Yes I watched it. I've seen lots of similar demonstrations. It is the opinion of many knowledgeable people that I have seen interviewed and that I have spoken to that to be hypnotised in that sort of public setting you have to want to be hypnotised. The people being hypnotised will do things they normally wouldn't do in public because they have an excuse (consciously or subconsciously) "oh it wasn't me, it was because the hypnotist took over my brain". Its crap.
In terms of a similar but different situation, that of "therapeutic hypnotism", there is a similar effect at work. People helped to enter a relaxed state can allow themselves (consciously or subconsciously) to become more susceptible to suggestion, sometimes for a beneficial result.
To suggest that through hypnotism you can force an unwilling subject to do something they do not want to do is, frankly, farcical. Just my opinion of course.
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