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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.

Hello, everybody. I'm Dean Payne, and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Okay,

ready to be baffled, because the magicians you're about to meet will make

see things that do not exist.

And reality...

and be misleading.

Are you ready to believe the impossible?

Yes! Here are some tools on the wall of a workshop.

How do you see them?

Are they white on an orange wall?

Or are they orange on a white wall? Can we be forced to see them one way or the

other? Well, our illusionists tonight will try to make you see it their way.

Welcome, Greg Gleason.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I've been told that this next illusion can only be done once.

Check it out. Here's Jonathan Pendragon.

Good evening.

Now, besides being a master illusionist, I'm also a master martial artist. I've

trained since I was 11 years old. In martial arts, the chi is where the

comes through, the force. It's how we break force and things of that nature.

I'm going to show you how much chi I can produce in focused energy.

I need two people to help me out.

Would you mind?

Would you mind bringing the lady with you? Thank you. Come on up.

What's your name?

What? Anna. Hi, Anna. Anna, stand over here.

And you are?

Jeff. Hello, Jeff. How are you doing?

Okay. Brittany's going to bring out the things I want you to hold. Now, this is

going to be a protective plexiglass shield that I want you to hold.

And I want you to see what's going to go on here.

And I need you to just all the way out at your arm's length. I want a distance.

I want you to grab on.

to the end of this.

Okay. Now, this is very important. Now, you hold it like that. I want you to

place this inside here.

Okay, but don't touch the bottom. Have it positioned mid -air. Okay?

You're right. Put your hand inside.

All right.

Excellent. Now, stand back.

Hold it right there.

Here we go.

Watch very carefully because I'm only going to do this once.

Okay, fantasy time now, as we join the make -believe and the world of Garrett

and Raja.

Thank you.

Next,

the always amazing sleight of hand of Chris Corn.

The most mind -blowing of all magic is the art of the close -up performer.

But watch the unbelievable talent of Chris Korn.

Hello, hello. We're going to do a little of that booty that you do.

And we're going to ask you to sit a bit. If you two ladies would be so kind as

to join me on stage, please give them a round of applause.

And if you'd be so kind, a little seat here, a little seat here.

Do either one of you know what a voodoo doll is? Yes.

And can either one of you explain the idea or concept behind a voodoo doll?

You do things to it and it's supposed to happen to the other person.

Right. In theory, what you do to the doll happens to the person.

We're going to demonstrate that here today.

And I'm going to have you help out. And if you would just reach in and grab one.

And take a look at that. You can show it to them if you like. You may.

And I want you to hold that card in your hand, face down, just like this.

We're going to do a little incantation, cast the spell, put your hand on top.

You know, on top, there you go, your hand on top.

Turn your hands this way.

Turn your hands this way.

I'm going to leave the cards as they are, but I want you to turn your hand

more time.

And if I do this, even though it looks like nothing's happening, something in

fact does happen. The spell is now cast.

Her card has a soulmate.

For example, if this is the ace of diamonds, its soulmate in the deck is

of hearts. Same color, same value, different suit.

If this is the ace of spades, its mate would be the ace of clubs. Same color,

same value, different suit.

So now in theory, what you do here will happen here. You'll see what I mean.

Slowly lift up your hand.

Ace.

No, that wasn't the trick part.

The queen of spades, so its mate would be the queen of clubs.

So if you turn that face up, one card should now be face up.

In the deck.

Oh, and in fact, there is the queen of clubs.

But what are some other ways that we could damage this card?

Got it? Rip it? Yeah, great.

And if you would, either one of you, just do me a favor and tear off either

of those indices.

Just tear off.

Taking part the Queen's personality.

And this is where it gets spooky.

Because remember, in theory, what you do to one card also happens.

Here, hold your hand out flat.

There we go. Put your other hand on top.

And what other ways can we destroy it? Burn. Burn. Fire. We'll do fire.

Here we are.

I'm going to do this. And this is where it does get scary. Your hand is not

going to burn.

It's not going to burn.

Watch. As I do this, you'll see this begin to burn the card. And as this,

will start to stick to your hand.

You're going to feel that heat.

You can see the smoke.

There's nothing on my hand, but you're going to feel that heat go right down.

Remember, in theory, what happens to one?

Lift up your hand. Turn it over.

Thank these lovely ladies for helping out.

Next up, mind reading

is the unbelievable skill of Jen Kramer.

Sometimes the obvious is not so obvious.

especially when it comes to mind reading.

Enjoy the disarming personality of Jen Kramer.

Hi, everyone. My name is Jen Kramer. How is everyone doing tonight?

