Bullet Catch // Jon Mobley Penn & Teller Fool Us S09E01

My name is John Mobley and the type of magic I do is mild growing up. He was a shy child, so magic was a quick way to break the ice. The challenge was that he was my go-to every time he just didn't want to. To be boring I thought that if I'm normal and act like a normal person, people aren't going to date me, right? I have to be interested instead of just being real with me even though I've been doing it. Magic my whole life was a mask, it was something I hid behind, so I decided to take a break for a full year.

The most vulnerable thing I do now is just appear as myself and it was a breath of fresh air, so when I came back to Magic. My focus completely changed to Penn and Teller, they are known for putting their own spin on classic tricks tonight. I'm going to put a spin on something they made famous and hopefully

fool

them with their own gimmick. Tell him see if you can

catch

this. John Mobley Foreign Guys, my original plan tonight was to trick you with this invisible deck, but this morning I couldn't find it, so it's fun, in fact, I'm going to try my best.

I'm going to try the most dangerous trick for a magician. Now I can

catch

the

bullet

. I know what you're thinking. You already perform a famous version of that trick here on this stage, so for me to be on your stage and try to trick you with your own trick, it would be silly unless I could do it in a way that you literally can't see how it's done, so this is my idea: I will take the invisible platform and the

bullet

closure and combine them into a new trick that the world has never seen. I present. for the first time ever The Invisible Bullet Catches Allison, could you join me on stage?

Allison, we have a box of invisible bullets here, have you ever seen one? Until today, okay, also, this is pretty simple. I want you to take a look at it. these invisible bullets I want you to decide which one you want and then I just want you to take them out carefully and hold them perfect, we have to make this bullet unique, that's why we brought, sorry, here's my magic invisible marker. Allison, could you move the bullet to your other hand? We need your right hand. I want you to take this marker and, uh, the card you're thinking of.

I want you to draw it on the bullet. Now great. I'll take the marker. I love it. the new ones okay this is the time we have to load it in a pistol guys when you do this use a cold Python 357 Magnum too ambitious for me I'm just going to use a pistol literally a pistol Allison , please drive with Be careful and you don't need a license to operate this, but go ahead and take it, yes, perfect, yes, excellent, examine the gun, it's a normal gun, at that point I can tell, okay, wait , safety first, Allison, okay, here we go, okay.

The most important piece, please load your bullet into the gun. Something incredible is about to happen. Okay, that bullet will travel across the stage and hopefully end up in my mouth, but we need to get you into position. Please move over here and uh, try this, maybe try, maybe put your left foot back for balance. Great, keep your elbow up the entire time and then maybe this hand on your hip, how does that feel? Okay, weird, weird, well, you look great, thanks. Well, here is the moment of Truth, okay, in position, please, yes, on the count of three.

I want you to shoot me in the face. Okay, here we go, put the gun down. You think you're nervous. Three, two, one, two things. They just fired the gun and my sound guy, Allison. you shot an invisible bullet but there's a real bullet in my teeth yeah for the first time what was the card you thought you drew on the bullet uh foreign nine of diamonds a little closer here please verify that it's a nine of diamonds drawn on the bullet, yes it is, Allison, give Allison a round of applause. I always want to shoot pretty good, he's the only one I've ever shot.

Okay, well, yeah, did you have a lot of invisible friends when you were little? It's funny you mentioned that I grew up in a very small town of about 5,000 people, so there weren't many people. In fact, by magic I became visible to others. That's great. Yes, I had an invisible one. That's great. Do you believe it? Magic 24 hours a day or you sleep, yeah I did a lot of magic growing up but now my wife and I have three kids under six, oh I bet they make you practice a lot more than you want, yeah actually , my son when he came.

He was five years old, he came to my first magic show, he had a sparkly magic hat, he brought his wand, he said from the front and every time I made eye contact with him he said, he's my biggest fan, huh, oh, okay, John, let's see if Pen and Teller can see through your invisible magic trick here we go, oh John, what a cute routine you know for making a bullet catcher that is completely safe and harmless and has nothing really beautiful about it, it's the catcher. bullets for our Sometimes it's just light and happy and uh, and it doesn't make us think about anything negative, just having it all simulated until the end and I thought Allison was great, you know, when you were safely holding the bullets, it was like Allison was watching these things as you presented them to them, they were really beautiful and the trick is really baffling and very, very good, and if you look at it, you know that no matter how you look at it, it's still good. trick and we loved it, it's a great joke and a great performance and we don't think you

fool

ed us, what do you think?

Well, it's really hard to fool these guys, which is why I also brought this invisible participation trophy. thanks for your time