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Quarterfinals 4 Postgame | Season 21 | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• AGTCommenter: Welcome back to another postgame edition of the AGT Time Pod. First time main host, AGT commenter. I have never been the lead on this podcast. I've done a hundred and like almost eighty of these stupid podcasts, and I've been second chair for all of them. Cody's gone tonight, Jay's gone tonight. It's my pod. I'm here with our good friend Steven. Steven, it's good to see you. we've got quite the result to talk about tonight, but But how are ya, Stephen? Stephen: Doing well. we you said we got the results to talk about and wow. AGTCommenter: Yeah. It was it was something. It it it quarterfinals are wrapped and we have our twelve and then the four that are kind of sit in line and wait in the finals from the golden buzzers. But before I get anything crazy, I'm gonna do my best impression of Cody on the on the business stuff. so please reach out to us. You can find us on all of the social medias at AGT Time Pod. find us on our website, AGT timepod dot com. You can r email us at AGT timepod at gmail dot com. I'm out there on everything at AGT commenter. Steven, best place for everybody to find you. Stephen: Stephen reports on everything. AGTCommenter: Steven's reporting on everything as well. He's Steven reports on everything and he reports on everything. That that is make that your tagline. That's not bad. But no, this is this was a shot so this was a weird night. So here we are, Steve and I this is t it's twenty after ten o'clock central time PM. PM right now. We are burning the the midnight tequila, as Michael Scott would say. It it's late, and this was a three hour marathon. Not the first time we've had a three hour marathon. Usually it's been the f that dumb second or that dumb finale night where they do two hours of build up and stuff. This was this was three hour I c really only took a break, Steven, from the end of the performances for about twenty minutes, but then O's came on the screen. And he and O's did a guest performance and I ain't looking away for O's. So this was this was just a lot to take in and and and then there's gonna be a lot of questions about how did these results not from nefarious things, but just did the shortened time to vote, like the quick turnaround, five minutes after Jesse Joe and the ninety six sixers wrapped, voting closed. So it was It was tight. In your mind, I want to just start with that, regardless of how the results went, even prior to the episode, was that something that you think about you look and go, This might make results weird, or is it just people are gonna vote how they vote even if they run out of? Stephen: Yeah, so I mean I watch a lot of international TV, so from AGTCommenter: Yes. Stephen: BGT and Big Brother UK and all these other ones. And this is how it works overseas. They have a certain window to vote. you do your voting in that window and the results are what the results are. However, we're not cus as you alluded to, we're not accustomed to that here. We've we've we've this is the first time we've ever done it this way. And I don't like it. But I mean I I AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: I'm not a fan of it. I I do believe if you're going last you are a greater risk of probably going home. AGTCommenter: Right. Stephen: and the results kind of reflect that if if you look at AGTCommenter: Yep. Stephen: the results they were tonight. you're kind of screwed in that sense that you don't you don't get a really a good chance like someone who goes first second at a first block of that first hour, you're screwed in a sense. And so yeah, I I think this did definitely had an impact on the results. AGTCommenter: So it's interesting. So and we'll get into the the nitty gritty the results. But the first act of the night went through and then the last two didn't. Now the last two were the worst of the night by far. It was Akira and Jesse Joe. And and Jesse Joe's a a valued member of Team Cody and Commenter. We we Cody really wanted them wanted him and and his band on the team and and I had hopes for them. They s they were they were terrible. He can't sing. He's a horrific, horrific singer. It is what it is. The other two were spots let's see, spot seven and spot nine. So it it didn't end up being quite as skewed to the front as I I agreed that the initial premise. but I also think there's really only one act in the first half of the episode that didn't go through that I thought was good enough to, and it was Laura D. Ruben Rolden, who was not good, Cameron Logsden, who was not great. Burton Byron was good. And Tyrone and Margo were good. But of those first four, they took one of the first four, is what it is. But let's let's get a little bit into kind of how these results played out. So UniTree. Probably Unitree. Yeah. Our robot dancers are headed to the finals. So Sophia Pressed. The golden buzzer for the robots. This was the act that Cody was begging me to pick in the draft. I pushed him off like two rounds and we still still were able to grab him. They they get the buzzer. They were good. I I I'll say this. This is not something I'm excited for. I don't want to root for this type of act. To me, it's it's not it's not talent like we want it to be. We wanted to see the human talent. I get that you have to build it. I get that. They were good. It was an entertaining kind of they did like a martial arts karate type type dance thing. It was it was I wasn't shocked by the buzzer press. I had their score for this performance far higher than their audition. So I did like it. But they are a golden buzzer. does that name d like just hearing me say the robot dance groups in the finals, like that's gotta sound a little weird for you. Stephen: Yes. anything with robots at this point sounds a little weird for me. I mean it's it's I mean we've talked about this multiple times. I at at this point we've run out of stuff that we've never seen before. It it's been twenty-one AGTCommenter: Right. Stephen: seasons going on twenty-two and who knows however long after that. this is something I've never seen before. and I'm like you in the sense of I don't like it, but it's no and I'm and I'm not taking away from the town, as you said, it takes to build it, to control it. That's all cool. I I like that. I mean I w I graduated from a technology school, so I I get AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen: it. But with that same vein I think of if I go to Vegas, would I watch this for an hour? Probably not. So I AGTCommenter: Right. Stephen: it. AGTCommenter: Yeah, and and I think you're hitting a good point. Like I've said it for a couple of years now, we've just seen it all, and that's part of the problem why the show just kind of wears on you a little bit. This was sort of inevitable. I i every part of society is adding technology and robots to it and and there's gonna be we're starred for new things and this might be kind of the next new thing, but good on them. They they did put together a fun performance. I thought it went well. Mel did did verif Mel did verify. That the robots were not humans. And that was that was probably the low moment of the night. I think you would probably agree. That they you could see you couldn't see the robot bodies, obviously, because they had like clothes on them tonight. But they're the robot faces aren't even faces. You you could argue she thought maybe they were a helmet, but they're they're like the size of like a baseball. The heads. So even to the point where you could be like, Are they humans dressed as robots? They would have P heads. Like I don't know how she could have. It led me to tweet, wow, she's just really dumb. And I like I actually like Mel. I'm a Mel defender, but that was one of the stupider questions, maybe in television history. so shout out Mel. So, Uni tree is in Uni Trees in the finals with Nene, Hundred Fingers, and Le Noel. So that's our four. That are waiting there. We're three short in the semis at this point. So results night. Oce Perlman is back. Steven Hall of Famer. Like sixth on my all-time leaderboard. This has been a gripe that I've had. Cody's had. I our friend Jacob has talked about it. They don't use enough alums in these results episodes to fill the slots. They like to bring on these C list singers and things like that. Is that something for are you a fan when they actually they call the alums back and be like, We need te we need eight minutes. Let's give it to the people that have filled eight minutes on this show before. Stephen: Well, considering the fact I've said who to some of these past acts in the last few weeks, yes, I'm AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: always happy to see O's. Anytime I see O's, I'm happy. And I know you are as well. I will say, and I and I told Jacob this when I was on his sh on his podcast, I I I love Darcy Lynn. No problem with her, amazing winner. She's a singer now. So I mean AGTCommenter: Sure. Stephen: i it it I but again, I I'm I wanna see other people. O's is one of those people I would love to see again. Matt Franco again, like those type of acts again for sure. So yes, love having alums versus singers. I have to ask who in Google who they are because I've never heard of them. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it was great to see him. You can see the difference. Just there's levels to this talent thing. And and you know, we had Young and Strange was the only magic act. and it they're not trying to be O's by any means, but I I'm trying to think who was the couple, huh no. James and Marina. I think they were mind to mind in the past. They were mentalists, and obviously O's is solo, but like you can just put the t pop those two tapes in what he did tonight and and this wasn't like his a he didn't walk out there and throw his fastball all night. He'd you know he put on a corporate performance for eight minutes, but just the way he commands a room and a crowd compared to those two trying to do it and you can just kind of see this is why he's you know wins Emmys and is I think he said he's got a T V special coming out this in at the end of the year here, which will be cool. So great to see him. Some country singer, I didn't even write his name down again. Kind of leading to that C List celebrity thing that this just give us we couldn't have we couldn't have gotten like one of our famous recording artists from the sh we couldn't couldn't have found an old singer to to fill some time. Drake Milligan was busy. not that I'm a huge Drake Milligan fan, but I can't imagine he's busy either. Broken Roots wasn't available. Our friends, Chapel Heart, couldn't couldn't get them on the horn. We had who was last week? It was Steve Ray. Steve Ray Ladson. So we've done it. So but we need a top five. I did not write down, like our good friend Cody does, what order they announced the top five. and I know who was in it, and I know who wasn't. And I'm gonna try and recall my best as we go here. But we had our top five. I'm I'm gonna remember the first one. I know I'm going to. It was Cameron Logsden and it was Young and Strange. That was our first pairing. Young and Strange is headed through. That is a point for the Bach brothers. It was a guaranteed point because Cameron Logsden was also on their team. They had six eleven tonight, so it was setting up for them to score some points tonight, which they did. Young and Strange is in the top five. Did that result surprise you at all? Stephen: No, no, not at all. I mean, they're they're a good act and that's not sur well also considering who they're going up against the rest of the evening, no, it's not surprising. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I agree. I a and I've talked about my hopes for them always was is can they become the magic version of the passing zone? That kind of two buddies that are have great banter are funny, and I thought they were funny tonight. They felt nervous, but I was like they're certainly I think I had them ranked fifth on the night. Right around their one. Two, three, four, maybe six, but I thought they were right in it. I thought they put on a good performance. So Young and Strange is in our top five. This isn't in order, but I remember this matchup, it was Ruben Rolden, so our golden buzzer. Simons, other golden buzzer, and Travis Garland, our dancing with the stars singer. and Travis Garland is headed from Team I thirty five, from Steven and Ryan. That result, it's always a surprise when a golden buzzer goes home. It's even more surprising when a golden buzzer doesn't even make a top five and s and score a point. Were you surprised that Ruben went home? Was there any surprise there? It wasn't great, but it's still a golden buzzer. Stephen: Yeah, 'cause Golden Buzzers automatically get more popularity regardless of what they do. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen: but then again we saw Mackenzie Sol go home. He got El's Golden Buzzer. Selfishly I I need a point and to to not be last on our draft and AGTCommenter: Yep. Stephen: and luckily I I I we I still have what three acts now, four in in the in the still in the running. I mean at this point I'm just trying to chase as many as I can in the finale, so AGTCommenter: Yeah, and The the Golden Buzzer thing right now, so coming into this episode, six out of the eight that had performed had advanced in some capacity. Four of them advanced to semis, two were in the li in the finals on Golden Buzzers, double Golden Buzzers. We had two tonight. And and obviously Ruben w being one of them, he's gone. So that's the third of of nine. Laura Laura D is in this this episode too, is the other one. But through that point, just the third one of the of the season that had gone home. It was then yeah. Caesar Diaz, our our comic singer, and Tyrone and Margo, who put on one of the more fascinating danger act performances that I've ever seen. And and I'll say this. Yes, they're on our team. We took them with our second to last pick. We clearly were not confident in them. They were incredible tonight. I I I don't like danger. It's not for me. I don't really find they're very deadly games. I don't care for it a all that much. This is not a Homer thing. They were great. I would they overperformed probably the most of anybody in live shows. She was They finished. They put her, they attach she was doing like an aerial act. She was spinning and shooting arrows at him laying on the ground popping balloons. It was unbelievable. It was one of the great it was it was amazing. It was really amazing. And they lost they get sent home for this guy who Is not very good. So here's my thing with Caesar Diaz. I've talked about this with Cody in the past. That I I have been starving for a comedic singer for years. I love Bo Burnham. Bo Burnham to me is a hilarious individual. This somebody that can take music and comedy and put together. I love funny things and I love music. Can can can a Bo Burnham type this is not bad. It's f there's some funny moments, like there's some things. It There's a hilarity to like he's it's going so poorly and like he's still trying to sing in the microphone. there's moments where I'm like, that that's fine. I want him to like write a comedy song and perform it. That's what I want in a comedic singer. This is not that. This is a clown how he hit it right on the head. It's a clown act. He does things that w a clown would do. A clown would sing and be a buffoon and trip and fall and saw his finger with the saw on accident and hit himself in the face. But he was that was the shock of the night. Up to that point, because it gets more shocking with Caesar Diaz in a minute, but he went high in our draft, and I was stunned. I think we all kind of were stunned that they took him as high as they did. Two does to the Bach brothers. What did they take? They took him with their fourth pick. He went twelfth overall, and I thought it was a waste. I think I think all of us probably did. I didn't see it, and it it worked. Your thoughts on on his knocking out of Tyrone and Margot. Stephen: I mean you're being very kind. I'll just be blunt and say it. He sucks. Okay, I'll I'll I'll be blunt. He sucks. It's awful. as you know I've watched the seasons or I'll watch the shows in season one. that's AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen: twenty one seasons in case for those who are counting. probably the most shocked I've been in twenty-one seasons. It is AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Stephen: it's appalling the fact that he's even this close to the finals. AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah. So I'll say this. He's not the first of his kind, right? We've seen these kind of stupid slapstick ideas singing, doing, you know, people that are pr trying to be funny and singing. The problem i I shouldn't say the problem. The difference with him that I will grant he has a really nice singing voice. Like a a beautiful like he would be a very good, like honest to God singer. He has a lovely voice. The song he sang I've it's escaping me. what he's saying, I it was a famous song. Sounded really good. I'm not saying that I want him to just stand up there and be a singer. The the the silliness, the goofiness just isn't for me. It clearly is for some people. But the one thing he has that most of the Caesar Diazes that have come before him didn't have, he can really sing and I think that's might be what's resonating. But he is into the top five, so kudos to him. We then had Jesse Joe in the ninety sixers versus Laura D. This was a a battle of a very bad singer versus a very good singer. and so the result was pretty clear. This was this was friendly fire for Cody and Commenter, both on our team. Laura D, our golden buzzer, the second overall pick in the draft, is headed to the top five. I'm assuming no surprise on Laura D over Jesse. Stephen: I decided when we did whenever we did the draft. I was hoping y'all weren't gonna pick her so that I can ha come back around and get her or s myself, but she is a good act. I listened to her audition multiple times, because that's how good she is. So no, not surprising. AGTCommenter: No. Okay. and then so