1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: Welcome to episode. And I wanted to do this episode 2 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: while Dancing with the Stars was still fresh in my mind. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: It's let's today Sunday. So I guess less than a 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 1: week after the finale and after that I was the 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: champion and Charnat was the champion. And I want to 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: do this one to serve not only you guys and 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: tell you some stuff that I have I got to 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: talk about yet, but also to listen. 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If 40 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: there's anything that I forget to say, because Mike d 41 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: kind of lived this with me a bit. We we 42 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: lived in the two bedroom apartment in in Los Angeles 43 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: a bit. It was called Glendale, and we had to 44 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: live different from all the rest of the cast because 45 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: I had to work the whole time. I was the 46 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: only one that was working full time. Uh. DeMarcus was 47 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: doing a couple of days a week coaching with the Broncos, 48 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 1: but other than that, everybody else was kind of at 49 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: it um just the dancing. So Miked and I moved 50 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: three months ago or so to a tiny apartment in Glendale, California, 51 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: And in the morning we would go to Burbank and 52 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: do the radio show and then I wouldn't see Mike 53 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: again until some time later, and I would walk in 54 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: exhaust every three months. So hold on, man to war. 55 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: So let me start at the beginning. They started talking 56 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: to me about Dancing with the Stars actually months ago, 57 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: even before I went on American Idol, and the exact 58 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: producer of that show, one of them, Dena Cats, I 59 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: was like, I think you'd be good on Dancing with 60 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,839 Speaker 1: the Stars and Rob Mills at ABC, and I was like, yeah, 61 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: sounds fun. Well, between that time American Idol happened and 62 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: I went on there and some other things started happening 63 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: in the TV world, and I went from nobody caring 64 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: about me at all, which has been pretty much my 65 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: whole career, just dealing people to care like the like 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: the people people I'm talking about, like network people. Two, 67 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: I started to get oddly a lot of show offers 68 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: at once, so I had to decide what I wanted 69 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: to do. And I really wanted to do Dancing with 70 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: the Stars just because I thought it would be fun. 71 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: I didn't think it would be as hard as it was. 72 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: I thought it'd be pretty hard because I've never danced. 73 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: I don't think it was gonna be as grueling as 74 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: it was. And um yeah, I chose to do Dancing 75 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: with the Stars. I didn't know if I could with 76 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: the American Idol schedule, because in that same amount of time, 77 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: I had signed a deal with American Idol ABC to 78 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: do full time Idol, and some of the dates were 79 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: on top of each other, which later VC worked him 80 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: out for me. But um yeah, I chose Dancing with 81 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: the Stars. And I didn't officially get to take it 82 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: until like two weeks before I started training. I wasn't 83 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: sure that I was gonna be able to do it, 84 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: and so I had never met Sharna until like the 85 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: day I met Sharna on the show, and so they 86 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: flew to Nashville. I remember doing the radio show and 87 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: I was like, wow, today I'm gonna start training for 88 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. But I couldn't talk about it 89 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: because the first two weeks up until the announcement on 90 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: Good Morning America, you can't say anything about it, and 91 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: you have to practice in secret, and nobody can know. 92 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: I think only a couple of people here knew, and 93 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: so you kind of have to go, well, I've seen 94 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: a couple of hours, but I'm not gonna tell you 95 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: where I'm going. This is not weird by and disappear, 96 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: And I remember I was We were in a dance 97 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: studio in Nashville for the first couple of weeks because 98 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: I had a move to Los Angeles yet, and I 99 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: hadn't really seen the show enough to know the dancers 100 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: by like, how I know some people, you know, love 101 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: the dancers on the show because they've been there for 102 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: so long. I didn't know who Sharnon was. She knew 103 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: who I was, obviously, and so here was this Australian 104 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: professional dancer in this goofy Southern radio dude. And so 105 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: the thing about Sharna is what I knew immediately because 106 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: I googled everything, was that all of her last partners, 107 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: you may look this up, like her last partners were 108 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: all pretty much professional athletes. So I knew that she 109 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: had been close to winning a bunch but had never won. 110 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: And that was kind of her story. That I knew 111 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: about her was that she was always the one like 112 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: the DiCaprio, like everyone thought she was, if not the best, 113 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: one of the best, but she had never won. And 114 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: she had been given some great partners as far as physically, 115 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: like I believe she had Josh Norman, who was an 116 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: NFL player. Do you have the old list work working backwards, 117 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: So Josh Norman uh NFL players, had Derek fisher In 118 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: an NBA player, Antonio Brown, an NFL player, James Heins 119 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: Cliff race car driver, Nick Carter, Nick Carter dancer, Backstreet board. 120 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: So that my point is everybody that she had before 121 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: me kind of knew physically what they were capable of. 122 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: They were rather they all did a professionally. As a 123 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: matter of fact, they all were paid to physically do things. 124 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: And then she gets me and I think that we 125 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: were both kind of stunned at what we'd gotten herself into. Um. 126 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: And again we didn't really know each other yet, and 127 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: so I was clueless. I mean I ended the show 128 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: still somewhat clueless. But after I did the math six 129 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: hours of training, and we never took a day off 130 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: in three months because we couldn't afford to because everyone 131 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: else was so much better than us. They were so 132 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: far ahead of us that we couldn't afford to take 133 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: a day off because we weren't going to catch them. 134 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: We were just trying to put ourselves in a position 135 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: whenever showtime hit to be ready to do the show. Um. 136 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: And that started. We woke up, did the radio show, 137 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: and we started every Tuesday. It was like boop, back 138 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: at it. We kind of had this grid of the 139 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: way we did things, and so we started practicing. And 140 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: our remember them saying our first style of dance was 141 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: a jive, and I was like, I never heard of it. 142 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: I heard it, like hey, why you talking that jive? 143 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: Or like hey why I don't know, Like in the 144 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: seventies people say the jive. I know what that was, 145 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: like the hand give from Greece, you know, So and 146 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: I remember I lost twelve pounds and two and a 147 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: half weeks because I didn't really eat. I don't really 148 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: have time to eat. I was so tired. I don't 149 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: want to eat because I was working and dancing a jib, which, 150 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: by the way, I learned later is the most physically 151 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: demanding of all the dances because it's so fast. It's 152 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: a lot of jumping around. And I lost a bunch 153 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: of weight quickly, and so much so that later on Sharna, 154 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: not the whole time, but like weeks four or five, six, 155 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: she would order food and have it sent to the 156 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,239 Speaker 1: room and we'd have to stop practice that she would 157 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: make me eat because I wasn't. I wouldn't stopped like 158 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: I was there of work and that was it um 159 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: and it really wasn't hungry while I was working. So 160 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: we go and then we moved out to l A. 161 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: And I remember leaving the house going, well, I'm not 162 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: gonna be back very often if I last. And we 163 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: moved out to this tiny apartment. It felt like college again, 164 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: and I mean they paid for the apartment. We got there. 165 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: It was fully furnished, cable there was even like a 166 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: cordless phone, which I thought was weird. Yeah, it's a 167 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: cordless landline and so, and we lived there and I 168 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: would go to work and I would uber every day. 169 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: My uber bill was so high they gave us a 170 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: rental car. They gave me a renal car, but might 171 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: be pretty much kept a rental car. And then I 172 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: just ubered to Burbank to where the radio station was, 173 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: and I was in sweats for three months. I don't 174 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: know that I wore jeans more than three times, like 175 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: normal human clothes more than three times, except for dressing 176 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: up for that show on an occasional work event. And 177 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: so it'd stay in sweats and cut off shirts and hoodies. 178 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: And you couldn't wear logos or you have to do 179 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: everything backward. So all my clothes were it was all 180 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: is backward inside out. And so I'll go to this 181 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: practice place, and you know, I was kind of looking 182 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: at my calendar. We rarely practiced less than six hours, 183 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: almost never, and there were days we practiced up to 184 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: thirteen hours, depending on where we were in the in 185 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: the week, and we had to travel a lot. Then 186 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: there were some people that traveled as well, like John 187 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: Schneider traveled a bit because he didn't want to stay 188 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: in l a um. But and we can go to 189 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: the cast too, and I can tell you stories about 190 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: all of them. And I mean, listen, what do I 191 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: care now? Shows over, I can say whatever I want, um, 192 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, and I wish there was no I don't 193 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: wish it. I'm kind of glad there's not. But it 194 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: was such a good experience to me because of the people, 195 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 1: meaning the crew, the cast, the producers. They were all 196 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: so awesome and there's nothing really behind the scenes to 197 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: tell you about anything that really irritated me about that. 198 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: They were from the executive producers down to the stage 199 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: manager to what they called the troop, the backup Dan 200 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: two later on the other partners of the other stars. 