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- 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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It's time for some confounding conjuring.
I'm Dean Cain and welcome to "Masters of Illusion."
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So let's all experience the thrill of the unknown
as we bring the world of magic to life
and showcase the best of the best.
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- Thank you.
- Ed Alonzo is the best of the best.
- What a nice thing to say.
- Yes.
- Are you ready for the big rainstorm?
- I don't think it's really raining here, my friend.
(plastic bag crinkling)
- Oh, that's not what I was told.
Hmm. - Okay.
You know, it's bad luck to open an umbrella indoors.
- Well, yeah, that's true, unless it's raining inside.
(thunder rumbling)
(audience laughing)
Told you.
- Yeah.
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This performer is a true showman.
He'll make you laugh, he'll make you gasp,
and he'll make you believe in the impossible.
So let's please give a warm welcome to Chipper Lowell.
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- Thank you so much.
Please, a round of applause for our two volunteers.
Thanks for coming up.
I've been working with playing cards now
for many, many years and I have to tell you,
after working with 'em after a while,
you kind of get to know them.
I don't mean just like a deck of cards.
I mean each individual card all the way through.
Like, like they talk and you listen,
and then you can talk to them.
You can have these wonderful conversations.
I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy,
(audience laughing)
but I wanna kind of show you something right now.
I'm gonna go riffle through the deck.
Say stop, if you would please.
Right there.
Okay, hold onto your card, please look at it.
Don't show it to anybody if you would please, okay,
and then for you, I'm just gonna go, you say stop.
- Stop.
- Right there, okay.
I want you to take a look at your card.
Okay, now I'm not gonna give it to you.
I want you to memorize it.
Okay, do you have it?
- Yes.
- You sure?
- Yes.
- You remember it next time?
Okay, excellent, and then go ahead and place your card
anywhere back inside if you would please.
Right there, very good, and we're gonna shuffle these up
a little bit more.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna take half the cards,
turn them the other way so they are front to back,
back to front, and this confuses the cards.
It makes it even more difficult for the amazing feat
that they're about to do.
There we go, perfect, and let's do one more
because we got one, two, let's go right here
in the front row, right in the middle there.
Hi, hi.
Do me a favor, I'm gonna have you think of a card, okay.
It could be a face card, could be a number card,
but concentrate on a card, okay.
So we have one right here.
You peeked at the card, right,
and then we have you, you're thinking of a card.
Very good, and we're gonna place these into the card case,
and you may notice that I've attached
a ribbon, tied it around.
I'm gonna have you hold onto that side
and I'm gonna hold onto this side,
and I'm gonna have you stand right here
in the center if you don't mind, okay.
Very good.
Hold it with both hands, very good.
Now, what was your card?
It's okay to say it out loud.
- Five of spades.
- [Volunteer] Yeah.
- Make the magical gesture, and I want you
to start shouting, five of spades,
five of spades, five of spades.
- Five of spades. (volunteer laughing)
- No, no, they'll listen to you.
I'm not crazy.
Go ahead, yes.
(audience laughing)
- Five of spades. (volunteer laughing)
- You know what?
You're not believing it.
Really get into it, get into it.
(audience laughing)
- Five of spades. - Yes.
- Five of spades. - [Chipper] Yes.
- [Volunteer] Five of spades. - Yes. Oh my God.
Oh, take the card out. Take it, yes.
Yes, oh. (audience applauding)
Switch places, switch places.
Oh, this is incredible. Okay, are you ready?
You saw how he did it. You can do better.
Okay, go ahead if you would please.
Just, what's your card?
- Jack of clubs.
- Okay, don't be angry at 'em.
(audience laughing) Don't be angry.
Okay, all right, go ahead, go ahead.
- Jack of clubs.
(Chipper chuckling) Jack of clubs.
- Yeah. - Jack of clubs.
- I don't know, oh, oh, oh. Stop right there.
Take yours out.
Is that it?
Give it up. (triumphant music)
(audience applauding) (audience cheering)
Oh! That was fantastic.
Wait right there, because you know what,
that was one for one, two for two.
Let's go for the trifecta.
Are you thinking of your card?
Do not say it out loud.
