Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod meets Twirl, the Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 1: recap hosted by two guys who can't dance, don't want
Speaker 1: to dance, and I have now seen six episodes of
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. But since our best friend Danielle
Speaker 1: has joined the cast for season thirty four, we're going
Speaker 1: all in. We are Wilfred Ell and Ryder Strong aka
Speaker 1: the two dudes next to Tapanga aka daniel Fishal's backup
Speaker 1: aka the Daniettes.
Speaker 2: How's it going? Well, it's good. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm a little tired. I spent all day yesterday traveling
Speaker 1: six hour flight, landed in Costa Rica, three and a
Speaker 1: half hour bus ride.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm here now.
Speaker 1: We're celebrating my wife's fiftieth and we're here for like
Speaker 1: the next five days.
Speaker 2: With no cho sounds fun I'm curious how how many
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars recap podcasts do you think are
Speaker 2: being recorded in Costa Rica right now?
Speaker 1: Just the one, baby one, just you?
Speaker 2: Or this is just a whole here's the people, you
Speaker 2: know what?
Speaker 1: It is funny though, because I started to think you
Speaker 1: were going to ask how many Dances with the Stars
Speaker 1: conversations have you had? And I would say surprisingly a.
Speaker 2: Lot because thousand, yes, me too.
Speaker 1: I just yesterday because we're traveling here a bunch of
Speaker 1: friends here. We have like twenty twenty some friends who
Speaker 1: have met us in Costa Rica for my wife's fiftieth
Speaker 1: and everybody wanted to talk Dance with the Stars last night, right,
Speaker 1: I was just you know, a lot of them hadn't
Speaker 1: seen like last week's episode or just you know, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I it was a big discussion, and everyone wants to
Speaker 1: know how Danielle's doing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, good, I think I'm going to talk to
Speaker 2: her tomorrow when we record. Well. I love how literally
Speaker 2: when you do a podcast saying I don't know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, people somehow assume I know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, right, or I'll get getting conversations with people
Speaker 2: all the time like yeah, but you know she missed
Speaker 2: that kicked her and I'm like, the what she what?
Speaker 2: So it's still so funny where all of a sudden
Speaker 2: we've become experts because we said we're not experts.
Speaker 1: Well we have opinions, though, don't we we do? Boy,
Speaker 1: do we have opinions. I was so happy this week
Speaker 1: were yeah, okay, but what's funny is that I actually, like,
Speaker 1: like I said, last week, I enjoyed the dancing, like
Speaker 1: all that contemporary stuff was just beautiful and emotional. But yes,
Speaker 1: as far as like feeling good about the show and
Speaker 1: feeling good about Danielle, obviously, I.
Speaker 2: Was just so elated this week. I just got she
Speaker 2: killed it. I did too, and this was it was
Speaker 2: like it was like a wanted to cry moment for
Speaker 2: my friend where it was like, oh, because we know
Speaker 2: how hard she's been working. Yeah, we know how much
Speaker 2: it's been bugging her with how hard she's been working.
Speaker 2: And she's by the way, we know her well enough
Speaker 2: to know that she's only bugged with herself. Danielle is
Speaker 2: not the person who I can't believe the judges did this.
Speaker 2: I can't believe my partner did this. I can't believe
Speaker 2: other couples to do Nope, she's only harsh on herself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So when you have a week like this where it
Speaker 2: was like it seemed like the stars aligned and she
Speaker 2: got to do that, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: I just think they were so smart, like her and
Speaker 1: her and Pasha just did the exact right thing, you know,
Speaker 1: like coming off of last week, because I was a
Speaker 1: little question I was questioning last week. It's like, really,
Speaker 1: we're gonna double down and boy me to them, like me,
Speaker 1: I love seeing everybody there. I love Bill being on stage.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, I just think that, like we
Speaker 1: want to see you do more dancing with the star stuff.
Speaker 1: We want to see more sides to Danielle, which we
Speaker 1: know are there, you know, And so for her to
Speaker 1: be able to lean into that this week was just incredible.
Speaker 2: Did you chuckle a little bit? By the way, when
Speaker 2: during her pre show package she said I'm a bright,
Speaker 2: bubbly person, but occasionally I have a darker side. Did
Speaker 2: you chuckle just a little bit?
Speaker 1: No, I honestly didn't even catch that. I have a
Speaker 1: knife in my pocket exactly armed to the.
Speaker 2: Te Oh my god. All right.
Speaker 1: We started off with Scott Hoyne and Riley Arnold. Scott
Speaker 1: apparently is a wicked suit. Oh well, we should say
Speaker 1: It's Wicked night.
Speaker 2: Like a kid. Have you seen it? Will never seen it.
Speaker 2: Didn't know anything about it, never heard a single song
Speaker 2: from it. I want to watch the movie, but didn't
Speaker 2: know anything. You know.
Speaker 1: I've started to watch the movie really late night in
Speaker 1: New Zealand and a camera band with my son, and
Speaker 1: I fell asleep, but I was thoroughly enjoying it, and
Speaker 1: I've never gone back, but so now I need to
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. And I've never seen the
Speaker 1: stage musical too, which.
Speaker 2: I haven't either. I will say because I know we're
Speaker 2: going to jump right into the dancing, and we should,
Speaker 2: but I will say the opening dance number of all
Speaker 2: of them together to that, I think it was called
Speaker 2: Defying Gravity Song. That was a pretty amazing start to
Speaker 2: the night. It seemed like you we went to the
Speaker 2: Pantagious and we were watching a big theatrical show in
Speaker 2: front of us, and obviously something like this, a stage
Speaker 2: play that is singing and dancing, lends itself to dance,
Speaker 2: and I thought that, man, did that show tonight in
Speaker 2: a lot of the dancing. The people that killed it
Speaker 2: were the people that got that and really leaned into like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm doing I'm doing Broadway right now, and because I'm
Speaker 2: doing Broadway, it's gonna it's gonna kill. And it did
Speaker 2: a lot of the times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it brought a cool energy of like
Speaker 1: absolutely everybody focused around one story and one set of characters,
Speaker 1: and like how they're interpreting that it was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so Scott was a wicked super fan and
Speaker 1: they did a contemporary dance to the song The Wizard,
Speaker 1: and I I, you know, I've been up and down
Speaker 1: on Scott, Like when we first started.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Then I really really loved his journey and I watched
Speaker 1: this and I was like, oh no, he's going home.
Speaker 2: I thought exactly the same thing. This was not a
Speaker 2: good dance, and he was like he was and I'm
Speaker 2: going to use a scientific dancing term. He was kerfuffled
Speaker 2: at the at the beginning. I mean you could see
Speaker 2: he didn't know where to put his hands. I think
Speaker 2: he missed at least one or two lifts with her.
Speaker 2: I mean he was at the beginning very all over
Speaker 2: the place. And the side by sides. Again, he's just
Speaker 2: super clunky when he's by himself.
