I absolutely love that more and more performers realize that it's not always about "fooling" Penn and Teller. It's about using the national stage to highlight great acts from great people, who are all about having a great time and showing off what they bring to the table.

@Intimatycal

Жыл бұрын

It IS about fooling P&T. Hence the name of the show. More and more non-talented people are coming to the show from the same perspective of your pseudo-sentiment "its just a pleasure to be with you, guys!" And the show is becoming more and more cringe

@RobotShield

Жыл бұрын

@@Intimatycal no not really, I haven’t watched every show but I’m willing to bet every show has some foolers and some non foolers. That wouldn’t be a coincidence, it wouldn’t be a good show if everyone or no one was a fooler. Penn and Teller want a mix, the producers want a mix and the audience wants a mix.

@dylanjc

Жыл бұрын

@@Intimatycal tbh, I think one of the problems is that magic doesn't have as much variety as people think. Almost every trick is just a derivative of some other trick that's well-known, and after so many seasons, there's probably not much "new" stuff left to do.

@andreasneu302

Жыл бұрын

Penn himself said that it's not really about fooling them but to give magicians a stage

@danielwalker4881

Жыл бұрын

Yes it is to give acts a platform to jump off! Not too many things like that around, and the gimmick is come a do a trick and if you fool us, then we will let you do your own show! Sometimes even if not fooled they give them a show!

I don't care if you won a trophy, you did something much more important here and I hope it leads to life long friendships.

@DustinDeanMentalist

Жыл бұрын

That’s what it’s all about 🙌🏻

@Noticing-Enjoyer

Жыл бұрын

Gay

@amiroseez3871

Жыл бұрын

@@Noticing-Enjoyer like tf is this dude talking about lmao Aint no way u wake up choose to talk about long life and friendship in yt comments😂😂😂

@patchfile

Жыл бұрын

I was talking to the performer. He understood.

@amiroseez3871

Жыл бұрын

@@patchfile he as a public figure couldn’t tell u what he really felt about your comment but we trying to tell u that kind of behavior is unacceptable in the internet I hope u understand sir🌹

I think, apart from a great personality and genuinely making them laugh, the most unique thing here is yours will be the *only* Fool Us video on youtube that doesn't have people in the comments saying how it was done or asking how it was done. Nice work.

@Squavez.

Жыл бұрын

Facts XD

Love the "don't code it, I want people to know how these ones work" attitude. Great way to use your slot to get some press for the cause of scepticism.

Doing a cold read of Alyson was great. This is the only instance I've seen where someone performed a trick during the interview. 👍

Hey dude, I am a big fan of James Randi who dedicated decades of his life to expose so called psychics who take advantage of vulnerable people. So I wanted to give you a big shout for showing people how easy it is to be fooled. Really great act.

@DustinDeanMentalist

Жыл бұрын

James was my hero

@dazuk1969

Жыл бұрын

@@DustinDeanMentalist 👍👍

@BobPagani

Жыл бұрын

@@dazuk1969 I got to talk to Randi on the phone a few times and I helped him with a debunking or two. He is very much missed. It looks like his Foundation fell apart without him to run it, sadly.

@dazuk1969

Жыл бұрын

@@BobPagani That is so cool Bob. I would have loved to meet him. No one even came close to winning that million dollars. Thanks for reply.

@williamblackfyre4866

Жыл бұрын

James was some cool...it was great getting some film of him debunking guys like Yuri. It's a shame we don't have any footage of when Houdini used to go around doing it.

What a treasure to have the “at band camp” actor as the host. She’s great lol

@S_Drake

Жыл бұрын

She'll always be Willow Rosenberg to me.

@morphix007

6 ай бұрын

she got better at it

Thank you for not exposing the outcome in the title of your video. So many people write 'FOOLER' across the video and spoil the ending! Thanks for understanding the spirit of the show :)

It's amazing how someone doing these things on the 70s was able to get on TV and be taken seriously. It was really the pioneering work of James Randi that shut so much of this down. But you have people doing stuff like this on social now, and so it's great to have a modern version also debunking these classic tricks on social.

@Vinemaple

Жыл бұрын

In the 70s? There are STILL people on TV doing this stuff and claiming it's real!

