Speaker 1: Welcome to pod meets Twirled, the Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 1: recap hosted by two guys who can't dance don't want
Speaker 1: to dance, and I have now seen exactly one episode
Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars. But since our best friend
Speaker 1: Danielle has joined the cast for season thirty four, we're
Speaker 1: going all in. We're Wilfred Oh and Ryder Strong aka
Speaker 1: the two dudes standing next to Tapanga aka Danielle Fishal's
Speaker 1: backup aka the dan Yettes.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Will, I'm doing great, rider, other than
Speaker 2: the fact that I've got a little bit of a cold,
Speaker 2: but I think it's a dancing cold.
Speaker 3: What are your legs doing? My legs are okay.
Speaker 2: I found that as long as I don't leave my
Speaker 2: home or do any exercise whatsoever, my legs.
Speaker 3: Are pretty fine. How are your legs? My legs are fine.
Speaker 1: I could not believe un when Danielle sent me the
Speaker 1: photos crazy bruises, crazy, you know, days before, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: she's gonna have to cancel. That's what I thought to
Speaker 1: do this, And then she did it. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 3: I sneezed once and I've been in bed for three days.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: I don't know how she's doing it. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: She did incredible, and I you know, you you talked
Speaker 1: about how last week you could kind of tell she
Speaker 1: was nerves. This week, I could tell she was in pain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could.
Speaker 2: Because she's obviously I mean, I mean she's having trouble walking.
Speaker 3: I don't know how she's dancing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, apparently, just to update everybody there, she has seen
Speaker 1: all kinds of experts. She is undergoing all kinds of treatments,
Speaker 1: some things I've never heard of, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: they're just managing pain, which apparently does not mean any
Speaker 1: good actual pain pills. And she's grinning and bearing it.
Speaker 1: And I thought she did incredible and she's never gonna
Speaker 1: need surgery, which is great news.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty common torn hamstring.
Speaker 2: She does more damage to it, which you know, dancing
Speaker 2: and rehearsing every week.
Speaker 3: In a really good way.
Speaker 2: I mean, the doctor literally told her he's treating her
Speaker 2: like an athlete in the middle of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're going to keep going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I texted on our little text chanin,
Speaker 1: I was like, low kicks this week, and Jensen immediately
Speaker 1: wrote back, like this is Danielle. And sure enough she
Speaker 1: was doing the splits this week. Oh yeah, she was
Speaker 1: jumping around like the best of them.
Speaker 3: I believe, just ahead.
Speaker 2: She's still going to go and compete. That's just that's Danielle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's she's not going to stop.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that's funny because that's something that I
Speaker 1: didn't think about when she first told us she was
Speaker 1: doing the show, you know we are.
Speaker 3: Our first question was like, do you know how to dance?
Speaker 3: Why are you doing this? Just in terms of your
Speaker 3: your your life and your time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh. And then there was this moment when we were
Speaker 1: talking about the show before it started, you know, two
Speaker 1: or three weeks ago, and uh.
Speaker 3: I remembered she is very competitive. Danielle has a hugely
Speaker 3: She's one of those people that, like if you're playing,
Speaker 3: you know, a game of pickup or baseball or one
Speaker 3: of these other sports ball things, but anything, she wants
Speaker 3: to win. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I realized, like, oh, this is that's like adding
Speaker 1: a whole new wrinkle to this endeavor. She's not just
Speaker 1: doing this, you know, as a fun romp or you know, it's.
Speaker 3: It's she's actually into it for the competition.
Speaker 2: Which is a percent and not just that, but she
Speaker 2: also she we we know Danielle very well for thirty years.
Speaker 2: Danielle likes to be in control, and so something like
Speaker 2: an injury, yeah that's just out of her control. Is
Speaker 2: just that I sends her into a tailspin because she's like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: this is not part of the plan. The plan was
Speaker 2: I do this, this, this, this and this and this
Speaker 2: thing out of my control.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: So she'll ignore it for as long as she can,
Speaker 2: and I just hope she doesn't end up doing more
Speaker 2: damage to her leg because she's she ain't gonna stop.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen. Yeah. So all right, well let's
Speaker 3: get into episode two. Week two. The theme this week
Speaker 3: was one hit Wonders.
Speaker 1: You know, I have to say because I actually knew
Speaker 1: a lot of the songs this time.
Speaker 3: As much as I like that there's live music, sometimes
Speaker 3: I wanted to hear the original, I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 2: I also some of the song picks to me were like,
Speaker 2: these are the one hit wonders you're picking. There's some
Speaker 2: classic one hit wonders that like right fell by the Wayside, sou.
Speaker 1: But also, how do they define one hit wonders, like
Speaker 1: they couldn't have another hit, like they had to be somebody.
Speaker 3: Who, yeah, you have one hit, you have a one
Speaker 3: hit wonder. Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it was there were some some music choices where
Speaker 2: and I still.
Speaker 3: Don't know enough about are they picking? Is it like
Speaker 3: they get it they get a big pool.
Speaker 2: Of songs and they each have to pick one. Who
Speaker 2: gets to pick first? There's so many questions, dude.
Speaker 1: I I have questions about that because it seemed like
Speaker 1: when the people when the stars showed up, the dancer
Speaker 1: was telling them what's song. But then another time it
Speaker 1: looked like somebody came in and said I picked this,
Speaker 1: and I write and then.
Speaker 3: I still don't understand the judging. Oh don't get me
Speaker 3: started on the judges. I have no idea because they
Speaker 3: say we add the judges numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean what you also can't vote on the West coast? Okay,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know I noticed that.
Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't understand what's going on with this.
Speaker 1: So if there's somebody out there who can tell us
Speaker 1: the math of the judging numbers, how you go from
Speaker 1: having a seven seven seven and then that combines with
Speaker 1: millions of votes, I would love to know how they're
Speaker 1: actually doing this, thank you. I feel like they're they're
Speaker 1: playing it a little loosey goosey. But Jensen did inform
Speaker 1: us that there's somebody like on set who's actually like
Speaker 1: a representative of some insurance organization or whatever, to like
Speaker 1: monitor that it's legit, like that they're actually counting the
Speaker 1: votes correctly.
Speaker 3: Or that the call in votes are legit like the
Speaker 3: testing votes. I guess that the number. I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: I don't know how any of this works.
Speaker 2: I still don't understand entirely how it's working. But my
Speaker 2: best friend's on the show.
Speaker 1: The first couple the dance last night, Alex Earl and
Speaker 1: Val Schmerkowsky, all right, their dance was the jive. They
Speaker 1: did the song Mambo number five by lou Bega.
Speaker 3: What'd you think of this one?
Speaker 2: To be honest, I thought it was great that I
Speaker 2: thought it was I loved their outfits.
Speaker 3: I can't believe I just said that on a podcast,
Speaker 3: but it's true. We should talk about the wardrobe. I
Speaker 3: was in the wardrobe this week. Yeah, I thought this
Speaker 3: week was.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just like like the first week, I was
Speaker 1: so dazzled by dancing but this week I really noticed
Speaker 1: the wardrobe and how important.
Speaker 2: That is, hugely important, and I thought it was great.
Speaker 2: It was vibrant. I thought the dance looked wonderful. They
Speaker 2: really worked well together.
Speaker 3: It was she.
Speaker 1: I think she really uped her game because she was
Speaker 1: always she was good last week, but we talked about
Speaker 1: how she had this sort of like lack of presence
Speaker 1: or lack of personality when she did the Circus number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she had the whip.
Speaker 1: But this this week I was there. I was the thought,
Speaker 1: so too, we're out of the gate. This is this
Speaker 1: is a tough competition.
Speaker 2: I thought the same thing, and I thought, really setting
Speaker 2: the bar high to start the competition this week was
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 3: He started lip syncing the first couple of lines of
Speaker 3: the song, and I do not want to see lip.
Speaker 1: Syncing on the show. I realized that's like the I
Speaker 1: was like, it's a dance show. It's not a singing show.
Speaker 1: It's not and it's not like the performance. He was
Speaker 1: camera and then someone else.
