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

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

Meet the Masters of Illusion.

Hello, everybody.

I am Dean King, and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Now, I invite you to open

your mind to a world where believing the impossible is possible.

Are you ready to be amazed?

Yes!

This abstract wood sculpture is a free -form art object.

But at the proper angle, it's a perfect square.

Well, tonight we will attempt to play with your perception.

Can our illusionists distort your reality?

We know the brain allows us to be deceived, even when we expect it, even

know it's about to happen. But how?

Well, believe the impossible.

Here's Mark Bennett.

In the world of magic, what goes into a box does not necessarily come out of the

box. This next illusion is called the blue dressing room.

Welcome, Nathan Burton.

But what about my girls?

Time

now

to meet a performer whose partner is a real charmer. He likes to warn us that

he's still in training.

Here are Jason Bishop and Gizmo.

So we've seen a lot of great magic tonight. There's comedy magicians.

big illusions.

There's dangerous magic, fire magic, close -up magic, all this kind of stuff.

And magicians use lots of different aspects to their show to entertain

But there's never anything really that cute in magic. That's what we need is

something cute.

What do we have backstage that's cute?

That's cute. You're cute.

You're cute.

Come here, sir. You're cute.

Come here, buddy.

This is my little buddy. His name is Gizmo. He's a rare breed of dog.

He's one of the rare and endangered pygmy Great Danes.

Now, he's a little Yorkshire Terrier. If you've ever had a Yorkshire Terrier,

you know it can be really, really difficult to potty train.

I'm so sorry about that. Okay, that's... If

you were concerned that a little dog just peed on you, do not be. It's just a

squirt bottle, people.

Yes, it's a squirt bottle, but I still did his pee. So that's what that is.

Pull that up. We got another show. Make sure it's warm.

So, Gizmo's been working on a trick since he was just a little dog, which

earlier today.

So, do you guys want to see Gizmo's trick?

Maybe we have it back here. That is Gizmo's trick.

Put him up here.

Make sure he wants to do it.

There you go.

Make sure he wants to do this trick. That's important.

Want to do it? Fist bump.

Okay. You're sure? High five?

Okay.

Gizmo's trick.

We all have a question. What is your question?

Is the magician single?

Exactly. Let me let you in on something here. Obviously, when

somebody's on stage, maybe that's not their real name. Maybe that's their

character. So in this case, the dog's character is Gizmo, but the real dog's

name is dog number 97.

I know that some of you won't be able to go to bed tonight unless you know he's

fine. So, dog number 97, are you okay?

You okay, buddy?

You're fine. You're fine.

You're fine.

Excuse me, everybody.

Next, the super quick hands of Tom Bergoon and Nathan Phan will make you

your senses when we come back.

Let's go down to the audience camera and focus on the dice that always turn up

right for Tom Bergoon.

My dear listener.

Desiree. Desiree, and you are? Melissa. Melissa.

Ladies, you know what those are right there?

Dice. Dice, that's right. Would you hold one? You hold one.

Exam them, make sure they are real. Are they real?

Yes. Watch.

I'm going to make a little tunnel with my hands like this. Drop the die into

hole. Drop it in there. That's one.

Drop in the second one.

That's two.

You can hear them in there. Can you hear them? Yeah.

Listen. That's a 6.

That's a 5.

And that's a 4. I don't have to look because I'm psychic.

That's another 4.

Does it look like a 4? Take a peek. Does it look like a 4 in there?

Yeah. Yes.

That's an 8.

And that's 12.

Slang for 12 in dice is box cards.

Right?

There's a 9.

And that's the two. Flying for two and diced at Snake Eyes. Does it look like

Snake Eyes to you?

Yeah,

they got a big... Not

only does he mystify us with his magic, our next

performer is a man of many talents.

Here's Nathan Phan.

Jason Bird asks you to pick a card when we return.

That is a magician that can only be described as absolutely amazing.

Wow.

Thank you so much.

Well, my name is Jason Bird, and I decided to do something very, very

tonight. I'm going to show you something that no magician has ever done, ever.

I'm going to show you all a card trick.

All right, all right.

It's actually a little misleading. I'm not going to be doing a card trick. You

guys are going to be doing a card trick.

Now, if you look underneath your chairs, you will find a deck of playing cards.

Go ahead and take those out right now.

Everybody take your card outside of the box.

Take the whole deck and hold them face down like you're going to deal the

okay? This is what I want you to do.

the cards and cut off a small packet of cards from off the top of the deck.

And I want you to turn them face up and put them right back down on top of the

deck. So you should be looking at a face up card right now on the top of your

deck.

Excellent. Now, I want you to cut past that first cut and I want you to flip it

over again. So now you're looking at a new face up card right now. And as

doing this, take a look at your neighbor too and see that everybody is just

flipping at completely random cards right now, okay?