Young and Strange, Laura D, Caesar. Did we talk about Travis Garland being through? Yeah. Last one was. Burton Byron. So Burton Byron and I believe it was Akira. Yes. Burton Byron and Akira. Akira are what's the name for this? I know it's like a novelty act. Isn't it like Yeah, there's yeah, the naked guy. Stephen: Naked guy AGTCommenter: He did he did it. Same, same thing, rinse and repeat. He, I'll say this, good at it. Whatever that is, he can do it. There's no question about it. He is he might be the best in the world. it's horrible, and really, really un un unenjoyable to watch. But Burton Byron The most confusing s musical act of the season for me. I l I've I've really liked them all all season. I I think his voice is really good, really unique. He just has like no confidence. I believe it's Bird is the singer. Byron is the is the guitar player. My issue tonight with their performance, I felt like the guitar was far too electric for what the rest of the song was trying to portray, but other than that, his voice is fun. He was better. Like the first two times we see him, like he can't like open his eyes and he's like collapsing on the floor. That wasn't the case tonight. I thought he put on a nice performance. They were obviously going through. Are you glad to see the end of the road for Akira? Somehow we got three Akira performances this year. Almost more than anybody to this point. Stephen: the back of him and not that back of him and saying he thing about the door. and AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: Cody tweeted this. I was like, imagine being in the audience and and and w what what do they see that we didn't see on TV? I'm like, I don't think I want to know the answer to that question because yeah. AGTCommenter: yeah. I've never understood the the the physics of it and the geometry and the angles. Somebody's seeing something. I just know it. So good riddance to Akira. Seems like a Stephen: I don't hold AGTCommenter: nice guy. it seems like a nice a nice guy. But all right. So that's our top that's our top five of the night. Young and Strange, Laura D. Burden Byron, Cesar Diaz, and Travis Garland. Obviously UD Tree all the way through already. Then we get to the three that are through and and You mentioned it was a shocking result. The the one of the most shocking what you're really referring to is what's about to happen. The first of the three that went through was Cesar Diaz. He's through. It's two more points for the Bach brothers. I was I was really surprised. I I was. I I we've been doing this long enough. You said you've been watching it for twenty one years. I've been and you've been a part of this pod now for a long time helping us out. I've been a part of it. This is like the seventh season that I've appeared on this podcast. I've tracked this stuff. Very few results really shock me. I can always kinda get there and be like, I I I'm never I've never been like too self important to myself to be like, how could anybody think anything different than what I thought was gonna happen? I think that's ridiculous. Like, there's so many people floating for this. There's gonna be people that don't that like the axe that I don't and vice versa. This one did surprise me. America doesn't surprise me very often. But and again, there is talent in there. It's not it did Akira would have been far more surprising than Caesar Diaz. But this was this was just I thought there was better acts on the night. That didn't go through in in a in a real large way. But how excit let's do this. We already talked about a little bit, so let's do it just a small different comment. Are you excited to see him again next week? No. I I kudos to him. and and this was the one result that started making me go, Hey, does this whole doing results the same night is this like a a glitch? I don't think it is. I just don't think I think the majority of votes we didn't get West Coast viewers But I'm confident West Coast people are voting before the performances anyways, just like there's East Coast and Central Time and Mountaintime viewers that are voting before the performances ever happen. I go on and just put my ten in for the acts that are on my team and call it a night before the performances even start. So I ain't the only and I ain't the only one doing that. But I would guess, and would love to know the metric from this from AGT seventy five percent of all votes are cast by five minutes after the episode ends. Stephen: Honestly don't know. I mean it's it's a weird No. AGTCommenter: Like I I don't think that would be a crazy statistic. Like so I think most people are casting them during the episode or by the time the episode ends. I don't think there's anybody I I think there's very few people that watch all eleven Yeah, eleven. All yeah, all eleven performances tonight and then be like, Okay, that's done. Now let me go vote. They go and they vote before the episode like right when the episode starts, as soon as the act they like performs, you know, all of those things. So But congrats to Caesar Diaz. So he's the first one of the night into the semifinals. Two points for the box. Next up Stephen: Bar is lower. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Next up is into the semis is Young and Strange, our magic act. I was I was pleased with this. I I I would have obviously one of our acts, our first pick, was still standing up there, but I I'm happy that this act is continuing on. I still think there's a lot of potential there. I haven't think they've I don't think they've reached it. completely yet, but I'm sure you're fine with this with this result. Young and Strange is just kind of a fun act. Stephen: Yeah, it's a good act. I really enjoy it. I think that one thing I will say with them is and I and I've said this before, I don't want to get too sane, like do the same thing over AGTCommenter: Sure. Stephen: and over. And so far they haven't. They've actually done AGTCommenter: Right. Stephen: really, really well. And this is the one act I will say everybody from this evening, which is Tuesday. Best act of the