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DEAN: Illusion.

The art of tricking the brain.

Distorting the senses.

Challenging perception.

You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes,

because your brain can be misled.

Meet "The Masters of Illusion."

DEAN: Good evening!

I'm your host, Dean Cane.

Is the purpose of illusion to confuse our senses?

This simple piece of wire has no moving parts,

yet when I twist it in my hands,

it appears to expand but the size never changes.

When I twist it the opposite way,

it appears to shrink, but the wire always remains the same

length.

It's the brain that lengthens or shortens this object,

never the object itself.

Murray Sawchuck specializes in making the simple spectacular.

Here he makes a small thought come to life in a big way.

MURRAY: I love doing predictions and different

things so on the way in I went to a toy store and I

bought some Matchbox toys.

Regular toy cars just here.

And anyone have-- ever have these?

Perfect, shush.

Just the middle section, good.

Alright.

Would you help me, young man?

MAN: Yeah. MURRAY: Alright.

I got, you can stand up, sure.

You wanna feel like you want to stand up,

MAN: Yeah! Be special.

MURRAY: Oh, you're tall!

Sit down. No, I'm just kidding.

Um, so I got a Porsche here,

I got a speedboat, I got a, uh,

white Jeep, and I have a, uh, green tractor.

Alright. Do you drive yet?

MAN: Uh, no.

MURRAY: How old are you?

MAN: Seventeen. MURRAY: Seventeen.

What is with that-- sixteen, seventeen.

MAN: I'm too lazy. MURRAY: Grow up, man.

Alright, so-- alright, so if you were to drive a car and

you want to get one that you're going to have your

first, uh, first car, right, sixteen?

Which one do you want?

MAN: Jeep.

MURRAY: You want the Jeep?! Nice!

Hang on to that, alright?

Watch carefully if this doesn't work it's your fault,

alright. Sit down.

Watch carefully.

Let's go, guys.

Here we go!

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Thank you.

Let's go. Tight? Go!

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Is that your car?! Is that the one?

High five.

High five, man, high five.

Yes, yes!

Yeah!

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Thank you.

Enjoy the Jeep.

DEAN: Christopher Hart is one performer who doesn't need

a hand from the audience.

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DEAN: Next, Nathan Burton makes a very special delivery.

DEAN: Nathan Burton has a special

delivery package, for you.

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DEAN: Next, enter the crazy world of Chipper Lowell.

And later, Michael Grandinetti attempts the impossible.

DEAN: Chipper Lowell baffles you

with his nonstop mayhem.

CHIPPER: Yes! Yes!

Aww thank you very much! (APPLAUSE)

How are you doing tonight?

Do you feel good? Say yeah.

You sound good.

Oh we got a good group.

I wanted to do something special for the,

Masters of Illusion here and,

how many people remember when Oprah gave away

the free cars? Raise your hands.

Yeah! Yeah, yeah -- you're not getting a car.

But, I want to do something similar.

Now I had no idea where anybody was going to sit,

so right now everyone take a look under your chairs.

Take a look under your seats, 'cause one of you lucky

individuals is going to find a big wad of gum!

That is for you to keep.

The, there are still people looking,

that's awesome. That's great.

We got a good group.

Okay, so, here's what's going to happen.

A little bit of magic.

We're looking through the audience-- eenie meenie miney

mo.

And, let's see here, one, two, uh-- Second row,

there's a lovely lady wearing blue,

right there. Hi! Hi, what is your

name? You don't have to come up on stage or

anything. What's your name?

WOMAN: Marcy CHIPPER: Marcy!

Come up on stage. Give her a nice hand-- No!

I'm kidding! Marcy! I'm kidding!

Marcy! Mar- Sit! Sit! I was just kidding, Marcy.

Uh, very important, Marcy-- Have we ever met before?

MARCY: No. CHIPPER: No.

You're very happy about that.

Alright, here's what's going to happen: I'm going to

attempt to sneak into your mind,

oh yeah.

