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♪♪♪

We were lucky enough to spend a couple of days

filming at Atlanta's Museum of Contemporary Art,

a really cool location

that posed a couple of unique challenges.

For one, it's a pretty wide-open space,

so our crew had to hide in a creative spot,

and when they were hiding, they had to be dead silent.

The location was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

It's a family show.

Well, I'm glad I'm not gonna be by myself today.

Man: [ Chuckling ] Yeah.

Yeah, help always helps. Yeah.

They did one of those, you know, sip-and-paint parties...

Mm-hmm. ...where they get

people together

and everybody gets a chance to paint something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, like paint night?

That's right. Was it that one? Okay.

Yeah. What can I grab?

Oh, you know what we're gonna do?

We're gonna -- we're gonna help set up the installation.

But before that, let's, um -- here, have a seat.

I'll give you the fun job.

Okay.

Okay, you can do the fun job?

All right.

They like to save as much stuff as they can

when they do these parties.

Okay.

So just get all the paint off the brushes.

Okay.

And when the brush has as much paint off of it

as possible, just put it right there.

Okay, so, just get the paint off?

Oh, beautiful. Look at you.

[ Both laugh ]

Once they're pretty clean, you can put them on the towel,

and I'll wash them off in the sink afterwards.

You know, it's fun getting to work at the museum,

because you see a lot of these new up-and-coming artists.

Right. And they're fantastic.

Yeah, man, I agree.

But, for me, I can never quite wrap my head around

why one painting is more money than another painting.

Yeah.

Sometimes it's not even what the painting is,

it's just who the artist is

and if they have a lot of popularity.

Right.

You know, like, these works were done by Nathan Fields.

Mm-hmm. And he's just an up-and-coming

guy right now.

Like, everybody just goes crazy over him.

Sometimes the simplest stuff gets the most attention.

Yeah, I'll probably save these markers.

Push this out of the way.

All done with that?

I think I am.

Just toss this away.

Oh, are you gonna toss that?

[ Laughs ] Should we hang it?

[ Laughs ] I'm just messing around.

This is your...

My first painting, right?

It's lovely, yeah. I think it looks great.

You should sign it, though.

[ Laughs ]

Yeah, sign right there.

Cool.

Okay, do we ask them if we should hang it in the museum?

[ Laughing ] No, no.

I appreciate your optimism.

[ Both laugh ]

All right, let's open this one up.

We're gonna put this painting right here.

Okay, great. So, what's the method?

Um, well, you can...

There's a little space here.

Can you kind of get in there?

It's nailed shut.

They shipped it from Chicago.

Okay.

Oh, that's not so bad. Yeah.

It was on display there for the last four months.

Hmm.

And -- Oh, you got yours up?

Mm-hmm.

Okay. All right.

There we go. Okay.

We should probably be very careful while we do this here.

Get this out of the way.

And, uh...

[ Chuckles ] Are you kidding?

Look at that.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

But look, look.

Hmm? Look at this.

Oh, no. I know. Believe me,

I know Nathan Fields' work.

It's... No. I know...

[ Blows sharply ] I got some of the hay on it there.

But listen what I'm saying.

Michael: Hmm? Look at what I did,

and look at that.

Whoa.

Wait a minute.

♪♪♪

You've seen this painting.

I've not seen the painting, man.

Come on. Promise you.

Come on. Right hand to God,

if I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

No.

I'm just doing what you told me to do.

I'm drying the brushes out so you could wash them,

and that was the piece.

And I thought I was gonna throw it in the trash.

'Cause this is a $500,000 painting.

♪♪♪

It's...[ Laughs ] That's uncanny.

This is -- This is -- I --

This is surreal, is what it is.

This is great.

Yeah, we're gonna be turning over this entire gallery...

Wow. Okay. ...with new sculptures,

new paintings are all coming in.

Well, just whatever I can do to help.

We originally set up Wendy here to work at the science museum

where alien crabs turned into cats.

But we ran behind schedule that day

and never got around to tricking her.

So we set her up again at the art gallery,

and the second time was a charm.

He made all of these different sculptures from clay

that came from the catacombs in Paris.

Okay.

So the clay in these things

has the dust of some of the skeletons and stuff.

But all of it is designed with, I guess, this catacomb clay.

Oh, that's so cool. Parisian catacomb clay.

It's very cold, too. It is.

You can touch it to your cheek.

It feels like... It does.

Yeah. That's kind of spooky, though, right?

I think it's cool. [ Laughs ]

Yeah, me too.

So, the little guy goes on the top stand.

Okay.

Okay, can you set that up there very carefully?

Okay?

Oh, that's excellent. Okay.

Looks good.

And there's -- Oh, there's a paper here, too.

Let me see what it says.

Sometimes they have, like, a special thing

that they say to do with it.

"Handle with extreme caution."

Okay, we can do that.

"Sculpture is sensitive to direct sunlight and oils."

Okay.

Um, "do not handle with bare hands."

Oops. Oh!

"Do not handle with bare hands. Must wear gloves."

Okay. Oops.

[ Chuckles ] Okay.

Oh, yeah, I was feeling dusty.

I was, like, feeling, like, a sort of...

I can even see the hand on there.

That's so -- Whoa!

Was there a hand on there?

That's not my hand, right?

I think, 'cause your hand touched it, maybe.

There had to have been a hand.

Oh, my gosh.

That's the weirdest thing ever.

Oh, Wendy, I don't know. That's, like...

It looks like my chin.

It does look like you.

I didn't want to say anything, but that...

I just touched it to my cheek.

That bugs me out.

Yeah, me too.

I've never -- I don't know what to say.

How would that -- like, I've never heard of a...

I don't know.

That is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

I mean, I don't want -- you don't want to touch it again.

Let me get you a pair of gloves.

Okay. 'Cause we should

set it up and then...

Yeah.

Yeah, just as is.

[ Sighs ] All right, I'm gonna

get a pair of gloves.

Yeah. Where do we keep...

Oh, back here, probably.

♪♪♪

I was proud of the fact that I provided Wendy

with the "weirdest thing she'd ever seen."

And, of course, I couldn't resist taking credit

for my work, so here's the never-before-seen reveal.

Have you heard of that before, the Carbonaro Effect?

Yeah, I've heard of it,

but I don't know anything about it.

I do know that it's also the name

of a hidden-camera magic TV show.

♪♪♪

Like the one you're on right now.

What? My name's

Michael Carbonaro.

Hi. Hi.

I'm a magician.

Are you serious? I'm serious.

[ Both laugh ]

You're on my TV show right now, "The Carbonaro --"

No, I'm not. I am a magician.

Nuh-uh. You're joking.

I'm not joking.

This is freaking me out.

How did that happen? I can't tell you.

Are you serious? Where's the camera?

Oh, there's a camera.

There's a camera there.

There's a camera up there.

And behind this mirror here.

I'm about to flip the camera off.

Are you? No, don't do that. You were so great.

Are you kidding?

♪♪♪

We needed an office where we could go wild

for a couple of days of filming.

None of the real businesses we scouted gave us

that flexibility we needed, so we created our own,

a fictitious architectural firm called Division Engineering,

and we built the office space from scratch.

Oh, Brandy, I'm Michael. How are you?

I'm good. You here for an interview?

Yes.

Nice to meet you. You look sharp.

Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I'm so nervous. [ Laughs ]

I'm gonna show off some of the designs to the big boss.

Oh, wow, that is nice.

What type of engineer are you?

Well, can I show you, actually?

Yeah. You can practice on me.

Okay, good, because I feel like, on one hand,

I feel like I'm presentable and I know what I'm talking about,

but I don't want to come across like some ding-dong who has --

No, you look pretty sharp.

You look like you got your stuff together.

All of the designs are my own.

Oh, wow. Okay?

That I did, and I'll show you the first one here.

I know both -- this is sort of like a dream house of mine.

And mine, too.

Yeah, but also you see I did the interior here,

because a lot of times, they say it's much better

if they know that you're not just slacking --

you know what I mean? -- by just...

Yeah.

You know, you have to be, like, really secure.

How did you change your glasses that quick?

What do you mean?

You just had your glasses...

Should I not wear these glasses?

No, I like them, but, I mean,

did you just have some different ones on?

No, this is what I came in --

You're making me nervous now. Should I not wear them?

No, they're nice, but I swear, they just changed colors.

Oh, no, they're transition lenses.

I just came from outside. Oh, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, they do kind of their own thing.

This is a little weird, 'cause I put -- see that "X."

