Penn & Teller Fool Us Shawn Farquhar - Fooled

Penn & Teller wins a trip back to Vegas to perform in their famous Las Vegas show let's meet our first potential fooler my name is Shawn Parker and I'm a professional magician magic is truly at my DNA I learned my numbers from a deck of cards which probably explains why in grade school I thought after ten King Jack I eat sleep and drink magic sorry I had something stuck in my throat every job I ever took ended up going back towards magic and I worked in a pizza place and I was doing tricks with the pepperoni I would entertain the people who watch through the window actually it's my second time on fullest we have probably the best performance experience I've ever done next to winning the World Championship I never imagined I'd fooled him the first time there was a long shot but then winning the Powerball is a long shot and there's always a winner in that tube first time ever we're bringing back someone who already fooled you can do it again please welcome back in the fullest stage to know the first word that comes to mind deja boo' gentlemen if you recall the last time I was here as the world champion of card magic and I did a card trick and for me it was an awesome memory and speaking of awesome memories that's what I'm gonna demonstrate tonight the help of Alison would you mind helping for a moment this is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I want you to take a look at the book and make sure that all the pages are different that it's not one page repeated over and over again every page is different in the book it's a real book yes yes there are 200 and some odd pages in there average page has between 200 250 words which means there's somewhere between 40 and 50 thousand words I've memorized them all every page every paragraph every sentence and every word and you're gonna test me so like what sure awesome pick any page you'd like in the book tell me the page number and I'll tell you what's written on it okay 102 102 it's excellent the first two words that appear on 102 are Sherlock and Holmes am i right yeah I should point that out the top of every page says Sherlock and Holmes it's a gimme this is way too easy and you see I can see the pages so it's not really test conditions I got a good yeah if you do that just makes the book happy test conditions will turn so we're not facing each other in fact we'll stand back-to-back yeah shoulder to shoulder cheek to cheek oh hey you work out okay book to any page you'd like to know I different a different page because I already saw stuff in that pan and once you've made a decision say Sean I've made a decision I made a decision that's awesome I'm happy with the decision are you happy with the decision sure good now that we're both happy I want you to be more like my wife and even though we're both made the decision and we're happy I want you to change your mind again okay set your clothes for hope are you on a new page sure for the first time what is the page you're on 64 64 is there any way you would have known that you were gonna be on 64 tonight none right now I want you quietly just to yourself to count the number of paragraphs that are on page 64 this was a lot easier when I was younger 64 yeah on that site there's 1 2 3 4 5 5 paragraphs am i right yes and the first line is actually the middle of a person's name it begins with like von ormstein the Grand Duke of cassel-felstein and from the page before which the last three words on that page were like William got street Sigmund's is that right yes imagine that that I'm able to actually discern those pages as quickly as that oh it's okay we'll go to another page we'll go to another page so back together back to back now go to a different section maybe another ten pages 20 pages up wherever you'd like to go to those pages and tell me what page you're on now 140 140 that's an excellent choice one page 140 140 oh this is good there's a there's like a lot there's like it sounds like eleven of them is that right and the second paragraph says like goodnight mr. Sherlock Holmes which backwards would be like Holmes Sherlock mr. Knight good are you cheating right yeah okay okay just just second what did you say are you cheating like you shaking back I'm moving I'm moving a little bit just because I'm just thinking I'm just thinking okay let's let's try it again go to go to another page a couple more pages forward maybe just so that were 100% sure that you're on a new page and you're happy okay page are you on now I'm on another page I'm not so happy 36 136 that's an excellent choice 130 out there 136 136 votes it's on the left hand side the first word the largest word on that line is the word wing window am i right yes it's pretty amazing is it think about it I just used my mind Allison in my mind I was able to discern exactly think about it I mean the chances of it I mean look at the book go to open open under 137 again they take a peek right there yeah go ahead I could feel you moving a whole bunch yeah yeah it was my job 137 you can see killer one two three four there's a book yeah I know there's a book a you know they have their eyes open oh yeah maybe I didn't understand the show I know it's supposed to be fool us but I was more like enjoying fooling news should I share oh my pages are blank the entire tonight the glasses touch I thought the glass touch nice there's not even like glass in the glasses I just I just did you want to look good I mean I there's nothing we did that so that they freaked out I was freaking out I was like to see them mirror what's happening he's clearly cheating yeah I'm here would have been a much better idea I should have used the mirror do you come up with your tricks sleep deprivation oh I gave up sleep about four years ago and I travel a lot I basically live on airplanes and it's all changed because of my time with Penn & Teller at once I'm amazed by how cool it was that big people recognized me all over just because of fool us you could possibly do it twice no I when I told my daughter that I was gonna go on the show she said why they said you're you think you can fool them twice I said no I really don't know if I could do that that would be really cool yeah but I'm not gonna hold my hopes cuz they're talking for a long time very satisfied oh oh that's that's an interesting look Penn Teller did he fool you you rat bastard do you think you are playing with children no sir there are people at home or going oh he switched the books and you're thinking Oh Penn & Teller they're gonna say he switched the books and then you're gonna do something like open up your coat they show there's no other book there are you gonna take off your shirt or drop your pants or do something like that to Struthers nor the book or maybe there is another book that's black tape just to make us look like fools thank you you pig-dog fool us once shame on you fool us twice shame on us we think it actually is a memory trick and there is no book switch at all and there is certain kind of direction on how many paragraphs and so on but a lot of that is in your head because you are wicked wicked smart and we are jaded we will not fall for your joy bingo we're done get off the stage if you did pull them they might take out a restraining order and the old frighten the tone but I can't remember my phone number there's there isn't any memory technique at all used a and there's no book switch and there's no books which either it's something else completely different soon we'll be on the show again over my dead body we're done with you dr. king it can happen again when we come back and make sure make sure you have four cards with all different fronts and the same backs that you're willing to ruin and we'll do a trick for you in your home

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Views: 347,352

Rating: 4.8764658 out of 5

Keywords: Fool Us, season 3, Shawn Farquhar

Id: tqzxZ1jIZ_c

Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2016