- You will open your eyes.
You will not remember your name.
One,
two, three.
Open your eyes.
What's your name?
- It's hard to say it.
- Today we are getting hypnotized.
This is a long requested video.
We have a professional hypnotist
and we're gonna see which of us can be put under his spell.
The good news is that even if I don't get hypnotized,
I get to watch.
And I love to watch.
Not like--
(upbeat music)
We've got a big group joining us today.
We've got people from "The Office."
One of my best friends is here.
- Well hello internet.
I don't know if I really believe in hypnotism,
but I'm a skeptic
so let's see if it works today.
- Take a deep breath and relax for a second.
- I, Keith Habersberger, have been hypnotized once before.
When my friend asked me, "Were you really hypnotized?
Do you really not remember anything."
Something in my brain was like trapped.
Like he turned off the ability for me to speak it out loud
what had happened.
- And I'm gonna do something like this?
- Ooh. - For a second.
- Ooh. - Now relax.
Okay, oh very good.
Okay.
- Did I do good? - All right, all right.
- So what hypnotists do,
they get a big group of people
and they just start picking people off one by one.
They're not trying to hypnotize the group.
They're looking for who's the one guy
that I can (beep) with?
- Ned, for a moment.
- Okay.
- How you doing, huh?
- Pretty good.
- How you doing, huh? - Yeah.
- Oh, you've got a stronghold, huh?
- I don't think I'm a person that enjoys giving
up a sense of control.
This is a little stressful for me.
- Okay, he's a skeptic.
He's definitely the skeptic.
We got it, okay.
- How did you know I'm the skeptic?
(everyone laughs)
You're like a little puppet.
I don't wanna be somebody's puppet.
- How much can I move while we talk?
Like, can I move like this?
Okay, I'm free.
My name is Riccardo Berdini.
I am an hypnotist and mentalist.
- [Man] Riccardo.
- Now hypnosis is real.
It's absolutely real.
Can anyone be hypnotized?
That's a tricky question.
If you relax, if you open your mind
if you're not afraid of losing control.
Yes, everyone can.
But the problem is
that not everyone allow themselves to let it go.
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to saying Zach and Keith are so cute.
- So cute.
- Okay, let's try to do a simple experiment.
I want you to clap your hand like this.
(everyone claps)
And I want you to make a fist out it.
Today it's a challenge because there's not a
a huge amount of people.
It's much easier to find someone to be hypnotized
in a large audience.
Right now I want you to imagine that are two magnets,
two magnets on the top of the fingers
and the fingers are getting together.
Exactly like this faster and faster.
There's nothing you can resist.
Usually people that are likely to be easily
hypnotized are people that are very happy.
Raise your hand if the fingers are touching again,
raise your hand, if the fingers are touching again.
Very relaxed, people that don't care about being controlled.
You know, you can't resist.
Come on guys.
You know you can't resist exactly.
Because hypnosis,
it's simply a tool
that we have to talk to our subconscious.
Our subconscious, it's very,
very powerful and mysterious.
Okay, very good.
Put your hands down.
Who's been hypnotized before?
Okay, you've been hypnotized?
- Yeah. - [Riccardo] Really?
- A friend of mine, who was trying to learn hypnotism.
Tried it on me in college.
- And did it work?
- I don't know.
- Does catching the holy ghost count?
- Absolutely, yes.
- In like a back to search.
- Did you do it?
- I pretended.
(all laugh)
- I've got something for you.
- Okay.
- Okay, we're gonna try to do something
with you Keith.
- Okay.
- I want you to imagine that for a moment.
There's a light that shining right here
in this part of your front head.
Right here, there's a big, huge light.
Take a deep breathing and exhale like this.
And I want you to keep
imagining this light that is spotting right here.
The light is right here
and take a deep breath in and exhale.
I want you to close your eyes,
close your eyes exactly this.
Take a deep breathing again and exhale.
The moment you exhale, you relax even deeper
and deeper in a beautiful feel of relaxation.
