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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.

Hi,

I'm Dean Payne, and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

Matter and energy, time and space.

There are elements of the universe that cannot change, that cannot bend, that

cannot break.

There are rules and laws to this stuff, right?

But what you're about to see will challenge even the most fundamental laws

physics. Deep, deep, deep, deep. I gotta show you this. I just invented it. Time

machine, huh?

That's a time machine. Yes, I spent like a minute on it.

And one magic marker. But it's a time machine. For instance, look, empty

of wine, right? You put it in the time machine. You just press this forward,

backward. You're going to go back in time, and you'll have a full bottle of

wine. Should I press it? Oh, if you want to press it. That's it?

Yeah, well, yeah. Actually, let me take a look.

I went back too far.

I'm so sorry.

Yeah, that's... There you go.

I can't... I can't... I can't... That's not how

I... Anyway...

What you're about to see is

nothing new.

But it is something a mere mortal shouldn't be able to do.

Here's Kid Ace.

What's your name? My name's Alex. Alex, thank you for joining us on stage

tonight, Alex.

Okay, so Alex, we're going to have some fun. I'm going to try to make a

connection with you, okay? And we're going to do that through book.

Now, I have two books. I have The Invisible Man and The Legend of Sleepy

You may have read both of these books.

Neither. Okay, they're classics, but that's okay. Someone has, you know.

You're going to choose a book that you would like to continue with. Your

Invisible Man. All right, so you take The Invisible Man. That's cool.

Go ahead. I want you to open that book to a random page or a number that you

like, something that has significant meaning to you.

Any page number you like.

Okay. And what page number is that? I picked 64. 64. I have a playing card.

playing card has a hole cut out right in the center of it. Now, I'm going to

show you guys at home, but also I want you to see that.

In a moment, I'm going to place that into page 64, was it? Yes. I'm going to

close the book. I'm going to run this card down the book from top to bottom.

will say stop wherever you like. Okay. When you say stop, I'm going to open the

book, and hopefully we isolate one word in that cutout. Okay. Cool. So open that

book.

Which side is 64 on this side? That's great. That's the page with the most

writing on it. So I'll hold it like this, and I'll keep it sticking out the

so our audience can see and you can see.

directly on it, wherever you feel comfortable.

Stop. Right there. All right. Do you want to go up, down, or commit to that

position? I'm going to commit.

All right. I'm going to open this book.

If there's a word there, just memorize it. Don't say it out loud. You got one?

All right, I'll keep it here in case you need to call back to it.

Now, what I'd like you to do is reach out. This is your left. This is your

because now you're open. Now we can really pick up some vibes. Think of the

first letter of the word. You just stopped that. You got that?

Okay, perfect.

I'm going to see if we can do this. I like the spirit finger.

First letter.

Now put on your best poker face.

All right, best poker face.

Think of the last letter.

You're doing great.

I think we're almost there. Imagine the word in front of you, the entire word

that you just stopped at. Just imagine it. We're going to go right through

Done.

That's it.

For the first time, what I'd like you to do is say the word you stopped at.

Popular.

That is correct.

It is?

This was my prediction.

You see?

This may look like a bad fraction to you, but it has some meaning.

Five, five, eight over seven.

There's another book I didn't disclose I had on this table.

Now, I could have simply just wrote popular because I felt that vibe, but I

wanted to leave you with a moment you surely wouldn't forget.

And that book I have is a Webster's Dictionary.

There are thousands and thousands of defined words in this dictionary.

You're going to take that dictionary.

You're going to open the page 558.

Open that dictionary 558. And when you get there, I want you to take a moment

because I put seven on the bottom for a reason.

Count seven defined words up. I highlighted.

What's the word?

It's popular.

It's popular.

And that's a prediction.

Yes. Thank you so much.

Make your way back to your seat, and you can cheat that dictionary if you like

for a souvenir.

Take note. Our next magician has a pretty interesting card trick planned

Here's Trino.

Thank you so much.

I have a wonderful assistant here, and your name is?

EJ. EJ, great to meet you. Thank you so much for volunteering.

We are going to do a card trick today.

All right.

It's pretty easy, EJ. I'm just going to spread the card like this. I'd like you

to touch the top of one and go ahead and pull it out.

Do this one. Yeah, take it right out of there.

And EJ, if you would, write your name.

Or EJ.

Nice and big on the face of that card, if you would.

Done. Wonderful.

I'll take the card back. We'll show it to the camera here.

EJ, sign selected card. Now, the only card in the entire world that looks

exactly like that, we're going to cut it into the deck and set it right there.

EJ, I would like you to think about your card and send it to me with your mind,

into my mind. I'm going to read your mind, and I'm going to write down your

on this Post -it now. All right. Ready?

Here we go.

All right.

Perfect. And EJ, the name of your card was?

The Queen of Hearts. The Queen of Hearts. And I wrote down your card.

That's okay.

That's okay. Some things are just for me, EJ.

The sticky note.

We are going to stick the sticky note right on the back here.

Now watch. If you watch the sticky note here, just like this.

Vanishes. And ends up one card in the deck.

And that is EJ's sign, Queen of Diamonds.

That's what I meant to say.

Hold back.

Thank you, EJ, so much for your help.

Keep your eyes on the screen and your hands on your wallets.

