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- [Presenter] 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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- Welcome to a world of mystery and wonder
where nothing is impossible and everything is magical.
I'm Dean Cain, and welcome to "Masters of Illusion".
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Imagination and magic are both about
creating something out of nothing.
Whether it's a new idea or an astounding grand illusion,
they both require the ability to think outside the box.
Well, get ready to experience-
- Hey, Dean, Dean.
- The unknown...
Oh, my God, Murray SawChuck, ladies and gentleman.
- How's it going?
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Dean, do you know what this is? Do you know what this is?
- That's a feather duster.
- No, it's a Dean cane, it's a Dean cane.
- Yes, it is. I get it. - Have a good day.
- Thank you, Murray.
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She's a master of sleight of hand,
and her charming personality will leave you spell bound.
Please give a warm welcome to the one, the only,
Lucy Darling.
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- Well, who do we have over here? Darling, what's your name?
- Kyle.
- You're Kyle.
Kyle, darling,
would you like to do something very romantic with me?
- Only with you.
- Only with me? Oh my goodness.
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Kyle's winning points already.
Kyle, darling, do you have a ring on?
- Oh, I do, actually.
- Do you mind if we use that for a quick little thing?
- Oh, of course. - Fantastic.
Oh, you're very excited to remove that ring.
Okay, hold onto that for now, actually.
I wanna see, this has to be romantic.
You can't just hand it to me.
No one likes proposal like that.
You, with all the romance you can muster, darling,
big dramatic proposal.
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Go.
- Well, you have my heart.
It is so magical up here.
- Oh. Big round of applause for Kyle.
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It was a nice little wordy, I might say,
little inauthentic.
Seems like you've never done that before.
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Darling, I'm sure you saw what just happened over here.
Couldn't help but notice you are also wearing a ring.
Can we use that for something?
- Okay. - But again,
you can't just give it to me. That's boring.
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We're fans of romance and darling, I don't know why,
I just have this sense,
you're going to be able to outdo Kyle.
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What was your name, my love?
- Serenity.
- Serenity. See, already the name is much more dramatic.
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Serenity darling, propose.
- A gem as beautiful as your eyes.
- Oh, a gem as beautiful as my eyes.
Big round of applause for Serenity.
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See, was that so hard, Kyle?
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You gotta compliment the lady.
All right, I think we got one more in us. Yes?
Darling, what's your name?
- Jamie. - Jamie.
Jamie, that's a delightful name, Jamie.
Think you saw these two.
You seem a little shy, but the shy ones
usually have something special going on.
Jamie, darling, you are going to massively outdo
these two weirdos.
You got one, yes? Ready?
Oh, does that ring barely comes off.
Do you need pliers?
Okay, you got it.
Here we go. Jamie, propose.
- You are a beautiful goddess of my heart and soul.
Would you please do me the honor and be my wife?
- I will do that, big round of applause for Jamie.
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That one got me.
It got me right in here.
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Darling, that was delightful.
And what you have all witnessed is precisely the way
in which magicians go shopping.
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Look at these beautiful things, my goodness.
Ah, Jamie darling, this one was yours.
Jamie, where did you get this ring, darling?
- Am I allowed to say it?
- You bought it for yourself as a little prize,
little treat for putting up with the rest of your life.
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- And what about this beautiful little amethyst, Serenity?
Where'd you get this?
- It was my mom's.
- This was your mother's ring and you just gave it to me.
My goodness.
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I wonder how she'd feel about that?
And Kyle, darling, where did you get this?
- The love of my life gave it to me.
- The love of your life gave it to you
and now it's mine. (chuckles)
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These are so delight...
Oh, I really did enjoy all those proposals
and the wonderful jewelry I got from it.
I enjoyed your depth.
Darling, I enjoyed your sweetness
and I enjoyed your simplicity.
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In fact, I really wish I could combine you all
into one perfect person.
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Darling, you said this was your mother's ring, yes?
Probably want it back.
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This weird ring you bought for yourself
'cause you have a shopping addiction.
