Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello and welcome
Speaker 1: to the very first episode of Misstepping with Tory Spelling.
Speaker 2: And about Easton Allen.
Speaker 1: Hi, I supposed to say your name. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know the etiquette for this. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're winging it. This is our first show, it's our
Speaker 1: first dance, as it were. Oh it is, and I
Speaker 1: just made a misstep. Thanks too. There's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: There's no take two on live TV. We're talking about
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. Season thirty four premiered last night.
Speaker 2: That's right, this is a this is I watched last
Speaker 2: season because of you. So this I'm new to Dancing
Speaker 2: with the Stars, but I'm really excited about this. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. I found myself getting so into
Speaker 2: the judges reactions last night, getting like really emotional, and
Speaker 2: then like I found myself becoming a dance expert. After
Speaker 2: like the third the third couple, I was like, gray
Speaker 2: were really off time for that one. Okay, I don't
Speaker 2: think they deserved a seven.
Speaker 1: You know what. From going from being in the ballroom
Speaker 1: and being like, oh, what do you mean? It was
Speaker 1: so great? I went to doing the same, like I
Speaker 1: was suddenly watching the TV being like, no, oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1: All I can say is I always say like because
Speaker 1: of my nerves, I turned down Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 1: for thirty two seasons. I finally did it the thirty
Speaker 1: third season. I'm glad I didn't say no thirty three
Speaker 1: and come on thirty four because I would have been
Speaker 1: it's double elimination next week. No one got eliminated last night,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I would have been like peacocking
Speaker 1: it off with Andy Richter instead of Anna Delby because
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have sustained. Well, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: Let's just go to the finals like everyone's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not fair.
Speaker 1: This is not a fair show anymore. This is not
Speaker 1: for the common folk anymore, like me.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, this is really exciting. It's your twentieth season,
Speaker 2: which is our twentieth year. Sorry, it's the it's the
Speaker 2: thirty fourth season, twentieth anniversary of Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a legacy. It's crazy. Before we jump
Speaker 2: into it, Tori, I have a question for you, and
Speaker 2: I'm sorry if you've answered this before, but I found
Speaker 2: myself wondering like when you pick, you pick the song
Speaker 2: that you're going to dance to, but do they give
Speaker 2: you like a list of approved songs, Like how does
Speaker 2: that work? Or can you pick any song?
Speaker 1: You can't just pick any song you can. They ask
Speaker 1: you what you want to dance to, and you tell
Speaker 1: them your favorite song and they will try to clear it.
Speaker 1: And sometimes there's reasons that they can't clear songs, or
Speaker 1: if another contestant is dancing to it already, but they
Speaker 1: do help you out and the music department is unbelievably talented.
Speaker 1: And I found last season that they got to know
Speaker 1: me and my energy and my spirit super quick and
Speaker 1: they would suggest songs and I'd be like, oh my gosh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right where I want to be, That's what I
Speaker 1: was going to say. So it was really helpful. And
Speaker 1: as we move on, you'll see there's specific nights.
Speaker 2: I know, next week is One Hit Wonder Week, which
Speaker 2: I felt I was like, man, what if someone finds
Speaker 2: that's a an artist finds out there One Hit Wonder
Speaker 2: is their song is on that episode. But I was
Speaker 2: curious to you, like, if you wanted a dance to,
Speaker 2: like the All in the Family theme song, Like would
Speaker 2: they let you do it or it.
Speaker 1: Has to be like that was so oddly specific yet
Speaker 1: very because I think.
Speaker 2: That's what I would want to do.
Speaker 1: Wait, what was the Hall in the Family song? Oh?
Speaker 2: Great? Well, and now I can't put me on the spot.
Speaker 2: It's those were the days and you know who you
Speaker 2: were then, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, sure, I guess. So what they what they do
Speaker 1: tell you and they encourage you, is you want to
Speaker 1: pick songs that are relevant that you know, not just
Speaker 1: because I went in wanting to pick like all eighty
Speaker 1: songs because that's my jam, and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: you you can, but you want to be relevant to
Speaker 1: like the new demo that's watching Dancing of the Stars
Speaker 1: and voting, and so you want to pick something that
Speaker 1: kind of everyone will know, which might not be all
Speaker 1: in the family. You know, Hey, hey, we want to
Speaker 1: keep everybody on their o. My favorite is different strokes
Speaker 1: the world don't move to the beat just once. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Uh well, this was a really fun episode to watch,
Speaker 2: the first the first episode, shall we I mean, shall
Speaker 2: we get into it?
Speaker 1: Shall we dive in?
Speaker 2: Okay? So that opening number so much fun. Love seeing
Speaker 2: all the pros back on the floor dance and together
Speaker 2: they really showing their stuff, not being bogged down by
Speaker 2: these celebrities that they have to, you know, keep up with.
Speaker 1: I know they can. It's like it's like triple to speed.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is what they can really do. But we
Speaker 2: start with Jordan Chiles and Ezra sosa Uh an Olympian,
Speaker 2: and they danced to Break My Soul by Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Olympians usually do pretty well.
Speaker 2: On this show.
Speaker 1: I have found historically duh, it's not fair. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I feel it's not. Well, obviously their strength, all of
Speaker 1: their moves, they can do their gymnastic flips, but it's
Speaker 1: also their stamina, like they perform in front of millions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so like they have no fear. This is nothing for them.
Speaker 1: So it's really unfair, I think, even though they will
Speaker 1: say when they come in like oh my god, I've
Speaker 1: never done this before, it's just yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, if there's any class of person Dancing with the
Speaker 2: Stars that is prepared to do something and then have
Speaker 2: men hold up a card of one to ten or
Speaker 2: something like, it's an Olympian, they're ready for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they were great.
