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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.

Welcome to Masters of Illusion. I

am Dean Cain.

Conjuring.

Prestidigitation.

Illusion. All terms to describe magic as a form of art, as entertainment.

Well, I think you'll agree that when you see what you're about to see, that the

magicians here this evening are truly artists.

Are you ready to see some artists?

Well, here we go.

Okay, in this illustration, is the white line on the same plane with the blue,

the red, the yellow, or the green line?

If I drew a straight line across.

Actually, it is the yellow line.

Ooh. Well, our masters of illusion will bend your ability to determine fact from

fiction tonight.

Our next performer is a master of fast talk and charming deception.

You probably wouldn't want to buy a used car from him. Just a piece of advice.

Here is Chipper Lowell.

Yes!

Ah, it's so nice to be here. Do me a big favor and give it up for our studio

volunteer, Liz!

Liz, you are all set. You've got the goggles, safety vest, the bag. You're

ready. It's time to release the bees.

Okay, no, no.

We're actually going to release the money, okay? Big, giant money. So get

hands up there. When I bring them down, that's when you start.

Here we go!

Rooter on, everybody!

Excellent. You're doing great.

Keep going.

Almost. Yeah.

You're doing fantastic.

All right. A couple more. We're going to do a dance on.

Five, four, three, two, and one.

Yeah. Give it up for her. She's doing fantastic.

All right. Let me bring this down.

All right.

Come on in. There you go. All the way out.

You are doing great.

Come on forward. Let me take that off you.

And give her another big hand. Let's hear it for her. You did fantastic.

Yeah. Wow.

And you got a lot of money.

You did really, really good.

Okay. I'm going to pour that out. Reach in there. Just grab it all. Put it into

the bowl.

All right. Good job.

Good job.

Is that it?

Just a couple. You got it. I'll crunch them up. Good for you.

All right. Let's see what you got. We're going to count it up on the tray. We

have 100. You can go and help me, too.

This is the most exciting part of the show right now.

Yes.

Masters of accounting.

Okay. You got it. We got another one.

Excellent. You got a five. You got a 50. Oh, you're doing good. Give it up for

that. Yeah.

All right. And a couple more.

Hundreds. There we go. And one more is a 50. I think you did good. Give it up.

That was great.

Let's count up how much you got here. So starting with the hundreds, everybody,

we have 100, 200, 300, 400.

The 50s would be 450, 5, 556, 650.

And then the 20s would be 670, 690, 750.

$110, $715, $720, and that's $21, $22,

$23, $24, $25, $26, $27, $28, $29.

You did fantastic. Let's write that down.

$729.

There you go. Hold it proudly. Give it up for she did great.

See, you know what? You did so good that I'm actually going to give you a crisp

$1 bill for helping out today. And it's legit. You can use it anywhere. It's got

my photo on it. So there you go.

Wait a minute. Wait, wait. Was it $7 .29?

I feel like I've seen that somewhere before.

Like, seriously, that exact amount.

No, it's been written somewhere. That exact. Oh, this is going to blow your

mind. Ladies and gentlemen, that exact amount.

Give it up.

I'm a miracle. I'll do that to myself.

Okay. It actually gets more amazing because I didn't show you the top of the

table. Ladies and gentlemen, $749.

Yeah. Magic

is

the combination of perfect timing and unexpected surprise.

Well, both of these elements are the trademark of this magician.

Here is Michael Turco.

Well, good evening, masters of illusion. I'm Michael Turco. I grew up on the

Jersey Shore. We all know the Jersey Shore, right?

Well, I sat in this big lifeguard stand and I just stared into the ocean.

That was my summer job.

And I dreamt every day that one day I'd make it on the stage.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, check this out. Raise the claw.

As I sat in this big lifeguard stand.

I dreamt that one day I'll be able to bring my life back to stand everywhere.

Drop it!

Well, raise the cloth one more time.

Bring it up, bring it up.

I wouldn't be complete without some Jersey Shore bait, right?

Drop it!

Ha ha!

Hi, girls.

Let's go to our audience camera and the lightning fast talent of Macon Fane.

I want to show you something with just a wee bit of magic. Watch, if I click my

fingers like this, something happens. Look at that.

Isn't that cool?

Isn't that amazing? Now, here, go and pull on that. Nothing happens when you

pull on it, right? It's just a ball. But watch, if I just give it a flick at

just the right angle, you get another one. Here, hold on to this one over

You can feel it. It really doesn't do anything. All right, but watch if I take

a... Actually, you've got another one right over here behind your ear.

Perfect.

Watch, so this is the... One,

two... Three, if you have that. Three sponge balls, but you know what you get

when you multiply a sponge ball times a sponge ball times a sponge ball?

A sponge ball cube.

That's all. Yeah, there you go.

Thank you very much.

That was good.

Now, laugh at the unbelievable talent of Murray Dodgson.

If you ever go to a park and you're not sure what to bring the host, Our next

magician has some interesting ideas.

Here is Murray Sodcha.

Don't listen to him.

Thanks so much, you guys. I am so honored to be here. I see a lot of you

at me, and I know exactly what you're thinking. And I can answer it. There is

not a pomeranian on my head.

It's my hair.

You know, this jacket, you guys like it?

It's a brand new jacket. You ever get new clothing, you cut tags off, and

there's a pin that pokes you like a piece of plastic that you wear out all

night? Is there a tag hanging off the back of this?

Now, there's a pin poking the heck out of me.

I don't know if you guys see.

Not this pin right here.

There's not a tag, though, is there?

That is so frustrating.

Oh, wait.

That's a pin. That is so frustrating.

You really feel it.

I always open my show, too, with my magic kit. And I got my stool.

And, of course, I got my briefcase.

And I always do this here and just get this out of the way. That's kind of,

on. That's it.

Okay.

That's all I got.

know there's a big surprise in store every time I introduce this Las Vegas

illusionist. Ladies and gentlemen, Tommy Wynn.

All right.

How are we feeling, everybody?

Good? All right.

Tonight, I brought along a costume trunk. Can we spin it around? Let's show

the entire trunk.

You see, for years, shows have been using similar trunks to store their

costumes. Let's open it up and show them what's inside the box.

And right now, there is actually absolutely nothing inside the box

doing a show. The costumes are out of the box. So let's close it up. And I'm

going to borrow somebody from the audience who wants to help me out.

want to help me out?

What's your name right there?

Kirsten. Everybody give Kirsten a big round of applause.

How are you, Kirsten? Right over this way. I have a bunch of dresses here.

are some costumes that we would normally use.

In a magic show. Now, as you can see, I have eight different colored costumes.

Go ahead, just pick two of the costumes for me. Any two that you'd like. Doesn't

matter which one. Okay. That one and one more.

And that one. Perfect. All right. What I'd like you to do is I'd like you to

choose one of those costumes. The costume that you choose, we use. Go

Either the blue or the yellow. It's completely up to you.

I'll go with the yellow. The yellow one. Okay. We're going to go with the yellow

one. Could you please put the blue right back on the rack?

Ladies and gentlemen.

We're going to do something really cool with the yellow dress that Kirsten just

chose and our costume trunk. Ladies, let's open up the costume trunk.

All right, here we go.

All right, and spin it around.

Keep an eye on that costume trunk.

Something really cool is about to happen. Check this out. All right, let's

it up.

because inside of the costume is Daisy wearing the yellow dress.

That's all I want.

Come on, let's hear it for cancer one more time.

Thank you so much.

Up next, an impossible prediction by Andy Blatt.

performer is ready to challenge you, but not without the offer of some special

prizes. Pay attention to the directions of Andy Gladwin.

This is no longer a magic show. Instead, this is a game show. I'm your host,

Andy Gladwin, and tonight we will be playing a game with six participants,

will predict not only who wins the game, but what prize they win, too. So

tonight's first contestant is in our audience here. Hi there, what's your

Johnny, would you come up and help me? All you have to do is stand in front of

any one of these six colored balloons. You have a complete and free choice.

Stand in front of one of those six balloons.

Go for it. You're infecting our balloons. Perfect.

Okay.

You happy with that one?

You're settled on the red for the red.

Well, the one thing I didn't tell you is this is a psychic game show, because I

made a prediction before we started the show, and I knew that you would pick the

red balloon.

But we need a few more players to play the game, so we have a few more people.

Come on on, guys. And I'd like each of you to stand in front of a balloon for

me. That's great.

Fantastic. Hi. Welcome, everybody.

Perfect. So now we need to get to know all of you, so we'll go down the row.

like you to tell us all your names. So we'll start with you.

I'm Christy.

Christy?

I'm Johnny.

Kenzie. Marilyn.

Demetrius. Sydney.

