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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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- Are you ready to be amazed?
(crowd cheers)
Get ready.
Our talented performers are about to take the stage
and leave you--
- Excuse me, excuse me.
Hi. - Deadly Games everyone.
- Hi everyone. - Yes.
(audience applauds)
- Well, you're Deadly.
- Yeah. - You're missing your
other half.
- Yeah, so that's why,
I wanna present my fiance with this rose.
But you know me, I'm very clumsy.
I don't know how to give it to her.
Can you show it to me?
- I thought you were gonna give it to me.
I thought, awe.
- I have another one for you too.
- Okay, great yeah.
Well, if I were-- - Please.
- So if I were to present a rose to a lovely fiance,
I would say,
you know my darling
hello, please.
(whip crack)
(crowd cheers)
- You know what?
Nevermind, nevermind.
(audience cheers)
(Dean laughs)
- I'm not shaking, it's fine.
Prepare to have your minds blown
by a magician who has honed his skills
through years of dedication and hard work.
That's what it takes.
He's here to show you what real magic looks like.
Let's hear it for Alex Ramon.
(audience applauds) (upbeat music)
- Thank you very much.
There is a question
that is the most important question when you're a magician,
and that question is
who's the assistant?
You have to have a cute blonde assistant.
Here's mine.
Right now, MJ boy.
There's my cute blonde assistant puppy boy.
Hi, cute puppy.
Hi, good boy.
(audience applauds)
This is MJ.
Hi MJ boy.
You're doing great.
Good boy.
All right, now let's see.
Come on over here.
Hi, how are you?
What's your name?
- Manuela.
- Manuela, would you please come with me?
Come on up, give Manuela a big round of applause.
Let's go.
(audience applauds)
You can pet him.
He's very, very soft okay.
Now he is an artist and he could do celebrity portraits.
So Manuela, I have a bunch of celebrities here
and you're gonna decide which portrait MJ is gonna do.
We have a bunch of superheroes and celebrities here.
Okay, so we have Black Panther,
we have Vision,
we have Beyonce,
superheroes, right? (audience laughs)
Okay so,
so I'm gonna go like this.
Manuela, anytime you want, you say stop.
When you say stop,
you're gonna stop me at a celebrity or a superhero,
and that's gonna be one MJ does.
Okay, all right anytime you want, say stop.
Stop. - Stop, right there.
Who'd you get?
- Bruce Lee.
- Bruce Lee, yes!
(audience cheers)
- No, no, no.
- MJ can't do Bruce Lee.
Say stop again.
(audience laughs)
- Stop. - Stop, what'd you get?
- Ant man.
- Ant man yeah,
here's the thing.
(audience laughs)
He can't do ant man either.
(audience laughs)
What do you wanna do?
I can-- - We're gonna go Bruce.
We'll go Bruce, we'll go Bruce okay.
We'll go Bruce okay?
Bruce Lee, here it is.
And this is his canvas.
And MJ boy, are you ready?
(MJ barks)
Tough. (MJ barks)
He's ready, he's focused.
He's locked in, okay.
And Manuela, you're gonna say go.
Okay, MJ boy.
Bruce Lee, are you ready?
He's ready, here he goes.
On your go, nice and loud.
- Go. - Go!
MJ Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee, good boy.
Good boy!
(audience cheers)
Good boy MJ, you did it.
You did it.
We have a little Bruce Lee for you.
Give it up for Manuela.
(audience applauds)
MJ you did it.
- World of Professional Magic
has presented the title of Best in the World
to this prestigious performer.
Please give a very warm welcome to Shoot Ogawa.
(audience cheers and applauds)
- I prepare something here.
It's a,
it's crazy idea, but simple idea.
I use a silverware and also coin.
So I name it Composition for Spoon and Coin.
(audience laughs)
Yeah, I made it up.
So I have a spoon here, but I use,
you know I don't have a coin so far, okay?
But I use some of the interesting things.
I use Japanese power.
(audience laughs) Watch.
Eh,
ish.
It works.
I know it's strange, right?
I have a ball part, and also I have like a kind of a handle.
It's like a magic wand.
(cymbal clash)
(coin flick)
(audience applauds)
All right.
So I just use one coin.
Watch.
(audience gasps)
(Shoot laughs)
You like it?
But if you don't care,
(Shoot exhales) it's nothing.
That's the idea.
(audience applauds)
Okay how about this?
(Shoot laughs) I try it again.
I have a coin here.
And also I use the handle here, okay.
So I use Japanese power again.
(audience laughs)
Eh, just idea.
Now it's two pieces.
Can you see that?
Okay, how about this?
I use just a,
(audience gasps and applauds)
I know it's crazy, right?
So,
now I have 1, 2, 3 coins and my hands, okay?
It's very, very simple.
One coin's enough to do many things, watch.
It's a juggling.
It's a little bit magical.
It's a little bit faster.
- [Audience Member] Oh!
(Shoot laughs) - Okay, I like you.
Okay, I do this.
Now it looks like coin's gone
and completely gone.
