[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From
at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
here's our host,
- Hey.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
Welcome to "Fool Us,"
a show where we give the
a few minutes
before we spring
from all over the globe.
Ready to defend themselves
give it up for the legendary
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
If Penn and Teller get fooled,
they hand over one
and an all-expense-paid
where they perform
at Penn and Teller's
Let's see if this first
[fireworks pop]
- The last time
I was so happy to be able
Everybody,
I'll just do it one more time.
Then something happened
that took it
This is the one of the
of my life.
I hope that this clip
gets looped forever
This time, I'm so proud
to be able to present
my son, Johnny.
I've been raising him
[shouts]
Johnny's been working hard
and I believe he's ready.
This is his final test
to prove himself
Penn, Teller,
last time, I defeated you
This time,
as father and son.
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
- He was here before
Now joining us from Germany,
here's Ryan Hayashi
[cheers and applause]
- [grunts]
My son, Johnny, and I
the first international
where tonight, we will attempt
Mind-blowing step one:
we show this table
And, Johnny,
- Let's go.
- Nothing under the table.
Nobody's home.
Our magic comes from the hands,
the mind, and the heart.
Over to you, Johnny.
- Mind-blowing step two:
the cups and balls routine.
- Yeah, but this is not your
This is a father-and-son
and it's anything but routine.
Johnny, are you ready?
- Thanks to you,
- That's what I want to hear.
Watch these balls, Johnny.
For me, this is not just
This is your first real test.
- Vanished, like all fear.
Pass this, and you will
You will be a man-gician.
- Gone like all doubt.
This is what I've
It is time for you
Do it.
- Disappeared like tears
Any questions before we begin?
I didn't think so.
And just like that,
- Wait. What?
Freestyle jam, Johnny.
One move, and bang!
The balls come back.
Whoa!
Come to the table,
and become one with the force.
The world is watching.
You do the magic.
I'll do the monologue.
Everybody, watch Johnny
if they put in the work,
they can do anything.
Awesome.
Because we are not here
only to hurt your brain
[gasps]
Solid.
We are here to inspire men,
to believe
and become smart,
who will contribute
of human civilization
for everyone in the world!
Good job, son.
I'm up next.
I need the wand.
That was epic!
- Who writes our scripts?
- I love you, son.
I like that last move you did.
- I'm gonna do exactly
but...ten times faster.
- You ready for this?
- I just did it!
- And the balls come back.
- How?
You've been asking me
and the time is right.
I'm gonna teach you...
Now! I just did it.
- It's teleportation, Johnny.
First, you have to make
and reappear somewhere else.
Now, this last ball--
- Dad, can you
- Oh, you want to try?
Make me proud.
- Nothing!
All right,
Everybody, check this out.
Three cups and three--
- Surprise!
You want to play?
Who do you think
The voice: movie trailer.
The look: Elon Musk.
The energy levels:
- That's my dad.
The balls go under the cups.
Let's change the cups,
Slide the cups, slide the cups.
See what I just did?
- What?
Nothing!
- Wow.
- Bam.
This one.
- Don't need it.
- Last one.
Same thing.
Johnny, I just fooled you.
- Why?
- What?
And this one's back!
- One day, Johnny,
- Bam!
And that day is today.
What?
Here. My turn.
And I just forgot
- No way.
Because vanishing a ball
- Bam! Impossible!
Did I fool you?
All right, hotshot.
Go ahead.
- Bam!
- Bet you thought that worked,
Sometimes you have to respect
You get the last one.
Wand, other hand.
This is the final vanish
You're the canvas of my life.
You make me proud!
And now we go
Power of the ancients!
[both grunt]
The balls are back!
And we're not done!
[both gasp]
Psychological...damage.
both: Oh, yeah.
Wah.
- Your time is now,
so accept no limits.
Believe in yourself
and unleash
the power within you!
both: ♪ Ah ♪
- And that's
both: Cups and balls.
