his spellbinding storytelling ability along with his celebrity fart catching credentials were on display with the first guest, some profiteer working the ancient alien vein of the paranormal biz, they're all the same, their 'research' is reading other fake researchers and just putting their words into their own, giving their books tantalizing titles like Escaping Eden. Anyway this shill is living in Australia which opened the door for Noory to interrupt things with a classhick story - 'Today is the actor Russell Crowe's birthday - so I texted him 'Happy birthday!' and he texted back 'thank you'.' followed by a humble brag type chortle. The guest had no response, an awkward pause per usual. What ... a ... story. Hilarious anecdote George. You sent a celebrity you barely know a birthday greeting and you're too stupid to realize that his terse 2 word 'thank you' reply told your audience that you're a nobody to Russell Crowe. If he had texted back 'Thank you George! Let's get together next time we're both in LA. Perhaps hop on your program one night.' But he didn't ....... all he had was 'thank you.'