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- Cody: Everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT time. Jay, we listen and we talk about a lot of really bad acts. I don't know how we do it. Jay: Cody Patterson is here along with my new stage name, Greybeard. Cody: Yes. Jay: But J Bach is my what I go by in the daytime. Cody: Welcome back, Jay. Jay: Thank you. Happy to be back. Welcome back, Cody. That's Cody: I'm still here. I ain't gone anywhere. Well, we are recording a day late because I had a conflict. So Jay: That's true. Yeah. no, yeah, hey, we are we're set to go. We are gonna wrap up auditions today, Cody. Cody: I'm so excited. Audition seven completes auditions. I think this is a nice, good number. Six, seven, I think is a nice number for Jay: Ha ha. Cody: auditions for AGT. Ten's way too many. I feel this is perfect. Jay: Yep. Yep. This feels like it really threads that needle. Like there's Cody: This th this is this is the Goldilocks number of auditions. Jay: There's plenty of talent in front of us. We're gonna have to say goodbye to some really good acts already. And you know, it feels like you know we've we've we've filled the the coffers and now we can kinda narrow it down and jump into the lives. Well, after some callbacks. Cody: Actors callbacks, yeah. So let me do some business real quick and then we'll kind of talk at a high level what we thought of this episode. so you can find us on our socials Jay: Let's do it. Cody: at AGT Time Pod. You can email us agt timepod at gmail.com. Go check out our website, agt timepod.com. It's got our pods on there, it's got a blog on there, Commenters Leaderboard, the hall of fame is on there. Go go check all that out. yeah. and then if you want to reach out to us, our socials and our email. Yeah. Jay: Perfect. It's and that's AGT timepod dot com. Cody: Right. Jay: Okay. And all the handles AGT time pod. All right. That's great. Cody: All the handles, yes. I did I did see that MySpace might be making a a resurgence, Jay. Jay: i is this unrelated to America's Got Talent? Okay. Cody: It's a little bit unrelated. Yeah. I was just saying if MySpace makes a resurgence, w we'll have to be on Myspace. Talking about socials, Jay: Okay. All right. Let's do it. Yeah. Cody: so Jay: Yeah. No, so like MySpace was the social media app of, you know, a a year or two. It was the king. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: And I I think anymore it's a lot of like bands. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I think Justin Timberlake bought it out at one point and then Yeah, I think that's right. And Jay: really? Okay. Cody: then yeah, it's mo mostly bands and musicians now. Jay: So if you're a a band or musician, you might still have your MySpace page. are there still like like r rainbow glitters falling through the screen and and Cody: Yes. Probably, yes. Jay: work area head rotating and all those Cody: Yeah. Jay: those old gifs. Okay. yeah. you know, I have not visited a MySpace page, to my knowledge, for quite some time. Cody: It's it's been a minute, yeah. Jay: But Yeah, why not? Why not? it was there a episode with like MySpace Auditions some season? Did that happen? Cody: T I think that did happen. let me check on that. I think that might be it might have been a thing. Season three, yes. Jay: Season that's when we discovered Tappin'd Dads. Cody: That's right. Jay: That's Very good. Cody: Yeah. Jay: the Tappin' Dads and MySpace. That's that was the time. Cody: auditions from MySpace were introduced in season three, allowing people to post video auditions on MySpace and hopefully be selected by the producers to audition in front of the judges. Yeah. Jay: There you go. So even back then they were recruiting acts. So don't don't complain about them recruiting acts now. Cody: That's right. Jay: very good. Cody, is there anything else we need to say before we jump in here? Cody: what'd you think of this episode as a whole? Jay: no complaints. It was good. Some some good classic AGT. they they told us off the top there's not a golden buzzer in play. they didn't even tease like, maybe there'll be a group golden buzzer or a crowd golden buzzer. It's like, nope, they're just off the board. Like the acts just have to stand on their own. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yep. I'm okay with that. I thought it was fine. It was as as common would say, I was whelmed. I think it kinda did exactly what it was supposed to do as the last audition episode of the season. we had some gimmicks, we had it with some bits, and we'll talk about that here in a in a little bit. We had some pretty decent acts. that I think they only montaged one act throughout the h in the whole episode. Didn't Jay: Yeah. We didn't see much of but yeah. Cody: see much of that. So yeah, thought it was fine. Fine episode. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. I'm i any AGT is good AGT Cody: There you go. Jay: and and this was AGT, so Cody: Yeah. Jay: no complaints from me. all right. First act of the night, then we're gonna meet a gentleman whose not stage name. what is that? A street name? A Christian name? I don't know, his given name, given name is probably where we want to go. Marcus Monroe. but he's gonna go out there as Howie Blandell. play on the name Howie Mandel, but blander. And let's I I never do comedians justice. As much as I I do a pretty good job of of recounting a lot of these acts, comedians I I cannot do well. So let's hear a little bit of what Howie Blandell had to say. Cody: Mm-hmm. I think I've listened to this now. I think this is the third, maybe third or fourth time I've listened to this, Jay. And I think it gets funnier each time. Jay: I see you laughing and smiling there. It's we're not a video podcast, but y you're not hiding it. it's, you know, it I was watching this with my nephew who's here this week. he said he liked the jokes. And he says, I believe they're called dad jokes. So Cody: Yes. Jay: this is very much that. Cody: Yes. And and they're they're just hitting enough it's I think the O C D one went over s based on Twitter Tuesday night. I think the O C D one went over some people's heads. yeah. Jay: Sure. Yeah. Cody: The the deal or no deal. I I really like that from from Deal or No Deal. Man, I just 'cause it's so Howie. Those those jokes are so how and I can see Howie telling these jokes. Jay: Yeah, i I've never seen Howie do stand-up comedy. Cody: Okay. Jay: but I I'm I'm confident that this is cleaner than what Howie does up on the stage, right? Cody: sure. Sure. Yeah, I think so, yes. Jay: but yeah, like it's it it's fine. Like it l the the comedy is in that it's intentionally bad. Cody: Yes. Jay: Right? Th these are not great jokes. Cody: Part of the joke is though is that we've we you and I and comment we've all seen like so much AGT and we've seen so much Howie we get these types of jokes. we love these judges, we love this show so much that when they kind of poke fun at it, when they make fun of it fun of it, it's almost like it's almost like they're making fun of and they're telling jokes to our family. And I think that kind of makes it a little funnier. Your your casual viewer may not get this, particularly your new viewers may not get these as much, but it's really for those Jay: Yes. You Cody: duck for the diehards. Jay: you need to know that Howie hosts Deal or No Deal to get the deal or no deal joke. You need to know Cody: Yes Yes. Jay: that he suffers from O C D to get the O C D joke. Like Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay: and if you don't know that, like those are really bad jok like there's but what's the punchline? You're Cody: Yes. Jay: you're delivering those words as if they are the punchline But they're not Cody: Ha ha Jay: So, you knowing enough and Yeah, knowing enough, we get the joke, we we play along, and that's you know that's good. But Cody: Yeah. And and he and he's dressed up as Howie, he's got the bald cap on, so you know, he's he's doing the whole bit. Jay: Yep, yep. Costuming and everything. Mel says it wasn't funny. Sophia says that we've seen better comedians. Simon just jumps to yeses and no's, and I believe we get three yo three no's and don't hear anything from Howie. Cody: Yeah. Jay: So that is that's Marcus Monroe this time. Cody: Yes, just just wait. Jay: Hold your horses. Cody: Yeah. Jay: all right. So next group, we're gonna go to a group called The Sound. they are gentlemen from Romeo, Michigan. We got dad, Rob, on the bass. We got Jacob on guitar, and then we've got Jacob's brother Levi, the sons of Rob. he's playing a cajone or a travel cajon and the shaker. He's he's the percussion, but also lead vocals. Cody: He's the Ringo. Jay: Yeah. Are you familiar with a cajon, Cody? Okay. Cody: I am. I am familiar with the coheren. Usually you sit on it, right? Jay: I yeah, and this is like it's like a travel cajon, so you Cody: Yeah. Jay: have a shoulder strap of this box that you wear around your neck. w one time at church they were playing the cajon. This is probably a decade ago, before I was doing my Spanish, and leaned over to my wife and I said, That instrument that he's playing, I think it's called a cajon. And she leans over and she says That makes sense. It's the Spanish word for box. So I w I was trying Cody: Yes. Jay: to impress her with my knowledge and she was like, Yeah, duh. So Cody: Yeah. Jay: So that's how a lot of a lot of my conversations go, like, hey, check this bit of knowledge out. Like, okay, Jay. Like Cody: She she humbles you, doesn't she? Yeah. Jay: you know, I need it too, so that's just fine. but let's hear a little bit about what the sound sounds like, Cody. Cody: Yeah, that that's it. I didn't I didn't do the rest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: I how long are we gonna hold the formata over the rest here, Cody? I don't At that point in the performance, the stage hands are like, that's the end. All right, let's go let's go clear the mics. And then they they finish with Country Roads. So it's like they they held that just a little bit too the just the perfect amount of time is how they held that. yeah, you're the country music guy. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: Tell me what are you feeling from Country Roads here? Cody: So I I like this. I thought I think they have great harmonies. They have a great so they are the sound. They have a great sound. I I like the the cajon being in there. The the three of them sound really, really good. Yeah, of course this was recorded before the World Cup, because in the World Cup at every US match, they played Country Roads. And I think it kinda got overplayed quite a bit. I like Country Roads, I think it's a fun song, but I think this summer it kinda got played a lot. in the in the World Cup matches. and of course, of course, they wouldn't they wouldn't know that. But it's it did. It sounded just like Country Roads. I mean, it's if John Denver had some additional singers with him, I think this is what it would sound like. So I don't know if they really and we'll hear from I think Simon here in a little bit. Jay: Yeah. Cody: They didn't really make it their own. They they sound great. They didn't make it their own. Jay: Yeah, it's a it it's a gr everybody loves country roads, right? Like like Cody: Yes. Jay: around the globe. Like the everybody loves country roads and and Cody: Yes, the globe loved country roads. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: this this feeling of like yearning for home and for this place that I belong, like it's it's a a feeling that like it it it strikes a chord with a lot of people. Even if West Virginia isn't your home, like yearning for Cody: Care careful, careful Jay. There's there's a lot of people out there that it's not about West Virginia, it's about w the western part of Virginia. So be careful. You're gonna get we're gonna get some feedback on that. Jay: my gosh. Is there a comma in there? I don't know how John Denver wrote it. or is it the city of West? Cody: I yeah, I'm not gonna I'm Yeah, that is true. It could be West, Virginia. Jay: It's Cody: I'm not gonna get into it. I'm just saying that there's a lot of people out there that think that say it's about the western part of Virginia and not West Virginia the state. So just just throw that out there. Jay: Okay. Well I Whether it's the western part of Virginia or the state of West Virginia, i it's that yearning that it taps into. And people, you know, refugees from other countries love that song because it's about that yearning for home, that that place where I belong. And it like it really is a great song in that way. you wanna feel good, sing along, everybody knows the words song. Great choice. The crowd was singing along. The judges were singing along. Like, how can you not help but, you know, like you give them a yes, absolutely. But and we'll get to Simon's comment, like, it's not a dangerous choice. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: It's not a wow-my choice. It's just a safe sing-along. So what do you do with that? Cody: You throw up in audition seven, that's what you do. Jay: It's you th you throw in Audition Seven and then you leave to the birds, I s I suppose. yeah, Mel says she's not a big fan of country music, but this made her happy. Howie says he loved it. Sophia says that she does love country music, she loves the song and the family and thinks that everyone's everyone's gonna fall in love with them. And then let's let's go ahead and hear Simon's comments and we can maybe tease that out a little further if we want to. Cody: So he's saying that it's the r the riskiest thing is to play it safe? Is that what he's saying? Jay: Yeah, I suspect that is what he's saying. The you're not going to wow anybody with safe. So that that checks out with me. and I think I've kinda said my thoughts on it already. You know, he it everybody loves the song. They know their harmonies, they know their way around, you know, how to sing together. But I could also see this at the state at the county fair and be like, Hey, yeah, that's all right. And and not feel like, you know, these guys are are world beaters. These guys belong, you know. It's just it's safe. It's fine. Cody: Yeah. I'd go see these guys at the Iowa State Fair. If they were playing one of the op yeah, if they were playing one of the free stages, I'd stop in and Jay: At at the free stage. Yeah. Cody: you know, grab a drink and sit down and watch Yeah. Jay: Absolutely. I'm not gonna go seek out at the paid stage. So that's that's kinda how I feel about it. They're they're just fine. they are gonna get four yeses, so they're they will at least make it two deliberations. Cody: Yes. Jay: all right, next act here, gentleman that goes by well his his given name is Marcus Monroe, but he's gonna come on stage as Cat Williams. You might remember Marcus Monroe from two acts ago. So Sophia Cody: He he he he ch he put on this makeup pretty quick too. Jay: Well, yeah, who knows how they edited all this down, but he's gonna do some stand-up comedy for us. Sophia says, Are you a human or a cat? He says, I'm a cat. I live in an alley in New York City. and he says backstage people were asking me, Am I nervous? Just a litter. Are you serious about comedy? Yes, it's either meow or never. he said he got a picture of a cat fully clothed. Boring. I wanna see some cat nip. Which is his most blue joke of the night, I think. Cody: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jay: S Simon, he's over it. He starts eating a tangerine at this point. he says, I worked at a printing press, but I was just a copycat. I again more dad jokes here. Simon has nothing to say. Mel points out, Hey, you're the same guy that came on here as Howie earlier. Cody: Yeah. Jay: and so yeah, it's gonna be three no's and we don't get a vote from Howie again. Cody: Smell B see Through the Disguise. Jay: I mean the jokes were equally as good both times. Cody: Yeah, but this is this is the same one that's always like, I don't get it. I don't understand. I'm confused. But she saw through this Jay: Well, she probably knows her way around fashion and makeup about as well as anybody up there. Like Cody: Maybe so guess so. Jay: you just changed your clothes. Like that's just makeup. I can tell who's behind that. Like she knows her way. Alright, Cody: Yeah. Jay: so in the transition to commercial break, we get like the judges, you know, talking to each other and i Howie says like it's not about being funny. Sometimes annoying is funny. And I think that Howie, like, he has a high tolerance for these annoying kinds of acts. Right? Cody: Yes. Jay: He he sees the point. He sees the humor in annoying. Cody: Yes. He has probably toured with a lot of these type acts. Yes. Yeah. Jay: yeah, probably. Yeah. I'm we both listened to Rob has a podcast for some Cody: Yes. Jay: of the content that he puts out, and he was saying he has a high tolerance for for annoying people when he was doing traitors season, right? Like these these flamboyant big characters. He's like I've got a lot I've got a high tolerance for that. Cody, what do you have a high tolerance for? Cody: Oof. that's a good question. I have a high tolerance for AGT. Jay: Very. Cody: Some may dispute that, I could see. I do have a a big old soapbox next to my desk here that I like to get on every now and then. Jay: Yeah, yeah. Cody: I don't know. I I've been told that I'm a very I'm a pretty patient person and that I'm pretty a know, adjustable to things. Sometimes I don't see it. Sometimes I can I but Jay: Maybe you mask it well, yeah. Cody: I I try to ma I I code switch like the best of Jay: Okay. Cody: So Jay: All right, right. yeah, I I think that's a that's a good question. If you're looking for a an icebreaker, ask somebody what's Cody: Yeah. Jay: what's what's something that you have a higher than average tolerance for? That's yeah. good. All right. Well that is Marcus Monroe part two. let's move on here to Los Servidores. they are from the a group of Southern California law enforcement people. What law and law enforcers? Cody: Officers? Jay: Off law enforcement officers? is officer a rank? Like Cody: Maybe? Jay: Okay. All right. Well it's Law enforcement lieutenants. All right. All right. Okay. Well Cody: Well p Yeah, well police officer. You have police officers. You have yeah. So So what's what is s what is sor sorvad sorvadoris? What does that mean? Okay. Jay: like servers, people who serve. Cody: Okay. s cause they protect and serve? Okay. Jay: Yeah. the servers. Yep. So they they sing together for communities around Southern California and they've been together for eight to nine years. Which is a little bit vague. It Cody: Yes. Jay: was like, maybe you should have tightened up that answer before you stepped on Cody: Yes. Jay: stage. Like while ish. Like Yeah. d tell me, man. Cody: Yeah. Hey, it all runs together after a while, Jay. We we've been we've been doing this we've been doing this about a decade. So it's like nine, nine, ten, eleven