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- [Announcer] 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."
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- Hello everyone I'm Dean Cain and welcome to
"Masters of Illusion."
Now, when a magician makes the impossible happen,
we all know it's not real.
It's just tricks and illusions to make you
think you're seeing something
that you know is not possible, right?
Well, what you're about to witness might challenge that
and you will see what I mean
- Darling, I just thought of a fun game
that I'd like to play with you, oh, hello everyone.
- Hello.
- Could you hang on to this for me.
- I will, hang on.
- You see, I've been thinking of this wonderful game
that you and I could play, would that be all right?
- Sure.
- Fantastic. Here is the game you see,
I'm going to make you a little bet, yes?
- Okay, sure.
- A little wager.
- I think I already know which of all
of my match collections you are going to pick
before you even pick it.
- Okay?
- Okay, so reach your hand inside, grab a big handful.
- Can I, oh, just grab a handful?
- Grab a handful, yes.
And let them drop from your hands one at a time.
Yeah, drop it in there so you only have one.
- Oh, I see what you mean.
- Yes. Wait until you have one. - I'm not even gonna look.
Don't even look until you have one in your hand.
- This one
- Cover it up!
Now darling, I bet
I already know which one that is.
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Is it, um, Delta hotel?
- Negative.
- Okay. Which one is it?
- The North Woods Inn.
- Oh.
- That's like the
- North Woods Inn. Well, that's interesting cause there
should be a key in your breast pocket right there.
Darling, what does that say?
- It's room 15 of the North Woods Inn.
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- And Darling, if you want to know what you want,
just use that key.
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- They say that love is magical
and this magician definitely agrees.
Let's hear it for Xavier Mortimer.
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I can't wait to see how the cards unfold.
So let's get to it!
Here's Alexandra Duvivier.
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- Thank you.
Thank you so much for your warm welcome.
I have here members of the audience helping me.
I'm so thrilled, woman power.
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That's so good and I hope you like, ladies,
some cards because I do love cards.
Do you? Marvelous, so let's do that.
I don't need that anymore.
So I'm French, French style.
I would like you to select a card
and maybe you are going to do that like me, like this
you know, I'm going to just put one card here for instance.
And I'm going to just put cards like so
and you are going to tell me stop whenever
you want my dear
- Stop
- Right here or right there.
- Right there.
- I knew it. Why not?
And you're going to do exactly the same thing, dear.
I put few cards like that and you just stop me whenever
- Done
- On my hand, on the table or in my left hand?
- This.
- Aha. Very interesting.
This is crazy because see, you have selected those cards.
I can't believe it.
You found Five of Hearts,
the Eight of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts.
And those are the only cards I have.
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Nobody trust me here? Watch.
Those are the only cards I have!
Look closely, I have nothing else but your cards.
Insane isn't it? Thank you so much.
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- Don't blink. You might just miss how this master
of slight of hand pulls off this next illusion.
Here we have David Gabbay.
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- And now a little close up theater.
I'm gonna have two assistants from the audience.
What's your name?
- Jessa.
- Jessa, thanks for helping out
- Paulina
- And Paulina.
So they'll be the eyes and the ears up closer.
I have this white little ball
and these three walnut, half shells.
This is a public service to never play this game for money.
Maybe you've seen something like this,
they just cover the shell like that, move it back and forth.
And then you're supposed to guess, first time I played
I thought it was there and then I knew I should have
gone for... and then it ended up there in the middle.
Now that's just kind of a trick. Now we'll do magic.
I'll get rid of one of the shells.
Paulina, can you help me out?
All right, cool.
I want you to go ahead, make sure that you're
covering that ball with that shell yourself.
Just go ahead and cover it.
Are you sure it's under there?
- I'm pretty sure.
- All right, cool. Then Jessa, can you check out that shell?
I don't want to touch it.
You can reach over and grab it.
Make sure it's empty.
It's good? And then flip it over please.
Paulina, then you'll notice there's a dish there.
Go ahead and flip it over on that first shell right there.
So now we could see, yeah, through.
So if anything were to get in and out, we'd see it.
And let's cover it up with that one too.
And then can you check out that glass?
Make sure it looks good.
Can you put your finger right there
and then your finger on top right there.
Here we go.
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That's it, don't move Jessa, stay right there.
Paulina, Can you lift up the first dish?
And you can hand it to me
and then the next dish
and you know what to do, go ahead.
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And then slowly lift up that cup.
I won't touch a thing.
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There it is ladies and gentlemen.
- The impossible is made possible
by Jonathan Levitt. When we return.
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- Let's take a look at the future
of fashion with our clairvoyant stylist, Jonathan Levitt.
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- Thank you. I am a magician
but if I wasn't a magician, I would be
the Fashionista.
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You would see my clothing line all the way from Miami
to Milan or at least Jersey.
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And I'd call it Uptight by John.
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Every fashion designer, every top fashion designer has
a muse, a model, a mannequin. I
have a Tad. Tad
This way.
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Strike a pose Tad.
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As a fashion designer, I know that every model is different.
Every person is different
but I know exactly what they will all be wearing.
Let's see, Tad, some inspiration please.
Yes, I can feel it, Tad, I can feel it.
You are giving it to me.
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Okay, yes, this is it.
This is going to be all the rage.
Of course I'm not above collaboration
which is why I've invited four stylists
from our audience to join us on stage.
Hello stylists.
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Thank you for joining us.
Let's dress our Tad.
We'll start with you.
Pick a t-shirt, you have t-shirts at the end of the rack.
Any color you'd like we have yellow, green, blue, gray, red
whatever you, okay.
You're going for the gray t-shirt, if you would take it
off the hanger, put the hanger back and let's dress our Tad.
