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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, good evening.

I'm Dean King 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.

So what happens when you see something that your mind is convinced cannot be

possible?

Are you ready to find out?

Okay.

You'll see it, but you probably won't believe it. Here is a mind -bending

illusion from Alex Ramon.

Outro Music

Thank you.

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.

Trish, give it up for Trish, everybody.

How are you, Trish?

We're going to try a little experiment to see if we can connect.

mind -to -mind like twins do, you know? They can always finish each other's

sentences and kind of know what each one is thinking. So we're going to see if

that works with us, even though we've just met.

Would you do me a favor? Hold on to that. You've got that and a dry erase

I've got this. Now we're going to back -to -back, okay? So back -to -back, just

like that. Excellent. And we're going to come up with something, a four -legged

animal, any four -legged animal in the entire world. Put that down. I'll put

mine down. We'll see if it's a match, okay? And when you are done, just let

me know.

I'm done. You're done?

Okay. Well, turn around. Show it to everybody. What did you get?

Let me see. You can turn back this way. Yeah.

Oh, giraffe.

Okay.

Giraffe.

Four legs.

Oh, I'm so sorry. The neck got tangled up. There. That's the... Okay. Maybe

didn't work. Okay. You know what? No, no. That was fine. Here. Take that.

that. I'll erase this one. We'll try this again. And this time around, let's

go... Let's get even more random. You know, take these and throw them in the

audience. They love gifts.

Okay. There we go. Okay.

Back to back. And this time around, we will do a two -digit number. All right?

And let's see if we match that.

Okay. And, oh, wow. All right. All right.

Okay.

All right. All right. Do you have one? Yes. You do?

Okay.

Back around. Back around. And what did you get? Show it to everybody.

Let me see.

14.

14. I got red.

That was, boy, this is nice.

Okay. No, that's all right. You know what? I'll take one. We'll do this

You take the second one. Why did I call it the second one? That was, oh, one,

two. That would be the second one.

That would be three.

That would be four, five, six, seven, eight, uh -huh,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.

14 right there. All the rest of them.

Oh, we spent on red.

You did awesome.

Thank you so much. Thank you, guys.

We'll be right back with a super quick hand of Nick Dopey.

Watch and listen closely to our next magician.

A man of quick deception.

Hold your breath and pay close attention to Nick Dopich.

How you doing?

Great. Great. What's your name?

Fern. Fern. How you doing? Nick. Pleasure. Good. And you are? Rebecca.

All right. Rebecca. Fantastic. All right. Good. Obviously starts off with

just picking a card, Rebecca.

All right. Hold out a finger for me.

Good choice. Wherever you want.

All right. All right.

Go ahead. Take the card. Take the card. Show it around, everybody. Make sure

everybody sees it.

All right. Including Fern. Go ahead and keep back to yourself.

All right. Now, here's what we're going to do. I would like to do, Rebecca, I

want you to take that card. I want you to slide it back in that mess wherever

you want.

How does he do it? I don't know.

All right.

We got it?

Fantastic. All right. Good.

Okay.

That was good, Rebecca.

That was actually really good.

Well, shoot, that was actually really good. You got it all the way in.

Now I've got to go looking for it, I guess.

Now, obviously, this is misdirection right now. I'm acting like I lost the

I didn't lose the card. I'm acting like I lost the card. What I did was, as I

was doing this, I memorized the entire order of the pack of cards. I rain

-manned it, just like that. You buying that?

Okay, a little encouraged would be nice, but whatever.

What that means is I know where all the cards are. You tell me what that card

is, I can tell you exactly where it is. What was the card?

King of...

Heart. Okay, good.

Fantastic.

The easy part.

All right, so king of hearts. Is that correct?

All right, good. Have you ever seen a mark deck before? No? Good. All right,

good.

The king of hearts, you said? The king of hearts. You said the king of hearts?

Yes. Is that the one underneath my drink?

I wasn't sure if that's what we were talking about. Okay, just making sure we

already had it. I know exactly. Ah, something did happen with it. Something

happen with it. I know, right?

I know. Isn't that fun?

Fern, go ahead and name a card. Name any cards you want.

Ace of spades.

Clever. All right.

All right. Now here's what we're going to do. You're going to do the trick this

time. All right. You're going to do this thing. Okay. You're going to get it on

the glass. All right. I feel like we need to practice this for a second. All

right. So here, just go like that. Set it on it. Okay.

Yeah. Both hands. That's perfect. It looks like that's not going to be subtle

all.

