B: I want to come to you first [to W]

W: Oh, my God.

B: Well I saw the spirit form of a man with you, while I’ve been talking. There’s a sprit form of a young man come in there with you. … Quite a young man, I would say, could have been possibly late teens, he might have been in his twenties when he passed on to the other side, or when he died if you like to call it that. But he’s somebody linking with you very, very closely. [P] It’s a very close link. [p] And it’s … [p] You’ve got a link abroad, haven’t you?

wendy had dark hair & a slightly olive complexion

W: Yeah, my cousins …

B: Don’t tell me anything, just "yes" or "no".

W: Yeah.

B: You’ve got a link abroad, haven’t you?

We've just established that

W: Yeah.

B: Yeah. ‘Cause I felt as if there’s somebody had passed away abroad, I don’t think it was in England.

Likely some relative of hers did but we don't establish if it's the "young man" in question

W: No …

B: But this young man is there, and he’s very closely watching you. You understand that, don’t you [W: Yeah] And you understand why he’s watching you, as well, don’t you?

Not frighteningly specific

W: Yeah.

B: Yeah. And you are a little bit at times over-anxious. [P] Or, are you a little bit at times over-worried? [W glances at C] Don’t look at her ‘cause she can’t answer for you. [P]

A fairly safe "try on" with most people but Wendy is a young unmarried mother!

W: [noncommittal grunt].

B: You’re a little bit over-worried. You get [Aside to spirits: "yes, I know she does"] You get ever-so tense at times. D’you understand me, tense all up. You could scream … and you do scream. Oh, my God, yes, she don’t half scream when she wants to. [P] You’ve got a mother, haven’t you, living [W: Uh huh …] on this side of life. [P] Would you have a grandmother on the other side, dear, please?

A straightforward question with a fair chance of a hit.

W: Um.

B: Grandmother, in the spirit world?

W: Yeah.

B: Yeah. ‘Cause when I said your mother I got grandmother come ever-so strongly there with you. [P] And I’ve also got a man with you, another man with you this time, gone to the other side of life. … That would have gone out very quickly, that had a very quick passing. [P] There was no illness, he just, what, dropped down dead, you might call it; he just died very, very quickly. … And he also is a link with your family and I feel that he would come in on your father’s side of the family. A link with your father, there. [P] Leave him, don’t worry about him, he’s here. … He could be a great uncle to you, I’m going back perhaps some time, but I got a man who just went over very, very quickly.

Despite all the possible hits here he gets none.

W: [response indistinct, possibly "I don’t know"]

B: You’ve never had any sort of wish that you would go to the States at some time? [P] No? Well don’t be surprised if you do .. cause I’ve got a link with the States. And I feel that you will go out to the States … Be nice … take me with you, I could do with a holiday in the States. But I definitely had a link with the States. … And who’s Margaret, then?

It's hard to tell if the medium is supposed to be talking to the dead,reading the sitter's mind or predicting her future. Later in the reading he says he doesn't predict things; and why should he if he's talking to the dead? Yet he tries it here. A dismal failure despite the odds in his favour.

W: Who?

B: Who’s Margaret? Somebody called Margaret? [P] All right, wait … If you’ve got … I give you a name you don’t know nothing about it you can remember that I’ve given you the name of Margaret, ‘cause you’re going to meet up with somebody called Margaret. … Now, why have I got a Catholic link with you, dear, please?

One name, one miss, followed by another, fairly safe, prediction. Then an astounding guess that this slightly mediterranean looking young woman with cousins abroad might have a Catholic "link". Even that safe guess is phrased as a direct question.

W: Catholic?

B: Yeah.

W: I’m a Catholic.

B: You’re a Catholic yourself, are you? That’s the link Catholic link then. ‘Cause [what] I actually saw with you was the rosary beads, as I call ‘em. Know what I mean wi’ ya [W: yeah] rosary beads, don’t you. You use ’em for prayers at times, like "hail Marys" and "hallelujahs" on the end, Ha, Ha! All right, because I’ve just got the rosary beads and that would link very much with the Catholic. … So you are a Catholic?

W: Um.

B: Um. That’s all right, well, long as you’re a good Catholic and not one that’s strayed off the pathway, it don’t matter. [W: laughs self-consciously] She’s not a very good Catholic, I don’t think. Are you?

