The Fool Us Trophy makes its way to Switzerland. Lionel is the first Swiss magician ever appeared on Fool Us. He fools them badly using nothing else then the Swiss national beverage: Milk.
@@miamimagicians I think in this case the rules of the show wouldn't prevent him to have friends as his audience since they weren't doing for the trick except confirming that the drinks were legit which the producers would have checked anyway.
Whenever Penn drops the coded language and just explains how he thinks the trick is done in plain English, you know a Fool Us trophy is going to appear.
Yeah, I wonder about that. Like he wouldnt do it if that was the right guess, as it never is, so I wonder if he already knows he is wrong from the judges and is simply explaining their best guess.
The only time I’ve seen him do things like that is when there’s a language barrier. Even even though he speaks English, he might not know code words and slang.
He'll also do it when he hates the performer. He hates the performer when it's a con to reveal the con. For example, there was a mind reading trick with the magician backstage on video and a random audience member chosen by a number in a hat and the audience had corresponding numbers. The magician predicted everything the audience member would write on a chalkboard. At the end of the trick the random audience member revealed himself as the magician. That ticked Penn off. He said the numbers were not random. He started to read off number after number from the hat asking if anyone in the audience had the number which of course no one did.
That's when Penn and Teller already know that their guess is not the correct answer and thus won't give away the magician's trick, because they were in on it from the start. After all, magicians are liars.
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That made me chuckle, cause it's a quirk I do as well. Even if I might never actually say their name out loud. But I have to say it right in my head, otherwise I'm not happy.
Except he's wrong. His name is pronounced as Lion-el not Lee-on-ell. He says it himself at 0:07 but Allison and Penn still call him Lee-on-ell for some reason.
There is no sight in this world that makes me smile more than Teller's smile when he is fooled and amazed. It is the most innocent childlike expression of wonder and joy and is utterly contagious.
I'm sure that turns quickly into a frown when people like you constantly compare him to a child. He isn't that short, he's just next to a giant haha...childlike....that comment 🙄
I'm quite sure there were white plastic containers inside and they were dumped in glass when he poured milk to himself. That's why he dumped milk so fast in his glass
@@ProfessorBrandt technically, the carton wouldn't be gimmicked. The carton is normal. The gimmick is that he has a collapsible container INSIDE the carton.
I think he dumps something in the milk at the end when he pours the final drink. It certainly seems strange that he needed to finish with the same drink he started with, and conveniently milk isn't see-through.
First he poured milk at 1:59, which looks like there wasn't much there - probably just held in the upper plastic portion of the carton. As he's handing off the milk to the first person, you hear a plastic "pop" at about 2:04, which I think indicates he's removing a seal that separated the real milk from water that's in the rest of the container. With the Lemon Lime and Cola soda's, he's very careful about how he holds the glasses. I think there's a drink mix at the bottom of each glass that includes a bi-carbonate (think alka seltzer) that flavors and creates fizz. Espcially with the Cola where he covers the pour so as not to reveal that what is coming out is clear. At 3:11, he allows us to see the pour, but is squeezing the carton in a way he hasn't previously. He's probably holding a packet of instant orange that he slipped into the carton and is mixing with the water inside as it is poured, allowing us to see the orange color, while also cutting off the liquid to make is seem as if it runs out, thus allowing him to pour any residual mix directly into the glass while still keeping some water inside the container. At 3:40, he pours the white wine, which initially looks clear but becomes cloudy in the glass as he pours. There was likely a powered alcohol mix at the bottom of the glass that was controversial many years back because people feared that it would be snorted. The mix was probably intended for a full glass (he didn't pour a full glass), thus giving it a very rich flavor that caused the reaction on the man's face. Finally at 4:02, he's again careful to cover the glass, but at full screen you can tell that the liquid coming out of the carton is clear. It becomes white after reaching the glass. He does not drink the liquid, which likely indicates what-ever the mix is, it's intended to make water quickly turn white but not intended to be drank.
