GUYS!!!! I'm trending on YT right NOW!!!! It's BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I don't know if liking, or sharing, or commenting will help boost this BUT this is so surreal to me!!!! Please help launch this shit!!! xoxoxo
Is @Eric back on Bob? I'm guessing you should make the truth from the FU, both make things you say, so its not just from one person. Unless Chriss is on, then it might be little akwards for him 😉
I love it when magicians explain their retired tricks, especially after showing them on Fool Us. I get why people think some of the fun is lost, but I find it even more impressive and fun to watch when I have a little understanding just how much goes into each trick to make them look so natural. Speaking of looking natural, please rethink your camerawork here though. (Love ya!)
@@LeclericShow how you grab the exact peanut which was on the cloth if you jumped on the cloth, jumping makes the cloth loosing its grip form the wall of the box and let the other peanut mixed instantly, you also wore blindfold.
In magic its common, when you learn the method, that you feel ripped off. But I can honestly say this is so genius, brilliant and original. I can't stop smiling. This is a clinic in creative problem solving in magic. Well done Eric!
I actually think I love knowing how it's done, rather than the actual trick being performed. I just enjoy seeing the creative process on how to take an existing trick and completely change how its performed.
The secret is so simple and satisfying, it's one of those cases where the most impressive part is the misdirection. Having a guest on stage, scattering packing peanuts on the floor in the beginning, using a bird's-eye view, using a simple flimsy cardboard box, revealing the contents of the box in the end, the gimmick was so cleverly hidden. It wasn't about forcing Penn and Teller to guess one obvious method out of several, it was about carefully choreographing a routine to completely mystify them.
You guys should troll Penn and Teller by having Alex wear the packing-peanut cloth as a cape for his performance. EDIT: if this gets the most likes, I hereby relinquish the peanut blanket to be repurposed for wardrobe.
the food ain't nothing I want slip open bag of weed on a table left the room when I came back to cleaning service people in the room I think they were managers and supervisors they said nothing
I imagine them showing no surprise whatsoever because that's probably not even close to being the weirdest thing that has ever been found in a bathtub in a Vegas hotel room.
When you were asked if it was a mess to practice at home, you should have said that normally you practice it without the other peanuts, so this time it was significantly harder
Every magician goes through 1000s of books trying to figure out the possibilities while some random worker at a custom cloth store knew the whole time lol
I don't care about getting the most likes, as one magician to another, this was genius. I literally paused this before you revealed the method, went back and watched the performance again and again, and my idea of how it was done was so far from what actually happened I feel like an idiot. Bravo. You deserve the 100k and most importantly, that trophy.
@@LeclericShow I mean, you're making fun of it but you said yourself "when you approached them with the bag we wanted to throw them off" ... nothing against the trick or your performance but saying "no red herrings" is not exactly true.
It's such a nice explanation because it doesn't "ruin" magic. When you explain ball and cup tricks it makes the whole thing un-magical. When you explain this trick, it's just such a funny way to pull it off! Obviously there were easier methods like pocketing the peanut, which would've visually been the same. But Penn and Teller would've easily guessed that. This is just an awesome way to pull it off that's super simple yet virtually impossible to guess!
its packing peanuts. theyre literally made to absorb force and make sure stuff doesnt get knocked. it probably moved a little but if they tacked it properly it would have stayed
I know this isn't true for some people, but for me, I REALLY enjoy magic tricks SO much more when they are revealed. It doesn't "spoil" it for me to appreciate all the ingenuity and skill and hard work and secrets that went into pulling off such a visual event.
This is so clever and amazing! There's a lot of tricks where the method is actually just some gimmick, sleight of hand, or hidden technology, but this is just extremely simple and clever! A freaking cloth! So simple but so genius. Absolutely love it! When the reveal is just as exciting and fun to watch as the trick itself, you know its good.
Eric in the introduction at Penn and Teller: "No red herings, no weird moves to make them think something else..." Eric in this explanation: "We kind wanted to throw them off a little bit..." Alex: "And they know about change bag." Yes, exactly. And that was what they guessed in the end. That the peanut "went into a container". So you fooled them by using a red hering although you promised not to use a red hering.. Then again, P&T always say (that is Penn says it) "Magicians always lie!"... And they are right.
I more took from 'weird moves' that that the trick wasn't based around purposely "flubbing" a trick. like including a "flash" to make them think they saw the trick. The trick itself was pretty unique in terms of scale. but yes the red herring thing was a straight lie.
The contenders have to provide the method to the trick in written form to the Fool Us team beforehand. There is a famous magic trick inventor/engineer whose name I forgot watching from the producer's studio. He talks to Pen and Teller through their earpiece letting them know if they figured the trick out.
@@E942-h2d I don't know. Maybe that's the way in most cases. But I know of an instance where they learn how the guy fools them. You can look up 'Penn Talks About Being Fooled by Kostya Kimlat'
@@Zorbonoult The tricks are always explained to the Judge - the backstage magician (Michael Close, who originally shared the role with Johnny Thompson before his passing.) who can arbitrate whether Penn and Teller's guesses are correct if there's a dispute. So they know.
i grew up watching this dude on a show called, “Tricked” where he would go up to strangers and do a crazy trick in front of a hidden camera. it’s great to see him hit the big stage.
@@HOTD108_ i think it came out around 2015 or 2016. but the show would be on every week or two for the next two or three years. so i watched it for a pretty long time. probably just up until 2019.
One question: How did you catch the one peanut sitting on top of the cloth? Because when you jumped into it, you went straight through and everything must have been mixed together.
I don't expect to win this, but anything's worth a shot, right? Mine and my wife's second wedding anniversary is coming up, and I'd love to surprise her with this sheet. I have a vision of using it as a tablecloth for our dinner table. After a few days of her not understanding why this is our new tablecloth, and me playing it off that it's totally normal, I'd then show her the Fool Us episode. Then, after her still not quite getting it, I would show her this behind-the-scenes video. We have done a lot of silly surprise-based things in our relationship, and this one would really throw her for a loop. Either way: Kudos to you for the incredible entertainment. You rock!
