05x11 - The Fool Us Zone

[bunniefuu]

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- From the Penn & Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host,
Alyson Hannigan.

[audience cheers]

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- Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Welcome to Penn and Teller "Fool Us."

You know we've got
the best magicians.

You know who they have to fool.
Let's not mess around.

Let's get this show started
right now with Penn and Teller.

[audience cheering]

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A hug? Aww.

Hello.

[cheers and applause]

As always any magician
who fools Penn and Teller

earns a spot performing
in their world famous

Vegas magic show.

So let's get started and meet
our first fooler of the night.

[whizzing, expl*si*n]

- When people find out
I'm a magician

from Salem, Massachusetts,
they usually think

pointy witch hats, cauldrons,
stuff like that.

But outside
of the tourism industry,

I've never once seen a person

flying around
on a broom stick.

The way that I started
to perform magic

in a locked psychiatric unit

was that I wanted to get into
the field of psychology

but I didn't
have any experience.

I thought, what better way
to get my foot in the door

then to volunteer.

Magic is a great way
to demonstrate to someone

that their own perception
is flawed

and there are many ways
we can misperceive reality.

I continue to use magic
in my work now as a therapist

to help people learn about how
they misperceive reality,

and I working to help expose
and destroy that illusion.

[audience cheering]

- Please welcome,
Tyler Twombly.

[audience applauding]

- Penn.
Teller.

Alyson.
People.

I've come here
to share with you a secret.

There is enormous potential
for magic

in the world
of office supplies.

Countless grand illusions
have been performed

with mighty skill
on this large stage,

and I've come waltzing out here
holding just a pad

of sticky notes and a pen.

At this point many of you
are definitely thinking,

"You had me at office supplies.

I'm sure
this will be fantastic."

But in all earnestness,
the illusion that you're

about to experience is small

and you'll need
to come in very close.

For your effort, however,
you'll be rewarded

because what you will see
will change the way

you look at these little pieces
of paper forever

and prove that
the greatest magic

happens at the smallest scale.

So with that,
I'd like to invite Alyson

to join me over here.
Thank you very much.

[audience cheering]

- Hi.
- Hello, Alyson.

Please stand right there.

Now, Alyson.
- Yes.

- These little pieces
of paper often carry

simple, mundane reminders

to go to
an important appointment

with say, the dentist.
- Mm.

Yeah.

- But they can also be imbued
with much more meaning.

Like the "I love you" note
placed in a school lunch box.

Only to be
discovered by one

maybe slightly
embarrassed child

later that day at school.

For our little paper miracle
to work,

we can't just write
any old thing down.

We need something
personally meaningful.

- Oh.

- So if you could please
give us the first initial

of someone near
and dear to your heart,

someone you love very much,
someone who has had

an enormous impact
on the trajectory of your life.

- Uh, okay. S.

- S. Okay.

I'm gonna draw two hearts
with an arrow between them

because we're gonna do
something very interesting

in just a moment.

[soft piano music]

Now we're just getting started
but to really personalize this

we'll put your initial,
which is A, in that heart

and their initial, which is S,
in this heart.

And we'll put a little bird
in the sky just to give it

a little sense of depth,
don't you think?

- Nice.
- Yeah.

Two hearts,
at one point separated,

by space and time
until one day,

everything changed.
- Oh.

- That's what
we're gonna do right now.

We're gonna bring
those hearts together.

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- Aw.

[audience applauds]

- That is for you.
- Thank you.

- Thank you very much.
- All right.

- It would be my greatest honor
if that one day

wound up on your refrigerator.
- Perfect.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.

- Thank you so much.
You can go back.

[audience cheers]

Thank you.

Maybe it's just me,

but I'm sensing
a little skepticism

emanating
from this general area.

Yes.

The gentlemen in the suits.

Uh, Teller.

Could you please
join me up here on stage?

[audience cheering]

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for joining me.
It's an honor to meet you.

You can stand right here.

Now we're gonna have you
choose a letter

but not just any letter.

I'm sure when you were younger,

just starting out
in your career,

you had a big dream, a vision,
for your life, okay?

