[jazz music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- From the
at the Rio Hotel
here's our host,
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome to "Fool Us."
You've seen the show,
and if you haven't,
Okay, okay.
CliffsNotes version:
try and do a trick
to fool our magic masterminds,
Penn and Teller!
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♪ ♪
A successful Fooler
wins the grand prize,
a trip to Vegas to perform
They also walk out of here
Let's see if our first magician
- Hi, my name is Moritz,
I started magic
At 14 years old, I began
Those kind of felt
because, the next day,
and it was like
But the moments that really
were magic conventions,
where I got to meet
whose books
Those were fantastic.
Whenever I'm waiting for
I always take out
I can practice
Moves in magic
I must look like an insane
But that's the price
Now, with magic,
you're chasing
to do something
Unfortunately, I'm a bit
So we have an impossible goal
and when those two things come
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- Time to go global.
Give it up for Moritz Mueller.
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, Penn.
Thank you guys so much
You know,
it's sometimes hard to justify
so much time on something
[both laughing]
Because it's literally
I'm just, like, practicing.
I would like to combine
with a much higher calling,
to start my own religion.
But of course, if you're going
if that is really the path
you need to prove that you can
And that is where
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I call them the miracle cards
'cause these cards can actually
Now, normal playing cards can,
Right, you just turn them over
But with these,
See, they almost look like
misprinted or something.
Like, they have no faces.
But really, the cards just
Now to activate these,
I need each one of you to think
And, Nikolai, you will make
♪ ♪
Yeah, we can shuffle
And I will just throw piles of
- Mm-hmm.
And whenever you want to,
- Stop.
Do you want to go
- No, it's okay.
And this is the first card.
And I would like you
- Mm-hmm.
And I would like you
- Mm-hmm.
- This one, I would
- Okay.
- And the last one is for you.
So now that you each have
we don't even need the rest
Unless you guys
- No.
- It's worth a try.
[both laughing]
And now the miracle cards
what cards you guys
Okay.
And now, Louisa, can you
- Mm-hmm.
And just extend
Perfect.
If I just give a little shake,
look, one of
[audience oohs]
Should change
[cheers and applause]
Which I'm hoping
- It was.
Bernard, you also have
- Yes.
So just also picture that card
- Okay.
Perfect.
- Four of diamonds.
- Wow.
[applause]
this with the cards
so you can really see
- Okay.
you also have
- Yes.
- Think of that card for me
Perfect.
- Seven of clubs.
- Yeah.
- Whoa!
- You might see
[both laugh]
The next card turns
[applause]
- Perfect.
And now that we have
And, Nikolai, I still don't
- Yeah.
Very good.
And you can put
Now at this point,
we know what cards
I know that you, Louisa,
chose the ten of hearts, yes?
I know that you, Bennet,
- Yes, right.
And I know that you, Pamina,
- Yes.
But, Nikolai,
what card you chose, right?
So can you just give your card
[laughter]
- Perfect.
What card did you think of,
- The ace of hearts.
Nikolai, I think your prayers
Look.
If you open your hands and show
I hope...
- Whoa.
- Hallelujah!
- Thank you guys very,
Thank you.
- Moritz Mueller!
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, how are you?
- Good.
- Thank you.
- So you're in university
- Yeah, exactly.
That is sort of
And then I sort
as a hobby/secondary job.
If magic should pan out
I would maybe pursue that.
But I definitely want to have
if you know what I mean.
- And you already have
of experience in magic.
- Yeah, I've been doing this
- And are cards
your favorite type
- Um, you know,
But I would say that,
I came to a point
there was so many more
as there was with card magic,
because a coin is, like, there
or it's copper or silver,
but there aren't
contained within the coin
and that just like means
You can even start
if you really want to.
- Yeah, you probably should.
All right, Moritz.
if you've earned yourself
- Let's see.
- All right.
- Hey, Moritz.
- Boy, we've never seen
as misdirection before.
- [laughs]
- And you just light up
It's just wonderful.
and so likable,
And we looked over this,
and we went--we went down
a lot of different roads,
trying to figure out
Then we doubled back and start
and go again with our
Tried to go back to thinking
we could come up with.
And, you know,
But you're young,
bigger things in the future.
And then when you get
you're gonna figure out
But with a small act,
you can just throw it
We think that you're young,
you light up a room,
you have tremendous skills,
to eventually
We just thought it was
from beginning to end.
And we don't think
And I hope I slipped
that might give you a clue.
- Do you have a clue?
- Yeah, I think they know.
But thank you guys so much
- Oh, thanks, you're wonderful.
- Aw.
Thank you so much.
[cheers and applause]
[sighs]
We're taking a quick break
for another great act.
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[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back.
to introduce
- When I was five years old,
that my parents sent me to
before I even
And that's where I learned
in occupational therapy.
to try to get
And that got me started.
