Seth Raphael leaves Penn incredulous and Teller flabbergasted on Penn and Teller: Fool Us S07E27

welcome back to fill us in so far that trophy has been up there collecting dust, can our next wizard get rid of it? Magicians have historically been at the forefront of technology because they are not limited to what is possible today. I have a bachelor's degree in magic in technology and a master's degree in wonder from MIT now I work for google every day I can apply my creativity from the design and invention of magic tricks to the future of technology I live in a magical home with five little magicians do you want come back? They know that I do magic and it can be frustrating when they try to do some of the magic tricks that I do, but we have taught them from a very young age that they have it in them and that also being a magician is a way. of life and it's seeing magic in the world and helping to create it, so what are you doing with your fingers making sparks?

The trick I'm doing tonight was inspired by my kids. I may not

fool

you, but I think my kids might have a chance. please welcome the deceitful mind of

seth

rafael hi allison hi

penn

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teller

i'm really happy to be here so i was hoping you'd bring some books from home did you? Yes, wonderful, would you mind taking them out? I would love to see them. What are they, show them to the pen and the cashier what do you have, I have some good ones Kate, Camilo has a wonder, oh, and I brought this for the Houdini boys, oh yeah, well I have to say I have a penchant for wonders.

Have you read that book, oh yes you have, oh you have done wonderful, yes, would you mind putting the other books back in the bag? I have five children, some of my children can read, the rest are still learning, so I made up a little game to play. they I love to play with you okay so I ask them to open their book you can go ahead and take your book open it and I want you to find two long words two long interesting words that are next to each other do I take ? your time look up words that call you two long interesting words so we can have something to play with okay so alison let's play this just like I play with my kids using their alphabet cards oh they me too they did to me. a good luck card to bring are the sweetest okay alison let's start with your first word how long is your word how many letters yes how many letters in the first word there are six letters okay the second one is longer yes how long is the second the second the second word has ten the second word has ten letters um let's see here think about the consonant the first letter of your first word first letter of the first I think it could have this consonant here p for penguin is the first yeah, I think that I know what your word is what

penn

y whistle no with my kids it's always penny whistle how many letters would be too many is it let's move on to your second word yes this time let's do something a little different I'll ask you some simple questions okay I want you to answer as quickly as you can, the quicker you answer, the more likely you are to give me a clue as to what your word might be, answer as quickly as you can allison outsider inside outside outside pancakes or waffles pancakes number one or number two one can you hold it ?

Yeah, I think I have a clue. I'm going to write it. It's okay, Alison, you could have read any book at home. you did it and here's the one you chose and you could have opened it totally on any page and you could have chosen any word in the book yeah now alison what was the second word what's the word on your mind right now apparently apparently mistakes this is how we grow alison that's what i tell my kids i've made a lot of mistakes and that's how i've been able to do this trick so well allison's eyes oh shoot my kids oh no what was the last letter of your first word you remember it was a plague, oh no, oh you should meet my kids, i owe them ice cream, alice in this note they wrote me, dad says, good luck, you owe us ice cream if allison chooses the southern plague,

raphael

, awesome, let's do it, will we be gypsies, Yeah?

There you go, that was so good, thank you, that was crazy, so you studied the science of wonder at mit. I did it. I was working at the mit media lab in a laboratory that studies emotions and in the laboratory it is very easy to cause pain or frustration. It is more difficult to provoke the emotion of amazement. I said I know how to do that. Wow, how did you know? So I started magic when I was a kid. I inherited my grandfather's magic books and from there I began to invent my own magic. So is there much to do?

I learned from magic, you know, if magic was a required course in college, I think people would understand the psychology of humans a little better, you would be able to read people because magic is inherently about what others people experience and I think we could all definitely use a little more empathy, so you use magic all the time as a parent. Magic is an incredibly useful tool. I have twins, so if one of them is really focused on a toy and the other wants it, it's really helpful to do something more interesting. Here I have also been teaching my kids that if you blow on things they will disappear, so they walk around the house trying to see if things disappear, okay Seth, time to let the kids figure out your trick, guys, Seth, that's a great trick and you. just lay it all out, you know, you just say this is the trick and just go through it nice, measure and beat by beat no hoo-ha no jive just here's a trick, I'm going to do it Although your style is very polite, so kind when you're on this show, that's a really confrontational way to do it, so I'll explain it to you because a lot of times, a lot of times, in Magic, there's two. realities that are happening and that is one the reality of what we assume and the other is the reality of what you really say.

Now we know that Allison is not involved in this, but we also know that some things might seem innocent to Allison and that doesn't seem innocent to us, maybe you call Allison, you know, talk on the phone and just tell her what kind of books you have and she name Tan and tell him okay, bring these four because they will look good on camera oh. this one is not copyrighted let's use that oh we can't prove that all kinds of fraudulent reasons if we were listening we wouldn't believe it so we believe that although Allison came out here with what she believed was a free selection of books. that perhaps you had some manipulation to get her to bring a certain book with her.

She had no idea what book she was going to bring. No, you had no idea what book she was going to bring. I don't even know if I told the producers. that was going to bring wonder I think I threw it in at the last minute okay, okay, okay, I'm not done, I'm not done, uh, I didn't give a full guess, I didn't give a full guess, so I'm going to see what so good are you with these kinds of words because if you don't know the book beforehand, then you're doing a little bit of research, so I have a six letter word here. a two-syllable word and let's see, Mr.

Psychic, if you discover the six-letter word, it is more complete, it is more complete, yes, I did not know the book, I did not know the errors, our program would not be complete without a performance by our duo elegant after the break, the pen and the cashier remain