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Semifinals 1 | Season 13 Rewatch | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Cody: Everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT Time. Man, we're getting close, commenter. Semi-finals. AGTCommenter: Semifinals Cody we are we're right there ⁓ I'm kind of sad. I was thinking about today after I was like we got three left It's been a fun. It's a fun season. This is a yeah, it's a talented season We've kind of we've we've talked about a lot of stuff So yeah, I was kind of sad it was We've got two we've got two you and I we were watching two more episodes. That's it ⁓ Cody: Are you? Yeah. It's been a good season, yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: And this was a delightful episode. Cody: Yep, it was a really as we were talking is a really really good episode. Yeah AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I thought it was great. I thought it was really, really good. ⁓ Not the best of the season, we'll talk about it, but ⁓ right up there. thought, I'll say this, I thought everybody either performed at the level I thought they were going to or outperformed. Is maybe the, and we can talk about that a little bit in a little bit, but ⁓ yeah, no, this is... ⁓ We're down to the end here, and we're down to the end of the offseason. mean, we're, what, five weeks out now, basically? Five and six? Five weeks from when we're recording this. When people get this in their feed, what are we going to be? ⁓ This will come out... Yeah, when people are listening to this, it's going to be basically five weeks. So, ⁓ yeah, no, it's... ⁓ Cody: We're getting close. Yeah. Yeah, season 21 right on the corner, AGTCommenter: It's exciting. Cody: Well, we're getting close to your offseason. AGTCommenter: Getting close to my off season. I'm ready ⁓ to kick my feet up. Yep, yep. How about you go ahead and tell people where to find us and then we got a bunch of pre-show stuff to cover. Cody: Take a rest, take a hibernation. You can find us on our socials at AGT TimePod. You can email us at AGTTimePod at gmail.com. can find Commenter out there at AGT Commenter. AGTCommenter: I'm playing my flu game. This is my flu game. Cody, you had yours... When was yours? You had a couple... Yeah, you had a couple kind of early winter or early new year. ⁓ Yeah, no, I got hit with a bad bout of the flu when I was down for the count last week. We had to postpone this recording for two, three days. ⁓ But here we are. So if I sound a little bit different, which I probably do, I'm fine. Cody: This is a flu game. Yeah, that's right. Literal flu game. It was in January, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: No changes over here, just a little, just a little nasally, little stuffed up. But this is what we do for the people, Cody. Lesser podcasters would be, would have tapped out and wouldn't have done this. So. Cody: That's right. or lesser podcasters would have actually tried to record while they were sick. AGTCommenter: You would not have liked to have recorded with me on Saturday. You would not have had fun. You would have had to run the episode. Cody: No No, no, we want to give We want to give the listeners. That's right. We want to give the listeners at least 80 % AGTCommenter: it well. Cody: Well, and our 100 % is some others like 60 % right? AGTCommenter: We're maxing out at 80. But ⁓ no, so happy to do it. The bigger news here, Cody, ⁓ and Cody and I tried to decide what kind of fanfare we wanted to go with for this, because the epitome of Cody as a member of the AGT Time pod is he's not our fanfare guy. Cody: Yeah, okay. AGTCommenter: operates in the shadows does all the dirty work for the for the pod this is cody patterson's four hundredth of a gt time that he is appeared on ⁓ so we we passed four hundred what was it as a as a podcast back in june january right ⁓ with howie's episode ⁓ which was not cody's four hundredth cuz he he missed the he wasn't here at the very beginning and then Cody: Something like that, yep. Yep. AGTCommenter: just a couple random ones over the last handful years. I believe this is 413 for the show and 400 for Cody. So he's only missed 13 episodes in show history. Cody, congratulations on 400 podcast episodes. Cody: Thanks. Thanks. I'm just happy to be here. You know, I show up every week for the listeners. It's not that big a deal. AGTCommenter: We don't need to, we don't need to overdo it. ⁓ 10 second quick thank yous if you want to throw out. Cody: Yeah. Thank you to Cody Mims and GJ for getting this started. Thank you guys for coming along. Let's do a pod. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yep. Yep. Let's do a pod. There he is. ⁓ Not a small feat though, so congratulations. ⁓ We had a bunch of AGT related thing. I shouldn't say a bunch, but we had a season 13 related piece of news last night. Yeah, last night that we're recording this. ⁓ We're recording this the day after. Cody: Yes. Last night, yes. Well, once again, for the listeners, it's old news, but yeah. AGTCommenter: It's old news, but Cody and I recorded this the day after the WNBA draft. And season 13 Golden Buzzer, Flau'jae Johnson, was drafted by the Golden State Valkyries, instantly traded to Seattle. Is it the Seattle Star? Seattle Storm? Seattle Storm, I think. ⁓ Because we had talked about, she's no longer with us on the show. ⁓ At this point in our rewatch, she went home in the quarters, but. we were kind of wondering what her post basketball or post LSU career was going to look like from a basketball standpoint and if she was going to go more in the direction of her music career and it appears at the very least she's going to kick the tires on this. She went eight overall I think so. ⁓ WNBA is different than the NBA in terms of eligibility. You have to play three years, I believe, in college before you can go in the WNBA draft. So it's a little less competitive, I guess, technically, in terms of the amount of people that can be drafted. So ⁓ I don't know how many younger players would have gone ahead of her. But still, top 10 pick. ⁓ So congratulations to her. ⁓ And then we had the Masters. Cody: Yes. Did you get to watch the Master? Did you get to enjoy it? AGTCommenter: And I watched, I enjoyed the weekend. The first couple days were a little bit, I was a little less into it. But Roy McRoy, Cody, you're almost classmate. Roy McRoy, Cody, I uncovered this today. I didn't know this piece of trivia. It's a fascinating piece of sports trivia that I uncovered, Cody. Cody: Yes. That's true. Yes, that is true. Yes. AGTCommenter: You almost went to college with Rory McIlroy. Excuse me, Rory McIlroy. At good old... Cody: did, yes. Yes I did. East Tennessee State University. Yes, he was almost a buck. He was almost a buccaneer. AGTCommenter: East Tennessee State. He was signed to play golf in Johnson City, Tennessee. It's one of the most random, like, would have been so random. Cody: Guess he was. Yeah. Yeah. So ETSU for a while was actually very well known for their, their golf team. Like it was one of the top golf teams in the nation. AGTCommenter: And what I had read was that they had had a line of Irish ⁓ golfers that had come, people from Ireland and Northern Ireland, recruits that had come from there to come and play too. So that was kind of the connection. But the story goes is Rory was signed to go to Johnson City to swing the sticks. And then before he ever stepped foot on campus, ⁓ he turned pro instead, which has worked out just fine for for old McElroy. ⁓ Cody: Mm-hmm. Two time master champion for Roy McElroy. AGTCommenter: Yeah, six times major winner. ⁓ How much crossover would there have been for the two of you on campus? I believe his... Sure. Cody: ⁓ Probably very probably very little. I mean was it yeah years wise we would about a few years together I was I was not your standard ⁓ Student I was a lengthy student a good old ETSU So but as far as classes we would not have had any classes together unless he was a computer science major. He we would not have had anything together Yeah, wouldn't that AGTCommenter: ⁓ sure. would have been something if you guys were buddies. We'd be doing a lot better on this podcast if we had somebody who's buddies with Rory. Yeah, no, what a fascinating piece of trivia that was. Cody: You Yeah, so so once you sent me that then it got me thinking about the other alumni that were kind of the the notable alumni from From a good old etsu and so one of the biggest and there's a couple in here. I didn't even realize but One of the biggest notables is kenny chesney Yeah, so he's one of the biggest ones that's come out of Any etsu is kenny chesney looking at the rest of the list like are you familiar with timothy busfield? AGTCommenter: Right. No. Nope. Cody: the actor. ⁓ So he's well known, he's did some other things, but he's also well known as being a recurring character on the West Wing. He's kind of run into some legal trouble recently. Yeah. So I think they're kind of separating, but one of the other big names that's on that list, you recognize this one is Gerald Zinsabal, former Dallas Cowboy. Yes. Defensive and I think. So yeah, those are the kind of the two big ones that you're the pop culture. AGTCommenter: ⁓ no. Yes, yep. Cody: or sorry, three big ones that the pop culture would know. AGTCommenter: Yeah, well, 400 episode host of HCTimeBot. I mean, if you're talking pop culture, I'd say we're technically in pop culture. We have listeners of this podcast. ⁓ Cody: That is true. Can I get on the notable list? Yes, could could we get $80,000 to get my name on the Walk of Fame Okay AGTCommenter: That also popped up everywhere now. The fact we talked about that, someone just got on there and I've seen Cody in my life and I feel like forever I've seen posts about people getting a star, right? And never once have I stumbled upon comments about how people get them. Thousand comments under the, like, it's not that impressive and I was like, we just looked this up and talked about it. Neither of us knew that it was that. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: kind of, I mean, you have to get nominated. You did, yeah. But I had not, I was not familiar with the process and now it's all I saw about that whatever guy I got, can't remember his name, that just got a star. Cody: I did. I was aware of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Simon? Simon? You talking about Simon? Or are you talking about someone else? ⁓ okay, okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Well, no. Somebody got it like last week. Some actor. Yeah. Footed the $80,000 bill to get his star. But yeah, no, I mean it's... When did we say Simon got his? Oh yeah, it was in the season. Yeah, yeah, I trying to remember. Yeah. Did we find out of how he had one? Cody: You just during the season. Yeah, season 13. I Howie has one, I think I've seen it. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, he has to. ⁓ From what I've read a little bit, it's not so much that the person is just cutting a check for that much. People, sponsors, things like that are more spent paying the money than the actual actor or subject of it. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's still a committee that has to decide whether you are worthy. Yeah. Right. That would be amazing. AGTCommenter: Yes, I can't just go and get myself an AGT commenter. ⁓ But yeah, no ⁓ any other ⁓ Any other random news that's popped up that we need to touch on I don't I don't know if there is ⁓ Yeah, no, think I think we can you want to get into this episode a little bit season 13 rewatch episode 8 Semi-finals 1 Cody we are here in the semi-finals like you said off the top Episode 17 Cody: I don't think so. Let's do it. Yes. AGTCommenter: of the season and we've got we're in some more we've got two more episodes left Cody: Yes. How many episodes until we saw Jackie Ivanko? Okay, that's one. I wanna make sure of that. Okay. AGTCommenter: I was going to bring that up. There's less, well it's because 18, 19, 20. So the finals will be episode 21 of this season. So this season's finals was the same episode number as Jackie Ivanko's first episode of season five. So if you're trying to put into context why you and I have had a little more fun with this rewatch than season five, that's another part of it. That it took us 21 episodes to get the best act of the season. It's only 21 episodes for the full season for this one. But yes, episode 17. ⁓ I just was really impressed by this group of 11. Like I said, I thought everybody at least performed to the level I thought they were going to. I even thought Sam Comrow put on a solid Sam Comrow performance. ⁓ And I thought there was a bunch. I thought the singing was great in this episode. ⁓ I liked all the singing performances. The funny part is I have almost none of them in my top five, but I really enjoyed all the performances. ⁓ I think I have, of my top five, one is a singer or singing group. don't want to tease which it ended up being. Yeah. Cody: same it's a singer or singing group AGTCommenter: But, cause there end up being one, two... Three. Four. Five. One, two, three, four, yeah, five. There was five singer or singing groups. A choir, a duo, and then three solo singers in this. I thought all five. I'd say us, the duo probably was not maybe at the same level, but I'd say I really liked all of them, and I only have one that I thought was in top five. So that was a great episode. And I mean, it has, in my opinion, Maybe the best performance of all time is this one, in my opinion. So that didn't hurt either, but do a transcend was way better than last round. So yeah, so I just, thought the semi-finals ramped it up and I really enjoyed it. Did you, did you find yourself, I think one less performance was nice too, just watching it. was. Cody: ⁓ absolutely, 100%. It felt faster. Yeah. AGTCommenter: It felt faster. A lot of times that just comes down to am I enjoying what I'm watching or not? Because if it's not as fun, it's a little bit hard. What do you think, kind of just in general, of this episode? Cody: Sure. ⁓ The singers themselves I thought were fine. I don't have them ranked very high except except for one I I thought the performances were fine. There's solos to solo singers and then us to that's the duo I didn't feel was great. It just felt like it was a lot of the same of what we've been seeing I like that they still did their indie stuff, but it didn't feel as Impressive of what some of the others were doing the shin-limb stuff. I thought again AGTCommenter: I don't either, but I liked the performances. Yeah. Yeah. Cody: I struggle with like, I get that you really like it, but I struggle. think it's just one of those things. It's just, it's so far over my head that I just can't comprehend it. Yeah. AGTCommenter: This one is, this one I don't even, I can't follow it. And that's what, this one your head's just spinning the whole time. He's like, hold on, it's cards in his back pocket, now it's in his coat, now it's in the bag, now it's out of the bag, it's back in the bag. And that, like the rest of them, he moves them along way slower, he sets it up more. This one he's just like, you know what? Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. He's actually talking a little bit in this performance too. I think. Cody: Okay. Yeah. Yes, yes, I do like that. AGTCommenter: I figured this one from a enjoyment standpoint for you would be more than the rest because he does, he interacts a little bit with, there's two people at the table, there's some of that stuff. I mean, he's doing tricks with a Sharpie, we'll talk about all of it, but ⁓ yeah. This was a wafty performance. But the smoke was, we had a lot of, this was the smokiest. was the waftiest and the smokiest. ⁓ Cody: Yeah. Yeah, the hair wafting was out of control though. This is a very wafting performance. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But yeah, I think overall I really enjoyed all these performances. I do agree that these were probably as far as live shows goes, this was one of the most entertaining shows that we've seen. It was way better than obviously quarterfinals too, which was Complete disaster and totally unhinged ⁓ It felt like the the parents of AGT kind of set the the kids down and had a little conversation To say come on. Yeah, you got to behave while on live TV ⁓ It just felt like it was way more ⁓ Control professional and controlled than what we had a couple weeks ago Yeah AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. professional. I would agree. Yeah, no, I had a lot of fun with this. And I think, I can't remember, I think when we talked about the preview of this last week, we felt like some of my finals too might have had a better lineup too. So ⁓ it's gonna be, I think it'll be a fun week again next week too. yeah, go ahead. Cody: Mm-hmm. I did like that we were in the episode within like two minutes. It didn't feel like there was a lot of recap or lead up. It's like Tyra came on, introduced the judges, and then boom, Amanda Manna. AGTCommenter: I would agree because to me your recap should have been done Wednesday night the week before You've you've covered you've covered that tomorrow night and and if you want to talk about Who's in the semis again tomorrow night? You'll talk about who's who all made it who's all advanced from quarterfinals all that so Yeah, they're they're better with the ⁓ Simon says that off the top he says Cody: Yes. Hmm? AGTCommenter: three minutes will change your life. So now we've had a 90 seconds referenced in live shows. Now there is one less performance than the quarterfinals where they had supposedly 90 seconds. Well they've doubled their time. It's a great deal. So they got 90 seconds back and have given all 11 an extra 90 seconds. real loaves and fishes miracle on our hands here, Cody. Cody: by getting rid of one for four more. ⁓ Well, when you start the episode two minutes in you can do that type of stuff so AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, they found the time for them to double their performance like, no, that is a much, the three minutes will change your life is a much ⁓ more honest representation of AGT at this point, which is fine. ⁓ Otherwise, like you said, like usually I have a few more notes from kind of overarching off the top stuff, some of the, there was, they trimmed the fat on this episode, it was very, very clean and I felt like, Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: Honestly, I only felt like there was one performance that was like, ⁓ that was kind of short. I didn't feel like we got snubbed on any performances. Sam Comrose, maybe it was just, I don't know, but it felt like he did less jokes or was quick. The rest of them I thought were really good, long, proper performances. ⁓ Voting. You pulled a clip because ⁓ it's funny that they still are using phone numbers to vote at this point in 2018. Cody: Yes. Yeah, let's see the iPhone had been out life about 10 years so yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, just, in 2018 I was, everything was an app already at this point. But they still were using the phone number and Tyra wanted to make sure the people at home were gonna vote properly. You pulled that clip. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Now why- Cody: I'm not sure if pizza is what you're to be ordering if you call the wrong phone number. AGTCommenter: Now Tyra, if... Unless you order a pizza with jellyfish, why would you ever receive a pizza with jellyfish? In what universe is there a phone number that upon dialing automatically delivers to you a jellyfish covered pizza? Come on. Come on, Tyra. My favorite, she's like, some of you are still getting this wrong. Like... Yeah, basically eight idiots at home. It's 866. ⁓ Cody: That's right! That's right. How do you know who's getting it wrong? Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, no, that was ⁓ something. No, think they had to be getting... If I was her, this would have been my final straw to be like, let's get rid of the telephone voting. Let's just move on. Cody: Yeah. Do you think Howie had his ear on Twitter of people complaining that they weren't dialing the right number? AGTCommenter: Mmm, phone number's not working. A pizza parlor picked up. Again. Tried to vote. I tried to vote for Amanda Mena and I got Cousin Joe at Pizzeria asked me if I wanted extra jellyfish. Yeah. No, I don't know. I don't ⁓ know what happened there. ⁓ I wanted to, before we get into the individual performances, I had a... Cody: That only, that only, that's right. AGTCommenter: I was thinking about this today too that I wanted your thoughts on. There's 11 performances here. We had in season five, the finals was technically the top four, but the round before that was top 10, correct? It was 10, it wasn't 12. Was it 12? 10. I it was top 10, right? Season five, we went top 10 to top four, correct? Yeah. Cody: ⁓ yes, yes, yes AGTCommenter: The 10, so let's use that top 10 as the, obviously the top 10 of the season. Of this 11, I think all 11 in here could have been in the top 10 in season 5. Cody: All 11 could have been in the top 10. So any one of any of the 11 could have been made a top 10. Any combination. AGTCommenter: If you one by one plucked these and put them into season five, they all would have made the top ten. Cody: ⁓ no, well, I think six of them would have. I think, I think, I think the four... Okay. AGTCommenter: Right. We're not taking all 11 at once. just one by one. If we took Amanda Mena and put her in season five, she's a top 10 act. If I take Junior New System, us the duo, that's a top 10. Yeah, and this is the top 22 of this season. And I was thinking about it and I was like, you could probably go further and I would say all these 11 would be one of the eight best of season five maybe even. Like maybe even higher than 10. Cody: ⁓ she would have been in the top 10. Yes, okay, yes, you're right. right. Yeah. Yes. Sure. Yeah. AGTCommenter: ⁓ or most of them. I was just like, some of the stuff we sat through in season five ⁓ was kind of interesting. But you got anything else you want to talk about before we get to some performances here? Cody: No. AGTCommenter: Alright, we are back in the Dolby Theater here. We are in Hollywood for Miss Amanda Mena is back for her third performance of the season. Mel B's Golden Buzzer. She's gonna be performing Happy by Pharrell. This was a song now. What? Let's see, Happy. Yeah, I mean this swept the nation. Cody: Yes. I'm happy! It was on the airwaves, yeah. AGTCommenter: Did he do the Super Bowl? Cody: Yes, I don't know. Well, yes, he's done a super bowl with uh Bruno Mars, right? AGTCommenter: Okay, that's what it was. Yeah. ⁓ What... Do you think it's platinum? I think it's diamond. Do you think it went diamond this song? Cody: Man, I can't remember the order. I know it's gold. AGTCommenter: Here we go, certifications. United States, it is 11 times platinum, so it's not diamond. ⁓ Cody: Okay, okay. How long before it's diamond? How does how does that work? Okay. AGTCommenter: I don't remember. Let's It was, ⁓ it is ⁓ album ⁓ digital single Diamond is million it says. ⁓ But it says here that ⁓ it sold 11 units. ⁓ So wouldn't that diamond? I don't know. But this was a huge song. ⁓ Huge song. came out ⁓ in... ⁓ 2013. That would have been earlier than I would have thought. I would have thought it was a little closer to this season. But this was a big song. Shock, I shouldn't say shocking, really surprised by the song choice. Cody: and the arrangement. AGTCommenter: I kind of liked the arrangement. did. I thought it was like she couldn't do the original the way it is. wouldn't have. Right. And so for her, was like, I think she actually made it work for her. Is it a good song that way? Maybe not. But I was at least kind of impressed that it I was like, how is she going to pull this off? And I thought she I thought she pulled it off. I really like her voice. Cody: Did you? Okay. ⁓ no no no. AGTCommenter: I'm just not sure there's anything exciting enough to be a final act. You know what I mean? I like her, she can sing, she's very nice. I thought the arrangement actually worked, but I'm not sitting here being like, need to see her one more time. What did you think of this performance? Cody: Yeah, I'm kind of with you that I think she could she can sing she's a she's a really good kid girl singer I Think she's great like radio Disney type of singer Yeah, you know very poppy kid songs that type stuff I Mean I thought the right I had interesting down for the arrangement just because we're so familiar with the original AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: Just thought this was a very interesting way to sing the song ⁓ Production going crazy with the lights It was a lot of lights. It actually kind of bothered me the way that they were doing all the vertical It was kind of messing with my eyes and she was blending in a lot with the with the background of the lights I was struggling to see her ⁓ I Thought it was fine. I thought it a good performance ⁓ AGTCommenter: lot of lights. Yes, I think this is the exact way to put it. If she goes through, I would have been like, fair enough, that's fine. There's other names I would have wanted over her, this wasn't, we've seen semi-finalists who put on a not very good, like a bad performance and get voted through. This is not that. This was a perfectly good singing performance on America's Got Talent in a really... Cody: Yeah, I thought it was a good performance, not a great performance. Sorry. Yeah. AGTCommenter: good night, was never a way where I thought she was one of the five best, but this was pretty good. ⁓ You mentioned the stage. This was an instance that I've talked about shrinking the stage. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: What dawned on me is it's mostly about camera angle for the shrinking of the stage. And part of it is putting stuff on it. But this felt like a small stage, which was, I didn't mind, but it was more just because it's zoomed in. ⁓ Cody: This was a stage made for TV, not for in the theater. AGTCommenter: Right, yeah, even when they fully zoomed out, half the stage wasn't even that wall that they used for the lights and stuff, so the people in the theater were not really fooled. But yeah, no, I thought it was a good way to start the show, but I think if I'm sitting there in 2018, my hope is that the next 10, there's five more acts that are about to, at least, that are about to come that are better than that. Cody: Yeah, do you think having this kind of smaller platform stage kind of limited her in this where she wasn't able to kind of move about and do a little bit more? Or is she not that type of singer? AGTCommenter: I think it's probably a good point. I still am with Simon from last round where I think she should be in a group. And I think that that is. So yeah, I think she is that type of singer. She should be in a Radio Disney group, right? The next, you know, kid's pop, you know, girl's band, yeah, cheetah girl's type thing. but yeah, no, I think that makes some sense. ⁓ yeah, there's probably about thousand better songs. Cody: Okay. Mm-hmm. Like a Cheetah Girls type thing. Yeah. AGTCommenter: that she could have picked probably. Probably. I like trying to have fun taking a risk with it maybe, but it was, it is what it is. Simon had some thoughts that you pulled, so let's hear from Simon. What'd you think? Better than last time? I thought it was. Cody: Yeah, I thought it was better than last time. also think Simon just said a lot of generic things that... AGTCommenter: Yeah, he couldn't decide if he wanted what he wanted to do. He kind of went out, not went after, but gave kind of a bigger comment the week before and he might've just been like, there's better acts coming, let's just move on. anything else on Amanda Mena? End of the line for us with her, she is not gonna go through, so. Cody: right. AGTCommenter: The gold buzzers, you miss out on a round of performances and it just doesn't feel like they've been a part of the season in the same way when they don't make the finals. Cody: Yeah, which is what we comment a lot on these live show golden buzzers that we're getting so AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, okay. It's gonna take us to our high heeled sensations. It's Junior New System. ⁓ Every time they come on, Da Republic, it's like here we are in our dance group. It's like we have a side competition happening within this bigger competition between the dance groups. ⁓ Cody, we're gonna start in the heels this time via Howie's advice. Howie's very excited that they took his advice. Cody: Yes. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: A little basketball theme. Looked like high school musical. A bunch of Troy Bolton's in high heels running around. ⁓ Did they use this song last performance? I'm pretty sure they did. Bang Bang by somebody. Bang bang da da da da da. I think they used it two rounds in a row. Which is fine, it's different than like a singer. whatever. Yeah. They ditched the heels halfway through, Cody. We're getting rid of... Cody: Love the basketball theme. It did? Yes. I... I don't recall. Okay. I didn't notice, so I'm sure no one, a lot of other people didn't either. So they did the reverse. Yeah. AGTCommenter: This is reverse, right. I like this better than last week, or last round. Cody: Yep. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I still just don't like them as much as Dow Republic, but this was a good performance. I did like this performance. What'd you think of Junior News System? Cody: loved the guy that spun on his head, that did the flip on his head and then spun on his head. There was a lot of break dancing in this one. I really liked it. I thought it was a great performance. Again, a lot of lights. I don't know what production's doing. It's so bright in this episode. anyway, ⁓ as far as their performance, I really enjoyed it. I liked them starting out in the heels. The basketball theme was great. The guy break dancing I thought was great. One of their better performances. AGTCommenter: Yep, yep, there was some break dancing here, yeah. Yeah. I would agree. Do you wish they would have had some basketballs? Cody: Could they have done, was it bad? What's the group of basketball? guys that do the trampoline? Acrodunk, yeah. Could they have done some acrodunk? Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: ⁓ Accrodunk Yeah, yeah should they have dunked few times they done some acrodunking. Yeah Yeah, no, I just think Ultimately, and we'll see them one more time next week with the Republic I think they're just the second best dance act of the season and yes You can we certainly could have more than one dance act in a finals. I don't have a problem with that Seems unlikely America's probably ever gonna do that. So They're gonna take zero instead of even one. So Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. a, did a, was AGT smart in separating them in the episodes? Okay. AGTCommenter: But yeah, this was great. Yeah. You're saying they might have been able to ensure one going through if there was two of 11 instead of one of 11 in each. Cody: Yeah, I mean I guess that yes also just to make it more entertaining Was it a smart decision to separate them so you have at least one in each episode? Okay AGTCommenter: Yeah, I think that was the right call. ⁓ Yeah, anything else on the performance? This was really good. Cody: ⁓ AGT showing a replays like we don't see them do instant replays very much Like like like during like during judges comments they showed their they showed the guy spinning as an instant replay Yeah, I was like we don't see AGT doing instant replays very much Yeah AGTCommenter: ⁓ Dur- ⁓ sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, what are we doing? I would agree, it's not usually, it's kind of anti the format. ⁓ Best act of the night. Cody: yes, so far. Yes. AGTCommenter: So far, clearly, yeah. You pulled Howie's comments, because Howie is very, he is very happy that the boys took his advice. Let's hear from Howie. There's a few things here I want to do. Let's do the Howie portion of it first. I love when he says, know what I'm talking about. He's been here nine, this is his ninth season. Like I think that, I think he's right. Like there, I don't know if there was some, some emotion behind that line. It was probably just a way of saying something. But I think, I think like people on the show don't think he knows what he's talking about enough. That when he's critical of something, he's saying it because he has done this long enough to know that this is. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: you're hurting yourself or helping yourself with this or that. ⁓ So I thought that was interesting. His point, you and I both like the start no high heel, flip halfway through thing that they've done. And I wasn't so sure about his advice because we liked the kind of the build to it. After seeing it, I did think it made the performance smoother. Not that there was a break in the other performances, but they took them off way faster than they can put them on. And that just felt a little more seamless and the performance seemed a little bit more cohesive. So you might have been right. Cody: Yes, yes. Yeah, and agreed. And we're going to get that similar thing from an act later on as well. Really got to change shoes. Yes. AGTCommenter: Right, yeah, so, yeah. Anything else on Junior New System? Yeah. Cody: Now, I enjoyed this. I thought it was really good. thought the, I really liked the guy break dancing. That was really cool. AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, okay. It's gonna take us ⁓ to our married couple, us the duo, now us the unos, us the trio at this time. They started as us the duo, became us the trio during this with the pregnancy, and now they're us the unos since they're now divorced. So, a lot of iterations. Cody: So if they're sharing custody, what would that be? AGTCommenter: Ooh, two us the duos then? Maybe? I don't know. ⁓ Well, it's only the only reason it was us the trio is because the baby's with the pre- is at the performances technically. So, my- if these two are still performing they're probably solo and I'm sure they don't bring the kid to the concert. ⁓ yeah. Cody: No, agreed, agreed, yes. They are... I think they still perform together. They're just not married. But the kid is now... eight. AGTCommenter: Right. Yes, seven probably. Yes, probably not eight yet. Yeah. Yeah, but probably not performing. Cody: Yeah, could be coming to the concerts. you never know with this couple. AGTCommenter: Right, so, but even then they're still just, it's three UNOs. Yeah. They're gonna be performing their original song, Broke. Cody: Yes, that's correct. AGTCommenter: Their ceiling was quarterfinals, in my opinion. This is a quarterfinals act. that, we needed 36. This was probably one of I would say it's one of the, it was probably one of the 40 best acts of the season. Didn't need to be in the quarterfinals. It was probably a quarterfinals act. They just aren't dynamic or interesting enough to make the finals. They weren't to make the semis. I like her voice more than his, I think. Cody: Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: The bit that they decided to do where they kind of sang to the judges was weird. was awkward. It just didn't work. They were talking about having bills to pay. The song was about, you know, yeah, Howie's got bills to pay and Mel's got... It didn't work. It was awkward. The judges were kind of confused. It was like the least worried about bills to pay people in... Cody: ⁓ and they called their names out? Yeah. Yes! AGTCommenter: in certainly in the building like Simon's probably the only one sitting there that like actually stresses about bills to pay because he's got about a thousand shows he's got a yeah but the rest of the other three are like what i got i got a guy that does that i don't i don't i don't think i i don't have any bills to pay yeah Cody: Well yeah, yeah. He pays the guy to pay the bills. Yes. AGTCommenter: Right, exactly. They all have one bill to pay and it's just to the guy that pays the bills. Cody: Try AGTCommenter: Yes, and so, because we've seen this before, the king of it was Sal Valentinelli. You remember his finals performance, he did Mack the Knife, which is not one of your favorite Cruder songs, ⁓ but in the end of it he's like, was Howie Mandel. ⁓ How you doing, Heidi Klum and Miss Melanie Brown and Nick Cannon's dance camera. It was specific and it worked and it played to each. each person this one was just like you have bills pay you have bills pay you have bills pay you have bills pay we have bills pay yay like it was I get that they tried yeah exactly it was like you need to they didn't personalize it at all where Sal nailed it ⁓ Sal even when he would do you know he did my way and he said he's ⁓ Sal took all the blows like he could even do that but ⁓ Cody: Yeah, you you you and see one a you have bills to pay you and see one B you have bills to pay Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: What'd you think kind of in totality of this performance? Cody: No, I agree that last week was their ceiling. I thought just the song felt very repetitive. I didn't care about I don't want when I'm watching this. I don't want to be thinking about paying bills Yeah, it's like This this is a reality show, but I want to escape reality while I'm watching the show Yes, so I was not into this song at all. I think they've got a I still like their I like their sound they're at the indie sound that they have but this song just AGTCommenter: Yeah, it's one of the great stresses of life. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. No. And again, I do appreciate the attempt on the judge thing, because I think if you pull it off, that is fun. Again, like... Cody: did not do anything for me. Yeah. Okay. What's the, what's the way they could have done it? How could they have personalized it? But I'm just saying if you say how you got dealer, no deal bills or Mel B spicy bills or okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: I don't know the lyrics of the song well enough to... Yeah, I think this was just a terrible song for it, because it was all about money. I think there's just, yeah, on a different song. Can you look in our audio files, by chance, for a Sal Valentinetti finals clip? Cody: Maybe. AGTCommenter: I like we would have had it in his rewatch poll. I'd have to imagine that was the portion that I pulled that if we did that, because we did that with Ryan. We did that rewatch poll. ⁓ Cody: ⁓ VAMP and I'll see what I can find. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I was gonna look and see. ⁓ Yeah, no, I pulled it. We have the clip. Yeah, this was... ⁓ If we can find it, this the perfect, ⁓ perfect example. ⁓ Yeah, old... Yeah, I'm wondering, I'm trying think of how you would have labeled stuff back ⁓ Cody: Yeah, I may have to dig in. I may have to dig into the archives for it. AGTCommenter: Probably this would have been like Valentine Eddie. Maybe it was Mack the Knife. Cody: Season 3 of the rewatchables? ⁓ I don't have Sal- We didn't have clips for Sal. AGTCommenter: Yep, SV finals. I have it on my sheet that we had clips for Sal. Maybe they've... Maybe they might have de-archived. ⁓ Cody: I don't have clips for Sal. Yeah. I've got Fighting Gravity, Glennis Grace, John Dorn, Boss Matt Franco, Michael Graham, Nealey Boyd, Prince Bobbikok, Stephen Brundage, and William Close. AGTCommenter: Yeah, that would be the correct season. ⁓ no, that is that's why we had a lot of segments that year. ⁓ But anyway, okay. Speaking of audio clips, we do have a judge comment. ⁓ So let's hear from Simon. There's a lot there. We've all got bills to pay. Very funny. He says the nicest people that have ever on any of the shows as Michael Ketterer is backstage. Cody: Yes. They're golden boy. AGTCommenter: It's very nice season. ⁓ Good point by him on the, was like a background song. And did you hear him say that they don't ever fight? The now divorced couple. Didn't age very well. Yeah, didn't age, that didn't age very well. But that's okay. Mama and Papa, Mama and Papa. Which, like Papa's not a dad. Cody: Yes. You can be divorced and not fight. You can just, yeah, it happens. Yeah. Did you catch Tyra at the beginning? Do want to hear that again? AGTCommenter: That would be Dada. Papa's grandpa. Cody: Maybe. Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah, you know what mean. Like, my mom and papa. Big Daddy Simon. Anything else on us to do? Cody: You ⁓ I don't believe so. AGTCommenter: I have them third right now of the three. Cody: ⁓ I'll just say I have him dead last. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: for whole episode. think that's probably, I probably maybe not quite, but right there, yeah. Cody: So I had this question About the song itself is the song is the song just saying hey we have bills to pay Or is the song about like dodging paying the bills? Okay, okay AGTCommenter: I don't know, I didn't listen close enough. For some reason it felt like a metaphor about if we aren't together, it's like a spiritual brook. Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: I need to see the words, like the actual lyrics. think there's lyrics online. Us the duo broke lyrics. Here we go. Money can't seem to find my pockets. Find my pockets now, mom said don't worry. Cody: That's the duo broke. It's like, yes, they are broke. Okay. AGTCommenter: And if, so the chorus is usually where you're find a meaning. Because if I disappear, these bills might pay themselves and if I leave this town, debt collectors won't find out. Who am I kidding? It don't matter where I go, money rules the world, but I'm still broke. It does seem literal to finance. ⁓ Yeah. Cody: It's not like you're saying he was dodging bill collectors, right? Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah, no, not a fun song. Yeah, yeah. Because if I disappear these bills might pay themselves. Yeah, it just sounds like... Yeah, I don't know, it's crazy. ⁓ Yeah, not a good song. anything else on Us The Duo? It's gonna take us to the Voices of Hope Children's Choir. Cody, ⁓ they are going to be singing Defying Gravity from Wicked. This was before this song really popped. Cody: Insurance money insurance money. Yeah Yep. Yes. Yes. Right. AGTCommenter: This song became one of the biggest songs in the world a couple years ago. ⁓ Cody: Well, this year. ⁓ no, well, last year. Okay, yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. AGTCommenter: No, this was probably two years ago, probably, 2024 maybe? ⁓ At this point, was still Adina Madzel was the... Correct, like was getting attributed to song. Now it's Cynthia Rivo is the name, which is what it is, who's tremendous. ⁓ I like this song choice much more than last week's last rounds. Cody: on Broadway. Yes. Yeah. But not a kids song. It's not Disney kids songs. Okay. AGTCommenter: It's... It's closer. It's, cause what's the, it's a, it's a Jason, a Wicked's adjacent to a Wizard of Oz. Yeah. Which is a kid, which is a kid's movie. Cody: Wizard of Oz, you said you haven't seen. Yeah. ⁓ is it? Ooh, good question. Is it a kids movie? AGTCommenter: Would you say it's more of a kids movie than the greatest showman? Cody: I know. They're both really close. They she literally killed somebody twice. AGTCommenter: I would say yes. ⁓ Yeah, but when did they come out? Cody: 39 30 yeah, okay Okay, a teenager literally killed two people in this movie so AGTCommenter: That was, they were doing that. Kids, that was normal to kids back then. ⁓ Yeah, I guess maybe Dorothy and the Red Slippers and some of the characters seem like a kid's choir more than the lady with the beard and a circus group, group of circus and stuff like that. ⁓ Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: this song choice just worked better whether it's not kid enough for what i was looking for which yes i'll think like pure disney songs but wicked i would i could see being aired on disney channel before the greatest showman would you that that that probably for yet that are we aware ⁓ Cody: Okay. Probably so, yeah. AGTCommenter: The soloists killed it in the big moment. They nailed it. And you have a clip, so before we get into anything super crazy, let's hear what you pulled here. Cody: They did. Top notch. Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: That's good It's it's Yeah, it's It's really high level Are the are the vocal the soloist perfect now the one the the first gal there's there's a couple misses in there, which is fine They're they're certainly getting the sentiment across of those big moments. It's a big song It's sorry. It's not gonna sound quite like Idina Mazzell and Cynthia Rivo is what it is Cody: It's good. That's a finals performance man. That is a yeah Mm-hmm. Yeah. You AGTCommenter: This was the best, because the choirs have struggled in the Dolby. We both agree, since we've gotten the live shows. This was the closest to where I felt the engulfed by the song, some Goose Bump level emotions. There's still moments, especially at the end, where the choir's too loud and the theater kind of eats the, and they talked about it, how it was, the theater maybe was too loud, whatever. I feel like we missed, or, Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: The very last note could have been even better, but they kind of up getting drowned out by the acoustics or the crowd or whatever. this was, I thought they sounded terrific. I think this was their best performance. What'd you think of Voices of Hope? Cody: like that the way that they arranged it where the soloists were kind of doing the verse and then they bring the choir in for the chorus ⁓ so and I it's the way it should be and so then you had the the choir as well kind of just doing the ooze and the Oz and the background but and so letting and so that lets the soloist just shine each was it three soloist they had four of them yeah and so it let each one of them kind of shine and do their own thing I thought they AGTCommenter: That's how it should be, yeah. Yeah. There was four. Yep. Cody: They did the song Justice. ⁓ Yeah, I really liked it. They wore their rainbow jumpsuits again. They kind of reused their outfits. AGTCommenter: I agree. Yes, except for the soloists were all all were like, yeah, cream white type. Yeah, kind of off white, whatever, which I feel like they were all in in the rainbows in the past performances that even the soloists. Cody: white cream yeah yeah yeah So they've been in the rainbows, remember the first one they wore t-shirts. I think even the first two they wore t-shirts. So in both live shows, they've worn the jumpsuits. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Exactly, yeah. No, great. This was really, really fun. ⁓ Best of the night. Cody: Waaaah AGTCommenter: So far, of the four. Cody: Actually, I had them below Junior New System. Yeah. AGTCommenter: You did. I think that's probably right. I think that's probably right. But it's right there. I mean, the big moment at the end was really fun. Because I was pretty much done with the choirs. Like, not finalists. It is what it is. They pulled me back with this one. You pulled Mel B's comments. So let's hear from Mel. Cody: Okay. It is. Yeah. Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: I didn't notice that necessarily. I'm not saying Mel's wrong by any means. I feel like in the theater it's probably easier to pick up on the very beginning of us. I feel like we are still stuck in the round of applause that's happening and stuff. ⁓ The theater's loud, Cody. Cody: Yeah. ⁓ It's good if a theater is loud. I mean, you want it to be loud, right? AGTCommenter: Yeah, you pulled a clip of them talking about the loudness of the theater. Let's hear that as well. Yeah, it's a loud room. ⁓ Mel might very well be right. I probably have to go back and listen closely at the beginning. There just wasn't a lot of criticism for this. And I think the soloist part of it where, yes, there was some pitchiness at times where they can be little flat. You're not expecting the kid soloist to be four perfect singers. Cody: That's... AGTCommenter: Are we capturing the emotion and the mood of the song and portraying it through the soloist properly? And I thought they nailed it in this performance. ⁓ Cody: Yeah. What would you think of Amanda Menna being one of the soloists? Yeah. Is she too old? AGTCommenter: one of the soloists. Yeah, well, yeah, she would run, she'd be the best soloist by, no, the soloists seem like they're all, you know, teenagers and yeah. Yeah, I mean, she'd be the best soloist by a mile. Like her and Mikhail Phillips is like the two soloists. Yeah, I mean, the choir would really be something. ⁓ But yeah, anything else on Voices of Hope? Cody: teenagers. Okay. They'd win the competition. ⁓ would was melt be better this tonight this episode? Okay AGTCommenter: Yeah, they were all better. They were all better. They were all subdued. Maybe they all got some type of some downer before they went on. all just took. Cody: But not just some dude like she didn't have first language issues like she was given good feedback like okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Right, yeah. Yeah, she was on her A game, which was good. Alright. Cody: her male, her male A game. AGTCommenter: her Mel A game. This was probably a Mel B game still. Yeah, I wouldn't say an A yet, but yeah, this was good. We've been getting a lot of C minuses. Cody: Okay, okay, okay. AGTCommenter: Four acts in, fifth act of the night, Mr. Shin Lim. Our winner is here again for his fourth performance. Man, what a performance. This is one of the great AGT performances in its 20 years. Cody, I wrote this down. How lucky are we to be alive at the same time as Shin Lim? I count myself lucky. Cody: Is it is it you know, so I guess every Era has their magician, right? So yeah, you had uh In the he had uh, what's his name in the 30s? He had a Houdini you had um David Copperfield we got we got shin lim. Yeah AGTCommenter: Right. Houdini, you had the Houdinis and the Copperfield. Yeah, David Blaine. Yes. One, I don't think that's the case anymore because magic isn't what, isn't a, ⁓ like a, well it's just not like even a, it's not a mainstream form of entertainment. And he wouldn't probably. Cody: It's not as mysterious as it used to be. Okay. AGTCommenter: fitted to that because he's not like Chris Angel would be another one. He's not those he's not doing he's not you know doing that kind of stuff. ⁓ Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: To be the magician of the era, feel like you have to do the disappear a car and TV specials and hang in a box with scorpions above the Bellagio and stuff like that. Cody: TV specials. Yeah. and bend your thing to avoid the... yeah. yeah. okay. AGTCommenter: Right, levitate, you have to do stuff like that. He's your favorite magician's favorite magician, without a doubt. And he's the greatest slight-of-hand magic magician that there's ever been. I'm not gonna do a deep dive into the routine. One, it's just a lot and it's hard to keep up with. But really the only thing he isn't a lead at is he's not a great orator. It's not his strength. He's just not a talk you through type stuff. But he's improving as the season has gone. But the magic here was just so, it was so, good. I think it's probably his best start to finish performance. There's a lot of great smoke. Two different mouth smoke moments, Cody, in this. ⁓ He didn't waste a prop either. Even the Sharpie is, he does two different little disappear and reappear tricks with the Sharpie. By the end of the performance, we've Cody: Yes, yes. AGTCommenter: We've disappeared the Sharpie, the plastic bag, the box of cards, and all the cards have all been used as disappearing props. Cody: You AGTCommenter: Mel described it as true classy mysterious magic. love it is it's class. That's what he is. He is a classy magician. It's it's a she named this lady is an out Mel a ⁓ that's exactly it is. It's just it's classy. I when he does the the bag and it's like flipping back and forth. ⁓ Cody: Sure, I could get on board with that, yeah. AGTCommenter: He makes the card disappear in the bag at the very end. He's obviously, he's gonna, I just, I find this performance fascinating. It's all right in front of you too. It's really hard to nitpick, you know, how he's, you know, ⁓ sleight of handing and everything. What'd you think of this Shin Limb performance? Cody: It is fun to watch it is fun to watch. I it's all over my head. I don't understand it But it is fun to watch I like that. He's he does talk you got the two people up there was it last week He didn't have anyone up there Right. It's kind of I think we need some when you're doing close-up. You want kind of someone there to witness Which I really like and I'd like all the talking a lot of smoke I just noticed this is all flipping through what's this pin that he wears on his vest you ever noticed AGTCommenter: had no one up there. Right. I ⁓ good question. I didn't, I didn't, I see that. Yeah. Cody: Cause you were talking about like things disappearing and I noticed this. He's always got this little pin on. It's just, don't know. There's something that kind of stuck out at me as I was kind of flipping through while we were talking about this. I'd never noticed it before. wafting, wafting was out of control, man. The wafting was a lot of wafting. AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah I'm not sure. Lot of wafting. Yeah, we get some wafting in the comments. ⁓ Yeah, no, I think this is him at his best. He's peaks here because next week, don't think, or next round, I don't think is quite as good. ⁓ But to me, it's the third in the trio between this, the judge cuts and the audition of his kind three-headed monster of the season. it's just, it's a lot of fun. You pulled Howie's. comments we're going to talk about some hair in this as well. Let's hear from Howie. Cody: Tara, it's not a morning show. We're not doing dem... We're not doing demonstrations here. It's like... AGTCommenter: It's not a morning show, it's not a podcast. He doesn't have hair. What did you want from Howie? What was best case scenario, Tyrone? What happened in that moment? What was Howie gonna do? Short of him pulling a wig out from his lap and putting it on and wafting it, what was the best case scenario? ⁓ Cody: It's like... It would be better if she attempted it. AGTCommenter: Yes, do. Yeah, Tyra, you do it on the the cut to break. We'll be we'll be right back and like wash your hair. Fine. You love doing that stuff. Go into commercial. ⁓ He says it most impressive sleight of hand magician he's ever seen. Shout out Howie. ⁓ Best of the night. I don't I don't have it. I don't have it. But that's not it's going to be that's not going to change for me, obviously, but for you. Best of the night. Cody: ⁓ No, I did not have it best of the night. had it below Voices of Hope. AGTCommenter: so far. So third so far. Yeah, you've got it wrong, which is okay. No, there's not a right or wrong, Cody. It's foolish. ⁓ But no, think it's just, this is why he won. I think it's this performance. And maybe... Cody: Yes. Yeah, and I own up to it. AGTCommenter: Maybe it is next performance and the fact that I don't love it as much might be a telltale sign of why maybe more people love it then because it's a little less, you know, technical, but. Cody: Yeah, so looking back at season 13 ⁓ Was he one of these that was kind of that front-runner like you know like grace and Darcy Lynn and then Cody Lee the next season or was it more like a Paul Zerdin where he kind of Not really came out of nowhere, but he was still like there was others that were in the mix And it wasn't it wasn't a clear cut like he was not the clear-cut leader the whole season Okay AGTCommenter: Yeah, I think he... I don't think he was. it is more of a Paul Zerdin. his live shows, yeah, because I think he's got a better concentration of performances in the auditions than the live shows. ⁓ Yeah, it's a good question. think, well, you know what I think might have happened a little bit is Courtney Hadwin was probably, I think we all would have thought Courtney Hadwin was the favorite going into live shows, and maybe even through the quarterfinals. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: And then over these next two episodes between this one and next week, maybe that started to shift. ⁓ But yeah, I haven't felt like there's been some big movement behind him. There's no story here to talk about. He never got a Golden Buzzer. He's one of, is it three in the last 11 seasons? Maybe not even. Let's see. Non-Golden Buzzer winners. Zerdin was a golden buzzard, so Zerdin now, so it's Shin Lim, it's Tevella. Magic, who won 17? Maya's Golden Buzzer, 18? Oh, Adrian Hurricane, yeah. So three out of the last 11, he's won just three. So even Zerdan had the Golden Buzzer in Judge Cut, which was a Judge Cut's Golden Buzzer, which is definitely a different handicapping than an audition one, but yeah. Cody: Right. And it was too, too magic and a dog. AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, not mainstream winners either. haven't had, we've had two, three magicians win out of 20. ⁓ there's been, there's been two animal acts and three magician acts. So, ⁓ but yeah, no, this was great. Anything else on Shin Lim? Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: If you were sitting here in 18, would you be having a hard time seeing the vision of him being the winner? Cody: Yes. It's just for me, just my own thing. It's not exciting. It's not exciting enough. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Alright, fair enough. Right. Yeah, I guess maybe even just seeing him getting the, like, how is he going to get the votes? Because we've had problems with that in the past, where it's, it may not be who you want to win, but you can see where the votes are coming from. Do you think you would have even been able to wrap your head around the votes coming his way enough? Cody: I don't think so. I just, yeah, I just don't think so. AGTCommenter: Yeah. And I probably, I'm sure I would have loved, like, I would have been on here talking about how much I love Shin Lim all season. And I would have been scared to heck that he was ever going to get enough votes. Cause it just, there's just not the voting appeal that we've seen in the previous seasons that had won. Yeah, because. Cody: Yeah. But even like when like when to velo one as well like he just like who we did not expect him to win. We didn't know where that yeah AGTCommenter: You just kept getting the votes. Yeah, like this last year, I didn't want Jessica Sanchez to win or I didn't think she was the best. I have no problem seeing how she got the votes. So yeah, okay. That's five acts. It's gonna take us to, ⁓ let's do a break. Let's break here, we'll come back for our last six. We will be right back. Kayla Phillips is up next, our golden buzzer from ⁓ Heidi Klum. We don't hear a lot from Heidi ⁓ when we do these rewatches. We don't pull lot of Heidi clips. ⁓ This is the most we'll talk about Heidi tonight, I'm guessing. ⁓ She's going to be performing Who Are You by Jessie J. Were you familiar? No, who you are. Right? Who are you? It's not who are you. Who you are, sorry. Not who are you. That's a question. ⁓ Who you are. There's quite the tree behind Michaela in this. AGT likes to use the tree with singers. Grace Vanderwaal had a tree at one point. They've used, yeah, they've used the big tree a time or two. I thought she was pitchy at times. More than last round. Cody: Still don't know the song. You ⁓ the- Yes, the lighter tree? Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Let's hear the clip I pulled, because I still think there's really fun parts of this performance, especially the last quarter of it or so. Let's hear that clip and then we'll talk. She went for it. She overextended a little bit. There's some stuff she just can't quite do. You know what it felt like. It felt like she watched quarterfinals too and was like, well, I have to beat Gladys Grace. And that doesn't. Cody: All you have to do is get into the finals. Yeah, that's all you have to do. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Yeah. Now it was, ⁓ there's really fun parts of it. ⁓ I liked the song better this week than the last round because I felt like it made it. She felt a little more like a teen pop star than last time, which I liked. I thought she sounded a little more inconsistent vocally though. And I think part of that was she was, she was trying to do some big stuff with it, which I appreciate. I think at some point you got to realize like, just, I got to try, if I pull it off, then it's going to go gangbusters and I'm gonna be in the finals. If it doesn't, I probably wasn't gonna make it anyways. There were parts of this I really liked. I was kinda conflicted on the performance. Ultimately, she just wasn't mature enough as a performer yet to probably pull off the song the way she wanted to. What'd you think of this performance? Cody: ⁓ Yes, I think she was very she was time. She's pitchy. She swung for the fences I think she could have come down a little bit more on The this type of song I I think she did out of her right. I think she hit out of her ⁓ What's the word I'm looking for she ⁓ It was yeah, it was out of her sink. Yeah, she hit out of her league. Yes. She was out of her league I felt she was trying to do something maybe that's about what? AGTCommenter: It was out of her singing league. Cody: 10 years, 8 to 10 years a older for her. As far as range and the style of the singing, the song itself. ⁓ And it didn't work. ⁓ If you're saying she was thinking she had to beat Glennis Grace, she doesn't. You just have to get into the finals. It's all about just advancing to the next round. As we always say, you're not going to win the show this week, but you could definitely lose the show this week. AGTCommenter: Exactly. Yep. Right. Yeah, maybe my point is like, they're like, ⁓ well, that's the gold standard. gotta do better. I gotta be better than what I just was because that's what I'm going up against in this competition and people are gonna vote for that. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but if you if you try to Live up to your competition and you're not in that same league then it's gonna it's gonna make it even worse for you it's AGTCommenter: I'm not, yeah, and that's, you're not wrong. Totally, but it would be even more if Gladys was on the same night. Yeah, yeah. Correct. Yeah. Cody: You That's what I'm saying. Yes, you're not competing with her tonight because she's not in this episode ⁓ I thought she looked like Ariana Grande AGTCommenter: Yeah, a little bit. Kind of the slick back, pulled tight back pony, yeah. Yeah. Cody: Slick back hair, the makeup, yeah, the pony, all that stuff. Yeah. I don't know if she needed to do that. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I don't know. guess we haven't seen her enough to know what her usual look is. Maybe that's just kind how she... Cody: I mean, that's not how she looked in auditions. She looked... AGTCommenter: No, she had, yeah, but the last two weeks maybe she's kind of done it that way. I'm not, I'm not sure. ⁓ Or, okay, yeah, yeah, I thought, I thought there was a lot of stuff that were, like I would say I liked half of it, the song, and half, which isn't enough in singing performance. ⁓ But you pulled Howie's comments, so let's hear from Howie. Cody: No, she had her hair down in quarterfinals. Yeah Mm-hmm. podcast tire. AGTCommenter: That one was better than I thought she was gonna like get mad at him at least she I it probably wouldn't hurt to make the judges have to give a little bit of constructive criticism, but yeah She she tried to blow the roof off and I just don't think she pulled it off which is fine So take take your swing Amanda Mena could have done this song better than Michaela Phillips She's got a bigger voice. I think Cody: Yes. No. Maybe. Yeah. AGTCommenter: at this point in their careers. She's 15, she needed to do this when she was 20. 20 or 22, yeah, something like that. Okay. Cody: Yeah, yeah, I just think each week she's tried to look more more pop star. Instead of focusing on the singing, she's trying to look more like a pop star. AGTCommenter: Which- Sure. Yeah, which, yeah, I mean, she's not wrong to go for the teen pop star look, but let's also make sure we're, we can pull off the song. And there's ways to do a teen pop star song that you don't have to try and blow the roof off either. Yeah, for sure. Cody: Yeah, right. Yeah, or or go do fighting gravity with Voices of Hope. AGTCommenter: That'd be a hard song solo for her. But yeah, but in that group for sure. Yeah, I was trying to think if that would have been a better song choice though. ⁓ But now that's still that would that's another one where you're trying to blow the roof off if you're doing it solo. All right. Anything else on Michaela Phillips? Cody: No, but as with it the group. That's what I'm saying. okay. Mm-hmm. Nope. AGTCommenter: I think I have her, I know one, I think I her fourth. Cody: I have to look here. Okay, so we've done one, two, three, four. Yes. I do too. AGTCommenter: She was six. I her above Amanda Mena and us the duo. Okay. All right. Next up is front pictures. ⁓ We get a space race reference in the intro clip. Artemis, Cody, we sent astronauts all kind of near the moon. I love the Artemis missions. I'm all in. Cody: Yes, that's correct. yeah yes yes Yeah. Are you jealous that they broke your beloved Apollo 13 record? Yeah. AGTCommenter: It's a question. A buddy and I who are both big Apollo 13 fans had this conversation because he texted and said that he was bummed. And I said I wasn't because the goal never was to break records. The goal was to successfully and as far and as much... It was always about the greater explanation of our outer space. Apollo 13, those guys didn't go up to break a record. They went up to explore outer space. Cody: And that what they did was not also their mission their mission was to land on the moon so ⁓ AGTCommenter: ⁓ and Correct, yeah, the spaceship blew up. They were there to blaze a trail. ⁓ So no, ⁓ that was not... And those, it's just gonna keep getting broken because the moon keeps moving further and further away. So it'll just... Yeah, they say it's like a toenail a year. So... Cody: that is true. Yes. Well, slowly. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Was the was the adjudicator there in mission control when they broke the record? AGTCommenter: It's a great question. ⁓ it a world record? Cody: That was my big question that I posted on... ⁓ Is it a Galactic record? AGTCommenter: Do we need a Guinness Book of Universal Records? Yeah, exactly. ⁓ I would like to think that the Guinness Book of World Records could adjudicate it. don't think, I doubt that they brought them to mission control. Big part of the mission, going around the moon. And be like, we good? Yeah. ⁓ Cody: Okay. He's sitting there with his stopwatch. AGTCommenter: Alright, let's go to the Guinness guy. ⁓ How we doing? Yeah, no, think, ⁓ but yeah, and this is a space themed, we open on like the, it looked like The Martian is what it looked like, the spaceship for The Martian, great movie. Cody: Yes. Yes. Yes, great movie. AGTCommenter: So, here's my thing. I like this group. I like this performance in a lot of ways. There was really cool visuals. I'm not sure portraying a space disaster is what I would have went with. This country's had a few spacecrafts blow up over the years, and I'm not, I don't know if it's overly fun for us to see, you know, the spaceships blow up. We've seen it live near the Earth. ⁓ We've had it happen in outer space. We've had it happen Cody: Yes? Okay. What? Yeah. Yes. Well, not in outer space. We haven't had them blow up in outer space. AGTCommenter: We've had fire start. We've had a death in outer space, it... ⁓ that's Apollo 13. That blew up. That oxygen tank exploded, There was debris out there. All I'm saying is, space... Maybe let's not do space disasters, where it's blinking on there would be like low oxygen. ⁓ I like the space theme, I'm just not sure that's what it was. Once the spaceship blew up, it turned into an acid trip. Cody: Well, okay, but okay, that is true. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: the sea turtle and the whale, which I kind of, I like this better than last time because I could fall, this was the last hectic. I wouldn't say it deserved a buzz from Simon, certainly, who ends up buzzing, but ⁓ I kind of like this. What did you think of front pictures? Cody: right. Yeah, it's kind of fun, but I'm I you know how much I actually like them, but I was kind of over this one I thought the other acts were way better than this Seeing the mission stuff the technology that they're doing is really cool I do enjoy all that but I just felt like a lot of the other acts were just much better than this ⁓ the You called it an acid trip it's yes very much like a hallucination or low oxygen AGTCommenter: Yeah. Psychedelic. Cody: Yeah, lack of oxygen type thing. Did you ever see, yeah, did ever see 2001 in Space Odyssey? AGTCommenter: I don't think I've seen that. I feel like I should have. Sure. Cody: Yeah, so there's kind of some of this. Yeah, you should it's add that to your You know pop culture movies that you'll never watch ⁓ So there's kind of a little bit of this there's kind of it's very 70s So a lot of psychedelic stuff in it as well similar to this These guys are really good ⁓ I'm just kind of I'm kind of ready for them to to move on AGTCommenter: Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah, I mean, we didn't even see him in a second round. ⁓ Yeah, there was some theming that appealed to me more than last week, but other than that, Wasn't good enough. You pulled Howie's comments, ⁓ so let's see what Howie has to say. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. AGTCommenter: She's like watching a movie with the person that asks questions all the time. Cody: She is the she is the person that asked the questions like I don't know there was a there was a tik-tok video I saw where a Guy and his girlfriend were sitting down to watch a movie. No, it was a guy and his mom We're sitting down to watch a movie and he put these flashcards up that says Both of us are watching this movie here the first time. No, I do not know who that is No, I do not know what is happening AGTCommenter: Yeah. I don't know. first time. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I also have not seen this. So let's experience it for the first time together quietly. ⁓ Cody: The fact that they, this is an outer space theme, the fact that all of them thought that the performance was now underwater is baffling to me. AGTCommenter: Well, there was a whale and a jellyfish. Right. Yeah. It also, like, there was a part of me, until they went back into outer space, I also didn't have a problem believing that he fell back to Earth and was in the ocean now because the spaceship blew Cody: Yeah, but the guy's hallucinating. Like, they didn't... Yeah, so it's like... So he re-entered the atmosphere and then hit the ocean and was perfectly fine? Okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, was, it didn't work. ⁓ From it, wasn't obviously clear exactly what was happening. ⁓ I think clearly enough, because they weren't they weren't getting it. You also pulled Simon's comments. So let's hear that. Cody: I think he's getting me talking about like the the gas AGTCommenter: The dentist? What happens at Simon's dentist? think he's going to the wrong dentist. If they're putting whales on him. ⁓ Yeah, no. Right, yeah. Yeah, the buzz wasn't necessary. I do agree, too. The music was kind of boring. But ⁓ anything else on front pictures? Cody: Or give them an acid trip is basically what they're doing. ⁓ I I'm totally baffled that these four adults couldn't figure out that these that this guy was like Hallucinating and like we know that's not real obviously not real but like they're not actual anyway AGTCommenter: Yeah. Right. He was knocked out from the explosion and it felt like he was in water because he was floating. That's how the illusion... What I'm saying is, like, that's why he's hallucinating about whales and stuff is because it feels like you're swimming in outer space. Yeah. They didn't get that. No. All right. Should we move on to... ⁓ Cody: Correct. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. I had them, actually I had them ahead of Amanda Minna. AGTCommenter: I had them behind Amanda but ahead of us to duo. I have us to duo last right now. Cody: Okay. Yes, that is this. AGTCommenter: Duo Transcent, our trapeze. I love this song that they use. I've talked about it before. It's my one-one song choice for this type of act. If anybody asks me, this is manifesto stuff. This is the song. If I had a magic eight ball, I would always tell them to use it for the finals, but the other day you gotta get to the finals. Cody: The goats. Yes. Yes! Hmm? AGTCommenter: I love this performance. I love the addition of the roller skates. talked, we both kind of talked about the last time they were on, but we had kind of reached the limits of the trapeze alone. Like it was kind of time to add something. We were running, I like the purposeful drop, right? So we've had the accidental drop now. that there's a lot of different ways they could have dismounted that trapeze. They could have just lowered it and gotten off, but the drop that Cody: Yes? AGTCommenter: it just had enough shock value in the crowd to put you on the edge of your seat a little bit. Clearly, I mean, it was clear enough that he did it on purpose, but they're still seeing her plummet. They're still a little bit there. Cody: ⁓ my god it dropped right to her death! It's like... Yes! Superimposed fire! It's like... This massive light shot and the entire lens is covered in fire. Yes! AGTCommenter: Yeah, lots of fire. Super superimposed. It was... was... Yeah. The Dolby's engulfed in flames. ⁓ Yeah, no, that I didn't love, but the Onstage Fire I thought was great. This was spectacular. They're so good at the roller skates. ⁓ Am I crazy to think that to me feels more dangerous than their trapeze work? Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: I feel like if she slips, will they do that? To me, the injuries are far greater. When they go hands-free, which is one of the great visual stunts that we get on AGT, when it's just her feet around his neck and they're not holding, neither hands are being used, that's amazing. And if she slips there, there's no pad to soften the fall like there is underneath the trapeze. Cody: Yes. Yes. Yes! No, she's going into the judges. AGTCommenter: She's sliding all over the theater. I love this. What'd think of Duo Transcend? Cody: Yes No, I agree. I'm with you. I love it, too. I think it's one more quiver arrow in their quiver that they can do ⁓ For their performance. It's nice that they can do more than just the trapeze I really like the roller skating around Billy and Emily doing it still wigs me out, but Yeah, but I enjoy watching them do it AGTCommenter: Exactly, yeah. Cody: And they're so good together. I mean their trust in each other is incredible ⁓ Them as a couple is just incredible ⁓ They're believable as a couple yes, I love it I love them AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. I They're believable, This was their best performance by far and could not be better time, because I'll say this, we know how much we've loved Duo Transcend, so it's one of those things where we've come into this primed. I would say after the quarterfinals, I was not sitting here overly confident that they were one of the 10 best of the season, and that they should be a finals act. This is a finals act. This performance puts them in the top 10 for sure. Cody: ⁓ yeah! Mm-hmm. Yes. AGTCommenter: This was really good. ⁓ I can't remember exactly what we're going to get in the finals, so I'm looking forward to that and how much trapeze and roller skate work they do. But they needed to add just one thing or a little something and they did it it was great. ⁓ Any other thoughts on the performance? Cody: Did you notice that he wore his skates while he was on the trapeze? Yeah. AGTCommenter: I did, I did, because she had a couple moments to put him on while he was also getting ready to dismount the trapeze. ⁓ But yes, he had them on. Do think he's the first person ever to wear roller skates on a trapeze? He might be. World record adjudicator. Most time spent hanging from a trapeze with roller skates on. ⁓ You pulled Mel B's comments, so let's see what Mel has to say. Cody: Yes. thought it was cool looking. Maybe so, yes. There you go. Melby's on fire tonight. AGTCommenter: She's on fire. I like that she said her hair kept getting longer. There's a small chance Mel thought that... Because did he hold her by her hair when they were spinning at all? Okay, I was trying to remember. Because we've seen that before. Cody: Yeah I don't believe so, no. Yes. AGTCommenter: Because there's a small chance Mel would think when that happens that they're just pulling the hair out further from her head. And that's getting longer. But no. Yeah. Cody: That's right. I it could be that because her head is out the centrifugal force is like so AGTCommenter: Yeah, perhaps. Yeah, now you can hear Simon by a mile when she says best so far. She said it was flawless. This was darn near flawless. There was not a lot to nitpick here. ⁓ I would say the aerial work probably was less impressive, but it was just shorter. But otherwise, I mean, this was top notch. Anything else on Duo Transcend? Cody: The only thing that I would nitpick and it's it's it's minor is it just took some time between the trapeze to get on the platform for her to wait for her to put her skates on and that's all so yeah. AGTCommenter: Sure. Yep, I would agree. ⁓ Can't wait to get to your score on this performance because we're have a little conversation. I want you to remember your thoughts you've shared so far when we get to there. right, anything else? Should we move on? Cody: Okay. Yes. Okay. ⁓ No. I'm with you. I like the song. The song's great. Yeah. Just dance. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Alright. Love this song. I just died in your arms. ⁓ Sam J. Comro is back, our comedian from California. ⁓ I'll say this, it helped that there was no flickering screens behind him. It made it an easier watch. I mentioned on top, this just kind of, this felt short. I don't know if it was a joke less than normal. I couldn't tell. I did watch it on two times speed, so maybe that's why. ⁓ Cody: Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: But either way, I just was like, ⁓ I guess it's done. This was a perfectly nice set. Simon made a good point about the difficulty of following Duo Transcend. This was a tough ask for Sam Comrow to put him after what we just watched. this... Something or like a singer would have been the better call. Cody: Should they have closed the night with Duo Transcend? AGTCommenter: Because it would have still been, it would have been a come down, but it wouldn't have been, like, there's no, a comedian can't match the intensity. A sayer can bring some intensity with the volume and the, you explosive. This was, they couldn't have put him after a worse, I don't think there was a worse act that's gone so far that would have been worse for him to go after. So I think Simon, like, astute point from Simon, but this was a perfectly good set. There's not a joke that I particularly remember, but anything, what'd you think of Sam Comrow? Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I thought it was fine. mean, I like him. I didn't think it was his best performance. But I still like him. I think he's good. AGTCommenter: At this point, are you like, is one of the 10 best acts of the season? Yeah, that's my thing. For sure. ⁓ You pulled Mel's comments, because I think she, again, she was on fire. Let's hear from Mel. Cody: And no, I'm with you. Favorite performance of the night? AGTCommenter: That's, this was clearly, I thought the worst performance of the night. I had it at the last. I had it last. Would you have it second to last? Cody: I was the worst, but it's definitely not the best. Okay. I had him ⁓ above Michaela Phillips. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay, a little ways ⁓ Yeah, I thought maybe you could convince me us to do what was worse. Otherwise, I wouldn't have anybody else below below this ⁓ We didn't talk about do a transcend where I thought it was the second best of the night After shinlim, right? Yeah, it's one. It's one one or two. Yeah, I think Really good ⁓ anything else on Sam Comer any jokes you liked Cody: I thought it ⁓ Not really. mean... Yeah. AGTCommenter: hard to have him above four five other acts than Cody if you don't even remember a joke he told. Just potentially reevaluate. That's true. Cody: To be honest, we were supposed to record, I was excited to be honest, we were supposed to record this on Sunday, right? I watched this on Saturday, so it's been three days now. AGTCommenter: Yeah, it's fair enough, fair enough. All right, should we move on? Mr. Michael Ketterer. Simon's golden buzzer. He's more commonly known as the greatest human being that's ever lived. No human being has ever been more amazing than Michael Ketterer. They can't help themselves. Except for the two from us to do. Somehow, season 13, season 13, our saintliest, the saintliest season yet. Cody: ⁓ yes. lol ex-ex-except for us the duo. AGTCommenter: It is... When this guy gets... They can't help themselves. They're like, you're such a great human being. I'll say this. It's always a concern for me. It's the... I describe it as the gold medal theory. Okay? Follow along. The sooner you're describing the greatness of an NBA player that you have to mention he won a gold medal, the less impressive. the Carmel... This is the Carmel Anthony theory, probably more than the gold medal theory. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: People you want to get the resume for Carmel Anthony's career and like the third thing is that he won some gold medals That's always a problem Because that means his NBA career that he just didn't accomplish nearly enough if we're already the gold medals ⁓ Like it's just half as too fast. They can't Really come up with anything more to say about him. The first thing that they think of is that he's so great as a person Cody: Okay. Yes. AGTCommenter: And I'm like, you know what? I'd like him to be a better singer than person. It is what it is. Cody: Yes. I would like him to be as good a singer as he is as a person. Yes. AGTCommenter: Right, or can we get more than one or two things out of our mouth about his singing before we default to talking about how great of a person he is. He's got a little bit of the Carmelo Anthony theory. We get to the gold medals a little too fast. Cody: Yes. So kind of comparing that our basketball team is like expected to win gold medals, right? So they, if they don't win, like I thought it was that they want a silver one year. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Yeah, 04 was like a calamity. We took second and it uprooted USA basketball. They overhauled whole thing completely. Cody: Yeah, so we're expected to win gold medals in basketball. Michael Ketterer is expected to be a good person. AGTCommenter: Right, so it's... Right, he's like a child trauma nurse. Yeah, no, it's an exact, direct correlation to the gold medal thing. ⁓ But anyway, he's gonna be performing, we haven't talked about the performance. Here we go, we haven't even talked about the singing yet. Cody: Yeah, yeah before we get to the thing though like his intro package real quick cuz I did it I did it I did a dive cuz I was watching his intro package and it seemed like he was doing like counseling Didn't it like I know he's a mental mental health nurse but it felt like he was also doing some counseling and therapy and so my thought was Did he get his counselor certificate? Like did he have his therapist certificate? AGTCommenter: Yes. Yes. Yeah. Right. I think that's his job. Like when they say mental health nurse, my guess is he's like a counselor in a medical facility type deal. Cody: Yeah Yeah, so I don't know why I went up and looked as late looked up his LinkedIn And he's so he and so he's got a LinkedIn out there which is public ⁓ And it lists him as I'm as a as a mental health nurse I think even like a mental health manager, but nowhere did I find and I'm not trying to criticize her belittle the guy But it seemed weird it didn't list anywhere that he like had a counseling or a therapy AGTCommenter: Yes you did. Yes. Yes. Cody: therapy certificate or anything of that nature. it made me kind of wonder like is he as a good person as he is, is he qualified to do that? AGTCommenter: Yeah, guess I don't really know what you would do as a mental health nurse if that's not what you did. Like, what would your daily practice be then if you were treating mental health as a nurse? You know what I'm saying? Cody: It's the only time I've ever heard of that occupation is him doing it. So I don't, don't know what it entails, but I would think that having. AGTCommenter: Yeah, right. Yeah. To me, it's a fancy term for counselor if I had to. Cody: And so I would expect you to have some sort of counseling certificate or counts. Okay. Okay. It's neither here nor there. I just thought it was interesting. I know, I know. AGTCommenter: which I think maybe it's just built into the name of the job, I don't know. We still haven't gotten to the music. Again, we are currently making the point that the music is so behind everything else for this guy. He's gonna be performing When I Look at You by Miley Cyrus. I love this song. It was an interesting song choice. I thought he actually thought it worked. I thought he did a good job. Cody: You Ha ha! Okay. AGTCommenter: He's just really not built to be a performer. He's nervous. He's so nervous every time he's out there. And that's okay. But it's why I struggle seeing him as a finalist in this season with the amount of talent there is. I like this performance. I like his voice. I like the song choice, but he's just such a statue and he's kind of awkward and he's, and he's, you can tell he's uncomfortable. You can tell he's nervous and it doesn't instill it's own a confidence. Cody: Uh-uh. Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: confidence in me as a viewer of his ability to put on a show. There's things I liked a lot about about it, but I just having a hard time thinking he's one of the 10 best acts this season. What'd think of Michael Ketterer? Cody: Yeah, I didn't have a lot of notes on this performance. I thought it was a very average performance I had literally have him like right in the middle of the pack There's nothing in it that that that stuck out to me. He kind of stood there. He looked very stiff I think he else agreed. He looked kind of nervous. There's just nothing about him that makes him as a singer that separates him from the other singers Yeah AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, no, I would say I have him ahead of Sam. I have him ahead of us the duo. I would have him ahead of front pictures. And then he's right there. Maybe he's really in the pile of Amanda Mena and Michaela Phillips to me, the two singers. Cody: Yeah, yeah, and I've talked that I always get him and the season four and season five winners confused AGTCommenter: You do. ⁓ I would say all three solo singers whelmed in this. Him, Amanda Mena, and Mikhail Phillips, I would say, gave three very similar, from a memorable performance standpoint. ⁓ Simon is in love, as we know, and is gonna do something a little, ⁓ I would say a little not ⁓ competitively balanced here. So let's hear from Simon. Cody: Yeah. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I AGTCommenter: Get a lot there. Shout out Garth. I don't think Tyra knows what on blast means. ⁓ That would be a misappropriation of, that would be like, on blast would be if Simon just went and started going on and on about how terrible Garth Brooks is. On blast is talking bad about somebody. He put him on the spot. That would have been the proper terminology, but on blast is not true. Cody: Yes You What does it mean? ⁓ okay. Okay. Yes, there you go. You AGTCommenter: We can't be doing this. This is a competitive imbalance for the rest of the singers. There's a reason we didn't get a Garth Brooks. We get one. Do you remember this? Garth writes a song for them, but they, I don't know who ends up making the call. I'm sure Simon ends up realizing that it's a ridiculous competitive disadvantage for the other singers in the finals, but they hold it for the results. And him and Garth, I think, sing it together at the results episode. ⁓ But Garth does write a song for them. Cody: It's like... Yes. AGTCommenter: to use. ⁓ But if you're Glenis Grace and Danny Lemitz in the final, like if you're some of these singers in the finals and you're like, excuse me, like we're getting Garth Brooks songs written for one of the other singers. ⁓ Also, we're getting the cart in front of the horse here, the guy's still got to make the finals. ⁓ So there's a lot there, what'd think of the comments from Simon? Cody: Yes. Yeah, if he had said that after results, then... Yeah. Right. ⁓ zero percent chance that Garth is watching the show. AGTCommenter: Sure, at least from a timing standpoint it would have made sense. well, at least one. Cody: Okay, think there is a you think it's non zero that Garth is watching the show AGTCommenter: There's gotta be higher than zero. Yeah, he could have been watching Wheel of Fortune right before and then went in the kitchen and it came on and hadn't turned the channel. Cody: Okay, and ⁓ an hour and 40 minutes later Okay, he and Trisha he and Trisha you're we're just sitting around and AGTCommenter: doing stuff. hey! Hey. Howie watched it for five years before he was judged? Yeah, I think it's a little more likely than that, but yes, the chance... Cody: I guess so, yeah. And his good friend Martina was on earlier in the season. Yeah, okay AGTCommenter: Right, it got, clearly got to his desk at some point, because he did write the song, but no, I don't think he was watching live. ⁓ Yeah, can't be offering, can't be trying to pull this for your guys. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I mean, this, sitcoms, ⁓ what else have we pitched? AGTCommenter: ⁓ Yeah, it's everything. What a season. What a deal. Anything else on Mr. Ketterer? Alright. Saint Ketterer. Cody: Take care. ⁓ no. AGTCommenter: Zercheros is going to wrap the night for us. We're in Rome, right? Yeah, it felt Roman. Yeah, because once you get the togas and, or once you get the outfits they had on, had the... I thought it was Greece or Rome, but I think it is Rome because of the way it's set up. Could be ancient Egypt was my only other one potentially. I just like them better in the jungle. Cody: I think so, yeah. You got it this time, yeah. Could be grease. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Could be. Yep. AGTCommenter: than in this setting. I don't know. I think this is their worst act of the season. Certainly up to this point, I think probably of the four that we'll end up getting. I did kind of like the aerial straps. They did one little stunt kind of on the aerial straps, trapeze-ish. I thought this lacked acrobatics big time. We weren't throwing people all over the place. What happened to that? Cody: Uhhhh... ⁓ okay. Yeah, they focused a lot on those silks. The cart curtains. Yeah, whatever they are. AGTCommenter: Silks, dance, a lot more dancing on the floor. This was my least favorite of their three so far. I just felt like this was small for Zagre. I got done with like, should this be in the top five? Cody: Yes, based on... Yeah, okay. Yeah, I didn't think about it at all. thought, yes, this is a top five act. I can see where you're saying that's not, doesn't feel as exciting. I really like the girl that they hold up and they do that does the, where they hold her up. She's incredible. I mean, as little as she is, as young as she is, the things that they're asking her to do is amazing. AGTCommenter: But I had to think about it and this is our runner up. So I was just like, man, this just was a letdown for me. What'd you think of Zercher0? Right. Cody: And they really utilized her a lot in this performance. They had the flyers just kind of pop up behind the people with the flags, the silks, whatever. So I thought that was really cool. They just like just fly out of nowhere. I thought was really cool. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: I I like I agree that I like the jungle theming better than this theming It seemed a little washed out the gold and the white seems a little much it was kind of it was kind of hard to blend in But as far as their performance, I enjoyed it this their body of work If this is not as good as the others, I think it's maybe If I were to say it, it's slightly less. It's not like significantly less Yeah AGTCommenter: Hmm. So here's my thing with it, why I like the jungle. I think the jungle, like this felt like they tried, they felt subdued because they were kind of pigeonholed into this kind of ⁓ Roman empire, you know, the columns behind the jungle. just kind of, they're like a street group. they just, I just felt like we... Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: We did a lot with the one kid, the one girl doing kind of stationary stunts. And I'm like, we need the human jump ropes and the swinging between the legs while standing on top of the shoulders of people. Like, let's throw these kids all over the place like we've been doing. I just felt like lacked it. It still is good. And yes, it is one of the five best, I had to count quick before. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: I didn't think I would ever have to check on Zerkero, because I love Zerkero. ⁓ But yeah. Cody: Yeah, yeah. It never once occurred to me that they could be outside the top five. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, you pulled Simon's comments, so let's hear from him. Cody, are you a fan of Friends, show? Great show. Do you recall when Phoebe's giving birth? The doctor? What he, his bit? No. Cody: Greatest showman. ⁓ yeah, friends. Yes. Great show. Yes? Yes. He's watching MASH? No. AGTCommenter: Fonzie. Cody: That's it. Yes, thank you, Fonzie. Yes. Happy days. Yes, you're right. AGTCommenter: That's Simon with the Greatest Showman. Like that guy was talking about the doctor in the Friends episodes talking about the Fonz. That's all he talked about. Yeah, I love Fonzie when he's like walking out there. That's Simon in the Greatest Showman. He's the doctor from Friends with Fonzie. Simon just calls people the Greatest Showman. Like, now you're the Greatest Showman. He can't give it up. Cody: Yes, it's like, yes, it's like, I love Fonzie, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, because I think the guy I think Simon has to reference the greatest showman every episode and he had not done it yet. He's like, I got to fit this in somewhere. No, no. AGTCommenter: Yes, we didn't have a song in this episode. So yeah, we're like he was down. It was his last chance. Yeah, ridiculous, but they're still great. But yeah, I just I'm excited for the finals to see what they go back to it because I feel like it's going to be really great because because I'm just picturing my head them next to Shin Lim at results and they were wearing outfits that I remember being a little similar to stuff from the other ones. anything else on Zerkaro? Cody: ⁓ There was some weird like electric guitars in the music I don't know if you noticed that the music the music was really good But at some point there was like some weird electric guitars in the middle of it that kind of made it weird Other than that. No, I enjoyed the whole performance Okay Second best of the night AGTCommenter: Yeah. I'm not sh- Yeah. Yeah, all right. I think I had it third. We're at the point now we'll do results here in a minute. Scores. I had this at an 80. I thought this was an awesome episode of America's Got Talent. Lower than Auditions 1, but highest of the live shows by a handful. Cody: Yes. ⁓ wow. OK. I dropped it to a 75. I had it lower than last week, No. Quarterfinals 1 is 74, 2 is 71, 3 is 76. It's the same score as judge cuts 1 and 2. And auditions 2. AGTCommenter: You had it lower than last week. You have this lower than two quarterfinals. Got it. Got Okay. Yeah, I have judge cuts. One is the third best of the season. So one below this one. Yeah, I just didn't think there was from a depth. We've got I think seven of the or probably six of the 11 best of the season in this. Really good. Results night. Let's do this. Let me go to that episode. Guest performers, oops. load load load ⁓ cody is the wiki broken ⁓ there we go ⁓ there's no guest performers? Cody: It looks like I played a game. AGTCommenter: Okay. Yeah, this is the first live show results episode of the season to not have guest performers. Cody: It looks like they showed them like emojis and they had to guess AGTX based on the emojis. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Classic. ⁓ Results. Shin Lim is headed through, us the duo. Ooh, I should do that. Duncan Save. Duo Transcend, Sam Comrow, and Voices of Hope are four, five, and six on the night. A fair four, five, and six, I think. Duo Transcend's not, shouldn't be in there, but the other two are probably fair enough. Sam Comrow's gonna win the Duncan Save. Duo Transcend's gonna win the Judge's Choice. ⁓ And then Shin Lim's. Cody: That seems wild. It feels wild. AGTCommenter: That Duo Transcend was Judge's choice. Yeah. Cody: Yes, that they were not America's vote. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Right, ⁓ Shin Lim's through, us the duo's going home. This is a crazy result. Three golden buzzers, Mikhailo Phillips, Michael Ketterer, Amanda Mena. And Ketterer's going through the end of the road for both of our golden buzzers there. And then Zerkeros through Junior New System. Front pictures are done. So, Shin Lim, Michael Ketterer, Zerkeros, Sam Comro, and Duo Transcend are the five, Cody. Let's do this. I'll meet you. where you're at instead of meeting me where I'm at. So Duo Transcend, yes. Shin Lim, yes. Zercherow, yes. I think those three are the three obvious ones. Cody: Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: I had Junior New System. Cody: I did too. AGTCommenter: And I had voices of hope, Children's Choir. Look at us. I'm trying to think, because you... When I get to the finals, I do a better job of trying to contextualize their entire season when I'm trying to decide how things could be. I do it less, I don't do it quite as well on these results tonight. I don't think any of the other six had better seasons overall that should have kept them around. Maybe... Yeah, I don't think so. Cody: I did as well. AGTCommenter: So we would have swapped. Keterer out and Comro out for the choir and for Junior New System. Weird. Look at us, Cody. We are right on the same page. Is it surprising to you because if you look at this... Cody: Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: that Junior News System was no better than seventh most votes. Cody: Hmm. That is surprising. Yeah. AGTCommenter: That's kind of crazy to me. Yeah, because if they're not in the Duncan save, that means they're not in the top six. So, yeah, crazy. ⁓ Yeah, I think right now we've got half of our finals and there's two of them I would definitely remove, which is not ideal. But Keterer I would put in before Sam Comrow personally. But either way. All right, anything else on the episode before we take our last break? All right, we will be right back. Cody: Okay. Nope. Nope. AGTCommenter: most rewatchable performance of the episode shin limbs the answer for me ⁓ kody i know you have a different one what's the most watchable for you ⁓ that's fair these the howie mandel memorial good judging moment award i had ⁓ simon with mckayla phillips we didn't we import clip of it ⁓ but but he basically was similar to what we talked about where Cody: It's DuoTransn. Yeah. AGTCommenter: He was happy she went for it, but there was a lot. It was a big risk and things like that. What did you have for good judging? Cody: I would either go with ⁓ Simon Colin Peterson the greatest showman Yeah, or or how we saying how good am I? Yes AGTCommenter: You like that? Okay. Yes, that was fun. That was fun. ⁓ The Julianne Hough Memorial Bad Judging Moment Award. I had Howie ⁓ with Michaela Phillips. What'd you have for this? Cody: I think I go with Howie talking about basically Mel B talking to him the entire front pictures performance Right, it's like it's probably just cuz he didn't have any feedback for them. It's AGTCommenter: Yes. Yeah, that has nothing to do with the performance, Howie. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah. Yeah, Mel probably should be in the good judging category. She was great in this episode. Yeah. Tyra Banks Memorial Bad Hosting Moment Award. We didn't have it in the clips or anything, but she just like couldn't stop talking about Shin's sexiness with his hair while she's standing directly next to him. it's just awkward. And Shin's like the least that type of person. It just doesn't seem like he's trying to be Mr. know, Mr. GQ. Cody: Yes, she was great. Yep. ⁓ yeah. Ha ha! AGTCommenter: ⁓ like that he just has longer hair that gets in his eyes. Cody: Do you know much about Shin's personal life? AGTCommenter: Now he's married to the same guy that was And I think is just kind of pretty you know Live in Vegas, and he's just does card magic Do you have any other bad hosting this was way better than the last few weeks? Yeah Most unique talented and entertaining I think technically front pictures is the most unique It wasn't my favorite by any means but to me shinlim's the most talented Cody: this guy. Okay. They live in Vegas and they do the show. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now, this was better, yes. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. No. AGTCommenter: and then I think for entertaining I'm picking between him and Duo Transcend. Cody: ⁓ You're right about front pictures and I'm going to do a transcend on both the others. AGTCommenter: Ummm, I'm trying to think if I would have them as the second most talented. Yeah, I probably would. I'd probably have them one too. that. Yeah. Because I'm trying to decide if think Zerkrow ⁓ was the second most talented, but I think Duo Transcend was. Alright. Then Zerkrow. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree. ⁓ Who's the star? I Shin's the star. The voters think Shin's the star. Cody: Yeah. There's more variety there. Okay? Sure. Duo turns in, man. They're about, yeah. AGTCommenter: What do you think? You thought they were the star as well? Yeah. Keterer might be the star. He might be the star. ⁓ I didn't have... Cody: Might be. The front pictures actually was in the stars. AGTCommenter: That is true. That's a really good point. ⁓ Santa Tria Russian Bar Moment Front Intentional Comedy. ⁓ Cody: That's it. AGTCommenter: I didn't have anything for this. Cody: Yeah, could it be Mel B like whispering to Howie? Like, okay. AGTCommenter: Yeah, maybe. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, I don't know. Again, they were buttoned up. They righted the ship this week. All right, Cody, you said you have a little blind side made for us, so let's hear it. Cody: Little blind side, ⁓ Rank these five people. Okay. ⁓ Morton Anderson. AGTCommenter: Got it, I'm ready. Kicker, Atlanta Falcons, Morton Anderson. I'll go three. Cody: Okay. Adam Vinatieri. AGTCommenter: Okay. Well he's the greatest kicker ever, so guess I'll go one. Cody: Okay. ⁓ Gary Anderson. AGTCommenter: very ⁓ touchy subject for any of our Vikings fans listening. We missed the kick in 98. He's a Niners fan. Well, he's a 49ers fan, so it doesn't hurt him. ⁓ Gary Anderson, four. Cody: Why's that? Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry Ryan was well Ryan wasn't even alive then but still That's right. He is a 49er stand. Yeah. Yeah Okay, Jeff Fiegels. AGTCommenter: Five. So I got two open. Cody: Okay. How are you man? Dale. AGTCommenter: I think perfectly slotted by Adam Editary. Are they all Canadian? No, Editary is from South Dakota. Cody: Okay. Okay. I know if you'll get this, but no. Well, I mean, they could be. don't know. That's not what this topic is. They could be. AGTCommenter: Ummm... I might have missed something in episode. What do got? Cody: Yeah, these all have the four football players have the most games ever played and Howie's had the most episodes of AGT. AGTCommenter: ⁓ Okay. Longevity. It's a longevity ⁓ blindside. I'm happy with my... I think I got my rankings right. Venetary. Shout out South Coast Eight. Howie Mandel. Morton Anderson. Gary Anderson. Jeff Fiegels. Maybe Gary Anderson ahead of Morton, but I don't know. Gary Anderson was responsible for lot of pain for loved ones in my life. ⁓ I'm not a Vikings fan, but... Cody: There you go. Yes. Yeah, go recap it. Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: A lot of Vikings fans. All right, should we wrap up with the history lesson? We have four leaderboard acts in this, and then Sam Comerow is on mine, not on yours. First leaderboard act of the night was Shidlim. I have this at a perfect five. Cody, where do you think you have this? He had a four eight. it's, yeah, think contextually at the rest of your list, I think it's a fair score. ⁓ Next was Duo Transcend. Cody: Of you do. ⁓ 4-6. Okay, that's fine. That's fair. AGTCommenter: I had this at a 4.6. What do think, Cody? Cody: Yeah, based on what you said earlier, maybe a 4-4? Yeah, okay. No, we're gonna go higher. It's a 4-7-1. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, 439. Are you? What's a 471 Cody? Okay, 471. Cody: Yeah. Where does that where is that comparison to their other acts? AGTCommenter: Where'd they go? Duo, trance, and they've gone 435, 425, 433 so far. Cody: ⁓ yeah, this is definitely much better. Yeah, that's gonna move them. AGTCommenter: 471. Yeah, we're gonna move. Let's see, so they were currently at 38th. that's going to take them to thirty-fourth. So there you go. out Duo Transcend. Alright, so now they've moved ahead of the Texas Tenors, Cody. You have tickets to go see in a couple weeks. ⁓ Sam Comerow next. I had it at a 3-9, what do you want to make it, Cody? Okay, so worse of the season. Okay, alright, got that. Right now, you have Sam Comerow with a higher season score than Duo Transcendence. Cody: do have tickets to go see Texas Tanner. So I'm excited about this. ⁓ Even four Yeah AGTCommenter: Just a heads up. Just maybe something, the monitor. Maybe you want to knock a couple off the 4.4 you gave them last week. Which was 2.1, 4.2 to a 4.2.4. Now there's one more performance. Yeah, we can wait till the finals. Just a thought. Cody: Okay. How much higher? We still have the finals. Yeah, let's wait till the finals. Okay. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Michael Ketterer up next. I have this at a 3.9. I think I it his lowest this season. What do you think for you? You had a 4.4, Cody. Too high. Cody: ⁓ four? No, that's too high. Yeah. 4.1. 4.12. AGTCommenter: Okay, that is going to drop him. Oops. Just going to take him from 48th to 50th. Oh, well, jeez. Be nice to Michael Ketterer. He's the greatest human being that's ever walked Earth. And then, Zercheroth, which I have at a 4.2. Yeah, you have it at a 4.36. You're happy there. Cody: Awesome, good, that's about where he's at. Hmm. Four-four? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Alright, should we look ahead to next week? It's at my final two. Next week Cody and I will be back for his 401st episode, which deserves the equal amount of fanfare as 400. Cody doesn't approach any episode different. Episode 22, 402, unauthorized episode. Christina Wells will open the night. Cody: Yes! Yeah, the 401st unauthorized. The unauthorized episode, yes. AGTCommenter: Dow Republic's gonna get a red X. ⁓ Noah Guthrie's third, Daniel Emmett fourth, our other choir, Angel City Chorale fifth, Aaron Crowe is back for his swan song, can't wait Cody to see what we got here, Vicki Barblack seventh, We Three must, We Three eight, Glenis Grace nine, Brian King Joseph ten, and Courtney Hadwin eleven. Cody: Trail nasty do we get more trailer nasty? Is this the elevator episode, the elevator performance? AGTCommenter: ⁓ Where he's under the stage you're saying? That's a good question. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: That seems right. Yeah, I hope, yeah, well does Gangsta Paradise by Coolio, which is a terrific song. But yeah, it's a good 11, it's a good list. I'm not convinced it's better than what we got this week, we'll see. But, Glenis Grace I know is gonna blow the roof off. But anything else Cody, we need to talk about before we get out of here. Kept her to about a tight two hours here, so. Let's sign out and get out of here then. Cody: Okay. I don't think so. So you can us on our socials at AGT TimePod. You can email us AGTTimePod at gmail.com. can find Commenter out there at AGT Commenter. Everyone have a great night.