[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the Penn & Teller Theater
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here is our host, Alyson Hannigan.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
If you're hungry for some tasty magic
with the helping of some well-seasoned entertainers,
then belly up for tonight's episode.
And as always,
behind it all are the chefs of chicanery, Penn and Teller.
[cheers and applause]
Fun fact:
Penn and Teller create each "Fool Us" trophy by hand.
That's why they're very particular
about who they'll give it to.
They need to be legitimately fooled
by a world-class magician,
perhaps one that looks like this.
- I lead a double life.
By day, I'm a professor. I have a PhD in math.
My dissertation was titled "Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem
and Notions of Minimality in Continuous Logic,"
which I'm not gonna try to explain to you right now.
But by night, I'm a magician.
I perform at venues like the Magic Castle
doing sleight of hand.
The way I think about math research is very similar
to the way I think about magic.
They have a lot in common.
Math research, like magic,
requires a lot of very strange and beautiful creativity,
and this is the same approach I take to performing magic
where I want to think outside of reality
and how I can share that with my audience.
Tonight, I have a trick that I spent a lot of time
developing just for the show.
Penn, Teller, this trick has a little bit of math
and a whole lot of magic.
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome the math- magical mind of Tori Noquez.
[cheers and applause]
- I'm a mathematician. I have a PhD and everything.
And whenever I mentioned what I do for a living,
the first thing people always say is,
oh, you're really good with numbers.
You must spend a lot of time in Vegas. Nope.
Turns out when people find out I'm a card magician,
they do the exact same thing.
Oh, you're really good with playing cards.
You must spend a lot of time in Vegas.
Still nope. [laughter]
One of the reasons I don't spend much time here gambling
is as I'm sure you know, a lot of these games
are designed such that the house wins,
so this inspired me to use my math
and magic skills to design my own
Vegas-style game in which the odds are in your favor.
And I brought with me for us to play.
Rules are simple. Penn, in a moment,
I'm gonna have you select a card at random
and Teller, you're gonna have one chance
to find the position of that card on this board of 52.
Now I know those odds sound near-impossible,
but I'll use a little bit of magic to help you guys out.
All right, Penn, go ahead and tell me when to stop.
- Stop. - Right there.
Did you want one more, one less?
- One less. - Okay. All right.
So this card right here. Okay, let's see how you did.
We will not be using any of these
and we will not be using any of these.
So our winning card is the four of hearts.
Perfect. All right, Teller, you're our player.
And I really think you're gonna nail this. I know you can win.
In fact, I created this game so that you could win. Okay?
So I'm feeling really good. Are you ready? All right.
All I need you to do is indicate which row
and how many cards over that four of hearts is.
Fifth row, sixth card.
Okay, so here's the fifth row.
One, two, three, four, five, six right here.
And are your sure, do you wanna change your mind?
One more. Okay. So right here. Perfect.
I'm really excited. I really think you nailed it.
Okay.
All right, Teller's card.
[audience murmurs]
Six of spades, really? I thought, you were sure.
All right. Well, you know what? That's okay.
Because Penn is here so we can play again.
All right. Penn same deal. Where's the four of hearts?
- Uh, first card.
- First card, top left. Right here?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh, bold choice. I like it.
All right. Let's see what you got here.
I'm feeling even better about it this time.
Okay.
[audience murmurs] Oh, jack of diamonds.
And this was supposed to be an easy game.
This is not going how I planned it at all.
Alyson, hi. - Hi.
- Are you busy right now? - No.
- Do you want to play a game with us?
- Of course. - Great.
Before you take your turn, let me just make sure
the winning card's actually back here.
Um, yeah. Teller was pretty close.
In fact, Penn was a little bit closer.
So Alyson, where's the four of hearts?
- Second row, third card.
Right here.
- Yes. - Okay. Are you feeling lucky?
- Always. - Good. Me, too.
All right. Let's see how you did.
All right.
Eight of diamonds. Aw.
Well, that's it. The game is over
and I was really rooting for you guys, too.
See, remember when I said that the odds were in your favor?
Well, unlike most magicians, I wasn't lying.
The odds really were in your favor.
And somehow all three of you managed to defy
those easy odds.
Thing is, other than the three cards that you selected,
every other card on this board is four of hearts.
[applause]
And if you can't figure out how you missed every single time,
then the odds are that I fooled you.
