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The art of tricking the brain, distorting the senses, challenging

You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes. Meet the Masters of

Illusion.

Well, I hope you're ready to experience some stunning sorcery. I'm Dean Cain,

and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

One of the things that makes magic so fascinating is the element of surprise.

Oh, Farrell Dillon, ladies and gentlemen.

I was doing a show open. I was just wondering if I could get your autograph

right now.

On this show, you're the celebrity, but all right, I'll do it. You're kind of

important. Yeah, just sign it right there. Yeah.

Then can I start the show? Oh, boy, that is brilliant. That's my signature.

Here, I'll fold it up. I'm going to give it to you, all right? Look, I'm a Las

Vegas magician, right? Right. I feel like you should have my... I agree.

Why do I have mine? My name's Sparrow, right? So normally when I sign stuff, it

looks like that. You know what that says?

That says F.

No, it actually says F!

Oh, because of the exclamation mark. That's what makes it exciting.

Hold on to that, because look, you've got your signature, right? But look, if

you look at my name right here, watch.

Boom.

Your name is not my name.

And look, if you open up that one in your hand, show it to them.

Don't you dare.

F!

Prepare to be mesmerized by the incredible talent of our next magician.

Give it up for Anna de Guzman.

Wow.

I want you all to try this in your own head. Even those of you watching at

try to follow along with me the best that you can. I want you all to think of

dessert. Okay, any dessert like ice cream?

Oh, I knew you would think of ice cream, huh? Ice cream, tiramisu, like those

ones, but I just said them. So try to think of one you can find on a

menu. Got it? You're all thinking of different desserts.

Spell it out in front of you, right?

Take the last letter of your dessert and think of an animal.

Okay? All of you at home are thinking of an animal now.

Let's take it a step further and think of a sport. A sport that starts with the

last letter of your animal. I know this is kind of confusing, but now we're

getting all sorts of different things.

Are you all following along with me?

Cool. What were you thinking of? What sport?

Tennis. Really? Were you thinking of an elephant?

That's correct. Really?

Were you all thinking of like an elephant playing tennis?

No way. No way. I knew this. I knew you were all going to think of an elephant

playing tennis.

Really? Yeah, I did. I knew this all along. It's actually been sitting right

front of you before we even started.

It's right here this whole time.

I drew something before I even came out here.

And it is an elephant playing tennis?

amusing, the amazing Adam Wiley.

Then we've got a lot of paper bags with six different prizes. Here's the good

news. You are going to get to keep five of these prizes. And I get to keep

only one. And we're going to decide which prizes you get and which prize I

with this singular die. I want you to go ahead.

And roll it a few times.

Make sure that there's nothing weird about it. It's just a normal die.

When you feel comfortable, let me know. Going pretty good. Excellent.

Okay, Ben, let's see you roll.

Number one. Good job, Ben.

That's good, yeah. That's great.

Go ahead. See what you got. Number one.

Lovely. What'd you get?

I'm curious.

Did you? Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Take those out. Yeah, I don't want to touch

them.

It's tissue paper.

Here, I'll clean it up. You get to keep those, so that's good. All right, roll

again, Ben.

You got one.

Number two. You're going in order. This is good. Good job, Ben. Let's see what

else you got.

Oh, let's see.

Packets of sugar.

That's pretty good.

Good job, Ben. I'll take that. You roll again.

Keep rolling.

Here, it's for you, Nathan.

Go ahead.

Number six.

That's great. Number six.

What'd you get?

Straws. Straws? Those are very valuable nowadays.

Yeah. You have to ask in order to receive them. So that is an excellent.

Yes. Sometimes they really suck. Okay.

It's true.

Very true. Hey, Nathan. Great. Another one. Go ahead.

Five. That's excellent. What could you have gotten?

Yeah, what is it?

An already been chewed apple. That's amazing.

It's from my lunch. Hey, Nathan, guess what?

Amazing. You see, there's a theme. Okay, go ahead. You got two more.

Well, one more, really. Now, either number four or number three, you got to

till you get one of them.

Nope.

You're really good at rolling the ones that you've already done.

Yeah.

Wow, you're good at that. Keep going.

Keep going.

Go, go.

Three or four.

It's okay.

Two. Five.

Five. You're good at five, Spence. Don't give up. I believe in you.

