Penn and Teller Fool Us - Rachel Wax - “You Won the Bigger Game”

Foreigners always ask magicians like how did you get into magic when you are a woman? The question is why is this? Hi, I'm Rachel Wax, I grew up in Chicago, Illinois, my father was the one who taught me how to do magic. We even had a magic show together in high school and have matching tattoos. I moved to New York City to study fashion, which was amazing, but I really welcomed magic into my life when I met this wonderful group of people called the Imams. I have grown a lot as a magician over the last few years due to the amazing friends I have made along the way, although I have been very lucky to have a lot of role models in my life, there is still a long way to go.

There are so few women in Magic. I want to show the next generation of magicians what is possible even without a nose job. Put your hands together for the New York City area. Rachel Watts, so I live in New York and work on all kinds of events. I do weddings, I do mitzvahs, I do funerals, and sometimes when I leave a job, I like to steal something, you know, like a tip, nothing big, nothing crazy, just little things like a sandwich or a yamaka. I don't know, but it was the last thing I took. It was this, it's a money gun.

I took it from the last bachelor party I did, which is my favorite event to be asked for because I can see the disappointment in their eyes when they realize I'm just a magician and all. I'm going to show you it's a card trick, but I thought it was a cool item and I wanted to figure out something to do with it and that's what I'm going to show you today Allison, would you mind helping me? Sure, wonderful. Allison. I have a lot of cash here, but this is mine and I'm a magician. I can't just give away money.

Do you have a ticket you can contribute with? I have a dollar, oh, wonderful, fantastic, nice and crisp, just the way I do. Like now, uh, I want to make sure we don't lose sight of your bill, so I'm going to have you sign it nice and big so everyone can see it, okay, yeah, it's a nice, clear signature and I'm going to sign the back of it. also. great, now Allison, quick question for you, have you ever shot a money gun before? I mean, not today, okay, I imagined some, but we're in Vegas, you know what I mean. uh, go ahead, wait for that and I want to be clear to Allison that her bill goes to the center of the stack, it's not at the top, it's not at the bottom, so she's not going to fly out first or last.

Would you open that money gun by pulling the tab? It can be a little sticky. Marvelous. and uh, do me a favor, just confirm that it's empty. Oh yeah, wonderful, there's no more money there and I'll load this into fabulous. I'm going to have you stay a little further back, so in a moment, Allison, you're going to shoot. that money gun in the air the money will fly I'm going to reach out and grab your signed bill in the air okay but before I do I want to make this a little harder with something else I got at the bachelor party no It's that Yamaka wait aha a blindfold ah for you oh I'm just kidding it doesn't matter if you can see well that's fine with me so like I said you're going to shoot the gun in the air.

I'll reach out and grab your bill Allison, are you ready? I'm ready. It's okay, because I'm not just going to give myself anything. Okay, okay, cool, yeah, so I'm going to do this completely blind. Allison, it will be extremely difficult. Okay, on the count of three you're going to shoot that gun in the air ready yes three two one come on one I have one I have one I have one I didn't catch it but like I thought you don't remember well okay yeah yeah okay let's see Allison not only did I catch your invoice, but I also removed the signatures.

Wow, which makes it a much better magic trick when you think about it. Not really that, no, that didn't work, but I can fix this, no big deal. I'm going to give you a consolation prize, okay, yeah, whatever you want from my bag. I have all kinds of things in here. I have a box of red hair dye. I don't know if that's your tone. I mean, okay, surprise, mine isn't real. uh let's see here I don't know if you'll need the yamaka as often as I do Maybe it's not right, you're a women's seven, yes you are, oh my gosh, but these are old and gross, so you probably don't want that. but what are the possibilities?

My word, let's see uh, I'll have a snack oh, I love snacks, you can have a snack, yeah, the only other thing I have is an EpiPen, if you're allergic to snacks, that's not okay, I'll have that. and if you don't mind, go ahead and open that, okay, and would you mind sharing? No, I, Pen

teller

, will make a face today, wait a second, wait a second, I'll take that sticky mess off of you, go ahead and open it. That up there and Allison, can you confirm that that is the bill with your signature on one side and my signature on the other?

Yeah, my goodness, yeah, that was delicious, thank you, um, and now you're standing on a pile of money, yeah, which. It's really where I like to be, yeah, you know, I feel at home, where do you usually perform? I usually perform at a lot of cool venues around Manhattan. Are audiences loud in New York? They are often loud audiences. I have to exercise a lot. My audience management skills often yes, can you do this trick or will you lose all the money? You know, when I do it for radian audiences, I usually use fake money because you know I don't want to risk it, what kind of things do you do?

What I like most is acting. I like connecting with the audience and I love talking to people afterwards. I like to know how I affected them. You know you never want to make people uncomfortable, but you also don't want to be too bored. Okay, Rachel, let's see. the boys and see if they discovered your magic Rachel, but this is a really big room and you just fill it up, it's just fabulous, thank you, you have so much energy and it's so fun and so natural, it's just uh. really cool, are you always this energetic? You simply flip a switch when you walk in. um, you know, I'm nervous from the start, but I can usually flip a switch once I get in the room and the zone, and I just love the whole routine, but you know the first thing you said when you came out is that you always like to steal something and I don't think the audience realized, but here you deploy us, you were stealing something, yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, you got me.

That's the absolute best way to win while losing, right? You made us feel like idiots for blowing up. You can be better than that. You know everything you must always remember to win the

game

you are playing, so even if you don't. I don't think you

fool

ed us, you certainly won this round, you won the biggest

game

, I have no doubt about it, we just love you, so thank you, so I guess they realized it, they definitely realized it, thank you very much. They are very entertaining, thank you very much