Penn & Teller Fool Us Francis Menotti

hi I'm Francis monatti and I'm what you might call an absurdist magician when I first found out that magic wasn't real I wasn't disenchanted with it I actually found it even more interesting I found the concept of using one's intellect to create the illusion of something happening is far more interesting than the idea that I could do real magic I am doing a trick I am sharing the experience with them I don't like going out there and saying hey look what I can do I like to say wow look at this isn't this cool and I want to watch this with you I want to tell a story and I'll say here's what you think you know about reality and I'll try and challenge that can you think oh maybe what I thought is impossible isn't so impossible after all things welcome Francis Murphy I'm not usually one to Gasconade a 13-point word for brag but I'm a pretty mean Scrabble player just came back from England and I found their Scrabble sets are a little different they have a green tile rack the tiles themselves are also plastic which makes it impossible for certain family members and friends to use the wood grains to cheat ascribe we have a hundred letter tiles you take seven of them you rearrange them to make the best word possible right we're gonna play a little game I need seven of you we're gonna take the first row and the third row that's two that's five would you just join me on stage a warm round of applause we'll follow you up here you stand right here please right along this line if you will please thank you very much there you go right along the line here we're gonna play a game and each of you are going to reach inside the bag take a single tile keep it to yourself don't show anyone else and in a minute I'm gonna have you deposit them on this tray as you walk back to your seat fair enough I feel as though to get into the spirit of this game I should change my words slightly so I entreat that you take this satchel of graphemes and and shake it paroxysmal II know now delve into the satchel and extract a singular grapheme for your own ocular pleasure not other and please reciprocate with a satchel down the line till seven of you have done the Slee next one i'm jonathon would you be so kind as to join me over here so please thank you very much from her water right over here please pleasure nice to meet you Jonathan as I riffle through the folia by acclamation of cessation bid me cease whichever temporal singularity you like so you're gonna flip and I'm gonna stop gotcha so perfect now take the ligneous accreted graphite stylus and describe a small circle approximately the dimensions of a pecuniary pittance representing the value of a decimated dollar arbitrarily in situ but just draw a small circle without looking at this is much hotter work than I thought it was gonna be okay but without looking as small so sorry very good I'll have selected I'll take this and in fact you know what would you also initial the page just to make sure we in case we lose it right here at the corner if you will please that way you'll find it later fair enough okay I marked the page here I'll come back to you if you will good should I hold this please naturally as this prior to radio maybe already perspicacious to you very good and back to your seat please while words may be diverting and pulchritudinous they can if overused cognitively perturb but also be aplia nastic and intellectual fartole to the auditor I said fartole Piper brobdingnagian words make the elocutionist seem pompous in egotistical they can alienate the audience or bewilder the listener to an aphasic stupor as is evidenced by our current endeavors a while it may be a salutary exercise to be well-versed in the vocabulary of one's language I think our speech often can catenate around linear lilliputian utterances when casually conversing with others no small words oh uh which of you had the L ma well you're first in line uh Jonathan would you be so kind as to open the book to the chosen lexical sign okay and find the encircled word it's my fervent hope that through the sesquipedalian demonstration of a frivolous con I've successfully rendered my intention that whenever possible one should assume Fiske a ssin what was it the wood is lobster word Frances let me um obviously we're impressed by V just remembering those words is quite something but you're a smart guy know that your parents were both physicists that's correct yes how did that affect you growing up what kind of an influence at the exerting they encouraged encouraged curiosity and learning as much as I could and basically encouraged me to do whatever I chased as long as I did it the best I could so they were happy that you went into magic rather than to physics or another of the scientific disciplines delighted yeah okay I think they've talked long enough lazy I'm gonna go to it's got a pain in us what he thinks well you know I I wish I had a thesaurus it'd be so nice to answer you in kind but I just don't have a thesaurus the book that you used is very similar to a to a book that we used we did the bachelor party for Steven Spielberg it left a big mystery and that is why Steven Spielberg in his bachelor party would have lost instead of hookers which is the big deep mystery have we had their fun but I guess we really wanted to prove to you what we think would we be able to look at the tray and the scrabble dictionary yeah and the truck yeah yeah mmm mmm to fit the big try yeah I want to matric Duggars you on the table as well are you here man should I tell you what you may and may not examine yes I would prefer you to take a look at that yeah and uh this this dictionary is fine take a look at as well but and anything I've got in my pockets is yours what do you can you give us maybe a hint as to what you might be looking for without giving away too much well if what we're looking for we can't find we're not giving away much there are we because we can't find it may I say I was really hoping you were going to go for this tray yeah well we'd like to answer you with a trick of our own because earlier today Jonathan um Andrew came to you dance named yes and they asked you to put an envelope in your pocket which ID I did not touch that envelope since you put in your pocket no you have no idea what's in that avila I do not I didn't even steam it open I didn't even hold up to a life now that although it's been your possession since you had is my hair would you reach in to pull up and I'll be smiling now we could not have gotten to that right we did not see this trick and yet before we even saw you that envelope it says fool us on it was delivered to Jonathan Ross and we're not going to touch it we're not going to touch it would you hand it please to Frances and friends would you open that envelope because I think this trick is going to blow your mind in this envelope you no one else has touched this we did not see the trick before this would you pull out and would you read aloud please what it says he will fool and in tell her

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Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2015