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

to fuller trophies have been earned maybe this next magician can make it three hi you may know me by now I'm Paul gertner the only magicians that have been on this show more than me to be back this time it just feels like yeah the stakes are raised a little bit more because if I fold up tonight I fold them three out of four times I know they'd prefer to have it 5050 and I've had two years to work on this trick and even up until the last three days I was still fine-tuning I've been able to put some of the pieces of this trick before some of the best sleight of hand artists and get their input too so it's not just me up there tonight on the stage I'm coming with the knowledge of some of the best magicians in the world [Applause] please welcome back [Applause] ten teller would you join me on stage [Music] like a hawk or watch if you're like a hawk this time thank you for joining me at the table this time now as you know one of the very first tricks the magician learns is what we call they pick a card trick yeah and in a pick a card trick the magician shows the cards to be all different he has someone pick a card and then the magician has to find the card but you see you guys have seen thousands of pick a card tricks right so tonight I want to show you something a little different I'm going to show you a pick a pick trick guitar pick now tell her I'm going to have you pick a pick but I want to make sure it's done completely randomly in other words I could already know which color pick you're going to choose because I could have gone on the internet done a little research figure it out maybe what your favorite color is and that might influence your decision so instead I'm going to place the tickets in the box shuffle them up and if you extend the index finger of your right hand and if you reach down into the box go ahead I'm going to have huge simply pick a pick this is the hard part you got to place it right down there on the table now pen you're gonna pick a number okay between 1 and 52 okay I want you to choose a number that you're gonna be comfortable sticking with okay do you have one and for the first time tell me and everyone else in the audience what number are you gonna choose 47 47 okay okay now tell her you're gonna pick a card but you're gonna pick the card with the pick so I want you to start at the top and leave that pick somewhere in the deck so the point of the pick will determine the cards you select okay so just very lightly very lightly and whenever you want mmm leave it go now I'll separate it we can see the card the pick I'm going to place your card and the pick right down there and in fact if you would take if you would take the pick in your hand and I'd also like you to take this pen and I want you to write your card on one side of the pick so if you took a two of Hearts you go right to H okay now show it around so that you get a chance to see it okay and once that's done turn the writing side down on the table I'll give it to pen and pen I want you to write your number I believe you said 47 on the other so there's worried that might forget how try to write okay perfect and now I get to use a joke that I've literally been waiting four seasons to use you can keep the pen pen [Music] you know what get a good look at the card forget the comedy I'll stick with imagine I'm going to shuffle the cards and I'm gonna continue shuffling the deck until Penn says stop right there do you want these on top or on the bottom this is your top on top now tell her you are now going to make one final decisions gonna alter the outcome of this trick do we cut the deck or do we leave them as they are cut the deck simcha now let's review teller you picked the picnic you use the pick to pick a card and you then wrote your name of your card on one side of the pick pen you pick the number from 1 to 52 and you wrote your number on the other side of the pit and you're comfortable with that number fire do you want to change your mind I do not okay now I'm going to count down 47 cards watch closely I'll do it as quick as I can but I'll be very fair watch 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 the 47 card right beside the pick no pen if you had said a number smaller than 47 we would have landed on one of these cards all different if you had said a number larger we would have landed on one of these cards all different and in a moment you're gonna be sitting in the center of the theater trying to figure out how this trick is done and they're gonna be three questions in your mind and I'd like to address them right now yes teller at the very beginning of the trick I offered you the option of choosing 106 different colored guitar picks you happen to choose 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 your and welcome to examine them if you'd like and number three and this is the one that just might fool you yes pan at the very end of the trick after you wrote your number on that guitar pick I even asked 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 over that guitar pick and show us the card teller selected 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 did this trick full Penn & Teller [Music] I was pretty sure you were gonna choose a Jack of Diamonds and I was pretty sure you're gonna pick a blue pick I was positive you were gonna say number 47 in fact I was so sure I actually made a prediction at the beginning of the trick pen to take out that pen and would you roll it in your hands until you could see a message on one side did you see it now I hope you have good glasses because it's really small print you selected a blue pick a jack o diamonds and number 47 are you gonna keep this trophy maybe between the other two but I don't know they were watching pretty close oh they're gonna be so mad come up with well this trick I've been working two years on and this trick was designed just for them is it harder to fold them because they know you so well now I think that's what makes it interesting they know a little bit about how I think and I know a little bit how they think so it becomes sort of like a jujitsu match mentally and I wanted them to come up and see this one up close because if if it fools them I want them to know they had the best view of this trick yeah start to finish okay Paul you gave pen a pen let's see if pen will give you a trophy Paul how you doing I'm going time and you have the guts to have a sit right up there in your face you have got the goods you are good you are great and you put terror in our hearts and also today you have been kind of going in my own little reverie because you brought out those picks you know and I don't know if you know this or not but I'm a bass player and now I mostly played jazz bebop jazz but you may not know this but back in the late seventies early eighties I played a lot of punk I would play my electric bass my nice Ric and I would play with the pic and I would use so much force you would not believe it not this gentle finger plucking but real force on that pick it was a rough rough time but now I play smooth her jazz bebop not as rough and tough as it was there but I'll tell you one thing 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 pen when I was in grade school it would be hey pen got a pencil hey pen how I should have an index of all those pen jokes that were told to me I'd have I'd have over 50 maybe or move more than that it was amazing so those two things just rushed back on me on a nice nostalgic thing and I want to tell you Paul if you did not fool us we want to welcome you back on this show for your fifth time to try again I also want to tell you Paul garner if you did fool us don't ever step on that stage do you think that you fooled Allison you've got to work longer than two years on a trick to full Penn & Teller you guys got me you nailed it see you next time for you [Music] you can't end our show until we see wonderful the Masters kind of teller perform next [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Paul Gertner

Views: 1,054,448

Rating: 4.9129515 out of 5

Keywords: Paul Gertner, Gertner, magic, magician, Fool Us, Penn & Teller, card trick, sleight-of-hand, The Pick Trick, Pick, Guitar Pick, Pick Trick, Two time fooler, Fooler

Id: UMU0htfVVIM

Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/simplyymagic]

Paul Gertner is a pleasure to watch! I was fortunate enough to see this effect live (I was "Penn") last year at one of his shows. Since I was "Penn" I got to keep the pen haha. 😄

[u/gringoboi]

Wow... I really have no idea as to how he did that.

[u/Have_you_seen_MOLLE]

Wait what was the third?