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Austin proved to be a breath of fresh air in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 7. I don’t think we saw the season’s winning act, but for a change there was a lot of challenge to choose from. Tonight the auditions continue in Austin.

Aurora Light Painters make pictures using lights. Interesting enough I suppose, but not as much as Joe Castillo from day 1.

The Doppelganger Circus Sideshow are freaks in love. Howard promptly buzzes them before seeing anything. The guy puts an apple in his girlfriend’s mouth, then gets out a chainsaw to carve the letter H in the apple. She doesn’t get injured from the saw, but her mouth is dislocated because the apple is too big.

Eric and Olivia are a musical duo (she sings and he plays guitar) from the University of Texas. Everybody wants them to be a couple. She’s a decent singer… but I don’t know what purpose he serves other than to secretly have a crush on her. Howie thinks it’s too loungie, but the other two love them.

Richard Grossman is a terrible opera singer. He can appreciate that people don’t like him, but he doesn’t appreciate people being rude to him by telling him he sucks.

Eric Dittleman is a mind reader. He has the judges draw something while he’s blindfolded. I don’t think anyone’s buying that he can read minds, but he does correctly identify the drawings.

Andrew de Leon feels like an outsider because he’s a vampire. Though at first glance he looks like he will be singing death punk rock, he surprises the audience with some opera. Nobody’s ever heard him sing before, but he has managed to teach himself really well.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 9, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Escape artist Spencer Horsman was a rare bright spot in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 6. Tonight the auditions head to Austin.

Sebastien de la Cruz is the 10 year old singer for mariachi band Sebastien “El Charro de Oro”. He’s focusing on his music, rather than worrying about the ladies. The sacrifice has paid off.

Bandaz Brothers are acrobats from Iran, who have been doing circus work since childhood. One of them balances on a pole in the other’s mouth. Then he does a headstand on his brother’s head, all the while looking frighteningly shaky.

Timothy Michael Poe was hit by a grenade in Afghanistan, which has left him with a brain injury and a resulting stutter, but that won’t stop him from singing and playing his guitar. His speech pathologist suggested he sing in the shower, which led him to find out that he doesn’t stutter when he sings, and he turned out to be a good country singer.

Lulu is a morbidly obese pole dancer who walks out on stage in a bikini. There have been some very good and/or hot pole dancers on this show. She is neither, but Howie lets her continue after the other two buzz her. So of course this is my opportunity to fast forward Nick acting like an idiot.

Joe Castillo uses light and sand to tell stories to music. His patriotic art strikes a chord with the crowd.

David “The Bullet” Smith, Jr. is a human cannonball. He’s still scared every time, 15 years later. Interesting to watch (in spite of the edit pretending he’s injured) but… what do you do for the quarterfinals?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

More lackluster acts greeted us in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 5. Moving on to St. Louis.

Tom Bonham is a puppeteer. Nick’s sock puppets are better. Still, Howie is a fan.

Isaac Brown is a 6 year old singer and dancer. It doesn’t matter what his performance is, though, as his personality quickly wins over the audience.

Spencer Horsman is the world’s youngest escape artist. Tonight, rather than being tied up by Howard, he’s tied up by Nick. He has a minute and 20 seconds to escape from his straight jacket before being caught by a human sized rat trap.

Lin Doak is known as Little Ozzy. His terrible performance gets him booed by everybody in the audience other than Sharon.

The Cut Throat Freak Show & Eric Odditorium is a sideshow act with broken beer bottles. One of them jumps on the glass, then does a handstand on it. Then the other one lifts a chair using his eyelids. They finish with some sword swallowing.

Ron Christopher Porter, Jr. has a dream. He wants to do movie trailer voiceovers. Howard is confused how this is an act. He also cannot announce the acts that are going to be coming on stage because that’s what Nick does. Oh. So that’s what Nick does?

Curtis Cutts Bey will round out the night with stupid singing and bad dancing. Now we see what else Nick does. Prolong the worst acts and beat them into the ground.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 7, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

A couple of good acts greeted us in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 4, as we saw comedian Tom Cotter and aerial act Donovan & Rebecca. Tonight the auditions head to Tampa.

