Speaker 1: Welcome to pod meets Twirled, the Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 1: recap hosted by two guys who can't dance, don't want
Speaker 1: to dance, and have now seen exactly four episodes of
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. But since our best friend Danielle
Speaker 1: has joined the cast for season thirty four, we're going
Speaker 1: all in. We are Wilfredell and Ryder Strong aka the
Speaker 1: two dudes standing next to Tapanga aka Danielle of Fishal's
Speaker 1: backup aka the Daniettes. Yes, Hello, Will Daniette, Hello Rider
Speaker 1: dan Yette.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty exhausted.
Speaker 2: Not gonna lie in exhausted, Pavid, I have no idea
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot happen. You're back east right now.
Speaker 2: I'm back east on arguably the squeakiest chair perfect that
Speaker 2: has ever been podcasted.
Speaker 1: In little Podcasting.
Speaker 2: Awoke in this morning by hearing my parents going, oh
Speaker 2: my god, downstairs because a giant bear was on our
Speaker 2: deck looking in our door. Really, yep, that's so cool.
Speaker 2: I guess they have. I didn't see it by the time.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, they're fine, Uh yeah, but apparently
Speaker 2: he ate our pumpkins because my dad likes to decorate
Speaker 2: for Halloween. So it came in and ate the pumpkins
Speaker 2: and was on our door and that was it.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 2: I love their sit in back East, my friend, right, they're.
Speaker 1: Still around, I'm nevewhere Yeah, all right, shall we get
Speaker 1: right into Disney night on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have the bandwidth for this.
Speaker 2: Last night was so I was like, so anxious and
Speaker 2: nervous and it was the worst. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm going to be able to make it to the
Speaker 2: end of this series.
Speaker 1: I'll what was making you nervous, but the fact that
Speaker 1: Danielle was in the bottom three and then I don't
Speaker 1: need that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she's going home now. That's the
Speaker 2: other thing I was going to ask. I don't know
Speaker 2: if anybody knows Danielle or can't get in touch with
Speaker 2: somebody in her management, but I'd love to get a
Speaker 2: quote from her about what it feels like to be
Speaker 2: up there, you know, thinking you might go home, because
Speaker 2: there was a shot that she could go home last
Speaker 2: nightka Crop but Alex kept.
Speaker 1: Asking, She's like, does that mean she's in the bottom three?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, yes, very clearly state no, yes,
Speaker 1: say not necessarily the bottom three.
Speaker 2: So no, they said the bottom three, not necessarily in
Speaker 2: any order as well, they said even Danielle texted last
Speaker 2: night and said I was in the bottom three. That
Speaker 2: will never happen to me again.
Speaker 1: Tara, can you weigh in on this. The three people
Speaker 1: standing on the stage are the lowest three votes.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't mean votes wise.
Speaker 3: She is in the bottom three that used to be
Speaker 3: previously on Dancing with the Stars, where they used to
Speaker 3: be an actual bottom three bottom two elimination. They don't
Speaker 3: do that, so there could be someone else who was safe,
Speaker 3: who had lower scores all around than Danielle.
Speaker 1: Are you sure about this? Yes?
Speaker 2: Because last night.
Speaker 3: Last night I was actually asked Pasha myself because I
Speaker 3: was so confused by it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Danielle texted me last night and said bottom
Speaker 2: three never again.
Speaker 1: Well she yeah, she doesn't want to be there ever again.
Speaker 2: But right, But so you're saying that she could have
Speaker 2: had the top scores of the night and still ended
Speaker 2: up on that stage with the other two couples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. See, I think they could. They're
Speaker 1: playing mind games with us, man.
Speaker 2: I know they're playing mind games. But they also always
Speaker 2: seem to be the three couples you think they're going
Speaker 2: to be or close to it. But'llcased on scoring.
Speaker 1: But to be fair, she may she is one of
Speaker 1: the lower scores as far as the judges go. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You just look at you know, the
Speaker 1: bottom of like last night scores, she was at the
Speaker 1: bottom three. So this is a call to everybody out
Speaker 1: there listening who is a fan of Daniel Fischer and
Speaker 1: thinks she deserves to stay on the show and keep
Speaker 1: learning how to ballroom dance. Vote for her. Get out
Speaker 1: and vote.
Speaker 2: We did. We all noted, my mom, my, dad, everybody,
Speaker 2: we all voted last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think it's you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: a it's a call to arms. Vote.
Speaker 2: Also also shows the difference in in going first, like
Speaker 2: being one of the first couples. I still think is
Speaker 2: a huge detriment to whoever's dancing. Now we can get
Speaker 2: into it. Dylan kind of broke that mold a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know, he was great.
Speaker 2: I so when I well, we'll get to it. We'll
Speaker 2: get when we get to Danielle, we'll get to it. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, all right.
Speaker 1: All right. So he started with the big birthday cake
Speaker 1: on stage and Disney characters everywhere, and all I could
Speaker 1: think about is the poor luony air guy who had
Speaker 1: to keep his arms up otherwise he burned the place down.
Speaker 2: Oh god great.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, the poor guy. I like,
Speaker 1: my arms started hurting for him, and I'm like, he
Speaker 1: can't put those down. He might take somebody's face off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is one of the curses when you're around the beast. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole Disney thing, it was it was a little
Speaker 1: much for me. I have to say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're applauding Disney characters appearing. I'm like, really, okay, this
Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Perfectly, rider like it was all these things that bring joy, like,
Speaker 2: we'll do it for me, you know what.
Speaker 1: It just felt here. It felt a little pander into me.
Speaker 1: It was like, what is what is Disney? What? You know?
Speaker 1: And then everybody had the same story about going to Disneyland.
Speaker 1: It was like by the third person being like, I
Speaker 1: came here when I was a kid. Now I come
Speaker 1: here with my kids and it's fun. They just kind of.
Speaker 2: Somebody was like, no, I never come here it's ridiculously expensive.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the lines?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of you know, it's It's Last
Speaker 1: night was when I was, you know, because getting into
Speaker 1: this show and watching it, you know, it's been a
Speaker 1: trip for me because I don't watch the shows like
Speaker 1: this that often. And like that was when I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, let's do some real stuff because it all
Speaker 1: felt so scripted and sort of planned, and like all
Speaker 1: the clips of Disney you know, I prefer seeing them
Speaker 1: struggling in the studio, like trying to learn how to dance,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that's the that's the those are
Speaker 1: the real moments that I want to see. And instead
Speaker 1: the show just kind of started, like last week's TikTok
Speaker 1: commercials started to feel like a big Disneyland commercial and yeah,
Speaker 1: we all love Disneyland. I get it. Yes, great, we
Speaker 1: don't have to keep it hitting this over the head
Speaker 1: over and over again whatever on Disney Night.
Speaker 2: All right, give us the show.
Speaker 1: Second, we never heard the second week in a row
Speaker 1: where they announced that they are breaking records on voting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty million, I think they said, is amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and that speaks to, you know, the
Speaker 1: star power of people like Danielle on this show, and
Speaker 1: I agree. I think you know, having not seen any
Speaker 1: other season, I'm I'm assuming this is a great season.
Speaker 1: This is a really Now I have a question for you.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's closer to forty million people voting
Speaker 2: once or do you think it's closer to two million
Speaker 2: people voting twenty times?
