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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 Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Now if

a fan of magic, you're probably familiar with terms like illusion, conjuring.

Sleight of hand, close -up magic.

But what you're about to see is a combo pack containing all of the above. A

smorgasbord of magic.

Farrell. Oh, okay, cool. No,

like I'm... What?

Okay. Oh, Dean. Yes?

You were Superman on TV.

Yes, I was. Superman has power, right? Like real power, right? It's not like

magic tricks, right? Right, of course. No, you've got like, what, you can fly?

Fly.

He is impervious to, you know, harm. Laser vision. Laser vision.

Dude, that's the one I want to see, okay?

I want to see it. I don't have that.

Well, let's give it a try, okay? So look, we have a light bulb here inside

bag. I want you to try and use your laser vision to light this light bulb,

right? But you just try, okay?

This is going to be bad, but okay.

Give it a try.

All right, Dean, are you trying that? I'm trying.

Usually I'm brassy, but I don't... You gotta really, you gotta really try.

There, whoa.

Holy smokes.

Dean, that was impressive.

Can I start the show? Is it really good? Yeah, let's... Oh, there it is.

Okay, you've seen magicians make everyday objects appear and disappear

from their very own hands.

Well, here's the same thing, but with a slightly larger object.

It's the magic of Rob Lake.

This next magician is slick, stylish, and utterly amazing.

I promise you're going to like what you see.

Here's Eric Jones.

Hey, guys.

Hey, how are you? I'm good. So I've got a guy from the audience who's willing to

help out. What was your first name? Andy. Andy. Good to meet you, brother.

Eric. I want to show you something really cool with a deck playing card.

Inside of this pack of playing cards, they're all random. They're all regular.

That's important that you know that they are different. But you'll notice that

here towards the top of the pack, I've taken the liberty of removing the four

kings. That way I can get to them a little bit more easily.

Can I ask you to do me a favor, Andy? As I go through the cards like this, would

you mind saying the word stop? And wherever you say stop, that'll be your

Sound fair?

Stop. Are you happy at that spot? Yeah. Please, go ahead and take a look at the

card. If you don't mind, show it to everyone. That way they get a chance to

what your card is.

Perfect. I'll take it back. And what we're going to do is we're going to take

Andy's card and place it about, more or less, halfway from the top of the pack.

More or less. Yeah, that seems good.

What's going to happen is that the four kings are going to tell me a little bit

about Andy's card, but before they do that, they first need to do a bit of a

warm -up exercise. We don't need the rest of the cards.

We're going to start with the top king, the king of spades.

The interesting thing about the king of spades is as it coalesces with the other

cards, Andy.

It actually coerces each of those kings to turn face up.

We're just getting started, brother. We're just getting started. It's going

get better. It's going to get better. In fact, we're going to use the other

black king, the king of clubs. And the cool thing about the king of clubs is

when you turn that card face down, it also coalesces with the cards, coercing

them to then turn face down.

It's strange.

It's strength.

It is. But now they've done the exercise. They've got their workout on.

they're ready to do the math.

Watch the four kings.

We'll start with the king of hearts. Go ahead and feel it. Make sure that it's a

single playing card. One piece of taste board. Nothing stuck to it in any way.

Yes? Good.

Watch. If I was to just move that card forwards and back, if you just rub on

back of the card,

It likes that. It likes that. And that's what forces it to turn into a black

card, which tells me that, in fact, you chose a black card. Yeah, that's a

single card. Yes.

Yeah. Single card.

Yeah. So the first card tells me that you did choose a black card, which is

truth, right? Yes. The next card is going to tell me a little bit as well.

king of clubs.

If you rub on the back of the king of clubs, it tells me that maybe, just

you chose a club.

Yeah, I did.

That's interesting.

So the first card told me that you chose a black card. The second card, it tells

me that you chose a club. The third card, the king of diamonds, it tells me

little bit of information as well. It tells me that maybe you chose a four.

How's that sound?

That is correct.

It leaves one card left to go. The last king tells me that it was, in fact.

The four of clubs. That's strange.

It's weird.

And the reason I think it's weird is because we all know in the regular deck

playing cards, there is only one four of clubs.

Which means that there's absolutely no way on the planet that that could have

been the four of clubs. Because that's the king of spades.

The other three kings, there's no way they could be the four of clubs because

they're the other kings.

So then the question then becomes, well, where in the heck is the four of clubs?

I'm sorry. That's the king of spades. I apologize.

That's the king of cards. I'm sorry.

I know I had one

card.

Isn't that freaking weird?

That's about it.

Up next, the quick moves of Chipper Lowell.

When we return.