Speaker 2: There's a one foot spin that I really liked in
Speaker 2: that dance. A lot of flips, a lot of tricks.
Speaker 2: Derek did not think they incorporated enough salsa in those moves,
Speaker 2: and they each scored five or total of ten for
Speaker 2: that first dance.
Speaker 1: I'm not salsified enough to know there is enough sulf
Speaker 1: in that dance. But I got to say, like Ezra
Speaker 1: was with Anna Delby last year and he went home first. Ezra,
Speaker 1: I love friends with him. He's an amazing human, amazing dancer,
Speaker 1: and it was his first season last year, so it
Speaker 1: is nice that this year he has an Olympian. You know,
Speaker 1: Anna is a good dancer. I think she's a really
Speaker 1: good dancer, and she was working really hard and learning,
Speaker 1: but she went home. Re really liked me.
Speaker 2: But we should know like great, oh yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is gonna be a lot of fun to watch them.
Speaker 2: And we should note that Carrie Anne was sick or
Speaker 2: arouse last night. So the only two judges we have
Speaker 2: Bruno and Derek Huff And.
Speaker 1: I never missed her presence, more like, yes, it really
Speaker 1: was glaring that, you know, the boys had to hold
Speaker 1: their ground and it was like, oh I missed her.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, sir. Absence was palpable, and I really hope
Speaker 2: she's back next week.
Speaker 1: Because I like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, that's a ten point word there. Now
Speaker 2: we're going to move on. This is clearly, I think
Speaker 2: an early fan favorite. Dylan Ephron and Daniella Karra Gosh, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm saying her last name right, but uh yeah. They
Speaker 2: danced a Chotshot and Milkshake by Calise so good.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go right out and say he's hot.
Speaker 2: He's so hot. Oh my god, he's.
Speaker 1: I thought the other on lit was hot, but he's
Speaker 1: the smoke and Ephron, he really is.
Speaker 2: My wife was watching and she doesn't know a lot
Speaker 2: of these people, and she was like, oh god. She
Speaker 2: was like fanning herself. And I've had the joy of
Speaker 2: meeting him in person, and he's just a beautiful human
Speaker 2: being and he's a cool guy. It's like a nice guy,
Speaker 2: great energy. I love how he started off.
Speaker 1: Did you say you've met him?
Speaker 2: I've met him, yes, Oh, and he's great. He's beautiful
Speaker 2: in person. He's really nice, really low key. I think
Speaker 2: he's great. I'm a big Dylan Efron supporter.
Speaker 1: How old is Dylan Ephron.
Speaker 2: Dylan Ephron is I know this at the top of
Speaker 2: my head, but he's roughly he is thirty.
Speaker 1: Three years old. Perfect. Is he single?
Speaker 2: I believe he has a girlfriend, but let me just
Speaker 2: confirm that for you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, now that I'm now that I'm not
Speaker 1: married and single. I asked this question a lot, and
Speaker 1: I sound like that person that like creepy person, like,
Speaker 1: oh he's I'm that person. And now I didn't mean that. Sorry,
Speaker 1: dylanough uh well, slide into dance. Okay. So Daniella the
Speaker 1: past seasons has gotten. She was with Dwight Howard last season,
Speaker 1: who was seven feet tall. Daniella comes in at five
Speaker 1: foot two, and I think that's the Hollywood version. I
Speaker 1: don't know. She is a tiny, petite powerhouse. Yes. And
Speaker 1: the season before I am blinking on who she had won.
Speaker 1: They won, or it was it two seasons ago. She
Speaker 1: always gets these athletes, is my point, that are super tall,
Speaker 1: and she has to come up with all these crazy things.
Speaker 1: And she said to me. I saw her a few
Speaker 1: months ago and she was joking and she said, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. She goes, I said, please give me someone
Speaker 1: normal height this season, and she said, I love my
Speaker 1: past partners. But she said to Cat, I hope I
Speaker 1: get someone that is more my height. And she got
Speaker 1: such a hot guy that I'm like, whoa, I'm nervous
Speaker 1: for Pasha.
Speaker 2: So the year before, I mean I would be nervous too.
Speaker 1: But I'm just kidding. They are so good together, and
Speaker 1: they just renewed their vows right before the season, so
Speaker 1: I have no fear there. But they are like one
Speaker 1: of those couples that you want to like feel the
Speaker 1: energy between the chemistry.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they're both such beautiful people too. So she had
Speaker 2: Dwight Howard last year. The year before she had Jason
Speaker 2: Maraz who comes in at five foot nine, and then well, okay,
Speaker 2: but the year before that she had Joseph I got
Speaker 2: home stands last name, right, But Bayena, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger's son.
Speaker 1: So I'm just shitting the bed here left and right
Speaker 1: saying that every year she gets an athlete that's sixless.
Speaker 2: I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger's son. He's not a He's no slouch,
Speaker 2: you know, he's a pretty athletic guy. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: is gonna be a lot of another fun couple to watch.
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to see more from Danielle and Dylan Ephron.
Speaker 2: But each scored five.
Speaker 1: Each judge gave him five points, so total ten. Well
Speaker 1: here's the thing, he's never performed ever, which whoa like
Speaker 1: this is? Well, I don't know his background. I know
Speaker 1: he won Traders, he went.
Speaker 2: Traders and he's like a so he does all of
Speaker 2: stuff on social media. He's not an actor.
