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

• Cody: Everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT time. Just like this week's episode, Jay is also remote and not in studio. Jay: yeah. Cody: So so very relevant to what we're gonna be talking about in in callbacks. How you doing, Jay? Jay: Y the piglet to your poo bear. here I am. Cody: are you Piglet? I guess you would be Piglet, yeah. You're not Eeyore. You're not Eeyore. You you could be owl, you could be rabbit. Yeah. Yeah. Yes? Jay: Well, I don't I mean I I could be. I Yeah. Yeah, Owl? I forgot about Owl or the gopher. I'm I've always kind of loved Kenga and Rue though. Cody: Yes, absolutely. Kenga and Rue are great. Jay: But yeah, no, I you know I I I guess that's a that's a name choice that was made. Cody: And it's it's poo without a the H. Jay: Yes. Yes. Cody: Yes. Jay: I I back in middle school, something it doesn't really matter the situation. A kid once said, there's poo on my socks, and it was Winnie the Pooh themed socks. And that's that has stuck with me all these years, and it just you know, I am not above an occasional poo joke. there's poo on my socks. that one gets me. Cody, we've got so much to talk about. Cody: Yes. Jay: but i i I guess I'm I'm curious. We were we're bringing back some version of Judges Callbacks, right? Or of of the Judges Elimination Round, whatever it is. People have been clamoring for this. Cody: Yes. Jay: How how is it meeting expectations? Cody: it it did not meet expectations. So yeah, so if this were a a work performance review, it did not meet expectations. Well, let me phrase that. Well, okay, Jay: Okay. Cody: yeah. For me, it did not meet expectations. I had I had expectations. I'm not gonna say high. I expected something more than what I got. talking to commenter a little bit, it I think it kinda met his. Maybe he can kind of clarify that some, but it seemed to have met his. He knew that this was Very similar to what X Factor did. I did I've Jay: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Cody: never watched X Factor, so I did not know what this round was like. But overall it it severely underwhelmed me. Yeah. How about you? Jay: Okay, all right. I was I was pretty happy to have this round back. Cody: Okay. Jay: in whatever form, right? We've we've gone from all of these acts that we said yes to that got three or four yeses, and then some magic behind the scenes happens, and here's 44 acts that are gonna perform. And like I'm I am a fan of more transparency. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: And this this feels like more transparency, right? We've got our Cody: Okay. Yep. Jay: golden buzzers. We went through, we looked at all the acts again, and we all said, these are no-brainers. We have to have them. So we we've got our our core, you know, 20, 25, whatever, and then we have to fill it out to make it to get to our our 44 or apparently more acts that we're gonna need for the live shows. And this is a fun way to do it. And it it feels Fair, it feels fun, I like it. Cody: Okay. so we've always talked that any AGT is good AGT and and I I felt like this was bad AGT. A bad AGT. Jay: no. Cody: Yeah, I felt this was bad AGT. This did not feel like AGT at all. Jay: Okay, alright. It is maybe a little different game than what we've known AGT to be, but they've they've changed the rules, not mid-season, but you know, between seasons, right? It's it's no longer a show at Vegas and a million dollars. It's like you get to win the show. But like really, it it's evolved even now to just like you get exposure, you get to be Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: on TV. i w do with it what you will to be as successful as you can with this extra exposure. Cody: Yeah, yeah, you you talk about that. A lot of people were wondering what happened to Kev Adams. And I talked last week that Jay: Yeah. Cody: Kev Adams came on. He he f he tried to find his American audience. He found it and then he went back to doing what he was Jay: And then he split. Cody: Yep. So But as f Jay: Yeah, that's Cody: as far as the production, the way this was laid out, the way this was produced, I just did not like it as an episode of A G T and I hate that we're gonna get another one of these. I'm hoping that with Howie it's gonna be a little bit better. But I think the acts that were chosen were not great acts. and I feel that the way that they produced this and edit it with them in England and in California and whatnot, it just did not feel like it was good AGT. So yeah. Jay: All right, all right. Well if if I were an act and I'm I'm not a a must have for the lives and they say, but you do get to go to Malibu be like, Okay, like Cody: Yeah. Jay: that's not terrible, right? But you do get to go visit Melby in Yorkshire. Cody: Yeah, in rainy England. Jay: Like, yeah, all right, I could do worse. So Cody: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Jay: you know, as a a a consolation price, it's not so bad. Cody: Yeah, one of my biggest thought or one of my thoughts from that as well is they had to make sure that everyone that went to England could get passports in short notice. Jay: Yeah, I suppose. I wonder if that affected the acts that she could review, the axe that she could look at. Huh. Interesting. Or Cody: Right. Right. Yep. So Jay: maybe they would have found a different locale for her if that weren't the case. But Cody: Mm-hmm. Yep. Jay: yeah. Alright. Well, Cody, we've we've kinda laid the groundwork here. before we jump into like the actual episode. I'm curious. y you told me we've got some listener mail to to talk about. Cody: Yes, yes. so let me get some of these up here. let's start this one off with from AGT district. what would be your own set of celebrities you'd like to see? Doesn't have to be really doesn't even have to be realistic for judges cuts, callbacks, round, and it can't be anyone that has already been a guest judge on the show before. So So no no Reba. Jay: all right. Well you've had a chance to think about this. Do you wanna Cody: Yeah, no Reba, no Chris Hardwick, none of them. Yep. Jay: first person that comes to my mind, do you want to answer first? Have you been thinking about this? All Cody: No, you you go ahead. No, you go ahead. Jay: right. The first one that comes to my mind is the great humorist, long-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Weird Al Yankovic. Cody: Okay. Jay: I think he understands music, he understands what's popular, he understands humor. he seems like a really easy pick to come sit with me on the judge's table. Cody: Yeah. I think I would go with Jimmy Carr, the comedian. He's he's a little raw, he's a little blue, Jay: Okay. Okay. Yeah. Cody: but I think he would also bring some entertainment and he's very he's very knowledgeable in a lot of areas, very funny, very l he's logical, he's kind of hey, I understand this and I'll give some great feedback. And I think having him on there along with Howie would be a good would be a compliment to good compliment to Howie. Yeah. Jay: Okay. I've got another idea. Cody: Okay. Jay: a little bit less of of the humorist, a little bit more of a musician. he has been on a judging panel in the sing-off. I'm thinking Ben Folds would make a really Cody: Okay. Jay: good addition to my judging panel. Cody: Now did you want the five as well or just binfolds? Okay. Okay. Jay: I just Ben Folds is all I need. I don't need the Ben Folds five. Cody: Okay. Jay: yeah, I feel like Cody: I don't know if I know a whole lot of I I don't know if I know a whole lot about Ben Foles other than there's the five. Yes. Jay: Ben Folds 5. he tours still, and I think his current tour is something like, you know, Benfolds and a piano, or Benfolds plays piano. Like it's very like, you know, we're gonna strip down all the all the extra stuff. he was the like Kennedy Center director before he resigned amid all the all the chaos here. Cody: wow. Okay. Jay: and like he speaks very intelligently about music. I remember just like every time he gave judges comments in the sing off, you know, he was he was pulling out, you know, like the those those rubbing seconds are really hard to get right, but you guys really locked in on them and like like just like this kind of he he didn't speak down to the audience. He was like, No, I I can speak in in real musical terms and you guys are gonna get it and it's Yeah, it was it was really fun to to hear him have his input. So beyond those two, I'm sure I could come up with a hundred more, but like those those two feel like a really good couple of gets for me. Cody: Yeah. the next one comes from Taylor's live tweet account and maybe we can kind of talk about this in addition later on after we talk about the rest of the episode. so the first set of callbacks have happened. who were the snubs that you feel didn't make it to the lives? Jay: Ooh that's a good question. Let me look back here. I you know, if I were a good pro c podcaster, I might