It didn't fool me. There's quite a few blatant moves he does. He hides the hole behind the shell blatantly. You can see his slight if hand easily. And when he misdirects and moves his hands below the table
Not 100% sure there wasn’t sleight of hand there with breaking the walnut…if it’s in there you could let the spectator break it, but if he was truthful that’s an awesome magic trick. His showmanship was amazing as well.
Not for nothing, but Teller could have seriously screwed the whole thing up by lifting that shotglass when he wasn't supposed to, and from the look on his face, he knew it. 😱
Sleight of hand adding the pea under the handkerchief next to the nut. But the trick is, when he slips the pea in there, he has palmed it into what looks like a fragment of broken shell. That's what he's adding to the handkerchief next to the whole nut. He smashes the nut, and then his placement (pea in partial nut shell) is there next to half of the now-broken nut. The other half is scattered across the table, and that's very important to the trick, because then now it looks like there's approximately the right amount of broken shell. But no, he has added the section of nut that's around the pea. So when they ask him later, was it in the nut? Well, no, of course not the whole unbroken nut no - it was not in the whole nut that was put under the handkerchief. But, it was in another nut shell (so did he really lie?) its partial shell to make it look like it was part of a broken nut later when that was broken.
****Spoiler Alert****4:30 he pinches pea which is under his right index finger and pinched with his thumb. 4:37 his right hand which holds the palmed pea goes under the table with the excuse to take out a wallet, Pea is put in a hole in a 4th walnut after shifting to his left hand. 4:49 The shell is put under the cup when he takes it off the front of the table and places it over the walnut all done well and mostly while you are focused on the cups coming off for the reveal that no pea is under the shell and cups. The napkin is an excuse to drop the pea out or maybe just dropped shell and pea separately. 4:13 Teller messes up his trick by taking the concealment cup off
Here’s my guess on how he did the last trick! It’s actually really simple. At 3:44 he uses sleight of hand to take the pea. Underneath the table is a secret compartment where the nut already is, most likely in two halves and pre-glued for easy assembly. At 4:37 he hides his hands for a few seconds and puts the pea inside the nut. Then at 4:51 he moves the shot glass closer to him, and as it switches hands he places the nut underneath it.
The female hostess. Alysson is so aadorable.When someone earns a fool us trophy she makes these cute sounds lol listen to her without watching it it will make you laugh
4:14 that look was one of utter despair by Teller. In that moment he genuinely thought he'd ruined the trick by picking up the metal cup. What a lightning fast quip by Doc tho!
He’s full of it and Penn wasn’t going to drag it out on national TV. If the pea was in the shell as the man said there would be absolutely no doubt if he had cracked it open without the cover of the handkerchief. I bet you’ll never see him on the show again.
Seeing the passes and slight of hand on this truck gives me insight on others. 3:55 lifts glass as he slides it to Teller 4:52 lifts tin cup and drops walnut in. You can actually hear it tinkle and he then double taps the table with the shot glass to cover the sound. He's good, cause no way to catch this without replay and on first watch. I have insight now though. Then the wallet thing, completely irrelevant but neccessary for getting his hands into his lap to fiddle with the shell. Everything has a point even when it seems it doesn't
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II (1860-1898) legendary American con artist, and master shell game operator for many years. Soapy was born in, of all places, Coweta County, GA. I live in Coweta County, GA and 159 years after Soapy's birth (in 2019) this show aired.
Loved it. Great execution, especially with Penn almost leaning right over you. Also, the whole act reminds me of something Harry Anderson would do, especially stealing a wallet. Hats off on this one, sir.
The trick was done technically flawless, but once you learn to have your eyes trained on the magician, you can see when the trick is done. I saw each time: First round the switch is done at 2:33 - 2:35 (he is very fast), second round was done at 3:18 - 3:19, and third round he takes it out at 3:54 and keeps it on his right hand (watch the hand be steady over the table and bend finger whenever he lifts it) until 4:38 when he puts both hands behind the table, that is where he places the pea inside half shell, and covers it with the other half (which must have something that holds the two half shells together so they don't come apart), then leaves it on top of his leg or a secret compartment under the table at 4:41, reaches for the wallet, and then grabs the shell with his left hand at 4:47, holds it and then transfer it under the metal cup at 4:51 while placing the cup over the table using that same hand. Trick is completed. Note that Teller never had the pea under the cup while holding it with his finger. The entire show was really good and the jokes were right on point and hilarious. Penn and Teller missed the part that he placed the pea inside the two shells and thought he did it towards the end using the handkerchief but they were wrong and that is why he fooled them. All other moves they new how they were made. This is how you fool them. Well done.
I've watched an embarrassing amount of these, and this is definitely a favorite. You're hilarious, and your presentation is so good (even when little things went "wrong")
@@docdixon-magician3531 But of course! Your patter is natural and smooth and strong with showmanship. Great stuff! Okay, I'm tired of praising you. Thank you for sharing your gift! 😁
im pretty sure that at 4:51 he places the pea into a hole inside of the walnut since you could kinda tell he had been switching it between hands and possibly his pocket, i could be wrong, anyone else see a different way though?
