Mentalist blows the minds of Jalen Rose and Michelle Beadle with unreal bracket mind tricks | ESPN

Renowned mentalist Oz Pearlman joins the Tournament Challenge Marathon to perform some bracket tricks, blowing the minds of Michelle Beadle and Jalen Rose with some unreal bracket mind tricks.

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[AIBotnot]

Don't worry folks I know his weakness, its lottery numbers.

[TJinoue]

I usually don’t fall for stuff like this but for some reason this one just feels so real

[melchardcaranto]

2:33 the way he just drops the paper and walks off 😂😂😂

[l-m-f-ayoo]

Did nobody else notice this man take a massive whiff of jalen Rose hands?! 🤣🤣🤣

[andremcfarlane]

He kept on stressing West to guide her to the region he wanted all along I think, Mentalists and Magicians fascinate me I always was intrigued it's cool stuff

[insidejah]

@:51-:55 you hear Beadle say "on my mom and my DOGS" and the other dude says "it's as PIG as it gets" (Butler Bulldogs and Arkansa Razorbacks) ..and for the Jalen one, the magician had an earpiece in his right pocket that he put in the dudes ear and someone in the control room fed him the score on the paper (watch magicians right hand and pocket and hand on Greenys ear, and notice how he made Greeny take out his ear piece), everyone BUT Jalen Rose was in on it!

[layz]

Here how the trick works. THEY ARE ALL IN ON IT DUMMIES. It's how a lot of the best magic tricks work

[TheMotherfer]

This is the new trio that will start your mornings.

[jerryesque]

This is not magic. This guy is studying these people before he meets them, and is actually giving them the answers through social cues. Its a really clever way of mental manipulation. In a sense, he had the answer already, and mentally manipulates them to unknowingly choose the answer he already has for them.

[gerrelsaunders]

Keep your eye on his right hand when he's doing the bit with Jalen.

[PrincipalSkinner]

Its not magic, he's using subtle suggestion to influence their answers.

[kasen]

The way Greenburg delivered the winner and the score felt kinda rehearsed

[tmgodsgift]

So I guess his picks had Loyola..can't wait to see this ish!

[VonJay]

Ok, 3 things.

1. Second order logic/if the trick was fake

2. Priming and first order logic/if the trick is real

3. Higher order logic/ if the answer can only be realized by observing the author of the trick

1. Using predicate logic and second order logic to place the "magician" within the same set of compliance with the lady and Mike, I don't believe that the tip offs are proof. If they are in the same compliance set then everything they planned had to be planned before the segment was shot. Mike doesn't say "it's as pig as it gets, " i don't hear him say that and neither does the closed caption read that. He says, "about as big as it gets" which is a reference to the book "as big as it gets" which is about a sick parent not being able to support their kids, which itself is a rebuttal to the lady swearing "on my MOM and my dogs." Furthermore, not only is this not proof that Mike tipped off the magician but Mike not even looking at the paper that the lady is holding leaves him no chance of knowing what other team she's "thinking" of.

This leads us, through second order logic, to include the studio within the set of compliance. But even if the studio is in on the trick, the lady doesn't write any information down about which team she picked. The "dogs" is a tip off, but there's no Razorback indicator beside the region of the paper she looks at while the magician speaks. Nor, as was said above, does Mike look at her paper. Which means if the segment is fake, all was prepared beforehand.

Later with the Mike prediction, i cannot see the magician place anything in his ear but that doesn't mean that he didn't. Jalen actually shows the paper to the camera and with this the studio can tip Mike off through an earpiece(which i never see the magician place in his ear).

2. If the"trick" is real.

-Through first order logic, the magician will be in a set of his own, against one other set: Jalen, the lady and Mike.

Through a priming technique, you can do something familiar to psychologists called the "click, whirr" technique. Which is an automatic (if you're not aware of it) and robotic physiological response to stimuli in all animals.

The chart the magician prepares or uses is evidently memorized by the magician. He can line up which part of the page in his mind with what division the teams are under, "East, West." And supposedly uses that to narrow down what she's thinking of as he watches her eyes.

Only then after reading where her eyes went does The magician use a forging technique and actually picks the team under that division, then he suggests it to the lady by saying a few times.

He then enlists the "swear" click whirr primer and actually suggests bad teams "underdogs" again by saying "everyone likes an upset." Which she then, in a moment of excitement, and an indication of the primer's compliance principal, she actually shows that she's complying by swearing on "my mom and my DOGS."

Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that the magician will get this right all the time. The key is when he checks if she's complying with the primer by asking her to swear and her compliance is evident in whatever she swears to. This hardly works if the Mentalist doesn't have any prior knowledge of the person. And this doesn't work if the Mentalist doesn't engage her chronoception(body's sense of time) primer by speaking fast and rushing the trick.

- priming can only work on Mike if there are apparent primers that he's subject to. And there aren't any. Mike never looks at the paper that the lady has which have divisions. So the magician can't trace where his eyes are looking, if he were to look at actual numbers on the page.

The only thing Mike has is his own earpiece and a possible one provided by the Mentalist. Or a small radio held in the mentalist's hand as he holds Mike's head.

Again i don't see the magician place anything in Mike's ear. I looked at the video several times and this never happens. If he has something in his hand that whispers the score to Mike as Jalen shows the paper. That's the only thing that i can think of.

3. So in conclusion, the Mentalist doesn't prime the entire segment or doesn't prime at all. Meaning, that, the lady, Mike and the magician and even possibly Jalen are all part of the same set.

-If all of them are part of the same set then everything was done or prepared before the segment aired. Jalen just so happened to leave enough of the paper open for a studio member to see and then signal sent to Mike's ear. Or, if there was no earpiece provided by the magician then the entire segment may have been rehearsed prior to the show.

So higher order logic is the only way to get the answer. And the answer is in physically observing the author of the segment. Not through a television.

Which could be a testament to how much the author prepared the segment. If you don't use predicate logic equations and place the actions in the variables of the formula correctly, you won't even be able to know if you should use second to third order logic equations. Hence, you'll go with your gut feeling instead going with the closest truth after eliminating all other options. Great Magicians prepare tricks on the higher order levels because most people will never be able to observe the planning of the trick.

And Great primers have an efficient profile of the person they wish to control. It's through an association of two ideas, mainly the one that a person holds to heart, and then attach a relevant action, let's say, when asked to pick a team, that a primer can use as a window to influence.

I can list other things that he could have done as a primer that will satisfy the first order logic approach and also satisfy his career but those techniques would be way off since i didn't observe what he possibly suggested to unknowingly influence all of the ESPN anchors prior to going live. This will also satisfy his authenticity which, if anyone was in on it, would blemish his standing.

I'm vonjay and i approve this message.

[Lianalia]

He took off the earbuds to put a tiny speaker behind his head *watch the right hand during Jalen turn

[kobebean]

Love all the comments, “well I can’t do it so it must be fake.” They didn’t find this dude walking down the street.

[solutionxero]

DAMN you can really see the age on beadle in the beginning

[amald]

At 1:56 and 2:06 he’s grabbing something from his pockets. Don’t now what tho

[sisepuede]

Greeny heard a voice in his head from the speaker the guy holds to the back of his head. A producer says what’s on the paper. Jalen isn’t in on it.

[MikeLOldham]

He clearly uses a bone conduction earphone on the back of Greenburg’s skull