Good Guys - Breaking the Simulation with Oz Pearlman, Mentalist

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

This week, we’re joined by world-famous mentalist Oz Pearlman, and things immediately go off the rails. Oz reads minds in real time, exposes how easily Josh and Ben give away their thoughts, and pulls off tricks that make absolutely zero sense - even after he explains them. We get into Oz’s viral moments with Joe Rogan and Howard Stern, the truth about whether magic is actually real, and why mind reading works even when you don’t believe in it. Plus: ultra-marathons, three kids, magician beef, and one final mentalist stunt that leaves the room fully broken. Stick around - this episode will make you question reality… and your own intelligence. What, are ya nuts? Love ya!  Leave us a voicemail here! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!  Sponsors: Prolon - Prolon is offering GOODGUYS listeners FIFTEEN PERCENT off their 5-day nutrition program for your post-holiday glow-up when you go to ProlonLife.com/GOODGUYS. Shopify - Whether you’re just wanting to test an idea out, or you’re getting serious about launching your own brand - it’s never been easier to get started on shopify.com/goodguys. Vivrelle - Go to www.vivrelle.com and apply for a membership today using code goodguys for your first month of membership FREE Vital Vitamins - Vital Vitamins is offering my listeners 20% of all orders with code GOODGUYS at myvitalvitamins.com Sleepme - Visit www.sleep.me/GoodGuys to get 20% off your Chilipad with code goodguys. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. Masal morons, welcome back to the Good Guys podcast. I'm here with Ose Perlman. What do you prefer to be called? What do you like to be called? Mentalist. A conjurer. Mystery, male exotic dancer.

No, I'm known as a mentalist. The close day on, Ben. I don't want to disappoint. No, this is not a physique. I'm clearly not steroids. We'll save that for later, Rose. A mentalist is kind of like a magician, but it's unusual because I don't really do card tricks.

I don't really do sleight of hand. I kind of do slight of mind. it's, I've seen these clips. My God, my mind, blown. O's, O's is legend. We're here with legend. You thought it was Oz, you're wrong. Okay, it's Ose.

Is it short for Oswaldo? No. Is it short for Osewoldo. Osempic. I put the Ose in Osempic. I'm getting that out there, folks. That's going to be my new brand sponsorship deal. Talk to me, Eli Lili.

Do they own Ozempic? I think they did it. Novo Nordic. Damn it. It. All right. Forget that. And I've done them a lot of stuff for their Danish company.

So now I'm really embarrassed. How rich you're gonna be. I'm kidding, Novo. Put the O's in O-Zempec. That commercial rights itself. We have Robody. Do you know how rich you're gonna be? I know you're already rich.

You use your mentalist. I've got a lot of kids. Capabilities to move money from one bank account to another. Don't tell anybody that. Shh. You make the fat disappear with Osempic. Yes. Oh my God.

Are you getting a piece of this deal? Oh, hozos Perlman. You know. That's hot. Wow. Is that in? Can I? take that jingle right now?

Yeah. You can take it. It's yours. I've already gotten it. It's on camera. It's yours. You are crushing the game. I am a little proud because I know we've had

scheduling problems getting you on the show. We've been trying. You had a kid. I mean, come on. This guy's such a divas. Like, I had a kid. I'm so sorry. You have five.

Five kids. You have three? I have three. But I discovered you on AGT originally. Dude, that's OG. The great Howard Stern was one of your first Believers supporters fans. But it seems in the last year you have

call fire, my friend. You are everywhere. Thank you. Okay. I mean, what clips have you seen recently on the view on Howard? I saw the Howard clip. That was the one that I saw most recently. Honestly, the Howard, normally I'll tell you, just go to my social and watch the two-minute clip. But if you're willing to commit 11 minutes, it's nuts. If you watch the whole through, like the act one, act two, act three of how it all comes together. It is, it was crazy. And Howard was in person. Beth was in person. I shook Howard's hand, so he's pretty sure he's going to die of COVID.

As soon as I finish the trick, he goes, I need pure out. He goes, the best part of the trick is that I shook your hand and you have five kids. It's literally a petri dish. Did he really say that? Yeah, it was hilarious. He's sick. Yeah. He's really, he's damaged.

He's a damaged. He's a scratched. He's a scratched man. I mean, I... By the way, these are two completely separate things. You can be the best and love him and he can be damaged. I love him dearly, but... Who is not damaged?

You are very damaged. Me as well. Yeah, how do you know? Because that's my mind. He seems to me. He's looking at me. Oh. He's looking into my heart.

He's looking into my heart. Yes. Beautiful. Yeah. But like, yeah, the Howard of it all, the fact that he was, you know, he hasn't been in studio for years. That's true. The last time I did his thing, I guess this word that Valerie Harper told him before she died,

she had terminal cancer. Do you know this thing? And for 10 years, I don't know if it's 10 years fact check. It was a long time. He would have psychics come in. And it was a, it's kind of like a safe word where it's a Houdini thing. And Houdini created this, right? Houdini created where he goes, Houdini did not believe psychics were real.

And so he said, he said, said to his wife, if I die, don't write this word down. Don't tell it to anybody. Nothing other than right now when I share with you. Don't share it with anybody ever. So it's test conditions that if I die and a psychic says they're talking to me, I will tell them the word. They will tell it to you and now you know there's an afterlife.

That's the famous thing with Bess and Houdini. And so he did the same thing with Valerie Harper because she knew she had terminal cancer. And so I guessed it. Ten years psychics have been trying. I guessed it. But I told him I'm not going to be, I'm not talking to any. dead people. I'm going to figure it out the way a mentalist does. We decipher. We figure out how you do things. That's what we do. And so he totally freaked out. And this was even crazier because

him and his wife have a safe word in the bedroom. So he was more concerned about the fact that I have maybe seen them in the bedroom somehow. Like Howard, don't worry, I was not in the bedroom for the 22 seconds you spent on Sunday nights. Do you think psychics exist? So it's kind of like saying does God exist? I think somebody that says no is a bit egotomaniacal because I can't tell billions of people that do believe in God or do believe in psychics that they're wrong. But all I can tell you is based on things that I've observed personally. I've never seen a psychic do something to me that I wasn't able to explain based on science or skills that I possess. In fact, almost all of the psychics I've personally witnessed, some of them have been amazing. I think I could do their job better

than them. Why is that? Well, because that's, I'm, I'm an honest con man, right? I'm literally conning you, and I'm telling you that what I'm doing is not real. I go out of my way in every interview, in every press piece to tell you, I am not psychic, I am not supernatural. Everything I'm doing can be explained by science, repeatable, and is explainable. Do you see what I'm saying? It's like, versus a psychic, show me how to become psychic. I don't see that book, right? So you have to have it or you don't, and I can't explain to you how it works, and it doesn't work all the time. So what could you have been besides a mentalist? Like obviously you're just...

I was going to all streets. I was just a very, very, very smart person. Like, does this... I don't know if that's true. Because it's my wife and she might disagree vehemently with that statement. It seems, though, like, like, how did mentalism... Is it mentalism? She's like, you can read minds.

Why don't you know the trash is full? Take it out, buddy. Right. Yeah, well, that's my way. Do you live that? Mentalism is the magic of the mind. For lack of a better term, it is the illusion of being able to be able to read people's minds and influence their thoughts. And it's an illusion. It's kind of like a magic trick.