have already thought about this. Cody: Yes. Jay: but I didn't. So Cody: Did you want the tappin' dads to to make it through? Jay: I d I don't need the tappin' dads. No, I'm I'm I'm scanning back through the episodes here. Were Brad and Tracy ultimately stu snubbed, or they are danger act. Cody: I think they no, they're yeah, they went to the qu they're they're through. Yeah, they went through. Jay: Okay. All right. Awesome. Let's see, Caesar Diaz, he's through already. Cody: Mm-hmm. I'll Jay: Good. Cody: I'll say I mean I really liked Kev Adams, but we kinda know that maybe he's got some other things going on. I would have liked to have seen the mariachi band go through. I love mariachi bands. I think he would have been they would have been fun to to see go through. Sarah Hardwick I thought was fine. I would like to have just heard I would like to have heard her do some of her originals because of the songwriters competition that she did. I want to hear some of the stuff that she's written on on Jay: That's fair. Cody: on there. Sprice might have been interesting. now that would have been Jay: Race machines. Cody: yeah, now that might have been fun to like see them you know, we see in their intro package them setting up their machines. Those types of things. Jay: Okay. What's the status with Ruben Roldan Bustos, our one legged parkour? No, he's a golden buzzer. Never mind. All right. Cody: He's gone yeah, yeah. Yeah. Jay: Mr. Hammerhand. Cody: Yes. Would he try to break another would he would he try to break another record? Jay: Wouldn't have mind seeing I think he goes back to the coconuts, right? I yeah. I I think, Cody: Okay, he tries it again. Okay. Jay: you know, I I egg on my face for attempting the coconuts and failing. Let's let's do it right this time. We're gonna make it happen. you know, Eric Haynes, our one man band who got kind of montazed through. wouldn't have mind seeing that. We have got Godfrey Daniels, the puppety comedian who threw the balloon up and caught it. Both. the Cody: Yes, yes. Jay: world's best partner for a game of keepy uppy. Cody: Okay. Jay: I I mean there you know, he maybe not a snub, but like what else does he have? I feel like there might be more there. Cody: Sure. Jay: abresh our balancing circus performer. from he was from Auditions Five, the up the week that I wasn't here. Or one of the weeks that I wasn't here. I I always like a good circus act. Yeah, there's you know, there's a handful that I'm I'm a little sorry we're not not gonna see again. So sorry, it's probably not a very very very solid answer, but Yeah, there's there's a few snubs. Cody: There are a few snobs, yeah. Groot wants to know, do you think this format being too close to X Factor, which didn't last long in the US, is what turned a lot of people off? Jay: I didn't watch X X Factor. Cody: Lot of people weren't ha lot of people weren't happy with this episode. Jay: Yeah, I've I've heard mixed reviews. which surprises me. I mean like Bring back judges deliberations. Bring back you know Vegas round. Okay, we're good we're gonna do it for ya. This sucks. Like Cody: Yeah, yeah, and and I I don't think that we're upset that another round is here. I think we're not happy in the way that it was produced. Like the way that they did it. You can you can bring stuff back that you enjoy, but then if you bring something back and then they do it poorly, I think that's fair criticism. Jay: All right, okay. yeah, it's it's This worked you know, whether Cody: Okay. Jay: it was just as a logistically it works. Like, you know, okay, we're gonna give you guys all a chance to work with each each of the different, you know, groups and and figure something out for yourselves. Like that's yeah, it it it worked. It worked. I I'm Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: and I'm not disappointed. I'm not disappointed. Cody: Yeah. I I mean I'm not upset that there it's like compared to the X Factor, I don't if you had not ever told me that this was the way the X Factor did it, I wouldn't have known and I still would not have liked the episode. Jay: Okay. Yeah, I I would never have known. Cody: Yeah. I Yeah. I would never have known. But Jay: but I don't watch a lot of other competition shows. So Cody: Yeah. I don't either. I don't either. We're we're not we're not, you know, X Factor time we're not X X time podcast. Jay: So i unpack that a little bit more for me because I'm Cody: Okay. Jay: not fully understanding what the problem is. Cody: Yeah, I I think that the problem was that just the way that it was like edited and produced. We didn't we want to see them on the stage. We want to see them on the stage in the AGT environment. We don't want to see them at Simon's house or in England. And it just didn't feel like it felt like, hey, we're trying to make it more like close to home and and hey, we're gonna coach you and do buddy buddy type stuff. No. We want you we want you on the stage in front of the We want the whole AGT environment. We want the environment. It's all like the stage and the X's and the the table and the audience. That's all part of the care those are characters on the AGT show as well. And so now you've taken us out of that environment. You've taken you've removed that character from the show and thrown this thrown us in this whole new environment. And it's like, okay, now we're outside of our what we're c we're outside of our comfort zone. I guess a lot of it is, Jay. Jay: Uh-huh. Cody: And that may be part of it. We're outside of our comfort zone now. We're used to being in the in the auditorium with an audience. We love hearing the buzzers. We we want all that. I we don't want to be at somebody's house, you know we don't want to be in a pub Jay: Yeah. Cody: hearing hearing them tell jokes. So yeah. Jay: All right. Okay. Well I It I don't know. Like these judges aren't stupid, right? Like, yeah, I know that you're a comedian, or I know that you're a dancer, and I know that this is a less than ideal situation, but do you have the chops, right? Or do you have you know i can I imagine you bring this to the next level, to the right level, right? It yes, this is not the best situation. To perform for anybody. But I I I need to see it again, and I want to see it back to back, you know, shoulder to shoulder with these other acts, so that I can I can really decide. You know, and I'm I'm willing to give to give that up to add this round so that we can we can see it a little bit more. You know, we always say we want to see the acts perform more, we want more Cody: Yes. Jay: than. two or three performances to win this thing. Like it should take Cody: Yes. Jay: some work. Cody: Yeah. I I think you and I both agree that yes, we want the extra round. Again, it's the way that they did it. Yeah. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. All right. Okay. Cody: It we're we're we're not upset that there's this extra round. We love having this extra round. It's the way that this extra round was done. Yeah. So Jay: Okay. Okay. Cody: so I guess we answered his group's question. Okay, so Jay: Yeah. Cody: well see. well commenter po commented on this. He actually reached his his tweet limit. Jay: There's a tweet limit. Cody: There's a tweet limit, yeah. If you're you know you're not verified, you have a you have a tweet limit. let's see here. so he said longtime listener, first time caller. Jay: Categorically false. Cody: Yeah. basically what the heck was that? He said, I hang up and listen. So Jay: that was an attempt at a thing. Cody: Yep. I think we've kind of covered it. I mean we've I think we've kinda Jay: What the heck was that? Cody: talked about our but our overall thoughts of the episode. you're pro, I'm con, which is fine. Jay: I'm I'm a little higher on it than you were apparently. Cody: Yeah, yeah, yeah. we did have the issue where Mel B only sent three through, but Simon sent five. Jay: Yeah. Cody: What was that about so again, now why the discrepancy there? Jay: So I don't know. I I was under the impression, like I was going to my my assumption was they were each gonna take six acts and put through three each for twelve more acts to make a total of forty four. Eleven per live episode, narrow it down to our semis and finals from there. Like that that's what I thought was gonna happen. I was wrong. Cody: I think we were all wrong. I think we were all on the same page that you were. And we were all wrong. Jay: Simon advances five acts, eliminates Cody: Yes. Jay: one. Cody: The dads were the only ones that went home. Jay: Mel B advances three axes and eliminates three axe. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: That felt right. What I'm chalking this up to is golden buzzer inflation. Simon's like, Cody: Okay. Jay: crowd golden buzzer? Sure, let's add another golden buzzer. Right? I wanna have two golden buzzers this season now, and I give one to Guest judges and I want to have one in the semis. Like I want to put through five acts, and I'm Simon Cowell, and I get to put through five acts. That's what I chalk it up to. Cody: Okay. Jay: I don't think that we're going to you know, maybe we're gonna have twelve acts per episode instead of three or instead of eleven, right? Cody: Yeah. We'll have to see what and Sophia has one less in her crew next week. So she only has five in her crew. Jay: She does. Cody: So Jay: The I heard a rumor. I have no idea how true it is, so you know, everything with a grain of salt, but I'd heard that her sixth act was Malik Dope from a couple seasons ago, and there was some extenuating circumstances outside of this that he couldn't continue to be on the show, so they eliminated his presence from this season. Cody: Yeah. I think that is the speculation. That we speculated the same thing. So Jay: So that's you know, unfortunate situation, I guess. Cody: Yeah, my thought was they didn't have alternates ready. So Jay: i maybe they did, but they didn't have their passports. That's Cody: I can that is true. That is true. They gotta go Columb they gotta go to Columbia. So Jay: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Cody: that's that's all we have kinda for comments and questions. So Jay: That's good. Hey, thank you, listeners, for sending some comments and questions. We're we're growing this thing a little bit. Cody: Yes, yes Yes do you wanna kinda go through the episode a little bit? Jay: Yeah, let's let's pound it out here. let's do that. my goodness, please do. Cody: Okay. Before we do that, Jay, we're kind of late on this. Let me give the business real quick. Yes. Yes. so you can find us having to do we just answered a bunch of comments and questions. Those people found us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can also email us AGT Timepod at gmail dot com and go check out our website, AGT timepod dot com. Jay: What's the most popular, most common way that people reach out to you, Cody? Cody: The most common thing is through Twitter X. Yep, that's where we get the most stuff. Jay: But you gotta be careful. I don't want you to hit your Twitter limit. Cody: Do not hit your Twitter limit. That's right. Jay: Yeah, apparently that's a thing that can happen. Cody: It's a thing that can happen. If you're worried about that, just email us. You can't Yep. A A G T Time Pilot Jay: Just email us at AGT timepod g AGT timepod at gmail.com. Put the ad in the right spot and it'll come right to us. Cody: There you go. There you go. Yep. Jay: Perfect. all right. Well, Cody, we open up the episode and we kinda get whatever. They're they're set in the stage, and we're gonna see all of the acts show up to Simon's house that are gonna show up to Simon's house all in one big bus. Same thing at Mel's house, they all show up in one bus. So we don't have to like do the the intro to showing up at the house twice. They kinda intersplice that together. But then the structure of the episode is we get All of Mel B's acts, she makes her selections, and then all of Simon's acts and he makes his selections. I was worried that they were gonna like inter splice the whole thing. And I was like, my gosh, I don't know if I can keep keep track of everything. Like that's that feels that feels too cumbersome for me. Cody: Yeah, I did I was okay with it being one hour of Simon, one hour of MLB. Yes. Jay: Yeah. Yep. So they they all show up. Simon, he feeds his guests at his home. Milpie says, Let's go out to the pub. So she takes her guests all out to the pub. And we're getting a a little talking head blurb from Lachlan Patterson, our comedian. He's like, I I don't want to do stand-up just in front of Mel. That's not how stand-up works. And so while they're at the pub, Mel Has this wonderful idea. Why don't we have you do stand up here in front of a crowd instead of back at my place just in front of me and my friends? So that's what happens. He does a little stand-up in front of the the pub crowd, who apparently is not familiar with new management under new management signs at the restaurants. Cody: Right. Some of these pubs have probably been under the same management for generations, would you say? Jay: I I suspect that's a possibility. yeah. And it like pub culture over there is different than here. but yeah, that's you know, it he was working with what he had where he had it. And I th I thought it was pretty good. I I I really like his like he's got the the like The the crunchy, earthy, like long hair, tan skin, you know, his his joke from last time was like, I wish I was as much into kayaking as my face would suggest. You know, and he he kind of plays up his his style a little bit, a little bit of self deprecation that way. I I thought it was a pretty great routine. He comes out of it saying, I feel like I could have done better. what'd you think of Lachlan performing for the Pub? Cody: Do like him. I like his jokes. I kind of like that style of humor. it kind of reminded me a little bit of when Preacher went on. I think it was Britain's Got Talent Champions, and he had to Jay: Okay. Cody: and and he, you know, as Americans telling American jokes to British, they don't kind of get our jokes because they're all related to American culture and they just don't Jay: That's Cody: seem to get it. And some of those, like the underneath management stuff, just kind of went over their head. Now they did seem to laugh at. quite a few of the jokes, but I think overall it just kinda went over their head a little bit and didn't resonate as much with the with the British population. Jay: Yeah, it's hard to do observational humor when you're observing different things. Cody: Right. Yes. What could he have could he have told maybe observate things that he has learned like that while he's been there in England? Jay: Yeah, I mean it's it's awfully short amount of time to work up a a set, you know. It Cody: Maybe so. Yeah. Jay: like I I I'm not a stand-up comedian, but it seems like they hone those jokes and their timing and their wording and like all those little bits that it would be really hard to come up with something in in twenty-four hours. Like Okay, here's you know, here's the best I got for you guys. Hopefully it's not offensive or something. I don't know. Like Cody: this this kind of bothered me a little bit as well. As a dog owner, it kind of bothered me that Mel B was just carrying her dog around everywhere. Jay: yeah, I mean it's a it's a fashion choice, right? Like there it's Cody: Yeah. That that's kinda way I saw it. Is it seemed like it was a an access accessory to her outfit. So Jay: Yeah, I that's how I understand the rich and famous treat their pets as accessories. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: I've got my my dog in my purse and I'm ready to go. Like I just whatever. I don't know. It's not a thing that I do. Like I pets are pets, man. Pets are not family. Cody: Yeah. Jay: And that's I will I will defend that stance. Cody: Pets are not family? Jay: Pets are not family. Pets Cody: Okay. Jay: are pets. Cody: Okay. I w our to me, our pets are family 'cause that's all we have. So Well, but Jay: you've got your wife. That's family. Cody: I mean but the three of us. We don't have Jay: Yeah. Cody: kids, so the pet the dog is kind of our kid. Jay: It's it's a pet. And you can love them and they can love you back and they can offer some amount of comfort, but Cody: Okay. There you go. Yes. Yes. Yes. Jay: they're by design going to die before you and Cody: yes. Jay: it sh should not you know, we don't bury them in the same cemeteries. We don't have the same like they're they're not pets are pets. Pets are pets. All right. Okay. Let's that's fine. All right. it they yeah. They still bring joy. And Cody: Yes. Jay: and I love the lessons that my pets teach my kids about responsibility and about you know, what you d have to do to take care of another being. But it's like it's like practice family. Cody: Sure, okay. Jay: So all right, that's that's I'll I'll get off that stoke box. I don't need to Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: d I I don't need to alienate any more of the audience. Cody: You can message J Bach through our Twitter at AGT time pot. Jay: Yeah, you can Cody: Ha ha ha. Jay: look at those messages and then send the ones on that I need to see. So all right. Next okay, so that's Lachlan. He's gonna perform separate from everybody else. we're going to meet Mel B's judging partner. It's Baby Spice is gonna come join her for judging. Cody: Yes Yes. Jay: and I didn't even write down her Non stage name. So Cody: It's Emma Bunton. Jay: Emma Bunton. Cody: Yes. Jay: I'm gonna go with Baby Spice. So Cody: Baby Spider's perfect, yes. Jay: Baby Spice and Scary Spice are going to be the judges and they're first going to listen to Butter and Grit. Cody: Mel B said that Baby Spice came all the way from London to Leeds. It's and it she made it sound like I mean, it literally is across the country, but it's less than a four hour drive. Jay: Okay. Cody: Can you cross the state of Iowa