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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.

DEAN: Hello.

Hello and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

Okay.

What do you see on this painting?

Well, it s called Napoleon.

Once you find him, he becomes very obvious.

And you see him standing in the palm trees.

Here we go.

Is all hats, the coat and his boots.

Well, there is nothing obvious about this master of

illusion.

Welcome Titou.

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DEAN: He never fails to bewilder and amaze us.

Watch our next Master of Illusion.

Aaron Radatz.

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DEAN: Always fascinating, here is Tommy Wind.

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TOMMY: There is always a little bit of magic in the past.

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DEAN: This magic show has magic everywhere.

Time for our audience camera and a card trick close up

with Farrell Dillon.

FARRELL: Hi, my name s Farrell.

What s your name? HALLEY: Hi. Halley.

FARRELL: Halley, nice to meet you.

HALLEY: Nice to meet you.

FARRELL: Uh Halley, would you do me a favor.

Pick a card out of the deck.

Look at it.

Don t let me see it but show it to the camera.

All right.

Good.

Now Halley, I m going through the card.

Just put your card right there perfect.

HALLEY: Oh.

FARRELL: Yes, you can say stop.

That s fine.

Halley, here s going to happen.

Okay.

I m going to cause your card to fly through the air and

land inside my pocket.

Are you ready?

HALLEY: We ll be impressed.

FARRELL: Yes like David Blaine.

HALLEY: Right.

FARRELL: Yeah but with the personality.

All right, here we go.

Okay, here, watch, watch.

One card.

Woo.

Boom!

You hear it?

One card flew from here through the air to here.

Go ahead, reach it in my pocket.

Find it.

HALLEY: In your back?

FARRELL: Uh, front pocket.

Front pocket.

I m just kidding.

That s weird.

You don t reach inside stranger s pockets plus you

did find the three diamonds.

That is not your card.

So hold on to that.

You would also found the 8-9 hearts.

That s not your card.

In fact Halley, you would have found all these cards

except for this one card.

This one card did not fly to my pocket.

It just happens to be your card.

The eight of diamonds.

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DEAN: Next, Piff, the Magic Dragon.

DEAN: Let s welcome England s very excitable,

Piff, the Magic Dragon.

PIFF: Good evening.

AUDIENCE: Good evening.

PIFF: Good evening?

AUDIENCE: Good evening.

PIFF: Thank you.

My name is Piff, the Magic Dragon.

You might have heard my older brother.

AUDIENCE: Dave.

PIFF: Dave.

What is your name, Princess.

The little denim, what s your name?

What s what s your name?

What is it?

Oh, we thought her now.

Come on.

What s your name?

What?

WHITNEY: Whitney.

PIFF: Whitney.

Is it really Whitney?

All right.

My wife s called Whitney.

WHITNEY: Really?

PIFF: Well, we re not really married.

In fact, we just met. (LAUGHS)

I m only kidding about you John.

Please give Whitney, a round of applause.

Join us in stage. Go Whitney.

Come on Whitney.

There we go.

All the way up here.

Just come and stand here Whitney,

we re going to do card magic,

because card magic is my favorite kind of magic.

Because card magic is pure kind of magic.

And to me, magic is all about purity.

I mean sure, sometimes I think why I need is a

gimmick.

All right, here s to do Whitney.

I m going to go through the cards and you got to touch

the back of any one of these cards.

Any one of these cards you like,

you got to touch the back of it.

You have [inaudible] instructions, Whitney?

WHITNEY: Yeah. PIFF: Yeah?

All right. Here we go Whitney.

Just touch the back of any one of this plain cards.

Anyone?

Touch this.

This one is there?

WHITNEY: That one.

PIFF: That one.

Okay.

Let s take a look which one Whitney chose.

The jack of diamonds.

Now Whitney, what I d like to,

is I d like you to write your name on top of it at

the Jack of diamonds and here s the pencil.

Capital letters in a white space there.

So it s nice and clear.

That s it.

Just write your name.

Whitney.

WHITNEY: Capital letters?

PIFF: In capital letters.

That s it.

So that everyone can read it.

And I see clearly - perfect.

Before the show began, I did make a prediction of the

card that Whitney would choose.

Okay, Whitney chose the jack of diamonds.

Let s see what I got the prediction of.

The card that Whitney would choose is the seven of

spades.

So basically, Whitney was wrong.

Not even close.

Never mind Whitney.

If I could really do magic, it could look a little bit

of this.

Here s your seven of spades.

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This is for you Whitney.

Look at the front of the card,

at the back of the card makes it the same card you

signed.

That s for you.

please.

Thank you very much.

Whitney, just before you go, maybe you can put a little

one.

Just this lobe.

There you go.

A round of applause Whitney.

WHITNEY: My boyfriend is there.

PIFF: I don t care it s your boyfriend.

Leave.

My name is Piff, the Magic Dragon.

Have a great night.

Good night.

DEAN: it s Fielding West, when we return.

DEAN: Now, we ask you to join our cheerleading team

with Bob the Bird, as he participates in amazing

illusion. In that, Fielding West.

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FIELDING: Wow, what a crowd.

Hey, would you guys like to see my buddy,

Bob the bird?

