Magician REACTS to Doc Dixon Three Shell Game on Penn and Teller FOOL US 2019
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Magician reacts to Doc Dixon 2019 perform magic tricks with the three shell game for Penn and Teller on their show Penn & Teller Fool Us 2019. Doc Dixon is a magician who's quick talking, funny jokes, and sleight of hand help him create an entertaining atmosphere everyone can enjoy. On this episode Doc Dixon's talents meant he is a Fool Us winner and got the Fooler trophy. This video shows the reaction of someone familiar with card magic so you can see how someone in this field feels about the performance! This is Fool Us Season 6 2019 s06e11. How did you enjoy the performance? :)
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Yo dude
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Something weird happened to my original comment on another video -- maybe because of an Amazon link/URL it got nuked? Anyway, here is the gist:
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I know this was a year old but you missed the point of the show at this point in your video making. It wasn't do they know multiple ways to do it. The show is do they know specifically how he did it. So even a very basic trick if there are multiple ways to achieve the same affect and they choose one and he did the other he technically fooled them.
"Please keep in mind that's a permanent marker which means it will always be a marker."
BEST
Note he DID NOT say MAGIC MARKER. 🙄🧐😎
A joke for a Penn
Empty and identical, just like voting.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Love Doc Dixon's sleight of hand skills. That was a great performance.
Also, love the Fables story. The moral of the story: you suffer less, if you see your enemy suffering too.
great interpretation! :)
I have to admit, I didn't catch the final move the first time. Then I rewound to the last time he showed the pea before round three. I was able to spot his move. Penn and Teller didn't have the luxury of a rewind button, so I can see how they missed it. Great performance, and I love your reactions!
5:02 Some people probably missed this, but Michael Close is the official judge of the show now and every magician must reveal their trick to him before performing for the Penn and Teller.
thank you.
Aahh! Now I get it! I thought I was missing on one of those 'clever dirty names' in the likes of Ben Dover .
Are u from Czech Republic
@@tikycz8261 Perhaps, I suspect the name gives it away:p
@4:11 he tips the clear glass to remove the peanut before he slides it towards Teller. @4:16 he has his right hand curled near the edge of the table with the pea inside before he drops it into his lap. He reopens his right hand @4:19 after he releases the pea. He then places his left hand under the table out of sight to put the pea inside of the walnut halves he had in the pocket with the wallet. Once the walnut was compressed enough, he places the walnut under the silver cup @5:09. he then placed both hands in view at all times for the reveal because he pockets are now completely empty. Wallet and all.
Late to reply, but he never placed left hand under table, so your theory is wrong.
@@warlocksm1 wrong, at 5:04 he puts his left hand under the table for 5 seconds
@@warlocksm1 The wallet gag was a misdirection while he put his left hand under the table to presumably get the walnut into his hand, then transfers it to the metal cup when he moves the metal cup from his right hand to his left.
I have loaded a few walnuts in my day, and PERFORMED the shell game, with real walnut shells and a real pea .. I'm not saying that this is exactly how Dixon did it, but the way I would have done it is this: Immediately after Penn marks the cork, lap the signed cork piece, switch for an actual pea that has some marking on it. The move is easy, simply clip the pea between the pinky and ring finger - a child can do it, and that is when I learned to do this trick, as a seven year old. During the shell game routine, which is not fooling Penn and Teller at all, nor should it - Doc is taking the opportunity to put the lapped cork into the walnut half, pressing the other half (pre-treated with our good friend rubber cement so that they stick together when they meet) and now he is ready to load the cup (reference cup and balls routine, every magician knows this one as well) with the loaded walnut. The entire time, the shell game has been serving as misdirection. He steals the pea just before covering with the shot glass and tumbler, just as expected, and does the (also expected) lift and reposition of the remaining shells, where a mark might expect him to do the load - but he DOESNT. P& T are really burning his hands right now, because even though they know how the trick is done, they can't help wanting to 'catch' Doc doing the sleight. Now we come to the 'choice' of 2 shells, where our mark has been lead to believe that the pea is secreted beneath the left hand shell (Doc's right), but in reality is (in the normal version) still clipped, and will only be dropped just as the shell that the mark didn't pick is lifted (once again, cup and balls, basic routine, shell game, basic routine). P & T are furiously burning now, but its too late; the pea has already been ditched, and the only sleights that they are going to see are simulations. Doc isn't lying about there only being one pea .. Penn marked a piece of cork that LOOKS like a pea. In fact, Doc doesn't have to lie at all in this routine, which makes it really, really neat.
