I was just about to put this correction in. Still an excellent video HG.

No worries, it happens

Understandable as November 22nd is another major historical date. Still a great video! 👍

Your videos are so filled with awesome information and it comes so fast (for me) that I have to watch them a couple of times to keep up. It is amazing that you can. Kudos and thanks for the enlightenment.

You're thinking of my daughter's birthday. Little deaf baby will nearly be a toddler. I'd mention Alexander Graham Bell however later events make him... An unclear figure socially. Though I'd argue it was enlightened people with basically no hard evidence backing their ideas. Even a century later it was delusion. Though I do believe the state should support IVF to remove disorders like alzheimer's, diabetes, Huntington's disease. Honestly it's 1-3 generations and we can cure those. Checking my wife's blood sugar before bed and constantly thinking her body will kill her is a bit stupid. We are scientifically advanced enough to do this properly.

Oddly, this quote from Houdini directly contradicts what you just said.

A quote from Fairytale?

@Eric - -- Houdini's saying to let them learn on their own.

Reminds me a bit of Paul Harvey...his lengthy pause before saying, "Good day!"

That much eye contact is weird for me especially with another man. I'm an open minded guy, believe me but there's something about it. I think Lance has such pretty eyes they just see right through me.

Eek!

Mine came out at age 19 within minutes of bursting. I awoke as I was being lifted after surgery, recognized my surgeon's eyes & muttered, "How'd I do?". I guess to make sure i'd pass out again, he lifted the steel bowl with the ugly thing, showed it to me and said, "Fine ! Wanna see it?" Just like a cartoon, I swooned and KLUNK !

@@njpaddler Your surgeon has a gallows humour I appreciate!

@@njpaddler Gross!

@@njpaddler I’m glad you’re ok P.H. He reminds me of Dr. Pratorious from the movie Frankenstein.

Robert Pierce my thoughts exactly!

Very elegantly said

Glenn, you will have 100 likes by the first of November.

@@stevedietrich8936 😂😂😂😂

@@stevedietrich8936 ... To bad Trump won't have the 100 likes at the start of November.

This dad joke was greatly appreciated!

@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 Trumps winning a second term so.. W R O N G

I'm inclined think that he was just likely more lame as magicians now. He gained his fame because many people believed him; that facade would be buried by the internet, camera phones and generally higher levels of skepticism today. If Houdini tried to work today I think he would be working kids' birthday parties like modern-day magicians. Modern-day magicians are performers who barely maintain Kayfabe during their act. Imagine if they tried to act serious and defend their act as "magic;" they would be the laughing stock of the internet.

@@bgb702 , He wasn't a magician of today though. There are still a few of his tricks that they still haven't completely figured out to this day. It was illusion yes, but very brilliant illusion. Every great magician that followed him, mimicked his work and studied his art. So no, I don't agree with your term "Lame". It was an art and he was an artist.

@@kenjimac2211 I agree he was an artist, he moved the people of the time and made them believe. He was the first one to make a true show out of it that people wanted to see. However some art can stand the test of time, and in my opinion his cannot. Although I think if everyone were pulling out their HD cameras and publishing videos online, all of his tricks would become known and even people in his time would become uninterested. I don't think we're arguing that magic is real or not here. Setting the bar for magicians is like setting the bar for fortune tellers; they're both entertainers who rely on their marks' gullibility and willingness to believe. Fortune tellers have survived and still manage to swindle adults though. Entertainers in other fields such as music, theatre/film, and comedy have managed to boom in popularity as better content distribution methods became available. They're somewhat like pro wrestling in that knowledge delegitimizes the profession. But WWE still sells out arenas all over the world (I don't get it either) meanwhile a magician is a sideshow for which it would be difficult to fill a small theatre with paying customers. I think this is because WWEs content can be entertaining even if it's fake. But a magician is barely more than a man doing tricks we know aren't real and trying to figure out how they did it rather than contemplating their new reality. I know popularity isn't everything but I didn't want to make it about me and why I dislike magicians. I respect them as people but not their profession.

@@kenjimac2211 Which of his tricks?

@@glennbishopbishthemagishNo-one does.

Reportedly, the guy who punched him first asked him whether Houdini believed in the Bible. Houdini was an skeptic about soul's immortality; also, his name was Erik Weisz and he was Jewish. There are many people now ready to shoot their fellow citizens because of religious and political differences that are way lesser.

It was a different world back then David.

Allowing an audience member to punch him in the stomach as hard as they could had long been a standard part of Houdini's show and a very successful ticket-sales building publicity stunt.

@@mattobermiller5041 Yeah, but when he was lying down....with a broken ankle?

@@Jorge-mg7or I realise that, Jorge, but still......

Indeed!

I wish I could afford to support my favourite educational you tubers however I am on the breadline as it is. However I am super appricitive of these amazing mini lectures by such an educated and well spoken gentleman.

@@Tiger89Lilly -- Keep it in mind for the future when you're a bit more flush. I was in a tight spot myself, but ended up getting rid of a couple of subscription services I had no more use of and converting that money into a Patreon donation of a couple of dollars per month to a few of my favorite KZfaq creators, which include The History Guy.

