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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. How are you?

I'm Dean Cain, and welcome to Masters of
Illusion.

When presented with two possibilities,
it should be fairly easy to

between reality

An illusion.

Or is it?

Well, you'll see for yourself. Do you
think you'll be able to tell the

difference?

Okay,

this looks like an empty theater.

But is it really?

The seats look comfortable.

But I think there's an occupant waiting
for the show to begin. Do you see him?

Some things might take a little time to
see. Our masters of illusion create the

unexpected.

When you're alone in a big city and you
can't find transportation, this is a

trick you can use.

Here is the amazing Joseph Gabriel.

The toughest trick in Hollywood.

Let's turn our attention now to the
audience.

Enjoy the weird antics of Ed Alonzo.

Time now for a card trick.

That's right. I'm going to do a little
card magic, and I need somebody up close

to pick a card. Hello.

There they are. Cards, cards, cards. In
a moment, I'm going to flip through the

cards like this. And when you see a card
you like, simply poke your finger in it

and you'll land on a card. Can you do
that?

Anytime you're ready.

Right back there.

Here. Good. Take the card. Look at it.
And then hold it up so the camera right

here can see it.

Make sure they see it at home. Yes?

And now put the card back into the deck
wherever you like. Just slide it. Right.

Oh. Okay. You shoved it all the way in.
I'll never find it.

Okay, pretty much ruined that one. I
appreciate it. Thanks so much. Okay, I'm

going to try and find the card anyway.

But I will attempt to locate the card in
a dangerous way with the aid of this

Denzu cooking knife. It dices, it
slices, it makes mounds and mounds of

fries. This is the real cooking knife
that you see on those late night

infomercials. Authentic wood grain
handle, stainless steel blade. And these

knives, trust me when I say, they're
sharp. Don't try it again. Oh!

Oh!

Can you see the sharpness from there?

It looks so real, these special effects.

Look, the kids, they love it.

Oh, my.

Don't worry.

It's just a flesh wound.

Look at that.

Deal.

And it's back to normal.

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Where was I? Oh, yeah, the cartoon.

Now I take the cards and I give them a
quick cut.

I'm going to bounce the cards on the
knife, just like this.

I'm going to fling them into the air.

I'll be lunging, I'll be poking, I'll be
jabbing, hoping to stab one card.

It's okay.

I'm not that impressed with you folks
either.

Unless it was...

The Five of Diamonds!

Now it's time for a lesson in
mathematics.

Proving magic and arithmetic can be fun.
Here is Andy Gladwin.

So true story before as a professional
magician I used to be a computer

programmer and this next trick is
inspired by that because I'm gonna try

program this deck of cards It's a number
deck. It has numbers on both sides They

go from 1 to about 300 and we're gonna
have somebody pick one of these cards.

Would you help with it? You can stay
there just look through the cards make

they are all different They really are
just grab one of these cards for me.

That's fantastic.

And that was a free choice I didn't make
you pick that card.

And what is the number on the card?

153. Now there's another number on the
other side because the cards are double

-sided. So what's the other number?

177. We'll use the smallest one for this
because it'll be quicker.

153. I will now attempt to program your
randomly selected number into this deck.

Bear with me.

It takes a few seconds.

This will be here. That's there. These
go over here. That should now be...

Your number 153. Let me show you this.
This is a sticky board so that the cards

stick to it. That way everybody gets to
see. Here we go. Your number 153. This

is 12 plus 66 is 78 plus 20 is 98 plus
55 is your randomly selected

number 153.

Now, that's not the trick. You see, I
actually did it again here as well. This

is 25 plus 50 is...

75, good work. 75 plus 16 is 91, plus 62
is your number 153. In fact, I did it

again here as well. This is 56 plus 22
is 78, plus 65 is 143. That means we

a 10. I programmed that one there too.
In fact, over here as well, this is 60

plus 15 is 75.

Thank you. 75 plus 52 is 127. That means
we need 26 to create four combinations

of your number 153. Thank you.

But wait, there's more.

You see, this is basic mathematics.

Let's know what a programmer would do,
because I didn't just make it add up

down. I also went across, too. 12 plus
25 is 37, plus 56 is 93, plus 60 is 153.

Or this one, 66 plus 50 plus 22 plus 15
is 153. Every single way across, all

down, add up to your randomly selected
number, 153.

Thank you.

But there's more. There's more. You see,
it doesn't just go across and down. In

fact, it also goes diagonally. 60 plus
22 is 82, plus 16 is 98, plus 55 is 153.

Or even this way. In fact, even the four
corners. This one plus this one plus

this one is 153. Or these four in the
middle, 153. In fact, there are over 100

combinations of your randomly selected
number, 153.

But wait, there's more. There's more.

I used to be a computer programmer. This
is just mathematics.

I wanted to do something different.

You see, there's another number on the
card on the other side.

