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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 Cain, and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

Now, what's the first thing you do when you see something that you know is

impossible?

Maybe you try to rationalize it and justify it and come up with some sort of

reasonable explanation.

Well, what you're about to see right now will defy all explanation.

Try not to let it drive you crazy. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. The way that Chipper

Hall drives me crazy all the time. Hello. How's it going? Good. Nice to

here. Well, I have something impossible to show you. You have a knife. I should

not be doing this. No. Okay. Let me show you. We've got a deck of playing cards.

Okay. Knight, natural born enemies.

Watch this. Yes, yes, yes. Watch.

Right through the deck. All the way through. Is that not amazing?

That's amazing.

Are there cards in there?

We don't need to talk about that.

Well, okay.

Yeah, you know what? Hold your hands out.

Rationalize it so people... No, no, you were right. You were right. There is no

deck of cards. Just a solid metal block.

Okay.

That's... Thank you. Bye.

That's impossible.

This trick, like all others, is completely free of charge. But I

think I would pay admission to be in this performer's head.

Here is Eric Lutz.

Thank you so much. Thank you. It's very exciting to be here. We have some

audience volunteers on stage with us. You are standing behind an X. However,

do not have to remain behind that X. You may trade places with each other as

many or as few times as you'd like.

Trade places.

No!

Look at him go.

Woo! Give him some encouragement, people. This is exciting.

And stop.

Oh, if you understood, you were supposed to... Okay, hey, you know what?

That can happen. It does not matter. It does not matter. Because now, I will be

handing them mystery cannons.

Christopher, go ahead and take a cannon, any cannon.

Zabie, take a cannon, any cannon.

Jordan, take that cannon. All right.

You are holding on to that cannon. However, you may trade cannons as many

few times as you'd like. Trade cannons now!

Look at him go. It's like a hurricane of energy up here.

What's going to happen? Holy cow.

Jordan doesn't know. Oh, did you see that? He took it back from Davy.

Stop.

Whoa, that was exciting.

He was like, no. And then he was like, yeah.

All right. Now, I'm not going to touch the cannons since you've been touching

them. I don't want to be accused of doing anything fishy. I just want to

something out. The bottom part right here, that's PVC pipe. It's going to fit

right onto that X. Just put this bottom part onto the X, right like that.

And then put the big pad toward the audience. Perfect.

Do like Jordan's doing.

And then toss the pad toward the audience. Good.

Make sure there's no twists or tangles. Now, I do have to arm the cannons. We're

not going to have the volunteers do that. But if you could, just take one

back. Perfect.

Keep me fair. I'm not doing anything fishy. I'm just uncapping the cannons.

Perfect. Just like so.

Good.

All right. I have...

some paint sample booklets from the hardware store. We have spring, summer,

fall, and winter. What I would like you to do is take a book, any book. Leave it

clipped for now.

Take a book, any book.

Perfect. Take a book, any book.

Leave it clipped for now. And that leaves me with this one. Excellent.

Because as you guessed it, you may trade booklets as many or as few times as

you'd like.

Trade paint sample booklets. No!

This is the last round. Go nuts, people. Go nuts.

Oh, he came around back. He stuck that one. Oh, and Zabie forgot where she was

supposed to stand. And stop.

I'm exhausted.

That's good stuff.

All right.

Let's see where we're at.

See which one you got.

Ooh, you got the book full of blue shades.

Shades of beautiful blue. We'll rip one out, hand that to you. You can pick a

side and hold it like that. Hold it by the fingers like that. Yeah, perfect. So

everyone can see. Excellent. You got, ooh, the book full of yellow shades.

Shades of yellow. We will rip one out. Hold on to that so everybody can see it.

Excellent.

And you got, we'll go that way this time. You got the...

Oh, the red one. Full of shades of red.

Excellent. We'll rip that out. Hold that out so everyone can see. And I believe

that leaves me. What did I get? Oh, I got the green one left with me.

Let's review what happened.