It's funny that you mentioned that even after knowing you were using tricks, that some people thought you actually had real psychic powers as I had the same thing happen to me when I did cold reading chiromancy. I would explicitly tell them afterwards it was all lucky hits, guided questioning and sounding confident...and that was based upon linguistic responses, body language and other observations, but some still would insist that I had some actual psychic ability, but just wasn't willing to admit it my self I had "the gift"! The struggle is real! So totally believe it has happened to you as well!

@GloryInWonderland

Жыл бұрын

Same thing with me. I could read new friends that I make sometimes and they are always astonished by how well I can point things out. All of it is just psychology, but I still had a friend insist I was a sensitive/medium and just didn’t realize it.

@jlmurph2

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like that one episode of South Park lol

@doctorbrown5957

11 ай бұрын

Had a friend that spiraled down years of believing in spiritual magic because of the toothpick and tinfoil trick. She still believes she can harness the powers of actual magic to this day lol.

I think Penn never laughed so wholesome, hard and many times for anybody else

This was so great! I think the more exposure you get the better when it comes to exposing and debunking all these frauds out there. I still really wanted you to get the trophy, but at least you were able to prove a really great point, and I’m glad you were still happy in the end. It’s still an honor to get to perform in front of such legends. Great job man! Congrats! 👏👏

@sirfunkalot3404

Жыл бұрын

U are actually cringe

Very good psychic debunking. Loved your honesty. All the best in this wonderful life with no paranormal 😊

This was very entertaining. I admire your efforts to debunk psychics. I have a friend who has been spending hundreds of dollars on a psychic to talk to her dead father. It makes me angry because it keeps the wound of grief open. Wherever people go when they die is not my business. People pretending to get messages from the dead for money so someone's grief is extended becomes my business especially when my friend's emotions are at stake. This kind of thing is important work. We as humans are so easily tricked, we don't have as powerful faculties as we like to assume, so charlatans can take advantage. Keep it up!!!!! you're doing the lords work lol

Amazing routine, Dustin. I won't lie - the phone trick had me completely baffled until the bust. You're an incredible performer, and you've gained a new fan.

@narazieniemam

Жыл бұрын

i know he's not psychic but how did he know Alison would say "9"? Or was she supposed to say that... magic

@FriendlyNeighbourhoodSpidey

Жыл бұрын

Still confuses me tbh, Penn's explanation doesnt help much either.

@godnkls

Жыл бұрын

@@narazieniemam either external input from a guy outside stage, or by clicking a certain point when he stuttered to take his phone out. Entertaining routine, did 3 basic tricks and presented them in a great way, and that's what magic is all about.

@tcr7

Жыл бұрын

That was the only one that I had a general understanding of how he did it. I did not figure out the pyrokinesis and telekinesis tricks.

@justjeff386

Жыл бұрын

@@godnkls or by having one phone for each possible number 4 5 6 7 8 9. Only 6 phones pretty easy to have in various pockets. But in a situation where it wasn't fool us, that trick would probably befuddle a room of people pretty well.

I loved your cold reading. Wonderful gamble about the name Alyson, or having some research. I nearly fell out of my chair, thank you!

i knew how all were done but it was still a fun act to watch.

@DustinDeanMentalist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@SethiozProject

Жыл бұрын

i highly doubt it, because each of those tricks can be done in several different ways. i thought he used magnetic paper or small magnetic pad under the paper and his ring was magnetic, because he moved his hand in similar way as the paper moved and i thought he used some special liquid on the match or completely swapped it for a gimmick one. so you can't possible say you knew exactly every trick, cuz it could all be done differently. i usually overthink magic tricks and go too much into science. if you really guessed it all right, it was just lucky. cuz i could think of at least 5 different ways of doing each of those tricks.