in four hours? Jay: it's about three hundred miles. it'd be tough. It'd be tough to make it in Cody: Okay. Jay: four hours. Cody: Yeah. butter and grit are from Nashville. Butter and grit are from Nashville. That's five hours from me, and that's only Jay: Well Cody: halfway that's only halfway across the state. So Jay: Tennessee is a funny shaped state. Cody: Okay. Jay: Wonderful, but like you know, you can drive across Tennessee top to bottom in Cody: Yes. Jay: a what, two hours? Hour and a half? Cody: No, it's a probably probably three to three to four, maybe. Yeah. Jay: Okay. Cody: Yeah. Jay: So yeah. but yeah, okay. So Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Jay: the other difference is like once you get from one side of England to the other side of England, like the only thing that's left is an ocean. Like you're not Cody: True. Yes. Jay: it's not like drove like they did drive all the way across. It is like literally all the way across. Cody: Yes. Jay: So you know, for it's worth something. Cody: Okay. Jay: So she drives all the way across England to get to Leeds to listen to Butter and Grit. they say they're gonna sing a song about their friendship. Cody: Okay. Jay: Butter, our our dude, sits down at the piano. Grit, the lady, she plays guitar. they both sing really like a really super cute song. Cody: Yes. Jay: And like afterwards they say, know, like they're not a a romantic couple and It's like but they do have a deep friendship. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: And she says, Your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner. and I think that this song could be played at a a thousand weddings this year. Cody: Yes. Jay: Like it's it's it's kind of unfortunate that it came so late in the summer, because Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: i if this were out there, like in the world pre-wedding season, golly, it'd be Is a really cute song about finding finding your people, finding your partner. Cody: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Jay: So I I enjoyed the song quite a bit. What did you think of their performance? What did you think of the song? Cody: kind of enjoyed it too and I like that they did a ballad I guess considered a ballad. So they're trying to show their their range a little bit. And and you Jay: Uh-huh. Cody: know they did the the big, like exciting, hefty song in their audition and now they're slowing it down and just doing something nice and soft and and easy and easy as an easy listening. Jay: Would would you say the first one was a little more gritty and this one was more buttery? Okay. Okay, all right. Cody: Maybe so, yes. Yes, I would say that. so yeah, I think it was enjoyable. It's I'm not gonna sure it's gonna be my you know, my not my cup of tea. I think I prefer them doing the the bigger stuff that they did in their audition, but I can understand why they tried to do this to show their range a little bit more. So that they can do other Jay: Yeah. Cody: things. Jay: They also didn't have a band. Like they're logistically that would be hard to Cody: Nobody. Yes. Jay: to go to go gritty. To do the gritty. Cody: Yeah, yes. Yes. Jay: Do you know what that is? Did I d like the the gritty? Like the the the the dancy thing? I don't know. Cody: no, I no, I wasn't familiar with that one, so Yeah. I don't know. Jay: alright. Well you must not hang around elementary schoolers. It's all right. Alright, I think it's a Fortnite thing. all right. all right. So butter and grit. They they bring it down, they they do a buttery song. I liked it well enough. You say you'd rather go hard. I think that showing their range is not a bad not a bad idea. The harmonies were were nice throughout. You know, I'm feeling Curious, is this gonna be good enough to go through? Right? Like that's what I'm kinda asking myself after all of these. I'm feeling like for Mel B, for the situation that they're in, this is probably a thumbs up. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I Jay: Okay. Cody: I yeah. I I get why they did it. I understand why they did it. It's not it's not my preference, but I understand it. Yeah. Jay: Okay. All right. Cody: And and and like you say, because of the environment that they're in, it's what's probably a a a choice to make because of the environment. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. And so Mel B has to say, like given what I'm seeing, like in this situation, is it worth putting you through to the live shows? I feel like they did what they had to do to get there. Cody: Yeah. Yep. Jay: And it's probably not gonna hurt their cause to have this song out there, to you know, have this extra performance in front of the nation and you know, on on TV. Like it's it's probably all around good for for their brand. Alright, next act of the night we're going to Joel this is the magician. He's the one who stole jewelry out of dressing rooms and smashed it up and then produced it again, right? So this time he's gonna borrow Baby Spice's ring, gonna put it into a bag of rings. He dumps that bag of rings onto a haystack. meanwhile, they're gonna choose some words audition and walnut. And then he goes over to a bowl of lemons and they pick a lemon. He cuts the lemon open. Inside the lemon is not lemonade, not lemon guts, but an egg. And in Written on the egg is the word audition, and inside the egg is a walnut, right? Audition walnut, the words that they had chosen just a minute ago. And inside the walnut is Baby Spices Ring. Cody: Okay. Jay: Is this is this good magic? Cody: It's fine magic. Again, it's just the environment didn't because of the environment I couldn't get excited about it. It felt it just there was no energy in the environment for me to get excited about this. Yeah. Jay: Okay, okay. I think a a what separates a great magician from a good magician might be banter. And a great magician is going to keep you entertained and keep you strung along and you know, keep you distracted and invested and curious. And a good magician is going to simply do a trick that you're not sure how it was done. But a great magician is Cody: Yeah. Yeah. And I th Jay: going to do a trick that you didn't know how it's done and keep you engaged. Cody: Yeah, and I think he's a good magician. Jay: Mm-hmm. That's fair. That's fair. all right. So I'm feeling after that performance, maybe Joel's not gonna make the cut. Okay. All right. Cody: Yeah. And also in his audition he spent twenty minutes doing her performance. So Jay: yeah. okay. Next act of the night, then we've got Madeline Talent and Malachi Martin. they are the group that had been together for just like six months before performing in the audition, their first audition. we got some feedback about feeling a little fresh, a little unpracticed. This time in their in their chat with Mel they say we came prepared with a little song called Shut Up and Dance With Me And she's like maybe do a different song And so they prepare a different song and then they're like Nope we're gonna do Shut Up and Dance With Me And Madeline sings and Malachi plays banjo and it's perfectly fine. Cody: He's a really good Banto player. Jay: yeah, he's great. He's great. And he doesn't do much, if any, vocals. just just the banjo. She sings and plays guitar. I I like him, but it doesn't feel like winner quality performance, winner quality music. Like it's it's really just fun to listen to, but I'm not gonna bring it home with me. I'm not gonna be humming it after it's over. It's just perfectly fine. Cody: It felt very coffee shop. Jay: Yeah. Yep. Yep. I I went to the coffee shop. I enjoyed a a cup of joe. I put my I I read my magazine. I scrolled my my Facebook feed and they played and I hummed along with some of the songs and then I went home and I kinda forgot their names. Yeah. should they have done a different song? Did did Melby say, you didn't even listen to me? Yow. Cody: I mean, yeah, I think maybe she should have. It's it's very, very valid point. I found it interesting that she's like, You should do a different song. Maybe do something along these lines. Here's some suggestions. Jay: Yeah. And and I don't know, we we saw them practicing and trying and they just weren't they they just like, nope, we made our decision. We we like the decision we made. Cody: Well, they owned up to it. They're like they and they they Jay: They yeah. Cody: stood their ground. They like, here's my hell. It's like Jay: so yeah, a and and seeing them, you know, just a moment ago seeing butter and grit is like this this doesn't doesn't meet that that level. So yeah. I'm I'm thinking, you know, if she has to pick this one might be the eliminated one. Cody: He needs to find a good bluegrass band to join. And he may have one, but he's a really good Jay: Yeah. Cody: banjo player. Jay: I I don't know enough banjo to tell good from bad. I okay. I I Cody: Yeah. No, he's he's good. Yeah. Jay: feel like any banjo, like any finger picking banjo, like it's all above my