It's, it's a sleight of hand, only it's not about the hand.

Correct.

I, it's, it's so funny you say this.

I, I've heard this from a few people.

Um, I will say this, too.

I, I love Oz.

I think he's, uh, probably the best working mentalist right now.

Could anyone learn it?

Look, I don't think I'm breaking any news or making anybody feel bad or giving a hot take or peeling the onion, but, you know, it's... being a mentalist is what it appears as magic, but what, what skills do you as a, as a mentalist develop to be able to do, I'm not asking you to give away your tricks, but what do you have to be really good at in order to do what you do?

Um, I think the main thing is being a people's person is just being able to be comfortable around people and sometimes pick up on things that other people wouldn't necessarily pick up on.

Um, I do kind of, um, I'm of the opinion that mentalism and magic are a lot more similar than people maybe tend to think.

But yeah, I mean, it's a little bit of a different angle in terms of like sleight of hand being, you know, a card trick being sleight of hand or, you know, a magic trick having some sort of, you know, trapdoor or something like that, where this is like.

gimmick free, hands free.

It just looks like you're looking into someone's soul, which could be a little bit scary, but it is more similar to a magic trick than you might think in terms of sometimes the methods.

But the hard part about it is that you really are, there is a psychological aspect.

Every spy to be able to read people so well that they can guess a name, divine a name seemingly out of nothing.

Look, I don't think I'm breaking any news or making anybody feel bad or giving a hot take or peeling the onion, but, you know, it's... being a mentalist is what it appears as magic, but what, what skills do you as a, as a mentalist develop to be able to do, I'm not asking you to give away your tricks, but what do you have to be really good at in order to do what you do?

Um, I think the main thing is being a people's person is just being able to be comfortable around people and sometimes pick up on things that other people wouldn't necessarily pick up on.

Um, I do kind of, um, I'm of the opinion that mentalism and magic are a lot more similar than people maybe tend to think.

But yeah, I mean, it's a little bit of a different angle in terms of like sleight of hand being, you know, a card trick being sleight of hand or, you know, a magic trick having some sort of, you know, trapdoor or something like that, where this is like.

gimmick free hands free it just looks like you're looking into someone's soul which could be a little bit scary but um it is more similar to a magic trick than you might think in terms of sometimes the methods but the the hard part about it is that you really are there is a psychological aspect um any good mentalist really has worked on being able to um i guess see patterns and things and see things that um i guess maybe someone who doesn't do this you know maybe he won't say

Every spy to be able to read people so well that they can guess a name, divine a name seemingly out of nothing.

Well, first of all, if it was true, no one would talk about it.

So that's number one.