WEBVTT - So, Do You Think You Can Dance? 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:05.200 You're listening to Jojosua now with me, Jojo Ciua and 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:11.080 iHeartRadio podcast. Oh, welcome back to Jojo Sua. Now. I 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.360 am laughing my head off right now because as I'm 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.200 starting this podcast, I was checking my TikTok because I 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:17.919 did a bit of an experiment today. I posted a 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.079 TikTok of me doing literally nothing because I was like, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.200 I want to do nothing and see if people will 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:28.640 hate on it. And long story short, people are hating 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:33.880 on it. And that, to me is just so freaking 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.800 funny that thousands of people can figure out a way 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.600 to hate on a video of me sitting at my 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.639 kitchen counter doing literally nothing. I freaking love the world. Anyways, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.640 Welcome back to Jojasia. Now. If you guys remember a 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.559 few weeks ago, I was talking about how I moved 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.160 to Atlanta. I was filming a show down in Atlanta. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.920 I was leaving alone for the first time in Atlanta. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.800 Now I can finally freaking talk about what that all 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.960 was about what that all was? Four So you think 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:07.959 you can Dance? Season eighteen. I was so honored that 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:09.800 I got the call to be a part of season 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.680 eighteen to come judge the top ten be on the 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.640 judging panel again. For anyone that doesn't know, I was 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.400 a judge on season seventeen of So You Think You 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.640 Can Dance, and I, I mean, I freaking love that 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.120 more than anybody ever knows. That season it was me, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.280 it was Twitch rest in Peace and my brother, and 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.120 it was Leah Remoni. That was our panel that season, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:36.840 and then this season was me, Max Schmerkovsky, which Max 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.920 is actually Jenna, my partner from Dancing with the Stars, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.040 her husband Val. Max and Val are brothers, so Jenna's 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:49.040 brother in law. And then Alison Holker, who of course 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.960 is Twitch's widow. She is the most amazing woman in 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.560 the world. I did not know I could love a 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:59.080 human so fast, so much. I love that girl with 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.000 all my heart, and her and I became so close 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.280 while filming So You Think You Can Dance. She literally 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.800 became my number one human. Anyways, I got to be 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.720 a part of this season and it was so fun. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.760 This season is full new, full new format. It's airing 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.240 right now on Fox next day on Hulu. The top 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.200 ten starting off was incredible. Let's see if I couldave everybody. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.680 We had Braylin, we had Roman, we had Jalen, we 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.080 had Anthony, and we had Easton. Then for girls, we 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.120 had Olivia, we had Avery, we had Mariah, de Kayla, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.919 and of course Madison and that top ten. Right there 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.240 is such a powerful group of dancers. They're also talented, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:49.760 also unique, also special, and also adaptable. This season's new 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.400 format was all about, you know, putting the dancers into 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.560 the real world of dance. How are you gonna do 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.000 on a music video set, How are you gonna do 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.840 live on tour? How are you gonna do on Broadway? 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.920 The real job that dancers are booking, in the way 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.440 dancers are working and being a professional dancer. What it's 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.639 all about. That's what this season was. And honestly, there's 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.000 been a mixed review on the new format. Personally, I 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.800 love it. I think it's way more twenty twenty four. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.160 I think it feels like this version of the show 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.840 should have existed for the last couple of years. But 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.280 people are afraid of change, and that is very normal. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.000 They are used to so you think, being basically an 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.440 elevated dance competition and that is a very normal, okay thing. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.920 People are just scared of something different, which is totally fine. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.520 But for me, seeing these dancers in this element is 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.160 I mean, it is so special. Week one started off 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.240 so strong with music video weeks. You're seeing five dancers 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.240 do a video to Lizo song and the other five 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.520 doing a music video to a Justin Bieber song. They're 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.920 totally different, choreographed by some of the most legendary choreographers. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.440 It's such a unique opportun tunity now and a unique 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.120 way to see dancers and the light and also the 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.160 struggles that dancers go through because it is not easy 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.720 and you're as a dancer, you are doing one of 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.600 the most physical demanding jobs every single day, physically demanding 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.160 jobs on your body every single day, and these dancers 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.000 put so much hard work and do it. What's really 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.320 fun though about this season is you get to see 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.000 that aftermath. You get to see them go back to 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.200 their house at night and ice their knees. You get 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.520 to see them, you know, if they get sick and rehearsals. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.240 You get to see them struggle. You get to see 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:33.800 their hip out of place. You get to see them 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.400 go to the chiropractor. You get to see all of 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.039 that which you've never seen in so you think it's 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.520 called like shiny floor. They took it off the shiny 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.600 floor this season, and they made it the real gritty 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.520 world of professional dance, which I think is something that 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.640 the world doesn't know because anytime you see professional dance, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.719 professional dancers, you know, you just see the final performance. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.320 You don't see what it takes to get there. And 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.320 so this season for it to truly be about the 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.320 dancers and about the choreographers, were the best dance necessarily 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.320 it is about the best dancers and the cast themselves, 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.400 and it is It is just incredible. I came into 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.240 this season blind because I did not do the audition episodes. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.640 I just came in at top ten, and I don't 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.440 know how they got it down to these ten because 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.640 the dancers that auditioned that I just saw on TV, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.680 I mean, so talented, so beyond amazing, some of them, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.880 I am just like in utter awe of and so 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.080 to get it down to this top ten, I don't 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.760 know how they did it. At the time, it was 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.840 Alison Max and Comfort and they they did. They did 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.160 the Lord's work because well man so hard. But then truthfully, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.880 every week for us, we went from top ten to 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.560 top eight, to top six to top five, four, three, two, 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.400 and Oh fuck, is that a spoiler. No, it's not 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.840 a spoiler. It's fine. Might be a spoiler, but we're 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.520 gonna be it. It's fine. No one's gonna know anyways. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.320 So that's kind of how the structure was this season 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.919 and our deliberations deciding because typically So you Think you 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.200 Can Dance in the past has been an audience vote, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.840 but this season it was judges vote, and we weren't 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.680 picking America's favorite dancer. We were picking so you Think 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.440 you Can Dance the winner, And so that was a 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.919 lot of pressure and we took that into account, but 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.200 we also took into account the new format. And a 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.920 big thing that I've seen online is like you you're 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.600 sending some of the best technical dancers home. That's not 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.839 what this season is about. This season is about the 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.920 most adaptable dancers, the most hiable dancers, the most workable dancers, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.640 the hardest working dancers, the dancers with the greatest attitude, 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:48.760 because truthfully, all of these dancers are freaking brilliant. I 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:53.279 mean they are brilliant technical dancers. But your attitude, the 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.440 way you carry yourself, all of that matters on this season, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.800 and it's your rehearsals it's your work ethic, it's just 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.320 everything that we can take into an account. We do. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.840 But it is so hard because everyone is so good 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.720 and so talented and so nice, and no matter what 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.480 you know, you're sending somebody home and crushing their dreams. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.280 And that is something that as a judge, because I've 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.040 been on the other side of it, and I've been 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.320 the one standing on stage waiting for elimination, and it's 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.840 it's so hard because it is your dream right in 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.320 front of you. But what I told all the cast 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.960 on week one is I said, no matter what, you 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.520 got here and you can do whatever you want after this. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.360 I said, only one of you is going to win. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.240 Nine of you are going to lose. More are losing 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.960 than winning. But in the reality, all ten of you won. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:39.560 All ten of you are here, and now all ten 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.280 of you have this platform. Use it to your advantage. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.240 If you get tenth place, you can still be the 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.200 most successful one off of this show. If you get 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.280 first place, you can still be the most successful one 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.880 off this show. It's what you're gonna do with this now. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.480 And I think that really got across to all the 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.360 dancers and they, I mean, week after week brought it 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:04.080 outdid themselves. They truly brought something to the show every 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.600 single week that I don't think me, Alison and Max 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.120 thought they could get better. I mean there was a 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.800 few standout moments where we would be watching someone solo 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.200 and we would just be like, there's no way this 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.680 is happening right now. I mean, I have watched dance 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.280 for twenty years of my life. Now I've I've grown up. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.000 I higher dancers, and I saw things that I didn't 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.480 know the human body could do. I mean, the numbers 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.400 on this show, the numbers in the finale just freaking wait, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:37.640 the finale numbers are actually crazy. They are so fucking good. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.920 They they're This season of this show, dare I say, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.080 will change the dance world, will change the way people compete, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.280 will change away. People dance, will change away people dress 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.120 while dancing. There's so much that is going to influence 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.400 the dance world that I think, once people aren't scared 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.679 of the new format anymore, they are gonna jump on 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.040 board with it and it is going to be so 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:05.240 insanely success full. Man, the cast of the show, watching 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:10.240 them work and watching them focus and dial in and fight, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.160 I mean the fight on this show is actually crazy. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.640 I will say I had the time of my life 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.800 off film, and I was so unstressed until it was 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.680 show day. When it was show day, fucking hell, it 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.240 was the hardest day ever. It was a long, long, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.160 long day. But then also you're making the choice that 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:35.080 is altering these people's careers. It is so freaking hard. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.199 We typically, as judges, we filmed two days a week. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.040 We filmed their day where they were either on side 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.200 of the music video during the Broadway performance, and then 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.040 we filmed show day, which is where they would do 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.920 an opening number, and then we would get to watch 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.360 whatever we had watched on set the other day. We'd 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.040 get to watch like the glossy version of it and 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:55.520 see how it ended up turning out. But man, when 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.440 I tell you, those show days were so tough. They 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.200 were so hard because you have to take so much 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.320 into account that I would just go home at night 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:10.040 and just be mentally drained. There was There's one story 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.600 I I love when like random stories come to my mind. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.200 And as close as Ali and I got, Max and I, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.360 we also got so close. Max actually kind of came 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.559 became like an older brother to me. I used to 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.040 be super close to Val of course, because of Jenna 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.200 after something. I'm so much closer to Max that boy. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.440 I love him so much. I love him both so much. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.040 But Max and I we we actually kind of got 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.600 into a little bit of a prank wore. He like 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.240 jokingly pulled my chair out from under me one day 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.000 and I was like, Max, you knock it off. And 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 then he actually did it to me one day and 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:44.880 when I tell you, I fell to the ground in 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:50.240 slow motion. It was so funny. But then when he 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.000 caught me, because he kind of caught me as I 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.000 was falling down, his pinky actually bent backwards and he 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.240 broke his pinky. So what did we say to that? 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.880 Karma is a bitch. But then on the Finance, we 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.600 were sitting and I used to keep trying to pull 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.079 his kept trying to pull his pull his and I 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.559 could never get it because he would always see me. Finale, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.360 he was talking to Alison as he was sitting down, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.600 and when I tell you, I kicked his chair with 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.280 all of my might to get it to move, and 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.440 this man plopped on the ground. Oh my god, I 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.120 literally tinkled like, I laughed so hard. It was so 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.800 fucking funny. It was so funny. You just had to 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.320 be there. You just had to be there, but everybody 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.679 knew how funny it was. Anyways, I we didn't really 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.680 get to interact with the cast much on the show, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.520 the dancers, but every so often once the ones that 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.200 were safe, they got to go into the pit, and 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.600 so while the ones who were in jeopardy of going 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.000 home had to prepare for their solos, we got to 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.560 go chit chat to them for a little bit, And 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.640 it was always so interesting to hear their perspective on 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.240 things because they're in a position where like this is 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.960 the biggest thing of their life right now. They are 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.320 devoting every second of their living to this, and so 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.880 to get to hear their hard work and to get 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.120 to hear their stories, it truly put so so much 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.280 into perspective. I always just tell them though, like literally 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.880 every week we did the music video week, and I 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.320 was like, well, I can't wait to film another music 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.040 video because all y'all are gonna be hired. Next week 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:13.880 we did freaking Broadway. I don't have anything to do 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.880 with Broadway. Next week tour week, I was like, I 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.679 can't wait to hire all of you guys. Get ready 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.560 like you're going on door with me, like they we 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.120 got to see them in such a positive light, which 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:28.440 was just so freaking cool. One of the things I 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.120 never know if it's that I love so you think 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.600 you can dance so much, or I love living in 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.640 