W: No. [Laughs]

She's a young unmarried mother. They're generally not that devout. Of course the same applies to a great many young Catholics. Even so he uses an indirect question to confirm the guess

B: You don’t go to Mass very often, do you? No, I don’t know, they’re just telling me. [P] It’s your grandmother that’s telling me this, says "she don’t go to Mass very often" [P] They know all about us on the other side of life.

Of course. We believe you.

[P] [B turns to C] Did you used to drive a car at one time?

C: I’ve got a car.

Charlotte is in a wheelchair. She was hit by a car when she was three years old. Not the most subtle of guessess and he clearly doesn't know how many young disabled people have hand-controls fitted to their cars to enable them to drive.

B: You’ve got a car … have you got a car? [mumble] I said, did you used to drive one at one time? [mumble from addressee] You’ve only just recently had the car. Only I saw a car actually, with you and I saw a car accident. Somebody that was involved in a …

C: I had a car accident.

She was a pedestraian, not a driver or passenger.

B: You were involved in a car accident; that was you yourself, was it? ‘Cause I just got a car and a [sort of?] accident in a car. … And I’ve got a link here very closely with a gentleman on the other side of life … that comes very, very close to you. [P] And I want to link you with a rather tallish man … I would say he could be about five-foot-ten in height, he’s a quite slenderish man, he wasn’t a very big-built man. [P] And I want to link also to with a child with you too. While I was talking to your friend there, there was a child came in and stood beside your chair. A little child here that I feel would be linked with your family. Who lost a wee baby, dear, please?

Was he hoping that this very close tallish man was in the car at the time of the "accident" perhaps? It doesn't matter though as any tallish dead man will fit, and or a child of anyone she knows or ever knew to speak off.

C: Um, my sister did.

Her sister had either a miscarriage or an abortion, I don't recall which. Again its a direct question with high odds in favour of a hit given the number of ways of losing a child.

B: Your sister lost a wee … quite a wee one [C: yeah], I see. Growing up a little bit in the spirit world [thickens ya?] He stood there just next to your chair, and looked up into your little face (‘cause she got a little face). And I’ve got such lovely feeling with this ‘cause, you see, children always bring a lot of happiness and joy to us, don’t they? They also teach us a lot of things children do, as well. I think they’re teaching you a lot from the other side of life as well. Who’s John, please? [P]

Drivel.

C: My uncle, I’ve got an uncle John.

B: Living?

That would seem to be implied by her use of the present tense but he makes sure anyway.

C: Yeah.

B: Not dead, Living?

C: Yeah.

B: On the Earth plane? Yes. Uh, would that be actually a link away from this area somewhere, dear, please?

C: Where he lives?

B: Yeah.

C: He lives in America.

B: [P] Oh, what a […?], ‘cause I don’t know who I’m talking about [with America/at the moment?] ‘cause I got a link with America; that could be … I do pick up with things with, when there’s two or three people together. [To W:] That could have been what I was talking to you … what’s your name, pet?

W: Wendy.

B: Wendy, you are. That could have been the link with America, you see. [To C:] That’s your uncle, is it, in America?

C Yeah.

Phew! If it doesn't apply to you it might apply to someone else. And we might be dealing with the living or the dead. Possibly in either the past or future. And how many English people in large towns have uncles living close by?

B: Thank you very much [possibly to spirits]. And would you also understand a link to a lady that’s passed over (we call it ‘passed over’) that would have died in a hospital, please?

A comment is hardly neccessary for a guess this safe.

C: My Nan did.

B: In a hospital bed?

C: Yeah.

B: While I was just telling you about the little one here, I went into an hospital and there was an empty bed so I know that somebody died in a hospital. That’s your grandmother.

C: Um.

B: She’s quite close to you isn’t she? Do you feel her around you quite a bit?

C: Yeah.

B: Would she have been rather a strong personality?

C: Um.

Strong in what way? Dominant? Resilient? Another good chance but it doesn't hit.

B: Quite a strong personality, yes. Well, I feel that she gives you a lot of strength, actually, and she does feed your mind quite a lot. ‘Cause you get a lot of thoughts come in to you at times, don’t you?

C: Um.

More drivel.

B: Sometimes you think they’re wishful thinking. [P] Well, sometimes they are and sometimes they’re what the spirits put in to our mind. And you’ve also got with you, I must just come back to you one minute, but you’ve also got with you what we call a guardian angel or chief guide. Would you know, or do you believe in reincarnation?

