WEBVTT - #148 - The 2018 Year End Special 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, welcome to episode of the Boby Cast, which let 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.400 me recommend that you check out some more other podcasts 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.480 here on the Nashville Podcast Network if you're a sports fan, 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:16.000 The Sore Losers which is Raymundo, Eddie and Lunchbox. They 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.000 have that show Amy Has Four Things with Amy Brown. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.639 There's Velvet's Edge podcast. There's a lot. You can go 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.960 to ums that the Nashville Podcast Network dot com and 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.639 see all the shows. So we have a lot of 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.360 shows and next year we will be building out even more. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.839 And so this episode one, it's the year end episode 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.120 where I called Mike today and I was like, Hey, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.320 it's one of the last days we're gonna be in 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.280 town before we jump away. We're I mean, I'm officially 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.440 on vacation. What does say today? Monday? It is Monday. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.640 I was in Birmingham, Alabama. Today is it's our one 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.360 day off on the Dancing with the Stars tour. And 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:58.840 I was in my hotel room and I was like, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.720 I do not feel like sitting in a hotel for 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.320 twenty eight thirty hours when home is like two and 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:06.800 a half hours away. So I run into the car, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.920 just drove home. And I've been so uto the weather, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.720 mostly because I can't. I haven't been sleeping at all. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.120 I mean basically in four months I got Dancing with 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.240 the Stars and started doing all that, and it was 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.280 so physically demanding, and I think it just finally caught 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.120 up with me. And then I've been on this Dancing 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.919 When the Stars Live tour and um after I did idle. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.240 So I've just been sick. So I came home with 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.440 Land a bit. But that Dancing Starts Live tour has 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:33.920 been fun. I don't have to dance a lot, which 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.880 is awesome. What do you do that? What do you 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.120 do when you get out of here? So I do 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.600 a little dancing, but I purposefully said, hey, I would 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.919 like to dance as little as you can make me dance. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.640 I get dance anxiety now because I just think about 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.720 dancing on that show and how nervous and anxious I 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.720 would get. And I just don't like dancing like that anymore. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.480 Like I think I'm a better dancer four and I've 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.520 always had decent rhythm, but you can tell if you 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.160 watch the show. I wasn't the best ballroom dancer, and 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.280 so I was like, hey, let me not do as 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.440 many dances and so I do I host, right, So 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.280 I host, and usually the host just goes out and says, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.760 here's what's happening and then leaves. And I was like, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.760 he says, I'm not dancing as much. I'm just gonna 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.480 go out and do some comedy. So I go a 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.160 hated like four different parts of the show, and the 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.080 shows an hour and forty minutes, and I just do 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.720 stand up related to Dancing with the Stars and it's 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.480 pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. And they weren't expecting it, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:38.640 and so um, I went out and rather than ask permission, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.240 I thought I would go out and just ask for 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.360 forgiveness later. So I went out in the first you know, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.600 you go at seconds what was written on my card 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.359 on the live show, and I was like, no, let's 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:47.920 just see what happens. So I go out and I 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.400 walked out and I tell three or four jokes and 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.519 the crowd was laughing pretty good, and then they danced, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.920 and I was like, well, no one told me not 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:57.400 to do that anymore. So I went and again did 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.080 more jokes and so yeah, it's good, and that the 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.200 tour is really good, like those guys are such good dancers, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.000 and I don't want to run the tour. It's so good. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.680 So if the show does come by the live show 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.320 and now you can afford because tickets are pretty steep. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.080 I think they're like six year seventy bucks. Um go 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.519 to that would recommend you go to the show. You 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.679 posted that picture and they're like perfectly sculpted human beings. Yeah, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.920 it's nutty. How in shape and and they're also in 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.200 shape because they've been in shape for so long, Like 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.320 I I think they work out. I don't know, but 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:29.880 they danced so much. I don't know. They have so 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.919 many muscles up top it's insane. Sane. Uh, And they're 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.160 they're really. Like I've always said about that show, I 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.640 was never really loving the dancing part of it. I 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.240 was always enjoying the people part of it. And I 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.640 was always enjoying also the sociology of it, like trying 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:50.160 to figure out how to win something by not being 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.960 the best at the exact thing you're doing. And like 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.840 