head. It's like wow, that's a lot of notes coming at me fast. Like that must be good. Cody: Okay. Yes. Yeah. Jay: I don't know. Cody: Hey if you can if you can hear all the notes individually, you know it's good. If they're Jay: Okay. All right. Cody: not muddled together, they're doing what they're supposed to do. Jay: Okay, okay. I'm I'm thinking of deliverance. But you know, I I can Cody: Okay. Jay: hear all the individual notes, but you know, until they really pick it up, I'm not sure that he's good. Bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing. Cody: Sure. Well, yeah. It's like But was it going? Yeah. Jay: Yeah. All right. Okay. let's move on. Another duo. not a singing duo though, is James and Marina. you'll remember them from previous acts, such as No. They're they're a totally new act. totally new mentalist act. but yeah, they're they're gonna do some mentalism. James picks up a phone, Marina says, That's a phone you're holding. James hands it to Baby Spice and Marina says the battery percentage is 38%. Nope, it's 39%. And it is 39%. And then Marina senses that the b there's a dog present. And the background of the phone is in fact a dog. So they do that. Next, Marina, you're gonna go outside to the other side of this field. put on Mel's boots to go across the field, by the way. Her what do you call them? Her wellies? Cody: think so. I'm not surprised that they were leopard leopard print either. Jay: Yeah, no, not even a little. That's that checks out. Cody: Yeah. Jay: James is going to go through a box of things. it's a wine cork, it's a bag of tea, not just any tea, it's sh Yorkshire tea. And this is a box of matches, and this is a box of Spice Girls pins. so she was able to identify those things all the way across the field. And then Marina comes back in while Mel selects a Polaroid photo from a stack that was taken at the pub last night. Mel thinks of the name that's written on the Polaroid while Marina's touching her forehead. And then James, he's going to touch Baby Spice's forehead. And Baby Spice hears the name Leo, which matches the name on the photo. So James and Marina. like d telemechally transferred Cody: Ha ha. Jay: the telepathic information f from one to the other. Cody: Okay. Jay: I y I'm not sure how that last one was done. I'm I don't Cody: Yeah. Jay: know. Cody: Yeah. I mean, they feel it feels like they have skills. Like it it yeah, you could definitely tell they're not like the sentimentalists. Like they're not they're not that bad. They just have no they have no charisma. They have no showmanship. there's nothing like like you said earlier about the magician. They they don't inter they're not good entertainers. They don't in really entertain me. They're not keeping me engaged. they're they're just like doing the tricks. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Now, she did add in a little bit more f than in auditions where she's like, Well, I think it's this. It could be no, no, it's definitely this now. So, you know, she added that in, but still it the the beginning she just rattled it off too quickly of it's this. it's this. it no, we need We need the mystery, we need the mystique, we need we need for you to make it seem like it's like you're it's like it's like right there, it's a little fuzzy and then it kinda comes clearer. Jay: Snaps into place. Cody: Correct. so that's that's where we need more of that showmanship. At least like do better at pretending that it's you know, kind of fuzzy at first. Jay: Yeah, yeah, I think that that's i you used the word charisma, I think a minute Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: ago. As like that's a really good word. Like they just kinda lack that charisma, that je ne sais quoi. All right. Like they they they technically are pretty good, but there's something lacking in in how they sell it. So yeah, that's a that's a good good note there. Cody: And and I can't tell what his accent is. Is he is he English? I can't tell. She's definitely American. Jay: I don't I didn't I d I didn't track that. I didn't take note of it. I might have to go back and and listen. Cody: It it sounds like he's got some sort of accent. Let me see if the wiki says no, he is yeah, Jane is from Milton Keynes, England. So and she's from the Ukraine, but she's got a great American accent. Jay: wow. Cody: Yeah, so she's she does not have a Ukrainian accent at all. Jay: man, Cody, we've got a Ukrainian family in town. They had a a little girl. a few years ago I was substitute teaching in her class, and she the first time I heard her answer a question or open her mouth, like it came out on this most adorable little Ukrainian accent. And it's like, my gosh, I'd want to ask you all the questions and have you talk to me all day long because it's just so so adorable. and in the she's gonna be in fourth grade. So in the two years since, like sh her accent has really disappeared and it's kinda sad. It's Cody: Awww. Jay: like, just talk to me some more. I just want to hear your voice. sweetest little girl. So so yeah, Marina's got a a little bit of that that lost Ukrainian accent, apparently. That's too bad. Cody: Maybe if she brought that back that might add 'cause you know, with Tommy and Amelie with their Austrian Jay: Yeah. Cody: accent, that's what adds so much to their character. I mean it is is literally their accents. They're not making it up, but it just it adds so much to the character and their performance because of the it's so exotic, Jay: It's it's so exotic. Yeah. Cody: exactly. That's right. Jay: does James need does he wear a three piece suit when he performs? I feel like that that vest. You know, like the vest and the pocket watch and like, you Cody: He Yes. Yes. Jay: know y you gotta kinda lean into that that old English, you know, Cody: Yes, like like Colin Cloud does that too, and that just adds again Jay: Yeah, yeah. Cody: so much to that character. Jay: So maybe maybe play up the characters a little bit. Don't play it quite so professional. All right. Let's let's talk about our last act here and then we'll move on. we've got Betty Dimitru. she sings half English, half Spanish. gonna do a song called Impossible by Chantel, which is not on the Cody Patterson playlist. Nailed it. Cody: It is not, no. Jay: And the only note I wrote here, probably the best singer in Mel's group. Cody: I would say one of the best singers we've s that's on the show. Like definitely what, top three maybe in the show. Three or four. Jay: Okay. All right. Cody: Yeah. Yeah, but you're right. Absolutely best of this grouping. Jay: Yeah. So she's she does great. I I really enjoyed the the English Spanish kind of switching between the two Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: impossible and impossible. Yeah. I I caught that word. thank you, Duolingo. Cody: There you go. That th that duolego's paying off. speaking of which, I decided the other day, Jay, to to just listen to some Tejano music on on Jay: okay. Cody: Spotify just to maybe try to, you know, work on that a little bit and it it was incredible how many words I picked up just by listening to a little tejano music. So yeah. Jay: Hey. Very good. Very good. I always feel like music is is especially hard to Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: to to listen to, to get a foreign language, like The phrasing is different and the emphasis of the syllables is different and things are drawn out weird and I don't know where one word ended. And is that's that's hard. It's hard to Cody: Yeah. Jay: do to do music. But yeah, if you know a little bit of exposure goes a long way. So go go experience different cultures in the different different parts of the world. Well done. all right, so as per expected. Mel B advances 3x and eliminates 3x. the 3x that go away are our comedian Lachlan, Joel our magician, and then Madeline and Malachi, the the duo that was not as good. Meaning the three that advance are Betty, Dumitru, Butter and Grit, and James and Marina. I don't think that I can say butter and grit without putting a little stank on it. Like it feels like I I have to, yeah. Cody: No, you had to you have to, yes. It's it's it's necessary. Now I'm not sure how they edit it edited this together, but one of my gripes in addition to all my other gripes, another gripe I had about this was them going back to the group after they've been told that they either went through or didn't go through. Because then the other ones, especially the one at the end is like, okay, so let me count one, two Three have gone through. So does that mean I'm going home Jay: no. Cody: bec f like so Jay: Do you think they should have brought Cody: I just maybe Jay: all into the room and said, Okay, you three over here, you three over there? Cody: Yes, that that would have been one way to do it. The other way I was thinking it was just when you finished then you went off to another area. But yes, you bring all in at once and maybe you do it like we do in judge cuts. You bring two of forward. Well, you're going through, you're not. Or you like you say, divide them up, you five with Simon, you five over there, you over there. Jay: That's that's not good. Cody: So I think they could have done that a little bit differently. I just didn't like them going back and then yeah, we went through Jay: Yeah. Cody: well yay 'cause then you're over there like, Well I haven't I haven't been called yet, so it's like Jay: D did you ever watch the the scripts spelling bee? Cody: I have in the past. Jay: Like in that championship round and those late rounds, like after they're eliminated they send them to the cry room after they leave the stage. You like Yeah. Cody: No no. Okay. Jay: Like, crap. I like have some emotions I need to I need to feel. And Cody: Okay. Jay: I don't need to do it in front of everybody. So Yeah, it Cody: Yeah, okay. Jay: all right. So I that's a that's a fair fair thing to say. I'm I'm okay with you not preferring them go back. I I do wonder if there was some amount of like, you know, take a moment, like feel your feelings, collect yourself, Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: and now we'll bring you back into the room with everybody. Cody: Yeah, and it's possible they were gone ten, fifteen, twenty minutes while Nelby talked to him. And then they Jay: Yeah. Cody: like you say, took a minute to kinda gather themselves and then go back. So, you know, this this whole thing could've gone over maybe an hour, two hours, something like that. Yeah. Jay: I'm sure it could have yeah. yeah, and then they gotta get all the shots and all the input and the responses and the yada yada yaddas. So all right. Our next act I guess that's that's it from LB. She is done. She can take the next week off, come back in two weeks for the lives. But we gotta do what we gotta get through Simon. So he's going to introduce his guests, Normani and Pooh Bear. Cody: Don't know who these people are. No idea. Jay: I I thought I had her heard of Pooh Bear before, but I was way off. Cody: Yes. Like you say, is Piglet coming along with you? I was like Jay: Like, that's a weird guest toast, but all right. Like Cody: I hope he's got lots of honey ready for him. It's like Jay: Yeah. I mean if if who asked the question earlier about who would your guest judges be? Like you know if if Pooh Bear is on the table, like it I mean, I could let's let's take I had something good, it escaped me. I don't know. Raphael, the ninja turtle, right? Yeah, I want Raphael. Like that's Cody: Okay, yes, yeah, sure. Sure, yeah. Jay: He he seems like he probably Cody: Yeah, the Jay: knows art. Cody: you know, that they are four artists that are that were the Ninja Turtles. Jay: Yeah. Cody: That'd be interesting. So which tur which Ninja Turtle would be the best one to evaluate talent? Jay: Ooh. my ninja turtle lore is a little lacking. I was never a real never a real Turtles kid. Cody: Okay. Yeah. So well you've got well I think Leonardo was kind of the leader. Donatello, I think, is like the scientist smart one. Michelangelo's Jay: Okay. Cody: kind of the the party dude. Raphael trying to remember I think maybe his yeah, can't remember what Raphael was. I don't remember what his thing was. So that's kind of your Ninja Turtle archetypes. Jay: Okay. Leonardo's the leader. Okay. Cody: I think so. He was the b he was the one with blue. Jay: yeah. Yeah. Well, blue Leonardo, Michael Orangelo, Red Fiel, and Purple Tello. That's Cody: Yes. There you go. Jay: thank you to my friend Jason for giving me that that mnemonic device. Cody: Yes. Jay: yeah, but again, like I don't know their personal like I I know that they always had amazing looking pizza. Cody: Yes. Jay: I know Shredder Cody: Yes. Jay: and Splinter was Cody: Yes. Jay: like their their sensei. Cody: Sunsei. Yes. Jay: And then I remember Bebop and Rocksteady, Cody: That's correct, yes. Jay: which I thought were awesome names. Cody: Yes. April? Jay: And yeah, of course April. who I think a lot of kids had crushes on, but didn't do anything for me. Cody: yeah, absolutely. duh, yeah. Jay: Like yellow jumpsuit? Not really my Cody: Ha ha Jay: like okay. and then there was the brain in the belly of the robot. Cody: Yes. Jay: I d I don't even know his name. Cody: I'd forgotten his name as well. Jay: Okay. yeah, I don't know. I I don't need a cartoon character as a as a judge, but I did, I did. Cody: Okay. You brought it up. Exactly. Jay: What what are we here for if not rabbit trails? Cody: Yes. Jay: Not rabbit from Woody the Pooh. Cody: Right. Yes. Jay: okay. All right. Well we've got Abiud Sando, the dancer, we've got Akira, our no show novelty act, the Electrods, our dance group, Elise, the singer, Nija and Zaya, Nija Music, Zaya Rhythm, vocal duo, and then Travis Garland, our dancing with the stars singer. First up, we've got our Abiud Sando. And in this in his chat with Simon before his performance, he's like, I think you need to include drones. Like, Cody: Yes It's like what? Jay: what? Cody: And they bring out one drone that basically just does one wide shot. Jay: Yeah, I don't know. Like I Cody: Throats. Jay: Like they said I can't ride my bike, so I got a drone and I I really want to play with it. I so Cody: There is there is there is zero chance Simon was the one operating that drone. Jay: No, absolutely not. Cody: No. He pays someone to play with his drone. Jay: I think I think you need drones. Cody: Dr drone singular Yes. Jay: Drone, yeah. Abiud does take his advice and he includes a drone. he also Cody: Yes. Jay: includes two more dancers, which was probably a pretty good move. Cody: Yes. Jay: i Cody: Absolutely. Jay: even with him and the two extra dancers, my note is this felt small. Cody: Sure. Yep. Jay: It it didn't it it just didn't like fill me with awe or joy or wow. It was just kinda small. Cody: He is a one trick pony. He has one trick that he does. Jay: Yeah, the sidewinder. Cody: Yes that's it. Jay: Mm. He does it really, really well though. Cody: Yeah, but he's he's basically is this his version of B double O T Y? On on his B double O T Y Jay: I it might be, sure. Yeah. That's yeah. Abiyud he likes some B double O T Y and he needs more Parmesan. That's Cody: Yes. Jay: That yeah, that's I I think maybe you nailed it. Like, this is my thing. They're like, still. Cody: Yeah. Jay: so while my note is this felt small, it also says it went about as well as it could have gone. Right? He didn't have any major flubs, he didn't have any major mistakes, it just didn't feel big enough, it didn't feel new enough to me. Cody: Right. Yep. No, it's just I think the other two dancers were better than he was, 'cause again he just did his one trick and then they jumped and danced around him. Jay: Yeah, then they've filled out the stage a little bit more. yeah. So after that I'm thinking, I'm not sure we're gonna see him again. Cody: agreed. Yeah. Jay: I'm also thinking Simon has to eliminate three of these acts. That's probably an easy one. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Jay: Boy, was I wrong. All Cody: We were all wrong, yes. Jay: right. next is Travis Garland. He's our Dancing with the Stars singer. gonna sing a song called Love on the Brain by Rihanna, which is another one not on the Simon or on the Cody Patterson playlist. Okay. he does. Yep. Cody: That is correct, yes. Two for two tonight, Jay. Jay: He does prove to be a very capable singer, right? He's got great control of his voice. like I would be interested in hearing him like take a Rihanna song and do it like Johnny Cash. All right. Take a take a Led Zeppelin song and do it like Blink 182. I don't know. Like just like try you know, you've got this this ability to recreate the style of music. So like have some fun with it. Cody: Don't think that's his wheelhouse. Cause my understanding on Dancing with the Stars is he sings the song exactly like the song is originally sung. So he his his thing is not to take songs and then remix them or do something different with them. He's but he's I know, I know, I Jay: But that's what I want to hear. Cody: totally get that, but that's not what he does. He is and I think we you and I have talked about this in previous seasons where I can't remember his name for was maybe in last season or season nineteen where you had the the singer that they that's what they do, is he s he covers songs and I was totally against it. Yes, and Jay: Yeah, and he does it as as perfectly covered as you possibly can. Cody: Yes, and you said that's the talent. Yes, so Jay: Yes. I did. Cody: Yeah. Jay: the most extras. Cody: Yes, that's correct. Now I think Simon and the little package they did called him Corny. Is that right? Jay: Mm-hmm. Cody: Okay. Jay: It very polished, right? Cody: Yes. Jay: Like polished to a shine that is uncomfortable. Cody: Mm-hmm. And and he admitted like the whole like everything he did in the audition, he practiced it. The whole glasses thing, all that he said Jay: Absolutely, yeah. Cody: he practiced all of that. So Jay: Because when I do it for real, I don't wanna think about it, right? That's Cody: Yeah. Jay: why you do practice. Cody: Yeah. I don't think he's an improviser and I don't think he veers outside of his lane. Jay: Yeah. I like I still think that it would be pretty awesome to hear him do it differently. Like you know, to to do this song in that style or you know, to to mix something up. Like, okay, I've I've I've got the the style of this band down and now I'm going to surprise you by by doing something else in that style. And that would feel that would feel fresh and exciting. Cody: I would expect that when they did the audition for the Dancing with the Stars singer role, the the Jay: absolutely. Yeah. Cody: the request was we want you to sing this song exactly like it's sung on the album. And so he's been doing that for so long he doesn't know how to do something different. Jay: D you see this box? We want you to step inside of it. No. Don't leave it. Cody: Yes. Yes, exactly. Jay: Yes. Cody: And now you're asking him to like go way outside the box. He's like, No, no, no, no. I like the box. Jay: No, I'm I'm asking you to stay inside the box, but like invite this song in. Cody: Okay. Jay: all right. okay. I I do think that he's talented. I'm I'm curious Cody: Sure. Jay: if he has the talent to go deep. I wouldn't be surprised him to see him through at least the next round. Cody: If if you want him to s I mean, you want him to sing something different, but if the talent is for him to sing the songs exactly as he as they're sung, I think he's got that down. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. all right. Here's Niger music and Zya rhythm. Are Cody: Would it be wild, Jay sorry, real would it be wild and just like would this be a Sandow trio Russian bar moment if he came out and did an original? Jay: Ooh. Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: I mean I yes and no. Like he's still singing. He's Cody: Okay. Yes. Jay: he's not pulling out the Russian bar. right. Cody: Right. But but he's he's now he no he's been doing cover songs exactly as they were are for so long. He's now come out as a songwriter. Jay: Right. Yeah. I mean it's it's like the the the baby steps version of of the Sandau Trio Russian bar, right? It's it's not the the like we do this circ circus act and also sing upside down. Cody: Okay. Jay: Like it's like I sing this way and also I sing this way. It's like Cody: Okay. Jay: it's it's it's not a it's not a complete overhaul. Of the act. Cody: Okay. Okay. Jay: It's he's he's not like and also I juggle. Right. It's like no, I'm I'm still singing. It's just an original. Cody: Okay, fair. That's fair. Okay. Yeah. Jay: all right, that is that's Travis Garland. I I mean again, assuming that Simon has three to eliminate and three to keep, I'm feeling like it's he might be a bubble act. Cody: Sure, sure. I also didn't feel like Pooh Bear did a whole lot in this episode. Jay: yeah. It's Cody: I think he just sat there, like what's her name? What the other one. What's her name? Jay: Ne Normani. Cody: Normani. She did more. She actually gave feedback and advice and critique. Pooh Bear did nothing, as as far as we saw on the screen. So he just sat there and ate Jay: yeah, I I agree. I wasn't Cody: his honey, is all he did. Jay: Just, yeah, looking looking for his honey pots. Cody: Yes. Jay: all right, let's move on to Nija and Zaya. they're gonna do Justin Bieber's daisies. And then Simon, he he waves his hand and stops. he says, you guys need to improve by I don't even get it down here. just Cody: Like using the stage more is basically what he said. Jay: Yeah, I don't know. Loosen up. Boy, it's really hard to loosen up when you just stopped me in the middle of my song. Cody: Right. But how could you not be loose while you're on the on the ocean there in Malibu? I mean Jay: Yeah. it Malibu's beautiful. Like, yeah. Kick back, boys. Relax. Use the stage. it was fine. It was a perfectly fine song. I'm not a a big what I forget what the believers. I forget what beeper fans are called. Beep beeper fevers, I don't know. Beliebers. Cody: Yes, believers, yes. Believe no, you had it right, believers, yes. Jay: I'm I'm not a belieber. and I've heard the song before, but it's not one that like, yay, I get to hear daisies again. So yeah, I think they're probably just a little too young, a little too inexperienced, and it you know there's there's a certain contingent that would really love this, right? The the teeny tweeny, you know, girl vote. Like, sure, that's great. But I'm not I'm not feeling feeling it real hard. So We've got our our dancer, we've got our Travis Garland, we've got Nija and Zaya, and I'm feeling like Travis Garland is the best of those three. Cody: Mm. Yeah. And even when Simons told him, hey, you sustain it felt awkward because he was just like mosing about and circul circul circulating, circu circling, circling. I'm trying to f I'm circling the drain here. He's circling Jay: Yeah. Cody: the stage and it just seemed weird because it's like I don't know what to do, so I'm just gonna kinda walk around. Jay: There's there's an episode of Arrested Development where Job learns the word circumvent and then he tries to use it a few times and he's Cody: Okay. Yeah. Jay: like, excuse me, I'm just going to circumvent you and Cody: Mm. Jay: reach this over here on the table. And it's just like it's like, that's not at all how you use that or say that, but it like it was a little bit of a of a circumvent situation there. all right. i yeah. Alright. Next act, here we go. Electrodads. They No Cody: Were you excited about this? Okay. Jay: it like I think that Simon kinda did a bad job of picking his his axe. Right? After Cody: He has the worst grouping of the entire of all four judges. Jay: after those three and upcoming electrods, I'm like, what is this? Cody: Yeah. Jay: I don't like it it his taste and mine are not the same. Cody: No. No, his his choices were bad. Jay: Okay, well, the Electrodads, they've got their baby carriers on their fronts with a little baby doll in each of them. gonna perform to a song called You Dropped a Bomb on Me, which is also not in the Cody Patterson playlist. Cody: Four for four, Jay. Jay: I wrote that this is cute. they do have some personality and they do some tricks and some moves that make Me and people smile in general. But I don't like I don't need to see more of it. Cody: No. It it was not entertaining. It's cute, but it's not it's not a live show act at all. Tap and dad's better than this. Jay: I'd have to go back and do a an off season rewatch. yeah. Cody: Okay. Do we need to do a tap in dad's rewatch? Jay: no I it they're too simil like it is tapping dads. It's just like soft shoe dads. Like yeah. Cody: Mm-hmm. Just a modern modern version of it. Yeah. It's the millennial version of Tap and Dads. Jay: yeah, tapping dads without the canes and the top hats. Cody: Yeah Yeah. Jay: Simon calls it smart and cute, and they're like, hey, he called it smart. I like that. Cody: Yeah. Jay: So that's Electro Dads. I'm like, okay, all right, let's let's let's move on here, Simon. I don't like I'm I'm just struggling with his picks. And then out comes Akira. he he's the no-show artist, right? He keeps his private bits covered while performing naked. And it's gonna be more of the same, but it's But it's different again. And he positions the balloon to push a toy car. And as it pushes the toy car, he moves across the table behind it and stays covered. And then he swings a frying pan left, right, left, right. And he has to move his body left, right, left, right to stay behind it. And then the what I have as the best trick of the night is he has three plates that he is going to juggle. while keeping himself covered. So he's holding one, throwing one, catching and keeping himself covered the whole time while he's doing it. I like I almost need to watch it in slow-mo to really like appreciate what he did there. but I thought that was a pretty awesome pretty awesome move. And then he's gonna go grab a floaty, it's a a ring that goes around the you know, around the pool. He Moves that ring in a circle and keeps himself covered, and then jumps in the pool and ends with a literal splash. Cody: This was one of the most entertaining things the night. Jay: I know I was all ready to be like really Simon like Akira? Like Cody: Yeah. Jay: this is one of your six acts? Like this is the most novelty of novelty acts. And wouldn't you know it is like, yeah, he he's actually pretty good. Cody: Yeah. Sorry we're not gonna see him anymore. Jay: yeah, it like he's gotta be eliminated, right? Cody: Yeah. He's not a singer. So not a singer. So Jay: Yeah, not a singer. So Cody: but yeah, one of the most irritating things of the night. Jay: One of the most entertaining things of the night. That's that's a pretty hot take. and I think we're both on the same page. Cody: Okay. I'm I was getting ready to say if if we're on opposites on that, boy. Okay. Okay. Jay: No, I I think we both agree. and then finally, his last act to perform is Elsie. She's a singer. gonna sing Foy Vance's Make It Rain, which again has not made it onto the Cody Patterson playlist. Yep. Cody: Five for five, Jay. Jay: perfectly likable. She's pretty. She has some really, really good skills. based on what we s what we've seen, it's like, okay, like she might be she might be in. She might be one of those top three for Simon. Cody: She's a fine singer. She's not great. There's other singers that are much better. It's if we're doing three, she might be one of the three. Like if I was actually picking three, I would have picked Akira, probably Travis, and maybe her. But it's but it's a stretch. Jay: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: It's actually not a good group. Jay: She might be a bubble, yeah. Cody: Sure. Jay: Like a three, four, like might be just kind of in that that coder could slip away. But so we reveal that the only act eliminated is Electro Dads, and all the other five acts are going through. We've got our our Sidewinder dancer, we've got our no show Akira, we've got Elise sing, Nija and Zaya singers, and Travis Garland singer. Cody: It it it's wild that five went through from this. Don't know what happened here. Jay: Simon's gonna Simon, right? Nope, I Cody: I guess so, yes. Jay: want them all. I'm gonna take them. Okay. We'll figure it out. Cody: You're the boss. Jay: So we'll tell Howie that he can only have two, I guess. I don't know. Like, Cody: Yes, that's right. Jay: I'm I'm not sure. I'm not sure what is happening. And I think it'll all it'll all play out. Like, they they have to have at least an equal number of slots in each live show, right? Cody: Mm-hmm. Yes. Jay: Like that that would be unfair to have thirteen one week and eleven a different week. Or even twelve and eleven. Like y you gotta have Cody: So we got eight we got eight from this episode and we need twelve total? Jay: Yeah, that's that's what I Cody: So f well Jay: thought. Cody: okay. Jay: But if not twelve then sixteen. Cody: Well, but if we take four from if we take four f I guess we would take two from each one for next week, right? Yeah. Jay: So we're either gonna see four more acts or eight more acts, I'm not sure. So stay tuned. Cody: Yeah. Okay. Interesting. They're they're yeah, they're changing the rules on us. Or I don't know if yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's happening, but Jay: I don't even know what's happening. Cody: I don't know what's happening. We'll just figure it out next week. So Jay: All right. Cody: I'm hoping next week is better. This was maybe just been a bad batch of acts. I mean, I think that's part of it, but I think also the production value for me just didn't play out. By maybe by by the halfway well, not even halfway. By the ninety minute mark, I was I was pretty out. Like I was starting Jay: Yeah. Cody: to focus on other things. Jay: But fortunately you didn't check out because then you got to see Akira. Cody: I guess so. Well, no, I I think I checked out through part of Akira too. I think Jay: man. Cody: I was just already mentally out. Jay: Okay. yeah. I all around Mel's was more enjoyable than Simon's. and then Simon did this whole five advancing and I was like, I don't I can't even I can't even. Let's move on. Cody: Yep. Well, what else we got? Jay: Well, you wanna talk about what we got next week? Cody: Yes. Who do we have next week? Jay: next week Sophia's gonna have Brooke Lin, a singer, Daryl Moton, a magician, Cameron Marshall, a magician, Olivia Bifus, a dog trainer, and Vatang are kind of over the top beatboxer. Cody: I am excited about Vau Tang. Jay: Okay. is there anything that you're not excited about in that grouping? Cody: I I'm not excited about Daryl Moten. Actually neither Daryl or Cameron. Jay: I was feeling Olivia, but you know, pets aren't family, so No! You can still love and train dogs. They're just not family. Alright. Cody: Yes. Okay. Jay: and then Howie's callbacks include Bird and Byron, the vocal duo. Chris Sosa, comedian, Daniel Alvarez, comedian, he's the wheelchair one, right? Naimana and Daniela, the ventriloquist duo. We've got Nene Royal, our singer guitarist, who I think is just blowing up the YouTube streams, the Cody: Mm-hmm. Jay: number of views. And then Raina Kondo, the toe stubbing impressionist. Cody: I am kind of intrigued to see what she's gonna do this time. And Jay: Yeah. comedian, comedian, impressionist comedian s ventriloquist. Like he's he's got some Cody: Ca Jay: oddball ones. Cody: Yeah. And the even the ventriloquists were kinda comedians in the way they sang. Yeah. Jay: Yeah, absolutely. And then singer guitarist as well as Burton Byron. So I was a little surprised Burton Byron didn't just make the the no brainer list. Cody: Right. Yep. Agreed. Jay: and Nene Royale. I'm surprised it didn't make the no brainer list. So Cody: Yeah, and and and I had a couple of theories last week that either you know, it it's possible they were trying to get more viewers for this round, so they brought her in so people more people would watch. I think Commenter also theorized that they were they may have re recorded this before she kind of blew up on Jay: certainly, yeah. Cody: social media, so Jay: Yep. All right. So that is what to look forward to next week. I would say I'm more excited about Howie's callbacks than Sophia's. Cody: Yes. Agreed. Jay: Yeah, I I I guess in two weeks then we start the lives and will we we'll probably know at the end of next week at least who's gonna be in the first week of the lives, right? Cody: Well, we should know because we draft next week, Jay. So Jay: Yeah, I hope so. Okay. Cody: So Dw The draft, one week away. Jay: Is it really? Cody: Yes. Jay: all right. Well I gotta I gotta review my my notes, I guess. Let's. Cody: I figure that's where you and Scott were right now. It's like you all were you you Jay: That's Cody: were sequestered away and you're talking about your draft strategy. Jay: there was surprisingly little draft strategy talk in Cody: Okay. Jay: our time together. But you know, when when we're together with our family and all the kids and everything else happening, like who has Cody: Sure. Priorities. Yeah. Jay: Yeah. First things first. Cody: Yes. Jay: But no, we'll we will put together a strategy, we will put together our our list and hopefully just destroy the competition. Cody: There you go. Jay: That's that's the plan. So or if not destroy the competition, at least have a good time trying. So Cody: There you go. That's that's part of it. Have fun with it. Are are and you don't have to give your strategy, but are you gonna be looking at more acts that you enjoy watching? Or are you going are you going to win? Are you looking to win? Jay: Wha why does it have to be an either or? Why can't the acts that I enjoy watching lead Cody: Sure. Jay: to a a winning team? Cody: They could. Yes. You've I think that happened last year, right? Jay: Porque no los is the Cody: Yeah. Jay: why why not both? Cody: Yeah. So Jay: yeah, that's ideally that's how it works. doesn't always work that way, but you know, I I there are singing talent specifically, it's hard for me to get excited about a singer. It like unless you're doing it as a ventriloquist or with some not previously seen before flair, it's just kind of hard for me to to get excited about, yeah. Which is why like Nene Royale, I guess, is kind of a a a great choice, right? Like she she does do it with Flair. It's not something that we've seen a lot of. She's got a billion views. Like it's, you know. But even though it's a great choice. Is it a fun choice? Is it the one that I really want? I don't know. So we'll find out. I've Cody: Yeah. Okay. Well we'll find out next week. Jay: I've I've got a I've got a teammate to work with me on this. Cody: Yeah, yeah, Scott'll be great. what else? Jay: I don't know. reach out to us on all the social media platforms at AGT Time Pod. The Gmail is agt timepod at gmail.com. Please keep sending the listener mail. It's really fun for us to hear from you guys, to interact with it a little bit, give us some stuff to to chew on. Cody, if there's a question that I should chew on before we start recording live, You know, maybe maybe share it with me. Cody: Sure, fair. Jay: just so that people don't hear me hem and haw. I feel like you know, a lot of ums does not make for great podcasting. So Cody: that's fair. Yeah, good point. Jay: but no I we really do appreciate all the all the feedback and all the listeners. if you've got friends that you like to talk to America's got talent about, like let's tell that we're out here and we're doing a thing and they can they can be a part and they can send in the listener mail or just listen or whatever. you know, we we appreciate anybody and everybody. Cody: Yep. Well, I think we're gonna wrap it up, Jay. So you said the business and I'm gonna guess wish everyone a great night. Jay: Stay safe.