Penn & Teller FOOL US // Noah Sonie burns his College Textbooks.

i was actually pretty late to the game when i discovered magic i was already a teenager which is actually kind of late but that was good for me because i came along when magic was a little less vegas and a little more street i was never going to be a magician if i had to you know wear prom clothes i was good at magic almost right away and when you're young that's what you're trying to figure out what am i good at for me magic was it i still think magic needs an upgrade and i think you can get that through a lot more diverse younger performers i mean i do this one trick that requires a fake hand which is a pretty standard device and i looked everywhere trying to find one and i couldn't find one that looked like me they just don't make them i wonder why that's why when we do shows me and my friends call ourselves some magic underground it's not dudes and top hats we have this off the grid vibe magic should be a place where change is not only possible it's happening right before your eyes sit back and enjoy the comedy magic of noah sony thank you so much for having me this is literally a dream come true and i mean that i've been dreaming of this moment ever since i was a college student watching this show and i know some people are thinking oh a magician that has a college degree that's cute but don't get ahead of yourselves it's a degree in parts and recreation now i'm a magician so clearly i'm putting that one to good use however college was still a great time for me there's actually a lot of parts of it that i really miss like living down the hall from all of my friends or sleeping through my classes or obama being president but at the same time there's a lot of parts of college that i don't miss like i can guarantee you that i don't miss racking up that student loan debt and i definitely don't miss having to buy those oddly overpriced textbooks that we never used i actually brought a few of my old textbooks with me today not because i'm a bitter person but more so for the memories this one here is a parks recreation in our environment yeah 65 for this book 65 for a book about the environment and honestly i don't even know how many trees had to die for a book about the environment it's fine the worst part is i never even read it this one here is advanced film theory 88 for this one and this is a little tip if i need a textbook to understand your movie maybe it wasn't a great movie but this one was by far the worst out of all of them this is a study on everything random by julia bradburn it was for my logics and statistics class 125 for this book and it's it's not like it has better facts or anything like that but this is this is the real twist the story so please penn tell her hold on to your seats julia bradburn was not just the author of this book she was also my teacher what what kind of con was she running who's about to write their own textbook charge 125 for it and then require an entire class of students to buy it every single semester but if i'm going to spend 125 on a book i'm going to get my money's worth so uh allison if you wouldn't mind would you actually join me here on stage yeah i hope she's watching i hope so too allison will you start to kind of break the pages of this book apart like this just break the glue on it apart okay okay and as you break them apart kind of mix them up too kind of shuffle them so you're breaking and you're mixing yeah okay yeah perfect get crazy with it and allison while you do that yeah just think back to your time in college at california state university northridge yeah you know where you studied psychology and you were a member of the alpha chi omega sorority chill it's not weird it's on her wikipedia it's fine and whenever you want uh give me whichever pile you don't want okay you can have that one are you sure sure you better be okay good good good and i really want to remind everybody that i'm seriously not like a bitter person at all like it's really this is all fine allison just like before break those pages into two piles two piles good and hand me whichever pile you don't want good are you sure yes uh pick one page that you like from the middle um one page one page and then hand me the rest good allison will you take that paper and hold it the long way other way sideways perfect and then allison will you rip that page in half and while you rip that page i just want you to say take that college take that college there you go uh put both halves on top of each other hold them the other way this time good and rip it again and this time say take that julia take that julia there you go and then one last time put both pieces on top of each other yeah and rip it one last time and allison this time say the price point that we put on college textbooks is really just the social construct we've created by putting a value on the education inside of them yeah what he said perfect and then now i want you to fail those pages in front of you and find one that has a lot of words on it okay and i keep something just one page yep with a lot of words though okay i'll take this there we go allison i want you to look at that piece of paper yeah and i want you to find a nice big interesting word on it don't go for something boring like the or house find something exciting and when you have a word in mind crumple up the piece of paper okay okay you're thinking of one word right now yeah you can throw it into the fire oh not a basketball player in college no neither is entire time there's been a board and a marker sitting right next to you yeah yes for the very first time will you pick those up and you can uncap the marker too okay good and just nice and big will you write the word that you're thinking of on that board yeah oh dear dry marker oh man uh what well it's just not the best marker is it is the marker not working it's a little dry allison can i can i see you know it's kind of funny right my teacher julia kind of had this theory she believed that everything in life was random that's kind of why she wrote the book and of course i didn't read the whole thing but from the back i was kind of able to understand a little bit um she believed everything was random she believed that you couldn't control the outcome of anything in life but as a magician i always kind of disagreed with that i thought you kind of did have a little bit of a say in things that's why i did this to prove her wrong [Music] allison inside of that marker where the ink should be you might notice that instead there's a rolled up piece of paper you never said your word out loud you never even got a chance to write it down for the very first time so pen and teller know what's the word that you're thinking of brainstorm brainstorm mm-hmm [Music] brainstormed give her a huge round of applause we're out here thank you thank you do you really hate your teachers no no no not all of them i had some great teachers in college how did you decide magic was your thing um i was not good at a lot of things growing up and then as a teenager i walked into a magic shop with all of my friends and we met a magician who started showing us all of these tricks and it was the coolest thing ever and so it was the summer in minnesota we had nothing else to do so we just went back every single day and eventually he was like dude i can't show you more tricks can i just teach you some and we were like deal that's awesome here i am now so do you think magic should be taught in college of course i was a really bad public speaker before i started doing magic and then i i kind of grew into it and i was able to talk in front of crowds and like in classes i had to do speeches i started getting higher grades on those speeches and i was like oh it's because i'm doing magic too in fact if any colleges are looking for a teacher and they want to hire me like i'm i'm in how much are you going to charge for your textbook that'll be five grand noah let's see if penn and teller know how you did your trick all right no what a great performance even more than a great trick just a great performance and it seems so honest and heartfelt anybody that hates college is okay with me that was really really good when you had just a social construct to make us think the education is important because we paid a lot for it that's a really important message very very good and we loved your exuberance and it's a wonderful wonderful baffling trick and we really hope that we're wrong in this one because we'd love to see you do more the moral of this story just seems to be that you were forced to buy that book and that bugs us and we hope you fooled us but we think we've got it and i think i might have thrown something in there for you okay did they figure it out i think they've got a really good idea of it oh well you didn't fool them but you sure made us laugh thank you so much thank you guys this show can't be stopped but it can take quick little breaks like this one fool us we'll be right back

Channel: Noah Sonie

Views: 219,976

Keywords: Magic, Magician, Penn and Teller, Fool Us, Penn and Teller fool us, Black Magician, Magic Trick, Book Test, College Magician, Magic show, TV magician, College Text books, Comedy, comedy magician, comedy magic, The CW, The CW Network, Parks and REcreation, Black Comedians, Comedian, Magician and comedian, hip hop, rap, high energy, las vegas, las vegas magician, Minnesota, Minnesota Magician

Id: 1ds9xXmIog8

Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2021