most things in life, it's it's never about let's you 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.120 have a job as an account and you're trying to 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.200 get a promotion. It's never about really just being the 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.440 best account it it's about can you be a really 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.000 good account and also be uh nice to people and 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.680 be pleasant for your boss is to be around and 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.080 be somebody who's trustworthy and be like, it's never really 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.120 about what you think, it's about a big part of 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.359 it is. And for me on that dancing show, I 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:18.880 did get to be a better dancer, but to me, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.520 it was about all the other things in sociology with 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.000 the human part of it and so uh that being said, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.159 the two things that I took away from that show 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.239 was that one the people on that show were great, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.240 and I did that in that podcast you know what 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.200 you didn't know, the true untold story. And then too 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.839 for me it was I felt like if I could 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.680 want a dancing show, because I've always had aspirations to 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.240 be the governor of Arkansas, maybe be the president. One day, 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.400 I left that show going, oh, I can't for sure 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:49.200 do that, because I always wondered, because I've built a road, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.680 I've built a highway. By the way, we're gonna go 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.080 back over all the ueer stuff. I don't need plan 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.240 to talk about this. I felt like I've built this road, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.279 and I drive the car that I built down the 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.240 road that I built, and we have all of our 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.040 people that are all on the same highway with us, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.520 they know what to expect. They know every day when 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:04.840 I come on the air, I come on the podcast, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.680 or they read a book, what they're gonna get there. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.480 They've kind of subscribed to me, and I've subscribed to them. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.360 But I didn't know if you put me on a 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.360 highway that I didn't build, like Dancing with the Stars 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.000 because those people didn't know me, then if that would 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.720 still resonate. And it did, like like our message still resonated, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.440 and so I felt like, man, I really can do this. 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.960 That show has inspired me to do you know, uh, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.400 bigger things, you know. So I think I was talking 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:32.600 one of my friends who had been on the show 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.680 last night, and she was on the show and she 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.400 didn't win, but she didn't really well. And she was like, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.279 you know, I just love to dance. I love to dance. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.400 And she was like, do you love dance? Like no, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.320 Like I don't. I don't. Actually I think I like 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.040 dancing less like the physical part of dancing. I think 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.760 I like it less than I did. And then she 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.200 was like, well, I don't feel like that you're taking 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.520 the show stairs. They said, oh, you're wrong. I took 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.120 something completely different away from that show than you did 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.160 to me. It was not about learning to dan. It 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.000 was about can you know what iron what we stand 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:09.279 for actually be shared with people that have no idea 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.520 who we are and they still embrace it. And it did. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.360 It worked, And so I think she was irritated because 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.960 I won and she didn't win, and she really wanted 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.240 to win. I did too, but it wasn't about I 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:21.480 don't want to win because I was the best dancer. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:22.880 She wanted to win because she was the best dancer. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.159 So she's still irritated at me for winning. And that 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.640 was where the conversation. She was like, I just feel 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:28.800 like you're making light up and I was like, you're 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.160 out of your mind making light of it just because 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.400 I took something completely different away from it than you did. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.680 I said, it changed my life. And it has nothing 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.400 to do with dance. I was talking to um Or Shot, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.000 who won two or three seasons ago, and so, uh, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.159 he's NFL running back and he went on and one 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.160 Dancing with the Stars and he loves dance because he's up. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.400 I think he's hosting a set of touring shows after 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.800 I'm done loves Dance, has continued to dances, continue to learn, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.080 and he's like, how have you continue your dancing? And 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.720 I was like, oh, I have it, and I'm not 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:07.680 like I was never good at it and I I 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.400 was only gonna get so much better. But it's just 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.000 funny how the people what people take away from it, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.960 you know. And I've said before that always felt bad 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.040 for Sharna who And by the way, Sharnon, I've grown 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.600 much closer with humans since the show ended, because during 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.400 that show it was just bam bam, bam bam. You're 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:24.920 together all the time and you're trying to fit in 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.720 human time in between