WEBVTT - He Could Find Chemistry with a Piece of Paper (DWTS: The Next Pro 104)

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<v Speaker 1>Recording from the unbearable heat of Palm Springs for Dancing

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<v Speaker 1>with the Stars Gone. It was one hundred and eleven today, Val,

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<v Speaker 1>did you know that?

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<v Speaker 2>I did not know that, But when I was looking

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<v Speaker 2>for you in the parking lot, I felt that it.

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<v Speaker 1>Was one hundred and eleven in the parking lot and

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<v Speaker 1>it was zero degrees in the ice rink of Afrossure Arena. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like Comic Con here, but with spray tans. We've

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<v Speaker 1>decided there is not enough dancing on our plate, so

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<v Speaker 1>we are recapping the next pro val. Talk to me

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<v Speaker 1>about what the last week of prepping for con has

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<v Speaker 1>been like.

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<v Speaker 2>It's been a exciting, hectic. It has been kind of

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<v Speaker 2>feels like a reunion, you know, like a like a

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<v Speaker 2>high school reunion of sourts. Obviously, we have celebrities coming

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<v Speaker 2>back from different seasons, which is exciting again not just

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<v Speaker 2>for us, but for other celebrities to get you know,

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<v Speaker 2>because you watch the show, you're a fan of certain people.

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<v Speaker 2>Like you said you got to meet Christi Yamagucci.

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<v Speaker 1>Christi Yamagucci. I was like, what, Johnny Weir, I'm friends

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<v Speaker 1>with Johnny Weir. That's so cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Johnny man, he's amazing. So yeah, so like that's fun.

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<v Speaker 2>First of all, this is the first time Dancing with

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<v Speaker 2>the Stars is doing something like this, so that's fun. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>there's excitement in the uncertainty of things, but it's shaping

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<v Speaker 2>up to be a great show, a great weekend, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm yeah, I'm excited to kiss babies and take selfies.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes. Well, let's learn a little bit more about who

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<v Speaker 1>might be joining you at the next Dancing with the

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<v Speaker 1>Stars con with episode four of the Next pro we

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<v Speaker 1>have a very special guest judge.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, let's go.

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<v Speaker 1>But before we get into our guest judge, we are

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<v Speaker 1>reminded that Natalie went home last week. She had a

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<v Speaker 1>medical elimination, and we have learned through interviews over the

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<v Speaker 1>past few days she suffered from a concussion and was

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<v Speaker 1>not cleared to continue. Now, have you ever had a

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<v Speaker 1>concussion from dancing? That's pretty serious?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh? Yeah, I mean no, A concussion is definitely serious. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>there's so much new science out there about exactly how

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<v Speaker 2>serious it can be. I you know, personally from my experience,

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<v Speaker 2>I've been hit with elbows many, many times throughout my career,

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<v Speaker 2>and one in particular I got we were doing blocking.

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<v Speaker 2>So again, you know the dress rehearsal, how close it

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<v Speaker 2>is to the actual live show. This we were going last.

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<v Speaker 2>This was in the finale, and this was our freestyle

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<v Speaker 2>and Zendea rocked me in the eye with her elbow

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<v Speaker 2>during that run. And again, I mean blood everywhere, gushing,

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<v Speaker 2>gushing over the and I just did there wasn't enough

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<v Speaker 2>turnaround for me to go to Cedars and get it

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<v Speaker 2>stitched up. So they had like butterfly, butterfly tape whatever tape, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>butterfly tape and yeah, and show what was going on.

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<v Speaker 2>I went out. I mean again, it was the last

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<v Speaker 2>episode of this epic season. We had a huge chance

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<v Speaker 2>of winning, and I just knew how nervous she was

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<v Speaker 2>for the day in general, so I just try to

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<v Speaker 2>alleviate the pressure. But yeah, I was, I mean it

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<v Speaker 2>was kind of cool. Again for me, this is like

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<v Speaker 2>what a thing. And I told, you know, at the time,

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<v Speaker 2>I told her, I was like, you know, one day

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be able to say that these and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I got these stitches from these and there I mean foreshadow.

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<v Speaker 1>Look at her now, you know, No, it's almost like

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<v Speaker 1>you who made her the stars? No, Okay, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to take care of.

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<v Speaker 2>But again, show mus go on. In the spirit of

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<v Speaker 2>that phrase, obviously, you know, we did continue. It was

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<v Speaker 2>super random that I, you know, imagine going live and

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<v Speaker 2>then I'm coming down before any context, right, hearing down

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<v Speaker 2>the stairs with her giant black eye. But again it

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<v Speaker 2>makes for a cool story. We ended up losing that season,

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<v Speaker 2>which was heartbreaking, but all in all it was Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>the answer is yes. I don't know if I was

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<v Speaker 2>ever concussed, but I've certainly taken some elbows.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, Well, we open with Robert's joyous return, followed

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<v Speaker 1>by Shirley and Mark. Shirley admits she is impressed with

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<v Speaker 1>their evolution, but Mark wants to see their grit and

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<v Speaker 1>how they deal with setbacks and pressure. Tristan says he's

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<v Speaker 1>gotten over some nerves. He said, now that he felt

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<v Speaker 1>like he's really been at the bottom. There's nowhere to

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<v Speaker 1>go but up.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember you last last week?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay by Tristan, I thought for sure, I was like, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>But no, no, He's still in it.

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<v Speaker 1>Is still in it. And he said on a technicality,

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<v Speaker 1>which is in his head, you know, he's like, am

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<v Speaker 1>I really supposed to be here so that you know,

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<v Speaker 1>but like you said, he feels like, okay, he's hit

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<v Speaker 1>rock bottom.

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<v Speaker 2>No in a chair, Danielle, come on, you need is

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<v Speaker 2>a chance?

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<v Speaker 1>That's it, that's right. And then out comes our guest judge.

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<v Speaker 1>It is two time Mirror Ball Chance Amy nominated choreographer

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<v Speaker 1>and truly one of the coolest women on the Planet's

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<v Speaker 1>VAL's better half Jenna Johnson.

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<v Speaker 2>Totally so cool. She's definitely the coolest.

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<v Speaker 1>It's so cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, she's not back there for sure telling me

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<v Speaker 2>to say this. No, no, she's super cool. I'm so proud. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I think I said it in our last episode. Is that,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we work alongside each other, and that's such

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<v Speaker 2>a huge blessing in our life. We get to spend,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, because our job takes so much of our time,

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<v Speaker 2>the fact that we buy the fold, get to pursue

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<v Speaker 2>what we love and at the same time have a

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<v Speaker 2>relationship and at least see each other, have some proximity

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<v Speaker 2>to one another. Even the physical touch on set while

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<v Speaker 2>waiting around is just is very comforting. So on that end,

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<v Speaker 2>very lucky. But on the flip side, I never get

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<v Speaker 2>to really just celebrate her for her and not be

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<v Speaker 2>tied somehow to her work. So it's just fun. It's

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<v Speaker 2>fun to see her shining. And I'm a huge advocate

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<v Speaker 2>for her as a professional. And you know, I came

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<v Speaker 2>onto the show as Max's little brother and took me

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<v Speaker 2>some years to establish myself. And you know, obviously I

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<v Speaker 2>am very proud to be her husband, as she is

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<v Speaker 2>very proud to be my wife. But those titles have

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<v Speaker 2>nothing to do with, you know, the level of pedigree

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<v Speaker 2>that she has accomplished in the space. And when you

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<v Speaker 2>introduce her, you introduce her, yeah, by her own damnselng huh,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you know, fun fact she's also married to Val.

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<v Speaker 2>That's so fun, you know. So I think she's just

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<v Speaker 2>excellent and I'm very lucky that I get to share

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<v Speaker 2>space with such a brilliant choreographer and professional.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, And I was so lucky to share that space

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<v Speaker 1>with her last season too, And on tour, she's just

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<v Speaker 1>she's remarkable. Well, Jenna performs a Robert coined spicy and

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<v Speaker 1>extremely difficult dance to a cover of Leslie Gore's You

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<v Speaker 1>Don't Own Me. She doesn't even break a sweat.

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<v Speaker 2>It's I know, it's crazy, it's crazy that she walked

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<v Speaker 2>off like because I've seen you know, we've seen the

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<v Speaker 2>other weeks and Brandon respectfully, well Brandon and both Derek,

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<v Speaker 2>but Brandon was just dread.

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<v Speaker 1>Even seem out of breath.

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<v Speaker 2>She was just like hello, just she's just again she's

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<v Speaker 2>an incredible discipline.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, peak excellence, peak, Like I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Again, it's just a certain standard that she holds herself too,

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<v Speaker 2>which is is hard to match. And I you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I've I pride myself on that, but she, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>she's on a different level. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, once finished, Robert notes that she was dancing with

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<v Speaker 1>someone who wasn't our pal val he's too busy becoming

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<v Speaker 1>a celebrity podcaster. Yeah, but that's the life of a dancer.

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<v Speaker 1>You need to find chemistry and make it look real,

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<v Speaker 1>no matter who it is, whether it is genuine or not.

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<v Speaker 1>So this week's theme is chemistry.

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<v Speaker 2>Chemistry. I spoke to her, she said, oh, they they

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<v Speaker 2>didn't keep the line, but I guess she did an

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<v Speaker 2>OTF and they asked her about what is it like

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<v Speaker 2>to find chemistry with someone else, and like, you know

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<v Speaker 2>that just have you met my husband? She said he

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<v Speaker 2>could find chemistry with a piece of paper. Yes, like Okay, thanks,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you, Thanks Jen.

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<v Speaker 1>It is true for both of you guys that like

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<v Speaker 1>both you could, you could have chemistry with a paper towel,

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<v Speaker 1>a rock. Both of you have that.

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<v Speaker 2>I will have chemistry with anything that I'm creating, something

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<v Speaker 2>that I'm passionate about. Yeah, you know, so I'm passionate

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<v Speaker 2>about playing basketball. When I go out and I played

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<v Speaker 2>pickup bowl, I have a lot of chemistry with my teammates.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh I saw it. We went to a NETS

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<v Speaker 1>game together and you played basketball in the NETS practice court.

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<v Speaker 1>You played a little pickup games with Alan and Brandon

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<v Speaker 1>and you guys, I would you would have thought someone

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<v Speaker 1>told you, if you work hard enough at this, you

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<v Speaker 1>might get drafted tonight because you were drenched in sweat

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<v Speaker 1>and you were focused.

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<v Speaker 2>How you do anything is how you'll do everything. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and so you know that's what breeds chemistry. It's like

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<v Speaker 2>when you see someone that you're taking part of in whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>whether these podcasts and whatever, like, you see somebody be

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<v Speaker 2>passionate about that and invest in that, and we share

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<v Speaker 2>that common ground and then you're gonna have chemistry. You're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna you know, you're bound to find something. Again, back

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<v Speaker 2>to what we're talking about because it's dance, because it's

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<v Speaker 2>partner dance, you are the most You become the most

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<v Speaker 2>important thing in my life for those next two minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. And that's my approach to my partners when

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<v Speaker 2>I'm dancing, and I know that Jena has the same approach.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, that person then becomes my most sacred individual

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<v Speaker 2>for the next two minutes as long as we're in

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<v Speaker 2>you know, doing our dance. To me, that is the

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<v Speaker 2>foundation of chemistry. It isn't physical attraction. It isn't a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of times chemistry gets hijacked with with with the

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<v Speaker 2>sexual kind of yet to it. But it really isn't

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<v Speaker 2>about that. Even obviously you could have a physicality about

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<v Speaker 2>the performance, there certain aesthetics that are more compatible. Whatever

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<v Speaker 2>the physical is in the eye of the beholder. That

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<v Speaker 2>that's that part is in your brain. My approach and

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<v Speaker 2>where my chemistry comes from. It comes from camaraderie, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>It comes from caring about this person a lot, and

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<v Speaker 2>caring about the thing that we're trying to accomplish together.

