Penn & Teller Fool Us, Sexy & Psychic Steffi Kay, MysterionThe Sentimentalists. Can they fool them?
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- The Sentimentalists, The beautiful Steffi Kay and Mysterion, Doctor of mentalism dare to appear on fool us and try to stump Penn & Teller.
This dynamic duo have been on fire and taking the world by storm. They are a regular act at the World Famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, on stages for some of the top Fortune 500 companies in the world and appeared on shows such as America’s Got Talent and other high profile programs.
In 2020 they were awarded the prestigious Allan Slaight award in magic for rising star, one of the top recognition awards in the industry. Steffi Kay is known for her authentic vintage style and has been profiled in some of the top fashion and media outlets on the planet. Mysterion has been a regular on many shows over the years such as Kenny V Spenny and Baggage Battles.
Will this pair be able to fool the legendary Penn and Teller live in Vegas? - บันเทิง
Her reaction to winning was freaking adorable!!
Yes, she made me happy :D
Very adorable
I'm a straight girl, and I agree. Cute squeals made me happy 😊
@Black Pilled Son Returns Huh? Its funny as hell to watch a girl in 1930's garb hug a confused magical yeti
I watched it 6 times. She's so cute
Her reaction is priceless 😂
I was more impressed at the end when Alison wrote Elvis and she guessed it right than their whole show....
I was going to say the same!
That was our original pitch for the main trick but they wanted the wind machine
The man obviously saw the word but he only said "Find the celebrity.." How was she able to pick up anything from there ? ? ? Awesome
Classic mentalism, the Houdinis had a code worked out, but with "celebrity" you have so many more options and so many variations, an amazing feat
I mean it sort of rhymes with Elvis Presley I guess
He sees a the picture on card in the box while mixing it and sleights it while handing the box back to the assistant. He then pretends to catch it in the machine, all while using verbal clues for steffi like “NATURES blindfold” and “grabbing a whole bunch of them in my hands” and “cut it”. They’re pros and she immediately knows what it is
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I don't understand what you mean by "He sees a the picture on card in the box while mixing it".
@@FAonTH-cam He picks the picture before the mixing starts and sleighs it, then acts as if he pulls it out. On point with the verbal queues which even I picked up on, she immediately knew what it was. That of course can't happen with any picture - but some people are bound to draw some of the ones that they have a verbal code for. I am baffled Penn & Teller didn't pick up on the verbal queues.
@@HansLollo I agree, but the hard part for me is: how did he get the picture? How did the collector manage to get one out of the box, possibly see it himself, and slip it to the other guy who then peeks at it?
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It’s awesome how she actually squee’s with delight at fooling them. She’s so enthralled she has to wipe a tear away. It’s gotta be a great feeling to have fooled P&T, masters of their craft so much so as to have a long running Las Vegas act and the career they’ve had. Outstanding!
Especially since they don't like mentalist acts, so it was an uphill climb.
That flower is elaborate and beautiful. The girl who drew that must be an artist!
And a Plant.
False, plants aren't allowed on this show.
notbob555 I'm sure he's talking about the flower.
notbob555 well flowers are plants my man
ColinTheCommenter not that kind of plant
When i look at him, all i can think of is free real estate...
lol why am i crying laughing so hard at that?
jo pesci?
She pulls off that look fantastically.nice job guys
Penn *really* hates mentalism
This is what I believe happened. Their assistant was walking around waiting and collecting the drawing. He gets a peak on one of the drawings and instead of having her put in the box, he grabs it and makes it appear to be put in the box. (He also is randomly grabbing cards and letting audience members put it in the box) At this point is either palming the drawing or putting it a secret compartment. While exchanging the box, the assistant slips the drawing and relays the info. "Think" is not the code word (too obvious) but the code word is buried within the patter.
Mysterion - I've been a fan since you were on Kenny vs Spenny and am glad you are finally getting the recognition you deserve.
Penn’s tie is pink, and Teller’s is teal. P&T. Pretty clever.
she is so adorable!
Love any act that does a throwback to 1930s vintage style. Sentimentastic!