[cheers and applause] - Tori Noquez!
So I get the feeling you don't think like everyone else.
- I do not, no. My research is in very abstract math
and that happens in, like, theoretical space
and it's all made up and imaginary
and, like, requires a lot of creativity.
- And is it hard to speak with us mere mortals?
- [chuckles] No, turns out I'm also a human being, so.
- That's good. Good to know. So thinking the way you do
probably helps you create tricks that no one seen before.
- Yeah. You know, I mean
I've trained classically in magic
and learned all the background, but then, yeah,
I like to think outside the box
and sometimes I'll think of something and be like,
has someone else done this? Have I seen this?
And then like, I'm really excited when the answer is no,
and I get to work it out. - That's so cool.
Are you just a high achiever at everything you do?
- Oh, yeah. I'm a marathoner. I do everything all the way.
- Wow. Have you always loved magic?
- Yeah. As a kid, I was like a science kid.
So I was, like, building rockets and, like,
blowing stuff up
and, like, setting off the school fire alarm.
But yeah, when I was 22, I visited the Magic Castle
for the first time and I thought it was so cool.
And I was like, "I wanna be part of this."
- All right. Let's see if Penn and Teller calculated
how you did your trick. - All right.
- Tori, you've done a card trick plot
that we've never seen before.
- Oh. [chuckles]
- After eight seasons of "Fool Us"
and actually looking into magic a little bit before that...
[laughter]
This is a whole different thing.
That reveal with all the fours of hearts is just beautiful.
- Thank you.
- And the idea of given the edge
and all that and the no choice, but you actually have a choice,
it's a really good plot.
- Thank you. - And very original.
- Thank you. - I really loved it.
We're trying to figure out how you did it.
You know, it's such a great trick.
And we went down one row then we had to double back
and try to figure out how to go
and what you were possibly doing here.
And what people may not know is if we're right,
which we don't know--[sighs] we don't know if we are,
but if we're right, this is surprisingly
not the cheapest trick to put together
we've ever seen the show. Cost a little bit of money,
but you seem unflappable in the whole thing.
But it's a complicated trick in terms of plot.
It's a beautiful reveal.
So I'm actually eager to hear the answer.
I tried to drop a few hints there.
So you tell us, did you fool us?
- No, you guys figured it out. - Aw.
It was very entertaining. Thank you so much.
- Thank you for having me. - Aw, thank you.
Tori Noquez! [cheers and applause]
After this break,
we'll find out if we have a new Fooler in our midst.
Stick around.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
Welcome back.
Let our next performer make themselves known.
[upbeat music]
- My name is Alex Boyer
and I'm from a small town in Quebec.
Not exactly a hub for entertainment,
but in Quebec, we make our own fun.
Cue drum solo. [drum solo]
I've always wanted to be a rock drummer.
Why am I doing this? I have no idea.
But I found my way magic when I was super young.
And I think magic and music is kind of the same thing.
I can play with people's emotion
and make them happy, excited, I can startle them.
I'm a 6'2" super sweet teddy bear.
And I'm obsessed with my hair.
Doing magic is actually the only job I've ever had.
Can I do it in French?
[speaking French]
Can I have some English subtitles, please? No?
Penn and Teller, what I'm about to do may not look threatening,
but don't be deceived. We have lives in the balance.
Not mine, thankfully. [laughs]
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome the danger magic of Alex Boyer.
[cheers and applause]
- [indistinct]
How you guys doing? - Good.
- Probably wondering why you're not understanding
what I'm saying right now, right?
Is because I'm French Canadian. [laughter]
But seriously though, what an absolute--
my God, what an absolute honor to be here tonight
performing in front of my magic heroes.
And much like you Teller, I'm speechless.
[laughter]
What is up guys? My name is Alex Boyer.
And tonight, we're gonna save someone's life.
One of yours, actually.
It is gonna be
Ngan, Amanda, Scott, Matt, or Katie.
But one of you is in grave danger.
So choose wisely. No pressure.
Behind you there is five numbered boxes.
And when I snap my fingers, I want you to switch randomly
until you arrive in the front of whichever box you choose.
Ready? - Okay.
- All right, here we go.
[quirky suspenseful music]
[chuckles] All right.
This one? Really, really?
I mean, that's your life. [laughter]
You guys good? - Yeah.
