AM I THE ONLY ONE . . . who frequently asks stupid questions?

My sweetie and I have been watching America’s Got Talent for years. We both enjoy it, and believe me, we can’t say that about everything we watch. There are times when we’ll watch something that I like, but she just tolerates it. Once in a great while that will be the other way around, I’ll tolerate something that she likes to watch. Suffice it to say, most often she lets me have my own way. It’s either that, or we watch separate TV’s.

So, as I was saying, we like to watch America’s Got Talent, AGT as they like to bill themselves. However, that title is probably one of the biggest misnomers in the history of television. I’ve never kept a tally, but it’s my guess that at least half of the contestants (auditioners) are from someplace other than America. When we first started watching the show, that didn’t seem to be as prevalent as it is now, but even then, a large portion of the talent was not from America. I don’t have a problem with that, I just find it curious. If I were naming the show, I think something like, Talent from Around the World, might be more fitting. But then, I guess maybe TFATW might not have the same ring or pizazz as AGT.

Anyway, I often mentioned that phenomenon to my sweetie. These guys are from the Ukraine, what are they doing on America’s Got Talent? This girl is from England, this group’s from….. Why is America’s got Talent showing all these act’s that aren’t from America?

Truth be known, she never actually had an answer for me. She’d be most likely to say something like, “That’s a stupid question, I don’t know the answer, why don’t you just watch the show?”

Then the other night, as we were again watching the show it suddenly struck me, not only do many of those who are auditioning come from somewhere else, the judges aren’t even from America. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM! They’re from Germany, Brazil, England and our sister nation, Canada, which technically, I guess is America,,,,, North America.

Not only does The United States of America not have much of the talent on this show, we can’t even find American judges.

Like I said, I don’t have a problem with that, but I do wonder, are we being duped, America?

Gramps use’ta say
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