05x10 - Penn & Teller Keep You In Suspense

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[jazz music]

[cheers and applause]

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan!

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[cheers and applause]

- Welcome to "Fool Us,"

where the best magicians
in the world

try to fool
two world-famous magicians

who know they are
being fooled with.

No fooling.

And now let's bring out
two magicians

who are nobody's fool,
Penn and Teller.

[cheers and applause]

Any magician
that successfully fools

two of the greatest minds
in magic

will win an all-expenses-paid
trip to Vegas to perform

in Penn and Teller's
world-famous magic show.

So let's meet our first
potential fooler.

- I am the digital magician.

That means that I combine
magic with technology.

It's very important to keep up
with technology

and with all the changes
that are happening,

because these days you can't
do an act for 50 years.

So I keep an eye
on what's coming up

and what can I do to
incorporate it into my magic.

I was on "Penn & Teller"
three years ago,

and Penn and Teller said
"Simon, you 100% fooled us...

three weeks ago when we
watched you on TV."

- And that's the problem.

Magicians watch
other magicians.

- To fool them, you have
to be one step ahead.

So this time I trained really
hard for my performance.

I tried to analyze
how they think

and find an appropriate
test audience.

[monkey squeals]

I will introduce technology
that has already started

to shape our future.

Penn and Teller,
it's good to see you again.

[cheers and applause]

- Please welcome Simon Pierro.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you so much.

Thank you.
It's wonderful to be back.

To begin,

I made a list on my phone
with celebrities.

I've included Emma Stone,
famous for being an actress,

Lionel Richie,
famous for being a singer,

Kim Kardashian,
famous for being famous.

[laughter]

Sir, what's your name?
- Jake.

- You look trustworthy.
- Thanks.

In a second,
I'm about to give you my phone.

I would like you
to add two

or three more celebrities
to the list.

When you've done so,
give it to someone else,

and this person will do
the same

and so on and so on.

Okay? Thank you.

You can start doing the list.

In the meantime, I'll show you
a bit of my magic.

Obviously...

I will not use...

magic wand for this.

[applause]

I will only use my tablet.

Let's have a look
at social media.

I mean,
it's a funny thing.

People post
pictures of their food,

but very rarely they share
pictures of their weight.

[laughter]

Let's find
something healthy...

like this.

And notice that under each
picture, it says "share,"

which is a nice the thing.

I always have a fork with me.
Let's give it a try.

One, two, three.

[crowd gasps]

[applause]

Some people do not share only
pictures of their food,

but also of themselves.

Hey, Penn,
isn't that you?

- Yes, it is.
- It is. Wow. Look.

I must say,
I really like your ice cream.

Oh, little Penn
doesn't like that.

Sorry.

- [laughs]

[cheers and applause]

- Teller, seems we have
a picture of you as well.

Oh, let's see.

I'm not good, but let me help
a little bit, okay?

[lighter clicks]

Oh, what's in the bowl?

What did you cook?
That doesn't look good.

Oh.

Oh, that must hurt.

Well, I must say,
I did flambé...

but not the food...

but Teller.

[laughter and applause]

Okay.

Let's leave it there for now.

I promise you something new--

a technology
that has already started

to shape our future.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like
to introduce to you all

my 3D printer.

[applause]

With this advanced
piece of technology,

I can print even the most
complicated designs.

So who currently has my phone?

So you've all generated
random lists of celebrities.

Can you tell me how many people
are on this list?

- 63.
- 63.

Would you be kind enough
to bring the phone

and the list to Penn?

Penn, give me a number
from one to 63.

- Uh, 42.

- 42, and let me know

who is the 42nd celebrity
on the list you've created.

Thank you for your help.

[applause]

- Marie Osmond.

- Marie Osmond, great.

So why not?

Here's my printer.

And I simply type in...

Osmond.

Let's print her.

All I have to do,
push a button.

It calibrates itself to make
a perfect Marie Osmond.