@justsomeredspy

Жыл бұрын

@@SethiozProject Counter point, this video has 75K+ views and somebody was bound to guess the correct combination of methods. If you can think of 5 different ways for each trick to be done, assuming each method is just as likely as the next, that means that there are 125 equally probable explanations for the entire act. Let's assume for the sake of argument that, out of 75K+ views, 10K unique viewers have seen the entire video (quite a conservative estimate) and that they are all equally likely to guess any of the aforementioned methods. The odds that nobody out of that 10K can guess how the trick was done are less than 1.31x10^-35. To put that into perspective, you are more likely to win the Powerball jackpot 4 times in a row. I bet a few of them also thought of the same number as Alyson. That doesn't make them wrong for not thinking of the other 5 possibilities. For the record, I also correctly guessed the methods used for each trick. The first trick can only be achieved in a couple ways, each producing a slightly different effect. For example, a magnetic ring wouldn't produce the rotation we see in the video because the paper doesn't actually match his hand movements. We also get the benefit of a close up shot on the paper where we can see his mouth moving in the background. The second trick could be done with a quick blow or swap, except we don't see either in the video. We can however see him cover the head of the match with his fingers just before lighting it. I'm not even sure how you can get to 5 methods for the last trick. It's a classic example of a trick that's too perfect to be true. Either he really did move everyone's clocks back nine minutes or his clock had to be nine minutes ahead. The actual mechanism behind the changing clock (e.g. pre-recorded video, app, etc.) is irrelevant. The major mistake in my probability analysis above is that I assume that each method is equally likely, and that all methods are just as likely to be guessed. The reality is that many of the potential methods can be eliminated just by watching the video carefully. The remaining possibilities vary in terms of practicality. Maybe he really did hijack everyone's phones and forced them to show a different time, but he probably just modified his own phone. Great act by the way, I loved every second of it!

@SethiozProject

Жыл бұрын

@@justsomeredspy you're forgetting most important thing -- about 99% of people are dumb. likelyhood that anyone else watching this has over 150 IQ, are less than 0.001% (i didn't do any math, just a quick guess). altho dumb people can poke randomly and sometimes that random can hit the spot, it's very unlikely. if this video had like 100 million views, then it would be more likely that dumb people have randomly guessed the right combination on how it was done. i don't take random guesses, i first eliminate the impossible and then think of ways that are left. bottom line, is that it doesn't matter which exact method was used, what matters is that one thing can be done in different ways with same results.

Your YT is about to blow up and I'm glad I was here from the start to see it! I followed you from Spidey's channel and love what you're doing. The more people you bust for being the charlatans they are, the better off the world will be.

lmfao this best ones! As others pointed out great routine, love the no code part at the end

@sigitadinata4813

Жыл бұрын

you are here... and your account is still active, i hope you are at penn and teller fool us

This was awesome and you have a great personality for the stage!

This was a fantastic performance! Made even better by the willingness to share the secrets in order to debunk the charlatans. And, of course, for the enormous brass, uh... (child friendly comment) enormous "accompaniments" that it took to go out there and demand they debunk you in plain language. Really entertaining, thanks so much for posting!

What a wonderful performance! Love you, Dustin. Keep on soldiering in the good fight for entertainment that isn't a scam!

Finally what I have been waiting for where a performer actually asks his method not to be debunked in code👏😂

@EnderSword

Жыл бұрын

I just wish he'd brought like, more clever things, 'cause those are all like very beginner level tricks a lot of magicians do. I guess that's why he figured it'd be fine, but sometimes acts will do like 2 easy ones and a complicated one, this guy just did a few easy ones I think most of the audience would know anyway.

Completely LOVE your attitude. Great stuff :)

Well, hats off to you for just letting them tell you straight! 😅

Congratulations on the show!!!! I am a huge fan of what you do and think Penn and Teller are fans now too!

Thanks for posting this! I'm in the UK & can't normally watch it til years later! Really great performance, hope it makes people think more about what they're looking at 👍👏💕

I love an act that's not more of the same. Great job!

Love this debunk collab

Love that you let them spell it out lol!! Also, you're doing good work debunking so called "mentalists." I appreciate that

I love debunkers. Thank you!

I know you from the clock app, and I’m very excited you went on Fool Us! Congratulations 🎉

I knew they would love him when he said he debunks mentalists.

Great concept. Thanks!

Anytime you see a Penn and Teller Fool me video, if it’s titled in the form of a question, then the answer is always no.

I also have essential tremor syndrome, and I also love magic/mentalism. Love this! Keep up the great work!

