Magician REACTS to Boris Wild MIND-BLOWING Card Magic on Penn and Teller FOOL US 2020

[@JasonParkerMagic]

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[@jimthor806]

You’re right! Magic with your friends did turn out really well! Loved their reaction!

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Haha.. because of my wired headphones this time around??

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Thanks Jim!!

[@thefancystache3793]

It had to be a cull, right? Is any other method even possible? Maybe a big obnoxious deck switch but that wouldn't fool P&T

[@mjrauhal]

Probably a deepfaked (neural net generated) voice. Great idea. And yeah, probably digging the deck out was cut out, there were the seals and the decks seemed a bit glossy from afar, as if in plastic wrap. And I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have tried to sell non-wrapped decks to P&T. Don't know about any other possible cuts. The trick's all black magic to me anyway. But I wouldn't assume that they purposefully cut moves away. They might be just trying to cut a bit for time here and there and for a "better flow" according to someone's opinion. Even if so, moves may be collateral damage, of course. A well-deserved win, anyway.

[@monodescarado]

What's incredible here is that it's probably (at least on the surface) the most simplest card trick you can perform: pick a card, put it back, shuffle the deck, produce it again. No gimmicks (probably not anyway), no spectacles, no massive effects. Just pick a card, put it back, shuffle, produce it. Penn and Teller must know every single way every invented that this simple trick can be done... and yet, this guy walked on, did the most simplest effect he could, right in front of their faces... and they still didn't get it. That there is truly amazing.

[@davidfanning1600]

No gimmicks? I regard marked cards as a gimmick. Excellent trick for laymen though.

[@JohnDoe19840]

@@davidfanning1600 even if that were the case it does not explain how he managed to get into the 3rd position

[@acheyer1]

I can definitively answer the voice question (since I was involved in making it): it's as Penn said, an AI-based voice clone, not a human actor. I was sitting next to Penn's wife during this performance, and she said to me, "I'm his wife, I would know if it is Penn or not, and it's definitely him!" and then I proved to her that she was wrong...

[@vincentjohnflorio]

So often the internet is full of shit, but looking you up it's kind of astonishing how important your work is, yet a normal person not in the know might not have you in their mind as a household name. Kudos for the sheer amount of effort you've put out there.

[@deanstrachan3410]

How did you get in contact with the magician? This technology is massively impressive. Scary, but incredibly well done. Extremely convincing and the tone sounded so natural.

[@oliverhughes610]

@@deanstrachan3410 He's been on Fool Us himself. He's the guy who, yknow, made Siri.

[@ComicsByJerry]

@@oliverhughes610 His Niece also appeared on Fool Us and did an impressive trick for a Kid.

[@cetateii]

Excellent analysis and an important "public service" announcement -- people need to be aware of this technology since deep-fake effects will become ever more convincing. The AI machine-learning technique involved -- namely "generative adversarial network" -- models what humans naturally do in the challenge-and-response "fine tuning" of just about any process, but thousands or millions of times faster. As you noted, Penn's wife acknowledged being deceived, so current state-of-the-art is already troubling, and in the near future will be able to easily pass off fiction as fact. The only possible defense will be another AI tuned to discern the deception -- leading to a race (or war) among algorithms.

[@richardhill5460]

This is the best trick I've ever seen on this show. I love the idea that the viewers get 'invited' to hear what Penn and Teller are basically thinking during the trick. Totally original.

[@airgunzel4430]

G'day Jason, as a former TV producer who made over 5000 shows half of which were live to tape (primarily stand-up comedy, sketch, cabaret and yes, magic too, ) I can attest to TV stations demanding further cuts to completed shows. Sometimes these cuts were performed by the TV stations concerned, however often I would receive requests to trim shows by 1 to 2 minutes in length. So yes indeed any little part that didn't damage the entire performance was often removed. I suspect that CW does this as often the clips you use of Fool Us is different from those magicians use from the show. The magicians receiving longer versions with different camare angles being common. Happy to answe any questions you may have about TV productions and Fool Us in particular having listened to all Penn's broadcasts of Penns Sunday School where they have spoken about the trials of filming a 'Live' show. btw I also have 11 cats...!

[@iw5744]

Thanks for taking the time to explain that. I'm glad to have a little insight now.

