Original Stevie Baskin Analysis of Oz
The interview I posted yesterday is a much more digestible version of the concepts involved. A five hour long recap. Wow. Mr. Baskin, thou art one smart and dedicated guy.
A broad look at the themes, one point that sticks out to me is the timing of admission that what you’re providing is an illusion. A trick done for fun. A harmless white lie like belief in Santa Claus until a child’s brain develops enough to understand that it’s really just Mom & Dad giving you presents because they love you.
There is an ethical question about metadeception and Oz specifically. Is it just a fun trick when the lie is continually perpetuated as a lifestyle? Long time readers know my stance. The same way Oz inserts himself in front of celebrities and large gatherings like Rogan - I’m special. “This is not a trick. I have a genuine super power that you can buy my book and learn.” Compare that to a decade of meta-deception with gematria. “I can predict sports results. If you want my really good work, join my Patreon.”
And for me, Zach crossed the line by joining the Sandy Hook is a hoax crowd. Which naturally turned in to the fake narrative of how misinformation morphed into a weakened response to the worst pandemic in modern history, Qanon insanity, and “ritual sacrifice” scapegoating among other things.
My own thoughts about being respectful to my elders long held cognitive biases have changed. Somebody needed to try something. And I’m pretty much the only person I know stupid enough to interact with a group of people known to through out the occasional death threat.
But anyway, back to yesterday’s original video because it’s way shorter. I cannot emphasize enough how I can review both these videos and admire Mr. Baskin as somebody smarter than I am, and certainly way better with screen presence and public speaking.
https://youtu.be/yhvzmIDdUVY?si=FU_SLNYnIIwHDI4Q (Reposting yesterday’s video)
0:14. The foreshadowing of the rhetorical question of who has the balls to call out the fraudster.
3:10. A great mentalist tells you he doesn’t have MAGIC powers. But insists it’s still a form of superpower. Just not pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
5:00. Oz, like Zach is a great performer. It’s convincing if you don’t know what to look for.
8:30 Oz has inserted himself as the entertainment at the White House correspondents dinner that the shooting attempt occurred at. A collection of people bound to have some thinking they’re smarter than they are. Personal speculation and opinion - Trump’s body language and speech patterns reek of insincerity. A target audience of people who think they can get a book to help them that doesn’t address the stage magician aspects of Oz’s performance.
9:20 Talk about cognitive biases based lifestyle and how it impacts your life when you ignore reality.
16:45 The payoff on the sleight of hand down. Turning off a phone instead of reading body language. And the audience of two doesn’t get suspicious when they realize the phone has turned off.
18:30 Other magicians don’t like that he’s giving away the secrets. Not deliberately. But just like Zach pick’s winners the day after the game, just like Zach picks both teams all the time -Oz’s media blitz has had him “go to the well” too many times. Spoiling the trick for other performers who have audiences genuinely looking for fun regardless of any thoughts whether it’s real or not.
21:20 Preshow work. Basically lying about the background to the on air performance.
24:45 Show business code. Don’t give it away since we’re all professionals here.
26:20-26:50+. Outside the performance. The preshow is admitted. Simple (for a ‘mentalist’) math tricks and/or calculator app recall tech were used to decipher the REAL PIN. And,
28:10 The violation of trust about the use of the real PIN instead of the fake PIN. Not cool. When you first comment on Zach’s videos you are setting yourself up to give out information about yourself. Which teams you like, which particular players. How much effort he has to produce to get you to break down and donate.
32:00 In addition to pre-show (think cold reading) there’s also post show editing tricks. Pre-show Zach ==>. Talk up the current popular numbers which can change depending on circumstances. Pi, Jesuit numbers, 666, 113, 47, whatever. The audience looks for those numbers. Post show Zach. They flipped the script. Double narrative. Lying.
37:20 Oopsie. Screw up caught on camera.
42:00 Particularly appropriate for sports gambling gematria scamming. Barkley has been forced to pick between two options. It’s a lot easier to guess between two options than hundreds of options. Every football game is one out of two teams, even though the gematria might be more appropriate for an entirely different game. Pre-show patter and the gift of gab for dual reality to mask that it’s really not so random at all. If you think it’s easy, try keeping it up for an entirely different game football season to just make picks for the Super Bowl.
48:00 Another oopsie on camera. Barkley actually picked the wrong one of two. The cover up isn’t very convincing if you know what you’re looking for. The studio audience doesn’t have a clue.
55:00 All the steps for fraud are there. Regardless of whether it gets prosecuted or not, the smarter people will figure it out.
57:00. Oz is a “con man” for entertainment.
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This is not a great time in the history of the world to be deceptive. Even gambling on war crimes is a thing, where insider information is more important than being right. The political con has been exposed. Get elected. Get access to insider trading information, bribes, contracts that are based on wasteful government spending. Then as the magician’s tricks are being exposed, rely on your ability to lie your way out of a jam. All because a handful of toxic narcissists spoiled the trick for generations to come.
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