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Semifinals Pregame | Season 21 | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• AGT Time Podcast: Everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT time semifinals, baby. AGTCommenter: Semi-finals, baby. it's great. Cody, I was thinking about this. First of all, good to see you. We're back. A AGT Time Podcast: Good see you. Yes. AGTCommenter: little Saturday morning edition of the pre-game show. AGT Time Podcast: Got got my caffeine. AGTCommenter: Got my got my coffee cup. No Starbucks, Cody. I I was I was gifted a ninja coffee maker. AGT Time Podcast: okay. AGTCommenter: my my older brother had they had had Him and his wife had had a ninja one. They got a new one, and they're We don't need this one. Are you interested? I said, sure, I'll take it. Free, free, free. Probably a hundred and fifty dollar coffee maker. So I feel obligated to use it. I, you know, I tomorrow morning, Sunday, NFL football, maybe I'll swing over and get a get a venti cold brew and you know, kind of treat myself on a Sunday. But I've always loved a fresh brewed Folgers hot cup of black coffee. So so no Starbucks. It did make it nice for me this morning. We're recording this. It's 8 45 central time right now. Not having to leave the house this morning to go get a coffee and come back and be AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: ready by we logged on at 8 30. So that was good. But semi finals. Before we do any business, there was seven audition episodes. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: I know there was a couple breaks in there for different things, but even just those seven episodes felt like a year. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: We've got two live shows left. There's six live there's only one less live show episode than audition episodes, and it's felt like four days. It flies. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Twenty twenty two performances total, right? Twenty two performances, yeah. AGTCommenter: Left, yeah, that's it. Yeah, it's we're we're down to it. I I love this point of the show 'cause it now it feels like we're in the the crux of it. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Well I talked about Wednesday that at this point we should have separated the wheat from the chaff, but I feel like some chaff slipped through. Yeah. AGTCommenter: In our everybody no matter who likes who in a in a s no one's gonna like all twelve and and so there's always gonna feel like but I agree we've used that terminology before that quarterfinals to me felt always feel like auditions adjacent to auditions, where it's the first time America gets a ch it's like you're now auditioning for America once. AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: Can can you perform live? And we saw some acts that that I think were good in auditions that got on a live stage and and it just wasn't for them. And so now we've kind of established this the winner is in this sixteen that is left. I know twelve AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: are recording or performing this week and the four waiting. But like we had forty four, we had sixty some at the end of auditions before it got whittled down. And now we're down to sixteen. We're gonna be down to ten here in a few days once once li semifinals happens. So now it feels like this is quarterfinals is the regular season. Is is we're in the playoffs. We AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: we know who our playoff teams are. The the crappy teams are waiting to pick in the in the spring for their their first round pick, but it's time now this feels like the playoffs. But how about you tell people where to find us and then we'll go. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT Timepod at Gmail dot com. Go check out our website, AGT TimePod dot com, and you can find Commenter out there at AGT Commenter. AGTCommenter: Coming off my first lead host episode. AGT Time Podcast: Yes, good job. AGTCommenter: Thank you. I even did the business with zero script. AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: Off top of my head, I thought I got it for the most part. I think I nailed it. AGT Time Podcast: Think he nailed it. Yeah. AGTCommenter: It's weird because I always lead you into the business when we record. Does Jay usually lead you? Who reads the bus you read the business when you and Jay record. But somebody AGT Time Podcast: Well we we flip flop. We we take turns. AGTCommenter: it feels like somebody leads. Steven was never gonna Steven was never gonna lead me into the business. So I kinda like, by the way, it was it's nice when someone leads you into the business a little bit, so AGT Time Podcast: Sometimes. Right, right. Yeah. It's yeah. So s sometimes shout out to Jay. Jay just loves to like get into the act and start he's so excited to like start doing his recaps, we kinda forget I'm like, Okay, hold on, hold on, let's let's talk AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: a little business first. Let's let everyone know where we kinda are. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: but no, you do a you do a great job at at that. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I I it's just routine. We've done we've done a lot of these. do we have any n go ahead. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yes. But now but now you've you've caught up to me by one pod. AGTCommenter: For the season you're saying? I know. I'm closing the gap, Cody. I am only let's do this. AGT Time Podcast: No, for total. For tot total overall pods you've now you've got. AGTCommenter: Counting this episode. This is your four twenty seventh and this is my one eighty one. So AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I'm only I'm only two hundred and forty six behind. So AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: in yeah, cut you know, couple centuries, I will catch ya. Cody, would do we have any non is there any news that that popped up? We don't know who's gonna be the judges. Might be the flaw AGT Time Podcast: No, we don't. AGTCommenter: of us recording this four days before instead of two I mean w or three days before. We've been recording Sundays most of the time, so it's not like we're AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: way ahead, but AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, they ha they have not announced a guest judge this week. again AGTCommenter: They'll probably do it f an hour and a half after we log off from from from this recording. AGT Time Podcast: That's correct. But they they they've been they've been on it on that. You know, I think we talked last week. I think Simon's done for the season. I think they've put him on the the IR. I think he's done for the season. I think they put him on the IR. AGTCommenter: You think so. yeah. I think he'll be back. AGT Time Podcast: okay. if they Jay and I talked Wednesday night, you know, hey, who are they bringing in? Love to see some alums come in. maybe see Reba come back, maybe see Kelly Clarkson come back. Do not want to see a Gabrielle or Julianne. Don't want to see them on my screen. but if they're gonna put someone in the chair, we want some familiar faces. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Would love that. I thought Heidi, if they just if they just can run Heidi, I would have no problem if Heidi just ran out the the season. I AGT Time Podcast: Sir. AGTCommenter: she's not gonna suck. She sh AGT Time Podcast: Huh, is Project Runway going on right now? 'Cause that's why she doesn't do A G T because of Project Runway. Okay. AGTCommenter: sure. A and who knows. Maybe it's really easy for her to swing three days. It's much harder when you're doing, you know, the the out that right, and the the auditions are I'm sure AGT Time Podcast: You gotta do all the promos and all the socials. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: a a a real you know marathon there. So but Okay, so we don't have any we don't have any news there. My gut tells me it's Simon. I just don't think they would have said he'll be back. when the surgery happened, if he if there was even a chance he wouldn't. You would think they would just say, you know, something along Simon had surgery, we're we're hoping or, you know, we're that was nothing major and and we're, you know, hoping to see him have a great recovery, and that would have been it. But when they're like and he'll be out he'll be back in a few weeks, that just seemed like not worth the conjecture unless it was pretty pretty clear that he would. And this just seems like this the makes the most sense For him to hop back in. We wrap the quarters. We're into a new round. If it's not this week, I just can't imagine he misses the finals for a back injury. You just sit there. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, sure. AGTCommenter: He doesn't they won't bring him up on stage. He doesn't have to do a thing. So I just think he'll I it a month from a routine back surgery seems like a long time to not be able to sit in a chair for a couple hours on TV. AGT Time Podcast: You don't think Gino or Cameron's gonna have him come do some you don't think Young and Strange are gonna bring him up and put him in a in a swing or anything? Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah. So I think that will be just fine. But yeah, so Cody, if I asked you what episode of the season it is for us as a podcast, what would your guess be? Counting this one. AGT Time Podcast: Well, I was about to say, I put in the episode numbers each week, so I think it's around twenty two. Okay. AGTCommenter: This is the twenty-fifth episode of the season. So we'll end up the assumption is twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine. Should have thirty this year again. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Last year we had we had a little more than that last year. We had AGT Time Podcast: We had more auditions last year. AGTCommenter: We did. thirty two we did last year. I don't know. Also we had the Rye Analytics finale after years and AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: J's and I don't think we'll it doesn't feel like we're gonna doing that. So AGT Time Podcast: For those looking for Ryan, he's working this morning. R real yes, so AGTCommenter: is working. We did talk this morning. so I hopefully we'll have him on for the fantasy results slash championship round results that we did last year. But all right. So Cody, I've been I've been working on something new and this is not I am putting together a master list. I'm doing I'm basically making an A G T show Bible. And I am going through each season and I'm putting down everybody that advanced from auditions. And then I'm so every name. And then I'm putting down how each act progressed to the show. It's doing two things. One is just giving me a better database than the AGT wiki to quickly search. And two, I am now gonna be able to really closely track how well these audition episodes I I I'm I'm hot on the case of AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: what what is those first two seasons are are kind of a waste of time, but every other season. So yeah, I mean Anointed S from season four. Urban Nation hip hop choir is on the list. These are some names you might remember. The Diva League, Coney Island Chris, Circus R Us. Yeah, I mean this is a new project. I'm kinda chipping away. I've got four seasons done. I'm not I'm not trying not trying to sprint that. But we're here AGT Time Podcast: All new all new level of rewatchables there, man. AGTCommenter: That's the I mean that's the problem is how far did they advance. But yeah, so AGT Time Podcast: Well no, you used to maybe all auditions. We just watch like five audition acts. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Mm, sure. Yeah. Yeah. This at least will give me a better database of who was on what season, and all that. So all right. Anything anything else before we dive into Sem Semis here? Alright. AGT Time Podcast: No. do we want do we wanna do it now or later? Big d game day for me? AGTCommenter: This is a huge game day for you. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Prediction, Texas, Ohio State. Primetime kick. AGT Time Podcast: Prime Prime kick in Austin. twenty four twenty one Texas. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Seems fair. last year was a disaster. Not not just a disastrous game. It was just a no one could move the ball. I feel like the offenses will look better. Both quarterbacks last year were starting their first ever game. I I wouldn't be shocked if it's even more. I think both offenses are your guys' receivers, their receivers. It's gonna be a fun game. I'm looking forward to it. So AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: but alright. I would love to see Texas win. but We have twelve acts we gotta talk about. This twelve is is an odd group. And Steven and I touched on it a little bit on Wednesday or on our you know our results pod about just the dearth of singers. It just didn't happen this year. The the math is just hasn't math. Now, there is and I don't want to just get stuck on singers because no one likes them, but I just think it's a massive massively interest. We have one singer. True singer in this. If you want to count Caesar Diaz as a singer But he's clearly trying to make you laugh and if it's not funny, he's not going through. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, he's listed as comedian so he could not sing. He could do stuff that's n non singing. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Right. And my point is is so Travis Garland to me is the singer. Travis Garland AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: needs to sing a a really great song to advance. Caesar Diaz, if he doesn't make you laugh, it's not gonna matter. So at the end so to me he's like you said, he's certainly a comedian. Tolino's a rapper, so if you want to throw him into that, I think it's maybe one and a half singers that that there's two sitting in the finals. So really at most we get three. That's lower than the average and and very well could end up with just the two. Last year we had seven. So it's an interesting they just kept getting eliminated. And obviously last week the Cesar Diaz result I think shocked a lot of people. Who knows if AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: it was the the short voting? I I just who I I don't know. But it was it was odd and and again I always try to detach my personal feelings from just understanding that there's too enough people voting that no one is going to only share my opinion. Like this th that I can see I there's no result that I can't see being possible because I just know that if I have an opinion strongly about one act then it would be ridiculous of me to assume that that nobody else has a strong opinion about an act that I don't. So but he's part of our twelve. And our twelve I'll just read him through I want you to do the same exercise I did with Steven last week. As I read these names mentally, I just want you to count how many you expect to perform well that maybe you're excited for, and it's just it's similar to the one we did before live shows. Royal Lasers, Beefus, Tolin Luke Tolino, Veronica, Come Here, Gino Plagger, Travis Garland, Young and Strange. Cameron Marshall, the Canine crew, Daniel Alvarez, and Caesar Diaz. AGT Time Podcast: I got eight. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: You got eight. Okay. Steven had four and I had six. So six seems like maybe it's the average, at least of us three, is kind of AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: I think lasers up Royal Lasers will put on a good performance. I think Veronica's gonna have a nice performance that I'm excited for. Come here, I AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yes. Yep. AGTCommenter: think we'll we'll be really good. Plaguer AGT Time Podcast: Yes. Yeah, I was looking at this and we'll talk about our picks later on. I think we're only gonna get one magician going through. There's there's AGTCommenter: It seems AGT Time Podcast: three. I think we're gonna have w only one go through. AGTCommenter: I I two I can see. One seems most likely. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Yeah. AGTCommenter: But those four, Travis Garland, I think will put on a good performance, and I think Young and Strange, I'm excited to see, I think it'll be a good performance. Those are the only six I feel confident about, really confident about. So Royal Lasers from Team I thirty five. they also have Gino and Travis Garland, so that's their three. The Bach brothers have Young and Strange, Daniel Alvarez and Caesar Diaz, and then we have half the night, Cody. Cody and Comment are sitting there with not guaranteed points. I was hoping we AGT Time Podcast: No. AGTCommenter: would get at least one more last week, so then we are guaranteed four points. That's not gonna happen. Beefus from Beefus and the Buttheads, Tolino, Veronica, come here, Cameron Marshall, and Acro K9 crew is our six. It's such an interesting night. I I felt like I've had a pretty good beat on results, and then the last two weeks has been a disaster. Trying to to figure out who is gonna be. So when you look at the night, you had eight that you thought were gonna be good, which is not bad. Is this group is it a weird group when you look at it? Are you surprised it's it's very non singer? Like when you look at the group as we're heading into Tuesday night, what's your f kind of overall thoughts when you see that list of twelve? AGT Time Podcast: I am surprised that there's maybe not two more singers AGTCommenter: Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: in this. We were definitely hoping Laura D we were counting on Laura D to be here. So AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. AGT Time Podcast: I am surprised that there's not at the very least two more singers. The fact we've got three magicians in here, two comedians, two dog acts, that just seems actually kind of weird to me. AGTCommenter: It feels like there's a chance we just get like kind of one of everything. Garland goes through and we get one singer through. Gino goes through, there's our magician. Come here's the dance act that goes through. Veronica's the aerialist that goes through. Royal Lasers is the technological act that goes through, and we get Daniel Alvarez the comedian. And it's just like, we just kind of got one of everything. There's two AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: singers. a magic act and a robot act waiting in the finals and we have arguably the most diverse final of all time. Or we get three more magician or yeah, three magic acts, two comedic AGT Time Podcast: Two dog acts. AGTCommenter: yeah, two dog acts and a comedic act, and it's like, it's just this is just so this has already become a little bit of a wonky season and it seems like I I don't think it's a great season. I think it might have a great winner. It might even have a really, really good top five, which will be because if I think Nene's really great. I think Hundred Fingers is really good. I I think there's a handful of acts in here that if they go through and get to the top five could be really good and and so but at this point I'm I'm not overly excited about this twelve. I I'm more really interested in how they order this episode. It feels like they'll just close with Travis Garland. Or Tolino. AGT Time Podcast: you would think, yes. AGTCommenter: It just Royal la like who's a closer when you look at it besides one of the musical acts? D do any of strike you as closers? Maybe Royal Lasers? Just because it it can be kind of fun and bright and exciting. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: I fun and exciting. Yeah. Right. AGTCommenter: maybe the dogs? The the the the acro dogs. I guess we have to AGT Time Podcast: No No AGTCommenter: be careful with that, 'cause there's multiple dogs in Beef. Is there multiple dogs in Beefus's act, or is it just the one? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. AGT Time Podcast: Yes there are. I think she has two or three dogs, yeah. AGTCommenter: So It just feels like they'll it just feels like Travis Garland after they kinda go through their dress rehearsals, they'll be like, This is just the the best way to close the show. AGT Time Podcast: Or does he go early so he can head over to Dancing with the Stars? AGTCommenter: Again, I think he's not Steven and I talked he's not gonna go to Dancing with the Stars next week if I'm if I think about it. He had his friends in the comments on TikTok. Derek Huff commented his name. AGT Time Podcast: Sure. AGTCommenter: other people from from Dancing with the Stars, so they're rooting for him, which I think is kinda cool. But I'm interested. I I think last week he went through because the Dancing with the Stars f and I think he's talented, so I don't I don't think it was some, you know, a bad act went through because of online help. But I think Dancing with the Stars votes helped. I I don't think the Dancing with the Stars folks are gonna be as glued to the voting d n this week. They're the AGT Time Podcast: They're gonna be watching Dancing with the Stars. AGTCommenter: th they will be watching Dancing with the Stars, where they also have AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: to vote, and then there's another episode on Wednesday night too. So there's a ch I'm not trying to make a prediction one way or another necessarily, but but I think there's a chance if you're if you're Stephen and Ryan and you're like, he 'cause I think he's one of the twelve the six best of this list from a talent standpoint, that would concern me. not just I would be as concerned if he was on our team. I would just be like, are we gonna lose the the DWTS folks? so Royal Lasers, Tolino, Veronica, and the Canine crew. Four golden buzzers in this. What's your I want you to put a percentage likelihood on all four advancing to the to the finals. Because there's already two sitting there that were audition golden buzzers. That was give that would give us six, which would be usually it's about 40 to 60% of the finals, golden buzzers. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, name off again. We'll go one by one. AGTCommenter: Royal Lasers. AGT Time Podcast: sixty percent. AGTCommenter: I I no I want you of all four combined, the chance that AGT Time Podcast: okay. AGTCommenter: four of our six are all are are golden buzzers. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. I think the the likelihood that all four of the six are Golden Buzzers is about I'm not I wanted to go fifty fifty. I'm gonna go forty nine percent. AGTCommenter: Okay. So you think it's probably more likely that at least one of them is not is not AGT Time Podcast: Correct. AGTCommenter: going through. AGT Time Podcast: Correct. AGTCommenter: Tol Tolino's the only one I'm struggling to see where the votes come from. And I know that's not nice of me to say about somebody on our team. I have no problem seeing America voting Royal Lazers through. I think Veronica through two performances, it's either her or Nene have been the two most talented of the season, in my opinion. And the K9 crew, I never have a problem seeing dogs, especially golden buzzer dogs getting votes. Tolino's just is the only one of the four that I'm just like, where I like that we have three of the four, because the two other teams AGT Time Podcast: So yeah. AGTCommenter: let us just get five golden buzzers on our team. But yeah, so to be that that part of it, I'm I'm really interested to see how they performed. We only ended up with six of the ten advancing from quarterfinals and two of them on the on the golden buzzers. So we'll see. I'm excited, Cody, that there's no more golden buzzers in the competition. We don't have to press that anymore. That they AGT Time Podcast: That's right. AGTCommenter: can just They can put Simon didn't Simon didn't get one. So AGT Time Podcast: You never know. You never know with AGT though. You never know. With this season. That's right. AGTCommenter: if he's back in the semis, he me he might be like, I need my golden buzzer. AGT Time Podcast: Straight to the top five. AGTCommenter: no. Don't think they could do that. but yeah, no that would be that would be something. But all right, let's do this. Do you We have the four waiting there? We all kind of feel like Nene's in position. Is AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: there a name here in this twelve that you feel like has a real shot, maybe not to compete to win? Is there a dark horse in this list to be a top three, maybe even a a runner up? Cause I just feel like the winner and the runner up are both already in the f in the finals. I don't know. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I I'm gonna give ya I'm gonna give ya two. I'm gonna give you two. I think for some reason I think Royal Lasers probably is. AGTCommenter: Yeah I don't I don't think that's a bad call. AGT Time Podcast: And for some reason, I think with what he did in his quarter final, and if he takes another leap here in the semifinal, I think Gino might be there. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Our guy Gino. Gino's growing on me big time. I I AGT Time Podcast: So AGTCommenter: I love him. And not because he's a fan of the show. I don't know if he's a fan or if he just listening because he wants to hear people talk about him. Maybe he's just maybe he's just that vain. AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: But if he is a fan of the show, I love that he's listening. I think it's really cool for us. I just think the three most likely winners are already in the finals. To me AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: And it's I'm not e not even even if they all were at the same obviously you're handicapping the four that are there just because they're already there and Vegas would have a hard time ranking many acts above an act that's already in an extra round ahead. You're more likely to win the Super Bowl if you've already advanced than if you still have to play the round before. I just think Nene Hundred Fingers and Le Noel are the three favorites, in my opinion. One of the I I I just think there's a very high likelihood that's just our top three at the same time. History of two years tells us these acts just don't get the votes. But they're the best acts of the s like we've never had golden buzzers that were this good. Like you're telling me that Nene's just not gonna get the votes because she was the live show golden buzzer and the rest of the eight live show golden buzzers that have been voted for in finals didn't get votes. I can't imagine that's the case. This year feels like it's gonna buck that trend that we've had the last two years. Yeah, I think you're I think you're probably right on those two. I think I would throw the canine crew in there. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And it maybe it's just the scars that we have developed over the years from these dog acts that and I don't I don't mind the canine crew. I think it's a cool way to do a dog act where there's more AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: going. I think you're I think Jacob talked about it a little bit of he he went as far as to the Siegfried and Roy situation. Hopefully the the end of s of that canine crew does not go the same way that it did for for AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Siegfried and Roy. But yeah I would I wish I could throw I I would I wish I was gonna throw Veronica into that list because I think that's how great she is. I just don't think it's gonna happen. AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: but she's a golden buzzer too, so I Wednesday night's gonna be fascinating. I ca I cannot AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: wait. I have no real beat on what Cesar Diaz might win. He might just win the season. We'll just be like, look at us. the morons we AGT Time Podcast: Sure. AGTCommenter: are. So anything else? I think after Wednesday I'm gonna have a real clear like next week's pregame show, I feel like I'm gonna have a lot of clarity on what this season is, what the story of the season is, so I'm I'm excited. Anything else before we get to some fantasy talk and some side side game talk? AGT Time Podcast: Why do we think that America has made the turn on singers this season? We see all the time, you know, Reddit is Reddit. It kinda is what it is. But we constantly say too many singers. Why do we have all these singers? Well, America's America's voting for Why did America make the turn this year? AGTCommenter: Steven and I talked about this a little bit. I think there's two schools of thought. I don't think it's one, I just don't think it's a very good singing season. two of the golden buzzers were Isaac Atkins and Mackenzie Sowell. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Male male singers, golden buzzers aren't that exciting to begin with. The Laura D one is the confusing one. But the rest of I I I just don't think like I loved Betty, I loved Brooklyn, but it's a saturated market. AGT Time Podcast: Jesse Joe wasn't very good. AGTCommenter: Jesse Joe put on one of the worst vocal performances I can remember. AGT Time Podcast: I I'm I'm still gonna defend that he may have had an issue with his in air monitors and he couldn't hear himself. So yeah. AGTCommenter: I I think that's fair, but I just think his v I I I was concerned about his voice going in anyways. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: Pink beard. Anytime you're coming from the last audition, it's always hard to begin with. Guy Kelton Jones was a singer slash poet. I think he was I I really enjoyed him, but I didn't have a I wasn't overly shocked he went home. Elsie was terrible. LaRussell, you count that. Like you start to look at it, you're like, I just don't think there was a ton of great ones. The other school thought is Nene has just dominated the singers this year where everybody's like, She's gonna win, we None of these stack up to the best singer of the season, we're just gonna vote other way. I always struggle to be like our people I don't know if America is that great at critical thinking. I guess maybe AGT Time Podcast: No. W people we always say America's just dumb. We as Americans as a whole are just dumb. AGTCommenter: I th I think we are all just We no one thinks w we're never we're never one thing. It it's just the amount of people voting, there's there's a million competing opinions. So I d I doubt that the that the American people are pulling up their app and being like, hmm, you know, I I did like Isaac Atkins, but I Nene is just so far ahead of the pack as the singers, I'm just not gonna like I just don't I I The way we think about this show is not the way that everybody else is, and that's not to sound, you know, snooty or something. It's just it's a fact of the matter. We're the podcast about this show, and it is just is what it is. So I think that it's one of those two things. It might be a combination of both. At the same time, that hasn't really stopped America from voting singers through in the past. Like Grace Vanderwall was clearly gonna win season eleven and our fourth place finisher and fifth place finisher were solo singers. And we also had a really great opera singer in Laura Braton in the finals. In season fourteen, Cody Lee was clearly gonna win. Well, we had the youth the Detroit Youth Choir was the runner up. We had Voices of Service fifth, and we had a couple other solo singers in the finals. So the second school of thought I said there, I don't think is the case. I think Nene Royal fans, the the the cr the crazy the crazy rabid fan base, not to go for it, be a fan. Would like to think that. I think it's more just wasn't I just don't think there was a bunch of very I just don't think there was very many good singers. And I think like a couple of them let us Astrid Sanders was a letdown, just didn't perform well enough to to advance. So I think that's part of it. But fantasy wise, we've got a ten point lead. Somehow after I felt like mention your thoughts. I walked away last week, depth I felt sick. I felt like we just didn't and we grew our lead. We went from a nine point lead to a ten point lead. so that AGT Time Podcast: We we could have de just decimated Yeah. AGTCommenter: We could have. And the fact that our first pick didn't go through and the other two pick the the so we all had our first pick. Their first picks are in the li are in the finals right now and ours is at home. That hurt. But other than that, like I felt like I was in you know, I felt like the dumbest fantasy owner you and I that's ever lived after Wednesday night and our lead grew. I almost went and I went and screenshotted the picture of the score and went to post it and I was gonna be like the the gap closes. And then I had to go back and check and be like, wait, how much were we winning by more? So AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: it kind of, you know, gave me some perspective that now the only reason we're winning by more is because all the accent went through were Jay and Scott's for the most part, and they were further behind. But still, we were nine ahead going in the last week, walked out feeling like we had bombed and our lead grew. So right now, the max points for the season, if Every single one of our acts advanced. If we had all six go through, and then we had the top five, we could score 81 points. The Bach brothers, if if it was a perfect run for them, all three went through, and then their four went went one through four that are in the finals, they