201 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: Once they would get eliminated, they would help me, and 202 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: you know, I would use them as tools. Um. So there, 203 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,439 Speaker 1: it's such a positive experience. There's the hardest thing I've 204 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: ever done, but it's such a positive experience. And there 205 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: are things I'll talk about, um that are a bit juicier, 206 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: I guess, but it was such a positive experience that 207 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: I you know, there have been people that have finished 208 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: that show and have come off like angry and not me. 209 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: I had the greatest time when I wasn't about to 210 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: vomit because I was so tired at the greatest time. Um. 211 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: So yeah, Like we would start on Tuesday and by Thursday, 212 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: we'd have to have it shot sometimes on Friday, and 213 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: you know, the rehearsals and dress rehearsals, and and there 214 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: were clothing, their fittings and their wardrobe department's amazing. And 215 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 1: they make everything by hand. They don't go to coals 216 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: and buy the stuff. Everything is made. It start of 217 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: the fabric. Everything you saw me in and it started 218 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: with the fabric and they made it all and we 219 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: go and put it all on and I'd have mine on, 220 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: Charne would have hers and she would go, now, let's 221 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: change this, and they would freaking change it and they 222 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: would restone things. I've never worked something Ryan Stones in 223 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: my life, never been shirtless in public. More in my 224 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: life then when I was on that show. So, um, 225 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,719 Speaker 1: it's a really great experience. I did went unconventionally. Now 226 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: here's where it starts to get a little a little 227 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: different from my approach to the show, and that I 228 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: knew I was never gonna be able to catch up 229 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: with the great dancers on that show. I knew from 230 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: the beginning they had trained for ten plus years, said 231 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: the ones. I think that all three of the people 232 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: I was in the finals with had years and years 233 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: and years and years of training, maybe ten plus, because 234 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: they said that Alexis had. This is just people talking 235 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: to me that Alexis had ten years of ballet mylos 236 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: been dancing since he was tiny. Of Anna, she was 237 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: like the second favorite to win the show when it started. Uh, 238 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,719 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what her dance experience was, but she 239 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: obviously had had some by talking to them. So I 240 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 1: was the one that didn't have any dance experience. And 241 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: so what I had realized early on when I would 242 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: watch to Nash or Wan Pablo dances that I was 243 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 1: never going to be that good. And I felt like 244 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: if I could get through week two or three, that 245 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: I could figure out a sideway to win that show, 246 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: meaning that show usually is one by somebody who can 247 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: dance really well. I don't know they've had anyone win 248 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: that show that really couldn't dance in a long time, 249 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 1: like with no dance experience. The only one I can 250 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: think of, and I'm not sure is Bendy Irwin. Other 251 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: than that, just by looking at all the data on 252 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: Wikipedia and like you're either an athlete or a dancer 253 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: in some capacity, and I wasn't that, and I was 254 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: determined to figure out how to win. Now. Here's what 255 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: I figured out was that if I could get eights 256 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,319 Speaker 1: and even sevens, that put me in a place to 257 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: win every week. Meaning the show was split in half 258 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: half judges half fan vote, and I knew if I 259 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: could get an eight and the best if they got 260 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: a ten, that only put me at a depth sit 261 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: on the first half. But I felt that I could 262 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: get more than a lead over them in the fan vote. 263 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: Of all of them want Pablo to Nash. I felt 264 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: like people would identify more with me than they would 265 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: with them, so they could go and dance their brains 266 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: out because they were such good dancers. But if they 267 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: were getting tents and I was getting seventh orrades, that 268 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: was only a thirty percent at most difference, I felt 269 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: like it could beat them by in the human vote. 270 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: The human vote what people don't realize, and even when 271 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: people on their show, is actually worth more than the 272 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: judges vote. Even though it's fifty, there's a ceiling on 273 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: the judges vote, there is no ceiling on the fan vote. 274 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: There's no top line you can get on the fan vote. 275 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: You can win the fan vote, you can win it 276 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: by to the second place person. There are no rules. 277 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: You may not probably won't, but there are no rules 278 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: on the ceiling of the fan vote. So that's how 279 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: I approached it. I knew that people would not vote 280 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: for me if I was mailing it and not trying hard. 281 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: So I was working as hard as I could to 282 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: get better, and I did get better. But I also 283 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: knew I was playing a different game than everybody else. 284 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: As they were all playing checkers, I was playing chess. 285 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: We were all trying to dance as good as we could, 286 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: but I knew that there are years and years of 287 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: experience I couldn't catch up with, But my years and 288 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: years of experience of being a performer and playing two 289 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: people and four people and surviving based on that they 290 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: couldn't catch up with. And so while they were all 291 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: hyper focused on dance, I was working as hard as 292 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: I could on dance. But you're crazy if you don't 293 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: think I was going what can I do? The people 294 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: will really be entertained by what can I do to 295 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: people will love? And every week it was work, work, work, work, 296 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what would be super entertaining 297 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: now never in the dance, and there are things in 298 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: the dance. I couldn't control my mouth being open the 299 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: whole time, could control it, tried so hard to keep 300 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: my mouth shut. I think that's just what I did 301 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: when I was happy and I was moving around so 302 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: um week one, if I'm to go back and and 303 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: look at some of the things I didn't plan to 304 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: fall down obviously, I had never done that day. I 305 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: wasn't all red. We were doing a jive to Travis 306 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: Trip t r o U b l E. And they 307 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: gave me a super country song because I love country 308 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: music obviously, and I was like, okay, cool, and I 309 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: love that song. It's nineties countries. It's right in my wheelhouse. 310 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: And so we uh we did that. I never nailed 311 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: the dance in practice, never, not one time. And we 312 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: got on the show, and the best I ever did 313 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: it was that first show. I remember the music going 314 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: Brian and I was like, oh my god, here we go. 315 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: And I remember finishing it and going I can't believe 316 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: I just did an episode Dancing with the Stars and 317 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: I didn't my best ever, and I started celebrating, probably 318 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: two beats too early, and Charnett was still bent over backward, 319 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: and so she was bent over back where I started 320 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: pumping my fist. It's probably a little too early. So 321 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: finally she's able to get back up, and I run 322 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: into the across the floor. And by the way, there 323 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: were no rules for me. In my head, if you 324 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: don't know the rules, there are no rules. I didn't 325 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: know the rules of that show as far as where 326 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: you could go and couldn't go, so no one told 327 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: me what I couldn't do. So I was like, this whole, 328 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: this whole like ballroom, it's kind of my canvas. I 329 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: can do whatever I want. And I felt like that, 330 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: by the way the whole show because that no one 331 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: ever came to me said stopped. So I took off 332 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: running through the middle of the floor and I was 333 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: like oh, and then I um was jumping around and 334 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: I fell and hurt my shoulder. My shoulder still hurts today. 335 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: I had to stop acting like it was hurt because 336 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: I did not want it to be a storyline on 337 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: the show. Still hurts today. And so I hurt my shoulder. 338 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: But we went over and we got our scores and 339 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: I think we got all sevens from the first show. 340 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: Do you know you don't have to look it up, 341 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: but I think it was like all sevens. But they 342 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: were very complimentary, and the bit that Eddie and I 343 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: do on our morning shows from that, whenever they would 344 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: just say Bobby Jay into the world, the world's a 345 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: better place. You just killed all diseases. What do your 346 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: dance two, I'll be like, oh, becauldn't think they're getting 347 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: big scores, and they wouldn't. Um, So I go out 348 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: and everyone was like, wow, I was crazy. No one's 349 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: ever reacted like that after a dance. No one ever 350 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: came to me and said, don't do that. I think 351 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: people watch the show and they go, oh, we can 352 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: only act a certain way because of ways we've ever 353 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: seen on the show. I was the opposite. I was like, 354 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be exactly how I want to be until 355 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: they tell me not to be. So no one said 356 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: anything about it. So we're go into week two and 357 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: I believe week two was the and I'm not going 358 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: to go through every week, but um, We're going to 359 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: week two and I believe week two is the foxtrot 360 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: where I end up flossing at the end of the dance. 361 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: That's the other Week two, a week three. But we're 362 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: going to the fox Trot and they have me at 363 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: the end of the show. And this is when people, 364 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: the other dancers start to whisper their conspiracy theories of oh, 365 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: if you're at the end of the show, that means 366 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: they're putting you at the end, because they went everybody 367 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: to hang around. I didn't know whether to believe them 368 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: or not. I was knew it was only a couple 369 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: of exam but I was like, oh, I started to 370 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: get into my head a little bit. And our dance 371 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: was super slow, and it was a foxtrot. It was 372 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: New York Week and it was and if I'm actually 373 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 1: inaccurate in these weeks, Mike, you can tell me. So 374 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: it's New York Week, and that that was my We 375 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: had New York, New York from Frank Frank Sinatra and 376 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: them out and we're doing the foxtrot and it's a 377 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: slow dance and we're last, and I'm thinking of myself 378 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: as much as I've learned it and as much as 379 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: Sharna has been working to teach me these little things 380 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: that I felt like a slow dance was kind of 381 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: boring for the last dance, which by the way, sacriligious 382 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: to say to a dancer, and I said that one 383 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: star she was. I don't think she liked that I said, 384 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: because it was slow, it was boring, and I was 385 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: like at the end, I wanted a big number. And 386 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: so about halfway through the dance, I go, well, I 387 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: haven't really nailed this dance. I've done pretty good, and 388 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: I got to give people something to remember, because you 389 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: remember they were still thirteen people, aren't they twelve people left? 390 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: And so as Sharna sat down at the very end 391 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: of the dance, I lost and I was running backward 392 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: when I did it, and it was a tough I 393 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: gotta tell you. One of my most athletic moves of 394 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: the whole dance season was flossing, running backward and coming 395 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: to a stop right there. And so I flost and 396 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: we got off. We got our scores and they were like, 397 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: what just happened? And Charlotte was so mad at me, 398 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: and we had only known each other three or four 399 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: weeks at this point, and me, I'm thinking, I'm just 400 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,239 Speaker 1: trying to stay memorable. I did the whole dance as 401 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: best I could. This was a game. It was a 402 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: TV show, and it was a game that me and 403 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: my listeners were trying to win together. And so we 404 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: got our scores and then she was off and she 405 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: didn't talk. She wouldn't talk to me. She was so 406 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: pissed and we everybody left and I was like, well, great, 407 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 1: we're never gonna talk again because she was toos mad 408 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: and not you know, I mean, just just justified. Sure. 409 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: So she came over and I was like, hey listen. 