Mentalist Oz Pearlman Blows Our Minds | Your Mom's House Ep. 833

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Very excited for today's episode.

Got some real pizzazz coming in here today.

Yeah.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Yeah, we'll see what happens when any is confronted with it all.

Well, that kind don't like the other kind of what I mean.

So

what's that thing?

They don't.

This kind and the other kind, they don't go well together.

Nope.

Historically.

Oil and water.

Yeah, black people and magic tricks don't go well together, but it's always fun because you always know you're going to get someone to stand up, turn around, scream, throw their hands in the air, and say, fuck this shit.

It's always fun.

I really enjoy it.

They don't like it.

They think it's any, well, let me ask you, do you think it's witchcraft?

Why is that cultural?

Why is that a cultural thing?

I mean, it's probably not, but I mean, it is.

It is.

Well, I guess, you know, to speak for myself, let me mute the voice of God real quick.

To speak for myself,

yeah, you know, it's the devil.

It's the devil.

It's Satan.

He's behind everything fun.

It's because the real magic, you know, we got the voodoo and the hoodoo.

Like, we be doing that shit.

You know what I'm saying?

You're just a liar.

Wait, he's got a good point.

Like, black Bahamians do voodoo.

Why is voodoo acceptable?

Because you guys are in control of that magic?

Is this because it's the white man's magic?

No, it's because that shit's real.

Yeah.

That shit really.

Yeah.

It's not easy.

Yep.

is not mentalism.

It's not easy.

Yeah, it's not easy.

You're a professional liar.

Wait, wait, hold on.

But so is acting.

Actors are professional liars.

Do you hate all actings?

I don't know if that's.

They're lying.

They're professional liars.

They're pretending.

Yeah, you're pretending.

But it's like the goal isn't to trick you, though.

Yes, it is.

And to evoke feelings.

Tom's a professional.

He's a liar.

Tom, do you think that's a good thing?

I don't think so, because then you're saying that musicians are fucking liars too because they just be, you know, they be manipulating you to be feeling things.

Mentalists and magicians specifically,

they just.

Satan.

Yeah.

Satan.

It's like, man, okay, if I take a wallet out your pocket, it's theft.

I go to jail.

If you do it, it's magic.

Nigga, fuck you.

Yeah.

Cheating ass, thieving ass, nigga, fuck that, man.

Not a professional liar.

He's not going to like today's episode at all.

Man.

Nah, man.

Let me tell you, my pockets are empty.

All right.

Ain't nothing to take.

they're going in there with it, man.

We're going to keep the motherfuckers out.

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

I cannot wait.

Oh, me too.

Now, hell no.

Are you going to do all that, Eddie?

Are you going to?

Hell no.

I mean, it depends.

We'll see what lines he crosses.

We'll see.

Yeah, boys.

That's the longest one ever.

But Eddie doesn't.

Eddie, do you talk during movies?

Of course.

Don't fucking nod your head maybe fucking i could speak for my day yes i do

do you suck your teeth and i'm with a toothpick in like

what

that's that's a black thing that's a old black guy that's an old black guy that i mean i do be liking toothpicks i don't know why you going in there right now why are you going in there bernie mac was doing that why is tony john crooked is that a deliberate choice oh satan Did Satan do that?

Yep.

You see?

This is what happens.

You play with Jesus.

Yep.

All right.

All right.

Talking about stuff.

I'm a man of God.

All right.

You want to see this opener?

Of course.

Let's get into it.

Let's get into this show.

It's going to be a lot of fun today.

Hold on now.

Hold your soul horses.

Here we go.

Here

you go.

Don't pull off around here.

I'll catch y'all.

I will get y'all there.

It ain't nothing in a humble man.

Get all that in there there.

Something y'all are doing pop all packaging.

Y'all going fishing?

Yeah.

Got a boat?

Yeah, hell yeah.

We got more problems.

Don't bring anyone mother for this.

Wow.

Your mom in the fucking stairs.

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Look at these tits.

Nice.

Looking good today.

You know, what's crazy about this clip?

Like, the thing, obviously, it stands out that, you know, the way he speaks.

Yeah.

And then you go, this guy's made it to like whatever he is, 60-something, and he owns a vehicle.

With a bunch of wires.

Yeah, but he's like, he's survived with that level of communication.

Oh, wow.

It's pretty wild.

It is pretty wild.

And I also think this video was taken a block away from this studio.

Don't you feel like?

It could be.

Yeah.

It's very Texan.

It's very, yeah, very possible.

This could be in a lot of places.

This could be in Georgia, Bama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee.

Like, I don't know where it was.

Maybe we have it here.

Let's see.

Ding, dong, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Oh, the comments believe this is either Tennessee or Oklahoma.

Deep.

We have a translation.

No, fucking why.

Most liked and agreed upon this translation.

Do you want to hear it again?

Yeah.

All right, here.

This is what we got.

Don't pull off around here.

I'll catch y'all.

I will get y'all ass whooped.

It ain't nothing in a home, man.

Okay, don't pull around here and go your ass whooped.

It ain't nothing for me to whoop a man.

No, you're not for me.

He's joking, though, right?

Yeah, he's joking because he's friends.

Yeah, yeah.

And then the beard guy speaks next.

No clue.

He says, you do all that there, there, there.

Stop that yelling as I pull past you and you acting crazy.

Oh, man, that's not what I heard.

What did you

say?

What'd you hear?

Well, play it again.

There's definitely some hard R's, if that's what you're saying.

Okay, that's what you were hearing?

You heard hard R's.

That's what I heard.

You know, in that accent.

I've heard that.

But I mean, what do you what?

Did you have an actual sentence?

Like, do you think he said something?

I thought he just said, you know.

I thought he just said, you know, oh, all that

shit.

You know, I'm like, oh, okay.

It ain't nothing humble, man.

He all that air there.

There, there is the stuff in the under there, bomb all packaging.

Y'all going fishing?

Y'all going fishing?

we all figured, yeah, got a boat, yeah.

He's it, so then the guy says, You got y'all going, we're going fishing, and he goes, We're going fishing,

and then he says

something at the end there, like, we got y'all got a boat, yeah, was it you got a boat?

Y'all got a boat?

Oh, apparently, it's a pole.

Oh, you got pole, I remember.

Oh, yeah, and then the guy goes, We got four or five of them.

That makes sense.

We got four or five of them.

Yeah, you got pole, we got four or five of them.

Let's see if the mentalist can solve this.

Could you imagine, though, having to fish next to this guy?

And he's like,

well, the whole time I'd be like, what?

Yeah.

What'd you say?

Who do you think is harder to understand?

This guy or the Killarney drunk?

Killarney.

Killarney, right?

Killarney.

To us, to our ears.

I think maybe an Irish person would choose Killarney.

This is fucking bananas, though.

This guy is.

This is our Killarney guy.

Yeah, he is.

He's the Killarney of the South.

He's probably like 30 years younger than Killarney guy too.

I feel like Killarney guy is like 90.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

I don't know that.

That's an Irish guy.

But here's the deal, man.

This guy is speaking our same dialect, right?

And I still can't understand this hail-belly guy.

Hold on, so you can go back to back here.

Okay.

You have a podcast with both of them?

You're going vision?

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Okay.

What?

Do you think this is just drinking too much?

Oh, hold on.

Oh, I don't know.

Is it alcohol and no teeth?

Yeah, that's a good combo.

Right?

I mean, Clarney Guy

is never more than a few moments without alcohol in his system.

You realize.

It's like 50 years of 25 pints a day.

This guy has not known a sober feeling.

Yeah, and it's

probably beer, too.

Like, of course it is.

It's just so damn good.

Maybe Irish whiskey, too, but lots of beer.

Yeah.

Here.

This guy's here in Killarney because we've been invited by a very special character.

I hear he's a local legend.

I don't know.

And his name is Sham.

He's got a pint.

Yeah.

Sham, how are you?

We're here in Killarney today.

Nice to meet you.

Are you from Killarney?

Born and bred.

What do you think makes it a great town?

Yeah.

Lots of tourists around.

It's great, isn't it?

Great, give your dog away.

Great, give your dog away.

Is that what he said?

Great, give your dog away.

Great, give your dog away.

Okay.

This sweet little soul is a sweet little sweat.

If I sat next to this guy, I would be like, oh, I don't speak Lithuanian, so I don't.

Sorry.

Tell me if you think this is a good idea or not.

We're gonna go with the Jarvis.

Jarvis.

Jarvis.

Good idea.

I'm a farmer.

You're a farmer.

I'm a treadmill.

Trevor Noah?

You're Greg and Noah?

Talking about South African comedy.

South African comedians.

I'm a big fan of South African comedy.

And is this your regular spot?

We're in a Connor's Bar.

I watch Jack Jay John and his face, Frank.

That was Jane John and Jack.

Look at his face.

Okay.

I moved around.

He moved around a lot.

I'm in Lady Shatoa.

I tell you, this is my nightmare.

Somebody messaged also recently that they're like, oh, yeah, he's alive.

So there was a report that someone said he had died.

And we were like, yeah, of course.

And then they're like, no, no, no, he's not dead.

He's gone.

We've been emailed people that have taken pilgrimage

just to visit this guy.

And guess what?

He'll be at the pub pub when you should.

Oh, yeah.

You don't have to be like, will he be in today?

They're like, yeah, he opens and closes.

It's fine.

Where is Colonel?

He's roped.

Like in relation to double.

Killerney.

There's Killarney.

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It's in Ireland.

Yeah, of course.

Killarney.

But I want to know how far is it from like Dublin?

I found the park.

It's way up.

Yeah, where is Killarney?

It's right next to the park.

Oh, boy.

Fuck.

Yeah, that is nowhere.

Oh, there's Dublin.

Okay, up in the right corner.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

So that's.

Yeah.

That's a good.

How long is that track, though?

I can't really tell.

