[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater at The Rio Hotel
in Las Vegas, here's our host, Brooke Burke.
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us,"
a realm beyond our earthly understanding,
where magicians from around the world
bend the laws of logic and nature
in an attempt to befuddle our cherubs of charm--
Penn and Teller.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
Now, any magician who fools Penn and Teller wins
a "Fool Us" trophy and a place in
the Eternal Hall of Magical Fame.
Let's meet the first magician
knock, knock, knocking on the "Fool Us" door.
[booming]
♪ ♪
- Hi, I am Jo De Rijck.
I am a magician from Belgium.
And I have a surprise for Penn and Teller.
- Jo, Jo, Jo.
Here you come again.
- I perform all kinds of magic.
My biggest passion is to find the magic in animals.
♪ ♪
It will not be easy to fool Penn and Teller again.
They are onto me now.
[suspenseful music]
I get nightmares of it.
When I look around, I see Penn.
When I look the other way, I see Teller.
I knew I had to find an animal
almost godlike in its mental powers.
I explored the pages of magic history
and uncovered a beast so amazing and majestic
there is no way for Penn and Teller
to comprehend its magical powers.
[rumbling]
Penn, Teller, are you ready for another one
of my magical animal "Fool Us"?
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- He's fooled them with his chicken.
He fooled them with his snake.
Please welcome a new creature, along with two-time Fooler
Jo De Rijck.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you.
I am world famous archaeologist,
Indiana Jo,
just back from an expedition to Egypt.
Teller, would you join me, please?
Audience, Teller!
[cheers and applause]
Hi.
[mysterious music]
Oh, Teller, safety first.
♪ ♪
Perfect.
I brought back from my travels some
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Now, these are over 3,000 years old.
They're priceless.
All of them are different--
20 in total.
I have here an ancient mummy, an ancient flower,
an ancient cell phone, a ladder, an eye.
Now, Teller, in a moment, I would like you
to choose one without knowing which one you take.
And I don't want to know either.
So let's both mix them up
while doing a staring competition.
[shuffling]
[laughter]
Can I say you have beautiful eyes?
[laughter]
I think they're completely mixed.
Is that fair? Perfect.
Okay, now Teller, I would like you to pick any one you like,
place it in the middle,
and then cover it with your hat.
Go ahead.
♪ ♪
Now, many people know about the Egyptian god Osiris,
the god of the resurrection.
Few people know Osiris also had a hamster.
[laughter]
Hamsiris, the god of pure magic.
Now, I have stumbled upon his tomb.
And you won't believe it.
The mummy is still inside of it.
♪ ♪
Now, ladies and gentlemen, audience, this might be
the greatest discovery of modern archaeology--
Hamsiris.
[cheers and applause]
According to an old legend, when Hamsiris rests in peace
and you sing the ancient song...
♪ Hari-wari, hari-wari, hari-wari, bum ♪
while doing the Egyptian dance...
[laughter]
He comes back to life.
Now, I know you cannot talk or sing right now,
so audience, you can all join in.
Everybody, Teller, Bruce, sing as loud as you can.
Dance as crazy as you can.
Okay, everybody, there we go.
all: ♪ Hari-wari, hari-wari, hari-wari, bum ♪
[booming]
[audience gasps]
- It worked.
The ancient god of magic...
Hamsiris!
[cheers and applause]
Now, Teller, you know why he is the god of magic?
Because Hamsiris can read minds.
Let's put him to the test.
I will blindfold him.
And in a moment, I'd like you to pick up your tile,
have a look at it, remember it, then place it back.
When you're ready, tap me on my shoulder, I return the hat,
and you place it over your tile.
Go ahead.
♪ ♪
Now it is time for Hamsiris to read your mind.
♪ ♪
Let the thought of your hieroglyph
rise to the top of your mind.
[laughter]
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
I think he got it.
Now, I found Hamsiris's tomb in this pyramid.
Inside here are 20 more tombs,
each containing one hieroglyph,
the same as the hieroglyphs on the table.
Hamsiris, which hieroglyph was Teller thinking about?
♪ ♪
He made a clear choice.
Now, Hamsiris,
he could have picked just any one.
Teller, can you please show us what were you thinking about?
[tense music]
A fish?
If Hamsiris choose a fish, he is truly the god of magic.
♪ ♪
A fish!
