Just a reminder, Dr. Grande isn't speaking to the dead in this video, only speculating what the dead could be saying in a situation like this.

I'm still waiting for the headline: "Psychic Keeps Winning Lottery"

I was always impressed how John could complete his interactions with the dead in approximately 2-5 minute slots, as though all the deceased had curiously agreed not to exceed their time limit.

When I was in Oprah’s audience, there were certain chairs through the room that had ‘reserved’ on them. Those were the only people that got to stand up and ask questions during the show. Maybe John had plants in his audience too.

I was in his audience and he totally read me. He said, "I am feeling someone who has a relative, a mother maybe." That was totally me!

Mr Edward's fees are rather extortionate. I'd expect a definite connection with my whole deceased family for that price.

I remember watching an Unsolved Mysteries back in the late 80s and a murder case in the LA area was profiled. Apparently a team of mother/daughter psychics were viciously murdered by an unknown assailant. I immediately said to my wife "You'd have thought they'd seen that coming."

I saw John Edward live once. We waited for a very long time for him to appear on stage. I sat and listened to audience members discussing life episode that they hoped he would "hit on". This intrigued me and we went to see him another time. The exact same thing happened. I believe he either has employees in the audience or listening devices getting stories from people. OR possibly using shills in the audience just like magicians. He may also be using a combo of those methods and cold reading.

"If you want to kill a gopher you have to think like a gopher." Bill Murray

I'm getting a message from the other side, Dr. Grande will continue to not diagnose anyone and only speculate while wearing really cool shirts with cacti in the background. I ask no money for my reading.

Dr. Grande's delivery on things "a gopher for hire plot" without cracking up is amazing. I'm laughing like a crazy person

My husband had a hard time dealing with his father's death. He started seeing "psychics" who convinced him that the father was communicating through them. At first I didn't say anything as this seemed to give my husband some solace. (I thought it was nuts). Then I learned how much money was being handed over to the psychics. It was a lot. I stopped being silent and started to point out all the flaws in the so-called "readings." It took some time, but my husband no longer pays psychics to talk to dead relatives.

Dr. Grande's wit is so dry only cacti can survive in that environment.

“ I sense you’re being scammed by someone claiming to have psychic abilities “…lol

Fascinating stuff, good to have found this channel. A friend of mine went to see a very famous UK medium a few years ago. Apparently, the first half of the evening was pretty lacklustre but strangely enough, after the audience had mingled & chatted in the bar during the interval, the second half was "uncannily" accurate. 🤔🤔🤔

You are so funny, loved the gopher reference.. woodchucks and bunnies. You never fail to make me laugh. I think that "psychic mediums" know a lot about behavioral psychology. I knew a friend's mom who did psychic readings, and when I called her out, she revealed some of her methods/skills. For instance, a friend got a reading from her. She looked at his hands, as though looking at his palm lines for "signs". She said, "You are a musician, you play the guitar". He was amazed and was at that point, taken in. This is when the subject's mind glazes over and is now receptive to suggestion. Like hypnosis. She knew he played the guitar because he had callouses on his fingers. No mystery, just keen observation mixed with showman know how. The mind glaze can happen to a large group of people if they believe that they have proof of magical powers.

I don't understand how if they can talk to dead people, yet frequently say, "I'm hearing from someone whose name starts with an M or J". So do dead people purposely tell them details of the person's life yet they can't clearly say their name?

For John Edwards abilities I'm getting a B and also a S. Anyone relate to B.S ?

I began to question these psychics when I noticed that they aren't solving any cases involving missing, murdered or endangered children.

I love that gopher related fatality and the macaroni scenario. You're really funny, Dr Grande. Like seeing your sense of humour in this analysis and would concur with the underlying sentiment. His "abilities" come at a hefty fee and if you are genuinely trying to help someone, out of your goodness of heart alone, why the price tag? It's interesting there are no guarantees on accuracy. That's handy. If you paid $850 for something, you would surely expect some guarantee. Unfortunately, there are so many vulnerable people, as you point out, who cling on to these psychics, mystics and so on. It's very sad and morally wrong, I agree.

Haha, the tone used when calling John Edward a "psychic" was just a huge audible eye roll 🙄🙄 Dr. Grande's sass is the only daily prescription I need!