So if you're going to Ireland, you go to Dublin and then you head on over to Killarney.

Three hour and 47 minute drive.

That's a good long drive.

It's worth it to have a pint with that guy.

Train in three hours.

Yeah, that's worth it.

That would be so.

We should do a YMH pilgrimage.

Whole company pilgrimage.

We're going to Killarney.

Just to visit.

And then we just go there and he's just like,

and he throws up and we're like, okay.

That was cool.

But can't you see yourself becoming that guy?

I think what?

Oh, no, not at all.

You totally can.

What?

Me, not you.

How?

I just think, like, like, you know how it is.

Like, we're aging and there's so many things you do

to slow that process down and to stay on top of it.

But I could see myself just giving up.

Oh, giving up.

I see that.

And being like, I don't need to go to a dentist.

I can just drink beer all day.

I can just gain weight.

Who cares?

Like, if you die tomorrow, like, I'm not, I'm not remarrying.

Like, this is going to go to shit.

This is definitely back.

I don't care.

Yeah.

You know, I'm going to be honest.

I know this is not very,

you know, PC or whatever, but I maintain this mostly for your gaze, for you, so that you don't go like, my wife is a pig and she's disgusting.

I don't want to have sex with her anymore.

All right.

Like, you know, I do it for me, obviously, but also because I have an obligation to my husband.

It's very sweet of you.

Yes.

You're doing a great job, by the way.

Thank you.

So are you?

You don't look anything like the Killarney guy.

But I could become him.

You could become him.

Well, just remember, like, wait till they get out of the house, though, right?

Let's say I die tomorrow.

Just raise my kids?

Oh, you know, try to stay.

And then, like, the moment they leave,

you go back to them.

You got to become an alcoholic for sure.

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Oh.

Let me know.

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Let me know.

Okay, I'll let you know.

But he wants to go with another guy because they're hotties.

Yeah, but I think he would have responded to that lipstick.

You think if I was like, I'll go with you.

Yeah.

For sure.

Yeah.

What's that, a frying pan under his head?

What is that?

That's a cast iron skillet.

What an interesting background, Joe.

It is interesting.

It almost makes me wonder if

the cast irons on the floor.

So that also looks like insulation that is between sheetrock.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, insulation.

Not to mention the very unique build that this man has.

Well, we were.

I wasn't going to even go.

And it kind of reminds me, you know, I've been training a lot more.

I'm neglecting my neck.

I need to do more neck work.

I have this thing called the iron neck.

You put it like it's like a halo that goes around your head, and then you can do like neck exercises.

That's what he does.

That's how he has such a thick neck.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah, he's definitely in there.

Yeah.

So, yeah, we don't have to promote them, but that's fine.

That's really cool.

So he just needs to tone down the neck work, get back to the bottom.

Or ramp it up.

Let's see how big it can get.

Why not?

You know, if you're strong, you're strong.

Did he?

What's so the skillet hanging is really perplexing.

Again, is it hanging?

Or is he like sitting?

Is he like this?

You know?

I know.

It's hard to tell.

Okay, I'll tell you why he's not laying.

Because the face meet would be

more gravity on the face meat.

Huh?

It looks pretty gravity heavy here.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Yeah.

It's funny.

We've lately, these videos of cool guys, they have an aversion to finishing the walls in their living environment.

Remember that last guy just had like...

All he has to do is, by the way, all he needs is the, you just need to close the wall now.

Like you've insulated it, which is great

for the cold.

You need it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sound.

Heat me even too.

Yeah.

But then you're like, oh, I forgot to cover it up.

I know,

but whatever, a nice walk on a Biloxi beach looking at hotties might solve that.

That's true.

This is why men need women.

We make things pretty.

Yeah, they sure do.

And men are cool.

That's one of the things that we've discovered doing this show.

Dudes are always cool.

You know, like, here's a pretty cool thing.

You are like, what the hell?

But why did you say that to me?

I am so sick.

You in the store, and I'm asking you for a charger.

And instead of asking me that,

but why would you ask ask me, was my coochie wet?

Oh.

But why did you say that to me?

So now you didn't say it to me.

So you didn't say that?

No, I didn't.

I will.

This man, I'm at Walgreens, and I spilled water on myself.

Uh-uh.

And your disrespectful ass, excuse me, sir.

Your disrespectful ass is going to ask me, is my coochie wet?

And guarantee, I will send this to corporate because you full of shit.

I did not say that.

You full of shit.

Now, do you want it to be?

No, I don't want no goddamn charging from you.

Go find me another worker.

Good day.

Go find me another worker with your disrespectful ass.

Yep.

Chris.

Hey, Chris.

Chris.

Your co-worker asked me, was my coochie wet?

That's what y'all do at Walgreens.

Y'all ask women, is they coochie wet?

That's me.

Apologize for asking me.

Don't lie.

Apologize for asking me.

You took it the wrong way.

Why did you ask me?

That's a good way to pay for it.

You took it the wrong way, dumb bitch.

You ought to get your ass beat.

Yeah.

Well, you know,

in the beginning, he was like, I apologize.

Before she turned the camera, he was like, I apologize.

That is also a bold move.

Like, can I get a charger?

It's like, what's up with that pussy right now?

Yeah.

He's like, is that Coochie wet?

Because she spilled water on herself.

Yeah.

And he was trying to segue into it.

I see your water spill.

Speaking of wet things.

Did it drip down to your pussy like that?

Yeah.

He's like, is it just me?

Like, you're hanging out here at Walgreens or Walmart with me.

But also, like, lady, doesn't it feel good to be flirted with?

Seriously, this fucking bitch I know so uptight guy can't ask you a simple question without you getting all fired up and wanting to send it to corporate oh my feelings are hurt this guy asked me if my pussy was wet I will say the the blessing in the skies about the cameras is that now like women can stand up to these it's so nice because seriously you do get I mean you people say crazy things to you like all the time sure it's good you can actually record it document dude what are you what are you doing to me what are you doing talking about my pussy right now?

Why are you doing this?

Especially because you know that

when you want a charger,

you know, you're not having the best day.

No.

Your battery's low.

Maybe phone's dead or about to die.

I know.

Stress.

And then you're going to be like, trying to fuck.

It's like, no, I want to get my charger, man.

And not only that, like...

She is younger and more, way more attractive than him.

He's old.

Is he old?

Yeah.

He's not in her league.

It's so offensive.

Yeah.

Well, I just think like you know what he could use?

Probably some time with Mystery.

I was going to say.

So Mystery is back.

If you guys don't know, years ago, there was a reality show.

I think it was on VH1.

Of course it was on the VH1 had the golden.

They had a real good run.

And Mystery is a pickup artist.

I love him.

And that was his name.

And the whole idea behind a name like that, I remember this from the show, was that if he would say his name, you as a, he's a pickup artist so the whole idea is you say you give yourself a name like that and then that prompts questions so if you introduce yourself to somebody as mystery they're going to be like your name is mystery and then you just go from there it was like step one

so then he kind of faded out right hold on but you forgot step two the most important part of mystery's whole thing yeah it's not mr e by the way which one of our younger staffers who never saw the show yeah not her fault it's not mr e no it's mystery like a mystery novel right mystery.

Another thing he was really adamant about was peacocking.

Yeah.

And that meant

flair.

So he would wear like a feather hat,

a feather boa, or like goggles.

Crazy attire.

Sand dune goggle.

Yeah.

Burning man stuff.

And then that gives you, that makes you stand out of the pack.

And then women go, oh, I love your hat or I love your scarf.

And then it gets you into conversation.

Right.

So both of those are prompting questions.

And negative.

That was huge, too.

He would go up to the woman and then you have to put them down.

It's a very

good system.

Yeah.

It's like, well, you know, you'd be a lot better if you pulled your hair up.

Yes.

So, and then the girl's like, wait, what?

Yeah.

Brilliant.

You put them down a little bit.

Real cool tactics.

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But on the right, damaged girl.

Yeah,

they're going to close.

Close the deal.

So the thing is about him is that there was like, he was, you know, people knew about it.

The show was popular.

Everybody kind of, and I feel like it was kind of pre-social media.

It feels like it was a while ago, right?

Like when we got married, the show was on like 08, 09.

Long time ago.

Okay, so we have a couple of his

here.

I missed him so much.

Well, I totally, like, like,

like you, you just kind of forgot about him.

And then I was scrolling recently and I was like, no, he's back.

He's back and he's offering seminars.

So Walgreens guy.

no neck

you know whomever cool guys all the cool guys could maybe learn here's like like kind of stuff that he does.

Just if you want to know more about mystery.

So, you want girls chasing you?

You want to be the big man and have girls chasing you?

Well, you got to open two sets and merge them.

Right?

If I go up to this one set, I have no social proof.

It's hard.

If I work this one set, I have no social proof.

It's hard.

But if I meet her and say, let me introduce you to some new friends I've met, and introduce her to this girl that I've just met that night and merge the two together, they get to meet each other and they get to fight for me.

You want girls fighting for you?

How can you, unless you logistically handle two separate sets merging together?

Now, I got to say, that's not bad fucking math, man.

Well, so Mystery's now had another 20 years to of perfecting his craft.

Yeah, and this guy is spot on.

And look, he's still got his flair.

He's got some corks in his ears.

He's got the La Bret piercing.

He's got some wacky little hair on his chin.

And it's fair to say, look,

like most socially adept people, I don't think they think this way, right?

No.

But

he's guiding you solely for the idea of picking up women.

So if you're in a club and he's like, you meet this girl and you meet this other girl,

what he's advocating for here is you introduce them.

So you're like, this is my friend Sarah.

This is my friend Elizabeth.

And then they're both like, oh, like, oh, yeah, I like him.

I like him.

You're creating like a little almost

game.

Of course, because you know what's the most attractive thing to a woman is when the guy's already taken.