I want you to think of
a big dream that you had

that actually came true
and the winding path

that the pursuit of that dream
took you down.

All right, so...

Just think of one letter
from the alphabet

to represent that big dream

and you can whisper it
right in my ear.

Once you've thought of it.

- C.

- He can speak.

[laughter]

Now we're gonna place
that dream inside

a perfect little bubble.

[whimsical music]

Eh, not totally perfect,

but it'll do.

This is Teller's dream.

And this is where
we start to tell our story.

Now in the beginning,
a dream is just a dream.

It doesn't go anywhere.

Until that initial exertion
of effort sends it off

in some direction.

Then you gotta
make some choices.

[audience applauds]

You probably made some choices.

Some good,
some maybe questionable.

Sends it off in yet another.

But then,
through a series of events,

both serendipitous and planned,

we wind up where we are
right here today.

This is for you.

And this is just
one single page

in the story so far.
Thank you very much.

[audience applauds]
Thank you so much.

Thank you.
- Tyler Twombly.

[audience cheering]

Hi, again.
- Hello.

- Well, you had me
when you had a marker

'cause I just love any sort
of office supplies so--

- Me too.
- But that was fantastic.

- Thank you.

- Do all of your tricks
involve office supplies?

- Whatever happens
to be around,

generally speaking.

- And do you work in an office?

- Well, I used to,
and the origin of this trick

started there.

- And so what made
you interested in

doing magic here on "Fool Us?"

- Well, I didn't think

that I would ever do a show

like this, but here I am.

Surprise.
- [laughs]

[audience applauds]

So do you think you'll fool
Penn and Teller?

- No.
- No?

Really?
No.

That's honest.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- I mean, I like that

they're still talking.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
Very dramatic furrowed brow.

- All right, well, it's time
to go to Penn and Teller.

Let's see
if you fooled them or not.

- All right.
- Yeah.

- Uh, you know,
you told the truth, Tyler,

right at the beginning.

You know, you had us
at office supplies.

That's when we loved you,
we loved you

right on the office supplies.
It's just--

it's just a really funny line
and it's also really true.

We also love about this

is that so often in magic,

the props that you're showing

are not all the props
you're using,

but we believe that everything
you're using, we see.

It comes from the--
it comes from the Post-it pad.

It's really--
it's really fabulous.

And, uh, we also love the fact
that it deals with love

and how hearts can move around.

You know, you love one person
then love another

and things move
from one place to the other.

It also made me think of, um,

you know, still haven't found
what I'm looking for.

I don't know
if you're a U2 fan at all,

but sometimes when--when--
when U2's playing

and Bono moves right in front
of the guitar player,

and for a moment,
he just covers up,

well, the base player
at one time

and maybe the drummer
another time

and maybe the guitar player
at another time,

he covers up when he moves
in front of them, you know?

And you just think that
his heart is moving right over

the guitar player in that way

and uh--
but I'm getting off into music.

I'm really supposed to be
talking about magic,

but we really love the act,
love the office supplies.

And I should get
really back to magic,

but you know our hearts moving
around all over the place.

- Did any of that
make sense to you?

- I think so.
[all laugh]

I--you know...

His code is so good.
- I know.

- It's so good.
- It's so annoying.

- I think--

I think they got it,
and I'm okay with that.

- Okay.
All right.

[audience applauds]
So you didn't fool them,

but we appreciate you coming.
- Thank you.

- Tyler Twombly.

[audience cheering]

Penn and Teller
saw through that last trick

but they're not
off the hook yet.

More foolers
and more "Fool Us" coming up.

[jazz music]

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[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Let's see if our next magician

can play Penn and Teller
for fools.

Take a look.

[whizzing, expl*si*n]

- When I was young,
I used to be a fan

of all the old time TV shows
like "The Twilight Zone"

and, of course, I loved magic
and I loved animals.

I studied veterinary
medicine in Italy,

all the while paying my way
through school with magic.

I really like doing
coin magic in the hospital

because a little boy
or girl comes in

worried about
their sick dog or cat,

and all I have to do is pull
a coin out of that dog's ear

and their frown
turns into a smile.