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: You'd have to check the ratings of the actual show,
Speaker 2: right right, because I don't think I have no ratings
Speaker 2: on any TV show or big anymore. Like the biggest
Speaker 2: thing you get is two, three, four to five thousand,
Speaker 2: So everybody's voting ten times, that's what I mean ten,
Speaker 2: But twenty you get, you get ten texting and ten.
Speaker 2: So it's like, are two million people voting twenty times
Speaker 2: or five million people? I can't do the math, but
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, I'm curious.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the dances, okay, Dylan and
Speaker 1: Daniella up first always seems like the worst position to
Speaker 1: go in. But these two I thought they did great.
Speaker 2: They killed it.
Speaker 1: They killed it.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why he was doing cars while dressed
Speaker 2: like Woody from a toy story, I know.
Speaker 1: But it made no sense to me. But I I
Speaker 1: gotta say, first of all, let let's talk to Disneyland
Speaker 1: for a second. Cars ride wonderful ride, awesome, I mean,
Speaker 1: just fantastic. I am not a fan of the Cars movies.
Speaker 1: It's like a huge miss for me when it comes
Speaker 1: to pisar.
Speaker 2: Oh the first one was great.
Speaker 1: Really, it makes sense to you that cars sitting in
Speaker 1: an audience to watch other cars go in circles, that
Speaker 1: who's riding them, who's inside the cars? It doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. What's the point of these cars? Isn't that
Speaker 1: the equivalent of people standing around watching people race without cars?
Speaker 2: They're watching people run around a track.
Speaker 1: Isn't that brack and field? You know what? Good? Point? Good?
Speaker 1: I will concede that point, good sir. But it's still
Speaker 1: just like, why do they need gus? What has happened?
Speaker 1: I just don't know why these things exist? It's my
Speaker 1: brain just melted the first time I saw cars. I
Speaker 1: don't understand it anyway, But a lovely ride at Disneyland's
Speaker 1: streat more fun than I expected. Great ride, hate on
Speaker 1: the movie.
Speaker 2: The whole the whole world over there, the Cars world
Speaker 2: over there is a cool world to run around and
Speaker 2: I'm just you know, I've.
Speaker 1: Said it since the beginning. I think Daniella is the
Speaker 1: best dancer in this entire thing. Great, She's amazing. And
Speaker 1: I just love Dylan. I love him, you loved him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to be I want to be
Speaker 1: on a road trip with him after this. I'm like, Dank,
Speaker 1: you like, I'm not going to rock climb, but I'll
Speaker 1: watch you, and you know, we just to.
Speaker 2: He's so likable. He's just like this guy like smiling
Speaker 2: the whole time, and the smiles fully genuine.
Speaker 1: And working hard, like he's learning how to dance. He's
Speaker 1: getting great. Yeah, this is he's like having the journey
Speaker 1: that exactly what you're supposed to on this show, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Who maybe is physically active, but
Speaker 1: it's never danced and you're watching him go through this journey.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. So they did the quick Step to Life
Speaker 1: as a highway fun song. I thought it was pretty
Speaker 1: pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2: To strong start, really strong start to the.
Speaker 1: Night, no notes. It was interesting. Derek commented on his
Speaker 1: head like not snapping enough, and I thought, like, well
Speaker 1: that's a good note. It's a call they gave him seven,
Speaker 1: eight and eight. I think it should have been eight's
Speaker 1: across the board. I don't disagree. I think carry Anne
Speaker 1: was a little harsh tonight. I do too.
Speaker 2: I think she was a little stingy with the paddle tonight.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing worse than spending a night with the
Speaker 2: warring stingy with the paddle. So you know it's uh yeah,
Speaker 2: she's I thought so too. I thought she pulled it
Speaker 2: back a little bit this week and was the one
Speaker 2: who a couple times I did not agree with her
Speaker 2: scoring I'm with.
Speaker 1: You, man, Yeah, she was having an off night for me,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up Danielle and Pasha. This was great.
Speaker 1: They did, I think the best song of the night.
Speaker 1: I want to be like you. Wow, OK, so what really? Really?
Speaker 1: You don't love this song?
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a big Life as a Highway fan,
Speaker 2: so I thought they started pretty pretty strong with Life
Speaker 2: as a Highway. But yeah, no, I very much liked
Speaker 2: the song. I would have been there would have been
Speaker 2: something really great and I had to google it to
Speaker 2: make sure. I thought there was a chance because jungle
Speaker 2: Book didn't. The Sherman Brothers write some of the music
Speaker 2: for jungle Book. Yeah, yeah, so I thought Danielle dancing
Speaker 2: to a jungle book song written by the Sherman Brothers,
Speaker 2: where Jeffrey Sherman has been on our show and was
Speaker 2: one of the writers. That would have been a cool
Speaker 2: kind of synergy.
Speaker 1: But great song. Now you can't beat this like upbeat,
Speaker 1: especially great for the quick step. This was they I
Speaker 1: felt like, Wow, they finally had some really good production
Speaker 1: design because you know, everybody else has had all these
Speaker 1: sets and done more sort of interpretive story based dancing,
Speaker 1: whereas Danielle and Pasha have kept a pretty standard up
Speaker 1: until now. So I love seeing them in a set,
Speaker 1: jumping around, uh being bringing more character. And yeah, it
Speaker 1: was great. I thought it was super fun.
Speaker 2: When I first watched it last night, I did not
Speaker 2: think it was as good as Dylan's dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I could tell that her legs got a little smurgy there,
Speaker 2: which they pointed out she she messed up a semer
Speaker 2: a technical dance. It is, well, I try to stay
Speaker 2: as technical with the dance terms as I can. They
Speaker 2: got a little skmergye.
Speaker 1: See I didn't really notice, you know, I was just
Speaker 1: like in it, and then when they pointed it out,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, right, I guess she did get
Speaker 1: out of time or whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was like, oh, it was okay, But
Speaker 2: then I watched it again this morning with fresh eyes,
Speaker 2: and it was great. It really Yes, she she did
Speaker 2: one step out of step, Okay, great it was.
Speaker 1: You know it's driving her crazy right now. Oh amazed
Speaker 1: if she could sleep last night, but she was. It
Speaker 1: was there.
Speaker 2: How between last week and this week and again, maybe
Speaker 2: not the best dance, but how she hasn't gotten an
Speaker 2: eight yet I don't think is fair. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: know we're biased, but last night she could have gotten
Speaker 2: an eight on energy and stage presence alone, could have
Speaker 2: gotten an eight. And it feels like they're judging her
Speaker 2: harsher than they're judging some of the other contestants.
Speaker 1: Well, I think they probably know that she's a beloved figure.
Speaker 1: You know that she's getting a lot of the popular vote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I also think you know, they probably they I
Speaker 1: think they're Here's here's why I think next week, Danielle
Speaker 1: and Pasha should do something very technically difficult, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, right, like, because I feel like they
Speaker 1: did the classy dances, the more sort of straightforward they
Speaker 1: showcased her abilities. Then this week was about entertainment and
Speaker 1: character and personality. Now I think they should do something
Speaker 1: that really shows off that she's learning and that she's
Speaker 1: working hard on the dance side of things. And I
Speaker 1: think that that would go a long way to sort
Speaker 1: of showing the judges like, yes, I got out of
Speaker 1: you know time last week, but I was just in
Speaker 1: it and I was feeling the dance. Now let me
Speaker 1: show you that I can do. You know this this
Speaker 1: very tech. That's my take. I don't know if she'll
Speaker 1: listen to me.
