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♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller
at the Rio Hotel
here's our host,
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- Welcome to "Fool Us,"
we find new ways to mess
Sure we showcase amazing magic
but our main goal
all-time greats
as they try to figure out
So let's turn up the heat
and bring out
and collected minds of our
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- When Penn and Teller
they award them
a spot in their Las Vegas show
and the coveted
Let's meet our first contender.
[fireworks booming]
- I grew up in Venezuela
with just one magician.
I became his assistant,
but he wouldn't teach me
so I had to learn on my own.
For three years I studied
from the side, from the back,
and finally I knew
And I started doing my own
But in some parts
it is difficult to make
I remember saying to my family
I will be able
I saved what little I made
and now it finally feels
But I never forget my family
and we have a bond
Believe me when I say love
You will see.
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- Let's take a trip to Spain
and enjoy the magic
[light Latin-tinged music]
- Hello, Las Vegas.
I believe
that one person out of millions
who the moment you
makes your heart beat faster,
that one person who fills you
one eternal love
and unforgettable connection.
But how do you know for sure
that you have found
There's a legend that says
with a red thread
and on the other end
you will find your true
Tonight I would love
So I have the help of a couple
they are true life partners.
Hi, welcome.
Thanks for participating.
What's your name?
- Cynthia.
- Enyeki.
Cynthia and Enyeki,
- Yes.
- Aw. And how long
- For a year.
Hmm, interesting.
Now we will see
or if you actually be
- Okay.
I can sense you're getting
Please relax.
Coming out of this box
but only one of them connects
and this, my friends,
The rest of the threads
So if you were to take
this will mean that you're not
Now, Cynthia,
Let your mind go blank,
you will open your eyes
not just any thread.
You will pick the one
Open your eyes.
That one?
- Are you sure?
- You have chosen, or perhaps
Lift your hand;
Just like that.
Perfect.
The pressure, right?
Please close your eyes.
Take a deep breath.
[inhales and exhales]
Now open your eyes
that calls to you.
That one?
- Are you sure?
- I'll tie it to your finger
but also to keep you
from the stage.
Perfect.
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Now, the legend says
can be worn down,
can be tangled,
can be weakened,
what it will never,
ever do is break.
Cynthia, Enyeki,
- Yes.
- I think everyone
is starting to believe.
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- Dania Diaz.
- Hi.
That was so wonderful.
- Thank you.
- Yes.
I mean, here. You know?
And that couple had no idea
- They had no idea.
It was a surprise.
- Wow. I've never seen a trick
- Oh, well, it's, like,
In my country, in weddings,
you bake it with a lot
Only one of those strings
So all the single ladies in the
and the one that gets the ring
is the one
So I got inspired by that.
- That's so cool.
- What would it mean
- Well, I mean,
not even in my wildest dreams.
- Oh, I think maybe
- Oh, my God. I'm so nervous.
- Let's see if Penn and Teller
have been able to unravel
- Well, you know, Dania, boy,
That was really good.
And whether you fooled us
We don't know ourselves.
But whether you
coming up with a plot
a lot of times people at home
well,
that's the hard part,
But also figuring out
is really hard,
and being able to test that
sweet, and most important,
Now, Teller and I, to try
we have sketches
of how you could take
four or five different strands
and have them woven together
and then you pull it out,
And we finally figured
how to do that,
and I'm going to
because
So it's wick easy--
- It's wicked easy to lie
because you could get a trophy
But I'm hoping you're going
Will you tell me
- I will be totally honest.
in front of you
that was draped to the floor.
You have a little,
presumably,
in that table that's weaving
- No.
have fooled us.
- Yay.
- And there's the trophy
- Congratulations, Dania.
- Amazing trick.
- Sorry you couldn't be here
but Penn and Teller
until you can get here.
- Stay safe. What a wonderful
- Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
- Dania Diaz.
Penn and Teller
to their Vegas show.
