Speaker 1: You're listening to Jo Just Sea Now with me Jojo
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Speaker 2: Oh, welcome back to Jojo Say you on now. You
Speaker 2: know my friend actually yesterday was like, you know, you
Speaker 2: have different voices and I was.
Speaker 3: Like, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: And she was like, well, you have like your and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh wait, actually before you answer that,
Speaker 2: I know what you mean. And I was like, I
Speaker 2: have my like excited voice, my quiet voice, my scared voice,
Speaker 2: but then I also have my random British accent that
Speaker 2: comes out occasionally. And she was like, yes, that's what
Speaker 2: made me think of it as your random British accent
Speaker 2: that you do occasionally. I don't know why it comes out.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's like when I'm nervous,
Speaker 2: but like right now, I'm not nervous at all, so
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. I have not quite put
Speaker 2: my finger on what it is. No, do you know
Speaker 2: what I wonder if it is. I'm gonna start thinking
Speaker 2: about this and see if I consciously do it like this.
Speaker 2: But one of my best best best friends is English,
Speaker 2: and so when I think of like if I say
Speaker 2: something that like I hear her say, like when I
Speaker 2: just said, put my finger on it. She has this
Speaker 2: funny saying which she's like, not not doing it, put
Speaker 2: my foot down, put my foot down, not doing it.
Speaker 2: Might that's how like, that's one of her saying. So
Speaker 2: when I say put it makes me think of Kuz.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyways, not the point point is welcome
Speaker 2: back to Joe, just do it now today. I am
Speaker 2: so excited to talk about this. I just had the
Speaker 2: best freaking week of my life. Actually the best and
Speaker 2: the hardest mentally physically, but it was so freaking rewarding.
Speaker 2: I just got off done doing my first live performance
Speaker 2: as an adult, as an adult artist in Miami at
Speaker 2: Miami Beach Pride, and holy how was it amazing?
Speaker 3: I mean it was.
Speaker 2: It was beyond what I ever expected it to be.
Speaker 2: I don't really know, like going into it, I didn't
Speaker 2: have any expectation. I'm I'm about to so basically the
Speaker 2: only concept of Pride that I have in my head
Speaker 2: right is I did the weeho Pride Braide. I did
Speaker 2: it two years ago. It was awesome, such a fun day.
Speaker 2: But I that's very different than like a performance right
Speaker 2: at like Pride, and then the only like concept of
Speaker 2: performance that I have is back in the day when
Speaker 2: Asia and when I had a TV show called Raising Asia,
Speaker 2: she performed at Long Beach Pride and so I remember
Speaker 2: seeing that, and so for me that was kind of
Speaker 2: my expectation of what it was gonna be, like a
Speaker 2: couple hundred people fun. I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 2: during the day. I thought it was just gonna be
Speaker 2: like a chill, little shindig.
Speaker 3: Like mainly, I was like, I'm.
Speaker 2: Also doing it for like the video to have on
Speaker 2: social media, Like there might not be a lot of
Speaker 2: people there, but then like, but I'll have the good
Speaker 2: video for social media. That was like my concept and
Speaker 2: thought of like how I was getting myself to do
Speaker 2: it on a big level.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Anyways, So I got the offer to do Miami Bride,
Speaker 2: I said yes, And when I got there, I got
Speaker 2: to the stage, I did soundcheck and it was empty
Speaker 2: doing soundcheck, and I was like, oh wow, this is
Speaker 2: actually like a really big area of land that this
Speaker 2: could be. But I was like still even then, like
Speaker 2: I bet like two thousand people are going to be here,
Speaker 2: and like out of those two thousand people that are
Speaker 2: gonna be here, like maybe fifteen hundred I'll watch the
Speaker 2: performance like that's like that was the goal that I
Speaker 2: was achieving. I thought I was gonna be able to
Speaker 2: like see the end of people and like that would
Speaker 2: be that and it would be like mingly. But freakin'
Speaker 2: heck was I wrong. I was so wrong. I got
Speaker 2: on stage and it is just a sea of people,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go back and go talk about rehearsals
Speaker 2: and talk about the performance and backstage in Miami. But
Speaker 2: I got to start off this podcast by saying, to
Speaker 2: the fifty five thousand people that showed up.
