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Auditions 3 | Season 21 | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Cody: Hey everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT time. With you tonight is Go There, along with Jay Bock: A long geez, Cody. It's you threw me off right off the bat. Go there. Come here is the is why are they called come here? We don't really know. But we're we're gonna get there. That's Cody. I'm J Bach. This is Auditions Three of America's Got Talent. Cody: You had it. You you you even before we signed on, you're like, Okay, I got one. Okay, I'm ready to go. And then just I just totally derailed you. Jay Bock: You did. I sh I d I didn't know what to expect, but it wasn't that. Cody: Well yeah, I said go there. You just said we'll get there. So are you get are you get there? Okay. Jay Bock: I no. I'm ⁓ I'm I'm not Lady Gaga. Cody: ⁓ she said Lady Tada. Right. How you doing, Jay? Jay Bock: That's right. ⁓ my gosh, Cody. I tell you what, I'm I'm loving summertime. That's ⁓ you know, one of one of the perks of teacher's life is summers off. We we work hard and ⁓ then we get this break here and it's it's marvelous and I love having time to be home and I love having time to be ⁓ to travel and to be with family and I'm you know getting to just I'm living my best life, Cody. Cody: Good, I'm that's gl I'm glad to hear that. ⁓ thank you. I wanna say thanks for you and Scott for covering last week. Y'all did a fantastic job, as always. Yep. Jay Bock: Thank you. He'll I agree, Scott. You did great. Thank you so much for for coming on. Cody: You guys did pretty well on guessing the place. Jay Bock: Ooh yeah, how do you wanna run through any any scores? Cody: ⁓ there was one I sent you all. Which one did I send you guys? ⁓ let me see if I can find there it is. ⁓ the Zoolander soundtrack. Who what was that? That was ⁓ Relax from ⁓ Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Yeah. No, no. ⁓ two two two plays. Two plays for Frankie. Jay Bock: Frankie goes to Hollywood. Frankie did not go to Hollywood, but Frankie is on the playlist. plays. And what were our guesses? Do you do you recall? Cody: I I think you I think y'all said it was not I think you said it was not. But I'd have to go back and review the tape. That's a good question. Yeah. Jay Bock: I okay. Yeah, I I think I s might have said it's not and Scott's like, ⁓ it's probably on some playlist, some s movie soundtrack. Yep. Cody: He did he I he said yeah, it's on some soundtrack. He said some soundtrack and it was the Zoolander soundtrack. So Yeah. Scott's figuring me out. Scott's f Jay Bock: There you go. That's a point Scott. He's yeah. But ⁓ you're ⁓ We we're we're we're cueing it on you, Cody. Cody: Yeah, okay. Well I gotta I gotta figure something out to keep you guys on your toes. But ⁓ great job last week. Thank you for doing that. ⁓ I'm here the rest of the summer. I know you're gonna take some time off here in July. of course we'll get some fill ins during that time. ⁓ it's such a rough life, Jay Jay Bock: Yeah, I've got a trip down to Jamaica I'm looking forward to. Like I said, I'm living my best life, Cody. It's W things are things are wonderful. Cody: Good, good. ⁓ auditions three. We're here for season twenty one, auditions three. ⁓ Jay, kind of your overall thoughts on auditions three. Jay Bock: This felt like some old school throwback ⁓ performances here. a lot of groups were like, ⁓ that reminds me of such and such, or that reminds me of so and so, or ⁓ you know, like there's some ⁓ some things that we've seen before done in a new, sometimes improved way, some you know, ⁓ to be determined maybe if it's new and improved. But ⁓ all of ⁓ i i i it was a it was a fun episode to watch. ⁓ I 100% ⁓ transparency here. I was getting a little bit sleepy at the end of the episode. I didn't start it until until like ten thirty, ten forty five last night. And then ⁓ by the time by the time I got to the end, it was well after midnight and I was ⁓ Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: I I I made it through. I I have notes on all the acts, but we'll see if they get a little disjointed here at the end. I don't know. Cody: enjoyed this episode as well. I I like that we only had the one golden buzzer this time and not, you know, twelve. Not twelve this time. ⁓ they definitely is as I think Scott said, they definitely front loaded us ⁓ this season in the golden buzzer realm. And it was nice to kind of bring that back. We'll talk more about the golden buzzer when we get there because I think we both maybe have some thoughts on the golden buzzer. ⁓ the on this week's golden buzzer. So we'll Jay Bock: Nope. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of our job, isn't it? Cody: Yeah, yeah. Sure. I I you're not the only one to talk about it being kind of a felt a feeling like a throwback and an old school AGT. I d I don't know if I saw it. Maybe I'm missing something, but I did enjoy the episode. ⁓ it had a mix of some different things, the singing. We didn't really have any big danger act. We had one magic act that you could there was a little bit of as you would say, danger quote danger in there. the illusion of danger, I think is the word you use. ⁓ no aerial axe, no acrobatic axe, nothing of that nature. It was a lot of singing, a lot of dancing, comedian. ⁓ it was fun. It felt much more lighthearted. Mel B was Mel B was having a night. ⁓ I'm not sure if there Yeah, I've kind of ⁓ I wanted to I've been wanting to mention that I I think she's been grumpy spice. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, spicy spice. Cody: ⁓ this season. ⁓ and so I've I enjoyed Mel B last season. It was great to have her on, but I'm not sure if something Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. Cody: ⁓ I'm not sure if something is happening with Mel. I hope I hope she's okay, 'cause it seems like in this episode she was not not well. Jay Bock: Yeah, well i I we're all allowed to be grumpy, right? Let's let's let it be what it is. So Cody: Yeah. Yes. I I'm I'm giving her a little grace. I'm definitely giving her some grace on this. Yeah. Jay Bock: That sounds fine. Cody: ⁓ let's get the business real quick, Jay, and then we will get into the episode. Of course, you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT Timepod at gmail.com. And of course, go check out our website, AGT timepod.com. ⁓ we've got the the AGT Hall of Fame. We've got a blog on there. Commenters with commenting ⁓ doing some blogging, masks in your homie. Our new buddy, Mask Senior Homie, has been doing some blogging on there. So go check that out, read their thoughts, give some feedback on it. ⁓ and Jay, we do have some listener mail ⁓ that we can talk about at the end of the pod. So Yep. Jay Bock: Yeah. Okay, let's make sure that we don't forget about that. Cody, I think I'm ready to talk about sprice machines. Cody: I figured you did. Jay Bock: Let's let's jump in here. This is the first act of the night. ⁓ this I said it feels like old school AGT. And ⁓ if there were ⁓ any unique act that we could see a revival of, it's ⁓ the kinetic king. And Sprice Machines is gonna give a nod and a wink to the kinetic king here. ⁓ maybe a little bit more than just that. ⁓ we've got ⁓ It's it's contraptions. It's a Rube Goldberg machine. It's what's he call it? Gadgets. Right? We're gonna have things knocking into things and a thing's gonna happen at the end. ⁓ Before we start, Cody. Woohoo! Cody: Woohoo, yes. You and I, we love the Kinetic King. ⁓ we we Jay Bock: We do. He made a appearance on my personal rewatchable at the beginning of the summer and then another one later in the summer for you. Cody: Yes. Yep. Yeah, Commenter kinda got on to me about that, that the Kinetic King has now had more rewatchable ⁓ performances than most other ⁓ acts on that we've done. So Jay Bock: Well, maybe he's incredibly rewatchable. Cody: Yes, agreed. Jay Bock: So ⁓ two gentlemen here, Steve Price, I think that's where Sprice comes from, and ⁓ Mark Robbins, that's not where machines come from. ⁓ but Sprice machines made up of Steve Price and Mark Robbins from ⁓ Michigan and Minnesota, respectively. Cody: Yes. You think Minnesota Ryan? You think Minnesota Ryan knows him? Jay Bock: I you know, we'll have to ask. I I think there's ⁓ there's a good chance. ⁓ Minnesota's not that big. it's huge actually. Cody: It it's only got a thousand lakes in it, right? Ten thousand, my bad. I I I under I undercounted the number of lakes, my bad. Jay Bock: Ten thousand. By a a magnitude. Cody: But yes, I'm my apologies to the great state of Minnesota. Jay Bock: Yeah, you're 9,000 likes off. If this was the Guest the Lakes game, the the Minnesota Lakes Cody L. Patterson playlist, ⁓ that would have been a terrible showing. ⁓ no, they're what would you do with a million dollars? We would ⁓ set up a warehouse and we would have the the Super Bowl of contraptions, right? We we would love to see this grow into something awesome. And ⁓ so that's what they're gonna do is they're gonna show us one of their contraptions. They say that they've been working on this for a week straight. ⁓ twelve, fourteen hour days, ⁓ getting this thing set up. I think that feels like they were working too hard. Like the this felt like maybe three days set up, not seven, but what do I know? I've never done it. Cody: Right. Yeah. Jay Bock: We've got hundreds of pizza boxes. The contraption itself, they they start off by something something Terry swings into the first ⁓ pizza box and then they start f toppling like dominoes. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, all the way down. Looks like the front edge maybe of each ⁓ each pizza box has been like duct taped down, kinda acting like a hinge. ⁓ but they it goes like all the way around the building and through the ⁓ door and out onto the stage and ⁓ behind the judges and once it ⁓ gets to the judges, it knocks a ⁓ hot dog on a on a on a roller cart, like on a I don't know, on a track of some sort. it's gonna launch that up onto the stage. That's gonna knock into this ⁓ bucket that ⁓ ball falls out of down the slide, runs into some two by fours, hits a mousetrap that launches a fl inflatable flamingo into the wheel that sets off the picket fence. That makes the plant spin around the post and the elf shaped howwie ride down the ramp on a skateboard, makes the ladder start to shimmy down the ramp, and then it releases a ball into the tire that makes the door do an entire flip. And the wind from the door sets off another chain reaction of pizza boxes. That makes four hot dogs roll down another track, fall onto the grill, and then another reaction makes the pyrotechnics in the grill go off. Bada boom, bada bing, they run out, they hug. That is Sprice Machines. Cody: Alright. I'm not sure what to th I really like this, I'll say it, but I'm not sure what to think of it. It seemed really slow. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah ⁓ and go on, go on. Cody: No, I was gonna say that the like especially at the beginning, there just seemed to be a lot of parts that were really slow. It's the boxes seemed to fall slow. There was a point where it kinda went up some steps and the judges worried it wasn't gonna be able to complete. And then there was a lot lot of boxes. Jay Bock: It was too many boxes. Like we understand that the boxes fall into boxes and it's you know, w whatever we i you don't have to start it a mile down the road. You could just start it right off stage and we see it fall on like it I don't think that added anything by having thousands of boxes instead of dozens of boxes. Cody: Right. I would have liked to just have them have some more contraptions that were a little more exciting. It didn't seem like there's just a lot of exciting types of things. It was a lot of things that just took forever to kind of Now, setting this up is incredible. You know, getting this stuff to work correctly is absolutely incredible. All the props in the world to these guys for being able to do it. But the execution just felt it just took a little while to get there. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. ⁓ I agree. Like it it felt a little bit slow. Like I wanna see more flamingos flying and less pizza boxes falling into more pizza boxes. ⁓ and it's a hard thing to do at the right scale, right? Like this is a s a stage production, but like everything's on a hair trigger too. So how do you have like hair triggers that are also Cody: Yeah. Right, right. Jay Bock: visible from the back row. Like it's that's a hard thing to do well. So ⁓ I think that they they did the best with you know f for this this go round, they did a good job. I think it's worth thumbs up from the from the judges, but ⁓ I think that there's improvement here. They can they can do a better they can do better. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yep, they can. Now, did you remember that Steve Price was in season eight? Yes. So he was actually on season eight and did not you know, not this trick, but did Rue Book Goldberg, Contraptions, Gadgets, that type stuff in season eight as well. So he made it all the way to the quarters in season eight. Yes. So Jay Bock: I did not. ⁓ did he really? ⁓ my gosh. Maybe he should have made my Rewatchables instead of Kinetic King. No, Kinetic King. So just remembering like their their analogue, Kinetic King, ⁓ he had ⁓ like the popsicle bombs and the the snakes and and as those things go off, there's like sh shrapnel flying across the stage. So it it is that hair trigger, but it's also like you know, explosive in a in a way. And these less explosive. Throughout Cody: Yep, I I love a good Rube Goldberg machine. I think they're fun. You gotta kinda spice it up a little bit more though. So Yep. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. ⁓ they ⁓ said it was gonna be a fifty fifty shot if it would work and it did. So that is Sprice Machines. and I don't have judges' comments. Did they say anything? Cody: It did. Yep. ⁓ not not really. No. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. All right. Well let's move on then. Next group, ⁓ this is a a name that I had considered for a dog once. Come here. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: But I decided against it. ⁓ come here is made up of twenty three people from South Korea. ⁓ they got some like forest green turquoisey suits on, ⁓ like the white shirt underneath, ⁓ no shoes. ⁓ and they're gonna do like a Maya's murmuration style sort of precision dance. Cody: Yeah. Y yeah. Commenter asked did the Mayas kind of were they were the ones that like started this style of dance on AGT? Yeah. And it's just kind of blown up since they did it, right? Jay Bock: I believe so. We've seen it done again a few times. Cody: F from from Brent Street to them. We had someone in I think we had someone in Auditions One that maybe did something similar to this. So Jay Bock: Yeah. it's so this style of dancing, it does translate well to the stage, right? It's ⁓ many people doing their very specific part v d at a very precise high level. I We've seen it before, so you know, it has to be done really well. ⁓ but this one, it you know, they they do it well, but by the end of it I was like it it felt long. Did it feel long to you? Cody: It I I it felt long to me as well. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. It's like, you know, more pizza boxes just falling into each other. Like ⁓ they're gonna just like move their arms in synchronization synchronization more. Like po like huh. They can move ⁓ this way and that way. like you know, it it just was you know, it it was great. Cody: Yeah. It it was fun to watch. It was fun to watch. ⁓ doing the synchronization is is really cool. Like seeing the synchronization is really cool. To get everyone to move at the same time, not a lot of dance crews can do that. A lot of dance crews they're they're usually not moving at the same time. So anytime you can see these dance crews, it is really cool. I'm I'm almost to the point though, I mean, after Mayas did it and Murmuration did it and Brent Street's done it and ⁓ even like ⁓ who was the who was the gr the girls that I really liked? ⁓ They were also from Japan. Shoot. They you know they did something very similar. But I'm kinda starting to get I think it's starting to kinda wane on me a little bit, Jay. Jay Bock: Okay, yeah. ⁓ judges liked it. Mel B asked what they call the style of dance. They said it's all the styles. And she says, Well, it was fantastic. Howie says he doesn't usually like dance groups, which his golden buzzer ratio doesn't ⁓ say that, right? We we went over this. ⁓ but they usually dance groups remind him of going to his grandchildren's like dance recitals. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: Або знат. Cody: Yeah, it would be incredible if his granddaughter's dancers' idols were doing this. Jay Bock: That would be more engaging. Yeah. ⁓ Sophia says we haven't seen anything like close to what they've done. ⁓ it was spectacular. Markup is spectacular for Sophia. And then ⁓ let's hear what Simon had to say. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: ⁓ it's like you know, the you bring in IT and they they come in and they they flip a switch. It's like well how you just flipped a switch Well yeah, but I also have been doing this job for twenty years and I knew exactly which switch to flip. Thank you very much. Right. Like it's twenty years and two seconds to flip that switch, not just two seconds. Cody: Yes. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. How many times on AGT though do we get an act that comes on and they always say, We've never performed this in public before. We just learned this last week. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha ha. ⁓ yeah. All the time. That is a that is a common trope on ⁓ on America's Got Talent. Or ⁓ you know, we've never done anything in you know, we've never done this in front of an audience before. We've never done this something so dangerous before. It's Cody: Yeah. Right. Yeah. We've never practiced together. Jay Bock: Yeah. All right. So Kamir gets four yeses. Cody: I I can't get over the name. I I don't know how they came up with this name. Yes. They didn't know either. It's like Jay Bock: Good for them. Well the judges asked them and they didn't know either. So Cody: Did d do you think someone just went, Hey, come here? And they're like, Hey, that's a great name. Jay Bock: I don't know. I I wonder if like there was it it's something in Japanese, but like translated to English it just doesn't you know, it it translates to come here, but it doesn't convey what they want it to convey. Right. Cody: Yes. Yeah. We're okay with having the Japanese name. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. But like, you know, I'm I'm thinking if if if I said, you know, rock on right and it was translated to like stone on top of like that might be what happened here. You know, it's like you know, th it's like you know, like like bring everybody together, like unison and it's like come here and it just doesn't like unity, unison like that might be the what happened there. Cody: Yeah. We don't need it to be in English. So you think A G T kinda did this? Like they she told them their name and they're like, ⁓ it it it's come here. So it's like there you go. Yes. Jay Bock: I think ChatGPT did it or ⁓ you know the AI ⁓ they they you know asked yeah, yeah, they Google translated it. And they might have gone through a couple of ⁓ other languages on the way to get there. That's that's a thing, right? Where people will like run it through Swahili and then Cantonese and then Mandarin and back to English and it's all Cody: That Google translated it. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Jay Bock: Fuddie daddy. Cody: So we get to the live show and they're in we're in results and Ter Terry announces, come here. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha. Yeah. The next act going through is Cody: What Jay Bock: No, it's Wha ⁓ what's his name? The the guy who was eliminated and she celebrated it. Michael Kenner Next act eliminated is Come Ear Gimme a hug and say goodbye. Come up to the stage. Cody: ⁓ Michael Ketterer. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Jay Bock: Now leaving the stage is come here. Yeah, there you go. All right. Okay. Cody, let's move on. Next act of the night, a ⁓ we're gonna get our first novelty act of the night here. Gentleman named Ryan Inzero. ⁓ he works with for his family's business. Cody: Okay. P Okay. As a sign flipper. Jay Bock: Thinks he has what it takes to win. Yeah, do you think the family business is flipping signs or the family business is something that he points signs towards? Cody: Yeah, I think it's a pawn shop, pizza shop, something like that, and he flips the sign he's the he's the designated sign flipper to go out and try to get people to come in. To get people to to get p to get people to come here. Jay Bock: You have sign flippers in Tennessee? There you go. Cody: ⁓ yes. So that's what I was gonna ask you, 'cause the judges we'll kinda get that in a minute. The judges act like that they've never seen a sign fli except for except for the Canadian. The Canadian was familiar with sign flipping. But you would think they Jay Bock: I've seen it like in media and like I you know, I might have seen like you know, somebody stand but like they weren't doing this. They weren't dancing, they were like, you know, pointing the way to a sandwich. Cody: Really? You never seen him in person? This was a huge thing maybe a decade ago, I would say. before the world shut down. I think sign flipping like just went huge. And you would see them because ⁓ you know a guy started doing it and then people just replicated it, and you would see all kinds of sign flippers out on the the corner trying to get people to come into to shops. And so you know, ⁓ ⁓ strip malls, shopping malls, whatever. They'd be out on the the sidewalk on the corner just flipping the signs. And so that's why I was confused why the judges had never seen this, 'cause I would think they would be all over LA. Jay Bock: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I would think that they would