WEBVTT - #145 - How Bobby Won Dancing With The Stars: The True Untold Story 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:10.039 Welcome to episode. And I wanted to do this episode 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.000 while Dancing with the Stars was still fresh in my mind. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.040 It's let's today Sunday. So I guess less than a 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.119 week after the finale and after that I was the 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.880 champion and Charnat was the champion. And I want to 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:25.960 do this one to serve not only you guys and 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:27.120 tell you some stuff that I have I got to 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.400 talk about yet, but also to listen. If anyone else 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.240 is gonna do that show, they should be directed to 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.000 this next podcast right I'm about to do because hopefully 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.280 I'll be able to share some stuff with you that 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.400 will help you out as you're about to do the show. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.760 Because there are people that help me, but everybody that 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.479 helped me was pretty conventional. Um, and as you know 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.600 if you watch the show, I was definitely unconventional on 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.520 that show. Uh. This episode episode brought to us by 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:54.200 life Flock. 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We we 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.400 lived in the two bedroom apartment in in Los Angeles 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.680 a bit. It was called Glendale, and we had to 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.680 live different from all the rest of the cast because 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:14.519 I had to work the whole time. I was the 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.320 only one that was working full time. Uh. DeMarcus was 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.079 doing a couple of days a week coaching with the Broncos, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.399 but other than that, everybody else was kind of at 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.720 it um just the dancing. So Miked and I moved 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.680 three months ago or so to a tiny apartment in Glendale, California, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.120 And in the morning we would go to Burbank and 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.120 do the radio show and then I wouldn't see Mike 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.560 again until some time later, and I would walk in 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.440 exhaust every three months. So hold on, man to war. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.680 So let me start at the beginning. They started talking 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.800 to me about Dancing with the Stars actually months ago, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.960 even before I went on American Idol, and the exact 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.320 producer of that show, one of them, Dena Cats, I 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.120 was like, I think you'd be good on Dancing with 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.839 the Stars and Rob Mills at ABC, and I was like, yeah, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:14.120 sounds fun. Well, between that time American Idol happened and 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.680 I went on there and some other things started happening 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.280 in the TV world, and I went from nobody caring 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.560 about me at all, which has been pretty much my 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.120 whole career, just dealing people to care like the like 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.840 the people people I'm talking about, like network people. Two, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.960 I started to get oddly a lot of show offers 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.400 at once, so I had to decide what I wanted 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.120 to do. And I really wanted to do Dancing with 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.600 the Stars just because I thought it would be fun. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:38.480 I didn't think it would be as hard as it was. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.200 I thought it'd be pretty hard because I've never danced. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.840 I don't think it was gonna be as grueling as 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.720 it was. And um yeah, I chose to do Dancing 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.040 with the Stars. I didn't know if I could with 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.360 the American Idol schedule, because in that same amount of time, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.200 I had signed a deal with American Idol ABC to 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.840 do full time Idol, and some of the dates were 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.680 on top of each other, which later VC worked him 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.520 out for me. But um yeah, I chose Dancing with 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.200 the Stars. And I didn't officially get to take it 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.840 until like two weeks before I started training. I wasn't 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.360 sure that I was gonna be able to do it, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.960 and so I had never met Sharna until like the 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.599 day I met Sharna on the show, and so they 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.840 flew to Nashville. I remember doing the radio show and 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.240 I was like, wow, today I'm gonna start training for 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.240 Dancing with the Stars. But I couldn't talk about it 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.920 because the first two weeks up until the announcement on 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.720 Good Morning America, you can't say anything about it, and 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.920 you have to practice in secret, and nobody can know. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.120 I think only a couple of people here knew, and 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.839 so you kind of have to go, well, I've seen 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.480 a couple of hours, but I'm not gonna tell you 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.240 where I'm going. This is not weird by and disappear, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.920 And I remember I was We were in a dance 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.719 studio in Nashville for the first couple of weeks because 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.359 I had a move to Los Angeles yet, and I 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.160 hadn't really seen the show enough to know the dancers 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.800 by like, how I know some people, you know, love 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.400 the dancers on the show because they've been there for 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.560 so long. I didn't know who Sharnon was. She knew 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.760 who I was, obviously, and so here was this Australian 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.920 professional dancer in this goofy Southern radio dude. And so 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.800 the thing about Sharna is what I knew immediately because 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.600 I googled everything, was that all of her last partners, 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.360 you may look this up, like her last partners were 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:28.120 all pretty much professional athletes. So I knew that she 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.000 had been close to winning a bunch but had never won. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.920 And that was kind of her story. That I knew 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.839 about her was that she was always the one like 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:39.280 the DiCaprio, like everyone thought she was, if not the best, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.120 one of the best, but she had never won. And 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.000 she had been given some great partners as far as physically, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.320 like I believe she had Josh Norman, who was an 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.400 NFL player. Do you have the old list work working backwards, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.880 So Josh Norman uh NFL players, had Derek fisher In 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.680 an NBA player, Antonio Brown, an NFL player, James Heins 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:05.920 Cliff race car driver, Nick Carter, Nick Carter dancer, Backstreet board. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.680 So that my point is everybody that she had before 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.520 me kind of knew physically what they were capable of. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:15.880 They were rather they all did a professionally. As a 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.400 matter of fact, they all were paid to physically do things. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.680 And then she gets me and I think that we 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.640 were both kind of stunned at what we'd gotten herself into. Um. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.320 And again we didn't really know each other yet, and 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.600 so I was clueless. I mean I ended the show 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.480 still somewhat clueless. But after I did the math six 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.279 hours of training, and we never took a day off 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.240 in three months because we couldn't afford to because everyone 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:44.680 else was so much better than us. They were so 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.840 far ahead of us that we couldn't afford to take 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.280 a day off because we weren't going to catch them. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.120 We were just trying to put ourselves in a position 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.960 whenever showtime hit to be ready to do the show. Um. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.159 And that started. We woke up, did the radio show, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.839 and we started every Tuesday. It was like boop, back 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.560 at it. We kind of had this grid of the 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:06.080 way we did things, and so we started practicing. And 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.560 our remember them saying our first style of dance was 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.160 a jive, and I was like, I never heard of it. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.760 I heard it, like hey, why you talking that jive? 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:14.760 Or like hey why I don't know, Like in the 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.360 seventies people say the jive. I know what that was, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:23.400 like the hand give from Greece, you know, So and 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.920 I remember I lost twelve pounds and two and a 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.040 half weeks because I didn't really eat. I don't really 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.800 have time to eat. I was so tired. I don't 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.200 want to eat because I was working and dancing a jib, which, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.640 by the way, I learned later is the most physically 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.120 demanding of all the dances because it's so fast. It's 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.600 a lot of jumping around. And I lost a bunch 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:48.640 of weight quickly, and so much so that later on Sharna, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.800 not the whole time, but like weeks four or five, six, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.800 she would order food and have it sent to the 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.239 room and we'd have to stop practice that she would 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.520 make me eat because I wasn't. I wouldn't stopped like 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.280 I was there of work and that was it um 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.960 and it really wasn't hungry while I was working. So 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.280 we go and then we moved out to l A. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.600 And I remember leaving the house going, well, I'm not 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.480 gonna be back very often if I last. And we 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.680 moved out to this tiny apartment. It felt like college again, 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.360 and I mean they paid for the apartment. We got there. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.000 It was fully furnished, cable there was even like a 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.320 cordless phone, which I thought was weird. Yeah, it's a 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.200 cordless landline and so, and we lived there and I 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:30.960 would go to work and I would uber every day. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.800 My uber bill was so high they gave us a 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.800 rental car. They gave me a renal car, but might 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.199 be pretty much kept a rental car. And then I 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.679 just ubered to Burbank to where the radio station was, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.600 and I was in sweats for three months. I don't 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.240 know that I wore jeans more than three times, like 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.440 normal human clothes more than three times, except for dressing 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.920 up for that show on an occasional work event. And 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.560 so it'd stay in sweats and cut off shirts and hoodies. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.959 And you couldn't wear logos or you have to do 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.000 everything backward. So all my clothes were it was all 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.240 is backward inside out. And so I'll go to this 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.440 practice place, and you know, I was kind of looking 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.600 at my calendar. We rarely practiced less than six hours, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.120 almost never, and there were days we practiced up to 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.840 thirteen hours, depending on where we were in the in 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.360 the week, and we had to travel a lot. Then 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.440 there were some people that traveled as well, like John 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.079 Schneider traveled a bit because he didn't want to stay 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.000 in l a um. But and we can go to 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.600 the cast too, and I can tell you stories about 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:27.920 all of them. And I mean, listen, what do I 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.720 care now? Shows over, I can say whatever I want, um, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.840 you know, and I wish there was no I don't 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.280 wish it. I'm kind of glad there's not. But it 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.640 was such a good experience to me because of the people, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.559 meaning the crew, the cast, the producers. They were all 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.679 so awesome and there's nothing really behind the scenes to 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.280 tell you about anything that really irritated me about that. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.760 They were from the executive producers down to the stage 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.920 manager to what they called the troop, the backup Dan 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.640 two later on the other partners of the other stars. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.640 Once they would get eliminated, they would help me, and 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:12.600 you know, I would use them as tools. Um. So there, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.439 it's such a positive experience. There's the hardest thing I've 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.280 ever done, but it's such a positive experience. And there 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.080 are things I'll talk about, um that are a bit juicier, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.600 I guess, but it was such a positive experience that 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.319 I you know, there have been people that have finished 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.360 that show and have come off like angry and not me. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.520 I had the greatest time when I wasn't about to 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.080 vomit because I was so tired at the greatest time. Um. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:44.280 So yeah, Like we would start on Tuesday and by Thursday, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.640 we'd have to have it shot sometimes on Friday, and 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.959 you know, the rehearsals and dress rehearsals, and and there 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:55.000 were clothing, their fittings and their wardrobe department's amazing. And 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.079 they make everything by hand. They don't go to coals 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.199 and buy the stuff. Everything is made. It start of 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.400 the fabric. Everything you saw me in and it started 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.000 with the fabric and they made it all and we 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.080 go and put it all on and I'd have mine on, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.000 Charne would have hers and she would go, now, let's 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.160 change this, and they would freaking change it and they 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.480 would restone things. I've never worked something Ryan Stones in 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.080 my life, never been shirtless in public. More in my 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.080 life then when I was on that show. So, um, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.719 it's a really great experience. I did went unconventionally. Now 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.880 here's where it starts to get a little a little 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.960 different from my approach to the show, and that I 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.560 knew I was never gonna be able to catch up 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.000 with the great dancers on that show. I knew from 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.360 the beginning they had trained for ten plus years, said 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.680 the ones. I think that all three of the people 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.800 I was in the finals with had years and years 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.040 and years and years of training, maybe ten plus, because 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.360 they said that Alexis had. This is just people talking 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.120 to me that Alexis had ten years of ballet mylos 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.040 been dancing since he was tiny. Of Anna, she was 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.800 like the second favorite to win the show when it started. Uh, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.719 I'm not sure what her dance experience was, but she 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.800 obviously had had some by talking to them. So I 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.199 was the one that didn't have any dance experience. And 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.440 so what I had realized early on when I would 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.800 watch to Nash or Wan Pablo dances that I was 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.439 never going to be that good. And I felt like 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.960 if I could get through week two or three, that 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.319 I could figure out a sideway to win that show, 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.440 meaning that show usually is one by somebody who can 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.200 dance really well. I don't know they've had anyone win 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:30.400 that show that really