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Auditions 2 | Season 21 | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Jay Bock: Hello and welcome to a special edition of AGT Time Pod. This week it is Jay Bach along here with Scott Bock: Scott Bach, I'm back. I'm Bacher Than Ever. Something. I'm I'm here. I'm excited for some AGT. ⁓ it's go time. ⁓ yeah. I I think ⁓ this is gonna be our our best show ⁓ ever. I'm I'm all in. We're we're we're going. you know, I ⁓ I I just love that you know, not to yeah, not to to to send all the spoilers out, but ⁓ the judges love for something to be the best that that they they've ever seen and and and we're we're gonna lean into that this week and and give you the best show ever. Jay Bock: Going for the superlatives. Yeah. Well after ⁓ after twenty one seasons of ADT they're still f still outdoing themselves, so why don't we outdo ourselves tonight? Scott Bock: Absolutely. I'm in. Jay Bock: All right. as Cody said, he is off this week. I invited my brother to come join us. I always love when he ⁓ fills the co-pilot seat for me. We always have a good time. I will ⁓ give the business and then ⁓ I want to hear kind of your your overall thoughts on this episode, on the season, before we jump into specifics here. So you can always reach us at AGT time. Pod. That is AGT TimePod at Gmail. That's our Twitter, our Blue Sky, and ⁓ Insta and ⁓ Mastodon, I think. All of them. That is where you find us at AGT Time Pod. with that, Scott, your ⁓ big general thoughts on season 21. What are you what are you thinking? Scott Bock: Nice. Alright, we're only two episodes in. and it is just all about the golden buzzers. They are they are just doubling and tripling down. It's ⁓ golden buzzer inflation, it's everywhere. It's only two episodes. We've already had five golden buzzers. There's only ten, right? There's five there's five more episodes to go. That means that's only one per episode from here on out. They're just they front loaded us. I don't know. It's ⁓ it's crazy. But no, overall, I mean ⁓ I I think, you know, the show's grown and changed over the years. ⁓ I l I like how ⁓ you know, it's a little less mean spirited than maybe it was ⁓ early on. ⁓ you know, a little less poking fun at some of the bad acts and more ⁓ kind of laughing with them and move moving along. We still get a little bit of that, ⁓ but but not terrible. and we're still keeping the variety, right? It there's a danger it could have devolved just into ⁓ just a singing competition, right? ⁓ there's been so many singers who've done well and who've won it. ⁓ but it hasn't happened, right? We've we've kept the variety, we keep seeing new things, ⁓ and I appreciate that. I I think I think that's really what makes ⁓ AGT special. ⁓ and I I think ha how we talked about that ⁓ a little bit in this show ⁓ in this show. There was an act where he was like, Yeah, that's this is the only place where you'd get something like that and it was really great. So yeah, I I appreciate that they're kind of able to to stay true to that, to to their roots. And this season I think we've seen some some pretty great ⁓ pretty great acts. So yeah, I'm excited to kinda talk about the ones tonight. I think I think we've got some real ⁓ yeah, some some some acts that really have a chance to go far. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. I just thinking about talent shows as a concept, you know, they really are meant to be a you know a display of talents. And it's really cool to have a talent show like this where you can have anybody and anything show up and it's gonna be a place for them to land, whether it's great or not, whether it's something that America responds to or not, that's, you know, to be determined. But ⁓ yeah at the ⁓ every all roads lead to the Iowa State Fair, apparently, but because they have a annual talent show, the Bill Riley talent show, and you you need to qualify for it and then you you get on the big stage. And when you get there, it's a lot, a lot of dancers Scott Bock: ⁓ okay. Sure, sure. Right. Jay Bock: and singers. ⁓ just you know, dancers and singer. That's that's the thing that ⁓ that sells well or that, you know, you can see that somebody's put the effort into and they you know earn their way through effort alone, ⁓ onto onto the big stage. So I get I get excited when you know a kid comes up there, he's I'm gonna solve Rubik's Cubes for you guys or I'm gonna do a magic trick or, you know, something else other than dance or sing. Maybe a piano solo. There's a lot of piano solos, too. Scott Bock: Yep, I agree. I agree. There's there's a lot, a lot of Pianos Alos. Yeah, ⁓ I agree. I agree. I think ⁓ you know, I I think it's great that there's a space where whatever it is that you think your talent is, as long as you can convince the rest of America that that it is worth seeing, ⁓ yeah, they'll vote you in and and and you can move on and and ⁓ hey, you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, ⁓ and and off we go. Jay Bock: Well, ⁓ speaking of ⁓ acts that maybe ⁓ want to see if America responds, ⁓ we're gonna step off ⁓ with ⁓ into the night with Kevin Quantum. ⁓ our first act of the night here. Do you think that's a stage name, Scott? Scott Bock: Yeah. I think it is. I I I really I really hope so. I I hope it's not one of these things where, you know, it's it's like the man who invented the toilet's name was Thomas Crapper. Like it just happens, you know. Hopefully he wasn't kind of just destined to to to be a science guy. But no, I I I assume that's that's a stage name. ⁓ Kevin ⁓ came out on stage ⁓ and ⁓ whoa, it was some slow slow moving ⁓ kind of talk. ⁓ lotta talk, l lot of show like Jay Bock: Right. Yeah. They did. Scott Bock: Tell, not show, right? He and yeah, I mean, not a terribly like ⁓ boring act. Like it was impressive, like what he did when he eventually got there. ⁓ which, you know, I'll I'll I'll kind of explain it. He came out and well, first he showed him a little tiny Newton's cradle, right? ⁓ which is the thing with all the balls hanging you see on a desk and usually you pull one out on the left. Jay Bock: Yeah. He ⁓ actually he he called it a harmonic pendulum, not a Newton's cradle. Scott Bock: ⁓ all right, all right. I I missed that. But ⁓ yeah, I know it is Newton's cradle. ⁓ spoiler, you know, for the for those of you in in the audience, I I ⁓ myself am a bit of a nerd, so ⁓ you know, I knew it was a Newton's cradle ⁓ from the get go. ⁓ yeah, go ahead, Jay. What what are you gonna say? Jay Bock: So So a a Newton's cradle, I believe all the balls hang at the same length from the from the rack that holds them. For this harmonic pendulum, they hang at increasingly shorter and shorter and shorter. Which is why when they when they swing, then they don't ⁓ swing at the same rate from the center. They swing at a so yeah, so instead of swinging like Scott Bock: Okay. ⁓ okay. All right. I guess I didn't Yeah, grok that. That's cool. Right. Yeah. Jay Bock: the balls into each other and knocking their energy through and watching the last ball fly up, they they swing side to side the opposite way and ⁓ they swing at different speeds so you can predict when they're going to line up and when they're going to not line up. Scott Bock: Right. Right, right. So yeah, he's got this, you know, little ⁓ little one on the desk that he shows him kind of how it does and and how it's dangerous, and then he shows him the big one, and then he shows him how heavy the ball is. He has Terry hold it, he drops it on a watermelon, and then he tells him he's gonna light it on fire, which ⁓ right away I'm saying, Hey man, save something for the next round. Like this is your classic, you could have done this in the tryout, and then the next round you just light it on fire. He had it all set up, ⁓ but you know, he kinda Jay Bock: Ha ha. Scott Bock: Shot shot the whole thing on the first first go here. So all right. All right. So he's gonna I don't even think they got it lit on fire and he probably had his first X. I I didn't ⁓ write down when they happened, but yeah. ⁓ and eventually he does it. He blindfolds himself, he lights it on fire, he you know, gets him going, and then he walks through him without getting his head crushed ⁓ by this ball. But he gets four X's on the way because this is what I wrote down the world's nerdiest danger act. He totally like Jay Bock: Think so, yeah. Ha ha. Scott Bock: He he tried to explain this like it was a science lesson. He doesn't get like the way these danger acts work are, yes, there is science behind it that keeps you safe, but you don't tell the audience that. And you let them just see the danger and seem more dangerous than it actually is, right? They you know, they when they're shooting a crossbow, you know, they're not like, Yep, I've sighted this in, so I know exactly where it's gonna go every time, and I'm actually only standing six feet away. It looks further, you know, because They don't tell you all the things about how safe it is and how it's not dangerous because it's a pendulum but he just wanted to keep telling ⁓ about how the pendulums work and it moves slow and it'll be safe in theory. And it's like, ⁓ man, this guy just not a bad act, just wrapped in the wrong package. Jay Bock: Sure, yeah. What if ⁓ he ha what if he didn't speak? What if it was all mime, right? Like he he he tells calls Terry Cruz out and and he hands him the heavy ball and hair Terry Cruz is like, wow, that's heavy and then he has him hold it over the pumpkin and smash it without saying anything. And then what's Scott Bock: Exactly. He could've started with the small one and then walked up and pulled the c cover off, right? Like they would have just been like, What is this toy? And then, ⁓ I get it, now there's a big one and then and then yeah, you smash the thing and then, ⁓ now it's on fire and then, ⁓ he's blindfolded. You know, like absolutely. He should have showed, not told. He he he he ⁓ yeah, he definitely just missing that piece of showmanship that ⁓ Letting letting the audience's ⁓ imagination fill in the danger and make it seem scarier than it actually is. He failed on all that stuff. And so yeah, the world's nerdiest danger act ⁓ for me ⁓ was just just not a f not a not a go. And and I don't know that I would have X'd him, but but I think it would have been a no from me as well. Jay Bock: Yeah, and you know, so many times we look at acts like this and we say, like, you know, what could they have done or what could they do better? You know, I l I like the idea of of just, you know, go and tape face on it. you know, what are there any other things that he could have, should have, would have done to to save himself here? Scott Bock: No, I think I think just move faster, show don't tell. Jay Bock: Yeah. He he he definitely went with like the the professor ⁓ you know, the