All right. Now, what card did you want, though? Ace of spades. The ace of

spades. Absolutely. You guys already saw this coming, obviously. The ace of

spades. She already got it. She already got her neither thing, right? I know.

Exactly.

I love it.

And I know. Isn't it good? She's so good.

Because everybody thinks it's the king of hearts under the glass. But to be

fair, it is.

I know, right? It is under there. Okay. I didn't know if anybody... Okay, good.

Black jam.

All right, good.

Now, here, I'll tell you. Just go ahead and pick a card.

Perfect. All right, good.

Show it around, everybody.

Now we're going to find that card.

We've got 48 more to go, and then you guys can get out of here, okay?

All right.

All right.

Go to the place right back here in the pack, exactly where I want you to.

Perfect. Very important to the trick. All right, good.

All right, now.

Now we're going to find Fern's card doing this very distracting shuffle,

is this one right here.

Looks cool, right, John and Rebecca?

Now, if I did that correctly, hopefully I did, we can actually get Fern's card

to come from the middle of the pack and end up all the way up here on top of the

deck. Was that it, the three of diamonds?

None of you care? You're looking at the glass. Okay, look.

This was amazing what I just did, just to be clear.

Here, fine, there, there. I did it. I did it. King's under the glass. I did

thing. Everybody happy? Okay, good. Fantastic.

Getting blocked by my own tricks, for God's sake.

Here's what we're going to do. We're going to get rid of it. All right, we're

going to get rid of it. All right, no more king. No more king. Okay,

too distracted. No more king. Everybody good?

All right, we're going to continue on using the three of diamonds.

Okay, yeah, yeah, that's the king.

I know, right?

Which means, what's in my pocket, Tarantino?

Three of diamonds. Three of diamonds is in the pocket. Thank you all very much.

I genuinely appreciate it. Thank you guys very much.

Thank you very much, Phil, and I appreciate it. Rebecca, you have a great

You guys have a good night. Thank you very much.

Cheers.

Our next performer brings an extraordinary illusion for life right

eyes. Here is Marie Dacha.

Let's get going.

I love puzzles, but I cannot stand this one. This thing since the 1980s has

bothered me. I could never solve it. Never. I could never solve it. So we're

going to try something fun because it's such a challenging little puzzle. So I'm

going to send you an email, okay? Is that okay? I'm going to have you put

email address in my phone right there.

Here we go. All right. Put your email address.

The last four digits of your social.

Did you send it? Yes. Great. That's all I want you to do. And then let me know

on your phone when you get the email. Don't open it, but just let me know when

you get the email on your phone. That's it.

Okay. Do you have it? Yes. Don't look at it. Put your phone down.

That's it.

That's what we want to do. Rubik's Cube.

You ever use one of these?

Yes. Excellent. Check it out. Mix it up.

Excellent. Go on. Mix it up. No, keep going. I have an hour.

I don't know if you guys do or not. I don't think the show does.

All right. Good.

You have that?

Yes. All right. Put it down. Do you have one more spin here?

Is that where you're at?

That's the cube. You mix it up. Of course, I can't solve these things.

I sent you an email. Yes. Okay.

Open up the email.

And I sent you a picture of the Rubik's Cube before I came in. I sent a picture.

And I want to see.

How close my picture is to the prediction I emailed you. Great. Have a

Okay. I see it.

Should I show everyone else? Show everybody.

Okay. Does it match?

It matches 100 % exactly.

Check that out, everybody. You guys can't really see that, but it's actually

matching. It's incredible.

It's incredible.

And there you go. Phil can't do the Rubik's Cube.

of Impossible Prediction by Kent Axel when we return.

And if you can keep up with the deceptive moves and mind maneuvering of

York's Kent Axel.

Thank you so much.

Now, I am a mentalist, which means that I use deception to try to read.

minds, or at least pretend to, but I want to see if you guys can pick up on

something that I'm thinking. Okay, so what is your name?

Romina. Romina, nice to meet you, Romina. My name is Kent, and? Angel.

Angel, nice to meet you. Okay, Angel has caught a randomly thrown out paper

ball, and he has selected Romina on the way up. I'm going to write down a two

-digit number on this card, and one of you will guess the number exactly.

I promise, just trust me. Okay, just go with it, just go with it. First, I need

to ask a quick question.

Just... Any color in the rainbow, like red or yellow, just think of one. Okay,

say it out loud.

Blue. Blue, that's perfect.

And Romina, for you, okay, we do live in divisive times, so I want to make sure

that this will work. There's one question that divides people nowadays.

