September 11, 2025 • 12 mins
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Already, Mama Duke, Steve Ray Ladson, and Micah Palace have punched their tickets to the finale thanks to the live Golden Buzzers!On Tuesday, 11 acts competed for three spots in the AGT: Season 20 semifinals.
Also, Howie Mandel awarded the fourth live Golden Buzzer to Team Recycled!
Next week, the Semifinals begin! The judges will have a final live Golden Buzzer to give away, and for it to be used, all of them MUST BE UNANIMOUS!
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Already, Mama Duke, Steve Ray Ladson, and Micah Palace have punched their tickets to the finale thanks to the live Golden Buzzers!On Tuesday, 11 acts competed for three spots in the AGT: Season 20 semifinals.
Also, Howie Mandel awarded the fourth live Golden Buzzer to Team Recycled!
Next week, the Semifinals begin! The judges will have a final live Golden Buzzer to give away, and for it to be used, all of them MUST BE UNANIMOUS!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/jake-s-take-with-jacob-elyachar--4112003/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hello, Hello one, Welcome back to episode fourteen.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Jake's a g T Jake.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm your host, Jacob Ashar, chief conferencer and writer at
jakesk dot com, pop culture ed Tamed news website. If
you're listening to this on your video, I mean listening
to on audio, please give us a five star rating
and download this episode and more episodes. And if you
want to see video versions of all of my podcasts,
(00:51):
please go to my YouTube channel Jacob el Ashar c
O B E O Y A C h A R
to subscribe and to watch those interviews. The final week
of the quarter finals has come and gone, and I'm
here to break down with you the performances and the results.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So let's get started.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So the performances happened on Tuesday evening, and I gotta
say this, Melby looked a little bewildered during the Judges
intro Judges intros, so hopefully it wasn't a sign for
things to come. And as usual, Terry revealed that only
Howie Mandel could press the Golden buzzard this time around
because he's the only judge love standing. Moving on, we
(01:38):
got to get to the X. Let's start with crash Adams.
So Crash Adams have known each other since they were kids,
and they did ag agt because they wanted to be
the forefront of the music. Their song Optimist, the song
that they sang on their audition, made it to the
top five in the Apple on the Apple Music Charts,
(01:59):
and for their performance they added a mini band. They
sang an original song called new Heart. I love their
sound and it was good. I gave them a bee.
But in my mind when I was watching this, we
already have a packed mini music final, semi final, and
there were already three music finalists, so I'm hoping for
(02:21):
the best, but at the same time, anything could happen
before after after crash Adam's reform, Terry reminded people to
get to see four to get four pieces of paper
for Zach Moraz's performance, and Zach was inspired by David
Blaine as an eight year old, and after his audition,
he received a phone call from his hero and his
(02:43):
wife gate birth to his second daughter. In all honesty,
I was bored by the performance. I would have hit
the buzzer like how he did, but sadly how he
took back his ex after the performance, and I found
it was a copycat of Dustin to won season sixteen,
and I gotta say this, Dustin is a million times
(03:04):
better than Ze.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Moving on, we have the.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Tt Boys and they were the third act of the evening.
There Ethiopian based acroback know. This was one of the
best performances of the season and they said they wanted
the Golden Buzzer and it delivered a powerful routine to
Letting provinces, Are you gonna go my way? Mike John
Trapp multiple times throughout the routine and I love the
adi fire effects in a race po platform and even
(03:30):
went blindfolded. So it was the best performance of the
season and I gave it a plus. But sadly, Howie
Mandel did not use the Golden Buzzer on them, which
I thought should have happened because of all the offer
a spoil alert. Of all the offerings tonight, it was okay,
It was good, okay and buzzworthy. We'll find out who
(03:55):
which of the remainder acts fall into those categories and
later on? Moving on is Cole Swinston and Judy. They
were the most boring act on the show. I thought
the Cole was a ed.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
She wouldn't want to be This was a boring performance
performance that I would have buzz them. I'm giving them
a D.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Moving on to one of my favorite people, Mike Mouns.
He's a wild card. He got a last spot open
up for him during the quarterfinals, and I was so
excited to see him back in the competition. I followed
Mike for years and I was sad to see him
the joint agenc and his audition received over eighty three
million views on social media.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And he did a routine too.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm sexy and I know it and I love they
incorporated both Terry and the pull up bar into the act.
I'm shocked that Simon and Howie press the buzzers. And
don't get me started on Agat commentator because I got
to rip him apart because of his nasty comments towards
Mike Mons.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
All.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I gotta say this is a B plus and who
knows what's gonna happen. But the only thing I wish
he did is he brought on several different athletes that
know how to do those movements, because seeing them in
sync would have really really put them in a better spots.
