ML30: Penn & Teller's Miracle

okay we're gonna do our last thing right now for penn teller be a lot more uh media lab stuff coming up a lot more celebration we've got a split we got to get back to vegas but you know we've had a lot of mind stuff had a lot of magic stuff had a lot of mischief stuff we have not had any god given miracles now you're all about to have a damascus experience you're all about to witness the burning bush we need one person to become a disciple right up here on stage we do not want to create an apostate we don't want someone already has a religion or someone who's open to a whole new religion we're looking for a child is there a young person in the audience right here yeah how old are you how old get up here yeah come out of here right here yeah you leave your you can leave your program there right up here yep right over here right over here just stand right over here and stand right about here and all you've got to do is open up your heart and behold for teller was blessed with the ability to mend polyester with his mind and what is your name our newest friend say one more time teddy not teddy i want you to watch this carefully okay teddy teddy we have your perfectly ordinary polyester like some of you embarrassingly enough having your own person i want you to watch this teddy i take the scissors and i tear the polyester asunder it's sort of two pieces of product at equal size today take one end of that hold it tightly don't let go no matter what on the other side tell us about the middle you saw that polyester cut yourself didn't you now you watch as teller mends that polyester using his mind and the secular humanist method of the not now teddy that's when the objectivist material is such to myself would do it but i want you to watch until it goes a step further until it was cutting off the bunny ears now teddy there's still a knot there making a mockery of all that is held holy in the world but you watch just tell this therapeutic touch just melts that knot right away and someone say amen now you say hallelujah can i get a witness now teddy you're right up here on stage breathing down the neck of the new messiah that seemed to you to be a miracle or a magi trick okay watch this you've got one end of the polyester i've got the other and stereotyler's hands staring them staring them burn them burn them staring them staring them staring them and explaining that you're skeptical little freak huh but you're watching right now is i knew his friend teddy is having an epiphany right up here on stage teddy's decided to dedicate his young life to preaching the gospel of teller but as you travel the world bringing good news to modern man you'll encounter some skeptical hardened hearts such as your own require proof and you can give them that teddy because you yourself now have the power of the polyester you know that means it means you have dominion over all synthetic fabrics teddy that he walked to the center of the polyester walk to the center you just grab ah right toward the center yeah grab a hunk there teddy teddy you found the center of the polyester now ted you're going to take the scissors take the scissors and you are going to run with the scissors run with the scissors i'll cut the polygons yeah sure yeah yeah yeah cut it through at least i'll tell you you found the son of the polyester you cut the polyester tells now tying a knot and you get the highest honor that a lay person can have in the church of teller you're going to snip off the sacred bunny here so watch his fingertips it's my meal tickets you're monkeying with him yeah just i'll tell you you found the center of the polyester you cut the polyester there is still a knot there teddy put your hands in the classic praying position right around the knot right around the knot there teddy let me ask you something teddy do you believe in teller do you believe in teller do you believe in teller then let him work through you teddy someone say amen now you say hallelujah shut up shut up you're tempting teddy with the sin of pride teddy take a couple steps forward look straight ahead teddy put your arms by your side we're going to test you do you feel that synthetic petroleum based high tensile strength fabric going right around your young and not quite fully formed trachea do you feel that we're going to test you and if your faith in teller is perfect you will travel the world preaching the gospel of teller becoming a man of the synthetic cloth but if for one moment your faith waivers god will smite you do you believe in teller do you believe in teller do you believe and tell her that go forth teddy and sin no more take them with the teddy thank you so much take it with you thank you that is saint petty the patron saint of all synthetic fabrics saint teddy my name is penn geleza partner teller we're petty teller happy birthday media lab peace out we're gone you

Channel: MIT Media Lab

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Length: 5min 28sec (328 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 08 2016