- 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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Are you ready to be amazed?
- [Audience] Yeah!
- I'm Dean Cain and welcome to "Masters Of Illusion."
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Get ready for a night of jaw-dropping illusions
and unbelievable feats.
Our magicians have honed their skills to perfection
and they are ready to leave you-
- Hey, Dean.
- Ed Alonzo, ladies and gentlemen!
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Hello.
I was just opening up the show.
- I see that, but I wanted to be one of the first
to congratulate you on another season
of "Masters Of Illusion."
- [Dean] Outstanding.
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- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Well, I brought some champagne
and a couple glasses, the big one's mine.
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So all you have to do is to focus
all of your super powers on that champagne bottle any time.
- I have to focus?
- Please.
- Okay.
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I'm focusing really hard.
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- My eye!
My eye!
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- You all right?
- Congratulations, Dean.
- Thank you, Ed.
Ed Alonzo.
Are you ready for the ultimate thrill ride?
Well, these two performers will take you
on a wild and dangerous journey that you won't soon forget.
Here's Deadly Games.
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♪ I'm afraid now that it's all away now ♪
♪ Helpless, kill this ♪
♪ And the way you feel ♪
♪ Can't toss the feelings ♪
♪ Tell me can you feel me now ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ Feel something faster ♪
♪ Faster ♪
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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- Now we don't pick favorites around here,
but if there was one magician
that I could grab a drink with,
of course it would have to be
the always enchanting, Lucy Darling.
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- Stop it.
You know what?
People are always asking me how ladies such as myself
could have ever gotten tangled up in magic.
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See, every time they ask.
Well, since you're so interested, I will tell you.
You see, I was just a very small child
when magic first found me.
I remember I was running about,
and I encountered this wise old wizard
and he said to me he would grant me
anything my heart desired.
And on that beautiful summer day
all I could think about was dessert,
so I asked for a...
Anything.
- Ice cream.
- An ice cream, yes, that's exactly right, good guess.
Whoa.
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So I ran home that very night,
beginning my life of conjuring,
although you see, we have very little
in the way of wands and rabbits lying about my house,
so I had to improvise.
There were always two things
I could guarantee would be sitting at my dining room table
as a child, and they were whisky bottles and empty glasses.
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Now another drink and I'll be under the table,
so we shall pretend this ice tea is whisky, okay?
Just like when I was child,
I pretended the whisky was ice tea.
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Eventually, I discovered my actual power
was in the area of time travel and time management.
But there is a small problem, you see.
How can you observe time travel?
How could you see it?
How could you convince even the skeptics?
I have it sorted.
All you have to do is memorize location of two objects,
bottle, glass, and switch their positions
making them opposite to where they were
just moments ago.
Now shall we step back in time even 30 seconds,
you could see it.
They've returned to their right places.
Do you believe me?
- [Audience] Yeah.
- All right, about 12% of the audience.
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Well, I did say this was for the skeptics.
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Of course we can not leave them that way, no,
we must return them to their right place in time
here with us, in the present.
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And you will be even more amazed to find
that both the tubes have remained completely
and utterly empty.
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That was not supposed to happen.
Although I suppose, I'd always rather have
an extra bottle in front of me
instead of a frontal lobotomy. (chuckles)
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Oh look, it's vanished, whoa!
No, you're right.
The truth is, I'm a lady,
and a real lady's never really lost, is she?
She just changes where it is she wants to go.
So this time we shall see the bottle and glass
move back in time, 30 seconds,
and be even more amazed to find
that although one tube is completely and utterly empty,
the other tube now contains yet another bottle.
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With a little dedication and a lot of practice,
one can separate the two moments,
so for one second I believe you'll see both the bottle
in the future and the bottle in the past.
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I know, you like that so much I'll do it again.
Oh my goodness, this is bananas over here.
This is some monkey business that's going on.
Utter bananas.
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Now I know what you're thinking at this point,
you're thinking it's the whisky talking.
But whisky can't talk, mister.
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And you know what my grandmother always used to say to me?
Bottles on the table can be crass,
so tonight, let's just use the glass.
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And now with nothing left to skew,
two more bottles of Malibu,
and if that drink is not your test,
well, I brought Absinthe, just in case.
