{"id":5089,"date":"2014-07-04T18:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2014-07-04T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:52:50","slug":"americas-got-talent-season-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/americas-got-talent-season-9\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Got Talent (season 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Somebody is out there &#8212; maybe they&#8217;ve been trying to get discovered but they&#8217;re starting to doubt themselves. And then they hit our stage and suddenly life changes. Isn&#8217;t that a great thing to see happen? This is the amazing part of the show that I never get tired of.&#8221; &#8212; Howard Stern<\/p>\n<p><strong>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/strong> season 9 is now airing. As with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/americas-got-talent-season-8\/\">season 8<\/a>, there&#8217;s lots of variety.<\/p>\n<p>The same judges are back from last year &#8212; Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum, and Howard Stern. Nick Cannon is also back as host. The judges sometimes disagree but it seems like they genuinely like each other.<\/p>\n<p>This year there&#8217;s a golden buzzer &#8212; each judge gets to press it once during the auditions, sending that contestant through regardless of the other judges&#8217; votes. Howard used his on Dustin&#8217;s Dojo, a comedy karate duo. Howie used his on the Hudson brothers, who are comedic rappers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the acts to watch for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adrian Romoff, a 9-year-old pianist<\/li>\n<li>Dan Naturman, a comedian who joked about marriage<\/li>\n<li>Blue Journey, a pair of dancers who interacted with a projection<\/li>\n<li>David Leeman, a pair of magicians who made Howie temporarily lose his ability to read<\/li>\n<li>Dom the Bomb&#8217;s Triple Threat, an 8-year old playing card thrower (his assistants are his triplet brother and sister)<\/li>\n<li>Abigail Barrett, who did an aerial act in front of an animated background<\/li>\n<li>Jodi Miller, a comedian who argued that men are like cats and women are like dogs<\/li>\n<li>Bob Markworth, a 77-year-old archer<\/li>\n<li>John Vincent and his trained pig Mudslinger<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Butera, a very funny impressionist<\/li>\n<li>Mat Franco, a magician who did stupendous card tricks<\/li>\n<li>Mike Super, a self-described mystifier who gets his invisible friend to shatter a glass pitcher<\/li>\n<li>Joe Matteriese, a comedian who joked about being over 40<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems like they showed more great acts and not as many not-so-great acts this time around. Once in a while the judges&#8217; response to an act is baffling but they generally know talent when they see it.<\/p>\n<p>You will hear some amazing musicians, see some mesmerizing dancers, and be inspired by people&#8217;s stories. Auditions have ended, and now starts the selection and voting process that eventually brings us a winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Somebody is out there &#8212; maybe they&#8217;ve been trying to get discovered but they&#8217;re starting to doubt themselves. And then they hit our stage and suddenly life changes. Isn&#8217;t that a great thing to see happen? This is the amazing part of the show that I never get tired of.&#8221; &#8212; Howard Stern America&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,52,11],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-talent-show","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}