7 INCREDIBLE Live Magic Performances on America's Got Talent!

19, when I first developed carpal tunnel in both of my wrists. Eventually I had to quit playing the piano and take what used to be a hobby a little bit more seriously. And before I knew it, a new passion had ignited, just like that. See those dice over there? Grab onto it. Rolling. What do you see? Can you show it to the camera? Or you can hold onto them. You said nine, right? Out of those nines, which ones do you want? I want the nine of hearts. Nine of hearts. Using spray paint, I'm going to predict something about one of you judges right now. As you know, I love to join you at the table. Would that be okay? Howard, you can see that the cards are not only mixed up and shuffled, but more importantly, they're all different. Is that right? That is correct. Heidi, I want you to choose one of these at random, simply by pushing your finger into the deck as I riffle through. Are you ready? I'm ready. Anywhere you want. Right there, you sure? Is that the one you want? Yeah. Positive. You can change it if you like. No, I don't want to change my mind. Take it. Take it. That'll be for you. Don't show it to me, but look at it yourself, and please remember it and show it to everyone at home. Where is everyone at home? Remember that card. See, back on stage, my prediction is already locked in. No peeking. My question is, Heidi, do you have the two of diamonds? No, I don't. No, you don't have the two of diamonds right now. No, I don't. I don't. Hold on a second. Maybe I can fix this. Watch. Is that right? But hold on, my friend. See, here at Radio City Music Hall, there's really no room for mistakes. And my first guess was the two of diamonds. And I thought maybe you would have that one. But hold on. See, Howie, you didn't even choose a card. Is that right? No. Yes. I'm not part of this. But, Howie, one card chose you. What are you talking about? This is going to sound a little crazy. Already does. Obviously, I couldn't have touched you. Please stand. No. Stand. Really? Howie, reach into your left back pocket right now. Tell us what you find. Hold it up. The two of diamonds. Thank you so much. Amazing. Yes. Thank you. All right. Here's what I wanted to do. We're going to do a trick with the twos because I love them. You have a Sharpie in front of you. I want you each to sign the twos. Go ahead and write your name on there, and it's a great way to get an autograph. Ha. Simon, if you do me a favor, I want you to write the name of somebody that meant a lot to you in your life. It could be a nickname. It could be a person. It doesn't matter. But somebody that was important to you. Yeah, yeah. On that card. Yep. All right. Howie, we got your two. Yep. Mel B, we got yours. Heidi, we got yours. And Simon, we can all see it. Yeah. It's okay. I've seen this trick. Ha ha. You wrote the name Eric. Who is Eric? Myself. I love this. Remember that. Okay. Today, I wanted to take an opportunity to tell America what magic has meant to me. Magic saved my life, and there have been plenty of times where I was lost, and I didn't have the answers, and I didn't know where to go. So what I did is I turned to magic, and it helped me find myself. It simply taught me don't hate, don't blame, and forgive. And with that, I think we can all find ourselves. Don't hate. Imagine if we take all the hate out of our lives. Howie, I believe we will find ourselves. Mel B, may we all take the blame out and fill our hearts with love. And I believe we will find ourselves. Heidi, I've had a lot of things happen in my life, and forgiveness has given me the most beautiful thing in the world, and that's happiness. May we all forgive a little more, and we will find ourselves. Diamond, we're going to shuffle these cards face up and face down. And if you think about it, this right here, this is life, when everything is going so perfect, and yet tragedy and chaos, they strike us when we least expect it. And it's what we all have in common. We all face this. But I think the difference is do we decide, and do we choose to live in vision, or do we live in circumstance? And I don't know about you guys, but I wake up every single morning, and I choose to live in vision, to find happiness, knowing that life will work its way out. And we will find ourselves. Thank you. I tell you what, every one of us can relate to this. When life just kicks us when we're down, and those moments that life just decides to bury us. But if we stick together, and we believe in one another, we will rise to the top. And ladies and gentlemen, that is how we will never lose ourselves. A minute ago, a minute ago I told you guys that magic saved my life. The magic's not in these hands, not in these cards. It's in every one of us. It's in our breath. It's in our touch. It's in our words. It's what we think about this world, and what we think about each other. And Simon, I had you write the name Eric. And I thought I'd make a little to-do list for you. Every night, may the magic forever live in your home. Grab your son, and tell Eric you love him. And cross that off your list every single night. And ladies and gentlemen, may this world be magic. I love you. This has been one of the greatest opportunities of my life. I am John Dorenbos. Peace out, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening, America. Are