All right, we're gonna make it even doubly hard
for the cards to listen, but I want you
to just wave your fingers and I want you to say,
"come out, come out, wherever you are."
- Come out, come out, wherever you are.
- Okay, even louder.
- Come out, come out, wherever you are.
- It's, I don't know. It's nothing.
Oh, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, this one's shy. Okay, oh, that's a little weird.
(audience laughing)
Okay, let me just take that if you would please.
Thank you so much.
Nice loud voice, would you please tell us
what card were you thinking of?
- Four of hearts. - Four of hearts.
Yep.
(audience laughing)
Are we going to commercial?
(audience laughing)
Four of hearts.
I told you I'm not crazy.
They really do listen.
Four of hearts, yes.
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Give our volunteers a nice hand.
Thank you all so much.
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- Is your mind able to keep up
with the antics of Murray Sawchuck?
Next. (explosion booming)
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In the world of magic, only a few names
have achieved legendary status.
Our next performer is quickly rising to join those ranks
with his innovative and awe-inspiring illusions.
Without further ado, please welcome
the almost legendary Murray Sawchuck.
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-Thank you! Thank you! How are you?
- I'm great. - Everybody, this is Meg.
Big round of applause for Meg, everybody.
So my mom, she loves gardening.
In the spring, her favorite thing to do
is go shopping for flowers, and this flower
that we have right behind us is her favorite kind.
It's bright, it doesn't need water, and it's fake.
(audience laughing)
So I'm gonna have you help me with this, all right.
So let's go over to the bush.
We're gonna pick the flowers off this beautiful bush.
We can just take the flowers off and we'll have Dani
come out and she has a really cool little bag.
Pop those off like that.
There we go.
Okay, there you go.
My mom would be so frustrated right now.
This is a real flower right now.
(audience laughing)
I'll take this lovely bag,
and mom always had a knitting bag.
She always had some showgirl knitting bag,
something like that.
I'm gonna put these inside.
I want you to keep one flower.
Hang on one back, put those in there like that,
and that, that you can keep for souvenir
for now, all right.
Gonna seal this up like this, all right.
I want you to make a magical gesture.
Do you have a magical word?
- Boom!
- Boom.
Wow, look at that.
That's great.
That's like a DJ would do.
I like that, here we go.
Watch very carefully.
One, two, three, boom!
(audience awwing)
Not bad.
Nice, girl.
Not bad.
(audience applauding)
Also, my mother always loved doing things.
She always loved taking one rose or a flower
and putting it inside a book.
So I want you to take that and put it inside
one of the pages for me, Meg.
Just put it right in there.
I'm gonna close it up, rub it like that.
(book rubbing)
Nice, that's very good. That's very good.
Now we're gonna shake it up and down.
Spin it around, shake it like this. One more rub.
Look at you, whatever you wanna do.
You're the magician. (audience laughing)
I'm trying to help you.
Come forward a little bit, Meg, and another magic word.
Ready, go.
- Ta-da!
- Ta-da, here we go.
Let's check it out.
- How cool is that?
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But Meg, we're not done.
Take one step back.
This is mom's favorite flower.
I want you to say a magical word and just go like this,
but make it really, really exciting.
- Okay.
(Meg speaking gibberish)
(audience laughing)
- Is that, was that it?
- Yes.
- One more time, go for it.
(Meg speaking gibberish)
I think you need to do a little more.
(Meg speaking gibberish)
Little more.
(Meg speaking gibberish)
A little more.
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This is more entertaining for me than her, I think.
Keep going, girl.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
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That's the best. Big hand for Meg, everybody.
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- Pay close attention.
This illusionist is a master of deception.
All the way from France, we have Alexandra Duvivier.
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- Thank you.
I have here some coins.
That's great.
You know, that's great to use coins because I don't know
if you have already tried that, but listen to the sound
of the coins. (coins dinging)
Huh, that's sweet.
Have you ever done that with your coins?
(coins dinging)
I told you, I have no life.
(audience laughing)
So, a little stunt.
Whew.
See, that was tough. (Alexandra chuckling)
I have three coins, but sometimes I can try.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
(audience applauding)
Huh, what?
I love reaction, thank you so much.
It's crazy, but sometimes I can also do this.
You know, it has.