Speaker 3: Lip synced later I forget who it was. Maybe it
Speaker 3: was Corey Fellman. People do and I was like, lot, stop,
Speaker 3: just use your body.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that drives me crazy. It's like
Speaker 2: a comedian laughing at his own jokes. Yes, it's the
Speaker 2: same kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I'm not either.
Speaker 1: But did you notice in this d when this dance finished,
Speaker 1: which I thought was fantastic, Yeah, there was a really
Speaker 1: tepid response from the people in the audience.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I also thought the dance, if you watch it again,
Speaker 2: because so I've been doing. I've been watching it through
Speaker 2: one time, the entire show like a fan, and then
Speaker 2: I go back and I just watched the dances again
Speaker 2: a second time.
Speaker 3: That's smart. I should do that. I should do that.
Speaker 3: Did it once this week.
Speaker 2: The thing that I noticed was if you watch this
Speaker 2: first dance. I think one of the reasons why it
Speaker 2: might have gotten a tepid response is it seemed like
Speaker 2: they did not end on the beat. Oh the song ended,
Speaker 2: and then there was a beat and they did their
Speaker 2: big flourish and I was like, oh, I think they
Speaker 2: were supposed to end on the beat, and then it
Speaker 2: would have been a big hey, look at everything that
Speaker 2: just happened. But I think they just ended offbeat, and
Speaker 2: I think that might have thrown their responsible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was weird because I was we were
Speaker 1: at home. I mean like, this was great, and then
Speaker 1: it cut to the audience and they were just like.
Speaker 3: Go clap.
Speaker 2: They had that a couple of times that the audience
Speaker 2: it was a little bit kind of like hey.
Speaker 3: Or the reverse. There were sometimes like when the audience
Speaker 3: was going nuts and I was like, real, really is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Well, the judges were pretty pretty effusive. Carrie Anne, who
Speaker 1: is back this week.
Speaker 3: I welcome back carry An.
Speaker 1: She was great, a great source of feedback and slightly
Speaker 1: different than the guys. You could see there was some
Speaker 1: tension there when they got to the gymnast. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that when we'll get there, yes, but anyway, she
Speaker 1: said incredible. Derek called them a power couple, and then
Speaker 1: they did this weird thing where they made the judges
Speaker 1: only say one word.
Speaker 3: Is this what they do every week? No?
Speaker 2: I think this was because it's one hit wonder, so
Speaker 2: they did what you have to do it with one word.
Speaker 3: I think they were trying to it. I felt like
Speaker 3: the judges hated it. I just talked, just tell me
Speaker 3: what you're thinking. Bruno, I think it was Bruno kept
Speaker 3: cheating and just saying like three words.
Speaker 1: And then like it was like putting them on the
Speaker 1: spot in a way that was not helpful to anybody.
Speaker 1: It was like, just let them talk for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, keep them limited if you want to, but
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I felt exactly the same way. It's like,
Speaker 2: I get what you're trying to do, but just let
Speaker 2: them go. And I've also, having watched American Idol for
Speaker 2: as long as I have, you can kind to see
Speaker 2: the roles that each of the judges are taking, and
Speaker 2: you can tell that she seems to be like the
Speaker 2: Paula kind of like she gives good notes, but she
Speaker 2: also gives more generous scores than I think the other
Speaker 2: two judges.
Speaker 3: Do, which I kind of feels like.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's scoring in general is pretty low
Speaker 1: on this show, Like we have not seen anything above
Speaker 1: an eight, and I'm literally it's I'm incapable of imagining
Speaker 1: some of these dances being that much better, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I don't disagree, especially because the
Speaker 1: girls are really good, Yeah, really good, So how much
Speaker 1: better can they? I want to see a ten, I
Speaker 1: guess now having never seen the show, like I want
Speaker 1: to see a ten ten ten, And maybe.
Speaker 2: I think the first person to do. That was my
Speaker 2: fellow co host, Abrina Brian. I think she was the
Speaker 2: first one to get the first perfect score.
Speaker 1: All right, I could google and watch that, but I
Speaker 1: feel like the purity of our recap is that we've
Speaker 1: never seen a shower.
Speaker 3: I have not either. For the record, I've never seen
Speaker 3: her do a dance there.
Speaker 2: I've heard about it, but I have not that I've
Speaker 2: seen as much as you have at this point.
Speaker 3: So they ended up with a score of twenty one
Speaker 3: out of thirty.
Speaker 1: And then next up Danielle Fischle and Pasha Poshkov.
Speaker 3: They were upfront about her injury.
Speaker 1: They were the pre show or pre dance package, and
Speaker 1: they actually showed some photographs of those bruises. I was
Speaker 1: holding my breath at hooom me too. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: They danced the Chatcha to the Rhythm of the Night
Speaker 3: by Corona, and I thought it was great. I did you, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to separate my feelings from knowing
Speaker 1: she has her injury. But here's the thing, Danielle, it
Speaker 1: is like for me and I am totally biased. Sure
Speaker 1: she has more presence as a as a person, as
Speaker 1: a personality than I would say any of the other dancers.
Speaker 1: Like she moves into her she it's on her face
Speaker 1: and when she commits to any little thing, she's feeling it.
Speaker 1: There's her whole body and with her whole face, and
Speaker 1: you believe it.
Speaker 3: It's that acting thing.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of good acting and personality being
Speaker 1: inserted by people. But from Danielle, it feels like fully
Speaker 1: committed and so genuine to me, and it never feels ironic,
Speaker 1: Like you know, there's a there's a tendency to Andy
Speaker 1: Richter being the obvious example, but there's a tendency to
Speaker 1: be a little ironic about like making a face doing
Speaker 1: a thing. I'm committing to this. Danielle's committing and committing
Speaker 1: to whatever I feel like that that kick or that
Speaker 1: move or I don't know. All I can say is
Speaker 1: kick because I don't know any other dance terms. But
Speaker 1: whatever she's doing in the moment, she's committing to it
Speaker 1: with her face, her body, her eyes. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 2: See, I felt like she was definitely in her head
Speaker 2: last night, okay, and I think she's dealing with an injury,
Speaker 2: and I think you just she's probably at this point,
Speaker 2: like has to grit her teeth because of the pain.
Speaker 2: She's literally doing splits and cartwheels. But it's so funny
Speaker 2: that the note that the judges gave, because it was
Speaker 2: the same exact thing.
Speaker 3: I was literally looking at her going like, I don't think.
Speaker 2: She's breathing, yeah and so, and then at the end
Speaker 2: she obviously they missed the slide where she she You know,
Speaker 2: you could see she missed her hand.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I watched it. I tried to.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do slow motion, so I kept watching it
Speaker 1: and pausing because I was At first I was like,
Speaker 1: that was his fault, he missed that. Then I went
Speaker 1: back and watched it, trying to go frame by frame.
Speaker 3: I think she, I think I think it was I
Speaker 3: think it was her. I mean, he's the professional, so responsibility.
Speaker 2: No, I don't disagree. First of all, again, we know Danielle. Danielle.
Speaker 2: If if her leg is bleeding, if her leg is
Speaker 2: half cut off, she's still.
Speaker 3: Going to go out there and dance every week.
Speaker 2: And I think, as awful as as this is to say,
Speaker 2: she's going to get used to the pain to where
Speaker 2: next week it's just going to be She's so used
Speaker 2: to it that she can just go back to dancing,
Speaker 2: whereas last night, I think she was in her head
Speaker 2: about like I have to get through this, and I
Speaker 2: think because of that, it came off as a little
Speaker 2: bit stiffer than it was last week. And I can't wait,
Speaker 2: because again we know Danielle. Danielle likes to be in control.
Speaker 2: She likes to be in charge. She likes to know
Speaker 2: what's going on. So something like an injury like we
Speaker 2: just talked about, is very much out of her control.
Speaker 2: The week where she actually feels good, where she's one
Speaker 2: hundred percent, where it's not the first week because oh
Speaker 2: my god, the nerves you must be feeling, but where
Speaker 2: she just lets go, that's going to be the week
Speaker 2: where people are really going to see Danielle.