Hamsiris!
Thank you, Teller. Thank you so much.
- Jo De Rijck, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
Wow.
Is there any animal that you can't work with?
- Until so far, I haven't found one yet, no.
- And are the animals magical, or is it just you?
- Oh, the only thing magical here are the animals.
[cheers and applause]
- What's it like to be back here again for the third time?
- It's--well, it feels a bit, like, comfortable.
But also, I'm very nervous, because I really want
to fool them a third time.
- It's a lot of pressure on a hamster.
- Well, he's a hamster.
But he is like an ancient god, so for him, it's quite easy.
- He's used to it. - Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
- I have to ask, how difficult is it to work with animals?
- To be honest, it's quite-- extremely difficult. Yes.
You never know what they're going to do.
It's still an animal.
It has a free will, which I also love.
So it's always a surprise.
- All right, Jo.
Are you ready?
Let's see if you have fooled
Penn and Teller for the third time.
- Okay. - Everybody ready?
- Well, Jo, you do great stuff.
You got a hat.
You're wearing shorts.
You got a hamster.
Gee, any one of those things,
another act would be happy with.
We just--we just loved--
you had everybody dancing and singing.
It's just a terrific, terrific act.
And we love you as a performer.
And we dislike you as a magician,
because you have fooled us twice before.
But you weren't happy to fool us twice before.
No, you had to have a chicken and a snake
fool us once before.
A chicken fooled us.
You know how much we've been ridiculed
for being fooled by a chicken?
You know how much ridicule
I've taken on morning talk shows?
Oh, you were fooled by a chicken, Mr. Smartass.
Right?
Then we were fooled by a snake.
And I will tell you right now, we will not--
chicken, maybe, snake, maybe--
we will not, I promise you, be fooled by a hamster.
But we were fooled by the tiles.
- Ooh.
You fooled them again!
That's three times, everyone!
Oh, wow.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you so much.
Thank you for having us.
- Wow.
[cheers and applause]
Jo De Rijck, everyone.
Oh, my goodness.
[cheers and applause]
Oh.
Thank you so much.
That's amazing.
Jo De Rijck just fooled Penn and Teller for the third time.
See more phenomenal Foolers when we return.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back, everyone.
One magician is already celebrating
with their "Fool Us" trophy.
Will another magician be joining them?
Let's find out as we meet our next act.
[booming]
[Latin music]
- I am Adrian Vega,
and I have a magical family.
My baby's first word was "papa."
Her second word was "cartas."
My wife was a little bit disappointed.
My wife and I met when we were 18.
I knew right away that I wanted her in my life.
I am very good at imagining tricks,
and she is very good at figuring out the method
and making them real.
She is the perfect partner.
My life changed when we had a baby.
I don't get to practice magic as much.
But I am happy, and the audience can feel it.
Having a family drives me to be a success.
If I fool Penn and Teller tonight,
the trophy is for all three of us.
♪ ♪
- Get ready for some amazing card magic by Adrian Vega.
- Hello, hello, everyone.
Hello Brooke, hello Penn, hello Teller.
I am so happy.
I am all the way from Spain.
And this is my first time here at "Fool Us."
So for that reason, I bring for you my best trick of my show.
Brooke, tell me a number between 1 and 5,
whatever you want. You have one?
- Yes. - Name it.
- Three. - Three?
Are you sure, or do you want to change?
- I'm sure. - Sure? Three?
Look at this. - Three.
- Amazing. Nothing here.
But under the sheet, there is something.
Exactly, number three!
Ba-ba-ba! I'm from Spain. Impressed?
No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, I can improve it.
I can improve it doing something with cards.
I love card magics. - Wow.
- Maybe you love card magic?
Yeah?
So, Penn, red or black?
- Uh, red.
- Red?
- Brooke, hearts or diamonds?
- Diamonds.
- Are you sure?
Or do you want to change?
I don't care.
I am a professional, Brooke. - Diamonds.
Diamonds. Yes, I'm sure.
- You're sure? Incredible.
Why?
Because as you know, there are 52 different cards
in one deck, right?
But there is only one single card in my hand.
And you said number three, you said red,
and you said diamonds.
Three of diamonds.
I know this is crazy.
But I love it.
Three of diamonds!
Yeah.
Amazing, amazing.
Amazing.