Moving on, we got to Chuck Adams, and so we
(05:17):
learned that Chuck Adams spent three years in a record
deal before he was cut. The Google dolls were posted
his audition and he performed one in Roll but Oasis.
Chuck made a song his own, but at times, to
quote the great Randy Jackson, he was pitched it off
and I gave him a B minus. Reading on, we
(05:37):
got the Funer Dancers. So these guys have been together
off and on for forty five years, but they took
a thirty seven year hiatus from their performance. So after
their Golden Buzzer audition, they appeared on Today's show and
even the City of Inkster gave them a lifetime Legacy award.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So they performed shock and cons.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I feel for you and I get their feel good
app but I was born I would to buzz them
and my.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Grade was a C minus.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Then we had the boy Kins and this was Harry's
second Golden Buzzer. After the evening, they said in their
pre performance audition that it was sat for their lives.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It was another original song. I like the performance, but
there are some pitch issues.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No matter what happened to them outside the show, they
have a bright feature.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And I give them a B minus. Then we have
good night.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This Japanese dancer he found out about He got into
dancing once he found someone dancing outside the train station
and he discovered lasers. This performance of Seeing the Rain
was epic. It was the first of the Goosebumps all
of the nights. This is the pure biggest show. However,
he did receive some negative feedback from the judges, and
I'm like, what were they thinking? This was fabulous and
(06:53):
I'm going to give them it a Moving on, we
had team recycled, so this is a Berlin Journey Band's
dance troop. Now, in addition to dancing, these dancers have
various jobs such as fitness trainers, lawyers, and teachers. And
I remembered their audition and said, and I liked the audition. However,
(07:14):
Melby did not like their choreography and she challenged them
to prove her roup. So what I liked about the
performance it started the audience and it was spectacular from
the word go. I kind of wish they spent a
little more time on stage. And then the judges desk.
You were all wearing Canichi's jackets, and I liked that
(07:37):
it ended on the stage, so very flow well and
all gotta say was wow. And finally Hawai Mandel used
the gold buzzer and said they could win this. I'd
totally agreee and I solely wish I'd picked up for
my picks this season of acts to watch. Oh my god,
I was onto another act and I should have picked them.
Oh well, they get an A plus for me. Finally
(07:59):
we had Birmingham Youth Fellowship Choir there, Simon Cowell's second
Golden buzzer of the season. They deformed Praise You. I
love the arrangement. They are a million times better than
Detroit Youth Choir and they took the Pasadena Sevic Auditorium
audience to church. And this is a message to the
famous will Be Goldberg what Be? You need to include
(08:22):
them in Sister Act three because they could definitely be
the next generation of performers. And I gave them an
a minus. And we will be back.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
To talk about the results. Heybo, everyone, and welcome back.
(09:13):
So we got to get to the results. So basically
we had the top five and what I was very
surprised was that both Birmingham Fellowship of Youth Choir and
the Bunketeer dancers were made into top five. I gotta
say this with all honesty, the Bunketeer dancers should not
(09:33):
have gotten that far because they were bored. And the
next third spot was the t T Boys. They took
out Crush Adams, but the major disappointment was seeing both
Gendi and Mike Muns did not make it. America, what
the heck is wrong with you? And I also want
to give America a wag the finger on Zach Morse.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Because he was a boring magician. But luckily Chuck Adams
succeeded over the boy kids and there we go. Now
we got to get to the final three. And the
final three are the TT Boys, Zach Merrs and the
Birmingham Youth Fellowship. Why so now we have it. And
before we revealed the semi finalist, Terry revealed that duty
(10:19):
personal reasons, Mastermind had to drop out. So joining the
TT Boys, Zach Mers and the Birmingham Youth Fellowship Choir
are Hey Melannick Bergoalina, Chris Turner, Jessica Danchez, Jordan's Blue
(10:40):
Leo High School Choir, Light Wire, Circa Merra.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The Unreal Crew.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
They will all be battling for spot in the finale. Also,
just heads up, guys, we don't know who will replace
Mastermind this semi finals. We also don't know about the
last Golden buzzer, so according to reports ag from HT
Insider that the gold of the final Live Golden Buzzer
(11:08):
must be unanimous, so Simon, Sophia, Howie MLB all have
to agree to use it on one app. So we'll
see if this happens next week. And guys, if you
miss an episode of the Jake's Take with Jacob Elaisher podcast,
visit our channels on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify
(11:30):
and Speaker.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Once again. Jakesteak with Jacob elis R JC O B
E O y A C h A R. Now are
you on social media?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Because I'm on social media to Facebook, Instagram, threads, Twitter
and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And guys, make sure if.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You want to follow the entire America's Got Talent coverage