You're totally in control.
My voice is just music in your ear.
Take a deep breath in again.
And exhale,
when you exhale you go even deeper
and deeper into a beautiful feel relaxation
but you still see the light.
I want you to imagine that the more you stare at the light
you can't open your eyes.
It's impossible for you to open your eyes.
There's no way you can open your eyes because you're
staring at this light.
I want your eyes to stare at this light and imagine you
can open your eyes, but you can't, right?
You can't open your eyes.
Even if you try, I want you to try to open your eyes.
Try strong, to open your eyes.
Keep trying to open your eyes, but there's no way
that you can open your eyes.
No way in the world, you can open your eyes
but I will snap my finger
you will be able to open your eyes.
One, two, three, boom.
Open your eyes.
Now you're able to open your eyes.
Okay very good.
Very good. - So weird.
- Is hypnosis the same thing as mind control?
No, but yes,
it can be.
- [Man] Riccardo.
- You're gonna open your eyes
and you're not gonna be able to talk
because I will touch on your neck, open your eyes,
open your eyes and you cannot talk now.
You can't talk, you know that right?
You can talk right?
You can talk?
Can you talk?
- Do you want fried chicken?
- Can you talk?
(everyone laughing)
Thank you, Keith.
Thank you again, give Keith a big round of applause guys.
Keith, go back to your seat for a second.
Let's come here.
Let's try to do an experiment together.
If you don't mind.
- Snap.
- Thank you very much Zach.
Give Zach a big round of applause, right?
- Yeah.
(everyone applauds)
- Okay, you're going to close your eyes right now
boom, like this, exactly like this.
Close your eyes.
Exactly like that.
Like that.
I want you to take a deep breath in and exhale.
The more you exhale, the more you feel absolutely fantastic.
I want you to become a little ball, like exactly like this.
I want you to crumble into a little ball.
Take a deep breath in and exhale.
The more you exhale, you come into a little ball.
Exactly like that.
I want you to hear the music and the noise of your body.
Your body makes a beautiful sound on the ground.
And that sound is making you feel comfortable,
making you feel beautiful.
You feel like you are in the womb again.
And I want you to keep doing and keep doing
and keep doing and keep doing and keep doing and keep doing.
I want you to imagine in front of you,
is a guardian angel.
Whatever your guardian angel is gonna ask you to do
you're gonna feel good.
You're gonna feel absolutely fantastic.
And you will love to do it.
It's gonna be one of the best feeling in the world.
Open your eyes.
This is your guardian.
He's your angel.
- Hey crazy.
- What up?
- He's a fantastic angel.
- He looks good from this angle.
- Thanks man.
- You've been working out?
- [Kwest] Yeah.
- Yeah, you look good.
- [Kwest] Thanks dude.
- Whatever your guardian is gonna ask you.
- [Zach] Okay.
- You're gonna do
because he's your guardian, he's gonna protect you.
- What's your social security number?
(everyone laughs)
- I could tell you.
You wanna know?
- Maybe we don't go that deep, okay?
There's other in his subconscious that we can go over there.
And sleep again, boom.
Sleep, exactly like this.
And I want the guardian to ask you to do something
and you're not gonna do it.
One, two, three.
- Do the Dougie.
- Crazy I don't know how to do that.
(everyone laughs)
- I knew he was gonna be a problem.
I knew it.
- I don't believe this shit.
I gotta tell you the truth.
Yeah, I really don't believe this shit.
If it was real
like it would have to be like FDA approved and it's not.
- [Interviewer] How do you handle skeptics at your shows?
- I have a lot of fun with them.
Let me see if I can do this.
Take a deep breath in again and exhale like this,
exhale like this.
Okay, very good.
Okay, I just want you to imagine
that you are in a big library, in it right now,
and you're looking
for a book of names, good name for your kid.
Open your eyes.
Look at the book.
Do you see this book in front of you?
I want you to tell me to stop whenever you want.
Before tomorrow.
