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“I think knowing how to build rapport, how to establish trust, same things that a hypnotist can do, same thing a good salesperson can do, the same thing that a great con man can do, are very important. If you can't get people to trust you and work with you, it won't work. I'm not hypnotizing people to cluck like a chicken. We're having a fun experience together. So you're winning them over.”

“When it came to the unexplained death of an infant, one was a tragedy, two were suspicious, and three most likely pointed to murder. After reviewing the case, one police psychologist concluded, If natural causes are eliminated, then, in my opinion, Kathleen Folbigg became angry and frustrated with her children's crying and need for constant attention to a point where it overwhelmed her.”

“The statistical likelihood that four children could die from SIDS is in excess of one in a trillion. As the children had all been growing normally and their autopsies identified no sign of disease, Dr Opphoven believed that all four of them had been suffocated by the last person to see them alive– Kathleen Folbigg.”

“The key thing to understand that's different between a psychic and me, is what I'm doing is learnable, repeatable, and based in science. You can't teach someone to be a psychic. I've never met a psychic that could teach me to also be a psychic. I can explain to you the method of everything I do. Most other mentalists can explain to you how I do most of what I do. There is a method, a set of steps.”

“Melania Trump also denied that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump and said that she is not one of Epstein's victims. She urged congress to hold public hearings for them. Melania Trump's statement seemed to come out of the blue.”

“The scientists found that the same neurons that fire when someone looks at an object also fire when a person imagines that object. The finding supports earlier evidence from brain scans suggesting that seeing and imagining activate the same circuits.”

“Google right now, is muscle reading real? The idiometer response, scientifically, it's real. You can see things in people that will give away the answer. I create a very specific scenario that looks impossible, and I create an impression of being able to do everything. You can see things in people that will give away the answer if you know how to observe the physical parameters.”

“The first two days of the ceasefire have been shaky with strikes of varying severity happening in Lebanon, Iran, Israel, and the Gulf Arab states. The Iranians I spoke to at the border didn't wanna be named fearing reprisal upon their return, and none of them believed that the temporary truce would hold.”

“The press published some of the most damning expert opinions from the police statement of facts, including Dr. Ophoven's belief that the odds of all four Folbigg children dying of unexplained natural causes was one in a trillion. Accompanied by the excerpt from Kathleen's diary in which she compared herself to her murderous father, it didn't take long before she was considered guilty in the court of public opinion.”

“The lie is that I can read people's minds. I can't. I wish I could. I'm crafting a narrative which in your mind plays out in such a way, kind of like the way a magic trick works, but the contract is different with the audience. It appears to be just a test of wills where I've trained my mind to see and observe things about you or influence you in such ways that the method seems to really be mind reading.”

“Combined with Kathleen's diary entry from the night Caleb died in which she enthusiastically wrote, Finally Asleep, Professor Berry believed it was possible that Caleb had not only been smothered to death, but also smothered on a previous occasion from which he was able to recover.”

“The lie is that I can read people's minds. I can't. I wish I could. I'm crafting a narrative which in your mind plays out in such a way, kind of like the way a magic trick works, but the contract is different with the audience. It appears to be just a test of wills where I've trained my mind to see and observe things about you or influence you in such ways that the method seems to really be mind reading.”

“I've never met somebody who was a mentalist, who was good at the start. It's very similar to stand-up comedy. You rarely find someone who's been doing stand-up comedy six months, who's incredible and is headlining Madison Square Garden. There were 10 or 20 years of work to become an overnight success for most of those people. The same thing applies. It's the same core skill.”

“The key thing to understand that's different between a psychic and me, is what I'm doing is learnable, repeatable, and based in science. You can't teach someone to be a psychic. I've never met a psychic that could teach me to also be a psychic. I can explain to you the method of everything I do. Most other mentalists can explain to you how I do most of what I do. There is a method, a set of steps.”

“The Artemis two astronauts are preparing for Friday evening's return to Earth. The three Americans and one Canadian are now under 150,000 miles from home after setting a new distance record during Monday's lunar flyby. They're aiming for a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego.”

“Google right now, is muscle reading real? The idiometer response, scientifically, it's real. You can see things in people that will give away the answer. I create a very specific scenario that looks impossible, and I create an impression of being able to do everything. You can see things in people that will give away the answer if you know how to observe the physical parameters.”

“I think knowing how to build rapport, how to establish trust, same things that a hypnotist can do, same thing a good salesperson can do, the same thing that a great con man can do, are very important. If you can't get people to trust you and work with you, it won't work. I'm not hypnotizing people to cluck like a chicken. We're having a fun experience together. So you're winning them over.”

“I've never met somebody who was a mentalist, who was good at the start. It's very similar to stand-up comedy. You rarely find someone who's been doing stand-up comedy six months, who's incredible and is headlining Madison Square Garden. There were 10 or 20 years of work to become an overnight success for most of those people. The same thing applies. It's the same core skill.”

“I've lived with the shame of coming and changing that story, he said. I've felt that I couldn't protect those children in life, and I certainly didn't protect them in death. With Craig back on their side and agreeing to testify against Kathleen, the detectives were finally ready to make their move.”

“Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to give the ceasefire a boost Thursday. He said he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Hezbollah militants. Lebanese authorities have not yet responded.”