years, somewhere around in there. Yeah. Jay: eight to nine years together. all right. So they're gonna come back on stage. They're they're they're all in their their officer kit, their law enforcement kit. but now they're carrying mariachi instruments. And we've got two violins and two trumpets and two guitars and the the mariachi bass and and the singer, and let's hear a little bit about what Los Servadores sound like when they play together. I like it. Yeah. Cody: like it too. Yeah. Jay: it I think like we've seen mariachi before, and Cody: Yes. Jay: like part of mariachi is like that sort of blurdy, blatty, like you don't have to be perfect. You just need to be loud and fun. And they do that. but what sets them apart from other mariachi bands that we've seen is they do a song that we're familiar with. But in that mariachi style. Cody: Right. Yeah. some of the most famous ones that we're or some of the ones we're more familiar with. Of course Sebastian from season seven and then Alondro Santos that we just the commenter and I just talked about in the off season during season thirteen. and so when a Mar Mariachi band comes on the stage, man, I love it. I love a good Mariachi band. Jay: Yeah, yeah, I d I always do too. I'm just gonna check my notes here. The phrase that they were singing, instead of walking on sunshine is estoy and cielo. And I believe that estoy and cielo means let me make sure Spanish to English. I'm I'm in heaven or I'm in the sky. Yeah. So Cody: Okay. Okay. Jay: estoyan i it's not I'm walking on sunshine, it's Cody: Mm. Jay: I'm in the sky. Cody: Everything's good. Everything's great. Yeah. Jay: Which I think it's yeah. Yeah. It's it's kind of a a interesting that they they translate it not Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: not word for word or even phrase Cody: Liter literal, yeah. Yeah. Jay: for phrase, but like by the idea, right? It's so Cody: Yeah. Yep. No. Jay: I'm I'm in the sky. Cody: I thought it was good choice of song. He's a lot of fun. He sounds great. he's got Jay: Yeah. Cody: a good voice. All the different instruments that that we have there. I I hope we see them again. I really like them. I I don't think they're gonna go far. I don't think there's a lot I don't think they're gonna do much, but I would really like to see them again. Jay: Yeah, you know, America they love themselves some law enforcement. Cody: True. Jay: you know, they they like a good music group. you know, I I could see them making a couple rounds. This this i to to call back to last week, this might kinda feel like tapping dads. Like, you Cody: Okay. Jay: know, you're you guys like your dads and you also tap dance. Like your law Cody: Okay. Jay: enforcement and you also do mariachi. Right. Like it's Cody: But is this like nurses, but you're also a choir or okay. Jay: Yes. And and there's a ceiling for that, right? I don't know. Maybe I don't want to extend my extend it too far, but you know, I'm I I do feel like there is a ceiling for this, and it's below million dollars. Simon says he's very it's very happy music and not a cho he I'm sorry. It is very happy music. He's glad that they're not a choir. Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay: We've we've seen the law enforcement, military, Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: nurses, choirs Yeah. They they th this is a fun twist on that theme. Mel liked realizing that it was a popular song done as mariachi. The how far in were they before you realized like, it's walking on sunshine? Cody: I think it was the chorus when I heard the tune. Yeah, when I heard the melody. Jay: Okay. Yeah. Cody: Yep. Jay: I I I was catching it before we got there. I'm not sure if I was like like i I was like, okay, I know that's a popular song. Da da da da da da da Like w like like h you can figure it out, you can figure it out. There's Cody: Yeah. Jay: they got to the chorus like that's the one. So it yeah, I'm I was right there. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad we're doing a lot of just fun, happy type songs in the first half of this episode. With country Jay: No! Cody: roads and this. It's just some lifting lift up feel good type stuff. Yes and there you go. Yes. Yeah. Jay: And and dad jokes sprinkled in. It's happy songs and dad jokes. Like w How can you not love this show? Cody: That's right. Jay: Sophia says she does love mariachi. She was excited to see it on the show and how he he's just gonna vote yes along with everybody else. So it's four yeses for Los Servidores. Alright. next act of the night then, Cody, we've got gentlemen possibly a group that goes by ramp. Cody: Yeah. Yes. Jay: shades of of pink beard. like just like it's it's just what it is. Cody: It's just right it's right there. Like it's literally the name. Yes. Jay: so he he obfuscates it for us first. Man Ramp, he comes out there in his construction kit and he works in construction and construction's been in his family for generations and today he says he's gonna showcase some wooden items for the judges. originally from New York, now lives in LA, and the stage hands, they're gonna wheel this box onto the stage and a skateboarder comes across the stage and grinds on one of the edges of this box, and then another skateboarder comes from the other side and he flips it over and and then the top of the box comes open and a skateboarder ramps up it and uses you know r ramps up over across that box. Another side flips open and we see that Man Ramp or this gentleman is inside the box. Do we call him Man Ramp? I'm a little confused on this part, Cody. Cody: maybe the groups is man ramp. Like Jay: Okay. So Cody: like w w I am man ramp. No, I am man ramp. No, I am man ramp. It's like Yeah, so it's like we are man ramp. Jay: I am man ramp. Okay. Okay. All right. So the gentleman who is their spokesperson was inside the box. and he's gonna f flip over and hold up a pipe for the other skateboarder to ramp up on and grind across. They're gonna wheel that box off and he comes back on with this sheet of plywood that he holds up against his body for the skateboarders to ramp off of and while he's laying on his back. He's gonna hold the board like on his knees and with his hands, and then he's gonna like use his body to rock underneath the board while the skateboarders skate across it. And that's kind of a cool move, right? Having a a dynamic moving ramp that the skateboarders use in that way. and then they're gonna come out with a bigger sheet of plywood. Six of these skateboarders, they're gonna hold it up while there's a guy up on top. They like flips his skateboard underneath him and then he ramps off the edge. this is fun. This is this is just a a good time. it's also something I could imagine seeing, you know, local kids at the skate park doing. you know, the y we we we talk about maybe these these not golden buzzer worthy acts kinda getting shuffled into the seventh episode. Like, yeah, that's fun, let's put them on TV. That Cody: Huh? Jay: that's kind of what it what this one felt like. Cody: I was really intrigued at the beginning when he was in the box and he kinda kept unfolding it and I was Jay: Yeah. Cody: thinking, Okay, is the box just gonna continue? Like is he gonna keep pulling parts out that the the skateboarders can jump on or slide on or like he would just keep building it out and then eventually he just Jay: Sure, yeah. Cody: went to just holding a piece of plywood. which I don't part of it was kind of fun, but I liked it better. I liked the box that he kept building out better 'cause it just felt like it was a contraption that kept Growing. Jay: Yeah, and he he kinda made us feel like it was gonna be a contraption or this wooden Cody: Yes. Jay: whatever, but it was it was it kind of devolved into a man and a ramp. Cody: Yes, yeah. And it reminded me you talked about like kids at the skate park. Like when I was a kid, we would build bicycle ramps out of just Jay: yeah. Cody: boards and plywood and then we would try to jump our bicycles with that. So Jay: yeah, it's and like we'll kinda jump into Judge's comments here. Simon asked off the bat, What is this? And they said, Well, we're skateboarding and there was a piece of wood and we were playing with it and that's where this came from. Like it's it's not that hard to imagine. I don't know if you've Cody: Yeah. Jay: seen kids play, but Cody: E Eric Eric doesn't play like that. No. Jay: Apparently not. Cody: He's not out in the the backyard of the the cowl compound jumping his bicycle on his skateboard. Jay: No, I I th I wonder if maybe bicycles are relegated to the shed now. They might not be Simon's favorite. Cody: Yeah. good point. Yes. Jay: Simon says he thinks it's a very good audition. Sophia says we've never seen a man ramp on AGT before. That Cody: That is technically true, yes. Jay: is the facts. Cody: Factually correct. Yes. Jay: Mel says she didn't get it at first. She thought it was gonna be comedy, but it's actually very practical. Cody: Okay, sure. I Jay: And then Cody: I guess they could do their act pretty much anywhere, right? Jay: Yeah. It's yeah. Like I I need a a mostly flat surface and this board. Like Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay: this plywood. Howie says it's what Tony Hawk would do if he never made a buck. Yeah. Can you name any other skateboarders besides Tony Hawk? Cody: there was one of the Olympic la girls but I can't remember her name. Yes. Yeah. No, I cannot. Not off the top of my head, no. Jay: No? Okay. So no, you