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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.

Welcome to Masters of Illusion. I'm Dean King.

Now, in the imagination, anything can happen. But in real life...

The possibilities are limited, right?

Well, don't be so sure.

See if you can tell whether what you're seeing is real or if you're just

imagining it.

Do you think you can do that?

I bet you can't.

If the mind searches for the unobvious, it can determine secrets of the artist.

So in this silhouette of an African landscape, can you find the animals?

that live here? Well, look closely.

I see a gorilla and a lion.

Well, I promise you our masters of illusion will uncover some hidden

for you tonight.

And now, the wizardry of the dungeon.

Here is Tetra.

Let's go down into the audience for a visit with a young lady who just might

have her eye on your jewelry.

Here is Ana de Guzman.

Hello, what's your name? Cheryl.

Cheryl, I'm Ana.

So lovely to meet you.

I actually wanted to do some shopping real quick.

I was kind of needing a ring.

Do you have one?

Yeah. You do? Can I borrow your ring? Sure.

Do you need it back?

I actually do.

Oh, you do?

I'll make sure to return it back to you then.

This is a very pretty ring, so I promise I won't break it. But this is your

ring. I want you to keep a close eye on it. I don't know if it fits, but watch.

I think I'll keep it.

Some people think it's a trick ring, but it's not. It's actually my fingers.

Watch your ring. It's on my pointer finger, correct? Yes.

Right. Watch. It'll melt through all four fingers.

But the last finger is the hardest.

You can watch it from the back. Ready?

Find a speed spot. One, two,

three. Just like that.

Oh, my gosh. Look at me.

But the hard part is now trying to get it to go through your fingers.

Okay. Okay. Ready? Can you hold out your pointer finger out?

Ready? Yes.

Watch the ring.

Hold it out a little bit further.

Bend. Stay still.

Take the ring.

I'm going to make it go through your finger. Do you feel this?

Watch.

Just like that.

Wait, wait, wait. I'm going to make it disappear.

I'm just kidding.

I'm going to make it reappear and jump onto your shoulder.

Our next performer is going to make one member of our

audience a star.

He has a card trick, but the card is a cue card.

Here is Eric Jones.

What I'd like to do now is give one of you an opportunity to do some magic.

What's your name, love?

Leticia? Guys, give Leticia a round of applause as she makes her way up.

You are about to be the magician for all of these people for the next couple of

minutes. I'm going to have a seat right over here, and I'm going to get you to

read from some cue cards. Okay. And all of the success.

is yours, all right?

Whenever you're ready.

Good evening, everyone.

I will present for you the most amazing trick ever.

Ooh.

For this, I will need a volunteer.

I need a man.

So let me choose someone.

Actually, you. You in the black -collar jacket.

Give him a round of applause, guys.

Please, step right over here.

Please think of any playing card.

Say it.

Five of clubs.

I knew you would name that card.

You don't believe me?

I wouldn't.

Allow me to prove it.

Earlier on today...

I had this funny feeling about one special card, and I placed it

inside an envelope.

This one.

This could be kind of cool.

This could be really cool.

You're the magician. I want you to go ahead and lift the envelope lid.

You'll notice that there's one card inside.

What was your card, bro? Five of clubs.

Pull it out and fill the other.

will make you doubt your senses when we come back.

Ever wonder what happened to that missing sock that got lost in the dryer?

I know I do. But we're about to solve that mystery and I'm excited.

Meet Joshua J.

I need some... Help, and I will use you. Would you mind joining me? Come on up

here. Give him a round of applause.

Hi, what's your name? Dominic. Dominic, nice to have you here. Dominic, strange

question for you.

Are you wearing socks?

Yeah.

Do you mind if I look at them?

Sure.

Dinosaur socks?

My son likes dinosaurs.

Can we borrow your socks?

Yeah.

All right, great. So, Dominic, you're going to sit here, pop off your shoes

your socks. I need them both. And while you're doing that, I have passed out 100

unmatched socks throughout the theater. If you've got socks in your hands, hold

them up right now. Some of you have two or three or five. I would like everybody

with socks to stand up quick as you can, stuff them in the laundry bag. As you

stuff them in, you can mix them around, make sure that you can see that all the

socks are indeed different.

