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- From the
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host
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- Welcome to "Fool Us."
Tonight, we have
a plethora of perplexing,
and clearly
We also have two
so let's turn the page
Penn and Teller!
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If Penn and Teller
how a trick is done,
they give up a slot
and a shiny new
Let's see how they do
- My dad is from Iran,
and they can came here
My dad started
in Texas of all places.
This was the place my mom
One night, my dad
so he could come see us,
As he was walking to his car,
And they killed my father.
I was one when that happened.
And my family kept it a secret
So it's not surprising
because magic is an art form
But magic also taught me
that is in you and you
then really you become the
And to me, that's real magic.
Whenever I get to share
I just imagine
just whispering
Penn and Teller,
something quite amazing
And I know my dad
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- Stand back and make way
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- My first trick is done.
Did you guys catch it?
- Oh, no.
- I got this past security.
- Oh, I thought I was
[laughter]
- Sorry about the table,
Alyson.
- You probably see this
I see it as a magic wand.
And of course, the only thing
with a knife
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Cards.
Alyson.
- We need a target card because
So in a moment,
you're gonna pick up
and you're gonna show it
Guys, please remember
but it's really important that
- Okay.
And then you're gonna
onto the deck of cards.
- Yes.
- Go ahead and pick up
Pick up a chunk of cards.
Guys, please remember
You guys got it?
And put it back
Now, Alyson,
in the most dangerous way
by stabbing to it.
[laughter]
One, two.
Here's the thing.
If I were to stab
that would be impressive,
However, you don't know
And if I mix these cards up,
you wouldn't even know
Is that right?
Which is why
[laughter]
- Stab the card?
- One question. Are you
- I mean, as long as it's not
- Oh, no.
Any knife.
W-where is security?
Uh.
Pick a knife, any knife?
- Um, I'll do that one.
- Go ahead and take it.
Oh, this is weird.
- By the way.
Now, Alyson, in a moment,
you are going to stab
- Why are you rolling up
- But before you do,
how to stab something first
'cause I don't want you
So here's the thing.
- You're gonna hold
so it's gonna be like this.
- Okay.
Hold the thumb on the top.
- Okay. All right.
You don't hurt yourself
with two joker cards,
And you're gonna hover
You're gonna go straight down
By the way, that stab's on you.
So we're gonna split the bill
[laughter]
But let's see how you did.
♪ ♪
Just make sure you stab
and less than 52, but
Just channel in your inner...
psychopath and you'll do great.
So whenever you're ready,
- Stab the deck?
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Hold.
All right. It's okay.
If you would've stabbed
you could have stabbed
Penn, what was the name
- Three of spades.
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[audience exclaims]
The three of spades.
- Zak Mirz.
- Thank you so much.
- How did you come up
And do all your tricks
- Yeah. Okay. So funny story.
because I got married
And I go on tour a lot
I just kind of want, like,
just in case, just in case.
So we got her pocket knife
I kinda want
So I bought one for myself.
And I was like, what kind
So I kinda like created this,
So people don't know me
They know me
- Yeah. I'm just gonna
as the guy not to hug.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- So what would it mean
- I'm just excited.
It's just such an honor
I can't really
I know it's gonna be, like,
So I'm just trying to process
So I don't forget it.
that I'm even talking
and talking
It's very intimidating,
- You're a natural.
- Okay, Zak, it's time to see
- Hey, Zak.
- You kind of wormed your way
because, one of the things
are always trying to do is make
which is always tough.
And you may not know this,
big appearances
and we did a card stab.
That's what we did.
It supposedly went wrong and
with the selected card
And my hand came up
you're always told not to touch
not to get near him.
He's very squeamish about that.
And my hand came up
it went right across his face.
But he had us
so I guess it was okay.
- But we love the idea
We knew right away
that the Force wasn't quite
- Yeah.
And we followed that.
And we think that,
a shim metal plate in the card
under the card
And that stopped.
If that's not the way
We're pretty sure
So you had a little metal plate
- If I understand you
- Yeah.
At the bottom.
- Sorry,
So I'm so sorry, but it
- One card was a metal
that stopped
- Yeah. If I understand
that's--that's, um,
[all gasping]
- Huh? Huh?
- Well, I have to move
and say that
- Oh, my God.
- Take it off, take it off.
- Thank you so much.
- Now you're huggable.
Oh, my gosh.
- Look at that behind you.
Oh, my goodness.
Thank you so much, guys.
- Thank you so much.
- Mr. Penn, thank you so much.
- Oh, dear.
- Zak Mirz!