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And this one you're gonna get in trouble for
if you don't get back.
But you know what, before we do this,
this might be a wonderful opportunity
to have a little meet cute.
So look over here in her eyes, Kyle,
deep in her eyes and decide,
do you want to spend the rest of your life with this person?
- I think so. - You think so?
Okay. What? Do you consent?
- I consent. - You consent.
Do you want your rings back then
or should I just leave it as this little trophy?
- I'll take the ring. - You'll take the ring.
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That makes me feel like you don't actually want him.
You're just saying it
'cause you think it's what I want to hear. Okay.
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- Is that your ring? - That's my ring.
- One last one. - One last one.
Is that yours?
- It is, yeah.
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- Get ready to be entertained and amazed.
We have a magician here who is sure to have you laughing
and applauding all at once.
Please welcome Nick Dopuch.
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- Okay.
Good evening. Are we all doing good?
We're just gonna play a game real quick.
It's a brand new game.
I'm sure nobody knows how this game is played.
I'm just curious, has anyone ever played this game before?
That one where you miss? Okay, good.
No, it's okay, I'm supposed to miss it.
It's a game called Quarters.
They teach it in college.
Now the way magicians play, is we play with three coins
and the goal is to get all three coins inside the glass.
All right, that's the whole point.
So for instance, now here, you wanna take that one?
Just kidding, it's over here still.
You almost tried to catch it, there it is.
Right there. Of course.
That's the thing,
we're not trying to get it out of the hands.
We got three coins here.
We gotta try to get it inside the glass.
When it goes inside the glass
that's when we have two coins in this side.
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Everybody see that? That was a little too fast.
I understand that part. It's okay.
All right, well, we'll try to get this all set up here.
Now, most of the time people get upset at that point.
Whenever you get upset
because then they try to play defense.
That's the problem, they'll play defense,
they'll try to cover the top of the glass.
People don't realize that most of these glasses
they have holes in the side of them.
On the sides, if you hit fast enough like that
you need to go right through the entire glass.
Exactly, no matter how much defense you play.
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You have...
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Now, of course, in the final act
of just trying to play total defense
they flip that glass upside down.
So we have two inside of here.
How many are out here?
Exactly, so we gotta try to get to the bottom.
We gotta get to right there.
So if we do this just right, we can actually just,
you can see it go right through the top right there.
Exactly. I know, is that how it works?
I know, I like that one right there.
Is that?
And that right there, as you can see,
is how you cheat at quarters.
Here give it a shot.
Just kidding, you already did.
All right, thank you all very much.
Hopefully (indistinct).
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- [Dean] The impossible is easy
for the masterful manipulations of Dan Sperry.
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This magician is in his very own league,
blending history, horror, dark humor,
and nothing short of wizardry.
We have our very own here, Dan Sperry.
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- [Dean] Next, the amazing card wizardry of Nathan Phan.
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We have a true star of the magic world
with a talent for creating illusions
that will leave you in awe.
Please give a warm, warm welcome to Nathan Phan.
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- Yo. Hello. All right.
Here's what's going to happen.
I need to pick a volunteer from the audience
using this paper ball.
So since I'm really kind of close around,
I'm gonna kind of chuck it over here.
I'm going to close my eyes and somebody catch.
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Hello from all the way over there.
You can help me from all the way over there, that's fine.
I want you to pick a playing card.
First of all, tell me
if this is going to be a red card or a black card.
Before I do that, I want to tell you
that I already know which card you are going to pick.
So red card or black card?
- Red.
- Red card. Excellent.
So that's the heart or the diamonds.
Which one do you want to use?
The heart or a diamond?
- Diamond. - A diamond. Excellent.
So out of the diamonds we have royalty cards,
we have number cards.
Which one would you like,
a royalty card or a number card?
- Number. - A number card. Excellent.
So 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Which one of those numbers?
- 7. - 7.
So just to be clear, we have 7 of diamonds.
You're sure? 7 of diamonds.
