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Season 19 | Quarterfinals 2 Recap · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

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  Hey everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT Time.
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  Cody Patterson here along with...
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  along with the man who has a commanding lead in the fantasy draft, Jay Bach.
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  The guy that was just picking the axe that he thought he would enjoy.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah, well it turns out America does too.
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  No, it was a great week for the fantasy draft for Team One -Man Bander.
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  We are rocking and rolling and could not be much more pleased with how things are going.
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  Yeah, congrats Jade.
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  So it's looking good for you.
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  It's looking good for commenter.
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  Looking pretty good for Ryan, Steve and I were looking to see who can get their teams eliminated first, so they're excellent made first.
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  just holding out for that one that's gonna find points for you, yeah.
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  right.
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  We're just trying not to get relegated.
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  That's kind of where we're at right now, so
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  you go.
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  Avoid the relegation.
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  You're on easy street.
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  Yeah, so we're here for quarterfinals to season 19 quarterfinals to if you listen to my Results reactions with Cory from Wednesday night.
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  That was a really good pod.
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  Thanks Cory for coming on with that We'll get some more results kind of later this later this pod But we're here to recap all of the acts from quarterfinals to pretty good pretty
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  good episode Jay's got some stats they put together
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  do you want to talk about that now or at the end?
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  Okay.
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  through all this and then we'll talk again because what that also lead into who's going to be in next week's episode So we'll kind of do all that together But you know if you want
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  It wouldn't take much for us to fall to the bottom half, but right now we're doing great.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, quarterfinals too.
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  How you doing, Jay?
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  You doing good?
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  Yeah, I'm doing great.
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  The kids are starting school tomorrow, which means I start to start my teaching tomorrow as well.
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  Classes, my college classes start up on Monday.
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  So like we're staring down the barrel here at like life starting to hit real hard instead of, you know, summertime and getting to enjoy it.
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  it is, it's real and I'm ready for my kids to be on a normal schedule.
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  Yeah, before we joined we talked a little bit about the Iowa State Fair because that's that time of year.
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  the State Fair is in the rearview mirror now.
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  State Fair set new attendance records a one day all time attendance record as well as like the total for the year.
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  So it was it was a big year for the State Fair.
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  I did not make it down to see our friend, friend of the pod bandoloni.
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  I saw him like on his way to another thing and didn't
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  didn't even call his name out.
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  he was, he was there as he always is.
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  And, it was packed, man.
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  It was the, that, that first Saturday of the fair, was just cheek to cheek Cody.
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  was, it was not even fun to move around there.
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  So, I, missed out on some things that, I would normally like to have seen, but you know, it's, it's a fun thing that, that Iowa puts on pretty good, pretty good event.
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  So when you're talking like they set records, what numbers are we talking about here?
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  I would like you to guess.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So I think we've talked in the past that what like a hundred thousand would be like it's like a good year for the state fair for the week for the whole week.
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  100 ,000 is a good day.
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  okay.
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  Okay.
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  So that I'm to say for the year or sorry for the week that you all did a million people.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  kind of the gold number you kind of expect to hit a million.
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  This year, the total attendance was 1 .18 million.
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  The individual highest day was that first Saturday, 128 ,732 people through the gate.
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  Okay.
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  128 ,000 of my closest friends were enjoying corn dogs and fried Twinkies with me.
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  every, every day was over a hundred thousand, even the rainy days.
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  And, let's see one, two, three days.
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  2024 was the most for that, like, you day three, day four, day six.
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  So, yeah.
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  So big fair year this year, cracked a million overall and, and a new one day record, 128 ,000.
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  So going strong.
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  We're doing, we're doing great.
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  So there you go.
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  That's your state fair talk any other state fair questions.
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  Do you want to know about the butter cow or the?
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  Nope, that's
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  Did they do Iowa State or Iowa Ferris Got Talent?
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  Did do any of that stuff?
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  there are different talent shows.
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  There's like the husband calling competition and the pig calling competition.
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  Yeah.
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  cow chip toss, all that business.
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  you also get, there's the, the Bill Riley stage and Bill Riley has been hosting this talent show for ever and ever.
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  It's actually Bill Riley Jr.
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  Now who hosts it?
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  No, no, no, no different.
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  that's where I went first.
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  was like, Bill O 'Reilly, really?
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  That's interesting.
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  Okay.
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  Bill Riley.
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  Bill Riley predates Bill O 'Reilly, I think.
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  Yeah, so that talent show, and there's like a senior division which goes up to like 21 years old and the sprouts division which is like up to 12 or 13, I think.
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  So you've got sort of those two talent shows that run the course of the week and you have to like qualify to get into that talent show.
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  Usually.
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  it's like a dancer or a singer.
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  You don't see a lot of, you don't see much else besides dancers and singers.
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  You don't see ballerinas bouncing on wine glasses.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  last year who did a Rubik's Cube thing, right?
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  He had the, yeah, yeah.
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  And he made it at least into the semis.
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  He might've even made it to the finals.
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  I don't specifically remember, but I did have a couple of nieces that I'm very proud of that performed on the Bill Riley stage this year.
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  Did selections from Mary Poppins.
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  So they didn't get the results they wanted, but that doesn't make me any less proud.
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  Yep.
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  A quick thing on Mary Poppins.
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  I have a bird feeder here at the house and it's one that has a camera on it so I can like watch the birds and I always tease with the wife that I'm going to go out and feed the
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  birds.
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  She's like, Teppan's a bag.
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  So I'm like, it costs way more than Teppan's a bag these days to feed those birds.
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  Not a spoonful of sugar, just, okay.
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  Fair enough.
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  All right, well that's good.
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  Quarterfinals two from August 20th, 2014.
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  First act of the night from Team Steven.
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  We've got Legion, our Malambo group.
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  And their shirts, they say Legion, the Gauchos of fire.
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  I kinda want one of those shirts, Cody.
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  I think I could pull it off.
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  I think you could too, yeah.
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  these gentlemen are from Argentina.
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  They're regular jobs, construction workers, teachers, you know, normal kind of blue collar guys.
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  and then there's a cheeky and Tito I think are, maybe unofficial members.
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  the parents of one of the gentlemen, I missed the name, but it's in their yard that they practice.
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  I have feeling that when they get back, they'll be able to have a facility that they can practice in.
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  Yeah.
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  don't know.
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  I don't know that Cheeky and Tito want to let them go.
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  I bet when they wrap up practice, like there's some good margaritas and tamales that they enjoy together with Cheeky and Tito.
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  All right, so we got one gentleman on the trap set in the back and the rest are, first they come out with their big drums and they're doing the big drum thing.
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  They swing the bolos around they stomp they dance with their feet on fire and then Cody they pick up the burning knives They light their hats on fire throw their knives into the
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  into the Things on the ground whatever and some more dancing land with a big ol yell You love the fire?
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  Like he owned was not on your team, but how'd you feel about their their performance?
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  I loved it.
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  I thought it was a great performance.
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  Not just the fire, but you know, they're, they're real exciting.
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  They're a lot of fun.
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  I can't remember if we've had these before.
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  it the, the, the Bola Dero's?
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  What are the things that they're swinging around?
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  It's not Rolo Bolo's, take a drink.
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  I think they're called Bolo's.
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  OK, because we've we've had an act have those before, which there are lot of fun, you know, slapping the ground, you know, kicking the ground with them, hitting the beats, all
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  that type stuff.
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  Man, this was so exciting.
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  So great way to start the show.
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  Yeah.
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  way to start the show.
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  It's that full like
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  just wow factor.
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  Yeah, so that's great.
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  It does feel like, like it's both a great way to start the night and it feels like a very normal way to start the night, right?
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  It's like this is the kind of thing you catch the attention and it's so early on, you kind of worry that like they're gonna be forgotten about by the time it's time to vote.
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  I mean it's possible, but it's also one of those I think that they could stick around in your brain It's it's it's those Argentinians that have fire.
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  Yeah
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  they have the fire indeed.
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  I loved the adding it adding the fire to their hats, right?
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  We saw it on their shoes the first time they did it again this time.
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  No real big surprise there.
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  Adding it to the hats like, hey, that's a nice move.
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  I like that.
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  And it looked good.
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  Of course, they come out with the fire afterwards and you know, blow them all out and everybody's fine.
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  It looks like no facial hair was lost from
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  Nothing was singed off.
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  Sophia says it's spectacular, a great way to start the show.
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  She loves that they're not professionals, which reminds me of a non -professional group that we once saw back in season three, I think it was, the Tapping Dads, Cody.
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  right!
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  Yes!
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  right?
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  And their non -professionalism was endearing to a point, right?
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  And then it's like, well, you guys aren't really that good, really.
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  Like, it feels good to watch you, it looks good, but it's not like, wow, right?
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  So they might be suffering from like literal tapping dad syndrome here.
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  Yeah, I don't know.
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  I think they're that good.
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  I don't think they're one trick ponies like the tapping dads are.
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  Okay.
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  Howie says he thinks that they have to elevate it even more.
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  Heidi says they are mucho caliente.
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  She'd like to see, very hot.
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  But I think you would say muy caliente, not mucho caliente.
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  It's like, yeah, yeah.
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  Like you don't say...
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  Mucho usually describes a noun.
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  Yeah, it's it's numerable right but there's It's not a they're not seven hots right.
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  That's not mucho.
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  Call you.
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  It's movie college.
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  Just very yeah, okay all right Simon says the audition was memorable this didn't live up to the live show expectations and That's that's what I got
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  Yeah, yeah, I've got a couple clips from Leon.
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  One is from their intro and one is from them at the end.
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  Okay, let's hear it.
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  It's like the Olympics, Jay.
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  It's like the Olympics.
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  The audience gets to vote on how the Olympics goes too.
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  much better would the that's probably not a statement would the Olympics be good if if the audience could vote like if the audience could vote on gymnastics and figure skating and
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  break dancing.
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  That would be a different game, right?
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  Gymnastics, like they have very specific things that they're supposed to do, right?
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  On the floor routine, you have to do these certain passes, you have to do a wolf spin, you have to do this.
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  On the balance beam, you have to do this and these other specific things, right?
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  Like there's, right?
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  Playing to the audience is not what gymnastics is about.
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  It's about hitting those certain marks.
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  Yes.
