Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello, Darling, Hello,
Speaker 1: it's Easton. That's right, it's not Tori Spelling. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: it's Easton again. This is misstepping here on the Misspelling Podcast.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're doing. We're going to be recapping Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars Season thirty four, Week seven. This is
Speaker 1: Halloween Night. Trying to channel my best Bruno there. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a lot of fun. What a great
Speaker 1: season this has been so far. We are just having
Speaker 1: a blast recapping this. I wish Tory was here with me.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry she's not. We hope she's back soon.
Speaker 1: But don't worry. You're in good hands with me. I
Speaker 1: got you covered. We're going to go through every single
Speaker 1: twist and turn and every single step of Halloween Night.
Speaker 1: This is you know. I had so much fun watching
Speaker 1: this episode. I just finished. Okay, this is It's Tuesday
Speaker 1: night as we record this. I really enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 1: Cheryl Burke back as a guest judge. Former pro Cheryl
Speaker 1: Burke a member of our iHeartRadio Podcast family. I've known
Speaker 1: Cheryl for many years now. She is so great. I
Speaker 1: love her so much. She's a dear friend, and I
Speaker 1: loved seeing her in the judges seat. She did she
Speaker 1: was hard on everyone tonight. But before we get started here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just highlight that Cheryl was really given the
Speaker 1: critiques of the dancers tonight, but it was great to
Speaker 1: see her back on the dance floor this cold. Let's
Speaker 1: just get started here. Okay, let's start from the top.
Speaker 1: From the top, everybody the cold open great. I loved it.
Speaker 1: The murder mystery thing, it was so cute. And then
Speaker 1: we got to see Julianne and Alfonso appear from a
Speaker 1: flash of smoke on the ballroom floor. That was cool.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be no shortage of tricks and treats on
Speaker 1: this episode. Seeing all the dancers and pros in their costumes,
Speaker 1: I had to think they must have gotten a bulk
Speaker 1: deal on those colored contact lenses. Everybody had them. I've
Speaker 1: never worn colored contact lenses. I've always wanted to, and
Speaker 1: there's one simple reason why I haven't done that. I
Speaker 1: wear real contexts. Okay, I'm not goofing around here. This
Speaker 1: is the real I got the real deal on my eyeballs.
Speaker 1: But we saw some really cool fake ones tonight, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really great show. But before we
Speaker 1: get into the first dance, it's so sad to hear
Speaker 1: that Elaine Hendrix suffered a terrible injury during rehearsal earlier
Speaker 1: that day, and she was at the hospital during the show,
Speaker 1: so we will not be seeing her dance live. We
Speaker 1: will get to how they handle that later on, but
Speaker 1: let's get started here. We got Whitney Levit Mark Ballas
Speaker 1: kicking things off. They're dancing at Jazz to brain Stew
Speaker 1: by Green Day. You know, I was hoping for a
Speaker 1: monster mash at some point in this show. We did
Speaker 1: not get the monster mash. I talked about that last week,
Speaker 1: but we got some songs that were I guess brain
Speaker 1: Stew's a spooky song. I don't know. It's a rock
Speaker 1: and roll song. It's rock and baby. So we see
Speaker 1: this like a rehearsal package, and Whitney is stressing. She
Speaker 1: is stressing that they're not dancing, They're they're not going
Speaker 1: hard enough. She wants to improve her moves. And they again,
Speaker 1: they danced jazz, and they were dressed as like beetlejuice,
Speaker 1: kind of another like Halloween adjacent vibe. I thought a
Speaker 1: really cool dance. There was this move that they did
Speaker 1: where Whitney leaned back and stuck her leg out and
Speaker 1: Mark like grabbed her leg and strummed it like a guitar,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was really cool. I really liked
Speaker 1: that a lot. But she was out of sync. They
Speaker 1: they were out of sync, and as Carrie Anne said,
Speaker 1: it might be contact lens related. I again, I haven't
Speaker 1: worn those contact lenses the costume ones. I understand they
Speaker 1: are very thick and probably hard to see out of,
Speaker 1: and everyone's wearing them. I'm wondering how it's gonna go
Speaker 1: for the rest of the night. But I thought this
Speaker 1: was a great start. They have set a very high
Speaker 1: standard for themselves. They are dancing so well. Derek huff
Speaker 1: that damn gigantic brooch is back. It's he loves that huge,
Speaker 1: like six inch long brooch. I wasn't hearing a rub