According to a lot of cloud pilots and slipper jockeys we all have guardian angels.

C: Yeah … yeah.

B: You’re not quite sure?

C: Not quite sure.

Note how this following paragraph of text stands out as the (non-contradictable) details of her former life pour forth. No real need for questions now but had she "understood" the name Michelle he would have surely switched track again.

B: No, well. I’m going back ‘round about two hundred years with you. [P] Two hundred years back, when you were on the Earth-plane, you were linked with the Catholic faith then, and you were actually in a convent. [P]

C: Oh, that explains … that explains … [C and W exchange meaningful glances]

B: All right, then, … [indistinct word] You were in a convent and you’ve got with you now, which is your guardian angel, or your chief guide, you’ve got a Sister of Mercy [more glances between C and W and surprise shown by C] and she was with you when you were in that convent. She was your Superior. And, you know, when you decided to come back in to this life she said she wasn’t going to be reborn, but she’d come with you as your spirit-helper, your spirit-guide, and she’s always with you. [P] Would you understand the name of Michelle? [P] You’ve never heard the name of Michelle? [P] Well, that’s what her name is, she’s called Sister Michelle. And she would be a French order. Because her vestments are in blue not in black, and she’s there with you now. And you, when you were in the convent, you were a teacher [P], you were a teacher in a convent school. And, you know, you passed back in to spirit at the age of twen … thirty-nine. [Aside: all right Charlie, don’t show me up.] You were thirty-nine when you passed back in to spirit, so you were quite young. [P] The old girl, she was eighty-nine, she passed when she was eighty-nine, when she kicked the bucket. But she’s here, and she’s often with you. I feel she is one of those who puts a lot of what I call mental thoughts in to your mind; she feeds your mind. … Did you go to Sunday School when you were [small?] ?

C: No, I didn’t.

Never mind. Lots of children did so it was worth a try.

B: No, you never went to Sunday School. All right, don’t worry about it; I’ve got a link with Sunday School here, there’s something to do with Sunday School. And somebody would have gone to a Sunday School at one time, please? And there would have been a link also at one time with the Church of England? [P] Could you understand a link with the Church of England?

C: Yes.

How close this link with the Church of England was we don't know. Again this next paragraph contains more uncheckable statements but this time about Wendy's previous incarnation. She has a guardian angel too, apparently, and nuns seem very popular in that role.

B: ‘Cause I’ve got me, well, what I call a prayer-book with me in the Church of England, I got a prayer-book. [C: Um.] And somebody here is bringing in this, and talking about prayers. Well prayers, again, are thoughts, aren’t they? So a lot of your thoughts can be, actually, prayers. You’ve got a Sister, a nursing Sister with you [to W], if I switch back to you a minute. That would be your guardian angel. ‘Cause when you were on the Earth-plane you were a nurse. Are you interested in caring for people? [P] Something you brought back with you from a previous incarnation. You would have been a nurse for many, many years. Actually [aside to spirits, "I know she was"] you were what I would call, or what we call, a medical missionary. Because you were a missionary and you also did a lot of medical work. And you worked with [aside to spirits, "I know she did"] … my guide says you worked for many years in the Belgian Congo. [P] You worked amongst leprosy. And you were actually a sister, you were actually the … I feel that [aside to spirits, "yes, okay"] [3/4 words indistinct, possibly still to spirits] that you, when you were on the Earth-plane that time, you lived with nursing and caring for people. You’ve got a great sensitivity with you, as well, you have. You’re very caring, you’re very sensitive to people, um. Do you want to ask me a question?

C: Um. I’ve got a, um, a nun in here, if you know what I mean?

B: Yes, I know. She’s always here. She’s always here, isn’t she? [C laughs nervously] You knows she’s here, don’t you? [C: yes] She’s very closely with you, and she does come to you quite often. She says she’s often here. She’s isn’t always here, but she’s here quite often. Never far away. Ever near, so unseen, the dear departed spirits dwell. All this boundless universe is life. There is no death. ... Did you have a dog at one time?

It's surprising that he didn't mention this ghost of a nun when he first came in, especially as she seemed to turn up in order to speak to him at a moments notice. Now he takes a really wild guess that the family had a dog at some time in the past.

C: Yeah.

B: That passed on to the other side of life?

C: Yeah.