410 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: We both were like hey listen. We both had something 411 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: to say, and she was like, this is my craft 412 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: and I was like completely respect that, and I was like, 413 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: do you want to know my craft? That I said, 414 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: people are gonna remember us, and she was like, okay, 415 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: there's a good moment for us because we kind of 416 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: went it kind of click for both of us that 417 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 1: we were both in it together, we're both working as 418 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: hard as we could, and that we kind of had 419 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: to trust each other. I had to trust her at 420 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: times when I was like, oh, this does not feel 421 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: comfortable with the dance part. She had to trust me 422 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: when I was like, just go along with it. And 423 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: I also promised her then there will be no more 424 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: super surprises like that. I was like, I promise you 425 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: anything I do that's like related, I'll let you know. 426 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: I never did anything during a dance again, the whole 427 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: the whole season. But so again, I remember telling my like, 428 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: my my people, my team, if I can get through 429 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: the first two or three weeks, I can win this show. 430 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: And they were like, okay, okay, can't dance. I was like, 431 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm gonna put in enough work 432 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: to get good enough to compete in the dancing, but 433 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: to win, because in my mind it was already split 434 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: it in the two halves. All I need to do 435 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: is compete in the judges half and dominate the fan 436 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: vote half. Because I had the people. They did not 437 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: see us coming, as far as they didn't see the 438 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: support that we bring that I bring with my people. 439 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: They had no idea and we show up and you know, 440 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: on the finals or four of us. What's funny is 441 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: everybody had their own fan base. I had the least 442 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: amount of Instagram followers in the final four. Everybody else 443 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: had over a million Instagram followers, and people be like, oh, 444 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: you brought your fans, Yeah, so did everybody else. Alexis 445 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: has like twelve million Instagram followers. You know, my law 446 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: has a huge Disney following of Honest from Harry Potter. 447 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: They all had a huge, way bigger social media numbers 448 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: than I did. My my What I'm like lucky to 449 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 1: have is people that I get to talk to and 450 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: we feel like we're friends and we know each other, 451 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: and it's how to use those people. Because my people 452 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: came to bat for me so hard. I mean, I 453 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: was surprised I was never in Jeopardy the whole year. 454 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: There are only two people that weren't in Jeopardy the 455 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: whole time, which were me and Milo, and until he 456 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: was finished second at the end, he was we were both. 457 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: Also I started to realize, Okay, I must be getting 458 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: a pretty good vote because heat mile is really good 459 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: and getting nines and tens. I also think it hurts 460 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: you early if you're so good, because you have nowhere 461 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: to go. People just expected out of you. And if 462 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: you get nine and tens early, and then you get 463 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: nine and tens again, they're like, yeah, they expected it. Good, 464 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: good for you, we knew you were good. I also 465 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: think that if you get really high scores and you're good, 466 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: people think, oh, they're good, they don't need the votes. 467 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: I'll vote with somebody who needs it. So there's something 468 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: to say for you know, somebody that's rolling in with 469 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: sevens and eights, because people will go, oh, I'm gonna 470 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: give them some votes because they need it, which really, again, 471 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: the fan vote is the biggest part of the show. 472 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: You have to be in striking distance with the judges vote, 473 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 1: but if you can clean up on the fan vote 474 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: and beating, Like for me, I was such a normal 475 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: human on that show because I'm just not cool. There's 476 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: no part of me that's slick or polished. And about 477 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: week four is when I go when I go, Okay, 478 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: I really can win this thing if I just play 479 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: this work as hard as I can on the dance, 480 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: and I would get so pissed when I wouldn't get 481 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: scores that I thought we're good, Like we did the 482 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: Halloween dance and I think we got like seven eight 483 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: seven or something. I'm not sure of the score. Maybe 484 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. Whatever was I was visibly upset on screen. 485 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: I watched it back. I was visibly upset. What I 486 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: get eight seven seven? Okay? I was upset because I 487 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: was like, that's the best I could have danced, and 488 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: I still only got eight seven seven. The only thing 489 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: that we see on that show, the only data that 490 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: we have to justify our week, was so judge those 491 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: judges scores, because they never share us the votes. They 492 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: never tipped me off one bit that I was gonna 493 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: win the show, that I was crushing votes. They never 494 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: said anything to me about that. And so you go 495 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: and the only thing that you can rely on is 496 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: those judges scores as being part of the score. Now, 497 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: I'm still playing the hidden secret vote game. I was 498 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: just counting on and hoping that people would vote for me, 499 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: and I was never in Jeopardy. So I started to go, Okay, 500 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: well what can I do this week. I'm gonna dance 501 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: all week. I'm gonna train hard, and then I would 502 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: do a little something. I would say a little something. 503 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: I would I would be funny. I talked to the 504 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: judges in a weird way. I'd go up to the 505 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: judges table, things that were just different that people that 506 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 1: listen to the show or listen to podcast already knew 507 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: that I was gonna do. But it was people that 508 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: watch the show and only watch the show. They'd be 509 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: like whoa, you're this guy? Because I think I was 510 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: just brought on to be the kind of funny guy 511 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: that would last a few weeks and then slowly be 512 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: shipped off to see I think because well I never danced. 513 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: It wasn't like people think of country music and go 514 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: let's get some because we're our own little world and 515 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: everybody kind of counts us out or doesn't. They don't 516 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 1: think about us at all. And so Week four, so 517 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: was one part where we're doing a magic trick. I 518 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 1: think it's a Week two. It was Las Vegas night. 519 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: Our magic trick fell apart behind us as we were 520 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: doing it. We couldn't get around it. Was the thing 521 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: where we cut a girl in half and we have 522 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: to dance around it. We couldn't get the thing apart. 523 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 1: Somebody handed somebody a wrong blade. We couldn't split the 524 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: uh what do you call it? Thinking she was in 525 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: she gets in and you cut her in half whatever 526 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: that things in that she's in. It was like a casket. 527 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: We couldn't cut it in half. So we had to 528 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: dance around it, and we were off like by three 529 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,239 Speaker 1: or four beats. We danced the whole song off by 530 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: a few beats because we would just like just keep going, 531 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: just keep going, act like It's like sometimes if you 532 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: just act like supposed to be there, people believe you're 533 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be there. It happens a lot of times 534 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: at concerts. Is to be like yeah, yeah, yeah, and um, 535 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: we're just charms, like just go. And she would talk 536 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: to me a lot of times through her teeth, so 537 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: she would smile real big right now she had talk 538 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: with her like an eventuloquist, and at times it was wonderful. 539 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: During a dance at a time she would you know, 540 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: like scold me. So we we do that dance and 541 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: we get through, and that's about when I go, Okay, 542 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: I think we can do this. Um. Still, no one 543 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: saw us coming, but they kept putting me at the 544 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,679 Speaker 1: end of these shows. Every week I was either last 545 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,479 Speaker 1: or next to last, and then I will be first. 546 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: And then I realized, you know, they start the show 547 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: off with a bang or they end the show with 548 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: the bang. Um, And so I think, if I were 549 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: talking to people who were just starting the show, now 550 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: you have to dance, and you have to get better, 551 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: because God knows, I tried so hard to get better, 552 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: and I did get better. You know, I trained, I did, 553 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: I looked at all my schedule over six hundred hours 554 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: in three months, and so but you have to really 555 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: do something extra because you can. There's a ceiling with 556 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: the judge's votes, and that's in the people. They get 557 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: mad at the showy like, oh, I'm never watching it again. 558 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,719 Speaker 1: You knew the rules before the show started. You just 559 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: don't like how the rules played out. And I was 560 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: very different on this show. I've been very different with 561 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: everything I've ever done anytime anything happens to me. But 562 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: people are upset because I go into it a bit different. 563 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: But you knew the rules of the show. I get 564 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: so many like Instagram messages like worse Dancing with the 565 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: Stars ever change the rules now? You love the rules 566 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: before the show started. You can't be mad now because 567 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: the rules for once didn't go the way you liked 568 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: it to go. So I would tell someone if you're 569 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: listening to this now and you're gonna go do the show, 570 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: or if you're just a fan of the show, that 571 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: the people matter way more than the structure. That's just 572 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: in general period, not just Dancing with the Stars, but 573 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: in life, like people are so much more important than 574 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: some set of rules to die and so judges people. 575 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: That's where I would put it if I were making 576 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: my own scale of what's important and what's not. If 577 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: you don't continue to get better dancing, they're gonna vote 578 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: you off. You gotta keep putting the work. But you 579 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: cannot underestimate the power of the people watching that show 580 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: and voting on that show. And you all were gonna 581 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: put in some work to vote for them. And I 582 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: think that was the demise of the really good dancers 583 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: on the show, like the Tnaches and even the Wampablos. 584 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: They were so good people didn't feel like they need 585 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: to vote for them, and then they were just strictly dance. 