Perfect. Welcome to the game. Now, I'm going to make a prediction of who I

is going to win our psychic game show. While I'm doing that, I want you all to

think about what prize you would like to win if you win the psychic game show.

So any prize you like, give it some thought, and I will predict the winner.

I think this should be it. I'll leave.

The prediction here the whole time so everybody can keep an eye. And here's

the game show starts.

It's a simple game of three elimination steps.

All you have to do is decide whether or not you follow along.

So step one says, any three people pick up your balloon.

So decide amongst yourselves, but any three of you pick up your balloon right

now.

Okay, everybody happy?

Does anybody here want to change their mind with somebody else?

No, let's carry on. Step number two says, if you picked up your balloon,

you're out of the game. I tried to give you a chance to change your mind, but

you didn't. You may return to your seats. Everybody will give you a round

applause.

The three people that picked up their balloon, you must return to your seats.

That includes you, I'm afraid, return.

Thank you very much.

But the step continues. It says, of the remaining three, any two of you hide

your balloon.

Now, when I say hide, I mean you could put it behind your back, in your coat,

whatever you like.

Everybody happy?

The final of the three elimination steps says, if you didn't hide your balloon,

congratulations, you are the winner. That's Christy, right? So you two must

return to your seat. We have a winner?

Everybody give Christy a big round of applause for winning the psyche game.

on over, Christy.

But I said I would make a prediction as to who would win the psychic game show.

I've left it here the whole time. Your name was Christy, which is why I

predicted that Christy would win the psychic game show.

Thank you.

But Christy, there's one more thing we have to deal with.

The prize.

I said you could think of any prize. What prize did you think of?

I thought of a teddy bear. A teddy bear. I know it's silly, but I'm excited. You

could have gone for a holiday to Barbados or a night in Las Vegas, but

thought of a teddy bear.

Yeah. I'm kind of rethinking it now, but I guess I'm... Well, it's too late.

It's too late.

Well, I made one more prediction in my psychic game show, and I knew that you

would select a teddy bear.

And this is for you. I'm going to give it out to Christine.

Thank you, Christine.

Thank you.

Up next, The Impossible is Made Possible

by Francis Menachem.

Our next performer has taken magic as a craft and turned his close -up skills

into dynamic, mesmerizing entertainment.

From Philadelphia, here is Francis Menotti.

What is it?

A chain. A chain, exactly.

You win.

In fact, I'd like you to come on up here for me, please.

And how about you come up here as well?

Please welcome to the stage.

Hi. What's your name?

Kendra. Kendra. Francis. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

And you are?

Alyssa. Alyssa. Nice to meet you as well. Francis.

Kendra, go ahead and turn that key, if you will.

There you go. Functions like it should. Yeah, it opens the lock.

I'd like you to hold on to that key for a moment. That'll be important in just a

couple minutes.

And Alyssa, why don't you give that a tug? Make sure it doesn't pull apart.

chain links don't fall apart or anything. It's a solid chain.

Excellent. I'll take this just in case I need it in a minute.

And if I may, I'm going to have you chain my hands together.

So let's take this, take the end of that right through here.

There you go. Feed it through. You got it.

Pull it nice and taut.

Excellent. And would you take the lock for me, Kendra, and feed it through that

ring. Yeah, exactly. And that link. Perfect. Make it nice and taut. And for

this, we need one more item. Thank you.

Tobias, he has a piece of cloth. Would you hold on to that?

Go ahead and pull, pull, pull, pull.

Excellent. And drop that in right there. Perfect. Hold it nice and taut, like

you're playing a little tug -of -war. Perfect. Right there's great.

This is a K.

Our next Master of Illusion has performed in more than 85 countries

world. Here is Greg Gleason.

Thank you. Thank you very much. It's great to be here. As a matter of fact, I

brought a brand new illusion. In fact, I haven't even had a chance to unpack it

yet. It's still in the packing crate. Would you guys like to see it?

Yeah. All right. Let's just go ahead and take that illusion out.

Perfect. Just go ahead and put it up there. As you can see, this illusion is

of this world.

I'm going to go ahead and open it up so you can see it is an absolutely empty

box.

Empty box.

Now, in order for me to do the illusion, I need to

pack. The packing case. People always say, Greg, what do you do with your

packing cases? Well, I actually pack the packing cases into the illusion.

Check this out.

Let's put that right on.

Perfect.

As you can see, it is an empty packing case, so the illusion

should go right into the illusion.

And there it is, the packing case into the illusion.

And my beautiful assistant, Penelope.

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.