WEBVTT - misSTEPPING: A Spooky Spin Through the Ballroom (DWTS Week 7 Recap) 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:15.120 Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello, Darling, Hello, 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:19.000 it's Easton. That's right, it's not Tori Spelling. I'm sorry, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.920 it's Easton again. This is misstepping here on the Misspelling Podcast. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.720 Here's what we're doing. We're going to be recapping Dancing 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.280 with the Stars Season thirty four, Week seven. This is 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:37.919 Halloween Night. Trying to channel my best Bruno there. This 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.000 is gonna be a lot of fun. What a great 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.360 season this has been so far. We are just having 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.199 a blast recapping this. I wish Tory was here with me. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.000 I'm so sorry she's not. We hope she's back soon. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.919 But don't worry. You're in good hands with me. I 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.640 got you covered. We're going to go through every single 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.680 twist and turn and every single step of Halloween Night. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.720 This is you know. I had so much fun watching 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.880 this episode. I just finished. Okay, this is It's Tuesday 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.360 night as we record this. I really enjoyed this episode. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.199 Cheryl Burke back as a guest judge. Former pro Cheryl 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.320 Burke a member of our iHeartRadio Podcast family. I've known 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.840 Cheryl for many years now. She is so great. I 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.600 love her so much. She's a dear friend, and I 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.399 loved seeing her in the judges seat. She did she 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.000 was hard on everyone tonight. But before we get started here, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.080 I'm gonna just highlight that Cheryl was really given the 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:41.160 critiques of the dancers tonight, but it was great to 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.440 see her back on the dance floor this cold. Let's 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.319 just get started here. Okay, let's start from the top. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.760 From the top, everybody the cold open great. I loved it. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.840 The murder mystery thing, it was so cute. And then 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.720 we got to see Julianne and Alfonso appear from a 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.120 flash of smoke on the ballroom floor. That was cool. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.400 There's gonna be no shortage of tricks and treats on 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:10.200 this episode. Seeing all the dancers and pros in their costumes, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.240 I had to think they must have gotten a bulk 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.760 deal on those colored contact lenses. Everybody had them. I've 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.200 never worn colored contact lenses. I've always wanted to, and 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.920 there's one simple reason why I haven't done that. I 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.680 wear real contexts. Okay, I'm not goofing around here. This 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.080 is the real I got the real deal on my eyeballs. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.680 But we saw some really cool fake ones tonight, and 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.880 it's gonna be a really great show. But before we 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.040 get into the first dance, it's so sad to hear 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:45.280 that Elaine Hendrix suffered a terrible injury during rehearsal earlier 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.880 that day, and she was at the hospital during the show, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.680 so we will not be seeing her dance live. We 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.640 will get to how they handle that later on, but 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.880 let's get started here. We got Whitney Levit Mark Ballas 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.120 kicking things off. They're dancing at Jazz to brain Stew 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.320 by Green Day. You know, I was hoping for a 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.720 monster mash at some point in this show. We did 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.160 not get the monster mash. I talked about that last week, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.200 but we got some songs that were I guess brain 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.359 Stew's a spooky song. I don't know. It's a rock 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.200 and roll song. It's rock and baby. So we see 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:25.000 this like a rehearsal package, and Whitney is stressing. She 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.239 is stressing that they're not dancing, They're they're not going 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:34.720 hard enough. She wants to improve her moves. And they again, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.920 they danced jazz, and they were dressed as like beetlejuice, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:44.080 kind of another like Halloween adjacent vibe. I thought a 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.600 really cool dance. There was this move that they did 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:51.000 where Whitney leaned back and stuck her leg out and 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.840 Mark like grabbed her leg and strummed it like a guitar, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.040 and I thought that was really cool. I really liked 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.920 that a lot. But she was out of sync. They 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.240 they were out of sync, and as Carrie Anne said, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.760 it might be contact lens related. I again, I haven't 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.960 worn those contact lenses the costume ones. I understand they 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.840 are very thick and probably hard to see out of, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.200 and everyone's wearing them. I'm wondering how it's gonna go 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.640 for the rest of the night. But I thought this 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.200 was a great start. They have set a very high 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.960 standard for themselves. They are dancing so well. Derek huff 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.400 that damn gigantic brooch is back. It's he loves that huge, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.160 like six inch long brooch. I wasn't hearing a rub 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.760 against the microphone, but it is back. Nine's from Carrie 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.440 and Derek and Cheryl Bruno gave it ten. They loved 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.240 this dance. They really the judges loved this one. We're 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.119 gonna move on here to to Jordan Chiles and Ezra 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:55.760 Sosa again. They're gonna go very very far. They've just 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.200 been elevating every single week. They danced a contemporary to 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.799 Elastic Heart by Sea, And something I loved about watching 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.440 their rehearsal package was I love seeing the like the 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.800 mechanics of how they are preparing for these dances. I 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.440 because you know some of these, some of these I 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.080 can tell, it's so obvious how much of these are 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.240 like stage to the like the behind the scenes stuff 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.520 where it's like it's just them like standing in a 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.760 ballroom going like, uh, well it's Halloween week and we 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.919 really have to step things. That always kind of bothers me. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.800 But I felt that this week we got to see 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.000 a lot more real moments of them rehearsing, especially in 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.919 this one with Jordan and Ezra. I liked seeing Ezra 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.840 really showing Jordan like the moves she was missing and 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.960 giving her tips on how to make this flow easier. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.360 I thought that was really interesting. I really enjoyed this. Uh, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.120 they gave themselves a huge challenge with this dance because 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.240 Jordan's wearing a harness and they're like and they have 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.599 like a like a rope or a something to work 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.560 into the dance. They're dressed as mummies, so you know, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.760 it works with the theme that's like they're they're being unraveled, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:14.279 and that just the rope and the harness so much 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.640 to remember and to handle and include as part of 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.720 the choreography. It looked to me like Jordan was kind 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.719 of out of time with the rest of the dance. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.440 But they did such a cool spin. I thought it 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.400 was another one I thought was great. There's so many 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.080 elements at work, and they did a really fantastic job. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.480 But Derek and Carrie Anne given them some heat on 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.760 this one. Derek gave him an eight, Carrie and gave 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.200 M nine, Cheryl and eight and Bruno and nine. But 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.280 Derek saying the execution wasn't fully realized. I don't know 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.480 if I agree with that necessarily. I think they I 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.400 don't know if they nailed it perfectly, but I thought 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.760 the execution was there. I thought was fun, and it 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.440 was the first time that I had seen a harness 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.480 on this show, so that was really great. Anyway, congratulations 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.840 Jordan and Ezra. We love watching you dance. We're moving 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.400 on to the Dark Horse, The People's Princess, Andy Richter 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:18.200 and Emma Slater. This is a special dance. It's Andy's birthday. Tonight, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:27.520 Andy's birthday and they're dancing a passadobla to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.840 You know that one. No no, no, no, no no. Andy's 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.080 dressed as a priest, and he says in the rehearsal 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.680 package he has experienced playing a priest in the movie 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.800 Scary Movie Too, which fans of this show will know, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.600 also starred a great talented actor named Tory Spelling. I 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.280 did not realize they were in a movie together, and 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.440 that was very fun. I love whenever Scary Movie Too 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.680 gets evoked because of my love for Tory. In the 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.920 rehearsal package, it sounds like Andy like lost his voice 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:59.760 or something. He's not a kind of horse. I'm like 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:06.200 he's going hard vocally here in these rehearsals. His dancing 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.480 is just improves so much this week I think was 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.760 an exponential leap from last week too. He is just 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.960 getting better and better. And something I really enjoy about 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:22.320 watching him is that he's aware that, like he is 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.040 the one. Everyone's kind of voting for him because they 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.080 like his energy, because he's a nice guy, because he's funny, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.920 and he's got a great attitude. But he's not the 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.120 best dancer. He's not the youngest guy there, he's not 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.320 the fittest guy there. But you know, that can only 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.000 take you so far, like having a great personality can 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.880 only get you so far. And he's really putting in 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.720 the work. He is enjoying dancing and he wants to 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.280 be better, and you can see that. And this week especially, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.520 I was looking you know, now, I'm a pro myself, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.960 but I've been watching more intently and with a bit 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.280 more knowledge of how the mechanics of this work, of 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.000 these dances, and I'm looking for andy like I'm looking 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.920 for faults there, and I'm not. I'm just seeing improving. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.920 He's getting so so good. Something. I was watching his 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.120 face a lot during this dance, and he stayed like 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.120 perfectly in character. You had this like spooky look on 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.400 his face the whole time, which I think which must 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.560 be hard to do, especially when you're trying to remember 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.480 these moves. I just feel like what your face looks 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.160 like is probably the last thing you're thinking of. But 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:37.440 he really stayed locked in. And when the judges were 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:42.240 giving their their judgments, when they're laying down their critiques, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.080 Derek snapped his six paddle in half. He's not given 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.400 out any more sixes, and I'm just gonna skim here 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.360 a little bit. He does not give a six for 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.880 the rest of the of the night, and so I 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.520 guess he doesn't need that paddle. He could have just 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.640 destroyed it. I know they've got spares, but that was 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.600 a pretty dramatic thing to do. But Andy and Emma 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.320 did a great job. They got straight sevens across the 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.000 board from Carrie and Derek Bruno and our guest host 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:13.560 Cheryl Burke, and really it was a great dance. I 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.840 really enjoyed this. I enjoyed it so much. They go 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:22.120 to a commercial break and when they come back, so 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.520 in between the dances, obviously we see the troops. The 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.599 troop dance to other songs is like kind of a 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.720 little interludes. It's kind of fun to watch. My wife 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.240 and I have taken a calling this part the Talent 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.400 Show where you get to see the other pros that 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.199 have not yet been named or you know that we 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.679 don't know specifically, dancing these fun little numbers. And when 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.480 we come back from this commercial break, it's Jan and 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.319 Jenna Johnson. Jan Robinnick and Jenna Johnson dancing to canceled 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.280 by Taylor Swift, a track from her new album The 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.760 Life of a Showgirl. One of my least favorite songs 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.840 on the album. I really hate this song, but it 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.840 was fun to watch because, as you know, Jan was 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.720 one of Taylor's backup dancers on the Airs tour. So 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.920 as much as I disliked this song, I really enjoyed 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.200 watching this little talent show. That was a blast. Now 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.679 we're moving on to Elaine Hendrix and Alan Burston, And 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.439 as we talked about at the beginning of the episode, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:24.400 Elaine is injured. Elaine got her during the rehearsals earlier 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.880 in the day on the ballroom floor, so she was 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:33.200 at the hospital getting checked out and recovering. And you 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.840 can tell by they have and or Allan on stage 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.320 talking with Alfonso about what's going on and how they're 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.560 going to do the dance, and Alan looks so sad 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.560 and you can tell he's really hurting for Elaine, and 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.920 we are, so we're so saddened at home to know 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.000 that she was injured, especially after such a great dance 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.800 last week. So I was I'm watching this and I'm like, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.560 how are they going to do this? Like, because there's 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.800 still a competition here, and they're not just going to 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.240 eliminate her because she got hurt, Like that's not really 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.240 her fault. How are they going to do this. They 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.400 must have a protocol in place, and they do. They do. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.720 So they're saying they're going to show the video from 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.440 her last full rehearsal, the last one she did before 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.840 she got injured, not the one where she gets injured 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:21.400 in the middle of it. We're going to show the 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.920 last full dance, which was done earlier in the day, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.480 and that is what the judges are going to judge. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.440 They danced in Argentine tango to Bad to the Bone. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.480 We love that song, and it was it was cool 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.760 to see how the rehearsals work. It was really fun 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.920 seeing them do the dance on the dance floor with 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.960 the cameras and the you know, all the effects and everything. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.440 But they're not in their costumes, they're not in full wardrobe. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.160 They're in there like workout gear. So that I enjoyed that. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.840 I thought it was a fun peek behind the curtain, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.280 and like it's kind of fun seeing in the audience. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.720 There's like there's like just employees there, like crew, there's 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.719 just like guys like me just sitting down there, like, 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.520 look the clipboards and stuff, and that was I just 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.200 enjoyed that as a as a kind of another look 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.920 at how the show works. But it was a great dance. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.880 They did a great job and straight eight's across the board, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.920 so much love from the judges. Cheryl said that she's 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.320 a huge fan, and she said that they have been 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.520 Elaine and Allen have been getting dangerously and offensively underscored, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.880 and I kind of have to agree. I've really enjoyed 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:31.360 Elaine myself and a great great job on this one, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.200 even though it was done in an unconventional way. Before 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:40.600 we move on to Daniel Fischel and Pasha Pashkav, I 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.840 just I gotta do this, you guys. I am compelled. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.880 The Halloween spirit is moving me. I am just moved 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.480 and compelled. To take a break. We'll be right back. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:14:00.800 It's misstepping, hey, it's misstepping. My name is east In Alan, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.800 that's my first and last name. I'm here filling in 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.120 for Tory. We usually do this together. I'm doing it 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.320 by myself and that's okay. I'm just sitting here alone 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.000 in my room, just screaming into a microphone about how 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.160 much we've enjoyed Dancing with the Stars. Season thirty four, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.840 Episode seven, Week seven. It's Halloween night, and just before 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.640 we hear those lovely commercials, I did what's called a 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.200 tease that we're going to be talking about Daniel Fishal 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.520 and Pasha pashkof Friends of Ours, members of the iHeartRadio 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:35.400 podcast Family. So Danielle explained in the rehearsal package that 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.600 she has She's got a crazy idea for this dance. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.480 She's going high concept here. She wants to do this 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.480 story that reveals halfway through the dance that she is dead, 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.920 that she had been murdered. They're going to dance a 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.920 Viennese waltz to Die with a Smile, a current top 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.080 forty hit by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, a Grammy 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:03.040 winning song. Great song, by the way, and I really 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.960 loved the makeup and the costumes that they had for 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.920 this dance. Daniel had these like blood tears that looked 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.120 so cool. The acting in this dance I thought was 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.200 just incredible. They really told a story so effectively through 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.120 these dance moves. Their timing was completely on point. They 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.800 did such a good job. I really thought they did great, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.200 and I thought they were so underscored on this. I 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.360 think they deserved at least more nines, if not a 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.240 couple tens in there. I thought they did such a 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.640 fantastic job on this dance. Daniel's showing so much improvement. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.760 Carrie Anne coming in hot, I really think something's going 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.160 on there. She said she had mixed emotions about the performance, okay, whatever. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:52.760 And Cheryl. I think Cheryl also is on all these judgments. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.760 She is really she's not playing softball here. She wants 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.240 everyone to know she came to be a judge, she 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.560 is a guest judge this week, and she is not 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.000 taking it easy. And she did not on Danielle and Pasha. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.880 But it was a great, great dance, and I'm excited 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.560 to see more from them, and I really hope they 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.040 move on. I'm afraid though. I'm afraid for Danielle. I 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.720 think the competition isn't getting so fierce as we narrow 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.320 it down here, moving on through the weeks. A top 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:30.440 contender for this competition Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson dancing 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.400 in Argentine Tango to Sweet Dreams Are Made of This 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:39.720 by the Eurhythmics made famous by the Rhythmics. The rehearsal 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.720 package showed how tough it can be to be the 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.880 leading man, and that's something that I know a lot 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.840 of the guys on this show are struggling, with Robert included, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.119 but he's so talented and he's got so much natural ability. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.560 This dance that they that they do here, there's so 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.520 much technical precision and musicality in this, Like those terms 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.960 that I'm pulling out really impressive, Just such a great dance. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.000 They did this awesome flip. I love a flip. They 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.000 did a great job there. And Robert did this thing 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.000 with his legs that I really loved that looked like 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.280 they kind of looked like a ticking clock, Like it 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.600 was like a grandfather clocks, like they were swinging back 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.720 and forth while he was kind of crouched there. It 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.280 was so cool. And then he gets pulled into the garage. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.040 It's a part of the set that Tory filled me 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.159 in on. There's a part called the garage. It's like 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.199 this boxy thing. He gets pulled in by the backup 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.960 dancers covered in blood, just completely covered in blood. Crazy, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.840 so much makeup at work here, and the thing. I 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.879 couldn't stop laughing at it. I thought it was so funny. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.640 When he's back and he and Whitney are getting their 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.520 feedback from the judges, Roberts just drenched in blood. He's 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.880 like completely red and it's just dripping off of him, 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.480 and he's like looking at the judges with this like 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.560 kind of serious intent look on his face to show 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.480 that he's like listening to their critiques and taking their 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.119 tips and their criticisms to heart. But he's like just 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.600 covered in makeup and blood. It just looked very funny 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.480 to me. But I really enjoyed it, and they got 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.879 crazy high scores, you know, at ten from carry In 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.280 and ten from Bruno, and then nine is from Cheryl 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.640 and Derek Man. I keep switching on who I think 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.080 is gonna win it, but it's at this point I 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.000 think it's between him and Whitney led it. I really do. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.080 He's just in such an incredible dancer. He's doing such 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.800 a good job, and he's putting so much work into 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.399 these rehearsals. I'm so blown away by him, as is 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.800 the rest of America. Clearly we're moving on here. On 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.640 Halloween Night on Dancing with the Stars, too, Jen Affleck 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:54.080 and Jan Rovnick. These are my least favorite. Okay, I'm 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.400 not gonna hide it here. I'm not a fan. I'm 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.480 not a fan of Jen. Jan has always rubbed me 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.439 the wrong way. I know Carrie Anner really has it 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.600 out for him too, but he's always kind of given 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:08.400 me the ick. As it were. They danced a contemporary 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.919 to Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:14.280 and in case you forgot, Jan was a dancer on 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.680 the Airs tour. They do not want us to forget that, 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.080 and neither does he. Look What You Made Me Do 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.600 is a great song. I watched you know this dance. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.159 I'm trying not to, you know, be too harsh. I 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.320 just thought it was fine. I thought it was okay. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.680 Just felt more like a showcase for you on than 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:35.080 anything else. He looked great. Jen was okay. Her snake 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.359 eye contact lenses were great. Everyone's wearing the colored contacts tonight, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.840 but she had different ones. She had snake eyes, like 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.600 the kind of you know, like a cat or something 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.399 as reptile eye contacts. I thought they were really cool. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.240 It's it's very funny because Derek keeps getting cut off 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.880 when he's giving his like judgments and he's getting pissed 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.840 about it. He does not like get hearing the music 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.520 and reading out of time. I'm not sure we're kind 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.399 of signals are sending the judges when they're talking, but 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.040 like Drek's clearly getting the like you do not have 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.360 a lot of time to talk. But Carrie Anne said 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.679 that the beginning of the dance was off the charts, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:16.159 but inconsistency in the performance, and Cheryl advised them that 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.880 they need to work on their connection. Yeah, my least 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.119 favorite so far, I'd have to say sorry, Jen and 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:30.560 Jan Next up, Alex Earl and Valishchmerkovsky another just crazy contender. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:35.520 They're operating at such a high level and in the 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.120 rehearsal package we see Alex wants Val to push her. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.920 She wants to go harder, she wants she does not 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.240 want him to take it easy on these rehearsals and 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.280 she's getting she's getting full Val. They kept calling it 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.960 vintage Val. And I'm not a long time watcher of 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.640 this show. I'm sorry to say that I'm very new 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.520 to this, but apparently this is how he used to 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.960 be as a dancer and with his star he would 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.960 push them a lot harder. He has softened over time. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.119 Alex does not want that. She wants to get pushed this. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.760 This dance was so cool. They danced to Tango to 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.399 Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish. They climbed out of 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.120 the ground. I thought this was rare. They started buried 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.400 just as the song says, and they like climbed out 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.840 of their of their shallow grave. It was so awesome Alex. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.439 I saw great framing from her. She kept her shoulders high, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.080 she kept her arms high. She she's got the great 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.880 tango pose there. I think she's doing a great job 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:38.960 remembering those fundamentals and she's really kicking it into gear. 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.720 This is a fantastic dance. However, I mean, I'm not 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.320 a tango expert here, but Cheryl Burke is, and she 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.919 wants to remind everybody that there are rules when it 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:54.800 comes to tango. And Alex broke the hold with with 0:21:55.000 --> 0:22:00.680 val and that is not okay. But high score almost 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.280 straight tens. Cheryl is the only one who did not 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.080 give them a ten. I believe this is the highest 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.800 score of the entire season so far. Very cool to 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:12.840 see Dylan Efron and Daniella Catash are next. I love 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:14.680 seeing her last name and now I feel more confident 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:20.520 saying it. So I saw earlier in this week on Instagram, 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.840 as I'm apt to do scrolling on the Insta, I 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:28.040 saw that Dylan had gotten injured during the rehearsal Daniella 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.440 broke his nose. He needed to go to the er, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.600 So I'm wondering how that's going to affect their dancing. 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:42.000 In the pre show package. In the rehearsal package, Dylan 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:46.360 shows off his love of romance, fantasy, romantic as they 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:49.280 call it, an audio books, so I'm wondering what kind 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:51.399 of spicy stories he gets up to. But he's bringing 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.240 that passion a live through their dance. They danced to 0:22:54.359 --> 0:23:00.560 Vienna's Waltz. Who can't help falling in love? And he's 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.399 another one. There's just so much improvement here. He just 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:08.160 gets better and better. He is a very attractive man. 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.840 He's very fun to watch, and he could get by 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:15.520 on just that. I think he could do really low 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.120 stakes dances and just because he's so fun to watch, 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:22.400 he could probably get still get high scores. But he's 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:26.840 really kicking it up a notch here. And something my 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:28.399 wife pointed out that I thought it was funny is 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:33.200 that in their dance, Danielle is wearing a blindfold. She's 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:37.000 blindfolded through this, and my wife pointed out that Dylan 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:41.880 is so brave to dance with a blindfolded Danielle after 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.359 getting elbowed in the nose and breaking or close to 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:49.680 breaking his nose during their rehearsals. He is a very 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:52.040