586 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: And there's always great dancers on the show. Always, every year, 587 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: there's fantastic dancers. People say great dancers all the time. 588 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 1: Most of the time, a great dancer wins the show. 589 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: But people were shocked when they went home. I went out. 590 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: I was shocked because they were so good. I thought 591 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: they both went home too early. But I wasn't shocked 592 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: they didn't win. I wouldn't have been shocked to that 593 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: one as well. But just knowing how that show works now, 594 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: I'm not shocked by it. You have to put in 595 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: the effort too, to really sell yourself. It's like running 596 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: for a political office. Like we don't just take the 597 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: person with the best resume and go, you are now 598 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: the leader of the free world? Are you are now 599 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: our senator? You take the person with the resume that 600 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with, versus do you like them? You 601 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: know your plus do you like them? And whoever has 602 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: the best resume plus who you like the most, that's 603 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: who gets voted into office by the people. So, if anything, 604 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: the show is very much like that. Um, we are 605 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: what am I skipping over here? Because I don't have 606 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: any notes. I don't want to come into with any notes. 607 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: I go and where I want to go next? How 608 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: about they stick us with these partners. This is the 609 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: first time that I've ever said this. We have never 610 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: you don't meet the partner beforehand, right, And I've never 611 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: met Sharna beforehand. We'd never talked, We've never texted or 612 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: been on social media. And so, um, I I am 613 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: in this dance studio on Nashville and she comes in 614 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: and by the way, they have cameras on you the 615 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: entire time. Something I didn't realize was that every practice 616 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: every practice you have to be miked up with the 617 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 1: camera on you at all times. So there's six of 618 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: hours of footage of me just getting mad at myself 619 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: in a in a practice room, being like and with 620 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: the producers would they wouldn't get mad at me because 621 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: I was Actually I'm pretty good to work with because 622 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: I know what it's like to work with someone. But 623 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: I just in the practice room where they we're trying 624 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: to get all this footage. I didn't say much because 625 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: I was so focused on trying to get these steps 626 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: right and trying to get this movement right that I 627 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: didn't ask a lot of questions. I just kind of 628 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: watched and studied and studied, and I would go home 629 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: and write notes. I would write steps down on paper. 630 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: I would do all these things that really dancers didn't 631 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: have to do because I could never just see it 632 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: and feel it. For me, it was angles and turns 633 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: and putting my foot down in the right spot, and 634 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: every dance was different. I would compare it to we 635 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: know how to speak, but we don't know how to 636 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: speak a different language, Like you can use your mouth 637 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: to make make sounds, but imagine every week you were 638 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: given a Rosetta Stone and you had to learn French. Okay, 639 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: you learn French as best you could take a test 640 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: on it. All right, new day, now start Italian. And 641 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: that is what it was like learning those dances, because 642 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: you knew how to speak and know how to walk. 643 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: I knew how to talk and how to have rhythm 644 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: a bit, but all the dances were so different. Sometimes 645 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: you put your heel down first, and the dances sometimes 646 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: you count one to three, four or five, six, seven, eight. 647 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes you count one to three, one to three. All 648 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: the counts were Everything was different, and some are slow 649 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: somewhere fast. Um. So every week it was something different, 650 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: and every the first day after the show it was 651 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: the hardest because you were learning something brand new and 652 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: you were completely clueless. And it was the most frustrating 653 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: day too. Because I was completely good. I would go 654 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: into it. I be like, okay, today's the Vietnamese Viame, 655 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: Viennes Viennese waltz would be like sounds easy enough. Um. 656 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: It was completely different than the jive or the fox 657 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: trot or the and sometimes you could take you know, 658 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: little parts of other dances, but I would have to 659 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: name the one funny things because for me, the Chase 660 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: didn't mean anything. I needed to call it the gummy Bear. 661 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: You know, I'd have to like really dumb things down 662 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: for myself, and so um Sharna whenever she came to Nashville. 663 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: Because I had one goal in mine that was to 664 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: win the whole show, didn't know how I was gonna 665 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: do it. I never really felt like it was bigger 666 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: than me. But I think one of the things that 667 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: has been a guiding part of my success is that 668 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: I'm so oblivious to what's really happening that I don't 669 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: know the rules that that it doesn't putting limitations on 670 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: me because I'm just like, yeah, let's go. I'm not 671 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: scared of it. I don't really know what it was, 672 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: so I wasn't scared of it. The same thing with 673 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: radio something writing books. I know what I was doing, 674 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: I don't know how hard it really was. And because 675 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: I don't know the rules, I create my own set 676 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: of rules, and so I went into it. I was like, 677 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: I never thought I couldn't win it. I just thought 678 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: if I could get to the first few weeks, I 679 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: could figure it out. So I get this partner and 680 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: Charlatta comes to town, and I don't even know that 681 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this on the radio show for a bit. 682 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: But Sharnatt comes to town and you know, she has 683 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: this like this crazy red hit red hair and there's 684 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: the super big presents about her and she's Australian, and 685 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: I was like, hey, listen, I want to win this, 686 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: Like I'm not just here to promote. I read nothing 687 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 1: to promote. A lot of people go on because you 688 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: have something to promote or you know they're doing it 689 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: for Like I just did dancing. I don't have to 690 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: dance with the Stars. I could I missed the first 691 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 1: part of American I don't have to do Dancing with 692 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: the Stars, So I could have been an American Idol 693 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: already as of right now, because I missed all of 694 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: the audition, the uh where they go to the dimmer cities, 695 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: and so I just wanted to do it like for fun, 696 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: but I don't want to get in anything halfway. And 697 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: I said, I really want to win this, and I 698 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: knew she wanted to win this, and so she came 699 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: over to the house and we were just kind of 700 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: getting to know each other because according to her, you 701 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: spend a lot of time, which I later found out 702 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: you spent all the time with the partner, like your 703 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: whole life is basically you and them. And we were 704 00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: sitting on the couch and I was like, the people 705 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: usually like fall in love or hate each other, or 706 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: they end up having sex with each other, Like I 707 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: just really wanted to know what happened on this show, 708 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: like behind the scenes, and she was like, it's just 709 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: like anything else, a little bit of all of it. 710 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes composte each other, sometimes they end up looking up. 711 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 1: And I was like, well, uh, they can't happen with us, 712 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,879 Speaker 1: and she was like, if you we want to win, 713 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: it cannot happen with us. And we knew too. We 714 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: felt like they had put us together because we were 715 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: two single people. And so I remember sitting at my 716 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: house going, Okay, there's I'm not I'm not gonna flirt 717 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: with you. We're not gonna date, I'm not gonna fall 718 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: in love with you. And she was the same way. 719 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: It was like, we're here to win, and if anything 720 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: romantic happens, if it would have happened with us, it 721 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: would have been toxic to what we were trying to do, 722 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: because then there's another layer that you have to poke through. 723 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: And we didn't want that layer. We both were just 724 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: and the thing that I and listen, I'll tell you 725 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: later on. We and I fought a lot because you 726 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 1: just are not with someone that long or not fight. 727 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: I mean, think about your husband and wife. You're with 728 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 1: them all time, you're gonna fight sometimes. But we had 729 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: decided from the first time that she was here that 730 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: it just wasn't gonna happen. And I told her I'm 731 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: not fall in love with you. I'm fall in love 732 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: with anybody good luck, how about that? And I think 733 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: she thought I was kind of kidding at first, and 734 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's just not going to happen. 735 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: And so and listen, she was down with it. Two 736 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: The first time she met me, what am I? I'm like, freaking, 737 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 1: how do you duty? You know? Nobody sees me the 738 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,359 Speaker 1: first time and falls in love ever, no one's like, oh, 739 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you know, how do you doty? 740 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,919 Speaker 1: Or uh, what was it guy toy story that cowboy? Yeah, 741 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see Woody naked? Yeah that So 742 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: that so she wasn't trust me when I said she 743 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: wasn't trying to get in my pants either, right, And 744 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: so we had decided early, early, early, it was never 745 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: a thing we were It was not going to be 746 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: a thing whatsoever, because we were both there to win 747 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,320 Speaker 1: and to work and think about, so there's never anything manic. 748 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:09,399 Speaker 1: And I went out and I UM. At the same time, ironically, 749 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 1: I had started to go on some dates with someone 750 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: and it wasn't her, and I wanted to talk about 751 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 1: it on my radio show that I was actually because 752 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 1: I don't want people feel like I was always just 753 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: sitting at home alone. I started to go out with someone, 754 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: just just a little bit, nothing serious, and it was 755 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,919 Speaker 1: right time when it started, so everyone was just like, oh, 756 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 1: it's Sharna. But I tried to give people little clues 757 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 1: that would really know me and know the show to 758 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,840 Speaker 1: know that it wasn't her. For example, I said, I 759 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,399 Speaker 1: don't want to say who it is, but where First 760 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: of all, she wasn't my girlfriend. By the way, we're 761 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: not even dating anymore. UM, I would say, I don't 762 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: want you going over to her social media and bombarding her. 763 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 1: At the same time, I'm giving out Sharna social media 764 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: all the time. I was like, here, it is that Sharna. 