- Happy? - Yeah.
- Great. Now this trick is dangerous.
So I need someone to share the blame with me
in case something goes wrong. [laughter]
Alyson, everyone. Hey!
How're you? - Good.
- Nice to meet you. - Me, too.
- Love your outfit, though. - Thanks.
- Big fan. - Thank you.
- Alyson here I have five big cards numbered one to five.
We have one here, two, three, four, five.
♪ ♪
What's, what's--okay.
On that note, let's begin. [laughter]
A little bit of Canadian humor for you.
Alyson. - Yeah.
- Can you take these five cards for me, please?
And shuffle them face down just like this.
- Okay.
- And make sure nobody sees anything.
Great. Now, in a moment,
I want you to put one card on the table.
You're doing great and make sure you don't look at it.
And this card will represent
the life we're about to save tonight.
- Okay. - Ready?
- Yeah. - But hold on.
Make sure you're confident in your decision as well.
Because I don't want you to be home tonight
sitting on your couch
thinking, "What if I would have chosen a different box?
would I have saved someone's life tonight?"
Or maybe you're gonna be laying in your bed thinking,
"Damn that guy had amazing hair."
[laughter]
Alyson, go ahead and place the one card here.
- [indistinct] for that one. - Awesome. This one?
- Yeah. - Great. Now remember
you could have chosen any one of these cards, right?
But you chose this one.
Now let's see whose life you saved tonight.
And by the way, thanks for making a decision for me.
We have number two. Number two is Matt.
Your life is safe tonight you can stand behind your box.
Right here. Careful. Yeah. Amazing.
Now here's the dangerous part, Penn and Teller.
The rest of you, when I say your name,
I want you to sit on your chosen box. Good?
- Okay. - Here we go.
Let's start with number one. Katie...
- [chuckles] - Go ahead.
♪ ♪
Go ahead. Come on, come on, come on.
Yes! One done. Here we go. Here we go.
[laughter]
Thank you so much. Thank you. Number three, we have Amanda.
Go ahead, Amanda.
This is not chaotic at all. [laughter]
Here we go. Yeah, amazing. Ngan, your turn.
Go ahead, go ahead. Don't be afraid guys.
Don't be afraid. Go ahead.
♪ ♪
Great. Now the last one is Scott.
Nervous, buddy? - Terribly.
- Me too. Can you tell? - No.
- Okay, cool. Here we go. [laughter]
Scott, here we go. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Go ahead, bud.
Yes, we did it!
Thank you guys so much. Thank you, thank you.
You guys can go grab a seat.
But Matt, stay there for me, please.
Thank you so much. Again, thank you. Thank you.
I should probably tell you why I'm celebrating like this.
Remember at the beginning, when I told you that Alyson
and I are going to save someone's life tonight?
- I do remember that.
- Well, Matt, this is exactly--don't move.
♪ ♪
What we've done.
♪ ♪
[audience murmurs]
♪ ♪
We saved your life tonight, bud.
- Thank you. - Happy?
- Happy.
- Go grab a seat. Thank you so much.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
[applause]
- Oh, and Matt, remember the apple?
That was to remind everyone that an apple a day keeps...
the doctor away. Thank you. [cheers and applause]
- Alex Boyer.
So is the comedy in Quebec its own special thing?
- Yeah. It has a huge scene in Quebec.
It's like one of the biggest attractions there. It's comedy.
And we have so many great comedians there.
And yeah, it's a special place.
- Do you feel like you've developed
a style that is unique to you? - When I was younger,
I was taking myself a little bit too seriously.
And I've tried to just being goofy
a little bit more and stuff. So I have like an edgy style,
but being goofy, having fun with people.
That's the whole goal. So I think, yes.
- Do you still get nervous when you perform
or is this easy for you?
- I mean, tonight is a special night, you know,
I'm performing literally in front of people
I've grown up watching.
So yeah, tonight I was a little bit nervous, but I'm happy.
I had lots of fun and it's a dream come true.
- And you didn't kill anyone.
- I didn't kill anyone, yeah. - Whoo.
[laughter] - [indistinct]
- All right, Alex, let's see if he fooled Penn and Teller.
- All right. - Hey Alex, you know,
we've been doing this show a long time
and we love firsts on the show.
And season one, there were a lot of firsts.
