We’re being lied to…a lot. And we know it. Bill Whittle meets a mentalist performer who opens the doors of the mind to understanding how psychological manipulation works. This is how we can defuse the weaponized trust that powers the political and cultural elites.
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33 replies on “WEAPONIZED TRUST”
I’m convinced this is how timeshares are sold. You get a free breakfast and promise of a gift, usually money. All you have to do is sacrifice 45 minutes of your time. But it’s never 45 minutes because you can’t leave and get your gift until you go through the badgering. So, you sit in a room with 10 tables, 2 at a table plus the sales rep. 20 people supposedly listening to these pitches. As your being skeptic and asking all the gotcha questions, which they seem to have answers to, suddenly there’s applause and a shout of congratulations. Someone just bought. A few minutes later more applause and then again. Soon, you’re thinking, there must be something to this. Then a couple is sent out the other door. I guess they didn’t buy. Then applause. So, you finally talk yourself into buying, only to find out it’s not exactly what they “sold you”. But if you really think about it, timeshare is a multi-billion dollar industry. They don’t just have to pay the 10 or 15 sales staff. They can afford to pay every single person in that room just to get YOU to part with $8,000 of your money. You’re on vacation, so you’re not expected to know anyone there. All of them could be locals getting paid $100 for a few hours of their time. That’s $2,000. Just by selling one timeshare, they make $6,000. But, I’d bet, on average, they probably sell four per day. Oh, and since these folks know where you live, they pair you up with sales people who know (or put in their research time) many specifics about your hometown. It’s a big production made to look like something organic.
Your Firewalls are the best.
You know what was really telling … I was waiting, on the edge of my seat, practically, for you to tell me the trick the performer was using. I wanted to know so bad the secret of how the audience was manipulated. Was it really that he could read people so well by just engaging in seemingly random conversation, or looking on a piece of paper where you’d answered a few questions? And HOW did they manage that on so little gatherable information?
I was SO unprepared for the simple answer that it was like a slap in the face followed by a bucket of cold water.
“Ready for the technique? Ok, here it comes. He … LIED.”
I was SO UNPREPARED for that answer.
But you nailed it.
And it fits hand in glove with something I’ve been thinking about lately … thinking about asking the next Liberal who uttered another utterly false liberal talking point … I want to ask them, “and why do you believe that?”
“What led you to that conclusion?”
And follow their steps … which are inevitably going to boil down to who do they trust to give them the information.
And then push again. Why do you trust them? How did you come to trust them?
In the end, we know a lot less than we think we know.
Brilliant … too bad your sound is not so!!!
Glad to see a new Fire Wall. I’ve missed them. If it takes 6 months between, I can live with that. Please keep them coming.
OK. So explain Klaus Schwab to me. He looks like a Bond Villain, talks like a Bond Villain, and represents Spectre. We, who remember the WW2 story (and Colonel Klink) are pre-conditioned to see him, or anyone like him, as The Bad Guy. He reeks of The Reich. So what are we most likely to think about anything he says? Are we to understand the opposite, or something else? If he was selected to play this part in order to give this impression, then…what?
We see someone from the movies or TV and subconsciously think, oh, he’s just a cartoon character, so whatever he says is not important. He’s just a crazy old billionaire who thinks he’s going to rule the world and live forever, but either he’s harmless, or he’ll be stopped by the good guys who really know what’s going on.
In reality, I think Schwab is one of the few people on their side who tells the truth of what he thinks and what his goals are.
What’s frightening is how many powerful people seem to agree with him. Or even if they don’t agree, they think he might just succeed and so want to be on his team so that they’ll benefit.
Also, I’ll bet when this mentalist takes the show on the road, that old guy w/ the oxygen tank is swapped out for an old lady or young woman to play the part of a wife or daughter.