I made a mistake on it, but I wanted to show it anyway.

Is that weird if I come in and show a design with a mistake?

No. Because the thing is,

I have the mistake on the bottom, too.

Wow. Oh, my... And it's here.

You know what I mean? Whoa. Wait a --

So they know that I'm totally, like,

on top of what I'm doing.

And then the other one, um...

Wait a minute.

I have a stain here, which -- the coffee shop...

Oh, my God. Wait a minute.

Do you know what I'm saying?

Wait. You just changed your clothes.

And then -- should I change?

Is that what you're saying? Should I change my clothes?

Wait. You're making me nervous.

Am I going crazy?

I just thought I seen -- didn't you have a suit on?

Well, I thought this was, like, kind of like low-key

to show that I'm, like, artistic.

Wait a minute. You know what I mean?

I know I woke up with a headache, but am I going crazy?

I swear, you just had a suit on.

Well, I thought that I would wear something that --

Oh, my God. I think I'm going crazy.

Really? Maybe it's just the way I was talking.

Did I sound more sure of myself?

Yeah. Well, no.

Yeah. Yeah, but I just -- I remember you walking in.

Right. That's crazy.

That can't be.

Well, I have -- this was probably closed a little.

But don't you think, like, a suit might --

I swear, you just had a suit on.

Well, everybody downstairs is really casual, so I thought,

like, I would be totally, you know, like, I'd look hip

and know what I was doing but not be...

I don't want to just come across too stuffy.

No, you're not coming across too stuffy.

I mean, like, I want them to know that I'm, like,

cool and, like, a good person to hang out with.

What -- I don't want them to think --

do you know what I mean?

Yeah, I know what you mean, but you look --

I mean, you had -- wait a minute.

You just had a suit on.

No, no, just my shirt was a little closed,

but, other than that -- I want to be, like,

friendly and cool and let them know that --

That can't -- Oh, my God, I'm going --

I woke up with a headache today.

I don't know what's going on.

Yeah. I'm gonna -- I'm gonna go out and, like,

blaze out by the sun for, like, five minutes,

and then I'll come back up in here all, like, ready to go.

Yeah, good luck. All right, cool.

I think you'll get it, though.

All right, good. Oh, yeah.

All right, see ya.

All right!

Oh, my goodness.

Thank you.

He just had a shirt on.

I swear. Oh.

[ Chuckles ]

Maybe I'm going crazy or something.

I don't know.

♪♪♪

Brandy's reaction was so good.

It's an example of the ultra-rare

one-and-done performances of a trick.

We didn't even need to attempt the trick on anyone else,

but we did film the reveal,

as you're about to see in this never-aired clip.

Oh, my gosh, I left my stuff in the car.

What time's your interview?

[ Sighs ] It is in 10 minutes.

What did you say your name was?

Brandy.

Oh, my gosh, Brandy, I'm, like, tripping out today.

Oh, my God. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I feel like I'm on some kind of hidden-camera magic TV show.

Me and you both. Yeah?

Wait, where's your sketches?

What if I told you my name is Michael Carbonaro

and you are on my TV show right now?

Oh, my God. No, I'm not.

I'm Michael Carbonaro. Oh.

I'm a magician.

It was -- No.

Wait, is this whole thing --

This whole thing.

Oh, my God!

Now, I called...

Okay, I can't give away exactly how we did it,

but this trick is a rare long con

that involved sending this courier

on a mission across Atlanta.

By the time he arrived at our makeshift office,

we'd been tracking him for hours.

♪♪♪

How you doing, sir?

Good. How are you? All right.

Oh. [ Speaks indistinctly ]

What was that? A package for you.

Oh, okay, cool.

Uh, actually, would you open that up for me?

There's just a form inside I have to fill out.

Yeah, cool.

Great.

Yeah, sorry to make you do that.

Here you go, sir.

Good. Okay. Yeah, this is the form.

And what are these?

Picture.

Picture?

Why are there pictures of me?

These are pictures of you?

Yeah.

I have no idea.

Wait a minute. These are -- these are you?

Yes, sir.

Oh, I know.

I had actually asked for this last week,

and they didn't deliver it.

So I asked to send proof of attempted delivery.

So these are probably pictures of you

trying to deliver it last week.

No.

Well, when are these pictures from?