Dogs and cats can't tell you
what's going on.

You have to figure that out,
and that's the challenge.

The challenge of magic
is to find a new way

to do an effect that makes it
look even more impressive.

I like to tell people that
I have a love of magic

but my life
is veterinary medicine.

Not bad for a day's work,
right?

Of course on other days,
it's the other way around.

[audience cheering]

- Please welcome the coin magic
of Dr. Michael Rubinstein.

[audience applauds]

- I've always enjoyed
watching reruns

of my favorite classic TV show,
"The Twilight Zone."

I love that each episode
revolves around tales

of the strange,
the macabre, and the magical.

Tonight, I'd like to combine
my love of that show

with my passion for coin magic

and tell you a story created
especially for this occasion.

So please allow me to channel
my best Rod Serling

as I take you all on
a magical journey into

the "Fool Us" Zone.

You walk through the doors
of this theater

and enter
a magical dimension.

A dimension of Penn.
A dimension of Teller.

A dimension of
prestidigitation.

You're put into
a suggestive state

of smoke and mirrors.

You just punched your ticket
for the "Fool Us" Zone.

[whimsical chimes]

[audience applauds]

The word alchemy,
by definition,

the magical mutation of metal.

A mythical power
often attributed to wizards

from a time
long since passed by.

But although myths are
dismissed as tales of fantasy

left to be told
to gullible children,

there exists within each
of them a modicum of truth,

and to that I point you
toward an incident

which occurred back in 1931.

The place, a street
in the center of London,

and if you were to
look through the crowd

you might see on the corner
a man shining shoes.

That man is George Midas.

A poor man beat down by
the hardships of his life.

But in a few brief moments,
that life will change.

For George Midas
is about to receive

a golden opportunity to enter
the "Fool Us" Zone.

[whimsical chimes]

[audience laughs]

So there's George
shining shoes.

At the end of the day he takes
a look into his tip cup,

but he didn't do very well.

One,

two,

three,

four old and dusty
copper pennies.

Not even enough to buy
his evening's meal.

And he realized that once again
he'd have to go home hungry

and talk to his wife
about the poverty

in which they lived.

He picked up
one of the old

and dusty pennies,

and without thinking,
removed a speck of dust,

but when he looked back
George was surprised to see

a coin of gold, solid gold.

George couldn't
believe his eyes,

but he realized that
with all of that gold

he now had enough money to pay
all of his back rent.

He put that coin away
for safe keeping

and picked up the second
old and dusty penny.

Just like the first
he removed a speck of dust,

and like the first
that coin changed to gold.

Solid gold.

And as George gazed upon
that shiny gold penny

he realized
that he now had enough money

to put food on the table
for a month.

He put that coin away
as well

and picked up the third
old and dusty penny.

With hands now trembling,
he removed a speck of dust,

and as before
that coin changed to gold.

Solid gold.

George's smile got bigger,

for he realized that
he now had enough money

to buy brand-new clothes
for his entire family.

And as he put that coin away,
George spied one last coin

sitting on the table.

He picked it up
and he pondered.

Could the magic happen
yet one more time?

He rubbed that coin
on his sleeve,

revealing, once again,
a coin of gold.

Solid gold.

But as George played around
with that shiny, gold penny....

He stopped thinking of all
of the good and wondrous things

he was going to do
for his family. For you see,

George now realized
that he had the power.

And he was going
to use that power

not for good, but to get back
at all of the people

who beat him down

and put him
into a state of poverty.

And at that very moment,
at that very moment,

that shiny gold penny
changed back...

to copper.

When George saw what had
happened his smile faded,

for he realized that the magic
had only been fleeting.

And in fact, when he took
a look back into his cup...

he found that
all of the shiny gold

had changed back to copper.

And as George
looked on in despair...

It was as if you could hear
the voice of Rod Serling,

who said,
"Yes, George Midas,

a man who possessed
a true gift.

A real Midas touch.

But gifts used
for the wrong reasons,

can also be taken away
back to the refund counters

found only in the stores
of the 'Fool Us' Zone."