What we get are
some shoes

who could be
from Marie Osmond, right?

Followed by a wonderful dress.

I mean, even a whole torso.

And now we get
a perfect replica...

of Marie Osmond.

[cheers and applause]

[snaps fingers]
- [screams]

[laughs]

[cheers and applause continue]

Simon!
- Marie!

- Great!

- You know what?

- I'm really here.

- There cannot be enough
Marie Osmonds in this world.

- [laughs]

Well, you are very sweet,

but just do me a favor, Simon--
don't print a Donny.

I can only handle
one of that guy.

- I promise. I promise.
- [laughs]

- Simon Pierro!
Marie Osmond!

- Thank you.

Thank you so much.

- Hello.
That was amazing.

Ah.

So I'm guessing
you could market that,

and that would be
very popular.

A lot of people would buy
that machine.

- I guess so, yeah.

- So what kind of tricks will
be coming up next for you?

- I'm reaching out
in all kinds of technology--

virtual reality,
augmented reality.

The great thing
about technology--

it changes so fast
that the inspiration

is there from one day
to the other.

So you're just following up
with what happens.

If you had told me
ten years ago,

"Simon, you're gonna be
the iPad Magician."

- Yeah.

- I didn't even know
what iPad was,

because it wasn't created, so.

- That's amazing.
Well, look at you now.

You've got double iPads.

- Double iPad, three--
yeah, I made it.

Next time I'll come with four.

- All right, let's find out
if you fooled them.

Penn, Teller.

- I will tell you, Simon,

we've seen a lot
of people do

the film-to-life thing
with the iPad.

And that is a question of just
the cleverness and timing,

and everything has
to be split-second and perfect.

And of all the people
we've seen do it,

and it's a zillion,
you are the best at that.

- Oh, thanks.
- Unbelievable.

[cheers and applause]

We tend to think
of the perfect timing

and perfect moves being
in card magic or little stuff.

But to make those iPad things
look as good as you do

is just millimeters,
and timing is perfect.

We just love that,

but we've already covered that
and other issues.

We're down to talk
about the big picture.

And there's a moral issue here,
of course,

is if we deal
with 3D printing,

in order to keep
the morality proper,

you have to k*ll the person
that walks into the machine

when the other person
comes out.

So I assume that wherever
Marie Osmond was,

that one has been k*lled,
is that correct?

- [laughs]
- Oh, no.

- You know, technology
is the key to this, actually,

although there are age-old
optical principles.

The stuff that seems
the least important

is often, as you know,
the most important.

When you carry
the phone over to me,

there's moments
when it's just an offbeat

when stuff can happen.

We also think this is
a beautiful optical principle,

but we actually do not think
it is a real 3D printer.

[laughter]

- So did they give
you enough information?

- Oh, for sure, for sure,
and the great thing about it,

I would come back a third time.

- Yes, please do.
Please do.

You're just the best.
- Please do.

Simon Pierro!
- Thank you, guys.

[applause]

We've got more

of TV's best magic coming up.

Stay close.

[jazz music]

- Welcome back.

The road to fooling
Penn and Teller

can take all kinds
of twists and turns.

Let's see which fooler is
getting behind the wheel next.

- My name's Nick Wallace.
I'm from Canada.

Onstage I would say
I am very boyish, unassuming,

but I really enjoy embracing
mystery and the unknown.

You know, those dark corners
and those locked doors

can be a little bit
unnerving sometimes.

I created this show called
"Séance."

It's sort of an interactive
ghost story.

We take a random member
of the audience

and use them to communicate
with the dead.

The whole point was to explore
the fear of the unknown.

I had a good friend once say

that I was pure evil wrapped
in Mr. Rogers' sweater.

[laughter]

And I thought,
"I like that."

[applause]

- Give it up for the scary-cool
magic of Nicholas Wallace.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.
Alyson, do you want to

join me over here, please?

Alyson, ladies and gentlemen.
- [chuckles]

- Have a seat.
- Thank you. Hi.

- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

- So, Alyson,
we're going to test your luck.

- Oh.

- And to do this,
we're gonna use

the safest and most wholesome
things in the world--

milk and cookies.
- Oh, okay.

- So here's how this
is gonna work.

I'd like you to place
your left hand

right here like--
about, like, that. Good.

In a moment, I'm gonna place
a cookie on your hand.

I want you to wait.

Just wait until you hear me
knock twice

and say, "Go."

When I do that,

you're gonna eat
the whole cookie

as quickly as you can.
- [chuckles]

- Just shove the whole cookie
in your mouth

and then put your hand back.

Okay?
- Okay.

- It's important
that you put your hand back

because there's two more
cookies coming.

- Do I have to eat those, too?
- Yes. Yes.

Just shove them in
your mouth and chew.

- I feel like you should have
picked somebody else.

- It'll be fine. It'll be fine.
- Okay.

- So three cookies
in total, okay?

- I was trying not
to do gluten.

So I'm guessing this
is gonna be a cheat day.

It's fine. It's fine.
- Yes. It's only three.

It's only three.
- Oh, great.

- It's important
that you listen

to the instructions as well

because you're going
to be wearing this.

- [groans]
- It's a blindfold.

- Oh.
- Do you mind?

- I mean, it doesn't matter
if I do.

So, okay.
[laughter]

- Is that comfortable?

- I mean, I've had more
comfortable, but sure.

[laughter]

- Can you see this?
Can you see anything?

- I see a blindfold.

- Perfect.
Okay, don't worry, Alyson.

You can trust me.
- I don't think so.

[light orchestral music]

- I don't like the music.

[laughter]

[laughter]

- You there, Alyson?

- I don't know.
What's taking so long?

- Don't move. Don't move.
Don't move.

Ready?
Go.

[muffled]
Are you okay?

- [mumbling]
- Are you fine?

- Yeah.
- Okay. Okay.

- This is not going so well.

- Don't move.
Don't move.

- I have to eat another one?

- Not yet.
- Aw, man.

- Wait.
- I'm still--

- Go!
- No.

- [muffled speech]

- Are you okay?
- I don't like this trick.

- Okay. Okay. Okay.

- I can't do it.

- Don't move yet.
Don't move.

Okay.

Don't eat it yet.
- I can't!

- I'm gonna take
your blindfold off.

- Oh, God.

- How's it going?

- [muffled speech]
- That's all right.

Before we do this--

You like that cookie?
Is it good?

Do you want to switch?
Is it fine?

- I'm fine.
- Okay.

Go.

- What--

what a weird trick.

[laughter]

- Aw, that was mean.

[laughter and applause]

- Your milk.

Give Alyson
a round of applause.

[cheers and applause]

Mm, thank you.

- Nicholas Wallace!

[cheers and applause]

- You can, uh--
- Okay, wow.

Well, that was disturbing.

- Do you want another--
- No.

I'm not gonna take
anything from you.

That was really gross.

That's why you don't take food
from strangers.

- I suppose, yes.
- Man, you're pretty strange.

- I will take
that as a compliment.

Thank you. Thank you.
- [laughs]

- I mean, at the end
of the day,

all we did was eat
some milk and cookies.

- Yeah,
but you tried to k*ll me.

- Well, unsuccessfully...
[laughter]

I suppose, but--
- Yeah.

There's some questions
I have for the producers later.

- [laughs]
- I'm a little--

You seem so nice,
but you're not.

You're just mean.
- Well, well, I mean...

- What if I had switched
the cookie?

- I don't know. It would have
been a very different show...

I suppose.
- Yeah.

I guess so.

All right, well,
let's see if your cookie magic

fooled the boys.
- Okay.

- Boy, we get a lot--
see, here's the problem.

For those who watched
"Fool Us," other episodes,

we have been fooled by
a [bleep] cookie before.

[laughter]

We do not want to be fooled
by a [bleep] cookie.

