Hi, I'm Michael Grandinetti and I'm an illusionist. But at the end of the day, I just love magic. I'm one of those lucky people who found what they love to do early in life. I got a magic set for Christmas one year and there was just something about it. Everything else under the tree just got pushed to the background and that magic set was, was it. From that point on, my life had a direction and everything I did was, was focused towards that goal of becoming a magician. Hey, Jessica, how are you?

Hey, I'm good. Thanks for being here.

I want to show you some magic, but I'm gonna need your help. Do you have some money I could borrow?

Okay. Sure.

Okay. I'm gonna get it back, right? I promise this is not the disappearing money trick. I'll give you the one. The what she trust me. Thank you very much. No, I appreciate you lending me this. Uh, as a matter of fact, I'm gonna give you a little receipt. Hold on to that. Now, I want you to watch this very carefully. Keep your eye on the bill. There's one other piece of this illusion and I keep that right here in my pocket. This is an envelope. Watch carefully, Jessica, we're gonna put the bill inside this envelope. Okay. And the envelope goes down inside this container. This is the part where we see if Jessica really trusts me. Now, it's only a dollar. I'm not getting this back. But it's still, you know, it's your dollar and I respect that. I'm gonna try and create the perfect illusion with this dollar. Watch. Keep your eye on the money as the money goes up in flames. Now what I want you to do, hold that corner in the palm of your hand and close your hand over it. Close your hand tight. Okay. I'm gonna try and make the dollar disappear from the fire and end up in your hand. Okay. Would you be impressed?

Yes, I'd be very impressed.

Okay. Watch. I think we got it. Open up your hand. Let's see what we got. It's the same thing. I always bring a backup plan, so not to worry. I keep something in this box to cover the cost of any damage. Okay. You wanna see what it is?

Yeah.

It's an orange. That's, that's a fair trade, a dollar for an orange. Okay. Pretty fair price. Take a look at the orange. Make sure there's no cuts, no holes, no openings whatsoever. That's good. Let me show you why a dollar is very fair for an orange. Everybody keep your eye on the orange. Watch. With this knife and empty hands, I'm gonna cut into the orange. Again, watch the orange. I want you all to see that deep down inside is very, very juicy orange. Jessica. There's an even juicier dollar bill. And look, I'm gonna take it out of here. And if we unroll this, you'll see something very strange. There's a corner missing.

Oh my God.

Read the serial numbers off the corner.

L218805.

Read them off the top of the bill.

L218805.

And check to see if that corner fits. Does the corner fit?

Oh my God. It fits.

We have a show coming up on the CW premiers August 1st. It's called Masters of Illusion and we had a blast with this show. We taped, uh, several of our original illusions, not only our, our large scale illusions, but also some interactive pieces with the audience. And I'm very excited for people to see it because as a, as an illusionist, as a magician, one of the things that I love is sharing what I create with, with, you know, a mass audience. And that's certainly what this show is going to let us do.