“This is the congratulations hand thing” there seems to be a funny award moment in these vid’s...like it.
:-D
"Playback speed" is a curse for sleight-of-hand magicians -- But I love it!
Didn't see anyone here explaining how this trick works, so, let's do it: 1. At 4:01 you can see the pea disappearing before the shell hits the table, that's the most important part of the trick. I have no idea how he does that, if it's a prepared pea or something else. 2. When he grabs the wallet, his right hand is under the table, where he is preparing the wallnut
You can literally see every time he puts the pea in his hand and/or lifts a shell to slip it under.
Dolphins are mammals and breathe oxygen. It's possible that that fable was written when people still thought that dolphins were fish.
Great channel. Subbed.
The marker line is so good😂
I like this guy. He's doesn't have that comedian energetic timing, but he has the solid jokes
just recently found your channel, and gotta say I really love your videos and reactions, with all your insights into magic tricks and the fables!
Yeah, ever break that kind of shell with two taps and a light hit from a thin-walled metal cup? It takes a little more effort than he gave it, especially on a cushioned mat (necessary to do the trick with a hard pea). Anyhow, I think the shell was pre-cracked and carefully put back together with the pea. After he tells the wallet joke, he puts the pea in the shell with his left hand behind the table, and then he places it under the cup as he moved the cup across to his left side.
I like how you raise questions and then be like hhhhmmmmmmmmmm...??? :D
Yes, you can see the steal as he pushes the glass and walnut forward, pea into the walnut when both hands leave the table just before he gets the wallet and the load of the walnut into the cup as he's placing the empty shells into the glass.
Good eyes! Seems right.
At 5:08 one sees how he puts the walnut under the cup. And he has his left hand a lot of the time under the table before that. Also guess he does the walnut part really fast to prevent people seeing that it can be opened like a medaillon.
@@devonsaginashvili7208 ah, that could be it.
PS: can you please write "pea" correctly. Otherwise I get strange pictures in my head.
I think there was a hole drilled into the walnut.
And people wonder why I avoid gambling. This is why. Some people are so good at sleight of hand, they can easily take you for a lot of money
There’s quite a few good reasons to avoid gambling :)
I think when Teller put his finger "in the air like he just don't care" and Doc moves the cups forward he captured the pea. Just before Doc brings out the wallet (distraction) he drops his hands below the table where I think he loads the whole walnut shell with the signed pea.
You can hear the walnut hit the cup when he puts the cup on the table
IS THIS A MAGIC?
I THINK THIS is superpower
Spot on Jason. Very simplistic ... he needed the jokes ... quite funny too
I think if someone does original magic on their show and they do it flawlessly... I think they sometimes guess wrong simply because they want such a great act in their show
When I watched this during original airing I was shocked they didn't get it. It was so obvious, I followed the pea at every step of the way saw the ditch to lap, load into shell and when he loaded it under the cup.
Am i really the only one who see him put the pea in the nutshell with his right hand, while he gets out the wallet with his left hand?
The dolphin would not have been gasping for air since it is a mammal and not a fish like a tuna.
Doc Dixon can say, he fooled them and also pea'd on the on the fool us stage!!!!