Speaker 1: It's just funny because like he's he's come so far
Speaker 1: and previous dances, but this one, I really the thing
Speaker 1: I wrote was awkward and shuffling, yeah, which is like,
Speaker 1: oh god, we're like five weeks into the dance show,
Speaker 1: Like you can't be awkward and shoving, So I think
Speaker 1: something just went off, Like I think he was out
Speaker 1: of time or nervous.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's too bad because he just didn't have he didn't
Speaker 1: have that fluidity and grace which I feel like he's
Speaker 1: been finding other weeks and and you know, I think
Speaker 1: he also the best part of his whole journey is
Speaker 1: that he's really gotten comfortable with his self expression physically right,
Speaker 1: and that's still there. But yes, at this point in
Speaker 1: the in the show, we need to see like, you know,
Speaker 1: actual like dance, hitting hitting those marks and like on time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I was a bummer. No, I felt the
Speaker 2: same way. I thought it was one of those things
Speaker 2: where he maybe it was the dual pressure of him
Speaker 2: being such a Wicked fan coupled with going first, which
Speaker 2: for some people that's got to be rough. But you
Speaker 2: could tell he was just he was off. There's times
Speaker 2: he's like staring at his feet and you know his again,
Speaker 2: his hands were kind of all over the place. It
Speaker 2: was pretty and.
Speaker 1: At this point I was like, oh God, maybe Wicked
Speaker 1: Night is going to be awful. What was I just like,
Speaker 1: we're coming off of so much emotion from last week.
Speaker 2: I mean literally like I was.
Speaker 1: Crying start to finish of Robert Irwin's thing, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like I was really and so to be
Speaker 1: like and now which is and see I was like,
Speaker 1: oh god, and you know this one started it off
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh man, he loves this. But
Speaker 1: it's not translating like maybe you know. But turns out
Speaker 1: it was a good night for dancing. Next up Alex
Speaker 1: and Val.
Speaker 2: I thought this was oh.
Speaker 1: What wait, actually we should say what they were scored.
Speaker 1: They got sevens across the board, which was pretty kind.
Speaker 2: I thought, pretty pretty generous. Frankly, yeah, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but if if there were the same kind of things
Speaker 2: done for Andy, he would have gotten at least one
Speaker 2: six right yeah, right all right?
Speaker 1: Next up where Alex and Val. Their sink was insanely good.
Speaker 1: I could not get over this dance, like in terms
Speaker 1: of just them moving. You know, maybe it was coming
Speaker 1: off of Scott and Riley too right slightly off, but
Speaker 1: I thought this was like, what, this is so fun?
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: good night. They were dancing too, what is this feeling?
Speaker 1: They were doing a jazz dance?
Speaker 2: What do you think I mean? Again, I thought it
Speaker 2: was I thought it was great. This is this is
Speaker 2: kind of lending itself again to the stage presence and
Speaker 2: the being on Broadway kind of feel to me. So
Speaker 2: it you know, it worked, and they were really good
Speaker 2: together they I mean, they always are, so it's, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's they're great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, came out with nine nine eight nine. And this
Speaker 1: is the beginning of what I would say was like,
Speaker 1: it's a really it was a high scoring night, very
Speaker 1: and and pretty much across the board. I was like surprised.
Speaker 1: I mean, actually, if you had asked me three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I would have said their scoring is way too low
Speaker 1: based on what we were saying. But I guess they're
Speaker 1: like progressively, they just up everybody's score, right, because don't
Speaker 1: doesn't it seem like everybody was like we're all in
Speaker 1: like eight through ten territory. Now, Like if you're getting
Speaker 1: a six or seven, it's real bad. It's real bad.
Speaker 2: You might as well be getting a two if you're
Speaker 2: getting six.
Speaker 1: And that's the way I just feel like, that's is
Speaker 1: that reflective of the fact that they are actually getting
Speaker 1: better in such a way that like you and I
Speaker 1: can't see how they're getting better. Or is it just
Speaker 1: that the judge is just up the ante by making
Speaker 1: the scores higher.
Speaker 2: I think they do that, but I also think there's
Speaker 2: something kind of weirdly arbitrary about that and all the scoring,
Speaker 2: because it's like, does that mean you come out, you
Speaker 2: give the best dance they've ever seen on night one,
Speaker 2: you're still only going to get a six? I mean, like,
Speaker 2: if you're not open to judging the thing for what
Speaker 2: it is, you know what we should do.
Speaker 1: We should go back and watch like Robert Erwin's first dance, right,
Speaker 1: because I wonder because I remember the time being like,
Speaker 1: well that's perfect, give the guy tens or whatever, you know, right,
Speaker 1: and there were a couple of early ones. I just
Speaker 1: randomly picked his. I remember we all liked it. But like,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go back and watch like a week
Speaker 1: one dance that only got seven and compare it to
Speaker 1: like one of this week's nines. Yea, because my feeling
Speaker 1: is I don't know, but my feeling is they're just
Speaker 1: getting higher like that there's there's they're just gettinglation judging
Speaker 1: that great it's great jugulation gentulation. Yeah, because I don't
Speaker 1: know or you know, or maybe they really are like
Speaker 1: doing better at certain things, like technically that I'm just
Speaker 1: not seeing like they are more on time or in sync.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but anyway, yes, these two were perfectly
Speaker 1: in sync.
Speaker 2: I would think it argue because you you always talk
Speaker 2: about Whitney and I and I think you're I think it. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you talk about uh what's her name, Danielle, daniel lavorite.
Speaker 2: You could argue Val as the best dancer out there.
Speaker 2: I mean that guy was was shredding it and his uh,
Speaker 2: his choreography is really good too. I mean, this was
Speaker 2: very engaging, and this was a week I thought about
Speaker 2: you during this. This was a week we're not only
Speaker 2: did I not mind when they were lip syncing when
Speaker 2: they weren't, it kind of threw me a little bit,
Speaker 2: like I felt like I was watching a play when
Speaker 2: they were lip syncing a bit and I kind of
Speaker 2: dug it. I didn't know I hit it.
Speaker 1: I just I just I had to turn that part
Speaker 1: of my brain off because I was like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: like all going to do it, and I totally understand
Speaker 1: why because they're basically doing musical numbers, but like they
Speaker 1: also all stopped halfway through, so that I'm like are
Speaker 1: you're not in character anymore. I just don't don't go there.
Speaker 2: I didn't bother me this week. But yeah, they were great,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little less emotional and you know,
Speaker 1: but great dancing when the two guys pick her up
Speaker 1: and throw her to him, really cool moves like.
Speaker 2: This cool move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Next up, we're Robert and Whitney. These
Speaker 1: guys are i mean, some of the front runners here.
Speaker 1: And they said, going into the package, they said this
Speaker 1: is going to be their most ambitious dance yet, which
Speaker 1: I was like, huh, really, he's been pretty damn ambitious.
Speaker 1: They did a jazz dance to Dancing through Life, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was incredible.
Speaker 2: It was great. I don't think it was their best dance, frankly,
Speaker 2: I know they said there was more ambitious. It was
Speaker 2: more ambitious. Maybe it was more ambitious because there were
Speaker 2: more people involved. I mean, it's like he started as
Speaker 2: essentially one of the dance dancers of the show. He
Speaker 2: was like him and like nine people around that table,
Speaker 2: which is a little bit different also, just like he's
Speaker 2: just blending in with the pros. Now, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean. It's like you don't, He's just
Speaker 2: one of them. Now.