I knew, I knew this morning that someone I'd never met
was going to pick the 7 of diamonds
because I actually took one card out of the deck.
I turned it facing the wrong direction
and I put it inside the deck.
There is the 7 of diamonds.
I want everyone to see, every other card facing that way
except for one card, the 7 of diamonds.
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No, I'm not, no I'm not.
Here's the thing, here's the thing.
You might think, oh, maybe it's sleight of hand?
Maybe it's some sort of tricky deck.
No, no, no, I really, really knew.
And I can prove it too.
That ball that I threw over to you, if you open it up
printed inside is going to be, not your card,
but something that everyone can appreciate.
I want everyone to pull out your cell phone.
We're all gonna go to social media.
We're going to go to Instagram.
Open up your Instagram.
All right, and we're going to go to "Masters of Illusion's"
official social media account @mastersofillusionlive.
You can show it to the camera
and I want you to look at post number two.
I uploaded this early this morning.
All right, and if we have someone over here,
whoever gets to it first, go ahead and gimme a yo.
I want you to go to... Yo, over here. Perfect.
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Hello. Perfect. I'll take this.
May I? I'm gonna come back here.
All right, I want you to see, look, posted this morning.
If you scroll and look, you'll see it says 11 hours ago.
You can't fake that.
11 hours ago I posted a picture of me
with the 7 of diamonds facing the wrong way inside the deck
which I did this morning.
There you go, 7 of diamonds, everybody.
Joy, thank you so much everyone.
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- [Dean] Is your mind able to keep up
with the antics of Farrell Dillon. Next.
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- This magician has a unique way
of entertaining audiences by making them laugh
while performing alluring illusions.
He's a master of comedy magic
and you will not want to miss his act.
Please give it up for Farrell Dillon.
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- Hey everybody.
Hi.
For this trick, I need a kid out of the audience,
somebody who's sitting there, been really good.
You know what? Yeah, you would be great.
Hi, young man, my name's Farrell.
What's your name?
- Oliver. - Oliver.
Nice to meet you bud.
How old are you?
- Seven. - Seven years old.
Oliver, do you like balloons?
- Yeah. - Cool.
We're gonna eliminate a few of these balloons.
All right, we got five balloons here.
I want you to name two colors,
any of the two colors that you want.
- Blue and yellow.
Alright, here, hold onto this.
We're gonna eliminate everything
except for the blue and the yellow.
All right, so we're gonna get rid of the red.
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There you go. Oh, look at that.
It's like that movie "Up", but really slow.
All right, look, we'll get rid of the orange too.
- [Oliver] Hopefully that pulls up faster.
- [Farrell] Hopefully. Yep. Oh.
- Way faster.
- There you go. Bye, orange.
You don't want me to get rid of the yellow, right?
So get rid of the green, huh?
That one's floating away all right.
It'll get outta here eventually.
So look, we got two left.
We got yellow and the blue.
Which one do you want?
- Blue. - Blue.
Alright, so look, you don't want the yellow.
We'll get rid of that one.
We're only left with the blue, right?
You said this is the one you wanted.
I cut that one, look.
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It's the only one not filled with helium.
And look, not only that, but look
you've been holding onto this the whole time, right?
I want you to look inside.
Inside here is a piece of paper, right?
Just one piece of paper.
You will pick-
- Blue. - Blue.
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Alright, well look.
Here's the balloon for you, young man.
You can take that back to your seat and enjoy it.
Thank you. No, you can keep that too.
All right. Thank you guys very much.
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- Alright
Get ready to witness some unbelievable magic, folks.
This performer has wowed audiences all over the world
with his incredible illusions
and I hear he's a big fan of escapes.
So let's give a warm welcome to Caleb Alexander.
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- Let's go.
♪ Yeah, yeah, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
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- From all of us here at "Masters of Illusion",
we wanna thank you for joining us tonight.
It was a night of wonder and amazement.
Until we meet again, keep the magic alive.
I'm Dean Cain, and we'll see you then.
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