[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Brooke Burke.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
Now, some people think magic is for nerds.
Not me.
I think magic is really cool.
I think magic is sexy.
So let's get this party started and bring
out the hot hipsters of hocus pocus, Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
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Oh, we're gonna have fun tonight.
If a magician fools Penn and Teller, they walk off,
"Fool Us" trophy in hand, and then
they get to come back and perform in Penn and Teller's
world-famous magic show.
So let's meet tonight's first magician.
[fireworks booming]
- Hey, I'm Cashan Wallace, AKA Cash Magic.
I'm from Warren, Ohio.
I was pretty shy and reserved as a kid.
Magic was there in the beginning,
but I really appreciate my mom for putting me
into all of the artistic things
like acting, modeling,
band to help me figure out my path.
I always say anything you put your mind to
you're capable of achieving.
You just got to believe it's possible.
I feel like my life is a living example of that.
Like, I've had some great moments in my magic career,
but I've also had some slip ups in life and magic.
I would say I've come close to big time,
but I haven't made it there just yet.
Tonight is my chance to show the world what I'm capable of,
and I'm gonna crush this.
[cheers and applause]
- All the way from Ohio, please welcome the magic of Cash.
[cheers and applause]
Hi, Cash.
- Hi.
Good evening, everyone.
Tonight, I'm gonna be doing a classic in card magic,
one that most if not all magicians know.
So I'm doing this to challenge myself,
because if I want to fool two of the most
knowledgeable magicians, I have to put the Cash spin on it.
First, we're gonna need a card randomly
selected from the pack. - OK.
- OK?
How we're gonna do that is I'm gonna
go through the deck like this, eliminating cards like this.
And you're just gonna stop me somewhere along the way.
- OK. - OK?
- So let's go.
- Stop. - Here?
You want this card?
- Yes.
- I want you to go ahead and look at the card you've picked
and show the audience as I look away so I don't see anything.
- Now? - Yep, and remember it.
[light funky music]
- OK.
- Perfect.
I'm gonna have you place that in my hand facedown.
Now, you just remember your card.
I'll place the card--
it's the tag.
I'm not gonna push it in all the way yet,
because right now, we can assume we
know where the card is, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- But if we just wait, I want you to imagine your card
rising through the pack one card at a time
until it hits the top of the deck.
- OK.
Ready? - Whew, ready.
I have faith in you. And you've done that?
- Yes.
- Let's see how we did.
- Amazing.
- This king of spades?
- Yes.
[cheers and applause]
OK.
Whoo.
- Good job, good job. - Thank you.
We're connected.
- Yes, we are.
Now, that's the first phase.
- OK.
- So I know there may still be some skeptics out there.
So just to make this a little more--
just to make this a little more--
you know what I'm trying to get at.
- Yeah. [laughter]
Dramatic. - Yes.
- Mind-blowing. - I'm gonna--
I'm gonna have you sign the card right
here so we can confirm it's the same card
from start to finish.
- Got it.
OK, here we go, signing my name.
There you go.
- Beautiful, beautiful signature.
- You're doing great, Cash.
- Thank you.
This is now a unique one-of-one card.
There is no other card like it in the world.
- OK.
- So we're gonna take your card and do just as before.
I'll place it sticking out.
- Mm-hmm.
- And this time, I don't even want to do the actions.
I want you to go ahead and push the card in.
- OK. Like this?
- Yes.
- OK.
OK.
- And then square all the cards up.
- All right.
- Perfect.
OK.
And just as before, do the same thing,
imagining the card rising up one at a time
until it hits the top. - Ready?
- Yep.
♪ ♪
You've done that?
- Yes.
- I'll have you check it out. - Me?
- Yes.
- Hmm.
Now?
- Yes, now.
I'm getting nervous.
Did it work?
- Wow.
- And it worked.
- We did it.
Gosh.
[applause]
Amazing.
That's amazing.
What?
- Thank you.
- You're doing great.
You're doing great.
So there may still be some skeptics out here
about how this is working.
So we're gonna up the stakes.