could score fifty-seven. And the same thing for for team I 35, they could score fifty-six. So obviously. You'd want to be us over anybody else. Ten point lead. Our max points are are 24 points higher than anybody else. Max points is not a great thing right now because obviously we're not going to get all six and obviously we're not going to have the top five. But it that's the fact of the matter. We were talking beforehand. There is very, very, very much a path for these other two teams. We need if we don't get two out of these six, that would be so if we had one or zero, that would be devastating. It feels more like we're probably gonna get three. That's my gut tells me. I think some more some combination of Veronica, the canine crew, come here. That seems like a a likely three. Tolino because he's a golden buzzer, beefist because it's a dog act. I think some of those are also have a chance. So I'm nervous. Anytime you AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: anytime you have a lead, you start to hang on for dear life, especially when you have zero control over the result. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. You try to you go into defense mode, right? You you try to AGTCommenter: You do AGT Time Podcast: instead of trying to extend your lead, you're trying to just hold the lead. AGTCommenter: You're you're playing not to lose and I I don't want to do that. I wanna run it up. But AGT Time Podcast: play not to lose, right? Yeah. AGTCommenter: at the same time when you have again, this is not the same as actually playing the game. We are not in the game. We have AGT Time Podcast: Right. AGTCommenter: we can't play defense, so we're just sitting there beholden to beef us and some of these some of these acts to to to pull their weight. So it's gonna be a fun as much as finals is where all the points come from, 'cause you get ten, eight, six, four, and two, there's th what is it? ten, twenty, there's thirty total points to go around, whereas I guess tomorrow is not super far or this week's not super far off, but that's where all points are. There's a chance we kinda wrap this thing up next week if we get four of the six. Now we've just blown it open, we score twenty four times four is er f sorry, f we get sixteen and they split and they each get four and our lead now grows by you know, to twenty-two there's just there's not really a path for them. But if we go one for six or two for six or even three for you know, three for six would be hard for them, but then then it's different. So this is a this is a big night from that. But what's your confidence level right now? AGT Time Podcast: I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling pretty good. I think I think we'll definitely get two. I think two is kind of our I would AGTCommenter: Our basement. AGT Time Podcast: be really disappointed if we get less than two. I'd that'd be catastrophic. I think AGTCommenter: That would be catastrophic. Yeah. That AGT Time Podcast: if we hit two and I think we're in a good spot to get two. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I agree. I agree. Okay. Wednesday night is gonna be stressful. And it's you and me AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: on after the after the results. So AGT Time Podcast: That is correct. Yeah. I I'm feeling good if each team gets two, because then we would maintain our our ten point lead going into the finals. And I'm okay with that. AGTCommenter: Well, unless we well, yeah, right. AGT Time Podcast: If every team gets two, we stay we the the the gap stays the same. AGTCommenter: Well, even if we get two and somebody else gets three and one, we still would keep our lead. 'Cause we would score eight, they would score twelve, we're already up ten. yeah, AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. Right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: it it's hard for them even to catch us. I I think there's I don't think there's a world where we can't lead. There is. If we want zero. As long as we get one, we'll AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, we want zero. Yeah. AGTCommenter: still have a lead going into the finals, if my math is correct, 'cause they can't score more than eight more more than us then. So AGT Time Podcast: I don't want to go into the finals with a single digit lead. AGTCommenter: Agreed. I think that's a think that's a bold statement, Cody, but I'm I'll go out on that limb with ya. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Yeah. I I I feel I feel way I I'm way more were I'm more yeah, I'm more worried if we go into the finals at the single digit lead. Okay. AGTCommenter: I agree. Okay. All right. Wednesday night, you and I, it's either gonna be you're gonna be playing celebration when we hop on the pod, or it's gonna be like a funeral. So it's gonna be Wednesday Wednesday could be a fun results night or a very, very sad results pod, when it's when it's the two the two from the same fantasy team. But should we talk about our side little thing we got going on? So AGT Time Podcast: Yes. How bad is it for me? AGTCommenter: six to two, so the lead stayed the same. So we each scored one last week. You had Laura D as the golden buzzer. I had Travis Garland. That was a that was a n a nothing. You had Jesse Joe and Unitree that you were wrong on, because Unitree got the golden buzzer. I had Laura D on the vote and Reuben Root AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Reuben Rolden on the vote, neither went through. We both had Young and Strange on the vote. So AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: I was looking really smart. After quarterfinals two. I had I had the golden buzzer correct and two of the three on the vote. Since then I have two total correct. I I feel like through two quarterfinals I felt really good about having a sense of where America was going and now I I have no confidence. But we've got our six here. Cody, you wanna go first? No, you want me to go first, right? And we're gonna alternate, correct? AGT Time Podcast: I can? Yeah, yeah, you go you go first, yeah. We're gonna alternate. Yeah. do the point values double this round? Okay, okay. AGTCommenter: Everything's still just one. we can talk what do we want to do for finals? Do we wanna do we wanna go five, four, three, two, one if you get the winner or yeah, I that's what we did last year. Do you wanna let's let's double the points. Two. Two for each. Two for each, and then in the finals it'll be five, four, three, two, one. I think that's I think it's fair. Okay. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, okay. Yeah, let's double the points. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm okay I'm a I'm a double or nothing type guy. Let's do it. Okay. AGTCommenter: I am going to my first take here for so we're picking all this is on the vote. No golden buzzers, nothing. My first on the vote is Veronica from from our team. I I think she'll AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: Be one of the six. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, I'll go ahead and say I'm also taking Veronica, so that'll kinda str AGTCommenter: Alright. Okay. AGT Time Podcast: scratch AGTCommenter: Snake draft? I'm just kidding. No, we don't no, no, we won't snake. I AGT Time Podcast: We can do snake do want to do snake draft? We d That's fine. AGTCommenter: am also then going to stick on our team and I am going to take the canine crew on the vote. Okay. Okay. AGT Time Podcast: I am also taking the canine crew, so yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I am going to stick on our team and I'm gonna take Tolino on the vote. AGT Time Podcast: to be honest, I had Tolino, but I think I'm going to pivot. AGTCommenter: Pivot. AGT Time Podcast: Pivot. And you probably also have him. I'm going to take Travis. Yeah. AGTCommenter: All right. And my my fourth, I'm just gonna I I just have decided that I'm just gonna always make this bet. And more often than not, I'm gonna be right. I'm just gonna take the last I'm taking all four golden buzzers. So I'm gonna take Royal Lasers on the vote. I just think at least half are going through. Three seems even more likely, and four is certainly a possibility. So I'm just taking golden buzzers here. AGT Time Podcast: Yeah, so far we're one for one. I'm also taking Royal Lasers. So yep. AGTCommenter: Okay. So two left. Golden Buzzers are done. I am also my fifth, I think Travis Garland is also going through. So AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: even though you so you we have we still have three or we have four out of five the same currently. AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm. Yep. I'm going to take come here. AGTCommenter: Okay. Stared at it long and hard. Would be huge for us. And I think it's incredibly possible. I don't think all four golden buzzers are gonna go through. I just think a good combination of them are, so I just played the odds, but I would take Tolino out and subcome here if I was if I wasn't so hung up on the Golden Buzzers. Okay. And then my sixth is our guy Gino Plagger. I think he'll He'll go. AGT Time Podcast: Yep. So I'm also taking Gino. So th I'm not gonna gain much ground because we're taking basically the same. Except for one act, right? AGTCommenter: Yeah, if come here goes through and Tolino does it, you'll be down two. So it'll be AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: and then we'll go on the results night or finals night five, four, three, two, one. So you're AGT Time Podcast: I'm okay with that. Yep. AGTCommenter: either gonna be down two or six. and six AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: will be I think we're both gonna have the same winner. So it's really gonna come down to four, three, two, one. So you could really make a move and and try and predict Nene not to win, and that would be a big big deal. So six to two. AGT Time Podcast: I've done I've done worse, so. AGTCommenter: Yeah. We both have Veronica, we both have the Canine crew, we both have Travis Garland, we both have Royal Lasers, we both have Gino. you have come here and I have Luke Tolino, so I'll just I'll just wanna match him up here. That makes the most sense. Let's do this. all right, anything else on the side on the side game that we're playing here? Okay. Anything else on semifinals? AGT Time Podcast: I mean, I don't think so. AGTCommenter: let's do this quick. Last thing when we'll wrap up. I've been tracking audition performances. We've got 12 here. Auditions 5's a a behemoth. Four of the 12 from auditions 5, double the next closest audition. AGT Time Podcast: That's interesting. Interesting. AGTCommenter: And it doesn't include Nene, because Nene's in the in the five. So they have five of the 16 still remaining. It's kind of amazing. far and away the most. Shout out auditions five. L let me let me go back. Let me just let me read you the the audition in in Barrio Dance Factory, Va Tang. AGT Time Podcast: Man, wish we still Vatang. That'd have been amazing. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Cameron Marshall, Daryl Moten, Nene, Royal Lazers, the Tumbling Team, Travis Garland, Abresh Etio, and Daniel Alvarez. AGT Time Podcast: It's incredible. AGTCommenter: It it's a good it was good. Let me pull up all of them and see if I had it as the highest ranked. I had it at a average of a four point one five. Basically, is this tracking on because if it is, now you guys should really start to come to me for opinions. It is. So auditions AGT Time Podcast: Okay. AGTCommenter: one, I gave a four point six, three point nine eight auditions two, four even auditions three, four one one auditions four, four one five, two auditions five. 375 to 6 and 393 to 7. So look at me. I'm right on it. AGT Time Podcast: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: it was it in my opinion was clearly the best audition, and it's shout out to it. It's performing really well and and it always helps when you but again it's the winner that we think is going to be from that audition is not even in this episode and they're still they're still dominant. Auditions one has two, auditions two has two, and auditions three has two, and then both auditions four and six have one. So audition seven is entirely out of the competition now. I think they might have been a little while ago. and in that case. Four Golden Buzzers here, two in the live shows or in the finals, so only six out of the ten made it through. two from auditions one, one from two, and one from five in the finals right now. So when you look at it, oops. So in the semis, fifty-eight percent come from the first four auditions, forty-one percent from the f second three. Basically right on at what you would expect. Fifty seven percent to forty three percent was the split on fifty-seven of the audition episodes were were those first four. So a a one percent technically overperformance by the first four auditions, but AGT Time Podcast: Margin of error, yeah. AGTCommenter: yeah, which is not common. Like the Five through seven and really five and six and mostly five are are performing pretty well comparatively in the past. What was it? What have I said in the past? It's like eighty th eighty five percent of top four finishers, which this isn't the same metric here because we're talking just semis, but eighty five percent of top four finishers are from from the first four auditions. So they're they're performing pretty well, but we'll see. there's a chance that it just gets a