Guy's taken, or you just, or, and, and when you see another woman eyeing this guy, right?

Like, it's creating so many, I'm telling you,

women to look to their friends to approve of their choices in men.

Yes.

We do.

We go, do you think so-and-so is this and that?

Yeah.

Okay, good.

Like, we need social approval.

Right.

Otherwise, the relationship's going to be really hard for you to carry on.

If everybody's friends are like, this guy's fucking horrible.

Yes.

But if the tribe approves, and he's right, you get two broads that are on to you.

Yeah.

Damn.

Here's another one of his.

A1, open.

A2, demonstrate higher value.

Meg to primer to want to qualify.

A three, qualify her, and then move her into a sit-down situation where you can then build comfort with her in C1.

That happens over and over and over and over again.

And every set is different because people are different.

Your material may be the same, but the sequence that you run them will be different.

The reactions to your gambits will always be different.

So it always feels new.

Annie, I feel like you could do something like this.

What do you feel like his, do you like his advice?

Do you think it's worthwhile at all?

I'm still stuck on A1 and A2.

And then you move into C1.

He's seminars.

He's teaching seminars.

He is brilliant now.

It's so masterful now at this point.

It's really good.

I've like,

I completely blacked out.

Played again.

Played again.

Because I have to hear the concept.

A1, open.

A2, demonstrate higher value.

Meg to primer to want to qualify.

A three, qualify her, and then move her into a sit-down situation where you can then build comfort with her in C1.

That happens over and over and over and over again.

And every set is different because people are different.

Your material may be the same, but the sequence that you run them will be different.

Basically what you're saying.

The reactions to your gambits will always be different.

So it always feels new.

He wants to demonstrate that he is of a higher value, a higher caliber than anyone else.

And then you isolate her, right?

You get her sit down, but she has to feel like she's won some great prize by talking to you.

That's the secret.

And that's the nagging bit.

If you're like, I mean, you're, you're cute, but you're not the prettiest I've seen, or whatever it is he's saying.

And then she has to go, I'm not the prettiest you've seen.

Like if she falls for that horseshit.

And then she's like, well, I can show you who's a ball, a ball sucker.

The only time this doesn't work is if it's a woman who's got it together.

I was going to say.

Like this won't work on a really confident, secure,

you know, put like if you get the insecure girl, like this is going to work.

It's going to work.

Here's the deal though.

It might work on a secure girl if you don't come with the librett and the black nail polish.

Let's say you're like a Wall Street douchebag type type stock brokery guy and you're in the suit and you're looking good and you're handsome.

You could put the girl down and then have her.

Yeah, sure.

You could do that.

Your whole aesthetic for how you do this can vary.

You don't have to be

with things.

But as a woman who's not completely, like, I wouldn't fall for this just because of the aesthetic.

I'd be like, this guy's a little too.

This guy's too.

But the right aesthetic could get you.

I don't know.

I think so.

I'm a genuine kind of gal.

You know why I liked you?

I'll tell you what

always got me.

A guy who looked put together, his outfit wasn't completely unhinged or messy or dirty.

Hygiene.

Does he smell nice?

Does he look clean?

Yeah.

And also not too eager.

Oh, right.

I think overeager is such a pussy shrinker.

It's such a dryer.

You're like, I don't.

Trying too hard.

Trying too hard.

And you were always very aloof and mysterious, like Jackie O'Nassis.

Yeah.

That was the name I was going to use until I found out he was using it.

Fucking really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

All right, but Annie, what do you think?

I'm curious.

About this mentalist?

No, no.

about this guy.

No, yeah, the mentalist.

Yeah, he's another professional liar.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm sure it works.

You know, if you look like that, you got to have some sort of crazy strategy.

But

yeah, I think the key, you kind of just said it, it's disinterest.

Disinterest is the move.

It's the key.

It's really, you know, be cool with yourself as a man.

That's all you need.

Fuck all these strats, man.

That's stupid.

I think dissent, not, yeah, dissent or detachment.

Yeah, just like

a little aloof.

Listen, like, bitch, I'm doing my own shit.

You know what I mean?

Like, you can be here, you cannot.

I don't care either way.

But here's the deal.

But anyway, you have to be an attractive man to have that.

Oh, well.

And Tom is attractive.

You're attractive.

Like, we're all attractive.

You got to be cute to do that shit.

But he's, yeah, like you said, though, he's for like boys who are a little less

fair.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess so.

I guess.

Yeah.

Why are you, but I have to say, why?

Why?

Why?

Why what?

Why are you hunting that deep?

like it's not what do you think you're even gonna get like you said you're only gonna get broken

Yeah, but you understand too that the person the guys

that are really signing up for this broken my dad No, he's right my dad does the same shit to women But the guys that are that are like sincerely following

well they're guys that are not getting chicks.

Yeah.

So what for them it's a revelation.

Yes.

Right.

They're like whatever I'm doing isn't working.

Yes.

Like whatever it is.

So you are looking for a new, you're like, I'm not having any success.

Yes.

So can you help me have success?

And it'll build your confidence once you've had success with women and then you'll learn your way of getting women.

Yeah.

You don't have to probably use his technique forever and ever.

But you need confidence.

That's big with chicks.

Yeah, but it's hard to manufacture confidence, right?

It sure is.

That's why this guy's like, you know, learn these tactics.

Maybe that'll give you confidence.

I know.

Ultimately, they're all kind of going for the same goal, just different tactics, you know?

I know.

And I'm curious to see how mystery has adapted to the social media age, the apps age, and to now women being like, don't talk to me in public.

Because I think now it's considered, no, it's true.

There's like,

I think to come up to a girl and talk to her now is a little more like, whoa, right?

That's the impression I'm getting.

Well, I guess the thing is, less people

engage

in real life socially than 30 years ago because everything's on your phone so you know less people are like hi like they just don't do that well that's why now mystery might be more valuable than ever right because if a guy has the cojonas now to like just talk to you talk to me yes you're probably like oh my gosh this guy is really yeah something you know yeah exactly oh there he is

that's how we learned that's how we discovered him with that look yeah with his big dumb fucking hat yeah and the goggles spurning me on goggles but that shit worked It worked, dude.

You had the year down perfectly.

It was 07, 08.

Because I remember we were watching this shit and we just got married.

You loved him.

We were so into this show.

It really is.

What's up, bitch?

Yeah.

All right.

Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

And we are back.

Oh, it's a good one.

Where am I?

Am I at your mom's house?

You are at your mom's house.

This is for real?

This is for real.

Thank you for coming in.

I was going to fanboy when I met Tom earlier because I have watched one of his specials so many times that that I have absorbed it within my skin.

Which one?

Completely normal.

The hotel's bit.

The hotel bit because it hits home about

just like you, one nighters.

So I don't get upgraded.

I don't buy first class.

I get upgraded.

The part where you said, I will put my hand on your chest, bro, if you try to piss in the front.

Yes.

Yeah.

I will watch that and I will laugh just as hard the first time as the hundredth time.

Well, we're always wondering.

To meet genius, my friends.

No, that's very, that's very nice of you.

We're always wondering, where is the flight attendant telling the regulars to like it's okay?

Like, no, close the curtain and send them back.

What are we doing here?

What pig trough you got back there?

But some of those animals will bypass the curtains.

I've seen them, and then they'll still slither up.

Fast track in.

Unbelievable.

It's wrong.

Fucking balls.

You know what?

I got to tell you, this is unpopular opinion, but me as a, I like to say, my wife will say petite.

I will say European in build.

Oh, wow.

That sounds a little less, you know, kind of hurtful.

You look great.

Thank Thank you.

Thank you, by the way, Tom.

Is that 27F is a seat that is little known if you don't want to take first class, but it's, you have full access at the window.

I just ruined, everyone's going to take the seat instead of me to the bathroom.

27F on any on Delta, I think it's the Airbuses.

I don't know enough.

I'm not deep cuts enough to know this.

Okay.

But you have all the same access and better than first class because I don't eat or drink on planes, so maybe that's a thing that

not really.

Why not drink water even?

Yeah, I'll drink water, but I quit drinking alcohol last year.

That's such, I don't know, know,

life of the party would happen to me.

Bert did not like that when I told him that.

27F.

27F.

Look at that.

Look at the legroom.

You can fully lay down.

Wow.

And then you don't need, if you're the window in first class and someone's sleeping and snoring next to me, I got to get around them and wake them up.

That worst guilt trip.

The worst.

Where I'm like, oh, oh, hard hit.

Let me out of here.

But hold on.

I have access to the bathroom.

Is this the emergency exit road?

Emergency exit.

I'll save you.

Christina P, I'll save you, Tom, if the shit goes down.

Yeah, I believe you.

I'm a good guy.

I really have a lot.

So I drink water and coffee

all day.

Yes.

And on flights, man, when I get the window, I immediately get anxiety of like,

I'm going to have to ask this person to stand up six times.

Right.

That's why I love the aisle because you just get up as you choose.

That's what you tell them I'm pregnant right now.

This is totally acceptable.

Yeah.

It's really crazy.

Wait, I want to get this out of the way so people don't forget that we can pre-order your book, Read Your Mind, right now.

Thank you.

Assuming it's all the places you can.

Everywhere, everywhere.

Yes.

This is like a labor of love.

This is years in the making.

God, how hard is it to write a book?

I know you have.

This is a book.

It was big to do.

Much more.

Can I ask you, because I know, like, I think people,

if you don't know,

you know, you're, you're a mentalist.

You know, we see that you are able to almost like solve these puzzles that people are blown away by, but you worked in finance before.

So, but to make that pivot to change, were you already very into the, like, this is not something that you're like, I'll just try to do this later.

Like you're already into it, right?

It's like hanging out one day on the toilet and said, you know what?

I want to be a mentalist.

So I was doing magic.

So it's really important to understand because most people don't know what a mentalist is.