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo!
- Ryan, how you doing man?
- Hey, good. How you doing?
- Hey, Johnny,
We're gonna work on figuring
while you have a little talk
- Okay.
- Wow, so has this
father and son, like,
- Well, yeah,
but ever since he was little,
and he's been working for years
- So, Johnny, is your dad
- Oh, he's awesome.
When he taught me
he instantly sent me out
so I get my practice
- I wouldn't say
- No.
I'm like Mr. Miyagi.
- But what's gonna happen
Are you gonna be okay
- As a magician, we all reach
when it becomes more
to the next generation.
And I'm not there yet!
But Johnny got
[laughter]
- Johnny, blink twice
[laughter]
Okay, well, let's see
how you did your trick.
Boys.
- Hi, guys.
- I am actually 16.
- 16? Goodness gracious.
- My daughter, Moxie, is 15,
and she does magic as well,
and so this was
And, you know,
that forehanded stuff
is really wonderful.
We're very used to it.
And also, the beginning
where you show the table
in service
and showing
not rigged at all
Teller points out
Magicians very commonly
use their patter
just to say,
Now I'm doing this."
You use the patter
You set up
that allows you to do stuff
that is not
It's a really smart way
and also saying,
Is that
That threw us off for a moment.
But...
Really, really good.
You did a great, great job,
and the whole act was just--
was just top-shelf
But it's cups and balls,
and that's been around
maybe the first magic trick.
We've been doing it forever,
so I think...
you didn't fool us.
- So, Ryan,
Do they know
- But thank you.
It was an honor
to present this act to you.
- Always great to see you.
- Aw. Thank you so much.
Ryan and Johnny Hayashi!
Bye, guys.
[cheers and applause]
Penn and Teller have
before they perform
See plenty more amazing magic
when "Fool Us" returns.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Let's see who's gonna try
[fireworks pop]
- I love puzzles,
and I love escape rooms.
I've done probably
Each room immerses you
making you really
on the different solutions
I have a math degree
It's in applied mathematics
and theater.
For graduation,
for our commencement ceremony.
Berkeley is
so there was 30,000 people
That was the first day
I gave myself one year
to see if I could make it
So, Penn, Teller,
four years later, here I am.
- ♪ Yeah ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Nathaniel Segal.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you very much.
It's great
You know, I have been
until my Vegas performance
on this board.
Wait a minute; I forgot
Perfect.
Tonight, I'm gonna put
to use so that my parents
that I became a magician.
First, we need a number.
Alyson, could you help me?
- Thank you.
[applause]
I have a tally counter here.
- I like it because
of getting a random number.
Plus...
I like the sound
Very satisfying.
- You can see
the numbers go up.
- And I can turn it like that,
- Ooh. Oh.
We're just gonna focus
- Okay.
- Yes.
whenever you'd like, okay?
- Anytime.
- Right there.
- One more.
- Thank you.
Can you read out
- 68.
We have the number 68.
You can have a seat.
- Sure.
I will now condense my
here on this board
in just about ten seconds.
I'll start
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
You can see.
Plus 12, that's 62.
Plus 6, that's 68.
Now, probably
if you have too much time
But if you think that's cool,
♪ ♪
Done.
If we look at the first row,
49 plus 4, that's 53.
Plus 9, that's 62.
Plus 6, that's 68.
All the other rows
But we can take it
The columns.
Plus 47, that's 56.
Plus 12, that's 68.
All of those columns
But that's not all.
The diagonals,
As we saw the four corners,
The four inside squares,
These four right here
These four, these four,
And--
Okay, you probably
that much math tonight,
But there over 68 different
of Alyson's
Thank you.
Boom.
Oh, thank you.
Now, maybe you've seen magic
with numbers
but there's another miracle
Check out
If you count the marks
1, 2, 3, 4--
no, we're not gonna count
That would take forever.