We brought three people on stage where they stood wherever they wanted. Then

they traded places. Then they traded cannons. Then they traded books. Books

could have ended up anywhere.

Cannons could have ended up anywhere.

But this is where we are left.

Now, I failed to mention earlier, I've always been a very lucky person.

but only when it comes to the arbitrary interception of pneumatic weaponry and

interior design tools.

Very weird way to be lucky. Let's see how we did tonight.

Look at them.

They're going nuts. Thank you so much.

Let's take a brief pit stop and enjoy the magically comedic stylings of Ed

Alonso.

Sign your name right across there.

Here we go.

Up next, the impossible is made possible by Magical Katrina.

Now here's a performer who definitely breaks the mold when it comes to

with a deck of cards.

You'll see what I mean. Here is Magical Katrina.

This next magician has found the perfect blend of technology and actual

impossible magic.

Check it out. Here's Trig Watson.

I have been accused of my magic being phony.

I just decided to lean into that.

I'd like to show you all a phony magic illusion.

It involves time travel.

Do you believe in time travel?

Before we take this phone back in time, I need to document the present moment.

And the best way I know how to do that is with a selfie.

Everyone smile.

And time travel happens in 3, 2, and 1.

Now the phone did not just disappear. No, it just traveled back in time to the

moment before I had even removed it from the case.

Now, do you believe in time travel?

Next. Amazing is the only way to describe Joshua J. When we come back.

When you get right down to it, most magic can be reduced to simple

equations.

That's not really true. I just made that up.

Or did I?

See for yourself when you behold the magic of Joshua J.

All right, and I'm joined by Maurice. Maurice, you've got a deck of cards.

got a deck of cards. Take those cards and shuffle them up.

And while you're shuffling, I want to explain to everybody at home just how

orders there are in a deck of cards. For the mathematically inclined, this is 52

factorial.

To know the number of orders in a shuffled deck of cards, you have to

52 times 51 times 50 times 49 all the way down to 1.

The answer is the number 8 with 68 digits after it. That means, Maurice,

there are more orders to a deck of cards than there are grains of sand on the

planet.

Not that impressed by that fact, but we will continue nonetheless. Are you

shuffled up?

Okay, give your cards a couple of cuts. It's important that you know that

they're in an order. I couldn't know one of these eight with 68 zeros after it.

Oh, wow.

This is great. This is modern art. I love it. And now, go ahead and show me.

I'll show you that my cards are shuffled up. Show me that your cards are

shuffled up.

Yeah, show them that they're shuffled up.

And now hold them between your hands.

I'm going to show you in less than 30 seconds how this trick worked.

I'm not going to tell you how it works. I'm going to show you in the numbers.

In a moment, Maurice, we are going to cut our respective decks and each cut to

card, and I hope it's the same card. Now, the chances of that happening are 1

2, that it would be the same color card. 1 in 4, that we project a certain color

and it would be the same. 16 over 169, that it's the same 4 of a kind, like 4

tens or 4 queens.

The chances of you cutting any card in your deck are 1 in 52. Me, 1 in 52. We

multiply them together to get the chance that they're the same 2 ,704 or .0003%.

That's the chances of this work.

Now, I want you to understand something. All of these numbers, every one of

these numbers...

combine together, give us that impossibility that we're going for. So

with 52 factorial and come down here to that number, 8 with 68 digits after it,

same on this side.

But what we're going to try and do now is put it to the test, and we do that

like this. Maurice, you can go first. I want you to cut anywhere, shallow, deep,

whatever you want, and put them on the table, anywhere you want. And then place

the rest of them, just hold them above like that. That's good.

And now I will do the same.

Now to see this .0003 of a percent chance that it works, I got

the 8 of hearts. What card did you get?

But that's not impossible.

That's just really, really rare.

The part that's impossible is that over here, in the numbers the whole time,

this is the part that's impossible.

You're eight of hearts.

I want to thank you for helping. Thank you for watching. My name is Joshua Jay.

Next up, Joel Myers.