I'm a researcher and writer. I always say, as an engineer, if you're really smart, you can design something complicated; and if you're even smarter, you can design something simple. This was GENIUS! It's one of the few tricks I've ever seen revealed where the reveal rivals the illusion in its elegance and entertainment value. All good wishes!
as an engineer you should understand what reverse engineering is, then each detail in focus begins to have its true meaning, and not the one intended for the public)
My favourite example of this is the ring trick on Fools Us. Penn guessed as a complicated gimmicked ring, but it wasn't. It was a very simple trick, with slight of hand.
So, you essentially let you Freak Flag Fool. Some people see a box half empty, your audience sees a box half full. Thanks so much for revealing the secret. That's what I love about Penn & Teller - they always have a number of tricks that they reveal to the audience, and a trick revealed is every bit as charming as a secret trick to me, because I can appreciate just how hard the darn thing is to accomplish when someone shows me how hard it was to accomplish. ETA: The camera people and editors of the show must have been in on it, because the cut away from you while you removed the marked peanut from the box, and they showed an overhead shot of you IN the box full of peanuts, but only after you removed the cloth and had it hidden from view.
@@humanbean3 Of course they are, they need to know how the trick works so they don't accidentally cut to the wrong camera angle and reveal the whole thing.
I was wondering how the assistant wouldn't have noticed that half of the box didn't weigh the same as the other half, but then I remembered that packing peanuts are so light the whole box would feel almost empty anyways. This trick is ingenious, thanks for the explanation!
Of course that's not how he did it. He's f@$+ing with his viewers. He had a marker. He saw what pen wrote. So, he used his marker and copied what pen wrote. No one's gonna write something complicated on a small surface peanut.
I always find it amusing when people say revealing the secrets ruins the trick. But for the average person who doesn't know how it's done, it's amazing. And for the person who knows how it's done but it's executed so freaking perfectly, it's still amazing. In a way, knowing the behind-the-scenes makes it even more fantastic.
Of course that's not how he did it. He's f@$+ing with his viewers. He had a marker. He saw what pen wrote. So, he used his marker and copied what pen wrote. No one's gonna write something complicated on a small surface peanut.
@@mikamaldonado1784 First, it's Penn*, not "pen". Second, Teller wrote on the peanut, not Penn. Third, it is the same exact peanut. Teller writes the T upside down. You can look at the peanut as Teller holds it side by side with the peanut in Eric's mouth, and every ink mark and crevasse is exactly identical. It is the same exact peanut.
You glossed over how you actually grabbed the peanut tho... even if it was sitting on the cloth, you jumped on top mixing it all up. Did you remove it when opening the box before the glue?
Yeah I was thinking the exact same thing. Watching the footage of the show again, he jumped feet first on the box. The cloth could have made the peanut jump or something, looks like he didn't have much control over that.
I love seeing the explanations of tricks. It never takes anything away from them. Seeing how misdirection, persistence of vision, and other things can be manipulated to fantastic effect is always rewarding.
Don't care about the gimmick, you're easily one of my favorite magicians! Made me start learning sleights and false cuts... Working on performing.. don't ever stop!
I *LOVE* how this is essentially a video on how Eric fooled them with the modern equivalent of ''it was done with mirrors''. Goes to show that some of the best magic, is some of the simplest.
I imagine you see him glue 1 arm which is probably the one he reaches under the cloth with to grab the peanut and any other peanut that comes with sticks to the glue
They sorta guessed it, there was a "container" to hold the hero, it just happened to be half of the box or w/e. But still, the act of dropping the peanut in the box is where the magic happens.
The producers would let Penn and Teller know if it was the same thing. They work with other magicians back stage who knows the act and if penn and teller guesses right, the contestant will not have the final word but rather the hosts. So if they didn't say anything, it is probably valid.
@@astropgn True but Penn and Teller didn't want to guess it. They wanted him to win the prize regardless of whether they were fooled because they liked it.
The wording was specifically, “Did you place into a jar or did you let it flutter naturally into the box?” And he most certainly did drop into the box. After that, P&T didn’t guess anything else and let him have the W.
OMG that was so frickin clever!! I would never thought about something like this!! You are genius!! If I will get that cloth I will frame it and send picture to you! I promise!! You don't need to wash it!😂 Congrats man!! ❤️💪
thanks for the reveal! Knowing how it is done is the magic for me, like the whole "magnets in the peanuts", it didn't need to be that technical, just well thought out and clever. I appreciate the trick much more now.
I was one of the ones that thought you just wrote on a new peanut. But hearing how you actually did it, gives me so much more respect for the performance! Well done!!
That is what I absolutely love about magicians like you... there is nothing "supernatural" or "mysterious" or "mystical" on this trick. You reveal it with so much joy and fun. Nothing creepy and no contact to the spirit world is necessary for this trick. I remember a german TV show where they were showing "Mentalists" with supernatural powers. What a bullsh... I have the utmost respect for the profession of the magician. It needs talent, creativity and a whoooooooole lot of time for practicing. I adore to be "fooled" with magic tricks like you do. And I laugh about the "wannabe-supernatural-mystical"-Magicians. So congratulations to fool Penn & Teller and thank you for your great entertainment for us fans. 🙂
This was an excellent trick, very enjoyable and smartly done, especially that I didn't even think about the packing peanuts not actually being there which should have been the first thought with how often empty isn't empty etc in magic- the diversion and 'belief set up' on this was brilliant and I'm sure would have many who've seen this having a d'oh moment for missing this possibility, you just made it a given to the audience that the box was full, perhaps that twist on empty was a clever way to catch us off guard with a real 'shoulda thoughta that' sucker punch. The madcap entrance, the fact we see all the peanuts fly before you start the trick (or so we think!- for any magicians this shows the best time to trick your audience is before the trick starts in their eyes- the analytical brain is more likely to not have kicked in yet and thus accept things at face value that act as blinkers when the trick proper starts), all of it staging-wise, made it very possible to not even be looking for that bit of obvious.
