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Right now, I'm gonna take you on a journey into my world.

- We meet again. - From the UK to the USA.

How you just hanging out in my head like that, man?

I'm gonna bring some magic into people's lives.

So come with me as I attempt the impossible.

- What?! - Oh, my God!

Yo, that is nuts!

In this episode, I go toe-to-toe with heavyweight boxer David Haye.

- That's disgusting. - Leave Mat Horne lost for words.

And take a trio to one Miami.

- I don't understand how he did it. - Oh, man!

Oh, my God!

My name's Steven Frayne, but most people call me Dynamo.

Magic is all about the element of surprise.

I love to create something extraordinary

in the most ordinary of places.

Sometimes it's the things we don't expect which are the most powerful.

Sometimes you've got to go for your dreams, no matter what the risk.

It's better to try and fail than it is to fail to try.

And no one knows the highs and lows of success better than boxer David Haye.

I caught up with him and his team before one of his biggest fights

to see how his nerves were holding up.

You might hear this sound, that's because we're under an arch,

under an arch, right near waterloo, and there's trains going across every day.

I don't actually hear it now because I've been here for so many years.

- It's like music to my ears. - Sounds like London, doesn't it?

It does. It sounds like London. It sounds like home to me.

- Yeah. - So I'm used to it.

You look pretty relaxed, considering you've got like a massive fight coming up.

This is what I do. I stay relaxed all the way up until the fight.

Even the day of the fight, you'd never know that I was fighting.

It's only when I'm in the changing room getting warmed up for the fight

that, you know, I start really switching on.

I find not... I try not to use up any energy, any mental energy,

- in the lead-up to a fight. - I just wanna try something.

I've got some Polo mints here. Do you wanna take them out and open them up?

Just take out any Polo.

- That one? - Mm-hm.

- See this? - Mm-hm.

Watch.

Oh, no, he's not.

- Oh, my... - Oh!

- Do you want a Polo? - No, thanks, mate.

- No? - You can have that one.

That's disgusting.

It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

I'm trying to work out how he's done it, but the chain looked like it was in his neck.

So, uh, I don't know. It must have been painful for him.

I wouldn't recommend that to anyone at home, by the way.

Trying to pull a Polo through your throat.

Disgusting.

A few weeks later, I met up with comedian and Gavin and Stacey star

- Mat Horne for a game of pool. - where is this?

With a few surprises.

That'll do.

Here we go. I'm gonna clean up now.

See this?

Hey!

My own show.

Or variations on it.

Yes!

- Got a pack of cards here. - Yeah.

Just think of a card.

- Yeah. - Got one?

Yeah.

When I was first starting doing magic, every time I'd leave the house,

off to do gigs, my brothers and sisters kind of liked to play a trick on me.

Right.

They'd take my cards and literally mix them, face up into face down.

- It's a mean trick. - lt's pretty annoying, right?

I'm gonna actually mix the cards like this.

All right.

- D'you wanna push them together for me? - Yeah.

- Like that? - Yeah. Perfect.

So, as you can see... cards mixed face up into face down.

- That's fair, right? - Yep.

There's cards back to back, you know...

All over the place.

- You're thinking of a card. - Yeah.

For the first time, name it out loud.

- Eight of spades. - Watch.

Every card rights itself apart from your card.

Amazing. lt's amazing.

It's incredible. How did you do that?

Take a card out.

- Remember it. - Yeah.

Show it to them guys.

Stick it anywhere.

And then just take the deck and just spread it all over the table.

- Here, I'll help you. - What, willy-nilly?

Willy-nilly, yeah.

Try and make sure that none of the cards are touching each other.

- Oh, I see. OK. - That's perfect.

That's a right mess.

Perfect.

- Pool ball. - Yeah.

Put it anywhere you want.

Take the cue. Hit the ball around the table.

As long as it hits two cushions, I'm happy, yeah?

- OK. - So when it's got... Anywhere.

I'm gonna let you decide.

Do you think the ball is closest to this card, this card, this card, that card?

- It's up to you. - lt's closest to this card.

- To this one right here? - Yeah.

- You sure? - Yeah.

- Name the card out loud. - King of hearts.

I'll let you turn it over.

- It can't be. - Take a look.

God, it is.

Unbelievable.

Look at that! Amazing!

Amazing.

I wanna try one last thing with the cards.

Yeah.

I'm gonna go through like this. Just say stop.

- Stop. - Right there?

Remember the card? See that?

- Just mix them up. - Oh, you know, I can't shuffle.

- That's good, though. - ls it?

Someone should have told me. I would have practised my shuffling.

Not that.

- That's fair, right? - That's marginally better.

I'm gonna place the deck inside the pocket.

- Right, in the pocket. - And watch.

Amazing.

Amazing stuff.

I had no idea when I was waking up today that I would see that.

Unbelievable.

This won't hurt.

- Oh, my God! - What?!

Yo, that is nuts!

I don't understand how he did it. I...

Oh, my God!

Whenever I need to vanish from the UK,

I always seem to end up in America.

Back in 2002, I flew out to a magic convention at the New York Hilton.

I'd been to visit some of my family in the US when I was younger,

but this time I was on my own, with only a couple of hundred dollars

and a deck of cards in my pocket.

One evening, I was performing to a large group of magicians

in the foyer of the Hilton,

when someone shouted out, "This kid's a dynamo!"

From then on, the name just stuck.

I love coming back to the States whenever I get a chance.

It's like being on a movie set. There's a surprise around every corner.

And I always bump into some amazing characters.

One of my favourite places to visit in the States is the city. of Miami.

See the Chihuahua.

Do it again!

Whoa!

- That was amazing! - One more time.

Watch.

Gone. What time is it?

I love the way that true astonishment can even make a grown man

feel like a kid again.

- Watch. - No, no, no!

What time is it?

Oh, my God!

- See my finger? - Mm-hm.

Yeah?

Oh!

Ooh!

I headed down to a tattoo parlour in Miami Beach

to surprise legendary tattoo artist Dow Hokoana

And members of Young Money, one of the world's biggest hip-hop collectives.

I wanted to see if I could leave a permanent impression on them,

like the ink from Dow's needle.

That's the legend right there.

- How you doing? - Hi. I'm Dow.

You don't even know how much I love illusion.

Oh!

Oh, my God!

Let me try something with your money. You got any money?

Have you got a bill, though, rather than a coin?

What have you got? Let's have a look.

- Twenty. Twenty. - Got a large one.

Yeah, we'll try it with a dollar, yeah?

Can you see this? What's your name, sorry?

- Cheech. - Cheech. Dynamo.

So I've got Cheech's dollar bill, yeah?

Um... Can you see on the bill, it says, like, "Washington, DC", yeah?

- Says that on all one-dollar bills. - Right.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

I just want you to name a different city, not Washington, DC, yeah?

- Brooklyn, New York. - Brooklyn, New York.

- Hold onto the bill right here. - OK.

Watch.

You see that, right?

Yeah. I can read that.

- Oh, get the... out of here! - Oh!

- No! - What?!

Whoo!

Wow!

You're like so...

You think I'm kidding. I could not sit still.

- That's sick as well. See that? - That's pretty cool.

- Get that on the shot. "Young Money." - Young Money.

I've just got the one. See, it says "Grandpa"?

'Cause my grandpa got me into magic, so he's always watching over my shoulder.

- Really? Oh, that's dope. - Yeah.

I wanna get more, but I don't wanna, like, get one and it goes wrong

- or just not be the right thing. - Right.

Have you guys got any that kind of went wrong or you don't really like?

- Uh... - Yeah.

- One of the back of my neck. - Not from me, right?

No!

Everything from Dow is good. There's some early years, early years.

- Early years, yeah? - Me.

- Which one? - My eye.

- Show me. - She's winking.

One of her eyes is winking, but I really wanted her eyes to look over.

But since he did it on my collar bone, it didn't come right,

- the way I wanted it. - Can I take a closer look?

- Yes. - All right.

Tell you what.

Hold really still, yeah?

- This won't hurt. - OK.

Watch.

No!

Get out of here!

Oh, my God!

- Oh, my God! - What am I supposed to do

when someone can go boom, and there's your tattoo?

- No! What the...? - What?!

For him to just do this like that,

and her eye just to pop out...

And I can't even like take it off. It's there.

- That's scary. - That's scary!

Holy... lt's much better now.

There was no eye existing.

It was, um... It had scarred and fallen off.

Typical of a tattoo that's not done perfectly.

He literally went like that, and there's the eye

that literally I would have tattooed, had I redrawn it.

But I didn't tattoo her. I did not touch her with the needle.

I love the craziness of South Beach.

But sometimes it's good to get out of the tourist areas

and experience the real city.

I headed down to Little Havana, which is the epicentre

of Miami's Cuban community, to see what I could find.

I've never smoked in my life, but I ventured into an old cigar shop

to try something with some of the customers.

