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As some of you know, I'm senior newswriter/news producer for a morning
television show here in Toronto, Canada. Yesterday, Thursday Feb. 28th,
we had the Amusing, er, Amazing Kreskin as our guest. On being introduced
he rambled for a few seconds about how little live TV there is anymore
(Our show Breakfast Television is 3 hours live daily) and how cold it was
outside. He then suddenly switched topic and made the following statement.
I transcribed it from the aircheck-videotape and reproduce it complete
with interruptions by our lovely co-host Liza.
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- Thursday February 28... 7:52am 'Breakfast Television'
CITY-TV Toronto
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- Kreskin: Now yesterday, there was a big story all over
the country (Canada) about UFOs. This... Canada.... I think is interesting...
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- Liza: ....Yeah, there's been so many sightings...
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- Kreskin: 42 percent in this past year, more. I made (make?)
a statement because in the States last year, I was involved in a one week
documentary on TV regarding UFO's. Two of the shows I was consultant with,
analyzing why people respond, why they may see them. You have it on this
show here, before the press conference in the States... You're going to
have the largest UFO sighting in the past half-century that will take place
in either May or June...
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- Liza: ...of this year?
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- Kreskin: It's going to take place in the desert in Nevada
and you will have more people witnessing it than recorded in a century.
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- (He paused for a second and then continued)
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- Kreskin: When I get back to the States I'm going to put
up a five figure amount of money up. If I fail, it goes to charity.....
And I don't fly in UFOs.....
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- [At this point he talks about how flakey the staff of
'Breakfast Television' is, (true enough) and goes into his regular, non-UFO,
shtick.]
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- Two questions... Didn't Sam Donaldson make a similar
prediction about alien encounters or UFO landing recently. Other than the
promised Olympic fly-past, anyone heard of a similar prediction. Am I experiencing
Deja Vu? Are these two on to something... or just on something?
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- We'll keep our eyes peeled...and any Listers in Nevada,
could you do the same?
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- Also -- The Okanagan.net
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- " I can see reading in your immediate future"
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- By Ron Seymour
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- Hi Kreskin.
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- Guess who this is?
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- That's how I wanted to begin my chat Tuesday with "the
Nostradamus of the 21st century," as he likes to be called.
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- If Kreskin can predict big events in the future
world's biggest mass sightings of UFOs in Nevada this May or June! Rudy
Guiliani becomes U.S. president! he should certainly have been able
to foresee little old me calling for a chat.
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- But then I worried the conversation might degenerate
and end abruptly if I was too much of a smartass right off the bat.
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- Me: Who am I and what am I wearing?
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- Kreskin: Ah, my divining powers are a little obscured
today. Perhaps you could give me a clue.
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- Me: C'mon, guess, dammit, guess! What colour is my underwear?!
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- Click.
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- Then I'd have a lot of space to fill, and my own prognosticating
abilities are limited to knowing when it's time to go to the gym (which
is when my breasts jiggle as I drive over railway tracks).
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- So when the latter day Nostradamus picked up the phone
from his hotel room in Ontario, where he's now on tour to promote a book
that comes out next week, I thought I'd better start with something more
polite.
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- Me: Have you foreseen the time and place of your own
death?
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- Kreskin: Yes, I have. But I have not made that public
and I never will. Let me just say my mom's 95 and my father lived to 91,
so you can bet I'm going to be around for a long time to come.
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- Me: Your new book is called Kreskin and the Stars, in
which you interview celebrities and newsmakers ranging from Seinfeld to
Greenspan to Teller, that guy who helped build the A-bomb. What are some
of the predictions they offer about the future?
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- Kreskin: Well, one of the most surprising was to hear
Kathy Lee Gifford knock television. She says that in the future, people
will only read books for enjoyment.
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- Me: Books? Bah! Have you seen the price of a new hardcover?
Speaking of my poor finances, help me win this week's 6-49. What numbers
are going to come up?
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- Kreskin: That's probably the most asked question I get.
I have to tell you that each individual has his own set of winning numbers.
The trick is to figure out what your numbers are, and for that you will
have to look deep inside yourself.
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- Me: I don't like to go there. Anyway, CNN has had you
on every New Year's Day for the past seven years to offer predictions on
the coming year. What was your most brilliantly accurate prediction?
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- Kreskin: This year, I said that the U.S. was involved
in a war that had not yet been made public, and that it was a war of terrorism.
I also said something was going to happen in September involving at least
two airplanes.
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- Me: Holy 9-11! Hey, maybe those are my lucky numbers.
Kreskin, what's this about you predicting the world's biggest mass sighting
of UFOs in the Nevada desert sometime this spring?
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- Kreskin: The number of UFO sightings is up 42 per cent
in Canada since Jan. 1. Over the years, I've talked to too many commercial
pilots responsible, normal people who've seen things flying
beside their plane that they couldn't explain. They can't take their story
public, but I'm convinced there are extraterrestrials. God forbid we humans
are the smartest creatures in the universe. If we are, then God made a
big mistake!
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- Me: Hey, good one, K-man! But are you willing to put
your reputation as the world's most famous maker-upper-of-things-to-come
on the line over this UFO thing?
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- Kreskin: Absolutely. If I'm wrong, I'll be making a very
large donation to a well-known charity.
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- Me: Have you heard of this very worthy new cause that's
just been established, the Humanitarian Fund to Help Ron Seymour?
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- Kreskin: Is that your name?
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- Me: I don't know. You tell me.
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- Kreskin: (very sarcastically) For me to be able to read
someone's mind, they must be capable of focusing and concentrating very
hard.
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- Me: No time for that. I'm at work. But then, I'm sure
you knew that already.
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- Ron Seymour is a Daily Courier reporter whose column
appears Wednesday and Friday.
This was also announced on the Regis Philbin show here in the States 4-24-02
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