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Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys Present. These boots are made for talking

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Speaker 1: the official podcast of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. No your

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Speaker 1: hosts Courtney McKenna and Shannon Gross Courtney, what's up? Oh hey, Shannon?

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Speaker 1: Got you know? Today is a really big, big, big day.

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Speaker 1: We have been trying to book a guess, a particular guest,

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Speaker 1: special special guests since the inception of this show, to

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Speaker 1: no avail. We have failed miserably. This particular person was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be on the original kickoff show and they

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Speaker 1: this person big timed us for the past We're not

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Speaker 1: saying names three months, but we finally got him booked

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Speaker 1: thanks to William William, the special booking agent of this

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Speaker 1: show and also the producer behind that wall right there.

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Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. William had absolutely nothing to do with this.

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Speaker 1: He just showed up today and we told him who

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Speaker 1: was going to be on this show. We appreciate I've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for her to get on the show though. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: williams a fan of the show. We would like to

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show one and only Kelly fin Glass. Hi,

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be fake applause, William, Do we have

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Speaker 1: but there we go, There we go, Kelly, how are you?

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Speaker 1: And drops that the Big Boys? He's in radio right

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Speaker 1: now that we're big boys in Big Boy. There's so

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Speaker 1: many things like this should have been a two hour show.

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, there are so many things

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Speaker 1: that I want to know, the fans want to know. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: now you guys, I want to We'll talk about this

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Speaker 1: in a minute. You guys just went on a really

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Speaker 1: really I guess significant I can't trip. That will go

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Speaker 1: down in the history of DCC as one of your

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Speaker 1: shining moments. We'll get to that in a minute. Okay, First,

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Speaker 1: I want to get some background on you for everyone

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Speaker 1: that's tuning in that may not know Kelly the history

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Speaker 1: and all that good stuff, so they know you on

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Speaker 1: the show probably most people as as DCC making the

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Speaker 1: team on CMT. How many years have you guys been

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Speaker 1: on the air. Twelve years. We're going into season thirteen

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Speaker 1: starting next month. Wait, so there's a new season. Oops

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Speaker 1: you heard it here? Oh this is breaking news. I

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Speaker 1: was keeping my Lift Seals Cheerleaders locker room. Oh there

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Speaker 1: it is. It's it's crazy. Um, it's the longest running

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Speaker 1: show on CMT's history. I thought by now people would

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Speaker 1: be bored with us, and they just they they're not.

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Speaker 1: They love the show, they love the competition, they love

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Speaker 1: the meeting the girls behind the scenes. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: it's just it's been very successful and CMT is the

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Speaker 1: right place to be as well. How did that show?

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Speaker 1: How did that come about? Like? Whose idea was it?

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Speaker 1: Did they pitch you guys on it? Did y'all come

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Speaker 1: you're right. Second, well, what made you like? What just

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Speaker 1: movie this well, Shannon Man see do your research. Boom

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Speaker 1: takes out his magic gloves us and he starts dealing

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Speaker 1: card were you Judy? And Juda didn't know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, so whatever. So he starts going through the

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Speaker 1: beautiful cascading blonde Judy, and so he did and he

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Speaker 1: found her and he was thrilled because then he held

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Speaker 1: it up to the camera and she's the Ace. She's

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Speaker 1: the Ace of hearts. Oh person, but she's she was

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Speaker 1: in the Smithsonian before this happened and didn't even know it. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is awesome, Kelly tweeted on her Twitter. That's where

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Speaker 1: tweets normally come from. A picture of the guy and

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Speaker 1: Judy in the card. If you want to check it out,

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Speaker 1: it's cool. Yeah, so's he was the sports curator and

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Speaker 1: he obviously I guess he had it out because he

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Speaker 1: knew these things were starting to come together, but Judy

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Speaker 1: didn't know about it. We don't know where they got it.

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Speaker 1: They'd said they actually get some of their sports things

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Speaker 1: from fans. They had some crazily wrestling outfits. They had

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Speaker 1: some you know, great footballs and baseballs, and it's just

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Speaker 1: a special It's a magical place. That's the only word

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00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: I can just use to describe it. That's awesome. Well, congratulations.

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00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: I know that's a was a big moment for you

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Speaker 1: guys as an organization and personally. So you brought up Judy.

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00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break, all right, But you

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Speaker 1: and Judy have a very unique relationship. You're like an

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Speaker 1: old married couple. So I want to get some dirt

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Speaker 1: on Judy and I want to get into like y'all's

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Speaker 1: relationship and how you guys like it's the greatest dynamic ever.

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Speaker 1: Like it's just to be in the room with you guys,

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Speaker 1: like during swimsuit fittings, and yes, it's okay, it's it's

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Speaker 1: you guys, crack me up. But I want to get

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Speaker 1: into y'all's relationship. We've got auditions are coming up. We

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00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: want to talk about that. I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: prep classes. I want to talk about what you did

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Speaker 1: out here for Christmas. Can we just add an hour

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Speaker 1: to the show? I'm game, all right, Maybe we'll go

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Speaker 1: a little bit over, but we'll be back. We'll take

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Speaker 1: our first break and we'll be back shortly. With Kelly

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Speaker 1: back live from the Star in Frisco. Courtney McKenna, Shannon Gross,

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Speaker 1: and Kelly Finlass in studio with us today. Finally, finally

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Speaker 1: we got Kelly to hang out with us. Well, I

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Speaker 1: wanted you to work out all the kinks first, Shannon.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a I wanted you to get get everything

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Speaker 1: kind of smoothed out before. I don't know if this

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Speaker 1: kinks worked out. It's not always bad to be a

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Speaker 1: little unfiltered, a little. Yeah. I like it's the Internet.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about whatever you can. Everything's safe on

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Speaker 1: the internet, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not regulating and true.