cannot. Okay. All right. Yeah. I I very much feel the same way. Like I Cody: Yeah. Jay: there's this whole world there of of this skateboard and skateboard culture that I just I don't know a lot about. Cody: And I think a lot of it stems from the game Tony Hawk. Jay: Yep. Cody: So Jay: Yeah. yeah, I'd I'd love it if Howie like did know some other skateboarders and he pulled somebody's other some name other than Tony Hawk. It's like it's it's yeah. That's Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Well, everybody knows Tony Hawk, so Yeah. Jay: which is why it's not he could have done better. if Cody: Okay. Jay: but I, like he couldn't think of any other skateboarder either, so Yeah. Th there was that guy in the Olympics. Cody: Yeah, Jay: yeah, yeah. yeah. What about the one from from Spain? Yeah, Cody: Yes. Jay: there was that skateboarder from Spain. I'm Cody: Sure? Jay: just I'm kidding, Cody. I don't know. I'm just Alright. So it is actually gonna be four yeses for Man Ramp. And if Man Ramp does make it through to the lives, besides fire What else can they do, Cody? What where else do they go? Cody: spikes Can he hold spikes? Jay: Okay. Maybe Cody: Spiked boards. Jay: Okay. I I like your idea of the contraption that sort of f folds out and gets different and bigger and you know, they they Cody: Yep. Yep. Jay: could have some some fun with that. Especially like if he's actually, you know, a third generation carpenter. Like maybe there's Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: something there. I I like that idea. but I I do kind of feel like this is one of those acts where like, you know, my my big surprise is that I'm a man ramp. And like now you know, like there the that Cody: Okay. Jay: that surprise element, it's been spent. So yeah, I I suspect they would add fire. That's that's the first Cody: Sure. Jay: thing that they do. Cody, you mentioned there's one act that gets montaged here. This is where that comes in. we kind of see them like on the screen and not not much of this dance group called Change Raptures. Cody: It's a terrible name. It doesn't make any sense. Jay: Yeah, let's let's look confirmed. Bad name and Simon says the choreography isn't good enough, so Cody: Yes. Jay: that's change raptures. It's like is is rapture a verb? Like change causes things to be raptured? Cody: Maybe? Jay: Or are they changing the meaning of rapture? I don't even Alright, I've talked too much about already. Let's move on to Miss Sarah Hardwig. She is twenty-three years old from Nashville, Tennessee. Cody, you're from Tennessee. Cody: Yes. I think that this is the most Nashville season we've ever had. There's so many acts from Nashville. Jay: Know. I I asked you many times every Cody: Yes. Jay: season if you know this act from Tennessee, and you never do. But Cody: No. Funny enough, funny enough, Jay, so I I was doing a little research before we came on and I looked up Sarah Hart Hardwig and Jay: Okay. Cody: Sarah Hardwig, according to the wiki, she won what's called the Tennessee Songwriters competition. Jay: Okay. Cody: And the music venue and so it's a this is and I think I've talked about this maybe with Commenter during the off season. It's a competition that's held throughout the entire state of Tennessee and various venues throughout Tennessee hold what's called a qualifying round. Jay: Okay. Cody: may basically local cities like Memphis will have one. My city here in in in where I live will hold like several cities in my area will. Nashville will Chattanooga, so all across the state. And then from there I think three advance to another next round. And then from there the winner of that round then moves on to Nashville. Jay: Okay. Cody: And then they perform, they do some something in natural and it's it's unclear to me if it whether it's a an a final competition or if it's just a performance. It's everything that I found it's very unclear. and so she was in that competition in twenty twenty three, which is the first year I believe they held this competition, and she won the competition. Jay: Okay, and this is the Tennessee Songwriters? Okay. Cody: Songwriters. Yes. So you write your own song and then you perform it in front of judges and then you advance through the competition. F basically like a a A G T. There's a qualifying round. Jay: I would be interested but they do the same song. No. Cody: No, you could do different songs. You could write a different yeah. So you could perform one song in a qualifier, you could write another song and do another one in the the next round and then another song in the last round. Yep. Jay: Well, I would be interested in in knowing their their judging rubric. Is it about the song writing or the song performing? Or is it their body of work or is it just Cody: Yep. There is a rubric. Yep. Jay: the one that they saw for this performance? Cody: That's a very great that's a very that's a that's a very great that's a very good question. There is a rubric. I've never seen it. I'm usually handling the sound and the video back in the in the booth. But the there are actual judges, they're given criteria that they're supposed to judge on, and they score it and rate it. It's very official. Jay: Okay. Cody: Yep. And so I was very fascinated when I saw that she competed in that competition because I've been involved in that competition Jay: Yeah. Cody: the last four years. with my local venue. and we also the next year, twenty twenty four, we also had someone that advanced to the final round. funny enough, she was also blind. so so I thought that was 'cause I was I can I I messaged the guy that I worked with out there. It's like, hey, so did the did this person and like did was she in the same year? No like no no it was this following year. I just thought it would have been really weird like if both of them blind singing musicians were there at the same time. Jay: Yeah. Cody: So I was really fascinated by that when I was reading I was trying to find more information. Looks like she her qualifying round, her first round was in Franklin, Tennessee, which I think is just south of Nashville. So she was in that Nashville area already, Jay: Okay. Cody: when she competed. So yeah, I kinda wanna talk about that a little bit. 'cause I was Jay: Very cool. Cody: I thought it was really, really cool 'cause I'm very familiar with that Tennessee songwriters competition. So Jay: But your your your s spheres of influence didn't overlap. She she was over there and you were over here. Cody: They did not. No. She's in and I'm back over here. Yeah, so Jay: You're you're you're busy not looking at rubrics running running audio and she's busy not looking at rubrics singing songs and Cody: Correct, yes. Yeah. Yep. So yeah. Yeah. Jay: Okay. All right. Well, very good. well interestingly enough, she is not going to sing an original song. even though she's a Cody: Right, which I thought was I thought that was very interesting cho choice. I saw that. So Jay: She she's won awards for her songwriting and Cody: Yes. Jay: is going to do Laney Wilson's Heart Like a Truck and let's hear a little bit about what what Sarah Hardwig sounds like singing Heart Like a Truck. Cody: What do you think? Jay: I I think I'm still not a country fan. Cody: Okay. Jay: Like this this song didn't turn me into a country fan. Cody: Yeah, and and I'm not a big this is again modern country Laney Wilson. It's not something that that I go out and seek as well. Having known that she's now like d you know, done really well in songwriter competitions, I really want to hear what her her original song sound like. So Jay: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And you know, when she comes back, if she comes back, like bring that original song. Bring it like bring us some of what you're what you're building here, 'cause that could Cody: Yeah. Jay: be really, really cool. Cody: Yeah. So so blind country singer, you know how much AGT likes singers that have a a a disability, but they put Jay: And comedians. Cody: her back in audition seven, which is typically a r an odd you know, an episode that doesn't have a lot of people to move on. What Jay: Yeah. Cody: do you think AGT's choice on that was? Jay: yeah, I don't know. Like the episode can't be all leftovers. Like you Cody: Okay. Jay: you have to have something good, right? Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: Like you can't just put a trash episode out there. Like the you know, we we've got our dad jokes and we've got our, you know, feel good songs, but you know, maybe a a feel good story, but with Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: with some talent there as well. Yeah, I don't know. It's I I don't feel like they're setting her up for long term success, maybe is which you know, in any competition, right? Like if there's a tournament, how you're seated, you know, who you happen to run up against, are they having a bad day or a good day? Like if it's a a talent show, what order are you in the show? What's you know, like there's so many things out of your control and, you know, I'd I'd prefer not to think that the producers have some kind of thumb on the scale. It's just like, you know, this is how it fell. Like it's not we we weren't choosing to put her in a bad spot, but she just kind of is. Cody: Yeah. Yep. I would like to see her I want to give her another shot, but I want to hear an original from her. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. I I hope to hear an original from her too. That's let's fingers crossed for that. if not, I expect we could find her on My Space. Cody: Maybe so. Yes. Good call. Jay: Alright. Howie says it's beautiful, heartwarming, and moving. Loves her message and her energy. Mel says she has a good voice. Her trills and control is on point. But she feels like she could go even bigger. Like she kind of reined it in a little bit tight. Sophia says it was amazing. She wouldn't change a thing. Simon says he understands Melby's crit criticism, but she has a natural gift. So Simon, along with the rest of the judges, are gonna give her. four thousand two hundred and thirty yeses. Cody: Okay, so we've gone up two hundred and thirty. Usually it's four thousand. Okay. Jay: So yeah. It last week what is a groot that had, you know, th we're moving away from some of those those tropes Cody: Yeah. Jay: that the judges do. Well, hold your horses here. Cody: Yes. We're we're shoving them all in audition seven. Jay: w yep, maybe that's where they all come. Yep. We're not through the editions yet, Groot. There's still a chance. Cody: We gotta raise the hand, we gotta say, I don't like it, I love it, we gotta get all those Jay: Yep. Cody: in, right? Jay: Yep. We're gonna try to. Alright, so four thousand yeses, for for Sarah Hardwig. Which brings us to our first magician of the night, Aiden Corcoran. He is nineteen years old, and backstage he says there's some really good magicians on AGT, and I'm feeling kind of nervous. So for his performance, he's gonna come down to the judge's table, he's gonna put something in Sophia's hands, gonna randomly select an audience member, Brooke, tells her to think of someone, and she thinks of her friend Alaya, and he writes Alaya's name on a poster board, and sure enough, that's her friend's name. Cody: Okay. Jay: he's randomly gonna take a dollar bill from somebody in the audience. says, on this dollar bill, write your social security number. And the guy's like, what? He's like, you have to, it's for the act. He's like, no, fine. Just do your initials then. so I did appreciate that that bit of comedy here from from from Aiden. so he's going to take that bill, he's gonna rip off the corner, he's gonna put the rest of the bill in a glass, burn it. And it disappears and it's gonna show up in Sophia's hands, the ones that she's had clasped this entire time, Cody: What What Jay: with the audience members' initials on it, not their social security number, and that matches the corner that he had ripped off. and wouldn't you know it, this serial number matches Alaya's birthday. Cody: Wow. Jay: So like Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: I don't know how he did it, but I like I know how he did it, but I don't know how he did it, right? I thought it was pretty good. This is pretty good magic. Cody: Okay. I I wasn't that impressed with it. I think this is some Jay: Okay. Cody: stuff we've seen a lot. We've seen this type of tricks a lot. We've seen a lot of magicians do it much, much better. I don't feel like he added he's nineteen, he's still learning. Yeah, keep keep learning, bro, and then come back and f you know, figure out your lane. But it just felt like this was the same stuff we've seen many times and we've seen many other chip magicians do it way better. Jay: Yeah, and magic is a hard category. Like you you need to be a comedian and you need to have stage presence and you need to keep everybody engaged and you need to keep all of your thoughts straight and all you know, like there's there's so much work that goes into perfecting a magic act and like as a nineteen-year-old magician he's Pretty good, but it doesn't feel like you know, top level magic. Cody: Yeah, for me, and I know there's different different people have different tastes in magic. For me, you almost gotta have some sort of gimmick or bit. You gotta be you gotta you gotta have like motivational speaking, or you gotta be a dragon, or you gotta have, you know, mentalism where your your partner sits on a swing and you're very mi you know, mystique and you know things things of that nature. Now, some can get away with the charisma, like your Matt Francos can get away with the Jay: Uh-huh. Cody: charisma. But it's it's hard 'cause you don't really you're still just you. but I I think to kind of set yourself apart you've got to have some sort of bit or gimmick. Jay: Yeah, I and I think charisma is a really good word. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: like the nervous magician is not really the the the the card that's gonna be like, yep, and that's gonna be my gimmick. I'm the nervous one. Like th that's Cody: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Jay: really just not people are like, yeah, the nervous magician, great. Cody: Yeah. But I feel like we've had like three nervous magicians this year. Jay: Huh? Cody: So so Jay: So it's like yeah, it ends up just being sort of another nervous magician. Judges comments, Mill says, What just happened? says it's crazy and magic and mentalism. Sophia says even though he was nervous, he is going to be a superstar. Simon says he has an air of mystery about him. And it's gonna be four yeses for Aiden. Cody: Okay. Jay: I work in an elementary school. Aiden is a very common name, Cody: Okay. Jay: but so is things that sound like Aiden, like Braden and Caden and Jayden and Zaiden Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: and Kaden and Kaden with a K. it's just like there's Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: like man, people get something a little bit more original. Cody: So he's A I D A N, you probably even have different spellings of Aiden as well, right? Yes, E there, yes. Jay: yeah. Throw a Y in there, throw an E in there. Yeah, absolute yeah. Cody: And and a Y either after the A or after the D. So so Jay: Yeah. Yep. Yep. so yeah, it's you know, it's just one of those names that is like it I I don't want to call him forgettable, but like even his name is kind of forgettable. Aidan Cochran. Like, yeah. Just it's is is it's fine. Cody: Yeah. Jay: He made it on the lives. Or made it on the on the auditions. I don't think we'll see him again. Okay. Cody: Mm. I don't think so either. No. Jay: all right. Next act of the night, gentleman well his his given name is Marcus Monroe. Cody: Yes. Jay: But he he comes out dressed as as Satan himself. Cody: Yes, yes. Jay: And you might remember Marcus Monroe from Cody: Yeah. Jay: three acts ago and five acts ago, whatever it was. I don't know. the first and third act of the night. but this time he's in the Satan makeup instead of the cat makeup and instead of the Howie Mandel makeup. And let's hear Marcus Monroe deliver a couple jokes for us. Cody: Yeah. Ha. Jay: She's not ready for it. Cody: No, she's not. I I I you know, we've talked one of the things that makes a great stand up comedian is your interaction with the judges. You know, not just coming not Jay: Absolutely. Cody: just coming out and you delivering your jokes, but that banter, the interaction, the relationship that you make with the judges is absolutely critical for a stand up comedian. And I think he does it ex you it's his third time, so he's we we know him now. The judges are about done with it. So that interaction makes it even better. Jay: It does. And you cut off the audio before his his first like joke of the set. Cody: Yeah. Jay: he says, Speaking of me, it's good to be here. You know, speak of the devil, it's good to be like i i it was a a great just like y and Cody: Yes. Jay: and and he sprinkles that into just you know, all of his banter with the judges and all of you know, all the way through the act. I was getting real Mr. Pants vibes. Cody: Sure, yeah. Jay: it's like I've got a thousand jokes and they're all about hell and the devil and Satan and demons. Cody: Yes. Jay: I've got a thousand jokes and they're all about pants and trousers and shorts and Cody: Yeah. Jay: jorts and cutoffs and belts and yeah, like it just that's you know, i the same same lane. Cody: Yeah. I I compared him to this season's Sethward. Jay: very much, yeah. and and Howie has a high tolerance for annoying. Cody: Yes, yes. Jay: And as much as this is kind of annoying, like y y you you need sort of repeated exposures to be like, I I get the joke now, right? Like the bad jokes is Cody: Yeah. Yeah. And and he's got Jay: the joke. Cody: and and he's got different things that he can do. We've now seen that he can he can dress up as people, he you know, he's does the cat thing, he's got the who knows what other bits and you know, skits he's he can do. Jay: Yeah. yeah. he's he's got yeah. You may remember me from the details, right? Like that's that's Cody: Yes. Jay: it's just so many good, you know, devil references that he's able to sprinkle into his set. It it is just it it it's like if you didn't like the other stuff, like you might not like this. But you might also be like, I get it now. And I can I can play along. I can I can look for all those fun little little jokes and all those little hints in there. Cody: Do you think he would do well on like Saturday Night Live? Jay: I think this character could do well on Saturday Night Live. I don't know that Marcus Monroe Cody: Okay. Jay: is made for Saturday Night Live. Like the the writing the material he might be a good writer for Saturday Night Live. Cody: Yeah. Okay. Jay: But I'm n I'm not sure that Marcus Monroe as a cast member is is where I see that. Cody: 'Cause they get their cast members a l a lot from their writers. L especially like in the in the nineties Jay: Yeah. Cody: and early two thousands, a lot of their cast members came from the writing staff. So Jay: Yep, yep, yep. yeah, and maybe I'm wrong. May you know, yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Mel B says she likes the devil. Howie, he's gonna give it a yes. Cody: Okay. Jay: Mel B says stay with the devil and it's a yes. Simon's gonna give him a no. So it's gonna be three yeses from Mel B, Howie and Sophia, but no from Simon. Cody: I don't think we'll see him again, but if we happen to, I don't want him to do the same characters. Bring back bring a new character. Yes. Jay: Yes. I I think that that's you know, continue to round out. Show us all the different things that you can do here, right? Show us Cody: Yeah, yeah. Jay: all the variety of of dad jokes that you've got. yeah. Why did Simon give him a no? Is he like, you know what? I'm just I I I said no twice and I'm just I'm I guess, okay. Yeah. It I Cody: He's against the devil. He's against the devil. Yeah. Say no to the devil, Jay. No to the devil. That's right. Jay: The d the devil is bad, so That's one thing that we all know, yes. Cody: Ha ha. Jay: Alright, that is so Marcus Monroe on his third attempt gets his three S's and he will be deliberated. which brings us to our second to last act of the night. young lady named Maria. She's 18 years old from Bavaria, Germany. says that she and her family live on a small mountain with our animals. and this is her first time in America. It seems like just a idyllic life, living on a small mountain in Bavaria Cody: Sure, yeah. Jay: with my animals. Cody: That's right. Where there's what was it like a two to two to one ratio or three to one ratio of animals to people? Is that what she said? Jay: i I d I didn't catch that note, Cody: Okay. Jay: but yeah, she's I mean they're rich or poor, like you wake up in the mountains in Bavaria, it can't be that bad. And the Bavarian cream donuts I bet are just top notch. Cody: Yes, that's right. Now I'm sure it gets cold there in the winter. Jay: it might, I don't know. yeah, it probably does. But you know, the Germans are hardy, hardy stout folk, so Cody: I guess so. That is true. Jay: she's not particularly stout, I'll say. she Cody: No. Very petite. Jay: tells us that she wants to be a physical therapist. she was actually paralyzed ten years paralyzed at ten years old, so eight years ago, spent two years in a wheelchair. So I'll just kinda to she's a contortionist. in her conversation with the judges afterwards, they they talk about, you know, sort of her being paralyzed and whatever, and she explains that she had inflammation in her spine, and when that was fixed, it made her more flexible than before. And wowie kazaoi, is she flexible? Cody: Yeah. So she she she comes out of her paralyzation and now she's Elastigirl. Yeah. So Jay: I yeah, apparently. It's yeah, sometimes, you know, what doesn't kill you makes you more flexible. Cody: I guess so. Yeah. Jay: so she's gonna start by like she's facing the side of the stage and she bends over backwards, touches her head to her butt, puts her hands on the ground, and then lifts her feet up over her shoulders. she twists her body back and forth while remaining just standing on her hands, and then walks around the stage on her Hands with her butt touching her head. It's crazy. Like I like I I I explain these things with words, but really just go watch the video if you don't understand it. She's gonna do more up at the judge's table. She puts her forearms on the ground, does the splits above her head, and puts her legs like crisscross over her head. Just doesn't make logical sense. but out comes the box. you gotta you gotta do some contortion inside of a box. if you're on AGT, I think it's a rule. and she is going to kneel inside of the box. and she asks Howie to come up and close the box once she's inside. So as he's coming up, she bends herself backwards so her face is upright between her thighs, and she smiles at the camera with her her. braces and s big smiley face, while while Howie flips the lid shut. and she you know, d untangles herself from the box and Howie freaks out and she gets a standing ovation from the crowd. what like we we know how Commenter feels about contortionists, but like what do you think of contortionists in general and what do you think of her version of contortionism? Cody: Yeah, I the the contortionists I don't like are the ones that they actually add like the creaky, weird sounds to, and the ones that do the spider crawl upside down. That's just that's not my I like this, it's a little more elegant, right? It's not it's not weird and horrific and terrifying. It's it's graceful and elegant. And I kinda like this. I wanted someone to hand her a bow and arrow on fire that she could Jay: Ha ha ha ha. Cody: do with her feet. I think that'd be a nice thing to kinda add. to her routine. And maybe she will. Maybe she knows how to do it. Maybe she doesn't. I don't know. maybe this is all she can kind of do. But I kinda like it. I think it's it's fun. She's as cute as can be. She gives the little cheesy grins. it's it's fun. we'll have to see if she can if there's more that that she can do. Jay: Yeah, yeah. I I am kind of curious where can she take it from here? you guys did the the Sophie Dossy rewatch and like it's like you know, she keeps you guessing what else does she have? What else can she do? And this is you know, like if if it's just bending over backwards really far, it might be a a low ceiling. If it's like this time I am gonna shoot a bow and arrow with my feet, I am going to I don't know, fit through this ridiculously small hole, whatever it is, you know, like the the these things that contortionists sometimes do. she might need some of those those gimmicks, to stay exciting for a few more rounds. Cody: Yeah, does she do some aerialism? That she can like the you know, the ring where she can kinda, Jay: Yeah. huh. Cody: you know, bend into the ring or what whatnot. Jay: Yeah. So I yeah, I I like you, I like a good contortionist. I think that You said you don't like some of those gimmicks, but you like some of these other gimmicks. So, like Cody: Right. Jay: you Cody: Ha ha. Jay: know, how how do you balance that? W how do you pick the right gimmicks? I don't know. Cody: Yeah, I think I think what Connor doesn't like is people that are just double jointed. Like you're just double jointed and so you can like twist your arm around and you know, twist your leg around, those types of things. But I think she said she's self taught. She found out she was more flexible, so she taught herself how to use that skill and, you know, grow that skill to do the contortion and the balancing and all that stuff. Jay: Well, it I mean to I I know that you're sort of putting words in commenters' mouth, but you Cody: Yeah, right. Jay: know, to push back on that, like I learned that I'm pretty good at creating notes with my mouth, so I I think that maybe I'll Cody: Sure, yeah. Jay: do some singing, you know. I'm I Cody: Yeah. Jay: I I learned that I'm pretty good at lifting heavy things, so I'm gonna you know, sh show ya how I lift heavy stuff. Yeah, you know, whatever it is. I've a high tolerance of pain or whatever. So I like yeah, this is her unique skill and Cody: Mm. Jay: she's she's pretty good at it. Cody: She's pretty good at it. Yep. Jay: and she is she is bendy, man. Like in Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: in it feels like she's bendier than other contortionists. So Cody: Sure, yeah. Yep. It's almost like they removed her spine when they Jay: Yeah, yeah, just it's it's weird. Okay. Melby's she looks like a sweet girl next door, and but but then we get to see that. Howie says we've seen contortion before, but this goes beyond that. she's a living cute little pretzel, he calls her. Sophia says it's crazy to see it up close. Her cute smile makes it look like nothing, even though she's about to break into six pieces. And Simon says it's brilliant and the Final move in the box was a cool ending. So it's gonna be four yeses for Miss Maria from Bavaria. Alright, that brings us to the last act of the night. gentleman goes by Pink Beard. P Y-N-K. Cody: Yeah. Jay: Okay. Well at at the top of the the episode, Cody, I said I'm gonna go by Greybeard, Cody: Yes. Jay: but you didn't hear that it's actually the British spelling of grey. Cody: the E Y. Jay: I I forget which is which. So yeah, Pink Beard, P Y N K beard, is a black gentleman who sports a pink beard. Cody: It's right on his face, man. It's all over his face. Jay: Yeah. and Cody: Is so is is he Pinkbeard or is the band Pink Beard? Jay: Well Cody is Cody: Are we pink beard? Jay: Is is he Man Ramp? Cody: Yes. Jay: Or is this man ram? Cody: Or they That's right. We are Jay: Like if Cody: all on main ramp. Jay: I I would like you to meet Pinkbeard and Man Ramp. I'm bringing a small army over. Like I like Cody: That's right. Jay: wait I don't I don't know. It's this the same conversation we had about Man Ramp, and I don't know. I don't know if Pinkbeard is him or them. but Pinkbeard is a singer-songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. got a song called Mine, Lord Willing, and if you wouldn't mind Cody, I'd like to hear him sing it instead of me try to explain it. Cody: There you go. Jay: Okay. Cody: Okay. Jay: the sound we said sounded like a free stage at the state fair county fair. Cody: Mm. Jay: This feels like a free stage at the state fair county fair Cody: Okay. Jay: as well. Like not particularly clean, not