Speaker 1: I thought this was just so fun, you know, it
Speaker 1: was just like a solid, great dance. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just think that he's probably the best dancer of the celebrities.
Speaker 2: Of the stars, I think it's him and Whitney who's
Speaker 2: the professional dancer exactly. But yes, I think so too.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for like a week to come out where
Speaker 2: they're like, oh my god, the choreography was amazing and
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, that was met Corey. I Korey drafted
Speaker 2: this week, Like wait, what so see.
Speaker 1: It's funny because like, I don't even really count Whitney
Speaker 1: as a star. I just think of her as a dancer,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean Exactly, I don't. I think
Speaker 1: she's great at what she's doing, and I do like
Speaker 1: watching the dances. I don't feel like it's fitting with
Speaker 1: the story of this show. But I guess that's but
Speaker 1: that's but that's partly unfair because I'm not somebody who
Speaker 1: looks to influencers as celebrities, right, Like, I'm totally of
Speaker 1: the generation where that if you're on a reality show
Speaker 1: or you're I don't know, like you know which I
Speaker 1: guess maybe you could say about Robert too, like is
Speaker 1: he a celebrity?
Speaker 2: Is he? I don't care about the celebrity status at
Speaker 2: all for me. I look at what's made to a celebrity,
Speaker 2: and what's made her a celebrity is dancing, right right.
Speaker 2: You know, if she's a celebrity influencer who all she
Speaker 2: does is cook and she's the biggest cook celebrity influencer,
Speaker 2: and then they come and teach her how to dance,
Speaker 2: that's great. Yes, that's she's paid to dance. I don't
Speaker 2: care what the platform is. She's a paid dancer, So
Speaker 2: that's what it is for me. But yeah, he's you're right,
Speaker 2: he just he's now part of them. He's a he's
Speaker 2: a dancer. So yeah, was once again a great performance
Speaker 2: to watch. And I still think he I don't think
Speaker 2: anybody's gonna beat him this year. I just I don't
Speaker 2: think anybody's gonna beat him because he's he's he's so he's.
Speaker 1: So solid as a dancer, and then his his his personality,
Speaker 1: he's just so likable and.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, his family is super likable. His family is
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars royalty. They would repeat again with
Speaker 2: with you know, his sister having one. It's the story
Speaker 2: is built in.
Speaker 1: Is there another, like younger brother or sister who's gonna.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's another, but yeah, that's daughter's there.
Speaker 2: The whole time, I'm guessing Bendi's daughter is already dancing. Uh,
Speaker 2: they're already training her to get ready. So it is.
Speaker 2: It's become a it's a powerhouse Dancing with the Stars family. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we're in that territory now now.
Speaker 1: Nine nine nine nine. Yeah, so here we are.
Speaker 2: We're in a high, high scoring territor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and but it was great. I thought I
Speaker 1: thought it was deserved. All right, Whitney and Mark, this
Speaker 1: is a quick step, tons of little little quick steps.
Speaker 1: I was so impressed, amazing, incredible and incredible. Hated the
Speaker 1: color of the outfits.
Speaker 2: I get that they're doing that, but the every everything
Speaker 2: pepto bismal color. It was not a fan of.
Speaker 1: I know, it's a little weird.
Speaker 2: It was a little weird, but yeah, it's you're watching
Speaker 2: two professional dancers dance amazingly. Well yeah, film at eleven, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, there's something a little like, okay, cool, but
Speaker 1: you know there was it was advanced. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like, there was actually hugely this that
Speaker 1: I could tell even as a complete amateur. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is hard, like to keep up with each other
Speaker 1: and exactly. And I was like, it's just so it
Speaker 1: was just so fast and like whoa coming at you?
Speaker 1: So I figured there were going to be tens.
Speaker 2: And you notice in the pre show package, even the
Speaker 2: pre show package for hers different because the pre show
Speaker 2: package her mark her pro is talking to her like
Speaker 2: she's another pro. Yeah. I mean he's said, there's no smiles,
Speaker 2: there's no anything. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, your
Speaker 2: turn here. And she's like, yeah, I know, and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you do it backwards. It's gonna look it's gonna look straight.
Speaker 2: Like he's talking to her like another professional dancer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know. You see the package, the pre show package
Speaker 2: with her and the pre show package with Andy, they're
Speaker 2: very different.
Speaker 1: Things, completely different conversation, completely different Hold up, yes, right,
Speaker 1: I'm so curious how that's resonating with the fans of
Speaker 1: the show, you know, because obviously people keep voting Andy
Speaker 1: to stay right, So clearly the voting public is voting
Speaker 1: not just on their dancing ability, but on their personality
Speaker 1: on their presentation or their their choreography choices or storytelling
Speaker 1: whatever it is that we're you know, and I just wonder,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, does she have an army of fans
Speaker 1: TikTok fans who already you know, I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: and how does that number compared to like Daniel Fishle's,
Speaker 1: you know, popularity, Like, because I have no concept when
Speaker 1: people tell me that, like something gets ten million downloads
Speaker 1: or somebody has eleven million followers, Like, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a scale that my brain just like, what is that?
Speaker 1: What does that translate to? It's something like this, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I understand what that translates
Speaker 1: to in terms of when they post a video how
Speaker 1: many people watch it, But what does that translate to
Speaker 1: in terms of like.
Speaker 2: Vote you're yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I calling you in this context.
Speaker 2: I think the finals are going to be between Robert
Speaker 2: and her, and I think it's going to come down
Speaker 2: to does somebody want to vote for the professional dancer
Speaker 2: or somebody want to vote for the guy. But again,
Speaker 2: it's not like Robert had never danced a day in
Speaker 2: his life. He's obviously been preparing for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he watched his sister win when he was exactly
Speaker 1: twelve or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was probably like, okay, yeah, I could
Speaker 2: do that someday. It right, Yeah, exactly, plus.
Speaker 1: Watching I mean just he's probably because of his sister
Speaker 1: understands balroom dancing, has seen it, having watched the show
Speaker 1: back then, and like, you know, I'm.
Speaker 2: So curious if he trained for this at all. Where
Speaker 2: it was like the time.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the two of the youngest competitors in
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, is that a coincidence, Like, of.
Speaker 2: Course it's twenty five two and Robert is twenty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I take that back. I didn't realize what it was.
Speaker 2: I thought it didn't. It was great for thirty two.
Speaker 2: I would have said she was twenty four to twenty five. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: but yes, it's it helps when you're younger. It certainly. Yes,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you see that. Yes? Oh wait what
Speaker 2: did they get? Oh you're right?
Speaker 1: Uh oh. There were scores through the roof. This was ten, nine,
Speaker 1: ten and ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first ten's ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think I think it's just because this
Speaker 1: was really advanced technically, Like I think the quick step
Speaker 1: was just freaking hard. And yeah, so I think the
Speaker 1: judges are just like on, yeah, you can't because in
Speaker 1: terms of like expressibility or like storytelling through dance, like
Speaker 1: nothing beats last week and that happened this week for me, No,
Speaker 1: but agreed, but we didn't get like any ten. I
Speaker 1: don't think if there was a single ten right last week,
Speaker 1: so which is just yeah, so again, it was funny.