Thank you.

[audience applauds]

- Dr. Michael Rubinstein.

Ooh, hi, nice to meet you.

Ah, I really--I love
"The Twilight Zone" as well.

- Thank you.
One of my favorites.

- Yeah, so I really liked
the ambience.

Um, and you use actual, like,
old coins I heard.

- I do.
I think that older coins

are more, um, interesting

and of course there's
an intrinsic value

so these coins that I used
were like from 1915.

- That's fantastic.
- So it really fits

the ambience of
"The Twilight Zone,"

there being the old England.

- Is this your favorite
coin trick?

- Yes, it's--it's basically
a piece of magical theater

that's developed
over the course

of the last 30 years.

I've done it
in different ways,

but I really built it up
so that it's more like,

as I said, a piece of theater
where the magic is only, like,

part of the story,
it's not the story

but it basically
complements the story.

- That's pretty cool.
- Thank you.

- Okay.
Penn and Teller are ready.

Let's see if you fooled them.

Penn, Teller.

- Ah, Dr. Michael, very nice.

Very, very nice.

[audience applauds]

In magic, people do
storytelling all the time

but not in coin magic.

Coin magic is usually--
there's this, then it changes

to something else.

And you just had
a whole story behind there

that just kept us spellbound.

It was just wonderful
how you, uh--

how you told the whole thing
through there.

We're both, uh,
big "Twilight Zone" fans.

So we absolutely loved that.

I loved that
it gave a justification.

Usually the coins
are just color changing,

and you actually gave them
value change

and gave a story.
We found it really interesting

that on many coins it has
"E pluribus unum"

as a symbol of
United States of America.

But since Teller
was a Latin scholar,

a little bit more
of how you did it

was "ex uno plures"
more than the other way around.

We also gonna just use some--
a little bit of jargon here,

'cause I love doing that,

and we're just gonna say
something magician to magician.

There was a nice variation
on the Ramsay Subtlety

that we saw you doing.

But we--we loved it there
and I think we probably

with Latin and magic terms,

I think maybe
we got some stuff there.

You--you agree with us?

- I don't speak Latin
or magician.

- One thing I would ask is,

the most important part of this
trick for me is how--

the cleanliness
in which the trick finished,

and I was wondering
if that was important for you?

- Because when you deal
with four dirty coins

you gotta keep
your hands clean.

- Yeah, well, that to us,
although we loved it,

was not that important
a mat-ter.

- Well, that meant
nothing to me.

Did it mean something to you?
- Yes, it did.

- Okay, so you didn't--
- They're good.

- You didn't fool them?
Well, thank you.

Dr. Michael Rubinstein.
- Thank you.

[audience applauds]

Someone is gonna
catch Penn and Teller

off guard eventually.

It just might happen
after this,

so stick around.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- Welcome back.

No one has fooled
Penn and Teller yet.

Let's find out if our next act
has what it takes.

Take a look.

[whizzing, expl*si*n]

- My name is Anastasia Synn.
I'm a magician.

I live in a very
picturesque community.

[heavy metal music]

My show involves both magic
and side show.

When I first
started performing,

I went from
doing tricks behind a bar

where I was working,
to performing

a razor blade swallowing act
for teenage girls

and watching them run away
screaming and crying,

and it was the reaction
that hooked me.

♪ ♪

If you thought that was cool,
let me show you this.

[beeping]

I have seven implants
in my body right now.

Sensors in the tips
of my fingers.

I have sensors
in the backs of my wrists.

One under my arm that
gives me my body temperature.

And in my hand here,
can be scanned by a phone

and can either
give you messages

or I can program it to open
hotel doors when we're on tour.

Tonight, I'm gonna show you
what a body can do.

[audience cheering]

- Here for your enjoyment,
Anastasia Synn.

[upbeat music]

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[audience groans]

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[audience laughs]

[audience cheering]

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[audience gasps]

[audience laughs]

♪ ♪

- Whoo!
- Whoo-hoo!

- No, no, no, no, no.

♪ ♪

[audience cheers]

[audience applauds]

♪ ♪

[audience groans]

- Whoo!