And this led to
of intricate sleight of hand.
Doing difficult, nuanced,
has become the centerpiece
I'm a lawyer by training,
analytical mindset to my magic
that I bring
I spent days, weeks, months,
designing illusions
Penn, Teller,
you know what
but I'm gonna do it anyway.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Michael Feldman.
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- Penn, Teller,
how you create
from two
one who tells the audience
to know to be fooled,
and just lets them
Penn and Teller.
That "and" had
that I design
But it's just me up here today,
And I'm gonna try to do both.
I will tell you
but when the trick comes,
I'll stay silent and see
[light piano]
Now the first thing
is that it's surprisingly easy
to make you draw
I'm gonna control
this balloon floats.
♪ ♪
See, surprisingly easy.
Tie a weight to the bottom
and it goes that way
But don't worry.
Well, it's "a" trick, I guess,
[laughter]
You'll know that
Alyson, would you mind
And would you just sign
at the bottom of the balloon?
Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
I am gonna control
but I'm not gonna pretend
to cast any magic spells,
and I'm not gonna pretend
I'm a magician.
What I do is set beautiful
I'm not here to make you
So if I snap my fingers
over the balloon,
because I don't actually have
But it does increase
[laughter]
For this moment
from the balloon...
And we're ready for the trick.
Now, Alyson, would you
Actually, would you hold out
Great.
And close your eyes
something you know
but that you're going
I want you to imagine
how heavy it is,
I want you to imagine
just a gentle little toss
and that it would soar
Imagine that.
but keep your hands
And on the count of three,
a gentle little toss like that.
One, two, three.
Perfect.
[audience oohs]
Now could you go over
And shake the balloon.
- Yeah.
that that weight
cannot possibly be
But you want to believe it.
And that's how you
So would you take these?
And would you just open up
the bottom
There you go.
There it is.
Go ahead and show them your
[cheers and applause]
Now I set the trap.
Penn, Teller,
[cheers and applause]
Wow.
I thought you said
- Well, I think
to say the truth,
which is that I don't have
If you believe in magic,
then you don't have
the fundamental piece
Because "Fool Us" means
and yet
So if it were really
I wouldn't be fooling anyone,
- Is telling the truth
- Telling the truth
is absolutely
'cause everything I do
I am doing all of the actions
It's just that I'm also doing
you might not see.
So you draw your own conclusion
You can't draw any conclusion
And that's how you get fooled.
- Is it hard to approach magic
from a purely logical
- No, I like approaching magic
I'm actually a lawyer
So it's the same
that I bring to magic
- All right.
if Penn and Teller know
- Sounds good.
- Oh, Michael,
And it's very hard
that are simple, you know?
It's a simple idea and also
about the physics of that,
you know,
everybody knows
and how they work,
to the way
is really, really magical.
And you tried to, you know,
and you used a balloon
that is very special to us.
The ampersand is kind of the
So that's very, very special.
And when you have
we're both watching,
that becomes a dual reality.
Teller sees things one way,
Alyson sees them another way,
that would be a triple.
[laughter]
And all of that.
And when we do stuff like this,
working together with the
sometimes, you know, the weight
Sometimes, it's on Teller,
and goes back and forth there.
The balloon
that holds us together.
So it was very, very original
and also very personal to us.
- Thank you.
we think we have an idea
this wonderful trick.
- Did they figure out
- It sounds to me like they
[laughter]
Well, you didn't fool them,
but we absolutely loved
Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
Find out if some lucky magician
with a "Fool Us" trophy
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[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us,"
where you can always expect
Bet you didn't see
[cheers and applause]
- Let's hit the streets
for an illusion
[cheers and applause]
- Hi, Penn.
I want to show you a trick
I think you've
I'm with Hannah and Elle.
And this is gonna be
And I'm just gonna start
that all these cards,
not in any particular order.
as well
These are all different cards.
So I'll do this
I'm gonna run through
Any moment you like, you're
So I'll run through,
you just say stop.
- Stop.
- There?
- Okay, take that card.
You look at it, remember it,
And if you can show it
[upbeat music]
Okay.
♪ ♪
Now here's
I want you just to follow
Hold the card with both hands,
And what we need to do,
I want you
But just do this in your mind.
Okay, so only rip it
- Oh, my.
And yeah,
just I kind
- [laughs]
[both laughing]
- That wasn't actually
You know what?
- I'm so sorry.
- Keep ripping the card.
Keeping ripping the card.
I'll just improvise.
And then we'll get
That's fine.
Just rip it up
Just get it into little pieces.
- You've already seen it.
We're gonna--we're gonna--
this is--this is
Do you mind
We'll just get a pen
Take that.
You can keep that in your
- Thank you.
