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Warning. What you're about to witness will be dangerous.

Attempting it will result in death.

Don't try this at home.

On this episode of Believe.

I'm going to let it take shots so high, over my home, it's going to look like a

child. I'm talking about stories.

60 feet. This will be the biggest levitation you've ever done.

If I could do this, we're in the history books.

He's the greatest magician in the world, but he needs to understand I can

levitate myself.

I'm anxious to see if he can levitate me.

Shaq has been calling me out for years in the press to levitate him.

Don't release your hands yet. Don't break contact. Keep your fingertips on

I was wondering if I could show you guys something. We're going to get a bunch

of people from the park so I could try something I've never done before. Is

cool? That's cool. All right. Come check it out. Go right over here.

All right. Isn't that duck amazing?

Would I be able to use your blanket?

Of course.

Yeah? I need to also use your blanket. I have one. I need two. Is that okay?

Perfect. You want to see my trick?

Want to help me, man?

Yeah, you can. You do. Come over here, ma 'am.

You don't look like you want to help me. That's why I wanted to meet you.

Hi, how are you?

Come right over here for me. And I need somebody completely at random. I have a

marker over here. I'm going to take it and just give it a toss. If you catch

who has it?

You want to help me?

No. You don't want to help me? No.

Okay, so let her help me then.

Okay, cool. Come over here, hon.

Come over here. This is what you're going to do. I asked you to do this

I want you to sign.

his arm just put whatever you like could be a dog's name could be your name dina

dina sign sign her arm as well go ahead sign her arm okay come over here i want

you to pick a blanket doesn't matter what blanket you want all right you want

go on that side are you on that side okay that's good all right your name is

sherry sherry is over here on my left daryl daryl is on my right now sorry

is what we're gonna do Just going to ask you to take this and hold this up just

like this.

Now, you said Darryl. Darryl, you're going to take this and hold this up

waist height just like this, okay?

Everything fair so far?

Okay, now watch. Watch what we're going to do. We're going to cover up Sherry

right over here just like so. We're going to cover her up just like this.

over here.

You signed her arm. Is that your signature?

How'd you do that?

The people quit in two seconds. It was insane.

I lifted up the blanket.

It went black.

I let go, and I was somewhere else. It was really weird. It was trippy.

Hey, Chris, what's up? What's up, guys?

This week is monumental. I have my fifth year anniversary of Believe at the

Luxor, and I have my friend Shaq coming to town to celebrate.

I've known Shaq for some time, and he loves magic. He's like a kid. He really

is. I've been getting a bunch of crazy videos from

Shaq. You know what, Chris Angel?

Believe!

And in return, I send him videos of me playing basketball.

That's how it's done.

So it's been this little kind of fun rivalry.

You would never think that Shaq loves magic and that Chris Angel and Shaq are

like best friends and they challenge each other. It's pretty amazing.

He actually went to the press.

and started telling the press that I'm going to levitate him.

No way.

I challenge Chris to see if he can levitate me. All 355 -pound world.

And this has been going on for almost a year, and he tells people that I'm going

to levitate him. The desire to levitate has been around since time itself, and

magicians have capitalized on that desire.

One of the pioneers that really kicked it in the ass was definitely Keller in

1904. I'm trying to embrace what Keller did and take the art of levitation into

the future.

Has anybody ever levitated anybody that big? No, no. I mean, think about it.

We've been doing levitations for years, and one of our requirements is about 99

pounds, you know?

Typically, magicians are levitating girls who are 100 pounds tops, and

soaking wet.

And that's basically due to the limitations of the technique.

Shaq weighs three times that much.

I'm talking about doing this outside, by the way, not on stage.

Right. In the middle of the daytime, something of epic proportion.

How high? I'm talking about stories.

60 feet.

Can we use a forklift?

I'm going to levitate back so fucking high he's going to look like a child

because he will be that high over my home. I think we get him on a basketball

court. Let's see him do some free throws.

And then let me just bug him out when he's least expecting it. Maybe I do

hypnotize him.

Can Chris levitate Shaft over his house? That is almost ridiculous because

I don't even think it can be done.

Speaking of levitations.

All right, you guys, you know what your work is, right? Good job, baby.

All right.

By the way, Shaq's just a little bit bigger. Yeah.

Yes, he is.

This demonstration features Shaquille O 'Neal, four -time NBA champion and 15

-time All -Star.