bunch of those early. Here's the here's the breakdown by episode and then we'll wrap up and get out of here. So auditions one has Tolino and and the canine crew this week. Auditions two has Gino and Caesar Diaz this week. Auditions three has Come here and young and strange this week. Auditions four has Beef us Auditions five has Royal Lasers, Travis Garland, Cameron Marshall, and Daniel Alvarez. I think it could be a really good night for Auditions Five. And then AGT Time Podcast: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: six has just Veronica. So interesting. It's interesting and and the metrics are always fun to continue to keep track of. AGT Time Podcast: I was just thinking about something while you're doing all that. I was thinking on our side side thing. Could we could we add one more thing to it? Could we pick who opens the show and who closes closes the show? AGTCommenter: Sure. For two points. Okay. Pull it up. Let me do this. AGT Time Podcast: I think that's something real easy to I mean, that's definitely something easy to track. Like AGTCommenter: Okay, let me do this. Opener, oops. And the closer. And then let me just Perfect. Alright. You want me to go? AGT Time Podcast: I'll go this time. I'm gonna do come here is gonna open the show. And I think Travis Garland is gonna close the show. AGTCommenter: I also think Garland's gonna close. I'm gonna have a different opener though. AGT Time Podcast: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: I think let me see the list quick. Hmm. I think Beefus is gonna open the open the show. I'll go with Beefus. That could be that could be the game changer there. if if come here opens the show, you'll be and if and then if and then if they go through. Everything for you is riding on come here. Do they open the show and do they go through? AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: And if they do, you're gonna be sitting real pretty. So all right. AGT Time Podcast: Hmm. AGTCommenter: Anything else before we sign off and get out of here? AGT Time Podcast: I think so. big game tonight. Ready for that. Got my garb on. Game day I think is there. So AGTCommenter: Yep. Yep. Yes. Ba bunch of big evenings ahead of you. Tonight, Tuesday, AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Wednesday, it's let's do the look ahead. You and I'll be back Tuesday. or excuse me, Wednesday night. I'm still stuck in last week when it was all in AGT Time Podcast: Wednesday. Wednesday night. Yep. Yeah. AGTCommenter: one night. I let's do this quick. I did and I didn't. AGT Time Podcast: Did you like that? Okay. AGTCommenter: I liked it being done, not having to wait twenty four hours to find out who went through. That was great. It was a long episode. It was not the same we've had three hour AGT before, right? When they did like the hour lead in and then the two hour finale. I didn't have to watch for two hours and twenty minutes of that three hours to I didn't miss anything if I didn't watch. They just were doing ra you couldn't look away for all but twenty minutes of of that three hours. So it was it was a lot of paying attention for three straight hours. The other thing doing the reaction pod it was really hard to not just sit and talk about the performances. At least it had bit it's twenty four hours later. That was that was a hard detachment and things like that. But otherwise loved it being done, not having to wait. Don't think it's the way they should do it. I like the two night. It's it's clearly the better option. But but anyway. So you and I will be back Wednesday night, either smiling ear to ear or AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: in a real dark place. Maybe somewhere in the middle. I think if we get three through, we'll just like, nice, good to go. So it could be any range of emotions. And then you and Jay'll be back to recap the the whole episode and then you and I will preview the finals. Potentially Ryan will see if he's available. And then the the finals night, all of us will be on to all six. Be a packed show. we'll be on to discuss results. Last year y you ducked out early 'cause was it a long results night? Did they do three hours last year? AGT Time Podcast: Well they did. So they I think they did that preview show again and then they did the like a ninety minute finals, right. AGTCommenter: So if they do that again, you might hop on and say hello, grab your trophy if we win. Or, AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: you know, we'll we'll lose with grace if we lose. Men of honor and integrity. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. We'll congratulate the winner. Yeah. AGTCommenter: and then it'll probably end up more being the five of us if we can get ever all five on to to kind of chat about it. I think last year AGT Time Podcast: you s let you sit in the chair again? AGTCommenter: Yeah, last year we just did real quick. Didn't take a ton of time. and then I would like to, even if even if we don't do the Rye Analytics finale like we did last year, I'd like for the two of us to do a finale and just go through where this season stacks up, my all-time leaderboard. I don't want to do a bunch of all-time leaderboard on that results night. There's just too many people and it's just not great podcasting with s with five or six people on there. So we'll we'll discuss that, but I think it would be nice to wrap up the season and then and then you'll kick your feet up. AGT Time Podcast: Yes. AGTCommenter: We're we're we got a month break coming up here soon, Cody. We're gonna rep out AGT Time Podcast: Yeah. Not not talk a lot of football, but another big game the Saturday after that. AGTCommenter: After what? AGT Time Podcast: After the finals. AGTCommenter: So that that exac or a week after the finals? AGT Time Podcast: No, it's the Saturday after the finals. AGTCommenter: Cooler homes do they play? AGT Time Podcast: That's where Texas goes and comes to Knoxville. AGTCommenter: Cody will be li live and in in person. When was the last time you were at a game live? AGT Time Podcast: well I went and saw TCU play last year. Texas AGTCommenter: I'm saying Texas, sorry. AGT Time Podcast: no no no I'm I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I saw them play Vandy two years ago. So that's all I mean I saw him in Nashville two years ago. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay. Okay. So it hasn't been too long. Okay. All right. Well, good good good to talk. Big night. let's wrap AGT Time Podcast: Yep. AGTCommenter: up and get out of here. AGT Time Podcast: So you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT Timepod at Gmail dot com. You can go check out our website, AGT Timepod dot com and go find Commenter at AGT Commenter. Everyone have a great day.