I'm gonna be completely transparent.
We're gonna put the cart in the opposite direction this time.
- OK.
- So you can see. - Yep.
- All right?
I'll even show you the face of it
so that you can see here as well.
- Yep.
- And I'm gonna have you push it in so we see it go in with
the-- the signature on it.
- Just like that? You ready?
- Boom.
- OK.
- And I'll show you from the back one last time.
- Yep.
I know, I know.
It is pretty intense.
We're gonna do one last thing to keep
this a little interesting.
This is the most intense part, putting
the cards into the box. - Mm-hmm.
[laughter]
- I'm kidding.
The cards are inside of the box now.
- OK.
- There's no way sleight of hand can happen here.
- Mm-mm.
- It's all inside the box.
I'm gonna have you hold your hand out.
OK?
Perfect.
And just like before, you're gonna
imagine your card moving, but it won't go to the top.
Let's imagine it going to the bottom.
- You think I can do that?
- I think you can.
You're doing good.
I want you to imagine the card getting heavier and heavier.
- OK.
- And it starts sinking through the box.
- OK.
- I want you to imagine the card now going to the outside
of the box in your hand.
- OK.
- Have you done that?
- Yes.
- If everything has worked, that card
should be right here.
Seems as if it didn't work.
But it did.
I just left out one little thing.
Your card is actually right here underneath
of the cellophane here.
It just stopped under that.
- No way.
What?
[cheers and applause]
Oh, my gosh.
Wow, Cash, that's amazing.
[cheers and applause]
Whoo. - Thank you.
Thank you.
It was all Brooke.
- I'm just following directions up here.
- I'll have you go ahead and take the card out,
really make sure it's under the cellophane, and I'm not--
- Yep. - --faking it.
- It really was under the cellophane.
This is my card. Wow.
- Now, honestly, I could stop here.
But there may still be some skeptics.
Let's do it one last time.
[laughter]
So I'm gonna have you sign the back of the card as well.
- OK.
- Just go ahead and do it like--
- OK.
- Perfect.
We're gonna do it like we did just before.
Your card--
- Yep, that's my card.
- --yes, goes faceup into the pack.
And I'll show you one last time just right before the--
before it closes up.
I'm gonna need you to imagine really hard this time all
the details because it's gonna rise to the top,
but you're gonna see the moment it happens.
So I want you to just start picturing
your card right there.
- Right over the top?
- Yes, just like that.
- What?
[cheers and applause]
- The signed card.
- Wow.
Oh, my gosh.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's some Cash Magic.
Oh, my goodness.
That was amazing.
Hold on, let's talk.
[cheers and applause]
Thank you for letting me participate.
- Of course.
- That was so much fun.
How long have you been a magician?
- I feel like I came out of the womb just doing
magic, basically.
But if we're gonna be serious about it,
interested about the age of six,
and it's just been there ever since.
- I mean, you were definitely born to do it.
You've got, like, such a swagger about you.
That totally gave me the chills.
That blew my mind.
Actually, I've got to ask you this, kind of off topic,
but I'm curious, for a guy like you that has so much charisma,
do you use magic to like--
- Yes.
[laughter]
- You don't know what I was gonna ask you.
[cheers and applause]
No.
I mean, what-- no, I mean, like, everybody's got, like,
a pocket full of one-liners.
Like, do magicians actually use that sometimes
in their favor to, you know?
- I'm gonna be honest.
I don't-- I don't really care to do all that.
People think I do.
Does it happen?
Maybe.
[laughter]
- Is this a big moment for you to be here with us tonight?
- Definitely, definitely, and I thank you for all being here.
[cheers and applause]
I feel like this is a turning point for me in many ways.
And this is just kind of like a--
I think, a hard shift for me to be like, it's up now.
Like, we're going.
Everything I've been trying to, like,
do the past couple of years is about to just, like, go crazy.
- Yeah!
- Yeah. - Love it. Yes.
OK, well, let's see if your Cash Magic has
bought you a "Fool Us" trophy.