I’m guessing you saw that show in Westwood or thereabouts. The crowd in that neighborhood is likely to be strongly in favor of gay relationships. So by making it a gay wedding, it distracts the audience by having them sympathize w/ the couple AND, by extension, get’s the audience to trust the mentalist just a little bit more.
So when he takes the show to a place that is, at least perceived, to be less gay friendly, he swaps the actor playing the spouse.
Good point. I thought it was going to turn out that he didn’t have a feed in his ear while he was on stage, but he was spying on everyone in the lobby, listening to their conversations. Knowing human nature, he would be able to count on the fact that people would ask each other and/or want to talk about what they wrote down.
In fact, he might have used this technique for one or two of the people he called upon, if he could also trace their name and their assigned seat.
Very interesting Bill. And not at all what I was expecting. I came into this w/ the expectation you’d go into the body language reading trick that spies and carnies use.
Bill, your Firewalls NEVER disappoint! Keep up the outstanding work, sir. God bless!
“Social” media doesn’t have shadow bans, it has automated casting. That’s my big take away. As a side note, when did Elite become a new name for Illuminati?
It’s important to remember that “con” is short for confidence… it’s not the performer, but his associates that create the confidence in the crook, not the crook himself.
Excellent point!
Bill, doing what he’s best at—separating the chaff from the wheat. I was about to believe the mentalist had super powers, when all of a sudden Bill pulled back the curtain. Hidden Hypnotic Language Technique was also a part of the performance. Use a visually true statement to disable the listener’s critical thinking ability and then plant the next statement —a lie. It worked for obama and biden and the mentalist..
Thanks Bill. Great Firewall!
Excellent. Kudos.
So, I ask myself “Why doesn’t Bill Whittle (and Scott and Stephen) annoy me?
I love my Conservative Pundits – Prager; Shapiro; Hewitt; and a whole bunch more. But – eventually I find them annoying. I still love them; I still listen but, familiarity breeds contempt” is what I always thought was the problem.
I listened to Prager for years. He was my main man. Along with the whole Salem lineup, Hewitt, Medved, etc. I never did care much for Gallagher. I loved Candace’s fiery attacks and defense. But why? Why did all of them eventually annoy me?
For the same reason, I realize, that Zo annoys me (as good as it is, I can’t watch the Virtue Signal).
Because – they are all so very much assured that they Know; they are right; they are clearly more in tune with the Truth than everybody else. It may be true but, eventually it grates on my sensibilities.
Klavan pacifies his self-assurance with humor. So, to a lesser extent does Walsh…
But you guys! Y’all do not annoy me because none of you project that kind of attitude (again, except Zo, and I really am sorry because I do like him.) that insists YOU know more than everybody else. And I’ve been reading and listening since Eject Eject and PJ Media and Vodka Pundit and whomever else.
The only reason I’m commenting on this video is because it made me think about the Show we all put on. And, those who are professional Showmen have developed a certain show that jives with their innate character. And often, our innate character is smug and annoying in our knowledge that I know more than YOU!
My Conservative Pundits tend not to lie about it – it’s just who they are.
The Demented Ones (those trying to destroy This World to prop up their own egos) do Lie. It’s their raison d’etre. It’s also who they are..
I sure love these Firewalls.
Yes. Firewall is why I became a supporter of Whittle et al.
“Thou shall not bear false witness.”
But they do, often, frequently, ceaselessly, irremediably, to the end of (their) time.
Wow.
The Performer would also have to address the possibility that actual audience members might return to see more shows. Bills’ wife did – once with her friends and once with her husband. Did she see a repeat performance or something new? Were the actors the same people but playing different roles, or new actors also with different scripts, all different from the last show?
If I went back, and again saw the airplane sail toward the tall cool blonde, who again played the exact same part, I’d ask for my money back.
I don’t think Natasha saw the show before; her friends had seen it, and told her about it.
Way to bring home a great point Bill.