Speaker 3: One thank you. I love you.
Speaker 2: You were the best freaking audience for my first performance.
Speaker 2: You were the best audience ever. But I that is
Speaker 2: triple the size of my biggest crowd in my past.
Speaker 2: That is I mean, it blew my mind. Not only
Speaker 2: wasn't my biggest crowd, but it was also my performance
Speaker 2: broke the record for Miami Pride attendance. The president of
Speaker 2: Miami Pride came up to me after. That's a tongue twister.
Speaker 2: Miami Pride president. He came up to me after and
Speaker 2: he was just telling me, he was like, we have
Speaker 2: never had an energy like this in the audience, and
Speaker 2: he said, And you broke the record by a landslide,
Speaker 2: he said, And I was like, really, how many people
Speaker 2: were there when he told me? Fifty five thousand. When
Speaker 2: I tell you, I took a lap, I literally ran
Speaker 2: away came back sobbing.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what to say, I didn't know how
Speaker 3: to feel. It was. It was the most.
Speaker 2: Magical feeling, literally ever. And then I was talking to
Speaker 2: one of my dancers because she had lived in Miami
Speaker 2: for a while, and she was like, yeah, normally there's
Speaker 2: like thirty thousand people, Like I kind of expected there
Speaker 2: to be like twenty thirty. And I was like, no
Speaker 2: one felt like telling me this beforehand, Like I didn't
Speaker 2: know it was going to be that big, and then
Speaker 2: for it to be that big already and then to
Speaker 2: have my performance in me being there break the record that,
Speaker 2: I mean, blew my mind. I'm so excited because now
Speaker 2: I get to do it again at Chicago Pride, and
Speaker 2: I get to do it again at Pittsburgh Pride. It
Speaker 2: is going to be so much freaking fun. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: go back, let's no reverse to rehearsals. So I started
Speaker 2: off doing Miami Pride rehearsals. We started we had. It
Speaker 2: was actually pretty chaotic because we didn't have that much
Speaker 2: time to rehearse. It was actually really stressful. We were
Speaker 2: supposed to shoot a music video the day before rehearsals,
Speaker 2: but then I was like, you know what, put the
Speaker 2: music video on hold because I really just want to
Speaker 2: focus on my Pride and it would have been way
Speaker 2: too much. So thank god we did that. Anyways, though,
Speaker 2: we start Miami Pride rehearsals, we have five songs, well,
Speaker 2: we have balance, maybe choose your fighter Karma boomerang, and
Speaker 2: then there was a fifth song in the set. We
Speaker 2: were supposed to do five songs, and at that point
Speaker 2: in time, we had five songs and five days of rehearsals,
Speaker 2: and so it was very tight, very crammed, and very stressful.
Speaker 2: Are we going to make this happen? And of course
Speaker 2: we were. I mean it was no sweat off of anybody,
Speaker 2: but it was like, we got to keep it pushing.
Speaker 2: We can't get lazy any day. The Miami rehearsals, I
Speaker 2: got to have some of the best moments and some
Speaker 2: of the hardest moments of my life. I We're in
Speaker 2: rehearsals and we rehearsed at my studio, studio see what,
Speaker 2: and studio see what. For me, I've talked about this before,
Speaker 2: is kind of like my safe space if a therapist
Speaker 2: was a place to studio see what is my therapist.
Speaker 2: I true really love it out there. It really is
Speaker 2: a safe home for me. I mean I spend as
Speaker 2: much time there as I do at my house. And
Speaker 2: so being in that space on this week where mentally
Speaker 2: I had been going through so much with things going
Speaker 2: on on the internet, things going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: things getting out that I didn't even know existed, Like
Speaker 2: what the fuck is happening? And my thing is is
Speaker 2: as long as I'm covered on the back end and
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3: I've realized that the world.
