1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: You're listening to Jojassee one now with me Jojo Seua 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: and iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome back to Jojo See One Now. 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: I feel like I should do a whole episode in 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: an accent like he might Welcome back to jj C. Now. 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: See the problem is, I used to commit to a 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: British accent, but now that I listen to g Flip 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: all the time, I commit to an Australian accent. And 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: then I'm like, Nah, it just doesn't work. It just 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: doesn't work, all right, I gotta stop. I gotta move 10 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: on from that. Anyways, Welcome back to joj Just's one Now. Today, 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: I am going on a eleven year old Jojo time 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: travel mission, and we are going way back to the beginning. 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: I am gonna tell you about my very very first 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: TV show experience. What was like getting on the show. 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: Maybe even like a little bit about my life before 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: the Show's gonna naturally come up life during the show, 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: and I I feel like, you guys know me, I'm 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: just gonna ramble. We know how that goes. I feel 19 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: like I have like a topic that I want to 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: talk about and then it's like, oh yeah, yeah, I'm 21 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: gonna talk to myself for thirty minutes about this topic. 22 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: Oh easy, let me ramble on happily. So that's what's 23 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,279 Speaker 1: happening right now. Buckle up, get your seatbelts on, because 24 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: we are going down Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition memory Lane. 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: I am nine years old. I honestly, okay, let's go 26 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: back a little bit further. My whole life since before 27 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition. Grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. I 28 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: was a very very different child. I was not normal. 29 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,279 Speaker 1: I don't really know how to explain it. I've only 30 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: met one kid that my mom has been like, this 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: is what you were like, and I was like, oh, 32 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: that makes sense. Actually, I'll tell you who the kid is. 33 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: It's little Titus, who we love so very much. He 34 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: started out as Minni Jake Paul. I feel like Titus 35 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: still does a little Minijake Paul gig every every so often. 36 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: But my mom, you know, we just had Titus performed 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: with my exog pop girls. She was like the tightest. 38 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: That's like pretty similar to how you were when you 39 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: were a kid, and it's just you just tell that 40 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: there's just something in that kid that like he just 41 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: he understood something on a different level. And that's that's 42 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: basically what my mom told me. I was like my 43 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: whole life, and everyone that knew me when I was 44 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: little would say that too. People used to tell her mom, 45 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: They're like, you just need a driver into the Disney 46 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: building and just set her on the ground and don't 47 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: know what to do with her. And my mom was like, 48 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: I don't know how it works, but I know that's 49 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: not how it works. Uh now, knowing what I know, 50 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: that's definitely not how it works. You would get kicked 51 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: uf O security in an instant. Anyways. So growing up 52 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: in Omahana Rasca, I always danced my mom on a 53 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: dance studio and I always loved it. But I always 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: knew that I wanted more. I always knew that I 55 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: wanted to be Hannah Montana or I Carly. I always 56 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: said that I wanted a show called I Hannah Montana 57 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: because I loved I Carly and I loved Hannah Montana. Uh, 58 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,119 Speaker 1: but you know you're you're in on Nebraska, Like what's 59 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: gonna happen? You know what I mean? And so my 60 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: mom brought me out to La when I was really little. 61 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: I was four years old. Did this thing called AMTC. 62 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: A lot of child stars do AMTC when they're really little, 63 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,119 Speaker 1: and it's just like a big competition where a bunch 64 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: of models and nectars and dancers go and they compete 65 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: and they perform in front of agents and managers and 66 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: it's it's basically long story short, like it's not it's 67 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: it's legit, but it's a little like it's for the 68 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: right people, but not really anything comes of it, if 69 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: that makes sense. But it's a massive experience that like 70 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: everyone does. It's a very strange thing. Anyways. So then 71 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: after that, like went back to Nebraska nothing. I was 72 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: homeschool in my whole life so I could dance more. 73 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: And just because I was too smart initially for school 74 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: in kindergarten, I got tested and they were like, yo, 75 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: she is at a third grade level. And my mom 76 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: my school wouldn't let me grade up, and so my 77 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: mom made the decision to homeschool meets that way I 78 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: could grade up. And then it ended up working out 79 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: because then I could dance more, and then it ended 80 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: up working out even better for my TV career. So 81 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: cut to Dance Moms comes out. I think Dance