Speaker 2: You You wonder if the judges talk about it beforehand,
Speaker 2: because if you go back and watch Derek's face when
Speaker 2: she pulls the ten, the face is either wow, that
Speaker 2: wasn't a ten, or wow, we talked about not pulling
Speaker 2: ten's this week. Wow it was one of those faces
Speaker 2: because he was like wow when he saw carry an
Speaker 2: pull out. Correct, when she pulled a ten, he was
Speaker 2: like he gave this face like whoa, Okay.
Speaker 1: It just seems like she's kind of on her own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Which is interesting, like because they're all supposed to be
Speaker 1: kind of be on their own, but it seems like
Speaker 1: Bruno and Derek are much more in line yeah, or
Speaker 1: like understand where each other are coming from in a
Speaker 1: way that it feels like Carrie, it's a little out
Speaker 1: of left field. Like they're always like, oh okay.
Speaker 2: It also felt a little bit this week and we hopped,
Speaker 2: we heaped on with that myself mostly where it felt
Speaker 2: a little bit this week like she had been reading
Speaker 2: her own press and people or bashing and man, she
Speaker 2: was nice to everybody. Everybody. It was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you're my long lost sister. Like it was like the
Speaker 2: like you couldn't she couldn't have been nicer this week
Speaker 2: with her with her praise. So yeah, I think she
Speaker 2: she over corrected a little bit. This poor woman. She
Speaker 2: can't win for trying. You know, we're gonna bash.
Speaker 1: Your job is to judge.
Speaker 2: You're judge. You're so judgmental, Like literally what I'm paid
Speaker 2: to be here for this poor woman. I feel bad.
Speaker 2: I'm hopping off the bandwagon. I feel bad. I feel bad.
Speaker 1: Next up, we're Dylan and Daniella. Ya dude, I just
Speaker 1: and she did it again. It was like watching a
Speaker 1: non human. I really the way she flies around, it's
Speaker 1: like she's being pulled by strings from above or lifted
Speaker 1: from I just don't understand how she gets from like
Speaker 1: one side of his body to the other side of
Speaker 1: his body. He's a pole, yes, yeah, And it's like
Speaker 1: and it's but it never feels like effort, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like it's this crazy, it's like
Speaker 1: her body becomes a flame, flickering around or something. It's
Speaker 1: so it's so impressive. I just don't I've just never
Speaker 1: seen anything like it. When I did think that this
Speaker 1: was a step back from last week.
Speaker 2: I thought one hundred percent. I did not think he
Speaker 2: was as good this week. He felt a little clunky. Yep,
Speaker 2: and was this the Derek gave one of the best
Speaker 2: comments I've heard since the show started. What somebody no,
Speaker 2: But again I didn't. I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: here or if it was somebody else, but it worked
Speaker 2: here where he said, a dance is like a story
Speaker 2: where it's not individual sentences, it's the entire story has
Speaker 2: to flow, so you're not finishing a sentence and then
Speaker 2: moving on to the next one, and when you When
Speaker 2: I thought about it in those terms, it made some sense.
Speaker 2: And I couldn't remember if it was this one, because
Speaker 2: that's the feeling that I might.
Speaker 1: Have been in response to Scott in then it might
Speaker 1: have been Scott. It could have been Scott. His transitions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that same kind of feeling with this one where
Speaker 2: it felt a little bit like he was he was
Speaker 2: just more clunky this this week than he had been before.
Speaker 1: Well, it's so funny because I said in the pre
Speaker 1: show or the pre dance package that the Latin the
Speaker 1: fact that it was a Latin dance made him nervous,
Speaker 1: which I hadn't really thought about. But right, there's like
Speaker 1: a different rhythm and style to that, and he does
Speaker 1: seem more uncomfortable with that. Yeah, because when I think
Speaker 1: about the first week, when he first came out, it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this guy's okay, but you know, and
Speaker 1: and he's gotten so much more comfortable.
Speaker 2: But then, yeah, it just felt a little like well
Speaker 2: he talked about I think one of the things that
Speaker 2: made him so uncomfortable was the sexiness of it, where
Speaker 2: it's like he said that he's like the romantic thing
Speaker 2: is not really me. So I wonder if if that's
Speaker 2: what was getting him out of his head where it's
Speaker 2: like you've got to I imagine for a dancer, like
Speaker 2: two true dance partners, when they're on the floor, you
Speaker 2: can't tell whether they're actually sleeping together in real life
Speaker 2: or not, you know what I mean, It's like their
Speaker 2: lovers when they're on the dance floor. And so if
Speaker 2: you can't get out of your head about that to
Speaker 2: be like, okay, I gotta that this is my partner,
Speaker 2: then maybe it's a tough thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's too bad because you two. I mean, because
Speaker 1: like he clearly got out of his head last week.
Speaker 1: You know he was dancing for his sister, right, so
Speaker 1: you're right, maybe when he maybe he just needs to
Speaker 1: take all that out, you know, and like it's not
Speaker 1: about looking sexy or looking cool, because I think that's
Speaker 1: the worst. That's the death of any dancer, right right,
Speaker 1: that self consciousness. So whatever brings self consciousness, take it away.
Speaker 1: Oh it's got to be so hard. I would be
Speaker 1: the worst.
Speaker 2: That's the same thing last night I was like, this
Speaker 2: is why I can't do would never be able to
Speaker 2: do the show. I would never be able to just
Speaker 2: let go. I couldn't do it. I'd be so self conscious.
Speaker 1: But if it was a comedy Britice, Like imagine if
Speaker 1: you were hired to be a character for in a
Speaker 1: season of Dancing with the Stars, that's different. You would
Speaker 1: kill it, I know, think about it. Isn't that weird though,
Speaker 1: Like you mentally if you were like, oh, I'm going
Speaker 1: to play uh Eric Matthews going on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: I mean I know right now, just me saying that
Speaker 1: sentence gave you like four dance moves you want to
Speaker 1: do of course, right, and you would kill it and
Speaker 1: physically you would commit in a way that would be
Speaker 1: so funny and so great and probably just as physically
Speaker 1: challenging as trying to really dance as Wilfred Ell. And
Speaker 1: but it's so it's just the actor thing and you like,
Speaker 1: you would commit.
Speaker 2: When I miss So with Love on the show, they
Speaker 2: sent me to somebody a singing and when I was
Speaker 2: actually trying to sing it, I was so self conscious.
Speaker 2: And then he said the same things like we'll sing
Speaker 2: it as your character, and I was like, oh, that's perfect, done.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you're never worried about it again, no,
Speaker 1: god no, And hit all the notes and hit all
Speaker 1: the notes.
Speaker 2: Right. So that's the thing is, you know, that's you're right,
Speaker 2: You're right, You're just gonna get Yeah, you just have
Speaker 2: to beget in the character. Man.
Speaker 1: You just look at it all as a as an
Speaker 1: acting exercise, you know.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, that would be rough, but yeah, it felt
Speaker 2: like he was way more You're right, took a step
Speaker 2: back self conscious wise. This week. I thought, and didn't
Speaker 2: they get all eight?