Okay, I'm working really hard though, just in case, okay?
(audience cheers and applauds)
Okay.
I said I'd share the magic.
So you can see from behind me.
So lucky you, you're gonna see everything.
(audience laughs)
So when I do this
looks like coin's gone,
but it's really gone, looks like right?
But it's still here.
Thank you for one person.
(audience laughs and applauds)
I try it again.
Looks like coin's gone like this way.
So sometime people think it's there
but actually really gone.
It's in the air, or maybe it's in air.
But I will move very slow.
I catch the coin in air like this way.
Just like that.
(audience cheers and applauds)
So what I know,
it's maybe just an illusion, it's nothing.
So that's basically the idea.
So now I'm gonna use one more coin
because one more coin left on the table.
So okay, so this is the idea.
Ah, this is just a slight of hand.
It's just a, oh you like it?
Okay.
I use this coin here.
So I show the camera, okay front.
How about this?
When I do this,
some people think the coin is gone,
but it's still here, can you see it?
Okay ah yeah, ah okay.
You remember, but also I have one more coin here,
like this way, so two coin here.
So yeah, as you remember,
oh how about this?
Because you know,
you remember that I had a three coin, right?
So I have three, so one, two, three.
But how about this?
I shake it, you can hear sound yes?
Now it become louder.
So now you see,
(audience gasps)
Many coin like this.
(audience applauds)
Just a coin.
I mean, no sleeve up, everything simple right?
So just a coin.
But you know, if you think like this way,
you remember that it was not a coin.
As you remember, it was a part of a spoon.
- What? - Wow.
- And I expand the edge of a coin
so you can see it belong like this, so.
(audience cheers)
It is a coin.
So this a Composition for Spoon and Coin.
(audience applauds)
Okay, okay.
Okay, I will do for you a little more.
I have many coins here.
I feel so good, okay.
So I have a many coin like this way.
So how about this?
I take this and just do that.
Oh many coin dropped in the cup.
Just shake it.
(spoons tinkling)
(audience cheers)
This is a Composition for Spoon and Coin,
thank you very much. (audience applauds)
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- [Announcer] Impossible is easy
for the masterful manipulations of Trigg Watson.
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(audience applauds)
(explosion)
(audience applauds)
- We have a performer who has taken magic to the next level
by incorporating the latest technology
into his mind bending illusions.
Please put your hands together for the one,
the only,
Trigg Watson.
(audience applauds) (upbeat music)
- As our world gets more and more digital,
the way we connect with others is changing.
Even with those we love.
I'd like to share with you
what I imagine a long distance relationship
might look like in the future.
(upbeat acoustic music)
(ring)
- Hi.
- Hey there.
Hey, Rupert.
Hey there.
He's so pleased to see me.
- He is.
- I'll take your word for it.
- Look what I got today.
- Oh good, I'm glad you got them.
I wasn't sure if you'd get them in time.
I wish I could be there.
- Here, one for you.
(cymbal clash)
(audience applauds)
- Oh wow, that smells really good.
Whoever got you these must really love you.
- Yeah, I guess so.
- Especially if that same person got you
your favorite coffee-- - Stop it.
- From your favorite coffee shop.
- Is that an iced hazelnut, oat milk latte
with maple syrup? - With maple syrup.
I remembered this time.
(magician and audience laugh)
Here have some.
- Mmm.
- You had a lot there.
You just had like 5 dollars in three seconds.
(audience applauds)
You may as well finish it off.
- Careful.
(girlfriend coughs)
(girlfriend laughs)
Are you okay?
- Yeah, I just got oat milk
(magician laughs) on my face.
- Charming.
- I baked cookies too.
- Oh okay, no, no, no.
That's why I love you.
(girlfriend laughs) (audience laughs)
- Could I have one.
(upbeat music)
(audience cheers)
- I glad you like it. - Oh, wow.
These are really good.
Aww.
Wait, hold on.
- Hey.
Did you just take my nose?
- I did just take your nose.
(magician laughs)
I think I'd make a good dog.
(audience applauds)
- Oh my God, that reminds me.
- What's that?
- Look at all of these pictures from our trip
I found last year.
- Oh yeah, I forgot we took those.
Let me see.
(upbeat music)
- Aww.
Remember this one?
From that Oscar's viewing party?
(cymbal clash)
- Oh yeah. - Fancy party.
(audience applauds) - I remember these.
We haven't been that fancy since then.
- Aww.
Here.
(upbeat music)
(audience applauds)
- Hey, I miss you.
(audience applauds)
(upbeat music)
(audience applauds)
(explosion)
- [Announcer] When we come back,
watch the astounding skill of Topaz.
(explosion) (audience applauds)
(explosion)
- This performer is a true triple threat.
He's a magician, musician, and entertainer extraordinaire.
You do not wanna miss his incredible act.
Give it up for Topaz.
(audience applauds) (upbeat music)
- And now I would like to do
a piece of magic without talking
so I won't distract you with my words.
Just sounds.
(imitates squeaking)
(audience laughs)
That's not it.