And is it self-taught? Like how does- I am mostly self-taught, though I have some mentors, something I actually like kind of go into the book a little bit about how you find people who are who you want to be in one year, five years, 10 years, win them over, find a way to break through the, you know, kind of the velvet rope gets moved out of the way and have them share some of their secrets to you. Is Yuri Geller kind of the one of our generation? Uri Geller was different than me because Uri Geller crossed a bit of the line into where ever again where I tell you I'm not psychic. I have no supernatural powers.

Uri said that he had powers that could not be explained and did things of that sort, which again, to each their own, but ethically, I'm not doing that. So when you see me and you go, oh, we're not really reading your body language. That's not a true statement. I might be, but you might be thinking 95% of how I did that trick was reading your micro expressions in your body language when in reality it was five to 10%. but I don't tell you how that's done. It's kind of, if I told you how it worked,

imagine you're a kid waiting to see Santa Claus at the mall and the first thing the Santa says to you, I'm not the real Santa kid. I'm just a guy who works, you know, in landscaping, but this is my side hustle. Wow, that's really awesome for that kid, right? I'm Santa in this case. I'm not the real Santa.

I don't know if there is a real Santa when it comes to mentalists or psychics, but I'm presenting you with a moment or moments that are amazing and memorable that hopefully you will feel on an emotional, emotional basis. And that's why you've seen the videos everywhere because they connect with people because it's amazing. Does it ever get old like watching somebody's reaction completely freaking out over what you did to them? Never, never. That's like asking a comedian if it ever gets old to hear laughs. But let me let me ask you this like and I really credit you with sort of being up front about it and honest con man, right? Except I'm not really conning you because all my content is free. Yeah. Yeah. And then the one thing people said to me, you're saying, oh, well people are going to buy your book every time I tell you my book.

is not a mentalism book. I don't teach you a single trick. I don't pretend to. If you right now made me switch careers and said tomorrow you can't do this anymore, AI can read minds, you're out of a job, buddy. And I defined a new career. And I said to myself, how am I going to become very successful at what I'm doing next? What skills will I use? What habits will I immediately implement? That's what this book is. So that in one, two, three years, I will hopefully be at the top of my field at whatever I do, because my book is not going to teach you to be a mentalist. It's going to teach you all the skills I've developed over 30 years so you can be successful at what you do in life. That's what is a playbook for success. Well, you can sell a book.

I want to read that book. Oh, I want to read that book. O's Perlman, read your mind. Look at this book. It pops. It pops. It's a beautiful. It's yellow. It's cheerful. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful. I have a yellow book. Proven habits for success in the world's greatest mentalist. But Ben, you're silky smooth, radio voice. I just close my eyes. I'm sold. And I want you in my ears. I'm sold. I'll be in years later. We were talking about that.

I'm not getting interested. Just going to. Well, but here's what I'm dying to know, right? Because, like, you went on Joe Rogan, you guessed his pin code. That's right. Right? He had no idea that was going to happen. Freaked him the hell out.

You could see that he had no idea. But let me ask you this. I would assume billions of dollars are spent by evil forces to hack people's identity, bank accounts, pin numbers, two-step authentication, all these things, right? Yes. so you can do it. Yes. Why aren't you employed by the DOD making a billion dollars a year?

Why are you the only one who can do it? No, I'm kidding. So here's the truth because the truth is when you dissect this and you get to the bottom and you're like, wait a second, why are we even here? Let's get to Vegas right now, get you in front of the casino, play poker. Or let's get millions of dogs. Or the honest way. Like, why are you the only one?

So I don't know that I'm the only one. There's other people that do what I do. But for lack of a better term, I can explain to you what's a lot of. allowed me to achieve success at a certain level. Yes. And again, I'm not selling this, but like, you've seen other people over the years do it. But why is it connecting in such a different way? And I think that the superpower I have is that my performances turn the mirror from me

and they turn it around on you. So here's what I mean by that, brass tax. When I do stuff for the NFL, those are some of my most viral clips. You don't see me doing like a card trick. And even though the card trick could be amazing. And you could see a lot of magicians do a great card trick. You're like, that was so cool. How did you do that?

But at the end of the story, it's about them. Yeah. When I do it, I know that the person watching this is a football fan and that what do they care about? Well, I care about hitting my parlay if I'm a sports gambler. I care about the fact that, oh, my God, I know about offense and defense. Who's Joe Burrow going to throw that ball to? That's like the million dollar question.

What if you could do anything? I want to know what that team's next play is going to be, right? How crazy would that be? So now I create my routines based on, what the person watching is going to be most interested in. Sure. So now, if you're a football fan, but you're not an O's Perlman fan, you're not a mentalist fan.

You don't even know what either of those things are, who I am or what I do. You're captured because you go, oh, my God, I want to know who that guy's going to throw the ball to. Or if I'm on a cooking show and I come up with a recipe that you thought of that your great aunt used to cook when you were six years old, that nobody could have known. I tell you her name and what the secret ingredient was.

Now you're hooked. now when you tell that story, it's not like, yeah, he guessed ginger. So what? It's personal. It's emotional. You go, how do he know my granddad's name? How do he know that was the secret ingredient?

Right, your story changes. It evolves. How did you know? I've been stalking. A great aunt's name. Yeah. But how? Like, I just, how?

That's the game, right? How do you figure out it up? We might try something before we're out of here. Come on. I can't just tease you. I'm so ready. But again, it's like those people who almost are like, conspiracy theorists, right? And they're like, I know something that others don't know. And I'm like, trust me, my mom, my mom literally says that she walks down the street. And by the way,

she's a big listener of the podcast, love her dearly. And I do, I think she has some power. She will tell me, oh, that person's sick. She just could feel it. She's like, oh, that person has cancer. I'm like, what gave it away? They're bald? And they were, they were, that or alopecia, mom, they walked out of the Memorial Sloan gathering. And you're like, mom, that wasn't informative. That was hurtful. She's like, I'm so sorry, miss. He's fighting a good fight. A person's diabetic. Sheida, not underpound.

Smyth is sick. I'm telling you now. But like, people like, I think your mom is an epidemiologist and you didn't know it. It's possible. But those people, if they were right, if they really knew, like, not your mom having intuition, but like

those people who are like governmental conspiracy, I'd be like, you wouldn't have a YouTube channel, baby, you'd be abducted. Right. Right? Like, you'd be in a fucking van and disappear. Like, if you really knew, like, there's some famous fanksy quote of, like, you are of an acceptable amount of risk to the people that really control things, which is why you are here now. Right.

So that's my only pushback is like, if you really had some shit. Yeah. These people who, I mean, they create supercomputers to break these codes and can't. Right. You would be disappeared. So if you look at, there's a guy named Kevin Mittnick, who is a, do you know, that is a famous hacker? And they would do social engineering. So the easiest way to break into a safe

And you can build the biggest safe like Ocean's 11 style With like this and this and reinforced steel and da-da Is to not break the safe It's to break the mind of the person Get the person who has the safe and get the number from them So if you can find the weakest link in a chain You will then Joshua Pack

So if you can do that You don't need to do the hard way But the best illusions are the ones where it makes it look like you went through the safe. Makes sense. Yes, it's like me running Bert Kreischer's 5K. Everybody thought I finished it. I cheated.

I'm in a text. I'm going to text Bert right now and tell him that. Oh, I told him. They're like, you finished it in 25 minutes? Like, yeah. You beat jelly roll? No, everybody beat jelly roll. He's getting fit, man.

I just saw him run with my buddy Cam Haynes. No, no. In that race, it was Travis Scott. Travis Barker. Yeah. Three minutes. Different guy. Okay?