Teller...

has been sure...

that it's similar
to the last time we were wrong.

I'm not gonna let him do that.

He thinks that--I'm not--
this is not our guess.

'Cause he thinks you dumped
that cookie

into the glass of milk
that you're holding there,

that you dumped the cookie
with the razor blade

into the glass of milk
that you're holding.

And I do not think so.

I do not think so.

I think you can drink
that whole glass of milk,

and there's not--there's not
a cookie in the bottom.

[laughter]

- Do it.

And I'm so glad it's soy milk
right now.

Ha ha!

And it's warm
and not tasty.

It's not even vanilla.

- Exactly.

And I think that
the razor blades are also real.

- And I think you are
really, really, really good

at sleight of hand
and all blindfolds are fake.

It's not sleight of mouth,
it's not sleight of cookie,

and what a great idea
for a trick.

- What--was sleight
of hand involved?

And were you wearing
a blindfold?

- I was wearing--Oh, yes.

[laughter]

I was, yes.

- It was sleight of hand.
You were palming it off.

Was it sleight of hand?

- Mm, not exac--no.

- It's not sleight of hand?
- No.

We're fooled
by another cookie.

- [laughs]

You fooled them!

- We're fooled
by another cookie.

That's all.
Fooled by another cookie.

- Oh, my goodness.

[cheers and applause]

- Do you want one?
- Nicholas Wallace!

- No, thank you.
[cheers and applause]

- Thanks.
- Thank you.

[cheers and applause continue]

We've got our first fooler
of the night.

Come back and see if we'll get
another after this.

[jazz music]

- Welcome back.

Penn and Teller have barely
recovered from getting fooled,

but it's already time
for the next act.

Take a look.

- There are, really,
only 12 notes on the piano.

But there's a million
different combinations

in which you can play them,
and the same goes with magic.

There's only
eight effects,

but, you know,
it's what you do

with those eight effects.

I remember back in the day,
I had nothing to say.

But becoming an adult,
you have life experiences,

and you have stuff
you want to say,

and magic just becomes
the vehicle for that.

I try to take different bits
from everything in life

and put it into my magic
because, you know,

that's how you connect
with the audience

and make it
a really powerful experience.

My brother Bruce
was two years older than me.

He passed away in 2011.

It put everything
into perspective.

I think it really showed me
not to sweat the small stuff.

We're cut from
the exact same cloth.

So I know he's looking down,
proud of me,

and taking this journey
and making it into a career.

You know, I feel like I can see
him with his grin on his face,

being like, "Nice work."

[cheers and applause]

- Please welcome Winnipeg's own
Darcy Oake.

[cheers and applause]

- Every single
person in this room

can probably remember
the very first moment

they ever experienced
that feeling of real magic.

And for some of you,
that might be tonight.

For me, it happened when
I was six years old.

I was sitting around at home,
and my dad was playing

with a deck of cards.

Now, my dad knows zero magic.

He says, "Darcy, pick a card."
I was skeptical.

So I reached into the pack,
I pulled one out.

I looked at it,
I put it back inside.

He said, "Without looking,
I'm gonna find your card."

Sure enough he closes
his eyes,

spreads the cards out
face down on the table,

reaches into the pack,
pulls one out,

flips it over.

Lo and behold,
it was my card.

I was absolutely flabbergasted.

Had no idea how to explain
what I just saw.

Begged him for a month
to tell me how he did it.

Wouldn't tell me.

Finally, five weeks later,

I learned it was
a complete accident.

[laughter]

Just so happened to work out.

But that moment changed
the course of my life forever.

So right now I'd like to try
to share that moment

with all of you.

I've got...

a bottle.

The bottle...
[glass tinks]

Is made of glass...

completely solid,
untampered with,

and the cork will remain
in the mouth of the bottle.

The bottle goes in the box.

The box is locked

and placed inside
the larger box.

Now, you can stay right there,
but, Teller,

if you can me a favor and hold
on to the box for me.