[@kenji2787]

Despite looking younger and changing his voice and accent, I still recognize this guy. His name is Crowley and he knows real magic.

[@switchstatement568]

Don't tell me, THAT Crowley?

[@arahat3297]

@@sij809Supernatural

[@kapperst8557]

There's actually the possibility of him having Teller's card at position number 3 and then manipulating the card to whatever position Penn would have said. This might be the reason why he was laughing so much - because the card was already in that position and thus the trick looks like literal magic.

[@alexlazzerly3677]

There’s no chance he got that lucky

[@briankregg6329]

No he did

[@PinguPinguPingu]

That is correct. He always places the selection at 3rd and would then "move" it to the desired number but got lucky with this performance. This trick is explained somewhere by himself if you buy his products :)

[@yudodis333]

I think what they mean when they say there's no camera edits or trickery is just that the effects of the tricks are not dependent on any camera tricks or edits... i mean it is a tv show of course they have to make editing decisions its just that they don't want the audience to think that they're being dishonest like AGT is a lot of the time with magicians doing pre-work show with the judges and then they pretend to be amazed

[@whatwouldsaido]

Yeah like if you make a person disappear, its not because of video editing out the person. That kind of "magic" wouldn't be on the show. But editing out some setup moments from their cameras vision angles would still be acceptable.

[@ahmedm6228]

Nope, in the early seasons of the show, they used to emphasize that what they (and the audience) see in the theatre is exactly what we see on TV. I believe that's what Jason was referring to.

[@yudodis333]

@@ahmedm6228 Yea, exactly. Meaning there's no green screens or someone or something right out of camera range doing something that viewers at home can't see....the audience members aren't privy to anything that the viewers at home are not privy to. Not that the camera shows exactly what the audience members see at every single second. First of all that would be impossible because each person is in a different seat so by definition they each see something slightly different. Second, if what your saying was true they literally would have a camera person sitting in the seat in the audience filming from there and thats what we would see at home and i can promise that has never ever happened on this show. If anything we at home have an advantage because of the different camera angles and close ups that audience members dont get

[@stephenbeck7222]

I would go further and say that the tv editing is largely independent of the magic production side of the show. I doubt the editors know what a ‘move’ is and they are just cutting out what they consider superfluous time in the acts to make the whole show fit into the 1 hour time slot.

[@thesammyjenkinsexperience4996]

@@stephenbeck7222 Well in this case they managed to completely cut out two hugely important parts of this act. Sure, I get the need for brevity, but in this case they really did remove some critical moves that for a trained eye made this act a lot more miraculous than it really was.

[@AJourneyOfYourSoul]

After watching it a few times, I am 100% convinced he got lucky with the number 3, and instead of finishing the trick the normal way, he got to finish with no sleights and make the trick look almost impossible.

[@avikmukherjee2987]

lool no, whenever a layman makes a remark like this, I realise how little magic is understood

[@timscoviac]

@@avikmukherjee2987 actually coming from people who know the effect from stuff Boris has sold, many have actually claimed that he might have got lucky

[@nguyentho6768]

well ... I've just watched Boris's interview with Jason, and he seemed dead serious about being able to bring out that two of spades regardless of what number Penn might've said. So I guess it wasn't luck after all. That plus the fact that Penn's guess that Boris squared up the deck after he said the number is wrong leads me to believe that he might've performed a sleight of hand with his right hand when he pulled out the 3 cards to squeeze in the 2 of spades.

[@douglaswade5876]

@@timscoviac If you watch Boris' reaction to Penn choosing the number 3 position for the choosen card , the 2 of spades, HE IS TRYING TO STIFFLE HIS HAPPINESS....because he doesn't have to do any more slight of hand to get the card to another number, ...he even draws it out, to give it more of the astonishment factor....He got lucky....but could have moved the card to any position....I would have chosen the top card , number 1, if he asked me...that seems to be a difficult place to place it there....but, I think the whole deck was 2 of spades at that point......

[@fightclubify]

Erm....look, it may sound backwards, but I think he pulled off one of the MOST obvious concealed sleights in the business. Done like a total pro. I think the trick, in this instance, was how old school it was.

[@jyesucevitz]

I was fortunate to catch this earlier and it was amazing. The voice clone was great. The deck were wrapped. Edit took that out for reasons. As he dumped the box you can see the cellophane wrap reflection.

