So your transition to Islam is tough? :hihi:
What was his reaction? Are they up for a scrap or only if they've got 3 mates and they're all armed?

All the towns and cities here have those markets (Medinas). But the snakes and monkeys are only in Marrakech.

For that 'trick' to even have been a minor challenge the guy most have been a dumbass pussyass bitch, which all Derren's victims are. They are very carefully selected for weakness of will, gullibility, etc. before they make it anywhere near Derren and his cameramen.

Enough people in Marrakech understand English and there's an airport right nearby. It would be piss easy to get home. I couldn't even consider that challenging at all. What more do you need than local currency, the English language and a passport almost anywhere in the world? I'd for sure first buy a knife, then cut myself a stick, then conceal the knife in my person and go buy some hash. No need to rush to the plane. Plus, I guess he'll have had a whole British film crew following him around. So no one is gonna do anything weird and everyone is gonna be extra helpful.


Peace,

kowalski

I've got a workaway opportunity in the South of Morocco, helping out with English and Spanish language practice. So, I might stay another month or two. Today I started learning French. Until recently it was an official language here.

Meanwhile I'm applying for work in various nations. Primarily Spain and Britain. It's so tedious, especially as I don't really want to. Though with the extra time doing the workaway would give me, maybe I could come up with a better idea.


Peace,

kowalski

Fucking Moroccans, couldn't dance or operate a camera if their worthless lives depended on it.

You can't spell groove without K.




Peace,

kowalski

There was no verbal response and I guess he didn't know how to manufacture a bomb. I even told him "I'll draw Mohammed right now. Then what? I deserve to die. Go fuck yourself." (Meanwhile picking up paper and a pen). I'm both stupid and an arsehole for doing so, but he just left the terrace.


Peace,

kowalski

tabarnak!!

It doesn't matter how close the airport is or how helpful people are or any of that. And he didn't know there were people watching and filming to keep an eye on him.

I'm just saying it would be fucking crazy waking up in another, completely alien country, with nothing in your pocket but your passport, a few instructions and some money.

Yes. It would totally matter that the he has money, airport is nearby, everyone speaks English and are super helpful, etc. How could those things not matter?
No. He didn't wake up in another country, that isn't how hypnotism works.

I think you should watch it again and pay attention to what actually happens through the lens of what is possible and legal, meanwhile make a list of all Derren's lies and misdirection in the piece.

He's an Illusionist. Nothing more. He is creating an illusion.

He often does simple magic tricks that I know how to do. They do not require any mentalist patter to perform but he always presents them as if they do because that's his schtick. It's very lucrative schtick for him. His illusions are compelling. Without it he would just be another boring magician.

Remember: if a magician tells you how a trick is done as a part of presenting it, that is not how the trick is done.


Peace,

kowalski

I'm in a village, with just over 1,000 houses, in the south of Morocco.

Here I teach English 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for a community association. There's a "flat" on the first floor where I live. People here smoke a lot of hash. There's no alcohol. There are donkeys and cats. I snatched a kitten from outside last night after noticing that a mouse had moved in. Most days we eat tagine. In the evenings we play chess and instruments and whittle wood. I started a thermalsiphon water heater project and leaning how to play Go. I let a second kitten in because they were crying for each other. Winter low is ~10°C.

It's a pretty perfect place for me right now. I'll probably stay a while.


Peace,

kowalski

Yeah after watching it again, the guy had met Derren and signed a contract - in very weird circumstances yes, but he signed it nonetheless.

Although he technically/physically awoke from his hypnotic state in another country, it isn't the same as if he hadn't applied for the Derren Brown show nor met him prior, and awoke in that place.

I still think it's kinda mad, but cool, that Kowalski is doing this whole off-the-grid thing.

Sounds like you're having a fun adventure tho.