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<v Speaker 1>The judges have selected the rumba and the Argentine tango

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<v Speaker 1>as the dance styles for this week. Both those dances

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<v Speaker 1>demand passion and intimacy. So did you like the selections?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that what you would have chosen for the dance styles?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? Yeah, totally, totally Rumba. They lend themselves to that, right.

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<v Speaker 2>Intimacy is kind of woven into the fabric of those styles,

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<v Speaker 2>and so they lend themselves to a little bit more

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<v Speaker 2>of an intense chemistry.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, with that, we are thrown into rehearsal Day one. Jenna,

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<v Speaker 1>who is just so beautiful, comes walking in to meet

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<v Speaker 1>the dancers to find out who is the most compatible

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<v Speaker 1>with one another. They will be flipping through partners every

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<v Speaker 1>time she yells switch, and she calls it speed dating

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<v Speaker 1>the next pro edition, which was a really concise way

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<v Speaker 1>of saying exactly what they were doing. Nina immediately gravitated

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<v Speaker 1>to Alan, who she has danced with for years, and

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<v Speaker 1>Adele speeds off to Aj, who has become familiar to her.

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<v Speaker 1>But then they switch. Stephanie switches to Alan and immediately

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<v Speaker 1>knows that's going to be her pick, especially because she

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<v Speaker 1>has no vibes with Aj. Selena feels most comfortable with Eric,

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<v Speaker 1>and Tristan feels the spark with Stephanie. Adele on the

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<v Speaker 1>other hand is very lucky. She feels it with everyone.

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<v Speaker 1>What a great quality to have.

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<v Speaker 2>Again, you know, it's one of those things like she's

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<v Speaker 2>clearly very passionate about dance, and again that passion is

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<v Speaker 2>part of what makes those dances so great. And as

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<v Speaker 2>someone that pursued this on an excellent level and trying

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<v Speaker 2>to be the best in the world, which she came

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<v Speaker 2>very close to being. Yeah, it's no surprise that she

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<v Speaker 2>is able to find chemistry with anybody because I think

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<v Speaker 2>maybe she's just so immersed in the dance. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's another thing as well. It just reflecting on me,

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<v Speaker 2>like I get so immersed in the performance that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you become one with the dance and with the person

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<v Speaker 2>you're creating with, Otherwise you won't be able to create

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<v Speaker 2>it on a high level. Yeah. So yeah, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>I could see that.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, there is definitely when you have two pros together

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<v Speaker 1>and you really are creating together. I can see because

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm thinking about listening to you talk and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about my experience. There really isn't a whole lot

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<v Speaker 1>of creating I get to do. I get to tell

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<v Speaker 1>Pasha what I want, what story I want to tell,

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<v Speaker 1>and then Pasha as the choreographer and as the pro

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<v Speaker 1>creates the dance, and then I have to learn it.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's of course, you know, I end up loving

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<v Speaker 1>it and I'm excited to learn it, and as we're

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<v Speaker 1>going through it, I'm like, oh, I love this, But

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't feel like I ever really get to be

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<v Speaker 1>like I've had. I've had ownership of this move, even

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<v Speaker 1>though I probably should have. At the end, I'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to go back and redo my season. You know, I

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<v Speaker 1>want to do it again, Pasha, we got to do something.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to ask you.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, listen, there's a I mean, look, there's obviously

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<v Speaker 2>acting as part of the performance. Even though this is dance,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a big part of that that's acting. So you're

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<v Speaker 2>an actress. Have you ever, how does chemistry work with you?

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<v Speaker 1>I can also have chemistry with anything, I really can.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there have been, like you said, there have

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<v Speaker 1>been times, and of course, as an actor, sometimes you

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<v Speaker 1>are having to make out with someone totally, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>whereas I don't think in dance you might want to

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<v Speaker 1>sell that idea that maybe you're going to but you

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<v Speaker 1>don't usually end up making out with your dance partner

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<v Speaker 1>on the ballroom floor.

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<v Speaker 2>What's interesting is I look back at seasons and for

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<v Speaker 2>the art, I would quite often like if it, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>if it was like some dramatic little love affair, or

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<v Speaker 2>even in a comedic way, like I would plant the

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<v Speaker 2>kiss at the end of a dance, like it's just whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>what's supposed to happen at the end of this story.

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<v Speaker 2>And now looking back, I'm just like, what where was

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<v Speaker 2>I What am I doing? Yo? But I you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I look back at a lot of decisions I made

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<v Speaker 2>in my life like that. But yeah, the with the

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<v Speaker 2>with the casualness with which I've invaded other people's space,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean again consensually obviously of course, you know, it's

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<v Speaker 2>just like whoa, That's a creative choice that I've taken

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<v Speaker 2>on several occasions. So yeah, so again, I think there's

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<v Speaker 2>an innocence to some of this choreography that to the

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<v Speaker 2>outside perspective has like it just looks different. Right. It's

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<v Speaker 2>like when you're you know, hearing a conversation from the side,

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<v Speaker 2>you might not know you understand the context of what's happening.

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<v Speaker 2>And so yeah, when I'm creating and the report that

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<v Speaker 2>you build in the room, sometimes it's like, I think

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<v Speaker 2>actors can relate. It's just like, yo, this is a scene.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get a scene done. When this scene's over, you

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<v Speaker 2>might look at each other like I gotta go to

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<v Speaker 2>the bathroom quick. You know. It's like and there's almost

0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:13.480
<v Speaker 2>the chemistry flips completely to like a real, real fun friendship. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>Like I think friendship needs to exist, yes, because at

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<v Speaker 2>least for me, I don't really do well with people

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<v Speaker 2>I don't like or don't respect or don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>be around. I'm not willing to go the distance for

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<v Speaker 2>someone that isn't worth it. What I mean by that

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<v Speaker 2>as someone that's taken this opportunity for grant or taking

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<v Speaker 2>me for grant. Whatever. So, no, I can't build chemistry

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<v Speaker 2>with anybody. But if we're friends and we're on this

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<v Speaker 2>journey together, like, let's let's do it, let's play, let's

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<v Speaker 2>let's make things up.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. In the end, Jenna has the girls select who

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<v Speaker 1>they want to dance with, and this is how it unfolds.

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<v Speaker 1>Selena chooses Eric, Stephanie and Nina both choose Alan, Dell

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<v Speaker 1>chooses aj and no One chooses Tristan, who is embarrassed

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<v Speaker 1>and realizes that he is the weakest link, and so

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<v Speaker 1>with the traffic jam, Allan is tasked with choosing between

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<v Speaker 1>the two and he chooses Nina over Stephanie, and now

0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.000
<v Speaker 1>Stephanie is forced to choose another partner, and she then

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<v Speaker 1>chooses the undrafted Tristan, who she just danced with last

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<v Speaker 1>week and she felt like that gave her a disadvantage,

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<v Speaker 1>so she's not thrilled and he is not happy about

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<v Speaker 1>being her second pick. So it is a real rough start.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, again, just judging on the surface, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't I'm not in that house. What's different about this

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<v Speaker 2>show is they're spending a lot of time together, so

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<v Speaker 2>perhaps they're building a friendship outside of the competition, which

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sure they are, and I'm sure they did with Stephanie,

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<v Speaker 2>so I could see how that may feel like betrayal.

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<v Speaker 2>But also, man, what a I mean, I got to

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<v Speaker 2>check him on his like selfishness, Like, bro, this is

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<v Speaker 2>not about your friendship with her. This is about a

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<v Speaker 2>competition and a huge opportunity for her. And I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>like you know that phrase of like if you really

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<v Speaker 2>love something, you let it go, And I think, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like to some degree, like if you're really

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<v Speaker 2>friends with her, then you need to read the room

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<v Speaker 2>and realize that maybe she'll have a better chance with

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<v Speaker 2>somebody else.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, even if for no other reason other than the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that why two weeks in a row would I

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<v Speaker 1>want to show myself dancing with this, with the same

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<v Speaker 1>person I've already danced with, as opposed to something you

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<v Speaker 1>haven't seen from.

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<v Speaker 2>Me, which is what we want to see. I want

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<v Speaker 2>to see different things. I don't want to see the

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<v Speaker 2>same thing, and you get a very limited amount of

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<v Speaker 2>opportunity to showcase that. So I thought that that was

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<v Speaker 2>a very selfish move, and like, not, no, that's I

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<v Speaker 2>mean again, I coul stand how he felt, but to

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<v Speaker 2>have made it her fall because what about the other girl.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's not like the other girls ran to you.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think at that moment in time, I felt

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<v Speaker 2>like disappointment. Of course he should have felt that. I

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<v Speaker 2>would have felt that, But to have placed so much

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<v Speaker 2>of that burden on Stephanie was very you know, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to say selfish, but it was just unfair,

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<v Speaker 2>very unfair. And we'll get into that more.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I would have It would have been so interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>Had I think the entirely projection. I don't know, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think the only reason she didn't go to yet

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<v Speaker 1>even another guy, was out of the fact that she

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<v Speaker 1>felt she did feel bad because had she decided to

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<v Speaker 1>say go with Eric, he would have had to choose. Now, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>now I've got two women I need to choose between.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think she was like, I've already not chosen

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<v Speaker 1>him once, right, I can't to not choose him again,

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<v Speaker 1>And so she went to him. And yet I think

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<v Speaker 1>she was so unselfish with that. I think she really

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<v Speaker 1>you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, if you watch the show like it goes on,

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<v Speaker 2>like it doesn't stop there, you know. They then get

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<v Speaker 2>in the room and he's still guilting her, you know,

0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:26.680
<v Speaker 2>still giving her this like I'm like, I know, bro, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>get to it. Get to work. By the way, you

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<v Speaker 2>still got to get in the compete, so you gotta

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<v Speaker 2>worry about you, not who she who.

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<v Speaker 1>She's picking a spending all this time thinking about her decision.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got to get in there. The dancers then blindly

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<v Speaker 1>choose what style of dance they'll be doing and are

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<v Speaker 1>given some time to connect, but not before Jenna breaks

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<v Speaker 1>the news. This time, both dancers in the lowest rated

0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.800
<v Speaker 1>couple are going to be eliminated.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is huge, which once again is why Stephanie wants

0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:03.199
<v Speaker 2>to make the right choice. And again I'll go to

0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:10.360
<v Speaker 2>Alan choosing, you know, going with Nina. Like friendship, all

0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:14.119
<v Speaker 2>of that is important, but you're here for a reason.

