2:07 - I'm expecting the Secret Service (not the personal protective division, or the postage-stamps division, but the currency-people) to walk on stage and haul this guy off. It makes you wonder why if he could make $45 profit out of thin air in 30 seconds, he is working as a magician instead of retired on his own private island. Take that $50 to a bank, bust it into ten fivers, repeat the trick with each one of them, now you've got $500 on an investment of $50. Maybe he works as a magician because Australia is the only country where he has the right to maintain a residence, and $5-bills U.S. don't turn up that often in Australian daily life.
That debacle where P&T thought they figured it out, but didn't want to say it aloud because then it would give the trick away, so instead they say "Was it the cat?" and the magician Simon thinks that "cat" means something else that's really involved, so he says "Yeah, you got me, it was the cat, but of course the audience doesn't know what 'cat' means so that's just our little secret" could have been avoided. There's a staff-member of the show who is told (after signing a pledge not to leak it) how the trick is done. At the end of the show, the staff-member should confer with P&T WITHOUT any code, just the three of them alone in a soundproof room. So the staff-member said "Penn, just to confirm, when you said it was the 'cat', you meant that he was using an electric razor hidden in his shoe, right?" and then Penn would say, "No no no, that's not what I meant at all, I meant that he did it by using the pitches of the chain-saw's engine encode a signal". And then the staff-member would say "Oh no! That's not it at all. The chain-saw is not part of it" and then they could run after the guy and say "This went wrong, we misunderstood, and you misunderstood our misunderstanding as a non-misunderstanding, when really we didn't understand ANYTHING, but you didn't understand that we did not understand, and so you Fooled Us!".
They thought they knew how the trick was done because there was more then one way to do it. He ended up fooling them because they were wrong about the way it was done
I can literally see the move at first 5 to 50 it still looks like magic. Index finger reaches and pulls the face of the 5 dollar bill that is visible and that's all boom.
This has to be the greatest April Fool’s twist ever. Hey! So you actually fooled us. For real no gimmicks. That amount of deadpan would’ve made me piss myself.
I don't believe the bill is gimmicked, I believe he actually has 3 different bills and the trick is slight of hand.. he holds all three of the bills folded up and does so in such a way that you never actually see any of them except the one he's showing. Having said that, at exactly 2:54 you catch a tiny glimpse of a folded bill in his right (your left) hand, just above the middle finger. It's on screen for less than half a second and can only be seen by freezing the frame. That is the only time you even get close to seeing stored bills as I believe he keeps them hidden behind the bill being shown at all times. A real genius at slight of hand, no doubt about it!
Penn has two modes when he's fooled: "That was a wonderful trick, you are a credit to the profession, and I can't wait to see you on stage" or "Screw you and your tacky props, there's no way I'm going to acknowledge you as being able to pull one over on me" and there is no in between.
Just seeing this after watching his money trick which was fantastic. I love this honest magic and when people accuse me of cheating with a card trick… I just own it. “Yes that’s the point! But did you see it?” With this I just wish the chips were the same colour so I could compare the experience
I’m here cause I just found out you actually fooled them. I remember watching this the first time. When I first read up on Bo Bo I lacked the confidence to do coin routines with extra coins and I couldn’t afford gimmicks, so I learned a few of David Roth’s routines with only 4 coins. I didn’t know about flapper coins at that time and had to use your own routine here to learn the timing to do it myself. I actually did a version of this throwing the coin over my back into thin air and dropping it down my jacket or shirt pocket, tbh it looks more natural that way..anyway I wanted you to know it’s great to see some of those book methods come to life and you were a inspiration to me, glad to find out you did fool them!
