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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 everyone, I'm Dean Payne and welcome to

Masters of Illusion. Now our brains process information from all of our

And if something doesn't seem to add up, if it doesn't make sense, we tend to

reject what our senses are telling our brains.

We're all going to challenge our brains to make sense of things that I promise

you do not add up.

Are you ready for the challenge?

All the way from South

Korea, here is a man of many talents.

Tonight, he brings us some card magic.

Watch him very closely. He is deceptive. Please welcome the very charming Jackie

Yu.

Our next magician is willing to challenge anyone to help her perform a

task. Do not try this at home.

Please watch Ana de Guzman.

Thank you so much for helping me. What are your names?

Leanna. Leanna. Solomon.

Solomon and Amber.

My name's Ana.

I actually brought something for you guys.

Be careful, it's a...

It's a pointy, dangerous fishing hook.

Now, it's attached to the end of one of these strings.

I don't want you to know which string it is, which is why I'm holding it like

this. So in a moment, I'm going to give you guys the job of pulling as hard as

you can on each of these strings, one by one.

Okay? And for my sake, I hope you don't choose the one it's attached to.

That's a little first.

Okay.

Just one. Just one, right? Yep.

Tell me when.

Oh.

You know.

Me? Yep.

This one,

yeah?

Okay.

Ready?

Have

you

ever seen a magician do two tricks at one time?

Well, you're about to see exactly that. From Tokyo, Japan.

Welcome our Far East Phenomenon, the always inscrutable Shoot Ogawa.

Let's do magic together.

Yeah, just do that.

All right. So now I would like to do some magic, but I want to try to do two

magic tricks at the same time.

Okay.

You're very interested about this. That's good. All right. But I'm not

do rope tricks and side tricks together, but I need your help. Could you take

one card out from here, but don't turn over the card. Just, you know, keep the

face down and put it on the table, please.

Okay, there we go.

Okay, very good. So now I want you to remember this card this way. All right,

you got it?

And show it to everyone like that.

Got it? Yeah?

But it's hard to watch from there. But yeah, I'm going to do a card trick.

So this is the idea. I want to try to do two card tricks at the same time.

So here in the middle.

I want you to remember that card. Do you remember that card? Yeah, okay.

I have this rope here, and today I want to do magic here and here. Okay? So I

make two pile like this way.

I like really complicated magic.

I hope you do as well.

Okay, so I use this card here, and today I want to show you one of the classic

magic. I shuffle the card like this, face up and face down like this way. So

it's kind of interesting, just like that. Okay, I wear the card like this,

you can see it's middle of shuffle. Not yet, but almost.

Okay, this side is a little bit simpler. This is complicated.

It's simple. I use two cards.

Okay, three and three is good. So I put this card here, and I just do this. One,

two, three.

Okay, so far few people care about this. That's good.

Alright, so now two things happen together. But watch, if it's your card,

good trick.

But if I shuffle card like this, this is something special too. It's

complicated, very simple.

Okay, so watch. I am going to flip over situation.

So means I flip over the card. Now this card is more complicated. So I shuffle

face up, face down.

What? Wait, wait, wait. I flip over the situation too. You can see this side is

actually the whole face except the two cards. It's very strange, isn't it?

I swapped the place.

Actually,

I'm working harder than you think. Okay, so it's complicated. This is like a no

really exact connection.

But this side is not complicated as you think.

Actually, this card looks like a mix so much, but if you see the other side,

actually there's a pattern. Because you can see all cards are clubs.

Eight, two, three, four, five, six, seven, no eight, nine, ten, jack, queen,

king. Your card must be the eight of clubs.

And also, this one should be the card, eight of clubs.

Let's do it again.

The impossible is made possible by Jason Bishop.

Imagine a pile of cinder blocks and a man passing directly through them.

Well, you won't have to imagine it because our next magician is going to do

right now. It's Jason Bishop.

Harry Houdini premiered the brick wall in 1915 in New York City. He did it for

one week.

And then he never performed the brick wall illusion again.

On stage, brick masons would assemble an actual brick wall.

He would step behind the wall. He would shout, here I am.

And his hands would lower.

And he would say, here I go.

And apparently...

What happened next was absolutely unbelievable.

And that is why nobody knows the reason that Harry Houdini suddenly stopped

performing that amazing illusion after only one week.

What we do know is that it's 105 years later, and I'm going to perform it for

you right now.

Now, now, it's on the way. Now, help this,

heal this, and the way you feel.

Next, the always amazing sleight of hand of Eric Jones.

Our next performer is an award -winning sleight of hand magician from

Philadelphia. He has an amazing ability to astound everyone with his close -up

magic. He's fooled me a lot of times. Ladies and gentlemen, here is Eric

Jeff Poole.

You got to get your own trip. Come on over. Come on over.

What's your name?

