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Speaker 1: Jose Even now me, I literally said, before I started
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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be talking about the Dance Mom's Reunion.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I I honestly, when I got pitched
Speaker 1: the Dance Mom's Reunion and I got asked if I
Speaker 1: would be interested, I was like yes, and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: what would it require to get you there? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I will pay to play, like literally, sign
Speaker 1: me up. I want to do it. And they were like, really,
Speaker 1: You're the only one that's reacted like that, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, of course, Like why wouldn't I do it.
Speaker 1: It's literally one of the biggest parts of my career. Anyways,
Speaker 1: Dance Mom's Reunion. Just now. I I have a lot
Speaker 1: of feelings about the Dance Mom's Reunion. I really do.
Speaker 1: I initially thought it was gonna be something else I did.
Speaker 1: I thought there was honestly, I'm gonna be super honest,
Speaker 1: a better way to do it, and I think that
Speaker 1: we could still do this depending on if people were
Speaker 1: down or not. But if you watch the Dance Moms rereadion,
Speaker 1: you'll kind of see what I'm talking about. We all
Speaker 1: just kind of talked about Dance Moms and reacted to
Speaker 1: Dance Moms, and I didn't know. Once I found out
Speaker 1: that's what the reunion was gonna be, I actually felt
Speaker 1: a little weird about it because I knew Colonie and
Speaker 1: Kendall and I knew that they were doing it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Me and Colonie are like sisters. I love Colony so much.
Speaker 1: Kendall is like literally best friend, MATERIAL love her so much.
Speaker 1: But Chloe, Brooke and Page were the other three doing it,
Speaker 1: and I've actually never met them before. I met Chloe once,
Speaker 1: Brook and Page literally i've never met before, and so
Speaker 1: I wasn't wasn't too sure how it was gonna go,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And my one interaction that I
Speaker 1: have had with Chloe was actually with her mom online
Speaker 1: and it was not a pretty reaction. And so I
Speaker 1: don't want to say nervous was the right word choice,
Speaker 1: but I was I was ticked off, annoyed, confused. Maybe
Speaker 1: those are the right words, because I was like, what
Speaker 1: is happening. We're gonna go and chit chat and I
Speaker 1: don't know these humans that I'm chit chatting with, Like
Speaker 1: this is strange. But then literally, like when I tell you,
Speaker 1: the first five minutes of all of us being in
Speaker 1: a room, me and Paige were like, we would have
Speaker 1: been best friends Brooke, because Brooke and Klaney were really
Speaker 1: good friends, and so then me and Paige were like, well,
Speaker 1: then we would have been good friends because we are
Speaker 1: basically their little sisters. Like obviously Paige is biological to
Speaker 1: Brooke and I'm basically biological to Colony at this point.
Speaker 1: And then Chloe. Of course, everybody loves Chloe. She's she's
Speaker 1: so sweet, like she's just she's chilling. But it was like,
Speaker 1: literally within that first five minutes, it was like so chill,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is a great freaking vibe,
Speaker 1: and like call it a trauma bond maybe, like we've
Speaker 1: all been through the same shit, but it was it
Speaker 1: was good. There was no nothing foul. It was like emotional,
Speaker 1: but like in a happy, fun, positive way, like we
Speaker 1: were all just kind of like stoked to be around.
Speaker 1: But I don't think any of us knew what to
Speaker 1: expect or how long of days to expect. So you
Speaker 1: saw a little teeny tiny sliver of our thirteen hour
Speaker 1: double days. We had two days of Philly for the
Speaker 1: dance WM. Sure you did, and they were the longest
Speaker 1: days literally ever. Sitting in the most uncomfortable chair, more
Speaker 1: uncomfortable than this, Jojo seewa bed that I am sitting
Speaker 1: on right now, which is not very comfortable. No shade
Speaker 1: to my bed. It's actually the mattress. And the mattress
Speaker 1: is not a jog's mattress, so it's fine. But it
Speaker 1: was long story short. We just if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet, We essentially we reacted to dance moms and
Speaker 1: we talked about things we were asked certain things that
Speaker 1: we felt about certain things. And what's interesting is all
Speaker 1: of us kind have had a unique experience. There was
Speaker 1: a few times on the reunion where the producers tried
Speaker 1: to do some shady shit. There was one time we
Speaker 1: had to we had to bring up and of course
Speaker 1: they used this in the trailer. We had to bring
Speaker 1: up those who did not come to the dance Mom's
Speaker 1: reunion and everybody was talking about it. Was not just
Speaker 1: me talking about it, but they used my clip of
Speaker 1: me talking about it in the trailer, which is understandable.