Three minutes. Jellarol, I think, was like three hours. He took his time, but he finished. He crushed it. He finished. That's strong. And he didn't cheat. We don't know that.

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and the internal monologues that would probably make both our therapists and the group chat nervous. Listen to Live from Bed's new episodes every Wednesday wherever you get your podcast. Now get cozy. It's bedtime. So you've got the great David Goggins giving you a quote for the front of your book. Cam Haynes, you talked about. Like, are you part, like, Are you part of that crew of guys who are these incredible, inspirational, that can speak from experience? Like, how are you friends with all these incredible guys? So I'm an ultramarathon runner.

So I've run all these races. So like with Goggins, we ran Badwater the same year. And Matt, so bad water. How long is it? Is air quotes, the world's toughest foot race. That's how it's marketed. It is very tough. I've run races that I felt were harder.

But here's the, here's the TLDR. Badwater is 135 mile run, not stages. all at once. 135 miles. So it's effectively five marathons and then some. So it's like five marathons and then what you did. And then what I did. Yeah.

And then still more. But it's five. My thing was two miles. They call it a 5K to make it sound impressive. It's a 3.2. So it's 135 miles. It's typically in the second week of July because it is the hottest week of the year in Death Valley.

In Death Valley at one point in time, I think other than a place in Morocco is the hottest place on Earth. So the year that I did it, we start at 10 a.m. it was 124 degrees at the start. And then you are running from the lowest location in the contiguous United States, I believe, I think it's continental, which is called bad water.

It's below sea level. And then you're running to the highest point in mainland U.S. to Mount Whitney, almost to the top, not quite. You can't get a permit. And it's, it's 135 miles in the hottest day. And you have, the cutoffs are actually not that hard. But I did in 28 hours.

And it was, you know, the funny joke they make is that you can fry an egg on the hood of a car. And then if you run in the street because it's black, the asphalt will melt your shoes. You run on the white line. You did it in 28 hours?

And I love David. Beat him that ear, though. Sorry, David. He'll beat me at everything else in life. But I can run fast. 28 hours, that's like keeping marathon speed the whole time, right? It's not quite as much.

I slept for 10 minutes, so my boys will give me a lot of crap about that during then I slept two different five-minute things. There's a YouTube video on it. But I typically, I ran the first, marathon in a 318. I was in first place in that temperature. And then I slowed down a bit. That was probably not the smartest. But you know what? Go bigger. Go home, Ben. You ran the first marathon in how long? Three hours and 18 minutes.

So it's like a seven minute mile? No, it's a little slower. I think it's probably like seven 45s. Oh, it's just like me. Remember, I started running at the beginning of the 5K. Yeah, sprinted. And I lost all my, I lost all my steam. So those guys I know just from the ultra marathon scene, which is kind of a small world. Uh, I could imagine. I could see that. A hundred to, 128 degrees.

I can't even. 124. 124. I can't even step outside at 100 degrees. I'm not even going outside. It feels there's one point where we were going up this mountain. It's called Towns Pass. And you're just 17 miles of just uphill.

And it's winds of like consistent 40 mile hour guss. It felt like you were in an oven, but with a hairdryer pointed at you from close to your face. One of my pacers who came with me got heat exhaust. and was in the back of the car with ice. And he just went with me for five miles. Isn't there one called Moab too? Yeah.

And it's over 200. 240 miles. So why do people do this? What attracts you to this? How broken are you? Yeah. Like what am I running away from? You absolutely are.

Who does this? So I would describe it. There's definitely, there's got to be a screw loose. There has to be. I think that those people, there's a lot of people who are recovering addicts in this, because you've converted one addiction,

which is unhealthy for one that's maybe just slightly less unhealthy, but won't kill you as quick as heroin or potentially cocaine. So I think that there's shockingly a lot of recovering addicts. There's also just a lot of people who the gateway drug is you did the marathon. You got the high. And now you don't get the same high from the marathon. So now you go to 50 miles, 100 miles, 240 miles. And it's a challenge because you want to see what you are like when you've passed your

breaking point. And what is your breaking point? And I think that nowadays, with everything being so comfortable, I've got, Uber eats. I've got seamless. Where is the struggle? It's kind of like the movie Fight Club. Do you remember? Like, what's the struggle for our generation? And so for a lot of people, for lack of a better term in the first world, this is where you get to test your metal without the chance of dying when you go to war, right? There's some elements. I would think I'd die. I would die. I would die. I would die. I would die quickly. Like, I would die within the first 50 miles. I'd be dead. Probably like three miles.

You would have just passed per krecher. Yeah, by the way, I'm dead at three miles. 100%. Yes, what do you mean people don't die? Nobody's died at that race because they monitor you very closely. Got it. So I think there's medical stations to weigh you to see how dehydrated you are. And if you get an IV, if you get an IV, you're out.

There's a lot of rules. You also can't have artificial cooling devices. So what we do is a lot of ice. And then my friends had to constantly sunblock me, which is kind of gross and vaseline. In between the legs. That's the place. I do that for walking. I'm just going to spit shine everything around here.

Well, it's unbelievable. And what do your feet look like when you're done? Mine weren't that bad because I vaseline my feet like I was at a ditty party. I mean, it was pretty intense. Dead, dead toe nails. I've lost, oh man, I don't know how gross. This is what people want to hear. When I did one of my first ultras, I didn't know that when you run downhill, your feet swell

and that your feet, when you go really down a strong hill, they hit the front of your shoes. Yeah. And so it will, it will bust your toenails. And I lost nine toenails. The worst part of that story is not the losing of the nine toenails. It's that 24 hours after I was done. I went with my niece and nephew who at the time were much younger. They're all grown up now.

Shout out to Noia and Eli. To the beach. To Disneyland. Yeah. Which is far worse. And I was wearing flip-flops because my feet were so gross that I couldn't fit them in shoes without like screaming in pain. And it looked as if I had been tortured in like, you know, a war zone and had all

of my feet like hit like Sireana with George Clooney. And everyone on my feet was just decimated and I had to walk around Disneyland for a day. It was the worst day ever. Is that your worst nightmare? Josh hates open-toed shoes. It gives him the hebe-jeebies. Is your worst nightmare going to Disney with Owens? And he just lost nine toenails and he's sitting there in his note.

You threw up in your mouth is what would have. No, those don't upset me as much as like someone's got like a three week past due pedicure. Then nine missing toenails? That's fine. I'm like, can you redo the Fiji on your toes? Please, go get a pedicure. I like constructive criticism

where I'm like, you're not going to wear that right? And I'm like, I was going to. And then like, what can I change right now? And I'm the woman in the relationship where I have two older sisters and they were eight years older. So up until I was 10, they were 18, they dressed me. So I never at that point, like I always had stylists in the house.

Yeah. So the amount of pressure that occurred during teenage years when I no longer had women to dress me was like I and I have to pick clothing for myself. Yeah. And I thought I knew what matched. But apparently my wife let me know later, you've been doing this all wrong forever. Yeah, my wife's pretty direct. I'll walk out and she'll be like, you look like Bozo the clown. Yes.

Like that. Not like you should probably change. Like, okay, bozo. Okay. Sure. No, it's what our wives are for. Truly. And your wife is holding you down.

Five kids. Five young children. Five beautiful. Wow. Under 10? 975, 2 and 7 months. Oh, 7 months. Seven months?

My son. Go. Or 6 months and 2 weeks. May 21st. Oh, wow. May 9th. Yeah. 9752 and 7 months.

