Shark Fishing on Penn & Teller Fool Us - With Anna Ferris Simpson
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Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Season 7, episode 12: “Lord of the Ring”
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Anna Ferris Simpson performs EQIVOCATION, a trick created just for 'Penn & Teller Fool Us' - This was broadcast on the CW Network on the 19th of October 2020. Season 7 episode 12.
Bio
Anna Ferris Simpson (aged 19) is one of the youngest female Mentalist / Magicians to come out of the UK - and she is all set to take on the world and share her unique brand of mind-magic.
Anna’s style of mentalism is very different. Her performances involve, hanging upside down above people’s heads to read their minds - demonstrating super-human abilities from inside a glass tank surrounded by 250 gallons of water and receiving telepathic thoughts while bungee jumping.
Her first TV magic performance was in 2018 in Slovakia, on their Got Talent series, achieving those 4 big yeses for demonstrating that she could see with her ears.
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The true magic achievement is understand Penn's explanation...
Still an awesome trick and great honor being in Penn and Teller’s show. Even though you didn’t fool them you should be proud of yourself.
Wow! That was fantastic and very entertaining! You may not have fooled them, but you won something even more valuable and I hope inspiring...Penn's recognition of being a role model. High praise indeed!
It's really superficial praise, patronising in fact.
Alison is such an amazing actor acting surprised all the time when everything happens before her eyes😊 Nice trick though😁
Saw you perform in Slovakia & you blew my mind twice - So GREAT to see a fresh take on Mentalism
Anna, great job. Thanks for sharing one of your gifts with everyone!
Totally a great trick and a great performance. Fooled Us -- Most of us home bodies that is. Fantastic
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Very nicely executed and really entertaining! You fooled me!
Beautiful performance! Bravo!!
That was a heap of fun I hope we get to see you back again.
well constructed and presented well. Enjoyed it very much and I'm completely fooled and entertained.
That was fantastic!
Anna,. That's an amazing performance.. Keep going girl 👍👍👍👍👍
Lots of fun! Great job!
Well, you fooled me :-)
What a great act! You definitely fooled me 😉 And just like Penn said, it's so important for future generations of girls to have female role models!! So thank you for being one and wishing you the best in your journey 😊
I like her confidence and stage presence. Also good trick.
Very impressive. I wasn't expecting the shoe prediction at all. Or that the die would have one either.
Great job 👏🏼
Very intricate and just brilliant!!
Inspirational for sure!!! more more more
Great act! Very entertaining!!
that was awesome!!!
This is what I love about magic. Fooled them or not, I'm still learning stuff about the fallibility of human perception. There had to be influences on stage that got them to pick the shark. Regardless, this was awesome! Great job =D.
Penn said it wasn't a force though
Wasnt force , guy under table drawing shark on dice , right foot that said shark was a piece of sticky paper that had shark wrote on it. Didn't matter what they chose the guyunder table could draw, write and switch decks for the what ever animal
First of all, very enjoyable trick to watch. At the beginning, the three decks are identical. They are swapped with "REJECTED Shark" decks by the assistant in the box as the magician body-blocks at 4:20. Although the camera doesn't show, that's also when they get the stickers for the shoes and the picture of the shark on the die. (Also, if you look closely, every animal has the phrase, "I know you will pick this card" But, cool trick!
So if pens deck says you will pick this card on the shark... then what about tellers deck..
@@righe8701 He's saying that every card has "I know you will pick this card" (or some variation) on it. The metronome's there to keep the cards moving so they can't visually pick up on it (since it's upside down and red on pink, it's hard to read before the next beat.
To be honest nothing should be visible from this angle at 4:20, she's blocking the action with her body. Very unlucky that something very subtle must have flashed for a second there. The stickers for the shoes happen later I think - when she puts the die on the floor at 5:20 and everyone focuses on the sharks in the deck she goes behind the die and steps on the stickers. Can anyone confirm if Penn is refering to their "Lift off to love" routine?
The assistant concealed under the table...at 3:55 the die shifts very slightly
@@mannybravo237 Good catch.
such a good trick!!
Admittedly I was fooled thought you was using equivocate. ☺️ More entertaining than most of the other performances. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Enjoyed that😊
Love this trick. :)
That was very cool.
Lovely act - very relaxed.
Mind blowing
Beautiful and really talented….awesome job lady
I loved the shoe part at the end... have no clue how it was all done, and don't want to know. Just wonderful!!
The person hiding in the table is setting it all up, and when she moves to pick the dice, he pastes new sole with 'shark'.