- Oh, Cash, you have got balls--
[laughter]
--to come out here and do an ambitious card
after we've seen hundreds of ambitious card routines.
I mean, that is amazing, and you totally flipped us out.
It is a fabulous, fabulous routine.
We just couldn't love you more.
And you are one of the classiest magicians
we've had on here.
Just total class and style and honest and as sincere
as a magician can possibly be while lying his ass off.
It was just-- just fabulous.
We just loved you in every way.
We just thought it was great.
And, you know, we also love this show.
We've been doing this show for over a decade.
And we-- we just love doing it, bringing
out magicians, seeing the best magicians in the world,
like you.
It's been a great, great 10 years of our life, fabulous.
But there is a really bad part of our job.
And this is the part of the job that absolutely
sucks because this is where it becomes
like professional wrestling.
And, clearly, you are the face.
You are the good guy.
And, clearly, we are the heels.
We are the bad guys.
When I say the next thing, I will guarantee you
the audience is gonna boo us.
They're gonna boo us and probably attack us
because they love you, we love you,
but we don't think you fooled us.
[audience booing]
- Boo! - We love you.
You're the best.
- I love you guys. - You're great.
- I love you guys. - I don't like that.
[cheers and applause]
- Cash, do they know how you did your trick?
- I think they got some of my trick
and know what's going on.
They're smart guys.
- Just fabulous.
- All right.
Well, you totally fooled me.
I enjoyed that so much. We love you.
I love you. Good luck to you.
- Thank you.
- Cash, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
Penn and Teller will perform later tonight,
but they still have to take on another magician or two
when we come back.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Special delivery.
There's a new magician at Penn and Teller's doorstep.
Take a look.
[fireworks booming]
- Hello.
My name is Ales Hrolicka, and I come
from Prague, Czech Republic.
Magic was my first love when it comes to performing,
but it didn't take long until juggling caught my eye.
There is an interesting contradiction
in performing both arts,
because a juggler tries his best
to show his skill and tricks, whereas a magician
tries his best to hide them.
When I was 14 one of exes was recognized
by French organization Magicians Without Borders,
who traveled with them around Africa
performing at hospitals, children's homes,
and orphanages.
And it opened my eyes how much impact magic could have
and the places where it could bring me.
In 2020, I graduated circus school in Rotterdam.
Ever since, I have been creating and performing solo,
as well as together with my partner,
bringing magic little by little
into the world of circus.
Normally, when I perform, I like
to be introduced as a juggler and then surprise the audience
when I work in the magic.
And I won't have that advantage tonight.
But the act I will perform tonight
is a special selection from my research
over the past few years made especially for this show.
I don't know if I will fool Penn and Teller,
but I do know I will show them something
they will both enjoy.
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome Prague's very own Ales Hrolicka.
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
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[cheers and applause]
- Ales Hrolicka.
Wow.
That was astonishing.
I've never seen anything like that.
- Thank you so much.
- You're welcome.
Thank you for being here with us.
Penn loves juggling, and from the look on Teller's face,
I think he does too.
Is that totally original?
- I don't really know what it is,
what I'm creating, but I would say it's-- it's me, yeah.
- What was it like traveling with Magicians
Without Borders?
- That basically kicked off my career, let's say,
and I cannot believe that my mom said yes to me
going to Africa when I was 14.
- What does it feel like for you
to be able to bring joy to people all over the world
of all ages?
- I love it.
And I don't want to be doing anything else, honestly.
[cheers and applause]
- All right, Ales, let's see if you've juggled
your way to a "Fool Us" trophy.
Here we go.
Boys?
- [laughs]
This may not seem like high praise,
but it really is.
Through your whole act, I just giggled like a little boy.
I just can't stop giggling.
It's just fabulous.
You got an abstract sculpture there,
and your whole act is an abstract sculpture.
The whole thing is just great.
You know, I started out as a juggler.
I love juggling.
And the one part of juggling I don't like
is juggling with rings, and you've changed that.
I am now the biggest ring juggling fan ever.
Beautiful stuff.
And--
- Thank you so much.
