Such an awesome host that can't seem to pronounce R's to save his life. They are finishing their dewiberations and he's cuwious to see if they fooled them.
There wasn't much code there.....it was pretty much telling everyone how they did the trick. He got much better at it 1 or 2 seasons later when they tried to be gentler with the magicians.
@@SDesWriter The early seasons basically had them just referring to the magicians terms for techniques or overly referring to props. The later seasons had them able to use more liberal language. I'm sure a decent part of it is that the talent on stage got used to being debunked in general terms without requiring them to just spell out how the person did something. A lot of the early acts would act like they didn't use X technique repeatedly before Teller goes on stage to whisper to them just how they used said technique therefore they were busted.
An easy, slightly cheap joke that banks on people knowing about twilight, but never bothered to read Dracula. it works, I guess, but a huge disservice to Dracula. I recommend people read it. Carmilla as well.
Penn and Teller did a trick like this in vegas one time and I was the person who the book stopped on...Teller came and spoke to me and I was so scared I almost cried. I just wanted to watch a show lmao I didn't think I'd be part of it.
The pen or the post-it pad transmitted the page number written to the tablet concealed in the writing pad. Notice how at 4:35 he flips several pages over on the cover side, while the distraction of talking to Sam is happening. and is very intent on writing down the "prediction", and at 4:59 there's only the cover and no extra pages.
I dont know whether to be appreciative of the knowledge and passivefying my curiosity or annoyed for ruining how this trick and multiple others like this are done.
And I thought that I am the only one who did not understand the explanation 🤔 now you are telling that they are talking using "a code" which means guys know that P&T know how the trick was done, but the audience doesn't 🤯
@@Espiritu_Santu Haha yes! Penn uses certain words or "clues" in his feedback that the magician (usually) can pick up on because they have the contextual knowledge we don't. It's not like a whole official magician's language or anything -- Penn is just making it up on the spot.
@@TheCentaury I had the feeling Penn was hinting at Google but I have no clue in which way that would've helped them. But the combination of "Magnifying glass" and "It wasn't possible 15 years ago (Google was founded 15 years prior to this episode) made me think directly of Google. I'm probably in the wrong though :)
@adam nelson while I know you're just trolling or trying to be funny, what you said is exactly why it would great to see them try and fool each other. It be be very difficult and almost impossible to do but great if it could be done
Penn and Teller had a similar trick. Several, perhaps 6, "normal" books that all had 1 line jokes were passed through the audience. Penn stopped the passing of the books after all of them had been through several hands. He then asked each person holding a book to find a joke they felt a connection with. He then selected one of the people holding a book and after several of questions Penn was able to identify the joke the person selected. He did this with 3 of the books...not all of them. It's as if he memorized the books and is very good at reading people.
So I've binge-watched enough Fool Us episodes over the last couple weeks now to know exactly what was going to happen when Penn started with, "Boy".... haha, talk about a *tell*!!
I love when famous people make their own youtube channel and upload videos. *subscribed*. Magic tricks are very neat. Even though I love math, I'm not too fond of math based tricks. However, I love the creativity involved in all magic tricks. All magic is considered performance art, so a performance can even make bad tricks be incredibly entertaining. I am just posting generalized stuff, not related to this video, because it inspired me to share my appreciation for all magicians. Thanks Joel Meyers & Spidey! You two are awesome!
The pen was a "track pen". The kind of pen that connects to your computer and converts hand writing into a word document. People use them in class because sometimes it's faster than typing. He wrote his prediction and it sent what he was writing to a computer.
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 In Spidey's "Notebook" (embedded like the rockhammer in Shawshank spoiler alert) is a tablet device that shows what Patrick wrote down using the special pen Joel gave him. Once Sam picks the book, Spidey punches in the number of the book she chose, and they have a database 1200 rows long (6 books times 200 possible numbers Patrick could have written) that spits out the corresponding dictionary entry, which Spidey then writes on the back of his "prediction" sheet, which already had "Dictionary" written across the front. Once you realize we have the pen technology, the trick is quite simple. But the presentation was a lot of fun.
