11x07 - Penn Gets Shut Up

[bunniefuu]

- From the Penn
and Teller Theater

at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,

here's our host Brooke Burke.

- Welcome to Fool Us.

To beat Penn and Teller,
some magicians bring tricks

they've been perfecting
for years.

Others premiere something here
for the first time,

hoping P and T have never
seen anything like it,

so no one knows what to expect,

especially not the stars
of our show, Penn and Teller.

Any magician clever enough
to fool P and T

walks off our stage
with the coveted Fool Us trophy.

Can tonight's first magician
pull it off?

Let's meet them right now.

- Hi. I'm Patrick Livingstone.

Magic is my family legacy.

My great-great uncle
was a vaudeville magician.

In our home,
artifacts like a 1920s chalice

that turns fire
into handkerchiefs

were just part of the decor.

When I moved to San Francisco,
I began street performing.

And quickly I learned

that you have to fail a lot
to get better.

And there's a freedom
in failing.

It's how you grow.

As and out and proud magician,
I believe

that magic can be anything
that we dream it to be.

Being different isn't just okay.

It's necessary.

I've channeled this belief
into creating a show in Chicago

that is filled with 100%
of my own unique tricks.

Tonight, I hope to show everyone
that embracing the real you

can lead
to something truly unique.

- Here's west coast conjurer
Patrick Livingstone.

- Thank you.

Well, my great-great uncle
was a vaudeville magician.

His name was Al Caroselli,
and his magic

is included in this
classic book, "Greater Magic."

It was published back in 1938.

Now, he was also given
special mention

for an important creation
of his.

He handcrafted
the best version of something

that allows you to take
an American half dollar

and pass it through a bottle.

Now, Penn, Teller,

you guys have to check out
the workmanship on this thing.

I mean, it looks and feels
absolutely perfect.

It really is a real bottle.
The bottom, the side, the top.

And, Teller,
you'd appreciate this.

The coin is real as well.

Take a look. Yeah, take a look.

Thank you. Thank you. Yes.

Now, in order for me to actually
prove it to you guys,

there's only one way to do it.

The only way
to prove it's a real coin

is to break the bottle.

But let's try
a less barbaric approach.

I recently learned

that an updated version
of this book is being published

nearly 90 years
after the original publication.

I mean, this could be
my opportunity to create

an even more impossible trick.

I mean, maybe it's
worthy of a new legacy.

Now, I knew it needs
to be something different,

something unexpected.

Not a trick with coins.
Not a trick with cards.

And it's here in this book,
chapter 26.

An egg.

Now, does anyone here
in the audience

happen to have a fresh egg
with them here tonight?

No? No?
Well, that's perfectly fine

because I happen to have one
right here in my pocket.

So let's do it all together.
I want to try it together.

We're going to count to three
and make this happen.

It's an egg in a bottle.

Are you guys ready
to count with me?

- Yes.
- Here we go.

One, two, three. Just like that.

The egg inside the bottle.
Seriously, it's a real egg.

It's a real bottle.
You can even check it out.

The bottom, the sides, the egg.

Now, there is only one way
to prove this to you

that it's a real egg,

and that's to break it.

That's right. To break it.

But we're not going
to break the bottle.

We're going to break...

the egg. You can...

You can touch it
and feel it and smell it

and even drink it
like Rocky Balboa

and prove to yourself
that that is in fact a real egg

and everything I said
is completely true.

Thank you very much.

- Patrick Livingstone, everyone.

I love to see them just stumped
and examining the props.

- Look at those guys.

- So, what made you
want to be a magician?

- Well, it's a true story
that my great-great uncle

was a vaudeville magician

and he'd also do ventriloquism
and he played the banjo.

It was a really an old-timey,
great family show.

- What other type of acts
are in your show?

- Well, I do a trick
with a simple cardboard box,

and at the end of the show,

I'm floating above
just like an astronaut.

- Wow. And how did
you learn how to do that?

- How did I learn
how to levitate?

Well, I was part of the X-Men.
Yeah, that's right.

- Can you tell me about the ring
that you're wearing?

- Yeah, absolutely.
So, this actually was the ring

that my great-great uncle
would manufacture.

And he handed these rings out
to some of his friends

who attended a Houdini séance
back in the late 1920s.

And these rings were meant

to kind of help
bring Houdini back to life.

- How cool.

So your great-great uncle

was kind of
the Lord of the Rings.

That's cool.

- Yeah, I'm trying to grow
my beard out as well. Yes.