Chris will attempt to levitate 355 -pound Shaq more than six stories over

home in full 360 -degree view.

Category of magic, levitation.

I'm going to disappear and appear on stage in a second.

I'll bring my show here.

Okay, I got it.

All right, hold on a second.

What's your name? Diana. Diana, nice to meet you.

This week, I'm going to be consumed with the art of levitation.

I need to figure out the answer, the method, the technique that I must employ

levitate Shaq. And sometimes that answer lies in the smallest of levitation.

Diana?

I want you to think of something that's on their table. It could be a piece of

corn. It could be chicken.

It could be ketchup.

Whatever you want, just name it for me.

Coffee? Coffee.

Do you want to change your mind?

No.

Do you mind if I touch your coffee? No.

May I taste your coffee? You may have my coffee.

Oh, my God.

It's good.

It freaked me out. It was coming right at my face and I don't know how Criss

Angel did it.

much for coming out man thanks for having me i'm excited that chad came to

early to hang out have some fun but i can't wait to tell him the news that

accepted his challenge and he's asked better be ready because i'm going to

levitate it over my house chris

Why do you love magic so much?

You know, when I was growing up, I'd have to babysit my brothers and sisters,

I would have to do things to, you know, just keep their attention.

So I used to do a little magic. Not real good magic, but it was magic. So I've

seen all of the magicians, but this guy right here, minds of myself, young, good

-looking, he's a hard -working guy, and he just does different tricks, and I

just, I challenged him. I said, okay, I got a trick I know you can't do.

Levitate me.

If I could do this, you and I, man, we're in the history books.

This is why he's number one in the story.

Coming up.

Shaq has been calling me out for years to levitate him. Just completely relax,

all right?

Trust me.

I'm going to do more magic for Criss Angel. I'm going to make a free throw.

Magic.

No, that's magic.

Believe!

Chris Angel, you levitate yourself.

I make kids levitate.

Oh,

this is nuts.

If magic is going to remain relevant, its methods must be based in the latest

technologies. As a matter of fact, some of my levitations employ

technology that NASA uses.

I'm going to have to take some major leaps forward if I'm really going to

levitate Shaq.

What do you want me to do?

Make you float.

We got to get a lot of static electricity for that one. Look straight

Relax.

Close your eyes. Just close your eyes.

Open your eyes up.

Did you feel it?

Yeah. You went up?

Yeah. How was that?

Since Jack is such a huge fan of magic, I'm going to open

up the factory and give him unprecedented access to my team, to the

who knows, maybe he'll learn a trick or two.

I just really think he's my best friend, and we are, but I'm going to challenge

him to some magic.

I'm here because he's going to levitate me, but he needs to understand I can

levitate myself.

Believe that doubt.

Believe.

Dude, what are you doing?

Sorry about that, sir.

Sorry.

This is another trip for Chris Angel.

You're going to eat this whole donut without biting it.

Believe.

Hi, I'm Shaquille O 'Neal.

I'm the king of clubs. You know who this guy is.

This is Chris. He's a lovely assistant.

So if we're going to get married and I'm the king, I would have to make you the

queen.

I think that makes Chris the ace.

It is so cool to have Shaq hanging out with us. And as an apprentice myself, I

can say I think he's got some potential.

Oh, Chris.

Yeah. I call this the floating bagel.

The bagel goes in the box.

Now, rise, bagel.

Rise, bagel.

Rise, bagel. Back down, bagel.

Jack is definitely a practical joker. You can never take him seriously.

You see, I'm not looking at the deck. I can take any card I want. Seriously?

Yeah, any card you want. Well, now I'm pressed.

Yeah. Okay. I got one.

Show everybody.

I'm not going to be here. Here's the camera.

Boom. Okay, everybody.

Put it back in there.

All right.

Can I mix them?

Yeah, you can make some. I trust you, dude.

You can make some. And I trust you, but not like when it comes to magic, because

you're always going to try to be one up on me.

I'm not going to be one up on you.

No way.

Is this your card? No.

That's not his card. I'm going to take five tries to get his card, okay?

This is one.

Is this your card? No. Two.

Is this your card? No. Three.

Is this your card? No. Four. On the fifth time, I'm not going to pick a card

because...

Five. Probably five diamonds.

Now he's put me off guard and really surprised me. He really did something

was like, wow.

Maybe his technique is for me not to take him seriously. So he can set me up

then bam.

