He said, how are you?
And I said, you probably know.
See?
Lior Suchard.
Suchard.
Where are you from?
I'm originally from Israel, which is amazing country.
Yes
I travel all over the world, surprising people,
reading them.
It's not actually mind reading.
It's more about knowing how they think.
So I know how to manipulate their minds in a good way.
OK
Everybody looks so frightened with me.
All right.
I don't know what you're going to do.
But do something.
So yeah-- so I've been traveling.
And you had a birthday recently.
I did.
I brought you a little gift.
OK.
So can we bring the gift?
Not very small, but it's for you, for later.
OK.
All right.
And I want to show you something.
Are you familiar with this?
This is hieroglyphics.
It's called hieroglyphics.
Yes.
People use it 5,000 years ago to communicate.
Have you ever used one of those?
I have not.
You have.
No, had not.
You have.
Have.
You have.
Have, yes.
No, we just call it emojis.
OK.
All right.
But it's exactly the same thing.
History repeats itself.
So I decided to do something with emojis.
These express things that we think.
And we're going to try to do something.
Actually, I checked all the social media.
You know how many emojis are they total?
No.
About 42,103.
Do you believe me?
OK.
Yes.
Don't believe.
Don't believe me.
Don't believe me, but--
No.
OK.
All right.
I'll talk about this later.
We're going to do some selection of random emojis.
I have here a notebook filled with different ones.
These are known emojis.
I've got here 100 known emojis.
People know them.
People recognize them.
And you can select one of them freely.
OK.
So hold your hand like this.
OK.
Lift one up and look at it, and tell me if you recognize it.
So just--
OK.
All right.
You got it?
No, I don't want that one.
I don't want that one.
No, this is the one.
I don't want that one.
This is the one.
OK.
Can I-- oh, you've got-- oh my God.
OK.
Yeah.
You've got this one.
OK.
No, which is good.
No, this is good.
One more, and you had this one.
Never mind.
Yeah.
This is good.
This is ice cream.
I don't know if you know-- ice cream.
OK.
I don't have enough notebooks for all of you,
so if maybe you-- you want?
No.
You can-- no, no, look the board,
and you think of one as well.
And you're together?
OK.
So you can stand up, also.
Stand up.
Both of you stand up, and look at the board,
and you think of emoji.
Look at me.
[SNAP]
You have an emoji?
Yep.
OK.
You have an emoji?
Yes.
It's not this one?
No.
Perfect.
Which one did you pick?
Number three, the one with the heart.
Oh, the kiss.
Yes.
Muah, the kiss.
It's a good one.
Which one did you choose?
The smiley face with sunglasses.
Is that a free choice?
Nobody told you to chose this one, right?
No.
It's a free choice, and you chose this one freely.
What's the chance of someone knowing that?
Not very--
I didn't mean to choose that one, but go ahead.
Oh, no, this is luck.
Yeah.
This is all about--
Bad luck.
Yeah.
Can you open the gift for me for one second?
OK.
I did say a birthday needs balloons, so I got three--
Wow.
--which is very strange, right?
It's very strange.
I know.
Happy birthday.
No, but I want to go even crazier than this.
I've got here less known emojis.
Less known, so people will not feel so connected.
I don't know if you can see these,
but these are lots of difference.
And now, we're going to need the audience participation.
Who wants some emojis to select?
Shall we go?
Let me go, let me go, let me go.
We'll get some.
We're going to go you.
You can stand up.
Mix them up so we can see.
Mix them up so we can see the emojis,
so we can see facing Ellen and me.
Stand up, stand up, stand up.
Mix them up.
Stand up.
Mix them up.
You want some?
OK.
Stand up.
Let's go to the cheap seats over there.
[CHEERING]
No, it's fine.
You want some?
OK.
Stand up.
Mixed it up so we can see they're all different and--
[CHEERING]
Stand up.
Mix them up.
Show that they're all different.
Show us that they are all different.
Mix them up.
Cut them.
Mix them up.
Ellen, you get to choose one, also.
They are all different here, as you can see.
While you're choosing, one you guys look at your emojis,
and choose one for yourself.
And hold it close to your chest so we cannot see.
Only you can see it.
But you put your finger on one of them.
Well, I don't want to choose that one,
so I don't want us to--
Oh, you go with the first one?
I guess so.
Yeah.
OK so you can take that.
It doesn't matter, actually.
Take the first one.
But don't show me.
Don't show me.
I won't.
You got it?
These are really all different ones.
You can--
Right.
--see these are all different ones.
And here's the plan.
You are selected one?
And this is a free choice, correct?
Nobody told you what to choose.
Everything was completely fair.
What is the chance--
That we all chose the same one.
Yes.
That's what I'm thinking you did to us.
Will that be completely unbelievable?
It will be.
Wait, this is the moment where the audience goes, woo.
Woo.
They always do that.
Are you ready to show your emojis?
If this is the same one, I will be in shock.
Show us what you got.
Let me see.
Let me-- OK.
In Israel, in Hebrew, it's the same.
[LAUGHING]
No, it's not really the same.
But I did say sometimes, you have
to look at things from a different perspective.
You did select this freely, correct?
We got two of the same over there.
OK?
You did select this.
Nobody told you what to-- you didn't even
know you're going to be selected to this specific part.
You had many, many options to choose from.
I'm here with a shirt, with a sentence.
If you can, can you read what it says over here?
I would love for the world to be happier.
You have any idea who said this line?
I will give you a hint.
Who said this quote?
Here's a hint.
I guess it was me.
Yes, it was you.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
You said this.
Yes.
How would you put this into an emoji?
I would love for the world to be--
don't tell me that you got the happy.
[LAUGHING]
[CHEERING]
[APPLAUSE]
I know.
It's a crazy coincidence.
Crazy coincidence.
Wow.
I know.
The chance of that is nothing.
But going back to what you chose at the beginning,
nobody knew you would select this, and you selected the--
you selected the--
I sure did.
--the ice cream--
The ice cream.
--which is number 42 in the grid.
You selected, you said, number three.
And you selected number 11 over there.
It's kind of interesting, because I kind of lied
about the number of emojis.
I wrote here-- sorry, I wrote here 42, 11, and 3,
which is exactly what you said.
But yes, sometimes, you need to look at things
from a different perspective.
It says Ellen, which is you, Ellen.
That is me.
That is you.
[APPLAUSE]
So with that, I will say to all of you and to you,
to always think positive thoughts.
Do you know why?
Because you can never know who can read them.
Yeah.
That's a good thought.
That's amazing.
All right.
Go to our website to learn more about Lior.
That is incredible.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.