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Illusion, the art of tricking the brain, distorting the senses, challenging

perception. You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes.

Meet the Masters of Illusion.

Alright.

Hi everybody, I'm Dean Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion. You've heard the

terms illusion.

conjuring, sleight of hand, mentalism, a smorgasbord of magic, okay? Are you

ready?

Are you sure?

Okay, here we go.

Can the brain tell which is the longest line here?

It's not the length of the line, but the way it is distorted.

These two lines are actually identical.

Mmm. Vision can be misled. Can our illusionists tonight play with your

I think they can.

Direct from Las Vegas, where he headlines at his own theater, here is

amazing Tommy Wind.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I've always loved magic, and I've always

martial arts, and I always wanted to blend the two. Well, here is a blend of

magic and martial arts.

Try concentrating on our next performer.

Misleading your vision is his true talent, along with a few laughs.

Here is Murray Sawchuck.

Yeah.

What do you think?

Kind of cool, huh?

Great on gas, lousy on dating.

But, you know, whenever you have a cool set of wheels, they always say you're

supposed to have a really pretty girl with you. And, well, you know, hey,

you got a pretty girl?

Really? That's the pretty girl.

A doll with a knife and a haircut.

Apparently with her hairstyle and my hairstyle, it's like we got a haircut at

the hardware store.

All right, here we go.

Check this out.

Coming up, Trig Watson and Farrell Dillon.

Ever wish you could interact with the Internet instantly?

That's the next dimension of reality.

Why wait? Watch Trig Watson.

Thank you very much.

In the technologically advanced age in which we live, we're surrounded by

magical things.

Take this tablet, for example. I'm going to go to the camera app.

Right there.

You know what you call this?

It's an iPad. Get it?

See what I did there? I'm sorry.

iPads are amazing things because you can, on a tablet, you can point out any

object you want to buy and order it in the mail just with the click of a

You can talk to people halfway around the world.

If we can do all these things now, today, think how magical the future will

I brought along a friend with me to help illustrate.

Everyone say hi to Alan.

Hey, dude.

So, for example, what if we wanted to go grocery shopping? What if we didn't

need to leave our home?

We could just reach in and pull it out.

But let's take this one step further.

What if we could then stare it through the screen? I have a bottle here. Watch

the contents of the bottle.

That's mine, though. That's mine. Can I have that?

Here,

take a sip, dude.

Take a sip.

Yeah, with this straw. It'll work, I promise.

Give it a try.

There you go.

A little bit more.

A little more.

I

think you'll

agree. The future of magic is in good hands.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's tea time for our close -up camera. Join a member of our audience and try to

catch the antics of Feral Dylan.

Tonight, I'd like to do a sleight -of -hand trick for somebody in the

and there is a young lady sitting right here. Hi, my name's Farrell. What's your

name? Elizabeth. Elizabeth, would you come up and help me? Give Elizabeth a

round of applause.

Elizabeth, you and I are going to be doing a sleight -of -hand trick. I have

deck of cards here. I'll show you. All the cards are different. Yes? Yes. I'm

going to riffle through the cards like this. I just want you to say stop

somewhere in the middle. Stop. Perfect. Look at that card.

Got it?

Burn it into your mind. I'm going to show it out here. That way the camera

zoom in on it and people can see the card.

Everybody see the card?

Yes? Great.

Elizabeth. Yes?

Now it's time for my break.

No, you guys get a break during the middle of your work day. So you know

I'm taking my break now. I'm going to make myself a little cup of tea.

This is, uh, again, matcha tea.

Brown rice tea.

Would you hold on to that for me, please? Just like that. Perfect.

Since that's going to brew for a little while, I guess I will continue with the

trick.

Watch, Elizabeth.

Did you see it?

Sure. Really? You saw it? Yeah.

Nobody's ever saw it before. This is going to be really good.

Look, if you take a look.

Watch.

This box has been sitting there the entire time. Listen.

You hear that?

Mm -hmm.

Hold out your hand.

Watch.

T.

Weird.

Is that for me? Wait.

Elizabeth, thank you so much for your help.

I'll take this key bag back.

Thank you. Please give Elizabeth a big round of applause.

He was fantastic.

When we come back, Jason Berg and Tom Ferguni.

Our next performer tells a story with his style of magic and reveals illusions

with charm.

He called this kindness.

Welcome, Jason Berg.

you

Time for the close -up manipulations and the quick hands of Tom Burgum.

What's your name?

Jasmine. Jasmine, and you are? Chris. Chris, nice to meet you guys.

Check this out. Oh, I need a magic wand. I didn't have one, so I had to use

this.

Four cards. Check these out.

And each card contains the picture of a spoon.

Check it out. That's one, two, three, four spoons, right?

Right?

Watch. You take the spoon like this and you say bend, just like that. And the

top card ends up bent.

By magic. That's great. Now watch. Yeah, thank you. It goes like this.

Lay it back on the table. Watch this. You go straighten like that.

And it straightens out. That's the weird part right there. Yeah.

Check this out. Look. That's one spoon. There's two spoons. Three spoons. Watch.

Bend, bend, bend.

I get one bent spoon, two bent spoons, three bent spoons.

Place together like this. You go straighten.

And everything straightens out one more time, all straight again. Pretty crazy,

huh? But now watch.

They all bend at the same time. Watch this. This is the best part.

Bend, bend, bend, bend. And look at that. All four completely bent. Look at

that. One bent, two bent. Well, it's supposed to bend.

Oh, it did work.

When we return, the buzzsaw of guests with Jonathan Pendragon.

The extreme danger has always been part of the attraction of the unpredictable

Jonathan Pendragon.

4 p .m.

That is a 40 -inch buzzsaw.

And it went through that piece of wood as if it were butter.

This is not an illusion.

I'm going to present...

The most dangerous illusion in all of magic.

Sawing a lady in half.

And using a buzzsaw to do it.

I'm going to place this in a channel.

This will be beneath the girl.

So with a saw, you get this.

It has to go through here.

It's time you should meet her. Ladies and gentlemen, Brittany.

You ready?

Okay. I want you to relax.

It's not really hypnosis. It's just getting you to, in like a calm, in like

sleep. Just relax.

That's good.

Gentlemen, let's begin.

The child, the wood.

Inside. I'm going to place it underneath Brittany.

Stand back, John, and let me do the rest of this. I'm going to make sure myself.

Here we go.

Don't speak.

There are the channels.

There are the two pieces of wood tucked right in half.

Are you all right?

You're braver than me.

The art of illusion, absolutely amazing. I keep watching it, but I cannot figure

out how they do it. That's because they are the masters of illusion.

Until next time, thank you for joining us. I'm Dean Cain. Thank you.