Mentalist Oz Pearlman Blows Our Minds | Your Mom's House Ep. 833
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Tom Segura and Christina P. welcome world-renowned mentalist Oz Pearlman to Your Mom’s House! Oz stuns the crew with mind-blowing mental tricks, wild psychological insights, and a peek behind the curtain of how he reads people. From guessing Tom’s childhood crush to revealing impossible inside jokes, Oz leaves everyone speechless. Plus, Tom and Christina talk Killarney drunks, pickup artist “Mystery,” and the weirdest viral videos on the internet.
Your Mom’s House Ep. 833
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Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:04 - Opening Clip: Master Of Redneck Accents
00:10:07 - Sham From Killarney
00:17:39 - Clip: No Neck
00:20:16 - Clip: Coochie Confrontation
00:23:03 - Mystery Is Back
00:35:32 - Oz Pearlman Is Here To Blow Our Minds
00:41:07 - Show N Tell
00:46:35 - Ryan Gets Got
00:54:18 - How'd You Get A Job Here?
01:03:16 - Entertaining Steven Spielberg & Other Heroes
01:12:42 - Christine's Turn
01:19:29 - Enny Hates This
01:22:38 - Birthday Money Trick
01:27:07 - Wrap Up
01:29:23 - Closing Song - "It's A Surprise" by DJ Wet Nut Sack
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texas listen up i've got some live shows coming up november 1st in amarillo at the amarillo civic
center complex then november 2nd in lubbock at buddy holly hall and el paso at the abraham
chavez theater on november 6th get your tickets at tom's girl.com slash tour
welcome welcome to your mom's house
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welcome to your mom's house very excited for today's episode got some real pizzazz coming in
here today yeah it's gonna 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 you know what i mean so they don't this kind
and the other kind they don't
go well together no historically oil and water yeah black people and and magic tricks don't go
well together but it's always fun because you always know you're gonna get a 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
so let me mute the voice of god real quick uh speak for myself um yeah you know it's the devil
it's the devil it's satan there you go he's behind everything fun it's because the real magic you
know we got the voodoo and the hoodoo like we'd 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's just real yeah that should really be yeah it's not easy yep yeah magic is not
mentalism it's not easy yeah isn't that you just you a professional liar like well wait wait hold
on but so is acting hmm actors are professional liars do you hate all actings i don't know if
that's a lie they're lying they're professional liars they're pretending yeah you're pretending
but it's like the the goal isn't to trick you though yes it is and to evoke feelings
you
tom's a professional they manipulate you it's manipulation yeah i don't think so because then
you're saying that musicians are fucking liars too because they just be you know they'd be
manipulating you to be feeling things but i don't mentalists and magicians specifically
they they just say yeah it's like okay if i take a wallet out your pocket it's it's theft i go to
jail if you do it's magic nigga fuck you like yeah wow cheating ass thieving ass
he's not
he's not gonna like today's episode at all man no man let me tell you my pockets are empty all right
ain't nothing to take yep they're going they're going in there with it man we're gonna keep the
motherfuckers out yeah
i cannot wait oh me too now hell no yeah are you gonna do all that any are you gonna are you gonna
oh hell no i mean it depends we'll see what the fuck we'll see what lines he crosses we'll see
yeah boy that's the longest one ever
man
but any doesn't any do you talk during movies
well 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 with a toothpick in like
that's a black thing that's an old black guy that i mean i do be liking toothpicks i don't know
why are you going in there right now why are you going in there bernie mack was doing that why is
tony john crooked
why is tony john crooked
is that a deliberate choice satan did satan do that yep you see yeah this is what happens you play with
jesus yep all right it's 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 gonna be a lot of fun today
hold on now hold your horses here we go here you go
i'll pull up around here i'll catch y'all i will get y'all there
it ain't nothing man
who is right don't bring anyone loving to this wow
yo mom where the fuck is dad welcome welcome to your mom's house with tom segura mom
and christina
you had shit
you had shit
you had shit
welcome to your mom's house
look at these tits
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you're looking good today
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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 and he's yeah but he's like he's survived yeah 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 well maybe
we have it here let's see oh the comments believe this is either tennessee or oklahoma
deep um
we
have a translation no most liked and agreed upon this translation you want to hear it again
yeah all right here this is what we got
okay don't pull around here and go and get your ass whooped it ain't nothing for me to whoop a man
it ain't nothing he's joking though right yeah he's joking he's friends yeah yeah and then the
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 i heard something else 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 uh 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 all that shit you know i'm like oh okay
he's that so then the guy says you got y'all gonna we're going fishing and he goes we're going
fishing and then he says something at the end they're like we got you got
got a boat yeah oh is it was it you got a boat y'all got a boat oh apparently he said oh you got
a pole oh yeah and then the guy goes we got four or five of them that makes sense