(audience applauding)
Yeah, maybe you prefer like this the way before.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
or maybe, you know what?
A back view.
No?
(audience applauding)
Too bad.
(audience laughing)
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It's the same thing on both sides, of course.
You know what?
Let me take one coin. (thrilling music)
(audience applauding)
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- Next, the amazing card wizardry
of Andi Gladwin when we return.
(audience applauding)
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Okay, if you think you've seen it all, think again.
Our next magician is about to take magic
to a whole new level.
Please welcome Andi Gladwin.
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- I am here with Melany.
She's been randomly selected to help me with a trick,
and I have good news.
I found this on the internet recently.
It was advertised as the world's luckiest ring.
I don't actually believe anything like that,
but I figured we could use it for a trick.
You up for it? - Yes.
- [Andi] Have you ever played cards before?
- A couple. - A couple of times.
Then you're gonna be perfect with this.
I'd like you to hold the cards,
and you're gonna deal out five hands of cards.
That's great, and then one to yourself,
and here's the interesting thing.
We're gonna keep going.
You can keep dealing, but at any point
you can turn cards over.
You can turn a card face up if you like, as you deal.
- As I wish?
- As you wish, whenever you like.
Great, and this way we get to see
other people's cards that you're dealing,
and we also saw one of your cards, two of spades.
That's great.
Keep dealing, and now we're getting
like a sneaky peek at the other player's cards.
This is rare.
You would never get to do this in a game of cards.
One more round, and you're turning up
loads of cards face up.
That's gonna be really great, and one more to yourself.
Fantastic, and we'll take the rest of the cards
and we may as well actually just mix these cards up.
We'll mix these face up and face down like this,
and I'm gonna let everybody see the cards
are mixed all over the place,
and now Melany, you get to change your mind
as to which hand you are using.
You happy with this hand, or would you like
to switch with somebody else?
- Ah, I'll keep my hand.
- You'll keep your hand.
Okay, pick up your cards and spread them in front of you,
and I want you to remember the highest numbered card.
That could be a jack, queen, king.
It could be a nine, whatever,
as long as it's the highest card you have there.
You remember it?
- Yes.
- Fantastic, square up the cards
and place them back on the deck,
and now we're gonna pick up these cards.
Which order do you want?
Do you want me to pick up this one first, that one?
You tell me.
- [Melany] This one.
- This one, keep going.
This one, this one, and finally this one.
So the cards are messed up all over the place.
You dealt the cards, and now this is where we get to see
whether this really is the luckiest ring in the world.
So I'd like you to wear the ring and now,
you chose your wedding finger.
- No, no, actually.
- We are officially married. (audience laughing)
Okay, you jumped back.
Okay, fine.
Now let's see if it works.
Hold the deck, and once again,
I'd like you to deal out five hands of cards,
and I think you may be lucky.
Let's see what happens.
So deal out. - Again?
- Again.
- Now I wanna show you something interesting
as you're dealing.
You see this, you've dealt yourself a face down card.
Keep going, and other people are getting face up cards,
but somehow you are always getting facedown cards.
Keep going.
Other people are getting mixed up, face down, face up cards.
You are getting all face down and deal
one more round after this so you get five cards.
Everybody else is getting cards we can see, except for you.
All of your cards are face down.
We still have these cards mixed face up or face down.
Now do you remember what card you picked earlier,
the card you were thinking of?
What was the card?
- Ten of spades.
- This is where we get to see how lucky you were.
Turn this top card over, let everybody see.
This should be, yeah, go for it.
Let everybody see the 10 of spades,
(audience applauding) (audience cheering)
but really, let's see.
Let's see how lucky you were
because you've dealt these other people cards.
Let's see, you dealt this person a pretty bad hand.
You dealt this person a pair of fives.
Not a great hand.
This person over here got really
nothing good at all, pair of threes.
This person got a pair of eights.
- Okay.
- But if you are the luckiest person in the world
'cause of the ring, you should have
a much more interesting hand.
Check this out.
You dealt yourself a 10, but you also dealt the jack,
the ace, the queen, and the king to get a royal flush.
That is the best hand.
That is a lucky ring, (audience applauding)
but you know what?
Let me try it.