Speaker 2: I think I think she's a bit in her head.
Speaker 2: And we know Danielle. Again, we've talked about Danielle's personality.
Speaker 2: She not only wants to win because she she's a
Speaker 2: competitive person, but she anything she tries, she wants to
Speaker 2: be great at. That's just Danielle. So I think she's
Speaker 2: in her head about every step and doing this. And
Speaker 2: I think I've said this, I said this in our
Speaker 2: very first episode or second episode, I can't remember, but
Speaker 2: the week when Danielle just lets it all go is
Speaker 2: going to be a week where people are like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, look what she just did.
Speaker 1: So you don't think this was that week, huh? You
Speaker 1: think she don't too okay, it was a good move
Speaker 1: to she let it go more. For sure, she definitely
Speaker 1: let it go more.
Speaker 2: But to me, in the beginning, it started a little
Speaker 2: rough with her by herself, you know, when she jumps
Speaker 2: down from the chair and she's not with Pasha and
Speaker 2: it was just her doing a move or two alone.
Speaker 2: They were a little stiff for me, like she was
Speaker 2: warming up a little bit. And so there's gonna be
Speaker 2: that week, and I God hope she stays because she
Speaker 2: deserves it. And the idea that she got the same
Speaker 2: scores this week that she got last week, to me,
Speaker 2: is ridiculous because it shows they're saying she hasn't grown,
Speaker 2: and I disagree with that one thousand percent. But so
Speaker 2: when she puts that week together, and god if she
Speaker 2: can do it next week, which they've announced, so we
Speaker 2: can talk about when Bill Daniel's mister Feenie is there,
Speaker 2: she'll bring the house down. She'll bring the house down.
Speaker 2: And I think a bunch of her Boy Mets World
Speaker 2: castmates are going to be there. I don't know if
Speaker 2: we'll get the invite because we don't know her all
Speaker 2: that well, but I know a bunch of them are
Speaker 2: going to be there. Uh and so yeah, it was
Speaker 2: She'll bring the.
Speaker 1: House down, that's all.
Speaker 2: I gotta say.
Speaker 1: Seven's across the board, which was the same scores last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that there could be.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: Before we move on, you know, we have to.
Speaker 2: Do will history be of Dance, which you know I
Speaker 2: have an encyclopacknowledge of all things dance and I like
Speaker 2: to let people know a little bit of the history
Speaker 2: of the dance that Danielle particularly does.
Speaker 1: This week, I am also I was very proud.
Speaker 2: I I came up with the idea where I'm every
Speaker 2: week it's going to be sponsored by a very small
Speaker 2: company that needs to be up and coming that i'd
Speaker 2: like to work with. So this week's History of Dance
Speaker 2: a sponsor a company called Lamborghini.
Speaker 1: Oh little yes car company.
Speaker 2: We're a little car company, up and coming, Yes, And
Speaker 2: I think if they sent me a car they'd be happy.
Speaker 2: But right now we're talking about the quick step, which
Speaker 2: is what daniel did writer and it involved in the twenties.
Speaker 1: Oh I guess okay, no, go go yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just picking a company, a small just trying
Speaker 2: to give me a break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need your help. I'm trying. Let me guess.
Speaker 1: Quick step is about stepping quickly. You can we have it?
Speaker 2: Yes, no, but it's from the twenties. It's actually a
Speaker 2: combination writer of the fox Trot to Charleston, the shag,
Speaker 2: the peabody and the one step. It's English in origin
Speaker 2: and stand up when we get there.
Speaker 1: Not going to jump in, but you're not going to
Speaker 1: tell me about the people? Would you like to know?
Speaker 2: So? Soon after the induction of the fox Trot nineteen fourteen,
Speaker 2: two variations developed a slow version done it about forty
Speaker 2: measures per minute.
Speaker 1: That's the peabody. Would you like me to keep going?
Speaker 1: Or no? No, no, no, that's okay, okay.
Speaker 2: That's fine. So it's English nineteen twenty seven it evolved
Speaker 2: from the fox trot. The quick step now is it's
Speaker 2: quite separate writer. Unlike the modern fox trot, the leader
Speaker 2: often closes his feet, and syncopated steps are regular occurrences,
Speaker 2: as in the case of the fox trot. Three characteristic
Speaker 2: dance figures of the quick step are the chasse where
Speaker 2: the feet are brought together, the quarter turns, and the lockstep.
Speaker 2: I just thought kind of fun.
Speaker 1: God, let you mean's going on. You could have just
Speaker 1: been using Star Wars terms for me, you know, like,
Speaker 1: but you would have understood Star Wars term. You know.
Speaker 1: Those kicks were a little sithy this week, a little sitthy,
Speaker 1: I mean, little ky Crystal. See, do you think the
Speaker 1: judges have all of this stuff in their head? It's
Speaker 1: just like because I mean they threw out terms this
Speaker 1: week that I.
Speaker 2: Was just like what I would say, you're artists too,
Speaker 2: I mean, would you know, would you know the equivalent
Speaker 2: lingo of theater?
Speaker 1: I think so maybe that's what I'm saying. I think so.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the same or film.
Speaker 2: I think it's the same thing where you're talking about
Speaker 2: dps and the one eighty eighty rule and eye lines
Speaker 2: and stuff. Some people might not know exactly what you're
Speaker 2: talking about, but you do because this is your world.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they probably have this right at their fingertips.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up, we had Scott Hoyne and Riley Arnold. He
Speaker 1: is apparently a Disney fanatic, goes to Disneyland all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad that he has stuck around because I
Speaker 1: am liking him more and more and I'm liking watching
Speaker 1: them down.
Speaker 2: You didn't at first?
Speaker 1: Nope, not at all. Yeah, I was like, why agreed?
Speaker 1: You know, and I think you know, they talk about
Speaker 1: it on the show. They talk about him coming out
Speaker 1: of his shell and yeah, it's worked. Like I'm totally
Speaker 1: like great man, Like you're you're killing it. So they
Speaker 1: danced the salsa to Bop to the top and yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he was great. I think he's just getting
Speaker 1: better and better and like it's merging the sort of
Speaker 1: expressiveness that he has discovered. And it seemed technically great
Speaker 1: to me. So I thought this was really fun. They
Speaker 1: got a little a little knotted in their arms.
Speaker 2: They did she got she she tucked under and had
Speaker 2: to do everything.
Speaker 1: It was it. It was like what what that was
Speaker 1: that a mistake? Yes, that was definitely that was a mistake.
Speaker 1: They're twisting and like folding.
Speaker 2: But and they were doing high school musical right, which
Speaker 2: I thought was kind of interesting at seeing that Dylan
Speaker 2: didn't do high school musical with his brother, which he
Speaker 2: talks about right and and and then they're doing high
Speaker 2: school musical but they're doing shar Pei. So I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it was a fun tongue in cheek, if you know,
Speaker 2: High School Musical. You would have loved this dance kind
Speaker 2: of moment. They both had the microphones, like even though
Speaker 2: they weren't singing, they had the mics that they wore
Speaker 2: in the movie, So.
