I found 3 mistakes in Josh Waitzkin's tutorials.  The first one is this position.

I don't understand the third pic.  You win a whole queen, but you would not have mate in 4 at that rate.  What am I missing?

You win a whole queen.  You don't mate in four.

Regarding the first 2: is he just trying to teach the simple staircase? He doesn't mention possible quicker ways to #? (Silman presents both the simple #'s and the quicker variations in his end game book)

Yes, I think he is just trying to teach the staircase.

I thought it was called the electric fence.....am i mistaken

There's a lot of ways they call it, I actually call it the "rook roller".

Fair call...

... wow...

Yeah the last pic isn't wrong, if you play what the guy does, you will either have a mate or be a rook and queen up...

In fact I don't get how any of them are mistaken, they all get the mate in the quickest possible way.

Am I missing something?

The moves in chessmaster are in the variations.

So like the second quickest way to mate?