Speaker 1: He's not an actor okay, yeah, not performer. So yeah,
Speaker 1: when he said he's never performed ever, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's a real person just like me. He's smoking hot
Speaker 1: and can of rip that shirt off and show that
Speaker 1: six pack, seven pack, eight pack? I don't know whatever
Speaker 1: he had. I didn't care about his feet. I was
Speaker 1: looking there, you know, so it didn't matter. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you could tell he was nervous. You could tell. And
Speaker 1: they said this, you know that he has to work
Speaker 1: on kind of more. What did they say? The performance
Speaker 1: of it. I loved his butt shake, of course, Bruno
Speaker 1: said that, but his timing and everything, but he'll get there.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I think they're one to watch. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: absolutely definitely. Next up, we have Elaine Hendrix and Alan Burnston.
Speaker 2: And she was she's from the Parent Trap. You would
Speaker 2: recognize her as the stem home from the Parent Trap.
Speaker 2: And she was a dancer like she started out as
Speaker 2: a pro dancer. Yeah, full on, and you can see
Speaker 2: those skills in her performance. A lot of parent trap
Speaker 2: stuff in that first dance. I mean she was wearing
Speaker 2: a hat similar to the one she wore in the movie.
Speaker 2: She did the secret handshake. That was really fun to
Speaker 2: like when that handshake came out, I jumped up and
Speaker 2: pointed the screen. I had a lot of fun with that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Derek was stunned by that performance.
Speaker 1: He loved it. Now, I have a question, when you
Speaker 1: have like a secret trick in your bag, do you
Speaker 1: feel like you should pull it out the first show
Speaker 1: because everyone's thinking, okay, parent trap, is she going to
Speaker 1: do the handshake? And she did, but then she's like
Speaker 1: put her best foot forge we haven't gotten to it.
Speaker 1: But Corey Feldman did the same thing. We were all
Speaker 1: waiting for it. Is he going to do Michael Jackson?
Speaker 1: And he did, so it's like, okay, but they're not
Speaker 1: being eliminated this week. They're getting scored this week. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I might have waited to pull those things
Speaker 1: out a little.
Speaker 2: Bit earlier on see I think that was a calculated move.
Speaker 2: I mean Baron Davis, NBA player, he comes out with
Speaker 2: like a bit assla basketball, you know, I think they
Speaker 2: have to. I think right out the gate they should
Speaker 2: do that to remind the audience like this is we
Speaker 2: have a relationship, remember you know the parent trap. We're
Speaker 2: going to be run this together.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: That's kind of because I thought that too, as like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're all kind of like, you know, pardon the phrase,
Speaker 2: they're all blowing their load like really early in terms
Speaker 2: of like their little tricks.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it.
Speaker 2: But but I think I think in this case it's
Speaker 2: probably and like you said, there's no eliminations this week,
Speaker 2: so like maybe they won't have a chance to do
Speaker 2: that if they're going to wait till the later.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, so so we're saying not to go
Speaker 1: back to me at all. I should have done like
Speaker 1: Donna Martin graduates in cap and gown and then take
Speaker 1: it off. And I should have done it at the
Speaker 1: first show. See. I brought that up to Pasha and
Speaker 1: I was like, do we pull that out? And he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you want to see if you're interesting at all, you're
Speaker 1: going to do that. And we didn't know if I was.
Speaker 1: You want to save that.
Speaker 2: Because I did like that there wasn't any like nine
Speaker 2: o two and zero stuff in your in your dance,
Speaker 2: your first dance, Like I kind of liked that, like,
Speaker 2: you know, there wasn't like a you know, they didn't
Speaker 2: have the beach house on the on the set or
Speaker 2: anything like that. You know, like it was like because
Speaker 2: it was like, oh, this is.
Speaker 1: Exactly not and then I like came out but oh man, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I wasn't listening or something, but
Speaker 1: when I was on, I don't remember being told there
Speaker 1: was a double elimination. Oh really. I was so engrossed
Speaker 1: and I was like I had blinders on. It was
Speaker 1: like a horse race. I was like and go. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was kind of shocked. And this
Speaker 1: year they're like, oh yeah, double elimination. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: the thing every season. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess wait did they announce an did Anna
Speaker 2: get announced.
Speaker 1: First before you or yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, so was there like a split second You're like
Speaker 2: I'm safe.
Speaker 1: Oh so I didn't know there was double elimination until
Speaker 1: they said there's double eliminations.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay moment and.
Speaker 1: I was in the bottom three. No, I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was going to read.
Speaker 2: Me well, so Yeah, Leaine Hendrick's a great, great job,
Speaker 2: six scores of six from both judges.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was great. And wait, so she was in
Speaker 1: a car accident.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, she was in a she was hit by
Speaker 2: a car while riding her bicycle. Oh my god in
Speaker 2: the early nineties, which ended her career as a dancer.
Speaker 1: Geez.
Speaker 2: And then she became an actress after that she did okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: She's done great. I loved her costume. I loved her hair,
Speaker 1: I loved her makeup. It was very old Hollywood and
Speaker 1: I yeah, I appreciated that on every level. She's my favorite.
Speaker 2: Look oh wow, yeah, yeah she looked great. So this
Speaker 2: next couple I think an early front runner. Yeah, from
Speaker 2: the Secret Lives of Mormon Lives. Oh yeah, Whitney Lovett
Speaker 2: with returning dancer Mark Ballas.
Speaker 1: Mark Ballas like all time favorite, I think, such a
Speaker 1: fan favorite. Has been off the show last year he
Speaker 1: came back and did this amazing dance with Derek Cough
Speaker 1: And now.
Speaker 2: He's back, he's with Jase Curls are back.
