- Illusion, the art
distorting the senses,
You can't trust what you see,
even with your own eyes.
Meet the "Masters of Illusion."
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Hi, I'm Dean Cain,
and welcome to
People who have seen
always ask me "How'd
And my answer is
very well.
I cannot figure out
do the things they do,
and I'm standing right
I mean can you figure
and will you tell me?
Because it's been
the way that Eric Jones
and here he comes again.
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Does art imitate life,
or does life imitate art?
- Kind of both.
- Kind of both, right?
What I love about surrealism is
that it kind of forces you
to think about the
For instance, I've got
In the coin catalog,
I've got a little surprise
Surprise.
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Right here, inside,
a little bit of money.
- Don't spend it
- Thank you, Eric.
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I love this job.
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Don't blink, you'll
from none other than Matt Marcy.
- Thank you very much.
You know a lot of
but there are only eight
or at least eight
They're appearance,
transformation,
prediction and escape.
Actually the first tricks
are appearance tricks,
making something
and that's what I'm
I'm going to try to
in this paper lunch bag.
Now a lot of people believe
that the most difficult
are large items like an
and those are hard,
but it's actually the small
because there are
Well I've been working on making
100 different items
and I'm gonna let
what item is going to appear.
Let's see, hi,
- [Lindsey] Lindsey.
- Lindsey, would you join me
Lindsey, I've made a list
I don't wanna just
you might think they're
or one of them's
So I've just numbered
pick any number you want,
and that'll be the item
- Okay,
78.
- 78, good choice.
So here's my phone, Lindsey.
I'm just going to
These are my notes
And you can see there's
And the second list
Can you see that?
- [Lindsey] Yes.
- Open that up and you can
an iPhone, 3,000 cash.
You couldn't have gone
that would have been good.
There's a whole list,
I'll scroll through.
See they don't repeat
Marbles, feather, lots
all the way down to the last one
which is a lottery ticket,
another way to make some cash,
that would have been good.
But you wanted what number?
- 78.
So let's go to 78.
Can you read what
- 78 is 10-foot wooden pole.
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- 10-foot wooden pole.
Okay, thanks, you can sit down.
That's a great
but won't fit in the bag.
That's my fault, it shouldn't
No one's ever picked 78 before.
You know what, Lindsey,
this is "Masters of Illusion,"
so I'm gonna try.
You said it was a 10-foot
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10-foot wooden pole, Lindsey.
Next time the elephant.
Thank you very much.
- Up next is something I
you have never
or likely anywhere else.
The always unique Dan Sperry.
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- Magic show.
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So like most people that are
I got into magic tricks
I'd go inside my bedroom
I'd go to my window
Then I'd take my desk lamps
and in my imagination
And for an audience I'd
my little GI Joe and
and I'd set them down.
That was my audience.
And I had real big
And I'd stand before them.
I would use this,
actually let me explain.
I would use this.
I had this sock that I would
No,
okay here, this was
That's what I'm trying to say,
'cause I didn't have
So I had to make my own.
I feel like this isn't
So instead of trying to
instead I'm just gonna
into my bedroom,
and instead I'm just
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Starting with act one, the
With the help of my
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Oh, hang on, she doesn't
Where is it? I got it,
Her hair fell off.
It's an old sock.
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I know, get excited.
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Looking good, Pearl.
It's been a couple years
since we've done any magic.
Look, okay, here,
I have two handkerchiefs,
With the help of Pearl, as
they magically turn
Ooh, magic show.
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It gets better.
That's what leads us now to act
Get excited.
Let's open this pit up.
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Magic show.
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- Up next,
is your mind able
the antics of Chipper Lowell?
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Cool, calm and collected,
that's not what this
so what is he?
He's Chipper Lowell.
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- Thank you so much.
And give it up for Alyssa.
Alyssa, you're gonna be
which is why you are
because we're not
we're gonna do more
dealing with chance.
We're gonna use
everybody that they're all
right. I want you to also take
that they're all mixed up.
Yes, all the way through?
Wanna be very
Excellent.
You may notice that you're
that has a little carpet on it,
there is a light on
and I've created this,
hello everybody, hello Alyssa.
It is a box with
We'll place it right here.
Let's turn this on.
There we are.
Excellent.
