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  • It didn't work for the hotdog guy because Derren Brown uses some kind of hypnosis on everyone in this video, and as you can hear from that guy's accent, he doesn't speak english very well, and probably had a hard time following everything Derren Brown said specifically "you know what's good for you to take" which is part of the hypnosis.

  • For those sayign 'fake', sorry, it is real. haha

    He is using suggestive comments like my friend just said to take it, take it' which is transferring into the keepers mind therefore making him beleive he should take it and that it is a 'genourous' offer.

  • I honestly don't see how this actually worked. Either he did it like 1000 times that day and a couple of them worked... or I just don't think he's telling the truth. I've worked in retail and at a restaurant and never once didn't look at the bills and count them.

  • so fake come on

  • explain that to ur boss lmfaoooo

  • It could be real he said "Take it take it, it's fine" during the conversation as part of the subway issue where that could of been subliminal messaging

  • this is fake. When he payed the jeweler the money, he had no reason to believe it was 4500$ exactly.

  • I tried something similar with brand new crisp $100 bills and $50 bills from the bank. Places like Wal-Mart and Target are supposed to check these bills before giving change. I did the "It's OK, take it.." into my conversation and not one bill was checked and change was given. Never failed yet and it is fun to do because it is only a social experiment and the money is legit!

  • How in the world can this be real?

  • Actually if anyone had really listened, his Keywords were "Take it, Its Fine" while he was talking about the subway.

  • the salesman for the jewelery doesnt check how much money hes  given? so real

  • @tomenart called hypnotism you dumb fuck.

  • @dr1pdr0pz oh hypnotism, now it all makes sense, tard

  • @tomenart Whatever you say.

  • @dr1pdr0pz go learn what hypnotism is before you insult people online.

  • @dr1pdr0pz *waves hand* you will go learn what hypnotism is before you insult people online. Also you will make me a taco.

  • @videosfromderelix ha! Nice try. No.

  • @dr1pdr0pz You're right, you're way too smart for that. I should have never asked YOU to GET ME A TACO. It's silly to think you would GET ME A TACO just because I asked you to while waving my hand.

  • "these aren't the droids you're looking for"

  • @Frankie996S "these aren't the droids we're lookinhg for" lol

  • the fish clerk i can believe but not the ring salesman. because when you receive a large amount of money like that your first impulse is to count it carefully

  • The hotdog salesman was foreign. English wasn't his first language. So the NLP command was not effective like it was with the jewelry store and fish market clerks.

  • @Zerofire18 Spot on what I think was the reason for it not working as well. He's not paying attention to what Derren says.

  • Is anyone else having problems with Youtube loading thumbnails slowly today? It's taking ages to bring the thumbs up. Okay finally, thumbs up. Took them a while to load, I was a bit intimidated about that. Thank you very much indeed. Good bye!

  • the exact way he manipulates and controls the conversation with subtle words, i believe this trick really works at least half the time. Humans are such mailable creatures.

  • thats bullshit, they would be able to feel it, they would look at it, wtf?

  • why someone who buy a 4500 ring needs to know where the sub is?

  • FAKE AND GAY!

  • @ZGJDJD

    not fake. he make a show. he tried milion times untill they got these 2 times. you cant know how many times he had failed.

    anyway, darren brown is not faked. check his history and you will know.

  • @ommerl yeah im pretty impressing hes good at multible other tricks too very cool guy he is

  • @ZGJDJD its fake and gay because if you tried it you would fail

  • @TheSovietBears it aint fake u dumbass :P just because u cant do anything doesnt mean anybody else cant do it. I cant do a double backlfip, does that mean its fake whenever anybody else does it?

  • hes an amazing guy his other tricks are more believable but i have the right to think its fake and if you have a problem with that just dont respond because i really wont giva a damn nothing you can say to change my mind and thats that. im just not gunna deal with people not respecting others opinion so go fuck your self . its all made up and staged theats why i say you cant do it so in your face you look like an idiont now lol .good bye!