I'm happy to tell you about the book because I am not going to teach you to be a mentalist in this book because that's almost nobody.

Like nobody really wants to be a mentalist.

You could learn right now.

Google it.

You'll figure out some tricks.

I think that the key to what I do that's actually useful to people isn't the tricks.

The tricks is kind of the packaging is what's important.

The skills surrounding knowing how how to read people how to walk into a room and captivate people how to be memorable how to win them over all of these other little tertiary skills how to know if people are lying to you when's the right moment to approach somebody to influence them your boss your spouse your best friend right those are skills that elevate you because there are other mentalists in the world that do what i do What allowed me to kind of jump the line and get to the top of the pack where I'm doing this on the biggest stages on the world.

It has nothing to do with the tricks.

Other people do them too.

It's these core skills that I want to teach people.

And the skills are in the book.

That's it.

The book is about the skills.

Breaking down

exactly that.

I mean, how to supercharge your confidence, how to get rid of fear of rejection.

That's great.

All these different, how to have a memory.

Your like most people's memory, they don't realize your memory can be your superpower.

It's what I do all the time.

Well, clearly, your memory is like, I mean, just from having seen some of the things you've done, like, obviously you have a great memory.

And then you're, I think part of the trick, if I may say so, trick, um, is that your question might might seem like a, oh, this is just something, but you're, you know, where your question is going to get you.

Like, you're in the

information gathering kind of skill set, right?

And information planting.

Planting as well.

But I'm also the director of my movie.

So that's the most important thing, which is I get to point the camera where I want.

And I get to avoid the things I don't want.

Don't want.

So it's really important to understand.

That's why my skills don't generalize because if you watch what I do, the obvious question is like, yo, man, why don't you just go to the poker table and win a million dollars right now?

And if I'm being honest and I can do these things, why couldn't I do that?

Because you seem to think that because I'm able to guess a card in a certain context, I could guess it anywhere.

And it's not true.

It's contextual.

It's contextual because I control the procedure when I'm doing it.

Should we give you just a great example?

Should we have some fun show and tell?

Yeah, of course.

Okay.

How long have you been married?

30,000.

70 years.

What is it?

He's counting the days.

08.

We married in 08.

What's the matter?

17 years.

Well played.

Well played.

Met her when she was nine years old.

You're a bad boy, Tom.

Bad boy.

You're a boy.

It's actually gross.

So you've known her for that long.

Let me ask you a question.

Do you remember the name of your first grade teacher?

Yes.

Have I ever asked you about that before this moment?

No.

Do you know the name of his first grade teacher?

Of his first grade teacher?

No.

See, so 18 years, she doesn't know that.

How would I know that?

Are you blown away if I can guess that right now?

Yeah, for sure.

But

think about it right now think about it all the information i had coming in information gathering you literally said it your name what if i looked you up what if we did a deep dive before i got here ran a real in-depth you know fact check background check what if we knew where you grew up it's in your wikipedia found out where you grew up found a found a yearbook i could have done it yeah it's creepy though that's really creepy so if i do that haters are going to look through and they're going to find it themselves online sleuthing there's chat gpt and your first grade teacher also knew they were your teacher they probably brag about you tom segura you've made a big name for yourself all the other kids in your class probably remember it too

so i want to make this impossible how about this something she won't know but nobody would know i'm going to put you on the spot close your eyes

same time period elementary school can you try to picture the face of the first girl you had a big crush on yes

Let me ask you a question.

Open your eyes.

The same way, first grade teacher popped in your head.

You knew it really quick, too, about the first grade teacher for not having been asked before.

Your first crush before today, when was the last time you had thought of her?

Would it have been days, months, or years prior to today?

Years.

Years.

Think of the first name.

Count the letters to yourself, just yourself.

Of the first name.

Her first name.

Her first name.

I'm having anxiety watching.

Okay.

Tom needed some time with it.

He needed to sit on it.

It wasn't instant.

Yeah.

I mean, I used my fingers to count.

I was looking for him.

I was looking for him.

I was looking for him.

You did.

Yeah.

It felt like you did on one hand, but you jumped to the other hand the other hand you flex both biceps well i'm just i've been working out you've been working out i can tell the water cleanse i've been doing my homework i've been listening to the show

you did the second hand which means it was long it's six letters isn't it it's six letters yeah yeah

hangman hangman six letters i hate this already

sorry i made that one i made that one too small which why do you think

That all black people react the way baking soda and vinegar do when an illusion is cultural.

yeah but why i love it i know it's the best i love it there's all there's different ethnicities or different countries that do better yeah uh british people are very funny there's extremes they either hate you or they love you so that's a tough one oh okay yeah scandinavians very under understated but still impressed and they're just like trying to solve it basically some people are yeah germans as well why do men hate magic okay go ahead men love magic think of any one of those six letters don't tell me which one think of one okay you got it yes you didn't do the first letter did you i did You did because you looked over your glance and you glanced at me real fast.

But then you know what you did?

You jumped to the last letter.

You dirty dog, Tom.

Close your eyes, Tom.

You literally gave it up.

This was going to be a lot harder, just so you know.

He got you right, just no.

What he did is he gave it away because the same reaction.

Close your eyes.

Are your eyes closed?

No, no.

Close your eyes so you can't see a monitor.

Okay.

Can I just turn this around?

I don't know which camera to show to, but see, they were the same two letters.

Open your eyes.

You haven't thought of her in years.

Yes.

What was the name of your first crush?

Andrea.

Andrea.

Annie?

What?

But so, okay, can I say something?

I mean, that's very, very impressive.

Yeah.

Like, hearing you

be

like the hyper observation of it is the fascinating thing to me, right?

Like the fact that you,

like, you saw the arm thing and you're like, it's six because you jumped arms.

And then seeing my eyes dart from first to last.

And then he has to go through the Rolodex of names that start with the same letter and end in the same letter.

Yes.

Right.

And there's what, a handful of those maybe?

Maybe Angela too.

Oh, that could have been.

And then that's not.

She was in seventh grade.

Angela.

Now what made, now that's the part that is that the part that's the roll of the dice?

Where you're like, is it Angela?

Is it no?

No, because Angela.

Oh, too many letters.

Yes.

So it's six spaces.

Is there another name that could have dropped in there?

Like, would you have been like, could it be one of them?

Two names, Aunt Jemima.

I thought you really had a thing for syrup.

That was a phase you went through.

But if he hadn't gone first and then last,

there's a Rolodex of.

It's going to get crazier.

This was the worst thing I'm going to do.

That was the worst thing I'm going to do.

That was my opener, not my closer.

Right, right.

Bam.

Coming in hot.

Okay.

It's very impressive.

I'm sweating.

I love it.

It's very impressive.

You know, who do you have in here?

I came in here today, full transparency.

I want them to understand, walked in,

and one of your producers,

I believe Ryan, came in, fanboying, told me, can I reveal this?

Wish me a Shanatova.

Oh, happy Rosh Hashanah.

Thank you.

Yeah, like not overly religious, but you know, it was very nice of him.

Can I reveal this?

I don't know if I can.

He says, I'm going to a Rosh Hashanah dinner or I'm going to a service, but I want to come see this thing.

And he said, I'm a big fan of yours.

And I said, I want you to make this tough.

I want you to make this tough.

Is he around here?

And I said, I want you to think of somebody.

Just, man, think of somebody.

Absolutely random.

He goes, random?

I go, random.

And I said, you know, don't, don't tell anyone.

I don't want you to write this on a piece of paper.

I don't want, I want this in your head in the vault.

Is he around here somewhere?

Yes, he is.

He's in the booth.

And he didn't know if he'd get a shot, but we give him a shot.

Is he in the booth?

Just talk to him through the booth.

You can talk to him right in the mic.

Yeah, he's right there.

There he is.

There he is.

Look at that handsome man.

Yeah.

So well dressed.

All right, so let's walk through this, right?

We can see him in the booth and me.

Is that correct?

Yep.

Ryan, you thought of anybody on the spot, in the moment, you said, who am I going to go with?

And you didn't know.

Is that correct?

Now, I don't know what you've done between now and then.

So did you share this information with anybody?

Does this information exist anywhere in the world, but in your mind at this very moment?

Okay,

let's try the same thing we did before, but now here's where this gets interesting.

Now that I did it the first time, you have a tactical advantage.

It's like watching somebody run an obstacle course first.

Right.

You kind of know where the slip-ups are.

The more people you can watch do it, now you'd be like, well, you did the thing with the two hands, so I'm not going to count that way.

So now he knows reverse psychology on me.

So now I got to watch this.

Count the number of letters in this person's first name just to yourself.

See, he nodded too fast.

It was too fast.

That name can't be Mitchell.

Everyone struggles with the double L's.

That was a lightning fast.

You have young kids.

Do you know what sight words are in first grade?

Those are words you don't know how to read yet.

You look at them, you know them because you know how to sight.

That was a four or five-letter word, maybe three, four letters, isn't it?

This guy's got the worst poker face in the world.

All right.

Oh, man.

Man, oh man, let's look at you.

Pick, I think it's a guy.

Is it a guy?

Because he mentioned he was dating someone, so this is like a fresh relationship.

If he thinks of a girl right now, he's in trouble.

This is going to be on the podcast.

This guy's hedging, hedging, smart.

Senior leadership for a reason.

Yeah, there you go.

That's true.

Not just all looks.

There's brains up there.

Yeah, but yes.

Ryan, pick.

any one of the four letters in the name.

Don't tell me which one.

And just imagine that you look down, you wrote it, you didn't write anything, but I want to clarify, like if you had written this on a big piece of paper and you reach down and you circle a letter in the name, if you got one letter you're focused on

now,

here again, I want to explain to you something.

You did the first letter, he won't do the first letter, he won't.

It just, it's like a psychological thing.

I also said in the word.

As soon as you say in the word, people don't do bookends, they go inside.