Speaker 1: against the microphone, but it is back. Nine's from Carrie
Speaker 1: and Derek and Cheryl Bruno gave it ten. They loved
Speaker 1: this dance. They really the judges loved this one. We're
Speaker 1: gonna move on here to to Jordan Chiles and Ezra
Speaker 1: Sosa again. They're gonna go very very far. They've just
Speaker 1: been elevating every single week. They danced a contemporary to
Speaker 1: Elastic Heart by Sea, And something I loved about watching
Speaker 1: their rehearsal package was I love seeing the like the
Speaker 1: mechanics of how they are preparing for these dances. I
Speaker 1: because you know some of these, some of these I
Speaker 1: can tell, it's so obvious how much of these are
Speaker 1: like stage to the like the behind the scenes stuff
Speaker 1: where it's like it's just them like standing in a
Speaker 1: ballroom going like, uh, well it's Halloween week and we
Speaker 1: really have to step things. That always kind of bothers me.
Speaker 1: But I felt that this week we got to see
Speaker 1: a lot more real moments of them rehearsing, especially in
Speaker 1: this one with Jordan and Ezra. I liked seeing Ezra
Speaker 1: really showing Jordan like the moves she was missing and
Speaker 1: giving her tips on how to make this flow easier.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really interesting. I really enjoyed this. Uh,
Speaker 1: they gave themselves a huge challenge with this dance because
Speaker 1: Jordan's wearing a harness and they're like and they have
Speaker 1: like a like a rope or a something to work
Speaker 1: into the dance. They're dressed as mummies, so you know,
Speaker 1: it works with the theme that's like they're they're being unraveled,
Speaker 1: and that just the rope and the harness so much
Speaker 1: to remember and to handle and include as part of
Speaker 1: the choreography. It looked to me like Jordan was kind
Speaker 1: of out of time with the rest of the dance.
Speaker 1: But they did such a cool spin. I thought it
Speaker 1: was another one I thought was great. There's so many
Speaker 1: elements at work, and they did a really fantastic job.
Speaker 1: But Derek and Carrie Anne given them some heat on
Speaker 1: this one. Derek gave him an eight, Carrie and gave
Speaker 1: M nine, Cheryl and eight and Bruno and nine. But
Speaker 1: Derek saying the execution wasn't fully realized. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I agree with that necessarily. I think they I
Speaker 1: don't know if they nailed it perfectly, but I thought
Speaker 1: the execution was there. I thought was fun, and it
Speaker 1: was the first time that I had seen a harness
Speaker 1: on this show, so that was really great. Anyway, congratulations
Speaker 1: Jordan and Ezra. We love watching you dance. We're moving
Speaker 1: on to the Dark Horse, The People's Princess, Andy Richter
Speaker 1: and Emma Slater. This is a special dance. It's Andy's birthday. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Andy's birthday and they're dancing a passadobla to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Speaker 1: You know that one. No no, no, no, no no. Andy's
Speaker 1: dressed as a priest, and he says in the rehearsal
Speaker 1: package he has experienced playing a priest in the movie
Speaker 1: Scary Movie Too, which fans of this show will know,
Speaker 1: also starred a great talented actor named Tory Spelling. I
Speaker 1: did not realize they were in a movie together, and
Speaker 1: that was very fun. I love whenever Scary Movie Too
Speaker 1: gets evoked because of my love for Tory. In the
Speaker 1: rehearsal package, it sounds like Andy like lost his voice
Speaker 1: or something. He's not a kind of horse. I'm like
Speaker 1: he's going hard vocally here in these rehearsals. His dancing
Speaker 1: is just improves so much this week I think was
Speaker 1: an exponential leap from last week too. He is just
Speaker 1: getting better and better. And something I really enjoy about
Speaker 1: watching him is that he's aware that, like he is
Speaker 1: the one. Everyone's kind of voting for him because they
Speaker 1: like his energy, because he's a nice guy, because he's funny,
Speaker 1: and he's got a great attitude. But he's not the
Speaker 1: best dancer. He's not the youngest guy there, he's not
Speaker 1: the fittest guy there. But you know, that can only
Speaker 1: take you so far, like having a great personality can
Speaker 1: only get you so far. And he's really putting in
Speaker 1: the work. He is enjoying dancing and he wants to
Speaker 1: be better, and you can see that. And this week especially,
Speaker 1: I was looking you know, now, I'm a pro myself,
Speaker 1: but I've been watching more intently and with a bit
Speaker 1: more knowledge of how the mechanics of this work, of
Speaker 1: these dances, and I'm looking for andy like I'm looking
Speaker 1: for faults there, and I'm not. I'm just seeing improving.