Stick around and find out
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- Welcome back.
can pull one over
[fireworks booming]
- When I was 12 years old,
and see these great tricks
but there was no way
So I ended up trying
how I could build them myself
30 years later,
and building my own props.
If I can build an illusion
a full-sized helicopter,
I must be
Since that time, I've done
I've been on over 600 cruises.
I've headlined at three
I've done ten national tours,
and I still love
Now I have a warehouse
that I've built
over the last 30 years.
And tonight I'm leaving
in the warehouse.
Penn, Teller, tonight
with a sleight of hand,
and I'm going
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- From Penn and Teller's
here's Las Vegas'
- Thank you. Thank you.
I'm want to show you something
the king of hearts,
the king of diamonds
Have you ever heard the old
has a silver lining?
Well, sometimes cards
In fact, sometimes
you turn over that card,
it's lined with
Now, look, there's one,
there's two, there's three,
Four half dollars,
One card for each coin.
One coin for each card.
But watch as I magically
and set it right
Did you see it vanish from
Watch, I'll do it again.
Coin number two
You see,
and reappeared
Coin number three,
it's the trickiest,
You see, coin number
and there they are,
Now, I'd never come on
and do a regular matrix
No, I'd want to do
You see, this matrix
and I keep it right there.
I cheated a little bit more
Actually,
and I keep a coin there
You know what, actually,
You see, I keep another coin
I keep another coin
That makes 12. That makes 13.
That makes 15,
But I would never
and just do a matrix like that.
I want to come and do
So this time, I'm going to do
I'm just going to use
and these four coins
Watch the four coins.
or I could cover these two
but watch what happens
That one jumps
So I have two on one side
but if I wave now,
I now have two on that side
Now I have one in the front,
One in the front
but that one in the back jumps
right over to the one
which leaves me
But if I just wave,
and one on that side.
A simple wave,
Now, that's a matrix
But it's a lot
I actually cheated
and I kept it right there.
Actually, I cheated
and I kept a coin there.
Actually, I cheated,
I kept a coin there.
and I keep a coin there
You know what?
I kept a coin there.
I keep one more there.
Oh, look, that makes 27,
and that's how you do a matrix
[cheers and applause]
- Wow, Greg Gleason.
- Thank you, Alyson, thank you.
- Hi there.
- That was very impressive.
- Can you make money appear
- Uh, you know what?
I wouldn't have to do magic
if I could do that,
- I bet you still would,
- You know, this isn't the kind
I'm usually doing illusions.
I make girls float
and make helicopters
in midair on motorcycles.
More of the illusion
That's why I wanted
to do some close-up magic.
- Wow. So you don't perform
- I'll be honest,
I've ever done this trick.
I've been working on it
- And then you just decided,
"Oh, I'll just do it
- Yeah,
- Yeah, a little bit.
- I was a little nervous.
- I bet. All right.
- Thank you, Alyson.
Let's see if you
- Okay, we'll see.
- Wow, Greg,
- Thank you very much.
- As you said, you know,
- Yes.
And the matrix is something
but like Keanu Reeves,
you took the matrix into
That was just insane stuff.
Laypeople have these words
- Okay.
it's done with palming,
it's done with this,
- Yes.
you can do with something like
They say the word "mirrors,"
You can do many, many more
than you possibly could.
You say, "Oh, you can
but you've actually got
It's an amazing thing.
And then it has to be done
The chops were just amazing.
- Thank you very much.
And I think when you--
he's departed now...
- But a friend of us all,
- Yes, very.
- And just seeing someone
well, that's not fair to you--
and then do a whole new trick
and use methods that
although we think
never seen them done that well.
- Well, thank you.
that you fooled us,
- I don't think I did either.
but it was a wonderful
Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
- We are just getting
More world-class magicians
including Penn and Teller,
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[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us".
