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10x17 - It Takes ba*ls to Be a Magician

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Penn & Teller: Fool Us". Aired: 7 January 2011 – present.*
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A magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller.

10x17 - It Takes ba*ls to Be a Magician

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- From the Penn and
Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas.

Here's our host, Brooke Burke.

- Welcome to "Fool Us."

This is the Coliseum of Magic,

where only the bravest magicians
step into the lion's den

and try to topple our
two titans of trickery.

Are you not entertained?

Well, you will be.

Once we bring out our
Caesars of Sorcery,

Penn and Teller.

- For a magician to get
the thumbs up

for a "Fool Us" trophy,

they have to pull one
over on Penn and Teller,

and our first magician in the
arena might do it right now.

- I was a math teacher
for nine years.

I love math, because it teaches
you to solve things

one step at a time.

Creating magic
is like that, too.

Each step is a problem you solve
until presto, the solution.

I started out as a juggler.

Juggling helps with magic,

because it teaches
your hands to think.

I have two shows now on my own
stage in the heart of Madrid.

One show is for children.

The grown-up show is a canvas
for me to explore my heart.

Tonight's routine
demonstrates everything

I believe about magic.

Magic is a sharing of dreams.

Penn and Teller,
come dream with me.

- Dropping in from Madrid,
give it up, everybody,

for Javi Rufo.

I was inspired to be here

by one of the greatest
magicians of all time.

His name was Rene Lavand,

and he was able to create
beautiful magic,

even with the handicap of
having lost an arm as a child.

Today, I would like
to pay tribute to him

with a trick on my own,

using one hand only.

Rene Lavand's original act

was called "No se puede
hacer más lento."

"It can't be done slower,"
and yet

He made the cards dance
in between his fingers,

reaching the impossible.

Today, borrowing
some of his words

two spheres will
dance in my hand.

A white sphere and a red sphere.

I will try to do it very slowly,
so there is no doubt.

If two spheres dance together,

such is a bond created
between them,

that they become eternally
inseparable.

And even if you try
to separate them,

they are and will be
eternally inseparable.

Look.

Like Rene would say,

"No se puede hacer más lento."

It can't be done slower.

But perhaps tonight it can,

more slowly, more magical.

But forget the spheres
for a minute.

This could be you and I,

a couple in love,

or two best friends,

maybe the teacher and the pupil.

I'm talking, I'm talking
about the bond

that makes the relationship
between two parts

into something
eternally inseparable.

No se puede hacer más lento,

or perhaps it can
be done slower.

But anyway, I think it
is very clear,

if they have had a bond,
they always will.

And even if you break
them apart,

they are and will be
eternally inseparable.

Look.

I'm going to do it very slowly.

Like Rene would say,

I come to self amazement.

But if they have
danced together,

if they have shared experience,

maybe they are not
physically together,

it's their bond that is...

and will be
eternally inseparable.

No se puede hacer más lento.

Or perhaps, like Rene would say,

in graceful defiance.

I don't usually do that.

There is nothing more
dazzling than the truth.

And to fulfill
what was promised.

Yes. They are...

and will be eternally
inseparable.

Look, I don't know
where I'll be tomorrow

because the future
is yet to come.

Neither do about the present
because it's already gone.

What I'd like is for the bond

between you and I

to be eternally inseparable.

- Javi Rufo.

Wow.

A standing ovation.

That was, can I just...

Boys, I don't know how
you felt about it,

but my heart was beating fast.

It was like a
magical love story.

I mean, the ladies,

did you see the faces on
the ladies in the house?

- Thank you.

- I mean, I really could
have just closed my eyes

and listened to the accent.
It was so romantic.

Wow.

Okay.

Hold it together.

Were you inspired by
a love of yours?

- There are a lot of people
in his mind when

he's doing the act,
a lover, a friend, a parent.

- I have to ask you,
do you write poetry?

- No.
- No? You should.

- Yes.

- Okay, Javi, let's see
if you fooled Penn and Teller

with one hand behind your back.

Boys.

My goodness, Javi,
I'm having a hard time.

Because usually
I like being the one

in Penn and Teller who talks.

And we're really
both speechless.

One of the most beautiful
things we've ever seen.

- It's just...

it's rare that
somebody actually sets out

to do something that poetic

and then actually delivers that.

It's, I mean, one of
the most beautiful things

ever had on the show
and so simple.