B: [Indistinct word] I saw a dog come running in through from there ... I don’t know what’s over there ... a cat, a dog just come running through and its gone running back again. [P] Lovely, aint it? Lovely. I love it.

[Long pause]

B continues to W: He’s got a wonderful brain, that boy, aint he?

He's referring to Wendy's young son who is present.

W: A wonderful ... ?

B: Brain.

W: [laughs] Yeah.

B: Yeah, he’s very brainy, really

W: Yeah.

B: And he’ll go quite a long way. [P] He’s only young, of course, yet, but he’s going to go quite a long way. Um.

Another prediction?

Now comes a slightly awkward moment, as I (Steve) was present on the understanding with Charlotte that I wouldn't be antagonistic in any way. My tape recorder was in plain view and I hadn't expressed anything one way or the other during the course of the sitting so he probably had me down as a non-believer already. Either way I was caught off guard by his offer to me and I tried to be cooperative without going to far. Of course it becomes uncomfortable to keep saying "No" to every statement; this lead to the half-hit of my mentioning that my ex-wife was a dental nurse (actually a Y.T.S. trainee dental assistant, before we were married!).

B to S: Do you want something?

S: Yes, if there’s anything for me, I’ll take it.

B: You’ll take it? Ha, ha, ha.

S: Gift horse in the mouth, I thought.

........... Interruption from child ...................

[Long pause]

B: Are you linked at all with carpentry?

S: I’m not, no.

B: So why do I get wood with you, then? Because when I first came in and I saw you, I got some planks of wood with you.

S: Well I’ve been called thick as a plank.

B: Pardon?

S: Uh, I’ve been called thick as a plank. [Laughs]

B: I didn’t say you was thick as a plank.

S: I said I have been called thick as a plank. [Laughs]

B: You have been called as thick as a plank but, I wouldn’t say you was thick as a plank, ‘cause you’re not really, you know. I think you’re a bit crafty, if it boils down to it.

S: Who me?

B: Um?

S: Who me?

B: Yeah, I’m talking to you. You’re a bit crafty, ain’t you. You want to know a lot, and you do know a lot, as well, don’t you? [S: Umm ...] And there aint know flies on you is there, either?

I think he definitely has me down as a sceptic!

S: [Laughs]

B: No, no, I know that very well. ... Well, actually what I saw with you was these planks of wood. [P] Well, that could be symbolic ... ‘cause planks of wood would be something supporting something. ... So I would say to you, then, that you could be a supporting tower yourself. You could be a tower of strength. [P] And you know you’re very capable really, aren’t you? [P] I’m not giving you any compliments, matey; you wouldn’t get them from me if you wanted. But I feel you’re a very capable person, and I feel that if you put your mind to do anything you can do it. It’s putting your mind to it, ain’t it?

If all else fails try flattery.

S: Um.

B: Yeah. Ah, right, um. Who would have been linked at one time with the airforce, please? [S: Um?] Only, I just got airforce-blue, seeing just airforce blue, I’m not seeing the spirit of anybody; so they could be still on the Earth-plane. ... It’s something to do with the airforce, somebody you would have known or ... could have been linked with the airforce? You haven’t always lived in this area, have you?

Both these questions are worth trying with random strangers.

S: Um, no, no.

B: You haven’t always linked [possibly "lived"] in this area.

S: No, no, not as a child, no.

B: No, all right. Could I link with the north with you, please?

S: Um ...

B: [Possibly, "no"] Well, I’ve got a link with the north.

S: Well, I was further up north, um ...

B: You were further up north than this?

S: Yeah, [B: Yeah], not by an awfully long way.

B: No, don’t matter. ... You wouldn’t have a link at all with the north country, would you please?

S: Um, no.

B: When I was talking to, ... Charlotte (got your name [C: Yeah], and that’s Wendy [W laughs]). While I was talking to Charlotte, actually, I got, I was being shown Yorkshire. And I know it wasn’t anything to do with ... that was something to do with Yorkshire; you’ve had nothing to do with Yorkshire, at all?

S: No, I haven’t, no.

B: Well, will you watch and remember that I’ve said to you something about Yorkshire? It may be you could be going to Yorkshire, it could be a link with somebody from Yorkshire, I don’t know. I got definitely a link with Yorkshire, with you. [P] And there was somebody connected with your family, going back, that emmigrated. Who emmigrated with your family?