If the track can float it, you can float it.

Believe.

To create powerful magic, you've got to be a student of human behavior.

It's amazing to me that people are so consumed in their own little world that

they're oblivious to what's going on around them. This demonstration

exactly that.

I'm trying to find where the front desk is and I actually don't know exactly

where I am on the map. It's so confusing.

I'm so sorry. If you could just show me exactly where we're going on here.

Sometimes big changes can happen right out in the open.

Changes you won't believe.

I'm so sorry. If you could show me exactly what we're going on here. Okay,

is... I'm trying to get to the front desk. Go.

Okay, this is the casino.

Okay. Right in front of us. Gotcha.

If you want to go into the casino... Oh!

I'm sorry. If you want to go into the casino... Yes, the casino here.

This is the casino.

Notice the guy falling?

That's called misdirection. It brings your attention somewhere else.

It's unbelievable.

He doesn't even realize one person turned into another person. And then it

turned into me with my dog.

I'm sorry. You want to go into the casino? Yes, the casino here. And go to

right just a little bit. There's going to be two doors.

Okay. Do you know if they let dogs in the Luxor?

Yeah, this is going to be Luxor. But they let you have dogs in here? It's

I don't know.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

And this trick can work on everybody.

It's human nature.

Excuse me. Do you know your way around Luxor at all? I'm totally lost right

Maybe you've been here. Can you hold this side for me?

We're supposed to be here and I'm looking for the front desk, but I

were maybe like on this side.

The front over here.

Like left.

Left over there. So the Bleed Theater, that theater right there, where would

that be?

I think that's over there.

I think it's over that way.

Is it over there then?

That's where it is?

Over there?

Thank you so much.

Would you be fooled?

Coming up.

I used to be sad side.

Don't release your hand yet.

you just to take both your hands, raise them up like this. Actually, raise it a

little higher for me, just like that. Good. I want you to close your hand for

me. Close your hand. Take this hand and put it right on top of that hand. I

don't want to touch anything. I'm going to take some ashes right over here from

this ashtray, as you can see, and I'm just going to place them on the back of

your hand right there.

I'm going to place them on top of your hand, okay? You see that?

Now watch.

You're going to feel your hand. It's going to start to get warm.

When you feel it get warm, I want you to tell me that you feel it getting a

little bit warmer, as if the ashes are burning you. I want you to feel that

happen as I start to rub them. You're going to feel that. Use your imagination

and tell me when you feel it getting warmer.

You're starting to feel it get warmer, yes?

Yes. Yes?

It's getting a lot warmer now, isn't it?

Yes. You see the ashes.

You felt that?

Just remove your hand for a second. I have not touched anything, have I? No.

Just the top of your hand.

I want you to turn your hand over and show the camera. Open it up.

I know

you want to know how I did that, don't you?

You want me to reveal it?

Yes.

Very simple. You get some ash on your finger.

Make sure it's not hot ash because it will hurt.

Then you ask somebody, hey, I want to try something with you. Just take both

your hands, put them out like this. Go ahead, do it.

Now, I want you to raise your hands a little high. When I do that, I'm

taking the ash and I'm putting it on your palm already. You see that? Now I

close your fist and I go like this so that you close this fist up, right?

Then I say, take your hand, place it over your other hand.

All of this is all just presentation.

Take some ash, put it on the back of the hand, rub it. You're getting warmer.

You feel it getting warmer.

When you do that, people will feel it getting warmer because I'm rubbing my

finger on your hand.

And then I say, remove your hand. I make a big thing. I haven't touched you.

Yes. Right.

Open up your hand. And then, bam, there's the ash right over there.

great effect that you can master very easily. Thank you so much, folks.

Yeah,

I'm from my boys and girls club in Newark, New Jersey, so whenever I'm in

I always come and just talk to the kids.

That's awesome.

Do you get flashbacks when you come here, when you're growing up? Yeah, I

do. Believe it or not, Shaq and I have a lot in common. We both love magic.

We're very competitive.

He's pissed at me now. I'm going to get my ass whooped.

And we love to help out kids.

What's up? What's up?

Hi, my name is Shaquille.

I'm a member of the Boys and Girls Club, especially when I was little. I just

want to tell you, I'm proud of you. I want you to keep believing in yourself.

Stay out of trouble, be leaders and not followers.

I brought a special friend with me, Chris Angel.