I absolutely love the whole look of their act. They're going to bring a lot of class to Las Vegas. Very well deserved win!
Wow amazing! Great work Mysterion and Steffi!
This is my favourite performance on the show! Mysterion is a character from out of this world and Steffi is torn from the pages of another time. Absolutely wonderful!
Notice he says “NATURES blindfold”, and “grabbing a whole bunch of them in my hands”, and “cut it” ...all clues to her
All of that was said BEFORE he chose a picture.
"You 'may'." As in Mayflower. Pretty obvious. lol
@@SilverSergeant you don’t know that, he easily could have peeked or palmed the picture before the machine.
@@MarvelX42 lmaoo
He says "Nature's blindfold" in a lot of their videos. Seems like it's just a intro for the act and not related to the answer
she made me so happy.
her reaction is like wow
her voice is so lovely tbh
I love her reaction, pure joy
Good to see they improved since Britain's Got Talent
Funny, we were never on that
I like Penn's unexpected look at the end when girl hugged him 😄
That was really good! I love this and you guys are amazing. Very impressive
Nothing days authentic 1930s like a wind machine
That was so good. She is so beautiful.
This is the one time where I've seen Penn legitimately pissed off that they were fooled. A lot of the other times they were so excited they were fooled, but here not at all.
i think it's because they've said they don't like mentalists
Probably because it wasn't actually that impressive of an act. Like he said, there are many ways this could have been done, they just don't know exactly how they did it so technically they were fooled.
Exactly , it could have been done in so many ways, probably the easiest one is for assistant just to use a slight of hand and pick out a flower drawing out of the box ( there's going to be at least one out of a 100 drawings), and using a slight of hand give it to him, and later when the wind machine starts, take it out of his sleeve.
After that you can go at any pace that you'd like or do any dramatic effect that you prefer, it's all just acting skills from there on out...
She clearly knew it was a flower but not it's shape, so there's that.
I think the opposite. I think they knew how it was done (in fact I know they did), but they wanted that act for their Vegas show. And it's not true that they don't like mentalists. they don't like mentalists who pretend to have real psychic abilities.
Great act, by the way, Sentimentalists. You should construct a mind reading act around an Agatha Christie style whodunnit (your guy would make a great Poirot).
At the end...... ' Penn is a lucky man ' 😉
That perfect drawn flower. They only need 1 insider, the note is take from his suit inside the miss if the random room. Very simple trick.
went to Mysterion apartment years ago and it's full of Weird funny things. Wife and I had a great time of entertainment.
This is one of the few I had not seen before. Powerful show! Great work!
Here is how it's done. Watch the video on 0.25 speed. He doesn't grab a card out of the air, it's already in his hand.
"Think" must be a code word for flower, or they have a different communications systems in place.
The girl in the audience is most likely not a plant.
And this guy is great at slight of hand.
They have a strict rule against plants. And as the producer knows about all the tricks that are performed, he won't allow any plant.
I like your idea of code words and a fake blindfold if anything. Someone always draws a flower in the audience . Guy gets the drawings picks one already tells him and he has code to tell her. Makes more sense then all the plant shit.
He says “natures blindfold” then he says “grabbing a whole bunch of them in my hands” then he says “cut it” which are all clues to her
@@shavedparmesanprosciuttoan4317 oh wow didn't think of that but it makes perfect sense
@@shavedparmesanprosciuttoan4317 nope
I know both of them and have seen them through it all.
Congrats on fooling them and have a great time in Vegas.
Her voice and look are absolutely beautiful
I'll give it a shot. The assistant places a card in an easy to locate spot in the box. The guy takes the box, tucks the card in his sleeve with his left hand, and dumps the rest on the floor. While the cards are whirling in the air he pulls the card out of his left sleeve and looks at it under his nose using the fake blindfold. He then uses morse code to communicate the image to the girl, and we can see she begins drawing right away.
Definitely not morse code but speaking in code for sure, the word "natures blindfold" and "may" as in mayflower, "grabbing a bunch" and probably even "cut it"
I am in love with her.
