- [Narrator] 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.
(audience clapping and cheering)
Hello everyone and welcome to "Masters of Illusion".
I am Dean Cain.
Now listen, there are things found in nature
that somehow just seem magical.
A spiderweb, birds in flight, waterfalls, snowflakes,
but what you're about to see on this stage
definitely would not happen in nature. I promise you that.
- Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, wait.
- Ladies and gentlemen, it's John LaChance.
(audience clapping)
And some condiments.
- Yeah, I thought we would make a sandwich.
- Right here, in the opening of the show?
- Yeah, my three favorite ingredients,
peanut butter, jelly, and pickles.
(audience laughing) - Okay.
- Well, which one's your favorite?
- I like peanut butter.
- Peanut butter, I knew that, I did.
See, 'cause on the inside, I put the word you picked me.
- That's pretty good. - Yeah.
- And is that what's written on the inside
of all the others though?
(audience laughing)
- Let's try it.
See, that says, "You picked peanut butter," right there.
On this one, right here,
it says you picked peanut butter as well.
- Could you go make me a sandwich?
- No, I will make a sandwich.
I'll see you. - Thank you.
(audience clapping and cheering)
John LaChance.
There are roughly 800 quadrillion times
more ways to shuffle a deck of cards
than there are atoms on earth.
I'll let that sink in for a second.
(audience laughing)
For this next trick is truly one of a kind.
Here's Farrell Dillon.
(audience cheering and clapping)
- Thank you so much for coming up on the stage.
Tim, I'm gonna show you a card trick.
- Okay.
But before I show you the trick
I gotta show you something really cool.
What's this? (audience laughing)
What do you notice about my pocket?
- It's open.
- It's empty is what I'm looking for man.
- It is empty. - Yeah, it's empty thank you.
You can touch it if you want me make sure it is empty.
No, go ahead just like give it a little.
I'm just kidding. I just wanted to scream in your face
'cause this I'm kind of a jerk.
So look now that we know the pocket's empty though.
I can begin the trick for you Tim.
Go ahead take out any card you want?
Look at it. Don't let me see it.
Hold it steady though in front of that camera right there.
They're gonna zoom in on it. Oh wow look at that.
(audience laughing)
You got it Tim?
Look at it yourself all right. Don't forget it.
All right now Tim here's what's gonna happen.
I'm gonna drop cards from one end of the other.
You say stop somewhere in the middle.
- Stop. - Perfect.
Put your card back right there.
Ooh face down. Good choice.
(audience laughing)
Now look, I'm going to cause your card
to fly through the air and then land inside of my pocket.
Are you ready for this?
- I am. - All right get ready.
(suspense music)
(audience laughing)
Boom. Tim one card from here through the air to here.
Check it out.
(upbeat music)
- No way. - Yep, that was it.
- But your car was the 10 of spades, right?
- Nine of diamonds. - Okay, good.
'Cause the nine of diamonds is the one that I got
in my pocket.
(audience clapping and cheering)
Do you wanna see how this works?
- Yeah, I do dude I really do.
- Okay so what you do is you have to make sure
somebody picks the nine of diamonds.
However you wanna do that, that's your choice.
Then you take the nine of diamonds you put it in the middle.
Now here's where it gets difficult.
You've gotta turn the nine of diamonds invisible,
so that people don't see it.
Then you take the nine of diamonds out,
and you put it in your pocket. That's how it works.
So now that you know how it works Tim,
you know what to look for.
So watch look. The nine of diamonds here.
Do me a favor, push it all the way in for me.
Look, it goes all the way in.
Then watch I ripple the carts and I turn it invisible.
Do you see it again?
- I don't. - It's there.
It's definitely there.
Look, I take the nine of diamonds,
I put it down inside the pocket.
Once it hits my pocket, it turns visible again. See?
One more time Tim. But this time just for you.
I don't want you to think that I'm cheating.
I am, but I don't want you to think it.
Look, I gotta turn the card invisible.
I gotta take it out. I gotta put it there in the pocket.
Go ahead, check it out. Go ahead.
I'm just kidding, that's weird.
- That is weird. - Yeah.
- Tim, you don't reach inside people's pockets.