Speaker 1: He's getting so so good. Something. I was watching his
Speaker 1: face a lot during this dance, and he stayed like
Speaker 1: perfectly in character. You had this like spooky look on
Speaker 1: his face the whole time, which I think which must
Speaker 1: be hard to do, especially when you're trying to remember
Speaker 1: these moves. I just feel like what your face looks
Speaker 1: like is probably the last thing you're thinking of. But
Speaker 1: he really stayed locked in. And when the judges were
Speaker 1: giving their their judgments, when they're laying down their critiques,
Speaker 1: Derek snapped his six paddle in half. He's not given
Speaker 1: out any more sixes, and I'm just gonna skim here
Speaker 1: a little bit. He does not give a six for
Speaker 1: the rest of the of the night, and so I
Speaker 1: guess he doesn't need that paddle. He could have just
Speaker 1: destroyed it. I know they've got spares, but that was
Speaker 1: a pretty dramatic thing to do. But Andy and Emma
Speaker 1: did a great job. They got straight sevens across the
Speaker 1: board from Carrie and Derek Bruno and our guest host
Speaker 1: Cheryl Burke, and really it was a great dance. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed this. I enjoyed it so much. They go
Speaker 1: to a commercial break and when they come back, so
Speaker 1: in between the dances, obviously we see the troops. The
Speaker 1: troop dance to other songs is like kind of a
Speaker 1: little interludes. It's kind of fun to watch. My wife
Speaker 1: and I have taken a calling this part the Talent
Speaker 1: Show where you get to see the other pros that
Speaker 1: have not yet been named or you know that we
Speaker 1: don't know specifically, dancing these fun little numbers. And when
Speaker 1: we come back from this commercial break, it's Jan and
Speaker 1: Jenna Johnson. Jan Robinnick and Jenna Johnson dancing to canceled
Speaker 1: by Taylor Swift, a track from her new album The
Speaker 1: Life of a Showgirl. One of my least favorite songs
Speaker 1: on the album. I really hate this song, but it
Speaker 1: was fun to watch because, as you know, Jan was
Speaker 1: one of Taylor's backup dancers on the Airs tour. So
Speaker 1: as much as I disliked this song, I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching this little talent show. That was a blast. Now
Speaker 1: we're moving on to Elaine Hendrix and Alan Burston, And
Speaker 1: as we talked about at the beginning of the episode,
Speaker 1: Elaine is injured. Elaine got her during the rehearsals earlier
Speaker 1: in the day on the ballroom floor, so she was
Speaker 1: at the hospital getting checked out and recovering. And you
Speaker 1: can tell by they have and or Allan on stage
Speaker 1: talking with Alfonso about what's going on and how they're
Speaker 1: going to do the dance, and Alan looks so sad
Speaker 1: and you can tell he's really hurting for Elaine, and
Speaker 1: we are, so we're so saddened at home to know
Speaker 1: that she was injured, especially after such a great dance
Speaker 1: last week. So I was I'm watching this and I'm like,
Speaker 1: how are they going to do this? Like, because there's
Speaker 1: still a competition here, and they're not just going to
Speaker 1: eliminate her because she got hurt, Like that's not really
Speaker 1: her fault. How are they going to do this. They
Speaker 1: must have a protocol in place, and they do. They do.