And I could go on and on
and on and on,

but I'm never going to say
anything that touches

the beauty of what
that looked like.

And after the third
move you did,

we both knew that you fooled us.

- Well done.

- Gracias.

- Javi Rufo!

- That was so romantic.

We have a fooler in our ranks.

Penn and Teller just awarded
the first trophy of the night

and we are not done yet.

So stick around, everyone.

- Welcome back.

Let's meet the next
magician trying

to take down Penn and Teller.

- I'm Emma Olson.

I'm 18, and
I'm from New York City.

I've been watching "Fool Us"
as far back as I can remember.

Shin Lim is my favorite.

I was also watching "Fool Us"

when I became obsessed
with cube magic.

Some people don't know what
to expect when they see

an 18-year-old show up
for a magic gig.

But that's okay.

I think it's cool.

I wouldn't want to be an
old guy doing magic.

- Good job, honey.

- My grandmother came with me
to chaperone, I think.

I love my grandma.
She's my biggest fan.

She always comes to see
any big show that I do.

I'm glad she's here
with me today,

because this is the biggest
performance in my career.

I can't wait to see if
I can fool Penn and Teller.

- From NYC, put
your hands together

for 18-year-old magician
Emma Olson.

- Wow.
Thank you guys so much.

It is such an honor to be here
performing for you guys tonight.

Penn, Teller, I have
something very special

to show you guys with
the Rubik's Cube.

But it's going to be different
than any other cube magic

you've ever seen before, and
you're about to see what I mean.

- Good.

- For this, I would like
a lovely assistant,

and I was hoping, Penn, would
you mind joining me on stage?

- I'd love to.

- So nice to meet you, Penn.
- How are you? Good to see you.

- Now, Penn, I'm sure you're
familiar with the Rubik's Cube.

- Yeah, a little bit.

- And the colors, too.
- Yeah.

- All right, so I'm going to
go behind my back like this

so I don't see the cube,

and as I'm turning it,

just say stop on whatever
color you'd like.

- Okay, sure.

- All right, whenever
you would like.

- Stop.
- Right here?

- Yeah.

- Or do you want to keep going?
- No, that's good.

- This color?
- Yeah.

- You want to change your mind?
- No.

- All right, go
ahead, remember that color.

- This one right here.
- Okay, okay.

- This one, you got that?
- I got that.

- And the rest of the audience,
do that as well?

- Yeah, do that as well, please.

- All right, Penn, now go ahead,

take the cube, take it from
my hand, and mix it up.

Mix it up so there's no way
I could know

what color Penn selected.

Now while you're doing that,

I'll show you here I've brought
with me a little sketch pad.

All right, and in the
sketch pad,

I'm going to go ahead and
start off

by drawing the basic outline
of the Rubik's Cube.

All right, now Penn,
you just focus on your color

and mix up that cube.

- I keep mixing?
- Yes, continue to mix, please.

- I finish or I keep
going while you're...

- Whatever you want, it's fine.

- Okay.

I'm concentrating though,
that's the important part.

- All right, that's great.

All right, so here I have
the outline of the Rubik's Cube,

all right.

And here, I'll take
the cube back.

You're done mixing it?

- Yeah.
- Or did I interrupt you?

- No, you didn't.
That's fine, I'm done.

- Good, good.

- All right, now I'm going to
give it a little mix too.

And Penn, your only job
for this is to remember

the color that you selected.

- I know, I want to do
that right.

- You know your color?
- Yeah.

- Okay, good.

Can you hold your hand
out for me?

- I will do that.

- Yeah, and do the same
with your other hand too.

- Okay.

All right, and hold the
cube just like this.

- Okay.

- All right, and hold that close
to you.

- Okay, close to me.
- So I don't get near it.

Okay.

All right, now here I
have a bunch of

different color markers.

All right, each
of these colors of the cube,

one of these is your color.

All right, so I'm going
to try to figure out

which one is your color.

Just give me a countdown
from three.

Three, two, one.

- All right.

- She hates pens.

- All right, two more.

Now Penn, for the first
time out loud,

can you go ahead and name
the color that you selected?

- Yellow.
- Yellow?

Yeah, yellow.

Now see, I got a little
bit confused here,

so I kind of just
drew all the colors.

Yeah, sorry about that.

But do you see your
color on there?

- Actually, I don't.

- You don't?

- I don't, no.

- Really?
- No.