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  If the game is playing to the audience, well then, you know, like you, you play it differently, right?
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  geez.
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  Okay.
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  The Iowa State Fair, they had a Mr.
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  Legs competition and no, Mr.
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  Legs.
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  And I was like, okay, I think I know how this is played, right?
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  You go up there, you have a little personality, you play it up a little bit.
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  So I go up there.
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  I have a personality the crowd laughs, but they were actually looking for the best -looking pair of legs So I got a participant ribbon and not a not a blue ribbon Because I
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  misunderstood the assignment
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  If it were a personality contest, think I would have done pretty darn well.
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  Okay.
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  absolutely.
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  Okay, let me play my second piece of audio here.
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  So now Jay, you're our resident Duolingo Spanish learner.
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  you, can you translate that for us?
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  they, said they want to thank all the people in Argentina for the support.
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  Okay.
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  I heard heard I heard mucho in there.
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  Let's see.
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  All the people.
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  Mucho gracias.
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  So thanks a lot, right?
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  OK.
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  OK.
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  I was okay.
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  Just story time with Jay Bach this week, I guess.
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  I don't know.
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  So I was, what were you watching?
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  We were watching something in Spanish and like I was kind of feeling a little bit proud of myself.
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  Like I'm catching words here and there, even phrases here and there as it was, we were actually watching the Spanish broadcast of a, of a women's volleyball match, an Olympic
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  volleyball match.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  So I had it accidentally pulled it up in Spanish.
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  I like, what the heck?
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  We'll listen in Spanish.
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  And so, you know, I said to my wife, like, Hey, I'm feeling kind of like, you know, like, I'm not just catching words, words, words, I'm starting to catch phrases at a time.
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  And I was feeling pretty good about it.
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  I was like, how does that work in your brain?
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  Do you like take whole sentences at a time and translate them?
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  And she's like, I don't translate it.
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  Like I just know it.
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  Right?
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  You don't have to like,
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  think about it, translate it to English, translate it back to Spanish, you like you just do.
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  And then all of sudden I was feeling not very confident in my Spanish skills again.
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  So, but that's what it means to be fluent.
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  Like you don't have to have everything float through the English language first to understand it.
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  You just get it.
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  You just do it.
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  So, so there you go.
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  That's what happened.
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  And I...
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  cannot translate what they said in Spanish because it came too fast and I'm not good enough.
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  So there you go, that's my story.
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  Should we move on to the second act of the night or do you wanna, Terry, hear a little bit longer?
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  no i think this was this is good
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  Okay, alright.
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  Second act of the night from Team J.
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  We've got Young Min, our magician.
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  Because South Korea's got Soul Cody, he's from South Korea.
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  I think you've got his intro package here, a little bit of audio for us.
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  Little bit,
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  like her.
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  She's like, that's a really nice story.
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  I'm glad you told me that.
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  She's like, hey, let's made it up.
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  And then he's like, he's like just kidding.
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  So is it just kidding like he just kiddily made it up or like, now I don't don't know.
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  It's real now anymore.
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  He did not just discover a magic book in the library and fall in love with magic.
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  That is not the way the story goes.
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  We don't know his origin story of magic.
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  That's yet to be determined, but it's not that.
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  All right, so...
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  Also in the intro package, Simon says that he thought he could have done better in his audition.
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  so Young Min says that...
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  he's gonna do better.
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  So there you go.
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  All right.
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  Young Min, he is the one who performs with the sand.
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  And so we're gonna have more sand on the stage with him this time.
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  And also like flower petals is sort of what he's working with here.
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  So he starts off blindfolded on the stage.
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  It's pretty dark on the stage.
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  It was hard to tell exactly what was going on, which I would blame production for that.
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  But he's holding a...
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  Yeah.
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  We're getting there.
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  We're getting there.
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  Okay.
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  So he's holding a thing in his hands that turns into sand as he's holding it.
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  Some sort of paper flower petals appear out of his hands.
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  They float up.
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  There's more flower petals that appear and fall to the ground.
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  Then he removes his blindfold and they show us...
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  how this trick is done where he swipes his hand across his face and the blindfold disappears.
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  It's like a spring -loaded canister with sand in it.
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  It's like really bad angle, really bad camera choice on that one.
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  did not do him any favors on that angle.
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  Let's just zoom in right into his face when he's trying to do this magic trick.
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  All right, so they show us how that trick is done.
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  It's kind of disappointing More flower petals fall around him, but one of them floats up like up over his head and lands down on his hands again Then a bunch of flower petals
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  combine into one lotus flower that he places on this prop in front of him Produces a light in this lotus it floats up to the rafters like those first flower petals did Then he young
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  min disappears into
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  flower petals into the darkness of the stage.
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  This was not the smoothest magic performance we've seen.
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  I'm nervous that there was not enough of a wow factor for him to make it into the next round.
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  I'm especially nervous because he, because production kinda screwed the pooch on that one.
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  But, you know, he has sort of that mystical presentation about him.
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  The disappearing at the end of it was pretty well done.
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  All in all, like, I'm not unhappy with it.
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  I just, I do think that it could have been better.
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  Yeah, I was not into this performance at all.
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  I was really into his audition.
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  But for some reason when he did this one, especially with production kind of ruining it right there at the beginning, I lost interest almost immediately.
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  It didn't do anything for me.
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  I thought it was rather slow.
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  I thought it was rather boring.
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  And with it being dark, it didn't.
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  There's a lot of stuff hidden because of the darkness.
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  So it's not like he was doing a lot of stuff out in the open.
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  So, yeah, it just it didn't do a whole lot for me at all.
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  Yeah, that's fair.
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  You know, the judges comments, which I'll get to in a second here, are more glowing.
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  But I feel like the TV edit that we saw was like, I'm not sure that I would say that.
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  Heidi says it's mystical and magical and different from other magicians.
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  Sophia says he's one of her favorite magic acts on AGT.
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  Simon says the audition was not something he loved, but this was better.
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  And he had his moment.
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  and Howie says he's one of the best magicians he's ever seen.
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  high praise from the judges, but they didn't see what we saw.
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  No, no, they didn't see what we saw and it must have been that a lot of people at home didn't see what we saw.
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  Now we're looking a little closer than probably the average viewer.
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  And so we probably noticed things that the average viewer wouldn't have noticed.
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  Yeah, Yeah, well, you know, Team J is feeling like, maybe not looking at getting points from that one, but I've got a lot of acts on the board tonight.
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  There's still points out there for me.
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  Which brings us to the third act of the night, also from Team J.
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  We're looking at Alex Sampson.
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  He's our singer from Atococan, Canada.
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  I looked it up, it was right between Thunder Bay and International Falls.
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  If you're driving north of Minnesota, across Canada there, I might have driven past Auto -Kokan last summer on our road trip, on our way back from Niagara.
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  So so he's the one that's close to Minnesota.
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  I think I said during our draft that the rec laws are close to Minnesota.
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  It's him that's close to Minnesota.
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  OK.
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  rec laws are close to Michigan.
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  So Otto Kocan's got 2 ,300 people in it.
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  Not a large town, not the smallest that I've lived in either.
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  So he's going to get a full band with him this time.
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  He's got drums, guitar, bass, and a backing track.
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  There's backup vocals and some strings and stuff there too.
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  Gonna sing a song, an original called, If You Were My Girl.
• 24:47
  Cody, play a little bit of it for us.
• 25:58
  So is Alex gonna bring Dewa back?
• 26:03
  That is what the judges want.
• 26:06
  That's what Simon wants, right?
• 26:08
  He says that you've found this lane, the audience is responding to it, roll with it, right?
• 26:15
  I like this 50s kind of oldies love song vibe, right?
• 26:23
  The reverb cranked up on the guitar, the real simple ta -ta -ta -ta -ta -ta on the, just a simple...
• 26:32
  backing track, the harmonies, the melody, it all feels very...
• 26:39
  It feels like I could sing along, but I don't know the song.
• 26:43
  Like it feels like something I've heard a hundred times before, but I don't know the song.
• 26:49
  like there's sort of a warm nostalgia to it that feels good to me.
• 26:56
  I respond well to this.
• 26:57
  I don't know if everybody does, but I liked this.
• 27:00
  Yeah, I kind of liked it too.
• 27:01
  I didn't think he hit all the notes appropriately, but I loved the, I loved the song.
• 27:06
  I thought the song was fun.
• 27:07
  I thought the tune is fun.
• 27:08
  I liked that he's kind of doing something different.
• 27:11
  He's doing not only original, but he's bringing back like an old school style of music.
• 27:17
  That's just a lot of fun.
• 27:18
  Yeah.
• 27:20
  Yeah.
• 27:22
  it was not a perfect performance.
• 27:23
  There was notes that he strained for that he didn't hit perfectly, but it was was perfectly pleasant.
• 27:30
  And I think everybody except for Sophia stood for this one.
• 27:33
  So, you know, they were the judges were responding to it.
• 27:40
  He has some, you know, million plus followers on TikTok or whichever platform it is.
• 27:46
  And
• 27:48
  I think that that bodes well for him, but you still have to show up, right?
• 27:53
  Like just because you have followers doesn't mean those followers are going to vote for you.
• 27:56
  Right.
• 27:59
  So that is, yeah, I like this.
• 28:04
  It kind of reminds me a little bit of who is our crooners, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.
• 28:16
  It kind of has that sort of feel to it.
• 28:18
  Like you're a young guy, but you also have this old classic soul to you, right?
• 28:25
  Yeah.
• 28:26
  Who is our New York guy?
• 28:28
  Sal, Sal Valentinetti.
• 28:31
  Kind of the same sort of lane, right?
• 28:33
  So I'm happy to see this kind of do on the show again, I guess.
• 28:39
  I'll say that.
• 28:40
  So Heidi says,
• 28:41
  to those two guys' credit, they did pretty well on AGT.
• 28:45
  Yes, so.
• 28:47
  Yeah.
• 28:48
  I can jog my memory to remember their names.
• 28:51
  Maybe not right at the tip of my tongue.
• 28:54
  Heidi says she wants to be his girl.
• 28:57
  JK actually, she's happily married, but he's a gem.
• 29:01
  Yeah.
• 29:02
  I think she's also older, maybe her be his mom.
• 29:05
  Okay, okay.
• 29:07
  yeah.