0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:15.600
<v Speaker 2>All of you are here for a reason.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, someone's gonna win, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And you gotta make choices that will give you the

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<v Speaker 2>best chance to be successful in what you're doing right now.

0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.399
<v Speaker 2>And if your friendships are really good friendships, they're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>they're gonna survive the test of this competition.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep. So Stephanie and Tristan and Adele and aj get

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<v Speaker 1>the rumba, and Nina and Alan and Selena and Eric

0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:53.840
<v Speaker 1>get Argentine tango. We jump into couples rehearsals. There are

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<v Speaker 1>two days until the performance. Tristan is giving Stephanie the

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<v Speaker 1>cold shoulder. And have you ever been in a situation

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<v Speaker 1>with a partner where one of you is giving the

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<v Speaker 1>cold shoulder and you're and you're trying to get.

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<v Speaker 2>To Yeah, no, I mean if I don't get Jen

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<v Speaker 2>food after after she gets back from this rehearsal, you're.

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<v Speaker 1>Going to get the cold shoulder. Okay, I promise I'll

0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:22.879
<v Speaker 1>get you out of here.

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<v Speaker 2>This is not right. No, no, no, as as you heard

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<v Speaker 2>on that phone call, she's not going to be here.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not going to be here for a bit. I

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<v Speaker 1>know that's true. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>They decide to clear the air, and Tristan admits he's petty.

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<v Speaker 1>He felt kind of dissed.

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<v Speaker 2>This was good, This was good. At least there's some

0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:43.879
<v Speaker 2>self awareness. And I again, I don't I'm not trying

0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.600
<v Speaker 2>to say that you can't have feelings or can't be disappointed.

0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:52.639
<v Speaker 2>I just want you to own your own moment of

0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.840
<v Speaker 2>hurt without having to you know. It's like, what is it?

0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:00.399
<v Speaker 2>People love company? Yeah, misery loves you know, and it's like, no,

0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:03.640
<v Speaker 2>you're come in with me. We're gonna we're gonna feel

0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:04.240
<v Speaker 2>herd together.

0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:06.879
<v Speaker 1>And it's like, no, that's there's gotta be one of

0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:10.119
<v Speaker 1>your incredible phrases for misery loves company. Where's it? How

0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.560
<v Speaker 1>does death get involved into one of those phrases?

0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:14.480
<v Speaker 2>Russian phrase?

0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.520
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, a Russian phrase for something like that. So

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<v Speaker 1>Tristan says he's gonna twist the knife a few more

0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:22.040
<v Speaker 1>times until he gets over it, and then he focuses

0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:25.520
<v Speaker 1>on getting over the hurdle. Eric and Selena, though, are

0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.640
<v Speaker 1>figuring it out, integrating the themes of their song into

0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.080
<v Speaker 1>the dance, and Selena is nervous. She does not want

0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:37.119
<v Speaker 1>to be the reason Eric is eliminated totally. Nina and

0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:40.280
<v Speaker 1>Alan's dance have decided to include elements of not only

0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:45.000
<v Speaker 1>the Argentine tango, but also elements of rumba and a samba.

0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:50.480
<v Speaker 1>Aj is immediately confident with his routine praising the passion,

0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:54.320
<v Speaker 1>but Adele admits that he is a challenge to work with.

0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.000
<v Speaker 1>She says a key to working with him is to

0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:59.359
<v Speaker 1>make him feel like he's the boss and in the lead,

0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:03.880
<v Speaker 1>But in reality, maybe she's just making him feel that way.

0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.639
<v Speaker 1>Do you like to feel like the Boston in the

0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:10.840
<v Speaker 1>lead as the man in the dance?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, if I did what I look, how are

0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:21.080
<v Speaker 2>you treating me here? I don't feel like the boss.

0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:28.639
<v Speaker 2>I'm still showing up. Give him my all anyway. Listen,

0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:34.560
<v Speaker 2>the different rooms navigate differently, Obviously, different partnerships navigate differently.

0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:38.719
<v Speaker 2>I think he's met his match. You know, he's not

0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:42.880
<v Speaker 2>gonna run over Adele unfortunately like he did with Selena,

0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:47.280
<v Speaker 2>or you know, he's just not gonna he might but try. Yeah,

0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:51.000
<v Speaker 2>but I just I know Adele and I know that

0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:54.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't know her personally, but I know an Adele.

0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:59.239
<v Speaker 2>I've seen that the archetype. Yeah, and so cool like

0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:03.160
<v Speaker 2>he can she'll like giggle and do whatever she's gonna

0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:03.639
<v Speaker 2>do anyway.

0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:08.760
<v Speaker 1>That night we have the couple's dates as if Chris

0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:12.760
<v Speaker 1>Harrison is the host. As funny as it sounds, I

0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:16.280
<v Speaker 1>know firsthand from Pasha, bonding outside of the dance floor

0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:19.880
<v Speaker 1>is vital to a good partnership.

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<v Speaker 2>What do you mean, Well, sometimes you need a healthy

0:26:24.600 --> 0:26:28.439
<v Speaker 2>professional distance. And I don't mean like obvious, you know,

0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:31.159
<v Speaker 2>the obvious where your brain goes. You know, this is

0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:36.960
<v Speaker 2>the chemistry episode. But again that aside, sometimes you you

0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:38.639
<v Speaker 2>want to like I said, I don't want to know

0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:44.119
<v Speaker 2>too much about you, No, you know what I mean, Like,

0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:46.719
<v Speaker 2>I don't I don't need to know that part. I

0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:49.480
<v Speaker 2>just want to, like I want to have just the

0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:52.080
<v Speaker 2>right amount of distance where when we get together and

0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:54.879
<v Speaker 2>do this dance thing, we're excited to just do the

0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:58.159
<v Speaker 2>dance thing and I'm not like still thinking about that

0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:02.560
<v Speaker 2>other stupid thing you said at lunch, you know, right right,

0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:06.639
<v Speaker 2>like keep the stupid things to the studio and to

0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:07.240
<v Speaker 2>the dance.

0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:11.080
<v Speaker 1>I will say though, that like some of my favorite

0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:14.359
<v Speaker 1>bonding moments with Pasha were in moments where we would

0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:16.960
<v Speaker 1>just find one of us would say or do something

0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:20.000
<v Speaker 1>that was so funny and where you get the giggles

0:27:20.080 --> 0:27:22.560
<v Speaker 1>and you end up both just laying on the floor

0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:27.439
<v Speaker 1>laughing so hard and I don't know like that some

0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:30.160
<v Speaker 1>of that stuff then does happen in the moments where

0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:33.840
<v Speaker 1>you're not focusing so much on learning the choreography, but

0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:36.600
<v Speaker 1>where you go, I'm starving, we haven't eaten anything. Can

0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:37.400
<v Speaker 1>we get Chipotle?

0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:38.480
<v Speaker 2>Real quest? Totally?

0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:42.840
<v Speaker 1>And so you know, I at least also to see

0:27:42.880 --> 0:27:47.560
<v Speaker 1>for their mental health, these pros and now knowing from

0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:50.240
<v Speaker 1>Ezra this past weekend that they didn't even have their

0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:53.720
<v Speaker 1>phones to see them get out of the studio and

0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:57.720
<v Speaker 1>get out of the house like some fresh air. Doing

0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:02.359
<v Speaker 1>something outside of being stressed about your getting eliminated at

0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:05.120
<v Speaker 1>all times is good for you. It's good for everyone,

0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:06.040
<v Speaker 1>to be honest.

0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:09.560
<v Speaker 2>No, and it's and it's what makes the show so

0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:13.920
<v Speaker 2>fun is that it does introduce that element we used

0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:15.840
<v Speaker 2>to have dancing on Dancing with the Stars, we used

0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:19.120
<v Speaker 2>to have our packages go outside of the studio and

0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:22.000
<v Speaker 2>be more like, you know, adventurous and stuff we still

0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.320
<v Speaker 2>do for like Disney episodes are now like one off

0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.640
<v Speaker 2>if it pertains to the dance somehow. But no, it's

0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:31.879
<v Speaker 2>fun and you're right, I mean it is. You do

0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:34.639
<v Speaker 2>build rapport, you do build chemistry. When you get to

0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:36.719
<v Speaker 2>know each other a little bit more, you break you know,

0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:40.320
<v Speaker 2>you break that comfort barrier if you will, and you

0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:45.160
<v Speaker 2>guys are clicking and it's cool. But yeah again that

0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:46.120
<v Speaker 2>could go both ways.

0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:49.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, So they go to a ferris wheel together

0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:52.160
<v Speaker 1>and talk about the importance of trust. Nina gets emotional.

0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:55.200
<v Speaker 1>She just doesn't want to let Alan down. Selena and

0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:57.560
<v Speaker 1>Eric go on a boat ride to drink orange and

0:28:57.640 --> 0:29:02.320
<v Speaker 1>green juices. Eric emphasizes how much he believes in her

0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:04.360
<v Speaker 1>and is ready for them to shine together.

0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:08.840
<v Speaker 2>Eric is smooth, Yeah he is, and he's very smooth.

0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:12.880
<v Speaker 1>Adele and Aj go to lunch, which feels way less

0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.560
<v Speaker 1>cool than a ferris wheel or a boat, but they

0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:19.320
<v Speaker 1>still exchange stories of their dance origins, and we learned

0:29:19.360 --> 0:29:22.320
<v Speaker 1>that AJ's dad was a champion dancer too, and he

0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:26.040
<v Speaker 1>pushed back his wedding by two months to be on

0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:30.960
<v Speaker 1>this show, Stephanie, And again, what.

0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:33.680
<v Speaker 2>Are you talking? Am I supposed to have empathy for that?

0:29:33.920 --> 0:29:37.360
<v Speaker 2>Like you for fiance is just like you're gonna do

0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:38.240
<v Speaker 2>what where with?

0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:38.600
<v Speaker 1>Who?

0:29:38.880 --> 0:29:43.200
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna go on on dates with? Anyway? Pursue your dream. Bro,

0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:47.760
<v Speaker 2>That's a good That's a great companion. Wherever she is.

0:29:48.120 --> 0:29:51.960
<v Speaker 1>Stephanie and Tristan go play botchy ball. Stephanie talks about

0:29:51.960 --> 0:29:55.719
<v Speaker 1>her family's history with the show, including her wonderful brother Ezra,

0:29:55.880 --> 0:29:58.840
<v Speaker 1>a current pro on the show, and she admits that

0:29:58.920 --> 0:30:02.840
<v Speaker 1>she feels a lot pressure in this competition. Good news

0:30:02.880 --> 0:30:06.280
<v Speaker 1>though this time together has helped repair the issues between

0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:07.440
<v Speaker 1>her and Tristan.

0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:11.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's good, it's good. She you know, she said

0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:14.760
<v Speaker 2>something at a like OTF, which is you know, their

0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:18.640
<v Speaker 2>solo confessions. She said something like it would be humiliating

0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:25.400
<v Speaker 2>for me. Again, Like I just I just really feel

0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:29.320
<v Speaker 2>for Stephanie and on this, you know, through throughout this process.

0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:34.200
<v Speaker 2>I just think that she really did take a huge chance.

0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:38.080
<v Speaker 2>She's right, she you know, she has been on the

0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:41.600
<v Speaker 2>show before. This is kind of you know, her taking.

0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:44.240
<v Speaker 2>She could have just continued to kind of linger around

0:30:44.320 --> 0:30:47.360
<v Speaker 2>the show, maybe have continue to do Skeleton Crew. She

0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:50.440
<v Speaker 2>already has an in yeah, you know, but she put

0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:53.160
<v Speaker 2>herself out there to do this, to do the next

0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:55.640
<v Speaker 2>pro and and really try to go for it. So

0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:58.120
<v Speaker 2>I just know how much this means to her. Obviously

0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:00.640
<v Speaker 2>it means a lot to everybody. Yeah, but I just

0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:03.760
<v Speaker 2>I know where she's coming from. It does take a

0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:06.400
<v Speaker 2>lot of humility to It's the same thing that I've

0:31:06.400 --> 0:31:11.160
<v Speaker 2>been saying about AJ not having, you know, she she

0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:14.800
<v Speaker 2>is having that. She has that in spades. If she

0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:20.600
<v Speaker 2>had and here I dare I say, if she had

0:31:20.640 --> 0:31:23.240
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of a j just a tiny bit

0:31:23.280 --> 0:31:27.760
<v Speaker 2>of that quality, maybe she would have done things differently

0:31:28.200 --> 0:31:31.480
<v Speaker 2>and wouldn't have been so apologetic for not choosing the

0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.880
<v Speaker 2>pardon that she chose, and then continue to be apologetic

0:31:34.920 --> 0:31:37.760
<v Speaker 2>and then continue to try to meet this person, you know,

0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:43.920
<v Speaker 2>so like you need to. I feel for her because

0:31:44.040 --> 0:31:47.400
<v Speaker 2>I think she's she's grown a lot through this competition

0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:51.320
<v Speaker 2>and I got to know her even more by watching

0:31:51.360 --> 0:31:57.000
<v Speaker 2>the show. So I hope she's happy. But yeah, I mean,

0:31:57.080 --> 0:32:03.360
<v Speaker 2>she's take away the fact that she was very unlucky

0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:06.680
<v Speaker 2>with a few things yep, along the way, that if

0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:10.320
<v Speaker 2>they were slightly different, maybe things would have been a

0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:13.520
<v Speaker 2>little different for her, but even having said that, she

0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:17.440
<v Speaker 2>still shined. Yeah, like, once we get to the performance, well,

0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:20.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, we'll talk about it, but she still killed it.

0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:23.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she did well. With that out of the way,

0:32:23.480 --> 0:32:27.080
<v Speaker 1>the couples start rehearsals. On day two, Jenna visits Adele

0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:29.600
<v Speaker 1>and Aj, who she knows is one of the best couples,

0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:33.280
<v Speaker 1>but reminds them the chemistry between them cannot look fake.

0:32:33.880 --> 0:32:36.280
<v Speaker 1>To prove it, she quickly gets up close and personal

0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:39.000
<v Speaker 1>with Aj to show them how it's done. The queen

0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:43.760
<v Speaker 1>at work. Also, Aj accidentally grabs Adele's butt in the

0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:49.880
<v Speaker 1>throes of a passionate move right. Jenna's responsors, WHOA, okay,

0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:52.280
<v Speaker 1>maybe a little higher. It made me laugh.

0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:57.640
<v Speaker 2>That's my bud. That's my bud, oh man. But that's

0:32:57.680 --> 0:33:00.400
<v Speaker 2>the room, you know, does the process and if you're

0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:03.320
<v Speaker 2>not from this world or you're it's out of context.

0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:07.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that feels crazy, but that's the room, and that's

0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:11.800
<v Speaker 2>the process. That same action outside of the room, not

0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:16.160
<v Speaker 2>the process, yeap, completely inappropriate. But in the room, like

0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:19.920
<v Speaker 2>this is your workshopping passion if you will in a

0:33:20.000 --> 0:33:23.760
<v Speaker 2>safe space, yeah, go for it, you know, I mean

0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:26.160
<v Speaker 2>the difference between a waste and a butt is just

0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:28.040
<v Speaker 2>half an inches depends on the butt.

0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:35.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna put that on a shirt. Jenna then visits

0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:38.360
<v Speaker 1>Selena and Eric and tells them that they need to

0:33:38.360 --> 0:33:42.280
<v Speaker 1>find more natural human moments, which seems to immediately work

0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:47.720
<v Speaker 1>in the horny department with Stephanie in Tristan, Jenna wants

0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:51.560
<v Speaker 1>them to settle it down and use genuine emotion, especially

0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:55.960
<v Speaker 1>with Stephanie getting emotional with all of the pressure, and

0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:58.480
<v Speaker 1>during her visit with Alan and Nina, she can tell

0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:01.880
<v Speaker 1>that there's a great friendship there, but there is a disconnect,

0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:06.920
<v Speaker 1>especially still with Nina's timing a constant note that appears

0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:07.920
<v Speaker 1>to be in her head.

0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:11.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they had they had a great dance. They didn't

0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:12.560
<v Speaker 2>have any chemistry.

0:34:13.040 --> 0:34:16.120
<v Speaker 1>No, I'm not the same thing. I was like, well,

0:34:16.719 --> 0:34:19.759
<v Speaker 1>it's a great dance, but I'm not sure there was

0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:21.280
<v Speaker 1>a whole lot of even eye contact.

0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:27.320
<v Speaker 2>No, yeah, because he doesn't. He's such a good person, Alan,

0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:31.840
<v Speaker 2>and he's such a good friend that he led that again,

0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:37.800
<v Speaker 2>take the lead on his decision making and cool. Great.

0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:40.880
<v Speaker 2>You got to live with the results and with you know,

0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:43.359
<v Speaker 2>with the choices that you make. So I didn't think

0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:45.319
<v Speaker 2>that this was a good choice for him.

0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:49.200
<v Speaker 1>Really, would you have you think he should have chosen Stephanie.

0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:52.160
<v Speaker 2>I mean I think he would have looked so much

0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:58.480
<v Speaker 2>better with Stephanie. Yeah, totally, Like between those two, I

0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:01.360
<v Speaker 2>think he should have won with Stephanie. It's so interesting,

0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:05.800
<v Speaker 2>and it's like that little difference, right if he doesn't

0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:08.759
<v Speaker 2>have the guilt of a friend to choose to go

0:35:08.800 --> 0:35:13.600
<v Speaker 2>with Nina, he chooses Stephanie, and then Stephanie doesn't have

0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:17.600
<v Speaker 2>that moment and then Stephanie. Well again it's like we

0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:21.640
<v Speaker 2>could we could go on and on hypotheticals, but yeah,

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:26.480
<v Speaker 2>I think that that one decision impacted both of their seasons.

0:35:26.600 --> 0:35:30.960
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's so It's so crazy too, because then so

0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:35.080
<v Speaker 1>Stephanie made the choice for herself, I'm not going to

0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:38.560
<v Speaker 1>choose Christian just because he's my friend. But then immediately

0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:41.439
<v Speaker 1>she was almost punished for that because then he then

0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:46.040
<v Speaker 1>Alan did choose his friend. Yeah, oh, I know, it's

0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:48.879
<v Speaker 1>so Oh, this was a rough week. Then back at

0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:52.520
<v Speaker 1>the house, Alan is making Adele the rolls Royce, her

0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:56.480
<v Speaker 1>favorite food, and he admits the highlight of his entire

0:35:56.840 --> 0:36:01.400
<v Speaker 1>career so far was his dance with her, and she

0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:05.640
<v Speaker 1>would have been his first pick, but he is concerned

0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:08.879
<v Speaker 1>for his partner Nina. He knows that she's in her

0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:13.120
<v Speaker 1>head about timing and his future depends on it. Meanwhile,

0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:16.720
<v Speaker 1>Tristan tells Selena he isn't giving up. He is fighting

0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:23.399
<v Speaker 1>to stay in the game. Is he he still seemed dejected,

0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:25.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, like and I get it, he's had a

0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:30.200
<v Speaker 1>few weeks where he has felt and has been kind

0:36:30.200 --> 0:36:32.560
<v Speaker 1>of shown that he has been in the bottom, that

0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:36.200
<v Speaker 1>maybe he's a weak link. And even Stephanie said that

0:36:36.280 --> 0:36:38.960
<v Speaker 1>the reason she didn't automatically pick him that they do

0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:42.440
<v Speaker 1>have great chemistry, but that the week before his emotional

0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:46.560
<v Speaker 1>state was a lot to handle. And I do feel

0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:49.680
<v Speaker 1>like we really he lets how he is feeling in

0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:54.520
<v Speaker 1>the moment really take over what's going on in the room.

0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:58.280
<v Speaker 1>How hard is that to not, like, you have something

0:36:58.320 --> 0:37:00.799
<v Speaker 1>going on in your personal life? For you, you're having

0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:04.399
<v Speaker 1>a bad day. How hard is it to not let

0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:10.000
<v Speaker 1>that just tank your dance? Not for you? Yes, not

0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:10.400
<v Speaker 1>for you.

0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:12.920
<v Speaker 2>I mean this is my escape. This is where I

0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:16.879
<v Speaker 2>go to go go away from the things that I'm

0:37:16.920 --> 0:37:19.239
<v Speaker 2>going through, you know, this is where this is my

0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:25.800
<v Speaker 2>safe space. But yeh, no, I mean again, that's that's me.

0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:29.920
<v Speaker 2>To me, this is my sanctuary, and it's like flow

0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:33.640
<v Speaker 2>state in which I kind of forget a lot of things.

0:37:35.120 --> 0:37:37.600
<v Speaker 2>So no, for me, that's that's not that's not a

0:37:37.680 --> 0:37:38.960
<v Speaker 2>challenge to me. This is therapy.

0:37:40.200 --> 0:37:43.359
<v Speaker 1>And now we are at show night. Everyone gets show

0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:47.279
<v Speaker 1>night ready and Robert resets the stakes. First up is

0:37:47.360 --> 0:37:50.880
<v Speaker 1>Adele and aj with the rumba. They performed to Teddy Swims.

0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:54.040
<v Speaker 1>You got another thing coming, Val, what'd you think of

0:37:54.080 --> 0:37:54.439
<v Speaker 1>this one?

0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:58.680
<v Speaker 2>Well, I was gonna refer to another story. I mean, again,

0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:01.719
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to overshare, but I from my own experience.

0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:06.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean, my wife and I experienced a miscarriage at

0:38:06.280 --> 0:38:09.759
<v Speaker 2>an event that we were supposed to perform at, and

0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:15.920
<v Speaker 2>while having the most excruciating moment of my life with

0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:21.799
<v Speaker 2>and seeing my wife having this, I had to then

0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:27.319
<v Speaker 2>still go downstairs and put on a show, and we

0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:30.880
<v Speaker 2>made up an excuse that she heard her neck during rehearsals.

0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:34.200
<v Speaker 2>And now I'm dancing with Max. I was like, Max,

0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:37.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to tell you why, but you're gonna

0:38:37.120 --> 0:38:39.120
<v Speaker 2>have to learn these steps and we're gonna have to

0:38:39.200 --> 0:38:43.600
<v Speaker 2>make something up, and I have to justify all of

0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:47.560
<v Speaker 2>these people that came to watch me dance. So again,

0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:51.120
<v Speaker 2>I am I proud of that. No. Actually, there's a

0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:53.399
<v Speaker 2>few times I showed up and did the right thing

0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:56.680
<v Speaker 2>that probably was not the right thing to do. That

0:38:56.840 --> 0:39:01.520
<v Speaker 2>was one of them. But for that you know, thirty

0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:05.640
<v Speaker 2>seconds or whatever. I mean again, my mind was elsewhere. Yeah,

0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:08.399
<v Speaker 2>but when the music went on, I got to at

0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:11.359
<v Speaker 2>least enjoy myself for one minute of that song and

0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:16.560
<v Speaker 2>then be out to the reality that was in my life. Yeah.

0:39:16.600 --> 0:39:19.400
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I mean it's hard. I'm just trying to

0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:22.799
<v Speaker 2>reflect on when it was really that that serious. Not

0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:24.839
<v Speaker 2>to say that any of the things that they're going

0:39:24.880 --> 0:39:29.320
<v Speaker 2>through is that serious, but but yeah, I know it's hard.

0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:32.200
<v Speaker 2>But that's that's when you got to lock it, lock

0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:34.640
<v Speaker 2>it in, you know, and really focus on the bigger

0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:38.800
<v Speaker 2>picture and you know, kind of also count your blessings,

0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:43.560
<v Speaker 2>move on and just you know, realize that the opportunity

0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:47.920
<v Speaker 2>that you have, Yeah, and maybe not necessarily prioritize little

0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:49.839
<v Speaker 2>you know, your little ego that got hurt.

0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:54.319
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I remember you guys told me that story.

0:39:54.400 --> 0:39:56.319
<v Speaker 1>Jenna told me that story when we were on tour.

0:39:56.960 --> 0:39:59.080
<v Speaker 1>We were in a meet and greet and it's like

0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:02.120
<v Speaker 1>because I I mean I saw the things you guys,

0:40:02.400 --> 0:40:04.799
<v Speaker 1>not of course to the level you just mentioned, but

0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:08.800
<v Speaker 1>like even just some of the physical things you guys

0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:12.440
<v Speaker 1>have to overcome something that seemed that sounds kind of minor,

0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:15.480
<v Speaker 1>but that is a big deal. The amount of beads

0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:20.480
<v Speaker 1>that get stuck in y'all's fate, just little rhinestones all

0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:23.000
<v Speaker 1>over that. And then it literally in the middle of

0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:26.680
<v Speaker 1>a quick change, hopping around on one foot while someone

0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:30.280
<v Speaker 1>digs through your the sole of your foot with tweezers

0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:33.279
<v Speaker 1>to get a rhine stone out of your foot, and

0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:38.440
<v Speaker 1>then running back on stage and giving it your all,

0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:41.360
<v Speaker 1>and nobody in the audience being the wiser.

0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:45.399
<v Speaker 2>It's like, yeah, you take pride in that. Yeah, this

0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:48.240
<v Speaker 2>is this is why you get paid the big bucks, right,

0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:51.080
<v Speaker 2>and you earn it, But those are the moments that

0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:53.920
<v Speaker 2>you earn it. And again, I'm not here to advocate

0:40:54.040 --> 0:40:58.600
<v Speaker 2>for complete self sacrifice for your work. No, but this

0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:02.279
<v Speaker 2>is not our work. This is our passion. Yeah, and

0:41:03.600 --> 0:41:07.600
<v Speaker 2>I am. I romanticize about sacrificing for my passion. I

0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:12.520
<v Speaker 2>romanticize about especially physical sacrifice. I have a five inch

0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:16.960
<v Speaker 2>titanument played in my neck with eight screws I'm sad

0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:20.239
<v Speaker 2>that my career, my profession took me there, but I'm

0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:25.759
<v Speaker 2>proud that I have the literal scars to say that

0:41:25.840 --> 0:41:29.279
<v Speaker 2>I've I've gave him my all with no regret. So

0:41:30.560 --> 0:41:33.799
<v Speaker 2>you know, Jen takes pride in those, and.

0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:34.400
<v Speaker 1>We all do.

0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:37.040
<v Speaker 2>The people that you were on tour with, we all

0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:39.040
<v Speaker 2>take pride in showing up.

0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:42.799
<v Speaker 1>So Adele and AJ with their rumba, what did you

0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:43.680
<v Speaker 1>think of their dance?

0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:47.160
<v Speaker 2>It was good? It was great. Again. Aj is a

0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:50.319
<v Speaker 2>great dancer. I don't think he's as great as he

0:41:50.400 --> 0:41:53.719
<v Speaker 2>thinks he is, but he is. You know, he's good.

0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:56.680
<v Speaker 2>He's a great dancer, he's a good choreographer. I gave

0:41:56.760 --> 0:41:59.719
<v Speaker 2>him his flowers last week. I think he took that

0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:06.840
<v Speaker 2>so last week for sure, Again, Adele, I mean the

0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.960
<v Speaker 2>essence of ballroom dances, especially in the rumbas, to present

0:42:11.040 --> 0:42:16.040
<v Speaker 2>your lady, and you know there's a lot to present there. Yes, yeah,

0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:19.759
<v Speaker 2>and you know she's she's a Rolls Royce that got

0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:23.200
<v Speaker 2>a little autopilot on her too, So just enjoy the ride.

0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:28.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah and so yeah, I mean again, I thought that

0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:32.080
<v Speaker 2>she's a rock star and he did a great job

0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:36.080
<v Speaker 2>to compliment it. I thought that him kissing his necklace.

0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:38.360
<v Speaker 2>You know, I thought that was a little cheesy, but

0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:44.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, different people have a different swagger, you know, meters,

0:42:44.120 --> 0:42:48.320
<v Speaker 2>So maybe he thought that that was really cool.

0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:51.680
<v Speaker 1>And in your opinion, it's just not.

0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:54.919
<v Speaker 2>And so maybe there's a few other people out out

0:42:54.960 --> 0:42:58.440
<v Speaker 2>there that thought that was cool too. But but no,

0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:01.040
<v Speaker 2>I it was a great performance.

0:43:01.160 --> 0:43:04.280
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, surely is awestruck. She did not see that coming.

0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:07.879
<v Speaker 1>She calls Adella superstar. She does tell Aj to dig

0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:10.040
<v Speaker 1>a little deeper, though it may have been a little

0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:13.680
<v Speaker 1>out of his comfort zone. Jenna loved seeing her notes

0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:16.560
<v Speaker 1>in play, and Mark thought the start was bumpy, but

0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:18.280
<v Speaker 1>he loved their rumba content.

0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:21.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was a great routine. It was. It was

0:43:21.080 --> 0:43:25.080
<v Speaker 2>a really great routine. They they had passion. I wouldn't

0:43:25.080 --> 0:43:28.359
<v Speaker 2>say they had like you know, do I did they

0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:32.320
<v Speaker 2>look like Did they look like they would have fun

0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:35.680
<v Speaker 2>on a date together? No? They did not, did I

0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:37.440
<v Speaker 2>You know, when you ship them.

0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:38.399
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he didn't ship.

0:43:38.880 --> 0:43:39.919
<v Speaker 2>I did not ship them.

0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:42.680
<v Speaker 1>You didn't come up with their with their No.

0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:46.239
<v Speaker 2>I rowboted them to the nearest island, okay, But I

0:43:46.360 --> 0:43:48.840
<v Speaker 2>wasn't shipping them on a far you know journey.

0:43:48.920 --> 0:43:52.279
<v Speaker 1>Okay. I get it. Next up is Selena and Eric

0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:57.120
<v Speaker 1>with their Argentine tango. But first we get a very

0:43:57.440 --> 0:44:02.560
<v Speaker 1>natural product placement for got to the hair product. I

0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:07.160
<v Speaker 1>have to tell you that got to be hairspray is

0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:10.520
<v Speaker 1>the closest thing to glue. I mean truly, it is

0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:12.720
<v Speaker 1>the best. Nothing moves.

0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:16.160
<v Speaker 2>I remember, well doesn't it Isn't it called glued?

0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:21.480
<v Speaker 1>It is called glued to be glued, Yeah, it is.

0:44:22.280 --> 0:44:26.040
<v Speaker 1>I remember talking to the hairdressers and makeup artists on

0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:29.959
<v Speaker 1>Dancing with the Stars who are Emmy Award winning year

0:44:30.000 --> 0:44:33.160
<v Speaker 1>after year after year, the best of the best, and

0:44:33.239 --> 0:44:36.080
<v Speaker 1>I remember saying, like, how are we going to get

0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:39.480
<v Speaker 1>my hair into a bun? And they're like, oh, don't worry,

0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:42.279
<v Speaker 1>we'll we'll depend on And I'm like you, but that's

0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:44.600
<v Speaker 1>that's gonna take. So I have to be upside down

0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:46.560
<v Speaker 1>in this dance. Don't worry about don't worry about it.

0:44:46.719 --> 0:44:50.480
<v Speaker 1>And then they put that salac that glue in your

0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:52.560
<v Speaker 1>hair and it's like you take it down and it

0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:53.920
<v Speaker 1>just oh.

0:44:53.840 --> 0:44:56.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's incredible. It's like a helmet.

0:44:56.880 --> 0:44:58.400
<v Speaker 1>It is. It is like a helmet.

0:44:58.880 --> 0:44:59.000
<v Speaker 3>Uh.

0:44:59.160 --> 0:45:01.720
<v Speaker 1>And then Eric's brees it onto his head. I assume

0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:05.320
<v Speaker 1>it was very candid. It's just natural the way it happened.

0:45:05.760 --> 0:45:09.760
<v Speaker 2>Look, there is a nervous tick that we have of spread,

0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.759
<v Speaker 2>and it's to retire your shoelaces a million times.

0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:13.920
<v Speaker 1>Okay uh.

0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:18.080
<v Speaker 2>And then and also to you know, your extra shine,

0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:22.240
<v Speaker 2>extra shine okay, faned down, extra shine, extra shine boom.

0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:24.240
<v Speaker 1>Got to be glued, got to be glued.

0:45:24.400 --> 0:45:26.920
<v Speaker 2>It's a good product. And it's interesting that I'm the

0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:31.600
<v Speaker 2>one that introduced got to be to the trailers because

0:45:31.640 --> 0:45:34.000
<v Speaker 2>I've been using their product forever because I have curly

0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:36.799
<v Speaker 2>hair that I used to slick back. Yeah, and that's

0:45:36.840 --> 0:45:38.360
<v Speaker 2>why I grew out my hair because now in the

0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:40.640
<v Speaker 2>bun it's like slick back. I don't have to use

0:45:41.280 --> 0:45:42.800
<v Speaker 2>so much product much product.

0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:45.200
<v Speaker 1>I liked last season when you had your hair all

0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:47.560
<v Speaker 1>slicked back, but then it was it was still down.

0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:49.279
<v Speaker 1>It was just kind of poofy back here in the

0:45:49.320 --> 0:45:50.560
<v Speaker 1>lock of your neck. Yeah, it looked good.