But here, your color yellow,

I want you to imagine
your color yellow

- on the bottom of the cube.
- I'm doing that.

- Let me know when
that's happened for you.

It's done.
My goodness.

And watch over here.

Yep.

Wait, the magic
isn't finished yet.

You're still holding on to
the cube in your hand.

- I am.

- Can you go ahead
and lift your top hand?

Do you see your color on top?

No.

- You don't see it on top?
- I don't.

- Do you see it on this
side of the cube?

- I don't.
- Or how about this side?

- Nope.
- Or this side?

- Nope.
- Not even this side?

Nope.

Can you go ahead and
lift up the cube?

Look, I want to give this
to you as a little souvenir.

You and Teller can go ahead
and check that out.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you guys so much.

Thank you, Penn.

- Wonderful.

- Emma Olson, everyone.
Wow.

My gosh. Hi, Emma.

You said that this was going
to be the biggest performance

of your career.
How did it go?

- Well, I was very nervous.

But I'm glad that
I got everything right.

And the trick went smoothly.

- That's got to feel good.

Do you find that people
underestimate you?

- Unfortunately, yeah.

With my age and
being a female magician,

I feel like people
kind of have a expectation

for what a normal magician
is supposed to look like.

I don't fit that.

But I'll let the magic
speak for itself.

- Yeah.
And confidence.

I love it.
I love it.

Do you ever use magic in school
to get yourself out of trouble?

- Yes, all the time.

Especially for, like,
class presentations.

And it does get a better grade,
so it's good.

- Sounds like a good deal.

All right, Emma.

Let's see if you're going
back to the Big Apple

with a big trophy.

- Are you ready?
- Okay, let's see.

- All right, Mr. Fancy.

- Hey, Emma.
You're a genius.

It's that simple.
You're just a genius.

The performance, the poise,

the way you handled yourself,
just terrific.

The way you handled me and
had me actually do things

without me screwing it up, which
is the danger of this trick

is that I can screw it up.

And I didn't do that.

And that's all thanks to you.

Getting to the secret of this,

much of this stuff you just did.

And if Teller and I worked on
this the rest of our lives,

which isn't that long,

we would never,
ever be able to learn that.

The stuff you were keeping in
your head was just phenomenal.

We were just blown away
by every moment of it.

And even the parts that
weren't just genius,

but actually magic tricks,

if you'd hooked up an EKG to us,

you would have gotten
a cardiographic

thing that would have
just blown your mind.

We would have had to call
our cardiologist,

who's Dr. Martin Lewis,

who you've probably
heard of, is in town.

He would have to fix our hearts.

We were so blown away
by your genius, Emma.

You're just wonderful.

And I think we've snuck in...

We've snuck in a
couple of things here

that might let you know
that you did not fool us.

But look how the audience
loved you.

How great, how great
is she?

How great is she?

- Emma, we're so impressed,

but it sounds like
you didn't fool the boys.

Did that code make sense to you?

- It made perfect sense
to me, yes.

- Thank you so much for
being here with us.

- You were amazing.
- Thank you, guys.

- I'm so impressed.

Emma Olson, everyone.

Thank you.

Don't vanish.
"Fool Us" will be right back.

- We're glad you could join us.

You're gonna love
this next magician.

- I don't really have
the typical origin story.

In my case, I was just a kid,
and my uncle was evil.

He pretended to do magic, but
he was really just pranking me.

He'd say things like,
how many fingers have you got?

And then he'd count.

One, two, three, four, five,

ten, nine, eight, seven, six.

Six and five is what?
Eleven.

So I learned magic partly
to defend myself.

I did close-up magic for years,

and that's kind of what
I became known for.

Now I like to go a little
weirder, go a little bigger.

I do stuff with a lot of
borrowed objects, like phones.

I do some pickpocketing.

And when I do card magic now,

I like to add some strange
new elements,

as Penn and Teller are
hopefully about to see.

My handle is useless talent guy,

because I embrace the idea
that magic doesn't really serve

any useful purpose,
aside from to make people smile.

But tonight, my magic
does have a purpose,

and that's to fool
Penn and Teller.

And if it does, I guess
I'm the useful talent guy?

I can get used to it.

- Making his way to the
"Fool Us" stage,

from Atlanta, Georgia
is Sean Ridgway.

- All right, thank you guys
so much for having me.

It's an absolute pleasure
to be here,

and thank you to Penn and Teller
for joining me on the stage.