  • @TheSovietBears What a lame comment. How can he or she know that you are a 13 year old brat who's so high on himself that you cannot even answer an argument like an adult instead of holding your hands on your ears and shout: "alallalalablablablaa"

  • @Mortenen lol at least i dont do around replying to 2 month old coments like you and accuse ppeople of bieng 13 to make a sad attempt at winning arguments so look whos yelling alabababallla . so go fuck your self and gtfo suck your moms dick if you wont accept that its my opinion its fake. i could think whatever i want . like your an insicure homosexual. btw a persons not high on himself if hes entitled to his opinion so go get your social values fixed up prick

  • @TheSovietBears Do you always check how old the comments you reply to are? And how does it make me look like I'm yelling "ablablabla"? I said you were doing that because you were avoiding an argument. Maybe you just don't understand English, or maybe you are just stupid. Either way, I don't have (or don't want to take) time for your aimless cursing. Have a good day. Dick head.

  • @Mortenen i try to avoid conflicts to avoid ablablabla teenagers like you all it looks like your doing is yelling ablablablabla so later limpdick motherfucker

  • @TheSovietBears Yes, of course everyone who speaks against you are teenagers... That figures.

  • @Mortenen like the first comment you made lol i think your head is getting over heater ya gay hypocrite

  • @TheSovietBears I didn't speak against you in that comment. Learn definition of the word hypocrite before you use it.

  • @Mortenen girls girls, please. You're both pretty.

  • i think the hotdog stand guy was too uneducated for it to work.

  • @FilthyDoughBoyy

    kind of.. english is not his mother language so it didnt work. he translate in his mind all the words.

  • I think what derren shows here is quite possible.

    I read that a lot of crime using these kinds of method have been known by the public.

    such as the russian scam where a gypsy who strike a conversation with a stranger than manage to take all his belongings just by talking and doing gestures such as putting on a scarf and then taking it back again(I guess that's why the title is englishman scam)try to google that and see there's even people who can rob just by looking into the eyes of the victim.

  • the first suggestion "it's okay take it. take it it's fine"

    2nd "it's good for you to take" but failed

    3rd "take it its fine its fine its fine"

    and his mimic pointing helps puts them in a trance.

    I AM BECOMING A PRO!!

  • I think neonaction is right.

    But do we all...buy this footage? No pun. But it would be easy to hire these folks and set this all up. What do you think? It's my favorite "magic trick" if it's real.

  • I kind of expected the hot dog guy to not fall for it, because afro americans usually grow up in getto's. There's usually more theft going on there so they are used to it ;)

    ( no racism intended )

  • @janfolkertsma

    More likely the keywords and "money" pass were flawed. It seemed like he wasn't paying much attention to what Derren was saying. That could be it as well.

  • I really hope he sent the ring back, haha.

  • @MajesticTOASTER i know holy shit haha

  • white people are just soo damb dumb

  • he's not buying this stuff with paper or money, he's selling himself - his clothing, appearance, hair style, accent, and respectable speech. It just makes me think a little more about what we as humans really find important. Money isn't important - it's the hype that we make in nyc that brings money it's value. ultimately, we sell ourselves in some sort of way.

  • lol the hot dog dude cracked me up. and he is not famous in America because Chris Angels is the magic man there

  • @LunaMoonSinger yea, and he sucks ass. i loveee derren brown

  • It Is, not Necessary , when people says Thumbs Up, for my Comment ,Now why do You, say thumbs Up ?if people Will Like it they will Do It!

  • -''Asshole!''

    -''Thank you my friend.''

  • Yeah, this scam relies on pattern breaks if any of you are seriously confused. xD.

    Basically he starts off with talk about how he wants to buy something (Obviously) So then the clerks think he's gonna buy something. So as he's taking out the blank pieces of paper he starts changes the topic to confuse the clerks, like putting them into a mini trance. As they are semi-conscious they're not fully alert and this is when he inputs the subliminal message whilst giving the money, 'Take it, take it'

  • he could get a $4500 ring but not a hotdog

  • @m380ll34 hotdog sellers on the street are used to assholes who hussle for a few fucking dollars.