Great Firewall, Bill. And, you are probably correct in your analysis of the night of ‘mystery’. While sitting in my car, just after lunch and before I drove back to work, I thought to myself, “well, just how could Bill prove this?” Well, first you have to ask, Was this a 1 night only show in your town, city, state? Or was it a nightly show? If it was the latter, then….
I quickly thought of at least 2 ways. Neither easy, but do-able.
#1. “tail” one of the performers. Follow them home. Let’s say, Balloon Lady. Oh, did they go to a hotel and not a local home? Humm. Stay at the hotel and tail them when they leave. Did they leave the hotel with luggage in a rideshare or taxi, tail them again. Airport or train station perhaps?
#2. Find where this performer has the next show. That would take some research and some time and travel and resources. Tuesday in Santa Monica, CA……Friday in Dallas, Tx? Buy the tickets and be at the next show, under an assumed name and tickets bought with a burner mastercard gift card. Arrive at the show late, get ushered in and then watch the same 3 card monty play out word for word. Leave, go home on your plane and know that you just proved it.
#3, and this is the least likely because you’d definitely have to know the scam as it was happening, but in the lobby ask the little old married gentleman with the oxygen tube up his nose where he lives, how long he’s lived there, then ask to see his driver’s license. Watch what Steve Green used to call “the flopsweat” gush from the little old man as he finds excuses to not show his drivers license.
Back in the days when we all used to watch T.V., there was a show called House, and the main character was a brilliant university hospital diagnostician – actually world renowned, this character was written to be brilliant, funny, engaging, maddenly quirky. His tag line was “Everybody Lies”. He was usually right, because the writers wrote his character to be right. The thing was, you assumed that because he was always right, always, and that HE was brilliant, that he wasn’t a liar. After watching this character develop over the course of many seasons, I came to realize that Dr. House could spot a liar because he was the biggest liar of all. He knew liars. He was one.
Your performer was a liar and so was the cast. And so is Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, fact checkers, Hillary, Bill, and probably even Donald. The biggest and worst liar of all….let’s say it all together now, remember no pauses between the names…..
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Another way to catch the lie would be to be a little rude, and call out, “Hey! How about the third paragraph on page 17?”
Once again, great point Maryanne! Actually, it’s sad that comedians get heckled, but somehow we’re just supposed to be polite and sit and just accept for a mentalist?
Yet here is the problem as it applies to the real world … Not including the paid actors, how many people in that theater that night were not fooled by the ‘play’? Just one, our dear friend Bill Whittle himself. In the aftermath of that show when the lights were turned off, the doors locked and everyone gone home how many people knew about the scam that the play actually was? Two, Bill and his wife Natasha. As I write this there are 477 upvotes including mine on the YouTube posting of this video, so now how many people ‘out in the wild’ not on this BWC website are there that know exactly how this entertaining scam was perpetrated? 479
At that rate and taking into account all such scams that weaponize trust a majority of Americans who can vote and make a difference with their votes should occur sometime around the year 3000.
That will be far too late. In fact, 2024 may be too late.
So the problem is now that we few are aware of what’s going on, what can we do to change this? It’s good to know it’s happening but how do we convince the rest of the audience?
Bill, I have no doubt that some of the tricks you saw you correctly called, but I doubt they were all done the same way, or that everyone involved in every trick was in on it. Penn and Teller often have mentalists on Fool Us, and certainly having audience plants is one method to do a trick, there are a lot of other methods – most of which are similarly dishonest.
Ian, are you suggesting Penn and Teller are honest?just curious.
No, I’m suggesting that the nature of their show – and the nature of magic in general – is that magicians are constantly inventing more methods to fool people, and that there’s more than one way to be dishonest and exploit people’s trust.
Got it. Thanks!
Hah! I’m looking pretty good after the latest Stratosphere Lounge…
I missed the 1st hour….what did I miss out on???
Ok, I’m listening to the 1st hour now. Ok, Yes, You are looking pretty good!