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Quarterfinals 2 Recap | Season 21 | America's Go Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Cody: Hey everyone, welcome to our quarterfinals two edition of AGT Time. Of course, I am always join joined by Mr. 200 himself, actually 201 now himself, J Bot. Jay: Episode two hundred one. And if this were a video podcast, you could see that I have stapled to my abs a picture of our first podcast together, Cody. Cody: Yes. we we as bad podcasters and bad friends did not congratulate you on hitting two hundred pods last week. Jay: Well, it here's the thing. I had no idea. I was completely in the dark. Like the it is not a statistic that I that I track. And in in the the beautiful things that you guys said on the podcast about me and about you know, reaching that milestone, commenter said that I I bring details that he would never think to bring. And that's how I feel about what he does. Like the the having a show Bible is not something that I'm interested in, right? Being being Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: the AGT pod historian just is not my thing. So we each have our lane and I think we all do a great job and at the end of the day it turns into something that's pretty neat. Cody: If it if it weren't for commenter, I wouldn't know how many we've hit. I I I would have no idea where we're at. So I just show up every week, this time of year, record three to four pods a week and and then you know, go from there. But yeah, congratulations, Jay. Two hundred pods, nothing to sneeze at. Jay: Well, thank you, thank you. It's it's been a lot of fun and I wouldn't do it if I wasn't having fun. Cody: Yeah, I know, I know. And and again, I I say I appreciate you 'cause you I I know you don't want this. You are the savior of the pod. 'Cause if it if you seriously, if you had not come along, this pod would have ended you know, in in in season thirteen. Eight eight years ago this would have ended. So Jay: Yeah. Well all that to say, like I I would not have the wherewithal to start a podcast on my own or to maintain a podcast without somebody like you alongside. So again, it is a a true team effort and all that you do every week, all that commenter does during the season and especially between the seasons and the other friends that we've picked up along the way it's it's it's pretty cool. So Cody: Yeah. Jay: so thank you for that, Cody. Cody: Yep. so if my audio listeners my audio sounds a little weird this pod, I am traveling today and I'm in I'm in Technoga visiting some family while we record this. I have not today had a chance to go visit the diner yet and see Madeline. Jay: But it's on your to-do. Cody: We'll see. We'll see if I can we'll see if I can get it in the itinerary 'cause I'm I'm only staying one night. So we'll see if I can get it in Jay: Okay. Cody: the itinerary when I leave on Friday. It's not promising, but we'll see. So Noah Jay: All right, all right. Well, enjoy your family time there. Cody: knowing my luck, Jay, she'll be off. So Jay: That's okay. All right. Well just as long as you get the the big cheese or whatever it w I don't Cody: The po the big porker, wouldn't it? Yeah. Jay: Big Porker. That sounds right. yeah, send me a picture, report back. We'll look forward to hearing if you have the opportunity. well Cody: Yeah, we'll get we'll get there at some point. Jay: speaking of Friends of the Pod, we didn't have any state fair talk last week, but I did have my annual check in with Bandalone and he's doing well. Cody: Good. Jay: a asked him about Eric Haynes, our one man band on the on the show this season. And he said, Yeah, he's a little bit more of a of a Razamatazz style. but he was he was very familiar with Eric and and his his music, so kind of Kind of a a small one man band world out there. Cody: Yeah, well good. so that's over with. We had w our fair is going strong right now. It'll end on Saturday. not as big as the Iowa State fair, but we're proud of it. Jay: Yeah, it Iowa State Fair set new attendance record this year. I'll say one point two million gated missions. So Cody: Whew, good for them. Holy cow. Golly. Jay: that's I mean over ten days. So there's only a hundred thousand there at a time, but Cody: Y you know, I think I'm gonna put the Iowa State Fair on on like my bucket list there, Jay. It's gotta be something you gotta see, right? Jay: You you fly all host, man. Let's let's make it happen. Cody: Yes, absolutely. Jay: Do you like your cookies served in buckets? Okay. Do you like your pork chops on sticks? That's that's all right, okay. Okay, all right. I think maybe Cody: I do like them fried. There you go. I do, yes. I I think I could learn to like that, yes. Jay: maybe we've found something here. Cody: Yep. so we are here for quarterfinals two. We're here to recap all of quarterfinals two. if you haven't listened, Corey was on with me Wednesday night to get the results during our postgame. so if you're curious and you just want the results, go check that out for the full recap. Stick around. We're gonna give you ever S She she did a great Jay: You did a great job, thank you, Corey. Cody: job. Love when Corey comes on. she gives some great insight that that's why we get different people on here, different perse different views. different observations and love when corey comes on. But if you're curious like what spin and flip Veronica did, stick around. Jay's gonna tell you here in a few minutes. But Jay: Ha ha ha ha. Cody: if you want to, you can find us on our socials at AGT TimePod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com and go check out our website, AGT timepod dot com. Jay: All right. With that, Cody we get our first act of the night. It is gonna be LaRussell. He is our rapper, rap group. team I-35, their twelfth pick, thirty-fourth pick overall. he and a bunch of Bay Area youth are gonna sing and rap along with LaRussell. they start their performance like backstage, like in the school hallway looking set, and they they find their way up to the stage. where we find a harp and a keyboard and a guitar and a flute. I did not have harp and flute on my bingo card. Cody: Our lockers. You didn't have lockers on your bingo card? Jay: No, no. I I would have had that long before harp and flute. Cody: Okay. Jay: i as at least with this act. Cody: I think he did have a flute in his audition, though. I feel I feel like we Jay: there might have been one. I don't Cody: talked about that. Jay: Okay. song about dreams. What are you living for? Your dreams. So have hope, have dreams, you know, keep keep pushing for what's what's better, what's next, right? Don't just stay stagnant. So that was the message. what did you think of LaRussell's performance? Cody: I struggle with what this act is, Jay, because it's named after one guy, but it's also a bunch of just random people. Well, they may not be random, but yeah, bunch of different types of instrumentation. Some kids, some adults, singing, dancing. They're having a lot of fun. It looks like a great group of people, but I'm just I'm really confused by this act and I don't think he's a great singer. I don't. I think he's a kind of very mid type singer. But he's having a lot of fun. He's got the the beanie on, he's got the letterman jacket on, very kind of high school atmosphere type going on here. Jay: Very much in the vein of DYC, right? The Detroit Youth Choir. It's Cody: Sure. Sure, yeah. Jay: is the music great? No, not really. But i is it something that I can throw my like praise behind? Yeah, I love that you're doing this. I love that you're you're bringing good into the world. You're doing doing wonderful things, the Russell. Keep it up. would you like it better if they were called like Bay Area? Cody: Da yeah, sure. Bay Jay: Rap troupe or something. Bart. Cody: Air Yeah, that'd be great, yes. Yeah. Yeah, if it was the whole group if it was named after a you know, if it was a group of people and named for the group of people, maybe I could get behind a little bit more. It seems a little maybe vain that it's just the Russell and then like we don't know who these other people are, even though they kind of play a key role in the performance. Yeah. Jay: They absolutely do, yeah. no, I I what I can say is on top of what I said so far, I can throw my my praise behind them. Like this felt like the right way to start the show. not an act that anybody is expecting to go through, but they're high energy and they put a smile on your face and you know, like the music or not, it's a good style, it's a good performance to start the show with. Judge's comments. Mel says she loves what they stand for. She feels their energy. The performance itself was a little bit chaotic. Sophia says she loves the charisma and energy. Howie agrees it's good, it's entertaining, but maybe not a season 21 quality performance. We got no comment from Simon. Cody: Yeah, so we didn't we didn't talk about Simon. So we if if those that are not aware, we've talked about it quite a bit, we even did an emergency pod on it. Simon's Simon's having back or had back surgery and he's out for what they're saying is a few weeks. so we're not sure what that means. And they Jay: Yes. The they're also saying it's not an emergency, but it also couldn't wait. Cody: Correct, but it's it and it's routine. So I my and my thought, maybe we still need to have the the medical expert on to talk about this, but my thought is this is a back surgery that that surgeon does on a regular basis. Like it's not something that's out of the ordinary for a back surgeon. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, it must be must be so. I don't know. I'm or maybe it's something that's you know, gonna put him down for a few days and he wants to make sure that he is his best self when he does come back. So go ahead and take a break. I thought maybe there would be a a guest judge to fill the seat or something like that, but I I think the just go with the three judges. Go with what we know. We don't need to change it up, we don't need to add any more variables. Let's just take one variable away. And that's a that's a fine way to to navigate this as a show. Cody: Yeah, and hopefully he can be back by quarterfinals four. That would give him the fourth golden buzzer and he pressed that. If for some reason he can't be back then, you know, maybe they'll give it to Terry or they'll they'll figure something out. So Jay: Yeah. Yeah. They'll they'll have to figure something out. Cody: speedy recovery to Simon Cowell, we want to see you back. We miss you. They just yeah, lift the seat the seat open. one final comment on the LaRussell, and it's not really LaRussell, but and we'll get this later on. Whose ever's job it is to shoot off the streamers is not very is not Jay: Ha ha ha ha ha. Cody: is not very good at it. They're very delayed when it's time to shoot off the streamers. Jay: Yeah, it like it's one of the it Okay. One, two, three. Wait wait, are we jumping on three or are we jumping on jump? Right? One, two, three, jump Cody: Yeah. Jay: or one, two, three. Wait, I Okay, and the song is over. Cody: Yeah. It's it's like Terry's on his way out. Yeah, Terry's Jay: Streamers now. It's Cody: Terry's walking out onto the stage and all of a sudden someone's like, hey, you're supposed to hit the streamers. yeah yeah yeah yeah and then and then they do it. So it's like Jay: yeah, yeah. All right. I th I thought it was streamers on jump, not on three. I Cody: Yeah. Jay: yeah. Alright. Yeah. Poorly done, streamer operator. I'd Cody: Yes. Jay: I'd like to say you had one job, but he probably has multiple jobs. Cody: He probably has many jobs, that is correct. And you know, maybe one of these that takes two keys to turn before you can shoot off the streamers. So Jay: Yeah, you'd hate to to see them go early, like or, you know, mid performance or something. That would really really throw off. Cody: That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: you know, it does kind of amaze me. Like There's a lot of technical aspects that go into a live show. You know, even just Cody: Yes. Jay: like doing, you know, community theater stuff that I'm I've been involved in. Like, you know, you've got multiple microphones and light cues and things moving around the stage and people being where they need to be. And every week, like as far as we see, there are very few things that go wrong. So Cody: Mm. Yeah, from you're right, from what we can tell, but when you shoot off the streamers five, ten seconds after this performance ends, that's that's kind of noticeable. So yeah. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. i they overall do a pretty great job. That is one of the things that maybe they don't do s great at shooting the screamers off at the right time. Maybe that's the Cody: Did do they practice that? Like should Jay: thing is is they don't get a practice it. Cody: Okay. Jay: Or maybe like the cannons are way high up so they they shoot but then it takes three seconds for them to get down like into the the camera view. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. The the person that's in responsible for shooting him off showed up late that day and didn't get a chance to go through a dress rehearsal. So Jay: Yeah. but is that some you like you wouldn't actually load them up and shoot them for dress rehearsal, right? You would just you know, it like you'd sure. Yeah. Alright. Cody: Well you'd simulate it. You would still press the button and simulate it. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: All right. Well that is thank you for that for that input, that side conversation. let's back on track here. Second act of the night, the wonderful, lovely Veronica Gorishkova. She's our aerialist. team what is it? Beefus and butthead, is that what we landed on? Cody: Yeah, i y sure. well no, well we're still the yeah, you c we could go with that. Yeah. Yeah, we can go with that. Jay: all right. Cody: Yeah. Jay: Which is which? Cody: It's it's beef us and the butt heads. Jay: okay, all right, okay. So Cody: Yes. Jay: So you're you're you're fully embracing Olivia and allowing yourselves okay, all right, that's fine. Cody: Yes. And we're both the buttheads. Yes. Yes. Jay: so this was your fourth pick onto your team, eleventh pick overall. she's gonna start right off already above the judges table, spinning up on the aerialist pole. Cody: Yeah, man. It's incredible. Just the way she starts. Jay: No like lead-in, no mounting, whatever. Just like, okay, and we're off. Cody: We're going. Yep. Jay: Does a trick where she has her lower foot up against the pole, her upper leg, her her knee is wrapped around the pole, so she's holding herself with just the back of her knee and her foot against the pole as she sort of leans out, you know, away from it. does another one where she sits like crisscross style around the pole and does a Whatever tricks with her arms. she's gonna come back down to the ground, leave the judge's table, go up to the stage, where she's on like a really long pole, like a fifteen-footer, and she's gonna swing it back and forth across the stage, do a couple of tricks there, and then she stops it, the music stops, she's gonna climb straight to the top, and while she's up there, puts on her blindfold, and then to the surprise. of nobody but the delight of everybody. she's going to do that that deadman's drop and Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: fall all the way down the length of the pole and stop just inches from the end. I saw it coming from a mile away and was was was completely thrilled with it. I thought it was just perfectly executed, wonderful move, great way to end her performance. What did you think of Veronica? Cody: I mean we've loved Veronica since her audition. She's great. Amazing flexibility. The using the the pole is incredible 'cause it's just something we haven't seen. Corey and I were talking last night, it's yeah, it's a little concerning 'cause is this the only apparatus that she uses? Like what is she gonna be able to do, you know going forward? Like is is this all she does is just the the pole? so we'd like to kind of see her You'll kinda tend to stretch her legs a little bit and do something do something a little bit more. But still her her flexibility, the spinning, the de the death drop, all that stuff is absolutely incredible. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, I and I mean she looks good doing it too, right? Cody: Yeah. Jay: Just an all around really wonderful performer. yeah, to to piggyback what on on what you said what else does she have, right? Like i have we kind of hit the ceiling or is there more that she can do? Is there more story that she can tell, more tricks up her sleeves? Or is this kind of like Okay, like after seeing it three times, is it sorta th maybe the end of you know, th th the ceiling for her? So Cody: Yeah. Jay: I I do wonder a little bit. I worry about that a little bit. Cody: Yeah, I did like her song choice as well. She chose Ophelia from Taylor Swift in her her latest album. So it's a great song, fun song. Jay: Yeah. ooh, I is it on the Cody Patterson playlist? let's Cody: you're gonna ask well I I don't have the playlist in front of me. Well, Jay: no! Cody: I I will tell you, yes, it is on the playlist. Jay: Okay. Cody: I don't know the counts, 'cause I don't have the playlist Jay: Okay. Cody: in front of me. But yes. Jay: All right. Well, I guess I don't get a get a play then. but I w I the fact that you knew it was Ophelia from her latest album, I was going to guess Cody: Yeah. Jay: that yes, it is in fact on the Cody Patterson playlist, but that was more due to context clues than Cody: Okay. Jay: me me thinking hard about it. So N no, good good stuff there. I do you celebrate the whole album? You you a fan of Cody: The whole album's good. It's a good album. Yep. Jay: All right. Okay. All right. Did you watch the Eras tour performance at all? Have you done any of the no Cody: No, have not watched any of the Airs too. I listen to the just listen to the music. It's kinda all I do. Yep. I enjoy I enjoy the music. Jay: All right, very good. All right. Well back to Veronica. Sophia says that's why she hit the golden buzzer for her last time. She makes it all look effortless. so effortless she thinks she could do it herself. Cody: Doubtful, but okay. Jay: I did not I didn't think it looked that effortless. I I wasn't inspired. Cody: No. I think it looks extremely difficult. Jay: Yeah, it looks extremely difficult. Howie says it's more graceful than any other aerialists. she's inspiring and amazing. threatens his granddaughter. Don't be inspired too much, don't do it. And then Mel says she's powerful, graceful, and phenomenal. So pretty good praise from the judges for Veronica. Cody: We got a lot of shout outs from How Yana's granddaughter this evening. Jay: I th I he loves his granddaughters. He loves his grandkids. Cody: yeah, sure. Jay: Why not? I I got to celebrate my nieces. they were on the Bill Riley stage at at the the state fair. They sang a duet together and had to they they they qualified for the competition. They made it through the first round of the competition. and didn't make it to the the championship round or the the champion level but really really proud of those girls. They were it's you know uncles love to be proud uncles and I'm I'm proud of those nieces. No, Cody: These These are Scott's kids? Jay: actually my wife's sister who lives here in town. Cody: Got it. Okay. Got it. Okay. Jay: I've got ten nieces and nephews here in town with us and it's wonderful. I love it. Cody: Woo. Wow. Good. Yep. Jay: All right, Cody, third performance of the night goes to Betty. she's our singer. just turned eighteen years old this week. Cody: We had two per just turned eighteen this in our team Jay: Yeah. Cody: this to in this per performance in this episode. Jay: That's right. Cody: Yep. Jay: Team new