You didn't do the first or last letter, did you?

Which one?

Oh, I'll be damned.

Listen, wow,

got me.

You said, man, got me good.

Lots of brains up there.

there lots of brains up there i'm flexing too by the way that's good you look good i need to work out

all right last letter can you stand up just a bit because i can't see your mouth right now let's see what he's whispering over there

i put him on the tv if that makes it easier the last letter of this guy's name is

i feel

as if Ryan didn't want me to screw this up.

So he's feeling a little bad right now.

He's going down this path of, oh, am I going to be the guy that got him?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's like, oh, no.

So he feels bad for me.

But at the same time, he's rethinking his choice.

And I'm going to tell you why.

When people pick vowels, they kind of get mad because there's only five of them.

And it's like kind of in wheel of fortune that's the giveaway.

And so now he's going like, God, why did I do a vowel?

And that was too easy.

And then they go, A-E-I-O-U.

It's an I, isn't it?

What the fuck?

I think that I put this guy in your head.

I think I put this guy in your head.

We talked about Rosh Hashanah.

You said Shanatova, said Shanatova, flexed a little bit on the Jew card, and then you thought to yourself, I've known this guy, and it had something to do with Israeli named Omri.

Is his name Omri?

There's no way.

I haven't bought this guy in a decade.

What if you called Omri right now on the phone?

What if you call him?

Don't really call him.

What if you called him right now on the phone and he gets on the phone?

Ryan's about to faint.

Do we have an EMS?

We have like one of those defibs.

He's really rethinking dating a Jewish girl right now.

He's like, what the fuck are they up to?

Great decision.

You'll never have to make another decision in your life.

It's perfect, huh?

Listen to me.

If you called Omri right now and he goes, and you just told him right on the moment, you said, I got an inside joke, or I've got a phrase, or I got a word, or I got a few words.

I'm just going to say something to Omri right now that he's going to go, oh man, I remember that.

I remember that.

I'm putting you on the spot.

A phrase, a word, number of words.

Like, imagine yourself saying something to him.

Can you see you're saying something to him right now?

Can you see it?

Two, three, four, five.

It felt like, I don't know how many.

Two, three, four.

One, two, three.

Is it, is it two words, three words?

Something like that.

Is it three words?

Okay, it feels like maybe two of the words are important.

I don't know what.

Yo, come on.

I'm watching this right now.

Yeah.

I know you guys.

I'm a big fan.

I'm a big.

Is this set up?

Is this staged?

Is there any way in the world I could know this?

No, not at all.

That he'd be put on the spot, that he'd think of somebody and then pick up an inside joke.

I wasn't even supposed to be here today.

Shouldn't have been here.

God is watching.

And he doesn't like that.

Second word to start with an I?

Oh, my.

No.

Okay, okay.

Can you see what I'm writing?

I don't want to make sure in the control booth.

Second word.

I don't know what the second word is.

I don't know.

Whatever.

I'm going to go with this.

Close your eyes.

Gang, can you see what I wrote?

Yes.

You can see.

Oh, they can see real quick.

Blah, blah, blah.

I'm going to guess.

If I get this part right, that was just a guess in the middle.

So don't give me credit.

Open your eyes.

Omri calls you.

He goes, Ryan, Manishma, what's going on, buddy?

And you say to him, boom, three words, what is this story?

What did you say to him?

It's a music video.

The first thing I ever produced in LA.

The very last part of the music video was paint on a beach.

This is fucking ridiculous, bro.

This is fucking ridiculous.

Come on, dude.

How the fuck?

What the fuck?

Dude.

This is fucking fucked up.

How in the mind is that?

Wait, how?

What?

What?

You're a sorcerer

this is witchcraft wait what's the what's the guiding principle to getting you there?

I don't understand at all

This is gotta buy the book.

No, the book won't teach you that one

How the fuck did you Ryan will not sleep tonight by the way How did you do that?

When he gets home, there will be paint on the beach under his pillow.

I'm gonna puke.

I'm like I'm gonna puke right now if you puke this video go viral.

I suggest it.

Can we please do that?

Can we get any insight into this?

Like any how the mentalist tricks work?

Well like that in particular.

That one's not good for my job.

It's not.

Okay, all right.

All right.

There's some secrets I retain.

That was really insane.

Thank you.

Yeah.

What do you okay?

That's just so crazy.

He is going to be all fucked up over this.

We're going to have to get Ennie at some point.

I think Annie.

Oh, we don't.

Yeah.

Who's the handsome gentleman with the pseudo-jerry curl in the middle right there?

That is.

That's Tyler.

No, no, Joe Josh.

Sorry.

Those are healthy curls, my friends.

Thank you.

And a stash.

Jewish curls.

Yep.

Yeah.

Right now, I'm serious.

Ryan's probably like, is this what they do on Russian genre?

The first thing.

That's really cool.

You dip apples in honey and Omri helps you.

I mean, the specificity, and it's not even a phrase.

Paint on me.

It's like, it's not even a thing.

Can we account?

Briefly, I think before we saw a recording, you made reference to Mystery.

Yes.

And when we were playing his clips earlier, it kind of like hit us.

We're like, well, that's like...

of like of you know adjacent to men super adjacent there's a huge overlap um i don't want to say there's an ick factor the pickup artist community.

Whatever.

But so some of the same things they do, and they're called indicators of interest, there's body language reads.

There's a way you approach a group

that are included in my book, that have a real Venn diagram overlap, but they're not designed for picking up, you know, women in this case.

They're for establishing deeper relationships with people, be it friends, family.

I came up.

as a strolling magician at restaurants.

When I was 14 years old, my mom's like, you know, oh, you got to make money because I was like 13 when I started doing this and folks were divorced and i there's no money i didn't have a lot of cash growing up so she's like if you want to buy more tricks go work buddy so i somehow sweet talked my way into a restaurant gig half a mile from my house and learned the hard way how much people detest you walking up to them at a restaurant when you're like a 14 year old kid hello yeah yeah hey you want to see some tricks it's like no i want you out of my table yeah and i learned so much about human dynamics and call it sales 101 at a young age i bet you'd be an incredible salesperson so i am a salesperson right but i mean what I'm selling is a very unique product.

In traditional sales, you would be amazing.

I've been made very lucrative offers at companies that I perform for, corporate events, and they go, we want you as a salesperson.

You're like, oh, man, I'm having way more fun than doing this

than that.

But 100%,

the overlap is the exact same thing as TV.

Can you give us, like, I know, I mean, I want people to get the book.

Sure, sure.

Will you give us like a little introduction into one of the things that I think is interesting for people is a lot of people struggle with confidence, right?

Like, what's a introductory level confidence-boosting exercise that people can do?

Or better for like, you know, meeting people.

Absolutely.

So one of the biggest mistakes you make, okay, one of them is the same thing from the pickup arts world is confidence is something that's a muscle.

The moment you get over, it's the dread that people have.

The dread of the walking up to somebody and going for it eats you alive.

And the more you wait in that moment, the more dreadful it gets.

That's so true.

So it's one of those things where you challenge yourself and you say, tonight, I see a person, I'm going up to them within three seconds and I'm giving it a go.

And walk up with a question that is not yes or no.

Yes or no questions can be shot down.

So as soon as you ask a yes or no question, so I learned early on, let me give you a great example from my world and then we'll see how we adapt it.

I'd walk up to a table, say, hey, want to see some magic?

No.

And then right, that's, you nailed it.

So right then, what I started learning is intro to mentalism, but real life mentalism.

What is that person thinking about me when they meet me?

Be brutally honest.

So I learned that there there was a bunch of questions.

When I walked up to you, the first thing you do is your personal space is being imposed upon.

People don't like that.

You're not the waiter or waitress.

Who are you?

So who is this person?

Then they see you're doing something.

Like, what is he about to do?

Oh my God, he's doing magic.

Is he any good?

Do they know he's doing this or is he just like walking around?

Oh my God, do I have to tip him?

Do I have any cash?

Like all these thoughts race.

Is he going to stay?

Is he going to leave soon?

Oh my God.

Like all these thoughts race into your mind.

instantly.

So I started learning I need to take all of those moments of resistance, all of those things they're thinking, and I have to attack them quickly and answer them in the shortest amount of time possible and hopefully flip the dynamic.

Now, what do I mean by the dynamic?

I want instead of me to be selling them,

I want them to be selling me.

I want to completely switch it where they want me more than I want them.

So I learned that if I walked up to you head on, it's very intimidating.

You walk up to somebody at a party like this, right in their face, it's intimidating.

But if I walk up to you at an angle, and this is from that world, and I say, hey, I'm one foot in, one foot out the door.

It's much less scary to someone.

And then I say, Hey, I've only got a minute right there.

I've only got a minute, so I'm not staying long.

That's a great way to do it.

I don't need you.

You need me.

I only got a minute, but did you hear it's your lucky night tonight?

No one ever says it's your lucky, like to, I don't want a lucky night.

They go, What's going on?

Yeah, yeah.

So you've, you've hit the dopamine, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding of what's going on tonight.

I'm interested.

I'm intrigued, right?

They're leaning forward, and I'd say, the owner brought me in as a special treat for you guys, and I have something incredible to show you.

There's been no question asked at any point in time.

There's been only indicators of fun, exciting things.

The owner brought me in as a treat.

So those few words instantly put you at ease.

Oh, I have the social currency.

This person brought me in as a special treat.

Treat.

You don't owe me money right now, which is a lot of people's awkward feeling of, oh, God.

And that's going to weigh on you.

That weighs on you the whole time.

If you're sitting there watching and you don't have money and you're like, you have tip money, you have tip, oh, God.

Right.

That's like, it ruins the experience.

So those exact things that I thought through made it so that within five to 10 seconds of you meeting me at a restaurant, you are at ease.

And now I can win you over.

Now, that still means I better deliver the goods at that moment, but see yourself at a party or at an event.