Hey, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this but I’ve never even heard of you before in fact you just showed up on my KZread feed and I love fool us so I had to watch… but I’m 20 years old almost 21 and I used to perform magic tricks for all my friends cardistry coin magic all the sorts of fun little tricks that make everyone laugh and it was something I enjoyed more than really anything else in my life at the time. There was something about mystifying someone and making them smile that kept me wanting to learn more and improve but around the age of 15 I started developing pretty serious essential tremors that made it nearly impossible to perform in a convincing way… I remember when I was hanging out with friends performing a trick as usual (we were hanging out at Taco Bell) and my tremors were so bad at this point that half way through the trick that I had performed 1,000 times before I dropped the cards all over the floor and I remember getting so embarrassed that even to this day I’ve never performed another trick. I have to say man watching you perform makes me really regret just quitting like I did. I realize that I truly never lost the child like joy that I got from performing and that if I had never given up like I did I would’ve been able to find a way like you have. I can’t really say if I’ll ever get back into it but at the least just know you made my night seeing someone who kept going even though they had all the reason to quit like I did… You’re an inspiration and watching this did more for me than you know so thank you and keep going ❤

I loved this one more than a lot of the other “you didn’t fool us but it was delightful” routines - I figured most of it (not the spit on the fingers, though!), I was just utterly charmed by how delighted the magician was at having it just stated outright what he was doing 😆🥰👍

Loved everything. New sub!

Couldn't love this more.

That’s amazing that you’re on pen and tell

I guessed what you did before Penn And Teller told how you did it! But I hope you try again!

easily one of the most memorable FU episodes.

Very entertaining, a great laugh. I really enjoyed this.

Love your debunking idea for the show and not using code. I will do the same for Alley Cat: Before the show, you googled Alyson and found the info below: Alyson Hannigan profile summary Name: Alyson Lee Hannigan (commonly known as Alyson Hannigan) Nickname: Allycat. Then you would have suggested to the producers before the show you would be happy to do a cold reading for Alyson. Then when Alyson asked for a cold reading, all you had to do was fake your psychic powers, ask a few broad questions, and then, out of the blue say "alley cat'. With everything we understand about the world today, its difficult to believe that people will gladly pay money to psychics! Well done. Great act.

@DustinDeanMentalist

Жыл бұрын

Close! But I didn’t do any research or googling ahead of time. It also wasn’t planned in any way and took me way off guard. BUT. Let’s just say I was lucky and it paid off 😅

@TheLimeyDragon

Жыл бұрын

Doing research before hand is classed as "hot reading" rather than "cold reading"

@thezetes

Жыл бұрын

@@DustinDeanMentalist I also did some cold reading, but alley cat did not come to mind when reading Hannigan!

@pranavps851

Жыл бұрын

@@DustinDeanMentalist But how did you guess Allycat? The name seems fairly random to me.

Keep busting psychics Dustin. They deserve it. Great tricks well done.

@DustinDeanMentalist

Жыл бұрын

No psychic is safe with me around 😈

I like that Alyson and P&T have matching lock screens

@oldguydoesstuff120

Жыл бұрын

My guess would be that the phones - clean, not altered, ordinary phones - were given to them shortly before the act started. I doubt they were their actual personal phones. In a more typical audience, lots of people would have their own phones with them and the trick would work fine with those. And I'm sure many recognized the pink ribbon supporting breast cancer awareness. Another guess is that Dustin either carries 7 phones (one for each of the 7 possibilities that Alyson could have chosen - magicians wear coats for a good reason) or had an app on the phone that would allow the press of different combinations of the power, volume up, and volume down buttons to alter the time quickly. (With three buttons using a binary code, that's exactly the number of buttons you need to select any digit from 1-7, which again gets you all the options you need.)

The time changed on my phone here at home as well . . . whoa . . .

As Penn told someone else, win the game that you're actually playing. Well done.

Brilliant. When I watched it a second time, I saw what Penn saw 😂😂😂😂 brilliant

The first part made me think of James Hydrick.

@Dios67

Жыл бұрын

...and the Amazing Randi.

amazing. and at the end hilarious. keep it up

@DustinDeanMentalist

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

The first one is static electricity, the last one uses identical phones for everyone and is centrally controlled from back stage

I'm kind of proud of myself I figured out the time trick before pen and teller revealed it

Everything about this was excellent

loved this my aunt got scammed by "mentalists" for big money when I was a kid - VERY COOL MAN

Good stuff, now it'd be cool to see you go back and fool them. But, I have much respect for you busting. And, for wanting the honest truth with no codes. Props and still very entertaining.