night, in my opinion. based on best act that best act overall of the evening, I would say apart from the aerial act, those are my top two. AGTCommenter: Sure, yeah. Stephen: you can put a Korra below everybody who's ever performed. But I mean, yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. yeah. No, I I think I think I'm interested to see how they do i in the in the twelve person semi. But one spot left. Lar D standing up there, Burton Byron standing up there, and Travis Garland standing up there. When you're looking at those three, three singing acts, so we're guaranteed one more singing act at least. Who where was your gut like when you see the three? Did you have a lean not on who you wanted but who you thought when you hear those three names? Stephen: So I will say again, taking the art draft out of it, Travis Garland, I would say he's not a bad singer, but there's something about it I just don't click with. So either the other two would have done it for me. AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah. I went on TikTok because they're doing the TikTok voting and I just kinda took a quick swipe through. I think he is getting a lot of help from his Dancing with the Stars friends. Der Derek Huff was in the comments voting. And then I think Dancing with the Stars fans are fans of his. And I and I'm not saying that that that it's unfair. Good good on him. He he's got a follow up good on them going and voting. I think that's gonna change as soon as the show starts, which is next week. Dancing with the Stars is the same night. as semifinals next week, the premiere. the premiere and semifinals performance and semi final there is a two night Tuesday Wednesday premiere for Dancing with the Stars and there is a two night semifinal and results Tuesday Wednesday for AGT. So I I'm not predicting his demise by any means, but I my gut tells me that the fans that maybe are helping him in this round are might not be as reliable next week due to their own show actually being on. Because I don't think they tune in to Dancing with the Stars for Travis Garland. I think that just they find it cool and that I think it is cool. I would also if an AGT like if like a very famous A G T person was on a different show, I probably would, you know, hey, go that person. So He is going to but when I went on TikTok, his name and Burton Byron's name, but tick his name was really in the comments quite a bit. It was only 7,000 comments, so it's minuscule amount of votes, but there clearly is some love for him. He is the one going through. I was surprised just because of the Golden Buzzer singer that did well online. I thought put on an awesome performance. I had her as the s I think I had her as the best yeah, had her as the best of the night. I I thought she sounded really, really great. I thought he sounded really great. I thought they both put on I thought she was a little bit better her style I preferred a little bit. I didn't love the song he picked either, but congrats to him. Dancing with the Stars is gonna need a a a fill in for at least one more week, or for at least their first week. and then maybe even the the following week if he's able to make the finals. But I'm sure you're happy. This was an important get for you guys, cause without him you'd have three total left in the competition period. so at least he got one more To help out. I'm sure that was helpful for you. Stephen: Yeah, I mean like I said, I mean at this point y you and Cody got this thing wrapped up barring some type of miracle. pretty much think every act could get eliminated from your team and I would still lose. But I mean it's pretty much over on b at this point, but I mean, yeah, for just for funsies, yeah, I I think it's it's good to have in there. AGTCommenter: Yeah, so we'll just we'll take a quick look at that right now and and we'll talk Cody and I'm sure we'll talk about it again. Stephen: yeah. AGTCommenter: So your point on so we're up by ten. So we have twenty seven, Jay and Scott have seventeen, you guys have sixteen. We went in the night with a nine point lead over you guys, we left with a ten point lead over the Bach Brothers. So we gained a point with our second golden buzzer. Cody and I have two acts in the finals and six in the semis right now. So we have eight remaining. and then both you you and Ryan and and the Bach brothers each have three in the semis, one already in the final. So certainly odds are are very much weighted towards us currently just because it's just a math problem. At the same time, I think the winner is on their team, so I think they have ten points just sitting in the finals already, with Nene already there. And we're not guaranteed points. We could ease we could go 0 for six in the semis. It's not an impossibility. and I talked about it before we hopped on. I only really love probably probably easiest for me to use that. One of our acts. I think Veronica's really good and I think she should be I think I have her as the best ta the best talent of the season. I think she should be in the finals. I think the dog act, the canine crew's got a good chance. But other than that, I'm like, come here, I like Luke Tolino, I could do without Cameron Marshall, I think is not very great and and Beefus is the worse of the two dog acts, so I don't know if they're gonna take two dog acts to the finals. So I'm confident 'cause a ten point lead is not nothing. I do think hundred fingers is gonna finish really high. I feel really good about them. but at the same time I've I there's a very good chance we s we get one through and then a a f a runner up and bottom five and two bottom fives and we end with thirty seven points and it's not enough to get it done. So I I I I'm not counting I'm not fitting my myself for the ring quite yet, for the championship ring, but Obviously if you're wanting to be anybody in our fantasy league, you'd obviously want to be us right now, but that could change on a dime in next week if we go over Stephen: Yeah, that's true. AGTCommenter: six. Then we're just sitting there with two and you guys in the finals and