Ben Train is a professional magician, which means he knows how to keep his cool. Except, apparently, when he’s performing on national television… doing a trick he really didn’t want to do.

Ben shares how a last-minute submission landed him back on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, why he was hoping the producers wouldn’t pick a certain trick, and what it’s like to frantically rehearse for one of the biggest gigs of your life while your co-magician is in another country.

What could possibly go wrong?

🎥 Watch the trick that made it on TV: