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"Steve, please, turn into water..."

Bonus eps and early access: TheZachShow.Supercast.Com by @auxoro

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How do iconic collabs actually happen?

Colm Dillane tells the story of Action Bronson showing up and reinventing an entire runway moment on the spot.

What started as a simple walk became a full creative takeover, from opera music to the longest trench coat his team had ever sewn.

Check out the full episode "KidSuper: The Art of the T Shirt, Bull In A China Shop, and Working with Kanye" on The Zach Show wherever you get your pods. by @auxoro

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What does “gringo” really mean? by @auxoro

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Welp, that took a turn.

Check out the full episode with Yuval Avnur where we get into the ethics of AI, Blaise Pascal, Sam Harris, the story of Oedipus, and other fun stuff. Link in bio.

Bonus episodes and early access: The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com. by @auxoro

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"It feels like it was a counterfeit."

Watch the full episode with Yuval Avnur (Professor og Philosophy) now live on The Zach Show.

Bonus episodes and early access: The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com. Link in bio. by @auxoro

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What if your “completely random” choice was never random? Stevie Baskin explains how mentalists can influence a participant before the trick even begins, then use that person to convince the audience that nothing was forced.

Check out the full episode with Stevie Baskin now live on The Zach Show.

Bonus episodes and early access: The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com. Link in bio. by @auxoro

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"Everyone I talk to about AI, there's this underlying, just-below-the-surface anxiety."

Watch the full episode with Professor of Philosophy Yuval Avnur now live on The Zach Show. Link in bio.

Bonus eps and early access: The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com. by @auxoro

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Oz Pearlman seemed to figure out Joe Rogan's ATM PIN by reading his behavior. Stevie Baskin wasn’t convinced. He breaks down the tiny calculator trick he believes actually revealed the number and why the elaborate “people-reading” explanation is the real deception.

Watch the full episode with Stevie Baskin where we explore Oz Pearlman, mentalism, and the idea of metadeception, now live on The Zach Show.

Bonus episodes and early access: The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com. by @auxoro

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This week on the first episode of Zach Goes Long, I explore an investigation published by Mother Jones into Life Surge, the Tim Tebow-backed (he has since paused his relationship) wealth seminar that's left some attendees in crippling debt.

Head to The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com, where for $6 a month you get the weekly Zach Goes Long series, the ability to ask questions to future guests on The Zach Show, exclusive AMA's and more.

The Zach Show dot Supercast dot Com (link also in bio).

For the kingdom. by @auxoro

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At the start of this year, watching a five-hour YouTube breakdown of a mentalist was nowhere on my to-do list. Then I found Stevie Baskin’s Metadeception: The Truth About Oz Pearlman and watched the entire thing.

Oz Pearlman is the world’s most famous mentalist. In his viral TED Talk, he says, “I don’t read minds, I read people.” The idea is that he can extract information by studying body language, verbal cues, micro-reactions, breathing, posture, and other signals most of us miss. According to Stevie, that explanation is often the trick itself.

He argues that Oz frequently relies on familiar magicians’ tools: sleight of hand, gimmicked notepads, fake Google searches, electronic chalkboards, and pre-show techniques that may reveal the answer before the apparent “reading” begins.

That is the heart of metadeception. You’re not just being fooled about how the trick works. You’re being given a false explanation convincing enough that you stop looking for the real one. As Stevie puts it, “Your assumptions aren’t confined to the stage. The stage exists within your assumptions.”

In this episode, we break down what may have happened when Oz revealed Joe Rogan’s ATM PIN, the hidden mechanics of mentalism, “dual reality,” and the ways that mentalism crosses an ethical line ordinary magic doesn’t. We also get into an NYU psychology professor who used a mentalism demonstration in class before realizing he may have been fooled himself, questions surrounding potential fraud with Oz’s book release, and Stevie sprinting face-first into a barbed-wire fence in the Australian outback while operating on a very flawed model of reality.

Watch the full episode with Stevie Baskin now on YouTube or Spotify. Link in bio. by @auxoro

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12 days ago

Some thoughts on the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle (Part 2). by @auxoro

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Some unsolicited thoughts on the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle (part 1). by @auxoro

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