Plus if you did, you would've found the eight of hearts,
and yours was the nine of diamonds. Hold onto that.
You would've also found this one right here.
It's the seven of hearts. Hold onto that.
You would've also found this one right here,
it's the queen of hearts.
In fact, Tim look, you would've found all the cards,
except for one card. It did not fly to my pocket.
It stayed right here in my hand the whole time.
And Tim, that just happens to be your card.
The nine of diamonds.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- This magician is the perfect friend to hang out with
because the next round is always on him.
Let's hear it for Nick Dopuch.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Honestly I don't do a magic trick.
But I'm actually here to sell you something.
I'm here to sell you something that will, hmm.
I'm gonna something that help you get through the holidays.
Get through those family gatherings,
get through those friends, anything that you need.
This device is very small, it's compact,
it looks a little something like this. That's right.
I don't know what they put in these bottles,
but what's inside the bottle doesn't matter.
The bottle itself is actually what the incredible thing is.
I dunno if you guys noticed this right here,
but that's now empty.
Now if something's empty, we can't really do much with it.
'Cause in order to do this at family gathering,
you gotta sneak like eight or nine of these bottles in here.
However, this one in particular,
all you gotta do is just give a little shake like that,
and it'll actually refill.
(audience clapping)
Thank you, thank you.
- It's not magic, just some kinda science.
Some guy figured this out.
I'm not sure is what is happening.
(audience laughing)
That fills up quickly, doesn't it?
It's like grandma and grandpa are showing up. Okay, good.
However, one of the things we wanna make sure that you have
you make sure that the lid stays on tight life hack.
One of things, make sure the lid stays on tight
on these things 'cause if they don't have the lid on there
and everybody does show up and you need another one.
Then that means that you're actually going to
- Oh good there it is, there it is. Cheers.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- The human subconscious
is capable of truly miraculous things.
Our next performers plan to test if they can use that
to their advantage. From England, here are The Conjurers.
(audience cheering and clapping)
- So tonight we've thought we'll do
something completely impossible.
Four random six digit numbers.
For this though, a member of tonight's lovely audience
is needed to come and help.
Let's choose. You right there very front, come and join me.
Everybody give her a round of applause.
(audience clapping)
Lovely. Thank you. What's your name?
- Kathy. - Kathy you look lovely.
Kathy have a seat there for me.
I always do is a look here right on your finger for me
that finger there really focus on it Kathy
but really look at it. And as you look at it,
I'm gonna get you to one, two, three, sleep Kathy
just down there like that, stay there.
Good. And really stay.
Lock, cemented, held in that one place.
Now Kathy in a moment as I said,
I'm gonna ask you to look at some numbers as you do.
I don't need you to remember them.
It's your subconscious mind that's important
not your conscious Kathy.
Three, two, one, you can come back gently and slowly.
Good. Thank you so much.
Now Kathy, here are the numbers.
I wanted to make sure you see all of them.
Everyone is important, but again, don't remember them.
Here's your first sets, good. Your second set.
Make sure we see every single one.
Your third set. You doing a great job Kathy.
And last but not least your fourth set is there.
Tash, let's make this incredible.
- Kathy we want for you to think of a number
between one and 10.
- Three. - Three, perfect.
Now Kathy, you'll think of a two digit number
important to you.
- 44. - Perfect Kathy.
And I think that we have to do another one Tash.
- Let's go for three digit number this time.
- Okay, five, six, seven.
- Oh Kathy importantly.
You really haven't seen those numbers before
this moment on this stage here tonight.
Good. Oh look, Tash is now writing these numbers
up there on the board.
The ones that you saw for a second,
the one you said you hadn't remembered.
So now Kathy, it looks almost like we have a sum
an impossible sum with the answer
and the outcome that you could have not known.
But maybe you Kathy have done something
completely impossible. Tash.
- The other six and six, that's 12,
12 add that to 14 add the three, 17. We carry the one.
Then here we have the four and a five that's nine,
plus the one that's 10.
Add the two that's 12, add the four 16. We carry the one.
Then here we have the eight plus the two that's 10.
Add that one 11 plus the four, 15. We carry the one.
