[Steven W.]

I have found that gematria is for the most part half parlor trick

That's "SerialBrain" ... usually his reads follow some "approach" about 70% of the time and, then, he throws something out that doesn't fit because ... well, because! ;)

[ichabod1]

Is it possible that Serial Brain only seems wacky to us because none of us have the intellect to understand codes and ciphers at the professional level? I mean the Turing kind of level, all the cryptofreaks the Brits hired. They still exist. Serial Brain just lays out the process they use to work through it in a little more detail than most. I mean, it’s not in question that when the president uses misspellings or unusual capitalization it’s a signal that it’s a coded message is it?