I had to bring this tread back. Did anyone see the show today on foster care? I was outraged that the foster parents who abused their charges weren't put in jail. I hope the caseworkers who allowed the abuse to continue were fired.

I was even more outraged at the fact that they were allowed to foster children again. How is it that in the state of Florida they would rather subject children to hellish foster homes like the one talked about on today's show, then have a gay couple adopt them. Florida had their issues all fucked up when it comes to the foster care system.

Oh God I know, the system is definitely broken somewhere. I couldn't believe that those 'parents' would put the children in crates and throw them in the pool until they were within an inch of their lives. How appauling! I really don't understand people at all. Not one bit. The kids really all seemed well adjusted, really good for them to find a home with loving parents once and for all.

I just saw a glimpse of today's show, which is about identical twins, triplets, and up. The first group was three women from Poland that play violin. The thing that bugged me was that they were dressed alike! Why do talk shows insist on having grown identical twins dress alike? That kind of thing just bugs.

Those families were freaky! Like the twins that married twins so their kids were all like brothers and sisters or something. I wasn't paying too much attention cause of chores, but my god that was weird as hell. I don't like it when they dress them alike either. That's encouraging people to treat them as one entity, IMO.

The violin playing gals made my ears bleed. I had to turn the channel at that point.

Today's show with the girl whose father threatened to kill her because she was senond place in a spelling bee a few years back prove that they should make psychological tests for people that want to be parents mandatory. That story was just creepy.

I was reminded yesterday why I can not stand this man and his show. I was at my local gym, his show was on and it was about reuniting families. One particular segment was about a son being reunited with his biological father after 30 years. Now, the sound was a little low, but right after they were reunited Montel went on this rant about how it wasn't right or something. Then, before either could respond, he shuffles them backstage to talk to a psychiatrist.

Nice Montel. Here's an emotional reunion ruined by your need to grab the spotlight.

I notice that too. Montel has these people on his show and only lets them get a few words or maybe one sentence out and tells the rest of the story himself. That is really annoying!

Oh! A Montel thread!

This man and his show are still on the air and I don't know why. About a year ago my friends and I were offered free tickets to his show on the street. We had nothing better to do so we just decided to go to the taping. We were the very last people there and got put in the very back of the audience. We waited there for an hour for him to come out of his dressing room. And by asking around we found out the rest of the audience had already been there for over an hour. We asked one of the stage guys when he would be out and his response was "when Montel's ready." Sheesh! What a primadonna. So my friends and I just left. End of my Montel experience.

Haven't watched the show since then. I do not miss it.

I used to love the Montel show, but his famewhorish refusal to ever shut up has dulled my fandom.

I still watch only for the Sylvia Browne shows, but even then he butts in. It drives me up the wall when the family with the haunting/dead relative/whatever asks a question, Sylvia says one word and then Montel interrupts all "I'll take this one Sylvia, hahahaha!" and then runs his mouth until they're almost out of time. News Flash Monty: They didn't come to see you! You are not psychic, nor do you play one on TV! STFU!

That's funny. The Sylvia Browne ones are the only ones I refuse to watch. That woman is so phony. How about an episode where Montel goes around and finds out that some of the predictions she's made have come true, huh? No, you'll never get that. She's only talking out her ass.

Monday's episode has a woman who was abused by her husband and shot him after he threatened to kill her. Montel's all upset 'cause she went to jail for 10 years.

Problem is, she shot him while he was passed out. Self-defense doesn't work when you could have run away!

LOL. Sylvia Brown. I hate how she's always biting on her 3 feet long fingernails which are as phony as her psychic abilities.

It's quite sad that I'm mad at my affiliate for replacing Montel with Tennis all week. I hate tennis. I don't like Montel either, but his show is entertaining and not as bad as Jerry Springer. He just talks too damn much.

Montel's one of my favorite talk shows. I was in tears during the episode when he had the model Emme take over his show for the day and interview him. He was so emotional when discussing his MS and what it does to him... it was so had.