Here's Nick Dopich.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

I'm going to let you in on a little bit of a secret here in magic. One of the

things that you'll notice magicians we tend to do is we tend to over -explain

things. We tend to take very simple objects and we over -explain them almost

a fault. But that allows us to lull you into a false sense of security, which

allows us to do all of our magic.

Without further ado, there's no way around it, so let's just hop into it.

This right here, we're going to do a coin using a candy half dollar. Have you

ever seen one of these sports? You haven't? Well, let me tell you all about

especially this one in particular.

It's a very special one. This one right here has a candy sports shirt on it. It

was made in 1993.

Half dollars are worth two quarters, five dimes, 11 nickels. Nobody's doing

math.

However, like a really cool thing about these is the weight. If you wanted to

check on, ah, look at that, and we're off. We're off. You thought it was going

to take a while, but it didn't.

I know.

However, we have to get that half dollar back. So we have to get the half dollar

back using my ring.

We're just going to use my ring to try to get this half dollar back. Now,

normally I'd use one of your rings.

However, some people get mad at that because most people's rings are usually

worth a lot more than 50 cents. I know. People get angry at that. They just get

mad because you had a ring. Now you got 50 cents.

Now we have a coin. Now we're missing the ring. That's the problem with this

trick. You're always missing one of the two things. But which one would you

rather have? You'd rather have the ring. So we're going to find the ring back

here. Just very, very quickly.

Just like so.

And we can get a jump right back onto the finger. And that's how you leave 50

pence. But you still have your ring.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

The always amazing sleight of hand of Johnny Ace Palmer.

When we come back.

This next illusion has really been.

Bugging me.

I don't know how he does it.

Here's Johnny Ace Palmer.

I'm Johnny. I'm Heidi. I'm Heidi.

I'm Johnny. I'm Angela. I'm Angela. Nice to meet you.

This is a new trick. I haven't gotten all the bugs out yet.

Please notice when I push a drawer in, the other drawer goes out.

That's not magic. That's physics.

But it still works when I put something solid.

like a credit card in between the boxes, and push one drawer in, the other one

goes out.

See? It works also when I put it on the side perpendicular like this,

or like this on top.

Even between my fingers it works.

Heidi, will you cup your hands for me, please? Thank you.

Notice, they're just boxes.

Look, Angela, nothing inside.

See?

When I put them back in, let's see if it'll work. I don't know if it will or

not. Angela, will you put your fingers like that and push that drawer in?

It does.

Thank you, Heidi and Angela.

The only way I can get them to stay in is if I put the bugs back in, and then

they stay shut.

Thanks for your help.

epitome of elegance and international panache.

Our next performer is none other than Nathan Phan.

Yes, hello!

Excellent. All right, so I've got a card trick for my three new friends here,

Dan, Sonny, and Chris, correct?

Got a card trick, but it's going to be slightly different, all right? Here's

what's going to happen. I'm going to go through the cards, and I want you to say

stop any time you'd like. Let's start with you, Chris. Just say stop. Stop.

Excellent. Go ahead and take a look at the card, memorize it. You got it?

Excellent. And if you do want to help out, make sure the card's memorized,

that's fine too.

Go ahead and, Sonny, say stop for me.

Stop. Right there. Take a look at the card. You've got the card.

Fantastic. And for the last, we'll go, we're running out of cards, so say stop

for me anytime you can. Stop. Right there. Take a look at the card.

Memorize it. You've got the card. You've got it memorized.

Fantastic. Now, here's the deal. Normally, at this point in the card

you'd hand out the deck that you shuffled, or I would shuffle the card,

you'd be very unconvinced that the cards are truly shuffled. So, to make sure

that it's completely out of my hand, I'm going to take the cards, and I'm going

to put them inside this cocktail shaker, and that is how we are going to shuffle

the playing cards, like this.

My favorite part, just that sound.

Excellent. All right. And so now if I'm able to reach inside the deck here, and

if I'm able to pull out somebody's selected playing card, let's say we go

I think we've got a playing, who had the Jack of Diamonds? Was that you, Sonny?

Yes, it was. There's Sonny's card. Excellent. So now if I'm able to reach

here once again, if anyone wants to see, there's no little gremlin or anything

inside helping me out. If I'm able to reach in here, if I'm able to fish out

another playing card, how about this one right here? Whose is that? Is that?

Dan's over there. Excellent. There's Dan. Three of diamonds.

And for the very last playing card, one more time. We're going to take the cards

and shuffle them up.

And this time, I could absolutely reach in here and pull out your playing card.

Instead, here's what we'll do. I'll reach in here and pull out a bunch of

that are not yours.

I know none of these are yours. In fact, I'll reach in here and pull out the

rest of the cards that aren't yours, which I believe would be all of these.

Leaving me with one single playing card inside the cocktail shaker.

The five of clubs. Your card, yes?

Is that right? The five of clubs? Yes?

Excellent. There it is. All three playing cards selected and found. And I

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I think that trick was pretty good. I

think I deserve a break.

Next, is your mind able to keep up with the antics of Dan Sperry? After this.

Our next performer is fond of the classics, a real student of his craft,

definitely has his own style.

Let's hear it for Dan Sperry.

A challenge to technology by Trig Watson.

Up next.

Get ready for a little bit of Inception from our very own Trig Watson.

Okay, we hope you enjoyed this edition of Masters of Illusion. I know I

certainly did. Be sure to join us next time. Until then, I'm Dean Cain. Good

night.