Are you ready? Guess what?

I'm already in there.

I am in your brain right now, Marcy.

You may think that you are making your own choices right

now and your own decisions. Nuh-uh.

It's me doing it for you.

Like you just went "mm-hmm"? I made you do that.

Okay, I will give you more proof.

You know what? We'll use the stage lights.

We'll use red and blue.

Concentrate on one of those two colors,

okay? Red, or blue. Blue, or red.

I'm going to point to you, you shout it out.

Free choice.

Red or blue, blue or red.

Free choice. Or is it? Are you ready?

MARCY: Ready.

CHIPPER: Shout it out, nice and loud.

MARCY: Blue.

CHIPPER: Go ahead, really loud.

MARCY: Blue!

CHIPPER: Whenever you're ready, go ahead.

MARCY: Blue.

CHIPPER: Oh, you're sticking with it.

Hm.

Are yo-- Final answer?

MARCY: Final answer.

CHIPPER: Ladies and gentlemen,

I knew she would choose blue. Give it up for her!

Let her hear it! Absolutely. Alright.

We. How else? I work with a little buddy.

He's in the trunk, let me see if he's awake.

Are you ready in there?

Okay, get ready.

Get ready.

He's a little shy, so if you would please give him a big

round of applause.

Let him feel at home as I bring him out here.

Come on! (APPLAUSE)

There he is! Yeah.

Yeah, we got nice people.

How many of you have seen a ventriloquist before?

Say "Yeah."

AUDIENCE :Yeah.

CHIPPER: Okay, we'll do something else, then.

How many would like to see more magic?

More magic raise your hand.

Yeah! I don't do that. Yeah!

Alright! I am here to disappoint.

How many, how many wana see juggling.

Juggling raise your hand.

How many think is stupid to raise your hand?

How many people think?

How many people?

What category are you waiting for?

The last one was like catch all, it was all, was all...

Hi there! Hi.

What is your name, what's your name?

MAN: Ryan.

CHIPPER: Ryan? Ryan.

Nice to have you here, Ryan.

And-- and what do you do for a living,

Ryan?

What do you do-- what do you do?

What do you do, Ryan?

What do you do?

What do you do?

What do you do?

What do you do, Ryan?

What do you do?

What do you do?

What do you-- Wha-- What, what do you do,

Ryan?

Oh my goodness.

We found your brother!

What do? no, that was mean, that was mean.

I'm so sorry. Alright, what do you do?

RYAN: I work in stocks.

CHIPPER: Oh! Excellent.

And whereabouts do you live, Ryan?

Where do you live?

RYAN: Uh, right up the street.

CHIPPER: Right up the street?

Oh, wow, this is a big night out for you.

That's awesome.

That's-- Let's take a look here.

So Los Angeles-- Los Angeles?

Yeah, okay, there we are.

Let's take a look! There.

Hey kids- this is an antique GPS.

Alright. What, uh, street?

What's the street name?

It was. Say it again? Doheny.

What are the numbers?

What are the numbers?

One, two, three, five.

1235 Doheny.

Okay, cool.

Hey, Vinnie!

I got it.

1235 Doheny, go ahead and step on it.

Thanks, bye!

We're going to have a garage sale!

People applauding a robbery. Yay!

Misfortune. Alright.

No more goofing off!

Time for magic with ordinary objects!

Empty paper bag.

Empty bag.

Empty paper bag.

Empty bag!

Empty paper bag!

Empty bag!

Empty bag!

Empty paper bag.

Second row.

Empty bag.

Empty paper bag.

Empty bag!

Okay, just pass it back.

Empty paper bag.

Part two of this involves wa-taire.

Magic with wa-taire.

It's water, but I had to pay for it,

so now it's "wa-taire."

Please verify that's real water.

Okay good.

Alright.

You can tell you're from Los Angeles.

Ooh! Rain!

Never mind.

Okay.

Just put a little-- storm watch!