Moms 82 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: came out when I was like six or seven, and 83 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: my mom was like, why are we not on this show? 84 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: Like this is literally me, like what? And so that 85 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: was kind of funny when the show came out and 86 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: then turns out a few years later I ended up 87 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: being on it. But then they made a spinoff, Abby's 88 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: Ultimate Dance Competition, and it was a preview for it 89 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: on Dance Moms and it was like, if you want 90 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: to submit, you know, send your audition in a year. 91 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: And so my mom did the first season and nothing, 92 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: you didn't hear, We didn't hear anything. And so she 93 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: did the second season and she she actually she didn't 94 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: tell me anything. She didn't tell me that she did 95 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: at first, and then because she didn't think anything was 96 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: gonna come of it. It's just like go for it, 97 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: but like hope for the best of Well, like obviously 98 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: nothing's gonna happen. Well something happened. We got an email back, 99 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: My mom got an email back, and I was like, 100 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: we would like to do a Skype interview with you 101 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: time when Skype was a thing. We love Skype. I 102 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: love that, Like Zoom came in and like fully took over, 103 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: but Skype was the og. Anyways, did a skype interview, 104 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: and they loved my mom and I. So at this 105 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: point in time, I'm nine years old. I'm very young. 106 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: I believe the original age for the show was ten 107 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: and older. But they liked me because I was I 108 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: was fun I was funky, I was fearless, and what 109 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: I would say, I could hold my own in the 110 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: dance department. But it was more so about that personality. 111 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: And they mentioned that I was very young, but they 112 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: liked it, they were okay with it. And so then 113 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: cut to we had another skype and then some paperwork, 114 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: another skype, and then some paperwork, another skype, and then 115 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: some paperwork. And on these skypes, they really would just 116 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: interview my mom, interview me, interview us together, interview us 117 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: without each other in the room, to like see what 118 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: our dynamic really was, like, tell us scenarios and how 119 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: we would react. And it was just it was really 120 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: a good pat called. The casting agents were incredible for 121 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: that show. And what's funny is I don't think we 122 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: really knew what was going on at the time. Now 123 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: knowing what I know about reality TV, they were looking 124 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: for somebody who was going to make a good show. 125 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: Without knowing it, I think That's what happens now is 126 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: on reality TV, people think, oh, I want to come 127 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: in and be the villain or oh I want to 128 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: come in and be the good guy, whereas it's like, no, 129 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: you just gotta naturally be that or do that. It's 130 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: not something that you can fake, you know what I mean. 131 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: So anyways, uh, then you have to do something called 132 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: a psych test. Now, this is something that you have 133 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: to do for a lot of reality TV shows because 134 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: reality TV is very intense, it's very real, and it's 135 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: very maneuvered. Maybe is the right word manipulated? Is not 136 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: the right word produced? Maybe is the right word? Scripted 137 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: is the wrong word. That's when people get reality TV 138 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: very confused. Is it is real? There is no script, 139 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: but there is some guidance in there of what's gonna happen, 140 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: and the the producers you know, in all reality shows, 141 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: will be like, hey, uh, Sarah said this about Jackie. 142 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: What do you think about that? You know what I mean? 143 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: And so there is some like side of our conversation 144 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: on how you'll find out things that you didn't know, 145 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: And so you have to do psych evaluations and Abby's 146 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: Ultimate Dan's Competition was one that we had to do 147 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: a psychic valve for another one is like UH special Forces, 148 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: we had to do a massive psychic valve for UH 149 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: special Forces. And it's these psych evaluations are actually like 150 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: so deep and so intense. I the first one that 151 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: I like really I guess was like able to comprehend 152 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: what everything was was for Special Forces was the first 153 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: time that I was like old enough to really like 154 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: know what I was doing, and like when I was 155 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: reading all these questions, it's just like a like sec 156 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: the ABC or D type of thing. I mean, it 157 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: is very very intense. It's crazy, it's it's a it 158 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: takes it takes about an hour. It's very it's very intense. 