VIDEO: Mentalist Oz Pearlman Dazzles Howard and the Staff With His Wildest Trick Yet

No secrets were safe Wednesday morning when renowned mentalist Oz Pearlman returned to the studio to dazzle Howard, his wife Beth, and the Stern Show staff with one of his wildest and most unbelievable tricks yet. Before tapping into the staff’s minds, the prolific entertainer let listeners into his own, opening up about his love of magic as a child and early career in finance as well as his brand-new book “Read Your Mind: Proven Habits for Success from the World’s Greatest Mentalist,” which aims to blend the intrigue of mentalism with practical strategies for success.

But when it was time to put his talents on display, Oz didn’t miss a beat. He began by reading JD Harmeyer, Sal Governale, Richard Christy, and Gary Dell’Abate, analyzing their facial features and body language to correctly determine everything from their ATM code to what state they were thinking of. In Gary’s case, Oz went so far as to deduce which celebrity the Stern Show’s executive producer really wanted to have as a guest on the show.

“Gary, you choose and — bam — can you visualize the person’s face that you’ve decided?” Oz asked.

“Yes,” responded an increasingly anxious Gary.

“You see how he got very tense? Very erect with his back?” Oz asked Howard before turning back to Gary. “I think you were debating a guy and a girl. You thought of a guy … He hasn’t been on the show. You want him on the show. You admire him. Zach Galifianakis — is that who you thought of?”

“Yeah,” Gary said, turning bright red.

Sal, meanwhile, grew so flustered as Oz was reading him that he couldn’t remember his own ATM code. “I can’t think straight with this guy, Howard,” he laughed.

“Sal is shaking,” Beth noted.

At first, Oz’s incredible feats appeared unrelated. But then, while reading Howard, it became clear they were all part of some bigger plan.

“I said, ‘Think of someone from sometime in your past,'” Oz told Howard. “You ended up thinking of a person. Is it a guy? … It seems like a short name to me … Four letters in this guy’s name, isn’t it?”

“Correct,” Howard said with a nervous laugh. “I don’t know what’s going on here.”

“The name starts with a ‘Z,’ doesn’t it?” Oz asked.

“See, now I’m getting the chills,” Howard responded. “This is crazy. Yes, it does start with a ‘Z.’”

“The person you thought of, that you said I’d never get in a million years: ‘Zany,’ isn’t it?” Oz said.

Howard could not believe it: “That’s it: Zany. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know how you do this. This is insane.”

Insane though that may have been, Oz was only getting started. He looked back at Gary, JD, and Richard, and told them to show off the answers they’d written down just a few minutes before during their own readings. Sure enough, when held up together, it spelled “Zany.” “And are you ready, Howard?” Oz asked. “Sal’s pin code was 6402 … and that number upside down is ‘Zany.’”

“Get out of here!” JD said.

“How the fuck is that possible?!” Sal wondered.

Gary was stunned speechless.

Doubling down, Oz revealed he would also determine a secret word Howard and Beth shared between them that no one else in the world should or could know.

Howard didn’t see how that was possible. “If you do this, you are greater than Houdini,” he proclaimed.

Oz walked over to Howard in his chair. “You think of the word. You grab my hand. You shake it — ‘titties!’”

“Oh my god,” Howard and Beth both exclaimed in unison.

“He’s right! How could he do that?” Howard continued. “This is un-fucking-believable. The word is ‘titties.’ Oz, you’re at the top of your game, dude,” he concluded. “Man, it’s fucking amazing.”

Oz Pearlman’s book “Read Your Mind: Proven Habits for Success from the World’s Greatest Mentalist” is available everywhere.