Can you just blow me a big blast of smoke towards my hands, yeah?

Watch.

No way.

Blow me some more. Blow me some more.

No way.

How's he doing that?

Can you smell it?

Hi, I'm Dynamo. Nice to meet you all.

- Wow. - Nice to meet you.

I mean, that was real smoke. He had it...

He had more smoke coming out from thin air, just coming out,

you know, out of his hand, into the cup.

It went through the coaster into the glass.

I don't understand how he did it. I...

I don't know how he did that.

As I continued my tour of Little Havana,

I came across some locals hanging out outside an old retro cinema.

Do you guys watch a lot of films?

- Yeah. - Yeah?

- What's your name, brother? - Josh.

- Josh? - Yeah.

- Do me a favour. Just name a film. - Name a film?

- Yeah. - Uh, There Will Be Blood.

- There Will Be Blood. - Yeah.

That film's not playing at the cinema over the road, is it?

- No, it's not. - It's not. There's Rambo First Blood,

- which is kind of close. - Yeah.

- And you could have had any film, right? - Yeah.

Yeah. Watch this.

- Oh, my God! - What?!

Yo, that is nuts!

- That's dope! - What?

There Will Be Blood.

Oh, Jesus Christ, Lord and Saviour!

Yo, let's go watch the movie right now!

That doesn't make sense. Wow.

- That is so weird! - wow!

- That was dope or what! - Yeah, it was.

He asked me to think of a random movie, I thought of one,

and he just pretty much blew the letters off and he got it.

- He just thought of a movie... - He didn't say a word

about the movie! He didn't even, like, say the movie out loud.

He just thought about it. That's creepy!

That made me believe in magic! That's creepy!

Maximo Gomez Park sits on the corner of 15th Avenue,

and it's where everyone comes to play dominoes.

I thought I'd try my hand at a couple of games, Dynamo style.

- What's your name? - Ricardo.

Ricardo? Dynamo. Nice to meet you, man.

I want to try something using dominoes. So we take...

This is, what? ls it three-zero or three white? Yeah?

Hold your hand out.

See that?

All right, and then if you take this hand,

and just put your hand on top,

and if I take the... Let's see.

What have we got?

I'll take a three-one.

So three-one, three-zero. Watch.

Take a look.

Thank you.

The guy's a monster. A monster.

Just mix these up.

And then each take one.

Now, I'll take one as well.

You've all got a domino, yeah?

Take your domino and just mix them up between you five, yeah?

I'll turn around, yeah?

Done that?

All make sure you look at the domino you've got,

so you know what it is, so all look at the domino.

And then put it face down so I can't see it. Don't let me see it.

All right. Take your domino, like this,

and just hold it between your hands and put it like this.

Like this.

All right. Perfect.

So you all know which domino you've got?

I've not seen them, you mixed them up, right?

I'm gonna start with you. Yeah?

Just... hold them.

Yours has got a big number,

a number eight,

and a three.

Put it on the table.

So we can see it. Eight and three. Yeah?

I'm gonna try with you now.

Just... hold them.

Look at me.

Yours is a...

...uh, number seven and a four.

- Show me. - Oh!

Seven and four.

I'm gonna try it with you.

You're gonna be a bit difficult because you've glasses on, but I'm gonna try anyway.

Look at me.

Yours is a bit difficult because you've only got one number.

And it's... So it's...

...a number eight and a zero. Nothing, yeah?

Eight and a nothing. Show everyone.

See, eight and nothing.

Two more, yeah?

You've got...

You're a bit like him. You've got a blank, yeah?

And you've got five. Show everyone.

Oh!

Just put it on the table. Yeah?

We've got one more, yeah?

- Seven-three. - Yes.

Yeah? Seven-three.

In fact, look. if we take these, yeah?

Together.

Like this.

And this.

- Like this. - Seven, seven.

And the one that I have... Oh, seven, yeah? The one that I have...

Loco. Crazy!

Whoo!

Yeah!

Yo! This is so crazy!

Are you for real right now, man?!

- No! - Wait. Hold on a second.

How'd he do that? That's all I wanna know. How did he do that?

I'd arranged to meet DJ Irie,

the official DJ of Miami Heat basketball team,

at a diner in Little Havana, where I had a few surprises in store for him.

- You enjoying Miami, right? - lt's awesome.

- In England right now, it's rainy. - Yeah.

There's no girls walking round in bikinis.

No bikinis? I'll get you some extra ones to take back with you.

- All right. - I got you, I got you.