Speaker 1: So they're saying they're going to show the video from
Speaker 1: her last full rehearsal, the last one she did before
Speaker 1: she got injured, not the one where she gets injured
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. We're going to show the
Speaker 1: last full dance, which was done earlier in the day,
Speaker 1: and that is what the judges are going to judge.
Speaker 1: They danced in Argentine tango to Bad to the Bone.
Speaker 1: We love that song, and it was it was cool
Speaker 1: to see how the rehearsals work. It was really fun
Speaker 1: seeing them do the dance on the dance floor with
Speaker 1: the cameras and the you know, all the effects and everything.
Speaker 1: But they're not in their costumes, they're not in full wardrobe.
Speaker 1: They're in there like workout gear. So that I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a fun peek behind the curtain,
Speaker 1: and like it's kind of fun seeing in the audience.
Speaker 1: There's like there's like just employees there, like crew, there's
Speaker 1: just like guys like me just sitting down there, like,
Speaker 1: look the clipboards and stuff, and that was I just
Speaker 1: enjoyed that as a as a kind of another look
Speaker 1: at how the show works. But it was a great dance.
Speaker 1: They did a great job and straight eight's across the board,
Speaker 1: so much love from the judges. Cheryl said that she's
Speaker 1: a huge fan, and she said that they have been
Speaker 1: Elaine and Allen have been getting dangerously and offensively underscored,
Speaker 1: and I kind of have to agree. I've really enjoyed
Speaker 1: Elaine myself and a great great job on this one,
Speaker 1: even though it was done in an unconventional way. Before
Speaker 1: we move on to Daniel Fischel and Pasha Pashkav, I
Speaker 1: just I gotta do this, you guys. I am compelled.
Speaker 1: The Halloween spirit is moving me. I am just moved
Speaker 1: and compelled. To take a break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: It's misstepping, hey, it's misstepping. My name is east In Alan,
Speaker 1: that's my first and last name. I'm here filling in
Speaker 1: for Tory. We usually do this together. I'm doing it
Speaker 1: by myself and that's okay. I'm just sitting here alone
Speaker 1: in my room, just screaming into a microphone about how
Speaker 1: much we've enjoyed Dancing with the Stars. Season thirty four,
Speaker 1: Episode seven, Week seven. It's Halloween night, and just before
Speaker 1: we hear those lovely commercials, I did what's called a
Speaker 1: tease that we're going to be talking about Daniel Fishal
Speaker 1: and Pasha pashkof Friends of Ours, members of the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: podcast Family. So Danielle explained in the rehearsal package that
Speaker 1: she has She's got a crazy idea for this dance.
Speaker 1: She's going high concept here. She wants to do this
Speaker 1: story that reveals halfway through the dance that she is dead,
Speaker 1: that she had been murdered. They're going to dance a
Speaker 1: Viennese waltz to Die with a Smile, a current top
Speaker 1: forty hit by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, a Grammy
Speaker 1: winning song. Great song, by the way, and I really
Speaker 1: loved the makeup and the costumes that they had for
Speaker 1: this dance. Daniel had these like blood tears that looked
Speaker 1: so cool. The acting in this dance I thought was
Speaker 1: just incredible. They really told a story so effectively through
Speaker 1: these dance moves. Their timing was completely on point. They
Speaker 1: did such a good job. I really thought they did great,
Speaker 1: and I thought they were so underscored on this. I
Speaker 1: think they deserved at least more nines, if not a
Speaker 1: couple tens in there. I thought they did such a
Speaker 1: fantastic job on this dance. Daniel's showing so much improvement.
Speaker 1: Carrie Anne coming in hot, I really think something's going
Speaker 1: on there. She said she had mixed emotions about the performance, okay, whatever.
Speaker 1: And Cheryl. I think Cheryl also is on all these judgments.