training time. But um I was 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.720 talking to uh him about how Sharna had to learn 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.960 to teach differently with me than any of her because 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.440 she had a bunch of athletes in a row, like 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.360 six I think six athletes in a row are five 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.920 athletes in a row, like professional athletes. And regardless of 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.080 you know how to dance or not, if you're a 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.320 professional athlete, you know how to use your body, you 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.720 know what works what doesn't work movements. So when she 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.960 got me was the first non athletic person she had 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:50.840 in a long time, and so I was like, yeah, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.240 she hadn't learned because I'm here here at the piece 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.920 of paper and pin going three degrees, turned to the left, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.040 four degrees, left knee, leftknee, and I was like, I 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.560 had to write it all down. And he was blown 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.240 away by that. But every is different, everybody learns different. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:02.880 That was a big deal for me this last year. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.120 I guess we could start with that for me, and 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.160 just because we came off of it, this is the 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.680 year end episode. Uh, the Dance with the Stars thing 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.360 was crazy for me. I really didn't know if I 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:17.560 was going on it. I knew that I had I've been. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.200 So I started that year going out American Idol for 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.520 just a few episodes, and it was really just to 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.960 be honest, I was going on for one episode, I think, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.080 and I went on and they paid me not nothing, 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.560 basically for free. I think I made a union, which 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.360 is the bare minimum that you can pay somebody that 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.040 you you can't have somebody work for you, which is 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.800 why we can't have interns on our show that are free, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.679 because you can't legally have people work for you in 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.880 certain places and not compensate them with something. And so 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.360 I did American Idol. They pay me, and they pay 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.160 me the minimum, and I was okay with that because 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.600 I knew I could go on and hopefully do a 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.960 good job. They would ask me to come back, and 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.920 they did so I did the second episode. I got 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.720 paid minimum, and again it was never, never, never about 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.480 the money with that show. This is the first um, 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.200 because I don't want they're paying me now, um, And 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.440 so I go and then they asked me back. And 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.319 then even at the end when I was doing episodes, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.480 they were paying me, but it was it was a 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.280 little bit more, but it was never anything substantial. But 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.439 I didn't need anything substantial to me, and that investment 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.120 was let me just get on the show and see 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.679 people like what I do and how I talk to 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.000 people and hopefully how I teach people and how I 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.160 interview people. And it was an investment. I probably lost 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.120 money going in American out all the first of the year, um, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.000 But it's never about money with me. And so I 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.680 was just talking to a friend who's getting into hosting 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.640 and they were like, I have to lose money. I 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.360 was like, who cares, Like, go invest in yourself. Sometimes 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.760 it's about taking, you know, two full steps back to 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.000 be able to jump as hard as you can forward 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:49.720 and so I do, I don't. It was a big 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.600 look for me, and that's whenever I signed this deal 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.040 with ABC. It was right after that, and so they 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.800 were like, wow, you're cool and I was like, I'm 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:02.040 not really that cool, I'm just different. And they were like, okay, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.720 you're right, you're not that cool, but you are different. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.800 And so so I signed this deal with ABC for 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.840 a whole network deal and they said, okay, we're uh, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.920 we want you to come to do Miss America. We're 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.480 gonna sign get this idle thing lined up if Idol 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.600 gets renewed. This is way or like right after Idol 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.920 last season um and then mentioned Dancing with Stars and 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.320 I was like, oh, it sounded to fun and theory 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.720 um and and I was like okay. So a couple 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.360 of months had gone by with this ABC deal because 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:34.640 it was a whole world that they want me to 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.480 like create shows for them too. I was like, okay, great, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.079 so Idol goes by, which is a huge look for me, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.080 and I was super pumped and just grateful they put 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.959 me on a show and I was well received and 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.080 I felt like they the team that was amazing they 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.560 edited me wonderfully, and so I come off that and 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.880 they're like, okay, uh, we're gonna work on a new 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.839 deal and get you this full time on Idol. It's okay, great, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.320 this is like Mayor June of last year. They said, Okay, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.480 come to miss and Mayor Ka and then from and 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.199 then after that, Man, Dance of the Stars would be perfect. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.280 And I've been mentioned before, but I didn't know, and 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.560 I was like, man, because I knew I had to 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.559 like Mike when you're not talk. We had to move 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.520 out there, and that was a big deal because we 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.120 had to move out to Los Angeles, and I travel 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:17.760 and do the show sometimes from other places if I 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.880 do theater events, but to actually move somewhere and lips 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.440 somewhere in a different time zone without the crew for 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.520 months at a time, Uh, to me, I didn't know 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.000 if that was fair. Uh. So we talked about it, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.480 and I was right in the middle of negotiating, uh, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.840 for me, the most fulfilling radio deal in my career, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.000 which I signed a five year deal this year, and 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.079 it was it's everything that I ever imagined I could 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.880 do in radio. I've always had aspirations of doing like 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.439 a talk show on television. But I've always wanted to radio. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.240 I don't think I'll ever get out of radio, and 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.680 radio changes. Radio is gonna change. This is radio to 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.360 me right now. This is radio too, So I do 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.040 that idole. I put out a book, that second book, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:56.880 and I was scared of death. That book was gonna bomb, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.120 not because I wrote it any better or worse than 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.480 the first book, but because I thought, what if that 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.959 first book I was just lucky and I was like oh, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.880 And I was so subconscious to put in that book 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.120 out and I was worried about myself. And I was like, oh, 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.240 I'm a look at idiot. If it if people read it, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.160 and and it did, it did well. It was the 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.720 best seller, and I'm one best seller and I was 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.959 like wow, right off the idle stuff and I was like, 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.080 it's really we're like cooking here. I signed a new 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.000 radio deal and Dancing with the Stars was coming up, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.840 and it was like a week before the annalyce and 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.720 we had we were still going back and forth because 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.640 I wanted to do the show. I decided in my 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.680 hard loner to the show, but because it overlapped Idol 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.840 for a big for like a month and I don't 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.920 wanted me to come on full time. And there's also 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.040 another show on another country music show that was on 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.520 a cable network. I believe it's it's over now, but 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:49.920 they wanted me to come on and host the show. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.520 So for the first time in my life at all 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.599 these oftens. And there's another show on Fox with the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.440 people singing the costumes that all those shows that come 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.679 at me and they were like, hey, we think you're 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.480 cool and out and I was like, oh, I've always 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.400 been the same, Like Idol is the one that gave 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.400 people the first look at me. I've I've i haven't 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.599 got any better or anything. The people that Idol just 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.079 took a chance on me first, so that all these 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.240 decisions to make, and so which is a fantastic place 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.280 to be. And so I'm stressing a bit because I've 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.160 never really had these opportunities and I'm going, Okay, I'm 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.080 gonna do Dancing with the Stars, and I'm gonna tape 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.800 Idol while I'm doing Dancing with the Stars. I didn't 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.920 know how hard Dancing with Stars would be, or I 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.280 didn't know that would be so bad, probably a combination 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:32.240 of the two. Because most people can juggle things while 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.280 they do that show. UM, so I'm like, okay, I'm 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.920 committed to Dancing with the Stars and I'm just gonna 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.760 do Idol in the last, you know, a few weeks 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.000 of Dancing with the Stars, or as I thought, after 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.400 I get kicked off, I'll go right to Idol, And 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.880 that's what ABC said to But when you can talk, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.120 you go to Idol. Because nobody expected me to win. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.240 Listen when the Vegas odds came out, I was last. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.000 I wasn't even like middle. I was last. And so 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.520 I go on Dancing with the Stars, as you guys know. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.040 And it's not that I danced wonderfully the first episode, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.559 but I got through it and I fell down and 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.200 I made an impact. I just wanted people. There were 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:08.520 thirteen people. I think. I just want people to know 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.400 who I was. Um. And every week as I worked 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.080 at getting better to be a dancer, I worked at 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.520 how can I connect with people? It could be happy 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.760 or sad. It's like a radio show, like how can 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.960 I Connect with people? Funny? It didn't matter. I just 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.400 wanted to be different. In my whole life, I've been different, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:27.800 and I always felt like that was a bad thing. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.640 Because everybody tell you how weird you are, how different 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.440 you are, how stupid you are. But finally, in the 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.680 last few years, I've really figured out that man being 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.080 different is and being unique is really where the worth is. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.760 Because we're all different and unique. We just we see 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.240 everything cool, We're like, oh, we want to be like that, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.440 and then all of a sudden, we're one of a 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.360 million millions and nobody pays attention. And so I was like, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.800 I wanna be gonna be different on this show. Um, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.400 My poor partner had to figure out how to teach me. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.360 I go to Dance with the Stars. There was a 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.440 point at Dancing with the Stars that I was supposed 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.880 to go do the American Idol auditions in the cities 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.640 we supposed to fly around in. All season, I've been 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:07.400 just killing myself relatively speaking, because I was doing the 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.960 radio show every day, I was flying around doing comedy dates. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.120 I was training six, seven to sometimes thirteen hours a 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.200 day dancing because I was taking that show so seriously 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.120 and that I wanted to get as good as I 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.920 could for the competition part of it, not so much 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.520 to be a better dancing for the rest of my life, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.560 but because I was in a competition, and so we're dancing, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.520 and at one point they called and said, hey, ABC, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.280 call and said, don't come to the Idle auditions because 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.280 you need to stay and keep you with Dancing with 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.640 the Start now that we're gonna take me off the 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.280 show where we're gonna there would two or three days 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.000 at a time. I couldn't train, and I couldn't afford 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.760 not to train even for one day. We never took 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.600 a day off during the show, and so I, um, okay, 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.080 I didn't really know what to think of that and 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.120 right now and I'm just speculating because they said don't 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.520 come to Idle and stay on Dancing with the Stars. Now, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.880 my judge scores are always like sevens and eights, occasionally sixes. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.000 I was like, man, either they know I'm going home 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.960 them this week, or I must be doing really well 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.240 in the voting and they can't have me be bad 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.800 on the show, like really bad and still survive. And 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.160 so it turns out, my what I think now is 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.240 we were doing and I think I have a pretty 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.800 good reason to think this, that Sharon and I were 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.000 doing so well in the voting that they were like, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.200 you have a real chance to win this, you need 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.200 to stay and do this. So they took me off Idle. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.600 So when they go to like Idaho and they're doing 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.120 all the Charleston wherever they are doing, I'm not there 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.040 and I'm supposed to be there in those episodes, but 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.240 they took me off those. But they still paid me 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.600 because I was under contract and I just gotta I 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.640 just got paychecks for all those A minute ago. I 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.480 looked at my bank account and I was like, huh, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.360 what's this all for? Because I've only an Idol for 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.240 like week and a half at this point. And but yeah, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.040 they still paid me for all those weeks because they 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.320 took me off of I didn't pull out, they took 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.000 me off the idol um. So I go to Dance 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.560 with Stars. We freaking win the show. Crazy. I'm just 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.080 gonna quick recap of my year before I get to 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.440 do the stuff. It's crazy. Uh, Sharon and I win. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.320 She hasn't won ever and she's been in the finals 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.160 so many times. I was like the second worst dude 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.439 dancer on the show, maybe the fifth overall worst day 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.560 because there were people that were worst dancers than me. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.960 I wasn't the second worst dancer I was the worst 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.399 in the finale. I was the worst after a while, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.520 this controversy because good people kept getting kicked off. But 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.400 what people don't understand. People like, it's not a popularity contest. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.840 Yes it is. Half of it's a freaking popularity contest. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.920 And if anything, I think me and winning that show 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.000 and job getting late is great for the show because 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.680 I know people that they've asked to go on the 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.560 show before and they go, no way, because the only 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:41.879 people that can win that show are people that are 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.600 great dancers. So why would I go on that show 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.040 and embarrass myself. So now the people from dancing starts 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.040 to go. Look, Bobby one and Joe went to the 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:55.359 freaking semifinals, so come on, try hard, but you know, 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.679 really like put yourself out there and you have a 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.920 chance to go far. Um So as people keep going on, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.080