You're going to go up to somebody who you've been wanting to meet.

This person is potentially

is going to get you a job or might recommend you to someone else, or maybe you're trying to get into some tennis club.

I don't know.

And you got, at the end of the day, you meet people for certain reasons.

And I'm not not calling it transactional, but the more people like you, the more they'll want to help you.

That's the rule of life.

Am I right?

Nobody likes assholes.

I don't want to do something for you if you're a jerk to me.

So know what makes them tick and try to be interested in them.

I can tell you something from my own personal life that you can apply, which is I've been on all different TV networks.

I do stuff constantly for ESPN and football teams.

Not a lot of people do that.

For CNBC and Fox Business, which are financial networks that typically do not have human interests.

They don't have mentalists or magicians.

I'm on 60 Minutes this season.

The last time they had a mentalist on was 20 years ago.

There's only been one other one.

Why do they have me on?

Because what I do is I hold up a mirror on someone else and I make them shine.

So when I go on CNBC, I've been on dozens of times because I do stuff about the markets, interest rates, stocks, bonds, things that people watching are interested in.

So the more you can make it about the other person, that can be your superpower.

Be interested in them, learn about them and inherently that makes you more interesting and then this is great information i think it's like it applies like to life so for the guy who is like watching the pickup artist yep but wants to apply this to like maybe doing something like that without that type of charade it seems like go up to somebody like you just you got to go for it right maybe don't approach head on because that could be like a lot like you're saying and then don't ask yes or no which i think is a that's a great piece of advice right because absolutely shut it down so quick like something that you have to expand upon more and then the next thing seems to be try to make the conversation about the person like absolutely if you can do your homework if you know anything about this person if it's fully fresh then that's a different thing we have to do a little ad lib and that's our exercise right that's our muscle that we've done comedians mental people that do crowd work for others they're not comfortable but if you can do your homework do your homework and let's say you read something or in tom's case i've just watched a bunch of his content so it's not something i have to fake i enjoy what he does so if you walk in there showing interest and saying oh my god i you know i saw that you guys put out this new product i love this feature what made you choose that i'm so curious wow now you've shown that i care about you i've taken the time which nowadays nobody does yeah and then you're asking them something that might be of interest to them and then listen yeah the number one thing people don't do they don't listen right they just say and that's your superpower i think that that's a whole chapter in the book.

Yeah.

It's just what people give me and they don't realize they're giving me active listening.

This is something I see all the time in conversations.

We meet people, obviously, everywhere.

You're on the road, you're traveling.

You talk to people and you realize as you're talking to them, you're like, this person's not listening to anything else.

Zero.

They're just waiting to talk.

They're waiting for their turn and thinking the wheels are turning because your brain can't read and write at the same time.

It's very difficult.

It's kind of like that trick where if you're rubbing this and rubbing this, if you're done with your leg, your leg goes the other way.

It's your autonomic system.

You cannot control.

Have you ever tested this?

If you start patting your head and rubbing your stomach and trolling your leg, do the opposite.

Your leg will switch directions from clockwise to counterclockwise.

Interesting.

The gummies just hit right now.

Shit.

I mean, if practice is.

I mean, I hate to like.

Try it later in the bedroom.

No, no.

Stay there.

No, no, I don't want that rag disease.

Does that lipstick come off when it's used appropriately?

Oh, I'm going to throw up.

I saw the guy with no neck, and he says he likes likes that lipstick a lot.

I'm working my neck.

I'm working my neck.

So that's honestly one of the chapters in the book is watching people.

And I've had the good fortune of meeting some of my heroes, just one of the amazing things and met some of the most successful, influential, like call it rich, whatever you want.

I met Steven Spielberg.

I did his dad's birthday party when he turned 99.

Oh, no.

I get in that room.

Now I'm going in there to kill it.

Right.

First and foremost is I want to put my best foot forward, but I'm also, for the month before I got booked, thinking, what am I going to ask Steven Spielberg?

Right.

I don't know how much FaceTime I'll get, but I'm loaded up.

I'm loaded.

Jaws question.

Close encounters, third kind, E.T.

questions.

Maybe a Schindler's list, but that's going to bring the mood down.

But I've just got some questions.

That's kind of a bummer.

A little bit.

Hey, nice to meet you.

So when the Jews were delivering Holocaust.

Yeah.

So I was geared up to be a little bit of a fan.

Like, what can I tell you?

That's like my childhood.

I'm from the 80s.

At the end of the show, I didn't expect, you know, Stephen's with his family.

It's like intimate affair.

He comes up to me, B lines for me, and I'm like, hey, you know, play, cool, what's up?

What's your name?

Oh, yeah, Steven.

Stephen, yeah, I heard you.

No.

So I go, Stephen, and he just starts bombarding me with questions.

Like, boom, boom, all these questions.

And we all know the questions we get.

I call them the 20 questions.

The questions everyone asks us.

You start.

How did you get into this?

Now, I'm not judging you because that's an FAQ for a reason.

Yes.

But you also go into autopilot when you hear those because you've answered those questions a thousand times before.

I don't fault the people.

If you're sitting next to me on a plane, you find I'm a mentalist, WTF.

Also, I'm going to lie to you because I don't want to read your mind for the next three hours.

So he asked me questions nobody asks.

And he wouldn't, he was naturally curious.

And this is somebody who could have flexed a million times over, right?

And he could have been like, look what I've done.

Look, he, at the end of it, this is a chapter in my book.

I talked to him for 20 minutes.

I was like, at some point, I'm like, dude, do you need to go, Steven?

He's like, no, no, I'm locked in.

I asked him zero questions.

I wanted to exchange those digits.

I'm like, like, can I text you later, bro?

I got nothing in.

And that's when I realized it was a life lesson.

That's why he's Steven Spielberg,

because he is a naturally curious person.

And I don't think he just does that to me.

He does that to everyone.

And his superpower is absorbing those stories from others.

And that's why his films.

are so incredibly authentic because he makes real characters and he finds out what makes you tick and what's interesting about you and he probably takes it and silos it for some other time later but it was like this masterclass where in the moment I was pissed, but over time I'm like, that's what this guy does.

And also knowing that that moment I will talk about for the rest of my life, most people he meets will mention this forever.

Can I ask you what was one of the unusual questions that he asked you?

You know what I mean when you said that it's not like your standard questions.

Absolutely.

So like things that just were when you were doing this 10 years ago.

Did you see yourself being where you are now?

And it's like one of those, those types of questions that are introspective.

Yeah, yeah.

That make you think of who you were before and where you've gotten to now but it wasn't based on success or money like what you know this is it was more of just like are you doing the things you thought you would do i'm like no i'm trying to do new things and he goes why is that exciting to you like just they were very well-formed and thought out questions that made me question my own motives and what I was doing.

And when people can do that for you,

it's a blessing.

It's a gift.

When someone comes up to you and cuts through all your BS and goes through all your external layers and gets in the middle and starts to figure out who you really are and like they ask you something that you were like, never thought about that.

And it stays with you.

You remember that person.

Yes.

You want to be that person.

Yes.

That's really great.

I would argue that a lot of people don't know how to answer those questions.

I guess, but that's, I don't think that that's a bad thing.

So for me, I believe that being memorable is the most important thing I do in my career.

And I mean, it's not fooling you.

Like when I do a show, like I'm here, I have a show tomorrow.

I don't.

I don't know, 800 people tomorrow, corporate event.

I have another one the same day, back to back.

And I have another one asked in the next day, going to be crazy.

And that one's going to be very high profile.

Pretty much the CEO of every top 50 companies in the world.

You name the name, they are there.

So it's going to be big pressure.

But in that room, I don't care if I don't fool you.

Some things you hopefully come up with because that means you're engaged.

Entertaining you is a byproduct.

Because a popcorn movie you eat and leave and forget about is entertaining.

Doesn't mean you remember it.

I want to be remembered.

I want you to tell this story the way Ryan will in three years, five years, 10 years, and be like, man, I saw this mental.

You go, oh my God, let me tell you what I saw on your mom's house.

Forget the thought of

that's your goal for every show.

That's my goal in life.

In life.

So then, like, will you approach the two-show day and the aspen?

I'm kind of pissed off.

Yeah,

okay.

The same way.

I knew she was thinking number one for the record.

I knew.

Yeah.

Will you approach those shows the same way?

Like, just I'm going to do my, but like, or do you know what I'm doing?

One of them is a little more high profile, so I'm thinking of what I can do in the room that would be like a crazy challenge.

Yeah.

Where with a room of people that are such alpha, like apex predators within the apex predators of this planet,

they have to call the shots.

And they call the shots.

So rather than me asking my, I see stand up, I go, let's get somebody in here.

I don't want to say the names yet because I don't want to, it's off the record, but just think of

the most famous CEO.

And what if they stood up and said, I want to ask you a question you couldn't know?

And I go, let's go.

And then we would start to dissect every way it's possible where it's like, okay, well, have you looked this up?

Well, no, don't write it down because maybe that's a trick pen.

Or, you know, don't get out your phone because maybe your, your phone is hacked.

Maybe every like every possible way you could do it, I want to get rid of until we get to the moment where I just guess it and they're blown away.

And I then start telling them the story that they're going to tell others.

And that's very important.

That's the chapter in the book, which is memory is malleable.

And that's why, as a good comedian, your opener and your closer are the most important part of your, parts of your set, I would argue, because your closer is the way you leave them feeling.

Yes.

You could have the best set ever.

If your closer's a dud,

we just went off.

I'm like such a, oh.

And you could have a mediocre set and have a monster closer and everyone's like, and everyone, that's all they remember.

And the opener sets the tone for the set.

Even though sometimes you walk in and I've seen drop-ins where I'm at the seller and some monster comes in, you know, Rock is in there, Dave Chappelle, somebody you weren't expecting.