adults. Cody: Yes. Jay: this was team Butthead's sixth pick, seventeenth overall. And I Cody: Yeah, give make sure you give Olivia her her flowers too. She's part of the There you go. No, we gotta give Oliv Olivia her her flowers as well. Jay: Beefus and the buttheads. Okay. I you I can't just call it the buttheads. Okay. it I I I didn't know what to make of this performance, Cody. I I didn't love it. Cody: Okay. Jay: I felt like the audio was off. There was whole phrases that I missed. I don't know if it's just because she kind of sang in a low tone or if she was mumbly or if it was accent stuff that I was having trouble understanding, but th the whole thing just felt off to me. Cody: I haven't had a chance to go back and re-watch it since Tuesday night, but I was when I was watching it Tuesday night. I'm not saying I loved it, but I enjoyed it. I thought it was a fine performance. There's kind of a lot of people out there like you that were saying it wasn't great. It wasn't one of her best performances. I I thought it was fine. I again I I watch with headphones on, so I hear things that a lot of people don't hear through their like TV speakers. biased there. Jay: And she's also on your team and like you you might have literally been watching with rose colored glasses on. Cody: I I might. I might have had my my Simon glasses on, my rose colored Simon glasses on, watching it during that time. But I thought she sounded fine. You're right. She did sing in kind of a a deeper voice, kind of a lower tone. I don't I didn't really hear like some mumbling, but I thought overall the performance was fine. It wasn't a great performance. Jay: Yeah, and I think at this level, like you need to have a moment. There has to be something Cody: Sure. Jay: great about it that we can point to and say, Yes, she's the one who hit that note. She's the one who knocked it out of the park. And it it never had a moment, is what Simon would say. But Mel says she's a fan of hers, her voice is like velvet, but she seemed to play it safe with a song that didn't show off her range this week. Sophia says she looks like a star. She's a beautiful performer. She has so much soul when she sings. And then Howie says, she is one of the best singers of the season, but this s song didn't show it off. Kinda to echo what Mel said earlier. the song didn't have enough range. So some s what do I want to say? Closely guarded praise from the judges. Cody: Yeah. Now what was the song what was the song she sang? Jay: I don't have it written down. Cody: And I yeah, I didn't. Jay: Something about fire. She Cody: Got it. Okay. Jay: was surrounded by fire, flames. Cody: you know, when you add fire to it, that all of a sudden elevates it, right? Jay: Yeah, that's for you it does. Cody: Yeah, you could stand there and do nothing as long as there's fire on the stage. Jay: They got your vote. Okay. Cody: Yep, that's all right. Jay: all right. Next act is another one from Beefus and the Buttheads. Your seventh pick, the twentieth pick overall. This is a dance group called Come here. Cody: Yes. I I'm not sure why AGT chose to put most of our acts in the first half of the episode. Jay: Ha ha. You'll you'll have to ask them. Cody: Yeah. And were they trying to not put us later? 'Cause last week all of ours were at the end and all of our acts went through. So were they trying to give you all a little bit of a chance by putting our acts at the beginning? Jay: I mean we'll get to to points later, but I'm feeling like maybe that's the case. I'd I need the help. Cody: Okay. Jay: All right. Cody: yeah, Kamir from South Korea, right? Yep. Jay: Yep, South Korea's got soul. Cody: Yes, that's that's what Billy Joel was sing, right? Well not s South Korea but So got Seoul. It's a s it's a it's a Billy Jay: Okay. All right. Yeah. Cody: Joel song. we found out like their choreographer wasn't there for some reason. Like Jay: Yeah, their whole intro package was their choreographer had some other engagement. it doesn't show up until like twelve hours before the show. Cody: I I don't know how that works. It's like there there's some Th Jay: Well, the entire thing was choreographed. The entire thing was done. They were able to practice it all week long. They just didn't have her there to like those those nuances. Cody: Okay. There's something more important than AGT. Okay? Jay: Apparently. Now I traditionally do not care for dance acts, solo or group. But kinda liked this one. They they they made it interesting to watch. And what I think it is, is the the song informed the dance. Like they designed the dance to fit this specific song. And I feel like many dancers, dance troops especially, like they do their their dance and there just happens to be a song playing that's moving at the same tempo. you know, or like figure skating, right? They could Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: be th they could play any song under the sun and they're gonna do the same moves in the same order and there's no real like story to it. but this I felt like had them like clearly dancing like there was one half that was dancing to what the violin was playing and the other half dancing to what the violas were playing and when they interacted it was it was fun to watch. It was interesting and they made a dance group interesting to me. Cody: I will say, Jay, they're very interesting to me too, because again, they're on our team. But I like this too. I was not a big fan of Brent Street when they were on, but I do like this. I do like this. There's something different. It's similar, but there's something different about them than Brent Street. So it's it's a very entertaining performance. They don't do a whole lot of of that of Not even sure what to call it, the way the the style of dance that they do. not a lot of it. and they're not a lot of acrobacks, but they're very precise. They're very in sync. I like what they did with the the screen on the back, so they had like shadows of like a quartet string orchestra, which I thought really cool. They looked like they were behind a curtain. a little bit, even though it's on the shadows. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: It looked really cool. The projection was just amazing. Great team. The choreographer did an amazing job on this. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. I I I think the choreography was was very good and they did not just choreograph it in the twelve hours leading up to the show. Cody: Some do. Some do. Some put it together the day the day before. Jay: Yeah, not not in this case. Cody: Okay. Jay: yeah, I I did enjoy it. I the judges also enjoyed it. Howie says they're a blend of contemporary and ballet. His granddaughter loved it. Sophia says it was breathtaking and perfect. No tricks or flips. and they reminded her of the Mayas in their perfection. Cody: Yeah. Very very similar, yeah. Jay: Yeah, I I I'd say a real facimile for the Mayas. And then Mel B says, it's incredible. The choreographer did an amazing job and they pulled it off. Cody: Yep. Love it. The great team. Great great to have on my team. Jay: Alright. no complaints. If if I if I have to have dance groups, this is a pretty decent one to watch. Alright, rolling right along here, Cody. Fifth act of the night is Nigha Music and Zaya Rhythm, brothers, on the Bach Brothers team, team Bach Stallion. And Cody: But Jay: Doing a little song called I Swear. This was first a country hit for John Michael Montgomery in nineteen ninety-three. Cody: Yes it was. Jay: Was a hit for all for one in nineteen ninety-four. Cody: Yes it was. Jay: I would rather listen to either of those versions. Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay: it was bad enough, it was pitchy enough, it was uninspired enough that Mel hit her red buzzer in the middle of it. it's unfortunate I can't ask which which version of I Swear has more plays on your on the Cody Patterson playlist. Cody: I was gonna ask you which one you thought. Jay: I my guess? John Michael Montgomery. Cody: That is correct. Yes, and I actually did look up the plays that night. So I I I know off Jay: Okay, alright. Cody: the top of my head how many plays there are. Jay: Ooh, so I I get to guess too. Cody: Yes. Jay: Alright, nineteen ninety-three, that's thirty-three years ago. It hasn't been in the playlist th for thirty-three years. It hasn't existed that long. But let's give it hmm maybe around two dozen. Let's go with it let's just call it twenty-four. Cody: Yeah, you're really low. Eighty eight. Yes. Jay: Ooh okay. if yeah. Maybe maybe the all for one has about twenty-four. Not in the playlist. Okay, all right. Cody: All for one not in the playlist. Not no not in the library. Just the just the John Knockle Montgomery version. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: Okay. All right. Well that's that's fine. like first first act for team team Shinerbach out there and Cody: Right. Jay: it it was not a not a good one. What'd you think of the performance? Cody: Yeah, do we have to talk about the these kids? It's like You're right. I know they listened to the John Michael McGurry or all for one version. It was not good. I mean Pitchy Pitchy would be a compliment, I guess. It just Jay: All right. Cody: I don't know. It just it it was very high school talent show. i th they're they have no stage presence, they're not entertaining. is a terrible song choice. They they've gotta do something they've gotta do something that doesn't highlight their singing. Hm. Jay: Ouch. Okay. well let's let's talk judges' comments. We'll we'll move on here. Howie says they can sing, they can harmonize, but they need experience and time. Their nerves showed. Mel says hitting the buzzer did them a favor. they need more time and experience. she says she should be able to feel the passion and not feel like they were on a stroll along the beach. Cody: Yeah. Jay: And Sophia says they're adorable and they're talented, but they played it safe. So yeah, yeah, not not feeling good for Team Bach this time. Cody: Yeah, and they they cannot sing and they cannot harmonize. So I don't know what they're was that Howie that said that? Jay: I they can. They can. They just didn't this time. Cody: they have the ability to do it. They just chose not to. Jay: They can't do it every time consistently. I yeah, I I don't know that it was a choice not to. It just evaded them this time. Cody: well that's kind of important when you want to sing. Got it. Okay. Okay. Jay: all right, let's move on to the sixth act then. He's a mu may a magician, not a musician. team I-35, their seventh pick, the 21st pick overall, right in the middle of the draft. We got Gino. Plaguer I would have pronounced the last name Pluger. But Gino Plager says that his Papa Steve's out in the audience and he's the one that inspired him back when he was a just a just a little little boy to get into magic. gives the judges each a a thing or they select a thing out of his box. Gino makes Sophia's ring disappear and reappear on his finger. the same way that Papa Steve would always make a ring end up back on his finger. And then yada yada yada, Mel picks a sticker, puts it on the five of hearts. He makes that card jump into a deck of cards that she's holding in her hands. And also the deck of cards that she's holding isn't a deck of cards. No? All right. so the the tin that Sia Sophia chose has her name written on the inside. Howie's name is revealed when Gino applies heat to the picture that he chose, and Sophia's ring shows up on Papa Steve's finger out in the audience. the crowd is cheering for the golden buzzer. Mel is speechless. what did you think of Gino Plaguer's performance? Cody: into this with with not high hopes for him just because he's done two matt franco perform or tricks already. So he did he didn't want auditions, he didn't want a callbacks. I was for sure he was gonna do one here as well. He didn't so props to him for f finally doing something on his own and not not recreating a a Matt Franco trick. Having said that, since I already had low expectations of him when I ranked him, I didn't rank him really high, but I kinda ranked him higher than than I would have initially. So I was I'm not gonna say I was impressed with the trick, but it was fun to see him do something a little different than what he's done the previous two performances. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. I I as a performance it was pretty good. Cody: Yeah. Jay: yeah, like the the ring ending up on Papa Steve's finger was a nice kinda way to wrap the whole thing up. Like you tell Cody: Yeah. Jay: a nice story. when he did the little sleight of hand where it wasn't on his finger and then it was on his finger, that's not a good trick. Like I it it's easy to tell what's happening there. But you know, whatever. He he he put together a nice little show. and that's that's pretty pretty good for a middle of the pack pick here for T I thirty five. Cody: So he's done everything at the table up to this point. Going forward he needs to now do something that fills the stage. He's gotta do something bigger. Jay: But he can't lose his personality. Cody: Sure. Jay: like I think one of the the most engaging things about him is that he does it up close. And if he doesn't do it up close, I'm afraid that he'll get swallowed up and and spit out. Cody: Yeah, I think it was his callbacks performance that was a Matt Franco performance. When Matt Franco did it, he had people on the stage holding various carts. And so it's not like he's gonna be, you know, big it's not like a big production, but he's gotta do something that kind of involves using the stage a little bit more rather than doing everything 'cause if you're gonna do performances at a show, y all your performances can't be you know, one on one, down close. They've gotta be something that can be presented up on a stage. So he's gotta figure out how to do something not huge, but a little bit bigger. Jay: Yeah, if he wants to turn this into a career, Cody: Yeah. Jay: he has to figure out how to do this show for that kind of audience. And he's not quite there yet. Cody: Yeah. It it and unless all he wants to do is small, intimate type performances. If that's what he wants to do, then that's fine too. Yeah. Jay: Sure, yeah, I suppose. Sophia says it's original. It felt like it was true to him. Howie says his audition was wonderful, but that was reminiscent of Matt Franco. This time he did his own show. So high praise for him stepping out from Matt Franco's enormous shadow. Cody: I mean he's he's he's getting there. He's not quite there yet, but he's worked on it. Yeah. Jay: He's working on it. all right, let's move on. Another act for team I-35, their fourteenth pick, the fortieth pick overall. We've got Patrocks. Were you excited for this one? Cody: Okay? No, not one bit. Jay: okay. it Cody: Can can we do it in reverse, Jay? Can we do this whole pod in reverse? Jay: this does not need to be an April Fool's Day pod. Cody: good callback. Good job. Jay: Thanks. No, he says if you walk down your own lane, there's no traffic. And so he's going to start off with a fistful of bills and dance out on the stage and throw some confetti, take his coat off, take his shirt off, and then they play it in reverse. And he puts his shirt back on and his coat back on and the confetti collects back into his hands and the bills collect back into his into his hands. I love those kinds of tricks, right? Where where you watch something unexplode. and and those I I feel like that those kinds of things are fun to watch. And that's what he really needs to you know butter his bread with. Cody: If he wants to be an amazing dancer, what he needs to figure out how to do is do these tricks backwards live. Make this Jay: Ooh. Cody: make this stuff appear back in your hand live. Jay: okay, that's you know, bringing it to a different different kind of world, but sure. Cody: Yeah. Jay: he he does so the first time we saw him, he did his entire performance front to back, and then he played the entire performance in reverse. This time he did that first chunk and then he played that in reverse. And then he does a second thing where he does like a a tumbling pass and then they play that in reverse, and then the third Third thing, when they play it in reverse, it ends with him, you know, taking a bow and blowing a kiss to the audience. but he did that in reverse to start his third, you know, third piece. So like it did feel like a really fun, appropriate way to end the end the performance, right? And doing it in three chunks is a little bit of a thinking outside the box from what he had done before. And I you know, i for as much as this is not one that I feel like is gonna earn any points, he he showed up for the second performance. He he brought something more and different and and he tried to tried to step it up. Cody: Yeah, I just I just don't understand this, 'cause he's just dancing normally and then production is just replaying it backwards. So he's not really even doing anything. Jay: Well he he is Cody: I mean literally it Jay: He's doing the dance. Cody: literally any dance, they could have played Come Here's performance backwards and it would be the exact same thing. Jay: No but like he he ended the performance by taking a bow and blowing Cody: Okay. Jay: kisses to the audience, right? Like he he thought about that and then he Cody: Yes. Jay: moved his body in a way that it looked like he was taking a bow and blowing kisses to the audience. Like that's not nothing. Cody: Okay. Okay. And then the streamer guy was late shooting off the streamers again. Jay: Sophia says it's clever, she doesn't fully understand it, but he does deserve votes. Mel likes that he is so excited, but she didn't really enjoy it. Cody: Sure, I'm excited that he's excited. Sure. Jay: And Howie says he's incredibly unique and an amaze and it's an amazing trick. So Cody: I I don't think it's that unique. That's the thing. It's like any dancer could just say, Hey, production, can you play my performance backwards, please? Jay: Yes and Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: they can make playing it backwards more interesting by what they do when they do it forward. Cody: Okay. Jay: and and I I I understand, right? Like there's like the tumbling pass just kind of felt like a tumbling pass, forward or backwards. But like the confetti and those those tricks and the the bow at the end and the blow throwing the the dollar bills in the air. Like those things took some foresought forethought and and to make a production out of that is is kinda cool. You know, I'd love to see like you know, a big water balloon. Like like maybe at the end of the performance, like a a big water balloon hanging above the stage and he he pokes it and it it showers down over him. Or, you know, like there's like flash dance. Yeah. Or you Cody: Like flash dance. Yeah. Jay: know, there's there's other things you could do to make watching it in reverse even more interesting, even more exciting. But like th this is this is a germ of an idea that I could see a dancer or dance troupe In the future, like taking this to a level that is like, this is like he walked so that we can run with this. Cody: Okay. What would like Jesse White Tumblr's like what would they look like if their performance was backwards? Jay: pretty cool, I think. Cody: Okay. Like they're they're standing Jay: I don't know. Like Cody: on the mat and all of a sudden they jump back over to the Jay: Yeah. Cody: the the the catapult. The Jay: Yeah. Yeah. They they off the pad, onto the trampoline, and then back off the stage. That's Cody: Yeah. Jay: I could see somebody maybe like fireworks or sp sparklers. Cody: Mm. Jay: I my brain keeps going to water because that's something that that's so unwieldy, right? You can't once you once you let it let it out of its container, watching it Come back into the container is is interesting. the confetti is a