Hopefully you can see what's happening now.
Let's continue add this six and three that's nine.
Add that one add the one that is 14. We carry on like so.
Three and six that's nine, nine add that four 13,
add the one 14. Let's continue.
We have the nine and the two that's 11,
add that one that's 12, 12 add one is of course
one, three, four, four, five, six, seven.
(audience clapping)
- Round of applause for Kathy.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- [Dean] Pay close attention.
We would hate for you to miss this next illusion
from Chipper Lowell, when we return.
(upbeat music)
(audience clapping and cheering)
- It's always a sweet treat to see this illusionist.
So let's give a round of applause
for the magically comedic Chipper Lowell.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- Thank you guys so much
and give it up for Morgan everybody.
(audience clapping and cheering)
Nice to have to here now as I understand it
you're gonna allow me to borrow some money. Is that okay?
- Yeah. - It is? Okay.
What do you got? You have like a $50 bill, or a hundred,
or $75 bill or you have a, okay. You have a $2 bill.
We will use it. Excellent.
Do me a favor if you would.
You can put that down by your side,
and I'm gonna have you read off the last four numbers
on that serial number.
Go ahead. First number is?
- Eight. - Eight, all right.
- One, five, and zero.
- And there should be a letter at the end?
A, all right. Eight, one, five, zero, and the letter A.
Will put it right up there for safe keeping. Very nice.
And if you don't mind me, I borrow that just for a second.
Okay. Appreciate it.
I'm gonna kinda make it very unique.
We are going to make a little, little cut.
(audience laughing)
It's okay. Oh, maybe not. Okay. All right.
Would you hold onto that?
As a matter of fact do me a favor
put it into your left pocket if you would please.
All right. Don't be worried.
And then your right hand, just go like that if you would.
Excellent. I'm gonna have you hold it just like so.
Very good. And we are going to use the marker
and an envelope.
We will take this, fold it up,
watch very closely into the envelope. Is it in there?
It is, all right, here we go. We're gonna steal it.
And we are going to add a couple other envelopes to that,
and we're gonna mix them around, mix them around.
Ah, fun, fun.
So we have the three envelopes,
and I'm going to number these using letters.
I know. So this will be A, there you go.
And this will be B, all right.
And this one will be C. Okay.
You get to choose A, B or C all right.
Whichever one you want shout it out B?
- B.
- B?
Okay. B all right.
Hold onto that if you would, please.
These are the ones that you did not want, right?
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. No that's fine. We'll go for it.
Excellent. That goes away.
Okay. Fun. All right that goes away.
And that's the one. So this is the exciting moment.
Are you ready? Ah, this is so cool.
All right, I'm gonna open this up.
I want you, if you would please,
go ahead and reach inside and take out whatever's in there.
Go for it. There you go. Oh my gosh.
Is that your card?
(audience laughing)
Wrong trick. Okay, wrong trick.
Well, that was fun, huh?
(audience laughing)
Come on, that was worth $2.
Thank you, have a great seat. There you go.
Okay. No, no, come back, come back, come back.
I feel bad. I feel bad. I do.
You know what? We have a present for you.
Yes, we have a present.
Oh, they're gonna love this. I made you a snack.
I did. Yes. Orange gelatin.
Oh my goodness. Look, how yummy is that?
Isn't that? As a matter of fact,
I don't know if people can see that,
but there is something inside.
You know what? You're gonna have to get it.
So this hand reach in, go ahead and grab it.
Go ahead. Yeah, reach.
Just move around in there. There you go.
Yeah. That's it. There you go.
This it's fun, isn't it? Okay. Yeah. There you go.
Would you just be careful, I don't wanna get icky.
Okay. Yeah. There you go. Oh, that's awesome. Look at that.
Fantastic. As a matter of fact,
let me just take this and clean it off for you.
There you go. Hey, would you take that?
All right. Would you do me a favor?
Would you read the serial number that's on there?
- Eight, one, five, zero.
- Eight, one, five, zero, and the letter?
- A. - And the letter A.
Wait, wait, wait. I believe you have a receipt
in that pocket.
Yeah. Reach into that pocket if you would, please?
There we go. Do you have it there? Yep?