SPOILER ALERT: note, the table cloth is right down to the floor on all visible sides. It was even stuck to the floor if you look close. Second, there are only two times he puts his hands/hand beneath the table. Once when he gets the wallet out (pea goes under the table at that point) seconds later his left goes under and he does a really slick move of placing the walnut under the metal cup. I will let you guess who put it there.
Think that the key to this reveal is that Dixon destroyed the walnut shell during the covered crushing of the walnut. How about a walnut shell that can resealed after opening and inserting the ‘held out’ pea. Still amazing reveal. He deserved to get a big FU for taking such a well known effect and take it to the next level.
I was suprised that they didnt notice his hands under the table twice. The skill is still amazing though.
The thing about why they were fooled is, since the pea was not added when he put a blanket over the shell, it was added into the shell at the brief moment he had when he took out a wallet, because his hands never left the sight exept those two moments (even when he added the shell in the cup we still saw them)
i dont think u can do anything better than doc dixon.
I was thinking about the same thing as Penn did. Soon as I saw that white handkerchief, I thought that he has inserted the pea during the folding. However, to be able to transfer an extremely small same signed pea in the performance is so hard.
Fooled me completely never seen something likr this at the end
Pretty simple and clean slight of hand but not a fooler they gave him the price for the performance
Fabulous stuff luv it 💜🔆
Hm..... so the handkerchief was a red herring and the pea was loaded into the walnut around the 5:06 mark using his left hand?
Close that's when it was loaded under the cup. When it was loaded into the shell was at 4:54
Right before he takes the wallet out. You also hear a snap noise. Like if he was closing the walnut. Or, I'm just hearing things.
DisloyalPants thinks you’re hearing things. Only click sound I hear is when he smacks the wallet on his other hand
@@DisloyalPants yeah. if you play it at 0.25 speed you can hear it hit the cup when he sits it down.
Jason Barefoot at quarter speed anything even static will make a sound. I bury Paul
i saw this guy he put another shellnut in the cup in the last round with the left hand as he opened the teller's cup and you can see that before he opens his left hand is under the table which can be placed in the shell hole the pea ...
not sure if you still remember me but anyways. i haven't been watching lately because of school and stuff but i'll try my best to view every video
I remember your name! and no pressure... watch as you have the time :) Thanks for the support!
I haven't read all the comments (here or on Doc Dixon's YT video) but one thing I haven't heard comment about is the little metallic bouncing noise just after 5:05 when Doc Dixon transfers the metal cup from his right hand to his left hand. Was this an error? It doesn't tell how the pea got into the walnut; it's a different tell. Would this noise have been audible to Penn and Teller or is it because of sensitive microphones (ability to pick up quiet noises)? The bouncing metallic noise is similar to when Doc Dixon rattles the metal cup before the reveal.
Aesop: hunting can also be dangerous, not only for the prey, but the hunter too
Aesop: Choose your meal wisely it may be your last. 🤔
6:37 Huh, dunno why I expected the audience to be younger, but most of them are 50+. Makes sense though, I think the show is shot in Vegas instead of LA
It is shot in Las Vegas. Yes.
I think the shell has a hole there he got his fingers and then take the cloth to hide the hole so the nut will be inside and dont flow away then he break the shell with the hammer :)
I think he palmed the pea with the table overhang during the finger in the air like you just dont care bit. And somehow puts it in the shell whilst grabbing the wallet, and his right hand goes under the table for no reason
I like the way you explained that, it was not executed in a degrading way. That's a gift.
There was a small hole in the shell that he carved out, so the pea was able to fit inside of the the whole shell.
5:39 You know, Jason? A handle is made for a purpose.
Aesop: when chasing the big fish don't forget your safety net🤔
Penn&Teller don't only have to know how the trick is technically done but they need to know when, where and how it was done in this specific performance so it could be a Fooler even though the magic itself is not new and instead even well known. It just makes it harder to divert attention/do it at different times etc.
Aesop: Sometimes desire can be so powerful it can be deadly?