What is that number?

Hold it up so everyone can see the
number 177.

You see, other magicians have done this
kind of number trick before, but not me.

I wanted to do something different.

I wanted to turn it on its head.

That's why every way you look at it now
adds up to your second randomly selected

number, 177. That's across, down,
diagonally, even the four corners. Every

you look at it add up to your randomly
selected number, 177.

Thank you very much, everybody.

Thank you.

Amazing. The only way to describe Joel
Myers.

Next.

Our next performer is a true master of
raising expectations.

The always surprising Joel Myers.

What's up?

How you guys doing?

I need somebody's help right out the
gate. Let me see here.

Oh my gosh, you guys are so excited. Hi,
how are you?

What is your name? Autumn. Everybody
give Autumn a big hand. Autumn, come on

Autumn, check out that deck of cards.
See, the cards are all different. Yes,

they're all different. They come that
way so I can tell them apart.

Do me a favor. I want you to just say
stop anywhere you want. Just say stop.

Stop. Stop right there. Take a look at
the card you said stop on. You know what

it is?

Autumn, take it out. Show it to
everybody nice and slow. Make sure

sees it and knows what it is.

I'll get rid of the rest of these.

Ha!

Let's get there early. We'll get good
seats.

Okay.

One of you said it. Autumn, I want you
to take that card. It sounds kind of

weird. I want you to tear it in half for
me. Tear it in half.

That's perfect. Yes, put those pieces
together. Tear it in half one more time

you can manage. One more.

Yes, put those pieces together. Tear it
in half one more time.

You can do it, Autumn. I believe in you.
Perfect.

Autumn, here's what's going to happen.
We're going to take those pieces, put

them all together. We're going to take
those pieces. We're going to roll them

into a little ball inside of my fist.
Check this out. A little ball inside of

fist. Here we go.

Autumn, I'm going to roll these up into
a little ball inside of my fist. Now,

Autumn, if this trick doesn't work, I'm
going to pay you. Does that sound good?

Yeah, it does, right?

You see the pieces in there?

Watch my fist, Autumn. Make sure I don't
do anything funny. I'm going to pay you

if this doesn't work.

You take credit cards?

You do? That's weird.

This is a New York City credit card.

That guy's been there.

I was like, yeah. Autumn, you having
fun?

Autumn, I want you to take the knife.
Wave the knife over my fist and over the

pieces, Autumn. Do it. No, not like
that. What are you doing?

No, what are you doing?

You know way too much about
switchblades.

Autumn, wave the knife over my fist like
a human person would.

Like normal.

Yes. Yeah, like you're buttering toast.
That's perfect. Autumn, when you do

that, every single piece will disappear
except for one. Did you see that? I

know. Calm down. It gets better. You
hold on to this.

I'm going to take this back because you
don't know what you're doing.

Autumn, check this out. Throughout this
whole trick, behind me, we've had a

little bowl of fruit, right? We've been
sitting here the whole time. I want you

to point to any one of those pieces of
fruit. It's totally up to you. Which one

do you want?

That one. Tonight, Autumn, when you
leave, you're going to be like, wait,

would have happened if I would have
changed my mind?

Now's your chance, Autumn. Do you want
to change your mind?

No. You want to stick, which one was it?

This one?

Abso -fruitly?

Autumn, take that lime. I want you to
hold it in your hand. You could have

chosen any piece of fruit from over
here. And you did. You chose that lime.

could have changed your mind. You
didn't, but you could have, yeah?

Check this out, you guys.

Autumn, you are the eyes for the group.
You can see that it's just a lime,

right? Nothing funny about it. On every
single side, it's just a lime.

I'm going to take the knife. I'm going
to cut into this lime, Autumn. I'm going

to cut around the circumference of the
lime, Autumn.

Autumn, check it out. I'm going to take
that lime.

I'm going to twist it and separate.

Do you see that?

I know.

Autumn, it is a card rolled up perfectly
inside of the lime. Here's the really

crazy part. I'm going to unroll that
really slowly. Can you take a little

under there?

That is definitely a three, but here's
the really weird part, Autumn. You see

it's missing a piece. Do you see that?
It's missing a corner.

Guys, that's to prove that it's the same
card fully formed from earlier. To

prove it, that corner should actually
fit perfectly just like that.

Everybody give Autumn a big hand. Come
on.

Take care.

Is the hand quicker than the eye?

Watch Chris Corn next.

Sometimes it just takes a little fire to
make a big difference.

See if you can catch the very quick
Chris Korn.

Hello, hello.

Good evening.

Magic time, and we're going to do
something with money, money, money. And

name is? Rachel.

Rachel, please join me on stage for the
round of applause.

Rachel, if you'd join me over here.

All right, I have a very interesting
wallet.

Many years ago, when I was 19, I had the
opportunity to lecture in Japan.

