WEBVTT - SOT: DWTS Con 2026 with Ezra Sosa 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:19.000 Yeah. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:20.560 She texted me, She goes, how are we dressing? 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:25.120 I said, grab, I'm a sweat I'm looking pretty chopped 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:26.680 for this listen. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.640 Vow's the only one who put himself together. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:32.600 I fear went out the match. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.760 D I know chemistry. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.199 Spending time on tour with him, I fear he's the 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.240 only person who is always put. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.320 Together, swaggy all the time, all the time. Why are 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:43.920 you like that? 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:45.120 Have you seen my head? 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.159 Like this is so long and beautiful. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.200 Valve is good, and then it's the then you always 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.000 wear your loafers, and then you found sneaker loafers to 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:54.640 rehearse in. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.840 This man is a genie, you know. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:57.240 What I mean. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.760 It was like, it's my dream come true. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.120 Also, one of my favorite things was when we were 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.680 doing photos, you know, before the live shows, and uh 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.280 he was once wearing an alo jacket and everyone's like, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.160 I love this jacket. He was like, thanks, it's a 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.319 woman's jacket. I just liked it because it was crossed. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.880 And we never forget the pasta jacket? Were you there 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:16.600 for the pasta jet? 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.880 I don't think I'm in my crop top error. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.800 I love a crop I know, cutting everything. What are 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.280 we going to do when this trend ends. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.040 I don't know. I was about to cut the shirt, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:26.319 but I'm disappointed. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.440 I thought you were going to pull up with it. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:29.240 It looks so great. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.000 I uh, yeah, no, I don't know. I just I 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:35.080 have my phases. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.880 Yeah right now, I'm in my long hair, don't care phase. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.800 You still look great. I'm going to get that tattoo, locket, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:42.360 glove hair. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:47.520 I don't care. That's a little Wayne lyric over. We're 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.840 going to keep that on the podcast. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.600 Ezra, what have you done in the thirty six hours 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:55.400 since tour ended? 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.160 Thirty six hours? 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.720 It's only been about thirty six hours since to were ended. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.160 When like, I feel like, kind of that's a ray 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.600 of a moment, Like what did I do? What did 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:02.960 I do? 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.240 Took a much needed vacation? Talk about your vacation. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.680 Yes, okay, I went to Greece. And I definitely feel 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.799 like this year is the busiest I think we've I mean, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.000 I've ever been. I don't know, I don't know how, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:17.680 I don't know what your guys is going to look like, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.440 but I I didn't have much time to spend with 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.080 my family, and I definitely feel like that was just 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.640 so important to me, especially going into like the craziness 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:28.799 that we're about to get into. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.200 But season starting again around the corner. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.800 Girl, the clock is ticking. But just getting to spend 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.560 time with my mom and my sister and my grandma 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:37.959 and Greece was just so special. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.160 The four of you went, Yeah, the four of us. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:41.480 That's awesome. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:41.920 Yeah. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.240 And I just remember as a kid growing up, my 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.960 mom just dreamed about just traveling the world. And and 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.079 like whenever I think of going anywhere, going on vacation, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.280 I just think of taking her because you know, like 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.080 my mom sacrificed so much for my family just to 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.040 even let us go to day as every single day, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.440 and she kept she kept the family going. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.639 So the fact that I was able to do. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.560 That and spend that time with her and just see 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.840 her light up, and like we were in Athens and 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.160 we're seeing all the history and she loves history and 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.040 she knew everything, and just it melted my heart seeing that. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:17.520 So it was a very special. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:18.200 I'm proud of you, bro. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.440 I mean, again, we have some track record of knowing 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.200 each other for a while, but like you're doing it right, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.079 You'll just see your star ascend the way it has 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.959 and for you to take the time to celebrate the 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.360 right way, because you could have gone on a binger 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:33.799 and it besa that's not. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.160 Far but that was so we did that. We definitely 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.360 had we tecked up. We tecked all those boxes, okay. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.960 But yeah, we spoke earlier about family and just like 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.800 what success looks like and being a provider for the 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.240 people you love is definitely. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:48.400 A part of that. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.200 When so growing up my family is well not even 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.480 just growing up, just in general. My family is from Malta. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.160 My mom's side of the family is my mom's Maltese Wow. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.200 And my grand father used to talk all the time 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.880 he played the lotto and his goal was he was 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.880 going to win the lottery and take us all to Malta. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.880 And you know, he was one of twelve kids. Most 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.520 of his siblings still lived there. And so when I 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.320 graduated high school and I was on Boy Meets World, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.120 my graduation present to myself was to take my grandfather 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:26.000 and my family to Malta. And at the time, you know, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.120 we were there for two to three weeks. And at 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.240 the time, like I had a boyfriend back home and 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.800 I missed him so much, and you know, I was 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.720 like there was a part of me that was like, Okay, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.560 this was really fun, but I can't wait to get home. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:43.039 Looking back, I am so grateful that I have those 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.640 memories and that I was able to go around Malta 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.760 and see, you know, my grandfather fought in the war 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.479 there and got to go to the War Museum and 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.080 see pictures of him on the wall in the War 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.760 Museum and see the churches there and the history and 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.440 the architecture and the just the Mediterranean just unbelievable. So, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.200 like Val said, it's you're doing it right, and you're 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.839 doing it you know, you're starting so young. The fact 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.760 that you are sharing the wealth with your family, you're 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.600 just so important to me. It really is. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.760 Did you vak? Did you do you have your RS? 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.400 I didn't want to interject when you were like, I 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.760 don't know about your schedules, but I've been really busy. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.520 I'm like, well, we have kids. I didn't want to 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:23.800 do that. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.520 Oh wait, you know now that back my statement. No, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.200 you keep forgetting that, keep forgetting that we're just so 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:31.840 young and cool. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.640 I know you are, like you really are, but yeah, no, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.280 but we're perpetually busy. But but yeah, I mean again, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.160 I'm part of this ecosystem at the moment still. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:42.000 And. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.640 The popularity of the show is just on a different level. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.520 So, yeah, did you did you get recognized in Greece? 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.279 Do you notice that worldwide fame? 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.440 It's weird, Like I did get recognized, obviously not in 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.120 this like we're in the States, but it was It's 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.480 interesting because the States is like Dancing with the Stars, 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.080 but in Greece it was people who just love my 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.840 TikTok and so that was like really cool, like oh, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.280 I love your videos, Like, oh, you're that dancer guy, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.760 Like I see you on TikTok. I'm like, that's super 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:22.560 cool to experience, and yeah, like. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.680 Let's go I love that. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.719 Yeah, I should be doing more videos on TikTok people probably, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.200 I thought to yourself, No, no, not me, I'm saying you, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.360 because again, when you forget that there are people that 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.560 follow you that have no interest in Dancing with the Stars, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.800 you start to look at that platform a little differently. Yeah, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.520 like maybe I should do more than just you know, 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.960 dance all the time or not dance at all. I 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.680 don't even dance, I might say, I just do the 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:49.159 craziest off the rails like dances like the most inappropriate 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.040 music I could find. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:51.640 I make sure I do that. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.640 Can we talk about the fact that you just recently 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.159 took a trip to Montana with Jenna's family. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.320 Yes, we with. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.840 Haley there, Haley was Hailey was they did? Did you 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.320 see Jenna's video about they did the drink challenge? What 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.640 were your thoughts on the drink? Joe, and I was 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.040 dying to know, Like Val, of course, that's your family 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.120 that you've married into. So were you like, what this 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.000 family is crazy? 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.800 Well, first of all, I think it's it's amazing you 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.400 asked me about Haley, and Haley again is now becoming 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.520 this like TikTok star and she's still the cousin you know, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.320 or the niece, Yeah, you know, and so so it's 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.320 the daughter, the granddaughter, and so when we go to 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.119 these family vacations, first of all, it's such a big 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.200 family that you know, your importance gets lost in the 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.840 in the relationships, the familial relationships. So no, I love 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.119 you know, I call it a blended family because again 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.000 I married I'm from New York and immigrant from New 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.560 York marrying this all American family from California and Utah. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.000 So I just again, Now we've been married for seven 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:05.679 years and they've now welcomed me, and I have now become, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.840 you know, one of the biggest champions of her family 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.040 and her community, and so I just love you know, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.000 the things they prioritize, and and and and their love 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.040 language that they speak, and fun games like that and 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.880 and crazy activities like this is the most quintessential. You know, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.680 I feel like I'm having the American experience. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.440 But it's the Johnson's. So how serious did they take it? 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.760 Oh? They're super competitive, by the way. There's just excellence 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.480 in every single person, whether they pursued dance or you know, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:43.000 the finance, whatever it is, doctors, they're all really excellent, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.319 and they're all really competitive, and so then the playing 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.920 field becomes even when we go into these games, and 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.240 it's crazy. I mean, they're very respectful, well put together 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.720 people until these games start and then profanity is just 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.040 on the tip of their tongue all of a sudden, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.160 I'm doing that. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.920 You know, those Johnson's are competitive. Ah, that's what I 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:06.800 love about him. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.040 Well, we've been watching your sister on Next Bro. I 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.520 love watching Yeah, I've seen your. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.679 Yeah, it's been it's cool to to support my sister 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.720 through that, and we have like our little watch parties 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.200 every week, and my mom will fly down and like 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.480 we'll all just like sit together, and then I'll see 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.640 like my mom's inner dance mom come out. Like I 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.640 don't see that side of her because I'm the one 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.360 who's usually on TV or performing, but it's Stephanie. And 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.800 so it's been really cool just to see her get 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.839 her moment, get her flowers, get her recognition. But also 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.400 I feel like the thing that means the most to 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.840 me as her brother knowing, knowing her story, knowing everything 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.800 that she went through, is her actually loving what she 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.480 sees in herself. And I feel like girls nowadays just 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.640 have a hard time just accepting their beauty and their authenticity. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.960 And just seeing my sister, like the first episode she 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.520 watched it and she looked at me and she goes, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.280 I actually look really good, oh nice, And it meant 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.680 the world to me. I was just like full body chills. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.000 I was just so proud of her. And I know, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.280 just like girls, like they can be so hard on themselves, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.440 and I think that means the most of me, just 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.600 seeing that kind of acceptance that she just has to 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.000 herself and the way that she perceives herself, it's really special. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.040 I think she's you know, I'm most impressed with the 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.200 way she's conducting herself and the grace with which she 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.560 has taking on these challenges. And I think, you know, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.800 there's quite a bit of luck in this business as. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.199 Well, especially on our show. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.800 The challenges, the music, the partners. Yeah, I just I 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.360 know Stephanie. So I'm just proud of how I don't 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.400 even call it maturity, Like she just feels comfortable in 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:04.839 her skin enough to open to I mean, like I 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.719 don't want to say cry, but like those the sincere 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.080 openness with which she's navigating that show, which is so 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.319 hard especially for her. I'm sure she has such huge 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:18.760 expectations for herself. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.720 And like, if Stephanie were to become a pro tomorrow, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.880 what would you say are her strengths? Like what does 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.920 she walk into the ballroom as a new Dancing with 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.120 the Stars pro, What does she walk in going I've 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:34.000 got this part. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.800 So I definitely feel like between my sister and I, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.880 I'm like the person who's like thinking of everything. Okay, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.800 I'm very analytical. I'm very like with choreography. I'm very strategic. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.280 I'm that kind of person with her, She's very natural. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.559 She has like a natural are to her. She also 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.560 has like this star quality that is super bubbly and 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.200 like every single time anyone's around her, they make them 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.280 feel warm and inviting. And I feel like if she 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.760 was a pro, I feel like she'd be fabulous pro. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.240 Oh yeah, but if she was a pro, I definitely 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.160 feel like she'd have those qualities too. And I feel 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.520 like she'd be able just to bring their partner out 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.560 of their shell just from her being herself. Yeah, and 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.640 she's also just like I don't know, she's just a star. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.040 Like I just love watching her dance. Growing up, she 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.439 was a star of the family. Even though I'd still 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.480 kick her ass at every single competition, I'd still beat her, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.080 but she was the one that would like get every 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.000 audish and because everyone just like loved the way she 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:27.559 looked and like the way she like flipped her hair. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:28.840 She was always that girl. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.600 What would you say are her areas for opportunities for growth? 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.080 What would you see her? You would love to see 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.920 her improve on excel in focus on as being You know, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.960 we all look at ourselves and are able to say 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.520 this is an area where I need to work harder. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.440 I mean, that was perfect. He's got threebels over here. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.640 You can't touch perfect. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:58.040 You're not saying we started off this interview giving him 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.400 his flowers about being all put together, and now look 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:01.160 where he's ending out. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:01.640 I don't want to. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.160 I'm begging he's gotten too big. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.960 You guys, they fear, but I also will say, like 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.280 going into the next pro I also had my worries 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.880 and fears, and you guys, I don't feel like it's 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:11.800 been talked about enough. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.880 They don't have their phones, they don't have that communication 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:15.839 to the outside world. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:16.760 I didn't even know that. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:17.960 So I feel like a lot. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.440 Of people would probably expect as her brother to be 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.240 on the phone with her every single day. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.679 No, she did that completely on her own. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.520 So going into it, the things that I was actually 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.480 worried the most about for her going into it was 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.120 probably how she would mentally handle the situation, because that's 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.600 like really hard, yes, but that's the thing that she overcame. Wow. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.600 So that's what I'm really most proud of her, because, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.280 like I was really nervous that she was going to 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.880 be there. She wouldn't know how to handle herself. She 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.400 wasn't going to have her phone, which I feel like 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.640 a lot of people really really to have their phone, Yeah, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.120 communication with other people in the outside world, just to 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.240 like feel confident in their own skin. But she had 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.320 to find it within herself and that's what she did 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:54.800 on the show. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.240 Did they have access to any like tech or Internet 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:58.680 at all? 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.000 I believe they given and don't quote me on that. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.080 I believe they had a phone that was able to 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:09.200 take pictures okay, and like like search the Internet, but 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.959 then it was restrictive of what they could search because 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.640 it was very imperative that the ballroom knowledge that came 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.200 out of their bodies wasn't through anything from the Internet. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.600 I wasn't straight from the straight from the source. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.360 Yeah, I was going to say that that's very tough. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.400 Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's challenge. I don't 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.120 think it's spilling too much tea to say that. On 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.240 Dancing with the Stars, a lot, if not all, of 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.800 the pros, at some week or another, while you guys 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.720 are choreographing the coming upcoming week, sometimes you guys are 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.280 choreographing group numbers. When needed, you will go to outside 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.600 help for or. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.040 Even like, let's say you're doing a contemporary team, I'm 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.240 just gonna look up some contemporary dances just to get 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.720 inspirait exactly, like, just to get. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:58.160 Light opening, just some simple ideas again from that, or 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.200 to even just have another I another look at it. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:03.400 Yeah, So to. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.640 Not have access to that at all and to have 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.320 to do it alone, that's a really great answer to 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.840 continue to like for her to focus on that confidence 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.360 she did it in the hardest circumstances. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.760 Harder than we Yeah, yeah, gott, we get totally Wow, proud. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.720 Can anything you want to tell us that you're looking 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.240 forward to with the upcoming season? What are you manifesting 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.720 for yourself in this season thirty five? 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.120 I mean, if you're like, none of us are confirmed. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.040 So okay, all right, you just got away you're just 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:32.880 hoping to be on the show. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.280 I just think, balin, I want to want to be employed. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.120 You want to be on the show. I'm pretty sure. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.680 Why do you think I'm doing this as I'm hedging my. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.600 I think I'm going to need to start one next 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:42.000 year too. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.360 I think when I'm looking forward to, like if I 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.320 am picked up, I'm just excited to be. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.560 Paired with someone and get to tell their story through dance. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.280 I definitely feel like I was able to do that 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.520 with Jordan, and that's something that I really just fell 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.840 fell in love with through the process and just getting 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.440 to spend like three months with someone. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.080 Yeah, I'm really looking forward to that. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't want to hijack it, but 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.560 that's kind of like, you know, you get a different 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.040 relationship with dance through the show, and going into your 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.560 third season, now you catch the bug and you actually 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.280 reevaluate that relationship and you're like, wow, I have this 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.560 this vehicle to connect to someone else and to you know, 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.480 explore their story and broadcast it and hopefully a creative way. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.960 So yeah, I mean that's that's a great way to 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.560 go into a season. Hopefully you have somebody whose story 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:34.840 you're going to be excited to tell. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:36.440 I mean, regardless who it is. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.040 I think that's kind of the fun and excitement of 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.120 like who their partner is, because obviously we don't know 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.680 who that is until we walk in that door. And 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.240 even when it was Annadelvi my first partner, I feel 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:49.240 like on paper. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.280 That's someone like you shouldn't be excited about. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.240 But I was so excited to just get to know her, 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.400 to get in the studio. Obviously it turned out the 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.080 way that it did, but I wouldn't change it for 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.480 the world. I think that's the beauty of being a 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.080 pro and dancing with the stars. You don't know who 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.240 you're gonna get, but once you get with them, that's 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.560 when your job actually starts. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.280 We're talking on con weekend. What are you most excited 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:14.439 about for con I. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.680 Feel like what I'm most excited about for con and 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.399 there's two things I'm very excited about. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.639 First things. First, I'm just excited to connect with the fans. Yeah, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:24.240 it's safe. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.440 To say that we have a very devoted fan base 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.359 and they they pull they pulled up, especially like we 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.520 got a witness on tour, the amount of applause that 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.760 we saw, the different types of people that would go 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.679 to these shows. I think that's what's really special for 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.840 us to see too. But for Conna, like it's it's 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.439 gonna be a more intimate setting and I you know, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.000 we get to do our meet and greets, we get 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:47.840 to take a picture, say hi, but this is like 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.040 we get to actually like meet these people, get to 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.960 know these people and I'm really excited about that. But 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.240 I think one of the things I'm also really excited 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.199 about is just being it's like a clash of some 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.359 of my favorite piece full and like rehearsals, Like you know, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.159 rehearsals can be tough, but we're all just like laughing 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.080 and having good time. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.639 I'm there with like Haley. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.600 Jojo soci like all these people, Riley that I. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:11.800 Just love, Danielle. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.560 Danielle, oh my god, no, with the way we were 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.120 rehearsing today and you were walking down that congo line 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.159 and you were working it, but then you look to 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:20.520 the left and then there's like there's. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.720 Johnny and he's doing his contemporary dance and. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.960 It's slaves like it's there's it's a special moment and 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:27.879 like the Dancing with the Stars verse where it's like 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.960 I personally have like I personally have like favorite dances, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.240 favorite numbers, favorite contestants from the show that now I 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:35.720 get to like actually spend time with. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.240 So this is this has been a very like interesting week, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:39.040 to say the least. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.640 Family vacation, yeah, family reunion, Yeah. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.440