After he hands the wine glass of milk to the bearded gentleman, we see his hand move to the top of the cartoon right before the camera cuts away. What was his hand doing there?
your right... partially... he did used powder in the lower glasses (specially soda and cola)... so it is covered in the tray... however he used a tall glass and hold it very clearly when pouring the wine ... you can see no powder... however you can see him hold the milk box very in the bottom... that box does have some stuff inside or in the back, even tho he said it wasnt gimmicked... he might have fooled penn and teller, but that box is gimmicked... that type of box is very common here in europe and usually the inside is silver due to a layer of aluminium, plus your cant rip it that easily because it has multiple layers of polyethylene (plastic), just google about these boxes... (no i dont work in anything related to these boxes i just knew and googled to make sure im not bullshitting xD), besides you can see him rip open the opening... so if it isnt a 1 liter milk in it, it was gimmicked in some way... so he lied to penn and teller... (not to mention the orange juice that clearly wasnt powder and cearly was something inside of in the back/side of the box holding the huice)
Here is a suggestion: The carton contains balloons with liquid. He squeezes the carton where and when he wants a specific balloon to burst. The balloons are poured into the glass of coke and into the last glass of milk. He never tips the container completely when pouring the clear liquids. Specifically watch how he pours the glass of coke with his hand concealing the area between he carton and the glass. But also the last pouring of the milk is suspicious as he puts the entire carton into the glass so far that the carton makes direct contact with the milk so a balloon can go undetected from the carton to the milk. As he says the, the milk carton is not "gimmicked".
@@JAYJAYBEBE I think he might have poured the balloons into the glass of milk and the glass of coke. Watch what he does differently with his hands and with the container compared to when he pours the clear liquids. I think the balloons remained in the glasses until the end of the act, if that is what you are asking.
I agree that the gimmick came out in the milk. I don't see a need for it to come out in the other dark drinks, and that would come with a risk of them showing in the bottom of the glasses. I also don't believe it's as simple as balloons. Whatever it is would need to reliably poor out for the cleanup. If I were trying to build it, I would attach the inner containers to some sort of weighted object, and would splash if the carton's opening wasn't submerged in the milk :). Ideally the inner containers would be a material that wouldn't fracture in to pieces and would collapse as tightly as possible to the weight. If possible, they would reel in completely to reduce the chance of failure, but that starts to get complicated to build in a small package. To the people talking about the container being dry, it's hydrophobic. Probably wax lined. There is also leakage when he turns it upside-down to start tearing it up.
Really nice to see. And that milk looks delicious. I think the trick was convincing Penn and Teller as well as everyone else that there was anything in the bottle at all. I think the fluids are coming from somewhere else.
In two cases the glasses were already full, ergo was not poured from the box. Penn registered it according to "code" speech. This is a low glass number. 3, in which there was cola, and a low glass of number 6. in which there was something that was supposed to resemble milk. However, there are still 4 glasses into which the drink was actually poured from the box. This results in a possible trick design, that even in the glass 6, which simulated milk, even very thin polymer bags separating 4 drinks from each other fell out of the box into this glass number 6. This 6 glasses didn't really pour out of the box, but something fell into it and it looked like a splash of milk. This fulfilled the condition, albeit on the edge, which is notorious that the box was not a trick. If the magician performed this trick, as I claim, he owns a trophy, because mastering this technically is really admirable. Bravo!
@@bobbyd9319 But this is only the cap of the milk. The treick was described very accuare by valen tino. If you watch closely, the magician holds and presses the milk carton in a different spot for every drink. And there clearly is something transparent coming out when he pours the last glass of milk
Lionel, this is awesome. BTW, this is your friend Eric from Lexington, Kentucky... :) It's awesome to see you on Penn & Teller and that you fooled them.
This was an absolutely wonderful act! I've seen this trick before on P&T but your final act of ripping apart the carton was the show stealer. Absolutely magnificent. And please don't listen to the naysayers and negative nancys. If i were to guess, i would say that you had the liquids in gel membrane balls. You pressed down the carton at various heights to puncture the various balls to release their liquid. We can clearly see that you're tightly gripping the carton on every pour and each subsequent pour you grip it more and more towards the bottom of the container. That's why you were also able to tear apart the container and also say with honesty to P&T that the carton was not gimmicked. Because it wasn't. It was liquid filled gel membrane balls in the carton.
Rubber bladders, think drink-filled balloons. P&T should have asked if they could have to drink that last glass of milk, because the punctured bladders were in it.
@@Acujeremy the pop wasn’t poured out of the milk carton. They dubbed in the sound of it getting poured but you don’t actually see the pop leaving the container.
Id say to pop clear balloons of drink inside, clear so that when they pop they come out into the milk, cola and orange and you don't see them in the drink, the original cap was modified and went inside the carton to hold a shot of milk, when that was removed the next drink could come out clear and so on.