Inspire the Fire is a singing and dancing troupe that hopes to reach out to the youths in the streets. Their story’s a lot better than their performance, but they’re strong enough as singers and/or dancers that the crowd loves them.

NC Bikini Bombshells walk out on stage and immediately get a standing ovation. They should have just stood there and looked cute because their attempt to dance blows it.

All That is a clogging group. They grew up competing in clogging competitions. I’ll take their word that’s a real thing. Cool for what it is.

Michael Griffin is an escape artist, a skill he learned when his brother would tie him up. He’s the only human to survive a hanging. His trick for today is to have Howard tie 35 feet of rope around him any way he likes. The unimpressed judges buzz him.

The Distinguished Men of Brass is a brass marching band. They lost their jobs at an amusement park, so they decided to form a band and make a living that way. Howie has fun, and Sharon adores them.

Ulysses makes sure his Don King hair is good to go before he comes out on stage and sings the theme from Loveboat. Howard buzzes because it’s fun but not a million dollar act. Neither Green Acres nor The Addams Family are enough for Howard, but the other judges are sending him to Vegas.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Some lackluster acts skated through in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 3, though there was a good animal act, Olate Dogs. The New York auditions continue tonight.

Ronald Charles sings/dances/performs. All terribly. Howard Stern’s father tells him what he used to tell his son: “Don’t be stupid, you moron.”

John Pizzi is a comedian ventriloquist. Why are his lips moving so much? He picks suitable material, though, mocking the judges.

Donovan and his thin blonde wife Rebecca have an act that involves a lot of lifting of each other. You wouldn’t think it at first glance, but as big as he is, she does a lot of the lifting. This duo, Crazeehorse, was in the semifinals of Britain’s Got Talent Series 1, with a performance that suggests they have something much more impressive up their sleeves. Doesn’t seem entirely coincidental they waited until the year Piers (who was a judge that season) is gone before coming to America.

Tom Cotter is a stand up comic. Each joke he tells is funny. He says he’s a big fan of Howie, and Howie returns the compliment.

Stepz was abandoned by his drug addict mother, but he found dance while his grandmother raised him. Howard says he’s talented, but people won’t pay to see this. The other two judges back him, however.

The Savage Men smell like baby oil. Sharon asks to be surprised. The boys buzz, but Sharon wants to see them finally take something off. She gets to see a little bit of skin after some very bad dancing, but nothing either terribly impressive or surprising. Until Howard gets on stage and joins them. Seeing as even Sharon buzzed, they’re not going to Vegas.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 5, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 2 brought us Luiz Meneghin and Alonso “Turf” Jones. Tonight the auditions continue in New York.

The Flyte Cru (really?) is a basketball stunt team. Very cool, but I’ve seen this before, more than once on this show. Howie says no on that basis, but the other two give them another shot.

Mir Money is a 7 year old rapper. I was expecting them to give him a pass to the top 40 based on his age, but Howard’s not falling for it, as he buzzes. Sharon joins him. A guilty Howard ends up voting yes, but the other two realize they can’t put the kid through another rejection like that.

Olate Dogs is a large animal act. They jump rope, do backflips, and dance together. A lot of room for error with so many animals, but it goes off without a hitch.

Horse is wearing a shirt that says “They call me nasty”. Between the name and the shirt, it’s apparent this will be pointless and quite stupid. His talent: repeatedly being bashed in the groin. So of course, he’s going to Vegas.

Wordspit and the Illest are a backpack pop culture arena rap group. Decent rapper, decent singer, but I don’t get the whole package, though the judges do.

Burton Crane’s talent is performing, which he later clarifies by saying he’s a 77 year old rapper. This will not end well. In spite of the fact that this act sucks, he gets a standing ovation. It’s like American Idol. The sad fact is that the song is catchy, and people will be talking about it in the morning more than anyone else.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.