159 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not a tester because I was always homeschooled 160 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: and so for tests, I get super stressed out. And 161 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: so anyways, that's a story for another time. We'll get 162 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: into that another day. Bags at E DCY So we 163 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: did our cycle val and we were all good, good 164 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: in that department, and then they did a final audition 165 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: in New York. So they ended up being twelve of 166 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: us on the show, but they brought twenty four of 167 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 1: us to New York. We did not see each other. 168 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: One would go in, one would go out, and so 169 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: like we like we just no one. No one crossed paths. 170 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: We don't know who anyone was. But we all were 171 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: in New York at the same time. This is my 172 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: first time ever going to New York. We stayed at 173 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: a really cool hotel. My mom drug me everywhere. We 174 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: went on the subway. We went to a Rockefeller, we 175 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: went to Times Square, we went to freaking Central Park, 176 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: we went we went literally every where. We were the 177 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: tourists that to have lived you named the New York 178 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: Tourist Attraction. We saw it in forty eight hours. It 179 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: was actually really fun. Looking back at the time, I 180 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: was like, Mom, can't we just go chill. She's like no, 181 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: because we don't come to New York. Like, this is 182 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: crazy that we're in New York City. I think it 183 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 1: was actually maybe her like second time in New York 184 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: City and it was my first obviously, and so it 185 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: was a very very big deal. Anyways, cut tol We 186 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: go back home and we didn't think anything because we 187 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: didn't hear anything. It is about a month later and 188 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: we were like, all right, it just didn't happen, right, 189 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: And then one day we were at the homeschool store 190 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: buying new homeschool books for me. This was in a April, 191 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: March March, I think maybe March February, February, March or April, 192 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't matter. We'll we filmed the 193 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: show in April, so it would have had to have 194 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: been in March in February either way. We got a 195 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: phone call and it was like, hello, is this Jesselyn. 196 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: It was a little English girl and my mom was like, yes, 197 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: this is she and she was like, oh, well, I'm 198 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: just calling to inform you, and so we were like shit, 199 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: like we didn't make it, you know what I mean, 200 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: because I'm just calling to inform you. And then she 201 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: was like you made the show, and I just started sobbing. 202 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it was my like ultimate dream to be 203 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: on Abbey's Ultimate Dance Competition. I just watched season one 204 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: and so I was just so stoked. And then from 205 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: there it was like, oh, this is real, Like this 206 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: is really really happening. Okay, Okay, what do I do now? 207 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: How do I prepare now? And then it was kind 208 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: of like no, We've spent nine years of our life 209 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: preparing for this, like this now we just got to 210 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: go and do it. So then we had we had 211 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: a few weeks at home, and then we flew out 212 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, California, to film Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition. 213 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: It was nuts. I couldn't tell anyone that I was 214 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: doing it, and so for like friends back home, they 215 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: were like, where are you going? And I was like, nowhere. 216 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: How long are you gonna be there? I don't know, 217 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,439 Speaker 1: like it was so we had to be so download. 218 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: The only people that knew were my mom obviously cause 219 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: she was about three, and my dad and brother. There's 220 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: were the only people that knew. Everybody else we had 221 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: to keep it a secret from uh. So then we 222 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: got to California, we landed, we went to a hotel 223 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: and they came in and I remember this so vividly. 224 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: I don't know how or why because there's no pictures 225 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: or videos of this anywhere, but they had me try 226 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: on all of my dancewear, and they had my mom 227 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 1: try on all of our outfits so they could take 228 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: pictures of it and so they could know what we're 229 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: going to look like on the show. And now the 230 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: process of the show is it's an elimination show, so 231 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: you don't know how long you're going to be there for, 232 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: so you don't really know. You could be their twelve weeks, 233 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: you could be there one week, and so you didn't 234 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: really want to like unpack in the hotel. But then 235 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: they were like, try on all your outfits and they're like, okay, 236 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: let's unpack, right, So we unpacked and got all settled, 237 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: and then like two days later, it was time for 238 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: our very first day on set and they were like, 239 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,599 Speaker 1: pack up all of your stuff and bring it to 240 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: the lobby. You're moving. And we were like what what, 241 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: And so we packed up everything, we brought it all 242 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: down to the lobby, and we ended up living on set, 243 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: so that was crazy. Once we got to the set, 244 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: they were like this, this is your bungalow. You can 245 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,719 Speaker 1: go put all your stuff in there. And so there 246 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: was two houses that each had like four families in it, 247 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: and then there was these bungalows that was like apartment apartment, 248 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: apartment apartment, and it was more like a studio apartment. 