Now, I want you to go through the deck until you find the first face down card

that you cut to. That is the card that I'm concerned with. Okay. So I want you

to break the deck right at that point. So you should have face up cards in one

hand, face down cards in the other.

Everybody still with me?

Take these, turn them face down and put them on the bottom of the deck.

Okay. Perfect. And everybody take off that top card and take a look at it. And

actually even more importantly, take a look at your neighbor's card too.

Everybody should be looking at a completely random card right now.

Obviously, I have no idea where you're going to cut the cards, okay? We're

to do it again. So get rid of this card. Just put it back anywhere inside of the

deck. Doesn't matter where it goes. Face down again, all right?

Now, hold the deck face down again, but this time I want you to do something

slightly different because the first time we cut the cards, everybody was

or less thinking about their own lives, all kinds of random thoughts, which is

why everybody picked a random card. But this time we're going to do something a

little bit different, okay? This time I want you to be concentrating on a

specific card.

It's probably the most easily recognizable card in the deck of cards.

everybody to be thinking of the ace of spades, all right? Think of the ace of

spades, and here we go again. I want you to cut off a small packet off the top

of the deck.

Turn them face up and put it right back down on top.

Now cut past that first cut and flip it over again. So again, you're looking at

a completely random face -up card.

Good. Now again, I want you to go through until you find that first face

card. So split the deck right there again. So face -up cards in one hand.

face down cards in the other.

And again, that is the card that I'm concerned with, that card that you cut

okay? So I want you to turn these face down and put them on the bottom. Now,

don't look at that card just yet, okay? But I do want you to take it off the top

of the deck.

And folks, if you did what I asked you to do, and more importantly, if you were

thinking what I was asking you to think, right about now, you should be holding

the ace of spades.

Raise it up in the air if you're holding the ace of spades right now.

And give yourselves a big round of applause.

Next, the astounding skill of Tommy Wind and the unbelievable talent of Greg

Gleason.

Here is a very inventive young man who has the ability to make cards obey some

very strange commands.

This is Chris Randall.

What's up, guys?

We're going to do something here, Eric, right here in the middle of the

audience. We're going to do pure sleight of hand.

Just four aces and just my hand.

So pure sleight of hand.

All the cards are going to start face up just like this.

Face up.

So one by one, they're going to turn from face up to face down.

Not the most thrilling concept in the world, but it looks really cool. Watch.

If I just give it a little shake, see, the first one actually turns face down.

If I give it a little shake, it happens again.

Watch. Just a little shake, it happens again.

And one more time, just a little shake, and it happens again. All four aces turn

face down. If I turn one face up, just like that, that's when they all turn

up. And if I turn one face down, just like that, that's when they all turn

down.

see it with your own eyes, but you will not believe it. Here's Tommy Wynn.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So I need all the ladies in

the audience that have purses to raise the purses above your head. Just raise a

purse above your head. Everybody do it with me. Everybody do it with me. All

right. You have a purse raised above your head. Okay.

Lovely, lovely purses all around. I need to borrow just one purse.

From the audience. And I'm going to search. I need something vibrant,

vibrant purse.

Let's see. That one's a little bit. That one's beautiful. That's a lovely silver

color. What's your name?

I'm Emmy.

Emmy? Come on up. Everybody give Emmy a big round of applause.

Hello,

Emmy. How are you?

Good. How are you? All right. Where are you from?

I'm Los Angeles. Los Angeles. Great. That's a lovely purse. Do you mind if I

borrow it?

Alright, we're going to take the purse and I'm going to leave the purse right

here for just a second. Now, Emmy, what I need you to do is follow me this way.

Stand right here for me, Emmy. Just stand right here for me. Perfect. Now, I

have something that I need to show the entire audience. That would be this

bucket. I want you to see it's an empty bucket.

Empty, empty bucket. I need everybody to check it out. See, there's nothing

inside of it. And what we're going to do is just hand...

the bucket off to Emmy. Emmy, you just hold on to that bucket, okay? And just

don't let it go.

All right? We're going to do something really cool with Emmy's purse, that box,

and that bucket. Here we go.

The purse is gone, but check this out, Emmy.

The purse reappears right inside of the bucket.

Emmy, I'll take the bucket from you. That's your purse. Come on, give it up

Emmy, everybody.

Thank you, Emmy.

You're wonderful.

We are always fascinated with the mysteries of the ancient world of the

pharaohs. Well, let's journey back for another treat. Here is Greg Gleason.

Now watch closely as I break all known laws of nature with the illusion of the

statue of the pharaohs.

Well, that's it. The masters of illusion, they make the impossible

before your eyes.

Seeing is believing.

Or is it?

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