Oz the Mentalist, Debunked

EPISODE 384: Con artistry.

A great mentalist and a great plastic surgeon share something in common.

They are so skilled that they successfully deter the audience from lingering on a potentially explosive question:

Is this real?

And if you watch Oz the Mentalist, as I have, for hours, you will hear him disclose that he does not have secret superpowers. In his very popular TED Talk, Oz Pearlman explicitly says that he performs these viral revelations by noticing things: clues about a person’s body language, eyebrows, pupil movement, nonverbal cues.

This, he says, is mentalism.

A learnable skillset which Oz — who used to work on Wall Street, at Merrill Lynch — also sells, in book form.

And so Oz the Mentalist has become part evangelist and part Sherlock Holmes, barnstorming into locker rooms and television studios all across the country. Daring someone like our guest today, Stevie Baskin, to notice some things, too.

YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Honestly,

Pablo

P.S. You can now watch us over on Apple Podcasts (!)