yeah you got pulled 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's harder to understand
this guy
you got a boat y'all got a boat oh apparently he said oh you got a pole oh you got a pole
or the calarney drunk calarney calarney right calarney to us to our ears yeah i think maybe
an irish person would would choose this is this is fucking bananas though this guy this is our
calarney guy yeah he is he's the calarney of the south he's probably like 30 years younger than
calarney guy too i feel like calarney guy is like 90 here it is okay okay yeah
yeah okay yeah okay yeah
i don't know though 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 hillbilly guy hold on so you can go back to back
here
i'm back
okay
okay
you have a podcast with both of them
you got a vision
you got a pope
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 clarny guy oh 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 decades probably beer too like yeah of course it is
just so maybe irish whiskey too but lots of beer yeah here this guy's here in clarny 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 how are you we're here in clarny today nice to meet you are you from
clarny
you're welcome
what do you think makes it a great talent
yeah lots of tourists around
it's great isn't it great give your dog away
you get great give your dog away is that what he said great give your dog away
right give your dog away
okay this sweet little soul he's a sweet man
you
my dad is
if i sat next to this guy i would be like oh i don't speak lithuanian
so i don't sorry
god tell me if you think this is a good idea or not we're going to go with the jarvee
good idea
greg and noah
you're a farmer
trevor noah you're greg and noah
we're talking about south african comics
south african comedians i'm a big fan of south african comedy
and is this your regular spot we're in a connor's barrio
i watch jack jay's do a nice thing
look at his face
okay
i moved around
you moved around a lot
i mean i just sat down
i tell you this is my nightmare
somebody messaged also recently that they're like oh yeah he's alive
oh yeah
there was a report that he someone said he died and we were like yeah of course and then they're like no no he's not dead
we've been emailed people that have tagged him and they're like oh yeah he's alive and they're like yeah of course and then they're like no no he's not dead
we've been emailed people that have taken pilgrimage
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ireland yeah of course but i want to know how far is it from like dublin oh it's way out there yeah
where is color it's right next to the park oh boy fuck yeah that is nowhere oh there's dublin okay i
don't know if i'm going to go to dublin i don't know if i'm going to go to dublin i don't know if i'm going
to go to dublin i don't know if i'm going to go to dublin oh okay oh yeah so that's yeah that's a
good how long is that track though i can't really tell because so if you're going to ireland you go
to dublin and then you head on over to calarney 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
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just to visit and then we just go there and he's just like 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 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 just to slow that process down and to stay on top of it but i could see myself
just giving up oh giving up 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 okay like if you die tomorrow like i'm not i'm not remarrying
like this is gonna go to shit this is done i don't care yeah you know i'm gonna be honest i know this
is not very uh you know pc or whatever but i i maintain this like 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 obvi 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 calarney 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 no try to stay and then like the moment they leave
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yeah for sure yeah what's that a frying pan under his head what is that's a cast iron skillet
what an interesting background
it is interesting it almost makes me wonder if the cast iron's on the floor
but that also looks like insulation that is between uh sheetrock yes yes yes insulation
not to mention the very unique build that this man has well we were i wasn't gonna even 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 there's i have this thing called the iron neck where you put it like it's like a
halo yeah it goes around your head and then you can do like neck exercises
you know that's what he does that's how he has such a thick neck oh for sure yeah he's definitely
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so he just needs to tone down the neck work get back 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 meat would be more gravity on the face 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 yes for the cold you need it yeah yeah sound heat maybe 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's true this is why men need women we make things pretty yeah
they sure do us 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 pretty cool thing you were like what the hell
but why did you say that to me i am you in the store and i'm asking you for a
charge
and instead of asking me that but why would you ask me was my coochie wig oh but why did you say
that to me so now you didn't say it to me so you didn't say that so i will get you i will this man
i'm at walgreens and i spit water on myself uh-uh and your disrespectful ass excuse me sir your
disrespectful ass gonna ask me is my coochie wig and guarantee i will send this to corporate because
you're full of no i don't want no goddamn charge from you go find me another worker good day
go find me another worker with your disrespectful ass yep hey chris chris your co-worker asked me
was my coochie wig that's what y'all do at walgreens y'all ask women is they coochie wig