  • @neonaction Also, judging by the guy's accent I don't think english is his native language and since this scam is based on NLP that might fuck things up.

  • @m380ll34 The hotdog guy is streetsmart, that's why he didn't get him.

  • @mmb2211 but he did get him with the second 'bill' he handed him.

  • @djtron1x the 2nd bill was real money

  • @m380ll34 It has to do with the fact that the ring guy is actually paying attention to what Derren is saying. In that sort of business it is important to make the sale, so you follow exactly what people are saying and listen to them. The hotdog guy on the other hand, couldn't give two shits about what Derren is saying. He doesn't need to put in effort to make the sale, so what Derren says doesn't enter his mind in the same way.

  • @m380ll34 he did get the hot dog

  • @m380ll34 If you're a Russel Peters fan, you would probably understand why I'd say "It's because he is Indian"

  • I suspect we don't see the full scene here. I think at some stage Derren was counting out real money and then he did a switcheroo whilst distracting the salesman with his subway banter. The salesman was so at ease, he had no reason to suspect that this well-spoken customer with a casual aire would try any tricks. It's like suggestion and misdirection combined ... but that's not really hypnotism. Interesting stuff, anyway.

  • @boydegg I saw the episode. He does not use real money at any time.

  • nobody teach mexican guy to be nice. Other people just try to be nice whatever happen.

  • that last one, the ring, he had a big grin! "take it, it's fine, it's fine" wow! he's an artist

  • WTF? Dude! The salesman didn't even blinK! WTF?

  • I think it's word suggestion. He makes him feel at ease with small talk and then he introduces reassuring words such as "my friend" and "take it, it's fine"

  • maybe his english is not good enough.....

  • ha ! i caught some of the trick... he talks about the subway and forces his target to accept it by saying his friend told him to "take it, TAKE it its fine" but this guy is a true genious....

  • I believe in hypnosis to a certain degree , but buying a $4500 ring and the guy just shoves the blank stack of paper in the till , I don't think so. (Fail)

  • @MrLas74 no i disagree... hypnosis can be mastered to this level... plus his vocal or knowledge chakra is spinning fast i.e hes above the rest which also reinforces his ability to enfore subliminal messaging... see the mexican guy doesnt get it because he doesnt speak english well... thats why it didnt work well

  • when he gave him the paper he said "take it its fine" so the mans subconsious thought it was real money

  • DAMM He bought a ring wit h just plain paper

  • everyone in the us will accept blank paper as it will be worth more than dollars xD

  • Jewelery just got PWNT! :D

  • yeah right. A jewelery guy taking 4500 bucks cash and not even counting it.

  • @TylerMontana yeah, this is bullshit, a jeweler just taking 4,500 cash without counting it, thats kind of pushing it.

  • @yenyoo

    I think it had to do with Derrens Hypnotism. I think Derren made him just believe, that what he gave him was exacly 4,500 and the juweler just wouldn't question it any further.But thats just a guess of mine

  • - Asshole.

    - Thank you my friend.

    hahaahahahah

  • notice how incredibly incredibly keen he is to get out of that jewellery store

    "ok so the subways just down there right ... thank you goodbye."

    i don't blame him for wanting to get out of there.

  • no way on the ring!

  • sorry brown, americans are mean D:

  • embedded messages. easy to learn, hard to master

  • @ThePhar0ah or so he wants you to think...?

  • The hotdog guy also accepted white paper in the end.

  • buy some of your soul? Lol

  • This take HUGE balls. Just keeping a straight face like that!!!!! Unless this is an act, this is just amazing shit hands down.

  • the take it take its fine with the hot dog vendor is timed wrong, hes already looking at the money just as derren starts on about the subway system. also how the hot dog stand blocked the view of the paper.

    and its true that it doesnt work on idiots. the hot dog guy doesnt listen ot anything derrens saying so obviously it wont work on him.

  • Darren has got guts. I could never do that.

  • LOL how can you people acualy believe this?...

