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- [Dean Voiceover] 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.

(audience cheering)

- Hello everybody, good evening

and welcome to "Masters of Illusion."

I'm Dean Cain.

People have been fascinated by magic for centuries

and I think it's wild myself to see someone

who appears to be breaking the laws of physics

and then try to figure out how they did it.

So far I haven't done it one time but I promise you,

you will make that very same effort

many, many times tonight as you watch our masters perform.

So are you ready to give it a try?

- [Audience] Yeah! (cheering)

- Outstanding.

(audience clapping)

There's a stranger hiding in this garden, can you find him?

The brain can be distracted.

Our military men wear camouflage uniforms

to blend in with nature,

just as this figure is hidden among the flowers.

And just like our illusionist tonight

will hide their intentions.

(audience cheering)

Time now for the always lovable antics of a magician

who has as much fun performing

as the people he's entertaining.

There's always a lot of trickery involved

when you interact with Chipper Lowell.

(upbeat music) (audience cheering)

- Thank you very much.

This is...

- Pana. - Pana and...

Give it up for Pana and Ashley everybody.

(audience clapping)

If you would, all right,

would hold on to the bag for me?

Excellent, and inside the bag we have a soda can.

Now you may notice that there's nothing on it,

I took all the print off

because no product placement on my watch.

(audience laughing) All right.

But we will initial this.

Pana, how do you spell that?

- P-A-N-A.

- P-A-N-A, just like it sounds, Pana, very nice.

Excellent, there we go.

I notice you have a watch? - Yes.

- Very good.

Would you do me a favor, take that off

and hold it in your left hand, if you would please, okay?

Very nice, all right.

We can see Pana written on there.

I'm gonna have you hold this side of the bag, there you go.

You hold that side.

Okay, very nice.

This can is going in here.

With your other hand, reach underneath

and just hold the bottom of the can.

All right? You got it?

Excellent.

But big smile up, there you go, there you go.

Big, good, good, good. (audience laughing)

All righty, excellent.

Now, let me see your watch.

Oo, this is very nice.

Oh, wow, did you get it as a gift?

- Yeah. - Oh, very cool, okay.

That watch is also going into the bag.

I want you to hold it as well.

All right, very good.

All right.

Now, hold it just like that.

I'm gonna have you guys release the items.

On the count of three, they're gonna disappear.

Are you ready?

One, two, three, release.

And they're gone

Okay, we're gonna do a different trick.

(audience laughing)

You know what?

You know what happened, this is amazing.

Your watch has turned into a can

and your can has turned into a watch.

(audience laughing)

They don't believe me.

Reach in, grab the can.

Grab the can if you would please, right?

Yeah, show it to everybody if you would.

Excellent.

And then go ahead, reach in and grab the watch.

See they've switched places, absolutely ama,

Yeah, yeah, no show it to everybody.

No, no go ahead.

(audience laughing)

Are you kidding me?

Okay, that's weird.

(chuckles)

You know what?

I vanished one of them.

Yeah, yeah.

(audience cheering)

You know, the glass is half full kind of thing.

Or maybe the soda can is half full.

(electronic music)

Yeah. Yeah.

Just give it a little shake.

Yeah, it's a little weird, huh?

It's gonna get even weirder, all right?

Cause I want you to see that the entire can

all the way through all sides completely solid.

(electronic music)

(chuckles)

Alright, I'll try not to hit the object inside.

- Yeah, that would be great.

- All right, there we...

(electronic music)

I'm gonna open this up very, very gently,

sort of like breaking open a dinner roll.

There is something inside, you can see it right there.

Would you please take that out?

Show it to everybody.

Is that your watch?

Yes, there we are. (audience cheering)

Thank you so much you've been awesome.

Thank you, take a bow.

(electronic music)

- All the way from Stockholm, Sweden

and a manic magic world that he has personally created,

this is the very deceptive, Hakan Berg.

(audience cheering)

(guitar music)

♪ It's impossible ♪

♪ In our mind ♪

♪ I can't believe it we are so blind ♪

♪ Gotta believe in magic ♪

(audience laughing)

♪ Don't get lost in this confusion ♪

♪ Gotta believe in magic ♪

♪ It's not an illusion ♪

(guitar music)

Magic time.

(guitar music)

oh, hoo.

Hey!

(whistles)

in your face.

(audience laughing)

One more time.

(guitar music)

♪ Oo magic ♪

♪ oo yeah ♪

(guitar music)

(laughing)

oh yeah.

(audience laughing)

Oh no.

(guitar music)

This is stuck.

(guitar music)

Hello.

(audience laughing)

I can't hear the music.

Gotta believe.