Next up, we have a pocket -sized illusion from our very own Chipper

Hello, and a big round of applause for Leia. Is that correct? Beautiful name. I

appreciate you helping out.

You know, Leo, when I was growing up, I absolutely was a huge fan of Harry

Houdini. It's probably why I got into magic. And a lot of people know him for

his incredible escapes, but he also did amazing illusions, grand illusions, in

his show, traveling all over the world. And I thought I would duplicate one of

his grand illusions here tonight. Now, I can't afford the big stuff, so I have

to downsize it right down to here. I hope that makes sense. And also, we need

little Houdini for this, so I have drawn a very lifelike sketch of Houdini.

It looks just like him, doesn't it?

Actually, I thought it would be fun if you would play Houdini. So I'm going to

have you fill in your features, your face, eyes, ears, your nose, your hair,

then sign it, if you would please, okay?

There you go. You got all that? That's great. While you're doing that, let me

set the stage.

Now, Houdini would use a completely empty stage, and he would put out a very

ornate rug. I got this from a dollhouse that I may or may not own.

Now, he also had platforms.

We're using drink coasters for this. And he had two cabinets. We're going to use

these bowls.

And he also had a giant brick wall that was constructed right over the

carpet. And are you all set there?

All right, let me take a look. And, oh, pretty nice.

No, that's great. As a matter of fact, smile to the camera and everyone take a

look. Huh? Like looking in a mirror.

That's amazing.

One of the things that Houdini did that a lot of people didn't know is that he

could actually bend himself like a contortionist into small little shapes.

that would help him. This would help him to escape, you know.

Stuff like that. There we are. And would you place two fingers up like that for

me, if you would? Very nice. I'm going to have you hold yourself right there,

because that is you, so don't pinch yourself too much. And then I'm going to

have you carefully place yourself into one of the cabinets right here, if you

would, please.

Very nice.

Okay. And then I'm also going to have you take a look at this.

All right. And it is exactly what it is. Go ahead and give a good wrap on either

side. No, take it.

Seriously. Yeah. Take a look at it. I want everyone to see that. Very nice.

then if you would, please place it right there in the middle. There we go. Very

good. Now, when Houdini performed this, he would actually have a whole group of

volunteers circle all the way around the brick wall and the carpet. He would

have his assistants bring in one platform and the other platform. And

would have the cabinets put one on one side, one on the other.

And in a few minutes, Houdini would actually walk through the wall from one

to the other. You are going to do it even faster.

Oh, that was really fast.

No, that was amazing.

I'm serious. I think it happened.

I'm going to very slowly walk away from this.

Do you notice that you're not there anymore?

Is that the creepiest?

You can't find yourself. Do me a favor. Walk all the way around, if you would,

to the other side. Tell me if you have found yourself.

Are you kidding?

Yeah. Would you please pick yourself up? Would you very carefully unfold

yourself all the way out? Yes. Open yourself up to everybody.

Please show yourself to everyone. Is that you? Is that your signature?

Ladies and gentlemen, she walked through a solid brick wall. Give it up for Mia

Lee.

Next up, amazing is the only way to describe Diego Chavez. When we come

Magicians are always pushing our boundaries of what we believe is

Well, this next trick is no exception.

Here's Diego Chavez.

Thank you so much, everybody.

I just want to welcome Victoria to the stage. Thank you for helping me out.

And we're going to try something using four silver.

Half dollars, okay?

Have you ever seen these before? No.

Okay, we're going to try something magical with them. Are you ready? Yeah.

Awesome. Can you do me a favor? Hold your right hand out for me just like

Perfect. And your left hand, would you mind just kind of hovering it just like

this?

Could you just take those coins and kind of push them together? Scrunch them up

and then close your hand around them.

Perfect. Just like that. Now, could you imagine for a second that you could take

one coin out? Don't actually do it, but imagine you're taking a coin out and

flipping it into my hand.

Oh, I'm ready.

I'm ready.

One, two, three.

Could you open up your hand for me?

Just like that.

Now, could you take this coin and verify that it's completely, 100 % a real

coin, nothing more than just a silver half dollar. Is that right?

One more time. We'll take this one from you just like this, and you're going to

actually see this one and hear it go across just like that.

Crazy. They're crazy.

This time, take all four.

And we'll try something a little bit different. Before, you only imagine that

you grab the coin and you place it into my hand. Could you take your left hand

and pinch that top coin on the top? Place it right here.

Close the hand. Perfect. Just like that. Now, did you only imagine that you

placed the coin in my hand, or did you actually do it this time? I actually did

it. You actually did it.

See, sometimes what you think you do...