Speaker 1: I get it, you'd live whatever, it's fine. But my
Speaker 1: thing was, it wasn't that people didn't do it. It's
Speaker 1: the reason why they didn't do it, and that's that's
Speaker 1: totally their choice is totally up to them. But it
Speaker 1: was all okay until the day before the Dance Moms reunion.
Speaker 1: There was a bit of a party, and I didn't
Speaker 1: care that I wasn't invited to the party because I
Speaker 1: didn't know everybody yet. I never met Brook and Page
Speaker 1: in Chloe, but there was a party with everybody. It
Speaker 1: was it was Brooke, Page, Chloe, Maddie, Mackenzie, Nia and Kindle,
Speaker 1: everybody but me and Klannie. Again, I was understanding because
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know half of them, Like
Speaker 1: it's totally fine. Like it's also I've just always been
Speaker 1: the outsider amongst the group, so I didn't really care.
Speaker 1: But Kilanie, I was actually hurt for her. She was hurt,
Speaker 1: but I was hurt for her because I was like,
Speaker 1: you are good friends with all of these humans like
Speaker 1: they are all good friends, and so that was a
Speaker 1: it was a little tough to kind of navigate that,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like we were doing the
Speaker 1: reunion the next day and they had a reunion even
Speaker 1: though they weren't a part of the reunion the day before.
Speaker 1: It was just it wasn't done ethically, and so then
Speaker 1: that just kind of put a sour taste in everybody's mouth,
Speaker 1: including those who were at the party the night before.
Speaker 1: They were like, oh wait, this is kind of messed
Speaker 1: up what just happened once it was put into perspective,
Speaker 1: But look, at the end of the day, we're all adults.
Speaker 1: We all get over things like say your points, say
Speaker 1: your piece, and then let's move on with life. And
Speaker 1: so we did and it was it was fine. They
Speaker 1: like I was saying before, they used my clip of
Speaker 1: me talking about why people weren't there and the reasons
Speaker 1: why they weren't there just kind of was hurtful to everybody,
Speaker 1: But it was like, live your life, do your thing.
Speaker 1: It is fine. We're all gonna live. But we did
Speaker 1: have to essentially bring attention to it just to like
Speaker 1: address the elephant in the room. Anyways, though, we then
Speaker 1: go in and we do a little sit down and
Speaker 1: we watched things. The other thing I was talking about
Speaker 1: shady things that happened. Other shady thing that happened was
Speaker 1: the producers kind of wanted me and Chloe to get
Speaker 1: into it, and I was like, we don't have a
Speaker 1: reason to get into it. Like Christy had actually, right
Speaker 1: before we started filming, sad some really nice shit about
Speaker 1: me on FaceTime because she wasn't there, but she said
Speaker 1: it on FaceTime, and I was like, damn, Like that
Speaker 1: actually meant a lot to me because I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I looked up to Christy and Chloe, and so when
Speaker 1: we went through our shit online together, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I like them. This is sad. Then yeah, the producers,
Speaker 1: you know, wanted me and Chloe to kind of get
Speaker 1: into it a little bit and talk about our online beef.
Speaker 1: And I was like, honestly, like that's not It's not
Speaker 1: how I feel anymore. And Chloe's like, yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: how I feel either, and they were like, but we
Speaker 1: need to address it. And so then I just I
Speaker 1: told Chloe. I was like all right, bab, like here
Speaker 1: we go, Like let's just let's just do our job.
Speaker 1: Let's just do our job and let's just get it done.
Speaker 1: But I ultimately, as that was happening, I was like,
Speaker 1: this isn't the point of this, but like whatever, I
Speaker 1: find you your job. And then the last thing that
Speaker 1: was shady is of all of us, Me and Kilani
Speaker 1: are the two that have a relationship with Abby yet
Speaker 1: and Kenna is a little bit of a relationship with
Speaker 1: Abby as well, but Pagebrook and Chloe don't have any
Speaker 1: and it is not a healthy end of a relationship.
Speaker 1: It is very messy. It is very traumatic on both ends.
