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AGT Commenter's Season 21 Mid-Season Thoughts · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Cody: Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of AGT time. Hey commenter, let's get this party started. AGTCommenter: I'm back, Cody. I'm back. It's great to be back. Cody, you know last time you and I sat face to face virtually and recorded a podcast together? Did you look did you look up? Cody: He's back. ⁓ it's been it I didn't look it up. It's about six weeks. ⁓ it was probably May seventeenth. Sixteenth? Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Do you want to guess the day, the actual day? ⁓ May sixteenth was the last time. It has been a full six weeks. ⁓ the people have only had to the suffer four weeks without me. 'Cause cause that episode we recorded on the sixteenth came out a couple weeks later. But ⁓ so but our long national nightmare is over. I am back. ⁓ my first appearance. It's great to be here. ⁓ it's been a long time. Six weeks is a is a good break. I was ready. I was ready to to get back on and and ⁓ Cody: Yeah. Yes. Yes. Good. AGTCommenter: And talk a little bit. Yeah, what is it? Forty, like f gotta be close to fifty days now, huh? Yeah, long, long layoff. But Jay is out this week. ⁓ he's out the next two weeks. Cody: Yeah. He's got his feet up in he's got his feet up in Jamaica, I think he said. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, did he he alerted the people last week he was going to Jamaica, didn't he? Yeah. Yeah. So he'll be out the next two weeks. You guys are gonna get Minnesota Ryan next week, ⁓ as far as we know. ⁓ his first appearance of the of the off season. But Cody: Yes. We still haven't really heard from you, but yes, as far as we know. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. So you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail dot com. I I know we've been talking about it. The the new website, AGT timepod dot com. It's got ⁓ the ⁓ the hall of fame, it's got our podcast and commenter was it have now? AGTCommenter: Cody, let's d you do the business quick and then I got one thing I wanna talk about before we get into a bunch of other stuff. Mm-hmm. It's got the leaderboard. Cody: It's got the official AGT commenter leaderboard on the website. It's out there for public viewing. Go and go that is correct. Go. Yes. ⁓ it's got commenters got some blog posts out there. our new buddy ⁓ Mask senior home senior homie. He's got a couple of blog posts out there. Go check out our website. It's got some got some good stuff. AGTCommenter: The leaderboard is on there. Yeah. Public scrutiny. Public s consumption. ⁓ ⁓ I posted a blog on Sunday night. Did you did you have a chance to peruse it? What'd you think? Yeah. It was ⁓ it was I had fun writing it. ⁓ What g give your thoughts, give your ⁓ unadulterated thoughts here. Cody: I did. I read it. It's good. I I liked it. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah, it's been a couple days. I've worked. Let me go back out there. I love like the the anatomy of a final. I love that. I love how you broke down like hey, here's how many singers we've had in a final, here's how many golden buzzers we've had in a final. You broke down like the different types of acts that we've had in finals. Man, it really kinda opened my eyes a little bit on you know magicians and comedians versus singers and you know, every season they've usually they've had AGTCommenter: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Cody: What like two types of non singing acts almost every season? It's incredible. It's ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: It's yeah. It's crazy. So I'll I will plug it because I do I was proud of the blog because I think it's really interesting. If you're f I mean if you're any nerdy fan of this show, I think it's a great blog for people to go check out. I posted it, you can just go to the website too. basically the gist of it is like I well, I started I was talking about McDonald's to start. and basically Cody: Yes. Yeah, when you started talking about Ray Kroc, I like, Where is this going? 'cause like AGTCommenter: Basically my point that to lead into it was ⁓ when you go on the show, like you have to understand what game you're actually playing, what business you're actually in. And so it's all centered around how basically the show is just a singing show and a non singing show. And the nice part for the singers is they're not in a singing competition. They're in a they're in the total competition and then every other act category is competing against each other just to try to be the best. And I think the last paragraph is really tells the story. If you're a comedian, you're in a comedy contest. If you're ⁓ because if you are not the best comedian on the season, 17 out of 20 times you don't make the finals. Even if you're the second best comedian, according to America. If you're not the best magician, 17 out of 20 times you don't make the finals. If you are the best comedian, still 40% of the time you don't make the finals. And if you are the best magician, 45% of the time you don't make the finals. And this is my favorite line to follow that up. If you're the best singer, Forty five percent of the time you win the show. So you can be the best magician and you'll miss the finals forty five percent of the time. You you the best singer, you're gonna win the show forty five percent of the time. So it is really it's two different games. Go check it out. ⁓ I was proud of that and the data I think was really good. Cody: It as it as it was as I was reading it, it kinda got me thinking, and and maybe I'm off on this, but it kinda got me thinking a little bit like the Little League World Series that there's always the USA like in the championship game. So it's the internationals all play each other, and then the kind of the winner of the internationals then plays a plays a US team. And so it's like there's always gonna be a US team. On AGT, there's always gonna be singers. Yes. So AGTCommenter: Sure. Right. plays the winner of US. Yeah. Always. ⁓ yeah, 'cause even the sc like shout out shout out season seven. The only final in AGT history without a singer. ⁓ and I and I put in there what I classified as singers because it's more than just solo singers, but true singing acts outside of singing ventriloquist. But ⁓ yeah, no, it was ⁓ those were fun numbers to run. and ⁓ an interesting look at it turns out like as much as we want to call it a talent contest, like if you're a comedian. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: your whole focus until you make the finals is just like how can I be funnier than the rest of the comedians because if I'm not I I have no prayer. Yeah. So, ⁓ to even just and this was more to make a final 'cause th the reason I focused on that a little bit too before we wrap on this, Ryan Niemiller, our our good friend, always talked about how important it was for him just to be able to put finalist in his bio. Like AGT finalist. He didn't need to win. Would have been great, obviously, but like just to make the finals Cody: Mm-hmm. Right. AGTCommenter: takes you from here to here. More than way higher like finalist means basically the same as putting third place. Like if you can just have finalist, the only notch up from that basically is winner. And so for these acts, making the finals is a big deal. But Cody, you had some miscellaneous stuff. My one question did we have any listener submitted ⁓ questions this week? Okay. I didn't think we would, so ⁓ I just want to make sure we didn't miss it or anything, but okay. Cody: Not not for this, no. Sorry. No, no. ⁓ I I I didn't see any. So no one no one sent anything. ⁓ so that would kinda lead into well, a couple of things. You kinda mentioned that. That you know th that th that's why the Texas tenors in their every show they talk about their time on AGT. 'Cause I mean, f fourth place, what fourth place Texas tenors? Yeah, finalists. So that's just they they they milk that. I mean there's like, yes, we're a finalist. ⁓ AGTCommenter: Right. Yes. Cody: During the Fourth of July show, which we're gonna kinda talk about here in a moment, they talk the judges talked about that as well as that coming on the show, not just even auditioning really opened up a ton of doors for a lot of people. You know, acts like Melissa Villa Senior went on an S I mean, she w was a semifinalist, quarter finalist, and she went on SNL and became a huge hit on SNL. And so AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. Cody: Just being on the show and then having finalists on your name as well will will do worlds. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah, I think there's like there's four tiers. Getting on auditions, just having your name out there, making the live shows, making the finals and winning. Like that's the the the next notch you can add to the bio, basically. ⁓ so did you have some you had some miscellaneous news you wanted to talk about today? We had a couple you had a couple things. Well one, the circular bracket was on your brain. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. So ⁓ a couple of things since since we've it's been a minute since we've talked. We've won there's a couple of topics I wanted to bring up. So the World Cup's going on. ⁓ as as of our recording, the United States is gonna be playing in about an hour and a half. Yeah, a little over an hour and a half. Yeah, so we're gonna finish so that we can ⁓ see kickoff. Yes. So yeah. AGTCommenter: Yes. ⁓ yeah, just over. And they start on time, by the way. ⁓ I'll I'm gonna interject a second. One of my favorite things about this World Cup that ⁓ the rest of American sports leagues need to adopt is if the game starts at seven, they kick off at seven. NBA is seventeen minutes after it says his opening tip. The NFL kicks off at seven minutes after Cody: They kick off at seven, yes Yes. No, I'll dispute that a little bit because those after Sunday afternoon games, one o'clock, what noon, one o'clock, boom. I mean, you turn it on, there but yes, you're right. Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, primetime games, Super Bowl, thirty minutes, forty five minutes. That's right. Yeah. NCAA football. When game day's over, boom. I mean that they're trying to get game day Yes. Yes, yes. But you're right. Every match, right on time. Done. AGTCommenter: Afternoon games they're on they're on the button. It's yeah. Those prime time games, yeah. You bet your dollar, who whoever whoever's kicking off in that US game, it'll be at seven o'clock central. Yeah, those first games they're usually pretty locked in for, yeah. Right on time. It's great. Cody: Let's get going. So we're gonna try to we're gonna try to kick ⁓ hit USA versus two teams, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Okay. Yes. Yes. That's right. That's true. That's true. ⁓ so with the World Cup, this new concept came out that I don't think I've seen before with called a circular bracket. Basically someone took a bracket and just made it a circle. AGTCommenter: Yeah, is that's not very fair, if you ask me. We gotta play both Bosnia and Herzegovina. That seems seems a little bit ⁓ that's how you know you're good though. ⁓ huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cody: And it it's it's a really cool looking effect. And so like as you advance, obviously your your little icons kinda get closer and closer into the circle, but it seems more full, like there's not any wasted space on the screen with the circ what are your thoughts on the circular bracket? AGTCommenter: Yeah. Sure. I I I think it i it makes a lot of sense for like a sport with a round ball. Like it you can you can make it look like the soccer ball part you everything's kind of circular. I ⁓ I think it's very cool. We are a fan of brackets on this pod. We've we've taken hiatuses now, a hiatus from our bracket. It'll return in some capacity. Are you wanting to explore making our brackets circular the next time we do one? I don't know the technology. I Cody: Sure. Right. Yes we are. Yes. Yes. Maybe so, yes, yes. Because because our Well, because we ha our acts come from around the world, so Yes. That's right. AGTCommenter: That makes yeah yeah, as we as we talked about in this episode. ⁓ yeah. No. I I think I'm excited to see it fill out and see what it looks like at the end. ⁓ the circular bracket. Cody: Yes. They yeah, they've already started putting the round of sixteen ones in and it's starting to kind of piece together. It's looking kinda cool. AGTCommenter: Where's the best place to see is it on like the World Cup website? Cody: I I don't think so. I think this was something somebody invented. I don't think this is an official World Cup thing. I think if you just looked up World Cup circular bracket, you're gonna find a find ⁓ Yeah. I don't think it's ⁓ copyrighted or trademarked or anything. ⁓ But I think like the ⁓ March Madness, I think this is something they should Yes. AGTCommenter: It's posting, yeah. Got it. It'll be there, yeah. Yeah. ⁓ Try it circular. Now that's gonna be s what did they expand it to? Seventy eighty six, seventy-six. I think it's seven how many teams in March Madness. Cody: Like two hundred and fifty teams. Yeah, so AGTCommenter: twenty twenty seven. Seventy six. So Cody: Yeah. So you're gonna have some like some that are sticking out 'cause it's not perfectly even, but still. AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ⁓ You wanted to touch on the Taylor Swift wedding. The Swift Kelsey party the party. Cody: Yeah, so that what yes, so quote quote wedding the wedding. Yeah, so ⁓ we got news this week that there's an event that Taylor is apparently hosting at Madison Square Garden. ⁓ a lot of speculation that it's a wedding, a ⁓ reception maybe that they're already to a wedding that they've that's already happened. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. My guess is it is like they're doing their reception of a party type reception. People everybody thought it was fake. And now it seems like it's r it is not fake. Something's actually happening. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cause I got there's people in my life that we got in fights about this of like, I can't believe you're so dumb, you're falling for that TMZ article, this, that. I'm like, I once you start having per Cody: Yeah. Yeah. It there's there's an event that's happening. Yes, something is happening, yes. So TMZ's pretty rabbitable. AGTCommenter: Well that and like once you start having permits involved, when when they're reporting like Taylor Swift's, you know, whatever it wasn't her name, but the people that do stuff like are filing for a permit at Madison Square Garden. so and it makes some sense. Like they're talking about how to do the party they really wanted to like you can keep it completely private because you can enter Cody: Yes. Yes. Yes. Mm-hmm. Yeah. AGTCommenter: It's all underground. So you don't have to walk the it's hard for people it's hard y the paparazzi has no ability to get pictures unless they sneak in of some sort. So yeah, who knows? It's a little vain if you do the to me and ⁓ really period, but if you do the ceremony in there, this just doesn't it's not very s Taylor Swift to me. It's way more Travis Kelsey than it is Taylor Swift to do a ⁓ a wedding there. Cody: Yes. No, no. I Yes, but I th I think that she's probably one that would have more of a small intimate th like yes. She's not gonna do a big blowout. AGTCommenter: That's what I'm saying. I feel like they did. Now, my gut tells me they already they already did the they already did the ceremony at 'cause there was all this talk that sh there was something happening at her place in Rhode Island last week or last couple weeks. Cody: And they may not have just filed the paperwork yet? Because once you file the paperwork, then it's public record. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Y right. Y correct, yeah. And then maybe they'll they'll do this little this little shindig at ⁓ at Madison Square Garden. But yeah, I get the everybody's like this this is I get this is very not Taylor Swift to have an event like this at a Madison Square Garden, but we'll see. ⁓ 'cause it's supposed to be what on Friday? Yeah, the third. So we'll see. We'll see. Yeah. Do you want to do that now or do you want to end with the hot dog contest? Cody: I think so, yeah, so pff yeah. And then she'll head over to the hot dog contest? Yeah. No, let's let's just let's get all that out of the way. Yeah. AGTCommenter: You wanted to preview it. Here's the preview. Joey Chestnut's gonna win. That's the preview. He's participating. There was some questions on that because he had gotten into a a little legal trouble. It's nothing like crazy. He got in a bar fight and got, you know, a little bit a little bit of assault charge. But Bar fights honestly, bar fights shouldn't count as assault. If both parties cause that's to me is more like a boxing match than anything. Yeah, yeah. If he sucker punch Cody: Okay. Okay. Sure, yeah, yeah. Both parties consented. AGTCommenter: Right. Now I didn't read into the case at all. He might have sucker punched a complete innocent person, but either way, he's he's he's participating as far as I know. So if he's participating, match over. ⁓ Cody: Are are we gonna get any of our ⁓ competitive eaters that we had, like Eric Booker or was it Bert Bertoletti? AGTCommenter: Yeah. Well we we saw both of them. ⁓ and I called remember I called ⁓ Jay, the Bert Eric Bertoletti of our podcast, when he beat you that one year for total appearances and then never no one and then you wouldn't let anybody get close ever again. I couldn't tell if he took that as a slight or not. I thought that was a compliment personally. Yeah. And was a perfect analogy. Like Cody: Yes, we did. Right. That's right. No, he loved it. He I think he was totally on board with it. He Yes, that he took it as such. Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: One of my better one of my better analogies I've ever come up with. ⁓ yeah, I I think we'll s I'm assuming we'll see Bertoletti. I do they have they listed the field? Let me pull it up. Twenty twenty si oop twenty twenty six Nathan's hot dog contest participants. Oops. ⁓ the reigning champs, both Joy Chestnut and Mickey Sudo, will be back. The field is headlined by 17 time champ Joey Chestnut. Patrick Bertoletti, he was the runner-up last year. James Webb, Nick Weary, Max Stanford, Radim Dvoracek, George. What's that? Mickey Sudo and the female ⁓ well I'm sh they do the lemonade drinking contest as well. That w I'm sure we'll see our guy Booker. ⁓ Cody: Okay. Bad bad something booker, bad what's his nickname? AGTCommenter: Yeah. Eric Badlands Booker. The lemonade chugging event is famously dominated by competitive eating legend and chugging champion Eric Badlands Booker, who holds the record of drinking a full gallon of lemonade in twenty one seconds. so ⁓ yeah, we'll we'll we'll settle in for a chestnut victory. Worst sorry, go ahead. Cody: Backland Badlands, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I was I was gonna ask, what did he do last like we did our wager last year and and and I I I I I won by half a hot dog, right? AGTCommenter: ⁓ yeah. Yeah, yeah, we should do that too. Yeah, we were right on it. Last year he ate seventy and a half. I mean we probably should use the line the the gambling lines, shouldn't we? That just seems to be the easiest way. And one of us will take the over, one'll take the under. My guess is it's gonna be right on that. Maybe it'll be like seventy two and a half will be the line. ⁓ Cody: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: Nathan's He's ⁓ let's see. Yeah, 'cause you you you took the under you took the over seventy? Or was it you took the under like seventy one, I think? Cause I would never go under on my guy. That's Yeah. Odds chestnut. Cody: I took yes. I think so, yes. Yes. And he does seventy and a half, yes. AGTCommenter: S the over under. Sorry, go ahead. Cody: And and I and I made yeah, well and I made the argument that a a half hot dog should not count. AGTCommenter: Yeah, gr I yeah, I don't know. ⁓ it's yeah. ⁓ 'cause they well what they do yeah, I don't know. It it it Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: I'm wondering when they stop at the half. Did he puke? ⁓ the over under is set at seventy two and a half. And there is juice on the over. People are betting the over. You get to pick first. Yeah, you want to go under? Okay. So Cody, you are Cody is under here we go. Cody's under seventy two and a half. Cody: I'll take the under. Yeah, I'll take the I'll take the under, yes. I think it's close though. I think it's I think it's seventy one maybe. I think it's gonna be real close. AGTCommenter: Well we should trust you because you were you were right on it last time. ⁓ so I got the over what did we wager last time? Wasn't it somebody had to do the full episode yeah, the full you wanna do that again? 'Cause I'm coming back to as as far as we know, to ⁓ to to recap an episode on the twenty ninth of this month. Cody: I think s one of us had to do the recap. Yes. Oof. Yeah. Only if you want to torture the listeners if I lose. You know, it's a torture I if I do the recaps, that's a that's a punishment for the listeners. AGTCommenter: You mm What else could we do? We could do Hmm. Mm, here we go. Here we go. I'm gonna debut it, Cody. We talked about it. For the fantasy league this year, we are teaming up. We're doing teams of two for the people. Jay and his brother Scott, so Scott's gonna be joining the fantasy league, are gonna be a team. Me and Cody, Steven and Ryan. Cody, our wager. The winner of this wager gets to make the first pick for our team. Cody: Okay. Fair. Done. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: For our team. No questions asked by the other by the other person. Regardless of our big board. Now, if you want to follow the big board, go for it. But you have you have first rights to the to the first our first pick in the draft. Let's do that. That was the tease for the people. that wasn't really a tease. It's kind of all the juice that was in there. But ⁓ but yeah, so that'll be fun. We're making a little change. We'll dive more in depth on the actual change later. But ⁓ I think for that wager that makes some sense. So all right, Joey. Cody: Okay? Done. AGTCommenter: I would like to make the first pick. ⁓ so I need I need seventy seventy two. If it's seventy two and a half right on, it's a wash. We'll wait till next year. All right. Should we talk a little little fourth of July extravagant what'd they call it again? AGT Fourth of July party. This was an ode to America, Cody. this was ⁓ a bunch of ⁓ Cody: It's yeah. Yeah. ⁓ party. Fourth of July party. Yeah. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: immigrants s sitting around talking about how much they love America. ⁓ which is, you know, not a knock, but Terry Cruz of the five, the only natural born American citizen on on the ⁓ in the group talking about the wonders of America. did you have a clip? Yeah, you better pull a clip. Yeah. Cody: Yes. Yeah. You you wanna hear that real quick? Yeah. Yeah, you wanna hear that? Yeah. AGTCommenter: It seemed like they didn't realize until now how non American the for decade a decade now. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. So as I was watching this and they were making their comments throughout the show, I realized they were commenting on a lot of things that either we have pointed out and talked about on the pod or have been major topics on Reddit. AGTCommenter: So do you think they dove into it? Cody: I think they dove in and they're like, We gotta address some of these things that people have talked about. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I would agree. There was there was a little bit of that. I was I was doing some pointing at the TV type stuff. We've had eleven seasons of Simon now. This is his eleventh season. We've had one season with a an American judge. The other ten, the whole panel has been foreign. Cody: Yes. Yes. ⁓ well we had we had Hoff and we've had How Howard. AGTCommenter: No, I said since Simon joined. So in the last eleven years, ten of the eleven seasons has been an entirely non American judges panel. Just Gabrielle and Julianne in season fourteen. ⁓ yeah, and before that it's been very f it was Howard, Hoff, and p and Kashi Casharon's British, right? Yeah. So we've had we've had three we've had five total out of out of twenty seasons, five judges. ⁓ Brandy. Brandy. Cody: ⁓ yes, yes. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Yes, you're right. Yes. And and and half. That's it. That's right. Mm-hmm. Yes. But every host but every host has been American. AGTCommenter: Yes Yeah. Yeah, yep, yeah. So yeah. No, so this is that's what to me though, Cody, after the first segment, it didn't feel all that fourth of July to me. We had some hot dogs. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ I couldn't tell how American themed they were going with the whole the the the performances they were picking. Cody: Yes. Mm-hmm. ⁓ a little bit. I mean they talked about like eating hot dogs, yeah. So AGTCommenter: That seemed to be like one segment and then the rest of it was just paying ⁓ homage like they do every year. I wrote down, w they just keep playing the hits every year on these montage episodes. It's just Darcy Lin and Shin Lim and Clip of Anderwall and it's and Cody Lee gets a full ten minutes and it's like they're just pressing they're just pressing the they're playing the hits. ⁓ which is always great for me. I love that. Cody: Yes, yes. Yes. Ha. Yeah. Yeah, in the b yeah, in the beginning we saw some American things. We saw like the silhouettes do the their cool American presents type ⁓ show. We saw of course Prince Poppycock do his ⁓ in his ⁓ Uncle Sam outfit. So that was really kinda cool to see at the beginning. AGTCommenter: Yes. It was great to see all the old acts again. ⁓ w we we they are some of our great memories come from them. A lot of our season rewatches involved, Cody. We've done seasons ten, five, and and thirteen. I just on a quick off top my head earlier I wrote down Poppycock, Aaron Crow, Professional Regurgitator, Piff, Shin Lim, Drew Lynch, Paul Zurden. We're all just off top my head, ones we've done full rewatches of in last year. it's like, wow, they Cody: Yes, yes it is. No, I noticed that too. Uh-huh. Yes. AGTCommenter: It was a lot of seasons ten through thirteen. Cody: It was. ⁓ they had silhouettes, ⁓ which was three, four. AGTCommenter: ⁓ six. Six. Cody: Okay, so later than I thought. Okay, so then Poppycock was the earliest at five. Yes, so they didn't have any Yeah. I don't think they had anything one through four. Maybe Terry Fader, like, popped up. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yes. ⁓ yeah, 'cause Via Signor was also six, wasn't she? ⁓ maybe in like yeah, maybe in a montage, 'cause Via Senior was six, yeah. yeah. I think part of it is they wanted to make sure that the people sitting there knew who was on the screen. You know, Simon didn't show up till season eleven, Heidi or ⁓ Mel didn't show up till season eight, and Sophia didn't show up till season fifteen. So like part of it is great, we could you know, Howie knows a lot of those Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: But he wasn't even here till season five, so that was probably part of it too. But my favorite God, now I'm forgetting. It might have been when Cody Lee popped up. Mel goes, I remember him. He's like, What do you mean you remember him? He's the most famous act of all time. Cody: Yeah, so it's like I a lot of the every time an act came on, it was like Mel B like, ⁓ my golden buzzer Yes, yeah. It's like AGTCommenter: Yeah. And that I got but when she was like, ⁓ I remember him, like what do you ⁓ as if he's like the ⁓ God, I always forget about co I was like, Come on, that's now we're not even trying here. ⁓ Cody: Yeah. I did like the format where they after they kind of did the American part, then they broke it up throughout and they show here are the comedians, here's some singers, here's the dance acts, you know, magicians, that type of thing. AGTCommenter: Yes. They said I think it was Simon said it. Did you pull a clip for this? No. yes, the magic is popular clip. Yes, let's hear that. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: Hm. Most popular. Was that what he said? Yeah. Cody: Most popular. Yes. Based on what? So 'cause if you like if you look at your blog you basically talked about in your blog, it's not what makes the most finals. AGTCommenter: I don't Yeah. Yeah. It's No, I mean, again, in the non-singing category, it does great. It's one of the three. There's kind of a three headed monster. Singing, dance, and comedy have been the three or excuse me, magic, dance, and comedy. The three and then Ventriloquism has the it's like Ventriloquism's won the lottery three times and then these three have just made year after year make a ton of money. And that's how they've created their fortune. ⁓ Cody: Maybe yes. AGTCommenter: I would love to know what he means by popular. You know. Cody: I think they kinda touched on it a little bit. If you he said if you walk down the Vegas strip, you'll see Shin Lim, you'll see Matt Franco, you'll see Piff, you'll see all these magic acts that are just dominating Vegas. So AGTCommenter: Right. For sure. So if that's the route he's thinking, which he'd like you said, he did mention, it has been the most reliable Vegas talent. Yeah, the to actually have it stick in Vegas magic has dominated. ⁓ it's a bunch of ⁓ have had some type of run in Vegas. And I was thinking about that. Once he mentioned that, it got my brain while I was watching it on the couch. I was thinking and I was like, I think part of it is because Cody: Post post yeah. Post ATT. AGTCommenter: You're either good at you're either like elite at magic or you don't do magic. Like it's it's really hard. Like and there's not really a place to go pro. There's no record deals to sign. There's not there's not open mic nights like there is for comedy. There's not dance studios. Like you kinda gotta use something like this or Penn and Teller or just like the comedy competition or excuse me, the magic competitions they have, but this ended up being kind of a godsend for ma magicians. This was the launching point. To get there that there wasn't a ton of avenues from from magicians. And so we we kind of were getting like the the best of the best were coming on the show, where we were never getting the best singers in the world to come on the show. Because if you were that good, you didn't need to use America's Got Talent. You just you want an idol, or you just you were you be you were good enough and yeah, you just you were good enough and people found you. Like so it is interesting, like when you look at Cody: Mm-hmm. You went on well, you went on idle. Yeah. Nat you naturally AGTCommenter: His point about the Vegas strip part of it is is for sure, like between like you said, Shin Lim, Franco, Piff, even our friends the clairvoyants have had a run had their runs in Vegas. Colin Cloud has has been in Vegas with with Shin. trying to think if if we're missing any big ones. ⁓ O's never really bothered with Vegas. He kinda kept to his own being able to do his own thing. But but yeah, no it's Cody: Mm-mm. ⁓ tape face. AGTCommenter: Ma not a magician though. No, yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to think. yeah, but even that that list is pretty darn good. so I would say singing's still the most popular. I I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The most successful post career or post AGT career. Probably magic. ⁓ so it's kinda interesting. and then Cody: Not a registration guys. Yeah, comedy. Yeah. Mm-hmm. On the show. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: I we have to talk about this, and you have a clip for it, but I'll lead into it. Simon didn't realize his kid was fifty percent American. Play the clip. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. So two judges have three kids that could be president one day? AGTCommenter: Yeah, so here's the interesting thing too. I don't think they realize I don't think he realizes how th he's not. He's one hundred percent American. He's a full American citizen. He's a I'm sure yeah, I'm I'm assuming they went but he when he was born, he was not British. He was American. And he's thinking like genealogy. America is not American's not one of the he's like fifty percent Italian, Brit like w none of us are full yeah. Cody: Right. He's he's dual citizen, right? Yes. That's correct. Yes. Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: But yeah, he I think he thought that because he's not he was British, he just is automatically fifty percent British and that's not that's not how that works. He's he's full American baby. He was yeah. But him just realizing like, interesting. Who I didn't realize that. ⁓ 'cause his wi or I think they're getting are they married or have but Cody: Ha ha. It girl no, it's just just still a girlfriend, yeah. Well and Mel B said her two kids as well. So AGTCommenter: Yeah but she at least seemed like she she knew. She was like because they're Yeah, Lauren Lauren Silverman. And as far as I know, she's she's from the United She's from the United States. Lauren Silverman. Cody: Yeah. She's an American. Yeah. So Eric was born in the US. AGTCommenter: ⁓ yes. she's from looks like she was born in Florida. The Google just has you know it'll say like the name and it'll say actor or professional basketball player. No, it's just this socialite. That's not a profession. Yeah, yeah. Wouldn't hate someday if my Google was just AGT comment or socialite. Cody: Simon's girlfriend. She just carries around the MX black card and like here you go. It's like AGTCommenter: ⁓ what is it what is the definition of a socialite? Cody: They go to social events. That's all they do. AGTCommenter: A person typically from a wealthy or influential background who is prominent in high society and famous for attending fashionable social gatherings, parties and chur. So that's her job. That's the way to do it right there. shout out Eric Cowell. Potentially Mr. President in the future. ⁓ Cody: There you go. Yeah. That's correct, yes. AGTCommenter: You also pulled one more clip that I I want to talk about and I know that what it is. This was the Spider-Man meme live for me sitting on the couch, and it's Simon saying that we've seen it all. Let's let's hear that clip. Cody: Yes. ⁓ That's where I was like, they have been listening to us. Yes. AGTCommenter: Boy. I have a slum. Yeah. Now he said it in a way of like how amaz how great is it that we've seen it all? Where I said it was like this is a problem. We've seen it all. but corroborated now by Simon. But yes, ⁓ it is an issue. Like we've talked about how many times we talked about like I just can't seem to to bring it, you know, bring myself to love this act because it just I just loved this version of this so much better in the past. It happens all the time. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we've seen it all so much that we're now seeing it literally again. It's like AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah. People just keep coming back. yeah. Because even when we did our season thirteen rewatch and we had front pictures and we and and we watched Fighting Gravity a few months earlier and we were sitting there like, I can't properly evaluate this act. They're just fighting gravity. ⁓ so we've been seeing seeing it all and seeing it all recycled for years. but I the part about where they had a ton of seasons ten through thirteen. Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: Obviously they wanted to focus on some some some seasons where all these were around the people on the on the stage. But or in the sitting at the where I mean w by the way, just sitting kinda outside on the little on little chairs. yeah. Yeah. It looked nice. Warm, sunny California. I think it's just it's a great reminder for people. Like that is Cody: Yeah, and we've seen that before. I think they showed that last year. It's right it's right outside that bay there in the to go to the stage. It does look nice. Yeah. Mm? AGTCommenter: The amount of talent we were seeing. I mean, we saw Ryan Stock and Amber Lynn from season twelve. ⁓ just the amount of talent we were seeing in those four seasons. And even you can add in season fourteen and even season nine the year before, but those four seasons were were a lot of fun and it was it's it's always good to to see some of those some of those acts back. But ⁓ as I'm sitting watching, I'm just like every summer they just show us the full performance of ch of Cody Lee. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Or the full pro we just see this now. Once a year we get to rewatch this together as a community. Cody: Yes. Yeah. I think they showed like almost a full performance of Drew Lynch and I was like, Please get to the joke. What it's like AGTCommenter: Yeah, the Drew Lynch was not not nearly as fun. ⁓ but we saw Howie as the pu as the human puppet, which is great. Cody: No. They're showed a lot from like champions and all stars and which surprised me a little bit. AGTCommenter: Yeah. 'Cause we saw we saw some extreme. Cody: We did seem extreme, which that didn't surprise me as much. But like Professional Regurgitator felt like his was from Champions, Matt Franco's was from I don't and I don't know which ones they were, Champions, All Stars, one of those. But it seemed like they showed quite a bit from those performances. AGTCommenter: No. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. ⁓ I just pulled up the Hall of Fame because it you you made me think how Hall of Fame heavy was this episode. So Darcy Lynn, did we we saw Darcy Lynn, we saw a full perform or a a full kind of segment at least. ⁓ we saw Shin. We saw Cody Lee. Yes. Which was great. ⁓ I'll say this while we're doing before we even do this. You'll remember I you know I make those clips for our Hall of Fame inductions, right? And I always start with what? Cody: ⁓ yeah. We saw Darcy Lynn. Yes, yeah. Yes. Almost all almost a full performance from him. Yeah. Okay. ⁓ huh. AGTCommenter: The first part of the clip is always them introducing themselves. It's their audition, Hi, what's your name and where you're from? And then they say it. So every time one of these would come on, it would just be that. It was like the start of a Hall of Fame. So not only that, it's all of a sudden it's My name is Piff the Magic Dragon, and then it's like, My name's Shin Lim, I am a card magician, and I'm like, ⁓ my god, like this is just so but of the sixteen Hall of Famers, ⁓ T Darcy Lin, Shin Lim, Cody Lee, the Unbeatable. Cody: Yes, I Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: Did we see Bianca Orion? Cody: No, because we did not see anything from one three four. AGTCommenter: And we didn't see Terry Fader as far as we remember. Cody: Again, he was in a clip. I think he was like with with ⁓ Darcy Lynn in like a finals in a finale. Okay. Okay. Yes. AGTCommenter: So he some he was on there. I'm gonna count it. Franco, we got a we got a proper clip from a full thing. Did we see our friends the clairvoyance? No. Vanderwall got a clip, like a a snippet. Zerdon got his and Howie, so we'll put those two together. Piff we saw. Cody: No Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: Did we see we saw our friend our friend Tom Cotter? Did we see Brian Justin Crum? I don't think we did. Did we see Ois Perlman? I don't think we did. Did we see Light Balance? So we saw eleven of the 16 Hall of Famers in this episode, too. It's pretty darn good. ⁓ pretty darn good. other thoughts you had, things you want to touch on from the episode before I have one thing? Yeah. Cody: Mm-hmm. No, I don't think we did. No, I don't think we did. No. No. Yes. Yeah. ⁓ I have a couple more clips, them talking about the audience and like the audience Golden Buzzers. And I to pulled two clips. I'm not sure which one I'm gonna play first. We'll see here. So I I pulled this for two 'cause one he was just talking about a lot of what decisions he makes is based on what the audience does. The audience is influencing him. And then of course, gotta have more Parmesan. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So the part about w w it's always great to see Ben Lapidas's audition, a classic paper plate act. One of our all time paper plate acts. And if anybody's wondering that, that that stemmed from our season thirteen rewatch, ⁓ basically an act that we're really glad we got to see on auditions, but we don't never we don't ever need to see ⁓ again. Like a paper plate. Gla glad I have it. Not gonna reuse it one time and then I'm done. ⁓ but anyway. Cody: Yes. You That's right. AGTCommenter: The point about using the audience to help him judge. 50% seems high. I'm not against if you're like I'm confident if I and someday they might hire me as a judge, that the mood in the theater certainly would have an impact on what you think of the act. Right? Like you're sitting there and they're getting the crazy round of applause mid performance, like you might be it probably skews in your head, like, ⁓ this is this is pretty good. What I don't love is when they're gonna say no and then they let the crowd bully them into saying yes. That's a different. But I I can can I can I understand the human ⁓ element emotion of sitting there and being like, I'm getting caught up in this act because the four thousand people standing and screaming is having an impact. I can I can I have no problem believing that. ⁓ so and I think sometimes like, yeah, listen to the people. Four thousand people are might be smarter than one of you two. I d I didn't have a ton of problem with it. Fifty percent seemed high. Cody: Right. Yeah. I think he explains that a little bit more in this second clip. And so I think that's kind of the point is that, hey, we're just we're just four people. If four thousand people really likes this act, then let's let's listen to the people. They're the ones that are gonna be voting for it. So let's see what let's let's put ⁓ through and then let America kinda do its thing. AGTCommenter: Exactly. I think it's totally fair, 'cause one, you have two things. One, you just can get rid of Just don't put ⁓ in live shows. Yeah. They have the fail safe. Right. They have the fail safe of if if they listen to the crowd and then when they're cutting down and doing whatever. Exactly. So they have that. And then two, yeah, like, all right, well, let's listen to them and then give ⁓ to America and see what they think. ⁓ but yeah. Any other clips you wanted to talk through? Cody: And we talked about that as in one of our things like what if we had no judges? Yeah. The the the judges are like the Electoral College, right? Yeah, so it's like Yeah. Sorry. I think that was all of the clips, but to kinda just one more thing on the audience thing, they did then lead into talking about like the audience golden buzzer and you know, that was that was a one and done thing, right? That was a paper plate thing. AGTCommenter: Yes. That wa that was a paper plate segment. Let me pull up the golden buzzers because I don't want to be wrong on that. But I'm almost positive. I believe it was just Mzanzi, correct? Cody: I if it wasn't one and done it might they might have done a s yeah, I think it was just Mzanzi, right. AGTCommenter: 'Cause that was they were season seventeen sixteen seventeen. Sixteen, all judges and terry, seventeen, all j they were eighteen, yeah. So eighteen we had Mzanzi as the audience. Nineteen Yeah, just the one, just the one off. A good paper plate. there. Although didn't even want to use it the first time, I guess. So maybe not. Cody: Yeah, yeah, that's what I figured. G agreed, agreed. And then the last thought I had, ⁓ so every time they an an act came on the screen and they put the n the little graphic with their name on it, they put the year that they were on, not the season. Should should we be going by AGT year twenty eleven? AGTCommenter: Yeah. Hm. What's the what's the advantage one way or the other in your head? Cody: I mean, for those of us that have watched a lot of it, we know season you know, we're in season twenty one, we can do math of, hey, ten years ago. Season eleven would be ten years ago. I don't know. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm surpr or what I would think they should do is put like season eighteen and then you could put in parentheses like twenty twenty eighteen. Or season thirteen, parentheses, twenty eighteen. ⁓ for some reason my marker is that season eleven was twenty sixteen. I don't know what it was about twenty sixteen. I'll never forget that year was season eleven. So I can I just kinda work it off of that. ⁓ Cody: Twenty eighteen, yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Was it ⁓ there was there was something where Howie was referring to something as AGT twenty eighteen. You said something like that at some point or whatever. To me the seasons make more sense than the years because that's how you remember the group by, right? Like what season they were on. ⁓ Cody: Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, 'cause this this graphic I have up it has Pro Professional Regurgitator. But it says Professional Regurgitator twenty twenty three. So that was his champions, champions two, whatever it was, yeah. AGTCommenter: So that was the champions whatever, yeah. That was probably fantasy league. All stars are fan maybe all stars. Probably all stars. Cause ⁓ nineteen would have been champions one, twenty would have been champions two. Yeah. So we went champions nineteen, champions two, twenty twenty. Extreme was twenty one or twenty two. They might have skipped a year. And then twenty three was all stars, and then twenty five was fantasy league. But yeah. Other ⁓ other stuff you wanted to touch on this episode? It's I yeah. Cody: Fa fantasy league was twenty twenty five. I enjoy clip shows. I think they're I mean I know a lot of people don't. I kinda do 'cause I am a big I like to see the the older acts. I like to see I just like to watch that type of stuff. Yeah. AGTCommenter: We do so much with it that we it's it's such a we we always love to see the older acts. There's not a lot of like live tweeting available to do for me. I didn't re I wasn't really active on that part of it, but it's a nice week off too from having to log stats and trying to get my leaderboard updated and stuff. but Cody: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And and you know, from this I like just hearing the judge's thoughts as well, 'cause again you're like, hey, we've talked about that. That's exactly so so AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ We saw the human fountains, by the way. La Umane Funtane. ⁓ I forgot I forgot during the hot dog segment 'cause they they ⁓ they did some hot dog work in their quarterfinals performance. ⁓ Cody: We did, yes. Yes we did. Yep. ⁓ did you did you like seeing your boy Aaron Crow? The the arrow. Not your man crow okay. AGTCommenter: Great C Aaron Crow. Not my man crush. I have I should say this. I have far bigger man crushes on this show than Eric Crow. ⁓ but but they did the audition. They didn't do the judge cuts. I saw the so I I only noticed the sword one. Maybe I looked away when they did the arrow. Okay, they did both. Okay, good. Good. Cause the arrow is one of the all time great moments that we've had with the laser pointer. ⁓ the only other thing I had before we move to our next thing. They posted so AGT on YouTube. Cody: Okay. No, they did the arrow. They they did they did the arrow one. Yeah, no, they did the arrow. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: posted four throwback performances from this episode. Not everyone they showed. They posted four. They posted one from season thirteen, one from season twelve, one from season eleven, and one from season eighteen. Aaron Crow's audition, they posted. They posted Preacher Laushan Preacher Laushen. Preacher Lawson's audition. They posted ⁓ Cody: Okay. Okay. Weird. Okay. AGTCommenter: Sophie Dossies audition and they posted Anna DeGuzman at a live show. I don't know which one it is for sure. It looks like a it could be a f like a a results the finale too, but it was it was not an audition. Cody: Okay. Okay. The finale was where she's at the table with all the judges, right? Okay, yeah. AGTCommenter: So yes, then the finale. That's the one. Just those four. They labeled them as like, you know, it says auditions on like a regular one. It just says highlight. Aaron Crow nearly takes out Howie Mandel from the AGT archives. Preacher Lawson was so funny. Simon asked for more from the AGT archives. Sophie Dossi was 14 when she shocked the judges. Anna DeGuzman made Magic look effortless. I'm like, why did we pick these four? Four, you know, three of them are really good performance. Anna DeGuzman's dunk. But what I wanted you to do, Cody, rank Not the performances, the X, rank the four. Cody: Yeah. ⁓ Okay, so we had we have Preacher, Aaron Crow, Annada Guzman, Sophie Dosey. Okay. AGTCommenter: Sophie Darcy. I have a clear four in my head, but I'm interested in your thoughts. Yes, because you don't know you don't remember the performances. Yes. Cody: Yeah, so so the the axe themselves. Okay, so Anadiguzman's No, Anadagozman's at the bottom. Okay. ⁓ and then man, those are tough. 'Cause ⁓ three three great acts, yeah. So I'm gonna put I'm gonna put Aaron Crow at four. AGTCommenter: Three good acts, yeah. Three. Yeah, yeah. Cody: I'm sorry, you're right, three. ⁓ I'm gonna put I'm put Preacher at two, Sophie at one. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Clear four. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I would just flip Aaron Chrome Preacher. But to me, Sophie's clear one. Anna Digo has been clear two. And then take your pick. Depends on what you're in the mood for. ⁓ say that again. ⁓ yeah, clear four. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, so I thought that was inter I cause I went Cody: Clear four, yeah. AGTCommenter: 'Cause I was trying to remember like when I was getting my nose together, I couldn't find I don't have Peacock or Hulu to go back and rewatch the episodes. It's like, ⁓ I'm sure they posted all the clips on YouTube just to refresh my memory on a couple of things, and I went on there and they just put posted four full performances, just kind of random ones they showed, I guess. But yeah, interesting. But they should do that more, by the way. Cody: Post stuff, yes. AGTCommenter: post old or from the AGT archive stuff. Cody: Yeah, our friends over at Talent Recap, they will post some clips periodically of of AGTX. So if that's something you're interested in, go follow Talent Recap 'cause they do that. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Anything else on this episode we want to talk about? Cody: No, it's fun. I enjoy it. I think it's a good fun thing to do fourth of July week. So gives us a nice little break, gives us and then we can roll right back into auditions right after it. Well this this ⁓ this starts us into why you're here. Yes. AGTCommenter: This is why I'm here. I wanted to say this though, by the way. When there is a clip show, that's just like the bat signal for you guys to get me to come on the pod. It's like, ⁓ not an actual audition? Smash the commenter button. He'll come on and fill time. It's my bat signal. Yeah. I mean it's just like, ⁓ ooh, clip clips episode. Cody: Ha ha ha. The the the the symbol of Nick appears in the sky. AGTCommenter: Put it up there. Commenter will will come on here. And I personally prefer it a ton. Because then I can just kinda we can just you and I can just kinda throw it back and forth and not have to be structured to recaps and things like that. So cause we were so Ryan's coming on next week. And so we were you and and our group were trying to figure out hey, Jade's gonna miss a couple weeks here, who wants to fill in. And initially I was like, I'll just take I'll take July one. Cody: Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: Ryan, you can and Ryan's like, okay, I'll take July eighth. And then we flipped for some reason. Is it 'cause we thought this was next week. Our first source, yeah. Cody: So correct, according to the sources on Reddit, this this this episode was supposed to be next week. AGTCommenter: Which didn't make sense 'cause why would we do it after the fourth of July? We should have saw that. Saw through that. But either way. So then we were like, ⁓ well perfect. So I was like, I clearly should take the clip show, Ryan can do tha that. So we flipped and then like two days later, like, looks like it's actually this week. So then we flip back. But yeah. So bat signal was I saw it, I'm here reporting for duty. But Cody: Right. So speaking speaking of the Nick, your ⁓ the the AGT commenter avatar, ⁓ I don't know if you've been following Freddie from the World Cup. AGTCommenter: Familiar. Cody: Yeah, so there was this guy, Freddie. ⁓ came to the US for the World Huh? He did delete his account. Yeah, that's kinda where I was kinda going. ⁓ so of course around the world's been coming for the world back to World Cup talk for a moment. World's been coming for the World Cup. There's a guy on Twitter named Freddie. ⁓ he's been traveling around the US. He started in Florida. AGTCommenter: He deleted Twitter now, I think. I think he deleted his account. From Germany, correct? Cody: He's from Germany. He c yeah, he he arrived in Florida, watched, I think, Argentina play a friendly in Florida, and then drove to Houston. So he's been doing road trip across America, up to Canada. He's been doing the whole thing. Having a grand old time. ⁓ blogging his his trip on Twitter. It's fascinating. But his avatar is a picture of Ronaldo, I think. It's his favorite player, yeah. So his no one knows who this guy really is. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah, he's like he's it's his favorite player ever. Yeah. Cody: His his picture, his is Ronaldo over his this guy of over Freddie's body. Made me think of you. I was like, that's definitely what H D Commander does right there, so AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he got people were too mean to him and he deleted Twitter. Yeah. It's so dumb. 'Cause he he got a little corporate, not him, but the com you know, brands started to realize hey this is kind of a fun thing, which is always the worst too, is when mainstream things sink their teeth into it and then people are like, You're a sellout and it's like, All right, well, all right, that was fun while it lasted. You guys ruined Freddie. but yeah, no, it it has been fascinating. Cody: They were. It's unfortunate. Let the guy have fun. Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I guess we're on the Fourth of July Ode to America thing. Fascinating to see the positivity about how amazing America is from the foreigners. ⁓ because you when you're in it, you kinda lose you don't have the rose colored glasses when you're in it every day and everybody has a thousand complaints about America that lives in America, but it's funny. You get people that come from what we think is like, ⁓ the most beautiful places, like a trip to Europe's life changing, and then the people that live there come here and be like, I can't believe this place is real. Cody: Yes. Yes. No. Yeah. You have air conditioning and Waffle House, that's right, Bucky's and it's like Yeah AGTCommenter: Waffle House. Yeah. There's ice in your soda at the restaurant and you get free refills? This is crazy. W Ranch. People are discovering ranch for the first time. ⁓ Yeah, we can't just can't be bringing thirty two ounce bottles of ranch through customs. That's not gonna work. but yeah, no, it's ⁓ it it it makes you smile a little bit to be like, you know what? Yeah. We are pretty cool. Cody: Yes. TSA had to put out some warnings about people taking ransom. It does. AGTCommenter: We do a a lot of it centers around our portion sizes and and our food. People love Buckeys. Cody: Yeah. Fill it up on t filling up on chips and salsa before you even get your meal. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yes. Yeah, chip your yeah, too much chips which is a ⁓ very American thing to do. ⁓ yeah, people discovering Buckys. I've never been to a Buckies. Fresh biscuit brisket on the board I know that. ⁓ Is that in town? Do you have one? Cody: Yes it is. Okay. I've got my brisket That's right. I've got my bucky shirt on now, so ⁓ yeah, about an hour. Little little it's between us and Knoxville. Yep. AGTCommenter: Okay. Do you make regular trips there? No. Cody: I don't. I stop when I go see my mom in Chattanooga. I'll stop there. But I don't like yeah, it's too far to like go there and come back. AGTCommenter: I gotta where's the f what's the northernmost Buckies? Cody: I think they just opened one in Virginia. But it's it's spreading, like it's yeah. No. I don't think there's any anyone as closer to you. I don't think there's like even one in Oklahoma. AGTCommenter: Mount Crawford, Virginia. So not close to me at all. No. Yeah, someday, someday I'll get to a Bucky's. I gotta come see the fresh brisket on the board. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ so anyway, shout out ⁓ Freddie, shout out America. we're I ⁓ we need to dive in a little into we've had four full auditions now. ⁓ this is usually it takes about five or six before ⁓ I give maybe mid season, but four is great. There's gonna be seven as far as we know. Cody: Sunday, do you come visit? That's right. Great number. AGTCommenter: All the all the all of the intel we've received is it's seven audition episodes. Intel otherwise it is a good number. ⁓ we did our season thirteen rewatch, which I've referenced about twelve times now. ⁓ six auditions, which is to me perfect. We had our five golden buzzers, one non golden buzzer episode. Now the golden buzzers are it's whole other thing that I'll talk about. But ⁓ Cody: We've already got s six golden buzzers, is that right? AGTCommenter: Eight. Seven? Let me see. I got it right here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight of the ten. So we'll have one without one. We'll have an episode without one in these last three. But we put three in one episode. Why did we do that? So dumb. ⁓ anti stupid consultant would have vetoed that idea and said, we can, you know, we can do. We spread them out a little bit. seems like we might be trending towards another. Cody: Eight? Okay. That's right. AGTCommenter: Singer heavy singing heavy season. It's heading that direction. I ran the numbers. Lo and behold, my top ten, five, singing. My top twenty, nine, singing. What would you know? Half. Singing versus non-singing. it's just it's what the show is. I think they're they just force it. They're like half of half of your favorites are gonna be singers, half aren't. You're gonna like it. ⁓ Cody: Mm-hmm. Well, it doesn't help when two thirds of the golden buzzers are singing. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Correct. Yeah. So w I mean we already know they're gonna be live shows. ⁓ I wanted to pull up ⁓ 'cause what was last year? ⁓ Last year we had obviously ten finalists, seven singing slash non s ⁓ slinging singing slash some type of singer. So I think we might be headed in that direction again. I wouldn't be shocked if in September we're we're talking about a finals night where six six to eight of them are are musical acts, ⁓ which I don't love. I like music more or singers more than most like heavy fans of the show. But let's spread the love. There's gonna be really good variety acts that get left out of this season. Cody: Yeah. Now, you know, we can blame the judges all we want for this, but once we're in the live shows, America's voting for this. So Right. That's right. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. So it can't be rigged. We talked about this in our Reddit episode. It is inherently an unrigged show. Now, you can rig it if you just don't listen to the actual vote, but as far as we know, they're they're keeping it kosher on that. But I don't think we have a star in the season yet. We don't have I don't think there's anything close to a clear front runner. There's no Jessica like even Jessica Sanchez was like, ⁓ this she's gonna be The s the the golden buzzers have not popped in a way both online and just in general talent wise. I No, I I we've got three auditions left. We still have two more golden buzzers we're waiting around on. But right now I I your guess is as good as mine on who is the favorite close to that, who is like gonna be hard to beat. Cody: No Richard Goodalls? AGTCommenter: ⁓ maybe the least confident I felt about who's the best act or even just the couple best acts. I'm trying to think in in in a long time. Maybe season eighteen. Who ⁓ who was on that season that would have been r that I really liked? ⁓ like the Ramadani brothers. but Putura ⁓ Putirani. I I th I think we all after auditions were like, ⁓ next Cody Lee. Like that was kind of the that was kind of the sense that we were looking at. So we don't have that yet. Is it coming? I don't know. They don't I'd be surprised if they waited this long to give us kind of the one that's gonna pop. Obviously they don't know for sure, but they usually have a pretty good sense of what's gonna hit and what's not. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah, we'd have to double check it, but I think I've looked at the trend and the winner most winners have come from like the first half. It just so happens to work that way. It's not like again, I don't think it can be rigged this way, but it just so happens that the ⁓ the winners usually come from like the first half of the auditions. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Which makes sense because yes, they don't the the people that you know, America votes, but America's comprised of people like the producers who watch and can and pick their favorites. The producers and and the people that are putting things together know who's good and who America's probably going to like or what golden buzzard moment was the best or most emotional or whatever. And they're gonna front load it. What did they do in season thirteen? Rewatch again, mention. Remember? Auditions one was like the best episode we'd ever seen. And then by the end of it you're like Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: Let's get done with this. I think I think we've mistaken over the years being like ⁓ wanting to be done with auditions when or to feeling like there's way too many auditions because of the amount. I think it's more because of the quality at the end. If it was a great auditions nine, then I wouldn't care how many auditions, but it's never a great auditions nine because they front loaded it to hook people on the season and make sure they kept coming back. So we've lost control of the golden buzzer. It's a it's Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: It's it's madness. It's it's it's it's has its own life on this show. And what stands out to me, and I'm not a big comment reader on like YouTube videos or things like that. I think com or I shouldn't say that, I don't pay attention to comments for anything more than what they are, which is just words, because people who commenters are the worst. You put on you go to a YouTube clip of of one of these performances and every comment like this should have been a golden buzzer. It's only the only discourse is golden buzzer. And I can tell they're not these people don't actually watch the show, right? They're they're discovering it. But they what do they know about AGT? They know that there's a thing known as the Golden Buzzer. That's what this show is known for. I just wanna pull up one. I just wanna pull up one performance here on YouTube that didn't get a golden buzzer from last episode. It'll be a good one. Oops. Cody: While you're looking that up, before the season started, I did a countdown every day of you know, the winners I started I think I started like at season fifteen. And so each day I would post the winner of that season. So fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, all the down. And Grace Vanderwall's audition is still going crazy. And there's still people finding it that have like never seen her before. AGTCommenter: Right. ⁓ yeah. It's the viral I I know it it maybe didn't do the views that everybody that some have since and part of that is because the internet's just bigger. That's the one. To me, there's not a more viral th that that took the show, we've talked about it, but this is from our friend Brooklyn, which I is her name Brooklyn or is it just Brooklyn and she's making her stage name? 'Cause that's very confusing. Cody: No it No, wait we looked it up. So Brooke Lynn is her stage name. Brooke is her first name, Lynn is the last name. But she's actually got a real name. AGTCommenter: ⁓ here's some of the comments, just in order. I'm not skipping over any. This would have been a golden buzzer if there were any left. She's better than all the other singer golden buzzers. ⁓ s I am sure she would have gotten a golden buzzer if there were more left. ⁓ if I was a judge on AGT I would have pressed the golden buzzer. ⁓ let me find one more. Amazing voice. I thought she she got the golden buzzer. I mean, it's only if Mel didn't want that hug, this would have been a golden buzzer. It's she needed the golden buzzer. She deserves a golden buzzer. Honestly, golden buzzer worthy. It's it's all people talk about in relation to this show, and I'm I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I love the golden buzzer. Cody: Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I'm sick of it. I'm gonna do a How I Met Your Mother reference for you here, Cody. For AGG District, I hope you're listening. There is an episode where Deal Patrick Harris, Barney Stinson, goes to the Super Bowl, has a sign, and he puts his phone number on the sign and says, you know, call me for a good time in New York, whatever. And he bought a second phone for this. And now it rings. The the bit in the show is that it just never stops ringing. It's just it's just women calling him to Cody: Okay. Let's see if I remember it. AGTCommenter: To go on a date. And initially, he's like, This is there's never been anything created greater than this phone. I have an unlimited flow of of dates. And then by the end of the episode, he's like throwing it in the garbage. He's like crying, trying to crawl away from the phone. That's me and Golden Buzzers at this point. I loved it initially. I was like, this is this is it one, it's it's made for great podcasting for us over the years. The Courtney Hadwin moments and those types of things. I'm now to the point where the Golden Buzzer has overwhelmed me. I I'm I'm I'm sick of the Golden Buzzer. It's all this show does. It's crazy. and then it doesn't help when it's a bad batch of eight. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: ⁓ I haven't loved really any of ⁓ I don't know your thoughts. Cody: ⁓ there was one. ⁓ I'll have to pull up the list real quick. I think I have them ranked. ⁓ I have to look at my rankings and see what I did. I liked Hundred Fingers as a golden buzzer. ⁓ AGTCommenter: Yeah. I do. Are you a hundred or a hundred? How do you Cody: hundred. I think I'm a hundred. Hundred hundred? No, I'm a hundred. No, I'm a hundred. let's see here. Four there was another one I think I really liked. ⁓ I liked Ruben. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Hundred finger, hundred, hundred, hundred fingers. Yeah, are you ga yeah, Ru Ruben Rolden Bustos. Have you guys just been calling him Ruben? 'Cause that's a that's a tongue that's a tongue twister the other day. Let's talk about him. I did like Ruben as well. Probably Cody: Yes. Yes. No, I just call him Reuben. Yes. I do like Reuben. Yeah. Ca 'cause he's very similar to who did I who's the who's the guy I had on my team? The one legged dancer. Musumata, yes. AGTCommenter: No, ⁓ Musamata. Yeah. I think the hundred f I think hundred fingers is the best ⁓ golden buzzer. ⁓ Ruben was fun. I put out a tweet on Ruben's night, so he's our one legged parkour act. and I said I had a take that I actually think the fact that he only has one leg makes his act easier. Cody: Parkour. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And I said I'll expand on it when I make my appearance on AGT time. I wish I would have been on that week, because it'd be slightly fresher in mind. I didn't write down a ton of notes, but I do know this. My thought process was this. He only has to land on one foot. He doesn't have to he doesn't he he has one less thing that can trip. And the point of parkour is it's already an upper body. If you have two legs, you're using your arms a ton. I'm not I'm not saying that it's that he's lucky he's missing a leg. That's I don't I don't want people at home to th to think that I think he he's got it made by this. I'm saying is my concern is people are gonna be like, wow. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: This guy, I gotta vote for him, he's only got one leg and I'm gonna I'm sitting here being like I'd I would be more impressed if he had two legs. ⁓ because there's a center gravity piece too. ⁓ Cody: Well st his Sunder Grounder is thrown off because he's only on he's only on one side. AGTCommenter: Yeah, but once you're training on it, you're now you're you're good to go. The other thing I'll say too, you can you can fit through some tighter spaces. you I I I Cody: Well your torso is still the same width. Yes. AGTCommenter: And my guess is he does a lot of his moving with his arms. Parkour. This is a great this is he's parkour. ⁓ so I'm just monitor it as the season goes. I think you might start to notice as you watch, be like, ⁓ that is that is nice. He just has to Cause last thing I'll say. You may not do this, but our listeners, if you haven't hopped in a while. Cody: Parkour. Sure. AGTCommenter: Go hop and see how much faster you can get from point A to point B by hopping on one leg than two. You'll be amazed. It's so much more efficient to hop on one leg. Cody: But is he hopping because he can't run? AGTCommenter: But that's what parkour is. You know, for the most part, he's just he's jumping. It's a lot of jumping from one it's you know, bouncing from one thing. You know, parkour isn't necessarily a lot of straight line sprinting. ⁓ that would be the one thing. He can't pick up the same amount of speed to start potentially. But once you start getting into the parkour stuff, I think there might be an advantage to only having to worry about the one leg. ⁓ but anyway, I did like him. He was fun. ⁓ Cody: Okay. Okay. Okay. The the other act I liked, I have I actually have Acro Crew as my number one golden buzzer. AGTCommenter: Favorite. Cody: Yes, I have them as my favorite golden buzzer. AGTCommenter: I like them too. I have them as my seventh best from like of scores. But again, it wasn't like the singers are good, so I give them solid scores. Like they have nice voices. I'm not rooting for probably any of ⁓ I didn't mind I d maybe Lay is it Lay Noel? Cody: Yes, I think it's laid on well. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Maybe. Like 'cause Mackenzie Col soul, great voice, good score, not a huge fan. Cody: No, I have both Mel B golden buzzers as the bottom two. AGTCommenter: I have both of them kind of Cody: As far I'm talking about as far as golden buzzers. They're crappy golden buzzers. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Sure. Fair. I would agree. Yeah, she she just liked how handsome they were. Yeah. I I made a tweet about that. I'm not gonna re I'm not gonna resay what I said. But yeah, no, it was it was something. I wanna make a take to you here. And I know I know you're gonna be anti I'm gonna be I'm in enemy territory with this comment here. I like the early releases. Cody: Yes. Yeah Sure. AGTCommenter: And let me explain why. I can prep for the episode. I can go watch it. I go watch it. I can score it. I can get the data put in I need to put in. I can get my thoughts ironed out to tweet about it. 'Cause I was with I I was Mr. Why are we doing this? You're ruining the show. I flipped. I I started watching all of ⁓ and I love it. It's great. Cody: Fair. No, I get it. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and and I think that the reason I'm not a f this this is I think this is the only reason I'm not a fan of it. I want to watch it when the rest of America is watching it. And so so part of my experience is doing the live tweeting. And I don't want to have my tweets ahead of time. I want to be as surprised and reactionary as the rest of America. ⁓ and that's that's part of it, is all the what's going on with with Ali and AGT district and all of them. ⁓ so AGTCommenter: I I agree, yeah. I I agree. Cody: That's the only reason I don't want to be spoiled because I want to get the same reactions that they're getting at the same time. So yeah. AGTCommenter: I that's fair. And it would be one thing if they released the full episode early. But since it's only one or two acts, I don't feel like I certainly don't feel like I lose the allure of that. and nobody is surprised by Golden Buzzers anymore. We can tell instantly. So ⁓ but no, I Cody: Yeah, I guess. It it also lets you get your information so when there's a weather alert during your during the show. So AGTCommenter: That's true too. ⁓ yeah, last episode I had to watch two of the performances on YouTube afterwards to keep up with the show. we had a bad storm on Sunday night. We got the town over from us had like softball ⁓ golf ball sized hail. Some good hail. Some good hail. ⁓ but but yeah, no, I just I'm I'm it's my it's my great misfortune to report that I am pro early release. Cody: Yeah. Wow. Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: auditions four was the best audition. Last last one. I thought it was really good AGT. Yeah. I I I'll I'll recap a little bit the people. ⁓ Cody: ⁓ It was the most consistent, yes, it was yes, agree, yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: We had the dog act, Olivia Bifoos, but James and Marina are our n our next clairvoyants. Brooke Lynn, who I thought had a really lovely, really great voice. Erwan was spectacular. ⁓ my guy. Cody: Yeah, I'd forgotten about Erwan 'cause I was watching that and I like, ⁓ my goodness, this guy's so great And then we're like, ⁓ yeah, he was on season eighteen so AGTCommenter: ⁓ Madeline and Malachi, I didn't love them. ⁓ Ruben, our parkour act, ⁓ Bird and Byron, who were a fascinating singing duo. He was very intense and a mo it was very interesting. Mr. Hammerhead, our adjudicator, was here. ⁓ or Hammerhead. Hammer Hand. Sorry. Yeah, my my sweet prince, my king. He is ⁓ Mackenzie Soul who had a nice voice, and then ⁓ Patrox is how you say it. ⁓ Cody: Yep. Yep. Yeah, yeah, you're a man? Your sorry, you're your king? Your king, right? I think so. AGTCommenter: the dancer. But yeah, I had it as the highest scored. ⁓ if I actually look at like my leaderboard, one, two, three, four, four of my top ten are from that episode, which would obviously be a little bit ⁓ a little bit skewed in their favor. So yeah, I really I I really like that episode. ⁓ it feels like Cody as we sit here today through four auditions and only having three left. Cody: Yeah. Sounds about right. AGTCommenter: That this is gonna be like a middle of the road epis ⁓ season. I think there's some good talent here. I if you're sitting in auditions and you're like, this is a middle of the road season, that's actually probably a good thing. Cause usually it's hard to be optimistic during auditions because we see so many bad acts. I'm really interested to see if I'm gonna end up liking it more or less than last year. Because last year I thought was a nice season. I thought it was a solid season. There's some acts I really liked. I don't know where this is gonna go this year. I certainly don't have like a head over heels favorite like I've had in some other seasons. But a couple that I wrote down that I just I really, really liked. Erwan team agency commenter member, Cody. I mean, I I see it would feel terrible if I didn't have him on my team again this year. Might have to have a meeting about that with everybody else and be like, I think this is just I think you get to keep that ooh. Cody: Yes. No, I yes, I'm with you on that. Ooh AGTCommenter: Ooh! Who had you ho jin? Because I think you get hundred fingers then. That was season seventeen. Cody: ⁓ do you have your Yeah, you have to look it up if you got the draft board. AGTCommenter: And that was you. That was you. Cody: We just had a revelation commenter. Ha ha. AGTCommenter: ⁓ I don't know. We should send this Cody: We we could opt to not we could we could opt to not keep them. I'm just saying we don't have to keep them. AGTCommenter: Yeah. We should propose the idea. We have right of first refusal to our old so before the dra it's like a it's like a keeper league. So before the actual Cody: Okay. It is like a keeper league, yes. But do you give up a do you give up a pick? But do you give up a pick? AGTCommenter: Certainly. Certainly. we haven't encountered this before. Who were the other returners? There's none other returners that would have been drafted, correct? Cody: Yes, okay. ⁓ Mind to Mind, so they didn't come into the live shows. No. We'd have to go back and look and Yeah. AGTCommenter: Hey didn't get drafted, yeah. I we can make sure. Yeah. Yeah, you took you took Yu Ho Jin late. Cody: Sprice Sprice ⁓ was did he get the live show? AGTCommenter: I don't think so. You took Yuho Jin with your twelfth pick. yeah, we may have to propose the keeper league idea that if they come back, you you retain their like if an if an and if NFL player retires and then he comes out of retirement, the team he retired with has his rights. They retain the rights to that and then they can decide if they wanna add him to the roster or not. I think we could be starting Cody with Erwan and Hundred Fingers right off the bat. Cody: ⁓ Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but that's that's two picks gone. So Okay. That's what I think you have to do, yes. AGTCommenter: I would happily. Yeah, you get rid of your first two picks, you think? Hmm. Interesting. Cody: And and if you refuse, you c I mean you could obviously pick them up later on if they're still available. But yes, those would be if we keep them if we decide, hey, we want to keep those two, those are our first two picks. AGTCommenter: Right. Hmm. Hundred fingers potential I I think it based off w ⁓ w what pick we have. If we're drafting one or overall, then we don't need to. Alright, anyway. Interesting. but I love Erwan. I could not believe he went home. Now I can because that was when they were taking two from the qual he was ⁓ he was a he was a victim of the seas of the format. ⁓ semifinals or qualify or whatever. ⁓ Cody: Yes. What what episode was he in? Yeah, well yeah. Yeah, who was all was in that episode? AGTCommenter: Let me pull it up. That was season eighteen. So he was in S semifinals three. Putri Ariani went through, and Mzanzi Youth Choir went through. He I think he was clearly bior better than the choir. Yeah. ⁓ Warrior Squad was one I had that I thought did Philip Bowen, our violinist, was in that episode. But yeah, I mean in in every other season he gets at least two live shows. ⁓ in that season he doesn't. ⁓ so 'cause he was he's incredible. Cody: I think that's fair, yeah. Poot Pootri Pootri was Team Cody, so Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: The aerialism while swallowing swords. It's a fascinating combo. I was really interested 'cause I had heard that he was coming back. ⁓ the other thing I've been doing, Cody, just to help streamline my processes, I've been looking at the list of names before the episode starts. And putting them in my sheet so I don't have to 'cause the problem I've run into in a lot of years is I miss when they come out and they say their name. And then I'm spending time tracking down who was that again. So I'm a I'm a journalistic sellout. I'm like the I'm like the people that Cody: Okay. Yeah. You're like Freddie. That's true. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I get the advanced copies of stuff and I I I I I make myself sick. Guy Kelton Jones. I loved it. I Cody: Okay. I think it is better than Brandon Leake. Yeah. But is he a singer now? 'Cause he sings too. Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: It's not even a question. Brandon Lee Which that's what I love. His voice was remarkable. And his the non-sing part I thought was he's got an incredible cadence. He's I love that guy. I don't know if he's gonna get the votes, but I was like, There hasn't been more talent on the stage than what that guy was capable of yet this season. We'll see. We'll see what happens. But he g I'll say this, I was gripped. Cody: It was remarkable, yeah. AGTCommenter: Probably more than like I couldn't take my eyes off the screen 'cause I was like his cadence, how fast he was, and then the s then he'd he'd break into the music out of nowhere and and then he had he had this like elite, elite R and B voice. I I was I loved him. I also loved Young and Strange. Our ⁓ our comedic magician duo. Cody: ⁓ Yes. AGTCommenter: my my hope for them, 'cause I see the potential, is that their passing zone magic wise. Cause what did we love about the banter between those two is is elite. These guys these guys have been doing it for whatever they said, ten, twelve years together. They're they're kind of funny, you know, ⁓ they're not trying to be like the greatest magic act ever. They're they're clearly they're not funny enough yet though. I'm ho that that act that performance wasn't good enough. Cody: Yes. The dots and all that stuff, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: to end up being there, but that's my goal for them. And I know I'll fall in love with them if they if they're able to capture some of the the passing zone banter magic that they had. Cody: Yeah, I think they've been on fool us multiple times and they have not fooled the so AGTCommenter: No. No. This is far better show for them than Fool Us. Cause Fool Us very much is like, are you really great at magic or not? ⁓ their stage presence can work. They did some when he 'cause the whole bit was that he was shoving the they're piercing him with the wooden, you know, whatever spears. And then he goes up on stage after and is drinking the water and it's spurting out of holes in it Got me. Made me laugh. That's funny. Cody: Yeah, yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: When he when he gets in the box and he puts the heavy load sticker on there. Very funny. ⁓ when he's getting in the box and Melby goes, What's happening? And Simon goes, He's getting in a box, Mel. I loved the performance. It was great. Cody: Yes. ⁓ what'd you think of Simon buzz or not buzzing, but saying no to them? Okay. 'Cause he loves magic. He's all about ⁓ you're magic, you're Harry Potter, all that type stuff. I believe in magic. So AGTCommenter: That I was surprised. Yeah. Yeah, it was interesting. Yeah. Right. I also love their bit where they referred to the golden buzzer as the emergency stop button. Just press this and we'll end the performance. they're funny. I I think there's I think there's a lot of potential there. It may not come to fruition for them, but ⁓ I see the I see the the vision there. ⁓ I would say those three. Like when I went through the list I was like I I think I really enjoyed those three performances maybe the most of any three so far. ⁓ Cody: Yes, yes. Okay. AGTCommenter: Hundred fingers would be up there, I thought was really cool, but I just w I didn't write this down, but the we have an epidemic. The Mayas have created an epidemic on this show. Everybody's just trying to do synchronized dance things. What happened? We didn't have any for seventeen years. We went sixteen years and no one did this. D we had never seen it, as far as I remember, at least done well. Cody: Yes. They they won, so AGTCommenter: They come on, season seventeen, win the show, and we can't get we can't have enough of them. They're just every a every group that comes out does this and this and they're and they're making noises and it's like they're just trying to be the Mayas again. What's Cody: Yeah. Or Brent Brent Street, you know, whatever it may be. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: It's cra the the domino effect that they've had. you know who they are, and here we go again. Are you familiar with Jalen Rose? Yes, from the Fab Five. He claims, famous on record for claiming that he's the first ever Jalen ever. That his mom invented the name Jalen. I haven't done the I haven't done the diligence to find that out. Cody: The basketball player? Yes. Okay. Okay. You haven't checked ancestry dot com or AGTCommenter: But there's pretty good evidence that at the very least, like in ⁓ in in the NBA and things like that, there were no Jalen's prior to Jalen Rose. Every team now has like two Jalen's on it. Jalen Brunson just won finals MVP. ⁓ Jalen Brown is about to get traded by the Celtics. Like every the draft, let's pull up this year's draft and see how many jalen's were drafted ⁓ in this year's NBA draft. Here we go. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: Basketball reference. There might be zero and this could make me look really dumb. Cody: While while you're looking that up, I think it was John B. Christ did a video of all these names that are in the World Cup and if you look nine months down the road, how many mothers are gonna name their kids after players from that are in the World Cup? AGTCommenter: Yeah. ⁓ this isn't good. We had zero Jalen's drafted. Let's go to last year's draft. One one one other draft to look at, and then if ⁓ if there's none there we'll move on. ⁓ Let's go to two drafts ago. Cause I know that there's gonna be a draft with some Jalen's. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: Let's let's ⁓ there's one Jalen. ⁓ let's do this. How many Jalen's in the NBA? Fifteen to nineteen players with a variation of the name Jalen right now. ⁓ and there was zero until Jalen Rose came around. That's what Cody: Out of what s a hundred players? AGTCommenter: Three so there's fifteen a team times thirty. twelve to fifteen a team, so f four hundred and fifty area. But there was zero until Jalen Rose. And now there's you know, a a multiplier of seventeen times that many twenty, you know, twenty five years later. Tw you know, thirty years later. Interesting. That's the Mayas though. We had zero. The Maya showed up and now we have nineteen. It's c it's crazy. ⁓ Cody: Okay. F okay. Yeah. Mm? Yes. AGTCommenter: I I wrote down I want you to tell me which of the five has the best golden buzzers so far. Simon has Le Lai Ley Le Noel and Ruben. Sophia has Lara are we is it the Ba Lara the singer. Cody: Yes. Yeah. ⁓ L Laura D is what they go what she goes by. AGTCommenter: It's gotta be Lara, right? I have it as L-A-R-A. Is it pronounced Laura? Yeah, okay. Her. Got it. So Lara Laura D. Isa Mel has Isaac Atkins and Mackenzie Soul. Howie has Luke Tolano and Hundred Fingers. And Terry has Acro Crew. Cody: I I could be either Laura Laura or Lara, one of the two. Yeah. But but just D, yeah, at the end. Well, I think Mel B I as I said, I think Mel B has the worst. ⁓ Terry only has one and it's Acro Crew and I have Acro Crew as my number one golden buzzer. So I'm going with that. I think I think Howie is probably the next one up. Yeah. Yes. And Sophia hasn't ⁓ Sophie only has one. Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah. So you like that group. How about of the three with with two? I would agree. I would go Howie Simon Bell. Yeah, of the three that have two. Okay. Yeah. I'll say this too. I've liked the production this season. I I tweeted about this, ⁓ something that I really liked ⁓ that they have done. They they've been doing this and I don't recall them doing this last year, they might have, and I just didn't I didn't clock it. But when they come back from commercial, whether it's after a golden bug after an act, a full we get a full performance from somebody, they wrap them up post commercial. Nothing crazy, but they they as they're introducing the next act Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: They're also showing s a two-second clip of Terry saying congrats to the the act that was just on the stage. It makes the the episode feel chronological. It's not. We know it's not. But it feels like Young and Strange just walked off the stage and Lara D is just getting ready to walk out there. Clearly, never was the order that they actually were in, unlikely. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: But I do like that. It feels less of a it almost feels less of a clip show. And it feels much more like a a tailored put together show. I I think it's really good. I think it's smart. I don't feel like we're losing anything by spending an extra two seconds on on saying goodbye to the act that was just on. I think it's smart. I don't know if you noticed it. I like it. I like the the feel of the kind of I feel like I'm along for a total ride from start to finish. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you pointed that out, 'cause I did notice there's it's different and I do like it. I couldn't put my finger on it exactly what the difference is. But I I I think you're right. It does feel better, it feels more smooth, it feels more consistent. The one thing I've it's not a lie, but the one one thing that I notice almost as you say, commercial break, but they're going to commercial break, is they'll throw like the A G T logo on something, whether it's like the side of a camera or a T V monitor. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Cody: Or something of that nature. So I I kinda li I know it's not a lot, it seems kinda lame, but I kinda I really like it. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Kinda like that. They changed showrunners, right? They're doing some stuff they hadn't done, right? And I think the part of the chronolog No. Correct. The camera cuts are out of control. I think this is the most cuts we've ever had this year for some reason. Auditions I never really cared because I know we're they're not we're not missing stuff. It's when they start cutting in the live shows I have real issues. Cody: Mm-hmm. But they but they haven't like totally like they haven't tw turned it upside down. Right. Yes, I agree. Yeah. AGTCommenter: The part about the the chronological though, because I like to feel like I'm in the silo of of Auditions 4. And that everything that's happening here, they recorded this for Auditions 4. For some reason in my brain, I just kinda like that. I like feel like I'm ⁓ feel like I'm a part of all of just one one thing. So I've liked that they've done that. ⁓ but otherwise I'm enjoying the season in a lot of ways. I i it it's not beating me down like some of those sixteen, seventeen, eighteen seasons where I just was kinda Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: I I think they're doing a good job. The judging mail is Cody: She's she's taken she's gone downhill from last year. I thought she was really good last year. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Battling. I'm battling with Mel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 'Cause I've you know me, I've ⁓ I've got stock on Melby Island. I've I've been a I've been a I've been pro Mel over the years. Yeah. Yeah, she's she's struggling a little bit, but that's okay. ⁓ any any th I have one other thing I want to talk about is maybe probably our wrap up. ⁓ any any questions that I didn't ⁓ stuff I didn't talk about that you're wondering about at all? Cody: I've been a I've been a Melby defender. Yes, I will agree. So I I don't I don't know. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I I think we're we're I think it's just a mishmash of talent. It's all just kind of the same a bunch of very similar level talented people. Cody: Yeah. I know we've probably talked about them before, but you know how much I love the clairvoyance. Can you just give your thoughts on James and Marina? Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I got I got summer stormed during theirs, so I had to had to quickly watch it on YouTube afterwards. They did a they did a perfectly good job. I I didn't they just weren't in they weren't fun enough. They weren't they're it was fast, it was rushed, he's not the he's not the stage presence that that Tommy is. We'll see. We've had worse duos post clairvoyance than them, as we know. Cody: Right. Did it seem fast to you? Like Yeah. He's not Tommy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're better than sentimentalists, but they're not the they're not the clairvoyants, right. AGTCommenter: Certainly. No, not not not at not at all. So we'll see. I I that trick just I don't know. The clairvoyants did such a good job as they got in the live shows of building these like real stories. You felt like you're at you felt like you're on watching a show or at a movie. Like it you you're watching like it was like a a short a short novel, a short story in and of itself. If they can do that where the clairvoyants are sitting and they've got the burning candle and the the locket or the tub of water or the jelly beans and things like that Cody: Yes. Right. AGTCommenter: Then I think we can we can find out with them. But I think there's there's room for them. They're gonna be probably unopposed. Like I don't think we're gonna have another duo mentalist act trying to vie for a spot in the live show. So wouldn't be surprised if they make a little move and get into the quarterfinals and go from there. The funny part is is every year we we spend so much time thinking about all these acts. They're gonna say yes to we're gonna see them say yes to what? Seventy five names, maybe? Na ⁓ they're a little less this year, probably be in the sixties. little less than ten an episode and we'll only get to see forty four. So a a third of these are just gonna or a quarter of these are just gonna never be seen again. So Cody: ⁓ what'd you think of the choir that appeared out of nowhere? AGTCommenter: which one? ⁓ love them. Cody: ATL the ATL choir. That they just there was the what two or three of ⁓ that were on stage, then all of a sudden there was like eighty of ⁓ AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. From Auditions One. ⁓ love them. I have ⁓ as my fourth favorite act of the season, or fourth highest ranked act of the season. I thought they were spectacular. You know we've talked about if it's a good choir, we're all in. And I thought they were a good choir. Did you think they were good? Cody: Yeah, I thought they were good, but you know me, they they took some seats away from audience members. So it's like AGTCommenter: ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like you gotta stop holding that against these axes. It's compl Cody: Well and and it got me again when we were watching the Fourth of July thing 'cause Matt Franco tore up a seat during his Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, it's got the I had a beef with that. With that performance. I wanna throw this at you. I know we're I'm I'm comfortable trying to pick at it now 'cause it's been ⁓ it has been t ten, twelve years since since it aired. This was season nine. Cody: Well this was well this was his I think this was his no well I think this was his ⁓ where where he tore up the seat, I think was his champions performance. Okay. Okay, okay. Okay. That's AGTCommenter: Nope. That would have been quarterfinals maybe in season nine. They were at they were at Radio City, baby. ⁓ Her phone rang and we could hear it. In what possible universe would Melby have had her ringer on during a live taping of America's Got Town? Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Well, she did unplug the buzzers to charge her phone one season. Remember that? So AGTCommenter: That's true. But he may have flipped it on, the ringer, when he got it. Cody: Yes. And had a microphone nearby. AGTCommenter: For the to hear the ringer. Yeah. But it it it it dawned on me when he called it and it was like the whole theater could hear that thing ring and I'm like, In what universe would she have had left would she not have had that thing on silent, ⁓ during a live t I'm pretty sure the producers are like, Everybody's phone's on silent, right? Like I'm pretty sure that's a checked box. But anyway, ⁓ we love Matt Franco. I'm d I I don't want this to be a anti Matt Franco segment by any means, but Cody: To hear the ringer, yes. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: ⁓ any other acts you wanna touch on? I got a I got a calendar question for you, Cody. So we're sitting here. We just got done with Fourth of July extravaganza that were aired on June 30th. next week will be auditions five. Fourteenth will be auditions six. My YouTube TV's already told me that, so I'm confident. I'm assuming then audition seven will I'm assuming audition seven will be the twenty first. Cody: I don't I don't think so. Nope. Okay. Yep. Yep. Yes. Yes. That's what the wit that's what the wiki says as well. That's I'm guessing that as well. Unless they do some other special. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So here's my thought. I have one possible question. We've heard seven auditions, seven auditions, seven auditions. Is there a chance our sources just heard seven episodes before Judge's callbacks? And that what we just saw this week was the seventh episode and will be done after six auditions. Cause we have two golden buzzards left. Cody: No, I don't think so. Yeah, on the wiki they've actually got like the special sell separated out. So they've got twenty one ⁓ two two what twenty one They only have six listed. Yeah. Yeah. When when we were when were we told that the live shows would start? Yeah, when is our d when is our draft? Yeah. AGTCommenter: Right. But they don't have seven auditions listed yet. That's what I'm saying. I have that. So that they start August August eighteenth is is live show. So right now, we know that we're getting auditions five and six the next two weeks. That leaves the twenty first, the twenty eighth, one, two, three, four. We have four more Tuesdays after audition six before live shows start. I'm I'm a little bit dubious that we're gonna ha I think we might only have six auditions. And this was the seventh episode. Cody: Could we have seven auditions? Could we have seven auditions, another special, two judges' callbacks? And then we're in the live shows. Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: That was that was my that was my other question. So we don't know everything about these judges' callbacks. From my understanding, each judge is calling back acts they they want to see again. So to me and and so when you do that it's either gonna be one episode and they do all of ⁓ It's gonna be two episodes and you do two judges apiece, or it's gonna be four. But it's definitely not gonna be three. I unless they do like two and then the third one is announcing who they picked. But I doubt that. My guess is we'll see Cody: Yep. Yeah. No. AGTCommenter: It's one, two, or four. So Cody: Yeah. And like l like Judge Cuts at the end they'll announce who goes through at at the end of the episode. AGTCommenter: Correct. So here's my prediction. I think we're gonna see one of two things happen. We'll see a seventh audition, ⁓ best of auditions, two judges callbacks, or we'll see four judges callbacks and we got bad intel on seven auditions. I'm fascinated to see what they end up doing. I'm also fast Cody: Yes. Yes. That's gonna be a lot of acts that's gonna be a lot of acts coming back if they do four callbacks. Okay. AGTCommenter: They did four judge cuts. Eighteen acts in each judge cut. Maybe. I'm interested. I'm interested. My gut tells me it'll be seven, a montage episode, two judges callbacks, and then we'll be in the live shows. Is that your prediction as well? Yeah. I would love if it was only six auditions. Cody: Okay. Yep. I think that's more likely. I think so too, yep. AGTCommenter: And then and then we get we get we get more second round of auditions conversations. But I'm in I'm fascinated to see what they do with Judge's callbacks. You and I should be recording, as of now, I might a it's either gonna be the first Judge's Callback episode or another montage episode. It's looking that way. So I'm coming back. ⁓ you and I will record on the episode that that airs on the twenty eighth of July. ⁓ If there's seven auditions, more than likely Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: ⁓ the week before that would be the seventh audition, which would probably mean that the next week would be some best of filler episode. Press the button, baby. The the commenter bat signal. I'll be back. I'm reporting for duty. but ⁓ but yeah, no. So I'm interested. I'm looking forward to it. That means we'll draft. It looks like probably like the week of the whatever, right before probably on the twelfth or whatever, ⁓ of August. But but yeah. I'm I'm I'm I'm Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Middle of the road on this season. I'm hoping it upticks a little bit. I'm hoping that I'm hoping the judge's callbacks is really good. Like good TV. Something that that that rivals Judge Cuts in some way that really grips you and makes you interested. 'Cause if it's not, that's gonna be a long two to four weeks depending on what it is. ⁓ but that's all I got. I'm excited for live shows. Cody: Yeah, I am two. Yes. Yeah, if I were to give odds, I'd say the it's fifty percent chance it's two I'd say it's seventy five percent chance it's two episodes, and then twenty five percent chance it's either one or four. I think the the likelihood of it being four is much smaller. Like a five percent chance that it's four episodes. So AGTCommenter: I agree. Yeah. Be kinda cool though if it was just all Howie. Just two hours of Howie, two hours of Mel, two hours of Simon. I don't know. I'm interested to see too is like, all right, Simon calls back these twelve and then do all four watch or is it just Simon? Cody: Shoo. I think all four watch maybe give their comments and then Simon picks. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But I've also heard that it might be like he did like on X Factor where they like come to his house where it's just him and the axe he called back. Cody: Okay. I don't wanna see him at his house. I wanna see him on the stage. I wanna see an audience. AGTCommenter: I I agree. But One Direction was at his house. Singin ⁓ singing Torn by Natalie and Bruglia. Cody: I don't wanna see a bunch I don't wanna see comedians I don't wanna see comedians come back and have to talk to Howie in his house. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah, I agree. ⁓ yeah, no, I'm fast. That's that to me right now is the number one most intrigued I am about this season is what what what is this judge's callbacks? What are we getting ourselves into? Cody: Sure. W well, as someone that's interested in the ⁓ early releases, you'll know before the rest of us will, so AGTCommenter: That's probably true. ⁓ all right. Let's get out of here, Cody. We got nine minutes till kickoff. USA, baby. Cody: Yes. Yes. I think I saw that Sen Senegal went into penalty kicks. Yeah. Was it Senegal? Okay. AGTCommenter: Let's take a look. Senegal lost. They were up two one a lot of the game. Match. A lot of the match. Belgium. In ⁓ it's just says in extra time. So I don't think we I don't think we went to penalties. Just extra time. Overtime. Overtime as it you know what? It's their sport. I'm not gonna Cody: Yes. Man. Okay. Okay. Should should the NFL or NC football go to in overtime? Should they just go to field goal kicks? AGTCommenter: No, I think, and I don't know why this isn't the case, soccer should just have golden goal rules an extra time. Cody: Yeah. No, not soccer. I'm talking about in our f in our American football. In okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: No, I'm saying we do it right. I'm saying I don't because penalty kicks are fun, certainly. I also th I also think it's kind of a crazy way to decide a game. Cody: They are fun, yes. Man, the the pr the pressure that those guys were under the other day was nuts. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: Correct. From a theater standpoint, you can't top it. It does seem like a crazy way to s to decide a soccer game. It's like it's like penalty shots in in hockey. Why are they not just playing golden goal golden goal in extra time? 'Cause like a a team will score like six minutes in and we still have to play another twenty five minutes. It's like, why wasn't that just the game winner? Why isn't it just sudden death? ⁓ but but yeah, no, I I say all that, nothing better than penalty kicks. So I don't know why I would vote to get rid of them, but ⁓ Cody: Ha ha. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Should should should NFL and ⁓ no, agreed. I like the two point conversion, but I was saying if you to really get your field goal kickers involved, do you s do you put them on like the forty or the yeah, I guess maybe you're the forty and say, Okay, let's kick five field goals and see what happens. AGTCommenter: Well, college does it with the two point conversions. Yeah. It would be fun. Cause people hate kickers. So it would it would be fun. ⁓ I think NFL fans would be furious if the kickers got more involved. They already hate ⁓ enough. but yeah. ⁓ let's ⁓ let's let's go watch some football, Cody. We got a little soccer to watch. Cody: Yeah, I know. Okay. Let's let's close it out. Yep. Yes. So go find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com. Go check out our website, AGT timepod.com. And also there's a commenter out there. At AGT commenter. I will be back next week with Minnesota Ryan. Might do a little bit of Ryanalytics, maybe. We don't know. We'll see. As well as talk ⁓ auditions five. So everyone have a great night and have a safe, absolute safe fourth of July on Independence Day. Happy birthday, America. That's right. AGTCommenter: Keep all those fingers.