765 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 1: So people would know if they thought about it. Why 766 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,799 Speaker 1: would I say I don't want to say her name 767 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: or who it is because I wouldn't want of bombarding 768 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 1: her social media whenever I'm giving out sharinga social media 769 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: the whole time. So and a lot of people picked 770 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 1: up on that. Um. And also because she wasn't my girlfriend, 771 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:09,880 Speaker 1: there was no need for her to be in the 772 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: public eye. And most people you date, it doesn't work out. 773 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: And the only reason I was even talking about it 774 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 1: was because I wanted my listeners to kind of know 775 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 1: what was happening. And by the way, the time, it 776 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: was terrible for me to date somebody. UM. But it 777 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 1: was never as never Sharna. And it's the first time 778 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,239 Speaker 1: right now I've ever said that there was never Sharna 779 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: um and it's actually it's nobody now and it was 780 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 1: never anything even serious. Um, Mike knows who. Everybody knows 781 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:39,759 Speaker 1: who it was. But yeah, it's not anymore. Did you 782 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 1: know it wasn't anymore? I think so. Yeah. So the 783 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: thing about Sharna was we kind of had this relationship 784 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: early that we were we were there to work and 785 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 1: what I respected and still respect the most about her 786 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,640 Speaker 1: and she's hardcore when it comes to work, and so 787 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,920 Speaker 1: am I. You may be more talented than me. You 788 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: were not going to out work me. That's just not 789 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 1: a thing. You will not outwork me. I'll to my 790 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: toes bleed. So we were just dancing, and at times 791 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,800 Speaker 1: she was so frustrated with me because I just couldn't 792 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: get it. I didn't know I left all right. I 793 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:23,160 Speaker 1: mean it was like a toddler, and so we we struggled. 794 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: We struggled hard, and I think she would at times 795 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 1: would get frustrated with herself that she couldn't figure out 796 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,800 Speaker 1: how to teach me because I was such a novice. 797 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: Now people would go like, just have fun. You're out 798 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: of your mind. If you think you just go and 799 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,880 Speaker 1: have fun, You're crazy. Just having funds going out there 800 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: and just shaking your hips and thrust in the air. 801 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 1: You had your with a professional athlete trying to do 802 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,240 Speaker 1: what a professional athlete does, being judged by other people 803 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,320 Speaker 1: who have been professional at their job in front of 804 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 1: eight million people. I've never been so nervous then right 805 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: before that show starts, and even more nervous before my 806 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 1: dance starts, because you're in a room. I think Tom 807 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: Bergeron said it during like the week three, there are 808 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,839 Speaker 1: more people in that ballroom than in my hometown growing up, 809 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,160 Speaker 1: and so it's just people and like three layers just 810 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: looking at you dancing, and their cameras everywhere. But there 811 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,799 Speaker 1: were some really kind people on that show, Like the 812 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: producers would come up to me and be like, you 813 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 1: gotta just hang in there, hanging there. The stage managers, 814 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,520 Speaker 1: the guys that were they would be like you got it, 815 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 1: Like they were so encouraging, and you just wouldn't think 816 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: that people would be so caring on a show that 817 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,719 Speaker 1: had been going so long. No, not all of them 818 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 1: had been been there for all all the time. I 819 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 1: think some of them been there for most of it. 820 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:38,840 Speaker 1: Tom bergeron that Best Dude was so nice, was never 821 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: not awesome the finale, we sat and talked for twenty 822 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: minutes about old school television and talk shows and him 823 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: coming to do Hollywood Squares to Los Angeles when he 824 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: was living in Boston. Aaron andrews awesome. I wish there 825 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: were more gossipy stories about people, because I would tell you. 826 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, yeah, they're really note. It was 827 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: such a good the social media a team, the girl 828 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 1: that did social media awesome, and I don't know, and 829 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,880 Speaker 1: everyone acted like I was the nicest guy. Ever, I'm not. 830 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,400 Speaker 1: I'm just a normal dude. But I think like in 831 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:18,720 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, everyone has to define themselves publicly differently, meaning 832 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, like to show you're a big star, 833 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: you have to be like, I'm big star. Don't talk 834 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: to me where I come from. You talk to everybody. 835 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,040 Speaker 1: And the bigger the star you are, the nicer, you 836 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,600 Speaker 1: better be like a freaking Garth Brooks, nicest dude in 837 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: the whole world. In our world, if you're not nice, 838 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 1: you better be nice. It felt like in that world, 839 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: if you are nice, you're taught, hey, don't be nice 840 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 1: because you need to act like a star. And so 841 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 1: I go into this place and I'm just like, what 842 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: up like hanging out with everybody that everybody's the same 843 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,640 Speaker 1: from the camera guy to Tom Berge. Wrong were everybody 844 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 1: was just I just wanted to chill and be normal 845 00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:00,920 Speaker 1: and so um, I think, you know, for me, that 846 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,120 Speaker 1: was a cool thing because people were very warm and 847 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:10,319 Speaker 1: welcoming and they were very helpful to me, and I 848 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: think that allowed me to adjust to it a bit more. 849 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: I never fully adjusted because the time zone was weird 850 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,440 Speaker 1: and I was always in the back of a uber 851 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,399 Speaker 1: and it was tough. I made some good friends. Um, 852 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,480 Speaker 1: but think about Sharna. I'll tell you the time that 853 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: because every times we really got into big fights. But 854 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,520 Speaker 1: again you just aren't with someone that much and and 855 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,319 Speaker 1: not fight. We were practicing for the Waltz. I'm not 856 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,800 Speaker 1: sure which walts was Viennese waltz stuff, Kentucky Waltz. I 857 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: don't know, that's the thing. We're practicing for the Walts. 858 00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,360 Speaker 1: And we were exhausted because again I was working on 859 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,279 Speaker 1: radio show. We're flying across the country back and forth. 860 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: I was doing comedy shows. She would fly with me too. 861 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,319 Speaker 1: I had to do a show in Indiana. So she 862 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: met me in Chicago to just dance for six seven 863 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: hours and she flew back out and then I had 864 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,440 Speaker 1: to drive. I mean it was NonStop and so and 865 00:41:58,440 --> 00:41:59,960 Speaker 1: I don't say they complaining, but just so you know 866 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,320 Speaker 1: where our minds where we would get to these practices 867 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,880 Speaker 1: and we were already exhausted. And so she met me 868 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,759 Speaker 1: in Nashville because I had to come home for two 869 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,520 Speaker 1: days for something. Oh, I know what it was. It 870 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: was the musicians musicians on calling thing. Yeah, so um, 871 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,640 Speaker 1: having a big fundraiser with musicians on call and we're 872 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:24,279 Speaker 1: practicing here. We're both so tired, and she got mad 873 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 1: at me for rolling my eyes at her. Again, you 874 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,840 Speaker 1: know when you're hungry or you're tired and you're just irritable. 875 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: We were both there. We have both hit our peak. 876 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: This is like week eight or something seven or I 877 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: don't know. We had both hit our peak of just 878 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,520 Speaker 1: so tired and anything was gonna set us off. They 879 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,960 Speaker 1: had traded as producers. We had one producer named Mike 880 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,640 Speaker 1: the whole time that we loved, and he got cut 881 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,440 Speaker 1: for some reason, and we hated that because he was 882 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 1: like our dude, and anything would have set the other 883 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,080 Speaker 1: person off. And she got mad at me for rolling 884 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 1: my eyes, and I was like, um, roll my eyes. 885 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,760 Speaker 1: I don't roll my eyes. I don't talk to people 886 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,839 Speaker 1: in roll my but I was like, man, maybe I'm 887 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: so tired to roll my eyes at her. She got 888 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,840 Speaker 1: so mad, and at the same time I was getting 889 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,400 Speaker 1: mad at her because she was frustrated that I couldn't 890 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,719 Speaker 1: get some steps right. We would do it fifty seven 891 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 1: times and I couldn't get it, and so we were 892 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 1: both She was like, don't roll your eyes. I was like, 893 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,799 Speaker 1: stop treating me like a kid like, I'm working as 894 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 1: hard as I can, and she was like, if you're 895 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,400 Speaker 1: gonna roll your eyes, and she left the room and 896 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,879 Speaker 1: the cameras around the whole time, and I remember going, 897 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,240 Speaker 1: this is reality show. Let's show him reality. Well we're fighting, 898 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: and so still in the back of my head, I'm going, 899 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,480 Speaker 1: I don't roll my eyes. Ever, Here's what happened. We 900 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: were doing a waltz and I was spinning so much. 901 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,040 Speaker 1: I was so motion sick that I was trying to 902 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,799 Speaker 1: catch my balance and by doing that, my eyes are 903 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,160 Speaker 1: rolling on the top of my head, like like ohh. 904 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,319 Speaker 1: And she took that as me rolling my eyes just 905 00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,480 Speaker 1: miscommunication as all it was because I don't roll my 906 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,719 Speaker 1: eyes and I was getting so sick. I have my 907 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 1: doctors in medicine pro motion sickness. By the way, first 908 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: danswer she's ever had to get motion sick dancing. Not 909 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 1: only do we have a hairline fracture on my foot, 910 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,960 Speaker 1: a slight tear on my shoulder, but also I got 911 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,960 Speaker 1: motion sick like crazy and so but that was just 912 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:25,600 Speaker 1: a product of being together all the time. And I 913 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,239 Speaker 1: don't even know that she was even frustrated, because she 914 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: would watch her the video on the phone and she'd 915 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: be like, Oh, I don't know who she was mad a. 916 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,239 Speaker 1: I don't know. She may not even mad at me. 917 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: She could have mad at herself for me not being 918 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,000 Speaker 1: able to get it. But we were both just so 919 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,359 Speaker 1: worn out that we were we just took it out 920 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,800 Speaker 1: on each other. I remember flying from Nashville back to 921 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. We sat beside each other. They put us 922 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,960 Speaker 1: in first class every time, which is super cool to 923 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,759 Speaker 1: show to do that. I think it's in everybody's contract. Um. 924 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,239 Speaker 1: We didn't say a worried each other the whole time 925 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,759 Speaker 1: for five hours, got off the airplane, went our separate ways. 926 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:00,239 Speaker 1: It was like a marriage and that it was the 927 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,239 Speaker 1: week that I said that, like a uh et or something. 928 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,520 Speaker 1: I was like, it was like a marriage. Man. Most 929 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,560 Speaker 1: times great, Sometimes it's not. But you're committed to working 930 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,640 Speaker 1: it out because you have to, because there's a there's 931 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,360 Speaker 1: an end goal. And so we uh We had some 932 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,239 Speaker 1: some big, big blow ups, but it always came back 933 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: to the fact that there was such respect between us 934 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: that we were there to work and win the freaking thing. 