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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 Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion. This is the show where we dare

you to keep your eyes and your mind open at all times.

Now, are you prepared to test your own reality?

Well, very good. Here we go.

Look at this origami -like paper dragon.

Wherever it sits, it seems to follow you around.

This thing really makes me crazy.

Just like tonight's illusionist. For the life of me, I cannot figure out, no

matter how many times I watch him, not only how, but where does the girl go?

I bet you can't either. This is Jason Bishop.

you see this

Do not try this next trick at home.

Just keep an eye on these guys. Here are Barry and Stuart.

People ask us as magicians all the time, is it possible for you guys to use your

magical skills to pick up girls?

Well, I can honestly say that I would never, ever do such a thing.

Stuart here, though, he does.

Lady?

Lady?

Sir?

That girl there, what's your name?

Marie. Marie?

Look, Stuart, you've managed to find the one lady in the audience who's actually

the least bit interested in you. Well done. Look, that's okay, because Stuart,

he loves the chase.

Marie, I want to ask you a deep and meaningful question.

Do you like jelly beans?

Yeah. Deep and meaningful. Well done.

Let me just grab one of these beans and show you my trick with it. Maybe one of

the coconut beans.

This is Stuart's very sensual trick that he uses to pick up girls.

Ready?

He snorts the bean up his nose.

Hope you got your boyfriend on speed dial. He's about to get dumped real

Then he continues to snort the bean in the sphenoidal sinus all the way up and

out of... No.

Yes.

Out of his eyeball.

You're there.

He's single, by the way, and he has been for the past 15 years.

This next one is clever and quick. It's the wacky magic of Ed Alonzo.

Next, Nathan Burton asks you to pick a card when we return.

This next magician uses our entire audience to help him. The result is

absolutely fascinating.

Join Nathan Burton.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

I got to tell you, I've always wanted to sit out here with you guys and

experience the show. I haven't quite figured that out yet, but I've been

on something new. I want to try with you guys today. Anybody sitting here?

What's your name?

Kelsey. I'm going to come out here and sit with you guys, be part of the

audience. This is going to be cool. We're going to do a trick all together.

Everybody take your right hand and put them there like this. Wiggle your

fingers. Wiggle your fingers. Take your right hand, go in between your legs, and

there should be four playing cards stuck in your seat. Go ahead and bring them

out. Count them out. There should be one, two, three, four cards.

Everybody have cards?

Cool, cool.

Go ahead and face the blue back towards there like that. You can follow along

with me. We're going to take all four cards. You're going to shuffle them up

much as you want. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.

Once you feel like they're shuffled, go ahead and square them up.

We're going to take all four cards. Watch carefully. You take all four

You're going to rip them in half.

Go ahead and rip them now.

If you're having trouble ripping the cards, it might be time to go to the

All right. Now, everybody has a free choice. You can either take the right

and put it on top of the left or the left on top of the right. Totally up to

you. Go ahead and stack up the cards. Make sure you have the blue facing up.

You've got them all in your right hand. Now, watch carefully. Off the very top,

we're going to take one, two, three cards off the very top. You're going to

three cards off the top, and you're going to bury them in the middle. Not on

top, not on the bottom, but somewhere in the middle of the pack. You're going to

take one card off the very top. One card off the very top. You're going to take

that card and slide it underneath your thigh in the seat.

Make sure it's your thigh.

Very important.

All right. Off the very top, we're going to take one, two, three cards off the

top. And watch carefully. Take all three cards. You're going to throw them up in

the air like this and go, woo!

That was cool. Okay.

Take one card off the very top. One card off the top. And this is cool. You're

going to take this and you're going to exchange it with anyone you want in the

audience. I'll exchange it with you. Go ahead and exchange it with a neighbor.

Once you do that, you're going to take that card, not on the top, not on the

bottom, but somewhere in the middle. You're going to bury that card. Go ahead

and stick it in the middle of the card you exchanged.

Perfect. Off the very top, we're going to take one, two, three cards off the

top, leaving you one card in your right hand. Take the three cards in your left

hand and throw them there and go, whoo!

Good job. Everybody take your left hand. Wiggle your fingers.

Wiggle your fingers. Go underneath your thigh. Grab that card. Do not look at

it. Slowly bring it up to the card in your right hand. On the count of three,

we're going to turn around all at the same time.

One, two, three. Turn around now.

Hold them up. Do they match?

Hold them up. Do they match?

Yes? Yes?

Yes? You're the lucky card.

Hold on these cards. Go to the casino. You win lots of money.

And now, here's a magician with a twist. The unique and entertaining Farrell

Dillon.

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, a card trick.

Yeah.

Nothing more exciting than a card trick.

Let's see.

Hi. My name's Farrell. What's your name? Hi.

What was that?

Simon. Simon.

Would you join me on stage? Please give Simon a big round of applause.

Hello, Simon.

Nice to meet you, too.

We're going to do a card trick. All right. But it's going to have a little

of danger, so it is pretty exciting.

This is a deck of cards. I don't want you to think they are all the same. They

are all different. Yes?

Yes. That's very important.

