- 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.
(crowd cheer)
People always ask me, "Hey, Dean, is magic real?"
And here's my answer, magic is real,
because it's celebrate--
(playful jazz music) - Can I show you a card trick?
I just learned it.
I'm really excited.
- Yeah, yeah, I'm literally gonna open the show
right here, Adam.
Adam Wylie. - We are opening the show
- Adam Wylie, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, the show.
It's a show.
It's called Masters of Illusion.
You're on it.
- I am? - You are, you are.
- I better prepare.
Maybe I could do a coin trick for you guys?
- [Dean] Oh.
- The only problem is I don't know a coin trick
with one coin.
I'm gonna go learn one.
I'll be back.
- Adam Wylie, ladies and gentlemen.
(audience applauds)
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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I'd like to propose a toast.
Oh, but tragically, I have arrived empty-handed.
(audience groans)
Yes, this was the correct response.
Well done.
I suppose I'll just have to conjure
up a luscious little libation.
It's time for a drink.
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- Here's to the irresistible pleasure of bad decisions
in good company.
Here's to all of you and everyone at home.
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- Prepare to be mesmerized by the incredible talent
of our next magician, weaving together a mix of skill,
charisma, and of course, magic.
Please welcome to the stage the one, the only,
Anna DeGuzman. (audience applauds)
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The impossible is made possible by Dan Sperry, next.
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This performer is a true master of the macabre
with a style that's both daring and mesmerizing.
Let's all witness the magic and mayhem of Dan Sperry.
- Yay, magic show!
I brought with me one of these old hotel bells
that they used to use back in the day.
See, at the turn of the century in the early 1900s,
this spiritualist movement was huge.
That's where people were always just trying
to talk to dead people, and one of the most popular means
of this was with one of these little hotel bells.
(Dan rings bell)
You've probably seen these in the movies or maybe even been
to a creepy hotel that has one.
I'm gonna isolate it on top of this pint glass right here
so everybody can keep an eye on it.
Now, Joel, what we're gonna do is borrow a little bit of
our time shared together.
Now, in order to make this happen as well,
you need to borrow things, personal items,
from those around.
Now even though we just met,
I'm not gonna ask for your watch or your wallet or anything,
but this, much like these chalkboards
that I'll show you in a moment,
this watch is old school, analog.
So you gotta pull the pin and spin.
You know how to do that?
You've messed with these before, pull the pin and spin?
So you can stop it anywhere.
1:25, do you have a lucky number, lucky time?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
Don't go for that.
I'm gonna keep it random.
So there's no way I can know the time,
no way you could know the time,
no way they could know the time,
and no way they could know the time.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm gonna keep the watch face down like this.
You're gonna take that hammer,
you're gonna spin it forwards backwards as much as you want,
but let's be quick about it.
Then when you're done, you push the pin in.
Got it?
Go for it.
I'm not gonna look.
You don't look either.
Now hold your hand out flat once you've pushed that pin in
and landed at that random time.
- [Joel] Okay.
- Hold your hand flat.
I'm gonna place this on your hand.
Put your other one on top of it,
just hold it here like this, and don't move.
Anika, we're gonna use these.
These are the old chalkboards that I mentioned.
Anika, right now, what I want you
to do is just think of a word, any word,
keep it in your mind.
Don't say it out loud.
Don't let me influence that word.
Keep it in your mind.
This is going to be the personal item from you.
There's no way we could know what that word is.
There's no way we could know what time it is.
Anika, are you familiar with these chalkboards?
Probably seen 'em on TV before
or in the movies or something like that.
You're gonna hold them in a moment, okay?
I have a little piece of chalk, though, in my pocket
that I need to place inside.
We're gonna sandwich the chalk inside the slates.
Hold onto that.
You're gonna basically hold onto this like this.
Don't let anything come or go.
I'm gonna drop that piece of chalk in between,
just like that as you can see.
You're gonna hold them just like this and don't move.
You have a word in mind.
You have stopped at a random time
that we don't even know what it is,
and that's all it takes to begin that connection to beyond.
Now you were thinking of a word.
For the first time out loud, what is the word
that you were thinking of?
- Bookshelf.
- Bookshelf, interesting.
Did anybody ask you to think of that
or is that just completely random?
- No, it's random.
- Completely random.
Now, if you remember, the bell was always the means
of communication.
They would ring once for yes and two for no.
Did you know the word?
Nobody knew the word.
The word you are thinking of though is bookshelf.
- Yes. (bell rings)
(audience exclaims)
Don't move.
I'm gonna grab the watch from you.
I'm just gonna grab the top band of it.
I'm gonna turn and face it towards you.
I want you to look close and read that time.
What time does it say on the watch?
- 3:01.
- Three. (glass shatters)
(dramatic orchestra music) 3:01.
I think we've made our connection.
Don't move.
I'm gonna take these chalkboards from you.
We didn't set this up.
Nobody asked you to pick a time or anything like that,
did they?
No, inside should be that little piece of chalk.
(chalk clatters) I won't touch it.
On the slates now where there wasn't something before,
there should now be bookshelf,
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and not only that, you ended at a time.
Okay, 10:30, 10:30.
Time moves a little different in the afterlife,
because you said 3:01.
It's a little different.
Spooky, that's bookshelf, that's 3:01, that's impossible.
Sponge your house, go to church, I'm outta here.
Thanks for playing.
You're done.
Magic show. (dramatic orchestra music)
(audience applauds)
- Next, Trino adds a little fun to his magic when we return.
Now, most magicians don't like to reveal
how they do their tricks,
but this performer is about to give us a glimpse
into how it's all done.
Here's Trino. (upbeat pop music)
(audience applauds)
- Thank you, Dean.