Awesome job sir!

Awsome bro!! Cool hair cut too!

Impressed. Amused. Subscribed. Well done.

Loved this!

I Respect you to get on stage (Penn and teller) to demonstrate your magic skills. Some magician are there who would never go to Penn and teller show to fool them.. because they think if they won't be able to fool these two Legendary dynamic duo than all their Name and fame would be decrease. (e.g David Blaine, Chris angel, Dynamo etc.etc.). I used to think if they really think they're good than WHY DON'T THEY GO TO Penn and teller show to have a honourable moment to perform infront of these two Legends... Like you did. Zach King already perform in Penn and teller show.

I didnt think about the spit, but i guessed the other two. It was pretty obvious, and the AlleyCat thing was cool, very cool.

I knew the match part, it was still very enjoyable, thanks.

Very cool, love the act!

Kudos sir. 👍👍👍

There's a long tradition of magicians busting for-profit charlatans, selling false hope and lies to people. Houdini was one of the greats. These were some really cool tricks, AND we got to hear how they all worked. Great job!

It's called going down with honour! Nice tricks.

How on earth did i not notice him blowing on the paper first time around, its so obvious and yet i would never have seen it until i was told

You are a social worker magician.. Keep it going.. Best wishes

This was really well done and I agree with his philosophy too

Nice idea and good use of screen time. :)

I kind of figured how you did the 3 things that Penn caught you on but how did you get the name Alley-cat?? To me that was by far the most amazing part. Penn & Teller should have had to bust you on that one too or give you the trophy!

Have you seen the plastic straw version of the balanced paper trick? I saw it on Brian Brushwood's channel; it's even more mystifying in that it uses static electricity and can be impromptu at many restaurants. The fun part is the force-like hand motions really are necessary.

Great act! Fooled or Not. Enjoyed the show

As a kid, I actually had a book that talked about the paper-spinning thing, and it ACTUALLY WORKS. I did not blow on it, and I could even get it to change directions. I have no idea how that works, even though I have been studying magic for over 30 years.

@electroborg

Жыл бұрын

Happened to me accidentally with a balloon. Best explanation i can give is that muscle tension in the hand somehow increases some induced magnetic field which affects the balloon. Or air pressure from the movement. I could not replicate it, nor I tried very hard tbh.

I love this dudes attitude

What a breath of fresh air.

i like u being courageous>thank you

I knew the blowing on paper and figured the time on the phone, but I didn't know a match would light slightly wet. I think for a better effect you need it to light more though, it barely came on at all

This was awesome. I understood how the first and third tricks were done but not the second one so it was refreshing to have that one "debunked" in such a blatant manner. I don't always get why people like the "magic" of magic. For me, part of the fun is learning how it is done so that you can spoil it for friends and family that might otherwise be duped by charlatans.

Thank you for sharing great show i enjoy it

LIke + Abo. I wished I could do more. Please continue to walk in the footsteps of James Randi. What you do is so important!

This made me SO happy!

Even funnier because he said that he wanted to be busted.

Number 1000 liker. Great job and thank you for sharing!!

Very entertaining! :)

WOW!! Oldest trick in the book. I remember in the early 1980's I think on Ripleys Believe it or Not. A guy could move things under a glass fish tank. They found out he was just blowing air quietly under the tank.

Still lost on the phone trick. Good job!

Speaking freely was such a breath of fresh air. Most people who are interested in magic know what they are talking about anyways, or at least have a good guess (most of time). Just talking honestly and freely was great to watch 👍

That was fucking dope

Legit saw this science experience from the 1800s last month. It's an apparatus that takes light radiation to move the paper

Magnifque! C'etait superbe!

I love it!! :)

How is him blowing able to move the paper if its completely covered in glass?

A fantastic performance. 🤘😊🤘😊🤘👍👍

the phone trick didn't fool me but I really like this method that you used.

I just saw Jasper Cherry do the exact same trick on AGT.

I’m Dustin who loves playing music and I have always loved magic as well lol

Biggest trick is all the comments on KZread saying that this is a great performance 🤣 Ridiculous act. Peen humiliated him by not even using codes as the all thing was a joke 😄