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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 and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

Okay.

Look at this card.

Is it possible that these a lines are perfectly

straight?

Is our brain trying to fool us?

Reality and perception are not always the same.

Would you bet me?

Would you bet me?

Okay.

Then, you lose because these lines are perfectly

straight.

I m a little slow, but they are perfectly straight.

Now, I would not bet that our next master of illusion

is a great animal trainer.

Here is Ed Alonzo.

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ED: It s going to get hot in here.

It s hot.

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DEAN: Now, let s get all wound up in the beat as the

great Las Vegas magician, Rick Thomas show us that

twist can be more then a dance.

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RICK: Okay. People I need your help.

Keep it going. (CLAPS)

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DEAN: Can a fantasy of a simple drawing turn into

reality?

Well, it can if you are Michael Grandinetti.

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MICHAEL: I have something pretty special to show you

and for this I need a couple of people to come up here

and help me out.

Let me see here.

Would you come up here? Yeah?

Would you come up here?

Give them a hand as they come up here.

Would you stand right here?

COURTNEY: Yeah.

MICHAEL: And stand right here.

What s your name?

JASMINE: Jasmine.

MICHAEL: Jasmine, nice to meet you.

COURTNEY: Courtney Rose.

MICHAEL: Courtney Rose.

Thank you for coming up here ladies.

I have a couple of things for you.

First of all, we have this wine glass.

Courtney Rose, hold on to that.

COURTNEY: Okay.

MICHAEL: Okay.

And hold it kind of from the middle so the audience can

see inside.

Give me one hand here.

Perfect.

You ve done this before?

Now, a question for you Jasmine,

are you a good artist?

JASMINE: Yes.

MICHAEL: I knew that I picked the right person when

I went down there.

JASMINE: Yay.

MICHAEL: So, I brought something for you.

This is a little sketch pad, okay.

I want you to look trough it,

make sure it s just a normal sketch pad,

nothing hidden inside.

Does it look okay?

JASMINE: Mhm.

MICHAEL: Now, I m going to have you draw something for

this audience.

JASMINE: Okay.

MICHAEL: Something simple.

Let s make it a fish.

JASMINE: Okay.

MICHAEL: Okay.

Take the marker and right in the center of the pad draw

me a fish, right about there.

Here it goes.

He needs that, he needs a suit.

JASMINE: Yeah.

MICHAEL: Now, one more thing.

He needs a little bit of water underneath him.

JASMINE: And fin.

MICHAEL: He needs a fin too.

JASMINE: Yeah.

MICHAEL: That s perfect.

What do you guys think?

Yeah.

Very good job.

Now, I tell you what, if you can just rip that drawing

off that for me.

Now, you know what they say, a really good artist,

their work actually comes to life right off that page.

So, I m going to prove to you that you are a really

good artist.

Okay.

Watch.

Everybody watch her fish.

Now, I want you all to imagine with me,

everybody first, imagine the water that she drew.

Watch.

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It almost looks like that water if pouring right off

that page.

You see that?

I have one more thing for you.

Watch.

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Thank you so much everyone.

DEAN: Next. Johnny Ace Palmer,

Barry and Stuart, Les Arnold and Dazzle.

And Michael Turco.

DEAN: Say hi to one of Masters of Illusion s

favorites.

We can always count on him to make our lives a little

more colorful.

Johnny Ace Palmer.

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JOHNNY: Hi, I m very happy to be here to show you some

magic.

This is why I invite two people from the audience to

come up and help me.

There s the lady on the end in the yellow.

Would you be kind enough to join me and help out?

The lady in the blue, the third row there.

Would you come out too?

How about some encouragement for my two volunteers.

Thanks for joining me.

May I have one of you on the each side of me please?

Once again, my name is Johnny Ace Palmer and what s

your name?

ASHLEY: I m Ashley.

JOHHNY: This is Ashley everybody.

And what s your name?

KIM: Kim.

JOHNNY: This is Kim everybody.

Kim And Ashley, this is everybody.

I have three magic scarves.

A blue one, a red one and a yellow one.

They are the primary colors, red,

blue and yellow.

