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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.

Now, people who have seen Masters of Illusion always ask me, how'd they do

And my answer is always the same.

Very well.

I cannot figure out how these masters do the things they do. And I'm standing

right here, right next to them.

Can you figure out how they're doing it? And will you tell me?

Because it's been driving me crazy. The way that Eric Jones drives me crazy all

the time. And here it comes again.

So here's the cool thing.

Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?

Kind of both. Kind of both, right? What I love about surrealism is that it kind

of forces you to think about the way life works. For instance, I've got a

coin catalog. In the coin catalog, I've got a little surprise for you. Watch.

Surprise.

Right here inside.

A little bit of money.

All right. Do I have it?

Don't spend it all in one person. Thank you.

I love this job.

Don't blink. We'll miss the next trick from none other than Matt Marshall.

Thank you very much.

You know, a lot of people don't know this, but there are actually only eight

magic tricks in the world, or at least eight categories of magic tricks. They

are appearance, disappearance, transposition, transformation,

penetration, prediction, and escape.

Actually, the first trick any magician learns to do are appearance tricks,

making something appear out of thin air, and that's what I'm going to try to do.

I'm going to try to make something appear in this paper lunch bag.

Now, a lot of people believe that the most difficult things to make appear are

large items, like an elephant or an airplane, and those are hard.

But it's actually the small items that are more difficult because there are

so many of them.

Well, I've been working on making a hundred different items appear in this

and I'm going to let somebody here choose what item is going to appear.

Let's see. Hi, what is your name?

Lindsay. Lindsay, would you join me up here for a moment?

Great. Lindsay, I've made a list of those items on my phone. I don't want to

just tell you the list. You might think they're in a special order or one of

them is really exciting. So just number them 1 to 100.

Pick any number you want, and that will be the item that appears in the back.

Okay.

78. 78. Good choice. Okay. So here's my phone, Lindsay.

I'm just going to scroll over to my notes. These are my notes on my phone

And you can see there's all my different notes. And the second list is paper bag

items. Can you see that? I'll open that up. And you can see there's a deck of

cards, an iPhone, 3 ,000 cash. You couldn't have gone for the cash,

That would have been good.

Orange pens. There's a whole different thing. I'll scroll through. You'll see

they don't repeat all the way down.

Marbles, feather, lots of exciting items.

All the way down to the last one, which is a lottery ticket. Another way to make

some cash. That would have been good. But you want to... 78. 78. Let's go to

Can you read what 78 says for me? 78 is 10 -foot wooden pole.

10 -foot wooden pole. Okay, thanks. You can sit down. That's a great choice.

Great item.

But won't fit in the bag.

That's my fault. It should have been on the list.

No one's ever picked 78 before.

You know what, Lindsay?

This is Masters of Illusion.

So I'm going to try.

You said it was a 10 -foot wooden pole?

10 -foot wooden pole!

Next time, the elephant.

Thank you very much.

Up next is something I can say with all certainty you have never seen on this

show, or likely anywhere else.

The always unique...

Dan Sperry.

Magic. So like most people that are passionate about what they do, I got

magic tricks starting as a little kid. I go inside my bedroom and close and lock

the door.

I go to my window and lower the blind.

Then I take my desk lamp and turn them towards me. And in my imagination, that

was my stage.

And for an audience.

I'd take my little stuffies, my little G .I. Joe and Bret Hart action figures,

and I'd set them down. That was my audience. And I had real big illusion

tricks.

And I'd stand before them.

I would use this. Actually, let me explain. I would use this. I had this

that I would use. I'd use this sock.

Like, no.

Okay, here. See, this was my lovely assistant. That's what I said. This was

lovely assistant.

Because I didn't have one of those either, so I had to make my own.

I feel like this isn't making any sense, so instead of trying to further explain

it anymore, instead, I'm just going to invite all of you into my bedroom, and

instead, I'm just going to show you.

Starting with Act 1, The Amazing Dan Magic Show,

with the help of my lovely assistant, Pearl.

Oh, hang on. She doesn't have her hair fell off. There it is.

Here. Okay, I got it. Don't worry. I got it. Her hair fell off.

It's an old sock.

I know.

Get it. Fuck it.

Looking good, Pearl. It's been a couple of years since we've done any magic.

Look, okay. So, look. Here I have two handkerchiefs. Green and yellow. With

help of Pearl, as I pass that through my hand, they magically turn to blue and

red. Ooh.

magic saw.

It gets better. It gets better. That's what leads us now to act two.

Sawing a woman in half.

Get excited.

Let's open this pit up.

Magic draw.

Up next, is your mind able to keep up with the ethic of Chipper Rowan?

calm, and collected.

That's not what this next magician is.

So what is he?

He's Chipper Lowell.

Thank you so much, and give it up for Alyssa.

Alyssa, you're going to be our test subject today, which is why you're

the sign, because we're not going to really do magic. We're going to do more

an experiment dealing with chant.

We're going to use these cards. Let me show everybody that they're all mixed

all normal. All right? I want you to also take a look, just to verify that

they're all mixed up.

Yes, all the way through. Want to be very thorough about that. Excellent. You

may notice that you are sitting next to a table that has a little carpet on it.

There is a light on a stand behind it. And I've created this. Hello, everybody.

Hello, Alyssa.

It is a box with no top, no bottom. We'll place it right here. Let's turn

on. There we are.

Excellent.