be, yeah. But I also don't know that they go all over LA. So that's a just a just a guess. Cody: Yeah. They may not. So you won't you don't s you didn't see yet you've not seen them much in ⁓ in in good ol' metropolitan Oscaloosa. Okay. Jay Bock: No, no. ⁓ small town Iowa I I mean, they might have somebody holding a sign and like, you know in that case you can at least read the sign. Mr Inzero ⁓ was so fast and so wild and so dancy, like I it took me till the end of the performance for me to be able to read what the sign said. Cody: Okay. Yes. Yeah, that was kind of the whole thing with the sign flippers, is they were doing it so fast they had to they would have to pause so you could actually see what it was they had were advertising. But the whole point was to get your attention, to get the to get people to to look at you, for him to go, Hey, come here. I'm over here Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah. So ⁓ I you know, he takes out the sign, directs people to the party time. he did put on a glove first, a little bit of showmanship there. let's let's hear Judge's comments. You've got some ⁓ some spicy male tonight. Cody: ⁓ there you go. Yeah. See, see, she loved it. She didn't know what it was, but again that's w maybe that's where I was confused that why they didn't know what it was. But they live in a different world than me. Jay Bock: All right. Positive comments from Mel. Yeah. ⁓ i I I I suspect they do. Simon says it was like a drunk person on New Year's Eve. ⁓ which also is a different world than I've I've never seen a drunk person go this direction with their with their euphoria. ⁓ Sophia asks how he practices and I think the answer is like on the street corner, like with a sign. Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay Bock: And how he's just gonna say it's a no from him, ⁓ it's gonna be four no's, I believe, for Ryan and Zero. He is not not making it through to judge's deliberations. Okay. ⁓ let's move on to the next act of the night. Cody, I am so excited for you. Cody: Okay. 'Cause there's s so much fire. Jay Bock: You love a fire act. And I can't imagine a fire act that you would love any more than this one. Cody: I do love a fire rack, you're right. Why is that, Jay? Jay Bock: boobs. It's 'cause 'cause you're a heterosexual male and ⁓ like the same reason that I liked it, Cody, it's Cody: Boob boobs on fire Bo boobs on fire Okay. Fair enough. Okay, fair enough. Just wanna make sure we're on make sure we're on the same page on this, Jay. Good. Jay Bock: Okay, alright. ⁓ no, they're they're these are four business women. This is not their full time job. They have careers. ⁓ but this is they have a passion to to perform. And ⁓ so they're all from Sacramento, yada yada, chat with the judges, leave the stage, they come back on and they've got their their cone shaped bras on and ⁓ from the ⁓ tip of the bras, ⁓ they can They can light the fires and they they do a little dance and they can even ⁓ they've got like tanks on their back that they can make the flames shoot ⁓ out of those cone-shaped bra cups. ⁓ they, you know, get in a couple different poses and you know, it's fun and it's silly and it's ⁓ attention grabbing. but I I kinda put the words in your mouth, Cody. I will let you say what Cody: No. Jay Bock: What did you think of infinite spin? Cody: Yeah, I I I did like it. I thought it was a lot of fun. It's ve it's a very unique act, Jay. ⁓ I would say we probably don't get we we have not seen this before, be my guess. ⁓ and so it was fun to kind of see them. I'm not sure what more they can do. I don't know if this is like their ceiling or if they have other things that they do with fire. ⁓ but it was a lot of fun. They have a lot they have great personality, they great stage presence, they they do like a like a pyramid, they kind of stacked on top of each other while while while ⁓ shooting the flames. but I'm I'm not sure w great personality. Yeah, the great stage presence. A lot of fun to watch. Not sh not sure where they can go from here, but it it'd be interesting. Jay Bock: Yeah. Great personality. Stage presence, yeah. Yeah, I mean you know, for for the like fun that I was having at the beginning of it, like, you know, there's there's a like sexual element to it, right? It's flames coming out of their out of their bras. But like it is like it's not like that sexy. Like it's it's more just fun fun, silly party time than it is you know, burlesque, you know, peep show. So Cody: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: I Cody: Two d two two judges that would absolutely love this are the Hof and Howard. Jay Bock: ⁓ man. Yeah. They would have that would have been Cody: Ha ha Jay Bock: Yeah. They they would have been drooling over themselves, but Mel, she doesn't get it. She's gonna buzz ⁓ everybody else seems to enjoy it quite a bit. they I I should say they also had torches that they brought out as well. It wasn't just the flaming bras, there was other implements that they used. So do they have more in their arsenal? I don't know. I'd I I'd be curious to see. ⁓ Sophia says that she wants one. She wants a pair. Simon asks whose idea it was, and I didn't I don't think they quite understood the question because their answer was why not? Cody: Course does. Yeah. Either they didn't understand it or there was some editing in there and and another question was asked. So but I was confused when I heard that too. Jay Bock: That could be. ⁓ well, they they admit to having had a few drinks when the when the idea came up. It seems like maybe it was just sort of a a conversation that just sort of happened, among all of them. Cody: Yeah. When it was over there was a guy that was on stage with him. Do you think he's like the one that actually created this? A couple guys, actually. Maybe so, yeah. Jay Bock: The engineer I I mean it seems like a guy thing to do, to invent flaming bras. Like Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay Bock: This this doesn't seem like something that women would would do themselves. Like you know, I d I'm I'm pretty sure that like the first bras were invented by men, right? Like isn't that sort of a like Yeah. So why not? Like let's keep the patriarchy alive. Like I'd like Cody: Sure, yes. Th that's a story I understand, yes. Is this is this does this give a new meaning to burn the bras? Jay Bock: b burn the pros. ⁓ not like I don't know like I'm a dude, right? And I'm probably gonna say things that put my foot in my mouth because I'm I only have my my point of view. But like, you know, strong, powerful women owning their bodies, doing something on stage, I'm I'm all for it. Like whatever makes you happy, ladies, let's go for it. If this is where you find joy Cody: Yes, yeah. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. Jay Bock: I'm I want you to find joy here and and ⁓ you know I don't want to objectify them ⁓ as a you know w whatever So before I put my foot in my mouth any further, Cody, ⁓ let's let's I I absolutely did. Yes. I I I understand that I I can be completely hypocritical here. This is Cody: Absolutely, yes. Yeah. Well but I'm gonna say you let off with saying that I was gonna like this because it was boobies on fire, so so so Jay Bock: Like that that's the joke that had to be made. You've been talking for years about how you love fire acts. And I thought maybe that this would just be another fire act that you loved. So Okay. let's let's hear Mel's comments ⁓ from the judges. Cody: Yes. Sure, yes. ⁓ I gotta ask J, was the choreography something that you were paying attention to? Jay Bock: I will say that I noticed that the choreography wasn't great. Right? Like it wasn't sharp. It was like when they ⁓ have like a co ed drill team or a boys drill team, ⁓ is like you know, they they like stomp from one place to the next. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Clap, clap, stomp, stomp, pump, pump, clap, clap. One, two, stomp, stomp, five, six, seven, eight. Like, you know, it's very like just like robotic, right? And and this kind of felt like, you know. Cody: Ha ha ha. ⁓ huh. Jay Bock: We're going to move to the next spot and we're but like, don't pay attention to the core i is a little bit of like, you know, don't pay attention to the choreography. Look at the flames. Right? It's Cody: Yeah, I mean they did have an explosive device on their back. So Jay Bock: Yeah, I mean yeah, they're not gonna be doing backflips and stuff, I suppose. And they also don't want to burn each other's hair or faces off. Cody: Okay. Cor correct, correct, yes. Jay Bock: Which seems like a distinct possibility. Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: okay. ⁓ Howie says it's a no from him. Simon says it's a work in progress and it would have been a yes from him, ⁓ but it's a no from everybody else. So ⁓ three no's for infinite spin is enough. Three to four no's. I'm not sure how we count that. ⁓ all right. Anything else on Infinite Spin, Cody? Alright. I've ⁓ I I've I've said ⁓ all more than I need to say about it, so we'll we'll move on to ⁓ not Lady Gaga, Lady Tada. ⁓ I believe her actual name is ⁓ Liga Way. ⁓ she's gonna do some hula hooping with you a couple dozen hula hoops around her waist. ⁓ does like a quick change thing. ⁓ Cody: No. Jay Bock: ⁓ Mel and Simon are both gonna buzz her and then she ⁓ stands on that circus apparatus. It's like the the tube with a ⁓ board on top of it. Rolla bolo, yeah. And ⁓ while she's on there, she's gonna juggle knives, right? So she does a lot of things, and Sophia's comment is she knows how to do a lot of things, none of them at a really great level, which I feel like just sums up the entire performance. Like Cody: Roll rollabola? Yeah. Jay Bock: You did all of those things like better than average. Better than most people can do any one of ⁓ You did all of ⁓ But we've seen all of them done like at at an eleven and you're doing it at a four, you know? Yeah. All right. You got it. Cody: Yeah, yeah. So I I you said it all. You I got I got nothing more to add to it. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. Well, we can have this conversation then, 'cause Simon says practice and come back again. Cody: Maybe in a year or two. Jay Bock: Is this like this is like the year of second chances. They're all about like it's it's just it's not a no forever. It's just a no for now. Alright, like why why don't you work something else up and try again? Why don't you Cody: Yes. Yeah. think Howie also made that joke for ⁓ Sprice where he said, Yeah, I'm gonna need to see that again. Can you have another one you can do? Jay Bock: ⁓ I missed that. That's funny. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: Holly, he's good. Cody: Yeah. That's why he's an AGT Hall of Famer, man. Yeah. Jay Bock: He is. He is. all right. Well that she's she did a thing. She made it on TV. All right. Let's let's move on from ⁓ Liga Way to Young and Strange. This is a magic duo made up of Richard Young and Sam Strange. That's where their the name of their act comes from. It's from their last names. Cody: She did a thing. Yes, good for her. Yes, that's that's smart. Jay Bock: They ⁓ want to Cody: It it so it sounds like a ⁓ like a nineteen forties like ⁓ did you ever see ⁓ was it Holiday Inn, the movie Holiday Inn? ⁓ that's ⁓ shoot. ⁓ Let me pull that up. Hold on. It's ⁓ No, not Holiday Inn. ⁓ White Christmas, my bad. Yes. ⁓ with with ⁓ Danny Kay and sorry, hold on. Jay Bock: No. Yes, okay. Cody: Looking it up 'cause the names are important. Being Crosby and Fred's stare, my bad. So bring Cosby and Fred of Stair. And their whole act is Har ⁓ Hanover and Hardy. Was it them? Yeah. So their whole act was the two of them together as ⁓ as a group. And so it's just their their names that they're good. Anyway, I'm I'm rambling. It it felt like an old s it felt like an old school like dance singing act with young and strange. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. That's okay. There's Okay, yeah. I mean, we've got like comedy duos, Laurel and Hardy, ⁓ Costello Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: Who goes with Costello? Who's on first? Come here. Abbott and Costello, thank you. Cody: Abbott. Yeah. Jay Bock: Third base. ⁓ That's the that's the Kamir joke. ⁓ Young and Strange. ⁓ Penn and Teller, right? We've got ⁓ I don't know. Okay, so ⁓ Siegfried and Roy, how about that? Young and strange, ⁓ Cody: Yes, yes. Yes, but There you go. Sink Sig Siegfried and Siegfried and Joy. Jay Bock: Siegfried and Joy, yes. better illusions than Siegfried and Joy. Maybe not as good banter though. We'll ⁓ we'll get there. these two want to have their own Vega show, ⁓ just like all the other magicians that have gotten Vega shows from being on AGT. And They're let's see, Sam's gonna climb into a cardboard box. Cody: F from a few seasons ago. Yes. No. Well no I'll Jay Bock: and up on the judge's table and Richard's gonna stab a bunch of sticks through it. And once he stabs a bunch of sticks through it, he sticks ⁓ Sam's gonna stick his hand up out of the box and wave a white flag and ⁓ they're gonna pull all the sticks out, he's gonna merge from the box and he's wearing a Spice Girl shirt and he's got two glasses of champagne. Cody: He did tell us champagne all around before they started. Jay Bock: Yeah. What what'd you think of ⁓ what'd you think of the illusion? Just the illusion. Cody: The illusion I thought was fun. I thought it was creative. I don't think we've s we've seen illusions like this. Definitely with like the swords and other types of apparatus that they stick through boxes. I like the cardboard box and the wooden dowels or the wooden spears. ⁓ I l I thought it was fun. It I think commenter and I kind of agree with this. It seemed very familiar to like a ⁓ the passing zone. Jay Bock: Okay. Yep. Cody: ⁓ or or a ⁓ like a PIF type act. The act itself seemed very ⁓ rudimentary, but it's not about it's not always about the magic act. It's about the banter and the stage presence, ⁓ and the interactions that they have together, as well as with the the judges and the crowd and and the rest of the audience. Jay Bock: Okay. So what did you think of their banter and their stage presence and their interaction with the judges? What do you think of that part of the performance? Cody: I yeah, I liked it. I think they're great together. ⁓ they're a really good duo. Again, it seemed very familiar to the passing zone or if Piff were Piff and Mr. Piffles we'll look at it that way too. ⁓ a pen and teller even though teller doesn't talk. Yeah. Jay Bock: I feel like their banter like everything was everything felt scripted, like every last bit. And they're like they've been doing it too long, everything was too scripted, it was a little too It's like ⁓ when I set this box up on the table I'm gonna make sure that I hit that golden buzzer, you know, and just like everything just felt a little too Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: It rehearsed. Cody: Yeah, a and I get that. And I think it well, it has to be rehearsed, but I think your point is that it it felt rehearsed. Whereas if it was really good it ⁓ fair, fair, I get that. And the and the passing zone was very similar. You could definitely tell a lot of their interactions they've done before. We've even seen the same types of banter interactions on AGT. ⁓ they even did the joke the same jokes multiple times. ⁓ so Jay Bock: Yeah, the the delivery wasn't well done. Cody: I I get that. I still really enjoyed it. I think the jokes really worked. ⁓ you know, I think Mel B kinda added something of what's he doing? What's that box for? Where's he going? It's like it's like just watch the performance. It's like just Jay Bock: ⁓ I did kinda like the ⁓ joke, you know, if something goes wrong, feel free to hit this golden emergency you know, stop the performance butter buzzer. ⁓ so Cody: Correct, yes. Yes, yes, yes. I I like them at the end when the you know, he steps out of the box and he goes back up on the stage, he drinks the champagne, and then like he's leaking. I really I thought that was funny. ⁓ 'cause they're still playing into the bit. I cut I I cut I kinda like them. I really do like them. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yep, yep, yep, yep. So Just to to put a point on that, Sophia in Judge's comments said she loved it, and Sam says, I'll toast to that and then he drinks his champagne and and the water squirts out from his vest as if he'd been stabbed through eight times. So that was a that was a really great little punctuation on it. ⁓ so you know, kudos to them for that. Simon is gonna give them a no though. Cody: Yeah, I'm not sure why, 'cause I know he really likes magic and he's called especially kids like Harry Potter, I believe in magic. He says all those types of things. So that's a little surprising. Jay Bock: Yeah, Mel and Howie ⁓ both loved it, said it was Vegas worthy. And Simon says, I'm not jumping out of my chair like everyone else. It it's fine. So, ⁓ it's gonna be a no from Simon. Cody: Yeah. The thing with their type of act though, it's not always about the magic. And this is the type of acts that I like, 'cause I don't want to see I mean that's why I'm I just am not a huge Shinlim fan because it's mostly about the magic. I know there's the music, ⁓ timing with the music, all that type of stuff, but I'm more interested in these types of acts where it's more of an interaction, it's more entertainment. There's other things involved around the map. John Doran boss, ⁓ Matt Franco You know, those types of guys where there's other things kind of going on in addition to the magic. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. Okay. Yeah, and I I think there's something there. Like this could have legs, but I think they need to clean up a few things and and make it a little bit less stilted. I don't know. A little more ⁓ they they can work on their on their stage presence a little bit. So ⁓ yeah, I I enjoyed it. I don't know how they pulled off the ⁓ sticking all the the rods through. ⁓ it did seem like he stuck them through very fast. Like ⁓ maybe there was something happening that it wasn't just he wasn't actually sticking a dowel all the way through, but it was just the illusion of sticking a dowel through or something. Not a hundred percent sure. So not Cody: Yes. Okay. Yeah. ⁓ they they've been on I don't know if you're gonna say this, they've been on fool us three times. Yes. And every time that they did not fool the they did not fool them at all in in any of the three t correct. Jay Bock: ⁓ really? Have ha They have not gotten the FU trophy. Okay. Okay. All right. ⁓ Cody, let's move on to the next act. This is one that I have been excited to see on America's Got Talent for for months. I've been aware that this was coming. ⁓ I happen to follow this guy on Facebook. He came up and I you know, when you're a one man band, you know, like kind of attracts like, I guess. Cody: ⁓ okay. I was gonna say are y are is like there a one man banner like Facebook group where you all get together and Jay Bock: ⁓ there might be one that I haven't been invited to, but you know, I'm I'm an inactive one man band. Cody: Okay. Got it. So Bandalone hasn't invited you to like an inner circle of one man banders. Okay. Jay Bock: No, no. And you know, it thing about one man bands is like they kinda have to perform alone because that's kinda the shtick, right? Like it's Cody: Fair Yeah. Right. Jay Bock: kind of the thing. So ⁓ Eric Haynes is a one man band. He puts videos out on ⁓ on Facebook that I have seen I don't know, a bunch of ⁓ I enjoy watching him. He's a great musician. He's got all sorts of ⁓ noisemakers and dude ads and whatnots ⁓ attached to him. ⁓ primarily plays the banjo and ⁓ and and sings and he plays the drums on his back. He is going to sing Yankee Doodle Dandy. He's got like the the Uncle Sam outfit on, right? ⁓ with the the striped red pants and the blue vest and the top hat. Like he looks great. ⁓ Cody: Yeah. Very pro very proper for America's two fiftieth. Yeah. Jay Bock: Absolutely. ⁓ he he sings like in a low register and I think if he had brought it up but I I don't know that the judges were gonna were gonna get in on ⁓ on it anyhow. It seemed like they were kind of out on it. ⁓ he didn't thrill the judges. I didn't think it was his best song choice. He's he Cody: Yeah, that's what was gonna ask, is like where did he go wrong? As a one man bander, where did he where did he go wrong? What could he have done? Jay Bock: I don't know. ⁓ a when I won our c college talent show, I remember like being very specific in how I set up the song, right? And I was like, Okay, first I'm just gonna I'm gonna play guitar and and I'm not gonna, you know, show off any of the extra instruments or anything yet. It's just the guitar. And then I'm gonna add it in and pre people are gonna be like, ⁓ wow, he's gonna do ⁓ at the same time, right? Like Like you kinda build that. And then, you know, when I got to the harmonica solo, I s I said, Harmonica solo. And then I added in the harmonica on top of that. So like there's this this building of like showing off what what else you can do. What else can you do? What else can you do? And you don't just jump in with everything all at once because people aren't gonna be able to follow along. They're not gonna be able to understand what's what all is happening. So, you know, maybe a little bit of showmanship that way, but You know, you've only got two minutes, so maybe you know, you he he felt the urgency to show off all the the hoins and nor horns and noisemakers and all the things ⁓ before before you didn't have a chance to. Cody: Yeah, okay. Jay Bock: So I don't know. ⁓ Cody: I'd love to go back I'd love to go back and revisit Bandalone's performance from season one and just kinda remind myself of what he did. Jay Bock: Let's you know, that's a great idea. Maybe next rewatchable. Is that a Cody: Yeah. D do bandalonies. Jay Bock: We'll we'll see if we can find that. ⁓ you've got a an audio drop for us from Howie. I fortunately love music and have friends and can also play the one man band. It's Cody: Yes. Jay Bock: ⁓ man. You there you know th no creative differences with the band. There's no infighting, you know, you're not worried about the drummer stealing your girlfriend, right? You it's just Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: I it it's just a just a big happy family. A little happy family. Cody: Yeah. Well, I'm glad you got to see Eric Haynes on A G T. Jay Bock: I was glad to see him and I was sad to see him go. I I just wanna say, Come here. I'll give you a hug. You you were great. ⁓ okay. Next act of the night then we're gonna we're gonna pivot from a one man band to just a solo singer. I always feel bad for solo singers. It's like they they love music but they don't have any friends. Cody: Ha ha ha. Hold on, hold on. Hold on. Jay Bock: I always feel bad for solo singers because they ⁓ it's like they love music, but they don't have any friends. all right. This is Isaac Atkins. ⁓ he is ⁓ twenty-three years old, I think originally from Hawaii, currently from Maine. ⁓ he's a sergeant in the US Army. And ⁓ I I again, I'm a heterosexual man, but I don't think that I'm far off saying that this is a handsome dude. Cody: Right. With a very nice deep voice when he talks. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah, like a deep, buttery, dulcet tones of Isaac Haynes. No, a Isaac Atkins. ⁓ Cody: Yeah, I kinda compared him to Isaac Haynes the other night when he was talking. But I'll say he doesn't sing like Isaac Haynes. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah, that's No, ⁓ his i his speaking his speaking voice is real low and yeah, he he draws the ladies in. But ⁓ when he Cody: Is it is it is it is it Isaac Haynes or Isaac Hayes? It might be Isaac Hayes. Hay Hayes Jay Bock: Haze. Is he st can you dig it? That's Cody: Yes. Wasn't he chef from ⁓ Southwark? Okay. Okay. Jay Bock: ⁓ I don't know. I yeah, I'm not a big South Park guy. But ⁓ yeah, it's ⁓ same idea, right? but yeah, he's so he he busts out a song and let's hear let's hear a little bit of what ⁓ Isaac had to sing for us. Not on the Cody Patterson playlist. Cody: No, beggin by ⁓ Mineskin or Maneskin, whatever it is, yes. Jay Bock: Mineskin? Yeah, I don't know. The A's got a one circle over it. It's not an umlaut, but it's just one I don't know. Cody: Okay. Interesting. Jay Bock: ⁓ I'm you know, I've I've pretty well mastered English, but like you start throwing other letters in there and I'm just like, I don't know what this stuff is. ⁓ yeah. Mineskin, Mainskin Mainskin feels weird coming out. I'm gonna go with Meneskin. ⁓ it I mean he ⁓ he's got a good like Cody: Yes, I know. Fair. Jay Bock: Growl to his voice. He's got good control of it. He's got the high notes. He didn't play the whole like at the very beginning he comes in real high. ⁓ and it's it's beautiful. It's a a really great performance. So, you know, I'm cool with that. Cody: Yeah, this was a good performance. He was a he's a very average singer. I was I think we were all expecting, based on his ⁓ voice, his talking voice, that he was gonna have a much deeper kind of mellow ⁓ sultry type voice. But he ends up being what a w yeah, so what is what is he? He's not he's like is he's above a tenor, right? Jay Bock: Can't get enough of your love, baby. That's Yeah, tenor. I mean Yeah. He probably has quite the range, right? He he could be you know, he could be a tenor down to a base. Cody: Okay. You think he's a tainer? Okay. Okay. But as far as the scene goes, I didn't think it was great. I thought it was very average. ⁓ there was that run in the middle that I couldn't understand any word he was saying. ⁓ felt like some t parts were out of out of pitch. I just I didn't I didn't think it was great. I thought it was very average type performance. Jay Bock: No. Okay, well y you take an average performance and you put it on a man that looks like him, and you know, y you get somebody who goes maybe a couple rounds into the live shows. I I could see him going deep. Cody: Okay. ⁓ Okay. Well he's definitely gonna make it to the live show. ⁓ because this happens. Jay Bock: ⁓ yes. Cody: And so Mel B just ups and hits the golden buzzer on this guy without any other anybody else's comments. And I think we were all not I'm not gonna speak everyone. I think a lot of us were really confused by this. Jay Bock: Yeah. Mm. Okay. Okay with it. ⁓ I I struggle with solo singers. Like it's not something that ever really speaks to me, but I know that there's gonna be a handful of golden buzzer solo singers every year. So like what makes him better than anybody else? I don't know. Like he's Cody: Okay. Sure. Jay Bock: I always feel bad for solo singers. It's Cody: Not not that I'm gonna ask you to tip your hand 'cause you and Scott kinda already did that last week. ⁓ but I'm just gonna ask, what is the likelihood that you would take him in the draft? Jay Bock: ⁓ I mean we'll we'll see how far things go, but like it's never a bad idea to take a golden buzzer. Like the Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: Almost always guaranteed points. So i in that way pretty high, I'll say. So Cody: Okay. Okay. Okay. Or you're gonna look at trying to get all your good stuff at round thirty five. Yep. Jay Bock: It's worked for me so far. ⁓ Chris Turner, man. and who was it the year before? Like I ⁓ twice I've gotten like some really great value picks in those in those very end rounds. So yeah. If Isaac can rap like Chris did, that's a I'd I would be thrilled. Thrilled to have him. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I have a feeling though with Isaac though, once we get to the live show, I think we're gonna he he's gonna kinda reveal himself and I don't think he's gonna be long for the show. But I I may be wrong, but I I he may not make it past the first round, it'd be my guess. We'll s we'll see. Acts acts have improved over time and ⁓ so we'll just we'll just see. Jay Bock: Okay. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, and I don't know. Maybe you were hearing things I d I didn't hear. So ⁓ I was Cody: Yeah. I I as as I say, I watch and do everything with headphones on. So I'm hearing Yeah. Jay Bock: All right. Well, I'm gonna sort of let let's let's take a a small detour here. ⁓ I as a child was diagnosed with an audio processing disorder. So like when somebody is speaking to me and there's other noises also happening, like they reach my brain at the same level. So it's really hard for me sometimes to ignore Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: You that bird that's chirping outside the window, that mower that's going by, the car that's over there, you know, three blocks down with a loud bass, and you're trying to have a conversation with me. You know, it that's that's something that's hard for me. And music, like I've I've mentioned before, like lyrics have almost no meaning to me. And so I was watching this video this week of sort of learning about this this ⁓ figure ground. aud disorder, this audio processing disorder that I have. And they were talking it was a a comedic thing and they they played a song for him. He's like, ⁓ what's a voice? It's like some meatstrument. It's just just noise coming out of a meatstream. But, you know, it I Isaac Atkins got a decent meatstrument, I guess. Is it ⁓ Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: What I'll go with. So I like that's that's how music processes through. Like I hear the instruments, I hear all the parts of it equally. And it's hard for me to cue in on just the lyrics or just the you know just the voice and ignore the other parts that aren't what the performance is all about. But all that to say, Isaac Atkins as a package, I think. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: has got legs. He ⁓ he could go deep. Does he have the skills to go along with the rest of the package? I don't know. You're you're you're less high on it than maybe I I expected. Cody: Yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean I I I ranked the Golden Buzzers since we've got six of ⁓ now. I went ahead and ranked them and I have him at the bottom. So Jay Bock: okay. All right. ⁓ do you want to reveal your list or are we gonna keep that a little closer to your test? Okay. Cody: No we I mean I post no I posted it. It's ⁓ yeah, it's out there. ⁓ let me let me find it go ahead and kind of vamp if you have other more stuff and then I will find it. Jay Bock: ⁓ no, I you know I've I've said my piece. I will say Mel goes on after she hits the golden buzzer to explain that he has a realness about him and he has range and he has heart. And you know, I think that she's seeing that whole package, right? It he's an army man. He's on leave from the army, taking his personal time to come to AGT, right? Like you play the the military card. ⁓ you know, on our bison ten whatever it is, bison fifty centen two hundred and fifty years of America. ⁓ and like he's handsome and he's got that buttery voice and he's got that beautiful smile and and and and and like there's so much to love about him. So the package, the you know, maybe the idea of Isaac Atkins is already, you know, he's got five points. Cody: Yeah. ⁓ Jay Bock: Like you know, if if he if he doesn't suck, he's gonna be great, right? And he didn't. Cody: Yeah, right. Okay. ⁓ so two fifty is semi quincentennial. Jay Bock: Semi quincentennial. All right. Cody: Yes. Okay. ⁓ so my list, I've got Isaac at number six. I got Luke Tolino at number five. I got ⁓ Lei Noel at number four. I got Laura D at three. Hundred Fingers at two and Acro Crew at one. Jay Bock: Okay. Fair. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. Interesting. Okay, well there's gonna be more to ⁓ shuffle in there yet, so I'll be interested to hear what ⁓ it how that list evolves. Cody: Yes. Yep. What else you got for Isaac? Is that is that all we got? Okay. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: That's it. I've I've said more I've said a lot. ⁓ all right, that's Isaac Atkins. Let's move on to our next act. This is Chris Sosa. We're actually gonna meet him like before commercial. ⁓ he's like congratulating Isaac Atkins, like celebrating him, like, hey, that's so awesome, bro. You know, he and he wants that good juju before he goes on the stage. ⁓ and he's not wrong to think that maybe he could get a golden buzzer too, because like they're handing him out like candy these days. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ he's gonna tell us about all the different jobs he's been h fired from. ⁓ but he's ⁓ thirty two years old from Humboldt, Texas. Cody: ⁓ no. Umble The H is silent and he he tells us that. It's it's pronounced umble but it's spelled humble. Yes. Jay Bock: Yeah. All right. do you know anybody from Umble, Texas? Cody: I don't personally know anyone from Umble. I think Commenter said that John Dornboss was born in Umble. And then there was another act that I found ⁓ that was also from Umble. ⁓ let me see if I can find that real quick. ⁓ it's down near Houston. Hold on, let me I had that up just a moment ago. ⁓ yeah, it's down near Houston. Jay Bock: How big is Umble Texas? I think you mean Houston? Cody: Or sorry, if you live in New York it'd be Houston. Jay Bock: There's there's no H though, right? Isn't that how they do it in Texas? It's just Houston. Cody: No, there's an H on there no there's a there's an H on Houston. ⁓ I mean there you you pronounce the H on Houston. ⁓ so let's see. Okay, let me ask you this. ⁓ twenty twenty census ⁓ over under twenty thousand in population. Jay Bock: ⁓ okay, all right, all right. ⁓ well, you were saying down by Houston and I was thinking like it might just be like a suburb, you know, like you you don't know all the names of the suburb, but the greatest greater Houston area. ⁓ so I was thinking, you know, the fact that we've got other performers from there, like it could be triple digits, right? Or I'm sorry, ⁓ six digits. We could be looking at a hundred thousand or more. So I'm gonna say over twenty thousand. Cody: Yeah. S ⁓ little under seventeen thousand. Yes, yes. ⁓ nine point eight three square miles. Yeah. Umble's a umble's the umble's a little thing. Jay Bock: ⁓ less. Okay. Wow. So little the it's very humble place. Cody: It's a very humble place, yes. Jay Bock: I I put the H on it, so ⁓ Okay. So he's been doing stand up comedy for thirteen years. ⁓ I'm guessing not all of it in Umble. Cody: Yes she yes she did. ⁓ I would say not. I'd say if that were the case, everyone in Umble would have heard him by now. Jay Bock: ⁓ but ⁓ he's he's a Latino born, but his parents raised him to speak English, but they weren't native English speakers. So he doesn't speak Spanish, ⁓ but he had a like stereotypical Latino accent as a child. So he kind of makes some some jokes about that. It's kind of funny. ⁓ gonna talk about like a dance lesson and what he lacks for in Spanish, he makes up for in moves. ⁓ And ⁓ he's got a funny little comedy routine. I can't do any do it any sort of justice, ⁓ from here behind the microphone. But ⁓ I enjoyed him well enough. What did you think of ⁓ of Chris Sosa? Cody: Liked him. I thought he's he did really well. I think that our comedians this season have done ⁓ really well. We had was it last week that we had a or was it week one? ⁓ might have been week one we had the gr the really good comedian. ⁓ so yeah, ⁓ Kev Kev Adams. Yeah, yeah. But I think our the comedians we've had so far have done really well. I I like Chris, I think he's he's smart. Jay Bock: Yes. I was real high on him too. Kev. Yep. Cody: he's got some great jokes. The ⁓ the whole mixin the Latino thing I thought is really cool. ⁓ I I have high hopes for Chris. Jay Bock: High hopes, but yeah, I don't I think I liked Cov more. Cody: Maybe so, yeah, I can see that. Yeah. Jay Bock: if I'm gonna rank the comedians, but I mean there's there's potential here. Chris could be Chris could be great. Cody: Yeah. Yep, agreed. Jay Bock: ⁓ let's talk Judge's comments. I I will say just before we get there, like he brings in a little bit of that physical comedy, right? He's got some you know, the the talking about the dancing and the moving the hips and like there's there's some there's some there there that I'd like to see more of. So ⁓ it's a different ⁓ different flavor than Kev had. ⁓ and let's talk Judge's comments. You've got an audio drop for us of Simon's comments, yes? Cody: Yes. So it's important for a comedian to be funny, Jay. Jay Bock: Did catch that, yeah. most you know, as a singer, the most important thing is you sing. Cody: Yeah. Very insightful from Simon. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah. What what do I do with that? I don't know. all right. So that was that was Chris. ⁓ Sophia says he was great. ⁓ she related to his jokes. She's proud of a Latin Latin guy being so funny. ⁓ Mel says that her cheeks hurt. She gave her he gave her a proper belly laugh. And ⁓ Simon goes on to say, one of the best contestants of the day. I don't have comments from ⁓ from Howie on this. Cody: ⁓ we may not have had anything. Jay Bock: And usually he's got something for the comedians, but they skipped over him. Cody: Yep, we've had that before and it's ridiculous that I t we don't hear from Howie when it comes to comedian, but it's happened before. Jay Bock: Yeah. Usually we can trust on that. ⁓ all right. Let's move on from Chris Sosa. Next act of the night is Betty D Betty Dumitru from Valencia, Spain. she is gonna she's travelled here with her big brother. Cody: ⁓ how sweet. Jay Bock: How sweet. ⁓ this is her first time in America. ⁓ What is she? Seventeen, eighteen, she's young. Okay. So her ⁓ big brother must be enough older that he's ⁓ you know, able to able to navigate. she's going to sing If the World Was Ending, I've got it by JP Sachs and Julia Michaels. Cody: Seventeen, yep. Sure. That's what I saw. Jay Bock: Okay. All right. ⁓ it's she sings ⁓ part English, part Spanish. ⁓ let's hear a little bit of Betty D. what did you think her performance? What did you think of her song? Cody: liked her song. I thought it was I thought it was actually really good. I liked it way more than Isaac's song. we did she did do some English and then she sang in Spanish. I thought that was really cool mixing in some of her culture with the English part of it. ⁓ her voice sounds really cool. ⁓ I I I liked it. I I I know I can't do anything about this, but they are singing some songs that I'm just not familiar with, so it's hard for me to get into them because I just I enjoy songs that I'm already familiar with and it takes me some time to get into a song that I'm not familiar with 'cause I have to I have to get familiar with it. So Jay Bock: Yeah, I that's a that's a hard hard thing to do, right? Like there's original songs and some of them are good, some of them aren't. You know, there's these songs that I've never heard before, or maybe I've heard ⁓ once or twice before that some of them land with me, some of them don't. And I think at the end of the day, I just have to kind of let each one be its own ⁓ its own event, right? ⁓ did I enjoy the performance or did I not? You know, whether I know the song or not, did I enjoy it? And you know, you can take a song that I know and a song that I love and you know, poo-poo all over it that I'm not gonna enjoy. Or you can take a song that you wrote that's never been in the world, th I hear it for the first time, like, dang, that's a bop. I love it. So, you know, like let's the whatever the song is, how did you do with it? And I I feel like she really Cody: Ha. Jay Bock: did well. And if she can be if she can differentiate differentiate herself from the pack of singers by being the bilingual one, you know, that might be enough to to give her some some distance in the competition, some legs in the competition. Cody: Yeah, it really helped Daniel Emmett and back in season thirteen when he did it. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ we also sang Italian. Is that so yeah. Good old Daniel Emmett. They love them some Daniel Emmet. all right. ⁓ Mel's comments here, she says it could not have gone any better. And then she has she says she has what's called a recording voice. And it's like a voice that when you hear it on the radio, it's identifiable. Cody: That's right. That's right. Mm-hmm. Jay Bock: Right. And this is a really good trait to have when you're a singer, to have a unique, identifiable voice. And ⁓ so I I thought, you know, coming from Melby, a recording artist, you know, somebody who kind of s sees it just from a different l angle, having a different experience. And I I thought that was really great insight from her. Like this is you've got a recording voice, and that was that was great insight from her. ⁓ and then you've got I'm I'm sure that you've got Howie's comments here, right? Cody: Yes. Yes. We've already kind of heard it a little bit, but we'll play it again. Are you familiar with either one? Yeah. Jay Bock: I know Adele. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: I've I've said what I've said. Cody: I've heard of Halsey. I'm not gonna s I'm not sure I've heard Halsey. Jay Bock: ⁓ well I will tell you that in my notes I had down ⁓ she sounds like Paulsey and Adele with a P. So ⁓ that's that's how much I didn't know Halsey. Cody: Ooh, ouch, ouch. Okay. Yeah, I I'd at least heard of Halsey. I just was not familiar with her music. Jay Bock: Sometimes, Cody, I feel completely out of my league. Like I should not be hosting a podcast about America's Got Talent because I don't know any of these performances. Cody: Sure. That's what I'm saying. I I enjoy these more when I'm familiar with the songs. Richard Goodall I mean, he sang every single banger that I'm I know of, so Jay Bock: I Yeah, yeah. Well, I'll go deep dives on ⁓ obscure instruments and ⁓ and one man bands with ya. But you know, these these solo singers and dancers Cody: You're ⁓ you know, they come on with is it Mongolian throat singing and it's like Jay Bock: ⁓ man, yeah, give me some give me some throat singing and some like you I love this stuff. I love this stuff. Playing with the harmonics, yeah. Build an earth harp. Let's do it. Yeah, I'm I'm here for that stuff. ⁓ so like to tip my hand a little bit, when it comes time to to draft, Cody, like my my singers, my musicians Cody: Yep. There you go. Yes. Jay Bock: My dancers, like if they're a golden buzzer, they got a good chance of making it on the team. If not, like it's really hard for me to to be excited about them ⁓ on the show. So there you go. Alright. Okay, let's move on from Betty Dumitru to La Russell. ⁓ capital L A capital R U Double S double E Double L No, just twenty. Double S E double L Cody: To tot totally with you on that. Jay Bock: ⁓ Larussell and ⁓ fifty of his of his best friends, ⁓ they're gonna come on stage, they're gonna show off their talents. Cody: was really confused by this because they were wearing these bay was it bay area shirts jerseys and I was like hey is this the quote city name choir of the week or of the season yeah whatever the city is is this the choir for this season I was like ⁓ we're getting the bay bay area court corral whatever it may be Jay Bock: Mm-hmm. ⁓ yeah. Could be. Yep. D Detroit Youth Choir. Yep. Yep. Cody: Yep, yep. ⁓ Angel City Corral. ⁓ yep, all those. ⁓ Drumline Yes. ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah. The ATL. Yep. ⁓ so that's what I thought this was, but no, it's one dude and all his friends. Jay Bock: The Atlanta ⁓ Chorus. No, we had just had ⁓ last week, two weeks ago. The ⁓ yeah. Yeah, and i I'm a little confused if it's about the one dude or if it's about all his friends. Cody: Agreed. I'm like, 'cause the group is just him. Like in the wiki it has him listed that he's a rapper, but it doesn't list any of his friends. So it's like Yes. And a flautist. Yes. Jay Bock: Yeah, there's also a harp and some keyboards and a mixing table and a flautist and a guitarist. And I I mean he's gonna rap and the kids like echo him and they sing along and there's some kids like break dancing along and I I caught zero words, but maybe if you play the audio drop for us we can we can hear a little bit of ⁓ La Russell. Cody: Yes, let's see here. If if it works, we'll see. Jay, why does this guy remind me of Tone the Chief Rocker? Jay Bock: it I it I wonder if this is his only song. Like is this Cody: But it's nothing you've heard before. Jay Bock: Yeah. well Cody: And he repeats it. He tells you over and over and over, this is nothing you've heard before. Jay Bock: Yeah, all right. ⁓ okay. Alright. Is that the tone the Chief Rocka? He's he's just it's just the same line, just the same song over again. Second verse, same as the first. ⁓ I will say like Rap's not really my thing. I yeah, I and this yeah well, yeah. It's and again, I've I drafted him thirty fifth. Like it w I I was lucky to enjoy Chris Turter. ⁓ but l like we got harps and we got guitars and we got flutes and we got keyboards and like I'm Cody: Right. Unless it's Chris Turner. Yeah. Jay Bock: Like there's there's a lot of joy happening on the stage. There's a lot of fun. And and like the thing that I walked away from this was like they had a great time. Cody: Yes, said Yes. Jay Bock: And like when they have a great time, it makes me happy. That makes me smile. So, you know, I coming out of it, I I enjoyed that part of it. Did I enjoy the performance? ⁓ like, you know what you just played for us, I didn't enjoy it that much. Like but watching them on the stage, seeing the joy, seeing the fun, that's that's more fun, right? Cody: Okay. Sure. Yes. Jay Bock: So I I love it when people have fun. Cody: ⁓ I'm I'm with ya. There's I can separate in watching them and having fun and enjoying it and the quality of the performance. Jay Bock: Yeah, I didn't feel like the quality was there. Cody: Right. And so I did have fun watching it. He did he did entertain me a little bit, having the kids come out and dance, say sing a harpist and a flautist on there. Those two things seemed out of place, but for some reason it worked. ⁓ and him dancing around and singing. Yes, they're having all kinds of fun. But I I don't know if the quality was kind quite there. So Jay Bock: Well, you know, I I've I've said it, you know, solo singers make me feel bad. It's like they love music but don't have any friends. This it it's like they love music and have friends. It's Cody: Yeah. Exactly, yes. Even though it's just him. The act is just him. So so it's like Jay Bock: I I guess. Yeah. Well, that way he can cycle through, you know, ⁓ kid moved away, let's bring in another kid. We you know, hey, you wanna be a part? Let's come be a part. Let's you know, come here. Cody: ⁓ yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ it's not gonna get old at all this season. Jay Bock: Okay, Sophia says she loves the energy and the outfits and the song. Mel B, let's hear Melby's comments on La Russell. Cody: Yeah, I had to pull that 'cause in our season thirteen rewatch, she really struggled with the English language. And I was proud of her for knowing the word camaraderie. So Jay Bock: I mean she is a native English speaker. It's not like Cody: Yes, it's it's her first language. Yes. Jay Bock: Doesn't mean that it's not it's an English accent, in fact. So no, she should have ⁓ she should have a master of of camaraderie. ⁓ but yeah, it does seem like they have camaraderie, right? They seem like friends and family and they're having fun. So that's great. Simon says they brought together individual talents that became one. That's the kind of act he was praying would come on the show. Cody: Yes, yes, yes. Ha. Yes. ⁓ sure. Yeah. Praying? Okay. Jay Bock: So it's that's what he said. So four yeses for La Russell and his ⁓ fifty little friends. Cody: Okay. Jay Bock: Okay, all right, let's move on to the next act, not the last act of the night, ⁓ but the next act of the night is Guy Kelton Jones. ⁓ Simon guy guy comes on stage, he's this cool black guy. He's got the beanie on and just like a big smile. Like I'm I'm curious what this guy's gonna do. Simon says he asked how he felt this morning. He says I felt hungry. Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay Bock: Like usual, which I'm like, ⁓ this might be a comedian. I like this guy. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: I I like this guy, Kelton Jones. Guy says ⁓ he says that the show is a great show and it felt this felt like the right time to do it. So ⁓ let's hear a little bit of what Guy ⁓ performs for the judges here. Cody: What'd you think of that? Jay Bock: That is ⁓ I I liked it a lot. I did. ⁓ Guy Kelton Jones, he's he's got some soul. He's got it's an original poem entitled The Riot Wasn't Planned. ⁓ and interspersed there is him singing Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder. Now Cody: ⁓ Okay. Jay Bock: I gotta I gotta play the game real quick. ⁓ Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder. Cody: ⁓ Okay. ⁓ you have to give me a minute. I didn't have that ready. Jay Bock: Well I'll I'll I'll Hemen haw for a second here. a great Stevie Wonder song. his is a little more upbeat than ⁓ just the the long chords that Kelton guy Kelton sang along with here. ⁓ Bum Bum Bum. Cody: Yes, yes. Jay Bock: but the fact that you're taking so long to look this up makes me think that maybe it's not on the playlist. but it should be, and and I'm I want it to be because it's Stevie Wonder's wonderful, and you've and you've got a pretty decent playlist that definitely like includes some Stevie Wonder. so I'm gonna I'm gonna guess that. Cody: Okay. Yes. Jay Bock: This has only a few plays. Let's call it five. Cody: Yeah, it's it's not even in the library. Yeah, there there's there is a higher ground in the library, but it's by the chili peppers, so that's not the same one, right? Okay. Jay Bock: Not even in the library. ⁓ no. I don't know if they've if they readed that song and that's that's news to me, so Cody: ⁓ Stevie Wonder. I've got I've ⁓ over under ⁓ one and a half Stevie Wonder songs in the library. Jay Bock: ⁓ don't even like it's gotta be more than one and a half. Right? Let's go with over. Cody: No, it's exactly one. Jay Bock: What what's Cody: Exactly one ste it's ⁓ sign seal delivered. I'm yours. It's only because it's on the you've got mail soundtrack. Jay Bock: Yeah. That's this is this is sad news, Cody. I I thought I thought you'd have some more Stevie Wonder in your life. Cody: Yeah, sorry about that. I appreciate the Stevie Wonder, but it's just not something that I partake in. Jay Bock: His Christmas album is a a regular play. ⁓ it my wife's parents played it as they were decorating for Christmas when she was growing up. I remember my parents playing it when we were decorating for Christmas when I was growing up. Like his Christmas album really is something special. So it might be worth d putting that one in the in the playlist at least for for some seasonal Stevie Wonder. Cody: Mm-hmm. Okay. ⁓ Fair enough. ⁓ there was one we missed earlier, Jay. ⁓ so when what's her name? ⁓ Betty. When Betty came on, she sang ⁓ she wanted to sing with ⁓ Terry before remember remember he was in White Chicks and she wanted to sing the song with him before she came on the stage. Do you know that song that she sang with him? Jay Bock: Yes. I remember like making a mental note of it, but I don't I didn't make note of it in my notes here. What was it? Cody: So it's A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlson. And and I will tell you that one is in the library. Jay Bock: Okay. That one is in the library. ⁓ let's assume that it's on the playlist, since we're since we've made it this far into the conversation. boy. Like, is the white chicks soundtrack one that you've added to the Cody Patterson playlist? I suspect not. But, you know, you're full of surprises sometimes, Cody. ⁓ let's golly, let's let's give that ⁓ not too many. Cody: Yes. Okay. Yes. Jay Bock: Twelve plays. Okay, all right. Cody: Yeah, you're close. Twenty one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And no, it's it's actually one of her her albums. So yeah. Jay Bock: Okay. Alright. Okay. ⁓ let's let's move on to our final act of the night here, Cody. This is Akira. ⁓ he is from Japan, but he loves Hollywood. ⁓ he's fifty one years old. He's always dreamt of performing in a Hollow Hollywood. ⁓ his parents had a plan for him, ⁓ but he wanted something more, something else. ⁓ And he is a ⁓ he's a professional at what he does. And ⁓ Mel B like she starts to ask for his entire life story. She wants to know what his favorite sandwich is and and and it's you know, the the banter got a little maybe sidetracked. he's gonna leave the stage, he's gonna come back in, he's covering himself with just a python. ⁓ he s says it's a no show show. Cody: Yes. I refer to this guy as man with pan. Jay Bock: Man with pan, ⁓ instead of men with pans. Was that ⁓ we've seen it done with towels, we've seen it done with pans, we've seen it we've we've we've seen this before, right? Just like our contraption at the beginning, just like our our our murmuration crew come here, just like the yeah, comedians and the one man bands and the solo singers Cody: Right. Yes. Right, right. Young and young and strange. Yeah. Jay Bock: Like we've we've seen a lot of this stuff before. ⁓ Guy Kelton Jones. Again, kind of a a facsimile to Brandon Leek. ⁓ so I gotta say, Guy Kelton Jones versus Brandon Leake, I don't know. That's a I I'd be like a a head to head, that's a tough call. Cody: Yeah, yeah, I guess we didn't really finish that conversation 'cause I'm I'm con I'm confounded with him. 'Cause he's listed as spoken word, but he also sings and he's got music. Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah. He he sings with ⁓ with pitch and rhythm. Or he he's just speaks with pitch and rhythm. It's Cody: Yeah. So so I I I guess yeah. So the big question is like what differentiates it from being spoken word to being rap to being a full on song? Jay Bock: I d I don't know. ⁓ Cody: It's like correct, yeah. ⁓ Jay Bock: How how many harps are involved? I don't That's you know, the that's all of these things, it's it's kinda squishy, right? In the Venn diagram of rap and poetry and spoken word and singing, like you know, he he kinda just sits right there in the middle. Cody: Yeah, I did feel like I know we're we've talked been talking about Akira, but I guess we d we just didn't finish Guy Kelton. ⁓ I did feel like at times that I should be like snapping my fingers. Jay Bock: Ha ha ha ha. Real ⁓ real beatnik vibes. No, he's he's too cool for that. Like he's he ⁓ he was great. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. Let's le sorry about the the detour back to Guy Kelton Jones. Cody: Okay. Okay. Well he had the hat and the necklace and everything. I just felt like Okay. So yeah, a ki yeah, Kara. So yeah. ⁓ I mean this was funny. Yeah, again, we've seen like what yeah, Man with Pan, Wes P. You know, we've seen this type of act. It's still funny. it's very it I'm not gonna say it's creative, but the way that he does it is kind of creative. I enjoy it. I enjoy these types of acts because you you do one thing it's like Jay Bock: Man with pan. Cody: It's like magic or, you know, danger or illusion. You do one thing wrong, something could go wrong, but is it the illusion of nudity? Is it like Jay Bock: Yeah. Yeah, he might have, you know, a a sock on or something to you know, for for worst case scenario, the pipe pie pan slips out of his hand and he's you know he might ⁓ keep it a little bit more family friendly that way. ⁓ you know, worst case scenario. But ⁓ he does keep himself covered while he like spins the pie tin around. ⁓ he's got a a cube with the faces judges ⁓ judges faces on it. It looks like a Cody: Sure, yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ like a die that he put the put their faces on and he sets it spinning and he ⁓ like keeps his hips behind it as it kind of wobbles. ⁓ uses two different balloons. ⁓ he has a small cutout of himself that he wears on a wire around his neck and then ⁓ on the stage rolls on this this road. It's like a like a a heartbeat wave, right? So as the as this road rolls past him, this little character that he has around his neck on a on a wire. Like it looks like it's like skateboarding down the road as it goes up and down the the waves of this ⁓ of this road that that comes down. So ⁓ it that was a fun little trick. The whole thing, you know, is like very typical Japanese novelty act stuff. Like it's it's fun, it's funny, it's a little bit risque, it's just How can you not find joy in it? Cody: ⁓ ag agreed. Yeah, it's a great way to kinda end the episode. It's you know, you're on a high, it it's funny, a little bit of a shock value. I I'm I'm liking I'm liking the way they ended this episode. Jay Bock: Okay. Does he have potential to go deep in the game? And can he make it to finals? Cody: I I'm not even sure we see him in live shows. We we may. I think it's I think it's a low I think it's low odds but it's possible. Jay Bock: This is one of those like, you know, it there's gonna be a champions season or a you know, a a a callbacks season, you know, 'cause Wes P showed up like in what did he show up? Like we barely remember this guy. He had one audition and you guys eliminated him and then you brought him back for a mid season show. Like this could totally be that kind of thing. Like, ⁓ Akira, you still performing 'cause we got a spot to fill. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ Mel says coming from Japan to show us that. ⁓ Simon says it was beautiful and he was really funny. Sophia says she wants to say she didn't like it, but she did. And ⁓ Howie says this is what AGT is all about. Cody: Can't see anything like this on other any other show. Jay Bock: I mean, I I haven't been to Japan to watch their their T V, but it seems like ⁓ this is the kind of thing that plays well on Japanese T V from what I what I understand. Cody: Agreed. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ three yeses, a no from from Spicy Milby. and that is ⁓ that is the end of auditions three. Cody: Think you we're we're getting there. From my understanding, I think we're a little under halfway. I think we're getting seven audition episodes, is my understanding. ⁓ so it seems like we're right on track. ⁓ I think Scott kind of nailed it. We're probably gonna get one golden buzzer an episode the remaining of the season, and then yep, and then we'll get do deliberation. So So far, season twenty-one it's not terrible. It's better than hot dog water at this point. So Jay Bock: Okay. Here on out. Okay. Easily better than hot dog water. Cody: Yes. ⁓ so we did get ⁓ a listener question that wanted to just poke po you know, ⁓ get our thoughts on something ⁓ real quick. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah. They reached out to AGT Timepod at gmail.com or on one of our other social media handles at AGT Time Pod. Cody: That is correct, they did. ⁓ so th this is from ⁓ Groot. I am Groot. Yeah. Jay Bock: ⁓ yeah. And I remember him from when I was on Twitter, X. Cody: Yep. ⁓ thoughts on the golden buzzers only being given to singers and dancers so far this season. Jay Bock: it's great for me because it might get some singers and dancers onto my team. When it comes time f for drafting. Cody: Okay. Okay. ⁓ I mean, I'm okay with it. I mean I do like other types of acts. I love I'm big on the acrobat danger comedy. ⁓ I'm hoping that we're gonna get more of those as the season goes along. I do feel like they're kind of just handing ⁓ out to everyone. We're gonna get ten ten gold ten golden buzzers here in auditions. As we as you as y'all said, golden buzzer inflation is really killing us. Jay Bock: Yeah. Cody: We're gonna get four more come live shows. but dancers and singers, I'm not I Yeah. Yeah. Jay Bock: Yeah. So like Acro Crew is like they they take dancers but they add dogs. That's fun. I don't really mind that that's a dance crew going through. Hundred Fingers, I guess he's calling them a dance crew, but I'm not sure that I would Cody: They had dogs, yes. Yes. Correct, yes. I specifically asked that, I said I specifically asked that. Are you considering hundred fingers a dance? He said, I guess. So Jay Bock: Y you'd you'd have to, which is fine. Cody: It's it's a dance it's a if you wanna consider it either a dance crew that does magic or a magic crew that dances I don't know. Jay Bock: That's probably the closest a magic crew that dances. But then we've got ⁓ you know, a rapper and a singer and a singer and a singer and a singer. ⁓ so ⁓ Ugh, like I I, like everybody else, like the the coldest hot take there is on Reddit, you know, w what's up with all these singers getting golden buzzers? ⁓ it they play to the audience. It like, you know, it's it's what it's what works. ⁓ they're good enough to make it through all their you know pre audition auditions, right, to actually make it in front of the judges. Cody: Yeah. Jay Bock: To perform on the stage, they must ha be okay. ⁓ so Yeah, let ⁓ let ⁓ perform. If if this is what plays, if this is what speaks to their heart and they they give ⁓ the golden buzzer, give them the golden buzzer. I it's it's not mine to give. Cody: Yeah. Yep. I would f I would prefer others, but whatever. I mean it's it's it's it doesn't feel special anymore anyway. Jay Bock: Yeah, yeah. You know, we've we've talked about like what the golden buzzer could be, right? If I were on that judge's table and the other three judges hit no for my one man band, Eric Haynes, ⁓ I'd be like, Screw you guys, golden buzzer that crap. I'm taking go, man. Let's let's ride this train. Yeah. You know, let's like let's use it for those those acts that Cody: Yes. That's right. Let's let's Dorothy Williams this thing, right? Jay Bock: We're afraid aren't gonna make it through without our help. And then, you know, let's, you know, like, ⁓ this obviously is going through. Let's give them a golden buzzer. Like, ⁓ bull bull honky. Like I ⁓ that that's how I would like to see the one the the golden buzzers used, right? something that speaks to me and not everybody else for some reason. that's where I want to give those golden buzzers. Cody: Right. Sure. Yes, yeah. Okay. Any other thoughts, Jay? Jay Bock: I wanna know who is your golden buzzer of the night? Who would you have Cody: Ooh, of the night. I would probably give it to ⁓ that's a good question. ⁓ I would probably give it to s to to Wow, I don't even know. ⁓ I'm looking at this list. ⁓ Who did I enjoy the most? I enjoyed Chris. ⁓ I thought Betty was better than Isaac. ⁓ Jay Bock: Uh-huh. Cody: Yeah, I would probably give it to Betty. I mean, I hate to say it as a singer, but looking at the list, there's really nothing I did like Chris, but there's nothing in this list that's like, that was just awesome. Jay Bock: Mm. Okay. And you're not gonna go with ⁓ our our magicians, ⁓ Akira, our comedian, novelty act, Guy Kelton Jones didn't ⁓ didn't do it for ya. Cody: No, no, no, I don't Didn't do anything for nope, didn't do I just it was good, just didn't like again, it didn't like buzzer worthy, right. To be honest, I probably would not have hit it for anything in this episode. Yeah. Jay Bock: Nothing gold buzzer worthy. Okay. Alright. yeah, I mean I I can say like there's the the what I just said, like Eric Haynes, my man. Let's let's let's give you the golden buzzer. Let's get you through to the next round. Let's, you know, maybe fix up some of the things that didn't play well on the stage. Right. Maybe it works really well for a ⁓ you know, a a roving musician, ⁓ a street performer, you know, ⁓ that kind of thing, but it doesn't really translate to the AGT stage. Let's figure out how to how to tighten this up for the AGT stage and let's let's put you through to the lives. So maybe maybe that's where I would go with it. I I kind of feel similarly. Like there's nothing that felt like a golden buzzer moment. But when you've got fourteen golden buzzer moments to hand out, like Cody: Yes. Ha ha ha. Jay Bock: Yeah, and there might be a group one, we might have fifteen, sixteen. It's hard to say. An audience golden buzzer. That wouldn't be out of the question. Two audience golden buzzers, why not? Cody: You know, I hate to say this, but I probably would have taken one from this week and given a third one last week. To maybe like Holland and Sienna. Jay Bock: Ooh. Okay. Cody: Probably that's the only one. Jay Bock: now both Scott and I were pretty high on Caesar Diaz last week. ⁓ I'm curious just like give me some thoughts. What what'd you think of ⁓ of our clown last week? Cody: Yes. Yeah, yeah. I mean it was really good clowning around. ⁓ I think what he did was pretty incredible. ⁓ I liked the and I get that it's part of the the trick, but using the wired microphone that they had to run a cable all the way back behind the the curtain ⁓ for it. I thought that was really cool looking. ⁓ you said it was what, like third or fourth generation clown, something like that? Jay Bock: Yeah. A fourth generation physical comedian and clown. Cody: Yeah, that's awesome. That is really, really awesome. ⁓ Man, I hope we get to see him again, 'cause I think what there's more stuff that he could do there. Yeah. Jay Bock: Okay, all right. But he wouldn't have been your the the one that you steal it for even. Cody: No, no, no. It'd probably be the hot Holland in Sienna. You know, almost bringing down Melby's X is pretty incredible. Jay Bock: Okay. All right. Fair enough. ⁓ okay. that is that's this week's episode. I don't know. That's auditions three. It's been it's been fun to talk with you again, Cody. I am ⁓ excited for next week. you know, we'll see how many performances they publish out on ⁓ on on the internet for us to watch before. Cody: That's auditions three. Yep. Jay Bock: the actual show again. ⁓ but we've got that coming. And then I will be gone for a couple of weeks to Jamaica. ⁓ gonna not worry about it. You've got some friends to come in and and fill the co pilot role here. Cody: Yep. Yeah, we'll get someone lined up. Jay Bock: And then we are ⁓ we're off to the rest of the summer. So Cody, thanks again for all you do. Cody: You're welcome. ⁓ if you want to find us, you can reach out to us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com and you can find us on our website, AGT timepod.com. Go check out the ⁓ the ⁓ hall of fame and the blogs and all of our podcast episodes are out there as well. So come and find us, Jay. Thanks. ⁓ great week, great auditions three. ⁓ we will see you all next week for auditions four. Jay Bock: I'll remind you to stay safe.