Speaker 1: All eight's fair? I thought it did seem fair. But
Speaker 1: I'm bummed. I didn't want them. I don't want them
Speaker 1: to go. I want these guys to be like Top three.
Speaker 2: I think they will be.
Speaker 1: I helpe that it's getting less and less likely, though,
Speaker 1: because the competition is so fierce.
Speaker 2: It's really good. Yeah, it's really.
Speaker 1: Stiff, all right. Next up Andy and Emma and I
Speaker 1: just you know, I love that. Andy's just like I'm
Speaker 1: still here.
Speaker 2: Can you believe this? And I love them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we none of us can believe it, dude,
Speaker 1: but we still like it's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: A criticism of Dancing with the Stars as a show.
Speaker 1: I do find these pre show packages to be somewhat
Speaker 1: personality less a lot of the time, Like they focus
Speaker 1: on like the dance themselves or how hard it's going
Speaker 1: to be. And like, I just like Andy's shine through
Speaker 1: because he is a comedian, he is he has so
Speaker 1: much personality. But I really wish that the producers of
Speaker 1: the show or the directors of the show would would
Speaker 1: give us a little more uniqueness about each person. It's
Speaker 1: interesting that they don't, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, I think that's why I like last
Speaker 1: week is because we finally got a little glimpse into
Speaker 1: someone else from their life.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just it strikes me as a little bland.
Speaker 1: I'm always kind of like, like, like I said, when
Speaker 1: we watch the Disney one, I was like, everybody tells
Speaker 1: the same story about Disney, and it really does what we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about. But I guess, you know.
Speaker 2: Are the pre show packages getting longer as there's people off,
Speaker 2: or if dance is getting longer or both? I think
Speaker 2: it's but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think the dancers are getting longer because I'm
Speaker 1: surprised by how short they are.
Speaker 2: Are you think there's still a minute? Interesting?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they don't feel longer to me. Every time
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh that was you know, it doesn't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it's getting more intent, right, So I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, they danced jazz to one short day, you
Speaker 1: know this is I just feel like you can only
Speaker 1: go so far.
Speaker 2: Well, that's my question. Is he's awesome. We love him,
Speaker 2: He's so much fun to watch. When is it time
Speaker 2: to go next week? Yeah? When do you go? Ah, dude,
Speaker 2: you've done better than anyone thought you were going to do.
Speaker 2: You're so personable. Oh my god, you're going to be
Speaker 2: a special correspondent to Dancing with the Stars for the
Speaker 2: next five seasons. Your personality is amazing. But now we're
Speaker 2: going to concentrate more on the dance, and we're at
Speaker 2: the halfway point, and now it's now it might be
Speaker 2: time for you to go. Yeah, because if quote unquote
Speaker 2: real dancers and people that have really progressed start getting
Speaker 2: kicked off, so Andy can stay because we like him,
Speaker 2: it's another kind of red flag for the show a
Speaker 2: little bit for me.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, right, But do you feel that way about Scott?
Speaker 2: No? No, I thought this was because I thought Scott
Speaker 2: had not progressed enough. Andy is progressing, and I think
Speaker 2: a lot of it they touched on this last time.
Speaker 2: And as somebody who's had weight problems my entire life
Speaker 2: or can fluctuate in waight quite a bit, he's lost
Speaker 2: a ton of weight and that's going to help every
Speaker 2: aspect of his body. You know, it's gonna help his knees,
Speaker 2: it's gonna help his legs. It's we're seeing that he
Speaker 2: can move easier. When you drop weight, you just can't.
Speaker 2: So it's one of those things where he is progressing.
Speaker 2: So I think this was the right call for who
Speaker 2: went home this week? But now or to the point
Speaker 2: where you'd really have to justify why you'd kick somebody
Speaker 2: else off over Andy, Right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. During the judging, Carrie Ane said this thing
Speaker 1: that dance is for everyone is the theme of this show,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, is it okay?
Speaker 2: Like I was like, there was.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's, you know, going back to discussion
Speaker 1: we've been having since week one.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's the theme.
Speaker 1: For half of this show, right, you know, because there
Speaker 1: are the people that you're just like, Oh, everybody's getting better,
Speaker 1: everybody's learning how to dance, and no matter who you are,
Speaker 1: no matter what your background, you have a shot at
Speaker 1: you know, dancing. And I feel like Andy is.
Speaker 2: That part of the show. He's just the Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well it's a weird way though getting this far in.
Speaker 1: I kind of missed Corey Feldman.
Speaker 2: Last night, Like did you that last night.
Speaker 1: No, I just like miss a little more randomness, a
Speaker 1: little more like up and down excitement of like who's
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, Like I suddenly was like
Speaker 1: because at the time I remember being like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't belong as you know, and I think, but in general,
Speaker 1: like it feels like so much of this cast is
Speaker 1: just really good dancers. Their personalities are totally likable and fine.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: They got their pre dance packages that are just fine,
Speaker 1: like I said, a little bland, and then you have
Speaker 1: somebody like Andy who's like, you know, got the personality,
Speaker 1: And I was like, we could have a whole season
Speaker 1: of just Andy's dancing against each other.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And that's what I was like, Cory Felman, they might
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I thought the same thing, And I'm
Speaker 1: sure there have been seasons like that, but this season
Speaker 1: seems a little rigged with like eighty percent actually great
Speaker 1: dancers who are not going to really like weird personalities
Speaker 1: or make mistakes in like some crazy way.
Speaker 2: And then like, yeah, I just I agree. I thought
Speaker 2: the same thing. If they do a season of people
Speaker 2: like me who said I've never danced, I can't dance,
Speaker 2: no one can teach me how to dance. That's a
Speaker 2: fun season of a show to watch for me. So fun.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just commitment, right, Commitment is the point, and
Speaker 1: like that's that's what we're celebrating with.
Speaker 2: Like Andy is his commitment? Yea, like going for it.
Speaker 2: And when he's in with a whole group of people
Speaker 2: and they're all there at the end and he's one
Speaker 2: of ten people kind of doing these basic moves, he
Speaker 2: was fine. You know. It was one of those things
Speaker 2: where it was like it was it was if the
Speaker 2: goal is to entertain you, he'll win every week. If
Speaker 2: the goal is to dance, it might be time that
Speaker 2: we say goodbye Andy, and we talk about this because
Speaker 2: being on Dancing with This is one of the jokes
Speaker 2: of getting you on the show. Being on Dancing with
Speaker 2: Stars and doing the work and dancing and doing the
Speaker 2: show is only one part of the job. The the
Speaker 2: other part is this social media blitz that they have
Speaker 2: to do all the time. So you are you're reaching
Speaker 2: out to your people and it's like vote for me,
Speaker 2: vote for me, vote for me. It's it's so strange. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, if you, if you, if I could do
Speaker 1: Dancing with the stars and take that out of the equation,
Speaker 1: like in other words, never have to do an interview
Speaker 1: outside of the show. I mightier do that, is like
Speaker 1: way I'd like I could wrap my head around that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're exactly right like that other fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the equation is the part that scares.
Speaker 2: Me the most. It makes me the most uncomfortable. Oh wow, terrible.