Speaker 1: She is really she's not playing softball here. She wants
Speaker 1: everyone to know she came to be a judge, she
Speaker 1: is a guest judge this week, and she is not
Speaker 1: taking it easy. And she did not on Danielle and Pasha.
Speaker 1: But it was a great, great dance, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see more from them, and I really hope they
Speaker 1: move on. I'm afraid though. I'm afraid for Danielle. I
Speaker 1: think the competition isn't getting so fierce as we narrow
Speaker 1: it down here, moving on through the weeks. A top
Speaker 1: contender for this competition Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson dancing
Speaker 1: in Argentine Tango to Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
Speaker 1: by the Eurhythmics made famous by the Rhythmics. The rehearsal
Speaker 1: package showed how tough it can be to be the
Speaker 1: leading man, and that's something that I know a lot
Speaker 1: of the guys on this show are struggling, with Robert included,
Speaker 1: but he's so talented and he's got so much natural ability.
Speaker 1: This dance that they that they do here, there's so
Speaker 1: much technical precision and musicality in this, Like those terms
Speaker 1: that I'm pulling out really impressive, Just such a great dance.
Speaker 1: They did this awesome flip. I love a flip. They
Speaker 1: did a great job there. And Robert did this thing
Speaker 1: with his legs that I really loved that looked like
Speaker 1: they kind of looked like a ticking clock, Like it
Speaker 1: was like a grandfather clocks, like they were swinging back
Speaker 1: and forth while he was kind of crouched there. It
Speaker 1: was so cool. And then he gets pulled into the garage.
Speaker 1: It's a part of the set that Tory filled me
Speaker 1: in on. There's a part called the garage. It's like
Speaker 1: this boxy thing. He gets pulled in by the backup
Speaker 1: dancers covered in blood, just completely covered in blood. Crazy,
Speaker 1: so much makeup at work here, and the thing. I
Speaker 1: couldn't stop laughing at it. I thought it was so funny.
Speaker 1: When he's back and he and Whitney are getting their
Speaker 1: feedback from the judges, Roberts just drenched in blood. He's
Speaker 1: like completely red and it's just dripping off of him,
Speaker 1: and he's like looking at the judges with this like
Speaker 1: kind of serious intent look on his face to show
Speaker 1: that he's like listening to their critiques and taking their
Speaker 1: tips and their criticisms to heart. But he's like just
Speaker 1: covered in makeup and blood. It just looked very funny
Speaker 1: to me. But I really enjoyed it, and they got
Speaker 1: crazy high scores, you know, at ten from carry In
Speaker 1: and ten from Bruno, and then nine is from Cheryl
Speaker 1: and Derek Man. I keep switching on who I think
Speaker 1: is gonna win it, but it's at this point I
Speaker 1: think it's between him and Whitney led it. I really do.
Speaker 1: He's just in such an incredible dancer. He's doing such
Speaker 1: a good job, and he's putting so much work into
Speaker 1: these rehearsals. I'm so blown away by him, as is
Speaker 1: the rest of America. Clearly we're moving on here. On
Speaker 1: Halloween Night on Dancing with the Stars, too, Jen Affleck
Speaker 1: and Jan Rovnick. These are my least favorite. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna hide it here. I'm not a fan. I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of Jen. Jan has always rubbed me
Speaker 1: the wrong way. I know Carrie Anner really has it
Speaker 1: out for him too, but he's always kind of given
Speaker 1: me the ick. As it were. They danced a contemporary
Speaker 1: to Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: and in case you forgot, Jan was a dancer on
Speaker 1: the Airs tour. They do not want us to forget that,
Speaker 1: and neither does he. Look What You Made Me Do
Speaker 1: is a great song. I watched you know this dance.
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to, you know, be too harsh. I
Speaker 1: just thought it was fine. I thought it was okay.
Speaker 1: Just felt more like a showcase for you on than
Speaker 1: anything else. He looked great. Jen was okay. Her snake
Speaker 1: eye contact lenses were great. Everyone's wearing the colored contacts tonight,
Speaker 1: but she had different ones. She had snake eyes, like
Speaker 1: the kind of you know, like a cat or something
Speaker 1: as reptile eye contacts. I thought they were really cool.
