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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, good evening everyone.

I'm Dean Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion. How would you describe an

illusion? You might say it's the impression or the perception.

of something that in reality is not as it seems. So I wonder, are they real or

are they just bending our mind?

Well, I have a feeling we're about to find out.

Are you ready?

These wavy lines seem to jump out of this illustration.

They create motion where actually nothing is moving.

Creating something that only exists in your mind is exactly the intent of our

Masters of Illusion.

You'll find out.

Our next performer comes from Seattle, Washington, and has a very unique

to surprise his targets, catching them completely off guard.

Watch the very clever manipulations of Louis Fox.

Oh. Oh, thank you.

So I'm going to show you the oldest card trick in the world. This trick is so

old, dinosaurs did this to cavemen. Now, I need someone from the audience.

Someone want to help out?

You do? All right. One hand. I like this.

What's your name?

Anthony. Anthony, would you come up? Will you all give Anthony a big round of

applause?

All right. Anthony, you are going to take any one of these you like. Do not

me see it. You're going to show it to the audience.

Go for it. Grab one.

Oh. All right.

Got it?

Show it to them. Show it to them. Show it to them.

Perfect. Show it back here.

Excellent. Perfect.

Hang on to it. I'm going to go grab my dinosaur.

All right?

Slip that in your pocket. I'm going to step backstage.

While I do that, you're welcome to tell a joke or dance, whatever.

What was your turn? Show it to everyone.

That's exactly what I have.

Thank you all.

Originally from England, please welcome the very funny

and pretty talented Nick Lewin.

How you doing?

It is so nice to be here.

Today's copy of the author today.

This fine piece of journalism.

This is what people used to get their news from before they had smartphones.

Watch it closely. You can't argue with hands like these. I've studied the

martial arts.

I have a black belt in origami.

Now watch.

I'm going to create an illusion.

The illusion of tearing this newspaper in half.

Now, I'm not really going to do it.

I'm just going to create the illusion.

It felt pretty convincing.

Tearing it in half.

Or half, as you say. I'm English.

Another rip, another tear. Torn into little pieces. He's got the strength of

Hulk Hogan.

The body of Fred Flint.

Watch the actual pieces of tape.

Torn like that. Ripped into perfectly even pieces.

Pieces. Now you might have seen a magician who could take a newspaper like

They really look torn up, don't they? It's kind of scary.

He could just do this and instantly they restore.

I can't do that.

Actually, I can. I'm going to do it for you. I'm going to do it in slow motion.

And that is the toughest way to fool any audience with any kind of magic.

Because it's the quickness of the hand that deceives the eye. Now watch.

In slow motion, you really may believe that you see that newspaper getting big.

In fact, if you're watching that closely, you might even think you see

torn edges start to blend together.

In fact, you might even think you see that newspaper totally restored, but

could never happen. That would be just an illusion. And this is just today's

couple of the other two guys. Thank you very much, Cindy.

There you go.

Amazing is the only way to describe Richard Turner.

Sometimes we see a performance that is so impressive it takes magic to a whole

nother level.

Our next performer is an inspiration to everyone.

At age seven, he began losing his eyesight, but it never stopped him from

becoming one of the world's most...

Beautiful card technician.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Richard Turner.

Hey.

Let me ask, how many have ever played my favorite game, Seven Cards Studs? Say

yes. Yes.

I want you to see, I have a pack of playing cards. We're going to give them

what's called a casino wash.

And would you please tell everybody your name?

Hi, I'm Alexis. This is Alexis, and your name? Mark.

Mark, Alexis, would you give that deck a shuffle any way you like?

Shuffle up. We'll do the best you can. You're going to be doing a lot of

shuffling, so time to warm up.

Oh, yeah.

That's good. Just set them here when you're happy.

Perfect. There you go. All right. How many have ever played cards for money?

yes. Yes.

Now, we're going to play my favorite game, seven card stud. Mark, pick a

of players, four or five, for time's sake. Let's do four. Where do you want

sit, Mark?

One. Two, three, or four. Pick your position.

Three, always.

Four and three. One, two.

Here's Mark right here, number three.

Now watch this. Alexis, I want you to take these cards and mix them up.

Don't give me the whole deck back. Just pull out a random stack. Just give the

deck a quick mix or cut or whatever you want and put a stack of cards in my

hand.

Alexis is going to do everything she can to screw things up for Mark.

Awesome. We have player one, two, or four. Now we have player one.

Player two, here's Mark right here, number three. Take them back, Alexis.

Mix them all together and hand me any part of the deck you want.

Just hand me any random stack out of that deck.

There you go. That's three cards less than last time.

And we have player four. Now we have what are called the door cards. That

the face -up cards.

Here's one, here's two, and here's Mark. Mark, what's that card?

It's a queen of spades.