But today, today I want to be honest with all of you,
because magic is so amazing that
you can get addicted to it.
And this is a problem because there are
magician that they are taking medication for this.
Even the new deck of cards, they have a warning sign,
because once you start playing with this,
it's impossible to stop.
And if you can see, look at this.
Magic is addictive. - Whoa.
- I told you, it's real.
It's real.
And there is always one reason for this.
There is always one card that makes magician crazy,
the joker.
This is the most addicting card in the deck.
So for that reason, when I want to do magic,
I destroy the joker like this.
I try to keep it under my control inside
to the card box.
So we can hear it and we can watch it.
So now, I think I am ready to do my favorite card trick
just with one card, okay?
Of course, they are all different.
So, Brooke, tell me stop whenever you want.
[lively music]
- Stop. - Stop there?
Sure? - Yes.
- So seven of hearts.
Really, it doesn't matter the card.
Doesn't matter the card.
The most important thing is now your name.
So can you put your name on the--
wait.
Too, too fast, maybe.
I told you, it's difficult to control the joker.
So if the joker is there, maybe here should be--
- Hey.
- It's weird.
It's weird, it's weird.
So put your name, my friend.
Put your name.
Try to forget the joker. It's okay for now.
So better in the pocket.
So just with the seven of hearts,
with the name of my friend.
Seven of hearts, the only card in the world with your name,
right? - Yes.
- And with this card, I'm going to show you
the fastest trick in the history of magic.
Only I have to shuffle real quick, like that.
Only I have to cut real slow.
And one card will fly from the deck to my hand.
And that card is exactly--
the joker.
Sorry, sorry.
But you already know what happened.
So if the joker is on the table, in my pocket
should be one card.
And that card should be exactly--
another joker. What is that?
- [laughs] - Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, because these two jokers, they are going
to help me to find one card.
From the middle to the deck to the middle of the jokers.
Look, only one card between them.
And I don't want to touch.
Can you show the card and show them?
Now, it's exactly--look.
Another freaking joker.
Take, take.
Anybody, anybody. Because look at this.
Nothing in my hand, right?
Nothing in my hand, but behind, look at this.
Behind the joker, there is--
another joker.
It's a present for you.
Wait, wait.
Wait, I told you.
I told you at the beginning, and I said
that it was very difficult to keep
all these jokers under my control.
And when I say all these jokers...
I really mean all these jokers.
This one, this one, this one, this one,
this one, because now all the cards, they are jokers.
And of course, this is totally crazy, my friend.
[cheers and applause]
And of course--and of course,
we will need the medication.
And I have medication for everyone.
So don't worry.
I have medication for you.
So don't get addicted.
Don't get addicted.
But if I--now as I told you at the beginning.
And I said that I wanted to be honest.
But I lied, because my friends, once you start playing
with this craziness, once you start playing with magic,
it's impossible to stop.
And there is no cure for this.
There is no... medication for this.
The only thing that we can do once we feel the magic
is just keep enjoying
the illusion of the impossibles.
[cheers and applause]
The only way to take out this card
is just destroying the reality, destroying this bottle,
my friend, just to keep this as a reminder
of this crazy experience.
Because my friend, this is part of my magic.
But also, this is part of my life.
- Wow.
- Seven of hearts.
Here, a present for you.
Thank you, Penn.
Thank you, Teller. Thank you so much.
- Wow.
Adrian Vega, everyone.
Wow.
I'm genuinely fascinated watching all of these tricks.
I'm learning so much on this show.
Can you teach me something about magic?
- Well, in my case, well, you have to be
an artist, an entertainer,
try to entertain your audience,
and then enjoy with the trick, no?
Because if you are thinking only in the method,
or only, oh, I have to hide this from the audience,
you will not enjoy, you know?
You will not be happy.
- What made you want to become a magician?
- Being on a stage and trying to amaze the audience,
I discovered that it was the best moment,
because I feel free.
Because sometimes in your life,
you are not as free as you want.
- Adrian, your trick was full of jokers.
- Yes.
- So let's see if you fooled them.
- Hey.
- Oh, Adrian.
Another Spaniard.
[bleep] damn you all.
[laughter]
- Sorry, sorry.
- I got to tell you, that is a perfect routine.
It's just a perfect routine.
What you want out of magic
is for it to be inevitable and surprising.