[@sisgaia]

Yes, I also thought that the decks appeared initially to be wrapped. Obviously, even with a prepared deck, you would still need a lot more explanation, and the cards were shown in new deck order. I believe that they were legitimately new decks.

[@jacobchandler7953]

So glad you reviewed this, I was absolutely blown away by his performance...

[@superhunk1989]

That was a stunning performance by Boris Wild. Really enjoy it. The Aesop's fable reminds me of the following words: "A good man or woman will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit."

[@dorothy2964]

The drop to the table after teller placed card back seemed different, he watching closely.

[@johnjohn-cs9eu]

I had never heard of Boris Wild and from what l hear from JP he is a cardistry genius and shows profound technical mastery and wizardry which he performs here at this _rendezvous_ with the stars *showing such obvious* _savoire faire_ and _panache_ . His _mode d'emploi_ , in this modest performance, reveals a cocky _raison d'etre_ which is lacking in the _repertoire_ of most magicians, including a _cachet_ which endeared Boris sufficiently to P&T AND with a pre-empted FOOLED US recording: a most _Galling_ but well anticipated winning _genre_ .

[@woodymurphy4522]

Fantastic from beginning to end. The looks on P&T's faces were priceless.

[@mathewsuddath210]

He actually got into Penn and Teller’s mind, even though Penn and Teller know magic. Great performance!

[@Drumminjay01]

I love how at the end, as you're talking about film editing, you can clearly see your film editing. It's probably not intended, I just found it funny.

[@meedolas5309]

I did the Boris's magic masterclass some days ago, the man is amazing, humble, funny, and he's an amazing teacher, this card trick is pretty impressive, the simplicity of the routine makes it amazing, if you liked it I recommend to take a look at his signature act ! Good vid tho.

[@thefierybrib]

Hi! Two questions for you: where did you buy the masterclass from? Is this trick explained there? Cheers! :)

[@rjkral]

Such a great performance and so well done with the voice, even the idea of it. Love how you hilighted their facial reactions! NEVER have I seen Penn react like that!!! As to Teller, I read his face totally differently, even with your freeze frame. Teller gives a little nod at the end of the trick, the nod AND his expression saying “he did it, he really fooled us, I’m in awe and deep respect”. That’s what it says to me, I don’t see anger at all, just deep respect and yep, “you fooled us!”

[@MrTeo63]

They have to do edits, remember it’s an hour long TV show. In order to make it an hour long with also adding commercials they have to do some kind of editing. So I would assume you not seeing him remove the jokers and advertisement cards out of a brand new deck probably was a good time for editing. I know Penn and Teller would’ve noticed that right away. We both know they would’ve said wait a second if it’s a new deck where is are jokers where are the advertisement cards. So like I said because you’re trying to squeeze everything into one hour along with commercials editing has to be done. But overall that was an amazing trick and I know as soon as Boris comes on their show. They’ll be saying you have to show us how you did that trick. Lol!

[@carolinehaf21]

Absolutely loved this performance... I think Penns voice was almost like misdirection in the act and it was so clever. I have definitely never seen Penns face like thst but Teller kinda seemed angry which I haven't seen either? Even when the trophy comes down Teller is usually smiling and happy for the person but he still looked unhappy... kinda weird for this one!

[@JennFrank]

I understand what you mean about Teller being unusually withdrawn at the trophy presentation, but I don’t think he is unhappy at all-at the conclusion of Wild’s act his eyes were actually glittering with emotion! I noticed it because I have the same teary reaction anytime a magician “sticks the landing”; it’s very moving, and I’m a big softy. I think Teller is, too. Could it be possible that Teller is just preoccupied because he’s still actually trying to figure it out, even at that moment onstage?

[@notthere83]

Nah, just look at his facial expression when he's nodding at 10:33. He's clearly impressed.

[@robinadams]

Yes, it was used for misdirection at one point. "Penn" says "Now he's going to control the card" and Boris says "No, I will not" - then does just that. It makes you think you've seen some proof that he's not using card control when you haven't.

[@leehmantylerdrew]

This performance was just brilliant... one of the best on Fool Us! Getting your perspective was icing on the cake!

[@Colin_Holloway]

I instantly noticed the lack of removing the cellophane, but when he dumped the decks on the table it looks like they did have the film on them.