Speaker 1: It was it was movie. So I don't know. And
Speaker 1: then like when they were like talking over each other afterwards,
Speaker 1: that's like a reference to the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were, there was actual that was that's the
Speaker 2: the brother So there's a brother, sister and team in
Speaker 2: the High School Musical movies that are kind of kind
Speaker 2: of steal the movies, especially the woman Sharpey, who are
Speaker 2: just as Ashley Tisdale's character. So yeah, they're great, but
Speaker 2: they were. I couldn't agree with you more. By the way,
Speaker 2: At first, I was like, ooh, this guy, he's very robotic,
Speaker 2: very mechanical. I don't find anything particularly engaging about him,
Speaker 2: even during his packages. And then now I really like
Speaker 2: him when I do the same thing, I really like him.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's just gotten comfortable and and he's
Speaker 1: just enjoying the process, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And now I have a question. Do you think
Speaker 2: this dance was better than Danielle's dance?
Speaker 1: Hmmm, No, I think it was about the same.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: And didn't they get an eight? No? No, they got
Speaker 1: sevens Oh they did? Okay, good, Then this is not
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 2: There's another one where they gave him an eight, and
Speaker 2: I was like, how the hell is that better than
Speaker 2: what Danielle did?
Speaker 1: Right right? No, this one I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they're about the same level. I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, like in terms of their journey, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, so yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it seemed fair to me. Seven seven, seven, Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not the one I was thinking about then.
Speaker 2: And again, she's you can watch I can watch her
Speaker 2: do anything. She's adorable. Riley is just such a fun dancer,
Speaker 2: big smile. I mean, she looks like I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to insult her, but I know she's very young, but
Speaker 2: she looks like a little kid, like having fun dancing
Speaker 2: right right, and it's it's very engaging.
Speaker 1: Next up Alex and val This was she was gonna
Speaker 1: be a Villain. They did a Viennese waltz to Once
Speaker 1: Upon a Dream. It was all Maleficent themed. Say that
Speaker 1: three times.
Speaker 2: I love this. This was dancing the night for me
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just you know, it's funny because I've realized
Speaker 1: what I am most engaged by is storytelling, you know,
Speaker 1: like I still kind of want a dance to be
Speaker 1: a play or to you know, and they really got
Speaker 1: into the characters and the storytelling, and I just felt like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I felt like I was reading, you know,
Speaker 1: between the lines of like this relationship. And I mean
Speaker 1: she even talked about it like, oh, we want it
Speaker 1: to be a toxic relationship, and man, I just thought
Speaker 1: it was so great. Me too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Even the little flicks of her wrist to control him
Speaker 2: were like precise and coordinated. It was, I thought, a
Speaker 2: really cool dance all the way through and I thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: definitely dance of the night for me.
Speaker 1: It was so expressive. And you know, I also just
Speaker 1: think it's more my style, you know, a little darker,
Speaker 1: a little like, I don't know, it's just great.
Speaker 2: Costumes were great, by the way, I got some I
Speaker 2: got some ish as the kids say, yeah, last week
Speaker 2: for criticizing Danielle's dress, stand by that criticism hundredercent. She
Speaker 2: looked amazing tonight, Danielle. Yeah, I thought, But since we're
Speaker 2: talking about costumes, because this maleficent costume and VAL's costume.
Speaker 1: They were great, okay, okay, but the makeup way too much.
Speaker 2: Like when people were coming you mean her, no every yet,
Speaker 2: like the mouse came out, I was like, I'm uncomfortable, Like.
Speaker 1: It was like the makeup was too good. It was
Speaker 1: like they completely transformed the dancers. I couldn't recognize them,
Speaker 1: you know, like the Aladdin the Genie it did. I
Speaker 1: was like, you look too much like a human mouse,
Speaker 1: Like it's so crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree as a lot, right.
Speaker 1: And then the alien, I was like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know who the alien was. I can't recognize it was like,
Speaker 1: and at one point they complimented the makeup. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: they actually went a little too far for me, Like,
Speaker 1: especially when you have Disney characters with their big Disney
Speaker 1: cartoony heads, I'm like, what do we have to actually
Speaker 1: make them look like on camera they're actually a human
Speaker 1: rat hybrid? Like no, anyway, right along to uh Hilaria,
Speaker 1: wait what did they get? What did they get?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: They got eight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could have been a nine in there for me,
Speaker 2: A great I could have sworn it was gonna be
Speaker 2: the first nine we saw them too.
Speaker 1: For me, to that, and I think if they had
Speaker 1: gone later, they probably would have gotten Yes, yeah, what
Speaker 1: is that? Yeah? No, it was like because because when
Speaker 1: the nine came out later in the night, I was like,
Speaker 1: really because Alex Bellow is still kind of my favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think the dancers know? Like do you
Speaker 2: think they get their list of where they're coming and
Speaker 2: they see their one or two and they're like, ugh, wait,
Speaker 2: what do you mean Like when they when they find
Speaker 2: out the order they're going to dance it for that week?
Speaker 2: Do you think they know professionally?
Speaker 1: We talked about this early on. I would also like
Speaker 1: to go first, to get it out of the way, right,
Speaker 1: Like I would hate. So there's got to be a
Speaker 1: balance where you're like, Okay, at least I go early
Speaker 1: in the night and then I can just relax, right,
Speaker 1: But yeah, but you don't get scored as high.
Speaker 2: I know, it doesn't seem I think if she went
Speaker 2: I think if Danielle went later, and again, this podcast
Speaker 2: at the end of the day is about Danielle. If
Speaker 2: Danielle went later, there would have been an eight I
Speaker 2: think in her in her performance.
Speaker 1: All right, HILARI On GLEB they chose to do the
Speaker 1: Star Wars Cantina song, which was a weird choice. Weird
Speaker 1: you know choice. It's like one of those songs you
Speaker 1: can like for about fifteen seconds ago, oh yeah, that's cool,
Speaker 1: but then to have to watch a whole dance of it,
Speaker 1: I was like, song, song doesn't really go anywhere?
Speaker 2: Does the longest?
Speaker 1: I know? And I like Star Wars a lot. I
Speaker 1: could tell that she does, and it seems like a
Speaker 1: fun idea, but like, I don't know what else you
Speaker 1: could do though.
Speaker 2: What you could Star Wars with John Williams music some
Speaker 2: of the most iconic music in the history that the
Speaker 2: song you.
Speaker 1: Pick, I know, but it's the only one that you
Speaker 1: could really do like an up beat a quick step to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing.
Speaker 2: If you have to do something up be it would
Speaker 2: have been difficult to do. Now, if you you want
Speaker 2: to bring the house down and you do Luke's theme
Speaker 2: and you're doing like a tango to Luke's theme or
Speaker 2: something like that, that would be amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I'm trying to imagine, yeah, no, no, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2: That'd be great too. But yeah, the quick step to that.
Speaker 2: So I found this entire thing. The song you're dancing
Speaker 2: and all of it I found really weird. This week.
Speaker 1: It was just uh yeah, it was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's cute, and then it just kept going. Yes, I
Speaker 1: know that she was dancing well, like I could, I
Speaker 1: could tell, but I just it's just not not for me.
Speaker 2: I could see why people didn't like it. I really
Speaker 2: could see why people didn't like it. This week I
Speaker 2: found it was just very odd.
Speaker 1: The judges were pretty kind though. They gave them yes
Speaker 1: eight so seven, eight and eight.