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- Penn and Teller
and they could cough up
We should have a medic
Stick around,
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- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
One magician already
and the night is far from over.
Let's bring out
- Everything I do
I puppeteer,
I do stilt works.
I did fire shows, too,
Robotics,
[laughs]
Like all performers,
I will do anything it takes
I'm severely dyslexic, also.
I grew up and I could not read
Magic taught me
and then how to amuse others.
Actually, I think my magic
It surprises people
I don't know how to do magic
This is how I hope
I had to learn it my own way.
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- From a studio in Sweden,
put your hands together
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John-Henry.
Oh, that was wonderful.
- Oh, thank you.
- I don't wanna alarm you,
but there's a decapitated head
- Well, it's my mini-me.
- Watch this.
- Whoo-hoo! Hey!
- That's even more disturbing.
I love your outfit.
Is that how they dress
- Yeah, yeah.
All Swedes goes in red.
- Always.
Is your on-stage character
- Pretty much.
It's high-energy.
- Oh, yay!
- So you said
but magic benefits
- I actually learned
but I misunderstood
So I did it a different way
just because
- Wow. Well, that's pretty
- Yeah. It's solving problems.
- Yeah.
Okay, John-Henry, let's see if
- Hey John-Henry. Boy, we got
I gotta go pretty fast.
If you wanted to do
and you wanted quotes,
First thing I said was,
And the first thing
"It's the best cups and balls
It's so good.
And one thing that makes it
what tennis balls are.
And you know
With jugglers and magicians,
they often have props
And I also know as a juggler
that tennis balls are
And you made it even harder
because the tennis balls
sometimes are even harder.
And you did a great,
And also having cups and balls
so it's theatrical,
so we know
The pails, the balls,
The juggling in between.
Your whole look,
And I hate to see jugglers
I don't like it when jugglers
it's a difficult thing.
It should look magical
Like you were born doing it.
We should never be able
And you did all of that.
And we loved the whole act
we just sucked it up
It was just--
Every bit of it was great.
And because you're doing
even though you had some
in there,
so I don't think you fooled us.
But we sure love you, John.
John-Henry, do they know
- Yeah, they do.
- Well, thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
- Let's take a quick break,
You don't wanna miss
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- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Take a gander
- Some people might think
I believe in UFOs
I have a cabinet
It's my collection of strange
Don't believe in Bigfoot?
I actually hated magic
until my wife dragged me
The love of my life
introduced me to
Magic.
I wanted to learn
so I read every book I could.
Tonight, I'm combining magic
for everything weird
If the government has been
for years,
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- Give it up for Andy Deemer.
- Penn, Teller,
My name is Andy.
I was so excited, I forgot
There we go.
Penn, Teller,
[laughs]
I was so excited,
Oy vey,
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Much better.
Penn, Teller,
and I'm so honored
Are you both ready
- Yes.
Are you ready for some super
- Yes! Oh, we sure are.
- That's more like it.
especially when the cards
It it's such an organic
the color of wine
But I also brought a blue deck
in the deep state.
Now I need
Are they gone?
Good.
[tense music]
[laughter]
Ladies and gentlemen,
but everything else is a lie.
The government
It's true.
I know. I wrote the articles.
You may think it's a lie,
and they will lie to you
that you have free will,
Let me show you.
Preferably someone human-born.
Penn, we'll use you
MKUltra-style
- Oh, good.
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- On this one, no?
- And stop.
- Yeah.
- Not these?
- See, Penn, like I told you,
All of it?
Lies.
Lies, lies, lies,
But you insisting
- Yes.
- Now you could have chosen
but something drew you here.
Was it free will, Penn?
[laughter]
Or was it those
just finding another way
Keep this as a memento
the single most important day
the day you woke up to the way
We need to move on
[laughter]
We all know about
Where they flash
to make me buy more whiskey?
It's so much worse than that.
Check out these logos.
Like they're implanted
but they're actually
Alyson, let me show you how,
that subliminal mind control
I'm gonna write down
and then I'll ask you to say
I'm sure you all know why
[laughter]
The Illuminati!
The people behind the people
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Alyson,
When you're ready, please say
- Three.
Did that number just pop
Or did you actually feel
Almost like a squid sucking
[laughter]
- I know you felt it, Alyson,
And that's the number
And the number that
Was 24.
You missed by 20--
You all think
No, that is the magic
Miss by 21.
[mouths words]
- That's amazing.
[cheers and applause]
Wow, wow.
So have you ever thought
[laughter]
- My wife asks me
- I bet.
Is mind control real to you?