Speaker 3: And I think she I.
Speaker 2: Think her first dance the first week was better than
Speaker 2: last night, and I think it's because she was in
Speaker 2: her head about her injury. And with the injury, she
Speaker 2: I thought did a phenomenal job with what she had,
Speaker 2: but she had a couple bobbles and she had the
Speaker 2: little slide at the end, and I think she was
Speaker 2: just so in her head. I mean, again, she's like
Speaker 2: when she jokes. Thank God for body makeup. We did
Speaker 2: podmets Wirl with her this morning. She showed us her leg.
Speaker 3: Her leg is like black.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is not like, oh, she's got a
Speaker 2: slight thing going on, she has a tear. This is
Speaker 2: like a massive thing. And she's still doing what she
Speaker 2: did last night. So better I thought the first week
Speaker 2: than the second week. But she didn't have the injury
Speaker 2: the first week, so it's this is where it's tough
Speaker 2: to judge these things. And I think she's gonna make
Speaker 2: it through gotten knocking what as I say this, I
Speaker 2: think she's gonna We all voted, everybody I know voted.
Speaker 3: I think she's gonna make it through to the next week.
Speaker 2: And when she does, and I think she's kind of
Speaker 2: used to the pain, because the pain ain't gonna go away.
Speaker 2: So when she's just more used to it and can
Speaker 2: get out of her head about whether her leg's actually
Speaker 2: gonna hold up underneath her, then I think we're gonna
Speaker 2: see it a much better Danielle next week.
Speaker 3: I think she was just in her head.
Speaker 2: She wasn't breathing and was like, oh, dear God, let
Speaker 2: my leg hold up through what I have to do
Speaker 2: here all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well carry anet verse seven Derek A six Bruno six,
Speaker 1: which I thought was pretty good.
Speaker 3: I do too, until the later scores were really high.
Speaker 3: As the show went on, I was getting a little worried.
Speaker 3: I was getting a little worried as well.
Speaker 2: And I frankly, and this is where, And we'll talk
Speaker 2: about it when we get to people like like.
Speaker 3: Efron.
Speaker 2: Dylan Efron, Yeah, because how do you judge something where?
Speaker 2: And again we'll I know, we'll get into his dance more.
Speaker 2: But for something like that, since we're talking about Danielle,
Speaker 2: I thought Danielle's dance was better than Dylan Ephron's dance. Yes,
Speaker 2: I agree, but Dylan Efron improved from week one to
Speaker 2: week two, and I thought Danielle did not do as well.
Speaker 2: So even though her dance was better, he showed improvements.
Speaker 2: So how do you score that?
Speaker 1: That's a good call, man, Well, maybe her journey is
Speaker 1: going to be about the injury and that'll help her
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 3: Right maybe? Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 2: But as you know that, since we are talking about Danielle,
Speaker 2: and because of my encyclopedic knowledge, we always do a very.
Speaker 3: Brief Will's history of dance.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly the song that I sung last time,
Speaker 2: but it was very similar to that, I believe, And
Speaker 2: once again just using my encyclopedic knowledge, this week, Danielle
Speaker 2: did the Cha Cha Cha, which I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're a ware writer, but it originated in Cuba in
Speaker 2: the late nineteen forties early nineteen fifties as a simpler,
Speaker 2: more accessible evolution of the mambo and the dan zion.
Speaker 2: Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Yurin developed its distinctive less.
Speaker 1: And told me this, I can't sure watch for featuring
Speaker 1: a prominent triple step, which was named after the sound
Speaker 1: of dancer shuffling feet.
Speaker 3: I'll shut my eye sorry.
Speaker 2: Popularized in Havana and then the United States, it quickly
Speaker 2: became a global ballroom dance craze due to its infectious
Speaker 2: energy and straightforward steps.
Speaker 3: So it started It started in Cuba, huh, Yeah, in
Speaker 3: the forties and fifties. Yeah, just as a just off
Speaker 3: the top of my head. I thought you'd be interested
Speaker 3: in knowing that, So there you go, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up was Andy Richter and Emma Slater. Andy seemed
Speaker 1: like he was really kind of going for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like trying to up his game because I think he
Speaker 1: felt a little bad about last week, which didn't really
Speaker 1: help him all that much.
Speaker 2: I also don't do social media at all, but I
Speaker 2: think I think they are following their journeys on social media.
Speaker 2: They talk about it when people think he's gonna have
Speaker 2: a heart attack or something.
Speaker 3: No, I just wouldn't do that if I was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you have to maybe to sort
Speaker 1: of see what the storyline has been, but I would
Speaker 1: probably put somebody else in charge and be like, just
Speaker 1: give me.
Speaker 3: The cliff notes on the internets. All right.
Speaker 1: Well, they danced the tango to It's Raining Men, which
Speaker 1: I thought was a funny choice and really leans into
Speaker 1: him his personality and and you know, going for kind
Speaker 1: of a comedy version. This was you know, once again
Speaker 1: I like Andy, I like his personality, but this time
Speaker 1: I really was just like, the legs just aren't there.
Speaker 2: No, I know, I know I felt the same way.
Speaker 2: And again I think he's doing exactly the right thing.
Speaker 3: He's leaning it.
Speaker 2: I mean, them starting where it's like a weather report
Speaker 2: and they pull off his rain slicker and his dance partner.
Speaker 3: I mean, you kind of have to get gimmicky.
Speaker 2: Yep, if you can't dance like Danielle or like Alex
Speaker 2: or like these people that are that have the legs
Speaker 2: underneath them. Yeah, and so you know, he survived this week,
Speaker 2: so he did.
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance that he could keep winning
Speaker 1: on sheer personality. But I was watching his legs at
Speaker 1: this time, because you know, he's he's made an issue
Speaker 1: out of his legs when he's talking about it and
Speaker 1: watching it, was like, Oh, they're just not keeping up.
Speaker 1: They're you know, it's like they're just not there. It's
Speaker 1: like they're not and that's going to get harder and harder, right,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, maybe he can get stronger. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I was like, man, you're doing a lot of
Speaker 1: standing and holding, which is great, but like you're not
Speaker 1: keeping up with her.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have knowing nothing about the show, I have to
Speaker 2: imagine that what they do is every dancer who remains
Speaker 2: has to do a different style.
Speaker 3: So they all do the cha cha cha, they all
Speaker 3: do the tango.
Speaker 2: So when he gets to something like the jive talked
Speaker 2: about is all legs And what was.
Speaker 3: The new one that somebody did this week that we
Speaker 3: hadn't seen last week that I was like, that is all?
Speaker 3: Was it a fox trot? Is that the Fox t
Speaker 3: I think it was the Fox? It was like so
Speaker 3: much crazy legworker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's there's gonna get to be somewhere.
Speaker 2: You're You're only going to get so far with having
Speaker 2: your professional dancer dance around you while you hold their
Speaker 2: hand kind of thing. And he is personable and it
Speaker 2: is funny and it is tongue in cheek, but I
Speaker 2: think eventually it's going to be about the dancing and
Speaker 2: that's where he's gonna fall short.
Speaker 3: All right, So they got a six five five, which
Speaker 3: is fair I thought, totally, Yeah, totally. I mean, actually
Speaker 3: to your point that you made earlier carry one does
Speaker 3: seem pretty generous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right right. Next up Lauren Hereggie and Brandon Armstrong.
Speaker 1: These guys did very well last week. We saw in
Speaker 1: their h they're behind the scenes, that she's happy, her
Speaker 1: her hard work is paying off, and she talked about
Speaker 1: her grandmother who had passed away, who she's used to
Speaker 1: watch the show with, and they danced the foxtrot first
Speaker 1: time we saw this to the song love Fool, What
Speaker 1: do you.