Speaker 2: I this is the one and I'm sorry, this is
Speaker 2: the one. They get two eights for this and Danielle
Speaker 2: gets three seven.
Speaker 1: I think I think there was some technical step stuff
Speaker 1: that she is good, she's good at Hilaria can can
Speaker 1: do it, and so I think that they wanted to
Speaker 1: reward her for that. But in terms of entertainment, like no,
Speaker 1: like it just felt I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would love to talk to a judge. Do you
Speaker 2: think and I know they probably have to be there.
Speaker 2: They're trying to be as unbiased as possible, but do
Speaker 2: you think they have their favorites so that they try
Speaker 2: to keep people in the competition.
Speaker 1: Well, I also wonder how much they're playing like against
Speaker 1: or with the popular vote, Like, how much did they
Speaker 1: know about the popular vote? In other words, do they like,
Speaker 1: if somebody that they like is they know not getting
Speaker 1: well scored in terms of the popular vote, could they
Speaker 1: boost them a little bit? Right? Do they jack out
Speaker 1: up or do they not tell the judges the popular
Speaker 1: vote results? I mean that seems the most fit to
Speaker 1: me is that. Yeah, but you kind of know, right,
Speaker 1: you kind of get this feeling. It's because Hilaria was
Speaker 1: in the bottom three last week, so you assume like, oh,
Speaker 1: she might be on the bubble. So maybe they were like, well,
Speaker 1: she might be going home tonight, let's give her a
Speaker 1: couple eights.
Speaker 2: I wonder. Yeah, I don't know how that worked, because again,
Speaker 2: very good dancer, she's technically very good. We've talked about
Speaker 2: this before. But how that's two eights and Daniel's three sevens.
Speaker 2: I Daniel was so much more enjoyable to watch, right,
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was that. This was the one where
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Like, really, two eights for this and Daniel got three sevens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally biased, but I get it.
Speaker 1: Next up, Andy Richter and Emma Slater of course, just
Speaker 1: love this guy.
Speaker 2: Are you a ratitudey fan? The rat is the rat
Speaker 2: cooking okay, while the car's racing is not.
Speaker 1: You know, I've come around on Ratitude a little bit.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't used to like it. I found
Speaker 1: it a little but I watched it recently with Indy
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is a this is a
Speaker 1: cute movie. This is a cute movie. I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, the ending and he actually the critic
Speaker 1: comes and eats the Ratitude and it goes to the
Speaker 1: flashback of him. It's amazing. I mean that's a great storytelling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, So this they did the Viennese waltz
Speaker 1: and it was the ratitudey song. This was fine.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: There was a moment when we're watching it and Alex goes,
Speaker 1: he's just walking yeah, and I was true, Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: And like I said, Mouse makeup where Mouse is comfortable.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite quote of the night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't do that. It was like it was
Speaker 1: an uncanny valley mouse Land not happy. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: here's somebody who's clear.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to say skating by, because that's
Speaker 2: not This is exactly how the show works and how
Speaker 2: that show is supposed to work. But this is somebody
Speaker 2: who's clearly just getting by every week because people like
Speaker 2: him and it's the popular vote. I think, yeah, we've
Speaker 2: probably seen the progression of his dancing. I don't think
Speaker 2: you're gonna get much more. Who knows. Maybe he comes
Speaker 2: out and kills it one week, it does something where
Speaker 2: everyone's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: But I don't think so. I think he's not going
Speaker 1: to be doing the quick step. No, And I.
Speaker 2: Think it's kind of every week is going to be
Speaker 2: kind of him moving around a bit, holding on to
Speaker 2: his partner who dances around him. And he's hugely likable
Speaker 2: when he does it, and you want to see him
Speaker 2: every week. But I think if it's this is the
Speaker 2: thing that Jensen said to us, if you vote for
Speaker 2: your the worst dancer, he goes home. If you vote
Speaker 2: for your favorite dancer, he stays.
Speaker 1: So I don't think he's lasting more than a week.
Speaker 1: I think he's gone next week. You think, yeah, because
Speaker 1: the competition is just two fierce now. It starts too
Speaker 1: many other likable people who are who are getting better
Speaker 1: good technical dancing. Yeah, and then there are just flat
Speaker 1: out amazing dancers. Right, Yeah, you've got because the professional
Speaker 1: dancer Whitney. These people are like clearly going to be
Speaker 1: in the top three, and so I think, I think,
Speaker 1: just we're getting to the point where we can't just
Speaker 1: keep having you know, Andy along for the ride. I know,
Speaker 1: all right, next time up. Robert Irwin. Oh wait, what
Speaker 1: did they get? Oh? They got sixes, which I thought
Speaker 1: was fair.
Speaker 2: Again Yeah, again, I don't think they've gotten They've never
Speaker 2: gotten a seven. I don't believe they had five. All
Speaker 2: five's the first week and all sixes ever since.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's I think that's as high
Speaker 1: as they can get.
Speaker 2: I think so too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Robert Irwin, Whitney, Carson Zootopia and they got to see.
Speaker 2: It, and he's likes so bad.
Speaker 1: I know, Well, I didn't quite understand that because.
Speaker 2: I think he's I think they made a character for
Speaker 2: him in the movie. I think, isn't that what they're
Speaker 2: saying is that? I think, did they or did they
Speaker 2: just do that as like a one off?
Speaker 1: Like in the movie we.
Speaker 3: Were he voices a character in the new movie.
Speaker 2: Coming out to see There you go? He gets to
Speaker 2: he's also in it.
Speaker 1: Wow, good for him, that's awesome. Yeah. Cool. Well, I
Speaker 1: was jealous of them getting to watch. Yeah, of course
Speaker 1: me too. What did you think of the dance?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Boring? Yes, I like this.
Speaker 2: He's falling off a little bit the last I think
Speaker 2: he's opened the door for other people to come in.
Speaker 1: I love this song actually, and there's it was nice
Speaker 1: to see them sort of you know, dial back the
Speaker 1: like fireworks again, but like I don't know, right, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know this is this is the problem with
Speaker 1: coming out so hot that first episode. Yes, we kind
Speaker 1: of have high expectations. He's he is great. He's a
Speaker 1: good dancer, ye, man, like you got to blow it
Speaker 1: out now every time. And like I remember talking after
Speaker 1: the first episode and being like, you know, that was amazing,
Speaker 1: He's the best. And then I think it was Jensen
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, but where do you go to here?
Speaker 1: And it's true, like it is it's part of this.
Speaker 1: Part of the fun of this show is watching someone progress,
Speaker 1: watching someone do somebody something different. And it didn't This
Speaker 1: just felt like a step like it was I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you have done the first week's dance, this would
Speaker 1: probably have been like, oh, he's great, he's great.
Speaker 2: I also think the pre the pre dance package let
Speaker 2: him down because they cut to him at one point
Speaker 2: right before they start going, like he's going, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna do the accent, but like it's me and so
Speaker 2: of course, you know it's gonna be high energy and
Speaker 2: we're gonna go out there and do our thing. And
Speaker 2: then it wasn't high energy at all. And because he
Speaker 2: says that, it's like and then when Shakira kicks in,
Speaker 2: you know whe're going. I was like, oh, man, so
Speaker 2: when she starts singing, they're really going to pick it up.