935 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know how we're gonna do it. We had 936 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:28,840 Speaker 1: to trust each other. I had to trust her that 937 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,440 Speaker 1: she was gonna get me to whatever place and I 938 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 1: would stay if we needed. There were again, there were nice. 939 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,960 Speaker 1: We practiced for fourteen hours, and there were nice. We 940 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,560 Speaker 1: would go and do dress rehearsal on the show, and 941 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,160 Speaker 1: she made me we go back to the be the 942 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,040 Speaker 1: only ones to go back and train. But I trusted 943 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,200 Speaker 1: that she wasn't punishing me, that she was actually putting 944 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:52,080 Speaker 1: me in the best place to move forward. And she 945 00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,480 Speaker 1: trusted me to do whatever crazy stuff I was gonna do, 946 00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,239 Speaker 1: not even crazy, entertaining and frankly things I wanted to do. Anyway, 947 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,080 Speaker 1: I can't wait till they send my autitrap shoe back. 948 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,160 Speaker 1: I'm waiting for it. I was like, how often am 949 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,799 Speaker 1: I gonna get this is me? And I told Miked 950 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,000 Speaker 1: I was gonna do this is I'm gonna put a 951 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: sharpie in my sock and I forgot to get the 952 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 1: sharpie from you? Did you bring the sharpie? And if 953 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:12,960 Speaker 1: we got to get it from you? And I was like, 954 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a sharpie in my sock on the 955 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,160 Speaker 1: last night, and if it goes well, I'm gonna go 956 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,960 Speaker 1: getta sign my shoe because how cool will that be? 957 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,040 Speaker 1: To have in my house. I signed to you by 958 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,520 Speaker 1: all three of the judges. What are they ever gonna 959 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,560 Speaker 1: be sitting together again except for on TV? So we 960 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,960 Speaker 1: do the mc hammer dance and everybody's like they do 961 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 1: this thing where they're like boa and I reached down, 962 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,680 Speaker 1: take my shoe off, pull my sharpy out of my 963 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,560 Speaker 1: sock that I danced in. I felt it too while 964 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,520 Speaker 1: I was dancing, and heart a little bit, and I 965 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,319 Speaker 1: went over and I had him signed my shoe on 966 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:38,960 Speaker 1: TV because I knew there would be no other time 967 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 1: to get him to do that. But I did what 968 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,000 Speaker 1: I thought anyone would do if they ran into all 969 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,680 Speaker 1: three of those judges. You're going to sign something, You 970 00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 1: take a picture with them and so um, and she 971 00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,200 Speaker 1: trusted me to do really whatever I felt to entertain 972 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,200 Speaker 1: the people watching the show, and she trusted me that 973 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,799 Speaker 1: I thought that I figured out how to actually win 974 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,919 Speaker 1: the show by not being the best dancer. It's not 975 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,880 Speaker 1: strictly a dance competition, are It's not, or they wouldn't 976 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:07,960 Speaker 1: put the votes in there. If you don't want to 977 00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,360 Speaker 1: watch a full dance show, go go to PBS and 978 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,440 Speaker 1: watch ballroom dancing and there's your best dance show right there. 979 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:19,960 Speaker 1: And so I think if people know that they approached 980 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,800 Speaker 1: it like it's an it's entertainment. They don't put something 981 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,160 Speaker 1: on ABC in prime time that isn't as entertaining as 982 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,919 Speaker 1: it can possibly be. Um, and I freaking want the show. 983 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,920 Speaker 1: I remember the the Uh, we'll run through the contestants 984 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: in a minute if you want, and give your stories 985 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,840 Speaker 1: about each of them. Um, I remember doing we to 986 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,200 Speaker 1: the finale. We're standing there around that ball. Nobody ever 987 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:47,480 Speaker 1: told me anything. I also listen, there are conspiracy theories 988 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,720 Speaker 1: behind everything on that show where the people are slotted. 989 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,759 Speaker 1: I I I don't think there's a conspiracy to have 990 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,879 Speaker 1: someone win the show. And I say that as someone 991 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,400 Speaker 1: who won is I don't think that it was they had. 992 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,680 Speaker 1: They faced a lot of criticism after I won, and 993 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:11,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't comfortable for anyone, and I think, really, if 994 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:12,960 Speaker 1: they were going to do what they thought would be 995 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,880 Speaker 1: best for the show, they would have Milo would have 996 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,880 Speaker 1: won because he was the best dancer, and that had 997 00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:20,400 Speaker 1: made me second. That way, it's like, oh, look at 998 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:21,920 Speaker 1: this guy, he finished second. He did really good and 999 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,640 Speaker 1: never dance finished second. That's why I don't I just 1000 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,279 Speaker 1: I don't believe there's a conspiracy on that show. And 1001 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,480 Speaker 1: I say that as a person who won, I know, 1002 00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,880 Speaker 1: and and how weird that is. I just don't because 1003 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,560 Speaker 1: I thought if they were at the last minute, they'd 1004 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:37,919 Speaker 1: have been like, oh, we should give to somebody who's 1005 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,000 Speaker 1: really good, because I mean, really, Mike, if I would 1006 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,840 Speaker 1: have finished second, everybody's been like, that's a great you 1007 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,719 Speaker 1: did a great job. Somebody, Yeah, somebody that the right 1008 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,239 Speaker 1: person one because he was the best dancer, which Milo was, 1009 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:53,279 Speaker 1: and look at you you did second. Come on. They 1010 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:58,040 Speaker 1: could have done that so easily, and then the next 1011 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,600 Speaker 1: and then nobody gets pissed everybody he would have won, 1012 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,440 Speaker 1: not me, and my heart, I wouldn't have one. And 1013 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,439 Speaker 1: I felt the pressure to me started about weeks five 1014 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:10,400 Speaker 1: or six, when I really felt like my people just 1015 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,640 Speaker 1: voting and I could see it on social media and 1016 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,560 Speaker 1: I could feel it. That's where the pressure came from 1017 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,920 Speaker 1: to me. It wasn't from me, it wasn't from Sharnay. 1018 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,080 Speaker 1: It was like, I really got to work hard and 1019 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,560 Speaker 1: I gotta get better because who votes on our freaking 1020 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:28,920 Speaker 1: TV show? I don't like Twice Taylor Hicks on an 1021 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:33,120 Speaker 1: American Idol that maybe it. I think about it, so 1022 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:34,640 Speaker 1: I knew what I was trying to do. I was 1023 00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,640 Speaker 1: asking people to vote for me when I only ever 1024 00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:38,880 Speaker 1: voted up. I got super passionate about something. Why was 1025 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,759 Speaker 1: that so passionate about Taylor Hicks by the way, I 1026 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,120 Speaker 1: don't know, but I was. And I'm so appreciative because 1027 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,759 Speaker 1: I know the people voting for me don't normally vote 1028 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,359 Speaker 1: on those shows. They don't, but I felt like I 1029 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,160 Speaker 1: was representing them, and because of that, there was a 1030 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:51,799 Speaker 1: lot of pressure that I put on myself to really 1031 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,040 Speaker 1: do that and to do them justice. Um, we win, 1032 00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,200 Speaker 1: and I'm like, holy crap. And what's funny is I 1033 00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,680 Speaker 1: watched a lot of the videos from other couples when 1034 00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,080 Speaker 1: they won the show after after we won. I didn't 1035 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:07,000 Speaker 1: do it until after we won. And what happens is 1036 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,880 Speaker 1: when people win the show, they hug immediately and go 1037 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,880 Speaker 1: right like yeah, and they like what can you believe it? 1038 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,640 Speaker 1: We're both so shocked. We run away from each other 1039 00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:15,440 Speaker 1: like I'm like I found my hands and I'm like, 1040 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,320 Speaker 1: oh my goodness, and she just like starts walking backward. Yeah. 1041 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,680 Speaker 1: She was like it was like when you like out 1042 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,160 Speaker 1: of breath, you know, put your hands on your legs 1043 00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,440 Speaker 1: or you're like vomiting. That's what she did. And for me, 1044 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:27,480 Speaker 1: I put my hands in my head. I was like, 1045 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,680 Speaker 1: oh my god, I cannot believe this actually happened. It 1046 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:34,160 Speaker 1: was like we were separated, and it was the opposite 1047 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,200 Speaker 1: of what other what's happened with other couples, because we 1048 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,719 Speaker 1: were both in shocked that they were actually giving us 1049 00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:44,759 Speaker 1: that trophy. And so we go and it's a whirlwind. 1050 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,400 Speaker 1: It's almost blurry what happened afterwards, because you're just thrown 1051 00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,759 Speaker 1: to so much press. But what was important to me 1052 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,640 Speaker 1: is that all my people that flew out to California 1053 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,120 Speaker 1: because I brought out a mod, I brought up Jared 1054 00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,040 Speaker 1: and Amy and all these people came out that I 1055 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:02,600 Speaker 1: I left all the press and I'll just to go 1056 00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:03,920 Speaker 1: out and hang out with you guys for a bit, 1057 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,440 Speaker 1: because all of that other stuff wasn't gonna be there 1058 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,560 Speaker 1: in three or four days. You know who cares. Dancing 1059 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,480 Speaker 1: stars won't even matter in a few weeks to anybody else. Like, 1060 00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,040 Speaker 1: I'm still living in a bit, but the world moves on. 1061 00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,960 Speaker 1: I'll be on American Idol. I'll always be the world's 1062 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,879 Speaker 1: best dancer. Don't get me wrong, but you know, there's 1063 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,000 Speaker 1: been many other Dancing with the Stars champions, and I 1064 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,279 Speaker 1: think it's something. This is a cool memory that we 1065 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,200 Speaker 1: all have together. But I wanted to come over on 1066 00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,120 Speaker 1: the ball room and hang out with my people that 1067 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,040 Speaker 1: were there to support me, and They're like, Bobby, need 1068 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,640 Speaker 1: to get depressed, and I was like, nope, all these 1069 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,319 Speaker 1: people came to see me, I'm gonna spend some time 1070 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,680 Speaker 1: with them. So in the middle of it, I went 1071 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,000 Speaker 1: over and as it was just it was still Haywire 1072 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000 Speaker 1: on the floor, I went over and hung out at 1073 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,200 Speaker 1: the judge's table with everybody. It was just like, how 1074 00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,200 Speaker 1: crazy is this? And then I went back into press 1075 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:48,719 Speaker 1: and I got to meet him at Smith. I gotta 1076 00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,120 Speaker 1: meet a lot of cool people on the show. Boys 1077 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:56,800 Speaker 1: them in the Blue Man Group, Emtt Smith, Um, Donnie Osmond. 1078 00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,920 Speaker 1: There were so many people that came through. Lauren Dagle, 1079 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,879 Speaker 1: who's a newer pop artist now but I'm a big 1080 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,640 Speaker 1: fan of hung out with her, like half an hour 1081 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:10,600 Speaker 1: on the finale we were practicing. Uh, I'll probably go 1082 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,239 Speaker 1: through this and look back and realize the mc hammer 1083 00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,480 Speaker 1: tweeted me that's cool. So many good memories came from 1084 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,680 Speaker 1: this show, and I think there will even be some 1085 00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,279 Speaker 1: people that come from the show that I'll be friends with. 1086 00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:23,920 Speaker 1: I think Sharn and I will forever be bonded by us. 1087 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,960 Speaker 1: We we did this show together, and had we just 1088 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,640 Speaker 1: done the show together, it always been like, remember the 1089 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,319 Speaker 1: time we did that show together. We see each other way, 1090 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,080 Speaker 1: but because we won, will always be bonded together. There's 1091 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,319 Speaker 1: just something to her winning her first trophy with me 1092 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,600 Speaker 1: and me not I still don't know what I'm doing. 