We'll just rest it right
on your lap.

Right here,
if that's all right.

Thank you very much.

Penn.
- Yes, sir.

- We have a deck of cards
right here.

We will remove the jokers
from the pack.

They'll sit right there.
Thank you very much.

You can see that all
of the cards

are, in fact, different--
no two are the same.

What I'm gonna do in one second
is I'm gonna hand you the deck.

And behind your back,
I want you to take

one card out from the middle,

flip it over,
put it face up on top,

and then cut it into the pack.

Sound good?
- Okay.

- So behind your back,
take out one card,

put it face up on top,
cut it into the deck.

So, that way, nobody knows
what card you've selected.

- So I reach anywhere I want
in the middle?

- Anywhere in the middle,
pull it out--

- Take out one card,
put it face up on top, right?

- Don't look, Teller,
if you don't mind. Thank you.

- And then I'm going to cut it
somewhere in the middle.

- Exactly.

- I think I have followed
all the directions properly.

And there is the deck.
- I hope so. Perfect.

- There should be one card
face up in the deck there.

- Excellent.
We'll have a look here.

If we go through, we can see--
- Now it's gonna be face down.

- We can see one card
is face down,

one card only.

You have selected
the five of hearts.

Nice choice, Penn.

Watch very closely 'cause we
will do this very, very slowly.

Your five of hearts--

you could have selected
any card in the pack.

We will take one of the jokers.

And all we're gonna do
is sandwich it..

right between...

the jokers.

Watch closely, 'cause this
will happen very quickly.

You could have selected
any card in the deck.

You chose the five of hearts,
which is now sandwiched

between the two jokers.

Here we go, watch.

Give it a little shake,

and it vanishes.

Gone.

[applause]

The hands...

are empty.

Inside this box--
check it out--

is the other box.

Inside this box,

have a look inside.

- Whoa.
[audience gasps]

[cheers and applause]

- Darcy Oake!

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you.
- That was awesome.

Oh, my goodness,
and you did it

right in Teller's lap.

- Risky business.
- Yeah. That's so cool.

How long have
you been into magic?

- Since I was a kid.

Since I was about six
or seven years old.

And that's actually
a true story.

- Oh, since your dad, yes.
- Yeah. Yeah.

Actually, I went
to university for one year

after high school and,
obviously,

was failing everything
'cause I was so focused

on performing
and learning magic.

And I eventually learned
that if you had

unpaid parking tickets,
the university

wouldn't send your transcripts
to your parents.

So I racked up all these
parking tickets,

and they never knew
that I failed.

[laughter]
It was perfect.

- Oh, man, you just gave
some really bad advice

to so many people.
- Yeah, yeah, I mean--

[laughter]

- And do you work all the time?

- Yeah, I mean,
I've been pretty consistently

on the road
for the past little bit.

And, like, all I've
ever wanted to do is

turn my passion into--
into a career.

One of the highlights, I guess,
of my career so far--

I got to do a show for
the Queen of England

on her 90th birthday.

- Wow!
- Yeah, in Windsor Castle.

So that was--Yeah, yeah.
- That's incredible.

- Oh, a little applause
for that.

- Yeah.
That's impressive.

- It was so surreal.
It was crazy.

both: Yeah.
- So what's your dream gig?

Or have you already done it?

- Well, it's tough to say,
but I think, you know,

for me, it's just
to keep performing

and just being able
to do it as a job, you know?

'Cause when you turn
your passion into a career,

you don't work a day
in your life, right?

- Exactly.
Yeah, all right.

Well, let's--let's see
if the boys

have figured it out.
- Let's do it.

- You know, it's really
charming when we have people on

that don't do magic full-time,
all the time,

but it's also wonderful
to see a real pro.

You just have real style,
real grace,

and also,
you brought it down to us.

You know, a lot of guys
try to stay as far away

from us as they can.

They take a little deck
of cards

and say, "Penn and Teller,
I'll be at the other end

"of the football field
if you need me.