@@socialmedia6821 dude, he said he doesn't want to know what's wrong with u! But thanks, i wanted to know haha
I know exactly what Penn was talking about. Good going Anna and to that special other helping! ;)
The sharks accept her offer but want more equity.. wait wrong show :D
Jajajaja...
Great act.
Keep up the good work.
I think they're referring to their "Lift off to love" routine. The editing team really liked you and they hid the interesting moments from us. :P
True, they cut away and next we see Anna the die has moved to the ground and cards are visible under her shoes. Uncharacteristic of a typically transparent show.
They might be referring to the double bullet catch… that definitely needs the help of an unseen person to pull it off.
@@michaelnicholson3394 well, she did turn her back to move the die while the cards were being revealed. The cards, that is where the trick was playing out at the time of the edit. Unless they opted for a split screen, I think they made the right call.
Good job!!!
I gotta admit, the first half I thought oh great, a simple trick. But then the finish, it was impressive 🤔👏👏👌
Great job.
Well done.
The video just started but I already have to say that I just love your accent
Great job! You’re amazing! 👏👏👏
kudos to the back up who we weren't able to see behind the table, you did a pretty slick job hanging in that cramped space
Too bad that they didn’t get the paper stuck onto the bottom of left shoe to match the tone and color of the bottom of her right shoe.
Good vibes
Absolutely fantastic! Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best performances.
The shoes fooled me. I hope the move didn't get lost by editing or camera angle, and it's just so darn good.
Noticed before she showed the shoes she reached out to the bottom of her shirt. It looks like she was going to pull her shirt up. I think she has a different character on her stomach. Then she realized oh, they pick the shark, I have to show the bottom of the shoes. She has the characters in other places at her body as well. When you don’t know what the ending of a trick its going to be, but how do you know that there is a only only ending to the trick? Think about it.
@@allan727 I think she had an assistant in the table. Once the word 'Shark' was called out, the assistant switched the decks and put the sticky sided shark sticker behind the table for her to walk on. She walked behind the 'table' to lift off the cube, thats when she picked up the sole/sticker. Thats why its a different color and not in the previous shots.
@@lear60man But yes. Penn made it clear: "Many steps" and "Sneaky to the point of cheating, and we wouldn't catch you if we didn't do it ourselves," or "There was something wrong with the stage." Women are tolerated by direct assistance on stage, for example, another woman had an assistant in a massive table top. Penn encrypted it like her tight shoe, where her foot didn't feel good. :) The performance was nice, the camera tried to cover up what was possible, but the magic belongs more to the children's party, where it probably was so far.
very entertaining trick..]
That was a really awesome preformance. I am glad to see more women coming into the world of magic.
I'm actually rather tired of it. Having a uterus and ovaries is not a qualification for this job. Who the heck cares? If the magician is good, bring them on! Why do we have to say to the guys "sorry, bro. You got the wrong genitalia. Better luck next time"? How is that fair to guys who may have worked every bit as hard and come up with something innovative and interesting? We just don't care about you because you were born with external plumbing. Stupid and frankly, blatantly discriminatory. Pick acts based on their merits, not their demographics.
@@kma3647 bro, chill. There are less women in magic and if they do a Good Job. It is okay to get in the stage. And women allways been in magic, But unfortnatly only for distrection. So give them a chance.
There was definitely some sort of paper on her left trainer that she stepped on last minute, still very good though
You can see at 5:36 that the sticker on her left shoe is larger than the actual shoe bottom.
@@hoopyfrood4391 And the coloration is different.
Very nice 😊
awesome magic
Good trick
Well, at least you fooled me! Well done!
She’s one of the best〜‼️ ビックリだべ〜🤗‼️
An assistant is on-stage in the table- thats the 'thing' Penn is talking about 'in code'. They put the shark picture on the dice, switch the card sets, and provide pieces of paper for the bottom of her shoes.. All of this is done after the card is selected and announced- I think the camera caught the cards being switched-which is why we see a blurry zoomed up version of the footage. 'Fooled' me on first viewing though.
Amazing girl I loved it
Really nice trick. Got super unlucky with a bad camera angle and cut. Great voice
From what I have read on line about the show, those camera angles and cuts are intentional.
Everyone slows video down that's why
@@2009rickyj That's why I watch a trick once at full speed and use that to figure out if I could've caught it, then go back and analyze for real. I figured this out on replay, but not the first time through.
Cool trick
Well, I'm not even going to read the comments because I don't want to know how you did it! Great stuff! You're quite the shark!