People say once u know a secret to a trick it ruins it but i honestly think knowing how its done makes you appreciate it more. I remember when i first learned how the sawing someone in half trick was done and sure thats a trick basically everyone knows now but back then i remember thinking how strange it is that the guy waving his arms around gets all the credit for the trick where its actually the assistant doing all the work. Its things like that that make me enjoy magic tricks alot more cus its one thing to be impressed by a man appearing to saw someone in half and put them back together but its even more impressive when you realise how bendy that person is.
The funniest thing was the look from Teller and the audience when he fell over with the box. I love and like (attention ambiguity) the performance very much. 👍👍💪
Magician Eric Leclerc, this magic trick is simplistic brilliance. My hat is off to you. Well done on selling the trick with distraction and showmanship And a big frickin' piece of printed cloth !!!
You deserved this since so long time ago, I follow you since you made daily videos (I missed them). Greetings from Spain and keep making us happy with your good and funny energy =D
He jumped in, on top of the cloth, breaking the gimmick, and grabbed it before too many other peanuts got in his way. It was still isolated, until after jumping in.
With the way the show was cut it was impossible to be sure, but my first thought after you shook the box was "there is something up with the box, he probably flipped it over" but after you spilled the box getting out of it and we got a great look inside I had no idea what the trick could have been! Great trick.
Chase Glasscock have you seen the performance? He brings box out full of peanuts and shows that it is. Then signed peanut is dropped on top before he mixes.
Bro, I loved you years ago with the Eric Lecleric Show and 1 magic trick a day for a whole year. Then you went on hiatus after that... If you had kept going, I'm sure you'd be in the millions of subscribers now. But I don't blame you, subs and likes aren't everything. So glad to see you prosper! J'adore mon vieil ami!
There was only one peanut on the cloth. He jumps in & immediately grabs the peanut. He then lands ON THE EMPTY CLOTH. The cloth collapses and he stuff it down his trousers. Only at this point is he in amongst the rest of the peanuts. The VITAL point is that the cloth MUST remain attached so that only one peanut is in the "cloth side".
To me magic is so much better when revealed. To show actually how they fooled penn and teller and all of us adds so much to both the trick and magician.
"It takes a village to raise a child" is what you were looking for. I did feel you had to have been able to find the signed peanut somehow, I didn't think it had anything to do with replacing anything. I suspected you looked for it and that the blindfold was theatrics. Not difficult to peek without anyone seeing it while in the box. How you were able to find it that quickly I wasn't sure about. Still wondering, the way you jump in :). Tipping the box at the end is clever though.
That was a genius trick Eric! I love to try and figure out on my own how tricks on Fool Us™ are done and a lot of the time it's easy to spot switches or forces when you have the ability to slow down the video, go frame by frame and look at every detail but with your trick, none of that helped. I think it's very brave and honest for a magician to reveal their trick and I wish more magicians would do so. It's fun to be fooled but it's even more fun to be able to fool others. Anyways, you have earned yourself another subscriber and I can't wait to see Alex's trick in September. Wish you all the best and I look forward to see your future RUclips content. Edit: P.s. I wouldn't mind taking that nutcloth
this is hands down one of my favorite magic tricks of all time. i saw the penn and teller performance, was stumped, and then watched this video. i thought the performance itself was kind of meh (just bc i've seen a LOT of penn and teller, it was still an amazing act), but learning the secret to this trick made me love the trick even more. this trick exemplifies the very soul of a magic trick: to make something so simple seem completely impossible. the method behind this trick is so damn simple, but it was so well covered and completely outside the box (pun intended) that it becomes mind blowing in practice. i know this means next to nothing coming from a random youtube comment but VERY good trick, sir
@@jeandanslalune The "fool us" video was showing Fabian dip the glue rollers at this moment I think. You never see Eric put his hand in the box at all. I'm not satisfied by this because i don't understand how he could put his hand in the box without it being a major giveaway.
I love this just because it goes to show that you don’t need a whole workshop or a bunch of money to put together an engaging magic trick that can fool some of the best magicians in the world. All you need is just some creativity, ingenuity, and drive.
I love the fact this trick is soo simple! And I’m pretty sure it can be scaled down to be a smaller more close up trick. Also who would want a large print out of packing peanuts on their wall that fooled Penn and teller.
I don't think it matters, they're small enough that you can't see them and him dropping the box made it so they wouldn't get to close to inspect it, since they saw that it was more or less just peanuts. The crowd counting down also helped cover up his noise.
So, it's a secret danger act, too, like walking on broken glass, only in his pants. When he takes this on the road,, he'll have to get his Magic Johnson insured, for sure. ;)
Of course that's not how he did it. He's f@$+ing with his viewers. He had a marker. He saw what pen wrote. So, he used his marker and copied what pen wrote. No one's gonna write something complicated on a small surface peanut.
It's all in the reversal of the box. Brilliant! You really show the old adage of 99% perspiration 1% inspiration but, it's that 1% that makes all the difference. Dude you've got to do something about whomever is zooming in and out at the beginning, with your camera like a crazy person. It made me nauseous. I must admit that your method didn't occur to me. Very inventive. Keep the LDS vibe going. It's awesome. Coincidentally I've got the very same knife.👍
GUYS!!!! I'm trending on YT right NOW!!!! It's BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I don't know if liking, or sharing, or commenting will help boost this BUT this is so surreal to me!!!! Please help launch this shit!!! xoxoxo
Good work man! you deserve it!
You said if we wanted to see the secret we had to like the video. Seemed fair
The Matreciman everything happened so fast
Great trick man, love the energy!
@@LeclericShow #42, lookin good!
Greatest method ever. Love it! (DO NOT SEND ME THAT CLOTH)
SEE YOU IN AN HOUR BRO!!!!!! IM PUMPED!!
