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Right now, I'm going to take you on a journey into my world.

From the UK to the USA.

I'm going to bring some magic into people's lives, so come with me as I

the impossible.

In this episode, I go toe -to -toe with heavyweight boxer David Haye, leave

Matt Horne lost for words, and take a trip to one of my favourite places,

I don't understand how he did it.

My name's Stephen Frayne, but most people call me Dynamo.

Magic is all about the element of surprise.

I love to create something extraordinary in the most ordinary of places.

Sometimes it's the things we don't expect which are the most powerful.

Sometimes you've got to go for your dreams, no matter what the risk.

It's better to try and fail than it is to fail to try.

And no one knows the highs and lows of success better than boxer David Haye.

I caught up with him and his team before one of his biggest fights to see how

his nerves were holding up. You might hear this sound.

That's because we're actually under an arch, under an arch right near Waterloo,

and there's trains going across every day. I actually don't actually hear it

because I've been here for so many years. It's like music to my ears. It

like London, doesn't it? It does. It sounds like London. It sounds like home

me. Yeah. You look pretty relaxed, you know, considering you've got a massive

fight coming up.

This is what I do. I stay relaxed all the way up until the fight. Even the day

of the fight, you'd never know that I was fighting.

It's only when I'm in the changing room getting warmed up for the fight that I

start really switching on.

I try not to use up any mental energy in a lead -up to a fight. I'm trying to

try something.

I've got some polo mitts here.

Do you want to take them out and open them up?

Just take out any polo.

That one?

See this?

No, he's not.

Oh, that's not right.

Oh, my... Do

you want to follow?

No, thanks, mate.

You can have that one, you can have that one.

Disgusting.

One of the craziest.

I'm trying to work out how he's done it, but the chain looked like it was in his

neck, so... I don't know, it must have been painful for him.

I wouldn't recommend that to anyone at home, by the way.

Trying to pull a polo through your throat.

Or disgust him.

A few weeks later, I met up with comedian and governing safety

staff, Matt Horne, for a game of pool.

with a few surprises.

Yeah, that'll do.

Here we go. I'm going to clean up now.

See this?

Hey!

My own show.

A lot of variations on it.

Yeah!

Got a pack of cards here. Yeah.

Just think of a card.

Yeah. Go on. Yeah.

When I was, you know, first starting doing magic, every time I'd leave the

off to do gigs, my brothers and sisters kind of liked to play a trick on me.

Right. You know, they'd take my cards and literally mix them face up into face

down. Main trick.

It's pretty annoying, right?

I'm going to actually...

Mix the cards like this.

Right.

Do you want to just push them together for me?

Yeah.

Like that?

Yeah, perfect.

So as you can see, cards mixed better when they're first down, that's better,

right? Yep.

Cards back to back.

All over the place.

You're thinking of the card?

Yes. For the first time, name it out loud.

Eight of spades.

Watch.

Every card writes itself apart from your card.

Amazing. It's amazing.

Incredible. How did you do that?

Take a card out.

Remember it.

Yeah. Spread it to them, guys.

Stick it anywhere.

And then just take the deck.

Yeah. Spread it all over the table. Yeah, I'll help you. Well, willy -nilly.

Willy -nilly, yeah.

Try and make sure that none of the cards are touching each other. Oh, I see.

Okay. That's perfect.

That's a right mess.

Perfect. Pull ball?

Yeah. Put it anywhere you want.

Take the cue. Hit the ball around the table. As long as it hits two cushions,

I'm happy, yeah? Okay.

So I want it to go anywhere.

I'm going to let you decide.

Do you think the ball is... Closest to either this card, this card, this card,

that card.

It's up to you.

It's closest to this card here. This one right here, yeah? Yeah.

You sure?

Yeah.

Name the card out loud.

King of Hearts.

I'll let you turn it all over.

Can't be.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Unbelievable.

Look at that.

Amazing.

Amazing.

I want to try one last thing with a card.

Yeah.

I'm going to go through like this. Just say stop.

Stop. Right there.

Remember the card?

See that?

Just mix them up.

Oh, you know I can't shuffle.

That's good, though.

Is it? Someone should have told me I would have practised my shuffling.

Not that.

That's fair, right?

That's marginally better.

I'm going to place the deck.

Inside the pocket. Right, in the pocket. Watch.

Amazing.

Amazing stuff.

I had no idea when I was waking up today that I would see that.

Unbelievable.