That was still a really awesome trick! I think Penn was referring to your table as the item that made the magic happen. I have no idea how that might have been true, but it's my guess from his code.
there was a person in the table who was writing and selecting things lol, thats why they said its almost like cheating
@@craigmurray544 Right, well caught, the writing on the shoes is some scratch add on :/
@@craigmurray544 it was a stack of many animals, these are called OUTS, whichever they stopped on was the animal cards the secret assistant places on the table. Also the same animal panel on the die box. She steps on a cut out that is disguised in black art on the floor but its magnetized to her shoe. theres many other animals to choose from.
She didn't fool Pen and Teller but she fools me entirely.
me too
I wished she fooled them cuz I’m so confused rn my brain is hurting
@@iMsOiNsO i believe there's someone in the table writing stuff
She fooled me because I kept thinking it was forces until the end and I realized I was mislead. Probably spoilers below: As someone said above, it's an assistant inside the table doing a lot of stuff. Making sure the other 2 decks have the right cards. Putting the shark drawing on the die. Writing on the add on soles that she'd eventually step on and show us. I wonder if it had less parts if it'd had fooled them. But it was still a good act.
The editing did the magician big favors concealing the main tells. I think Penn was also being very nice saying they would have been fooled if they hadn't done something similar. I don't think they would have been fooled.
Yeah, between the 5:20 and 5:35 timestamps, you can see the addition of the flat white additions to the bottom of her shoes, with the custom message. The camera doesn't show her explicitly walking around behind the table to step onto the additional layer with choice message written on them.
@@jacejunkI'd imagine she didn't step behind the table, just behind the die
было классно, молодец!
Irehman7 has figured out EVERY SINGLE trick ever tried on this show. Every one. Nobody is better than him. There is a helper in the box, and she stepped on the pre-made shoe stickers.
That’s impressive. I was fooled, and it seems you almost got the fellas too.
Jezuz they are tough to fool . Dat was awesome
It to me to watch a reveal to see what happened. Nice trick tho ...good stuff
Nice work! One thing I cannot understand is why go to the show and pretend to be able to control the mind when it's well known that Penn despises mentalist acts that pretend that mentalism is real. This very same routine could have done by saying that "some people would claim to be able to control your mind but I'm doing a trick that appears to do that but it's actually totally fake - but your own mind will still try to convince you otherwise". I think Penn would have loved that.
The table
I think it's safe to say this was a trick that didn't fool Alyson.
I'm not magician (wish I was! Love this stuff), but that die was up on the table for a while. Long enough for someone to draw a shark on it I think.
They probably had a separate panel for each of the different animal cards already drawn up in advance. The assistant merely had to attach the right panel to that portion of the die box. It would have looked more professional if those panels had been inkjet printed using the same image graphics that were on the cards. It would have taken less prep time, for sure, though a bit more costly.
You are so naturally personable, you must be liked. Wish you all the best for your future career. You can do it, show the men who can do the magic better! Looking forward for more videos on this channel.
Why must it be about showing men that women are better. We have all the same mental capabilities when it comes to these sort of things. Gender doesn't make a difference. I wish people would stop comparing men and women and just see us all as human beings.
@@zepman9200 because sadly we still live in a society where women's work get undermined intently, so we had to vocalise that women are just as better.
@@zeuxlaught2797 what a sexist comment. Men and women are equal, one gender is not better than the other
@@zepman9200 women aren't physically stronger them men, so that statement is incorrect
@@Dimorac I know some women that are stronger physically then men. So it is a fine statement. One can argue that men are better made to do this, or women are better made to do that. The context here is about being a magician. There is no reason why men and women can't perform at the same EQUAL level at magic.
Okay, so you didn't fool them, but, Hey! great performance!! Keep the tricks coming!
The shoes must've been a spirit slate, common in prediction tricks. The die must've had one panel that could be rolled back to reveal any of the matching pictures. So the real good trick was the switch of the other decks, which I'd have to review the video of to see how.
I suspect that the table on stage has a person in it. They are able to access the large die from underneath. Through that, they could have placed / replaced the two decks on the table and painted a shark on the bottom of the die. The 'one' spot on the die almost looked like it was or could open.
I’m a hypnotherapist. Most of what I do involves a deep understanding of psychology and I loved your presentation for your use of it here. That was a wonderful demonstration and I hope to see more of you in the near future.
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I've stopped watching videos that reveal the tricks because I kind of like not knowing how they're done. This is a good one and despite all the things I know about magic, I don't know how this one is done. I'm keeping it that way.
yes but Penn and Teller know!! I've listened to their comments several times and still don't know what they are talking about!!
I would say this is one of the easiest to reveal tricks.
digitalconc Come on try and figure it out. Then you will learn.
