Joey

## Background

Joey is from California and is currently a college student hoping to acquire skills for his career.

During his off-time, Joey likes to play video games, play guitar, binge on YouTube/Instagram, and spend time at the gym or at the kung fu studio.

## Joey’s Personality as a GT Judge

Joey likes to compare his judging style to Callum and Crimson.

Joey gets very enthusiastic over acts he likes/loves and buzzes any acts he doesn’t like or finds boring. Joey is very likely to criticize acts he doesn’t fully like or hate. On the real show, Joey gives ten votes to any acts he wants in the finals and pity votes to acts he sees in person (as long as he doesn’t buzz them). On Fantasy Got Talents, he may go easier on scoring acts and may give acts any score but will still give his buzzed acts the least amount of votes he can give.

Joey is familiar with the names of every AGT winner (and some memorable acts), along with some from other GT’s. Joey is very familiar with live show acts from “Sofia’s Era”. Joey recalls watching the show with his dad, but at the time he did not understand a thing that was going on. Season 18 was the first season and first time Joey had watched the audition tapings live at the Pasadena auditorium and had watched every single televised act\*.

\*scroll to the bottom to see Interesting facts about the live tapings

## Joey’s Plan to perform on AGT

Joey has no idea when he wants to audition for AGT as he wants to be efficient at his talents (act: singer and guitarist) but he hopes to one day be able to show his talents on the big stage and compete for the grand prize. Joey plans on winning the show (or finishing as a finalist if the winner’s contract is that bad) and hopes he can be a legendary rock star as a full-time career.

## Joey’s Hall of GB’s

Season 9: ¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯

Season 10: Paul Zerdin

Season 11: Brian Justin Crum

Season 12: Puddles Pity Party

Season 13: Junior New System

Season 14: Ndlovu Youth Choir

Season 15: Kenadi Dodds

Season 16: I was blown away by Peter Rosalita but also loved Brooke Simpson

Season 17: The Pack Drumline

Season 18: Ramadhani Brothers

## Interesting facts about the live tapings:

- No act got booed. Maybe except for some really bad acts but the clips you see of the whole crowd booing is not canon in the real performance. In fact, nervous acts or acts that are not that great might get cheered more than the acts that actually have talent.

- The way the show gets their “boos” is in between acts producers will have Simon press his buzzer a few times and the crowd will boo.

- Most of the acts that went unaired are usually less talented and/or less memorable (except TanBA I remember his audition from beginning to end). So if you plan on being on the show, you gotta MOVE the audience (or at least Simon).

- Four acts got buzzed when I was at the taping, Simon and Heidi tied in buzzing the most with 3/4 buzzes. (Sofia 2, Howie 1)

- The whole room turns red for a few seconds during buzzouts.

- Gabriel Henrique sang two songs during his audition and before Sofia hit her golden buzzer for him she said she didn’t like his second song but she loved his first song which aired.

- Judges changed outfits on April 4th with the female judges wearing the more expensive looking clothes on the last half of auditions.

- Only ⅔ of the auditorium was filled on the last taping I went to.

- GB Confetti go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

* it’s everywhere, the stage, below the stage, the stairs, judge’s X’s, and maybe into some of the audience’s hands