And then the person who follows them, you're still riding that high.

And they've got to have the right thing that diffuses the tension to bring you back to them.

And I've seen it.

I'm going to shout out Mike Vecchion,

who I love.

And I know Super.

And Mike one time, he was on after Seinfeld and Seinfeld crushed it.

And Mike got up and I kid you not,

absolutely destroyed Seinfeld that night.

And that's not a testament because I love Seinfeld.

They're both like, you know, on my Mount Rushmore.

And I've seen Mike for 20 plus years because I'm a comedy fan.

And I used to go to the cellar like once or twice a week, but he just brought it back so strong.

And the self-deprecating and the way he played off like well it was not side and just just you didn't expect it and when you don't expect and it just goes through the roof destroy that room yeah because i mean that's like a seasoned like experience pro of course of course this is an open micer of course but i'm saying to to come in there where you don't know how it's gonna go that that's the skill that's yeah well the the observation you made that i immediately go like oh this is like this speaks to like intelligence and experience is I like the fact that you lead with that you know these guys are used to calling the shots.

Yep.

This is the same thing that you don't have to be the type of person that's going to perform for them that if you make that observation, you also know what to kind of expect in engaging these guys.

In other words, if you were just walking in the room invited to have a drink.

Going on D and D here.

I don't know who keeps calling us.

What's going on here?

Bam.

Bam.

Done.

If you were just going there to socialize, it's also important to note these are the types of guys you're going to be be talking to, and this is the type of personality, like this is what they're used to.

Absolutely.

Because then you can gauge how you will entertain them or

meet them because that's an important detail about them.

I will up the ante.

So if somebody's seen it all before, we need to show them something they haven't seen before.

And that's, again, I don't want to keep like referencing the book, but if you're going to do something,

You need to set the goal of doing something either different than everybody else, better than everybody else, or both.

You need to set yourself apart in this world.

And lucky for us, we can all do it because we all have phones.

Almost everybody listening to this has a phone, and your phone is your platform where 20 years ago, good luck getting the message out.

Now, there's no excuse.

You want to learn to do something?

YouTube.

You can literally learn anything in the palm of your hand.

That easy.

You want to be a mentalist?

I learned.

I didn't get bit by like a spider and become Spider-Man.

This has been 30 years of training and practice.

Really training.

You got to commit yourself.

Do I get to keep that book?

Why not?

Full transparency, fake book.

They didn't print it yet.

So it's just the cover.

Can I keep that one?

No, because I need it for more press.

No, I know, I know.

Well, I'll order one.

I'll do that.

I'm going to sign one for both of you.

Okay.

All right.

And then the cover.

This is my boy right here, David Goggins.

Oh, yeah.

Learn to master the most powerful weapon, your mind.

Zoom in on that.

That is the quote I want you to know because that is it.

And on the back, we got Mark Cuban.

We got Jay Shetty, Katie Kirk, and Adam Grant.

All genius level people that I don't deserve to have in my book.

That's awesome, dude.

All really good folks.

Congratulations.

I've enjoyed it.

I'm looking forward to reading this.

Or audiobook it if you're too ADD like me and you're on the go.

Can we do something with Christina?

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Hold on.

Can you guess something in another language?

Ooh.

Have you ever done that before?

I have.

I have.

How many languages do you speak?

I don't really very well, but Hungarian.

So I tasked you upon arrival with, I said to you, because we met right before it, I said, what could we ask?

What could be a challenging question that we could ask your husband?

Oh, right, right, right.

And I said, but good, you don't remember because I think it was, it was perkling in your mind.

And I said, come up with a couple questions that we could ask him that

you don't think he'll know the answer to.

If you were to ask the question out loud right now, which is, you know,

if you asked the question, could I know the answer just from you asking the question?

Because some of you go, well, what's my favorite flavor of ice cream?

Like, if you said that, then I could maybe ascertain.

Just by you asking the question, is there any way I could know the answer?

No.

Okay.

Okay.

I said a couple of questions and I couple to me always means two, but some people interpret that elsewhere.

But you nodded.

So it's two questions.

The first question,

ask me the first question that came to mind.

Say it out loud.

Don't say the answer, but ask him that question.

Say it out loud.

What's the question?

Best burper I've ever heard.

Okay, don't say, do you think you know who that is?

I do think I know who that is.

Please, don't do it.

Did you have another question?

Yeah.

Nice.

In the chamber.

Second question.

First babysitter in America.

Ooh, he's struggling.

Don't say, do you know that person?

She's saying who is the baby.

She's giving two different questions.

Unless your babysitter was the best burper.

In which case, multi-talented.

Hope you held on to that person.

But you're saying who was your first babysitter

when you were a child.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Do you know that?

I don't know who that is.

Oh.

You don't even know it.

No.

Okay, okay, okay.

Maybe she's mentioned it before, but I don't recall.

Do you have a pen and paper?

Yeah.

Okay.

Do you know that babysitter's first and last name?

Not the last name.

Okay, so first name only.

The burper.

Do you know first and last name?

Of course.

But you know the first and last name.

Well, here's the thing.

Can I comment?

Don't give away the answer.

I'm not going to comment.

So I think when it comes to the best burper,

there is one from our personal life, and then there is one that is notable,

like more famous.

Oh, there's, it's the, it's the, can I tell him, can I give him a question?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, is it the notable social famous person or is it the one that we've interacted with on a personal level?

Neither.

Oh, damn.

Wait a minute.

Then I scale this one.

I mean, that's

the best.

What she's doing is she's throwing fucking curveballs.

Do you have a pen?

I want your pen, your paper, nothing of mine.

And I want you to write down the initials of the burper.

It can't be in front of me.

Hold on, Tom.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Will you cover my eyes?

Don't do it yet.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Cover my eyes.

I hate you.

Can you reach over?

Wait, I'm covered.

I'm looking away.

Is there any mirrors or any way I can see them?

Just their first and last initial.

Did you do it?

Let me see it.

Yes.

You're showing time?

Don't show a camera.

Don't show a camera.

I already saw it.

I already saw it.

You can put it down now.

Put it down this way.

Okay.

Okay.

All right, initials.

Initials, initials.

I hate that.

My wife says that to me very frequently.

I'm like sweating.

Why do you hate it?

I just like, it's witchcraft.

Now I feel like I'm a black person.

I don't think

it's like now I'm getting it, any.

It's like.

Getting me canceled.

All right.

Think of the first initial.

Yes.

And I want you to say the alphabet like as if you were doing a sobriety check.

You just got pulled over and they say, say the alphabet forwards.

Go.

You could do it as a sing song, but say the alphabet, go.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.

Pacing was good.

The pacing was good.

It was, it was,

there was,

there was a momentary lapse.

Then there was the eye open at a certain point.

Oh, wow.

I think you try to throw me a false, like, you try to throw, you try to chum the water.

And I think maybe it's 25% that I think the letter, but I think you did a fake one.

The first initial is not a T, is it?

No.

See, that's where you try to fake me.

That's where you try to fake me.

Now,

think of the last initial.

Yeah.

And now do the alphabet

backwards.

Can you do it?

No, I can't do that.

C-Y-X-W-V-U-S-R-T-P-O-N-M-L-K-G-H-G-F-E-C-D A.

Do I teach that in the book?

You learn how to do it in five minutes.

You can do it for the rest of your life.

Really?

I swear to God.

I can't do it backwards.

Just do it forward again, but go faster.

Lightning faster.

All right, ready, ready?

Go.

ABCDA, FDA, TDA, B, Q, R, S, T, B, B W, X, Y, Z.

Okay, second letter is an S, isn't it?

Fucking.

I got you dialed in.

Second letter was an S.

Definitely an S on that one.

Because she tried to do the T, she threw me off, and this time I got it.

First one's like weird.

It's like weird.

Where did you do it?

It was, it was right on the JK where you tried, but you did on the J to throw me off.

Is the K.

Is it a K?

Did you write KS on that paper?

I hate you so much.

Can you show them?

Can you show that?

KS.

KS is what she wrote down.

I fucking hate you.

I hate you.

And now the person you thought of, the person you thought of, first babysitter growing up, and you were like, can you do this in a different language?

Now I think it's not an American name.

Now I think this is an American name.

Now I think it's something weird.

In Hungarian, there might not even be vowels.

It's just like Polish.

It's just Z's,

Z's and C's and S's.

The name is Z S C S W S.

Yeah.

Good.

That's what it sounds like.

All right.

Think of her name.

Pick any letter in her first name.

Go fast.

Pick any letter.

Pick a letter in her first name in your head.

Think of an interesting letter.

Give me a correct.

Don't say, got it, got it, got it, got it.

Yeah.

You did, you didn't, you did a vowel.

He did a vowel.

You didn't do a vowel, did you?

I did.

You again,

again?

So boring.

Change.

Do a different letter.

Okay.

You did one?

Yeah.

Change again.

No.

She's like, I ran out of letters.

I'm too short of a name.

Jay, I have another one.

Go back.

J.

Thought of a J.

how the fuck and i think she had like heavy makeup how spells it with a but it sounds like it's with an i nadja

wow you are turning black this is fantastic how the

how the bro she's armenian nadja my first fucking babysitter i'm like shaking that how the dude Nadja, Armenian,

bro.

That's wild, bro.

Okay.

I just recognized something, too.

What?

I'm not saying it.

We'll just hold on.

Tom just got very excited.

Jay, how did you fucking go?

I just fucking...

Hold on, dude.

Just keep going.

God damn it.

I'm so upset now.

Do we have time for one more?

Are we going to do mine?

Two more?

Are we going to do the other one we did?

No,

I got to queue up the crew over here.

Any, have we had any interaction?

No.

