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- Cody: Hey everyone. Welcome to our quarterfinals to preview edition of AGT time. Do what? AGTCommenter: pregame show, Cody. It's the this is the pregame show. Cody: Yeah. is this the pregame show? Okay. Yeah, that is true. Okay. look do you want me to start over? I can do it again. Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Fair enough, fair enough, yes. AGTCommenter: We got the postgame show on Wednesday nights. We got the pregame show here on for people to hear on Mondays. No, no, but we got it now. We're ready to go. For future reference. We're this is the pregame show. Cody and I are here to preview quarterfinals numero dos. We're missing a guy tonight though. No Ryan. Last year we had Cody: Yes, no Ryan. AGTCommenter: a we had a Ryan in the in the feed. Who knows? We're we're unsure. Hope. Cody: The analyst. He's the stat he's the statistical analyst, right? Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, hopefully we'll get him in some capacity throughout the rest of the season. He's he might be on a plane right now over the over the Atlantic, potentially. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: I know he's coming back here in the next sometime this week in from Ireland. But first preview but we probably should have done a preview pod, a pregame show for quarterfinals one, but whatever. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: here we are. Cody, how about you just quickly tell people where to find us and then Cody: So you find us on our socials at AGT TimePod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com. You go check out our website, agt timepod.com. You can find commenter out there at AGT Commenter. Commenter, I got two things before we get started that I need to discuss. One is an errors and omissions AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: from our previous pod. and part of it has to do with well not part of it. It pr completely has to do with Brooklyn. And so when in when I was talking about Brooklyn, I made it sound like you and I were not on the same page when it came to drafting Brooklyn. And AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yep. Cody: I wanted you and the listeners and everybody to know you and I were on the same page when it came to our draft strategy. Yeah. we we had di Yes, AGTCommenter: I would agree. We had a board. The board told the story. Cody: we had different opinions on Brooklyn, but I want to get it on the record to say that I am on board with everything that we did in our draft. And that it Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: It's showing early that we were that we we should be, yeah. Cody: It it I don't want anyone to think that like there's any that there was anything between us where we did not agree on Brooklyn. Brooklyn was on she's on our team. Proud member AGTCommenter: No. She's on her team. Cody: of Team Cody, Team Beefus Beefus and the buttheads. So yes. So AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beef us in the buttheads. here's the thing. We had her fourteenth on our big board and we got her at twenty nine. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So what it would be one thing if we took her at ten, 'cause I was like, I want we had no disagreements. Cody: Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: You're always smart getting into the solar sing solo singer business. And at twenty nine we got fifteen spots of fifteen spots of value. and so don't I don't want you to I don't want you to s to sweat that at all. Cody: Yeah, I just want to make sure the listeners are aware that like, AGTCommenter: Fair enough. Cody: yeah, that I'm supporting our entire team. I th AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: yeah, so I I'm glad that Brooke I know she's not in the on the show anymore, but I'm glad that Brooklyn is on our team. the second thing I want to talk about, and I've been wanting to bring this up with you the last couple of times that we've talked. I found a new Twitter profile that I absolutely love. It's called Twenty Years Ago Sport. AGTCommenter: I I've sine this is a thing. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. So they do they they post like things are happening exactly twenty years ago that day. It's it's incredible. AGTCommenter: Yep. It is. It's very good. the yeah, today the Miami Heat have announced today that Pat Riley will be returning to coach the team for the two thousand six, two thousand seven season. They won the t or no, they just won the championship the the past season. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: There's this is like a new trend people are doing. There is a I don't know if you followed along with someone is live tweeting two thousand and one. Cody: Okay. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And so we are a few weeks away here from a real breaking news moment, back in back in 01. It's gonna break the Twitter timeline. Yeah, so this is becoming a thing. People are yeah, it's kind of fun. But yeah, I I encourage you, go to the yeah, two thousand and one yeah, two thousand and one live is what it's called. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: Live posting as a reporter embedded in history. So this person there's also a fifty years ago live, hundred hundred years ago live and two hundred and fifty years ago live. Cody: The seventeen seventy six one was incredible as well. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Y right, yes. Cody: The two hundred and fifty years ago, yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: three hours ago, two thousand and one live, so this would be twenty five years ago live as President Bush speaks to elementary school students near his ranch in Crawford, Texas. He then goes golfing. Where d are Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: you familiar with Crawford, Texas, Cody? Cody: I'm familiar with it. I don't know if I know exactly where it is. I think it's out in central Texas somewhere, so but I've never been. AGTCommenter: Okay. And f four hours ago the first Apple store in Illinois opened at the Woodfield Mall in Schomburg, Illinois. Wow. Alright. Cody: Yeah. It's it's incredible watching the comments too, 'cause people are commenting like, man, like th the the sport thing. It's like like correct, correct, AGTCommenter: Yeah. Like there in two thousand yeah, twenty years ago, yep. Cody: yeah. So it's just a lot of fun watching it. And then the the media, the clips that they're getting, the video clips that they're getting from back then is also incredible. So Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, it's b g it's a fun blast from the past, you know, history. but well good. Good start. We are here to to preview, we'll do a a few things. quarterfinals two. We'll start our contest for the rest our this is Cody and I's side fantasy league. This is our side contest where we we try and make some predictions. Ryan won last year. he beat us, but we'll we'll try and make some predictions on who's Who's gonna go through, who's gonna get the golden buzzer, all of those things. but before we even get to that, we just we gotta talk a little bit about what what what's on deck. So you you and Jay last week had a conversation about based off of our draft, Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: which quarterfinals appeared to be the strongest basically based off draft position, which is a pretty good metric, I think. some of probably got over drafted because they were golden buzzers, so it's probably not a perfect number by any means. But Cody: Yeah. Or you or you had Marina and and James real high. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: James and Marina go fourth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. but you said I haven't had a chance to listen to the whole pod yet. You said that Jay had this one prob it was either ended up being the lowest or or right around one of the lowest Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: of the four, right? Cody: I if I remember right, I th I should have checked fact checked this. I think it was one, four, three, two was AGTCommenter: Okay. Cody: the order. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So this this might be based off of our sentiment the worst of the four, but at the same time we we thought last week was going to be the best of the four, and I'd say it wasn't a particularly great quarterfinal. So but we've got was we'll just run through the eleven, this is alphabetical. We've got Betty from our team. So four from Beef Us in the Buttheads this week. Four from Team I thirty five, Ryan and Ryan and Steven, and then the Bach brothers have have three. So for the second consecutive week, the Bach brothers have the lowest amount. but Betty from our team and Brad and Tracy, our our wild, weird, sideshow, grotesque middle aged couple. Cody: Brad Byers, who's been on the show before. AGTCommenter: Yes. Butter and grit from the Bach brothers. I know you we were a little disappointed you were wanting to get them on our team this year, but they snatched up. Come here. from from our team performing Gino Gino Plager from Team I thirty five La Russell from Team I thirty five and McKenzie Soul from Team I thirty five. And then the number one overall pick is performing on Tuesday night, probably tomorrow night if you're listening to this on Monday. Nene Royal from the Bach Brothers. Nija and Zaya, the the nephews of of Bruno Mars from from from the Bach Brothers, Patrox, our reverse dancer Cody from Team I-35 and then our our golden buzzer Veronica closing out tonight. So that's the 11. looking at the list, just two golden buzzers. Because we had what last week? Didn't we have three? I think we had three golden buzzers last week. Hundred Fingers, Luke Tolino, and Royal Lasers. Cody: Yes, yeah. AGTCommenter: So one less golden buzzer. But the number one overall pick and a little bit of what people are kind of assuming is. probably the favorite or at least the most popular of the season without a doubt. When you look at the list, how much how much does the amount of golden buzzers adjust your sense of what's going to happen? Because it feels like the golden buzzers tend to be a little bit of an answer for us. Cody: don't think that we're gonna get our second two time golden buzzer this week. Yes. AGTCommenter: Or second golden buzzer, golden buzzer? Yeah, yeah. Cody: I don't think that's gonna happen. I also don't think it's gonna be Nene. I mean, as much as people think it might be Nene, AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: for some reason I don't think and it also depends on where they put her in the show. And who's the buzzer. AGTCommenter: And who's the buzzer? Who gets the buzzer? Cody: Right. Do they go down the list? Do you think they're just gonna go down the table? Like AGTCommenter: I don't know. So AGT Insider and I were chatting last week about how he getting picked to be it and we were both very surprised because he had a golden buzzer in the episode. And we just had kind of assumed over last two years I don't think that had happened. Now, for one reason or another, they had avoided putting someone who had already pressed a golden buzzer for an act in the same episode, giving them their golden buzzer. They did it last week. Mackenzie's soul was whose? Cody: I think Mel B's. AGTCommenter: Mel B. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: And Veronica was Sophia's. So Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: if they want to dodge it again then or if they do want to dodge it, they can just go to Simon for this one. but we'll so we'll see. So if they're working down the table, it could be another Mel B could be a thing where Mel B could just press it again for hers. So yeah, two two golden buzzers, it it opens up the night just a little bit, a little bit more. now it turns out they can press the golden buzzer for a golden buzzer. We had just kind of assumed it was an unwritten rule. Apparently not. So that opens all that door too. But I think the rankings that that Jay had talked about last week are I agree that this feels like a little bit of a lighter episode. I I'm not as I go down the list I would say I I'm I'm anticipating Betty to put on a good performance. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: I think Kamiro put on a good performance. I think Nene will put on a good performance, and I think Veronica. I would say those are the only four I'm confident are gonna go out and put on a a good, solid, nice live show performance. Cody: I think Butter and Grit can put on a performance. It depends AGTCommenter: I would agree. Cody: on what s how they how they pick their song, what kind of song they pick. 'cause as a band, if they do something upbeat and exciting, they it they have the potential to put a pro a good AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: performance on. AGTCommenter: Yeah, basically then there's that middle tier th of like they could. I think that would be one. I think Gino could put on a good one if if he Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: does it right. I would say Mackenzie's soul is a has a good enough voice that he could just put on a nice singing performance, but I'm not a huge fan. I would say those are the only three in that category, and then I would s as much as I love that they're on our team, I don't have high hopes for Brad Ch Brad and Tracy. I don't think they're gonna put on a good performance. I don't think La Russell's gonna put on a good performance. And I don't think Nija and Zaya or Patrox are gonna put on good performance. So I I think we're right in there. We're about a little over a third of the acts I'm pretty confident are gonna are gonna be good. The story is Nene. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: What is she? What is her actual voting base? Because you gotta be in the United States to vote for her. And she's coming from Cody: Thailand? AGTCommenter: Is it Thailand? I'm pretty yeah, I think you're right. I'm pretty Cody: I don't know, let me click on her profile and see. AGTCommenter: sure. Cody: Phuket, yeah, Phuket, Thailand. Phuket, Thailand? Yep. AGTCommenter: Say it again. Yeah. Her base is there. I I think a lot of her online attraction is coming from overseas. Cody: From Asia. From yeah. AGTCommenter: Philippines, Ty Southeast Asia, that that area I think is really I don't wanna say like, you know not in a bad way, but is inflating the numbers on views and likes and things like that. Well those people, because of the rules, are not gonna be able to cast a vote for her. She is beloved on Reddit she's beloved in in I think in the US too. So I'm not I'm not doubting her. I would be really surprised if in one way or another, whether it's via buzzer or via vote, isn't advancing in the competition. How what would your level of shock be if she went home? Cody: be extremely shocked if she went home. I actually AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: would. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Are you anticipating what's what's your expectations for her? Are th are they high? I feel like you're a bigger fan of her than I am. And I like her. Cody: Yeah, and yeah, I I do like her. And I'm not saying I'm I'm not a follower like a lot of these other people are. I'm I like her music. From what we've seen in in the two times that we've seen her on A GT, I've liked what she does. I like the shredding of the guitar. I think she has a great voice. She has a great stage presence. From an entertainment value of the two times of AGT performances, I've enjoy it. I I will vote for her. I will probably vote for her because I like this type of music. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: And I want to see her I want to see her move on. Jay did w confirm that it is one four three two. AGTCommenter: So this is s this is presumed Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: to be the weakest of the f of the four c quarter finals based off our drafting. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: and I think that I think that's fair. Cody: Yeah. so yeah, I I would be surprised. I would be really shocked if she did not move on. from her from the entertainment value that she puts on. I know there's gonna be a lot of people that just are may not vote out of the sheer possibility that because other people are voting for her, AGTCommenter: The old bystander effect. Cody: right, because of all the hype that is around her, people may just not vote for her for that reason. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I think a lot of people are assuming that the TikTok vote edition is going to be a big deal for her. And I I I'm guessing so last week the voting post so basically what AGT's doing is posting a TikTok post that says this is the this is the one you vote on. Comment on this post and these will be the votes that count. As of s was that Friday or Saturday? Saturday? Yesterday. Cody: Yesterday, yeah. AGTCommenter: When w when I went and looked after Jay had sent us and we'll talk maybe a little bit more in depth on it, but when Jay went in Jay had texted us about a post about the TikTok voting, I went and looked. There was thirteen thousand total comments on that post. You had to po you had to comment within the voting window and you had Cody: By set by seven AM Eastern time. AGTCommenter: and you had to type the name, the full name spelled correctly of of the act you were voting for. Cody: That's where a lot of people are gonna run into problems. AGTCommenter: What would you guess ten thousand out of that thirteen qualified? Less? Made it in the voting Cody: I AGTCommenter: window and were spelled correctly. Cody: I don't I think it's way less than that. I'd say it's probably half. AGTCommenter: So you'd say maybe seven seven to eight thousand, maybe seven thousand? Cody: yes, were within the time frame and spelled correctly. AGTCommenter: So let's say seven thousand. We'll go seventy five Cody: Yeah. So you g AGTCommenter: hundred. Cody: yeah, so say I mean and Jesse White tumbling teen. what else? Tolino. beef beefus. Beefus. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's I think that's really generous, yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Right. Right. So w we'll even go a little generous. Let's just say let's just say nine thousand. Just to be generous. I asked Chat GPT what's the assumed amount of total votes that come in on an AGT episode. They said the industry assumption is somewhere between two and five million on any given results night. Let's just say three. Cody: That's a big gap. AGTCommenter: Well, 'cause I'm guessing finals is bigger than c like Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: So somewhere in that range more than likely. Let's just say three for the fun of it. Cody: Okay. Sure. AGTCommenter: Let's do the math on how what percentage the TikTok vote of the total vote if there was three million regular votes cast? Oops. Three. Got it. Okay. Nine thousand divided by three million nine thousand is point two so point two percent of the vote point three we'll round up point three so if you round to the nearest whole number zero percent of the vote came from tick tock tick tock's not impacting at least as of now now this week with her performing we might see six million votes on comments on that that would be high but If you're at home and you're a fan of the show and you're like, this TikTok thing is dumb, it's gonna inflate through one week, it it's a rounding error at this point Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: on the on what we would assume the total votes would be. Even if that ChatGPT estimate is wildly off by by a factor of two, that's still one percent of the vote is coming from from TikTok probably. So I'm interested to see if the numbers Our guy Ryan does his virality and our Rye Analytics type stuff. This might be one of the easiest examples of how viral she is. Cause if there's fifty thousand comments this week, if there's a hundred thousand after a week of thirteen, then I would be I'd be pretty impressed. But as of now, I I have a hard time believing that the TikTok vote is doing anything, Cody. Cody: So I was just curious. So Q two TikTok monthly active users two point two billion. AGTCommenter: Okay. Cody: But am am I just one of that two point two billion or AGTCommenter: Hm. Cody: is my usage like when it says active users? AGTCommenter: I don't know. Yeah, somebody that has done has, you know, opened the app, probably. right. Yeah. Cody: Okay. Okay. And how many of those were bots? So well and all and also like I'm a person but I have this account. I have I have my church account. I have the the so so yes, AGTCommenter: You have two, yeah. Right. The the the pod, yeah, yeah. Cody: I manage three accounts just myself four accounts just myself. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. So I I I'm not I'm not I th I think if you are trying to decide like who's going to go through, don't think any differently than you have the last twenty seasons. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: This the the people picking up the phones and and voting, now it's on the app, but whether it used to be called it's the same thing. We're doing the same thing. TikTok's not gonna overinflate this stuff. I think what's causing that is they have to go to the correct post. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: I think a lot of people think if they just comment on the performance video they're casting their vote. And that is not and I don't necessarily I'm not trying to do a, you know, instructions for voters or anything, but just Cody: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: so very interesting. But I I do think she's she's clearly the favorite to go through, but I think the biggest boomer bust, basically, that if The the the best version of it I think could be really, really, really great and the lower version I think just could be meh I think it's Betty. To me is like Betty's either it's gonna pop and what I've been kind of preaching about that I think she's really talented, or it might just kinda be boring and and dull and and you know, her voice might not be dynamic enough and that is what it is. But is there anybody you look and you're like, This is maybe the sleeper? to to jump in and steal one of the three spots or maybe even steal the golden buzzer and we'll do our actual picks. But when you look at that eleven, is there a is there a sleeper? Like golden buzzers can't be sleepers. Ney Ney's not a sleeper, obviously. Is there anybody in there? You're like, watch out. I I have another one that if you don't say I'll bring up. Cody: I I think butter and grit could be a sleeper. Yeah, AGTCommenter: Okay. Yeah. Cody: I really do. They're they're one of those in there that's like they could have a great performance, they could have a really bad performance, and people just don't really know what to do with butter and grit. AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: And so they could just sneak in there, get that that that Nashville vote, get that country vote in there, and move into the, you know, is the number three spot. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I think it's fair. Come here would be the other one. And I know I s I said two two acts from our our team and that is what it is. But They They're the best dance act in this group. Is there another dance act? Tech technically, yeah. So the only Cody: Pa patriarchs. Yeah. AGTCommenter: group dance group, Hundred Fingers just got a golden buzzer, and and they are very dancy as much as they are magic. They're also very dancy. So I'm I'm interested to to see that. But Cody: Would you consider Unitry a it says Robot Act, would you consider them a dance? they're not in this episode, no. Right, right, okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah, but they're not in this they're not in this quarter final. Yeah, yeah. so I feel good, Cody. W I I feel good about our team. I think there's points for us, with Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: our four, Betty, Brad, and Tracy, come here and and Veronica. last week we sent all three Golden Buzzers through. We sent three of the four that went through came from the first four auditions, which you know is my new crusade that I'm on that Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: The show is just basically a competition between all the acts that come from the first four. A Cody: And and to and to be fair, the show doesn't know when you get to the live shows. They they don't know to put these acts in the first few. It just happens to be that AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: way. AGTCommenter: Seventy three percent of the acts on Tuesday night are are auditions one through four. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So the the likelihood is that probably three out of four again is going to be that. The interesting thing is Nene is auditions five. So the three that aren't from the first four auditions are Nene, Butter and Grit, and Veronica. So we have a golden buzzer, we have the presumptive favorite of the season, although I am not. I have not been on the She's the Favorite train. I've argued with many a many a folk on X the Everything app about this that's the the the numbers tell us she is far from the favorite. of those three, Nene's clearly the favorite to get points. Veronica, you would agree, would be the second most likely, and then Butter and Grit. So yeah, the Cody: Mm-hmm. Yes. AGTCommenter: the rest of them are from those early auditions. But I I was doing a little Nene prep in my head and and looking at some stuff. The only act in the Golden Buzzer era to be a non Golden Buzzer non Auditions one through four to win is Adrian and Hurricane. So she's trying to do one of she's trying to do something that only one out of the previous eleven have done. So to to consider her the favorite to me. W is she the favorite in your eyes? Cody: th I mean she I think she is one of the favorites, but this season it's hard. It's AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: it's you know, we're we're going on favorite based on just internet right. You know, AGTCommenter: She's popular. Yeah. Cody: it's it's not a Grace Van der Waal. It's not a AGTCommenter: No. Cody: Darcy Lynn, so AGTCommenter: Right. And I just find it so funny that here we are with another solo singer Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: and everybody's like, We love her. And it's like, hold on. W i the Reddit loves her. And I'm like, We've Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: spent the last decade on this app, on that website, being like, singing shouldn't be on the show. And now it's like she's the bell of the ball. It's it's something. Cody: And it seems like of the judges, Howie's the only one that really loves her. Like the others like her. They think she's good, AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: but Howie seems to be the only one that's just going goo goo gaga over. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, it's I'll I'll be interested to see how that how that plays out. let's Cody: She she's the Courtney Hadwin of this season. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I think that's a I think that's a a not a bad comp. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: she's kinda surprising. You don't expect her to sing what she sings in the style that she does, how he loves her. yeah, it'd be interesting. The we talked about it in the season thirteen rewatch. I think Nene's already self aware. She knows who she is. Courtney Hadwin, you know, Cody: Mm-hmm. Yes. AGTCommenter: my point was like as we got in the live shows, I'm like she's starting to be in on the on she's getting it. She's becoming self aware and understanding what what she actually is and what people like about her and that is that has caused that. But Should we make some picks, Cody? So what we're going to do, Cody and I are gonna pick who we think the golden buzzer is gonna be, and then the three acts going through. Obviously I think what we should do, Cody, is if you pick the golden buzzer correct, we'll get two points. And then for each one you get through correctly, you'll Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: get one. Cody: And and this is hard 'cause we don't know where they're gonna perform in the episode. AGTCommenter: Correct. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Well and let's let's talk about that quick. Last week on the postgame show, you and I talked about where they can where the advancements came from. Obviously the golden buzzer came from the middle of the episode. But the other three that went through came from spots eight, nine, and eleven on the night. And one of the two that went home from the top five performed tenth. So four out of the top five vote getters last week were the last four acts of the night. So We've always felt like that was kind of the case that if you performed early, Steven's been long on the death spot idea, right? He's very much now Adrian Hurricane, were they second on the night the week that Adrian Hurricane defies all as much Cody: Something like that. AGTCommenter: as i i th they're they're they kind of overcome all of the all of the standards. But so you're right, like we you and I both might think that Or whoever, somebody at home might like, Mackenzie's soul is a sure thing, golden buzzer, and then if they p put him first, i the votes just might not be there. So we'll see what happens on that. But If if you're trying to handicap it as the night goes, like Howard used to, he's he was handicapping all night. Wait till see who performs towards the end of the episode. If they're a golden buzzer and if they're from and or if they're from auditions one through four, there's your group. That's that's probably that's probably the section, the cross section that's gonna be going through in some capacity. So all right, Cody. So Cody: Adrian Hurricane A Adrian Hurricane went first over on that night on the finale night. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: They went first. Yeah. So they're the anomaly of all anomalies. I think they were auditions five or six in their season. They were first on the night. I have it. I probably have it here, but they were Yeah. Cody: five. Yeah. Audition's five. Yeah. AGTCommenter: No golden buzzer, auditions five, first act of the night on finals night. It was a weird season. Eighteen was a weird season, but alright. So I think and you can help me decide this. So let's say You pick somebody to be the golden buzzer and then they go through on the vote instead. Should you still get points 'cause they advanced or are we putting all our chips? 'Cause you could convince me that you could still you should still get a point. But if you get it right on on the golden buzzer, you get two points, basically. Okay. Cody: no. I don't think you no. AGTCommenter: Okay. So so say say one of us picks Nene to be the golden buzzer and then she just advances. we get no points for the advancement Cody: We're yeah, we're we're we're pick yep. That's correct. AGTCommenter: to Two or nothing and then one or nothing. Cody: Yes. Cause one is judges pick, one is America's pick. So AGTCommenter: Sure. Okay. Cody: two two separate things. AGTCommenter: All right, so I got I got the sheet here. I'll share it with you after the episode. Let's I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a spinner wheel, Cody, see who picks first. Cody: you can pick first, it's fine. Okay. do AGTCommenter: Yeah, but now I now I pulled up the website. And Cody: do seven spins. AGTCommenter: No. We're doing one fun one spin. Three, two, one. And f you get to pick your pick if you Alright Cody. Do you wanna go f do you wanna go first or do you wanna go second? Okay. Do you want to Cody: I'll let you go first. It's fine. I'll go I will go second. AGTCommenter: my other question is do you wanna do I'll say