Today.

Like, now.

Like, this is when I went and picked up the package from them,

and this is when I pulled up to you.

This is the package that's in your hand here?

Yes, sir.

This is from when I picked up the package at 4:30 today.

Wait.

Inside this package

are pictures of you holding this package?

Right.

So, these pictures are in there right now,

in that picture?

[ Sighs ]

That's crazy.

I'm looking at it, too, yeah.

This is me in your parking lot,

right there outside.

That's weird.

So, on all of the previous attempts,

the couriers recognized that their photo

was impossibly inside the package,

but instead of freaking out, they just smiled and laughed

and were kind of okay with the whole thing.

Let me just -- I'm just gonna ask my boss really fast.

Can you give me a second? Let's find out what's up.

And then I'll sign that thing. Hold on.

Okay.

♪♪♪

Why are there pictures of me in this [bleep] package?

♪♪♪

This was our first shoot day of Season 2,

and we ended up with so many great tricks

that we weren't able to air them all,

like this never-before-seen clip.

Actually, there is a little trick.

You take out one of the middle pieces.

Really?

And then they all kind of scramble apart

and then you resnap them back together.

Oh, you take it apart and scramble it?

Yeah.

To this day, my parents think I'm a genius.

No, no, I'm pretty good with, like, cognitive --

Let me see if I can get it.

♪♪♪

Yeah. How did you

just do that?

You're blowing my mind.

I can do that in usually seven seconds,

so that was like eight, so...

[ Chuckles ] Okay.

So, specifically, like, what is it that you would want, like?

Yeah. Like, I like to doodle.

Can I try and draw -- Yeah,

go for it, please.

Can I try and draw you?

Please, do.

Alright, you can smile.

Alright.

Just a quick sketch.

And then I'm sure they're not gonna ask me

to do this in there, I hope.

You never know, you know?

I've been to some interviews where questions

are pretty off the wall.

Yeah.

You're completely blowing my mind right now.

Does that look good?

I tried to get, like, the hair, the height of the hair,

and then, the way you, like, bite your --

You bite your lip a little bit when you smile,

so that's, like my -- That's actually

really good.

I want to take that home with me.

Do you? Yeah.

[ Telephone rings ]

One second. Excuse me.

Hey, Chad. How are you doing?

Alright, will do. Thank you.

He is ready to see you, and he is sitting right over there.

Okay. Good luck.

Thank you for putting in a good word for me.

Yeah, no problem.

Alright,

Good luck. Alright.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪♪

Michael: Easy day, right?

Yes. [ Chuckles ] So easy.

I'm so starving.

Ooh! Bagels?

Oh, thank you.

Um, I don't know where the, uh...

Uh, uh, maybe just a napkin.

Yes.

Oh, that's great.

Are they soft or hard?

They're kind of soft.

I shouldn't be eating so much carbs.

You know what I mean?

I eat everything.

You eat everything?

Yeah, but I'm glad that I stay in my shape.

Yeah. My wife's got me on this thing about,

like, less carbs.

Hmm. How's that working out?

It's all right. Like, I'll eat a bagel,

but I'm supposed to scoop out the hole inside of it?

Really? Yeah, 'cause bagels

have tons and tons and tons of bread inside of it,

so it's, like, way too much. Okay.

They'll, like, weight you down.

And that's the problem with bagels, is, like,

they're so good, but, like, there's so much bread.

Wow, that's a lot that was in there.

Yeah, I get down to the doughy parts, you know?

Just get it all out, 'cause it weights me down.

It's a lot. But I've been trying to

go on, like, a juice -- that's a big thing to do --

a juice cleanse.

And how do you do that?

You can juice -- you know, they'll juice beets.

Yes. So, like, if you ever see

the purple juice or, like, carrot juice, it's really good.

Never tried it. It looks really weird.

It's, like, disgusting.

Like, I would not eat that.

You know? Look at this.

Yeah. Wow. There's a lot in there.

Yeah. I just -- I find --

I would have never known...

Known what?

That all that was in there.

Let me see, now.

Wow. Yeah, you got to dig.

If you get underneath it, you can get the whole...

See?

Oh, my gosh!

Yeah.

That's pretty gross.

'Cause a bagel is boiled, so, like, all that dough is just...

Oh, my God.

And that's what my wife is saying, you know?

