Did I FOOL PENN & TELLER with REAL PSYCHIC POWERS?!
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2023
- After gaining a viral following on TikTok for debunking "Psychic Powers" with almost half a million followers and over 50 million views, I took to the big stage appearing on Penn & Teller: Fool Us on The CW Network to demonstrate how "Psychics" use trickery to fool innocent people and scam them!
But did I fool legendary Magicians Penn & Teller into believing I truly had a gift?.. Watch to find out!
Dustin Dean is a professional Mentalist and Magician based out of NY who uses psychology, misdirection, trickery, and more to create the illusion of Supernatural Mindreading abilities with real-world techniques.
Website: www.dustindeanmentalist.com
TikTok: / dustindeanmentalist
For Business Inquiries and bookings, please email me at: contact@dustindeanmentalist.com - Розваги
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.
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
@@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.
@@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.
Penn himself said that it's not really about fooling them but to give magicians a stage
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 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.
Facts XD
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.
That’s what it’s all about 🙌🏻
Gay
@@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😂😂😂
I was talking to the performer. He understood.
@@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🌹
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.
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.
James was my hero
@@DustinDeanMentalist 👍👍
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
In the 70s? There are STILL people on TV doing this stuff and claiming it's real!
What a treasure to have the “at band camp” actor as the host. She’s great lol
She'll always be Willow Rosenberg to me.
she got better at it
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!
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.
Sounds like that one episode of South Park lol
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.
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.
i know he's not psychic but how did he know Alison would say "9"? Or was she supposed to say that... magic
Still confuses me tbh, Penn's explanation doesnt help much either.
@@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.
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.
@@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!
Very good psychic debunking. Loved your honesty. All the best in this wonderful life with no paranormal 😊
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! 👏👏
U are actually cringe
Finally what I have been waiting for where a performer actually asks his method not to be debunked in code👏😂
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.
This was awesome and you have a great personality for the stage!
What a wonderful performance! Love you, Dustin. Keep on soldiering in the good fight for entertainment that isn't a scam!
i knew how all were done but it was still a fun act to watch.
Thank you!!
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.
@@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!
@@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.
I think Penn never laughed so wholesome, hard and many times for anybody else
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 👍👏💕
Well, hats off to you for just letting them tell you straight! 😅
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!
Doing a cold read of Alyson was great. This is the only instance I've seen where someone performed a trick during the interview. 👍
lmfao this best ones! As others pointed out great routine, love the no code part at the end
you are here... and your account is still active, i hope you are at penn and teller fool us
Congratulations on the show!!!! I am a huge fan of what you do and think Penn and Teller are fans now too!
Love this debunk collab
Completely LOVE your attitude. Great stuff :)
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.
I love an act that's not more of the same. Great job!
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
I love debunkers. Thank you!
I knew they would love him when he said he debunks mentalists.
Love that you let them spell it out lol!!
Also, you're doing good work debunking so called "mentalists."
I appreciate that
I know you from the clock app, and I’m very excited you went on Fool Us! Congratulations 🎉
I also have essential tremor syndrome, and I also love magic/mentalism. Love this! Keep up the great work!
That’s amazing that you’re on pen and tell
Couldn't love this more.
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 😆🥰👍
As Penn told someone else, win the game that you're actually playing. Well done.
I like that Alyson and P&T have matching lock screens
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.)
Very entertaining, a great laugh. I really enjoyed this.
Loved everything. New sub!
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.
Keep busting psychics Dustin. They deserve it. Great tricks well done.
No psychic is safe with me around 😈
I'm kind of proud of myself I figured out the time trick before pen and teller revealed it
Everything about this was excellent
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.
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.
amazing. and at the end hilarious. keep it up
Glad you liked it!
Great concept. Thanks!
loved this my aunt got scammed by "mentalists" for big money when I was a kid - VERY COOL MAN
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 UA-cam 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 ❤
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!
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.
Brilliant. When I watched it a second time, I saw what Penn saw 😂😂😂😂 brilliant
What a breath of fresh air.
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.
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 😅
Doing research before hand is classed as "hot reading" rather than "cold reading"
@@DustinDeanMentalist I also did some cold reading, but alley cat did not come to mind when reading Hannigan!
@@DustinDeanMentalist But how did you guess Allycat? The name seems fairly random to me.
The first part made me think of James Hydrick.
...and the Amazing Randi.
I didnt think about the spit, but i guessed the other two. It was pretty obvious, and the AlleyCat thing was cool, very cool.
Very cool, love the act!
The time changed on my phone here at home as well . . . whoa . . .
I love this dudes attitude
I guessed what you did before Penn And Teller told how you did it! But I hope you try again!
Great act! Fooled or Not. Enjoyed the show
Awsome bro!! Cool hair cut too!
Nice idea and good use of screen time. :)
Loved this!
I knew the match part, it was still very enjoyable, 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.
This was really well done and I agree with his philosophy too
easily one of the most memorable FU episodes.
Awesome job sir!
Impressed. Amused. Subscribed. Well done.
Thank you for sharing great show i enjoy it
Even funnier because he said that he wanted to be busted.
It's called going down with honour!
Nice tricks.
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.
This made me SO happy!
i like u being courageous>thank you
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
Kudos sir. 👍👍👍
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
The first one is static electricity, the last one uses identical phones for everyone and is centrally controlled from back stage
Phone was the only logical choice: Setting it 9 minutes ahead. Fun twist on the show, though.
Number 1000 liker. Great job and thank you for sharing!!
I love it!! :)
You are a social worker magician.. Keep it going.. Best wishes
I just saw Jasper Cherry do the exact same trick on AGT.
I'm still curious how he blew on the psychic wheel? Are there holes in the glass or something? Would've liked that explained a bit more
Still lost on the phone trick. Good job!
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.
LIke + Abo. I wished I could do more.
Please continue to walk in the footsteps of James Randi. What you do is so important!
That was fucking dope
the phone trick didn't fool me but I really like this method that you used.
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.
Very entertaining! :)
Subbed for the love
All well and good but can someone please explain how he did the first trick - i wouldn't have thought that....well it was covered by a glass so how could his breath have affected it? Thanking whoever it is in advance
imagine if, right after Penn said everything without code, Dustin just lifts off the ground and a voice from everywhere speaks "IT IS DONE" lmaoooo
I’m Dustin who loves playing music and I have always loved magic as well lol
Magnifque! C'etait superbe!
Love it!