Speaker 2: Is just kind of theorized on things, and the world
Speaker 2: is going to think things without even knowing them, and
Speaker 2: I've kind of had to accept that, and I kind
Speaker 2: of had to accept my fate. Also in this time
Speaker 2: is when the So You Think You Can Dance trailers
Speaker 2: started to come out, and so You're thinking his trailer
Speaker 2: was getting you know, a bit of a bit of
Speaker 2: heat because people didn't like A that I was a
Speaker 2: judge and B they didn't like the new format and
Speaker 2: at this point one two actually two of the top ten,
Speaker 2: and are my dancers for this Miami Pride performance. And
Speaker 2: I'll talk about all my dancers in a second. But
Speaker 2: I was telling them. I said to them, I said look,
Speaker 2: because they felt bad that I was getting the heat.
Speaker 2: And I was like, look, here's the thing, like, I
Speaker 2: don't care if I'm getting the heat and if the
Speaker 2: format's getting the heat, because I know that I can
Speaker 2: handle it. Like I don't I don't mind being the
Speaker 2: punching bag for the show, Like as long as you
Speaker 2: guys aren't getting the heat, like, let's freaking go. Then
Speaker 2: I realized something, and this is what really got me
Speaker 2: through rehearsals is and through last week, was look, if
Speaker 2: I am the world's punching bag for a second, that
Speaker 2: means that somebody is having more fun bullying and destroying
Speaker 2: me than they are somebody at school, than they are
Speaker 2: somebody else on social media. And the thing is, I
Speaker 2: know that I can take it. I know that I
Speaker 2: will be fine. I'm gonna be upset at times, of course,
Speaker 2: but I know I have good people around me, and
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna be okay, and I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: through it. But I don't know if anybody else could
Speaker 2: get the heat that I am getting right now and
Speaker 2: keep it pushing. And so I'm very grateful to a
Speaker 2: in a very strange, messed up way, just let me
Speaker 2: have it, because it's all I got right now. But
Speaker 2: I am almost grateful that I'm getting the heat because
Speaker 2: I know that somebody else isn't because I am, so
Speaker 2: that's kind of made me feel better. There was a
Speaker 2: few days of rehearsal where I left the studio and
Speaker 2: had to take a couple of phone calls and came
Speaker 2: off those phone calls sobbing because I was like just why,
Speaker 2: like what what?
Speaker 3: Why? This is enough?
Speaker 2: Like let's like people need a can it basically and
Speaker 2: beat it. But I walked back into the studio and
Speaker 2: rich was like, Jojo nish, what.
Speaker 3: Do you need?
Speaker 2: And I was like, Richie's my choreographer, and I was like, Richie,
Speaker 2: play the song, let's do the set, and all my
Speaker 2: dancers like, let's go, let's do it, because that's that's
Speaker 2: what makes me happy, being in that room, running that show, performing, entertaining,
Speaker 2: and so I was like, let's just freaking go. I
Speaker 2: also when we're in those rehearsals. I mean, it is
Speaker 2: the best group of people at the studio. We have
Speaker 2: my videographer Cameron, who is so fun, so chill, with
Speaker 2: my choreographer Richie Jackson. I mean, Richie is one of
Speaker 2: the most legendary choreographers out there, and he has created
Speaker 2: some of the most iconic dances, and he has done
Speaker 2: everything with me since Dariam Music video, so he's he's
Speaker 2: been in my bubble for a very long time. He
Speaker 2: was also a judge on my first show, Abbey's Ultimate
Speaker 2: Dance Competition. He's Lady Gaga's choreographer and creative director. He
Speaker 2: has worked with literally every artist. He's he's the best
Speaker 2: guy ever. His assistant Ian Mackenzie, who is also freaking incredible, phenomenal.
Speaker 2: And then my dancers. We have Madison Alvarado.
Speaker 3: Who is.
Speaker 2: Insanely talented. We have Malia Murray who is also insanely talented.
Speaker 2: She has been with me since Dreamed the Tour twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. She's I mean, both of those two girls
Speaker 2: are family to me.
Speaker 3: And then my boys. We have CJ.
Speaker 2: Jensen, who's actually done performances with me since I was fourteen.
Speaker 2: At the Kid's Choice Awards so he has been with
Speaker 2: me now for almost seven years, which is crazy. We
Speaker 2: have Braylan, he is Braylan and Madison actually are both
Speaker 2: the two dancers that are in the top ten of
Speaker 2: So You Think You Can Dance, and they are Braylan.