Whenever I need to vanish from the UK, I always seem to end up in America.

Back in 2002, I flew out to a magic convention at the New York Hilton.

I'd been to visit some of my family in the US when I was younger, but this time

I was on my own, with only a couple of hundred dollars and a deck of cards in

pocket.

One evening, I was performing to a large group of magicians in the foyer of the

Hilton, when someone shouted out, this kid's a dynamo.

From then on, the name just stuck.

I love coming back to the States whenever I get a chance.

It's like being on a movie set. There's a surprise around every corner, and they

always bump into some amazing characters.

One of my favourite places to visit in the States is the city of Miami.

Let's do the chihuahua.

Do it again.

Again.

One more time.

Watch.

Go on. What time is it?

I love the way that true astonishment can even make a grown

man feel like a kid again.

Watch. What time is it?

Oh, my God!

See my finger? Yeah.

I headed down to a tattoo parlor in Miami Beach to surprise legendary tattoo

artist Dao Hakowana and members of Young Money, one of the world's biggest hip

-hop collectives.

I wanted to see if I could leave a permanent impression on them, like the

from Dao's needle.

There's the legend right there.

How you doing? Hi, I'm Dao.

You don't even know how much I love illusion.

Oh, my God!

Let me try something with you. You got any money?

Have you got a bill, though, rather than a coin?

What have you got? Yeah, let's have a look.

Yeah, we'll try it with a dollar, yeah?

Can you see this?

What's your name, sorry?

Cheech. Cheech.

Dynamo. So I've got Cheech's dollar bill, yeah?

Can you see on the bill, it says, like, Washington, D .C., yeah? It says that on

all one -dollar bills, right? Yeah.

Yeah? Yeah.

I just want you to name a different city, not Washington, D .C., yeah?

Brooklyn, New York.

Brooklyn, New York.

Hold on to the bill right here.

Okay.

Watch. See that, right?

That's pretty cool.

I just got the one.

See, it says Grandpa.

Because my grandpa got me into magic, so he's always watching over my shoulder.

I want to get more, but I don't want to get one and it go wrong or just not be

the right thing.

You guys got any that kind of went wrong or that you don't really like?

Yeah.

Not from me, right?

No.

Early years, early years. Early years, yeah?

Me, my eye.

Show me.

She's winking.

One of her eyes is winking, but I really want her eyes to look older.

But since he did it on my collarbone, it didn't come right the way I wanted.

Can I take a closer look? Yes.

I'll tell you what.

Hold really still, yeah?

This won't hurt, yeah?

Watch.

There was no eye existing.

It had scarred and fallen off.

Typical of a tattoo that's not done perfectly.

He literally went like that, and there's the eye that literally I would have

tattooed had I redrawn it.

But I didn't tattoo her. I did not touch her with a needle.

I love the craziness of South Beach, but sometimes it's good to get out of a

tourist area and experience the real city.

I headed down to Little Havana, which is the epicentre of Miami's Cuban

community, to see what I could find.

I've never smoked in my life, but I ventured into an old cigar shop to try

something with some of the customers.

Can you just blow me a big blast of smoke towards my hands, yeah?

No way.

Blow me some more, blow me some more.

Hey, I'm Dynamo. Nice to meet you all.

real smoke he had it he had more smoke coming out from thin air just coming out

you know out of his hand into the cup

went

through the coaster into the glove i don't understand how he did it

As I continued my tour of Little Havana, I came across some locals hanging out

outside an old retro cinema.

Do you guys watch a lot of films?

Yeah, probably.

Probably, yeah.

What's your name, bro? Josh. Josh?

Do me a favour, just name a film.

Name a film?

Yeah.

There Will Be Blood. There Will Be Blood?

Yeah.

That film's not playing at the cinema over the road, is it? No, it's not.

No, there's Rambo First Blood, which is kind of close. Yeah.

And you could have had any film, right?

Yeah. Yeah.

Watch this.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yo, that is nice.

That will be good.

Oh,

Jesus Christ. What a savior.

Yo, you can watch the movie right now.

It doesn't make sense.

Wow. That is so weird.

Wow.

That was dope.

He asked me to think of a random movie. I thought of one, and he just pretty

much blew the letters off, and he got it.

He just thought of the movie, and then... He didn't even say a word about

movie. He didn't even, like, say the movie out loud. He just thought about

That's creepy.

