Oz Pearlman

Who cares?

Sure, it's an escape.

Sure, it's fun.

I could do the same thing as 98% of my competitors and realize it's cool.

That's great.

I realized what's going to differentiate me is when I make it about other people, right?

So the way the story gets told, the way a thing is remembered is much more emotionally impactful if it has something to do with the person watching you, right?

That moment that connects with them where that was a card trick, so to speak.

But the card trick when you recount it to somebody will be completely different because when I just guessed two pair in a poker hand, that wasn't that meaningful.

But when you sit back and rethink this through and go, I shuffled these cards, I cut them a bunch of times.

And then it was the date of my birth.

Like, how could that be, right?

That story is going to get told in a very different way.

And hopefully for months and years to come.

And that's a very small parallel.

But when I perform, I always make it about the people watching.

If it's for an NFL team, it's going to be what matters to the football viewer.

Somebody who's not a fan of me.

I came along for the ride.

I'm trying to catch new people and have them buy into me and what I do.