[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater,
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host, Alyson Hannigan!
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
Ever wanted to make all your problems disappear,
have your worries vanish in a flash?
Well, you've come to the right place.
For the next hour, you'll see tricks that are so amazing
you'll forget all your cares, so don't worry,
be happy as we say hello
to our merry men of magic, Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
Any magician who can get one past Penn and Teller
wins a slot in their world-famous magic show
and international bragging rights
as a "Fool Us" trophy winner.
Let's meet our first performer.
[fireworks booming]
- I've been doing comedy for 16 years, ever since I was four.
I decided early
I'm committed to being broke for the rest of my life.
A lot of comedy is just complaining and complaining.
My dad is so cheap.
Which feels good in the moment, but it creates no hope.
I wanted to create hope for the audience,
and that's where the magic came in.
Style is super important to me.
My shoes are amazing, by the way.
My dad is my biggest supporter.
He helps me with my style.
He tells me when something doesn't look right.
This is his shirt. I took it.
I was like, "This morning I've got an interview to do.
I gotta wear this shirt."
He's really always there for me,
and I love him for that.
So, Penn and Teller, I'ma make him proud.
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up for the comedy magic
of 19-year-old Leroya Sanford.
[cheers and applause]
- Hi. My name is Leroya,
and for all of my white friends,
that's "Leroy" with an A.
[laughter]
I am here representing African-Americans
and females in the magical arts.
- Whoo! - Yes.
That's, like, a minority of a minority.
In fact, I think I can count
the number of Black females in magic on one stage.
Growing up, there weren't many Black magicians for me
to look up to as a kid.
There was no David Copperfunk or Penn and Tizzle
for me to look up to.
The closest thing to a Black magician
to me was Barack Obama.
He taught me the two most powerful magic words,
hope and change,
which are extremely important to me
when I perform street magic,
because I do my tricks for the audience
and then hope for some change.
[laughter]
As you can imagine,
being a young Black female in magic,
money can be hard to come by.
When I started applying for colleges I asked my dad
if I could have some help with money,
and he said, "Yeah, as soon as my reparations come through."
[laughter]
But I love my dad. He did what he could.
He gave me one,
two,
three dollars here [indistinct].
The great thing about a silver dollar is,
it's technically worth more than a dollar,
because it contains pure silver.
It can be worth even more if you factor in its origin,
condition, rarity, or age.
There are some that have even been sold
for over $3,000.
Yeah. This isn't one of 'em.
[laughter]
I'm sure you're wondering what any of this
has to do with magic, so let me help you out.
I'm gonna go ahead and sign a smiley face onto this sticker.
Has nothing to do with the trick,
but silver dollars are expensive,
and I cannot afford to ruin 'em.
[laughter]
Okay, and, Alyson, would you mind coming up and helping me?
- Of course. I'd love to.
- Thank you so much.
Go ahead and choose any color sticker you'd like.
- Ooh, uh, we'll go yellow.
- Perfect. Go ahead and sign it with your name,
initials, a symbol.
- I'll do... - Perfect.
Okay. Go ahead and put it on--onto this dollar.
- All right. On here?
- Yeah. Anywhere you'd like.
- Oh, it feels wrong, but okay.
- Perfect, so now it's unique with your signature
and my signature. Thank you so much.
You can go ahead and take a seat.
- All right.
- So we have one signed coin and two unsigned coins,
and this was supposed to get me through college?
So I went off to college with $3,
which wasn't exactly on my bucket list.
[laughter]
Okay, so I sat in my dorm room wondering what I could do
to make more money,
because it seemed I had no problem making it disappear.
So I tried to hold on to my cash
by literally holding on to my cash as tight as I could.
But even then the money still slipped through my fingers.
[coin clangs]
And so I did what anybody would do.
I got a boyfriend to, you know, "share expenses."
But the funny thing was, every time we went out
to dinner, he "forgot his wallet." Mm-hmm.
And more of my money disappeared.
So I said to myself, "I'm a strong
and resourceful woman. I got this," so I got a job.
In fact, I got lots of jobs,
but everywhere I went someone named FICA
kept on taking money out of my checks.
Can you believe that?
Can someone DM FICA for me?
Tell her I'm paying her back years ago.
After trying so many jobs,
I realized maybe the best job for me is the one I have now
being a magician.
Because then no matter where the money goes
I could have always found a way
to make the exact same coins come back.
[applause]
This is my signature, and, Alyson, is this yours?
