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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 Payne and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

I often hear people refer to magic effects as tricks.

But I can assure you that everything that happens on this stage will happen

right before your very eyes. No tricks. Are you ready?

Outstanding. Here we go.

Here are some popular pets.

Which do you prefer?

The bunnies or the cats?

Or do you only see the felines?

Because to me, the bunnies are the most obvious.

But the cats? The cats are surely there.

No question.

Well, tonight you will find that the obvious is what our Masters of Illusion

will create, only to deceive you.

Now it is time for one of the most imaginative magicians we have ever

on Masters of Illusion. He comes to us from Paris, France, and he always

delivers a very unique presentation.

Here is Xavier Mortimer.

Tonight, I'm going to show you how magicians dress up.

Just take a piece of tape and put it like that.

How do I look?

I look stupid.

If you do that, it looks like a tie, right?

But if you do that, it really looks like a tie.

This is how we teach you better Hi What's your name?

Come on

over here Lisa. I

brought something special for you tonight. I brought a hole puncher Can

it for me, please? Just hold it tight.

You're gonna choose a card any card you like to punch Say stop stop here this

one When I say punch, a note before, a note after, you punch.

All right? All right. Ready? And punch.

Good job. And punch.

Good job. And punch.

Good job. And punch.

Perfect. Lisa, now you are going to draw something on the card, anything you'd

like to make it unique.

A little heart.

That's so nice. We have a card with four holes and a little heart that is

unique. Now, watch.

Got four holes.

I'm going to take the first hole.

Put it right here.

Take the second hole. Put it right here.

Take the third hole and slide it right over here.

These are real holes. It's a little illusion.

It's real holes. Look at this. Wait a minute. If I shake the car, they spin to

the outside.

But that's not it.

There's more. There's more. Do you want to see some more?

All right.

Give me your hand just like that.

Perfect. I'm going to give you the first hole. I'm going to give you the second

hole. The third hole, I can put it anywhere, like, for example, on my tie.

it's just not very fashionable.

I'm going to put it on the bottle. It's not a good idea either.

Can you hold it for me like that? Now, you are going to shake the hole. And

I say three, you toss them on the card. Ready? Look at the card. One, two,

three. Go ahead.

There.

Hold back on the card.

These are real holes, and if I shake it, they spin to the outside.

This is your card.

You keep it as it is.

That's it for me. Thank you!

Okay, it's cocktail time, and the man with an ingenious shaker...

is ready to baffle your brain. This is Michael Turco.

Thank you.

Hey, Jackie, how are you tonight?

Good, you having fun? Here at Masters of Illusion? Awesome. Well, I'm going to

have you select any card you want out of this deck of cards, okay? If you could

just go ahead, reach in, grab one, anyone you like.

Perfect. Hold on to that card for me.

Just keep it to yourself for right now. We're going to try something. We're

going to make a drink. What do you say about that?

Oh, yes.

All right, good. So take your card, face it out there to the audience so they

can see it, everyone can see it at home. Awesome.

And then when you're done, I just want you to place it anywhere you like inside

this deck of cards, of course, face down.

In the back? Yeah. All right. Great. We're going to stick it right in there.

Like I said earlier, we're going to make a little drink here.

We're going to take your cards and place them inside this cocktail shaker. Okay.

Okay? Here's the fun part, Jackie.

We're going to listen for your card.

Do you hear it?

I think so. You think so, right? It's got to be in there, right? They're all

there. All right, here we go.

I think I saw.

Here it is. Here it is.

Jack, watch.

Check it out.

Jackie,

now do you remember what your card was?

Do you remember what it was?

You think so? Okay, cool. Check it out. Here we go.

Ready? Tell me. What was your card?

What was it?

Five. Five of them.

Oh, wow.

Beautiful, right?

Thank you so much for helping me out.

Awesome.

He comes to us from Holland. The words amazing and unbelievable hardly scrape

the surface when describing his talents. So I won't even try. This is Hans

Klopp.