When he gets something really accurate he almost falls out of his seat in shock. He's so pleased with himself. I mean, isn't that your job? Kinda strange for a legit psychic to be so surprised when they, you know, get something psychic. He's also super arrogant.

A true psychic told me what me brother (he made suicide in Europe) said to me in our last phone call. Not one person on this world could know, I told no one about this phone conversation. Another psychic described in a phone call my bedroom, even to the smallest detail and she was correct. She also said that my (dead) brother liked the pink color of my pants. I don’t know about John Edward but some psychics are amazing good and correct and even help solving cases for the police.

I had an experience when my granny passed away. The Rose's I dug up from her house was replanted at my house and they were not doing well. I touched the Rose's ans I said granny help them grow. I felt a chill down my spine and felt her presence. Less than a month later the Rose Bush was so big and I had so many Rose's growing on it there was no way I could even begin to count them all. I can not explain what happened at that moment or to the Rose Bush but all I know is st hat moment I knew communication from the other side is 100% possible. With that being said my point is I believe anything is possible. Unless you can actually disprove it then do not claim it is not possible.

My favorite "psychic" was Sylvia Browne.....a recurring guest on the Montel Williams Show. On more than one occasion she claimed missing people were dead, who turned up alive. She also often predicted that she would die at the age of 88....but died at 77.

“If someone paid a gopher in a murder-for-hire plot, that would be a lot more convincing.” I never thought I’d hear that sentence in my life, let alone from Dr. Grande.

My sister's classmates dad is a psychic medium and people swear he is very good at what he does. This goes back to mid 1980s. He's still doing this today. I've been able to tell people future predictions myself, but I can't do it on command. It's something that comes to me here and there, not on a regular basis. This is not my job and I don't charge for this. I also don't say, unless someone i know asks me to let them know.

As a psychic medium myself, I don't think claiming to speak to the dead is criminal. HOWEVER, the prices he is charging do constitute robbery.

What John heard best was "cha-ching!" time to get paid.

I was hoping this would be the first time Todd says, "I AM diagnosing this guy as a capital F FRAUD."

The logical career path: health care administrator -> ball room dance instructor -> psychic

I’ve been “psychic” since I was a kid. I never charge for readings. I always believed that I would loose my “powers” if I did.

I really wish Dr. Grande would have given us a "gopher death" trigger warning. You will never be forgotten, Uncle Jimbob.

“A gopher-related fatality...” That made me laugh so hard!

Oh my goodness! This was too bloody funny matey🤣😂!! I'm loving your dry wit at the end of the day here in the land DownUnda! Far out, your wit would mesh so seamlessly with our culture here. I've been living in the US in various locations for work and I felt I was a fish out of water in terms of the Aussie/ Yank humor situation. I resigned myself to believing we're like chalk n cheese! I'm pretty thrilled to know at least 1 Yank would've remembered we're not actually all that dissimilar and it's good to find the humor in life sometimes! G'day from lovely Queensland and thank you for narrowing the gap with your intellectual commentary and humor. I really enjoy your wise, thought provoking discussions.

Dr. Grande, you might want to do a "Psychics and Mediums: Reformed" in a future show. Look for Doreen Virtue, a former psychic and medium who is well known and for a long time did group and individual readings, including on radio. She explains how it worked for her (which is quite different from what I had always believed) and her reasons for abandoning her "gift."

Houdini told his wife Bess that if there were an afterlife that he would communicate with her after he died. Needless to say, after his untimely death, she never heard from him again.

“Anyone’s loved one assassinated by a small, furry animal?” 😹 The idea of John Edward asking something like this and an audience member jumping around saying, “That’s how my loved one died,” makes me laugh a little harder than it probably should.

I'll say it once, and I'll say it again: if these people truly had these "gifts" they claim they have, they would not be charging money for their services.

I believe in psychic ability 100% because my grandfather truly had the ability, who has now passed on. The readings my grandfather does for random perfect strangers were amazing who were all left at awe. He delivered exact names, dates, ailments and specifics to people he read, unlike psychic who fish for info from the people he reads. People are skeptic of psychics because they have to see to believe and there will always be people like that including Dr. Grande. In fact Dr. Grande makes analysis in every one of his videos not really knowing all the truth but all his videos are speculations of what is probable.