  • @PandaMagicFTW why would'nt we? It makes perfect sense. humans are animals - retarded living things

  • @Gongbuhae Humans are the most intelligent and complex organism in the world. Some can be stupid, most shouldn't be. There isn't much of a reason to believe that any of this is true, it is only for entertainment.

  • @PandaMagicFTW Define Intelligence.

  • @MuffinSauce1 Intelligence –noun

    - capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.

  • "Take it, take it it's fine." haha

  • @GodofChaos45 that's the keyword, subliminal

  • wow, he just took a $4500 ring like that?? lol he is stealing on TV :P

  • @fathersecrets It is stealing, I agree. I hope, for his sake, he comes back and explains what he did and what it's all about. I have to wonder about shows like this. I have no problems as long as they return everything they take in a timely manner, regardless of "all deals are final, if it's our mistake, it's our mistake" type policies. He's nuts for even trying that.

  • @Ripley747 of course he returned it. How do you even think he got permission to film them?

  • @minasgekos Then I have no problem with it:P. I still think he's nuts for even trying it.

  • Well paper money is just that...worthless..it just has fancy pictures on them.

  • @infobulb you sir, are a moron

  • @mrjzxv well..coming from a pervert who hosts x-rated videos on his channel..sounds kind of hypocritical. But what else can be expected from a illegitimate son of a kiwi prostitute..hmmm???

  • @infobulb you sir, aredamn right weird for going all that way to reply to me

  • @mrjzxv And I, sir, am downright good at Scrabble. That's right.

  • @mrjzxv Actually, no he is not.

    With no gold standard, it is all counterfeit. Cash is supposed to be promissory notes that are CLAIMS on real asset value. The use of paper is simply for convenience.

    This is not the situation today.

  • lol with the two that worked as he handed them the money he said he was worried about taking the subway then as he handed them the money he said take it its fine...

  • Psychic paper!

  • I'm confused, how the fuck do these people accept blank money? how can he give proper change... it could have been 1 5 10 20 50 etc bills..

  • god this is so clever.

    gotta love derren

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  • Darren Brown would like to buy....YOUR SOLE!

    Mwahahaha!

  • @TheChupaKing

    The sad thing is, he'd trick you into selling it for blank pieces of white paper.

  • @TheChupaKing Maybe, if you could spell it right. Jeez, did you go to school?

  • This is not the russian scam, the russian scam is convincing people to give you things, like their wallets and such.

  • incorrect title its the russians man scam!:)

  • Noooooooo.

    It cannot be that simple

  • @Manik2Magik

    Yes it can

  • ha ha he gives the subliminal command take it its fine... thats what did it :)

  • There's a few other things he did, not that I would be confident trying this.

  • This would be very very easy to fake, but i still believe it. Especially after the street-guy didn't fall for it :)

  • He had the rapport up with the other two. They were busy thinking about the other things he had said. He said much less to the food stand guy, but I think on an intrinsic level the man just wasn't interested in the idle conversation and payed it no mind, so he wasn't distracted enough when he looked down at the paper and just went "wtf?"

  • @PetrSMG That's exactly what I just told my roommate. It's waaay too easy to fake for it to not be true.

  • jedi

  • The intresting thing is how he gets change from the first guy. lol

  • Darren uses some tried and true techniques in the video. People working in a store are used to a customer Shopping, Paying, and Leaving. By distracting the people with suggestions and keeping them listening or talking, they just follow what they're used to. When handed the paper, they don't question it because they're used to receiving something similar. Hidden suggestions such as "Take it, it's fine" help the process tremendously. It didn't work on the black guy 'cuz he didn't give a shit. lol

  • lo, so true. Just browse around YouTube videos, every time you see a stupid comment you are so likely to find out it was made by an american. Probably a fat one, without a passport... lol

  • HaHaHa.....so true, tommytalks77, so true....what's your weight again?

  • @tommytalks77 hay now thats not nice, when the hell do we bitch about you lads? eh?

  • " when the hell do we bitch about you lads? eh?"