is a great idea. those kinds of things. I feel like this is something that I would see as I'm scrolling my my Facebook feed, right? Like, Cody: Yes. Jay: hey, watch watch these fun things in reverse. Right? There's plenty of things that like hey, watch this, you know, thing in slow motion. Watch this this this you know, fifty thousand pound press squish things, whatever. Like, you know it's Watching things in reverse can be kind of fun. Cody: Should he and Sando kinda collab and get together? Jay: Why not? Cody: Yeah. put together a fifteen, twenty second, thirty second clip of them doing Jay: yeah. I i I I Cody: doing things backwards. Jay: I don't know that it would help either of them at this point make it deeper. Cody: No no no no but just no, but just as a TikTok video. Just as a TikTok c clap, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, what w watching that collaboration wouldn't be wouldn't be so bad. all right. That's that's enough for for Patrocks. Do you have anything else on him? Cody: and w Nene did this later, but I have an issue with acts that wear their name on their shirt. I don't know why. He also ha he also has an X on the back of his shirt, which is what he should're Jay: He does. Cody: re which is what he should have received during this performance. Jay: Ooh hoo hoo hoo. Alright. Bring in the heat. I I don't know that it was X worthy. All right. but since you mentioned her, let's let's talk about Miss Nene Royal. Another one I I would have I think I've been mispronouncing her last name. I think I've been saying Nene Royale. Cody: Yeah. Royal cheese. Jay: it's a Royale with cheese. It's a Nene Royale. no, Nene Royal. She is our singer guitarist, from a a I wanna say Taiwanese or t Cody: Ti Thailand. Jay: Thailand. Cody: Yeah. Jay: tie descent. she was team box first pick overall, first draft pick overall. And Cody: Good choice. Jay: yeah, team team Bachmagic is happy to have her on the team. I was hoping Cody: Is that is sorry sorry Jake, is that supposed to be a play on like black magic? Okay. no you are. Sorry sorry Jake. Scott's a little better at this, so Jay: Yeah. That's I'm I'm just trying trying a few things out here. Alright. Okay. Story of my life. That's Cody: Yeah. He's had what little what what, another year or two of experience coming up with the names? Jay: He's just like, yeah, two years and two weeks older than me. Cody: There you go. Okay. Jay: No, he's he's man, he is so quick with puns and jokes. Like Cody: Okay. Jay: I sh I shouldn't even try to keep up. Cody: You're doing good. Jay: But all right. no, I was hoping Nene was gonna bring out a full band with her. but no, it's just Nene. Cody: Mm. Jay: I think she's got a backing track as well. she's gonna sing Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun. you know, hits me right in my in my n nostalgia. she's a very good guitar player and like her her Screamo sing is even better. or I could say she's a really great singer and her guitar playing's even better. I'm not sure which. but better than both of those things, like she she just kind of owns the stage. Like she just has a presence. She has it. and I I I love her. I'm so happy that we got to pick her first because it might be the the only act that we get through here. It's it's looking dire. but no it's it's good good performance from Nene. Cody: She she's got the whole package. I mean, she's got the voice. She can tread. She's got the stage presence. Now she's got kind of production behind her with all the stuff that's going on on the stage and her backing track and whatnot. Sh she is incredible. And when we first saw her in audition, we're like, Yeah, this this is good and then kind of as we've seen over the last couple of months as her videos have gone viral and people have talked about her more. We saw her in callbacks. I I'm glad that we actually saw her in callback so we didn't you know, to be honest, it's one of those I I'm glad that she did not get a golden buzzer. So that we get to see that extra performance. We didn't go two months without seeing her. it's it's been a joy watching her. And I I'm I'm glad you got her because if you didn't get her, we were definitely gonna take her with our with our pick. Jay: Yeah. no, I'm real happy to have her on the team. So Howie says NBC should just give her the million right now. Cody: Yeah, you know, that didn't work out too well the last time he kind of made that prediction with Courtney Hadwin. So I Jay: Ooh. Yeah, yeah. Cody: mean bottom five in the finals for Courtney Hadwin when he made that prediction. So we'll see. Jay: I I think Nene's got a a voting block behind her that's gonna Cody: Sure. Jay: gonna work out just fine for for me. Sophia says she can win the competition. Mel B says she's the most quiet, humble, sweet young lady, but on stage it's a different vibe. She loves good vocals, and Nene's style isn't really her style, but how can she not hit the golden buzzer for her? Cody: Yeah, yeah, that's that's a pretty smart choice from Mel B. Again, we're not gonna now we're not gonna see her in semifinals, which I think I don't know if that's gonna help or hurt the ratings. It would probably been help the ratings a little bit to have her in semifinals, 'cause she's almost a shoe-win to go through to the finals if she was in semifinals. So to not have her now to kind of see what happens there. also Axe are and eight, getting to the top five when they've gotten the live golden buzzer. Could she break that streak? Jay: I'm thinking she might I'm really hoping I'll Cody: Okay, so we'll see. We'll see. Jay: yeah. We've we've talked about it, but I I feel like she's transcended needing the golden buzzer. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: And know, i the show the show is further ahead saying Let's make sure she's on in the finals, not let's hope she's on in the finals. Let's make Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay: sure we see her again, not hope that she makes it through the top five. So that's that's just fine. All right, ninth act of the night. We've got McKenzie Sol. He is team I-35, their sixth pick, 16th overall. gonna sing a song by Tate McRae. called You Broke Me First. And he is joined on stage by a piano player. Cody: Sure, nice and simple. Like that. Yeah. Jay: Okay. it Here's my notes. I felt like this was perfectly fine. Cody: Okay. Yes. Jay: It was emotional, but it didn't connect with me. Cody: He's just not a great singer. He's just not a good singer. Yeah. Jay: That might be why. yeah, I don't know. Like it it wasn't wasn't my cup of tea. Cody: He's he's only here 'cause he got the golden buzzer for Melby. I think if he had to go to callbacks, I don't think he would be here. Jay: Okay, okay. well let's see if he makes it through to the next round or not then. after Mackenzie Soul sings You broke me first, we're going on to our tenth act of the night, a danger act that is on team Beefus and the Buttheads, your fifteenth pick, the forty third pick overall, the final actual pick of the draft. Cody: Yes. Jay: It's Brad and Tracy. Cody: Yeah. Bride Byers. this is I think his third stint on AGT. Jay: by my count correct. Cody: Yeah, I think that's right. And I think it's her first time on AGT. He's I like him. I like these types of acts and I like him. I think he's got a fun personality. She's kinda dull. Like she's she's not good at this at all. Okay. Jay: absolutely. But that's kind of what makes it great, right? Cody: Help me out here. Help. That she's dull? That she's just very is it like a dry humor type thing? Okay. Jay: Not a dry humor. Just like we her inability to deliver. is a little bit engaging. Cody: Okay. Jay: Right? Like, you know, what crazy thing is she gonna say this time? What bad delivery is she gonna give this time? You know, like I'm I'm I'm kind of on board for seeing, you know, what what's Tracy gonna fail to do right this time? Like I I'm I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Cody: Yeah, yeah. It's like here is a chainsaw and here is a blindfold. He's going to put an apple in his mouth. Sure, sure, sure. Okay. Jay: Let's Okay, I w I wanna back up just a little bit though, okay? So intro package, he says fifty one years ago, Brad decided to dedicate himself to being an entertainer. Cody: Okay. Jay: Very few people encouraged him. Cody: Okay. No. Okay. You okay. Jay: Do you believe that? I kind of believe that too. I I believe that he wanted to be an entertainer. Cody: yes. Jay: And I also believe that very few people encouraged him. Cody: Got it. Okay. Sure. Jay: Okay. All right. and then like this very opening set, it's gonna pay homage to a famous painting called American Gothic by Grant Wood. Are you familiar with it? Okay. Cody: Very familiar with it, yes. The farmer, right? Jay: yeah, it's it's farmer and his daughter. Cody: And his wife. Okay. Jay: I I looked at the wiki this week. So the the American Cody: Got it, okay. Jay: Gothic house is just like forty five minutes down the road from me. Cody: that's cool. I didn't realise that. Okay. That's awesome. Jay: Yeah. And it kind of an interesting thing about it. Like this house, it's just sort of a a cheap frame house, nothing spectacular about it, but it's got this weird gothic window in it. Like it does not fit the style. So that's kind of I guess Grant Wood said like, I wanna paint that house and I want to imagine the people that would live in that house. And so it ends up being his is it his sister and his dentist pose as the the farmer and his daughter there. And that's that yeah, that's the painting. so a little bit of little bit of Grant Wood. Cody: Okay. Learned learned a little bit yeah, yeah, a little bit of painting history there. Nice. Jay: When we were up in Minneapolis this summer, we went to the Minneapolis Art Museum and they had some Grant Wood works there that were kinda fun to to see some other pieces of his and kinda like get a a fuller picture of what his style is. So