Watch these card moves."

You brought it right
down into our laps.

The selection
that I did was fabulous.

That's a really, really smart,
clever way to do that,

even though it
doesn't adhere

to strict card table protocol.

It still seems like
a completely free choice.

It was great that way.

Doing the joker thing,
the acrobatic thing

right in Teller's face
was great.

And then we also know

that we've read all
the books of Robert Hartman.

Is that a magic word to you
right there?

- Exactly.

- So you deserve a cigar
for doing a great show.

- Oh, thank you.
- Great show.

- Does that mean
they figured it out?

- It does. Of course. Exactly.
- Well, thank you.

- Thank you.
- Darcy Oake!

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.

- Thank you, guys.
Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

- We'll be right back
with more outrageous magic,

including a trick by the best
in the business--

Penn and Teller!

[jazz music]

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Sure, we search the world
for the best magic,

but we also find
great performers

right in our backyard.

Check out this next act.

- When I first moved
to Las Vegas...

it was a big risk.

I was nervous.
I didn't know anybody.

And I ran into
this great magician.

And I said,
"Hey, you're Johnny Thompson."

And he turned to me,
and he said,

"Oh, you must be a magician."

I showed him something
that impressed him.

It confirmed that I made
the right decision

moving to Las Vegas.

Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee's
martial arts discipline,

utilizing universal concepts,
such as fluidity,

completely changed
my coin magic.

Cards and coins, uh,
they can have a bad rap.

A lot of the great moves

were invented by charlatans
and the cheats

who were trying to cheat
each other at cards.

I don't let that affect
the way my magic has to be.

I create my own stuff.

And that's what I'll
be performing tonight.

I'm gonna fool the [bleep]
out of them.

[laughter]

[cheers and applause]

- Please welcome
the closeup magic

of Alex Geiser.

[applause]

- Again,
my name is Alex Geiser

and I cannot tell you
how excited I am to be here,

because tonight I'm going
to perform

one of my most amazing
compositions.

And for this, would
Penn and Teller please join me?

Give them a big round
of applause.

[applause]

Hey.

Hi.

Gentlemen, I'm going to be
using just a few things.

These three coins.

Would you check those out?

And one beautiful piece
of glass.

Would you check that out, too?
Thank you.

And you'll notice turtles won't
cut it this time, my friend.

- Okay. Okay
[laughs]

- A joke for all you diehard
fans out there.

- No turtles.
- I'll take those.

Thank you.
Thank you.

Gentlemen, if I could get you
to take this by the corners

and hold it like a table.

- Okay.
- Beautiful.

They say all matter

is made of atoms,

and there's a force

that binds those atoms
together.

If we can manipulate
this force,

perhaps we can make one object
pass right through another.

So there's only a few ways
to get to the other side.

One, of course,
is to go around.

And the other would be to
break through,

shattering the glass,

but neither of those are magic.

And that's why I'm going
to make it pass through

and it's going to happen...

right...

now.

[crowd gasps, applause]

Teller,

I could tell by
your dead silence

that I've just fooled you.

In that case,
I've done my job.

Everybody, have a great night.
Thank you.

[laughter]

No.
There's two to go.

And it gets more beautiful

and more impossible
as we progress.

So do not blink.

[crowd gasping]

[cheers and applause]

- Penn, I can tell

by your stunned silence
that I've fooled you as well.

- There you go.

- It's one thing
if this happens in my hands,

but what about yours?

I brought you to the edge, and
now I'm going to push you over.

So let me borrow
your left hand.

Thank you.

Hold that out nice and flat,
fingers straight and together,

and go underneath the glass

and press up against it.

Perfect.

The audience can see in
the front

and underneath.

Your hand acts like
a barrier

to the empty space in
the middle.

Keep hold right here for me,
please.

You know what will happen,

and you know where
it will happen.

Just warm it up.

Actually, Teller,
would you mind lowering

your hand a little bit?

Little more.
Perfect.

