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We began never dumbing down our stuff and always trusted the audience to be smarter than we were, and doing stuff as smart as we possibly could.

We really wanted to let the audience in on the inside, and we really wanted to be fair and kind to the audience. You know, Jerry Seinfeld said that all magic was, 'Here's a quarter, now it's gone, you're a jerk. We want to do magic without ever insulting the audience. One of the big things that was different about us from other people in magic was our trust of the audience. You know, we've trusted the audience more all the time. But what do you think has changed most about your work and your act? You know, you guys have changed, in that you've grown, your visibility has grown, your venues, your success, obviously, over time. I think you were still off-Broadway, un-televised, and it was probably 'Penn and Teller Go Public' in 1985. It is true, I dated myself, but my dad took me to your shows when I was a kid here in New York. I have been following you and Teller for years.

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So you're really not talking about being in a fictional world like you would normally would be, I'm just talking about an interaction with a person where you take the opportunity to show them how to care about them by pulling a scam on them that makes their mind be blown, or blow their funky minds as George Clinton said. I believe my rule on practical jokes is that the person for whom the joke is played on must enjoy it the most of anybody. But I certainly appreciate the draw of this, and I think it's fascinating. I'm not a VR person myself, that's why I work primarily in nonfiction. So this is a game that you play, not against the game, but it's actually a tool you use to scam your friends out of mostly dignity, but occasionally money. Obviously, the first thing you would think of is if someone is, you know, out on the ocean or something in the VR, you could throw a glass of water on them, that's the simple stuff.īut we went and got very, very complicated so that people can believe they're seeing really phenomenal stuff happening that VR is not capable of doing, but with an accomplice in the room. So you can do things out in the real world that you can change. Which means all their attention is on what's happening inside their head. Then you take somebody and say, 'Want to see this VR rig?' Then while you're in your home, you obliterate their eyesight and you obliterate their hearing, and have them standing in your room. You're in this wonderful situation, right? Because the first thing you do when you get a VR rig is you invite your friends over to show them how great it is. You know, when you first get a VR rig, there's this wonderful kind of gray area where you may know intellectually what's possible, but you don't know viscerally. Now with VR, nobody knows what it can do yet. So when video recording first started getting into homes constantly, you could do fake recorded video that people would still believe was on TV, would still believe was broadcast. People will believe anything is possible.

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