Speaker 1: Uh Andy and Emma got seven six seven, seven, which
Speaker 1: seems kind.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's that they're being they're being general, but
Speaker 2: again also fair. If everybody's being bumped up just to
Speaker 2: kind of be bumped up, then he's better than he
Speaker 2: was when he was getting all sixes, so he yes,
Speaker 2: I could see the sevens all right.
Speaker 1: Elena Allen came out. They danced contemporary to define gravity.
Speaker 1: I thought this was one of her best of the
Speaker 1: whole season.
Speaker 2: I did too, But I have a question, and it's
Speaker 2: just a question. I watched it twice and I timed
Speaker 2: it the second time. I think, I know what you're
Speaker 2: gonna say. For thirty seconds of the dance, she's not dancing.
Speaker 2: She doesn't dance. I know, she goes onto this big
Speaker 2: rig thing. They cut to the professional male dancer who
Speaker 2: just sits there on camera as they then raise her
Speaker 2: up and she points the wand is that a cheat?
Speaker 1: No, because if you look at what she actually did
Speaker 1: before then it was well well done, like a dance
Speaker 1: half her dance The same thought, man, I honestly I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, where'd she go? She's not dancing half
Speaker 1: of this dance? Why are we watching other people? But
Speaker 1: then it was such a good, good show stopping moment
Speaker 1: to have her elevated and yeah, but no, she's she's
Speaker 1: on the platform, she's not dancing.
Speaker 2: She's do that with Andy every week, have him do
Speaker 2: a couple of steps and then throw them somewhere where
Speaker 2: he gets to acting money in front of a thing.
Speaker 1: I think because she's earned, Because what she did last week,
Speaker 1: I feel like she's earned. She's proven that she commits
Speaker 1: to the dancing, the technical dancing side, physically she's doing that.
Speaker 1: So I think instead, especially with a you know, an
Speaker 1: actor background, coming into a musical theater themed week, I
Speaker 1: think they just took the risk of like, let's just blow,
Speaker 1: let's just blow everybody with the greatest show, like the
Speaker 1: greatest show visual, and I think they pulled it off.
Speaker 1: Like because I think she's earned it. Like I I
Speaker 1: think if Andy had done this, you'd be like, dude,
Speaker 1: you still haven't quite shown that you can actually just
Speaker 1: do the dancing side where she's done the dancing, So now.
Speaker 2: She's just making it the best show she can. Yet
Speaker 2: that's fair. I mean, that's that's I think that's a
Speaker 2: fair assessment. But I was I thought about it. I
Speaker 2: was like, this is like a minute long and thirty
Speaker 2: seconds of it. She wasn't dancing. Again, I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not bashing her, I just man question.
Speaker 1: Since we've been talking, I realized they got the same
Speaker 1: scorer as Danielle, and that kind of bumps me out.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying that because when I think about it.
Speaker 1: In comparison to how how hard Danielle was actually technically
Speaker 1: dancing the entire time, that she probably should have gotten
Speaker 1: an AD And I agree, the board seems way too high.
Speaker 2: Great show. Didn't dance half of the show. So again,
Speaker 2: I really like her. I like her story. Her journey
Speaker 2: has been one of my favorite ones to watch, So
Speaker 2: you know, I get it. But you know it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: for for half of my song for American Idol, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to sing Yeah, would people have been like,
Speaker 2: you didn't sing half of your song? Of course they would,
Speaker 2: but the half you did sing it was great. It's
Speaker 2: a judger on that half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think dropping a point or two
Speaker 1: from a couple of judges.
Speaker 2: Again, same. I don't you wonder how much they were
Speaker 2: just blown away in the room, you know, because I'm sure,
Speaker 2: well that's one of the things.
Speaker 1: Somebody suddenly up in the air all the smoke and
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they did it, and like, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's one of the things Sue and I were talking
Speaker 2: about was this would have been a fun week to
Speaker 2: be on the stage to see how they're doing everything.
Speaker 2: This would have been really really cool.
Speaker 1: All right, Next up Jen and Johan. I feel like
Speaker 1: she's struggling a little bit.
Speaker 2: I agree. I again, it's such a horrible thing to say.
Speaker 2: She seems so lovely and I every week she pops up,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's right. It just kind of she
Speaker 2: just blends in a bit and she seems such like
Speaker 2: so lovely and so nice, and it seems like she's
Speaker 2: working really hard, but she's just kind of there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think she's she's gonna last very, very long. Yeah. Now, question,
Speaker 2: going back to our original conversation, would you, let's say
Speaker 2: everything played out plays out next week exactly like it
Speaker 2: plays out played out this week, would you think it
Speaker 2: would be justified to get rid of her before Andy?
Speaker 1: No, not in this field, I see, I feel in
Speaker 1: this this is a this is a season. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can imagine the season, like I said, where it
Speaker 1: is more about personality and progress as as dancers, in
Speaker 1: which days Andy's killing it. It would be so much
Speaker 1: fun to see in a field of people like that,
Speaker 1: but in a field with like really good dancers at
Speaker 1: this point and people physically just upping their game like
Speaker 1: he he.
Speaker 2: Can only go so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's unfair to her at this point to
Speaker 1: be judged for a personality contest when it's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like it's it's.
Speaker 1: A popularity contest necessarily it's half of that, and the
Speaker 1: other half should be that she's really dancing.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So they did the foxtrot to as Long as You
Speaker 1: Are Mine?
Speaker 2: Did you like any did you like the music? Did
Speaker 2: anything really stick out with you? Where you're like man
Speaker 2: killer songs. No.
Speaker 1: You know the thing about musicals for me, I really
Speaker 1: like I don't listen to them out out of content
Speaker 1: that off like I really liked them in the story.
Speaker 1: Like when I'm watching a thing and I see the
Speaker 1: song as part of the story, I like it, But
Speaker 1: I don't then go except for like the classics like
Speaker 1: lay Miz and you know those.
Speaker 2: I had Hamilton on a loop in my house.
Speaker 1: Did you even Hamilton? Even Hamilton? Like, I think there
Speaker 1: was like one or two songs I liked to listen to,
Speaker 1: but then you know, yeah, I don't choose, but yeah.
Speaker 2: Out of context.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really listening to the lyrics of these, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't really thinking about so I just want to
Speaker 1: I just want to go watch them.
Speaker 2: That Defying Gravity song was really good, but I think
Speaker 2: that was actually the big one. I think that's that's
Speaker 2: where they and I thought it was such a big
Speaker 2: song and a breakout song that that's what that's why
Speaker 2: they had them do the opening number to it, because
Speaker 2: then they weren't gonna let anybody else use it where
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, it's not fair if one of you
Speaker 2: gets this big song. But then it was a lame song,
Speaker 2: so it's like, oh, okay, then I guess they did
Speaker 2: let the music. Oh, I guess the opening number was
Speaker 2: a melody or was a medley medley like a vegetable medley.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: I thought Jen really hurt herself at the ending of
Speaker 1: this dance. Do you remember where she like walked and turned.
Speaker 2: And turn she walks away from him like at like
Speaker 2: thirty feet and then turns and looks at the camera. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like what. I was like, we that's like
Speaker 2: I was it just it just didn't land.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, and partly I think that
Speaker 1: that was kind of like an actory.
