Our next guest just makes me happy.
He's an 11-year-old magician from Ireland.
Please welcome back, Aidan McCann.
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Hi, Aidan.
Hello.
Hi there, how are you?
Oh, it's just so amazing to be back on this show.
It feels forever.
I know, it's been a long time.
Hey, before we get to the magic, I heard you got a new puppy.
I saw a picture.
It's adorable.
Oh, yeah.
Her name is Trixie, right.
She is so, so cute.
Adorable.
All right, what are we going to--
I like the magic.
What are we doing today?
[INAUDIBLE] Great, I'll show you all the cards.
So once again, all different there.
Yep.
Great.
Now, Ellen, can you just name-- just off the top of your head--
any card in the deck?
Just think of one and name it out loud.
Queen of hearts.
The queen of hearts.
Oh, there it is.
It's near the bottom there.
The queen of hearts.
OK, the queen of hearts.
We're just going to put it into the deck here.
Like there, let's say, right?
We'll push it in.
And actually, you know Ellen, I'll
just give it a few shuffles.
OK.
Every day I'm shuffling.
[SINGING THE BEAT] OK, Ellen.
Yeah.
Yeah, the card that you thought of is the queen of hearts,
am I right?
Yeah?
That's right, Aidan.
Great, OK.
Now, Ellen, watch this.
There is nothing in my hands.
And watch, if I snap one card will rise
from the middle of the deck.
Wouldn't it be just amazing if this was the queen of hearts.
It really would.
The queen of hearts.
Oh, Aidan.
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You got one more?
I do, yes.
I have another one.
OK, Ellen, during lockdown I read a lot of books, right?
And I loved them so much.
I actually decided to make my own book.
I'm very proud of myself.
I have just a little prediction here.
We'll just leave that right there.
Now, here I have just tons of different things.
Like we have like--
we have people.
We have-- Oh, we have places.
We also have things.
Now every good book, Ellen, needs a person, a place,
and the thing.
I have these right here.
Ellen, I'll show you that they're all different.
Like here are people.
We have a singer.
We have a magician.
Oh, magician, that's me.
We have a king.
We have a lot there.
They're all different.
I'll show you all the places like a theater, circus,
airport.
And the same with things.
Rope, key, so much different ones.
Now, Ellen, I'm just going to spread through the people.
And if you could just tell me when to stop anywhere, please.
Stop.
Great, we'll place that right there.
Now, let's do the same with the places here.
Stop.
Great.
Oh, that was quite fast, Ellen.
OK, and now with the things.
Stop.
Great, and that thing right there.
So then Ellen, you chose a random person, a random place,
and a random thing.
OK, now, you could have chose any ones.
And you chose these ones right here.
Completely random.
No way I could have made you choose any of these.
So we'll just put them right here for the moment, Ellen.
Now, I want to get back to this envelope.
I didn't really-- I didn't really explain it much.
Basically, for in the book that I made,
I rippled out a page from it, and I put it
into this envelope.
So now, it's a prediction.
Now, let's get back to these here.
So Ellen, we have our person.
We have our place.
And we have our thing.
And then we just have the rest of the cards,
which you don't need anymore.
We can place them right there.
Now, Ellen, for the first time I'm
going to reveal what my story says.
Oh, OK.
The very next day, Doctor Ellen had the very painful job
of helping Average Andy remove a banana from his very smelly--
let's turn over the page, Ellen--
farm.
What else could it be?
Wow.
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Aidan, you're so good.
Thank you.
Thank you for helping me.
That was so good.
I got you something for Trixie before we
go because that's a cute doggy.
I have a pet line, you know that.
So I'm sending you all the stuff from ED by Ellen.
All the pet toys for Trixie.
They're all going to you.
We're going to send them today.
Thank you so much, Aidan.
You're fantastic.
Thank you, Ellen.
I'll see you soon.
Bye.
Fingers crossed, yeah.