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• AGTCommenter: Welcome back to another edition of the AGT Time podcast. I am your host, AGT commenter, and I am joined tonight by nobody. It's just me. I'm flying solo, my first ever solo pod. I'm very excited to do this. They say nothing's harder than solo radio. So here goes nothing. Not the first. solo podcaster in the history of the show. Cody Mims did it twice. Our our good friend Jay Bach has done it twice. And producer extraordinaire Cody O'Patterson has one has one solo pod under his belt. So I'm just one of many here starting on my first solo pod, but excited to do this. This is it is ten nine PM C T. Nine minutes ago, Unitree's main guy was Trying to say it whatever thoughts Terry wanted to say and he had to cut them off, and now here we are. We're gonna what I want to do tonight. I am just gonna give 30, 40 minutes here, just kind of an instant thoughts, reactions of what I felt like kinda transpired tonight. And I'll tell you this. This was kind of an interesting night. more interesting maybe than I than I initially had thought it was going to be and I think a lot of us watching it on the pod thought it was going to be. But a lot of a lot of stuff happened from good, bad and the otherwise. So I'm excited to to get into this. We'll talk about some underperforming, overperforming, properly performing type stuff. we will I'll have plenty of nay nay conversation. Bruce Buffer was in this episode. we had a a guest judge in KSI that we'll talk about. in and I think What I wanna ultimately kind of use this for is to decide what I felt like the final push and home stretch of this horse race ended up looking like. And did anything change for me? Did anything change for what I think is going to happen? Cody and I made our predictions and Ryan made our predictions this past weekend of of how we thought what'll end up being Wednesday night. Tomorrow night will go. who's gonna win second and so forth third, fourth, fifth? But Has anything changed from what I felt like was going to happen? So and then we'll wrap with I'll have some rank power rankings and my updated and final official top 10 for season 21 of America's Got Talent. And then we'll just talk a little bit about what's coming up the rest of the week with the pod and what you got from a content standpoint, and then we'll get out of here. So before I get into any of that, if you would like to reach out to us, we always love to hear from everybody. if you're looking for us, you can find us on all the socials at AGT Time Pod. If you need to reach out, email us at agt timepod.com or excuse me at gmail.com. Our website is agt timepod.com. Go check that out. The blog is on there. I blogged this week about Tom Cotter's message that he sent us. so make sure you go and and you check that out. some other good stuff on there from a blog standpoint. My leaderboard's on there. Hopefully it'll be updated soon. with the season twenty-one finalists added to it. the Hall of Fames on there were about just over just under six weeks away from the ballots getting sent out, or probably right around six weeks away from the ballots getting sent sent out to the voters for the 2027 class. So go check that out. if you are looking to get in touch with me, please reach out. TikTok X the Everything app and Instagram are your best places at AGT Commenter. You can actually email me too at AGT commenter at gmail dot com. would love to hear from everybody any any thoughts. We did actually have, well, our friend Cody actually submitted a listener submitted question. excuse me, listener c question night. So we'll get to that. It was actually a good one and it and it led me down a little bit of a rabbit hole of what I wanted to talk about. But I want to get into this episode. So we open and It's just Bruce Buffer. It's Bruce Buffer. The Bruce Buffer are become famous as the other Buffer brother and then and then kind of passed his brother and and is done the UFC and you know, his brother is the let's get ready to rumble guy. He's the it's time guy on UFC. He's gonna he's gonna lead the episode. what a start. Now, at first I was like, Wait, is Terry gone too? 'Cause we had no Simon tonight. But Bru Bruce Buffer, what an opener. I'm not going to I'm not going to describe the episode nearly in any depth. I'll leave that to Cody and Jay. They're going to be on on Thursday to do their full recap. But the Bruce Buffer thing was awesome. It was weird. yeah, I I don't know. Is is UFC are they in LA this weekend? Is that a possibility? Probably look that up. But yeah, interesting. Fun. I liked it, but but but interesting. We had KSI as our guest judge. I was not or am not super familiar with with KSI. Now from what I understand he is he's on BGT, isn't he? oops. From what I what yeah, he's a he's a B he's a B a BGT guy. So he he works with Simon. So he had some judging job. I'll say this. He left some things to be desired as a judge. It was it was a tough night for KSI. He he didn't he wasn't like he didn't say anything bad. He just he just it he it didn't seem like he prepped for the episode. And so