The queens are wild. Mix them up, mix them up.

Take them all.

Oh, I love Queens, too.

All right.

And we have player four.

We have player one, player two, player Mark.

What's that card, Mark? Queen of Diamonds.

How is she doing this? Mix them up, take them back, mix them up, mix them up.

Hand me any part of that deck you want. We're playing seven cards stud.

We play high spade in the hole, split the pot. Hand me any random part of that

deck. Ooh, that's four cards less than last time. She's getting sticky.

Sticky around this joint. Player one.

Player one, two. Here's Mark. What's that card?

The king of hearts.

So, yep. Trip kings right now because those queens are wild. Mix them up.

All right. Hand me a stack of cards.

Trying to really mix them up. She's really... Oh, my gosh. She's getting

generous, too.

Player four.

Player one. Player two. You chose number three.

What's that card, Mark?

Ace of diamonds.

Ooh.

Mix them up. This will be the last card. Last card.

Mix them up. Once again, she's shuffling, cutting.

And the point is, even if the deck was face up, and you could see every card

coming off the deck, or if they had a giant embossed A on the A and a K on the

K, to do anything under these conditions would have been inconceivable. And

what's just about heck of it? Switch them with me. You mix up those right

I deal Mark's last card. Right before I deal Mark's last card.

Player three, player four. Put that with the rest of the stack.

Once again, you shuffle the cup.

Four players.

Three to win.

Seven cards done. High spade splits the pot.

What's that card, Mark?

Two of diamonds.

That's not a wild card. What's that?

Ace of diamonds. Ace.

King of hearts. King. Queen of diamonds. Queen. We're going to put it with the

ace because it's wild. What's that?

Queen of spades. So that equals three aces.

What's that card?

Ace of spades. That's half the pot.

Ace of spades. High spade in the hole.

What's that?

It doesn't matter because you have four aces high spade in the hole.

But you shuffled, you cut, you chose how many players, you chose where you

wanted to sit. All I did was cheat.

Let's turn our focus now on our audience camera and the close -up manipulations

of a master from Tokyo. Please welcome Japan's Shoot Ogawa.

Hello. Hello, everyone. I have a new friend here. Hi, what's your name? My

name's Carrie.

Carrie, okay. Carrie, nice to meet you. My name is Shoots.

Thank you.

Okay, nice to meet you. All right, so we're going to do magic together, so

very important. I use a Hodeco card here, and I need your help. I want to

one card out, so just take one, but don't face up, okay? Okay. Yep, yep.

very good. And don't show me, and remember yourself, but you remember and

to the camera.

Okay, I don't want to see it.

All right, you got it? Yes. You remember?

Yes. Okay, put it back.

All right. I want to find out your card with the suit. Just tell me the suit. No

number, the value.

Card.

Just say yes or no. Was your card like a three of hearts?

No. Nope.

Okay, but this card has three hearts.

That's right. That's why it's three of hearts.

Okay, so I hope you can see well for the camera. Can you see between my finger?

So there's a dot, right, like three hearts here. You can see only two of

but I can slide this.

Heart, closer to the number.

Like almost cartoon, like animation.

Little by little, like that way. You know, it's the smallest trick in the

theater. So now it moves, and now it becomes six of hearts. You've got six of

hearts? Wow.

No, I'm sorry, upside down. Six and nine is very similar.

It's nine.

Really?

Now you're happy and happy.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

The impossible is made possible by Anna de Guzman.

Our next performer is a young lady who distracts her subject with her

But beware, her magic is very deceiving. Here is Anna de Guzman.

I need the help of a very special, lucky gentleman.

You, sir, would you mind helping me? Give him a round of applause.

Thank you, sir.

Hi, what's your name? Him.

Him. Lovely to meet you. You're going to help me. You're going to be my lovely,

beautiful assistant.

Can you take one of these cups, please? Thank you. We're going to cheers, okay?

What are we cheersing to?

A healthy life. A healthy life, a magical year, right? Cheers.

Cheers, everyone at home.

Thank you. So, can you hold the cup over your head?

Yes.

We're going to do a little magic incantation, okay? Okay.

What are the magical words?

Abracadabra. Okay, that's pretty basic. We'll go with abracadabra. Classic.

Okay, ready? We're going to do a one, two, three, abracadabra, and then turn

cup over, okay? Okay.

Right? Wait, what?

Just trust me, right? If you believe in yourself, it'll work.

Okay.

I'll go first. Ready?

Do you still feel the water?

Yeah. Okay, ready?

One, two, three.

Abracadabra.

One, two, three.

Abracadabra.

Thank you so much, Tim, for trying.

Thank you so much for your help, Tim.

Wow.

Our next magician began performing at the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood

he was 15.

His blend of comedy, magic, and inventiveness is more than an invitation

a card.