He loaded the the cup @ 5:08/5:09 after his hand went out of sight under the table 5:07 when he moves the cup to the corner of the table.
What an awesome trick, great performance. Also great dolphin story at the end.
enjoyed that tremendously
Ingenious
You should def do Nestor Hato's P&T performance... Id love to see what you think...
Incoming soon.... :)
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There's no way this fooled P&T. I think they just wanted this guy to win, because he was so good.
How did he get the pea into the shell? Even with slowmo I can't spot when or how he does it. Penn and Teller also didn't know
@@QargZer How many hallow walnut shells have to come across in your life? No one examined it, and then he destroyed the evidence.
When? When he had it in his lap right before loading it into the cup.
This trick is literally just cup and balls, but smaller.
@@1144Angel when did he do it? Specifically.
@@QargZer 5:05 with his left hand
@@1144Angel and when did he pull the pea out from under the cup.
I honestly think that sometimes they like certain magicians or like maybe have a relationship with them or something like that and they let certain things slide to give the trophy.
This is nuts
14k views... less than 500 likes.... come on guys, it helps get his vids suggested to others. Help grow the channel!
Maybe the dolphin wanted a tuna sandbarwich.
Great performance, in terms of technique damn he's good. He fooled them not sure how or why 🤔
Nice job as always 👍
Perfectly timed wallet gag...
I was kind of shocked that he fooled them. But...with both of them at the table, if there was some misdirection...I would have thought Penn would have seen it since he was on the left side of Doc, and could easily see his left hand. Anyway...it was very entertaining.
Massive red flags and alerts have to go off anytime a hand goes to the lap
he put the nut in the shell, just not when penn said. i mean, he does it just before it goes under the cloth, penn thought he must have done it once it was under. so, I believe the magician used the cloth purposefully to fool them. but i liked how he incorporated it into the act (it was done for "safety" when he smashes the walnut). lol, there isn't anything unsafe about smashing walnuts.
my theory is that he puts the nut in the shell earlier at 04:55, and then he puts the shell in the cup at 05:08
Hey Jason, it’s been a while! I’m really enjoying your reaction videos (as always 😃) and an idea just occurred to me: As you are the number one fool us react channel, why don’t you reach out to the producers and ask if you can perform on there? I know this sounds out of reach, but you are bringing them a lot of traffic as well as entertaining thousands of people daily.
That's a really cool idea.... thank you.
@@JasonParkerMagic Great Idea yes, but has it been done?
I just noticed Teller has really high lift shoes.
the point is to fool penn and teller, which u only get one shot at doing. it's not about if they know the many ways on how to make an object appear out of somewhere else.
I think they know a bunch of way to have gotten it in, they just didnt think he did that and rolled the dice
I think that one of the challenges that Penn and Teller face on their show is that even if they know it was done in 1 of 3 ways they have to pick the one way they think it was done, and correctly call out the method. I'm sure that they could have told him how it was done if they had more than one guess. I'll bet there that they thought he used an unusual method to fool them and that was the reason for that guess.
It was just pure sleight of hand and a gimmicked walnut. I love simple tricks like these.
The hankerchief was a red herring which clearly helped him win. But would have been more impactful if he got the participant to fold over the hankerchief.
2:34 Allyson gives some of the creepiest looks...
True. Picture (or not) her being intimate.... LOL! Just kidding Allyson!! We all luv ya!
emotional labor, in the original sense of the phrase.
Hey jason did you ever see the episode with the Cookie in the mouth that fooled them both? What did you make of it?
I actually know doc in real life and I am friends with his sons
Aesop: just going shopping can so perilous these days
This one was weird because I'm no magician but even I saw the entire trick on the first watch at 1x from the initial shell game to the lap drop, load and left arm retrieve...oh well !!