Would you like to see Bob the bird?

I can t hear you.

We re going to do this like a rock concert.

So everybody, with me, Bob, the bird.

Bob the bird. (APPLAUSE)

Everybody. (PPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Bob the bird.

FIELDING: A little louder.

AUDIENCE: Bob the bird.

FIELDING: Come on folks.

AUDIENCE: Bob the bird.

FIELDING: Here it comes now.

AUDIENCE: Bob the bird.

Bob the bird.

FIELDING: Come on. Loudly.

AUDIENCE: Bob the bird.

Bob the bird.

FIELDING: Bob the bird.

There you have it ladies and gentlemen,

one and only, Mr. Bob the bird.

Check it out.

He s in his own pope mobile.

Work with me Catholics.

Folks, Bob and I are always come up doing excited things

for the audience which you are about to witness right

now is one of the most impossible thing.

I couldn t have second thought.

That s right.

Coming in the stage right now is Miss Trixie.

She s pushing out a canon.

It just look like a big canon to you and I.

To a bird, it looks normal.

That s right ladies and gentlemen.

Just in a moment, we re going to place Bob the bird

inside of that canon.

Oooh.

Then Trixie is going to aim that canon in my head.

Ah.

And I, Fielding West, will attempt to catch Bob the

bird between my teeth. (APPLAUSE)

I ask you, will that make any show for you?

All right everybody.

Come on.

Keep going there.

Ladies and gentlemen, people come up for me all the time

after the show.

They say feel me.

Is canon really a safe place for a bird to be?

Yeah pretty much.

Okay, take a deep breath.

And now, we re going to arm the canon.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don t do this very often.

So quite frankly, I m not sure what s going to happen.

But I am very pleased to see that you are concerned

for my safety.

Can I have a drumroll?

I want you people to feel free.

Count along.

Can I have a drumroll please?

No, we ll do the drumroll.

You count along.

10, 9, 8, 7 AUDIENCE: 6, 5,

4, 3, 2, 1.

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Bob the bird ladies and gentlemen.

Miss Trixie.

DEAN: Next, Farrell Dillon returns and Greg Gleason.

DEAN: And here again tonight, with an explanation of

atmospheric pressure is the informative,

Farrell Dillon.

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FARRELL: What you are about to see is my favorite party

trick.

It s very simple thing.

What you need for this is a glass.

You can find this at anybody s house and some

water.

You also need a simple piece of paper.

Get the piece of paper sapping wet and use it to

cover the glass.

Don t clap too hard.

There s an explanation for this.

It s called atmospheric pressure.

Basically, what s happening is the water is trying to

rush out the glass at the same rate that air is trying

to rush inside the glass creating an equilibrium.

But this, kids, gets a little more magical.

Watch.

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Now, this power does not last very long.

I can end this at any time that I want.

You young lady right there in the middle?

Yes, you, with the raised eyebrows.

Ah, you seemed so surprised.

I like you to meet name a number between one and ten.

LADY: Ten.

FARRELL: Ten.

It s very close to between them but that s okay.

We ll go with ten.

I like everybody to count with me to ten.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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DEAN: Prepare to gasp.

This is a most unusual illusion relying on the

power of silence.

This is Greg Gleason.

GREG: Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Last month, I took a trip.

I took a trip to Colorado.

I went to a very famous hotel which is called the

Stanley Hotel.

You might remember that from the movie,

The Shining .

While I was there, I picked up one their old dining room

table.

Some say that table is actually haunted.

I invited eight people to come on stage to help me.

Would you guys come forward, check out that table and

examine that table.

Make sure that is an ordinary dining table.

Perfect.

If you would just stand around it,

does it look okay?

Look okay?

Perfect.

Everybody would, just go down on one knee.

Everybody, if you would go down on one knee.

Perfect!

Place both your hands on top of that table.

When your hands a little bit more,

forward a little bit more, right up there.

Perfect.

Both hands on top of that table.

I want you to concentrate on the center spot.

Concentrate right on the center of the table.

On the count of three, I want you to slowly stand up

but keep your fingers on top of the table.

Do not push down.

Do not lift up.

Just rest them very lightly on top of the table.

On the count of three, slowly stand up,

1, 2, 3.

Slowly stand up.

That table will come right up with you.

Perfect.

Check that out.

You can look underneath if you want.

Raise look at your fingers.

Perfect.

Raise your right hand up.

Perfect.

Put your right hand back down.

Raise your left hand.

Perfect.

Put your left hand back down.

Raise both hands.

Catch it.

Perfect.

Bring it up.

That table will follow me wherever I go.

Table, come this way.

Follow me table.

Perfect.

Stop.

I m over here table.

Follow me over here.

Perfect.

Stop.

That table can also spin.

Just follow me this way.

Spin.

Table, spin.

Faster, and faster, and faster,

and faster, and let go.

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Thank you all very much.

Thank you.

Thanks for helping me out.

You guys go back to your seat.

Thank you all and that s the haunted table from the

Stanley Hotel.

Thank you.

DEAN: I hope you have been amazing I have.

Be sure to join us next time for more Masters of

Illusion.

Until then, I m Dean Cain.

Good night.