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Speaker 1: Also if it's on the internet, it's fine, that's right.

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Speaker 1: What's going on with how do people get ready for

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Speaker 1: auditions that are in May? We have audition prep classes

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00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: and now we have so many former cheerleaders that live

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00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: in North Texas that there's audition different prep classes almost

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00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: every night of the week. But our official Dallas Howe's

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00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: Cheerleaders audition prep classes on Friday nights at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We started in January. Actually we introduced some fall classes

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Speaker 1: this year. So they should come to all these classes

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Speaker 1: because it exposes them to our style of choreography that

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Speaker 1: they will see at the auditions, the music that they

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Speaker 1: will hear at auditions. I just did a director's chair

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Speaker 1: seminar where I literally walked them through the judge's books

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00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: and was pretty you know, pretty open, open booked about

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Speaker 1: what we're looking for and how we make our selections.

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Speaker 1: But preparation dance classes of all styles, staying you know, fit,

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Speaker 1: lean and good nutrition and that that part of it. Esthetically,

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Speaker 1: and then taking these dance classes. Our style of dance

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Speaker 1: is very unique. It's it's a It originally was kind

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Speaker 1: of a synchronized jazz dance team on the field, and

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Speaker 1: now it's gotten a little bit, a little bit more

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Speaker 1: power palm and dancing in boots with palms in your

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Speaker 1: hands and different genres of music is quite challenging. Good

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Speaker 1: dancers love it because it is It's just that it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a Schmortisburg of dance and music. Yeah, everybody

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00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: always says, like this DCC style and they can't even

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00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: explain what it is. It's like a how do you

541
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Speaker 1: explain it to someone who has no idea what quote?

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00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: DCC style is just that mix I. It's very powerful.

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00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: It has to have great projection because our stage is

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Speaker 1: the stadium. It requires flexibility because of the high kicks

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00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: and the splits. But musically it's interesting because at a game,

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Speaker 1: as you guys know DJJ he told me he plays

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Speaker 1: about three hundred songs a game musical elements, and the

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Speaker 1: girls respond and dance to everything he plays. So they're

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Speaker 1: dancing to country, pop, hip hop, rock, you know, So

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Speaker 1: that you have they have to really be have great

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Speaker 1: musicality to recognize the song and and respond with choreography

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00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: that fit the song. Because besides the four quarter changes

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00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: in our pregame, it's all unscripted. Wow. So if someone's

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Speaker 1: coming to a class, say they're flying in or their

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Speaker 1: their first class, there's so much going on you can

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Speaker 1: get so overwhelmed with one this place. The star is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Just being seeing you or Judy or a former cheerleader

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Speaker 1: for the first time, I'm sure it is kind of like, oh, wow,

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Speaker 1: what is something if they come to a prep class

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00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: and they're going to auditions, what's something they should focus

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00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: on really taking away from coming to this class. You know,

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00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: there's the dance, there's Hey, here's the dress. What's something

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00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: they should really take advantage of. Yeah, and make sure

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00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: they're paying attention to if they come to a prep class,

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00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: the choreography, because it's it's unique style choreography. And if

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Speaker 1: they come to our prep classes, we have our choreographers

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Speaker 1: and our cheerleaders teach it. The style. It's not like,

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Speaker 1: for example, I mentioned being at TCU. At TCU, there

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Speaker 1: there's modern dance, which now is more temporary and ballet.

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Speaker 1: So ballet is ballet, and modern is very fluid and

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Speaker 1: soft and are not necessarily soft. But it's not what

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Speaker 1: you'd see people do with palm poms, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: So this is not jazz. It's not palm, it's not tap.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's not jazz ballet tap. So it requires

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Speaker 1: kind of almost learning what it feels like and sounds

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Speaker 1: like to dance with great power. Auditions we don't get

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Speaker 1: We don't get to pick your brain. We get to

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Speaker 1: talk to the other girls about you know, what should

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Speaker 1: somebody concentrate on or what should you do going in?

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00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: What do you look for? What are you looking for?

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Speaker 1: On the other side, when you're looking at potential, you know,

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Speaker 1: training camp candidates, what are you what are you looking for?

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Speaker 1: And what grabs your makes you say, if back girl

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Speaker 1: could wear she's got something like what is that? The

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Speaker 1: wow factor for me is usually starts with showmanship. I

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Speaker 1: love a great smile and the just the ability to entertain,

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Speaker 1: to see enthusiasm in someone's eyes. Great smile. Technically, technical

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00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: dancers are beautiful, you know, great technical skill. I look

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00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: at their feet and that's where you can see true

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00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: dance training. But we've had beautiful technical dancers make our team,

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Speaker 1: and then we've had some that have maybe had not

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Speaker 1: as much studio dance, perhaps they've had high school drill team,

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Speaker 1: but they just have that that real ability to project

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Speaker 1: and entertain. So I'm kind of a sucker for showmanship.

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Speaker 1: And then when we do our panel interviews, it's just

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Speaker 1: like this, It's like who can really talk? Who's interesting?

