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• Cody: Everyone, welcome back to a special edition of AGT Time. It's draft day, baby. Cody Patterson here along with Jay: Along with J Bock, the first brother of the box set. along with Scott: Along with Scott Bock, who's the actual first brother of the Box set. so Cody: Ha ha ha Scott: yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: And I'm along with AGTCommenter: I can go. AGT commenter is here and then rounding it out we are we have five of our six. we are also along with who? Stephen Anderson: We got Steven Anderson here and missing he's enjoying his vacation in Ireland and he promised me a very beautiful Irish lady if we if we win this thing. So we're missing Mr. Jay: Ho ho ho ho ho ho I don't think that's how that works. AGTCommenter: Wow. Stephen Anderson: Minnesota Ryan, but yeah. AGTCommenter: Seems like he's making promises he can't keep. Cody: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: yes, we're all here. this is very exciting. Every we all love Draft Knight, right? Jay: We do, we Cody: Yes. Jay: do. I've been looking forward to this night for a a few weeks. it's always one that that gets exciting for me. I will tell you guys, like I do not do fantasy baseball, fantasy football, fantasy anything. people talking about it is like I would rather stick forks in my ears. Like I I do not enjoy fantasy sports talk. but for some reason people are tuning into this episode and we are AGTCommenter: Yes. Jay: going to try and make this something that you don't want to fork your ears for. AGTCommenter: Yeah yes. absolutely. No Ryan, like we said, which is too bad. he is the reigning champ, so he's not even here to defend his defend his title on draft night. But we are teaming up. So Steven is Steven is solo. it's Cody and I. Jay and Scott are the other team. Jay, I'm interested when you guys sat down and started to put it together, what was the strategy? Is it we're getting a list and we're sticking to it? Is it alternating like what's kind of the thought process over on the Bock brothers headquarters. Jay: Being the first pick of the night, we pretty quickly came to consensus on who we were gonna take first. And then it's gonna come around in the snake draft. We'll get two picks in a row from here on out. And so we'll have we'll each take one of those two picks. we put together a spreadsheet. We each gave all the acts a grade, kinda gave them an overall grade to be able to sort but we're gonna use that only as a guide. to guide our vibes, right? it's it's a vibes game and we gotta AGTCommenter: Yes. Jay: make sure that we've got a good balanced team and I think the the the team back to back is set for a really good draft here. Scott: Yes, and I will say we paid no attention to any of the social media following AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: of anybody. So Cody: Ha ha ha. Scott: we we are going all no money ball technique here. This is all just like I don't know. No money, no ball. Yep. Absolutely. Yep. AGTCommenter: It's this is nineteen forties baseball here. Yeah. Jay: All vibes. Cody: Ha ha ha. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Steven, you guys are the interesting team having one absent. How did you guys go about it trying to figure out your guys' strategy? Stephen Anderson: Yeah, so we w had some communication back and forth before he w he got on the plane. then I I got in contact with Minnesota mom. We she and I were kinda going back and forth a little bit. I'm kidding, not really. But I mean it's all seriousness though. Cody: Minnesota mom getting some giving some input. All right. Stephen Anderson: you know, we we have a nice I think a nice little list. we're not as like Jay said, we're not gonna follow said list. It's just kind of a guide as well. But there's a few acts that I think Jay: Did Ryan ag agree to this strategy? That doesn't seem like AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: He did. And also he also is like there's one there's one person or two people that we're looking at, which I'm not gonna name who they are obviously, but he promised me an Irish woman if if we win, so AGTCommenter: Mm. Stephen Anderson: come on, hum Papa, let's do it. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Our team, Cody, we we each ranked them and then we also we we are the opposite of the Brock brothers. We are we are in the the modern times. We are using some analytic data just Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: to help us out. Just a little bit, nothing crazy, just some historical trend things to to kinda make our list. I will say we will not be drafting in the direct order of our list. Cody and I did a handful of mock drafts earlier today. and There was there was times where the twentieth name on our board was coming in the top eight. So it it's it's there for us. But yeah, it's gonna be fun. I'm excited. Jam interested in your thoughts. We decided to s to change it up. the teams, what are you looking forward to? What what's kinda interests you the most about kind of this change up and and trying to do this with a with a a tandem? Jay: Well, first I gotta say I I never even considered having a practice draft. that's that's a little over the top, guys. AGTCommenter: took forty minutes this late Stephen Anderson: That was Computer's idea, I bet. AGTCommenter: afternoon, early evening before we hopped on and just Jay: Okay. AGTCommenter: ran of through a few scenarios. That was all. It was just Cody: Yeah. Jay Jay, I took the whole day off work for this. AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: Okay, so that's my first thought about teams. I think this is great. I I think that having deeper teams is going to give us some more opportunities for scoring. and I'll parlay this back to you, AG com AGT commenter. We are are gonna adjust massage the scoring a little bit this year. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: I I think that more opportunities to score points is better. And so instead of only the axe going through getting points if they're announced in that top five or top half or whatever it is that they narrow it down to the axe going through, like there's points to be made. So I think yeah, I I having somebody to bounce my ideas off of or to disagree with or to you know, shoot the confetti cannon when I make a n wonderful choice is is gonna be nice. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Jay: I I trust the other box he has a a similar point of view, but not exactly the same. We we are we are similar but different and I I think it's gonna really make us a really strong team. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott, I'm interested in your thoughts. so I believe season fifteen, Cody, was the first time you guys did it in kind of the current iteration. You and Jay were kinda one v one. And then since then I think Cody: Right. That sounds right. AGTCommenter: I came in sixteen, I did sixteen and seventeen, Ryan joined and Steven joined, wh however that ended up, but we're like six drafts in. Scott, this is your first one. What's how are you approaching it? How excited are you to to to partake here in in your first year? Scott: Yeah, I mean I'm I'm definitely here to to have fun and to make fun and to trash talk. I just hope you guys are ready for that. yeah, I like Jay said, it was interesting. you know, w we have a lot of similarities in our tastes, you know. But AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Scott: no surprise we were raised in the same household, right? A lot of the same influences in our lives. But when we went and ranked the axe, it was interesting to see, you know, the variety. Like there's a couple where Jay's got an A and I've got a C. or Jay has a B and I've got a D. So maybe I'm just more pessimistic, But yeah, it it it was surprising. A lot of them are, you know, A versus A minus, B versus B AGTCommenter: Right. Scott: plus kind of things. But yeah, it was pretty good. And also just to show we're not in the Stone Age, I had some really good Excel functions in our spreadsheet to like help get our you know like let me tell ya, it is yeah, top of the line. yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay. I like it. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I'm just gonna run through how this scoring will work quick and then I think we're gonna put the put the Bock brothers on the clock and we're gonna roll. so like Jay said, we slightly juiced the points this year, nothing crazy. We added basically an extra point available in the quarterfinals. So if an act gets into the top five, they've announced it that way in the last couple of years where They've announced who's in the top five and then the three from that five have advanced. You get a point for getting the top five, two points then for advancing from that top five, basically being in the top three of the night into the semis. They have announced, from what we can understand, there's some legal ease there, but they said there's no extra golden buzzers this year. We took that as the there's no live show golden buzzers. They said everything's getting advanced by the voters. You could a lawyer could look at that and go, and they're just not adding extra on top of the four that they've been doing. So we're assuming that. So that's out the window from a point standpoint. Basically, once we're in the semis, four points if you advance from the semis to the finals, which is up a point from a year ago. And then first place will still get ten points. Second place the runner-up will get eight, third six, fourth four, fifth place finisher will get two points. The tie breaker, we do have a tiebreaker due to Fantasy League a couple years ago when Cody and Ryan tied. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: If two teams finish tied for first with the same score, which is pretty unlikely with three, but whoever had the highest finishing act breaks the tie. So if you have the winner and the other person, you know, their highest is third or whatever, you win. So that's the scoring from a draft standpoint. We're just gonna snake it. One, two, three, four, five, six, all the way down to forty-four. just a heads up, I don't know if the Bock brothers, if you noticed, you do not have a pick in the last round. forty-four unfortunately does not divide evenly by three. So what we'll do is you guys will just have one less pick since you have the first pick. So we'll skip it on the last one. But the Bock brothers will end up with fourteen names tonight, and then myself and Cody and then Steven and Ryan will each have fifteen names. So anything else, Jay, Cody, anybody else that wants to throw on before we start making some picks here? Jay: Nope. Okay. AGTCommenter: All right, you guys are on the clock? Jay: it is it is team Bock on the clock. our first pick we Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: Did not debate this much. I I th I I think on the spreadsheet I said I think this is who we need to pick first. it is the act with the we don't look at the analytics, but the the vibes are that they've got the most momentum behind them going into the lives here. and it's not it's not a hard pick for us. it's Nene Royale. we're gonna take her number one and she is gonna sit comfortably on top of our on on top of our team. AGTCommenter: It was who Cody and I wanted at two. It was our we were potentially wondering if if she was going to to be there. I think it's a great pick. You mentioned it. She's the name that's out there. she's not a golden buzzer, so it's rare that that's not the case. You know, usually it is the name that's out there is a golden buzzer, but I would I would classify it probably as the right pick. Cody, your thoughts on on Nay Nay going going one here. Cody: Yeah, we we were gonna pick her a as well at number two if she was still available. I think it's the right pick. The analytics say so. I know that AGT hasn't really had a chance to analyze analytics. All this stuff happened before she kind of went with what a billion literal views out there. So I I think logically and and mathematically it's the correct pick. AGTCommenter: Stephen, was this who you and Ryan had number one on your board? Yeah. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. Yeah, it was. And I don't think I might get that average girl now 'cause that's over with now, man. But Cody: Ha ha ha. Stephen Anderson: we'll we'll see what happens. But I do Jay, that is a good pick. I do believe though that sheep as of right now has the momentum to win the whole thing. I really do. AGTCommenter: yeah, she certainly is the the talk of the town on the show. So congrats boys. that's going to move it to Cody and I at pick two. Cody won the rights to making this pick in our hot dog contest bet we made on the podcast. Joey Chestnut ate less than whatever it was, seventy two and a half hot dogs or whatever. So Cody, take it away, the floor is yours on what we're doing. Cody: Yeah, so we're based on our our board, we obviously are looking you know, the golden buzzers are as a trend looking at the high picks or not high picks, but doing well in in AGT. So we're gonna go with our top rated golden buzzer. Is that right, Commander? Yep. So we're gonna go with Laura D as our first pick. AGTCommenter: Happy to get her here. I I think there's kind of two that are similar. I'm interested to see if Steven and and Ryan go that route. But the end of the day, solo singer golden buzzers are always a good a good bet to at the very least advance and do pretty well on the show. So we think there's points here. Scott, your thoughts on on Laura D coming off the board here at two. Scott: Yeah, I mean, she's a singer. A lot of those singers kind of meld together for me, right? Like if you're the AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Scott: best singer or the tenth best singer, I'm not sure there's a big gap there. So might have been a little bit of a reach. Might have been someone you could have gotten a little later. in general, yeah, golden buzzers tend to do well. So, you know, I I wouldn't be upset about that. but yeah, yeah, not would not have been a a top even probably eight pick for for Jay and I. So felt like a stretch to me. AGTCommenter: Sure. And I I am with you on I do not think she's the second best. I am not. She doesn't get me super excited to be on the team, but I'm trying to score points. Cody and I are trying to to do our best and we're pretty confident that that's where points are gonna come from. Steven, was Lara D in your guys' sights as as somebody you wanted here early? Stephen Anderson: we actually were debating this, so we were seeing if she was available gonna be available in the second round actually. But yeah, definitely early. But I mean, hey, that's a good pick. I like her. depending on if you like the type of music or not, but I am someone that replayed her audition like seven times because I just AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: loved that the way she sang that song. So good it was a good pick. AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Team I thirty five is on the clock. You got two picks. We'll we'll split them, so take your third, we'll talk about it, and then we'll go to the fourth. Stephen Anderson: Alright, since we all love Golden Buzzer so much, I am gonna also go with a golden buzzer myself. It's gonna be a child golden buzzer. Miss Leah Noel from Auditions Number One, when there was like eighty million golden buzzers that first episode. So she's a she's she's a solid singer. and America loves children, as we all know, they love their singers. So I think she has the potential to do well. AGTCommenter: It was who Cody and I debated on the most on for that second pick between those two. I think they're kind of to Scott's point, those two certainly can fly together and get confused. early auditions, we'll start with L. I think there's some there Jay, your thoughts on on Lay Noel here. Are our our first golden buzzer or one of the first ones of the season going here? Jay: solid choice. Singers are they always do well on the show. It's a golden buzzer. Like it feels like there's some good points there. it does feel like, you know, one of the singers that might get lost in the mix, but she's got the chops to bring it. There could definitely be points there. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I I've come to the conclusion that Golden Buzzers are a little bit like running backs in fantasy football. Jay, I know you're not a fantasy football player, but they may not be everybody's favorite, but there's you gotta get one of the best ones, otherwise your your team can be in trouble. That's kinda how this this show has shaped out for this type of concept when you have something like the Golden Buzzers. So not surprised to see her go, here, Steven, you guys are back on the clock, pick number four. You've got your golden buzzer solo singer. Where are you going here at four? Stephen Anderson: Yep. Ugh see, part of me wants to do another golden buzzer because we don't know how well they do. But might take a risk and not do a golden buzzer this time. But what does America love more than children and singers? Which sounded weird as I said it out loud. Magicians. AGTCommenter: Mm. Stephen Anderson: So I am gonna go with James and Marina. our teamu version of the clairvoyance. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: That's a spectacular descriptor. interesting. I didn't I I I thought they would go a little bit lower. If they make it and put it together and it works, these acts are so fun. It's just are they gonna be able to put it together? Cody, your thoughts on James and Marina going here at four. Cody: Yeah, I'm really, really surprised at this pick at at number four, Steven. They're not really one of my favorites. They're like you said, they're the team version of the clairvoyance. Man, I hope it works for you, 'cause it as Commenter says, if they can make it work, they are gonna be enjoyable. The two performances that we've seen, it's not been great. So you guys may know something that the rest of us don't. Yeah. Yeah. Stephen Anderson: Yeah, we'll we'll we'll see. There's a couple I'm hoping that y'all skip over as we go because there's a reason why I made the pick where I made it. So let's hopefully it works. Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: Do you think that Ryan could get us like a reaction video of listening to this podcast? Scott: That would be great. AGTCommenter: I would I would be very, very interested in that. Jay, your your thoughts before Cody and I go parting thoughts on on James Marina F four. Jay: well I'll be happy to hear Steven's future thoughts why why this was picked so high. It feel it feels a little high to me. AGTCommenter: Okay. Okay. All right. Alright, Cody. That brings it to to the off season Warriors here at pick five. I think it's four or six on our board. Should we just pull a half back dive and take four here? Okay. Call it in. Cody: Yeah, we could definitely take four. so we've been looking yep, so again, another golden buzzer on the list here. this this axe been on the show before, so he's already familiar with that the with how this works. Finalist. so we're going with hundred fingers at number five. and so we're real excited to kind of have have them on our team. AGTCommenter: Back to back magic here. a very fun, interesting group. I I think it it it's like we said, we've got our golden buzzer singer. I still like the golden buzzer idea. Steven, your thoughts on on Hundred Fingers going here at five. Stephen Anderson: That is a good one. That's a really good one. I like it. It's the Maya's but a very Teemu version of the Mayas. So I'm I I like Teemu in case you haven't noticed. But AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen Anderson: yeah, but it's a good it's a good pick. I'm curious to see though, is it gonna get old or is because if we see I do the c the cards thing over AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: and over again, it's gonna get repetitive and boring. I like it. I wanna see if he changes it up. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott, your thoughts back to back magic here. your thoughts on Hundred Fingers. Scott: Yeah. those were the third and fifth ranked magic acts off of my AGTCommenter: Okay. Scott: board, off of JMI's board. So you know, it and I think Steven nailed it as to why I would be nervous about hundred fingers. Yes, it was impressive, but even AGTCommenter: Sure. Scott: in the single act it got kinda samey. Towards AGTCommenter: Yep. Scott: the end it was like I don't know, I've seen cards appear out of nowhere. I if I see it seventy-five times instead of seventy two, is that gonna impress me? I don't know. So yeah. AGTCommenter: Exactly. Without a doubt, my number one concern is we're just gonna get bored of it. But I like the value here. Alright. We got two here on the turn for the Bock brothers. Is who's going first? Alright, Rocket. Scott: Yeah, I'll go first. team team Bock to the future here. we're gonna go Cody: Okay. Scott: I think you know, I was a little worried you guys would all consider the singers a little more important than Jay and I did. we tend to not be like super into the singers, but there's one that was was at the top of our list. Not a golden buzzer, so I'm taking a risk here. You know, there's been a bunch off the board already. but I think this guy just has it. and I'm gonna go for Ashford Sanders. AGTCommenter: I love him. Stephen Anderson: No. Scott: So good. AGTCommenter: One of my favorite voices of the season. just a a fascinating audition. I thought it was really great. Jay Ashford Sanders for you, was this where you wanted to see this go as well? Yep. Jay: I love it. we we both had him ranked high. He's got winner upside. he could flame out, but I think he showed that he's got the chops to really to go deep. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Super talented. Steven, your thought on on Ashford here at six? Stephen Anderson: That's one of one of one of the acts I was hoping would be a around when I came back because that is also one of my favorites as well. He again that I'm not a Billy Eilish fan, but he turned me into a Billy Eilish fan with the way he sang that song. Amazing pick. AGTCommenter: Yeah, Cody and I had him in our top ten, so this was with well within reason in our eyes, so good pick. that's gonna swing it to Jay for pick seven here. You guys have Nene Royal and Ashford Sanders, so you're just the the you guys are just a singing group at this point. where are we going here at seven, Jay? Jay: Everybody else has a com no, a magician. and AGTCommenter: Yes. Jay: I think that we should probably get a magic act on our team here. no, he's that's Stephen Anderson: Akira? You gonna pick Akira? Jay: that's no show. That's not magic. Although the juggling trick that he did in Howie's pool was ex no, it was it was Simon's pool. Simon's pool. AGTCommenter: Yes, yep. Jay: I just A plus plus. Excellent, excellent, excellent. but this this is a magic act. they incorporate some comedy. I believe that they have fooled Penn and Teller AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: and won the big FU trophy. And I'm hoping to get the same with Young and Strange. Scott: Jay, I feel like you read my mind. I know we skipped over a couple on the list to get there, but I w I was thinking that it was time to take them too, so good work. Jay: All right. AGTCommenter: I love them. I I I've compared the they remind me very much of the the boys from the passing zone that it it from in a magic version of it. Like if they can capture the humor and the cleverness that those guys had, the magic is kind of secondary in a lot of ways with those two. they I think their potential is through the roof. their audition I thought could have been better, but I think if they can make it click. Cody, your thoughts on a third three magic acts in the top seven, Cody, your thoughts. Cody: That's a little strange, a little young and strange, to have AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: to have that. I was hoping they would be there a little bit later for us, Commenter. we were really looking forward to having them on our team. So that's a great pick. I really like them too. I I'm with you that they are very similar to the guys from the passing zone. I'm super stoked to see what they're gonna do in the live shows. AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right. That's gonna bring us to number eight. Cody and I are back on on the clock. Cody I think we just we just go down our list and and and get number five on our list here. All right, let's call it in Cody: Yeah. Yeah, I'm all for it. AGTCommenter: again. Cody: yeah, so we're gonna go with the Jedi Master himself. He's also been on the the show before. I'm hoping he can do better this time. He's already kind of advanced further than he did the previous time that he was on. We're going with Mr. Erwan Legal. at our number AGTCommenter: Yeah, well said. Cody: at our number eight pick. I can't wait to see what he's gonna do. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I'm pumped. We had him, like we said, fifth on our board. I I love him. I think he's I think he's the bet the most talented act of the season. it it's I thought he got robbed back when he was on in his previous season, so I'm excited to have him. Jay, your thoughts on on the sword the sword swallowing aerialist going at eight here. Jay: solid pick. He definitely has potential for points. danger axe, sword swallowers, they don't always do well. Airwan's got got some showmanship though. He he knows how to work the audience. the fact that he's been on before, is good because it might give him a sort of leg up in preparation. but also he's proven that he was not a winner potential then. So you know maybe a little bit of a outside the box trick choice. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Seventeen seventeen. They had the qualifier, so he just wasn't top Cody: He was on season was it eighteen where it was seventeen? It was one of the weird seasons where they didn't have right. AGTCommenter: two in one of those eleven person five qualifier deals, so who knows what what it would've looked like if he at least from an advancing maybe in a round, but he was on my team that year and I just thought he was so so good and I'm I'm excited to have him. Steven, your thoughts on Erwan before we we get to your two picks here. Stephen Anderson: Yeah, that was a good one. I mean I loved him in in the original season. I loved him in his audition. I was hoping he was back around for this one, but you guys got a good one. That that's a good pick. AGTCommenter: All right. You've got two here, Steven. Picks nine and ten. Stephen Anderson: I do. AGTCommenter: Where are you going for number nine? Stephen Anderson: We're gonna go golden buzzer. And I say we because Ryan Ryan convinced me of this one. AGTCommenter: Okay. Stephen Anderson: I I'm not personally not a fan of this act, but he is, and for him I'm making this one. We're gonna go with Royal Lasers. AGTCommenter: Yeah. had a feeling he was a fan of this act. Stephen Anderson: Ha ha AGTCommenter: it's kinda up his alley. This was very light balance. Scott, your thoughts here on Royal Lasers going at at number nine. Scott: Yeah, I mean it was our lowest ranked golden buzzer. but I liked it better than Jay, so I feel like it's about the right spot, to to to draft it. AGTCommenter: Yep. Scott: I I'm really picky on the anything dance acty, so yeah. I'm I'm I'm definitely not mad about this pick. I would have been happy to pick up, but maybe not for just another round or two. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: probably our next pass through for Jay and I after this next one I is where AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: I would have wanted But Yeah, again, we don't have any golden buzzers, so I think that at this point I'm a little getting a little nervous. AGTCommenter: Cody and I had hit had them at twelve on our board, so this w I feel like is makes some sense. Cody, your thoughts on Royal Lasers here? Cody: Yeah, I think it's a it's a good pick. I I don't think they're as good as light balance, but maybe they'll change my mind in the live shows. AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right. Steven, you guys gotta pick ten as well, where where are you going here? Stephen Anderson: Alright, so we are not doing a golden buzzer for this one. I feel like, you know, we all take risks in our lives eating Taco Bell, you know, whatever AGTCommenter: Mm. Stephen Anderson: whatever comes with that. Cody: Get you some lettuce? Stephen Anderson: Yeah, lettuce, yeah. We are gonna go with Mr. Guy Kelton Jones. Scott: It's an explosive choice. Stephen Anderson: I see what you did there. Cody: Hope everything comes out well for you on that one. Stephen Anderson: Me AGTCommenter: I love him. I I Stephen Anderson: too. AGTCommenter: I thought his audition was so great. I think he's he's very cool. The cadence was great. His voice is great. Jay, your thoughts on Guy Kelton Jones at ten here? Jay: I would have loved to get him. i we've seen this kind of act, we've seen a poet win before back in COVID era. And I remember back then saying like if if there was ever a season that a poet was gonna win, that this kind of act was gonna win, it's in the midst of COVID when people need that that uplift. But who's who's to say that that can't translate to twenty twenty six? And I think he's he's very good at what he does. and and I'm I I I love it for you. I wish it I wish I c I could have snagged him. AGTCommenter: sings a little more even than he did. His voice Stephen Anderson: too. AGTCommenter: was so powerful and really good. I think if he can and the poetry was good too. I don't want him to lose that by a means, but I'm ex I'm excited for for that. okay. Cody, pick eleven. Board is Cody: You wanna go next on the board? AGTCommenter: well, the board's shaping out interestingly for us here, Cody. Cody: Okay. Yeah, what what are you looking at? AGTCommenter: Well I'm looking at six. Six makes a ton of sense. I think nineteen might be the play. And I know Cody: Yes. You think you're ready to do that now? AGTCommenter: I well no, but I kinda am. I think Cody: Hmm. AGTCommenter: I think we should. Cody: You think we should? AGTCommenter: Your thoughts Veto or not? I'm fine going six if you want to. Cody: Yeah, I think I would rather go six. And and we can look at that. We can look at that next time. How about that? Okay. AGTCommenter: Okay. Fair enough. Alright, go for it. Call it in. Cody: So yeah, so we're going with our third golden buzzer of the night. sixth on our board. Arialist, right? AGTCommenter: Yes. Cody: Yeah. One of the b best aerialists we've seen on the season so far. We're going with Miss Veronica Gorishkova. AGTCommenter: Excited to have her. Cody: The yeah, the the bar that she did was amazing. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, v d rethought we hadn't seen kinda using a s like a stick or a pole for aerialism. That that was something a little bit different. Scott, your thoughts on Veronica here at eleven. Scott: Yeah, I mean, to me, Arialus th it it's like you get to a certain level and they're all kinda samey to me. It's hard for me to separate AGTCommenter: For sure. Scott: the excellent from the just very good. and so I just I'm a little concerned as far as that. I think she may be excellent. She AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: might just be very good. and I'm not sure that most of America can tell the difference either. so so I worry a little bit about that pick. but yeah, it it's the only one, right? So all AGTCommenter: Right. Scott: of the Arialus crowd It's gonna be voting for you. You don't have to worry about splitting votes. AGTCommenter: Yeah, and you make a good point. Cody, we talk about this a lot in our offseason stuff where when we get aerial lists or things, we're like, What's different from the last time we saw? Like, Cody: Mm. Yeah. AGTCommenter: did you notice any new moves? Your goal is that they add something very obvious. Fire, they're balancing over top of a vat of crocodile. You know, something that maybe is a little bit easier to see than her right elbow was tighter to to her side than her left this time or something. But Jay. before we we get back to the Bock brothers, your next two, your thoughts and then and then that can lead us into twelve and thirteen. Jay: Yeah, aerialists do well on the show. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: it is a a perennial points getter. So grabbing her is a is a great choice. I had her ranked a lot higher than Scott did, so it kinda lowered her on our draft list. But I think that she's a get and you know, like coming from like Christy Sellers was a big points getter for me and the way that she does aerialism, the way that Christy Sellers does aerialism, you know, poll, whatever, in an interesting way, her doing this apparatus is is different. And I think it's gonna stick with people and I think that there's some points there. AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right. You guys are up for twelve and thirteen. Where are you guys headed? Scott: Yeah, I guess I'm up next. So, Jay, we got our number four is still on the board. AGTCommenter: Hmm. Scott: it might be a little early Jay: Mm-hmm. Scott: for him. I also am considering jumping way down and taking our number nineteen. So didn't know if you had any thoughts about that. Jay: nineteen is pretty low. You had ranked pretty high though. I'd Scott: Yeah. Jay: I I'm okay going that direction. also okay going the four direction. I Scott: Alright. AGTCommenter: You got two picks. Scott: I I'm just I think I'm gonna pick number four. Jay can pick whoever he wants then, but this is after Guy Kelton Jones got taken, this is the next act that I would be like upset if someone else took him. If he was not on my team. this is probably my favorite act of the season. I don't think it's the best value pick. I don't think it's the pick that's gonna get us the best points. But gosh darn it, I wanna have fun and I'm gonna be Just mad as all heck if he is not on my team. So I am taking what they list as a comedian, Caesar Diaz. AGTCommenter: Hmm. Yep. first real com comedic act off the board. Young and strange has some comedy to him, but it's obviously it's presented as magic first. Jay, that's a high fourth on your guys' board, so you both you both must have really liked Caesar. Jay: Yeah, we we did. We didn't really hide that when we did our podcast together. and AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah. Jay: and we found like he his brand of comedy is a little in your face, right? and and this this clowning physical comedy is it plays well on the big stage and I'm hoping that he's got he's got the chops to really Make it through a a another round or two, get us some points. And I agree with Scott. I would be really disappointed if we missed out on him. AGTCommenter: Yep. we'll come back to you here in just a second. Jay Cody, your thoughts before Jay makes pick thirteen on on Caesar. Cody: Yeah, I think it's the right pick for the Bock brothers. I think that's definitely right up their alley. I don't know if it's a pick we would have made on our team, maybe until later on. Yeah, we had pretty low on our list, but AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: I think it totally makes sense for the Bock Brothers. It just seems like that's an act that they're gonna enjoy watching. Yep. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Alright, Jay. Pick thirteen. You guys have Nene, Ashford Sanders, Young and Strange and and Caesar Diaz. Pick five for you guys. What's what's the what's the plan? Hmm. If you do say so yourself. Jay: Just an excellent team. Wow. okay. there's a few golden buzzers out there. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: still left to be to be drafted. Scott, I'm looking at AGTCommenter: There's four, by the way, for people listening home. Still four golden buzzers left at pick thirteen, which is crazy just because there's a thousand of Sorry, five, you're right. okay. Jay: I'm looking at five, thirteen. no, I'm sorry. Number five on our list here. But Scott: Right. Jay: yeah, one, two, three, four, five. Yeah. I'm looking at five on our list. I'm looking at thirteen on our list. And I could even go as low as twenty-two. Scott: Yeah, I think at this point, it's gotta be five or twenty two if you're sure you wanna go golden buzzer. if you think that's a little early. yeah, you could go eight or again, I think nineteen is maybe a value pick here. just given I think he's gone up. I think we maybe did this rating before the callbacks, and I Jay: Yeah. Scott: feel like based on the callbacks episode, number nineteen should be higher on our list. and it gives us a chance to kind of do that thing where when you get two picks in a row, you take the two best tight ends and kinda suck the suck all the tight ends out of AGTCommenter: Mm. Corn of the market. Scott: the out of the room. So that Jay: All right. Scott: that would be my advice is to take that number nineteen, but Jay: I Scott: but I'll support you whatever whatever you pick. Jay: I I like that strategy. and we're gonna we're gonna go with a comedian here that we just saw perform this week. and it is the wonderful Latino Chris Sosa. AGTCommenter: I think he's probably my favorite true stand up that we have in the in the live shows. I I like him. he made Nicki Glazer laugh pretty good, which you know, she's doing she's done pretty well for herself. Steven, your thoughts on on Chris Sosa here at thirteen? Stephen Anderson: Yeah, that's a good one. Personally, I comedians are subjective. Comedy is subjective. I have to laugh if t if they're funny. To me, AGTCommenter: Mm. Stephen Anderson: I did not laugh once with him. I honestly didn't laugh with any of the comedians this season. I laughed more watching Kevin Hart's special on Netflix than I did with him. But Cody: Yeah. Stephen Anderson: with that being said, it's a good pick. I mean, comedy comedians never won, so it's it's a risk, but I I like the pick there. I think it he's a ro the right spot. Jay: We have yet to see a comedia comedian win the show. Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. Jay: And that's you know, gives me a little bit of of some some nerves there, but I I'm I'm happy with the strategy. AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah. All right. Pick fourteen, Cody. we've got some options here. my gut tells me we just gotta go to nineteen and pull the trigger. I I I'm not not super pumped about having Cody: Okay. You I was I was wondering that. I thought that's where you might want to go and I'm on I'm on board with that. That's fine. AGTCommenter: the act on the team, but I I think the the value is too great at fourteen to to pass. Cody: Yeah, so you're wanting you want number 19. Yeah, I'm on board with that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, AGTCommenter: I think so. Yeah. Okay. Take it. Cody: so this is not one of my I mean, this is a this is a good category. It's a fun category. Historically, AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: I've made fun of this category because it's AGTCommenter: Yes. Cody: it it beat some of our favorite acts in previous seasons. but again, we're going this would be our fourth golden buzzer. Is that right, Commander? Yeah. We're going we're we're AGTCommenter: Yeah, we're we're we're cornering that market. Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. Cody: cornering those mark we're cornering that market on golden buzzers. We're going with our fourth one. We're going with the acro crew. We're going dogs. we're not super excited about going with dogs, but you know, we we're gonna take a chance on dogs and see what happens. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Let's do this. Auditions one, notoriously known for producing high finishing acts, a dog act, two winners, and golden buzzer, also notorious for producing winners. So from a point standpoint, I I just I think they're gonna get votes. Probably not from me, but I think they I think they might get votes. So Steven, your thoughts on Acro Crew here at fourteen. Stephen Anderson: I was hoping they would fall because that's one of the ones I was gonna go for as well later because as y'all said, is it my favorite act? No. Is it the best dog act we've seen? Also no. But they do well in the show, so. AGTCommenter: Scott, you had unmuted, so I'm interested in in your thoughts here. Scott: Yeah, I I think you're right. It's a it's a voting block pick, right? People Stephen Anderson: Yeah. Scott: love their pets. that's okay, right? Like you're trying to win the game. I get it. but yeah, I'm I I'm not usually super excited for the dog acts. I AGTCommenter: Sure. Scott: agree. Not our best dog act ever, but you what? It's the dog act we've got and it's gonna get some votes. It'll probably, you know, at least make top half and maybe even get out of that that first AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: round and and and that's that's worth a pick at this point, I'd say. AGTCommenter: Part of it Cody: Jay, do you think they treat them like family? Jay: think they are family. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: part of why I was comfortable with it too is is a lot of our non you know, non maybe vote centric acts that Cody and I both really like are still available. So I still think we have acts that we're gonna be excited to have on our team around. But all right, Steven. Picks fifteen and sixteen for you two. where are we headed here for fifteen? Stephen Anderson: Okay. I'm voc a Cody because I also do not like this act I'm about to pick. But I'm doing it for the points, I'm doing it for Team I-35. we're gonna go with the community ATL choir. AGTCommenter: Hm. Stephen Anderson: Because who doesn't love a choir? Terry Cruz, apparently. AGTCommenter: I liked their audition. I did. I thought they were tal I I enjoyed it. I I also Cody and I's conversation all the time is if it's if you're a choir and you can if it's a good choir, then we love it. It it it's like good it hits. If it's bad, it's really bad for us. Jay, your thoughts here on the on the choir coming off the board. Yeah. Jay: I love it. Choirs are another points getter. They're a traditional perennial points getter. And we like they don't excite me and they're AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: low on our on our list, but like as I'm looking at what's left on the list, it's like yeah, they I'm I'm s not seeing a lot of of of of guaranteed points and I feel like that's a really great points choice. AGTCommenter: Yeah, for sure. All right, Steven. Pick sixteen is yours as well. Where are you going? Stephen Anderson: Looking at the rankings and the lists. And I'm struggling because I don't want to pick this person. And I'm probably gonna have to because who watches America's Yacht Town other than us us five and the six point five million viewers the show gets every week or the four point whatever it is now? a lot of teen girls. What do teen girls love? Cute boys. AGTCommenter: Mm. Stephen Anderson: So I am gonna go with a golden buzzer. And it's let me make sure I have the right pick before I say it because otherwise that's it. Okay, Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: We've been down this road before. Stephen Anderson: I do have the right person. he is a British boy, Mr. Mackenzie Sowell. I AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: had to double check to make sure that a boy was named Mackenzie. So Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. One of the Golden Buzzers still on the board. Solo Singer Golden Buzzer, which is a loaded category from scoring points historically. I would b it's not an exciting pick. It's not a it's not a fun pick, but sometimes you gotta eat the eat the vegetables on the plate too to make sure that you stay healthy. I think that that's fine. Scott, your thoughts on on Mackenzie's soul here at sixteen. Scott: Yeah, again, like I said, like singers kind of I don't know, two to two to twelve for me are all pretty tight. so it was low on our list, but it could have been halfway up higher the list, just the way that the the the singers kinda kinda bunch. aga yeah, I think I think you're right. I think there's a certain group that are gonna love this guy. so yeah, I thought you were maybe going somewhere else when you first described it, but yeah, I th I think I think that's a good pick. It at least, yeah. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: It was a descriptor of two different singers, really. Really. Yeah. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. okay. Alright, Cody. Pick seventeen here. boy. What are you thinking? Cody: Okay. Where where we want to go? AGTCommenter: I mean that pick was probably what I was gonna potentially stump for, so now we don't have to talk about that. You know I love eight. I'd love to take eight. We o we we I Cody: ye yes, I think eight would be great. Are are we kind of done with our golden buzzers or you wanna keep looking at those? AGTCommenter: There's enough where we still can get w one more, I think, even without taking one here. So Cody: Okay. Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: I we only have one singer right now. So I'd like to get back in the solar singing game and Cody: yeah. Sure. AGTCommenter: I wanna do one that I want to actually listen to instead of the golden buzzer. Yeah. Okay. Cody: Yeah, and I I think I know that you like her and I like her too. Yeah. So we can do that. Stephen Anderson: Thank you. AGTCommenter: So yeah, let's take a let's take eight on our board. Go ahead and pull the trigger here. Cody: Yeah, so we're gonna take Betty. Betty. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Betty. Cody: at at Stephen Anderson: That's a good one. Cody: our seventeenth at number seventeen here. Yeah, we both enjoy her. she was in callbacks, right? Yes, AGTCommenter: Yes. Yep. Cody: yeah, and she was I I try to remember, but I think I did enjoy her callback. I enjoyed her audition. I I think she's kind of a sleeper. I think I I I think she's gonna be a sleeper in the show. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: Yep. AGTCommenter: If you're if you're familiar at all with my viewing of this show, you know this is the type of singer I've always really liked. Kind of that more subdued female voice. I really I just I think she's really good. I think I like I said, we could have taken the other singing golden buzzer here, but I didn't really want to root for I'd rather I'd rather listen to her. So that's what we're going with. Jay, your thoughts here on on Betty going at seventeen. Jay: I love it. you get the momentum of the callback. so she's got that extra exposure. we've got she sings half English, half in Spanish. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Jay: and so there's kind of that Latino vote out there. I th I think that that's a really strong pick. she may get lost in the, you know, pretty girl with a guitar AGTCommenter: Yeah. Jay: wave, you know, there's a lot of But if sh There are things that she does to differentiate herself and she could she could go deep. AGTCommenter: Yeah. yeah, no, excited excited to have her. All right. Eighteen and nineteen are are the Bock brothers. What are we what's the thought process? Where are we going here, Scott? Scott: boy. I it might be time for us to get a golden buzzer. I don't know what you think, Jay. this probably probably might might be time to have one. Cody: Might might be time to get a quarterback for your team. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. Jay: Yeah. Scott: so I don't know. This is probably probably the lowest golden buzzer on a lot of people's groups, but but I think it's I think it's in line kind of with with Team Albibach and what they're they're going for here. So I guess I'm I'm gonna go with Ruben Roldan Bustos. AGTCommenter: Hmm. Yep. Our our one legged parkour act. interesting act. Interesting golden buzzer, not the type of act we see get a golden buzzer very often. Jay, Ruben is is on on the Bock Brothers team. Your first golden buzzer here at pick eighteen. Your your thoughts. Jay: Yeah, I we both have him ranked high, but much like Caesar Diaz, I don't know that he has winner potential. but I kinda want him. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: So I'm happy to have him on my team. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Tony and I had him sixteen on our board, so so it's right in in that range. all right. Jay, pick nineteen is yours. where are we going? Jay: I I I'm looking at number twenty two there, Scott. Scott: Yeah, I think that's a good pick. Jay: Okay. another singer. Another golden buzzer. AGTCommenter: Hmm. Hmm. Jay: another not a pretty girl with a guitar, but a manly man with a deep voice. AGTCommenter: With mustache. Jay: we get the military angle. we get America Stephen Anderson: It's a good Jay: two fifty. We're gonna take Isaac Atkins and I think that that's that's pretty good value. AGTCommenter: It is good value. Mel's guy. Yes, Jay: The Empire Strikes Bock. AGTCommenter: Mel's Guy. Steven. the last singing Golden Buzzer is now I guess the other one's a rapper, so technically, but true singing golden buzzer off the board. Your thoughts? Stephen Anderson: That's a good one. I mean, I loved his voice. Mel B loved more than his voice. But you know, overall, pretty good. AGTCommenter: She did, yeah. Stephen Anderson: Yeah, pretty pretty good pick. I like him. AGTCommenter: All right. Cody, all right. Our number nine Cody: What AGTCommenter: is still on the board. Cody: it it is, but I was wondering if it was time to go ahead and pull the trigger on twenty nine. AGTCommenter: it's not. Cody: Okay. Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: Are you gonna golden are you gonna Are you gonna golden bust me on this? I think we can get that act much later. I I do. I do Cody: You say number let's look at let's see, number nine. You think we can get that act later? Stephen Anderson: I don't even know what what twenty nine is for y'all, but you said it was such disgust. I was like, damn Scott: Yeah. AGTCommenter: When we I I I think we should go mm hey, how badly do you want to take 29 right here? I'm gonna I'm using it. I'm using my golden buzzer. I can't let you take 29 in this moment. Yeah, I want number nine, and I'm Cody: Okay, you want you want number nine? You want it? You want number nine? We got it. Okay. Yeah. So so yeah. AGTCommenter: I'm using my veto, my golden buzzer. we yeah, go ahead. Cody: Yeah. So Cot Commodore's got his golden buzz. We're going with number our number nine pick. Our sorry, our number nine on our board. Hey, come here. AGTCommenter: That's the name of the act, by the way. if for those listening. Not my favorite named act in AGT history, but I think it's a fun group. I think they did some fun stuff. at pick twenty, I'm excited we had them ranked pretty high. I think they've done pretty well online. I'm looking forward to to to seeing what they do. Jay, your thoughts here on on Come Here Going At number twenty. Jay: Yeah, I feel like this is like a bad Google Translate name. it's it's like in in Japanese AGTCommenter: It i it really is. Jay: it's probably a word that's like, you know, togetherness or, you know, you belong. And when they they put it into the Google Translate it came out as come here. And they're like, Well, I guess that's what it is. So we're gonna you know, it's it's the the stone on top of rock on choice. AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's it's not a f easy one to say and people know what you're talking about that like you're mentioning a an a a dance act. But all right, Steven, picks twenty one and twenty two are yours. We are twenty two will be the exact halfway point, so where you going? Stephen Anderson: Alright. I am surprised this person is still here. Mainly because Ryan has him l ranked pretty high and no one's picked him AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: until now. I'm gonna go with Mr. Gino, I can't pronounce his last name, Plodger. AGTCommenter: Hm. Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: that's who we're going with for number twenty one. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Our go ahead. Stephen Anderson: yeah, magician. America loves their magic and we've seen magicians win before and they do pretty well. So that's what I'm hoping does does the job here. AGTCommenter: Yeah, our magician from Auditions Two. Cody, your thoughts on he he did the little bit of the Matt Franco rip-off in in his audition, your thoughts on Gino going here at twenty one. Cody: Yeah, yeah, I'm just wondering if we're gonna just gonna see more Matt Franco acts, and if we're gonna see more Matt Franco acts, I'd rather just watch Matt Franco. So AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah, I I I agree. all right, Steven, pick twenty two is yours. You currently have Lay Noel, James and Maria, Royal Lazers, sorry, James and Marina, Guy Kelton Jones, Community Choir, the Atlanta Choir, Mackenzie Soul, and Geno. Where are you going Stephen Anderson: Okay. AGTCommenter: here for your eighth pick? Stephen Anderson: Alright. for this one, I am gonna take a risk here because we all love doing that. This we all love people who have a story, have a journey. we've heard those phrases multiple times over the twenty-one years we've watched this show together. this person has a journey in a story. Mr. Travis Garland. AGTCommenter: Mm. from from auditions five our dancing with the stars singers Stephen Anderson: Exactly. AGTCommenter: Scott are you a dancing with the scar with the stars Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: consumer? Scott: I I have watched more than you would think. My wife is a big fan AGTCommenter: Okay. Cody: Ha ha ha. Scott: as a former as a former dancer. I don't know, four if you're a former dancer. she she did quite a bit of dance growing up, was even a dance instructor for a while. was AGTCommenter: Okay. Scott: the dance team coach when she was a teacher. so there's been a lot of dance in our life. Yeah, for sure. she AGTCommenter: Yeah. It's good TV Yeah. Scott: loves it. I I I do always enjoy the Disney light night, makes me AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: happy. hearing all the Disney songs. so yeah. One of the higher singers left on our list, probably the most talented singer left on the list. the question is does America like him more than the judges? they seem to kind of begrudgingly put him through every round. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: I I worry a little bit that's gonna poison the well for him when it comes time to vote, that they're gonna kind of continue to give him this middling feedback. and but yeah, honestly at this point, such a quality singer, it's hard to not see the value. AGTCommenter: Yeah. It's interesting 'cause he he for those that don't know, he sings all of the songs on Dancing with the Stars during the the dancing that's happening. He's the bac he's the actual singer singing the song they're dancing to. And he does the widest variety of songs. And then he came on here and it felt like he was very generic to his full I'm like, You're the one with all the range possible. Like, have some fun with it, play around, do a song we don't expect. So It's almost like they want him to be better than he's been 'cause they're like they're almost grading him on a curve, the judges, and I I think America is gonna Scott: Yeah, if I could give him one piece of advice, it would be pick a song that's made famous by a female and sing that, right? Like AGTCommenter: Hm sure. Scott: you can't help but sound different than the original. AGTCommenter: Right. Scott: and and right now his his biggest problem is sounding too much like the original, I think. so yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Okay. All right, Cody. Twenty three. Twenty nine is still here, as I properly predicted. Cody: Okay. Yes. AGTCommenter: I'm happy to let you is that where you want to go here? Okay. Cody: You wan is yeah, I I think that's where I wanna go next. so we have already got live dogs on our team. Now we're gonna go with robot dogs AGTCommenter: Yeah, we w we do. Yeah. Yes. Cody: on our team. But not just not just robot dogs, a guy that dances with robot dogs. We're going with Unitry at pick number twenty three. AGTCommenter: It feels like at some point it's gonna flip and and the voters are gonna like the robots the more we s we are we just keep being around robots. I don't know if it's gonna happen yet. but happy to happy to have a little bit of an out there pick on the team. Steven, your thoughts on on Unit Tree here at twenty three? Stephen Anderson: That's not bad. I mean it's different and we want to see something different. We haven't seen much of that this season. the comment I made before we started recording was there's no clear front runner for this season at all. unless you're Nene and she goes on to win like we think. This is a good pick. AGTCommenter: all right. Twenty four, Scott, I believe this is for you here. fire away. Scott: Yeah, yeah. boy, I we've got our number six there. I think he'll be there for a bit. Jay: Yeah. Scott: same thing with eleven. Twelve I think we can get at any point. I think that'll be one of the last to go. Jay: I'm looking at fifteen, sixteen, twenty. Scott: I was also thinking twenty. That's another one that I think the callbacks episode probably bumped bumped him up. so if if that's on your list of possibilities, I think we go there too. I think we we swoop in before Cody can can can put his stamp on the Nashville sound, AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: and we take both butter and AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: grit. AGTCommenter: Two delicious ingredients. vital, especially butter. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: a fun a fun duo. I think they're just have scratched the surface of what they can do. I think my concern is they're just gonna get overwhelmed by the live shows and and and be almost really nervous, but there is a fun their their sound is very fun. Scott: Yeah, are they their best country act? I mean, th just being that, you know, or or AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Scott: one of the best is is gonna go a long way. There's a lot of country music fans out there, so AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right, Jay. Twenty five is yours. You've got butter and grit in hand. Jay: I think very AGTCommenter: There's no shrimp available to put inside the bowl with your butter and grits, so where are we going? Jay: We're gonna we're gonna go with I I'm thinking sixteen here, Scott. Scott: Yeah, I think I think that's a good pick. i Jay: Okay. Scott: it it's a little different. it's unique. yeah. Jay: Similar to sixteen, they're a callback group. AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: They've got the the the callback momentum here. they are on people's minds and I AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: think that you don't have to open your eyes to connect with me. I like Burden Byron and I am really happy to put them on on Team Bock at at this late stage. AGTCommenter: Eleventh on Cody Nye's board. I like him. I I like him a lot. it's in he is sim similar, is the nerves of the live shows gonna overwhelm him too, but he can really sing. I'm interested in your thoughts, Jay. You took you've taken a couple callback acts already. Is the assumption do you feel like it's gonna help, hurt, or just not even matter? I'm I'm really interested to see if there's data that shows one or the other. It doesn't hurt to get C multiple times. Jay: That's kind of my my theory here. if you like what I said on the podcast last night, this is literally a popularity contest. And exposure is how you how you get popular. And all these callback teams that go through have that extra week of exposure, that extra week of endearing themselves to the voting audience. AGTCommenter: Yep. Jay: This feels like the the right choices for me, more so than the Golden Buzzers. like the Golden Buzzers I think they're they they put them out online and get the clicks. That's not where I see them though. So for me, the callbacks are where they get that extra exposure. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah, it's a new advantage that w I'm interested to see, right? 'Cause when we've had second performances, it's everybody basically has done it, whereas this it was a select few. So Cody, before we we jump into twenty six, your thoughts on Burton Byron? Cody: Yeah, I think it's a good pick. I think w that's probably gonna be one of the ones we were looking at coming up, be my guess. so I'm a little little little disappointed that they're not gonna be available for us, but they're they're gonna be interesting to watch. You're gonna see if they take any of that feedback from callbacks and see if it helps or if they change it at all. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. all right. All right, Cody. Twenty six is ours. I fourteen is Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: gonna be hard for me, but you don't you don't like fourteen. I know you don't like fourteen. That's fine. Cody: Not a big fan of fourteen, no. AGTCommenter: That's fine. Cody: I'm looking at twenty-seven. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I know you like twenty seven. I wouldn't we've probably got enough in twenty four's category that we don't need to worry about that right now. Yeah, let's do twenty seven. Cody: Okay. So we're gonna go I and I don't know if they're in West Texas or if it's West Texas, but we're going with Jesse Joe and the ninety sixers. you know how much I love these these acts from Texas. Now Steven, we've had two acts this season from I don't know, either out in West Texas or West Texas. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Steven, your thoughts here on Jesse Joe and the ninety six troops going? Stephen Anderson: That's good one. I I like They're they were a good group. I'm curious to see what they're gonna do as we move on into live shows, but that's a good group. AGTCommenter: all right. Twenty seventy two Jake. Or excuse me, Scott, go for it. Scott: Yeah, I just want to say this is one I'm I'm bummed about. This is one I thought we were gonna be able to pick up like in the thirties, maybe even the forties. AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: I didn't think I didn't think anyone else would be as high on him. I don't think he's a great singer. my wife, AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Scott: who is a music teacher, Cody: Yeah. Scott: right, and the and a dance team coach, thought he was too pitchy and did not like it. But you know what country music fans love is authenticity. AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: Mm-hmm. Scott: You that how many country songs are just about those other fake country songs are not as authentic as me. And these AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: guys are authentic. And so I I think there's gonna be some votes there. and I think I I think they are the real deal. I think they just crawled out of the oil field and walked up on stage. so yeah, I am I am I am bummed that they are not on my team. I I put off drafting them for multiple rounds, because I thought that they would be there later. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: but yeah. AGTCommenter: Should have known that Cody was never letting a a West Texas act get out get into the thirties. Scott: Wow. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Cody: Ha ha ha. Stephen Anderson: Okay. AGTCommenter: All right, Steven, twenty seven and twenty eight years, where are you going here for twenty seven? Stephen Anderson: twenty seven. We actually have this ranked higher than twenty seven, but not out of the twenties. And I'm not out of the twenties yet, so I think it's a perfect time to do it. We're gonna go with the Jesse White tumbling team. AGTCommenter: It's interesting pick. I'm I'm interested to see what they can they can come up with. Jay, I'm interested in your thoughts on this one. I they just did one thing the whole time in the auditions. I I would like to see them diversify their trick portfolio. What do you think? Jay: I I I I think that they only tumble. They it is they are a one trick pony, AGTCommenter: It's a tumbling team. Yeah. Jay: but we know America's got feels. We know they are facing some certain diversi adversity, AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: with a a member of the team having recently passed. they're gonna bring emotion to the stage, they're gonna bring they're they're gonna have a great performance. Is it exciting? Is it enough to get some points? I don't know, but it's a solid pick, I I think f simply for the feels. AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right, Steven. go ahead, Cody. Cody: Who who who would have thought we'd have back to back Jesse acts? AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, this is the Jesse round. any chance Bird or Byron have Jesse in their name at all, because then it would be an all Jesse round. all right, Steven. Twenty eight is yours as well. Stephen Anderson: All right. I'm gonna go well Ryan and I are gonna go with this group or this act I should say. because historically they've done well on the show and I need points and we wanna win. So we're gonna go with Holland and Sienna. AGTCommenter: Considered it with our last pick. I I think aerialist duos do well. that is for sure. Ryan maybe trying to capture some circumaria magic here. Scott, your thoughts on on Holland and Siena at twenty eight. Scott: Yeah, like I said, it's it's a it's a a type of act I have a hard time getting excited for. I I you know, maybe there's a certain crowd that really loves to watch people spin around on ropes and kiss each other. there must be 'cause they tend to do well. I'm just not that crowd, so I'm I'm fine with it not being on my team. probably a value pick there. AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah. Scott: not a lot of aerialists. hopefully they don't end up on like the same, you know, Opening round act as another area list, right? And splitting those votes. AGTCommenter: Right. all right. Pick twenty nine, Cody. I think we need another solo singer. We're light on solos. I think it's time to take fourteen. I Cody: What are you looking at? What do you want to do? we can do that, absolutely. AGTCommenter: I I think that's the spot here. Cody: Yeah, not one of my favorite acts. She didn't impress me well in callbacks. She struggled quite a bit. I mean I did like the song that she sang, but she struggled in callbacks. The audition I didn't feel was great. But we're gonna go with Brooke Lynn, at our twenty at twenty nine. AGTCommenter: She is one of my favorites. I was the the callbacks was not was a bit concerning. It it didn't go great. And that's why I think she at twenty nine makes way more sense than maybe a week ago before she had performed. But if she hits, because her voice is spectacular, it's just she might just not be able to to sing when she gets on the stage, which Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: is would be a problem for a singer. So that's the big concern there. I'm interested to see if the callbacks helps. Jay, your thoughts here on on Brooklyn? Jay: Yeah, got the the callback momentum. well it's not something that appeals to me. I think AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: that it does appeal to a segment of America and she yeah, she she could get points and like she she does have a powerful voice. There are great moments in her songs. You know Put her last of the night, give everybody a a nice send off with a a Brooklyn power ballad, like AGTCommenter: Yeah. Jay: it there's definitely up possibility for points there. AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right. We're moving to the Bock brothers. Let's do this here on the rest of the two the two in a row. Let's just do the two in a row and then we'll talk about both and then and then move it on. So Scott, you go ahead. Scott: All right. I think it's maybe it's time for number six. probably a higher on our list than others, but that's that's pretty high to still be on the list. so I'm just gonna trust the process. and I'm gonna take this guy and I'm gonna put him in the back pack. we're gonna go with Cameron Logsden, my my bro from Omaha, AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: the impressionist. Jay: Yeah, I think we AGTCommenter: And then Jay: ranked him high just because he's he's a local guy. He's one of us. AGTCommenter: Sure. all right, Jay, you got thirty one then here too. Jay: boy. you know, let's just go ahead and clear off the top of our board, Scott. Scott: All right. Jay: we've got another callback here that's got some momentum. We're gonna corner the comedian market AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: by taking Daniel Alvarez off the board. Scott: Looks like no one else is starting a tight end this season, boys. Jay: This this Cody: Yes. Jay: is the year of the comedian. AGTCommenter: Yeah. logs in and and Alvarez back to back. w Cody and I had a Cameron in in our top thirty. I think it's a I think he's he's interesting. He's a f he's a fun pick. Daniel Alvarez was an odd performance in callbacks. I think Nikki Glazer kinda hit on it. Like he just seemed kinda like subdued and quiet. So hopefully he can he can ramp it up. But Cody, your thoughts on those two go in here. Cody: Yeah, during the callbacks he and when he and Howie kinda had their interaction AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: at the end, he was like, Hey, how'd it go? And I felt he's like, I felt like it was s slow and he's like, Yeah, slow. So even and and there was like no energy at the end of his performance. So I mean, I would like to have had Daniel Alvarez. Again, you can't go wrong with a comedian with a disability. They tend to do really well on AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: this show. So I'm I'm hoping he can turn around. I'd really like to see more of him. Jay: Yeah. It and he's got Howie's ear, he's got Howie's attention. If Howie can give him like those extra little pointers he needs to really punch it up, i i it could be a great pick. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Alright, Cody. There's a golden buzzer left, Cody. I think we just have to take I think we have to. It's the thirty second pick of the draft and there's a golden buzzer available. Cody: There is. I n I see that. You you wanna do that? You wanna do it? Is this number five for us? Is this is this our fifth golden buzzer, commuter? AGTCommenter: It is. I I hate him, but I think we have to take him. I I c I Cody: Okay. I do two. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: can't I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight if if we don't take a golden buzzer at thirty two. I think pull it Cody: Yeah, I AGTCommenter: here, Cody. Cody: I I don't even know what introduction to kinda give for this guy. We're going with Luke Tolino. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: I'm not sure what we're gonna do with him, but he's gonna be on our team and we're gonna watch him and hope he gets us some points. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Gonna be so funny when so funny when he wins the show. So funny. we'll see. At this point you're looking for if you can find one point, and I feel pretty good that all the golden buzzers can get into at least a top five of their quarterfinal and get at least one point. That's kind of the goal here. So Steven, before you get into your picks, your thoughts on on the go the final golden buzzer going off here at pick thirty two. Stephen Anderson: I mean if you didn't pick him I was about to pick so like AGTCommenter: Yeah. I my hands were tied. all Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: right. Thirty three and thirty four. Rip both here, Steven, and then we'll talk about Stephen Anderson: Alright, so thirty-three. I am surprised this person is still up there. And like you commenter just said, let's take him before someone else does. Gonna go pink beard. AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: And then at thirty four. Stephen Anderson: And then thirty-four. Jesus, I'm struggling for this one. Let's see what we got left. is this person still here? I'm going over. Let's see. Yeah, no, we're not doing that. Dang. You know what? It's the hell with it. Let's go lo let's go with La Russell. Cody: Do you need to call do you need to call Ryan and see what you need do? AGTCommenter: I heard LaRussell, are we locking that in? Okay. LaRussell. All right. Stephen Anderson: Yeah, yeah. Cody: Like La Russell? Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Jay, you had a reaction to the Pink Beard pick. that was a name that that popped there. Your your thoughts on those two? Jay: Yeah, we had him up in the top twenty and like AGTCommenter: Yeah, we did as well. Jay: he's got like some soul, he's got like some clearly an experienced artist, some songwriting ability, like there is there's major upside to Pink Beard, and I I really was hoping that we were gonna snag him, but I went with the the cornering the comedian market last time instead. AGTCommenter: Scott, LaRussell, are you surprised to see La Russell go at thirty four? Scott: Yeah, He's not my style of act. I AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: think I think, you know, yeah. Jay: Require upside. Scott: Yeah, absolutely. I th there's definitely some upside there. There's AGTCommenter: Sure. Yep. Scott: some voting block. so yeah, I I I'm not not upset about it. not upset he's not on my team either. So but we're at that point in the draft where you're not you're not in love with anybody who's left. so yeah, no ex Right. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. We're at the tipping point. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. I I just don't know what this act is. Is it him or is AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: it a group? Like I just don't know what it is. So yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Right. Yeah, we're at the point now where there's really no reaches left. you could argue maybe one or two, but I yeah, I don't I don't think there's really any any necessarily bad picks left at this point. So we've got ten picks left. Cody and I will kick off the the last ten here. Cody, my I Cody: Do you wanna look at thirty six and corner that market? AGTCommenter: we could I also we're we are We are light in thirty two's category and I I wouldn't mind getting in the business of that category at least. Okay. Cody: Sure, we can do that. AGTCommenter: I I think there's a chance thirty six will be back on the turn. Okay, let's do it. Cody: Okay. we're gonna go yeah, we're gonna go with our thirty second pick or I'm sorry, our thirty second ranked act Cameron Marshall at thirty five. AGTCommenter: Yeah, we didn't have any magic. I shouldn't say it. We had a hundred fingers, but we didn't have like a a solo magician, which I would like to have at least one. I think he can do I think he can do good stuff. Scott, your thoughts on on Cameron Marshall from Callbacks. Scott: Yeah, I gotta tell you the the individual magicians, it they might as well be solo singers for me. Like they are all samey and I Cody: This is AGTCommenter: I Scott: don't know who's gonna be just good and who's gonna be AGTCommenter: Right. Scott: slightly less than that. I'm not sure I could tell you what kind of tricks Cameron Marshall had done. AGTCommenter: Yep. Scott: and so I assume he stood at the judge's table and there were cards involved. AGTCommenter: There were. Scott: but other than that, yeah, I just not a pick I can get excited for. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. it's my I I love card magic. Shinlim's my favorite ever. It's a category I love. People are having a hard time reaching that pinnacle, but but happy to have All right. Scott, thirty six is yours and Jay, you've got thirty seven. take it a take it away. Scott: Man, this is tough. there's a lot of the variety kind of acts on here. and I'm thinking about going away from that, maybe doing our thirty nine. this is a that's a pick that that my wife was excited about and Jay: Hmm. really? AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: and and saw the advantage of. She she said that girls are gonna love these guys. so I think I'm gonna go with that. I think Yeah, you're right. I th I think there's something that Jay: Okay. Scott: middle school girls love and it's middle school boys. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. Scott: and so I'm gonna take Nigel music and Zaya rhythm. AGTCommenter: And then thirty seven J. Jay: Shoot. Scott, I thought you were gonna make this easier on me by taking one of these other ones. Let's Scott: It's tough. It's tough. I mean you could go twenty one. No one else is gonna have a twenty one or a twenty eight. yeah. Jay: Yeah. Okay, you know what? Let's let's take a wild card here. this is an act that nobody saw coming. showed up late in auditions. was not a no-brainer, not a callback. She just showed up. we're gonna take our little contortionist Maria. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Jay: And I think that's a great choice. AGTCommenter: I I think it's a I think it's a good choice with who's left. Nigel Music and Zia Rhythm. Fascinating pick. The second most viral act of the season after Nene Royal, at least on Instagram. Like remarkably explosive on Instagram. They stink, but remarkably explosive on Instagram. Jay: Ha ha ha. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: And you're right, the the the young kid thing is I think real. Nepws of Bruno Mars. Who knew? So I Scott: I did not know that. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I Cody: And and with TikTok voting now, that's really gonna change it. Yeah. Scott: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I wanted Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: them at thirty eight. We probably should have taken them even maybe Cody at thirty five, but good pick. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Cody, your thoughts on on those two coming off the board? Cody: Yeah, when you told me that earlier as well, I was shocked as well, 'cause you're right, they are awful. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Jay, I'm interested in your thoughts on getting them. we didn't Scott had taken that one your thoughts on on having music and rhythm, which two two good things. Jay: Yeah, when clear back when Mackenzie Soul was taken by Team I-35, we were AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yes. Jay: all wondering, is he talking about Zionia? Is it really Scott: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Jay: like c maybe? And I mean you made the argument for him. you just picked the other act that fit your fit the bill. So I think that's a great pick. Stephen Anderson: Mine was a little bit better though. Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: all right. Pick thirty eight, Cody. I think they made it easy on us. Yeah, this was the one you want to do last time and and Cody: Yeah. Are you ready to do thirty six? Can we do that one? Yeah, yeah. Stephen Anderson: God. AGTCommenter: and they is she's still here, so go for it. Cody: Yeah, we're gonna corner the four legged family friends. Yeah, we're the canine team this year. we're taking all the dogs. That's AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, we're the we're the canine warriors here. Yeah. Yeah. team woof woof over here. Cody: right. We're taking all the dogs. We're going with Olivia Befus and her buddies Zeke and who are the other whoever the others are, so Yeah. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: Yep. And we'll know We'll know by soon once once we get him in the building. can't hurt to have all the dogs. Somebody's gonna vote for at least one dog act. They'll get one vote. Yeah, yeah. It's pick thirty-eight. Who knows? Cody: Whether it's artificial dogs or real dogs. AGTCommenter: Steven, your thoughts on on the second of the two dog acts going going to Cody Cody and I. Cody: Ha ha. Stephen Anderson: I was I was talking to Ryan, sorry. Cody: Ha ha ha. Stephen Anderson: no, so it's a good act. I mean dog acts are good. you know, I mean th like I said, America loves pets and w and that's a good pick, so I like it. that was actually gonna be my next pick, so screw both of y'all. But AGTCommenter: Yeah. Stephen Anderson: we'll see what happens here. Jay: Cody, I think that you are remembering the robot dogs from Boston Dynamics and Unitry is biped robots. AGTCommenter: yeah. Cody: okay, you're right. Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Good call. But we have a we have Acro Crew. That's where our other dog Yes. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: Of course. AGTCommenter: So yeah. Okay. Thirty nine and forty, Steven rip Let's let's see what we got. Stephen Anderson: Alright, so I'm pretty sure y'all who has the who has the last pick before me? AGTCommenter: Cody and I will. Yep. Stephen Anderson: okay, so y'all gonna leave me with freaking what's his name? Dude the gets Dude AGTCommenter: We'll see. We will see. Stephen Anderson: the Gets Naked. So I know that's coming, so I gotta get points somewhere. So let me see. I'm gonna go with someone who I'm not necessarily excited about, but at the same time I need to save myself from the dude that gets naked. So we're gonna go with Elise. AGTCommenter: Mm. Our our our singer, she she kinda looked like Beyonce. at least in her audition she did. She had cowboy hat on. Alright, where are you going for forty? Stephen Anderson: Man, man, this is a tough one. No, don't want that, don't want that. Really don't w wow, damn it. You know what? Let's go Pet Petrox AGTCommenter: Hm. A a reverse dancer. All right. El Stephen Anderson: Yeah, let's do that. Maybe TikTok will like it. AGTCommenter: C and Patrox, Jay, come off the board here at thirty nine forty, your thoughts? Jay: I think those are two really solid choices. like Scott was saying about singers. Are you very good? Are you great? I'm not sure. She might you know, you again put her in that last spot of the night, give her that home run into the voting time. Like she could she could be great. Patrocks, he is a solo dancer, but he does it in a interesting way. He's the reverse AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: dancer. Like he he has a gimmick and that's what you need. And I I love it. I love both of those choices. AGTCommenter: Yep. Alright. Cody, are we got forty one here? I I I think the there's an obvious choice here. if you disagree, I'd be surprised. It's gotta be thirty-eight, right? Yeah, it's right up your alley, too. Yeah. So let's do it. Cody: Okay. Well you tell me 'cause I'm not sure what it is. sure, we can go 38. Yeah, I'm good with that. Yeah. yeah, we're gonna go at with this pick, Tyrone and Margo. Margot. AGTCommenter: These are these are not good acts left, so I'm happy to to take one that's above our you know, inside of our top forty here. from way back in auditions one, danger act. Scott, your thoughts on Tyrone and Margot leaving you with the last three here. Yeah. Scott: Yeah, I think I think that was gonna be my pick, if that was what was left. It's sort of the the least bad of all the choices. you know. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. Scott: s yeah, whatever. yeah. It is hard. It is hard. Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: It's hard to be excited at this point. Yeah. all right, Bock Brothers, your last pick. No no double up here. Your last pick here at forty two. You guys can take it away. Jay: Okay. Scott: Yeah. I I I don't think forty one makes sense. Jay: So this is this is the Chris Turner spot, right? Last year he was, I think, second to last off the board, and he came in second place overall. So Scott: Okay. Right. All right. Sure. AGTCommenter: That can't be. Jay: we're not throwing in the towel yet. Scott: Sure, sure. I like thirty-six because I feel like the analytics and the the social media following it it could give us something there. I do worry that the callbacks in this case could hurt him, that that he's a one trick pony. but at least he has a trick, I guess, that AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Scott: I like better than either of the other two acts left. But if there's one that you're like, you know what? It worked for me last year, I got a feeling. then just go with it. My vote's on thirty six, but but I will defer to you if you have one that you feel strongly about. Jay: Thirty six is the one that I want the least of these three. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Scott: man. Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: But like looking at our grades, you know, you've got a C and a D on there and like right. Scott: Yeah. You have an A, a B and a B minus. So yeah. Jay: You know what? I th I think Scott: I mean if you can draft an A on your last pick of the draft, maybe you're Jay: Yeah. Scott: a crazy optimist, but I don't know. Make Steven's day Jay: I I'm I'm gonna go there. Scott: and pick this one. Jay: W Steven, you're welcome. AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: Yep. Team Bock in the saddle is picking this for ya. Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: this p act has momentum. AGTCommenter: Mm. Jay: And sometimes the momentum swings side to side, sometimes the momentum is Stephen Anderson: And it does. AGTCommenter: Circular donut style. Jay: is circular donut style, yeah. but This is probably the most memorable of these thanks to the callbacks and I AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: I I'm not sorry to have Akira on team on team box. Stephen Anderson: Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I wanna do just one housekeeping clarification for the record. Chris Turner went thirty-fourth last year. So still very Jay: Okay. AGTCommenter: late. Third to last round. So very, very late. But there are definitely points somewhere in these last seven to eight to nine picks that we've just made. Somebody scoring maybe even a good amount of points. So you're right, like it's it's you you took him, so left is Sando and Brad and Tracy. And if you had to ask me like who's America gonna have a little bit more excitement for than of of those three, it's clearly Akira. People I think found the callbacks endearing. So Cody, your thoughts on on Akira not going last. I think a lot of us thought maybe Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: it might be last. Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. Cody: I mean I still had my golden buzzer left and if you disagreed with me at forty three I was gonna take him. So AGTCommenter: Yeah, you never use your golden buzzer, Cody. Jay: Ha ha ha. Scott: He He might be the most likely to get X'd in in the in the live shows too. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: Cer certainly, certainly. Cody: Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: all right, Cody, I'm gonna let you use your golden buzzer, my friend, here with our last pick. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I mean I don't know if we'll need it. Would you rather have Brad and Tracy or Sando? I'd rather have Brad and Tracy. Yeah. AGTCommenter: This is your golden buzzer, my friend. Cody: I I'm gonna leave Sando for Steven. 'Cause he is AGTCommenter: Okay. I actually I like that. Cody: he is a one trick pony. He does one thing. I'm gonna go with Brad and Tracy at forty three. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: The our kind of grotesque sideshow act, middle aged couple met at a gas station, I believe was their love story. lovely couple. He has, Cody: Yes, yes. I enjoy that more than what Sando does. Yes. Yes. Jay: They're a lovely couple. Stephen Anderson: Yes. Cody: and he's been on the s and he's been on the show before. AGTCommenter: yes. Jay: Twice. Cody: So we're yeah, so we're we've got lots of several acts that have been on the show before on our team. Team flashback. AGTCommenter: Yeah, we are we're we are the we are team we're team cook kickback, flashback, you know. we're groundhog we're we're groundhog yeah, we're the we're the groundhawks day. We're groundhogs day Cody: We're the re we're the rewatchables, com Commander. Jay: We're team kickback flashback. That's AGTCommenter: team here. Steven, you end up with Mr. Sando. I'll say this, Steven. One of the most viral Instagram auditions of the whole season was a was a a TikTok and Instagram maniac. He only does one thing. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. AGTCommenter: But your thoughts on getting Sando in your lap. It wasn't Akira, I think that was what you thought it was gonna be. Stephen Anderson: Yes, yes. So thank you, Bock Brothers for that. Sando was not near the bottom for me actually. He was in the top forty, but he was not at the bottom. So Yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay. Hmm. That's pretty near the bottom though. Forty Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: would be really close to the bottom. But anyway, yeah. Okay. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. But yeah, I'm I'm okay with it. AGTCommenter: That's our teams. Way to go, guys. let's do this. Jay, you wanna go ahead and read remind the people your fourteen names that are going to be fighting in the green corner for the Bock brothers. Jay: Yeah. we took number one overall, Nene Royale, our shredk knit sixteen year old young lady, with all the mo all the momentum. Love it. We've got Ashford Sanders, who's got definite winter winner upside potential. We've got magicians, young and strange. We've got comedian Cesar Diaz as well as Chris Sosa. We've got our golden buzzer, Ruben Roldan Bustos. We've got another singer here, a row of singers with Isaac Atkins, Butter and Grit, as well as Burden Byron. And then we're back into the comedians cornering that market with Cameron Logsden from Omaha and Daniel Alvarez. And then rounding out our group, we've got Knight. And Zaya, as well as Maria, our contortionist, and our no show artist, Akira. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody and I ended up with Laura D at number two, Hundred Fingers, Erwan, Leah, Veronica, Acro Crew, Betty, our our singer come here, that's the name of the act. Unitree, Jesse Joe in the ninety sixers from West Texas for Cody. Brooke Lynn, the singer, Luke Toleno, the tenth Golden Buzzer off the board at thirty two. Cameron Marshall with pick thirty five and then our last three were the dog act, Olivia Be Befus, or the dog trainer, Tyrone and Margot and Brad and Tracy. So er very excited about about Cody and I's team. And then Steven, you wanna rip off your fifteen? Stephen Anderson: Yep, so we got Leah Noel, James and Marina are teamu clairvoyance, AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: Royal Lasers who are the team of version of Light Balance, Guy Kelton Jones, Community L A T L Choir, McKenzie Sol, Gino Plogger, Travis Garland, Jesse White Tumbling Team, Holland and Sienna, Pink Beard, who I'm still surprised I got, La Russell. Elise Patrox and rounding out is my hopefully will go viral on TikTok Sando. So you know what Ryan? You have my number, bring her home. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: Come home to me. We'll see what happens. AGTCommenter: we usually wrap with this at the end. and we'll go we'll go just kind of in order. So the Bock brothers. An act maybe two that you got maybe in the back half of the draft that you were really excited about, your favorite value maybe that you're like, there's my thirty fourth overall pick Chris Turner type name potentially. Either of you or both of you want to throw a name or two out there. Scott: I feel like it's gotta be music and rhythm if we're talking back quarter of the draft. if we're talking second half, it's probably Bird and Byron. but yeah, those are those are the two that to me were like they went a little further, lasted a little longer than I thought they would. I will say we got all five of our top five ranked. Now AGTCommenter: Mm. Scott: they weren't our first five picked. so you know, we we know we're kind of weird and you know not everyone's tastes are our tastes. AGTCommenter: Yep. Scott: so I'm I'm super happy if you can get your top five picks and seven of the top ten, y you gotta like your team. Jay: We we may not win, but we will like our team. AGTCommenter: Yeah, for sure. Stephen Anderson: Zm. Scott: Absolutely. Yep. Cody: Mm. AGTCommenter: Yeah, Cody and I we got four of our top six, so felt pretty good about about that. Would we get Cody five golden buzzers? so we we got ha we got half. Cody: Yes. We're here to win. We don't care if we like our AGTCommenter: I'm sick of losing to Ryan and Yeah. Scott: You play to win the game. Cody: That's right. AGTCommenter: Cody, I I I think the the golden buzzer at thirty two is is great value, obviously. the back half though for us, I I think Picks twenty six and twenty nine, Cody. I look at those two and and one of those two singing acts, either Jesse and and the ninety sixers or Brooklyn. If Brooklyn, you know, settles in and lets her voice do the work, she's really good. So that maybe Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. AGTCommenter: is where I have some confidence. I don't know about you. Cody: Yeah. I I I think so, 'cause I think she could be good just so far she hasn't shown me anything. Also, the dog act. I think she could come out of nowhere and and do something. You know, kids and dogs. AGTCommenter: Yeah. and then Steven, wrap us up. One act you're really pumped that you were able to get with some value in your eyes? Stephen Anderson: Well, we got six of our top ten, so AGTCommenter: Nice. Stephen Anderson: I'm pretty happy with that. Pink beard, again shocked I I got him and I'm hoping he AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Stephen Anderson: can pull something off. Travis Garland's a good one, but the one I'm really excited for is Guy Kelton Jones. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Any parting thoughts from anybody? This was fun. I always appreciate you guys playing along and and this was great insights from everybody. So anybody else wants to throw in thoughts before we part and then we'll get out of here. Jay: this might be the most effort I put into the silliest thing that we do. Like it's Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: Right. Jay: just so ridiculous the amount of of effort, but it's so fun and AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Jay: it I really like it wouldn't be fun if you guys didn't also invest in it with me. And so it like AGTCommenter: Alright, yeah. Stephen Anderson: Mm-hmm. Scott: Right. Yeah. Jay: thank you guys for it for playing the game along. AGTCommenter: for sure. Scott, your first draft, your your parting thoughts. Scott: Yeah, I think it's embarrassing you guys have been doing it this long and you let Jay and I just kick your butts this much. You ought to Cody: Ha ha ha. Scott: be ashamed of yourselves. Yeah. this this was fun. like Jay said, like this is a silly thing. but it's so much fun because because we take it serious but but but you know, the the right amount is serious. So yeah, it it's fun to to do this silly thing and and just just put the hat on and say, you know, if we did play this like it was a real deal with real money and real stakes on the line, I don't know that I would do it any different. I would draft the same team, so so AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah. Scott: yeah. It's fun to be to be along on this ride. AGTCommenter: Steven, my last question for you, did you actually talk to Ryan there in the middle of the draft? okay. Stephen Anderson: No. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: All right. How do you think Ryan's gonna like team I thirty five, if you had to guess? Stephen Anderson: I think he would you know he's probably upset we didn't get nay name. I would say that. but AGTCommenter: Sure, but that was a little out of your hands, yeah. Scott: Sure. Cody: Yeah. Stephen Anderson: that was not on my hands unfortunately. but no, I th I think he'd be pleasantly ha pleasantly happy with it. Yeah, I I think it's I think it was a pretty good draft. And I to echo what Jay said, you know, it's better because of y'all are here and it it wouldn't be as fun without you guys. So I'm glad to be back doing this again. Hopefully can get a win this time. We'll see. AGTCommenter: Hm. all right, Cody, you wanna you wanna wrap us up? Cody: Yeah, I'll wrap us up and we'll kinda talk about as well as what's coming up. But first I want to see this is the first time Steven's been on this season. What you got going on, Steven? Where can people find you? Stephen Anderson: Yeah, find me on Steven Reports on Instagram X as we're calling it now, Threads. You can find me everywhere, doing everything from sports to politics to having starting a new podcast. If you notice the logo behind me, I'll be doing in October, late October, early November, starting kicking off with election night and then just talking about random pop culture stuff. I'll be talking to A G T, so I'll invite some of you guys on as well to talk about that. talk about the winner, whoever the winner's gonna be, hopefully someone from T My thirty five and you know, go from there. So I'm excited. We got some good stuff coming. AGTCommenter: Awesome. Cody: Awesome. so next week, live show start, quarterfinals one. looking to do the reactions pods again, commenter, who do we got for quarterfinals one? Who's gonna who's gonna who's gonna be on the pod with me? Gotta Yeah, I I think so. That's why I kinda AGTCommenter: Hmm. It's me, isn't it? I'm pretty sure it's me, right? Okay. Yeah. Stephen Anderson: Yeah. Cody: threw it at you. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I didn't have the calendar pulled up. Yeah, it's gonna be it'll be me. Scott: I'm glad you didn't ask me, I had no idea. So Cody: Ha AGTCommenter: Yeah, so I'll be doing quarterfinals one, which I'm very excited to to talk a little bit about who's gonna who's gonna go through. Hopefully Cody and I are doing a victory lap or two about all the Cody: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: points we scored. but Yeah, so I'll be on there. our friend Corey from Talent Recap's gonna hop on for the results pod for quarterfinals two. Steven, I believe you're hopping on for the fourth quarter final. Our friend Jacob Eliashar is gonna join for quarterfinals three. So you're gonna be hearing from everybody. and then obviously the fantasy crew will be around on finals night to crown a winner of the fantasy league as well as a winner of the show. So it's gonna be fun. Exciting it's always an exciting next six weeks for all of us to see some Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: actual results of this show. Cody: Yeah. And we're gonna try to get some rye analytics in. Ryan's kinda gone mainstream on us. He's he's doing now the the the the office ladies and how I made your mother and I think he's on with Steven, so he's AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: he's gone more mainstream and he we're trying to find time for him to come on and and do some Ryanalytics, but kinda s kinda stick with us. We'll we'll make it happen. but other than that, guys, thanks. This is fun. Love doing this every single year. and we'll kind of see how the the rest of the season the live shows go. Thank you very much. everyone, have a great night. Jay: Stay safe.