you well? What a journey to get to this point in the competition. And I'm well aware, when America first saw me, you were all thinking, why does he look like the evil twin of Neil Patrick Harris? But we got past that, and you very quickly realized I knew things about people that I shouldn't be able to know. For example, Howie, put your thumbs straight up in front of you, please. Wiggle them slightly. And try not to think of your iPhone on lock code. 121484? I'm not going to tell you. Why would I tell you? We know I'm correct, Howie. That's cool, right? But you can change it later. But you know I can do that sort of stuff. Tonight, for the semi-final, I want to up the ante and do something quite literally with all of you. And this started a few weeks ago when I put out a message on the AGT Twitter account asking everyone to respond with a random celebrity, city, and object in one tweet. We got thousands and thousands of responses, so we printed them all out and we've given them to everyone here tonight in the theatre. And this evening, I risk my future in this competition on the fact I can correctly predict what the judges will choose here tonight. That city, celebrity, and object. And just so you appreciate how difficult it is, I've done the math for you. When you multiply all the cities by celebrities by objects, it's over 1 in 43 quadrillion. Specifically... that. You get the idea. It's freaking hard. But I will not be making any of the choices tonight. It's over to the judges. So everyone in the theatre, pick up your tweets, have a look, and just cheer if you can see all the tweets on your sheets are different. Perfect. And there are no duplicates, but it's crucial that everyone at home knows this as well. But again, I won't be making any decisions. The judges will. So, Howie and Simon, I'm going to give you ten seconds to run and grab the tweets from as many people in the audience as you would like. So, guys, your time starts now. Five more seconds, guys. And your time is up. As quickly as you can, please hand all of them to Mel. Hand them to Mel. Thank you, Mel. Mel, if you would just quickly look through them and just confirm that the tweets are all different. I know we've checked in the audience, but just have a look. You can see, and we're going to double-check in a second, but they look different, yes? Yes, they look different. And we will check in a moment. Turn them all face down for me and scatter them across the desk. Mel, you seem quite intuitive, so I'd love you to hand me, just hold your hand over, you give me the one that feels right to you. Which one do you feel we will use? This one right here? Heidi, would you please stand up for me? You're going to make the final choice here. You can see all the tweets are different. So like Chicago, Chandelier, but this tweet's different to this tweet, different to this tweet. Make sense? Heidi, you only get to choose one. As I move my fingers around slowly, you will say stop whenever you like. Make sure I stop where you say stop. So whenever you'd like, Heidi, you say stop. Stop. Right there. Would you please, it's on the left, would you please read those choices? Can you see? Ellen Rome Cheese. Ellen Rome Cheese, Ellen Rome Cheese. You can sit back down. Can you guys turn those over and just quickly see if that combination comes up anywhere else? Ellen Rome Cheese. If you still have your photos right now, can you also check in the audience? Just check and see. Yeah, let's get some right down here. Just double check. Can you see anywhere, Howie? Anywhere? I've got Simon Cowell, London Handsome. Okay, but it's... Oh, I have Zac Efron. Which is great, but it's not the tweet we're looking for. Ellen Rome Cheese. Audience, does anyone have that combination? No, no, no. It was just you, Heidi. Just you. Ellen Rome and Cheese. And even though I made this as random as I possibly could, that is the exact combination I wanted you to pick. So well done. Wait. I knew you'd never believe that, right? So before I even sent out that tweet, I filmed something. Because I knew exactly how America would respond and I knew exactly how the four of you would choose things this evening. So quite simply, watch this. Come on. Hi, America. Colin Cloud here. And on September 12th, 2017, I will make our judges choose from the quadrillions of possibilities Cheese, Rome, and Ellen. Of course, I'm sure me recording this on a video is not enough to convince you, so I'm going to go undercover through our judges' lives and leave proof. Let's see if they pay attention to it. I'll tell you something. I'm electrified. I can't wait to get to work. I want a judge. Hey, Heidi. We want to test your earpiece really quickly. Talk about going on the Ellen show. I'm doing Ellen on Monday. Perfect, Heidi. Thank you very much. Hey, man. What can I get for you? I'm going to go for the standard. And is that with cheese? Okay, I'll have cheese. I need to check your audio. Can you say Rome quickly, Mel? Say Rome. Rome. Rome one more time. Rome. And could you say hi to our friends, Ellen and Romeo? Yeah, Ellen, Romeo, why don't you call me anymore? Are you ready? And sound speed. But the reality is, none of you observed because even the numbers that have been on display this entire time clearly spell cheese, Rome, and Ellen. Thank you, judges. Thank you, America. Good night.