249 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: Like they were very tiny, but it was My apartment 250 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: was in the top left, Colonnie was in the top right. 251 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: Then the twin boys, Chaps and Tyler were in the 252 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: bottom left. And then Ali and her mom Tiffany were 253 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: in the bottom right. So we all lucked out by 254 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: getting those apartments. Everybody else was all in the house together. 255 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: Now the houses were nice, but like no, no, no way, 256 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: no way, would not have wanted been in that house. 257 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: And we also were lucky because my side of the 258 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: apartment had a shower, and then Kolanie's side had like 259 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: a little kitchen, so we we shared that and so 260 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: we could use the kitchen, they could use the shower. 261 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 1: We didn't care who used what. And then but the 262 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,719 Speaker 1: houses they had to use like poor to potty showers 263 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: and like porda potty bathrooms. They did have a nice kitchen, 264 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: but like oh so happy, and then all the other 265 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: people were like, can we use your shower? And so 266 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 1: everyone would come up to shower once they learned that 267 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: we had one. Anyways, so it's the first day on 268 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: set and they say the first thing that I remember 269 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: them saying is everyone's on hard ice. And I said, 270 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: what's hard ice? And they said this is you're on 271 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: hard ice. And I said what's hard ice? Because I 272 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: didn't know what that meant. And on set, ice means 273 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: to be quiet. Hard ice means be dead, silent, do 274 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: not speak, do not speak a word, like you cannot talk. 275 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: And that is just because cameras aren't up. They don't 276 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: want to catch anything. They don't want to miss anything 277 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: that they would have wanted to catch. So hard ice, 278 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: do not speak ice is like yo, don't talk unless 279 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: it's an emergency. And then there's a thing called slush, 280 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: And if you're on slush, it's like talk but don't 281 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: talk anything interesting. That's more of a thing that they 282 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: use later, more so on dance moms, like all right, 283 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: y'all are on slush right now, Like during lunch, for example, 284 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: we would be on slush, So that would be like 285 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: you can talk, but like don't talk about like what's 286 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: going on on the show or during filming, talk about 287 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: like your crush. That's fine. So we once you kind 288 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: of knew what you couldn't couldn't talk about, then they 289 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: started to imply slush, but ice and hard ice. All 290 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: the time on ADC, we were either on ice or 291 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: hard ice if we weren't on camera. So then we 292 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: went outside for a long, long long time, and then 293 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: they finally brought us into the building one by one. 294 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: I feel like I was like I was towards the middle. 295 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: I didn't really go in first, and I didn't really 296 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: go in last. It's definitely towards the middle. And I 297 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: was the youngest one there, and everyone from the get 298 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: go hated me. I looking back, I know why. At 299 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: the time, I definitely didn't understand why. I was like, 300 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: why don't these people want to be my friends? Like 301 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: I am confused, and genuinely, it's just because I was 302 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: nine and the rest of them were thirteen fourteen, and 303 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: they just they weren't the type of girls that were 304 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: going to be friends with a nine year old, you 305 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: know what I mean, And they're actually there was a 306 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: lot of bullying to me that went on on that set, 307 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: but I never never really let it affect me. I 308 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: think it actually helped kind of strengthen me. I had 309 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: my priority super straight on that set. I knew what 310 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: my goal was there, and it didn't really bother me 311 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: that no one besides Clawnie in the kid department really 312 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: cared for me, if that makes sense. I did have 313 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: one person going into the show that I knew beforehand 314 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: that I was a little She was kind of like 315 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: a big sister figure to me actually, and I was 316 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: a little that was kind of hard for me to realize, like, oh, 317 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: why is even why is she not wanting to be 318 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: my friend? Like she was my friend literally a week ago, 319 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: what the heck? But it was just because she wanted 320 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: to be with the cool thirteen year olds, And so 321 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: I think I really realized that once I hit thirteen 322 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: and I was in a position where I wanted to 323 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: be friends with the younger people. I thought it was fine, 324 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: like you can be friends with anybody, but I saw 325 