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Post by debbie on Dec 3, 2017 17:03:02 GMT
anyone hear of him? Yes I know he has a shady past but I've heard him on the radio show 'Above and Beyond' and his readings are truly amazing. He is right on most of the time and unlike other mediums, he names names which is very impressive to me. He seems to be a guest weekly (Saturday nights) could all the calls be set up?
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Post by The Legendary Barb on Dec 3, 2017 20:41:25 GMT
I am sure Jon will be able to explain all this to you Debbie.
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Post by debbie on Dec 3, 2017 22:42:29 GMT
I have seen him (Jon) analyze readings and show their methods but this is something entirely different. It's a radio show which I've found on iTunes and have listened to many. It's hard to see how this could be done unless each caller is actually a set up. An example would be someone calls and asks about their career or ask about their future in some regard. The medium would say something like' well who's (name) and the person will say omg that's my mom. And then he'll say and who's (name) and she'll say wow that's my daughter. He doesn't ask anything and I would have to believe these calls are all set up or he's the real deal.
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Post by The Legendary Barb on Dec 4, 2017 9:55:46 GMT
Debbie, I am sure that somewhere on this site you will find breakdowns of Jon's analyzing phone ins. At the moment I just cannot recall where, keep looking.
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Post by alanedward33 on Dec 4, 2017 12:49:23 GMT
never heard of him does he talk fast like john edwards ? whats his shady past?
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Post by debbie on Dec 4, 2017 19:44:56 GMT
He's called the Manhattan medium. His shady past involves some criminal activities but supposedly he's turned his life around. You can hear him on Abiove and Beyond with Laura something or other. The shows are on YouTube. I'd just be curious as to what people think of him.
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Post by alanedward33 on Dec 6, 2017 14:11:38 GMT
Thanks for the information Debbie i did have a look around and came across this which he is advertising a show with harry T. does this harry bloke have a habit of connecting with famous people as i still cant find out why he calls himself a celebrity psychic other than being on same channels as john edwards and lisa williams and now this bloke thomas? must be the new way of getting fame. thomasjohn.ticketleap.com/an-evening-with-harry-t-and-thomas-john-/details
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Post by debbie on Dec 6, 2017 19:21:33 GMT
www.wabcradio.com/above-and-beyond/That's the radio show he's on every Saturday night. There are several past shows you can listen to, he's pretty amazing and I don't know how he does it.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 7, 2017 11:55:41 GMT
Name doesn't seem familiar
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Post by jef on Dec 10, 2017 7:34:13 GMT
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 11, 2017 20:41:06 GMT
Blimey!!!
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Post by tom1948 on Dec 11, 2017 21:21:21 GMT
Mt first two names are Thomas John. I hope nobody mixes me up with it - I mean him!
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Post by tom1948 on Dec 11, 2017 21:21:53 GMT
I should written "my" in my post.
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Post by debbie on Dec 12, 2017 13:51:45 GMT
i said he had a shady past but he supposedly turned his life around. I was curious what you thought of his readings. I admit I listen to his weekly show and he's always right on. Unless every caller is a plant I can't see how he does it.
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Post by alanedward33 on Dec 12, 2017 15:34:48 GMT
crime pays it seems
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Post by isitreal on Dec 29, 2017 15:03:31 GMT
I listened to the A & B Show aired on the 11th November 2017. I have to agree with Debbie : there MUST be hot reading going on...the question is : how is he doing it ? Is he told the full names of the callers beforehand and is checking them out online live on the air ? Is he fed information by the show staff beforehand ? Would be interesting to hear Jon's opinion...!
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Post by isitreal on Dec 29, 2017 16:07:54 GMT
Listened to a couple of more episodes now : since I neither believe in afterlife nor in ESP : This guy found a (technological ?) way to get information on the callers of this show. Maybe he has somebody in the background who feeds him info via an earpiece or this show host Laura is in on the scam...I have no idea...but this is to good to be true !
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 30, 2017 9:46:18 GMT
I listened to the A & B Show aired on the 11th November 2017. I have to agree with Debbie : there MUST be hot reading going on...the question is : how is he doing it ? Is he told the full names of the callers beforehand and is checking them out online live on the air ? Is he fed information by the show staff beforehand ? Would be interesting to hear Jon's opinion...! I never like to jump to the hot reading conclusion without first looking at the easier option. Now with that said, I have not heard the show, but this is a radio show, when people ring in they do not go straight to live air, they first speak to a producer, the producer asks them questions to see how interesting they are, if they are serious and not a prank call, and if they are worthy of putting on air. If the radio show is in cahoots with the psychic, it would be very easy for the producer to simply hand their notes to the medium, or even have a joint computer monitor with things written on from the pre interview. That is how the medium would get the info IF they were hot reading. But that would mean the producer and other host etc are all in on it. Unless i could hear an example of one of the readings I cant say for sure. I tend to think that the mediums just wing it, and it is just cold reading. Of course if this is a one off appearance for a psychic on a radio show, easy enough to ask associates to ring up and pretend to be strangers. I once did a radio interview on LBC over a decade ago for a new show that featured a psychic as the host. And we recorded in a BBC rented studio in London. The people who rang in were ALL people sat in the "green room" downstairs, because the show was a pilot, it wasn't going out live, so no one would know to ring in. So obviously I understood and accepted this. But lets say it was live, and you wanted to guarantee good phone ins then you get stooges to ring in and they can even use the internal phone lines to make sure of perfect connections etc. So yeah plenty of ways to hot read and cheat if needed. But one thing a psychic does not like to do is let too many people in on the scam. So what you need to do on the Thomas John situation, is to look for his connection to the other people on the show, are they related, are they employed by him, follow the money!
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Post by isitreal on Dec 30, 2017 11:04:24 GMT
Yes, follow the money ! It is very obvious with this radio show : "Medium" Thomas John gets countless opportunities to promote his "services"...his business phone number is mentioned many times in every episode of the show ! As far as the cold reading explanation is concerned : I would bet this time that is not enough...just too many direct good hits...I mean this is also about intuition which tells You : that can't be true !
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Post by isitreal on Jan 3, 2018 9:43:23 GMT
This got me a little obsessed...so I listened some more of it. I think the easiest way to pull this off is having plants/stooges (as Debbie said from the beginning) call in who agree with (almost) everything the "medium" says. Would be interesting to compare the voices of the callers with some kind of software...
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