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Auditions 1 | Season 21 | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Cody: Everyone, welcome back to a season 21 edition of AGT time. Jay, I'm gonna give you a golden buzzer and I'm gonna give Commenter a golden buzzer and Ryan gets a golden buzzer and Steven gets a golden buzzer. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. Golden busters for everybody. man, this inflation's killing me, Cody. It it's we it is it is something else. No, you are along with ⁓ the Matt Megatone st megatod stoney of the AGT time world, ⁓ you're here with J Bach. Cody: So you're gonna have to refresh me. I I I must I think I missed that part. So refresh me of what that topic was. Jay Bock: You were talking like you do about competitive eating and and one season I ha had done more shows than you did. G the same way that Matt Megatod Stoney popped in for one year, won the Nathan's hot dog eating competition, and then kind of dissipated back into obscurity. Cody: Yes. Yes, yes, that's right. Yeah. Okay. Well, you're you're anything but obscurity, Jay. Jay Bock: Well ⁓ no, I'm I'm ⁓ among the ⁓ best at podcasting America's Got Talent ⁓ on the AGT time platform. ⁓ just like Matt Megatonstone is among the best. So ⁓ no, it's it's great to be back. It's great to have Got Talent back on our our screens again. ⁓ Cody: This ⁓ Jay Bock: ⁓ have you been paying attention to anything happening around the world in the got talents? Cody: So I think I was aware that Christy Tellers did ⁓ was it just Got Talent, right, in Spain? Okay. Yeah. Jay Bock: What yeah, Spain's got talent or got talent Espana. ⁓ she ⁓ I believe ⁓ made it to the finals but not not a place her in the in the finals there. But ⁓ it was always i every once in a while I'd just be, you know, scrolling Reddit or Facebook or you know, whatever. Th things things come up in my news feeds and ⁓ it's like, ⁓ a new new performance from Christy Sellers, that's fun. So ⁓ got to got to see that. Cody: Okay. I'm happy that she's doing I'm happy she's doing so well. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ Brit. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ seems like the the Got Talent franchise on the whole is still alive and active around the world. So that's ⁓ that's fun to see. ⁓ I have my my in home translator, so when I watched Got Talent Hispania when we pulled up those those performances, I was able to get the judge's comments. So Cody: Yes. Well we're gonna need that Spanish later on in this episode, Jay. Jay Bock: Yeah, you know, I didn't ask her to ⁓ to help me out with that and it was it was going by pretty quick, so I'm not sure that there would have been much to ⁓ much to get. Cody: What is your ⁓ streak up to now? Jay Bock: My current Duolingo streak is it's yeah, it's been a minute, a few hundred days. ⁓ I am at one thousand No, I'm sorry, two thousand one hundred and seventy seven. So that's ⁓ you know, y like I've I've stopped kind of learning Spanish and I've started just keeping the streak alive. Like so Cody: We gotta get an update since we haven't heard from you in a while. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ and and it it's like I I don't know that I'll ever, no matter how hard I work at it, be able to, you know, tell you the difference between like I have been to the football stadium and I was at the football stadium and I you know, I I would be at the football stadi like, you know, all all these different tenses, they get really ⁓ really mundled, muddled and it's hard to keep ⁓ straight and you know, like i if I I'm in a Spanish speaking ⁓ location and you know, my toothbrush I need a new toothbrush. I can go into a place and I can s you know, hold up my broken toothbrush and say, you know, toothbrush please, you know, like I I can get the point across. So Yeah, I I I can I'm I'm not gonna pass as a native and I never will. So that's ⁓ Cody: Yeah. You can ⁓ you can ask where the bathroom is. That's right. Yes. ⁓ what what else is big news in your world, Jay? What do the listeners need to know about you? Jay Bock: ⁓ geez. I've I'm I graduated again. finished my classes in December, walked with ⁓ all the graduates just here ⁓ last month in May. on to summer break and then I've got a ⁓ full time job lined up for the fall. I'll be teaching ⁓ special ed ⁓ with students that are are kind of the lowest lowest students, but you know, like a love above life skills. I don't need to Cody: Woohoo. Jay Bock: ⁓ you know, change pants or anything, but ⁓ if they're two or more years behind, gonna try and work on those skills to bridge that gap and and try and get them back up to to where they need to be to to function in their in their classrooms. So it's gonna be a great fit for me. I'm really excited for it. It's ⁓ a just a a wonderful opportunity to do something that I think fits my skills and and you know something that I love to do is working with kids. Cody: As the credit king would say, Woohoo Jay Bock: Woohoo We are we are on to ⁓ you know turning the page. Cody: Yes. Yes. ⁓ what else? Anything else we need talk about before we get going on this? Jay Bock: Man, I d I ⁓ am I missing something? You y are are you digging for something? What do you got going on? How are you? Cody: I don't know. I've just I ⁓ I'm I'm doing well. You know, the listeners kinda have been kept up with me, but I know you and I haven't talked ⁓ a a bit a a minute, but no, I'm I'm doing well. ⁓ I'm back four days a week in the office, which there's no secret I'm not ⁓ you know, complete fan of, but ⁓ you know, I do it. I go in, I do my job and ⁓ I like doing my job. I just I've told my as I told my boss I like doing my job. I just don't like to go in to do my job. ⁓ but you know, it is what it is and I do it and ⁓ I adhere to the rules and but but that's about it. So it's there's that. ⁓ and I'll be out for the listeners, I'll be out ⁓ we just started, but I'll be out next week. ⁓ it's the it's the annual ⁓ VBS with the kids at church, so I'm excited about that. ⁓ that Jay Bock: Ha ha. ⁓ right, yeah. Cody: That just takes so much energy out of me and it's also at night when A G T's on and the recording and all that. So, ⁓ it's just ⁓ it's just my time off and I get to go enjoy ⁓ the evenings with the kids ⁓ throughout the week. So I'm excited about that. Yeah. Jay Bock: That's cool that you ⁓ you you make that investment in in in the kids that way. I you know, I'm I'm a churchgoer. I like ⁓ to you know, s support ⁓ support things the best I can. ⁓ I'll actually be preaching on Sunday. So pastors they have a an annual ⁓ church camp that they're s sort of in charge of. So ⁓ they asked me if I would fill the pulpit this week. So I'll I'll be getting to do that too. Cody: Yeah. Woo, awesome awesome. Yeah. Jay Bock: So ⁓ yeah, ⁓ man, I don't know. Cody, ⁓ enough about us, enough about all the nobody nobody really tunes in for this part, I don't think. So let's ⁓ let's let's buckle down here. We got the first episode of season twenty one. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Before we start, if you want to reach out to us, should you ever want to, at Cody: Well Yes Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Jay Bock: AGT Time Pod is the handle in all the places. AGT timepod at gmail dot com. rate, review, subscribe. And with that, Cody, I think we're ready to go. Cody: Yeah, so what's what in addition to all of that, what's the other thing that we're promoting that's with our with our pod? Our website, Jay. Yes, our updated website, AGT timepod.com. ⁓ so it's ⁓ we revamped the website month or six weeks ago or so. ⁓ it's got all of our podcast episodes just like the old one did, but this one's it's it's better. It also has ⁓ Commenters AGT Hall of Fame. Jay Bock: ⁓ that's right! Cody: out there so go check out the Hall of Fame. He's worked hard on all that. Go out and look at it. It's also got ⁓ a blog and so Commenter's got a blog post out there. We have a new contributor, ⁓ Mask Senior Homie, who lives over in the UK. Yes. So Masked Senior Homer Homie from ⁓ Instagram. ⁓ he's ⁓ helping contribute on our ⁓ blog as well so he's got a couple of posts out there. So go check out our website, A GT Timepod dot com. We're we're it's you know it's Jay Bock: ⁓ really? Cody: Still young, still new, we're we're growing it, but ⁓ we'd appreciate you go checking checking out and ⁓ interacting on there. Yeah. Jay Bock: Absolutely. Let's ⁓ kind of build our our fan base here and make something ⁓ you know that's that's fun to be a part of. ⁓ I will hope I'm not kinda speaking out of turn here, but as we get to the live shows, ⁓ we're hoping to have some like audience involvement or a way for you guys to have sort of a weekly ⁓ investment in who you think's gonna go through and maybe kind of play a ⁓ a game with that. That you guys can play along with the pod here. Cody: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to get to when we get to the live shows, how all that's gonna play out. So, Jay. This is the part where I'm excited that you're back, Jay, because you get to now do the recaps. ⁓ Commander did a great job with all of that during the offseason. You do a great job with it during the season. I am terrible at it, so I'm glad you're here to do it. Jay Bock: All right. Well Cody Ha ha ha. ⁓ you do a fine job. You do a fine job. ⁓ no, it it is an investment, right? You have to work at it and kind of think about how you're gonna word these things to make it make sense. ⁓ hopefully to all you listeners out there, this is this is fun to listen to. it must be if you're if you're tuning in, right? So ⁓ let's Cody: Right, right. ⁓ what what were your overall thoughts of just this first episode? Jay Bock: I thought that this was a solid first episode. ⁓ we we got to see some things that are fun to see. We got to see some things that are are a little bit silly. ⁓ it this felt like like some pretty like a a good marriage of like old school AGT where like you've got somebody coming on doing something that's weird and silly, ⁓ but you've also got somebody ⁓ you know, like they love their golden buzzer moments. So Cody: Okay. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I feel like AGT was trying some new things this season with three golden buzzers, obviously. That means with the three that we may not get you know, we not get may not get one later on in in this in the auditions. ⁓ we had we had eleven acts perform on screen. Three of those were golden buzzers. Jay Bock: Why not have three? Cody: Three got sent home and of those three, two of ⁓ performed twice. And so I just felt like there was a there was a lot going on. They were trying some new things. ⁓ it it you say it's solid, I could I could get that. It felt like there was some good performances here, some entertaining performances, but I felt like they were trying something new. I d I still hadn't figured out yet if it has worked. ⁓ we'll kind of see maybe as auditions go along. Jay Bock: Ha ha. Cody: ⁓ but it did feel kind of different than what we'd seen in the last maybe couple of years. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. ⁓ I I think they're trying to continue to you ⁓ evolve the show into, you know, the best that it could be. So ⁓ yeah, yeah, we're we're doing all right. We're doing all right. So ⁓ let's let's jump in, Cody. Twelve and a half minutes in and we're gonna talk about our first act of the first contestant, first act of the night, first performance. Agudun from Nigeria. He goes by Aggie. He's forty two years old, husband, father of four, works as a software engineer. Cody: Sure. Yeah, yep. Okay. Yes, let's do it. Jay Bock: ⁓ he's gonna leave the stage, comes back on, he's got no shoes on, and everybody's like, What's he gonna do? The anticipation's killing us. And then he says, Happiness. And he like dances in a happy way, but there's no music. And like the judges are all confused, and the audience, I guess, is all confused, and then he ⁓ says, Anger, and he does some angry dancing. And then he says embarrassment and he does some embarrassed dancing. ⁓ Simon says he has no idea what's going on. ⁓ Mel B asks if it's called like interpretive dance. And he says it's body language. Howie says he got confusion. ⁓ and then ⁓ Sophia says she just wasn't prepared for it. And then we're we're back to Simon here. You've got Simon's thoughts for us on this. Cody: ⁓ yeah. So Simon's basically saying this would be a great act if there was music. Jay Bock: has potential to be a great act if there's music. I I I don't think he said it it will be. He he was not putting too fine of a point on it. ⁓ the judges are gonna give him four no's but Simon does say that you bring on music and you're you're personally invited back by Simon Cowell himself. Cody: Sure. ⁓ I I think that would make sense 'cause I'm I'm not sure we've seen we've seen interpretive dance, but I'm not sure we've seen silent interpretive dance. So Simon seem seems a little intrigued by this. They almost s didn't seem to understand what was happening or you know Melby was asking about interpretive dance like they'd they'd never seen it before. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. Yeah, I think Augie like he doesn't want to be in the dance category, right? He just wants to be in the in the body language category, in the expressing emotions with his full self. And the judges weren't getting that. They like, No, ⁓ let's let's let's push you towards dance. Let's put some music to this, and then all of a sudden it's like, okay, I guess I'll I'll I guess I'll do dance if that's what you want. Cody: Okay. Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, so I I'm not I'm I'm kinda with them. I'm not sure where to where to put this. ⁓ I I I liked it in the sense that he makes me happy. I I like the emotions that he did. He made me happy. Yeah, he makes me happy. The show makes me happy. The show also at times makes me angry Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, and you know, he's he's one of the like he's he's got that the dark skin and like the the white smile and like you you see that smile on stage and it does just kinda like light up the the stage on its own. Like he he's he d has a a certain charisma about him that is attractive. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Right, right. It it that that is right. He's he he's not an ang yeah, he's not an angry person. He's he seems to be a very happy person and ⁓ I like that about him. ⁓ I I'm still just trying to figure out where to place this. I like it, but I'm still like I'm not sure what to do with it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Jay Bock: Okay, yeah. Well, I the judges gave him four no's. I think that's totally acceptable. I I have no problem giving him a no if that were ⁓ on you know, if I were sitting at the judge's table. like th is this an AGT act? Not really. It's not a winning act. Cody: ⁓ not a winning act, but it's a fun act. It's it's enjoyable. It's enjoyable. Was the best act of the night. Al also worst act of the season, so ⁓ was was going off stage and taking his shoes off necessary? Could he have just could he have just come out initially barefoot? Yeah, okay. Jay Bock: It's fun, sure. Yeah. Best act of the night. Best act of the season. Absolutely. Yeah, he could have. But that was that was a creative choice that he made and ⁓ Cody: I I thought he was gonna like pull a Seth word and like disappear and put on some costume or something. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah. Boy, wouldn't that have been a a turn. Surprise, I'm Sethward. Okay. ⁓ all right. Well, if he includes some music, Simon says he can come back. But in the meantime, let's move on to our second act of the night. ⁓ we're gonna meet her backstage. Her name's Leigh Noel. She is fourteen years old and from Texas. ⁓ Cody, you're from Texas. Do you know Leigh? Cody: ⁓ no, Lee was born after I left the state of Texas. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ okay. Alright. I thought maybe you guys might have run into each other. they do offer her a drink of water to help her maybe calm her nerves a little bit. She takes that. ⁓ she declines a sandwich from Howie though. Cody: No, unfortunately not. Yeah. Yep. ⁓ I would have taken a sandwich from Howie. Jay Bock: Yeah, that's a very Piff the Magic Dragon move. That's Cody: That is very true. That's exactly right. Jay Bock: so she's she's gonna decline the sandwich, but she is gonna sing a song called Die on This Hill by ⁓ Sienna Spiro. Are you familiar with the song Die on this Hill, Cody? Cody: I've never heard of the song nor the the singer. Jay Bock: No, and you're about to play an audio drop for us and I have a feeling that I could be like, I've never heard the song before, even though I just listened to it last night. So it it's not really one that like has has that earworm quality for me. But Cody: Yes. That's right. I I like her voice. I really do like her voice. But at the same time, as you said, the song doesn't really do anything for me. Jay Bock: Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. We are in agreement there. so yeah, she's got like a mature voice, especially for a fourteen year old. good control not bad for a kid. yeah, d good control of her vibrato, nice range. But like there's nothing there that's like Yeah, I need more of that. ⁓ I don't know that Cody: Okay. Okay. Right. For a kid's as for for a kid singer. Yeah. Jay Bock: Her feet like they could have been glued to the floor. There was nothing there for for stage presence, for you know, like bringing it to life more than just her above average voice. Cody: Mm-hmm. She also I'd really hate to say this, Jay. This is really gonna be bad. She doesn't seem to have much of a personality. Jay Bock: ⁓ and ⁓ you know, I I wonder I I can't diagnose anything. The way that she talked felt a little bit forced or a little bit robotic. Like maybe ⁓ you know, th there's there's something happening behind the scenes that we're not yet privy to. ⁓ so I ⁓ yeah, i the the the non singing personality, right? Her her ⁓ Cody: Okay. Yeah. Right. Yes. Yeah. Sure, sure. Jay Bock: We we didn't get like her yucking it up with the judges at all. There was no extra you know, it was just Cody: Right. There's no yeah, like like a Grace Vanderwall or a Darcy Lynn type thing. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. She's just just just the facts, ma'am. ⁓ so yeah, so ⁓ I mean I won't ⁓ I won't steal the judge's comments. Let's kinda jump right into what they have to say for her ⁓ following her performance. Cody: Yes, yes. ⁓ you wan let's ⁓ let's get the golden buzzer. How about that? Jay Bock: Yeah. Simon's Simon's comment. Cody: I do like that they're still pushing Grace Venderwall there, Jay. Jay Bock: is that was that a Grace Vanderwall song playing? I d I totally missed that. ⁓ Okay. ⁓ what w what do you think of that ⁓ that golden buzzer moment? You wanna know what I think? Words aren't necessary. Boom. Cody: That's the Grace Battery All song. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the first time they've used that either. They've used that before. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Simon's not the best orator when it comes to and and Common and I have talked about this during some of the other rewatches. He's not the best orator when it comes to Golden Buzzers. he's he speaks very little. ⁓ he doesn't give great explanations. ⁓ it's just more like, Yeah, I think that was great. Boom, golden buzzer And it's like, Okay, can we get a little more excitement from you on this, Simon? Jay Bock: Okay. ⁓ yeah. I mean he just kinda goes with the gut feeling. Like he doesn't want to explain his guts. He just wants to just let the let the moment speak for itself. ⁓ yeah, other other judges do like to ⁓ they they like to chew on it a little bit, right? Give a give a whole you know, never seen anything like this. I think that you're b above and beyond. You people are gonna love you and and Cody: Sure. Yeah. Yes. Jay Bock: And that's why Cody: Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. I guess I guess he's the boss. He doesn't have to say a whole lot, right? Nope. Doesn't have to, nope. ⁓ so AGT did something this week that's really starting to irk me, ⁓ Jay. And so and I think they've done this before, and even so it's not new, but they release this golden buzzer moment early. Jay Bock: So it Yeah, he doesn't have to. He doesn't have to. ⁓ Yes, I did see that it was on online before the show ever happened, yeah. Cody: Yes, on their socials, and they don't even put like the spoiler warning. They're just like, hey, watch this golden buzzer moment. Here's the whole thing. And I'm like, come on, H E T. Some of us want to watch the show in real time and be surprised and be amazed. We don't want to see these moments. You know, if you want to release it, fine, but please kind of put something in place for those of us that don't want to see the spoiler. Jay Bock: Yeah, ⁓ make it a spoiler alert, that would be that'd be okay. ⁓ but that's like Cody: I don't think they need this to get people to watch the show. Jay Bock: No, I don't think that they are asking people to watch the show. Like, this has become a a golden buzzer factory. Right? The it's this we're taking clips from our show, we're putting them online, and that's where that's where the bread's actually buttered is on the the online clicks. It's not people tuning in to the the shows each week. So they used to wait until after the show and then, you know Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: package up those clips and and you know, hey, share this golden buzzer moment, share this golden buzzer moment, share this, you know, surprise moment, whatever. And ⁓ so they're trying something a little bit different and saying, maybe we don't have to like wait for the show to be over. We can just like start packaging up these golden buzzer moments and getting the clicks. People haven't seen them before. ⁓ this is a new golden buzzer moment. I didn't even know. Like so, you know, like the show is a a business a money money making enterprise and if this is the br the best ⁓ business move for them whatever. I d I don't I don't really care. I'm gonna continue to watch it the way that I watch it. Cody: Sure. Absolutely. I'm I'm gonna watch it every week. I'm gonna watch it every week no matter what, but it's still just I'm I'm I'm being old man here. I'm I I'm being old man for a moment. ⁓ and and just seem like, ⁓ these darn kids and their clicks. This no and so I was like as someone that just enjoys watching it and and I try to avoid spoilers because I just personally wanna watch the show and be surprised to be amazed during those two hours the show is on. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. This isn't how it used to be. Cody: I I know there's gonna be golden buzzer moments and if you're gonna give me some give me some teasers, hey we're gonna have three tonight or hey you're gonna be gr amazed at these golden buzzers to you know, I appreciate teasers, I appreciate you know, the ⁓ advertisements, the previews, whatever. I just don't need to see the whole performance and the golden buzzer moment twelve hours before the show airs. So Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah, I I I generally agree with you. Cody: Yeah. I I get it though as you say. I get it from a business perspective. It's just old man here with a voice that the listeners Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. They ⁓ You know, it is it fair? Might be a different question, right? Like if we're putting this content out into the world, ⁓ you know, getting these golden buzzer moments and these golden buzzer clicks, like are we putting our thumb on the scale when we get around to the live shows as to who's gonna get their chance to actually get America's vote? ⁓ you know, in a little bit. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: You know, we talked about Christy Sellers off the top. Like she got a a golden buzzer in through the first round, a golden buzzer in through the second round. Spain never had a chance to vote for her, so when she gets into the finale, you know, nobody ⁓ has their like, ⁓ yeah, this is the one that I voted for before. I I loved I liked that one. It's just like she was she was forced on them and if they already had, you know, a horse in the race, ⁓ they're not gonna switch in the middle of the race. So Cody: Mm-hmm. Yep. Which is one of the problems we've seen the last two seasons with the live show Golden Buzzard. So Jay Bock: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So the judges, we get a little bit of ⁓ conversation with them following the golden buzzer. Sophia says that she leaned over to ⁓ Simon and said, I think I'm gonna make her a golden buzzer. And he says, ⁓ don't do it. And then he steals it from her and she says, He stole it from me. Cody: Yeah, it won't be the first time tonight in this episode that Sophia missed out. And I'm like, Sophia, you just when do you feel it, you gotta just do it. It's like, come on. Don't ask permission, just do it. Jay Bock: She she was working on finding all the right spectacular words to Cody: I guess so. Jay Bock: ⁓ and Simon's like, ⁓ words the heck with ⁓ Buzzer. Words schmerds. That's Cody: We're smarts. That's right. Jay Bock: all right. Cody, should we move on to the third act of the night here? Okay, this act is made up of ⁓ mister Tyrone Loner and ⁓ Margot Sarova. They go by Tyrone and Margot. Cody: Yeah yes. Yeah. Jay Bock: Like should it have been duo something? Cody: ⁓ maybe so they remind me and we'll get more from that in a minute, but they remind me of a ⁓ Deadly Games and Duo Transcend. Jay Bock: Yes. Okay. All right. Cody: They also remind me of ⁓ General Zod from Superman Y Yes Jay Bock: ⁓ you like the bedazzling? The have you ever worn a bedazzled vest, Cody? Cody: I have never worn a bedazzled vest. No, I can't say that I have. Jay Bock: Okay. Yeah, I don't yeah, see that as really your style, so that makes sense. ⁓ I I own yeah. No bedazzled leather myself. Cody: Yeah, it's N yeah, go ahead. I do remember when the bedazzler came out Jay Bock: The the commercials. Yeah. As seen on T V. Just it's like a like a stapler for rhinestones, right? Is that? Yeah, okay. ⁓ well they ⁓ either bedazzled these themselves or they've got somebody who had ⁓ a a couple of ⁓ buckets worth of bedazzles ⁓ bedazzling to put on. So we're gonna Cody: Yes. That's right. Yes, that's correct. Jay Bock: They're a danger act, as kind of alluded to here. Tyrone, he's got eight knives. ⁓ Marg's gonna go stand in front of this wall and ⁓ he throws the knives, she leans left, leans right, leans left, right, left, right, and ⁓ he he throws, you know, to miss her each time, and then ⁓ one down the middle that she ducks under, and then one lower down the middle that she had to duck even lower to ⁓ to be out of the way. What'd you think of that first kind of danger move there, Cody? Cody: I really like it. It looked again very similar to what Deadly Games would do. So very much so. But I still like it. I still enjoy it. Jay Bock: Very much. Yep. Yep. Alright, quick reset. He's gonna get out what I thought was a crossbow at first. It's actually a bow, a compound bow. ⁓ she's gonna grab a balloon, raise ⁓ one foot up above her head and hold the balloon like under next to her leg. It's not under her leg because her leg is vertical, ⁓ but behind her leg, and then he's gonna shoot that. and ⁓ then they're gonna trade. He's gonna go ⁓ grab the balloon and she's gonna take the bow. ⁓ Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ she shoots one balloon like normal, kinda next to his head, and then ⁓ one while he's doing the splits and the last one he's gonna hold in his mouth and she's gonna shoot that one. ⁓ what'd you think of these ⁓ these bow tricks? Cody: I I loved all these bow tricks. I think they were they were great. ⁓ it's a nice mixture of all the different types of ap apparatus that they ⁓ that they can use. Again, remind me a lot of Deadly Games, but I I you know how much I love ⁓ Deadly Games. ⁓ I I wish unfortunately they're not together anymore, as we found out last season. Yeah. ⁓ but I st I'm glad that they're here to kind of fill those shoes. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, that's right. Okay. well we got a couple more tricks before they their time runs out here. ⁓ he puts a apple on the board. She's gonna shoot that while he kneels below it. I it probably fits more with the ⁓ the balloon tricks there, kinda the same more of the same, just a different ⁓ target, smaller target. And then ⁓ the last trick, she's they've got the spinning platform on the stage, ⁓ with like three different target areas. And she's gonna stand on it, kinda contorted around it, and it they set it spinning and he throws knives at the different rotating targets. One of them misses. ⁓ fortunately Pierce wasn't on the ⁓ on the panel. And ⁓ then he gets out the it this time it is a crossbow. He gets out a crossbow to ⁓ shoot the balloon at that one last ⁓ target on top. ⁓ Cody: Yes That's right. Jay Bock: They've got a pretty good sense of showmanship. They've got a good sense of like what sells on the stage. It looks dangerous. It feels dangerous. It all in all, I got I got no problem with this. I don't know that they brought it to some like new level that I'm like, and and now we've set a new bar for what danger acts can be. But this is a a really passable, likable danger act. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, agreed again it was very, very similar to Deadly Games. I didn't feel like they did anything more than what Deadly Games would do. But I still really enjoy these types of acts. ⁓ it's it it's it the the bar is not raised. I agree with that. I I totally agree. ⁓ did you remember that Tyrone was on season seventeen with Blade to Blade? Do you remember Blade to Blade? Yes. Jay Bock: No I did not. No, I don't remember that at all. Cody: I found that out from I think it was AGT Insider, ⁓ on on Tuesday night that said that Tyrone was actually on Blade to Blade from season seventeen. And I like Blade to Blade. I thought they were it's ver very much the same act. ⁓ so I I like them. I like Deadly Games. I I think I just like Tyrone. I think he's just I think I just I think he's just the type of act that I really like. Jay Bock: Ha ha. All right, okay. yeah, that's that makes sense. ⁓ let's ⁓ shift over to Judge's comments here. We've got a little bit of ⁓ conversation between Simon and ⁓ duo Tyrone and Margot. Cody: Yeah. So if you only have thirty percent in one eye, your depth perception is not great, right? Jay Bock: I would imagine it affects your yeah. But like Things are are measured down to the millimeter, you know, like they they ⁓ you can put your toe on the chalk line and throw at the board that's exactly that far away. It's not like you know y you're not making adjustments mid show. you know, as far as depth yeah, it's all muscle memory. Simon did make a good point though that I I alluded to Cody: Yeah. And it's all muscle it's all muscle memory at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ he says the their speed was impressive, right? They they move from trick to trick to trick and it wasn't a whole big like set up in between, you know, and like now I'm gonna dance across the stage and hold up this thing while you set up this thing and get ready to you know, it's just like no, we're just grab the thing and go. Grab the thing and go, grab the thing and go. So they their their tricks, you know, per minute, their ⁓ implements per minute is is pretty high. Cody: Okay. Yeah. ⁓ it seemed like ⁓ was it Mrs. Deadly Games from last season. She kinda had that problem, right? Where she was ⁓ where she took forever. I'm trying remember her name. ⁓ Anna? Yes, Anna. Jay Bock: Yeah. And Cody: And and not a yeah, and Serenina? That's that her? Serenina, Serenina, yes. Yeah. She had that problem. Jay Bock: Seren Serenina. Sern Seren yeah. ⁓ yep. Yeah, yeah. And they they don't. ⁓ so that's good. ⁓ Sophia says that ⁓ she looks so sure ⁓ of herself and she calls them spectacular. ⁓ so, you know, mark up a a spectacular for Sophia on the season. ⁓ Mel B says she missed a lot because she was so terrified. so you know Mark up a Mel B didn't watch the act for the season. And then Howie goes on to say that Margot's like a superhero care ⁓ character and they really rose to the occasion. So ⁓ it's gonna be four yeses for ⁓ duo Tyrone and Margot. ⁓ we are yeah, we've we've got a danger act, we've got a singer, we've got a ⁓ a a buzzed dancer, like you know, we're we're kinda getting Cody: Ha Jay Bock: Getting a whole spread of what America's Got Talent has to offer. Cody: Mm. Yes, yeah. We don't have, you know, six singers right there in a row. No. Jay Bock: No, no, it's not singer after singer after singer. So I I appreciate the variety. ⁓ speaking of variety, let's move on to our fourth act of the night. Mr. Nolan Ross Palmer. ⁓ as somebody who uses his middle initial initial, ⁓ y you like the the three names Nolan Ross Palmer? Cody: Okay. ⁓ I'm not a fan of the the full middle name. I'm more of a fan of just the initial. So Nol Nolan R. Palmer would would sound fantastic. Jay Bock: All right. ⁓ R R is a word though. Like Nolan is Palmer? Do you mean Nolan is Palmer? Nolan R Palmer. Nolan Ross Palmer. Yeah, I let let's stick with Ross. Alright. he's gonna have some banter with the judges. Sophia gets weird, asking how long he's been doing this, where he does it, does his family know he does it? ⁓ but yeah, they they get past that. Cody: N Nolan Er Nolan Er Palmer Palmer. Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ and we're gonna get to see Nolan Ross Palmer perform ⁓ the ⁓ song Sprock Zarathora Zar Zarathustra Also Z also Sprock Zarathustra is ⁓ jeez. Okay, it's it's that song from two thousand one a space odyssey. ⁓ he's gonna spray the Some hot dogs with some lighter fluid. He's gonna spit some fly fire on the hot dogs. They're gonna be flaming and he's gonna pick ⁓ up and he's gonna swallow them whole. ⁓ while they're flaming. ⁓ the judges give him four noes in pretty quick pretty quick order there. ⁓ what'd you think of this performance, Cody? Cody: ⁓ I didn't think much of it, Jay. ⁓ I thought it was one of these that's that's really weird. He's eating raw raw hot dogs that are on fire. Whole Jay Bock: We could call them partially cooked. B beginning to be cooked. Like I s I saw them. Cody: That's the act. You think they're partially cooked? Well, they were on fire doesn't mean they were cooked. I don't think they reached an internal temperature of hundred and sixty degrees. So Jay Bock: They were on their way to being cooked. So Cody: Th I don't know what the talent was. Like what was the talent? He wasn't going for a world record. If he was going for a world record this Is it is it though? you know. If he was going for a world record I could I could get on board. He had four hot dogs on his tray. ⁓ so Jay Bock: It's like a danger act. He was handling fire. Know the world record for f swallowed flaming hot dogs. It might be three. Cody: Well then we need to get Michael the educator out here and have have tracked that. So Jay Bock: We do need to get our ad adjudicator on this. ⁓ yeah, flaming hot dog swallowed whole. Right. Cody: ⁓ f ⁓ is it better than hot dog water? Jay Bock: good question. I don't know. We gotta bring the what's their names? The L Le Fave couple ⁓ back out and and get them get them on this. I don't know what their ⁓ record is on flaming hot dogs. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah, 'cause the hot dogs were not in hot so d did did did they drink the hot dog water from these flaming hot dogs? Jay Bock: ⁓ no, I'm pretty sure it was Badland's Booker that drank the hot dog water, wasn't it? But it's it's no it you know, let's let's let's just let this one ⁓ let's let this one sit. Cody: Okay, yes. Yes Yes. Let it simmer. Jay Bock: Let it simmer. let it simmer and ⁓ Nolan, thanks for thanks for coming. ⁓ you you made it on T V. Next act of the night, ⁓ gentleman named Josh Sherman from Las Vegas, Nevada, ⁓ professional trumpet player, he says, ⁓ twenty eight years old, and ⁓ he's gonna open his trumpet case and pull out a beat that's been like hollowed out in some way. And he says, Beethoven. Cody: I figured you would have pre hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Is it still in here? Jay Bock: It's ⁓ you still got it. Okay. ⁓ so he's going to like buzz his lips into this hollowed out beat to the tune of Beethoven's fifth symphony. Cody: I still got it, yes. Jay Bock: and we get four immediate buzzes. ⁓ judges are not impressed. He says, You didn't let me get to the good part, guys. And so he talks them into letting him get to the good part. ⁓ and he pulls out a apple, similarly hollowed out, and says, Cha apple roan, and then plays ⁓ Pink Pony Club on the apple. Cody: Yep. Jay Bock: We get three more immediate buzzes and Simon is like, Hey, let's let's let it play out a little bit. And then he buzzes him. So it's ⁓ it's gonna be eight buzzes for Mr. Josh Sherman. Cody: So two points here. One, I figured you would really appreciate the dad jokes. Yes, yes. And yes, little ⁓ portmanteau, you like those. Even though that's not what this was. Yeah, I know you appreciate all that. ⁓ the second thing this has to be an AGT record where someone has received eight X's in one performance. Jay Bock: I I do. I I like a good play on words, a good pun, yeah. Absolutely. In one performance, it's gotta be, yeah. ⁓ yeah, I'm I'm wondering if Seth Word has gotten eight, you know, in one night. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: Never in one performance, I don't believe. Yeah. Cody: Or or in a season. Yeah, or yeah, maybe one night, but maybe also one season. But he also holds the record just overall, right? Sethward? Okay. Jay Bock: Yeah, I believe so. He's good ⁓ good fodder for the judges to have troubles with. Cody: Yes. The other thing that stuck out at me for ⁓ Josh Sherman, ⁓ and and this is where I wanted to pick your brain on this. ⁓ so you went to you went to mortuary school for a little bit, correct? Yes, you wanted you wanted to be a funeral director, right? Does does Josh Sherman kind of feel like or look like he should be in that line of business? Jay Bock: Yeah, for one semester. Mm I ⁓ Mortuary directors come in all shapes and sizes. Let me ⁓ let me grab a picture here of Josh. Cody: Sure, sure. Okay. He's got a nice dark suit on, ⁓ the a dark tie. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, I got the yeah, nothing nothing flashy, right? Just keep it keep it real. ⁓ yeah, d funeral directors aren't really allowed to wear bright colors. Yeah, no, I I I could see him working in the in the funeral dri industry. Like you know, he he's not like a ⁓ you know, like tall, like hunched over ⁓ Cody: Yep. Yep. Sure. Jay Bock: like like the l you know, like like a a cartoon of a of a funeral director. He's like like an actual legit I can see that. I can see that. ⁓ which is a weird poll for you, Cody, I gotta say. Cody: Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what to tell you, man. It's like He just had that vibe had that vibe to me. So Jay Bock: Yeah. ⁓ yeah, it seems like he keeps it pretty light too though. So ⁓ yeah, I you know this is the kind of act that I love to see. Right? I I want to see somebody doing y making music in a way that I've never seen music made before. Like that's that's fun. ⁓ but he did kinda stink. Like he was he wasn't actually good at it. So Cody: Yeah. Sure. No, he is ba they they were basically kazoos, weren't they? Jay Bock: You know. ⁓ I mean no, ⁓ a kazoo has a membrane that that vibrates and he was buzzing his lips. ⁓ it wasn't a Cody: Okay. Okay. Jay Bock: Yeah, i i it was the noise was created in a different way than a kazoo makes noise, but ⁓ you know, he wasn't humming, he was buzzing his lips. So yeah. You're a trumpet player, it's you know Yeah. Clo closer to trumpet than it is to kazoo. Cody: Got it. Okay. I am a trouble player, you're right about that, yes. Alright. I yeah, at least I was thirty years ago, so I do not. No, haven't owned one in again, almost maybe twenty six or seven years. Yep. Jay Bock: Well, all right. Do you still own a trumpet? I do not. ⁓ ⁓ man, okay. ⁓ yeah, I'm I'm a tuba player and I didn't mean to own a tuba, but when somebody gifts you a tuba, like you kinda have to take it. So I I'm a tuba player and I own a tuba and I get it out pretty much once a year for for tuba Christmas. So that's ⁓ that's it though. Cody: Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay, there you go. Is it an actual tube or is it a sousaphone? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ it's an actual tuba. It's a big it's a big boy, like a like a five four recording tuba. It's it's hefty and it's got interchangeable bells. One that that shoots up and one that that shoots forward like the Susaphone bell, but ⁓ it is it's an actual, honest to goodness, big boy tuba. So ⁓ all right. Let's ⁓ let's move on from Josh Sherman. Let's move on to a group called Acro Crew. Cody: Ooh. Okay. Yeah. Nice. Love it. Jay Bock: They are from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ⁓ ages seven to twenty one. ⁓ they ask them, what makes you guys different from any other dance crew? And they say, we're like family. In fact, some of us are sisters, and like if you're a sister, raise your hand. And I was fully prepared to hate this act, Cody. I I was already offboard. Like, ⁓ my lord. Like a dance crew of Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: girls from seven to twenty-one, like yawn. I've I've already fallen asleep. I I do not want to see this. But I will sit through it and I'll take my notes and I'll I'll be a good podcaster boy and Cody: Yes. Okay. Jay Bock: And they start going, I'm like, okay, fine. They do some handstands, yada yada. And then a dog comes out. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: And like hurdles three girls ⁓ one, two, three hurdles them three in a row. I'm like, ⁓ well that's kinda fun and I perked up a little bit. Yeah. Cody: You you set you set up in your chair and you're like, Okay it's like Jay Bock: And then they s ⁓ d do another setup thing and a dog jumps out and it jumps over like five of them as if it's jump jumping like onto and off of a table, right? And then a third dog comes out and like does these flips ⁓ with with one of the handlers while the other girls are doing flips on the stage. And then ⁓ eight of them create this like they they're each doing like a backbend bridge, their their feet and hands on the floor with belly up, and they they sort of create this human bridge that a dog comes up and they runs across their bellies like a bridge and i a dog weaves through their legs and runs across their backs again and then ⁓ dogs are leaping off you know people into one of the handlers arms and it was like you know I'm I'm like trying to come up with nice ways to say I'm tired of this kind of act. I hate it. And then by the end it's like, no, I like this. This is actually really good. I really, really enjoyed this. Cody: Yeah, yeah, I did too. I really, really enjoyed it too. I'm I'm kinda with you. I wasn't out as much as you were at the beginning, but I was like, okay, yeah, I'll watch this. This seems intriguing. And Acro Acro Crew, I was like, okay, is this really another Acro Army type act? ⁓ at the beginning didn't feel they were as good as maybe Acro Army, but then when you introduce four legged friends ⁓ into the performance and it's not the same as a typical dog act. It's Jay Bock: Mm-hmm. Cody: Dogs of different sizes jumping and walk walking and weaving and doing whatever as part of as part as while the girls are doing acrobatic tricks, I thought was a great mixture of bringing those two things together. Jay Bock: Yeah, absolutely. yeah, my notes here. ⁓ I don't really like dance acts. I'm not a particularly big fan of dog acts. Put ⁓ together and apparently like, you know, one plus one equals more than two. Cody: Yes. That's right. Jay Bock: ⁓ did you rank the acts from from last night's episode? Okay. Well ⁓ I didn't either, but I did write best act of the night so far. Cody: I did not, no. It was great, yeah. Great act, yeah. I really enjoyed it. Yeah. Jay Bock: that certainly more memorable than some of the others as well. Cody: I absolutely totally agree with that. Jay Bock: So yeah, I I enjoyed the heck out of this. So Svia in the judge's comments, she says, it's two of my favorite things, dancers and dogs. Together, it's just too much. says they're having fun. Howie says they blew him away. He loves everything about them. And before we can even get to the other judges' comments, here comes Terry. And Terry's gonna peel in from the ⁓ from the side of the stage and come down to the judge's table, which only means one thing, Cody. Let's hear what what Terry had to say. Cody: And and I love that they all knew what was happening 'cause with Terry it's not a secret. It's not a surprise with him. It's like Yeah. Jay Bock: No, he there's no way for him to like to to to surprise them like ⁓ like Simon did earlier. Cody: I think there was one season where he just all of a sudden appeared at the judges table, like out of nowhere. I mean, I think he could do that. If he could find a way to like sneak down there. Jay Bock: But ⁓ yeah. Cody: Then he could might be able to get away with it, but most of the time it's he's doing it from the wings. Yeah. Jay Bock: I'd be okay with that. I'd be okay with him trying to do that. I really, it's fine. Come in from the wings, come down to the table, like have the whole moment and tell him what's wonderful. ⁓ and yeah, he he does. He says he's you know, never seen anything like it. This is good. You know, we've seen dance's dog with individual dancers, but we've we've we've seen dogs dance with individual dancers, ⁓ but we've never seen Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: dogs dance with multiple dancers like this. And ⁓ we've seen dogs dance with other dogs but never never with humans like this. And and this and it was it was really well done. It was all together just really good. Cody: Right. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And Sophia had another opportunity. I think even Mel B at one point Mel B teed it up for her. Like Mel B kinda had a slight comment and then Sophia She laid it out there like here, here, here, do the golden buzzer thing and it tot she totally whiffed on it again. So Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. Yep. ⁓ yep. Just it's like she was she was getting her her backswing ready to go, g settling in, and ⁓ then here comes Terry and just steals it out from under. no, that's all right. It I I ⁓ am absolutely okay with this being a golden buzzer performance, golden buzzer act. ⁓ all right. Best act of the night so far, I say, ⁓ not even not even close. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: So ⁓ let's move on to the seventh act of the night. We've got Kev Adams, ⁓ gentleman from Paris. He's been doing stand-up comedy in French for fifteen years. ⁓ been learning English for two years now, right? Cody: It's pretty good English for two years. He's doing better in English in the last two years than you've been doing in Spanish. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, absolutely. But ⁓ if like there are some things that Duolingo is good at, but like making me fluent is not one of them. ⁓ like and there there's no no substitute for actually like living being immersed in the language, right? And having to interpret everything that's coming at you and Cody: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ to to find the right words, the way to say everything that you need to communicate. Like being required to do that for multiple hours a day is far better training than three minutes of Duolingo every day. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. So it's not good at making you fluent, is it good at making you inkaby? Jay Bock: Ha ha ha ha ⁓ Cody: ⁓ I so real quick, Jay, side side thing. So AGT did a live stream, like a six hour live stream before the show on Tuesday. Starting at like two PM, they did a they did it on like at their TikTok and Instagram. And our our our friends over at Talent Recap, they simulcast it as well. And basically the whole thing was and it wasn't f six like so for the six hours, it was basically just golden buzzer clips and hey Jay Bock: ⁓ really? Okay. Cody: Here I am, I'm from this season, and here's what I've been up to, type thing, and ⁓ here's some great acts and blah blah blah, things of that nature. And it was basically like an hour and a half repeat for six hours. ⁓ so ⁓ and there was a couple of hosts, but F Fluent and Incoby were on there, and they're like, Hey, it's Fluent and Ecoby, and here's what we've been up to, and da-da-da-da-da. So I was like, ⁓ wow, okay. Jay Bock: Okay. ⁓ really? There you go. They're still making music, I presume. Cody: Yes. Yes they are. Jay Bock: Okay. there you go. All right. Well, we're gonna ⁓ get some stand-up comedy from Kev. and I'll ⁓ I really appreciate that you pulled some audio here because when I retell their jokes, it does not work. As as good as I am at, you know, e explaining acts and and telling what happened, like recreating a stand up is just Cody: Anyway. Mm. Yeah. Jay Bock: impossible. So let's let's go ahead and hear what ⁓ what Kev Adams ⁓ had to say from the stage. Seven feet. Cody: He's great, Jay. Jay Bock: Th that was good. That was good, yeah. ⁓ and then he ⁓ at the end of his set kind of brings it back around. He's talking about how in America ⁓ taxes and tips aren't included, but in France they are, so you know what you're gonna pay. And you know, and you when you give a tip to a waiter here, it's like ten percent they're like dismissive and twenty percent they're like, Hey, thanks for the tip, you know, and at forty percent they're like, Hey, all right, wanna go hang out? Cody: Yeah. Mm. Jay Bock: Which is ⁓ yeah, a a really great way to like bring the whole thing back together. Like you've got that hangout joke, ⁓ just really, really well done all the way across the board. Cody: Yes. Yeah, I I loved this set. He brought it back a couple of times. ⁓ even in in well we'll hear it in a minute in in the comments, but he even kind of throws it out there. That's kind of his now catchphrase. ⁓ hey, you wanna hang out? And I and I love I love it. ⁓ he's he is so funny. I've listened to this probably three or four times and I have laughed every single time I've listened to it. ⁓ I think AGT also gave him A proper length to do his set. It did not feel short. It felt like a complete set. ⁓ so it kudos to them for allowing him to to do that, to tell a full story, want to hang out, bring it all back around, do the callbacks. This this guy's so funny. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah. He's so funny. Could this be our first comedian to win the show? Cody: And I've talked about this and I think it's very difficult for comedians to win in this format. I don't think that they're given enough to allow people to get familiar with them. I think with comedians, your audience really has to get to know you. ⁓ Tom Cotter had that, Preacher had that, Vicky Barblack had that. But ever since season fifteen, you know, season fifteen we didn't have any comedians in the live shows. And then since then comedians have really struggled too well. We had one comedian, I think, in the live show last or in the at least in the finals last year. Jay Bock: Yeah, I had Skylar King. I really wanted him to do well last year, but he it was Schuler King, yeah. Cody: Schuler King? Schuler King, yeah. I wanted him to do well as as as well, but I I think comedians are gonna just struggle in this format without the judge cuts. ⁓ we at least now have quarters, semis, and you know the finals. But I think it's gonna be hard. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Well, Cody, it's it's been told that there will be a a ⁓ judge's deliberation round this year. Like it's gonna be more fleshed out than we've seen before, where they just like, you know, ten minutes tacked on at the end of an episode. ⁓ I I'm not a hundred percent sure what format it's gonna take. I I seemed to hear like there might be like each judge is going to like look Cody: Yes. Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: again at four performances or four acts and like pick one of them or have the opportunity to pick some of them. I don't know. So like maybe a best case scenario for Kev is to not make that initial cut, but to make the judge's deliberation round have another chance to like come back and to you know do another set for the judge and for America and kind of catapult himself into those live rounds. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, I I gr no, I agree with you on that. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. Okay. All right. Well, we haven't really talked about that that extra round that they're adding, that judge's deliberations round. Did you have any thoughts on that before we kinda go to Judge's comments here for Kev? Cody: ⁓ Y yeah, and they're calling it judges callbacks. ⁓ and so that's what you stated is basically I've heard this similar things that judges could be bring each judge could bring back a handful of of acts to then either rewatch, revisit, whatever it may be. Seemed like somebody said they do this on or they used to do maybe X Factor, I think, where Simon would take acts to their house to his house and then reevaluate, let him perform again or evaluate ⁓ Feels weird to me to bring him to his house, but whatever. so ⁓ I'm I'm happy that they're doing something. It's not Judge Cuts, it's not Vegas Week, but it's something. It's a start. We as viewers, we really like that Judge Cuts type round. And it feels like they're trying to do something there to fill that gap. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah, th and this might be the right format for it, right? It it feels like they Cody: Maybe so. Yeah. Jay Bock: They have an idea of what they want this round to be and like judges c judge cuts wasn't the right answer. Like it it ⁓ it was too too squishy or too many acts or something. And this is like, you know what, we're we're gonna give people what they want of seeing acts again, but we're gonna get what we want of kind of reining it into what we want to work with instead of, you know, some unwieldy something, you know, all the acts that we gave four yeses to or three yeses to. No, i we're not doing that. It's like we we picked some, we're gonna pick a few more and we're gonna, you know, have an opportunity to see these that we're picking from again. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued to see what this is all about. Yep. Jay Bock: Yeah, so. ⁓ Judge's comments. Let's ⁓ let's hear what Howie has to say about Kev Adams' ⁓ comedy performance here. He's our comedian, he knows. He he knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. Cody: That's he knows what he's doing. That's how you get to be memorable. And and so I I love that. ⁓ One of his jokes also was talking about coming to the US and friends just saying, hey, you should you know go over to to Vegas. It's ⁓ it's just right over there, you know, it's not that far. It's rather he's like, it's five hours. It's five hours to Vegas. And he said, for for me from France, five hours, you're like in Turkey. And I'm like, ⁓ geography. ⁓ I'm I I gotta check this. I was like, okay. And I get it s I listeners, I get. It it's a joke. I understand. But ⁓ it being a geography, I had I had to check on this. ⁓ so I just picked kind of the most eastern part of France that I could find that was very familiar. I found Nice. Okay, and to Turkey. So Istanbul is in Turkey. It's kind of the n most northern so Jay Bock: All right. Okay. All right. Sure. Cody: The easternmost part of France and kind almost the most northern part of Turkey is Istanbul. twenty three hours, J Jay Bock: Okay. ⁓ maybe by prop plane it'd be about five hours. Cody: Yes. Yes. ⁓ something that's more within that five hour range was more like Lyon, France, to Milan, Italy. Yeah. So Jay Bock: Okay. All right. ⁓ well. R ⁓ you know, that's that's okay. It the joke still works. Yeah, and and his point of like, it's a whole different currency, it's a whole different language, it's a whole different culture. Here it's like it what do you say? It's you're at Taco Bell. Right. Cody: Yeah. The joke still works, yes. Yes, they're c correct. Yep. Yeah, that's right. You know, five hours are at Taco Bell. That's right. Jay Bock: I've got a Taco Bell, you know, a mile and a half down the road from me and you've got one a mile and a half down the road from you. And we're couldn't tell the difference between the two. Cody: Mm. Yeah. That's right. Jay Bock: So ⁓ all right, that's that's good stuff from ⁓ from Kev Adams. ⁓ Cody: Yeah. One one final thought on that, Jay. After he finished, ⁓ Howie went over to Simon and told Simon that this was the best comedian they've ever had on the show. Is that is that one of Howie's spiciest takes ever? Jay Bock: I mean that's a it's a hot take. It's a big one, right? He's not he's he's not pulling any punches, right? I I would call that all or nothing thinking. ⁓ I you know, when when my kids are like, but all my friends do it, or n nobody ever listens to me, or you're always you know, whatever like no that's all or nothing thinking, right? You can't make everything an absolute, ⁓ you know, everything nothing. Cody: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Jay Bock: best ever. but maybe he is. Cody: He might be I'm not ready to put that label after one performance. Jay Bock: Okay. All right. ⁓ well, you know, y if you're in a a relay race, Cody, like you can't win the race on your leg, but you can lose it. And he definitely didn't lose it, right? He he is is among the best comedians we've seen on the show. Cody: That's right. That's correct. He's still in it. Agreed. We have seen some great comedians. So let's see what he does. Look I I hope the best for him. Jay Bock: So all right. I I do too. I do too. I'd I'd love to see ⁓ love to see him do really well this season. our first contestant of the season, our next contestant of the season, our eighth performance of the night. ⁓ we're back to Aggie. Aggie. ⁓ he's forty two years old, husband, father of four, software engineer. Cody: Yeah. Yes. Jay Bock: He's from Nigeria but lives in England. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: He's ⁓ it he's Cody: Listeners, you did you did not rewind and go back to the beginning of the pot, I promise. Yeah. Yes. Jay Bock: He's back. ⁓ this time with music. ⁓ he's going to Do what he does. He's gonna dance, but this time with music, ⁓ to which he tells us it's it's harder to do. Cody: Yes. Is it? I guess it is. Cause you gotta stick it You gotta stick to the beat, yeah. Especially if you're doing interpretive dance. 'Cause you want interpretive dance you don't want to dance to the beat, but listening to the music it makes you want to dance to the beat. Right? Okay. Jay Bock: It's harder to dance. You you gotta stick to the beat. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. And like I don't know, I feel like interpretive like that's a it's it's not quite the right word. It's like He he's like literally doing the thing though. Like it it's not interpreting it like from from English to Spanish. It's like, you know, happiness, like expressed. I guess he's he's yeah, he's he's he's interpreting it into I guess body movement, but Cody: Expressive dancing. Okay. Yeah, and I'm not sure I've heard the term body language in the form of dancing. I mean I've heard the term body language, but not when it relates to dancing. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. ⁓ it ⁓ Yeah. I I don't know. I I use body language when I'm bowling to try and get a few more strikes. I think it works. So it Ooh, ooh, get over, get over Yeah. Stay out of the gutter, stay out of the gutter. That's you know, you like your your whole body gets into it sometimes. I mine does. ⁓ it's so ⁓ he's gonna give us happiness, loneliness, and hope. Cody: There you go. That's right. Jay Bock: And ⁓ for Happiness, the song that he's gonna dance to is Pharrell's Happy. I I mean right on the nose. ⁓ for loneliness, he's gonna dance to All By Myself by ⁓ Eric Carmen. Cody: Yep, makes sense. There you go. Or Claine Dion. Jay Bock: And ⁓ finally he's gonna ⁓ dance to what a feeling ⁓ for for hope. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, from Flashdance. Great song. Jay Bock: ⁓ are any of these on the Cody Patterson playlist? I guess we should ⁓ Cody: ⁓ ooh, I didn't even have that ready. ⁓ but yes, I can tell you at least one, maybe two of them are. ⁓ Jay Bock: Okay. ⁓ I I'll start talking here while you pull this up. ⁓ happy. We're gonna start there. ⁓ this is like it's a feel good song. ⁓ it's been around for probably more than a decade now, right? Like it's it's kind of a it's it's it it's it's been around. I mean that's a whole different conversation. Oldies is an era, not an age, right? It's like we're we're Cody: Yes. Sure. Is it considered an older yet? Okay. Okay. Jay Bock: You know, you're you're a Gen X because that's the era you were born in. Not because you're forty something years old, right? Not not everybody who's been forty has been a Gen X error. You're forty because you're that's so oldies is an era of music. ⁓ so happy is not an oldie. That's that's my short take on it. ⁓ with all that said, I still think that this song is too new to be on the Cody Patterson playlist. I think it has Cody: Yes. Yes. Okay. Jay Bock: I I think it is not on the playlist and it has zero plays. Cody: Happy does not look like it is in the library at all. Yep. Good job. Jay Bock: Okay. Nailed it. now you said one or two of these might be on your playlist. These are the two that I think could be or would be. All By Myself is not it it is not a feel-good song. ⁓ it's not one that I see you like choosing to play. but you know, like when you just got it on random shuffle, it'll it'll come up every once in a while and you might enjoy it. So Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ if it is on the playlist, I think this is like I'm gonna say less than ten, nine plays. We'll keep it single digits. Cody: Okay. So I don't think it's it's not in the play it is in the library. it's not on the playlist. I feel like we've talked about this one before, because I seem to remember this. It's the Spanish version of All By Myself, sung by Celine Dion. So I think we've talked about this before. That seems familiar to me. not even in French. No, it's the Spanish version of All By Myself. ⁓ Jay Bock: ⁓ ⁓ Not even in French. Cody: And and you are correct that it does have less than ten plays. ⁓ it even has less than nine plays. ⁓ it has two plays. Yes. Jay Bock: Two plays. Alright. Well I I feel like ⁓ you know in in the scheme of how many plays songs might have, being, you know, seven away is pretty darn good. finally, ⁓ what a feeling. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: You mentioned Flashdance. I'm I'm guessing like you probably have the Flashdance ⁓ album, right? This is one that that does come up. It's on your your your more frequent plays here. I still don't think it's like a daily listen. It's not one that ⁓ you know, you you're like, ⁓ man, you know what I really need to hear? What a feeling. ⁓ So let's let's go like we're not going crazy high thirty two. Cody: Yeah, you should have gone crazy high. You wanna try again? Jay Bock: I mean d I don't are we're we're not in triple digits yet, are we? Okay. All right. Like I I I think just into triple digits. How about ⁓ how about a hundred and twelve? Cody: like crazy high, but mmm Yeah, closer. Hundred and thirty five. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay, alright. ⁓ yeah, not bad. Okay. So that one's that one's got a few more plays then. Cody: Okay. Yeah, yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ all right. Well that was that was a fun little ⁓ tangent here, Cody. ⁓ Cody: Yes. Yeah. It's ⁓ I gotta remember to bring that up 'cause Commenter and I didn't play that much, so I gotta remember to Jay Bock: I I'm I'm like the only guy who plays th sometimes Scott plays along, yeah. Cody: Scott Scott, Scott plays it, yes, 'cause I'll do the editing and Scott'll be like, Hey, I wonder and then I have to go look it up to say Jay Bock: Yeah. So But ⁓ I I am, I think, the undisputed king. I'm pretty darn good. So Cody: ⁓ did you you got one right, correct? You got one on the n nose. Yes. Jay Bock: I believe I have. But ⁓ last season I seemed to recall Scott and I we made our guesses and I I throttled him. So let's I You know, it call it little brother syndrome. I don't know, but like i I gotta take my wins where I can. He's he's good at a lot of things. So if I if I can be better at the number of plays on Cody L Patterson's playlist, ⁓ Cody: Yes, yes. You've definitely got him on more pod episodes that you've recorded. Jay Bock: Indeed, yes. ⁓ all right. ⁓ so i all that to say, Cody, ⁓ I thought that this was better with music. I did enjoy it more. I also don't think it's enough better. It's not like, ⁓ yeah, okay, now I I get it now. Let's let's I want to see more of this. It's like I get it now. That's fine. Cody: Yes. I honestly think I'm going the opposite direction. I think I enjoyed it without the music. I liked I liked all of the songs. All the songs are great songs. I think I liked his performance better without the music. It felt more natural and more him. Jay Bock: ⁓ really? ⁓ yeah, probably more him. ⁓ and you know, it it we call this interpretive dance or body language or whatever. Like it it's not meant to be dance, right? That's what we said on the first that's what I said anyhow on the first performance. Like they're they're like, ⁓ you're moving your body, so this must be dance. And he's like, Well, it's not but it don't make me like okay, if I have to I guess it's dance. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's just movement of it's just movement. It's just movement. Yeah, if you're walking if you're walking, that's not dance, that's just you're walking. You're moving the body still. So Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. Can it just Yeah. What what if it's a what if you're silly walking? Cody: That's right. Jay Bock: Is that an art form? Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: The art form of silly walk. all right. So ⁓ Simon says his favorite was loneliness. ⁓ Sophia says it was better without the music. ⁓ and she doesn't think that he can win AGT with it. So I'm I'm ⁓ right there with her. I'm Sophia's speaking my language today. ⁓ Howie says he's not a good enough dancer. We've seen better. Mel B says this is the only place where we see stuff like this. So Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: Howie he says no, Mel says yes, Simon says yes, Sophia, she's like looking out to the audience and talking to the judges and then she says no. And that's it. Augie's done. Cody: Yep. Yep. I'm okay with it. I mean I think they took it a little too seriously, but I'm okay with it. Yep. Jay Bock: All right. Yeah. ⁓ they they definitely had some fun with this, right? They i on the whole, are you glad that they included Augie or should they have said, ⁓ we're look we're taking time from something that's more fun. Cody: Don't think they should have brought him back. I don't think there was a need for that. They should have put another act in here. Yeah ⁓ yeah, I think the first time's fine. Yeah. Jay Bock: Should we have seen him the first time? Okay. All right. We we didn't need the whole redemptive arc that didn't didn't pan out. Okay. All right. Let's move on to the ninth performance of the night. ⁓ this is Luke Tolino, Cuban born, but from Hylia, Florida. ⁓ he's friends with Jordan Blue and ⁓ came last year to to a live show to support him. Cody: We did not need to bring him back. Right. Right. Jay Bock: He's a cancer survivor, he tells us as well. ⁓ he's gonna wrap a piece for us called Seat to Stage because he literally went from a seat in the audience to the stage at the Pasadena Civic Center. Cody: All right, okay. Jay Bock: Alright, a little little on the nose. Like a figurative seat? No. That one right there. Cody: Is and it and is it and is it the number two seat two stage? Jay Bock: Could be. ⁓ Cody: Like was he was he sitting in seat number two and then he went to the stage? Jay Bock: ⁓ I don't know. I don't know. We'll we'll have to ask boys two men. That's all right. ⁓ Cody, sometimes I make the effort to like go back and listen real slow to the performance and type all the words down. I did not do that. ⁓ but ⁓ he he raps about Cody: There you go. Jay Bock: I don't know, moving from the seat to the stage and you know, answering the door when it's knock knocked on. So he ⁓ it's a fine rap. It's not a style of music that I really enjoy. I don't know, like we don't have audio from the actual performance, but w what would you think of his performance? Cody: No. No. I didn't I didn't pull any. I I think that we have been spoiled by Chris Turner from last year. Jay Bock: That's you know what? During the performance I was like, ⁓ he's no Chris Turner. I didn't I didn't write that down, but like Yeah, that's fair. Cody: Right. I I yeah, and I and I'm gonna say I think Commenter made that comment on Twitter saying that that and I was like, you know what? I yeah, that that's what it is. 'Cause I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, something's not right. It just doesn't feel and I like I had Mama Duke on my team. I like Mama Duke. I thought her audition was great. But then we get Chris Turner and we get his audition and we get his quarters semis and finals and it's like Yeah, now we now we don't want the Pre scripted, pre you know, composed raps. We want the we want the improvised raps now. Jay Bock: Yeah. And let's not all let's not gloss over the fact that I was smart enough to draft him onto my team, like thirty seventh overall or something. But Cody: Yes. Yes. Right. So So when when Commenter made that post it, I like, you know what, that that's it. That that's the point. That makes sense. So that's where I think I met. I I was not I'm not saying I didn't enjoy this performance. I thought it was a fine performance. I didn't think it was a gr even before I got that realization, I didn't think it was a great performance But then I like, Yeah, it's it's not Chris Turner and I that's what I'm missing. And I need the I I need the Chris Turner stuff. So Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. I Writing a rap song and performing it like is a talent. Like writing a rap song while you're performing it Cody: Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes. Jay Bock: Feels like maybe a a totally different level. Cody: Yes. So I I think he's fine, I think he's good. I I just I think we need the improvised raps now. Jay Bock: ⁓ I I don't think they have to be improvised, but that that was Chris Turner's talent, and going back to something else does kind of feel like Cody: Right. Jay Bock: Yeah, just a a step backwards, a downgrade. So Cody: Right. Yep. ⁓ I think yeah, no go ahead. Jay Bock: ⁓ let's talk I was gonna say let's talk Judge's comments here. ⁓ Sophia says that she loved it, he deserves to be on the stage. And then ⁓ you've got Mel B's comments here. Cody: Okay. Mm-hmm. So you know they they asked that as well, is this one that he wrote? And this is his original song and so it got me thinking Tuesday night, are there rap cover artists? most of the rappers we see on AGT, they wrote their own stuff. In fact I think every rapper we've ever seen, they've written their own stuff. Then it got me thinking, are there rap cover artists? Jay Bock: Yeah. ⁓ I not my genre. Not something I really follow. Like Cody: Sure. Yeah. Jay Bock: Long story short, I can't think of one. ⁓ you know, if you're if you're doing a rap it does tend to be kind of a a personal thing. ⁓ Cody: Yeah. There there's gotta be a non zero chance of it, right? Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah. I mean the you go to a karaoke bar, there's probably somebody who's tried to, you know, pull out some slim shady or something. Like you know, it's like it's not like you can cover a rap song, it's possible, but is it like something that you can make a living on? I doubt it. Cody: Okay, sure. Okay. Will it be good? Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ and you know, Mel B, she knows what she's talking about, right? She it wasn't our best. We ran out of breath a little bit, but like she loves his heart and she loves his authenticity and you know, his whole story of ⁓ you know, being Cuban born and being a cancer survivor and you know, being in the audience and being like, you know what, I'm gonna be on that stage and like r going through the preliminary auditions and getting yourself To Pasadena and on to that stage, and being like, you know what? I I had this dream and I made it real and here I am. And you know, he he was predicting himself. He was, you know, willing himself onto the stage, which brings us to Howie's comments. ⁓ you know, as he is contemplating his his whole performance, ⁓ he says, you know what, Luke? I Let's let's hear what how what Howie has to say. Cody: Thoughts? Jay Bock: All right. So w we get our third golden buzzer of the night. Cody: Ha ha ha ha. Jay Bock: Not one that I would have ⁓ would have predicted. Cody: Yep, correct. Jay Bock: But who had the best golden muzzer of the night? ⁓ was it Le Noel with ⁓ with Simon, where he didn't give her a lot of words? Was it Acro Crew where Terry had to come in from the wings, or was it Luke Tolino with ⁓ Howie just now? Cody: If I were to rank them, I think it's Terry Simon Howie. Jay Bock: ⁓ we had the worst golden buzzer? Cody: I think so. Jay Bock: ⁓ you know what, I agree. I I didn't really understand his ⁓ his setup there. How did you know? It was like, wait, how did you know what? Wait, that you were wait, okay. Cody: Okay. Okay. ⁓ so okay, so ⁓ l let me ask. Are are you are you talking about the judge doing the golden buzz or are you talking about the act? Which one? ⁓ then I then it's Terry, Howie, Simon. Jay Bock: I'm talking about the judge the judges buzzing. The Terry and then Howie and then Simon. Okay. Simon with his ⁓ few words. Howie with his a few more words and Terry with his having to come in from the from the wings. Okay. All right. Most words to least. That's how that's how you liked it. So Cody: Howie then Simon. Yes, yes, yeah. Correct. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, sorry about that. That's right. Distance traveled. Jay Bock: Okay. ⁓ yeah, I I I don't know. I I good good to hear your thoughts on that. ⁓ okay. So then of the actual performances that were buzzed, golden buzzed, ⁓ y you said you preferred number one was Acrocrew. Cody: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So Terry su yes. And then then Lay and then Luke. Yeah. A A L L Jay Bock: And then Luke. Okay. All right. I think that's fair. Yeah, that's probably how I'd rank ⁓ too. How can you forget the order when you when you have a nice acronym like? Cody: That's right An acro nim? ⁓ hold on hold on hold on where's it at? I gotta I already blew it. I've already I've already lost it. I've already lost it! I can't do it! Jay Bock: ⁓ ⁓ rimshot ⁓ man. Your your timing on those rimshots is just atrocious. It's Cody: I That's the whole fun of it though, isn't it? Jay Bock: ⁓ man. ⁓ So ⁓ yeah, I I think this is the third best golden buzzer of the night. ⁓ it's also our third golden buzzer of the night. Like are are we gonna have like four audition episodes and it's just gonna be mostly golden buzzers? Cody: It's our yes. End of the season so far. I I think see, if my understanding is right, I think there's seven auditions and each judge gets t each judge and Terry get two. Jay Bock: ⁓ my. So we've got S eight golden buzzers to fit into seven episodes. Cody: ⁓ ten ten golden buzzers. F four judges four j four so each judge gets two and and Terry. Yeah. Jay Bock: Ten. ⁓ yeah. And Terry gets to okay. So ten to fit into into seven episodes. All right. So we're we're loading up this first one with with Golden Buzzers. Cody: That's my understanding. Yes. Jay Bock: It's we're gonna see one or two ⁓ an episode after this, I hope. Okay. That was our ninth performance of the night. Let's move on to our tenth performance performance of the night. We're gonna be introduced to Ayuki from Tokyo, Japan. ⁓ he looks like he's gonna be a solo dancer, but no, it's a whole dance team. ⁓ Kose eight Rocks? I don't know how to say this, Cody. Cody: what I saw. I was like, we're too Midwestern for this. Jay Bock: Jeez. Yeah, like I'm I'm just a forty something year old white dude and like I and I I don't know. They they do some breakdancing. Th they do it all. It's the spinning and the poppin' and the locking and the like it it looks pretty good. Unfortunately they're kind of montaged through. It's not really anything that feels like it's gonna go real deep in the show. Cody: Ha ha ha. Mm-hmm. Yeah. The there's a lot of hubbub on Twitter and on Reddit about them. 'Cause a lot of people seem to really recognize who they are and like them and but and d and were disappointed they were kind of montaged 'cause that didn't seem very promising. So Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, that seems fair. That ⁓ if you're looking forward to something like that and they just get montaged like that kinda stinks. it it seems like they didn't have to bring their own cardboard though, so they were able to you know, it didn't have to break down any refrigerator boxes. ⁓ able to use the ⁓ th the show's ⁓ padding for their Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Sho Sho show had some Amazon deliveries they could use the boxes from. Jay Bock: For their breakdancing. There you go. Yep. ⁓ all right. ⁓ we do get ⁓ Sophia's comments. She says it's spectacular, don't change anything. Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ all right, eleventh performance of the night, we get a gentleman named ⁓ Feng Bao from China and ⁓ he is an engineer at for is in the daytime, but his passion is dance and ⁓ let's hear a little bit about Feng Bao. Cody: So we get you get a little bit of Mel B's comments from while we're getting to know Jackie. Jay Bock: So That was the post-performance audio. Did you have pre-performance audio as well? ⁓ I'm sorry. I I wrote that down wrong. Well, let's talk about the performance for a moment first, right? ⁓ he's going to like take off his glasses and and get ready to to do his dance and on the stage marches these eight robots. They're like what, three and a half, four feet tall, maybe. and he gets them all in p into position. ⁓ Cody: Yes. Nope. Nope. That's okay. No. Yeah, yeah. Jay Bock: And then he starts to dance. And like you know the phrase uncanny valley, where it's like things are a little too perfect or a little too something and it kind of turns like the way that these robots all dance so in sync is a little bit uncanny valley to me, right? Like it's it's a little bit too perfect. ⁓ his dancing is fine, like it's nothing like you know world beating, it's nothing like Wow wow, but it's good enough. And like I was kind of interested because the robots were dancing with him. Like I I did kind of keep like it did hold my attention better than most dance performances. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: Your thoughts on Feng Bao? Cody: I've been trying to figure out whether I really like this or not. Cause one, I really like the technology. I think it's the the technology's cool. I think the coming up with this and developing the robots, getting them to all dance the same. You know, we had Boston Dynamics last season. Yeah, the dogs? Yes. And and one of them fell over during the performance. So ⁓ at least his didn't fall over this time. ⁓ Jay Bock: Yeah, I think the ⁓ dancing dogs were just last season. Yep. Cody: The dancing was really cool, the flips, again, Jackie does martial arts. So all the movements are extremely smooth. It's really cool watching it. They they they look creepy, but at the same time, they don't look creepy. I'm not sure how to explain it. But on the flip side, I'm not sure if I know if this belongs in the show or not. I'm I'm I'm still struggling with that in my brain. I think that it I I want to like it at Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: And think that I want to like it because what he did to develop this is a talent. We've talked about drones, the dogs, all these, you know, all these robotic and the technology that's come into a illuminate, ⁓ light balance, light balance kids, all of that stuff. The technology that's come into AGT, trying to find a place for it and determining is this the right place for it. And I sometimes I struggle with it, especially when it comes to Jay Bock: Yeah. Cody: something automated like ⁓ like robots. Jay Bock: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm I'm really torn on this too, right? We we look at at the drones and it's like, well, but like you just like didn't you didn't do anything. Like you ev everything was done and then it happened when you told it to, right? And the Boston Dynamics Dogs, it's like, well, you just like set the top in motion, right? And like it just Cody: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yes. You press a button and it goes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Jay Bock: Happened, right? But this has a human on the stage with them dancing with them. And like if his dancing had been a little bit better, I I feel like it it would have been like, okay, this is what we're looking for with these kinds of acts, right? With these technology acts, is like you have to have that human in there that that dances with them, that you know, does the thing alongside of it. Cody: Sure. Yes. Get like a Kenichi doing this. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, stick Kenichi in there. That would have been perfect. Good idea. ⁓ you know, I Like it kind of feels like in i when's the last time you ⁓ you s went to like a marching band show, Cody, a marching band competition. Cody: Yeah. ⁓ it ⁓ a competition? since I was in one. So Jay Bock: Okay, so like anymore, like your your big bands anymore, like they've got like this audio track that plays along with the band and it's like, you know, there's there's you know, clips of Michael Jackson and you've got, you know, sound effects and a a jet flying past and you've got you know, like it's like, well like yeah, it's it's way over the top. And it's like I'm kinda here for the marching band, not for the Cody: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. Yes. Yeah, right. Way over the top. Yeah. Right. Jay Bock: pre-recorded thing. But it's like, so where do you draw the line, right? If you should should they be able to have a keyboard that plays along? Well what if the keyboard, instead of playing, you know, piano notes, plays some synthesized note? What if instead of playing one note, it plays two notes? You know, what like what if it's a loop pedal? What if it plays notes over and over and over? What if it what if it plays the jet sound effect when it flies by? All right, like Cody: What about a loop pedal? Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Where do you draw that line? And so I don't know. Like you you you go ahead and play with it, find where that edge is. ⁓ you know, they're they're finding that with this. I feel like th they are right on the edge of like what works for my brain of like, okay, you incorporated the technology, but you still have this human interacting with it, this human on the stage with it, and I'm kind of okay with it. Cody: Yes. Mm? Yes. And and I think the one thing that we like about this show, Jay, is that there are no rules. It it's anything it's Jay Bock: There are no rules. You wanna have a drone show and we all have to go outside at night to see this thing? Fine. Sounds great. Let's do it. Cody: Ripe, ripe. Anything goes on this show, ⁓ which I think is just one of the thing it's i think that's why we love the show, 'cause it's anything goes. There are no rules. Everything's welcome. Jay Bock: You wanna swallow flaming hot dogs? Go for it. You ⁓ Cody: That's right. Am I enter are you not entertained? Jay Bock: Are you not entertained? I I imagine that they do have some kind of rule about, you know, how dangerous something could be. You know, like you can't actually mutilate yourself, you know, like there's certain, you know, gore, certain you know, acts that they're just not going to allow. But yeah, I I think as a general rule, you're right. Yeah. Anything goes. Let's let's try it. Cody: Sure. Obviously. Jay Bock: Put it on stage, see if America responds. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. And with this act I was entertained. I was actually I was entertained by it. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. I I I was more entertained by it than I thought I would be. Simon says it's nuts but brilliant. ⁓ Sophia says the robots are less weird than the other robots they've seen before. we already heard what Melby had to say about Jackie doing the kung fu, ⁓ saying they're freaky but they dance perfectly. ⁓ Howie asks if he can have Jackie, and he may not. Cody: Exactly, yes. Yes. Jackie, yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ but it's gonna be four yeses for Feng Bao. Cody: I'm intrigued to see what happens next. Jay Bock: Yeah, how What if he brings on the Boston Dynamics dogs to go with him next time? Cody: I guess yes. Yeah. You know it's sure. A as long as he's in the performance, I'm on board. Yes, yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah. I think we have to have a human there. ⁓ and I think that he can I there there's things that he can do to improve. you know, I'm would more dancers help? Cody: Yes. More robot dancers? I don't know, it's already kind of a crowded stage. Dogs? Jay Bock: More human dancers. Okay. How about how about take off three of the robots, ⁓ four of the robots. We've got four robots and four humans. Would that be an improvement, do you think? Cody: Depends on if the dancers are good or not. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Depends, yeah. All right, yeah, all right. ⁓ yeah, I we'll we'll we'll see. I'm I I hope I hope to see more of Feng Bao. Cody: Yeah. Is this all Sure, yes. Is this also another example of AI taking the jobs of dancers? Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, you wouldn't think that that ⁓ AI would be in perf ⁓ like the that's not one of the jobs that AI is coming for, right? Dancers? Like dancers can dance. AI can't dance, certainly. Cody: Yes. Can't interpretive dance. Jay Bock: No. ⁓ it can only just recreate what it you know, garbage in, garbage out, I guess. ⁓ all right. Last act of the night, Cody. Let's move on to ⁓ the community ATL choir. ⁓ group of singers. They live in Atlanta. their spokesperson, Diana Dixon, ⁓ says they're Cody: That's right. That's right. Jay Bock: There's no natives. They've all moved to Atlanta. They're all transplants. ⁓ Diana's big brother, Robbie. He chose the song they're gonna sing. ⁓ lovely day. Is this one on the Cody Al Patterson playlist? Cody: I was not familiar with this song. Yeah. Jay Bock: Really? ⁓ Okay. Alright. I guess it's not then. All right. ⁓ they're gonna they're gonna sing for us. I'm thinking like before they start performing, like maybe there'll be a little bit of dance here. They look look like they've they've got some groove. and then ⁓ they start to sing. We get like Diana's gonna do a little bit of a solo, one of those five friends does a little bit of a solo and then they're joined on stage by another tennis singers coming in from the wings and then Cody, let's hear a little bit of the audio ⁓ of what ⁓ what ATL choir turns into here. ⁓ I'm surprised you never heard this before. Cody: It it didn't sound familiar to me, Jay. I mean I'm not gonna like completely say I've never heard of it. It just didn't sound familiar to me. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay, all right. ⁓ well while it was playing, I pulled up the ⁓ the wiki here. Lovely Day was a ⁓ song written by soul and R and B singer Bill Withers. ⁓ released in nineteen seventy seven. ⁓ climbed to number where are we at here? I had it one second ago. ⁓ number six on the Billboard R and B chart. Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: And number thirty on the Billboard Hot One Hundred Heart chart in nineteen seventy-eight. So some some amount of success for this one. And then it says towards the end of the song, Withers holds a high E note for eighteen seconds, the longest of any top forty hit in the United States. Cody: Wow. Jay Bock: So maybe the original you might ⁓ you might recognize a little bit better. Cody: Yeah. ⁓ the only Bill Withers song that I have is Ain't No Sunshine. Jay Bock: Mm, yep. That's that's a good one. That's classic. ⁓ maybe that would have been a good loneliness song for ⁓ for for Augie to dance to. Yeah. all right. Well they're that's that's their song. They said they're gonna do lovely day for us. what do you think? Like another forty people come in from the audience to join the choir? There's like Cody: Okay. Okay. ⁓ for Aggie? Yeah. Has to be. Yeah. Jay Bock: Fifty, fifty five, sixty of them on stage, I don't know. It was a bunch. ⁓ they've they've got like this ⁓ like denim and like khaki and white theme going on. Like they they've got a good a good look to ⁓ across the board. before I share my thoughts, what did you think of this performance? Cody: Mm-hmm. I I really liked the the the initial group that was on there. ⁓ and then I really liked the initial group that was up there. ⁓ and then it became this, ⁓ it's one of these where they're gonna start coming out of the woodwork type acts. And that's just not I'm like, let's just not do that. Come on. Let's just get all all get on stage. We don't need to be taking up seats like ⁓ I hate it. I hate it. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. You hate it when they sit in the audience. Cody: Those are seats that people paid nothing for. Let them sit there. What was it what was it that did that? ⁓ yeah, yeah. That that bothers me to no end. It's like those are those are viewer seats. Let them sit in their seats. If they want to come out of the wings, that's fine. If they want to come out of the the lobby, that's fine. Don't don't take up someone's seat. ⁓ and then and then my other thought was those were a lot of microphones. Jay Bock: Murmuration, wasn't it? Don't take those seats. ⁓ boy. Okay. That was all. Cody: A lot of microphones that the sound guy has to deal with. ⁓ Jay Bock: Do you think they were all plugged in? Do you think they were all actually Cody: I think none of them were actually plugged in, no. I think they were all wireless. Jay Bock: Do you think that they were all powered on? Do you think that they were all amplifying a voice? Cody: ⁓ I I don't think that they were all submitting a signal to the soundboard. No. Maybe half because if look you say fifty or sixty of them, that's a bunch. I mean, and that's a that's a big board to have to to deal with. That's a lot of sliders you gotta deal with on that on that board. ⁓ and I would be surprised if the s the sound guy was having to deal with all that. ⁓ Jay Bock: That's a bunch! Yeah. Yeah. And Cody, the Pasadena Civic Center is not that big. Right? Like you you put that many people on stage singing at that volume, like you don't like just drop a couple of ⁓ you know, area mics over the stage and you're you're set you that's ridiculous. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. You're good. You're good. Yeah. ⁓ I thought they were good. I I liked it. I thought it was enjoyable. They got ⁓ great volume, great harmonies. I didn't hear anyone like out of tune or hitting wrong notes. The soloists I thought did a great job. I I need to see more of them. I I it was the end of the night, there was a lot going on. I I I need to see them again. Jay Bock: Yeah. My my take is I I bet in person, like with that many people on stage, like singing just full voiced, full you know, they're they're all excited, they're all pumped up. I bet it was awesome to be there in person. I don't think it translates to T V. As like, you know, it just you know, all the power is just sort of like sucked down into whatever Cody: Mm-hmm. Yes, yes. Okay. Jay Bock: you know, speakers you're listening to, you know, and i i i like you're not gonna get like that visceral, you know, full choir experience. And in the room, I bet those judges like they had to be loving it. Right? That just yeah, absolutely. And they're all capable and they look so good and they sound so good and they're just you just bringing it. And through the TV, ⁓ like it Cody: Yeah. Sure, yeah. Just a wall of sound just coming at him. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: It was it was good. Good bordering on great, but not not nearly the experience it would be sitting there in the audience. Cody: Yeah, it's and so So when you watch, are you just getting the T V sound out of your TV? Yeah. Okay. So just for those that are new, I watch with headphones on. ⁓ and so I get all that sound in my ears. ⁓ and I could see where those that have a sound bar or have sound sound, they may get that. But you're right. There's a large population that are just watching on their T V T V sound, or they're watching it on a mobile device. So Jay Bock: Yeah, I don't have a sound bar or anything. Sure. Yeah. Cody: Yep, totally get it. Jay Bock: Yeah. And even with the headphones on, like, it's still not sitting in the audience, right? It's still not like that that real, you know, person to person, face to face experience. And I think that it probably benefits from that. Yeah, it probably knocks socks off live. But, you know, if if if you're looking for a choir that like Cody: Mm-hmm. No. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: has nuance and dynamics and you know like some real you know intricate harmonies go somewhere else. That's this is not them. ⁓ it's it they're they're not they're not going for pretty. They're going for like you know punch you the face. Yeah. Mel says she loves it, loves the harmonies, loves the vibe, loves the swag. ⁓ let's hear what Howie had to say about ⁓ Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, power and volume. Yeah. Jay Bock: ATL Cody: Makes you feel good. Jay Bock: makes you feel good. It's a couple minutes of escape. ⁓ Sophia says they're perfect. They brought a beautiful energy. And then let's hear Simon's thoughts. Cody: Yeah. Yep. So what choreography was there? Was it just them walking up on stage from the seats that they had taken from people there to watch the show? Jay Bock: I they might have like step touching. Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: Left together, right together, left together, right together. I I I did not make any notes of the choreography. there's not r room for them to move on that stage with all of them up there. ⁓ I mean at the beginning, Diana did step forward for her solo. So like that was like they had to choreograph that. But yeah, there there wasn't. That might have been a misspeak. Cody: That's right. Yeah. Okay, yeah, there you go. Yeah. Yes. Jay Bock: from ⁓ from Simon there. ⁓ they are gonna get four yeses. They are through to at least be considered for the next round. Considered for deliberations. There you go. Cody, we have eleven acts down, eleven acts of the night, twelve performances. ⁓ we've got a long ways to go this season. Cody: Yes. We did it! Jay Bock: ⁓ it feels good to be back. Cody: Yes, I'm I love being back. ⁓ it's great talking season twenty-one again with you. ⁓ Jay, it's ⁓ I love it. It's I I was comparing this on Twitter the other night that seeing all your friends again on Twitter was like you going back to summer camp each year. But it's like it's but it it felt different for me and probably commenter that like we've been here the whole time. Like we've been here all year, but all of your friends are now coming back. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. Ha ha ha. Cody: and enjoying AGT with you for the summer. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. tell me this. Let's before we close out here, your favorite act of the night. Cody: I think my favorite act was the Acrocr no, it was Kev Adams. Kev Adams, yes. Jay Bock: Kev Adams. All right. ⁓ I'll go with Acro Crew. I I think by by maybe it's it's because I was so ready to not enjoy them. But they ⁓ they really did bring something special. ⁓ Kev Adams is is right up there too. I I agree with both of those. So ⁓ good. All right. Let's move on, Cody. got the ⁓ Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ another episode next week. I'll be back with my brother. and then we've got a few weeks together and then I'll be gone for a week or two on vacation and ⁓ you're gonna have to find some some more friends to help you out there. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: ⁓ but in the meantime, awesome to be back. I'm looking forward to to spending some time with you playing our games and and doing our our silly stuff together. So ⁓ it everybody, I appreciate you being a part of this to listening with us, to ⁓ you know, sharing this little little passion project that we do. it's fun for us and being able to share it with you guys is is what makes it all worth it. Cody: Yep, absolutely. ⁓ so Jay, I'm gonna sign us off. If that's good, or you got anything else? Jay Bock: No, let's let's call it a night. Cody: So you find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT Timepod at ⁓ gmail.com. And of course, go check out our website, agt timepod.com. You can find all of our pod episodes, the AGT Hall of Fame, ⁓ and then some blog posts that we got ⁓ going on there. ⁓ keep checking it out. We're gonna grow some more things, but ⁓ go go check it out. Jay Jay Bock: Is there is there a tool there for them to reach out to us? Cody: Like a contact form? No, but they could they could they could email us AGT timepod dot com or AGT timepod at yeah, yeah, yeah. ⁓ yeah. Jay, thanks. We one week down, many more to go. But many more to go, but I'm ready for it. Let's do it. ⁓ everyone, have a great night. Jay Bock: All right. Email us at AGT timepod at gmail dot com. You got it. All right. Many more to go. Let's do Be safe.