Say what you will about Sylvia Browne, but I believe she's the real thing. I just find it hard to believe for someone to pull stuff like that out of their ass. But what really had me convinced was when she nailed the Baton Rouge serial killer. I watched when a news station from Baton Rouge had interviewed her about the alleged killer. All along they believed it was a white male who drove a white pick-up truck. Sylvia told them that it wasn't. Not only was she right about the description of the alleged killer, she named him, where he lived, his occupation, etc. They had to edit out some of what she said for legal reasons on tv, but she had given enough sufficient evidence to nail him. A few weeks later he was caught and I was blown away by how accurate she was.

It is if they will come find you and probably kill you. Having once been married to an abusive man I know that in my case if I tried to leave things always got much worse. And he wasn't even as bad as what some men are like.

Sylvia Browne is on today and I, in my summer flu funk, will be there. I am not sure why I find this woman fascinating. I'm not a get-my-palms-read-Ouija board-analyze-my-dream kind of person and I HATE John Edward. But I've heard this woman give people exact names of people that owned the land they lived on hundreds of years ago and the names were verified according to my local paper. I know, you can't believe everything you read, but still. I was bugged by the report that it costs $700. for a 1/2 hour private reading but I guess if you can get someone to pay you that, good for you.

Looks like she has a radio program where people can call in for a reading. Here's the link to her website. Sylvia Browne's website

They showed the repeat of the Polish violin-players yesterday. Those girls were hot! I loved how he said they could outdo Britney Spears if they wanted to.

It isn't self defense. It's called battered women's syndrome and unless you have gone through the hell yourself of being in a relationship that is abusive you can't understand it. A lot of times these women(and men) already suffer from a low self-esteem and get hooked up with someone who thrives on their weakness. They shut them off from family and friends and in a lot of cases brainwash them. When you are told over and over again how worthless, ugly, and stupid you are and how no one else could love you, eventually you start to believe it. Also in a lot of these cases these women(and men) know that yes, they might be able to leave while the abuser is asleep or gone but these demented people will hunt you down and then you wish you were dead. This is the only way they see out. Not that I'm condoning murder but if the choice was for me to kill someone and spare my kids a life of hell and save my life as well that would be one dead soul if that was my only choice.

This episode was on last week and might have been a repeat, I don't know because I don't watch it often. But there was a girl on there who had a "doctor" call up and tell her that he was her mother's doctor and that her mom had a breast infection and younger girls were more susceptible to it. So he convinced this girl to perform a "test" over the phone to see if she had the infection. The "test" was to get a razor blade and cut off her nipples. For whatever reason this girl did just that. While she was doing it the guy on the phone told her it was ok for her to scream out while she did it, he was used to that, and then when she was done she asked what she should do with the nipples, he said flush them down the toilet. WTF? That was just insane. Apparently this guy had done this to several women. it left this girl very traumitized, but I am sorry, I would never trust some loon who called up out of the blue and said to do that. Common sense would tell anyone that this was not right. I wonder where Montel finds these people.

How old was the girl and did she have mental problems? I've heard of people being scammed out of their life savings by a stranger on the phone, but self-mutilation is ridiculous!

Why would someone believe that?

Today (7-25) is an actual non-Sylvia show. Now I haven't watched an entire episode of Montel in years but this one had me glued to it. There was a girl who got pregnant at 13 and her mother forced her into labor and actually wound up killing the baby. She's currently on trial for murder, and the daughter may not be able to have another child later in life (she's 17 now). It's truly a horrific story but I can't turn away from it.

Montel has to be getting a big cut of Sylvia's books.
She drives me nuts. Especially those gross long fingernails...I swear one of these days, she's gonna poke out her eyes.

Wordy McWord. When she sits there and chews on her nails it makes me gag. And I swear she is just pulling half the crap she says out of thin air.

Did anyone catch today's episode? (Pyscho woman believes stranger's child is her long-lost twin daughter)

Holy shit, DrCher, that was nuts! I just know that the poor real mom is going to have trouble with psycho in the future, no matter what the DNA test says. I kept waiting for Montel to tell her that she was batshit crazy.

Montel should have set the psycho up with some sort of counseling. She will continue to harass that poor girl and her family. Hope they're able to stay safe.

Intensive research, perhaps?

Ever since she went on the Montel show during the election and made the 'prediction' that Al Gore was going to win she's gone down in my book as a hoax.

Montel even addressed the issue to Sylvia, and she came up with some ridiculous excuse for it being that she got the 'spirits mixed up' or some weird psychic babble. After that I thought Montel was going to give her ass the boot--but obviously years later she's still going strong.