    How about making up a lame excuse to invade Iraque just to secure the oil reserves and make a hell of money to the american oil companies etc? Does that not count?

    Look, the world would be a much better place without america, and if you can't see that it's because you ARE an american.

    And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

    How about the import restrictions the US gov. imposes on countries like, let's say, Brazil, when it comes to (cont.)

  • @tommytalks77 OMG, "IRAQUE"??? Really???

  • @dreadrocksean Would you prefer to have this conversation in Portuguese, or German, or Spanish, or French? I'm fluent on all of these, make your pick if my english misspelling are too much for you. Oh, you can't choose another language can you? You are a poorly-educated american with very little knowledge about the real world that thinks otherwise and also believe to live in a free country.

    Brainwashing anybody?

    Wake up, turn of your tv and learn some facts...But do it by yourself and let me be!

  • @tommytalks77 Well then I commend you. However we have BOTH used false assumptions of the other.

    My incorrect assumption:

    If your first language is not English, then I am impressed with it. If it is, then it does not matter how many other languages you understand, I am not impressed. Go learn to write SOMEthing properly.

    Your incorrect assumptionS:

    I cannot speak or write more than 1 other language, French.

    I am not American.

  • @tommytalks77 If you want to be free of criticism, find a private forum.

    I agree with you that America is no longer free nor is it any longer the free-est country in the world.

    I specifically spoke of the past. If it WERE not for America, the free, HISTORICALLY, no other country in the world, INCLUDING MINE would have prospered as we have.

    With respect to LIFE, it is ignorant to claim Socialism or Monarchism as superior to Capitalism, in ANY form, given the enormous historical evidence.

  • Respond to this video... It wasn't before. And this is not blind patriotism nor is it name calling. The facts are that America showed the world what freedom was all about and how it affects the standard of living. And though slavery was awesomely evil, it was not a unique property of America.

  • (cont.) when it comes to importing oranges and or orange juice. The whole way america imposes itself on the international market is so so so fucking unfair and immoral that it would take a whole thesis to just describe it, lets forget about analyze it.

    America is the real axis of evil of the whole world.

    Sorry, but educate yourself before you play the victim.

    Peace...

  • @tommytalks77 You do not know what moral means far less what immoral means.

    Forcing a man to give to another is your idea of morality. Like pointing a gun at your girl shouting 'LOVE ME OR ELSE'.

    Voluntary trade to mutual benefit is the cornerstone of prosperity.

    But what would you know about logic...and history.

  • Why don't you have a passport?

  • Where did you get the information that I don't have a passport?

    Or that I haven't already travelled half the world, that I don't speak four languages, that I have already not experienced many different cultures, tried many different local foods and drinks or that I am even not writing this in some other language other than my mother tongue?... Where?

    What a stupid, stupid thing to say. Oh, you are american aren't ya? That explains a lot...

  • @tommytalks77 You're the one who said everyone that makes a stupid comment on YouTube doesn't have a passport; I was going by your "logic." Go brush your teeth.

  • no no, that's not what I said and that's not what you were "going by". You can't polish the turd.

    I said that stupid comments are usually made by americans and that the odds would be (according to statistics) that this american is fat and doesn't have a passport. And you, like a good brainwashed american(ata-boy) expected me not to have a passport either, since probably don't have one...

    It's ok, you said something stupid, we understand...

  • @tommytalks77 Gosh you're dense. You can't even tell when someone's simply making fun of you. What's the matter bloke; did a yank scoop up your ex?

    Do yourself a favor and trust me when I say I'm the last person to whom you want to brag about how smart you are, and you especially don't want to insult my intelligence. I'll make you blush.

  • with a screen name like this I hardly think so...

    anyway, still, you can't polish the turd...

  • @tommytalks77 Just keep repeating yourself. I bet when you were young your parental figures told you how smart you were, but like an idiot you let it go to your head. Now you constantly try to proove your intelligence to yourself and others by being unceasingly argumentative. You are probably smart enough to have dismissed religion at an early age, but I bet you're too stupid to just let others have their beliefs without trying to impose your own on them (and failing).