0:45:50.640 --> 0:46:07.239
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Okay, So what did you think of this?

0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:13.600
<v Speaker 2>The best dancer of the night by far? Probably, I mean, yes,

0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:18.680
<v Speaker 2>Adele and Alan. That was a really strong rumba obviously

0:46:19.360 --> 0:46:25.920
<v Speaker 2>dedication to his mom passing, and really strong heartfelt performance.

0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:28.440
<v Speaker 2>You don't want to even compare the two because they're

0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:33.920
<v Speaker 2>in a different genre from each other emotionally, but this

0:46:34.080 --> 0:46:38.880
<v Speaker 2>was the best dance of the season, and to me,

0:46:39.560 --> 0:46:42.400
<v Speaker 2>he looked like a pro on Dancing with the Stars,

0:46:42.920 --> 0:46:45.520
<v Speaker 2>and he, you know, took the lead again. I know

0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:52.320
<v Speaker 2>that it took two to tango, but that takes three sometimes,

0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:59.160
<v Speaker 2>those Argentinian knights, but they they worked together, but he

0:46:59.200 --> 0:47:02.440
<v Speaker 2>took the lead coreographically and he just I mean like

0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:05.680
<v Speaker 2>he was oozing. He got the gig for me.

0:47:06.640 --> 0:47:09.919
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was a it was a really nice adjustment, just.

0:47:10.040 --> 0:47:18.840
<v Speaker 2>Clean, perfect moments. Chemistry. Yeah, man, interested. I shipped them, Yeah,

0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:19.480
<v Speaker 2>you ship them.

0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:21.720
<v Speaker 1>I shipped them, not a rowboat, a full ship.

0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:24.920
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, we're getting the ones parked up by

0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:27.760
<v Speaker 2>Monte Carlo. Okay, yeah yeah, those mega yachts.

0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:32.239
<v Speaker 1>Okay. The judges love this one, giving the couple a

0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:35.640
<v Speaker 1>standing ovation. Shirley announces she needs a fan after their

0:47:35.640 --> 0:47:39.239
<v Speaker 1>performance and says that in her fifty years of teaching,

0:47:39.680 --> 0:47:42.799
<v Speaker 1>she has never seen something quite like it, and she

0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:47.320
<v Speaker 1>says the routine could be on Dancing with the Stars tomorrow.

0:47:46.680 --> 0:47:54.480
<v Speaker 2>Totally totally and it would get tense huge yeah, rave, yeah, yeah, people,

0:47:54.760 --> 0:47:59.440
<v Speaker 2>I just thought it was excellent. Yeah, the look just

0:47:59.600 --> 0:48:03.279
<v Speaker 2>every day everything stole the show was that was the

0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:03.759
<v Speaker 2>best one.

0:48:04.040 --> 0:48:07.080
<v Speaker 1>Jenna can't believe this has been inside Eric the whole

0:48:07.120 --> 0:48:10.160
<v Speaker 1>time and now she wants to dance with him and

0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:14.439
<v Speaker 1>they have both become front runners and in the competition.

0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:16.600
<v Speaker 2>Again we say it and maybe it was said on

0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:18.719
<v Speaker 2>the show. I don't know. There was a teacher. I

0:48:18.719 --> 0:48:21.279
<v Speaker 2>want to give him a shout out, Graham Oswick. He's

0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:25.880
<v Speaker 2>educator in the Ballroom Dance Space forever. He's raised many champions.

0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:30.319
<v Speaker 2>He's a British guy and he used to tell me,

0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:34.600
<v Speaker 2>like you know, you want all the women watching your

0:48:34.640 --> 0:48:38.919
<v Speaker 2>couple dance thinking about, man, it must be so nice

0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:41.239
<v Speaker 2>to dance with him, just like not I want to

0:48:41.320 --> 0:48:43.799
<v Speaker 2>dance with but like it must be. It looks like

0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:47.880
<v Speaker 2>it feels so good, Yeah, to be partnered with him,

0:48:48.200 --> 0:48:51.600
<v Speaker 2>and the same for the lady. And you know you

0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:56.400
<v Speaker 2>watched Eric and Selena's dance and I think watching him

0:48:56.640 --> 0:49:01.560
<v Speaker 2>kind of help support her first soul in the room.

0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:04.400
<v Speaker 2>And then in the final performance, I thought that, you know,

0:49:05.400 --> 0:49:09.400
<v Speaker 2>every woman and man out there looked at that and said, man,

0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:11.040
<v Speaker 2>I would have loved to dance with him.

0:49:11.160 --> 0:49:15.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah. Well, next up is Stephanie and Tristan with

0:49:15.160 --> 0:49:19.319
<v Speaker 1>their rumba to somber back to Friends. This is a

0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:21.759
<v Speaker 1>big moment for these two.

0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:24.720
<v Speaker 2>Hold on. The song was called back to Friends. Yeah,

0:49:24.800 --> 0:49:28.919
<v Speaker 2>oh my goodness, shout out to the producers. I mean,

0:49:29.320 --> 0:49:33.160
<v Speaker 2>come on, perfect, perfect.

0:49:34.640 --> 0:49:36.480
<v Speaker 1>What did you think of their dance?

0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:42.359
<v Speaker 2>Honestly, very good, very good. It surprised me. Yeah, yeah,

0:49:42.400 --> 0:49:45.160
<v Speaker 2>it was definitely his best performance of the season. And

0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:49.080
<v Speaker 2>she looked great. Yeah, she looked really really good.

0:49:50.200 --> 0:49:53.640
<v Speaker 1>So were you then surprised that they end up spoiler alert,

0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.600
<v Speaker 1>they end up in the bottom too, as the two

0:49:56.680 --> 0:49:57.040
<v Speaker 1>that go.

0:49:57.000 --> 0:50:01.880
<v Speaker 2>Home, only because Alan and Nina just have a little

0:50:01.880 --> 0:50:06.799
<v Speaker 2>bit more technical ability in their dance. Their dance was

0:50:06.920 --> 0:50:09.799
<v Speaker 2>not the one like, I do not want to see

0:50:09.800 --> 0:50:13.560
<v Speaker 2>that again. Yeah, I don't care to see that again.

0:50:14.200 --> 0:50:19.000
<v Speaker 2>I want to see Eric and Selena again. May maybe

0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:21.920
<v Speaker 2>I'll watch agent they'll do that again. And I'm curious

0:50:21.960 --> 0:50:28.000
<v Speaker 2>to see certain things. But you know so so no,

0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:31.480
<v Speaker 2>I just think, I just think. Yes, the top two

0:50:31.520 --> 0:50:38.200
<v Speaker 2>couples were clearly Selena and Eric, but the other two couples, again,

0:50:38.239 --> 0:50:40.439
<v Speaker 2>the only difference was that they just had a little

0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:44.960
<v Speaker 2>bit more technique in the in their dance, and and

0:50:45.000 --> 0:50:48.359
<v Speaker 2>so the judges just kind of, you know, had to

0:50:48.400 --> 0:50:53.680
<v Speaker 2>say that. But Stephanie looked amazing. Yeah, and if it

0:50:53.800 --> 0:50:56.040
<v Speaker 2>was you know, if it was any other night, I

0:50:56.040 --> 0:50:57.520
<v Speaker 2>think she'd still be in the competition.

0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:01.840
<v Speaker 1>Surely had notes throughout the dance about some bad timing

0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:04.600
<v Speaker 1>and balance. So I guess it's not really that much

0:51:04.600 --> 0:51:06.800
<v Speaker 1>of a shock that she didn't feel connected with this one.

0:51:07.120 --> 0:51:09.720
<v Speaker 1>Mark felt like the chemistry was going in and out

0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:13.640
<v Speaker 1>of their dance and it was lacking explosive moments. Shirley

0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:17.640
<v Speaker 1>found it too crowded with content, though cleverly choreographed, but

0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:21.239
<v Speaker 1>she didn't feel the chemistry. Jenna thinks Stephanie has a

0:51:21.239 --> 0:51:23.680
<v Speaker 1>little bit of fire missing and that she needs to

0:51:23.680 --> 0:51:24.720
<v Speaker 1>get out of her own.

0:51:24.600 --> 0:51:31.160
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, well again, steph is a product of center

0:51:31.280 --> 0:51:35.239
<v Speaker 2>stage education and so this is where you have the

0:51:35.880 --> 0:51:38.200
<v Speaker 2>Utah pipeline of excellence.

0:51:38.280 --> 0:51:38.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:42.560
<v Speaker 2>You know, so Jens knows Ezra and Stephanie for a

0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:45.640
<v Speaker 2>very long time, sees her grow up, so you know,

0:51:45.680 --> 0:51:50.239
<v Speaker 2>there is a genuine empathy there, and she knows her

0:51:50.320 --> 0:51:53.040
<v Speaker 2>as the kid that Ezra was just describing to you.

0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:59.200
<v Speaker 2>And so to see that confidence start to leave her,

0:51:59.239 --> 0:52:02.480
<v Speaker 2>and I think it will us because of you know,

0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:05.040
<v Speaker 2>like I said, because of the show, and at least

0:52:05.040 --> 0:52:07.840
<v Speaker 2>the not because of the show rather, but the last

0:52:07.880 --> 0:52:12.800
<v Speaker 2>couple of weeks that she had experienced, you know, Jenkins

0:52:12.840 --> 0:52:15.480
<v Speaker 2>sense that. Yeah, And I think when she said that,

0:52:15.520 --> 0:52:19.480
<v Speaker 2>you saw like tears Stephanie. I mean, she's been through it, man,

0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:23.840
<v Speaker 2>So I I just am so proud of how she

0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:31.000
<v Speaker 2>handled herself. Yes, I really felt for her. Yeah, And

0:52:31.120 --> 0:52:33.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm not trying to again. I'm not the one that

0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:39.600
<v Speaker 2>is gonna give sympathy to anybody that's living living out

0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:43.120
<v Speaker 2>their dream in Australia, you know, and beautiful, you know,

0:52:43.200 --> 0:52:48.680
<v Speaker 2>getting to do what they love. But she, yeah, she had.

0:52:49.239 --> 0:52:52.120
<v Speaker 2>This was a really grown experience for her and.

0:52:52.000 --> 0:52:54.680
<v Speaker 1>She should walk away from this experience with her head

0:52:54.760 --> 0:52:58.520
<v Speaker 1>held very high. There's nothing she could look back on

0:52:58.560 --> 0:53:00.520
<v Speaker 1>in this experience. Of course she could look back and

0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:03.320
<v Speaker 1>say I would make a different decision, but there's nothing

0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:07.759
<v Speaker 1>she should look back on and feel embarrassed by. She

0:53:07.800 --> 0:53:11.279
<v Speaker 1>showed she.

0:53:09.920 --> 0:53:12.839
<v Speaker 2>She's gonna work for a long time. Oh. I love

0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:15.600
<v Speaker 2>the show, and the winner of the show is going

0:53:15.680 --> 0:53:19.200
<v Speaker 2>to be very successful on Dancing with the Stars. I

0:53:19.280 --> 0:53:23.520
<v Speaker 2>know it. But Steph is going to do her thing.