And of course, when it's up to me,
it's always whisky and never tea.
Thank you.
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Do you remember when I had a bottle glass
and I covered them up
and I turned them into ice cream?
Ooh!
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I mean, come on, if I could really make ice cream
appear on this table right now,
I'd be a full-fledged wizard
like that old man those many years ago.
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- The impossible is easy
for the masterful manipulations of Joshua Jay.
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Prepare to be amazed, ladies and gentlemen.
This magician is a true artist,
blending creativity, skill, and showmanship
into a perfect package.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the incredible magic
of Joshua Jay.
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- All right, Tatiana,
everybody in this theater,
everybody watching at home,
what I need you to do is think of a playing card. You can
think of any playing card not a joker, but any other card.
Everybody got a card?
Good.
Now Tatiana, I want you to see
that these cards are really shuffled, right?
The values, the suits, all mixed up.
- Yes.
- But you're being very polite.
Mixed up by me.
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I need you to mix them up
so that you know that they are mixed.
Go ahead, give them a shuffle.
Oh, total pro, I didn't realize.
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And give them a cut.
Great.
Now this is a blindfold.
I'm going to find everybody's card blindfolded.
So I need you to hold this up to your eyes,
make sure you can't see it in the light,
make sure that you can't see the cards.
That that blindfold is totally legit.
Look okay?
- [Tatiana] Yes.
- Good.
And hold them up to the cards.
Look good?
Great.
Now if I were to find everybody's card
with a different trick that would take all day.
If I were to do it for everybody at home,
it would take all year.
So instead, I'm going to find every card in the deck,
that's every single card in this deck of cards
that you just shuffled.
Now Tatiana, are these cards face up or face down?
- Face down.
- Face down, okay.
So here's the idea.
I'm going to find every card
that you could possibly have thought of.
If you thought of the ace of hearts, for example,
this is your card.
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And of course, what makes this hard
is that I'm doing it by feel.
So if I go to the 32nd card down,
I hope that that's the two of hearts.
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Now I'm going by feel here,
and I'm trying to feel for the three and the four of hearts
at the same time.
Should be something like this.
That's the three, and that's the four of hearts.
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The five and the six of hearts should be then
16, 18, 22, that's the five, that's the six of hearts.
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Now I'll try and find the seven.
That's 13, eight, nine, six, and two.
That is the seven.
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It was the wrong color, is that the problem?
That's a little better.
The seven of hearts.
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That's the eight of hearts.
If you thought of the eight of hearts,
that one's for you.
If you thought of the nine or the 10 or the jack,
these should be three cuts,
the nine, the 10, the jack of hearts.
The nine, the 10, the jack or hearts.
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If you thought of the queen of hearts,
that's a popular card,
that's 18 down from the top of the deck.
That should be the queen of hearts.
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And if you thought of the king of hearts,
your king of hearts is right here, your king of hearts.
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But of course, this whole time
you shuffled the deck and I shuffled the deck.
I wasn't just finding the hearts,
because many of you thought of a different card
than the hearts,
that's why I found the ace of spades,
then the two, then the three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, jack, queen, king.
The ace, two, three, four, (audience applauding)
five, six, seven, eight, nine,
10, jack, queen, king of diamonds.
All of the clubs.
That really is every card in the deck.
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- Next, laughs and the unbelievable talent of Lioz.
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This performer is not your average magician,
with their unique style and off the wall tricks
that will leave you in stitches, I promise you.
Please give a big round of applause for Lioz.
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- Let's give a round of applause
to my beautiful assistant, she's new.
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Everybody, she's new.
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Together.
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These are real blades.
They are not folding you can see it's real.
And now the magic.
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Here I have a prediction.
I want you to think of a number with three digits.
What is the number?
- [Audience Member] 444.
- 444.
Now think of a letter from the alphabet.
- D.
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444 D.
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This is real, you can check it's real.
Thank you.
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- The impossible is made possible by Caleb Alexander.
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You simply won't believe what I saw backstage,
so it's better if you witness it for yourselves.
Ladies and gentlemen, Caleb Alexander.
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- Thank you for joining us tonight
for a magical evening on "Masters Of Illusion,"
that we hope you won't soon forget.
Remember, keep believing in the impossible.
Until next time, I'm Dean Cain.
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