  • Lol, sounds like you really know what you are talking about, hmm? Like you are describing someone you know very, very well, very deeply... someone you've known for your entire life... someone that, well, I think even you got the idea.

    Mental gymnastics? Not really, so far it's been more like a walk on the park.

    Dude, for the billionth time, you can't polish the turd!

    You are a nice little american boy aren't ya? Ah, those damn terrorists! ata-boy, go with the flow... Switzerland?Not even close

  • @tommytalks77 I know you live in NZ, but I have a feeling there's much you're not admitting to. I'm not familiar with the phrase "polish the turd." Enlighten me and tell how it applies to not just one but all of my posts.

  • I'm not from NZ neither. I just had to choose a country when I set up this account.

    "Polish the turd" is an expression I picked up when I lived in London. It means you can't fix something that started wrong. Turd is cattle dropping and the expression means that no matter how hard you try to polish a pile, or something made out of turd,it will always be ugly,lol.

    Funny thing is, I did also live in Switzerland, even got married there...big mistake that was!

    No offense dude,I'm just teasing ya

  • @showmeyourtonsils You spell it "prove" not "proove".

  • @tommytalks77 You probably even belittle others and their opinions when it comes to very positive things like music and other arts. I bet you spread conspiracy theories (like 9/11 horseshit) as a way to defy authority because of your own insecurities. Now you're performing mental gymnastics to convince yourself that everything I've said is inaccurate, but even with an ego as big as yours, you're still not fooling yourself. Are you from Switzerland?

  • @showmeyourtonsils I understand that his generalized comment is uncalled for but he's right about the statistics. Most Americans do NOT have passports and are significantly overweight compared to the rest of the civilized world. We, you and I, have to ask ourselves why. Resorting to name calling about unrelated topics would not make this statistic go away.

    Every poor person in the Caribbean has a passport. Experiencing other cultures is important.

    And, well, the obesity is kinda obvious.

  • @dreadrocksean to be fair, you can go on a canoe in the carribean and reach another country. In europe, you can drive or take a train in most places to get to another country. In a lot of America, we have to fly or take a twenty-hour train or car ride to reach another country. Each of our states is the size of- and in a lot of cases, as diverse as- another country, elsewhere in the world.

  • @SittingOnEdgeman I appreciate your reply. You have assumed a few things though,

    1- Most Caribbean citizens do not take a canoe to travel around. Those that go by sea take yachts and are by definition, the minority rich.

    2- I am from the Caribbean

    3- I have lived in the US for 11 yrs.

    4- Most of your states are not diverse. I've lived in NY and Cali. I am now in Kansas and can tell you that ity ain't diverse as most of the midwest isn't :-)

    Passports are not interesting enough to the US.

  • @jonesgerard I love that comment. Are you assholes so insecure with yourselves that you have to hide this?

    I live in America, so don't even apply any of your lame excuses.

  • take it it's fine, just take that and it's fine

  • listen very carefully

    when he's talking , just as hes about to give over the black peices of paper he goes

    "just take it and it will be find" disguising it in his sentence

    hes using short term hypnotisim , its brilliant ! :)

    hahahahhaha i really enjoyed this

  • When he talks he distracts the peoples mind. Those people who listens are people who actually are fooled. But this hotdog guy wasnt even interested at all which is why he wasnt fooled.

  • Don't forget he keeps them talking after he's given them the blank paper to keep them distracted so he can leave before they check it.

  • i cant believe, it can work. How can the salesman not count the money. doesnt he know that it might be less than whats on the bill. I dont get it at all, somebody explain it.

  • I'm wondering the same. Don't these stores give out change or do they assume the cash is "exact"?

  • He did get change for the fish. Which makes it even more impressive.

  • u no why....because of the old saying give a man a fish and ul feed him for a day but teach him to fish and ul feed him for a lifetime!!!!!

  • want something even more nuts? look up darren brown horse race track or something of that natue.

  • lol pwned

  • "Take it its fine its fine" Is this the line which works? LOLx!