Speaker 1: It can't go wrong with Mark Ballas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was feeling like, I mean, here's the thing. Do
Speaker 1: you watch Secret Lives and Mormon Wives.
Speaker 2: I have not seen all of it, but my wife
Speaker 2: is like a massive fan, so I have like walked
Speaker 2: in and out of the room. I know the beats.
Speaker 1: I've seen, Like enough, right, I I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: that show. I love that show. And I you know,
Speaker 1: she's mom talk. She like start a mom wanted to
Speaker 1: start starting gallas and mom talk. So I knew she
Speaker 1: could do like the TikTok dances of course, but I
Speaker 1: was surprised, Oh so her setup video did you notice?
Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, I knew it right there.
Speaker 1: I was like, she's going to crush this and be great.
Speaker 1: Her setup video what do they call this? It's not
Speaker 1: set up video, but it's like it's.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, like the introduction package in Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they showed her being like oh I can't get
Speaker 1: the steps, like kind of goofy, and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: she's going to fucking crush this. But I'm my gosh,
Speaker 1: can anyone do this? If there was Mark Ballas, that's
Speaker 1: my question?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean she really looked out in terms of
Speaker 2: a partner. He's so great and something they kept hammering like,
Speaker 2: oh you do TikTok dances? Those are ten seconds at
Speaker 2: a time. This is a minute and a half and
Speaker 2: something I enjoyed at the end. Or in her post
Speaker 2: dance interview, Julianne was asking her like, oh, how did
Speaker 2: how did it feel doing a long dances of just
Speaker 2: a TikTok and Whitney was like, yeah, it was like
Speaker 2: seven tiktoks. And I wondered if that's how Mark was
Speaker 2: training her, Like he's like, okay, so let's just pretend
Speaker 2: this is a separate video. Okay, We're just gonna connect
Speaker 2: them all. And you know, I think because of that,
Speaker 2: like because she's done all these TikTok dances, like I
Speaker 2: do think she'll have a leg up. And she she
Speaker 2: has a background as a dancer when she was when
Speaker 2: she was younger. She has a bit of a dance background.
Speaker 1: Like so are we talking like tap jazz ballet in
Speaker 1: like preschool child child you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, beyond that, I don't think she danced like
Speaker 2: professionally thing like that, but she she does.
Speaker 1: She did do a bit of dance, Okay, unfair cool.
Speaker 2: She was a cheerleader and she was in a dance
Speaker 2: company when she was in high school and she would
Speaker 2: train to dance forty to fifty hours a week, so
Speaker 2: she's you know, she's got a she's got a nice
Speaker 2: little foundation there to work with.
Speaker 1: Ed job, unfair, move on, No, I'm just kidding. I
Speaker 1: thought she was great. I loved her. She looked beautiful, Yes, great, look.
Speaker 1: I loved her look because a lot of times on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars, I feel like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: the time it's a very almost showgirl asque look. Yes,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's like, wow, they really made you up
Speaker 1: too much? Not it's beautiful to watch. But she kept
Speaker 1: hers clean, I thought, and I liked that. I was
Speaker 1: did you see her? She was huffing and puffing after all,
Speaker 1: but like, really, I've never seen anyone huff and puff
Speaker 1: and look so beautiful while doing that. It's almost like
Speaker 1: people either have a good crying face or a bad
Speaker 1: crying face. Like Kim Kardashian is notorious for being a
Speaker 1: bad crier. Yes, yes, even though she's so beautiful. Me,
Speaker 1: I'm a bad crier. And you don't realize this into
Speaker 1: your own reality TV because then you look back at
Speaker 1: it and you're like, oh my god, do you know
Speaker 1: if you're a bad crier or a good crier?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't had the luxury of watching
Speaker 2: myself cry.
Speaker 1: So you should ask Allison.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next time we watch Old Yeller or something, you
Speaker 2: have her to bring out the phone and video take
Speaker 2: me crying. I think that's a good thing to know
Speaker 2: about yourself though, if you're a good or bad crier.
Speaker 1: So we need to figure out we have to do
Speaker 1: a minute how much? Minute and a half? Yes, a
Speaker 1: minute and a half, dance and then see both of
Speaker 1: us if we have that good or bad huff and
Speaker 1: puff face. Because like she was like and it was
Speaker 1: like beautiful, and I was like, she probably looked like
Speaker 1: that when she had a baby, when she was pushing,
Speaker 1: she was like glorious. Anyway, I kind of was girl
Speaker 1: crushing on Whitney love It last night, just gonna say it.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh yeah, she's she's great. We're excited about her.
Speaker 2: She and Derek gave her a seven. Bruno gave her
Speaker 2: an eight and he helped the wrong paddle at first,
Speaker 2: So that was that was kind of funny. I love
Speaker 2: watching these guys stumble a bit.
Speaker 1: There was there was quite a few stumbles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was kind of chaos down there.
Speaker 1: But he looked but Carrie Anne needs to get back, yes,
Speaker 1: and control those boys. But I felt like he looked
Speaker 1: confused afterwards, almost like he held up his eight and
Speaker 1: they were like oh wait, and and Julianne was like wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: we had the wrong paddle up. And then he was
Speaker 1: like wait no, almost like he meant to do a seven,
Speaker 1: but then the eight was up. He was like, oh, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: did you feel that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I see because I'm curious, Like I from watching it,
Speaker 2: it looks like they have like a little computer or
Speaker 2: something at the at their seat where they type in
Speaker 2: the like where they lock in their score, so like
Speaker 2: that becomes he held up an air, he put an
Speaker 2: eight into that, and then he held up a setond
Speaker 2: by accident.
