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- AGT Time Podcast: Everyone, welcome to another edition of AGT Time J quarterfinals four. We're we're done with the quarterfinals. Jay: Quarterfinals four You are here along with the largest and sexiest armholes Heidi Klum has ever seen AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: for quarterfinals four. AGT Time Podcast: yeah, it's I don't even know what to like say about that. It's like I don't know what kind of feedback that was from her. Yeah. Jay: I I don't either. Yeah, there you go. All right. Let no, it's it's it's the end of quarterfinals. We have made it through. it has been a a fun journey through the through through the fantasy season, right? This this is the AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: part where where it gets really fun for us where we've got all the all all the all the pressures on. And Go ahead. What were you gonna say? AGT Time Podcast: I was I was gonna say we've separ at this point we're supposed to have separated the wheat from the chaff, but I think some of the chaff slipped in. Jay: Maybe a little bit. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: There have been some questionable acts that go through. but that's why we play the game, right? We never really know what to expect. So you so that's that's what we do. it let's let's just do a rundown of fantasy before we jump into the season. Can we do that? No, let's let's let's do lo I I I AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Let's do the b let's do the business. Let's do the business first. Jay: I take that back. I want to do all the fantasy points afterwards, after we know who's going through. All right. All right. AGT Time Podcast: Fair enough. Yes. It's your show, Jay. It's your show. We do what we we what you want. Hey, comment commenter was the host last night. You can be the host tonight. How about that? Okay. Jay: Just sure. It we we're gonna work you out of a job. AGT Time Podcast: That's perfectly fine. Okay. Jay: That's not at all because we absolutely need you. AGT Time Podcast: let's do the business real quick and then we'll do whatever you want to do next. go for go for that. You do that. You do it. You're you're the boss. You're the boss. Go for it. Jay: Alright, I'll run the business. How about that? You can find us on all the socials at at AGT Time Pod is where you're gonna find us. That is where we are on Twitter X, on Blue Sky, on TikTok, and Mastodon, and every place else. at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail dot com. It is the best way get a hold of us and as always we ask that you rate, review, subscribe on your podcast and give us those listens, give us those stars. That really helps us and it it it shows us that we're not just yelling into the wind. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Yep. Good job. What do you want to do next, boss? Jay: Alright, first act of the night, Cody. AGT Time Podcast: There you go. Do it. Jay: You know what? Let's before we get there. No, I'm the boss. Slow down. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. You're the boss, yes, yes. Jay: let's let's meet our judges. Here's Howie, here's Sophia, here's Mel, and also at the end of the table, international superstar Heidi Clum. AGT Time Podcast: Welcome back, Heidi. It's great seeing you. It's great to see her back. Jay: Was it good to see her back? Yeah. It wasn't like, yeah, like we finally get some Heidi Clum back, but it's like, you know what, she's capable. She knows how to how how this ship is steered, and she plays her part. AGT Time Podcast: She did much better than Keenan did last week. Jay: okay. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I'll say that. Jay: What do you think happens next week? What's the what's the guess? AGT Time Podcast: So I made the prediction during the pregame show I because whenever we zig A G T is zagged, I made the prediction that we don't see Simon the rest of the season. Like he's done. Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: They they they put him on full IR, like he's out for the season. Jay: Okay. He he's on IR with L T. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: I I know football lingo. I d yeah. AGT Time Podcast: There you go. He was on the fifteen day DL. They went they jumped him straight to the sixty day. He's he's gone. Yeah. Jay: Well, now you're over my head. Okay. So so you think no no more Simon this season. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: Do you think that Heidi will just stay in his seat for the end of the through the end of the season or will they have rotating judges? AGT Time Podcast: I think they will rotate the judges. Jay: Okay. Who would you like to see? AGT Time Podcast: Boy, it'd be great if we brought back some of those old judge cuts judges. Neil Patrick Harris coming back, Reba coming back. what do we have? Kelly Clarkson during season fifteen. Be great to see kind of see all them again. Jay: Mm, mm hmm. Okay. how about previous judges? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I I think Howard's not doing too well these days. I don't think he's like it a hundred percent. Pierce, it'd be great to see Pierce back. Yeah. Get him fly across the pond. See if he would do it. Jay: Julianne? AGT Time Podcast: no, I do not want Julianne. Do not want any of that. Don't want Gabrielle. if they could get the Hoff, might be nice to see the Hoff. It'd be Jay: yeah, the hoff. AGT Time Podcast: interesting to see what he could do in twenty twenty six AGT. Jay: who who were the extreme judges? I felt like they were the a better than expected. Yeah, Travis Pistrana and Nicky something something. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Travis Pastrana? Yeah. Bella yeah, Nikki Bella. Yeah, sure, why not? Jay: Why not? All right. There's there's a a large pool of of applicants then. AGT Time Podcast: We could pull in some A G T alums. Love to see like Piff at the table. That'd be great. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. that would be fun. We've got we're gonna be heavy on magicians. All right. Well AGT Time Podcast: Yes. call Tom Cotter. Tall Com Cot Call Tom Cotter. Get him in there. Jay: Tall Calm Cotter. That's AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: I don't know that he's ever been called that, Cody. I think AGT Time Podcast: No, no. Jay: he okay, alright, that that's that's some good ideas. former acts that I think would be fun to see boy, you know who would make a really interesting choice? Tape face. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, that would be a lot of fun. Jay: All right. I'm I'm gonna leave that there. I'll I'll let your imagination do the work. AGT Time Podcast: I I think it would be fantastic to see him mime the comments. That would be great. Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: Yeah. I I agree. I th I'm I'm for it. Okay. All right. Let's move on then here. Here is our first act of the night. Young and strange. So they were the third pick off onto Team Box, seventh pick overall. We in their intro package are like we are gonna wow Simon this time. It is all about Simon. We're going to do everything that Simon asked for and then some and wouldn't you know it Simon's not here. AGT Time Podcast: Simon's not here. Did did they did they someone forget to tell them? Jay: Apparently, yeah. So AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, okay. Jay: all right. So they're going to do a do a trick. It's it's the classic. guy goes in the box, guy stands on top of the box, they raise a curtain and they switch places. Except not this time. You can see underneath the box, the box is on a platform that you can see underneath. the front of the box is all open. It's plexiglass or whatever. and what else? There's whatever. The that's the that's how they set it up, right? So we've got two gentlemen. One goes by young, one goes by strange. The tall one, strange, he's brings out his curtain. this is before they they get to their trick, actually. he he brings out his curtain and he like raises it and lowers it a couple times and then he steps back a little bit further on the stage and he he raises it. as if young is going to appear behind it and he lifts this platform, this trapdoor up in front of the curtain and he says, You messed up the meters and feet again. So we're they're they're hitting it off with the comedy. AGT Time Podcast: I laughed so hard at that. Jay: Ha ha. AGT Time Podcast: and c you know, it's it's it's kind of one of those pieces of humor that you know, the the metric versus imperial system, because they're British, they use the metric. Jay: Yes. AGT Time Podcast: And so also for those of us old enough to remember when we tried to land a rover on Mars and they used one set of units rather than the other set of units. And so it basically just smashed into Mars instead of going down gently. So I don't know. Jay: Beautiful landing, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Huh? Yeah. So you know, throw the measurement humor I kinda get a kick out of. Jay: Good. yeah Y you want some measurement humor? AGT Time Podcast: The geek in me. Jay: I have you heard they're not making rulers any longer? AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: That that's the joke. It's longer. That's that's that's the measurement humor. Yeah. Yeah, it's all it's all in one. It's a nice, convenient little package. everybody AGT Time Podcast: that's the joke that's the joke. Okay. That's that's the punchline. Okay, that's the joke. That's the delivery and the punchline. Okay. Yeah. It's all in one. Yes. That's right. Jay: thinks it's so funny. AGT Time Podcast: Ha Jay: okay. All right. That one that one maybe isn't my best, but it I don't know. It it's it's an easy one to mess up. Right? It's easy to to be like, yeah, I got this one. Have you heard they're not making rulers anymore? I mean, any longer? And then it's like, AGT Time Podcast: Wow. Jay: whoops. All right. so we we get our measurement joke and then they they tell us, of course, we're not the kind of magic act that uses trapdoors because well, except for this one time. you know, and and they they set up the whole changing place thing. Strange he no, Young climbs inside the box, inside this bag inside the box, the entire rest of the trick he's moving inside of the bag. strange flips a curtain above the box with the bag moving, we can see it moving the whole time, and in an instant he raises the curtain above his head, he drops it back down and reveals that Young is the one standing on top of the box. How'd you think about their their i in in an instant making that that switch? AGT Time Podcast: I thought it was really cool. I thought it was really, really cool. The the mixture of their humor, the presentation. It's it's one of these typical Vegas type tricks that we see all the time. But I thought they delivered it very well. They presented it well. I the No, no, no. But I mean the Jay: Yeah, we're not to the end of the trick yet though, Cody. I'm All right. AGT Time Podcast: way that they've done so far, what they've done so far, I thought was a lot of fun. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, and and that just in that that one moment they they raise the curtain, lower the curtain, and they've and it's not him anymore. It's like wow. So, they open the box back up and inside the bag of course is Not strange, it's a beautiful woman. So the woman climbs out of the box and but where's strange, where's strange? there he is, he's being lowered down above the stage on a harness, and he's got this long pole, and he's he's trying, trying, trying to reach the golden buzzer, but he measured his pole in metric not feet or feet not metric. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. The plot twist of the beautiful woman being in there I thought was great. Jay: Yeah. That was a nice AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: nice little like of course he's gonna be he's not in there. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: so having the the whole third member of the team was was a good good hit. Yep. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. And then having Strange, I gotta remember which one's which. Strange then coming down from the ceiling. I was like, How do you get up there? That was pretty cool. Jay: Yeah. Tall and strange. Short and short and young. There you go. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Short and young, yes. Jay: it I I will confess that I saw Young and Strange on Fool Us with Penn and Teller. And AGT Time Podcast: Okay? Okay. Jay: I I can't claim this joke for my own, but he said, you know, if you guys stick to stick together long enough you'll become like us, old and weird. Instead of young and strange, which I thought was AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: So little little young and strange humor AGT Time Podcast: w Jay: for ya. AGT Time Podcast: once again, Jay, streamer's guy, or gal, the streamers operator. missed the timing, once again. Jay: I how far off on the timing was he? He was pretty close. AGT Time Podcast: I don't know, it just seemed like it was random 'cause he's trying to reach for the button and then all of a sudden the streamers go off. It's like didn't seem like there was any kind of downbeat or finale. Jay: Yeah. It's like did he actually hit the golden buzzer? No. AGT Time Podcast: That's what I thought at first, yes. Jay: Well, he didn't. and Heidi says that she loved it. She said it was surprising she could see this in Vegas. Mel says she loves it and them, and it was a combination of many tricks. Sophia says she's heartbroken, Cody. Why could she AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: possibly be heartbroken because she can't give them golden buzzer? Why can't she give them the golden buzzer? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, why can't you? Because there's more acts to come. Yeah, but why? Go give Jay: But AGT Time Podcast: if you want to give it to them, give it to them. Jay: But it's the first act of the night, I can't give it to you. AGT Time Podcast: There's no hard fast roll on that. Jay: That's that's I I I want to curse. That's bull. I I I AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: I am really disappointed with that. but she does love that they're funny and the magic's good. Howie says he would give them the golden buzzer. He loves that they mix magic and comedy and he loves everything about them. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. I I do like the you didn't mention this when he was needing to open up the the cage or the box. He had a big giant ring of like janitor keys. He had to figure Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: out which one it was. And I think he was just kinda maybe stalling for a few seconds. but I I like that gag. Jay: Well yeah, strange Strange had to somehow get from on top of the box to whatever, whatever, whatever, up to the rafters and hooked in. So yeah, like AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: take your time, take your time I gotta AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: I gotta get up here. So yeah, there you go. no, I I I think the trick was great. I think the pulling it off was great, all around a plus plus from me. I I I think that breaking tradition and hitting that golden buzzer for the first act of the night would have been pretty awesome. AGT Time Podcast: I agree, yes. Especially since they're on on your team. Yes. Jay: Not only because they're on my team, but it wouldn't hurt. Yeah. Okay. Second act of the night. This one's from your team, Cody. in fact, Laura D is the first act you guys picked, the second act picked overall. And she also is gonna be too early for the golden buzzer. AGT Time Podcast: Little surprising that she went second. Jay: Yeah. interesting spot to put her in. Interesting spot to put her in. I think she's definitely like a a middle middle late kind of act, AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Jay: something that but no, we we started off with that that nice big Vegas style trick from Young and Strange, and now we're gonna let Lara D sing Fauzea's Lost My Mind in Paris. AGT Time Podcast: Never heard of this song. Jay: You don't say. AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha. Jay: she is joined on stage with drums and keys and guitar and bass. It's a pretty pretty straightforward band. Cody, like I I try to find something good to say. Like this song did nothing for me. Like I couldn't hum it back to you. It wasn't interesting. It wasn't fun. It was just like a really forgettable song. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Yeah. But she sang it f Jay: W what did it do for you though? AGT Time Podcast: she sang it fantastically. She has a great voice. She has a really good stage presence. Jay: Hair for miles. AGT Time Podcast: the hair was sorry, the hair was a little crazy. I mean it's Jay: I AGT Time Podcast: the sh it's like Jay: you know, like i if you are, you know, pretty girl singer, like what are you gonna do to stand out? And hey, you got this great hair, like go with it, man. Like that y have have sell it somehow. How are we gonna remember that Lara D is is you? You're the one with the big hair. That's okay. I'm cool with that. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. But I do agree with you, Jay, that she should have sang something maybe a little more recognizable. Jay: Yeah, something more recognizable, a little more mainstream would've would have felt good. I think AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Jay: We've seen that America responds well to recognizable songs, say Journey, for example. but I mean, maybe it's just not her style and maybe like my style and her style just don't don't mesh, don't jive. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. No, I I did like I did like her singing though. I thought she sang wonderfully. She's one of the better singers on the show. I think she's one of the top three or four singers on the show. she she's incredible. That's why we took her at number two. 'cause we just we thought she was a shoe in to get to the finals and and get us some points. And she's a great from her audition, she's a great singer. Jay: Alright, we'll find out in a few minutes if she does get you any points. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yep. Jay: Sophia says she's special, she has a commanding presence, she made the song her own, and it's too early for her to get the golden buzzer. AGT Time Podcast: It's not too early, so there's I don't know what the rule is. Why are we putting rules on these now? It's like Jay: I don't like nope, I can't I can't AGT Time Podcast: Buck the system. Jay: pick too early. Mel says the audition felt reined in, but this was a step up from that. She was pitch perfect, she's finding her lane, and she's mysterious and enticing. Okay. Howie says she didn't look nervous at all tonight. She was under control and acted like a pro. Heidi says Sophia has great taste, giving her the golden buzzer in the audition round. She has an amazing voice and was giving her Billy Eilish vibes. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Maybe Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: maybe that's the thing, is that Bill Eilish is not our style of music. Jay: I I think that that could be said, Cody. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: I w one might not be wrong to say such things. all right, third act of the night. Let's just keep clicking through here. We're going to Ruben Roldan. He is the sixth act to join Team Bach, eighteenth pick overall. He was a golden buzzer, Simon's golden buzzer in auditions. and he's going to start in the second story window of the Pasadena Civic Center. AGT Time Podcast: Jay, what was the likelihood that this performance was pre taped? Jay: I felt like it was like ninety percent when we started, but when he transferred into the building from outside, I was like, maybe it's more like twenty percent. Like it it AGT Time Podcast: Really? Jay: it felt pretty s seamless. AGT Time Podcast: That's magic of editing, Jay. Jay: sure. AGT Time Podcast: P production did their job then if you thought it was seaml I mean, if you if it looked seamless. Jay: You don't think so? AGT Time Podcast: I mean it did look seamless, I I agree with you, but at the same time, if you notice, like he had his contraptions all built into the seats when he came in there. So I don't think that they I don't think that they put all of his little platforms and whatnot in the seats during the commercial break and then took him out during the next commercial break. Jay: Okay. Alright. well I guess I don't I I I didn't catch exactly what was in the seats other than just the seats themselves that he vaulted over. Okay. And AGT Time Podcast: No, there's a couple of platforms in the in the seats. Yeah. And so if you know, if if Christy Seller's pole has to be assembled appropriately, then surely these platforms have to be bolted down and stabilized. Jay: I I suppose. And I like there's few things you like less than displacing audience members. AGT Time Podcast: Absolutely. That's one of my hu biggest pet peeves. Yeah. Yeah. 'Cause Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: looking back at like him back here at the video, he like he comes in and then he jumps over like the AGT like the I guess little tr little trunk Jay: The box that they rolled in, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: and then there's like two platforms right there in the seats that he jumps onto. Jay: Okay. All right. Well you you're not having it. AGT Time Podcast: I'm just saying I don't care if it's pre recorded, it's fine. and it since it is pre recorded, I'm okay with those people getting displaced because they prepared for that. If the people during the live show had got displaced, then I'm not having it. Yeah. Jay: Okay. All right. all right. it it seemed to me yeah, anyhow, he he, you know, works his way around the contraptions outside, works his way inside, up through the audience, through the displaced seats, the the seats of the displaced audience members. and my notes are this didn't feel like a golden buzzer performance to me. AGT Time Podcast: my my thought was you have half the legs, we see half the performance. Jay: Ooh. Okay. AGT Time Podcast: 'Cause it did it it w felt very short, right? It only felt it didn't feel like a full performance. Jay: Yeah, it i I mean, yeah, probably two minutes start to finish. not AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: not too much, but I mean what do you want from the guy? He's freaking parkour all over the thing. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, no, I I get it. I get it. Just just an observation. Jay: Fatigue is real. It happens. But no i he it I I think performs up to his standards. I think he performs well. Howie says, Daniel Alvarez was hoping he would grow his leg back and he didn't. So Daniel Alvarez is disappointed. but he does call him inspirational and powerful. Simon can't get off the couch and you do what you do without a freaking leg. So he Pretty high praise from Howie. Heidi says this was the best entrance on AGT ever, and then calls it super fuego. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I think she missed the opportunity of in Fuego. Jay: Very on fire. Super on fire. Sophia AGT Time Podcast: Ver yes. And then didn't she ask? And then did she ask Sophia how her Spanish was? Yeah. And Jay: Yeah. And Sophia g says, nice job, child. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. S she missed the opportunity of we win, right? Jay: I suppose. Alright. no. Sophia just says she loves him and that nothing stops him. Then Melby says he looks it he makes it look so easy. wishes she could see more of his personality and his cheeky side, which Cody is just a a Britishism for you know like be a little bit more humorous. Not that's n nothing about his butt. AGT Time Podcast: Right. Yep. Not a Kirist not like a Kiras cheeky side. Okay. Jay: Right. Yeah. So yeah, I I think that that's a pretty good note. Like give us that personality, right? Let us know who you are, not just what you can do. And I think that that's that's a that's a good note for him to to kind of lean into that a little bit. Okay. with AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Yep. Jay: that, let's move on to Pride of Omaha. Team Bach, our tenth pick, thirtieth pick overall, Cameron Logsden. he in his intro package tells us he learned that he's gonna be a dad at the age of sixteen. That's pretty young. AGT Time Podcast: That's pretty young, yes. Jay: I've got a a son who's going to turn sixteen in a couple of months and he does not seem ready to have a child. so y AGT Time Podcast: Are you all starting the driving lessons? Jay: He he's got his school permit here in Iowa. Like AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. Jay: when you are 14, you can get your your learner's permit. At 14 and a half, you can get your school's permit. And that lets you drive to and from school functions, to and from work, and to and from like school events or or competitions at neighboring districts. So if A if if our if our school district touches your school district, we can you can drive there on your own, or with one friend or a family member in your car. So like it's it's very it is it it's it's very lax, it's very freeing for a fourteen and a half year old to have AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha ha. Jay: the ability to drive, you know, as much as I don't know, maybe a half hour, forty five minutes away or more, depending on the on the on the situation. So he has not taken full advantage of AGT Time Podcast: Is go ahead, go ahead. Jay: all of those options, but it is wonderful as a parent to be like, Yeah, get your butt up and get yourself to school. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Is that because a lot of the farmer kids had been already driving around the farm since they were what like eight? Jay: Yeah, I think that's part of the idea is, you know, if you're a farm kid, like this isn't all that new to you. But I think the other part of the idea is like it you like there are still restrictions and we're giving you opportunities to learn how to drive, how to get you know, how how to do it right and d and do it well. And so you're not just unleashed when you're sixteen, but you know, it's it's graduated in, but they've they've sort of accelerated that that graduation sometimes. AGT Time Podcast: I was just unleashed I mean I I went through driver's ed and did all that, Jay: Yep. AGT Time Podcast: but yep, sixteen, it's like you can go wherever you want to go at that point. Jay: And you're off. AGT Time Podcast: It's like and driving around the the you know, northeast part of the Dallas Fort Worth metro drive driving all over the actually the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. It's a lot of interstate. It's like Jay: Ooh. That's yeah. yeah, interstate driving, in town driving, highway driving, gravel road driving, they're all different. It's not it's it's not just like once you figure one out, you're good at all of So there you go. Okay. anyhow, he and his his then son, in some ways he says they grew up together. And now his son is in college and it's time for him to keep chasing his dream. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Yep. Jay: Alright. he's gonna do a bunch of impressions for us. AGT Time Podcast: Good, let's have it. Jay: we've got Robert De Niro working at a preschool. was too tough on the preschooler, so he got fired. You know, impression of him talking, you know. Did you do this? we got Ryan Reynolds. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Are you talking to me? Jay: Ryan Reynolds at a at a phone calling office, whatever, and he sounded too sarcastic. Adam Sandler, he couldn't make it as a lifeguard. Keanu Reeves working at Subway. he does Jeff Goldbloom as an ice cream scooper. And then finally we get a a suggestion from TikTok to do Jim Carrey and how he says do Jim Carrey as a librarian and he delivers and even has a joke, or a couple of jokes in there even. So I felt like this was this was a pretty good way to do impressions, to do this kind AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: of act. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. No the the the Jim Carrey one was really good. what was the other one? Not after go so Ryan Reynolds and then Jeff Goldwyn was between those. Jay: Keanu Reeves, Adam Sandler AGT Time Podcast: The one before Keunt. Adam Sandler. The Adam Sandler one and the Jim Carrey one I thought were his best. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. I mean those are right in our wheelhouse, right? We were AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. They are, that's true, yeah. Jay: prime Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler movie AGT Time Podcast: Yes. I can I can see Adam Sandler being a lifeguard. I can just see that as a movie. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, I think so. What are you looking at, Swan? That's like that's it's not so far off. That's yeah. no, it's it I feel like it was it was pretty good. He he still announced who he was doing would have loved to see him do a little bit more in the style of our rapper last year, where it's like, you know, g give me suggestions. I'm I'm just gonna take them all, right? We're gonna take all these suggestions and then I'm gonna do impressions, right? instead of like I'm I've I've got these ones that I've got scripted, and then here's one that I can do. 'cause that one was the best part, right? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Cause it could have gone really wrong. Yes. Jay: Of course, yeah. What was our rapper's lame last year? who who did the the Chris Turner, yes, that's what I'm thinking of, right? Chris AGT Time Podcast: Chris Chris not Chris Turner. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, okay. Jay: Turner just took all the suggestions, everything out of people's pockets that rapped about him. and and if he were able to, you know, take all these these work suggestions and you know, here's a list of Yeah, i also in the style of of Tom Cotter, right? Like spin the AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: wheel, I'm not sure what's gonna come up. Here's the jokes, right? A little bit more not knowing what's coming would be impressive. Maybe that's not his AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Jay: act. Maybe his act is just the impressions, and if that's the case, then maybe he's reached his his ceiling. AGT Time Podcast: Did like that he told it in the form of a story. There was some sort of flow to it. It wa there was cohesion. It Jay: There was cohesion, right? AGT Time Podcast: wasn't he wasn't just rattling off ver you know im impressions. here's Robert De Niro, here's Jim Carrey, here's Adam Sandler. There was some sort of yeah, cohesion and flow to it. Jay: Yeah, the the connecting thread. Even back to him saying, I got fired from my job for AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: doing impressions, and so did Robert De Niro from preschool, and so did Ryan Reynolds from phone work and so did Adam Sandler as a lifeguard. And you know, like all those you there's there's that that that thread AGT Time Podcast: There's a theme. Jay: that goes through. Mel B says, paint a story. She eat what else do you want? AGT Time Podcast: It's very out of so tell a story. Jay: Ha ha She says that would be better than just a list of impressions. Heidi says it wasn't funny enough to earn a belly laugh from her tonight. Sophia says his audition was better. Maybe he did too many voices? And then Howie, the consummate comedian, says you have the voices, you just don't have great material. work on the material. AGT Time Podcast: He didn't get the advice that Daniel Alvarez did in Callbacks. Whereas where when Howie told Daniel Alvarez, look, go to the clubs, go every night, do your work, get out there, practice. It doesn't feel like that he did or does that very well. Jay: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's probably a pretty fair pretty fair suggestion. you you have to work the material. you know, the great comedians, it's like they slog through it and they they try delivery a hundred different ways and they're like, this one gets better reaction than that one and if I switch these words up or if I do it this way or that way and you know, it's that What they call it when Facebook puts different ads in front of different people to see the engagement? You know, it's like that's what you gotta do. An A B test. Sure, that's fine. AGT Time Podcast: yeah. Like an A B test. Like an A B an A B test, yeah, yeah. Jay: So right. Well, we're not gonna have an A B test, but a B and B test. We got Bird and Byron on team Bach. The ninth T ninth act on our team, 25th pick overall. in their intro package, they say they're excited. to have access to the production level that they're gonna have on AGT. AGT Time Podcast: It's always nice to have the production level that you've got on H E T. Jay: Yeah, like real professionals, real costumers, real AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: sound, you know, like all across the board. Yeah, seems like it'd be pretty awesome. AGT Time Podcast: Do you think they got their outfits from the AGT like wardrobe or do you think they brought these from home? Jay: I it feels like they brought him from home, doesn't it? Like I there was nothing AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Yeah. Jay: about him, I was like, yeah, nailed that, hit it out of the park. Like I was just like, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: I feel like it's the same outfits they've worn in auditions and then callbacks. Jay: But like their their brand is like two dudes. So like how do you you know, you're not gonna put in sequins, we're not gonna put in in Elvis, you know, one piecers. We're yeah, like we're AGT Time Podcast: Like cowboy hat? Yeah. Jay: we're like dudes from suburban Ohio, like AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha. Jay: But I will say they they do an original song. Bird, he's got this memorable voice, he's got that that high tenor, you know, really great tone. Byron plays guitar and he's got that that wah wah and the the long reverb on it, and like they they just like fall into this groove. And it's just like this speaks to me. Laura D's song doesn't speak to me. but this does and like I like this music. AGT Time Podcast: Ugh Yeah, I I like it in the sense that okay, so like at work rec lately, I've been just playing like 'cause I got my little office, I've been playing some just like soft jazz, like some like coffee shop music just to have on while I'm working. It's very soothing, whatnot. It feels like that's kind of what these guys are. They're just like coffee shop guys where you got the music on in the background. It's not anything that really excites me. You're just like sitting back and you're chill and you know, you got your you got your latte in your hand and Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: it's just kinda you know, when you want a nice cozy evening you pull you you throw on the the Burton Byron vinyl on the turntable. It's like yeah. Jay: Absolutely. Yeah. I AGT Time Podcast: But to be honest, Jay, I'm not gonna remember these guys next year. Jay: That's fair. That's fair. But AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, okay. Okay. Jay: like what I just heard was they sound professional. AGT Time Podcast: Sure. If you Jay: Like they absolutely can have a recording contract. AGT Time Podcast: Sure, yeah. At the same time it's like do I want it on my A G T? I don't know. I I I ca you know, on my A G T I want something a little more exciting. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. you know, Cody, you were you were painting a picture there of of you know, cozy fall putting on the vinyl, whatever. and and I and I love that. And I love pumpkin spice season. And AGT Time Podcast: Sure. Jay: just last night I had my first pumpkin spice chai latte of the season AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: and it ooh, it went down good. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Well, it's still ninety degrees here, so I'm not quite ready for that. Jay: I love pumpkin spice season. and and cozy, warm, like I'm I'm here for it. And and Burden Byron, I I like it. It feels like it feels professional, it feels real, and like they just don't overdo it. And that's that's AGT Time Podcast: Right. Jay: it it draws me in. So many of these things so many of these artists overdo it and it it doesn't appeal to me the same way. AGT Time Podcast: I mean even their outfits, they've got like the oranges and the browns and like the deep yellow. So even they're kind of already settling into fall, right? So I gotta Jay: Yeah. Pumpkin spice, baby. AGT Time Podcast: s I guess they're you know, they're Ohioans and it's probably starting to hit a little little fall weather up there. Jay: Yep, the leaves are changing. Starting to yep, starting to really turn real. all right. Howdy Howie and Heidi both give him a standing ovation. Howdy Howdy Ho. It's a standing O. Howie says they're like a fine wine and he can just savor it. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, again. You're sitting in you're sitting on your in your in your chair with your with your cognac, right? Or your your your Merlot. Jay: Yeah. A a port? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, your little little port and you got them spinning on the turntable and Jay: Yeah, I I love it. Mel says vocally it was not pitch perfect, but she can see their emotions, she knows their potential. All right. Heidi says they have chemistry, AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: magic when they when they perform together. Sophia says he's a sexy, interesting voice. Biggest step of the up of the night. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. also is it is it Byron? I mean I love his like mustache. They've got like Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: this like seventies I guess seventies look as well. So it's Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Timeless is I think what they're going for. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Sir. Jay: okay. That's that's enough Burden Byron talk unless you got anything else. AGT Time Podcast: I don't think so. Jay: Alright, middle act of the night, number six. Finally, I think that maybe she could consider hitting the golden buzzer. Okay. Sixth act of the night. We're AGT Time Podcast: Yes. We're at we're at that point. Jay: we're up to Tyrone and Margot. this is the fourteenth of fifteen acts onto your team. Forty first pick overall. AGT Time Podcast: Love it. Jay: Yeah. we come back from commercial. Judges have a plexiglass shield up in front of their in front of the table between them and the stage. AGT Time Podcast: Did did we hit a pandemic again or something? Jay: That's kinda felt like it. no, they're gonna th this is Tyrone and Margot of shooting crossbows fame. And just in case something goes terribly wrong, we don't want the judges to get hit. The audience on the other hand, I don't know, fend for yourselves. AGT Time Podcast: I think that the plexiglass is more for their like finale part of the act of the performance and not necessarily what's going on the stage. Yeah. Jay: I I agree, but it's funnier if I say that the audience has to just you know okay. AGT Time Podcast: Okay, sorry. I just ruined the joke. Sorry. Jay: No, that's fine. okay. here we go. Tyrone, he's gonna be blindfolded. He's standing in front of this target. He moves his head left and she shoots an arrow to the right, and then he moves his head right and she shoots an arrow to the left. And they do that, I don't know, four or six times. blindfold comes off. Tyrone's got this This crossbow apparatus that Margot's gonna light the tips of four four bolts, four arrows, and she goes and stands in front of these targets and he shoots it and it hits the four balloons, one top left, one top right, one bottom left, one bottom right. What'd you think of that one? AGT Time Podcast: I liked it. I okay, so first off, I thought they started pretty slow. It felt like it just felt like there was a slow start to it. I was like, okay, we Jay: I agree. AGT Time Podcast: I mean they just like w started, but it also felt like it was a slow start, if that kinda makes sense. Like it was an abrupt start, but it didn't feel like there was any like build up to anything. It's like, okay, we're starting, but at the same I like, okay, then that kinda caught me off guard that they were going. I thought when he was kind of bobbing his head, I thought that was I don't know, wasn't too impressed by that. But yes, the four bolt the four flaming bolts bolts, that go kind of in a square around Margot, I thought that was a pretty cool pretty cool trick. I like that. 'Cause you gotta make sure those Jay: All right. AGT Time Podcast: all four of those are aimed appropriately. Jay: I'm kinda torn on that because like he he's really just pulling one trigger. Like it's it's it is it that impressive to s AGT Time Podcast: Yes. But you still have to aim it correctly. You still gotta behold your he does he's not he doesn't have him sitting on a stand. He doesn't like what's her name? Last was it last season? The the the other half of Deadly Games? Jay: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: she kind of would put him on a stand and he's holding them, so he still has to hold it steady, and then all four of them have to be aimed at the right part of the board. Jay: Yeah. I don't know. Like it doesn't it it feels a little bit like like the drones, right? Like it's AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: it I've I've done all this work to set it up and now I'm just gonna pull the trigger. Like okay. AGT Time Podcast: You still gotta aim it appropriately. Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. 'cause if she were to get one of these flaming arrows in the neck, that would have been a lot worse than what happened Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: the last time a flaming arrow in the neck. Jay: Yeah, I suppose. the AGT Time Podcast: Hmm. Jay: I mean when you put it that way. But, you know, at at the end of the night, at the end of the performance, Terry asked like, you know, how d whatever, you how do you do this together? And they're like, Well, we love each other, so we're not gonna hurt each other. Like Well, that's okay. AGT Time Podcast: I don't think you can really like commit to that, but okay. Yeah. Jay: That's yeah. Well w what happens when he does shoot you in the neck? Is it like, You don't love me anymore? What? Yeah AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, till death do us part. Well, till death do us till death do us part. So it's like Jay: Woo All right. Well let's let's get to their big finale. we've AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: got this spinning apparatus over the judge's table. It's like four balloons on on a big old, I don't know, eight, ten foot wide thing that's that spins. And Margot's going to hang her her legs over it and she's going to hang upside down and she's going to shoot down at the floor at these balloons that are around Tyrone while Tyrone AGT Time Podcast: While she's spinning. Jay: while Tyrone lays on the floor and shoots at the spinning balloons that Marg is AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yes. Jay: hanging from. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. And and she's doing chains. So she's hanging from chains. Rather Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: than like a rope or a bar an aerial act with chains. I don't think we've seen an Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: aerial act with chains. Jay: Well, I wouldn't call it an aerial act. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: But I will say this. I'll also say it was a great trick. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: We've never seen it before. AGT Time Podcast: No, Jay: And it did not translate to T V. AGT Time Podcast: Mm. Maybe so. I don't know. I th I liked it. I really, really liked it. Jay: It I don't know, were we zoomed in too far? Like if we could have seen the whole thing zoomed out, maybe, or like a little bit more of what was going on, it just felt like they they started shooting balloons and we're trying to catch up, like, which which one shot? Who w which one where am I looking? And I it's just like it it they they produced it really poorly. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: Love the trick, didn't love watching it. Both can be true. AGT Time Podcast: Absolutely. Jay: Okay. s Sophia says it's very dangerous, amazing. Her presence Margot's presence is spectacular. Gotta get the spectacular in there for AGT Time Podcast: g Jay: the night. AGT Time Podcast: yes. Jay: Nel B says their precision is beyond and a better shot than him. AGT Time Podcast: I don't think either one missed. Jay: Yeah, I don't know what she Okay. AGT Time Podcast: I don't know where she's getting that from. Jay: Howie says they do arrows in a unique and exciting way. Heidi says they make shooting arrows look romantic. AGT Time Podcast: Sure, I could get that. Jay: I don't think Heidi's ever seen me shoot an arrow. Like like Foxy Robin Hood over here. What's AGT Time Podcast: That's right. Jay: You you said that I could go ahead with the with the the Backenhood poster. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Okay. Jay: that's it's you know, j just saying, Heidi. International AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: superstar Heidi. all right, that brings us up to the seventh act of the night here. This is the fourth act. AGT Time Podcast: Could could sorry, can sorry, boss, can I interject for a moment? Jay: absolutely you may. AGT Time Podcast: May permission to speak? Jay: Yeah. I I see your hand there, Cody. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Would would we want to see an aerial act where they use chains? Like would chains be a good apparatus for aerialist? Jay: It seems like potential to get pinched. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: Like my y not yeah, it it seems like a bad apparatus option. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. Jay: Maybe they could figure it out. I don't know. It like AGT Time Podcast: Do they okay. Jay: I'm I'm just imagining like rolling around in chains and how they would yeah. Like I I'm sure that I would come out with you know, little little blood blisters from where those chains pinched me. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Or if they're wearing tights like the they got they got holes or runs in their tight, whatever. Yeah. Okay. Jay: yeah, absolutely. That's dangerous on live TV. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: Not as dangerous as Akira's gonna be, but AGT Time Podcast: There we go. Jay: we'll we'll get there. all right, let's seventh act of the night. This is the fourth act onto Team Bach. We've got Caesar Diaz with our twelfth pick overall. he in his intro package says I wanted to be a singer, but everything went wrong in my audition. And I'm hoping that tonight my nervousness doesn't gun doesn't take over again. Did did he sell it to ya? Did ya did ya did you believe him? AGT Time Podcast: Okay. I didn't think he was nervous the first time. No. No. Jay: No. No. He it i he does the same thing that he did last time. He's gonna sing a song, everything's gonna go wrong, and it's and it's fun. And it's fun. He sings a recognizable song, Unchained Melody. Cody, let's let's let's check the Cody Patterson playlist. Is this is Unchained Melody on the Cody Patterson playlist? AGT Time Podcast: Okay, what do you think? Jay: I'm gonna say yes, it is. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. it is Jay: And the answer is AGT Time Podcast: it is so it is not actually in the playlist. It's it's a little slow f it's in the library. It's a little Jay: In the library? AGT Time Podcast: it's a it's a great song. It's a little slow for the playlist. Jay: Add it to your fall playlist you've been listening to lately. Your your your Burton Byron chill playlist. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Well that's a Spotify like pre yeah, pre s determined, pre whatever playlist. Yeah. So but Jay: All right. Okay. AGT Time Podcast: do you wanna guess plays on Jay: Well, if if it's in the library but not on the playlist, you know, we're we're usually talking single digits here. there might be some like movie soundtrack or something that this showed up on. I I mean three feels like the number I wanna say. So let's we'll let's go three. AGT Time Podcast: Thirty two. Jay: Whoa! What why? Where where did all these plays come from? Any guess? AGT Time Podcast: So there's well there's thirteen from the actual Righteous Brothers. Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, it's the very best of the Righteous Brothers. So their their actual album. Jay: Fair, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: nineteen from it's an instrumental version. Does that count? Okay. And then Jay: huh, huh. Sure, why not? AGT Time Podcast: and then looks like you two did a version of it as well. So yeah. Jay: really? Huh. There you go. All right. Unchained melody gets lots of plays for not being on the playlist. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, yes. Jay: Okay. well here's the thing about Cesar Diaz. Like he actually can sing. He has some some actual singing chops. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: also very funny. like he really knows how to do physical comedy too. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. Jay: Okay. Yeah. things that go wrong. He he he steps down from his platform on a step, his his his shoe goes through the step and comes off. lots of like like something sticky is happening and he's stuck to his microphone stand and he's his shoe sticks to the floor and he gets a saw to unstick his shoe from the floor and or he tries to saw down his microphone stand so he can reach it and his hand is sticking to the microphone wire so it's all wrapped around him. The whole thing is just a a master class in in clowning and mime in a lot of ways, right? He's playing playing that mime sort of role, while he's singing and actually singing. what what did you think of Caesar Diaz's performance? AGT Time Podcast: Man, I d I don't know what to think of this, Jay. I I admire a performer that likes to bring his own microphone. Jay: Okay, yeah. You like that that red cord, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, yeah. I like the red cord. I'll he's you know old school. He's actually got it physically hooked up. It's not wireless. Jay: Mm-hmm. AGT Time Podcast: he's got the little four not even four, it's a trio, string trio on the stage with him, so Jay: When you when you volunteer at your musical venue and a guy AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: walks in, he's like, I'm sorry, I wanna use my microphone Are you like, come on, get over yourself? AGT Time Podcast: We've we actually have allowed that, especially if the the performers are coming for like the the show that like they're the featured performer that night and they bring their own microphone and they want to use it, we're like, that's great. We're more than happy to let you do that. 