Get out of here.

I know.

And if I get down to the very edge, you can get down...

Yeah, see, the center is gooey.

Oh, see.

That's -- Do you have, like -- Here.

Thank you.

Yeah, that's... Okay, well, we need more.

Yeah. Is there -- Yeah.

That's -- You're not gonna eat that, are you?

Well, I just want to get the doughy part.

It's doughier than usual.

And then I take the sesame seeds off of the edges,

so it's really...

'Cause they're bad for you, too.

The sesame, right? Yeah.

Oh, my God, how many?

Yeah. Look, you can squeeze them out.

Yeah.

[ Chuckles ]

There we go.

That's pretty good.

♪♪♪

I am never eating a bagel again.

Co We got permission to shoot at

this resort outside of Atlanta

over Memorial Day weekend,

but we had concerns about big crowds interrupting the magic

or blocking the cameras, so we actually waited

till the day after Memorial Day to pull off

this trick at the pool.

Man: ...'cause we've had a couple of employees

that like to sneak their friends in.

[ Beep ]

Okay.

[ Children laughing ]

♪♪♪

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Clears throat ]

Here you go. Come on out.

Here you are. Okay.

How are you?

Woman: Mmm.

I'm just trying to block it.

That's good.

You can sit right over here. Let me show you something.

Um, what the hell?

Yeah, I love you in that.

Did she just come out of a bag?

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Children laughing ]

♪♪♪

[ Speaks indistinctly ]

[ Beep ]

Darren?

Darren: Go for Darren.

Um, this lady right here in the red swimsuit --

she just came out of a suitcase.

Can you repeat that?

You said she came out of a suitcase?

Yes, but she doesn't have on a yellow band on her arm.

All right, you know what? That's a safety issue.

Just keep your eye on them.

I'm be down there in a couple of minutes.

[ Beep ]

Okay.

Michael: Step up. Get over there.

This is not how I want us to be.

♪♪♪

I'll tell you what.

Here, why don't you get into the bag?

This is just not how I want to do this.

People are just gonna be staring.

So what's the point?

Does nobody see this?

Okay, what you can't see here is the crowd

that had gathered at the window of the hotel lobby.

Some hotel guests realized that something strange

was going on at the pool,

and our PAs had to hold them back

from interrupting the shoot.

Fortunately, the security guard was too focused

on my luggage to even notice.

That's not the way it should be.

Let me get you up.

How did this lady get in this bag?

[ Sighs ]

Okay.

Let's just wheel on out of here.

Oh, shoot, she's coming over here.

Hold on. I'm just gonna put you down over here.

Sit right here.

Just pretend like you're not here.

Um, is there a reason that she's in the suitcase?

Well...you tell me.

She's not allowed to be inside of the bag.

It's a safety issue.

Do you think people are gonna be staring at me?

I mean, that's the only thing that I'm worried about.

No. Really?

No. Why would they stare at you?

You know, some people can be so -- can be so judgmental.

Oh, no, that's fine.

[ Grunts ]

So, it's okay if, uh -- 'cause we were just worried.

Let me get her here. Come on out. Okay.

Um, yeah, so, this is cool with you?

Yeah, that's fine.

Now, the mechanics of this trick are similar

to when a magician's assistant vanishes onstage.

And we got help crafting this illusion

from Las Vegas illusion masters Johnny Thompson and Thom Rubino,

who have staged all kinds of vanishing acts over the years,

but none quite like this.

You can put her back in the bag.

But I thought you said she had to be out of the bag

for a safety issue.

Um, yes, but I thought she was a human.

That's -- That's how I feel about her.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

There's a lot of us like this, you know?

We blow them up, and we -- it's just like having a companion.

Yes, I understand. It's fine.

They call that the Carbonaro Effect.

Okay. Have you heard of

that before?

No, I haven't.

Yeah, it's also the name of a hidden-camera magic TV show...

[ Laughs ]

...like the one you're on right now.

[ Laughing ] I thought I was going crazy.

[ Laughs ]

What were -- What were you thinking?

Oh, my God.

Thought I was going crazy.

Yeah? [ Chuckles ]

So... how did you do that?

[ Laughs ]

We're never gonna tell her, are we?

This is crazy. [ Laughs ]

[ Laughing ] Oh, my God.

♪♪♪