that's me apologize for asking me don't lie apologize for asking me
that's a good way to do it you took it the wrong way dumb bitch you ought to get your ass beat
yeah well you know you took it the wrong way in the beginning he was like i apologize before she
turned the camera he's like i apologize that is also a bold move like can i get a charger he'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 he was trying to like segue into it i see you water spilled speaking of wet
things did it drip down to your pussy yeah yeah
he's like is it just me like you're hanging out here at walgreens or walmart 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 ladies
sent 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 the cameras is that now like women can stand up
to these it's so nice because seriously you do get i mean you get people say
crazy things to you like all the time sure it's good you can actually record it and be like dude
what are you what are you doing to me what are you doing talking about my pussy right now are
you doing this especially because you you know that like when you 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 gonna be like i'm trying to fuck your pussy wet like no i want to
get my charger man and not only that like she is you're gonna be like i'm trying to fuck your pussy
you're gonna be like i'm trying to fuck your pussy i'm trying to fuck your pussy
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 like i was gonna say so mystery is back um if you
guys don't know years ago there was a reality show i think it was on vh1 of course it was on
vh1 had the golden they had a real good run and mystery was 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 yes 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
men have some flair flair so he would wear like a feather hat a feather boa or like goggles like
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 nagging that was huge right he would go up to the woman and then you
have to put them down so it's a very it's a 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
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close the deal so the thing is about him is that there was like he was a 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 oh eight oh nine long
time ago um
okay so we have a couple of oh my god here i missed him so much well i totally like like um
like 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 kind of stuff that he does just if you want to know more
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Two separate sets merging together.
Now, I got to say, that's not bad fucking math, man.
Well, so Mysteries 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 labrette piercing.
He's got some wacky little hair on his chin.
And it's fair to say, look, most socially adept people, I don't think they think this way, right?
No.
But he is 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, yeah, I like him.
I like him.
You're creating like a little almost game.
Of course, because you know it's the most attractive thing to a woman is when the guy
is already taken.
Guy's taken.
And when you see another woman eyeing this guy, right?
Like it's creating supply and demand.
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 your 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 you.
Yeah.
Here's another one of his.
A1, open.
A2, demonstrate higher value.
Neg to primer to want to qualify.
go. K3, 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? You think it's worthwhile at all?
I'm still stuck on A1 and A2 and then you move into C1.
This is 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. Play it again.
Play it again.
Because I have to hear the con. I was-
A1, open. Neg to prime her to want to qualify. A3, 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. I see what you're saying.
He wants to demonstrate that he is of a higher value, a higher caliber than anyone else in the
room.
And then you isolate her, right? You get her to sit down.
But she has to feel like she's won some great prize by talking to you.
Yeah.
That's the secret. And that's the negging bit. If you're like, I mean,
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 sucker or whatever it is.
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, 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 librette and the black nail polish. Let's say you're like
a wall street douchebag type, type stockbrokery 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 done it.
Yeah, sure.
You could do that.
Your whole aesthetic for how you do this can vary. You don't have to be with things like,
you know.
But as a, as a woman, who's not completely like, I, I wouldn't fall for this just because of the
aesthetic. I'd be like, this guy's a little 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, what, 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 over eager is such a pussy shrinker. It's such a dryer.
Yeah.
You're like, I don't.
Trying too hard.
Trying too hard. And you were always very aloof and mysterious, like Jackie Onassis.
Like mystery.
Yeah.
That's what, 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.
Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm sure it works. You know, if you look like that, you gotta have some sort of mentality.
You know, I don't know what a 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.
There'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, you know, listen, like, bitch, I'm doing my own shit.
Yeah.
Like, yeah, you can be here, you can not.
I don't care either way.
Yeah.
But here's the deal.
I got me, so.
But Annie, you have to be an attractive man.
You have to have that.
Yeah, I will.
And Tom is attractive. You're attractive. Like, we're all attractive.
Oh, thank you.
You gotta be cute to do that shit. But he's, yeah, like you say, though, he's for, like, boys who are a little less.
Yeah.
