Eric Mead Fools Penn & Teller--INCREDIBLE sleight of hand!

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let's meet our next magician my name is Eric Meade I'm a magician from Aspen Colorado magician is what I call myself professionally but my real job is family man yeah when you have a kid see through of his eyes makes everything cool and gray. together there are many ways to try to fool Penn & Teller. I am going to perform what is considered a classic piece of magic, but its interpretation and this particular version is very different and I know for a fact that Penn & Teller Teller will understand the main principle of the trick, but along the way there is at least one and maybe three moments that will deceive you.

I have written my script in a way that if they let themselves be fooled a little bit, they will have to do it. give it to me we would really appreciate it thank you thank you it's probably just a coincidence that the man who first told me that the 90/10 rule of magic works behind the scenes on this very show was the great Tom Soni himself who explained to me that if a magician You show someone a trick and 90% of that trick

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them but there is a small 10% here that doesn't fool them, the average person will say the trick didn't fool them even though it could.

I don't explain the 90% otherwise, if that same magician shows the same trick to his fellow conjurers, it only takes that 10% for them to admit that they were tricked. I don't know if it's true or not, but I want to say it. to the test tonight doing something that I think is unprecedented. I'm going to explain in advance how most of the trick you're about to see works, first of all, gentlemen, so you can take notes if you want, first of all, there's a principle. At the heart of this trick, you'll surely recognize that it's at least 400 years old, probably much older, and you guys have used versions of it yourselves in this very scenario, so I'm sure you'll recognize what it is immediately.

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looks like so I admit that all of that there will be a little bit of verbal misdirection that may or may not have already started and finally, that's it, that's it. That's honestly at least 90% of what you're about to see. I'm not interested in that 90% nor should you be. I'm only interested in the small remaining 10%, the part where you and you remember what it's like to see magic and to do that you need to be close. Could you come here and join me?

Welcome, ah, good to see, so the John Ramsey composition, the particular arrangement that I'm going to play for you today, is from a dear. He left and much mr. Tim Conover, this is a classic called cylinder and coins. I have some unusual accessories that I'll tell you about in a moment, but for you the important accessories are these four silver dollars. This is a drink coaster tonight it will act as a small The stage is like a small raised platform, this is where all the important action will take place and the little piece of cork is located on the stage.

The cork is just the end of a wine cork that I shaved with the knife, just a little piece. cork will play the role of the MacGuffin, I'm sure you're familiar with that term, and will be hidden inside the small cylinder. Oh, and the cylinder. I must tell you that it is just a small strap. You can remove it from there, so we'll use a leather strap. it had the end sewn on, it's hollow, you can see completely through it and if you want to check it out you're welcome and I'll let you look down, okay, so the important thing about the cylinder is that it has no top or bottom. so anything that falls inside will pass and like I said, the cork goes inside the cylinder and we are ready to start, this would be the moment where you have to pay close attention one, two, three four coins, the idea is very simple, one by a.

I'm going to take these coins and I'm going to make them disappear each one in a different way. The first one, the wand passes through my hand like this and that corn melts from my hand into the cylinder even though you are looking at the cylinder and it is in the open air three coins left behind one two three nothing more in my hands that is number one that's number two and the third wait there goes that third kinda like that completely disappears now You're very polite many times when I do this for non-mages they grab my wrist at this point and start looking at my skin to see if There's a slit or a pocket or something that isn't there, but I can do it.

It seems like if I make a little false incision right here on the back and push down, that coin goes right in or I could push it in and then touch it with the magic wand and it instantly disappears inside. that leaves just this one, the last final coin and we'll do it like this from my left hand, in fact from the last one, let's do it with the right hand at long distance from the tip of the wand, it goes like this across the table and disappears inside of the cylinder and so that you have something interesting to talk about when you get back there, I couldn't have dropped them because they are resting under that little piece of quark.

Thank you very much, so I want to do this last. part very quickly we will do everything in reverse the little piece of cork goes in my hand the coins inside the cylinder I said coins the coins I will leave them sticking out right there the little piece of cork is in my hand the coins until the last second you see them inside the cylinder and then We traveled back in time to where one of those coins was here at my fingertips that's coin number one a second coin out there in the air that's number two don't blink that's number three three wind coins and of course we didn't start with three that you started with disappear instantly and don't even try to pretend that it didn't trick you inside thank you tonight and do it now they are working very hard Yeah, speaking of what happened there, you just got something big.

I guess, oh yeah, well, close-up magic should be close-up. Do you think there is a possibility that you have deceived them? I think it is unlikely that they will say that they were deceived and this is why. everything I said from the beginning is true, they recognized the main body of the trick, they know there is a sleight of hand and they could just say that and I would have to admit that that is correct, so the question is: where do they go? draw the line if they are I'm sure there are a couple of moments along the way that we're puzzling or disconcerting them is enough to say they were fooled I don't know, I doubt it, but we're about to find out I guess I don't know I like it just watching them squirm you chose to do something really very difficult which is the magic of the coins in front of us there are certain principles in promotion management that we just know and there are certain things that we did Let's say probably the most brilliant thing you did was make an introduction in the that you changed the rules of the game for us.

You changed from having a pretty good idea. I generally ended up with this 10% thing that has nothing to do with deceiving us. Totally what you imposed on us, but you know part of the magic is game theory and you played game theory perfectly and then you dumped it in our lap and said you decide if I fooled you or not, so yeah, we know the magic of the coins, yes. I know you Eric, but it's not our laps and gpmg just got a steed in the RV.