- --you invented, as far as I know, two juggling
moves I have never seen--
the man-bun manipulation with rings
and the ear-to-ear ring thing.
And just no matter how beautiful and how gorgeous
the whole act is, I can't stop giggling.
I'm sorry.
I've just been filled with joy every moment
you were out here.
One of the things you did with the rings is something that--
very similar to what I did way back
on a tour with the Residents in Europe years ago.
I won't say how it's done, but the disappearing of the half
ring is just gorgeous.
All that looks beautiful.
And I got to tell you, you may have-- you are the person who
has made me giggle the most on this show,
but you did not fool us.
And you are such a great juggler.
Man, I love that.
- Thank you so much.
It was my pleasure, really.
- Well, you didn't fool them, but you
have two new big-time fans.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- I love you guys.
- Ales Hrolicka.
[applause]
It's so fun to see so much joy in the room tonight
and to see the boys giggle.
I love it.
Be like a boomerang and come right back, everyone,
after this quick break.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[applause]
- Welcome back.
Our global showcase of amazing magic
continues with this next act.
[fireworks booming]
- We're Henry and Klauss, and we are from Brazil.
- Like a lot of magicians, we started young.
- We met at a magician's club, and we
discovered we had the same passion, the same dream.
So we started doing some shows together.
- But, in Brazil, just a few people
make a living doing magic.
We've had to work hard to convince Brazilian
that coming to see magic in a theater is something to do.
- So we've done big stunts, like setting a world record
for the longest levitation in the biggest
square in Sao Paulo, 4 hours and 20 minutes.
- And doing big shows on TV, we are changing
the face of magic in Brazil.
- And now, Penn and Teller,
we'll show you why Brazilian magic
is some of the best in the world.
[applause]
- We've got a special treat for you now.
Joining us from their theater in Brazil,
give it up for magic duo, Henry and Klauss.
- Hello, Penn and Teller. Hello, Las Vegas.
I'm Henry. - I'm Klauss.
And we are from Brazil.
- We're doing a show now in Sao Paulo,
and we're really excited to share this with you,
because this might be the most dangerous stunt
ever performed on "Fool Us."
Behind us, you see two 55-gallon steel barrels.
Why two barrels?
One for me, Henry, and the other one for
my daredevil partner, Klauss.
These barrels are rigged with some explosives.
And, yes, we're going to be locked inside of them
and also get handcuffed to each other
outside these two small holes.
The barrels will be raised 30 feet up in the air.
And our assistant will light this 90-second fuse.
All we have to help us escape is this tiny hair clip.
If we do not escape before the fuse burns
through the explosives, that means...
[speaking in native language]
Which is a Brazilian slang
for "a disaster is about to happen."
Each of us will have a camera inside
with us so we can follow the action the entire time.
[tense music]
Las Vegas, Sao Paulo, wish us luck.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
One camera at Klauss' side, and the other camera at my side.
♪ ♪
[alarm blaring]
- [grunting]
[loud explosion]
- [screams]
[audience gasps]
[cheers and applause]
[uplifting music]
♪ ♪
- We did it!
And we hope that what happens in Brazil
might get us a trophy in Las Vegas.
[cheers and applause]
- Henry and Klauss, everyone.
Wow, wow, wow.
That was incredible.
I felt like I was watching a suspense thriller.
Are you both so busy that you couldn't make it to Las Vegas?
- Yeah, we're doing a Brazilian tour.
It's been a very busy year, so it's great to be here, too.
- Well, thank you, guys.
We loved that.
[cheers and applause]
both: Thank you.
- So how did the two of you discover that you
wanted to work together?
- Well, we have a lot of coincidence in our lives.
- Yeah, it's a funny story because we
went to the same high school.
Our moms went to the same school in college.
And we were born in the same neighborhood
but never knew each other.
And then we met in a magician's club.
And we went like, this is-- we need to be working together.
- It's like destiny.
- Yeah.
- All right, Henry and Klauss, we've got a trophy packed up
and ready to ship to Brazil.
But first, let's see if you fooled Penn and Teller.
Boys?