This is a card trick we're gonna use right here.
What's your name?
- Leon.
- Leon? - Yes.
- Leon, I'm not gonna make you move or anything.
You can stay right there.
You seem pretty happy to not have to get on stage.
Is that cool?
I'm just gonna shuffle the cards.
I want you to say stop wherever you want, all right?
- Stop. - Right there.
All right, we're just gonna take the top one,
doesn't matter what it is.
Check it out.
You got it?
Look, we're gonna take your card,
put it inside the center of the deck,
and give it just one mix.
Now Leon, I'm gonna come down to you, okay?
I'm gonna come down here.
Here, check this out.
Leon, all the way down here,
you gotta let me know if you can see this.
All right, watch.
(cards flip)
Did you see it?
- No. - You didn't see?
Leon, here's what happens.
You're not gonna believe this.
When I did that, your card vanished from the deck,
it flew through the air invisibly,
did three somersaults,
and it landed, miss, right underneath your chair.
Oh yeah, but it didn't stop there.
(audience laughs) It kept, yeah,
it shot back up invisibly came onto stage, did three flips,
and it landed right inside of this balloon, listen.
(balloon rattles)
Yeah, listen, here.
Check this out.
(balloon pops) (audience woops)
One card, one card only.
Leon, would that be your eight of diamonds, yes?
Yes. (audience applauds)
Here's how the trick works.
It doesn't matter what card you picked,
but just for sake of explanation,
we'll use the eight of diamonds again here.
The eight of diamonds, when I say I put it in the deck,
I really just put it right on top like that,
and then I do a little move in magic called palming,
which, to you, looks like this, to me, looks like this.
Less impressive now, all right.
Like that, you pick up the balloon, you shake it,
you hear something in there.
That's just a balloon from the last show,
and some confetti if you're a professional, just in case.
Pop the balloon, drop the card out,
it looks like the card comes from inside the balloon.
Kind of cool?
Yeah, it is very important
that you use a dark colored balloon.
You see, if you use a clear balloon, you can try to hide it.
You can try to hide it here,
but eventually somebody might see behind
that you're holding the card.
Not that good.
So if that ever happens, all you gotta do is just kinda rub
on the card just like that, and it falls right inside.
(audience applauds)
Thank you.
Thank you all so much.
- I've been told to pay close attention
to this next performer.
They have a few tricks up there sleeves.
Here's our very own Eric Eaton.
(upbeat electronic music)
- And what's your name, sir?
- Brian. - Brian, can I get you
to stand right there?
Now we're gonna gamble,
but I've noticed one thing when gambling,
it's never really fun unless there's some risk involved.
So in order to have some risk,
I'm gonna borrow a few items from you guys.
Lisa, can I borrow your ring?
- Okay. - Oh, that's beautiful.
I liked how they left room for a little diamond
or anything you wanna put there.
What's your name, sir? - Caden.
- Caden, I noticed you had a watch on.
Can I borrow your watch, Caden?
- Sure, go for it, if I can get it off here.
There we go.
- Good, and you, sir, can I borrow your phone?
Do you have a phone?
- Yes, I think I do.
- Awesome, oh, that's cool.
We have the same girlfriend, (audience laughs)
and then let's see.
Do you have, we don't have any money.
Do you have any money, maybe 100?
You got 100, big bill, yeah?
Oh, right there on hand.
Perfect, thank you, and I wanna gamble with you guys.
So I brought some money as well.
I'll put in a dollar.
What we're gonna do is we're actually gonna lock our items
up in this box.
We're gonna take it, put it in there, lock that tight.
Now I have five keys here,
but if I can get you guys to each come up and pick a key,
whichever one you want.
I'll take the one that's left.
(upbeat electronic music)
Perfect, now what we're gonna do
is we're actually gonna gamble for our objects.
Inside this box, whose ever key unlocks the lock there
will get to keep all the items.
Sound fair?
(audience exclaims)
Well, all right, you go first, dear.
Check your key out, let us know if that works.
Does that work?
- No. - Perfect, no good.
You've already lost, ma'am.
Thank you. (chuckles)
You, sir, time for your watch.
- Nope. - Perfect, odds are
in our favor now, three left.
I'm always worried when I do this trick,
I'm gonna lose my dollar.
(audience laughs)
Nope, perfect, means I still got my girlfriend,
and then lastly, a hundred dollars, ma'am,
can I get you to check yours out?
No luck?
That leaves me with one key left.
We're gonna take the key, place it in here,
it's the other way.
Let me come to this side, place it in here like so,
give it a little turn, and a little pull.
One hand does it, which means I just won a dollar a hundred,
my girlfriend back, a ring, and a watch.
Thank you, guys. (audience applauds)
- Stay tuned, because the magic doesn't stop here.
We've got more Masters of Illusions coming your way.
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We have a true daredevil in our midst,
someone bound to take your breath away.
Ladies and gentlemen, Reza.
(audience applauds) (dramatic orchestra music)
- Thank you very much.
Tonight, I will attempt to pass
through this solid piece of metal
but not before being examined by someone from the audience.
Gentlemen right there, will you help me, sir?
Awesome, give him a round of applause.
(audience applauds)
I'm Reza.
- Omar. - Omar, I want you
to examine this metal, use this right here,
and just check it out, make sure it's completely solid.
(Omar bangs with hammer)
Anywhere you like.
Oh, okay, okay. - There you go.
- We're gonna flip it around, also, check out the backside,
same thing, anything you want, check it out.
(Omar bangs with hammer)
Solid? - Yes.
- Awesome, man, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Give it for Omar.
(audience applauds)
(assistant bangs on metal)
(audience applauds)
- 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.
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