[@strechsanchez]

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[@JasonParkerMagic]

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[@strechsanchez]

@@JasonParkerMagic YES!!!! FINALLY

[@MassimoPeroncelli]

The way I perform the all black/red card is I do the first flip and let the spectators do the seconds , saying something like "please, check by yourself", so it's even more dramatic

[@lwmarkgraal]

I just watched his performance an was like damn I cant wait for jason to react to him!!!

[@Melpheos1er]

9:13 there was also a cut there. He takes the cards back as a closed packet but when the camera change you can clearly see he move some cards from his right hand to the top of the pack. Too many edits makes the trick impossible to analyze

[@saurabhmangal6322]

but if there was a cut how come the patter is perfect?

[@bobthedemon1975]

Well spotted. I only saw this after your comment and playing it back at 0.25 speed.

[@SilverSergeant]

This was one of the best performances I have ever seen. I have seen P&T in Las Vegas several times.

[@jamesbrunner741]

The Jokers are missing when he first spreads the cards, too

[@slychnidos]

My thoughts exactly, he must be using specialized deck which came in stack order, no ad cards as well. From the first moment I had that feeling that the secret is hidden within!

[@chriswinspear7965]

First thing I thought when I watched this for the first time. Just after he takes the cards out of the box, theres a glimpse, looks like Jokers on top but can't quite pause it on time. Then suddenly spread....And 'It's gone..... MAGIC'. Another bad camera cut no doubt.

[@mjrauhal]

Indeed, probably tossed them over his shoulder like the first deck but it was just cut out.

[@monodescarado]

Doesn't really matter though. Everything about a stacked pre-prepared deck is completely undone by Penn having a free choice of where the card is.

[@thesammyjenkinsexperience4996]

@@slychnidos It is a specialised deck, but it's not because it's ordered. It's a marked deck.

[@anthonygarcia8165]

Cellophane was on, looks like they cut it to the opening though. If you go in slow mo when he grabs it out of Penn’s hand you see the blue sticker

[@cristobalgomezgutierrez8546]

1) It's computer generated, an impersonation could be noticed plus the production was able to repeat at the end one phrase. 2) I like the respect you show to your colleagues, not spoiling their works, and also the free ad suggesting to go to Boris's website, something he can profit from.

[@FluffyCajun]

Right after Teller shuffled, Boris specifically said he was squaring them up before he asked Penn for a number. That’s the point Penn was asking him about. As for the edit cut, it could be that the moment they cut from the table to Teller, Boris most likely had just picked up the deck at that moment.

[@laartwork]

People need to chill about the cellophane and advertisement cards. Removal was edited out to speed up the performance. That isn't important for the trick.

[@goldeneddie]

Too many edits in this, making it look impossible! At least THREE cuts! You focussed on 8:04, but there's one that's especially important at 9:13 before Boris gets to the card position reveal.

[@darkartiste78]

That moment bugged me especially and I’ve watched this on two different YT channels. The edit was from what I can tell part of the original broadcast. This clever little fellow is legendary amongst magicians and there’s a few things he did even amateurs could pick out. The “trick” itself though is just so buried in his process that it’s deceptively a simple card selection and reveal.

[@BrokeTheSeal]

That doesn’t look like a cut at 9:13 he accepts the deck from Teller and it cuts to a wide shot which shows the same thing

[@michalwalks]

Ahhh, I still love this show and your break-downs and how you catch things. Also, big plus is you read through comments, one of the only youtubers that do. lol

[@chitown9614]

Great insight as always. Great video. Yeah there must have been an edit at the beginning. You can hear the cellophane wrap on the other decks when he slides them off the table and at 4:50 you can hear it on his deck when he grabs it from Penn’s hand. Just slightly.

[@justafanofz]

He explained in a comment that it was cut out for timing in the episode, but the promo cards and the cellophane were on there. And if you look closely, you can see that the paper seal is indeed sealed

[@ChristopherDazey]

As soon as I saw this, I wanted to see your reaction. It’s a beautiful illusion, and my favorite segments on P&T are the ones where either Penn or Teller end up with an astonished look on their faces.