Speaker 1: And the producers kept wanting me to call Abby and
Speaker 1: I was like, absolutely not. I was like, that's that's
Speaker 1: where I put my foot down, because I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, look, I'm not only putting myself in an
Speaker 1: awkward position of calling and in this environment that no
Speaker 1: one invited her to, but also I'm putting Abby in
Speaker 1: a weird situation where she's talking to people who she
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily know how to talk to them. And then
Speaker 1: Paige Brooke and Chloe, I was like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do that to them either, because this was somebody who
Speaker 1: was a massive figure in their life that walked out
Speaker 1: of their life. There is real trauma there, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to put anybody in that situation of like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's let's see how this goes. No way, no way
Speaker 1: at all, whatsoever. The thing for me is I have
Speaker 1: a good relationship with Abby. I have chosen to see
Speaker 1: that Abby only ever wanted what was best for me,
Speaker 1: and only of it was tough on me because she
Speaker 1: was wanting what was best for me. But I I mean,
Speaker 1: I was just talking with Abby literally three days ago
Speaker 1: about karma, you know what I mean. And so for me,
Speaker 1: I wanted to protect my relationship with Abby, and I
Speaker 1: also wanted to protect my relationship with Brooke Page and Chloe.
Speaker 1: Abby for me is somebody in this world who any
Speaker 1: time I get a phone call and says everything, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, here we go. Or I get a text,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, here's a rep, here's a paragraph, let's go.
Speaker 1: But I will one thing is I will never lose
Speaker 1: my respect for Abby ever, for as long as I live.
Speaker 1: I will say, aside from that sort of like little
Speaker 1: drama te session that we just had, the reunion, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think was so healing for all of us. I mean,
Speaker 1: I for sure am the one from dance Loms that
Speaker 1: like doesn't really have anything to heal from, Like I'm
Speaker 1: very open about my journey, like freaking love dance Homs
Speaker 1: a number one fan till the day I die. But
Speaker 1: there was a lot that And I also was super
Speaker 1: outspoken on the show. I was not afraid to talk.
Speaker 1: I wasn't I didn't care, I was chilling. I was
Speaker 1: a little bit older when I started versus when everybody
Speaker 1: else started, and so I was I had a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different perspective. But I think everybody else
Speaker 1: was a bit silent on the show, and they never
Speaker 1: got to talk about things or never got to express
Speaker 1: things or feel feelings, and so I feel like it
Speaker 1: was a true open space that anybody could say how
Speaker 1: they were actually feeling about something, which was really cool
Speaker 1: to see. And it was cool to see everyone's perspective
Speaker 1: on things in the way that everyone remembered things, because
Speaker 1: everybody's memories a little bit different, of course, but it
Speaker 1: like it almost like triggered little memories that you didn't
Speaker 1: even know you had. And even though Brooke Page, Chloe
Speaker 1: and I were not on the show at the same
Speaker 1: time at all, there was some sense of like Brooke
Speaker 1: would say something and I'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can relate to that, like or Page would say something.
Speaker 1: I could so relate to that, and so that that
Speaker 1: for me was kind of like an eye opener of like, damn,
Speaker 1: we really have all gone through the same thing. We've
Speaker 1: all lived the same experience, even though we didn't do
Speaker 1: it together. Then after it was someone's birthday. I think
Speaker 1: it may have been Page's birthday, and so everyone was
Speaker 1: having a sleepover, and honestly, I was just tired. I
Speaker 1: was like, I love y'all, like I know we're all
Speaker 1: homies now, because Chloe was hosting the sleepover, and I
Speaker 1: was like, but I gotta go home. I was like,
Speaker 1: Grandma over here is tired. I had the first call
Speaker 1: time in the morning, and so I was like, nah, dog,
Speaker 1: I will I will see y'all another day. And then
Speaker 1: everybody came the next day and they were all old
Speaker 1: enough to drink, and so they all came in the
Speaker 1: next day. They were hungover as shit, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I feel great. I got a good night's sleep, and
Speaker 1: they were like, we went out, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all did y'all did your absolute biggest But it was fun.
Speaker 1: Everyone had a good time. But yeah, then the next
Speaker 1: day we all kind of were sporadic throughout and we
Speaker 1: all kind of did our own interviews, and there's where
Speaker 1: we really got to deep dive into our own journey.