Speaker 3: Braylan was our baby.
Speaker 2: We always do a set baby on a set Grandpa
Speaker 2: who is our youngest, who's our oldest. And Braylan actually
Speaker 2: for this project was set baby and he freaking crushed it.
Speaker 2: And then there's a dancer. His name is Joseph. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna butcher his last name it's like something like sis
Speaker 2: s z E k U l A. I literally don't
Speaker 2: even know where to begin with that. Joseph did Karma
Speaker 2: with me. That was the first time I met him.
Speaker 2: He is freaking awesome. And then Diego, I'm also gonna butcher.
Speaker 2: Diego's last name pass pass Pasila plus I gotta find it.
Speaker 2: I really gotta find it. P A S I L
Speaker 2: l A S. And he asked Diego that today. Diego
Speaker 2: is literally one of the best dancers in the freaking world.
Speaker 2: He he actually won the TV show World of Dance
Speaker 2: with him and his two friends. They were a trio
Speaker 2: and they won. So yeah, a freaking incredible group of
Speaker 2: people at the studio literally at all times. And then
Speaker 2: for like our last two days of rehearsal, my mom
Speaker 2: was actually up there. She was doing wardrobe and costumes
Speaker 2: with Gabby, who is our assistant helper dancer, she's she
Speaker 2: does a lot of things. And then Kristin, who is
Speaker 2: actually one of the x MG pop kids, her mom.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Kristin was out there, Gabby was out there,
Speaker 2: my mom was out there.
Speaker 3: It was a freaking party.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of work and a lot of
Speaker 2: hours and a lot of training, but it was so
Speaker 2: much fun. Of you and if you know me, you
Speaker 2: know I can spend hours at that studio. But figuring
Speaker 2: out the set and the choreography was actually, I mean,
Speaker 2: it was no joke. These numbers are very fit, physical.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm singing and then dancing, and I'm partnering with
Speaker 2: I'm always partnering with Madison in the set, which is
Speaker 2: I mean, we have so much fun and.
Speaker 3: We put on a freaking show.
Speaker 2: We entertain We are not a singer, we are not
Speaker 2: a dancer, but we are an entertainer and we I'm
Speaker 2: saying we as in me, but we freaking entertained, and
Speaker 2: whether the audience likes it hates it, they are definitely
Speaker 2: entertained by it.
Speaker 3: And that that's what I was put on this earth
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 2: So I'm very grateful that I get to do that,
Speaker 2: and I'm grateful that it worked. The end of every rehearsal,
Speaker 2: we always say are high and are low? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: in the audio team. Wait, I forgot about the audio team.
Speaker 2: We had these three boys who are my audio team,
Speaker 2: and they are phenomenal, so fun I was when I
Speaker 2: was talking about highs and lows. Just now reminded me
Speaker 2: of them because they always had the best high and lows.
Speaker 2: But honestly, towards the end of rehearsals, like the last
Speaker 2: two days, I actually stopped doing lows and I only
Speaker 2: had everybody say they're high because truthfully, the reason why
Speaker 2: is because my loaves were too low and I didn't
Speaker 2: want to bring them up, didn't want to talk about them,
Speaker 2: didn't want to bring them into the room, didn't want
Speaker 2: to bring that energy into the room. But my loaves
Speaker 2: were very low, and I wanted to keep the vibes
Speaker 2: happy for everybody because at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: that room's energy revolves around my energy.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: When I am the boss in this situation, I'm the
Speaker 2: one that is in charge of everybody. If I'm down,
Speaker 2: everyone's down. If I'm up, everyone's up. There was actually
Speaker 2: this funny moment in rehearsals where I was down.
Speaker 3: We were choreographing Boomerang. I was just not in. I
Speaker 3: was not invested.
Speaker 2: It was the day that I was lower than low,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, we take a break, we
Speaker 2: come back from break, and Richie was like, go from
Speaker 2: the top, We're changing this whole thing. Troops and then
Speaker 2: everyone like tapped in.
Speaker 3: I tapped in. I told the dancers.
Speaker 2: I was like, here we go, let's get it together
Speaker 2: like this, we're being embarrassing right now.
