Andi Gladwin FOOLS Penn & Teller

[Music] foolish is back and ready for almost anything let's see if this next magician can surprise us i'm a magician first and foremost and magic really is my passion but i also co-founded a magic company and we produce magic tricks for other magicians i'm kept pretty busy running a magic company and we sell magic to magicians all over the world we've even produced a few tricks that have prepared on foolish and some have even fooled panatella but i still think of my real job as being a performer i only create magic that i'd want to do that's the approach because if i can't see myself doing the trick then i can't see other magicians doing it either i'm not supporting anyone else's vision tonight nor underwriting another magician's dream i've created a brand new effect to perform tonight this time i'm here for me returning to the fullest stage all the way from london andy gladwin more than 45 years ago a circus school graduate and a latin high school teacher met for the first time and formed one of the most iconic double x of their generation now i can't tell you the odds of penn meeting teller that day but i can help recreate them i'm going to give penitela a series of random choices to make and even though they will be completely random i predict that the end result will be that pen and teller meet once again and the first choice is yours on the board here i have five different locations your house a coffee shop the movies a library and a theater i'd like you to pick one of those locations a library a library we will put pen into the library tell the same thing for you i'll move you down the row you just hold up your hand when you want me to stop your house a coffee shop the movies a library you want to stop in the library so we have both pen and teller in the library they made the same decision perhaps it was always meant to be now here's the fun thing in this folder here i have five of your key career events i'm gonna read them out one by one and i'd like you to rank them between one and five and we'll place one in each spot until we fill up all five spaces now one could be high or five could be high that's your choice i'm not gonna find out and i'm even going to give you the opportunity to change your mind once you've seen all five cards so the first career event is for you penn it is graduating clown school where should that go one two three four or five ah clown college um well the best of times was the worst of times uh let's put that at two that is a great choice i have so many questions right now but we will leave that until later i tell her this one's for you of course we already mentioned it it is teaching high school latin where would you rank that one three four or five unos notice i speak latin to the only latin teacher that won't correct my pronunciation this one goes here [Applause] next one is for both of you you both appeared on a tv show early in your career called miami vice now i have to admit i haven't seen the show i'm just hoping that your wikipedia page is accurate but where should it go we have three four five we can change our minds later on you can change your mind one lower high in your mind teller because wherever it is miami vice needs to be the worst you know what i'm going to go and change this right now if you want i can swap teaching letting and put it somewhere else why don't you slide them over put miami vice in the toilet at one miami vice at one because you spend six weeks with don johnson see how much you want to stay alive [Laughter] okay we're almost there this next one is your first broadway show that was fabulous this was back in 1987 you were referred to as the bad boys of magic yeah i would say five five let's do five on that a very understandable career highlight the next one is my personal favorite but i have to admit it hasn't actually happened yet but i'm hoping it will after the show nobel prize almost off equally as good if not better it is making me andy gladwin the third penantella member i see i have a name for us pen andy teller oh it's one extra letter it's like it's meant to be fellas we should do this that's a very good point so that one right now is going to go into four yeah i did say i would give you the opportunity to change your mind so are there any now that you've seen every one of them that you want me to switch about i i think they're in pretty good order right there myself do you want to change something tell her good we are happy we will stand pat you are happy i'm happy too but there is one more opportunity i want to give you okay see the orientation of these cards is vitally important to the outcome of this trick so are there any that you would like me to turn upside down please turn miami vice upside down and let's hope that voodoo works with that rat bastard any more before we continue no well now i get to tell you what all of this is about you see on the other side of these cards is a maze and it's a maze built entirely by the decisions that you have both made from your career and you'll notice it's a maze with five start points and five end points on each card now penn that day that you met teller if you'd have decided to stay at home let's look at what would have happened you see you wouldn't have met teller as we follow along making every move along you can see that you wouldn't have met teller that day instead you would have ended up back home it wouldn't have been penintella it would have been pan and some other fella now there are 25 different start and end point combinations on this board if you multiply that by the 24 possible orders on the board and then multiply that again by the 16 possible order combinations and there's a 1 in 9 600 chance that you two would create this maze now either my entire fullest experience is based entirely on luck or maybe just maybe pen and teller were always meant to be let's take a look then you decided to start at the library if i follow along making all of the twists and turns based on all of the twists and turns of your career you will see that the end result is that pen and teller meet once again it's like it was meant [Applause] wow that was amazing yes you must be incredibly good at math i'm a secret nerd and you're incredibly good at magic well thank you that's very kind but uh it's it's fun to combine all of my interest i used to be a computer programmer there's a little bit of that there's maps there's everything this is a yeah it was a fun trick to work on wow so what does this trick tell us is life fate or happenstance well we can never calculate the odds of meeting the people that we end up meeting and that's that was my starting point thinking what were the odds of penn meeting teller so if this trick didn't work and penn wound up in the coffee shop would we all just vanish we'd probably all just enjoy with a coffee right now i think do your business and your performances compete for attention no they share attention actually because i get to use my experience as a performer and then i get to perform the tricks and make sure that they are really great andy i know they were amazed but let's see if pen and teller are still puzzled hey andy uh boy you just you just come up with the greatest stuff teller especially goes to vanishing inc uh which is your company and buys tricks from you all the time you just make up the greatest stuff and we are so honored because did you make this up for us just for you guys wow this is the only time you're performing it first and last time wow we're amazed and honored and thankful of that you know as you probably noticed we were drawing things and we were looking at this we were tracing it in our minds and turning stuff and figuring it out i gotta tell you of all the people we've busted on on fool us i don't think there's anybody we've busted more i mean i think we figured out more in this trick than any other trick we've ever figured out we were so proud of ourselves we figured out like four steps of this and we were just doing math like crazy we're feeling really good about ourselves really great and we were feeling a little smug and then we ran through all the stuff we worked out which i will repeat is more than we've ever worked out on anyone else and realized it still wasn't enough we still don't have everything you fooled us it's as simple as this [Applause] we don't have enough we have so much of it we figured so much of it but not enough thank you so much thank you very much and thanks for working that out for us and we're not done yet penn and teller take on more magicians when we return [Applause]

Channel: Vanishing Inc. Magic

Views: 181,759

Keywords: vanishing inc, magic tricks, vanishing inc., andi gladwin, joshua jay, magic shop, magic store, learn magic tricks

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 08 2022