Atlanta alone so much. I cannot put my finger on it, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.040 but I literally it was my favorite TV show filming 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.960 ever besides Special Forces. I just something about it was 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.439 so fun. There was no stress. There was no I mean, okay, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.720 I'm saying that, but there was stress, but there was 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.840 no like pressure on me to like have to dance 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.600 and do a good job. It was like I just 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.959 had to like mentally be there, and I got to 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.960 kind of allow myself to basically take a little bit 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.400 of a break, which was fun at the time, but 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.679 now that I'm like not taking a physical break anymore, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.120 I'm like, Okay, shit, we gotta really really kick this 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.040 in the high gear. But I got to go home 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.960 at night and just like chill and eat dinner and cook. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.800 I taught myself how to cook in Atlanta, Like, I 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.640 got to really like experience growing up, which was kind 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.560 of fun. Also, while I was in Atlanta's when we 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.920 started to come up with the Karma Release plan, and 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.880 so I got to devote a lot of my time 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.280 to working on that as well, and it worked out 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.400 perfect because I just had so much time on my hands. Essentially, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.120 I could get work done and then those two days 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.719 on set, everything else will pause. But then the other 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.200 five days a week we were cooking with other work. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.640 Alison and I actually we always used to joke about 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:50.240 that I love Alison so much. That girl literally from 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.640 day one, we like colllicked. She is family to me, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.040 older sister to me. I adore her with all my being. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.960 We used to joke about that, like we were our 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.040 days that we were at work being so you think 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.920 you can dance? We were like, fuck yeah, we gonna 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.880 like tell all of our other jobs like piss off 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.080 for a little bit because we're at work today. And 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.560 because she's the same way I am. You know, she 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.840 has all her fifty thousand projects that she's working on, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.360 and she also has three kids that she's tending to, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.480 and so you know, when we got to be on set, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.880 we would just be like, oh man, this break is 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.080 so nice. And then like one of our team members 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.360 would call it happened to both of us and we'd 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.520 be like sorry on set working, can't talk, and but 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.680 we'd be like on a frank on set all the time. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.480 It would happen. Man, I'm trying to think of a 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.400 fun story with Alison. I used to scare Alison a lot. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:37.840 She was in the trailer next to me, and so 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.120 I would bang on her door all the time, or 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.320 she would go film tiktoks. I'd hide around the corner 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.000 and I'd scare her. I got Alison into Celsius and 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.120 Ghosts energy drink. She'd never had one before, and I 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.400 was like, boom, bam boom. Alison and I we actually 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.680 we always agreed on everything. There was one time where 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.720 we didn't agree, and so we were like, let's make 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.440 this the biggest deal in the world, because we didn't 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.120 care that we did agree, Like we weren't trying to 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.800 convince each other otherwise, but we were like, we've never 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.280 disagreed before, Like, let's freaking go with this. So I'm 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.920 excited to see how they end up airing that it's 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.640 gonna be really funny. Hopefully it ends up making it 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.320 to air. We don't have any control if it does 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.600 or if it doesn't. Yeah, I uh There was this 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.280 one super fan. I believe her name is Britney. I 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.800 think it's Brittany. She kept coming to the tapings, and 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.720 the first week I noticed sir, but didn't really think 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.400 much about it. And then the second week she came 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:31.720 and I was like, hey, you were here last week 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.400 and she's like, yeah, yeah, I gotta show you something 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.560 and I was like, sure, what's up? And she had 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:41.760 a tattoo actually of my logo and I was like, whoa, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.480 this is sick. And then she was like, and I 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.000 have seven candy hearts next to it. And I was like, 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.640 oh my god, stop it does that for EXOMG and 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.360 she was like, yeah, it's for the seven original XOMG 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.760 pop members. I was like, that is freaking precious. And 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.440 then she had me sign her arm, and so I 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.800 signed her arm. It was my first time anything with 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.840 my new signature. And then she went that night and 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.880 got that tattooed. So this girl has like oh, but 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.640 I mean it was big. It was on her whole 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.040 forearm on the inside. But her and I believe it 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.280 was her mom and sister always came to the tavings. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.360 They were always so sweet, they were so fun. They 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.680 always brought the energy and the audience. The audience was 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.240 also just so fun. There was one time. It was 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.680 one time there was somebody a little bit creepy in 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.800 the audience, so we had them escorted out because I 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.120 was like that Parsonal's given me a weird vibe. Every 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.720 bo's eight and the set was like, I don't worry, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.800 we'll handle it. And so then they got escorted out 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.320 and I was right, there was a not they shouldn't 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.840 have been in there, and so you know, sees something, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.920 say something, and I wanted to protect the cast of 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.840 the show, and of course, so I mis said something 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.800 got them out of there. The last thing that I 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.000 want to talk about is the incredible crew behind so 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.160 you think you can dance. What people don't see about 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.160 a TV show is there is hundreds of people working 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.680 behind the scenes. I for the last day on set 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.080 of a rap day, I wanted to get everybody a 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.919 little something something and just like a little treat to 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.320 just say thank you. And so I got the crew members. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.520 I did grumble cookies. Crumble you can do catering and 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.840 get these little mini cookies, right, So I did that. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:16.840 So I texted and I was like, hey, do you 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.480 know how many people are on the crew of so 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.239 you think you can dance? And or I also did 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.120 something for the dancers. I'll talk about that next, But 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.840 there was two hundred crew members on this one show, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.919 two hundred and so that really puts into perspective, like 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.680 how much goes into making a show like this possible? 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.879 I mean just feeding two hundred people and that's just 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.639 cru It's not including cast. I mean, so you think 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.640 doesn't have the biggest cast. Oh my god, Kat Deally. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.840 I gotta talk about Kat Deally. She is Melissa English mother. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.439 I love her so much. But yeah, me and me 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.880 and Kat actually we have a lot of fun on set. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.640 Cat's kind of like my like she's aways got my back. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.960 I've always got her back no matter what, because it's 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.880 like me and Alison, me and Max, like we all 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.440 mix with Then me and Kat we got like a 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.240 little special something on she I think because I'm the 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.440 age of the dancers and she really is like used 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.840 to relating to them and so she can relate to me. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.560 That's actually something that I struggle with while judging the show. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.080 Of course, people come at me saying I'm not credited 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.600 enough to be a judge on that show, which it 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.280 just shows that people don't know my career, which is okay, 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.840 and I don't have the energy to fight it online. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.960 But somebody today was like Jojos was a judge just 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.000 because she was on Dancing with the Stars and got second, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.000 I don't buy it, and I was like, oh, my 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.040 fucking hell, no, JoJo's a judge because she a has 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.560 done so many dance shows, b is an Emmy nominated choreographer. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:54.120 CE has employed thousands of dancers like let's let's find it. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.679 But you know, people, I'm young, and so I get it. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.080 And that is something though that I even last season 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.000 like struggled judging with and this season was a little 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.080 bit better because I'm a little bit older. Last season, though, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.080 I think actually everybody there may have been one person 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.960 that was younger than me, but I'm pretty sure everybody 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.399 was actually older than me, and that was a strange 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.800 dynamic for me. So even though I may have more 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.520 experience than them, they're still older, you know what I mean, 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.639 And so it's a definitely a respect thing for me, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.159 and I also respect the people that are younger than me, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.480 of course, but there's something to be said about being 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.879 on the judging panel and judging someone that's older than you. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.600 It's just it's a weird. It's personal thing. But this 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.600 season I actually was older than most. It was literally 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.320 split right down the middle is older than half and 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:42.160 younger than half, and so I of course judged fair. 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.119 I mean, that's my job. I'm gonna be a fair judge. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.239 But it was always so strange to me, being like, 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.919 even though there's only one year older than me, it 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.280 is such a weird I don't know, put yourself in 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.400 my shoes, and I think you would know what I mean. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.119 It's not like an explainable feeling, but it is like 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.200 this is this is you know what I mean? Oh 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.919 my god. My truck was my favorite part about Atlanta. 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.920 I actually had three trucks while in Atlanta had a 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.320 Ford F one fifty. I had a Chevy Silverado, which 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.960 I highly recommend, and then I had a ram truck, 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.639