he just kind of got out there and was like, good job, nice performance. Spoke in a lot of superlatives. the only time he really kind of didn't go for it was with Unitry at the end, but he was probably better than Keenan. Rank the guest judges. Heidi won. I would say KSI was the second best and and Keenan bringing up the rear keen was bad. Couldn't even press on Golden Buzzer. It was tough. but when I look at this episode, I I have some bullet points of just the the main things that stuck out in what I thought really ultimately kinda told the story of the night. And it's not gonna be i i chronological in in any fashion. to me the story of the night I wanna under t I wanna I wanna disclaim it first. Nana's gonna win tomorrow night. I I I have no I think there's no question about it, no way fans are about she is going to win tomorrow night. I I think that disclaimer is important because what I'm gonna say next might make it seem like I don't think that she is number one with a bullet this season and and I just I would I think it was Mel said she'll sell Howie's new house. Like it's that level of confidence for everybody involved with the show and that watches and and fans and everything. I'm not wavering for one iota from that. Where I'm wavering tonight, I had her as the best of the season going into the night on my personal leaderboard, which is not a reflection of how I think America is going to sort things out. It matched up. That has changed tonight. And to me, the story of the night is Nene wildly underperformed. Wildly. She sang Seven Nation Army by by the White Stripes and all time. An all time rock song, an all-time stadium song. And at first she starts to song and I'm like, Let's go. This is a when you're dealing with a rock singer, when you're picking Seven Nation Army from a rock song, I'm not a rock enthusiast by any means. It's it's one of my least favorite genres of music, like hard rock, heavy rock. But Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, you can't beat it. It it's dun dun dun dun d. I mean, it's just it gets you going. And I just didn't love her rendition. I forget the song she sang last time. I know she sang zombie. Zombie, she hasn't topped zombie yet. I'm gonna I'm gonna get what song she actually sang because I wanna get that right. She hasn't topped zombie zombie yet, which she did in the auditions. I don't even reference the judges callbacks performance. She did a good job, but I I am not using that to factor into the season for these acts. She sang yeah, Black Hole Sun by by Soundgarden. I'm not I was not particularly familiar with that song. Thought it w I thought it worked great. She hasn't sto she hasn't topped a zombie. And this was it was good. It it was it was un was unquestionably good. But she's been the best and she's been great and and this This was a letdown. It it was. I I had her number one on my leaderboard, and and after this combined with my next point, I I made a change on that. I still think she's great, and again, I still think she's going to win, but this was a bummer. and that was a lot of the discourse, at least on my Twitter timeline, was that that's exactly what this was. This was just a little bit of a letdown. And I she ends up I want to say at that bullet point actually. The second point I have is Veronica stole the show tonight. She was, I thought, I don't want to say ahead above because Hundred Fingers was really good too, and there were some other good performances. She was spectacular. And she comes in, she performs fourth, and at that point we're into the episode, and the first three were Royal Lasers come and lay Noel. And Royal Lasers did what they do. I I I I I posted it, I I tweeted it during the performance, or right after the performance. I just feel like this was the fourth consecutive time they've done that. I've liked them all, but it's just been the same thing one after another after another. Come here comes out. I had them as did a r they did I thought they did a really nice job put together a performance that I just would assume come here would do. And then we had Lay Noel, who I'm gonna get into in a minute, but it didn't go great for her either. I thought it was a major letdown and a bummer and kind of slowed the episode down. Veronica comes out in the fourth performance of the night and steals the show. She was spectacular. She's got the two different sticks that she can use. she's like a she's like a dancer on that thing. And the really long one she uses to kind of be do the finale up on the main stage. with the she teased that w she was gonna do that long slide in the excuse me in the the intro clip for her and she brought it I'd I'd have to guess a fifteen foot slide drop you know ten, fifteen feet, maybe more and catches herself. Very cool performance. She has She has positioned herself. I did not predict her to be in the top five this weekend. I just I just felt like felt really confident about the one two with Nene and Hundred Fingers. I didn't want to leave a dog act out of there. I thought Lei with the solo saying golden buzzer thing was too strong, and then I just kind of