Will MAGICIAN Shawn Farquhar FOOL Penn & Teller on Fool Us for the second time?

let's meet our first potential fooler my name is Sean Farquhar and I'm a professional magician magic is truly in my DNA I learned my numbers from a deck of cards which probably explains why in grade school I thought after 10:00 came jack I eat sleep and drink magic um sir I had something stuck in my throat every job I ever took ended up going back towards magic I worked in a pizza place and I was doing tricks with the pepperoni I would entertain the people who watch through the window aiex it's my second time on foolís we have no idea how you got it was probably the best performance experience I've ever done thanks to winning the World Championship I never imagined I'd fooled him the first time it was a long shot but then winning the Powerball is a long shot and there's always a winner in that tube for the first time ever we're bringing back someone who already full oh no here to see if he can do it again please welcome Sean Farquhar Wow back in the toilet stage you know the first word that comes to mind DejaVu gentlemen if you recall the last time I was here as the world champion of Kart 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 okay thank you so much Alison I have a book 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 in every word and you're gonna test me sound like fun sure Alison 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 oh the first two words that appear on 102 are Sherlock and Holmes am i right yeah yes I am 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 if you do that just makes the book happy here's one one day we'll do something a little bit different 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 I want you to open the book to any page you'd like to now I different a different page because I already saw stuff in that page and once you've made a decision say Sean I've made a decision I've 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 said too close for hope all right 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 good 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 side 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 it's continued 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 140 okay I'm countin on a paragraphs that are on page 140 140 oh this is good there's a there's like a lot there's like this is like 11 of them is that right and the second paragraph says like goodnight mr. Sherlock Holmes which beggars would be like Holmes Sherlock mr. Knight good is that right are you cheating outright yeah you go okay okay just a second what did you say are you cheating like sure you're back I'm moving I'm moving a little bit that's 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 pager you are now I'm on another page of not-so-happy Oh which one 136 136 that's excellent choice 130 out there 136 136 months it's on the left-hand side the first word the largest word on that line is the word wind wind Oh am i right yes it's pretty amazing isn't think about it I just used my mind Allison in my mind I was able to discern exactly when were spread think about it I mean the chances of it I mean look at the book go to open up with under 137 again then take a peek rate the yeah go ahead I could feel you moving a whole bunch yeah yeah it was my job 137 and you can see and I really don't oh yeah yes yeah I counted one two three four it's a book yeah I know there's a book 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 use easy Jurgen well should I share oh oh my pages are blank the entire book is blank Jillette the glasses touch I thought the glass touch nice there's not even like glass in the glasses I just I just Shawn Farber did you want to look I mean I Jeb dibs there's nothing we did that so that they freaked out I was freaking out first I was like does he have a mirror what's happening he's clearly cheating yeah Amir would have been a much better idea I should have used the mirror how do you come up with your tricks sleep deprivation oh yeah that's good 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 that once I'm amazed by how cool it was that people recognized me all over just because of fool us you could possibly do it twice no I I when I told my daughter that I was gonna go on the show she said why he 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 oh that's good maybe that's a good thing look very satisfied oh oh it's funny oh that's a that's an interesting look Penn tell her did he fool you you rat bastard is not a good thing do you think you are playing with children decisions no sir there are people at home more 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 and show there's no other book there we're getting off your shirt or drop your pants or do something like that to show there's nor the book or maybe there is another book and that's black too just to make us look like fools but 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 direct shame 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 fold them they might take out a restraining order and you'll frighten the tone but I can't remember my phone number I didn't ask you your phone number yeah it's not Sherlock hall there's there isn't any memory technique at all used ice and there's no books which and there's no books which either it's something else completely different bring it down you soon will be on the show again over my dead body never are you coming we're there with you go back to Kansas Helen Keller have been cool

Channel: Shawn Farquhar

Views: 2,183,511

Rating: 4.8736463 out of 5

Keywords: 2016-07-15, shawn farquhar, fism, world champion, penn, teller, fool uss, magic, farquhar, sheer luck, #PennandTellerFoolUs

Id: UQ3hw3sbVwM

Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 16 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/ChickenMcSandwich]

Each page is summarised at the start of the "trick book." When shes on page 140 he's on about page 5 where I guess the number of paragraphs for each page are summerised and there's a few lines from the page he can read out. Of course when he shows the book to be blank we dont see the first 5 or so pages.

[u/Kwa4250]

Is the video choppy for anyone else?

[u/odaal]

LILLY?

[u/Atrain009]

What happened to Jonathan?

[u/inversation]

Lower res, but better framerate: https://youtu.be/tqzxZ1jIZ_c

[u/UpHandsome]

When you buy polarized sunglasses (from China at least) there is often a test card that comes with it, that shows part of a picture printed in regular ink and the rest of it printed with "polarized" ink which is only visible when wearing polarized glasses. As you can see in this screenshot he's wearing glasses with lenses in them, not as he claims glasses without lenses. The blueish tint is probably familiar to anyone who owns a DSLR and a polarization filter. The entire trick is based on him getting a book printed with polarizing ink and then switching his glasses or popping the lenses out when he last puts them away.

Still, pretty cool.

And here is a demonstration of this technique.

[u/MBTAHole]

It's too bad they didn't keep Jonathan Ross. He was a much better host than flute girl.

[u/20_Bucks_Is_20_Bucks]

Alyson Hannigan is a terrible host. Did they choose her by drawing random celeb names out of a hat?

[u/McFluffybutt]

Can i have 10 more frames please?