Speaker 1: His look of confusion was just like oh what happened?
Speaker 2: Oh god, I didn't mean to give her that love
Speaker 2: of a score. Yes, but so at this point that
Speaker 2: Whitney and Mark are in the lead, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like an eight out of the gate.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do that. Pun is is a
Speaker 1: lot on the first dance. Yep, there's and I typically
Speaker 1: I don't know. The theory is I have no inside
Speaker 1: information here is that the judges give room for the
Speaker 1: dancers to grow. So they typically, like the pros, will
Speaker 1: always tell all of us like, don't worry if the
Speaker 1: first couple shows you get lower scores than you expect.
Speaker 1: You know, they want you to grow, so sometimes they
Speaker 1: don't score you as high. Going in with an aid,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm shocked. She was great.
Speaker 2: She was great, and and they but they still have
Speaker 2: some criticisms for like, you know, Derek says you need
Speaker 2: to maintain your form a bit better and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But regardless of high scores for Whitney and Mark, We're
Speaker 2: moving on to Baron Davis NBA All Star Baron Davis
Speaker 2: and Britt Stewart. I am a Baron Davis fan. He
Speaker 2: was a Golden State Warrior for a long time. I
Speaker 2: have two of his jerseys in my closet. I'm very
Speaker 2: excited to see Baron. Yeah, I was really excited to
Speaker 2: see him. They danced to Can't Touch This by mc hammer,
Speaker 2: a nice Glen boy, and he came out with the
Speaker 2: bidazzled basketball. They did the mc hammer like, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of like leg shuffle foot shuffle thing, and yeah,
Speaker 2: they were a lot of fun. They said, you didn't
Speaker 2: just touch this, you crushed this, So I was funny
Speaker 2: to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were great, they were good. It made me like,
Speaker 1: I kind of love this season how their the pros
Speaker 1: are letting their stars kind of do more freestyle even
Speaker 1: early on. Yes, and they're letting them kind of like
Speaker 1: what's so, I feel like they're really getting to know
Speaker 1: their their peeps and like, what are you good at?
Speaker 1: Let's throw it in there so we give them a
Speaker 1: bit of what you can do best.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's a lot of fun and for the
Speaker 2: audience that may not know these people that well, it
Speaker 2: really is a nice introduction to their personalities and what
Speaker 2: they're into.
Speaker 1: Definitely. So I wish I had thrown like the robot
Speaker 1: into my first dance because it's my signature.
Speaker 2: So I would have loved to see that. Yeah, huge,
Speaker 2: huge star for this next this next star. We're dancing
Speaker 2: with the stars. Alex Earl massive influencer. We have her
Speaker 2: lights all over the studio in Burbank and our iHeart offices.
Speaker 2: She's just a Here's the thing I think is interesting
Speaker 2: about Alex Earl or her partner's Val Schmarkowsky. She's like
Speaker 2: an influencer, But when you think influencer, You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: they got they know the TikTok dances, they know how
Speaker 2: to do this. No, no, no, she comes from like
Speaker 2: the world of makeup and get ready with Me and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, does not have she does not do
Speaker 2: these dances.
Speaker 1: So her intro when they announced her, it was like
Speaker 1: I thought it was the next presidential candidate. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was like it felt a little
Speaker 1: bit more than the rest of the stars, like they
Speaker 1: were just I can't remember what they said, but like
Speaker 1: it wasn't just social media start. It was like alex
Speaker 1: Earle with her partner, and I was like, whoa. It
Speaker 1: was such a huge announcement. I was a girl, better
Speaker 1: be good here. But she didn't disappoint. No.
Speaker 2: She she did a did a good job, danced to
Speaker 2: Circus by Britney Spears, did this really cool leg swing
Speaker 2: I thought was really fun. Uh and she The Drek
Speaker 2: gave her a seven and Bruno gave her six. High
Speaker 2: score for alex Earl and she has a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, something I think about with this show is
Speaker 2: that like you can be the best dancer out there,
Speaker 2: but like if you don't have the crazy fan base,
Speaker 2: you may not go as far, which I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people. That's a criticism a lot of people
Speaker 2: have for the show is that it's like a populated
Speaker 2: contest at a certain point.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I feel like this season especially,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe because I'm not on it and I'm
Speaker 1: just like fan girl here and supporting, like my dancing
Speaker 1: at the Star's family. I've been really following it more
Speaker 1: on social media, and you see how some are just
Speaker 1: lugging it, lugging it, and there's so much promotion and
Speaker 1: videos made and logos and stuff. I'm like, gosh, is
Speaker 1: that an unfair leg up? No pun? Intend to hear
Speaker 1: dance sho you up? Because I know last season I
Speaker 1: was working so hard and I had my head in
Speaker 1: the game that I didn't have time to do all
Speaker 1: these TikTok videos. I wasn't and maybe that was to
Speaker 1: my demise. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a you know, you want to put all
Speaker 2: of your effort onto the dance floor, but then you
Speaker 2: also have to be every second you're not dancing, you
Speaker 2: got to be making tiktoks and like begging people to
Speaker 2: it's really.
Speaker 1: Right, which also makes me question I'm sorry to say this,
Speaker 1: do the people that have teams have a better shot
Speaker 1: because you know, they have people that are helping them
Speaker 1: post and helping them make logos like vote for us
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, yeah, it's you know, it's that's
Speaker 1: not fair. I went into this as a single mom
Speaker 1: of five. Well, I sound a bitter party of one.
Speaker 1: I'm not I have this.