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Speaker 1: Who has great stories? Who do we really think could

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Speaker 1: go to the Smithsonian with us and carry on a

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Speaker 1: conversation with the veterans at the Veterans hospital that we visit,

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Speaker 1: or the congressman that we just visited, or the museum's

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Speaker 1: director or the visit Dallas sponsors that were joining us.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they really have to be able to be

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Speaker 1: approachable and engage with people in conversation. So you're saying

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Speaker 1: the dance and the technical side is very important, but

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Speaker 1: to you just as important as as personality and letting

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00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: that personality come out and be who you are. It

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00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: is when you take a real, you know, a total

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00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: look and we get to see them dance, improv, we

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00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: get to see them do their solo talent, and then

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00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 1: we meet them in the interviews. And I don't care

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Speaker 1: how pretty you are or how great a dancwer you are,

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Speaker 1: if they come in the interview and they just tank

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Speaker 1: they're just they just talk themselves off the squad for me,

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Speaker 1: or didn't talk. Would you would you say that their

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Speaker 1: ability to carry on a conversation be charismatic, could not

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Speaker 1: overcompensate necessarily, but make up for the fact if they

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Speaker 1: don't know an answer to a question that someone's asked them. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I can share up for example, She's a

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Speaker 1: perfect example. You guys have had cas share on this

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Speaker 1: sho oh yeah. Well, her accident alone is unique. And

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Speaker 1: we all remember Cashera in her interview when she was

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Speaker 1: driving down from Kentucky. The most things she was impressed

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Speaker 1: with were the rest stops when she went through Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: They had the prettiest rest stops and were she talked

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Speaker 1: about driving down. I think what was with her mother

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Speaker 1: and her grandmother. But anyway, when you get the real

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00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: essence of someone, it makes them memorable. Being memorable is

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00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: very important, not obnoxious, but just charming and memorable and genuine.

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Speaker 1: So Judy, how would you describe you? In Judy's relationship,

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00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: we operate much like spouses or parents. We really do.

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Speaker 1: It's not we ninety percent of the time agree on things,

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Speaker 1: and we both What we do agree is we need

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Speaker 1: to be kind of united. So those few times if

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Speaker 1: we're disagreeing about a selection or a policy or whatever,

635
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: we do it offline, kind of, you know, like parents should.

636
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: And then when we finally work through things, but yeah,

637
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: we're we can finish each other's sentences. Now I can

638
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: even speak in broken sentences. I can just we can

639
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: look at each other and know exactly what the other

640
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: one's thinking if it's in a situation like did you yeah, yeah, yeah,

641
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: got it? And you guys have been side by side

642
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: for how many years? Now? Twenty seven years as director

643
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: and choreographer? Wow? How did so? How did how did

644
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: you get the job as director? And then how did

645
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: Judy get the job as choreographer? Judy was the assistant

646
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,959
Speaker 1: choreographer when I was a cheerleader. Huh so. Judy cheered

647
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty through eighty three. Season eighty four was my

648
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: first season. She was the assistant choreographer. I My last

649
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: season was eighty eight eighty nine, and at that time

650
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: we had a changing of the guards. That's when mister

651
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: Jones bought the team and our director, Susanne Mitchell left

652
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: the organization. I was then hired to be the assistant director,

653
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: there was a director. Leslie Haynes was the director for

654
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: eighty nine and ninety and during that time I was

655
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: the assistant director in eighty nine, and then in ninety

656
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: I went to work in sales and promotions for the

657
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: Cowboys and sold season tickets and did all the sales

658
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 1: and promotions. So saw a different side of the business.

659
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: And then in ninety one Charlotte brought me back over

660
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: to be the director and that's and then at that

661
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: time Judy was the assistant direct choreographer, and I named

662
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 1: Judy the choreographer. So we've been together. Our first year

663
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 1: together running the team, just the two of us was

664
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: ninety one. And what you see on the show between

665
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: you and Judy, that's really Yeall's relationship. I think. So

666
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: she doesn't commonly just sit on a stool next to me,

667
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: I would say, so looking at you guys, I mean,

668
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: there's a lot you don't get to see. There's there's

669
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: there's more where that comes from. There's even more. There's

670
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 1: times when funny things happen, or even things happen. We

671
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: were like, where are the cameras now? There's things that

672
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: people miss. I mean, you know, it's a little bit.

673
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: Judy more than me, is a little more guarded on camera.

674
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: Probably are you sure about that? Maybe not. I'm pretty

675
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: sure you're not very guarded. Yeah, and Judy, Judy's not comfortable.

676
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting. There's times when what Judy's great at

677
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: is under pressure on the form. I'll never forget Judy's

678
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: most classic defining moment with me. As we were producing

679
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: a half time. We had twelve hundred kids. It was

680
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: at Texas Stadium. We were doing a Disney show. It

681
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: was raining, it was cold, kids were cold, parents were mad,

682
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: and we just had to get this show done. And

683
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: Judy took over the field like like a school teacher

684
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: can or a gym coach can. I don't know how

685
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: she did it because I get caught up in detail.

686
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: I'm detail. I'm a planner, I'm a promoter, and so

687
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: she can be on the fly, really strong under pressure

688
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: on the football field, whereas she may not be the

689
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: planner that I am or the organizer that I am.

690
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: And that's where we our skills complement each other. You

691
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: mentioned USO Tour earlier. How did DCC get so involved

692
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: with USO? How did that start? When was the first one? Yeah,

693
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: The first tour was in nineteen seventy nine. And it's

694
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: interesting now that we're all archivists for the Smithsonian. It

695
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: makes you really go back and look at things. And

696
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: I found the folder on the first Juso tour and

697
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: it was a letter from the Department of Defense written

698
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: to Tech Shram and that they were asking if players

699
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: could come visit the troops in Korea in December for Christmas.

700
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: And players are in football season in December, and so

701
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: mister Shram, on a handwritten note to his assistant Susanne Mitchell,

702
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: who was also the director of the Dallas Cowboys Childers

703
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: at the time, wrote a note and said, because it

704
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: was and Pete Roselle was on there too, because tell them,

705
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: tell them the players can't go, but the cheerleaders could

706
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: maybe do this. They're kind of catching on. Wow. And

707
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: that was nineteen seventy nine, and we took our first tour,

708
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: didn't have costume changes really and did you know, a

709
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: couple little sideline routines. And that was the first tour

710
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: in Korea, and then since then we've done eighty two tours.