Stop complaining. That's unbelievable. Me stop complaining. Yeah, I have 6, 3 and 6 months and I'm like swimming. So fun. How fun are these ages right now? Six months. It's amazing.

unbelievable. Yeah. I have heard from multiple people. I would love to know your thoughts on the differences between three, four, and five for Josh, but I have heard not just from Josh that... Of how many children there are? Like how it feels like? No, that three is really, really hard. Two is not that different. Age three or three children? Three children. Oh, I don't know. I didn't, it really depends what each kid is like. That's like more of a factor than anything as to who's like, yeah. Like if you make a pie chart and if one of your children takes up most of your energy or if it's like spread equally, it amortizes. Like once you get first, from three to four, it's very little change.

It's like kind of the same. Four to five has been difficult just because if you have two kids that are both babies, there's like obstacles of logistics of timing of like naps and everyone's in diapers. And I think if one grows up a little, but they're much more buddies if they're close in age. It's so nice.

Yeah. It's amazing. I would have another one. Are they all going to be mentalists? I don't think so. It's kind of like the sound of music. I sure hope not. That would be so weird.

Would it be terrible, yeah. Kind of sick. Yeah. A band of mentalists. It'd be like, the movie, now you see me. That's your end game. That's your sitcom.

Yes. Yeah. I need some IP pack. Yeah. Let's storyboard it right now. What do we call it? I've got owes. World mentalists.

I like that. Yeah. Do you have five girls? No. No, I have two boys, three girls. Growing up into magic, into mentalism. I got an image when I was 13. Before that, I had no awareness of magic.

Grew up in New York? I grew up in Michigan. Nice. Beautiful lake. Well, you got to be. believe in magic there. It doesn't hurt. Anyway.

So, okay, so you're into magic in the traditional ways like... Card tricks, coin tricks. Yeah, reading, and the history, Houdine, Houdini, who's the Jay... Yeah, who done it. Who done it? Yeah. Who's the famous car guy who David... Ricky J.

Right. So, like, these are all your people growing up? I knew about all of that. Like, there's things that I liked about each one. I didn't really do a lot of stage illusions. So a lot of people in, like, my era would have been, I was right on the start of David Blaine being huge. Like, as I was a teenager, that was very formative for me.

David Copperfield, I saw it once and was pretty cool. And I loved it, but it's not like, I never did illusions. Where you're like on stage, three buttons open, billowing shirt, wind. You know, cut her in half, do this, dance. It wasn't, I never, that never was like my thing. You were all close up. I loved close up. That's what impacted me.

So do you love Blaine? Are you guys, do you guys have a relationship? I met Blaine once recently. What's he think of you? It's funny on Howard Stern. We talked about it. There was a little bit of, I don't want to call it beef,

but it was a little weird because Blaine had thought that I had taken one of his stories on Joe Rogan when I did my interview and that he thought that I had appropriated a story of his as if I was faking a story of his. Not even a trick,

but a story. So it was a very weird first interaction. What kind of, story. So it's the last chapter of my book. I went to jail for a weekend and not a trick. And then in jail, I did a bunch of card tricks because that's what you do in jail to potentially protect your butthole if you are alone. And so I went to jail. I don't if you want to hear the whole story, but it's like a pretty, it's a pretty crazy story. It's one of my best stories. So why it's the end of my book is two stories. One about me and Prince Harry. Amazing if you want to get. And the other is about me going to

to jail. And so I met David, he was kind of, he was, you know, he kind of said like, you know, this is my story. And I was like, that's weird. It's my story, too. Like, I, you know, I, I don't, I didn't steal your story. I went to jail with two other friends. Like, there's a mugshot. It's real. And so it was a weird. It was a very, you kind of meet your hero and I expected to go very differently. But he was kind of primed to be. Sounds like a threatened individual. You know, it was very strange. And I was trying to kill with kindness. And I explained, well, did you get arrested on a Friday? He goes, yeah. And I go, well, me too. I go, was there a judge in jail that weekend for you to be arraigned? He goes, no, not to after the weekend.

That's why we both spent three nights in jail. Like it sounded like less like I stole and more like... Coincidence. Not even a coincidence. Very likely. Do you get drunk on Fridays?

Well, I used to get really drunk on Fridays too. And then in jail, he goes, well, it says you walked up to these black guys and took the cards and they were playing spades. And I go, well, there were black guys in my jail

playing spades too day. As we know, black people love gin rummy. Liar. And so, and this happened and it's proud. Let's play my dog. Yeah, so it was kind of just like all of these circumstantial facts. And I even said, and at the end of it, I just said, I go, I don't think you get it, but like, if I had known this before, every time I tell this story, I think my story's better

because what if your story was the same? What if you and Tom Cruise had the same story? And somebody teed it up at a press junk. You'd be like, this is so crazy. Me and Tom Cruise have the same story. I would literally have been saying for years, me and David Blaine have like this weird, we have this weird, like, parallel life, and we have the same story. And now when I tell the story, I even say David Blaine and I have like a crazy, same story.

So it was, it was very strange that rather than give me the benefit of the doubt, it was much more of kind of like lightly antagonistic. And so, yes, if I'm Freudian, I would ask myself, why were you threatened? I'm not directly threatening you. In all the interviews I've just said, I love your work. You're a huge inspiration to me. You're on my Mount Rushmore. But right now, if you look at where the videos are, who's on TV, what's going on. you can kind of just look at numbers, objective numbers, of what's happening now, not years ago,

and who is on everything when it comes to mentalism and magic. Beefing with David Blaine. I have a David Blaine story that might support or give extra insight, which is I'm a massive fan to Magic Nerd. I am a massive fan as well. So I just need to front load this that when I was brought over to me playing, I was hyped. You were excited. I was hyped. Of course.

And then at the end of it, this was the craziest part. He wouldn't take a photo with me. So I'm like, why? Rubbing me the wrong way. What's yours? Well, I think, and to your point, there's no one in the magician community that doesn't give him his flowers. He loves magic. My assessment of it, and again, not knowing him, but knowing his team really well, he genuinely adores this. Like, imagine if you have you at the lottery of life and you get to do what you love all the time.

We did. You really did. I did too. Yeah. And so I am a little different where it's not that I don't love what I do, but if you were to analyze what I do exceptionally well. It's mentalism is an offshoot. I am a salesperson. That's it. I'm a salesperson. If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't do mentalism again, and I don't say this from a cocky perspective, I say that if I started a new business, I think I would be very

successful at that business because all I figured out is the product I'm currently selling. Yeah. And I've distilled it to its core. I've hyper focused and targeted certain sectors as to who I do it for. And like it's a business like any other. I'm an artist who's also a business person, but I know what I'm selling. And a lot of people I think don't know what they're selling. Yeah. So I sell amazing memorable moments. But also in mentalism you're selling. You're selling attention. We're all selling attention. You're also like selling me on, not to not that I don't believe what you're doing, but like the entire thing is you're, I would assume, mining me for information. Sure. Right? Constantly. But it's here's a key different.

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And usually not great, right? It depends which direction you go in. My wuddy and nuts later is somebody retelling me something they saw. Right. Because it's so butchered, don't do it. Or if you know the right way and you become very good at it. Unless you're also a salesman and you're incredible at retelling stories. The average person, though, cannot retell a story if their life depended on it. Right. But they curate. So your mind edits certain things out. And a very good performer in Minecraft allows edits to happen in someone's brain.