When you hang your toilet paper, I know, don't judge her.

All right, everyone's got their right answer for this. When you hang your

paper, do you do it forward, beard style, or back, mullet?

Back. In the back?

All right. No, don't judge.

Don't judge.

Okay, I think I know all I need to know. So will you guys take one step forward?

I'm going to take a step back. No cheating.

No cheating.

Actually, nope.

No cheating for you guys. A two -digit number.

All right.

Romana, I want you to guess first.

Four.

Four is not a two -digit number.

47.

47. Okay.

Angel, I'll have you guess now.

27. 27.

Okay. You were actually closer, and so we can give him a nice round of applause

and send him back to his seat. Thank you very much, Angel.

Will you hold your hand out flat like a table, just like this? Hold your hand

out flat. Good.

Now, I wrote down a two -digit number on the card. You guessed a number. What

was the number that you guessed?

47. 47.

I said that one of you would guess it exactly.

Flip it over and tell people right out loud. What is the number that I wrote on

the card? Go ahead.

What was it? Right out loud. Forty -five. Forty -five.

Sorry.

Still a good trick.

All right.

Really close.

Thank you.

You can go.

Oh, no. This is for you. A souvenir of your magical experience here.

No, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Now, some of you will have already realized, and I think that you did as

that this is not just a card upon which Kent will write incorrect two -digit

numbers. No, no. This is, in fact, an envelope.

So will you please open that up? You were only off by how many? What was it?

Two. Two. Okay.

So she was closer than you, fortunately.

Now, there's a card in there, just one thing. It has a prediction written

a message just for you. Will you go ahead, open it up. Read that to yourself

first. Go ahead. To yourself.

Good. That's the face I was looking for. All right. Now, write out loud so that

everyone can hear you.

The lady's guest will be closest.

Her guest will be off by two.

Give her a big round of applause.

Thank you very much. You can go back and see. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

thank you, thank you. And also, come back on stage. You have that paper ball

that I tossed out before. You've been holding that since the beginning,

Good. I'd like you to just open that up. What color did you say?

Blue. There was a message written on there for you, too.

The word blue.

All right. You were part of this, man. You were part of this. All right. Thank

you very much, Angelo. It's been a pleasure.

Next, the always amazing sleight of hand of Sean Jay.

It seems nowadays that everyone is health -oriented, looking for anything

will improve our possibilities for a longer and healthier life.

Well, our next performer has some personal hints to help us.

Although... Well, this is Sean Jay.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

So being a traveling entertainer has its pros and its cons, and one of them is

the food. Thankfully, I grew up as a vegetarian.

True story.

And being a vegetarian teaches you a lot of things, like how to pack a healthy

snack. So let's say you're at a party or something and they have alcoholic

beverages. Well, I like to bring something healthy, like water.

Yeah.

But what if you want something green and healthy? Well, I've got just the thing

for you.

It's not what you're thinking.

See that?

Check this out.

These are healthier than you think.

Are you able to see this okay over there? Yeah?

I like some vegetables in my diet.

And this piece of celery will do just fine. But what if you're craving

sweet? I got just the thing for you.

Here we are.

Nature's perfect source of vitamin C.

Yeah.

So now, is there somebody out there that maybe brought a purse with them to the

theater tonight?

You did. Okay. Mind if I take a look at your purse for a second?

I mean, I am a magician after all.

What's your name?

Terry Linnae. Terry Linnae. Nice to meet you, Terry Linnae.

Thanks.

No, I'm not going to take your stuff.

I'm just going to check something.

My hands are empty.

Take a peek in here.

Oh, you got one of those. I was doing a show in New York City the other day, and

you wouldn't believe what women keep in their purses. I mean, this one woman,

she actually had a mousetrap inside of her purse.

What did you tell me?

I don't think the mousetrap was in there to protect your valuables. It was to

protect the one thing that she didn't want me to see, the one unhealthy snack

that she was keeping in there.

Honestly, was this in your purse prior?

I think this belongs to you, but I'm going to stay gluten -free.

That's for you, and thank you for letting me borrow your purse. Yes?

Great, yes?

The moral of the story is this. It doesn't matter.

what you eat, whether it be celery or sandwiches.

All I know is that I highly recommend that you consume at least five to

eight cups of vegetables and fruits every day.

And that's how you stay healthy on the go.

All right, that's it for this edition of Masters of Illusion.

We hope you'll join us next time for more amazing magic.

Until then, I am Dean Cain.

Thank you for watching.