This act was amazing. I never want to know how any of this is done much congrats well deserved.
That was really great
This is the kindave mentalism i like. Pictures. Psychic cards and stars and triangles circles squares. It was like the basis of knowing the beyond
I loved their reaction.
I came here not expecting much cause I’m not a fan of mentalism, but I ended up loving you guys! I love the 30s vibe and it was a very good act!
OMG.... she is soooo damn cute at the end!!! Lucky Man!!
He did all the talking, but i think she nailed it.
I couldn't be happier to see this. Sentimentalists rule. I've seen them at work firsthand, and I can't even take a wild guess how they do it.
This trick is super easy, for example at the end: when asked to name a celebrity living or dead, all you need to do is simply guess and hope that you're lucky.
I guessed Elvis. 🕺🏻
Um. What...
Lol seems legit
I was guessing Clint Eastwood.
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with her partner's voice. He saw the name and he said, "try the celebrity."
Top marks for choosing the name Sentimentalists, which not only refers to their act but also their love of the 30s.
Think I saw the way the main act could be done, but the afterthought - naming ELVIS was totally baffling.
Wow she’s beautiful
With my one guess I would say that one of the pieces of paper was removed from the box in advance, passed to the magician before he entered the booth and he used sleight of hand to give the illusion of taking it from the air. The fact that it was a flower could also have been communicated in advance to his partner.
However they definitely fooled me with regards to how they manipulated Alison into saying Elvis. My only guess is they planned it with her before hand to distract Penn and Teller further.
So you think the audience member that drew the flower was a plent then?
@@Mossfaerie arent flowers plants? 🤣
IMO. "Elvis" could easily have been an entirely primed answer, look at his hair, the collar fold on his vest, the phrases used, etc.
i love them
Amazing!!
It has to be the collector who separates one of the drawings and slips it to the guy, otherwise they would not have had their own assistant do that part. But I don't know how since the audience slid their drawings directly inside the box...
I think there could have been a slot at the back where the asssitant could have grabbed one
For anyone wondering how this trick was done, read on:
There’s a device called a Thumper that works in two parts. One person must send a signal and another must receive it. The Thumper sends vibration patterns to the receiver and can be interrupted through morse code. The sender can hide the sending device in shoes and they can tap their toe to send the message in morse code. I hope this was helpful 💖
but he didn´t see the flower, how come?
Someone that’s worked with them says they don’t use any electronic devices
There is bound to be a person(s) who will draw a flower. When the audience card collector spots a card with a flower he places the card in a location in the box that is easy to access and retrieved by the performer when he empties the box. This could be done by pushing the card sideways to make it stick to the lid. The performer retrieves the card from the box when he opens the box and palms it before exposing the card during the tumbling session...
Legitimately was my guess as well, I commented this above. But if you watch closely at 2:13 he reaches into his pocket. He is easily able to see under the blindfold with how it lays on the bridge of his nose. "Think" was a key word because of her smirk on her face the moment he said it. I think this was just palming a card from the box, looking under the "blindfold" and using word association tricks to guess. Like with "guess the celebrity" her mind immediately went to Elvis. It's a lot of working on 1 type of trick which makes this work so seamless.
How could you possibly have a three word clue for every celebrity? She was given the opportunity to pick any celebrity living or dead. And then the woman (Steffi) adds that it could be a ficticious character as well. So it could have been Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Sheen, or Spiderman. Any one of a thousand possible choices. In fact, it could have been someone they never heard of (Alyson may be a Yankees fan and she could have said Phil Rizzuto). No, I don't think the Elvis portion of the trick is done with some form of word association. If you look carefully at 4:52 and maybe even go into slow motion viewing, you will see that he is likely using a camera pen to take a picture of the card. What I can't figure out is how the pic is transferred to Steffi. At 4:54 the pen is in his hand, but by 4:55, it's disappeared. Almost seems like the video may have been edited.
If you slow motion @1:37 you can see a white card in his left hand that is palmed into his suit @1:39. This would support your theory!