Speaker 1: I think for me it was more of a fun thing.
Speaker 1: Like I literally watched Dance Walls every day, so I
Speaker 1: wasn't shocked by anything that I saw, But I realized
Speaker 1: that no one else had watched the show. Kendall, Kalaane, Chloe, Brook,
Speaker 1: and Page they have never watched Dance Moms, including their
Speaker 1: moms Christy, Kelly, Jill, and Kira. They never watched it,
Speaker 1: and so it was kind of fun for like them
Speaker 1: to see stuff of them. Like for me, I almost
Speaker 1: was sitting there. I was like, yes, I'm a cast
Speaker 1: member of the show. I'm a big part of this show,
Speaker 1: but also I'm a fan like I am. I am
Speaker 1: honored to be sitting in this room right now, And
Speaker 1: I have no shame in saying that. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times people try to be like too cool, right,
Speaker 1: I have literally no shame in being like I am
Speaker 1: the number one fan of Dance Mom. I was like,
Speaker 1: name an episode, I'll tell you the group dance like,
Speaker 1: I the show's fucking brilliant. I will forever love and
Speaker 1: forever respect it. What else happened on the reunion? Honestly think, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is what I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: because my pitch I feel like for the reunion is
Speaker 1: freaking lit. I said, stick all of us in a
Speaker 1: house for a month. See what happens. Everyone gets their
Speaker 1: own bedroom, but this house is rigged. It is bugged.
Speaker 1: It is wired right, and like, imagine because like in
Speaker 1: the two days that we were together, there was drama
Speaker 1: between us, like there was a shade like, oh, everyone's
Speaker 1: eating lunch at one table, but like two people, Like
Speaker 1: there was just like little shady bits. So imagine, imagine
Speaker 1: like that. That blows my mind. Anyways, I think it
Speaker 1: would have been so fun. After we did the dance
Speaker 1: Lom's reunion, we actually kind of got to have another
Speaker 1: reunion about a couple weeks later, we all went to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl together and that I was like, this
Speaker 1: is what the reunion should have been, like this vibe.
Speaker 1: The reunion was so fun at the super Bowl because
Speaker 1: now we all were homies, Like now we all were
Speaker 1: friendly and Mabeling actually is the brand that took us
Speaker 1: all and they were smart. A lot of brands take influencers,
Speaker 1: but they take a random mix. Mabeling got all of
Speaker 1: the Dance Mom's cast. I was like, that is com brilliant.
Speaker 1: They took us all to a show, they gave us
Speaker 1: all outfits, they had us sitting at the super Bowl
Speaker 1: at the forty yard line, like they were brilliant with
Speaker 1: their marketing, and we all had so much fun. At
Speaker 1: this point, now we were all homies and so it
Speaker 1: was like, actually fun, whereas I feel like the reunion
Speaker 1: was a little like timid. Everyone was on angels because
Speaker 1: no one really knew each other. It was an odd
Speaker 1: mix of people, right. But then I feel like when
Speaker 1: we all got to go to the super Bowl together,
Speaker 1: we got to see Oh, which was also incredible. Was
Speaker 1: not the Michael Jackson one or the Loved one, but
Speaker 1: it was it was incredible. And then also my pro
Speaker 1: from Dancing with the Stars, Jenna also joined on that
Speaker 1: group trip, which was so much fun. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: that to me, I was like, that's what the reunion
Speaker 1: needed to be, Like that type of fun vibe. And
Speaker 1: now I do think there's an angle to still do that.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need a fight on the internet
Speaker 1: to get a network to pick that up of like
Speaker 1: here is where the dance BOMs girls are now. Because
Speaker 1: as fun as it was for us to just like
Speaker 1: react to the show and talk about it like kindle
Speaker 1: in college on dance Team, Chloe owns a dance competition.
Speaker 1: Now me and all my shit that I'm doing, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm coming or going. Colonney, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Klannie is the most open book in the world.
Speaker 1: This girl is all over the place teaching dance. Were
Speaker 1: just so freaking beautiful the way she's giving back to
Speaker 1: the dance world. But then also she's like open about
Speaker 1: like I'm getting a breast reduction this week, Like that
Speaker 1: is imagine if I went to her breast reduction with her,
Speaker 1: like I I wish it was filmed. The day that
Speaker 1: I was having a mental breakdown, I was really sobbing.