Speaker 2: She's got her a little beer of all there. It
Speaker 2: is fan favorite toy spelling. Yeah. So the next couple
Speaker 2: Scott Hoying, I hope I'm saying his last ning, right,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Scott Scott Hoying and Riley Arnold. He's from Pentatonics.
Speaker 2: My mom such a big Pentatonics fan, so excited about this.
Speaker 1: Okay, So your mom's a fan of Dancing of the Stars.
Speaker 2: She's not fan Dancing with the Storry. She's a Panatonics fan.
Speaker 2: So I think she. I think she's watching this year
Speaker 2: though because of him.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, because that just brings you back to Alex Earl.
Speaker 1: Because the original demo is like my age and older.
Speaker 1: Maybe they started watching way back twenty years ago, and
Speaker 1: I just wonder if they're like, who's Alex Earl and
Speaker 1: they have no idea.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, and I think they're trying to bring like
Speaker 2: with the Morning Wives too, They're trying to like bringing people,
Speaker 2: so you know, pentatonics, I think, and then they have
Speaker 2: wide appeal. Something I really liked about his intro package
Speaker 2: was that because he danced to Abricadabra by Lady Gaga
Speaker 2: and he made a TikTok with his husband about the
Speaker 2: song and Lady Gago commented and he had the comment
Speaker 2: like printed out and framed like a massive comment on
Speaker 2: their wall. I thought that was awesome. But yeah, great,
Speaker 2: great performance, really high kicks there. That was really fun
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and the crowd went wild. Yeah they did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they both scored a five from each of the judges,
Speaker 2: and we're excited to see more from them. A fellow
Speaker 2: member of the iHeart Podcast family, Daniel fishal with your
Speaker 2: former partner Pasha Pashkav. They danced a Stronger by Kelly Clarkson,
Speaker 2: great fluidity. I thought Daniel looked so elegant. She looked
Speaker 2: amazing out there, and they both scored a six, and
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see more from Daniel Fisher. She did
Speaker 2: a great job. Boy Meet's World star Daniel Offisher.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I obviously very invested in this couple.
Speaker 1: My partner, Pasha Danielle love her, and I was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see. And I was just praying because I'm like,
Speaker 1: fellow actor, come on, Child's teen star, you can do
Speaker 1: this podstar. So yeah, her strength I was surprised at, Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like she hits moves and there's photos, you know,
Speaker 1: they take photos of like every move that you hit.
Speaker 1: And I was looking at the photos afterwards and her
Speaker 1: legs and arms, and I was just very impressed with that.
Speaker 1: I think her strength is really helping her here. But
Speaker 1: I didn't know she'd be as elegant as she was.
Speaker 1: And it was fluid, and I saw that smile. Pasha
Speaker 1: always says smile, smile, and she just looked like she
Speaker 1: was having so much fun. And I was surprised and
Speaker 1: happily surprised. And I think that they're like a dark
Speaker 1: horse in this race. Even though she's not a dark horse,
Speaker 1: she's like every America's crush, So she has two things
Speaker 1: going for here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone kept commenting about how they were or she
Speaker 2: was their crush growing up. You know, I was one
Speaker 2: of those people too, And yeah, I'm so excited something
Speaker 2: I think that she pointed out in her intro that
Speaker 2: you had in common with hers. She's like, I've been
Speaker 2: performing for most of my life, you know, Like so this,
Speaker 2: even though I haven't really danced, I know what it's
Speaker 2: like to be in front of a camera. I can,
Speaker 2: you know, take information and synthesize it and perform it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely couple to watch.
Speaker 1: We will.
Speaker 2: We're excited for next week. Can we see more from
Speaker 2: Daniel Fishal Another Mormon wife on here, Jen Affleck and
Speaker 2: our new dancer, this is his first season, Jan Rovnick.
Speaker 2: I hope, I'm sorry if I'm saying the last name wrong.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of a lot of consonant.
Speaker 1: The last names are so hard and I'm so exciting
Speaker 1: you're saying them. Yes, And he danced with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was very exciting to learn. Yeah, they danced
Speaker 2: to a bad bunny song which I'm not going to
Speaker 2: try to pronounce in Nueva Yole, I believe. And there's
Speaker 2: a macarina in their dance. I thought, and maybe that
Speaker 2: was you know, maybe that's rude of me to assume,
Speaker 2: but like there's like a putting their hand down, on
Speaker 2: the on the on the chest, then on the waist.
Speaker 2: I saw some macarina in there that was really fine.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they did a great job a lot of lifts.
Speaker 2: Derek did not like all the lifts and all the
Speaker 2: aerials in that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't a fan of all the lifts. It made
Speaker 1: me wonder, since this is Jan's first season, if you know,
Speaker 1: the pros have been doing this for so long that
Speaker 1: they know what to do and what the judges are
Speaker 1: going to respond to. So even though he has so
Speaker 1: much training and he's so amazing, I was like, is
Speaker 1: he going to know all this? And I think that's
Speaker 1: where the lifts came in that you were like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's his like Taylor Stift stuff. So wow. She must
Speaker 1: have been really like because I know from doing lifts
Speaker 1: on the show, and I only did like one or
Speaker 1: two that you get so dizzy you have to find
Speaker 1: your replace when you come back down, and she was
Speaker 1: being flipped all over the place. So good for her.
Speaker 1: Jen Affleck Yeah, I thought she was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was awesome, but I want to see more
Speaker 2: of her moves.
Speaker 1: Definitely, they were right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, let's keep her on Terror Firm. For next week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so Corey Felderman and Jenna Johnson our next couple. Great
Speaker 2: to see Corey Felderman back.
Speaker 1: He's a he looks awesome.