Fair.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
I guess, yeah. Why are you, I have to say, 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 bitches.
Yeah, but you understand, too, that the person, the guys that are really.
Mining up for this.
It's so true. Yeah, broken. My dad.
No, he's right.
My dad does the same shit to women. This is my dad.
But the guys that are, that are, like, sincerely following.
Sweetheart.
Well, they're guys that are not getting chicks.
Yeah.
So, 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, Tom.
Like, that's why this guy's like, hey, you know, learn these tactics. Maybe that'll give you confidence.
I know.
Ultimately, they're all kind of going for the same goal. It's 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.
Yeah.
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 what 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 cojones now to like, actually talk to me, you're probably like, oh my gosh, this guy is really something, you know?
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, there he is.
Yeah, 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.
Yes.
The Burning Man 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 guy's show.
It was the best.
It really is.
What's up, bitch?
Yeah.
All right, let's take a quick break.
Yeah, yeah.
And we'll be right back.
And we are back.
Where am I?
Am I at your mom's house?
You are at your mom's house.
Is this for real?
You're here.
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 I have absorbed it within my skin.
Really?
Which one?
He wants to save it.
Completely normal.
Oh, okay.
The hotels bit.
The hotels.
Because it hits home about, I don't get.
Do you travel a lot?
Just a lot.
Just like you, one-nighters.
Yes.
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.
Comedic genius, my friend.
No, 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?
Whatever pig trough you got back there.
But some of those.
Some of those animals will bypass the curtain.
Yes.
I've seen them.
And then they'll still slither up.
Fast track in.
Unbelievable.
It's wrong.
The fucking balls.
You know, I got to tell you, this is an 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 you.
Thank you, by the way, Tom.
You're very fit.
You're right.
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 air buses.
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.
I don't eat or drink on planes.
So maybe that's a thing that if you like to get, not really.
Why not drink?
Water even?
Yeah, I'll drink water, but I quit drinking alcohol last year.
Such, you know, life of the party would happen to me.
Bert did not like that when I told him that.
27F.
Look at that.
Look at the leg room.
You can fully lay down.
Wow.
And then you.
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.
The worst.
That light guilt trip.
The worst.
Where I'm like, oh, hard hit.
Let me out of here.
But hold on.
Here I have access to the bathroom.
Is this the emergency exit row though?
Emergency exit.
I'll save you, Christina P.
I'll save you, Tom, if shit goes down.
Yeah, I believe you.
I'm a good guy.
I really have a lot.
So I drink water and coffee all, you know, all day.
Yes.
All day.
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 why 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.
I'm assuming it's at all the places you can buy books.
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.
I wrote a book.
It was a lot more work.
A 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 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?
I was, 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 do magic.
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
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. How to supercharge your confidence, how to get rid of fear of
rejection.
That's great.
All these different, how to have a memory. Most people's memory, they don't realize your memory
can be your superpower. It's what I do all the time.
Clearly, your memory is like, I mean, just from having seen some of the things you've done,
obviously you have a great memory. And then I think part of the trick, if I may say so,
is that your question might seem like a, oh, this is just something, but you know where your
question is going to get you. You're in the information.
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. 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 see me.
I 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 math?
17 years.
Well played. Well played. Met her when she was nine years old. You're a bad boy, Tom.
You're a bad boy.
So sweet.
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 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 yearbook. I could
have done it. 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?
This is 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.
Open your eyes. 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.
Think of the first name. Count the letters to yourself. Just yourself.
Of 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. He did.
Yeah.
It felt like you did on one hand, but you jumped to the other hand. On the other hand,
you flexed both biceps.
I've been working out.
You've been working out. I can tell the water cleanse. I've been doing my homework. Which means it's six letters, isn't it?
It's six letters.
Yeah.
Hang man. Hang man. Six letters.
I hate this already.
Sorry, I made that one too small.
Why do you think that all black people react the way baking soda and vinegar do when an
illusion is-
It's cultural.
Yeah, but why?
I love it.
I know. It's the best.
I love it. There's different ethnicities.
There's different countries that do better.
Yeah.
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 understated, but still impressed.
And they're just like trying to solve it, basically.
Some people are. 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, you glanced, 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 knew it? He got you right just then?
No. What he did is he gave it away because of the same reaction. Close your eyes. Are
your eyes closed? No, no. Close your eyes. You can't see a monitor.