starting from twenty twelve, visit the blog The Start It All,
jakesax Check dot Com, What's Get, jakest Check dot Com
and Congo. We want to say that Jake's Teak with
Jacob Elaisher has been selected to have a twenty twenty
five America Business Award winner, So thank you so much
to the entire.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Stevie Awards Committee.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
To the judges for selecting Jacob, for selecting the Jake
Sick to take a ballet of our podcast, to getting
a Silver Cevie in the Best Podcast and Interview Talk
Show category. Thank you guys so much. Until next time,
have a great one everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
God Bye,
Hello, Hello one, Welcome back to episode fourteen.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Jake's a g T Jake.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm your host, Jacob Ashar, chief conferencer and writer at
jakesk dot com, pop culture ed Tamed news website. If
you're listening to this on your video, I mean listening
to on audio, please give us a five star rating
and download this episode and more episodes. And if you
want to see video versions of all of my podcasts,
(00:51):
please go to my YouTube channel Jacob el Ashar c
O B E O Y A C h A R
to subscribe and to watch those interviews. The final week
of the quarter finals has come and gone, and I'm
here to break down with you the performances and the results.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So let's get started.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So the performances happened on Tuesday evening, and I gotta
say this, Melby looked a little bewildered during the Judges
intro Judges intros, so hopefully it wasn't a sign for
things to come. And as usual, Terry revealed that only
Howie Mandel could press the Golden buzzard this time around
because he's the only judge love standing. Moving on, we
(01:38):
got to get to the X. Let's start with crash Adams.
So Crash Adams have known each other since they were kids,
and they did ag agt because they wanted to be
the forefront of the music. Their song Optimist, the song
that they sang on their audition, made it to the
top five in the Apple on the Apple Music Charts,
(01:59):
and for their performance they added a mini band. They
sang an original song called new Heart. I love their
sound and it was good. I gave them a bee.
But in my mind when I was watching this, we
already have a packed mini music final, semi final, and
there were already three music finalists, so I'm hoping for
(02:21):
the best, but at the same time, anything could happen
before after after crash Adam's reform, Terry reminded people to
get to see four to get four pieces of paper
for Zach Moraz's performance, and Zach was inspired by David
Blaine as an eight year old, and after his audition,
he received a phone call from his hero and his
(02:43):
wife gate birth to his second daughter. In all honesty,
I was bored by the performance. I would have hit
the buzzer like how he did, but sadly how he
took back his ex after the performance, and I found
it was a copycat of Dustin to won season sixteen,
and I gotta say this, Dustin is a million times
(03:04):
better than Ze.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Moving on, we have the.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Tt Boys and they were the third act of the evening.
There Ethiopian based acroback know. This was one of the
best performances of the season and they said they wanted
the Golden Buzzer and it delivered a powerful routine to
Letting provinces, Are you gonna go my way? Mike John
Trapp multiple times throughout the routine and I love the
adi fire effects in a race po platform and even
(03:30):
went blindfolded. So it was the best performance of the
season and I gave it a plus. But sadly, Howie
Mandel did not use the Golden Buzzer on them, which
I thought should have happened because of all the offer
a spoil alert. Of all the offerings tonight, it was okay,
It was good, okay and buzzworthy. We'll find out who
(03:55):
which of the remainder acts fall into those categories and
later on? Moving on is Cole Swinston and Judy. They
were the most boring act on the show. I thought
the Cole was a ed.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
She wouldn't want to be This was a boring performance
performance that I would have buzz them. I'm giving them
a D.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Moving on to one of my favorite people, Mike Mouns.
He's a wild card. He got a last spot open
up for him during the quarterfinals, and I was so
excited to see him back in the competition. I followed
Mike for years and I was sad to see him
the joint agenc and his audition received over eighty three
million views on social media.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And he did a routine too.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm sexy and I know it and I love they
incorporated both Terry and the pull up bar into the act.
I'm shocked that Simon and Howie press the buzzers. And
don't get me started on Agat commentator because I got
to rip him apart because of his nasty comments towards
Mike Mons.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
All.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I gotta say this is a B plus and who
knows what's gonna happen. But the only thing I wish
he did is he brought on several different athletes that
know how to do those movements, because seeing them in
sync would have really really put them in a better spots.
Moving on, we got to Chuck Adams, and so we
(05:17):
learned that Chuck Adams spent three years in a record
deal before he was cut. The Google dolls were posted
his audition and he performed one in Roll but Oasis.
