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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.

Hi everybody, I'm Dean Payne and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Now it's time

to clear your mind and follow us into the world of the impossible.

Are you ready?

Yeah!

All right, here we go. How many times have you searched and searched for a

in the sky?

Even when you know where it's supposed to be, it can elude you.

Well, this artist is hiding a star in his painting.

Is it obvious?

Our camera can find it here.

Can you find the difference between reality and illusion tonight?

Here's an impossible illusion as this next magician shows us how to lose your

mind. without losing your head. Welcome Greg Pruin.

The question that comes up all the time in magic is, how did he do that?

When you see this next magician, the answer will be, very well.

Here's Adam Wiley.

The next thing you're about to see is not magic at all.

This is a skill of just how quick magicians can be. I'm going to need a

volunteer.

You, come on up!

Yeah, you!

Pointing at the nose, that's great.

Everyone give her a nice round of applause.

I picked you right on the nose, didn't I? Yes. Perfect. What is your name?

Raylene. Raylene, it's very nice to meet you.

Raylene, this, as I said, is a skill.

Are you handy with felt -tip pens?

Sure. Good.

Go ahead and take any card you want. Free choice. Don't let me influence you

all.

No, don't take that one. Any card you want.

Perfect. Great.

Take this.

Careful. It's Sharpie.

They only go downhill.

All right. Go ahead and sign it.

Beautiful. Thank you for recapping. I appreciate that. That's very

Yeah. Show everybody see that Put it back inside the deck and we will shuffle

the deck See that I'm shuffling perfect believe it or not

your card is gone Truly from the deck. Do you know where it goes?

No, you don't but I do You should be

I know, it hasn't even happened yet, and already.

Anything in there?

No.

All right.

Anything in there?

Here, I have an idea.

Kill.

Very fast.

Still nothing.

yours to keep.

When we return, watch the astounding skill of Eric Buss.

Anybody know what a looper is?

Well, here to show us is Eric Buss.

Thank you very much.

My name is Eric Boss.

This right here, this is a looping station or a looper. If you don't know

looper is, basically you can record your voice or sounds and it loops it over

and over again. Right now, I'm going to try to create magic and music at the

exact same time. I will not be cheating. Everything I'm doing is live using the

looper. I hope you like it.

It's really hard.

Egg shaker.

Egg shaker plus wine glass.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Magic.

Wait for it. Wait for it. Magic.

Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

Magic.

Here comes the bait.

Magic.

Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it.

Wait for it. Wait for it.

Wait for it.

Michael Grandinetti will make you doubt your senses when we come back.

Is it possible to defy gravity?

Let's talk to our next performer.

Here's Michael Grandinetti.

Thank you so much.

You know, to me, one of the most magical things in the world is levitation,

making objects float in the air.

Well, tonight, I'm not going to make myself or one of our dancers float in

air. I thought we'd do something different.

I thought we'd try it with one of you.

Does somebody in this audience want to go for a ride?

If you do, raise your hand.

Would you come up here?

Give her a hand if she joins us.

Thank you so much. What's your name? Gabby. Gabby, stand right here.

Thanks for joining us.

Gabby, I have something for you.

It's this cloth. Now, in a few minutes, that cloth is going to be floating in

the air.

But even more exciting, you're going to be on the cloth while it's floating in

the air.

Are you excited?

Yeah. All right, hang tight.

I'm going to make a little platform for you to lie down on, okay? So watch very

close.

We have these ladders.

And, Gabby, we also have this board, okay?

Very solid, very strong, and it's very secure, so you can feel safe up

there. Now, one more thing. Come over here.

I'll take that cloth.

We need to dress this up for your first time on television. We're going to make

the board look nice.

So I'm going to roll this down to you. Grab it at the end, okay?

Here we go.

Good catch. And grab this and flip it over.

Gabby, you are a natural.

You're doing great. Stand right here.

Now for the fun part. Have a seat right here.

Hop on up.

Perfect. And swing your head down to this side.

And bring your feet up here.