Your timing is perfect,
because I really want you
[fireworks booming]
- Hi, I'm Cameron Braxton
When other boys were out
I was working on magic tricks
I might only be 23,
but I consider myself
When I was a child, my mentors
and they quickly became
in everything I know,
not just in magic,
how to dress,
One of them
to teach me good posture
So thanks to them, I am one of
Unfortunately,
with my best friends passing,
but I think they'd be proud
making my first
in front of my magic heroes,
Wish me luck, guys.
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- Don't mess with Texas,
so don't mess
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- All right, so here we are
It's a place where dreams are
That being said,
Now, you have the card sharks
Card sharks will spend
figuring out ways to cheat
and double discards.
I'm not one of those people.
I'm a magician, and tonight
how a magician
First you want to start by
been fairly shuffled and cut.
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Then we also need a card at
In this case,
as a nice high card
especially when paired
Oh, look what I found there.
[cheers and applause]
Now, those two cards
aren't going to win any hands,
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Now, those ladies right there,
But when I say "those ladies,"
those one,
[cheers and applause]
- So the question becomes,
to win at cards?
So let's set a scene.
It's a pretty big table.
Let's say that
That's going to be big money.
In poker, you bet cash
Not all at once,
But no one else
unless you give them
So we're going
If I deal these queens
well, I was the one
so all the suspicion
Instead, I'm going to deal
to player number two.
Let's take a look.
Going to lose the queens
give them a few shuffles,
and then with any luck we'll be
right over
And now for the magic move.
Faster than the human eye
and we're done.
There's one, two, three, four,
just like I promised.
the look of surprise
when she realizes
but two of those queens.
Is it luck,
Well, truth be told, I'd say
Now, a card shark
that this is enough to win
but I'm not a card shark,
I'm a conjurer
[laughter]
And right here
of getting player number two
to bet everything that she has.
[audience gasps]
[cheers and applause]
And I must admit,
You see,
what she doesn't realize is
So once all the money
all the betting
now we get to the showdown.
If you were to take a look
surely you'd see that
with the kings would be
but if I cheat to give myself
well, that's the way
So you need to be able
so smoothly that player number
I get a slightly better one,
but the best hand
to your secret accomplice,
ol' one, two, three, four aces.
[cheers and applause]
- Cameron Braxton.
Wow.
Are you a card player?
- Believe it or not, no.
I prefer to shuffle
- So you clearly have
but
- To an extent.
I've got a rather large library
So quite oftentimes,
calling me up,
Greek philosophy is also
I love it.
- So, Cameron,
- Magic is a expression
of the idea
I'm not actually doing
but I'm able to use things
to express the idea
- Okay.
you ever got from
- So the best magic advice
- Aw. All right, Cameron,
and see if you earned
- All right.
Penn, Teller.
- Hey, Cameron, really nice.
That advice to buy a tuxedo
- Oh.
- Just that nice coolness
You know, you say something
"This is not the way
This is the way
And a lot of the moves
are what a card cheat cheats,
and the way
that very unflappable style,
So maybe we don't completely
Teller and I do not gamble.
We're not particularly
but our mentor
who was here
And there is not a card move
And although
like some of the best,
said he never cheated
He only did magic.
But even though
and we don't gamble,
We are students
and we think that,
although you do did
as cool as you were,
I think we have a pretty
- Is that right, Cameron?
- I think they've got it.
- All right.
- All right. Thank you so much.
- Thank you so much.
- More moments of impossibility
Stick around.
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- Welcome back to "Fool Us",
from all over the world,
[fireworks booming]
- Lea Kyle.
[cheers and applause]
- From our studio in Bordeaux,
here's Florian Sainvet.
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[whooshing]
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[applause]
[cheers and applause]
- Florian Sainvet.
- Thank you.
- That was very,
What inspired that work of art?
- Many movies. I really like
so I watch
And I put some ideas that I saw
- Are you sending a message
- Maybe.
In the future, technology
- And you won the world
- Yes, in Manipulation,
- What dreams could you
- Maybe fool Penn and Teller.
- Good answer, good answer.
if Penn and Teller know
- Hey, Florian.