• 29:10
  Sure.
• 29:10
  Absolutely.
• 29:11
  It could be his mom.
• 29:12
  Yeah.
• 29:12
  But yeah.
• 29:13
  Age doesn't matter, age is not a thing, but...
• 29:16
  Yeah.
• 29:18
  Yeah.
• 29:19
  Yeah, that's right.
• 29:20
  I'm not gonna get in anybody's way.
• 29:22
  And Heidi is a perfectly beautiful woman as well.
• 29:25
  So I want to be on the record to say as much.
• 29:31
  Sophia says he's a star.
• 29:32
  The original song was perfect.
• 29:34
  Simon said he could tell that he was nervous and there were some intonation issues, but the audition and this song, he's made a lane for himself and the audience responded to it.
• 29:43
  And then how he says he's a star he's a cross between Shawn Mendes and Chris Isaacs
• 29:51
  Do have any Shawn Mendes or Chris Isaacs in the playlist, Cody?
• 29:56
  Yeah, me too.
• 29:59
  I don't know who they are.
• 30:01
  I I I've heard the names.
• 30:03
  I don't know any of their music.
• 30:07
  So he talked in the intro package that they put together.
• 30:09
  The family put together like a big watch party.
• 30:13
  Do they get AGT in Canada?
• 30:18
  They must, and if not, they bootleg it somehow.
• 30:21
  they getting it over the air from Minnesota?
• 30:24
  Okay, it was not that far.
• 30:27
  I mean, it could be that far away.
• 30:29
  Okay.
• 30:29
  I don't like Canada's not that different from America, Cody.
• 30:34
  I wouldn't be that surprised if they have got talent in Canada.
• 30:38
  America's got talent.
• 30:40
  said, they don't broadcast Canada's Got Talent here.
• 30:42
  right they're not allowed to vote in America's Got Talent that's kind of the thing so that's you know one of the responses to like why do they call it America's Got Talent the
• 30:54
  America like they're not Americans they're Canadians and they're from all over the world like well Americans are the ones who vote on it so like that's
• 31:03
  they could vote if they knew of a certain way to do it.
• 31:06
  There are ways to vote.
• 31:08
  Yes.
• 31:09
  It's broadcast in America on American TV.
• 31:13
  The voters are Americans.
• 31:15
  It's America's Got Talent.
• 31:18
  So, all right, okay.
• 31:21
  You ready to move on to the fourth act of the night?
• 31:24
  Another one from Team J.
• 31:29
  Cody, this is like sink or swim night for me, right?
• 31:33
  Like I'm either gonna have a really good night or a really bad, really bad draft.
• 31:39
  Really bad rest of the season.
• 31:41
  So next act of the night is B -boy Samuca.
• 31:44
  He's our one -legged break dancer from Brasilia, Brazil.
• 31:49
  He says he wants to be a dancer, not a disabled dancer.
• 31:53
  We often hear this from people who are doing this kind of thing, right?
• 31:57
  Like, I don't want to be known as the one who's...
• 32:02
  crippled doing this.
• 32:03
  want to be the just I want to be doing this.
• 32:06
  So he's going to start off holding one of his crutches in both hands and he's going to jump over it.
• 32:12
  That was a nice, nice start.
• 32:16
  Goes into a bunch of other break dancing moves.
• 32:21
  Nothing like particularly unique that I hadn't seen before.
• 32:26
  He does do a lot of walking around on his hands.
• 32:30
  And I'll say the thing that kind of sets him apart from other break dancers that we see is the fact that his balance is different because he's missing that the weight from a second
• 32:42
  leg, right?
• 32:43
  So when he walks around on his hands, it seems like he's doing it in a way that that's surprising or unnatural or in a way that makes you kind of like take notice, right?
• 32:53
  Like, wow, that's really impressive.
• 32:55
  Wow, I didn't, wow.
• 32:57
  Every time he sort of has his balance.
• 32:59
  shifted differently than what I would expect, I'm reminded how impressive it is.
• 33:07
  yeah, really great performance.
• 33:11
  Cody, I didn't watch any breakdancing other than Ray Gun, who I couldn't have avoided.
• 33:18
  I would say this was better than Ray Gun.
• 33:21
  Yes
• 33:23
  But I'm curious, maybe you watched some Olympic breakdancing.
• 33:26
  How does this compare?
• 33:27
  I will be honest.
• 33:29
  I did not watch any break breaking either did not watch one second of it.
• 33:33
  No was not interested in the breaking.
• 33:35
  Yeah, it was not interested in it at all.
• 33:38
  They did talk about he and Terry were actually there at the Olympics and Sophia or one of them asked so you could be to the Olympics.
• 33:48
  I'm like he if he competed in the Olympics, it would be the Para Olympics.
• 33:52
  No, no, Cody, you can be a para -athlete and compete in the standard Olympics.
• 33:59
  Well, that doesn't seem right.
• 34:01
  If I'm a regular athlete, I should be able to also compete in the Paralympics.
• 34:05
  No, that's not how it works.
• 34:07
  There's a gentleman from Iowa with no arms who competed in archery, uses his legs as his, whatever, his appendages to run the arrow, and he competed and not in, I didn't see
• 34:22
  anything in the most recent Olympics, but in the last Olympics, he completed, and I want to say meddled in archery.
• 34:30
  Yeah, you may not remember this.
• 34:32
  This was probably early 2000s maybe.
• 34:36
  The sprinter from South Africa that had the double amputee.
• 34:43
  What was his name?
• 34:45
  He went to prison for something, something like that.
• 34:49
  Yeah, but he had double amputee and he
• 34:52
  Pistorius.
• 34:53
  Nope.
• 34:55
  Yeah, Jaco Pistorius is a bass player.
• 35:00
  But yeah, that was a big controversy back then is that he would have these, you know, these blades that he's running on.
• 35:05
  And does that give him an advantage over the other runners?
• 35:08
  Come to find out it gave him no advantage at all.
• 35:11
  Oscar's Vastorius Oscar's Vastorius.
• 35:12
  Yeah.
• 35:14
  Come to find out it gave him no advantage whatsoever.
• 35:16
  Yeah.
• 35:18
  if you have blades that give you an unnatural advantage, maybe you shouldn't have that advantage, right?
• 35:28
  But you know, if you're built like Michael Phelps, maybe you shouldn't have that advantage for swimming.
• 35:32
  It doesn't seem fair, right?
• 35:34
  Not fair, he swims faster than me, right?
• 35:37
  Well, I don't know.
• 35:41
  At what point, like should we make everybody run without shoes?
• 35:44
  Would that be more fair?
• 35:47
  You know, like not to mention, you know, the the the female athletes that have, you know, unnaturally high testosterone.
• 35:56
  Is that fair?
• 35:57
  I don't know.
• 36:01
  We're going down a rabbit hole that
• 36:04
  that's not the the route I wanted to go down, but I was kind of being funny and But yeah, my whole thing was if he was in the Olympics he would be in the Paralympics which I think
• 36:14
  he could He could probably qualify.
• 36:17
  I mean he's too late now, but I think he would be his his Skill would be enough that he would have been able to compete and qualify for the Paralympics Yeah
• 36:27
  do they have breaking in the Paralympics?
• 36:29
  I don't know.
• 36:31
  But kind of a curious thing anyhow.
• 36:34
  I think, I don't know, he could have competed in the normal able -bodied Olympics, even though he has Paralympic stature.
• 36:48
  All right, Howie says he's truly amazing, inspirational, wow moment, and he rose the bar.
• 36:53
  Heidi says he's in awe of his power and strength.
• 36:55
  Sophia says he's incredible and an amazing dancer.
• 36:59
  Simon says the crowd loved it.
• 37:01
  He is the best act of the night so far.
• 37:05
  Yeah.
• 37:07
  Yeah, I he added that qualifier on and we'll kind of get to it later on and it is early but still I think I think how he's made that joke before like each Act that came out.
• 37:20
  They're like you're the best so far.
• 37:22
  You're the best so far.
• 37:23
  You're the best
• 37:24
  It hits particularly well for the first act of the night, right?
• 37:29
  So there you, all right.
• 37:30
  That's typical Howie, Howie comedy.
• 37:34
  All right.
• 37:35
  Fifth act of the night, we're going to a singer, Brooke Bailey from Granada Hills, LA, California.
• 37:41
  Gonna do a song called Dancing on My Own by Robin.
• 37:45
  It's an emotional song.
• 37:46
  You can see the emotion on her face.
• 37:48
  You can hear the emotion in her performance.
• 37:51
  I thought this was perfectly lovely.
• 37:54
  but it was not a song that I'm going to carry with me.
• 37:57
  It's not something that I feel like is something that's going to just really land with America.
• 38:06
  But I'm not sorry that I heard it.
• 38:08
  I just don't know that it's, you know, semi -finals quality performance.
• 38:14
  Yeah, I thought it was a fine song.
• 38:16
  I thought she did a pretty good job.
• 38:17
  I think she looked fabulous.
• 38:19
  She looked great.
• 38:20
  She was wearing like a full length, like a purple gown.
• 38:24
  Yeah, like sort of a pantsuit on underneath the gown thing.
• 38:28
  It was kind of a unique thing that way.
• 38:30
  Yeah, it was good luck.
• 38:32
  I think she pulled it off really, really well.
• 38:33
  she did.
• 38:34
  She did.
• 38:35
  And I think she sounded pretty good.
• 38:36
  Again, kind of like Alex.
• 38:38
  She missed some notes.
• 38:40
  I'm not familiar with the song.
• 38:42
  I'm sure the Batman version is probably better than the Robin version.
• 38:48
  Sure.
• 38:51
  Sophia says everything was perfect the outfit the song she made it her own Howie says he doesn't think she hit her mark tonight She has what it takes but not with this performance
• 39:03
  Heidi says it's an a++ performance and Simon says for the first two thirds He was bored, but he connected with her at the end
• 39:12
  I that's a little too little too late type thing.
• 39:15
  If you were bored for two thirds of the song, I'm not sure you can really give credit for that last third.
• 39:21
  Yeah, you know, I think that they could have given that same sort of critique to young Min earlier with his magic act, right?
• 39:27
  Like, eh, it's fine.
• 39:30
  And then at the end you disappear and you go, okay, all right, that was pretty good.