I m going to tie a magic know in the blue scarf like

this and when I blow on the knot,

the knot will disappear. See?

Ashley, will you blow on that please?

Thank you.

See, she s magic too.

Kim, can you hold the blue one please?

Thank you.

Here s the yellow one.

Whoop, that s the floor show everybody.

There s the yellow.

I m at least the act that s picking up.

Ashley, will you hold the yellow one please?

ASHLEY: Sure.

JOHNNY: Thank you.

Here is the red one.

Try to watch the red one.

The reason I said try is because it will disappear

right in front of your eyes.

Keep one eye on this hand and one eye on the red

scarf.

Keep one eye on this hand too.

If you don t have three eyes,

I ll go slow.

The reason I invited these two young ladies up here is

so that they can see the magic up close.

You can see the red scarf right now and you can see it

until the last second, but then it s too late,

the red scarf is gone.

Thanks.

I ll show you where it is, it s inside the blue scarf,

believe it or not, inside the blue one.

See.

Now, you can hold the red one.

May I please have the yellow one,

thank you.

I ll place the yellow one into the blue one.

See it going down in there?

See it going down in there?

See it going down in there?

Now, the yellow scarf has magically disappeared.

Of course, we know where it is,

thank you.

Since the red one came out of the blue one,

may I have the red one please?

Thank you.

I ll reach right down, inside the red one,

right in the middle.

Right in here and I ll pull out the yellow.

Oops, I missed.

Kim, can you reach in there and pull out the yellow

scarf please?

See, she s magic too.

I knew you could do it.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your help.

Please before you go shall we try one more special

illusion?

It s something I ve always wanted to do as a magician.

That s right ladies and gentleman,

I will now attempt with the help of these two lovely

ladies to pull a real, live bunny rabbit out of this

very magical hat.

Would you like to see that?

Yeah.

Alright.

How about the rest of you?

Alright.

Here we go.

A spin, a wave and a snap and she s in there.

Now, the hard part.

She s gone.

This guy is amazing.

Don t have a tie, do I?

Let s try again, but this time Ashley and Kim,

will you please wave your hand over the hat and snap?

Go ahead.

Wave and snap.

Look!

We did it.

Look right here.

Do you see what I see?

Look right here.

It s just a little hair, you know like the...

Let s look under the table.

Do you see anything?

Do you see anything under the table?

Neither do I.

Let s try one more time.

Will you all help me please?

Wave your hand and snap.

We did it, look.

A real, live bunny rabbit.

I knew we could do it.

Feel how soft she is.

Isn t she cute?

Doesn t she look real?

She is real.

Isn t she soft?

This is Snowball, she lives with me and my family in

Huntington Beach, that makes her a beach bunny.

Thank you for being a great audience and thank you

ladies so much for helping me.

Thank you.

DEAN: Next.

Barry and Stuart when we come back and coming up,

Les Arnold and Dazzle and Michael Turco.

DEAN: Scotland s fast talking duo will now explain

how they do a clasic illusion,

but don t let them de-illusion you.

Barry and Stuart.

STUART: One of the most closely guarded secrets in

magic is an illusion called the red carpet illusion.

BARRY: The red carpet illusion has an amazing

history.

STUART: In 1891, the amazing Not So had his

assistants build him into a reclining chair.

Sadly, he was discovered when he was accidentally

sat on.

BARRY: Before the invention of tape recorders,

the one and only, Billy the Baffler

he planted a parrot in the dressing room of his rival

hoping that it would hear the secrets and then repeat

it back to his master.

Unfortunately, all he learned was that his rival

was a pretty boy.

STUART: Years later, Harry Houdini s,

not so famous brother, Dari Houdini actually kidnapped

his brother in an attempt to extract the secret from him,

but Harry escaped.

Dari really should have seen that one coming,

shouldn t he?

Barry, this is the wrong panel.

BARRY: It should be on there.

STUART: Switch it.

BARRY: Yeah.

STUART: Switch around.

BARRY: In 1946, Frances the Astonisher hid in the lights

that hung about the stage at the Empire theater.