It was the first season. - Right.
- And then it went on and on and on
and we get fewer and fewer firsts.
But this, we're not talking about your magnetic personality
or how you did all the jokes or being French Canadian.
We had French Canadians before. - Yeah.
- We've got Canadians before, that's not a first.
We've had danger magic, that's not a first.
But you are without a doubt
the very first butt stab we've had on the show.
We were very excited about that.
A true possible impalement. - Thank you.
- And it was a great, great act.
- Thank you, guys, so much.
- You have a great personality. It was very, very good.
We also liked, like our buddy Piff,
we like people eating during the show
and the apple thing at the end really, really good.
But I think I snuck in the word somewhere.
Not the word butt and not the word stab
and not the word French Canadian--two words.
But somewhere in there, they had something, an idea,
a pretty good idea of how you did it.
- Absolutely, yeah.
- Did they know how you did your trick?
- I think so. I think so, yeah.
- Aw, well, thank you so much. - It's all good.
Thank you, guys, so much. Thank you. Thank you, guys.
- Alex Boyer. [cheers and applause]
Penn and Teller will take on more magicians
and then finish the show
by performing one of their own amazing tricks.
So stick around. [cheers and applause]
- "Fool Us" is back and ready for almost anything.
Let's see if this next magician can surprise us.
- I'm a magician first and foremost
and magic really is my passion.
But I also co-founded a magic company
and we produce magic tricks for other magicians.
I've kept pretty busy running a magic company
and we sell magic to magicians all over the world.
We've even produced a few tricks
that have appeared on "Fool Us"
and some have even fooled Penn and Teller,
but I still think of my real job as being a performer.
I only create magic that I'd want to do.
That's the approach.
Because if I can't see myself doing the trick,
then I can't see other magicians doing it either.
I'm not supporting anyone else's vision tonight
nor underwriting another magician's dream.
I've created a brand-new effect to perform tonight.
This time, I'm here for me.
[cheers and applause]
- Returning to the "Fool Us" stage
all the way from London, Andi Gladwin.
[cheers and applause]
- More than 45 years ago, a circus school graduate
and a Latin high school teacher met for the first time
and formed one of the most
iconic double acts of their generation.
Now I can't tell you the odds of Penn meeting Teller
that day, but I can help recreate them.
I'm gonna give Penn and Teller
a series of random choices to make.
And even though they will be completely random,
I predict that the end result will be that Penn and Teller
meet once again.
Penn, the first choice is yours.
On the board here, I have five different locations:
your house, a coffee shop,
the movies, a library, and a theater.
I'd like you to pick one of those locations.
- A library. - A library.
We will put Penn into the library.
Teller the same thing for you. I'll move you down the road,
you just hold up your hand when you want me to stop.
Your house, a coffee shop,
the movies, a library--
you wanna stop in the library.
So we have both Penn and Teller in the library.
They made the same decision.
Perhaps it was always meant to be.
Now here's the fun thing. In this folder here,
I have five of your key career events.
I'm gonna read them out one by one
and I'd like you to rank them between one and five.
And we'll place one in each spot
until we fill up all five spaces.
Now one could be high or five could be high.
That's your choice. I'm not gonna find out.
And I'm even gonna give you the opportunity to change your mind
once you've seen all five cards.
So the first career event is for you, Penn.
It is graduating Clown School.
Where should that go? One, two, three, four or five?
- Clown College, well, the best of times,
it was the worst of times. [laughter]
Let's put that at two.
- That is a great choice.
I have so many questions right now,
but we will leave that to later.
And Teller this one's for you.
Of course, we already mentioned it.
It is teaching high school Latin.
Where would you rank that? One, three, four or five?
- Unus. Notice I speak Latin to the only Latin teacher
that won't correct my pronunciation.
[laughter] This one goes here.
Next one is for both of you.
You both appeared on a TV show early in your career
called "Miami Vice."
Now I have to admit I haven't seen the show.
I'm just hoping that your Wikipedia page is accurate,
but where should it go? We have three, four or five.
- Oh, dear. We can change our minds?
- Later on, you can change your mind, I promise.
- Is one low or high in your mind, Teller?
'Cause wherever it is,
"Miami Vice" needs to be the worst.
[laughter] - You know what?
I'm gonna go and change this right now.
If you want, I can swap teaching Latin
and put it somewhere else.
