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Speaker 2: I'm excellent. This is Mysterion calling from Toronto.
Speaker 1: Mysterian. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing amazingly amazing one.
Speaker 1: Oh dude. When you speak a language like that, people
who say that word amazing, they've lived it and they
want to share it. That means that you are on that.
Speaker 2: Path, absolutely no question about it. I live every day
making sure that the day that I'm living in is
just even a micro particle better than the day before.
I love that. I love that's that's just the way
that that I roll.
Speaker 1: When did you realize that it was time to make
that investment in such a thought? Because that's a powerful
mantra right there.
Speaker 2: Yes, It's been you know, a long time since I
was able to really accept that that's the only way
that people should be, you know, going about their life.
I lived a long time essentially grasping at straws and
hoping for the best. And I realized labor in life
that you can't you can't grow in that headspace. You
have to be appreciative. You have to be accepting of
whatever comes your way. You have to be able to
accept both the good and the bad. And sometimes even
when the bad happens, you have to accept that mistakes
and you know, curves in the road are just there
to build upon. You know, yesterday, for example, I mean
a micro task, but I was learning on dual Lingo
and I was getting frustrated and I was not able
to you know, remember four or five words and they
kept coming up and I was just ready to throw
the app down, and literally the app said, hey, getting
it wrong is still learning? And I went, yeah, it's
absolutely cool.
Speaker 1: Don't you love moments like that because you can take
that to a live audience and share it with somebody
who wants to receive it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, with my line of work,
people see it and they you know if you come
in it's just for entertainment, which is my purpose. But
you would not believe how many people at the end
of the night will text me or email me, or
you know, post something on social media where they say,
you know, you said something that really resonated, or when
you spoke to me on stage it felt there was
a connection, or and it's not something psychic or something
you know, esoteric, it's just that moment where they go,
oh my god, my point of view has been changed,
or my perspective is down a little bit more positive.
Whatever that outcome is, it's you know, it's needed for them. See.
Speaker 1: I love it that you say it that way, because
you know, you know how it is in this everyday world.
You have a lot of non believers. And my answer
is you haven't seen mysterian then until you see mysteria
in keep your comments to yourself because when you go
in there and you experience the moment, now you whatever
opinion you've got, trust me, it's not going to be
I don't believe in that stuff. You will, you will.
Speaker 2: But the thing is they don't have to. They don't
have to. You know, I had somebody say to me
about I don't know, maybe three or four weeks ago,
they said, what do you do when somebody comes to
a show or you know, says to you, I don't
believe you. And I think that's great, you don't have
to and I think that that disarmism. It it's a
learning because I'm not here to pull the wool over
anyone's eyes, and I'm not here to start a religion,
but definitely here to create a moment where the impossible
is possible. And I'm not talking about ending spoons. That's
just representative. I'm talking about making a minor change that
can lead to a huge result, and that could be
done through so many different avenues. And you can't you
can't hate on that. You know. You can say, well,
you know, I don't believe you. You know. And some
people they're going to live their life. They're going to
be stuck in a little box. They're not going to
want to get out of it. There's nothing more than
I can say to them as all the best, that
I'm here when you're ready. But all it takes is
just one little movement, one a little motion, and the
outcome is unbelievable. You know, one guy I know who
has been looking for employment and getting down on himself.
I just said to him, look, take outside the box,
employ yourself, find what you love to do. You're not
going to be rich overnight, but do what you need
to do. And you know, within a couple of months
of him self promoting, he's dog walking doing things like that,
and he has a little bit of income coming in.
But it's that headspace. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see this is the reason why that in talking
with my wife, I said that this You help people
find their needle in a haystack, and you do it
in a way that it's their discovery. All you do
on that stage, which I by the way, I call
an open door, and inside your open door you allow
them to step in, but then you give them the
ingredients on how to find that needle and a haystack.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, and most people do. Most people want to. Yeah.
And you know, even if somebody comes in all bravado,
guns and blazing, ready to do these things and they
get sidetracked or they stop, that's okay. As long as
they took a few stages and a few steps, they're
going to see that those few things do have an outcome. Now,
of course, for maximum outcome and maximum result. If you
constantly feed that beast, then you're constantly reinventing and changing
and criticizing their own you know, I take the word fault,
but your own nuances that you don't feel are working
for you, you're going to get more results. I do
it every day. I'm never happy with what ian I'm
don't get near I'm happy, but I've never satisfied with
what my results are, because then it becomes fagnant. You know.
Even recently, about two years ago, I had a duo
act and we did exceptionally well. We were doing amazingly
on television and on America's Got Talent and having Talor
and all these incredible things. And then the act split
and for the first time and over a decade, things
just kind of came to a grinding hallo and I said,
oh no, they wanted the duo, they didn't want me.