Most comments suggest methods too complicated for a nice trick. I agree that the (special, recently produced) PEN was the key word and Penn mentioned the magnifying glass just as a misdirection. Also pay attention that the word ('voyage') could be found in any of the 6 books, all of them classics, and that the books were not examined... But I would do the same trick in yet a simpler way. "The gentleman behind you" would be my assistant, ready to switch the folded note.
penn gave some obvious clues for the reveals ,the magnifying glass , means the searching sign at the top of the menu, only the 10 last years we've got the smartphones , to read documents. we have the same pen , means the swami gimmick.
I could be wrong just a guess ! Unlike a mentalist ... but I believe the “pen” is actually just a reference to person #1 (guy with the orange shirt ) and the “mag..glass “ is a reference to person #3 which is penn. so I believe penn was in on the trick believe it or not .. this that’s why penn says I also have a magnifying glass (when I do some tricks) or a person that’s in on the trick , as so does teller have a pen , remember in the beginning of pens speech he says something like oh boy I love duos (hint hint)
the trick could have been possible at a time in history when the printde books were present, which would be centuries ago. However, the trick was not possible until maybe a couple of decades ago. The pen was a special equipment that probably had a mini computer and a touch device to trace the page number written and find out the word from the book (numbered 3 here) and map in to the dictionary. Soft copies of the book and dictionary and a search algo are enough to pull this off.
I wonder what spidey was going to say "the second...something" It was a nice trick, Penn and Teller despite only doing "simple" tricks themselves are very knowledgeable about magic stuff, it's impressive.
Hey there. I actually did say it, but they cut it to keep the episode short. Penn and Teller do an amazing trick with books in their show so i said "we just wanted to do the second best book trick done on this stage by two guys"... :)
Anyone notice how long it took him to 'write' dictionary, how he 'wrote' 363 1-1 on the back without ever turning the page, and the awkwardness of stuffing the paper into the envelope?
It's misdirection. He knows the word after Sam picks the book. Knowing the word allows him to bring the audience's anticipation up ("Is there a V in it? Yes.) then bring the expectations back down ("Is there a T? No."), which then segues into the comedic "guesstimate" patter before the big reveal. It's really good psychology that makes what could be a 45 second trick into a 3 minute piece of entertainment.
1. the sold retail version needs a phone to work 2. this only works with 12 or so books. it does not work with any book 3. the high tech impression pad used here is an addition and isn't part of the sold version
When the black suit brother is "writting his predictions" he pulls out the notebook where the guy originally put his number and did that thing with the pencil to see what it was, all the other stalling was so they could figure the word out
Very cool trick and I only was able to figure it out based on what Penn and Teller said. Not sure if I would of been able to figure it out otherwise. Cheers
@@michellejester9734when he said it could only have been done in the last 10-15 yrs I immediately thought it must mean he has a phone or iPad with digital copies of all the books hidden in his notebook.
i bet that the note book they used has some sorts of tablet or phone where these books are stored in it. all they did was to open the note book. use the tablet or phone to find the book and page number that they know from before (The guy in the beginning in red t shirt picked it) and to memorize the first 1-3 lines and and asked the girl about the world that he came up with the first letter for, So she agreed to it and directly went to the word he was refereeing to. also while he other guy was talking to the girl, he tolled the other one to go and do his prediction which gave him enough time to do his search. after finding the word he wanted from the book. all he had to do was to put in in one of those dictionary software that come with some dictionary book and search for it and find the coordinates. Tada simplessss
"one specializing in sleight of hand, and the other is a mentalist. Together, they're slightly mental" LMFAO!! John was such an awesome host.
SorrowfulM // MapleStory Veteran The magicians gave him that joke lol are you serious
SorrowfulM // MapleStory Veteran one guy specializes in slight of hand, the other*
Such an awesome host that can't seem to pronounce R's to save his life. They are finishing their dewiberations and he's cuwious to see if they fooled them.