couldn't dance in a long time, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.719 like with no dance experience. The only one I can 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.760 think of, and I'm not sure is Bendy Irwin. Other 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.920 than that, just by looking at all the data on 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.960 Wikipedia and like you're either an athlete or a dancer 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.960 in some capacity, and I wasn't that, and I was 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.680 determined to figure out how to win. Now. Here's what 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.040 I figured out was that if I could get eights 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.319 and even sevens, that put me in a place to 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.960 win every week. Meaning the show was split in half 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.920 half judges half fan vote, and I knew if I 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.960 could get an eight and the best if they got 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.760 a ten, that only put me at a depth sit 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:15.120 on the first half. But I felt that I could 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.720 get more than a lead over them in the fan vote. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.920 Of all of them want Pablo to Nash. I felt 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.520 like people would identify more with me than they would 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.360 with them, so they could go and dance their brains 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.480 out because they were such good dancers. But if they 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.600 were getting tents and I was getting seventh orrades, that 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.960 was only a thirty percent at most difference, I felt 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.040 like it could beat them by in the human vote. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.439 The human vote what people don't realize, and even when 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.040 people on their show, is actually worth more than the 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.199 judges vote. Even though it's fifty, there's a ceiling on 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.839 the judges vote, there is no ceiling on the fan vote. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.680 There's no top line you can get on the fan vote. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.800 You can win the fan vote, you can win it 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.600 by to the second place person. There are no rules. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.480 You may not probably won't, but there are no rules 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.600 on the ceiling of the fan vote. So that's how 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.800 I approached it. I knew that people would not vote 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.720 for me if I was mailing it and not trying hard. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.400 So I was working as hard as I could to 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.600 get better, and I did get better. But I also 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.000 knew I was playing a different game than everybody else. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.040 As they were all playing checkers, I was playing chess. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.600 We were all trying to dance as good as we could, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.400 but I knew that there are years and years of 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.240 experience I couldn't catch up with, But my years and 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.800 years of experience of being a performer and playing two 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.680 people and four people and surviving based on that they 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.560 couldn't catch up with. And so while they were all 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.280 hyper focused on dance, I was working as hard as 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.440 I could on dance. But you're crazy if you don't 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.400 think I was going what can I do? The people 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.240 will really be entertained by what can I do to 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.200 people will love? And every week it was work, work, work, work, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.640 and trying to figure out what would be super entertaining 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.320 now never in the dance, and there are things in 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.160 the dance. I couldn't control my mouth being open the 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.840 whole time, could control it, tried so hard to keep 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.600 my mouth shut. I think that's just what I did 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.360 when I was happy and I was moving around so 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.000 um week one, if I'm to go back and and 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.160 look at some of the things I didn't plan to 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.080 fall down obviously, I had never done that day. I 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.280 wasn't all red. We were doing a jive to Travis 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.880 Trip t r o U b l E. And they 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.520 gave me a super country song because I love country 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.680 music obviously, and I was like, okay, cool, and I 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.960 love that song. It's nineties countries. It's right in my wheelhouse. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.400 And so we uh we did that. I never nailed 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.200 the dance in practice, never, not one time. And we 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.400 got on the show, and the best I ever did 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.160 it was that first show. I remember the music going 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.480 Brian and I was like, oh my god, here we go. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.480 And I remember finishing it and going I can't believe 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.800 I just did an episode Dancing with the Stars and 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.840 I didn't my best ever, and I started celebrating, probably 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.920 two beats too early, and Charnett was still bent over backward, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.960 and so she was bent over back where I started 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.200 pumping my fist. It's probably a little too early. So 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.760 finally she's able to get back up, and I run 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.880 into the across the floor. And by the way, there 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.120 were no rules for me. In my head, if you 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.880 don't know the rules, there are no rules. I didn't 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.400 know the rules of that show as far as where 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.720 you could go and couldn't go, so no one told 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.520 me what I couldn't do. So I was like, this whole, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:23.440 this whole like ballroom, it's kind of my canvas. I 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:24.920 can do whatever I want. And I felt like that, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.160 by the way the whole show because that no one 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.400 ever came to me said stopped. So I took off 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.840 running through the middle of the floor and I was 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.840 like oh, and then I um was jumping around and 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.280 I fell and hurt my shoulder. My shoulder still hurts today. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.000 I had to stop acting like it was hurt because 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.440 I did not want it to be a storyline on 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.040 the show. Still hurts today. And so I hurt my shoulder. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.480 But we went over and we got our scores and 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.200 I think we got all sevens from the first show. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:49.760 Do you know you don't have to look it up, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.560 but I think it was like all sevens. But they 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.480 were very complimentary, and the bit that Eddie and I 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.320 do on our morning shows from that, whenever they would 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.360 just say Bobby Jay into the world, the world's a 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.600 better place. You just killed all diseases. What do your 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.880 dance two, I'll be like, oh, becauldn't think they're getting 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.920 big scores, and they wouldn't. Um, So I go out 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.040 and everyone was like, wow, I was crazy. No one's 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.400 ever reacted like that after a dance. No one ever 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.399 came to me and said, don't do that. I think 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:18.800 people watch the show and they go, oh, we can 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.439 only act a certain way because of ways we've ever 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.440 seen on the show. I was the opposite. I was like, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.880 I'm gonna be exactly how I want to be until 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.880 they tell me not to be. So no one said 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.240 anything about it. So we're go into week two and 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.840 I believe week two was the and I'm not going 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.679 to go through every week, but um, We're going to 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.960 week two and I believe week two is the foxtrot 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.080 where I end up flossing at the end of the dance. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.880 That's the other Week two, a week three. But we're 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.480 going to the fox Trot and they have me at 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.000 the end of the show. And this is when people, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:52.400 the other dancers start to whisper their conspiracy theories of oh, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.240 if you're at the end of the show, that means 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.240 they're putting you at the end, because they went everybody 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.879 to hang around. I didn't know whether to believe them 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.840 or not. I was knew it was only a couple 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.560 of exam but I was like, oh, I started to 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.200 get into my head a little bit. And our dance 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.119 was super slow, and it was a foxtrot. It was 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.960 New York Week and it was and if I'm actually 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.719 inaccurate in these weeks, Mike, you can tell me. So 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.520 it's New York Week, and that that was my We 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.359 had New York, New York from Frank Frank Sinatra and 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.520 them out and we're doing the foxtrot and it's a 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.640 slow dance and we're last, and I'm thinking of myself 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:26.720 as much as I've learned it and as much as 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.040 Sharna has been working to teach me these little things 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.000 that I felt like a slow dance was kind of 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.240 boring for the last dance, which by the way, sacriligious 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.439 to say to a dancer, and I said that one 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.480 star she was. I don't think she liked that I said, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.439 because it was slow, it was boring, and I was 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.760 like at the end, I wanted a big number. And 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.720 so about halfway through the dance, I go, well, I 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.560 haven't really nailed this dance. I've done pretty good, and 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.800 I got to give people something to remember, because you 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:56.600 remember they were still thirteen people, aren't they twelve people left? 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.359 And so as Sharna sat down at the very end 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.399 of the dance, I lost and I was running backward 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:04.359 when I did it, and it was a tough I 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.480 gotta tell you. One of my most athletic moves of 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.880 the whole dance season was flossing, running backward and coming 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.720 to a stop right there. And so I flost and 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.280 we got off. We got our scores and they were like, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.000 what just happened? And Charlotte was so mad at me, 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.040 and we had only known each other three or four 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.480 weeks at this point, and me, I'm thinking, I'm just 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.239 trying to stay memorable. I did the whole dance as 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.520