particularly well performed, but like I like the song. I like him. I like the band. Cody: It it's got a good sound and it's got a good beat to it. Jay: Yeah, yeah. but yeah, like there it just didn't feel clean to me. Cody: It felt like he was just rattling off a bunch of words. That that weren't there was no ke cohesion. Okay. Jay: Well, it it not even just the lead singer, but like the the background vocals were like when he drops out and the the background vocals Mine Lord will until the river don't rise or whatever. Like it just felt a little bit like just not quite right, not quite clean, not quite good. So I don't know. I I but maybe that's the appeal. Maybe I'm Cody: Yeah. Jay: I'm missing something, but Cody: Yeah. He he is known, I guess, for writing some pretty big songs, songs that I've never Jay: Yeah. Cody: heard of for people that I don't listen to. So Jay: Yeah, yeah. Cody: 'cause I think he mentioned off a the a song that he'd written and Simon there was like a pause and then Simon was like, yeah Jay: yeah. Was it one of those like Cody: Sure. Okay, yeah. Jay: you're gonna drop a name that I don't know, but like Cody: Yeah. Jay: neat. I I will say, like, he is mature. Like I would guess he's in his 50s, maybe. Cody: Fifties, yeah. Jay: and I I feel like you gotta have a mature voice for this song. Like I I like that. That worn in voice sound. Like that that that's good. That that jives with me. Cody: You still like back of my truck a lot better? Jay: yeah, I think better than the Yeah. probably. Cody: Okay. That that's where I'm kind of gauging of like what you like, like based on back of my truck. Jay: Yeah. I like a lot of things better than back of my truck, but I don't know. This back of my truck's got a got a good good groove to it. so will we see Pink Beard again? I don't know. Should he should he do another original or should he do something that maybe people are more familiar with next time? Cody: I have a feeling that we will see him again. I'm pretty confident that we will. I think he's got a good following. Jay: Okay. Cody: and so I I do think that we will see him again. There was a lot of hype coming into this episode. A lot of people excited to see him in in auditions. So it's I think it's a high possibility that we will see him again. And I think he should continue doing originals. He's he's he says he's a songwriter, so let's let's hear your songs. Jay: All right. I will say, like, you know, if I passed Aiden Cochrane on the street, I wouldn't notice that it was Aiden Cochrane, but i Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: if I passed Pinkbeard on the street, I th I think it might recognize. Like, hey, I think that's I think that's Pinkbeard. Cody: Not Redbeard. Jay: Hey. I'd elmo my wife and I'd say, Hey, that guy over there? His I think that's Pink Beard. And she would say, Yeah, he has a pink beard. It's Cody: It says his name is Sebastian Cole. Does he look like a Sebastian? Jay: I bet he goes by sea bass. Cody: Ooh, there you go. Yes. Or Skull, 'cause his last name was Cole. Jay: There you go. Skull. Yeah. Skull. It's like very Viking. Cody: Yes. Jay: Yeah, maybe he was trying to go with the Viking Redbeard thing and wires got crossed. Like Cody: There you go. Jay: you said red? whoops. Yeah, I'm sorry. How do you feel about pink? Cody: Yeah. And they bleached it a little bit. Yeah. Jay: we can work with pink. Yeah. But roll with it, man. change Cody: And we'll and we'll change the spelling of it. Jay: the spelling. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. We'll change the spell, yeah. all right. Melby says he is not the kind of music she loves. i it it's not the kind of music but she loves it and everything about it. Okay. So sh even though it's not typically country for Melby, she loves it. Sophia says the voice, the song, the band, they're all amazing. It's what AGT is all about. How he says it's a good audition, but he also thinks that that song is gonna be a hit. Did we check the charts to see if it's if it was charting on Wednesday morning. Okay. Cody: We did not, no. Jay: Well I think we can trust that it was. and then Simon, let's hear what Simon has to say to Pinkbeard. Cody: More pi more golden buzzers that they had Jay: Yeah, you know, i if you're the last act of the season and they're like, if only we had a golden buzzer, like y y you pretty likely to see yourself in the lives, right? Like that's it's almost as good a as a golden buzzer. Cody: so as of now, as of as of this recording, Mind Lord Willing is number thirteen on the iTunes charts in the US and number seventeen in Canada. Jay: Hey, alright. It's it's not not top of my charts, but it's but like that's that's a legit song. That's a real yeah. I've never written a song that showed up anywhere on any list ever, so that's that's just fine. Good work, good work, Pink Beard, and band or Pinkbeard the Band. Hard to tell. Cody: Okay. Jay: all right. So twenty minutes left in the show. we've got to narrow it down to forty four, forty-five acts. the judges, they are gonna go to this room that's got all these pictures of the acts and they're gonna talk about what are our no brainers. What are the no brainers? The ones that are just gonna go through no matter what. and we get a like it's hard to tell the way that they edit it. You never see like who they're actually talking about and yada yada yada, but we get a sense of some of the acts that are gonna go through. and then we talk about these callbacks and this idea that we're going to have the judges each select some of the acts to come back and maybe get a little coaching or to kind of go head to head, and each of the judges is gonna I I suspect what's gonna happen is we've got ten buzzers and twenty two more acts to make it thirty two and to get to forty four each judge is gonna get to pick three more acts to go through to the live rounds. So next week I think is more deliberations. Cody: I think so. Jay: And then the following week is Judges Callbacks Part One. Cody: Correct. Jay: And then Judges Callbacks Part Two. By the Cody: Correct. Jay: end of that, we will find out who all 44 acts in the live rounds are. Okay. Alright. Cody: Yes. Yes. That sounds about right. Jay: This has been doing math with Greybeard. Cody: Yeah. Jay: all right. And that is and that'll bring us up to the lives, Cody. All Cody: Yes, we're just a few weeks away. Jay: right. I are you okay with more deliberation, fewer auditions? Cody: I think next week is superfluous. Jay: Yeah. Cody: I don't think we need next week, but it is what it is. Jay: Yeah. Okay. Okay. We'll we'll fill it out. Cody: Yeah. I'm I'm okay with the no I'm the okay with the number of audition episodes that we had. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, that that feels right. I hope that these callbacks are really, really cool. Like Cody: Yes. Jay: I I if if they do these right, if they feel good, it like this could this could be a good evolution of the show. I hope it doesn't turn into like, people loved this. Now we're gonna do four episodes of Judges Callbacks and like it's it Cody: And and bring bring in a guest judge and give him a golden buzzer and Jay: Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna become the voice, of us coaching acts instead of Cody: Yeah. Mm. Jay: Letting that yeah. So I don't know. That that that would be my fear, like worst case scenario that it, you know, changes the entire game. but I I think they know their lane and and that's not gonna be a problem. all right, Cody, before we started recording, you told me that we've got some listener mail to discuss. Cody: We do, we do. This is from Taylor's live tweet account. your initial thoughts on the comedian who keeps coming back three times and putting on a different rebrand each time. So I liked it. I mean I was a fan of it. Jay: Yeah, to kind of put a button on what I've what I've said, like Cody: Yeah. Jay: this style of act kind of needs those opportunities to like be annoying, be annoying and like get us all in on like, this is the joke. Like the the ability to do this in an annoying Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: way, in all these different ways, is is the skill. So my my initial thought is I I'm for it. I don't want I I can get too much of it. Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: But I haven't. If if every act was like, look how annoying I can be, well look how annoying I can be, like that would not be good TV. But like this this does a good job of of hitting those those right notes. Cody: And I think having it in this episode is right as well. Like this wouldn't work in auditions one. Jay: No. Cody: It only works in this la in the last audition episode. Jay: Yeah, you could bury it in one of the middle episodes too, but yeah, it it Cody: Maybe so. Jay: does c first three episodes, keep it clear of that stuff. let it come in here at the end where we're starting to get a little bit punchy, a little bit silly. Yeah. Cody: Yep. this one's from Gigazoid. Why are aerialists, danger acts, dancers and the like criticized for not being original? We've seen this act quote we've seen this act before. But singers are not. We've seen hundreds of singers in all genres. Why don't they have to come up with anything that quote hasn't been before hasn't been seen before? Jay: That's a good question. Cody: Th I'm glad he asked it. Jay: yeah. So Well let's tease that out a little bit. Okay. So singers come on and they do a style that we've seen before, that we've heard before. and They get voted through. Well But we hear things like Country Roads early in the in the episode and they're like, it's fun, but it was safe, right? You you didn't do something new and exciting. Like it was just a a fun song. and aerialists like they get the same criticism in a different way. you know, the like It it was exciting and dangerous, but did you bring something new to the table? And if you don't bring something new to the table, I think they call singers out for that too. So I I'll I'll push back on that and say, I think that singers must bring something new or they they do get called out for it. Cody: I I can kinda see his point 'cause we do get quite a few cover singers that come on and sing a cover song and they kinda just sing it they sing it fine and then don't get called out, but then like they said, an aerialist or a contortionist comes on, we've seen that before and I I I kinda get it. I see where he's coming from. So Yeah, yeah. Jay: Yeah. I I I I get the question, but I I if you take that ten thousand foot view of it, like you know, it one thing that you often hear is like, why can't AGT just ban all the singers? They've got other shows they can go to. Well, like maybe you yodel, maybe you throat sing, maybe like there's not a place for yodeling in any other show. So okay, well we'll we'll allow like Only interesting singers. Well what if it's ventriloquism? So I'm not really like doing any different style of singing, but I'm doing it in a different way. Like, okay, so ventriloquism and yodelers and throat singers we're gonna allow, but not any well but I do it, you know like you you can't just say no singers. Like what about the poet who also sings a little bit? Like well okay, all right. Like you Th there's not a very clean l line Cody: Yeah. Jay: to draw. Cody: What about like your Prince Poppycocks? Like your Prince Poppycocks aren't gonna go can't go on the voice or X Factor. Right? Jay: Absolutely not. Cody: So Jay: And while the singing is a very important part of his performance, it's certainly not all of it. Cody: Mm-hmm. Right. Jay: So but what if what if my sk skill is the songwriting, not the singing? Cody: That's right. Jay: I just have to show you the songwriting by singing. Right? Cody: Yes. Yep. Good questions. Jay: So yeah, I I I think that another element of this conversation is every single one of us has sung before. Right? We've even if you're not a good singer, even if you don't like to sing, like you have been through elementary school and singing was part of the curricula. Like you have sung and we all have exposure to it. Like it's it's a thing that we all get. Very few of us, a fraction of a fraction of us, have ever you know, swung around on a rope above a stage or on a on the silks or on any other aerial apparatus. And so we don't have the same core understanding of what they're doing. So Like i I'm I'm kind of getting off in the weeds from the original question here, but you know, that that is part of it is like it's it's aerialism. I'm gonna put it under this this category of, you know, under this entire umbrella of aerialism and like does it feel different? Does it feel new? Like, maybe not. But singing as a category is different because like a a small change, a small nuance can be like, that's different. like I I haven't heard this song sung that way before. And if it's and if it is just a karaoke song, they kinda call him out on it. So like I I those are my thoughts. Cody: Okay, good. Yes. Good. that's all we had for listener mail. So thanks for sending those in. Appreciate it. Jay: Yeah. Cody: we'll look forward to any more down the road. what's next, Jay? Jay: What's next? We need to shift gears from auditions and recorded episodes to live episodes. one of the things that I look forward to every year is our draft. And Cody: Yes. Jay: we're changing it up a little bit this year. If you've been listening, you know you you understand what's coming. but we need to determine our draft order per AGT Commenters request. We needed to have representatives from more than one team. Cody: Yes. We didn't want any shenanigans, so we didn't we didn't want me and Commenter to be on here and we picked the draft order. So we've Jay: So what I might be looking at on my screen is a video that you s did earlier that Cody: No, I have I've not done it. This is live. This is live, Jay. This is live. Jay: Okay. All right. Cody: and so what I've got, I've got a wheel. It's got the three teams. I've got the Bach brothers, so Jay and Scott. I've got Jay: Okay. Cody: team I-35 because Minnesota Ryan and Steven are on a team and the where they live lines up to Interstate thirty five. Like Minnesota Jay: Okay. Cody: is the top of Interstate thirty five, Steven is the bottom of Interstate thirty five. So they're team I thirty five. Jay: Would you believe that it what am I? Maybe ninety miles, six between sixty and ninety miles from I thirty five myself. there's w before you move on. Cody: There you go. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Yeah, go no, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Yeah. Jay: I thirty five, interstate thirty five. There is a school in Iowa that like the towns that are consolidated together are up and down across I thirty five and their district is the I thirty five Roadrunners. That's who they that's their mascot, the Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: the Truro I thirty five Roadrunners. So a little bit of Iowa I thirty five trivia for ya. Cody: Okay. and then I've got me and Commenter, the off season Warriors. Because we do all the all we keep this thing alive during the off season. That's right. So Jay: Because you guys do a lot of off season podcasting. You man, and do you guys ever? It's never ceases to amaze me. Cody: Well, we we were fortunate enough to already have a bat catalog of if we we talked about this. If we had started this podcast in season one or two, the off season stuff would not work. Jay: It would be a lot more difficult. Yeah. Cody: it'd be a lot more difficult. So fortunately we've got a back catalogue of stuff we've not even touched that we can do during the off season. and so what I'm gonna do I've got a wheel. Jay, I want you to pick a number between one and ten. Jay: Three. Cody: I'm gonna do three spins of the wheel. The Jay: Okay. Cody: third spin will be the winner. Will be who Jay: Okay. Cody: is going to start off the draft. First spin Jay: It's one spin. Cody: Me and Commenter is the first spin. Second spin, Jay: Second spin. Cody: the Bach Brothers, the second spin. Jay: All right. Cody: The third spin is the Bach Brothers. The Bach Brothers will get the first pick of the draft. Jay: Okay, are you gonna take us off the wheel then? And Cody: No, this is it. So Jay: well who's gonna be second? Cody: it's a good question. So let you wanna do that? Okay, we Jay: Yeah. Cody: can do that. So let's delete those and we'll take you off. Okay. Pick a number. Jay: Alright, let's do three more spins. Cody: Three more spans. Jay: Let's do three again. Cody: Team I thirty five. Jay: Okay. Two is Cody: Off off season, me and Comment and the third Jay: Man, here it is. Cody: Me and Comventor, pick number two. Jay: Okay. All right. So pick number two goes to the offseason Warriors, which means that pick number three will go to Team I thirty five. Cody: And then to get with commenter. I'm not so sure how I like that. Because that means we're the ones always in the middle. We're never on the end. So we're never on the two in a row. We're always in the middle. Jay: It well, that's the luck of the draw, right? Like y Cody: I guess so. We win we lose by winning, right? Jay: That's you know, I I don't even understand what that means, but I we lose by winning. Cody: So we we won the spins and we end up in the second spot, which is the worst spot. Jay: Okay. Alright. Okay. all right. Well I I don't remember where I drafted, but I do know that I consistently end up with surprises that come late in the rounds. So if I can figure out what it is about those late round surging axe that gives me points, you guys are in a lot of trouble. Cody: Okay. Okay. Jay: So Cody: I'm I'm excited. Just a couple of weeks away from the draft. and w start putting your strategy together. Jay: Yeah. So in a week, I'm gonna be at a at a lake cabin with my brother. we're gonna talk only about America's got talent. You guys are we're just gonna Cody: The whole week. Jay: we're we're gonna have just a unbelievable draft board that you guys are gonna really really be amazed by. but I will be off next week. Do you have do you have a guest for next week's deliberations episode? Cody: Comment and I will be here next week. He'll be here and we'll Jay: Okay. Cody: break down all the acts that we know of that are going through. We'll talk about all those and then what we can project from the callbacks. Jay: Okay. And then in two weeks we'll watch deliberations and in three, four weeks man, it's a month away. Four weeks until lives. Cody: Yeah, I think I think yeah, I think we're looking at August twelfth is twelve or thirteenth is when we will draft the live show start August eighteenth. Jay: Okay. All right. Let's get some sleep. Get ready for get ready for a a new round. I'm excited to see what how it feels. Cody: Yeah, I'm excited too. 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 our website, AGT timepod dot com. and yeah, we'll see you all next week. Jay: Stay safe, everybody. Cody: Everyone have a good night.