Re: Fri. 5/9 'Will it Float?' Sorcery

randwill wrote:
> "Sofia" <sofia.barlind@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.crackle.com/c/Penn_Says/Penn_Says_-_Letterman_and_the_Glasses_Trick/2280582/#ml=fc%3D52%26fp%3D-3%26fx%3D%26o%3D9
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> Penn talks about it in his forum for rants over at Crackle.
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> 
> Thanks for this.  That the trick is normally done with an audience
member 
> makes a lot more sense.
> 
> The other point about the "moment the magic happens" also crossed my
mind. 
> I had thought the fact that we never saw that the glasses were gone from

> their first location (the pocket) before appearing on Teller's face was
the 
> tricks other big weakness (besides the duplicate suspicion). If Penn had

> remembered to do the tapping of the pocket - the glasses have vanished!
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> prior to the revelation, that would have helped a lot. 
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I disagree entirely. I don't think missing the moment the glasses 
"vanished" removes *any* suspicion whatsoever. The answer was to do the 
trick as they do it in their live show; with a random audience member --
NOT a member of the staff. As the home audience, we have no way of 
knowing whether the trick was pre-arranged with Paul or not. Patting a 
jacket has *nothing* to do with eliminating that shadow of a doubt.