Speaker 3: Let's find it. And we found it.
Speaker 2: The new versee is what made it on stage and
Speaker 2: I am so happy because of the new version. Ah
Speaker 2: so freaking good. So it actually wasn't until it was
Speaker 2: Actually it was pretty early on. It was like day
Speaker 2: two of rehearsal because we had done Karma. No, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: it was day three rehearsal because we had done Karma.
Speaker 2: Choose your Fighter and then Balance Baby and next in
Speaker 2: the set was supposed to be uh ah, do I
Speaker 2: want to tell you what it was? Now? I don't
Speaker 2: want to tell you what it was. There was supposed
Speaker 2: to be another song. We ultimately decided that that song
Speaker 2: is too big of a power move in the future
Speaker 2: of my career that we didn't want to put it
Speaker 2: out there in just a quick performance. And it was
Speaker 2: very important to us to hold onto it and make
Speaker 2: that song a reveal at a time, because it is
Speaker 2: such same way that Karma was a head turner, this
Speaker 2: song is the next head turner, and so it was
Speaker 2: very important to us that we held onto that and
Speaker 2: we didn't reveal it right away. And it was a
Speaker 2: tough decision because creatively, half of my team wanted it there,
Speaker 2: and then creatively half of my team didn't want it there.
Speaker 2: And so ultimately that then comes down to me to
Speaker 2: make the final decision. And I know I'm making half
Speaker 2: my team happy one way and half my team happy
Speaker 2: the other way. But I have to eliminate all of that,
Speaker 2: really figure out what makes sense, and then go with that.
Speaker 2: Cause even even for me, you know, I actually I
Speaker 2: probably would have been more happy and more satisfied if
Speaker 2: I did do that song because I would have gotten
Speaker 2: to do another song, which I would have loved, but ultimately,
Speaker 2: in the scale and the scope of my career, it
Speaker 2: made sense to not perform that song, and so.
Speaker 3: We're holding it, We're saving it.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'll end up doing it at Pittsburgh Pride,
Speaker 2: but I think I'll for sure do it at Chicago Pride.
Speaker 2: So I'll see you in Chicago and you will know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: But that song.
Speaker 2: Also, we're planning music video for next week, which I
Speaker 2: am so excited. Oh my god, I ah, oh, I
Speaker 2: didn't I didn't think I would be more excited for
Speaker 2: a concept than I was for Karma. And truthfully, as
Speaker 2: soon as we came up with this next step in
Speaker 2: this next music video, I honestly was like, well, good luck, Karma,
Speaker 2: I hope you do good. And I kind of like
Speaker 2: a borded mission on Karma and just like chucked it
Speaker 2: out for the last week and really started focusing on
Speaker 2: this second music video. So I'm really excited about that. Anyways,
Speaker 2: wrapping up rehearsals, we ended rehearsals, flew out, landed in
Speaker 2: Miami at six in the morning, went to sound check
Speaker 2: at nine in the morning, ordered some of many food,
Speaker 2: got back from sound check, started doing my makeup. For
Speaker 2: anyone that doesn't know, I do all my own hair
Speaker 2: and makeup. Not hair, that's a lie. I don't do
Speaker 2: that anymore. I have an incredible HAIRSTYLI his name is Corey,
Speaker 2: But I do all my own makeup.
Speaker 3: Still.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of reasons why I Number one, efficiency,
Speaker 2: I'm a really fast makeup artist. I can get that
Speaker 2: thing on and a couple couple honestly, like, depending on
Speaker 2: the look. If I'm doing the black Beast makeup look, now,
Speaker 2: I can get that on in literally forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: This makeup look, though, because it was white, it required
Speaker 2: a bit more time because it required drying and then
Speaker 2: reapplying and drying and reapplying and then drying and reapplying.
Speaker 2: Had to a couple layers because it was a white
Speaker 2: beast makeup look. But we got it on took like
Speaker 2: two and a half hours for context. The Black Beast
Speaker 2: makeup on set took four and a half hours. And
Speaker 2: so I can get that on real quick, and I
Speaker 2: just enjoyed doing it. Gives me, It relaxes me, It
Speaker 2: gives me a creative outlet and then yeah, my two
Speaker 2: girl dancers, Malia and Madison, they both came over to
Speaker 2: my room. We had a warm up party, we got dressed,
Speaker 2: we chugged celsies, and then we headed over to Pride.