Was there a second person in the box that passed up the Shark deck of cards?
5:45 you can see something stuck to the bottom of her shoe that’s bigger than her shoe.
Yes that's one of the tricks .. only one.. That's still amazing
@@ahmedd.masoud6809 not that amazing.
I’m guessing there’s a secret assistant in the desk to swap the decks and change the picture on the die. She stepped on some paper that put the words on her shoes.
Ur Soo qute and talented 🤩🤩😍
cute*
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So how long is that helper of hers going to be hidden under the desk?
Beautiful performance. However, I don't like the fact that they did some video "touch ups" to cover up the trap door in some of the scenes. You can tell they were altering the video because the door is clearly visible in some of the scenes but invisible in the others.
well, from the perspective of the audiance you couldn't see the trap door neither. So I think it's fair they didn't want to show it in the recording. Having said that, when exactly do you see the trap door? I'm guessing you think the trap door was used to put the painting on the die and the writing under her shoes?
They only cut the exchange of two decks of cards when the girl blocked the view of the table and the second cut when the girl walked around the table so that she could step on the sticky trail with the description. This means that most of the work was done by the assistant hidden in the desk. A nice girl has no problem finding an assistant. The assistant had to exchange cards on the table, prepare a sticky stepping platform, and stick a shark to the center of the back of the dice. I call it perfect service. According to the painted grass on the cube, Teller was supposed to pick a terrestrial animal, so the grass around the shark looked a little funny. But otherwise it was a nice, infantile charm that looks cute in the hands of a pretty girl. If some "pampalini" did it, he would really catch it and be despised. :)
I come here to be fooled. She fooled me which makes me happy.
The name, "Simpson" really stands out for some reason.
How did she do it
Let's just say.. if she fooled them she would have to share the trophy with her table friend
There was an assistant hiding behind the table
who's under the table?
It was dio
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Hi Anna, I had a question to ask - what are some good books or DVDs on mentalism you would recommend?
DVDs? Wow do they still exist these days?
this isnt mentalism, this is cheating as pen and teller have stated
How that girl in the audience know it was definitely her and everyone else around where he was pointing knew for some weird reason
I was so distracted by your cuteness, that I didn't notice anything strange on the stage that Penn mentioned, but I think I got what he was saying, that it wasn't forcing the choice, more like that no matter what they do, it would always turn out the same way. You got my like :3
So there is a person does behind the table, isn't there?
I thought her forcing the choice was pretty blunt... and then Penn said it wasn't a force...
It was t a force - it was a “multiple outs” trick. Teller could have stopped on any card and she would have had an “out” for it.
@@jacobvriesema6633 I thought exactly that is a "force": Magician promts you to pick a card and depending on what card is picked, magician says "so we put this card away" or "that's the card" (simplified of course). I thought I spotted it with the three decks and how she gave them the two she wanted to give them. I guess I'm using the wrong terminology.
@@Jelissei yea that’s not what a force is. If a magician takes a deck of cards and says, “choose a card” and the one you pick seemingly at random is the exact one the magician wants you to take - that’s a force. Teller could have truly picked any card - so nothing was forced there.
@@jacobvriesema6633 thanks
@@jacobvriesema6633 It wasn’t even multiple outs. Multiple outs means that you have a possible path for any possible option, but this trick would have ended like this not matter what would have been picked. Basically: The choice which thing is at the back of the cube and what’s on the cardboard for the shoes is made only after the selection. You know, it’s like with the beatles ...
Very cool! Unsure how it happened though...
Someone is hidden in the table. That person switched the decks, put the right image on the die and some kind of sticker on her shoe
It was her sign in the background, combined with the single number dice that when put together look likes the shark on the card. So yes she was doing a force, just not a traditional one. Great job presenting this trick.
She chose which decks to discard. The shark was abnomaly and that line could've been on all the cards of that deck
She didn't choose which decks to discard -- the deck choice didn't effect the trick at all, all 3 decks were identical (all had animals in them). The trick would've worked the same regardless of which deck was chosen, but she wanted to make it look like she had forced a deck.
Great trick! I'm not sure the writing part was a good choice for a multi-camera TV and a "buster" show, though. The following effects were enough and far better imo. Maybe some symbols on every card would help with the mentalism aspect if somehow at the end she shows it somewhere saying that it "influenced" them, even if for exemple it was too small to really see at the start (making it possible to switch it). It wouldn't force them to hide all the cards and make it less suspectful? It bought some time though and forced them to read something making it easy to hide some movements on stage, but maybe asking them to look closely to the symbol (or sthg else, like a secondary detail on the drawing) would do the same?
Wooohooo