Thumbs for Alison's pun 😁
well I do belive if they want someone on there stage
they give a falls point
so the person is a technical a fooler
because they have just one guess
Aesop: some favourite food choices can be such a gamble
After rewatch, could follow the pea easily enough, this is not to say Doc doesn't have excellent skills at all. The one question I have is during the third trick was the pea under his hand the entire time 4:11-4:54? That part impressed me the most.
icthulu yup.
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Remember that everything magicians do is for a reason. So, I believe he loaded the pea in the walnut when he put his hands down before reaching for the "stolen" wallet. Then, slide the walnut under the cup and the trick is done!
No offense to Doc but I think he benefited from Teller's error. You can see Penn and Teller stop out of watching for Doc's moves and into wondering "Did I just blow this guy's trick?". Slightly distracted is all that was need for them to miss Doc's quick moves.
Just like voting 😅
Thanks for the wisdom Jason!
P.S. You should show us some of YOUR magic tricks.
Just a hint to beat cups and ball. To simply put, don't follow magician's order: don't focus at the cup with the ball(or with the sticker in this case), instead keep an eye on the dominant hand of the magician (most people that's right hand).
That's my technique in seeking answer to magic tricks as a non magician(btw i don't like slowing down video/clip, it ain't like watching a performance art, which is magic) :) There might be a better way to follow trick, but this is what I'm prefer.
But that take away the observer aspect of magic. That's why whenever i watch magic TH-cam video, first time i follow what magician have to order, then watch it again with my technique in place just to find out how trick was done.
Personally i want to get entertained by what/how the artist/developer had intended. That habit applied to my gaming life too. Whenever i first play a videogame, may it be RPG or freeroam acting advantage or story telling, first i played it without any mod/s or settings tweaks(except graphic settings). Usually in Bethesda' games peoples are to fast at installing mods and playing with them. I don't like that. Also I'm no go for "cheating" or "scrip manipulation". That could damage the investments of the developer/s, what they've put into/or what they had intended the consumer to be feel in specific ingame situation.
Yeah yeah, each of their own tbh. Afterall peoples entertain themselves differently from one another. I'm just happen to be the type of guy who wants to felt what the dev/maker had intended/supposed back in the making, at least in my first run. After the first run i might change the aspect of how i consume the product.
Just expressing :)
enjoyed the trick although camera was all over the place ...guy confident and smooth cheers again for post ... Fable thoughts.....its important when you are dying to find some kind of closure ..so the tuna fish was justifying his death to himself ...who know what the dolphin was thinking we will never know ........
HMMM that's a really good interpretation. I like it. :)
missing your reactions ...
If the pea was indeed in the shell, he should have handed the shell to Penn or Teller, and had them break the shell and extract the pea. Or at least, had them cover the shell and break it (because by holding it, they might have learned something).
But then they would have ruled out the possibility that led to the fooling....
He was super funny
You gotta think of it like Penn and Teller only get one guess at the major point. And when there are multiple ways of doing something, they basically have a multiple choice question with all possible answers, but only one is actually right. And as far as your overall impression do you think it has to do with a general expectation that older cliche tricks won't fool them so don't bother? I think we tend to expect the newer stuff with all the bells and whistles to get the Fool Us trophy and the stuff Penn and Teller should know about just be a neat trick but nothing much else.
Penn and Teller wanted him to win
Allisons face after penn signed the cork pea is hilarious, (insert politically incorrect metaphor here)
You should never play this with money, because even if you guessed it correctly, upon revealing the shell you can disposition it
It was OKAY. Many moves very obvious even to my kids but all in all it was pretty good.
That was really good! I saw him stealing once but the end was great
U should React to Kenichi Ebina...sure he's not a magician but he does some unreal dance and some Magic in his Preformances...he's in my opinion the best AGT Act ever
Aesop: You should be careful what perfume you choose it may attract a beast ?
It's pretty obvious that P&T exercise some personal preference when deciding whether it was a fooler or not. If they didn't think he was talented and entertaining, they would have used some code words like rubber cement.