You know who that is? Yeah.

All right, so he's in there.

I need to make noise for him to come out. So, all right, repeat after me. We

want Chris.

We want Chris. We want Chris.

Hey, guys, how are you?

How are you?

Outside of my anniversary, this week I've been consumed with the art of

levitation, and I'm really pleased with where we're at.

But I need a test shot with the big man. Now, let me tell you something. What's

amazing about this is this will be the largest man in the world to be able to

do something like this ever.

Yes. Yes. His arm is the size of my leg. Chris, I have a trick first.

Okay. It's called floating kid. Watch.

wants to help me out.

We'll get to shoot some hoops a little bit to get Shaq warmed up. I might not

as tall, but when you believe, this is what happens.

I love you, Chris.

All right.

All you got to do, kids, is believe.

I got another trick.

I'm going to make the fall. This one is called Dunkin' Kid.

You want to see me make a magician duck?

Yeah!

One, two, three, believe!

Yeah!

Damn! All right. All right. Need some tall kids to help me out here. Okay,

on over here, man.

All right, over here.

Come on over here.

All right. Come on.

So check it out, Chuck. Lay down on the cement.

Stay in the shade there.

It's Vegas.

Good. All right, now come around here.

Come around over here, man.

Actually, come around over here too.

Good. And you're going to go to his feet over there. What we're going to do is

we're going to put Shaq in a very relaxed state just to get where we are.

And if you feel your body move, don't react to it. Just completely relax.

All right.

Trust me.

Okay. Everybody felt like this.

You're going to take your hands. You're creating friction. Take your hands, and

I want you to put your fingertips on his body, okay? Put your fingertips on his

body like this. Put your fingertips on him.

I want you to imagine him sticking to your fingertips. Just hold your fingers.

You're going to feel the energy emanate from your fingertips. It's going to come

from your fingertips. Feel it and believe that we can have him stick to

fingertips. Watch.

Believe. Believe.

Don't break contact. Keep your fingertips on them.

Slow

down.

Don't raise your hand anymore. Stay right there. Stay right there.

Now, everybody, release your fingertips slowly.

Step away. Now.

Now.

Wake up. Wake up, Shaq. Shaq. Wake up, Shaq.

You all right?

You okay?

What happened?

You don't know what happened?

You have to know what happened.

Come on up here. Give him a round of applause.

It's a primal kind of instinct in all of us to want to be able to become lighter

than air, to fly.

The test went well with Shaq. Now it's about taking it to another level.

We're talking Shaq size.

Love you guys. Remember, believe.

Yeah. Group hug.

Coming up.

Check it out.

Find the key to his car.

Wait, I thought you were going to go behind.

No, I want you to turn me into one. Oh, you want me to turn you into one, baby?

Okay. Come over here.

Okay. Duck down.

Duck down.

Duck down. Keep on ducking down.

Look, look. Here he is.

Oh, Portofino's. I love it.

Fantastic. I was in here the other day looking around.

Zach is like a kid trapped in an adult body. If I'm going to really levitate

more than five or six stories above the ground over my home, I'm going to have

to put him in a very relaxed, hypnotic state so he doesn't freak out. So I'm

going to brush up on my hypnosis and attempt to hypnotize somebody on the

street.

How much is it?

$18 ,000.

Good.

This is cool, huh?

Yeah.

Hi. Hi. How are you? Good, how are you? Good.

You can use it?

You mind if I just try something with you? I just have... You see the camera?

Uh -huh. I just want to try something with you. Okay.

I want you just to relax yourself, alright?

Okay. I'm going to try something with you. Okay. And I just want you to relax

yourself. I want you to completely forget that we're in this store.

And I want you to look at me and to focus in on the moment. I want you to

breathe in through your nose.

One more time.

You feel your eyes getting heavier?

Yeah. Yeah? Just relax it again.

Just relax yourself.

Now, listen to my voice. Keep your eyes closed.

You're going to have amazing balance.

You're going to be able to balance.

Anything I put on top of your head, you're going to be able to balance it.

I'll tell you when to open up your eyes.

No, no, no. Be careful. No.

Open up your eyes. Now put your hands over your head.

Hold that hold on to the base.

I'm going to balance this right on your head.

Balance it right on your head.

Just relax.

Relax.

Become one with the vase.

Balance.

Now listen to my voice.

Turn.

Turn.

Turn.

I close your eyes.