- I think elements of it,
Obviously, all of this is just
- Okay. Do you get cornered
- Well, after my shows,
to the lobby
and talk about their unique
And I've done a lot of research
into all the conspiracy
and I love talking about them.
- Nice. Do you ever try
of a different way of thinking,
like people that think
- You, you mean people
[laughter]
- Okay.
- Of course,
And of course I try
- And does it ever get heated?
- No, because you'll never
And I love hearing about
that I don't know about.
So Penn and Teller get one shot
Let's see if they did.
- Andy, great. Really great.
You came back with the opening
who's a buddy of ours
You looked very regal in that
And everything looked really,
And what you may not know,
it's nice to have someone come
but Teller and I
[laughter]
But you didn't give up enough.
And of course, we're kidding.
But anyway, Andy, when we get
the prediction,
that start out wrong,
And then the turnover
What you think of the
Yeah. Teller gives you
So it was really wonderful
really smart, well-rehearsed,
But we don't think
And I think we snuck
that you probably heard
- Correct. Thank you.
- So Andy, do they have a clue
- The government may have
but I certainly didn't.
- Well, thank you so much.
Andy Deemer!
Walking into a black hole.
Come on back.
We've got more magic
We'll be right back.
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- Welcome back.
Let's meet the next magician
- Hi, I'm Thomas Solomon.
I made my name in magic
I can escape
I got so good at it,
to bring in any handcuffs
The deal was if I can get out
Now I've got a collection
Like a lot of magicians,
I fell in love with the
although for me, it was
My parents weren't in favor
so I left home.
I moved to New York
with nothing
all for the chance
In my opinion, you cannot
without being
so I'm doing something
And with any luck,
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- Good evening,
Penn, Teller,
is built
For example,
if you were to step outside
onto the glamorous
you would notice some
in architecture, automobiles,
All tangible objects
into simple geometric shapes.
Now, as we all know,
there exists
There is the square,
a symbol of stability
There is the circle,
and freedom of movement.
Finally, there is the triangle.
It's three sides,
a symbol of our past,
And it is the past, present,
that will be on display
But besides
of these geometric shapes,
defined as the backwards
of an object in time.
Watch.
If I were to cover the ball
with a cone in the world
the ball disappears
just a few seconds
here...
in my pockets.
Of course,
is equally astonishing.
It allows you to do
Like I can pull one solid
Of course,
the white ball
I could employ
so that it travels back
Remember, ladies and gentlemen,
the fourth dimension
and forwards movement
just a few seconds
here in my pocket.
Of course,
the three-dimensional world
It allows you to do
I can place the white ball
and then push it through
Likewise, I can cover
and then form it
over here to my elbow.
And from my elbow, I could
And from my pocket, I can
so that it travels back
Isn't the fourth
You know, all of this backwards
of an object in time can be
And you might have been
very closely.
you should have been
But I'll let you in
the red ball is an illusion.
It doesn't exist.
It's a red herring, if you
You see, instead of watching
you should have been
And the white ball
No, that is over here
of my pocket.
You know,
in relation to this illusion.
Is it possible
third, and fourth dimension
The answer to that
if I place the white ball
and then I cover the white ball
Now, it is incumbent upon you,
to keep your eyes right here
I'll twist the bottom
so that there is no way
Yet with a little bit of magic,
the ball goes not through
but actually rises
A solid right through
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But you know,
this has been the story
And the transference
in this case, the ball,
backwards and forwards
through the fourth dimension...
to where it's all ended
And there you have the story
as told through the magic
Thank you.
- Thomas Solomon.
So while they try
I would love to hear
- Anytime you do water escapes,
they are
I've done things where
I'm jumping off a retaining
So it's quite dramatic.
And I would hazard a guess
in their own way is daring.
- Yeah, it sounds terrifying.
- Well, I've been doing it
I mean, since I was probably
And it's all about
you're risking your life.
- But even using magic,
wasn't the first time you went
- Oh, very much so.
You can prepare for months,
but then eventually
And that can be quite
- I would imagine your parents
when a 15-year-old you decided
- Not at all.
- And yet, you did.
- Okay, well, let's see if
can earn you a trophy.
- Hey Tom, it's the first thing
work on your routine was
And I said, "Me. too."
It's so nice. You know, it's
and come out and do big stuff,
but there's also something
about just having the goods
and standing there
I really like the--the
And the likability is
I want to tell people
I know you have the color
but a lot of this
and certainly credited
But Teller decided that
the cone and the ball routine
Teller worked on it a while
because it's
[laughter]
You are doing
Crazy, insane, hard moves.