To be fair, it's not like either of them write what they say.
Mark the time.
legend says that patrick is still standing to this day....
+CzarAice01 Lol
+CzarAice01 lolllllll
+CzarAice01 NO! THIS IS PATRICK
Patrick, the name of the restaurant is the Krusty Krab... : /
hahahhahahaha genious
It's really clever how Penn explains the trick in code but still makes it funny for the audience. It's like poetry.
That's why they're legends!
It seems to me that there were something in the pen🤔 but I can't say for sure, I'm not a magician
There wasn't much code there.....it was pretty much telling everyone how they did the trick. He got much better at it 1 or 2 seasons later when they tried to be gentler with the magicians.
@@SDesWriter The early seasons basically had them just referring to the magicians terms for techniques or overly referring to props. The later seasons had them able to use more liberal language. I'm sure a decent part of it is that the talent on stage got used to being debunked in general terms without requiring them to just spell out how the person did something. A lot of the early acts would act like they didn't use X technique repeatedly before Teller goes on stage to whisper to them just how they used said technique therefore they were busted.
Patrick never sat down.
Stubborn ass redhead lookin ass
he is taking full advantage of this moment
legend has it he's still standing there today
@@simshady legend has it that the that meme will be cemented in humans for all of history.
Because he's sad
As soon as Penn says 'Boy, I like...' jus know it's figured out 😂
It's Penn's Tell 😜
That thing where you get Spidey to cough up a card while he's talking to someone else is a great twist on street magic.
thanks man
if penn says "boy" anywhere in his response, they didnt fool them.
That's not true 🤔
lol yes very true
"...Together they are slightly mental..." lmaoo
This line made me actually laugh
Leo Schwartz thats was funny lol
Mark the time.
@@Brainbuster watch the video lmfao
@@ro0b0 So you're saying there's no point to this comment. It's a quote from the video.
Dracula - " It's like Twilight, but better" well said Joel
Zoeannaart Valkyrie I'm your 100th comment like. Congrats man!
Thank you for reminding us.
Carmilla.. now there's a good story.
It's really not though right? Only thing in common are vampires?
An easy, slightly cheap joke that banks on people knowing about twilight, but never bothered to read Dracula. it works, I guess, but a huge disservice to Dracula.
I recommend people read it. Carmilla as well.
Penn and Teller did a trick like this in vegas one time and I was the person who the book stopped on...Teller came and spoke to me and I was so scared I almost cried. I just wanted to watch a show lmao I didn't think I'd be part of it.
Name checks out.
I love how Patrick didn't sit down for a while. Then he realized it and committed to the awkwardness.
My favourite parts of these is when u see penn speak in code and the face on the magicians know they didn’t get them. LOVE IT
The pen or the post-it pad transmitted the page number written to the tablet concealed in the writing pad. Notice how at 4:35 he flips several pages over on the cover side, while the distraction of talking to Sam is happening. and is very intent on writing down the "prediction", and at 4:59 there's only the cover and no extra pages.
I bow before you :)
I don't even think its that complex. The first 'volunteer' is in on it.
@@elihernandez800 They don't allow volunteers/audience members to be in on the trick
@@CarsonNitely agreed but I’ve seen him in another episode and he was picked that time also
I dont know whether to be appreciative of the knowledge and passivefying my curiosity or annoyed for ruining how this trick and multiple others like this are done.
I love the "code" they speak in when they know the trick, so as not to reveal it to their potential future audiences.
And I thought that I am the only one who did not understand the explanation 🤔 now you are telling that they are talking using "a code" which means guys know that P&T know how the trick was done, but the audience doesn't 🤯
@@Espiritu_Santu Haha yes! Penn uses certain words or "clues" in his feedback that the magician (usually) can pick up on because they have the contextual knowledge we don't. It's not like a whole official magician's language or anything -- Penn is just making it up on the spot.
the most important is that the trick wasn't possible 15 years ago ;)
@@TheCentaury I had the feeling Penn was hinting at Google but I have no clue in which way that would've helped them.