- Why don't you slide them over,
put "Miami Vice" in the toilet at one?
- "Miami Vice" at one.
- 'Cause you spend six weeks with Don Johnson,
see how much you wanna stay alive.
[laughter]
- Okay, we're almost there.
These next one is your first Broadway show back in--
- Well, that was fabulous. - This was back in 1987.
You were referred to as the bad boys of magic.
- Yeah. [laughter]
I would say five on that.
- Five. - Let's do five on that.
- A very understandable career highlight.
The next one is my personal favorite,
but I have to admit it hasn't actually happened yet,
but I'm hoping it will after the show.
- Nobel Prize. - Almost.
- Okay.
- Equally as good if not better.
It is making me, Andi Gladwin,
the third Penn and Teller member.
- I see, I see. [laughter]
- I have a name for us. Penn Andi Teller.
It's one extra letter. It's like it's meant to be, fellas.
We should do this. - It's a very good point.
- So that one right now is gonna go in to four.
I did say I would give you
the opportunity to change your mind.
So are there any now that you've seen every one of them
that you want me to switch about?
- I think they're in pretty good order right there myself.
Do you want to change something, Teller?
Good. We are happy. We will stand pat.
- If you are happy, I'm happy too.
But there is one more opportunity I wanna give you.
You see, the orientation of these cards
is vitally important to the outcome of this trick.
So are there any that you would like me to turn upside down?
- Please turn "Miami Vice" upside down.
- I'm sensing bad times. [laughter]
- Let's hope voodoo works with that rat bastard.
[laughter]
- Any more before we continue? - No. That's good.
- Well, now I get to tell you what all of this is about.
You see, on the other side of these cards is a maze.
And it's a maze built entirely by the decisions
that you have both made from your career.
And you'll notice it's a maze with five stop points
and five end points on each card.
Now Penn, that day that you met Teller,
if you'd have decided to stay at home,
let's look at what would have happened.
You see, you wouldn't have met Teller as we follow along
making every move along you can see
that you wouldn't have met Teller that day.
Instead, you have ended up back home.
It wouldn't have been Penn and Teller,
it would've been Penn and some other fellow.
Now there are 25 different start
and end point combinations on this board.
If you multiply that by the 24 possible orders on the board
and then multiply that again
by the 16 possible order combinations,
and there is a one in 9,600 chance
that you two would create this maze.
Now either my entire "Fool Us" experience
is based entirely on luck
or maybe, just maybe,
Penn and Teller were always meant to be.
Let's take a look.
Penn, you decided to start at the library.
If I follow along making all of the twists and turns
based on all of the twists and turns of your career,
you will see that the end result
is that Penn and Teller meet once again.
It's like it was meant to be. [cheers and applause]
- Andi Gladwin.
Wow. That was amazing.
- Yes.
- You must be incredibly good at math.
- I'm a secret nerd.
- And you're incredibly good at magic.
- Well, thank you. That's very kind.
But it's fun to combine all of my interests.
I used to be a computer programmer.
That's a little bit of that. There's math.
There's everything. This is a fun trick to work on.
- Wow. So what is this trick tell us?
Is life fate or happenstance?
- Well, we can never calculate the odds of meeting the people
that we ended up meeting and that was my starting point.
Thinking, "What would the odds of Penn meeting Teller?"
- So if this trick didn't work
and Penn wound up in the coffee shop, would we all just vanish?
- We probably will just enjoy coffee right now, I think.
- Do your business and your performances
compete for attention?
- No, they share attention, actually,
because I get to use my experience as a performer
and then I get to perform the tricks
and make sure that they are really great.
- Andi, I know they were amazed.
But let's see if Penn and Teller are still puzzled.
- Hey, Andi, boy, you just come up with the greatest stuff.
Teller especially goes to Vanishing Inc.,
which is your company and buys tricks from you all the time.
You just make up the greatest stuff.
And we are so honored because did you make this up for us?
- Just for you guys. - Wow.
- This is the only time you're performing it?
- First and last time.
- Wow. We're amazed and honored and thankful of that.
You know, as you probably noticed, we were drawing things
and we were looking at this, we were tracing it in our minds
and turning stuff and figuring it out.
I gotta to tell ya,
of all the people we've busted on "Fool Us,"
I don't think there's anybody we've busted more.