Julianne. Julianne. Good to meet you. I'm Eric. And?

Steve. Steve. It's a pleasure. Here you'll see I've got four really old

Liberty American half dollars. I encourage you to take a look at the

sure they are exactly what they seem to be. Eric Jones.

Fantastic. It's close -up magic. Right in front of your face.

I've been on several shows with him. Right in front of my face.

No idea.

The first question, sir, will be for you.

I want you to tell me, can you see four coins on the hand? Yes.

Folks, watch.

Would you like to give this a shot?

Yes. Would you mind opening the palm of your right hand towards your audience

like this and allow your middle finger and thumb to slowly come together.

Turn the hand at the wrist and then bring that hand directly above the

just like so.

Take your left hand, turn it palm up, and place it about six to eight inches

under the right hand.

I'm holding these two coins at the edge. That way I can't manipulate them in any

way. If you don't mind opening your middle finger and thumb like I'm doing,

I'll have you grab these two.

Have you got a good grip?

Excellent. Here's what's going to happen.

In a moment, I'm going to have you drop those two coins onto the palm of your

hand, but it will be very important that you catch them. Are you ready?

One,

two, three,

four.

This means nothing.

I can tell by the applause.

It means nothing unless, unless there's one, two,

three coins here.

One coin left to go. Steve, could you

open your right hand for me?

I'll move as slow as I can. That's one,

two, three, and four. Steve, can you see four coins on the palm of your hand?

Please, show your left hand empty.

Use your left fingers to gather those coins from the center of your palm like

stack of poker chips.

And then show your left hand empty once more.

Use just your left middle finger and thumb. Take only that top coin by the

edges. Place it here on the palm of my hand.

Just the top one. And then close your hand tightly around the other.

Folks, watch the last coin.

Please, dump those coins onto the table. How many have you got? That's one, two,

three, four.

Give these guys a round of applause.

Thank you so much, brother. I really appreciate you, man. Thank you so much.

Guys, be careful on the way back to your school.

Next. Amazing is the only way to describe Alex Ramone.

We've all seen a beautiful woman disappear, but making a beautiful woman

out of literally nowhere, that's a challenge, and one that I want to learn.

Please welcome Alex Ramone.

Hi, what's your name? Andrew. Andrew, everybody say, hey, Andrew!

Andrew, say, hey, everybody!

Hey, guys.

Andrew, I brought you up here because I'm going to read your mind, but before

do... We have a little work to do. All right?

Andrew, hop in.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Andrew, go to that side. There you go.

We're good right here. Stand right here. Face your audience because I want you

to examine this piece of plexiglass.

Hit the front and the back of that piece of plexiglass. Make sure it is

absolutely solid. Is it solid, sir?

It is. These pieces of plexiglass slide right inside this frame, this back

piece. I'll help you with the front piece. Just one second.

You got it?

Yep. Hold on to that end right there.

We'll launch it, lift it up high. It's going to slide right inside the frame.

All the way in.

Great job. Another piece to take a look at is the side piece to slide right

inside the frame, just like the front and the back.

Each piece of plexiglass, about a half inch thick, obviously absolutely solid.

Slide that inside yourself.

Excellent job.

Stand right there, Andrew.

Face everybody.

Next piece is the bottom. I want you to take a look at the bottom piece right

here. Hit the front and the back of the bottom.

Solid? Solid.

There you go.

Grab that end right there. Lift it up high. Lift it up high. And you can let

of your end now.

Let go. Very good. Bottom piece goes on the bottom. Final piece is, of course,

the top. Now, the top does have a hole in it.

And you will see why in just one moment.

Let's take it for a spin.

Six pieces of plexiglass. A completely solid box. And I'm still... Yeah, you

to keep going with it, Andrew.

And I'm still trying to read Andrew's mind, which is impossible.

Andrew, where are you from, man?

LA. LA.

All right.

Did you want to help out or what?

I thought we were a team here, Andrew.

That's good. That's good. That's good. All right. Great job. That's a good job.

We're coming this way. Come this way.

Stand right here.

Stand right here. There you go.

Very good. I need to borrow something from you. Do you have a cell phone?

I do. Can I have it?

There you go.

Thanks.

You know, magician is the only job in the world where people don't trust you,

and yet I say, hey, can I have your cell phone? Yeah, here.

And they give it to you every single time. They hand it right over, okay?

This is why there's a hole in the top of the box. We use my phone as collateral

in case something happens to Andrew's phone. You never know, but what... What?

I'm actually... I'm getting a call, but I don't recognize this number. Andrew,

what's that say?

My number. Your number. You're calling me. I told you I'd read your mind.

Andrew, help her out!

We hope you enjoyed this edition of Masters of Illusion.

I know I did. And be sure to join us next time.

Until then, I'm Dean Cain. Good night.