• 39:33
  All right.
• 39:34
  you disappeared off the stage, that was the best part.
• 39:39
  It happens and then you got to the part where there were some runs or a little bit more life brought to it and it woke me up a little bit.
• 39:46
  So, yeah, maybe not great praise from from Simon and how a little bit higher from Sophia and Heidi, but.
• 39:54
  Yeah, I think that's kind of the trend this episode though is we get a look at almost all positive comments from the girls And the guys, mean the guys I think were more kind of
• 40:05
  back and forth
• 40:06
  Yeah, a little more temperate in their praise.
• 40:10
  all around a perfectly fine performance from Brooke Bailey.
• 40:16
  Yep.
• 40:17
  Real quick, I did have one more thing from B -Boy.
• 40:20
  Yeah, our second ray gun reference from Howie in as many episodes.
• 40:25
  And yeah, two Ray Gun references in two weeks.
• 40:28
  Does he does he go for for for does he go off for quarterfinals doing reggae and references?
• 40:33
  I suspect not.
• 40:34
  think it's going to get out of the zeitgeist pretty soon.
• 40:40
  it throws me off.
• 40:43
  There's a t -shirt company in Des Moines called Ray Gun that has like kind of like silly shirts.
• 40:50
  They're all very like topical, very timely.
• 40:53
  So whatever is in the news, like they come up with some silly shirt, right?
• 40:58
  And they're always like a nice soft cotton too, like that soft, you know,
• 41:02
  hangs nice, that feels nice.
• 41:04
  So whenever I hear a ray gun, I think of the store in Des Moines, not the dancer.
• 41:09
  So every time it kind of throws me off a little bit.
• 41:13
  All right, that is Brooke Bailey.
• 41:16
  That is last thoughts on B -Boy Samooka.
• 41:19
  Sixth act of the night, Cody.
• 41:21
  Moving on to Sky Elements.
• 41:24
  They're the drone group out of Fort Worth, Texas.
• 41:28
  You're from Texas.
• 41:29
  you...
• 41:30
  You met the Sky Elements gentleman before?
• 41:32
  I have not met the sky elements gentlemen before but I am very familiar with Fort Worth, Texas.
• 41:37
  Yeah.
• 41:38
  The Dallas -Fort Worth Metro, right?
• 41:41
  That's all kind of just one thing now.
• 41:45
  There's a thousand drones gonna be in the show.
• 41:48
  The judges appear to be watching it from inside the theater on screens.
• 41:53
  Yes.
• 41:54
  So this this obviously must have been pre -recorded.
• 41:57
  because it's you know, what six o 'clock in the evening still daylight there la time.
• 42:04
  so I don't know if they did this the night before if they and we talked about this, you know in in the quarterfinal or sorry in the auditions and the draft and whatnot Did they
• 42:14
  do it after last week's episode?
• 42:17
  but they had a crowd out there
• 42:19
  Yeah, it's hard to guess.
• 42:21
  I know when I went just for like moving the scenery around, moving the things around to make it safe for for Christie Sellers, she did her performance before we went live.
• 42:40
  Then they took down the poles and all the scaffolding and everything so that, you know, they didn't have to try and get that all up safely done sometime in the middle of the of
• 42:48
  the
• 42:49
  of the show.
• 42:50
  And then during her performance time, we watched it on the screen.
• 42:53
  The judges had given their comments live before the show.
• 42:58
  So we watched their recorded comments and then we went on to the next act after that.
• 43:02
  So like that's how they did that.
• 43:06
  I can also say that.
• 43:08
  The the special performance, special performer that we saw actually did their performance after the live show.
• 43:19
  and then they played that performance during the results show, right?
• 43:23
  So it could be something that happened after last week's live show or after last week's results show, like, hey, everybody come outside, watch this performance with us, and then
• 43:34
  we'll have the judges' reactions and we'll play that next week at the live show.
• 43:41
  That's how I suspect it went.
• 43:43
  Yeah, how?
• 43:44
  Why could they not had the judges out there with them during the performance?
• 43:49
  Yeah.
• 43:52
  The more I think about it, the more I think this does not belong on America's Got Talent.
• 44:00
  If you can't perform on America's Got Talent, then you shouldn't be on America's Got Talent.
• 44:06
  If we have to backdoor everything and figure it all out, they wouldn't do this for anybody else, right?
• 44:12
  But for whatever reason, they're allowing Sky Elements to have
• 44:18
  this time and the space and this production value to make the performance real.
• 44:24
  So for whatever reason, there you go.
• 44:29
  This time, the actual performance itself, the drones, we're gonna see like a circus tent rise up.
• 44:36
  We get Terry Crews as the ringmaster.
• 44:38
  We get Sophia as an acrobat.
• 44:41
  Howie's head shows up like above a top hat like a magician.
• 44:46
  Heidi has like a wand or a baton or something.
• 44:48
  I'm not sure exactly And then there's Simon's head again and like his arm reaches out and hits a golden buzzer so
• 45:00
  It's kind of slow.
• 45:02
  The judges love them, some judges.
• 45:03
  So the judges are gonna have very glowing things to say about it.
• 45:08
  But like, I can see why this does well.
• 45:12
  I can see why it gets positive reactions from the audience.
• 45:16
  I'm just a little bit kind of over it, I feel.
• 45:18
  Okay.
• 45:20
  yeah, I mean, I get that.
• 45:21
  I, I enjoyed it, but I think a lot of it might've been the, I might've been getting the dopamine a little from like the music that was playing.
• 45:29
  they kept showing us crowd shots, which was really irritating me.
• 45:33
  That was absolutely irritating me.
• 45:36
  but after rewatching it like a second and third time, it got me realizing that's how they kept the viewer as the viewer at home engaged.
• 45:44
  Cause if we could see the people there excited and cheering it on.
• 45:48
  Then we're going to be more engaged and excited to watch it rather than just watching it on TV.
• 45:55
  I really wanted them to kind of just stay on that.
• 45:57
  And, I also got this thought, did they use a drone to film the drones?
• 46:03
  Cause it felt, cause it felt like they were doing a drone shot, you know, a big wide shot.
• 46:08
  I wanted them to kind of just stay on that and let us see the whole thing.
• 46:12
  But I think that might've been counterproductive for us as a viewer.
• 46:16
  We might've gotten bored.
• 46:17
  Like you're saying.
• 46:18
  because we would just be watching a drone show on TV.
• 46:22
  Well, yeah, like maybe this isn't a good AGT act.
• 46:28
  Right?
• 46:29
  They showed us only their two or three minutes or whatever, but like, how long did this actually take?
• 46:35
  I wonder, right?
• 46:37
  Did this take 15 minutes for them to show all of this and then they edited it down?
• 46:42
  They might've, right?
• 46:43
  Like we didn't see all the transitions from one thing to the next.
• 46:46
  Like it was like, whatever.
• 46:49
  It is what it is and they got their...
• 46:52
  their praise from the judges and it's fine, but it's not like, I don't know.
• 46:57
  I just feel a little bit like, okay, we've seen it.
• 46:59
  Let's move on to like more, to acts that fit the stage.
• 47:05
  Sure.
• 47:05
  Yeah, I could see that.
• 47:07
  They kind of talk about it as well as that.
• 47:11
  If they're doing this like off hours and then they said, people are walking by and see a drone show.
• 47:15
  I'd like to hear from people like when was this actually recorded?
• 47:19
  Like were you just walking down Hollywood Boulevard and you see a drone show going on?
• 47:24
  Yeah.
• 47:24
  when exactly this happened, but I don't know.
• 47:28
  I did a search this afternoon.
• 47:30
  I couldn't find anything.
• 47:31
  So maybe just the articles haven't popped up yet.
• 47:33
  I don't know.
• 47:36
  Sure.
• 47:37
  Yeah.
• 47:40
  Simon, who we've established is Simon's biggest fan, had things to say.
• 47:44
  think you've actually got an audio drop for us.
• 48:15
  Yeah, so that first part was from b -boy You're the best of the night and this is by far the best Of all the ex of ever of all time.
• 48:26
  Yes.
• 48:29
  These these live shows, okay, okay
• 48:33
  Never mind that it wasn't live.
• 48:35
  Correct.
• 48:36
  And it was his second illegal golden buzzer.
• 48:39
  That is, yeah, all right.
• 48:42
  All right, so best performance of the night so far, that's fine.
• 48:47
  Sophia really liked it, thinks they made Simon and Howie better than her and Heidi.
• 48:54
  And then Howie says the likenesses were great.
• 48:56
  Sophia's second cousin was spot on.
• 48:59
  So that's one thing I can say, like the likenesses were actually pretty good.
• 49:07
  Yes they were, Yeah.
• 49:08
  was a little confused on Sophia's, right?
• 49:10
  I was like, is that Heidi?
• 49:13
  But then when I saw Heidi later, was like, okay, so that must have been Sophia.
• 49:16
  Like, she, there may be a little bit off on Sophia, but maybe make the lips a little bit redder, a little bit more.
• 49:24
  I don't know.
• 49:24
  Yeah, I think what they do is incredible.
• 49:26
  I think it's it's incredible.
• 49:28
  The drone show stuff is just absolutely incredible.
• 49:30
  But I think you're right.
• 49:31
  It doesn't quite fit the AGT stage.
• 49:34
  It literally doesn't fit the stage as well as figuratively the stage so
• 49:37
  it's like a company, right?
• 49:39
  Like, hey, I this company that makes widgets.
• 49:42
  We make a million widgets an hour.
• 49:45
  Like, look at this machine make a million widgets an hour.
• 49:49
  How different is this though than your Drake Milligans and your singers that have been your comedians that have been doing this for years and they come on AGT.
• 49:58
  What's the difference in any of that?
• 50:00
  Well, do they hit a button and it goes, or do they actually do it?
• 50:04
  Well, but the difference is with with sky elements all of their stuff is done beforehand So all the programming if it doesn't work, like if they press that button and nothing
• 50:15
  happens, it's disastrous so
• 50:20
  So they hit a button and it works, right?
• 50:23
  It's all the programming and everything and all the coordination ahead of time that takes less.
• 50:29
  Yeah.
• 50:30
  right?
• 50:30
  If I set that up on stage and I hit the button and it works, are you impressed?
• 50:35
  But what if it doesn't work?