John Edward: "For entertainment purposes only" - exploits grief-stricken people

Hahaha, "My sister was murdered by a piece of macaroni." "Okay, yeah, I can work with that." Too funny.

In the same sense that if fish could scream, there wouldn't be any fishing, if psychics weren't allowed to profit from THEIR fishing, there wouldn't be any psychics.

Please do that kid called The Hollywood Medium! Everyone wants to believe him because he’s a young, cute, gay, innocent looking blonde haired blue eyed American. I’ve never bought it. He was doing only celebrities, driving to their residence and wanted the audience to believe that he had no idea who he was going to see, and often still apparently didn’t recognize them as celebrities once he arrived. He often starts by apologizing for not knowing who they are. Claiming that because of his abilities he doesn’t watch much TV. 🙄 I think people bought it because he was only 18 so it (kind of ) made sense that he wouldn’t know certain celebs. I think he’s a quack. Please review him! 🙋‍♀️😎👏

Knowing Dr. Grande's sense of humor, I was looking forward to some serious comedic gold in this one. I'm happy, though not surprised, to say that I was not disappointed.

Dr Grande spicing it up with this black and red check plaid moment. Giving us fall refreshment in the midst of the hot summer. 10/10

Also my friends mom went to a psychic after he died in an accident when we were in high school and O M G what this woman knew was INSANE she knew he crashed and knew what he was wearing when he passed !!! 😔

Peter Popoff, hey! I signed up for his ministry's prayer request thing a while ago just for a laugh, they'd always send this giant packet of literature and some weird trinket. One of the last ones I got was worded in such a way that seemed to be suggesting we should be using witchcraft. Also they were technically addressed to my dog.

I completely forgot about this guy! Wasn't he one of Oprah's "chosen" too? 🤔

Doc, you killed me when you were talking about a rabid gopher.😂🤣 You're the absolute best!

I went to a show of his, loved it. He was completely correct on 5 points of my family. These were all statements that he made, I only had to say yes to what he said and thank you. Called out both my father and grandfather's names, not initials but thier names. I was amazed and elated. Everyone has their own opinions and thoughts about things but I have to say it made me very happy to hear from my Pop.

Not gonna lie… I once saw a palm reader that told me VERY INTIMATE DETAILS about my life! She knew names and all and knew me and my daughter would be separated!!!

Anybody else immediately think of the South Park episode where they make fun of him? It's called "The Biggest Douche In The Universe", and I highly recommend it. He repeatedly claims that he's special and Stan keeps calling him out and even goes into the concept of cold reading, but stupid people don't seem to understand and they continue to be fooled. It's also funny because Stan goes to John's house to tell him to stop lying to Kyle, and John has a sound effect when he enters the room that goes "Ladies and gentleman, Psychic John Edward" followed by a clap track implying that he's so full of himself that he has speakers installed throughout the house to remind others that he's entered the room and that they should clap for him.

He’s feeling energy all right; his bank account is energized with each of his victims deposits!!!

Back when I lived in Atlanta, I listened to STAR 94 in the morning. One day one of these popular psychics called in and did readings on the air. A lady called in and the psychic giving her a reading got 12 WRONG answers before the he got a single 'yes, that is correct'. I know because I counted the no's.

"The spirits are telling me that there is somebody in the audience whose name starts with one of the letters of the alphabet, does that make sense?"

I haven't watched the video and have it paused, but the answer of course is "No". The more incisive question is did John Edward _believe_ he heard messages from the dead. The answer again is "No".

He only hears the ding when money drops into his account from vulnerable people.

His deadpan delivery of "My sister was murdered by a piece of macaroni."💀💀😆🤣

After my husband was murdered, I found a key on his keychain that I had no idea what it was. This person was very popular. So I asked her what it was to.. she had no idea, she held it for a while and still didn’t get anything.. When I got home I set in my front room and held the key and prayed…. It was to a post office box that I didn’t know he had! I was more psychic than she was. After that, I started answering my own questions….

John Edward: "I'm feeling someone who's name has a vowel and a consonant in it..." Audience member: "Oh my gawd! My dead grandfather was named Joe!"

Really enjoy your analyses. As a former M.Ed. Clinical Mental Health Counseling student I wish your channel was around when I was enrolled! Would have brought my classes great topics for discussion.