All grown up, this is Eric Eaton.

Let's get started.

Hi, beautiful young lady. Would you like to do a card trick?

Give her a round of applause.

I have a deck of cards now. Whenever you're ready, say stop.

Stop.

Right there? Yeah.

Perfect.

We'll try that again. Ready?

Stop. Right there?

Perfect. Take a look at your card. Please show everyone here your card. Do

show me.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that card before.

Now, I have a pen here. Be careful. It's Sharpie.

Can I get you to mark that card so you can identify it later?

Put maybe your name, your number, just something so we know it's truly yours.

Perfect.

I'll take that.

Here's what we're going to do. We're going to lose your card somewhere in

deck.

Now, over here, I have the fish swimming in the aquarium, correct?

Slowly going.

Now, I can get you to step aside. I want you to watch right here.

I want you to imagine your card being right here on the face of the aquarium.

Watch this.

One, two, three. One card goes right to the aquarium.

Now, just to verify that, we have one card. Can you verify? Is that your

signature? Yep.

Everyone give her a round of applause.

Thank you so much.

From Dallas, Texas, please welcome Trig Watson.

Thank you. It's Janelle, yes?

Janelle, I have here in this bandana some things that everyone is familiar

a magic prop that everyone can do magic with.

Any guesses?

No. It is candy!

Because everyone can make candy disappear.

That's an easy trick. I'm going to try it here. We're going to try it a little

different way, though. I want you to hold out your hand like that. That's

perfect. All right. I'm going to try and make that candy there disappear out of

your hand. Hold on good and tight. Don't let go.

All right. That's perfect.

Imagine that candy just slowly disappearing.

Did you feel it disappear?

Yeah.

Say yeah.

Yeah. Good answer.

And now open up your hand again. Look, it's back again. That's amazing.

OMG. That's incredible.

No, squeeze it really tight. Put your other hand on top.

See, now it's harder because now I've got to get through two hands, right? I'm

going to distract you with a different candy here. I'm going to pull out

this one. All right, I want everyone to get a nice, close -up view of this here.

Check this out.

One. Don't let go of that yellow one. You still feel it in your hand? One,

three.

That is the yellow one inside my hand. Yours has the?

Oak up your hand and show the audience.

The impossible is easy for the masterful manipulation of Dan Spade.

From the world of darkness comes our next

performer. He claims Minnesota as his home, but he is from the land of

Enjoy the very mysterious Dan Spade.

So I like to doodle a lot. Who are you? Heather. Oh, yeah. Hi, Heather. I like

to doodle a lot. It was told that especially when I was young, growing up,

helped keep me calm and sort of like then out.

You know what I mean? So I drew you a picture.

I'm not going to show it to you yet because it's more like a prediction.

You know what that is? Yeah. Something that I think is going to happen. Right.

So I'm actually going to not show it to you yet. I want to tear off the notepad.

I'm going to fold it up and I need you to hang on to it with one hand.

And the next thing that we're going to do is.

Have you choose a playing card, okay? Now, we can do this the classic way, but

I'm too lazy. So instead, you can see all are different, right? That's how it

goes. All are different. All are different.

Whatever. I'm just going to shuffle them up.

And I just need you to say stop anywhere as I riffle, right? Okay.

Stop. There?

Okay. Go ahead. Look at it.

I don't care.

You're going to hold on to it, show it around, show it to the camera, and I

you to put it somewhere where I can't get to it.

But you can get to it.

Not looking.

Now, remember, I had been working on a doodle, a drawing that was my

Now, I'm not a very good artist, but hopefully what I doodled and what I drew

will make sense. I need you right now, though, do me a favor and just open the

piece of paper. Don't show it to anybody, but open it.

And there is a drawing on there, right, of a playing card that I drew, right?

Yeah. And what is it?

Faith. Yeah, and an eight. The eight of spades. The eight of spades.

Right? Yeah? Yeah. I know that's not it. I just made up my own. I changed the

lyrics a little bit. You went some, blew some. But that's your card, right? Yes.

No. What? No. No.

Are you sure? Maybe it's the lighting. Maybe you're not looking at it right.

Hang on. Hold on to it.

Just like that.

Like I said, it might be the lighting. So I'm going to help with some matches.

If I light them, I want you to hold on to the matches. I'm going to trade that

with you just in case this goes out. We might need more, but I want you to look

close. Because as I actually hold it up to the paper, you can see it actually

morph and change to the five of clubs.

Take out the cards. So, the five of clubs.

Now,

that's your shoes in there that you get to keep.

I know, get excited.

And you can keep the matches too.

Go ahead, take out a match really fast.

There never were matches the entire time.

Magic show.

Boom. All right, let's go.

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.

I'm coming over here.

Good to see you.

Lovely to meet you.

Hey, you smile.

All right.

Bye -bye.