Speaker 2: He looks great, cool bleached hair, you know, obviously a
Speaker 2: huge dance background. He danced too. It's still rock and
Speaker 2: roll to me by Billy Joel and we're saying this
Speaker 2: earlier he did the cool moonwalk. We're to the MJ
Speaker 2: stuff in there. I heard those rumors that like he
Speaker 2: hasn't gone to any rehearsal or right, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know what that was, but it was like right in
Speaker 1: the beginning, it was like Jenna Johnson says she hasn't
Speaker 1: seen him since the announcement good Morning America, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what we all like? But I wonder if
Speaker 1: that was just like a press get like so we'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I kind of I hope it. I like
Speaker 2: the idea of that being the true because he just
Speaker 2: comes in and kills it like he did a great job. Yes,
Speaker 2: but there's there's form and technique to work on and uh,
Speaker 2: they scored a nine. Dare gave him a form, Bruno
Speaker 2: gave him a five.
Speaker 1: Definitely, and Jenna just so everyone knows, even though you
Speaker 1: do know if you're listening to this won the Mirror
Speaker 1: Ball last year.
Speaker 2: Yes, returning champion Jenny Johnson, this is our next couple.
Speaker 2: This is a Fifth Harmony member. I have been saying
Speaker 2: her name wrong this whole time. I feel so bad.
Speaker 2: It's Lauren ha Reggie is how you pronounce it?
Speaker 1: I thought it was now. I also thought she was
Speaker 1: in a group called Third Harmony, So don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Uh, Lauren HAREGGI from from Fifth Harmony and Brandon Armstrong.
Speaker 2: She's she's great. I like in her intro she basically
Speaker 2: said like I wanted to do this because everyone comes
Speaker 2: out looking snatched and I want to do that too.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking, like that's a cool, like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know I want to I want to tighten things up.
Speaker 2: I think I'm just gonna do Dancing with.
Speaker 1: The stars and so, you know, going to the millions
Speaker 1: of people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I thought that was fun.
Speaker 1: They they did a great job.
Speaker 2: Derek says she needs to stick the landing better, she
Speaker 2: needs to finish things off more confidently.
Speaker 1: Because he had to say something they did like a
Speaker 1: great routine.
Speaker 2: They really did. Yeah, Yeah, Derek gave her seven Bruno six.
Speaker 2: They're they're high up there. Uh yeah, great, great dances
Speaker 2: from from our fifth Harmony Superstar. Uh. Andy Richter is
Speaker 2: our next couple and director with Ma Slater. He's he's
Speaker 2: a he's a dark horse, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's something.
Speaker 2: He's something. He's got moves, but uh, they not a
Speaker 2: lot of footwork for for Andy. They kept it kind
Speaker 2: of low key, I thought, and I know that he's
Speaker 2: he's an older guy. Uh, but the spirit of the
Speaker 2: cha chaw was there, as Bruno says, uh, and they
Speaker 2: just have to work on their timing. And you know
Speaker 2: when Bruno gave them a four, and I could hear
Speaker 2: the udio booing, which I thought was wild.
Speaker 1: Because who doesn't love Andy Richter? Got I love him. Yes,
Speaker 1: Here's the thing I feel is unfair every season, you know,
Speaker 1: they want to put different age groups and demos and
Speaker 1: talent and technique and levels. I feel like he's kind
Speaker 1: of everyone is really pretty solid, and then you have
Speaker 1: Andy Richter who's kind of like, hey, I'm here to
Speaker 1: have fun. I know I'm not the best answer and
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit older than everyone, but it's glaring
Speaker 1: because it's just him and that's.
Speaker 2: Not Yeah, yes exactly, but he's.
Speaker 1: The cherry on top and I'm I'm happy he's there.
Speaker 1: I love Andy Richter. He said he was peacockying. It
Speaker 1: was a nod to his days on NBC with Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we love me. He's so funny and he's just
Speaker 2: he's one of those guys like when you see him,
Speaker 2: he just wanted to smile. He's got a joyful presence. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that'll be fun to watch him. Hilaria Baldwin and
Speaker 2: Gleb so Chenko, I believe is the last.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter glob. Everyone knows how many other Which
Speaker 1: globe are you talking about again? Globs globe? And then
Speaker 1: we all just drool a little. So.
Speaker 2: I mean she she had a podcast with iHeartRadio for
Speaker 2: a short amount of time, but she has some dance experience.
Speaker 2: Her husband is Alec Baldwin. He was in the audience tonight.
Speaker 2: That was fun to see.
Speaker 1: Shidows there is a mama of seven.
Speaker 2: Mama of seven crazy and I thought she looked great.
Speaker 2: She did a great job. You can see that she
Speaker 2: has a dance background. She's very confident out there.
Speaker 1: For sure, but she broke her hip sixteen years ago
Speaker 1: to stop dancing, so and since then we know that
Speaker 1: she is a yoga teacher and she's excellent at that.
Speaker 1: But this was her dream to go back to dancing,
Speaker 1: and she never thought she would and here she is
Speaker 1: doing it now. I am friends with Hilaria, so I'm
Speaker 1: trying not to be biased with all of this, but
Speaker 1: I thought she did a great job. She gets it's
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism from people, and she's very thick
Speaker 1: skinned and she goes for it. I did text with
Speaker 1: her last night after the performance and I was like,
Speaker 1: you crushed it. You know, what are they gonna say now,
Speaker 1: like fuzz? You went out there and did it. And
Speaker 1: she was like you're the best. I love you, So
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah. I feel like watching Hilaria and Gleb
Speaker 1: it's almost watching two pros. I kind of got lost
Speaker 1: in that and I thought I was watching a pro
Speaker 1: dance and it almost took away a bit from seeing
Speaker 1: a star being there. So I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: going to hurt them. Knocked over my mic got excited.