- Yes!
- Thank you, and always remember,
every minute spent angry is 60 seconds of happiness wasted.
Thank you.
- Aww. Leroya Sanford.
[cheers and applause] How delightful are you?
- Thank you. How delightful are those shoes?
- Right? - Ooh. I love 'em.
- Yeah. - The sparkles.
- They would go well with your pants.
- Yes, they would. Let's switch.
- Do you feel like you're blazing your own trail?
- Well, definitely as the first young Black female magician,
and I've never really, truly had anyone to look up to.
And I hope young kids seeing this out there
that are watching this right now are like,
"Wow. I could do that too."
- I have a hard time picturing you not being funny.
- Thank you. I mean, that's the goal.
That's always how I have been, and whenever one of my friends
are just having a bad day,
just making 'em smile that one time is worth it.
- Aww, so your dad must be super proud of you.
- Yeah, or super tired. Exhausted.
- Both. - A little bit of both.
- Dad, I love you, and I got you.
I'm glad you got to see this.
- Yeah, so you're a good daughter, a good friend.
Let's see if your comedy coin routine
fooled these two standup guys.
- Ooh.
- Hey, Leroya.
Boy, you know, you mention the minorities you're in.
You know, you mention African-American.
You mentioned female, but you didn't mention
the smallest minority you're in,
which is nobody has lit up the room like you.
You know, that's just one of a kind.
You're just wonderful
how you did two solid minutes of standup at the top,
and it was not hack jokes at all.
It was not the usual magician stuff, magician jokes.
It was stuff that was really particular to you
and really, really good.
And I can't believe that you're just 19 and that skilled.
It was just a beautiful routine.
Now, you gotta remember
that Teller has been doing the miser's dream,
which is what that's called in magic,
a lot of the tricks you're doing.
He's been doing the miser's dream
three times longer than you've been alive,
and you did it so fresh.
You know, you weren't phoning it in.
It wasn't remote control. You were just going
right through and really, really doing the stuff.
Really here. Really present. Big personality.
And we had never seen signed coin to the bucket.
You actually turned it into something else
with the signed coin, which was really nice.
And we really liked that,
but the problem is that there aren't many people
who know more about the miser's dream than Teller
and how to produce coins like that.
So I want to just tell you you're only 19.
I would like you to make me a promise.
You didn't fool us this time,
but you come back in a year or two
and really kick our ass. Can you do that?
- You got it. As long as I entertained you,
I could kick this off the bucket list.
- So good.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you so much.
- Leroya Sanford.
We've got more magic in the tank,
and later on, Penn and Teller will put the pedal to the metal
with a trick of their own. Stay close.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"
where handkerchiefs and bandanas
are called silks for some reason,
and magicians are called potential Foolers.
Let's meet one now.
[fireworks booming]
- Every hour that I'm awake I'm thinking about magic.
I want people to understand that much like music or film,
magic is an art form.
I wrote a book that became popular in prisons
among inmates who wanted to learn magic.
I've developed a relationship mentoring
some of these incarcerated people.
Many of them have said that magic gives them
a reason to live.
All I've ever wanted to do is magic,
but it was nearly taken away from me
when an accident shattered my arm,
and I was told I'd never regain the use of my hand.
Undaunted, I didn't give up. I just said,
"I'll have to learn how to do magic with one hand."
And my hope for tonight's performance
is that people watching feel like they're seeing something
that they've never seen before.
So tonight enjoy the show.
♪ ♪
- Attempting to fool Penn and Teller for the second time,
along with four innocent volunteers,
here's Joshua Jay!
[cheers and applause]
- This trick is dedicated to the film director
Alfred Hitchcock.
He made movies like "Psycho" and "Rear Window,"
and I think Hitchcock would have made a great magician,
because he was a master of suspense and surprise.
And if you think about it,
that's exactly what makes for the best magic tricks.
Suspense and surprise.
So we'll begin the way every great Hitchcock movie starts.
I'm going to kill one of you. No. With an action.
♪ ♪
The action is neither understood nor explained.
Penn, you don't know why I tore this card up.
Teller, you don't know what these pieces are for.
But at the end of this trick, you're gonna know exactly
why I tore this card up
and exactly what these pieces are for.
Hitchcock had a word for this. He called this the MacGuffin.
This is the action that moves everything forward.
We just don't know how or why.
I'll place the pieces here,
and I will not touch them again.
That is suspense.