Speaker 1: It's it's very funny because Derek keeps getting cut off
Speaker 1: when he's giving his like judgments and he's getting pissed
Speaker 1: about it. He does not like get hearing the music
Speaker 1: and reading out of time. I'm not sure we're kind
Speaker 1: of signals are sending the judges when they're talking, but
Speaker 1: like Drek's clearly getting the like you do not have
Speaker 1: a lot of time to talk. But Carrie Anne said
Speaker 1: that the beginning of the dance was off the charts,
Speaker 1: but inconsistency in the performance, and Cheryl advised them that
Speaker 1: they need to work on their connection. Yeah, my least
Speaker 1: favorite so far, I'd have to say sorry, Jen and
Speaker 1: Jan Next up, Alex Earl and Valishchmerkovsky another just crazy contender.
Speaker 1: They're operating at such a high level and in the
Speaker 1: rehearsal package we see Alex wants Val to push her.
Speaker 1: She wants to go harder, she wants she does not
Speaker 1: want him to take it easy on these rehearsals and
Speaker 1: she's getting she's getting full Val. They kept calling it
Speaker 1: vintage Val. And I'm not a long time watcher of
Speaker 1: this show. I'm sorry to say that I'm very new
Speaker 1: to this, but apparently this is how he used to
Speaker 1: be as a dancer and with his star he would
Speaker 1: push them a lot harder. He has softened over time.
Speaker 1: Alex does not want that. She wants to get pushed this.
Speaker 1: This dance was so cool. They danced to Tango to
Speaker 1: Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish. They climbed out of
Speaker 1: the ground. I thought this was rare. They started buried
Speaker 1: just as the song says, and they like climbed out
Speaker 1: of their of their shallow grave. It was so awesome Alex.
Speaker 1: I saw great framing from her. She kept her shoulders high,
Speaker 1: she kept her arms high. She she's got the great
Speaker 1: tango pose there. I think she's doing a great job
Speaker 1: remembering those fundamentals and she's really kicking it into gear.
Speaker 1: This is a fantastic dance. However, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: a tango expert here, but Cheryl Burke is, and she
Speaker 1: wants to remind everybody that there are rules when it
Speaker 1: comes to tango. And Alex broke the hold with with
Speaker 1: val and that is not okay. But high score almost
Speaker 1: straight tens. Cheryl is the only one who did not
Speaker 1: give them a ten. I believe this is the highest
Speaker 1: score of the entire season so far. Very cool to
Speaker 1: see Dylan Efron and Daniella Catash are next. I love
Speaker 1: seeing her last name and now I feel more confident
Speaker 1: saying it. So I saw earlier in this week on Instagram,
Speaker 1: as I'm apt to do scrolling on the Insta, I
Speaker 1: saw that Dylan had gotten injured during the rehearsal Daniella
Speaker 1: broke his nose. He needed to go to the er,
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering how that's going to affect their dancing.
Speaker 1: In the pre show package. In the rehearsal package, Dylan
Speaker 1: shows off his love of romance, fantasy, romantic as they
Speaker 1: call it, an audio books, so I'm wondering what kind
Speaker 1: of spicy stories he gets up to. But he's bringing
Speaker 1: that passion a live through their dance. They danced to
Speaker 1: Vienna's Waltz. Who can't help falling in love? And he's
Speaker 1: another one. There's just so much improvement here. He just
Speaker 1: gets better and better. He is a very attractive man.
Speaker 1: He's very fun to watch, and he could get by
Speaker 1: on just that. I think he could do really low
Speaker 1: stakes dances and just because he's so fun to watch,
Speaker 1: he could probably get still get high scores. But he's
Speaker 1: really kicking it up a notch here. And something my
Speaker 1: wife pointed out that I thought it was funny is
Speaker 1: that in their dance, Danielle is wearing a blindfold. She's
Speaker 1: blindfolded through this, and my wife pointed out that Dylan
Speaker 1: is so brave to dance with a blindfolded Danielle after
Speaker 1: getting elbowed in the nose and breaking or close to
Speaker 1: breaking his nose during their rehearsals. He is a very
Speaker 1: brave man. She does ditch the blindfold about halfway through.