- Patrick, it's time
to go to Penn and Teller,

and I want to see
if your egg in a bottle

scrambled their magic brains.

Shall we?

- All right.

- Boys, are you ready?

- Patrick, is it really
your great-great uncle that...

- It's El Caroselli. Yeah.

He's there on page 70
and page 80.

- Wow.
- Wow.

- That's really great.
And, of course,

Teller has that very book.

- You have it at home.
- "Greater Magic." Yeah.

And that is a wonderful,

wonderful trick
that we've all done.

It's a fabulous trick.

But that is a trick, Patrick,
that is, what, 80 years old.

- Sure.
- So it is one

of the older tricks in the book.

- Yes.
- So you're kind of having

a tough time trying
to fool us with a trick

that's that old,
but you have changed it.

It's a good trick. It's
a really, really good trick.

And there's some stuff in there
that's really, really clever.

But we think that when you held
this bottle up,

when we originally saw
the bottle

before it had the egg in it,

we think that at that moment
it was baseless.

We think that it was kind of
magically put together

in front of us
right in that instant.

And it's just really,
really well done.

We think
that you didn't fool us,

that you just did it
at that instant.

- I never had a baseless bottle
in this routine with me today.

There's not one with me
here today, as a matter of fact.

- There's no bot...
- There's no bottle.

- There's no bottle
without a base in it.

- That is correct.
- Well, okay.

I'm going to give you
another try.

- Okay.
- I'm not supposed to do this.

If that's not the case, then
is it possible you fooled us?

- I hope so.
- What do you think?

- You did.

- We've got another fooler,
everyone.

- Thank you.

- Well done.

Well done. Congratulations.

Patrick Livingstone.

Fantastic, Patrick.
We loved it.

Penn and Teller
are flummoxed, flabbergasted,

and other f-words as well.

More magicians will try to fool
our boys when we come back.

- Welcome back.
We've already had one act

walk out of here
with a Fool Us trophy.

Let's see if we can make it two.

- Uruguay, don't I introduce you
to the magic of Duo Hikmah?

- What is not named
does not exist.

But if it is named,

then it becomes a reality.

Our reality is as fragile
as these two...

Wine glasses.

- Our reality is entirely built

by the magical power

of words.

- Uruguay noma.

- This is a popular
Uruguayan expression

that we use when we make
an international achievement.

- And we are indeed very happy
to be with all of you tonight

here in United States
and in front of Penn and Teller.

- We came from far away
to share with you

an important message for us.

- We hope at the end
of our presentation,

this message becomes important
for all of you too.

- Important messages
need powerful words.

Teller, do you agree with that?

- Santurio. Teller. No.

- Sure. Sorry.

As I said, important messages
need powerful words.

Like these ones.

- Well, we are living
in a kind of chaos.

- Yes, because of the lack
of communication.

- So we need to start to listen

and tolerate each other.

Otherwise, everything will
become a complete confusion.

- We need to practice empathy.

Empathy is like walking a mile
in someone else's shoes,

feeling what they feel
and showing you care.

- We need empathy to be able
to communicate our message.

- Through empathy and respect,

we empower ourselves and others.

- With courage, we pursue
our best dreams and wishes.

- Love fuels our passion.

- Make us believe
in ourselves...

And find
true freedom.

- Important messages
need powerful words.

- Powerful words
that make us powerful.

Empathy.

Respect.

Empower.

Courage.

Wishes.

Love.

Passion.

Believe.

Freedom.

- Thank you.

- We are all as fragile
as this wine glass

when we are alone
and isolated from the rest.

And that's
why we gotta be responsible

of how we use our words

and aware
of their huge, huge power.

Resilience.

- Resilience is the ability
that we humans have

to heal all the wounds
of our soul.

- Kintsugi is the Japanese art
of repairing with...

gold what was broken
and turning it

into a unique and unrepeatable
piece of art.

- Abracadabra. That's
the spell that makes the magic.

And it means, "As I am
saying it, I am creating it."

- These are not
just simple words.

These powerful words
can be used to change reality.

- Abracadabra.

- What is not named
does not exist.

But when it is named,

we are transformed forever.

- Duo Hikmah.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- What a powerful story.

- This story cames up in
the pandemic, during pandemic.

And we see that people,
families were fighting sometimes

because of the thinking
about it.

So we start to hear
that words were very important,

and we have
to take care of that.

- So, do you think that
the pandemic created tension

and you were trying
to relieve some of that?

- Yes. We still need
to look each other,

to connect with each other,
listen to each other,

and try to make that empathy
with everyone.