I mean, that's a big ball
to be doing the stuff
And the stuff, the moves,
and you do it so calmly.
your patter's so nice with it.
Also, and I think
but I think it may be
and that is that you're
that ever justified the cone.
Most people just take the cone
but it works right
So with all the shapes
there's a reason
which really does inform
and makes it
We're so, so happy to see it.
And I'll tell you, Teller
if he worked the rest
[laughter]
But we do know the Dai Vernon,
but we also think we know them.
- Yep.
- So did they say
that mean they know
- Yes, they did.
- Thank you.
- Thomas Solomon.
Coming up, if you wanna see
get out of those chairs
you're in luck.
Our main men in magic
when "Fool Us" returns.
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- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
When people look at Penn,
they often think he isn't
Penn's here to prove
and he's joined
and fellow Las Vegas headliner,
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- Very well.
- I wanna show you a trick.
- I've been working on
Teller and I did
in August of 1975
- Oh, wow, I love Shakopee.
- You do love Shakopee?
- It's where the Minnesota
- No, it's great.
It's a great--sorry, Shakopee.
That was really for me snoring
It's not the city.
- I would is really into
- Yeah. Amazing.
I love mind games.
And, Teller, we went
bought me this deck of cards
[laughter]
And he took the cellophane off
He shuffled this deck
"Here you go, smartass,
So this is the order
that Tellers shuffled way back
46 years ago.
And I know where every card is
Name a card.
- Any card?
- Queen of--queen of--
- Queen of hearts?
- That's eight in the deck.
- The queen of hearts
- Number eight in this deck.
- How do I know you didn't have
- One, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, eight.
Am I right?
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
- And I'm gonna put these back
so I don't change the order
so I could do this trick again.
- You really don't need
- [laughs] Oh, no,
But we're gonna do it
Teller and l have been
We've traveled
but especially the U.S.
And many gift shops, Teller
And we have ended up
- There's Teller.
- Now these decks
And they're all in an order
And now you got
was eight
- Yeah.
- But I can find
in another deck
where you'd like
- I have--I have four letters
So how about four.
- Four.
- Is that a good number
- That would work fine.
- So you'd want
to be the fourth card there.
Well, that would be
And that would be Tunica.
And Tunica, Mississippi
between the nine of spades
the three of clubs.
- All right.
- Mississippi right there.
And we have one, two, three.
I said the nine of spades
There's the queen of hearts.
And I said three of clubs
There's the three of clubs
And they go very nicely
- Wow.
- Well we'll do one more thing
- Okay.
- I'm gonna let you
Now usually I ask people
where they were born,
You're an Orlando guy.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. I mean, I don't want
People will think I set it up.
- So any other place.
- Do I go on the map here?
Go on the map
- I feel like I'm gonna
[laughter]
Wow, there's so many places
- Yeah. There's a lot.
- Well, can I use the ladder?
- That looks fun,
Let's make it dangerous.
- Yeah.
- So why don't you step
- All right. I'm gonna try
Since I got the ladder.
It could be Canada.
♪ O Canada ♪
♪ [vocalizing] ♪
- You have rights to that,
- I have rights to it.
[laughter]
I'll try to pick one
Is that okay?
- I got Hawaii.
And that is--
- Oh, I don't know.
- Yeah. Okay.
- You memorized it?
Now you're gonna handle this.
- Okay.
Let's move this deck
And then give me a number.
but I don't want to go
'cause I might know that.
- Seven Vegas.
- Okay. So seven in that deck,
seven is the nine of spades.
- Okay.
- So go ahead with the nine
Count seven. Now count 'em
One.
both: Two.
- I don't know.
both: Four, five, six.
- I said nine of spades,
- This is it, this is it?
Nine of spades.
- Whoa.
Keep going, keep going.
- Oh, my God.
- That's the queen hearts,
then it's the ten of clubs,
Then it's the king of spades,
And then it's
Then it's the jack of diamonds.
Keep going. King of hearts,
Then it's the queen of clubs.
Nine of clubs, ten of hearts,
two of clubs, ace of clubs,
- Wow.
- Seven oh hearts,
What I do for you right now,
'cause you're a friend,
I'm gonna put these back
You didn't mess 'em up did you?
- You were careful.
- I'm gonna put this
And then if you keep these
- You'll give me a trip
- For the rest
no trip to Hawaii.
if you have this deck with you,
you can give me any number
and I'll tell you where it is.
- I'll call you.
- Thank you so much.
- Thanks guys for having me.
Yay, yay.
Big thanks to Carrot Top
and even bigger thanks
Don't forget to come back for
Till then,
- Don't shuffle those.
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