Well, ten or twelve years down the line I've had a fairly serious relationship with a girl from Yorkshire, but then he doesn't predict so ... My mother did emigrate but I'd say she was more than just "connected" with the family.

S: Ooh [thoughtfully], ...

B to C: Was he Ian? He wasn’t Ian, was he? What’s his name?

C: Steve.

B: Steve.

S: That’s it. ... It’s difficult because I don’t know ... it’s quite a big circle, really ...

B: There was somebody ...

S: [indistinct] ... back on to ...

B: Look, I feel it would be probably when you were quite a lad that somebody emmigrated ... somebody went to Australia. [P] They just give me somebody that went out to Australia.

S: It could be my memory that’s out.

My memory might have been out. I think a family friend may have emigrated there but this guess is no different from all the others, just a safe guess.

B: Don’t worry, don’t worry. Just got a link with Australia. Well if you don’t know about this, I think you’re going to know something about it. [P] Do you have a brother?

Another prediction, another safe guess,

S: Um, no I don’t.

and another miss

B: No brother?

S: No.

B: Not ... nor half-brothers or, uh, ...

S: Half-brother is possible, but I’m absolutely not certain.

Years later I found out I have a number of half-brothers, but his batting average is still appaling.

B: Ah. I just mentioned brother when I was talking, so that would be ... you have a brother-in-law, then?

S: Uh, no.

Even with a net this wide he still falls and misses it.

B: Okay, so definitely a half-brother, there then [two or three words, possibly, "though you don’t recall it"] there’s definitely a link with a brother. And I want to link also with you, too ... again with somebody that used to be linked up with nursing ... they’re not passed on, they’re still on this Earth-plane. Somebody you knew at one time was linked with nursing. And this, again, I feel would be somebody connected with your family.

Now the half brothers are definite. "Somebody you knew at one time was linked with nursing." is a good one since it covers anyone I might have known at sometime "linked" with nursing and anyone I do know who was "linked" with nursing. Any link will do of course as he's about to show.

S: My ... my ex-wife was a dental-nurse for a time.

B: All right then, your ex-wife was ... ooh, my God, ‘ex’s. How many ‘ex’s have you had?

C: None [Laughs.]

B: That’s all right, I didn’t say that to you, darling. I was talking about him, how many ‘ex’s has he had?

S: Just the one.

B: Oh well, perhaps there’s another one to come, then is there? So she was a dental-nurse, was she? ... that’s all right, then, ‘cause that will do with nursing. But she’s still alive, she’s still on the Earth-plane? You didn’t get rid of her, did you [laughs]?

The nursing link is made to fit, if not exactly made to measure.

S: No, no ...

(Long pause)

B: So that’s that

[tape ends and turned over. B. suggest a link with S and business ... S initially denies such a connection, but continues ...]

S: ... Well I, actually, work in a supermarket.

B. You work in a supermarket?

S: Yeah.

B: Well, that’s business, then isn’t it, that’s a connection with business.

S: Yeah.

B: Not your business, something to do with business.

.....

S: No, sorry. Actually my friend has just started a business, and officially I’m the Company Secretary. But I take no notice or interest in it what goes on in the company.

Here I get carried away with trying to help, but again it's the same game of twenty questions.

B: Don’t matter, to do with business. So if you’re something to do with that, that would be to do with that then. [S. Um] That’s your friend, is it? It was something to do with business. Definitely there with you. Would that be, would that involve paper or accounts?

S: For him more than me.

B: Yes, yes, all right, thank you. And you wouldn’t be sort of interested in accounts or doing accounts, would you please?

S: No, no, my maths is probably too bad.

B: Can’t look after your own money, can you?

S: No.

B: Goes too quickly ...

Astounding.

S: It certainly does.

B: They’re talking about accounts ... well, that probably might be about how much you can’t balance your own accounts. I don’t know, but just talking about balance there, with you. And somebody you would have known at one time would have lived by the sea.

Same "someone you would have known at one time would have ....(insert likely statement).

S: Yeah.

B: Who would have lived by the sea that you knew at one time, please?

S: Hum, probably ... probably my grandparents.

B: [P] Now you, this is not you but there’s somebody else, leaving you on one side for a minute, there’s somebody else you would have known that’s had a broken marriage. Who’s had a broken marriage, please?

Prince Charles? Zsa Zsa Gabor?

S: Not close to me.

B: Not that close.