It's a little shadow box. With your right hand, would you please put it all

way through the box? There you go. Can you wave hi to everybody, if you would,

please? Very nice. Give them a thumbs up.

Oh, cool.

All righty. Now, we are going to take the shuffled up cards, and I'm going to

hand them to you from the top. So tell me when you have them. You have them?

Hold on to them, if you would, please. We're going to put the lid on, and I

you to just let the cards drop randomly out of your hand onto the carpet.

Very nice. Are they all gone?

Now start picking cards up wherever you find them. Throw them up in the air.

Find some more. Throw them up in the air.

Keep going. Keep going. You want to mix these cards up as much as possible for

this experiment.

Okay? A couple more times.

Three seconds. Two seconds. And one. And stop.

Excellent. Give another high five or a thumbs up. Take your arm out of there if

you would please.

Let me turn the light off.

And let me get these.

Out of here. There we go.

Now, please stand up, and I want you to hold up your first finger, and you may

notice that some of the cards you have turned face up, any of those cards that

you turned, I want you to slide them forward, just like that, onto this area.

Very good. There's a couple over here.

There's one right there.

Another one right there.

I think we're good. Yes? All righty.

Now, please take one step forward, and I want you to very slowly take the test

subject sign off, hold it right in front of you, and I'm going to line these

cards up so that everybody can see which cards you randomly selected.

All righty, and we have, here we go, an eight and a three and a king.

Now, you've had that sign around your neck the entire time. Would you turn it

around, show the audience?

You may notice, I don't know if you can see it, but there's cards inside because

I put them away before the performance tonight because I wanted to see if you

and I had some type of connection.

Chance. We're going to find that out right now.

I'm going to have you hold onto these face up, if you would please, and I'm

going to have you hand them to me one at a time. So right from the front here,

we have Jack of Hearts.

Jack of Hearts. Oh, look at that. It's a match. Jack of Hearts.

That's incredible.

Okay, next one. What do you got? Three of diamonds. Three of diamonds. Right

here near the end. Three of diamonds.

What's the next one? Two of spades. Two of right here in the middle. Two of

spades. This is incredible.

Okay, we have the king of clubs right here in the end. King of clubs.

And what else we got? Eight of diamonds. Eight of diamonds. Oh, my gosh. You are

going for growth here. This is incredible. Nine of spades.

Nine of spades.

All right. What's the next one? Five of hearts right here as well. Five of

hearts. All right. Only two to go. We got the five of clubs. Five of clubs.

a match. And finally, ten of hearts. And the three, the ten of, okay.

That's it. Thank you. Good night.

No, you know what? I got to say, this has been amazing because you had nine,

well, I should say eight out of nine.

That's better odds than the lottery. Give her a nice hand. That's incredible.

As a matter of fact, I kind of knew that that's what would happen. No,

seriously. When I made the sign, I put test subject will be off by one.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I think she got 100%. Give her a nice hand. Let's

it for her. Kika Bauer. Kika Bauer.

Congratulations.

The wild and mind -bending deception of Chute O 'Gallon.

Next.

Right now, you're really in for a treat. It is the international flair and mind

-boggling magic all the way from Tokyo, Japan.

It's Shoot Ogawa.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Tonight, I would like to show you magic and art

together. That's why I have a few things on stage.

First of all, this is a painting of René Magritte from Belgium.

This is night.

You can see that someone is standing in front of the ocean, and he has a hat,

and he has an apple in front of his face, so you cannot see his face, which

means kind of annoying.

But I really love it. So I have another thing here.

Watch.

This is nothing.

I mean, this is a frame.

But this frame is going to help you to imagine things.

For example, if I put my hand, it looks like a beautiful art.

Okay, you don't care, right?

So, now I have another thing. This is a brush.

This is just a tool for painting, but I'm going to use this for magic.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my magic with music.

This one is awesome.

You know, a lot of magic involves messing with your brain. But what you're

to see now is all about the heart.

Here is Holly England.

oh oh

Next up, the quick moves of Jeff Hobson.

Slight of hand is the mark of any master magician, so it's no surprise that our

next illusionist is featuring that very skill.

Let's hear it for Jeff Hobson.

Thank you so much. Oh, I got a drink for you now.

I've got a few cards here, not a whole deck, because I don't play the full

Oh, stop.

This I call my very famous five red card trick.

Ooh -ah, ooh -ah.

And to do the five red card trick, I use one, two, three, four, and, yes, five

red -backed cards.

But they're not just red on the backs. They're also red on the front.

As well. So now we're ready.

Five red cards on the back and on the front.

I'm sorry.

You're supposed to have five red cards. This is the queen of spades.

They're supposed to be both red on the front and the back. I do apologize for

that, but I think I can still do the four red card trick. What do you say?

The famous four -red -card trick. Ooh -ah.

Ooh -ah.

Okay, with four red cards. Watch carefully. Red on the back, red on the

I still have a few cards left.

I've got the... Yeah, yeah, we're good. We're good. I can still do the famous...

Three red card trick.

Ooh -ah, ooh -ah. You ready?

Sorry.

The two red card

trick. Ooh -ah, ooh -ah.

So let's begin.

The two red card trick. Watch carefully, ladies.

Well, I wanted to show you the five red card trick, but it looks like I've

showed you the five queen of spades card trick.

And I hope you've enjoyed it.

Well, this has been amazing. I wish we had more magic.

And we do. But you'll have to wait until next time.

Till then, I'm Dean Cain. Have a great night.