Magician Paul Gertner - 4th Appearance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us

More complete trophies have been earned, perhaps the next wizard can reach three. Hello, you may already know me. I'm Paul Gertner, the only

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s who have been on this show longer than me and who came back this time, it seems like what's at stake. They rise a little higher because if I bend tonight I bend them three out of four times. I know they'd rather have it 5050 and I've had two years to work on this trick and even up to the last three days. I was still tuning. I was able to perform some of the pieces of this trick before some of the best sleight of hand artists and get their opinions as well, so it's not just me up there on stage tonight that I'm coming with. the knowledge of some of the best

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s in the world, welcome back ten cashiers, would you join me on stage like a falcon or see if you are like a falcon this time?

Thank you for joining me at the table this time, as you already know. One of the first tricks the magician learns is what we call picking a card trick, yes, and in a pick a card trick, the magician shows that the cards are all different, has someone choose a card and then the magician He has to find the letter. but you see, you have seen thousands of tricks for choosing a card, so tonight I want to show you something a little different. I'm going to show you a trick for choosing a guitar pick. Now tell him I'm going to make you choose. a choice, but I want to make sure it's completely random;

In other words, I might already know what color choice you're going for because I might have done a little research on the Internet, maybe found out what your favorite color is and that might influence your decision, so instead I'm going to place the tickets in the box, mix them up and if you extend the index finger of your right hand and if you reach the box, go ahead, I'm going to have huge just. choose an option, this is the hard part, you have to put it down there on the table, now, pen, you will choose a number, okay, between 1 and 52, okay, I want you to choose a number that you feel comfortable with. okay, you have one and for the first time tell me and everyone else in the audience what number you are going to choose 47 47 okay, okay, now tell him that you will choose a card, but you will choose the card with the pick, so I want you to start from up and leave that pick somewhere in the deck so that the point of the pick determines the cards you select, okay, very slightly, very slightly and whenever you want mmm, let it go, now I'll separate it. you can see the card the pick I'm going to put your card and the pick right down there and actually if you would take if you would take the pick in your hand and I would also like you to take this pen and I want You should write your card on one side of the pick, so if you took a two of Hearts, go straight to H, okay, now hold it up so you have a chance to see it, and once you've done that, turn the writing side down. table I'll give it to pen and pen I want you to write your number I think you said 47 on the other one so you're afraid you'll forget how to try to write right, perfect and now I can use a joke that I've literally been waiting four seasons to use.

You can keep the pen. You know, look closely at the letter. Forget comedy. I'll keep imagining that I'm going to shuffle the cards and I'll keep shuffling the deck until Penn says, stop there, do you want these up or down? This is your top, now tell it that you are going to make a final decision that will alter the outcome of this trick. Do we cut the platform or leave them as they are? the deck is cut simcha now let's review cashier, you chose the picnic, you use the pick to choose a card and then you wrote the name of your card on one side of the pen, you chose the number from 1 to 52 and you wrote your number on the other side of the hole and you feel comfortable with that number fire do you want to change your mind I'm not okay now I'm going to count 47 cards look carefully I'll do it as fast as I can but I'll be very fair since you said 47 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Would you agree?

I'm going to place card 47 right next to the no pen selection. If you had said a number less than 47, we would have landed on one of these cards, all different if you had. said a larger number we would have landed on one of these all different cards and in a moment you will be sitting in the center of the theater trying to figure out how this trick is done and there will be three questions in your mind and I would like to address them right now. Yes, cashier, at the beginning of the trick I offered you the option to choose 106 different colored guitar picks.

You chose the blue one, but it was a completely random choice on your part number. two, yes, gentlemen, this is an ordinary deck of cards, and you are welcome to examine them if you wish, and number three, and this is the one that might

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you. Yes, at the end of the trick, after writing your number. that guitar pick, I even asked you if you wanted to change to a different number and you could have, but you said no, so for the first time, would you turn that guitar pick over and show us the selected card machine?

It's the Jack of Diamonds, well there's only one question left to answer and that is: If this card is a Jack of Diamonds, I did this whole Penn & Teller trick. I was pretty sure you'd pick a diamond jack and I was pretty sure you'd pick a blue pick. Surely you were going to say the number 47, in fact, I was so sure that I made a prediction at the beginning of the trick pen: you would take out that pen and you would roll it in your hands until you could see a message on the side, did you see that?

Now I hope you have good glasses because it is in very small print. You selected a pick a jack or blue Diamonds and the number 47. Will you keep this trophy perhaps between the other two? But I don't know, they were looking very closely. Oh, them. I'm going to be so mad, they came up with this hack that I've been working on for two years and this hack was designed just for them. Is it harder to dub them because they know you so well now? I think that's what makes it interesting. a little bit about how I think and I know a little bit about how they think, so mentally it becomes a kind of jujitsu fight and I wanted them to come and see this up close because if it tricks them, I want them to know that I had the best view of this trick, yeah, from start to finish, okay Paul, you gave Pen a pen, let's see if Pen gives you a trophy, Paul, how are you?

I'm on time and you have the guts to sit up there on your face, you have the goods, you are good, you are great and you put terror in our hearts and also today you have been like in my own little daydream because you put out those picks, you know it and you don't I know if you know. this or not, but I'm a bassist and now I mainly played jazz bebop jazz, but maybe you don't know this, but in the late seventies and early eighties I played a lot of punk, I played my electric bass, my nice Ric and I I play with the image and he would use so much force that you wouldn't believe, it's not this gentle finger picking, but real force on that pick.

It was a difficult, difficult time, but now I play his bebop jazz softly, not as harsh or harsh as it was there. but I'll tell you what, you gave me this pen and he gave me the pen with a joke, a joke about my name, you said here's a pen, a pen, when I was in elementary school, it would be hey, pen, I have a pencil Hey, pen, how I should have an index of all those written jokes they told me. I would be over 50 maybe or move around more than that. It was amazing, so those two things came back to me with a nice nostalgia and I want to tell you Paul, if you didn't

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us, we want to welcome you back to this program for the fifth time to try again.

I also want to tell you, Paul Garner, if you fooled us, never go on that stage, right? I think you cheated on Allison. You have to work over two years on a trick to complete Penn & Teller. You guys got me. They did it. See you next time. They can't finish our show until we see the wonderful Masters guy. cashier act next