@@LeclericShow Who is the bottom?
@@VanessaHolguin I would guess, Wes
Is @Eric back on Bob? I'm guessing you should make the truth from the FU, both make things you say, so its not just from one person. Unless Chriss is on, then it might be little akwards for him 😉
Great trick
I love it when magicians explain their retired tricks, especially after showing them on Fool Us. I get why people think some of the fun is lost, but I find it even more impressive and fun to watch when I have a little understanding just how much goes into each trick to make them look so natural.
Speaking of looking natural, please rethink your camerawork here though. (Love ya!)
Too much movement?!
@@LeclericShow Yes. It's making me seasick watching it
@@LeclericShow how you grab the exact peanut which was on the cloth if you jumped on the cloth, jumping makes the cloth loosing its grip form the wall of the box and let the other peanut mixed instantly, you also wore blindfold.
@@randomstuffs9103 yeah that’s the real trick 🤣
@@davidbryson4413 yeah my thoughts exactly
In magic its common, when you learn the method, that you feel ripped off. But I can honestly say this is so genius, brilliant and original. I can't stop smiling. This is a clinic in creative problem solving in magic. Well done Eric!
I actually think I love knowing how it's done, rather than the actual trick being performed.
I just enjoy seeing the creative process on how to take an existing trick and completely change how its performed.
THIS!!! means the world to me xoxoxo
I don't agree that knowing the secret/gimmick takes away the 'wonder'. It still looks cool
Remember, people, don't get ripped off. Rip off. Conned. Taken advantage of. Done up like a kipper.
The secret is so simple and satisfying, it's one of those cases where the most impressive part is the misdirection. Having a guest on stage, scattering packing peanuts on the floor in the beginning, using a bird's-eye view, using a simple flimsy cardboard box, revealing the contents of the box in the end, the gimmick was so cleverly hidden. It wasn't about forcing Penn and Teller to guess one obvious method out of several, it was about carefully choreographing a routine to completely mystify them.
My immediate thought after this: That probably wasn't the first time the cleaning staff at a Vegas hotel found a suit covered in glue in the bathtub.
or anything sticky that looks like glue
"The Elmer", as it's known.
You guys don't leave suits covered in glue in the bath tub? uncultured.
If it's glued to a bathtub in Vegas it stays in Vegas.
Winner winner chicken dinner?
You guys should troll Penn and Teller by having Alex wear the packing-peanut cloth as a cape for his performance.
EDIT: if this gets the most likes, I hereby relinquish the peanut blanket to be repurposed for wardrobe.
Absolutely!
this is great
Yes! 👌 they be pissed when they understand what it is 😆
Cool Idea!!!
thats an amazing idea hahaha
can we just take a moment to imagine the faces of the hotel room services when they saw this glue covered suit in the bathtub.
it was in vegas, nothing out of the ordinary there
Anzu Wyliei wtf
the food ain't nothing I want slip open bag of weed on a table left the room when I came back to cleaning service people in the room I think they were managers and supervisors they said nothing
I imagine them showing no surprise whatsoever because that's probably not even close to being the weirdest thing that has ever been found in a bathtub in a Vegas hotel room.
It's vegas dude.
I heard sometimes you find tigers in there
When you were asked if it was a mess to practice at home, you should have said that normally you practice it without the other peanuts, so this time it was significantly harder
lol
And without the glue.
Damn that would have been a good joke.
Every magician goes through 1000s of books trying to figure out the possibilities while some random worker at a custom cloth store knew the whole time lol
Lol yup I work at the random store 😂😂😂
Imagine some dude comes to your store and asks for a customized cloth with that design and a few weeks later he watches the TV and sees the same dude
Jenna Smith ofc you do
I don't care about getting the most likes, as one magician to another, this was genius. I literally paused this before you revealed the method, went back and watched the performance again and again, and my idea of how it was done was so far from what actually happened I feel like an idiot. Bravo. You deserve the 100k and most importantly, that trophy.
Introduction: "no red herrings"
Explanation: *filled with red herrings*
FIIIIIIIIIIILLED
@@LeclericShow I mean, you're making fun of it but you said yourself "when you approached them with the bag we wanted to throw them off" ... nothing against the trick or your performance but saying "no red herrings" is not exactly true.
@@waspgaming9077 he changed his mind on the respect thing lol
WASP Gaming all magicians do is lie, what did you expect?
Saying no red herrings WAS a red herring 😑 the magician matrix 🤣
It's such a nice explanation because it doesn't "ruin" magic. When you explain ball and cup tricks it makes the whole thing un-magical. When you explain this trick, it's just such a funny way to pull it off! Obviously there were easier methods like pocketing the peanut, which would've visually been the same. But Penn and Teller would've easily guessed that. This is just an awesome way to pull it off that's super simple yet virtually impossible to guess!
I’m still wondering how he doesn’t lose with peanut when he jumps in. His weight should have knocked loose the sheet
The explanation is the last trick.
@@nicholasanthony2092
Which last trick do you refer to?
🤔
Nicholas Anthony Yeah, I’m wondering if this is BS because the trick couldn’t really work the way he’s describing it.
He must have grabbed it when walking around the box but we didn't see it on camera.
its packing peanuts. theyre literally made to absorb force and make sure stuff doesnt get knocked. it probably moved a little but if they tacked it properly it would have stayed
I know this isn't true for some people, but for me, I REALLY enjoy magic tricks SO much more when they are revealed. It doesn't "spoil" it for me to appreciate all the ingenuity and skill and hard work and secrets that went into pulling off such a visual event.
This is so clever and amazing! There's a lot of tricks where the method is actually just some gimmick, sleight of hand, or hidden technology, but this is just extremely simple and clever! A freaking cloth! So simple but so genius. Absolutely love it! When the reveal is just as exciting and fun to watch as the trick itself, you know its good.
That's the best cheat sheet i've ever seen.
Love the pun. Have a Like! 👍🏻
And that comment is quite nuts.