711
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: That happens during a tour like that term that gets

712
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: thrown around but people don't really know they've they've changed

713
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: a little bit because in the seventies, the tours that

714
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: we would go to um like Korea and Turkey, Greenland, England, Iceland, Italy, Spain.

715
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: Most of the places that we traveled were non a

716
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: company tour, so it was it was primarily at the

717
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: time it seemed to be men and women that were

718
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: away from their families for a year, and so our

719
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: tours were visits. You would visit breakfast launch dinners would

720
00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: get in helicopters and scatter out all over tops in

721
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: South Korea and visit the small guard post and the basses,

722
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: and then in the evening we'd all be back at

723
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: one big camp and do a show. Our show was

724
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: an hour and a half. It was called America and

725
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: her music had sixteen costume changes. It may have been

726
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: in a theater, or it may have been I've got

727
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: a picture of a show we did on a makeshift

728
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: stage out in the middle of the Sinai Desert. So

729
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: that's what was actually kind of fun about it. As

730
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: they were it was so unconventional of where you were performing,

731
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: but so it's performing and dancing and singing, and then

732
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: the visits at all the different out out in the

733
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: field kind of visits. Since then, they've developed. Now there

734
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: are more families on the tours overseas, So Dan Devans

735
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: now champions our tours along with Katie Aldrich and shout

736
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: out Dan and Katie and Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl, And we've

737
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: kind of transformed. This past year we did more of

738
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: a Cheers to Fitness tour where we were spending m

739
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: more of the curriculum on going into the schools where

740
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: the children of our military servicemen and women are and

741
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: we would work with the kids on fitness and teach

742
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: them our Cheers to Fitness program that we've developed here

743
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: with Jay Johnson. Very cool, and that's that Cheers the Fitness.

744
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: Is that the DCC camps or is that something different?

745
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: It's it's the fitness camps that we've gone. We've gone

746
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: into schools and you do push ups and sit ups

747
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 1: and different six different stations of little workouts for the kids,

748
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: and the kids rotate and the cheerleaders lead and challenge them,

749
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: and then Jay does his thing and challenges them and

750
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: barks at him and does Jay's thing, and then at

751
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: the end the girls do a dance, but it's it's

752
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: not the costumed show that it used to be him.

753
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: I'm kind of hoping to get back to that a

754
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: little bit, to be honest, but it's it's a it's

755
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: a wonderful experience. And each year, like this year, when

756
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 1: we did our end of year discussions with the cheerleaders,

757
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: they always say their favorite, their favorite experience with these tours.

758
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: What's your favorite all the years you've been here? Of course,

759
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: the you know, the hospital visits are always a highlight

760
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: every year. The USO tours um that the events that

761
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: you can give back to the community are always, i know,

762
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: big highlights for you guys. What's what's the one thing

763
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: that's your fondest memories? Stealing on Courtney's corner questions, We'll wait, okay,

764
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: we'll go to We'll go to something else. I don't

765
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: want to steal Courtney's corner. You can you can answer it.

766
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 1: Since he just asked it, is it this past year

767
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: or ever? No, I'm thinking ever, because you've been around,

768
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: you've been around for a while, there has to be

769
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: one thing that you're like, standout memory. Wow, that's really cool,

770
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: and you know what, it could probably even be two

771
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: answers one could be the one thing that that stood

772
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 1: out to you as far as like, you know, giving back,

773
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: and then one that's kind of like the cool moment

774
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: that you've had since you've been here. So performance wise,

775
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: I'd have to say this super Bowl in Pasadena and

776
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson was the halftime And my standout memory about

777
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl not only just being on the field,

778
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: but was the bus drive into the stadium of the

779
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You knew, you know, at that moment in time,

780
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: this is the biggest thing going on in our world

781
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: right now, and just driving down that tunnel to the

782
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: Super Bowl was amazing. And then of course performing on

783
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: the field. But it's knowing we got to the Super

784
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: Bowl and once we got there to drive in, I

785
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: didn't even realize that Michael Jackson was the halftime of

786
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: That's so cool and he was in our locker room.

787
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cool. Yeah, I was out on the field.

788
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: I didn't get to I didn't get to meet him personally.

789
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: He was he had they'd kind of snuck him in

790
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: our locker room. The game was already going on and

791
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: getting him ready for halftime, but he was in there

792
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: because one of one of my co workers, who was

793
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: Tina Kalina, who I'd mentioned earlier. She was our assistant

794
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: at that time, and she said, love you, Michael Jackson.

795
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: He said, I love you too. That's so cool. Um.

796
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: A standout tour moment was this this time in the

797
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: Sinai Desert we were in We had done a tour

798
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: to Israel in Egypt, and we showed up to the

799
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: show and it was a ghost town. There was just

800
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: trailer stage with a USO banner draped on it and

801
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: we're like, um, okay, a table for one please. You

802
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do. And all of a sudden,

803
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean literally you could see kind of dust in

804
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 1: the sky, or you could see motion from the sand

805
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: because it was just sand. And then this this formation

806
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: it was Marines. It was a formation of about a

807
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: thousand Marines. They marched into our show in formation and

808
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: we were like, if you build it, they will come.

809
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: And there they were. They they marched in and were just,

810
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: you know, just so regal. And and then when they're

811
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: commander who was Major Greenberg. I don't know how I

812
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: remember that, and he said eddies and they went hooting

813
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: hollerd and came out and said it and watched the

814
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: show in it was amazing. That was just a breathtaking moment.

815
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: And then my soft spot has always been nursing home visits.