all four or do you want to alternate? Cody: so let's say the golden buzzers and AGTCommenter: And then Cody: then and yeah, and then say your w your one, two, your three, and then I'll say my three. And we could have the same. It's fine. AGTCommenter: I think Nene's gonna get the golden buzzer. I do. I I I think I think it's gonna be Mel. No. I think it's gonna be Simon, is gonna be the Golden Buzzer presser this week. And I think he's gonna press it for Nene. I don't think he's gonna leave anything up to chance. I think he's like she is a gravy train for this show. She Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: is making remarkable money from views for us. We're not risking something stupid and she goes home when I can just press this little buzzer. She's probably gonna perform like sixth. Now, if she performs last, I look really dumb here, and and she is she should be the closer. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: But since you have this golden buzzer, it doesn't make sense to put one of your handful of best axes the closer anymore. It really doesn't. Because you're you're trying to potentially do that. But I I just My gut tells me to sh that the judge is gonna be too nervous to lose her, especially if it's Simon's press, that he's just gonna do it. Who's your golden buzzer pick, Cody? Cody: He he probably saw the callback numbers from the viewership numbers when AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: she was on. It was like they're through the roof. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. I think it's gonna be Mel B's pick. and I know I said a moment ago I don't think we're gonna two two s yes. I think we will. I think we will I think if it's Mel B's if it's Mel Yeah. AGTCommenter: A repeat. A a golden buzzer, golden buzzer. Okay. There's my guy. That's the that's the crisscross that that we've we've missed over the years. All right. Cody: so I believe it's gonna be Mel Beast fake, and if it is Mel Beast fake, I think she's gonna hit McKenzie Soul again. AGTCommenter: Okay. Cody: Yep. AGTCommenter: So you're you're you're you're going Mackenzie's soul for your golden buzzer. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Alright. So if Nene I'm really putting myself out there 'cause she's almost certainly going through on a vote. So I might just lose that point by by Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: doing that, but I'll I'll take the swing. Okay. The three that we think are going through, I'll go first. I agree with you that McKenzie's soul should be advan is going to be advancing. I just think that he will advance via the vote. I think Veronica. will be advancing via the vote. So I do think both Golden Buzzers, we went three for three last week advancing. I think we're just gonna go two for two this week and and keep that going. And then I think come here is going to be the third act on the vote going through. Who are your three, Cody? Cody: I'm gonna go Nen on the vote. I'm also going Veronica on the vote, but I'm going butter and grit on the vote. AGTCommenter: Interesting. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay. So you've got three s you've got three musical acts Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: going through on yours. I got two. Would you say that was also your confidence level in order? Nene, Veronica, Butter and Grit? Would you I'm just saying if in your head, like if you're thinking about that's probably you feel most you probably feel most confident Cody: I mean I I don't think it matters what the order is. Yeah. I I hadn't thought about it. Sure, I mean ch AGTCommenter: Nene's going through, right? Cody: yes, I yes, I yes, I think that is correct. Yes. Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. all right. The I feel like there was one other thing I wanted to I wanted to talk about and now I'm blanking. love to have some analytics tonight. yeah. Cody: Would love to have some analytics. AGTCommenter: all right. So ten four one is the is the score in the on the fantasy league right now. But no I I I I think this could be a bad a episode. I really do. Cause I I think there's a world where Brad Brad and Tracy are a complete flop, like I would have guessed they were, like they should not have been on live shows. Patrocks, yeah. Not excited. Cody: So bad. No. AGTCommenter: Nigha and Zaya are gonna be probably really flat. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: LaRussell might be just him or might be one thousand people on the stage. Be interesting to see what he goes with. Cody: Yes, no idea. AGTCommenter: Butter and Grip might be too nervous to perform. Gino might flop. I I have a very little confidence in his stage presence in a live show. He was wildly nervous in the audition. Cody: And I like acts like Brad and Tracy. I like stuff like that. I I get sometimes it's not the right place and there's not not not the right audience for them. It's something I I'm fine with. AGTCommenter: It feels like a Simon buzz. If I'm betting on a buzzer, sure. If I'm betting Cody: Sure. Feels like a Mel B buzz. And a Mel B buzz. Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: on one act getting a red buzz in this, I think it's I think they're my they would be my bet, but. Cody: Yeah, I agree with that. AGTCommenter: Alright, so you've got McKenzie's soul on the buzzer, and then Nayna Nayne, Veronica, and Butter and Grit on the vote, and I've got Nane on the buzzer, Veronica, McKenzie's soul, and come here. So no love for Betty. Cody: No. AGTCommenter: No love, No love for Gino probably would be another one. But yeah. I'm I'm excited. I I am always excited. You and Jay talked about it last week, he his whole point about like it's live shows. There's nothing better. It's like sports. auditions I would say historically have created the most v viral and memorable moments in the history of the show. But for my money, it's it's all about the live shows. Cody: It is, yes. AGTCommenter: That is what we're here for. The intensity. You can feel it. we got three more weeks of quarterfinals, a semi and and a final. I'm I'm excited about. it's gonna be you and Corey on the postgame show, correct? Cody: Yep. Yep. AGTCommenter: On Wednesday night. and then you and Jay will be back on Thursday or sorry. Yeah, on Thursday recording. f boy. no. Road game. Cody: Yep. And and I will be traveling Thursday. So I will be recording from Chattanooga that night. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: Okay. and then and then who knows, next weekend you and I and maybe Ryan will be back Cody: We'll see. AGTCommenter: as we as we get ready for quarterfinals three. But Cody: So I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you this before we sign off. so if it's huge, huge if if Nene does not make it through, is the show rigged? AGTCommenter: This this feels like bait. You feel like you're setting me up for another online clip here. show's not rigged. It's impossible to be rigged. I mean there's a golden buzzer in the live shows which always makes it th they get to just pick one act that goes through. But it it's it's each judge's choice. So we've had judges' choice in the past. This is not new, but when it comes to Right. When it comes to Cody: We've had Sonic save, we've had Duncan save, yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: the vote The amount of legal issues they would run into if it if they just rigged the vo it's there's so many laws that prevent you from t tampering with this vote and Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: or or saying not putting through what the vote actually says should go like the the the lawsuits would bankrupt Simon. Cody: Yeah. If if you listeners have not seen the movie Quiz Show, go watch the movie Quiz Show. AGTCommenter: Hmm. There you go. Cody: There's reasons things are in place because of what happened in the movie. I mean it's based on a quiz show in the fifties. So go watch AGTCommenter: Sure. Yeah. Cody: it. It'll it kind of put you like, okay, that's why we do this stuff. And also, how do you get all these people for twenty one seasons? AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. It's just there's there's a there's independent accounting firms that do the the tabulations. Cody: To h to hide this. It's like right. AGTCommenter: It's stop thinking everything's rigged. Cody: P AGTCommenter: Accomplish something. Just do something. Succeed. And then we'll talk. But yeah, no, it's Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: it's not rigged. America. again, we've had too many outcomes that would make no sense that why would they rig it for the dog act in season eighteen? Why did why why sure, yeah. I'm just I'm not Cody: That's right. It's season seven. And season seven. Yeah. AGTCommenter: convinced that Landau was the one to rig it for in season six, our friend. Cody: Right. yeah. Jackie Jackie Ivanko lost. Why would it be rigged? Yes. AGTCommenter: So. Yeah, Mike they rigged it for Michael Grimm. Is that you're telling me? yeah, so Drew Lynch would've won in season ten if they were rigging rigging the vote. They're not. And I I want part of it is like I want to put people's mind at ease. Your vote does matter. They're not rigging it. You have some control. Cody: Yes. Right. AGTCommenter: Enjoy it. Enjoy your your voice can be heard here. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: it's just The second that something happens that you didn't think was gonna happen, you're like, well that's rigged. It's like, have you ever thought that w ev way more people disagreed with you than agreed with you on that? Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: Like the the hubris to just assume that your opinion on on this would be the the clear, obvious right answer from an opinion standpoint is very funny to me. But I'll be casting my v my ten votes apiece for for our our four. It's all I vote for. R f R four X and and try and score some points. Cody: I struggle with it 'cause I know there's some acts on our team on that I'm just not fans of and I want to see good stuff go through. So I struggle with it at times. AGTCommenter: I've lost my I've lost the struggle. I don't have the struggle anymore. Cody: Do I've do I vote do I vote for my own you know AGTCommenter: Get two accounts and have one account vote for our acts and one do your one that makes you feel, Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: you know, whatever, warm warm inside and makes you feel like a good person. but alright, should we get out of here? Cody: Yeah, let's get out here. so you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com. 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