anyhow, yeah, there you go. A little bit of art history with Jay. Cody: So sounds like I need to put that on my list when I come to Scene State Fair. That's right. Go. Jay: Why not? Yeah. We'll we'll make it happen. all right, Brad, he's gonna put a poncho on and he's gonna hold this apple and Tracy explains the average chainsaw injury requires one hundred and ten stitches. he puts the apple in his mouth, he blindfolds himself, he uses this electric chainsaw to cut an X into the apple, and then he cuts across the front of the apple to cut those four pieces off the off of the apple. what'd you think of that trick? Cody: I g I like this. I think it's really cool the the electric ch electric chainsaw, with him blindfolded. I mean, i it it's it's literally like right next to his face. Like there's I know you talk about the illusion of danger. I Jay: Ha ha ha. Cody: think with this there actually is danger, right? There's gotta be. Yeah. Yes. Jay: Yeah, I absolutely that chainsaw is only inches from his face. let me ask you this though. Cody: Okay. Jay: A little bit of a chainsaw theory. Cody: Okay. Jay: The average chainsaw accident requires a hundred and ten stitches. Is that from professionals who have like behemoth chainsaws? Or is that from idiot homeowners with like crappy chainsaws that you know, they don't know how to run well. Cody: I th I think it's the second one. I think it's more people at home that don't know how to operate their chainsaw and it like kickbacks at them or you know, things of that nature. Yes, I do think that there are pros as well. I think the injuries might be a lot less with the pros 'cause they're wearing better safety gear. a lot of are actually wearing like face shields. yes. Right, right. Right. Jay: yeah. Face shields and the chaps and the the you know, all the all the protective gear and they know what they're doing and they Cody: They got their PP on and it's yeah, they're all PP'd up. but yeah, your hope. Jay: Their machines are sharp and honed well and they know how to how to operate I I agree. Cody: Yep. Nope, you the the homeowner is wearing their flip flops and their shorts and no safety goggles. So Jay: So I'm I'm just gonna take a a a moment to do a PSA here, Cody. Cody: Yes. Jay: end of every podcast, I try to remind everybody to stay safe. I listened to a secretly incredibly fascinating episode about ladders. And like ladders are so crazy dangerous, right? Because Cody: Yes, yes. Jay: like I put all the work into setting it up and to getting up here, and then if I just reach three inches further, I'll be able to do the thing, and that's where the problem is, right? Cody: Yes. Jay: So hire a professional, do the smart thing, get down off the ladder, reposition it, do what you gotta do to base be safe. You'll you'll thank me later. Cody: Yeah, don't be Clark Griswold while trying to hang your lights. Jay: Yeah, please. that's s save that for the movies. Cody: I i Jay: all right. Cody: yeah, but I I like this, I like him. sure, yes. Jay: Let's talk a little bit more about what they do. Tracy hands him a very long like it's like a a a buck saw, a single saw. And this does appear to have saw teeth. I'm sure they're not like bent which way or sharpened up to be you know, able to actually saw through a a piece of wood. But at this point, Mel's gonna hit the buzzer. Brad's gonna take this saw and put it down his throat and pull it back out. He's going to grab a giant corkscrew and he's going to screw it down his throat and then Tracy's going to help remove it and she looks at the end and says, good, no corks this time. Cody: Guess I didn't get the joke. Jay: Well, there was no cork on the end of the corkscrew. Right. That's it maybe it was her delivery wasn't very good. Cody: Aga yes, again, she's not very good at this. So Jay: Tracy's gonna Cody: He's he's gr he's great. She's not. So Jay: But them together is just so lovely. Cody: Sure, absolutely, they're a cute couple. Jay: Alright, she's gonna hold up a picture of their wedding day. He's going to staple it next to his heart. their first Christmas together, he's gonna staple next to his six pack abs and then their AGT audition goes bam, stapled to his forehead. Cody: I love the stapling tricks. I know a lot of these danger acts do this type of stuff. I still like the staple tricks. Jay: I mean he's literally stapling it to his forehead, right? Like i Cody: Yes. Jay: th it's not a trick. It's just Cody: Yeah. Jay: he he is just kind of a little off kilter. Cody: I love how you said six pack abs. He's gotten that Jay: No. Cody: I mean, that's not even a one pack. Like you don't even have a can. Jay: It's yeah, it's it's a I mean yeah, a two liter a a keg. I don't know. He's like he's not a big guy, but he's certain certainly not six pack abs. Cody: Sure. Yeah. No no no no no, but No no no no no. Jay: all right. Howie loves it. He's gonna stand for He says the energy and the showmanship is beyond words and the love he senses is amazing. Sophia wonders what their neighbors think. she doesn't know if it's good or bad, but she can't stop watching. Cody: No, you can't turn away from it. Unless you're MLB. Jay: Nel B says she did stop watching for Bits and Pieces. this is a genre of entertainment. She finds it comedic. She likes the vibe. But why? Cody: I really impressed that Melby was able to get the word genre out. Jay: Ha ha ha. Cody: As much as she has with struggles as much as she struggles with the English language, she was able to get the word genre. Jay: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Cody: She's gonna she's not gonna do well with the word later on, but Jay: No, I I don't remember if I took notes on that specific word or not, but make sure you call it out for me. no, I you know, it's Brad and Tracy. He is like I don't know that either of him has a tattoo. I I don't think that he has any piercings, but he like this this is it called body horror or like this genre of like sideshow freak. Like he doesn't look like a sideshow freak. But he does all the sideshow freak things, short of getting shot in the neck with a flaming arrow. Cody: Right. Jay: but like I I I was kind of looking forward to seeing him again, right? Cody: I enjoy this types, I enjoy this, yes. Jay: okay. an any other thoughts on Brad and Tracy? Cody: I don't think so. Well. Jay: All right. let's move on then to vocal duo. team Bach. This is Butter and Grit. the eighth eighth on to our team, twenty-fourth overall. Gonna sing an original song called That's Okay. Cody: Wasn't that a Nightbird song? Jay: It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Cody: Okay, okay. Okay. Jay: yeah. same same idea. Cody: Okay. Jay: th they they've got like their inverse denims of each other. Butter's got Cody: Yes. Jay: white pants with a blue denim jacket over a black t shirt. Grit's got the denim pants with a white jacket over the black T shirt. they they look great. And they you can tell that they're just like good friends. joined on stage with drums, guitar and a bass. nobody but neither Butter nor Grit plays an instrument this time. They just sing and wave their arms. Okay. any any thoughts before I talk judges' comments here? Cody: It it was fine. It was a fine performance. Their their audition was their best performance and they needed to do more of Jay: I thought their callback was a better performance. Cody: I really like what they did in auditions. They need to do more of that. They need to be more upbeat, more moving about the stage. That's kind of where they shine. Yes, the ballads are nice. But they're they need to do more of what they did in auditions, especially this round. this is their live shows. They gotta get the audience engaged. This just didn't hit, especially when they're not playing any instruments. They're just standing there at their at their microphones with their choreographed hand motions. having the live band was fun, but at the same time it's just this was not an entertaining performance. They they're good singers and they're good friends and it's a fine performance, but it wasn't great. Jay: You you walked away saying the exact title of their song. That's okay. Cody: That's okay. Yeah. Jay: It that's that's okay. Cody: That performance was okay, yes. Jay: All right. Well Mel B says their vocals are exponentially more than amazing. Cody: No, she said exponentially. This Jay: Well Cody: is that's where she flubbed the that's the word that she flubbed. Jay: S she means to say Cody: Yes. Jay: I I think she means to say exponentially more than amazing. That doesn't really make sense either. Cody: Yes. Jay: But I'll give her a pass, I guess. Cody: Yeah, she said exponentially and I tweeted out, Melby, I think the word you're looking for is exponentially. Jay: Yeah. I mean, again, it doesn't make a whole lot more sense than expeditally. Cody: I guess so. Jay: she loves their friendship, she loves their vibe. Sophia says she loves that their songs are originals. She feels like they've been hits forever already. and I think that's a pretty good comment. Like i Cody: Hmm? Jay: these feel like real songs. These feel like you know, th they don't feel like original songs. They feel like like real songs out in the world that they're covering. Cody: Should they have covered a song? Jay: I don't know. I we've we've been back and forth over is it better to to bring an original or to bring a a piece that people know. I d I really don't know. I Cody: Okay. Jay: I I think that it depends on each artist's strengths and their capabilities. Cody: I think it's okay to mix it up. Do a mix of Jay: Yeah. Cody: yeah. Jay: I mean, but if it's like more Parmesan or B double O T Y, Cody: Sure. Jay: originals all the way. Cody: Absolutely. Jay: Howie says there's more there's nothing more America than that kind of music. He thinks they'll Cody: Sure. Jay: hit a chart tomorrow. This is one of the best live shows the best ways to end a live show that we've ever had on AGT. Cody: I would think that if