A potential way to do this without doing anything to the container itself: bags of the liquids in the container (maybe balloons to force the liquid out), which you can puncture with a needle attached to your finger. Potentially stacked on top of each other and that's why he moves his hand down during the act. The remainders of the balloons are poured out with the milk.
I like your idea, but the remainders of balloons would be visible as a lumpy pour and have some residual debris seen in the clearer drink glasses even if the balloons were transparent.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Notice how he carefully pours the first drinks, maybe so the balloons don't pour out too (or perhaps the balloons are all tied to each other so they only can come out when the weight has emptied out of every single one), and he very quickly pours the milk keeping the carton completely upside down so any balloons that were in there flush out with the milk.
He's got pipes connected through his vascular system into the tips of his fingers, and the different drinks are pumped through his body and discharged from the tips of his fingers into the glasses. The camera angle makes it look like its coming out of the carton. That is the only solution.
@@djangomaxfield the pipes run thru his whole body, including his urine and digestive system. So technically you are correct. They were running thru his sleeve, albeit under his skin.
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And I was so proud of myself for figuring out your simple trick with a gimmicked container. And then you shredded my good mood to pieces. I hate you! ;-)
@@FyrenMagus Did you watch the video you linked? Even if he did lie and that's how the trick was performed, there's a whole lot more to the trick than just a "gimmicked bottle." He would have fooled them regardless.
I thought for sure Penn and Teller would have guessed. I saw this exact performance from a child on Britain's got talent. the difference was the kid asked the judges at random what they wanted from the carton he wasn't pouring it himself. Which to me seemed more impressive.
Both of these have the same effect, but different method. By ripping the container, he makes the trick that much different to the magician viewer. And letting people choose the drink is an illusion that would not impress magicians the slightest
There are different bladders in the bottle. He moves hand up and down the carton to release different drinks...... then he rips the carton open exposing me as to the fact that I have no idea how he did this. Well done sir.
There were too many video cuts, many frames were missing. And one time you were holding the milk box one way and the very next second you were holding the milk box the other way. And only while pouring the orange juice you squeezed the box and not while pouring the other drinks. Also while pouring the cola you hid the glass and mixed something. And at the very end you hide the glass with your hand while pouring the milk and I'm pretty sure something is hidden in the milk because that is the only time you tilted the milk box completely upside down to pour something from the box that we are not meant to see. There's definitely something that had been poured along with the milk and that's the reason you hide the glass completely with your hand while holding it and so it was possible for you to pour the milk that fast without spilling even a drop. Very bad magic even if you fooled Penn and Teller. Not at all cool man! 😏😪😔💔
@@htp1146 He poured the bladders into the milk at the very last and hid them. He also hid the glass with his hand while pouring the milk and that's the only time he poured something from the box totally upside down to pour the bladders into the milk and hide them. And also no one drank the last liquid that is the milk. Hehehe!😂😂
So good I’m going to resist the urge to figure this one out. Lionel, your magic will remain so for this scientist…. I will not read any comments just in case. This is my highest compliment.
He probably poured all the bags into his own milk in the end of the trick. This makes the most sense, but even if he's bursting the bags there should still be some moisture and liquid being mixed up on the way out.
I thought the same thing as David Capewell: bags. I think I saw him palm them (take them out and hide them) at the end of pouring some of the drinks though, taking them out already inbetween instead of the end. Some of the other drinks may be pre-poured like previous commenters mentioned. As an aside, I suppose you can also do things like carbonated water with a prepared glass and just water, but in this trick you see the liquid come out like the end product already. Only thing that still stumps me is that the bag solution would fall under rigged carton imo...
You don't really need special any liquid bags for it either , I believe. A basic plastic wrap will hold it just fine inside a container. All you need for this trick is a container with a large hole on the top and a plastic wrap. That's it.
The box itself is not gimmicked. The ripping is not only to prove this but also to allow Lionel to remove the “whatever” is in the box. Anyway, this trick is done with so much confidence and “panache” that one can call it real magic. 👏👏👏👏👏
@@rozaligreen527 The box itself is not gimmicked in the way P&T designed it. So, no design on the box itself, but an item attached inside the box, taken away by ripping and the box can be completely examined. Playing with the rules of the show is part of the game, even wordplay and apparently, P&T were wrong in their design, so Lionel couldn’t answer there were right.
@@alanparana6899 The box wasn't gimmicked, as shown, but the contents were (separate bladders, someone else here suggested they were poured out with the last glass of milk). No lying involved.