That's a one.

Another five.

That's a two.

What is wrong with you?

Three!

It's Ben who did it. I had nothing to do with it.

Wow, you're not good at either one of those.

What'd you get?

Some gum wrappers.

You got gum wrappers? That's what I've always wanted.

Are there three of them?

There is three. That's meta.

Okay.

Here you go, Nathan.

Great.

The last prize, the one I get to keep. I don't have to roll. You don't. That's

it. You're done.

That's really, really nice.

Oh, this is a really nice one, Ben.

It's a brick of $10 ,000.

Great. Okay. Good job, Ben. I appreciate it. Thank you guys so much.

When we return, the amazing card wizard group of Tomar. Next.

Okay, are you ready to witness some stunning illusions and incredible Spider

-Man?

So if he won, he only told Myers.

So I'm here with Jessica, yeah?

Jessica, we just met. Jessica's a random person from the audience. You look

pretty random. Now, Jessica, here's the plan. First of all, you ever go on your

phone and you look for something you want, you order it, it takes a week?

Magicians don't have to do that. See, when we find something, we just click on

it like a deck of cards, and when we're ready, we just pull it right out.

That's cool. Okay.

So, Jessica, here's the plan. I'm going to show you a couple of methods that

magicians use to control playing cards, okay?

You go with this. Here's the plan. I want you to do me a favor and name any

of a kind.

Any four of a kind.

Eight. Eight. So you're going right for the big guns. Okay, eight. Check it out.

All different. Every card's totally different. I'm going to give you these a

couple of shuffles. I'm going to show you something called...

shuffle tracking, Jessica. Shuffle tracking is where I take a deck of cards

I shuffle through them just like this through a variety of shuffles and I

be able to cut right to the four aces, one ace at a time. See, that's ace

one. It gets better, Jessica.

Watch, I'm going to slow it down like this.

Another little cut and that should be ace number two. Are we still good? We

good?

Okay, they're both aces. Yeah, that's true. I was there. Okay, Jessica, ace

number three. I'm going to rip it down the side. You say stop.

And stop. Cool, I can see that one. That one is the ace of clubs. Did you see

that, Jessica?

We're going to slow it down one last time. This time I got a great idea how

we're going to find the ace of spades.

Jessica, I'm going to bring my finger over the deck. You say stop.

And stop. Stop right there. Jessica, I'm going to tell you right now, you did

not stop me at the ace of spades. You stopped me at the three of clubs.

It's all good. We're going to find the ace of spades using the three of clubs.

Watch. All I have to do is give it a little flick.

That's all four aces.

Oh, yeah.

They get to stop. Okay. I see you.

All right, Jessica, I'm going to show you how this works, okay? We're going to

slow it down. So that was shuffle tracking. I'm going to show you

called dead -cutting the aces.

Dead -cutting the aces is something that you learn as a magician, and it's

actually the reason why I'm not allowed in Vegas casinos. I wish that was a

joke. Four aces right here. Watch this. They go in the middle of the deck. Now

I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm doing as I'm doing this, okay, Jessica?

So I'm going to shuffle the four aces in just like this. I'm going to do

something called an up -the -ladder shuffle.

This is called an overhand shuffle.

That's like what you see your uncle do in your basement.

This one is called the Pharaoh Shuffle. This is where every single card is

interwoven, shuffled into the deck. You see that, Jessica?

That's so every single card is thoroughly shuffled. So I'm showing you

show you that I'm not holding the aces all together.

So I'm not holding them at the top of the deck, for example, and then

like doing false shuffles until I find the four aces. I'm not retaining them

either at the bottom.

So they're not like four aces at the bottom. So I'm telling you the truth

now that those four aces are not only in the deck, but they're... Different

parts of the deck, okay, Jessica?

Different parts of the deck. So right now, the first ace is 17 cards down. So

I were to cut 17 cards down, the 18th card would be the ace of spades. See

Now notice, if I were to cut too low, I would have missed the ace. And too far,

I would have missed the ace. So no matter what, it had to have been right

It's not like I'm holding the ace somewhere in the middle and just cutting

it. I'm going to do it again. Ace number two looks just like this, right to it.

This is an acquired skill.

So again, if I were to cut too soon, I would not have cut an ace too far. I

would not have cut an ace. Ace number three gets more difficult as you go.

it is. Okay, ace number three.

