone blank.
50:32 When it comes to trying to tell you what I can remember, there's nothing substantial there really.
50:42 There's nothing that I can say, yeah, that definitely happened.
50:45 No, there was a triangle.
50:49 You've forgotten the rest of it, haven't you?
50:52 There was... yeah.
50:55 I remember the end.
51:02 I really enjoyed the show.
51:06 I remember some of the...
51:12 No.
51:14 The thing was, we were brought here in a blacked-out coach.
51:18 So I was sitting with Jonathan, Ross and Jane, and we were convinced we were going to be killed.
51:23 We're hoping we're not in Preston, and there's a gang of Asbo kids with hoodies outside with sharpstings ready to take us off.
51:31 And where are we?
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