Speaker 2: We were backstage and we were just having fun like
Speaker 2: it was all like fun and games, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the announcer was like, you guys ready
Speaker 2: for Joe Joe, so you are, and the scream that
Speaker 2: was led out by the audience, I had never heard
Speaker 2: anything like it before. Before we go out on stage,
Speaker 2: I have a couple of things that I do. So
Speaker 2: I grab pull aside all my dancers and only the dancers,
Speaker 2: because me and the dancers, and one day if I
Speaker 2: have a band, I would include them. But basically just
Speaker 2: the people that are on this stage, and pull everybody aside,
Speaker 2: and we all hold hands, and I give a speech,
Speaker 2: a motivation and for some a prayer. The thing for
Speaker 2: me is not everybody in the world believes in what
Speaker 2: I believe in, and I don't believe in what everybody
Speaker 2: in the world believes. And everybody has their own beliefs.
Speaker 2: That's the right of the world.
Speaker 3: And so we do.
Speaker 2: I do a speech that is basically, I say, no
Speaker 2: matter what you believe in, no matter if it's a figure,
Speaker 2: a crystal, manifestation, a religious thing, whatever it is to you,
Speaker 2: let that help you get through this performance. Please give
Speaker 2: your energy to that. Please ask that to help you push,
Speaker 2: to help you be inspired, and to help the audience
Speaker 2: have a good time. And then I say, I say
Speaker 2: for me specifically, because I never want to make it
Speaker 2: too to I don't ever want to push anything on anybody,
Speaker 2: and so I always just say, and for me specifically,
Speaker 2: big man upstairs, thank you for giving me this gift.
Speaker 2: Thank you for giving me this ability and this body
Speaker 2: and these friends and this family of people to be
Speaker 2: on this stage with, and this audience of people to
Speaker 2: go on this stage four And thank you, and do
Speaker 2: me a favor, keep us all safe, help us all
Speaker 2: have fun. And uh. Then you know, we give a
Speaker 2: little we give a little sign out, and then I
Speaker 2: just give a speech to my answers, being like, look,
Speaker 2: here we go. I always say, you're gonna be tired,
Speaker 2: You're gonna be hot, you're gonna be sweaty, you're gonna
Speaker 2: be in pain, your legs are gonna hurt. At the
Speaker 2: end of the day, no one cares. No one in
Speaker 2: the audience cares. I don't care while we're on stage.
Speaker 2: I care when we're off the stage. Absolutely. When we
Speaker 2: are off the stage, I will get I will get
Speaker 2: off the stage and get you all the water, get
Speaker 2: you all a massage, whatever you need. I will care
Speaker 2: about you after. But when we are on that stage,
Speaker 2: no one cares. We keep going and we push and
Speaker 2: we give an incredible show. So enjoy being tired, because
Speaker 2: after we will fix it. But let's go on stage
Speaker 2: and let's give it everything we got. And the dancers
Speaker 2: it's always like a funny type of tone, and so
Speaker 2: the dancers always laughing and we're all.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, true, true, true.
Speaker 2: And it's a very good vibe because you got to remember,
Speaker 2: these dancers are also my closest friends, and so we
Speaker 2: some most of my closest friends. I have a lot
Speaker 2: of close friends that are not dancers, but this group
Speaker 2: of people specifically are very close to me. Then you know,
Speaker 2: I break that up and I go over by myself.