Just a great example. Card trick, you might have seen, it's called card on the ceiling. Sure. Classic. Take a deck. Good restaurant trick. Amazing, because your calling card stays up there. You pick a card, you sign it.

So we know it's the only card like in the world. You put it back in the deck. There's all different iterations. I would let somebody shuffle the deck. Then I give them two thick rubber bands, rubber band at both directions. They do that. I take it back. I throw it at the ceiling.

Deck hits the ceiling. It falls down. The deck is still rubber band. Their card is stuck to the ceiling with the face down with the signature. Amazing. Okay. Thousands of magicians do this around the world. That's how it's performed.

I at a restaurant had the ability to be near you out of sight where I could hear you talking about me afterwards, just around a corner and just kind of hear the debrief after. Oh, my God, it's amazing. What do you do? And then another table sits down and they go, what was that guy? He's a magician. You don't know what he just did to me. And they retell the story.

Totally. There it's completely different. That just happened. But it just happened. But now I noticed this one thing kept happening. And I couldn't understand why, which is when they told the story, they go, I picked the cards. Right. I signed a card and next thing I know my card's on the ceiling.

I'm like, wait a second. Why didn't they say that I threw the cards up at the ceiling? Because when you take that line away, that trick is freaking impossible. I sign this card. I rubber band it and now it's on the ceiling. Why the hell to get on the ceiling, dude? That's impossible. People kept forgetting at certain points to say that I threw it at the ceiling.

So I go, did these people randomly have a brain fart? No. I started to learn just. like in a recipe, add a little more ginger, and a little more garlic, and a little more of this, it tastes different. So I could do little things, and I figured out what it was,

if I didn't look up when I threw the deck up. And I didn't look up to discover the card, and they did instead at their own pace. They told the story different. Watch, I take the deck, I throw it at the ceiling. I don't look at the ceiling when it hits. So I give no attention to it. The deck hits, I catch it when it falls,

and then I just stare at the person, and I wait for them to discover it. somehow some way their brain clipped like an edit a jump cut they edited out the part of me throwing the deck at the ceiling when they retold the story and in my mind that has been one of my calling cards forever knowing how people tell the story later is more important than what happens in the moment and so if you can find those ways to shine the spotlight on what you want and to make the stuff you don't want in the dark the story gets told very differently it's much more impressive and the legend continues. Now, did you ever execute that trick? Throw it up. You don't look up.

And the person like me at the table goes, the garlic bread's here. And you go, look up, you fuck. Yeah. No, the garlic bread's the best thing by far. Who am I? No, chop liver. So you start out with this love of magic and then did it not seem like a feasible career? Is that why you went to being a stockbroker. That's not even like in the, it's not even my wheelhouse. It's not even the pantheon. Like when you were, you were a child actor. Yes. Did you have a parallel? Did you know someone else who was a child actor? I didn't. The only thing that changed was I went to performing arts high school in New York. And so coming from elementary school where I was the only freak and then go how did you even know that it was possible? How do you see a show on Nickelodeon and have the the balls for lack of a

better term of the confidence to be like, I'm going to be that kid on that show next time. Like how, where Where does that confidence or even that idea come from? A mom. My mom was super helpful. I mean, my thing's different only because I could, I did one of those rare things that you can do professionally as a kid. Maybe you shouldn't be able to. Sleep at Michael Jackson's ranch?

Right. Michael, I don't want to go in the Peter Pan rat again. But I, I basically, I talked about this before. At nine or ten years old, I'm doing school plays, but I'm watching Nicholas. And I'm going, there's clearly a higher level of this. And these amateurs, you know, little Johnny who's in third grade, who's taking this as seriously as a 10-year-old should. I'm like, he's not on his mark.

He's not delivering. I need to be with these. I just was like, I want to do this. It's like a kid who wants to play on a travel team. Like, I just want more competition. I want to do this at a higher level. And it happened to be that. That's incredible.

If it was like a conservatory that wasn't professional, I would have done that. Yeah. So I didn't have that. Right. But again, I'm not blaming my parents. I'm like, I think there's a narrative of like first generation immigrants who moved here and I moved here and I was three. There's like this mentality of the American dream. You go to school, you get a job. You work your way up and your job. Right. There's like this playbook of this is how to achieve this dream. We're supposed to be doctors. Right, right. So I, you know, mentalist is a good hobby for a lawyer like a doctor. Like there's that level where I didn't know what I wanted to do. So I didn't have. have that, I didn't even have that like forethought of this could be a path in life because you have to meet someone who's done it or you have to have that level of like jumping steps of seeing the person on TV and saying I could be that person. I never even had that thought. I like literally that thought didn't occur to me, which I know sounds silly. But I think for a lot of people, you hold yourself down in life in a certain way because you say that person's special. But why not you? That's a question. Like as my career advanced and I've seen someone like a David Blaine who,

for years I just thought is untouchable. And I said, but he did it. So why not me? Why not me? And I think that's the way most people should start thinking about their life rather than that can't be me. Because if you think that can't be me, you don't start doing the steps that will get you to who you want to be.

You should always think, why not me? I completely agree. I think the thing that's missing is not everybody can sell. Right. You pinpointed that one thing that makes you an incredible businessman, mentalist, everything, your ability to change the minds of people and have them do something in your favor, which is 100% applicable to everything. You can sell like crazy.

When you go to an audition, you are essentially selling yourself to the casting director. When I'm raising money for a business, I'm selling that. Or whatever it may be, the absolute key is the ability to sell. Anyone who can sell can be as successful as their mind will let them. But there are a lot of people that cannot sell. And unfortunately, those people also lack so much self-awareness. and the combination of not being able to sell and having no self-awareness,

leave you trapped. Big time. Yeah, trapped. So we have about 20 minutes left. Here's a thought. Yep. I feel like you got like one or two things obviously.

Could we maybe do... What would you have done if like a parrot came out? Oh my God. I'd leave. So when we walked in, right, we walked in and I told you and I said this has to be utterly random. I didn't, you didn't pick this.

You didn't, Ben doesn't know, right? You didn't write anything down. I said to a man, Imagine that sitting around this table, right? Yes. Are other people from your life, right? And I, like, they could be positioned here or here, like here. And I said, imagine there's no, this wasn't something that was ever done out loud,

but just kind of you picked. And I even said, don't pick one person until we actually get in the moment. So in this moment, I want you to see where we're seeing in their faces at this table. And I want to close your eyes. Okay. And right when I snap my fingers, you pick one person. And you imagine open your eyes and you look at them right now. Can you see that person?

Yes. Is there any way in the world I could have known who you would have picked? No. Much less who the other people would have been. Nope. Right? Right. I think it's a guy.

Is it a guy? It's a guy. If it was a female, he's in trouble. It makes sense. He's incredibly gay. Yeah. I love men. You know what?

He's very into pedicures, which I'm not saying is gay, but I've never even looked at my wife's toes. So that's something. Try it. Yes. By the way, you win. Hello. I like that you just knew it was the guy.

The great O.S. Roman, everyone. We now know his search history has foot fetishes all over it. Am I right? Which doesn't. By the way, Ose was asked to look at my phone earlier and I was like, I did not clear my search history. I hope he doesn't Google anything. Ose Perlman nude. Yeah, if you put Perlman in, it would have been a different P word.