1093 00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,760 Speaker 1: I if you ever wondered if you could do something, 1094 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:47,520 Speaker 1: You're like, I don't know if I could do that. 1095 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,280 Speaker 1: I freaking want a dance show. You can do anything, 1096 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,200 Speaker 1: Like you can do anything. I want to dance show. 1097 00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,880 Speaker 1: And I didn't win it by just dancing. But it 1098 00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,120 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you want to do. You don't win. 1099 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,960 Speaker 1: You don't actually get ahead by just doing what you're 1100 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,280 Speaker 1: supposed to do. Because I know, I'm really talented people 1101 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,799 Speaker 1: that haven't quite figured out how to use their talent 1102 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:07,960 Speaker 1: to get to the highest level. But I know some 1103 00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:09,960 Speaker 1: talent to people that also think about things in a 1104 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:16,640 Speaker 1: different way and are and are super successful. Um. But 1105 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,439 Speaker 1: but aside from that, let's run through the contestants, because 1106 00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,879 Speaker 1: there really wasn't anyone that people didn't like. I didn't 1107 00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,799 Speaker 1: talk to Nash hardly. Ever. She would come in and 1108 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:26,880 Speaker 1: out and she was doing I think she was like 1109 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,400 Speaker 1: singing and stuff. So she would be the only one 1110 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:35,480 Speaker 1: that I really don't have any story about because we 1111 00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,200 Speaker 1: really didn't talk. Never anything negative. Nobody ever said anything negative, 1112 00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,040 Speaker 1: and they often said that our cast was one of 1113 00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,480 Speaker 1: the like the nicest casts, because we were all just 1114 00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,040 Speaker 1: happy to be there. But other than to Nash, I 1115 00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,320 Speaker 1: kind of had stories with everybody. You know, it's some 1116 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,320 Speaker 1: kind of bond. Alright, go ahead, you got Nikki Glazer, 1117 00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:56,440 Speaker 1: one of the funniest people I ever met my whole life. 1118 00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,600 Speaker 1: Like there's like I do comedy right, and it's like 1119 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,320 Speaker 1: someone who is really good in their high school, in 1120 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,520 Speaker 1: their high school league. I go out in new shows, 1121 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,759 Speaker 1: people laughing, right, Oh, it's funny show. But then once 1122 00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,239 Speaker 1: they get up and they see major league players, are like, 1123 00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 1: oh my god, this is not the same. I should 1124 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,200 Speaker 1: shut up now and just go back to my high 1125 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:20,479 Speaker 1: school league and have fun there. Um comedian, funniest person, 1126 00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,560 Speaker 1: possibly the funniest person ever met, such so good that 1127 00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,040 Speaker 1: it made me realize I suck all right, go ahead 1128 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,440 Speaker 1: Danielle instead. Um I didn't spend a whole lot of time. 1129 00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,560 Speaker 1: She got voted off kind of early. But Danielle was 1130 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,160 Speaker 1: she was blind, and what we talked about a lot 1131 00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:38,680 Speaker 1: was she wants to write a book. And she was like, 1132 00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:39,880 Speaker 1: I'm not to writ a book. I'm not to put 1133 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:41,520 Speaker 1: it all out there. And I was like, I didn't 1134 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,640 Speaker 1: know how to write a book. Clueless. That's how ever, 1135 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,319 Speaker 1: in Tuna, I said the same thing about that as 1136 00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,200 Speaker 1: I did with the show. Just do it. Just go 1137 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,480 Speaker 1: into it, do it wrong, because you can do it 1138 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:52,880 Speaker 1: wrong and you figure out how to do it right, 1139 00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:54,359 Speaker 1: or you realize the wrong way that you're doing it. 1140 00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,080 Speaker 1: It's just the right way no one else has tried yet. 1141 00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,319 Speaker 1: And so we talked a lot about that, and we talked. 1142 00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:01,080 Speaker 1: We had a lot. Even when she came back, we 1143 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,200 Speaker 1: talked about that about her book A super nice um 1144 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,920 Speaker 1: I think she got voted off second or third. Yeah, 1145 00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,640 Speaker 1: So again the quicker people got voted off except for Nicki. 1146 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,280 Speaker 1: Nicki and I stayed in touch the whole time because 1147 00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:18,000 Speaker 1: we had actually written some stuff with each other. Um 1148 00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,000 Speaker 1: I still talked to Nicky. Nick was in my final dance. 1149 00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, Danielle, and that's what we really really talked 1150 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,000 Speaker 1: about about, Like she was really nice. What else blood 1151 00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,440 Speaker 1: Mary Lou I asked her to be on my final dance. 1152 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,319 Speaker 1: She got sick the last day. She was gonna be 1153 00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,440 Speaker 1: on top of the cake with NICKI. I thought when 1154 00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,040 Speaker 1: they cast that show that she was going to win 1155 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,640 Speaker 1: the show because she was the most famous one. In 1156 00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,680 Speaker 1: my mind, she was the most famous one because she 1157 00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,200 Speaker 1: was the one they put in the header merrily read 1158 00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,680 Speaker 1: and cast on Dancing with the Stars because she was 1159 00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:43,799 Speaker 1: the gold medalist. Now she was gold medalist. I think 1160 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,520 Speaker 1: I don't know years she was going medalist. I may 1161 00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,000 Speaker 1: not even been able to watch it on TV eighty 1162 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,239 Speaker 1: four or something. Hey, okay, so I was. I didn't 1163 00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,960 Speaker 1: watch TV then. I wasn't even a kindergarten yet. But 1164 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,480 Speaker 1: she was the most famous. Remember meeting her the first 1165 00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,839 Speaker 1: day we went up to do uh like clothes like, 1166 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,520 Speaker 1: and she was super nice, and I was like, holy crap, 1167 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,360 Speaker 1: merely written is nice? Um? But yeah, I really enjoyed 1168 00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:11,239 Speaker 1: her and I met her kids. I think she even 1169 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:12,720 Speaker 1: said on the show she was going through a divorce. 1170 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,680 Speaker 1: Like on we never saw the packages. Even during the 1171 00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,600 Speaker 1: show we could we even see them most time because 1172 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,359 Speaker 1: they had us going other places, like the things leading 1173 00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,920 Speaker 1: up to the dance. Go Ahead, Nancy for them the 1174 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:25,360 Speaker 1: Facts of Life Nancy McKinnon. We were both kind of 1175 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,400 Speaker 1: clueless when we got there and we were on a 1176 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:28,800 Speaker 1: bus and nobody wanted to sit with us. It was 1177 00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,960 Speaker 1: like Forrest Gump and I was walking through, and you're 1178 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:36,399 Speaker 1: more intimidated by the fact that you think people don't 1179 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:37,880 Speaker 1: want to sit with you, or don't like you, or 1180 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,719 Speaker 1: that you're weird. That's how I felt. I felt like 1181 00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,759 Speaker 1: the outcast. And I walked through the bus and all 1182 00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,640 Speaker 1: these fancy dancers, which by the way, I became friends 1183 00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,319 Speaker 1: with later and realized they're super cool, normal people, but 1184 00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:47,880 Speaker 1: it was like, can't see it here, That's what I 1185 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,920 Speaker 1: felt like. Seats taken and Nancy Joe from the Facts 1186 00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:53,440 Speaker 1: of Life was like, hey, sit with me, and I 1187 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,440 Speaker 1: was like, boom, cool person. And she lives in Austin 1188 00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,319 Speaker 1: and so I was like, does at home? So yeah, 1189 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,600 Speaker 1: it was really cool. What else? John Snyder? When I 1190 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,400 Speaker 1: would watch John dance, he was like the consummate performer, 1191 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:08,960 Speaker 1: like he regardless, he was getting things right or not. 1192 00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,719 Speaker 1: His face. Everything about him was controlled and like I 1193 00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:14,160 Speaker 1: would watch him and go, man, I wish I could 1194 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,920 Speaker 1: do that, because everything about me wasn't. It was the opposite. 1195 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,400 Speaker 1: My face is all over the place, my um uh. 1196 00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,840 Speaker 1: And John was a really nice guy. I know from 1197 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,480 Speaker 1: watching reruns The Dukes of Hazzard. I guess he was 1198 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,680 Speaker 1: on Small Bill. Didn't know that. But he was gone 1199 00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,000 Speaker 1: a lot, So I don't have a lot of John 1200 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:28,959 Speaker 1: stories because he was gone a lot. He was staying 1201 00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,360 Speaker 1: in Louisiana or Nashville, and so he would travel a lot. 1202 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,640 Speaker 1: But his dance partner, Emma, one of my favorite people 1203 00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,080 Speaker 1: that I met that entire show because after they got 1204 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,960 Speaker 1: kicked off, she worked with me a lot. Um. But 1205 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,360 Speaker 1: Johnson and guy did. I don't have a lot of 1206 00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:41,840 Speaker 1: stories about it because he was gone the whole time. 1207 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,919 Speaker 1: Maybe my favorite dude that met between him and Joe, 1208 00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:51,520 Speaker 1: maybe my favorite dude, nicest guy, possibly the greatest defensive 1209 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,880 Speaker 1: end outside linebacker, I wonder, depending on what defense he 1210 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:56,400 Speaker 1: was in that we've seen in the NFL in the 1211 00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,640 Speaker 1: last twenty years, and I was like this dude, I 1212 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:00,680 Speaker 1: was a little intimidated by him, but the nicest guy 1213 00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,400 Speaker 1: the nicest guy. Everybody loved a Marcus because he was 1214 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,400 Speaker 1: so nice, but he was so big. And I brought 1215 00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,400 Speaker 1: him my final dance because I loved him so much, 1216 00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,680 Speaker 1: and he lifted me up above his head. He's huge, 1217 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,720 Speaker 1: loved it, loved him, love it. Can't say enough good 1218 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,640 Speaker 1: things about him. I really would go to Wan Pablo 1219 00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,840 Speaker 1: and say, like, dude, you are so freaking talented everything 1220 00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,880 Speaker 1: you do. And I liked Wan Pablo a lot um 1221 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,000 Speaker 1: When he went home, and I said this on the show, 1222 00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,120 Speaker 1: I thought he was way too good to go home. 1223 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,560 Speaker 1: But the competitive part of me was like, I'm glad 1224 00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:31,360 Speaker 1: he's gone. I'd never be able to beat him dancing, 1225 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,760 Speaker 1: so let's get rid of all the good dancers. Let's 1226 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,600 Speaker 1: just leave me and grocery store Joe. Let's let us 1227 00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,440 Speaker 1: battle it out to the death. I really liked Wan Pablo, 1228 00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:42,560 Speaker 1: though quiet, and I think some people we're afraid to 1229 00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,600 Speaker 1: approach him because he was so perfect and everything he 1230 00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:48,960 Speaker 1: looked great, he danced great, seeing he ate great. Everything 1231 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,360 Speaker 1: about him was just right. He's just amazing. Everything about 1232 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,000 Speaker 1: it was amazing. I think some people were intidated by him. 1233 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,520 Speaker 1: I wasn't. I would go up to him. Like dude, 1234 00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,080 Speaker 1: and I would ask him questions about because he went 1235 00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,000 Speaker 1: to like fame school that you know, he went to 1236 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,480 Speaker 1: school talking about a seing and dance and he danced 1237 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,280 Speaker 1: in all these broadways And I was like, dude, you 1238 00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,680 Speaker 1: were everything I'm not and it's amazing. I like him 1239 00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:09,640 Speaker 1: Pablo a lot. Alexis, we didn't talk a whole lot. 1240 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:11,400 Speaker 1: You know, she was around, but she didn't say a 1241 00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,560 Speaker 1: whole lot. She was very sweet when she would talk, 1242 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:17,160 Speaker 1: but yeah, she we didn't. You know, there was me 1243 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,960 Speaker 1: and her partner. I loved Alan, like that was the dude. 1244 00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,440 Speaker 1: But yeah, Legis, I didn't talk a whole lot. She 1245 00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,440 Speaker 1: was never not nice, but we just didn't you know, 1246 00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,520 Speaker 1: what does she like two and I'm thirty eight? Like 1247 00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:30,959 Speaker 1: what does she have in common with me? I would 1248 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:32,520 Speaker 1: try to talk to he a little bit, but you know, 1249 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. We didn't talk a whole lot. Love 1250 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:37,680 Speaker 1: We got a team weeks. She became a best friend, 1251 00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,480 Speaker 1: uh and then we became so close after and she 1252 00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:42,760 Speaker 1: they were the only couple that I genuinely rooted good 1253 00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,120 Speaker 1: for everybody else I'd be like, I like you hope 1254 00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,320 Speaker 1: you fall down? Um her and Kio I would watch. 1255 00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,439 Speaker 1: I didn't watch a single dance the last four weeks. 1256 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,520 Speaker 1: I watched no nobody else's dances ever, because I realized 1257 00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:56,280 Speaker 1: it was doing nothing but affecting me in a negative way. 1258 00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:57,920 Speaker 1: Because I knew I couldn't do that, I was just 1259 00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:59,800 Speaker 1: gonna do what I did, except there's I would watch 1260 00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:01,320 Speaker 1: the and I would root so hard that they would 1261 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,160 Speaker 1: do good because they were just so awesome. I loved 1262 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,160 Speaker 1: them as a team. She was from Harry Potter, never 1263 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,160 Speaker 1: seen Harry Potter, so to me, that wasn't a thing. Um, 1264 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,520 Speaker 1: it was really cool. And that's the only dances that 1265 01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,640 Speaker 1: I watched the final like month of the show. She's 1266 01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,240 Speaker 1: a vegan and she would lecture me on veganism. Didn't care. 1267 01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:18,800 Speaker 1: She was the best. And I would go like, how 1268 01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:20,720 Speaker 1: do you know plants can't feel We just can't talk 1269 01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,720 Speaker 1: to them, you know we how we community? She's like, well, 1270 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,920 Speaker 1: they have no and I'd be like, anyway, there's a 1271 01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:27,920 Speaker 1: whole thing. I loved her. She wrote a funny Instagram 1272 01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,280 Speaker 1: post in one of her last instagrams about she was 1273 01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:31,920 Speaker 1: like he congratulations to Bobby. I would watch you in 1274 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,400 Speaker 1: team week and you had you were clueless and you 1275 01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:35,720 Speaker 1: would work double the time just to try to catch up. 1276 01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,040 Speaker 1: She was right, I would have to. And I thought 1277 01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,640 Speaker 1: her post was so funny because she was like congratulating me, 1278 01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,880 Speaker 1: but also kind of taking a funny like a little 1279 01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,080 Speaker 1: funniest fight, like you really weren't a good dancer. I know, 1280 01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,840 Speaker 1: I know, I loved her. I would talk about her 1281 01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,760 Speaker 1: for thirty minutes. Go ahead, dude, that kid, he's gonna 1282 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,320 Speaker 1: be so famous. He's gonna be still. He's seventeen, He's 1283 01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:59,959 Speaker 1: gonna be so famous. Good looking kid, great personality, great dance. 