Why Fear and Excitement Are the Same Thing
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer here with ASE, |
| 0:03.2 | Wynn, the greatest magician in Nuthelist in the world, been seen everywhere. |
| 0:08.2 | And now we've seen here in SoFi Stadium after selling out the Sydney Theater. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to the playbook. |
| 0:13.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:14.8 | So see, it's kind of like the WWE. |
| 0:20.3 | So, Hulk Hogan was a friend of mine. And I asked him and said, |
| 0:24.3 | Hulk Hogan, I said, is world wrestling real? And he said, David, it is real? The outcome is determined |
| 0:35.8 | beforehand. But world wrestling is real. I've had 18 surgeries. |
| 0:41.3 | I've done all wrestling is real, but the outcome is already predetermined. I kind of analogize |
| 0:48.0 | what he said to magic. It is. Because magic is real. It's just the outcome is predetermined. And I was curious if you could maybe |
| 0:57.8 | analogize Hulk Hogan's wise statements about wrestling into the magic of similarities or |
| 1:03.6 | difference about magic being real but predetermined. |
| 1:07.1 | It's exactly the problem that magicians have. |
| 1:18.5 | When you go to a sports event and you have a team that you're rooting for them, you want them to win, there's real suspense. |
| 1:22.7 | Am I going to go home happy, sad, upset? |
| 1:30.6 | And that is what every dramatic structure, the theater, the movies actually want to do. |
| 1:34.2 | They want to create the illusion of the first, and I add, the only time. |
| 1:35.9 | This has never happened before. |
| 1:37.6 | This will never happen again. |
| 1:42.0 | And basically, the theater is a confinement. |
| 1:47.9 | It's already a very contrived environment. So So yes, we know how it's going to end. We know the magician is going to find a card. We know that if something's going to float. Okay, |
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