Yeah, P instead of porn. Uh-uh, uh-uh. So what do we do? What do we do? What do we do? Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Think of this person's first.

first name. Okay. Count the number of letters in the first name to yourself. Okay. That was very quick, Ben. That was a very quick. Do you see it was a very quick count? That was too quick. Yes, of course too quick. If you're doing like Mitchell, I find that the longer names are a struggle. For sure. Five letters. Is it five letters? Yep. It is. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's impossible, right? You thought of all different people. You picked one in your mind. There's no way. We didn't tell a snap my finger. Couldn't have known. Okay. Here's what you do. I know where my dad is. That's beyond my powers.

Trick question, he's dead. He said, you don't talk to the dead. Where are you? Where are you? I talk to the dead. They just don't talk back. I'm like, Abraham Lincoln, where are you? Think of the name.

Think of any letter in the first name. You have it? Go from the first letter. Keep going all the way until you get to the last letter. Back and forth, back and forth. See if we get similar reactions. So when I get similar reactions, here's what I describe it as.

When I said Mitchell, Mitchell, typically double L at the end, the double letters make it hard to count. The person you're thinking of is there a repeat of a letter in their name? No. Okay, because here's what I mean by that. Sounds similar.

That mark or smell could make me pass out. I think of it. I feel like I just huffed something. You're thinking of this person's first name. Is that correct? There's a level of familiar. Can I show you this, Ben? Take a look, take a look. When I said to think of a letter, did you think of a letter or not really? Yes.

You didn't do the first letter, did you? No. M. You think of an M? No. Is there an M in the name? No. This could be.

I wonder if this is somebody you thought of and you changed. There was someone else you thought of, but you thought they were, this was like the person at the top. Oh, my God. You thought of one person sitting at the table that's kind of famous. Am I right? Yes. Oh my God. I just got that.

One of the people you were trying to flex on me. Someone famous. Look at that. Look at the top one. You see it? I see it. I don't know if this one's right because maybe you thought

of two different people here but the other one was sitting here. Were you considering somebody named Damon? What? Is that right? Yeah. But you changed from Damon and then you pick this other guy

but you don't have to him in forever. And who is the famous person that you thought of at this table? Tell us all who is it. Chris. Chris, who? Chris Angel. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. What? No, I don't even, the fact that he's asking you so that he can read your mind or mannerisms about Chris Angel

and then just stunts on you with Damon. Wow. So how did you do Damon then? I'm going to go up to the camera right now and just go mind-free and put my hand to the front. That's insane. Everything that I thought that I knew about you and your craft

reading people, looking, whatever, is in Chris Angel. How did we get Damon? I'll never tell. And just for the record, Josh is flexing right now. Just to let me know that he works out. Wow. That's just personality.

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Yeah. What? Wow. That's unreal, man. Because you had me going all over town. Down up, down. I'm thinking, Mitchell. Yes.

I'm like, this guy. He doesn't know. Sam, no, you completely tricked me. I was like, there's no, M. He fucked up. And no, he was just setting us up for the double fucking whammy. You had it from Jump Street, and you added some razzled dazzle. No.

Not always. There's some jazz along the way. But he was easy. Not like you. You could read him. You could read me. I can't, I can't read people's minds if they don't even know what their thing came out. You know already?

Yes. No, I don't know anything. Yeah, by the way, you got me. I don't know what I'm going. Are we keeping this going? No, no, no. Let's, okay, we're gonna do our last, we're gonna, it's gonna be the cherry on top. Lightning rounds.

People are gonna have to. What color and what are my wearing? Keep tuning in. Yeah. You're Calvin Klein, man. Not true. Skims. Skims?

Yeah. You love K. Meandies. You guys getting the plug? After like 47 podcasts, I finally took the plunge and I bought it. I know, sorry. What do you think of Christine? Do you like him?

I don't know him personally. He's a friend of the pot. But I'm, I don't know him personally. I know his manager. Dave, great guy. I was a fan for many years and still am a fan. Yeah. But I would describe it as.

I was initially more of a Blaine guy as I was coming up because I just, I just knew Blaine earlier than I knew Chris Angel, if that makes sense. But Angel, each one changed the game in their own way. Does that make sense? Yeah, sure. I love the fact that he's fearless. There's nobody like him fearless. He would do stuff where I know the inside scoop that was death defying.

Everyone's like, Chris, you probably shouldn't do this. You could probably die right now. He's like, I don't care. And you're like, what are easy? And maybe you talk about it. in the book. What are easy things that you pick up on that are part of your toolkit that people are missing out on in their everyday life, not taking advantage of that you're like, oh, if you only knew these two or three things, you could pick it up. Perfect. Like what are,

so a lot of the things that I will teach you are very easy on the surface. They are just above common sense. But if you apply them constantly, you will get like stacked up winds that will over time grow. So I want the key things I want, I want something that I can do in 10 minutes. Like, That's it. Ten minutes from now I'm doing it. And I will still do it 10 years from now. So a couple of those that are in here and that I like to teach, one of them is I take notes about everything, which sounds so silly and who cares. Right. But nowadays where there's AI and there's all these other things, I will remember everything when I meet you because I'll have written it down. Right after I meet you, I write down, putting your notes in your phone, put wherever you want. But I will then meet people and you're in a profession where you meet people often. And you might see somebody again in the month, in a year, in two years. But you have a coupon in your hand that never expires. it gets more valuable. Or if somebody told me, you know, oh my God, kids born May 21st.

I'm not a stalker that's not a mentalist, but I'll remember that. And it's so funny where if later on I find out something that was important to you, like my kid played lacrosse and they were in state championship. And I see you two years later, I'm like, as your son still in lacrosse championship, I know who he's wanted two years ago. You're like, wow, you made me feel seen, heard and remembered.

In a way that even today with day and age of AI and auto emails, the human touch goes so far. And I can't tell you how many times I've done a show. We're at the show. I read my briefing and I know who is there and who I met through who and who's going to be there.

And I just literally, it's not even a trick. It's not a magic trick. It's not even cheating. I just took the time to remember things about people and I met someone there and literally I meet them

and tell them something they told me a year ago and they go, dude, you're the craziest. How do you even know that? How do you remember that? I go, you know, you told me,

but they feel in a way like they're important to me. Yeah. And they are. And that's a superpower. For sure. Never forgetting someone's name,

something I did in my TED talk, it's something I do in the book, is if you're at an event and you meet someone in two seconds later, you forget their name, so awkward. It's the worst feeling in the world. And now you can't have a real meaningful conversation with them because the whole time, you're just worried about, oh, my God, what was their name? You're just like hung up on it. It's like having your fly down.

You're like, see my fly? So you write their name. No, I don't write their name. That's weird to meet you. You'll be like, oh, Joshua Beck. No, I totally agree. But I think that for a lot of people, myself included, I will meet somebody at an event and I've met so many people.

and for whatever reason my brain, it's not intentional. My brain won't clock what your name was. So here's what that is. Here's this trick. The trick for it. It's I repurposed a shampoo bottle. The instruction on a shampoo bottle are lather, rinse, repeat. Everybody knows that, right?

Lather. Make your health smell good. Rinse. You don't really need to repeat, but we got to sell more pantine provie. You know what I'm saying? So lather, rinse, repeat. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I repurpose that. I call it listen, repeat, reply. So listen is where you're going wrong. when you meet people, try this again. When you meet somebody and you realize you forgot their name, you didn't forget their name. You never knew it. You literally never knew it in the first place.

It's not a memory deficiency. It's that when they said it to you, you were thinking of something else. So when they said it to you, it's the exact same thing as if I handed you an etcher sketch right now, you just shook it really furiously. It's gone. It's just gone.