Speaker 2: And then they didn't pick it up, and I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: You know, you go from ripping your shirt off the
Speaker 1: next week, you're going to like try and button up
Speaker 1: a little bit more. He felt I think he felt
Speaker 1: a little like he had gone too far. He felt
Speaker 1: a little too free, so he was holding back a
Speaker 1: little bit with their you know, decisions this week. And
Speaker 1: all right, so they got seven, seven and eight. I
Speaker 1: actually thought they could have had another eight in there.
Speaker 2: Because I thought it was I don't disagree, but I
Speaker 2: agree with you that it was. You know, technically, it
Speaker 2: seems he's he now seems like he's working on dancing,
Speaker 2: like a technically becoming a better dancer.
Speaker 1: But it was.
Speaker 2: I found it a little more.
Speaker 1: All right. Then we had Elaine Hendrix and Alan Burston.
Speaker 1: So cool that she's the voice of Or she was
Speaker 1: one of the actors is the part of the Space
Speaker 1: Mountain pre show package, and that was cool. I love that.
Speaker 1: I would love to be one of those people before
Speaker 1: a ride, wouldn't Isn't that like an accomplishment as an actor?
Speaker 1: Like I didn't you did? For of course?
Speaker 2: That My my rap song, the Nickelodeon Rap Song, was
Speaker 2: on the tour at Universal when you go through Nickelodeon
Speaker 2: before you get on the ride, on there rapping to
Speaker 2: you and then you go you go from there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cool man. Oh it was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great, awesome.
Speaker 2: And you remember our most famous boy, metrold Alum who
Speaker 2: did it was for the Back to the Future ride.
Speaker 2: Was the right turner's Turner's girlfriend. Now I can't remember
Speaker 2: who played Kat Thompson, but I can't remember her name. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she was and came perfectly exactly. She came on pod too,
Speaker 2: but yes she was. You go to to the Back
Speaker 2: to the Future ride and there's her giant, giant crowds
Speaker 2: watching her do her thing. It's so neat.
Speaker 1: That was so cool. They were dancing to the song
Speaker 1: from Space Mountain. I didn't know there was what I
Speaker 1: didn't know there was Nope. I think she is an
Speaker 1: excellent dancer. I just this was just kind of not
Speaker 1: my style, right, So I fel like, yeah, you enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Again, it was I think also coming off of Robert
Speaker 2: Irwin where I was I was a little let down,
Speaker 2: I guess, with expecting some excitement and some stuff, and
Speaker 2: it was just kind of like, oh, they're dancing and
Speaker 2: it's okay. This was a nice change of pace. I
Speaker 2: thought the Space mountainey aspect of it, where it was
Speaker 2: like it was alien and stuff, but almost from the sixties. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so there's that kind of almost go go.
Speaker 1: Vibe to it, which I thought was cool.
Speaker 2: I liked the light show at the beginning, so I
Speaker 2: was in I thought this question, and she's she's another
Speaker 2: one who's so likable, right that you're kind of rooting
Speaker 2: for her.
Speaker 1: It's funny because, like you know, I could tell by
Speaker 1: the way the audience reacted and by the judges who
Speaker 1: they gave them eight's across the board. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is really good. It's just not for me. Like
Speaker 1: there's this kind of campy approach to dancing and this
Speaker 1: kind of like bouncy thing happening that I was just like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like this is just isn't my style. But
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with their actual capabilities or
Speaker 1: you know, talent, because they clearly have it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was great and yeah good high score.
Speaker 2: Yeah, high score and high score. She's gotten so far,
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And deservedly so, like she's gotten even better like week
Speaker 1: to week, so I think, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another one progressing. But that's one of the things
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to my best friend. Sorry, this
Speaker 2: is what I'm what we're here for. That's one of
Speaker 2: the things that upset me about last night is because
Speaker 2: by giving Danielle three sevens again, they're saying you have
Speaker 2: not progressed from last week. And I don't buy that.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think that's accurate. She has gotten
Speaker 2: better from the first week to now, and they're not
Speaker 2: showing that in the scoring at all.
Speaker 1: In my opinion. Okay, next up Whitney and Mark.
Speaker 2: Two professional dancers on a dance show.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was truly amazing.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course it was Yeah, virtuoso pianist playing
Speaker 2: the piano.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they were doing Hamilton the rate where it happens,
Speaker 1: which again for me, had this storytelling component that I
Speaker 1: just love. Yea, you know, I'm just clearly more of
Speaker 1: a like a musical type of person, like I want
Speaker 1: there to be characters. I want to know what's happening,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, when she shot him at the end,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, this is amazing. It
Speaker 1: like captured the essence of Hamilton, told us a sort
Speaker 1: of story and struggle between.
Speaker 2: Them, And do you think it was fair using Hamilton
Speaker 2: because it's the only thing Disney is that Disney licensed
Speaker 2: it to put it on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I mean there's nothing Disney about Hamilton at all
Speaker 2: other than you can watch it on the Disney platform.
Speaker 2: So is this kind of a cheat?
Speaker 1: But who cares? Like, I know, I'm just curious. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's there's nothing Disney about Hamilton, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess when I think about the idea that like
Speaker 1: other people were choosing rides and the theme songs from a
Speaker 1: ride from when they clearly just chose a song they
Speaker 1: wanted to do and a story they wanted to tell.
Speaker 1: I guess it is, But like, I mean, do they
Speaker 1: stop people from choosing other things?
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know. I still know who chooses because
Speaker 2: in some of the pre show packages, the uh, celebrity
Speaker 2: is going and this week where dancing to it. In
Speaker 2: other ones it's the professional saying, hey, this week, guess
Speaker 2: what we're dancing too. So I still don't know who
Speaker 2: picks it.
Speaker 1: I see. I mean, because you know, Disney, could you
Speaker 1: could do Marvel, you could do right, I mean they
Speaker 1: could have done somebody could have done a Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy thing, right, which doesn't feel Disney, but it
Speaker 1: is technically Disney Company. I don't know, man, that's a
Speaker 1: good point. I don't know. I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I mean, Disney is also ABC. Could somebody have danced
Speaker 2: to the Boy Meets World theme song?
Speaker 1: That would have been great? Just this boom, it's that
Speaker 1: would well? This was I thought, this was truly amazing.
Speaker 1: And of course it was there with with Alex and
Speaker 1: Val doing the Maleficent dance, and this got the first
Speaker 1: nine of the season agreed with it too. It was yeah,
Speaker 1: I agreed, but I still in retrospect, I would have
Speaker 1: given Alex and Vaalen nine.
Speaker 2: So I think So too still wasn't my favorite dance
Speaker 2: of the night. Alex and val were still my favorite
Speaker 2: dance of the night. But this is again it's I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna keep harping on the professional thing. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is she should be on so you think you
Speaker 2: can dance, not Dancing with the Stars. So so you
Speaker 2: think you can dance? I think is professional dancers and
Speaker 2: people that have been struggling to dance her whole life
Speaker 2: now getting a break to try to dance.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not Hey, we're celebrities.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna teach No, we're gonna teach you how to dance,
Speaker 2: Which clearly you don't have to teach her how to dance.
Speaker 1: She's a professionals dancer needs to dance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, and she's great at it. She's she's easy
Speaker 2: to look at, she dresses amazingly, she's personable, she got
Speaker 2: a big smile on her face, she's obviously having a
Speaker 2: ton of fun.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying, not holding anything against her, she's just
Speaker 1: on the wrong show. Yeah, uh, next up, Jordan and Ezra.