Thank you.

- If you had to pick one word,
what do you think is

the most powerful word
in this act?

- Well, resilience for me.

- Resilience.
- Resilience.

- Do you agree?
- Totally. Totally.

I think we have little time
to spend in this... in this earth.

So enjoy it. Try to enjoy it.

Try to give love.
Try to listen to each other.

I mean, magic is everywhere.

Thank you. Thank you.

- Okay, Santurio and Christian,

let's see
if you fooled the boys.

- Okay. Let's see.

- Duo Hikmah.
- We just love you.

- Well, thank you.
- It's just great.

It was just so, so wonderful
all the way through.

And the thing you did
with the words

is based on the sympathetic
card trick, as you know.

But what made it great
was you did not fall

into the trap that Americans do

of thinking that everything
has to be simple.

You really weren't afraid
to use really heavy words

and really make it
mean something.

And I think a lot of times
magicians, we see,

try so hard to make it
light and conversational,

they take all the meaning away.

So you took a trick that,
when we've seen it before,

is just a card trick
with suits lining up,

but you made it with
the heaviest words possible,

you know, so you didn't
fall into that trap.

And the wine glasses restoration
was just beautiful.

And it had a kind of sincerity
at the same time.

It had a surreal quality

that we just thought
was just delightful.

I just liked every moment of it.

Not to mention that Billy
Gibbons is a friend of mine.

So it was nice to think
about ZZ Top for a moment.

But, um... you guys are just great.

I think I've snuck
in a few words.

I don't think you fooled us,

but, man,
did you guys delight us.

- Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, Brooke.

Thank you, everyone.

Uruguay noma!

- So, tell me,
Santurio and Christian,

did you fool them?

- No, we don't.

But we are very grateful
that they loved us.

- We all loved you very much.
- That's important.

- It was fantastic.
Thank you so much.

- Bye-Bye.
- Duo Hikmah.

Our showcase of the world's
best magic continues

right after this.

- Hello again.
Now that you're back,

we can bring out
our next amazing act.

- Hi. I'm Sho Takashige,
and I'm from Yamaguchi, Japan.

I do all sorts of magic,
but coins are my favorite.

I was a teenager when I got into
magic and it changed my life.

I had anxiety
in social situations.

My anxiety was so bad,
sometimes I didn't go to school.

When I was 19, I started
to perform as a street magician

and quickly understood
I wouldn't last long

if I couldn't even
introduce myself to people.

Magic gave me a reason
to push past those barriers

and achieve
so many wonderful things.

The trick
I am performing tonight

is inspired by my time
as a street performer.

It is my dream to fool the great
magicians Penn and Teller

and prove to my family that
I am a world-class magician.

- All the way from Japan,

put your hands together
for Sho Takashige.

Sho Takashige.

Did this trick come out of
your time as a street performer?

What did you learn
from being a street performer

that's helped you
with your magic?

Okay, Sho,

let's find out if you fooled
Penn and Teller.

Boys?

what you're doing there
is fabulous.

What you're doing there
is a Miser's Dream.

Now, Miser's Dream is one of the
straightforward plots in magic.

You can just say Miser's Dream,
people know what it means.

But it's not done
like that anymore.

People forget the dream part
of Miser's Dream.

They forget the whole plot.

And you've done something very
complicated and very beautiful

in taking the plot of a trick
that we all know,

really doing it,

everybody else kind of half a*s,
half-assed version of it.

You do it fully assed,

um... very, very, very well.

That plot of a, um...

a person who's trying
to solicit money on the street

actually having the dream
with the music

of having a lot of money.

And then when people say
Miser's Dream,

they usually mean
one particular technique

which you don't use at all.

You use all these
new techniques, brand-new.

The whole idea
is pure all the way through.

It's so artfully directed
with the black shirt

and all that
just laid out like that.

It's just beautiful
to actually take an idea

that people have done in magic

and do that idea all the way
with no compromises whatsoever.

It was just fabulous.

And I know there's a little bit
of a language barrier here,

but I think we snuck in
a few things

that should give you some idea

that although we love this
and the audience loved it,

we don't think you fooled us.

Aw!

- And then they turn on me.

- Sho, do they know
how you made your magic?

- Yes.
- Yes.

- Aw!
- Well, you didn't fool them,

but you were wonderful.
You entertained us all.

We loved it.
Thank you so much.

Sho Takashige. Thank you.

You'll see Penn and Teller
perform tonight's finale,

but first you'll see them
possibly get fooled

when Fool Us returns.