♪ Gotta believe in magic ♪ (laughing)

♪ It's an illusion ♪

(audience laughing)

(guitar music)

(audience cheering)

I love you.

- [Dean Voiceover] Next, Shoot Ogawa

will make you doubt your senses when we come back.

(audience cheering)

- The Japanese call him a genius.

His manipulations are beyond explanation.

So can he live up to his name tonight?

We'll see.

From Tokyo here is shoot Ogawa.

(upbeat music) (audience cheering)

- Thank you very much.

Well, I would like to show you one of the classic magic

because classic magic is a really good stuff.

So I wanna show you.

This is what I learned long time ago,

I was around 10, 11, 12 years old, I don't remember exactly.

Magic with four coins and four cards like this way.

It looks really fast, but I hope you enjoy it.

I have four cards and four coin like that way, okay?

So it's very simple.

I put card on the coin.

You can see it, can't we?

One,

two,

three.

it's pretty interesting.

(audience clapping)

When I was around 17 years old, I broke left hand

three weeks before the magic competition in Japan.

But I really wanted to do magic

so I tried to create one magic

with my right hand but I was a lefty.

(audience laughing)

So today I would like to show you one magic with right hand

exactly what I did when I was 17, okay?

(bright music)

But I have two hands right now, why I have to do it.

(audience laughing)

I know, like why we don't try something more,

you know like a maybe if I have two hands,

why we don't try something more than we think?

I know, it's kind of strange

because it's not a coin magic,

it's like a four coin two cards, right?

Four coins, two cards and one hand, and one hand.

so now it's very tricky because you know,

from center to right, you're gonna see this side,

from center left, you're gonna see this side.

Or if you want to, you can see just one eye and one eye

so you can see really.

(laughing) Okay, let's do this.

All right, simple thing is very hard.

I Just toss coin and catch, which is very hard.

Take coin, just hold it, just drop from here,

just like that.

So now you can see, it's two and two.

- [Audience] Oh.

- Yeah, I know. (audience clapping)

It's very interesting, okay.

Let's try it again.

I just throw a coin from here to there, just like that.

So now it's gone three and three, right.

So now last things is here, I drop coin here.

So very simple question, from this side,

when I drop coin like that, how many coins there?

Of course, you know, it should be like four coin like this

where one, two, three, four.

And how many coins there?

Of course, as you know, it's one, two, three, and...

four coin.

(audience clapping)

So this is what I can do, hopefully, you like it.

Thank you very much.

(electronic music)

- Technology seems to run

just about every part of our daily lives now.

So if you're anything like me,

nothing really ever seem to work quite right.

(audience laughing)

Well, our next performer seems to have the same problem.

His solution is just as puzzling.

This is Chris Funk.

(electronic music) (audience cheering)

- So I've been trying to create the perfect illusion

since I was 16 years old.

Going a little further back,

I've been trying to create the perfect song

since I was four years old.

And I've realized that writing the perfect song

and creating the perfect illusion have a lot in common.

So I wanna share a little something with you

right here right now.

Of course.

(laughing)

All right.

Gotta plug it in, I guess that would help.

There we go, okay. (audience laughing)

so got a little looping pedal here.

I'm gonna lay down some music for you live

and we're gonna do the illusion to some live music.

I've already taken the liberty of creating a bit of

a beat and a baseline, you ready for this?

- [Audience] Yeah!

(drum music)

(guitar music)

It's coming together.

(pop music)

The last one to bring it all together.

(sweet pop music)

(audience cheering)

And once you have that,

that's when the magic can begin.

(sweet pop music)

(laughing)

(sweet pop music)

(audience laughing)

(sweet pop music)

(fast paced pop music)

(audience laughing)

(slow paced pop music)

(audience laughing)

(fast paced pop music)

(audience cheering)

(laughing)

But...

(laughing)

(slow paced pop music)

Hang on.

what if...

Yeah, okay.

- [Audience] Oh!

(audience cheering)

(pop music)

- [Audience] Wow!

(audience cheering)

- [Dean Voiceover] Next, the amazing card wizardly

of Nick Dopuch.

(audience cheering)

- Let's go into the audience right now and try to keep up

with the fast paced St. Louis native magician

who has never disagreed with himself.

Don't be distracted by the very deceptive Nick Dopuch.

(audience cheering) (upbeat music)

- What's your name? - Denise.

- Denise, pleasure.

And you are? - Mark.

Mark, all right, we're not gonna pay attention to Mark,

we're gonna pay attention to you, right?

So here's what we're gonna do, all right?

If you would here, you can go and grab any card you want.

Perfect, all right, seven of spades.

All right, you can go and write your name

on the face of that card, if you would.

- Oh. - Yeah, you can sign that.