- Eh.

♪ ♪

[audience laughs]

- [whimpers]
- Just hold it tight and stay still.

- Okay.
Ugh.

Ugh.

♪ ♪

[audience laughs]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

♪ ♪

Oh.

[audience laughs]

[whimpering]

♪ ♪

Oh, my goodness.

♪ ♪

[audience groans]

Oh, my God.

Ugh.

♪ ♪

[audience applauds, cheers]

♪ ♪

Oh, my goodness.

[audience applauds]
Thank you.

[audience laughs]

[audience cheering]

Anastasia Synn.

[audience cheers]

Ugh.

Ugh.

Yeah.
- Hi.

- Hi.
I'm glad you're happy.

- I'm really happy.
- Oh.

That's gonna give me
a lot of nightmares.

- Is it?
- Yeah.

- Why do they keep
calling you Alyson?

Your name's Willow.
- Oh.

Yeah, I get that a bunch too.

- Do you?
- Yeah.

- Actually, I have
a present for you.

- You do?
- I do. I have a present for you.

- Does it come out
of your body?

- It does.
- Oh.

Whoo, there's a lot
going on in there.

- Pink sweater Willow.
- Aw.

- I love Willow.
That's for you.

- Thank you.
I can keep this?

- Yes, that's for you.
- Aw. Thank you.

Aw, well, now I forgive you

for all the nightmares
that I'm gonna have.

- Oh, yay!
That makes me happy.

- Um, so I just--

I don't even know where
to begin, like...

How do you decide, yes--
and you're bleeding by the way.

Ugh.
Ouch.

Okay.
- I'm sorry.

- No, it's like, funny
and gross all at the same time.

- I try.

- So did performing
come naturally to you?

- Um, no actually,
it took me about two years

to get out of--or over
my stage fright.

It was brutal stage fright, like--

- Really?
- I felt like someone

punched me in the stomach
every time I went out on stage.

And as soon as I kind of
adopted some sideshowy style

that scared people
more than it scared me,

it kind of took care
of the stage fright issue.

- Oh, that's cool.

All right, well,
let's go to Penn and Teller

and see if you fooled them.

Penn, Teller.

- Ah, the most amazing thing
about, uh, this is that, um,

some of this
is absolutely real,

some of it is partially real,
some of it's not real,

and believe me, if we told
in detail which was which,

people would be freaked out.

[laughs]
- Yes.

- 'Cause the fact that the stuff
that isn't real

is the trivial stuff
and the fact that the stuff

that is real
is the freak-out stuff

is really good.

We have a lot of acts,
uh, on this show.

We know a lot of magic,
we've been doing magic

for a long time.
And most of the acts

that we see out here,
with practice, with work,

with study, with rehearsal,
we could do.

The stuff that you do,
we couldn't do.

We just plain do not have
the stomach for it.

You're just so much tougher
than we are.

She is tough enough,
rough enough,

in love enough,
and rich enough.

- So this is the first time
I'm really glad

they talked in code, because
I don't think I need to know.

- Oh, Alyson,
you so don't want to know.

- No.
- You so don't wanna know.

- No.
- Oh, you don't wanna know.

- I know you know
what I'm doing.

- Don't even ask me.
- Yes, okay, good.

So, Anastasia Synn.
- It's a great act.

Thank you Anastasia.
Thanks for coming on.

- Up next,
more of TV's best magic,

including a trick
by our very own

Penn and Teller.

Stay close.

[jazz music]

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[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Our next magician has one
of the more interesting

backstories of any fooler.

Check it out.

[whizzing, expl*si*n]

- I'm Adam Cheyer,

co-creator of Siri,

the voice assistant
on Apple devices.

I started out with magic
at nine years old.

A Rubik's Cube.

For me, that was
a form of magic.

And, in fact, the first piece
of software I ever wrote,

was a program
to solve Rubik's Cube.

Entrepreneurs and magicians
are very similar.

Both have to imagine
an impossible future

and the technology behind it.

Many of my creations
were things that people

did not believe were possible.

That really shows
the relationship between

technology and magic.