So right when they say the name, this is the only thing you have to practice is when you hear their name, don't think of what you're about to say back to them. Don't think of anything. for that two seconds, when they go to their name, like hear their name and immediately, repeat, listen, repeat.

You repeat their name back to them twice. So in that moment, they go, let's do a role play. Let's do a role play. You're in character, table read. Okay, you're remembering. You want to remember my name. Hi, Mr. Stauffer, so nice to meet you.

I'm Josh. Josh, Josh. It's nice to meet you too. So you nailed it, but try to be less of a psycho. That sucked. Less serial killer, more caring. Yeah, that's right.

Josh. So I would do, so here's what we do. Where's the double? How do you do without being weird? So the best way is that you just say, you just say, hey Josh, great to meet you, Josh. And so you tag it. Not true double.

I am the other one. Josh, Josh. Josh. Josh. Josh. Josh, Josh. Hey Josh. So now, reply is the next one.

Listen, repeat reply. So the repetition comes quickly where if you go, I would in that case say, hey, Josh, is that short for Joshua? And then you go, great to meet you, Josh. And so right there, you can do a couple different things. The reply cements it. The best visual indicators, if you're at the beach right now and I give you a twig, and I tell you write my name in the sand.

If you only wrote it really quick once, the first wave, it's gone. It washes away. But if you could take that tree, dig it deeper, and do it three times, it would take many more waves before we'd wash away. There'd be a trace. So when you say it back to them, I would literally in this case say, Josh, is that short for Joshua? And I go, I love that, Josh. Great to meet you. So I've just said that.

And I've done, I've done, is it short for something? Right? Or how do you spell it? So if you meet somebody, you can always say if it's a name that can be spelled differently. or you can comment on something physical, a compliment. So as soon as I say that, I go, Josh, I love that color shirt, man. That's a great shirt, Josh. So now he becomes Josh with the shirt.

So when you leave him and you see the guy again, you'll see the shirt. He'll be like, oh, oh, it's Josh with the shirt. Josh with the shirt. So either a compliment, a comment on spelling or practicality of the name, or connect them with somebody you know. So if I met you and I go, oh, my God, Ben, is that short for Benjamin? I go, it's so funny, my neighbor just named their kid Benjamin like three months ago. You don't hear that name as often.

Ben Benjamin, Ben, I now know your name. It's like really, so you just try this. Try this, practice this three times in the next week. I like it. And remember, listen, repeat, reply. Do it again, but Ben, be less creepy. If that's possible. Yes, for you.

It's hard. It's hard. You try it again. Yeah, yeah. Okay. But this time be Vishnu. I'm going to say, don't be Josh. Right.

You also have to give a shit about the person you're meeting. That's, I can't do that for you. Okay. Okay, let's try. So Ben's like, how do I get a book on being a good human behavior? So I'm automatically. I care about you. Okay.

Gotta be a stretch. Hi, Mr. Saffer. I'm Diane. Hi, Diane. Is that short for Dianica? It's great to meet you, Diane. Thank you. Good?

Nailed it. Final seg. What are you nuts? It's our gripes with people, places and things, both big and small, but don't forget people. Stay tuned.

Because at the end... Got a state of the end. We're doing... We're doing... Big final trick. Pose. It's our gripes with people, places, and things. both big and small, whatever, sticking in your craw.

Which one of you do I hate more? Is that what you're about to? No, I'm kidding. Love you equally. We'll go first. Take your time to think about it. Ben, what do you got? Okay, I teased it earlier.

Love my parents to death. They're the best. Literally, unbelievable people, watch the podcast. They get a kick whenever I talk about them. They called me last night. They went to a comedy show. And they called me and they said, Ben, you will never believe it.

This joke, it was unbelievable. And before they even started telling you the joke, I'm like, what are you nuts? Please do not try to repeat this person's comedy set to me. You are not going to explain it properly. I'm not going to laugh. It's not because it wasn't funny. It's because part of comedy is being there and seeing it,

which is why when you said that people repeat your story, your story that it just doesn't, I'm saying it doesn't hit the same. You cannot repeat a comedy set. It's absolutely impossible, especially if you're my parents. What are you nuts? No. Benjamin.

There's literally he said he called he said there was a gay Asian woman she called herself a geisha and I was like it's enough they go they're like so then Dave Chappelle said the problem with these whites no um my Woody Nuts moment of the week is uh I'm thinking about your dad right now and I completely lost it oh so my wonderful wife page she it was her birthday the other day. My wife's vegan. So my boys and I, we travel to this great vegan bakery. Well, they have vegan baked goods in regular to get a lovely cake. It's not always easy to get delicious vegan baked goods. I want to put in the effort, let her have a delicious cake. Say to the woman behind me. Where do you live? I live in L.A.

And there's no vegan products in L.A.? If you were in Mississippi, it'd be a different story. What are you kidding? There's plenty, but vegan whole birthday cakes are a little bit of an out. There's good, you know, vegan pastries. You want a full cake. Am I sensing the good guys next business venture right here? Vegan cakes? No. No. I'm not sure our head sales rep.

No. Yeah, that'll be your last sales job. Ben's like, we're going to put some butter in that thing. You know what I'm saying? There's going to be some animal products. For sure. You know, Chloe's in New York City, that place is exceptional. You've been there?

Vegan. Oh, that was what's it called? Wasn't it something else? So good in the village. Something beats. Didn't it turn into a beat? No, it's so good. I ate there the other day.

Okay, so it's still that. So good. So good. You kosher? No. Just vegan. I'm not just vegan. No, my friend was vegan who went to eat there.

So I had to find him a vegan restaurant. It's amazing. Wow. Just hooked you up for page. You're welcome. Thank you. Yeah, Chloe's. Chloe's.

I'm in. Google. So I go to take, so I go to buy the cake and there's three or maybe four different vegan cakes or so chocolate. There were four. I can read your mind. Okay. Okay.

There's vanilla strawberry, chocolate or red velvet. So say to the woman. Fourth one is called guilty conscience. Yes. I'm not going to mention the fourth one. I said to the woman behind the counter, I go, which one would you suggest? What's sort of the most popular of your flames?

She goes, if they're in the case, they're popular. Ooh, I go. The to do. Who needed the toad, babe? Pick. Okay? I don't need, if they're in the case, they're popular. Right.

That's tough. Right? What are you not? I was just like, there's a rough situation there where if you're at a restaurant and then you ask the waiter or waitress, what's your favorite? And then they pick something that you'll never eat. So then you just,

and then you say anything else, and they say two things in a row, and then you decide to pick none of those. So you've kind of annoyed them and also said, I don't trust you as a human being with anything, even though this is where you work. That to me is I've gone backwards on that now

because I want to know what they like and I want them to tell me, but I'm hoping that what they tell me aligns with my Venn diagram overlap of things that have no deal breakers. Like if there's beats, I'm not eating it. The superpower?

The superpower of a waitress is telling you that something on the menu tastes like ass. Yeah. That is the superpower. Yeah. The second that she goes, you gave her a couple. You're like, I'm thinking between the bass and this. Oh, no. The spare ribs old.

The second she says that, you're like, oh, I trust everything you're about to tell me. Yes. She completely took the veil all. Yeah. I love it. Yes. Not old ribs. Or do you trust them if they just go with the most expensive menu and the item?

And you're like, oh, you're doing a tip play here. Yeah, no, then I'll never trust. She's like, get the tomahawk for two, but just for you. You'll be good. Take the veil off for our new Saudi Arabian reality show. So wait, is it my turn for what are you nuts? That's my what are you nuts. It feels like a Sebastian Manascalco moment right here.