@@Atariese pun on pun on pun
ouuuu this is goooood!!!
he should join forces with val valentino the masked magician and do a netflix or youtube special. it would be awesome.
Eric in the introduction at Penn and Teller: "No red herings, no weird moves to make them think something else..."
Eric in this explanation: "We kind wanted to throw them off a little bit..." Alex: "And they know about change bag."
Yes, exactly. And that was what they guessed in the end. That the peanut "went into a container". So you fooled them by using a red hering although you promised not to use a red hering..
Then again, P&T always say (that is Penn says it) "Magicians always lie!"... And they are right.
I more took from 'weird moves' that that the trick wasn't based around purposely "flubbing" a trick. like including a "flash" to make them think they saw the trick. The trick itself was pretty unique in terms of scale. but yes the red herring thing was a straight lie.
It wasn't a container but it did contain the only packing nut! Wow good job
they guessed the peanut fell into a container inside the box, not that it was a change bag.
lie is part of magic trick and not vice versa)
I can just imagine Penn and Teller's faces watching this video lol they are going to dream about this cloth for a long time
I'm pretty sure they discuss the method after the recording of the show segment...
The contenders have to provide the method to the trick in written form to the Fool Us team beforehand. There is a famous magic trick inventor/engineer whose name I forgot watching from the producer's studio. He talks to Pen and Teller through their earpiece letting them know if they figured the trick out.
@@Zorbonoult Yeah, but they never tell P&T how the trick works. They still obey magicians code.
@@E942-h2d I don't know. Maybe that's the way in most cases. But I know of an instance where they learn how the guy fools them. You can look up 'Penn Talks About Being Fooled by Kostya Kimlat'
@@Zorbonoult The tricks are always explained to the Judge - the backstage magician (Michael Close, who originally shared the role with Johnny Thompson before his passing.) who can arbitrate whether Penn and Teller's guesses are correct if there's a dispute. So they know.
i grew up watching this dude on a show called, “Tricked” where he would go up to strangers and do a crazy trick in front of a hidden camera. it’s great to see him hit the big stage.
You "grew up" on it? Jesus, how old is that show?
@@HOTD108_ i think it came out around 2015 or 2016. but the show would be on every week or two for the next two or three years. so i watched it for a pretty long time. probably just up until 2019.
@@user-uq3xi8et3u are you 6
@@jonathanclark7444 no i’m 5
@@user-uq3xi8et3u so you are still growing up
everyone : its gonna be super hard
Eric: we tacked a cloth inside the box
lolll so true
lol
I think the best way to fool a magician is to be simple
@@kendarr definetly
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett. Do not hide something in the last place they will look. Hide it where they will never look at all.
Thank you for this. For the last 6 months, I've wondered how a glue covered suit ended up in my hotel bathroom.
One question: How did you catch the one peanut sitting on top of the cloth? Because when you jumped into it, you went straight through and everything must have been mixed together.
maybe the cloth folds itself somehow and wraps around the one peanut?
@@Allen-L-Canada either that or the glue... One peanut stuck to his suit that he mouths
i think he literally just landed mouth first on the peanut
@@nicko_mode3356 😂that's a funny method
I had the same thought.
I don't expect to win this, but anything's worth a shot, right?
Mine and my wife's second wedding anniversary is coming up, and I'd love to surprise her with this sheet. I have a vision of using it as a tablecloth for our dinner table. After a few days of her not understanding why this is our new tablecloth, and me playing it off that it's totally normal, I'd then show her the Fool Us episode. Then, after her still not quite getting it, I would show her this behind-the-scenes video. We have done a lot of silly surprise-based things in our relationship, and this one would really throw her for a loop.
Either way: Kudos to you for the incredible entertainment. You rock!
This is insanely clever. Probably one of my favorite manic tricks.
I'm a researcher and writer. I always say, as an engineer, if you're really smart, you can design something complicated; and if you're even smarter, you can design something simple. This was GENIUS! It's one of the few tricks I've ever seen revealed where the reveal rivals the illusion in its elegance and entertainment value. All good wishes!
as an engineer you should understand what reverse engineering is, then each detail in focus begins to have its true meaning, and not the one intended for the public)
My favourite example of this is the ring trick on Fools Us. Penn guessed as a complicated gimmicked ring, but it wasn't. It was a very simple trick, with slight of hand.
So, you essentially let you Freak Flag Fool.
Some people see a box half empty, your audience sees a box half full.
Thanks so much for revealing the secret. That's what I love about Penn & Teller - they always have a number of tricks that they reveal to the audience, and a trick revealed is every bit as charming as a secret trick to me, because I can appreciate just how hard the darn thing is to accomplish when someone shows me how hard it was to accomplish.
ETA: The camera people and editors of the show must have been in on it, because the cut away from you while you removed the marked peanut from the box, and they showed an overhead shot of you IN the box full of peanuts, but only after you removed the cloth and had it hidden from view.
i read that the producers have to learn the trick, and it's part of the way they determine if penn and teller guess right
@@humanbean3 Of course they are, they need to know how the trick works so they don't accidentally cut to the wrong camera angle and reveal the whole thing.
So simple, so smart, so good. I love when the trick is just, 'No one else would have imagined such a thing'.
I feel like whoever cleaned that hotel room with the suit in the bath tub definitely thought the glue was something else
I was wondering how the assistant wouldn't have noticed that half of the box didn't weigh the same as the other half, but then I remembered that packing peanuts are so light the whole box would feel almost empty anyways. This trick is ingenious, thanks for the explanation!
It was a actually INCREDIBLE how light the box was filled with the peanuts... almost no difference!!
"I'm gonna wash it. Don't worry."
Well, what's the point of winning it then?
The mystery of it baby
@@LeclericShow don't wash it :0
If you wash it I’m unsubscribing
Of course that's not how he did it. He's f@$+ing with his viewers. He had a marker. He saw what pen wrote. So, he used his marker and copied what pen wrote. No one's gonna write something complicated on a small surface peanut.