One last look.

And press.

- [gasps and chuckles]
[laughter]

- Yeah, Penn,
you can let go sir.

Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Thank you.

- Alex Geiser!
[cheers and applause]

Wow.

You finally made
Penn and Teller

look like--look like
I do all the time.

I make that face every day.
- It's an honor, yeah.

- That's incredible.

And they were right here.

- That's--that's how
it's got to be done.

- This is gonna be good.

Is this an unusual trick,
or do other magicians do it?

- There are things
that are similar.

They could say it's coins
through glass

where people have been
using a table.

But, you know,
I first thought of the idea

of how cool it would be
if you just had a pane

that people were holding.

So you could just
as easily say, you know,

it happens
in their hands, so...

- Yeah. It's a great idea
to always just be able

to put your table
in your suitcase, too, right?

- Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah.

- Well, let's see if
Penn and Teller

could see through your trick.

- Sure, yeah.
- Penn, Teller.

- That is the greatest--
I mean, that's essentially

coins through the table,
and you made it mean something.

It's the greatest version
of that I've ever seen,

and I want to just say--
[applause]

- Thank you.
- That's so cool.

- You had the guts
to bring us up.

A lot of people who want
to fool us decide,

"Well, I'll use people
from the audience,

"leave them back there.

"They'll be watching
a little screen,

or they won't be able
to see everything."

You did it right in our faces,

and the guts of that,
the ba*ls of that

are unbelievable.
[laughter]

I--I really, really love that.

And Teller did an audible gasp
at that beginning,

which is one of
the most beautiful things

we've ever seen, and,
you know, at the beginning,

you absolutely, 100% told
the truth about turtles.

You absolutely did.

It was just your
magnetic personality

No turtle involved,
right through.

And then, you know,
seasons change.

And sometimes
is it not turtle season,

then it is turtle season
a little bit later on.

You know?
- Yeah.

- And it came in
really nice there

and all the way through.

We just loved it and loved
that you had us up there

and loved
that you had the guts.

There was nothing
that we could see.

The sleight of hand you did
was absolutely perfect,

but we were able
to figure it later.

Ah, that's exactly
the wrong thing to say.

We were not able
to figure jack.

Teller was able to figure.

I finally have some sort
of inkling,

but I don't think
you fooled Teller.

- Did the turtle talk
make any sense to you?

Or anything he said?
- Uh, yeah, that was plenty.

I think they've given
me enough, so...

- Aw, so you didn't fool them.
- That was a great act.

- But you certainly
impressed us all.

Alex Geiser.
Thank you.

- Thank you.
Bye.

- He was really good.

That was a really good trick.

- Up next,
the greatest duo in magic

takes the stage.

Penn and Teller perform
after this.

Don't miss out.

[jazz music]

- Penn and Teller have made
a career

making the impossible
possible.

To raise the stakes
on this next illusion,

they've surrounded themselves

with members
of our studio audience.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the incredible
Penn and Teller.

[applause]

- You know, we started doing
magic together

on the streets of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

down in Headhouse Square,

and we want to do
something on the street

that would a look
a little bigger,

like a trick you'd see
in a stage show.

So we had to do this trick,

but we did it with chairs
we had there

with a sidewalk underneath us

and also with people
all around us.

So this looks like
a stage-magic trick,

but it's really
a street-magic trick.

And usually tricks like this
are done by claiming hypnosis.

Now, we know hypnosis
is just jive.

So we need someone
from the audience

who will not, cannot, must not
be hypnotized.

Need a woman.
How about you ma'am?

Right in the aisle.
Please, right up here.

How tall are you?
- 5'10"

- Oh, that's a good height
for a person.

Right up here.

Please watch
your step here.

And please come up.

And what is your name,
our newest friend?

- Paige.
- Paige.

Hello, Paige.
This is Teller.

Teller, this is Paige.

Paige, take a step up on the stool,
sit on the--sit on the board

facing the audience,
would you please, Paige?