But what we need now is surprise,
so, Chris, do me a favor.
I want you to lift up some cards,
and I want you to take a look at the card
you cut to with your other hand,
and remember that card. Keep it in mind.
Would you come and take the next card?
That'll be your card.
And would you come and take the one after that?
And you can have the one after that.
Now, remember your cards. Just one yeah. That's good.
Show them to the camera. Remember them.
Do not let them out of your mind.
Penn and Teller, every card in this deck is different,
and I'm gonna leave it here,
so that you can examine it afterward,
just to add to the suspense.
If you guys have remembered your cards,
all four of you, please come around
and slide the cards facedown into the deck
anywhere you want, anywhere at all.
Oh, you're being tricky. Okay.
Anywhere you like. And back to your spots.
♪ ♪
Now, it's my job to find your cards,
but of course, you're probably wondering,
"What's the surprise?"
And maybe you're even wondering,
"What are these pieces for? What role do they play?
Why is he asking so many questions of himself?"
Chris, what was the name of your card?
- The nine of hearts. - Nine of hearts.
Now, the cards were on the table.
You cut where you wanted to cut,
and then you slid the card where you wanted it to go.
- Yep.
- But there's now one card
facing the other way in this deck.
That's the nine of hearts. What was your card?
- Five of spades.
- The five of spades. Also turned around. And yours?
- Three of clubs.
- The three of clubs. And...
- The ace of hearts. - Ace of hearts.
That's quite a surprise,
but that doesn't explain suspense,
the MacGuffin, the action that sets everything in motion,
even though we don't know how or why.
I have not touched these pieces until now.
Hold out your hands. Keep the piece facedown.
Don't look at it just yet.
And we'll start on the end with you, Chris.
What was your card again?
- The nine of hearts.
- Show it to us.
[audience gasps]
- And yours? - The five of spades.
- Show it to us. And yours?
- Three of clubs.
- Yes? And finally?
- The ace of hearts.
- But of course, the best part of any Hitchcock film
is the surprise ending, the part you never see coming,
and then all the pieces fit together.
♪ ♪i
This is the surprise...
[audience gasps] Ending.
I want you to hold up that nine of hearts.
Make sure that that is a perfect fit into your card,
a perfect fit into yours,
your three of clubs, your ace of hearts.
Make sure the camera can see that they are a perfect match.
But this movie still isn't over,
because, of course, I'll take these.
Hitchcock had a way of tying up loose ends in a way
that always surprised, so before I go,
there's one more loose end to tie up.
♪ ♪
Chris, this is for you.
Take that with you. Examine it.
Next one.
♪ ♪
[audience gasps]
- This is for you.
I'm gonna do these last two a little differently.
Backwards, at the same time, and in my mouth.
♪ ♪
[audience gasps] - Now, those two are
for--I'm totally kidding.
Don't have to look at those. That's the end of this movie,
and that's the end of my performance.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
You guys can go back to your seats.
Thank you for helping.
- Joshua Jay!
- Hi. - Hi. I'm a big Hitchcock fan.
- Oh, me too. I've loved him since I was a little kid,
and this was my way of tying in my work
to his work in some small way.
- That's so cool.
What's it like mentoring incarcerated people?
- You know, it's interesting. I get so much out of this,
not only because I feel like I'm helping people
who are asking for help,
but also because these are people who are trying so hard
not to be defined by the worst moment in their life.
And they're doing everything they can to get a skill
that they can share with people and do good in the world.
- That's so cool.
- I have one student
who I wrote with for nine years.
- Wow. - And then he served his time
and got out and became a professional magician.
- Ohh. - Which is amazing.
- What's the hardest thing about being
a professional magician?
- For me, the real search--the real hunt is inventing tricks,
so like the piece that I did today.
I mean, I've created this trick,
so that's the part that takes years to learn.
Performing it takes months of practice, but it's years
to develop these tricks and get them tight.
- Yeah. Okay, Joshua, the suspense is killing me.
Let's see if you fooled the boys. Boys?
- Boy, you're good, Joshua. - Thank you.
- Really good. I just love the style,
and you do it just very much effortlessly.
- Thank you.
- You know, you put in all the work ahead of time,
so there's no work when you're actually working.
And I just love that so much.
- Well, thank you. - You came on last time,
and you fooled us, and this time,
it's your choreography that's so careful
and so thought out and so laid out.