It's just imagination. Because if you open up your hand, you'll actually see.

How many coins are in your hand right now? Four.

Four coins in your hand. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank

you, thank you.

Thank you.

Buckle up. We are in for a wild ride with this next act from Matt Marshall.

Thank you very much.

I want to talk about something that we've all experienced in our lives, and

is coincidence.

Have you ever had a coincidence?

Yeah. Me too.

And yet, in a given day, thousands of events occur. It makes sense that some

those events are going to coincide.

And yet, people ascribe to coincidence amazing explanations.

They call them luck, or fate, or destiny, or magic.

There's something magical about a coincidence.

And with that in mind, I'm going to try to create a coincidence for you tonight.

Now, I know that sounds like a strange contradiction to create a coincidence,

but I'm going to try.

Here's what I've done.

From the deck, I pulled out a mix of cards.

It's a bunch of different cards, but I removed all the faith cards, no faith

cards. We're going to begin by putting these cards into a random order. And

here's how.

What is your name?

Vanessa. In a moment, I'm going to deal through these cards one at a time.

Whenever you would like, you can say shuffle, and I will shuffle the next two

cards. You can say shuffle as many times or as few times as you want.

Ready? Here we go.

Two shuffles for Vanessa. Very good. Exciting.

What is your name?

Steve. Steve, is it many times or as few times as you want? Just say shuffle.

Shuffle.

Shuffle.

Oh, you're out, Steve. Sorry. That's all right.

Cars will go into the glass, mixed up. We'll come back to those in a minute.

Now, I need to have some numbers written down. I brought a pad of paper.

And Vanessa, would you join me up here real quick? Yep, come on up here.

Vanessa, do you remember the address, the street number of the house you grew

in?

Yep. Would you write it on the top line for me there? Yep, right there.

Just write in Helvetica bold, please.

Font joke. Never mind. Don't worry about it. Very good. Thank you very much. You

can have a seat.

Let's see. What is your name?

Janae, jump up here for me if you would, Janae.

Janae, how about the first two digits of your phone number?

Early coder number, your choice. Just write below that the first two digits of

your phone number. It would be great.

Fantastic. You can have a seat. And hi, what's your name? Alexander.

Alexander, come on up here for me if you would, right here.

Alexander, right below that, just the last four digits of your social security

number. Okay. Yep.

Right there.

And then your mother's maiden name?

No, you're fine. All right, go sit down.

What's your name?

Lisa. Lisa, jump up here, Lisa. I need a number. How about a number from 1 to 1

,000 at the bottom? A number from 1 to 1 ,000 right at the bottom there.

Right there, yep.

Okay.

Oh, nice penmanship. Very good. You can have it, Lisa. Thank you very much.

Okay. All right, let's see.

Steve, we talked earlier. Steve, do you have a phone with you? I do. What do you

got? Smart phone, flip phone, brick, pay phone, whatever you got? Yeah?

Bring it up here if you would. Do you have a calculator on that thing? I do.

out the calculator. Come on up here with it. Do you do a lot of math at home?

All the way up here. Come on up and clear out the calculator.

Right over here, Steve.

Right there.

And if you would just multiply the four numbers together.

Multiply them together.

Okay? What we're trying to do is to get a large random number with a lot of

digits. We need a very specific number of digits for this to work. Steve, let

know when you've got your answer there. No pressure.

We're just on TV.

Good job. You got an answer? How many digits in your answer?

Let's see. We've got nine.

Perfect. Fantastic. Keep it up there. Go back to your seat. Great. Thank you

very much.

Nine is what we want.

And the reason that we wanted nine is because before we started, we mixed up

nine playing cards and we put them in the wine glass.

Steve, loudly, so we can all hear. What is the first digit of the answer you

got?

Six. Six.

No, it's just a coincidence. They happen every day. It's no big deal, right?

What's the next digit, Steve?

Two. Two.

That is weird.

Keep reading, Steve.

Seven. Seven.

Four. Four.

Eight. Eight. Good.

Five. Five.

Eight. Eight again.

Yes.

Five.

Nine. Nine. Coincidence?

I think not.

Thank you very much, everybody.

Next, the impossible is made possible by Ed's alignment.

Let's give it up for the always entertaining... always amazing, and

always amusing, the one and the only Ed Alonzo.

You know, recently in an online antique auction, I won a studio portrait camera

from the 1800s.

Well, it looks like I'm getting into photography.

All I can say is wow. I cannot believe what I've seen in the last half hour,

I can't believe it's over.

For now. So be sure to join us next time for more Masters of Illusion. Till

then, I'm Dean Cain. Thank you, and good night.