Jessica,

the last one is the ace of hearts. We're going to find that one completely

differently. I've got an idea.

Right now, a deck card has 52 cards in it. This deck has 49 right now because

it's missing three of the aces, yeah?

So name a number for me between one and 49.

16. 16.

Check this out, you guys. The ace of hearts is at the 16th position right

Did you see it?

Check it out. Watch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

Thanks,

guys.

Next, the impossible is made possible by hierarchy.

never know what to expect with this next illusionist. So, prepare to be amazed

by our very own Eric Eaton.

Being a magician, I work at a lot of comedy clubs, and one of the cool things

I get to see what drinks people like to drink. For example, some people like to

drink Blue Lagoon, some people like to drink Manhattan.

Anyways, I made a list here, or a menu per se, of all the most popular drinks.

What I'm going to do is, let me see you, ma 'am. Do you like to drink? Yeah.

Perfect. You'll be perfect for this trick then.

What I want you to do is you're just going to say stop whenever you're ready,

okay?

Oh, stop.

Say that again.

Say stop whenever you're ready.

Stop. Right there? Are you sure?

Yeah. Positive.

Take a look at your drink.

Concentrate on it. Think about it. Think about the drink. Think about the drink.

Think about how you may be trying it later tonight.

Perfect. Now, inside this drink, are you familiar with the one you ordered?

Do you know the ingredient?

No, that's okay. Some people drink to remember, others drink to forget.

So, I have a deck of cards here, and they all have just a bunch of different

ingredients. For example, we have lime, vodka, pineapple, lemon juice,

grapefruit juice. You guys get the point. Just a bunch of different

and I don't want to keep going. For example, I don't know how to pronounce

these words.

Now, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to shuffle the deck.

I want you to think about the ingredients or try to think about what's

drink. For example, if I give the deck a little shuffle, we can make one card

come to the top. That card is whiskey.

Is there whiskey in your drink?

Perfect. See the next one. This time, instead of doing a regular shuffle,

actually just going to give it three cuts. One, two, and three.

And just like that, one card comes to the top.

An orange. Is there an orange in your drink?

Yeah.

This time we'll give it both a shuffle and we'll actually give it three cuts.

So there's the shuffle, now the three.

One, two, and three.

And then to top it off, a little flick.

One card shoots out, a sugar cube.

Now, that leaves us with one more ingredient.

This time shuffle, just like so, and a catch.

Angostura bitters.

So, we have four ingredients here. Whiskey, orange, Angostura bitters, and

cubes. Was your drink an old -fashioned?

Yes?

Thank you. And in case that wasn't enough, I have one drink inside my back

laughs at the unbelievable talent of Sean Jay.

Next.

The moment you've all been waiting for has arrived.

This magician is an absolute genius who's dedicated his life to the art of

illusion. He's got the talent, he's got the wit, and the charm to make your

evening unforgettable.

Please give a warm round of applause for the one and the only, Sean Jay.

Magic is like one of those things you can't see. There's a lot of things in

that you can't see, but just because you can't see it doesn't mean that it's not

there.

Now, a lot of things we have to put our trust and faith in. We have to keep

track of our money. Sometimes it's very hard to keep track of our money because

money these days is kind of digital.

You know, it's so difficult to keep track. Every time you put it away, you

you have it, but it's never there.

Sometimes, sometimes, people play with their money

too much and create it into a form of gambling.

But sometimes I get kind of curious, and I say, what if I just play with

my money a little bit? And if I were to play with my money,

were to look something like this.

When I was a little kid, I would always fidget with things. I would take pencils

and pens off the table, and I could barely keep track of those, let alone

money itself.

Now, sometimes you see the money travel.

You can hand it from one person to another.

Sometimes it's an electronic deposit where it just goes, like what I

that you do.

is you don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

I recommend that you hang on to your money.

Because sometimes, if you play with your money too much, it might just be one

big gamble.

Magic is all about creating moments of awe and wonder. And our next performer

does it with style and finesse. Please give it up for the incredible Mae Wynn.

Yeah.

another edition of Masters of Illusion to a close. We want to thank you for

being a part of this incredible evening of mind -bending illusions and

unbelievable feats of magic.

Until next time, I'm Dean Cain. Thank you.