Let me take the ring because you remember these other cards
were mixed face up into face down,
but maybe there's more to this than just luck
'cause if I just hold over like this,
and something interesting should happen
as all of the cards turn themselves the right way around.
Maybe it's not just lucky, maybe it's magical too.
(audience applauding) (audience cheering)
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- The impossible is made possible by Shaun Jay, next.
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You think you've seen it all when it comes to magic?
Well, think again.
Our next magician is a true showman
with tricks up his sleeve that will make your jaw drop.
Please put your hands together
for the incomparable Shaun Jay.
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I'm really excited to be here this evening
because I'm gonna try to attempt something truly impossible.
I'm gonna score a date with that lovely lady over there.
Can you actually come up here and help me out
in the pink right there?
Yes, you.
Yes, my gosh.
Yes, it's live, we're doing this.
Yes, hi, what's your name?
- Meredith.
I know women like to be wined and dined.
So I got some food here that we're gonna make in a moment.
Flowers, ladies love flowers.
- They do.
- In California, I hear that 20 bucks can get you
not only a gallon of gas, but one of these avocados.
(audience laughing)
(audience applauding)
Yeah, now this avocado is,
(tapping on avocado)
oh shoot.
Not really that ripe.
- It's really hard.
- You can't cut this.
This is an issue.
I got an idea.
I learned this social media hack where you take a dish cloth
and after you clean your hands, you have to use the heat.
Like incubating an egg, you take an unripe piece of fruit
whether it's like an unripe banana, an unripe apple,
or in this case an unripe avocado, and you hang it
under the cloth for a moment, you blow.
Blow.
Yes, perfect.
Pizza for lunch?
- Oh, yeah.
(audience laughing)
- [Shaun] And instantly becomes a lot riper.
Feel it?
- [Meredith] Oh, that's squishy.
- That's squishy?
- That's squishy.
- This is perfect.
So we're actually going to do something
that all California girls know about.
You know. - Avocado toast.
Can I get a yeah?
- Yeah. (audience applauding)
- All right, avocado toast.
Since we're doing TV here and I don't have as much time
as a chef normally would, you're about to witness
the world's fastest and possibly messiest avocado toast.
Oh, look at that.
(audience laughing)
It's messy though for a first date.
Hold on.
Here, that look better?
- [Meredith] That's pretty.
- [Shaun] Pretty?
- Yeah, a garnish.
- Hold on.
(Shaun clearing throat)
(pit rattling) and see that.
- [Meredith] Yeah.
- Avocado pit inside.
We're gonna play a little game.
It's kinda like a sobriety test.
I'm gonna take the avocado pit.
All you have to do is keep your eye,
and you tell me where the avocado pit is.
Is it in my pocket?
You just saw me put it there.
Am I talking too fast?
Like, let's start again.
Meredith, let's try this one more time
with the avocado pit goes inside of the pocket
and believe it's in my pocket,
or is it back under? - Pocket.
- The flower pot again.
This is starting to freak me out.
Meredith, you know, at this time,
you're actually going to see,
you're gonna see it completely vanish, leaves my hands.
Tap the cup with your finger.
Back underneath the flower pot.
Now maybe I, if I keep putting it here
you'll know what to expect.
Let me put it back over here.
You take the knife yourself.
Take the knife.
Go ahead and tap
the flower pot. (knife tapping)
Everybody say the magic words.
Everybody say I. - [Crowd] I.
- Hope. - [Crowd] Hope.
- This. - [Crowd] This.
- Works. - [Crowd] Works.
- Me too.
Let's take a peek.
Yes, it's back.
Give it up for Meredith, ladies and gentlemen.
She's great. Woo. Wow!
Now Meredith, hold out both your hands.
I kind of destroyed that other avocado.
So I want to give you something, Meredith.
I just want to tap this here and give that to you,
and that's how you get a first date.
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- Get ready to witness the impossible
as this performer takes the stage.
He is a true master of his craft and has been recognized
as one of the most talented magicians of his generation.
So without further ado, please, let's give it up
for the incredible Christian Mascia.
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Well, we hope you've enjoyed this evening
of unbelievable illusions and feats of magic,
and we hope to see you again soon.
'Til then, I'm Dean Cain.
Thank you, good night.
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