Speaker 2: Moment, do you know what I mean? And she's not
Speaker 2: an actor. Yeah, take your moment, take your stage. And
Speaker 2: it was like, yeah, it didn't work.
Speaker 1: It didn't it didn't work, and it didn't land heavy enough.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was a poor choice in terms
Speaker 1: of choreography to put the pressure on her for that particular.
Speaker 2: Type of a completely agree with you. Yeah, they got eight's,
Speaker 2: which seemed fair. I would say that was fair. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would. I would this week put her on par
Speaker 2: with Dylan e Front. I thought they were right kind
Speaker 2: of there, so that. Yes, the scoring made sense to
Speaker 2: me where they they all got eight.
Speaker 1: But whereas he was a little bit of a downgrade
Speaker 1: from last week, and I thought she was an improvement
Speaker 1: from last week.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that either. Still just man, she's
Speaker 2: still just kind of there. Yeah, that's too bad, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up someone named Danielle fischl n This lady, this Lady.
Speaker 2: Top that was her tope something like that. She played
Speaker 2: Topagi on Family Matters, on step by Matters. What can
Speaker 2: you say? Dude? I was so happy.
Speaker 1: I was just so happy because I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: like I already said, like I was just last week.
Speaker 1: I was like, is this the right strategy for Danielle?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like she still needs to like show
Speaker 1: showcase a that she can do this this hard dancing,
Speaker 1: but also just bring her another side of her personality.
Speaker 2: And this was it. It was.
Speaker 1: It was like both technically insane. I kept believe with
Speaker 1: her injured leg, she's doing this crap, but then also
Speaker 1: it had so much personality and so much like just
Speaker 1: a cool sexy vibe to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she also looked phenomenal. She did her legs seemed
Speaker 2: like six feet long, like what's the technical feet long
Speaker 2: and shredded muscle. This is this is a tiny woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's one of the smallest people I've ever like,
Speaker 1: you know, Dan Yelle, and she's a wee person.
Speaker 2: He's watiful. But you would never call.
Speaker 1: Her long legged.
Speaker 2: No, you would never call her leggy. Right, And yet
Speaker 2: I was watching this, I was like, where did these
Speaker 2: legs come from? They looked like cyber.
Speaker 1: Connections, like you know, it was amazing, and she was
Speaker 1: moving them perfectly. I was just so impressed.
Speaker 2: It was this was this was such a great the.
Speaker 1: Way she kept doing the little kicks and like the
Speaker 1: there was like I just was and yeah, I thought dude.
Speaker 2: Parents called me from a three hour advance having seen
Speaker 2: the show, like oh my god, wait to see Danielle.
Speaker 2: It's she was so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I was really. I I know, we like
Speaker 1: joke about like how like oh we knew Danielle is
Speaker 1: the star of the show or whatever, but this did
Speaker 1: surprise me.
Speaker 2: Like I was like, oh, like I knew she I
Speaker 2: hoped she could up her game, but I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: she actually can. Yelp, there's no.
Speaker 1: Limit here, Like she's gonna she has a shot at
Speaker 1: winning this thing, and like we're being in the top five,
Speaker 1: top three at least.
Speaker 2: I think I was just like, damn, like you are
Speaker 2: my favorite dance of hers by far, and the best
Speaker 2: one she's done since her first night. I think. Personal
Speaker 2: I completely agree. She just I feel rushed it, she
Speaker 2: arguably to me. And again we talk about how we're biased,
Speaker 2: but she arguably to me, all things being considered was
Speaker 2: dance of the night. Yeah, yeah, I agree. It was
Speaker 2: just it was great, Yeah, so fun to see. Oh wait,
Speaker 2: what did she get? Oh? Nines? And then then her
Speaker 2: first night and she was ecstatic when she got four nines. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And second, this is where, of course, writer we always
Speaker 2: do with is his dude, you've dance, thank you hit
Speaker 2: all the notes again? You can tell so.
Speaker 1: Argentine Tango, tell me about it. I bet it's from Argentina.
Speaker 1: Strange enough.
Speaker 2: It's not what it was born inos airis No, it's
Speaker 2: what it says. I mean, it's what I know. A
Speaker 2: partner dance born in Buenos Aires that combined Spanish, Creole
Speaker 2: and African influences. It is characterized by mark rhythms, dramatic pauses,
Speaker 2: and close embrace. While there are no notable Argentine dances
Speaker 2: like the folk dance Zamba and the carnival street performance
Speaker 2: la Merga. The term typically brings to mind the passionate
Speaker 2: and complex movements of the tango. So there you go.
Speaker 2: It was a complex dance. It was really cool. The
Speaker 2: ending where they're like holding her down and she's like
Speaker 2: in this weird position. Super cool. Yeah, this was This
Speaker 2: was great And the only note that she got I
Speaker 2: didn't disagree with where it didn't look like she was
Speaker 2: breathing a lot. But that's I mean, she's like she
Speaker 2: didn't have time to. So yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1: Great, So all right, we went on to Jordan and
Speaker 1: Ezra your faves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, oh my god, I just love her. What
Speaker 2: a way to close? Yeah, I thought this. They did
Speaker 2: the rumba too for good, another song from the musical.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, I feel like her personality
Speaker 1: is really coming through even more.
Speaker 2: And she's just she's just physically amazing, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: she's incredible, incredible. We've talked about the control that she
Speaker 2: has over her body, which is something she's obviously been
Speaker 2: studying with gymnastics since she was a kid. But it's yeah,
Speaker 2: she's it's she's one of those people that kind of
Speaker 2: seems like if she wanted to, she could go off
Speaker 2: and become a professional dancer, right right? Uh? Ten? Nine,
Speaker 2: ten and ten, which Derek's still not given tens. Derek
Speaker 2: is not given tens. He hasn't given one out yet,
Speaker 2: so he's holding back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so this tide with Whitney and Marcus the
Speaker 1: best or the highest score of the night. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: so curious how she's doing votes wise, really the.
Speaker 2: Same thing because she doesn't, does she? I mean again,
Speaker 2: I know that gymnastics is hugely is a hugely popular sport,
Speaker 2: and I think they have a big, a big community
Speaker 2: around gymnastics and cheerleading and stuff like that, which I
Speaker 2: think would all kind of be in the same realm.
Speaker 2: I know people say no, but I think it is.
Speaker 2: So I don't know either. You wonder what her fan
Speaker 2: base is like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think she plays to the personality game as
Speaker 1: much either, do you know what I mean? Like she
Speaker 1: you can tell that she's like here for the dancing,
Speaker 1: here's for that part of this.
Speaker 2: She's a competitor. I mean, she's a competitor, That's what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: She's much more of like an athlete in terms of like,
Speaker 1: you know, so she I don't think she cares as
Speaker 1: much about like agreed, you know, smiling for camera and everybody.
Speaker 1: She's kind of like if you like me, like me,
Speaker 1: if you don't, you know, And I wonder how that's playing.
Speaker 2: It's a great question because she is. She's an athlete
Speaker 2: in a competition. She is here to win. That's you
Speaker 2: put your game face on and you go and you win.