the the jacket with the vest and the matching bow tie and the you know, very ⁓ professorial in his presentation and professors are supposed to talk, so he talks. Scott Bock: Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah, I mean I he could have swung the other way and been like, you know, acted so sure and perfect about everything, and then like had things keep going wrong as he shows you each individual thing, like, ⁓ and then ⁓ obviously you can just walk right through in the tiny one and ⁓ hits his finger. And well, but that's okay, 'cause they're not that heavy, and he drops it and it squishes the watermelon, right? But but but as long as you keep your eyes open and pull the you know like he could have leaned into it that way and still talked, but I don't know. Yeah, I I Jay Bock: Sure, yeah. Yeah. Yep, yep. I like that. Scott Bock: I think he just had to keep it moving, just miss that little bit of showmanship, ⁓ was probably what was missing. Jay Bock: Yep. Yep. Showmanship is the word that comes to my mind too. ⁓ I I do wanna say there was one very cool shot from the front of this harmonic pendulum where we see the balls whizzing in front of his face ⁓ from from straight on when he's behind it. And I I really liked that. That looked that looked dangerous. Scott Bock: ⁓ yeah. That was a really that was a really great yeah, exactly. He should have just showed us that and it would have been like it's impossible to walk through that blindfolded, you know? But instead he had to first explain to us it's not impossible and why it's not impossible, and then showed us that it was like No, let us believe it's impossible and then yeah, show us it's possible. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. And why it's dangerous and why yeah. Yeah. ⁓ Simon says that because he spoke too long, he lost him. ⁓ could have done it in 30 seconds. Melby said what he did looked hard, but it took too long. four four notes from the judges. So, I I I agree. All right, let's move on. Second act of the night here. We got Nigel Music and Zia Rhythm. Again, I believe that is stage names. Scott Bock: I would hope so, ⁓ because they're brothers. They don't even have the same last name. Like I guess that can happen. Maybe they're half brothers. ⁓ but I guess their mom has a type then, right? So yeah. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's dating Bill Saxophone now, so Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah, all right. Yeah. Apparently, yeah. Okay. ⁓ Naya Yeah. Naya's sixteen, Zaya is fifteen. ⁓ they are from Oahu, Hawaii. ⁓ I I think they were expecting like a a cheer from the crowd there, but it was just kinda like no, no in the back there, Oahu, yeah. Like Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one person really loves Hawaii. I yeah, I don't know. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's the yeah, w the where the you know, the the guy in the the rock band is like, Yeah, we love it herein and then looks on the back of the guitar to see, yeah, you know, Springfield. Jay Bock: Any anybody from Peoria? Like, no? Right. All right. ⁓ they are inspired by Grace Vanderwall. ⁓ Simon's gonna ask him before they start which one's the naughty one, ⁓ which co ⁓ Scott, not Cody. I gotta ask you. if if we were on stage and Simon said which one's the naughty one? Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ boy. Yeah. I might have to ha point back to myself. I don't know. I ⁓ yeah. Yeah, well, you know, no no risk, no reward. ⁓ so that's all right. I I'll put on my sheepish grin and let you point at me is what I would probably do. I'd be the be the best ⁓ Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, but the Hawaiian bros, ⁓ yeah, they were ⁓ a couple of singers and they ⁓ Jay Bock: Yeah. I I was hoping so. I'm pointing at you. Ha ha ha. All right. We could play it up. We'd get some Scott Bock: They came out and they sang an original, which is very bold, you know, for a couple of teenagers to sing an original song. ⁓ we've seen some success. ⁓ I also like, you know, they called out A GT. I th I think this is one of the new the other themes we're seeing about AGT, right? You know, the judges love the judges. Anything you can do to involve the judges. I think we're also seeing the AGT loves them some A. G. T. So if you can be inspired by A G T, if you can be, you know, whatever, you you got into it because of A GT. If you could tie that in, I think that's all all good. So Jay Bock: Yeah. ⁓ yeah, yeah. Scott Bock: So I think A G T loves it some AGT and that that was a good call for them, calling back to to Grace Vanderwall. ⁓ but yeah, they sang ⁓ I didn't write down what the name of the song was. Heartbeat, is that right? The name of it? Yeah. Jay Bock: Heartbeats, yeah. ⁓ Zaya's gonna sing the lead. ⁓ he's got a real pleasant tenor voice. He does a a real smooth ⁓ rhythm to it all. ⁓ Nija sings the harmonies and the backups. ⁓ it the sentiment of the song. It's a nice sentiment. ⁓ it, you know, can I be your heartbeat? Can I be the flower in your hair? Can I be the scent that you wear? This idea that, you know. I want to be close to you. I want to be, you know, near you, ⁓ as close as your scent, as close as your heartbeat. And then it ends with this line, if I was your heartbeat, then our hearts would be together, which is a nice ⁓ a nice sentiment. I I kinda liked the song. Scott Bock: Sure. Yeah. Good use of metaphor, plenty sappy. Teenage girls are gonna just love this kind of stuff. They're cute as a button, right? Both of ⁓ w I was watching it with my wife and ⁓ after they started singing it, her comment was, ⁓ these two are gonna be famous. So she was super impressed. And, you know, she's a music teacher, so she probably knows better than I do about the music itself. But yeah, I thought they were great. I thought ⁓ Jay Bock: ⁓ Scott Bock: They sang in tune, that they had good voices, their harmonizing was great. You know, they have that sibling thing where the voices just melt together and it's almost hard to tell where one s stops and the other one ends, right? Those harmonies, you just can't you can't beat some of that just when you have blood relation like that singing together. ⁓ the the the Yeah, the timbre is identical and it's yeah, so just just great. So yeah, I mean we've seen, you know Jay Bock: Yeah, that g genetic ⁓ harmonies. Scott Bock: The Bee Gees, the, you know, ⁓ all sorts of brother groups ⁓ kind of do greats. The Osmonds, the Hans Hanson, the Jackson Five, right? you know, there's a reason that it keeps happening ⁓ over and over. ⁓ so I think that ⁓ you know, maybe these two will be the next ⁓ the next two. ⁓ I thought they were great. ⁓ and they got four yeses from the judges. They all loved ⁓ so yeah, I don't know. Anything else to say about ⁓ the Hawaiian bros? Jay Bock: Hansen. They get a standing ovation from Howie and Sophia, ⁓ and the whole audience. ⁓ Howie points out that Zaya's voice has some Grace Vanderwall qualities to it. ⁓ he thinks that they're gonna be memorable. ⁓ Sophia says they're amazing, she loves that they're brothers. Mel says they're likable, she's rooting for them, but the song didn't connect with her. ⁓ their vocals and harmonies did connect. And ⁓ Simon says, if you have talent, you have talent. And you guys have talent. So back to Mel B. ⁓ the song didn't connect with her. Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah, I think this is our first sign of it. I think Melby was grumpy tonight. She Melby had an off night. I don't think she she was looking to be entertained. I don't know. I think she was just just kinda had something stuck in her craw tonight. ⁓ I think we'll see that over and over, ⁓ that she's just just a little hard to please. Jay Bock: Okay. Yeah. And when we do get to the judges actually giving their votes, the Mel B kinda walks back and says, Well, it's a no brainer yes. It's you know, it absolutely is a yes, but you know, there was th the song could have been better. All right. Yeah, absolutely. ⁓ all right. I ⁓ I enjoyed them. One of the best acts of the night so far. Scott Bock: Right. Sure. Yeah. Constructive criticism, you know, th that's good, right? Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I mean th they have two, right? So ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had the one with four X's and then yeah, the the good singers. So there we go. Jay Bock: Yeah. ⁓ right, right. ⁓ all right, let's move on to another novelty act here. We got gentleman named Frankie Lapenna. I am not familiar with Frankie. I don't spend a lot of time on the TikToks. ⁓ Scott Bock: Yeah. I I ⁓ as well was not ⁓ I don't ⁓ I have an Instagram. I don't I don't use it much, ⁓ to my to my teenager's chagrin. I think they would prefer I communicate with them through Instagram sometimes. ⁓ but but ⁓ I guess I'm just old fashioned w want to be texted like an adult. but ⁓ no, no up Frankie I don't know if he's actually that super popular, but they sure made it seem like ⁓ everyone in the audience knows this guy and and how he knows this guy and and Jay Bock: Fair. Well Howie apparently knows everybody. he has millions of views on ⁓ on TikTok, none from you and I apparently. Scott Bock: Right. Yeah, he's a popular dude. No. Six hundred and eighty seven million something like that? Is that right? That's a lot. That's more than a couple, yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah, that's that's a lot. you know, I So let's let's have a a conversation about influencers here, because we're gonna have a few of them ⁓ tonight. ⁓ my my fear is that AGT becomes like TikTok fodder, right? ⁓ it's it only serves influencers and not, you know, us, the audience. It doesn't serve ⁓ Scott Bock: Okay. We do. Yeah. Jay Bock: you know, finding new talent. It's just sort of a recycling, you know, just just a a new platform for existing talent. Scott Bock: Yeah, I mean it's it's tough. It's it's you know, it's the give and take, right? There's I'm sure they've gotten a bump from having stuff out on, you know, TikTok and Instagram. ⁓ I think you've seen it with Saturday Night Live as well, right? That you know, things have kind of become popular as sort of three minute YouTube clips and and you know, people probably aren't staying up until eleven thirty on a Saturday night to to watch ⁓ you know, Saturday Night Live anymore. So ⁓ as much as they were at least. Jay Bock: Yeah. You can just wake up in the morning and have the best ones, yeah. Scott Bock: ⁓ and instead just picking it up the next day and Yeah. And so I think there's gonna be a little bit of that. ⁓ but I guess, you know, if that's what it takes to keep AGT alive, right? I'm I'm okay with it. I I don't I don't feel like it's gotten ⁓ too bad. I think there've been moments ⁓ in in the past where I've thought, guys, we're leaning into this ⁓ you know, make an Instagram, make a TikTok a little hard, ⁓ leaning too much onto yeah, the social ⁓ Jay Bock: Yeah. Scott Bock: influencers and the social media and stuff. So ⁓ but yeah, I think it seemed like they were aware of it without pandering to it, to me at least this episode. I don't know. What what did you think? Were they were they pandering? Jay Bock: Okay. I it it it was closer to pandering than I've felt before. ⁓ and I've I've long said, like, who's the show for, right? Like if it's good for you to be on the show, be on the show. If you're already famous, even TikTok famous or internet famous, or you know, a second go round of ⁓ of of Scott Bock: Okay. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. Jay Bock: trying to find popularity again, whatever it is, like, if it's good for your brand, then do it. Scott Bock: Yeah, absolutely. I agree. And I think, you know, if if someone is like too famous, you know, have already had their fifteen minutes of fame and I think America will smell that and vote it out, right? I don't I don't think ⁓ you know, I I I think I think you're right. I think that ⁓ if if it's if you think it's good for you, then do it. I agree. ⁓ if it's entertaining and this kind of thing. I don't think there's such a thing as a ringer. I think ⁓ if if you're so famous and popular that ⁓ you're just gonna blow away the competition and it'll remove the fun of the game to it, then you're probably not gonna gain anything from AGT anyway, right? whatever contracts you have to sign and stuff are probably gonna be too restrictive ⁓ to make it worth your while. So yeah, I agree with you on that. Jay Bock: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yep. Well good. All right. Well let's talk about Frankie's performance here. one i mean the noticeable thing, the the striking feature of Frankie is ⁓ he's he's got some hips. Scott Bock: Right. Yeah, some some junk in the trunk. The he's got a the big dumper, ⁓ as they call ⁓ who's the Seattle Mariner catcher whose nickname is the Big Dumper. I don't know. Yeah, all right. I I had it on the tip of my tongue and it's gone now, but I think this guy is Frankie's in the running. He he might ⁓ he might be taking that that nickname away. He's ⁓ yeah. Jay Bock: Don't know. Yeah. ⁓ Sophia does ask him about his tight, tight shorts and he says the outfit choice is intentional. ⁓ so Scott Bock: Yes. Yeah, it's ⁓ for a reason, right? Yeah. ⁓ what did he say? Yeah. Yeah. F for a particular reason he has it on, so Jay Bock: Think yeah. So he's going to ⁓ position himself on a platform facing away from the judges, ⁓ you know, drunk towards the judges, ⁓ standing over this short stool. ⁓ the song Sexy and I Know It is gonna play, and I'm just gonna interject here. I do not believe that's on the Cody Patterson playlist. Scott Bock: Probably not. I think I I think I'm with you. It's it's ⁓ yeah. I mean it's a banger. It's ⁓ it's one that'll get ya get your head nodding. But ⁓ yeah, I'm I'm guessing he doesn't ⁓ sling a lot of code to to I'm sexy and I know it. Jay Bock: So he's going to ⁓ bend over, his hands on the ground, and he's going to ⁓ pump the backside up and down while stage hands put balloons ⁓ on the stool and he pops them with his with his butt, with his crotch. ⁓ Scott Bock: Yep. I yeah, I at first I thought that he was doing it in time with the music, like it was a musical performance, ⁓ because it started that way, but then later on I I thought he was just going for speed. What what was your thing? D was it was it rhythmic balloon popping or was it purely just the nature of of ⁓ just lining up with the music accidentally for a little bit? Yeah, yeah. That's where I landed, ⁓ no pun intended, on the end as well, so Jay Bock: I think it was just on accident. ⁓ this ⁓ yeah. It's not it's not that good like but pun intended, I couldn't really look away, right? He he had my attention. Scott Bock: All right. No, no, yeah, yeah. I mean, I feel like he he kinda went the other way than Kevin a little bit. Like we needed maybe a little bit more like it s seemed like he was looking for a count, like maybe he was trying to set a world record. Like, where's the claim? Hey, I'm gonna set a world record, our adjudicator could have come out, we could have had the whole thing. ⁓ if maybe it just needed just a little more setup ⁓ instead of just here's a guy popping balloons to music, ⁓ or not to music, as it were. Yeah. Right. Yeah, well I've got two minutes. Put it on the clock. You know? Whatever. But ⁓ yeah. I don't know. Jay Bock: The world record seventy five, I'm going for seventy six. Here we go. You know, if it's just Yeah. I I do not think that I could sustain that motion for as long as he did. My my thighs would be burning. Scott Bock: That's true. Yeah. You gotta train for something like that. ⁓ but yeah, I mean, unfortunately, ⁓ he gets the four X's and Frankie does not go to Hollywood. So that is to to date myself ⁓ a little bit. So Frankie goes to Hollywood. ⁓ Frank ⁓ relax, don't do it, right? ⁓ is that on the Cody Patterson playlist? It's the right era. Jay Bock: ⁓ When you wanna get to it. ⁓ boy. ⁓ I I could see it. ⁓ it's not like you know it's it's not a super popular song. But Scott Bock: No, no. It's probably on some soundtrack though. I I it might be just a little too old to be on on the playlist. I don't know. We'll we'll have to check in. Yeah, yeah. Cody's on vacation, but we're giving him a lot of homework this week. ⁓ so yeah. Poor guy. Poor guy. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna guess that is also not on the Cody Patterson playlist. So G we are ⁓ all right, that is that's enough for Frankie. ⁓ let's move on to the next act of the night. ⁓ Abiud Sando. He goes by Sando. ⁓ he also an influencer has got two billion views. Scott Bock: Yeah, take that Frankie. That's ⁓ yeah. Three times as much. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. great suit. Looks looks good, right? Like half purple, half white with the purple jacket. Jay Bock: Like four times more, yeah. ⁓ Half purple, half white, and he's going to enter the stage for his performance on his back, ⁓ like d sideways, wiggling. ⁓ it is a move that I've not seen before. Scott Bock: Yeah, I don't I don't know how he moved so far with having such little movement, if that makes sense, right? Like that it there didn't seem to be there was no reaching of the arms or legs. It seemed to be all like a hip shuffle, but he was booking. It was like a sideways slither. It was yeah, it was agree I agree. A a move I had not seen. ⁓ what would you categorize this act as? I I had written down break dancer, question mark, ⁓ I guess that's You know? Jay Bock: Yeah, dancer, break dancer, that's it's it's moving your body you know in rhythm, ⁓ in a unique way. Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah. He's got that sideways slither, he does some other kind of break dancey spin things, does another crab slithery thing, right? ⁓ Yeah, I don't know. What d do you write down any moves as particularly memorable other than the opening? Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, it's I I just just the opening and then ⁓ what what I wrote down here, ⁓ I I usually give myself some really good notes. But what what I wrote is ⁓ he does some really unique moves where he uses his shoulders to move around the stage in a unique way. Like that's what I wrote down. Like I don't I don't know how else to it's it's ⁓ I'm thinking of snakes, right? ⁓ and and snakes move like Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Jay Bock: more than you expect them to by wiggling their bodies. ⁓ yeah. Or ⁓ Sidewinder is a kind of snake that moves through the sand, right? And they they I wonder if ⁓ Sando got some ⁓ some some inspiration from a a Sidewinder. Scott Bock: Yes. Part of what makes them creepy is like that shouldn't move that fast. Like it doesn't have any legs. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Sideways manner. That could be. Could be. Yeah. But yeah, I you know, the judges seem to like him in general, but you know, Grumpy Mel B still gives us the one no. We get three yeses and a no. ⁓ you know, no. Jay Bock: judges Yeah, she's not that impressed. ⁓ Howie says that she's out of her mind for not being that impressed. ⁓ Sophia says he's like a crab, and then we get our our yeses from everybody else but but Mel. so th three for three for him, that's enough for him to ⁓ make it into judges' deliberations. Scott Bock: Yep, absolutely. Jay Bock: And it's not gonna hurt his ⁓ his his two billion views on on the social media. Scott Bock: No, no, I think he's doing all right, ⁓ if he doesn't make it on. But again, if if he thinks this is good for him, but by all means, right? Jay Bock: Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. ⁓ we've got another influencer ⁓ up next. Scott Bock: I think this is the last one, right? Three influencers in a row, so we kinda got our little influencer ⁓ stretch here. Jay Bock: Yeah, our our segment is is coming to an end. ⁓ R is it Rhina Kondo? Rainia? Scott Bock: Ry Rhinea something like that. Yeah. R Y N I A Rhineia. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ twenty six year old lady from Chicago and she d doesn't really pull any punches with her with her comedy here. she says this is how Crest Christina Aguilera would stub her toe and then she walks towards her stool and kicks it and then makes Christina Aguilera noises. Yeah. Scott Bock: Yeah, saying owl, right? And and yeah. She does Christina, Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Coolidge, and Mariah Carey, right? ⁓ you know, she f my rule with impressionists in general is if you have to tell me who you're doing, y you know, you you you're you're not that good. Now I think a couple of ⁓ I would have gotten without her telling me, but but she you know, that being said Jay Bock: Yep. Yeah. Scott Bock: It was still a very funny premise. She nailed right the the the fact that it was s a singing impersonation for for half of them, ⁓ to me made up for the fact that sh she did have to tell us that's who she was doing and and there wasn't enough vocal cues for us to be like, ⁓ my gosh, that's Lady Gaga stubbing her toe. ⁓ but yeah, her timing was great. ⁓ she went that right speed. ⁓ she she played around with the premise enough to make us be like, ⁓ is she not doing stubborn toe? Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. Scott Bock: No still do seven her toe. Yeah. So she's got that feel, the showmanship. I thought it was just great. Like, ⁓ yep, I I wanna see this kind of stuff, right? This is is this this might have been the one that Howie said that. Like, this is the show. We you don't get anything like this anywhere but AGT. ⁓ yeah, I just thought it was great. and I'm I'm up for more. I I want I want more of Ryania for sure. Jay Bock: ⁓ she's gonna do stub her toe. Yep. Yeah, I this is this is the kind of stuff I love to tune in for. ⁓ the the judges they they like it well enough. before we get to judges' comments here, Scott, I I know that you do a a pretty good bad shaggy. how would you Scott Bock: Mm. ⁓ alright. ⁓ putting me on the spot here. Alright. Like yeah, yeah. Alright. Like like Zoeks man? Come on, Jay. Like, let's get out of here. There's a ⁓ ghost. I don't know. That was kind of on the spot, hopefully, ⁓ yeah. Yeah. No, no. ⁓ I should've d this is Shaggy stubbing his toes. Yeah. Jay Bock: All right. All right. ⁓ y you didn't even stub his toe though. I th I thought maybe that's ⁓ no, that's good. Scott Bock: Like Zoik Scoob, that really hurt my toe man. I could use a Scooby snack about now. How about that? Alright. I feel like like if she had done that, you wouldn't have to say it's Shaggy. They would know Shaggy, right? Jay Bock: There you go. That's good. That's good. All right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well done. Well done. Thank you I I put you on the spot, but ⁓ Scott Bock: I don't know. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Woo. Yep. Yep. Not to make more homework for Cody, but he can feel free to to edit that out if ⁓ if he wants. Jay Bock: ⁓ Sophia said it was amazing and fun. Howie calls her hysterical and talented. And you know, we can always count on Howie on the comedians, right? He's got a good a good sense. ⁓ he goes on, he says he thinks she's gonna be working hard ⁓ after this. ⁓ working so hard that she'll be limping. ⁓ because of all the toe stubbing, yeah. ⁓ Mel says it was funny, could have been better, could use some showmanship. Scott Bock: Ugh that's funny. Right. Yep. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Which s s Simon responds to Mel and says, Which is why Mel isn't a comedian. and then Simon says the impressions were brilliant. ⁓ he's excited to see or hear what she'll do next. Scott Bock: Yeah. Yep, I agree. Yeah, three yeses, one no, and you'll never guess who the no was. Grumpy Mel B. Jay Bock: Crumpy Mel B again. ⁓ good. All right. ⁓ do you got any other impressions up your sleeve you wanna do before we move on to Laura D? Scott Bock: ⁓ man, I don't know. That's that's really putting me on the spot. ⁓ no, I'm gonna I'm gonna save some but but next time I'll I'll come with some ⁓ some some some in the can. I I I used to have a pretty decent Jeff Goldblum but but it's been a while. I'm not sure ⁓ I'm not sure I can pull that one out. So Jay Bock: Like I don't do impressions. ⁓ like I have hard time even doing a a an accent. Right? Like it's is that Spanish or Italian? I don't know. I'm Scott Bock: Sure, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I heard ⁓ I think it was Dana Carvey maybe talking about impressions once and he was talking about how how for every impression you need a hook. You need like some noise or saying or something that like gives you that voice and you can hear it. So ⁓ yeah, but maybe that can help you moving forward. You get you know, like they say if you want to do a a a Michael Cain impersonation, the hook is you just think of him saying, My cocaine. So you just go, my cocaine. I'm my cocaine. So that's that's your Michael Caine hook, right? So yeah. The more you know. Jay Bock: There you go. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ let's see. ⁓ Yeah, I'm I'm trying to think. Like ⁓ Mario, like I could do a it's it's a me, Mario ⁓ my toe, it's a me That's Scott Bock: Yeah. Y you get your hook and then yeah it's a me my toe. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So it's just yeah, get your get your hook and and then and off you go. So find what works for you. Jay Bock: Alright, let's let's move on to Laura D from Sydney, Australia. she ⁓ works with her family in real estate, but she wants to pursue her own dream and ⁓ she says AGT is where dreams come true. Scott Bock: Yeah, that's another thing. Yep. Hey, AGT loves them some AGT. Yep. Yep. T yeah. Butter up the the AGT ⁓ producers. ⁓ absolutely. Absolutely. I I was glad she said she was from Australia. I was trying to place where the accent was from. I thought maybe New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, I was trying to decide, but it it was ⁓ was Australia. So yeah. Jay Bock: A G T loves him say A G T, yep. Yeah. Again, like I'm bad with accents. It could have been turkey and I would've been all right, that's ⁓ Scott Bock: Right. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Azerbaijan. I knew it was something like that. Something in the A. Australia, Azerbaijan. I was missed it by that much. ⁓ yeah, but no, she's a singer. ⁓ and she's gonna sing a song I'm not terribly familiar with. ⁓ but when she started singing it, I'm like, No, I think I've heard this song before is Oscar Winning Tears. Were you familiar with this song, Jay? Jay Bock: I don't know. Alright. No, not at all. Scott Bock: Not at all. Okay. All right. So we're both gonna guess not even on the playlist. Is that what we're going with here? Yeah, all right, all right. ⁓ yeah, but I thought she sang it great. ⁓ she got she she's got the swoops, you know, swooping in of the note, swooping out of the note. She's got those down. ⁓ she she got big at a spot, right, but it wasn't all big. She didn't fall into that. I've got a hammer, everything is a nail that some of these singers with a big voice Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, absolutely. ⁓ Scott Bock: can get into, right? She started small. She was almost talk singing, right? It was almost like a performance of the music man was going on and she was Henry Hill at the beginning there. But you know, and then and then she really gets into it and yeah, she was singing her heart out and I thought it was I thought it was really, really well done. ⁓ what what did you think of Lara D? Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, I thought it was good. It's a it's a good performance of of showcasing all of her talents, right? There's the rappy parts and the you know, being able to to spit all the words out. There's the high notes where she's you know has control in that in that upper range. She's got dynamics, she goes big, she goes small, like it really was a whole roller coaster ride. ⁓ the so in that sense it was a great song choice for her. Scott Bock: Right. Yeah, I I'd be interested to know, like did she sing it like in the same manner that the original performer had sung it, right? Was this sort of a, you know, karaoke, like repeat performance, or did she put some of her own stink on it, you know? So I'm kind of interested to see what she sings moving forward, if it's something I know a little better and can notice the the choices she makes as an artist. ⁓ that's not just, you know, hey, I can come up here and do a almost impersonation, but but can really sing the song my own. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. ⁓ she did a great job. The judges were impressed. Sophia loved it. She says there's something about her that's special and the audience really felt it. ⁓ Howie says that this is the surprise that he's been looking for. It's been unexpected. And he stands up and he starts to move himself over to that golden buzzer and he says, You deserve this. And Sophia jumps in in front of him and hits that golden buzzer and says, That's mine. Scott Bock: Yeah, she stole it from him. Apparently how we listened to last week's podcast where you were like, Hey, the more talking the better on the golden buzzers ⁓ because he was hamming it up, he was laying it out there, trying to make the moment bigger, and Sophia jumped right in there and took it over from him. So he he should have pulled a Simon and just said I like you, golden buzzer but ⁓ yep, he did not. He hemmed and hawed a little too much and Sophia s snipe snuck in and and then sniped it out from under him. So Jay Bock: Neak and a snipe. Scott Bock: She's a sneaky sniper. Jay Bock: Yep, so there you go. That is Laura's golden buzzer from Surprise Sophia. and I'm okay with that. I think that ⁓ you know, as singers go, we we're gonna get singer golden buzzers, and this is a really fine one to to have in the stable. Scott Bock: Here we go. Yes. I agree. I agree. I thought I thought she deserved it. I thought, ⁓ yeah, if a singer can deserve a golden buzzer, ⁓ I thought I thought this was a performance that was well deserved. Jay Bock: All right, let's talk about ⁓ Charlie and Julia here. Charlie ⁓ sings opera and Julia is his human. Scott Bock: Yes. Yeah, cute dog, ⁓ poodle with this ridiculous yeah, ⁓ haircut where his head is like a sphere. ⁓ you can't even see his ears in there. It's just adorable dog. ⁓ just just so cute. ⁓ but boy that opera singing, man, ⁓ it was it was rough. ⁓ Jay Bock: Some kind of poodle, yeah. Yeah. Laura used all the dynamics in the room and ⁓ Julia didn't have ⁓ any left. She she only had loud, ⁓ only had big. And I I think that that's what cues Charlie to s sing, right? When she sings loud, he feels this urge to sing along. ⁓ she says that since four months old, Charlie sings along with her on pitch. Scott Bock: Yeah. She only Right. Yes. I guess ⁓ you know, we kind of finally got to see it after she sang all by myself like all the way through and then nothing from Charlie, so they let her try again and she sang the same song and finally at the end, after licking her tonsils, Charlie had a few howls that were kind of on the right pitch, I think. ⁓ but yeah, that was a it was a rough one. It was really, really rough. Jay Bock: All by herself. Scott Bock: ⁓ yeah, and thank goodness that was one cute dog or or that would have been a a a waste of time for sure. Jay Bock: Yes, and i when he did pitch in, he a tiny little bit, like it was in the right neighborhood, at least. Like it it sounded close to on pitch, if not if not there. So there that's the thing though. Animals are really hard to make ⁓ perform, right? We go back to Joku the chicken who couldn't play the piano and i it's Scott Bock: Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. It all comes back to Joku. yeah. And especially in a big room like that with all those just the lights, the noise, the people, the you know, the furniture's different, it the space is different. And and then it probably smells like crazy for a dog who's no like everything's weird. I I yeah, I'm not surprised that the dog had a hard time ⁓ being comfortable enough to to to do its howl ⁓ with her and probably it just needed Jay Bock: It all comes back to Joku. Scott Bock: to step up, right? She probably needed to do it in a room full in her house in front of multiple people and then in front of just a couple people in a different space. And then, you know, and just kind of work her way up to it. ⁓ yeah, ⁓ poor poor Charlie and Julia. I think even had it gone perfectly, we're probably not seeing them again. ⁓ but yeah, ⁓ for me, I ⁓ I I was ⁓ surprised that it was just four no's and and and not X's. And I think had it had it not been such an adorable dog, we we would have seen the X's come out for sure. Jay Bock: Yeah, they they did let them try and they let them try twice and it just never never quite came around. So ⁓ fortunately Charlie didn't get startled by any X's, but it is gonna be four no's. ⁓ Sophia does say that if they figure it out, they should try again. So Scott Bock: Guess I don't know. Yeah. All right. Whatever you say, Sophia. I that's not not my cup of tea. I love my dog. I have a poodle mix, right th for a dog. ⁓ and he's adorable and I love him very much. But yeah, this I don't need to see this act again, even if it goes perfectly. Jay Bock: These Yeah, yeah. All right. ⁓ all right. Let's move on to the next act of the night here. Brad Byers and his wife Doctor Tracy, ages sixty six and sixty five. Scott Scott Bock: Yes. Jay Bock: I I know that you're like less into AGT than me, but I immediately recognized Brad Byers from previous seasons, yes. Scott Bock: Okay. Did you? ⁓ I did not spot him. No. No. All right. Jay Bock: He had he had been on season four and season eight. Scott Bock: ⁓ wow. Good poll. All right. Jay Bock: So ⁓ he is coming back around and he's gonna do what Brad Byers does. It's a it's a danger act. Scott Bock: It was ⁓ yeah, it was a good danger act. Like I mean, it was everything ⁓ that Kevin was not, right? ⁓ it went quick. They didn't ⁓ overly explain it. They showed it to you, they made you think it was as dangerous as possible. ⁓ they did some crazy, crazy things. ⁓ go. Jay Bock: Okay, let's let me talk about what he does. First, he attaches a board to his face. ⁓ this board already has a hole through it, so it's not like he has to like pound the nail through the board, but he does insert a nail through a board and into his nostril. with a good what, maybe a six inch long nail there? Like it it looked if things go wrong, like they could go very wrong, I think. Yeah. A spike. Scott Bock: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I think he called it he's yeah, a five inch spike, right? That's what he points out to you. He doesn't spoil point out there's already a hole in the board. Don't worry. My nasal cavity, I'm gonna line it up. Right. Kevin would have explained to you how this is not actually dangerous and it's gonna be okay. Instead he's just like, look at this spike, and she's got a hammer and she's gonna nail this board to my face. No. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. Jay Bock: And and he doesn't gingerly do it, he gingerly pounds it with a hammer. ⁓ then he's gonna lie on a bed of glass face down and which usually you you think face up, but no, he goes he goes face down and Dr. Tracy is gonna stand on his back and then stand on his head. Scott Bock: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that to me was the trick. Not even so much that he like laid flat on the glass like with his torso, but he put face first and and she yeah, stood on his head and crushed it into the glass. Jay Bock: Yeah. And y like we hear the glass crunch and creak underneath that was Scott Bock: Yeah. I I think it was genuine sound, right? Sometimes the producers, you know, like give us these extra noises. Yeah. ⁓ I think we see it maybe in the aerial act later where it's like, Wait a minute, no scaffolding fell down when that happened. Like where did that noise come from? they hand it up a little much, but I I think this was genuinely the the the sound of the glass rubbing against other glass that we were were hearing. Jay Bock: This is some little post production, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. so she ⁓ steps off of his head and he stands up and ⁓ he's gonna get a sword to swallow. She helps him swallow it by by pressing down on the hilt of it as it goes ⁓ down past his esophagus. And then ⁓ next he ⁓ swallows seven swords. ⁓ inserts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven swords into his esophagus. I'm like, wow, he really filled it up, that seems dangerous. Scott Bock: Yeah. Right. Yeah. That to me was the was the surprising one, right? And and this so this is the guy who gets the showmanship, right? He he he's like, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna do this thing, it's gonna be wild, you're gonna be impressed, and then I'm gonna go past what you think is possible, right? ⁓ he's not gonna tell you about it, he's just gonna shock you with it. ⁓ I thought that was ⁓ that was a good as far as danger acts go, the the twisting of the swords ⁓ was pretty good. Jay Bock: And then he twists them 180 degrees well inserted down his throat. Okay, and then one final move here, he really packs it into his into his show. ⁓ he puts a ⁓ like a a stainless steel hook into his nose, which you see come out of his mouth, and then he hooks that hook to an anchor, and he's going to pick that anchor up and swing it with his face with his n nasal cavity. Scott Bock: For sure. Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ man, that yeah, it gave me the he be jeebies, you know, the spike in the nose, the hook around, out the mouth, you can see it hanging out and hanging the anchor. And yeah, again, he didn't have to tell us that the anchor is heavy or or, you know, ask Terry Cruz if he thought the he just showed us here's an anchor. We all see it's a heavy thing. I make it clank on the floor, it makes a noise with its chain. We all agree it's a very heavy thing by seeing it and it's much more effective. ⁓ so yeah, Brad Byers, definitely a showman. ⁓ you can tell he's been doing this for a while. crazy man, yeah. Jay Bock: I gotta tell you, Scott, your daughter is visiting me this me this week. ⁓ and my daughter and your daughter were sitting next to me on the couch as I was watching this, and my my daughter was like watching through her her the the gaps in her fingers. Your daughter was pulling a Mel B. She was looking away, didn't want anything. She yep. Tell me when it's over. I can't, I don't want to watch this. Scott Bock: Yes. Yeah, yeah. She was gone. She was yeah, yep. Yeah. I can bel I I I I can believe it. I can believe it. Yeah. She she must get that from me. I was I was watching, but I knew I had work to do, a podcast. I had to watch it for for the show, but no, no. It was it was it was impressive. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Jay Bock: But ⁓ For the art. Yeah. It was impressive. Now, ⁓ one thing that we haven't said here, Scott, is when when we talk about a danger act, when we talk about performers like this, I did mention their ages, but I didn't mention what they look like, right? I'm you would picture tattoos, spiky hair, leather pants, I don't know, you know, a lot of yeah. ⁓ no, none of that. Like Scott Bock: Right. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Jay Bock: They look like grandpa and grandma. Scott Bock: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They ⁓ the backstage they ask ⁓ what they do and they're like, ⁓ lots of stuff. We go for walks and horseback riding and we we like to go to the grocery store together even. Like that's you know, like the kind of thing that your grandma would like be like, Can you believe it? We're so in love we can even shop for groceries together, you know? ⁓ Jay Bock: Yeah. No, what are you gonna do for the show? Scott Bock: ⁓ right. And then if they they don't tell us, then they cut to commercial I think and we had to wait till we came back. But yeah. Ugh funny group. Jay Bock: Right. Yeah. which what a what a funny thing, yeah. ⁓ all right, let's talk judge's comments quick. Sophia asks how long they've been together. Doctor Tracy says they've been together seventeen years and married for eight years. Scott Bock: Yeah, well it's a long time. So I I guess I'd be interested to know, you know, when his season four and season eight shows were in that timeline of them together. Jay Bock: I believe that whole time, right? Seventeen s seventeen and four is twenty one years. This is season twenty one. Scott Bock: Okay. Yeah. Twenty one. So so they had maybe met or got together around the time of season four. ⁓ if there's been one a year. So yeah. Yeah, that's true enough. Jay Bock: Yeah. ⁓ Simon points out that they're so normal and that's what makes it so crazy. Sophia says it's one of the weirdest things on AGT. And she does she doesn't say the weirdest ever. She couches it a little bit, right? She doesn't go full superlative. That was Sophia. ⁓ Howie says this is his favorite of the night. And ⁓ then Melbius says ⁓ she was watching the horrified audience and they make her want to say no, and then ⁓ Scott Bock: Yeah. No, that's yeah. Good job, Mel B. Yeah. Yep, yep. ⁓ Sophia, yeah. Jay Bock: The Simon says no, the audience wants a yes, so it's a yes from him. They get three yeses, and they are going through to judge's deliberations. Scott Bock: Yep. And the one no is once again Grumpy Mel B. Jay Bock: Grumpy Milby. There you go. All right. That is it for Brad and Tracy. Let's move on to a group called Hundred Fingers. And out comes on the stage from season 17. A gentleman named Yu Ho Jin, who we saw back on season 17. ⁓ He competed against Christy Sellers and the Mayas. He was a Scott Bock: Okay. Yeah, yeah. I I was trying to remember how far he made it in the season. Did he make it to the finals? Jay Bock: I don't I don't know. Scott Bock: Okay. They showed him getting eliminated standing on stage with the Mayas. so so but I did not remember him being in the finals. ⁓ this seems like a fast turnaround. Have we had turnarounds this fast four seasons? I I guess we have, right? Because we've had a few people come back. But also just to make it that far and then come back. I I'd be interested to know how far he made it and if if this is ⁓ the farthest someone who has made it who's then come back to the main main AGT. you know, not including champions and and that kind of thing. ⁓ it seems like he made it pretty far to be back trying out again. But I guess he's not trying out just as himself. He's part of a group now, so maybe this is a light balance, light balance kids kind of thing where he's maybe still the driving force artistically, but he's just a member of a of a of an overall group now. Jay Bock: Okay, he was eliminated in the finals of season seventeen, not in the top five. Scott Bock: Okay. So, I mean that's pretty good, right? That's top ten, you know, in in a season. And then to be back ⁓ just four years later, ⁓ yeah. I d I don't know what kind of rules they have around that sort of thing, but apparently ⁓ he's allowed either because he's in a group or they just are like, No, whatever, if it's good for you, yeah, come back. Yeah. So Jay Bock: I if it's good for him to be, then do it again, yeah. ⁓ he so the finals that season, Scott, was when our parents went to the finals. ⁓ when Christy Sellers invited them back. ⁓ when I when I couldn't really take two weeks in a row off to go ⁓ watch AGT. So ⁓ th mom and dad saw him live, but not me. Scott Bock: Yeah, that's right. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. Right. Okay. Jay Bock: Okay, so this time he's gonna come back with a whole group. He's got himself and nine others, ten of them, each of them, as far as I could tell, have ten fingers, giving them the name hundred fingers. Scott Bock: There you go. Math is fundamental. Yes. Jay Bock: All right. ⁓ they're going to do some sleight of hand. They're gonna produce hundreds and hundreds of cards. ⁓ they appear, they levitate, they disappear, they turn into confetti, they they keep coming out of nowhere. Cards and cards and cards and cards and cards. Scott Bock: Yeah, just nonstop appearing out of nowhere it appears. Just over and over, hundreds and hundreds more than you can believe. Every color, shape, size turned into f confetti. ⁓ and they also started out in a very Mayas like pose. I don't think that was accidental. I think that was on purpose. And I think that's why they showed him being eliminated, you know, with the Mayas also on stage, ⁓ and showing that. I think I think that was sort of, you know, a nod and a wink at least to to the Mayas of of them doing that sort of thing. Jay Bock: Yes. Uh-huh, ⁓ huh. Yeah. Start and end that way. Scott Bock: Yes, exactly. Jay Bock: ⁓ I should also mention they do kind of a similar thing with a feather. They all have a feather that ⁓ appears. ⁓ they do the same thing with a wand that like jumps from one person to another person to another person to another person. And then the trick that I do not understand, ⁓ like one guy throws this wand, it does like this boomerang around the stage and then comes back and back to him. So whatever that was was was kind of cool. Scott Bock: Yeah, I agree. I my favorite, I think, was the wand. you know, not that like the cards appearing out of nowhere wasn't impressive, but it's like it was impressive the first four hundred and twenty times I saw it. I didn't need to see it f 3,004 more. Like there were so many cards. Like I you could not count how many times someone pulled a card out of nowhere ⁓ or multiple cards and threw them. ⁓ so yeah, that was impressive. And I guess in some ways it's like a quick change act where like, okay. Just because I saw one quick change, you know, the the fact that you see more and more and more makes it more impressive. Like, how was it not just one, but three outfits underneath there? But for me at least, it became a little less effective, maybe, by by the end of like, yes, more cards keep showing up. And that gave me a chance to like take a moment to stop and look at just one one of the people and try and watch the hand that wasn't the one showing the cards, and like, ⁓ I can see he's grabbing something from the back of his belt or whatever, right? So Jay Bock: Yeah. When I when I watch magicians, I'm always trying like in the back of my mind, I'm always like, ⁓ I how did how do they do it? How are they gonna pull this off? How are they gonna do it? And when you've got ten of them on the stage working in conjunction on that sleight of hand, you know, the the the distract over here while I'm doing this other thing over there, like there's no way that I can watch for what the next thing is gonna be. There's so much happening. And it's like I was I was so flooded by it. I had to just kind of stop. Scott Bock: Right. Yeah. Jay Bock: that part of my brain and just like appreciate what's happening on the stage. Scott Bock: It was almost a dance act, right? ⁓ Yeah. Jay Bock: Yes, yes. The the coordination of all ten of them is so precise it very much very much like a dance act. Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, super impressive and the judges sure loved it. ⁓ that's for sure. Yeah. Jay Bock: Judges loved it. Terry loved it. And he says to one of the stage hands, I this is my golden buzzer. I'm going for it. So he's like, Okay, run backstage through the halls, through the catacombs, up, you know, we'll we'll get you there. And so we we get shots of Terry running through the audience. He's backstage and take a left, take a right. It's like that scene from Spinal Tap where they're like Scott Bock: Yeah. That's I was thinking the same thing. I was gonna say they were in the studio the same yeah study stadium as as Spinal Tap when they like had to keep trying to find their way up to the stage. ⁓ I couldn't believe how long it took him to get there. Like just slide down and jump off the front of the stage, Terry. Come on. I know, he's running the whole way. Yeah. It was it was crazy. So ⁓ yeah, I'm glad you you picked up the same reference I did. Jay Bock: Okay, it's this way. All right. Yeah. An entire commercial break ⁓ he was running through there. ⁓ but we also see we also see how he stand up and like he's he's like eyeing the golden buzzer and like clapping and eyeing the golden buzzer and he's like you know, you can tell that he's thinking the same thing. He wants it so bad. And ⁓ so d Howie kind of does the ⁓ the Simon thing. He dives across the table to get to the golden buzzer before anybody else does. ⁓ and then Terry comes out of the wings and he's like, What's going on? So it Scott Bock: That's right. Lays on top of it even, yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: But he was too late. Scott Bock: would like to see like I think editing did a really good job of the pacing and making you feel it and making it feel like Terry's gonna try and get there and how he's looking and thinking about it and who's gonna get there first. It'd be interesting to see the raw footage and how close it really was. Like did Terry get there right as he jumped on it or was it like, no, no, they were sweeping up the confetti when Terry finally made it out. ⁓ I don't know, but but yeah, they did a good job at and they did build the tension. So, you know, as much as I like to give, you know, production sometimes a hard time for overdoing it, I I thought they nailed it on this one ⁓ and and and and told the story just right, where where you felt the feels ⁓ and and and yeah, got got it all good. With a little bit of a lighthearted chuckle and and a and a non awink to spinal tap. Jay Bock: All right. Yeah, there you go. I am excited to see what Hundred Fingers is gonna do next. Like if if it's if they do card tricks again, if they do the same producing cards, turning them into confetti stuff, I I don't know that they're long for the show. They have to show us ⁓ breadth of of abilities here. ⁓ Scott Bock: Yeah, absolutely. I agree. Yep, absolutely. Absolutely. ⁓ it was a great trick, but but it can't be the one trick. You gotta be a two trick pony. Jay Bock: But ⁓ judges Yeah. And this must have been awesome live. Howie says it was the best, the best. Mel called it bigger and better than ever. Howie says he's never seen better magic in his life. He thinks this is the season twenty one winners. Like he we're going full superlatives on on Hundred Fingers. Scott Bock: Yeah. Pulled it all out. There's been a ton of magicians ⁓ over the years on AGT. so I don't know. I'm I you know, I don't have the the the the deep ⁓ knowledge to be able to list them all off and which one is better. ⁓ but I I doubt that this is the best group or the best magic act of all time. but we'll see. Maybe maybe you're right. Maybe this is just the appetizer and they've got something even better ⁓ for their next performance. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, I'll be I'll be curious to see what they pull out. But like I said, if it's more chards being produced from their pockets, I don't know. Scott Bock: Right. I need to see something else. Maybe they'll light it on fire. Jay Bock: Yeah. ooh, we do always love some fire. ⁓ all right, next act of the night here we've got ⁓ some aerialists. It's Holland and Sienna. They're a couple from Vegas. And unlike when ⁓ Brad took his shirt off, Holland's gonna take his shirt off and ⁓ the crowd goes wild. Scott Bock: We love some fire. Jay Bock: ⁓ both Melby and Sophia have their heads down there taking some notes. They totally miss it. But they're like, Wow, the crowd really likes this act. What's going on? They l ⁓ he took his shirt off. Scott Bock: ⁓ yes, yes. Yeah, they kept saying in the in the in the in the show about how wild the crowd was, especially that night, that it was mob like and ⁓ very very feisty. So I don't know. ⁓ yeah, the the the ladies were loving ⁓ loving it when Holland took his shirt off. ⁓ Yeah, and they ⁓ they had the the silks, the ropes, whatever hanging down right there on stage. So Simon got it right away that they were gonna be sort of an aerialist act. ⁓ yeah, I don't know. What did you what did you think of Cienna and Holland. Jay Bock: ⁓ i you know, if if you're an aerialist duo, like you gotta you gotta bring something higher, bigger, better, faster, stronger. Like what what's the hook, right? Sometimes we see ⁓ the the female doing kind of the strength side of things, you know, lifting the male. You know, th there has to be something. So they're the first thing they do is they're gonna go just above the stage, kinda like normal. He's got both of his arms in in one strap and supporting her and he he kinda runs like in a a circle to get him going and as they raise up they actually bump into Mel B's X above the stage or the ropes do. And that's Scott Bock: Terrible crash on the on the broadcast. So I don't know what happened. They're gonna have to rebuild. Yeah, yeah. This is the the where the whole scaffolding fell down in the audio department. ⁓ when they brushed the X. it yeah. It it's fine. I get it. They're trying to build the tension, but like it could just be they brushed the X and you show that it brushed the X and you know, it that made it extra dangerous or something, but yeah. Jay Bock: That would be enough to to throw off a lot of performers. Scott Bock: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. ⁓ so they didn't have to to to plus it up there, but but they did a great job. Yeah. Jay Bock: It it does seem that the back of her dress also ripped I think at that same same part, but ⁓ Scott Bock: Right. Yeah, and I did not I did not feel like this was ⁓ this was, you know, an act. I I I think it really did her zipper really did give way in the back there. ⁓ so so yeah. Or or she's a great actress, right? She's got a future ahead of her in acting. ⁓ yeah. But Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. That could be. ⁓ all right. So they're they're gonna ⁓ dismount that. We're gonna ⁓ go and do kind of the same thing, but now we're gonna do it up above the judges table instead of out on on the stage. Now we're up above the audience. And ⁓ Scott Bock: Did that seem necessary? Like did that add something for you? I was like, ⁓ is a second set of silks doing the same thing as the first set of silks in a different spot? I don't know, I guess. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah. Doing the same thing. Same thing, new spot. If if you're in the audience, I bet it's awesome. Again, right? Like it probably doesn't translate to T V as well as it does, you know, being there. ⁓ if if I were ⁓ the first night that I got to go to the the show, I was up in the balcony, like how cool would that be to watch it from the balcony, right? How cool would that be to watch it from underneath and to you know the the danger of them falling on you is you know. Scott Bock: Sure. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Jay Bock: It's low, but like not zero. Scott Bock: Sure, sure. All right. Okay, well how about this? I I thought and some of their kind of pre getting on the silks things and post after they get off, the couple of their moves were very cheerleader like. And not in a bad way, right? Like not not in like rah rah, yay, you know, Saturday night live cheerleaders, but like like professional, like, you know, the the cheerleaders who are going to competitions and throwing girls way up in the air kind of stuff. So I don't know, maybe that could be their hook. Jay Bock: Sure. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like fake smile, yeah. Scott Bock: Right. The the doing the same thing on two sets of identical silks didn't do it for me. So maybe the maybe some more of that hand balancey cheerleader type throw toss stuff around it could be what separates them from your standard ⁓ you know, duo duo aer aerialist act. Jay Bock: Alright, so ⁓ notable moves here. He's ⁓ up above the judge's table. He's got a strap at his elbow and a strap at his wrist, and he's holding it like in front of his chest. ⁓ and his other arm is extended out above his head. And Sienna's going to step out standing on his hand above his head, and that makes Holland's legs lift up so he's like parallel to the ground. And she meanwhile, standing on Scott Bock: All right. Jay Bock: Just his arm above his head, like is only just touching the ropes for balance. He's not taking any weight off. So ⁓ that looked dangerous and cool, and I liked that one. Scott Bock: Yeah, I I really like the stuff where he was horizontal and she was ⁓ yeah, standing on or hanging off of him. Jay Bock: Yeah. Th they do kind of the same thing again, but he ⁓ has one loop in each hand and he's ⁓ face down this time instead of face up, and ⁓ she steps with ⁓ her feet on the back of his neck, pulling him parallel to the ground again. That same kind of ⁓ that move that's that's enjoyable. let's see, they Do another thing ⁓ where he ⁓ she does grab the ropes once and they lift her just up, like to as high as Holland can reach, and he like throws her up and she does a flip and he catches her and they share a a big ol' sloppy kiss at the end of it. Scott Bock: Yeah, hopefully that's not their hook, is that they're they make out while they they do their aerialist act. That's that doesn't seem like it's ⁓ yeah, necessary. Jay Bock: Well we have seen a lot of aerialists ⁓ i end their performance with a kiss. That is a ⁓ tried and true ⁓ punctuation. Scott Bock: Sure. Right. Jay Bock: ⁓ Sophia says it's exciting. She's super nervous. Mel says she looks effortless even though it's impossible. She calls it perfection. ⁓ Simon says, it's one of the best aerialist acts we've ever seen. What will you do next time? And Holland says, We've done something, we've got something you've never seen before. And Simon says, Well, if it's something better, then great. It's gonna be four yeses for Holland and Sienna. Scott Bock: Yeah, even Grumpy Mel B liked it. So ⁓ I thought I agree. I thought it was impressive. ⁓ I thought they were so smooth. ⁓ beyond yeah. The being able to do something that's obviously so difficult and yet look so smooth and easy while you do it is is super impressive. ⁓ to not ⁓ n it doesn't even take away from the difficulty, right? It's still so obviously difficult and dangerous and strong, but just Jay Bock: Even Scott Bock: There's no shaking. They're just rock solid. ⁓ he's flat as a board. She's hanging off of his neck. You know, just yeah. ⁓ these aren't my favorite acts, but you know what? They're gonna keep coming, and if you're this good, like I can't argue with you getting voted on. Yeah, absolutely. Jay Bock: We ⁓ this will not be the last aerialist act of the season. I I'm I'm sure of it. ⁓ they ⁓ always have room for aerialists, ⁓ especially in the auditions. They're they're just gonna keep showing up. Scott Bock: All right. Jay Bock: All right, we've got ⁓ two more acts here. Our next one here is a gentleman named Gino Plager. He is ⁓ not just a fan of Matt Franco. ⁓ he went to one of his shows, he ⁓ pulled him up on stage, and ⁓ apparently ⁓ Matt ⁓ he interned under Matt Franco or Gino in interned under Matt Franco for ⁓ a couple years ago. says he learned from the best. And even before his performance, he's gonna have a little FaceTime convo with Matt. ⁓ Matt's gonna give him a little pep talk. Scott Bock: Yeah, another callback to previous ⁓ AGT. ⁓ getting some Matt Franco on there. ⁓ yeah, I thought, you know, I thought it was a good ⁓ good job by Gino to to take any hook you can, right? Like ⁓ yeah, by all means they love ⁓ some AGT for sure. Jay Bock: Yeah. A AGT loves him some AGT. ⁓ all right. He is going to tell Simon to pick a card. I'm gonna display these cards out. Pick a card, picks the four of diamonds. That feels perfectly random to me. ⁓ Matt says, I knew you were gonna pick four of diamonds because in my hat is a four of diamonds. And he pulls off his hat and it sure enough in his hat is a loose four of diamonds. I like I I don't know how he did that one. Like there is a lot of things that I can figure out, but that one that one got me. Scott Bock: Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. My best guess is that, you know, there's something somewhere you hold the cars or something that makes it more likely you're gonna pick this one, right? And so there's there's ⁓ two, three, half a dozen cars that they're likely to pick from, and he's got one in his hat, he's got one in his vest, he's got I don't know, like in my shoe, right? So maybe there's maybe there's five, six different ones that he's got, you know, around it. It's like Jay Bock: ⁓ sure. Ha ha. ⁓ Scott Bock: Depending on which of like I can pretty much guarantee you're gonna pick ones of these because of how I how the psyche works and the way I sh you know, f spread the cards out. That's that's my best guess, is that you know, there's there's some misdirection there. Right yes. I put it in my left sh right shoe. Right, yeah, exactly. So I don't know. But yeah, still super impressive, right? And notch and this guy is firing. He is going fast. He is not you know, he is just talking a mile a minute. Jay Bock: ⁓ you said five of clubs. That one is in my left right my right pocket. Scott Bock: ⁓ I don't know if any of that's nerves or if it's just his style. Maybe a little of both, but ⁓ yeah, he was he was going f fast and furious with the up close magic. Jay Bock: And it's and it's a good style, right? We're not left waiting for the next trick. We are he's three tricks beyond when we're like, wait, where did that one come? How did he what's going on? And so he he does this like like storytelling card trick. And as he's cutting the cards and flipping over cards and cutting and shuffling and you know, it's it's like it it doesn't seem possible that he could keep track of the order of these cards. But I I what I think is happening here. Scott Bock: Right. Jay Bock: Is he is so adept with card handling that he knows the order of the cards at any moment, or he has it figured out so that the card that he wants comes up. And, you know, as he ⁓ says, you know, I practice three hundred and sixty-five days a year, he flips three, six, five, three hundred and sixty-five. It's great to be on season ⁓ or I've I've performed in front of thousands of people and he flips over a bunch of faces, card face cards and It's great to be on season twenty-one. And he flips an ace and a jack for that that twenty-one. ⁓ and then he says, What inspires me is, you know, the the thing that inspires is myself, which is what Simon had written on that card at the very beginning. So ⁓ you know, this is this is as good as this kind of magic is done. Scott Bock: Yeah. Absolutely. It's it's difficult on TV, right? It's it's difficult in a in an arena, right? In a in an auditorium to, you know, to maybe appreciate it ⁓ as much as like the judges up close, right? Like if the goal of this is to get past the audition round and into the next round, doing some up close magic right in front of the judges who are the ones only ones who decide, yeah, it's a good call. Will this translate To that next level, to the TV, to America voting. I don't know. I'm a little nervous about that. ⁓ yeah, absolutely. There's some sleight of hand, there's some card mechanics. He's really good at what he does. ⁓ the patterns going the whole time, there's no pauses, he's not stopping to think. He's got the whole field down. I don't know if it's just mechanics, if the cards are marked in some way, some combination, some sleight of hand. Maybe the initial deck that got shuffled got swapped out for another one and s I don't you know, who knows, right? There there's lots of different ways he could do it, but however he did it, you know, he did it in such a way that it seemed magic, and that's what you want from a magician. and and I think he definitely delivered. Jay Bock: And that's exactly right. I could ⁓ I I didn't go back. I believe that ⁓ Howie said this is similar to what Matt Franco did for his audition round, the the storytelling with the cards. ⁓ he says, if you come back no, don't do Matt Franco, right? You you gotta be you, which I think is a good note for him. ⁓ Scott Bock: I agree. Jay Bock: Matt Franco definitely leaned into the feels in his ⁓ subsequent acts and ⁓ yeah, I I I feel like Gino can separate himself and and and be Gino, right? We already have a Matt Franco. Scott Bock: Right. I agree. Jay Bock: ⁓ Mel says she's never seen this kind of magic done so quickly and with so much showmanship. ⁓ Simon says he brings enthusiasm and a love that we can see in his eyes. ⁓ even though we saw another one of the best magic acts before him, just a few acts pr prior. So ⁓ pretty good ⁓ pretty good notes for Gino there. ⁓ it's gonna be ⁓ a yes from Howie, a yes from Melby, a yes from Sophia, and Simon is a Yes. So it's classic ⁓ Scott Bock: Yeah. Normally if you're the second if you're the second best magic act in in a night, ⁓ it's not looking good for you, right? But yeah, they were both good enough. They both deserved to go through and and they both did. Jay Bock: Yeah. ⁓ agree. ⁓ final act of the night here. ⁓ I think we're kind of going back to ⁓ the influencer well, Scott. ⁓ we've got a gentleman named Cesar Diaz from Portugal. And ⁓ he's gonna be the last act of the night. on the wiki, I was kind of curious about this. It says he's a fourth generation physical comedian and clown. ⁓ Scott Bock: Okay. Jay Bock: Best known for his My Way Comedy Act, which has, you know, millions of views on social media. Scott Bock: All right. Well that's what we got tonight was my way. ⁓ and I loved it. This is it was just fantastic. It was ever he was a good singer. It probably wouldn't get through just on his singing alone, but he is good enough that you could believe he was trying to do this just and then slowly things start to go wrong, right? And it's got that the play where everything goes wrong, the Jerry Lewis, the Dick Van Dyke, the physical comedy and the Jay Bock: Fourth we got the name. Good enough. Scott Bock: i the hand gets stuck, the finger gets stuck, the cord gets dropped, it's too short, and it pulls him backwards, and he's just keep you know, the microphone falls down and he picks it up and just gets the word two in, and then expect you know, just one word here and there, and you can just tell he's trying to salvage it and it's just yeah, it's all the best of that vaudeville kind of shtick without being cheesy. It was just funny and so, so, so good. ⁓ Yeah, ⁓ this is the kind of act that like I just fall in love with and ⁓ you know for for the for the AGT fantasy football draft, ⁓ AGC fantasy draft, like I'm gonna I'm gonna take a reach on this guy and everyone's gonna make fun of me because ⁓ you know, I just love him more than I probably should, but but I just thought this was a just a great way to to end the night. And this I think this was my favorite act of the show. Jay Bock: ⁓ okay. Well you you stole a lot of words out of my mouth here. ⁓ like to do physical comedy is is a gamble. Like it's not easy and it's not something that you can ensure you're gonna get the laughs, but he he really does this well. ⁓ and you know, we don't see physical comedy done this well on the stage and ⁓ Scott Bock: Yeah. Jay Bock: you know, with the the my way and the the the like still trying to sing the part, still trying to salvage it as best as he can well, you know, everything has gone wrong and, you know, the his microphone has somehow been strung through the fly of his pants and he's singing to his rose instead of his microphone and he's got just, you know, his foot stuck and his fingers stuck and it just could not have been more terrible Scott Bock: Right. Jay Bock: and gone. It went as as much as it looked like everything went terrible, it went perfectly. And that's that's the magic. Scott Bock: Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It yeah. He really it really and the fact that he had you holding on f that to think that he was just a singing act f for ⁓ you know, for the first few bars at least before things actually went r it had to be before the second thing went wrong that you were like, that's the act, right? That that he was such a good enough singer that that he he pulled you all the way in, ⁓ Jay Bock: ⁓ that's what it is. Scott Bock: Yeah, just super impressed. ⁓ and yeah, that doesn't surprise me that this is his big hit ⁓ that's got all the views. And maybe they maybe they even called him and said, Hey, why don't you try out for AGT? I don't know how this all works behind the scenes and come do that act. So I'm super excited to see what else he can do and and and does, but I'm not gonna spoil it. I'm not gonna go search him out and and see what his other famous clips are. I I wanna be surprised and I wanna see it ⁓ on AGT. Jay Bock: If there are three previous generations of clowning, ⁓ it seems like he might have a deep well to pull from. Scott Bock: Yeah. Yeah, I and I love that that that that's where it comes from is the clowning. I I wouldn't have have pegged that, but when you say that he's f has a history of clowning, I get that that is the physical comedy that was there. You know, it's without the makeup and all that stuff, but the foot stuck and the flower and the ⁓ the yeah, the way he moved when the cord ran out of length and you know, it just it was it was very clown like, but in in the best way possible. Jay Bock: ⁓ and I gotta say, like, he looks good. He's got the the black tucks with the white lapels, the bright red flower. Like, it doesn't look clowny. It looks like he's he's, you know, gonna be a a serious, you know, singer. ⁓ and and I Scott Bock: Right, right. But he also he also with that clown knows what can play to the back of the room, right? He knows you need a little bit wider on that white around the lapels, right? It was a little extra wide because you got you can't pick that up in the back of the theater ⁓ without that little bit extra to see, ⁓ this is a fancy tuxedo, not just a black jacket, right? ⁓ so yeah, I think even in even in that the outfit that seemed not clowny, there there are little touches that that you could say are are probably clown inspired. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ it his and and of course the the props are are part of it too. And ⁓ it it doesn't look like a stool that doesn't work as a stool. It doesn't look like a microphone stand that's gonna, you know, be part of the comedy. It you know, the the rose is a very typical touch, but it happened to match his red ⁓ microphone that he was using. So that you know, we got that punchline, we got that payoff. So Scott Bock: Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Jay Bock: ⁓ it it all it all really tied together so beautifully. ⁓ it you know, what we're talking about for Fantasy League is possibly doing some teams and it I'm I'm with you on I'm on board with this guy. Let's ⁓ let's not let him get away from us. Scott Bock: Yeah. I know. We're we're totally s selling all our secrets and they they know if anyone else likes him at all, they know they're gonna have to get him early. ⁓ but yeah, for sure. And yeah, it's just my my favorite act of the night. ⁓ I know I've said it already, but you know, I think ⁓ we've we've talked before about how on on ⁓ a singers, how you have to tell a story, right? It can't just all be a thousand miles an hour, all the biggest notes, full blair all the time. You've got to have peaks and valleys and and race and that's the same like he's doing that with he's telling a whole story with the physical comedy while he's singing the song as well. yeah yeah, ⁓ just just phenomenal. Just you can tell it just a real pro and and I'm excited to see what else he's got ⁓ up his sleeve. Jay Bock: All right. ⁓ some really great thoughts here ⁓ from the judges. Sophia says everybody's gonna leave with a smile because of him. how he says he's talented and funny and physical. ⁓ Simon says the whole thing made him laugh. He likes the idea of seeing someone tuning in and being surprised by what they're tuning into. ⁓ so it's gonna be four yeses for Caesar, including even Grumpy Mel. Scott Bock: Even Grumpy Mel loved him. That's how good he was. So yeah, good work. You made your your clown ⁓ generations past proud. There there's they're staring down and and ⁓ and smiling. Jay Bock: There you go. All right. Scott, ⁓ this has ⁓ this has been a fun exploration of the show with you. Thank you for for sitting in. ⁓ you ⁓ I think ⁓ just said best act of the night, Caesar Diaz. Scott Bock: Yep, my favorite for sure. Jay Bock: Okay. ⁓ mine I mean Yeah, probably probably Caesar. He he was good. best I mean like what do I want to say traditional? act I I I can see ⁓ Naya and Zaya, ⁓ Nija and Zaya being a ⁓ Scott Bock: Okay. Okay. Jay Bock: having a deep run this year. I think that they're gonna be ⁓ they're gonna be good. ⁓ Mel didn't care for their song. I actually kinda liked it. It it ⁓ it struck me pretty well. I agree with your wife that it was they've they've got something. There's there's some good potential there. So Scott Bock: I I think, you know, if I if you had to tell me, you know, you gotta put your your own money down, thousand dollars, who's gonna make it the farthest from tonight, I think I might take Lara D. I think that she might be the one who who's got the the something to go the farthest that's gonna ⁓ just you know, she does kind of the singing, appeals to a wide group, she's got the look, she's got the accent, she's got the chops. It seems like she can really sing. ⁓ sh you know, she's got the that that next level of of of you know, the build and the big but the small and so I don't know. That that's maybe if I was a betting man where I'd put my my money, but if I'm if I'm betting with my heart, ⁓ yeah, I I'm I'm taking the clown out all day. So Jay Bock: All right. All right. I I would love to see that. That would that would make my heart happy if ⁓ if Caesar were were somehow the winner of the season. So ⁓ very good. Scott, I think I don't really have any other ⁓ things that we need to make sure we touch on here. I always appreciate you sitting in with me. I know that we're gonna have some more opportunities to ⁓ to talk about AGT. Scott Bock: Yeah. All right. Jay Bock: this year. and ⁓ as we get through auditions into the live shows, ⁓ I I will tell you and everybody else stay tuned for ⁓ some ways to to play along with ⁓ with the AGT show. So ⁓ we're gonna try some try some fun stuff and with that next week you can expect Cody to be back and Scott Bock: Nice. Jay Bock: In the meantime, if you got questions, comments, we always love it when you rate, review, subscribe, and ⁓ you can reach us at AGT Time Pod on all the social media outlets. ⁓ we're not yet influencer status, but ⁓ we're slowly, slowly working our way into the hundreds. Scott Bock: Six hundred and eighty seven views, I think, ⁓ last count. So ⁓ excellent. Excellent. No, ⁓ it's always a pleasure, ⁓ and and and fun to ⁓ to fill in. ⁓ I was glad to hear ⁓ on the spring cleaning episode that I'm I'm up into the double digits now, so so I'm really ⁓ really getting there. So it's it's always fun and and ⁓ you guys make it easy to jump in and sort of share my thoughts and and and just have a good time and and talk about something that that we love. So ⁓ yeah, I'm ex excited to see what else ⁓ Jay Bock: Yeah. Scott Bock: Comes out this season. Jay Bock: Yeah, I d you didn't choose to be one of us, but we're making you one of us. So that's that's that's how it is. All right. With that, ⁓ I will remind you and everybody else, ⁓ please stay safe. Scott Bock: All right. Yep. ⁓