Oz Pearlman

A marker helps, a pad of paper helps, but it's not mandatory.

The abracadabra, the ah.

So we still get that moment of the wow, the ta-da.

But the lead up to it typically doesn't have any form of...

something that looks like it's doing the trick, if that makes sense.

It appears to be just a test of wills where I've trained my mind to see and observe things about you or influence you in such ways that the method seems to really be mind reading.

And that's the illusion I'm trying to present.

I mean, there's a guy in the UK named Darren Brown, who's really been...

The Godfather, the last like two or three decades, I would say, who broke ground.

You can't really throw... There's a guy named Kreskin, the amazing Kreskin, who in the US was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

I don't even know how many times, over 80.

And he was a real character and performed.

He created that whole motif.

But all of this started...

don't quote me on this, but about a hundred years ago where people used to just pretend to be psychics or depending on what you believe were psychics.

And then magicians kind of observe the way psychics do their tricks or whatever you want to call them.

Maybe they're doing it real, maybe they're not, but they found methods.

And the key thing to understand that's different between a psychic and me is what I'm doing is learnable, repeatable, and based in science.

Those very important things.

You can't teach someone to be a psychic.