- Can you do me a favor?
Do you want to just wave
And look,
- Whoa.
- So I'm gonna
- Okay.
- That was just--
I'll probably do this
- Okay.
- You might be able to
I'm gonna run through the cards
any moment you like--
- Oh, that was really quick.
Okay, Take that card, Elle.
And, Hannah, give her the pen.
I want you to write
on the face of the card.
You can show it to the camera,
I'm gonna stand this way
Nice and big across the whole
- Okay.
And I'll put that back
And you can see that's lost
you say, that's about halfway
- Yeah.
Can you guys just take
Can you
Perfect.
Get that card
You've got it in your mind.
Let's try this.
- Oh!
- So I just did a backflip
Do you guys just want
- Yeah.
- Because this isn't
This is the card
- Oh, my God.
[applause]
Do you remember
you destroyed one of my cards?
I vanished all those pieces,
I made them reappear
You see, I don't know
if you can see on my shoe,
there's a card here.
Not just any card.
[both laughing]
- Not just any card.
A card with a piece missing.
You've got a piece
- No.
- Oh, my God.
- That's for you.
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
Wow!
That was so cool.
- Thank you.
- So you started
- Yes, I used to be a B-boy.
So that's why
And I used to do backflips,
head spins,
started incorporating
I used to do as a little kid
into the street performances.
And then there
- So what kind of tricks
- So I used to be
and now moved to the stage.
Don't want to spoil too much,
but yeah, I'm working
something that would
and it'd be
and have this big climax.
And I'll come to America
- So everything you learned
you're adding into your magic?
- Yeah.
I think magic should be
So whatever your background is,
your story is,
that into your magic,
- All right, Bones.
Well, let's see how smart
Let's see what they think.
- Magical Bones.
Boy, you know, the great thing
is we can do street magic.
We could never have
And I want to make this clear.
The two women you did the trick
- No.
- That really was real London
You did a great thing.
there's a lot of versions
And what you do is having
is just brilliant.
That's a brilliant idea
to have her tear up the card,
making a mistake.
So then you can come
and tie that at the end,
I've never seen anybody
and restored card that well.
- Thank you.
- And we were
So most of the moves
we have done and we know.
But we never
could do a backflip,
not even with mats in a gym,
let alone on the street
And we had two different
the three of clubs
We argued back and forth.
It was kind of a clothes--
But we--I think we had
And I hope I gave you
- Yeah.
for being back,
We love doing that so much.
- Well, do they know
- They do know
Yeah.
Magical Bones,
but you certainly
Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- More magic is on the way,
and "Fool Us"
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[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
has just been sitting up
Can our next magician
- Magicians have
on the forefront of technology
because they
to what's possible today.
I have a bachelor's
and a master's
Now I work for Google.
Every day, I get to apply
from designing
to the future of technology.
I live in a magical household
Do you want to make it
Blow.
and it can be frustrating
some of the magic tricks I do.
But we've taught them
that they have it
Being a wizard
And it's seeing magic
in the world
- So what are you doing
- Making sparks.
- The trick
was inspired by my kids.
I might not fool you,
but I think my kids
[bright classical music]
[cheers and applause]
- Please welcome
of Seth Raphael.
[cheers and applause]
- Hello, Alyson.
- Hello, Penn and Teller.
I am so happy to be here.
So I was hoping you would bring
Did you do that?
- Wonderful.
Would you mind pulling them up?
I'd love to see what they are.
What have you got?
- I've got some good ones.
Kate DiCamillo.
I've got "Wonder."
Got--oh, and I brought this
- "Houdini."
- Oh, yes.
Well, I have to say,
I have a penchant
Have you read that book?
- Oh, yes.
Oh, you have.
- Yes.
- Would you mind putting
the other books
- Sure, sure.
- Hmm, hmm.
- And I have five kids.
Some of my kids can read.
The others are still learning.
So I invented a little game
which I'd love
- Okay.
- So I have them
You can go ahead
And I want you to look
two long and interesting words
Go ahead and take your time.
Look for words
any two words,
so that we can have
- Okay.
we're gonna play this
using their alphabet cards.
Oh.
They also made me
- Aw.
All right, Alyson, we're gonna
How long is your word?
- How many letters?
- In the first word,
- Six letters.
- Yes.
- The second word
- Yes.
- Let's see here.
Think about the consonant.
The first letter
- First letter
- Yeah.
- I think--I think I might have
[sighs]
P for penguin
- Yes.
- I think I know
- What?
No?
With my kids,
- How many letters
- Oh, that would be
Let's move on
- Yes.
something
I'm gonna ask you
- Okay.
- I want you to answer
The faster you answer,
to give me a hint
- Mm-hmm.
- [sighs]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Answer as quickly as you can,
Outside or inside?
- Outside.