kicked back and forth between Veronica and Gino, and I thought people were gonna like Gino more. I have I'm going to be very, very disappointed if she is not a top five act. tomorrow night. She's just I I think she's been the most talented, best act, the most consistent act of the season, consistently great act of the season. and and that was I I think a really, really nice performance from her that kind of set the tone for what the rest of the night needed to be and no one lived up to it. and the one name we thought was going to and and at the very least live up to it if not go past it w did didn't didn't at all and didn't get close in my opinion. This was a bad next point I have this is a bad night for singers. This did not go well for the two singers, Nene and and Lay Noel. Nene's was it was not bad. Again, I've I've said that. Lay's was it was it was semi bad. It was it was bad adjacent. I wanna make sure I get the song choice right. This song didn't work for her. It was it was too slow. It it it did not allow her to I love her big vocal. It was Bruno Mars's risk it all. I I loved her big vocal. all year. When when she was able to let loose, her Golden Buzzer audition had some great moments. This just suffocated that and I just felt like she was a shell of herself. There was probably some nerves and we saw that show up. I think it showed up in Beefus's performance. may perhaps it was Nene's performance. It should be. This should be the this should be the episode. This should be the the point of the season where This is the pressure cooker. There's a million dollars on the line. And if you do a good job and America likes it, you got a shot. And you should feel the the tense, the intensity, you should feel the the pressure. You you you should you should notice you should be able to see some nerves from these acts. And it's the ones that either can't don't show at all or rise above them and and do that are the ones that ultimately tend to do really well. And that impressed me the most as it goes. And I thought both singers tonight, and especially Lay Noel, Lay No Le Noel, I felt like just didn't it wasn't right, any of it really. The staging, the song, I she changed up her hair. I I d not to not that that overly matters, but I just thought everything was a she had had a good thing going. She had sung to America twice on the show and she got a bold golden buzzer both times. And then she changed it up, it felt like and I just felt like that was an unforced error for her. I'm gonna skip the nene next nene point I have. Beefus's mistakes. I love Beefus, leader of Beefus and the Buttheads, Cody and I have gotten more than we could bargain for from Beefus this season. She's Olivia's done a great job, the dogs are the best. This didn't go well. Th this was this was everything you fear with both a young kid that she is as well as animals. that it it can just not click and it can go sideways. And and it did and and it's a bummer. I thought she was gonna be the worst act in this final going into it. This was what's the opposite of a head above, whatever, a foot below. This was this was way deeper. This was a this was just wasn't very good. And that's okay. the fact that she gets to say she's a finalist on AGT for the rest of her life when if you would we took her with our third to last pick or something like that, fourth to last pick. She was she was an afterthought for our fantasy league and I think for a lot of people wouldn't have expected Beef us, especially when there was a golden buzzer dog act that in the same season. So i I I think ultimately she was never really competing to win. And as as much of a bummer as this is, she's she's gonna Cody and I talked about it last week and and he he made a good point. She's just gonna become a great draw dog trainer. The older she gets, the more she does this. She's gonna become a real a real great dog trainer and hopefully she continues to do that. next point I had hundred fingers was really great. They were. They they were They were sharp, it was visually appealing, the colors worked. I liked the ending where all of a sudden you was off the stage and and they separated a little bit. It's not the magic I sign up for. I I if I'm if I'm standing in a hallway and you said conference room A has hundred fingers performing and conference bro room B has Gino performing, I'd go into Gino's room. it's just the kind of magic I like. I like the cards, I like the sleight of hand. that that's not necessarily a choreographed, you know, actual dance as much as I love the choreography and the hand dance that Shin Lim does. This is not really the same thing. But group magic, dancing, you know, chore choreography, synchronicity, it's one of a kind and and we just haven't really seen it. And I I was impressed. I was dubious of them. when the season started, 'cause I I was not a huge Yuho Jin fan back in season seventeen. I I just wasn't my kind of magic. I like it in this form much better. I think I have them as the third best act of the season. I think they'll probably finish as the runner up tomorrow night, so a nice season for hundred fingers. I wanna I wanna circle back. I wanna circle back to this. Nene performs seventh. Cody and I and Ryan on when we recorded on Saturday for the pregame episode, we th we didn't even have a conversation when we all predicted Nene to close the episode. Cause we just I think our our basically our thought was, well, what would be the point of spending valuable minutes on this podcast giving our thoughts on a certainty? Was basically was was basically the sentiment. This was this was such a a no-brainer. There was just no way, one, it's always easy to have a singer close and she was the the name and she's the she's the assumed front runner and she goes seventh. I tend not to get too wrapped up in you know, outside of opening and closing second through nine, two through nine, I guess I don't really think about it. But Cody Friend of the podcast, Cody, actually went to his personal account to to ask the question. He's he writes longtime listener, first time caller, he has a couple questions. Question number one What's the likelihood that an act can win from the seventh spot? So where Lei performed. Has anyone won from there before? And then he asks, maybe a little bit tinfoil hat, did they specifically choose seven Nation Army and then put Nene in the seventh spot for that reason? I'm gonna answer number two first. I'm a Taylor Swift fan, and we got a Taylor Swift song in the Come Here performance tonight, which was spectacular. New single coming out, I think, this week. She announced today. Chiefs are 2-0. As a Taylor Swift fan, numerology is a big deal. Matters. It's a big thing. Taylor Swift, 87, 13, those are the big ones. So I'm not one to deny numerology. so you know what, Cody maybe. They they might have they might have put her seventh because of the Seven Nation Army song. Or Chicken and the Egg. Was it the Seven Nation Army song because she was performing seventh? Maybe we'll never know. the Better part of your question. the first one. What is what's historically happened to seventh performers on finals night in an illustrious group. Now, I went through. I said, This is why they've hired me for this podcast. These are the things I look up and and log. Seven of the 20 seasons that have and then the tonight's the 21st season, but we don't know how that's gone for Lineda yet. So seven of the twenty previous twenty seasons. Just didn't have seven finalists. We had some s some either sixes and fours. Bunch at the early seasons. Basically seasons like two through nine. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I think it was two through nine except for four or something like two three and then five through nine. All didn't have seven finalists. They cut it down one more time and then did another l performance. So of the thirteen that have prior to this this this evening, Zero winners. No one has ever won from the seventh spot. and it gets worse. And again, I I don't I don't know if this is actually a correlation at all, but it's fun to look at. It gets worse. It's not only has there not been a winner, ten of the thirteen, the seventh performer, did not make the top five. the best we've seen is actually two runners up. Last year, Chris Turner finished runner-up. and in season eighteen Anna DeGuzman, the female magician, finished runner up. And then the the other one, another appearance for Brooke Simpson in the Nene Royal Analytics conversation. She showed up on Saturday. Brooke Simpson finished fourth in season sixteen. She performed seventh. The other ten seasons one and two and four and then ten one two four ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen Seventeen and yeah. Yeah. So interesting. I don't know what it means. I I doubt it means anything. Again, I still think there's just no way she's not going to win. But it has not gone well historically for seventh place finishers. or excuse me, seventh place f seventh performers have have not had a great go of it, historically in the thirteen times that we've 14 times, whatever it is that we've had seven finalists, two runners up, a fourth place, and then a bunch of non-top five finishers. So no winners. Matt Franco technically performed seventh in season nine, but it was his second final. So they did back then, they had six in this grand final. And the first time they performed, they did like a a recap performance or a basically they recycled something they had already done. And then they performed a second time. They're brand new, kind of the actual finals performance. Well, he performed first. So he performed first twice, which ultimately the second time he performed was technically the seventh the night. I'm not counting it. I I don't think that that counts. so but Brooke Simpson, shout out Brooke Simpson. She was on Saturday's pod, came up because she's one of two in the Golden Buzzer era, one of two non Golden Buzzer solo singers to make a top five. Just said just two. So I d I think Nene's gonna buck that trend. overperform, underperform, properly performed. So, this is where I had the horse race coming into the night. I had Nene as my number one act on the season. Again, this is not my prediction. This was my leaderboard. Veronica 2, 100 Fingers 3, Come Here 4, Royal Lasers 5. That was my top five coming in the night. The five best acts I thought for the season. Lenoela had six, Gino seven, AcroK9 eight, Unitree nine, and Beefus from Beefus and the Buttheads ten. That was my ten coming into the night. and I was interested to see w was that going to change i in any crazy way. There was no major leaps by any means. Let me just pull up my new top ten, so I can get ready for this. But I wanna go through each act and just talk about do do I think they under or overperformed. So first first thing I'll say, only two acts moved. Like two t technically four moved, but only but only one basically just flip flop two two different two different pairs and that was it. so there was there was very little change in my horse race, if you will. I'll just go bottom up. So from my leaderboard going into the night. So beef us I had as as the worst act of the ten and I thought she underperformed. Frustrating, disappointing for her, I'm sure the dogs just didn't necessarily do what they were supposed to. She struggled and it is what it is, but I thought she was a clear underperformance. Unitree, I thought underperformed Mel B. she couldn't tell she keeps saying she can't tell the difference between the humans and and the droids. there sure. They they have human like features. Two two arms, two legs, a body, a head. But the head is like the size of a softball and it is silver with a blue with a blue face with no eyes, mouth or or or Or no. So it's very concerning her inability to decipher. I will give her this. This has turned a little bit too much into a human dance act, maybe? Like I don't know. At the same time I I want the robots I don't want the robots to begin with, so I don't know. But I thought it was an underperformance. I didn't care for it. The canine crew, halfback dive. I I I talked about it last week on the recap pod. This act is rinse and repeat. They had an injury to their lead trainer prior to the performance, gutted it out, was was proud of that, from Team Cody and Commenter. was i impressed by it by that. But they just they run the ball. Fun. This was like an eighties neon theme, I feel like. Last week we had their slumber party theme. They they pulled out a Whitney Houston song, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and I thought it worked. They're just fun. They're make you smile. They're sharp. I thought I thought it was a a perfect, exactly what I expected. Gino. I thought Gino was exactly what I thought he was going to be. I thought he peaked in the quarters. I don't think he's quite captured the haha magic that he captured in the quarterfinals. That said. This was solid. He I I I I posted it tonight, but he has become a pros pro. I I when I talk about nerves and and and axe feeling the pressure and the tension, I didn't get that from him. I just didn't love the trick as much. But he's sharp and he is he has become a really polished performer. I I've been really impressed with him. I had so many concerns about his first performance of could he could he stray from the Matt Franco thing. And he he has and hasn't. Matt Franco is gonna be on the I'm sure they're gonna be doing a trick together tomorrow night. He was in his intro package tonight, out to dinner, but he hasn't been Matt Franco on stage since since auditions, and so I've been pleased with that. he did exactly what I thought he was going to do. Lane Well I thought underperformed. I I thought it was a a disappointing song choice. I thought it was a diff disappointing arrangement. I thought she just kinda changed up too much stuff from something that was working. and it just didn't go great, and it was a tough night for the singers. I'll just do it in a chunk of three. Royal Lasers come here and Hundred Fingers were my next three. I thought everything that I expected from those three, they gave us. Royal Lasers, like I said, I feel like I've seen them do the same performance four times. Come here was was good, solid, no complaints. Hundred fingers, I I really liked. The only overperformance of the night, the only act that that was better than even I thought was Veronica, which is amazing and disappointing. she was spectacular and I I talked about it, but she was my only overperformance tonight. And then I thought Nene surprisingly underperformed. I just didn't think she was going to. I just assumed it was gonna be another really great choice rock song and knock it out of the park and it just didn't I don't know, just didn't cut it for me. So when you run the tally One, two, three, four, five, five proper performances, four under performances and an over performance. That's kinda the finals. You're you're you're gonna have roughly half of the final that settles in and can just call halfback dive, you're gonna and then you're gonna have the other five that are kind of a wild card. That the nerves could get to them and you're gonna see some underperformances. You might have some real gamers and some ballers in that group that when the blights are on and and things are toughest they're gonna dominate and I think that's what Veronica did. But It's it can be a bit of a volatile night 'cause it's the pressure's on. And so I did not think this was a particularly great final. just because I I thought there was multiple letdowns and very few that really blew me away. Were the only one that blew me away. I wanna note this. We have a music ending problem. They can't end songs at the right time. And it's also it's that coupled with they can't get the s they the performance is done for two and a half seconds and then the streamers go off. But the music ending, like we can't cut up these songs to have a crescendo that ends and y so like I think it was Beefus's act. Like it's like the middle of a of a line like v a a a line of the song. Like the the the vocalist is still singing the song and they just stops. It's bad. It it's it's really bad. Wanna check through some of my other notes, make sure I'm not missing anything. Okay, KSI stole Simon's line. First thing first thing he said the whole episode. I didn't like it. I loved it. Thought that was very funny. Clearly works with Simon. That so couple things I want to kind of I kind of want to wrap up with. My power rankings for the actual episode. So I have two different lists of ten. So my power rankings for the episode, would which would be just simply just these performances. Let me go to my list. Veronica, I thought was the best of the night. Nene, I thought, excuse me, that's the wrong list. 100 Fingers, I thought was the second best act of the night. I had come here Royal Lasers 3 4. Those two are very similar, just acts, I think, in terms of consistent same thing over and over again. I had Gino fifth. I had Nene sixth, and that shocked me. But I I just I didn't love it. I didn't care for it. I had Lay Noel seventh, Acro Canine eighth, Unitree nine, and and Olivia and and the dogs pulling up the rear tenth. I looked at it, I went back and forth, and I just felt like Nene just wasn't one of the five best acts that I that said. I think she should certainly be in the top five. I think she sh I personally think she should be the runner-up, but she's gonna win, and that is what it is. My final official season 21 top ten. How how my leaderboard will reflect it when when we add it to the the leaderboard on the AGT timepod.com website. will reflect as such. Beefus in 10th, Unitree in 9th, Canine Crew in 8th. That was the same as it was coming the night, those three. I had those three 10 and 9 and 8. The first change of the night, I had Gino, Gino jumped one spot ahead of Lei Noel. I now have him sixth and her seventh. Stays the same for 5, 4, and 3. I had Royal Lasers fifth on the night. 100 Fingers third. Those three did not change from from before from before the evening on my on my old my old leaderboard, my top ten from a week ago. The only other change was I had Nene as the best act of the season coming into the night. I now have her second. I think Veronica jumped from two to one. I think she's the best act the best talent of the season, in my opinion. And really, really hope that that she makes that she makes in the top five. very mixed reviews online. I've gotten a lot of posts from people. Some people that are very disappointed in Nene, some that are very offended that people didn't like the performance. That's not a surprising kind of juxtaposition there. But I think it was bad enough to drop her down and I think Veronica was good enough to to bump her up. But I want to wrap with a few things. I'm gonna do some of the bigger, more overarching requiem for the season thoughts, both on Twitter tomorrow night and Cody and I and and possibly Ryan this coming weekend after everything's wrapped. We'll do our wrap-up to kind of put the final historical bow on it. The and some of those kind of overarching thoughts. I have two things I want to do to finish. I want to the last thing I want to do before not counting, kind of look ahead, my final top five prediction, what I think America's gonna do tomorrow night. But before I do that, something struck me tonight. So and I hadn't noticed it through four mont whatever. July, August, September. Yeah, almost four months of this show. They were doing all the intro packages tonight. And each one had kind of an a sentimental emotional moment. A character was introduced to us. You know, it was Yu Ho Jin's dad, Veronica, I think it was a sister, Matt Franco showed up for Gino. It was like all of these these things started to show up. I'm trying remember. you know, it was Lane Oelle's dad talking about her as a baby. It was you know, Nene talking about you know, her journey there, but I'm trying to remember, I wanna make sure I get at least some of them. But it was come here was basically reading like testimonials to their coach. Like it was interesting. And at first I thought it was a one off and then every act was doing it. And they hadn't done that this season and I not it was it was very clear that this was the theming of what they were trying to do for this episode. And it struck me, this is a season without stories. This is this is you look at the the list, who has a story? Who who who has a story? Beef us, what's Beefus's story? Didn't have one. Unitree, what was Unitry's story? When I talk a story we've had over the years, we've had the Richard Goodall's the janitor story, we've had the Cody Lee being blind and autistic thing. W these things, these these extracurricular, if you will, the not on the stage factors of this act that we all know matter when people go to the polls to vote. Canine Crew. What was their story? Part of it is as I keep going, there's a lot of groups here. Unitree was a group, Canine Crew was a group, Royal Lasers was a group, come here, and Hundred Tree half the acts tonight were groups of people, which is kinda hard to create a story. Anyways, what was Gino's story? We like Matt Franco? Le Noel? They didn't really they didn't really give us much. Royal Lazers come here. No, I mean the the coach for come here was a fun story, but again, there was no sob story here. Veronica, I they didn't they didn't even dive into anything about her until tonight. And Nene, they've tried a little bit. She hasn't tried. Like this is one of the great st storyless seasons we've ever seen. I I I don't recall ever looking at a group of finalists and being like What's what's any of these acts stories? I I d I don't know if any of have one. And so it struck me when they were kind of doing those intro packages throughout the night, I think they're they're trying to introduce some stories into these acts before the final voting. Like, hey, they're they've kind of just been talent show performers to us the whole season, which I like. I I think that is ultimately what I'm trying to figure out is what the talent who should win based off of talent, but Very interesting. And then f it struck me, and I I think that's kind of what they were doing. It was like, ooh, we haven't really there's n we don't really have any not many heart strings were getting tugged at throughout this throughout the season. There really weren't. And I've liked it, but I think they kind of decided to to to I don't know, talk about it tonight and and actually bring it up. but yeah, this was that was an interesting decision and I I'd have to imagine that that was that that was part of it. I I want to do this to wrap. Cody and I made our predictions and Ryan made our predictions. this weekend. I had Gino finishing fifth. Again, this was for the boat, not my power rankings or my my top ten. Gino fifth. I had Lay taking fourth. I had the canine crew third. I had a hundred fingers runner up and I had Nene Royal winning. I am not going to be changing those picks for the ledger. I'm locked into those for our competition. I I think I want to make an editor to to how I think the voting is gonna go tomorrow night based off of what. I didn't have Veronica my top five this weekend. I I just Cody had her fifth. I I just have to have her in my top five. I think she was too great. She's been too consistent, she's a golden buzzer, I shouldn't overlook that. I I have to put her in there. So I am going to I'm gonna stick with Nene as my winner. I I don't know why I would waiver from that. I I d I don't I don't see for any reason that I think that Nene Royal shouldn't have won or or I shouldn't say it well shouldn't too. She definitely deserves to, but won't win. I'll say this. I appreciate her if and when she wins tomorrow night. I do. She did it in a real way. No gimmicks. There there was and and really anybody who wins will kinda fall into that, but she's almost certainly going to win in there was no golden b she she live show, but no audition golden buzzer was used, no sob story was used, nothing. This was this was the the old fashioned way. That this was what it was like to win in season four or season two. Like this was you just had to go out and put on good performance, and win people over with your talent. And that's kind of what this season ended up being and and she did it and she's probably going to win and I can appreciate that 'cause there was Yeah, I mean there was no gimmicks. I do think she's going to win. I am going to stick with my Hundred Fingers runner up. I do think they will still be in second place. I had the canine crew third. I still think they're top five. I think I have them too high. I am going to put Veronica third. so I've got Nene. I've got Hundred Fingers. I think Veronica. Oops. is going to finish in third place. again, not changing the picks from this weekend. I had Lay Noel fourth and Gino fifth. Boy do I feel worse about Leigh. I'm gonna bump the dog act to four. I'm gonna put Acro Crew In fourth, I had Gino fifth. And I'm looking at it. The two names that I'm really looking at that I don't love that wouldn't be in my top five if I put Gino in are hundred or excuse me, come here and Royal Lasers. Those are the two, especially Royal Lasers having the golden buzzer. so I'm gonna bump Gino out. I am gonna put Royal Lasers in fifth. So my final Predictions for season twenty. How I think results night will go tomorrow night. I go tomorrow night. I believe Royal Lasers will be announced fifth. Acro Canine crew will be announced fourth. Veronica will be announced third. A runner-up will be Hundred Fingers and Nene Royal in the 21st season of America's Got Talon. I think that is a pretty good s that's my sense that that is that that's going to happen. So this was a I'll wrap with a few things. This was an interesting final. It was always was a a little bit interesting because of just the lack of singing and then the singing kind of was the was did just didn't go very well for either singer. So it ended up being this weird thing. I had it as a four point one eight on my scores, which would be the best live show, I think, by far. Yeah, not by far. Quarterfinals won ahead of four one two. Yeah. quarterfinals three out of four one one. So those two quarterfinals and this were the three best live shows I thought and this was clearly the best live show. I will tease We'll have some some leaderboard talk. Have some leaderboard talk next week or this weekend with with Cody and I and and potentially Ryan about where all these acts are going and where does Veronica and Nene and down the line fit into my all time leaderboard. But yeah, I I just I thought we were gonna see a little bit better performance from some of these acts, but ultimately it kinda went how this season has gone, where no one has taken a ton of risks. Y they really haven't. Who took a risk this year? Ask yourself that question as you're getting ready for tomorrow night. Who took a big risk? Who swung for the fences? And if they did, did anybody connect? Because I'm not sure everybody did. This was a talented season. I think there was a lot of really good talent, and none of them took a swing. It was a this was like 1980s baseball. Just a bunch of singles. Steal a couple bass, lay down a bunt, manufacture a few runs. We were playing small ball. all season. We there was no Mark McGuire's or Sammy Sosa's to to light things up. But I've enjoyed this season. Again, I'll do some of the deeper Requiem stuff and and final thoughts this weekend with Cody and Ryan. But what you can look out for. Hopefully first of all, hopefully enjoyed this. I like being able to get something out there about these performances. This is something we haven't had, someone actually giving initial thoughts on this before it's 48 hours after the performances and so hopefully you like this. Feedback is always welcome. first time doing solo radio, the hardest thing in the world according to radio solo radio people. So nothing harder than this. but I made it through, kept it to a tight forty five minutes. let me know. Would would love to hear feedback. tomorrow night. you will get the I think Scott's the only one that hasn't confirmed, but I'm assuming he just and I might have missed it in the text group, but should have all, I'm assuming, the six members of the Fantasy League to almost certainly crown Cody and I as champions of of season twenty one AGT time fantasy league. if if Ryan and Steven don't have the winner and they don't have NA on their team, they're out. They they can't catch us. So that's kind of there's other scenarios, even if they have the winner, that they would need us to still not we have six of the ten. So we're already guaranteed one of the top five. Almost certainly gonna have more than one, I hope, but so it would it would take a calamity on our end for them to catch us and they'd have to kind of they would need Gino and Lane Oel and Royal Lasers to go like first, second third or first, second fourth, you know, to To even have a shot without us being like fourth or third in that scenario. So very much looking like that's what that's gonna be. But we'll be on. We'll give our you know, it's a big crew, so we'll just kinda all give our parting thoughts for the season, put a little crown on our heads, and and everybody can kind of share their thoughts on the results. Assuming there won't be any crazy surprises, but who knows? Cody and Jay will be back Thursday to put on to put out a great pod about some of the deeper dive of the stuff I talked about tonight. I'm sure they'll talk Bruce Buffer and KSI and why there was a five minute season recap in the middle of the episode. I'm sure they'll cover that. and then Cody and I, and hopefully Ryan, I think we'll be recording that on Sunday, so you should have it to start your work week next week. Final wrap up, which will be leaderboard talk, all time season, where does this fit? All of those things. Final parting thoughts on the season and then you won't see us for about a month. roughly four or five weeks depending on how Cody and I are feeling about when we want to start it back up. But when you will hear from us again, we'll be back for the off season. The ballot reveal start the off season and we'll rock into rewatchables and things from there. So appreciate you all listening. hopefully you enjoyed enjoyed the solo pod. I did my best. this was fun. Make sure I don't have any other notes that I want to make sure I hit. So again, reach out to us at AGT Time Pod on all the socials at AGT timepod at gmail.com at agt timepod.com is the website. Always feel free to reach out to me. 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