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: other people my age being like, ew, why are you 326 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: hanging out with them? And I would be like, cause 327 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: they're cool, Like I don't care. It's like it doesn't matter, 328 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,239 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And so I really understood 329 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: then once I kind of aged up and other people 330 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: were like that, I was like, oh. And then I 331 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: also think that translated to why I surrounded myself my 332 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: closest friends with adults my whole life because they didn't 333 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: they didn't have any of that cattiness that other kids 334 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: my age did. You know, other kids my age wanted 335 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: to be cool, whereas the friends that I chose and 336 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: got grew close to were like, no, it's not cool 337 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: to be like that. It's cool to just be chill 338 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: and like hang out with anybody. And I was like, 339 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: oh oh, I like this, like this vibe is more 340 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: my vibe. Anyways, back to AUDC, So the very very 341 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: first day on set, me and Klawnie actually though we 342 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: became so close on that show, we told our moms. 343 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: On the very first day, we walked up to our 344 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: moms and we said, we decided that we're be best friends, 345 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: so you guys have to be best friends, and both 346 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: of our moms were like okay. So then from then 347 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: on out, it was like we were blue, like we 348 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: were just best best friends. We had each other's back, 349 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: we were there for each other. And Klannie was the 350 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: next youngest. Actually that's why I think Hayley was the 351 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: next youngest, but then Klannie was just they were the 352 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: same age as a few months older, and so she 353 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: was also on that kind of end of like the 354 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: older girls didn't really want to hang out with her, 355 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: and that was okay, Like she and I became really 356 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: good friends. Anyways, So AUDC, the way ADC was structured 357 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: was kind of crazy. It was so real. There's a 358 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: lot of reality shows that I'm like, Okay, this is 359 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: this is like, how real is this? Right? AUDC and 360 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 1: Special Forces are the two reality shows that I'm like, wow, 361 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: Like I can't even like I can picture being on set, 362 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: but I can't picture seeing a camera, if that makes sense. 363 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: Like Dance Moms, for example, I'm on set, but I 364 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: see the cameras, you know what I mean. It's real, 365 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: but I can see the cameras and see the producers 366 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: dancing with the stars. It's very real. But I can 367 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: see the camera and see the producer, you know what 368 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: I mean. AUDC and Special Forces have one thing in 369 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: common and that it's very real, but you can't see 370 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: the camera or the producer. It's all just happening. And 371 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: I do think that was because I was a contestant 372 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: on the show. I think like the judges and the 373 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 1: host definitely, I mean had an idiot and they walked 374 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: in the video village and they saw these things, whereas 375 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: the contestant, you know, we were sheltered from all of that. 376 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: We could only go in specific areas. But there was 377 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,239 Speaker 1: so many rules on that set. We could not go 378 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: anywhere without an escort because they didn't want us running 379 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: into the judges or the host or producers. We couldn't 380 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: go into crafty. We could get any food we wanted, 381 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: but they would have to get it for us. A 382 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of rules we had to ask for, 383 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: like to go anywhere, to do anything. We couldn't just 384 00:18:54,560 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: like go. The very first day, we're all on stage, 385 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: and about two hours into that first day is when 386 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 1: we actually met Abby for the first time. So we 387 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: were all on stage warming up, dancing, improving, jumping, and 388 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: Abby comes out and then she had to go back 389 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: to do her entrance again. So she comes out right, 390 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: we all freak out, and then she's like, oh wait, wait, wait, 391 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: so then she leaves again. Now nine year old me, 392 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: I don't know why I did this, but I turned 393 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: around and I started dancing for Abby. No one told 394 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 1: me to, no one gave that like suggestion. It was 395 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: just something that I did naturally. I knew she was 396 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: back there now, and so I just started improving or 397 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: warming up and facing her, whereas everyone was still facing 398 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: the front. And Abby came out on stage and again 399 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: and she said, there's one of you here that's really smart, 400 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: and it's the one that turned around and started dancing 401 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 1: for me and everyone. Then from that point I was 402 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 1: like that little shit, you know what I mean. It 403 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,719 Speaker 1: was one of those things that like I just found, 404 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: don't I don't know, there was one of those you 405 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: just like no one told me do, no