[@travisbrownjr5283]

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[@MaxHaydenChiz]

I'm in love with voice over and I hope other people copy the principle behind it. Having the routine itself explain how certain steps are ruling out other ways of doing the trick really enhanced the performance by letting someone with no magical knowledge appreciate the skill on display. I am never a fan of the performances that have a high level of technical skill and no way for the audience to appreciate what is being done and why it is special. This is a great way to handle that problem and to help magic as an artform by educating the public on how to appreciate it better in the process. I'm just really in love with that aspect of his patter. It's so brilliant and such a good way to handle the problem without belittling the audience. As for how he did it, there's off the shelf software that lets you do "deep fake" voice over. He probably used that. I don't see why he would do anything more complicated when "use a computer program" is an option.

[@akmalimdad6366]

Perfect review man 10/10. Very entertaining and professional

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Much appreciated!

[@niklasfisarn1653]

That last cardtrick i have done so many years, and ppl were always amazed.

[@niklasfisarn1653]

The one with colors, my brother taught me, and he bought the trick from someone in his school for like 20 years ago ;D Sick that you commented, i LOVE your vids =)

[@24magiccarrot]

My first thought is I noticed he's using a phoenix deck, which has a special feature presumably he's using that feature in the effect otherwise he'd just have used bikes.

[@WinWitWon]

I asked Boris on youtube about the decks, and he said that the producers cut out him taking the wrap off, and taking out the jokers

[@JaapioNL]

I guess they also have to chop out parts because the show has to fit in a certain time slot. But how they determine what parts to cut...

[@countbleck35]

the boring parts where nothing important happens

[@bloodwolf2609]

they did cut a part of the show where he removed the jokers from the new deck, which I assume included him removing the cellophane too

[@Bakersvill]

When the cards were in his hand before the number pick there was no movement at all , one of the best tricks iv seen by far, To my eye 3 cards were picked off top of deck but logically that is the only part in witch a card replacement could take place :)

[@dadandme]

The deck of cards was brand new and was sealed. They made a cut to remove the unsealing "boring" part from the video. Take a look at @4:50, just before the close-up.

[@dadandme]

My bad, I paused the video to write down this comment and just after I pressed back the play button, you said the same thing 😅

[@mAckPS3]

i enjoy your videos so much. I was ill for a week and spent that week in bed and the only thing i could do is play video games and watch videos on youtube. thank you for keeping me entertained that week, im finally better and im back to work. thank you for being so entertaining!

[@chrismurray2978]

Great stuff,Jason!I can think of a possible method-card controlled to top( despite denial) already happened by the time he said he wouldn't do it,then palm of top card, hand to Teller to be shuffled, then squared up while maintaining palm, after Penn has said the number he slides the cards off into his hand on top of his palmed card so wherever he stops in the deck his previously palmed card would be on the bottom of the cards he's counted off into his hand: in other words as soon as the counted off cards were squared in his hand that held the selected card you couldn't see which one was on the bottom of the cards counted off( if that makes any sense)That's just my first guess so now I'm going to watch it again and see Iv my suggested handling could work, mind you some of that could have been lost in those edits you spoke of; so I hope I haven't spoilt things by speaking out loud but not many people would read these comments unless especially interested in magic.Who knows? Thanks for featuring this stuff on your channel, making it more widely accessible.( by the way, I still struggle to get a clump free riffle shuffle, despite months of work, so I've decided to let it be for a while in case I'm reinforcing a bad technique by repetition, and hope to revisit these moves later when I hope to bring a fresh set of muscle memories into play and hopefully find an approach that slipped through the cracks a few months earlier and got buried , preventing me from making progress.I still have been unable to get any good decks to practise with because I can't buy online, but maybe that's a good thing too, allowing a leap forward possibly, when I finally do get some quality pressed cards.)Thank you Jason for your earlier encouragement and feedback and I have tried everything I can think of except to think that maybe I just want it too much and I'm so crap at these sorts of things that perhaps it was not meant to be and I should forget it and move on, but first I want to rule out lack of hard work ethic, negativity, and lack of tenacity, before throwing in the towel! I do find often ideas of magic come to me but I lack the actual skills to perform them like a songwriter who can't sing or play an instrument despite having prolific brainstorms!I've just had a new thought on a possible handling for boris's trick.Instead of controlling the card to the top after selection perhaps it was controlled to the bottom(maybe retained while Penn shuffled) and then after counting down to whatever number Penn chose it could be dealt off the bottom to appear instantly and supposedly at that location.