And then I realized that's just a though, that's just us,
and all I have to do is repackage a little
bit and send a different message out. And it takes time,
It takes a lot of you know, every step has
a million moving parts. But I just put my boots
to the ground and you know, with the help of
my wife, and we really re establish what it is
that I want to deliver, what it is I want
to do, how I want to say it, and the
path I want to take. I took a few steps back.
I said, you know what, I'm not going to go touring,
and good for you, you know, to bury my head
in the sand and avoid the elephant in the room.
I'm going to focus on what I need to do
in the moment right now, and every day build on that.
And I'll tell you something. In those eighteen months since
that's happened, it's been night and day. I look like
a different person. I present as a different person. I
saw somebody last night that I haven't seen in almost
a year who looked like at me and went, oh
my god, I barely even recognize you. Yeah, because it's
not just a physical thing. It's a mental thing, and
it's what you're putting out.
Speaker 1: I always call that you're wearing your energy, and you do.
You wear your energy, which is so fascinating because a
lot of people would like to chuck it up on
an their sleeve. But no, no, no, no, no, no,
not mysterious. Mysterian is going to come out there and
be mysterian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have. I have to be violent, true authentic self,
you know, and that and that, you know in any industry,
you know, you have to be you know, if people
would say to me, you know, well, how is it,
It's such a silly question. How is it You're getting
a corporate gig and you have tattoos all over your
arms because they're hiring you for my tattoos. They're hiring
me for my tattoos, you know what I mean. People
want to find whatever excuse it is to validate their
own insecurity, and that never works. It doesn't kiwash the
person they're trying to bury, and it only isolates them.
And it's a it's a weird headspace. When you shift
to being accepting and you're loving and supporting, the doors open.
And once that happens, you can see everyone's gonna have
a I hate this for but everyone's going to have
an adversary. Yep. You don't have to worry about your adversary.
Just have to worry about what you do. And the
minute you do that, and you just only focus on that,
your adversary can be Lex Luthor for all matters they're
not going to have it over what you.
Speaker 1: Do the journey from the green room to that open
door which we call the stage, to the actual performance.
I can't imagine the evolution of mental changes that you
go through. And is it a walk of receiving as
you take each step forward.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think the answer you're going
to get may disappoint you. I think, first off, there's
a lot of gratitude. But then the minute I go
into a green room and I know I'm going on
stage and let's say half an hour, I go kind
of lank and go on automatic in a weird way,
because no two audiences are a lot, so I can
replace something in my mind over and over again. And
then I go out on stage and it is nothing
like I assumed it was gonna being. Never is You're
going to have a totally different outcome. I'm always prepared.
But as for scripting, as for you know, crowd work
these things, there is a very loose scripting. There is
a very natural ability that I have with the audience
and being able to know who to talk to and
how to interact with them. If there's God forbid, somebody
who's maybe intoxicated, which can happen. I know how to
handle that. That just comes from years of experience. But
when I go on stage, it's more like there it goes.
I'm Superman in action. Superman, he's flying, he notices somebody
in distress. He doesn't think about it. He just goes
down and deals with it in the moment. And that's
kind of the way I approach it as well, you know.
And so there is obviously gratitude, there's obviously excitement. There's
obviously the lead up to an event. If I have
an event coming two and three events coming up in
Canada that I'm very much looking forward to. I have
corporate events, and I have a weekly that I do,
and have residency, you know, and I'm always you know,
tomorrow night, I'm back at my residency. And I did
it last night for the first time in a few weeks,
and I was very excited to go back in. So
there's of course that natural, you know, Christmas morning feeling
that you're excited, you want to get you can't open
up the gift of being able to perform. But I
don't overthink it. I don't say, well, today I'm going
to do this and this and that, and it never works,
it never it. That can lead to disappointment because if
I go in there and it's not the way that
I perceived it's going to be, it could throw you
after your game, especially if you're not used to it.
So yeah, that's my answer to that.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Mysterion coming up next,
The Man Who Sees Tomorrow. We are back with Mysterion.
I'm really into animal totems and things, and I'm very
excited to find out if if you do have a
totem animal, because because the way that you speak with us,
you don't talk to us, you don't talk at us,
you talk with us, and that to me is communication
from somewhere that you have learned how to master.
Speaker 2: I think that comes from being spoken at ooh. And
I think that that comes from not being heard oh boy.