One of the things, though, that I'm not getting used to in Miami...

- I'm from England, right? - Right.

- In England, we have a cup of tea. - Right.

- None of this iced tea mumbo jumbo. - lt's a hot day.

- You gotta get refreshed. - To make iced tea, what, you get,

- tea bag, ice and water. - Pretty much.

So like... So you have like...

- lt's still iced tea. - Yeah.

- Still iced tea. - What I'm gonna try to do,

if I just separate

the ice from the tea...

Separate the ice from the tea.

You are bugging right now!

We'll take it a step further, yeah?

'Cause we got ice from the tea. So I...

...take the tea...

- ...from the water... - Come on, man!

- Come on, man! - ...leaving just water and tea.

So that's iced tea. You're not gonna share a tea with me?

- I'm gonna call you! - You better.

Yo! This is so crazy!

Are you for real right now, man?! Are you for real?!

- So, Irie, how long you been DJ-ing for? - I've been in the game now, like,

- about 15 years, man. - Fifteen years.

- Fifteen years, deep in the game. - You've mixed a lot of records, right?

I probably play, like, 200 records in one night.

And you've gotta keep it fresh. You've gotta play new songs all the time.

You also gotta kick in some of the classics, you know what I mean?

Just to kind of give people a little flashback, some nostalgia.

- It's a balance, you know? - Yeah.

What I want to do is I want you to imagine

a mix right now.

Yeah? I want you to think of two songs.

It doesn't even have to be a mix that you've actually done before.

OK.

It could be something totally obscure. All right?

- Have you got two songs in mind? - I got two in mind.

Just take off your glasses a second.

I need to see those eyes.

My baby blues?

I'm getting... something like... like...

♪ Doo whoop Whoop ♪

ls that something that resembles one of the songs you're thinking of?

- Yo, man. Get out of my head, man. - Hold it, hold it.

Get out of my head, man.

♪ Drop it like it's hot Drop it like it's hot ♪

Snoop Dogg. "Drop It Like lt's Hot". And Pharrell, yeah?

Yes. Yeah!

- Oh, my God! - Keep thinking of the other song.

Yeah?

So you've mixed Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell,

"Drop It Like lt's Hot", with...

This is a good one. I like this one. This is a good one.

- Come on, man. - This is kind of older.

- Get out of my party, man. - This is kind of older, right? lt's...

But it's a classic, though. Don't be walking around in there, man!

It's DMX! "Party Up." "Party Up", yeah?

This is so crazy, man! Yo, man!

- That sounds like a good mix. - How you just hanging out in my head?

Did you take anything from in there?

Don't worry, you can keep your PIN numbers and your bank details.

Dude, come on, man. Those are the first two songs that kind of came to mind.

I'm... I'm... I'm speechless, man. I'm speechless.

You were just all up in here.

You were all up in there, man.

Maybe there was like a sign running past my eyes or something like that.

I don't know what it was, but he just looked in my eyes

and he told me exactly the two songs that I thought of.

Like, that is beyond...

I... That shut it down for me. I was done.

DJ Irie had recommended a great Nicaraguan restaurant

called Yambo, so I thought I'd check it out.

Mm-mm! Good choice, Mr Irie.

- Kiwi. - Kiwi, that's a beautiful name.

Awesome, awesome. Yeah!

Does anyone here have a dollar bill I could borrow?

If it's a hundred, you might never see it again.

I want double back.

We got 20, yeah?

So just write your name on there. I've got a pen.

Just sign it, write your name.

Will I still be able to use it?

- So we've got Kiwi's bill. - Mm-hm.

Everyone see it, yeah?

Watch.

Uh-oh.

- No! - Forget about your money.

That's OK, I'm gonna double that.

- Mm-mm! Don't do that! - Oh!

Bye, $20.

That's half down on a pair of shoes.

You lost $20.

- Smell that. - Watch.

It smells like burning money.

Watch.

- Oh, my God! - What the...?

No, you didn't.

Wow. That was good. Perfect.

- It has your name on it. - Wow!

- Oh, my God! - The same bill.

Same bill.

- Oh, my God. - The same bill.

No, man!

- Great. - Oh!

Very good.

It's incredible. And it was the same bill that he burned.

So it was great.

It was amazing, though. I mean, we sat here and watched him burn it.

How he put it in here, I don't know.

The light just went off and... poof.

As the sun went down, I decided to hit some of the roof parties

- down in South Beach.

Just take a card out. Grab one quickly.

- Show everybody. - Oh, that's my favourite!