Okay.
Can I just turn this around? I don't know which camera to show to, but see, there 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.
Any?
What?
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.
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, in the law?
Maybe Angela, too.
Oh, that could have been.
And then that's not six.
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? Or, no.
No, because Angela.
Oh, too many letters.
It's too long.
Yes.
So, it's six, six spaces.
Is there another name that could have dropped in there? Like, would you have been like,
could it be one or?
Two names. Aunt Jemima. I thought you had a really good thing for syrup. That was a phase
you went through.
But if he hadn't gone first and then last, there's a, 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.
That was the worst thing I'm going to do. That was my opener, not my closer.
Wow.
Bam. Coming in hot.
Okay.
It's very impressive.
I'm sweating. I love it.
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? Wished me a Shana Tova.
Oh, happy Rosh Hashanah.
Thank you. Yeah. Like, not overly religious, but you know, it was very nice of him. Can
I, 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?
Yeah.
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?
Yes, he is.
So you 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. Lots of respect.
All right. Let's, let's walk through this, Ryan. We can see him in the booth and me.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
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.
So 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. Yeah. That name can't be Mitchell. Everyone's
struggles with the double Ls. 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 the 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, 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. It's true.
Not just all looks. There's brains up there.
Yeah, yes.
Ryan, pick any one of the four letters in the name. And just
imagine that you look down, you wrote it. Well, 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, have 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'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?
Ooh, I'll be damned.
Listen.
Wow.
Got me.
Like you said, man.
Got me good.
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'll 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.
Right?
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 Shana Tova.
I said Shana Tova.
Flexed a little bit on the Jew card.
And then you thought to yourself,
I've known this guy
and he had something to do.
Israeli named Omri.
Is his name Omri?
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, man?
Great decision.
You'll never have to make another decision in your life.
It's perfect.
Listen to me.
If you called Omri right now
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.
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 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 stage?
Did we, 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 it.
Second word, does it start with an I?
Oh my God.
No.
Okay, okay.
Can you see, can you see what I'm writing?
I don't wanna make sure in the control booth.
I don't know what the second word is.
I don't know.
Whatever.
I'm gonna go with this.
Close your eyes.
Gang, can you see what I wrote?
Yes.
You can see?
Oh, they can see real quick.
But I'm gonna 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, what's going on, buddy?
And you say to him, boom, three words.
What is this story?
What'd you say to him?
It's a music video.
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.
Come on, dude.
How the fuck?
What the fuck?
Dude.
How in the mind?
Wait, how, what?
You're a sorcerer?
Come on, man.
This is witchcraft.
Wait, what's the guiding principle to getting you there?
I don't understand at all.
This is crazy.
You gotta buy the book.
No, the book won't work.
The book won't teach you that one.
How the fuck did you do that?
Ryan will not sleep tonight, by the way.
How did you do this?
When he gets home, there will be paint on the beach under his pillow.
I'm gonna puke.
I'm like, I wanna puke right now.
It's so wild.
If you puke, this video will 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.
Yeah, how did you get that?
Like, that was fucking bananas.
That one is not good for my job security.
It's not?
Okay, all right, all right.
There's some secrets I retain.
Fuck.
That was really insane.
Thank you.
Yeah.
What do you, okay.
That's just so crazy.
He is gonna be all fucked up over this.
We're gonna have to get any at some point.
I think any.
Oh, no, we don't have to.
Who's the handsome gentleman with the pseudo-Jerry curl in the middle right there?
That is, uh.
That's Tyler.
No, no, Josh, sorry.
Josh.
Those are healthy curls, my friend.
Hey, thank you.
And a stash.
Jewish curls.
Yep.
Yeah.
Right now, I'm serious.
Ryan's probably like, is this what they do on Rush to Shopping?
The first one.
That's really crazy.
You dip apples in honey and Omri helps you.
I mean, the specificity, and it's not even a phrase.
It ain't on me.
It's like, it's not even a thing.
Can we, because briefly, I think before we started 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 mentally.
Super adjacent.
There's a huge overlap.
I don't want to say there's an ick factor to the pickup artist community.
But, so some of the same things they do, and they're called indicators of interest.
There's body language.
There's a way you approach a group and how, 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.
I somehow sweet talked my way into a restaurant gig, half a mile from my house and learn 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.
Hey, you want to see some tricks?
It's like, no, I want you out of my table.