In a moment, I'm going to run my thumb along the cards like this. I want you to

say stop for me somewhere in the middle. Go ahead. Stop.

Perfect. Simon, take that card and look at it. Don't let me see it, but hold it

up and point it towards the camera. That way they can all see the card.

All right. Now, Simon, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to go through

the cards like this. You say stop for me somewhere in the middle. Also, look at

the card yourself.

Make sure you don't forget it because if you forget the card, this is really

stupid. We're here for hours.

We really don't have that kind of time. All right. Great.

I'm going to go through the cards, dropping them from one hand to the

stop wherever you want.

Perfect. Put your card back right there.

Face down. Good choice.

I'm going to hand you the cards. I want you to shuffle them up.

That way you don't know where the card is, I don't know where the card is. I

you on the spot, but just shuffle them up, mix them up, make sure that they're

in an order that you couldn't know and I couldn't know.

And now I'm going to try and find your card, but not in the way that you're

to. Do me a favor, spread those cards in front of you so that there's, like,

perfect, just like that. Some are in one hand, some are in the other hand. And

I'm going to find it using this medieval torture device.

This is actually a slingshot that I got when I was fighting Sauron.

Great, a joke for like five of you. That's awesome.

So in a moment, Simon, I'm going to have you throw the cards into the air. I'm

going to try and shoot your card out of the air. Not above your head, okay?

Throw them out in front of you.

Otherwise, this is going to come hurtling at your face, and I don't have

insurance anymore.

All right, you ready? On the count of three.

One, two, three, throw them.

One card.

Stab through.

What was the name of your card? The five of hearts. Ladies and gentlemen, the

five of hearts.

Thank you so much for your help.

Please keep coming up here. Next,

Sean Farquhar will make you doubt your senses when we come back.

And now here's an award -winning, close -up performer from Canada. But more

important, he can probably talk you into anything.

This is Sean Farquhar.

Thank you so much for that warm welcome. I think it's really something kind of

interesting. I have to admit something. I'm an addict.

A magic addict.

But the good news is I'm down to two packs a day.

We're going to do a card trick. Do you like cards? I do like cards. There's a

legend, a holy grail in magic. It's called the any card at any number. It's

where a magician takes a deck that is thoroughly shuffled and asks the

to name any card in the deck, and then they find it at any number that they

request. Do you have a favorite card in the deck, Amber?

A spade. A spade? And what number would it be?

Eight. Do you have any idea where the eight of spades is?

No. Me neither.

Let's look just so you can see. If you see the eight of spades, don't say

anything just as I go through. Did you see it? I did. You did. Do you have an

idea where it is?

An idea, yes. An idea. I'm going to give it one more little shuffle so there's

no way in the world you now know. Take the cards in your hand.

Here's what I want you to do. Begin dealing the cards onto my hand. And just

start placing them down. Yeah, like that. And you don't have to do them one

time. You can do groups if you want to.

Yeah, but stop when you think you're somewhere near the eight of spades.

Here. Right there? Yeah. How many cards is this, Amber?

I'm not sure.

Roughly about 25.

It's 24.

Oh. That's very good. And you stop right here on the eight of spades.

Why don't you take this card, since this is your favorite random card, and write

your name right across the face of the card, nice and big, so everybody will be

able to see it.

Oh, that's good. Nice penmanship.

You'll notice that it doesn't rub off. It's a permanent marker. It used to say

it right here, but it rubbed off.

Amber, since you picked a fancy card, and it's the eight of spades, and the

of the deck is normal, nothing special in any way, here's what we'll do.

We'll get you to pick one of these. Hold those in that hand.

Yeah. And I'm going to take your eight of spades and put it back in the deck,

it's locked.

You know it's not on the top, and you know it's not on the bottom.

Okay. One of those balloons will be your favorite random balloon. Which one

would you like?

I'll just get the beginning.

Yeah. Anyone at all?

Do I have more? No, that's all of them. That's good.

It looked like you only had four or five. I want to make sure you had a free

choice.

Random card signed in the deck.

Random balloon outside the deck.

And now, card and deck inside balloon.

Wow.

That was a good one.

It's my job.

Isn't that bizarre?

I know what you're thinking. You signed the card. We should do something more.

You should sign the balloon.

Just very gently because the balloon may pop. Just make a little initial on

there of some sort. Oh, perfect.

An A for Amber. I like that. Very nice, very nice.

I'll take that back. Check this out, Amber. I'll do this very slowly so you

see.

Yeah, isn't that weird?

I'll just tie it off.

All trapped inside.

You can see your A on the balloon.

And you can see the cards inside.

Oh, here's the fun part. Would you shuffle them for me?

I want to do that. Oh, that's good.

That's very good.

Okay, hold on. We'll make this a little bit better.

I go like this.

Do it very slowly.

There's a card and a balloon.

Thanks for playing along. You're welcome.

You will not believe the talents of Les Arnold and Dazzle when we come back.

We always love the great production of our next illusionists. They never fail

dazzle us. Tonight, the more Dazzle, the better. Here is Les Arnold and Dazzle.

The masters of illusion. They just made the impossible happen right before our

eyes. How did they do it?

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

you very much.