S: Not, not close, uh [B: Right] Well, not close on sort of ...

B: I actually saw with you what I call a broken wedding-ring, but you’ve told me about your own, so it won’t be that at all. It’s definitely somebody else had a broken marriage. [P] And wasn’t there, yes there was, wasn’t there a division in your family at one time?

S: Um. ... uh hum.

B: Quite a division? Sort of, one lot went one way, one lot went the other way. I don’t think they really ever got back together, did they?

S: Umm ...

B: There’s quite a mixed feeling here, with people as I’m talking to you; I’ve got people that would be, sort of mixed-up people I call them, mixed-up people. [S: Um.] But I don’t feel that they ever really got back together. [P] There was always that difference there. And a lot of this was actually caused through jealousy. [P]

More of the same.

S: That could be.

B: That is. Well I think it. [P] And you would have known somebody at one time that had been linked with music [P] I’ve got a lot of music with you, I don’t know whether you’re fond of music.

S: Yeah, quite fond of music.

B: [Irritatating brat obscures conversation] ... But a lot of people ... but I’ve got somebody with me that’s passed on to the other side of life, that would have been linked at one time with a band. [P] I’ve got somebody actually here blowing a trumpet. [P] So you must watch out for this ... somebody blowing a trumpet. Well that could be symbolic of news .... you wouldn’t be anticipating or expecting some news, would you? [P] All right ...

S: Nothing, nothing important.

B: Well, all right, expect something important. Well, I think you’re going to have some quite good news coming to you. Quite good news, yeah.

S: Makes a change.

B: And you are going to be very pleased about something, too. [P] Sport, why do I get sport with you then? ... You’re not a sporty person? [P]

S: Um. Not on the active side. Well, I like watching some ...

B: Yeah, but you’re not really active. Well what do you actually do ... I shouldn’t be asking you this, I suppose ... but what do you actually do for your exercise?

S: Oh, exercise, my job’s quite hard. [Waffle expunged]

B: Do you do enough outside as well, do you?

S: Um, probably not, no.

[Waffle expunged] ....

B: There’s something to do with outside, and I think you need more (excuse me being rude to you) but I think you need more fresh air.

S: [Laughs]

B: You don't think, [...?] now, but you need more fresh air. I think you get a lot [...?] walking about inside, but you don’t get a lot of fresh air, do you?

S: No, probably not, no.

B: It would be good for you. [P]

God he was awful.

B: Well, do you want to ask me any questions?

Why are you such a twat?

S: Um, uh ...

B: Do you wanna ask questions ...

S: I was gonna say, I ... the one person , um, who I thought they’re might be something from is my father.

B: But I didn’t get it, so I can’t, [S: No], I can’t, you see, we can’t ever tell who’s coming through. [S: No] But if he’d have come through I’d have got it for you, and I’d have told you, but I haven’t got anything at all, though, with your dad though; I’m not going to make anything up, ‘cause I wouldn’t; I mean, that wouldn’t be honest if I made things up, I mean, if I said, "oh yes, you’re father’s here, he’s saying this, he’s saying that", but to me that’s not right, you see, we got to be honest. The spirits don’t want me to be otherwise, of course. [P]

C: Was there anything from my father?

B: No ... no ... I didn’t get anything, only just your link with your grandmother, that was all. So, you see, sometimes again they’re not around. And then they come closer to us. ‘Cause they’re active on the other side of life, they’ve still got they’re interests over there, you see. They can’t be always with us. I don’t want them to be always with me ‘cause that wouldn’t be good, they’d see some of the things I do

Remarkable that the most missed and expected relatives weren't around when so many other passing spirits were. Intresting too that neither "Spirit" nor his "guide(s)" even hinted to him to ask about either of our fathers or mention their passing.

[Waffle expunged] ....

C: Can you say ... can you see if we’re going to be all right? As we go on, what’s going to come?

B: I can’t tell you anything what’s going to come, I’m not a fortune-teller, so I’m not going to say your fortune’s going to be good. If I say anything clairvoyantly, ... for your good I’d give it to you, if I see anything bad for you, I’d give it to you, ‘cause I’m honest, you see? Well some people say you shouldn’t tell people that, then I say you got to be honest, and people wanna know and they don’t wanna be told a lot of tom-and-old-foolery business.

How he had the balls to say that is beyond me. "tom-and-old-foolery business" would be a polite term for what he specializes in.