Is your mind able to keep up with the antics of Chipper Lowell? Next.

Time now for the remarkable wit of America's fast -talking master of the

impossible. Just introducing him makes me laugh. With him.

With him and at him. This is Chipper Lowell.

Thank you so much. And this is Olivia.

Give it up for Olivia, everybody.

Olivia, nice to have you here. Appreciate it. You came on a great

actually, because today you have a chance to win fabulous prizes.

Yes. Get excited. Get excited.

Jump. Jump.

Okay.

That was very nice.

So we have five boxes that the crew put together. I have no idea what's inside

them, and I have no idea which box is which. They all look alike. Let's mix

up even more if you want. So however you want to do it. That's good.

All right. There we go. Yeah. Let's mix them up however you want to do it. Over

there. Okay. Good.

All right. There. Yes.

Oh, yeah. Okay.

Are we good?

Excellent. All righty. Now, we're going to play a little game.

We are going to take turns back and forth. One of us is going to point to

the boxes.

The other one gets to decide which box we're going to get rid of, okay? So it's

going to go back and forth. Now, do you want to go first or do you want me to go

first? Either way, it's totally fine. I'll go first. You'll go first, okay. So

we're going to put the hat of decision on you, all right? This is very nice

because we're the same height, so it'll be easy.

Okay, so I'm going to point to two boxes. You get to choose first which one

we're going to get rid of, okay? So let's go with these two. Which one are

getting rid of? Which one? Which one?

Oh, this one. Okay. That's going off to the side. Excellent. My turn. There you

go. Point to two boxes, if you would, please.

All right. And let's see.

Let's go with this one. All right. Get rid of that one. It's now your turn.

nice. All right. There we go. Which of the boxes? I pointed to. Let's go there

and there. Which one do you want to get rid of? That one. Okay.

Excellent. And then for me, and there's two boxes left. Try to point to both of

them. Yeah.

Good job. All right.

All right, and let's see, we'll get rid of that one. Now, just so everyone

understands, we took turns back and forth. You decided which one was going

first, the whole nine yards.

Let's see what you won. But before we do, hold on to that. Let's see what you

could have won inside here.

Oh, oh, look at this.

It's a DVD of me performing magic. Oh, oh, and money, money, $5.

Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, that's right. This was not your box.

Okay. Let's see what else you could have won. Oh, look.

It's a fantastic DVD. I highly recommend it.

$10. $10.

But this is not your box.

Let's see what else you could have won. Oh, my goodness. Welcome to Deja Vu

land. Oh, dollar, dollar. Well, you know what? It's good. You didn't win this,

so that's fine. All right. And then let's see what the final one is.

And it is, oh, a DVD.

And inside there, $20.

Oh, my goodness. But again, you didn't win any of those.

That's the one you won. Let's see what you did. Okay.

And, oh.

Oh, my goodness.

It's a DVD.

Look at that.

With the... I'm sorry. You don't have a DVD.

Okay. Well, this will look good on your shelf.

Thank you. Don't give her a nice hand because that was... Wait.

Oh, wait. Hold on.

Hold on. Look at this.

DVD.

Yes.

Excellent. Oh, $10.

DVD and $10. Wait, no. $20.

$30. $40.

$50, $60, $70, $80, $90, $100, everybody.

That is for you. Thank you so much. Give her a nice hand.

Take a bow.

Take a bow.

Next, an impossible prediction by Angela Funneville. When we come back.

Our next performer is not only an accomplished mentalist, but also a

physician. And now, just for the fun of it, here is Angela Funovich.

I have here just a little die. What I'd like you to do is to think

of a number between 1 and 6.

And I want you to indicate that with a die and place your thought of number

up. And once you've done that, I'm going to have you just cover it up with the

cups so that nobody can see. But before you do, I'm going to look away.

I'm going to close my eyes.