I mean, I think we figured out more in this trick
than any other trick we've ever figured out.
We were so proud of ourselves.
We figured out like four steps of this
and we're just doing math like crazy.
We're feeling really good about ourselves. Really great.
And we were feeling a little smug
and then we ran through all the stuff we worked out,
which I will repeat is more than we've ever worked out
on anyone else and realized it still wasn't enough.
We still don't have everything.
You fooled us. It's as simple as that.
[cheers and applause] - You fooled them!
- We don't have enough. We have so much of it.
We figured so much of it, but not enough.
- Now you look amazed.
- Thank you so much. [cheers and applause]
Thank you so much. - Yay!
Congratulations, Andi.
- And thanks for working that out for us.
It was so great.
- Andi Gladwin! [cheers and applause]
Behold, a new Fooler. And we're not done yet.
Penn and Teller take on more magicians when we return.
[cheers and applause]
- You though we vanished,
but we return just in time to show you our next magician.
- Comedy has always been a big part of my repertoire.
Well, it had to be because of my name.
I call myself Topas.
My real name is Tomas Froschler,
which in German means Thomas, the little frog.
[frog croaks]
With a name like that,
you better learn to laugh at yourself,
so I do, even when I'm being Topas.
Last time I was on the show,
I did one of the tricks I'm most known for
and in fact, I've done for more than a decade.
Tonight, I'm bringing Penn and Teller a surprise.
I'm doing a brand-new effect.
No one has ever seen it before.
Maybe I can fool Penn and Teller for this reason.
Performing a new trick on "Fool Us"
is like introducing a baby to the world.
So please, if you would, wish me luck.
[cheers and applause]
- Joining us once again, German master magician, Topas.
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic pop music]
♪ ♪
[audience murmurs]
♪ ♪
- ♪ A little less of me ♪
♪ Where is myself? ♪
♪ Keep on running, I look stunning ♪
♪ And feel free ♪
♪ A little less of me ♪
♪ Where is myself? ♪
♪ All this hustle just for muscle ♪
♪ I'll be less of me ♪
♪ ♪
[audience murmuring]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
♪ A little less of me ♪
♪ Where is myself? ♪
♪ All this hustle just for muscle ♪
♪ I'll be less of me ♪
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Topas.
Hello. - Hi.
- So Topas, this is the premiere of this trick.
- Yes, that's true.
I've never shown it anywhere else.
- So you brought your baby
and you just threw it to the wolves?
[laughter]
- Well, they're very nice wolves.
So I feel I'm in the best place possible
to introduce it to the world. - Aw.
So for your whole career, you always create new tricks?
- Yeah. I like to be an author of magic
and I don't think there has been
any magic been done in the past on a treadmill before.
So you know, we had to come up with new principles
for floating while you jog. [laughter]
- When you develop a new trick,
do you start with the ending or the beginning,
or do you sort of see the whole thing as a package?
- It's not the ending, usually. It's this one special moment
that I have never seen before and that I want to create.
In this case, I saw moving in slow motion,
jogging in slow motion. That was, you know,
the dream, the vision I had for this piece.
- All right, let's see if you and your magical treadmill
will walk away with a trophy.
- Oh, Topas, as soon as we saw your name, you know,
Teller said this guy's a great inventor
and also your stuff is so meticulous.
I don't think we have anybody on the show
that works harder than you.
And this is also physically so demanding.
Such an amazing routine.
And having that treadmill, you know, it's a magical thing.
It's a magical thing to be able to move.
And it's kind of like your magic wand in this.
It's just so good walking around at the beginning,
behind the thing which is maybe not much to an audience.
It's a big deal to us.
You know, they say gambling when they show a sleight,
how to get into it, how do you get out of it, you know.
And that's really hard on this trick.
You get into it, no sweat, you know.
Wipe the sweat from your brow no big deal, you're in.
And a lot of people think that, you know, levitations
and moving around like that is kind of old school.
But to us, it was really hip. It was really good.
But I think we have a pretty good idea how you did it
and almost wish we didn't because
this is the top tier for beauty and for entertainment
and just for plain good, hard work
and thinking magically. Just beautiful.
- So Topas,
do they know the tricks to your magical treadmill?
- You know, maybe you have not heard everything I have heard,
but I think they have a very good idea.
[laughter]
- Well, thank you so much. Topas.