1284 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,800 Speaker 1: There can sing like if we would forget sometimes he 1285 01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,040 Speaker 1: was seventeen because he was so mature for his age, 1286 01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,960 Speaker 1: and his mom was super nice. Cameron Manheim, who I 1287 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,560 Speaker 1: didn't really know her from acting, that would look her 1288 01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:10,920 Speaker 1: up afterwards We're like, oh yeah, I like at that. 1289 01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,800 Speaker 1: She's said some stuff. I love the kid, and early 1290 01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:15,080 Speaker 1: on in the the show would kind of give him tips 1291 01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:17,000 Speaker 1: on how to work with the camera, like during the 1292 01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,000 Speaker 1: live show, like, dude, don't do dead face. I always 1293 01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:20,720 Speaker 1: have something to say. And I started to coach him 1294 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:22,800 Speaker 1: a little bit and then I realized he's probably gonna 1295 01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:25,240 Speaker 1: beat me. And I was about week five I saw him, 1296 01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,600 Speaker 1: go back, go back, nothing. He used to do great kid, 1297 01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,840 Speaker 1: like great, his mom should be so proud. Should have 1298 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,400 Speaker 1: won the show like you should have. If any other season, 1299 01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,000 Speaker 1: if I wouldn't have been there and approached a different way, 1300 01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:41,400 Speaker 1: he'd have won the show. Best dancer left, all in all, 1301 01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,080 Speaker 1: best well rounded on that show, like dancer and lovableness. 1302 01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,320 Speaker 1: If I hadn't cracked the code, he had won the show. Great. 1303 01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:51,960 Speaker 1: I couldn't say enough good things about it. Love that kid. 1304 01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:56,400 Speaker 1: What else? That was? Like, my dude, Like we bonded 1305 01:01:56,440 --> 01:02:00,280 Speaker 1: over just life. We're both thrown into something. We had 1306 01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:03,640 Speaker 1: no comfort doing this together doing it, but we were together. 1307 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:05,720 Speaker 1: We'd be at the urinal being beside each other and 1308 01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,880 Speaker 1: be like, dude, you're nervous. I'm so nervous. Oh my god. 1309 01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:11,560 Speaker 1: Every week and then it'll be like you're getting less nervous. 1310 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,840 Speaker 1: U uh. And I put him in my final dance 1311 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:20,520 Speaker 1: because we really bonded. They've never seen The Bachelor or 1312 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,400 Speaker 1: the Bachelor in Paradise, so there wasn't that where I 1313 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,160 Speaker 1: was like, oh, just he was just a normal dude 1314 01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,640 Speaker 1: aside from me. He was just a normal of the 1315 01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:32,440 Speaker 1: normalist dudes there. And we kept getting put through. We 1316 01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,840 Speaker 1: were both feeling criticism, and he came up to me 1317 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:37,640 Speaker 1: after He's like, hey, man, I know I've been eliminated, 1318 01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,080 Speaker 1: but like I'm rooted for you because like you're kind 1319 01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:44,439 Speaker 1: of representing us. And so I really liked Joe, really 1320 01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,479 Speaker 1: liked him a lot. Took a minute because he's real quiet, 1321 01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,680 Speaker 1: and when someone's really quiet, you go they had dick 1322 01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:52,280 Speaker 1: or they just quiet. It turns out he was just 1323 01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,880 Speaker 1: quiet but so funny. I really like Joe. On the 1324 01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:59,160 Speaker 1: dancer side of things, I think my favorite like um 1325 01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,960 Speaker 1: Emma and saw Asha. They're two dancers, two different pros. 1326 01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:06,320 Speaker 1: Emma dance with John Schneider and Sasha danced with merry 1327 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,240 Speaker 1: Ly Retten, but they're married. They're like, I want to 1328 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,040 Speaker 1: be friends with them forever. They were that they were 1329 01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:15,640 Speaker 1: so nice and I get to go back on a 1330 01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,600 Speaker 1: tour for a few days and I really am looking 1331 01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:19,400 Speaker 1: forward to hanging out with them and Lindsay, who was 1332 01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,080 Speaker 1: to Marcus partner. Like they really worked with me um 1333 01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,479 Speaker 1: Whenever Charlotte was like instructing the big group, they would 1334 01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,080 Speaker 1: pull me aside and work with me. Um Kio. There 1335 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,320 Speaker 1: were times with Keyo had to teach me how to 1336 01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,280 Speaker 1: dance their team weak goes me and Kyo. Dude, he 1337 01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,200 Speaker 1: was doing the girl parts and he was just he 1338 01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,400 Speaker 1: was like, he's that Bobby, let's do it, and that 1339 01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,840 Speaker 1: sounds like an Australian. He's not a strong but like, 1340 01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,680 Speaker 1: there's means so many cool people that you don't want 1341 01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,360 Speaker 1: to vows like the coolest dude ever. But he got 1342 01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:49,640 Speaker 1: kicked off quickly because he had Nancy. I think so 1343 01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,040 Speaker 1: there are a lot of them. The troupe is good. 1344 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:58,720 Speaker 1: Is there anything I haven't said anything that any bombshell? 1345 01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:05,680 Speaker 1: I haven't I said I think you think of it 1346 01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,120 Speaker 1: was that it was the best experience. I'm so glad 1347 01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:12,000 Speaker 1: it's over. People were going, man, two days after the show, 1348 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna be wake m Ben and be like, well, 1349 01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,440 Speaker 1: what's happening? Two days later, welcome the show. I was like, 1350 01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:20,120 Speaker 1: thank God, it's not happening. I was so tired. I 1351 01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:21,920 Speaker 1: actually went in box today for the first time. I 1352 01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,080 Speaker 1: went to a boxing class. My cardio is an A plus. 1353 01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:25,920 Speaker 1: Did a whole class and I was like, I'm not 1354 01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,080 Speaker 1: even breathing. I have a little gut right now because 1355 01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:30,760 Speaker 1: I've been eating like crap because I'm like SCREWPT I 1356 01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:33,560 Speaker 1: don't care right now, but my cardio is a plus. 1357 01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:36,240 Speaker 1: I found this little lump on my lif It talked 1358 01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:38,920 Speaker 1: about this little ump I found in my leg um. 1359 01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:40,240 Speaker 1: I found this little lump on my leg and I 1360 01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,440 Speaker 1: was like, oh no, I was kind of rubbing it 1361 01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,560 Speaker 1: and yeah, it's a calf calf muscle. Yeah it's the 1362 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:51,360 Speaker 1: first time ever. Yeah you like that. Thank you very much. 1363 01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,680 Speaker 1: It was an awesome experience. I'm glad I didn't know 1364 01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,200 Speaker 1: how hard it was going into it. I'm glad I 1365 01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:58,720 Speaker 1: didn't know how bad I was before I did it. 1366 01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,120 Speaker 1: I didn't know I was gonna be that bad. To 1367 01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,800 Speaker 1: everyone who keeps messaging me, going you suck as a dancer, 1368 01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,760 Speaker 1: shut up. I don't think I'm any better than you do. 1369 01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:12,720 Speaker 1: Like anything else that I do, I'm never the most talented, 1370 01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:16,920 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna outwork everyone, and I'm also gonna I'm 1371 01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:22,040 Speaker 1: gonna know the rules so well. Like radio, I know 1372 01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:23,960 Speaker 1: the rules so well, I know when I need to 1373 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:28,280 Speaker 1: go to break. I know the science behind it's so 1374 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,200 Speaker 1: well that it allows me whenever I do my creative thing, 1375 01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,080 Speaker 1: I can work inside the guidelines. The same with the show. 1376 01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:36,480 Speaker 1: I just learned the science of the show. And I'll 1377 01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:39,680 Speaker 1: end with this. I believe that you have to surround 1378 01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,240 Speaker 1: yourself with good people in order to do great things. 1379 01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:47,640 Speaker 1: And I did that between you guys, the best. Could 1380 01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,200 Speaker 1: not have done it without you at all, zero present. 1381 01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,440 Speaker 1: I would have done it without you and Sharna, which 1382 01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,520 Speaker 1: is would have never happened. I surrounded myself with the 1383 01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:59,080 Speaker 1: best people. Let me also put my radio staff in there, 1384 01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,800 Speaker 1: because they had to endure a lot of me coming 1385 01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:07,560 Speaker 1: in exhausted. They had to endure me being the high, 1386 01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:11,479 Speaker 1: highest and lowest of moods. It's physically pushed in ways 1387 01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:15,040 Speaker 1: I've never been pushed before. And there's a big shadow 1388 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:17,480 Speaker 1: that goes to them too. So I believe if you 1389 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,000 Speaker 1: can surround yourself with the best people, great things can happen. 1390 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,200 Speaker 1: And if you have people who aren't going around you, 1391 01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:24,600 Speaker 1: it's up to you to change it. You can either 1392 01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,280 Speaker 1: change them or change the way that you're working. And 1393 01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,800 Speaker 1: so I think this. I think that's how long has 1394 01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:34,640 Speaker 1: this been a little over an hour? All right? Anything 1395 01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,720 Speaker 1: I've not said in that in the tell all? I think. 1396 01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,760 Speaker 1: The thing I just wondered from being there every week 1397 01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:41,840 Speaker 1: is do you guys have like a list of like 1398 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:43,800 Speaker 1: things you can pull from for like the set, like 1399 01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:47,320 Speaker 1: if you want fire like water. Um, so there's a creative. 1400 01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:48,920 Speaker 1: I would I was not a good enough to answer 1401 01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,240 Speaker 1: to really know about the creative. But the producers on 1402 01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:56,200 Speaker 1: that show, Um, there's an executive producer named Ashley that 1403 01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,960 Speaker 1: is so good at what she does and like Sharna 1404 01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:01,840 Speaker 1: was the best, best choreographer, the best idea person our 1405 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,560 Speaker 1: final dance, Like I sent sharnas some ideas like I 1406 01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,480 Speaker 1: wanted to talk and stuff, and she created this fantastic 1407 01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,840 Speaker 1: dance just for me, like built for me. And they do, um, 1408 01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,080 Speaker 1: really wonderful jobs of doing that. I don't know. I 1409 01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:14,840 Speaker 1: have nothing to do with that, but I think they 1410 01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:20,080 Speaker 1: come up with these concepts and um, they make it happen. 1411 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,840 Speaker 1: I'm not educated enough to give that answer. But no, 1412 01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,360 Speaker 1: I don't get to walk around a warehouse and go, 1413 01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,840 Speaker 1: I'll take the cow, I'll take the I'll take the 1414 01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:31,800 Speaker 1: large honey badger. Can I get the Bazuka? No? I don't. 1415 01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,000 Speaker 1: That was just crazy to see them just pull out 1416 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:37,000 Speaker 1: these big, elaborate pieces for one dance. It takes this 1417 01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,280 Speaker 1: entire team just get this one car out there or 1418 01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:43,200 Speaker 1: something or set this like pyrotechnic. It was crazy, no idea, 1419 01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,160 Speaker 1: not educated enough to give that answer. ABC was fantastic, 1420 01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,920 Speaker 1: The company BBC was fantastic, the people that own the show, 1421 01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,280 Speaker 1: the people. It was just such a great experience. The 1422 01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:55,680 Speaker 1: hardest thing I would Yeah, is it? So? I think 1423 01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,040 Speaker 1: that's it? Anything else you wanna ask? All right, thank 1424 01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:01,040 Speaker 1: you so much. Hopefully this answer some question sens also 1425 01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:04,480 Speaker 1: hit me out. Appreciate you all right? This episode? What 1426 01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:08,160 Speaker 1: thanks to life flock you feel like people like this one? 1427 01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:11,000 Speaker 1: I think? Yeah, all right, shout out. If I forgot you, 1428 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry and I gotta go bye ready m hm 1429 01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:15,920 Speaker 1: h