[@jaewok5G]

I've always accepted that when "fool us" claims they don't use camera tricks it didn't mean there wouldn't be editing. - I have no idea how he did the trick, but I've watcher teller's reactions more closely and you can see him nodding with approval.

[@kimflores6359]

absolutely

[@STNeish]

I did notice the lack of cellophane... but I came to the same conclusion you did, that they cut out a little bit for time. If it was significant, I think P&T would have commented. I can imagine he had done a number of things PRIOR to Teller shuffling the second time. AFTER that, I didn't see anywhere he could have sneaked the card in, or moved the card around. Penn's choice of 3 seemed entirely free, and I saw no point where he could have moved or inserted a card after that point. In other words, I'm totally stumped... and I loved seeing Penn's reaction.

[@joeponthetrails]

Could it be that they are editing out some parts of the act to protect the magician? Maybe it's a new trick which would be revealed if you analyze it at 0.25x speed frame by frame.

[@Musikpunx]

My first thought on the card being at 3rd position was that one method to perform acaan is to control the selected card quite near the top of the deck, for example in 3rd position (!), then deal a small amount of cards for real (in this case 2), and then executing second-deals until you reach the chosen number. So Boris might have had the card in 3rd position to use this method and Penn just made the miracle happen by accident. By the way: Look at Teller´s facial impression at 9:43. Maybe he allready guessed what was coming up and why Boris´ joy and laughter were so real at this moment. Also at 10:30 and 10:35 : "Penn, you big dumb guy, how could you?" On the other hand this would have required Boris performing the second-deal right in front of P&T, if Penn chose any other number than 3, which probably would not have fooled them. But as we all could see Boris producing the card from 3rd position without slight of hand, I strongly believe, the card was in this position waiting to be poduced at any number by second-deal. After all even if P&T would not have been fooled, performing such a strong effect on this show would have increased Boris´reputaion anyway. Concerning the cellophane thing: I don´t care about it, because: Who could ever imagine, that Boris would use his creation on P&T?

[@san1846]

Good theory, some parts are true, ive seen boris perform this in Flasoma

[@OMGKITTENMEWMEW1]

That's very true. That's probably why he reacted the way he did when Penn said 3, because he was probably thinking "Oh man, best case scenario." Had Penn picked a larger number he would have probably gotten to a later card in a different manner.

[@Julian_orwell]

I'm not sure about this. The thoughts are pre-recorded, and the "let's see if he does anything funny" bit seems to suggest he was planning this.

[@babajani3569]

Hello justin, I wanted to say that fool us only claimed to not edit their videos for the 1st season bug I think that for the rest if the seasons, they did start editing out some parts, to prevent magic secrets from going public.

[@FullMetalAtheist]

4:56 at 4:45 You can also see the plastic on the decks when he dumps out the carton of cards with the light reflecting off the plastic from them and see the plastic. So they edited out him opening them and taking out the joker and advertising card also.

[@proshion]

I think number 3 was subliminally forced on penn, holding the 3 fingers when asking penn to choose a number. But i think he had more to the trick what if penn said a bigger number, he would definitely use the slight of hand to move the card there. Also parts were cut like where he finds the marked card and controls it to 3rd spot.

[@dmike03]

What does "squaring" the deck have to do with anything? Sorry if that's a stupid question! I know nothing about how the magic works, I just love watching it and being amazed.

[@solitude208]

I honestly felt that Penn was going to stick with the number 3 because it’s his favorite card and wasn’t going to be “fooled” into deviating from that choice

[@Everyday.memes6]

Hey Jason you should make a video on your story I think that would be a good video just for one !

[@imgroot8919]

I think he didn't know the position of Teller's card but when he hold the three cards, he squared them up with one hand and the camera angle was away from his hand so I'm pretty certain he did something there.

[@44r0n-9]

I recently watched a podcast by some of the producers and they explicitly said the do not cut anything from the performance unless there's really nothing to see

[@rons3103]

Jason, there were actually 3 edited cuts in the video (1) During the unwrapping of the cards - Closer look, you can see there was plastic wrap on them, (2) when he picked up the cards to hand them to Teller (Could be the camera angle cuts), and (3) P&T review was cut as well (You have to listen carefully to the audio edit @14:49). You can clearly hear the break it in their original broadcast. Either way, still fooled the hell out of me! Amazing!