- Henry, Klauss, that was just really great.
We loved the trick.
We loved the whole routine.
Everything about it was great.
And I also love learning that in Brazil
you have slang for "a disaster is about to happen"?
You have a slang term for that?
All we have is "Uh-oh."
[laughter]
And I'll tell you that it's wonderful we were able to see
this from-- from Brazil.
We love having acts from around the world.
And it would be so difficult to set up
that whole act in this theater and probably
illegal in this country.
So it was wonderful to have it down there in--
in Brazil.
We love teams.
We love really scary stuff that's done as magic.
It's based on a lot of escape tricks we've seen before,
but we love the trick, and we have
to hand it to you and your entire crew
for making that happen.
We loved all of that.
But we do not think you fooled us.
- Oh.
- Thank you, but thanks for being here.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you, Henry and Klauss.
You didn't fool them, but that was spectacular.
Oh, and that last trick was so good,
I know you're not changing the channel.
More "Fool Us" after this.
[jazz music]
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[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
Let's meet our next outstanding act.
[fireworks booming]
- We like to do tricks, but we like to make them our own.
We end up with something that no one has ever seen before.
- And something that people will never want to see again.
- So with the Toronto Magic Company
we both perform, but I sort of send the emails.
I operate the business.
I make sure that everybody arrives at the right place.
- You're making it sound like you do everything.
I do everything.
- No. - What do you do?
- I'm in charge of fun.
Head of fun means I'm in charge
of coming up with tricks,
and I come up with new and creative ways to rehearse.
We made puppet versions of ourselves so we could watch
what it looks like when we're performing together.
- Why does it have hair?
- I used to have hair.
[upbeat music]
- Oh, no.
That's such a good bit.
- [laughs]
- Is that better?
- We have traveled all around Canada
and started to perform across the world.
- Our next stop is gonna be Europe.
- China.
- How about we compromise?
both: Vegas.
- Penn, Teller, we're coming to Vegas.
[cheers and applause]
- From the land of maple syrup and free health care,
here's Jonah Babins and Ben Train.
[cheers and applause]
- We are so excited to be back on "Fool Us"
but not for the reasons you might expect.
- The truth is, we are totally obsessed
with Penn and Teller.
You guys are all we can think about.
- As a matter of fact,
we sleep with photos of the two of you
on our bedside tables for inspiration.
That way, you're the first thing we think about
when we wake up and the last thing we think about
when we fall asleep.
- Oh, dear. - I promise it's not creepy.
- No.
- Okay, maybe it's a little bit creepy.
But it's the truth,
and we even brought those photos with us.
Penn, can I get your autograph?
- Oh, sure. - And, Teller,
can I get a kiss?
Just joking. No, no.
Autograph would be perfect.
- You almost got a kiss. - Almost.
- I know, so lucky.
- AS you probably would have guessed,
we didn't just bring these photos with us for souvenirs.
- No. - We brought them with us
to use in something dangerous and impossible.
- So later when you're thinking about this trick,
we want you to remember three things.
Number one, we want you to remember
that we really tore these photos.
- Number two, we want you to remember
that we're doing this together,
because it literally requires the both of us.
- And number three, we want you to remember
that this is not an illusion.
You can hear the photos are really being ripped, right?
- And you can see your signatures
the entire time.
Now the dangerous part, origami.
- Now, you might not think that origami is dangerous,
and you would be wrong.
- A lot of people don't know this,
but origami is actually the leading cause
of paper cuts.
- That's true, and that's just normal origami.
But we do extreme origami, because we do it
with the pieces on fire.
- By the way, Penn, this is a good time to mention,
if you're wearing any hair product
you may want to lean back.
- Ben, I think you'll be okay.
- I hate you so much.
Because just like that these pieces have now fused
back together.
- Still with your signature, but now half Penn...
- And half Teller.
[cheers and applause]
- Leaving an impossible souvenir not for us
but for you.
- Thank you guys so much for joining us.
Penn and Teller, everybody.
- Thanks so much.
- Jonah Babins and Ben Train.
That was really cool.