Speaker 2: And that's what she's been trained to do. That she's
Speaker 2: done at the highest level for fifteen years doing it.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, getting the highest scores yep. So she's
Speaker 1: doing something right. Yeah, but you're right, I have no idea,
Speaker 1: like I just I just want a little like vote count.
Speaker 2: Or subcons you do right there.
Speaker 1: They're they're you're smart though, because if they did it,
Speaker 1: would you know, yeah, it would probably take away some of
Speaker 1: the intrigue of the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agreed to. But then you also gets that
Speaker 2: are like, are we learned? Do we know everything we're
Speaker 2: supposed to know? So yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So we went into elimination and I I had already
Speaker 1: called it in my household watching it, and I was like.
Speaker 2: Scott too, and sure, it wasn't a surprise. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: but Andy seems surprised. Andy's gonna be surprised every week, right.
Speaker 1: Because he's just can't believe he's still there no matter what.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and I I I could tell this was
Speaker 1: coming because I just he was, he was. He took
Speaker 1: a step back as a dancer this week. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure popular voting wise, you know, I just don't know
Speaker 1: how big his band is.
Speaker 2: But I am mad big, but it's not Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not it's a band, it's not him, do you
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Correct him as an individual, he's going to be probably
Speaker 1: less popular than a lot of the other people.
Speaker 2: I agree, one percent. And it just was a rough week.
Speaker 2: I mean, he you could really tell he was kind
Speaker 2: of stumbling through it this week. It wasn't It wasn't great,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: That was our week six Dancing with the Star, crazy
Speaker 1: bro crazy true. I know, I don't know, like I
Speaker 1: just feel like it becomes a different show every week now,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Like, So, yeah, you got a question for me, of
Speaker 2: course I have a question for you. But at first,
Speaker 2: as we've learned from last week, as we take one away,
Speaker 2: well let's see, so This is the strong incentive, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen. The strong incentive is, of course, what it
Speaker 2: would take to get right or strong to join Dancing
Speaker 2: with the Stars. As we learned last week for the
Speaker 2: first time, indifference has consequence, and so not making a
Speaker 2: decision is a decision onto itself, and so ryder. This week,
Speaker 2: once again, I'm going to need you to pick a
Speaker 2: random number between one and four. One. I'd like to
Speaker 2: point out I don't know these either. I wrote something
Speaker 2: on one side, flipped them over, shuffle them up and
Speaker 2: put the numbers on the front, so I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is until I flip it over. You picked one,
Speaker 2: and so this week you have lost the sprinter van.
Speaker 2: The sprinter van is no longer on the table.
Speaker 1: So what's on the table? We got leather jacket.
Speaker 2: Well, that's gonna say. So we had it set up
Speaker 2: where you originally got five hundred grand, a sprinter van,
Speaker 2: Sean's original leather jacket, og magic cards, plus a black
Speaker 2: Lotus card and the deed to coffee CAATs opening again
Speaker 2: in Sebastian. The five hundred grand is now gone and
Speaker 2: the sprinter van is now gone. So what is left
Speaker 2: is your leather jacket, the magic cards with the black
Speaker 2: lotus and the deed to Coffee cat all the personal ones. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty much. But you're actually saved this week because that's
Speaker 2: same sprinter van company calls you and said, hey, right
Speaker 2: or strong because you answered your landline. You still have
Speaker 2: the landline by the way in your house, so the
Speaker 2: phone rings pick it up. You hear KL five four
Speaker 2: thousand sprinter van company, and the sprinter van company says
Speaker 2: to you, Hey, we heard you didn't like our original
Speaker 2: sprinter van that we were going to send to you.
Speaker 2: We're going to let you pick whatever sprinter van you want. However,
Speaker 2: oh it's not going to be here in the United States.
Speaker 2: It's going to be for your one year, all expenses paid,
Speaker 2: life in New Zealand. Oh my god. Everything is taken
Speaker 2: care of. Your home here will be taken care of.
Speaker 2: Indie's education will be taken care of, and you need
Speaker 2: to live in whatever sprinter van you would like in
Speaker 2: New Zealand, all expenses paid for one year. If you'd
Speaker 2: only do Dancing with the.
Speaker 1: Stars, yes, I would do it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you didn't even think about it.
Speaker 1: That's too good, man, because if I think about doing
Speaker 1: dance with the stars, knowing that for a year I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be with my family traveling and have enough comfort
Speaker 1: and security to be able to do writing and get
Speaker 1: like my own creative projects done in a beautiful place
Speaker 1: exploring the world.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I would do it. Wow, so with the stars?
Speaker 1: Yes, all is all I have to Somebody has to
Speaker 1: pay for a year of my life in New Zealand
Speaker 1: in a camera van. Give me coffee, Kats, that's still
Speaker 1: on the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your ratchet.
Speaker 1: I guess I get to come home and own a
Speaker 1: piece of like my childhood. Yes, yes, it's too good, dude.
Speaker 1: And I get the load of the jacket.
Speaker 2: Yep, you got me? All right, Well we made it through.
Speaker 2: The strong incentive is done?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, dude, that's that is. It's like literally my
Speaker 1: dream to be able to you know, live somewhere else
Speaker 1: and camp and with my family, and if it was
Speaker 1: all like taken care of and there was no pressure,
Speaker 1: I would totally commit to Wow whatever, three months of
Speaker 1: absolute misery, I mean three months of pure just awfulness.
Speaker 1: I Mean the thing is, I'd probably get eliminated pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: because you don't know that if you committed me such
Speaker 1: a downer stick in the mud unless you commit it
Speaker 1: to the dance. Dude, give this guy. I would, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would try, honestly, with the dancing. I would try.
Speaker 1: I would want to get in shape and like, but
Speaker 1: it would be awful. No one wants to see me dance.
Speaker 1: No one wants that.
Speaker 3: I know people hearing me saying no one wants to
Speaker 3: see Well, I'm gonna have to come up with a
Speaker 3: new game now I know. Man, we're going to that's
Speaker 3: too good, Like, I can't turn that down. I figured
Speaker 3: you were.
Speaker 2: Going to say no to this one. But the yes,
Speaker 2: the one I had saved for an absolute yes, was
Speaker 2: going to be a three picture deal at Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: To do any of your own films that you want
Speaker 2: to do. Oh I should have waited, God damn it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, to be able like to direct, you mean,
Speaker 1: like direct any of your own three films. I would
Speaker 1: do anything for that. I would.
Speaker 2: I would. I would. That's why I was going to
Speaker 2: do with the Stars.
Speaker 1: For the next six seasons. I would commit to that.
Speaker 2: I would do, Bury me, bury me alive with the stars.
Speaker 2: The person who lasts the most underground to do three?
Speaker 2: All right, great? Well, the Strong incentive is done. We
Speaker 2: got them week six, So I'm gonna have to come
Speaker 2: up with something new. Now, I'll come up with a
Speaker 2: new game for next week. Amazing, We're gonna have to
Speaker 2: start dressing you up or doing your own pre show
Speaker 2: package or something. We'll figure something out, all right.
Speaker 1: That's it for this episode of Pod Meets Tworld. Join
Speaker 1: us next week as we continue watching season thirty four
Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars.
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