@@thebonesaw..4634 I have a list of people I want to support as soon as I marry a millionaire 😂 THG is in my top 5. I don't have any subscriptions other than sky and Netflix

@@Tiger89Lilly -- I understand... and please don't take it that I was admonishing you or anything... times are really tough right now and I see it every single day. I'm a barber, and we're doing maybe a third of the business we were before this thing started up. So many of our clients are either unemployed, or working in such a limited fashion that they can only come get a haircut every three months now (instead of three weeks as they had before). We're all in this together, and it's hard on everyone, and again... I truly understand your situation because it's a reflection of my own. But, we'll get there. I'm reminded of a fish I once saw, with the best philosophy for when times are tough... "Just keep swimming".

Always heard he was double jointed & could dislocate his shoulders to get out of straight jackets.

You're Right I was told growing up that that punch happened here in my home town

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I'm 68 and that's the story my dad told me as a kid...

Dang. Glad you are okay.

@@briangleason5597 Hey, thanks!

I had a perforated colon from diverticulitis. Emergency surgery led to a colostomy for 8 months; time to heal. Reversal of colostomy was a success. This was 34 years ago, I'm now 68.

Paul Michael Glaser (from Starsky and Hutch) played him in 1975. Tony Curtis did it better. I don't know if Curtis actually learned any magic tricks but in an episode of the The Persuaders he was able to get out of a pair of handcuffs using what costar Roger Moore termed "prestidigitation".

I loved that movie. Haven't seen it in years. Did Janet Leigh play Bess?

Michael Manning I remember that made for TV movie. Sally Struthers played Bess.

@@samanthab1923 Yep. I heartily recommend IMDB for exploring who played who in favourite movies. I also enjoy exploring the careers of supporting actors that look soooo familiar.

Michael Manning Thanks

same.

They both failed at debunking anything. Harry was a Fascists who wanted to tear the First Amendment to shreds and self proclaimed Libertarian Jillete is OK with it.

As was James Randi.

@@rsr789 indeed, legends all of them.

@@hanselmanryanjames they were sex mad

The concept of "fate" is a self delusion that Houdini would never have accepted. The same event can happen to 10 different people and you can get anywhere from one to ten results. Sure, people have been in similar accidents which leave some dead and others alive with little or no injuries. I, myself, have had a number of incidents which should have killed me, but didn't. The only thing that any person is "fated" to do, is to die at some point.

@@paulwoida8249 You misinterpreted my use of the word "fate" as in anyway meaning the "afterlife" but the "fate" as in one's eventual death is (as I understand it) escape proof. I suggest you look up "fate" and all its meanings in the dictionary and not put too much emphasis on only one definition.

Agreed. If there was conspiracy, it likely would have been intended as assault.

The event was October 22. I apologize if I misspoke.

9:03 "suspicion fell upon the events of November 22nd". Simple narration/script error. He doesn't have many and will probably update the Video Description dialogue with a clarification shortly.

Threw me off too. However, Nov 22 is an historical date, that deserves to be remembered.

@@NotMalthusian you are so right -- many harrowing memories Nov. 22

Good afternoon from Milwaukee Wisconsin 🇺🇸🧀🍻. Harry Houdini spent his early years in Appleton Wi, about 3 hours north of Milwaukee.

Heard you are going on lock down again. Be well & stay safe.

@@samanthab1923 thank you! Stay calm, carry on!😁🇬🇧👑

@@Mark.G475 Absolutley. Chin up, old boy.

@@samanthab1923 Thank you. Nothing a glass of sherry won't solve.

Classic skeptic not understanding a curse. Frauds or not (nobody can make ghosts appear in material form) some of the Spiritualists were into the occult.

I have a good friend who's a borderline genius and he believes there's secret codes in bible that make predictions. All the predictions are just a vague as Madam Marsha's, of course. He accepts the bible was not written by god, that we can't even identify half the authors and that the contents were brought together centuries after Christs death but he still believes it. Some people seem to be wired to believe no matter what they're presented with. My friend is hyper rational in every other way too so it's just weird to me that in this one thing he believe the most silly of things. This secret code nonsense is basically mathematical astrology. The bible has nearly 800,000 words. I'm pretty sure I could find a secret code or two with an archive that large to work with.

@@spaghettimonstersjudgingyo504 You miss the point. The man was hired by the Spiritualist to hit Harry in the exact spot where they knew the appendix is. Knowing he was weakened made it even easier.

@@calebjanus2000 Sorry not buying it. There's a lot easier ways to kill a man without leaving a mark. If you could be assured of death from a blow like this a lot more boxers would have died from appendix injuries.

@@calebjanus2000 Yes, I can believe there's plenty of overlap between the two.

I realize it's not an exciting subject...my father worked for the airlines all my life and I never understood why we went from middle class farmers to stealing grass off the side of the road when the county came and cut to feed our cows...I remeber Frank Lorenzo being involved...thats it. Please enlighten this poor ol Texas boy....

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I remember watching that movie in the mid 1970s on Tv. The movie of the week or 3:30 movie in Chicago. Hi from Milwaukee 🧀

Yes, and we all know that Hollywood is famous for it's historical accuracy.

Tony Orlando song comes on the radio. 👻

I second that. Good book. (I'd also recommend any of Roach's other books. Informative and funny as hell.)

I loved that book. Seeing it mentioned here makes we was to revisit it.