0:53:23.760 --> 0:53:26.400
<v Speaker 2>She's got a long career ahead of her, and I

0:53:26.440 --> 0:53:31.080
<v Speaker 2>think sometimes you don't win, but you really take huge

0:53:31.200 --> 0:53:35.400
<v Speaker 2>leaps forward in your career. This is that time. She

0:53:36.640 --> 0:53:39.120
<v Speaker 2>might not win next pro but I think everybody that

0:53:39.200 --> 0:53:42.480
<v Speaker 2>watched the show will walk away loving her so much more,

0:53:43.360 --> 0:53:46.480
<v Speaker 2>and even professionally, I think her opportunities, even within the

0:53:46.600 --> 0:53:50.640
<v Speaker 2>Dancing with the Stars ecosystem, will only grow. And like,

0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:53.239
<v Speaker 2>I want to work with Steph tomorrow. If I have

0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:56.440
<v Speaker 2>a gig, I'm calling Steph because of how she conducted

0:53:56.480 --> 0:54:00.520
<v Speaker 2>herself in such challenging times.

0:54:00.600 --> 0:54:02.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, I I.

0:54:02.320 --> 0:54:04.560
<v Speaker 2>Saw what kind of person that is. I want to

0:54:04.600 --> 0:54:07.360
<v Speaker 2>work with that person. Yeah, and the talent is there.

0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:12.160
<v Speaker 1>Oh, absolutely. Finally, Nina and Alan perform their Argentine tango

0:54:12.239 --> 0:54:15.000
<v Speaker 1>to a quirky song for Passion. If you ask me,

0:54:15.200 --> 0:54:18.400
<v Speaker 1>Mary and Hill's down at times. I thought it sounded

0:54:18.440 --> 0:54:20.360
<v Speaker 1>a little bit like one of my son's toys. Not

0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:27.720
<v Speaker 1>gonna lie, are you Dan? Well, what were your thoughts

0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:28.520
<v Speaker 1>on this dance?

0:54:29.280 --> 0:54:32.560
<v Speaker 2>Well? Again, I thought the samba choice was ridiculous. The

0:54:32.640 --> 0:54:39.200
<v Speaker 2>judges thought the same. Yeah, I understand, you know, we

0:54:39.320 --> 0:54:41.759
<v Speaker 2>forget that there's no phones in the house. There's no,

0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:45.560
<v Speaker 2>you're not getting any advice. You know, you have kind

0:54:45.560 --> 0:54:48.359
<v Speaker 2>of like, oh what do you think? And then you're

0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:51.479
<v Speaker 2>like you have no no one to give you any

0:54:51.600 --> 0:54:54.279
<v Speaker 2>sort of feedback like maybe not, maybe don't do that,

0:54:55.160 --> 0:54:57.359
<v Speaker 2>and so yeah, so I know where he's coming from.

0:54:57.440 --> 0:54:59.600
<v Speaker 2>He's like, oh, the more I show, the cooler it

0:54:59.600 --> 0:54:59.920
<v Speaker 2>will be.

0:55:00.080 --> 0:55:03.360
<v Speaker 1>You Like, no, shouldn't that have been something? They asked

0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:05.360
<v Speaker 1>Jenna though, shouldn't it have been something when they were

0:55:05.360 --> 0:55:07.040
<v Speaker 1>thinking about shouldn't they been like, Jenna, can we ask

0:55:07.080 --> 0:55:11.840
<v Speaker 1>you a question to thinking about doing a samba instead?

0:55:12.080 --> 0:55:14.640
<v Speaker 2>No, she would have said, no, She said, you probably

0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:17.560
<v Speaker 2>don't because the thing is, it's like part of chemistry

0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:22.480
<v Speaker 2>is the intensity between the two people, right, And it's

0:55:22.520 --> 0:55:26.480
<v Speaker 2>like why we love Eric and selenas because you know,

0:55:26.680 --> 0:55:30.359
<v Speaker 2>I sometimes you want a performance to connect with you, right,

0:55:30.480 --> 0:55:34.080
<v Speaker 2>like break the fourth wall, look me in the eyes, like, hey,

0:55:34.520 --> 0:55:39.479
<v Speaker 2>get me in there with you, and sometimes don't look

0:55:39.520 --> 0:55:42.160
<v Speaker 2>at me. I just want to be a voyeur, you know,

0:55:42.480 --> 0:55:46.839
<v Speaker 2>I just want to see you to connect and be one,

0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:49.759
<v Speaker 2>like let me just be a fly on a wall

0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:54.799
<v Speaker 2>where I may not even I should not be you know.

0:55:54.920 --> 0:55:59.000
<v Speaker 2>So first of all, he breaks the fourth wall and

0:55:59.080 --> 0:56:02.320
<v Speaker 2>winks at the camera, which is such a douchey move. Alan,

0:56:02.400 --> 0:56:04.919
<v Speaker 2>I love you, bro, but I'm gonna have to talk

0:56:04.960 --> 0:56:05.600
<v Speaker 2>to you about that.

0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:07.080
<v Speaker 1>You got to talk about the swag meter.

0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:13.760
<v Speaker 2>Oh the swag I mean it took a j's kissing,

0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:15.760
<v Speaker 2>the marinking whatever.

0:56:16.880 --> 0:56:17.959
<v Speaker 1>Makes that look real cool?

0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:20.680
<v Speaker 2>Huh. It was so cool because he didn't at least

0:56:20.680 --> 0:56:22.759
<v Speaker 2>he didn't look at me while doing that, right, you know,

0:56:23.520 --> 0:56:27.760
<v Speaker 2>So there are times to break the fourth wall, not

0:56:27.760 --> 0:56:32.280
<v Speaker 2>not the time when your assignment is to create chemistry

0:56:32.320 --> 0:56:34.880
<v Speaker 2>with your partner, because what does that tell me? That

0:56:34.960 --> 0:56:37.319
<v Speaker 2>tells me that for that one second, you're not really

0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:38.719
<v Speaker 2>interested in your partner.

0:56:38.480 --> 0:56:41.400
<v Speaker 1>Right, and you're telegraphing to me.

0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:45.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and also you're making it about your thing. Now,

0:56:46.360 --> 0:56:50.719
<v Speaker 2>maybe in his view it was like watch me get that,

0:56:50.960 --> 0:56:53.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, which is like, but but again, that's not

0:56:53.320 --> 0:56:56.719
<v Speaker 2>that's not cute either, Like, that's not showing you in

0:56:56.760 --> 0:56:59.720
<v Speaker 2>the light that we just saw you for a few weeks.

0:56:59.719 --> 0:57:04.160
<v Speaker 2>So and again I think all of that is motivated

0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:06.160
<v Speaker 2>by the fact that that's his buddy.

0:57:06.760 --> 0:57:07.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:10.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I'm not saying that you're not You

0:57:10.040 --> 0:57:12.719
<v Speaker 2>shouldn't create with your friends of course you should. And

0:57:12.719 --> 0:57:15.680
<v Speaker 2>there's a friendship that's already built. We spoke about that earlier.

0:57:15.719 --> 0:57:20.920
<v Speaker 2>That's the foundation of a certain chemistry. But yeah, I

0:57:21.000 --> 0:57:24.440
<v Speaker 2>thought that they didn't make really good decisions and the

0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:27.840
<v Speaker 2>dance was just okay for me. Yeah, I didn't feel chemistry.

0:57:28.360 --> 0:57:32.680
<v Speaker 2>I didn't ship them, and yeah it was okay, And

0:57:32.800 --> 0:57:36.280
<v Speaker 2>especially going after the dances that they went after, it's

0:57:36.400 --> 0:57:40.480
<v Speaker 2>like that's also part of the thing. It's like the

0:57:40.600 --> 0:57:44.560
<v Speaker 2>order matters, and they went last, which is a great

0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:47.920
<v Speaker 2>position to be in. But we were already blown away

0:57:48.000 --> 0:57:50.640
<v Speaker 2>by Eric and Celine.

0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:54.680
<v Speaker 1>Well, Jenna liked it. She loved the chemistry, pointing out

0:57:54.680 --> 0:57:57.480
<v Speaker 1>that some of the hotter moments, but surely was not sold.

0:57:57.600 --> 0:58:01.400
<v Speaker 1>She points out the assignment this was the Argentine tango.

0:58:01.480 --> 0:58:04.400
<v Speaker 1>She thought they incorporated too many other elements, losing the brief,

0:58:05.080 --> 0:58:08.520
<v Speaker 1>referencing that her son Mark loves bending the rules in

0:58:08.560 --> 0:58:11.840
<v Speaker 1>a similar fashion. But they do call it Nina's best

0:58:11.880 --> 0:58:15.200
<v Speaker 1>performance so far, and everyone points out Alan has constantly

0:58:15.320 --> 0:58:18.240
<v Speaker 1>made his partner the best they can be and now

0:58:18.320 --> 0:58:19.400
<v Speaker 1>we're at the reserve.

0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:21.480
<v Speaker 2>Which is which is huge. You know. Again, it's a

0:58:21.520 --> 0:58:24.680
<v Speaker 2>testament to him as a partner, and you know his

0:58:24.800 --> 0:58:28.480
<v Speaker 2>readiness for Dancing with the Stars. Again, corny, not corny.

0:58:28.520 --> 0:58:30.960
<v Speaker 2>This is just my opinion. You know, who's to say

0:58:31.000 --> 0:58:35.640
<v Speaker 2>that that, My my metric of what makes somebody attractive

0:58:35.720 --> 0:58:38.800
<v Speaker 2>or not is the one, even though you know I'm

0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:43.560
<v Speaker 2>improven to know what I'm talking about. But he is

0:58:43.600 --> 0:58:47.320
<v Speaker 2>a caring partner and that is a huge thing on

0:58:47.400 --> 0:58:51.200
<v Speaker 2>our show, and so I think, yeah, he also has

0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:54.320
<v Speaker 2>the qualities to be on dancing He has those qualities

0:58:54.320 --> 0:58:57.560
<v Speaker 2>and they're being showcased because all his partners look so good.

0:58:57.680 --> 0:59:01.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, Well, now we are at the results with

0:59:01.840 --> 0:59:06.320
<v Speaker 1>two contestants being eliminated, and I don't think it will

0:59:06.360 --> 0:59:08.600
<v Speaker 1>come as much of a surprise. We've already said we

0:59:08.680 --> 0:59:14.000
<v Speaker 1>agree with these results. Mark announces that Stephanie and Tristan

0:59:14.240 --> 0:59:18.160
<v Speaker 1>are in Jeopardy and Shirley reveals that the second couple

0:59:18.400 --> 0:59:21.400
<v Speaker 1>on the chopping block is Nina and Alan. I'm sure

0:59:21.440 --> 0:59:24.640
<v Speaker 1>you were not surprised by this, but in the end,

0:59:25.120 --> 0:59:30.680
<v Speaker 1>Shirley sends home Tristan and Stephanie. Yeah, Robert gives them

0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:33.960
<v Speaker 1>some final words of encouragement, and Shirley says, in her

0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:39.080
<v Speaker 1>heart she believes that Stephanie is a star. The dancer's

0:59:39.160 --> 0:59:43.960
<v Speaker 1>hug perfectly placed behind Robert as he says goodbye. And

0:59:44.000 --> 0:59:47.720
<v Speaker 1>that is our episode. We are now down to six.