@@mikamaldonado1784 justs top it and start believing all u winnie
I always find it amusing when people say revealing the secrets ruins the trick. But for the average person who doesn't know how it's done, it's amazing. And for the person who knows how it's done but it's executed so freaking perfectly, it's still amazing. In a way, knowing the behind-the-scenes makes it even more fantastic.
When you jump in, the cloth falls and everything mixes. How do you get the marked one?
he took it before he jumped at minute 4:20 of the original video
Of course that's not how he did it. He's f@$+ing with his viewers. He had a marker. He saw what pen wrote. So, he used his marker and copied what pen wrote. No one's gonna write something complicated on a small surface peanut.
@@mikamaldonado1784 Yep. This is a trash attempt at grabbing any youtube following after his 15 seconds of low-brow tv fame and it didn't work.
@@mikamaldonado1784 First, it's Penn*, not "pen". Second, Teller wrote on the peanut, not Penn. Third, it is the same exact peanut. Teller writes the T upside down. You can look at the peanut as Teller holds it side by side with the peanut in Eric's mouth, and every ink mark and crevasse is exactly identical. It is the same exact peanut.
@@alainhoyek6673 I'd rather he explained it that another fan guess on youtube.. even if you are right.
You glossed over how you actually grabbed the peanut tho... even if it was sitting on the cloth, you jumped on top mixing it all up.
Did you remove it when opening the box before the glue?
Yeah I was thinking the exact same thing. Watching the footage of the show again, he jumped feet first on the box. The cloth could have made the peanut jump or something, looks like he didn't have much control over that.
With the most likes !
@@reginood 10% chance of failure haha
Not to mention he was blindfolded. Was it a magician's blindfold? Did he remove it? I still have questions!
Probably stepped exactly on it pinning it under his foot then just had to retrieve it.
Eric and his team is a FREAKING genius for thinking of that act. Congrats Eric, you deserved the 100k subs!🔥👍
I can’t believe that this was what took it over 100,000. The LeCleric show was probably the best magic RUclips channel of it’s time!
I love seeing the explanations of tricks.
It never takes anything away from them. Seeing how misdirection, persistence of vision, and other things can be manipulated to fantastic effect is always rewarding.
I've been waiting literal DAYS for this Eric! Thanks for delivering.
Pressure was ON bro! Since 8am this morning!
It's funny. Whenever I see a trick revealed, it's always something I just never expect. Very nice.
Don't care about the gimmick, you're easily one of my favorite magicians! Made me start learning sleights and false cuts... Working on performing.. don't ever stop!
That means so much thanks man!!
I *LOVE* how this is essentially a video on how Eric fooled them with the modern equivalent of ''it was done with mirrors''.
Goes to show that some of the best magic, is some of the simplest.
We're still trying to scrape that suit out of the tub.
-Housekeeping
Yea but you didn't explain how you got the peanut. You jumped in "blindfolded"how'd you grab it before it got mixed in with the rest?
I imagine you see him glue 1 arm which is probably the one he reaches under the cloth with to grab the peanut and any other peanut that comes with sticks to the glue
He took it from the box at minute 4:20 of the original video
@@alainhoyek6673 Everyone would have seen him reach inside dumbass
Right!? Is this really how he did it? Hmm....
Bouphe's Number 1 Fan lol 4:20
The simplest ideas is often the best. A cloth on one side GENIUS!
At the same time in Las Vegas, two well known Magicians bite in they shoes "F#*&!!, he just fliped the Box!"
lollllll
@@LeclericShow Hey ,Eric Do you Know William Shatners Home Address ?
@@LeclericShow Eric Do you watch Star TrAck ?
@@LeclericShow Are you a Sci fi fan ? Which Sci fi movie is your Favorite ?
@@LeclericShow Dude you're Soooooooooooooooooooooo coooooooool you Don't even reply me Anymore.
This guy: I'm gonna fool them honorably with no red herrings.
Also this guy: I used a bag to try to throw them off.
I was thinking the exact same thing!
and also this is clearly not how he did the trick I would say it is very likely that he did just use a marker
@@jonathanclark7444 He never explains how he retrieves the marked peanut.
@@marine2tough yeah
Magicians lie, who knew? 🤷
Eric, how did Penn & Teller react or what did they say when they found out the real solution?
Very generous of you to share your secret! It was a very entertaining & fun trick to watch
Imagine getting away with a trick when the "secret" of the trick is hanging out the back of your pants. Sleight of Pants level: 1000
To be fair, when you are looking at the trick the first time that looks like misdirection too
Wicked awesome, you fooled me, I thought it was a layer of masking tape that caught the peanut, the sheet is genius. Nice job!
You know what, that’s the best guess anyone has put out there so far!!! Masking take would of been 🏆
They sorta guessed it, there was a "container" to hold the hero, it just happened to be half of the box or w/e. But still, the act of dropping the peanut in the box is where the magic happens.
Yeah a jar can mean anything dosnt have to be an actual jar.
The producers would let Penn and Teller know if it was the same thing. They work with other magicians back stage who knows the act and if penn and teller guesses right, the contestant will not have the final word but rather the hosts. So if they didn't say anything, it is probably valid.
@@astropgn True but Penn and Teller didn't want to guess it. They wanted him to win the prize regardless of whether they were fooled because they liked it.
The wording was specifically, “Did you place into a jar or did you let it flutter naturally into the box?” And he most certainly did drop into the box. After that, P&T didn’t guess anything else and let him have the W.
@@leonardvole9760 The fact they didn't consider the answer was both, is proof they were fooled.
'Great and very clever effect. Well done guys.
I've been a LOONG time fan and I can't believe how far you've come. Making daily videos to fooling two of the greats. Bravo sir 👏
Eric: uploads video titled "How I Fooled Penn and Teller!"
Penn and Teller: That m***** f*****!
the kids
@@groveanderson4774 that's why Teller doesn't speak. such a potty mouth...
I don't think they need to wait till the video to find out...