(imitates squeak)
(blows)
(inhales sharply)
(audience gasps)
(audience applauds)
I will do it again.
(inhales sharply)
(audience gasps and applauds)
(inhales sharply)
(clink)
(tapping)
(clacking)
(audience laughs)
(sharp inhale)
(click)
(audience claps)
(sharp inhale)
(pop)
(clink)
(audience applauds)
(jingling)
(beatboxing)
(additional beatboxing)
(imitates trumpet music)
(clink) (audience applauds)
(magician hums)
(magician duets hum)
(beatboxes)
(audience applauds)
(beatboxing and music stops)
(clink)
- [Audience Member] Whew!
(audience applauds) (beatboxing music continues)
(exhales)
(clink)
(exhales)
(clink)
(exhales)
(clinking)
(inhales)
(clinking)
(audience cheers and applauds)
(sharp inhale) (beatboxing music stops)
(audience applauds)
(explosion)
- [Announcer] Next, laughs and the
unbelievable talent of Chipper Lowell.
(explosion) (audience applauds)
(explosion)
- We have a musician with a true gift for entertainment.
He has a style that's all his own
and a stage presence that's impossible to ignore.
Let's hear it for Chipper Lowell.
(upbeat music) (audience applauds)
- Oh my goodness.
Nice to be here!
Looky, looky, looky, I gotta hear it.
I'm gonna show it to you now.
The most amazing contraption ever seen with the human eye.
I give you the strange and bizarre.
No, no, no, no.
Not the volunteers. (audience laughs)
I mean the box.
This was performed and used in sideshows over 70 years ago.
And we're gonna show you the cool thing
that takes place with it.
But we do need one more thing.
And that's the lovely Brandy.
Everybody give it up for Brandy.
(audience applauds)
Okay, all righty.
That's enough, I don't know why the twirl was necessary.
(audience laughs) Very nice.
Go ahead and wave goodbye to everybody.
There we go, I mean, hello, hello.
Freudian slip.
Okay, go ahead and get in there.
And you'll see that she fills the chamber from head to toe.
Do me a favor,
I'm gonna lift up the front like that, hold onto the cane.
And we're gonna lower the top all the way down.
And I'm going to lock it right here.
And also right here.
Why?
Because every so often Brandy likes to bolt.
Okay, (audience laughs)
now the action takes place right here
in the center with these
giant blades, yes! (shocked tune)
Yes! (audience laughs and applauds)
Oh, the power.
All right, there we go.
One right here, all the way down.
There we are there.
There, there we go yeah.
Excellent.
This one right here, we're gonna put in right there.
All the way down, very good.
All righty.
Oh look, another blade.
Let's put that right here, excellent.
All righty.
And finally, one more blade, and let's put it right here.
All the way down.
Four blades, five partitions.
Give it up for Brandy.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Now I have to tell you, this is fun,
but you know I always want to be like an overachiever.
And I think the more the merrier, right?
We have four blades, so why not more?
Oh yeah, more blades.
(audience laughs) Yes!
So let's go ahead and put one right here.
All the way down, excellent.
There we are.
Let's put another one right here.
Okay, there we are.
And let me grab some more.
And if you wanna help,
you're not doing anything, grab another one.
There you go.
And we'll put one right here.
There we go, yes.
All righty.
Excellent, all righty.
And we'll put one right here.
There we go, excellent.
Where else do we go?
Oh, let's do one right over here.
There we are.
And then finally we have the last two.
That's one, two,
three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10,
11,
12,
and
13 blades.
Everybody give it up for Brandy.
(audience applauds)
Now,
I know, I know.
Some of you are like,
you know what, she's not even in there.
She's not even there, maybe she snuck away.
Yeah, right?
I want you to see below it, I want you to see above it.
We even have a camera in the back
so you can see the back of it.
She has to escape.
Hello, hi, how are you?
Very nice.
But you know what?
You may still think that she's gone, well,
she's not here.
She's not here.
She's not here, not here.
Give it up for no Brandy.
(audience applauds)
I gotta be honest with you.
I'm lying.
She actually is in the box and I'm gonna prove it right now.
Brandy, reach up and grab the cane.
(audience laughs) Oh man, all right.
Brandy, reach up and grab the a hundred dollar bill.
(cymbal clash) Yes!
(audience applauds)
That's enough, all right.
You know what, let's go backwards.
Time to get rid of the blades.
I'm gonna have you just drop them there.
I'm gonna have you take that one.
Let's take another one right over here.
As we run right up there.
Excellent, notice how each and every blade
gradually leaves my fingers.
Okay, there we go.
That one over there.
And then let's not forget those two right there.
And we have these two.
That's all 13 blades.
I'm gonna open this up
and I want you to give a rousing
round of applause for none other
then the amazing,
incredible, Brandy! (audience cheers and applauds)
Walk this way.
(audience applauds)
(explosion)
- What an unforgettable evening of magic and wonder.
Thank you from all of us here at Masters of Illusion.
Until next time,
I'm Dean Cain.
Thank you.
(audience cheers and applauds) (upbeat music)