Speaker 2: The energy of the of the dance floor has reached
Speaker 2: Tory spelling. She's slapping the microphone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, And Gleb has a lot of focus on
Speaker 1: him right now because of his off screen, off screen,
Speaker 1: off dance floor romance last season with Brooks Nader, which
Speaker 1: I next show will get into that. Because I was
Speaker 1: there for the behind the scenes from the beginning to
Speaker 1: the end, I can comment on that a little bit,
Speaker 1: So stay tuned for our next episode. But she has
Speaker 1: publicly on her new show Loved thy Nator, which I'm
Speaker 1: big fan, talked about the breakup and how we cheated
Speaker 1: an honor, which he denies. So he has a lot
Speaker 1: of eyeballs on him this season.
Speaker 2: The plot thickens. Well, we can't wait to watch more.
Speaker 2: They both scored a seven. They got a total fourteen
Speaker 2: points from the judges. Our final couple Robert Irwin and
Speaker 2: Whitney Carson, Steve Irwin's son, animal conservationist. They danced to
Speaker 2: Born to Be Wild. What a what a performance? My god,
Speaker 2: so much such high jumps, big leaps, the crown on
Speaker 2: the ground, just so much energy. It was so much fun.
Speaker 2: Derek said, it's the best first dance he has ever
Speaker 2: seen on this show.
Speaker 1: He went there, he said it, Yes, I could not
Speaker 1: believe that. I mean it was incredible. I was floored.
Speaker 2: It was insane.
Speaker 1: Do you dance floored?
Speaker 2: I was dance floored. I was flabbergasted. The mirror ball
Speaker 2: hit me in the head. I was so excited about this.
Speaker 2: Tied for the for the top score with Whitney Levitt,
Speaker 2: so just huge, a score of fifteen massive.
Speaker 1: I have some thoughts on this. Okay, So this couple
Speaker 1: was announced. It feels like months ago, right, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: teased that Robert Irwin was he was announced it's the
Speaker 1: first Dancing with the Star to be on season thirty four.
Speaker 1: And then they made us wait and wait, and then
Speaker 1: I announced like one more right, and then we had
Speaker 1: the big reveal on GMA, which we always have. But
Speaker 1: this makes me think were they able to like everyone
Speaker 1: gets the same amount dancing in studio, but like outside studio,
Speaker 1: have they been practicing for months?
Speaker 2: Yes? I had that same thought, like it's nuts. He's
Speaker 2: not like I mean, I don't think he has any
Speaker 2: dance background, Like this is crazy. His ability is so high.
Speaker 1: I mean, his sister Bindy won the mirror Ball. It
Speaker 1: doesn't but just you know, everyone said, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that he's going to be a great dancer, and what
Speaker 1: you know, obviously honoring the legacy of his father, but I,
Speaker 1: oh god, I'm going to say it, and everyone's going
Speaker 1: to hate me for this. It was almost too much
Speaker 1: for me. It was so I know, he was so
Speaker 1: good and had so much energy. I felt like I
Speaker 1: was watching you know, some dance like musical and Broadway,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, you're too good for this show.
Speaker 1: First dance, Like I wish Whitney had been, like, just
Speaker 1: pull it back a little, so we wow them. They
Speaker 1: have nowhere to go at this point, yeah, except for
Speaker 1: the finals and win this thing so well.
Speaker 2: I mean they've established themselves as a as an early
Speaker 2: as the winners.
Speaker 1: Basically, they should just hand in the mirror ball right now.
Speaker 2: And next week we're doing one hit Wonders week and
Speaker 2: it's a double elimination, no one eliminated tonight. It's the
Speaker 2: first week. But next week is going to be predictions.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, let's do predictions so that we
Speaker 1: can be wrong and then well something.
Speaker 2: I think I think, unfortunately I hate saying this, but
Speaker 2: I think next week we're going to say goodbye to
Speaker 2: Andy Richter and and I think I think Baron Davis
Speaker 2: is not safe either. That's what I think. What about you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It feels like a game of chess
Speaker 1: with this show. So I don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to be two males next week, even though it's two
Speaker 1: females on the last season. I think at risk is
Speaker 1: Andy Richter. It could be Barren if you if there's
Speaker 1: one female you would throw into the factor, who would
Speaker 1: it be?
Speaker 2: I think it would be Uh, let's see. They all
Speaker 2: did so well. I know it's hard. It's hard. They're
Speaker 2: all so good. This is a really tough see. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe Alex carl Bet.
Speaker 1: She has such a no way, she is such a following,
Speaker 1: she's going so far, and they're not going to vote
Speaker 1: off Corey Feldman right away.
Speaker 2: I don't think no, no, no. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: going to be Corey and Andy.
Speaker 1: Shoot. I don't have an answer here, Jen Affleck. Could
Speaker 1: it be No, No, she's sticking around Lauren. Maybe Lauren
Speaker 1: and Ezra. Yeah, could be Lauren and Ezra and Andy
Speaker 1: Richter and the Slater poor and the Slater. I love
Speaker 1: her so much.
Speaker 2: We'll have to see what happens next week. I'm dancing
Speaker 2: with the Stars. This has been so much fun, Thank
Speaker 2: you Tory.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Easton. Wait, we need like a sign off.
Speaker 1: Let's let's misstep out of here.
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll miss Seth out of here.
Speaker 1: Bye bye bye mh.