Speaker 1: I just love her so much.
Speaker 2: Let me too.
Speaker 1: I was excited to see that. And I also like,
Speaker 1: cannot believe the height difference between these two, Like did
Speaker 1: you keep noticing this?
Speaker 2: Like it's huge, it's huge, and she's fine.
Speaker 1: She's really she's really small. So I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: I knew they were just like okay, but they still
Speaker 1: make it work. I thought they were great. They danced
Speaker 1: to special Spice. I have never seen the movie The
Speaker 1: Frog Princess, so what have you no? Okay? And so
Speaker 1: this by you Adventure. This is the rebrand of of
Speaker 1: Splash Mountain. Okay, Oh is that what it is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's just Splash and they just took.
Speaker 3: They re themed it to Princess and The Frog.
Speaker 1: South is one of the shameful moments in Disney history.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, okay, moving right along.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I thought this wall that they started behind was a
Speaker 1: little weird yep, and getting out of it took like
Speaker 1: an extra couple of you know, she kind of threw
Speaker 1: him over and he jumped over, but then she had
Speaker 1: to get out and I was like, guys, that was
Speaker 1: just an awkward choice. And then also as much as
Speaker 1: her dress was beautiful, it kind of hurt the quick
Speaker 1: step factor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 1: It was like she would you know, she had the
Speaker 1: big ballroom princess dress, but then it was a quick step,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to see her quick legs. And I
Speaker 1: know she was doing it right, and they scored her well,
Speaker 1: and but I was just like, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was the best choice. So I feel
Speaker 1: like some production choices, like if they had not started
Speaker 1: with that wall or the you know, the porch that
Speaker 1: she was on and the gate in front of her,
Speaker 1: and then chosen or found a way for us to
Speaker 1: be able to see her legs better, I think it
Speaker 1: would have probably gotten a nine from at least one
Speaker 1: of the judges.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she's another one totally likable that she I
Speaker 2: thought last week Robert opened the door for her to
Speaker 2: take the top spot. Yeah, but there's a couple people
Speaker 2: now that I think could really jump into that top role.
Speaker 1: And I agree with you.
Speaker 2: If you take again one of my guys, Michael Flatley,
Speaker 2: Lord of the Dance, and put him in a long
Speaker 2: dress so you can't see his feet moving independently of
Speaker 2: his body, then what's the point. But she's she's and
Speaker 2: it's it's so funny that you mentioned the height difference
Speaker 2: because Scott and his partner definitely have a height disadvantage too,
Speaker 2: and it was so noticeable in the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Now it seems like they're kind of dancing better together,
Speaker 2: whereas you never really noticed it with Jordan and her.
Speaker 1: Jordan, No, not while they're dancing. It's only when they're
Speaker 1: standing next to each other before and after that, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: but when they're dancing, I'm totally on. Like that's it's
Speaker 1: really a tribute to them that they're making at work,
Speaker 1: and it makes it feel natural.
Speaker 2: And you just see her athleticism. She's obviously so comfortable
Speaker 2: in her body and knows what she's doing and knows
Speaker 2: how to move it and is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Jan and Jehan closing out the night
Speaker 1: with Aladdin a friend like me, This was again not
Speaker 1: comfortable with the up. I thought this was okay.
Speaker 2: Did you see the confetti afterwards? All stuck to his body? Yeah,
Speaker 2: stuck to the blue paint's.
Speaker 1: But I thought this was very fun and expressive and
Speaker 1: like character based for them, which is cool. But you know,
Speaker 1: when she like did her like walk over or back
Speaker 1: walk over and stuff, I don't know I just I
Speaker 1: was kind of like, what, I guess, it's okay, it's
Speaker 1: it's a jazz dance, which is this is the first
Speaker 1: jazz we've seen. And like halfway through, I was like, so,
Speaker 1: jazz just means kind of whatever you want to do
Speaker 1: when you listen to jazz, exactly what it is to
Speaker 1: dance too. Is it like the idea that you can
Speaker 1: incorporate kind of steps from anything.
Speaker 2: I guess, well, I know, of course, I know, and
Speaker 2: we'll get into that when we get into the history. Sure,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to give that away now until
Speaker 2: Danielle has to do it. But yes, I to me,
Speaker 2: this was a little bit of a wa wah end
Speaker 2: to the night where I was like, Okay, that's kind
Speaker 2: of okay, we're just done now.
Speaker 1: It was it wasn't my least favorite.
Speaker 2: The least favorite was still the weird Star Wars canteena dance,
Speaker 2: but this was this was a close second to my
Speaker 2: least favorite dance of the night. Right, So, and she's
Speaker 2: adorable and you want to see her dance and they're
Speaker 2: they're great together, even if he's in his strange blue makeup,
Speaker 2: which was off putting. But yeah, it was just kind
Speaker 2: of okay, and they got.
Speaker 1: Seven, eight and eight. Uh, I would have can't one
Speaker 1: more on the seven side of things?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that gets two eight and Danielle gets three sevens. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: That's the comparison that I would say is makes it
Speaker 1: seem a little unfair that Danielle only got sevens. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree. I think we're biased, all right. And we
Speaker 1: came to the elimination round, uh, which was very depressing
Speaker 1: to see Danielle and racketing.
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine standing up there.
Speaker 1: I know they're you know, they're pulling on our heart strings,
Speaker 1: they're manipulating us. They're you know, making sure that we
Speaker 1: get out and vote and keep supporting our favorites.
Speaker 2: So well, now it's a tough question for you because
Speaker 2: apparently I was wrong. I thought she was in the
Speaker 2: bottom three, so I guess maybe she wasn't. Do you
Speaker 2: think she was in the bottom three of voting.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, I think I think that
Speaker 1: they are. I think she's in the bottom of the judges.
Speaker 1: But I think the popular vote people, I know, people
Speaker 1: love Danielle, you know, and like she know this, people
Speaker 1: are going to keep voting for her just you know,
Speaker 1: her personality and how hard she's working. So I don't
Speaker 1: think she actually is in the bottom three, but I
Speaker 1: think it was a little reminder to be like, it's
Speaker 1: not always going to be easy, and it is really
Speaker 1: stiff competition this year. Like huge that I say this year,
Speaker 1: like I've watched other years, but it seems like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always this hard, but it just seems like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like almost everybody, now, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, everybody deserves to be here, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: for for different reasons, but they're like that that I'm like,
Speaker 1: Andy is the only one. I'm like, buddy, you got
Speaker 1: to get out of the way now, because right, it
Speaker 1: was awesome, but she got to get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: But then when I start looking at you know who's left,
Speaker 1: you know now that Hilaria because that was the result,
Speaker 1: Hilaria and Gleb We're voted off, which I kind of
Speaker 1: expected me too, I guess, because maybe I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to happen last week. But then when the
Speaker 1: dance this week was just kind of I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: well that, you know, maybe they could they had had
Speaker 1: a better dance this week.
Speaker 2: Then who would they know because I don't think she says.
Speaker 2: I don't think she's getting It's exactly what you said
Speaker 2: with the judges. She's not getting the popular vote like
Speaker 2: daniel or Andy you're getting there.