These "readings" are like horoscopes. It could apply to everyone. Unfortunately the vulnerable people want so badly to connect with their relative. They will see any common situation and apply it to their life. When I learned he doesn’t let his shows be recorded, it told me everything I need to know about him.

Dr Grande. I dreamt about my parents being robbed 100 miles away from me. I saw in my dream the number of criminals and the 2 vehicles involved. I actually saw and wrote down the registration no of the 1 car. This was on a Sunday night. I phoned my mother on the Monday. Told her what was taken etc. On Thursday my mom phoned and told me that it actually happened and that she told the police. Who said they can't use that kind of info. 2 years my parents was called in to identify some items as a syndicate of robbers were caught. The registration models and makes of the vehicles used and items recovered were exactly what I saw in my dream. This sort of dream where I see something happened before it does happened a few times over 60 years. I believe i am sensitive perceptive and attuned but not psychic at all. I don't see or hear dead people but I do dream things that later come true. Mostly about my own family seldome about other people. Not often. 1 x in 3-5 years and at least 1 x a year cl9se to my birthday about my Late father who I was very close to.

one of my favourite things is seeing Dr. Grande tear pseudoscience apart

Some will use the "j" or "m" strategy. Because most people's names start with those names. I believe we all have gut feeling or intuition. Some stronger than other's. I never believed John was sincere. Playing on people's emotions of the bereaved loved ones, takes a "certain" kind of individual.

Ah yes, the Grand Jeté from ballroom dance instructor to psychic medium. As classic as model turned actor.

"My sister was murdered by a piece of macaroni" It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud, but that did it! Your sense of humour is one of my favourite things about your video analyses. Thank you.😆

Anyone who earns money bilking sad and hurting people is among the lowest of the low.

when i lost my fiance, i was obsessed with getting on his show. Looking back, it was pathetic, but I thought he could give me an answer. I would love to hear Dr. Grande discuss suicide prevention. And what we miss and how we can prevent it. I lost my fiance to suicide in 2001. And in 2017 I lost my son to suicide. I am always trying to understand how I could let it happen twice. I'm always afraid people will do it now, even myself. I think Dr. Grande could help a lot of people.

Even John Edward admits that not all psychics are the real deal. But that doesn't mean he is not. Also, there are psychics who help police solve difficult crimes. Just because we don't understand something does not make it untrue. If you doubt him, then don't engage with him.