Speaker 1: But they have great chemistry as dancers. They are very
Speaker 1: fun to watch. I really love Danielle and Dylan. They're
Speaker 1: so great and they got great scores from the judges.
Speaker 1: And during the at the end of their dance, they
Speaker 1: revealed that Dylan won Sexiest Tattoos in the People magazine
Speaker 1: poll for Sexiest Man Alive, and Derek won Sexiest forty
Speaker 1: year Old. And he said when he was nominated for
Speaker 1: Sexiest Man Alive, he made some claim that if he won,
Speaker 1: he would shave his head, and Alfonso tried to call
Speaker 1: him on it. I don't know if it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think he was saying, if I win Sexiest Man Alive,
Speaker 1: I'll shave my head, not Sexiest forty year Old, which
Speaker 1: is a sub category. But Derek is a very sexy
Speaker 1: four year old, so congratulations to him. And Cheryl called
Speaker 1: them the most improved couple of the season, and I
Speaker 1: would give that to Andy personally, but they there is
Speaker 1: a lot of improvement. Dylan is operating at such a
Speaker 1: high level now, he's doing a great job. And that
Speaker 1: is our final couple dance of the but we move
Speaker 1: on to a group competition, the Monster Thon. When I
Speaker 1: saw this was happening, I'm gonna go. I started looking
Speaker 1: at my chomps. I was like, oh my god, here
Speaker 1: it comes, Here comes my beloved monster Mash. I got
Speaker 1: so excited, but I was quickly disappointed. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you why. Right after these words stick around.
Speaker 1: We're back. It is misstepping. My name is Easton Allen.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Halloween night on Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Star Season thirty four. It's week seven. We're at the
Speaker 1: final competition. Okay, this is the Monster Thon. This is
Speaker 1: an endurance competition, okay, And there's a lot of rules here.
Speaker 1: I was having a hard time keeping track. It's like
Speaker 1: they have they have to stay in a square and
Speaker 1: do a choreographed dance. But then the squares go away.
Speaker 1: They can dance all over the floor, but they have
Speaker 1: to be mindful of the other dancers and the judges
Speaker 1: will decide who gets eliminated. As the competition goes on,
Speaker 1: they have to dance straight through for four minutes, NonStop, uninterrupted,
Speaker 1: and whoever makes it to the end gets extra points.
Speaker 1: I think this is funds adds another fun element to
Speaker 1: the competition. But my favorite part was that the Grim
Speaker 1: Reaper was the one to tap the couples on the
Speaker 1: shoulder that they had been eliminated. I thought that was
Speaker 1: very fun to see the Grimm read through with their
Speaker 1: scythe grabbing couples off the dance floor that were chosen
Speaker 1: by the judges to go away. And it was fun
Speaker 1: because we had as this happens, we see the we
Speaker 1: see like the picture and picture in the corner of
Speaker 1: the judges deliberating. They're all standing huddled around a stack
Speaker 1: of paddles with a couple's names on him, and it
Speaker 1: was fun seeing them kind of, you know, argue about
Speaker 1: who who was going to get eliminated. As the show
Speaker 1: went on, they danced the Hustle and the Lindy Hop
Speaker 1: to Murder on the Dance Floor by Sophie Allis Bexter,
Speaker 1: made famous by the movie Saltburn and ended up on
Speaker 1: the charts a couple of years ago. And also we
Speaker 1: got a Little Party, Never Killed Nobody by Fergie Goon
Speaker 1: Rock and Q Tip respectively, and the elimination ended up
Speaker 1: going to Whitney and Mark. They won the whole challenge.
