The Watermelon Trick//Jonah Babins & Ben Train// Penn and Teller's Fool Us//Toronto Magic Company

thank you, welcome back to our

magic

buffet where we serve all kinds of

magic

ians, so feast your eyes on our next ACT. It all started at summer camp when the two boys who loved magic met now that we live together, we are housemates. so we have dozens of decks of cards, thousands of books and two weirdos doing

trick

s and two magician costumes, but I'm not supposed to talk about that. That's true. The best part about being a magician is that every day is like being in preschool or doing art. and crafts and building new

trick

s sometimes I interrupt them and do tricks while he is in the bathroom.

He doesn't like that. I hate it. We founded the Toronto Magic Company to produce shows throughout the city. We work with hundreds of magicians. We perform for thousands. We want Toronto to give Las Vegas a chance as the most magical city in the world during the pandemic. We needed to find a way to keep ourselves busy, so we took up Pilates, no, we took tricks from old magic books and did them. ours and posted them on YouTube, that's where this trick came from, so Penn and Teller, I hope you don't see our YouTube channel, teaming up to defeat Penn and Teller, give up Jonah Bavins and Ben

train

Jonah and me. not just well known magicians and best friends, we are also big fans of the show, in fact we have watched all the episodes and you know what we noticed, everyone comes to this show and tries to do exactly the same thing, they try to write and tell. her with tricks but not us tonight we're going to try to do something different tonight we're going to try to trick Pen and tell her with science look, for thousands of years scientists have been trying to find a way to pass one solid object through another and until now it's been completely impossible, but tonight that's about to change because we think we found a way to do it.

We have discovered an object that has the unique property of being solid and liquid at the same time. at the same time we present

watermelon

, that's right,

watermelon

now for those of you who are not experts in juicy fruits, you may not know that watermelon is 96 water, which means that although it feels like a solid, it is primarily a liquid, our theory is that This special property of watermelons will make it possible to pass a solid object through them without damaging the melon. Now we just have to prove it. Allison, would you mind helping us with a little experiment?

Okay, Allison Hannigan, everyone, hello Allison, this is for you, thank you. You're welcome, now each of us has a role to play if this experiment is going to work well, first my job, I need to find something that we can pass through the melon, in this case two pieces of industrial tape, this is the type that You could use it if you were a male craftsman, the second job is yours and that is to keep the melon calm during the correct procedure, so with one hand hold it firmly from below and with the other hand, yes, like this, and with the with the other hand gently rubs his back like you were doing oh you've done this before and last but not least my job is to keep you distracted so you don't see Jonah threading the very big scary needle behind you hi Allison hi now comes the unpleasant part penetrating the melon Allison, if you don't move, this won't hurt.

Oh, and let me tell you, I know for some people at home this seems really scary, but let me tell you, for the melon this feels good. Now Allison, can you verify for us that the tape actually goes through the melon? Yes, this is not a trick or an illusion. No, it's true, this is science and, in the name of good science, we have to be honest with everyone here. We said this. It only works with a watermelon because it has 96 water, but that's not entirely true. We think this will actually work with any object that is more liquid than solid and since the human body is theoretically 60 water, this should work with Allison as well.

I'm going to take a ribbon from this side and another from that and I'm going to make a bow this does two things oh put your hand in yes this does two things number one secures you to the melon number two makes the whole experiment feel prettier, right? You know? I feel very dehydrated today so I don't know if this will work. Now Allison will verify for us that the tape actually goes through the melon. Yes, yes, and it's really wrapped around your head. Yes, now comes our favorite part. a solid ribbon through a solid melon and a solid Allison for the three count.

Joan and I are going to pull and if our theory is correct, the tape should go through the flesh of the melon and also the flesh of Allison's hand without making a mess of either one. I'm really wishing I chose my left hand. Ben, are you ready? Oh, it's Allison, are you ready? As ready as I will ever be. Here we go three, two, one pull, boom, well, it worked if it didn't work. That would have been horrible, so how long have you been friends? We've been friends for 15 16 years. That's right, it's funny, we actually used to be solo artists, but in the last two years we started performing virtually and became a duo act because of the pandemic and one of the interesting things that happened over the last few years is our energy and Our enthusiasm for performing on stage has only grown and increased, so now we are ready to go out and show it to everyone. we even during the pandemic we even invented magic to keep ourselves busy and that's where this came from aha they call it because it's a pandemic baby it started because Jonah's mom when she buys melons hits them and we saw her do it once and we asked her why she did it and she He said he doesn't know, but people just hit the melons.

Can you tell us what is a good melon? Yeah, but we thought it looked really fun, we thought it felt magical. I started working on a melon trick, who would have thought it would lead us here? Okay, let's see if your watermelon trick can produce a trophy. Jonah and Ben. The first thing I said to Tyler when you finished was why not. So we thought about it, we have everything going for us, we are two people, we can afford a watermelon and, wow, that's a great trick, at first we were very interested, you said you were going to pass a watermelon, we thought this is something completely different and very, very scientific, but it's a great trick, very fun, very simple and really wonderful.

First of all, I just want to get off topic for a second. The necklace you are wearing. You did it? Do you understand that it's that part of the program or it's your mother's mother's necklace, it's for the program, okay, okay, but what I mean, I'm sorry, I was distracted by that, but I went back to this ATM and was investigating. This basic principle and we dedicate it during this season to one of our closers. We worked several sessions on this trying to solve the problems that you solved like this with your watermelon, so we're really impressed because it's like you know we really did it. down that path and you failed and you took that path and you totally nailed it, but because we worked on it, we don't think you

fool

ed us and I might have put something in there, they gave you a little clue, what do you think?

Do you know how you made your trip? They know how. I think you know how we did it, but it was a great honor to be a part of the show. Well thank you very much. Later tonight, watching them take on another wizard right after this, we're done. We say goodbye to this beautiful sight in Las Vegas and with it we have a strange celebration that we said we were going to do, which is bam eating some of our stage melon. I'm allergic to watermelons, huh, but it's working Regards Regards good job disgusting melon sounds good, glad I did it, okay, let's go down and get some real food.