And I just want you to let me know once you're finished.

All right.

So if I'm reading you properly, I think you went straight for number six. Is

that correct?

Can you show the die?

She said wow.

But really, that could have just been a 1 in 16. So let's repeat it again.

But again, let me just turn around. I'm going to close my eyes. You go ahead and

choose a new number and cover it with a cup. Let me know once you're done.

So when you look at her, and she twints her eyes a little bit, you can tell

she's a little bit mischievous.

And I don't think you actually changed your number. Is that correct?

Yes. You went straight for number six again.

Okay.

I actually do want you to change it this time, though.

However, I won't be the one who's going to read you.

Derek, your name was?

Derek.

is going to listen to the voice in his own head and tell you what your number

is. But wait, we're both going to turn around and close our eyes first, okay?

So go ahead and do that. Please do pick a new number.

Are you all done?

Okay, now Derek, face straight ahead.

I'm going to have you close your eyes.

I'm just going to touch your forehead.

Do this for me. I want you to take your hands, cover up your ears, plug your

ears, and I want you to listen to the voice in your head and just wait to

actually hear that voice. Good.

And go ahead and unplug your ears.

And so, Derek, be honest.

You heard something in your head just now, correct?

I did, yeah. A number, correct?

What was the number?

Four. Is that the number you chose?

Yeah. Show the guys.

Amazing

is

the only way to describe Ben Black when we come back.

Astounding is the best way to describe our next performer.

He perfected his craft in Springfield, Missouri, and perfection is what it must

be every single time.

Please welcome the rare talent of Ben Black.

Thank you.

Four, that's six. I need someone from the audience.

Don't have to be afraid.

You're not in any danger.

What's your name? Sarah. Sarah. Would you please join me on stage?

Guys, Sarah.

Be very careful. As you can see, there's five crossbows. They're all cocked and

loaded, and they're all aimed right over there at that target. I'll be standing

right there in the center where that heart is. There's five levers. Each one

goes to one of these crossbows.

There's a string that's tied to this lever that goes in this funnel and then

throughout this funnel tied randomly to one of these crossbows.

I don't know which one goes to which one, and neither do you.

Once I'm over there, I'm going to give you the command to select one of these

numbers. They can be any order at random, whichever one that you select.

Once you do, you're going to take the number off and place it down below.

When you do that, we know which ones have been fired and which ones have not.

So,

are you up for it?

Sure.

All right, Sarah, there's five options. You're only going to pick four.

Look at the numbers.

Whichever one that you'd like to pull first, pull that number off and place it

below.

Okay? On my command, you will pull it back very slowly and very gently.

Are you ready?

Pull it now.

That's a good choice.

Okay.

Now, there's four more choices. You're only going to pull three.

Look at the numbers.

When you see a number that calls to you, I want you to select that number, pull

it off, and place it below as well.

Number five.

Let's see what happens. Now, on my cue, you'll pull it back very slowly.

Ready?

Now, go.

That was close.

Okay. Three more choices.

Doing good.

Look at the numbers.

Whichever one's left, I want you to select that number by pulling it off and

placing it below.

Number one.

Okay. On my command, pull it back very slowly.

Ready?

Go.

Very good.

Now this is where it gets very interesting.

There's only two choices.

You're only going to pick one of them.

This one's very important.

Look at the numbers very closely.

Whichever one is calling to you, I want you to select that number and place it

below.

Number four.

Let's see if that's our lucky number.

On my command.

You'll pull it back very slowly.

Ready?

Okay. Now.

Yes.

Thank you.

What?

Wait just a second.

There's one more left.

Let's pull it together. What do you say? All right. Cool. All right.

Number two.

Put your hand on mine.

On the count of three.

One, two, three.

Sarah.

Thank you so much.

We hope you enjoyed this edition of Masters of Illusion. I know I did. And

sure to join us next time.

So until then, I'm Dean Cain. Good night.

All right.