[audience cheers]

- Please welcome
Siri-ous contender,

Adam Cheyer.

[audience applauds]

- Hello.

I'm here today
to reveal to you my secrets.

Entrepreneurs.

The first thing
when you have a big idea

is you need
to create a prototype

that shows the world
of your future idea.

I've happened
to bring with me today

my first prototype of Siri.

Would you like to see it?
- Yes.

[audience cheers]

- I keep it in a little box.
- [laughs]

- Once you have an idea
and a prototype,

you need investors to fund
your id--your company.

Penn and Teller,
would you join me on stage?

You can be the ones
I'm trying to impress.

[audience applauding]

I'm gonna mix these cards,
give them a shuffle.

When I started Siri in 2007,

people would say,

"I have Google.
I have an iPhone.

Why do I need anything else?"

And I said, "Siri will be
better in three ways."

First, when you put a keyword
into a search engine,

it just gives you links.

Siri is gonna
answer the question.

Number two, I want to be able
to handle multiple tasks

at the same time.

And number three,
I want to be able to refine

my questions conversationally.
"How about Tuesday?

What about the next day?"

Would you help me, Teller,

and just choose any card
from the shuffled deck?

Just--but don't look at it,
just pull it out of the deck.

Okay and let's choose a card
for Penn as well.

Let me show you how
this is going to work.

On the back of every card,
I have a little button.

What you do is you press it.

Doo, doo.

No, I was just kidding.

We didn't actually implement
speech recognition

in our first prototype of Siri.

It turns out some people
don't actually like

to talk to phones.

But no matter.
[audience laughs]

No worries, you can actually
type your questions.

So Teller,
you chose a card at random.

It could be red
or it could be black.

What color is Teller's card?

C-O-L-O-R.

Color.

And Siri says...

♪ ♪

Red.

Maybe.

Next, your card, it could be
a six, a two, a king.

Let's ask.
What number is the card?

N-U-M-B-E-R.

Number.

The answer is...

♪ ♪

A three,
a red three.

Now if it's red,
it could be diamonds

or it could be hearts.

Is it hearts?

H-E-A-R-T-S.

♪ ♪

It is hearts.

Maybe.

And every card in the deck
has exactly one match.

So if I were to ask...

M-A-T-C-H.

For the match.

Now I know there's no way
this could work,

but if this were true,
it's saying your card, Teller,

was the red three of hearts.

So the match would be
the other red three.

The red three of diamonds.

[audience applauds]

That's what I call artificial
intelligence right--right there.

And you chose
the red three of hearts.

[audience applauding]

♪ ♪

Now, we've said that Siri
can answer the question.

I can refine my question
conversationally.

Is it red?
Is it diamonds?

But we also said,
we're going to handle

multiple tasks
at the same time.

Now, Penn,
we chose a card for you.

This was the color pile.

What is the color
of Penn's card?

♪ ♪

Black.

This is the number pile.

What number is Penn's card?

Seven.
Black seven.

If it's black it could be clubs
or it could be spades.

Siri says, clubs.

And every card in the deck
has exactly one match.

And if you chose
the black seven of clubs,

the match would be the--
the other black seven.

The black seven of spades.

[audience applauding]

♪ ♪

And that means
the card that you chose

would be the black...

[audience cheering]

Thank you very much.
- Thank you so much, man.

Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Adam Cheyer.

[audience cheers]

Hi.
Nice to meet you.

You could stay in bed
for the rest of your life

and do nothing else
and still be very impressive.

- Yeah,
I aspire to be a magician

like all the others
on this stage.

- That's amazing.

Um, I have so many questions
about Siri.

Like, sometimes
you can get Siri

to have a little bit
of an attitude.

- Well, we knew when we
created Siri that, yes,

we wanted it
to answer questions

and do tasks for you.
But we knew that people

would ask those
funny kinds of questions.

So do you know what
the number one question

that people ask Siri?
I've seen the logs.

- Oh, is it, um, sing for me?

- Very close. That's in the--
that's in the top ten.

- Yes!
- The number one question

that people ask Siri is,
"Do you love me?"