If you just have surprise out of nowhere, it means nothing.
If it's too inevitable without a surprise, it means nothing.
You want to go right down the middle.
So you set up the pill thing right at the beginning.
So as soon as we see the pills, it's inevitable.
But we didn't know there were gonna be pills.
It's that perfect way of structuring a routine.
And just all your handling was so, so beautiful.
And we have this, as you know, love-hate relationship
with the Spanish magicians.
And we are starting to learn a little bit
about the way you bastards think.
And that bottle thing is really, really wonderful.
And if this were a court of law, we'd have to say,
your sleight of hand was wonderful.
But the prosecution would have to rest,
because the evidence was destroyed.
But the evidence was destroyed, and we know
a little bit about what that evidence would be.
And I think we snuck in a few things there.
Once again, like your countrymen,
just the greatest magicians in the world--
but this time, you didn't fool us.
Next time, I bet you will.
- Yeah, thank you so much. - Thank you so much, Adrian.
- Thank you, people. - Thank you.
- Does that secret language
that only magicians understand make sense?
- Yeah, I know.
And they are the masters, so thank you.
Thank you very much.
- Adrian Vega, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
- Penn and Teller got that one.
But they still have a few more magicians to bust
before they perform tonight's finale.
So stay close.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Well, welcome back.
I hope you're ready for another great magician,
because we've got one right here.
[booming]
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up for the marvelous magic of Nao Murata.
[cheers and applause]
[soft orchestral music]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[bright music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Nao Murata, everyone.
[cheers and applause]
That was so beautiful, so poetic and romantic.
Is there some insight you can share with us?
- [speaking Japanese]
- You seem to treat the objects in this act
as if they were a living person.
Is that right?
- Well, let's see if your fantastic fantasy
has earned you a "Fool Us" trophy.
Penn and Teller?
- [speaking Japanese]
- Oh, Nao, what a beautiful routine.
You know, there's this impossible thing
to do in magic.
And it's very hard
to touch onto anything sentimental or romantic,
because the trickery gets in the way of that.
They fight each other.
The magician character is essentially a trickster,
and the romantic character can't be that.
So what you have to do is this beautiful thing where you're
doing this phenomenal acting while doing
this magical puppeteering.
So your acting has to be from the heart,
romantic, and really in the moment,
while you're doing sneaky stuff behind the scenes.
And it means that most people that
try to do romantic or sentimental with magic
just fail, because they're just not good enough actors.
And your acting is really impeccable, really wonderful.
And in all of that gentle storytelling,
there were some really startling tricks--
the production of the chair is beautiful, but also startling.
And the disintegration of the notebook
was also right within the story,
but also very startling magically.
So to have the romance and the magic
layer one upon the other
is just a beautiful thing.
And the shadow thing at the end is beautiful.
All of it was just wonderful.
And as beautiful as it was, I don't think you fooled us.
But boy, we've never seen that kind of romance
and trickery go together with such harmony.
- Do they know how you did your magic?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[laughter]
- I didn't know that magic could be
so poetic and romantic.
We really enjoyed that.
We really felt you.
Thank you so much.
- Yes, thank you so much.
I'm really happy to share this time.
Thank you. - Thank you.
Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
Stick around.
We have more magicians taking on Penn and Teller
when we come back.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Okay, you are just in time.
I'd like to introduce you to our next magician.
[booming]
[upbeat music]
- I fell in love with magic as a kid in Africa.
My dad was a diplomat, so we lived all over the place--
Paris, Gabon.
It was in Nigeria that I really got hooked.
There were JuJu masters who could
make it stop raining just when the parade went past.
I didn't mess with that kind of magic.
[thunder rumbling]
I liked close-up magic and illusions.
So whenever we moved, my magic books came with me.
What I love about magic is it's an evolving art.
And magicians like me, we evolve with it.
It's a way of stepping outside of our frames of reference
to see the world in a whole new way,
which led me to my deep dive
into the evolution of consciousness at scale
so we can get to a better world, a better future.
That'll take more than 45 seconds to explain, though.
Let's just say the trick I'm doing
has taken a lifetime to evolve--
my lifetime.
Penn and Teller, I hope you like what it's evolved into.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Let's take a magical trip with Jonathan Steigman.
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat music]
- One of the things I love about magic
is that the process of creating a great magic trick
can be a fascinating evolutionary journey
that can last a lifetime.