one taught 406 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: me to do that. It just it just happened. Anyways, 407 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: we do the first Group Dance Challenge and let it 408 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: be known that I was out first. Now spoiler alert, 409 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: I was out first every single week on the Group 410 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: Dance Challenge. There's this really funny video of me from 411 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: like week six where I'm like, honestly, because in interviews 412 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: they'd be like, how do you feel, how do you 413 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: feel about that Group Dance Challenge? Like you were out 414 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: pretty pretty early on, and you know, every week I'd 415 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: cry about it and be like, oh yeah, it was 416 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: so sad, like I thought I did good. Finally on 417 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: week six, I was like, you know, honestly, like it's 418 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: my fiftieth time being out first. I'm used to it 419 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: by now. I found out this from the producer of 420 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: Abby's Alton Dance Competition, who I've become very good friends 421 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: with over the years. His name is Brian Stinson, and 422 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: he told me that they used to whenever they were 423 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: bored on sets. So what would happen is they would 424 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: pull you in to do these interviews, right, and they 425 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,719 Speaker 1: would pull the moms in for about thirty minutes at 426 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: a time, and they would pull the girls in for 427 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: like ten minutes at a time, right, And so my 428 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: mom would be like in the room with the other 429 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: moms like doing their mom thing, fighting, making costumes, whatever 430 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: it was they were doing that day, and I would 431 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: come in there and my mom would be like, oh, honey, 432 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: how's your day. And I'd be like, oh good, I 433 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,919 Speaker 1: just got done doing like a three hour interview. And 434 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,880 Speaker 1: my mom was like what And I was like, yeah, 435 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: it was great, Like I was chilling about it, and 436 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: all the other moms were like uh huh, and everyone 437 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: was like, she's just making shit up like that. She's nine, 438 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: she doesn't know time yet, right, And I kept saying 439 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: that and kept doing that every single day, and I'd 440 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, I had rehearsal, and we rehearsed 441 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes. But then I went into like 442 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: a three hour interview, or I went into a two 443 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: hour interview, and finally my mom was like, honey, are 444 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: you actually doing this long of interviews? And I was 445 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: like yeah, all the time, and she was and she 446 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: was like, that's where you've been all days in an 447 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: interview and I'd be like yeah, And turns out I 448 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: find this out ten years later. Whenever the producers of 449 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: the show were bored on set, they would all go 450 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: to craw get a snack, go to what's called video Village, 451 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: which is where they have all of the monitors, right, 452 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: and that's like where they like normally watch the show 453 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: and stuff, and they would turn all the audio off 454 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: except for the monitor in my interview, and they would 455 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: pull me to do an interview, and they would make 456 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: one producer go interview me and one camera vengo sit there. 457 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: Everybody else on set would go in video village, turn 458 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: on the monitor and just watch. They called it the 459 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: Jojo Show, and they would just watch me talk for hours. 460 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: They would have an ear with the producer and they 461 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: would say what to ask me, and they like, I guess, 462 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: I guess I was just young, and I would spoken 463 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: and honest and kind of funny and like said what 464 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 1: everyone was thinking, but like with no fear, and so yeah, 465 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: that's why I had such long interviews because I was 466 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: personal entertainment. I guess, No, honestly, I look back though 467 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: at my journey on AUDC and I truly do have 468 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: some really fun memories. There was this one time where 469 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: we all me and all the girls we watched a 470 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: scary movie. It was I don't know, God, I'm never 471 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: gonna remember the movie. But then it was I said, 472 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: all the girls is if it was all the girls? 473 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 1: It was not all the girls. It was me, Colonie 474 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 1: and Haley. And then Haley had to walk back to 475 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: her apartment and it was literally like twelve feet away, 476 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: not far at all. She had to walk back. She 477 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: was in one of the houses and she goes to 478 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: walk back and she's like, guys, I'm scared. So then 479 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: Klannie runs around, hides in the bush and scares her. 480 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: She comes back. I hid in the other version. We 481 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,360 Speaker 1: scare her and like just like so many fun silly 482 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,719 Speaker 1: memories like that. Then we ended up walking her back 483 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: to her apartment. We weren't good at some point. There 484 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: was this one time me and Colonney were obsessed with 485 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: making video stars. We are obsessed with it. Video star 486 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: back of the day was like cap cut now, but 487 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: it was like so much better. We love video star 488 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: and so we'd make them all the time, and this 489 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: one night it was like freaking midnight, right and we 490 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: were outside making a video started Gangnum style and I 491 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: was like, Colonie, I have an idea, and Colonie was like, Geral, 492 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: I have an idea, and like, who's all my own idea? 493 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: I had idea, let's do this. I have an idea, 494 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: let's do that. And Cheryl the Twin Boys mom opens 495 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: her door and she goes, I have an idea, go 496 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: to sleep, and we like died laughing and ran upstairs. 