It's not the pen, I think it's his ring, have you noticed the ring on his left hand? It's so unusual, it's just black, doesn't seem to have any stone. I think the pen which was given to the audience and the one she used is also a special type of pen, maybe the nib has some vibrations which guides the movement of the pen to draw a certain pattern.
One issue. All of them have it folded and passed down to the end. Watch as one guy has a few being slipped in.
The only time I got confused,was when the girl stood up,who did the flower. I go with: they took a complex flower drawing,so it's not exactly visible from the audience, ask "who drew this flower" and with that number of people there will be someone with a flower in the audience.
The audience can see it on the big screen next to the stage
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I think they decided before the show even started that they would draw a flower. so the collector finds a drawn flower and helps the magician stash it and then in the mixture of all the other suggestions he pulls it out with sleight of hand while trying to look like he is grasping for other suggestions.
She's too cute
Not sure how they did it, but I'm curious why she felt the need to turn her blank paper over at 2:45 before she began drawing on it.
Probably to show us it is blank
I noticed that too, but just for the logo on the back for the camera.
If the Sentimentalists were really good, they would already know they could fool P&T
We did call it in the pre interview lol
I think Dan peeked as he was collecting, took a flower image and placed it on an adhesive spot on the box and then the mentalist palmed it as he was dumping the box. Then all he had to do is pretend to catch it.
No way they have a strict rule against plants in the audience and help from any outsiders
Way to plant, Anne.
Then how did she know what Alison wrote in split seconds😂
She beautiful.. good luck at agt 2019.
john cena They got eliminated at the judges' cuts.
@@vincentsimbol7251 i know already. But she beautiful..
I love the My Cousin Vinny vibe
She was so cute.
this trick was easy!! the way the man spoke with his wife was the way of communicating the diagram! :)
Her reaction, aww
Trick is done the same way as the Elvis one in the end, which uses secret communication methods. One example could be Morse code being sent from the guy to the girl using something in the guy's shoe and the ring on the girl's hand. Watch where she places her thumb during the Elvis trick...it's right on top of the ring. Ring on middle finger on right hand is also a pretty odd location. Using this method you can send any message you want.
When he says "In a moment's time", he's looking down at the card. 2:22
When he says "Think", it's code for flower.
All of the images were pre drawn randomly, how would they come up with a code for it?
Yea I noticed how she got ready as soon as he said "think"
Mentalists use extremely detailed codes. I've seen Apollo Robbins demonstrating passing credit card number info without breaking normal speech. It's like card counting multiple decks. It's hard as heck, but people can do it. There is still a risk that everyone in the audience is a smart ass who picks things like Marvin Gaye or Tesla coil, but it's a risk you take.
I don't think magicians would normally make a trick based on luck
If so, what is the code for walrus?
Mysterion came a long way from Kenny vs Spenny
Such a easy trick in the box. Bring a piece of paper with you, voila done.
The first part was easy, you don't need a stooge or anything, just hide a card before hand and they both know which one it's gonna be. I'm not certain about the 2nd part but they've probably done research on Allison and he's code words would directly corresponds to the limited dozens of selections she would say.
Someone in the audience claimed the drawing so you're wrong. My comment has the correct explanation. Second part was shoe morse code.
The marker pens. My pleasure
He also said "grabbing a whole bunch of them", and later said "cut it". I believe they were using a verbal code.
Totally a verbal code. Surprised it wasn't penns first guess
I just figured it out! I haven’t yet figured out the second trick, however!
3:16 Okay I'll bite. I think the trick starts as soon as he reveals it's a flower. She has no clue what the picture is until this moment, keep that in mind. She has one hand holding each side of the card. If you watch from the timestamp it appears she's doing something with her right hand as it's moved down to the bottom of the card from the right side of the card. Then when the camera comes back she drops her right hand to the side perhaps ditching whatever was used to draw with. It's unfortunate the camera cuts away when this is happening but I really see no other way this could be done. There I tried.
John Robertson That’s actually quite likely. Now that think about it, that’s a very classic method. You put a small piece pencil lead under your fingernail so that you can draw/write even after getting rid of the pencil.
Which may be why Penn wanted to check her arms, but she could have thrown it easily and quietly.