- Boy, we have never seen
who breaks that
And your whole costume lights
does all this stuff.
If you'd showed us
we would have told you
being deceptive in any way,
because when you've got
you've got nothing to hide.
You've got nothing natural,
When you go...
And yet it does completely.
It made it just wonderful
and very, very exciting
And this is what is called
a manipulation act.
And the standard thing we say
is if you've
Well if you've seen one, you
that's for sure.
I mean, the suit lighting up
gives you
There's all sorts of wonderful
You've justified the suit
that can do miraculous things
both above board and below,
and I just thought
but all built on stuff that we
And I've got to tell you,
to follow through,
that I would have
if you'd explain
but I don't think
- Thank you.
they know
- You talk about black out,
is just 10% of my act
- If you want,
They've heard
They know how you're doing it,
because I really
I've already said...
- A little more than
because the act is so, so good.
So let's go to the judges,
- Okay. We're going to go
And they're telling me...
I'm sorry, Florian,
it wasn't a fool,
- Okay.
- Thank you so much.
Florian Sainvet.
[cheers and applause]
- Penn and Teller created this
specifically for "Fool Us."
Check out a magical world
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[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
podcasts, plays, books
the stars of our show
Here to turn that metaphor
are Penn and Teller.
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- My dad, Sam,
He hated only three things
He hated accordions,
and black fuzzy caterpillars,
My dad died over 20 years ago
but he's still with me
So before we worked
I had to convince myself
would have been okay with it.
I think my dad's problem
was that there's no focus
It's just fighting chaos
That's not entertainment;
We're going to do some plate
but we're going to give you
so it's less like
school, jobs, family,
and everything
All of you at home are going
and pick one plate
We want you to predict
which plate will emerge
as the last plate spinning.
Here's what we're going to do.
We've got 12 stands,
If you'll look from above,
they're arranged
Now you're going to predict
will be the last plate
spinning after all the others
If you have a Post-it Note,
you can mark your hero
or just keep your finger
Here's how you'll pick
you can focus on and cheer for.
Think of any number
Now put your finger on the 12.
Yeah, right on your
Now, we're going to make
at a random number.
The plate that you will predict
will be
First, you should spell
1 through 12,
around the circle
In other words,
you'd spell O-N-E.
Now, whatever number
you're going to spell that too.
So if you happen
you'd spell that like this,
T-H-R-E-E,
and so on.
You'd be on the eight,
Now you're going to do it
Pick that particular number you
and start spelling
right there on the screen.
Your finger is now
I want you to spell
the number you landed on,
continuing to move
Make your first move
and keep moving by spelling
Fine, you've reached
Now one last time,
spell that number,
continuing to round
You made a random choice
Now put a Post-it Note
or a piece of tape
or keep your finger there,
But make sure you remember
That's the one you're hoping
the last plate spinning.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
9, 10, 11 or 12?
Which is yours?
Keep it in your head.
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There we go.
Aw, come on.
Ehh, ehh.
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- If you see one falling,
- Seven--seven looks like
- Seven. Seven.
- Seven, Seven, Teller.
- Ohh.
Oh, oh, seven. Seven. Seven.
Ooh, seven. Bye, seven.
Seven is dying.
You don't care about seven?
Ooh, these too.
Oh. That one.
Definitely nine and eight.
- [bleep] damn it.
- [bleep]. [bleep].
N You don't even
I'm starting to agree
[laughter]
Five, five.
Seven.
Ooh, these two.
Five and four.
- [bleep] me.
[laughter]
- Should have listened
[laughter]
I don't think
- Want to give six a chance?
There's six with a chance.
Oh, boy.
- Well, six in one,
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[bleep] damn it.
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So how did you do?
You at home, you picked
and cheered for that plate.
Was it this one? Was it one?
Did you win?
My dad would have liked that.
It's not really plate spinning;
Now we've got to figure out
and an accordion
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- I knew the boys would stick
and we hope you stick with us
when we bring you
Until then, good night.
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