- Welcome back. Say hello
to our next delightful deceiver.

This may sound strange, but my
magic was shaped by soap operas.

Growing up in front of the TV,
soap operas taught me

about storytelling,
suspense, and plot twists.

Get out!

They taught me the blueprints

on how to design
a good magic show.

The other big influence
on my magic

is my previous role working
with kids with special needs.

Magic helps me
build rapport with them

and to help create
a safe space for them

to talk about their feelings.

Working with kids
was like a master class.

I learned so much
on how to predict behavior.

- Wow.
- Penn, Teller,

I'm a children's clinician
and a magician.

Let's see if the tools
I've learned can help fool you.

Please welcome to the Fool Us
stage, Amanda Lindsey.

- All right.

As a kid, I had a sixth sense

for knowing
how other people were feeling.

And Mom and Pop encouraged me
to study therapy.

And as a therapist,
I discovered I could help people

by predicting
their future behaviors,

which surprises some people

because, well, I'm dressed
like a 1980s soap opera star.

And I sound like I'm from Fargo.

Let's put these skills
to the test with my prediction.

Here I have
a deck of playing cards.

And on the back,

they're all randomly numbered
between 1 and 52.

So, Penn, tell me when to stop
on a number that you like.

- Okay.

Stop.

- 25 or 4?
- 4.

- 25 or 6 to 4.4.

- Yes.
- 4?

Perfect. Nice choice.

Now, Penn, let's see
what card you landed on.

The 9 of diamonds.

- Diamonds.

- Now, Penn,
that would be amazing

if inside this envelope
was your card.

- Yeah.

- But this is
for Penn and Teller Fool Us.

So I say we do something
truly incredible.

I say we create a unique number
based on your card choices.

So let's see.
We're all gonna need to think

of a different card.

So, how about this?
We've already used diamonds.

Teller, tell me either a club,
heart, or spade.

Heart?

Okay.
Which heart would you like?

4 of hearts? Great.

I'm about to find it.
The 4 of hearts.

And here, your card number
is... 12.

All right.

Now, Teller, you could
have picked any of the hearts.

You could have picked,
I don't know, this 2 of hearts.

And it would have been 2.

So let's see.
We've used diamonds.

We've used hearts.

All right, Brooke,
pick either a club or a spade.

Any card from those.

- Club.
- A club.

Okay, which of the clubs
would you like to use?

- 9.
- 9 of clubs.

Good choice, Brooke.

All right, and your 9 of clubs
lands on number 27.

So let's see. We used clubs.
We used diamonds.

What are we missing here?

Spades. Thank you.

All right, Penn, back to you.

Which of the spades
would you like to use?

- I would like to use
the 5 of spades.

- The 5 of spades.

And the 5 of spades
is number 48.

And, Penn,

this whole outcome could have
changed because of your choice.

Let me do some quick math.
All right.

12 plus 48.60 plus 27.87.

So altogether,
your three cards equal 87.

We have
the 9 of diamonds and 87.

Inside this envelope
is a single prediction...

that says...

9 of diamonds,

87.

I know what you're thinking.
She has another...

She has more than one prediction
inside that envelope.

And you are absolutely correct.
I do.

However, all my predictions
say 9 of diamonds, 87.

9 of diamonds, 87.
9 of diamonds. 87.

9 of diamonds, 87.

9 of diamonds, 87!

- Amanda Lindsey, everyone.

Good job.

Nice job.

Nice to meet you.

- Thank you.

- So you're a clinician
and a magician.

Do those two go together?

- So, yes, I am a children's
clinician during the day

and a magician at night.

- Wow.

- And, you know,
I use magic tricks

to work with the kiddos,
make it a unique

and fun experience,
like a magic show.

And within the office,

I want to make sure
that's it's a safe environment

for them
to share their feelings.

- You have a big heart.

I bet you do a lot of good
in the world.

- I try to.

In fact, right now, anything
I make through social media,

I donate to an animal charity.

- Nice.
- Yeah.

- Nice.
- Yeah.

- Funny. Magical. Philanthropic.

You are a great person.

What would it mean to you
to win a Fool Us trophy?

- Okay. It would mean
a whole lot to me

because I'm an older millennial,

so I don't have any
participation trophies, and...

So this would be the one.
This would be my only one.

- Let's just see
if your prediction

gets you a Fool Us trophy.
Are we ready?

- Yes.
- Good luck.

- Thank you.
- Boys?

- Well, Amanda,
I love your accent so much

and I love this...
I love the outfit.