Speaker 1: I was really solving my heart out, and Colanie called
Speaker 1: me and she was like, WHOA what am I calling
Speaker 1: in the middle of And I was like, honestly, like
Speaker 1: it's fine, just distract mammalkay And she was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm calling to show you my tits. You want to
Speaker 1: see him and I was like, oh my god, yes,
Speaker 1: let's see him. But she had just gotten her reduction
Speaker 1: and she was so open about her journey online, which
Speaker 1: was so fun, Like that is the TV show and
Speaker 1: so I I've made my pitch a lot, but I
Speaker 1: need I need the world to fight with me for
Speaker 1: this TV show. Anyways, the last little thing that I'll
Speaker 1: say about the reunion was having everyone be so open
Speaker 1: about their trauma was so interesting. I didn't really know
Speaker 1: a lot that these girls went through, and that Kilaney,
Speaker 1: I mean especially went through, and especially as her being
Speaker 1: one of my best friends. Kelly Page and Brooke had
Speaker 1: an incredible moment on the show where it was a
Speaker 1: true heart to heart where there was apologies and there
Speaker 1: was tears. Oh my god, there was such a funny
Speaker 1: moment and it was like the Kelly came into like
Speaker 1: comfort Brick and Page and like having one with them,
Speaker 1: and then Jill came in to do the same with
Speaker 1: Kendall and then they were like, all right, Jojo and Colonney,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go get your guys as moms. And we're like,
Speaker 1: our moms aren't gonna coddle us, Like absolutely not. What
Speaker 1: do you know our moms never came in. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that they would never. My mom literally would never. Mom's like, nah, dog,
Speaker 1: I'm literally here because I have to be here. I'd
Speaker 1: say with Kira that cool. Kia does not give it,
Speaker 1: she does not at all, but she's she's great. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I feel like Kira is like a second mom to me.
Speaker 1: We actually we now have a dance moms group chat.
Speaker 1: We're all gearing up to go do press right now
Speaker 1: for the reunion, and we're all talking about They're all
Speaker 1: talking about I am not a girly girl, and so
Speaker 1: they're all like, would we get aware? What's everybody gonna weare?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna change? We do our makeup together, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I won't see y'all in the lobby and
Speaker 1: my pants and I won't be there. But yeah, we
Speaker 1: definitely all have a group chat. It doesn't have a name.
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to name us. I should
Speaker 1: name our group chat. Let me know if anybody has
Speaker 1: any good ideas. But yeah, we're all gonna go to
Speaker 1: New York together. I'm sure we're gonna go to dinner,
Speaker 1: go to a show. Maybe it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I keep in touch. I'm very close with Colonnie.
Speaker 1: Me and Colonia are very tight, but everybody else, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a sister bond. You don't need
Speaker 1: to talk all the time, but the second that we
Speaker 1: see each other, it's like we saw each other yesterday
Speaker 1: and the day before that and the day before that.
Speaker 1: They truly all have such special place in my heart.
Speaker 1: Everybody that was on the show, did the reunion, didn't
Speaker 1: do the reunion. I know from the show, I don't
Speaker 1: know from the show. Everybody that was a part of
Speaker 1: Dance Moms has a very special place in my heart,
Speaker 1: and I I'm grateful for because the show would not
Speaker 1: be what it was without every single person that contributed,
Speaker 1: from anyone who was ever on the candy apples to
Speaker 1: the guy holding the microphone, like, every single person contributed
Speaker 1: to that show. And it changed the world. It changed
Speaker 1: my world for sure, It changed the dance world for sure,
Speaker 1: and it changed the reality TV world. And it's freaking phenomenon.
Speaker 1: And to say that I'm a part of it blows
Speaker 1: my mind literally every day, you know, to put it
Speaker 1: all in a nutshell, the Dance Ones reunion, I think
Speaker 1: there is room for a part two, part three, part four,
Speaker 1: maybe even a whole lest other season, maybe a movie.
Speaker 1: I feel like there is so much more that we
Speaker 1: could do with this, but I'm excited that it started here,
Speaker 1: and I am excited that now everyone gets to watch
Speaker 1: it and stream it. Make sure you do and if
Speaker 1: you don't, go stream karma Alright, I I too. I'm sorry. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I love you all so very much. Thank you hanging
Speaker 1: on me, and I'll see you next time on jojese
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