-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.
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[ 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.
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-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.
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[ Laughter ]
-This is gonna be bizarre, dude.
[ Laughter ]
Don't even --
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-Whoa!
-Oh, my goodness.
[ Cheering and applause ]
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[ 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!
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