• 50:38
  Are you impressed?
• 50:41
  Like, it's...
• 50:44
  Like, I don't know, I'm just not that really taken with it, right?
• 50:47
  Like, wow, you programmed drones.
• 50:50
  They're neat, like the artistry, whatever.
• 50:55
  I can appreciate it.
• 50:56
  It's just not for AGT.
• 51:00
  So I was feeling watching this, like if they make it through to the next round, I wonder if this is the ceiling.
• 51:06
  Like, I think there's enough, like.
• 51:10
  just anti -sky elements, you know, what are they doing on the TV?
• 51:14
  Kind of bubbling out there that this might be the end of the road for them.
• 51:21
  So, all right, next act of the night, seventh act of the night from Team J, we've got Air Footworks, the founder of Air Footworks, he heard his back and he had this idea instead of
• 51:36
  like dancing, break dancing, whatever.
• 51:39
  He has this idea of using this bar as a tool to, you know, pull yourself up and to dance on.
• 51:46
  So there's the four of them.
• 51:48
  They do too many awesome moves to highlight Cody.
• 51:52
  Like this is something that you just have to witness.
• 51:56
  cannot do it justice with my words, but they interact with the cube and with the background in some really, really cool creative ways.
• 52:07
  If I'm going to...
• 52:08
  be really nitpicky about it.
• 52:10
  Like the only thing that I can offer for a suggestion is do a little bit more storytelling.
• 52:16
  Don't just highlight all the awesome things that you can do, but maybe try to tell a story.
• 52:24
  But on the other hand, it's like maybe trying to tell a story is gonna get in the way of being able to highlight all the awesome things you can do, right?
• 52:32
  So maybe this is exactly what they need to be doing.
• 52:34
  I'm not 100 % sure, but I...
• 52:38
  Loved it.
• 52:38
  Reminds me a lot of what Kristi Sellers does, you know, making yourself float in the air and move around as the background moves in very precise ways.
• 52:50
  It's all amazing.
• 52:51
  It's all wonderful.
• 52:52
  It puts a smile on my face.
• 52:54
  I was so happy to see it.
• 52:57
  And just thoroughly impressive dancing acrobatics the whole way through.
• 53:04
  What were your thoughts on Air Footworks?
• 53:06
  this was a lot of fun and there's four of them rather than just the one with Chrissy Sellers.
• 53:09
  They all have to do it in unison or not in unison.
• 53:12
  They have to make sure they're all doing it together.
• 53:14
  But yeah, this is a lot of fun.
• 53:16
  You get the Kenichi Ibena connection and the Kenichi Ibena bump and all that stuff.
• 53:22
  lot of fun.
• 53:23
  These guys are great.
• 53:24
  Yeah, I'm a little curious.
• 53:26
  What's Kenichi's role?
• 53:27
  Is he like artistic director or some sort of creative consultant?
• 53:33
  Yeah.
• 53:33
  kind of it.
• 53:34
  Yeah.
• 53:36
  All right, all right.
• 53:38
  Yeah, I enjoyed this a whole whole lot.
• 53:40
  So Simon says he's just about to get himself fired and then he leans over across Sophia and hits the golden buzzer.
• 53:48
  But actually it's Howie that hits the golden buzzer.
• 53:51
  I think you've got some audio for us about this.
• 53:55
  No I don't have any for this.
• 53:56
  No.
• 53:58
  Sorry.
• 53:59
  He that's fine.
• 54:01
  Yeah, so Simon hits the golden buzzer actually how he leaned in there before him to make sure that he hit the golden buzzer and it's his golden buzzer.
• 54:10
  And then how he goes on to call them athletes and dancers and creatives and also that he loves Kenichi so
• 54:16
  yeah, I think that the what you're talking about is going to come up like when we're done.
• 54:20
  It's yeah, it's it's what they do after the break, so we'll get to it.
• 54:24
  We'll get to it in a moment.
• 54:25
  Okay, all right.
• 54:26
  Well, that is Air Footworks.
• 54:29
  They get the golden buzzer for the night.
• 54:30
  Great points for Team J.
• 54:34
  Send them right through to the finals, which is fantastic.
• 54:37
  I'm excited to see them again.
• 54:38
  I feel like this could be the act that wins the whole thing.
• 54:43
  Yeah, yeah, it's it's definitely a contender and it's a strong contender.
• 54:46
  I'll agree with that.
• 54:48
  Terry, making it pretty dramatic about, hey, we, you know, we did instant replay and we slowed it down and we frame by frame and we brought in like the deep investigators to like
• 55:00
  make sure who hit the golden buzzer correctly.
• 55:02
  And I thought it was basically a very Brooklyn nine nine thing of him to do.
• 55:09
  Yeah.
• 55:10
  Sure.
• 55:12
  But then yeah, so what you're talking about the audio was I thought they come back from break and then Terry asks Simon this
• 55:26
  This season is complete anarchy,
• 55:32
  Yeah, just because Simon is the producer, whatever, the name behind all of it, doesn't mean that he can just make the rules up as it goes.
• 55:41
  This is not Calvin Ball.
• 55:44
  This is America's Got Talent.
• 55:46
  Somebody's gonna win a million dollars and you need to be above board with it.
• 55:50
  So.
• 55:51
  and and and they kind of talked about it a little bit in the in the results and Cory and I talked about it last night is that he said he got his hand slapped and I my only thought
• 56:00
  was like the attorneys got involved that that's my only thought so
• 56:06
  Yeah, like when you have a game show, when you have a show that there is awarding money at this level, like you gotta keep things above board, right?
• 56:16
  There's rules, you follow the rules, somebody wins and everybody's happy at the end, right?
• 56:21
  If you go breaking those rules, it's trouble.
• 56:27
  You can't just be doing that.
• 56:28
  So...
• 56:30
  I can believe that he actually got his wrist slapped and that he, you know, got a little bit of like, you know, Simon, I know you're trying to make good TV, like, it all,
• 56:40
  remember, it's good TV.
• 56:42
  You have to follow the TV rules.
• 56:46
  You know, it's...
• 56:47
  there had to been something contractually it said this is the night that how he is choosing who was going through and we can't just randomly One of the judges just can't
• 56:56
  randomly decide they want to do it that night.
• 56:58
  Yeah
• 56:59
  right.
• 57:00
  So there you go.
• 57:01
  is, Howie says he hit the golden buzzer first.
• 57:03
  It's his golden buzzer.
• 57:04
  So maybe, maybe, here's what I wonder.
• 57:10
  Did Simon actually hit the golden buzzer and then they created this whole story around it?
• 57:14
  Like, no, actually it's Howie's golden buzzer so that we keep our butts out of hot water.
• 57:18
  Yeah, yeah, if you go back and you look and I think I even I tweeted it out It does show that how he did hit it first.
• 57:24
  So yeah.
• 57:25
  Yeah, there's there's video evidence to show Yeah Yeah, no, but I like it.
• 57:30
  I like what you're I like where you're going there
• 57:32
  All right, okay, next act of the night, eighth act of the night, we're going to Biko's Mana.
• 57:37
  This is the three siblings from Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 57:42
  Gonna sing a song originally by Johnny Nash, I can see clearly now.
• 57:48
  On the Wiki, it says, this is Grace Vanderwall's Clearly.
• 57:52
  Yes, did a deep dive on this jay.
• 57:56
  Yeah, because yeah because I was very confused by this as well because i'm like It said in the wiki.
• 58:02
  This was grace vanderwaal.
• 58:02
  I'm like, no, this has actually been around This is the song's older than grace vanderwaal herself So I think I lost your audio.
• 58:11
  Yeah.
• 58:11
  Yeah.
• 58:12
  Yeah, it's older than both of us and so I I kind of looked up.
• 58:15
  Yes, johnny nash I originally sang it and then I didn't pull it up
• 58:20
  But then there was another singer that kind of made it more famous as like a reggae version, which is I think the version we're more familiar with, but still it's older than
• 58:28
  Grace Vanderwaal.
• 58:29
  And then Grace Vanderwaal did a version of this.
• 58:32
  I am most familiar with the Johnny Nash version, I'll be honest.
• 58:36
  But I'm an oldies guy, it's kind of my thing.
• 58:39
  sure.
• 58:39
  But then Grace Vanderwaal did, she did this song, but changed some of the lyrics.
• 58:48
  It still sounds like the same tune.
• 58:50
  There's a lot of this, yes, bright, bright sunny day, but she's changed some of the words.
• 58:55
  And so now that's like, now it's Grace Vanderwaal's version.
• 58:58
  She Vanderwaal'd it.
• 58:59
  Yeah.
• 59:00
  And so now they're like, this is Grace Vanderwaal's version.
• 59:02
  So
• 59:03
  The song they sang is the Grace Vanderwaal version.
• 59:06
  It's the, it's her lyrics, even though it is the, Johnny Nash tune and the Johnny Nash song that we're all familiar with.
• 59:15
  Yeah.
• 59:17
  So it's Pico's Monta's version of Grace's version of Johnny Nash's version of I Can See Clearly.
• 59:21
  All right.
• 59:22
  Yeah.
• 59:26
  All right, so they last time did Don't Worry Be Happy, right?
• 59:32
  This is the feel -good act of the season, right?
• 59:35
  You cannot listen to this and not smile, right?
• 59:40
  You cannot listen to this and be having a terrible time.
• 59:45
  It's just pleasant, feel -good music.
• 59:50
  And I have no complaints with that.
• 59:54
  Is this the kind of thing that can win?
• 59:56
  Probably not.
• 59:57
  Like we kind of hit a ceiling with acts like this.
• 1:00:00
  But man, I love having them on my TV though.
• 1:00:03
  Yeah, I do too.
• 1:00:04
  I think they're a lot of fun.
• 1:00:07
  This is yeah, like if there were a Picos Mana station on on Spotify, like I could put that on in the background and groove to that.
• 1:00:14
  I'm like a little tired of the youngest son, like repeating some lyrics.
• 1:00:23
  He does the the cannon is that right is that the
• 1:00:26
  Yeah, you could, I'm not sure the word for the guy that speaks whatever they just said.
• 1:00:36
  But I know, I don't know the technical term for that.
• 1:00:42
  So, hey, if you do, tweet it at us at agttimepod.
