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

• Cody: Everyone, welcome to our inaugural season twenty one edition of the Reaction Pod, which we've renamed. Right, Commenter? AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're going with the postgame show. Cody: This is right, A G T postgame show. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. we're yeah, we're I I mean it's it's very sports of us Cody: Yes, it is. AGTCommenter: to call it the the postgame show. But it's great to be back. Cody: Yes. Live shows. AGTCommenter: It's live shows, we have results, my heart's pounding again. What a night for Team Cody and Commenter. For for beef for beef us and the buttheads over here. I mean, Cody: Yes. my goodness. AGTCommenter: we'll get into the fantasy score stuff. I almost I almost feel bad for the other teams c we we might need to c call the mercy rule here. Cody: It's it's it's week one. It's week one. Let's not let's not we may not score another point the rest of the quarter five. Let's let's let's just enjoy this week. AGTCommenter: We may sc we may not score another point. Cody: Then we go into next week, right? So you enjoy the you enjoy the win, then AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: you you're like, Okay, we gotta get ready for week two. AGTCommenter: Yeah, this thing just this could be over by Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: b before Labor Day is my concern. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: but no. Al we results and and all of that is always very, very fun. And so this Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: was this was great. Do you want to tell people where to find us, quick Cody, and then we'll do it all? Cody: Yep, so you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com. Go check out our website, AGT timepod.com. We got the Hall of Fame's out there. We've got your leaderboard is out there, AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: which is it's not gonna have this season yet. Comment will do that when the season's over. So AGTCommenter: Nope. Yep. Cody: don't go be looking for this season. what do we got? We the what do we else we have? We have blog is out AGTCommenter: Blog. Yep. Cody: there, so yeah, go check out our website. You can also find commenter out on his socials at A G T cominer. AGTCommenter: Man, what a fun night. What what a fun Cody: What a n I mean what a fun night, man. It's like AGTCommenter: night. I will say, we lost a couple acts that I was bummed to see go that weren't one was on our team, but but yeah, what a what a fun night. What a what an interesting episode and and and and then you know subsequent results to follow that episode. but we've got Cody, we've got A we've got a finals act that we know about, and now we have three of the twelve semifinal acts, almost the finals acts. I think we need to start there though. Live show Golden Buzzers back, apparently. Cody: Sure, we can do that. They they took that press release and then just like tossed it in the trash. AGTCommenter: Well How did they mess this up that bad? Who's who's running the PR? Because first Cody: Yeah. Right. AGTCommenter: they released a pe press release that makes it sound like there might not be, but they worded it where it said no extra golden buzzers, which kudos to me. My antennas were up instantly. I called it on the draft night. I'm like, I think that might be legalese for knowing beyond what we did. And then they did a s Cody: Yeah. But they but they but they well they they also said that they're leaving it all up to the voting. AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: And then later that the this past week before this episode, they released again and edited and said no live golden buzzers. And then we get last night and there's a live golden buzzer. just tell us what's happening. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Just just make a sheet and put it out there that says eleven Cody: Here are the rules. AGTCommenter: Eleven in each quarter final, three will Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: go to the semis, one live show Golden Buzzard will go to the finals. the twelve person semifinal, we will take six of the twelve to the finals. La di da. Like what's the cryptic nature? Like, just tell us. Cody: I honestly believe there is someone in production that listens to the pod and either A they they react to things that we say and they do fix some things or they like to just completely throw a sheet over us and like we're we're we're gonna like give them all these rabbit trails to go down and not lead them anywhere. AGTCommenter: I don't understand what the big secret is. Cody: I know. AGTCommenter: By withholding information that we already know. And what I mean by that is like when the first season that the Golden Buzzer showed up, sure, tease us. Don't tell us what that what's happening in that promo when somebody's great. But once season 10 happened and we knew that sent you to live shows, you didn't need to. veil it in you know, like make it, you know, some big secret of what's the golden buzzer gonna do in season eleven. We all knew. We all know that if there's a golden buzzer, what's going to like I I don't understand this whole like can't we'll see what happens on on results night. I know it's really very, very, very much an us problem. That's not really a problem for just about every other watcher because it doesn't matter. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: They're not keeping scores or drafting I I get it. It's a it's a It's a first world problem AGT first world problem for us, but e it's so Cody: Right. Yes. AGTCommenter: frustrating. Just tell us. Or can we it just tell us. So but either way. shall we talk about the the results, Cody? Cody: Let's get to results. People tuned in for results. Let's give some results. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Hundred Fingers is in is in the finals. They were the they were the Howie Golden Cody: Yes. Love it. AGTCommenter: Buzzer. You and Jay will go tomorrow night in depth on that performance, Howie's plank, Golden Buzzer Press, all of that. It was very s it was something. I'll leave that most of that up for you and UNJ. Yeah, a lot there. It's a lot to Cody: Yes. Yes. a new you know, first time. First time two timer. Yeah. AGTCommenter: unpack. We've never had two in one season. We now have thrown a wrench in this kind of interesting thing that's been happening the last two years where We've had eight golden buzzers in live shows last two years and none of them finished in the none of them advanced in the finals. They all finished in the bottom five of the night, didn't didn't get into the top five. None of them were golden buzzers prior. So now Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: we've got this weird thing of it seemed like the golden buzzer wasn't a good thing in the live shows, but also like it might not matter because they're a golden buzzer and we saw how important golden buzzers were tonight in the results. But you and Jay can can dive into a bunch of hundred finger stuff. We had our three three advancements to the semis. Beefus Oliv Olivia Beefus from Team Cody Cody: Yes. Olivia Beefus. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: and Commenter. Beefus in the buttheads, as I think we're Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: we're going by. Royal Lasers, the golden buzzer. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: whose golden buzzer was that again? Terry's. Cody: Terry. AGTCommenter: Yes. And then our guy, Luke Tolino. We're Cody: Like Singer, yes. AGTCommenter: s it's Tolino, correct? It's not Toleno. I think they've been saying Tolino. It's Cody: I think yeah, I think you're right. AGTCommenter: interesting because I would have said Befus and Toleno, and it's Beefus and Tolino. Cody: Yeah, and I think I've even heard beefoose as well. Yes, I do too. Yes. AGTCommenter: Beefus, okay. I like Beefus. 'Cause it sounds like Beefus. but I guess it's Toledo, so Tolino, think of it like the the the city, I guess. that was Howie's golden buzzer, Loop Tolino was, are headed through. Let's start there. Of those three, I would say, Cody, you can correct me if I'm wrong, somewhat of a surprising result. Cody: Little bit. Yeah. AGTCommenter: rank on a scale of one to ten the surprise scale of those cities. Let's start with the easy one. Royal Lasers. I was a zero I was a one on the surprise scale. Cody: I maybe it was a two a little bit. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I was pretty confident. Golden Buzzer, a good performance. It felt like they were gonna be going through. Cody: We love light balance and they're just like light balance. So yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yes, correct. Well, not according to everybody. Somebody on Twitter tried to tell they were nothing like light balance and Cody: That's true. People just like to watch the world burn, man. Yeah. AGTCommenter: There's the internet for you. and they just like to argue and and be like, no, not actually. Okay. Fair enough. B Beefus. Four on the surprise scale, maybe even a five for me. Yeah. It stops at five. Sorry, no, one to five. Yeah. Cody: I was probably gonna go with like maybe a six, yeah. I thought you said one to ten. I thought you said one to Okay, yeah. Four or five, yeah. AGTCommenter: Awesome for us. But yeah, the dog, man. The dogs whose names we know, trust us, as the leaders of the team, we know the names of the dogs, don't you worry. Zeke, yep. Cody: Z Yes. Zeke. Yes. AGTCommenter: and then Tolino, I would say like a three. Cody: Probably, yeah. I think that's about right. AGTCommenter: He he shouldn't be in the semis. I I just don't think he's good enough. I didn't love the performance. Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: But as we know again, get your get yourself a golden buzzer and you are in business. What'd Cody: That's right. AGTCommenter: I tell ya, ten out of nineteen of the golden buzzers in the last two years have haven't made at least the semis, so they're going through. They're they're going through. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. I had Tolino at four. I had Telino at four, I had her at five. I had four, five, and six. I had Telino at four, Olivia at five and them at six on my list. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Interesting. Yeah, you liked him a lot better. I had him at seven, I believe. but do you want to run us through the the order of the results and and we could talk Cody: Yep. We can do that. AGTCommenter: matchups and stuff like that? and then we'll we'll go from there. Cody: Yep. let me pull up my pull this up real quick. AGTCommenter: So as you're pulling it up, Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: they stuck with the format. Ten, 'cause obviously we've gotten rid of the one with the golden buzzer over the eleven. So we've got ten. They're cutting in half, telling us who the top five were. And then they're giving us they're giving us the top three. So that's what they did. So let's start with how they trimmed it to five, Cody. Cody: Yeah, so it started out with Olivia and James and Marina. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I loved when that got announced. Cause Cody: Yes, I did too. AGTCommenter: I would need to this is an interesting s case study. How many red buzzers in a live show have advanced? Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: It it it's gotta be zero. Is has there been one? I feel like we might have had one. You know who it was? It might have been Aaron Cody: Mm I yeah. I AGTCommenter: Crow. Cody: Yeah, I think it's a non zero, but it's low. AGTCommenter: But 'cause 'cause Mel buzzed cause she was so scared. She didn't actually Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: dislike but when when a judge buzzes and it's because they don't like the performance, has that ever that that's curtains. They might as well just call the performance. So the fact that we had we had Beefus going against that was pretty exciting. James and Marina going home, Cody. Fourth overall in the draft. It was a shocking pick at the time. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: We all kind of kept a veil on, it was like, interesting pick. It was that pick sucked. I'll Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: say it, it sucked. not to be mean, that pick stunk. They could have got that act at f 30. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: That pick was terrible. So Cody: I didn't want to be I didn't want to be anywhere near him. AGTCommenter: I didn't see it. I was like if they end up being the clairvoyance and I'm wrong, I'm happy being wrong, but they're not. Cody: Right. No. AGTCommenter: What what was your surpr there was no surprise seeing those two go home after what they put out there last night? Cody: No, no. And Simon mentioned like he watched them again when he got home. He's like, they were better on T V than live I'm like, No, they were just as bad on T V So AGTCommenter: No. No, I haven't seen the performance. Still. So yeah, Cody: Okay. It you don't need to. AGTCommenter: so for the people the Minnesota Twins were playing on NBC last night and apparently Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: in my area that meant I didn't get AGT, so I missed the first two performances the night till Cody came through and shared his screen with me on the old Riverside app here and we I was able to watch. I went back and watched the choir. Everybody said James and Reen were so bad, I was like, I'm not gonna bother going watching it if they're just gonna go home right away and it and they did but so congrats to to Olivia Beefus. one point in the old Cody and commenter column after that result. what do we have next, Cody? Cody: we had community ATL and Luke Tolino. AGTCommenter: This one threw my head in a blender. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Cause I was like, interesting. I I I felt confident that a golden buzzer is always gonna at least be in the top five every time. Gonna get gonna get a point. The choir was, you could argue the best of the night. I thought hundred fingers was the best of the night. But actually I should say my scores, I had I had the choir as the best of the night. And so I was like, I didn't know which way it was gonna go. I really wanted the choir to keep going. I think they're really good. Were you shocked by the choirs not not at least being top five? Cody: Yeah. No, I was I was actually pretty shocked that they I was like, I was with you. I was very torn 'cause I wanted the point from Luke. But AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: at the same time I wanted to see the choir go through 'cause I thought they were really good. I had them third on the night. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, think I had them one and and Hundred Fingers too, so I hope I mean Simon seemed to I don't know why he got so hung up on the song. It's a classic. I'll say this. Cody: Yeah. It's a good song. I liked it. It's a Natasha Bettingfield song. It's really good. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I think there's two different critiques for song choice. Do you not like the song or do you not like the song for them? Because if you just don't like the song, don't say anything. Cody: Yeah, remember when he when he said he hated tomorrow? AGTCommenter: Right. Right. Cody: And then was it Rose, Jimmy Rose saying that? AGTCommenter: No, it was Jimmy Harad. Yep. Cody: True rod, yeah. AGTCommenter: Jimmy Rowe's runner ups or third place season eight. country singer. That's yeah, that's my thing. Is like Cody: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true. I knew it was a Jimmy. Yeah. AGTCommenter: If the song works for the act, who cares if you don't like the Natasha Bettingfield version of the song? Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: Song chouse somebody does. There's no question about it, people like that song. I get if he's like that song, I hated that song because it didn't work for you guys. I'm with you on that. Critique that. That wasn't what he said. He was just like, I just don't like that song. It's like, okay, well then don't did they sound good and did they put out like bad bad judging there by Simon, but Cody: Yeah, just keep that to yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: but yeah, so Tolino's head of the top five. Cody: So so and I was actually hoping that they might pull a both you. AGTCommenter: It it crossed my mind. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: G do we think we'll see it in at least once in the next three weeks? They've done it in the quarterfinals before. I I'm almost positive they've done a both of you and an either of you in the same night, because obviously you have to. Cody: I don't think in this format so they have done it in this format. Yeah. They would they would have to they could not do it in the fifth one. Y you're right. 