So they say to be the best,
you got to beat the best.

So tonight, not only am I
going to try to win a trophy,

but I'm going to try to do it

in the most challenging
way possible.

By encouraging you both,

and by giving
you many opportunities

to try and screw up my trick.

- Okay, we're good at that.

- There you go.

- Okay, so Teller,
we'll start with you.

This folded up purple card
is my big finale.

Your job is to keep
your eye on that card. Okay?

And if you see any
funny business,

you let me know,
and then congratulations,

you've screwed up my trick.

Okay?

But if you're watching here,
you're not going to be paying

attention to anything
else going on over here.

So the dilemma.

And for Penn, for you,

I have a box of matches.

Go ahead and hold out your
hand...

with one single match inside.

Go ahead and place that
back inside.

Perfect.

Now you're going to hold
on to this.

You can put it in a
pocket wherever you want,

just that I can't get to it.

Just in your pocket.
Yeah, perfect.

So technically, if you
wanted to screw it up,

you could have done something
like destroy the box,

but that'd make you a sociopath.

- Yep.
Which I am.

- Dilemmas.

So now we move on to a series
of choices,

keeping in mind that
each of these choices

gives you the opportunity to...

- Screw you up.

My God, it's like
you've heard this before.

So we've got a red
deck and a blue deck.

So Teller, you're going to point
to whichever deck you like,

keeping in mind,
whatever you pick

is the one you're going to get.

And whichever one
is left is going to Penn.

So which one would you like?

The red.
Okay.

So you're going
to take these cards,

you're going to hold
them face down,

like you're about to deal
and Penn, I'm sorry,

but you're going to have to be
stuck with the blue.

- Okay.

- So hold those face down,
because in a moment,

I'm going to have you deal
cards one at a time,

face up into a pile.

- Okay.
- So go ahead and start now.

Perfect. And you can keep going
as long as you'd like.

And at some point,
you're going to stop.

It could be at the same time.
It could be at a different time.

Totally your choice.

And I should mention that
my job is to get you

to try to stop on the same card.

- And we're still going.
- We are.

- All right. So it looks like
Teller has come to a stop.

- So have I.

All right.
So one last chance.

Screw it up.

Do you want to keep going?
I'll take that as a yes.

All right.
Teller, we good?

All right, gentlemen,

if you would go ahead and
take those face down cards

that you stopped at,
slip those inside the box.

No, just the face down card that
you stopped on.

There you go.
Perfect.

- I did it right just
so you know.

- Yeah, he did.
He gets bonus points.

And go ahead. You can just
set the decks on top.

We don't need those anymore.

Perfect.
And actually know what?

I don't want to touch anything.

You go ahead, take those boxes,

close them up and
hold on to them.

Good.

So here we have an interesting
situation, a one in 52 choice.

And honestly, I think that
you guys are so magical

and so connected after all
these years of working together

that despite giving
you every opportunity

to change your mind
and screw up my trick,

you've still managed
to select the same card,

which brings us
to another choice.

Penn, you can either
take my word for it

and then we can
leave everything as is.

You can take those
home as a souvenir.

And that wouldn't technically
screw up the trick,

but it may leave the audience
hanging a little bit.

Dilemmas.

So, Penn, trust me or prove it.

- I think we need to prove
it for the audience.

- Of course.

- That's how much I love you.

- There we go.
You heard it here, folks.

All right. So go ahead,
open up the card boxes

and put those cards
face down into my hand.

Just like that. Perfect.

And you can just
set the boxes down.

So by your reaction,
your reaction,

and of course the reaction
of the audience,

you guys will let me
know how close they got.

Here we go.

- That's pretty cool, but
it could have been a fluke.

It could have been
a coincidence.

But I'm here tonight to
show you guys real magic.

So as I said at the beginning,

that folded up
purple card is my big finale.

Teller, have I done anything
sneaky with this box?

And how crazy would it
be if this card

turned out to be a match?

So if the match is here, Penn,

go ahead and reach
into your pocket.

Take out that match book.

Go ahead and slide it out.

There you go.

And show
everybody what's inside.

Go ahead.

You can drop the sleeve
and I can go ahead.

I can take that,

which leaves us with one folded
up purple card and no match.

But it wouldn't be a good trick,

of course, unless this card
was also...

the king of clubs.

All right. Thank you guys
so much for helping out.

Thank you, Penn.
Thank you, Teller.

You can have a seat.