816
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: That just visiting the people in the nursing homes and

817
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: seeing listening to their stories, seeing the people that really

818
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: need to be visited. That's nice when you know you've

819
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: truly lifted the spirits. The girls just did that, and

820
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to go to one and one

821
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: of the nurses that was walking them around took them

822
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: into some of the patient's rooms who can't leave their beds,

823
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: and they and the nurse literally told me that one

824
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: of the patients never speaks, like won't speak to any

825
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: of the doctors, nurses, any visitors. Since she said that

826
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: was probably the first time I'd seen him speak in

827
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: six months. Yeah, was when the girls went in the

828
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: room and I was those are true stories. Our Veterans

829
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: Hospital visit this year, I mean here, I have been

830
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: doing this so long that you kind of maybe can

831
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: get none to some of these things. But the Veterans

832
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: Hospital visit that we had this year, we went down

833
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: to the Dallas VA and meeting um such a collection

834
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: of a twenty year old who had a brain injury

835
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: to a World War Two vet and the volunteers there

836
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: and they were so uplifting. It was I was shocked

837
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: really with the energy there. But it was so I

838
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: mean from the minute we drove up and we started

839
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: seeing veterans with their hats and their pins and it

840
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: just it just brings you to tears. And it did

841
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: bring me to tears. I was speechless. We had our

842
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: crew from CMT there and they tried to interview me

843
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: and I couldn't speak. Wow. Right, that's the first time

844
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: that's ever happened. What's uh? So we had a big

845
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 1: deal this year, something you guys worked really hard on

846
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: really fast. Oh boy, Helly in particular, Yes, another pipe

847
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: dream and we're talking about came to fruition and I

848
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: know a lot of people within the organization scrambled and

849
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: tried to pull this together and end up looking amazing.

850
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: And for those of you that have no idea what

851
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you guys through a Christmas spectacular here

852
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: our first I guess full year at the Star for Christmas.

853
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: It was free to the public, big tree lighting ceremony.

854
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: It was out on the plaza. I don't tell Sea's

855
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: Plaza in front of Ford Center, and the cheerleaders were

856
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 1: the main draw other than Santa. Santa and the cheerleaders

857
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: hard to trump Canna. You can't compete with Yeah, you

858
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: can't compete with Santa, but equally is important. And in fact,

859
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: the cheerleaders uniforms to me look better than Santa's uniform.

860
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,959
Speaker 1: So tell us the Christmas uniform. Tell us the brain

861
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: child behind that and who worked on that and how

862
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: it came together, and then what it was and how

863
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: you thought it was. You know, how you guys pulled

864
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: it off? Would you? Well, you know, after you see

865
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: these USO tours and you see what great dancers the

866
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: cheerleaders really are. And we've we've done huge costumed productions,

867
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: We've done Christmas Halftimes forever, and Charlotte and I've always

868
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: had discussions about wanting kind of a Rockefella Center, Roquetts

869
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: Christmas something. I've always wanted a place, and we didn't

870
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: have the place. And now that we have the Star

871
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: and we don't have a theater, we don't have a

872
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: Radio City music hall. But as we got into it,

873
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: Charlotte forget she's stopped me the Haunch because Dad really

874
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: is interested that Christmas showed you know, what do you

875
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,760
Speaker 1: think about the Christmas Show? And I'm like, okay, okay,

876
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: I call him drive bys with Charlotte because she'll tell you,

877
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: like I'll never forget the time she told me in

878
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: the tunnel at Texas Stadium, we're thinking about doing this

879
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: little show with Reba McIntyre for Thanksgiving, So be thinking

880
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: about that little little show. Well, now what are we

881
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: twenty years later into nationally televised Thanksgiving shows that have

882
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: featured Beyonce, Reba, Toby Keith and everybody else in between.

883
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: So I kind of got one of those be thinking

884
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: about something we can do for Chris because now we

885
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: have the space. So we really we studied the area

886
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: and we thought, you know, there's we've got a tree.

887
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: Do we try to dancer on the tree? Do we

888
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: do a show inside? Outside? We should use this turf.

889
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: It's got parade style seating. And then it kind of

890
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: finally just came together that we have our own Rockefeller

891
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 1: Plaza right here. It's not a skating rink, but it's

892
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: a turf and people kids, parents, you've seen it. People

893
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: are always they're not skating, they're playing football on our centerpiece.

894
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: So we thought, Okay, we put our tree here. Do

895
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: we put the tree at an angle? Do we put

896
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: the tree right in the middle? Do we put the

897
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: tree on the star? No, you can't put the tree

898
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: on the star. People want their picture on the star.

899
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: So we've got this fabulous board, the Diamond Vision board,

900
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: and so we finally said, there's a board, there's turf,

901
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: and there's this magnificent tree, tied all together and make

902
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,240
Speaker 1: a Christmas show. So that's what we did, and we started.

903
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: It was challenging because we didn't know how to use

904
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: the space and how we would configure the audience. And

905
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,280
Speaker 1: we thought, let's just let the turf be their lawn,

906
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: and we thought they'd sit and we were going to

907
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 1: stanchion off where the hash Mark saw and do a

908
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 1: very vertical show. And it turns out the first night

909
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: everybody stood the whole time. How long does the show

910
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,280
Speaker 1: need to be? Our experience was no longer than twenty minutes.

911
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: Does the show end with Santa Claus? Does the show

912
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: end with the tree being lit? All of that and

913
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: so it all came together. We did our creative team

914
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: and our think tank. It involved a lot of Ford

915
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: Center operations, Star security, you know, net television cameras creative.