Speaker 2: And this is something that I've done ever since Dancing
Speaker 2: with the Stars. First week of Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 2: my partner Jenna was like, let's go pray, and I
Speaker 2: was like, pray, let's go, let's do it. And I,
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't know what to expect. I guess
Speaker 2: is a good a good way to put it. But
Speaker 2: she said a prayer and I was like, wait, I
Speaker 2: love this. And so now every time before I go
Speaker 2: out on stage, I say the same thing that she
Speaker 2: used to say, and I give a true prayer. And
Speaker 2: then I used to have this mantra that we would
Speaker 2: say to each other. I would say, we're prepared. She
Speaker 2: would say, we're excited, and then I would say and
Speaker 2: we have each other, or we would say together and
Speaker 2: we have each other. And so now I say I'm prepared,
Speaker 2: I'm excited, and I have myself and I do it
Speaker 2: every single time. And then I get up, I do
Speaker 2: the dance. Moms wanted the advices and we want to
Speaker 2: the devices. We went to the Besties and we want
Speaker 2: to divices. I went to the wantedsciused knock, knocked, backcrack,
Speaker 2: backcrack every single time. I'll never do a performance with
Speaker 2: live doing that. Then hop my happy ass on stage
Speaker 2: and give the show for life. So then we went
Speaker 2: on stage. I got my costume on. We're feeling good.
Speaker 2: We are having so much fun on stage. The stage
Speaker 2: was so slippery. I told my dancers, I was like, look,
Speaker 2: if I could do anything about it, you guys know
Speaker 2: I would, but I couldn't. And so I was like, everybody,
Speaker 2: hope for the best, try not to die.
Speaker 3: And I told my.
Speaker 2: Dancers, I was like, look, I need you next. I
Speaker 2: was like, don't injure yourself. I was like, if you
Speaker 2: can only go so deep and you play go that deep,
Speaker 2: we're all gonna be fine. And then, of course, I
Speaker 2: mean I plan out what I'm going to say to
Speaker 2: the crowd in some sort of way. Of course, I
Speaker 2: add lib like no other UH would Literally I told
Speaker 2: my son guys like, the only thing I'll go rogue
Speaker 2: on is my talking that I do for thirty seconds
Speaker 2: will be fourteen minutes. Get ready, which did happen. But
Speaker 2: I uh, I started to talk to the crowd, and
Speaker 2: one of the things that I planned to say it
Speaker 2: was like, let me here, you scream, Miami, let them scream.
Speaker 2: And then I was gonna be like, oh, come on,
Speaker 2: I've had six year old scream louder than that. Making
Speaker 2: like a joke to my past right, but honestly, like
Speaker 2: I still made the joke, but as they're screaming, I
Speaker 2: was like, damn, that is the loudest scream I've ever
Speaker 2: heard of all life. But then I still made the joke,
Speaker 2: and then they screamed even louder. Uh.
Speaker 3: It was crazy. The crowd was crazy.
Speaker 2: There was this person that wore a T shirt that
Speaker 2: had me getting paparazzi outside the sex store on it,
Speaker 2: and then I pulled that shirt on stage and put
Speaker 2: it on Madison. And then there was somebody holding up Jojo,
Speaker 2: have you learned Nothing? Poster with Abby's face on it,
Speaker 2: but Abby wearing the Beast makeup. There was so many posters,
Speaker 2: Everyone's singing, Oh my god. The way people sang thou
Speaker 2: shalt not lie, thou shall not cheat, Thou shall not
Speaker 2: get caught, or you'll end up just like me. I mean,
Speaker 2: I have never heard anything like that. I mean it
Speaker 2: was it was crazy. I actually messed up in the performance,
Speaker 2: which I'm still so mad at myself for I I
Speaker 2: fucked up the second chorus of Choose Your Fighter. No
Speaker 2: one would know, but I know, and I can guarantee
Speaker 2: I will never mess that up ever again. I will
Speaker 2: have my shit together on that course for the rest
Speaker 2: of my life. But yeah, you know, I always have
Speaker 2: my answers before we go out on stage. I'm like
Speaker 2: I know, in rehearsals, I am hard on everybody about
Speaker 2: being perfect in that room. But now on this stage,
Speaker 2: it's not about that. On this stage, it's about trusting yourself.
Speaker 2: You're gonna mess up. I'm gonna to mess up. We
Speaker 2: don't know where we're gonna mess up, but it's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna recover from it and it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: I just want you, guys, go out on stage, enjoy
Speaker 2: the hard work that you put in, and be proud
Speaker 2: of the hard work you put in. But now let
Speaker 2: that hard work do the work for you and you
Speaker 2: just enjoy it, have fun, let the audience feel your fire.
Speaker 3: And that's something that I truly believe in.