Nene I mean I guess if if Nene had ended the show she would not have gotten the golden buzzer. Jay: She didn't end the show. Cody: No, I know that. And I'm saying may she might have been a better ending, but if she did end it, she would not have gotten the golden buzzer. This isn't this was not Jay: All right. Okay. Cody: a great ending to the show. Jay: all right. Cody: It's very it was very low energy. I think for the end of the show you would want a more high energy type act. Jay: All right. Okay. That's okay. Cody: It's it's okay. Jay: No, that's okay. It's okay. That's a totally different song. Cody: Okay, it's okay. It's okay, it's okay. It's okay. Jay: That's okay. Alright, let's let's talk results here, Cody. we'll bring this bring this around here. before we get to results, we get to see Steve Ray Ladsen on the TV. I was, I was. I l I like Cody: Were you excited about Steve Ray Ladson? Yes. Yes. Jay: his I like his his style. Cody: Yeah. were you familiar with war and treaty? Jay: I am familiar with those words. Cody: Yes. Jay: I am not familiar with them as a name of a band. Cody: I did not know which one was war and which one was treaty. I was like, Can p someone please help me here? It's a duo. It's a do it Jay: is it are it's like butter and grat like one of them is war? Cody: I g I I would it's a duo, so I would figure th they're like, Hey, on the stage now is war and treaty and I'm like, Okay, well which one's war, which one's treaty? So Jay: I I guess. Like Pink Beard, you know which one's Pink Beard. Like this. Cody: You which one's pink beard, right. Which one's butter and which one's grit 'cause they put it on a hat and tell you. So Jay: Put it on their hat, yeah. well let me think, like AJR, right? The three brothers and they're each has their initial there. Like Cody: Okay. Jay: yeah, well I don't know. It how about like Nirvana? Like which one's which one's Nirvana? Cody: Nirvana is the band. Yeah. Okay. But it's a doo Jay: Well yeah. It's war and treaty. It's just the name of the band. Maybe? I don't know. Cody: but it's a duo, that's what confuses me. It's a duo. Yeah. Yeah, fun fun sorry, Jay: All right. all right. Cody: fun fun time to see Steve Ray Lats. It a good song. Fun song to watch. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. always always always enjoy seeing Steve Ray Ladsen. Do you think that Cody: Yep. former former Team J, right? I th I think that's correct, yeah. Jay: I believe that's what I recall. I I always go for that like country rock bluegrass thing and it never works out. So Cody: Mm-hmm. Okay. Jay: do you think that like in his daily life he goes by Steve Ray? Hey, Steve Ray's here. Cody: Like Stevie Ray Vaughan? Like something like that? No, no, no, no, but I'm saying Right, no no no. I I I Jay: No, like Steve Ray. Like his name is Steve Ray Ladson. Do you just take off the last name and call him Steve Ray? Cody: I understand that, but there's also Stevie Ray Vaughan. Does Stevie Ray Vaughn do the same thing? Like does he go by Stevie Jay: I don't know. Cody: Ray? Jay: I think I think Stevie Ray Vaughn goes by Stevie. Cody: Okay. Well. Jay: But I don't know. Cody: Ma his his people in his circles probably call him Steve. Jay: It i is is it like the f the more removed you are from him, the more names you give him? Cody: Yes. Jay: Like his inner circle calls him Steve and like Cody: Yes. Jay: his his acquaintances call him Steve Ray and the rest of the world calls him Steve Ray Ladsen. Okay. Alright. Cody: That is correct, yes. It's the the three degrees of separation of steam relay, that's it. Yeah. Jay: Alright, there you go. We figured it out. all right. Let's let's talk results. we're gonna narrow our ten down to five. because Nene's already through, so our eleven became ten. the first two top five, we gotta figure out is it gonna be butter and grit or Brad and Tracy? Cody: I was hoping Brad and Tracy just 'cause they're on our team, but I was pretty sure it was gonna be butter and gr butter and grit. Yep. Jay: It and it was Butter and Grit that made the top five. this is Brad's third attempt at AGT. I feel like maybe this is the ceiling. Cody: yes, this is definitely the ceiling. Yeah. I can't remember Jay: But Cody: if you made live shows the last two times. Jay: I can also say that Brad's dream is to entertain. Am I not entertained? Like, Cody: I I am entertained. Jay: call it call it a victory for Brad and Tracy. his dream has been realized in in being an entertainer. Alright, that's my that's my eulogy for Brad and Tracy. Cody: There you go. Jay: next two to come out is La Russell and Veronica. the act leaving the competition, not in the top five, is La Russell. eulogy for La Russell. Cody: yeah, good job. go go do more do go sorry. Continue to do good things continue Jay: Yeah, keep putting good into the world, right? Cody: to do good things in the Bay Area, yes. Jay: Yeah. in it hasn't come up, but like we lost Dolly this week. Cody: Yes. Jay: and and she was, you know, universally beloved for putting good into the world. And if La Russell can be one of those people that puts good into the world, even if I'm not entertained by it, that's okay. Keep keep doing your thing, man. Cody: That's o it it's okay. It's okay. Jay: That's okay. So Verona makes the top five. Cody: Excited about that. Yes. Jay: Okay. next two we have to narrow down. Is it gonna be Patrocks or come here? The act in the top five has come here. So Patrocks. I'll my eulogy, you've got some good ideas. There's more that you could have done in like reverse video tricks. Another one this kind of feels like the ceiling for this act at this at at this iteration. Cody: Yep, just reverse yourself right off the stage. Jay: Alright, now we have to bring out Gino Pl Plaguer and Nija and Zaya. no surprise, Gino makes the top five. Nija music and Zaya rhythm are out. this is a hard way to see them leave the show. they they did not do their best. Cody: No, they did not do their best. Jay: And you have to consistently do your best to Cody: Well Jay: be competitive at this level. Cody: but that's the question, Jay. Is this their best? Best is relative. Is what they did their best. Jay: they have had better performed, more in tune performances. Cody: Okay. Jay: not on live TV on national television. So, you know, is this the best that they have right now? It was the best that they could do last night. And you know, if if they had been At their very best, maybe maybe we s squeezed another point out of but not this time. Cody: Sure. Okay. Okay. Jay: all right, we've got the last two we've gotta narrow it down. Is it gonna be McKenzie Soul or Betty that makes the top five? the act that does make the top five is Mr. McKenzie Soul. eulogy for Betty. Cody: Man, it was great having well, still a proud member of team team Cody and Commander, the beefus beefus and the buttheads. still loved having her on our team. I thought she did did well. I would rather have her over Gino, but if Gino keeps on this same trajectory, I think he's gonna do some good stuff. So we'll see. Yep. Jay: Yeah. there's there's potential there, right? She she Cody: There's potential there, right. Jay: has the look, she has the vocal chops you know, there there's there's so much potential. I don't think this was her best performance, but with some practice, with some time, we we could see some pretty awesome things out of Betty. Cody: Yep, agreed. Jay: All right, so we have to narrow down our top five down to our top three. let's talk about who's eliminated. The first one I've got on my list is Mackenzie Sol. Cody: Yeah, I'm okay with that. Jay: he's hoping to parlay his time on AGT into a full time career. I think that maybe he did that. Cody: Okay? Keep keep working it though. You still got some work to do. Yeah. Jay: yeah. but he can now say, you know, like AGT, you know, live performance, AGT quarter finalist Mackenzie Sole is performing at you know at the peanut pub tonight. Cody: Okay. Jay: Come see Mackenzie Soul. the other one leaving us is butter and grit. you know, my eulogy, disappointing result for the for the Box Street Boys. thank you. Woo. Cody: There you go. Good job. You did it. Good job. Jay: their friendship is beautiful. I think that the songs that they did for callback that that one about their friendship, like is a legit hit. I think that in in you know, I I was at my cousin's wedding this summer. I could imagine that being played while you know she was walking down the aisle, right? It's just a a really beautiful song about having a a deep connection with someone. And you know even if they don't make it further, even though they even though they don't make it further in the show, like they still have something pretty awesome. So that means the three joining Nene are gonna be Veronica, Gorishkova, Genoplager, and come here. Cody: I love how Terry was like, come here, come here, come here. Jay: all right, real quick update on on points. Bach brothers, we gain a point for Butter and Grit, and four more points. No. what do we have? Yeah, and four more points for Nene Royale, which puts us at a total of six. Steven and Ryan, they're gonna bump up to eight points, keeping us in in third place and charging ahead, leading the way. Codyan commenter with sixteen points. Cody: Mm. Domination. Y'all ready to just go ahead and call it quits now? Okay. Jay: No, I've got most of my acts still coming up. Cody: Yes, yes. Speaking of that, so commenter posted this out. total acts still in the competition and how many still to perform in quarterfinals? Okay. So you all have Jay: Okay. Cody: you all have ten total acts still in the competition and nine of Jay: Yep. Cody: those still to perform in quarterfinals. Jay: Okay. Cody: Okay. we have twelve still in the competition, and seven of those are still in quarterfinals. Okay? Jay: Okay. Cody: And then Steven and Ryan have eight left in the competition, and six of those are still in quarterfinals. So. Jay: Okay. So Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: it there's a lot more potential on our end than there is for I thirty five. Cody: Right, and I think you all have six acts in the fourth quarterfinals, is that correct? Yes. Yes, yeah. Jay: We have so many. That's yeah. I think it's I think half of them are ours in the last in the last week. all right. Well I did a little bit of projection myself here. Cody: Okay. Jay: it A magic act, a dance group, a music adjacent act, and a wild card. Okay? Magic, dance, music, wildcard. Week one, we had a magic act. where is it? Hundred fingers, right? Our Dance Act, Royal Lasers. Our music adjacent act, Luke Tolino, and our wild card, Olivia Bifus, our our dog trainer. Okay. Cody: Okay? Yep. Jay: Magic, dance, music, and wild card. Week two, magic. Geno Plu Genoplager. Dance, come here. Music, Nene Royale. And our wild card goes to Veronica. So week three, if we follow this this pattern, we've got a magician, Cameron Marshall. We've got a dance group, the Acro Canine crew. We've got a music adjacent act, Guy Kelton Jones, our our poet. And our wild card is the literal wild card, Maria. Cody: Yes, okay. Jay: And then week four, I think we're looking at our magicians, young and strange. Our dance act would have to be Unitry, our robot dancers. Our music adjacent act would go to Cesar Diaz, the singing clown. And our wildcard, I think would have to go to Akira, our our no show artist. Cody: Yes. Yep. Okay. I can get on board with that. Yeah, I can get on board with that. Jay: So there you go. I I think I think that's gonna be the results of the next two weeks. Cody: that's a great prediction. I love that that's that you did that. I wanna recap real quick 'cause I'm not sure if I got it right or not. The the order of like the way you we did our draft and the you said the the best act the best episodes was it Jay: Yes. Cody: So obviously Quarterfinals one's the best. Did you say that Quarterfinals two was the worst? Okay, and then and then and then Jay: Yes. According to our not very good draft. Cody: Yeah, so and then quarterfinals three is the the th third and then quarterfinals four was the second best. Is that right? Okay. I Jay: Correct. Yep. One, four, three, two. Cody: one, four, three, two. Okay, yeah. Jay: I feel like this was better than last week. Cody: Really? Okay. Just performance wise. Okay. Jay: Yeah, like entertainment wise, performance wise, I don't know, quality of the axe wise. I don't know. I I felt like this was Cody: Yeah. V very subjective Jay: better. Cody: very subjective look though, right? Yeah, yeah. Jay: y yeah. I I I mean like being able to assign numbers to them based on our our draft order is like the best that I can do because Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: it's it's, you know, hive brain instead of my stupid brain, which can't tell a good singer from a great singer. Cody: Right. Jay: so Cody: So now okay, if you went even further, the acts that went through, where were they on the draft board? Jay: I I haven't dug that deep into into the numbers, but Cody: Okay. Okay. Okay. Jay: that that that feels like maybe more of a a question for commenter. He's Cody: Okay. Well, but it's you just take who went through and you look at where we drafted them and kinda then figure out, okay, based on results, how did those episodes come out? And you don't have to do that you don't have do that now, but yeah. Okay. Jay: sure. Yeah. Well we we we'll get there. But the the lowest act to get through is Olivia, Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: Bifus, who was the thirty-eighth overall. Cody: Yeah. Jay: And the highest act to go through was Nene, who was first overall. So still Cody: There you go. Okay. That may be a quarterfinals four thing to kind of reflect on. Jay: Yeah, still plenty of of game left. Cody: Yes. Jay: and I'm I am down but not out. Cody: Yes, yes. what else? Jay: That's it. I I I mean I've already kinda called the next two weeks based Cody: Sure. Jay: on based on historical data. We're gonna have Cody: It's done. Why have the performances? Jay: a magician, a dance act, a music adjacent act, and a a wild card. And so Cody: Yes, yeah. Jay: you can you can just put a put a fork in it the same way that Brad puts a fork in his forehead Cody: There we go. Jay: and and call it done. Cody: Yep. So looking ahead, Calvin and will be back on Sunday to preview quarterfinals three. may or may not have Ryan. We're still working he's he's busy. He's very, very busy. we're very fortunate to get his time. So if we can Jay: Too busy for this? Cody: you know he's trying to make a living, he's trying to earn a living, so we we we can appreciate that. So Jay: All right. Cody: yeah. So it we're working we're working that out. If we can't get him, it's perfectly fine. If we can't get him, it's a bonus for us. but yes, Commoner Knight will be here for to preview quarterfinals three on Sunday, so send us any feedback or questions you may have on that. Next Wednesday after quarterfinals three results, I will be here I think I'm with with Jacob. So Jacob should be here after quarterfinals three Jay: all right. Cody: for the postgame. and then you and I will be back again next week next Thursday to recap all of Quarterfinals theory, barring any other emergency pods that we may have to do in the me Jay: Huh? Cody: hopefully no one else has to go out with any type of surgery. and we don't Jay: Ooh. Cody: have so but if something happens, we'll jump on, we'll talk about it and we'll get get our thoughts out to you guys. Jay kinda mentioned it, it's been a rough week. for the entertainment industry in general, with Dolly, Jay: Yeah. Cody: Tim Curry. Today we found out Peter Cullen, Optimus Prime, passed away. was it Hayden Penitiary earlier in the week or late last week? So indust entertainment industry is getting hit pretty hard. Us Gen Xers are struggling right now. So it's we'll we'll get through this, but hopefully you know all these all these kinda had an important part in our lives at some point in time in the entertainment world. So Jay: Well, i I I I we did just kind of skim over it, but Cody: Yeah. Jay: you know, I have a platform and why not why why not take this opportunity to say Cody: Let's do it. Jay: like dolly really is just a a wonderful human being. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: And I listened to the Stuff You Should Know podcast that they did about her. I'm gonna go back and listen to Dolly Parton's America that Jed Alminrod did back in twenty nineteen. but like she didn't get mired in you know in in politics, in being right, in whatever. It's just like, you know, I'm just gonna do the do the right thing. I'm not going Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: to to you know the Dixie Stampede I can see how people might take that in a way that that is not very nice. Let's change it to Dolly Parton Stampede. Boom. You know, like let's let's just put good out into the world. And you know, there's there's of course like Dollywood and all of her, you know, big philanthropic things, but Even in all the small things that she did every day, it seems like she really loved people and she she put so much good into the world and we've really lost something special with Dolly. and and I'll I'll leave my thoughts there. do you have anything to add, Cody? Cody: Yep. A and she kept her her private life private. Her husband didn't want any part of her public life, so and I think everyone respected that, so you know they kept all of that private. Her politics, her beliefs, all that stuff, again, she just kept private and she did her entertainment stuff. Did you all benefit at all from her imagination library? Jay: it I know She has been around don't I don't know specifically if she has, you know, benefited me or my school or, you know, kids in my town directly or not, but i I should look into that and and know a little bit better. Cody: Yeah. Yep. Yeah. So yeah, so it it's really impacting. I know it's impacting everyone in the world. It's not fair for to say, but you know, I'm I'm here in her area. So this is Jay: Yeah. Cody: everyone's visiting the home and I think Dolly would even shut down for the day. So yeah. so yeah. but you know, as as we say the the world keeps moving, keep going forward. but we just kinda wanna take a moment to to Talk about that and reflect on that for a moment. anything else, Jay, where we call tonight? Jay: I I mean, can I also say I love Tim Curry? he's he put a smile on my face in Cody: absolutely. Yes. Yes. Jay: in Clue and Muppet Treasure Island and Home Alone 2 Cody: Yes. How long two Yeah. Jay: and Rocky Horror Picture Show. it's I'm Cody: Yep. Jay: not really the target audience for that, but you know, like what a what a wonderful human being. They did a on CBS Sunday morning, I think just this week, had a little story on Tim Curry and just he's d another wonderful human being that I'm I'm sad to have lost. Cody: Yep, and then just today, Peter Cullen, Optimus Prime, Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, so many, many, many voices that we we know of from our childhood. Ye Jay: Pooh Bear died? Cody: yeah. So bother. Jay: Sorry. Okay. All right. Cody, let's Cody: Yes. Jay: let's go ahead and and put a button on this one. thank you again for all that you do. it wouldn't be I I would not have done two hundred one episodes without you. Cody: Yes. you've done a few episodes actually without me. I think th not two hundred and one, but you've done a few. Jay: Yeah, but not two hundred and one. And every single one of those you had a hand in producing. So it it's Cody: I guess so. Yes, that's true. That's fact yeah. so yeah, if you wanna reach out to us, you can find us on our socials at AGT Timepod. You can email us AGT Timepod at gmail.com. You can go check out our website, AGT timepod dot com. comment and I'll be here Sunday to preview quarterfinals three. Everyone have a great night. Jay: Stay safe.