Maximo Gomez Park sits on the corner of 15th Avenue, and it's where everyone

comes to play dominoes.

I thought I'd try my hand at a couple of games, Dynamo style.

What's your name?

Guacarlo. Guacarlo, Dynamo.

Nice to meet you, man.

I want to try something using dominoes, so we take...

This is what, is it 3 -0 or 3 -white?

Yeah? Hold your hand up.

See that?

And then if you take this hand, and just put your hand on top.

And now if I take the... Let's see.

What have we got?

I'll take a 3 -1.

So 3 -1.

Take a look.

Thank you.

Just mix these up.

And then each take one.

I'll take one as well.

You've all got a domino, yeah?

Take your domino and just mix them up between you five, yeah? I'll turn

yeah?

Done that?

Make sure you look at the domino you've got so you know what it is. So all look

at the domino.

And then put it face down so I can't see it.

Don't let me see it.

Right. Take your domino like this and just hold it between your hands and put

like this.

Put it like this.

Perfect.

So you all know which domino you've got. I've not seen them. You mix them up.

I'm going to start with you.

Yours

has

got a big number.

A number 8 and a 3.

Do you know what that is?

8 and a 3.

I'm going to try with you now.

Yeah, yours is a number seven and a four.

I'm going to try with you because you're going to be a bit difficult because

you've got glasses on, but I'm going to try anyway, yeah?

Look at me.

Yours is a bit difficult because you've only got one number and it's... So

it's...

A number eight and a zero.

Nothing. Nothing, yeah? Eight and nothing.

Show everyone.

See, eight and nothing.

Two more, yeah?

You've got... You're a bit like him. You've got a blank, yeah?

And you've got five.

Show everyone.

In fact, look. We take these, yeah?

Together.

Like this.

Like this.

Like this. And the one that I had.

Oh, seven, yeah?

I'd arranged to meet DJ Irie, the official DJ of Miami Heat basketball

a dining in Little Havana, where I had a few surprises in store for him.

You're doing Miami though, right?

It's awesome.

Like, you know, in England right now, it's raining.

Yeah. There's no girls walking around in bikinis.

I'll get you some extra ones to take back with you. Is that right? I got you,

got you.

One of the things though, right, that I'm not getting used to in Miami.

What's that?

I'm from England, right?

In England...

we have a cup of tea.

Yeah? None of this iced tea mumbo jumbo.

It's a hot day, you gotta get refreshed.

So make iced tea what you get.

Teabag, ice, I'm gonna... Pretty much. So, like, let me... So you have,

like... Yeah.

So, like, tea.

Yeah.

So, iced tea. I'm gonna try to do... If I, uh... Just separate...

From the tea.

Except for the ice from the tea. You are bugging right now.

We'll take it a step further, yeah?

Because we've got ice from the tea, so I...

Take

the tea from the water.

Come on, man.

Leaving just water.

And tea.

That's iced tea.

You're not going to share a tea with me? I'm going to call you.

You better.

This is so crazy.

Are you for real right now, man?

Are you for real?

So, Ivy, how long have you been DJing for?

So I've been in the game now about 15 years, man. 15 years. 15 years, deep in

the game.

You've mixed a lot of records, right? I'll probably play like 200 records in

night. You've got to keep it fresh. You've got to play new songs all the

But then you've also got to kick it from the classics, you know what I mean?

Just kind of give people a little flashback, you know, some nostalgia.

It's a balance, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What I want you to do is I want you to imagine a mix right now.

Yeah, I want you to think of two songs. It doesn't even have to be a mix that

you've actually done before.

Okay. It could be something totally obscure, right?

Have you got two songs in mind?

I got two in mind.

Just take off your glasses a second.

I need to see those eyes.

My baby blues?

Getting something like...

Is that something that resembles one of the songs you're thinking of?

Yo, man.

Get out of my head, man. Hold it, hold it.

Get out of my head, man.

Drop it like it's hot.

Drop it like it's hot.

Snoop Dogg, Drop It Like It's Hot. And Pharrell, yeah?

Oh, my gosh.

Keep thinking of the other song, though, yeah?

So you'd make Snoop Dogg, Pete Pharrell, Drop It Like It's Hot with...

Oh, this is a good one. I like this one. This is a good one. This is kind of

older. Get out of my party, man. This is kind of older, right?

But it's a classic, though.

Don't just be walking around in there, man.

It's DMX.

Party up.

Party up, yeah?

This is so crazy, man.