The trick is pretty populare in my area the milk container isnt gimmicked at all, the gimmick is the audienz and the glasses Just watch how he hold some glases with his left hand to hide something in it. And also some ppl or maybe all of them dont drink there liquid (watch the 4th guy) he clearly didnt drank that If u dont not trust me simple google it guys^^
The secret is from the the glasses used, the glasses had different flavors when they reacted with water coming from the container it generate those flavors
I was thinking exactly what Penn was thinking. It had to be a gimmicked container. When you ripped it open and showed that it was bone dry on the inside… 🤯 Amazing trick!
Container wasn't gimmicked but the liquids were never directly inside of it. If you put balloons or bags inside of a container, the container is still ordinary and not considered gimmicked.
@@DrakeOola aaaah... nice! As he rips it off (upside down), the balloons fall to the mouth and remain hidden. So simple, so elegant. If that's how it works, it shouldn't be too difficult to replicate. Perfect for a non-skill trick to amaze family or friends with! edit: wait, not so easy. Upon rewatch, the carton is open and nothing but a few drops (seems like milk) fall. Nothing on the floor on a later cam angle. How did he made the 'true containers' dissapear? The balloons or whatever explain why different liquids require grabbing the carton at different heights, but what happens when they're deflated? A filter could solve it, but that would count as a gimmick, right? Still, I can do it at home, I hope. Oh, wait further still! It isn't milk but something that dissolves the balloons or whatever the containers are. Maybe safe to drink or maybe he takes the hit haha, idk. Hmm... Also, how do you ensure only one liquid pours if there's no gimmick? It could be that the people on stage are accomplishes, and he's just releasing colorants into the same liquid (by pressing at different points of the carton). But I dont' think that's it. In fact, I don't think I'll be able to replicate it after all hahaha, I'll have to make the easy version of it, which might be to just buy on of those cool ancient poison jars :P
heyo just to let you people know (whoever thinks that the carton is dry), there is a waterproof (or any liquid proof) coating lining the inner walls of the carton so that's why it doesn't drip and appears to come out dry
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In a real world 3:37 to 3:47 would be a continuous action but clearly this scene had been filmed twice and edited to look like a single take. At the start his hand is near the bottom then it appears half way along. This is really worrying and needs to be explained. Could the whole video be a scam?
@@keithnaylor1981 What's the point of it being a scam? Easy views? Penn and Teller are professional magicians who have been in the field for awhile, I fail to see why they would make their show a sham for this single trick when all of the previous tricks were legitimate and with discoverable solutions.
Im swiss and just here to say this is a common swiss packaging product. Maybe a trick around a liquid film like we see nowadays for water, pressing enough to break which ‘bubble’ he wanted?!
That was a great act. Thanks for sharing it. Sorry you wound up getting shafted by lockdown - it would've been great to see on stage. Good luck with your career
The problem was defintively the camera shifting. If I take the trick as face value, it's one of the best I've ever seen. No sleeves, no gimmicks in the container, looked very clean all the way through. However, the camera is shifting so often that it invalidates any such assumption. Which is too bad. Only two things I noticed, that the last glass was gimmicked, it filled up too quick, so it was used to get rid of some evidence and the other is that the container's inside appeared pretty dry for a container that supposedly just contained liquids. The order of the drinks is also well chosen as any one can easily hide traces of the previous drink.
He had some commestible balloons with liquids inside. You don't need to put pressure on the container when you pour drinks. He has put pressure in different parts of the container when pouring different drinks. In the end, he disposed the inside baloons and drank them off.
@@sergiu89 probably a diversion looks somewhat similar to a trick done in got talent where he pours normal water into the glass but notice he hides the bottom of the glass where probably a powder for the drink is there making the water look like and taste like the drink. Also notice how the “Cola” doesn’t have bubbles. The other people there are probably in on the trick also
@@dl_hs4315 The powder idea is instantly ruled out because you can see the colored drinks pouring out of the container before even reaching the cup. The stooge idea is ruled out because p&t have staff members that are told how the trick is done before they can even perform and those staff members make sure to not allow planted audience members or stooges. Assistants are allowed but they must clearly be announced as such so no, the people were not in on it. When they say their drinks were fizzy and tasted like they were claimed to be, means it was. There is no way to add artificial fizz to a liquid without using something like a vitamin c tablet that bubbles like crazy before making the drink fizzy so no gimmicked powders or tablets can be used either. Both your guesses are wrong and when he tears the container open it was clear there was never any liquid in it, not directly anyway because there wasn't even a single drop to be found, not even the little bits at the bottom since you can never fully pour a liquid out of a glass/container. The container directly may not have been gimmicked but there was most likely little bags or balloons hidden inside. Too many camera cuts to tell tho and several previous contestants have come on youtube saying the camera 'did them justice' in the sense that they cut out the actual magic parts crucial to determining how the trick was done. One of them used an assistant that wrote things off staged and slipped them a note hidden in a table for example but they completely cut the moment the table was brought in out of the act so that trick was literally impossible to guess from the youtube video alone, I suspect this one is similar which sucks because that kind've goes against what the show stands for and ruins most of the fun, simple tricks that rely on post-editing or forced camera angles just aren't fun...