- Aw.

- And we built in
that kind of functionality

into our prototype,
let--let me show you.

- Okay.

- Siri, do you love me?

L-O-V-E.

And Siri says...

- Aw.
- She gives me her heart.

[audience applauds]
- Aw, that's fantastic.

So have you been performing
magic your whole life as well?

- I--I was really into magic
when I was a kid,

maybe eight to twelve.

And then I went for 35 years
not doing any magic.

And then when my son became
about the age that I was,

we rediscovered magic together

and that's something
we can share.

- All right, well,
I bet he's excited.

Um, all right, well,
let's go to the boys.

- Okay.
- See if you tricked them.

- Oh, Adam, we could--
we could not be more honored.

Thank you so much
for doing our little show.

- The honor is mine.
Thank you.

- It's so great you wanted
to come on. I mean, uh...

Someone that's really,
really been part of

changing our culture,
changing the future.

When I say "our,"
I don't mean Americans,

I mean humanity.

Uh, you've just done so much.

So thrilled
you came on this show,

thank you so much.

Thank you so much
for doing it.

[applause]

And uh...

You know, I'm trying
to find ways that, eh,

that we have things in common,
'cause you're such a hero.

One way is you--you shuffled cards
a lot like we do some times.

I really liked that a lot,
but I think the best way

to try to figure out how
you did this is to ask Siri.

Hey, Siri!
How did Adam

do that great trick?

- Oh.

I think he used
a circular stack

like Si Stebbins.

- Was it his own--was it one
he developed himself?

- I don't know,
but if he did,

he's even smarter
than I thought he was.

[all laugh]

[audience applauds]

- So, did Siri figure it out?

- Let me actually consult
my favorite expert.

Siri, did we fool them?

F-O-O-L.

Fool.

And Siri says...

[all laugh, applaud]

- Adam Cheyer!

[audience cheers]

Coming up, we serve
our main course of magic.

Penn and Teller
perform after the break.

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

[jazz music]

♪ ♪

- If there's one thing
Penn and Teller

love more than magic,
it's good cooperage.

While you all
google that word,

let's bring out
Penn and Teller!

[audience cheering]

- Ooh!

What's this?

We're all staring at a barrel
with things going through it.

One thing I'll say
for Penn and Teller,

they have their finger
on the pulse

of the TV-watching public.

'Cause when we're watching TV,
we demand to see

good cooperage.
[audience laughs]

And there is some fine barrel
building up on that stage.

Nice bilge.
Good staves.

It's such a peaceful act.

Ooh!
A new character enters.

Who is it?

A target with a balloon,

meets a barrel with things.

[audience laughs]

Now there's drama.

[tense music]

Suspense.

Conflict.

Action.

The barrel makes its move.

Ha ha!

And the barrel is victorious.
[audience cheers]

And the target, balloon-less,
skulks off, defeated.

[audience laughs]

So how are they doing this?

There's no one in the barrel,
not with those things

going through it.

No one behind it.
No one underneath it.

Can't be mechanical
with that bad marksmanship.

So it must be...

a monkey!

There's a monkey in the barrel.

Something very simian
about that barrel.

People love animals
in magic acts.

As long as they're treated
with compassion, dignity,

and respect.
Ooh.

What's happening now?

What's the monkey doing?

Those things do
go all the way through.

Oh.

Now it's a musical piece.

Very free jazz.

Very avant-garde.

Very 21st century classical.

Oh, I get it.

But it's not a monkey.

The big son of a b*tch
was in the barrel.

[audience cheering]

- Ah.
- Wah!

- Oh my goodness.

Wow.

- [grunts]

- Penn, that was a great trick.

- No, no, no, no, no.
No, Alyson.

No, no.
That was a good trick.

I'm uh, um...


weigh 236 pounds.

That's a small barrel,
that is a good trick.

But it's not a great trick.

If that were a great trick,

I would have been
comfortable in the barrel.

[all laugh]
- Aw.

We gotta wrap it up.
Good night from "Fool Us."

- Gotta get to that
breakfast buffet.

The lines are long.