In fact, there's a trick I've been obsessed
with since I was a little kid.
It's called the 50/50 prediction.
That's where I correctly guess which of two things
you're going to choose.
Now, it might not sound like much--
just a coin toss, 50/50.
But if the stakes are high enough--
Penn and Teller, I'm sure you guys would agree,
when you do your sawing-in-half routine,
if you only restored your assistant 50% of the time,
you wouldn't be headlining the fabulous Rio in Vegas.
You'd be headlining a fabulous prison in Folsom.
[laughter]
So I've been involved in this for years,
since I was a little kid, and I came up
with the first version.
I was just dying to show it to my mom.
Brooke, would you be willing to play my mom for this part?
- I would love to play your mom.
- Fantastic.
Nice to see you.
And so for the first one, we started
with the most basic 50/50--a coin toss
between heads and tails.
And you get to choose between heads or tails.
In fact, I'm going to give you an invisible coin.
If you could take that coin,
flip it on top of your back of your hand,
and see what you get.
- Are you ready?
- Heads or tails.
What'd you get? - Tails.
Believe it or not, inside of here is a picture of tails.
All right.
Now, I must admit my mom was maybe a little bit more
friendly than amazed, because I didn't know
the first rule of magic is that you're never
supposed to repeat a trick.
And I did it again.
And I had my mom flip again.
And this time, she flipped heads.
And I was so excited, I showed her I had heads as well,
which unfortunately, maybe was not the best method.
And this time, I went through the years.
I evolved my magic.
And this time, I did this one
on my high school sweetheart.
And will you play the role of my high school sweetheart
for this one? - I will.
- I should be so lucky.
So for this one, you get a choice between
vanilla ice cream and chocolate cake.
Now I should point out, Brooke, that one of these
is a set of words that means delicious chocolate cake,
and the other one is just plain old vanilla ice cream.
So I could be trying to influence you
if you're a chocoholic like I am, or I could be using
reverse psychology to try to get you to choose
vanilla ice cream. What do you think?
Vanilla ice cream or chocolate cake?
- Vanilla ice cream. - Vanilla ice cream.
Believe it or not, folks, it is a picture
of vanilla ice cream.
And just to reiterate, of course, only one--
only one thing in the envelope.
And see anything else in there? - Nothing in there.
- Nothing else. Fantastic.
And you're probably wondering-- I have a feeling.
I'm not a mind-reader, but I think I know
what you're thinking, Brooke.
You're thinking, gee, if there's nothing else
in the envelope, I kind of wonder
what's on the other side of the card.
Are you thinking that? - I was, actually.
- Yeah, unfortunately, there's a picture
of chocolate cake on the other side.
So you can see the method is improving.
It's evolving.
But it's not yet there, right?
So then we had to try the third version.
And this time, I put my thinking cap on.
And over the years, I improved and evolved and transcended
and included what I learned.
And I did this one for my then-wife.
Will you play the role of my ex-wife?
- Yes.
- You flatter both of us.
You flatter both of us, Brooke.
And this time, you get a choice between a rabbit
and a duck, two things magicians like to use
when they're performing.
I should point out that one of these
is a cute, cuddly animal that makes babies,
and the other is a mean, nasty little nibbler
that walks around and [bleep] all over the place.
But I'm not trying to influence your choice, Brooke.
I just don't really like ducks.
- Okay.
- So it's on you.
What do you think, a rabbit or a duck?
- Rabbit. - A rabbit.
And again, only one card, only one side.
And you'll notice there's nothing
on this side of the card.
And if you look inside of here, is there anything
else inside the envelope? No, sir.
- Nothing else?
Fantastic.
And believe it or not, it is a picture of a rabbit.
He's so cute, isn't he?
- He is.
- Yeah, now some of you might be familiar with the famous
rabbit-duck illusion.
If I turn that over, it looks like a duck.
- Oh.
- Yeah, but--so it's an ambiguous image.
But it is coming along.
You can see the progression, right?
The method's progressing and stuff.
So eventually, I figured, all right.
Now it's time for what we call the boss level.
Here we go.
This is it, folks, the boss level.
And this time, we're in the present.
You get to be just Brooke. - Okay.
- And this is the final version.
Here, you get a choice between Penn or Teller.