But you'll find
exactly the same number
just a few moments ago.
But if you're not
we can add a little more magic
♪ ♪
[gasps]
49, 4, 9, 6.
Every single number,
[applause]
- Wow. Nathaniel Segal.
- Thank you.
That's incredible.
Clearly, you should be helping
- Yeah, I'm available
- Okay.
- I love this.
- I did.
I built it all myself,
there's one more thing
Can I show you?
- Here, if you could
- Okay. Yes.
- So you did a magic show
- I actually created
to help raise awareness
This is one of the pieces,
a little bit,
- It also reminds me
- Yes. Perfect.
- [chuckles]
"Fool Us."
[applause]
- So what's your process
- I like to start
what do I want to accomplish
and then
But then I also
sometimes, like, can I make
or can it be fold flat
or things like that.
And so that really helps me
on trying to be creative
instead of just dealing with,
- Right.
what I want to do
and have an idea
kind of like
- Shall we find out
how you did that trick?
- I guess so, yeah.
- Nathaniel, we're familiar
- Of course. Yeah.
And it doesn't really ever
'Cause once you start
and you go, "And these make it,
and this make it,
and the audience goes,
- Yeah.
right after that,
and you found this way.
And we're both suckers
for that
and real suckers
not being in an envelope
"Oh, why couldn't
And also, the quarter turn
has that wonderful feeling
of a child's coding system,
That's so clever
And really, what you have to do
you got to start out
and you took that whole idea
with the clicker
and turned that
I thought that was
and it's a really
Plus, and this is something
that's really important,
you're really likable.
We just liked you
You're just really pleasant,
But with all of that--
I think I should have slipped
that you heard--
we don't think you fooled us.
- Aw. What do you think?
Do they know
- They're great
so I think they got it.
- Aw. Well, thank you.
- Nathaniel Segal.
Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
Our next magician is on deck,
and we'll see him take a swing
right after the break.
Stick around.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
This next magician
and one of Penn and Teller's
And he's back!
[laughter]
[fireworks pop]
- The first time
I fooled Penn and Teller
- Bring another trophy.
- It was amazing.
- Success didn't
I was still the same person,
but somehow,
Suddenly, I realized
So again, I was on "Fool Us,"
and I fooled them
So now life was much better.
I didn't need anything more.
I love having those trophies.
They are like my little kids.
I was so happy,
but suddenly, I realized
So now I am trying
with the biggest effect ever
in "Fool Us" history...
or the biggest failure.
You will decide.
[cheers and applause]
- [sighs]
[laughter]
- Look out, boys!
Trying to fool Penn and Teller
here's Jandro!
[applause]
- Hi, Penn!
Welcome to my TV show,
"Jandro Fools You
Today I'm going to do
very good card trick.
Remember this.
But I don't need to fool you,
because you are going
Your ears, your eyes,
Right now, you are
because you think I'm here,
That's because your eyes
But this is an illusion.
[audience ohs]
I'm in the middle of nowhere.
And you also think that
No, this is not a webcam.
Yes, a drone.
[drone whirring]
And third, you think I'm going
No, I never said that.
I said I was going to do
Car. Car. Vroom, vroom.
A car.
This is my car.
But because I'm from Spain
and you heard "card,"
your brain fooled you thinking
I was going to do a card trick.
No, no, it's a car trick.
So I've already fooled you
I deserve a trophy.
But okay,
Here, I have
the biggest domino effect
[upbeat music]
We have 70 big blocks
of domino,
and I have a special message
When I first came to "Fool Us,"
I did a trick that started
Today it's the opposite.
The trick has already
and will end here in Spain
because the producers told you
between 0 and 1,000,
and the producers
Here I have it.
Here it is.
I promise I have never
I give you my word.
I would give you my hair,
So now I am going
and you will--
you are going to see the
so you can see that no one
and it's one shot.
No cut.
[exhales sharply]
♪ ♪
Here I have,
404.
404, okay?
This is a message for you.
This is my...
domino car trick.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
It's 404!
Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah!
[speaking Spanish]
[cheers and applause]
- [screams]
Oh!
Jandro!
[sighs dramatically]
- Hello.
- Hello!
How do you even come up
- With the lockdown,
we were very sad
because we could not go
but the mind
so that's the important thing.
But I felt maybe
that I cannot do on the stage
because it's too big.
- Do you think
bigger than this one?
- No. No.
Next time, I will do
with fleas, you know?
- Oh, no.
Microscopic magic.
[laughs]
- How many tricks
- Every time I invent a trick,
- Oh. Wow.
- Do you think you could
to be as creative as you are?
- Everyone is very creative.
Creativity is a muscle.
It's like making sport.
If you do sport,
If you are always thinking
you get the muscle
So everyone is very creative.
- Okay, Jandro.
Let's see if you can add
- Let's see.
- Jandro, we love you more
- Thank you.
- I need to tell everybody
and we know that finding ways
in an envelope is easy,
trivial.
We also know you well enough
You did not do it the easy way.
You don't do anything
so we're throwing out
We also know a little bit
so Teller said,
"Well, we know it's low-tech,
"We know it's foolproof,
We know it's stupid,
So the very first thing
"I think he hid small Spanish
And I said, "No way.
We're not gonna guess that.
So we are not gonna go
We don't think
We think you're crazy
You would not hide people
so we have no idea.
So, Jandro, you fooled us.
- Yay!
Three-time Fooler!
- Thank you.
And when you do it again,
- Thank you.
- You won another trophy!
We will keep this locked away
until you arrive in Vegas.
[sighs]
- Give it up for Jandro!
[cheers and applause]
Whoo-hoo!
Yay!
It's a swing and a miss
and a home run
Stick around and see
if another magician
can knock one out of the park.
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
If you're just joining us,
you missed a successful Fooler.
Maybe we can show you another
[fireworks pop]
- I'm a librarian
for the Academy
at the Magic Castle,
and I've been here
Books were what really
All these years later,
I'm in charge
full of the greatest books
One of my favorite books is
Every time I go back to it,
I see something
and if you multiply that
by thousands
you can guess how many tricks
Members come in all the time.
They ask me questions
and I have
I end up learning as well.
There's a lot of buried gems
Now, Penn and Teller,
a lot of magic knowledge,
that maybe I've come across
that might have slipped
We'll see what happens.
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome
of Bill Goodwin!
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you very much.
I love cards.
I've had a deck of cards
since I was about
but to be fair, all I did
[laughter]
Now, a deck of cards
In fact, they taught me
I know this sounds strange,
but I'll show you
I'll get some number cards.
Yeah, these will work,
What I would do is,
based on those numbers,
or whatever cards they were--
and then the deck would
So in this example,
if I said,
this is what I would find
I would find one card here,
one, two, three four,
Now, I didn't know arithmetic,
So I knew the deck
that 9 minus 4 was 5.
Am I the only one
[laughter]
Well, you can see
I'll square them
place them right in the center.
Now, that was me doing it.
Now I'll prove to you
the deck can magically
simply by changing
Instead of subtraction,
9 plus 4, that's 13.
Let's see the deck
[dramatic music]
There's 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, and 13.
[applause]
♪ ♪
We can take this
Multiplication,
It's a big one.
Let's try it.
You saw 5. You saw 13.
9 times 4.
♪ ♪
[audience gasps]
Wait, wait.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
and 36.
[applause]
I'm guessing the next thing
Yeah. That's a tough one.
Let's see if these guys
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
That would leave me with,
wouldn't it?
Okay, I'll try something
something I didn't do
Let's try algebra.
We'll add the sum
Now, the deck told us
and that the product was 36.
So if you add those together,
49.
So watch the deck.
With algebra.
[audience ohs]
49.