you guys have each have four in the finals. So that's the points to be had are all in the finals. Ten, eight, six, four, and two are in the finals. That's the points. Next week is what it is. It's just an I a chance to give you a chance to get bigger points in the finals. So But it's been Stephen: Does it say though this season that you y y you and Cody, me and Ryan and then the Fach brothers are all just like, we really don't like a lot of people on our teams. Like this is like this is not this is one of the more mediocre seasons, I think, in a while. AGTCommenter: It is. I I think it's super run of the mill. and it's a shocking singing season. It's terrible. It's the worst singing season I think that I can remember. d that said, the winner's probably gonna be a singer. But here's your s here's your sixteen that are still in the competition. let me just pull it up on this sheet instead. Here's the sixteen. I will do it in alphabetical order. Not to get not to skew anything. Oops. I won't do it in alphabetical order. I will do it in the order I have it. Veronica. Nene Royal. Hundred fingers. Royal Lasers. Come here. Leigh Noel, Geno Plager, Travis Garland, Young and Strange, Cameron Marshall, Acro Canine Crew, Daniel Avarez, Unitr Unitree, Caesar Diaz, Luke Tolino, and Beefus. Of that 16, true singers. I'm gonna exclude Diaz because he's not trying to sing to us. He's trying to he's trying to make us laugh. Nane? Lay Noel, Travis Garland That's it. Tolino's a rapper. If you want to throw him in that group. Stephen: And then a good one at that. AGTCommenter: That's three. Okay. It it's it's almost clockwork that for twenty one twenty seasons up to this point, half your final is gonna be singers. Now, part of that is because last season was seven and there's other seasons where there was two. But you're usually expecting if it's a ten person final, somewhere between four and six, one way or the other, is gonna be singers. Right now we have two in there. We o we can only get three at the most. So we can't even get to the the the average. So it's It's already and the singers are just getting just decimated because there was plenty of them to start with. And it was part of our draft strategy was thirty-three percent of of finalists all time ever have been just solo singers. A third of every finalist of all twenty seasons. A third. One out of every three. Pure grab the microphone, solo singer. No help nowhere. So like that was just a a a a strategy and and then the Golden Buzzers ultimately now. Forty percent didn't advance, which is kind of shocking. It's usually an eighty five plus percent proposition that a that a golden buzzer's advancing at least once. So that was also kind of interesting. But are you surprised it feels like the America almost has rejected the singers. Stephen: Yeah. so first of all, Luke, I think he's there based on his story versus AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen: his actual talent. We've seen this America Loves Sob stories. We've made the joke on the pod multiple times. I think that's more what it is for him. But AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen: I do agree. I think America is starting to reject the singer. I've seen comments more and more on Reddit, on TikTok. I've seen people talk about it. Why we have singers on America's Out Talent when there are there's the voice, there's Idol, there's other singing shows that you can go on. But I shoot back and I say singing is a talent, whether you like it or not you may not like it on the on America.tell, but singing is a talent, whether you like it or not. So it's gonna remain. So and I think America's making the voice heard so well if it's gonna remain we're not gonna vote through. AGTCommenter: You're right. the no say and and this this is not even a new th Reddit hate singers. America seems to be rejecting singers this season, and yet we're probably about to crown our third consecutive solo singer as winner. Good all one nineteen Sanchez last year and and Nene looks like she's gonna she's gonna win again this year. And if she does it, I wouldn't be shocked if it's Lay Noel. Say it again. Stephen: Is it is it more the thing is it more the singing or is it more of her guitar playing? What do you think? AGTCommenter: I I think there's both are important for her, but at the end of the day she still is a cover artist. She is singing somebody else's song. Yes, she's playing the guitar, Goodall didn't do that, Sanchez didn't do that. But at the end of the day, she's not a band. She's not a she's a solo singer. She sings by herself with accompaniment, just like the rest of the solo singers, but it's not Nene Royal and the ninety sixers. So like it's this is the that's what it is. I feel like, and I'm interested in your thoughts on this, and we'll we'll wrap up here in a minute. Is this a Nene Royal byproduct that America's just like we've got our singer. We we're not interested in the rest of the singers 'cause no one she's so far ahead in America's eyes of everybody else, especially singers, that they're just like it's kinda how Shin Lim ruined card magic for us. Has she ruined singing for this season, where everybody's just like Let's just give the let's give the the goofy comedic clown a a shot instead. Is that maybe what's happening too, or is it just a bad singing season? Stephen: I think it's a combination of both. I think it's a bad sing season. It's just a bad season overall. I mean, at least last year we knew Jessica was gonna win the moment the moment she stepped on that stage. We knew the year AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen: before that it was gonna be his name escapes him right now, but you the janitor, can't think of his name. You know how I'm thinking. AGTCommenter: Richard Goodall, yeah. Stephen: Yeah. So we we knew those two were happening. When we did our our our pie our draft, I told you before we started recording, I can't call the winner. And that was Four and A went viral. She's gonna win. And is it because of her talent? Probably. In a mediocre season. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Stephen: But when Howie said NBC, give her the million right now, that wrapped it up. She she was she was AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: winning right there. So it's over. We're basically gonna sit here for the next few weeks just waiting for her to be crowned the winner. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah, it it feels that way. And a lot of stuff can happen. For all we know, she could withdraw. People withdraw all the time from the show. Doubt it. Not rooting for it. I like her. It's not my style of music, it's why I don't have her. I think people be surprised I don't have her one. I think Veronica's more talented part of it is I just enjoy I don't enjoy rock music that much. I have her as my second best. I'm guessing there's a very good chance on fini on finals night she'll pass Veronica and be the the best act of the season. I think she's really, really great and I think she's really fun. But yeah, no, I mean it it it feels like we're headed towards a third consecutive uneventful finals results tonight 'cause we have a pretty good sense of what's going to happen. She's defying odds too. Non golden buzzer solo singer to win a sh win the show has never happened. that would be a first. it's just Shin Lim, Dustin Tovella and Adrian Hurricane are the only three non golden buzzers she obviously has one now, but not counting live show ones. The only three non golden buzzers to win the show in that era. So she's already defying some odds to begin with. So Stephen: Yeah. I blocked out Dustin Devella's wind. AGTCommenter: Yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean he's it's him sh him and Shin Lim. Same same breath. It's amazing. His win was was some I mean it was because Nightbird withdrew. Nightbird would have won the show that season. It was that's what it was. But alright, let's wrap up here with a few last thoughts. I want to read you the twelve names next week and I just want you I'll I'll read them slowly and I want you to count as I go how many you're excited to see perform. I'm just interested in this thought exercise. Let's do it. Let's start young and strange. Don't you have to respond, just count and then tell me your number at the end. Cameron Marshall. Canine crew. Acro canine crew. Daniel Alvarez. Veronica. Royal Lasers. Come here. Caesar Diaz, Luke Tolino, Beefus, Gino, and Travis Garland. That's the twelve next week. Four. Let me do my quick one, two, three, four. I would say I could be pushed to six. So I'll throw my six that I think I'm I think that are gonna put on a good performance that I'm excited to see. Veronica, Royal Lasers, come here, Gino, who I thought was awesome last round. I didn't think he was going to be, and he ended up being, and he might be listening. He's a listener of the show, by the way. He messaged us about our comments. So in not in a bad way. He did some exclamations. Great. Shout out Gino, if you're listening. Garland, I think, is a good enough singer that so there's part of it is I'm not super interested in seeing him do really go really far in the show. I think he has a great voice, and so I just know it's gonna at least be three minutes that it's not gonna be like, my god, what's happening? You know what I mean? Where I'm like, I'm gonna like it 'cause he's probably gonna sing a popular song that I can do this to and be happy. to go with. But I'm excited for him 'cause I think he's got a good voice. And then Young and Strange. That would be my sixth. Year four were who? Veronica. Royal Lasers. Gino? And Young and Strange. Okay. So Garland Garland's not you're not super excited for f by the sounds of it. I'll s this is the last thing I'll say on that whole thing. Back to the singer conversation of why I do think they matter massively to this show. That's the point. They have the least bomb rate, the the least chance to just suck of any talent. Right? Cause most likely I I am, because Stephen: You sure about that? AGTCommenter: the Especially as they get voted through. Cause what's probably gonna happen? They're just gonna pick a popular song, sing it, they're good enough to just stay on tune and sound fine. I'm not gonna sit there and cringe my way through like I might there's a chance that Cameron Marshall or like one of these magicians fumbles the cards. Then what? Like it's a disaster like the chances of disaster are so much higher with the non-singers. And and I made this point to Cody in our season thirteen rewatch. I was like, the singer at the v is just this act that you can just put in at any point in the show just to kind of bring us back to neutral. At the very least, I can just throw Travis Garland in seventh out of twelve. And if things are a little wonky, s five or six performances in, he can just sing a nice song, everybody can catch their breath. I think it's important to to putting together a good live show. So, but yeah, I agree. The fact that at most it's half I think this is a really bad semi. Really bad. Stephen: yeah, I mean it w it's it's Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a reflection of the season. It's not been great. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: and to your point, Tomba Singer's bombing, I can think of three of it or technically two of them were were brothers, but you know who I'm talking about. our are Bruno Mars twins wannabe AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: bombed completely bad. And also the one who I was shocked at, Ashford Sanders did really bad in in his performance AGTCommenter: Yep. Stephen: as well. So it's rare, but they can bomb. AGTCommenter: Right. And usually it happens now. And now we're into a new round and we've weeded out the ones that c are gonna bomb live and now we know that Travis Garland can perform live. We know that who is the other one? the other two are in the he's the only one. The other two are in the finals. So I'm confident that he is going to not bomb. I may like it. I may not. I may love it. I don't know. But yeah, okay. I want to check my notes and make sure we're not missing anything. congrats to Unit Unitry on the Golden Buzzer, and then congrats to Travis Garland, Young and Strange. and Caesar Diaz on the advancement to the semis. Next week we'll grab six more to throw in to our top ten. and go from there. Any parting thoughts you have, Steven? did Groot want us to do a quick check in on on callbacks? So I'm just gonna do this quick. We don't need to dive too deep into this, but I do have it in front of me. is our last thing. So Cody and I talked about this yesterday when we recorded our pregame show. 12 had performed that were there. because we sent how many through again? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Yeah, 12 of the 15 had performed. Eight had gone home, four had gone through. So a third, which those should be a third, you know, the lower third of the live shows. So last or tonight was Travis Garland, Akira, and Who was the other one? Burton Byron. So a third of them went through again. So one out of three. So five out of ten. Does that exactly 33%? Does that surprise you in any way, or is that be like, yeah, a third of them probably are good enough to keep going on and two-thirds aren't? Stephen: Not surprising. I honestly thought it'd be lower, to be quite honest with you. just to be frank. and let's be real, these are judges' houses. Have you ever watched the X Factor? These are Judges' houses. This is what they this is AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stephen: what it was on the X Factor, it's what it's gonna be when the X Factor returns to the UK at some point. it doesn't work for H E T. I I don't think it's worth it. I I I mean, like I said, I've I've been here on this podcast. how many times how many times have ever told you a board? Very rarely have I AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: ever seen those words. I was bored during the whole round. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: So it's it's bad. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. So the five were Daniel Alvarez and Nene from Howie. and then we had Travis Garland from Simon and then we had Beefus and Cameron Marsh Marshall from Sophia, Olivia Beefus, the dog trainer. so those are the five that went through. So but we've got our twelve next week. Any parting thoughts on quarterfinals four results? Anything else you want to add before I wrap us up here? Stephen: Shock Caesar Diaz made it. Not AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: like avoided seeing him next week. But the research AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: not to get naked. AGTCommenter: So yes, at least we're done with that. Stephen: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I think Travis Garland, if I had to guess, will be the closer next week, just to if I am looking at the list. There's no golden buzzer anymore, so they don't have to worry about the problem I mentioned this in the past, th this golden buzzer has messed up how they structure a live show. They're putting bad acts at the end of the episode. So we're closing Stephen: I completely agree. AGTCommenter: we're closing on a whimper instead of on a bang. Like we're supposed to go out with a with a bang and we're putting all the best acts somewhere between acts five through nine, basically. Stephen: I agree and one last thing I'll say is it was great to see Heidi back. AGTCommenter: She did a great job. Stephen: she did a great job, she's been away for a couple of seasons. Would love to see her back next season as a full time judge. as AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen: great as as much as I love Mel, I think her I don't get it has worn out its welcome this season. and I think love to see Heidi back to replace her. If not, Sophia can also hit the road and and bring back the Mel Heidi dynamic. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I would sub Sophia personally. I'm a little bit of a a sucker for that golden era when it was the four those four down there when it was Howie Sof Howie, Mel, Heidi and Simon. So that's probably part of it. But but all right. also last thing, shout out Terry Cruz. They did like an NFL highlight reel of Terry's time in the NFL at the beginning of the results. Dan Patrick topped on, which was very fun, but but Here's what's coming up. So tomorrow night Jay and Cody will be back to to recap this the all the performances that we skimmed over tonight. They'll do a great job with that. and then next week myself and and Cody for sure will be on the pregame show, potentially Ryan too. He might even bring along some analytics. We'll see. That's un undetermined to this point. And then we'll have a we'll have a semifinal and then next week's post game show is gonna be Cody and I to talk results as we head to the finals the following week. So keep a lookout for the the recap pod this week. dropping a day early so you'll get that on Thursday this week and then the pregame show will be out at the beginning of next week. So this was fun. Appreciate you hopping on here at the midnight hour. and we'll see. Hopefully we can fill up close to ten good acts in that in that final. We'll see how close we can get to ten, but I'll wrap up with you can find us on our socials at AGT Timepod. You can find us our website, AGT timepod dot com. email us AGT timepod at gmail dot com. I'm out there at AGT commenter, and Steven is out there at Steven Reports with a pH. Stephen: Steve. Yes, sir, Steve Reports. And don't forget I have a new a new podcast, Steven Anderson Unfiltered coming AGTCommenter: Yes. Stephen: in October. We'll reveal who my first guest is and the premiere date on finale night. AGTCommenter: Yeah, first guest. I actually got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is who we got first guest. Pretty impressive guest. Stephen: Yes. AGTCommenter: So everybody tune in. it's actually a a Cortez JD Vance double feature. So everybody check that out w when that drops our political Stephen: Yes. AGTCommenter: correspondence hot on the case. all right. Appreciate everybody listening. We we will see you next week.