Speaker 1: They got an extra five points to their score. So
Speaker 1: now this brings us to the elimination round. Someone's got
Speaker 1: to go home, Someone's got to go It's so sad,
Speaker 1: but it has to happen. And as this competition moves on,
Speaker 1: the herd is going to be more thin and some
Speaker 1: of our favorites might have to say goodbye. This was
Speaker 1: really stressful to watch. I was very happy that my
Speaker 1: beloved Daniel Fischl got saved pretty early on in this
Speaker 1: part of the of the elimination. But something I thought
Speaker 1: was very interesting. We get to the bottom three, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to call it the bottom three just because
Speaker 1: it makes sense, but it's not the real bottom three
Speaker 1: that Alfonso explains. When we have the final three couples,
Speaker 1: there not necessarily the lowest scored one of these couples
Speaker 1: was the lowest scored of the combination of judges scores
Speaker 1: and the voting from the fans. But the other two
Speaker 1: couples were not. And this is just kind of an
Speaker 1: arbitrary choice, I guess, or dramatic choice of how to
Speaker 1: choose these last three couples before we announced who is
Speaker 1: going home. Among these are jen Affleck and Yon Rovnick,
Speaker 1: Elaine Hendrix who is recovering in the hospital, and Alan
Speaker 1: Burston staying there by himself. And Whitney Levitt and Mark
Speaker 1: ballas one of the highest scoring couples of the entire season.
Speaker 1: Why are they there, you ask, why? Why are they
Speaker 1: in the bottom three? There? There's no way they got
Speaker 1: no fan votes. We saw the judges' scores. They got
Speaker 1: highest scores. Here's why everybody. Maybe you know about this,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't, but I I was entertained by this
Speaker 1: this week. Whitney and Mark on social media a couple
Speaker 1: days ago, we're doing a They wanted to do a
Speaker 1: giveaway to get tickets to come to the screening of
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. They were going to give away
Speaker 1: a pair of tickets. I don't I wasn't there quick
Speaker 1: enough to see how they were going to give it
Speaker 1: away if it was like a follow us and we'll
Speaker 1: choose somebody, or if you vote for us or something
Speaker 1: like that. They quickly took it down and put up
Speaker 1: another post apologizing, saying they were told they cannot give
Speaker 1: away tickets in an email. They were told this is
Speaker 1: not okay to do, and a lot of fans in
Speaker 1: the comments were speculating that they were going to be
Speaker 1: punished for this, for this giveaway, and some fans were
Speaker 1: saying like this felt like a bribe to get votes.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but definitely kind of a
Speaker 1: shady thing to do. And they being in the bottom
Speaker 1: three on here and being teased with you are going
Speaker 1: to be eliminated. I think that was deliberate by the
Speaker 1: producers of the show. They want to prove to them, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't just give away tickets on your Instagram. This
Speaker 1: are on your TikTok. We're in charge here. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be up there sweating with another Mormon housewife or Mormon
Speaker 1: wife and and the woman that's in the hospital right now.
Speaker 1: But then we see the final elimination. It is not
Speaker 1: Whitney and Mark No, no, no, it is Jen afflecking
Speaker 1: Jan Robnick they are going home. They have been eliminated.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was very happy with this. I was
Speaker 1: happy every week. I think it's going to be andy.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid, you know, and I know that's got to
Speaker 1: come eventually, just because of how these things go, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to stick around a little bit longer. I'm
Speaker 1: really enjoying seeing him and I'm enjoying seeing him improve Jen.
Speaker 1: I've just been so unimpressed with her dancing the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and he has always rubbed me the
Speaker 1: wrong way. I know this is his first season. I've
Speaker 1: gotten bad vibes from this guy the entire time, So
Speaker 1: I am not shedding any tears for this elimination. I
Speaker 1: am very happy with it. Actually, next week is Rock
Speaker 1: and Roll Hall of Fame Week. Very excited about that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see performances from Chicago from Cool in the Gang.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a lot of fun. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: see what everyone dances to then, and I will be
Speaker 1: here to recap it all for you guys. Once again,
Speaker 1: this is misstepping, and I'm gonna misstep out of here.
Speaker 1: Siya