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Penn describes how the trick failed and Teller had to hold his breath for over 2 1/2 min which was not the plan. Penn and the safety crew knew there was a problem, but Teller never gave the hand signal to stop the act, so they kept going. He describes it during this podcast starting around 39:00

https://omny.fm/shows/penns-sunday-scho ... ning-on-tv

Here's the video of the performance: