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Live Acts Revealed | Season 21 | America's Got Talent · AGT Time Pod - America's Got Talent Fancast

• Cody: Everyone, welcome back to another edition of AGT time. Commenter was on a couple weeks ago, but I had to see what else he had, so we called him back. And AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: he's gotta do another performance for us. AGTCommenter: Would you I'm not good enough to go straight through Cody for you? Cody: so that's gonna be one of my thoughts because there is an act that like everyone loved that is in the call they sent AGTCommenter: And then they send him a callback. Yeah. Cody: them to callbacks and I'm gonna talk I have a some thoughts on it. So I I I'm gonna kinda since you asked that, I'm gonna hear my here are my thoughts. One either either they wanted us as an audience to see them more so they brought them back to callbacks. Hey, you love this act? We're gonna show them to you again. Maybe you'll love them even more and that'll help them in the live show. Or maybe they actually didn't think they were good enough. Which is which is ridiculous. But those are my thoughts. AGTCommenter: If I had to guess, yeah. They just wanted to make sure it was still entertaining television for two weeks and that there was some good acts to watch and it wasn't a bunch of fringe acts. and they're Cody: Sure. Sotham gets correct, yes. AGTCommenter: sending sixty six percent of them through. Over sixty six, 'cause there's only twenty three. So it was like really low risk to put some of the maybe clear what we probably would have thought were clear live show acts in Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: the callbacks, 'cause like the chance four eighty percent of Sophia's are going through from what we kind of can under and and kind of deduce from this the format. Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So but yes, how about we got a lot to get into. This is gonna be like a data filled episode. There there's not a ton Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: of what happened in the episode because the episode was just giving us a list. Basically it basically showed up, received a list, and left. That's basically that's basically what it is. It Cody: It could could have been an email, right? AGTCommenter: could have been an email. We none of this needed to technically be broadcasted at all. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: So we got all that to get to. Let's tell people where to find us and then let's cover a bunch of stuff. Cody: So you find us on our socials at AGT TimePod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com. You can go find out our website. AGT timepod.com's got the Hall of Fame that we love. Commenter's leaderboard is out there. AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: there's some blogging that's going on, so go check that out. Commenter, I think I've got a flu game. Been a little under the weather the past few days. So it's not not terrible. Just a AGTCommenter: no. no. What do you th what's the concern? Cody: little j j just a little congestion is all is all it is. So AGTCommenter: Do you feel like you're on the back end? Cody: Yes, I'm definitely on the back end. Yeah. AGTCommenter: You're not you're not worried about this spilling into more episodes than maybe just this one. Okay. We're gonna have a healthy Cody for the for the six week push here. Well we got eight no, we got eight weeks left. Yeah. Yep. Cody: No, no. No. For the li that's right, re restin' that's right, restin' up. Gonna be ready to go for the live shows 'cause we're going we're going all in, right? AGTCommenter: Yep. Do you have anything off the top non what we you're gonna talk non what happened last night on the show related? Cody: I I don't think so. Am I supposed to? 'Cause I didn't have anything no. No, I d I didn't have anything this time. No no news. I won the hot dog contest, so yes. AGTCommenter: I don't know. Usually you usually you have something. I don't know. I did have you did. You did. So you get you have the rights to our first pick in the draft. our s we have the second overall pick, speaking of of which Cody: Yeah. Do you want to talk about that now or later? 'Cause I I wanted AGTCommenter: Let's do it now. Cody: to ask I wanna ask you that. What are your thoughts on having the middle pick? AGTCommenter: I didn't want the first pick. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: Because there's no clear cut first pick. So I like having a little bit of intel. I wanted the third pick this week, if we're being honest. There's Cody: Okay. Sure. AGTCommenter: not there's not a n th I don't think there's like I do think there's good talent in this season. I just don't think there's any standouts from one to the next. There there's no there it's really hard to tier the season. And so just letting the first the teams kind of take the first two and just kind of get a sense of what they're thinking. I would have preferred, but in a three-team draft, don't really care. In the five team, I thought the order mattered a lot more. Like last year for the Cody: Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's what AGTCommenter: last couple years it felt like if you were not in the first three picks, if you were fourth or fifth, it was really hard to get a real contender, it felt like. Cody: Yeah. That that's what I was curious about. Or you are you more interested in being in the turnarounds on the ends, or are you okay with being in the middle? AGTCommenter: Th no real preference. It was when it was when it was five teams, a recap for everybody, we're doing three teams of two this year, adding Mr. Scott Bach to the to the league this year and teaming up. But so but we ended up, like you said, with you and Jay did a little spinner to to to pick the draft order. I had one gripe with you last week, Cody. So you were on the spinner, you spun, Bach brothers won the first pick, and then you Cody: Okay, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: were just gonna stop. Cody: I was like, Well, we got we got the first pick, what does it matter anything after that? AGTCommenter: And k shout out Jay, he is much more patient and kind than I. I was sitting in my car like Cody, what do you like what are what what what did you think was gonna happen now? Like Cody: I had no idea. I was like, Well, hey, you asked us to do the spinner to see who gets like, and we did it. So I was like, okay. AGTCommenter: Well you you you we only had one pick settled. We still had two more picks to to settle. It was very f I it I was laughing. Jay did a good he was flabbergasted, but he he's a he's got a little bit more diplomacy and decorum maybe than I do. He was but he was kinda like Well, you asked y Cody: Fair, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did. Yes, I know. That's the that's why that's why he's the pro on the podcast, so yeah. AGTCommenter: do you throw out one of the craziest questions that's ever been asked? You go, do you wanna do the other ones? And he and he was like Yeah, yeah, I think we should. And I'm no no no no. We have to. This isn't a should could. This is this is a must. Otherwise we don't know who's picking second and third. it's very funny. That's my that's my teammate. That's what I'm working with this year on my Cody: That's fine. AGTCommenter: team. no, very funny. You were just like Cody: Hey, you knew what you were signing up for. You AGTCommenter: Yeah. I mean I did try my first pitch for teams was me and Ryan. so you did you did veto that. It this makes more sense. So Cody: And I vetoed that as the producer. I vetoed that immediately. Yeah. AGTCommenter: but yes, that was very funny. I I I was like, oof I don't I would love to have known what you thought would have happened on draft night after Jay and Jay and Scott picked. Who would have went? It was late. Mm-hmm. Cody: Yeah, I my only thought was it was it was it was late, it was the end of the pod. Yes, so AGTCommenter: You're I'll be making all the picks in the last third of the draft, maybe. Cause it'll you'll be sleepy. Cody: Fair, fair. AGTCommenter: all right. Should we get into some some of this stuff? Cody: Yes, yes. AGTCommenter: We had the they they they labeled the the episode judge live show acts revealed. true. Factual. They they did reveal some of the live show acts. And it wasn't different than what we thought. Basically what they did was they reminded us who the Golden Buzzers were, which What was that first twenty five minutes for? Yeah, what was that for? Cody: It was half ho it was the first half hour. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And I didn't feel like we got shorted on the rest of it because we didn't need two hours for what they were doing that night. But what what was they just they Cody: Mm-hmm. AGTCommenter: just reintroduced the Golden Buzzers like and then they put like quarter finalists like look who's in? It's like what do mean? What do you mean look who's in? and that portion of it led to some real confusion on my end. So I I prepped going in the episode. I do a lot of we do a lot of bookkeeping. We do a lot of data keeping. We're keeping our lists. Who's in, who's out. It's very selection Sunday over here. And we had intel prior of what this was going to be. The press release beforehand is they were going to reveal to us 26 of the 44. Or tw they were going to reveal 26 live show acts. My dumb brain, I would argue my smarter brain. argue or Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: assume they meant 26 not counting the golden buzzers because they didn't need to reveal the golden buzzers to us. They were counting the ten golden buzzers as part of the 26. So I went into the evening assuming we were going to be finding out 26 acts that we didn't already know about. Instead we only got 16. and it left me trying to figure out what the heck was going on with the last 35 minutes of the episode. When are we getting the X the the final eight that we didn't get what what's going on. Instead, we we we have twenty six, really we have sixteen new names. I had done a whole thing where the wiki had released and leaked some of it. They the the show put out the promo for callbacks and you could see every act that was in callbacks. So there that list was was made known. So I kinda made a prediction of the the ones we didn't know about on either side who was gonna go in. I made a list of seventeen. I only needed to make a list of nine Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: or whatever it was. So but yes, it was it was a little different than I think a little less info than I thought we were going to get 'cause I thought we were just getting more live show acts. But basically we've got twenty eight live show acts, right? No. Yeah, twenty yeah, twenty eight. Cody: An AGT an AGT as they should has to produce the l the lowest common denominator, right? They have AGTCommenter: They do. Cody: to produce to they have to produce to those that may not have watched the show ever before. They're not they're not producing to us. Like, AGTCommenter: Yes. Cody: we probably know more about the show than they do in some aspects. And so AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yes. Cody: they're producing to the lowest common denominator and so they have to go back and be like, Hey, remember this act from like six weeks ago or seven weeks ago? Hey, just to remind you, they're they're in the live shows. AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: 'cause they're gonna show up in the live show and th and someone's gonna be like, Hey, how'd they get here? They weren't in the call back episode last week, so AGTCommenter: Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't think we needed five full minutes on each golden buzzer. Cody: Yeah, it was like three golden buzzers and a commercial break. And then another three and then another commercial break. Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. And they did a whole clip and everything and it was like we've done this. I g I had no problem with the refreshers. I found it valuable on when they were telling Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: people who was going when they were saying who was going through. I forget about a lot of these acts, or at least kind of what they even look like and what they did at times. So I I didn't find that to be a bad thing. But I said twenty six, I meant twenty eight. So we have we have twenty eight live show acts. Eighteen that they sent through last night and then the the ten The ten golden buzzers. that leaves us. We still need sixteen. Cody, we need we need our forty-four. And so where are we gonna get our sixteen? We're gonna go to they are very excited about like they're doing a lot of promo for judges' callbacks. Simon's in there talking about how he had this, you know, revolutionary idea. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. we're gonna get 16 more from the two callbacks episodes basically is the the assumption here. Each judge brought six, except for Sophia, who brought five. We can do that conversation. we have there's two there's two reasons. One, she just only wanted five. Our assumptions it Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: was a six that either withdrew after they did all that, couldn't couldn't show up. There's a there's an act that we feel like might be the answer to that that there's some intel on on the wiki that had to ended up not airing his audition because he got into some legal legal trouble and things like that. So somehow we Cody: Could could they have could they sorry, could they have not had like some alternates? Hey, judges, just AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Cody: in case something happens, pick like one or two more and we'll film that a as alternates. AGTCommenter: Yeah. But ultimately they didn't need an alternate as long as they had at least four because they could just send the four they just needed to send four through really But the fact that there's only twenty three is one of the most Cody: I guess I guess so. AGTCommenter: unsatisfying th like the fact that it's three sixes and then a five is just it Cody: This right, right. AGTCommenter: it doesn't it it it leaves it's like holding in a sneeze, which is annoying. But Cody: A and and the and the one person in Sophia's group that's just not gonna in the others there's like at least two people that are gonna be console each other. The one person in Sophia's just like, What am I supposed AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Cody: to do? AGTCommenter: Yeah. So basically what they're doing, two judges per callback episode the next two weeks. Each judge we would assume are are again, we get into some problems when we start assuming things about this show, but each one's just gonna get to send four through, so we'll get eight from callbacks one, eight from callbacks two. There's our sixteen to get to forty four and the live shows will be set in a couple weeks. They already announced who's going when, Cody. Simon and Mel will be next week. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: And then Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: Howie and Sophia will be will be the following week. Cody: Okay. The two kind of mu music AGTCommenter: Yeah. I I I I doubt they really ca I I'm really fascinated Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: to see how they how they f is it just Simon picking his four? Is are the other judges have input or is it all just him and he gets to pick his four? I'm assuming that's what it is. I'm very interested to see. This is very X Factor. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: And this is Cody, this is basically the exact thing Simon did on his Netflix boy band show that he did this winter. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: This is what they did. They auditioned all the guys, they picked a they picked a list, then he brought in all of the Brain Trust and other artists, the guest judges like they're using here, to basically put them through a combine to figure out who was good. They went to his house, they did all like this is he's just doing that. He l clearly he liked that format. I think it'll actually be pretty interesting television. It's better than what we've gotten in these middle rounds. I don't think we're gonna get proper performances. from this. I think it's gonna be much more clipped up and then we'll f just see who the the first hour who Simon picks and the second hour who Mel picks or whatever. But I'm actually kind of intrigued by it. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: and that'll be that'll be how we get to our forty four. So we only ended up learning about thirteen eliminations last night. So my list, and I'm pretty sure it was correct, was sixty four that we saw get advanced through. Now we know Cody over the years, they're not afraid to just to put some in the live shows that the audition didn't get shown. So that that was possible. But there Cody: Right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: was 64 that we saw get advanced via Golden Buzzer or Yeses during the seven audition episodes. We only saw thirteen not go through. There wasn't a ton of surprises. There was one big surprise, in my opinion, that we'll get into. But that's kind of what was settled last night and set up for the next two weeks. any anything you wanna kinda talk about or add on what we're gonna getting into and where we're kind of at besides obviously we'll get into who's who's doing what here coming up. Cody: with you that I'm kinda fascinated to see how it's gonna play out 'cause it seemed like they did tease it a little bit that yeah, we're gonna be at Simon's house, Mel B maybe at her house AGTCommenter: In in England. Cody: and y yeah, and and how he's taking them to like comedy clubs 'cause he took all he took all the comedians. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I think it was like his it was his podcast studios slash comedy club. I think he had kind of two venues. I'm assuming his podcast studios at his house would be my assumption. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. Sure. Sophia's probably at the modern family house or something, so AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. So it'll be interesting. they could do worse television stuff than this, like basically what they've done in the past where they pretend like they're deliberating on camera and then they just tell us the list, which was a little bit of what last night was. I do want Cody: True. Yeah. AGTCommenter: to talk about this before we get into the names. I want your thoughts kind of a a twofold thought. The cinema of it last night is they're walking around on that stage and they've got the cardboard pictures of each act, and they kind of are walking through like they're at like the NFL Hall of Fame looking at the busts of the on like the little pedestals. And Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: they're doing their deliberations there. One We'll do this first. That's not how they actually deliberated, correct? They Cody: No, no. AGTCommenter: made these decisions in the conference room on the whiteboard and then came out and filmed, correct? This isn't the actual place. Okay. Two. Cody: Right. Yes. Yes, yes. No. That's the theater, yes. AGTCommenter: Thoughts on the cinema of that. It is kind of interesting. I Cody: I mean AGTCommenter: honestly think I'd rather see them in the conference room. Arguing. Yeah. Right. Cody: like like the like the draft room, like the like you know, the like the g the GM and the coach and the owner all in the draft room doing that. AGTCommenter: I think ultimately what this portion of the seasons is missing is deliberations. We're not actually seeing any deliberations. We're seeing decisions in very Cody: Right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: small snippets of I like them. it's no different than what we saw at the Cody: Yeah. Yeah. I AGTCommenter: judges' table when they said yes or no. Cody: I don't want I don't wanna see them sitting in a dark room with the PowerPoint running and you know, AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: and th the little profile the the headshot with their like stats there next to AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: It's yeah. So AGTCommenter: What I think maybe the the better thing to do is they should do a little YouTube release behind the scenes and show the conversations that they had. Like how did they come Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: to these conclusions? But either way, but yeah, so it's very it's very Hollywooded up. I I doubt that my here's maybe the best way to put it. I don't think they made all these decisions standing up. Cody: No. I don't even think they might have been in the same room. AGTCommenter: Yeah, and it might not even have been them. It might have been Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Simon and the producers and then they just tell him who's going through. But either Cody: Yes, yeah. AGTCommenter: way, it is it is it is it's all televisioned up. Terry's kinda standing there very, you know, kinda waiting on baited breath Cody: It's AGTCommenter: to see who they like and don't like. It's it's all it's all very fun. Cody: Is these episodes and I think 'cause in the past couple of years, is this the most Terry does in the season, other than like announce the results? AGTCommenter: Hm. I've always felt that the live shows are the most for the jud for the host. Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: Because you're you're not just announcing results, you're advancing the episode, you're you're introing who's coming up, you're doing going out and getting judges' comments, like auditions you just stand side stage and then they cut backstage and he's Right. Cody: Unless you're Nick. Unless you're Nick. AGTCommenter: and even in this episode he didn't really do anything. so Cody: Okay. But he's a lot of voiceover. We he we hear him a lot. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Right. Yes, sure. but yeah, so that was kind of the that was how they got us some of the information and let's do this now. I'm assuming your gripe that you had with how much they loved one of the acts and then sent them through was during those snippets where they were talking about the pictures of each act. Is that correct? Or was it when they were watching a a a run back of the auditions on the on the on the screen? Cody: So the my gripe earlier AGTCommenter: Yeah, that you that you teased. Cody: where so of an act that's in the callbacks that shouldn't be in the callbacks? Yeah. AGTCommenter: Y that you're like they all seem to love it and then send it to callbacks. Cody: Right. So so the big thing is then there's a lot of this going on is like is Nene. And so AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: like Nene being in the callbacks just it seems 'cause she's got such a big following, her she's so viral, the her AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: th they talk about how great she is, and then Howie's just like, well I'm gonna take her in the callbacks. And so my my either two thought processes are AGTCommenter: Yep. Cody: either they need someone there for great television, they AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: want us to see her again to show Hey, we know how much you love her and we want to you her to see we want you to see her again so when we get to the live shows you remember her or they just don't realize like how good she actually is, AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: which I think is would be very dumb on my part to think that. AGTCommenter: There's a piece of me that thinks that maybe there was just an editing crossover where they accidentally Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: plugged in some of the lines that were said about somebody else. Here's Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: where I'm at with it. And correct me if you think I'm wrong here. They did this before any audition episodes aired. Cody: Yeah, I thought about that as well, 'cause it seemed like the whole AGTCommenter: From a timeline standpoint, I think that has to be the case. Cody: It it it may have been because the way that they announced it, so the way that they that they an announced who was going through and they did this whole, Hey, we're gonna go out to this person's home and we're gonna tell yeah, I'm not frank yeah, AGTCommenter: Matt Franco's show, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Cody: that type stuff and and is it what's his name? Art from one of the last episodes. AGTCommenter: Pinkbeard? Cody: not Pink Beard, who am I thinking of? The the singer. Ashford You're going out to Ashford and like the the AGTCommenter: yeah, yeah. Cody: preacher calls you up. Hey, Brother Ashford, come up. We got a big announcement for you. You AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cody: know, all that type stuff. So surely they made they talked to them like ahead of time about all this and made it sound like that they just just did this. So AGTCommenter: Mm-hmm. Cody: I I don't think that they did it before the auditions. I think they probably did this while they were doing the auditions. Because they talked about how they watched the audition and then they Got the announcement. AGTCommenter: Yeah, 'cause we assume auditions are done in March. My assumption is they don't wait Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: around. I I would imagine they go by April, May, they start they start filming second round of auditions back in the day. Cause my Cody: Maybe so. Maybe so. AGTCommenter: thought is they may not have had any r any inkling that Nene was gonna do what she's done online. And that's why Cody: Maybe so. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I but again, it might be they know she's gonna get eyes in her callbacks episode because she is for sure. Okay. so Cody: This this'll get good television. This will bring eyes to the T the TV. Yeah. The whole the whole thing, and I gotta had to get a ruling from Steven on this because he's and I think Jacob's also like a big a big brother fan. A big big brother fan. And I'm AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: I've been I've w I've watched Big Brother in the past and it felt very similar to how the Big Brother house guests get their keys at the beginning of the AGTCommenter: Sure sure, yeah. Yeah. Cody: season. And it's like, Hey, just letting you know you go into the live show. well, I didn't AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: realize that. Well so AGTCommenter: This is probably the most Hollywood of any portion of the season, right? There's no Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: there's no real real reality happen happening here. This is all Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: whatever they want it to be. They can't totally control auditions, what everybody does on the stage. This is this is this is t they're making TV here, not just f recording it. Cody: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Yeah. Hey, your reaction wasn't big enough. Can you go back and do that again and give us a little bit more? So it's like yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay. Let's get into some of the answers that we received last night. So what I wanna do first, Cody, let's just quickly, far quicker than the show did, recap our ten golden buzzers. So Cody: Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: I wanna go through the acts that are in in each of these categories through based off of what audition they were in. So you recall auditions one we had three. Three golden buzzers and one Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: episode. Acro Crew, Le Noel. Is it Lay or Lai? What have we been saying? Cody: I think it's Lei. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: Lay, okay. And then Luke Toleno. So those three are through, obviously. Auditions two had two, Hundred Fingers and and Lardy. and then Auditions three had just the one, Isaac Atkins. We had Mackenzie Soule and Ruben Rolden Bustos in Auditions four. We had Royal Lasers in Auditions five, and then we had Veronica, our aerialist, in auditions six. So those ten we knew. Apparently they felt like Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: They wanted to make sure everybody look at this, look at this bit of news, breaking news. so that ten. We have sixteen others. Let's go let's go audition by audition and then we'll talk about each one within those auditions and if we were surprised or not. So the three we had three put in the live shows. Cody, these are the judges' favorites plus. The callbacks are the judges' favorites. This is judges' favorites plus. So the three pluses Cody: Okay, yes. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: from auditions one, we had the choir from Atlanta, Community Atlanta choir. We had Tyrone and Margot, one of our Cody: Deadly games, yeah. Yep. AGTCommenter: Deadly games, danger axe. And then we had Uni Tree. Uni Una Uni Tree. Our Cody: U unit unitary, yeah, unitary. AGTCommenter: our our our robot dancers. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Let's let's go one by one. Community Atlanta choir. Thoughts on their being a a favorites plus? Cody: I'm fine with it. It's okay. No surprise. It's a choir from Atlanta. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: No surprise. I like them. I liked them a lot. I I I had them as one that I was I think I have them in my top maybe ten five of the season. I like them a lot. Tyrone and Margot, I didn't remember a thing about Tyrone Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: and Margot. And then we had Uni Tree. Did either of those two surprise you that they were they were favorites plus? Cody: Unit unit tree's a little surprising. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I would agree. I'm not it's not what I like. I'm not a fan of this robot humanoids. Cody: I'm okay with it him with him dancing with them. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Sure. I don't like the the dancing robots. It's it's it's creeps it creeps me out. It's I'm not it's not for me. there are certainly acts that I would have preferred over over probably both Tyrone and Mar Margot and and Unitree. So those are the three from Auditions one. Auditions two had four and Brad and Tracy, Cody, our middle aged couple that That does sideshow act. It's not really a danger. It's almost it's more gr it's more grotesque things than actual like danger acts. It's a little both, but this stunned me. I have him as the worst act of the season. What do you think of I want your thoughts on Brad and Tracy? Cody: like them and I think Brad has been on he was on previously. yeah, he was on AGTCommenter: Yeah, you're right. Cody: a and a season he's been on a season seventeen, I think. AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: Somewhere around in there. And and I kinda like I like this stuff and I think they're fun together. I think it's interesting that they're favorites plus though. AGTCommenter: So I think there's a part of it too, and and they're a good example of this. I think there's certain types of acts that didn't make any sense to go to callbacks. Right? So like what are they gonna do with this act at callbacks? Who who what is Mel or Simon or Howie or Sophia gonna like teach? You know what I mean? Where I think they're kind of like the p yeah, I think Cody: Is that what they're supposed to do? Like coach coaching them? Okay. AGTCommenter: the point has been like take them, work with them, they'll have the guest judges help work with them and then in and then let them try to prove to you based off of some of the training you've d I think that's what I kind of gathered from it was they're trying to polish these acts to get them ready to be in the live shows and then they'll make their picks. Cody: Yeah. and I was wrong. He was on season four and eight. So this is his third this is his third time on A G T. AGTCommenter: I What was how far did he make it previously? Cody: season four he made it to the Vegas round AGTCommenter: Okay. Cody: and season eight he made it to quarterfinals. So no Vegas round. That's not live shows. AGTCommenter: Okay, so a two time live shower here, mister Brad. No, he's yeah, but he's in the live shows now. Cody: two timer. Yes, you're right. Now, yes. You're right. Sorry. You're right. See? This is what you gotta work with, Commander. You you Yeah. No no no. You're right. AGTCommenter: Okay. okay, I just wanted to make sure I I wasn't going crazy. Perfect. Alright. We have Caesar Diaz, our comedic. How would you describe him? Singer? Cody: yeah, I think so. no AGTCommenter: Yeah, it's not Cody: no he's a no he's he's like a clown. I think I think his I think he's like this is like a clown yeah. physical comedian and clowned. So yeah. But yes, but I think AGTCommenter: A clown? But he sang songs. Yeah. Okay, yeah. But he sang songs, yeah. Yes. Cody: his act is like it's a clown act. Yes. AGTCommenter: Okay. not a fan of this guy. Did not Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: need to see him in the live shows. we had Gino I think it's Ploger or is it Plegger? One of those two. Cody: I think so. I think it yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: our Matt Franco ripoff magician. I mean he's just tried to be Matt Franco. he's cosplaying as Matt Franco, he really is. Cody: Yes, yes. Exactly. AGTCommenter: I don't I don't care for it. he's not a he's not a bad magician by any means. You know why I kinda like the performance? 'Cause it was just a Matt Franco performance and I like Matt Franco. So and then we had Holland in Siena. our our duo aerialists for this season, the the circumarea of this season, or whatever you want to describe them. Thoughts on those three Caesar Diaz, Gino and and Holland and Siena. Cody: Yeah, I didn't I didn't need to see Gino again. I didn't I thought he was a fine if I want to see Matt Franco, I'll just go watch Matt Franco. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I would agree. I wonder I wonder if he's gonna stick with the trope. Like if he's just gonna keep going with it or not. But all right. Auditions three had also had four announced headed through Come Here, which is my least favorite name of the season. So Cody: I love the name. AGTCommenter: hard to say as like a name. No one yeah, it doesn't make any sense. There are dance group. W maybe my favorite act of the season, Mr. Guy Kelton Jones. I was pumped. Cody: Okay? AGTCommenter: Straight to the live shows. I think he's awesome. I can't wait to see what he does. He's going through LaRussell, one of my least favorite acts of the season. I can't tell, is this a group or is it La Russell? Because it's very much a group, Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: but they just go by La Russell, and I don't like that. This guy's a little Cody: Right. AGTCommenter: bit too narcissistic for my taste. and then we have Young and Strange, who I have passing zone hopes for. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: These guys can be the Magician passing zone, if they do it right and if they are, I'll love them forever. I I'm so Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: happy they are in the live shows because I want them to have that shot. If they bomb out it is what it is. Your thoughts on that auditions three group of four. Cody: Yeah, I'm glad Young and Strange is going through. LaRussell, I I'm with you. I thought it was a very mid mediocre act. I'm inter I'm intrigued by Guy Kilton Jones in this. Poetry, spoken word is not one of my favorite topics, but I'm kind of intrigued. AGTCommenter: He has so much more to it that I get excited for it. If this was Brandon Leeck recycled, miss me with that. I'm over it. But this guy, Cody: Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: he might have the best singing voice of the whole season. So I'm fascinated to see what what he can do. okay. Cody: Yeah. And and and I'm not sure which is which, but young and strange, does the the smaller guy, does he look like the the catcher, what's his name from from the sand lot? Hamilton, yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Ham yeah, Hamilton. Hamilton Porter? Yeah. No well, he was a redhead. Hamilton Porter was like a a redhead. He had freckles. I see your Cody: Okay. Yeah. AGTCommenter: point. I think he looks a little more like there's somebody I'm thinking of. Cody: In the facial features. AGTCommenter: There's somebody I'm thinking of now that you mention it. it's not I'm not gonna i it's not the best answer, but e it's a little bit Who's the guy that is in two in King of Queens, not Kevin James? Are you a King of Queens fan? Cody: No, I mean I never watched an episode, no. AGTCommenter: Okay, now I just need to pull up the name. Cause he is f Patton Oswald. He's got a little bit of a Paton Osw Oswald look too. A little bit. Yeah. He's got a little bit of that look to him. Cody: yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. I know Pat now as well. Yeah, okay. Yeah. AGTCommenter: okay. Auditions four sent just two non golden buzzers through. We had Patrox, Patrox, our reverse our reverse dancer. Cody: Yes. Terrible act. It's a terrible act. Yeah. AGTCommenter: So here's my thing with it. It was it was cool like it was a cool concept. Once. Once we the Cody: Yes. It's a paper plate act. AGTCommenter: only thing that's good about it is we didn't know it was gonna be reverse. Now that we know it's gonna be reverse, who k the first half is gonna be like Alright. Cody: Yeah. I pegged it as reverse about halfway through the act. I AGTCommenter: Ex yeah, so Cody: mean, before he finished, I was like, this is gonna be a reverse act. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. So a cool, fun it's this is the epitome of paper plate act, Cody. Like, I'm glad he was on because it was something we hadn't Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: seen before. Fun concept. These are the types of things you need to to get to eight or nine audition performances in an episode. Don't need to see it again. but he's headed through, Cody. He's at Judges Favorites Plus. and then we had my guy, a team AGT commenter alum, Erwan, our Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: Ariel our Ariel. Sword swallower. So before the episode, the wiki had nine of these eighteen on there. He was not listed in the nine. And they had all twenty-three judges callbacks, and he was not in that list. And boy was I sweating. Because I think he's the best act we've seen this season. Most the most talented. Wha whether Cody: Right. Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: e he's not the most draftable, but he is, in my opinion, the top tier talent. And I'm sitting there like this Where's where's Erwan? Well here he is, auditions four, he's headed through. Was this like a thank God Erwan's and here he deserves to be in the live shows? Cody: Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. He was a semifinalist in season eighteen, but I think like that was the next step though, right? Semifinals? Was it auditions and then semifinals? AGTCommenter: Yeah, and that was when they were it was really competitive, it was really hard. And he just he ended up in a night where that was the one where I came on and I was I was seething on the results reaction pod because he was on my team. Cody: Yes. Yeah. AGTCommenter: He was clearly one of the I thought the best of that night. Yeah yeah. So this is his redemption tour, so. Alright. And then Auditions five had just the one. Cody. And this is notable because you and Jay talked about it last week. I think there's gonna be some some some more stuff for this act once they get the live shows. Jesse White, the Jesse White tumbling team is headed through. You you guys talked about the the tragic, terrible news that came out at the beginning of the month, which was which was terrible to hear. They didn't mention it last night. I thought they might. My Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: guess is they they got this prepped a long time ago. They'll they're g they're saving that conversation till the live shows. Cody: I I think this is a shoe in live show golden buzzer. Yeah. Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: It feels that way and their opening film clip is gonna be as it should. Like pay o pay homage to the to the member that passed away. It's it's very sad. But this act is I don't think it's very good. They just did one thing. They just Yeah, yeah. It's a tumbling theme. Yeah. They're just Cody: No, I think and they're gonna do the same thing. There I don't think they can add much to their act. Yeah. Right. AGTCommenter: gonna tumble. so didn't need to see live shows, but it is what it is. Any thought? Cody: And I think I think they were a vague yeah, Vegas round w as well when they were on season four. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. Any other thoughts on Jesse White? Okay. We had three from episode six, audition six, Cody. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: we had Jesse Joe and the ninety sixers. Our our country rock band kind of Cody: Yep. I like Jesse Joe. AGTCommenter: didn't I didn't love it. I Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: I was I think was it Mel that was a little bit anti his voice. I was with her. I was with her Cody: Mel said no, right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: more. There's some appeal. He's he's a cool looking guy. We've seen country bands. I think if I'm like advising him and someday I think they will hire me to be an advisor to these acts, because I think I could Cody: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: really help. My advice would be be more country than rock as much as you can. Be a country band. Not a doesn't need to be Western, you know, country. But be a country like when they hear it, they should think country first before rock, because my concern is is this band dabbles a little bit too much in the rock and that tends to fall apart for you. But I have no problem with it being in the live shows. I think it's a a perfectly good act. okay we had Cameron Logsden, our our impressionist. I think the best impressionist of the season, a surprisingly loaded impressionist season. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: I thought he did the best impressions. I thought his Jason Statham was spectacular. made Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: me laugh. your thoughts on his inclusion here in the in the live Cody: I AGTCommenter: shows. Cody: I really like him too and I can't remember his what's her name that he did? Stifler's mom. Something like I can think of her from. Yeah, AGTCommenter: Yes. Cody: yeah. That I thought that was the best thing that she that he did, but AGTCommenter: yeah. So I I I had no problem with him being here. I liked him. And then we had Mr. Ashford Sanders, our our singer from he's Mississippi, is that correct? Yes. Cody: I believe so, yes. AGTCommenter: Kind of a ch he's a it looked like he sings at church. They showed that whole clip. He can sing. I liked him a lot. I was worried he was just gonna be a late audition throw in and they won't end up getting him and they not only he felt very callbacksy to me. I thought he was and the fact that he's in in the live shows right away. Were you would you I don't I don't recall your thoughts on his performance? Cody: I like him. I just don't think he's like that great. I think he's he's above average. There was some parts of his singing that just didn't hit a hundred percent. But I I think he's fine. I think we'll s we'll see what he does. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. And then we had just the one from season seven, total, no golden buzzers either. it is Pink Beard, our our longtime songwriter, turned performer. His beard is pink. P Y N K Cody: I refuse to use that spelling. AGTCommenter: You do refuse to use that spelling. I not still not sure what you're standing up against. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: but what about Cody: Well we have we have him that spells it with a Y. We have the we have pink pink that has the exclamation point on it. So it's like no, 'cause she did it first. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I was gonna ask about that. What do you think about are you as anti the X exclamation point as you are the Y? Okay. And it's a rever it's an upside down I. Cody: sure. And and she did it before it was cool to like give kids weird spelling names. So I know it's not our government name, but still it's like AGTCommenter: Sure. Now, that's not her government name, Cody. This is also isn't his, but yeah. no. I tweeted it when he was on. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: He started performing, and I said it's I I now can see why he settled in as a songwriter in the music industry. He's not a good singer. I didn't think it was a good performance. I don't know why Cody: He's not a great singer, no. Yeah. AGTCommenter: everybody was so I mean the pink beard is kind of cool, it's very unique. I I The song seemed fine. I didn't ha he clearly is a good songwriter. He's done, you know, very well for himself in the industry. But sometimes they're like, you you've been a lifelong songwriter. Usually there's a reason. Because if you're really good at writing songs, you would sing them yourselves. Now, like a good example's Chris Stapleton, who for years was just a songwriter. I think he might have like the greatest voice I've ever heard. So, like what was going on there? Like, why wasn't he performing? But like, for the most part, if you tried. settled in as a songwriter, there's usually a reason and and I think that's why. I think he's got vote appeal though, 'cause he's kind of a interesting, cool type of deal. But that was your your final thoughts on Pink Beard's inclusion in the live shows. Cody: I'm kinda with you on that. Yep. AGTCommenter: That's our twenty eight. The ten Golden Buzzers, and then we had the choir, Tyrone and Margo and Unitry from Auditions One, Brad, Brad and Chase, Tracy, Caesar Diaz, Geno Ploger, Holland and Sienna from Auditions Two. Come here, Guy Chelton Jones, LaRussell and Young and Strange from Auditions Three, Erwan and Petrox from Auditions Four. Jesse White Tumbling Team from Auditions Five. Ashford Sanders, Cameron Logsden, and Jesse Joe and the ninety sixers from the sixth audition, and then audition seven, just Pink Beard. let's let's look at a little breakdown, Cody. This includes Golden Buzzers, so it's not a perfect thing. But of those twenty-eight, twenty-one of the twenty-eight came from the first four auditions. I've been on a little bit of a a kick on where how important where you perform is. It tends to be the first four auditions are the most important. Seven from the final three. We had six both from auditions one and two. Now there was three golden buzzers on auditions one, which was part of it. But Just just the seven from the final three auditions. Your thoughts on the front loading of the talent that's advancing? Cody: glad that you started putting that together because I think we've kind of been we've been doing this, you and I have been doing this together so long now that I think we're kind of being on the same wavelength. I was starting to have the same thoughts of hey, as we were doing our season fifteen and s or yeah, season ten and season five rewatch. sorry, season thirteen and season five rewatch. I started to think like are are the winners in like the top five it seems like they come from from early in the auditions, but there's no way that AGT can plan that once they get to the live shows. It just happens to be that way. And it's just very interesting. But I think with particularly this season, and you made the comment before, that they're doing a good job at making it seem like it it is all within the same episode, 'cause they'll they'll finish one act and then the AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Cody: the break and they'll come back and they'll kind of s finish up AGTCommenter: You're in the silo of one moment. Yeah. Cody: Correct. And it's so but it also feels like they did put a lot of the acts that they that are going through AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: in the first parts of the auditions. AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: So I'm glad that you're putting those numbers together 'cause it is it's it's helping me now 'cause I had the same thoughts that you did of where are the acts that are finishing really high, where are they in terms of the audition episodes? So AGTCommenter: Yeah. Seventy-five percent of the twenty-eight come from fifty-seven percent of the episodes. So so we're seeing this overperformance consistently by these first four episodes. Yes, there was more of them, there's four compared to three, but not that much more that it should be that much. And yes, there were more golden buzzers there too, but that still doesn't explain all of it. And I'm we've talked about I'm still not sure if I'm gonna blog this, how I wanna get this across, but basically the numbers are pretty clear in the twenty seasons. Eighty three percent of all top four finishers are from the first four auditions of of the it's a it's an amazing statistic. Cody: Yeah. It's it it is an amazing statistic 'cause I'm with you as we were doing those rewatches, I was starting to look at it like these all these acts that finish the top five are in the early auditions. So Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And then it's funnily enough, last year our winner was audition seven and our runner-up was auditions eight. So it's like, okay, well maybe that's changing. But but either either way, the point being is like the the overperformance of it i is is really it it's the the numbers were just I I couldn't believe them as I was plugging them in. And it's it's like it's a clear drop off. One, two, three, and four are all within like two top four finishes of each other, and then it drops off by like twelve. It's it's Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: shocking. and there hasn't been yes, there's been more early auditions than later auditions, but not enough. Auditions four has nineteen total episodes in the history of the show, not counting the season. Auditions five has eighteen, so one less. And it had twelve less top four finishers. It's a recognizable phenomenon. So Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: but anyway, that's that's a little bit of the breakdown. six from auditions one, six from two, five from three, four from four, two from five, four from six, and one from One sad little little act from from audition seven. all right. Should we move to who's gonna be in our callbacks episode, Cody? All right. We've got this is Judges Favorites. That was Judge's Favorites Plus. Cody: Yes, yes. So this is this is Judge's favourites. Okay. AGTCommenter: we've got 23 X competing competing, kinda, I think, in the in the callbacks. Cody: They're they're competing. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I will go by team. I guess team or whatever by judge's choice. So we're gonna we'll start with Howie. He he has from Auditions 2, is it Renai? Rhine R Renai Kando, the impressionist that stubbed her toe repeatedly. Cody: Something like that. May Renee? AGTCommenter: it might be renew Renee. w maybe we'll find out later. I probably should have known this, but our our toe stubbing impressionist. she Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: made me laugh. This is also to me a v a paper plate act. I Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: don't think we I personally don't think we need to see it again. Your thoughts on her being in callbacks? Cody: I'm okay with our being in callbacks 'cause I'm interested to see if like this is is physical comedy, like all she does, AGTCommenter: Yeah. Right. Cody: or are there other impressions that she can do. So I'm I'm I'm intrigued. AGTCommenter: Sure. Okay. he bring he's bringing along a comedian. She's a bit of a comedian as well. I would say she's very much trying to make people laugh with her with her performance. From Auditions Three is Mr. Chris Sosa. a very memorable performance. He was our our our classic stand up comedian. your thoughts on on Chris Sosa being in the callbacks. Cody: I'm so happy just I'm in general, comedians being still in the show. I'm yes, yep. AGTCommenter: Having a shot, yeah. Yeah. Okay. He's going to bring a bring along from Auditions for the vocal duel Burden Byron, the most dramatic lead vocalist in AGT history, was crawling around Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: on the floor. I like their sound. He was too much for me. Your thoughts on Burton Byron? Okay. Cody: Yeah. Yeah, I kinda like them. They're fun. Yeah. AGTCommenter: he is gonna he's gonna grab one more stand up comic for his callback. So he kinda had three comedians that he brought along. Our wheelchair comic, Mr. Daniel Alvarez, from Auditions Five. I thought his set was good. I think the point he made about applying to be a roofer was a funny joke. you know, he's he's wheelchair bar he's a he's a paraplegic, but your thoughts on Daniel Alvarez's inclusion and callbacks. Cody: I made this comment before that comedians with disabilities do really well on this show. So so so AGTCommenter: It's a great formula. It's a great it's a great formula. and then I guess technically the the ventriloquist duel, but we'll do this one first. He's bringing from Auditions Five. We talked about her already. She's the she is the media darling of the season. Our rock kind of our our s our our Screamo band. where's she from again? Philippines, is that correct? Cody: Philippines or Thailand? Somewhere on there? Which which which audition? AGTCommenter: Some yeah, th I're pr Southeast Asia somewhere. from Auditions Five it is Nene Royal. Sh the the numbers she's doing on online are for a non golden buzzer are like unheard of. They're historically great. Okay, yep. Cody: They're h they're historic, yeah. Thailand. Poo Puket Thailand. Yep. AGTCommenter: historically great numbers she's doing. She's a fascinating figure in this. I'm really interested to see. I I I sure hope how he brings her along of w in in one of his four your thoughts on both I'm sure you're glad she's here, but really she should be in the live show. Cody: She should be in the live show. This is this year's Courtney Hadwin to him. AGTCommenter: Hmm. He really liked her. This is his music, I feel like, too. I feel like he likes the heavy metal kind of Screamo stuff too, so Cody: He does really like her, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yep. AGTCommenter: And then his last one, I had no interest in the inclusion of this act. from Audition Six, Naimana and Danielle, the ventriloquist kind of comedy clown duo. Hated this act. Your thoughts Cody: Right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: on their their callback? Cody: I didn't think they need to be in here. If they do, she needs to drop him and just do straight up opera. Just AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Cody: just do Barbara Padilla, Jackie Ivanko, just do the opera. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I agree. that's the six. Kando, Chris Sosa, Burton Byron, Daniel Alvarez, Nene, and and Naimana Danielle. That's Howie's six. They will be performing in two weeks in callbacks two. Our friend AGT Insider asked us which what predictions what our predictions would be for who's going to advance. So let's just do it team by team as we go through, Cody. so of that six, which four do you want me to go first? Cody: sure well you're just supposed to say easier who's gonna be eliminated? Okay. AGTCommenter: Sure. I I I wrote down who's going through though. Let's do it that way. Cody: Okay. That's fine. That's fine. AGTCommenter: I think he's gonna take Sosa and Alvarez. I think he'll take his two stand up comics. I think he'll take Nene, Cody: Yes, I agree with that. I agree with that. AGTCommenter: and I think he'll take the Impressionist. Over Burden Byron and the Venturaquistua. Those would be your other two options. Cody: Ooh, I I don't think the the ventriloquist duo will go through. I think it'll be AGTCommenter: I agree. Cody: tough. I think that fourth spot will be tough between Burden Byron and the Impressionist. I think it could be a toss up either one. AGTCommenter: Yeah. That yeah, to me that's the that's the on the fence one, but okay. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: All right. Should we move on to Miss Mel B? She is Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: going to be this week this coming week, her and Simon. So her six Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: from Auditions Three, it is Betty, the singer. I I loved her voice. I did. I I'm always in I'm very much always in the minority of my love for some solo singers. I I get it. I thought she had a great voice, I thought she had a cool vibe. your thoughts on on Betty? Cody: Yeah, solo singer. I I I don't have big thoughts on solo singers right now. Unless they have some sort of bit. So sure. AGTCommenter: Yeah. I'm glad Mel I think it makes sense for Mel B to to to give her a run. W I'm I they're gonna put some more solo singers in. I I ran that number two. Pure solo singers, Cody the last ten years, so this all of Simon's seasons. Just solo singers. No other musical strictly solo singers. Doesn't matter, but just by themselves, thirty three percent of finalists. Cody: Cov cover, cover or cover and original Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: If you add the rest of choirs, rappers, everything else in the singing category, it's basically it's like forty-eight percent. So they're gonna be there. Mentalist Duo, James and Marina. the wannabe clairvoyants, the Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: they're the Walmart clairvoyance, and they're like the Erwan version of the sentimentalist. I Cody: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: don't know how familiar you are with Erwan. in in LA, but it's like the most expensive convenience store of all time. Like a strawberry No, sorry, that is confusing. The Cody: I thought you were talking about the the source swallower. Okay. AGTCommenter: fact that I use it so like a strawberry at Erwan will run you like fifty bucks. Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: It's like a luxury grocery store. It it the Whole Foods, I don't know, something like that. But Mel's bringing them from Auditions 4. Your thoughts on James and Marina. I'm kinda glad we get to see him a little bit more. I'm interested in them. Cody: Yeah, I I'm I'm intrigued a little bit 'cause you know much I love a clear a sorry, a mentalist act, and and and I think they are good, but I don't think that they're AGT ready. And I say that in the sense that she just go they just go too fast. They've gotta add more mystique to it. AGTCommenter: Yeah. My cons my question is is what is Mel and Emma Bunton gonna do to get them ready? Emma Bunton, from also from the Spice Girls. What what what are they bringing to the table? Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: but yeah, okay. She's also staying in Auditions 4, she's gonna bring along Madden and Ma Madeline and Malachi are were they a couple or were they just a singing duo? Okay, yeah. got it. Cody: I I think they're just a singing duo. Yeah. I think I think he's married and has a has a daughter. AGTCommenter: They were like Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: new to this. I think they had just kinda joined up. I thought she wasn't a very good singer personally. I d I hope I kinda hope they don't go through. I don't think they're very Cody: Okay. She's the one that works at the restaurant that's down near Chattanooga. That I yes AGTCommenter: yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes. okay. Any other thoughts on on Madeline and Malachi? All right. Butter and grit. My favorite name of the season. N I didn't Cody: Yeah. Sure. Yeah. AGTCommenter: love the performance personally there from audition six. kind of a little bit of a a battle here by between some duos. What do you think of Butter and Grit being here? Yeah. Cody: I think they're fine. I don't I mean I don't think they're great. I think I love the name, yes. I don't think they're a great act. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: I I think I said they're very Nashville. There's a lot of this is the most Nashville season we've ever had. Yes. AGTCommenter: Perhaps, yeah, I think that's fair. She also grabbed magician Joel from Audition Six. I had my gripes with Joel I think he's the best showman of the single Cody: Really? AGTCommenter: audition of the single magicians. I think Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: he's better than Darrell Moten. I think he does a better job than Gino even. I don't like that he leaves the theater. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: I I'm out this the second you do that. I think he's the most polished stage ready of them. I didn't love the trick because the second y you're just I'm done. I'm done with it. If you want Cody: Yes, right. AGTCommenter: to show me a clip that you filmed before Oz did that, I don't love that either, but at least you're still in the theater. When yeah, when you actually walk out of the room, I'm out. So but he takes too long. He's too slow, Cody: Well Daryl did that, right? Daryl did that too, right? Yeah. Yes. Yes. He's too he takes too long. Yeah. AGTCommenter: all of those things. But I I do think he was the most, you know, basically game ready of of the Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: of them. And then her last one is comedian Lachlan Patterson. Also Cody: My my my brother Elfadter still. AGTCommenter: Also from Audition Sixth, L Patterson. the see we've had a Cody Lee and an L Patterson now on the show. Cody: That's right. AGTCommenter: so we basically covered it. I thought he was a boring bad magician personally. Okay. All right. Cody: I like him, but it's AGTCommenter: sorry, I did I say magician, I meant comedian. okay. That's your six. Yeah. a mu a magician, we had that in yeah. Cody: Yeah. co com com com magician? Mid a medi a madeian? A magician, yes, that's right. AGTCommenter: that's your six. When you look at the six, I think the six or the four she's gonna take. I think she's gonna take Betty. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I think she'll take James and Marina. The the mentalists. Cody: okay. Mm could be on the fence on that one, maybe. Yeah. Excuse me. AGTCommenter: I think she'll take Loc Lacklin Lachlin. He's handsome, so I think she's just gonna take him. Yeah. Cody: That is true. She w Yes, yeah. AGTCommenter: And she really like she was and she was the only one that like really loved him, so I think she'll take him. I think she likes comedians. The fourth, I'm struggling. So I've got a singer, a mentalist duo, and a comedian. I think she's gonna take another musical act. So I think she's gonna take one of those duos. I think she's either gonna take Butter and Grit or Madeline and Malachi. Cody: I think she's gonna take butter and grit. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Okay. I think that's fair. Yeah, I think Joel I I I don't see it. I think she's just gonna be I think she would prefer I think she'll prefer the duo, mentalist duo over him. Cody: No. She's gonna be confused. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And then I I think Butter and Grit are the better singing duo. So all right. So we'll I'm locking that in as oops, what happened there? Oops. I'm locking that in as Betty, James and Marina, Lachlan Patterson and and Butter and Grit. Cody: I think James and Marina's on the fence. Yeah. You do. Yeah. Yep. AGTCommenter: Yeah, you gotta get to four somehow, so. Alright. Next up we will go to Simon. He will be on next week, his six. Starting in auditions to Nija and Zaya. They go by Nija Music and Zaya Rhythm. don't think those are their actual last names. Would be serendipitous Cody: That'd be great. Yes. AGTCommenter: if it was. The Vocal Duel, the other best performing online act. At least on Instagram. Huge on Instagram. Cody: okay. Okay. I could see it. AGTCommenter: I this is exactly the act Simon I mean, Simon's got boy band in his in his eyes. That's I mean, that's just what he's doing here. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: No surprise. And I I I I didn't mind them. I think it's fair. I don't either. Cody: I don't think they're that great. I think they're fine. Yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: Our dancer, Sando. Another very viral act. Your thoughts on Sando from also from auditions to the kind of comedic dancer, break dancer Cody: Based on his audition yeah, based on his audition I didn't get it. I didn't it was not a fan. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I can't believe he wanted him. I don't get it either. Speaking of not getting it, his third from Auditions 3, Akira. What's he gonna do with this guy? Cody: Okay. I think he likes West P so much AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: that he wanted a West P type act. AGTCommenter: Yeah, he gets a he gets a real he's a real affinity for the for the nude. Is he a nude is Simon a nudist? He might be. Of Cody: Ooh, he might be. AGTCommenter: the four, far and away the most likely. Right. That's what I'm saying he doesn't have to he doesn't need pockets. So Cody: You know, he doesn't carry a cell phone, so that would kind of make sense, right? Yeah. That's right. AGTCommenter: all right. Akira is a paper plate act. Didn't need to see him again. And I'm not sure why he's here. The other three. Travis Garland, Auditions Five, our Dancing with the Stars, live singer. Can sing, man. Can really sing. Maybe the best voice of the season. Simon had his gripes, which was why I was a little bit surprised. I thought this would be Mels. He's good. He deserves this, but your thoughts on him being in callbacks. Cody: I think he was also too dramatic. Yeah. Yes. AGTCommenter: yeah. He was taking off the glasses and doing all that. How familiar are you with what he does on Dancing with the Stars? He Cody: I'm not familiar at all. AGTCommenter: sings every song that's danced to. So, like th they don't use backing tracks. There's a live band in house, Cody: Right, right, right. AGTCommenter: and regardless of the song, he sings it. And if you listen, he sings it as true to form as possible because you want him to be recognizable songs. So he's like a Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: he's almost an impressionist. That was also my problem with the Performance. I think he's so good and clearly versatile because he's singing country to rock to opera, he's doing it all on Dance with Stars. Use that versatility to not give us a copy paste song. Like you have the flexibility to sing a country song in you know in a ballad form or or whatever. So hopefully that's what Simon works on him with, but he can sing Electro Dads from Audition Six. Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: What are we doing? Are you an electro dats fan? Okay. Yeah. I've been in Cody: I know. No. I mean this is tap tapping dad we talked about tapping dad syndrome. So yeah. AGTCommenter: I was extremely underwhelmed with Simon's six. and then we brought Elsie, our Beyonce look alike. our singer. The cowboy hat didn't cowgirl hat didn't work. I had no I had no care for her to to stick around in the p in the season. That's the six, Cody. Cody: Yeah, of of the four judges, his are the worst. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I would agree. I would agree. We gotta get four though. I think he's taking Nija and Zaya. Those I mean it's it's who he dreams about constantly. Cody: Sure. Yeah. AGTCommenter: I I and I think he'll take Travis Garland. I think he's just too talented. Cody: Okay, yeah, I gotta see that. AGTCommenter: From there, I I don't know. I think he'll take LC, yeah. Cody: He's she's taking all the singers. She'll take Elsie. Yeah. AGTCommenter: And then I put Sando as the fourth cause it's either Sando, Akira, or Electrods. Those are novelty throwaway paper Cody: Well, AGTCommenter: plate acts. Cody: you remember he gave a golden buzzer to dancing stormtroopers. AGTCommenter: So what what are you thinking? Cody: I think he's gonna go with the dads. AGTCommenter: Okay. I'm gonna stick with Sando. But I have no confidence in that pick whatsoever. okay. Last up is Sophia's f five. Just Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: five, not six. Again, my gut is this is not her fault. I'm gonna as much as I am happy to blame things on Sophia because I don't think she's a very good judge, I'm gonna actually gonna I'm gonna be fair and give her the benefit of the doubt here. I'm guessing she brought Cody: The fact they didn't the fact they didn't have alternates though just baffles me. Like anyway. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Okay. From Auditions f she has two from Auditions Four and three from Auditions Five. So that's Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: what we went with. Auditions four singer Brooke Lynn. I think my favorite voice of the season, probably. It's like her, Guy Kelton Jones, and Travis Garland, and then Betty. Betty's like Cody: Okay. Interesting, okay. Betty I thought you liked Betty. Okay. AGTCommenter: a Cody: Betty. AGTCommenter: She's not she's like a guilty pleasure voice, more like she's not mainstream. I I Cody: Okay. She's not she's not Danilia. Okay. AGTCommenter: I I listened to her on the side voice. Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: She can s Brooklyn can sing. I'm glad that she's getting a s a second go of it. Your thoughts on on her. Cody: Yeah. I I'm okay with it, it's fine. Sure, yeah. A little edgy, yep. Yep. AGTCommenter: Kind of a cool look too. She's a little emo, kinda, you know, punk rock type look. Yeah. the other from Auditions for is Olivia Befoos. Befoos, Bafous. Cody: She had to have a dog act. AGTCommenter: Yep. This is our dog trainer. Don't get list we don't get names of dogs here, so it's a little bit different, but yeah. yeah. Cody: No. Yeah. We gotta know the names of the dogs. We gotta get a relationship with the docks. AGTCommenter: The problem is is Acro Crew is in the season. Cody: Maybe so, yeah. yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: For her for Olivia, I'm like, w good luck. You're not and and I'm not necessarily like some, you know, stan here for Acrocrew, but you're not beating Acro Crew from a dog act standpoint, so you're kinda Cody: Two dog acts possibly in the live shows. AGTCommenter: That's what I'm saying. Like it's getting crowded. It's getting crowded. so Daryl Moton, one of our other magicians that use the the technology. I did not care for this performance personally. Cody: Yeah. No. He wa he was terrible. AGTCommenter: He's from Auditions Five. Cameron Marshall, magician. Also did he use technology too? Maybe not. Cody: I don't believe so, no. AGTCommenter: he's from Auditions Five as well. He's going yeah, Cody: They're both terrible. AGTCommenter: yeah. Both not very good. And then this is the one. Mr. Va Tang, our Cody: Yes. AGTCommenter: beatboxer. I think this guy's fascinating. I think he's remarkably talented. I think you could argue I think Cody: Yes. Why is he in callbacks? AGTCommenter: he could be I think you could argue he's the best act in callbacks. Cody: It's okay. AGTCommenter: Great choice by her since they didn't send her to live shows. any thoughts on those five before we maybe make our we only have to eliminate one. Who you who you cutting, Cody? This is an easy one. Cody: Man, I don't know, 'cause one of those magicians is going through, so AGTCommenter: I know. I personally honestly might just cut the dog trainer because like what do we need two dog acts for? But what do we need Cody: Fair Yes. AGTCommenter: two crappy magicians for too? So but Cody: Right. I know they have two dog acts. AGTCommenter: I'm also trying to guess what she's gonna do. She's gonna take Brooklyn and Va Tang. I think she will take the dog act. Cody: Yes. I think she'll take the dog act, yes. AGTCommenter: And then what do you think? She taking Daryl Moten? I agree, Cody: I think she takes I think she's taking Daryl, yeah. AGTCommenter: yeah. So alright. That's Cody: The best thing about his act is when they're when he g walked down the aisle. Everyone was going nuts and he was walking down the aisle. I was like, What's happening here? I was like AGTCommenter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. so that's the twenty-three. So that's who's still in the competition. That that group of fifty one. We're getting rid of seven. So your winner is in that list. More than likely is in the first list. And I'm really fascinated on this, Cody, if this callbacks helps or hurts axe. And obviously one year is not gonna help us. We've started to realize we think the live show Golden Buzzer hurts axe by getting it. Is this extra exposure good? Is this act voters are like, Well, they weren't good enough to make the live shows straight out, so we're kinda forget like I'm really interested to see what America does with what with this what I'll end up being group of sixteen that goes through. Cody: Yeah, I'm gonna predict that there's at least a top five person from one of these callbacks. AGTCommenter: I think that's fair. I think that's fair. Cody: I think there's at least one top five act from these callbacks. because I think having the extra performance will help some. We've seen with the live show Golden Buzzer, you don't get that semi finals performan performance. You're not a top five not a top five act. So No. Yeah, it's not gonna AGTCommenter: Yeah. The extra exposure probably doesn't hurt. So we'll see. We'll see what happens with the with Cody: hurt you. Right. AGTCommenter: Yeah, I doubt it. Yeah. All right. There was thirteen that are not in the competition anymore. Actually, let's go back. Judges callbacks. Of the twenty-three. Zero from auditions one. Because they're all on the live shows already. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: Three from auditions two and three from auditions three, five from auditions four, six from auditions five and six, and then zero from auditions seven, eleven of the judges' callbacks from auditions one through four and twelve from five through seven. So Cody: There's there's two acts in audition one that are not in the live show. So AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: Kev Adams and Cozy Rocks. Well, yeah. AGTCommenter: Kose Rox didn't get yeses. A Cody: this shows that they did. AGTCommenter: according to my list. Was not on my list. Cody: I don't think they were I don't think they were like a full fledged like performance. I think it was a montage. This shows that they did get yeses. But Kev but Kev Adams is the other one and people are lo people are wondering where's Kev Adams? Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: Sure. Got it. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that here in a second. so pretty much right down the middle on on which auditions made it through there, but port audition seven. Thirteen. That didn't that got eliminated. Only one from auditions one, like you mentioned, and it is Mr. Kev Adams. I was flabbergasted. I wasn't some huge fan of it. He's a movie star in France. I think you know I don't know why he's necessarily on the show, but this I couldn't believe it. I thought Cody: Yeah, I couldn't believe either. AGTCommenter: he was a s a certainty to at least be in callbacks. I thought he was just gonna be a live show act when he wasn't listed on the wiki before the episode. Your thoughts? Cody: Yeah, I love Kev Adams and I I've talked I think he's the best comedian that we've seen on the show so far. I was excited to see him in the live shows. People are wondering why he's not in the live shows. And Jay and I have talked about this. You talked about him being like a movie star. Some of these acts are already big, and why would they come on AGT? Some are just coming on AGT to kind of help build their brand, get their ex get themselves some more exposure. He's now got an American audience that's AGTCommenter: For sure. Cody: seen him. So it's it's it's helping him professionally. And all he had to do was do a two minute set on A G T. Maybe so. Yeah. Right. AGTCommenter: I wonder if he withdrew. Took himself out. Like he got he might have got busy in France was like about Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: got his name out there on the on the audition and and and bowed out. But Cody: And bounce. Yep. AGTCommenter: of the thirteen, the only one that surprised me. There was there's another one in here that I I was disappointed, but had no problem believing that that they got eliminated and we'll get to it. He was the only one of this thirteen that I was like, really? Both kind of both why is he in two I can't believe it. because I just assumed that he would be in there. So zero from auditions two were eliminated. so every all nine that got sent through in auditions are either in the live shows or in callbacks. Auditions three, our only casualty was Sprice Machines. Our Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: our our Rube Goldberg, Kinetic King Act. Woo! Cody: Kinetic King, yes, yes. Who's been on the show? AGTCommenter: I like them. Cody: Spri Sprice has been on the show before. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah, they're fun, but it it probably doesn't need to go any further than that. It was fun to see it, but Mr Hammerhead. Sorry, Cody: The the kinetic AGTCommenter: go ahead. Cody: sorry, that that type of act is a very arrow one type act. AGTCommenter: For sure, yeah. Mr. Hammerhead, our record breaker from Auditions Four. The only one from Cody: Yes, yeah. AGTCommenter: Auditions Four eliminated. is is is is not going to go through. I don't know how we could ever imagine that it would. What are you gonna do next? Just gonna keep breaking the same record? I don't I don't get it. so that's it, Cody. From the first four Cody: Yes, yeah. Hey, but but don't but don't you want to see your boy the adjudicator again? AGTCommenter: it as much as possible, but it doesn't make sense to see him in the live shows. Show me him more Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: in the auditions. Could be nervous. He's a big game performer though. that's it, Cody. Three of the thirteen are from the first four auditions. Ten acts got eliminated from five, six, and seven. That's amazing. The other ten Seventy-seven percent of the eliminated acts were from the final three auditions, which was crazy. We had a Bresh Etio from Auditions Five, our Acrobat. We had Barrio Dance Factory, also from Auditions Five. Those were the two Auditions five acts. I had no problem with either of those two not making it any further. Your thoughts. Cody: Yeah, no, I'm fine with that. AGTCommenter: One from Audition Six, our novelty act Yakuta. assumed this was an assumption of mine that he wouldn't make it through, I'm sure you're not mourning the loss of Yakuta. And then it was a bloodbath in audition seven, Cody. This was I mean Cody: Yes, yes. AGTCommenter: this was a blood seven acts. Not not just in callbacks, gone. We went one for eight still in the competition. Cody: was hoping to at least see the Mariachi band, AGTCommenter: Okay. Cody: or Sarah Hardwick 'cause, you know, a blind singer. So yeah. AGTCommenter: Yeah. So l yeah, let's run through it. So Aiden Corcoran, magician. Gone, no problem. You wanted to see Los Servidores again. I was I was over it. Cody: Yes. I love a mariachi. I love a mariachi band. AGTCommenter: I just I I like I like in their in the right setting. My bur my Yeah, exactly. Yeah, having Cody: Okay. While you're eating your chips and salsa. Okay. AGTCommenter: a chimichonga and and or like walking the streets in a you know in the evening, you know, in Mexico or something, but fair enough. man ramp, which was one of the dumbest acts in AGT history. A Cody: Ha ha ha. AGTCommenter: man being a ramp. Cody: We we talked that there was promise here 'cause in in at the beginning of it it's this box that kept like transforming into more and more things that they could like do tricks on and that ultimately could be a really cool act where this box just AGTCommenter: Sure. Cody: kept like growing and growing. So AGTCommenter: My problem is is he if he was really man ramp, he would be the ramp. They would no no no no him. His body would be he was man makes ramp. He was just Cody: Yes, and he is. Okay. Okay. not a board Okay. AGTCommenter: making the ramps as they went. They would be driving on him if it was man ramp. So I had I had real gripes with it, but not Cody: Okay. Okay. AGTCommenter: surprised he's not here. Maria, our contortionist If she's a little bit too much double jointed contortionist versus acrobat. I I wanted she wasn't as much Sophie Dossi as I want Cody: okay. I thought you might like this. Okay. AGTCommenter: if you're gonna stick around as contortionist. Marcus Monroe, the Seth word of this season, I hated him. Cody: Okay. Yes. AGTCommenter: No problem that he's gone. You mentioned Sarah Hardwick. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I tweeted it that night. I stand by the tweet. I said, Do you have any idea how bad how bad of a blind singer you have to be for them to put you on audition seven? that's that's where she was bad. Was not a good singer. Seems like a nice enough girl. I was really worried they were gonna put her through. Happy Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: she's she's not she's not going through. Cody: I was intrigued by this 'cause I talked about it and I've messaged you about this as well, that she did the Tennessee s she won a the first year of the Tennessee songwriters competition. AGTCommenter: Right. Cody: And so I was really excited to kinda see would she do one of her original songs that she wrote during the competition so we could kinda hear what that was like. Just because I've been involved in that competition, I was really intrigued by her. So Okay. AGTCommenter: Right. Yeah. Is what it is. This was the one I was mad. The sound. Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: I the the they sang Country Roads. I loved them. I thought they were cool. I loved how they got the crowd involved and and not in an astrid way, but just in a fun way. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I had no hopes for anybody in audition seven, so again I wasn't let down. But I I I Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: liked them. I liked like They're better than in my opinion, I'd rather have that than Butter and Grit or Madeline and Malachi if you're trying to stay within the same section of talent personally, but Aiden Corcoran, Los Servidores, Man Ramp Maria, Marcus Monroe, Sarah Hardweg and the Sound. Seven. Half of the eliminated acts from one audition. It's brutal. final thoughts on our thirteen that are headed out. If you had a golden buzzer for one of who are you pressing it for? Cody: Yep, that Oo Pro probably can't, yeah. AGTCommenter: Kev. Yeah. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: I might press it for the sound. Yeah. Okay. anything else on what we learned last night? I I it's a lot. Cody: I don't think so. We kn AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: we we learned that they love doing filler shows. I mean it's it's cheap tel it's cheap television for so. AGTCommenter: And this was to me it's not a filler show 'cause a filler show doesn't advance the the season. This obvi this advanced the season to the next thing. So this was just a non performance Cody: Okay. Fair, fair. Yeah. AGTCommenter: episode. I'm I'm excited for the next two weeks. We have one more thing we'll do here. We got a couple questions from our guy, from our our our friend A E T Insider. I'm excited for the next couple of weeks. I'm interested to see what they're gonna do with callbacks. It's better than what we've had in the past of not having anything in in this little bridge and s just doing anniversary episodes and things like that. So Two things from well we had the the first one he AGT insider was wondering about the callback, so we thought we were gonna go through, we went through that. Thoughts on the guest judges. We didn't go through guest judges. So each judge is bringing a guest or a couple guests along. Simon is bringing Normani and Pooh Bear. That's two different people. I was not familiar with either, so I'm interested to see. I I I'm assuming they're both in the music industry as f I know Pooh Bear is like a is like a record is like a music producer. Cody: So not Winnie the Pooh? AGTCommenter: This is not no, this is not Winnie the Pooh, Cody. no. Normani Cody: Okay, Crystal Robin's not showing up? Okay. AGTCommenter: and then and Pooh Bear are his two, so which one? P O O. No H. Cody: How how is that spelled? Is it still spelled like Pooh Bear? Is it still like That makes sense. And then is it B A R E? AGTCommenter: B E A R like the animal. so that's his two. Mel is bringing her her old spice girl. which spice girl is Emma Boot button? She Cody: I'm not sure. Let's see. AGTCommenter: sassy spice? I don't even remember all the spices. Scary spice, posh spice. Cody: baby spice. Yes. AGTCommenter: Baby Spice. So Baby Spice and S Mel was scary, correct? Yeah. Cody: Correct. AGTCommenter: So Baby and Scary Spice are working together. Umie is bringing Nikki Glazer. a fascinating pick. I'm a fan. I she's a little much for me. I Cody: Yeah, yeah. I'm ex I'm interested by that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. AGTCommenter: I'm not I think she's I do think she's funny. I I I'm not consuming her her stand-up stuff. It's very, very vulgar. Her podcast interviews are like some of the most vulgar stuff you'll ever listen to. She's very interesting. I do think she's funny. she'll definitely help with the comedians having that conversation stuff, but I'm I think she'll bring some entertainment, which I'm not convinced Pooh Bear and Cody: Ha ha. AGTCommenter: what was the spice? Which sp Baby Spice are gonna bring along. Cody: Baby spice, yeah, yeah. AGTCommenter: And then Mel or sorry, Sophia has Lele Pons and Sebastian Yatra. Lele Pons is a name I'm familiar with. I'm not f Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: she's a musician as far as I know. Sebastian I had n I had never heard of, so I would say thoughts on guest judges? Underwhelmed. Wildly Cody: Yes. Not even whelmed. AGTCommenter: Wildly underwhelmed. This is the and I don't want to s this is different than like Judge Cut's guest judges because they're not judging necessarily. They're They're helping coach and things like that from what I understand. So it's a little bit different, but this is the best we could do. Nicky Glazer far and away the most f interesting of the one, two, three, four, five, six. Cody: Should they have brought back AGT alumps? AGTCommenter: Even judge alums, something. I would Cody: Okay. AGTCommenter: have loved AGT alums. That would've made a ton of sense. Like Simon should've had like you're trying to get people that stick around, but like Brian Justin Crumb's done multiple Hall of Famer, has done multiple spin offs. I'm sure he would have came back Cody: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: and given some advice and some singers. Matt Matt Franco, Dormboss, help out the magicians a little bit. Probably Cody: Bring back Franco? I mean Right. Yeah. AGTCommenter: could have gotten, you know, Piff and Tom Cotter or Piff and Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: whomever to to talk through the comedians. Cody: Drew Lynch? AGTCommenter: The Elante Dogs. Guys, could they come back Cody: Yes. Yes. AGTCommenter: and and talk to the doc yeah, so that would have been very fun, but Nicky Glazer I'm intrigued by. The rest of is not a this is a whoisn's whoisn'ts. This is not a big name list, but Leigh Pons, I think, is pretty popular. But any other thoughts on the guest judges? Underwhelmed is a good way to put it. Cody: So you had you had scary spice, sporty spice, baby spice, and ginger spice. and pot and posh spice. Yeah. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Got it. And Posh Spice. Yeah, that's the Victoria Beckham. all right. Last thing from AGT Insider. Do you like AGT announcing the live acts in a special episode like we what we got last night, or would you prefer another way of reveal? I'm gonna say I'm assuming the question is if they're gonna do it this way where we're not actually getting a second round of auditions. Cause obviously the best option is a second round of auditions, but they're not they're not doing that. I actually kinda like this. In the past we've gotten the second half of an episode deliberations where we we it's like your head is spinning. It's like trying to figure out like you just can't even keep up. This had the ad breaks enough and stuff. I think they could have done it a little better, but I thought this I would prefer this than what they've done in the past. Cody: with this. I'll say I'm I'm sick okay with this. I think it could probably maybe been an hour. They could have definitely like just plowed through the golden buzzers. Hey, here are the golden buzzers. but they gotta give their flowers for thirty minutes. And then AGTCommenter: Yeah. Cody: I think they could have crunched that last ninety into thirty minutes. AGTCommenter: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe the best version would be in the past we would do like ninety minutes of the final audition and then thirty minutes of deliberations or even like a hundred and five minutes of auditions and then we get fifteen minutes Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: at the end where we just saw them say a few names but then they just then they just release the list. This at least could we do half and half. See s but I also I also never liked seeing acts perform and then them getting eliminated in the same episode. It was like why did we just watch like we had Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: seven s auditions seven acts get eliminated. If they would have done the this episode in the second half of that episode, we would have just seen every act we watched get eliminated, which was what was happening. So I didn't like that either. So I kinda liked the standalone Cody: Right. Right. No. AGTCommenter: episode. Cody: Yeah, I'm I'm okay with this. They just could've done it as a one hour episode. Yeah, fif ten fifteen ten, fifteen minutes of the Golden Buzzers and then AGTCommenter: They yeah, I agree. They never would, but Yeah. Cody: the rest of the rest of the acts. So AGTCommenter: Yeah. And if you're gonna do two hours, give us a little more of the back the the the behind the scenes stuff. Let the let the judges talk it out maybe a little bit more. You spent so much time on video clips of these acts finding out, like care about that. Let's let's do that. But yeah, okay. Cody: No. Yeah. AGTCommenter: Anything else, Cody? Cody: I don't think so. AGTCommenter: You and I usually are not in the eighty minute range podcast. That's not usually our bag, but that's all I have. Cody: No, we're not. It's usually a hundred and eighty minutes. AGTCommenter: Basically the takeaways I had is we still just have a lot of unanswered questions. The first four auditions continue to pommel the the the other ones. Cody: Yeah. AGTCommenter: and that's kind of that's kind of the gist. looking ahead, we've got two judges callback weeks coming up, like we said. Simon and Mel next week, and then the the second episode, and Howie and Sophia. You and Jay will be back the next two weeks for that. And in two weeks, fantasy draft. Cody: Fantasy draft. Yep. AGTCommenter: The Bach brothers, us, and then team I thirty five. we'll be picking no Ryan. Cody: Yeah. I was wondering if we were gonna like say that. AGTCommenter: It's gonna come up at some point. It's too bad. Ryan's not dodging us. He is going to be in Ireland, which I also would be glad to miss the draft to go to Ireland personally. so I'm sure that'll be a great trip. He's gonna be there like two weeks. So we might not see Ryan again on this pod for till the end of the month till the end of August. So but we're still trying to decide, Cody, if we're gonna do a two part Judge Callbacks episode and a draft episode. If we're gonna try and pinch them together, we'll kinda see what you and Jay I think it'll probably base off of how much you guys talk about Judge Callbacks one and we'll go from there. So very interested for the next two weeks. Hopefully it's good television. I'm I am at the point now though where I'm ready. Let's get our forty four and let's get cracking. It's it's time. Cody: Yep. Yep. Yep. AGTCommenter: right now, twenty eight names are in the live shows. Who's winning the show if it ended tomorrow? Cody: if it ended tomorrow, I think I think Nene is winning the show. AGTCommenter: Not in the live shows currently. Of the twenty eight in the lives. Cody: sorry, you're right. Of of the twenty eight live shows. I'd have to pull up my whole yeah. man. AGTCommenter: Ooh. Is it crazy if I think it's Acro Crew? Cody: I think that is a little crazy, yes. I think I think I know you are. I know you are. I AGTCommenter: Okay. The dogs though. I'm I'm scarred by dogs. A dog golden buzzer no less. Cody: yeah, I think that that's I think that's a long shot. I think it's probably Lei. That's where that's exactly where I was at. It's either Lei or Laura D. One of the two. Yep. AGTCommenter: I think might be just lay is the answer. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's la It's one of the golden buzzers. We we just know that that eighty percent of the time is the case. So all right. Let's get outta here, Cody. This was fun. Cody: Okay. Yep. So you can find us on our socials at AGT Time Pod. You can email us AGT timepod at gmail.com. You can find commenter out there at AGT commenter. You can check out our website, AGT.com. We'll see you all next week. Have a great night.