And I learned so much about human dynamics and call it sales 101 at a young age.
I bet you'd be an incredible sales person.
So I am a sales person, but I mean, what I'm selling is a very unique product, but traditional sales, I've been made very lucrative offers.
Okay.
Companies that I perform for corporate events, they go, we won't use a sales person here.
I go, man, I'm having way more fun doing this than that.
But 100% this, the overlap is the exact same thing as sales.
Can you give us like, I know, I mean, I want people to get the book.
Sure, sure.
In the book.
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.
It's 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 bars 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.
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, right?
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 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's there?
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.
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
really 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.
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 night.
I don't want a lucky night.
They go, what's going on?
Yeah, yeah.
So 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.
Yeah.
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.
Right.
Oh, God.
What do I have to give you?
And that's going to weigh on you.
That weighs on you the whole time.
If you're sitting there watching, you don't have money.
You're like, you have tip money.
Do 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
calling it transactional, but the more people like you, the more they 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 interest. They don't have mentalists or magicians. I'm on 60 Minutes this season. The
last time I 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, 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 got to go for
it. 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 that can be
shut down so quick, like something that you have to expand upon more. And then the next thing seems
to be to just try to make the conversation about the purse like absolutely you can do your
homework. If you know anything about this person, if it's fully fresh, 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.
But if you walk in there showing interest and saying, oh, my God, 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. And then you're asking
them something that might be of interest to them. And then listen, the number one thing people don't
do, they don't listen. Right. They just sit there. And that's your superpower. I think 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 where 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 is not listening to anything. 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, your leg goes the other way. It's your autonomic system.
You cannot control.
If you start patting your head and rubbing your stomach and twirling your leg, do the opposite.
Your leg will switch directions from clockwise to counterclockwise.
Interesting.
The gummies just hit right now.
Yeah, shit.
I mean, I hate to like. Try it later in the bedroom.
Should I practice with you?
No, no.
Hey there.
No, no. I don't want to practice with you.
I'm wondering, 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 that lipstick.
Yeah.
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.
Met some of those successful, influential, like call it rich, whatever you want.
I met Steven Spielberg.
I did his dad's birthday party when he turned 99.
No way.
Awesome.
I get in that room.
Now I'm going in there to kill it, right?
Yeah.
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.
I'm like, 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.
Yeah, kind of a bummer.
A little bit.
Hey, nice to meet you.
So when the Jews were being stacked up.
Remember the 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.
Yeah.
At the end of the show, I didn't expect, you know, Steven's with his family.
It's like intimate affair.
He comes up to me, beelines for me.
And I'm like, hey, you know, play it cool.
What's up?
What's your name?
Oh, yes, Steven.
Steven.
Yeah, I heard you.
No.
So I go, Steven.
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 you.
How'd 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 out I'm mentalist.
Oh, boy.
WTF.
Yes.
Also, I'm going to lie.
I'm going to lie to you because I don't want to read your mind for the next three hours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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, there's 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 want to exchange those digits.
I'm 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 master class where in the moment,
I was like, oh, my God.
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 when you were doing this 10 years ago,
did you see yourself being where you are now?
And it's like one of 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?
And 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.
Yeah.
You remember that person.
Yes.
You want to be that person.
Yes.
That's really great.
I'm going to 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 to ask in the next day, going to be crazy.
And that one's going to be crazy.
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 by-product.
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.
Let's go.
Oh, my God.
Let me tell you what I saw on your mom's house.
Frickin' thought of Omri.
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 day 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 have to like.
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.
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.
They call the shots.
So rather than me asking him, I say, stand up and 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.
Cause 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 you could have the best set ever.
If your closers a dud, we just went off on like such 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 cellar
and some monster comes in you know rock is in there dave chapelle somebody you weren't expecting
and then the 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 yes and i've seen it i i'm going
to shout out mike vecchione who i love and i i know super funny guy 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 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 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 safe and just just you
didn't expect it 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 miker of course of course but i'm
saying to to come in there where you don't know how it's going to go that 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 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 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 dnd here i don't know who keeps calling me what's going on here
bam bam done if you were just going there to socialize yes it's also important to note
these are the types of guys you're going to be talking to and this is the type of
person out like this is what they're used to absolutely because then you can gauge how you
will entertain them or or or
you know meet them because that's an important detail about i will up the ante so if somebody's
seen it all before we need to show them something they haven't seen before yeah 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 yeah 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
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. I'll order one.