• 1:00:48
  Okay, Simon says he loves the act.
• 1:00:50
  They make people feel amazing when they perform and Howie says he couldn't stop smiling.
• 1:00:57
  As along with the rest of the audience Heidi says they're a triple threat Sophia says they make everyone happy she wants to see them again, so it's gonna be Good high praise from
• 1:01:07
  the judges for Biko's mana I got the sense that they kind of felt like this might be the the end of the road for them just Not because it was bad, but just because this just might
• 1:01:18
  be as far as you can go
• 1:01:19
  Yeah, I just I just had a quick conspiracy theory thought in my head.
• 1:01:23
  So Okay, so they went to AGT and said hey we want to sing I want to see clearly now the rain is gone and they're like, you know, I don't think we can get the rights to that one,
• 1:01:35
  but We do have this other version this this grace van der waal.
• 1:01:41
  If we're really with her you can you can sing her version
• 1:01:44
  And if you sing her version, it lines our pockets.
• 1:01:47
  All right?
• 1:01:47
  Is that the thing?
• 1:01:50
  Yeah, that could be the case.
• 1:01:53
  It's hard to guess but no it like I Could I could listen to this this style all week long and and just be totally content with it So no complaints there.
• 1:02:06
  All right, Cody We're ready to move on to the ninth act of the night.
• 1:02:09
  This one is off of your off of your draft board We've got the novelty duo shoe Mocker These dudes they've been best friends for 20 years
• 1:02:21
  They were studying economics and engineering in college and they said that's not fun.
• 1:02:27
  So Schumacher was born and that's more fun than economics and engineering.
• 1:02:32
  can see that, yep.
• 1:02:34
  Okay, alright, well, these are the guys, they use like rubber animal masks to create animal shapes with their bodies.
• 1:02:43
  So first one, he's gonna put angel wings on, but not on his back, they're gonna be on his front, so that when he does the like feet on the ground, hands on the ground, you know,
• 1:02:53
  facing upwards, you drop the horse head over his head and the wings make him look like a pegasus then, right?
• 1:03:01
  and he kind of walks around the stage like a crab -lock form.
• 1:03:05
  His partner helps him make it through a hoop as if he were flying.
• 1:03:09
  So that's kind of silly.
• 1:03:10
  That's kind of fun.
• 1:03:12
  All right, next we're gonna change out of the white leotards into brown.
• 1:03:17
  I kind of like this one.
• 1:03:21
  One guy, his feet are out one side of the screen that they're using.
• 1:03:29
  The other guy, his head and the wiener dog head are out the other side with this dog house between them.
• 1:03:33
  So it looks like a big, you know, 16 foot long wiener dog.
• 1:03:39
  I thought that was really well done.
• 1:03:42
  I actually laughed out loud.
• 1:03:46
  I only say I laughed out loud when I actually gathaw, like when the noise comes out, and I actually lulled out that one.
• 1:03:53
  So that's good, that's good.
• 1:03:56
  All right, we got a guy with a cowboy hat and a lasso and a horse, and then this dog comes out and they pull the horse's head off and there's a hump there and it's supposed to be
• 1:04:06
  a...
• 1:04:06
  a camel but the head didn't come off to reveal the camel head.
• 1:04:11
  A little bit of a mistake there.
• 1:04:13
  Whoops, we're gonna move on from that.
• 1:04:15
  This time we're gonna make a centaur.
• 1:04:16
  So this is the horse body and the human torso.
• 1:04:20
  The human, you he takes the brown leotard off.
• 1:04:24
  So you have the human torso that you can see.
• 1:04:27
  He's got the bow and arrow like you would expect.
• 1:04:31
  And the guy on the bottom has to hide his face.
• 1:04:34
  So he has to put his face up into the crotch of the gentleman that's standing over him, both to create the illusion of the Pegasus, but also for comedic effect, which I'd say
• 1:04:51
  they hit both of those pretty well.
• 1:04:53
  Cody, they're on your team.
• 1:04:55
  You drafted them pretty high in the draft.
• 1:04:59
  What are you thinking after watching them perform?
• 1:05:01
  I loved this Jay best act of the night having so much fun.
• 1:05:06
  I didn't do my rankings.
• 1:05:07
  I forgot to pull up my rankings for the night Yeah, we got to go back and do a ball.
• 1:05:11
  Yeah, we'll do that at the end.
• 1:05:12
  Yeah, but yeah, I loved it a lot of fun didn't have high hopes I know there wasn't a lot of Excitement for this going into the night from not only America, but the judges as well
• 1:05:24
  But yeah, I enjoyed it.
• 1:05:25
  I think it's very creative.
• 1:05:26
  These guys are funny I was proud to have them on my team
• 1:05:30
  proud to have them on your team.
• 1:05:31
  Well, you can't feel much better than that.
• 1:05:34
  Sophia says she would give them another golden buzzer if she could, but she will follow the rules so she's not going to.
• 1:05:43
  Simon says, is not what AGT is all about.
• 1:05:48
  It was funny, but it didn't evolve from the audition.
• 1:05:51
  Heidi says, it's so bad, it's good.
• 1:05:54
  Howie says, you have to be a real friend to put your face in another man's centaur.
• 1:06:03
  phrase from the judges.
• 1:06:04
  know, so bad, it's so good does not feel like maybe the highest praise that you want to get.
• 1:06:13
  But like this is a brand of comedy that plays well on ATT.
• 1:06:19
  Yeah.
• 1:06:19
  Yeah.
• 1:06:20
  Jay, you want to do a little Greek mythology?
• 1:06:23
  Yes?
• 1:06:24
  Do know the difference between a centaur and a minotaur?
• 1:06:28
  Centaur has a horse body and a Minotaur has a bull body?
• 1:06:37
  yeah, either correct on the first one.
• 1:06:39
  So, Minotaur, Seeking for Good Mythology exhibits a unique blend of human and bull embodying a creature with a human body and a bull's head.
• 1:06:49
  Yeah.
• 1:06:50
  Centaur has like a horse's body with a human head.
• 1:06:54
  Yeah.
• 1:06:58
  During supper tonight, the idea of a reverse mermaid came up.
• 1:07:03
  It'd be a fish top half and a human legs, which just kind of made me chuck a little bit.
• 1:07:11
  it's, I don't know, the second time that's come up tonight.
• 1:07:14
  So what a strange place it is in my head, in my household.
• 1:07:23
  What would a reverse centaur or reverse minotaur like?
• 1:07:28
  a reverse centaur would have a human body with a horse head.
• 1:07:34
  Yeah, okay.
• 1:07:35
  And then a reverse Minotaur would have a human head and a bull body.
• 1:07:44
  Yes.
• 1:07:45
  All right.
• 1:07:46
  Yeah, not quite as funny as the reverse mermaid.
• 1:07:51
  Yeah, okay, all right.
• 1:07:53
  Okay, well there's Schumacher for you.
• 1:07:57
  They did get an X from, who gave him the X?
• 1:08:00
  From Simon.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah, didn't evolve from the audition.
• 1:08:04
  So that's the first X probably of the live shows, right?
• 1:08:08
  Yeah, okay, there you go.
• 1:08:10
  All right, any last thoughts on Schumacher?
• 1:08:15
  All right, let's move on to the 10th act of the night, Ashley Montague.
• 1:08:19
  She is our ballet acrobat.
• 1:08:22
  Says she's gonna attempt something she's never done before.
• 1:08:25
  Says she's gonna start elevated, like on a ribbon above the stage, aerialist.
• 1:08:31
  Gets lowered from that onto the bottles on the tips of her toes.
• 1:08:38
  She's gonna step across some flames, across some more bottles.
• 1:08:41
  Her assistant, possibly her husband.
• 1:08:43
  Car husband.
• 1:08:44
  Is going to move bottles from the back to the front so that she has more bottles to step on as she steps across
• 1:08:50
  she's doing vested more bottles.
• 1:08:53
  Yeah, I wonder if this was just to show us that the bottles weren't secured to the platform.
• 1:09:01
  Right?
• 1:09:01
  Like if she just walks across them and we don't see them moved into position, maybe it doesn't have quite the wow effect.
• 1:09:10
  Yeah, she did tell us in her intro package that the bottles are not screwed down, but yes, that would add a little bit more suspense to it as well.
• 1:09:17
  agree.
• 1:09:18
  Correct.
• 1:09:19
  Yes.
• 1:09:19
  Yep.
• 1:09:21
  she's going to step onto the shoulders of her assistant.
• 1:09:24
  Was this her husband?
• 1:09:25
  I didn't quite, okay.
• 1:09:26
  All right, so she's gonna step onto his shoulders and like point on his shoulders, standing up above that.
• 1:09:32
  So that was pretty good.
• 1:09:34
  She's gonna go then over to the staircase and do the bottles up the staircase, which seems harder, right?
• 1:09:42
  Having to lift your body.
• 1:09:45
  on your pointed toes up to the next step.
• 1:09:49
  That played pretty well, I think.
• 1:09:52
  And then at the top of the steps, she stepped between these last two bottles up to the top step, and I was like, man, she just skipped that?
• 1:10:00
  And then no, she takes those two and then goes up on point on them and takes a bow from there.
• 1:10:07
  So I thought this was a really, really well done performance.
• 1:10:12
  It really highlighted what she does.
• 1:10:16
  maybe a little bit slow, but golly, I did enjoy it.
• 1:10:22
  It had my attention the whole time.
• 1:10:23
  Yeah, I don't know how you could do this fast though.
• 1:10:25
  I think it has to be slow.
• 1:10:26
  I think the doing the slow is the suspense.
• 1:10:29
  It's like the Romadani brothers.
• 1:10:30
  You can't you can't.
• 1:10:32
  Yeah.
• 1:10:34
  Yeah, you can't ask them to do what they do fast.
• 1:10:37
  I think part of the suspense is doing it slow, being careful, being methodical.
• 1:10:41
  You know how he said she didn't step it up.
• 1:10:45
  I think she literally stepped it up.
• 1:10:46
  She had to literally go upstairs and for him not to recognize that how difficult that is.
• 1:10:52
  It's just bonkers to me because that was much more difficult and much more suspenseful than what she did.
• 1:11:00
  Not only at the beginning of this performance, but even in auditions.
• 1:11:03
  I loved it.