You can pick the tall one or the smart one,
whichever one you think that is.
I'm not going to presume.
- I can't win here.
I can't win here.
- It could be some reverse psychology.
Now I should point out also, as these gentlemen
would tell you, whenever a magician starts pattering on
about reverse psychology and game theory,
it's probably BS, and maybe it is.
But at any rate,
you get a choice between Penn or Teller.
What do you think? - Penn.
And believe it or not, if we take a look
inside the envelope here, it is a picture of Penn.
[cheers and applause]
All right. - Wow.
- The perfect 50/50.
And just to reiterate, you see anything else
inside the envelope? - I do not.
- And if I take this picture of Penn and turn it upside down,
does it look like a picture of Teller?
- No. - No.
And is there a picture of Teller
on the back that you can see?
- No. - No.
Ladies and gentlemen, the perfect 50/50.
[cheers and applause]
But wait.
Some of you are probably still skeptical.
You're thinking, "Hey, wait a minute.
"Maybe this guy just took a shot and got lucky
in front of Penn and Teller on national television."
Well, I wanted to make sure this was the boss level
for you, Brooke, so before we even started here,
I actually made a prediction.
You will pick tails, vanilla ice cream,
rabbit, and Penn.
- Whoa!
- Wow. Right on.
- And that, folks--
that, folks, is the boss level.
- Jonathan Steigman.
Wow.
How long have you been doing magic?
- I can't tell you, because I'm obviously not
old enough to have been doing magic
as long as I've been doing magic.
- Oh, okay.
Does that mean you were doing womb magic?
What do you mean?
- I'm on like a 50-year journey into magic now.
- Amazing.
- Yeah.
- What's your favorite thing about magic?
- My favorite thing about magic is just to use technology
to simulate the impossible.
If someone says they do the impossible,
they're lying, because once they do it, by definition,
it's not impossible.
And in fact, a physicist once told me
that, if given enough time, nothing is impossible.
Things are merely improbable.
But since I don't have until the heat death of the universe
to create those, I have to do the improbable.
I have to simulate it.
So I simulate the improbable for people.
- Everybody follow that?
[laughter]
Jonathan, the way I see it,
you've got a 50/50 chance of fooling them.
Let's flip that coin.
Penn and Teller? - Hey.
- Hi. - How are you doing, Jonathan?
- Very well, thank you.
- That's a really nice routine.
One of the things that's great about it
is that you do the 50/50 and then compound that
into something that's not an easy guess,
that really is amazing.
But I noticed in your package,
you're really interested in
expanding consciousness and so on.
And you know that Timothy Leary--
I don't want to get too much into talking about acid.
But he would talk about having one envelope that we live in,
and there being a secondary envelope
outside of that that was the expanded consciousness.
And one of the things this does,
is it uses that expanded consciousness
to see how the forking paths can end up
at many, many different endings.
Know what I'm talking about?
So we love the routine,
but we don't think you fooled us.
- I don't either, but it's been an honor
to be here, my friends.
- Thank you so much. Thank you.
- Thanks very much.
- Jonathan Steigman, everyone.
Thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
We're taking a quick break, and you can too.
But don't go far, because we'll be right back.
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[cheers and applause]
- Well, welcome back to "Fool Us."
It's hard to believe that Penn and Teller have been
partners for so many years.
And much like their magic tricks, you got to wonder--
what is their secret?
Maybe tonight's last trick can enlighten us.
Give it up for the greatest duo in entertainment,
Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- We have been business partners for 48 years.
And people ask us how we split up things.
And whether it's money or it's work or it's assets,
we split everything 50/50.
We'll just use an example.
If Teller had, like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
of anything, no matter what it is,
well, he would give me 1, 2, 3.
So then it's really even, because then I have 1, 2, 3,
and he has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
So like I was saying, if he had six of something,
he'd give me 1, 2, 3.
And then I would have 1, 2, 3.
Even Steven, he'd have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
So like I said, if he had six of something,
he would give me 1, 2, 3.
And I would have 1, 2, 3.
And he would have 1, 2, 3, abso--4, 5, 6.
So he would give me 1, 2, 3.
And then I would do magic too,
so we would both have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Yeah--7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15.
[bleep] 'em.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you, Penn and Teller.
And thanks to all of tonight's performers.
We'll see you next time.
Good night, everyone, from Las Vegas.
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