497 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: And I thought it was so funny. We didn't need to 498 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: go to sleep. There's just so many fun little memories 499 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: like that. There was definitely a lot of hard times 500 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: on Abbey's Altoman dance competition. I think every week I 501 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: was fearful that I was going to go home. I 502 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: think every week I was fearful of messing up, not 503 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: maybe not messing up, but maybe maybe not being to 504 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: my greatest potential. I think that was something that my 505 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: mom was really good at of making sure she was 506 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: because I mean I was little, I was only nine, 507 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: and so making sure that she pushed me to my 508 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: potential without pushing me to my limit. There is definitely 509 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: a big difference. And I always say there's a difference 510 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: in good stage mom and psycho stage mom, and a 511 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: stage mom's a stage mom. But there are stage moms 512 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: like Beyonce's stage mom. There is stage moms like Christian Jenner, 513 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:20,479 Speaker 1: and there's Jess Siah's. And my mom was always, always 514 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: a good stage mom. And if anybody out there doesn't 515 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: believe that, look at the history of my career, look 516 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: at the companies that I've worked for and continued to 517 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: work for. You know, I can guarantee that I would 518 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: not have worked for the biggest child network for eight 519 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: years without if my mom wasn't a good stage mom. 520 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: I can guarantee that Fox, who is now my number 521 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: one network, who I work with all the time. I've 522 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: done seven Fox shows, and I started working for Fox 523 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: when I was a minor, guarantee Fox would not have 524 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: continued using me if my mom was not a good 525 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: stage mom. And it's it's actually crazy. That's something that 526 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: they say can really make or break a child star's 527 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: career is their parent behind them, because it is it's 528 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: important that their parent has a lot of checks and balance. 529 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: You know, there's the balance of school, there's the balance 530 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: of childhood and there's the balance of career and stardom. 531 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: And I think for me, my mom saw something in 532 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 1: me that I couldn't see because I was just too young. 533 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: But looking back at it, I would have done everything 534 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: she did. She always just fought for what was right 535 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: for me, and at the same time, she always knew 536 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: she was making a TV show. Now that doesn't mean 537 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 1: she's staged anything or faked anything. It just means that 538 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: she knew what she got herself into and she was 539 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: there to do her job. So that's my that's my 540 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: little mom tangent that I'm going to go on really quick. 541 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: She was good. There was only there was one week 542 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: on ADC and it was the Vampire Dance that I 543 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: did with Clonnie where that was the one week where 544 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: I really feel like I wasn't wasn't at my best. 545 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: I think I was intimidated. I think I was tired. 546 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: I think I was exhausted. I was just I was done. 547 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: And my mom and I had a really good talk 548 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: and I told her, I was like, I'm just sick 549 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: of it. I'm sick of everyone telling me that I'm 550 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: not doing good. I'm sick of everyone all the other 551 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: girls being mean to me. I'm sick of everyone telling 552 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: me I'm not dancing mature enough. It's it's hard and 553 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: I'm a kid, and I don't like hearing this. And 554 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: she was really good at that point then of reeling 555 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: it in and reeling it back and being like, yes 556 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: you are. And then she was really good at being like, so, 557 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: do you want to go home? And I was like, 558 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: well no, and she was like, okay, so then let's 559 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: figure it out, you know what I mean. That's that 560 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: was something that my mom was always good with me, 561 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: Do you want to go home? And I always said no, absolutely, not, 562 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: even back in the day when I left dance Moms 563 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: my mom. My mom actually said the reverse of it. 564 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 1: She was like, say the word. Well, she would say 565 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: this on the one. She'd say, say the word and 566 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: we'll go say the word and we'll go home. I'm 567 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: not saying it. I am