“Ok, I have a bunch of crap coming trough to me again…” -John Edwards

I don’t know about John Edward ( I did used to find his shows entertaining) but I have experienced an unplanned physic reading myself. I went to see a healer because conventional medicine was struggling to contain a chronic illness. It was impossible looking at me to know what was wrong , I identified no s&s or diagnosis before I went to see a spiritual healer recommended to me by the professor in charge of my case. She was elderly, quite poorly herself and worked entirely without payment- she asked you to donate to a charity if you felt inclined but didn’t get involved with money herself. She asked for no information upfront because she maintained that doctors were often wrong, she liked to not be influenced by a diagnosis and worked with different hospitals with different specialities- she wouldn’t have immediately know I was seeing a gastroenterologist therefore. The first time I saw her she asked me to relax whilst she took her hands all around my body (without touching) and she immediately identified pains I was having, that she stated were side effects of medication I was having ( I hadn’t yet discussed those pains with my consultant - it was extremely sharp jabbing pains in my eyes, which turned out to be side effect of large doses of steroids which dissipated when I was able to reduce the steroid dosage, and stop taking them totally after several healing sessions.) She identified where I had had a dvt in my leg 3 years before, told me how many miscarriages I had had and told me ‘you are crying inside because you think you will never be able to have children- but your first child is a little brown haired, brown eyed girl who I can see playing around your feet- however you will be pregnant soon ( I was so ill at that time I literally rolled my eyes ) but I see 2 prams with on only one baby ‘. I took that to mean I would have another miscarriage before I actually successfully birthed a baby. 3 months after I started seeing her, she asked me if I had something to tell her- I didn’t know what she was talking about, but she just smiled and carried on with the session. I found out I was pregnant with twins later that week, but an early scan revealed one wasn’t doing very well and I eventually miscarried one at 12 weeks . I was however blessed to birth my lovely brown haired, brown eyed daughter ( I’m blue-eyed and the healer never met my brown eyed husband.) After seeing her for a few months my health improved beyond all explanation and I was able to get off steroids after 3 yrs of trying. I do however accept that ulcerative colitis is a relapse/remission disease- I never had another attack after seeing her however, despite being told that my disease was all through my large intestine and rectum and was pretty much untreatable- we had been discussing a total colectomy and Ileostomy when the professor suggested seeing the healer as ‘ you have nothing to lose’. The psychic reading was an unexpected thing that happened during my first session, just after she talked to me about what her spirit guide had told me about my health. She told me my grandad was there talking about a ‘donkey jacket’ , to ‘tell them to go ahead’-but that she hadn’t been able to get any more information, as he was quite shy and wouldn’t come forward again. I immediately stated he wasn’t shy to my memory - he had died 15 years before when I was 13 and to me he was funny, gregarious, loads of friends. The healer just said that I was a child when he died ( which I hadn’t said- I was still quite young and my grandfather died quite young unexpectedly from a heart attack) and that I maybe didn’t see his true character at that age. It was only when I rang my parents that they corrected me and said think about it- when did I ever see him outside of his home or garden? I could only think of one time, when my father received an award. Apparently he was extremely shy, unless he knew you really well he wouldn’t say a word and didn’t go out much because he was so awkward with strangers. With my sister and I he was funny, a great story teller- amazing. The ‘donkey jacket’ bit was where they both went very quiet- my mum said my dad who is a total atheist, went white. The night before my visit to the healer, they had been cleaning out a wardrobe in the spare room and discussing the unused. ‘donkey jacket’ ( a type of warm waterproof overcoat used by builders and such like in the winter) that my dad had taken after his father died and kept in the house. They were discussing whether they should give the jacket to my husband who worked outdoors - would his dad approve? This seems like such a small thing, however my dad and grandad were both huge disbelievers in life after death, but they made a pact that whomever died first would attempt to contact the other if at all possible. My dad is very stubborn and very ‘closed’ in his beliefs, so if you believe in this stuff, he would need help to ever receive any message- and it would have to be something obscure like this for my dad to believe it. I can’t tell you what a comfort this has been to my father. It may sound silly to anyone else, but my dad was with his dad when he had the heart attack, and he has always blamed himself for not being able to save him. He went on to become proficient at first aid and taught it for almost 30 years as he never wanted anyone else to feel the same helplessness when confronted from someone seriously ill. I took my cat to see this same healer just before she died as he had been diagnosed with FIV ( this was a new disease back in the 80s- the feline version of HIV. I was told he wouldn’t live long and and there was no treatment). He behaved totally bizarrely in her home before collapsing after she ran her hands over his body- I thought he had had a stroke or died. She reassured me he would sleep a while then be fine. I took him home, and after a few hrs he walked out of his basket and was fine, He lived almost 8 more years to 15 yrs old and never received any treatment. The vets were mystified, as they were seeing more cats with the disease and they were all dying quite quickly . My other cat also caught FIV and died not long after his diagnosis- Mrs Pugh my healer was long passed by then 😢. As for me, my total colitis was never as bad again and I went on to have 3 children- my brown haired brown eyed daughter, and my two blond blue-eyed boys who have a different father. I did have a weird experience many years later when I heard my grandfathers voice very distant say ‘it’s cancer chick’ ( he called my sister and I chick all the time) I was subsequently diagnosed with colon cancer and had a total colectomy. That was 12 years ago. My daughter has now been diagnosed with MS and how I wish Mrs Pugh was still alive! I’m wary of seeking out someone different however, as I DO accept there are a lot of charlatans out there. I became a Christian aged 45 and I’m not totally sure how to feel about spiritual healing now . It’s not something I tend to discussion with my church friends, but I am grateful beyond belief that I was guided towards seeing Mrs Pugh all those years ago. I believe that she changed the course of my life- whether by prophylactic means or whatever, I only know what I have experienced. I’m sorry this was so long!

When you have to pay for it , it's a scam. If he was doing " out of the goodness of his heart " it might be a different story. Taking advantage of grieving people should be criminal.

Gopher Assassins are very real. You just don’t hear about it, because it’s all underground.

Nobody introduces themselves as my name starts with a D. Yet that's how 'dead' people introduce themselves to John.