Now question,
when you will open your eyes
you will see on this page some names
and I want you to choose one of this name in your mind.
I don't want you to say anything out loud.
There's no possible way that I can know which name
did you choose, right?
There's a piece of paper
that has been in this glass all the time.
I want you to tell me for the first time right now
what's the name that you chose from the page?
- Richard.
- Really?
What a beautiful name, Richard.
So it would be cool if Richard was written
in this piece of paper that I have on that glass
since the beginning.
Since we were here at the beginning.
- [Kwest] Probably be ironic.
- Ironic is not the right word my friend,
Richard is the right word.
In storytelling, when you see a character transform itself
from the villain to the hero, it's the best.
So the audience loves it.
They love it.
And the show becomes good.
So I love skeptics even
because I can prove them wrong all the time.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- I'm manipulated?
(all laugh)
- You're easy to be influenced.
- What?
- I started as a magician.
Let's say it, as sort of an easy step to go
into hypnosis because they're absolutely correlated.
Okay, we're gonna put this here for a moment.
We're gonna get back to that in a second.
I want you to visualize the letters in this hand.
What's the first letter that you can visualize?
- M.
- M, that's very interesting.
You see an M,
and what's the second letter you visualize?
- K.
- A, K?
- And then what's the last letter that you visualize?
- A.
- M-K-A.
- Would you be scared if I wrote down M-K-A here?
- Yeah.
- Really?
(all laugh)
- Stop it.
- Oh my God.
Oh my God, that's so weird.
- Ned, I just real quick, can you close your eyes?
- Yeah.
- And I want you to picture something in your mind.
You have it, right?
- Sure.
- And now I want you to open your eyes.
Is this it?
(everyone laughs)
- All right guys, let's try a last final experiments.
A big experiment.
Take a deep breath in everybody and relax.
I want you to raise your hands in front of you.
Okay, raise your hand in front of you.
Exactly like this.
Can you do, sorry.
Can you do a closeup
on the way that this gentlemen raise his hands?
Because it's very, very interesting.
My man, raise your hands like this, exactly.
Now I want you to imagine that the right hand
there's a balloon and this balloon is lifting the hand
up and up and up and open your eyes everybody
and look where your hands are.
- Oh boy.
- Ned, I want you to look at me.
Take a deep breath in,
take a deep breath in again and look at me
and sleep boom, down like this.
Okay, I want you to relax.
Take a deep breath in and exhale and relax.
Take a deep breath in.
And you're feeling absolutely fantastic.
I want you to stay like this will, right.
Will, right?
Will I want you to look at me for a second.
Look at me for a second, Will.
Look at me for a second.
Take a deep breathing.
Take breathing and boom, relax.
Exactly like this Will.
Very good.
That's very good.
And what's your name?
- Jake. - Jake, green eyes.
Okay, Jake I want you to look at me in the eyes.
Keep looking at me in the eyes, settle it.
Stare me in the eyes.
- [Man] Riccardo.
- Will, I want you to imagine
that in your feet, in your feet
there's something that bothers you in your right feet.
There's something underneath your right feet.
You's gonna start to feel something on your feet
and there's nothing you can do.
It's itchy.
It's scratchy.
Every time I say the word snake, you will feel your
your feet.
You'd be disturbing.
It's a snake.
Yes, exactly like this and snake again.
I want you to take a deep breath in and exhale.
Once you take a step further,
you feel like this step is so large,
so large and so huge.
It's a huge step for your, a huge,
huge step doing take a step forward, take a step forward.
Yeah, so large.
So large, but you can't.
It's interesting.
You can't, your hair are completely brown.
You change your color.
Your hair are brown.
Every time you will look into the mirror
you will see that your hair are brown.
If you look in the mirror, what color are your hair?
- They are brown
and my bangs are not nice.
- Yeah, I know it's so bad, right?
So brown.
You feel like you're
in a jungle and in this jungle is full of animals.
(Riccardo growls)
You hear tigers, you hear lions.