Speaker 3: Think hate the song Always have? But the dance was good.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I thought I thought it was the
Speaker 2: Having never seen this show before, I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is kind of par for the course where it
Speaker 2: comes to the talent of dancer and you know, from
Speaker 2: dancer to dancer to dancer. But there there are some
Speaker 2: really good dancers out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. She was another one. Yeah, she was great. I
Speaker 3: was really impressed with her last week. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: felt like this week was falling a little flat for me,
Speaker 3: maybe a little boring.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was something just a little like Okay, Derek
Speaker 1: compared her to a willow tree. Bruno's one word was classy,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know that's all true.
Speaker 3: Like she Yeah, she is good. I thought they were
Speaker 3: scored a little high. They got seven seven seven. I
Speaker 3: think a six could have been thrown in there. Interesting.
Speaker 2: I thought I kind of agreed with the seven seven seven.
Speaker 2: I thought it was it was fun to watch. It
Speaker 2: might also be because of I think our first fox trot.
Speaker 2: So maybe it was just that I hadn't noticed the
Speaker 2: dance before.
Speaker 1: But I thought she was good. I thought they were
Speaker 1: both good. Next up Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa. This
Speaker 1: was they were doing the jive to Maniac classic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought this was super fun. Me too, I'm
Speaker 3: me too.
Speaker 1: Yep, just what a way like she I feel like
Speaker 1: she really took the notes from last week and really
Speaker 1: just danced her off like it wasn't it wasn't just
Speaker 1: the athleticism that she had brought last week, but you know,
Speaker 1: she still brought this week doing the jumping over him
Speaker 1: and the forward role.
Speaker 3: But man, she was just dancing so well. And this
Speaker 3: was where I loved the wardrobe choices because those little wants,
Speaker 3: the white pants really worked for her, and I was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, this this dance is made better by
Speaker 3: that wardrobe. I also, I literally I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I had to stop and rewind it and watch again
Speaker 2: and again and again. She jumps over him and then
Speaker 2: does the role in high heels.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2: Do you not understand how these women are doing these
Speaker 2: things in high heels?
Speaker 3: It's unreal.
Speaker 2: How she's even landing a jump like that in high
Speaker 2: heels is crazy to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's so strong too. It was just rat though. Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, so they got eight, seven and seven, which
Speaker 3: this is our first eight, right, this is our first
Speaker 3: eid of the competition. I would have I would have gone,
Speaker 3: it's across the boarder. I would have too. I thought
Speaker 3: this was low. I thought this was low. I thought
Speaker 3: this was low.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's happened to her twice now
Speaker 1: because I thought the first week she really.
Speaker 3: Got screwed because carry the same thing. Yes, And this
Speaker 3: is where the tension came in, because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: like this is a five. She got fives last week,
Speaker 3: Like come on, yeah.
Speaker 1: It was just it was the first dance, and like,
Speaker 1: I didn't think they had to like recalibrate. But even
Speaker 1: with this one eight seven seven, when I saw some
Speaker 1: of the eights that were going out later, I was.
Speaker 2: Like, how is this not? I would have given triple
Speaker 2: eights for this one. I would absolutely would have. This
Speaker 2: was a very very engaging dance.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, man, And if it had gotten triple eights,
Speaker 1: it would have been the highest score scoring dance of
Speaker 1: the night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah it wouldn't be. I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. I think it could have been. It
Speaker 2: absolutely could have been. It was so much fun to watch,
Speaker 2: it really was.
Speaker 3: Next up, we had Corey Feldman and Jenna Johnson. Uh,
Speaker 3: it was interesting how Corey seemed like he was really
Speaker 3: affected by his score last the week, last week's score,
Speaker 3: and I feel like he, you know, was giving it
Speaker 3: as all they did the chop chaw to Babies Got Back,
Speaker 3: which not a great song choice none. This is just
Speaker 3: why I'm wondering, are they given these or do you
Speaker 3: picked out it got? You think they picked Baby Got Back.
Speaker 1: I think Corey Felderman probably thought I need to just entertain,
Speaker 1: I just need to and so he went for a
Speaker 1: song from when.
Speaker 3: He was a teenager or a young he was probably
Speaker 3: what he's a little bit older than me.
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's one of those I think
Speaker 1: he was maybe going for a little bit of the
Speaker 1: nostalgia vibe and by picking a hip hop song maybe
Speaker 1: he could just sort of bring more personality to it.
Speaker 3: But this was not great.
Speaker 2: No, I agree, And I'm actually a little surprised because
Speaker 2: Corey's known for dancing. I mean again, it's like thing though,
Speaker 2: right right, But if you can dance like Michael Jackson,
Speaker 2: and he can, I've seen it, I mean we've seen
Speaker 2: him do it. He did it in License to Drive,
Speaker 2: he did it in some of his movies, he's done
Speaker 2: it on stage. If you can do any kind of dancing,
Speaker 2: then you've got to have some sort of rhythm.
Speaker 1: And he noticed that this one even had all those
Speaker 1: other dancers on stage.
Speaker 3: Yes, question dancers. I was like, is that happy? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's really used to being a front man
Speaker 1: who also dances, you know, because he does music, like
Speaker 1: his own music performances where he's dancing, and I think
Speaker 1: that's his wheelhouse, maybe having a partner not having to
Speaker 1: share the spotlight to the same degree, and I just
Speaker 1: it's just it's it doesn't fit, you know. It's too
Speaker 1: bad because I could tell that he kind of wanted it,
Speaker 1: you know, and he.
Speaker 3: Left it all out there. He tried. He seriously, he wasn't.
Speaker 3: He wasn't happying yet. He wasn't.
Speaker 2: He didn't make it look like, oh god, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be here. I mean he really, he really tried,
Speaker 2: but it was it wasn't great.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So fives across the board and they were
Speaker 3: booted off at the end of this episode. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that was fair. The fives across the board.
Speaker 1: Frankly, Yeah, next up Jen Affleck and Jan Rovnick.
Speaker 2: Wait very quickly Yeah, one of the things I think
Speaker 2: we need to talk about Jenna Johnson. Okay, so last
Speaker 2: season she won the Mirror Ball. So this has got
Speaker 2: to be really tough for the professional dancers too, because
Speaker 2: I'm sure they want to go as far in the
Speaker 2: competition as they can, and they want to they want
Speaker 2: to win if they can.
Speaker 1: Oh, and she was trying, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you could tell she was doing everything she could
Speaker 1: that dance YEA.
Speaker 3: Almost to a fault. Like it was like it almost
Speaker 3: hurt it.
Speaker 1: I know why she tried so hard, but it almost
Speaker 1: made it even worse because it was like he's still
Speaker 1: just kind of standing there and lip.
Speaker 3: Saying, and she's trying so hard.
Speaker 2: But I felt bad for I felt bad for them
Speaker 2: both obviously because they're both trying. But I mean, when
Speaker 2: you've got a champion from last season he wants to
Speaker 2: maybe repeat and then it's it's kind of like.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't work with the partner. That's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, props to Corey for calling
Speaker 2: that out too, because he says that where he's like,
Speaker 2: it's not fair to her because you know, she's she
Speaker 2: was the champion, and I thought that was very classy
Speaker 2: of him to kind of call out his partner and
Speaker 2: how hard she worked and that, yeah, it's gotta be
Speaker 2: that's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Tough, all right.
Speaker 1: So Jen and Jan were doing the quick step, which
Speaker 1: that's the one that I.
Speaker 3: Was like, what is that? Stay there, you go, That's
Speaker 3: what it is. It's literally so much quick stepping. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is the kind of and
Speaker 1: Andy Richter is just not going to be able to
Speaker 1: do right.
Speaker 3: Right, But I thought this was really good.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit of a downgrade from last
Speaker 1: week for me because I thought they were great last week.
Speaker 1: And I also it was interesting. Did you notice that
Speaker 1: Carrie Ann gave Yan a note?
Speaker 3: Yes? After I was like, yeah, so they get notes too.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, this is I think Yan.
Speaker 2: I think Yan is the guy if I listened to
Speaker 2: my wife, which I do, my lovely wife, I think
Speaker 2: Yan is the guy who was Taylor Swift's backup dancer.
Speaker 3: So this is his first season as a professional. Oh right,
Speaker 3: they introduced him when we were there, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so this is so he's so this is
Speaker 2: only his second time dancing on Dancing with the Stars with.