For many years, many many years, A lot of the
times I would have an icreative idea or just an
idea in general, and it was overlooked, and I don't
know where the disconnect was from. And it's frustrated, as
it would frustrated anybody. Frustrated me, and it make me
angry because I never felt heard. I always knew that
I had more to offer than was the allowed. When
I was really young, I was in culinary school, and
you know, I had very loud hair. This is the
you know, the early nineties, had very crazy hair, and
I loved it, every minute of it. But if my
hair grew back and I put it back the way
it was. But but you know, there were bets when
I went into day one, you know, the first weekend,
there were bets how long I would last. You know
that guy with the green hair, how long I would
give him? A week and a half. It was back
I ended up on the heath list. And you know,
it wasn't until later in the year when I befriended everybody.
They said, you know we had bet. You cost me
a lot of money and said, how I lost a
bet on you instead of bet no no, no no no,
you lost your own bet. You shouldn't have bet against me,
you should have bet for me. So there was a
lot of instances where these things would happened. Where I
saw other people, they were heard, or their ideas were picked,
or their their their concepts were used in a maybe
as a consultant, who knows, But I often would say,
I wonder why I'm not being put on the same level.
I think it came from a couple of places. I
think one, I don't compliment people easily, so I don't,
at lack of a better term, I don't care that.
So I think that people are afraid of that, you know.
And I think that there's a realness and a truth,
and I don't think people want to hear the truth
a lot of the time. I think they want their
own idea, they want to expedite their own idea, and
they want a lot of yes men. And because I'm
not one of them, then and guess what, man, I'm
avoiding the people. I don't want to be in their
circle anyway. So my solution to that and being heard
and being able to come up with a way to
communicate was by navigating in circles of people that appreciate
what I'm doing, respect what I'm doing, and can work
in tandem with what I'm doing. And there's been so
many people who have met where you know, you may
say they're not a list, or they're not the top tier,
or they're you know, doesn't matter. Everyone's a lift, everyone's
top tier. I'm succeeding because it's surrounded myself with people
who were like minded.
Speaker 1: Your Instagram account, my god, you do a great job
with that with the videos and things. You talking about
an addiction there where it's like you just go to
the next one, and go to the next one, go
to the next one. I mean, but I mean to me,
that's like, I realize it's selling tickets, but the fact
of the matter is you're still moving people through your
videos on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know what that I'm not even
reaching my potential with that because I haven't put I'm
waiting for my team to come together. I have other
so many moving parts. Once the team gets back together
in Toronto in the summertime, I've I got a plan
to hit the city hard and create a lot of
really amazing content and then put that out and it
kind of ready. You know, I'm not going to guess
on my city. But in the winter, you can't film.
It's cold, it's ugly. You know, it's not the right
framing for You're not going to stop somebody and do
something in the middle of the winter. So I'm very
limited to a four or five month gap. But now
that i have the formula down and I have the
ideas down and they're all ready to go. What wait
and see what happens in the summer. It's going to
be mind boggling.
Speaker 1: Your mantra is the man who sees tomorrow in reality.
Don't we all have this gift. It's just that you've
learned how to listen as well as hone your gift.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I feel that everyone has the ability to
do what I do. I mean, I make a joke
at a child can do it with thirty years practice,
but we do it every day. You know. I was
talking to my wife and I said, I have an idea.
I'm going to go on stage and I'm going to
put on a risk support, you know, like if you injured,
your risk type thing, and I'm going to I'm going
to say, just wear one. I'm going to put one
on and I'm going to say to the audience. And
I haven't done this yet, but I know it's going
to work. I say, you know something about me that
I haven't even communicated. How many people have noticed my wrists?
And everyone will put their hand up and I'll say, automatically,
without me telling you anything, you know, I hurt myself,
and because you know I hurt myself, you could then assume,
because I'm middle aged, that I'm probably not playing a sport.
I probably fell and landed on my word, and you
would be correct. You see where I'm going, and I say,
now you have to look for those nuances and clues
in me, and I'm actually communicating something to you. And
then I take the wristband off and I go. But
it was just for show. I've really this is no injury.
But my point is is we all wear our thoughts
on ourselves, what we do, how we speak, how we stand,
what we wear. If there's a rep you know not
I'm not saying judging, I'm saying observing. If you look
at somebody on the public transit and they're covered in
stains spatter, you can make an assumption they're a house
painter or an artist. You can look at their hands,
you can look at little things about people. There are
lots of nuances that we as people give off. There's tells,
and we all do it every day. Some people call
it judging. You can be that way if you so wish,
you could look at someone and judge them. I'm not
using that word, but it is a way to do it.