Upon finally discovering a secret to this illusion,

a single tear of joy roll down to his cheek and onto the

exposed copper wire, electrocuting him to death.

STUART: This final panel will act as our front door

and now, the final piece of the puzzle,

the red carpet itself.

BARRY: Not only that it give the trick it s name,

but it s also the way magicians have been making

their assistants appear from nowhere for over 100 years.

Like this.

STUART: It s Gabrielle.

BARRY: Tonight, we re going to tell you exactly how this

thing is done.

Let s reset the red carpet.

STUART: Let s do it.

BARRY: New technology now makes it a lot easier

nowadays to find out the secret behind any magic

trick and we don t just mean watching it again and again

on YouTube, not that.

STUART: No, we re talking about a very special camera,

an infra red camera because with one of those you would

be able to see right trough these thin,

plastic sheets.

And although magicians are never ever supposed to give

away their secrets, we re going to show you exactly

how this works by using one of those special cameras

now.

BARRY: It s going to be like having X-ray vision.

You ll be able to see trough these panels.

Here s the secret.

Before the trick begins, Gabrielle starts out

crouched behind these panels right here.

If you look on the special cameras,

you can see her body heat right trough these panels.

STUART: Everyone in the studio,

you ll be able to follow along by watching on the big

screens.

Gabrielle, are you ready?

GABRIELLE: Ready.

STUART: Great.

And now, the secret behind the red carpet illusion.

The first panel is slid along the ground and

attached to the back of the box like this.

BARRY: As the second panel is slid along the ground,

Gabrielle crawls along the same speed as it,

then she hides behind the back panel.

STUART: The third panel allows Gabrielle to sneak

from behind the box to behind the red carpet.

I then pretend that this piece does not fit on the

side of the box.

BARRY: This isn t the real mistake.

This is actually a fake mistake,

allowing us to take the back panel off,

letting you see briefly all the way trough the box,

making you think that everything is still fair and

completely above the board.

STUART: The final panel allows Gabrielle to sneak

behind the box.

I then, hand this panel to Barry standing at the front.

BARRY: Stuart then gets the red carpet and gives it a

flick.

This is actually misdirection,

allowing Gabrielle to stand behind the front door.

That s then slid across the ground.

She walks along with it and steps inside the box.

STUART: And that s the secret behind the red carpet

illusion, but does not manage to explain how we did

this and definitely does not explain how we managed to do

that.

DEAN:Coming up, Les Arnold and Dazzle and Michael Turco.

DEAN: Time now for that dazzling couple of

sophistication, Les Arnold and Dazzle.

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DEAN: If you can t find the genie in the bottle,

well the next best thing to make a wish come true is

Michael Turco.

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MICHAEL: Thank you.

Hey, want to have some fun here.

Any single guys in the audience?

Right here.

What s your name?

GARETH: Gareth.

MICHAEL: Gareth, come on up here.

I m going to ask you a couple of questions,

alright.

Come on right over here for me and stand over here.

Let me ask you a couple questions.

Do you have three favorite things?

GARETH: Yes. Cars, girls

MICHAEL: Cars, girls.

GARETH: Food.

MICHAEL: Food.

Okay.

So, cars.

Do you like slow cars or fast cars?

GARETH: Fast.

MICHAEL: Fast cars, good answer.

And girls?

Blondes or brunettes?

GARETH: Blondes.

MICHAEL: Blondes all the way?

GARETH: Yes, sir.

MICHAEL: Alright.

So, we got fast cars, blondes.

And what s your favorite food?

GARETH: Pizza.

MICHAEL: Pizza.

I m from the East Coast.

So, Jersey, New York pizza is good?

GARETH: New York will do it.

MICHAEL: That s the best.

I got something for you.

Head back right to your seat.

Fast cars, blondes and pizza.

Check this out.

Hey, girls, lift that cloth up.

Ladies and gentleman, keep your eyes on this cloth the

entire time, don t take them off whatever you do keep

them on.

Check this out.

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DEAN: I hope you have been amazed as I have.

Be sure to join us next time for more Masters of

Illusion.

Until then, I m Dean Cain, good night.