I got it.

You comfortable?

Yeah. Okay.

Now we're going to cross your legs.

And Gabby, we're going to cross your arms.

Okay.

Lift up your head just a little bit.

Perfect. Now, stay right there. Everybody, I want you to look. There is

above her.

There is nothing below her.

There is nothing around in any direction.

Gabby, ready to go for a ride? Yeah.

Here we go.

Watch.

You're doing great.

Gabby, you're doing a fantastic job.

You're almost done.

Now all you do is sit up, take my hand, hop off, and Gabby, all

of this applause is for you.

You were fantastic.

Thank you so much. Keep the applause going for her.

Laughs and the unbelievable talent of Barry and Stuart. Next.

It is now time for our ambassadors from Scotland and their new technique.

In the art of mixology, do not try this at home. Here are Barry and Stuart.

That's right, we are Barry and Stuart.

In this jug, we have mixed a very unusual drink.

Yes, this dark liquid contains pineapple juice, coconut milk, champagne, white

wine, vodka, whiskey, rum, dark and light.

Yeah, it's got cherryade, lemonade.

all the aids, milkshake, strawberry milkshake, chocolate milkshake, there's

tea, iced tea, coffee, latte, there's even some slices of lemon in there.

Absolutely. We've got hot chocolate beer, ginger beer, we've got a Mexican

with a wedge of lime, and of course, a shot of wheatgrass.

You've got to keep healthy, don't you guys?

Now, in Scotland, we've got a name for this drink.

It's disgusting.

But in a minute, Barry is going to dive head first into this drink, engulf as

much as he can into his stomach. And as if this vile concoction wasn't bad

enough, we're going to add to it some orange juice, red wine, some scotch, and

of course, an egg.

Now, you've probably... Don't worry, guys, it is free range.

Don't worry.

You've probably heard a great showman of the past who's done something known as

the dive of death.

Well, I'm going to add to this mixture some milk.

Barry is lactose intolerant, making this not quite so much the dive of death as

the dive of colonic discomfort.

Barry, you ready?

Oh, yeah.

How are you

feeling? Stuart, I'm on a sugar rush. I feel drunken.

I really got to go to the bathroom right now. Well, don't go just yet. We are in

public. Now, the human body is incredible.

Your body is incredible.

But your body is not as incredible as Barry's body.

This is very true.

Now, we'll prove it. Barry, grab a glass. I want everyone in the studio

to just think of a drink and then stick your hand up once you've got one.

Good.

Barry's body actually has the ability...

to filter out some of these drinks and regurgitate them. And I'll prove this to

you. Let's get someone with their hands up. Just a drink?

Beer?

Okay, Barney.

I'm pretty sure I've got some beer in that mixture there.

Hold off the glass.

Let me see if I can just do this.

Now I don't know that you want to taste this but I want you to grab hold of it

and Look at it. You can smell it and confirm for us all that that really is

Indiana Jones

Orange juice. Orange juice. I'm like a human minibar. You're a human minibar.

You ready?

Oh yeah.

Okay. I've got some orange juice.

But the only way to truly confirm this is to, I'll tell you what, I'm going to

give this to you. Take a good sniff. You can take a gulp if you're brave enough.

But confirm for us that that really is orange juice.

It really is.

Awesome. Now, we're going to try this one last time. But I want like a

or something difficult, something weird. Girl, you're right there.

Name any cocktail.

Shirley Temple.

A Shirley Temple?

Yeah. What's in that? I don't know. That's like grenadine and ginger beer or

something like that, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I know it. Okay. What colour is

It's not like a pinky red. Okay, let's see if you can do this.

This is important.

Nothing in his mouth.

Ready, Barry?

Let's try for the Shirley Temple.

Charlie Temple, it is red.

Oh wait, there's more.

It's Charlie Temple.

It's here.

Well, that's our show. Faster than the brain can comprehend.

How is it possible to do the unbelievable?

Well, because they are the masters of illusion.

Thank you for joining us. I'm Dean King.