Excellent. Now, I'm looking for someone here, a gentleman, maybe right in the

front row with the striped sweater. What is your name?

Richard. Richard, would you join me on stage? Let's give Richard a nice warm

welcome.

Richard, great to meet you. How are you doing? Thank you very much, Richard.

Now, I have this tradition.

Every time I go to the airport to do a new show, I like to pick up a new book

read. Now, Richard, thank you so much for joining me. Your job is to check out

this Sherlock Holmes book. Make sure that, of course, it is a legit Sherlock

Holmes book. I picked up this book earlier this week at the airport in

and this is going to sound pretty crazy, but I've made it my mission in just the

last few days.

to memorize the entire book. That's right. I mean every page, every

every single word. And I thought, let's put that to the test right now. You

ready, Richard?

Yeah. In a moment, I'm going to ask you to open up that book to any page you'd

like. It is up to you. And I'll then see if I can remember exactly what is on

that page. But Richard, to make sure that I'm not cheating, that I'm not

secretly peeking at the page, I'll have a stand back to back like this.

Ah,

Richard, you work out.

All right, Richard, whenever you're ready, please just open up that book.

page at all?

Okay, all I need to know now is the page number.

72. Page 72.

I'd like you to concentrate now just on the number of paragraphs on page 72.

Just say that number over and over again in your mind.

If I'm remembering correctly, there were four paragraphs coming to mind, one of

which is just a single line. Is that correct?

Yeah.

Would you look, Richard, at the very top of that page and just silently in your

mind read those first few lines over and over again?

Something about Christ.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much, Richard.

I appreciate it.

You know, Richard, it is almost as if I had my very own copy of the

book.

But Richard, you can be the first to see, though, my copy is a little bit

different. You can see actually each and every page of this copy is totally and

completely blank. That's right. A totally blank Sherlock Holmes book.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Richard.

Thank you.

Have a great night. Thank you all.

Next, the unbelievable talent of Barry and Steve.

Our favorite Scotsmen have a bizarre sense of humor.

This is a unique demonstration from the land of the bagpipes.

Do not try this at home. Here are Barry and Stuart.

Thank you. Thanks.

You know, back home in Scotland, we're known for doing magic that's a bit

bloody. But, you know, we haven't been here much, so we thought it probably

to do something that's a bit more...

Friendly. Friendly. So we're going to do a friendly trick for you right now

using some friendly mints.

What could be friendlier than something that you use to freshen your breath,

huh? And a friendly piece of, uh, cheese -cutting wire.

What could be friendlier than the sort of thing you might use to strangle a

Yeah.

Stuart, um, can we get that lady up there? Ask her to go down and say hello

her. You know I get nervous talking to pretty girls.

Can I just choose someone else for this?

It's all right, Stuart.

I've got your asthma inhaler right there. Look, take that.

Have a puff, right?

You okay?

I'd just rather talk to the man to do this, Barry. What about the guy sitting

right here?

Do you mind taking Barry's mints, tear them open with brute strength, and take

any mint you like and place it on to Barry's tongue?

You seem quite eager. That's unusual.

Probably people are not that way.

Okay, Barry.

You all ready?

It's in.

Okay. Now, Barry has not swallowed the mint.

He's actually holding it in the back of his throat. This is a skill he has, and

this is real.

Because of the hole in the middle of the mint, it means that he will not choke

because he can breathe through the hole. It's fascinating.

I could talk about this forever.

You ready?

The cheese wire.

I think I hit something.

Yeah,

Barry, it's torn its way right into your trachea there.

Can you feel the mint?

Just try it.

A trickle of blood.

What could be friendlier than bleeding from the mouth?

Try and maybe tear the mint out.

Behold, women.

It really is on there.

The only way to get it off is to break it into two pieces, and there's a

souvenir for you, my friend, and one there for you.

Disgusting souvenir to take home.

How you doing, Barry? That looked pretty painful tonight. You okay?

I'm fine, thanks, Stuart. And yes, guys, we are also available for children's

birthday parties.

So, thanks very much, America.

Thanks very much.

Don't, don't, don't.

Stuart, before we go, why don't you just take this opportunity and say hello to

that lady. What's your name?

Jessica. Say hello, Jessica.

Try and do it without your inhaler.

That was great. That was really great.

Ask Jeff if he'd like to go out for a drink with you.

What?

He's inhaled his inhaler.

It's okay, though. I know something. It's like the Heimlich maneuver, except

hand goes all the way... Got it.

I got it.

Thanks a lot. We are Barry and... Well, just Barry now.

Thanks.

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 Cain.