And as mystery stories often have inevitable moments,
as you said, where you don't know
while it's happening that it's inevitable,
but at the end you know it's inevitable,
we were able to go back and figure out some things
that were inevitable and had to be done
and had to be worked out as magicians.
And watching you do that and being one step behind you
but catching up was a really great thing.
We're kind of watching it inside-out
from everyone else, you know.
Everyone else is going up to it
and then going ahead and trying to...
- Right. - Anticipate.
We're going up to it and kind of going back
and saying, "Oh, that's when that must have happened.
That's when that must have happened."
So it's just beautifully constructed.
Beautifully choreographed. You fooled us last time.
We don't think you fooled us this time.
I would like you to promise right now that you'll come back
and do a tiebreaker for us. Would you do that?
- I would. - Okay.
- Thank you very much.
- Thank you. - Did they cover enough
plot points to convince you that they weren't fooled?
- I think they did.
- All right. Thank you, Joshua Jay.
- Thanks, guys.
[cheers and applause]
Find out who our next magician is when "Fool Us" returns.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
This next magician has a few surprises for Penn and Teller
and some for the rest of us too.
Let's meet them now.
[fireworks booming]
[cheers and applause]
- In the mood for some Chilean magic?
Well, then please welcome Gabriel Gascon!
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, Penn. Hi, Teller.
Time is like a sponge.
It absorbs the past and the future into the present.
We cannot see it, but it's here.
It's here. It's here.
All time is here and now.
[audience gasps]
Time is like a sponge.
Actually, time is everywhere.
If you were here,
I would ask you to inspect these sponge balls.
But in this case, I will leave the red one in my hand
and the green one in my pocket.
Time is deceptive.
Time is deceptive, because if I leave the red one in my pocket
and the green one in my hand,
the green could be the red.
And the red could be the green,
like the past and the present trading places.
Wait, wait, wait. This is all wrong.
We said that we have a green and a red one,
but it is not true.
I have the red one, yes, but green is a secondary color
that is made up of two colors, blue and yellow.
Time is like a sponge.
Even if we try to catch it, it slips out of our hands.
Time is like a sponge.
Even if we try to catch it,
it slips out of our hands.
Like the future into the present
and the present into the past,
time is like a sponge.
It absorbs all differences.
♪ ♪
[audience gasps]
- By the way,
I don't know if I ask you,
do you know what the déjà vu is?"
A déjà vu is when you see something you think
you have seen before.
For example, these three balls. One ball in my pocket.
One ball in my hand. And the third one in my pocket.
Do you know what déjà vu is?
Déjà vu is when you see something
you think you have seen before.
For example, these three balls.
One ball in my pocket.
One ball in my hand.
And the third one in my pocket.
Do you know what déjà vu is?
A déjà vu is when you see something
you think you have seen before.
For example, these three balls.
[applause]
One ball in my pocket.
One ball in my hand. And the third one in my pocket.
Do you know what déjà blue is?
A Déjà blue, it is when you see something
you think you have seen before,
but this time it is blue.
[audience gasps]
- One, two, and three blue balls.
No, no, no. This already happened.
This is a mistake.
We had déjà blue,
but before they were orange.
They were orange. One orange.
Two and three orange balls.
In the past, we had a red ball.
A red ball. A red ball and a blue
and a yellow ball.
But before that, we had a green ball.
A green ball and a red ball.
A red ball and a green ball.
A green ball and a red ball.
Because time is deceptive.
You think it's one thing,
but in reality, it is many things.
[cheers and applause]
- Gabriel Gascon!
Wow.
- Hi. - How are you?
- Very happy.
- I didn't know if I wanted to watch you or Teller's face,
'cause his face was a lot like mine, which was, "What?"
- Yes. This is the idea.
I invented new tricks. New techniques.
- What is the focus of your magic?
- The focus of my magic is not only very visual magic,
but I like to connect with the people.
- All right, Gabriel. Let's go to Penn and Teller
and see if you fooled them.
- Ah, Gabriel.
You know, first of all, I want to say to people
watching at home there are no camera tricks,
and some of this looks like a special effect.
It looks like a camera trick,
and I want to tell you we know it is not.
The producers assure us there's no camera tricks.
You could be doing it right here in front of us.
A few years ago, we had on a guy
who did sponge ball magic.
He was from Spain, and I hated his sponge balls,
and I hated him. I do not like sponge balls.
They are little, ephemeral, stupid things,
and they don't look like anything.