Alright, here we go.

Bum-ba-da-baaah!

Into the bag.

into the bag!

Bum-ba-da-bum-ba-bu-ba-baa!

Achoo!

Bu-ba-baa.

Heeeey, huh!

Magic!

Oops.

Okay.

Oh, I totally missed the diaper.

I was so close.

I was so close!

With the-- okay.

Special gift time!

That's for you, buddy.

There you go.

You know what?

You win a prize.

Let's hear it for him.

Absolutely. (APPLAUSE)

We are so, oh I heard the phone.

I heard the cell phone.

Yeah, you have to turn it off.

Just during the show.

Just-- the opposite of on.

With ugh, okay, you know what?

Don't make me use this.

I'm watching.

Oh, what the heck.

Uuuugh!

Got it!

They'll call you back.

I been doing that joke a long time.

A loooong time.

ever since I was a kid I been doing that joke.

With the-- Alright, no more goofin'.

I gotta do serious stuff for you now.

Um, oh, do we have the jacket?

Yes we do.

We'll put the jacket on.

And, there we go.

Allrighty.

You, um, you may have noticed that I sorta make fun of

magic.

We have the gloves here?

Yes we do.

But, um, little bit of history for you-- when I first started

performing, many, many days ago,

I used to do the really cool, suave,

sophisticated magic.

I did, before I sold it all to some guy named Chris Angel.

So here we go with a really-- I know,

where's he now?

I don't know, I'm not bitter.

Alright.

"I am Crith Angel."

No, I'm getting in the magic zone.

I could be an audience member on Jerry Springer.

And another thing!

Alright.

I think we're all set to go.

Music!

Maestro, if you would, please!

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Heeeey-a!

Heeee-yah!

Yeah.

Hot-Ta-daaaa!

Ha-ha!

Hot-ta-daaaa!

The- oops.

Aww, man.

OW!

OW!

OW!

Ow ow ow owww!

Ow!

Ow!

Ow!

I hate when that happens.

So-- there we are.

Thank you guys, very much!

You've been great!

Thank you! (APPLAUSE)

Buh-bye!

DEAN: Next, Michael Grandinetti breaks the laws of

physics right before your eyes.

DEAN: Michael Grandinetti lives for

a challenge.

Tonight, it's a plate of solid steel.

Is it physically possible?

MICHAEL: Hi, everyone.

Right now I want to show all of you my latest challenge.

That's a plate of solid steel.

When it's standing, it's seven feet tall,

four feet wide, and it's one inch thick.

It also weighs 200 pounds.

It's a serious piece of metal.

Now, in a minute, my goal is-- is going to be to get from

this side of the platform, through this frame,

to this spot, right here-- which right now doesn't seem

that tough.

But if that steel plate were filling this frame-- that

would change everything.

Guys, let's lift it in place.

On my go.

Ready?

Lift.

To the platform.

Turn it around, slowly.

And freeze.

Let's take it in.

And let's lock it in place.

Now, to get from one side to the other,

there's only one way to go, and that's directly through

the center of that steel wall.

This center section right here.

I want you to watch this very closely.

We're going to mark it with this piece of paper.

But, remember you'll be able to see the steel around the

paper throughout this entire illusion.

This platform is also specially designed,

so you can see behind it, around it,

and even underneath it at all times.

Again, guys, watch this very closely.

To get through this wall, I actually have to melt my hands

and my body into this metal, become one with the steel,

and, hopefully, pull myself through to the other side.

Now, we're going to show you a lot of magic in this show,

and I hope that we're able to prove to you that there's no

barriers that keep any of us from achieving the impossible.

As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I'm going to try

right now.

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Thank you so much.

Thank you so much!

I'm Michael Grandinetti.

DEAN: Well, there you go.

Passing through solid steel.

Do you know how he did it?

I sure don't.

Remember who we're dealing with.

These are the best in the world.

These are the Masters of Illusion.

Until next time, I'm Dean Cane.