not saying it. I want 568 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: to stay. And she'd be like, it's so messed up 569 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: here say the words a week and go home, and 570 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not saying it. I like it. 571 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: I like being on TV. And my mom was like, 572 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: you're crazy, and I was like, I'm crazy, and then 573 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: on Dance offic when I left Dance Moms, my mom 574 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 1: almost like, say the word and we'll go back. If 575 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: you want to go back that bad say the word 576 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: and we'll go back. And I was like for the 577 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 1: first time, I was like, word said, I want to 578 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: go back, And my mom was like, well no, she 579 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: was like I didn't expect that, sorry, because she knew 580 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: what was best for me, and so I gotta I 581 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: gotta believe her in that world. Now, I could deep 582 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: dive into my elimination on AUDC, but that, honestly, if 583 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: I watch that clip, it gets me to cry, and 584 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: so I'm afraid when I start to talk about it 585 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: that I'm going to start to cry. But here's the 586 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: thing is, I want to do a whole Jojo See 587 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: would Now podcast on all of my eliminations because I've 588 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,239 Speaker 1: done so many elimination TV shows. Let's say I've done 589 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: Abby's Alto my dance Competition, I've done the Mass Singer, 590 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: I've done Sea Was Dance Proper Revolution, So you think 591 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: you can dance Dancing with the Stars, Special Forces America's 592 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: got talent. I don't know if I'm missing Eddie, but 593 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: I for sure no I've done those seven and I've 594 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: been on a few different ends. So Mass Singer, Dancing 595 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: with the Stars, Special Forces, Abby's on the dance competition, 596 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: I've been the one actually myself competing, and then she 597 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: was Dance Pop Revolution and two seasons of So You 598 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: Think You Can Dance? I've been the one on the 599 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: judging side, and then uh uh with America's Got Talent, 600 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: I've been the mentor. My girl group did America's Got Talent. 601 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: And what's crazy is all of those shows I have 602 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: never won. I have never walked away victorious. I think 603 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: Special Forces I did walk away victorious in one way, 604 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: but I did not get the Badge of Honor at 605 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: the end. It was fully my choice. But I think 606 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: it'd be kind of fun to talk about all the 607 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: different elimination experiences and what they've all kind of taught 608 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,239 Speaker 1: me and meant to me, because they each do have 609 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: such a massive part of a learning curve of my life, 610 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: because they've all affected me in the deepest ways possible. 611 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: I mean the Mass Singer, I'm not joking you. I 612 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: cried for three days, like actual tears, actual sobbing, actual 613 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: could not pull it together, like cried more than I 614 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: did during my breakup and then I mean Dancing with 615 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: the Stars. Dancing with the Stars, I wasn't so much 616 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: said that I got second. I was more so sad 617 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: that it was over, and so that was a massive 618 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: learning curve. But there's so much that I could deep 619 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 1: dive on with just my elimination stories. And so if 620 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: you want that on a Joke's and Now podcast, let 621 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: me know, everybody. I truly enjoyed deep diving into AUDC 622 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: that that show has such a special place in my heart. 623 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: It always will. I feel like AUDC was the start 624 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: of so much, and it was. I mean, I think 625 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,479 Speaker 1: without it, I don't know how my career would have started. 626 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: From There's when I went to Dance Moms. From there's 627 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: when I went to social media and music, and now 628 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: I'm here, you know what I mean. It's been a 629 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: lot of work and it's been a lot of journey 630 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: in my career. Timeline is absolutely crazy, and I do 631 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: truly a credit all of it to a UDC being 632 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: the start. I mean, it's it's physical proof. It literally 633 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: is the first thing that I ever did publicly. But 634 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: uh yeah, I always I'm curious about where my life 635 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: would be without it. I think I would be headed 636 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: in med school right now. I'd be in my last 637 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: year of college and I'd be going into med school 638 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: as much as I love that. Very grateful that I 639 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: am here in Atlanta right now filming So You Think 640 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: You Can Dance? Season eighteen. Uh. Anyways, everybody, I love 641 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: y'all so very much. Thank you for hanging out with me. 642 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this Joe, Just You and 643 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: Now podcast. If you're ready for the eliminations episode, let 644 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: me know and I will see you all next time. 645 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: Deos is. Thank you so much for listening. Everybody. Be 646 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Jojoes 647 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: to a Now podcast, be sure to write us a review, 648 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: and maybe, if you're feeling to leave us five stars, 649 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: I'll see you next week.