But that guy, although I hated sponge balls, he fooled us.
And that made me hate sponge balls more.
And Teller and I made a solemn oath
we would never be fooled by sponge balls again,
so unfortunately for you, we went and studied.
Last season, we even did a sponge ball routine ourselves.
We learned everything we could about sponge balls,
so we would not be fooled by sponge balls again.
So you brought out sponge balls,
and immediately I hated you and hated the sponge balls.
And then you were good.
And I slowly started to hate you less and less.
And I crossed over about the middle of the déjà vu,
into hating. Not hating. Liking.
But remember, we know everything about sponge balls,
'cause we will not be fooled again.
So taking all that into account, how much
I hate sponge balls, how much we studied about this,
I want to make this very clear to you, Gabriel,
because English is a second language to you.
So I can't talk in too much code.
I'll say this very clearly, and I'll say it once.
You. Fooled. Us.
[cheers and applause]
- You're fabulous, Gabriel.
Fabulous. - We've got a Fooler!
- Fabulous.
- Whoo-hoo! Yeah.
- So good. So good, and the patter's great too.
- Whoo-hoo. Gabriel Gascon!
[cheers and applause] Whoo-hoo!
Penn and Teller were fooled, and so were the rest of us.
What a trick. Let's all regroup and meet back here in a minute.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome back.
Penn and Teller couldn't figure out our last act.
Let's see if they get back on track with this one.
[fireworks booming]
- To find inspiration for my mentalism,
I love to do long walks in the woods.
Mentalism is spontaneous and interactive.
You need to think on your feet all the time.
I learned this on a cruise ship years ago.
I was performing two different shows every day.
The big show was an illusion on the stage.
The little show was after hours,
and it was all mentalism.
Soon everyone was talking about my mentalism
and crowding to see it.
I realized magic of the mind has a real power,
and I knew I could make mentalism my life work.
Now, I'm a kind of missionary for mentalism.
I've written books on the subject.
I'm trying to read the minds of Penn and Teller tonight.
I've used all my skills to study them,
and I think I know their psychology.
I know you doubt me, but wait and see.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Coming to us from Italy,
let's say buona sera to Luca Volpe!
[cheers and applause]
- Hello, Penn and Teller, Alyson.
It's fantastical to be here.
Thank you very much.
Oh, I wish to be there with you today,
but sadly I can't, so I decided
to send my body double to represent me on stage.
Today I'm going to talk about a topic
which I'm really passionate, and this is magical persuasion,
how we can influence people's choices.
And today I'm going to try to do this
with you, Penn and Teller.
But before I start, as you can see here,
I have a target card, and this will be my prediction.
And in my hand, I have a pocket calendar.
Now, this is very special.
It's been given to me by a good friend of mine
as a motivational tool.
In fact, every week of the year has a proverb
for a total of 52 different proverbs.
And don't you love how a perfectly worded saying
can help us to see the world differently
or maybe to take an action or an order?
Let me read just a couple of them.
For example, oh, this one.
It says, "Where the tongue slips it speaks the truth,"
which is true, right?
And then, for example, let me go and see,
oh, this one. This one is beautiful.
I love this one, from Eleanor Roosevelt.
It says, "Do one thing today that scares you."
Well, that's it, so you got the idea.
52 different proverbs,
but now it's time to choose one of them.
Penn, I'm going to start with you.
- Okay. - In a moment,
you're going to watch a video, and you will see the 12 months.
You will notice that these months--they move
in different way.
They will also have some symbols. Why?
Because this video's been created in a way
that should influence your choice.
Penn, are you ready?
- Yes.
- Good, so please choose one. Don't say anything out loud.
Here we go.
♪ ♪
Do you have one in mind?
- I do.
- Perfect. Thank you very much.
And now, Teller, it's your turn.
You're going to do exactly the same thing, but this time,
instead of months, you will see numbers.
Are you ready?
Good. Here we go.
♪ ♪
Do you have one in mind? Great.
Please don't say anything.
Of course. Okay, so now, let's put everything together.
Penn, which is the month that you choose?
- November. November.
- November. Very good. November.
I like November. That's perfecto.
And please, Teller, which is the number that you chose?
- 14.
- 14. Oh, okay, so the 14th of November,
so let's see which is--oh, here we are.
This is the week of the 14th of November, as you can see here.
And this is the proverb that says,
"Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs,"
and this is, of course, an English proverb, right?