'Cause they're comfortable with it, they know how it sounds, it's no problem for us to hook it up. So we just we gotta we gotta stand, we just plug it in and we we let them do it. after the featured performer forms, we ha usually have an open mic. We have had a gentleman that does prefer to bring his own microphone. He just likes the way it sounds and Jay: okay. AGT Time Podcast: yeah, we accommodate that. So we're we're not we're not that snobbish. If you wanna Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: if you want to, we will do our best to make it work. Jay: All right. Well, I I mean, pot calling the kettle black here. I I I own a harmonica microphone and I don't need to play with it at all, but at church one time we were like kind of out of microphones and they're shoot, what are we gonna do? I was like, well I'll I can get mine as long as we can plug it in. Of course. Yeah, let's go. So they needed to it I think it's got the the the quarter inch plug and the system needed the SLR X XLR and so AGT Time Podcast: XL X XLR? Yeah. Jay: we we had the quarter inch to XLR dongle and made it work. So AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Made it work, yep. Jay: there you go. So I I have in fact brought my own microphone to a AGT Time Podcast: I was a little surprised earlier because of the Bird and Byron intro package. They kind of featured their little SM fifty eight that was on the on the stand as they were Jay: Yeah, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: kind of moving their stuff around. I was like, why didn't y'all perform with that? You you featured it in the intro package. Let's let's bring it on the stage. Jay: Yeah, we had the we we had the productions w this high level of production that said We're gonna we're gonna run with AGT Time Podcast: They c they can plug it in. That's right. That's right. Jay: what they tell us to do. AGT Time Podcast: That's right. as far as Cesar Diaz, I I think he's got a lot of talent. I agree. He's it's as you said, a master class in clowning. He he's kind of done the same thing twice now. He's just sang a different song, but he's dump done somewhat of the same type of performance. And I'm really kind of like, okay, let's Let's let's let's it's time for you to kinda go. Time for you to kinda go. I think he he can sing, but I'm just not sure that I think there are other better acts that were there that night. Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: I'm not sure kinda where to categorize him 'cause I think I wanna like it, but the same time I'm like, I think there's some other acts that are that are better. Jay: It it's turning into a pretty tough night of competition. You know, it like we just had Tyrone and Margot on here. It's like they were drafted AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: way down low because I think we kind of forgot about them. Like just they just fell into like category of random danger act and then it's like, yeah, like they're kind of fun to watch. Like danger acts aren't so bad. AGT Time Podcast: Where was this episode ranked in the rankings that you did? Like based on our draft where we drafted the axe? Okay. Yeah. Jay: Based on our draft, this was number two. One four three two. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. Jay: And this this feels competitive. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, agreed. Jay: yeah, and I don't know. Like I I can see how this isn't for everybody. And I can see how like sing a song and everything goes wrong twice is a little bit like okay, like what else do you got? It it and, you know, he's a fourth generation clown. Like he has other bits. So, you know, do you do you stick with what you know or You know, maybe be in this fourth week like is a pretty good spot and he can like, you know what? I did it once, it got me through, I did it twice, it got me through. Now I need to go Sandal Trio Russian bar and like I'm I'm I'm bringing the clown, right? I'm I'm bringing AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: the like you know I I don't I've I've pushed my luck doing it twice and now I need to lean into the clown, lean away from the singing. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Yep. I'll tell you who those the true stars of this performance were with the stage hands. Jay: Yeah. brought him the saw Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: The one that brought him the s the sword, or not the sword, the s saw. And then there's the the bubble machine guy at the end. Jay: bubble machine guy. There's also the violin on the stage with him that he gets AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: he gets jabbed in the belly. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, that's right. Jay: So real instruments on stage with him that are are part of the comedy? That's a that's pretty good. Pretty good. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yeah? Jay: all right. Howie says you gotta love a clown, and then one of the ladies says clown, and Howie says clown, clown, clown, clown, AGT Time Podcast: It's Jay: and then it it goes off the rails and he says, No, you can sing and it's physical and it's funny. Mel says so much more could have gone wrong, but what he did was so funny. Heidi says she likes his voice and his even more than or she says she likes his voice even more than other musical acts. AGT Time Podcast: He does have a good voice. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Jay: Yeah, like he's he's a capable singer, actually. Yeah. And then Sophia says his audition was lovable and this she loves even more. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Did Heidi not know this was a clown act? She's the one she was the one that was like clown. Jay: Did she fall like has she not seen the rest of the season? Did she fall for his intro package where he's like, Man, everything went wrong, but I sure hope it doesn't this time Is she like, Yes, that would be terrible, wouldn't it? AGT Time Podcast: I I I mean if she did if if if that's the case then she if it's not if that's not the case, if she has previewed all the acts, she sold it very well. Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Cause she acted like she didn't know that this was a clown act. Jay: I it yeah. Okay. eighth act of the night. Let's move on here. This is Unit Tree, the dancing robots. this is on your team, Cody. Your eighth pick, twenty-third pick overall. And our our lead dancer says he's gonna be joined on stage by some more human dancers. And we've got maybe it's eleven or twelve robots on stage as well with swords. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. 'Cause that's what we want to do. We want to give robots swords. Jay: I don't. Like the we we talk about the illusion of danger and actual danger and this feels dang like this does not seem like a good idea. AGT Time Podcast: G give robots weaponry. It's like Jay: Yeah. But no, like they they tell some kind of story on stage with robots and people, and it seems a little bit dangerous, and it's like really in sync and like the robots somehow have like some personality and the way that they move, AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: and like it was really hard to look away. AGT Time Podcast: It was so amazing. So amazing. I felt like Jay: I I AGT Time Podcast: I was watching the martial the martial arts crew from a couple of years ago, right? If they started breaking boards Jay: yeah, world tra world taekwondo, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, yeah, if they started breaking boards, I'd have been like, Okay. We're done. Just just just call in the winners now. That was amazing. Jay: They they really brought something really really fun to watch. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, they did. Jay: back at the draft I was like I don't know. It this feels like another drone act. Like I just can't get excited about it. And then they showed up with this and it's like I'm a little jealous. I'm AGT Time Podcast: We saw the vision, Jay. We saw the vision. 'Cause I think we talked about it. Look, it it's not just robots, it's him dance a human dancing with robots and what's better, more humans dancing with robots. It's like Jay: Yeah. I I don't know. I see the vision for so many of these acts, Cody, and they s still pee it down their legs, so AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha ha. Jay: I I AGT Time Podcast: You know, drones, press the button, there they go. It's like Jay: Yeah. But these these humanoid drones were were really fun to watch. Have you caught any of the like biped Olympics, biped robot olympics? Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: In China. Yeah, I caught a little bit of it. It's fascinating. Yeah. Jay: Okay. it any particular scenes you saw that stand out or anything that you wanted to AGT Time Podcast: Nothing that kinda stood out. They I mean they're talking a lot about, you know, one of them broke Usain Boltz, I think it was Usain Boltz like world record. And I'm like, Yeah, so does my car. I don't know what the d it does it's not not the same comparison. It's like it's like Jay: Yeah, no, I so let's it's it's not the same. like it AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: is interesting because a humanoid robot AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: running looks a lot more like Usein Volt running than your car does. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, yes, yes. Jay: But like it's still not run over under the same rules. AGT Time Podcast: Right. It doesn't have fatigue. It doesn't get the what's it building up in your legs. Doesn't have any of that is those issues. Jay: Well, I mean, just as simple as the starting gun, right? Like the AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: humans, if you hit the the they they shoot the gun and then the runners take off. And if your blocks sense that you took off too early, even if it's after the gun but it's not enough after, it calls you for a false start. that's not the case with the robots. They don't shoot a pistol that the robots respond to. They just trigger them all to start running at the same time. that's not the same game, right? granted, like that is something that could change, but still, to your point, right, like they're they're not using muscles, right? It's the the same as Oscar Pistorius, right? Like, AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Jay: well, yeah, but one of his legs, like, is extra bouncy. It's fake, right? Like that's or AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yes. You you you can you can enhance the technology in his legs. So it's like Jay: Yeah. And AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: a and there's rules about the shoes that you can wear and rules about the amount of you know, whatever, all this stuff. So you can't use illegal gear. And so, it is really it'll never be a real true one to one comparison. AGT Time Podcast: Right. It's it's cool kind of seeing where the technology is going though. And I know we're all, you know, Skynet and fearful of the robots, all that type stuff, but also as like an IT geek, it's just cool to see what we've been able to accomplish with these robots and getting them to balance and run and understand they've got to stay within lanes and I think there was other c I have to go back and see what the other competitions were. I think like long jump, you know, those types of things where Jay: Yeah, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: you have to give them parameters of things because some of the clips they showed from early on in the competition was they were just going like f all out and then like halfway through they would just like collapse or they would keep going and then hit a wall. So yeah. So it's it's it's Jay: Right. Or or go into the wall, yeah. Both are not good. AGT Time Podcast: correct. And so it's it's programming them and making sure that they are following within the parameters. And staying upright. So anyway, just the technology itself is just fascinating from an IT perspective. So Jay: Yeah. And all that to also say like you know, okay, this one is really good at running the hundred meter dash, but how is it at throwing the shot put? And this one's really AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Right. Jay: good at throwing the shot put, but how is it at you know, any of these other things. It'd be really interesting to see like a decathlon of you AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Jay: know, like it has to be the same robot with no, you know, modifications or whatever between. So all AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Yep. Jay: that kind of interesting. Robot technology is improving by leaps and bounds though. Like I AGT Time Podcast: It is. Jay: feel like it was, you know, maybe five, ten years ago we were like, look at this Boston Dynamics robot dog that like opened a door, right? look AGT Time Podcast: Right. Jay: at this look at this biped robot that like doesn't fall over all the time. You know? And now we're like, whoa, like they're actually doing way more impressive stuff. AGT Time Podcast: Competitions. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. but having said that, with like Unitry, it's just seeing some of the tricks that they're doing, 'cause they're doing flips and spins and and what is it, round roundabouts and you know, whatever those types of of tricks are. They're doing all that as well as just normal dances. Of course, being robots, they're programmed to follow a certain rhythm and a certain routine. So they're gonna do it in sync. But then all of the da the human dancers around them are also doing it in sync and they're not running into each other. So Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. Heidi says she's gobsmacked, calls it mind blowing, and she says the future is scary. Howie AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: says this is one of the most amazing things he's seen in his life. Mel Bel AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: B in the most Melbee way possible says, I I want to be clear. All those little characters up there in the white, those are robots. AGT Time Podcast: They're not they're not humans. It's like yeah. Jay: Yes. AGT Time Podcast: Huh. Jay: I like I don't even know what to do like yes Mel, that's the act I don't throw my hands up. AGT Time Podcast: I I think I think that because they were dressed up in outfits that threw her off. Jay: Okay. Yeah, it must be. AGT Time Podcast: They weren't naked they weren't naked like they were in auditions. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I don't know. Okay. Sophia says honestly, they are a little bit scary, but also how can she not hit the golden buzzer? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Okay. I'm I was happy about that. Jay: So yeah, golden buzzer for your eighth pick onto your team. twenty third, that's into the second half of no yes. just just past the halfway mark in our draft. that's well done. Good job. AGT Time Podcast: Thanks, thanks. So that gives us two golden buzzers in the finals and each of you won, right? Yeah, okay. Jay: That's correct. That's how I calculated it. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: Alright, a few more acts to go here. Tenth act of the night, Travis Garland from Lubbock, Texas, not Garland, Texas. AGT Time Podcast: yeah, I think he's Travis yes. Yes. Sorry, we're gonna talk about Jesse Joe later on. Jay: Yeah. well yeah, we'll talk about what part of Texas he's from. but Garland, AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: Texas is a like that's a place, right? AGT Time Podcast: Yes, it's northeast of Dallas. Yes. Yeah. Been there. Jay: Yeah. and Lubbock, Texas is where he's from, but not named after. Yeah. Alright. AGT Time Podcast: That's out in the panhandle. That's out in the panhandle. Yeah. Jay: Well my dad's name is Lou, and I think he has a certain affinity for for Lubbock, Texas, for some reason. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: Lubach. That's real close. Are you following me? AGT Time Podcast: not Lukenbach, not Lukenbach. Jay: no, his his name's Lu Bach. Lubbock. Lubach. Alright. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. but there's also a Lukenbach. Jay: Well, I don't know about Luke and Bach. Have you heard they're not making rulers any longer? AGT Time Podcast: I don't know about Luke and Bach. Jay: Okay. All right. This is eighth act on to team I thirty five, twenty second pick overall. he's going to sing Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman. I I kind of feel like Laura D. Like this just isn't just not my music. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Bad song for him. Are you on a grande? Jay: Yeah, I it was it Scott who said like the best thing he can do is to do a song by a woman, d do a song by a female. AGT Time Podcast: did he say that? Okay. Scott called it. I don't know. Jay: or was it somebody else? I don't know. yeah, I feel like that's maybe that was a private conversation. I don't remember. AGT Time Podcast: I have to check the transcripts. Jay: Okay. Yeah. Well it i I think that's a great choice to do a a song by a female and we'll like, yeah, he put it he did it his own way. Obviously. AGT Time Podcast: Deeper? Just deeper? Jay: But I just I just didn't like the song. It Didn't didn't do anything for me, didn't land with me. AGT Time Podcast: He hasn't done anything for me all season. Jay: Yeah, that's fair. AGT Time Podcast: I mean I didn't know anything about him before the season and then I think once I found out he's the singer for Dancing with the Stars and what he does, I'm like, Well, if he's just gonna do cover songs like he sings them on Dancing with the Stars, then what do I care? If I wanted to hear him I'd go watch Dancing with the Stars. Jay: Maybe you'd hang out in a coffee shop and drink a pumpkin chai tea latte. AGT Time Podcast: I'd go listen to Bird and Byron then. Okay. Jay: yeah. Okay. what what's the right setting for this song? What w when do you listen to this? AGT Time Podcast: I d I don't know. Well, I wouldn't, but if it's Ariana Grande Jay: Ha ha ha AGT Time Podcast: if it's Ariana Grande, I mean you're in a you're at a concert, right? You're at a big concert with lots of flashing lights and dancers everywhere. Jay: Okay. Yeah, I'm I'm not sure like whatever setting this gets played in, that's not the setting for me. you know, I I'm I'm I'm cozy Chai Tee guy, not flashing lights guy. AGT Time Podcast: An un untained melody guy, right? Jay: Yeah, absolutely. Way more my speed. Mel is gonna say wow wow wowza wow wowza wow wow wow And then she says he made the song his own. Heidi says AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: she loves everything about him, right down to the gigantic armholes in his shirt. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, it's weird. Jay: I feel like she was reaching for a compliment. I don't know. AGT Time Podcast: It's weird. I don't know. Yeah. No, I said. Jay: No, me neither. That's ridiculous. AGT Time Podcast: No. I mean, I couldn't I don't think I have worn a sleeveless shirt since I was a teenager. Jay: No. It's probably fair. AGT Time Podcast: I mean I know some guys do when they go like to the beach or the pool or whatever. No. Mine T shirt. Like mine always have some sort of sleeve on But I've I've been an old Jay: I AGT Time Podcast: man since I've been seventeen, so Jay: I own a couple of tank tops, but I mean AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: I've never like intentionally made the armholes bigger. AGT Time Podcast: Some s I mean, it back in the day you would. I mean you'd even take your tank top and just cut it a little bit bigger. So Jay: Yeah. Like a like totally a high school wrestler move, right? Like to to AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: cut that down to the the bottom seam. Like I AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: I gotta get some air through here. I'm so so sweaty and masculine. My testosterone is all bottled up. I gotta let it out, man. Sophia says he has the best voice in the competition this year. AGT Time Podcast: Is it's is it is it hot in here or is it just my body? Jay: yeah. I I don't know. Gigantic armholes. It just it AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: was cracking me up. and then finally Howie says he is the best solo singing act by far. AGT Time Podcast: No, that's wrong. That's just a wrong statement. Jay: What who's better? AGT Time Podcast: Laura D is better. well, best solo singing act. Laura D is better. Lay Noel is better. I had to find my list. You know, you don't count Nene, because she's not really a Jay: Yeah, I think Mel B said, What about Nene? And he's like, she's not a solo singing act. AGT Time Podcast: Right she she plays the guitar and I get that. to be honest, I would put Caesar Diaz above him. Jay: Ooh. Take that team I thirty five. AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha Jay: okay. What we're we're dragging it out here, Cody. Tenth act of the night. We're finally get to talk about Akira. fourteenth pick onto Team Bach. He is the bottom of our list. Forty second pick overall. He's our no show artist. And in his intro package, like he is just so joyful. Like I he his happiness makes me happy. AGT Time Podcast: He loves life. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. and in his intro package he's watching like a a clocks pendulum and all of a sudden he gets the idea, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm like, we've already seen you stay covered behind a pendulum. That's like, come on, man. so he does a couple of tricks. One he uses a a piece of aluminum foil and a little battery powered fan to blow the foil towards him while he moves across the stage and stays covered. and then he we Stage hands bring out a big cover. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yes. Jay: We're actually gonna cover the stage. but behind that cover is a camera, and the camera is gonna be up close to this little less than one inch swinging ball. And Akira's going to set that ball swinging and then back up, so he's, you know, I don't know, ten, fifteen feet away from the camera, and then he's going to move his hips at at the same Speed, the ball is swinging, and stay covered. Pretty good trick. AGT Time Podcast: Pretty good trick, yes. Jay: does that trick twice and then takes down the curtain and puts on a robe and takes a bow. AGT Time Podcast: I was fascinated. I actually had to back it up 'cause I'm like, wait a minute. So he was doing this. I didn't see the curtain initially. I had to back it up like, Okay, hold on, is he doing this live in front of a studio audience? So Jay: he was AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: but they like the studio audience did not see him. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: but like I assumed that they had, you know, the the screens were up and they could see what we could see on TV and he pulled it off. He did it. AGT Time Podcast: Right. Right. Yeah. No, I I I was hoping I I I did not see the screen initially, so I was worried that he was doing it live in front of a studio audience. Yeah, okay. I was like what is the audience Jay: Well that was not the case. AGT Time Podcast: I was like, what is the audience seeing here? So Jay: Heidi says he has her vote. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: Sophia says she's entertained and he makes it look simple. Howie says it's hysterical and Mel is just jealous. He calls it unique and funny, and then Mel says he's a lovely guy with a lot of enthusiasm. But you can do better than this, Akira. This this isn't all the the best that you can be. AGT Time Podcast: No, this this is the best that he can be. Like I doing this on the edge of T stage, that's his ceiling. That's the best that he will ever attain. Jay: I mean, like, you can be a loving father and a doting husband and a fun uncle. AGT Time Podcast: Sure. yeah. Jay: Be all those things. AGT Time Podcast: Sure. Jay: I I don't think that she cares for this act. AGT Time Podcast: Okay, fair enough. Jay: Alright. Cody, last act of the night, Jesse Joe from Pecos, Texas. Not from West Texas. AGT Time Podcast: Not from West Capital W Texas, but out in West lowercase W Texas. Jay: did I pronounce Pecus? Okay. AGT Time Podcast: Pecus, yes, Pecas or yeah, yep, Pecus, Texas, yep. Jay: nailed it. AGT Time Podcast: Kid so Jay: they're gonna do an original song called The Show. And Cody, I'm just gonna read my read my notes here. His song on my TV was interrupted by a tornado warning in Iowa. It was way off to my east, so I wasn't in danger. But I missed the song and the judge's comments. I wasn't too beat up about missing the song. AGT Time Podcast: He didn't sound great. They s the band sounded amazing. The band sounded really good. He did not sound great. I am gonna be a Jesse Joe defender for just a moment because Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: it looked like he might have been having issues with his in ears. In ear monitors. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: early in the song he was fiddling with his ears. I saw him reach behind his back, kind of where his pack his ear ear monitor pack is. Jay: Uh-huh. AGT Time Podcast: So I'm wondering if there might have been a problem and he may not have been able to hear himself. So it's just a speculation, but I'm gonna be a Jesse Joe defender because of the observation. Jay: Okay. I don't know. Maybe he's never heard of Mandy Harvey? Just just saying. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, Mandy Mandy Harvey was used to not hearing herself. Like she grew Jay: HAHA AGT Time Podcast: up not hearing herself, so Jay: I mean, she AGT Time Podcast: Singers Singers really depend on those monitors to be able to hear themselves. Yeah. Jay: I know. I'm I'm being a little bit rude. yeah, no, I it unfortunate. I think that AGT Time Podcast: It is unfortunate. Jay: i he's on your team, your ninth pick, 26th pick overall. you know, I remember during draft saying like if if America loves an authentic singer, like this is the guy. Like he is authentic. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, and he's only been doing it what they say a few months and but he's real. He's you know, this is his band. They're they're kinda raw. They're they're not polished. Jay: Should they should they have done a known song instead of an original song? AGT Time Podcast: No, I think that's what they do is original songs. Even their audition was an original song and I'm okay with it. Jay: All right. Okay. All right. Well, that's all I got on on Jesse Joe. I don't have judges' comments. I assume they said that he was a little pitchy. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, they did. Like that's basically what their comments were. Yep. Jay: Okay. all right. Well we get to the results show. I f missed the first first fifteen minutes and I'm not beat beat up about that either. AGT Time Podcast: Cominer and Steven talked a lot about the results show. And if you want, you can go here, listen to that, from the postgame. But kind of some highlights. they talked about because football is on actually now, as we're recording this, which is why AGT result Jay: Hmm. Happy football season, everybody. AGT Time Podcast: yep, so that's why AGT is not on tonight. and so they kind of highlighted a little bit of Terry's career in the NFL. they had Dan Patrick on, he kind of talked about him a little bit. Dan Patrick threw out some some s some sportsism sports centerisms. Some of his famous Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: sayings. He threw those out. and kinda just talked about Terry's short NFL career for a little bit. they had a guy on that did the TikTok live that I never heard of. Jay: yeah. AGT Time Podcast: they had a singer on, a country singer on that I've never heard of. And then of course they had the A G T Hall of Famer himself, Oes O'Proman on, which he he Jay: Okay, and this is where my my feed came back in from the AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: from the the tornado warning. And so there's mel backstage TikToking away with some guy we've never heard of. And they're like Well d what is what is Heidi doing backstage instead of up here at the judge's table? Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and and do this trick. something, something, something. Jay Shetty? AGT Time Podcast: Like, who's that? I know. Jay: That's the trick. Jay Shetty AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Some famous author? Jay: Actually V J Shetty? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. let me look up Jay Sheddie. I I'd never heard of this guy. Jay: Yeah, it seems really weird that all three of them would come up with the name Jay Shetty. AGT Time Podcast: British podcaster and author. Entrepreneur and life coach. It seems random to have this guy here. Jay: Yeah, it really does. AGT Time Podcast: He currently lives in Los Angeles. Interesting. Jay: I don't AGT Time Podcast: Hm. Okay. Jay: I I felt like this could have been a neat trick if I had known whoever the celebrity was. But it's like AGT Time Podcast: Yes Yes, agreed. Jay: i I don't I don't believe that all three of people know who Jay Shetty is and neither do I. AGT Time Podcast: It seemed like Howie seemed familiar with him. Jay: All right. Howie's a podcaster. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah, he's yeah, he's been around. He knows people. Hey, we're podcasters and we didn't know who he was. So Jay: Yeah. You're not listening to Jay Shetty though. This is Jay Bach. AGT Time Podcast: That's right. So anyway, O's O's is great. It's not probably as my goodness. Jay: Ooh, if it had been Jay Bach on all their boards, I would have really liked that trick. Wow. AGT Time Podcast: We would have been Jay: Ha ha. AGT Time Podcast: balked if that too you'd been up there. That's right. Jay: We would have been bocked your world. hey, you know what came up on my Facebook memories four years ago today, I was at America's Got Talent with Christy Sellers and my dad. AGT Time Podcast: What's that? Look at that. Congratulations. Happy anniversary. Jay: So that's I guess was it today? Whatever. This this chunk of time. I AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: think it started a couple days ago. But yeah, AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: maybe it was results whatever night it was, yesterday or tonight or whatever, four years ago. so that's that's pretty cool. AGT Time Podcast: so yeah, Oz O's is great. It was l great seeing him again. probably not his best trick, but you know, it was still fun. Still great to Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: he he he owns the stage. He he owes the stage. Jay: He owes the stage. AGT Time Podcast: he owes the stage anyway. Jay: There you go. All right, let's get down to results then. Let's bring out Young and Strange, Cameron Logston. Who do you think's going through? Top five? AGT Time Podcast: I'm hoping young and yeah, young and strange. Jay: Yeah. both of them are team back. but only one of them's gonna get us points tonight. It's young and strange, no surprise. eulogy for Cameron Logsden. AGT Time Podcast: keep hitting the clubs. Keep hitting the clubs. Jay: Right. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: I think impressions is a tough lane for AGT. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yep. Jay: and writing material is notoriously hard. So if he has the desire, I think that he has the skills to improve this act. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Tell a story. Jay: I did. all right, let's bring out Caesar Diaz, Tyrone and Margot. Which one is gonna make the top five, Cody? AGT Time Podcast: Tyrone Amargo. Jay: That's what I was afraid of. But no, it's Caesar AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Jay: Diaz. AGT Time Podcast: That was baffling. That was so incredible that Jay: Yeah, I think Danger Axe kinda like impressions. Like it's kind of a difficult lane to to get America to AGT Time Podcast: I yeah, I think Jay: vote. AGT Time Podcast: it is. I think America's just not interested in danger acts. Jay: Yeah. And we talk about the illusion of danger and actual danger and this felt like actual like real danger. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: wish they could have produced their final trick a little bit better for T V. probably I feel like would have worked better for All right, we've got another Bach versus Bach. Go AGT Time Podcast: does does does Jay: ahead. AGT Time Podcast: does he does he look a little bit like General Zod from Superman? Jay: I mean sure, vaguely. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: All right. all right. Let's get our next result. Burden Byron and Akira. Who is getting the point? AGT Time Podcast: Burning Byron. Jay: Byrd and Byron get the point for Team Bach. Akira does not get the point for Team Bach. AGT Time Podcast: Man, you guys are on a roll. Jay: Yeah, we got two two of our six acts through, two of our six acts eliminated so far. That's fine. yeah, Burden Byron, get the point eulogy for Akira. Like I'll say it's this is a fun brand of comedy, but like on this show, like you have you have reached the ceiling, possibly busted through the ceiling, but like there's another ceiling above that. Like you This is as far as you can go with this. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, this Wes P I mean those are they're fun to watch. But there is a ceiling, you're right. Jay: Yep. All right. Let's bring out Jesse Joe and Laura D. Who's gonna get the point? AGT Time Podcast: Lorady Yep. Jay: Laura D does. Jesse Joe could have gotten more like authentic Worsing class blue collar country vote. I think he's just not not good enough to actually get more of that vote. And then finally Ruben rolled on and Travis Garland. who's getting the point? Travis Garland. And our our team Bach Golden Buzzer does not get through. Clearly, he's very skilled, he's very strong, he's got a inspirational, fantastic story. I think I've pointed this out before when we've had people who have different bodies performing on the stage, like the balance is off and we're like, like he can do different things with this body that we don't n expect to see from a a you know typical bodied person. I feel like there's maybe a certain showmanship, a certain cheekiness missing that would be nice to get to know him that you know might might sell him a little bit better to America. So now we've got three team box, a team I thirty five and a team commenter, Kodian commenter in the in the top five. Like I'm feeling good about that. I'd love to snag all these points for team Bach. AGT Time Podcast: Like Yeah. Jay: the first act going through is Caesar Diaz, Team Bach. Second act going through Young and Strange Team Bach. Third act going AGT Time Podcast: Sure. Jay: through we're gonna have to wait until after commercial. And then I texted you guys and said, couldn't be going much better for Team Bach. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: We're we're we're feeling pretty good about it. AGT Time Podcast: Cesar Diaz going through is probably one of the more shocking things of the season. Jay: Mm. AGT Time Podcast: With this with this lineup and him going through, I think it's one of the more shocking things. Jay: Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'll give you that. I'm happy AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: for it. I love it. AGT Time Podcast: Sure. I'm happy for I'm happy for you. Jay: all right. AGT Time Podcast: Still shocking still a shocking result. Jay: The third act making it through to the first round of finals next week is Travis Garland, not Team Bach. This is one for Team I thirty five. AGT Time Podcast: An still a little shocking that Laura D, one of the one of the top singers of the season, is not going through the semifinals. Jay: yeah, any further eulogy for Laura D? AGT Time Podcast: Man, it was it was great having her on our team. Picked you with our first pick. It would be nice to s hear a song that maybe we are a little more familiar with, but that's all. But it was great to have it on our team. Sad that we're not gonna be able to see her anymore. Jay: Yep. Other than song choice, I'm not sure what else she could have done. Yep. AGT Time Podcast: Sure. Yeah. Jay: Burden Byron. I I think that they could use this to catapult their career, right? Find a find a label. Find some way to get your music out there. You know, not just like l playing live at coffee shops, but get your music into coffee shops. Get it into restaurants and into stores, whatever, you know, find opportunities for people to hear this. I think there's there's a place for it in the world. AGT Time Podcast: So, Jay, here's one of the things that's gonna happen over the next couple weeks. So Travis Garland sings Jay: Mm-hmm. AGT Time Podcast: for Dancing with the Stars, as we've talked about a lot. Jay: I've heard that, yes. AGT Time Podcast: We've heard that. So Dancing with the Stars starts their season next week. And it comes on at the same time as AGT. Jay: Live. AGT Time Podcast: It's live. They do all of their shows are Performance results. Jay: Hm. Stinks for him. AGT Time Podcast: In the same two hour block. So it would be a shame if he had to go do his normal job, his paid job, and they had to slip someone else into that spot. So it's just gonna be interesting to see how this works out. Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Obviously, he knew when it was I mean, he's obviously talked with Dancing with the Stars. People are all wondering what's gonna happen. Well, I I would think that he has talked with Dancing with the Stars of like, hey, here's the scenarios. that could happen and here's the scheduling. Obviously there's some crossover at some point and let's look at some what if situations. Jay: Mm-hmm. AGT Time Podcast: So we as viewers don't know what that is at this point, but I'm sure they have some sort of they have something worked out. Jay: Is it does it behoove Dancing with the Stars to give him a night off? Is it best for them to h let him perform on AGT? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I don't think they're gonna make him drop A G T. I just don't think that's gonna happen. Jay: Yeah, it's not a good look to be like, Nope, you gotta be here. Sorry. AGT Time Podcast: No. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I know you've worked this hard, you've been around for twelve, fifteen weeks, but now you sucks to suck, you gotta drop out of the competition. So it's like Jay: Yeah. Like that that's not a good look for dancing with the stars. AGT Time Podcast: Right, right. Jay: But like also what do you do? Like how do you how do you solve this problem? AGT Time Podcast: I mean Dancing with the Stars, I I think he is gonna pr stay in the competition. I don't think he's gonna drop out. and so what I think Dancing with the Stars, one of two things they're gonna do is he's gonna pre record everything and they're just gonna pop a C D in and play it. Or they have a backup singer. Someone else will sing the next two weeks. Or at least the next week. Who knows if he gets what Jay: Yeah. Well AGT Time Podcast: happens if he gets to the finals. Jay: Yeah, I I think the solution is what you said. Record it. Alright. We're like we're we're everything else is live, the rest of the band is live, and we'll hit the play button and let you let your pre recorded voice sing along. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They they got it all figured out. There's there's not gonna be any problems. Jay: All right, let's talk fantasy draft. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: in third place Ryan and Steven, second place Bach Brothers, first place Cody and Commenter. I don't need to say anything else. AGT Time Podcast: You guys are still in it. So you still got the presumptive winner sitting out there. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: so there's that. obviously we have we have s we have six acts in the semifinals, right? I think we have six. Jay: I've got eight. You have well in semi finals? AGT Time Podcast: So our team has six in the semifinals, right? Yeah. Jay: Yeah. Six six next week. AGT Time Podcast: Next week in the semifinals. We got two already in the finals. So Yep. Jay: Yes. AGT Time Podcast: And and it's very possible we go Ofer in the semifinals. It can't happen. So so Jay: Possible. That's possible. okay. I'll I'll tease it out a little bit more. So the extra points that I requested during the offseason might AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: end up being the tiebreaker between AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Jay: second and third place or between first and second place or something. because we have one more point than team I-35. Team Bach has one more point. Thanks to having one more team that made the top five but was eliminated. But every team that went through s earned that same point. And as much as Commenter wants to defend it, that's a silly way to try to add more points to the d to the draft. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. I'm trying to be the neutral party between you two 'cause I'm on here with both of you. It's like Hey. Jay: Yeah, but but but which one's actually right? It's it's AGT Time Podcast: I'm just gonna sit over here and be the mediator and just be the neutral party and and and Jay: Ha ha ha. AGT Time Podcast: and host this thing. You guys can have the beef and I'm like, let's just play the game. Come on. Jay: But yeah, I'm trying to play the game. Just a i you know, why don't why don't we give why why don't we multiply all the points by a thousand? Do you want more points? Well let's just multiply them by a thousand. Well that doesn't fix anything. That's the thing. AGT Time Podcast: We're we're we are Jay: Although it like I said, it might be the difference between second and third place. AGT Time Podcast: We are open to suggestions on ways that we can actually award points. Not necessarily give more points to what we're already doing, but if you can find ways to award points, we're open to the suggestion. Jay: Well this feels like the the easiest, most natural way, right? We're we're advancing you to the top five, but not to the top three. You AGT Time Podcast: Yes, yes. Jay: you have cleared a hurdle. So let's AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Jay: give it to that group, not everybody. That's all I'm saying. Okay. it's it's okay. He doesn't he doesn't have to AGT Time Podcast: What else you got? Yeah. That that's okay. Jay: he doesn't have to admit that he's wrong. I can just I can just know it. And no he won't. No he won't. AGT Time Podcast: He and he will not. And he will not. Jay: and that's okay. That's you know, we all have AGT Time Podcast: I it it's o it's okay. Jay: it's it's okay to make mistakes. That's okay. That's okay. It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: all right. So with all that, yada yada yada still in the competition Cody and Commenter, you have eight X still in the competition. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: Bach brothers have four, Team I35 has four. you have you have half of them. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yeah. Jay: That's th that that feels insurmountable. Like mathematically, no. It's you know, it's not it's not out. You guys could go over. We could get our six axe through next week and you could have your six axe eliminated next week. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, just kind of looking at the semifinals. Let's let's let's talk for moment for a moment about what's coming up in the semifinals, and we'll kinda we can talk about kind of blend these two things together. So if we're looking at the acts next week in semifinals, we got the acro canine crew. It's kind of, you know, it's kind of toss up. People gonna like I don't think they're gonna send two dog acts to the finals. If they Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: if if America had to pick a dog act, I think they're gonna pick the Acro Canine crew over Beefus. Jay: You think AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I think they will. Jay: I do do you hear the sarcasm in my rhetorical question? I I also think that they'll take Acro Canine crew over Olivia. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. So there there's one. We're not gonna get two dog acts. Okay. Caesar Diaz, I mean, has ha depends on what he do he does. Is he I mean, has he hit his ceiling? Jay: I've got him in my top six, but you know, it might be rose colored glasses. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, come here The dance crew Jay: Well aren't they Golden Buzzer? No. They are d they're the dance group. Yeah, okay. Yep, yep, yep, yep. yeah. AGT Time Podcast: They're in semifinals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're in semifinals. Jay: I think they're I think they're in. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. I don't think Daniel Alvarez has what it takes to move on to the finals. He was great in quarters. Jay: Yeah, agree. AGT Time Podcast: I think he's if he's he would have to have gone to mo he's gonna have to go to more clubs to kind of keep honing that. But I he may have done what he can do. Gino our magician? Listener, Gino? Jay: I I Hi Gino. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Jay: thank you for listening. I'm afraid that you're not the best magic act. The most polished magic act. And I think that if we get one magic act, it'll be young and strange. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. And Gino, we'd love to talk to you at some point if you want to come on. We'd love talk to you. Jay: Please. We'd love that. AGT Time Podcast: two three magicians in the semifinals. I Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: think we get one in the finals. Jay: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Gino, Cameron, and Young and Strange. Who you picking? Jay: And I think it's young and strange. AGT Time Podcast: I think it's young and strange. Yeah. I I pr if if one had to go, I kinda agree with you. Luke Toledo. Jay: It he he doesn't speak to me. I've got him outside of my top AGT Time Podcast: Yep. Jay: six. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Okay. And then Olivia, we talked about Olivia. Royal Lasers. Jay: they're too A G T not to go through. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, agreed. Yep. So so far we got Acro Crew possibly going through. We got Come Here possibly going through. Jay: Mm-hmm. AGT Time Podcast: Young and Strange, that's three. and then Royal Azers, that's Jay: Veronica. AGT Time Podcast: f four. Veronica is definitely five and then Travis Garland. So Jay: I I feel like it's Veronica. I've got Caesar Diaz over Travis Garland. AGT Time Podcast: I think it's a toss up either way. Yep. I think you can Yep. Jay: Yeah, those those are kind of the bubble bubble guys. AGT Time Podcast: Bubble Guys. There's your six that we kinda think. So I think it's kind of splitting amongst our teams amongst those six. Jay: Well, between Veronica, come here, Acro Canine crew, I feel like those three are pretty good lock for for you guys. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, those for us. Yeah. Jay: Young and Strange is probably the closest that we have to a lock. Royal Lasers is probably the closest that I thirty five has to a lock. And you know, Caesar Diaz or Travis Garland or maybe a second magician or Luke Tolino could sneak in there. Like we don't have a lot of music next AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Jay: week. And if, you know, A America has to have a musician, Luke would be the guy. So AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. And we only have two singers currently in the finals. Jay: Crazy. AGT Time Podcast: N light nay nay and lay. So America Jay: May Nane Lele. AGT Time Podcast: doesn't America's not big on the singers this year. Jay: No, no, it's been i you know how many tweets and Reddit posts and mastodons and whatever's you've seen that are AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, yeah. Jay: like, you know, h here's my hot take. America's got talent shouldn't have singers. Well, I th maybe that voice is getting loud enough. AGT Time Podcast: Maybe so. So and and really you know, Travis Garland's a singer, but Luke Tolino, he's a rapper. Not even a Jay: Yeah. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: so So anyway, that's our semifinals. what's coming up for us, Jay? commenter commenter will be here for the pre game show this weekend. And then he will Jay: Okay. AGT Time Podcast: also be here for the postgame show on Wednesday Jay: All right. AGT Time Podcast: night next week. So And then you and I'll be back next Thursday to recap the semifinals. Still up in the air. May have Ryan Ryan for post game or pre game, sorry, pre game this weekend. Jay: Okay. It would be fun to hear his voice someday. AGT Time Podcast: It would. This this guy, he's he shows up in the group chat and I'm like, who this? It's like Jay: Ha ha ha. AGT Time Podcast: who are you? How'd you get in here? but yeah, that's kind of what's coming up for us. Anything else before we sign off for quarterfinals, Jay? Jay: No, I I am excited to see how this is all gonna play out. I think that, you know, big picture. Like you guys are are clearly the front runners. there's still a lot of points out there. it's not it's not a lock yet, but it's looking pretty good for your guys' team. AGT Time Podcast: We're just taking it one week at a time right now. Jay: Yeah. you know, it we could have earned as many as what fifteen points this week for Team Bach if we got a golden buzzer and the top three and the top five. we didn't. but I'll this AGT Time Podcast: But you you you stayed in it. You stayed in it. You did what you needed to do. Jay: this puts us back like on even footing. We've got as many teams, as many acts in the finals as I-35. and I I feel like we've got some some strong ones here. So AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Okay. Jay: it's it's been fun. I'm excited to see how it goes down and I'll talk to you in another week. AGT Time Podcast: Yep, so let's put a button on this. You can re you can 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 dot com, and we will be back this weekend for the semifinals pregame. Everyone have a great night. Jay: Stay safe.