• 1:11:04
  I thought it was a great whole lot of fire everywhere.
• 1:11:06
  The husband was involved.
• 1:11:07
  The tippy toes on his shoulders was really good.
• 1:11:10
  I think it was great.
• 1:11:12
  Yeah, yeah, I was feeling pretty good about this as well.
• 1:11:15
  I would like to have had her on my team.
• 1:11:19
  This is the kind of act that I love to root for and I liked this a lot.
• 1:11:24
  So Howie says it's amazing, but maybe didn't step it up from the audition, like you said.
• 1:11:29
  Heidi says it's dangerous, obstacle course and loved it.
• 1:11:33
  Simon says if it went wrong, it could have been really bad, but he thinks that she has a shot.
• 1:11:38
  So Howie's not.
• 1:11:42
  not being real free with his praise on this one, but I thought it was a really, a really fine, fine performance.
• 1:11:52
  All right, last act of the night here, Cody, 11th act of the night.
• 1:11:55
  We're going to NeNe, another act off of Team Cody.
• 1:11:59
  She is our Chinese instrument musician, guitar shredder.
• 1:12:06
  She, I don't know, there's nothing not to like, but it's also like, there's nothing like, wow, like it's missing that wow moment.
• 1:12:18
  And I...
• 1:12:19
  Guess I kind of feel like the night just sort of ended on a fizzle.
• 1:12:22
  Like, okay, this was fine.
• 1:12:27
  But she's on your team.
• 1:12:28
  You probably paid a little bit closer attention.
• 1:12:30
  What'd you think of Nini's performance?
• 1:12:34
  Okay.
• 1:12:35
  Takata and Fugue, you think it's in the playlist?
• 1:12:39
  I...
• 1:12:39
  Okay, we have not played the game all night long because I didn't think there was anything that was even worth having a discussion about.
• 1:12:47
  I didn't even put this on my radar.
• 1:12:53
  The fact that you're asking makes me think, well, maybe it should be on my radar.
• 1:12:56
  is is clearly is it in the is it in the playlist?
• 1:13:01
  don't think Grace VanderWaal's clearly is on the playlist.
• 1:13:06
  I wouldn't tear it well.
• 1:13:09
  Before our conversation, I would have said I wouldn't be surprised if Johnny Nash's I can see clearly now, but I don't think that is either.
• 1:13:17
  Okay, Tokata, I'm gonna just say no, it's not on the playlist.
• 1:13:22
  of course it is.
• 1:13:23
  Do you know there's there's one there's one there's there.
• 1:13:29
  It's cool.
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  You're you're close.
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  You're very, close.
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  Do you know what what kind of made it more prominent in more familiar to like kids today?
• 1:13:39
  Not today.
• 1:13:40
  Well, kids and Fantasia.
• 1:13:44
  Fantasia 2000?
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  the oj - what did I say?
• 1:13:48
  Did I say Fantasia?
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  Anastasia.
• 1:13:54
  Yeah, Fantasia, yes, Fantasia.
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  So yes, so yes, Fantasia, it's in the playlist.
• 1:14:00
  Yeah, so now that you know it's in the playlist.
• 1:14:04
  Okay, like Fantasia, like, this seems like something that you would have on in the background while you're coding away, coding away.
• 1:14:18
  Let's, geez.
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  Okay, you said absolutely on the playlist.
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  So let's put it in the triple digits.
• 1:14:28
  Let's say 225.
• 1:14:33
  Okay.
• 1:14:34
  but 106.
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  Yeah.
• 1:14:35
  Yeah, 106.
• 1:14:36
  Yeah Yeah, Fantasia the Fantasia Soundtrack is I'm not gonna say it's a frequent play.
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  Yes.
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  I've been known to play it.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah, it's a regular play while I'm working It's got a lot of great stuff on it So yeah, that's you know, you probably don't expect a lot of classical type, you know music coming.
• 1:14:57
  Yeah Yeah
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  So yeah, she did to cut it a few.
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  She did like a rock style version of it.
• 1:15:05
  I enjoyed this.
• 1:15:05
  I thought it was a lot of fun.
• 1:15:06
  I thought it was different.
• 1:15:08
  I mean, Simon mentioned that she kind of chose the wrong song.
• 1:15:12
  I don't know.
• 1:15:13
  I think it's one of those types songs that you can do this style of guitar work to.
• 1:15:21
  It's just one of those types of arrangements that you can do.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:26
  And she made it her own arrangement, right?
• 1:15:29
  wasn't like, you're just playing back a classical song that like classical musicians know.
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  It's like she owned it.
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  So Sophia said she loved it.
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  Feels like it could be from a James Bond movie.
• 1:15:43
  Simon says he hated the song and the track.
• 1:15:45
  An anthem would have been better.
• 1:15:46
  Heidi says she's stunning.
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  Her fingers were beautiful to watch.
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  Howie says she took it to another level.
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  Nini Hendrix.
• 1:15:55
  Yeah, I think that's a stretch, but OK.
• 1:15:58
  whatever.
• 1:15:59
  Sometimes he comes up with some pretty crazy stuff.
• 1:16:02
  all right, Cody, I have rankings for the acts last night.
• 1:16:08
  You have rankings for the act last night.
• 1:16:10
  The number one act of the night, I think we're both gonna agree was air footwork.
• 1:16:16
  Okay, all right.
• 1:16:17
  Who's your number two on the night?
• 1:16:19
  My number two is Sky Elements.
• 1:16:21
  Yeah.
• 1:16:23
  Okay, yeah, I had her at three.
• 1:16:25
  I liked her a lot.
• 1:16:26
  Okay, my number three went to B -Boy Samooka.
• 1:16:29
  Okay.
• 1:16:31
  Okay, and you had, Ashley.
• 1:16:34
  Number four?
• 1:16:36
  number four I had a legion.
• 1:16:37
  Legion, I agree with that exactly.
• 1:16:40
  Number five, who do you have?
• 1:16:44
  Okay, I put Young Min in number five.
• 1:16:46
  I had him crack in the top half here.
• 1:16:49
  Number six for me went to Sky Elements.
• 1:16:51
  Okay, yeah, that kind of makes sense of what you based on what you thought.
• 1:16:56
  Okay, so we are in pretty good agreement through those top six.
• 1:17:00
  Our bottom half are gonna be the same kind of acts on the bottom half.
• 1:17:05
  I'm curious how they're gonna shake out though.
• 1:17:06
  Number seven, I have Alex Sampson.
• 1:17:08
  So 6 I had Beakos mana and 7 I had Schumacher.
• 1:17:14
  Okay, number eight, I have NeNe.
• 1:17:18
  Okay, I had Brooke.
• 1:17:21
  Who I had at number nine was Brooke Bailey.
• 1:17:24
  Okay.
• 1:17:24
  So this is gonna be the my last few years probably gonna be a little different.
• 1:17:29
  I had b -boy at nine
• 1:17:31
  Okay, and yeah, all right.
• 1:17:34
  I had B -Boy clear up at three and down here I've got Biko Smana as number 10.
• 1:17:42
  Yep.
• 1:17:43
  Okay.
• 1:17:44
  10 I had Alex.
• 1:17:46
  Okay, that is fair.
• 1:17:49
  And then my 11th rated act of the night, I think is the same as yours, Schumacher.
• 1:17:56
  No, you had Young Min.
• 1:17:57
  Okay, right.
• 1:17:59
  You had Schumacher higher than that.
• 1:18:00
  That's right.
• 1:18:01
  yep, okay.
• 1:18:03
  So Young Min, you had 11th.
• 1:18:06
  Because the camera work or because it was just that bad?
• 1:18:08
  It was just not fun.
• 1:18:10
  Yeah, I didn't think it was that good.
• 1:18:12
  Yeah.
• 1:18:13
  Which is a complete turnaround of what I thought auditions.
• 1:18:15
  I actually really enjoyed his audition.
• 1:18:18
  So, yeah, that is interesting.
• 1:18:21
  All right, okay.
• 1:18:23
  Let's move on to the results show.
• 1:18:26
  We don't need to spend a lot of time on this.
• 1:18:28
  You and Cory from Talent Recap talked about this last night.
• 1:18:37
  We're not giving...
• 1:18:40
  let's do that, absolutely.
• 1:18:42
  let's let's let the let's pay the bills real quick.
• 1:18:50
  Okay, now we're back.
• 1:18:51
  Okay.
• 1:18:51
  Okay, so we get our top five.
• 1:18:56
  We had Ashley Montague and Nene please come to the stage.
• 1:19:01
  The act going through is gonna be Ashley Montague.
• 1:19:04
  No surprise there.
• 1:19:06
  Yeah, I will upset they kind of put them two together because they're both on my team, but then I figured, OK, I'm going to get one in the top five.
• 1:19:11
  Yeah, there you go.
• 1:19:11
  You're gonna look.
• 1:19:13
  And we're not giving points for fourth and fifth, right?
• 1:19:17
  Okay, all right.
• 1:19:19
  Okay.
• 1:19:20
  Schumacher and Alex Sampson.
• 1:19:23
  The one going through in the top five is Alex Sampson.
• 1:19:26
  I don't think he hit a home run, but I don't think America's ready for Schumacher either.
• 1:19:32
  Brooke Bailey versus B -Boy Samuca.
• 1:19:35
  Acting the top five is gonna be B -Boy.
• 1:19:39
  Yeah, I wasn't 100 % sure who was going to get the nod there, but I'll take b -boy.
• 1:19:44
  He was on my team.
• 1:19:46
  Pico Smana and Young Min, the act of the top fives Young Min.
• 1:19:51
  okay.
• 1:19:51
  Yeah, that's right.
• 1:19:53
  Yeah.
• 1:19:53
  not a big surprise, but maybe a little surprise.
• 1:19:56
  I think there's a contingent out there that likes Bicos Mana.
• 1:20:00
  And then finally, Legion and Sky Elements, the act in the top five is Sky Elements.
• 1:20:05
  Yeah, this is the grouping that kind of surprised me the most that they put them two together because I thought they were both fantastic.
• 1:20:10
  I had them two and yeah, two and four, two golden buzzards.
• 1:20:14
  Right.
• 1:20:14
  So, it was a little surprising.
• 1:20:17
  I would like to maybe put one of them with, you know, the one group from the fourth and one group, the fifth kind of switch them to make it a little more interesting.