Everything about that is great.

And the trick
is really wonderful

'cause it plays to something
that Teller and I...

but especially I-
am obsessed with.

I love magic tricks
with multiple outs.

So you did that really smooth
thing at the end

where you had the multiple outs

that were all exactly the same,

which led us
down the wrong angle

and made it kind
of rough for us.

But I think
we worked it out a little bit

with your charming accent
and your...

and your wonderful, wonderful
psychological advice.

It's a really good trick.
We know versions of this.

It's usually not broken down
into multiple cases,

and that made it really nice.

You did a great job.
So charming, so delightful.

And I think that maybe
I snuck in a few words

that we passed by
kind of quickly.

- I understand.
- What do you think?

Yeah.
No, I didn't fool them,

but thank you for making me cool

in front of the kiddos
back home.

So thank you.

- Thank you.
- You're very cool, Amanda.

Come back and see us.
We really enjoyed that.

- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.

- Thank you.
- Amanda Lindsey!

If you can't wait to see
Penn and Teller perform,

you don't have to.

A trick by our masters of magic
coming up right after this.

- Welcome back to Fool Us.

Here to close out the show
are Penn and a special guest.

Take it away, Penn.

My goodness.

My goodness.

Our guest for this final trick
is so special.

This guest was a winner
last year on Fool Us, a fooler.

And they're gonna do a trick
for us right now.

Please welcome Moxie Jillette.

Notice Jillette.
It's Moxie Jillette.

That's my child, Moxie Jillette.

My child.

My offspring.
Moxie Jillette.

I want to do a trick for you.

- Yes.
- Trick by Moxie Jillette.

Jillette, take it over.

Totally Moxie. Moxie.

- Too much.
- Moxie.

- Thank you.
- Moxie Jillette.

- Okay.
- Moxie Jillette.

- Hi! Somewhere over here.

Can I have my randomly selected
audience member, please?

Thank you. I am Moxie.
Nice to meet you.

Moxie Jillette.
It's not just Moxie.

It's Moxie Jillette.
That's my offspring.

That's Moxie Jillette
right there.

Already doing great,
don't you think? Already great.

I'll be right over here. I'll be
over here if you need me.

But you're in good hands.
Moxie Jillette.

Great sleight of hand.
Great sleight of hand.

- You can see
that these are all different.

And what I want you to do

is just go ahead
and touch the back.

Moxie. That's Moxie.

Four years old we're on Zoom.

And Moxie doing card tricks.
Doing card tricks for Dad.

- I can't do this.
Teller. Teller.

Can I... Thank you. Thank you.

- Doing card tricks for dad.
Four years old.

Four years old, doing card
tricks for dad. She was doing...

50 years
and you never be quiet.

Go ahead and touch the back
of one of these.

That one. Perfect.
There is the card right there.

And where is my pen? Thank you.

Go ahead and sign something
recognizable on here.

And I want you to remember
that it is the 4 of spades.

And you can remember that?

Perfect.

There you go.

No, no, no, no.

Go ahead and shuffle these in.

And for the first time,
can you tell me your name?

- Michael.
- Michael.

- Is that spelled normally?
- Yes.

Okay. Go ahead and hold out
your hand like a table.

Perfect. And we're
just gonna spell it. Ready?

- Absolutely.
- So M-I-C-

H-A-E-L.

- A-E-L. We're good.
- Okay, good.

Then this right here will be
your signed card, right?

Right there.

No, no, no, no. It's...

That doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.

You have a last name.
What's your last name?

Cheeves.

- Yeah.
- How do you spell that?

- C-H-
- C-H-

- E-E-
- Okay, we'll do it together.

- C-H-E-E-
- C-H-E-E-

- V-E-S.
- V-E-S.

Right here.

That's because you have a pet.
What's your pet's name?

- Millie.
- Millie. My God.

Cat? Dog? What?

- Cat.
- Good. Okay.

M-I-L-L-

L-L-

L.

M-I-L-L-

Dude. What? My God.

My God. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Calm down.

Calm down. You're okay.

My God. Jesus.

My God. Your card
was the 4 of spades, right?

- Yes.
- The 4 of spades.

Why did I do that?

Okay, that right there
is your sign.

- 4 spades sign!
Moxie Jillette! Moxie Jill...

Who cares about you?
You go away.

Thank you. Thank you.
Michael, that's Moxie.

Moxie Jillette.
Moxie Jillette. Moxie.

- For Penn and Teller
and, of course, Moxie Jillette,

thanks for watching
and we'll see you next time.