916
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: It was a big undertaking, but we did it. We

917
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: pulled it off. It was beautiful. The first night. We

918
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: have some drone footage where it literally, I mean it's

919
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: a huge crowd. Jerry and Gene Jones and Charlotte came

920
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: out and lit the tree with Santa. So the show

921
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: is six musical pieces and it features the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

922
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: It features features our Rhythm and Blue dancer, our drum line,

923
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,439
Speaker 1: and our rookie squad. We had local kids that were

924
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: level five tumblers to be tumbling elves. And then of

925
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: course the big payoff is Santa who joins us at

926
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: the end of the show and presses their magic button,

927
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: which is a solidly solid crystal football and it lights

928
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 1: the tree. And the tree in itself is fabulous because

929
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: it's computerized and synchronized in the lights, dance and our

930
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: choreographed to the music. Will this be something that you

931
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: guys do every year going forward? We you know that

932
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: that's the other thing. What time do we do it?

933
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: What days do we do it? So we fallen narrowed

934
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: in on Fridays and Saturdays at six pm, and that

935
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: was also in conjunction with these things called high school

936
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: football games that were going on at the same time.

937
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: It really didn't know quite frankly, what exactly we were,

938
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, going to be up against. But it's in

939
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: total Jones and Cowboys style. It was a bold vision.

940
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: It made a big impact act. It was successful, and

941
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: we're already having our meetings for season two of Cowboys

942
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: Christmas Spectacular. Awesome. It'll be Friday and Saturday nights. We're

943
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: kind of exploring six six, fifteen, six thirty. But it

944
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: was awesome. And Kelly's also leaving out her awesome wardrobe

945
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: for every night of your Christmas Spectacular. Please elaborate, Please elaborate.

946
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: What is Ellie's festive. She's very festive. Gave me a

947
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: chance to just kind of wear the ugly Christmas sweater

948
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: concept every Friday and Saturday night because I'm running around,

949
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: I'm literally like making sure the stanchions are right and

950
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: the girls are upstairs and the sound and all this,

951
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: and so I wore Christmas sweater each show night, and

952
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: one arsenal one sweater in particular, I bought down in

953
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: Dallas on Lovers and in Wood and I didn't realize

954
00:54:53,680 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: that my Christmas sweater was slightly what what would you say, distasteful? Inappropriate?

955
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: Inappropriate reindeer and I had no ideas, so much so

956
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: that I bought my co creative partner in crime, Steve Dolum.

957
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,439
Speaker 1: I bought him a gift, a Christmas sweater and gave

958
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: it to him, and I was so excited. And anyway,

959
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: I wore my sweater and the reindeer aren't flying Santa around.

960
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: Let's just put that I didn't realize. I swear I

961
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: did not realize it, and I wore it and the

962
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: girls apparently there were some giggles in the locker room

963
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: and the girls were like, does she know what she's wearing?

964
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: And nobody. It was so patterned. I really didn't realize it.

965
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: It was folded when I bought it. I also have

966
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: a bad eye. I just bought it in a hurry.

967
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: But then it became now so that Christmas sweater made

968
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: its debut and I'd gifted one to Steve, and so

969
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 1: it was quite a comical moment when when I realized

970
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: what I was wearing, and the cheerleaders were too scared

971
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: to tell me and sore Judy being Judy said do

972
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: you realize what you're on your sweater? But all this

973
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: time it'll come back though, now I every Friday, and

974
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: so you got you gotta bring it back every year

975
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: now right, Yeah, traditions, stage started a new tradition. All right,

976
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: we got a few minutes left first, we'll do a

977
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: few things. Well, I know Kelly loves movies. I don't

978
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: know if everybody else knows this, but she You can

979
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: just see her light up right now. Yes, bake fan

980
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: of movies. So this weekend happens to be one of

981
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: the biggest for movies oscars. Yes, give us your thoughts.

982
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: Give a quick synopsis of what you think. If people

983
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: have a few spare hours leading up to Sunday, what

984
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: should they watch? Who do you have your eye on?

985
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: For the fun of it and for it's some giggles. Um.

986
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: I loved Titania. I thought it was very entertaining. Um.

987
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: And Alison Janny gets my oscar for for that movie.

988
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: I thought she was amazing for dramatic and just something

989
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: that sticks with you when you leave the theater. Three

990
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 1: Billboards was amazing. Um. Sam Rockwell should get the oscar

991
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: for that. He plays kind of the dumb cop in

992
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: the movie, and he's amazing. Francis mcdormott plays the mother

993
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: who's lost her daughter to a violent crime, and she

994
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: gets my oscar. The Shape of Water. I just have

995
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: a big question mark on my face. I can't even tell.

996
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure I could recommend it. I did

997
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: visually it was interesting, um, but it wasn't something that

998
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: I could go away and keep thinking about. Let's see,

999
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,439
Speaker 1: what's your favorite movie of all time? Oh, Shannon, there's

1000
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: too many top three. I can tell you my top three,

1001
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: so I feel like you have to know your top

1002
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: three right or just a few? Well now, I mean now,

1003
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: I'm loving Three Billboards US. It's so good. I don't

1004
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll win Best Film. It's my pick.

1005
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: The Shape of Water is nominated for thirteen Oscars and

1006
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: it'll it'll take some but um, okay, I love now

1007
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: the Girl at chick Flicks. I've always loved color purple. Um.

1008
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: I loved a few Good Men for just straight comedy.

1009
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: Dumb and dummer. Yeah, um for artistic like I loved

1010
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: the um The Danish Girl a couple of years ago

1011
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: with Eddie Redmain. I mean, I love all movies. I know,

1012
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: Hollywood gets a lot of criticism, and I'm I'm not

1013
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: either way. I'd love film and what Hollywood does with

1014
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: talent and art. It's just it just fascinates me. Would

1015
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: you ever be opposed to another Dallas Cafes Cheerleader's movie? No? What?