That sounds like a good mix. How are you just going to be hanging out of my head

like that, man? Did you take anything from there?

Don't worry, you can keep your pin numbers and your bank details.

Dude, come on, man.

It was like the first two songs that kind of came to mind.

I'm speechless, man.

I'm speechless.

You were just all up in here.

You were all up in there, man.

Maybe there was like a sign, you know, running across my eyes or something like

that. I don't know what it was.

He literally looked in my eyes and he told me exactly the two songs that I

thought of.

Like, that is beyond... That shut it down for me. I was done.

DJ Irie had recommended a great Nicaraguan restaurant called Yambo, so I

I'd check it out.

Mmm -mmm.

Good choice, Mr. Irie.

Does anyone here have, like, a dollar bill I could borrow?

If it's 100,

you might never see it again.

I want a double bet.

We've got 20, yeah?

So just write your name on there. I've got a pen.

Just sign it, yeah, or just write your name.

So we've got Kiwi's Bill.

That's okay.

I'm going to double that.

Don't do that.

Bye, $20.

Smell bad.

Smell like burning money.

Watch.

No, you didn't.

Wow. That was good.

Perfect.

Real that he burned it. So it was great. It was amazing though. He burned I mean

actually we sat here and watched him burn it and how he put it in here?

I don't know.

The light just went off and poof.

As the sun went down I decided to hit some of the roof pies down in South

Just take a card out. Show everybody.

You remember the name of the card, right?

Really think of it. Look at me.

I think I've got it.

You could have had any one of these cards, right?

Watch.

Make them all disappear.

Fongs, as they call them. I call them flip -flops.

Whatever.

Let me try this.

Watch.

That's your thong, right? That's your thong.

Yeah, I guess you guys are going home together.

Try once.

That's for you.

That's for you.

I can't believe it.

I feel kind of weird because I don't know what just happened.

I want to try something else. Just stand up for a second.

Just come over here.

I don't know how you do that. I want to learn that.

It was the last day of my trip and I've been invited to another roof pie This

time on top of the beacon hotel where I had one last surprise in store for the

people of Miami

What's your name?

Rachel. Rachel, how you doing? Hi. Dynamo, step forward a second.

OK.

The forest bird, right?

Top card, everyone can see that?

See that? Yep.

When you take the pen, just write your name on there.

It's going to be fabulous one day, all right?

Awesome.

So we've got Rachel.

I just want you to bite down on it.

Hold it right there.

Perfect.

I'll take the next one, the jack of hearts, yeah?

Everyone see that?

I like my name on there, Dynamo.

Jack of hearts.

I'm gonna try something a bit different, something using sound.

You've heard of people who can throw their voices, like a ventriloquist can

it sound like his voice is coming out of a dummy.

So I'm gonna try something like that, but using this.

What's your name, bro?

Bees. Bees, how you doing? Just step out here.

Everyone back up a little bit.

Right here.

Just turn towards me.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I'm going to blow this horn here, but you're going to have your eyes closed.

And don't worry, I'm not going to blow it in your ear or anything.

I'm going to blow it either in front of you, like right here, or behind you.

And with your eyes closed, you've got to guess whether I blew it in front or

behind. Okay. Yeah?

Yeah.

So just close your eyes.

I'm going to pace around you.

You can open your eyes. I was behind you, right? Yeah? Yeah.

Now it's everyone else's turn.

Yeah? So, let's see. If I position you right there, we'll get you

kind of right here.

You come over this side.

When you... Right there.

When you guys... We've got to get you in there.

And you guys kind of... Yeah, that's awesome.

So, right, I want everybody to close their eyes, yeah?

Everyone close their eyes.

I'm going to blow the horn three times.

On the third time, I want you all to open your eyes and look at me. Everyone

understand?

Awesome.

Everybody, eyes closed.

In my time, I found myself appearing in the most amazing places, and my

journey's been full of surprise.

Sometimes, the unexpected can be one of life's greatest gifts.

He ended up all the way up there. He disappeared, man! I don't know where.

He was here.

Then he was here.

And then he was there.

In like a second.

He just teleported. Yeah, he just did some shit. He transported. He teleported

himself. Well, he was over here. Now he's over there.

Dynamo the Beckman.

How did he do that? How did he do that? I want to do that.

Okay?

Coming up next time.

How did he even do that?

How did he even do that?

I take my magic to LA, the city of Angel.

That's so wild.

Oh, my God!