WEBVTT - #157 - Emma Slater and Sasha Farber from Dancing With the Stars 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.559 All right, welcome to episode one seven of the Bobby Cast, 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:05.840 which this one was. It's kind of special to me 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.039 because I didn't really know this is gonna happen until 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:09.520 I was talking to Sasha and I was like, you 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.560 guys gotta come up and we'll just we'll go get 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.400 some food. But you guys to come do what I 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:14.720 do for a second. So I'm glad you guys are 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.080 here at Sasha right here. Yeah, I will say this 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.480 that I liked you guys separately before I even knew 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.080 you guys were married. When did you know we were married? 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.840 I don't remember. So I didn't know Sasha for a bit. Uh. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.040 And I knew you because when we first started training 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.680 here in Nashville on my season, you were also in 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.400 Nashville with John, and so when I was with Sharna, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.199 you would go, we're training like down the road, and 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.400 so that's where you and I met. I remember coming 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.360 in and and and walk in and being like, oh 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.760 my gosh, this guy, like I love the whole he 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.360 was rest like. I was like, you're wearing red. I 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.000 was like that's your thing and you're like, yeah, it 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.400 kind of is. And And also I knew that we 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.320 had bond because we both like kind of like bigger cars. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.240 Like I've got a chief, you have a monster jeep. Yeah, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.120 but I want to make it bigger. Honestly, I love 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.120 that cheap You were saying that when we were because 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:05.320 I did a bit of the Dancing with the Stars 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.920 Live tour and You're like, I missed my truck, missed 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.119 my big truck more than anything. What what is your jeep? 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.360 It is a Sahara Wrangler and it's kind of like 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.240 the sub It's like I haven't taken off roading, which 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.160 is a complete sin because I put like these big 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.360 wheels on it. It's got I'm going to get a 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.200 roof rat, but I raised it. It's got a like 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.280 a mean grill on the front. It looks like and 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.240 I wanted people to think that is an angry man 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.839 who owns that car. And then this sort of Mary 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:37.280 Poppins type English person just like comes out and I'm 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.440 quite positive so you'd fit right in the catch of 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.640 music or with that big jeep. Yeah, you drive the 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.199 Nashville and just be like what I'm like looking around 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.520 all these like Ford huge trucks and like GMCs, and 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.440 I'm like, this is heaven. Um you. Yeah, we were 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.320 in Nashville together and I remember you being so and 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.320 I was still out of my fish out of water 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.680 completely right. The dancing still am by the way, even 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.920 like six of my later still am. But yeah, you're 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.280 always so nice and so I got to know you 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.520 a little bit through that, and then Sasha was how's 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.600 the go to man? Yeah? You were. I would like 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.960 be like, hey, dude, what do I do? And because 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.880 you were working were with Mary Lou and you'd be 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.080 training because you guys training the same building in l 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.680 A that we do. And then I was like, dang, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.920 they're freaking married. How how appropriate is that? I feel 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.640 like that's when we bonded the first time. When you 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.360 found out that M's and I were married. We had 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.160 we had our little traditional catering chats, didn't we Yeah, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.040 And it was well, I like, Emma, and if you're married, 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.200 and I must like you Like sure, that's really what 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.800 it is. I based a lot of my at least 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.200 early on relationships on if I have a good recommendation. Yeah, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.160 you know, it's like a Netflix show. People are like 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.200 Netflix shows to me. Now, if someone recommends it and 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.760 they know my sensibilities. I'm much more able to go, okay, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.400 let the guard down a little bit because someone's vouching. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.400 So I'm glad you guys are here. It's really cool 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.360 for me to finally in my world. I know, I 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.360 know this is what you do. I'm finally good at 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:07.720 something good. God, you're the champion. I did win, and yeah, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.880 but I think I wont by just band aiding it 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.480 together all the time. No, I don't think you band 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.960 aided it. I think that you Like when I watched 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.520 you because I was in in week ten. I think 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.960 it was you had a salsa and it was going 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.880 down for real and I was one of the girls 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.280 in that, and I watched you and also your finale, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.960 your your freestyle. I watched you become you like you 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.720 really turned it on for the show, like you really 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.760 you kind of it's almost like you told yourself right. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.680 I don't know if I know it, but guess what, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.720 I'm going to give it and you just kind of 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.720 like geared yourself up and you did. We actually watched 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.640 that last night. It wasn't it. You watched it. I 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.240 don't haven't watched it. I haven't watched it back. I 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.800 can't watch it all the way back. It's good actually, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.280 like a little clicks of it, and you know, praise 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.000 to Sharna for putting it together. But I have just 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.840 struggle with watching me because I just see the little 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.000 things that I do wrong every time that I don't 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.400 think nor people would see because I wouldn't see it 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.240 before that. But um, yeah, I won. I mean, you Skippy. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.680 I don't even come to talk about me here, but 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.960 you have Skippy. It was cool. It's really one of 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.560 the coolest things that I've accomplished. And you know, I'm 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.120 not some pretty cool stuff, but I think that to 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.200 me more than it being a TV show was like 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.719 for the sake of I had no idea what I 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.960 was doing right, and as a team. When I was 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.120 able to figure out my team, because Sean is way 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.400 different than I am, we had to figure out compatibility issues. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.760 And then I had to figure out how to actually 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.640 learn how to dance good enough to be good at 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.240 what I do as well, because I couldn't just go 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.160 want to be an idiot. I had to at least 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.520 look like I was caring and trying to get better. Yeah, exactly, 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.880 And then are you were? You were getting better every week? Okay, 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.320 well enough about me. I didn't. I didn't. I talked 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.240 about me for five hours a day, every day, all 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.000 the time. I'm so over me at this point. So, um, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:55.880 you guys are on the tour right now, the Live tour, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.120 and you've been out since like before Christmas. Huh it 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.680 was December fift and then this is our longest tour, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.480 so we don't finish until much ninth and nuts in Cali, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.080 and you stay on the road, which is weird because 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.920 tours here, like in in country music, they go out Thursday, Friday, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.320 Saturday and they come home. Oh really, I didn't know that. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.599 Even when I tour, we go out Friday Saturdays and 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.520 then we come back home. We're getting chipped on the road. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.599 We get one day off, but we do kind of 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.440 like five six shows and then a day off. Six shows, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.320 day off, And I mean, I'm not complaining. This is 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.720 actually I've done every single tour that they've done, and 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.040 I will do because I kind of love living out 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.240 of a suitcase. I love I love exploring. I love that. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.560 You know, that's why we love camping. We've never gone 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.080 camping exactly. He thinks you're like camping. We love the 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.279 great outdoors. Yeah it's awesome, but yeah it's this one's 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.080 a really really long tour. I'm curious about you guys backstories, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.880 because as we were spending time together, it was always like, hey, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.920 how do I just got to go for advice all 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.120 the time. We never really sat down and like, I'm 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.760 curious about And I'll start with you. Emma. You grew 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:07.599 up in England, right, so when did you start dancing? 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.480 So I grew up in Birmingham and I always had 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.960 like a lot of energy. I first started. I've got 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.000 a twin as well. We first started going to like 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.159 ballet when we were five. But I just had so 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.760 much energy that I just wanted to bounce off the walls. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.680 And I found the teacher was like really strict, so 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.800 quit that it was kind of like whatever. Just you know, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.080 little girls go to ballet. Did your parents dance well 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:32.640 or they just put you in dance because it was 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:37.200 something No they I mean her mom thinks she can dance, right, well, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.080 my mom, cat, what are you saying, Sash? My mom 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.920 can dance, but she's a their forensic detective, so they 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.960 not hold on your Your mom is a forensic detective 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.000 and my dad, and so they like solve what kind 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.880 of crimes they serve. Well, my dad he's moved into 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.840 sort of the professor teaching stage now, but when he 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.880 was doing forensic detectives way back then, Um, he used 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.960 to solve some pretty like homicide, some really serial killer 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.920 type things. He used to fly everywhere to teach how 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.120 to teach these countries how to like get to the 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.520 English standard of forensic crime solving. It was amazing. The 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.160 question like her phone calls, like with her mom, just 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.000 casually I'd be like, yeah, I don't know if I'm 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.800 allowed to say this on the podcast, but basically, like 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.640 sometimes my mom will be like, oh, hi, how are 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.680 you doing. Oh gosh, I just got back from a 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.360 triple homicide. You know, please be safe. You know this 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.239 person it's like, and she would like be on roofs 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.280 trying to fingerprint for like the point of entry and stuff. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.320 She just cut like she'd bust a marijuana factory and 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.200 she'd come I remember being in school once and coming 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.440 home and she smelt of weed and she was and 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.200 I ran down the stairs to give her a hug, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.840 and she was like, ever, don't touch me. I stink 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.600 of marijuana. And then she's walked off and it was 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.800 and I remember thinking that is such a surreal thing 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.920 for a mother to say. But anyway, does that decenteritie 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.920 you to what all the shows, like all the crime 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.440 docuseries is now where it's like Ted Bundy or because 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.640 you've seen a lot of this and heard a lot 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.080 of it in your real life. Okay, it doesn't desensitize me, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.640 but I have a real piqued interest. But I think 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.080 everybody does. But I really did like case study a 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.520 lot of serial killers when I was younger, which sounds 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.360 pretty creepy, but I kind of think that a lot 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.400 of people do that. So like Ted Bundy, the Boston Strangler, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.040 like all of these ed Geane who was like really 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.920 really the biggest one edge I don't know who that is, 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.200 so they based like Psycho off of him. He was 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.520 kind of a cannibal as well. I believe from where right, 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.199 um isn't I can't realise the States? How can we 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.920 have a name like a crazy name? Ed He was 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.040 like he had a really like weird relationship with his mom. Um. Yeah, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.840 he blood of Philadelphia. Philadelphia there there it is. And 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.400 so he killed a bunch of people. He killed a 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.079 bunch of people and would keep their heads in jars 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.640 like he kept the bodies. How do I know this? Dude? 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.560 He was the base sins of a lot of a 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.800 lot of movies, like a loads I think, I'm pretty 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.480 sure Psycho. I can't quite remember that one, but a 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.320 load of movies. Maybe even Um Silence and the Lambs, 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.240 I think something like that. Did you watch the Ted 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.439 Money on Netflix? I didn't. I started it, but I 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.120 didn't watch the whole way through. And you know about 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.640 him already. You know he escaped jail twice. I did 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.160 know that. And he's from Utah too. So Whitney, who's 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.400 from Utah, was really freaked out she watched the documentary. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.080 She was like, oh, so your parents are freaking uh 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.040 DNA detective. What's the official title? I don't want to mask. Well. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.080 In England they called SOCCOS, which has scenes of crime officer, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.920 but over here it's forensic. Did you worry that your 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.400 parents were there investigating bad guys that bad guys would 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.400 like try to come at them? Do you know? I 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.040 actually didn't worry about that when I was a kid, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.880 but I do worry about it now with my mom 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.800 because she does nights, and so she goes out to 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.560 all these burglary scenes and um and fingerprints, and sometimes 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.920 she's on her own just with her kid, and so 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.959 she she doesn't like to show the fact she's in 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.560 the police because they're in dodgy areas. So, you know, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.960 I worry about her wild and her dad's like leam 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.720 Neeson taken. You know, if if anything was going to happen, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.280 he was he knows what to do. I don't know 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.480 if he'd be as successful as she. And so, okay, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.320 you have two parents. By the way, let me ask 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.480 one more question right there. Yeah, did they ever watch 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.360 these shows and be like, that's not really how it works? 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.400 Because that friends in the military that will watch military shows, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.360 be like, that's not really how it works. They watched 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.160 these shows and that's not really My dad would scream 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.199 at the TV and be like, the see this contamination everywhere. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.760 They haven't even they haven't even put up a bloody tent, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.120 he said. And he always used to tell me he 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.080 fills me with all this information. But he always used 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.480 to tell me the first thing you do is literally 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.280 get everyone away from the scene and take photographs. They 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.719 put these little ballistics cards down like where they see 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.440 a shell or where they numbers, and they would take 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.800 photographs and measurements of dimensions if it's a pretty serious crime, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.840 you know, and then they put a pretent to preserve 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.880 it all. And then they go in with their you 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.400 know you see them with the sometimes blue, sometimes white, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.320 big overrules of the onesies. They go and with the 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.120 and they like put lead dust on and their fingerprint 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.320 and then peel it off and all kinds. Wow. And 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.559 so you never wanted to do there, No, no, Actually 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.320 I wanted to be an actress. So the story of 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.080 me getting into dances like, I always wanted to be 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.440 an actress. I knew that I was. I wouldn't say creative, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.360 but I knew that I was. I wanted to perform. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.280 That was it performed was like everything, and um, I 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:28.960 wanted to be an actress. So I went into like 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.280 a local acting like school, just on the weekends, like 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.760 my family is not well off at all. Um. And 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.120 then I started dancing and it went from being a 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.640 hobby to like competing two then serious competing and then 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.439 by the time I was fourteen, I remember being really 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.280 like upset one day because I am quite analytical, and 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.640 I had to tell myself, right, I need to pick one. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.640 Which one am I going to file? Am I gonna do? 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.000 I want to try to be an actress. I don't 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.319 want to be a dance And the dance was so 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.120 much more um you know, I was. I was doing 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.679 compete and it was something I had to give up 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.360 that I I went into acting, Sorry, I went into dancing. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.440 And I think that what most attracted me to that 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.760 was you could be and you could pretend to be 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.280 I was being an actress while being a dancer. You 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.040 could pretend to be things, and do things and and 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.679 interact with people while dancing. So it was kind of 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.200 like a place where it was a relief for me. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.080 So the dancing took off and by the time I 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.360 was sixteen, because in England you can you can come 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.520 out of high school at sixteen, and I wanted to 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.520 do college, maybe psychology if the dancing wasn't going well. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.920 But it kind of was. So I were you elite, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.880 so elite that people were like, oh, there's a future 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.079 with her with the dancing. Yeah, like a future where 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.600 you can get paid and live a life because a 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.000 difference in being a good dancer and then being someone 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.959 that actually support yourself off of dance, yes, total and this, 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.400 and it makes me sad because there are so many incredible, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.040 like insane dancers way better than me that I watched 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.360 on on Instagram and YouTube and all that, and and 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.679 I know personally that that can't make it to a 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.520 point where they can make a living off of dancing 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.280 because there's so few jobs and especially in the boyman 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.520 Latin world does really only strictly come dancing in England 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.240 or Dancing of the Stars in America and those franchises 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.360 throughout the world. Um. And and that was it. And 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.200 there was a show called Burned the Floor and so 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:23.040 I went into theater. I m how did that happen? Oh? Yeah, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.959 I got a show that toward England for two years 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.560 and then I went and did MoMA me in the 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.439 movie with Meryl Streep. That that movie with Juan Pablo 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.800 really that? Yeah? I knew Juan Pablo when I was 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.680 eighteen and Quan probably on the show you know with 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.760 Cheryl um so We. When I saw him on the show, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.760 I was like, I freaking know you you were you 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.320 were in Mama Mere, What did you do? Mom? I 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.040 was hend hen so there was like twenty Hen's not 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.440 like chickens, like we were Hen girls, like hen party girls. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.400 And and so I was the youngest cast member on 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.920 the on the movie, I think, apart from some little kids. Um, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.520 and there was twenty of us girls and twenty of 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.360 US guys. And we were like the singers and the 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.880 dancers and the actors in the background like kind of 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.679 like her friends Amanda's say for its friends. And then 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.200 I did UM and then like four or five West 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.000 End shows the day dancing, and then I got into 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.800 Burn the Floor which is where I met Sash and 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.880 Burn the Floor is Dancing with Stars, but England, right, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.840 No Burn the that's strictly come down. So Burn the 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.600 Floor is it is a Broadway show. That didn't I 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.120 know that. That's why I know it. Then Shannah did, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.800 Peter did, Sasha did, Kim Johnson did so many of 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:46.280 the Dancing with the Stars cast did Burn the Floor. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.480 It's not a reality show, that's actually a production, like 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.440 a Broadway production, no dialogue. So you do that, and 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.040 how does that transition from that to being on Dancing 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.960 with the Stars. They see you and go like it's 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.840 like Suturain in Live where they got in recruit away. Well, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.560 no kind of they did do that, but they came 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.280 and saw Sasha before I was even on burn the Floor. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.240 They came and saw Sasha and um and so they 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.200 knew they like certain people. And then cut to two 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.040 years later. We've both been on burn the Floor. We 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.080 were together at this point, but we've only been together 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.120 for like two months. We were in South Africa. It 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.160 was all like new and fun and still fun now, baby, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:27.359 I promise, but so so. Dancing with the Stars contacted 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.320 Sasha and says, look, we we remember you. Your auditioned 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.800 for us two years ago, whatnot. We want you to 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.120 come and be on this this new we're extending the cast. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.960 We want you to come and be on there. And 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.479 I was so excited for him, and he was, you know, ecstatic. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.360 But at that time I thought, well, oh, this means 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.080 that we're probably going to be over. We've only been 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.600 together for two months. You know, I can't expect him. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.120 He's going to go and live in Los Angeles. I'm 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.160 going to stay on the tour. Um, you know, I 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.080 can't really expect him to stay with me. And then 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.040 he went and he hacked onto my Facebook, which he 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.760 will deny, and he denied, and he requested to be 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.560 my boyfriend. And you can't even deny this. I remember 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.640 where we were standing and and so I was like, oh, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.640 this is awesome. So I a second that I could um. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.200 He went over to l A and I quit. I 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.480 in a nice way. I told him, akay, I'm going 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.680 to leave the tour, that I was on the burn 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.720 the floor, and I went over to visit him, And 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.040 to be honest, at that point in my life, I 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.600 don't really care. I cared about work. I definitely was 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.520 very direct, career driven, but to me, I had this 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.320 overwhelming feeling I always knew I was going to be 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.600 okay no matter what I did. I was like a cat. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.600 I always thought I'm going to land on my feet, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.880 and so I wasn't really nervous about quitting, even though 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.280 I really had no intentions of even being on dance 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.360 with stuff. They didn't even know who I was. I'd 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.760 never met them or anything. So I got to l A, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.240 and my wonderful husband here boyfriend at the time, had 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.560 arranged meetings with me and the producers, and he was sweet, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.520 and so I went and did that, and then we 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.880 went back after that season, we went back to US 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.800 earlyer to surgery. He had surgery, hernia surgery, and we 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.040 stayed at your parents house and um, and it was 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.960 I knew he was this the guy for me for sure, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.520 and then they called me up. But I mean, it 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.879 was it was. It was kind of interesting because we 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.800 were kind of basing everything, Like she left burned the floor. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.280 We were at home and we're waiting for the next season. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.080 We were kind of thinking, okay, so what's going to 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.360 happen if like one of us doesn't get it all, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.199 Like we were just going to play it by you. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.040 And then I got a call in the morning, really 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.560 early in the morning and they're like, Sasha, um, I 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.760 would like to have you back. This is great, blah 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.440 blah blah. And then they call and they go but 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.400 unfortunately there's no room for ever. And we were like, oh, 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.800 that's okay, and and was the sweetest person there is 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.040 and she was like, no, no, no, it's okay. Please 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.200 don't stress about it. This is to the producers. I'm 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.680 totally fine. I had a great audition, it was great. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.960 I enjoyed being in l A. I'll be with Sasha. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.480 So then when she put the phone down. We put 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.600 the phone down, We kind of had like a few 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.280 seconds of science and we kind of went, this is 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.159 going to be great. You can come to l A. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.240 And then um, literally, like I think it was like 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.320 maybe two days later, they called back and they go, actually, um, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.159 we're gonna have you. We're going to have you on 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.080 the show. So then she had to remember that. Yeah, 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.240 I remember. It was one of those moments where it 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.119 was like so surreal because we planned to both go 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.919 there together and then all of a sudden, not not 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.080 shadowed dreams, but then something happened that we weren't planning for, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.800 and then two days later it was just like the 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.879 best news ever, and we went got our visas straightaway. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.119 You've got yours before mine, even yeah I got to 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.280 I got my visa before yours. But I remember we 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.399 had like less than maybe two days to get on 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.000 the plane and go over there. And then I also 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.479 was running out of pages in my passport, so I 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.280 freaked out that it wasn't gonna let me in. But 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.840 it worked out then. I mean, the best part was 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.280 you know, going to l A together this time it 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.040