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
because 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, but all really good folks that enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to
reading this. Or audio book it if you're too ADD like me and you're on the go. Can we do something
with Christina here? Let's do it. Let's do it.
Hold on. Can you guess something in another language?
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 and I said, what could we ask? What could be a challenging question that
we could ask your husband? Oh, right, right, right. I remember.
And I said, but good. You don't remember because I think it was, it was percolating in your mind.
And I said, come up with a couple of questions.
We could ask him. 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 ask 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 a couple to me always means two,
but some people interpret that elsewhere, but you nod.
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?
Um, I, I do think I know who that is.
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?
First person. She's saying who is, 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, when you were a child?
Yeah. Oh, wow. Do you know that? I don't know who that is.
You don't even know it. No. Okay. Okay. Okay. Maybe she's mentioned it before, but I don't,
I don't recall. Do you have a pen and paper? Yeah. Okay. Uh,
do you know that babysitters first and last name? Not the last. Okay.
So first name only the, the, 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, can I comment? Don't give away the answer.
I'm not going to comment. Yeah. So I think w when it comes to the best burper.
Yeah. There is one from our personal life and then there is one that is notable, uh, like more
famous. Oh, there's, there's, it's a, it's the, can I tell him, can I give him, no, no, no. What
I'm saying is, is it the notable social famous person or is it the one that we've interacted
with on a personal level? Neither.
Oh damn. Way to fail this one. All right. All right. Take what she's doing is she's
throwing fucking curve balls. Take, 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. Can't be in front
of me. Hold on, Tom. 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 anything I could see? Just their first and last initial. Did you do it?
Let me see it.
Yes.
You're showing Tom. Don't show the camera. I already saw it. I already saw it. You can put it down now. Put it down.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right. Initials, initials, initials.
I hate you so much.
I hate this. I'm so anxious.
That's what, my wife says that to me very frequently.
I'm like sweating.
Why are you, why do you hate it?
I just like, it's witchcraft. Now I feel like I'm a black person. I don't like, now I'm
getting it, Eni. 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 four words. 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, there was, there's 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 is true.
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 I try to fake me. Now think of the last
initial.
Yeah.
And now do the alphabet.
Okay.
Backwards. Can you do it?
No, I can't do that sober.
Z-Y-X-W-V-U-T-S-R-T-P-O-N-M-L-K-G-I-H-G-F-E-D-C-B-A.
No, I can't fucking do that.
Did 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.
Okay. Just do it forward again, but go faster. Lightning fast.
All right. Ready? Ready?
Go.
M-A-C-D-A-F-G-H-A-N-L-M-A-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-E-W-X-Y-Z.
Okay. Second letter is an S, isn't it?
Oh, fuck it.
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 weird. It's weird.
Where did you do it? It was right on the J-K where you tried, but you did on the J to throw
me off is the K. Is it a K? Did you write K-S on that paper?
I hate you so much.
Can you show them? Can you show them? K-S. K-S 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'm thinking this is something weird.
In Hungarian, there might not even be vowels. It's just like Polish. It's just Zs and Cs
and Ss. The name is Z-S-C-S-W-S.
Yeah.
That's what it sounds like. All right.
Think of her name. Pick any letter in her first name. Go fast.
Yeah. Pick a letter in her first name in your head. Think of an interesting letter.
Get it in your head. Don't say, "Got it? Got it? Got it? Got it?"
Yeah.
You did a vowel. He did a vowel. You didn't do a vowel, did you?
I did.
You, again?
Yeah.
Again? So boring. Change. Do a different letter.
Change.
You did one?
Yeah.
Change again.
No.
She's like, "I ran out of letters. It's too short of a name."
Okay. I have another one.
Go back. J-T.
Okay.
I thought of a J.
How the fuck?
And I think she had like heavy makeup.
How the fuck?
Spells it with a, but it sounds like it's with an I. Nadja.
Wow. You are turning black. This is fantastic.
How the fuck? How the fuck, bro? She was Armenian.
Nadja, my first fucking babysitter. I'm like shaking.
How the fuck, dude?
Nadja, Armenian.
Bro. That's wild, bro.
Bro. Okay. I just recognized something too.
What?
I'm not saying it. We'll just hold on.
Time just got very excited.
J, how did you fucking know?
