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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.

Meet the Masters of Illusion.

Hello!

Hello and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

We have a wonderful show tonight and illusion is

what it s all about.

Reality and perception are not always the same.

Here is a perfect illustration to play on our

minds.

What do you see here?

Buried in the word illusion is also the word optical.

Do you see it?

And so tonight, our illusionists will also play

with your senses.

Watch Greg Frewin in a pressure cooker for

your mind.

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Here is a very unusual performer not because

of the way he dresses but because he does his

own sound effects.

Meet the amazing Piff, the Magic Dragon.

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PIFF: (MOUTH SOUNDS)

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Good evening. Good evening!

My name is Piff, the Magic Dragon.

I m a dragon who does magic.

I m gonna do some magic.

What s your name? No, not you sir.

I said what s your name princess?

Hi, hi.

Well, great, that s perfect. Come on stage.

Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applauses,

lady who I can t hear her name,

come on stage.

Hi! How are you?

Over here. Over here.

What s your name? I didn t

WINTER GRACE: Winter Grace.

PIFF: Winter Grace.

WINTER GRACE: Yeah.

PIFF: That is a very long complicated name.

Winter Grace.

Would you like to see a card trick?

Good because I m gonna do one.

So you re gonna reach in, gonna grab any one of these

cards, could be literally anyone,

anyone at all, Winter Grace. You just reach in.

Alright Winter Grace, we ll do it the hard way.

Perfect. Do you have a pen?

WINTER GRACE: I don t.

PIFF: No, what s that behind your ear?

(MOUTH SOUND) Oh, sit down.

You re embarrassing me.

This is for you Winter Grace, lovely.

You re gonna write your name all over the front

of that card. That s it, write your name

all over the front of the card.

I m gonna eat them. You good?

WINTER GRACE: Yeah.

PIFF: You want a big carrot?

WINTER GRACE: Grab it, no, no.

PIFF: No, that s fine. Just being polite.

Alright, anywhere back on the deck,

wherever you want to go, just put it back in.

WINTER GRACE: You ready?

PIFF: See, yeah, yeah.

You re free, whenever you re ready.

WINTER GRACE: Yeah, here.

PIFF: Perfect, you just go

WINTER GRACE: Okay.

PIFF: Don t be shy. This is it?

WINTER GRACE: Yeah.

PIFF: Don t let me get in the way. You just

WINTER GRACE: Alright, alright.

PIFF: Okay, just about there. Perfect.

Anybody remember Winter Grace s card?

And I ll shuffle up the cards,

you re gonna say stop whenever want.

Anytime you wanna say stop, I will stop

shuffling the cards.

Just then, I m gonna go shuffling. Perfect.

I m gonna give you something.

So, let s see what we have for you.

This is for you, not forever.

See, I d like two inches please,

two inches of that.

I m gonna take two inches of that.

I m gonna do this a little bit.

I m gonna do a bit of Christmas wrapping for you.

Two inches and break it up, yeah.

Break off.

With your teeth, that s fine, very properly.

You re gonna wrap that, just tie it out onto the bottom

just there for me, tie that nicely.

Nicely done. Here we go.

We re gonna try and find Winter Grace s card

like a little magic dragon.

Do you remember what your card was?

WINTER GRACE: Yeah.

PIFF: Good, because that s gonna make the rest

of this slightly more interesting.

Here we go ladies and gentlemen,

Winter Grace s card like a magic dragon.

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Is that your private space?

That s it, that s for you.

I d like my pen back, that s very expensive.

Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for

Winter Grace.

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DEAN: Michael Grandinetti is one of our favorite

magicians.

Let me warn you, he has an attraction for valuable

objects.

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MICHAEL: Thank you everyone.

I wanna show you some slide of hand magic and I m gonna

need your help.

Is there anybody here who has a necklace I could

borrow?

If you do, please raise your hand.

You do? Would you come up here?

Give her a hand as she joins us.

How are you? ALLY: Fine.

MICHAEL: What s your name?

ALLY: Ally.

MICHAEL: Ally, come with me. You re having fun tonight?

ALLY: Yes.

MICHAEL: Wonderful. Stay right here.

That s a beautiful necklace.

Would you mind taking it off?

I promise it will be safe and I promise we ll

give it back to you.

Now, everybody else, I want you to watch this very

closely, okay. I ll take it.

Now I am gonna hold it up so the camera could come

and do a really tight shot of this necklace,

and that way everybody will remember it.

Now Ally, watch this very closely.

You and I are gonna do some magic together.

The necklace goes down to my hand and I m gonna

do this slowly, okay.

Now, hold out both of your hands for me and

cover my wrist with your left hand.

Now, I m gonna open my hand so the necklace is right

between our palms. Can you fell it?

ALLY: Yes.

MICHAEL: Yeah?

Rub your hand over mine, and it s done.

Lift up your hand. It s gone.

Now I promised we ll give it back and you re gonna

get it back in a very unusual way.

Watch.

Now, everybody keep your eye on this clear glass box.

Watch.

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And everybody, take a look at her neck.

Something look familiar? Yeah?

We will give that back to you.

You can see it s perfectly safe.

Thank you so much. Give her a very big hand.

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Thank you guys so much.