Either that or she got some dirt on him, and is doing some serious blackmailing.

But Gore DID win.

George Bush won.

Did anybody watch Montel with Sylvia Browne on today? I got freaked about the boy who had night terrors. Sylvia told his mom he had two previous lives. In one life he was buried alive by Indians. In another life he was a Confederate soilder who was tortured and killed by Union solidlers.

I saw it. What were her predictions at the end? I missed it.

I really had no idea so many people had these traumatic past lives where they are apparently killed by Indians. God, she and Montel have their hands so far up each others asses they're hitting stomach.

ETA: The boy with night terrors was interesting, mostly because i have night terrors, too (I scare the hell out of my boyfriend quite regularly). The thing that bothers me is that his mom said "none of the doctors in our area could help and they all checked him!" Now, it didn't say where they're from, but I'm assuming it's somewhere small because they would have made a big deal if no doctor in Manhattan could help. And night terrors in children are actually very common, and if taken to a proper sleep specialist they can be treated. Putting this poor boy in the hands of this charlatan because Mayberry's GP couldn't fix it DOES NOT help him. If anything it makes it even harder for night terros to get proper study and treatment because these boneheads start prattling about past lives and junk. Oh! Oh! He has visions of spiders and bugs during the terrors! Shocking. I think that's about number 2 in the most common visions during nightmares, not even counting those who get actual terrors (Aaah, cobras!), so that's like me saying "ooh, does he ever see people in the room who aren't there?" and nodding knowingly when they go "Yes! Amazing!"

Look, I have no problem with people taking advantage of people dumb enough to ask things like "Will I get married" and junk like that. But when they take money and basically bread their butter with the pain and suffering of others.. thats when I get irked. This woman gets my goat. The best thing is that when my goat gets her, she won't even see it coming.

I ended up watching this show today, because my cable was out all day, and after cleaning my kitchen, doing all the laundry, and shampooing the carpets, I just got tired enough to watch ANYTHING on the four channels that come in with just the rabbit ears.

So anyway - Sylvia Browne is so obviously fake! I can't believe anyone is buying this.

The mother and daughter with the "ghost" - Sylvia gives them the name of said ghost and tells them to send him on to the light. But the women continue to whine - why does the ghost only pick on the one daughter?

And I swear - Sylvia Browne just throws her hands up in the air and says in the most exasperated voice "you look like a woman who betrayed him". I think she even rolled her eyes a little bit. I interpreted that as "oh fine, you want a reason, here's one, you morons."



My feelings exactly. The aunt and friend of the girl who was killed in a car accident, the daughter who cared for her dying father, the woman who has terrifying nightmares every night - these people were really hurting, and deserved better.

It happened even earlier for me: the time when she predicted Matt Waters would be a big hit and run for several seasons. I'm no psychic, but even I could have foretold its quick cancellation.

LOL I remember that!

There was another prediction that she talked about, which was how in the year 2000 we were going to have cars that were going to fly in the air, and life was going to be pretty much like the Jetsons. (who knows maybe there is a creation like that somewhere, but anyone could have predicted this considering how technology advances so often) This had to be back in '94. I was only 10 and i believed that hogwash. She basically made it seem as though regular cars were going to be extinct by then.

Montel's show is usually decent. But I'm always thrown back by how many times he invites this creep on to his show, to spew a bunch of false predictions.

Well, for the most part Sylvia is generally ALWAYS on point. I always watch the Montell show just to see her. She definitely has a gift.

But I had to laugh about the Matt Waters prediction because that show crashed and burned! LOL
I think she told him that to make him feel better about himself. It didn't even last a season...




But, technically, Al Gore did really win...He won the popular vote, but they enacted the electoral college(because whoever wins the popular vote is SUPPOSED to win the Electoral college...according the my Poli Sci class).
So, Sylvia is bank!

For some reason I'm remembering the Sylvia predicting Gore's victory to be AFTER election day. I don't know why. I suppose we (okay, ME, I could. Not ya'll...) could look the date of the program up. But I swear that it happened after.

And I definitely could be wrong, and probably am.


(but in my head that helps prove she's a fake, cause we do go by the electoral collage and and she was wrong about it and she could have been more specific, cause she's pyschic and all....)

This is very true... ITA she has an immense gift.. for bullllllllshit.