But the combination of "Magnifying glass" and "It wasn't possible 15 years ago (Google was founded 15 years prior to this episode) made me think directly of Google.
I'm probably in the wrong though :)
@@kaihocompany I don't think so :D
I want to see penn try to fool teller and vice versa!
^ well still a try is a try...Im sure they'll think of new tricks or variations...would be entertaining and harder on them too
Damn. Adam has some problems
Adam whats up buddy? You tryin to send a message or something? Does daddy have the paddle again? Or did you just use a lot of hard drugs?
adam nelson I just can't believe ur stupidity
@adam nelson while I know you're just trolling or trying to be funny, what you said is exactly why it would great to see them try and fool each other. It be be very difficult and almost impossible to do but great if it could be done
Great entertaining and mysterious act. The dynamic between them is great.
I've watched a few of these and I love the guys use terms that only the performer would understand.
came here thinking spider-man was gonna be here performing magic
I love the shade they're throwing at performers like Criss Angel: "Why do all mentalists do this heavy breathing?" Lol!
Penn and Teller had a similar trick. Several, perhaps 6, "normal" books that all had 1 line jokes were passed through the audience. Penn stopped the passing of the books after all of them had been through several hands. He then asked each person holding a book to find a joke they felt a connection with. He then selected one of the people holding a book and after several of questions Penn was able to identify the joke the person selected. He did this with 3 of the books...not all of them. It's as if he memorized the books and is very good at reading people.
God....why did not just post the video link
Maybe there is no video of it? P&T have been doing this a long time.
Anyone here into D&D? 'Cause I'm starting to think Penn's explanations are in thieves' cant.
7:20. You may sit now Patrick
Joel Meyers is coming to perform at my university next week. never heard of this dude til now lol.
Just finished watching Now You See Me 2 and now I'm on a Penn & Teller binge
MeihanaBee I also watched it before coming here
LoL Just watched it ... right before getting on youtube... 3 years latter.
not only a great act but absolutely hilarious
Awesome. Great performance
That was a really good trick! It's hard to fool a couple masters of the art but they certainly fooled everyone else.
you two have such great chemistry :D
5:42 - Smart, I like their style of calling out each other.
Give them credit for a good stage performance. There's amazing magic out there no one has seen; dare to find it.
Mega envious of your stage style. Very entertaining! You guys owned the stage very well.
TylerScottIllusionist thanks man :) !
"Like Twilight but better". That won the whole show for me
This show is always fun that's what I like about it
This is really neat. I think it is significant that we don’t actually find out the page number... but what a cool trick!
Saw these guys at NACA northeast, pretty damn great!
these two are great, they came to our school and did an amazing show
I would pay money to watch them perform live
Very humble response.
So I've binge-watched enough Fool Us episodes over the last couple weeks now to know exactly what was going to happen when Penn started with, "Boy".... haha, talk about a *tell*!!
"It a peel and seal..." LOL
I love when famous people make their own youtube channel and upload videos. *subscribed*. Magic tricks are very neat. Even though I love math, I'm not too fond of math based tricks. However, I love the creativity involved in all magic tricks. All magic is considered performance art, so a performance can even make bad tricks be incredibly entertaining. I am just posting generalized stuff, not related to this video, because it inspired me to share my appreciation for all magicians. Thanks Joel Meyers & Spidey! You two are awesome!
That intro was gold
hAsHtAgL0L12 one take, believe it or not ! They actually had like 2 hours of us messing around like that and had to condense
Man what an act! This duo is sick! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
The pen was a "track pen". The kind of pen that connects to your computer and converts hand writing into a word document. People use them in class because sometimes it's faster than typing. He wrote his prediction and it sent what he was writing to a computer.
how would that help in any way lmao
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 In Spidey's "Notebook" (embedded like the rockhammer in Shawshank spoiler alert) is a tablet device that shows what Patrick wrote down using the special pen Joel gave him. Once Sam picks the book, Spidey punches in the number of the book she chose, and they have a database 1200 rows long (6 books times 200 possible numbers Patrick could have written) that spits out the corresponding dictionary entry, which Spidey then writes on the back of his "prediction" sheet, which already had "Dictionary" written across the front.