- Pancakes.
- Number one or number two?
- Can you hold it?
- I think I've got a clue.
- Okay.
[sighs]
- Alyson, you could have
- Mm-hmm.
- You did.
And you could have opened
- Totally.
- And you could have chosen
- Yeah.
- Now, Alyson,
what was the second word?
What's the word you have
- Apparently.
Mistakes are how we grow.
Alyson,
I've made a lot of mistakes,
to do this trick so well,
- [gasps]
[applause]
- As--oh, shoot.
Oh, no.
What was the last letter of
You remember?
- It was plague.
- Oh, should I not
- No, my kids.
Alyson, this note
that they wrote me, it says,
You owe us ice cream
[audience oohs]
[cheers and applause]
- Seth Raphael!
Amazing.
- Let's see.
- That was so good.
- Thank you.
So you studied the science
- I did.
I was working
in a lab that studies emotions.
it's really easy
It's harder to elicit
I said,
- Wow.
- So I started magic as a kid,
inherited my grandfather's
And from there, I started
- So is there a lot to be
- You know, if magic were
I think people would understand
a little bit better.
You'd be able to read people
about what
And I think we could all use
- Definitely.
So you use magic all the time?
- As a parent,
magic is
I have twins.
So if one of them
and the other one wants it,
to make something else
I've also been teaching my kids
they will disappear.
trying to see
- Aw.
Okay, Seth,
it's time to let the boys
Boys.
- Seth, that's a hell
And you just kind of lay it
You know, you just kind of say
and just kind of go through it
and nice and measured
No hoo-ha, no jive,
just, "Here's a trick.
Although your style
when you're on this show,
that is a really
So I'm gonna lay it out
because a lot of times,
There's two realities going on.
And that is, one,
and the other
what you actually say is.
Now we know Alyson
But we also know
that some stuff
that wouldn't seem
like maybe you call up Alyson,
you know, get on the phone
and just say what kind of books
And she names ten.
And you say, "Okay, have her
"because they'll look good
"Oh, this one's
"Let's use that one.
Oh, we can't show that."
All sorts of scam reasons
we wouldn't believe.
So we think
that although Alyson
with what she believed
was a free selection of books
that you might
have had some manipulation
to bring
- I had no idea which book
- Oh, come on!
- You had no idea what book
- I don't even know
that I was gonna
I think I threw that one
- All right.
Okay, okay, I'm not done.
I didn't give a full guess.
So I'm gonna see
with this kind of word thing,
'cause if you don't know
then you're doing
So I have got--
I've got
it's a two-syllable word.
And let's see, Mr. Psychic,
if you can figure out
- Is it Fooler?
- [gasps]
[cheers and applause]
- You fooled them!
- You didn't know the book?
- I didn't know the book.
- Didn't know the book.
Oh, there's gonna be
- Oh, yes.
- Yay!
- Oh, my goodness gracious.
- Whoo!
- Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo-hoo!
- Thank you.
[sighs]
- Our show would not be
by our dapper duo.
After the break,
Stick around.
[cheers and applause]
[jazz music]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome back to "Fool Us."
Penn and Teller are about
Who's the third member?
Take a look at the trick
and only Penn and Teller!
[cheers and applause]
- Now more than ever,
to be able to do this show,
unless you were all watching.
As a thank-you gift to you,
we want to give you
It's an app.
And it's really a gift.
no subscription,
We'll teach it to you
It's a magic trick,
but you don't even have to lie
which is unusual for magic.
You just have to say you're
And that's not a lie.
If you're watching this show,
It's that simple.
When you're sitting around
you mention that you're friends
Say you met us after the show
an online friendship
Doesn't matter.
and we'll swear to it.
That's the kind of friends
The app looks like this.
Have your friend, the one
If you got a real deck
If not, just have them
Once you hear the card,
you just hand them your phone.
This is the one sneaky part.
They don't know it, but the app
All you have to do
See, here are the values,
ace through king.
And here are the suits,
clubs, hearts, spades,
Say your friend picks
You just hit the four
and the spades.
You can do that instantly
while you're handing the phone
You put the card in the app
will magically be able
to read their mind
and text their card
You're done, finished.
Just tell them to pick
and text us,
and we're there among
They'll most likely pick me.
And then you start
The app does the timing.
It really is the way we text.
It seems really real.
Then whichever one
text them their card,
because you already told
So when they type in
I text back, "Wait a minute,
let me think real hard..."
And then "Your card
It's a miracle.
It will blow
and it's really easy
You can do it over and over
for all your friends.
You do all the work,
and we get all the credit.
That's what real friends do.
[laughter]
Have fun, our friends.
[cheers and applause]
- Well, I just got a text
"That's a wrap for tonight.
Good night from Las Vegas."
[cheers and applause]