• 1:20:26
  just cause these were two great performances.
• 1:20:29
  Yeah.
• 1:20:29
  absolutely.
• 1:20:30
  All right.
• 1:20:31
  Here we go.
• 1:20:32
  Matt Franco and Shim Lim, they're gonna have a little heart to heart before Shim Lim does out and comes out and does some magic.
• 1:20:38
  I'm not gonna recap his performance if that's okay.
• 1:20:42
  I thought, just real quick, I thought it was fun.
• 1:20:44
  I liked it.
• 1:20:45
  I like singing Matt Franco.
• 1:20:47
  Yeah.
• 1:20:48
  Yeah.
• 1:20:51
  What I'm not hearing you say is that it was fun to see Shin Lim.
• 1:20:56
  Yeah, there's only one goat on that screen.
• 1:20:58
  Okay, Top three.
• 1:21:02
  Top three of the top five.
• 1:21:05
  First act into the semis is Alex Sampson.
• 1:21:11
  Little bit of a surprise.
• 1:21:12
  I'm not mad, but a little bit of a surprise.
• 1:21:14
  Yep.
• 1:21:15
  Yep.
• 1:21:16
  Okay, this works for my draft board.
• 1:21:20
  Second act into the semis, also off team Jay Bach is Young Min.
• 1:21:26
  All right, so I got two more points, baby.
• 1:21:30
  Final act going into the semis.
• 1:21:33
  There's a chance that I've got even B -Boy Samuca going through.
• 1:21:36
  It would be a clean sweep for team One -Man Bander getting the golden buzzer and the top three spots.
• 1:21:41
  But it does in fact go to Sky Elements instead.
• 1:21:44
  Yeah, this, this just shows how much I'm off on, this season's performances.
• 1:21:49
  Cause I had Alex Sampson and young man at 10 and 11, and then they both were going through the next round.
• 1:21:56
  Yeah, no, it worked out well for me.
• 1:21:59
  So that's just fine.
• 1:22:01
  They announced the acts that are gonna be in quarterfinals three, and we can then suss out who's gonna be in quarterfinals four based off that.
• 1:22:12
  Quarterfinals three is Dee Dee Simon, Jelly Boy the Clown, Journey, Journey, Kelsey Jane, our aerialist.
• 1:22:25
  Reid Wilson, kid singer.
• 1:22:28
  Maya Nilakattanan, the other guitar player shredder.
• 1:22:35
  We got Minuto, you know Minuto.
• 1:22:38
  Actually Minuto.
• 1:22:40
  It is actually a minuto, but it's not really a minuto.
• 1:22:43
  But yes, I will agree with you.
• 1:22:45
  Technically it is minuto, but it's not really minuto.
• 1:22:48
  But anyway.
• 1:22:50
  All so it's actually Menudo.
• 1:22:52
  All right, Sabrina, the dance group, Sam Huang, magician, the recluse, and Learn More Janasi.
• 1:23:02
  so I'm hoping to get something out of learn more next week.
• 1:23:04
  That's my only hope.
• 1:23:06
  Okay, I only have one act next week.
• 1:23:10
  No, I've got, yeah, just one, just Jellyboy the Clown next week.
• 1:23:15
  Because I was really loaded up on week two.
• 1:23:19
  And then finally in quarterfinals four then, I only have one act that's gonna be Jonathan Burns, the magician comedian.
• 1:23:28
  But we've got Tony Kakou, the naked poser, Team Cody.
• 1:23:35
  Solange Cardinali, the quick change artist, L6 vocal group, Stephanie Rainey, musician, Brent Street dance group, Oscar Stembridge, is that another singer?
• 1:23:47
  I don't even remember Oscar.
• 1:23:49
  Sebastian and Sonia, aerialists, Erica Rhodes, singer, Praneshka Mursha, singer, and Ilya Anastasia, Ilya and Anastasia.
• 1:24:04
  area lists.
• 1:24:06
  Cody, I took this information, who was on week one and week two, as well as quarterfinals three and quarterfinals four, I plugged in numbers based on where they were drafted, okay,
• 1:24:19
  to see which week of quarterfinals, according to our draft board, was the strongest and which one was not.
• 1:24:27
  Okay, so week one, we had the first
• 1:24:33
  draft pick overall, as well as fourth and sixth and eighth.
• 1:24:40
  Overall, it averaged out to 21 .27 was their average draft order.
• 1:24:47
  each selection the number like what pick what pick they were Okay, okay
• 1:24:54
  So the average is 21 .273.
• 1:24:58
  Week two, this one that we just recapped here, averaged out to 19 .27.
• 1:25:04
  So it averaged in the top 20 for where they were drafted.
• 1:25:11
  Week three, this week coming up next, averaged way lower, down at 26 .7.
• 1:25:18
  So 21 to 19 to 26.
• 1:25:22
  And then week four, we're bringing it back up.
• 1:25:25
  Still the third strongest week overall, but close to week one with a 22 .7.
• 1:25:31
  So week two was by far the highest rank in what we did.
• 1:25:36
  Week three is by far the lowest.
• 1:25:41
  Week one and four were very close.
• 1:25:44
  And in fact, so I ran the numbers again.
• 1:25:47
  But instead of using their draft order as their number, I put in where they were drafted onto the teams, right?
• 1:25:56
  So there's five teams, there's five number ones, five number twos, five number threes, fours, five, six, seven, eights, and I guess only four number nines.
• 1:26:05
  But when I did it that way, weeks one and four both got a 4 .8.
• 1:26:11
  It was a statistical tie.
• 1:26:13
  Week three got a 5 .8 and week two got a 4 .1.
• 1:26:17
  So it shakes out pretty much the same either way, kind of an interesting exercise for me to stretch my math skills a little bit and see how that played out.
• 1:26:31
  Week three coming up here should be the week that you want to be in if you're kind of a bubble team, right?
• 1:26:41
  The highest drafted week three team was drafted
• 1:26:47
  10th overall.
• 1:26:48
  And that was, that was learned more.
• 1:26:50
  John to see.
• 1:26:51
  Okay.
• 1:26:52
  It feels like also from just a production and viewership perspective, you would kind of want maybe week three to be your weakest one, because you would want week one to be really
• 1:27:02
  strong and you want to end quarterfinals really strong.
• 1:27:05
  And so one of the other ones might be the one of the weakest.
• 1:27:08
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:27:09
  So, man, I feel like I had, yeah, I don't know.
• 1:27:15
  I had four acts in week two and three of my four got through on the statistically hardest week of them all.
• 1:27:22
  So I'm feeling like I'm riding high right now, Cody.
• 1:27:25
  This has been great for Team One Man Bander.
• 1:27:28
  so where does that leave us?
• 1:27:29
  What's the where the score is at?
• 1:27:32
  Overall draft scores here have been updated.
• 1:27:37
  In last place is Team Steven, who has yet to get a team through, but he has only three teams eliminated, three acts eliminated.
• 1:27:49
  In second, or second to last, I should say, fourth place overall is Team Cody.
• 1:27:55
  You have Ashes and Arrows through to the semis, and you have four acts eliminated.
• 1:28:01
  In third place is Minnesota Ryan.
• 1:28:04
  He has two acts through to the semis and one act eliminated.
• 1:28:10
  In second place with three points is Team AGT Commentor.
• 1:28:15
  He has one act through with a golden buzzer and three acts eliminated.
• 1:28:21
  And Team One -Man Bander has six points.
• 1:28:25
  A commanding lead.
• 1:28:27
  I've got one act through to the finals with a golden buzzer and three acts into the semis for a total of six points.
• 1:28:33
  I also have three, no, three acts eliminated.
• 1:28:37
  Yeah, so all you need now to kind of cap off the seasons for Air Footworks to contact you and say, Hey, do you want to come to a live show?
• 1:28:48
  Yeah, that's right.
• 1:28:50
  me a call.
• 1:28:51
  I would have a really hard time finding the time and the dollars to make that a reality.
• 1:29:03
  please, feel free to contact me.
• 1:29:05
  I'm not saying no.
• 1:29:09
  So there you go.
• 1:29:11
  All right, that is the current point standings.
• 1:29:16
  The next two weeks are gonna tell a lot.
• 1:29:19
  I guess the next four weeks are probably gonna tell a lot more.
• 1:29:21
  Actually, the next six weeks will probably tell the entire story.
• 1:29:24
  maybe, you know, just hold onto your hats.
• 1:29:31
  Anything else for the episode, Jake?
• 1:29:34
  Cody, I have nothing else to say about the episode.
• 1:29:39
  I'm glad to be into the live shows.
• 1:29:41
  I'm having the time of my life, recapping it all, following it all.
• 1:29:46
  The drafting makes it a little bit more fun.
• 1:29:49
  I love my team.
• 1:29:50
  I...
• 1:29:53
  Last...
• 1:29:54
  whatever, two years ago, when I drafted Kristi Sellers, I could not find points anywhere until Kristi Sellers finally like...
• 1:30:02
  broke some points off for me.
• 1:30:04
  This year is going much better.
• 1:30:06
  And I would like to blame Unicircle Flow for how poorly things went last time, but this is much better.
• 1:30:17
  Okay.
• 1:30:18
  So we'll be back next week for quarterfinals three.
• 1:30:21
  J and of course we back to recap that next Thursday, Wednesday night after the results show, I will be joined by the other Bach brother, Scott Bach will be here to, get some
• 1:30:33
  reactions on the quarterfinals three results.
• 1:30:35
  So, hopefully we'll get something good.
• 1:30:38
  Sorry, Scott, you're having to come for the worst episode of the, season.
• 1:30:43
  but
• 1:30:44
  But it still should be fun.
• 1:30:46
  I will really enjoy that.
• 1:30:47
  we listen, I listen to, Rob has a podcast and he once quipped something like, it doesn't have to be good TV to make a good podcast.
• 1:31:00
  So keep that in mind.
• 1:31:02
  It doesn't have to be great TV to make a great podcast.
• 1:31:06
  sometimes some of the worst TV makes better podcasts.
• 1:31:09
  Yeah.
• 1:31:11
  Yes, yeah.
• 1:31:12
  So So remember that next week don't drive like my brother and And stay safe everybody
• 1:31:20
  everyone have a great night.