WEBVTT - Iman Shumpert (Part 2) 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:05.440 You're listening to Jogasuan Now with me Jojo Sea, an 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:10.959 iHeartRadio podcast. Everybody, welcome back to Joshuan Now I am 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.160 here with Iman Shumper. It is part two of our 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.800 chat and man, welcome to Josh Hero Now. You've been here. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:19.919 You've already done part one, but now we're on part two. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:20.520 Are you ready? 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:21.280 Yeah? 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.840 When you so so you you you become a big 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.280 wig in this league, right, Is it a big deal 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.320 if you're late to a practice? 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.360 If you're late to that's what I'm saying. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.519 It's I mean, now if you make it an issue. Yeah, 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.960 like if you just late all the time. But it's 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.560 like if you late sometimes your coach won't even say nothing. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:40.640 You just walk in. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.879 Nobody says anything but say you was late and we 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.080 needed to do something, Like they may put somebody in 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.760 your spot. If you were starting and you're not there 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.240 to be getting a shoot around. The coach may be like, yep, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.320 next guy up, yep. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:54.680 Yeah. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.120 He may you know, it may bother him a little bit, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.680 but he's not gonna react or change temperature of the 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.840 team because we have a goal, like we're going to win, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.520 Like we're not trying to veer over just because you 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.360 was late today. Now we're gonna focus on you and 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.240 talk about that. Now the energy ship, we're about to 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.880 focus on war. We're going to war. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.720 I think once you're in that position to you are 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.800 smart enough to know don't be late to practice. And 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.600 so if you're late to practice, you are going to 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.560 be hard on your cell phone. And I'm already about it. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.200 But when you when you're twenty one and you just 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.120 get in the league, you are gonna try and like 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.479 it's like talking to your dad early. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:30.520 Yeah, I'm sitting. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.880 Here like trying to explain myself and all a bunch 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.320 of grown ass men just laughing at me, like look 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:37.440 at this dude. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.040 Like get out of here. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.319 Really the first time. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.200 They left a bill, they left me to pay like 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.160 a five thousand dollars like tab at dinner. Yeah, I 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.600 was like it was my first time seeing something like that. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.400 I'm like, why y'all bought all it? Like, bro, we 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.600 need to split. They was looking at me like split it, nah, No, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:56.640 Like bro, what's wrong with you? 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.520 Like it's just easier put your card on it. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.000 But they was like, you really don't know that you 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.920 have money? Like bro, Like you're not broke no more. Yeah, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:05.600 it's okay. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:06.280 It's crazy. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.880 They like put your card down. We did this on 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.200 purpose so you could learn that you're not a little 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.520 kid no more bro pay for them, like look at 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.359 your account like they was like grow up, Like we're 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.200 good now you got it. Stop doing the frugal weird shit. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.120 It sounds like it really you become a family, Like. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.520 Yeah, that was another thing. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.919 I always had incredible teammates, like I've had some of 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.880 the part of my favorite team. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.720 It could be it could also be a middle school 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:37.160 team like. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.800 Nah, it's that twenty sixteen cash team we had. It 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:47.080 was so many wild emotions and factors. Yeah, like that's 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.639 the most family oriented feeling, like because family is like 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.600 shit happens, you get into it, you argue, yep, you cry, 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.520 you huggy, like watch movies together, like you laugh about 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.680 random shit that goes on in life. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:04.840 Like we was like that. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.120 And I think especially because we had those long playoff 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.080 hauls during the playoffs, like it's like having no school 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.560 or something like it's weird. It's like lock in so tough, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.680 and it it's a it's a it's an energy that 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.080 you can't describe like we've that twenty sixteen team. We 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.880 actually were having issues and a lot of bickering and 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.720 a lot of shit goes on, and then it's like 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.120 playoffs hit, we hate them. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:31.440 Yep. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.519 It's like you all become a team in one time. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.720 It feels probably like siblings where it's like, don't fucking 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.640 touch my phone charger, but you need a kidney? 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.400 I got you real talk. Yeah, that's it. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.320 Yep, yep. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.680 We was giving away kidneys. That's what we was giving 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.560 away kidney's. That's the type of team we were. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.760 Okay, now everybody kidney givers. I mean I shouldn't say everybody, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.760 but ninety eight percent of the world knows your your career, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.640 what you're known for, your your legit career stories, right, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.720 and I'm sure you've told you your playoff stories a 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.960 billion times, your championship stories one hundred times, your your 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.920 other famous player story one hundred times. But I want 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.560 to hear just just the first thing that comes to 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.160 your mind. And it might be the story of the century, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.240 or it might be just something so small or so stupid, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.240 but take your like, what is what is a story 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.680 that you It's just like a shit story. That comes 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.560 to mind a good memory. You're, however old, It doesn't 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.960 matter you're in the locker room with the boys or 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.760 your pre court before the game. Like, what is just 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.279 like one fond memory that you have from being in 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:41.120 the NBA. Yeah, that's just like this, like just a 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.960 moment that brings you joy. That's just like a little 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:49.560 small funny memory or funny shit story or just some 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:55.400 just some like a personal versus like. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:03.800 A I'd say that they saw me sleeping at the 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:04.840 witch card at the gym. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:06.520 You were sleeping at the gym. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.200 Yeah, this was college, This was college. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.040 I was in college. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.000 Where did you go to college? 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:12.839 Georgia Tech? 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:13.520 Got it? 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.080 So I was in college and I used to get 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.479 comfort in knowing I could play basketball all day. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:23.560 Yeah, but it was. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.640 Something about twenty four hours that meant a lot to me. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.599 Like I could wake up and can't sleep yep, but 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.880 I could get to the gym and my card works 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.320 all night. Yeah, And I could go in here. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.400 And I could wash clothes and shoot free throws yeah, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.719 and play music at extreme extremely loud value and nobody 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:44.240 bothered me. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.279 Well you know about that. I'm gonna talk about that next. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.960 We're going to the stars in one second of this 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.200 story that. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:57.280 Yeah. The next morning, my assistant coaches came in and 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.960 he was like, did. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.719 You sleep Yeah, and I was like yeah. I was 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.000 like yeah, my bad, Like you know what I'm saying. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.880 But I was like, yeah, I do that sometimes, my bad. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.000 And he was like what, Like yeah, he was like 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.279 what's wrong with your Like what's wrong with your something wrong. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:15.680 With your dorm? 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.520 Like they like concerned coaches, like, why would you be 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:19.880 sleeping in the locker. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:20.080 Room, bro? 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.680 Yeah, you got a whole the team's got apartments, like 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.840 y'all should all be taking care of each other. What's 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.200 wrong with your apartment that didn't get fixed? And I'm 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.320 like nah, just. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.240 I like yeah, I'm like, bro, I like being here. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:39.240 Like it was just like like think about it. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.760 They got these big ass couches because they know the 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.280 players are large, so we got the players lounge that 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.520 sitting there. We had comfortable ass couches. We had big 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.400 screen TV that we watched film on. But of course 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.400 I knew how to rig it and set up the 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.320 video game to where we could get all the fucking 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.000 streaming sets. So it was like I'm sitting in there 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.480 having a good time. Like there was times my best 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.919 friend that was in there, like Taco and I'll be 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:04.520 in there, we. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.080 Watch a movie, whatever you want. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.200 It's a gatorade machine right here. We can get all 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.080 the gatorade and water we want. We all athletes. It's 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.320 clean towels, you feel me, showers back here. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.720 It's just a luxury you hear me, Carleton right now? 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.120 What are you talking about this locker room? 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.760 I'm like what Like I was, man, I was the couch. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.240 I was the couch guy. Sometimes I just fall asleep 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:33.480 there and sometimes I would leave the club and I 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.120 just take everybody to the court. It's like where we're 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.960 finna go. And I'm like, let's let's go to the gym. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.760 Y'all was talking ship like cool. I'm like in my club, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.520 closed shirt off, like playing basketball. Yeah, girls on the sideline, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.680 Like I'm like, this is like y'all get dressed up 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.480 and come to games like that was my science behind it, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.880 Like y'all need entertainment. After this, all y'all gonna do 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.320 is keep drinking cool sit over here in these bleachers, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.840 and I'm finna get better at basketball. I never played 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.120 this guy, yeah, and I ain't gonna see him again. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:03.800 But we got twenty four hour access to it. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.120 Yep, So I'm a twenty four hour guy. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:11.680 That's a good story. Got a fun path because. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.800 You could see me sleep on your neighborhood couch. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:14.120 Man. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.720 As long as you gotta bring him back there, I'll 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:18.080 be there. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.440 I love it all right. We're jumping now. It is 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.800 twenty twenty one, season thirty of Dancing with the Stars. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.280 You get the phone call or the email. Were you 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.400 into doing Dance with the Stars right away or were 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:33.360 you a little hesitant? 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.280 No, I didn't. I wasn't. I wasn't gonna do it. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.520 I'm very at that time. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.800 I was still like working out, just being like man 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.160 waiting on the NBA call, Like, you know what I'm saying, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.760 They gonna probably call me late in the season whatever. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.600 They either gonna do that or they gonna call me 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.920 right you know what I'm saying. A couple of weeks 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.240 in after some people get hurt or whatever, I'm less 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.320 like I'm waiting by my phone. I'm like, I ain't 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.040 worried about that. They like dance was starting. Ashley's like 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:08.320 dancing with the Stone and She's like, no, I think 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.520 your mom likes to ask your mom about it, like 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.000 it's a cool show, like it's ask your mom about it, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:19.680 like she'll know, Like like like mom, they I'm like, yeah, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.880 Ashley was just telling me to do something, and she's 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.280 like she wanted me to do the dancing Dancing in 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.439 the Stars, like but that's how I gave it to her, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.200 Like she want me to do that, but I was 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:30.960 trying to do so I was in the middle of 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.400 doing something else and my mom was trying to like 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.679 tell me about some ship she saw about that and 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.400 she was I was like, yeah, they was telling me 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.199 about that in the Stars thing. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.480 She's like, it's dancing with the Stars. They want you 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.440 to come on there. I'm like, yeah, calm down, Like whoa. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:51.480 It's funny because I was just talking like yo, mom, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.120 be cool, Like I just joined I just joined this 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.280 board of a charity, Dancers Against Cancer, And I was 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.880 talking to the founder of it. His name is Rick, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.600 and we were joking around because we were like, if 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.760 you really want a celebrity to do something, it's best 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.439 to just go to the source, go straight to the 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.120 celebrity if you can. You know, it's it's it's harder 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.320 to go through management or agent or publicist, like, if 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.240 it's something that you can just ask for a quick favor, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.160 go straight to the source. And then I was like, yeah, right, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.600 y'all go through my mom. And they were like, the 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.720 only person better to get a request from a celebrity 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.160 from the celebrity themselves is to go through that. Yeah. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.240 When when my mama says, you say yes, she was 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:34.240 so excited. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.960 I'm like, oh man, So I called Ashley. I was like, 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.719 I'll do it. Yeah, I ain't doing nothing that you 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:40.680 how long? How long? 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.679 They say, yeah, I had to do it. Well, the 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.719 obligation is this, and then if I keep winning. If 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.240 you keep winning, then it's this. If you keep winning, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.760 then it's this. But it's officially over this day. I 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.839 was like, oh, I'm in YEP. And in my mind, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.320 I was just like, I'm gonna have a good time. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.920 My mom's gonna come, We're gonna wear some cool outfits. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.320 They're gonna vote me off. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.160 What I was thinking when I first came there, and 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.600 later I got on there and I'm like, me and 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.000 DJ started hanging out, and I'm like, oh, I love 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.120 this little lady. She was. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:10.720 She's so funny. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.920 And mine was partnered with Danny, who is I mean, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.679 she's so cool, cool a little bit. They were the 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:23.600 funnest couple because how are you yours? He's six six 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:29.080 and Danny is I mean maybe five two yeah, maybe, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.000 And so there's there's quite the height difference pushing the 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.040 DJ and it just I remember the y'all's first week 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:38.600 and I just was watching them and I was like, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:39.240 this is cute. 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.200 Like I like them, I like cool because DJ is 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:43.080 like very. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.440 It was like it's cool to be around somebody that's like, yeah, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.920 she's small, but she has the spunk. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.160 And the is so on it. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.640 She was like very yeah, she's very, very much, so 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.440 able to take me actually when I'm about to veer off, 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.920 because she knew sometimes like he's not a dancer, he's 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.640 gonna check out, he's gonna start doing some random dance 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.120 that has nothing to do with what we got going on, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.360 because like sometimes it'll be like that where I know 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.720 the step, yep, but I've already messed up the step. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.480 I'm not about to mess up the dance. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.240 So I'm gonna do something smooth, and then DJ would 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.600 stop me like listen, keep the smooth shit. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.320 You have to get the step. We're getting scored on 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:30.760 the step. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.360 I remember, yeah, you keep just doing your own thing 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.199 and it's cool, Like you think everybody at home can't notice, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.560 but they can notice. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.440 What's crazy about Dancing with the Stars is like there's 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.439 a lot of pressure, right, and there's a lot of 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.959 pressure to do good and remember your step. And I 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.520 remember I was put in a position where I was 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.079 I was with another females with Jenna. She was my partner, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.400 and so I got put in the position of being 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.040 the lead, being the male, and so when we would 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.000 do lifts, it was me lifting Jen and I remember 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.200 being like I will never drop this perfect fucking angel, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.480 Like I will protect her with my life. I will 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.400 go down head first if it's to save her, right. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.760 And at first with you and Danny, I was like, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.560 oh my god, she has to be terrified because what 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.559 if I'm wm just was like, oh, forgot to catch you, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.040 like I don't know. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.040 And she was very much so like yeah, throw me 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.360 way up there, like yeah you. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.080 Oh my god. Well, then I saw one. I was like, oh, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:29.559 dear god, this is this is going to be a 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.280 rap like that, some shit's gonna happen. It's a rap 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:37.480 and then during it was Halloween week. I saw it 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.680 was not during the performance, but we do a full 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.199 dress rehearsal during day. And I don't know if you 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.360 remember this or not, but y'all did one of your 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.280 lifts in Halloween week and and if you you she 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.080 it was the one where you she went up on 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.200 your shoulders right and you're supposed to let go, and 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.320 then you caught her right. It was that lyft and 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.520 during the dress rehearsal, she went up on your shoulders 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.760 and she like, she wasn't balanced, and it wasn't your fault, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.360 it wasn't her fault. It just was the universe. But 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.800 I remember being like, don't you. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:06.480 Like going on? 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.240 Like I remember thinking that because I. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:13.040 Knew she three or four times though that uh we 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.320 were on tour and DJ actually slipped. We've done like 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.720 I remember one time she she went up, she slipped, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.720 I caught her here and she like does this. She 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.080 did some roll or something and just like into the choreo. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.200 Like you always had her. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.120 Oh yeah, I don't never, she ain't never just going And. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.840 Once I could see that you were never going to 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.680 let her drop to the floor, I was like, oh, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:41.760 this is a good man. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.880 Even the times that she's slipped and it's not you 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.360 had it pisses me off, but it's like I'm not 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:48.000 letting her. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.600 Were always you were always very aware of her. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.960 I'm a good I'm a good cheerleading base. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.840 Yeah, you had your life the other bass. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.720 Yes, had a tape on my hands and everything. But 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.960 I got all that cheerleadership now, pat you see what 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.360 I'm saying at the football game, and yeah, all that 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.640 I got the I got that in me, y'all. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.040 Would do when she would go, right, we're gonna learn 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.320 this new lift, right, how how. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.840 That's exactly what I would do, right as soon as 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.440 she said, oh, I got another. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.320 Left, like all right. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.360 But like for me with Jenna, like the lifts for 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.600 me were very hard. I had zero strength and smaller 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:28.920 than me. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.960 I think your lifts, uh, y'all had to be a 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.320 little different with your grace, Like your lifts had to 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.280 be graceful, beat. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:39.400 And I didn't have to. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.440 They were quick on yeah, like you had to get 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.560 to the next thing too. Like a lot of my 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.960 lifts were just like yeah, it was just like impressive. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.920 Yeah, even hard for you to like pick her up. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.360 I think the practice of it, Like if I had 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.160 to do it freestyle, where it's like I just picked 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.960 her up one time, Yeah, that'd be easy as hell. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.160 But it's like when you got to do rehearsal over 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.800 it's like, yeah, you start to get tired. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.440 But when we would be on the day, on the day, 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.040 it was like always on it. I could pick you 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.040 up and we could do it. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.240 And people I get a lot of credit for the 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.280 stuff that I'll do picking her up, but people don't 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.960 realize like Danny's core strength and her ability. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.920 To keep herself straight and makes it lighter. If they're 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.400 like loose like that, it's like that's a different way work. Yeah, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.320 she gets herself to where she's an arrow. It's like 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.520 moving a lamp yep, exactly. You don't feel like one 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.800 of the craziest things arrow. Like if you go look 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.600 at her when I picked her up off the she's solid, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.480 she is straight lines. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.040 And she makes it easy, makes it easy. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.239 It makes it look like I got some super ability. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.000 But I'm like, you're not noticing that she is planking right. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:59.360 Now, Crazyanny, And I got my hands like literally I'm 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.360 picking herup by hips. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:01.960 I'm like I'm not controlling her. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.400 I'm just picking up It's like picking up a board, 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.040 picking up a two boy ful right now. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.360 I remember just every week watching y'all and just loving it, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.480 and and you always had joy no matter what the 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.720 dance was. Grace night. I remember y'all had. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.560 Fun after a while, when I when when we start 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.760 coming out the trailerst and we all start bothering. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.520 You took. At first, I was gonna let I swear, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.240 I was gonna let. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.400 Everybody stay serious and lock in yup. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.600 And then then Mon brought his backpack with speakers in it, and. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.400 You got crazy. It got crazy. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.040 But then they all started, like people start requesting songs. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.080 Fun Mon used to just have music blasting all the 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.640 time at the time. He's always rapping, he's always doing 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.560 his thing. His car would roll up, windows down, music blaring. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.200 He'd be in the parking lot jamming out. I remember 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.040 there is one day I come into rehearsals right and 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.000 you are. You're in the parking lot and you're jamming out, 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:56.240 and I'm like, all right, he must be early. And 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.600 I go up and Danny was like, where the fuck 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.880 is mine? You're supposed to be here two hours ago. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.560 I was like, Oh, he's in the parking lot smoking 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.960 and I was listening to a lot of music, and she 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.359 was like, what the fuck he was supposed to be 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.920 here two hours ago. And I was like, he's definitely 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:12.400 down there, he's just not up here. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.040 Oh my god. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.399 It was so funny that I remember you came up 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.600 and she was like, she was like, we're not We're not. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.600 Yeah, it was not dealing with you today. You're done, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:34.200 She's I always I always enjoyed that, that like being 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.840 able to be in the back and getting able to 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.960 being able to see people's like real personalities because I 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.320 know we all have to like put on our professional 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.560 what people want to see from us, and everything were 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.040 miked up all day and we got cameras in our fice, 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.560