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• Cody: Everyone, welcome to our finale edition of AT Time. This is the guy that's got a podcast, but he's gonna do another podcast and then he's gonna go on and do another podcast, another podcast. Jay: I'm not sure what that means, Cody. Cody: Along with Jay: yeah. And I gave up sleeping to be here, much like come here, it's J Box. Cody: Yeah. I tried to reference Royal Lasers where they were Jay: right. Okay. All right. It's Cody: with light balance, then they come on here, they come here, and now they go back Jay: Ha ha ha. Cody: and perform with light balance. Yeah. Jay: Right. And they've got a residency in Vegas. Different than Light Balance, I guess. I don't know. jeeze. Cody: Maybe? Yeah, I don't know. Welcome, Jay. Jay: Thank you. It's great Cody: Yeah. Jay: to be back. it hasn't been that long since we got to see each other, but Cody: No, I I popped on for a few minutes last night during the results pod. Comment did a great job. You guys also did a great job. He keeps he does a great job at just keeping everyone on task and keeps everything flowing. He asks great questions and you guys talked about some some great things and had some great points. But it was extremely late for those for the for us East Coasters, so I headed off to bed 'cause A G T Last couple weeks apparently hates their East Coast viewers. Jay: I was thinking it was gonna be on from seven to nine, but it was on from eight to ten, which was later than Cody: Yep. Jay: I expected. Cody: Yeah, and I think they've done this last few years and I'm trying to remember, but I think last year they even did like a recap episode beforehand, but this year they had the voice on beforehand. So Jay: Hmm, okay. well this is not a voice podcast. this is AGT time and it Cody: Yes. Jay: is it's time for AGT. Cody: Time for one last well, second to last. Comment are not gonna do one more this weekend. Jay: You've you've got one more podcast on the season. And Cody: Yes. Jay: then I I understand we're taking a break. We're gonna let let you breathe. Let let the podcast breathe Cody: Yes. Jay: and then into the off season. Cody: Yes, I'm gonna go into hibernation for a few weeks and catch my breath. So just let's get let's get this started. Let's get right into it. So you can f yeah, Jay: Okay. Well Cody: you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail dot com. Go check out our website, AGT timepod dot com. Commenters leaderboard is ready. It's not out there yet, but he's got it ready. So we're gonna be posting that here. within the next within the next week. Within the next week his leaderboard and all that stuff will be out on the website. So go con keep going out there. Go check that out 'cause it's gonna be interesting to see where he puts these acts as well as season twenty one. Jay: All right. Well if you want to be cool, like first place runner up, Geno Geno Plaguer, reach out to A G T Time Pod. We Cody: Yes. Jay: we rate, review, subscribe, do all that stuff and and let's you know come come be a part of the party. So that's that's Cody: Yeah, come here and be part of the party. Jay: that's it. There you go. All right, Cody, let's jump into it. It's finale night, it's performances. Cody: Yes. Jay: First performance of the night, they start off with Royal Lader Lasers. was that a surprise to you to see Royal Lasers first? Cody: It it was a little surprising. I think that Commenter and I, in our side side picks that we do, each of us picked a dog act to start off the night. Jay: Yeah, not a surprise. I would think that they would definitely want to divide those up and it's a fun family friendly way to start, but so's Royal Lasers. So Royal Lasers, we're going to be performing to Backstreet Boys. Cody: Yes. Jay: all right. there's a little bit of pyrotechnics Cody: Ha ha. Jay: on the stage. They do like some teleporting onto the stage. Cody: Yep. Yep. Jay: Yep. They they dance, they interact with the same little like video game star that they interacted with last time. and in their intro package they tell us that they've already got a residency in Vegas. Cody: Yeah, that was not really that surprising that they were gonna have the residency in Vegas 'cause they've basically they haven't had the residency, but they were backup dancers for Light Balance. So Jay: Right. Cody: for th for for them to get the residency didn't feel like that big of a shocker. It's cool. Great job. I'm I'm pleased that they they have a place to go to perform. It's just not that big of a shocker. Jay: I'm I'm imagining that they're gonna be in the same theater that Light Balance was. They've got all the technology already set up. They're just gonna Cody: Yes. Yep. Jay: like take a Sharpie and mark out where it says light balance and Sharpie over it Royal Lasers and you know, bada boom, bada bing, the show goes on. Cody: Yes. You don't really need to change much on it, right? Yeah. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. One of those big fat markers too, the the like half inch wide tips. That's that's what it's Vegas. Like it's gotta be big. No, no, no, no, no. Cody: The that's right. Not not the not the not not the fine point, right? Yeah, no. Jay: A big marks a lot. Cody: When you gotta when you gotta hold one you gotta hold like like your whole hand has to hold it, right? Yeah. There you go, yeah. Jay: Yeah. Yeah, like a Coke can. I I don't have much else to say about Royal Lasers. It it was a fine performance. There was nothing that I was like, now we've finally like found what we can do with this technology. It's just like more Cody: Yes. Jay: of the same. That's what it felt like to me. Cody: It it is. They're a fun act to watch. It's still incredible an an incredible type of act, whether it's light balance, I illuminate, them, light balance kids, light balance adults and kids, light balance dogs, whatever it may be. Jay: Ha ha ha ha. Cody: wouldn't that be an incredible thing to have light balanced dogs? Jay: You know, if I I I wouldn't be that surprised. Cody: Trademark. Copyright. it's still an incredible type thing. When I saw it live, I was still extremely impressed when I saw Light Balance Live. So it and I s and I Illuminate live. It's still really cool. So I Jay: I bet it's a lot of fun live. Yeah. I I just don't feel like it translates to the TV very well for me. Like it I I lose scope. I lose like where are the edges? What what's being projected? What's people like it just it gets funny and I I don't like that I can't like really tell what's going on. Cody: actually think I actually enjoy it on the TV because I'm I'm the opposite. I I want to stay immersed and I think they can do things maybe with the TV that they can't do there in the theater. I have a feeling that when people see some of the stuff in the theater it doesn't translate well because they can't do with some of the three D effects. and so I think when they do it what irritates me is when they have me immersed in the show and then all of a sudden Now we're behind the judges and you've taken me completely out of it. Jay: Mm. I I yeah, I think I want just that live sh that big one big wide shot. Cody: Yes. Jay: and I wouldn't mind seeing the back of the judge's head to give me like something to ground myself. Cody: Okay. Okay. Jay: But you know, I I think, you know, maybe different different ways to to look at the same same thing. So let's talk a little bit Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Different what's the what's the what's the saying? Different w different stuff for different folks. What's the word? What's the one I'm looking for? Different Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Jay: Different strokes for different folks. You do you. I don't Don't Yuck My Yum. I don't know. It's Cody: Yeah. Very yeah. Jay: let's talk judges' comments. You've got a few pulled up here. first we go to Howie. Let's hear what Howie had to say about royal lasers. Cody: Already a winner. Jay: I yeah. I I don't think they really care how they land. If if they're gonna split their twenty thousand dollars a year for forty years, or is it forty thousand f I don't know. Whatever it is. It's it it's it's a nice part time job extra payment. Like it just whatever. Okay. mm that's yeah, great for them. They are They're winners. That I think they accomplished what they set out to do. Cody: I I think yes, they have the mission accomplished banner flying high that people Jay: Ha ha ha. Cody: know who we are, we've got our show, we can go now. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's hear what Mel has to say. Cody: Again, they're already winners. Mel B, you could have already taken them to this show. It's called the Light Balance Show. Jay: Yeah, or you know, I I Howie keeps talking about bringing his his granddaughter to the show. She could have brought him to to the show tonight, I bet. Cody: Right. Aren't her kids a little bit older? Okay. Jay: I have no idea. I I have I I was like, Mel B has kids? Huh. I I don't Cody: Yeah, I I knew she had kids. I just I thought they were a little older. Jay: I I like celebrity gossip is something that interests me zero. Like I just I I I do not care. So good on you for having kids. Cody: Now now I'm I was excited, now I'm curious, but Jay: Grown kids even. Congratulations. Cody: the September second article. Let's see here. What we got? twenty-seven, twenty-seven years old, nineteen, Jay: Twenty s okay. Cody: and fifteen. Jay: Twenty seven, nineteen, and fifteen. That is a range. Cody: Yes. I think the twenty seven year old could probably get her own ticket. Jay: I suspect yeah, if they're Cody: Yes. Jay: an adult, that seems very possible. but no i it it like is is this family friendly? Can you enjoy this, you know, intergenerationally? Yeah, that's f great. Great for them. Cody: Yes. Yep. Yep. Jay: Sophia says it's one of the most fun acts of the season and they look like they're having a great time, and then guest judge K S I, I think International Superstar, K S I Cody: I think so, yes. Did you know anything about KSI before before Tuesday night? Jay: Y you could have just said L T and I would have thought the same thing. I don't know who this is. Cody: So the only thing I know about KSI and I've had our you know, friend of the pod Corey kinda help fill me in on this, the only thing I knew about KSI was he is a was a judge or he is a judge on BGT, and that's all. Jay: Okay. how many seasons? We do we know? Cody: Yes, he's done I think one full season and then he did part time with was it is it Bruno that does Dancing with the Stars? I think it's Bruno. I think he's I think he split Jay: okay. Cody: time with Bruno because Bruno was kinda going back and forth between Dancing with the Stars and BGT for some reason. So Jay: Ooh. no, I've I've never heard of the guy. Like, I don't know. I think his job is influencer and you know, good on him for making a living at it, I guess. but let's let's let's hear what KSI has to say. He's gonna he's gonna punch us right between the eyes with with something great, I'm sure. what Like, did he did you see that coming from a mile away? Cody: And the audience had the audacity to boo him. It's like I I would boo him just for using Simon's lines. Jay: Yeah, it was that was weird. maybe maybe a beat too long before the I loved it. Cody: Sure. Jay: Like, I don't know. maybe a little bit too much of a smirk on his face, like I here comes the line, guys. You ready? Cody: Yes. Jay: So I dunno. He and that was it. That's all that he had to say. Cody: I know. Jay: Is that? Cody: So weird. I Jay: Is this good judging? It doesn't feel like good judging. Cody: Dude, you've got you Yeah, I guess they do different type of judging over there on BGT. I don't know. Jay: Alright. Okay. Alright. Well, after Royal Lasers performs, we montage the entire season. Cody: What in the world was this about? Jay: I d I don't know. Cody: A five minute recap of the season. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: In in the finals performan in the middle at the well, I say in the middle. During the finals performances. It's like what are we doing? Jay: Yeah, though that was weird. so second act of the night, five minutes after Cody: Okay. Jay: we expected them, comes come here. Cody: Okay. Yep. Jay: look what you just made me do. song by Taylor Swift. All for all you Cody: yeah. Jay: Swifty heads out there. Cody: I I need to look that up because that is not on any of the albums that I have. Jay: So I am more familiar with the song than I should be, Cody: Okay. Jay: because the marching band last season did a Tchaikovsky, Taylor Swift T-Squared mashup. Cody: Okay. Jay: And it included the song that Come Here danced to, Look What You Just Made Me Do. Look what you just Cody: Hmm. Jay: made me look what you just made me do. It's yeah. Cody: Okay, I'm I'm I'm pulling up the library, I'm pulling up the playlist. 'Cause 'Cause I don't remember seeing that. Well there it is. Yep. There it is. Jay: Well there it is. So Cody: and it's got place. Jay: can't be more than four. Cody: PH Ten flace. Jay: Ten plays and also completely new to you. Cody: Yes. I don't know why I blocked that out. Last time it was played was February. So Jay: Okay. Cody: that might have something to do with it. So Jay: Might get another play pretty soon here. Cody: Yes. Okay. Jay: all right. So Korean dance troupe, they do they do what they do. It's it's fine. nothing about it was like, hey, this is you know brand new. I it similar to Royal Lasers. It was just like, huh. I guess that's fine. what did you think of their dance? What did you think of their performance? Cody: Yeah, I I enjoy their performance. I mean again they're they're on our on our team on Team Cody and Commenter. so I enjoy their dancing. It's it's a lot more fun than some of the other acts that have done this, like your Brent Streets. I I I there's just something about them that I really enjoy watching. I think they did a good job with like the red colors. Jay: Yeah, I I liked their last performance much better. This one just Cody: Okay. Jay: it it felt lacking. Like it the it lacked the imagination, it lacked the the I don't know, the engagement from me. It was just it felt like they they kind of mailed this one in. Cody: Okay. you got the guy going down to the table. Jay: Yeah? Cody: And doing a little dance there at the table. So Jay: Yeah, they did like one trick. I you know, I try to be like, Okay, this is their their one big trick or or you know, the the memorable thing that they did. I'm like, Well, they dropped a girl from the platform into the other dancer's arms but like it's not that thrilling. Like it's just like, Huh, that's that's all you got for us. Cody: Okay. Well, I I enjoyed it. Yeah. Jay: okay. Okay. All right. Sophia says she doesn't understand why they're so synchronized or how they're so synchronized. choreography always feels fresh and creative and they should perform at the Super Bowl. Cody: Yeah, that was a weird statement. That's usually a Simon Simon comment. Jay: I mean this this is the Super Bowl as far as I'm concerned, but that's Cody: That is true. You did you said on the pod last night that this is your Super Bowl. I was like, that is right. Jay: What's Mel says they literally leave their heart and soul on stage. Doesn't Cody: Oof. Jay: know the name of this kind of dance, but she loves it. Cody: Wouldn't that hurt if you literally left your heart on the stage? Wouldn't that be a problem? Jay: Yeah, like we're we are teaching our fourth graders the difference between literal and figurative, and we're Cody: Good. Jay: talking about a a figuratively great heart and a literal great heart. And somebody Cody: Okay. Jay: who has a literal great heart can, you know, like run marathons and, you know, has great blood blood flow. And somebody who has a figuratively great heart, like doesn't let things get them down or It is strong in cases of adversity. passionate about something. So, you know, they I think figuratively left their heart and soul on the stage. Cody: I think I think Mel B literally needs to take one of your courses. Okay. Jay: there you go. Come back to fourth grade with us. but also I understand that, you know, the dictionary has redefined literally to mean figuratively, because that's how people use it. KSI Cody: Interesting. Yes. They they they they've literally redefined literally? Okay. Okay. Jay: Yes. To mean the opposite of what it means, yeah. KSI in all his wisdom says it was very, very good. He loves what he saw. Cody: Yeah. Boy, he's just nailing these comments. Jay: Yeah. And then Howie says they are his favorite human dance troupe. Cody: Yeah, and then he calls them machines, right? Jay: diddy it I don't know. It not as good as Cody: I think s yeah. 'Cause Jay: the audition, that's the comment that I wrote. Cody: It really stuck in my brain that he said that he's that they're his favorite human dance group group, but then he calls them machines. Which I don't think he means literal machines. I think he means figurative machines. So Jay: Yeah, yeah. they move in a nearly mechanic way. Cody: Yes. Jay: there you go. no, I I don't know. I like I was I was really wanting to just be wowed, right? Like this is the finale of AGT, right? Like this is your chance to to win the prize, to go down in the history books. It's like they showed up. Right? I'm You know, if if this were the Super Bowl, I'm looking at, you know, three nothing at the end of the first quarter. Like, Cody: It's it's almost like some of these acts kind of just took the temperature of the room and knew where they already stood and didn't feel like they could really advance much higher. Like they knew like and and we're we could talk about it, but it's like everyone knows who's gonna win, right? So you're you're kinda like, Okay, well we already know who's gonna Jay: Yeah, yeah. It's Cody: win. Let's just do what we can to not have a bad finish. Let's not let's Jay: It's a race for second place. Cody: not embarrass ourselves is pretty much what they were trying to do. Jay: So it not even a race for second place, it's a race for not embarrassing yourself. Like just Cody: Correct, yes. Jay: just show up and don't be don't be sorry. Yeah. Cody: Yes. Jay: I don't know. Yeah. you might be onto something. I you know, that that feels like what we got to see a lot of. because we go to the the next act of the night here we we get Le Noel from Dallas. Cody, you're from Texas. Cody: I I would think Steven would be more likely to know who she is than I would. Jay: Alright, you haven't met her? Okay. Cody: No. I left I left before she was born. Jay: Alright, she's gonna sing a little ditty called Risk It All by Bruno Mars. And let's hear a little bit about let's let's hear her version. Okay. Cody: So I I think I'm in the minority on this. I kinda like that. Jay: I i I didn't feel like she was swinging for the fences. Cody: Okay. Jay: it she could have and I think should have gone bigger. Cody: Yeah. Okay. I kinda liked it though. I I kinda like what she did. I thought it was you know, we talked with was it Burton Byron? Like they're j they're coffee Jay: Yeah. Yep. Cody: shop guys, you know, you put the vinyl on, you're just sitting there, you got your you got your your sweater vest sitting there with your with your pump your pumpkin spice, right? Your chai tea. Yeah. Jay: Machai tea, yeah. Cody: I feel I feel she kinda filled that gap this week. It's like it's like you've got this and I think Mel B compared her to Whitney Houston, which might be a little stretched, but I I I for some reason I kinda had that same feeling. I was like, this feels very Whitney Houston like. And it's like I've got this I got this on the I got this on the the record player. I got this on the C D player and I'm just I'm making some dinner and I'm having a nice little little meal, listening to some Le Noel. I was like, this sounds nice. Just sounds really, really good. And it I like the little like classic guitar that was playing along with her, maybe the little piano that was going. I was like, this just made me feel like very warm and like cozy and like, I'm really enjoying this. And and I felt it I felt it met more of her personality. And we'll hear how his comments because I'm gonna add a little more to it. But I felt it added more to her personality. I think this is the style of music that she needs to sing. She is not a she's not a a a Laura D. She's not a nay nay. She's not a big singer. She's not an exciting singer. She's a very like I'm I don't really want to use the word homely, but she's more of a calming type she does have a big voice Jay: Yeah. Cody: and she should use the big voice, but she is I I think this is her style of music right here. Jay: I don't specifically remember the other songs that she sang this season, but did she did she change lanes? Did she go from from the fast lane to the coffee shop lane? I'm I'm curious because I was expecting Cody: Yeah. Jay: the fast lane. Cody: Yeah, here I'm gonna play a little bit of like her audition real quick. Jay: Okay. Cody: Well, sorry. I think that's her audition. Let me double check that. I'm sorry. I that may be Laura D's. Nope, that's Lay. That's Lay's audition. Jay: Okay. Well Cody: I I think what she did in her finals is more what she should be singing. Jay: Yeah but that's not what we expected. Cody: No, but I think I think this is what she needs to sing. This is her quarter final. Jay: Yeah. Cody: Well, shoot. Jay: Yeah. and then we got I don't know, like it just didn't didn't land for me. Cody: Okay. Jay: th and that's you know like I'm supposed to be the coffee shop guy, right? Like Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: but But this is the finales of AGT season twenty-one. Cody: Okay. Jay: And we got coffee shop. Cody: I don't know if it's full coffee shop. Again, it's almost like I'm like I'm cooking a dinner at the house. Like maybe the Jay: Yeah. Cody: the wife and I are gonna have a little romantic dinner, that type of thing got the candles going, maybe the fireplace is going, you know, something along those lines. Not really sit at the coffee shop, you know, drinking your your chai. I don't know. Jay: Okay, well, that's fine. That's fine. Cody: Okay. Yeah, yeah. Jay: she looked great, she sounded great. I it just felt too safe to me. Cody: Okay, sure. Yep. Jay: Judge's comments: Mel says, for 14, it sounds good, she commands attention, has flavors of Whitney Houston in her voice, which reminds me, Cody, do you Whitney Houston's favorite kind of coordination? I know you do. Cody: Hendye. Jay: Yes. Thanks for leaning into that. Cody: Yeah. Jay: KSI says he's perplexed. Her voice was incredible. He can tell this is what she was born to do. Cody: Sure. Yep. Jay: All right. and then let's hear what Howie had to say to Lay Noel. Cody: So I'm I'm not great at reading people. Like that's just one of the things that I struggle with. Jay: Okay. Cody: But I think I kind of pegged Lay Noel pretty early on. And I don't think that she's the person that gets excited about things. Jay: No. I it did seem like during Judge's comments he was just like straight faced. Cody: Yes. I and I don't I mean commenter talked about this that there really hasn't been stories this season. And again, I'm not great at obser observing people and reading people very well, but I I think I think that she might be a little on the spectrum. Jay: I wonder if that's the case. Cody: Okay. And so I think that's just her she just doesn't get excited about things. She's very so her authenticity, I think what she is doing is her authentic authenticity. Jay: Okay, yeah. Cody: yeah, yeah. And so if also like maybe I noticed during her singing kind of her her hand movements, her hand gestures weren't maybe like she was trying to do something big, but I just don't think that's who she is. And I think that's another reason why I think this is her style of music. I don't think big rock pop songs are songs that she in I mean, and maybe she did pick maybe her audition, but I don't think these other songs are songs that are her personality or her style. So Jay: Yeah. Well and if the game is Don't Make a Fool of Yourself, Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: she was very successful. If the game is I'm gonna try and win this thing, like I don't know that that this song is gonna do it. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. So I I was a little surprised from Howie that he said that 'cause usually he's really good about this. Jay: Yeah, yeah. Cody: And so and and I don't think that or let me rephrase that. I think that maybe her and her family did not want that to come out as a story for her during A G T. Jay: Yeah, I think if they wanted that to be her story, that could have been her story. but they Cody: Correct, correct. Jay: they never mentioned that. They it was more of a a show don't tell kind of presentation of that. So Cody: Yep, yep. So yeah. Jay: alright, and then Sophia s Sophia says her voice is out of this world, she doesn't show any nerves, she looks great on the stage. So fine praise from Sophia as well. Cody: Yep. Okay. Jay: All right, fourth act of the night, we're going to Veronica Goriskova. Cody: Love it. She is one of the best of the season. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. I I think so. She starts like right up at the above the judge's table. They're like, and here's Veronica Gorsko. It's like it's no like setting up. It's no her getting onto the pole. It's no dance. No f no filler. It's like I am on the pole and I am sixteen feet in the air. Deal with it. Cody: I am trying to win this show. Jay: Yeah. so she's like on the bar above the jud judge's table, like upside down, doing the splits, sideways doing the splits, spinning with just two hands on the pole, and then just one hand on the pole, spinning around up above the judge's table. does some really neat looking like strength moves. she comes down and unwraps this strap that's on this pole above the judge's table and like puts it around her waist so that she can stand on the side of the pole with the strap holding her up and it just it looks so cool and it's so neat. and then she goes up to this stage to a longer pole. climbs up to the top, like as beautifully as a person can, and then does exactly what we all expected, that big death drop, dead man's drop, whatever it's called, like curled around the bar and stops a f a foot from the end and then the music awkwardly stops. Cody: think commenter one of you all talked about that. It's like the the music this season they just will stop in the middle of a song. Jay: There was something weird going on. Cody: Yeah. They do it all the time during the particularly during the dog acts, they do it all the time. Jay: Yeah, yeah. Cody: yeah, so it's it's so weird. she is incredible. She's doing like Christy Sellers maneuvers on this pole with a pole that moves. You know, Christy's pole is stationary and strapped to the ground. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: This pole's flailing all about everywhere. And she's still doing the maneuvers. I think it was last week coming in and I talked about that she's doing all this unlike an an aerialist that we've typically seen where they'll be on a bar on a on a horizontal bar or a ring or something that will like support them. Sh her only support is holding on to the bar. So I found it interesting that she brings this strap out this week and is then using it to support herself so she doesn't Jay: Well, it's so that she can interact with the bar in a different way. Cody: Right. And I th I thought I I liked I liked that she did it. I just thought it was an interesting that we kinda commented on it last week and then now s then she brings it out. So Jay: Yeah, yeah. no, I I always I I really do enjoy watching her perform. She does some really neat things with a an apparatus that we just don't see much of. I don't know that we've ever seen it on AGT. you you had the Christy Sellers reference and you know, I I do wanna say like Christy Sellers, like the pole dancing was beautiful and amazing. But the way that she interacted with her with the technology around her, right? And and Cody: Right. Yeah. Jay: the the very precise timing and all the you know the the minutia each of her movements had to be perfect to to interact with the background. you know, a as she opens up the suitcase and and the light, you know, emanates from it, the color emanates from it. It's like, that like that takes Just a a very fine thing. And I would love to see like Veronica, you know, do this act with that kind of technology around her and see like, you know, the the the world of possibilities opens up having the the bottom of the pole free, right? Like what how can we use this to to make that kind of thing? So yeah, just kind of some some random thoughts for me. I I wrote down, after the fourth act here, best act of the night so far. Cody: Yeah, absolutely. Do you know if the two of them have crossed paths? Jay: I am not aware of that, no. Cody: Okay. I'd be curious if they cross paths. Jay: No. Yeah, I I'm unaware. Unaware. all right. So S Sophia says each time gets better and better, it's flawless, beautiful, sexy, says it's a Vegas show. Cody: It is a Vegas show, yes. Jay: think yeah, that that works for me. Do they need to bring back AGT Vegas show, Cody? Cody: they should and I think that when they move to either Nashville or Atlanta they should do it there. So Jay: there you go. Alright, okay. Howie says her athleticism, strength, fearlessness, her mom should be proud of all of it. Mel says she was afraid that she was a one trick kind of act, but she does it so well, it didn't get boring. Cody: No, it doesn't get boring. Is it is it Scott is Jay: It doesn't get boring. And then Cody: it was it Scott that said that it all kind of looks and it all kind of looks the same to him? Jay: Yeah, about aerialists in general, yeah. Cody: Error list, yeah, okay. Jay: and I get that, right? It's kind of how I've always watched dance troops, right? Like they're all just dancing, to say. Like, I don't I don't get it, but I'm not a dancer, right? and I don't understand the the minutia. I'm trying to change my thinking to evolve to be to be a better me and appreciate no Cody: Okay. Okay. Okay. Are you literally evolving? Are you are you literally Jay: I'm I'm evolving my thinking. I am literally evolving my thinking. Cody: Okay. Jay: and like you know I well I'm not a dancer and I don't really get it. Like appreciating like they are moving their bodies in specific ways like at specific times, sometimes in difficult ways, staying balanced, like all the, you know, there's a a lifestyle that goes into being a successful dancer, right? A a capable dancer. And you know, a as I sort of open myself up to thinking about that, you know, I'm looking at aerialists differently. Like h how are they choosing to interact with the apparatus? What are they doing different than what I've seen before? And trying to you know, look at it with with new eyes that isn't just like, another aerialist, another dancer. Sometimes again, I'm not a dancer and sometimes it does just feel like, another dancer. So I I get it, but I think that Veronica Cody: That that's good, Jay. Jay: does a good job of of of showing us something new in the world of aerialism. Cody: Yeah, that's that's good that you're doing that, Jay. Jay: I mean after 200 or so episodes of AGT time, maybe I should start to think like, how can I appreciate these dancers better? Cody: Sure, yeah. Jay: Finally, international superstar KSI says he thought just the poll at the judge's desk was enough, but then she goes up to the stage, it's dangerous, it's fierce, it's scary, it's Veronica. Cody: Do we think he watched any of these acts previous performances before coming on? Okay. He's going into this blind. Jay: No. No. I I think so. I think he Cody: Okay. Jay: he came into it knowing nothing. Cody: Okay, that's amazing. Okay. Jay: I'm I'm just gonna give my raw, unfiltered reactions. Cody: Could he go on Steven unfiltered? Jay: I think that Stephen Unfiltered would really appreciate that. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: all right, fifth act of the night. Let's hit the halfway mark here. We're gonna go to Acro Canine Crew. their head trainer was injured, so they had to make a last minute change. Cody: Yes. Jay: Did you catch what the change was? Cody: I did not catch what the change was. Okay. Jay: No, I didn't either. I d I don't I I didn't understand what that was about. instead of pink, this time it's gonna be lots of neon. Cody: Love the theming. They have been one of the best theming acts of the season. Yeah. Jay: Alright. I it's hard for me to see the whole act at a time. Like it it the the pink was so pink, it was like I'm I I can't see what's happening. the Cody: Okay. Jay: neon was so big and bright and dark, like it was hard to see hard to see everything that was going on. again, sometimes I I Cody: It was the eighties, man. There was neon and neon pink everywhere in the eighties. Jay: Sometimes I just want that big wide shot though. And Cody: What's it? Jay: you know, it was more of Acro Canine crew doing what Acro Canine crew does. dancer couple of couple of moves worth noting. dancers walking on her hands and a little dog weaves through her arms as she walks across on her hands. dogs come from either side of the stage and jump over the same Dancers like at the same time, one I I think like parallel to each other, one jumped higher than the other. that seems like a hard thing to train dogs to do. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: a dog dancer does like some kind of slow tumbling moves across the stage that the dog weaves around. the I think it's that collie that just looks so eager to please like dancing around that furry dog. I don't know the breed of that one, but like you know, weaving underneath it and over top of it as it walks across the stage. my notes, I say the dog seemed a little bit off tonight. Also, the music stops awkwardly. Cody: Yes. Jay: and like they were trying to end with this one big trick and the dog wasn't just wasn't agreeing to do it, and then like the music stops and they're like, okay, now do it. And it jumps over them and into the trainer's arms. Cody: Dogs and kids, right? Jay: Dogs and kids? Like yeah, you got both. Cody: Yeah. Extra degree of di difficulty. Jay: So yeah. yeah, like ramp it up. but like is it good enough? Are they gonna get top five? Are they gonna Or or was this kind of like more of the same, nothing too new, nothing too exciting, too many mistakes to really Cody: It yeah, it wasn't great, but they're still a lot of fun to watch. And a lot of their performance is the theming. I love the eighties, like workout, fitness type theming that they got going on here. The dogs are really good. I mean, they just performed they f I guess they performed last week. So, you know, the there's a lot going on with the dogs, but you're right. They always seem eager to please. They always the dogs Seem like they're having so much fun. Jay: Yeah. Yeah they do. and that's and that's fun. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: judges comments KSI says dancing with dogs is risky, but the performance was spectacular. Howie says we love dog acts, but they're better than that. They're a dog show. Cody: Yes. Jay: In fact, they're the best in show. Cody: Yes. Did you see that movie? Yeah. Jay: yeah. I love me a a mocumentary. Cody: Yeah. Jay: they have another movie called A Mighty Wind and it's about folk bands coming together for like this reunion performance for their their producer who passed away. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: And like the music is spectacular and like the whole movie just makes me smile and I it's man, if if pumpkin spice latte were We're a movie, like that's that's my comfort zone right there. It's a mighty wind. So if Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: if you like best in show, try a mighty wind. Cody: Okay. Jay: Mel says watching the dogs, they're so talented, they make it so fun and enjoyable. she compliments the dancing and the choreography. And then Sophia says she just wants to hold the dogs. she's gonna miss this season because she wants to be around the dogs. She says they belong in the finale. All right. And then after the judge's comments, Terry Cruz comes out and he asks the the choreographer, one of the head ladies, about what was happening. Let's hear a little bit about Terry Cruz. Cody: That's right. As a proud member of Team Cody and Commenter, she fought through adversity because she knew we had to get us a championship this week. Jay: We there was a chance there was a chance you weren't gonna get the the championship belt. Slim chance. Cody: Some chance, yes. Jay: I'd say about as big as Nene's chance of not winning. Cody: Yeah, yeah. Yep. So good for her for fighting through. That's what champions do. Jay: That's right. it yeah, I don't know. It's good for you, I guess. Cody: She she was there to win. She wasn't just showing up and settling. That's right. Jay: That's right. That's right. Put on the knee brace and go dance with some dogs. Cody: That's right. Change your routine, whatever it may be. Jay: all right. so next act of the night, second half, we've got Hundred Fingers, led by Yu Ho Jin and his nine friends. they stand on the stage. They all produce balls, the balls turn into confetti, there's some floating canes, except for one guy. he just pretends to have a floating cane. Cody: Okay. I don't understand the guy just tied up in the back. I was like, was he just gonna do that the whole performance? Jay: I d I I didn't either and I think I got distracted Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: or bored when he got untied from the back. I was i what I said last night and what I what I really, really feel is this needs to be a dance act that does magic. Cody: Yes. Yes. Jay: And they're like, No, we're a magic act and they go back to the magic tonight and it was like it's it's too much magic. Cody: Yes. Jay: Do do more Cody: Yeah, I Jay: dance. Cody: I didn't I didn't like him on season seventeen because of this style of performance. This is what he did. And I'm like, this doesn't this doesn't do anything. But yeah, when they were doing the dance, then I was like, okay, now I'm on board. But then they did this, and I'm like, Okay, now I'm kind of out of it. So Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Didn't just didn't didn't wow me. yeah. I it was dark. It was kinda hard to see the magic. Cody: Yeah. Jay: It was kinda hard to tell what was going on. just not a not a great performance. Cody: Some of the props didn't work. Jay: Some of the props didn't work. That's that's bad. Cody: Yeah. They're still a great act. They're still a great act. This just this fell fell kind of flat Jay: I Cody: for me. Jay: yeah, and I I absolutely understand the appeal. you know, it this is this is magic done in a just like we we reimagined it, right? We're not Cody: Yes. Jay: just doing another stage prop show. It's not just it's not a a com i I'll I'll relate it to my my juggling friend Victor Key, right? Cody: Okay. Okay. Your juggling friend. Jay: Usually Cody: I was about to say, is there something you haven't told us, Jay? Okay. Jay: I'll I'll claim him. I don't know if he claims me. No. but like i I as I've said about Victor Key, right? He's not a clown, but he's a very serious juggler. And he and he makes it like a beautiful art form. And like they've taken magic and it it's it's not clowning, it's not funny, it's not a big stage prop. It's like we're we're going to Do this thing in a way that you've never seen it before. And it's gonna be ten of us up here, working in in sync to you know keep producing things and you don't know where to see and you don't know where everything's coming from and you don't know where it's going and you don't know how we did it. And that's kinda cool. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: But like, I don't know, they they need to make it a little bit more accessible, I think, for for the everyman, because what I saw was not that engaging. Cody: Yeah. Okay. Yep. I think I'm with you on that. Jay: All right. let's hear Judge's comments. Howie was the first one. Let's let's hear what Howie had to say. Cody: His th proud American father. Jay: yeah. I don't Cody: D did he did he just denounce his Canadian's his Canadian sea? Jay: No, he's he's also an American. He has his American Cody: Okay. Jay: citizenship. But their intro package was something about, you know, their parents being proud. I don't know. I was probably distracted during that part. is that a gamble for him to put his own money up to produce a show in Vegas, or is that a pretty safe bet? Cody: think it's a pretty safe bet. Yeah, people are gonna show up for that show. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, I agree. maybe they could perform before or after Light Royal Lasers. Light bow Cody: Royal lasers? Yeah. Jay: lasers. Cody: Yes, right. Light las light lasers. Jay: Kids. Mel says she wasn't that keen on them before, but they did the best that they could possibly do tonight. She liked being able to follow a story. Cody: Yeah, I was confused by that. Was there a story? Maybe I just missed it. Jay: I don't know, th there was a guy that was tied up and then he was no longer tied up. Cody: Okay. Jay: says they did the best they could possibly do tonight. KSI says he's never seen a magic group before. He felt like things could go wrong, but it was a spectacular performance. Cody: I feel like on Melby that she sees stories where there's not one and then she doesn't see the story Jay: Ha ha ha. Cody: where there obviously is one, right? Okay. Jay: Yeah. you might we might be onto something there. Cody: Yeah. Jay: Sophia says it was special, a perfect performance for the finals of AGT. She thinks that they could win the season. Cody: They could. It's unlikely, but they could. Jay: I mean Yeah. Like No, they can't. because the next Cody: Yeah. Jay: act of the night is Nene Royale. or Nene Royal. she's gonna Cody: Yeah. This it look little shocking that she was in the seventh spot. I know I know commenter kinda talked about Jay: Yeah. Cody: some, but I w everyone was like, Whoa, she's in the seventh spot? That's that's no, no, no, no. She's a closer. Jay: I was expecting her in the closer spot, yep. but no, they put her just late middle, right, medium well. Cody: Yeah. Jay: yeah, Nene Royal. gonna do Seven Nation Army. Solid song choice. Cody: Sure, the the anthem for every NFL stadium in the country. Jay: okay. Cody: Yeah. I think every foot Jay: I'll believe you. Cody: I think every football game that's played multiple times Jay: d well? It it's always back and black why I think when the when the Hawkeyes run out on the field. 'Cause Cody: Okay. Jay: it's black. Cody: Yes. Jay: But yeah, I don't know. Is there something about Seven Nation Army that's like particularly football y? Cody: I have no idea. I don't know how it got to become that. Maybe they just gave him a good deal on the royalties. The the Nane Jay: all right. Cody: Royal the Nene royalties. Jay: There you go. sh I this was probably a really safe choice, right? She's like, Cody: Sure. Jay: if I don't mess this up, I Cody: Yes. Jay: I can win the show. Cody: Yes. And everyone knows the song. Jay: It yeah, yeah, people like a song that they recognize. Cody: Yes. Jay: sometimes people s pick a Taylor Swift song that people don't recognize Even though they've heard it. Like we know they've heard it. It's it's documented. Cody: Even though they got ten plays in the playlist. Jay: I don't know. Look what you just made me do. Cody: That's right. Jay: i i it it's it's it's a great song choice, it's a solid song choice. She doesn't mess it up. She she yells, sings, she plays the guitar. It just it's it's everything that we expected, nothing more, nothing less. Cody: Right. Jay: E exactly what she needed to do to win the show. Cody: And I enjoyed it. Jay: Sure, yeah. let's hear judges. Did the judges enjoy it? First up was KSI, and let's hear what KSI had to say. Cody: How do you come on this show and not preview the acts that are performing to get an idea? Jay: Mm. Cody: It's like Jay: Like that's it's a choice he made, right? He could have Cody: Sure. Jay: done his homework. Cody: How long was the flight from England to LA that he could watch ten performances? Jay: his his choice his choice was to go into it blind. Cody: Okay. Jay: Was it the right choice or not could be debated but it's the choice that he made Cody: Sure. Okay. Jay: and I I think his thinking would be something like If I go into it blind, my reactions will be real. Cody: Okay. Jay: You know, I'm gonna give my real, honest to God reactions. Not not based on what I think you should have done, what I think you could've done, what you could've done differently. Like it's just KSI unfiltered. Cody: Yeah. Yes. Welcome to us twenty weeks ago, right? Jay: Yeah. Man, twenty weeks? That's a f yeah. Cody: I don't know. Yeah. I was gonna say twelve but I'm like I'm like I was gonna say twelve and I'm like that's too little and I'm like twenty is probably too high. It's probably somewhere in the fifteen to sixteen ballpark. Yeah. Jay: It might be. Let's see. I've got is it seventeen if you include like Fourth of July party, live acts revealed. Cody: Yeah. I'm I'm I'm just saying since May sorry, June since June second. What's that been? so there's five weeks, nine, thirteen and yeah. Jay: Seventeen. Cody: seventeen weeks, yeah, that's about right. Yes. So that's Jay: That's a lot of AGT. Cody: a lot of EGT, man. So Jay: Alright, other judges' comments. Mel says she deserved her golden buzzer last time. What she brings to the competition is unique and she should win. Sophia says she's unique and we can't get enough of her. Howie says it's the biggest, most talent, most talented, and most viral talent she should win. Cody: Yeah, and he's like, Give her the million dollars right now. Just just vote her in and give her the million bucks. Jay: You've expressed feelings about those kinds of comments in the past. Do you want to expand on that at all? Cody: Yes. Yes. I don't think they should just I don't think they should do that. I think they can give their feedback and they can say how much they really enjoyed it and they can say vote. Hey, America, go vote. It's important that you do it. I don't think they should endorse I guess is the word. I don't think they should endorse an act. Jay: Okay. but they're the judges. Like Cody: Right. They need to be partial. Jay: They need to be impartial. Cody: you're right. They need to be impartial. They literally need to be impartial, right? Jay: Okay. Alright. They should not be partial. Cody: They should not be partial, correct. Jay: Alright. Well, we got to hear Terry Cruz a moment ago with Acro Canine Crew. Let's hear a little bit of what Terry Cruz had to say to Nene Royal. Royal. Cody: So I d I don't know why this kinda stuck out at me. And I I know that like the energy's high, there's a lot going on, the adrenaline's probably flowing. But to like then come out and say, Hey, I am a rock star. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am a rock star. Jay: She's living the dream. Cody: Man, it's like No, you need to be a little more humble about it. Hey, yeah, vote for me, because I want your votes. But not like, I am the Raw Star. Yeah, you should vote for me. Yeah, come on. Jay: I don't know, that's rock stars aren't humble. Cody: I don't know about that. I think there are some humble rock stars. Jay: I it's it's not what that's not the persona. You don't go up there on stage and be like, humble me. Cody: The humble rock star you don't know that the ro humble rock stars are humble. Because they're so humble that you don't know about it. Yeah. That's correct, yes. Jay: No. is that I don't think they're rock stars. It's okay. Alright. okay. that is Nene I I have no complaints. I she did not ruin her chances at winning the show. Cody: She did not. She she did what she was supposed to do. Yep. Jay: Yep. Eighth act of the night, we've got Olivia Beefus. she does dog tricks with her dogs. Cody: Yep. Yep. Jay: one stands on her shoulders while the other weaves around her legs, and then they switch. And the other one's on her back while the one that was on her shoulder weaves around her legs and dances. she tries to jump rope. Cody: Yep. I ain't doing it. Jay: The the dog w was like was like all up all up in her face. Like I'll jump, Cody: Yeah. Jay: but I'm I'm jumping over here with you, not over there by the rope. Cody: That's right. Yeah. Jay: Zeke balances on one hand for a second. just up on his front paws and then he falls. she tries to get the collie to balance on her feet while she lays on her back, like three times or so. There were some mistakes. Cody: Yes. This I messaged commenter when this is over. I was like, Well, I guess you w no top five for beef us he's like, Yeah, it looks looks likely, so Jay: Yeah, this was not a a winner potential performance. Cody: No, it was it was not one of the good ones of the night. Everyone else was ver was everyone else was solid. This was this was pretty bad. But it and not Jay: The same thing the same thing we said about canine crew, right? Dogs and kids. And the dogs Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: they might show up and perform and they just might not. And if the energy's Cody: They might not. Jay: off, if you're nervous, like it just it it just didn't work. It didn't work tonight. Cody: Yeah. I think she did what she is supposed to do. Like she did everything she could. And if the dog's just yeah, if the dog's just not into it, if they're like they're distracted, whatever it may be, that's just the way it's gonna be. And no fault of her own. She's trained them well. Sh and and she's going to be a really good dog trainer. I'm I'm very hopeful that she's gonna kinda get on the like basketball circuit with Kristian Stoynev. She's gonna be doing that type stuff. Jay: there you go, yeah. Cody: Yeah, yeah. I I I I have hopes and dreams for her that she is gonna do some amazing dog performances and she's gonna be a really, really good dog trainer. Keep working at it, Olivia. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. she yeah, there's there's so much potential there. And she's young and she has sh opportunity for miles. So we'll hope that this doesn't I she outperformed everybody's expectations. So Cody: yeah. Jay: don't be don't be sad. Cody: No, you're an ATT finalist. It's it's yeah. Some Jay: Yeah. Sophia says she stepped up today, she was nervous and the dogs felt it. She still loves her and she knows she'll only get better and better. Howie says, This is live TV. People can vote based on what they've seen all season. Nell asks if performing on AGT's been fun. She says it's been a dream come true. much like Nene did just a minute ago. Cody: Yeah. She's a rock star. Yeah Jay: She's a rock star. And then KSI says performing with dogs is risky. as a self taught trainer self taught trainer, she should be very proud. Cody: Yeah, absolutely. Jay: Alright, ninth act of the night, we've got Gino Plaguer from Heartland, Wisconsin, over over close to Milwaukee. he's got cards with inspirational words written on them. Howie chooses one card, it says legacy. And on the back of that card, Cody, is a picture of young Howie. Cody: I love that. I love it's the it's this classic one with the glove on his head. Jay: Yeah. Okay. And then we've got cards with random random photos on them. And if you put the cards together, the ones that Mel B chose, they form a collage, that he is able to finish decorating with those particular cards. Okay. Sophia's card becomes a picture of her with her son. And Cody: Yep. Jay: unfortunately for KSI I I what I thought was happening was like, shoot, I thought that we weren't gonna have a fourth judge, so I didn't really have a fourth thing prepared. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: But that's not the case. KSI's gonna pick four cards. The rest of the cards become blank, and the four he chose are brought up to the stage. those fill the collage, never mind. and then everyone in the audience has a word has the word legacy written on their card under their seat, which matches what how he chose, legacy. I I kinda lost the plot here a little bit in the middle. But there was a lot of sleight of hand going on. Cody: Yeah. There's a lot going on in this act. Jay: Yeah, a lot going on. good, bad, otherwise thoughts? Cody: He has definitely improved over the over the the season. I was not really a fan of his early on. I wasn't really on board. And we've and we've talked at nauseum about this. That he was just doing Matt Franco stuff. And we we've talked about that, how he's mentioned it. But once he got into the live shows, he became his own. And he's really improved each week. I know commenters said like quarterfinals was his favorite. This one felt good. It's just There was a lot going on, and I I'm kind of with you at at some point I kind of struggled with following along. but I did I did enjoy it. He's gotten much better. He's going to continue to get better. He's got a great mentor. He loves doing this. Even when we get talk about results, just he seems like he was very like each time he kept moving on, he was surprised that he was moving on. And he was very joyful. and thankful each time he moved on. So i he's he's really grown on me a lot throughout this season. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. for a season that's not about story, that's not about sob stories. Like he he told his own story. Like Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: I'm I'm going from you know under the wing of of y my my mentor to a a fully formed human being, right? Like he's Cody: Yes, yeah. Jay: we we got to see that growth and that is Cody: Yes. Jay: intentional or not well done. Cody: Yeah. When when he got to the live show kind of in that comparison, the baby bird had to leave the nest and learn how to fly and he did. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, yeah. all right. KSI says, How did you do it? That's great stuff. I loved it. Mel B says he's adorable. She calls him magic and he amazes her. Sophia says her favorite part is how much it means to him. And then how he says his joy and drive exudes more than any other act. He calls it contagious. I felt like these were kind of weird. comments like Cody: Yeah. Jay: like they high on him and praising him, but like not bashing him, but not like that much praise. Like it was just kind of this weird kind of in betweeney judges comments. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Jay: So Cody: I I'll also say at this point in the show I was getting kinda sleepy. So I mean so Yeah. So it was a late Jay: Yeah. It was is a late night for you too. Cody: night, so nothing on Geno more A G T of their scheduling. It's just I was getting kinda sleepy at this point, so Jay: Yep. Alright. Well let's see if the last act puts you to sleep. We're looking at Unitree. this is the dancing robots along with the dancing human. my notes are this was slow. I wanted it to be much better than it was. it was supposed to be moving. And like I got the like like let's let's bring it down and let's like be beautiful robots dancing and not ninja robots dancing. But for me it kind of felt flat. Cody: Yeah. Did you like the unicircle flow kind of segment they had? Jay: There was a robot that had wheels for feet, yes. more like it was Cody: Yes. I was like ooh I was like ooh unicircle flow, Joe's gonna like those gonna like that. Jay: It i it was two wheels, right? It more of a a Cody: It was two wheels, yes. Jay: hoverboard than a than a unicycle. Cody: Yeah. Jay: But still yeah, that's cool. I like that. it would have been neat to see all of with wheels on their feet. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Cody: Sure, one wheel. Yeah. Jay: See see what else you can do. I like the technology's there. Wow me with it. Wow me with it a little bit more. And you know, going downbeat For the last show of the last performance of the la like it's just like, alright. Okay. Cody: Yeah. It's those of us that were already sleepy, this made us a little more sleepy. So Jay: Yeah. Cody: yeah. Jay: this might have been better early in the show, but like the other acts that we've been talking about all night, like where's the punch? Where's the wow? Where's the the I I just I wanted more and so many of these acts just felt fine. Cody: Yeah. I I think I would have preferred ninja robots. Jay: Yeah, me too. I wanted the ninja Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: the ninja version. Sophia well let's let's go let's hear Sophia's comments for herself. I don't need to say I'm my way. Cody: What is she d I couldn't y it's hard to tell at times if she's trying to be funny or if she's trying to be serious. Jay: I think she was stuck in the uncanny valley and didn't know how to get Cody: Okay. Jay: out. Cody: Yeah. Jay: It's like they're they're people-y and they're roboty and I I I like it and I don't like it and I am afraid of it and I can't look away from it. Cody: And it Yes. But it's so good and Yeah. Jay: Yeah. and it is so good. Like it's it is kinda hard to look away sometimes. Cody: Yes. It's just amazing that where we've come along in the tech this technology. It just it Jay: Yeah. Cody: it is, so Jay: yeah, I d yeah. I I think just stuck in that uncanny valley is a way to way to interpret that. Cody: Okay, sure. Yeah. Jay: let's hear what Mel had to say. Cody: Mel B. They're like a foot shorter than the person. Their heads light up. They got a giant hole in the middle of It's like there's no nose. There are no eyes. There's no mouth. Jay: Right I don't I was she confusing them with royal lasers? Cody: Maybe so. Jay: Is is there some royal lasers unitree crossover here that she's like wait which one's people? Wait, which one's robots? Wait, who's lighting up how? Cody: A Royal Lasers Unitary crossover would be incredible. Jay: It might be kind of fun. Cody: Yeah, you could light up the robots. I mean, that would actually be kinda cool. Jay: Yeah. Yeah, we might we might be onto something there. Cody: Unolites Royal Royal Tree. Royal tree. There Jay: Royal trees? Cody: you go. We did it. Jay: we came up with the name and we can earn our royal teas now, right? Alright. Cody: There we go, that's right. I don't have my drum available. I'd I'd hit the drum but I don't have it available, so Jay: Okay, all right. K S I says it was entertaining and great. Howie says A G T now stands for America's Got Technology. Cody: That was just kind of a reach. Did did you have to reach far for that one? Jay: little bit too far. It it did not a joke didn't land with me anyhow. Cody: No, no. Jay: and then well we heard Sophia go on and on and on and on. So let's see if if there's still time for them to respond to Terry Cruz's questions. Okay. Cody: know people are like blaming Terry. No, this is all production. Production did him dirty, right? Cause you y you know how much time you have left. You could just told Terry we don't have time to go to to talk to him and just not done it. Jay: That would have been better. Cody: Yes. Jay: or Sophia, your time is up. Cody: Yes. Cut Sophia off. Yeah. Jay: Or I don't know, there's a thousand other ways they could have found thirty more seconds in the show here. yeah. Skip KSI. Cody: Don't go to KSI. Yeah. Jay: He didn't know what he was talking about. He'd never seen it before. Cody: Yeah. Yeah, I I think production did him dirty on that. Jay: There was yeah, there was a few production hiccups. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: all night long. Songs ending weird, I I mean I can't probably flame it on production, but you know, Hundred Fingers had some things that didn't work right. just all around a little bit a little bit rough. Cody: Yeah. Well that's our X. Jay: all right. That's it. That was the ten acts of the night. We're gonna crown a winner. Cody: Yes. In an hour Jay: How d Cody: in a in an hour and a half. Jay: So I I put in my my top five. And I I don't know if I was putting in like who I wanted to be the top five or who I thought would be the top five. I think it was more who I think should be the top five. Number one, Nene. Number two, I got Veronica. Number three, Gino. Four, Lane Oell, because singers. story and then number five Royal Lasers. because they're they're too AGT not to. and I i I got four out of the five correct. Lele didn't make the top five. and I didn't have the placings right for anybody else. Gino moved from three to two. Veronica moved from two to five. Royal Lasers moved from five to four. but Yeah, I I I feel okay about my my picks for the top five, after those performances. Cody: Yeah, I think I think even getting the top five is is good. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. So we don't need to go too much into the results. first hour we get to see come here dance with Reiami, which I think is Korean for fluffy boots. Cody: Okay. Jay: unit free and Cody: Are you are you are you are you now doing Korean on Duolingo? What's Jay: No. Cody: your what's your streak up to? Jay: Two thousand two hundred Cody: We gotta we gotta do a streak update for the last pot of the year. Jay: Well, here let me let me pull it up here. It is two thousand two hundred eighty-eight. That's a long time to be learning Spanish and to be as bad at it as I am. Cody: That is a long time. Yes. Okay. Jay: I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's a little bit embarrassing. Cody: Yes. Jay: we get the long awaited for Unitree Royal Lasers. Mash up. Lasertree. that's yeah, okay. Cody: Royal tree Royal Tree, yes. Jay: they perform with international superstar Steve Aoki. Okay. thirteen year old Taylor Briggs, international superstar Taylor Briggs, interviews the judges. Cody: Yeah, thirteen year old? Like what's going on here? What's happening? Jay: I don't know. It was like we're we could just got an hour to fill, so start throwing stuff at the Cody: I'm Jay: wall. Cody: I'm I'm thirteen, I'm riding my bicycle around the neighborhood, like Jay: That's Cody: not not interviewing KSI on Jay: No. Cody: National T V. Jay: Yeah. I we get a performance by Olivia Beefus and Acro Canine crew, along with international superstar Lele Pons. Veronica performs with Josh Grobin. Cody: This was actually a lot of fun. Josh Grobin I mean when Adele duh did Skyfall, that's a banger. Then he just I mean, I I'd say he tops it, but he did it justice. He it was an incr it was an Jay: Who did it justice? All right. Cody: incredible performance. Yeah. Jay: Okay. we get to see Gino Plagger and Matt Franco do a little magic together. Cody: Of course. Yep. Jay: we get to see Hundred Fingers perform along with classical pianist Chloe Flower. International superstar Chloe Flower. Cody: Okay. Superstar Chloe Flower. Yeah. Okay. Jay: we get to see Nene Royal perform with Lincoln Park. Cody: International Superstar Lincoln Park. I I think I I told I told the wife, 'cause the wife used to be a big Lincoln Lincoln Park fan Jay: yeah. Cody: and she's kind of fallen out. sh she said it's not the same band that it was. And so yeah. Jay: Okay. All right. Like like members have turned over or they've just Cody: I Jay: grown up? Cody: I think the lead singer like passed away a few years several years ago. And so yes, then I think there has also been turnover and maybe even their style has changed some. So Jay: Well, that hasn't stopped AC D C. Cody: Okay. Jay: That's Cody: Or or shoot, free bird. Blanket on the name now. Jay: is that Skinnard? Cody: Yes, Leonard Skinner. Jay: All right. Well, I don't know. It seems like if your if your lead singer dies, it does kinda seem like maybe Cody: Well but what if the whole band dies like Leonard Skinnard? It's like Jay: Well and then Lay Noel performs with Jessica Sanchez. That was kind of a fun one. Cody: International superstar Jessica Sanchez. Jay: International Superstar Jessica Sanchez. Cody: Yes. Jay: all right, we get results. Come here and Royal Lasers. Come here is out. do we have a eulogy for Come Here? Cody: yeah, it was nice it was great having them on our team. We really enjoyed it. Jay: Solid dance team. Cody: Solid dancing. Jay: in the style of Maya's murmuration. Cody: Brent Street. Yep. Nope. Well, Jay: Brent Street, but not as good maybe. Or not not enough as good. Cody: not as good a well, I think better than Brent Street, not as good as Maya's. Yeah. Jay: Alright, that's yeah, that's fair. Hundred Fingers and Olivia Beefus. Hundred Fingers you make the top five, Olivia. I mean, she was on your team. You have a y a Cody: Yeah. Jay: eulogy for Olivia? Cody: I was really hoping for both of you from this, but I didn't see it happening. So but Jay: Yeah. Cody: loved loved having her on Beef Us and the Buttheads. we we renamed our team because of her k advancing. Jay: Yeah. Cody: She did far exceed our expectations. Great job, Olivia. Keep it up. Keep training those dogs. Yes. Yes. Jay: Incr incredible value in the draft. Lena Well and Veronica Gorishkova. this is the end of the line for Lane Owell. I feel like a different song choice maybe she could have made top five. Cody: Okay, sure. Jay: I think she was right on the bubble. Nene Royal and Unitree. End of the line for Unitree. I struggle with robot acts. I don't i I I don't know that AGT is right for them, but like as a general rule for Unitree, I had a hard time looking away. Cody: Yeah. You're anti drone, right? I can't remember. You're anti Jay: I am anti drone, yes. Cody: drone. Okay. Just I c I I can't keep track of who's in favor of drones. Jay: Unitry at least was able to perform on the stage. Cody: And with a person. Jay: Y with a human being, yes. Cody: Yes, yes, okay. Jay: Acro Canine crew and Genoplager. the act in the top five is Geno. eulogy for AKC or ACC. Cody: Yeah, again, great having them on our team. Really enjoyed. I love their theming. They're gonna be amazing as well. They get they had it they have a bright future. Jay: Yeah, I you know their addition, we got we got that moment of like, there's dogs Cody: Yes. Jay: and then it's really hard to sell that again and again and again. Cody: It's okay. It brought me joy every time they were on the stage. Jay: but you only get that that wow moment once. Cody: Yes, agreed. Yep. Jay: And I I think, you know, every time it gets a little less like, right, dogs. Like, is this is this the one that does dogs? Like, Cody: Yay dogs. Jay: it's dogs again. Like, so it hard to har hard to get bigger, bigger and better when you you have that, you know, that that big punch moment and then it's like, yeah. That's not that exciting. Cody: Ha ha Jay: all right. So we gotta place our top five. Fifth place goes to Veronica Goroskova. eulogy for Veronica. Cody: yeah, it's maybe a little low for her, but again, we loved having her on our team. One of the best acts of the season. Jay: Absolutely. One of the best acts of the season. fourth place goes to Royal Lazers. Cody: Yep. Light bounce? You mean light bounce? Jay: eulogy for Royal Lasers. This this is as good as this act has ever done. Right? It's Cody: Yeah. Yep. Jay: and that's to be expected. third place goes to Hundred Fingers. Cody: This was a little surprising because I think we all thought that they were gonna be top two. Jay: I think a better performance could have put him in top two. I I suspect that it was split in hairs between Hundred Fingers and Geno. and you know, bring that dance a little bit more, a little bit better, and maybe maybe you're there. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: second place goes to acquaintance of the pod, Geno Plaguer. Cody: This again, s with with Royal or sorry, with Hunterfingers being third and him being second, I'm I'm happy for him. I really am. It was just a little surprising me to me that he was second. I didn't see him as a second place finisher, but I'm Jay: Yeah. Cody: excited that he is a second place finisher. Jay: Yeah, he was able to do what K9 crew couldn't do, right? He he continued to impress us and surprise us. Cody: Yes. Yep. Jay: so yeah, good on good on him. I he should be very, very proud. you know, I've I've heard people say, you know, being locked into a contract with AGT, you know, the million dollars not in a lump zone is, you know hardly a million dollars. Yada yada yada yada. so maybe second place is just a perfect spot for him to end up in. And you know, take this and turn it into a career. go go chase your dreams. I love it. Cody: Yeah, yeah. He's gonna be just fine. Jay: And as no surprise to anybody, winner's Nene Royal. Cody: Yes. Everyone saw that coming a million miles away. Jay: Will she be remembered as a great winner? Cody: So I I think she's gonna be remembered kind of as a okay, here's my thought, and I've kind of posted this a couple of times. I think with her being the winner, she the AGT is gonna be a footnote in her career. I I think Jay: That's a good yeah, I like that. Cody: she's gonna now go away. She's gonna do her whatever it is she's gonna do, she may go back home. Whatever it is, I think that we have probably we may see her next year for a results show. She may come back for that. I think Jay: All right. Cody: after that I think after that we never hear from her again. Jay: She she puts away A G T and she goes and Cody: She d yes, I think this was a stepping stone. Jay: becomes an international superstar. Cody: International Superstar, I think this was a stepping stone for her. And it's not one of these she's not one of the acts that I feel is gonna be very appreciative or recognize A G T. I think I don't think she'll be she might be announced for a few months. Maybe again, we'll probably see her next season, maybe for a year. She's announced as A G T winner. But it's eventually it's gonna kinda drop off and She's gonna be doing other things. So Yep. Jay: Hm. Alright. do you think, you know, like Nene Royal and the Royal Guardsman, or do you th do you think she needs a band? Cody: I think she has performed with a band, so yes, I think that I think all the season she's performed with a band. And so I think getting one and she may already have one will be beneficial for her. I don't think Jay: All right. Cody: she can do all this by herself. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. no, I I I would love to see her as a as a frontman for a band, for a group, you know, and and Cody: Sure. Yep. Jay: I I think she's got the chops. I think that she's got the look, she's got the the personality to be a rock star. So you know, I hope that the experience on the whole is everything that she wanted and it just launches her into the stratosphere. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: So all right. Well that is Cody. Cody: Yes. Jay: That's a wrap. Cody: That's a wrap. Before we do put a button on this, I'm gonna kind of I wanna say that we reached out to our friend of the pod, good friend of the pod, Tom Cotter, and we wanted to get his thoughts on not d one, but two dogs being in the finale. And Jay: Ha ha ha ha. Cody: AGT commenter did a blog about this, so you can read a more about it. but he sent us a video. I'm gonna preface this, people, because It's it Tom Cotter is a comedian. I want to pre preface this. He is a comedian. So please take the things that he says with a grain of salt. Okay. He for those that don't know the story, he lost to a dog act back in season seven. And that's a lot of the jokes that he kind of talks about is losing to dogs on AGT. A comedian has never won. So please, when you hear this, please understand he is a comedian. Okay. Jay: Do we need to put like the parental warning on this episode? Cody: This it there might be a it there's no bad language but you'll it'll kinda make sense when he talks it. There's no it's not R rated, I'll say. It's not PG thirteen, but just when you hear it, it'll kinda make more sense. Yes. Jay: I well I'm I'm going into this feeling like K S I. Like I I have not heard this. I didn't know this was coming. So Cody: Yeah. Yes, yes. Jay: how how fun for me. Cody: Yes. Okay, here we go. Okay, so maybe I'm having a little issue playing it. hold Jay: Ha ha ha. Cody: on a second. a little technical difficulties. Where's my Tyra? Technical difficulties here. Jay: gosh. Cody: let's see here. let's let's kind of vamp for a moment. I should have I I wanted to have this ready ahead of time. Kinda we got going. let's see here. I'm gonna do this. Yeah, talk for a moment and kind of fill some time. Jay: I can talk for a moment a little bit about the the draft board. we did not touch on the draft board much tonight. Cody: Yes, let's talk about that. Jay: much like Nene winning the season, it was pretty obvious that Beefus in the Buttheads was likely to be the winner of our fantasy draft. You guys I mean You had you you just flooded the zone with with too many acts. that did not overperform on finale night, but there were so many of them. too many points. Too many points for us to to to hang with you. in the race for second place, Scott and I were down to just Nene Royal. We were looking Cody: Ha ha. Jay: at her at her ten points, banking it, and It wasn't enough. Ryan and Steven Cody: No, I I think going into the finals you all you all were mathematically eliminated. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. From from winning we definitely were. you Cody: Yes. Jay: know, fingers crossed for maybe a second place finish. Cody: Sure. Jay: but that didn't that didn't work out either. And with Gino in second, Royal Lasers in fourth, that pushed them up to thirty-six points to our twenty-seven, to your guys' fifty-one. Cody: Yes. We just laid it on. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: but you know like what Scott said last night hangs true, right? We had a good time pulling for our guys. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Jay: until they were no longer in the competition. and there was, you know, I I I don't know exactly what we did wrong. I feel like you know, some of the memorable acts from the season were on our team. we had Akira, we had Butter and Grit, we had Bird and Byron, Caesar Diaz, Young and Strange, like those are top ten quality acts that that just didn't show up. They just didn't make it. So Cody: Yeah, I I really enjoy this aspect of the season when we do this 'cause it does help me get more engaged with the the show. I'm paying a little bit more attention. It kinda lets us have a little more fun with it. so yeah. I I think this is a great thing for us to do. Jay: Yeah, I would be interested in going into a like week to week like Cody: Sure. Like a pick'em? Jay: just, you know I I think watch the acts, rank you know, who do you think's going through, who do you think is out, and you know i I don't have to pick them For the first, you know, I whatever, before we see anything live, but after I see each week be like, okay, this is how I think it's gonna shake out and see if you know, that might be a another fun way to engage with this. you know, 'cause there's acts you know, Veronica is a is a good example of an act that's like, Wow, I enjoyed her every week. I'm not gonna vote for her in the app because she's not on my team, but Like, she's amazing and I love her. you know, Unit tree. I've I've come around on the robots and maybe I do want to see more of them. Or you know, I didn't draft them, but was kind of fun to watch. I'd like to see them, you know, I'd I'd Cody: Yeah. Jay: like to get some some some good feels out of being able to to support them during the live shows. Cody: Yeah. okay, so let's try a take two on this. Here we go. Here we go. Jay: All right. This is Tom Cotter. Ha alright. And that's why he's a professional and we're not. Cody: Yes, that's right. Jay: no it thank you friend of the pod, Tom Cotter, for for sharing your thoughts. a little bit tongue in cheek, to Cody: Yes. Jay: c consider how how these dog acts could maybe be sabotaged on the way. But no, that's that's that's awesome. Thank you. Cody: Yes, yes. so I guess that's it. That's that that puts a button on things, unless you got more fantasy talk you wanna look at. Jay: It I've said more about fantasy than I wanted to tonight, Cody. I thought I was gonna get Cody: Sure. Jay: out of it without having to eat my hat. but no, I it like I said last night on the pod, like this is so much fun, and it's so Cody: Yes. Jay: much fun to get to do it with other people. instead of just having my thoughts and ruminating on things myself, I get to to share these thoughts. with with you and all of our listeners. Gino, thanks for listening. Mom and Dad, hi. Scott, thanks for being a part. Cody and Commenter and Steven and Minnesota Ryan. Like you guys are all you guys are all awesome. Cody: Yep. So kind of just some things coming up. Commenter and I will be back to wrap up the full season this weekend with Ryan is going to do some analytics, talk about the leaderboard, just kinda let commenter just put a little bow on everything that this weekend. And then yeah, we're gonna go on hiatus for a few weeks just to kinda go into hibernation, catch our breath, recharge the batteries, and then comment and I are gonna hit the offseason. We've got rewatchables lined up. We've got I think we're doing season fifteen rewatch. So get ready for the wonderful COVID season. Cause we're gonna that's gonna be a crazy time that we're Jay: Yeah. Cody: gonna talk about. and then we're gonna just do some maybe some other things. The AGT Hall of Fame ballot will be announced. That'll be first thing. Those ballots will be going out to the voters soon. So be on the lookout. The first of well the announcement of who's on the ballot will come out in October and then the ballot reveal will be in or the the winners will then be announced in January. So that's Jay: Okay. Cody: kind of what we got coming up. Jay, great job this season. Jay: Alright. Cody, thank you. it's been a lot of fun. to get just a little bit serious for a moment. I end every podcast reminding you guys to stay safe, to make healthy choices, and You know, as I'm getting older and learning that I've got, you know, I'm now diabetic and I've got high blood pressure and and and you know there's a lot of choices that you can make to take care of yourselves. and if you don't have your health, you don't have a lot. so take care of your health, go visit your doctor, you know, do the the things that you gotta do to stay healthy and you know, be around for your loved ones. Cody: Yep, absolutely. Thank you very much this for a great season, Jay. we'll have you back during the off season for a rewatchable, maybe? Jay: it we'll we'll see. I'm I Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: I'm I'm ready for a break. I I got I'm I'm a brand new first year teacher and Cody: Yeah. Jay: I got I got things to do right after this to get ready for tomorrow. So Cody: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, we'll we'll talk more later on and we'll we'll see what we can what we can work out. But yeah, you we we all have some things we've been trying to catch up on the last six weeks or so with the crazy live s season schedule. But everyone, thank you for a great season twenty one and have a great night. Jay: Thank you. Stay safe.