- Thank you. - Thank you very much.
- Are you really super fans?
- We are really super fans.
- Yeah, honestly, we started doing magic,
and when we were children we were watching them.
Growing up as teenagers we were watching them.
As adults we watch them. - Yeah.
- We love the show, so they're sitting inches from us.
We're trying to fool them. That's crazy to me.
[laughter]
- How did you two meet?
- We actually went together to a magic-themed summer camp
for over a decade, became friends there,
and then we started our company together.
- Yeah. - Are one of you more artistic
and one of you more technical?
- Exactly like that.
So I operate the business.
I do all the calls.
I do all the scheduling.
I book us for bookings.
- And I do arts and crafts. - That's true.
- When you're at home and you're practicing,
who's your greatest audience?
- Probably the cat. - Definitely the cat.
- Cat? - Yeah, we have a cat.
And he is not a normal cat.
He's polydactyl. He's got thumbs.
This is a boy. - He's what?
- He's polydactyl. - He's got thumbs.
- So he has thumbs. We taught him how to shuffle.
This is real. - Get out of here.
- He does tricks, and if we get to come back
maybe on season 11 we'll bring the cat.
- Do you ever-- does he ever perform--
[applause] I know.
- Fans of the cat. - They would like...
- Fans of the animals here. - A magic cat.
- Well, I can't think of anything better
for two super fans than a "Fool Us" trophy.
So let's see if we can get you one.
Boys?
- Ben, Jonah, I gotta tell you,
it sure pays to suck up to us.
That--that made us very, very happy.
And also, you're doing a torn and restored,
and a wonderful version making it personalized,
having the signatures,
really, really smart stuff, really, really good.
And we also like that in your patter
you actually use a word that I would use
in the bust, which would be "origami."
And boy, we're supposed to have air conditioning here
in the theater, but it's just so damn hot in here.
I want to ditch my shirt, but I'll keep my shirt on.
Anyway, back to the whole thing.
Very clever torn and restored, brilliant.
We love two people working together
on a magic trick.
Last time you were on, you didn't fool us,
and I don't think you fooled us this time,
but maybe next time; maybe next time.
- Maybe next time. - Hope to see you again.
- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- Was that code for "you didn't fool us"?
- We know that we didn't fool them,
but we had a great time performing for them anyways.
- We were fans before. We're even bigger fans now.
Thank you so much, so much. - Thank you so much.
- Thank you, guys.
- Jonah Babins and Ben Train.
You'd waited long enough.
Now it's Penn and Teller time.
See the Las Vegas legends perform right after this.
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- Penn and Teller have been
entertaining audiences for decades.
How they keep finding inspiration
for all their new tricks is a superpower
in and of itself.
Here with a randomly selected member of our audience
the prolific Penn and Teller.
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- Thank you.
You've been chosen from the audience,
so what is your name, our newest friend?
- Ella. - Hello, Ella.
Nice to meet you.
This is Teller. My name is Penn.
Now, Ella, you're gonna be remember
two pieces of information for this whole trick.
Gonna be able to do that? - Yes.
- We're gonna do the most astounding card trick
you've ever seen, but first we're gonna have you
pick a needle.
We have 52 different needles,
needles from all over the world,
needles, needles, needles.
We have a straight mattress needle right there.
We have a size eight repair needle,
a size seven sack needle,
and a Peruvian beaver needle, which doesn't really exist.
I just made that up.
Ella, pick any one of those needles you like, any one.
Choose any one at all.
Don't let me influence you.
Choose any needle you like, Ella.
What needle did you take?
- The red darning needle. - What needle?
- The red darning needle. - A red darning needle.
Will you remember that? - Yeah.
- Now, we chose needles because we think
that finding a card lost in a deck
is a little like finding a needle in a haystack.
Now, you're gonna pick a card.
I don't want to insult you.
But the whole trick rests on you knowing
and remembering your card.
The whole--what kind of needle do you have?
- Red darning. - Good.
Now put the red darning needle right down here.
And you're gonna pick one card.
Pick one card, Ella.