Chuck made a song his own, but at times, to
quote the great Randy Jackson, he was pitched it off
and I gave him a B minus. Reading on, we
(05:37):
got the Funer Dancers. So these guys have been together
off and on for forty five years, but they took
a thirty seven year hiatus from their performance. So after
their Golden Buzzer audition, they appeared on Today's show and
even the City of Inkster gave them a lifetime Legacy award.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So they performed shock and cons.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I feel for you and I get their feel good
app but I was born I would to buzz them
and my.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Grade was a C minus.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Then we had the boy Kins and this was Harry's
second Golden Buzzer. After the evening, they said in their
pre performance audition that it was sat for their lives.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It was another original song. I like the performance, but
there are some pitch issues.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No matter what happened to them outside the show, they
have a bright feature.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And I give them a B minus. Then we have
good night.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This Japanese dancer he found out about He got into
dancing once he found someone dancing outside the train station
and he discovered lasers. This performance of Seeing the Rain
was epic. It was the first of the Goosebumps all
of the nights. This is the pure biggest show. However,
he did receive some negative feedback from the judges, and
I'm like, what were they thinking? This was fabulous and
(06:53):
I'm going to give them it a Moving on, we
had team recycled, so this is a Berlin Journey Band's
dance troop. Now, in addition to dancing, these dancers have
various jobs such as fitness trainers, lawyers, and teachers. And
I remembered their audition and said, and I liked the audition. However,
(07:14):
Melby did not like their choreography and she challenged them
to prove her roup. So what I liked about the
performance it started the audience and it was spectacular from
the word go. I kind of wish they spent a
little more time on stage. And then the judges desk.
You were all wearing Canichi's jackets, and I liked that
(07:37):
it ended on the stage, so very flow well and
all gotta say was wow. And finally Hawai Mandel used
the gold buzzer and said they could win this. I'd
totally agreee and I solely wish I'd picked up for
my picks this season of acts to watch. Oh my god,
I was onto another act and I should have picked them.
Oh well, they get an A plus for me. Finally
(07:59):
we had Birmingham Youth Fellowship Choir there, Simon Cowell's second
Golden buzzer of the season. They deformed Praise You. I
love the arrangement. They are a million times better than
Detroit Youth Choir and they took the Pasadena Sevic Auditorium
audience to church. And this is a message to the
famous will Be Goldberg what Be? You need to include
(08:22):
them in Sister Act three because they could definitely be
the next generation of performers. And I gave them an
a minus. And we will be back.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
To talk about the results. Heybo, everyone, and welcome back.
(09:13):
So we got to get to the results. So basically
we had the top five and what I was very
surprised was that both Birmingham Fellowship of Youth Choir and
the Bunketeer dancers were made into top five. I gotta
say this with all honesty, the Bunketeer dancers should not
(09:33):
have gotten that far because they were bored. And the
next third spot was the t T Boys. They took
out Crush Adams, but the major disappointment was seeing both
Gendi and Mike Muns did not make it. America, what
the heck is wrong with you? And I also want
to give America a wag the finger on Zach Morse.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Because he was a boring magician. But luckily Chuck Adams
succeeded over the boy kids and there we go. Now
we got to get to the final three. And the
final three are the TT Boys, Zach Merrs and the
Birmingham Youth Fellowship. Why so now we have it. And
before we revealed the semi finalist, Terry revealed that duty
(10:19):
personal reasons, Mastermind had to drop out. So joining the
TT Boys, Zach Mers and the Birmingham Youth Fellowship Choir
are Hey Melannick Bergoalina, Chris Turner, Jessica Danchez, Jordan's Blue
(10:40):
Leo High School Choir, Light Wire, Circa Merra.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The Unreal Crew.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
They will all be battling for spot in the finale. Also,
just heads up, guys, we don't know who will replace
Mastermind this semi finals. We also don't know about the
last Golden buzzer, so according to reports ag from HT
Insider that the gold of the final Live Golden Buzzer
(11:08):
must be unanimous, so Simon, Sophia, Howie MLB all have
to agree to use it on one app. So we'll
see if this happens next week. And guys, if you
miss an episode of the Jake's Take with Jacob Elaisher podcast,
visit our channels on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify
(11:30):
and Speaker.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Once again. Jakesteak with Jacob elis R JC O B
E O y A C h A R. Now are
you on social media?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Because I'm on social media to Facebook, Instagram, threads, Twitter
and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And guys, make sure if.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You want to follow the entire America's Got Talent coverage
starting from twenty twelve, visit the blog The Start It All,
jakesax Check dot Com, What's Get, jakest Check dot Com
and Congo. We want to say that Jake's Teak with
Jacob Elaisher has been selected to have a twenty twenty
five America Business Award winner, So thank you so much
to the entire.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Stevie Awards Committee.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
To the judges for selecting Jacob, for selecting the Jake
Sick to take a ballet of our podcast, to getting
a Silver Cevie in the Best Podcast and Interview Talk
Show category. Thank you guys so much. Until next time,
have a great one everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
God Bye,
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