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Thank you for helping.
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Are you okay, Tad?
All right. What else do we put on top of him?
Your choice. We have lots of coverings.
We have hoodies, we have dress shirts.
We have even a denim shirt, sport coat.
You went right for the orange sweatshirt, the orange hoodie.
I love it. That, wow, that color matches your eyes, Tad.
Very nice orange hoodie. Very nice.
Thank you so much.
You may return to the line and she's put the hoodie on you.
That is terrifying. All right.
We probably should put some pants on tad.
We have some blue shorts, we have sweatpants of any color,
We even have denim jeans.
What would you like to put on Tad? Yellow shorts?
Yes, it's probably better to let him do this one.
Very good. We should top him off.
Let's top off Tad with a cap.
We have skull caps, we have baseball caps of
a variety of colors.
You get to choose the blue baseball cap.
Let's put, wow, well done. Thank you.
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I can see it now, the premier outfit
in my spring collection brought to you by the Fashionistas.
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And it's what you all will be wearing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the gray t-shirt the orange hoodie, the yellow shorts
and the blue baseball cap.
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You're all hire!
And we will see all of you in Milan.
Thank you stylists, thank you Tad and thanks to all of you.
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- The closer you watch, the faster you are fooled,
Adam Riley, next.
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- Get ready and expect the unexpected
as we welcome to the stage, Adam Wiley.
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- Thank you so much.
I have an amazing member of our live audience, Parker.
Parker, How you doing today?
- I am surviving and thriving.
- Excellent. I have a piece of paper for you
but it's gonna cost you a dollar.
Do you have a dollar?
- I do as a matter fact.
- Excellent. Let's see your dollar and I'll trade you.
Oh, it's fancy, it's in his wallet.
Look at that.
- Don't steal any more.
- I won't. Thank you so much.
We'll trade this.
I'm gonna go ahead and fold your dollar here, Parker.
Oh, uh, actually Parker, I forgot, did you, uh,
did you sign your dollar at all?
I should have you sign it.
- Oh, okay.
- Go ahead and sign your dollar,
if you wouldn't mind for me.
- Right.
- Just right there.
- Just anywhere.
- Anywhere you'd like.
- Right.
- Perfect.
- There you go. There you go.
- Excellent. Did you know what's very interesting
about your dollar.
I want you to just look as your dollar
vanishes but it doesn't completely go away.
Oh, oh actually, Parker.
I totally forgot inside my back pocket.
If you can see right here.
- Yes.
- Is my wallet.
Now my wallet has a very fancy compartment where
my driver's license is.
There is one dollar hidden inside there.
Can you go ahead and take out that dollar?
- Yes I can.
Am I?
- Please open it. Yeah.
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Do you recognize that signature?
- I do.
- You recognize your signature?
It's yours. That's amazing.
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I want to try one more thing for whoever's up to it.
Now I need someone to shout out a number.
If you could shout out a, a two digit number,
- 23.
- 23, what a great number.
We're gonna times that by another number. Um, sir,
if you could please shout out a, a two digit number as well.
- 52.
- 23 times 52, tap on it to know what that equals.
It's 1,196.
Good. Thank you so much for paying attention.
I'm gonna do another random number.
Could you give me just a three digit number.
- 420.
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- 420. That's very big.
All right, good, um. Parker.
- Yes.
- If you wouldn't mind picking
up that little board there in the marker.
Thank you so much.
If you could read this number out loud to me, please.
- Yes
- What's that number?
- Twelve million.
- Ooh. That's big.
- Nine hundred and twenty seven thousand
- Uh huh.
- Seven hundred forty seven.
- These are all random numbers that we had in the audience,
yes, Parker?
- Yes.
- Amazing and I gave you a piece of paper
before anything started, didn't I?
Here, we'll put this here.
- You did.
- I did. Could you go ahead and undo that piece
of paper and read it one digit at a time for me?
First number is.
- One.
- Yes! Next number.
- Two.
- Yes! Next number.
- Nine.
- Next number.
- Zero.
- What?
- Oh.
- Zero?
- Zero.
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- Zero! Next number
- Nine.
- Nine?
- Nine.
- Oh. Okay. Yeah.
- Two.
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- Two.
- Four.
- Four, ha!
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What's the last one?
- Nine.
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- Nine. That was really close. Thank you.
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I don't need your pity. It's okay.
Parker, have you ever heard the expression lemons out
of lemonade? Neither of I
but we already have this number right here.
So we already have 12,927,747.
Could you press the plus sign
and let's pretend this is a math problem.
And could you add one, two.
- One, two.
- Nine, zero, nine.
- Two, four.
- Nine.
- What does that equal?
- Twenty five million, eight hundred thirty six thousand,
nine hundred ninety six.
- Magic! Oh, what if I add the letter F and the letter A
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then it almost looks like the serial number
of a borrowed dollar bill. Doesn't it, Parker?
- It does.
- Could you read the serial number, including the letters
of your dollar bill, please?
- Serial number.
- What's the first letter?
- F.
- Yes!
- Two.
- Yes!
- Five.
- Yes!
- Eight.
- Yes!
- Three.
- Yes!
- Six.
- Yes!
- Nine.
- Yes!
- Nine.
- Yes!
- Six.
- Yes!
- A
- Yes! It's an exact match. Look at that!
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Thank you guys so much.
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- Amazing is the only way to describe My Uyên, next.
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I hope you are not claustrophobic, like I am
because this next illusion is going to be a tight squeeze.
Let's give a big round of applause for none other
than My Uyên.
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Well, that's our show for now.
We have lots more magic coming
up in the next edition of Masters of Illusion.
Don't you miss it!
Till then, I'm Dean Cain, thank you for watching.
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