1016
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: What would be the main plot? I'm a DCC movie

1017
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: director's chair, Kelly, I gotta think on that, Oh, next,

1018
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: next movies. For a movie to be good, it has

1019
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: to be really compelling and emotional and conflict, and you know,

1020
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: we try to keep things cheerful and joyful and light

1021
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: light and then on the other end of movies, see,

1022
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: I know you also, I hear you talk about it

1023
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: all the time, especially during season. Saturday Night Live. Yeah,

1024
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: Sara Night Lives my go to. I've watched it since

1025
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: I was a kid in Lyndelle, Texas. We had Saturday

1026
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: Night Live parties at my house. We made big batch

1027
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies, um and I could from from Bill

1028
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: Murray till now. Saturday Night Live is my definitely my

1029
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: go to. You watched Saturday Night Live in Lynndale and

1030
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: West Minroe, Louisiana. I was forced to watch he Hall

1031
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: with my grandparents, so I was doing the same thing.

1032
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: I was just yeah, just a little short. I had

1033
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: to watch it. My grandparents made me. I remember, I

1034
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: remember who is that? Uh? What were the guys the hosts?

1035
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: It was Buck Owens and Roy She was on there. Yeah,

1036
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: but it was Buck Owens and Uh. I'm gonna drew

1037
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: a blank. But they were the host and I had

1038
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: to watch that and they would pop up in the

1039
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: cornfield he he hall Hall, Yeah, he has great I

1040
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: grown up. We had um a teenager. I love the

1041
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: Donnie and Marie Show. My brother and I were supposed

1042
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: to be Donnie Marie and it didn't just didn't turn

1043
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: out that way. But loved Donnie Marie, loved Sunny and Share.

1044
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: We watched Alice. Yes. Yeah. Who's your favorite SNL personality

1045
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: of all time? All time? That's a tough one. There's

1046
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,439
Speaker 1: been so many talented people. I mean, I think Kate

1047
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: what's her name? That McKinnon, right, McKinnon, that does Hillary

1048
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: is brilliant, of course, Will Ferrell. I loved Martin Short,

1049
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: loved didn't who did the church Lady? Was that? Um?

1050
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey? Dana Carvey, Yeah, you know, whom might be

1051
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: the most talented person to come out of there, and

1052
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: it may just be because of Harley exposure. Yeah, the

1053
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: exposure that he gets and the ideas that he has.

1054
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: And Jimmy, Yes, Jimmy, he is one of the most

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01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: talented people. And he can sing, he can play instruments,

1056
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: funny he's and his his skit he was in Cowbell skit.

1057
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: I need more Cowbell. Yeah, yep. My favorite thing him

1058
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: as that he breaks characters so often and I just

1059
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: because he just cracks up laughing. Yeah about himself. It's

1060
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: hard to beat Chris Farrell and um, what's his name?

1061
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: When they did the Gap Girls, Come on a little Blonde.

1062
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: You know who I'm talking about, Chris Farrell and oh

1063
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: oh the night at the Roxbury Guys are you talking about? Well, no,

1064
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: but that's that's a good one too. Who who is

1065
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: the more petite blonde nineties? Not Dana Carvey right, No,

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01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: he was with He's always not Chris. He was with

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01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: m Chris Farley and what's his name? And they did

1068
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: the Gap Girls together. They did the motivational song Oh

1069
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: oh Martin short. Nope, he sat on the couch during

1070
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: the motivational speaker when Chris Farley was doing the motivational speaker.

1071
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: I'm blank, We're gonna hate ourselves for not knowing this.

1072
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking it up. Uh, David Spade, David Spade. Yes,

1073
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: it's hard to get better than Chris Farley and David

1074
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: Spade and some of their work too. They were awesome.

1075
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: Remember the copyerm guy, copy your man. Of course, let's

1076
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 1: get the DCC on an SNL skits you did, No,

1077
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: that's already been checked off in the nineties. It was

1078
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 1: a skit. It was it was Ryo Terry and Will

1079
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: Farrell and they did a dream sequence. Remember they were

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01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: the perfect cheerleaders. Do you remember that skit? I haven't.

1081
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: And I called him kind of the same same style

1082
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: and said, look, we're gonna be in New York. It's

1083
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,919
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. You've got to have the your cheerleaders skit.

1084
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: Would you ever consider putting the cheer the Dallas Cowboys

1085
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: sherleaders in your show? And they called him in thirty

1086
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: minutes and said, yes, they have to. They have to.

1087
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: They have riders round tables and they pitched to the riders.

1088
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: So it was a dream sequence where Chryo Terry and

1089
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: Will Farrell dreamed that they woke up and we're Dallas

1090
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 1: Cowboys cheerleaders. They spoofed our uniform. He had little white

1091
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: shorts and in a fringed vest. It was hysterical. Oh

1092
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: my gosh, nineteen ninety five ish, did I see one

1093
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: that says ninety six and nicely another one that says

1094
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: n seven, So maybe they're just post It was somewhere

1095
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: somewhere in the nineties, but it was Will Ferrell. Yeah,

1096
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: it was awesome and Will Ferrell's doing can't beat that.

1097
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: I love Will Farell. That's so cool. Before we go,

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01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: we didn't mention camps. Yes, it's going on with camps

1099
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: out here, and how do people attend? So anybody can

1100
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: go on the Dallas Cowboys website and we have great

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01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: camps for youth. We have football camps, and we have

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01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: cheerleader and dance camps. Many of them are run simultaneously.

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01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: So if you have a football player in your family

1104
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: and a dancer in your family, they're both going on

1105
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 1: at the Ford Center or at and t They're taught

1106
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: by real coaches, and with the dance and cheerleader are

1107
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: taught by real cheerleaders. They have fun. We have three

1108
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: day camps. We have one day camps. We even have

1109
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: a little little miscamp for um for the little gals

1110
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: three to six years old, so cute, and they get

1111
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: to be around the Star or at and T Stadium

1112
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: and they're it's it's it's awesomey. The kids just love it.

