Hi.
Congratulations.
You looked genuinely shocked.
I was.
You really didn't think you were going to win?
No idea.
Well, we all thought Courtney was
going to win from the get-go.
Yeah.
She was pretty good.
She was amazing.
There was a lot of good talent this year.
Yeah.
So what are you going to do with a million dollars?
Well, I have a crummy car.
So I need to get a new car with that.
You could buy a bunch of cars.
Yeah.
And probably save a couple of dollars here and there.
And actually, I had a couple of friends recently struggling
with brain cancer, so I think I want
to try to contribute a little bit into research
and development and try to figure it out
so we can fight that.
Wow.
Good for you.
All right.
I love magic, and you're amazing.
So show us stuff.
All right.
I have a deck of cards over here.
All right.
Do you want to shuffle it?
Can you just give it a mix?
Yeah, sure.
You can examine the cards.
Oh, you trust me.
I mean, yeah, because you know, what's it going to be?
I mean, you can mess it up some more if you want.
It makes my job harder, so--
All right.
Then I'll just--
You want to look at all the cards?
Or are you happy?
Mm, that's good.
All right, cool.
I'll take the cards.
All right.
You done?
She's not done.
She's going to make this really hard.
All right.
All right, now you're done.
I'm going to ripple down the deck.
You just say stop anytime you want, OK?
Stop.
Right there?
Yep.
Remember the card.
Yep.
Don't forget it.
Got it.
You forget it, the whole trick is over, OK?
All right.
Can I have your hand?
All right, cool.
Shuffle the cards.
All right.
All right, good?
Yep.
All right, cool.
Now we're all going to try to find her card.
But we're going to try to do it together.
And it's not going to really be a magic trick.
So don't try to figure this out.
It's going to be more of a game, OK?
We're going to try to--
I love games.
--find her cards together.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's like a poker game, almost.
Oh, I love poker.
Is there money involved?
No.
Absolutely no money, OK?
I'm going to try my best to make--
Is there alcohol involved?
Yeah, if you want.
Is there alcohol?
No?
Right after this, OK?
OK.
All right, so you picked the card,
so you get to point to a pile.
This one.
All right.
You can go grab it.
OK.
Point to one.
That one.
This one?
All right.
I won't do anything funny, all right?
[INAUDIBLE]?
Well, I only have two choices.
I guess this one.
All right.
Here you go.
All right, so everyone grabbed a pack.
This is what we call a gambler's grip, or a dealer's grip.
At a casino, this is actually a dealer's table.
You can try dealing the cards like that.
Go ahead, give it a shot.
All right, so we can shuffle the cards like this.
And then you can deal and shuffle,
deal whenever you want.
But make sure you're dealing in a nice little pile.
You can even deal multiple cards like four or five cards,
or even all your cards if you're lazy like me.
And then, done.
Oh, wow.
Very good.
Oh, we just shuffle?
Yeah.
And then deal.
You can take your time.
It's OK.
All right, grab your-- yeah.
OK, grab your cards.
Grab your cards.
Like it matters.
All right.
Now, you guys play poker, right?
Yes.
Sure.
Yeah.
In poker we burn the top card.
Go ahead and burn the top card right there.
Oops.
It's all right.
But in this game, you can burn as many top cards as you want.
Go ahead.
Don't throw all your cards, obviously,
but I'm going to stop here.
You're going to keep going if you want.
It's your choice, your life.
OK.
Oh!
Woops!
You did it to.
That's fine.
All right.
I have some left.
Count how many you have.
One, two--
Deal.
Deal down.
--three, four, five.
Yeah, go ahead and deal.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
All right, cool.
We all have a different amount of cards.
I would say we threw about half your cards here.
Would you say that, Ellen?
Oh, yes.
About 50%.
Mm-hm.
So for the first time, because they don't know your card,
what was your card?
Six of diamonds.
Six of diamonds?
You shuffled the packet.
I have no idea what your card is or where it was.
The chances of the six of diamonds being in here
is about 50%.
But what if I told you--
and by the way, you picked your pile.
I didn't force you in any way.
No, not at all.
You did not.
What if I told you that six of diamonds landed in your pile
somehow?
Would you be impressed?
I sure would.
Yeah.
That's like a 20% chance, right?
That's why we booked you.
Thank you.
What if I told you it was at the top of your pile?
Right now?
Right now, after you shuffled it.
Yeah, and especially because you told
me to stop when I wanted to stop throwing things in,
it'd be pretty impressive.
Lift up the top card.
No.
Oh my god.
[INAUDIBLE]
We're playing poker, right?
Poker is the best hand's a four-of-a-kind, that's what--
Right.
I have a six.
Nuh-uh.
And you're going to have a six as well.
Yep.
Wanda, lift up your top card.
OK, see?
See, this is why I don't like you.
This is why I don't like you.
Wow!