And what's your name again? - Mark.

Mark, I'm just gonna grab the four aces out of here

that are surreptitiously next to each other.

Don't worry about that.

Which of those suits is your favorite?

- The heart.

- Do you know what the heart, you just said that.

Okay, good.

All right now, did you sign your card?

- Yes. - All right, fantastic.

All right, now here's what I want you to do.

Oh, that's nice.

Look at that. - It's a good signature.

- I know it's a solid signature, ain't it?

That's a really good.

That's, that's, that's good, look at that, all right.

So here's what we're gonna do,

we're running back to those in a second.

We're gonna use the aces to find your card, okay?

Does that make sense?

All right, one, you can find it directly,

just looking right at it, all right?

Two, you can distinguish all the other cards around it,

which makes your cards stand out.

Does that make sense? - Yes.

- Okay, good.

Whatever is coming with me on this system.

So for instance, if I like,

if I want to distinguish the four aces here,

if I want to distinguish these four aces

from the rest of the deck, for instance,

what I could do is I could take those cards

and I could put them right,

pass them right to my hand like that.

(audience laughing)

And then now we have four blue cards.

- Okay.

- I know. I know.

(audience cheering)

I know.

Don't worry, it's the age of the smartphone.

I know this isn't impressive yet.

It's okay, we're gonna get there though, okay?

But I can find them whenever I want, all right?

Now, which suit did you say your favorite was?

- The heart - The hearts, okay.

So now if we want to distinguish that one for instance.

So for instance, we go like this, give a snap.

Now we go like this.

Now we still have our four aces.

But now we've distinguished the ace of hearts

by making it a read one.

- Oh.

(audience clapping)

- So now I can find it.

Face up, face down, it doesn't matter.

Whichever way I wanna find it, I know exactly where it's at.

Now if I want to distinguish the ace of hearts even further,

we waive it across the pack, give it a snap,

and we distinguish the ace of hearts by turning it into...

- What?

- Denise's sign.

(Mark laughing) (audience clapping)

And it is the only red card, absolutely.

I know, right?

Science.

All right, good, Fantastic, We got that.

- Okay, good.

- Thank you very much Denise,

but we're getting back to that in one second.

Here's what I'd like you to do, sir, if you would.

Mark, just go and grab any card you want.

Alright, good.

Fantastic, all right, show it around to everybody.

Okay.

Do you want to change your mind?

- I do not.

- Okay, good.

All right, it's okay, I can see it.

Go and scribble on the back there for me,

just sign your name, draw a picture,

whatever you want to do.

All right, good.

Yeah, I know, look at that.

So we have Mark's card signed in the back.

We have Denise's card signed here on the face.

All right now, Denise, take those cards.

I want you to cut them, just cut them wherever you like.

Okay, good, fantastic, right.

Place your card exactly where you cut.

Complete the cut please.

Alrighty.

Now Mark, it's up to you.

Let's see if you can find Denise again.

All right, say stop whenever you want.

- Stop.

- Was that, I can go further if you like.

- Go further. - Go further.

- Stop. - Right there?

- Yeah. - It's exactly where you want?

I'ma mark it exactly where you stopped me, fair?

Is that fair? - Fair.

- That's fair, okay, good, fantastic.

So now no sleight of hand, no tricks, no nothing.

Mark has stopped me at any one of those cards.

He stopped me at this card right there.

Let's see if Mark found Denise.

(electronic music)

- No.

No.

No.

- There you guys go, absolutely.

You guys found each other for you.

Mark, thank you so much.

Denise, you take that home, you can frame it,

tear it up, whatever you wanna do.

Thank you all very much, I appreciate.

Thank you guys very much.

- [Dean Voiceover] Mai Wynn will make you doubt your senses

When we come back.

(audience cheering)

- Our next performer

brings an extraordinary illusion to life

right before your eyes.

Please welcome Mai Wynn.

(audience cheering)

(slow soft music)

(audience cheering)

(disco music)

(audience cheering)

(disco music)

(salsa music)

(audience cheering)

♪ Your love is safe with me ♪

♪ Your love is safe with me ♪

♪ I don't want to give up ♪

♪ I don't want to give up ♪

(audience cheering)

♪ Give me some more ♪

♪ Oh give me more ♪

♪ Give me some more ♪

♪ Oh give me more ♪

♪ Give me some more ♪

♪ Oh give me more ♪

(audience cheering)

- Well, that's all the magic we have time for tonight,

but there's plenty more next time.

We hope you'll join us again.

until then I'm Dean Cain.

See you next time.

(audience cheering) Thank you.

(audience cheering)

Thank you guys.

Thank you very much.

(audience cheering)

(upbeat music)