And just hold it up right against your chest,
both hands over it, both hands over it.
Don't let us see the front or the back.
Now, every card trick you see, Ella,
the magician has the card held up for the audience
or for the camera.
That's not to help the trick.
The reason for that, Ella,
is so that if the person forgets
the trick is still okay.
Every magician's been burned so badly
by finishing an elaborate trick
and saying, "Is that your card?"
And the person going, "Uh, I think so."
That would ruin the whole trick.
So you need to remember this card.
All right, you're gonna look at the card
when we turn our backs.
You're not gonna show it to anyone.
No one in the world will know the card except you,
which means the whole punch line of this trick
rests on your shoulders.
So when we turn around,
take a peek like the gamblers do.
Just a little peek of what card you see.
See what card you see.
Have you looked? - Yes.
- Look again so you remember it.
- I got it.
- You got the card in your head?
- Yeah. - Now, Ella,
we're gonna move away,
then you're gonna lose that card in the deck
any way you want.
Just slide it in there, gather 'em up.
You can shuffle 'em.
You can do anything you want. Pick 'em up.
Gather 'em up. Shuffle 'em.
If you learned some cardistry on TikTok
go ahead and do that.
Anything you want to do, Ella.
Lose that card in the deck.
What kind of needle did you pick, Ella?
- Red darning. - Red darning needle.
That's right, Ella.
Now, Ella, mix 'em up all you want.
Only one person in the world knows what card you picked,
and that's you. Is that right?
- Yes. - And nobody in the world
knows where that card is lost in the deck.
Is that right?
Don't say it aloud.
Do you know the name of your card?
- Yes. - Clear in your head?
- Yes. - What kind of needle
did you pick? - Red darning.
- Keep holding the cards.
And pick up the needle.
Cards in one hand, needle in the other.
'Cause, Ella--
thank you, Curt.
We're gonna do something really, really amazing.
What kind of needle did you pick?
- Red darning. - Got the card in your head?
- Yeah. - We're gonna find
a needle in a haystack.
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Ella, walk up those stairs with the cards
and with the needle.
Remember, OSHA rules say three points on the ladder
at all times.
Get to the top there, Ella.
What kind of needle did you pick?
- Red darning. - Red darning needle.
Ella, take that red darning needle.
Throw it into the haystack.
Throw it in.
Now, Ella, don't say it out loud,
but you have the card in your head?
- Yeah. - Now, take the cards
and just throw them out there.
Just, like, in groups of five or something.
- In here? - Just toss--yeah,
toss them into the hay.
Toss them into the hay,
like Jesus casting the bread upon the water.
Just go. Throw them all in there.
Beautiful.
What kind of needle did you pick?
- Red darning.
- You have the card in your head?
- Yeah. - Come down the stairs.
Descend the stairs, Ella.
You have two pieces of information in your head,
the name of the needle, the name of the card.
Step over here, Ella.
Stand right here.
Hold that rope.
Do not pull it. Do not pull it.
- Teller has thread between his hands.
You see that thread there, Ella?
- Yeah. - What kind of needle
did you pick? - Red darning.
- Red darning needle.
Do you have the card in your head?
- Yeah. - Pull the rope.
Pull it all the way. Pull it all.
Pull it. Pull it all the way.
Keep pulling.
Keep pulling, Ella.
Keep pulling. Keep pulling.
Pull it all, Ella.
Beautiful, Ella.
Ella, step over here, Ella.
Now, Ella, threaded onto the thread
is one needle, and on that needle
is one card.
What was the name of your card?
- Jack of spades. - Jack of spades.
Is it threaded onto that needle?
- Yeah.
- There is your needle.
What kind of needle? - Red darning.
- What was the name of your card?
- Jack of spades.
We have found a needle in a haystack.
That's Ella, there, Ella.
We found a needle in a haystack.
What more could you want?
- Gosh.
Wow.
You guys just continue to blow my mind.
Hey, hey, what a trick, boys.
What a show.
From Penn, Teller, and all of us at "Fool Us,"
good night, everyone, from Las Vegas.
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