Seethi C Exactly. Penn looked at her hands but never actually said "I think that's how you did it". Instead they went somewhere else with their guess. I'm not cleaning to know shit about how this is actually done, but logic dictates that it actually began the second her looked at it in front of a live Audience and said it's a flower. That's my take anyway.
If you watch her carefully, when she is drawing with the marker, it clearly makes the circle and petal shapes of the flower... so she is actually drawing that flower when they say she is
Malexandre P Perhaps. I have no idea. I'm just making a guess. Thank you.
Agree, she is clearly drawing a flower with the sharpie
🤯🤔 another from this season that I hadn't seen before.
My thought is some sort of like morse-code communication, like a little device that he can click on that sends a signal that pokes her leg. The question is now how he knew how there were a flower on the card...
Timperman you are overthinking it. The communication is not between the magician and her. Its between the paper collector and her. As he was walking up the stage with the box while his back was facing the audience, he could show one finger for flower, two for cat , three for dog....or as Lisa suggested, he said it quietly, and she read lips.
The same trick was done at AGT... lol
1:56
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compare the size of "his" paper vs the flying ones...,
This is a really tough one for P&T. As Penn somewhat alludes to, there's like a dozen ways this could be done without meaningfully changing the presentation and they prettt much have to guess.
Still a good act regardless.
My thought on this, if you watch closely at 2:13 he reaches into his pocket. He is easily able to see under the blindfold with how it lays on the bridge of his nose. "Think" was a key word because of her smirk on her face the moment he said it. I think this was just palming a card from the box, looking under the "blindfold" and using word association tricks to guess. Like with "guess the celebrity" her mind immediately went to Elvis. It's a lot of working on 1 type of trick which makes this work so seamless.
You never see the inside of his right hand, and i noticed when get gets close to the box after he already has the blindfold he reaches for his right pocket on the outside. That could have been misdirection, but i think it was a pocket check. Because you never see the inside of his right hand after he puts the cards in the box.
How did Penn and Teller did not guess it? I think its due to the fact that they know so many ways to do a trick like that. If they had another guess, they would have gotten it.
Good friend Dan doesn't get enough credit in this act.
Pretty simple IMO. One of two ways - 90% of these drawings are usually simple so the odds are already in their favor for how this is pulled off as you'll read. Him grabbing/holding a bunch of the drawings and squeezing them around at 2:19 is him really trying to cover up the fact that he's peeking through the false blindfold at the one card he's already hanging onto. His words to her after this are code. (i.e. "Grabbing a bunch of them in my hands", "cut it"). He does this until he finds a drawing that's common enough with regards to the codes they've memorized. Second possible way is a small marker sort of thing inside her thumb nail where she begins drawing the MILLISECOND after he says flower. This way is very possible as at 3:46 you can see her thumb covering the last part of the drawing showing that she may not have finished in time. The Elvis thing is shoe morse code.
Here from Kenny vs Spenny anyone?
Secret communication, multiple outs, and slight of hand. Her pen and his bulky black ring are communication devices. At some point, he signaled her that it was a flower. She had "multiple outs", composed of common drawings. She used slight of hand to get rid of the outs, leaving only the flower. I suspect his mask allowed him to peak at the drawings so he could pick one of the outs he knows she had.
That to me is proof of pre sho work. So much flying around him in the box. Took a piece of paper out of his pocket with a flower on it.
Everyone in the comment section was not fool as usual. And as usual, no explanation:b
Flower is too common. They have a key word for 3-5 (or more) common paintings. He can see the pictures and pick the one he want, then he say the word or the phrase and the trick is done.
2:16 he can see and pick a picture that he have a phrase or word to say about it. e.g "Think"
The Elvis part was really easy. Man peaked the celebrity and talked specific codewords meant for Elvis. The drawing is trickier since there are multiple ways to do it. My guess would have been she had some sort of minimarker on nails and when the flower was revealed, she drew fast sketch with her finger and then just get rid of the minimarker.