[@timscoviac]

Many have claimed that the reason you don’t seem the cellophane or jokers and ad cards is because camera cuts to save time

[@isaacbragg-gardiner2456]

Maybe I watch too much Daniel Madison, but the way I would do this is steal the card before the second shuffle, while it's still at the bottom, then hold it in a gambler's cop and bottom deal it as the third card (or whatever number the spectator chose). If you watch the third card deal, it looks difficult but plausible, but idk you tell me :D

[@randymastersnyc]

Nice overview, Jason! Thank you for not revealing any methods. I'm a big fan of Boris Wild's work. His last 2 DVDs from Big Blind Media were excellent. His "Any Card at Any Birthday" is excellent as well.

[@timscoviac]

Is this acaab or is this puracaan

[@monchogarmendia4356]

Penn and Teller were amazed. But the one who must have been most amazed was Boris, when Penn chose number 3. This trick is really difficult, so difficult that I get it 1 out of every 52 times I try it! ;)

[@Jared1701]

I'm watching this video so I can go back to the interview video 😃

[@RoadSafetySLcom]

Answering your question at 5:05, it looks like the part where the foil was removed was also edited out. You can see that at the moment that he takes the cards out of the pack, there's a top card which looks like a joker or an advertising card. When he puts it on the table and spreads it, those cards are missing. Looks like a lot of editing has happened

[@dracopalidine]

im glad someone else noticed the jokers there before the spread

[@FullMetalAtheist]

You can also see the plastic on the decks when he dumps out the carton of cards with the light reflecting off the plastic from them and see the plastic. So they edited out him opening them and taking those cards out.

[@TheEpicSpire]

he used a program called Descript (or one similar to it). it can produce AI text-to-speech that mimics a voice if you feed it enough information. it smooths out the voice so it doesn't sound all cut and spliced and blends the words near seamlessly to match a natural cadence.

[@JasonParkerMagic]

If you're interested in this, I have a video where I interview Boris Wild and he talks more about this.

[@dpurdyciv4417]

I honestly think it was a force, the force being having Penn pick 3. Listen to the way he says, "With Penn having th-free choice" it's very similar to what Ricky Jay has done. Still floored how he got the card to the 3rd position.

[@rgystudio]

Great video as always. I am not a magician at all, but a huge, huge fan. I absolutely love how you let my analytical brain run wild with these performances, but you never give away anything to destroy the childlike wonder of beautiful magic. Keep up the great work!

[@free4lifeau]

the big box of 10 decks was sealed as is each individual deck, but no cellophane anywhere (unless cut from the show) - Either Voice Actor or hours and hours of splicing from their various 100+ shows

[@ubernate860]

Teller's face upon the reveal is priceless

[@framebadger]

I think there was a 1 in 52 chance of the trick fooling them. P+T followed whatever shenanigans you're talking about that were cut fro the show. The card was in 3rd place and we'd have had some more handling of the deck if he hadn't been so lucky. Boris' reaction when Penn chooses 3 says it all.

[@arnoldbissen9921]

When Teller took the card and when he put it back, Boris touched it. Perhaps put some glue on it or so

[@TacticalSandals]

I think the production team told Penn that they had some lines to record and he did it. They do sign his check.

[@MarcSpelmann]

I think as you did, the cellophane part was cut out to speed things up but it should have been left in..

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Hey I think I know you from somewhere.... hmmmm... 🤔

[@bambulkomccloud3983]

When he put all the decks on the table, some of them look very shiny, indicating that there was cellophane. You can also see that it's a Phoenix deck. Could it be that he just got extremely lucky? Penns favorite card is the 3 of clubs, so he probably likes the number 3. If Penn would have chosen a different number, the ending would be completely different.

[@krasen.dimkow]

I think Boris moved the bottom card to the above half of the deck before Teller put his card. Still don't understand the rest. And I think that the trick would continue with something else if Penn said 10 for example, then Boris would continue with something else. I see there are other comments, where people think that he got lucky.

[@jamesbrunner741]

You can make what is called a "deep fake" where all you need is the original voice to create whatever you want

[@caseysovey4027]

I remember Penn saying (on Penn's Sunday school podcasts ) that a deep fake of his voice was made for a trick,

[@whatwouldsaido]

The choppiness between words made it obvious that it was a deep fake.