I'm a good buddy. It's like, it ain't right. What is mine from this previous week? Something that drives me insane. Is that correct? Yeah, you're traveling. Anything. You're on the street.

You come here and there's a one. and barefoot, it's 29 degrees. Yeah, the barefoot doesn't, yeah, that's an interesting one. You know what? You run marathons and 125 miles. Just, I can't stand when people are impolite. It's just like so, it's a, the waving in the car, I have allowed you in. And this is just a character deficiency.

You have, I've let you in. I give you the slight wave. You look at me and do not wave back after I've let you in. What are you nuts? What are you nuts? It's true. All right. your final. This is, you've kind of prepared us before, but this is the big trick.

So when you turn the mirror around, make this impossible, I, I ask Joshua a question. I say, who's sitting at this table in your mind, right? And so I've established the tone. But if I instead say to you, you get to come up with the question, you get to ask me the question. And I want to make sure that right now, if I say to you, big, I want you to write this big. I don't want to something small. I want it big. If I tell you, write down question that I could not possibly know the answer to, if you write this down, right now in this moment, and you show it to Josh, the question, do you think he will know the answer? No. He will not know the answer. No. So, okay, because if I, sometimes I'll say, like, I asked you or let I said, like, if I asked you to think of

your first crush, when I walked in here, I said, if you think your first crush, if you were mentioned on air, he's like, yeah, I mentioned. So I'm like, I can't do that. So we, we switched. I said, I'm not doing something that somebody will say I just chapped GPTed you. So if you ask me this question out loud, do you think I could just guess it or unlikely? I think you could guess it. It's probably not who's my first crush because how could I guess that? So maybe this is more of like what's my favorite or what's something, right? It'll be something about him that maybe you could narrow down.

How about this? Write the question. And you've never written this question down anywhere. Is that correct? Correct. No chance. This question exists. It's only in your brain.

Only in my brain. You haven't typed it in your phone. You haven't done anything. All the skeptics go, there's no, there's questions nowhere. You came up with it. No. Bam.

Question's nowhere. Okay. Write down the question and show it only Mr. Peck. Ready? Make sure I'm not peeking and I can't see anything. Just write the question. No answer. Do you want to use a different one?

Use your own pen. I'm just going to try. I don't even know if I can write with this. It's very big. That's what she said. Never to me. Is this hidden right now? So you can't see it.

Get a different marker. It might be too big. I use it to just write really big stuff. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Okay. Put it face down on the table.

Do you think you know the answer? No. You don't know the answer. No. All right. Ready? Yeah. I don't know.

I want you to ask me the question one word at a time. So it'd be like, like if I said, who is sitting at? And then you'd stop me right there. Like, that would have been the question, who is sitting at this table in your mind, imaginary? That's how I would have asked this question to you early. That's what I asked you to make up. Sure. So I want you to slowly, one word at a time, ask me the question.

Don't rattle fast because I want to see if I can try to pick it up as we go. So slowly, ask me the question one word at a time that you wrote down. Do you need a fact check it? No. Okay. One word at a time. What's my? Next word.

Favorite. Stop right there. You don't think you know it. What do people say? They said he did research on you. He did research. I got here. This guy's content, 95% food.

I've seen his Instagram. Look how you just smile. Look how you get nervous. Look at how he said to himself, why did I do that? I pick something else. So you know what? Instead of the truth,

this is where I make it fun. You lie to me. So instead, I tell you to make up, I would tell you tell me the answer. You tell me the answer. And I guess the answer, but what if you lie? Right, the lie.

What if instead of telling the truth, you lie? Nobody could know if you lied because even if I researched you a million times over, there's only one truthful answer. There's a million ways you could have just lied. Are we in agreement? Yes, we're in agreement.

We're in agreement. Take the piece of paper off the thing. Now that he smiled and got so weird, we knew and he hit himself in the face loser. I know what's something to do with food, so I don't even care about the question. I would like to know it anyways. Okay. Or maybe. Is there something written still?

Or maybe I. Just give me one sheet of paper. Or maybe I was tricking you. No. Maybe I have mentalists, the mentalist. Ready? Think of a number between one and a hundred. Think of the lie.

Think of how you would have lied to me. Think of how you would have, if you would ask me the question, and I said, what's the answer? And you said, ah, and you would have lied like that. The ah, the ah, is the best thing in my videos because it shows you didn't know what you were going to do. Do you understand? It shows there's no staging or setup because you,

it's very hard to act surprised. You know, as an actor, acting surprise is actually one of the most difficult things to do. It's kind of like acting drunk. You can fake it, but people can see the difference. Do you agree or no? Yeah, what are you asking me about acting? I'm no actor.

Yeah, yeah, no, I agree. I totally agree. Close your eyes. Can you get your finger off my junk? It's two words, isn't it? The lie is two words. It's two words. The truth is two words.

You wanted to make them sound similar. I like that you did that. Think of the second word. Think of the second word. That's not cool. Think of the second word. Think of the first letter of the second word. Think of the first letter and second words.

Of the lie. Of the lie. The lie. We did it like a s. It's not an S. Is it? No. Okay, okay.

Quick, Josh, look at what he was going to lie to me. Look at who's going to lie to me. Okay. I already know you got it right. I can't change. I can't change. Open your eyes. Open your eyes. I can't change right around.

What was the question? What was the question? What was the question? Say what's my favorite? Say it. What's my favorite? What's my favorite? What's my favorite? You just lie to me.

Were you going to lie to my face? You're a liar. Tell me what are you going to lie and say right there. What was it? Banana peppers. Banana peppers. Wow. Wow, dude.

How? How? How? Wow. And the truth was just slightly crunchy. Not too soft Brussels sprouts was the truth, wasn't it? That's so unbelievably scary. This is much scarier because I thought, I thought I was tricking you.

That is so you coded. I thought I was tricking him. And maybe, maybe it's because we talked about the cover being such a bright, beautiful yellow that I have inceptioned you. All I know is that is really. Tonight under your pillow when you go to sleep, reach under, there will be a banana pepper there. Good. And a stack of cash.

And you'll be scared forever. Wow. How good are banana peppers? Not my favorite. What? You're not eating them right. Really? What do you mean?

I didn't say, I don't like them. Let's end it on that awkward note. You guys just said yes. So much. Like, what do you mean? Why can you just be agreeable? Wait, but these aren't your favorite either. You lied.

I did. But they're great. They are, they are good. They're, you lied. Give me the book. The great O's Pearlman reads your mind, proven habits for success from the world's greatest mentalist. And if you want to waste so much time,

just go on Instagram or TikTok or YouTube or Facebook or anything and put in at OZ. It looks like Oz, folks. I know it looks like Oz. But it's O'S. Yeah, it's weird, you know, unusual name. I didn't make it up. At OZ the Mentalist.

It's at O's the Mentalist. It's at O's the Mentalist. It's at Oz the Mentalist. But go there. I know you, follow me. He's just watched all my videos. I see him. He's just, every single time goes, I see Joshua Peck go.

With the F. Until now, and he finally experienced it. You and Chris Angel. That's why. And banana peppers. How? Yeah. How? Chris Angel loves banana peppers. O's not for him. Does Chris Angel like banana peppers? Well known fact. Well known. Okay.

Okay. All right. Well, O's Perlman, read your mind. This has been, I mean, thank you. Thank you very Thank you, gentlemen. It was absolutely fantastic. I know what to get you. What? Brousel's brus spouts.

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