Once you realize we have the pen technology, the trick is quite simple. But the presentation was a lot of fun.
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 that helped in every way think more creatively
Great job Joel and Spidey
Most comments suggest methods too complicated for a nice trick. I agree that the (special, recently produced) PEN was the key word and Penn mentioned the magnifying glass just as a misdirection. Also pay attention that the word ('voyage') could be found in any of the 6 books, all of them classics, and that the books were not examined... But I would do the same trick in yet a simpler way. "The gentleman behind you" would be my assistant, ready to switch the folded note.
penn gave some obvious clues for the reveals ,the magnifying glass , means the searching sign at the top of the menu, only the 10 last years we've got the smartphones , to read documents. we have the same pen , means the swami gimmick.
Fool Us doesn't allow stooges.
Wow, skull fedora AND A WALLET CHAIN?
Spidey is a classy man for sure
Some would even say... a man of culture
*trilby
Indiana Jones wears a fedora
WTF?! HOW?????? Joel is my fav magician. Saw him on Wizard Wars and Fakeoff show too
They just used UV lol
What an amazing stage chemistry
how'd they do the first trick though
Brilliant bit.
"we want you to pick a random book"
out of our preselected pile of just a few books , but dont worry it doesnt limit your choices...
That was GOLD!
Hey love you man just went to your most recent show love your work
"You guess the word?"
Exactly how mentalism works
07:26 Legend says that Patrick and Sam sat down almost right after the trick was done.
There was an episode of Spongebob that I watched.. Patrick had a sister by the name of Sam
Wow Penn used glasses and a magnifying glass at the same time to read the dictionary
Anyone know where I can purchase the magnifying glass and pen Joel and Spidey used?
"together theyre slightly mental"lmao
You guys were really good. I'm not sure how you did it and it was entertaining. Well I just figured it out now, but still great!
So penn.and teller is really good magicians i never had heard of them untill few days ago... never ever heard about them
Spidey the hypnosis!!! I cant believe it.
I could be wrong just a guess ! Unlike a mentalist ... but I believe the “pen” is actually just a reference to person #1 (guy with the orange shirt ) and the “mag..glass “ is a reference to person #3 which is penn. so I believe penn was in on the trick believe it or not .. this that’s why penn says I also have a magnifying glass (when I do some tricks) or a person that’s in on the trick , as so does teller have a pen , remember in the beginning of pens speech he says something like oh boy I love duos (hint hint)
I think he's saying all the props are regular everyday objects except the books.
This is way off hehe
MAWWAGE
MAWWAGE is what bwings us togethel today
Shakaama lol perfect
Wuv. TWUE wuv.
Mawwidge... Is but a dweam wiffin a dweam
Omgggg Joel remember me and my brother from the cruise
Love zodiac. Trick is so amazing
is it me only coz i think Jonathan should be in a comedy club i always find him funny
He is great, he has had a chat show in the UK for years.
What, the veteran comedian is funny? How surprising.
I love these guys follow them on CZcams their great!
they're*
8:35
now that is what you call
code talk
at the first sentance you see him like, "i get the feeling they know how its don" "fuck, they know"
Wizards can spot others wizards. Haha This stuff amazes me :-)
oooohh...Hey Patrick :)
Legends says that patrick is still standing.
+kj Haha I loved this
kj Probably still standing
the trick could have been possible at a time in history when the printde books were present, which would be centuries ago. However, the trick was not possible until maybe a couple of decades ago. The pen was a special equipment that probably had a mini computer and a touch device to trace the page number written and find out the word from the book (numbered 3 here) and map in to the dictionary. Soft copies of the book and dictionary and a search algo are enough to pull this off.