Okay, perfect.

100 unmatched socks, all different patterns and colors, plus Dominic.

Thanks, Dominic.

Thanks for that. I appreciate it.

All right, stand up for me, sir.

Here's how this is going to work. In a moment, you are going to reach in at

random, and in each hand, you are going to grab a sock.

And I hope that despite 100 unmatched socks, you're going to pull out the only

perfect match in the whole bag. That would be an amazing trick, right? Yeah.

Try and act excited, Dominic. Without looking. Without looking, yes.

But we have to raise the stakes. We have to make this somehow more impossible.

So I'm going to say this.

Whatever socks you pull, right or wrong, those are the socks you're going to go

home with from the theater tonight.

Okay.

Best of luck.

So the only thing is you can't look. You have to look away. So we'll start with

your right hand. You're going to reach inside.

Feel all around, but just grab one. When you've got one, put it behind your

back. And now.

Hold out your other hand. And again, Dominic, you cannot go by the smell.

One sock only. Put it behind your back.

And now, do me a favor and please hold up the socks. You've got a perfect

Oh, boy.

Well, you've got a new pair of socks.

I like those. But actually, you just see something impossible.

Because you did manage to find the perfect match. You managed to find

the perfect match to the socks I'm wearing.

Now, Dominic, I'm a man of my word, so you can take these socks home with you,

stick them in your pocket, and think of us when you wear them, mismatch.

But... The question is, what happened to your sex? We have a consolation prize

for you. I don't know if you've noticed this, but under the curtain, under the

sheet, over this way, we have a consolation prize for you. Come back

get to take this home with you. Stand right over this way.

And the consolation prize is my best friend, Andy Gladwin.

Give him a hug.

The cool thing about Andy Gladwin is that he's got a sharp sense of style,

in particular, he's got a killer...

Show it to them. Those are your same dinosaur socks.

We'll let both of you go backstage, switch out socks. Thank you guys very

An impossible prediction by Tommy Wynn.

Okay, you've heard the question before.

Is the hand quicker than the eye?

See if you can tell. Keep focused on the movements of Tommy Wayne.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

So we have a volunteer here from the audience. What's your name?

Annalise. Annalise, a pleasure to meet you. Have we ever met before?

No. I have a bunch of different art paintings here from all different

so we're going to try to do a little experiment with those, but you can't see

them. You see, it's part... of the effect that you don't know what you're

to pick, but they're going to be able to see them, okay?

So we have all different paintings. For example, the Mona Lisa.

Everybody see the Mona Lisa painting right there? Okay. We're going to place

this down right here on the table for just a second. We also have the

okay? Totally different painting. We'll just place that right down over here as

well. And then we also have Dali.

Everybody sees that one? It's very different. And we have a Picasso here as

well, too. The Picasso. And then we actually have another famous...

Painting, the Van Gogh, the Van Gogh painting.

Okay. And then, of course, last but not least, we have the Andy Warhol. Okay. So

we have all of these different paintings.

And the audience is your eyes and ears. It's a little bit opposite this time.

So are all the paintings different?

Yes. See, they're all different. All right. So this is what we're going to

I'm going to actually need you to pick one of these. But first, I'm going to

take one of these and I'm going to place a prediction right there.

Okay, so I'm going to put my prediction and see if my prediction is correct.

We'll just put one there like that, and that'll stay there the entire time. Now,

what I'm going to need you to do is go ahead and put your finger on any one.

They're all different, so just point to any one. That one there, we're going to

move that one to give it to you. You just hold that to yourself, okay?

So now, this was a free choice at random. All the paintings are different,

right? Good. Okay, cool.

So, for the first time, Out loud and showing the audience, what is the photo

that you chose?

Van Gogh.

Well, I don't know if it's the same one I picked, because I actually picked Van

Gogh, too. That was the one that I brought. Wasn't it, Steve Gray? Come on.

Thank you so much. You did a wonderful job. Thank you.

Thank you very much, folks.