- Yes. - Now, just to show you that,
if it shows, I don't know, March.
You see March we had a completely different one,
just to show you that they're all different. That's...
- Yes. - Very important.
Now, let me show you this.
This clip here has been in full view from the beginning,
and if I show you what I wrote before the show,
I wrote exactly,
"Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs."
Thank you very much.
Thank you, but I know what you're thinking.
You probably think that I have 52 different possibilities,
and somehow I switched those underneath the clip.
Well, let me give another proof.
You see, just to prove that I manipulated your minds,
now, you can see that my body double has a pocket scarf.
Alyson, can you please remove the pocket scarf
and show everybody what is printed there?
- Okay. Oh... - Yeah.
- It's long. What's printed on the scarf?
- Yes. - Aw. It's a--
- It's a golden egg, of course,
because kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Thank you very much.
- Yay. Luca Volpe!
- Grazia. Grazia.
- Is it harder doing mentalism from 8,000 miles away?
- Yes. I have to say that it is difficult, but, you know,
during this lockdown I'm quite used now
to do things in front of the camera remotely.
- Is mental magic more about mind reading or mind control?
- You know, mentalists, in reality,
gives the illusion to read people's mind,
so a little bit you need to control their behavior
in order to make them doing things that you want
and look like that you're reading their mind.
Because you can actually blend real stuff with some trickery,
and it makes everything a little bit more cool.
- All right, Luca. Shall we see if you fooled them?
- Hey, Luca. Good to see you. How are things over there?
- Oh, very good. Very good.
Very good. Thank you. Nice to see you too.
- You know, we're doing this whole thing
where we have people from around the world
on electronic calls here, and having the cutout
of you--the stand-in of you--really smart idea.
To really bring that here and have that make it
more three-dimensional here for us was really good.
It's a really nice trick doing the influence thing.
And I saw the ampersand on the months,
which was very nice, and the numbers.
It's all a really nice, pleasant, sweet performance,
and the thing right clear in your pocket,
from the very beginning and then playing out over here.
And we just really liked it, and I'm gonna try to explain
to you how this was done in Italian.
- Oh. - So please...
- Okay. - Forgive me here.
[speaking Italian] Svengali.
[laughter]
- Yes. Yes.
- So I do not think you fooled us, capisce?
- Capisce. [speaking Italian]
Grazia. Grazia.
- Grazia. Grazia.
- Thank you so much. Luca Volpe.
[cheers and applause]
Don't look now. Penn and Teller are coming right up.
Stay close.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us." Pop quiz.
What's got two sharp brains, one smart mouth,
and four fast hands?
The answer is tonight's final act,
the amazing Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- For so many years now
we've been doing big stage acts with a big crew
and a big theater and everything.
And we took some time recently
and went back to when we first met.
We just got together in each other's living rooms
and just did sleight of hand, just practiced and did magic.
And we'd always wanted to do a coin routine with four hands,
so we worked this out. It's all just sleight of hand.
There's no gimmick coins or anything, and watch this.
There are four sections on the mat, okay?
One. Two. Three and four. And there are four coins.
One. Two. Three and four.
And of course, we have our four hands.
To keep track of those, they are one,
two, three,
and four.
Here we go.
Now, if one, meaning the hand, has two, meaning the coins,
and two, meaning the hand, has two.
And one goes to two, meaning the zone,
and two goes to one, now one has three.
And two just one. Now, if three has three
and two has one and two goes to three
and three goes to one, then two has two.
And three has two.
Now, four has two,
and three has two.
And two and four go to one and three,
and one and three goes to two and four.
Now, three has three and four just one.
Now, if one has three and four has one
and one and three go back to one and three
and two and four go back to two and four,
now one has all four.
Damn.
Now four has one, and two has one,
and three has one, and one has one.
And one goes all the way to four,
and four goes all the way to one.
And three goes to two, and two goes to three.
Now four and three have two and two.
We'd better do that for you again, right?
Now four has one, and three has one,
and two has one, and one has one.
And four goes back to four, and one goes back to one.
And three goes back to two, and two goes back to three.
Then four and three have two and two.
And finally, if three has two and two has two
and four is four and three is three
and two is two and one is one, now one has one,
and two has one, and three has one,
and four has one. And we call that the five...
[audience gasps] - Coin trick.
[cheers and applause]
- Well, four acts
plus two headliners equals one full show.
Come back for more "Fool Us" soon.
Good night from Las Vegas.
[cheers and applause]