I absolutely love spidey
I wonder what spidey was going to say "the second...something" It was a nice trick, Penn and Teller despite only doing "simple" tricks themselves are very knowledgeable about magic stuff, it's impressive.
Hey there. I actually did say it, but they cut it to keep the episode short. Penn and Teller do an amazing trick with books in their show so i said "we just wanted to do the second best book trick done on this stage by two guys"... :)
Nice to know! Thanks!I had to rewatch the video to remember what I was asking, but this was good to see again! haha
That was so cool
My man Patrick in good shape
Anyone notice how long it took him to 'write' dictionary, how he 'wrote' 363 1-1 on the back without ever turning the page, and the awkwardness of stuffing the paper into the envelope?
Spidey!!! I didn't know you were on Fool Us!! Has Chris Ramsay ever been on there too? ❤️👍🏻
Patrick is the MRE dude I swear!
9:08 the moment they got busted is hilarious to me
ross casually walks in with a fist bump
Is the apparent complexity of verifying the word a total misdirection or does it help them get to the right answer?
It's misdirection. He knows the word after Sam picks the book. Knowing the word allows him to bring the audience's anticipation up ("Is there a V in it? Yes.) then bring the expectations back down ("Is there a T? No."), which then segues into the comedic "guesstimate" patter before the big reveal. It's really good psychology that makes what could be a 45 second trick into a 3 minute piece of entertainment.
i cant see very well is that a richard mille watch hes wearing? one in the black.
1. the sold retail version needs a phone to work
2. this only works with 12 or so books. it does not work with any book
3. the high tech impression pad used here is an addition and isn't part of the sold version
@Ben Chrisoit What?
Oh, I see. Well it's a sad joke then.
Could you please clarify by what the sold retail version is?
I think that was awesome
you guys are hilarious
When the black suit brother is "writting his predictions" he pulls out the notebook where the guy originally put his number and did that thing with the pencil to see what it was, all the other stalling was so they could figure the word out
why is the 'random' guy mic'ed
They got people with mics in the audience so if the performer picks someone they can hold one of those big mics down.
that's how tv works. they mic the audience and edit it out of the show. No one wants to see a dude get mic'ed
The rules of the show say no plants.
They're not a plant, no one is on the show. Nothing is set up but there isn't time during the show to put mics on people on camera.
They have a big mic above their heads to lower on top of the people who are selected
Very cool trick and I only was able to figure it out based on what Penn and Teller said. Not sure if I would of been able to figure it out otherwise. Cheers
That was pretty cool. The book selection wasn't random though. That didn't even fool me but everything else did. lol
all those classics are free, searchable ebooks - project gutenberg
Legend has it that Patrick is still standing up.
What was Escanor doing at the front row?
Wow, Penn really gave away a lot about this trick. Once he mentioned the Gutenberg "press" I knew how this could be done
You think they printed 6 books with all of the same page? I'm just trying to figure out that clue😂
@@michellejester9734when he said it could only have been done in the last 10-15 yrs I immediately thought it must mean he has a phone or iPad with digital copies of all the books hidden in his notebook.
So how did they do it?
There's No Fool, like the Old Fool that didn't fool, Penn and Teller!
Omg penn did amazing with stalling reading out the dictionary, he’s really a mastermind
YOU GUYS R FCKNMING AMAZING
I have that same exact fedora
i bet that the note book they used has some sorts of tablet or phone where these books are stored in it. all they did was to open the note book. use the tablet or phone to find the book and page number that they know from before (The guy in the beginning in red t shirt picked it) and to memorize the first 1-3 lines and and asked the girl about the world that he came up with the first letter for, So she agreed to it and directly went to the word he was refereeing to. also while he other guy was talking to the girl, he tolled the other one to go and do his prediction which gave him enough time to do his search. after finding the word he wanted from the book. all he had to do was to put in in one of those dictionary software that come with some dictionary book and search for it and find the coordinates. Tada simplessss