Now, Paige, you're not
going to be hypnotized,

but they people
who are hypnotized

can do things that people
who aren't hypnotized can't do,

like walk on hot coals,
broken glass barefooted,

lie in beds of spikes naked,
swallow fire and swords.

Think hypnotism
is possible, Paige?

- Of course not, Penn.
- Good.

Paige, just swing your feet
around right over here.

You will not be hypnotized.

And lay right back
where you are,

would you please, Paige?

And just scoot away from me
a little bit,

like, a couple inches,
yeah, beautiful.

And give me the full weight
of your head in my hands.

Relax your neck.

Just let it fall back.
I got ya. I got ya.

Now hold your hands,
Paige,

as though you were holding
the sky away, okay?

You're not hypnotized.
Just like that.

This way if the sky
does happen to fall,

you're the only one prepared.

However, the much more likely
event of a nuclear holocaust,

this particular hand position
will not amount to squat,

but we are gonna leave
such a mysterious silhouette.

Okay, Paige?
- Okay.

- And Teller's gonna push back
down on your hands.

When he does, push back up
against him, okay?

Don't whinge. Resist.
He's a little guy, Paige.

Little guy.

Now, you're not hypnotized,
but just pretend

the weight is still
in your hands.

Keep those muscles tensed.

Yeah, keep the muscles tensed.
Teller takes his hands away.

Just his hands.

Now, Paige, you might be
a little more comfortable

would you close your eyes.

This is not
for hypnosis purposes.

This is so you aren't looking
directly up my nose.

[laughter]

Now, Paige,
think about every muscle

you need to move

and exactly how much
you need to move each muscle.

When I say "lift,"
lift your feet

three inches in the air and
hold 'em there, okay, Paige?

- Okay.
- Lift.

Hold. Hold. Hold. Hold.
Hold. And relax.

Right back down.

That is not hypnosis.
That is pilates.

[laughter]

Hands in position,
eyes closed,

your head fall
right back here.

Give me just a moment
to make your hair

look really hypnotized.

[laughter]

Now take three deep breaths
while I count them, okay?

First breath--
inhale.

Hold, exhale.

Second breath,
even slower, Paige.

Inhale.

Hold.
Exhale.

Third breath, even slower.
Inhale.

Hold, and exhale.

Keep breathing evenly and
regularly, a little bit slower.

Just think
about your breathing,

that'll happen
almost automatically.

Okay, Paige.

Stay just the way you are.

You're perfect,
don't change anything.

Keep relaxed.

We got your feet.
Do not lift.

Do not lift yet, Paige.

Not lift yet.

You are not hypnotized.

When I say "lift"
this time,

maybe some applause
or laughter.

Don't worry about
the applause or laughter.

Concentrate on the weight
in your hands.

Keep breathing evenly
and regularly.

Okay, Paige, lift.

Lift. Hold. Hold. Hold.

Hold. Hold. Hold. Hold. Hold.

Hold it, Paige.
Hold it, Paige.

Hold it. Hold it.

Hold it, Paige.
Hold it. Hold it.

Hold it.

And relax, Paige.
We've got you.

Relax. Stay in that position.

We're gonna get the swords
and all the snakes

out of the way.

Right there, Paige.
Beautiful.

There, Paige,
just keep relaxed.

There you go, Paige.

Now just sit up.

And face
the audience there, Paige.

Would you, please?

[cheers and applause]

Now, Paige, do you have
any idea what happened to you?

- No.
- Then I'll tell you.

I was watching.
It was boss.

It was an experiment
in teleportation.

You were not hypnotized.

Here's a picture of you taken
two minutes ago, Paige.

- [gasps] Oh, my God.
- That's Paige right there.

She was not hypnotized.

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, wow.

Okay.

- Not hypnotized,
not for a second.

Well, we're all wrapped up
here at "Fool Us."

Good night from Las Vegas

where nobody is saying
good night anytime soon.

Night-night.

[cheers and applause]