Show them. Anywhere. Anywhere, yeah? Anywhere.

Right, you remember the name of the card, right?

- Yeah. - Really think of it. Look at me.

- I think I've got it. Yeah? - OK.

You could have had any one of these cards, right? Watch.

Make them all disappear.

Do me a favour. Um...

Can I borrow one of your flip-flops? Can I borrow one? ls that all right?

- We call them thongs. - Can I borrow one of your thongs?

- Of course you can. - Blue one, yeah?

Let's try this. Um... So... Sorry, so we've got Tanya and Rick, yeah?

Tanya and Rick's thongs, as they call them. I call them flip-flops.

Whatever. Um... Let me try this.

Watch.

Get the... out.

- We're... Our thongs... - That's your thong, right?

That's your thong. See that right there.

- Give me my thong! - That's the whole point.

Yeah, I guess you guys are going home together.

Right, watch.

That's for you. That's for you.

I can't believe it.

I feel kind of weird 'cause I don't know what just happened.

I wanna try something. Just stand up a second. Come over here.

Over here?

Now try, uh...

See my shoelace is undone, yeah?

- No! No! Oh, my God! - Oh, my God!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Hold on.

Did you see this?

Yo, that is fire!

I don't know how you do that. I wanna learn that. I'm lazy.

- Going to a club... I can do that! - I wish I could shake my foot.

How you do that? Wait, wait.

It was the last day of my trip,

and I'd been invited to another roof party,

this time on top of the Beacon Hotel, where I had one last surprise in store

for the people of Miami.

Oh, my God!

- What's your name? - Rachel.

- Rachel, how you doing? - Hi.

- Dynamo. Step forward a second. - OK.

The four of spades, right? Top card. Everyone can see that?

- See that? - Yeah.

You take the pen and just write your name on there.

It's gonna be papa goin' down, right?

- OK. - Awesome.

So we've got Rachel...

- I just want you to bite down on it. - OK.

Hold it right there. Perfect.

I'll take the next hand, the jack of hearts. Yeah?

Everyone see that?

I'll write my name on there. Dynamo.

So we've got... jack of hearts.

OK.

Give me your hands.

I'm kind of scared right now.

I don't like this.

Rachel.

- What is going on?! - Dynamo!

I wanna try something a bit different.

Something using sound. You've heard of people who can throw their voices?

Like a ventriloquist can make it sound like his voice is coming out of a dummy.

- Yeah. - So I'm gonna try something like that,

but using...

...this.

- Yeah? - Ah!

We're gonna wanna... that...

- What's your name, bro? - Vince.

Vince. How you doing? Just step out here.

Yeah? Everyone back up a little bit. Right here.

Turn towards me. Yeah, that's awesome.

I'm gonna blow this horn, yeah, but you're gonna have your eyes closed.

And don't worry, I'm not gonna blow it in your ear or anything.

- OK. - Yeah. I'm just gonna...

I'm gonna blow it either in front of you, like right here,

or behind you, and, with your eyes closed,

you've got to guess whether I blew it in front or behind.

- OK. - Yeah?

- Yeah. - So close your eyes.

I'm gonna pace around you.

That's behind me.

Awesome. You guessed right. You can open your eyes.

- I was behind you, right? Yeah? - Yeah.

Now it's everyone else's turn. Yeah?

So I'm gonna... Let's see. If I position you right there.

We'll get you kind of... right here.

Uh, you, come over this side.

And you, right there.

And then you guys, we've gotta get you in there.

And you guys, kind of... Yeah, that's awesome.

So, right, I want everybody to close their eyes, yeah?

Everyone close their eyes.

I'm gonna blow the horn three times.

On the third time, I want you all to open your eyes and look at me.

- Everyone understand? - Mm-hm.

Awesome.

Everybody, eyes closed.

- What the...? - Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

- Hold on a second. - Wait a minute.

There's no way. He's... Dynamo God, man.

In my time I've found myself appearing in the most amazing places,

and my journey's been full of surprise.

Sometimes the unexpected can be one of life's greatest gifts.

- He ended up all the way over there. - He disappeared, man!

- That's Casper! - He was here,

then he was here, and then he was there.

In, like, a second. He just teleported.

He transported, teleported himself.

Well, he was over here. Now he's over there.

Dynamo's a... X-Man.

How'd he do that? That's all I wanna know. How did he do that?

I wanna do that. OK?

How did he even do that? How did he even do that?

I take my magic to LA, the City of Angels.

That's so wild.

Oh, my God! Oh!