He always delivers the impactful.

We'll be right back.

Up next is a great example of a magician making the impossible seem really

impossible.

But you'll see it right before your very eyes.

Check this out from Joel Myers.

All right, you guys, so today I want to show you guys something epic. But in

order to do that, I'm going to have to break a really big rule of magic. You

see, other than not telling people how a trick is done.

Another really big rule of magic is not telling people the ending of the trick.

If you tell people the ending of the trick, you automatically lose the

of surprise. You guys, this big red box behind me is the ending of the trick,

okay? Remember that I said that? Keep your eye on the box. Now, also in order

for this to work, I needed a random person from the audience.

So we've got Noah here. Noah, how are you, buddy?

I'm awesome.

So Noah, here's the plan. Got a little dice here, six different sides to it.

going to roll it a few times. I want you to see it lands on a different number

each time I roll it. You see that?

Here's what's going to happen. You're going to take the cup.

Go ahead, grab the cup. We're going to place the dice into the cup. Put your

other hand on top.

Shake it up a little bit. Whenever you feel comfortable, turn the cup over on

the table and leave the cup on top of the dice. Go ahead.

Sweet.

Nicely done, man.

So here's the plan, you guys. We need a few other people as well.

So here's what's going to happen. Maybe, Noah, you pick the first person. Go

ahead and point to one person in the audience.

That man right there.

This guy right here. How's it going, my friend? Do me a favor. Name out loud

your favorite food.

Lasagna. Lasagna. That's good. You know what sucks, though? I have to write

that, and I have no idea how to spell it.

So here we go. I'm going to do my best. Noah, how do you spell lasagna? Any

idea?

L -A -F -A -G -N -A.

L -A -F -A -G -N -A. We'll go with that. Okay.

So lasagna.

I'll pick you, Miz. Do me a favor. Name an exotic animal.

Snake.

Snake. That is an exotic animal. That's good. All right. So we're going to write

number two is...

Snake. Nice and bold like that. Okay.

Noah, you pick the third person. Go ahead.

Her on the end there.

On the end. Hi, how are you?

I'm doing very well, thank you. Awesome.

Name your favorite flower.

Rose. Rose. Oh, that's adorable.

Rose. All right, so we're going to write a rose right here for number three.

Number four, I will pick this guy right here, bro. Name your favorite article of

clothing, not your underwear.

What?

Your sweaters. You were going to say underwear. I could see it in your face.

Sweaters. So we're going to put sweater right here.

Okay. Number five.

Noah, you picked the fifth person?

Her in the middle there.

In the middle. Okay. Do me a favor. Name an object that could fit in your hands.

Shovel.

Shovel. That's great.

Shovel is good. All right. We'll write shovel.

Okay. I don't know what that means.

It's on your mind, but that's okay. Okay.

Number six.

Noah, you can pick the last person, too. It's no problem.

Awesome. So here's what's going to happen. Name, for the last person, name

a pet that somebody had in their home.

Dog. Dog, yeah, that's good. Dog is pretty common. Okay, so guys, here's the

plan. At this point, I'm going to recap everything. Everything was completely at

random. From the beginning, Noah, you were selected totally at random, yeah?

Yes, sir. Then we picked all these people completely at random as well.

Everything completely random.

The craziest thing, though, in the very beginning was we rolled that dice. You

saw the dice roll the different numbers each time.

You rolled it underneath the cup. We haven't even looked at the number yet,

right guys?

For the first time, Noah, pick up the cup. Let us know what number it is. Say

nice and loud.

Yeah, it's a two.

Two, which is, what is it on there, Noah? Snake.

Snake.

You guys, remember we started this trick at the end, yeah?

Check this out, you guys. In the box, I have a fake snake.

She was like freaking out.

You're right. We should end big. Check it out.

We'll go one step further. Check this out.

The amazing, astounding, incredible masters of illusion.

Thank you for watching, and don't forget to join us next time. Until then, I'm

Dean Cain, and good night, everyone.