- Now, this must be 49,
'cause that's 50, 51, and 52,
and the best part,
49.
- Whoo!
- Oh, I love cards.
In fact, I love them so much,
I'm gonna tell you
Watch. Watch.
I cheated. I cheated.
- [laughs]
[applause]
- Bill Goodwin.
[cheers and applause]
That was fantastic.
- Math and magic.
I was the most boring kid
[laughter]
- But probably the smartest.
- That's a maybe.
So your whole life
around the Magic Castle?
- Yeah, I became
I was one of the juniors,
so when I was 16,
and I had only heard about it
I didn't know it existed.
- Can you tell your audience
- Yes, it's the
It's a private club
And it's one of the great
because all the magicians
So you're gonna meet
and have resources and books.
You can go and find things that
that'll still
- So have you read all the
- I don't think anybody
There's just too many of them.
- Yeah, besides him.
Okay, Bill, well, let's see
if your calculator trick
- [laughs] Okay.
- Gentlemen?
- You know what?
I sometimes think
to tell people
and the first thing I said
"That's a totally original idea
He uses the cards
Most card tricks boil down
- Yeah.
- "Pick a card.
or, "Is this your card?
Now it's someplace
This uses cards
which I think is fascinating.
I just really loved it.
And there is much more
than the audience knows,
There's all sorts of stuff
ahead on the math from where
It's just--just a beautiful,
- Thank you.
like, you know, throw out words
and stuff like that
that you did just beautifully,
but our guess
was that it is
done really, really well.
Is that correct?
- That is very correct, sir.
- Just a beautiful job.
- Oh.
- Well, you didn't fool them,
but I've never
- Okay. Thanks.
- Thanks, everybody.
[cheers and applause]
We've held them off
but Penn and Teller
a brand-new trick for you,
After the break, they will.
Stick around.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Teller started doing magic
By the time he was 12,
he called
for Cub Scout troops
Tonight, performing with one
that little Teller built,
are the wonderful
[applause]
- This is all
Teller was an only child,
and his mother
Teller was looking
and he found,
all the props and the script
Even after all these years,
but I loved it,
maybe because he was
This is Teller's original
He recited this poem
but so I don't feel left out,
Get ready for "Alice
to Teller's Wonderland."
"There once was a cottage
"It certainly was no palace,
"and in it lived a curious girl
who went by the name of Alice."
[laughter]
"One day, she chased
"When it flew, Alice lunged.
"But she missed,
"and suddenly tumbled,
"and down through the chimney
"Down and down and down
"inches and feet and yards,
"and as she fell
"she was showered
"She was floated,
"The miracle did astound her
"heels over head.
"The world did
"and she thought it was grand,
"when a giant hand
"And now appeared
"a mushroom of enormous size.
"Its cap was pink
"Its stem was like a pillar.
"It smelled like feet
"In short,
"And on the top,
"a most exotic
a creepy caterpillar."
- Who are you?
- "The creature roared,
"'Well, I'm the main character
and you're just a thing
- What's that
Yum, my favorite snack,
Yum.
Ah, and yet another
Your little fingers
- "The caterpillar
"Alice took the end
"It seemed to be
"and as she pulled,
"accompanied by a Chinese gong,
"till finally she unplugged it.
"The mushroom
"and so it stood
"as mushrooms do in fairy land.
"Then suddenly,
"a queen of hearts
"A giant cookie came,
"She took a bite...
"and fast as light,
"she found that she had shrunk,
"no bigger than a playing card,
"Then she recalled
"'Drink milk
"A monstrous glass of milk
"'I mustn't drink too much,'
"and so she drank
"until it all had disappeared
"and looked out
because there's nothing
- "As 'Teller's Wonder Show.'"
[whimsical music]
- Whoo!
Yippee.
Ah!
I hate to say it,
For Penn, Teller,
good night,
[cheers and applause]
Ah.