Speaker 2: Because look, at the end of the day, you get
Speaker 2: into that performance once, I will never get to do
Speaker 2: that first performance ever again, and so we have to
Speaker 2: truly cherish every moment on stage. And so I make
Speaker 2: sure that I really get that into my dancers heads
Speaker 2: before I go out, and make sure everyone's energy is good.
Speaker 2: And we get on that stage, we do our thing
Speaker 2: and we get off, and honestly, when we got off
Speaker 2: the stage, all the dancers were like celebrating. That was awesome,
Speaker 2: and I just kind of was standing there and I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know how to feel right now.
Speaker 2: I was like I was very numb, which I haven't
Speaker 2: really felt before. It was like kind of like did
Speaker 2: that just happen? And it was almost like it was
Speaker 2: almost like how I would feel on Special Forces of
Speaker 2: just being like I'm I'm not scared, I'm not sad,
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm happy, but I'm not like showing it.
Speaker 3: But I like don't know what to do right now.
Speaker 2: And then when the President came up to me and
Speaker 2: he told me about the fifty five thousand people, I
Speaker 2: mean I lost it. I was running, I was crying.
Speaker 2: Then I was celebrating and super happy. Everyone was so
Speaker 2: happy with the performance.
Speaker 3: Richie was so happy.
Speaker 2: My mom we call her a Rod. She I know
Speaker 2: if a Rod says it was good.
Speaker 3: I know a Rod. She would never lie to.
Speaker 2: Me, and she would tell me, she would tell me
Speaker 2: one hundred percent if it was not good. And so
Speaker 2: when I got the A Rod's stay up of approval
Speaker 2: and she said we were good, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, we're in. We did it, baby, we freaking did it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That and we went out to dinner after Madison made
Speaker 2: us all a reservation at Komodo in Miami, which was
Speaker 2: so delicious. If you were ever in Miami, please take
Speaker 2: a trip to Kmoto.
Speaker 3: It is so good. Then all my dancers were not
Speaker 3: to live after.
Speaker 2: They wanted to go out and go out, and I
Speaker 2: was like, y'all go live your life. I will be
Speaker 2: sleeping because I have pressed the next morning, so I
Speaker 2: went back to hotel, did my press the next day,
Speaker 2: ended up back in la that night, and now we're
Speaker 2: freaking here. We are getting ready to do it all
Speaker 2: again in a couple of weeks with Pittsburgh Pride and
Speaker 2: then in a couple of more weeks with Chicago Pride. Also,
Speaker 2: you know me, you know how much I love and
Speaker 2: ador g Flip, And I just found out that g
Speaker 2: Flip is doing Pittsburgh Pride two days after me and
Speaker 2: I was told my whole team. I was like, extend it.
Speaker 2: I was like, cause I will be staying so stoked
Speaker 2: about that. Don't know why that side note came up. Anyways,
Speaker 2: That's pretty much the tea on Miami. It was so amazing.
Speaker 2: It was so fun. It definitely fueled my fire. I
Speaker 2: find myself now that I'm home, I'm like, let's go,
Speaker 2: let's train, let's dance, let's stretch, let's work out. Like
Speaker 2: I'm very much so inspired to be back to that
Speaker 2: workhorse mode, which.
Speaker 3: I am so happy about. And I've been. I've been
Speaker 3: training like no other.
Speaker 2: It's been so good and I am ready to keep
Speaker 2: it freaking pushing. Thank you all for listening. I hope
Speaker 2: you enjoyed. I feel like this was like a really
Speaker 2: fast paced talking podcast. I feel like I was like
Speaker 2: really really inspired, really stoked, and just like kept going
Speaker 2: on my rants. I feel like sometimes I like slow
Speaker 2: down to try to think of my thoughts, but I
Speaker 2: feel like today I was just like, really, we kept it,
Speaker 2: we kept it pushing. Yeah, anyways, I need to stop rambling.
Speaker 3: I adore you all.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, and uh, I'll see you next
Speaker 2: time on JO Now or I'll see you in Chicago
Speaker 2: or Pittsburgh at Pride. I love y'all, Jesus, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for listening.
Speaker 3: Everybody.
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