And bring it out, and let's see if that is a match.
Put it right there on that corner.
Ladies and gentlemen.
(audience cheering and clapping)
Fantastic. And guess what? You won your money back?
Give her a nice hand.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- [Dean] Get ready for a grand illusion
like you've never seen before from Lucy Darling,
when we return.
(audience clapping and cheering)
We've all become used to ordering something online,
and getting it the next day. Sometimes even the same day.
Well, our next magician thinks she can do it faster.
She's witty, she's mystical, she's Lucy Darling.
- My goodness what a handsome crowd we have?
You know, you might not realize this
but it's been quite a challenging time
for magic over the last couple years.
I mean, you might not realize but there's a war going on.
Yes. This is the correct response. Well done.
(audience laughing)
It's true between magicians, and acing on TV appetizers.
I mean, think about it.
They're always taking the word magic,
and try to slap it on products that no body wants.
Magic car wash, magic dry cleaning.
Same thing, magic delivery, which takes 14 days.
I mean, that's hardly magic.
(audience laughing)
If it were magic, it would look like this.
Oh my goodness wow.
(audience laughing)
Our package has arrived from magic delivery.
But ah, we haven't even ordered anything yet. Oh.
(audience laughing)
- I know it's a good one right? Okay.
So we have to figure out what to order
and who looks literate.
Didn't think that'd be as hard to find.
Darling what's your name?
- Bea.
That's your whole name? Just the one letter?
- Ether. - Nope, got worse. Okay.
(audience laughing)
All right. We're going to try this on the book from Ether.
So what is your favorite magician?
- Harry Potter.
- I'm standing right here but thank you.
No, it's fine. We'll fight about later in the car.
Now, Harry Potter. No problem.
Now I understand of magic delivery.
All I have to do is hold the bag open to the sky,
and the book shall simply fall from the heavens.
What? Okay, everyone why don't you just do a little magic?
Everyone. Wiggle your fingers at the bag. Wiggle, wiggle.
Okay, all right. it's a bit ticklish stop it.
(audience laughing)
All right here we go. Book from the sky.
Harry Potter, one, two.
(audience clapping and cheering)
I know it's a good one. Bea darling are you confused?
- No, not at all.
- You should tell your face.
(audience laughing)
Darling don't worry about it I'll explain to you.
You see, I had a bag on the table that was sitting there
flat the entire time.
And then I reached into an empty bag,
and I pulled out an entire book.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- [Dean] We have one more illusion to serve
as our grand finale, Rudy Coby when we return.
(audience clapping and cheering)
It's time to present the larger than life illusionist,
who has a flare for suspense and dramatics.
Here's Rudy Coby.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- All right. This is the world's most dangerous card trick.
And this is Juicy, the world's most nervous volunteer.
(audience laughing)
Part one is the card trick.
But this is very dangerous.
I know you've seen, this is all the cards are different.
Okay? Perfectly normal deck,
just a lot bigger than normal cards.
And I want you to touch any card that you want.
Take it. That one. Okay.
Take the card. Look at it. Remember it.
Show it to the audience and put it back.
Now to make this extra difficult,
I'm going to let Juicy, shuffle the cards.
That's enough Juicy. Okay, perfect.
(audience laughing)
So that was part one,
of the world's most dangerous card trick.
Now for the danger, come with me.
You stand right there, I'll show you how this works.
This is the button of death.
It's connected to the clock of death.
One push on that button causes the clock
to count down 10 deadly seconds at the end of which
it detonates death.
(audience laughing)
Don't be deceived by its cheesy cardboard like appearance.
(audience laughing)
It really is dangerous.
Okay Juicy. Put your hand above the button,
but don't touch it yet.
Okay. I'll be using a special Teflon fiber shield
for your protection.
Juicy, are you ready? - Yes I'm ready.
- Are you guys ready?
(audience clapping and cheering)
Push the button. At the count of three.
Get ready Juicy.
One, two, what? No did you push?
(soft music)
(audience clapping and cheering)
- Well that's all the magic we have time for this time.
But there's plenty more next time.
We hope you'll join us again.
Until then, I'm Dean Cain, see ya.
(audience clapping and cheering)