WEBVTT - Danielle Dances! (Week 5) 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:14.840 Hello. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.599 It's Danielle Fischol, podcaster, TV director and mom of two 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:25.120 and tonight, maybe more than ever forever known as Topanga, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.040 and that's because I am currently competing on the thirty 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.440 fourth season of Dancing with the Stars, participating in the 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:36.880 tradition of Dedication Night, despite having absolutely no dance experience 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.240 before stepping into a practice with my pro partner Pasha Pashkov, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.680 and throughout this journey, I have decided to record my 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.199 experience in the form of a podcast called Danielle with 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.559 the Stars, hoping that maybe in one hundred to two 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.920 hundred years, people will discover it amongst post apocalyptic rebbel 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.680 and hear what it was like to push yourself every 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.880 day to possibly win a Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.480 I am just off the press line from Dedication Night 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:11.280 and absolutely jam packed an emotional night of celebrity and dance. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.440 I danced the jive to the season five through seven 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.399 Boy Meets World theme song by twenty cent Crush featuring 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:23.119 Phil Rosenthal, and I dedicated it to ninety nine and 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:28.040 a half year old Bill Daniels aka mister Feenie, who 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.600 joined me on the dance floor. Why did I pick Bill. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.480 I'll tell you exactly why I picked Bill. I consider 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.920 him to be the patriarch of Boy Meets World, and 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:47.640 Boy Meets World is a show that forever changed my life, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:53.200 not just personally but professionally. And Bill was a shining 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.680 example of what it meant to be a professional and 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.400 to be kind and to be good with kids. He 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.000 didn't have to be He could have treated us like 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.160 snot nosed kids, because we were a lot of times 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.080 we were having fun and goofing around and I came 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:16.560 to the set with little to zero experience, and he 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.840 never treated me that way. He always treated me like 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.840 a peer, which is really saying something. So I have 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.320 taken Bill's lesson of how to be a professional with 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.639 me onto every set I have gone on to since 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.640 the day I met him at twelve years old. Being 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:38.280 able to honor Boy Meets World tonight felt so special, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:43.000 like such a gift. I knew full well that I 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:50.639 was representing every nineties kid, every early aughts everyone who's 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.480 grown up watching Boy Meets World and has no doubt 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.840 learned tons of lessons from mister Feenie. Life lessons, school lessons, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.080 how to be a good person, lessons I knew that 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.160 this was a great opportunity to channel all of that 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.840 love and respect that you all have for him, and 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.480 then through me and through dance, give him his flowers. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.160 And I was talking to Bill about it before we 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.520 went out there, and I said, everyone here is so 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.200 excited that you're here. And I said, and everyone online 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.800 is talking about how special this is and how happy 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.960 we are to be able to do this for you. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.200 And he said, Danielle, I would do anything for you. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:41.200 And I thought, Yeah, what an honor that he even 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.360 let me do this at ninety eight years old. To 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.360 leave your house early in the day and then be 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:55.160 on a stage for eight plus hours, do a dress rehearsal, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.120 sit in a dressing room. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:03:59.360 That's a lot. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.160 It's a lot to ask of somebody. And I know 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.640 he let me do it, as again Bill showing me 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.480 a lot of respect and treating me like a peer. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:10.920 But he didn't need to do it, and I'm so 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.280 honored that he did. So I want to give you 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.120 in case you don't know who Bill is other than 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.560 mister Feenie, I do. Just want to give you a 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.120 little bit of a bio. William David Daniels was born 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.159 in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen twenty seven, and he 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.400 was a child entertainer himself. He was in a family 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.800 variety act as a kid, dancing and singing, and he 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.360 even made his Broadway debut at just the age of sixteen. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.880 Soon after, he was drafted in nineteen forty five and 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.880 served as a disc jockey for the Army radio station. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.520 He would then use the GI bill to enroll at 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:50.200 Northwestern University to study acting and drama. Once he graduated, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.360 he quickly became a hard working and highly regarded performer 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.479 who would rack up hundreds of credits. He'd returned to 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.040 stage as an adult dozens of times, and a he 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.240 heard in nineteen sixty seven's cinematic classic The Graduate as 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.920 Dustin Hoffman's father. He famously starred as John Adams in 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.120 both the Broadway musical, where he was nominated for a Tony, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.600 and then the film version of seventeen seventy six, he 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.240 played Doctor Craig on Saint Elsewhere, a role that won 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.599 him two Emmys and made him and his wife and 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.440 co star Bonnie Bartlett, the first husband and wife team 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.320 to take home the award on the same night in 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.200 twenty years It's also worth noting they are currently the 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:39.240 longest active Hollywood marriage at seventy four years. Seventy four 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.359 years to be married. Some people don't even live to 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.880 be seventy four years old, and they have been married 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.720 for seventy four years. Bill would also voice Kit, the 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.239 car partner of David Hasselhoff, in the show Night Writer 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.680 and Yes. He was also the strict and kind hearted 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.320 educator George Feeney on all seven seasons of Boy Meets World. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.080 Who would have ever predicted it would be the role 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.800 of his illustrious career. He'd also appear on Gray's Anatomy 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.160 and later show up on Girl Meets World to reprise 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.680 mister Feenie in the Disney reboot. Bill has also made 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.599 it his life goal to give back to the communities 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.119 who gave to him. He's constantly speaking up for civil 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.159 rights and kindness. He was president of the Screen Actors 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.200 Guild from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and one, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.480 and he loves the legacy Feenie has left behind, especially 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.360 the effect it had on viewers who have then gone 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.760 on to enter the field of teaching. In the audience 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.240 tonight was so much of our boy Meets World family, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:45.040 will Fredell, Betsy Randall, William, Rusty Russ, Alex de ser, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:51.159 Trina McGee, Bonnie Bartlett, Bill's wife, Writer really wanted to 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.000 be here, but he is working out of town. Tony 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.680 Quinn also wanted to be here but could not make it, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.560 and Matt Lawrence is in Africa, wanted to be here 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.320 but couldn't make it. And Lee Norris lives in North Carolina. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.520 So I know that everyone was asking me tonight, what 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.480 does it mean to you to have your Boy Meets 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.000 World cast in your family there with you to celebrate 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.880 the show. And I would love to take credit and say, yes, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.320 they're there to support me, but the truth is every 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.600 single person came out because they wanted to show their 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.360 love and their respect to Bill, and he so rightly 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.240 deserves it. Of course, my real family was also there. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.200 That's my chosen family, my Boy Meets World family, But 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.360 my real family was there, my mom, my dad, Christine, 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:45.960 my dad's wife, Jensen's anti Candy was there, my brother 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.840 was there. It was really nice. Obviously, Jensen's there every week, 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.240 not just supporting me in the audience, but also making 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.800 sure all my guests get in the thought that they 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.400 have their credentials and bringing people back and forth and 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.559 just truly taking care of everybody, which means a lot. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.840 I also had visiting me tonight Janice Leanne Brown The 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:12.320 Star of Wizards Beyond Waverley Place and Kenzie Richardson The 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.160 Star of Vamparina. Those are two shows I'm able to 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.080 direct for on Disney Channel. It was very sweet of 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.480 them to come out. They looked beautiful. They were all 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.440 glammed up and absolutely gorgeous, and we got to take 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:24.920 some pictures on the ballroom floor, so. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:40.760 That was really fun. I am not gonna lie. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.120 This was a hard week. It was a hard week. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:50.200 We've reached the point in the competition where we're almost 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.600 at the halfway point. Next week is week six and 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.520 there are eleven total weeks of Dancing with the Stars, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:02.440 so we are all tired. I think today maybe I 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.400 think today's day thirty, since I've had a day off, 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:11.120 and those days of working are not inconsequential. We're dancing 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.199 a minimum of four hours a day, plus doing interviews 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.440 for the packages, plus doing like OTF interviews, which also 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:23.439 are for the packages, and we're also doing press interviews. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:23.040 And. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.600 It's they are busy, busy days, and then on top 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.640 of that just trying to keep your body healthy and 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.680 trying to stay healthy. This week, lots of people were sick. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:38.439 Andy was sick, Jen was sick, Pasha and I. The 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.199 rehearsal space that we normally rehearse in that has beautiful 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.520 floors that are great to dance on, was completely booked 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.600 up for some reason. Everybody wanted the same rehearsal time apparently, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.840 and so we went to a different location and they 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.240 didn't have as nice as floors. There was concrete right 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.400 below the wood floor, and so for four hours we 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.720 did a jive, jumping and bouncing on concer great floors, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.360 and both Pasha and myself woke up the next day 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.000 and felt like we had the flu. Like our bones, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.720 our muscles, everything hurt. And it took a full forty 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.640 eight hours for me to feel like I was even 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:20.840 remotely normal, And even then I don't feel super normal. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.320 My right hamstring, the one that I tore, has somehow 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.680 made a miraculous recovery. I don't My doctor wants me 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.360 to go and have more imaging when all of this 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.080 is said and done, just to kind of see where 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.600 the dust is settled, and I'm amazed that I have 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.800 a torn hamstring. It feels really good, and now my 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:48.960 left one just is not great. But you know, this 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.800 dance also just doesn't come super easily to me as 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.959 much as I would want it to, because I'm a fun, bouncy, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:02.200 jumpy person. The stamina required for it it was a lot. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.160 And also, you know where we needed Bill to be 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.800 in what we call the garage, that little part of 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.480 the Dancing with the Stars ballroom that's like a garage. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.760 Bill was going to be in there, and we had 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.760 to then get to the center of the dance floor, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.320 and not just the center, but like the upstage center, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.319 because for a jive, you want to be able to 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.960 see a lot of head to toe and if you're 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.520 too far down the stage and close to the garage, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.320 too close to say, carry Ann or beyond carry Anne, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.680 then you won't see a lot of feet. You're gonna 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.040 just mostly see waste up. And so if we knew 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.880 we wanted people to be able to see our footwork, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.120 we needed to be pretty far upstage, which meant our 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.280 dance started basically with a full sprint, and when you're rehearsing, 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.920 you don't necessarily have the room that has the long 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.680 enough distance for you to practice that sprint. So a 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.480 lot of times throughout the week we were not sprinting. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.680 We were just starting the dance, you know, like we'd 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.800 like do a little jog and then we'd start the dance. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.320 And then yesterday, when we got here for camera blocking 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.480 and we were actually in the space, I looked at 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:09.440 Pasha and I was like, this is far and yeah, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.400 so I basically started the dance already winded, which is 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.000 not easy. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:13.760 Like the amount of. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.280 Stamina required to do a jive and to do a 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.760 jive well and to rehearse a jive all week is immense. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:27.560 We also had done some choreography Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.520 Saturday that Pasha thought he was pretty happy with, and 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.320 it wasn't perfect. We knew we were going to work 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.600 on it on Sunday, and then when we arrived on 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.240 Sunday morning, Pasha said, don't hate me, but I'm going 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:45.440 to change eight counts. And I was like, what what 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.200 did you just say? And he was like, yeah, I 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.680 watched our tape back last night and I'm just not 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.280 thrilled with these eight counts. And I think we can 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.160 do better, and I think the judges might be harsh 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.600 on it, and I really want to change it. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.800 And man, I want to be the. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.480 Type a person who after four or five days of 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.080 rehearsing something and then just throw me a curveball and 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:10.480 I'm like, I got it. I am that way with directing, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.160 I am that way with acting because I have my 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.040 ten thousand hours in those things. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.520 I know what I'm doing. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:24.640 I don't know what I'm doing with dance, and my 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.840 brain really locks onto things. Once my brain locks in 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.600 and goes, this is the routine, this is your choreography. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.720 It is hard to shake it loose. And he changed 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:41.720 it on Sunday, and like I wasn't my best self, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.840 Like I just wasn't my best self. Pasha definitely saw 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.000 the very frustrated side of Danielle, the side that was 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.640 like why are we doing this? And I was really 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.199 beating myself up and I was super frustrated, and I 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.680 felt like I was on the verge of tears a 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:07.400 couple of times. And you know, there's nothing Pasha could 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.640 do at this point that changes the way I feel 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:19.160 about him. He is solid as a human being, solid 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.440 as a man, solid as a dancer. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:23.320 He is just. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.920 Truly a plus and so even though I was very 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.080 frustrated with him, and I let him know that I 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.080 was very frustrated with him, I think he also knows 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.200 that it doesn't change a thing about the way I 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.920 feel about him, and I respect him and I appreciate 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.880 his opinion, and I know that if he felt so 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.880 strongly that he wanted to change it, it was for 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.640 good reason. But that doesn't mean that in the moment 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.120 it wasn't hard and that I wasn't a little upset 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.480 by it. I also think this week, being dedication night, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:02.160 I felt an enormous amount of pressure to put on 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.960 an even better performance than I normally do. This wasn't 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.760 even a night about me. It was a night about 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:13.120 somebody named Bill Daniels, who I love and respect so much, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.600 and I didn't want to go out there and not 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.520 do a good dance. I also felt an immense amount 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.360 of pressure to perform for you, guys, because I know 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.760 that this night was me channeling all of your love 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.560 and respect for Bill and mister Feeney and boy Meets 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.720 World and sending it all to him. And so it 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.760 was just a hard week. You know, and everyone's storylines 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.960 are emotional, and everyone has their family there, and the 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.240 kids were in and out of the rehearsal space, and 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.640 you know, we also didn't get to rehearse with Bill. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.720 Of course, he's ninety eight years old. He's not leaving 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.320 his house and driving to Hollywood for rehearsals, so we 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.200 didn't really get to rehearse with him. We just, you know, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.720 so a lot of things changed kind of the last second. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:02.200 It was. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.040 It was a rough week. I feel really relieved that 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:12.320 it's over, and I just hope that it was an 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.720 enjoyable night. I haven't watched the performance back yet. I 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.200 don't know. I don't know what everyone saw. I feel 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.960 like I messed up. I know I messed up. I 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:25.040 don't know exactly where, but I know I made mistakes, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.760 and I immediately after the dance, I just felt I 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.160 was worried I had let Pasha down. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.480 And I never want to let Pasha down. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:40.120 Because he works so hard for us. So I did. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.160 On a happier note, I did get my first eight 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:50.200 from Bruno, who seemed to really enjoy the performance, and 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.880 I squealed when I saw him hold up the eight. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:59.240 I was so happy about it. It really means a 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.200 lot to me. I was like, on such a special 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.040 night to get my first EID, I'll remember it forever, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.399 so that makes me very happy. And I loved having 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:14.760 Kim there. Kim Johnson is just so well trained in ballroom. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.840 She's won a mirror Ball twice. She is incredible. I 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.879 thought she was so well spoken. I thought her critiques 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:25.000 and her feedback for everybody was so great. Her with 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.800 the pen trick that she showed me, Pasha and I 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.040 both audibly gasped when we were on the floor, We're like, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.160 oh ooh, we are definitely taking that with us into rehearsals. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.919 Can't wait to put that into play. I thought she 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.040 was lovely and so great to have here. I thought 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.920 she really added to the judge's table tonight, and that's 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.720 hard to do as a guest judge. She really did 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:50.480 a great job. I thought I totally one hundred percent 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.800 understand exactly what Carrie Anne was talking about. It really 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:02.000 pained me to hear people booing her, because it takes 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.600 courage for us to be out there dancing, and it 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.360 also takes courage for them to have to critique us 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.879 and to give their honest opinions, even when they know 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.960 they're not going to land well with the audience. I 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.480 always appreciate them being thoughtful and giving feedback because it 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.040 is something for me to work on. When she said, 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.440 she's starting to feel like all of our dances look 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.440 the same, and I thought, Okay, we've had a tango, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.040 we've had a cha chaw, we've had a quick step 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.720 in a jive. Of course, a quick step in a 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.240 jive are kind of similar in the sense that they're 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:38.119 both a little bouncy. They're also very upbeat. Tango would 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.840 have been a perfect opportunity for me to not have 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.560 my bright, bubbly, vibrant personality on display. But it was 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.680 the first week of Dancing with the Stars. My story 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.480 of why I chose my anthem song being Stronger because 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.639 I had, you know, survived breast cancer. There were a 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.200 lot of reasons why that night. Although not a traditional 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.959 tango smile because tango's a little more serious, I was 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.360 a smiley person during my tango and it was a choice. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.639 I could have been a very serious tangoer, but that 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.120 just wasn't the mood for our dance, so I smiled 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.800 through it. So if you think about it from their perspective. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.760 I did a tango where I smiled. I did a 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.280 cha chaw where I smiled really big. I did a 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.639 quick step where I was smiley and bubbly, and tonight 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.800 I did a jive where I was smiley and bubbly. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.320 I knew exactly what she meant, even though I had 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.399 not thought about it going into tonight, like, oh, I 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.800 wonder if all these faces and dances look the same. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.800 But the minute she said it, I thought, she's right, 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.919 and this is a TV show at the end of 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:46.439 the day, and her saying, listen, I'm looking forward to 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.960 seeing something else. That's what what I know. That's not 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.360 the word she used, but what I heard was I'm 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.919 looking forward to seeing another side of you. And the 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.760 good news is next week they're going to get it. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.720 They're going to get it for and I have no 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.399 doubt that when I show Carrie Anne a totally different 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.399 side of me and she sees a completely different dance 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:13.199 style and a completely different demeanor from me, I know 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.320 she will pay attention and I know she will say something. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.800 I know she's giving me thoughtful feedback because she is 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:25.639 rooting for me. So that was about how that's my commentary. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.480 And then Derek was very sweet. I feel like, poor guy. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.639 When there's four people, it's just so hard for anybody 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.440 to get thoughts in. But I thought what he had 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.679 to say was very kind. Everybody is very kind. We 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:42.119 also had a last minute song change. Apparently the first 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.359 part of the song they used a different verse, and 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.600 someone at ABC is a very big Boy meets World 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.360 fan and saw our dress rehearsal and was like, hmm, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.840 you have to include the verse about wandering down this 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.080 road that we call life. It has to be in there. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.800 It's what everyone wants to hear. And I was like, oh, yeah, duh. 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.159 I don't put in too much. I don't get too 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.840 much commentary on the song choices. So I just kind 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.159 of like, whatever they did, they did. But I'm so 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.040 glad they made that change. It was really nice. Also 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.520 looking really forward to hearing what Sharna Burgess has to 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.200 say about tonight and all of the dances. In case 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.159 you are unaware, she has joined the Danielle with the 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.960 Stars family. She has her own show on our feed 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.439 now called Sharna Burgess in the Fourth Chair. She is 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.280 sharing her thoughtful comments on how what she thought of 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.400 the dances. She's giving us her own scores. She has 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.960 her own scoring method, which maybe is a little more 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.480 harsh than some of the Dancing with the Stars judges are. 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.600 So if you haven't heard that yet, I highly recommend 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.080 that you check it out because she is interesting and 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.160 endlessly knowledgeable. So she's a great person to take lessons from. 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.280 If you have not subscribed to that feed, please make 0:21:56.280 --> 0:22:00.200 sure to do that now. I thought everyone's dances tonight 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:07.720 were unbelievable. I I cried for every single one. I thought, 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.720 having the kids come out the way they were incorporated. 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:19.280 Olivia and Dylan's dance, her little broken wrists and her 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:23.080 pointed toes, and the lift where he carried her down 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.199 the staircase, and then her running out to him at 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:31.800 the very end. So sweet. Cornelia, Andy's daughter, and her 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.280 little pointed fingers when she went running off the floor 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.480 with her little arms out like this, just so sweet. 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.040 I learned tonight in his package that Cornelia is his 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.040 adopted daughter. I did not know that they are just 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:54.159 so sweet and so lovely. Robert Irwin, My goodness, I 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:58.000 got to spend quite a bit of time today, maybe 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:02.480 about thirty minutes sitting next to Terry Irwin in the 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:07.000 hair and makeup trailer, and I really got to tell 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:12.520 her from just the bottom of my heart how unbelievably 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:18.800 special he is. She has done such an amazing job 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:23.679 raising those kids. And I told Robert when we were 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:29.439 in the skybox, if my sons grow up to be 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:35.960 a fraction of what he is, I will just I 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.879 don't need any other accomplishment in my entire life. Everything 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.960 you see of him, there is not one insincere or 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:50.399 disingenuous thing about him. He is everything that's good in 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:53.840 the world is wrapped up in Robert Irwin. And also 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:57.440 he looks like a freaking movie star. He's like a 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.760 movie star who also happens to be the greatest human 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:03.640 that's ever lived. Like what that does not seem fair? 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:07.199 But let me tell you, he is all of those things. 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:09.439 So I can't say it enough. Vote for Robert or 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:13.080 when I freaking love the kid. I thought Whitney's dance 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:16.280 was beautiful. I thought Jen's dance with her mom was incredible. 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.359 I thought Elaine dancing with her best friend. Passion and 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:24.719 I were talking about what an incredible show this is, 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:31.800 where in one night you can honor your mother, Jordan, 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:38.320 honoring her father, Whitney, honoring her husband Scott and Mark 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:44.320 Gay husband being honored. Bill Daniels ninety eight years old, 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:51.160 Andy adopted daughter Dylan, five year old little sister alex Earl, 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:55.480