Speaker 3: Everybody too, So interesting.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that he's getting a note as well, but
Speaker 2: he's he's a he's a rookie.
Speaker 3: Too interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, they got eight, seven and seven. So at
Speaker 1: this point this is they them and Jordan and Ezra
Speaker 1: are the highest scorers of the Night Right.
Speaker 2: And they're pushing Danielle down the leaderboard. And I'm going like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't like that. Now, I don't like this. I
Speaker 2: was getting really nervous. It's like, I don't like this.
Speaker 3: And I kept going like, she says she's an injury,
Speaker 3: she's an injury, Like, how do you factor that in?
Speaker 3: She has an injury? I just I also think going
Speaker 3: earlier is worse.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think the order, yes, the judges so much
Speaker 1: because I think it really killed Jordan last week and
Speaker 1: I think it hurt Danielle this week. I think if
Speaker 1: Danielle had come particularly, I just think, you know, after
Speaker 1: Corey for instance, you know, or after it would have
Speaker 1: been so much more like I think the judges would
Speaker 1: have been in a more giving mood.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Really, I don't disagree by mood because there were some
Speaker 2: that got eights or seven's that got lower scores last week.
Speaker 3: Then again, I thought Danielle did better.
Speaker 2: Than yeah, so it was like, I don't I don't
Speaker 2: fully get the scoring.
Speaker 1: All right, Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson, Uh, this is
Speaker 1: the team to be, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent. It's the
Speaker 3: team to beat. It's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did the tango to move your feet and yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, this guy. And what I liked
Speaker 1: was that they really were you know, they sort of
Speaker 1: dialed back the fireworks from last week. Yeah, they just
Speaker 1: are doing more of a just a classic tango and uh,
Speaker 1: it was really good.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It's also, look, let's be honest, this is an incredibly
Speaker 2: going back to Daniel's injury, an incredibly physical thing to
Speaker 2: do all week, every week, dancing, dancing, dancing.
Speaker 3: He's twenty or twenty one.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like that the twenty year old body
Speaker 2: is going to be able to hold up this more.
Speaker 3: Than the fifty year old body. It just is I know,
Speaker 3: so it but he's but he also is really bringing
Speaker 3: it like great.
Speaker 1: And you know, my wife was watching with me and
Speaker 1: she was like, because he said somewhere either in this
Speaker 1: package or last week, that he hasn't been dancing his
Speaker 1: whole life, and she's like, that guy's.
Speaker 3: A professional dancing.
Speaker 1: She's like, he's been dancing, And I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a professional dancer, but I do think his sister won
Speaker 1: this competition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think he's been practicing.
Speaker 1: I think I think that there's a big part of
Speaker 1: his adolescence that was like, well, someday, maybe I'll do
Speaker 1: it because he is so out of the gate good
Speaker 1: Carrie Anne pointed out his charisma, and I agree with that,
Speaker 1: like that, it's.
Speaker 3: Not just the dancing. I like them. You just like them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're great together.
Speaker 1: It's and like I said, they Bruno pointed out that
Speaker 1: they don't need gimmicks, and I think I was glad
Speaker 1: to see that, right, because we were talking last week
Speaker 1: about like where do you go from here?
Speaker 3: And then's like this is where you go. You put
Speaker 3: on a classier tuxedo and you do it, yes, and
Speaker 3: all the stuff.
Speaker 2: We talked about exactly the same thing last week, where
Speaker 2: does he go from here? And I got well, then
Speaker 2: he just danced and it was really really good. And
Speaker 2: they look good together, I mean, daniel That's the thing
Speaker 2: about Danielle and Pasha's they also they've got the good
Speaker 2: height together, they look good together, they fit together, they're
Speaker 2: looking at each other's eyes. That's I mean, I agree
Speaker 2: with you one hundred percent. Robert and Whitney are the
Speaker 2: team to beat. They just seemed to really have it
Speaker 2: going on right now.
Speaker 1: So they got an eight seven seven, matching the last
Speaker 1: score I think they love. Maybe, yeah, they could have
Speaker 1: had all eight.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. It even could have possibly been the
Speaker 2: first nine. But I know they're holding that off. But this,
Speaker 2: to me is where I was like, Wow, they're really
Speaker 2: they're really scoring low.
Speaker 1: For all of a sudden, all right, Elaine Hendricks, Alan Burston,
Speaker 1: this was she was one of my favorites last week,
Speaker 1: the actress.
Speaker 3: They did the jive to Mickey. You know, she's great.
Speaker 3: I thought this was good. Just wasn't my style. I
Speaker 3: don't know, I'm not a cheerleading person. I liked what
Speaker 3: they did.
Speaker 2: I liked how they started with exactly the same way
Speaker 2: the video starts. I mean they did they literally mimicked
Speaker 2: the video, which is great. Yeah, you've got backup dancers. Also,
Speaker 2: why for her dance does everyone in the audience get
Speaker 2: pomp pomps too, So it's.
Speaker 3: Like everybody's involved in this dance. I liked it. I
Speaker 3: thought last week she I thought she was better last week.
Speaker 1: This is really superficial, but I'm kind of realizing it now.
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason is, like I like
Speaker 1: that she's classier and older, and to see her dressed
Speaker 1: as a cheerleader and like it was like play acting
Speaker 1: younger or something, and it just made me.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, this isn't you. This doesn't fit
Speaker 3: you. You know, like, make me do your own version.
Speaker 1: You're like what she did last week with a hat,
Speaker 1: and like, yes, like I want to see her sort
Speaker 1: of playing to her age a little bit and like
Speaker 1: and there was something about dressing up like a you know,
Speaker 1: a high school cheerleader, which I guess is unfair because
Speaker 1: there are older cheerleaders, I'm sure, but it's still something
Speaker 1: that I associate with like young girls, you know.
Speaker 3: And I was like, uh, this isn't you, this doesn't
Speaker 3: fit Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that was again straight up taken from the
Speaker 2: video from the music video. That's how that's how she's
Speaker 2: dressed in the music video. They were dressed exactly the
Speaker 2: same way. But the Yeah, the thing that was amazing
Speaker 2: to me was I was watching her and I was like,
Speaker 2: it's so funny, and a lot of her spin, she's
Speaker 2: like tilting one way or another.
Speaker 3: It's things that I'm now starting to pick up little things.
Speaker 2: And then that's one of these One of the comments was, yeah,
Speaker 2: holding your core because you're tilting, and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god.
Speaker 1: And I noticed the thing you're getting good man, I
Speaker 1: don't not at all kilter a little bit interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still like her. She's still very personal. I
Speaker 2: think she's going to go far in the competition. I
Speaker 2: thought she was better last week.
Speaker 3: All right, seven's across the board. I think that's fair.
Speaker 3: I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when I saw them get seven's, I was like, really,
Speaker 1: Danielle only get But that's what started.
Speaker 2: To piss me off, is that's why I think Danielle
Speaker 2: all should have been at the minimum triple sevens. And
Speaker 2: I think that would have been fair for Danielle this
Speaker 2: week if if she had three sevens. I thought they
Speaker 2: were stingy with her, and I think you're one hundred
Speaker 2: percent right.
Speaker 3: It's because she was at the start of the competition.
Speaker 1: Baron and Britt heartbreaking that he had this wonderful reunion
Speaker 1: with his coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It was a great pre dance package and was
Speaker 3: really sweet to see his coach and his relationship there.
Speaker 3: They did the samba to return of.
Speaker 2: The Mac Best song of the night, Yeah, the Turn
Speaker 2: of the Mac Mark Morrison best song of the night.
Speaker 1: I thought, Yeah, the judges, you know, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a real improvement over last week.
Speaker 3: Actually agree.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I didn't give this guy enough
Speaker 1: credit in week one, maybe he should stick around. He
Speaker 1: was still kind of running after her, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: like trying to keep up with her. Yeah, And that
Speaker 1: turns out the judges I think pointed that out. They
Speaker 1: say they kept referring to a mistake, and I think
Speaker 1: it was because he fell behind in the rhythm.