As Sylvia and I live in a country with a two-party system, I am heartened that I have a 50-50 change of being "proven" a psychic.

ETA.. really, I don't want to come off as thumbing my nose at people who believe she's real, but... well, I take that back. I am totally comfortable thumbing my nose at anyone who thinks that woman is anything other than a cash register, and Monte'l just as bad for starting this "text message" contest which basically costs 30 bucks a month.

If she were a true psychic, her visions should reach farther and beyond all the electoral college/popular vote screw up. And in the end, she would have saw that George Bush would be sitting in the White House, and not Al Gore.

I could not watch today's show-confessed child molesters. The one lady who is married to the pervert sat there acting pissed that people didn't want them around. Ya think you stupid bitch? And by the way uncross your legs and cover up! There was only one who was willing to admit to being the scuzzball he is and that he doesn't blame people for hating him.

Montell asked her who would win the election...Not who would steal the election. =)

The reason why I think she is authentic is because approximately 95% of her predictions are accurate.
Whether one believes her or not there is no denying her impact on audience members and many viewers.

I believe her. And I generally do not believe psychics who seem to play guessing games with the audience...Sylvia just gives point blank predictions.

I watched about 5 minutes of her and had to turn the channel. The urge to throw something at her was becoming overwhelming.

I'm happy if she thinks that her husband only did it once, it was a huge mistake, blah blah blah enablercakes. I didn't see what her husband's exact crime was, but I'm assuming it was against a child? However, I did see her and the crybabies on the end talking about "children paying for the sins of the father..." and they were just the limit. Does she really not think she's running a risk with her own children?

I can fully understand a parent's reaction being that their child is to have nothing to do with her child. I'm not saying to be deliberately cruel to the sex offender's kid, but I wouldn't go out of my way to strike up a friendship that was never going to go anywhere. I wouldn't want any child I cared about to go over to that house. Sure, maybe he's rehabilitated, but MAYBE HE ISN'T, and that's not a chance I'm willing to take. (It may be unpopular, but I don't really believe that child molesters are ever truly reformed, and I think they should all have to live in a community unto themselves. If that makes me horrible, then so be it)

My opinion is that if you're a true psychic you should be able to envision such a MAJOR discrepancy like that. That just makes her useless and unreliable.





I tend to believe a lot of the chosen people from the audience are gullible or paid actors.

Where'd that figure come from? I've been trying to find a list of her accuracies for a while. Thanks!

Today in the second part Montel was so on the money! When the sex offender said he sets boundaries when his child's friends were over like never being around them when they are in their pj's and never being downstairs with them during that time-Montel made the point everyone was thinking. To have to go to those extremes to keep from harming those children means he is not truly rehabilitated. Then one idiot is like "yeah I'd let a sex offender watch my kid"???????? Do what?!!!
While there are some cases I give leeway to, like a 17 year old having sex with his 15 year old girlfriend should not be placed in the same category as those perverts on that stage, there are just some cases that need to be shot on sight and those guys on that stage were case in point. Anyone who does harm to a child and steals their innocence is scum of the earth. I couldn't have sat in that audience without attacking. I don't think any show has every bothered me like these two did.

I'll admit, I'm a sucker for the Sylvia Browne episodes. I've always believed her, but even more so when she nailed who the Baton Rouge serial killer was. She was on a local news channel in Louisiana a few weeks beforehe was caught. People were really frantic about this and the police in BR were way off base for a long time. In fact, IIRC, he wasn't even caught by BR police but others instead because they didn't handle it as well as they should have. So I seriously doubt they'd let her come on there and bullshit about a serious matter, all for the sake of pretending to be real. To each his own though.

It didn't occur to me until just now that about two years ago when Montel was asking Sylvia about celebrity predictions, he had asked about Nicole Kidman. She said that she was going to end up marrying another Australian celebrity. Who is she with now? Australian country singer Keith Urban. Interesting...

The medical mishaps just scared me. Yikes. I was especially horrified at what happened to the baby who got a very bad circumcison(to put it mildly). I missed what happened to him because the cable went out, but did he survive? Did he die? Poor baby. I can't begin to imagine what kind of pain he must have been in.

Sylvia did predict that Fedderline and Spears wouldn't last, so she has to be authentic. *snickers*