Have you ever seen a wallet quite like
that before?

Pretty cool wallet.

So this is a Japanese wallet, and inside
is some money.

Doesn't look like much.

Let's also get that.

No surprise, I know, not even a
surprise.

All right, we'll get rid of this, and
we're going to take one of these pieces

paper. All you have to do is hold the
lighter, and you're going to push and

squeeze. It's childproof.

That's going to help us.

Yeah, go ahead and push that, light
that.

Hold it up a little bit higher, right
about there.

Don't blink, or you'll miss it. Watch.

Ooh, that looks like magic.

If I take the next one.

You know, they say easy come, easy go.
That's the way it works with money.

Watch.

They'll do it again. You wonder where
the money goes. Every time it

it goes back to the wallet, the little
purse.

Watch, I'll show you.

I know you guys see that.

One more, like one more time.

Oh, I told you it goes back to the purse
every time.

Time now for some slight again.

Your memory is important for this
presentation.

Concentrate on what you see.

Here is Joshua Jay.

Okay, first I'm going to try to read
some lines, and then I'm going to try to

fool some lines.

But first, I want to make sure that you
understand this deck of cards is full.

It is shuffled up. You guys can see the
cards. They're all different. Make sure

you tell that to the audience at home.

And now I want some people to think of
cards. So as the cards go by, you can

all different cards, yes? Would you do
me a favor and think of a card?

Yes? And would you also think of a card?
You see it there? And remember, all the

cards are different. They're thinking of
cards in their heads. They're not

saying a thing. As we go through, just
think of that card. Can you see one?

And can you also see one in there? Can
you see that card?

Great.

If you're thinking of a card, stand up.

Think of that card and look at me.

You're going to be trouble. Okay.

Here we go. If you hear your card,
please sit down.

Four of hearts, queen of diamonds, seven
of clubs, jack of spades.

But believe it or not, that's not the
trick I wanted to show you.

Come a little closer.

We had four of hearts, seven of clubs,
jack of spades, queen of diamonds. Go

through this deck.

Take out those cards. If you see those
cards, take them out. Look through them.

Really look. I think you'll find every
one of those cards is gone. But that's

not the trick I wanted to show you.

Look here.

Jacket.

Card box.

Wallet.

Right jacket pocket.

What was your card?

The four of heart.

What was your card?

Seven of love.

What was your card?

In my wallet, queen of diamonds. And
what was your card?

Reach into my right pocket. Pull out
that jacket space. Show it around it.

Oh, that's because it didn't say my
right jacket pocket.

If you look inside your right jacket
pocket, I haven't gone anywhere near

You take that card out. You show it
around. That's fooling mine.

Closer you watch, the bastard's working.

Jason Bishop.

Next.

What would you do if you had a million
dollars?

What would you do if you lost it?

Well, keep an eye on the money. Because
here is Jason Bishop.

You know, probably the most common
question I get asked is, can you make a

million bucks appear? Can you make me a
million dollars appear? And the answer

is yes, but the hard part is you've got
to first make it disappear from

somewhere else, and that tends to get
you in trouble here and there. So we've

asked to have a million bucks on
tonight, and we were able to get this.

pretty cool. So we've got a million
bucks in cash right over here. My

Kim is going to help me out, so she has
to get ready in just a second.

Now, she's not actually allowed to see
how we prepare this money to make it

vanish, but she's going to be underneath
a special RFID blocking cloth. She

won't be able to see. No electronic
device will work underneath that.

Now, money, like a million bucks, isn't
really as big as people think. That's

what it is. It is $10 ,100 bills.

This is a special cabinet. Let me
explain it. The money is going to go in

It locks in two ways.

First of all, that's the inner forward
cabinet.

is the outer rear cabinet.

And although it's kind of heavy, this
forward cabinet can go

right up inside, just like that.

The money goes inside of both.

Wow, that'd be like a car right there.
Okay.

Alimony one.

Alimony two and three.

That's what I'd be left with right
there. So there's some locks underneath

All right. From here on out, I can't
test it. I can't check it. I can't check

at all. Examine if that's how you want
it. That's good?

Okay, cool.

So here's the deal. These are called
test conditions. The box has been turned

around, inspected fully. The platform
and the box are not near the sides of

stage. That way nobody can run on or off
quick.

There's a couple phases to making a
million bucks disappear. Phase one.

It's called recon or reconnaissance. My
assistant, Kim, has to get a little bit

closer to the money.

Phase two is called the signal.

Two knocks from inside.

Inside.

Both boxes, just like that.

And that is how we make a million bucks
disappear, just like that.

Sort of. Because actually, there is a
third phase. The third phase is where

guys get to keep the money, actually. So
this money is for you guys, right here.

That's it. We mixed illusion and reality
tonight. I hope you enjoyed it. Until

next time, I'm Dean Cain. Thank you.