Speaker 2: And then although I think at one point she they
Speaker 2: their arms, he was supposed to grab her arm and
Speaker 2: missed her arm, and so her arm went one way
Speaker 2: and then his went the other. So she then did
Speaker 2: this big flourish thing, which is why they gave her
Speaker 2: like a nod like, hey, you pulled.
Speaker 3: It out kind of yeah. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: So because they didn't mention Danielle's fall, do you think
Speaker 1: it's possible the judges couldn't see it from where.
Speaker 2: They were very if they're looking at they're not looking
Speaker 2: at their monitors, and they're looking at them, and she's
Speaker 2: she was right in the camera.
Speaker 3: I mean obviously the TV her his back was too.
Speaker 2: Yes, the judges, so there are play You wouldn't know this,
Speaker 2: but there's plenty of times in sports ball where the
Speaker 2: refs don't see something that the audience sees on camera.
Speaker 3: Because I was surprised they.
Speaker 1: Didn't mention it, and I was just thinking about it
Speaker 1: was so obvious to us, mostly because Danielle started laughing
Speaker 1: and you know, had her like sort of recovery, which
Speaker 1: I thought was great. But if if it happened so
Speaker 1: fast that maybe they wouldn't might not have noticed, It's great.
Speaker 3: Possible didn't didn't didn't carry Inn say something, Tara.
Speaker 4: Do you think Carriyan said? I think she said I
Speaker 4: saw a small thing there at the end, didn't she say?
Speaker 3: Did she? I didn't remember that.
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I don't think they saw what the
Speaker 4: TV audience saw at all.
Speaker 3: I do you think?
Speaker 4: I do think Carrie Anne mentioned it. I also think
Speaker 4: a lot of people think it was like a very
Speaker 4: minor issue.
Speaker 3: Like almost like it was literally the last moment.
Speaker 4: What I was saying, yeah, it's almost like she slithered
Speaker 4: out instead of slid out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and then had a big smile on her
Speaker 2: face and it was liked made something out of it,
Speaker 2: so it was still having a blast.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, it wasn't It wasn't the end
Speaker 3: of the world.
Speaker 4: I'll watch back, but I do think Harrien may have
Speaker 4: said and I saw that a little slip at the end,
Speaker 4: and she gave her.
Speaker 3: A all right.
Speaker 1: Well, Baron Brick got sixes, which seemed a little high. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think maybe a five could have.
Speaker 3: I think such an improvement from the week before.
Speaker 2: It was so personable. You want to see him go.
Speaker 2: You wanted to see him move forward because he was wanted. Yes, tense, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: And I guess that's a that's a question I have
Speaker 4: for you guys, Like, let's say you were celebrity judges
Speaker 4: for a week or something and you have to judge Baron.
Speaker 4: Are you taking into consideration in your number though.
Speaker 3: He did last week?
Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, because I think it's a it's
Speaker 1: a show. I mean, the show is about people who
Speaker 1: aren't dancers, right, who aren't doing it, And maybe they
Speaker 1: were at some point, but I thought I think that
Speaker 1: a conceit of the show is that they are getting coached.
Speaker 3: So seeing how they respond to coaching, and the judge
Speaker 3: in is reward is that's part of what you reward.
Speaker 4: Because I had Jordan, I had Jordan's dance of the night,
Speaker 4: and I think and I think I have her as
Speaker 4: an eight because her dance was was not as good
Speaker 4: last week. But if she was, but if she was
Speaker 4: Robert Irwin, she gets a seven from me because like
Speaker 4: there's no true you know, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: like there's no the improvement is important.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: That's why again that's exactly what I said, Like the
Speaker 2: perfect thing is is the Dylan Ephron where I thought
Speaker 2: Danielle's dance was better than Dylan Ephron's, but he improved
Speaker 2: from last week and I didn't think Danielle did.
Speaker 3: So how do you judge that in there? Even though
Speaker 3: her dance was better.
Speaker 4: I think, and she got her tricks in this week,
Speaker 4: so that's also you know that helped the score I
Speaker 4: think too, which is you didn't see any last time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very yeah, very strange. Also to jump in
Speaker 3: real quick, I went back and watched Carrie. Anne did
Speaker 3: not mention the little thing at the apple. He just
Speaker 3: said she asked if Danielle was breathing through the right right,
Speaker 3: which which I think she might be right.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure Danielle breathed like she wasn't go.
Speaker 2: Back and watch. I watched it twice last night. She
Speaker 2: clearly was not, I'm telling you. In her mind, she
Speaker 2: was just praying that her leg held up like she
Speaker 2: when she put weight on it, it wasn't gonna buckle
Speaker 2: underneath her.
Speaker 4: She was scuba diving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whitney Levitt and Mark Ballast all right, they did the
Speaker 1: cha chaw to play that funky music.
Speaker 2: Us.
Speaker 3: It was good. I mean again, he's he's.
Speaker 2: I could you could argue that he's the best dancer
Speaker 2: on the stage at any time. I mean, really, he's
Speaker 2: he's really good. I mean you can tell this guy
Speaker 2: is really really good.
Speaker 3: I think she's incredible. She's great, she's great. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: So sexy yep, and she was just so in it,
Speaker 2: and her body's moving the whole time. This was really
Speaker 2: this was a really great dance. The two of them
Speaker 2: danced very well together. I was with Danielle's aunt. She
Speaker 2: danced so well that Danielle's aunt turned to me and said,
Speaker 2: the guy is the pro, right, yep.
Speaker 3: I literally can't tell the difference between the pro and
Speaker 3: the star. One hundred percent agree with you, you know.
Speaker 1: I also I realized watching the show, how much just
Speaker 1: somebody's body, you know, like there's dancer bodies.
Speaker 3: She's tall, and she fits his body as well. It
Speaker 3: just yeah, it's like you realize, like, oh right.
Speaker 1: It's not really a judgment on somebody's dancing ability, but
Speaker 1: sometimes certain body types just do it better, and certain
Speaker 1: types of dance.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they do better. But for whatever reason, this
Speaker 3: just work. I thought. I was shocked they only got
Speaker 3: seven to seven eight.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened that seven seven eight,
Speaker 2: How this was not another triple A? I did not understand.
Speaker 4: Can I ask a question, a hot, hot hot take question? Yeah,
Speaker 4: is the fact that the Mormon wives aren't telling any
Speaker 4: true stories about like their journey, like it's just kind
Speaker 4: of happening and they're good dancers?
Speaker 3: Is that affecting?
Speaker 2: It is hurting, meaning there's no like there's nothing really
Speaker 2: about them yet in the you don't know anyages's don't
Speaker 2: mean yet exactly.
Speaker 3: Well, isn't that because people already know them? Like, well,
Speaker 3: I think it's part of it.
Speaker 4: I think it's part of Like they're telling stories, like
Speaker 4: Jordan's story is clearly right now, redemption, right, she redeemed herself,
Speaker 4: she's truly athletic, she's now she's on her way back.
Speaker 4: We have Alane who kind of has a story building
Speaker 4: I can see it coming. Obviously getting hit by a car.
Speaker 3: A car, yeah, huge, you know.
Speaker 4: And they're pushing how many kids Hilaria has, you know,
Speaker 4: there's all these things sort of going on. Danielle obviously perfectionist,
Speaker 4: and now the injury. Like, there's these stories being told.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 4: The Mormon Wives as people behind the scenes. Whitney is
Speaker 4: really one of my favorite people. I'm bummed they don't
Speaker 4: have any sort of real story right, It's just they're
Speaker 4: good dancers and that's great. But I really hope that
Speaker 4: we start to get to know them as people because
Speaker 4: I think it's affecting the way people see them as dancers.
Speaker 2: It may one of the things that amazed me from
Speaker 2: the prepackage to this one was seeing how far they
Speaker 2: have to come because from the prepackage, she's like stumbling
Speaker 2: and I can't do a spin and I can't do this,
Speaker 2: and then she goes out and does that four days later,
Speaker 2: and you're like, what the hell.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's a little manipulative editing.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, but it was manipulated me perfectly because I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, you got to that from that,
Speaker 2: So it was.
