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Part 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!

All right.

Hello, everybody.

I'm Dean Kaye, and welcome to Masters of
Illusion. If you've ever seen a magic

show before... you know that these feats
are extremely challenging and often

dangerous. Are you ready to see what I
mean?

It's the danger that got me. Watch out.
That's good.

At first glance, this painting looks
like a skull, the symbol of death.

On second look, we see a woman and her
reflection in a mirror.

Tonight's illusionists will reflect
images that I promise will surprise you.

As we've seen, some magicians use
ordinary objects to do extraordinary

This illusionist prefers large
industrial machinery.

Here's Michael Grandinetti.

Almost any decent magician worth his
salt can do a card trick.

But it takes a master to pull off
something like this.

Here is Chris Korn.

So, everyone close enough? We good?

Yep.

So, I'm going to show you some sleight
of hand. One of the first rules in magic

that I ever learned was that you have to
do your homework first. As I grew up in

magic a little bit, I learned...

The higher grades I got, the more time I
got to spend on my magic. So I'll show

you one of the first tricks I learned,
and it looks like this.

Name a number, one, two, three, four, or
five.

Five. Five it is, okay.

I didn't want to confuse you there. One,
two, three, four, five, cut.

It's just how many times I cut the card.

That's one way. Here's the fancy way.

Way too many hours alone.

Really way too many.

As I grew up in magic a little bit, I
would hide under the sheets. I'd pull

sheets up over my head, and I'd hold a
flashlight. I was supposed to be asleep.

And I'd end up with a card face up, like
this, and face down.

So without the flashlight, I hear Mom
come down, and I shut off the light, but

still want to shuffle the cards, right?
I mix them up, just like this.

And so you can see, when I turn the
flashlight back on, as you can see, it

bit of a mess.

cards face up, face down, facing all
different directions.

Some near the middle, even, were back to
back.

Until I snapped and I turned that
flashlight back on. That's the moment

magic happened.

What was that number you named? Five.
Yeah, all the cards straighten out

the one, two, three.

It kind of worked. Very happy about it.

Watch this next trick very carefully.

You'll see that it's all in the wrist.

Welcome Jeff McBride.

Don't blink.

This next one is clever and quick.
Here's Draven.

Anyone care for a drape?

Next, laughs and the unbelievable talent
of Barry and Stuart.

Definitely do not try this trick at
home. Here are Barry and Stuart.

And now, a cautionary tale about demonic
possession and oral hygiene.

This is a tale unlike all the rest,
about the young boy whose tongue was

possessed.

So he kept his mouth shut, closed all
day long, for if he opened his mouth,

tongue, it went wrong.

Because of his tongue, he had no friends
in his class.

The boys would all kick him, and rub his
face in the grass.

At dinner time, the girls would all
stare.

Every time he ate food, it went
everywhere.

One day in his room, tongue slapping
away, he said to himself, this is the

time. day, Sue ran to the bathroom as
fast as a dart, grabbed his dad's razor

blade, then made sure it was sharp.

Enough is enough, he said with a cough.

Then uttered the word, I'll cut you
right off.

His tongue started wriggling like an
electric eel, but then snatched from his

grasp that sharp blade of steel.

The boy was worried and taken aback, so
quick as he could, grabbed another blade

from its pack.

He opened his mouth. The boy was insane,
but the tongue just whipped out and did

it again.

The tongue snatched one more blade, and
then another, and one more

made five.

With all that in his mouth, it was a
wonder the boy was still alive.

Enough of this stuff, he thought to
himself.

I'll tie my tongue down with... dental
floss off the shelf.

He broke off a bit, about 10 inches
long.

16 inches long.

Then tried to tie his tongue down, but
his tongue was too strong.

It just sucked up the floss like a piece
of spaghetti.

It made him so nervous his brow got all
sweaty.

The boy was in shock, a complete state
of awe, as his mischievous tongue took

control of his jaw.

Slowly. He reached into his mouth,
grabbed the end of the floss, decided it

time to show the tongue who was boss.

But as he retched out the floss, the boy
was astonished.

When the tongue took the floss, it tied
all blades upon it.

When he saw those blades tied, he got an
idea.

He could travel the world. This seat
could make his career.

The tongue that once upon a time made
him cry, he now proudly flashed it

-by. The tongue that had plagued him his
whole damned life could now free him

from all his trouble and strife.

But as he dreamt of all those things he
was needing, he didn't realize he was

internally bleeding.

He choked, and he fluttered, and then he
died.

But the worst thing of all, the tongue,
it survived.

The impossible is made possible by Kyle
Marlette.

When we come back.

Madness. Is it science?

Or art?

Well, watch this and you'll see that
sometimes it's a little bit of both.

Here's Kyle Marlette.

All right, here's the thing.

My name's Kyle Marlette.

You know, there's a lot of different art
forms in the world, right? A lot of

different types of art.

And I believe magic can be art.

Now, there's some people in this world
who specifically say magic cannot be

Talking to you, Mom.

I'm not going to get into that. I'm not
going to get into that.

Okay. So I'm going to prove that magic
can be. I'm going to come down to the

audience.

I'm going to come down to the audience.

Let's see here.

What's your name, dude?

What? Brendan. Brendan, how are you?
Good.

I'm fine. Thanks for asking.