- Sean Ridgeway, everyone.

Wow. Hi, Sean.

- Hello.
- Nice to meet you.

- You as well.

- I heard that you do a post
every day on social media.

- Yes.

I decided that I would take
on the challenge of

on social media every
single day,

filming a magic trick that I
created and posting it online.

So 365 ideas.

- That is a lot of magic.

And do you also create magic
tricks for other magicians?

- Yes. People come to me
asking to solve a problem.

And I'm an idea guy, so I try
to figure out how best

to solve that problem for them.

- So not every magician
then can create

and build their own tricks?

- They can, but a lot of
people choose not to.

And that's because for
every one good idea,

there's probably a
hundred garbage ones.

- Is it in the performance
that you discover

that they're garbage ones?

- Unfortunately, sometimes.

- Well, Sean, let's see if
we can match you up

with a "Fool Us" trophy.

- All right.
- Let's go to the boys.

- Are you ready?
- Yes, ma'am.

- Penn and Teller.

- Hey, Sean.

- Be nice.
Be nice, boys.

- Boy, that was really,
really nice.

Just a perfect plot,
really put together.

Very good challenge.

Very good all the way through.

Some of that stuff,
like a lot of that stuff,

we haven't seen
in that form before.

Now, we never know
who's coming out here,

so we don't know whether
that's just stuff

we haven't heard of or
whether you invented that.

Did you invent that?

- Everything up here,
I invented myself. Yes, sir.

- Wow. Really?
All of it?

Wow. That's phenomenal.

And Teller said the first thing
he said we sat down was,

in a couple of years,
he's going to be a monster.

You're just so, so good
and still so, so young.

It's just amazing where
you're going to go.

And knowing that you invented
that stuff yourself

is really, really,
really wonderful.

But this is the part where
we get all the flap

or the flack
where we have to go into

giving you some code

and you challenged us to
try to screw you up,

we're trying to stick together
on that, work together on that.

And I think that even this
won't screw you up.

When I say, with all
due respect,

I don't think you fooled us.

- All right.

- Did that all make
sense to you?

Do you think they figured
out how you did your tricks?

- Loud and clear.

I challenged them and
they rose to the occasion.

- Thank you.

- Well, you didn't fool them,
but you sure impressed them.

And we loved having you.

Give him a round
of applause, everyone.

Thank you.

- Thank you, Sean.

Sean Ridgeway, everyone.

We're not packing it in
and neither should you.

We've got more amazing
magic in a minute.

Don't go away.

- Welcome back to "Fool Us."

Let's meet the next magician
who's gonna try

to fool Penn and Teller.

- I moved to New York
when I was 23.

It's the one place on earth

where you can dream of
doing anything

and then find somebody who
will teach you how to do it.

One of my dreams was magic,
of course.

And you know what?
It still is.

Now I'm the guy who gets
to mentor people coming up.

It gives me a kick,

and passing it on is the
only way magic survives.

She's good.

New York is a
great place for magic

because you can play to
an audience of any size.

There are enormous stages,

but there's a cafe society, too,
where you go table to table.

You get people involved.

You bring them in,
bring them close.

You meet your audience
face to face.

For me, there's just
nothing like that.

The routine I'm doing
tonight won me

a top award as
the best close-up magician.

It would have been easy
to stop working on the magic

after winning a prize like that,

but I can't help it.

I keep working on it.

There are 32 separate effects
in what I'll do tonight.

Penn and Teller may bust me,

but they're going to
have to work for it.

Give it up for
master manipulator, Jim Vines.

- Wow, wow, wow,
that was amazing.

Thank you so much.

- I mean, you don't have to work
another day in your life

if you can produce
that kind of money.

- Well, if I can do that
every day, can you imagine?

- No, I can't, especially
the credit cards.

- Yes.

- Does classic magic
evolve over time?

- Absolutely.

This effect that I did tonight,
which is producing money,

at least since 1852,

when Robert-Houdin did
something called

"The Miser's Dream," and he
would reach into the air

and catch coins and coins and
coins and drop them in a bucket.

And so the idea of combining
those two things together,

but taking it sort of to the
next level, that was just,

you know, we say we stand on
the shoulders of giants,

and he was certainly a giant.

- Do you think that there
are old tricks

that have been lost over time?

- Absolutely.