Now, it's a little shadow box.
With your right hand,
would you please put it all
There you go.
Can you wave hi to everybody,
Very nice.
Give them a thumbs up.
Cool, alrighty.
Now, we are going to take
and I'm gonna hand them
So tell me when you have them.
Do you have them?
- Yes.
- Hold on to them,
We're gonna put the lid on,
and I want you to just
randomly out of your
Very nice.
Are they all gone?
Now start picking cards up.
Wherever you find them,
Find some more, throw
Keep going, keep going.
We wanna mix these cards up
as much as possible
Okay, couple more times.
Three seconds.
Two seconds.
And one.
And stop.
Excellent.
Give another high
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Take your arm out of
Let me turn the light off,
and let me get
There we go.
Now, please stand up,
and I want you to hold
And you may notice
you have turned face up.
Any of those cards
I want you to slide them forward
just like that onto this area.
Very good.
There's a couple over here.
They have a couple,
there's one right there.
Another one right there.
I think we're, I
Yes. Alrighty.
Now please take
and I want you to very slowly
take the test subject sign off,
hold it right in front of you,
and I'm gonna line
so that everybody can see
which cards you
Alrighty, and we have,
here we go, an eight
Now, you've had that
the entire time,
would you turn it around,
You may notice, I don't
but there's cards inside
because I put them away
because I wanted
had some type of
We're gonna find
I'm gonna have you hold
if you would please.
I'm gonna have you hand
So right from the,
from the front here we
Jack of, oh, look at that,
That's incredible.
Okay, next one, what do you got?
Three of diamonds.
Three of diamonds,
right here near the
What's the next one?
Two of spades, two of,
right here in the middle.
Two of spades.
This is incredible.
Okay, we have the king of
King of clubs.
And what else we got?
Eight of diamonds, eight of
oh my gosh, you are
this is incredible.
Nine of spades.
All right, what's the next one?
Five of hearts, right here
All right, only two to go.
Five of clubs, it's a match.
And finally 10 of hearts.
And the que,
the 10 of, okay,
that's it, thank you, goodnight.
No, you know what, I gotta
because you had nine,
well I should say
that's better odds
Give her a nice hand,
As a matter of fact,
I kind of knew that
No, seriously, when
I put test subject
So ladies and gentleman,
Give her a nice hand,
Take a bow.
Congratulations.
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- The wild and mind
of Shoot Ogawa next.
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Right now you're
It is the international flare
and mind boggling magic all
it's Shoot Ogawa.
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- Thank you, thank
Tonight I would like to show
so that's why I have a few
First of all, this is a painting
of Rene Magritte from Belgium.
This is nice.
We can see that someone is
and he has hat,
and he has an apple
so you cannot see the face,
which means it's
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But I really love it.
So I have another
This is nothing.
I mean this is a frame,
but this frame is gonna
For example, if I put my hand
You don't care.
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So now I have other things.
This is a brush.
This is just a tool
but I'm gonna use
Anyway, I hope you
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Use your imagination.
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- You know, a lot of
with your brain,
but what you're about to see
Here is Hollie England.
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Next up, the quick
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Slight of hand is the mark
so it's no surprise that
is featuring that very skill.
Let's hear it for Jeff Hobson.
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- Thank you so much.
Oh, I got a treat for you now.
I've got a few cards here,
not a whole deck 'cause I
Oh stop.
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This I call my very famous
ooh ah, ooh ah.
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I use one, two, three, four,
and yes, five red-backed cards,
but they're not just
they are also reds on
So now we're ready, five
and on the fronts.
We (record scratching),
I'm sorry, supposed to
this is a queen of spades.
They're supposed to be
and the backs.
I do apologize, but I
the four red card
The famous four red card
With four red cards.
Watch carefully.
Red on the back,
I still have a few cards left.
I've got the,
yeah, we're good, we're good.
I can still do the famous
three red card trick
You ready?
Sorry?
Oh.
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The two red card trick,
ooh ah, ooh ah.
So let's begin the
Watch carefully ladies
Well I wanted to show you
but it looks like I showed you
the five queen of
and I hope you've enjoyed it.
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- Well this has been amazing.
I wish we had more magic,
and we do,
but you'll have to
Til then, I'm Dean
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