I think the assistant looked in the audience for someone who drew a flower and communicated that to the guy. He held onto the flower pic (maybe under a flap in the box or something) and the guy held onto it up his sleeve or something all the time in the glass box until he 'catches' it. The lady knows it's going to be a flower so draws one.
In case the assistant can't find a flower (possible) they may have codes for other common drawings, and the assistant can touch various fingers when he hands the box over and the guy can say different code words for the lady.
Agree that there should be more women in magic, yet I haven't seen a female act on this show where the woman wasn't influenced by either her Dad or her boyfriend.
I think everyone is forgetting about the assistant. Maybe the assistant took one card out of the box, looked at it and handed it over to the men. The women is good at lip reading and while handing it over, he "whispers" what card he took😂👌
The F U we got you Penn and Teller trophy love it :)
I don't know about the code word theory... I don't think he got a chance to look at the card to be able to know what it was, and the vast amount of possible drawings with associated code phrases would be ridiculous to manage. I think it's more likely they made that card and he had it concealed in his clothing. When the machine turns on all that confusion in there makes it easy to produce. Then they rely on probability. At least one person in the big audience is going to have drawn a flower, so he shows the card, asks who drew the flower, and someone is going to stand up.
While not impossible, that flower looks to be too well done fo a freehand without a table or something hard to keep the card flat while drawing.
As for the rest of the act, I agree with some of the guesses in this thread as to how it might have been done.
She started drawing before he said "I don't even know what it is" - before he took a look at it. How could it have gone from his mind to her brain if he had no idea about it. Or did he?
This is somewhat similar to what the Clairvoyant did in America's Got Talents. There are some sorts of communication methods the man uses to secretly "tell" the word to the woman (e.g: they can use vibrating devices in their shoes to transfer Morse code - or whatever code they want). At 2:23~2:26, we can see him trying to peek piece of paper he was holding, and the blindfold was probably just a gimmick which he can see through. After known the image, he just needed to "tell" her through the secret devices and that's it. Alison's word ("Elvis") is read exactly the same way.
A lot has been said on this thread. I'll save you the trouble of reading through the comments:
1) The assistant who was collecting the cards may be where the trick happened.
2) Perhaps, the guy's blindfold wasn't really a blindfold.
3) Secret communication, multiple outs and sleight of hand (this seems to be the most plausible way).
4) There was a plant in the audience (not allowed on fool us).
5) Her reaction at the end was priceless.
My thoughts: sucks that the producers will allow a trick that can be performed in multiple ways. Now, it isn't just a matter of them saying how the trick's done, it's a matter of guessing (and hoping to be right about) one of the myriad ways in which it could be done. Penn did seem a little agitated there towards the end. I'm sure he had a word with the producers afterwards.
Many tricks can be performed multiple ways. Having only tricks that work one single way is ridiculous. One it'd be hard to actually enforce, and two it'd limit the performer's ability to fool them. I've seen quite a few where they clearly were making it look like certain methods were being used, and caught P&T out that way, and it was hilarious to watch, at least as someoen who understood the inside jokes and moves.
True, but then, as I said, P&T should get more guesses. "Oh, you said I palmed it between my thumb and index finger, but I actually just placed it between the index and middle finger" etc is rather a cheap way to fool them. Not saying it's _always_ that extreme, but there's plenty of times when so was the case.
He guessed like 5 bloody times
She had a lot of time to draw it with her thumbnail on the special paper. Look at how she's holding it.
Virtually every trick can be performed multiple ways. Penn and Teller are not fans of magicians trying to pretend they're using a different method, but otherwise they're totally cool with it. Heck, the one guess rule is something they impose on themselves. Plus, they get a long time to think it through, it's slimmed down for TV. Finally, if they catch the general baseline of the trick and how it's done, it's enough for them to say they were not fooled. So technicalities usually don't count, unless the producers, who know the tricks beforehand, judge them to be essential to the trick.
Penn seemed a bit "off" with his response. He almost seemed disappointed. I'm curious about that. Does he not like mentalism? I loved this. Kuddos from me.
he said bunch code work for flower
Bunch could mean bananas too
Penn's reaction ...