DEAN: When we return, Chipper Lowell

and Micheal Turco.

I guarantee you, you will get a charge out of

our next performer.

He is unstoppable, Chipper Lowell.

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CHIPPER: Thank you very much.

Oh, thank you!

I asked the studio audience what unusual items they

might have in the trunks of their car,

really unusual items they came up with.

And I made a list right here of some of the

top most unusual ones.

Let s take a look.

Number one, waffle iron; number two,

you have stuffed moose head; three,

petrified french fries; number four,

clown wig, scorpion, tap shoes,

moldy watermelon, I don t wanna ask,

garden gnome, probably someone else s and

he took off.

You have hole-y bowling ball.

Now, they told me that was not like a bowling

ball owned by the pope.

That was actually a bowling ball that they cut so many

holes in it to get the right finger measurements that it

would became unusual so they threw it in the back

of their trunk.

We have shark fin, bagpipes which really,

the back of a trunk is the best place for bagpipes,

yes, hotel bathrobes, stolen,

gorilla suit, maybe no, parachute,

flattened squirrel, melted bag of ice,

empty ant farm, set of dentures.

With those in mind ladies and gentlemen,

it is now time to play the junk in the trunk game.

Are you ready?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

CHIPPER: I said are you ready?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Alright, follow along,

here we go.

I d like everyone to choose a number from 1-9.

Choose a number from 1-9.

Please keep that number to yourself.

Got it?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Alright, now multiply that by three.

Got it?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Alright, then I d like you to add three to it.

Got it?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Papapa, and now, multiply by three again.

And we just lost half the audience.

Alright, now at this point some of you may

have a two-digit number.

If you do, I d like you to make this even more random.

Take the first digit and add it to the second digit to

come up with a completely new number.

Got it?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Alright, take a look at the board.

Find your number and the corresponding item.

And now, this box, it s been onstage the entire time.

Inside there is something from my trunk that I think

you re gonna find sort of interesting.

As a matter of fact, I think it may match what at least

one of you is thinking.

If it does match, I want you to do me a favor.

Whoever that person is, if it matches,

you jump up out of your seat.

You go nuts. You applaud.

You just got crazy. Promise?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Not good enough. Promise?

AUDIENCE: Yeah.

CHIPPER: Moment of truth. Let s take a look.

Mighty tasty.

Okay, this is embarrassing because there was

supposed to be more of you.

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Wow! Live audience.

I oh, I forgot to tell you.

I always use a watermelon to protect my bowling ball.

Is it a match? Yes.

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Give yourselves a round of applause!

You did magic. Goodnight!

DEAN: If you re looking for a date,

Michael Turco is the guy to know.

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We ll be back with Nathan Burton and Jeff McBride.

Making torture transparent is the goal of the

incredible Nathan Burton.

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NATHAN: Thank you very much.

Why don t I come up to the audience and find a guy that

may be works out kind of strong,

kind of buff.

Who do we have today?

Right here, what what s your name sir?

JAMES: My name is James.

NATHAN: James, give James a big hand.

Let s hear it from come on James,

come right up here, that s the steps,

come right up here sir at center stage.

Now James, I have a very special job for you tonight.

I have something coming out on stage.

I really want you to take a good look at it,

really check it out, really examine it.

James, how does it look?

JAMES: Great, great.

NATHAN: Actually James, we re talking about the

clear straightjacket.

You didn t see that, did you?

Now this is a clear straightjacket.

The reason it s clear is because they use it at

maximum security prisons so you can t hide any guns

or knives or weapons and I want you to help me

get in that bad boy. Is that cool?

Alright, I m gonna jump in this thing.

And this is a lovely jacket and James,

she s gonna help you out.

I want you to start with the top buckle,

work your way down. Show me no mercy.

Don t worry about me.

Get it nice and tight and snug as possible.

That s good.

He s doing a great job

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working with Jackie, how s he doing?

He s doing great, good.

Have you ever done this before James?

JAMES: No.

NATHAN: No, first time. Welcome to LA.

Okay, work your way down, and he s got it.

Yes. Good.

Now James, we got one more at the very bottom.

That s you and me big guy.

You ready? Okay.

I m gonna turn around.

Hold on, oh, easy tiger.

Here we go, on the count of three;

one, two, three.

Go for it. Yes, okay.

Alright, go ahead and buckle that up just tight.

Oh, hello dude.

Ah, ah, (LAUGH)

oh, oh, that s good right there.

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate that.

Oh yeah, thanks a lot.

Alright, so we got one more strap.

These are the arms.

Grab both arms, pull it about as tight as that

bottom one.

You ve done a great job.

You happy with it James?

Give James a big hand.

You can sit back down.

Give it up for James!

Thank you very much.

Now, I m gonna try and do to get out of this

straightjacket.

People have done it before but I have my own

version and my own style.

Let s do it.

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Now, the tough one.

I feel so much better (LAUGH).

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DEAN: Next, Jeff McBride.

Is it possible for pull cards out of thin air?

Don t bet on it, but if you re dealing with

Jeff McBride, mmm

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And that s it. You know how they did it,

because I sure don t and

that s because they are the Masters of Illusion.

Be sure to catch us next time.

I m Dean Cain.

Goodnight!