Time to go back to our audience to discuss the fears that we all face.

This is more than just simply pick a card.

This is fighting.

We're going to try something with some phobias. I've got a stack of cards over

here and each one has...

One of the most common phobias in the world, things like heights and darkness

and clowns and change and flying. Do you have a phobia?

What is it?

Spiders. Spiders.

It's definitely in here. It's one of the top 50, so it's got to be in here.

There it is, spiders.

Here's what we're going to try. I want to show you guys how phobias work.

Can you hold out your hand for me?

Yeah, that's perfect. I'm ready to do it. Yeah.

I'm going to take a random phobia here, thunder. That is not your phobia,

correct? I'm going to place this inside your hand right there. The thunder is

going to go inside your hand. Now, here's the way phobias work.

Because phobias are so limiting and fear is the most powerful emotion you could

feel, when you think of your fear, just the fact that you said the word spiders

could preoccupy your thoughts.

So much so that magical things can happen. I put a card in your hand that

thunder. But if you focus on that phobia enough, that could change. Take a look.

Turn it over. Take a look.

That's a spider, right? That's a spider. Look at that. Spider.

Let's try this. I'm going to put this spider's card in the middle of the deck,

and I want you to hold your hand out flat again. I'm going to place the whole

deck in your hand. I want you to put your other hand on top like this. Hold

really tight. Put your other hand on top like that.

Exactly. Perfect.

Let's try it. Do you have a phobia?

Closed spaces.

Closed spaces. So claustrophobic? Yes. Closed spaces. Okay. If you focus on

phobia, check this out. If I just snap, don't move the card. Don't grab that top

card. Just the top one because you can actually get your phobia.

Because you focused on it, to jump to the top. It says closed spaces on the

one.

Once again, just don't move. Let me get that top one right there. Yeah, keep it

closed like that. You start going in the middle, but because you're focusing on

it, yours as well jumps right to the top. There it is. Spider.

You know what I mean?

It's you guys.

But here's the thing about seers. They're so limited.

that they can not only replace one thought or our predominant thought, they

replace all our thoughts. You saw 50 cards with 50 different phobias go in

hand. Lower your hands like this for me just a little bit.

Your phobia is spiders.

Check this out. All the thoughts lift your upper hand away.

And that's a souvenir for you to take home.

Next, The Impossible is Made Possible by Ed Alonzo.

What you're about to see is the result of pure serendipity, raw talent, and a

bit of craziness.

This magician had planned on performing the traditional linking rings mystery,

but then he realized he forgot the rings.

So, as they say, there's more than one way.

To skin a cat.

Here's Ed Alonzo.

Thank you so much.

You know, a lot of times when I perform my magic, I need a little table.

I'm also concealing a footstool and a lit candle.

I just blew out the candle.

Don't ask me to produce the stool.

And now I'm going to show you the very first trick that I saw.

It was performed with some rings.

Now these aren't rings. These are giant playing cards. But I'm going to change

them into rings right before your eyes.

Here's how you do it. Like this.

Fold them in half.

Tear a half circle into the center of those three cards.

Ah, there we go.

I'm destroying them.

But when you open them up, there's a big hole in the middle. Now I'm going to

see if I can link these rings together just like the magician did for me years

ago.

I remember I stood there quiet the first time I saw it, too.

Now to take the cards apart, just fold the inside two in half.

Give the middle one a twist, and it slides off like that.

Now I'm going to set this one in the middle, unfold these two, and pass it

across, attempting the fastest link in the world.

One, two, three.

Now, if you want to take the cards apart, it's easy. All you have to do is

them just like this.

That's not very magical, but I can fix that.

All you have to do is take the card, pinch them right in the center like

and they go back one, two,

three.

Now,

I'm going to hand these cards out for examination.

Watch my hands closely, because it's my feet that will be doing the magic.

One for you, one for you, and one for you.

Oh, my.

Well, our time is up.

Don't ask me how they do it. All I can say is they do it very well because they

are the masters of illusion.

I'm Dean Cain. Until next time, thank you so much for watching. We appreciate

you guys being here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right. All right.