Or you can look at it from a positive perspective,
and then you can look at patterns. You can start
looking at patterns in different age demographics, you can start
looking at patterns in different income demographics. And after you
do this for a while, you can start predicting the
deadly accuracy things that are going to happen. So the
whole concept to be able to see tomorrow is that
there are only so many outcomes. There are only so
many and nothing is going to so drastically change in
one day. Everything's going to micro change. So guess what
you can predict what's going to happen at least you
can come close to it. And I'm not asking people
to make a bet on the stocks. I'm asking you
to make a bet on yourself and make a nuance,
make a small change and get to the next stage.
And I package it as entertainment, of course, and there's
a big aspect of it that is a show. But
of course the underlying messages is that everyone can do
this with the right braining.
Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about you?
And as you hit that road this coming summer, I
want people to come and experience you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely you're in North Carolina? Is that correct? Yes, sir,
so I may be in North Carolina. I will let
you know if that comes to frusion. I'm also a
toy collector and I'm going to be at a toy Yes,
I'm a massive toy collector. I have one of the
biggest action figure and toy collections in Canada. So you
know everything from original Johnny West's and g I Joe's
and Ninja Turtles and Star everything, complete stats of this stuff.
I mean I buy them every day. So there's a
toy convention happening in the summer and I'm talking to
them about getting me on a panel and doing my
act at the convention. So if that happens, I will
I will let you know. But generally speaking, if you
go on my Instagram, Mystery on the mind Reader, or
on my website Mystery onthemind reader dot com. The current
website completely big, overhauled, Like I said, lots of things
going on in the many, many moving parts. But it's
about to relaunch. I have a site ready to launch
it about two weeks. It's ready and it's going to
have all my listings where I'm going to be in
the States. I have some dates in the States and
across Canada and even in Europe coming up. I love it.
Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show. I mean
even if we sit there and we break down toys,
because I mean that that would be a subject all
its own that deserves all the attentions.
Speaker 2: So absolutely, because I have a question for you, Yes, sir,
what was your toy growing up? What was your favorite toy?
Speaker 1: It's sitting right here in front of me right now.
I have nine of them, and I will continue to
buy them because I want to. I want to take
them from the world and protect them. It is a
Mumbo Jumbo, which is a blue plastic elephant that does
aerobics and it does acrobatics and so and I saw
City Brady on The Brady Bunch with one of these.
I dude, I still collect these darn things.
Speaker 2: And by you saying that I've already been able to
deduct your age, I've been able to deduct what era
you're from, you see where I'm going. That's where I automatically,
I totally know. The toys are amazing. They're amazing. Yeah,
I absolutely adore toys. And if you if you go online,
you tite Mysteria on the Mind for your toy collection.
You'll photos of me in the media with my toy house.
I have a house literally filled with toys. I mean
I was buying last night. I was out by Residency
and we do. How it works at the Residency is
I have my own little room and they bring in
groups that it's a speakeasy themed venue, so people command,
they sit at the bar, they have dinner, and then
they buy a ticket to come and see me. And
so I kind of get small groups of seven or eight,
ten people that come in the room and I do
ten fifteen minutes and then you know, every twenty minutes
another group comes in. And it's quite a fun little
ability for me to workshop stuff and meet people very intimately.
But when I'm downtime, like last night was slow. You know,
it's Toronto, it's still cold. Out of not so many shows,
I've probably did four or five that night, so I
was just sitting in there on my phone for a
bit of the night, which is rare there. So what
did I do. I went on a toy auction and
I'm sitting there and I'm watching all the stuff coming
up and I'm buying Heartland cowboys from the sixties above
Johnny West. You know I bought uh, I bought a
uh like a knockoff stretch Monster from Mexico. And it's
so old that the plastics dried. Yeah, you say it's now.
It's not even a stretched monster. It's a block, you know,
like you can't do anything with it. But it's vintage.
And I bought a I don't even know what I spent,
but I bought like maybe seven pieces last night. And
this is so non. I mean, I buy toys almost
every other day. Tomorrow there's a big there's a toy
shop in Toronto called Treehouse Toys and Collectibles, and they
literally have a warehouse and they're like they went through
it and they're just having a garage sale, a spring
cleaning garage sale tomorrow. So you bet that I'm their
first thing in the morning with a pocket full of
silver because I'm going to clean them out, you know.
And there's no room. That's the same with Stover's places
is filled. But you know what, it brings me great joy.
And if anything brings you joy and it isn't hurting you,
why not, you know, why not to let people like
to vacation. I hate vacation, I really do. I travel
all the time. My vacation is at home. That's it.
So I sold my home with things I love. I
love it.
Speaker 1: Man, you got to come back to this show anytime
in the future. That door is always going to be
open for you, Misterious, you'd be brilliant today.
Speaker 2: Okay, you too,