1113
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: Are our trainers love it. The football side, I'm not

1114
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: the expert on the skills and drills that they do,

1115
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: but they sure look like they're having a great time.

1116
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: And then the girls learn dance routines and cheer and

1117
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: then on day three we have kind of a parent

1118
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: showcase and it's kind of kind of a football game

1119
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: performance where the youth the boys run through the girls

1120
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: like it a real football game, and the little girls

1121
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: are their cheerleaders. And that we do a parent showcase

1122
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: where they show their football skills and then the dancers

1123
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: do dances and cheers. It's just a great summer camps.

1124
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: It's in this environment, it's affordable everybody now I'm a mom,

1125
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: everybody's looking for things, good things for their kids to

1126
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 1: do in the summer. And we also have a lot

1127
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: of good kind of spring break on us too, right

1128
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 1: spring break camp as well. Yes, that's this will be

1129
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: our first so we'll see how that how that goes.

1130
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: We did one for Christmas and it worked out really

1131
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: well for the parents that needed, you know, some activity,

1132
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: because the kids get out of school and then the

1133
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: first hour they're out, they're like, Mom, what am I

1134
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: gonna do? On board? So we fill that gap, keep

1135
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: him entertained. And it's on Dallas cowboys dot com under

1136
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: our academy pages and name register now very cool, and

1137
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: it's on all of our social channels as well. We

1138
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: promote them there. You can find the links there. What

1139
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: are the odds that we can get you and Judy

1140
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: on this show at the same time at some point? Probably?

1141
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: I think that would be fun. I think that would

1142
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: be so much fun. We need to make that happen soon.

1143
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: I know you're sure you have her number? Kelly. Yeah,

1144
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:32,479
Speaker 1: Judy and I are late night texters. Yes, yes, Kelly

1145
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 1: is a late night texter. I've been this is true.

1146
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: I've gotten I've been communicating. I've been communicating with Kelly

1147
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 1: for probably over ten years now, either through the merchandise

1148
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: my former life, or through social media. With social media now,

1149
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: and I still don't know probably ninety percent of the

1150
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,439
Speaker 1: time when she texts me what in the hell she's

1151
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: talking about. Oh, come on, chance, I don't beat Kelly.

1152
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm still trying to learn it, Courtney

1153
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: and your Yeah, yeah, I'll be. We'll have to. I'll

1154
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: have to send three more texts to finally to realize like, okay,

1155
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,200
Speaker 1: what is this or all? Well, texts can be a

1156
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 1: little little spotty my emails now because email is getting better.

1157
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,959
Speaker 1: Email is getting better. I drafted them. If it's after

1158
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 1: eleven PM, I try to save it so that I'm

1159
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: not blowing up everybody else's phone. But nighttime is my

1160
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: only quiet time. It's my only time I have to be,

1161
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, productive in that sense. So, um, I drafted them,

1162
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: and even sometimes I go back and read them and

1163
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: make sure that it's one I was really totally Yeah,

1164
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: it would be. It'd be ugly. That must have been

1165
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: what happened if you kept that email in a draft

1166
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 1: for us for a year. Right, So me and Courtney

1167
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:52,840
Speaker 1: tell you a quick story before we go, And this

1168
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: is a good one. I mean, courtneyers are sitting there

1169
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 1: one night and we get this email from Kelly and

1170
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: it's about something that literally happened last year. Yeah, it

1171
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: was a year. It was a year ago, and we

1172
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: get it. So we start texting each other like, what

1173
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: is good? What is this talking? I don't remember getting

1174
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: this email the original one, and then like no, I

1175
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: guarantee it was locked up in a draft somewhere. And

1176
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: if we finally get it, and then finally Kelly comes

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01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: back and goes, oh, never mind, that's from last year.

1178
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: We're just like, wow, technology hasn't isn't always my best friend? Well, Kelly,

1179
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: this has been awesome. We need to definitely get you

1180
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: all more often. Maybe I'd love to please Maybe maybe

1181
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: you can fit us into your social calendar or your business.

1182
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: Are you going to are we going to try to

1183
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: do something from Bimini Bahamas on our calendar sheet? We're

1184
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the technology. I don't know if

1185
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: we can do it from down there because we won't

1186
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: have a sound engineer down there, but we might be

1187
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: able to work something out. We'll see, Yeah, will I go.

1188
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:55,439
Speaker 1: I could figure it out. We'll figure Yeah, it would

1189
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 1: be fun, but it'd be fun anytime we're not around.

1190
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: We I wish we could do these kind of more onlook, yeah,

1191
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 1: something live from somewhere. Well, Courtney, thanks for showing up.

1192
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, for bringing it, Thanks for Courtney,

1193
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 1: for Kelly, thanks for spending some time with us. We'll

1194
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: work on get you on more often so I know

1195
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: where to find you and you know where to find me.

1196
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: This is true, This is true, a lot of it.

1197
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: I could do the show every day if we did

1198
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,720
Speaker 1: it like midnight, you know what, that would probably be

1199
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,759
Speaker 1: the highest ratings getting show that we would do, because

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01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure at midnight we would all be talking out

1201
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 1: of our heads half the time anyway, deprivation of sleep

1202
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: and bloopy and who's that's why I get my best

1203
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: work done? Wine or beer? There's that too. Yeah, it

1204
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: would be a very entertaining show. We probably wouldn't be

1205
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 1: on the midnight hour. Well, thanks Kelly. We'll have you

1206
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 1: back on soon. We will be back next week, I

1207
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: believe again. Amy and Alexis, Amy and Alexis, same time,

1208
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: same channels, Yep, two o'clock, Facebook, Twitter, Dallas Cowboys that came,

1209
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: there you go. We'll be back next week on These

1210
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: boots are made for talking. This has been a production

1211
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.