So I have deck cards.

All different.

All mixed up.

Hold out your finger. I'm going to have
you just touch a random choice of

fingers. You never know.

Touch a card.

Just touch one.

Got it?

Okay? Hold on to it, but don't look at
it yet.

Don't you look at it.

Okay. I'm going to turn my back.

I want you to look at it. I want you to
show all your friends.

If you have friends.

Show all your friends.

And tell me when. Okay?

All right.

Perfect. So don't forget the card.

Okay.

So now we have a card. I don't know what
it is. I mean, you. You look, Arcee. I

need you to do me a favor. Think of a
famous painting.

Not like the blue boy, but like a famous
painting. Got one?

Yeah. what is it mona lisa i think magic
can be art i'm going to show you check

this out

You took the Mona Lisa, right?

What card did you pick?

Five of diamonds.

Five of diamonds?

Right there.

Goodbye, my diamonds.

Thank you so much.

Smartphones can be really useful,
especially when trying to perform a cool

trick. Take a look at Bill Cook.

Wow.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Who's got their cell phone? Who has a...
Uh -oh. You just outed yourself, but

that's okay. What's your name?

Mia, would you come up and join me?
Everyone give it up for Mia as she comes

over to help.

I'm bringing fun as well.

First, nice to meet you, Mia.

Mia, your smartphone has a personal
assistant on it.

I would like you to, in a minute, you're
going to push the home button on your

cell phone and say to your personal
assistant, pick a card.

Now, before we go any further, I want to
let you know that I took one playing

card out of this deck, turned it upside
down, and placed it inside the middle.

Your personal assistant is going to find
the card.

Don't look so thrilled.

To prove that it's not the same card
over and over again, I want you to take

your phone, push the home button, say,
pick a card.

We'll see what it says. Then we'll do it
again, and you can do it as many times

as you want.

We've got all night until you come to a
card you're satisfied with. Okay?

Push and hold the home button and say,
pick a card.

Pick a card.

Let's shuffle first.

Okay. The Queen of Spades. The Queen of
Spades.

Do that as many times as you would like
until you come to a card that you are

satisfied that you know that I didn't
get the phone to say.

Pick a card.

Okay, the two of hearts this time.

Which one?

The two of hearts this time.

What's amazing is not the fact that I
knew ahead of time.

It's the fact that your phone knew.

This would be a great trick any other
time because your phone knew.

That makes this amazing.

We'll be right back with the super

quick hands of Adam Wiley.

Here to demonstrate that solid objects
can behave in ways that are most

unexpected is Adam Wiley.

I'm going to need two volunteers to come
help me. Let's see here. Oh, you two.

Yeah, come on up. Give her a nice round
of applause.

You'll notice here that I have a shoe
office supply right on my hand, and that

is rubber bands. If you could please
pick a band, any band you want.

It's a very good choice.

Also, please pick a band.

Okay, perfect.

I'm going to pick a band as well. We're
going to play a little game. Everybody,

dangle your band like this. Have you
ever done this when you were growing up

a kid and tried to twist them around
your finger? We're going to have a race

see who can do it quicker. I'll tell you
what. I'll start like this, okay? You

ready? On the count of three. One, two,
three, go.

I win.

I know.

I'm a cheat. But now you know what to
expect.

So I'll tell you guys what.

I'm going to use your two rubber bands.

Here's one.

And here's one. Now, you check them out.
They're all okay, right? Yeah.

But these are really cool. You've heard
of the linking ring. These are actually

linking one, two, three rubber bands.

I know. Pretty cool, right? Thank you.
They don't just link on one side. They

actually link on two.

Now, it's really cool when I can pull it
off just like this of one thread.

But it's better if you could go ahead
and pinch face up just like that.

Perfect. Go ahead and pinch right where
it blinks, and you take it off yourself.

Thank you so much. It's like you're
doing the magic, right? Now, I'm going

need you guys to point at each other
real quick.

Point. It feels like a showdown, doesn't
it? All right. What I want you to do is

go ahead and put it towards me.

That's good. And go ahead and secure
that.

Great. And you go ahead and do the same
thing. Scoot a little bit closer. You go

ahead and secure that. Hold it up nice
and high for everybody else. Now,

everybody can see, right?

The rubber bands are in front. You guys
see that?

Yeah. Okay?

Just like this. You just rub really
quickly, and it melts.

Straight look it could be strapped
directly in the middle now watch right

here because that's where the magic
happens No go ahead and unhook make

sure that that's real is that is that
real all right good you sure make sure

this one's real All right, don't examine
it too closely. I'm just kidding go

ahead and point point again from
pointing at each other again perfect And

hook that there uh -huh and hook that
there okay spread as far out as you

possibly can that's Perfect. Now you
guys see that it's in front again, but

know magicians can't do the same trick
twice, and we're not going to. See,

instead of having it melt through, I
would rather it melt completely inside

another. No!

Thank you guys so much.

That was a souvenir.

They're all tied up.

When he was a kid, This magician's mom
told him not to play with fire.

Obviously, he didn't listen. Here is
Greg Gleason.

Well, that's it.

How do they do it? Well, all I can say
is very well. That is why they are known

as the masters of illusion.

Thank you for joining us, and we hope
you will again next time. Until then,

Dean Cain.

Thanks for watching.