You hear, you hear, you hear everything exactly.
But
there's one thing that is the more powerful thing
and it's a snake.
It's a snake.
Hear the snake.
All right open your eyes.
There's a snake.
Look, there's a snake.
The snake is here.
It's gonna touch you.
She's gonna touch.
Be careful, be careful.
Jake I will count to three.
You will take a deep breath in, feel your body transform.
You feel your body, that is transforming
to something greater and something amazing.
You feel the most powerful animal in the world.
You feel like a gorilla.
You are a gorilla right now.
I want you to feel your hands like a gorilla.
I want you to feel your arms like a gorilla.
I want you to feel your legs, your arms, your chest.
I want you to feel everything in your body like a gorilla.
Exactly, feel like a gorilla.
Your leg.
I want you to feel so powerful.
Like a gorilla.
I want you to stand.
I want you to stand right now.
Stand and feeling like a gorilla.
You feel absolutely like a gorilla.
Exactly, just take a step forward.
I want you to feel like a gorilla.
I want you to roar like a gorilla because you feel it.
You are a gorilla.
You are.
Yes, exactly.
(Riccardo growls)
I want you to feel a gorilla.
I want you to feel the power.
You feel the power of a gorilla
but be careful because there's a snake.
There's a snake.
The snake is dangerous and the snake is everywhere.
There's a snake.
There's a snake around you.
There's not around you.
And I want you to open your eyes
and look at yourself as a gorilla.
You are a gorilla.
You're powerful.
You're a gorilla.
And look at the snake.
There's a snake around you.
Where is the snake?
The snake is hidden, where is the snake my friend?
If the snake catch you, its over,
the snake cannot catch you.
Where is the snake?
Where is the, are you looking for the snake?
Where is the snake?
Where is his snake and sleep for a second.
Exactly like this.
Exactly, let's take a breath in.
Take a deep breathing and relax.
I want you to feel the energy of Ned right now.
I want you to feel the energy of Ned.
The energy of Ned is very strong.
It's very powerful.
You feel the energy of Ned all over the room.
We're gonna take the energy of Ned
and we're gonna float it in the air.
He's floating.
He's floating in the room.
He's floating.
And Jake, if you felt a touch, can you please
raise your right hand up in the sky?
Exactly, you felt the touch of Ned.
That's the energy of Ned that he's touching you.
I want you to show me with your right hand
how many times did you feel the touch.
With your right hand
and take a deep breath in.
Jake, take a deep breath in.
And
I want you to show me with your right hand.
Where did you feel the touch?
Jake, where did you feel the touch?
Exactly, exactly like this.
Take a deep breath in and exhale like that.
And exhale and Ned, you're standing
up right now because you feel so good right now.
I want you to stand up exactly like this.
Stand up, stand up.
And I want you to wander the room.
Wonder the room right now, because you're the hunter.
You're hunting a gorilla.
You're hunting a gorilla, Ned.
You're hunting a gorilla.
Open your eyes.
Look at me.
You're hunting a gorilla.
There's a gorilla in the room.
You have to find a gorilla.
When you find the gorilla, you have to capture the gorilla.
Jake, I want you to feel like a gorilla.
You are a gorilla.
Take a deep breathing and exhale.
You're the gorilla.
You are a strong gorilla, okay?
But there's a hunter that is hunting you.
The hunter is hunting you.
And I want you to run away because if he catch you
it's gonna make you his trophy.
You cannot be catched by the gorilla.
I'm gonna count three, you're gonna open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
One, two, three.
Go, both of you.
(dramatic music)
Where's the gorilla?
Where is the gorilla?
When you find a gorilla,
what do you do when you find a gorilla?
When you find a gorilla--
- You guys stopped to have it.
(all laugh)
I'll do it tough.
(all laugh)
- I thank God 'cause Ned was about to drop kick Jacob.
(upbeat music)
- Got to hose up my butt and suck the poop out.
Today we're getting colonics.
Oh,
whoops.