OMG that was so frickin clever!! I would never thought about something like this!! You are genius!! If I will get that cloth I will frame it and send picture to you! I promise!! You don't need to wash it!😂 Congrats man!! ❤️💪
This is why I love magic. Sometimes the most elaborate looking tricks have the simplest answers.
thanks for the reveal! Knowing how it is done is the magic for me, like the whole "magnets in the peanuts", it didn't need to be that technical, just well thought out and clever. I appreciate the trick much more now.
But how did you manage to jump in blind folded and grab the peanut before it got mixed in with the others????????????????????
Most of the trick when revealed, I'm like duh!!
But this one, I'm like "Good Job!!"
Yeah, Penn has said the method for most magic tricks is ugly, but this is beautiful, so simple and it fooled them and everyone so badly!
the way he handled the audience member was really clever too.
You are too good〜‼️
Thanks for sharing your secret〜🤗
素晴らしいですね〜
種明かし して頂き感謝です〜♪
I was one of the ones that thought you just wrote on a new peanut. But hearing how you actually did it, gives me so much more respect for the performance! Well done!!
Everyone: What will you be using to try and fool pen and teller
Eric: Deez Nuts
Its really cool to learn the "how" of these tricks because it shows how easy/hard it can be to fool anyone. Be skeptical everyone! :D
We didn't learn the how though. How did he get the right peanut when he jumped in the box? That jump must have broken the seal of the blanket.
@@Jorbamma he explained it in the video.
That is what I absolutely love about magicians like you... there is nothing "supernatural" or "mysterious" or "mystical" on this trick. You reveal it with so much joy and fun. Nothing creepy and no contact to the spirit world is necessary for this trick. I remember a german TV show where they were showing "Mentalists" with supernatural powers. What a bullsh... I have the utmost respect for the profession of the magician. It needs talent, creativity and a whoooooooole lot of time for practicing. I adore to be "fooled" with magic tricks like you do. And I laugh about the "wannabe-supernatural-mystical"-Magicians. So congratulations to fool Penn & Teller and thank you for your great entertainment for us fans. 🙂
Breath of fresh air in today's rush to go viral, when someone actually delivers on their promise!
This was an excellent trick, very enjoyable and smartly done, especially that I didn't even think about the packing peanuts not actually being there which should have been the first thought with how often empty isn't empty etc in magic- the diversion and 'belief set up' on this was brilliant and I'm sure would have many who've seen this having a d'oh moment for missing this possibility, you just made it a given to the audience that the box was full, perhaps that twist on empty was a clever way to catch us off guard with a real 'shoulda thoughta that' sucker punch. The madcap entrance, the fact we see all the peanuts fly before you start the trick (or so we think!- for any magicians this shows the best time to trick your audience is before the trick starts in their eyes- the analytical brain is more likely to not have kicked in yet and thus accept things at face value that act as blinkers when the trick proper starts), all of it staging-wise, made it very possible to not even be looking for that bit of obvious.
This.
"I left it in a bath tub in Vegas"
"Ummmm right"
Hahaha you even make your mate speechless 😂😂 hilarious dude! 🔥🔥Skills too!
People say once u know a secret to a trick it ruins it but i honestly think knowing how its done makes you appreciate it more.
I remember when i first learned how the sawing someone in half trick was done and sure thats a trick basically everyone knows now but back then i remember thinking how strange it is that the guy waving his arms around gets all the credit for the trick where its actually the assistant doing all the work. Its things like that that make me enjoy magic tricks alot more cus its one thing to be impressed by a man appearing to saw someone in half and put them back together but its even more impressive when you realise how bendy that person is.
The funniest thing was the look from Teller and the audience when he fell over with the box. I love and like (attention ambiguity) the performance very much. 👍👍💪
My family has watched you since Tricked, and you have always intrigued us! I can’t wait to see your future videos including Alex on Fool Us!!
Awesome story bro but honestly I'm IN LOVE with that cloth pattern, it would make a sick campy t-shirt 🔥🔥🔥
Magician Eric Leclerc, this magic trick is simplistic brilliance.
My hat is off to you. Well done on selling the trick with distraction and showmanship
And a big frickin' piece of printed cloth !!!
You deserved this since so long time ago, I follow you since you made daily videos (I missed them).
Greetings from Spain and keep making us happy with your good and funny energy =D
Can't wait to see how this trick was done I loved this trick
soooo how did you manage to pick up the marked item when you jumped in the box?
That’s what I was thinking isn’t there a chance that the marked thing gets lost with the rest when the cloth collapsed
Joseph Yeh yeah 10% chance
Don't we remember he's a magician?
@@josephyeh3654 I think its easiest and the hardest part of the trick))) You only get one chance to grab it)))
He jumped in, on top of the cloth, breaking the gimmick, and grabbed it before too many other peanuts got in his way. It was still isolated, until after jumping in.
With the way the show was cut it was impossible to be sure, but my first thought after you shook the box was "there is something up with the box, he probably flipped it over" but after you spilled the box getting out of it and we got a great look inside I had no idea what the trick could have been! Great trick.
September 2020: Dangerous act on Fool Us: Magician covers himself with glue and jumps into a box of knifes
I have literally never clicked anything so fast in my life. Dude that trick was insane
Thanks Zachary! Glad you thought it was worth it! :)
He didn’t quite explain how he extracted the peanut from the secret chamber. He just kinda ignored that whole part.
its 1 single peanut on top of a cloth... not too hard to find lmao
Chase Glasscock but he jumped right into the box
Steven Vu blindfolded!! (Ok i know he can see, but still harder then without the thing on your face?)
Chase Glasscock have you seen the performance? He brings box out full of peanuts and shows that it is. Then signed peanut is dropped on top before he mixes.
Guess that's the mark of an excellent trick, even after he spelled it out, you're still fooled.