'Cause I think there was a week where I was like they can't do it in the fifth grouping, so they'd have to do it in the third or fourth grouping. AGTCommenter: Right. Right. Yeah, 'cause what they would do is one both of you and one neither of you and and go from there. Cody: Right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So I think we'll pro I think there's a good chance we'll see it one of these next three weeks, but alright, Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: who was next? Cody: The next grouping was Royal Lasers and Ashford. AGTCommenter: I wanted Ashford. And here's why. I just wanted him to have another shot. He didn't he didn't put on a great performance. He was a letdown last night. I'd say he was one of maybe two or three that I felt like were a letdown from what I expected. And I might talk about that at that at the end. That might be an offseason conversation. Haven't decided yet, c Cody. But It was pretty clear this was gonna be Royal Lasers with this grouping, I think. Yeah. yeah. Cody: Yep, yep, agreed. The next grouping was Brooklyn and Chris Sosa. AGTCommenter: I had a pipe dream that she was gonna I I love her. I thought I thought she was good last night. You did not love it. I do love the original song, but it it felt like did you have any hopes once that pairing was announced that we were gonna keep brooking the competition for us? Cody: No, I was I mean I was about f fifty two percent sure that Chrisosa was going through. Yep. Yep. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. he he did a good job. He put on a nice set. I I said it I c I don't know if I said it on the butt. I was we maybe we talked about it last night while we were watching the episode, but I'm glad he's the type of comedian I'm happy to have in in in the live shows 'cause he's professional and he knows what he's doing, he's not gonna bomb. Did I love the set? No. I there's the hit rate for AGT comedy sets that I like is is in the teens percents probably. it's just I I just think it's a hard to put on a really good performance in that category. But he he's been on stage a lot. He knows what he's doing. I have no problem with him advancing to the top five. But but yeah, too bad for our gal. So that's a point that was a point for the Bach brothers. and Royal Lasers was a point for for for Ryan and and Steven. Cody: the last grouping, Jesse White and Sando. AGTCommenter: This was a disappointing duo. Cody: Agreed. AGTCommenter: Neither should be in the top five, neither should be in the semis. Sando, I don't know if it's surprised you or not, he did wiggle side to side last night. I don't know if you saw that coming. He laid Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: down, wiggled his body a little bit, and went right to left, right to left. It's classic. he does he went in a circle too, yeah. So funny. Cody: He did go in a circle as he did go in a circle as well. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I was rooting for Jesse White because I'm I'm so sick of Sando. I'm so I'm so s what Cody: I'm subsexando. AGTCommenter: what's Simon's deal with Sando? Cody: He loves him. AGTCommenter: Last pick of the draft was Sando. it was the tumbling team, right, Cody that went through. So the Cody: Yes. Yep. AGTCommenter: top five. That was a point for yeah, that was a guaranteed point at that pairing. It was a friendly fire there. So Steven and Ryan picked up another point. So at that point, we had our thr our four from Hundred Fingers. And then we picked up another two. So we were at six. and then Steven and Ryan had two and the Bach brothers were sitting there with just one at this point. But the big result so our top five was what again, Cody? Cody: Jesse White, Olivia, Luke, Royal Lazers and Chris Sosa. AGTCommenter: Yeah. All right. And then we obviously we gotta find out our top three. what order did that go in again? Cody: I went Olivia, Royal Lazers, and Luke Tolino. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Not an exciting start to the semis, to be honest. Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: Like Cody: Dogs AGTCommenter: Royal lasers I like. Cody: Yeah, dogs, and then light balance rip off and a a a wrapper. So AGTCommenter: Right. Which casualty tonight bummed you out the most? Yeah, me too. Yeah. Cody: I think the choir is probably the biggest bum. Yep. AGTCommenter: That or Brooklyn, because I I had higher hopes. I agree. She wasn't perfect last night. I knew she wasn't. There's a reason we took her twenty-ninth. She was so scared and judge judge callbacks that live shows felt like an even bigger risk. I still think there's moments where she sounds the best of the season from a singing standpoint, but I get it. but that's our That's the start to the semis, Cody. Six acts are gonna go through to the finals from the semis. Do any of these three, if you had to bet, will any of them advance to the finals? Royal Lazers, you don't think could get in the top six? Cody: I mean it's it's yeah. AGTCommenter: That's who I would bet on, of the three. Cody: If I had to pick one of these three, yeah, I'd pick them. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I would agree. I I would imagine they were the high vote getter of the night. but a fun results night. It it's it's gets the juices flowing every week. No Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: matter who ends up going through, the I can't imagine standing on the stage. Th my s my stomach's in my throat sitting on the couch. I can't even imagine. But congrats to those three. so the current leaderboard, Cody. Current scoreboard. Cody and Comment are out way out in front with ten points. Ryan and Steven with four and the Bach brothers with one. Cody, we had four acts in this. team I thirty five, which was Ryan and and Steven had five. Three, four, five. So they're down to ten left for the next three weeks. We still got nine left for the next three weeks. And the Brock brothers only had two, so they're down to they still got twelve acts over the next three weeks, so they'll be okay. But a great start for us, Cody. Love where we're at with our draft. Loved our value. We got three points from spot thirty twos and spots thirty two and spot thirty eight. Feeling good. Our our first pick, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth picks haven't performed yet. So we're sitting we're sitting real nice. So other thoughts on results before maybe we do a few things afterwards. Cody: Not results itself per se, but I kinda wanna talk just a little bit about the rest of the episode. AGTCommenter: Yeah, go for it. Cody: so who is this like person that they brought on that did like the TikTok live? What's her name? Trisha something? Who who is she? She talks so fast. AGTCommenter: man, Trisha Paytas. Yeah. I'm surprised. She's the worst. she used to have a podcast. Cody: Okay, good. AGTCommenter: It ended badly, I think. I th I felt like she like had a little bit of like a scandal trouble type of situation. I could be very wrong, so I don't want to get quoted on that. But she's very annoying. Always has been annoying. and yeah, what was she doing? It felt like a bit. She was talking so fast. It felt a l it was funny. I was glad that Sy like Simon's like s slow down. Cody: Slow down. It's like Well we got time. You're okay. It's like AGTCommenter: Yeah, and I I get it, when the once you get the microphone you tend to speed up a little bit. It is a thing. But that felt she was on the TikTok live last night and she wasn't talking like that as far as I know. Cody: Right. Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: I saw like w even the clips and I saw I pulled it up once 'cause I was gonna go see if I could watch the episode on there. And I couldn't. Cody: no, okay. So they didn't have the stationary phone like they've done in the past? Like in the AGTCommenter: They did not, as far as I know, broadcast the episode. I think they were just having her interview the acts after their performances. Maybe that was Cody: Got it. AGTCommenter: maybe I only went during a commercial break and didn't stick around long enough to see. But Cody: Okay. Cause last year they had that phone kind of stationary and the audience just r pointed at the stage like the whole time. AGTCommenter: Hmm. Yeah. I think this will be the only baseball interruption of the of the live shows from what I could tell. So but yeah, she was a bummer to to to see. She's just yeah. She's she's like very pre or she's very like COVID internet era. Kinda Cody: Got it. AGTCommenter: hit it in that era, had a little run right after and then kind of faded away for a while. Now maybe she's back. But yeah, Trisha Paytas. Shout out. Cody: Okay. What else we got? AGTCommenter: Well, we opened with some K pop. Z Ryan's gonna Cody: Yes we did. Was it K pop or K rock? It seemed very rock. AGTCommenter: is not a question for me. that's should we call Ryan? Cody: Okay. It seemed it had a rock feeling, you should call right, yes. AGTCommenter: He's our K pop guy. he's still in Ireland, isn't he? Cody: He is sound asleep right now. He might be getting up soon. I don't know. AGTCommenter: He gets bat when d when did he say he gets back? Was it next I think it's like next Monday or something. Cody: I don't know. I'd have to might be Monday. S yeah, something like that. Sunday or Monday. AGTCommenter: but yeah, no, it's other than that, they they didn't do a lot. It was a long recap. what else did we have? Cody: we had them AGTCommenter: I I feel like I'm blanking on one segment that was in there. Cody: Yeah, they talked about Howie's Golden Buzzer, obviously, the Cape Yes. Yes, yes we did. Yep. AGTCommenter: we had the Columbia earthquake relief conversation, which is too bad. shout out Columbia, shout out Sophia. I thought that was nice. But yeah, so that honestly, that's what a results show should be. I will say, as much as I disagree with our friend Jacob El Yashar, almost ic that's almost my only stance with anything he says is I disagree. His stance that The guest performers should just be alums of the show with that. Love that. Sti why do we need a K pop group? Why why couldn't that have been who was the K pop group we had back in the day? A couple years ago? Yeah, couldn't have been one of them. Cody: we've had several. So yeah. Yeah. Right. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Couldn't have had well. I'll take the K pop group. Cody: British good all. Okay. AGTCommenter: I'm looking forward to his movie. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: And I would love to be in the movie. Us portrayed in the movie. You and Jay talked about this. Cody: I was about to say you would it would be it'd be the the Nick Cannon face. Like you wouldn't be in it, so okay. AGTCommenter: Yes. Yeah. They should they should include our commentary of some sort though. Cody: I would love that. AGTCommenter: Maybe just B roll backing backing noise where Yeah, and it's an ac Cody: That's a yes. If AGTCommenter: if they call us now Cody, if they call you. Drive. Negotiate a little bit. Don't just Yeah, don't just give it up for free. Yeah, see if we can get ten K, twenty K, something for a clip. Cody: Yes. well sir. No no no. Just don't just don't get no no no no no Yeah. AGTCommenter: but no, it's that's that's all I had on the actual results. It was it was a confusing enough performance night that I felt like I was not gonna be surprised by really anything that happened. it was not a bad performance night, I didn't think. I thought it was average. And Cody: It was very it was fine, yes. AGTCommenter: it felt like everybody was freaking out online that this is like I think Steven tweeted was this the worst live show ever? I'm like, okay. And it it brings Cody: No, no, let's pump the brakes here. AGTCommenter: me to a point I do want to make before we wrap up. If you're watching this show, I beg you Look at who's gonna be on before the episode. This that's not a s cause that's not a spoiler. They're not telling you who's going through. And build your expectations before the episode starts. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: What do you think James and Marina are gonna be good or not? Because they stunk. But I thought they were gonna stink. So it wasn't a big deal. I thought Sando was gonna stink, so it didn't bother me when he performed. But Cody: Yes. Yes. Right. Yes. AGTCommenter: everybody goes into the episodes being like, AGT, this is gonna be great. It's gonna be two hours of greatness and then it's like six of the eleven suck. It's like, well you should have known because the list is there. Go look. Cody: What the AGTCommenter: Temper your expectations. I would say last night just about everybody performed a what the level I probably thought. I thought Ashford Sanders underperformed slightly. Cody: Yes. Yep. AGTCommenter: And actually, let me look. Cody: To be I as I said, I think Brooklyn performed exactly like I thought she would. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay. I was probably I thought she slightly underperformed. Other than that, maybe I think choir might have overperformed what I thought. Cody: Okay. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And and that I thought hundred fingers probably was what I thought they were gonna be. Like get your expectations set before the episode. They're Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: not gonna trot 11 awesome performances out there. Cody, I had you do an exercise for me. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Because I think this is again another PSA here. I want people at home. Go look at the list of forty four. Put an X next to every name that you think are going to put on a good performance. And I'm pretty sure everybody's gonna come up with about half or slightly less. That's the live shows. Welcome to the live shows. You're not gonna like probably at least half. You had an eight list of 18, I think mine was 18 or 19, something like that. Cody: Right. Eighteen. Mm. AGTCommenter: Like, that's what you're signing up for. Hopefully, when they whittle it to 12 next next round, most of that 12 is in your group that you like. But Never once in 21 years have they filled whatever that number of live shows is with that many good acts. There's not that many good acts, and you're never gonna like them all. So somebody likes correct. Cody: Yes. Even when we've done even when we've done our rewatchables, we've been like, Yeah. AGTCommenter: They they haven't been able to get 36 when it was 36, let alone 44 or 55 a couple years ago when it was fifty-five. Like, Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: just understand the quarterfinals, part of the fun is separating the wheat from the chaff and being like. What you're gonna have in the quarterfinals, you're gonna find out who really shouldn't have been brought to live shows. Semifinals, finals, we'll find out who's the who's the best. But yeah. Just temper your expectations. If if you're mad cause Sando sucked, I don't know what to tell you. You should have known. That shouldn't that shouldn't have surprised ya. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Unless you're a fan of Sando, then like he's the greatest thing ever. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Right, yeah. So and that's the thing, is everybody'll probably come with about twenty, but it'll be a completely different list of twenty, which is why this show appeals to the masses, because there's something for everybody. But Cody: It's right. It's right. AGTCommenter: last thing I had. The results from the results. Hundred Fingers was our golden buzzer. They performed seventh on the night. And then Royal Lazers, Olivia Bef Beefus, and Tolino performed eighth, ninth, and eleventh on the night. Chris Sosa, who was one of the top fivers that didn't go through, performed tenth. So Of the and then Jesse White tumbling team, the other top five that didn't go through was third. But of the four out of the top five were the last four perfor four performances, so it's very likely that the top four vote getters of the night were the last four of the night. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: So, chicken and an egg, we always have this conversation, but it's it's it's interesting that it worked out that way. Right. Cody: I don't vote until the show's over. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I did. Cause I only vote for our fantasy team. I've moved Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: on. Back in the day when I didn't have a fantasy team, I was doing it off of who I liked. My vote's not a big enough splash to to actually matter. I'll just gonna f I'm gonna flood the I'm gonna flood the ballot box with with our team. But yeah. if I would have been honest, Lasers would have got votes from me. Brooklyn would have got votes, the choir would have got votes. That might have been it. That would have got vo votes for me last night. But yeah. So I'm interested to see if that trend keeps up. on the ends of the end of the performances. But should we should we take a peek at next week quick? Just the list and then we'll kind of Cody: Yes, let's do that. Yes. AGTCommenter: go I think we can preview what we have coming the rest of this week from the pod and then next week. because we're back in the swing of it here, Cody. Live shows. Cody: Mm. That's right. It's AGTCommenter: Do you have the list or I can pull it right here. Cody: Yeah, I don't have it in front of me. AGTCommenter: So Betty, team team Cody and commenter. Cody: Okay. That's our Yep. AGTCommenter: Brad and Tracy, that is Team Cody and Commenter. So there's two Cody. Butter and grit. Who took them? Cody: Bach, that's the Bach Brothers. AGTCommenter: Yes, yes, Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: yes. So one for the Bach brothers. Come here. Three for us, Cody. We're down to we got another one. Yeah. Cody: We're gonna we're gonna burn through all our acts the first two weeks. AGTCommenter: Gino from team Ye from Steven and Ryan. Cody: Steven and Ryan. Yeah. AGTCommenter: LaRussell from Steven and Ryan. Mackenzie Soule from Steven and Ryan. Cody: Wow. AGTCommenter: Nene from the Bach Brothers. Nija and Zaya from the Bach brothers. Patrox from Team I thirty five and then Veronica from us. So we have four again. So Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: we will have for the last two then we'll still have seven. So we're right. We should have three fours and a We Cody: Okay. We we we balced yeah, we balanced it out very well. AGTCommenter: should have three fours and a three. The Bach brothers right now They have I guess they have What is it? 'Cause they started with four t they'll have ten for the last two weeks. So they're hoping that there's gonna be some points in the last two weeks for them. Betty, Brad and Tracy come here, and Veronica Cody. Do any of those four give you hopes for for advan Let's talk advancing. Veronica I think will advance. Cody: Veronica does might might might come here. AGTCommenter: That might be a yeah, that might be a sneaky golden buzzer pick. I'm Official stance, we do not want live show golden buzzers. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Now, if Brad and Tracy somehow swoop in and snag a golden buzzer, happy to ha happy to take it. Cody: Yeah. We we have a love hate for the Gold Live Show Golden Buzzer, 'cause one, it gives us the four point gives us the points, AGTCommenter: It's points. Yeah. Cody: but once they get in the finals, the track record is not good. AGTCommenter: No. My thing is if it's in the back third of the draft, give it to us 'cause any points there is gravy. But our second pick, the fifth pick in the draft, got one and I don't really love that. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: we'll see. We'll see if they can overcome the trend there. But it'll be a fun it'll be a fun week. There's some fun names there. I'm looking forward to Nene. I think it's gonna be fascinating to see. Is the hype actually real? Or is it that? Is it just hype? We'll find out. Betty, Cody: Yeah. Yep. Yep. AGTCommenter: you know I love Betty. Cody: You do love Betty. And and she's growing on me. Yep. AGTCommenter: Vro Yeah, Veronica's fun. Cody: Yep. AGTCommenter: You love butter and grit, so I'm happy that you're gonna you're gonna get to see them. And then Bruno Mars Cody: I'm gonna say I love Butter and Grit. I like I like I like Jesse and the ninety sixers better. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: And then Bruno Mars's nephews, Naya and Zaya. We'll be Cody: yeah, that's right. They stink. AGTCommenter: But okay. Anything else? before we preview what's coming up from the pod? Cody: yeah, one final thing. So Groot asked us why we chose to do teams this year. AGTCommenter: Yes. Yeah. Cody: Was it group mix? AGTCommenter: So Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: we had not that anything needed to be spiced up. The league is always fun. It it's Jay especially, I think, was kinda like, hey, is there anything different we can do to, you know, kind of change it up? We'd kind of done the same thing for three three years in a row. Cody: Something like that. Three four three or four years, yeah. AGTCommenter: So we brainstormed a couple things. Our big goal was to try and get the fans of the pod involved. I I s just don't know if it's really if we have the one the fan base and two the bandwidth on our end to do that. Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: So we just kicked around ideas and I like, well w you know what'd be kind of fun would be to to team up and have a have a teammate for it. So we liked that idea. The Bach we needed a six obviously, so Scott was kinda next on the bench. would have been him or Jacob. So tough call. it made sense. No I'm saying Cody: We like we we love you, Jacob. Fr front of the pod, Jacob. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: Was not a tough call because obviously it was seamless adding Jay's brother was gonna Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: be a very easy pair up. So the Bach brothers was an e was an obvious pair up. I never wanted anybody other than Cody, my guy. I never once, not even a for a second, mentioned face to face to Cody that I wanted Ryan as my teammate. Not once did I ever do that right to your face. you vetoed. I just was throwing I was spitballing ideas. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: and so we're like, hey, we do all the off season pods together, it makes sense. And then Ryan and Steven are kind of the contributors. They're the they're the guests of the the the the the recurring guests of the pods. So we felt like that made some sense to pair them together. So I liked it. It also gave us bigger teams. instead of which I think is kinda fun to have more acts. who knows if we'll continue to do it. I I Don't see why we wouldn't at least run it back again. I think Cody and I talked about I think it'd be fun to to randomize the teams next year, do a little spinner wheel. Could be me and Scott or or me and Steven or something you know, have a little bit of a a change up there, but otherwise, I I I think it's fun. So that was that was all. If anybody has other ideas, feel free. Groot or any listeners, let us know. If you're like, Hey, you guys should try this. feel feel free. But yeah, so anything else before we preview Cody? So Cody: I don't think so. Let me see if there's any mess any other messages that have come in since we've been on the no. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Tomorrow night is U and Jay are back, Cody: yeah let's let's answer this. Maybe maybe Jay can answer this one tomorrow night well. This is from Geekazoid. for once America's votes mirrored his own. the question which act do you think fell the farthest from their initial audition? And which act improved? Okay. AGTCommenter: Hm. Well I could. Honestly, I think James and Marina might have fallen farthest from their audition because their audition was cohesive and worked. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: I didn't love it, but it it was I actually had them scored relatively let me plug them. Actually had them scored relatively high compared to what we would have thought. who overperformed I can look at my actual scores. The co probably the Cody: Who improved? Who improved the most? Yeah. AGTCommenter: choir. Cody: Yeah. And I don't think it was like that big of a margin for either one. AGTCommenter: Ashford might have had the biggest fall off. Cody: Yeah, that's true. Yep. AGTCommenter: Too bad. It's too bad. would you is that where you would go to? Okay. Cody: I would agree with that. Yeah. AGTCommenter: all right. Cody: It's it's not like we had any Sandal Trio Russian bar moments where someone was just fabulous in audition and then tanked. AGTCommenter: R right. Cody: It was James and Marina were st I I still didn't think they were great and then they just did worse. So AGTCommenter: Also also big big gripe here with our guy Jacob. This is his tweet. Minus Olivia, we have a strong top five. What are we doing? That's beefus, you're talking that's that's beefus from Beefus and the Buttheads you're talking you're talking about there. Cody: That's right. AGTCommenter: no. So tomorrow night you and Jay will all eleven acts, baby. Cody: We'll recap the whole thing. Yes. AGTCommenter: I'm interested to see what you guys think. and then you're gonna get something before next week. our next episode. We don't know exactly what it'll be. I think it'll just be Cody and I this week, 'cause Ryan and we assume Cody is still in Ireland. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: So I think Cody and I'll hop on at the end of the weekend here and just do a little bit of a deeper, deeper dive into into the preview for next week. We'll talk about who we're excited w we did the the quick run through there. We'll go a little deeper, talk about who we think is going to go through, make some predictions, and go from there. We're Still unsure exactly what Ryanalytics is gonna be this year. Cody, I we haven't squared it away with Ryan. He's expressed interest in doing it. We just haven't squared it away. it whether we do it or not do it, Cody, we you can correct me if I'm wrong. We're still planning to in some capacity have a preview every week, whether it's Cody: Yeah, yeah, something. AGTCommenter: co whether it's paired with Ryanalytics, standalone, whatever. So Cody: Whatever. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I think those are fun and they're quick and easy. So we'll we'll do that. So and the next Cody: Yeah. Next week next week Cory'll be here, right? Yes. AGTCommenter: Yes. Yep, so Cory will be will be here to to talk about the incredible night where where Brad and Tracy got the golden buzzer. Oops, Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: where Betty, Veronica, and come here all were the were advanced to the to the semis. I think the I think we might Cody: B Betty and Veronica from the Archies. AGTCommenter: Bad Veronica. If that happened, we would be at let's just let's just run that. Just Cody: Well, we'd be we'd be beef us in the buttheads and the archies if Betty and Veronica go through. So AGTCommenter: we would be at 14 plus no we'd be at 23 points already. I think we might have to just call it at that point. but yeah, so it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to the next four weeks, five weeks, whatever it is. this was a this was a fun start, and it's it's hard to be hard to have a frown when you're up ten to four to one in the in the fantasy league. so you wanna Cody: It's week one. You know, we may be the lead horse right now. We gotta kind of hold the lead. We can't fall back. So one week at a time. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. I might I might be measuring my finger for the ring, Cody. Just getting started. no, it's it's a fun. Cody: Yeah. Tom Tom Brady Tom Brady was measuring the finger and then Eli Manning showed up out of nowhere. So AGTCommenter: yeah. sign us out. Let's get out of here. I'm looking forward to you Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: and Jay tomorrow night. Cody: So you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com and find commenter out there at AGT Commenter. Jay and I'll be back to recap all the acts, get the clips, we'll do all the things that we normally do on Thursday night, and then of course, yeah, the preview coming maybe this weekend sometime. So everyone, have a great night.