-We are joined right now by a very talented
young magician who just won
NBC's hit show "America's Got Talent."
Give it up for Shin Lim, everybody.
[ Drumroll ] [ Cheering and applause ]
Pleasure. Thank you for being here.
You are amazing.
I knew you were gonna win.
I swear. I called it.
I go, "This guy --" You've got it, man.
You won the $1 million. -Thank you, man.
-That's a big deal.
What happens now? What's the plan?
-I mean, I would love to have my own show,
in Vegas or wherever, and that would be just amazing,
to be able to perform it.
-All right. I mean, best of luck
-Thank you. -and we will come watch you.
You brought a trick for us tonight.
-Yes, I do. -Okay.
Am I involved? -Yeah.
Well, that's why you're sitting here.
-Okay, good. [ Laughter ]
Have I already done something? -Now,
-Okay. -usually, I would have you
select your favorite card or a card face-Up,
but maybe I know what your favorite card is
or something like that. It's really important
that I can't see the card at all, okay?
So we'll do it face-down.
Just point it in any direction.
-Which one's my favorite? -No, no, just point
to any direction, 'cause we're gonna do one at random.
-Sure. Right over here?
You sure? -Yeah.
-Your choice, so, you happy?
-Yeah. -All right, now,
I'm gonna look away. Take a look at the card.
-Okay. -Remember it.
-Yeah. -Don't forget it, Jimmy.
If you forget it, then the whole trick's over.
-Okay. -All right, cool.
[ Laughter ] All right.
-I'm watching you. -Now, cut the deck in half.
-Okay, here we go. -All right. You can either
keep it or do you want this one?
Doesn't matter. It's your choice;
it's your life. -It's my choice, my life.
-Yeah. What do you want?
-I don't know. I guess that one?
-That one right there? Take it; take it.
Go ahead, grab it. No, no. Grab the deck.
-Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
-Now, hold it like this. -Uh-huh.
-All right. Can you take a couple o' cards
and bring it to the bottom? -Right.
Couple cards, bring it to the bottom.
-Very good. And then, can you take a couple cards
and put it on the table? -Uh-huh.
-Right. And then you can continue
to do the same thing. Cut to the bottom.
-Are you just teaching me how to shuffle?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
Do it again. Put it on top, yeah, again.
-Okay, yeah. -And then, just stop
whenever you want. We're all just --
Stop whenever you want. But it's your choice again.
-It's my choice; it's my life.
[ Laughter ]
All right, so. -You wanna stop there?
-Yes. -All right. Can you put the rest
over here. -Okay.
'Cause we really don't need this.
Now, Jimmy, how many cards would you say is over here?
-I'm not you.
[ Laughter ] I don't know.
-I would say 20. -Yeah.
I'd say around there, yeah. -So there's
about a 40% chance that your card's in this pile.
-Uh-huh. -This half. Okay.
For the first time, what was your card?
It's okay if I know. It doesn't matter.
'Cause I'm not gonna do anything sneaky, at this point.
-2 of spades. -2 of spades.
You shuffled the deck. You shuffled that pile.
-Yeah, and I am not touching anything since I set it.
-I'm not gonna touch anything, either.
Would it be impressive if that 2 of spades is in that pile?
-Yeah. It would. -I mean, that's like 40%.
But what if, somehow, you shuffled it to the top?
2 of spades. [ Drumroll ]
[ Applause ] -How do you do this?
[ Laughing ] -Now, no, but, Jimmy.
I mean, maybe, maybe it was luck, right?
'Cause it could've been luck, somehow,
that it came to the top. There's a probability.
So, this time, you grab the whole deck.
Do the exact same thing.
Grab a couple of cards on the top,
put it to the bottom, and do the same thing,
and then deal us a couple cards onto the table,
and you just stop whenever you want, okay?
-And just stop whenever I want? -Yeah, yeah.
-Yeah. -Shuffle to the bottom, yeah.
-There you go. That's good. -You're good there? All right.
So, now, this is even less. Now, you know, most magicians
would have your card go to the top, at this point,
but [cluck] that's not me.
We're gonna take it to the next level.
Think of any number between one and...15.
-One and 15, okay. I thought of one.
-All right. Just say it out loud, so we can count it down.
-13. -13, all right.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
-[Chuckle] -[laughing] 11, 12, 13.
We'll put the rest of the cards over here.
So, Jimmy, we have 13 cards over here, okay?
-Yes. -Let's do this again.
You shuffled the whole deck. -Uh-huh.
-You then took a couple o' cards by random,
-[Laughing] -put into my hand.
-Yay! -You then thought of --
[ Laughter ] -You then thought of any number.
13. -I thought of any number, yeah,
and I thought -- -Lucky number 13, right?
For some reason, at the 13th position...
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Yeah...
-Whoa! [ Applause ]
-[laughs] Yes!
You're unbelievable!
-You know -- -How the heck is...?
-We'll try something else here.
-Oh, no. -One last, just thing, okay?
One last thing. 'Cause this is a simple trick.
We don't want to do anything too complicated.
Watch. [ Laughter ]
[ Blowing ]
Tell me, Jimmy:
Do you see the 2 of spades anywhere in the deck?
-I do not see the 2 of spades.
-Oh. That's really weird.
You know what happened when I blew on it?
Can you check your pocket, your inner jacket pocket,
[ Laughter ] right over there?
-This is bizarre. -You should feel something
in there. -This is bizarre.
-The right one. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
I think it flew in there.
-In this pocket? -The inside pocket right there.
Do you feel something?
Oh, yeah. [ Drumroll ]
[ Laughter ]
-This is gonna be bizarre, dude.
[ Laughter ] Don't even --
[ Drumroll ] -Whoa!
-Oh, my goodness.
[ Cheering and applause ] [ Cymbals crashing ]
[ Outro plays ]
-We're not done yet. -What?
-We're not done yet. Take your first finger, your index finger.
Yeah, yeah. Come, sit down, sit down, yeah, okay.
-We're not done? -Yeah, no, no, we're not done.
-I got my money's worth. I'm good.
-Just put your index finger right over there.
Put your index finger pointed right over there, okay?
I want you to put all your focus on the 2 of spades. Okay.
[ Laughing delightedly ] -Ohhh!
-[Gasp] -Phew!
[ Cheering and applause ]
-Ow! -[Hissing]
-Yo. Yo. -Oh, yeah.
2 of spades.
-[Laughing] [ Cheering and applause ]
[ Cymbals clashing, outro playing ]
Dude!
That's awesome!
What is going on?!
Shin Lim, everybody!
[ Cheering and applause ]