- So good. So good, Topas. [cheers and applause]
- I bet you have time for one more trick.
And just to sweeten the pot,
I'll tell you it's a trick by Penn and Teller.
See you right after the break.
[cheers and applause]
Closing out tonight's show along with author and comedian,
Heather McDonald, are the legends themselves,
Penn and Teller. [cheers and applause]
- Hey, Heather, how you doing?
- I'm doing great. How are you guys?
- Very well, thank you. I think we were--
weren't we on Chelsea together once, I think?
- I'm sure we were. - I'm sure. We had to be.
So we sent you a bunch of M&Ms.
Did you get a bunch of bags? - Yes, I do. I have a lot.
- We gave you a zillion bags.
Now, Heather, these are--
they're packaged by weight and by percentage.
So you never know how many of each color you're gonna get.
So pick any one of the bags you have there
and just open it up
and dump them carefully onto the plate there, Heather.
If you would-- don't open yours, Teller.
That--don't open yours. Just dump them out there.
- Hold on. - Okay, good.
- This is the hard part of the trick, Heather.
- Okay. So, pour them out. Okay.
- I have mostly brown and mostly orange.
There are fewer yellows, greens and blues,
but let's just check yellows.
How many yellows do you have there, Heather?
I have one, two, three, four, five, six.
I have six yellows. How many yellows do you have?
- I have 12. - Yeah, so you have many more
yellows than I do. And you'll see.
What do you have the fewest of, does it seem there, Heather?
- I feel like I have the fewest reds.
I have one, two, three, four, five reds.
- Yeah. I have two, two, four, I have six reds.
But you see there's different numbers there.
Now Heather, you can either keep the bag you've got there
or you can change for another bag
just dump those out.
You happy with those or you wanna change?
- I guess I'm happy with these, I don't know.
- Okay, good. Here's what we're gonna do,
mix them up so that all the colors have different there.
Okay. And just for the trick purposes,
let's get rid of the brown ones.
Pick out the brown ones. Count them as you do one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine.
- Seven.
- Nine, ten. I have ten brown ones.
So Heather, eat the brown ones. Get rid of the brown ones.
I'll feed mine to Teller. Eat all the brown ones.
- Okay. All right, hold on.
- Brown ones are gone. - Okay.
- Now the next most are oranges.
Count out your oranges. You're gonna eat those, too.
Two, four, six, eight,
ten, twelve.
I have 13 oranges.
How many oranges do you have, Heather?
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
- 12. And I have 13.
Eat them, Heather. Eat them.
[laughter]
Eat yours. Here's another one. Eat your oranges.
All right, good eating.
Now all you've got left here
are blues, yellows, reds, and greens.
So mix them up good and then close your eyes, Heather.
Close your eyes. Reach in and pull out one color.
What color you got there?
- Blue. - Blue.
Count the blues and eat them.
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
- I got 16 blues. 16 blues. Eat 'em, Heather.
Teller eats them so much faster than you do.
[laughter]
Once again, Heather, close your eyes.
Reach in, pull out a color.
What color you got there, Heather?
- Red. - Red.
I got--eat the reds.
Two, four, I got six reds. How many you got?
- I only have five.
- Only have five. Eat them, Heather, eat them.
Now, all you've got left is yellow and green.
- Okay. - Now, you tell me.
This is totally your choice.
One color you're gonna eat
and the other color is gonna be our trick.
Which color do you wanna eat?
Which color do you want for our trick?
- I'll eat the green.
- So how many greens are you eating?
- Two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven.
- And how many yellows do you have left?
- I have 12. - You have 12 yellows left.
Eat the greens. And you have 12 yellows left.
Now you notice, Heather, from the very beginning,
Teller has been holding one bag of M&M's.
I opened up mine, we ate the whole bag.
You ate your whole bag.
He has one bag in plain sight the whole time.
In that bag, Heather? - Yes.
- There are
one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
[audience exclaiming]
12 yellows and nothing else in the bag, Heather.
Thanks a lot for doing the trick with us, Heather.
- My kids will enjoy that. Thank you so much.
That was real fun.
[cheers and applause] - Oh, wow.
That is all the tricks and treats
we could fit into tonight's show.
We'll see you next time with another sweet episode
of "Fool Us."
Goodnight. Yum.
[cheers and applause]