When you open up your eye, you're just stopping.

You're just stopping. You're looking around. Hi, how are you?

Good. How are you? Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

Nice. Put your glasses on.

I know you're going to want the pair, right?

Yes. So I'm going to buy you one because when you see what you just did, it's

going to blow your mind. So here, you can have that.

It took me 18 years to become an overnight success. I've worked my ass

to be celebrating my fifth year anniversary at the Luxor with Believe is

just a testament to my incredible cast and crew.

Coming to Vegas over 20 years, I've seen all the magic shows.

The Chris Angel Believe show, number one by far.

The best magic show in Vegas, and I do believe.

You're always in character, man.

Celebrating our 2007.

People like Zach who have such a love for magic inspire me to put things out

that are easy to learn, that play real big, and are real powerful.

I was talking about the crazy thing you do with the phone and the coin. Oh,

capture. I need a sounding board, so before I release anything, I try it out

my cast and crew.

I need a phone, a penny, dime, nickel, or quarter. Whatever you have.

I have a quarter.

Oh, cool. Place the quarter on the screen.

Like that.

I'm going to do it really, really slowly for you, okay? Watch.

Wow!

I want you to see it. I want you to see it. Watch.

It's in the phone.

Wow.

That's crazy. That's crazy.

That's crazy.

Wow. It's coming toward my finger.

You know why?

I'll show you what.

try to get it in there you can't get it in there right no yeah capture could be

done with any smartphone any coin and there's no app thank you all right now

we go celebrate our 2000 performance to believe here let's go come on

five years, 2 ,000 shows of Believe at the Luxor. It's all behind me. It's a

chapter, but first we got to celebrate and see if my practice for the last week

is going to pay off as I attempt to levitate Shaq above my home.

All right, check it out.

He's challenging me, like constantly sending me magic clips, trying to one

me, right? So I want him to try something right now.

Find the key to his car.

Coming up. Chris!

It's working!

Believe it can happen, and it will happen.

Sit.

Let me just give Shaq one more lesson. Shaq. A ball.

A court.

In.

Five years, 2 ,000 shows.

It's great to celebrate a milestone, but what's even better is to have a party

with such great friends.

And I'm very thankful to everybody here for coming and supporting me. And to all

of you, Jack and Paul and Omar, Flav, Caratau, everybody, you know,

Banachek. Everybody has always been such an amazing support for me. And thank

you very much to all of you. Thank you.

How would I know? Can you pull an air conditioner out of your pocket? It's

108.

After eating all this, no way Chris Angel will be able to meditate now.

Impossible. That's going to do the trick.

Oh!

You leave!

You're crazy.

I think when Shaq and Chris get together and they have so much fun doing magic,

it's really a reminder to us all why we do this.

I've got to take you to the jackpot.

Look, it's bad in your shoes, man.

all here for a very special occasion to celebrate my 2000 performance of Believe

at the Luxor.

Shaq has been calling me out for years in the press to levitate him.

So I'll do it if you want to see it right now.

And Shaq, of course, you have to agree to this.

Alright, let's do it.

Alright, so what I want you to do is come over here, man.

I want you to lay down and relax.

Lay out with your head over here.

There we go.

All right. Just completely relax yourself.

All right. Cool.

Cool. Are you hot? You really hot right now? You all right?

Okay. Hey, guys, I want you to gather around him. I want you to take your

fingertip. You're going to hold his body just like this, Jack. Relax.

Relax. Relax.

Relax.

You're going to allow him to literally...

Pick to your fingertips. Believe it can happen. Believe it can happen and it

will happen. Start to lift up now.

Don't release your hands yet.

All right.

Release your hands, guys. Release your hands.

How in the world did Chris Angel get shot off the ground?

The guy's almost 400 pounds.

Chris made him look like a baby, you know, flew him right over the house, so

was ridiculous.

I never took your glasses from Flippin'. He's the best illusionist in the world.

Chris, you're amazing.

How'd you do that?

That's the most amazing thing I ever saw in my life.

And you know what? I'm going to ask Chris if I'd be next.

2 ,000 shows, five years at the Luxor. What better way to celebrate than with

friends and family all here to witness my attempt to levitate Shaq.

You were all the way up there. Crazy.

That was crazy.

Over the house?

Over the house. No way.

You didn't feel it?

I didn't feel nothing.

I just levitated that ball. Get out of here.

I did.

Chris, I did.