Bro, I loved you years ago with the Eric Lecleric Show and 1 magic trick a day for a whole year. Then you went on hiatus after that... If you had kept going, I'm sure you'd be in the millions of subscribers now. But I don't blame you, subs and likes aren't everything. So glad to see you prosper! J'adore
mon vieil ami!
When you jumped in, how did you make sure to grab that exact peanut? I imagine you jumped through the cloth and then peanuts went everywhere, no?
My question exactly. Did he grab it while the other guy was looking at the glue?
There was only one peanut on the cloth. He jumps in & immediately grabs the peanut. He then lands ON THE EMPTY CLOTH. The cloth collapses and he stuff it down his trousers. Only at this point is he in amongst the rest of the peanuts. The VITAL point is that the cloth MUST remain attached so that only one peanut is in the "cloth side".
Grabbed it as he jumped in
Ya Boi Gary grabbed a single peanut off a cloth while falling blindfolded?
Magician blindfolds aren't really blindfolds :P
The best part of this tell-all was revealing how you feel about Rick Lax at the end! 8:02
Bro a peice of cloth!! Seriously!!!!
I was so confuseddd!
Beat of luck for the next one😀😀
To me magic is so much better when revealed. To show actually how they fooled penn and teller and all of us adds so much to both the trick and magician.
I never would thought about a gimmick box. One word: Genious
"It takes a village to raise a child" is what you were looking for.
I did feel you had to have been able to find the signed peanut somehow, I didn't think it had anything to do with replacing anything. I suspected you looked for it and that the blindfold was theatrics. Not difficult to peek without anyone seeing it while in the box. How you were able to find it that quickly I wasn't sure about. Still wondering, the way you jump in :).
Tipping the box at the end is clever though.
Yeah. But how did you grab it so quick when you jumped in. Would there not have been a flurry of peanuts as soon as you hit the fabric?
you basically did what we do in 3d animation where you render only a portion of objects for a crate for physics sims, and have the rest be an image
Such a great method!!!! But WHAT’S POINT OF THE GLUEEE??? Xo
He said it In the video. It was to mislead them. It has no purpose, it was just for fun
5:25
Zachary Russ r/wooosh
@@zacharyruss1277 he knows that. Hes the dude beside Eric
Zachary Russ lolll
"to kind of throw them off a bit"
so much for no red herrings
never trust what a magician tells you ;)
Yeah I remember that quote 😂
@@Gnarlf it was his bio video though, that's just cheese
Lying is one of the basics of magic
Debatable! lol
That was a genius trick Eric! I love to try and figure out on my own how tricks on Fool Us™ are done and a lot of the time it's easy to spot switches or forces when you have the ability to slow down the video, go frame by frame and look at every detail but with your trick, none of that helped. I think it's very brave and honest for a magician to reveal their trick and I wish more magicians would do so. It's fun to be fooled but it's even more fun to be able to fool others. Anyways, you have earned yourself another subscriber and I can't wait to see Alex's trick in September. Wish you all the best and I look forward to see your future RUclips content.
Edit: P.s. I wouldn't mind taking that nutcloth
Thanks IDV22! You're the forst one to add the TM next to Fool Us.... I liked that.. not sure why lol
The fromunder cloth is up for grabs!!!! Great trick congratulations on the win!
this is hands down one of my favorite magic tricks of all time. i saw the penn and teller performance, was stumped, and then watched this video. i thought the performance itself was kind of meh (just bc i've seen a LOT of penn and teller, it was still an amazing act), but learning the secret to this trick made me love the trick even more. this trick exemplifies the very soul of a magic trick: to make something so simple seem completely impossible. the method behind this trick is so damn simple, but it was so well covered and completely outside the box (pun intended) that it becomes mind blowing in practice. i know this means next to nothing coming from a random youtube comment but VERY good trick, sir
Just sign the sheet “This was down my pants. Enjoy!”
"Twice."
@@juhis-dev hundreds of times due to practice*
Ok, but how did he grab the peanut when he jumped in???
He grabbed it before he jumped in.
Same question
Yep, in another comment Eric Leclerc confirmed this : "grabbed it when walking around the box"
@@jeandanslalune The "fool us" video was showing Fabian dip the glue rollers at this moment I think. You never see Eric put his hand in the box at all.
I'm not satisfied by this because i don't understand how he could put his hand in the box without it being a major giveaway.
had eyes covered and couldn't see when jumping in. how did he manage?
I love this just because it goes to show that you don’t need a whole workshop or a bunch of money to put together an engaging magic trick that can fool some of the best magicians in the world. All you need is just some creativity, ingenuity, and drive.
Amazingly right!! Xo
I love the fact this trick is soo simple! And I’m pretty sure it can be scaled down to be a smaller more close up trick. Also who would want a large print out of packing peanuts on their wall that fooled Penn and teller.
Ryan Snook meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
When you send me the signed cloth please send it in that giant box with all those other packing peanuts, I'd hate for it to get damaged. Thanks haha
The real question is, where did all the staples go when he stuffed the cloth down his pants?
I don't think it matters, they're small enough that you can't see them and him dropping the box made it so they wouldn't get to close to inspect it, since they saw that it was more or less just peanuts. The crowd counting down also helped cover up his noise.
So, it's a secret danger act, too, like walking on broken glass, only in his pants. When he takes this on the road,, he'll have to get his Magic Johnson insured, for sure. ;)
you don't wanna know man lol
@@LeclericShow next magic trick, self piercing places most people will never see 😳
Of course that's not how he did it. He's f@$+ing with his viewers. He had a marker. He saw what pen wrote. So, he used his marker and copied what pen wrote. No one's gonna write something complicated on a small surface peanut.
It's all in the reversal of the box. Brilliant! You really show the old adage of 99% perspiration 1% inspiration but, it's that 1% that makes all the difference.
Dude you've got to do something about whomever is zooming in and out at the beginning, with your camera like a crazy person. It made me nauseous.
I must admit that your method didn't occur to me. Very inventive.
Keep the LDS vibe going. It's awesome.
Coincidentally I've got the very same knife.👍