Have I asked you to think of a thing before this moment no you said think of nothing nothing not he walked up to me and he did this he's like get out of my head i was like i was like i don't want to do anything i don't want to even plant thoughts in advance but did i already plant a thought in his mind of course you

already of course you

already so you're you're over there

here's what i want to try can we get any to come in the room yeah i guess that's that all right

is that impossible come on any get in the room i need to lay eyes on him have a seat for me wherever you're comfortable he needs a mic he needs a mic well it's okay we can should we do a duet here yeah yeah you can take the fart mic oh take the fart mic yeah there you go oh great

oh

any

think of someone famous

it could be somebody dead or alive dead or alive past or present some people do movie stars some people do athletes singers politicians historical figures right?

Comedians

take a moment, and I want you to see all different people's faces going through your head.

And I want you to change your mind a bunch of times.

So later on, when you rethink this through, you'll be like,

I didn't even go with my first thought.

Change your mind as many times as you feel like.

And when you feel like you're good, snap your fingers, say, I'm good.

I hate this, man.

I hate this.

There's no, there's no fucking way, dude.

There's no way.

Fingers snapped.

Are you locked in on someone?

Are you locked in?

Yeah.

There's no way.

This is impossible.

I ask you to think of literally anybody that's ever lived, dead or alive.

How many people went through your head before you ended up on this person?

Three.

Three.

You went this one to this one to this one.

All guys.

Am I right?

There was never a female in there.

Female?

You would have seen him scratch the beard.

And finally, where do we end up?

This flannel.

Repping a little bit of 90s grunge, it was Kurt Cobain, wasn't it?

Shut the front door!

Fuck that, man.

That's fucking crazy, dude.

Yo, you're the devil, dog.

What the?

Yo, man.

Yeah, you say that.

That's crazy, man.

I don't want to sit here.

That's uncomfortable, man.

Why?

Why can you do that?

Yeah.

Why did you do that?

Okay, who's the other...

that's it for me man i can't top that i leave you wanting more that's that's showbiz unbelievable wow so wait was kurt

his one that he that that's his last minute that's his last second change that's the was kurt his uh consideration before not his final answer or was kurt his final final answer wait can we get one last person any i'm swapping you in because he is his mind hurts right now his brain hurts yeah that's bullshit

let's put some money on this let's get some skin in the game tom okay

do you have you have

wallet, money clip?

What do you got?

Yeah, money clip.

Let's get, grab out your money clip.

Okay.

And in tandem, who's left in there?

You pick somebody.

Who we got?

Zolo.

Call him in here.

Let's get him in here.

Zolo, get in here.

He's been itching.

Okay.

Come on in.

Take out your money clip.

Okay.

And do me a favor.

Once you get in, come on in.

Grab the fart mic.

Thank you for joining us.

Is it okay if I can see what you're doing?

I want to have a little vision of this.

Yeah, sure, sure.

So take out some of the bills.

Okay.

And I want you to leaf through them

in front of us.

Can we see?

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Hold on.

Tommy S rolling deep.

Okay.

Okay.

And grab out a bill.

Okay.

Go for it.

Any bill?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

And you grabbed any bill.

Perfect.

Put the rest of them away.

Okay.

And I want you to fold the bill in half.

Okay.

And then crush it in your hand.

Like like a real man yeah crush into a ball tight tight tight tight tight tight okay

you got it yeah and freeze right there okay imagine that when you walked in this room

someone from your life someone you care about i don't know whether this is family member friend personal other walks in the room right after you can you picture as if that person walks in the room right now Yeah.

And rather than me ask everyone in the room a question, what if you asked me, I say to you, give me a question about that person that i couldn't possibly know right a question not about you because i might have researched you but how in the world could i know something about somebody else that you just picked at random ask me about this person what's what what's a question about them what's their date of birth what's their date of birth that'd be nuts right yeah that would be nuts yes if i could do that bam

That wins the bet.

Watch, think of this person.

Okay.

Turn and look at them as if they're here.

Look at the smile.

Look at the light pupil dilation.

This is a female.

This is a female.

This is a female.

Hell yeah.

It's a female.

Yeah, I can feel that.

I can feel that vibe.

I like to do this.

Mix up all the letters in the name.

Okay.

And I always say pick one out.

And I kind of watch him and I see him go back and forth.

And everyone's been thinking of vowels today.

Yeah.

So did Josh do the same thing as you guys?

And I thought maybe he did.

You didn't do the first letter, did you?

No.

You thought that would give it away.

And then you pursed your lips.

Watch what you did.

Hmm.

Maybe the name starts with an M.

No, it doesn't.

It sounds like M.

Emma?

Emily.

Is her name Emily?

Mm-hmm.

Shut the fuck.

Are you for real?

Yeah.

You just thought of Emily.

I did.

Watch this.

Her date of birth.

You ready?

Yeah.

I just won the bet.

Do you believe me?

I actually do.

Could you have thought of anybody?

Literally, you could have picked anybody.

This is anybody in your family, in your life.

Sure.

Yeah.

And then the question was random as well.

You know Emily's date of birth?

I do.

Tell it to us, please.

May 30th, 1998.

So one more time, if I could just say that, May 30th, could you say that for me again?

May 30th, 1998.

I would call that 0530, 1998.

Would you agree?

Mm-hmm.

He could have thought of anybody.

He could have thought of

any question.

I've got your mother.

He's not going to do that.

Open up the bill.

What bill did you have in your hand?

Tell us all.

You took out, what was it?

A $1 bill?

It's a $1 bill.

Open it up that came out of your wallet.

can you read us because the government stamps every bill with a serial number can you read us the digits two at a time of your bill please how the fuck dude go ahead

you're fucking

zero five three zero one nine nine eight

Show the camera.

I fucking hate this.

Can we zoom in on that?

I don't know if we can zoom in on it.

Holy, and just so you guys know.

Tom did not, you've not, you did not touch Tom's wallet before.

You've had no contact with Tom's.

Okay, but let me, I know you're not going to tell us how to do it.

I might have literally cupped a buttock when we hugged earlier, but is that weird?

I mean, he's a handsome man.

Can I ask you this, though?

I know I'm not going to, but this is high level, right?

High level.

Like, this is like, this took, how long does it take you to be able to pull off what you just did?

I thought of it a week ago.

Stop.

Yeah.

I think of stuff while I'm running.

I run like marathons, ultra-marathons, my side hustle, so I thought of something fun.

I've never done that before.

He's going to be shook up.

He's like, I was about to pick my aunt, too.

He's like, what the hell would you have done if you had picked my aunt?

What the fuck?

It's literally, yeah.

E05301998D.

Do what?

How the

fuck, did you?

This is why I don't fuck with small bills.

Keep the money.

It's a tip.

Yeah, that's yours.

Get out of here.

i hate you so you kicked me out of your mom's house jesus christ dude get out of here

did you do you

i don't remember the other question you asked me yeah i always leave things hanging i never know

hanger but you're gonna marinate on that oh yeah you can figure that out you can oh yeah what

he asked me

if in my amateur sports days, like as a kid, if I ever had a friend who I played with that had a weird name, and I was like, Yeah.

And then he's like, All right.

And that was it.

That was it.

Maybe I asked you that to throw you off the scent of other things.

You never know what I'm doing.

That's right.

Yeah, sure.

Decoys.

It was, dude.

It was all fascinating.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for coming in.

Thank you guys.

Thank you.

Again, for everybody.

Yeah, absolutely.

Pick this bad boy up.

I honestly, this was

just

a lot of years of work and finally me coming to terms with the fact that I have a lot to share.

And people have been asking me for so many years, how do you do it?

How do you do it?

And I want to teach you real part of how I do it, the part that you can apply to your life.

Yes.

And that's it because I want to know it's not tricks.

It's called Proven Habits for Success from the World's Greatest Mentalist.

And that's what this book is all about.

It's in the self-help motivational space where I want to get you fired up.

I want to get you earning more, finding the love of your life, doing things that will actually improve your life using the skills of a mentalist and learning how to think like a mentalist.

I'm going to read this.

I'm very excited for you.

Me too.

And there's good stories in there.

Also, it's kind of funny because in like some types of like shows, let's call it like a show, you leave and you go, it's fucking great.

I leave this going,

I don't know what's going on in my life, and I don't know if the laws of the universe apply here.

That is fucking crazy, man.

I know.

And like, you know what?

Your goal of being memorable, you know, also maybe the end of this production company

kind of entered.

Everyone might be, oh, I don't want to come back in here anymore.

So thanks for that.

They don't want to work for you anymore after this.

This is very similar to what Rogan said to me, where Joe goes, you shattered my worldview, and I don't even know what to do with myself right now.

Yeah, that's a good way of summarizing it.

So, you got his pin code, I did you so mad.

I know.

Then, off Aries, like, How did you do that?

and I was like, I can't tell you, Joe.

He's like, I'm gonna rear naked choke you to death.

And I'm like, I'm gonna leave right now, Joe.

I'm going over to Tom's place.

Yes, well, that was that was fantastic.

That was awesome!

Thank you, thank you so much for starting.

Thanks for having me, guys, and we'll see you guys next week.

Bye.

Alright, here we go, Jeans.

Oh shit.

No, this is not nothing to do with you, I promise.

Yeah, right.

I promise.

It's a surprise.

It's it's it's a surprise.

It's

it's a surprise.

It's it's it's it's it's a surprise.

Wet nutsack.

This is no shit.

Wet nutsack.

It's it's it's it's it's a surprise.

Wet nutsack.

This is no shit.

Wet nutsack.

It's a surprise.

It's just coming.

Wet nutsack.

It's coming.

It's coming, you know?

I know.

It's just coming.

Wet nutsack.

It's coming.

It's coming.

It's a surprise.

You did it, and we both went.

It is incredible.

Wet nutsack.

It's a surprise.

Again, again, I want more.

Is there more?

Wet nutsack.

I think it was towards the end of lunch.

Especially when you do it in front of your mom.

Your mom?

Your mom?

Your mom?

Your mom?

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