And every so often,
someone will surface

with an ancient manuscript
that hasn't been seen

in hundreds and hundreds
of years,

and it's just a joy,

because when you see something
that seems brand new,

but it's really
hundreds of years old,

and you feel like you're meeting
that magician today, you know?

- Okay, Jim, let's see if we
can cash in your money magic

for a "Fool Us" Trophy.

- Are you ready?
- I'm ready.

- You ready, boys?
- We're ready.

Jim, you know,
it's so amazing to see,

I mean, obviously,

a total pro
been doing this forever.

This is a lot, a lot of work,

but to do an act that
masquerades as a trick

done at a table and actually

explodes over to the whole stage

is a really beautiful thing.

You do not expect a table act
to be that big,

and to be able to do a really

stage magic illusion act

all based on sitting
at a table bare handed,

starting with just a little slip
from an ATM is just brilliant.

We were all prepared for
just a coin trick,

and then you end up
doing so much more than that,

and it gets bigger and bigger
and bigger,

and one of the best
techniques you use

is using one trick
to cover another,

to cover another,
to cover another,

so it's very hard
for the audience

to backtrack on what's happened.

There's so much surprise
all the way through this.

It's just terrific.

Of course, in terms of style,
there's a lot of Slydini.

You have dove productions.
You have camouflage.

You have all sorts of stuff,

and it's also great
to see an act

that you've obviously been
working for years and years,

and is a huge crowd pleaser,

and we loved every
single second of it.

All the innovations
were wonderful,

but we don't think
you fooled us,

but man, we loved it.

- Thank you.

- Jim, it sounds like
you didn't fool them,

but you sure entertained us all.

Am I right?

- You are right, and I just
have to say one thing.

This was such an honor,
such a privilege to be here,

but also, I must be one of
the first people in history

to leave Las Vegas with
a suitcase full of cash.

So I am super excited.

- Jim Vines, everyone.
Thank you so much.

- Take care, everybody.

- BRB, more
"Fool Us" right after this.

TTYL.

- We have time for just
one more trick.

So why not have the masters
themselves perform it?

Put your hands together
for Penn and Teller.

- You know, Brooke, we didn't
always live in Vegas.

We used to live in
Trenton, New Jersey.

There's a whole bridge
there that says,

"Trenton makes,
the world takes,"

kind of a passive aggressive
slogan for a city.

And we used to go to a place
called the Leprechaun Bar,

which is right down the
street from our apartment.

And we would try to make
a little bit

of pocket money doing bar bets.

And one of the bar bets
we'd love to do

was to have someone pick a card,
which you can do there.

- I love card tricks.
- Good!

Good, you're on the right show.

- All right, so...
- Take any card you like there.

Sure.
There you go.

And good.
And you can take a look at it,

but you can also show it
to the camera, you'll see.

What we would do is we would say
to the person who picked it,

we'd say, we bet you 20 bucks

that we have your card

on a giant card
underneath this silk.

And people would always
take the bet.

They'd always take the bet.

And underneath, there'd be
a full deck of cards

the way they're printed
before they're cut.

As you can see, there's
one, two, three,

four, five, six, seven, eight,

one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven.

That's 56.

Of course, there's
two advertising cards

and two jokers and the
52 cards in the deck.

So whatever card they
picked would be on here.

So at this point, they knew
they were beaten.

You can see it's ripped
to pieces,

because one guy, we did it
for, kind of a tough guy,

got angry that he'd
been taken in that way.

And he took a knife and
just sliced up.

This is the way they're printed.

They're printed like this
before they're cut.

He just sliced it all up.

But the way the trick goes is
we would then just turn it over

and show that their card
was there.

Because there are 56 cards,
52 of them,

it's every card in the deck.

So whatever card you picked
is going to be there.

You can see it's like
ace of spades, two of spades,

three of spades,
the nine, 10, jack.

And then this goes 10 of clubs,
jack of clubs.

- And there's a space there.
- Whaaat?

- What card do you
have there, Brooke?

- Do you want to see it now?

- Put it right there.
- My goodness.

- Right where it belongs,
10, jack, queen, king.

Right there, fitting
there perfectly.

So we didn't bet you, but you
know, it's a pretty good trick.

You could still give us
20 bucks if you wanted to.

- I sure will.
I'll give you 40.

You guys, that's amazing.

Wow.

Well, that's all the time
that we have for tonight.

But don't you worry, because
we'll be back with more of TV's

best magic on the
next episode of "Fool Us."

Good night, everyone.