Speaker 3: But right, there is nothing personal really about it.
Speaker 2: I guess it's more about their children and the fact
Speaker 2: that they have a lot of kids that that I
Speaker 2: think it.
Speaker 4: But it's also such a good bad story when someone
Speaker 4: else on the cast has seven I know.
Speaker 3: I know that also might be part of the reason
Speaker 3: that there was a feeling that we couldn't tell the
Speaker 3: difference dween.
Speaker 1: The pro because she's a little like she's just blending
Speaker 1: in with the dancers.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: Was also like early twenties something like that, I mean,
Speaker 2: mid twenties.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's makes a difference, man, all right. Hilario
Speaker 3: Baldwin and Gleb Salfchenko. This was the tango to What
Speaker 3: Is Love. I thought she was one of the better.
Speaker 1: If not best dancer last week, and I was thought
Speaker 1: it was just.
Speaker 3: Solid this week. It was a little a little bit
Speaker 3: bland for me. Yeah, I don't disagree.
Speaker 2: She has and again I'm learning, Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: learning all the phrases and everything.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 2: She has a good frame, like she looked like she
Speaker 2: it doesn't. It looks like to me, she spent most
Speaker 2: of her her life dancing, maybe even professionally dancing. However,
Speaker 2: she's been dancing and now she's on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like to me. It doesn't look
Speaker 2: like she's learning any of this. It looks like she's
Speaker 2: showing everybody what she learned when she was fifteen.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's a good call, man. I think that's what
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 1: Because last week it was it had a revelatory quality
Speaker 1: to it because you had the story and right not
Speaker 1: dancing and kids and now dancing and knowing more, knowing
Speaker 1: that story.
Speaker 3: Now, it was just kind of like, yes, you can
Speaker 3: do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I wanted to see more personality, a little more.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and maybe it's nitpicky, but.
Speaker 2: It seemed like it seemed like dance by numbers, right,
Speaker 2: like it was you you hit the steps, You definitely
Speaker 2: hit the steps, You looked great, hit but there's nothing
Speaker 2: kind of memorable, memorable about it. There's nothing special about it.
Speaker 2: It was like you, you danced the way you were
Speaker 2: supposed to dance.
Speaker 3: Right, they got sevens across the board. It's fair. Oh see,
Speaker 3: I think that's fair because again, it wasn't special.
Speaker 1: When I compare it to everybody else, I'm like, but yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Still I still think Daniels and again totally biased. I
Speaker 2: still think Daniels were low. I really do think Daniels
Speaker 2: were low. And I think you're right, they would have
Speaker 2: been higher if she was Later in the in the program.
Speaker 1: Dylan Efron and Daniella karagoch he chose the Makarina.
Speaker 2: Goodly song from He chooses the Makarina Writer the Makarena
Speaker 2: chooses you.
Speaker 3: I love what he was like.
Speaker 1: You couldn't pronounce the word choreography, choreography?
Speaker 3: What do you think you're doing right now? How did
Speaker 3: you get invited to this? I love that it's the
Speaker 3: first choreography I ever learned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I again, I think she's the best dancer in
Speaker 1: this entire thing.
Speaker 3: I love her.
Speaker 1: I just I just love everything about her. I love
Speaker 1: watching her just like yes, and I really like him.
Speaker 3: I feel too.
Speaker 1: I'm coming around like he's trying. He's trying, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was fun.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Definitely, it seems like he's becoming like America's little brother totally,
Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, hey, come on, you know,
Speaker 2: let's he had Kelly, He's doing great.
Speaker 3: My little brother's out there. Dad Like, that's the vibe
Speaker 3: he gives off, and it's a great vibe. Is Can
Speaker 3: I tell you something?
Speaker 4: Andy Richter is on the Conan O'Brien podcast this week
Speaker 4: talking about his experience, and he makes a really good point,
Speaker 4: which is that early in his rehearsal, a producer told
Speaker 4: him and reminded him, they don't ask you to dance
Speaker 4: to vote for the best dance. They ask you to
Speaker 4: vote for your favorite dance.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I guess that's true. That is two different things.
Speaker 4: And that is and Dylan last night showed that he
Speaker 4: could be voted for, and so did Andy Richter and
Speaker 4: Danielle all all showed that you can vote for your
Speaker 4: favorite dance. Can I think that Dylan really succeeded last
Speaker 4: night in that way?
Speaker 3: He was great.
Speaker 2: He also did the thing that I think is super
Speaker 2: important where he showed progress.
Speaker 3: I mean he looked he looked way better than he
Speaker 3: did in the first week. He just looked more.
Speaker 2: Comfortable and he was getting there and he just it
Speaker 2: looked better.
Speaker 3: Yep. He's also young, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Earlier point and you can see that he you know,
Speaker 1: he's not used to moving, like he has a good body,
Speaker 1: like he's fit, but it's not used to being moved
Speaker 1: in this way, right, And I felt like it's getting.
Speaker 3: More used to it, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like he's literally.
Speaker 1: Adjusting and I feel like the muscles are growing or
Speaker 1: whatever is happening. So I was like, oh, by like
Speaker 1: week four or five, you're gonna be really good at
Speaker 1: this if.
Speaker 2: He could put it together. She shows improvement every week.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what you got to show. And he's
Speaker 2: personable and you like him, and he's just yeah, and
Speaker 2: he's got a great partner, and.
Speaker 3: I think you're real contender. You're rooting for him, all.
Speaker 1: Right, seven six and seven from the judges, and then
Speaker 1: we rounded it out with Scott and Riley. That's Scott
Speaker 1: Hoyne and Riley Arnold. Yeah, this one didn't really do
Speaker 1: it for me.
Speaker 3: It didn't for me. She's adorable, she's utterly adorable. He's fair.
Speaker 3: I like both of their personalities in terms of like
Speaker 3: the effort and but yeah, there I don't know. Did
Speaker 3: they seem mismatched to you?
Speaker 2: Yes, what they do?
Speaker 3: Yes, it is right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's going back to the sort of you know,
Speaker 1: potentially unfair criticism.
Speaker 3: About body types.
Speaker 1: He's very tall, and he's you know, I just feel
Speaker 1: like there's something. There's something not quite happening that I
Speaker 1: I just I think maybe it's a different partner and
Speaker 1: it's not a knock on her or him. I just
Speaker 1: think there's something because I think they're really trying with
Speaker 1: the style and the approach.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, it's not landing for me. I
Speaker 3: don't think he's work.
Speaker 2: I can't put my finger on why, because again, personality wise,
Speaker 2: he seems like he's a fun guy.
Speaker 3: He's the whole guy and they get.
Speaker 1: And he is a performer, right, he has music. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting that it's just not like falling into place.
Speaker 1: I think they're really on the bubble this week.
Speaker 3: Like I think so too. I think there's nothing for
Speaker 3: a body his style.
Speaker 2: There's nothing fluid about the way he moves it, right,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's I don't want to use the word clunky.
Speaker 2: It's almost robotic the way he used his body, and
Speaker 2: there's nothing like like Dylan Effron's a perfect example where
Speaker 2: he might not be hitting all the moves, but there's
Speaker 2: a there's a sinewy like a sinew we miss to
Speaker 2: his if that's even a word, to his body. There's
Speaker 2: like a litheness the way that he kind of flows,
Speaker 2: which I don't think Scott has. It just seems more clunky.
Speaker 1: Which is another you know, to your point about Corey Feldman,
Speaker 1: who should be able to dance because he is a dancer.
Speaker 1: It's really just like there are different body types for
Speaker 1: different types of dances too, right, yeah, right, I mean
Speaker 1: it seems like this really leans towards a certain like
Speaker 1: broad you know, holding your shoulders up, broad shoulder like
Speaker 1: basically the you know, Dylan's body, you know, or like
Speaker 1: somebody who just like, yeah, it's a certain type.