He is a disgusting con man, taking advantage of people when they're at their weakest and most vulnerable time of their lives..

"Murder for Hire Gophers" a new true crime series coming to TLC this Summer!

As usual, spot on about his “psychic “ powers. From what little I’ve seen, he relies on cold reading, vague statements, and plays the odds. Thanks for mentioning James Randi’s work to expose these frauds. Randi exposed Popoff’s use of a radio receiver in his ear as he used a scanner to listen in. Popoff went away after the exposure, but then resurfaced and people still throw money at him.

Well done - I've been researching and stinging these Grief Vampires for years and you are spot on!

Working in hospice, you’d better believe our loved ones come with love and peace to guide the dying. They see/talk/reach for them. We see it all the time. The phenomenon has been recorded for at least 600 years in every country on earth - yes, including to the blind and deaf. :)

I used to watch his show and I noticed that he always singled out an Italian-looking family and asked them if they had a Tony or Maria that might be trying to contact them.

This is what I want to know - John asked me at a reading if I had listened to a very specific song on the way to his show. How would he have known that? He also knew things about my dad that he couldn’t have known. I was careful not to feed him any info

Thank you for this video, Todd. I always learning something new from you, and you explain things in easier terms. So that anyone, can understand what you are talking about. Thank you, for making all of your video's and sharing them with us. From Melinda, in Australia 😚 👋

This is one of Dr. Grande's best. Hilarious (and clever) but also with serious and practical conclusions. Our culture right now is very short on critical thinking skills. Emotions rule and are exploited over and over by self-serving people in every walk of life.

I like your theory that everyone will get picked for a private reading! “Ooooo, I hope I get picked!” 😄

I remember being fooled by the long island medium as a kid. I even sent letters. I wanted so badly to speak to my mother again, who died right before my 4th birthday. It really was an unhealthy obsession. I'd write to Theresa almost daily.

Dr. Grande is my neighbor. He lives across the street from me. His wife is very nice. They have a cat.

Gopher related death. Not sure anyone ever put those 3 words together in that order until Dr Grande did.

I cant say if John is or isnt psychic but I can say that I have had a very real and unexplainable experience with one myself. I am a thousand percent a believer of science, but there are some things in this life that cannot be explained and Witnessing or experiencing one as profound as mine changes you forever.

As James Randi, who was able to duplicate everything psychics could do using non-paranormal methods, often said, "If they're doing it by paranormal means, they are doing it the hard way."

On my 32nd birthday I called a "psychic hotline" number just for a lark, to ask what was in my future for the next year. The woman who spoke to me disregarded my lighthearted mood and told me that I would need to urgently travel to visit my father - that he was very ill and didn't want me to know. She recommended that I go visit my father right away. I laughed it off. My father was a very healthy 73 year old living in a different state from me at the time. Six weeks after I spoke with this psychic, my stepmother called me to say that my father was dying of cancer and I needed to come right away. He had been diagnosed with cancer over a year ago but hadn't wanted me to know. My stepmother decided to tell me against my father's wishes so that I could say goodbye. I was on my way the next day but my dad died before I could see him. I wish I had believed what that psychic told me and had visited my father right after my birthday. Instead, I waited and was too late. Sometimes psychics are correct, sometimes they're not. The dilemma is that we can't tell the difference.

I believe the correct "term" for these types would be " snake oil salesman".....

"There's something about February" then you see the audience member search their memory with a puzzled look trying to find something to fit what he suggested. If the pause is too long then he jumps in "late Feb, ok it may have been so late it was March or April". The guy is a joke.

Edward doesn't care about skeptics. As long as there are ample amounts of naive and foolish people, he'll keep gaining fans and making money. He's as safe as houses because the man is protected by the law.

It's a shame that he didn't retain his catholic belief that communication with the dead is neither possible nor morally acceptable.

"Really all the furry animals will be excluded.." LOL

Love this guy! Your humor is so unexpected, I busted out laughing after the Gopher murder for hire comment!!!! 😂

I wonder why John Edward never took up James Randi's 1 million dollar challenge? Maybe he predicted that he might not win it. That's true psychic power, ladies and gentlemen!

I have had messages from my mother on several occasions. She passed 32 years ago. There was no other person present or other intermediary. Several people in my family have also had messages from beyond from someone close to them. I heard of John Edward only a few minutes ago.