[@kadmon78]

Yeah, but you really need a lot of spoken words from pen to learn the neural network to get this good results.

[@jamesbrunner741]

@@kadmon78 If only Penn had been doing magic for 45 years......

[@ronpetersen2317]

@alphadawn2015 lennon images/video are more well known but the same thing can be done with sound. There was some elements of the audio's quality that gave it a hint of computer generated.

[@8Kadence9]

They also cut out the part where he throws away the joker, cuz for a split second when he takes out the fresh deck you can see the joker or the advertisement card on top but when he pans it on the desk it's gone. So i think he did use a fresh deck

[@thermalreboot]

One thing I noticed even during this performance is that 3 is Penn's favorite number, just like the 3 of clubs is Penn's favorite card. Not sure if that matters or not.

[@alkali6]

Much better than the debates! Thank god for magic lol

[@JasonParkerMagic]

I scheduled it to publish after the debates finished 😆

[@alkali6]

Jason Parker I thought you were in the Ukraine? How do you stay awake this late?!?

[@JasonParkerMagic]

wolfelli I am. But I just worked really late into the night to finish this video. The editing on this reaction video took a lot longer than normal for some reason...

[@andrewundershaft1162]

I recently bought two boxes of Bycicle cards, they didn't have celophane wrapping.

[@astralhorizons]

in an interview Boris said he imitated Penn's voice himself

[@laartwork]

That would have been the greatest trick all.

[@Belfastchild1974]

I am not a magician and not able to do any moves like this, but the way he counted these three cards got me thinking he does something similar to Richard Turner's dealing second.

[@jasonharris1636]

we did not see him remove any Jokers and I did not see any when he spread the cards on the table!

[@66edoug]

Does it matter what we did or didn't see? Camera cuts have no affect on Penn & Teller.

[@Robard65]

Penn and Teller were live on stage. They saw the parts that were cut out. If these segments would reveal anything, wouldn’t that mean that Penn and Teller could’ve figured out how the trick is done? If not, segments cut out couldn’t have been important.

[@jamesreynolds2241]

When Penn lifted the supposed 3 cards he didn't do anything with them except reveal the 1 on the bottom so technically there could have been more than 3 in that small stack at the end

[@BrokeTheSeal]

Yeah but didn’t you see that he looked through them after he showed the card? If it was that simple you think Penn would have been fooled with having the cards in his hands at the end???

[@dougwiedinger1517]

decks on the table but then the camera went to Teller face so at that time he picked up the deck . Penn was watching the deck the whole time . That's why His face looked like that .That was a great trick .....

[@milosignjatovic6088]

If you pause on 4:37 (when he empties the box of cards) you can see that he uses Phoenix deck. Look it up. Phoenix decks can do a lot of stuff :) but still i do not know the methods. Especially with the any card at any number at the end.

[@blehisaword]

He gave away his reasoning in the first part--getting into the mind and watching their stuff over and over. Penn loves picking the number 3.

[@gimpleg9913]

I've been hoping for this all day! Thank you!

[@extraverage]

I think based on the continuation of their voices, no footage was cut

[@robbyzouz2484]

Don t remember Boris was card world championship with his kiss act. he s a master. I see him on conférence in 2009 ,he s very sympathic and brillant.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

I noticed that, too, that they seemed to have skipped the opening of the deck when I watched this performance on his page. No jokers, No advertising or other cards either for that matter. Well, Jason, one thing is for sure, it isn't Damion James doing the voice!

[@lefty1963]

Wow, Boris got everything right

[@notme222]

Excellent point about the cutaway.

[@kevalkavle]

My guess Jason... He must have used glue or something to mark the card in the deck and with mindbogling precision and sleight of hand took out 2 of spades at 3rd position. Frankly, even after slowing down the video I could not catch any sleight of hand when he pulls out 3rd card from the deck. I wish I am wrong....... best card trick so far.

[@elvistran4595]

Dude, thanks for clarifying the cut, because there's no way he would find the card without some hand actions during that time

[@gretsky3463]

I’m pretty sure the cards are marked but the most important cut wasn’t shown. Right after teller gave the cards back to Boris he positioned the card into the 3rd position.

[@johndeeter4030]

The one thing I noticed was after he opened the new deck and spread them out I didn't see any Jokers or other cards they put in a deck, unless you can order custom made decks so to speak..I don't know about that part..