0:59:48.920 --> 0:59:49.960
<v Speaker 2>Wow, just like that.

0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:52.600
<v Speaker 1>Who is your front runner after this week?

0:59:53.040 --> 0:59:54.960
<v Speaker 2>Well, first of all, I want to give Tristan a

0:59:55.040 --> 0:59:58.600
<v Speaker 2>moment because he was very graceful. He was did say

0:59:58.640 --> 1:00:02.080
<v Speaker 2>all the right things, which you know, almost redeemed himself.

1:00:03.440 --> 1:00:06.440
<v Speaker 2>And Stephanie again, I was heartbroken, but I think she

1:00:07.120 --> 1:00:09.680
<v Speaker 2>saw that coming by the time the elimination came around.

1:00:10.480 --> 1:00:14.600
<v Speaker 2>Who's my front runner? I think after tonight's episode, Eric

1:00:14.680 --> 1:00:20.440
<v Speaker 2>is my front runner. Obviously, Adele has the ability to dance.

1:00:21.600 --> 1:00:25.240
<v Speaker 2>That's clear. You could just you could see that even

1:00:25.280 --> 1:00:28.920
<v Speaker 2>if you're not a mole room dancer and you've watched

1:00:29.000 --> 1:00:31.160
<v Speaker 2>Dancing with the Stars, I think you can see like,

1:00:31.360 --> 1:00:35.600
<v Speaker 2>oh that's kind of like okay, cool. But because we

1:00:35.720 --> 1:00:40.320
<v Speaker 2>know so many other qualities that are essential to being

1:00:40.360 --> 1:00:45.240
<v Speaker 2>successful on our show. To me, Eric has come out

1:00:45.240 --> 1:00:47.560
<v Speaker 2>as the front runner because he's got the look, he's

1:00:47.600 --> 1:00:52.720
<v Speaker 2>got the sound, he's a gentleman, he's smooth, he's swaggy,

1:00:52.840 --> 1:00:56.240
<v Speaker 2>and just now he showcased that he can choreograph a

1:00:56.280 --> 1:01:00.360
<v Speaker 2>really good routine like that is what you're looking for,

1:01:01.800 --> 1:01:06.720
<v Speaker 2>you know, especially again, and I hate to put that

1:01:06.760 --> 1:01:10.040
<v Speaker 2>out there, but like it's a lot more competitive amongst

1:01:10.040 --> 1:01:13.240
<v Speaker 2>the girls on our show than it is with the boys,

1:01:13.480 --> 1:01:17.440
<v Speaker 2>you know, respectfully to all of us. Right, there's just

1:01:17.920 --> 1:01:23.000
<v Speaker 2>so much talent, thankfully, there's just not that many boys dancing.

1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:30.720
<v Speaker 2>Thanks guys. Baseball is great, you know, so so yeah,

1:01:30.760 --> 1:01:33.120
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's just a lot more competitive on that side,

1:01:33.160 --> 1:01:39.120
<v Speaker 2>and you know, I just think, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I felt like watching Tristan and Stephanie, I felt like

1:01:43.040 --> 1:01:47.640
<v Speaker 1>Stephanie was devastated by the news, and there was a

1:01:47.640 --> 1:01:50.920
<v Speaker 1>part of me that felt like Tristan was a little relieved,

1:01:51.600 --> 1:01:56.240
<v Speaker 1>you know. And I remember thinking when I was on

1:01:57.120 --> 1:02:00.640
<v Speaker 1>last season that there were certain celebs when they found

1:02:00.680 --> 1:02:03.240
<v Speaker 1>out they were going home, seemed like they were like,

1:02:04.760 --> 1:02:05.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm happy.

1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:07.040
<v Speaker 2>And there was a few dancers and.

1:02:09.880 --> 1:02:13.720
<v Speaker 1>I can take it. Yeah, I'm ready for this to

1:02:13.760 --> 1:02:18.520
<v Speaker 1>be over. And then there were the mees who were like,

1:02:19.680 --> 1:02:19.960
<v Speaker 1>you know.

1:02:20.160 --> 1:02:26.440
<v Speaker 2>Totally, I mean, we were sad. Here's and I I

1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:28.680
<v Speaker 2>will say this to you as well. Maybe I already did,

1:02:28.720 --> 1:02:31.560
<v Speaker 2>but I say this to my partners, especially when you know,

1:02:31.560 --> 1:02:36.160
<v Speaker 2>when we get eliminated. We eight nine you're so close

1:02:36.200 --> 1:02:41.080
<v Speaker 2>to the finale, you're sad because it's over. And I

1:02:41.320 --> 1:02:45.080
<v Speaker 2>try to communicate that that sadness is not exclusive to

1:02:45.320 --> 1:02:48.400
<v Speaker 2>the to you who got eliminated in the semi or

1:02:48.440 --> 1:02:52.840
<v Speaker 2>the quarters. It's there for everybody that passes that like

1:02:53.000 --> 1:02:56.800
<v Speaker 2>week four threshold, five threshold, because now you've invested two

1:02:56.880 --> 1:03:01.920
<v Speaker 2>months of your undivided attention into the partnership, into this team,

1:03:02.160 --> 1:03:07.160
<v Speaker 2>into this goal, into like and it's super fun. You

1:03:06.880 --> 1:03:10.360
<v Speaker 2>are you have now lived in this bubble of rhinestones

1:03:10.560 --> 1:03:15.440
<v Speaker 2>and movement and physicality and expression and.

1:03:15.040 --> 1:03:17.200
<v Speaker 1>Just triggering all those parts of your brain that for

1:03:17.400 --> 1:03:22.160
<v Speaker 1>us most of the time, I don't get to use

1:03:22.200 --> 1:03:24.479
<v Speaker 1>those muscles totally. I didn't even know those were there

1:03:24.600 --> 1:03:26.200
<v Speaker 1>that I could even learn something.

1:03:27.120 --> 1:03:31.160
<v Speaker 2>And you just have a master at your service, I know,

1:03:31.440 --> 1:03:37.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, helping you along the way. So that's really

1:03:37.840 --> 1:03:43.760
<v Speaker 2>sad regardless of whether you win or not. Actually, you know,

1:03:44.560 --> 1:03:48.960
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't sad because we lost. I was sad because

1:03:49.160 --> 1:03:49.600
<v Speaker 2>that's it.

1:03:49.840 --> 1:03:51.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's over, that's it, I know.

1:03:51.800 --> 1:03:54.120
<v Speaker 2>You know, And I just had a blast for you know,

1:03:54.160 --> 1:03:56.560
<v Speaker 2>three and a half months doing some of my best

1:03:56.600 --> 1:04:00.600
<v Speaker 2>work being and then then the vanity metric covid all

1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:05.560
<v Speaker 2>like being praised by the world so much of TikTok,

1:04:05.720 --> 1:04:11.919
<v Speaker 2>so Yeah, I mean it's human to feel sadness, but again,

1:04:12.000 --> 1:04:15.439
<v Speaker 2>after having done the show for so long, I try

1:04:15.480 --> 1:04:20.280
<v Speaker 2>to be as balanced as possible. But it's it's also

1:04:20.400 --> 1:04:23.760
<v Speaker 2>important to just be human and it's okay too to

1:04:23.840 --> 1:04:29.440
<v Speaker 2>be sad. But that sadness wasn't just exclusively yours. Because

1:04:29.560 --> 1:04:32.880
<v Speaker 2>you lost, I think, well, why don't you just say

1:04:32.920 --> 1:04:33.880
<v Speaker 2>why were you so sad?

1:04:34.200 --> 1:04:35.120
<v Speaker 1>I was sad it was over.

1:04:35.240 --> 1:04:35.439
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

1:04:35.440 --> 1:04:38.840
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't believe that the next day I wasn't going

1:04:38.920 --> 1:04:41.360
<v Speaker 1>to have a call time, and that I wasn't going

1:04:41.440 --> 1:04:45.240
<v Speaker 1>to have a minimum of four hours to dance with Pasha,

1:04:45.480 --> 1:04:47.480
<v Speaker 1>and I wasn't going to get to you know, we

1:04:47.480 --> 1:04:50.000
<v Speaker 1>were it was the next week was Prince week, and

1:04:50.200 --> 1:04:52.600
<v Speaker 1>you know you've already prepped it. You know what dance

1:04:52.640 --> 1:04:54.640
<v Speaker 1>you're doing, you know what your costumes are going to

1:04:54.720 --> 1:04:58.120
<v Speaker 1>look like, you've seen some stuff, you've been involved, and

1:04:58.160 --> 1:05:00.800
<v Speaker 1>it was like, but I really want to do that, Yeah,

1:05:00.920 --> 1:05:02.880
<v Speaker 1>and then you you wake up the next day and

1:05:02.880 --> 1:05:06.240
<v Speaker 1>you're like, I got nothing on my calendar today because

1:05:06.280 --> 1:05:09.520
<v Speaker 1>it was going to be dance, and now that's it. So, Yeah,

1:05:09.560 --> 1:05:11.760
<v Speaker 1>it's sad. It's sad when it's over. So but I

1:05:11.800 --> 1:05:15.080
<v Speaker 1>did feel like, obviously Tristan's gonna this is his dream,

1:05:15.160 --> 1:05:17.160
<v Speaker 1>this is his passion, He's going to continue it. But

1:05:17.320 --> 1:05:20.080
<v Speaker 1>I do think he felt in over his head and

1:05:20.120 --> 1:05:23.880
<v Speaker 1>that this experience was a little overwhelming and that before

1:05:24.040 --> 1:05:27.200
<v Speaker 1>he could ever be a pro on Dancing with the Stars,

1:05:27.560 --> 1:05:32.040
<v Speaker 1>there's some emotional regulation that he needs to, you know,

1:05:32.600 --> 1:05:33.200
<v Speaker 1>get a handle.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh totally. I mean, not just emotional regulation, he needs

1:05:36.400 --> 1:05:39.280
<v Speaker 2>to get a hand on kills and yeah, a lot

1:05:39.320 --> 1:05:42.680
<v Speaker 2>of things. But hopefully he does. I know he will.

1:05:42.960 --> 1:05:47.320
<v Speaker 2>And either way, I mean again, it's like, what a

1:05:47.320 --> 1:05:53.640
<v Speaker 2>great experience. But yeah, I mean I felt for Stephanie. Yeah,

1:05:53.640 --> 1:05:55.840
<v Speaker 2>it totally felt for Stephanie. That was a hard like

1:05:56.040 --> 1:05:56.240
<v Speaker 2>it was.

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<v Speaker 1>A hard week.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, thank you all for joining us for this episode.

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<v Speaker 1>Really great talking with you as always.

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<v Speaker 2>Val.

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<v Speaker 1>The people love your voice. I don't know if you've

1:06:04.320 --> 1:06:06.680
<v Speaker 1>read any of the comments they love your voice.

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<v Speaker 2>I did, I did. I read those are the comments.

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<v Speaker 2>I scrolled out.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you like those?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I like those?

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<v Speaker 1>You heard those?

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<v Speaker 2>Double tap? Thanks guys,