Speaker 1: She's getting the judges vote like she has way more judges,
Speaker 1: like Hilaria was doing way better in terms of the
Speaker 1: judges than Danielle. Yeah, so this was just a popular
Speaker 1: vote decision.
Speaker 2: And did you see all of all of the talent,
Speaker 2: by the way, except Danielle. I don't think Danielle said it,
Speaker 2: but a lot of them were talking about basically, if
Speaker 2: you keep me around next week, wait till you see
Speaker 2: what I have in store for you next week, right right,
Speaker 2: which is the first time I've heard that. I've never
Speaker 2: heard the other I mean, Dylan said that. A couple
Speaker 2: of people said that where it's and a it was
Speaker 2: one of them where it was I think she was
Speaker 2: going to dance with Alec Baldlin next week, And people
Speaker 2: are like, yeah, that's that's all.
Speaker 1: Right, all right. Well, luckily Danielle did not get eliminated,
Speaker 1: thank god. I didn't really think it was gonna happen, but.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I truly didn't know, because again I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't. I still don't get the scoring. I still
Speaker 2: don't get the judging. I still don't get how they're
Speaker 2: picking these numbers. So I was nervous because I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't understand how. And it's the not
Speaker 2: knowing that makes me so nervous because I'm like, don't,
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're scoring this. I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was rough, all right, you got a question
Speaker 1: for me?
Speaker 2: I do, of course, As you know, every week we
Speaker 2: are going for our little segment that we like to
Speaker 2: call the strong incentive, and that's what it would take
Speaker 2: to get right or strong to be a contestant on
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars. Now, if everybody recalls and they've
Speaker 2: been with us every week, the first week, somebody showed
Speaker 2: up at his house with a case filled with five
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in cash, straight up cash riders said,
Speaker 2: get off my porch, I'm armed. Second week, we added
Speaker 2: to that five hundred thousand dollars in cash with a
Speaker 2: brand new Airstream sprinter van. I think it was came
Speaker 2: to us. It was an Atlas sprinter van with the
Speaker 2: extended cab which was went through Ryder entirely, but it
Speaker 2: was over a three hundred thousand dollars value, where at
Speaker 2: eight hundred thousand dollars of cash and prizes, and Rider
Speaker 2: was still in his porch with a shotgun.
Speaker 1: Third week, quite armed, making me a great question. Rider.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2: Third week, somebody found Sean's original leather jacket and threw
Speaker 2: that into the mix, and that was tough, going for
Speaker 2: a soft.
Speaker 1: Turn under against the fans.
Speaker 2: Hey, I didn't turn you against anything. I'm just making offers,
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 1: And now I have to wear the leather jacket on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: Ugh, no, god, All right, this week, Rider, we're going
Speaker 2: to see how well I know you, because now that
Speaker 2: you're once again on your porch and another box arrives
Speaker 2: and you open it up and it's your in mint
Speaker 2: condition original magic cards that you heard from back in
Speaker 2: the day, with a perfect condition black Lotus card thrown in.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, how much is a black Lotus worth?
Speaker 1: I think the last one just sold for six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Oh my god, you're so mean. Okay, so
Speaker 1: what would my what like all my original cars from
Speaker 1: like when.
Speaker 2: I was in every card you owned from your beta,
Speaker 2: alpha and beta decks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, oh no, it would be my unlimited deck.
Speaker 1: It would have volcanic eruption in it. It would have
Speaker 1: slight of My whole thing was that I use. It
Speaker 1: was white and blue and I used sleight of hand
Speaker 1: and yeah, sleight of hand, and what is it I
Speaker 1: could change the color terms and the color color color
Speaker 1: of prism. No, it was they were in the car,
Speaker 1: somebody casts something. I could like change which color they
Speaker 1: were targeting or whatever. It was like it was like
Speaker 1: super manipulative deck and then it was all like white
Speaker 1: like nights and like very like uh yeah, oh man
Speaker 1: and a black Lotus card. Oh you know what was
Speaker 1: in that deck that I would have had. It was
Speaker 1: Blaze of Glory, which was great, which is an instant
Speaker 1: that would make it so that everybody had to block
Speaker 1: one creature. So I would boost up one creature and
Speaker 1: make everybody block. Oh no, not worth it, not worth no,
Speaker 1: you know, because A I don't collect magic cards for
Speaker 1: the value of the cards. I don't. I don't. I've
Speaker 1: never been into collecting, So I would I would, I
Speaker 1: would appreciate. I would actually if they weren't in mint condition,
Speaker 1: I would actually be more tempted if they were like
Speaker 1: the original cards that I've lost, like born and you know,
Speaker 1: covered in dirt from you know, when I would play
Speaker 1: in the ground at coffeecats in Sebastopol. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do it. It's not worth it. It's not
Speaker 1: worth it. I at the embarrassment of me dancing and
Speaker 1: the self consciousness. I love you, my magic cards, but
Speaker 1: you just now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're at about two million dollars worth of stuff.
Speaker 1: For the red Yeah, you threw in the blacklow. It's
Speaker 1: just to just to really stick it to me. But
Speaker 1: I think you knew I would say no. You knew
Speaker 1: I would say no.
Speaker 2: I can't have I can't pick something every week to
Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, he's definitely going, because there's a
Speaker 2: couple that I know for a fact the second I say,
Speaker 2: you'd be like, okay, I'd have to do it. And
Speaker 2: so I'm obviously holding those to the very end.
Speaker 1: Right right right, just the torture of this though it
Speaker 1: would be you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's magical, Oh freedom, you're.
Speaker 1: Sing, hold on. Have we asked, like, would you do
Speaker 1: this show ever. No, right, but I would it's not
Speaker 1: for you, adourisement. But what about the would you do
Speaker 1: it for five hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: No, because I just there's no I've said this from
Speaker 2: the beginning. There's not a dance instructor in the world
Speaker 2: that could actually teach me how to dance well and
Speaker 2: way better dancer than I am, and I don't think so. Man.
Speaker 1: We did a dance on Boy Meets World and I
Speaker 1: remember and go back and watch it.
Speaker 2: It's awful and I'm staring at you guys the whole time,
Speaker 2: and I'm like just trying to get my feet underneath me.
Speaker 1: No, I think you could look at it as a
Speaker 1: as an acting job, like you could get into your
Speaker 1: head like I am playing a role this week and
Speaker 1: that role is you know, the dance for this Yeah. Yeah, Really, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think that's how you could get into it, because
Speaker 1: I think you can do physical comedy incredibly well. And
Speaker 1: I think that if you just looked at it as
Speaker 1: like I'm playing this part this week, whether that's you know,
Speaker 1: the guy leading this great ballroom dance or the person
Speaker 1: who's expressing this thing through a quick step. I don't
Speaker 1: think that would work. Yeah, I don't think it could work.
Speaker 2: And by second week I just ripped my shirt off
Speaker 2: and instantly be voted off the show. They'd like, stop
Speaker 2: me mid dance, like whoa who whoa, whoa, whoa whoa?
Speaker 1: Shut this down. Let's get this guy a robe. God,
Speaker 1: you're so hard on yourself. Man, I love it. All right.
Speaker 1: That's it for this episode of Pod Meets Twirled. Join
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Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars. We may not know a
Speaker 1: Lindy Hop from a Bunny hop, but we know what
Speaker 1: we learned way back in Phoene's class. Daniel Fischel is
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