I just fucking, hold on, dude. Just keep going.
How the fuck?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What?
God damn it.
I'm so upset now.
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.
Okay.
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.
He walked up to me and he did this.
He's like, get out of my head.
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 fucking did.
Already.
Already.
So you're over there.
Here's what I want to try.
Can we get any to come in the room?
Yeah, I guess so.
Is 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.
Should we do a duet here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can take the fart mic.
Oh, take the fart mic, yeah.
Here 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,
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 fucking way, dude.
There's no way.
Fingers snapped.
But you locked in on someone?
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 did 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.
That's crazy, dude.
Yo, you're the devil, dog.
Yo, man.
Yeah.
That's crazy, man.
That's. 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. Showbiz.
Unbelievable.
Wow.
So, wait.
Was Kurt his one that he. That's his last minute. That's his last second change.
That's the. Was Kurt his consideration before,
not his final answer,
or was Kurt his final?
Final answer.
Wait, can we get one last person?
Eddie, I'm swapping you in
because his mind hurts right now.
His brain hurts.
Yeah.
That's bullshit, man.
That's bullshit.
Let's put some money on this.
Let's get some skin in the game, Tom.
Okay, okay.
Do you have. Do 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.
Okay.
In front of us.
Can we see?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Hold on.
Okay.
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 a real man.
Yeah.
Crush it into a ball.
Tight, tight, tight.
Tight, tight, tight.
Okay.
You got it?
Yeah.
And freeze right there.
Okay.
Imagine that when you,
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've 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?
That'd be nuts, right?
Yes.
That would be nuts.
Yes.
If I could do that,
bam,
that's wins the bet.
Watch,
think of this person.
Okay.
Turn and look at them as if they're here.
Look at the smile.
Yeah.
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 could feel that.
I could 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.
No.
You thought that would give it away.
And then you pursed your lips.
Watch what he 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 up.
Are you for real?
Yeah.
You just thought of Emily.
I did.
Watch this.
Her date of birth.
You ready?
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
05-30-1998.
Would you agree?
Mm-hmm.
He could have thought of anybody.
He could have thought of
any question.
Fuck 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
05-30-1998.
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,
you know,
Tom's money.
but let me,
I know you're not going to tell us.
I made it,
I might've luckily cupped a buttock
when we hugged earlier,
but is that weird?
Is that,
I mean,
he's a handsome man.
Can I ask you this though?
I know I'm not,
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.
Really?
I think of stuff while I'm running.
I run like marathons,
ultra marathons,
my side hustle.
So I thought it's something fun.
I've never done that before.
I fucking see this.
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?
How the fuck?
It's literally,
yeah.
E-0-5-3-0-1-9-9-8-D.
You know what?
How the fuck did you?
Can I tell you something?
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 fucking hate you so much.
Yeah,
kick me out of your mom's house.
Jesus Christ,
dude.
Get out of here.
Do you,
do you?
I don't know.
Do you remember the other question
you asked me?
Yeah,
I always leave things hanging.
I never know.
That's a hanger.
Hanger.
You're going to marinate on that?
Oh yeah.
You can figure that out?
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.
Of course.
And then he was like,
all right.
And that was it.
That was it.
Maybe I asked you that
to throw me out
and 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
for coming in.
That was awesome.
Thanks guys.
Can you hold up the book
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
the real part
of how I do it.
The part that you can apply
to your life.
Yes.
And that's it
because I want you 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 learn how to think
like a mentalist.
I'm going to read this.
I'm very excited for it.
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 really and like you know what your goal of being memorable
you know also maybe the end of this production company uh kind of everyone might go 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 world
view and i don't even know what to do with myself right now that's a good way of summarizing it so
you got his pin code i did he was so mad i know then off air he's 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 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 showing thanks for having me guys and we'll see
you guys next week bye all right here we go jeans oh shit no this is not nothing to do with you
yeah right i promise it's a surprise it's
it's it's it's a surprise it's it's it's it's it's it's a surprise
wet nut sack this is no shit wet nut sack it's it's it's it's a surprise
it's just coming wet nut sack it's just coming
it's just coming you know i know it's just coming
wet nut sack it's just coming it's just coming it's a surprise you did it and we both went
it's incredible wet nut sack it's it's it's it's it's a surprise
again again i want more is there more wet nut sack i think it was towards the end of lunch
especially when you do it in front of your mom
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