A couple of things- This is adopted closely from the colour coded magics. He uses colors to disguise. See his T-shirt, black colour / lower portion to disguise for cola. Green to disguise the lemon soda and white wine. He is even holding the bottle in a manner to make us focus on the bottle while he uses his sleight of hand effectively. The milk when he pours first time is possibly from his left hand (the cap of the bottle) The milk that was poured last is also not from the bottle. Notice he covers the lower portion of the glass. To summarise- the bottle only had one colour liquid and some glasses could have colour agents. Probably the bottle had only transparent liquid. Cheers to the volunteers acting the shit out.. Claps!!!!
I remember mat franco did something similar and it wasn't the box that were gimmick there was already something in the glass. And when it will bi mixed with water it will give different colours
I watch Penn and Teller for many years now, I also watch Fool Us since Season 1 Episode 1. I'm from Switzerland so when I did read in our news that a Swiss person for the first time fooled Penn and Teller and was on the show I was very veeery excited about it. But... I have to say, I didn't like the trick and the performance at all, nor do Penn and Teller, they hate this sort of trick, they even said it before on the show when someone did a pick a drink trick that they hate it, but his performance and everything was fantastic, this one here, I didn't enjoy... And I'm not talking about methods here, thinking about it, there are many ways to achieve what he showed yes, but I for myself, I just don't feel it, like Penn and Teller. Normally they always make some compliments how awesome it was and and and, nothing here... And they spoke so open about it just because they did not care and where thinking this is anyways not gonna be on the final show (which happens, I know the insides from some people)... But he fooled them, which I think was his only achievement and is possible with something like this... Like the woman who got 3 trophies but really 95% of all didn't like it... I'm a little bit sad... Anyways, greetings from Switzerland and congrats for the trophy
Just looking how he squeezes different areas on the carton means its got bags inside. The last glass was ridicoulous. Try and fill a glass full of milk in under half a second without it going everywhere...lol. a few of those drinks already had stuff in them.
Wrong. The guess was that the carton was gimmicked, not that it had bags, which is different. The bags came out so the container wasn’t gimmicked in the way p&t guessed as the carton was examinable after the trick. Obviously there was some sort of gimmick, p&t wouldn’t be allowed to guess so broadly, their guess was specific as was his answer.
@@MrXBT2000 well if you saw the reveal video, looks like he most likely used those gelatin spheres that break with some moderate force, which is likely the correct answer based on how the magician was squeezing certain areas
@@DOC_951 I was merely pointing out that P&T made a very specific guess about how the carton could have been gimmicked. That means that their guess would be wrong if the carton was gimmicked in any other way, hence it being wrong does not exclude what may be preceived as a gimmicked carton, just one specific way of hiding a compartment division gimmick. I will however not discuss the method in any detail in the comment field of the magian's video.
I can't believe the carton wasn't teh trick, for sure there were small capsules with liquid inside, that's why the first time he poored the milk, it was too little, and quickly stopped filling the cup
@@kratkidokumentarci224 have you considered that there are two audiences. One is us, and one is P&T. The point of the hand going lower may have been to mislead them into thinking the container is gimmicked.
Easy to figure out. I would say there is capsules or bags of the drinks inside the milk carton. And they get punctured when the bottle is squeezed in different spots. Awesome idea. Pretty sweet trick to teach yourself. Being born in cottage on a mountain side probably doesn't offer a lot of props to work with.
Cola was already in the glass. Notice that he covers the front of the glass with his hand when he picks it up, and the cola is settled after being poured, no bubbles.
Any hedge wizard can fool Penn and Teller and audience with actual magic but I admire when magician can fool without diverging from standard model of physics as defined by CERN scientists in Switzerland :-)