Speaker 2: He could Scott could have the perfect type and the
Speaker 2: perfect partner to kill something like the tango, where he might.
Speaker 3: Have that big, square body.
Speaker 2: Type where he can kind of maybe he has the
Speaker 2: frame for something like that, but so far it's been
Speaker 2: it has it's been a little I don't know, Rusty.
Speaker 4: And for more of your point too, like he's doing
Speaker 4: really well in the side by sides, yeah, but he's
Speaker 4: not doing well when they're connecting.
Speaker 1: Like the problem yes, yes, and it's and and and
Speaker 1: it's not what like what they're doing with Corey or
Speaker 1: Andy where there's well Andy's uh. With Corey, you know,
Speaker 1: they're sort of just putting him in the middle and
Speaker 1: letting him to stand side by side by himself or
Speaker 1: you know, and have her dancing dancing around him. He's
Speaker 1: really trying, and I appreciate that, but it's still yeah,
Speaker 1: when you're right when they're dancing together, it's a little
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And she's adorable, by the way, she's absolutely adorable.
Speaker 1: Six is across the board. And then we went into
Speaker 1: the elimination, which was.
Speaker 3: Like hard to watch. I felt bad for Corey.
Speaker 2: I think that for all, I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: the idea that I have to imagine. Obviously they don't
Speaker 2: know who's going to go and who's going to stay,
Speaker 2: so you're just got to be standing there with a
Speaker 2: big lump in your throat wondering if America hates you,
Speaker 2: which has to.
Speaker 3: Just be the worst feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: But I mean some of those people could have died
Speaker 1: back their surprise a little bit. I mean right, I
Speaker 1: mean there was there was everybody who got through.
Speaker 3: They were like, and I'm like, you got eight yeah,
Speaker 3: like let it just be.
Speaker 2: That's also that's one thing I was thinking about Danielle
Speaker 2: because God lover and we know Danielle.
Speaker 3: We love Danielle.
Speaker 2: She had a giant smile on her face all night
Speaker 2: for every contestant. Her face must have hurt so much
Speaker 2: by the time the show was over, just from sitting
Speaker 2: there at the giant smile on her face because they're
Speaker 2: all trying to be supportive of each other and doing everything,
Speaker 2: and it's like she must have just.
Speaker 4: Her face must have killed. I wish I could tell
Speaker 4: you that behind the scenes, some of that is fake.
Speaker 4: I'm like, wildly surprised because even last night I was like,
Speaker 4: I was like, man, you're really you know.
Speaker 3: Excited for everybody. She's like, yeah, this is the best.
Speaker 3: These people are the best.
Speaker 4: Like I'm waiting for her to say, like, you know,
Speaker 4: who's a real pos But she liked.
Speaker 3: She's liked everybody. She said she liked everybody. Yes, she
Speaker 3: really has, Yeah, she really has, which is awesome.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was tough and it was so nice.
Speaker 2: I've got to be again totally biased, but so nice
Speaker 2: to hear her name first.
Speaker 3: All Right, any predictions on who's out next week? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Scott and Riley are going to be
Speaker 2: on the bubble. I think Hilaria is going to be
Speaker 2: on the bubble again. Interesting, and I think there's a chance.
Speaker 2: I think there's a chance that it's gonna be Andy
Speaker 2: again on the bubble.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think Andy's going to make
Speaker 3: a comeback. He could. I told your point about Hilaria
Speaker 3: is interesting. I think she might. She could somewhat unfairly
Speaker 3: be kicked.
Speaker 1: Off, you know, because I think she could if she
Speaker 1: could turn this around, if she gets sticks, if she stays,
Speaker 1: and like next week, I guess she'll dance before she
Speaker 1: gets kicked off.
Speaker 3: But I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 1: I think there might have been something a little like
Speaker 1: flatlining or like let downy about her dance compared from
Speaker 1: last week to this week, and maybe some of that,
Speaker 1: like you've got seven kids, you're married to Alec Baldwin,
Speaker 1: like there might be some blowback there.
Speaker 2: There's also apparently some hot goss going around, as the
Speaker 2: kids say, about the fact that she like lobbied to
Speaker 2: be on the show.
Speaker 3: So it wasn't like, oh there's a bit hey, what
Speaker 3: are the hey wow, I got picked for Dancing Stars.
Speaker 3: Like she's been pushing and pushing and pushing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true or not, but apparently
Speaker 2: that's a big thing and some people don't like that either.
Speaker 3: Okay, so is that those are the three? We think? Yeah, possible.
Speaker 3: I think so I'll be the bottom three, I think so.
Speaker 3: Do you have a question for me? I do have
Speaker 3: a quell.
Speaker 2: I do have a question for you, because, as you know,
Speaker 2: every week, we are doing what we like to call
Speaker 2: the Strong Incentive. Now, if you remember, this is a
Speaker 2: piece where we are going to be asking riders strong
Speaker 2: every week what it would take to get him to
Speaker 2: be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. They've asked
Speaker 2: me to be one of the professional dancers. I've turned
Speaker 2: down several times. It wouldn't be fair but for a
Speaker 2: rider to come on and actually be a contestant. If
Speaker 2: you remember, last week, somebody showed up at Ryder's house
Speaker 2: with a suitcase filled with five hundred thousand dollars in cash,
Speaker 2: and Rider said no. So the incentive that we're going
Speaker 2: to be adding this week a lot not in lieu of,
Speaker 2: but along with.
Speaker 3: The five hundred thousand dollars in cash.
Speaker 2: Is also a one twenty five Airstream Atlas Murphy suite
Speaker 2: retail value three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, which is
Speaker 2: on sale right now for two hundred fifty dollars. No,
Speaker 2: it is the world's one of the best family camper
Speaker 2: vans on the market.
Speaker 3: Oh, you bastard. It opens up. It is this beautiful, gorgeous,
Speaker 3: top of.
Speaker 2: The line airstream camper van where you can take your
Speaker 2: entire family anywhere you'd like with these suites that pop out.
Speaker 3: It's really a gorgeous rider.
Speaker 1: How big are we talking? It's like, would you like
Speaker 1: to like to school RV size?
Speaker 2: It's it's it's not like it's like bigger than yours,
Speaker 2: but not crazy bus size.
Speaker 3: So it's it's something that you would be able to
Speaker 3: But it's.
Speaker 1: Still a camper van more than it's an RV. Correct,
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of RV's.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's a camper van, but it's an
Speaker 2: airstream camper van. You're okay, No, no, no, you're still
Speaker 2: at You're still at it.
Speaker 3: No, you're still at it. Know you realize at this
Speaker 3: point you might have gotten me.
Speaker 1: You might have me if you just took like a sprinter,
Speaker 1: like a regular sprinter campra van and decked it out
Speaker 1: with like all.
Speaker 3: The awesome stuff. This is so much better.
Speaker 1: But the idea of something bigger than like my campra
Speaker 1: van not that much bigger.
Speaker 3: It's not that much bigger. But I don't keep some rooms.
Speaker 1: I want more like bells and whistles in a small campus.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me it was just as style or caravan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because the camper van was a very good call. That
Speaker 3: might have gotten me. But y'all messed up, buddy. I
Speaker 3: go look it up. Go look it up. Look up
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Five, say a Mercedes sprinter van with X y Z
Speaker 1: pop top, and I would.
Speaker 3: Have been like, uh, this is I'll look it up.
Speaker 3: But uh, I'll just say no, okay, well that's dancing.
Speaker 3: That is two now.
Speaker 2: So far, he has turned down five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in cash and a twenty twenty five Airstream Atlas and
Speaker 2: Murphy sweet unbelievable. Okay, we will see you back here
Speaker 2: next week as we sweeten the.
Speaker 3: Pot for the Strong incentive.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's it for the episode of Podmets Tworld.
Speaker 1: Join us next week as we continue watching season thirty
Speaker 1: four of Dancing with the Stars. We may not know
Speaker 1: a cha chaw from a chimney changa, but we know
Speaker 1: what we learned way back in Phoenie's class. Danielle Fischel
Speaker 1: is the star of the show.
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