Speaker 1: You're listening to Jojosa Now with me, Jojo Siua and
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Jo Jesse Now. Oh my god, I.
Speaker 1: For the last however many weeks, have been so excited
Speaker 1: about this podcast. Immediately when I started jogesh and Now,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is my dream guest list.
Speaker 2: I want to have Harry and Riley on my podcast.
Speaker 2: You too. I'm talking to them because they're in here.
Speaker 1: I technically haven't introduced them yet, but literally at the
Speaker 1: top of my guest list. So thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining me. Everybody, please welcome Harry and Riley to
Speaker 1: my Gosh. You too.
Speaker 2: Wow, you too are freaking awesome. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I had the best time watching y'all throughout the season
Speaker 1: of Stars. I had the best time watching y'all's rehearsal. Tiktoks.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm saying this as one of the two
Speaker 1: billion people that also enjoyed this. I'm saying I'm your
Speaker 1: number one fan, but I know that's not true because
Speaker 1: there's so.
Speaker 2: Many number one fans out there.
Speaker 3: Y'all really did the dang thing this season.
Speaker 4: It's crazy. I remember we when you did add dance.
Speaker 4: We send it to each other with freaking out was
Speaker 4: really early in the morning. Yeah, you did it like
Speaker 4: really earlier, and I was awake and I saw it
Speaker 4: and I'm like, wait, what dance? I think this is wild.
Speaker 1: I remember doing it to my hotel room, but I
Speaker 1: was just all alone and I was like, I mean
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: Addicting, like I was. I was. I was really I
Speaker 2: want to do it too later today if y'all are
Speaker 2: y'all are yes, of course y'all you didn't.
Speaker 1: You didn't win the Mirror Ball, and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through your whole season. We're gonna talk yeah, freaking I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a rip off, but y'all did win You really did?
Speaker 1: You really did have.
Speaker 2: The season you.
Speaker 1: I mean like just like literally statistically rightly, you gained
Speaker 1: like five hundred thousand Instagram followers.
Speaker 4: No, it's insane. There was a month where she was
Speaker 4: getting more views on like TikTok and stuff than me.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, yeah, look, I got like sixty
Speaker 4: million views a month. She's like, oh, mine's ninety one million.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what my fuck?
Speaker 2: Like you like, really, Cater, I don't know what it
Speaker 2: was or what happened, but somehow everything just kind of
Speaker 2: like went crazy. I mean, it's unreal watching y'all. It
Speaker 2: was just like it was so fun.
Speaker 1: And everything you guys did, every TikTok you made, it
Speaker 1: just was like yeah, five three and that was saved.
Speaker 1: You would say, text Harry, you had to you had
Speaker 1: to do so cute. Okay, I want to deep dive
Speaker 1: and dancing with the stars. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: I want a deep dive just into both of you
Speaker 1: because you both come from very different background and now
Speaker 1: you guys have a friendship that will last for a
Speaker 1: freaking lifetime. But Harry will start with you. Take me
Speaker 1: to Harry, Baby, Harry, where are you from?
Speaker 2: How'd you get started?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I know a little bit about
Speaker 1: you or like three life, but like give.
Speaker 2: Me, give me your full rundown.
Speaker 4: So I grew up in a very small town in
Speaker 4: Australia called Yupoon, which is nine hours I was driving
Speaker 4: from like the closest like major city like Middland nowhere.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I grew up on a farm. I was
Speaker 4: a naughty boy. I've got four half sisters, one brother,
Speaker 4: and I was such a bad boy in school that
Speaker 4: my parents actually sent me to school in a different country, so.
Speaker 2: A whole different country.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I grew up between and he's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: do you know what Golden Bay is in Northern Ireland
Speaker 4: South Island?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What did you film?
Speaker 2: Queenstown?
Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah, so we're right at the top to the left,
Speaker 4: you know a chrish churches. Nah, it's up around there.
Speaker 1: He took us in a car and didn't tell us
Speaker 1: where we were. We actually probably went there because I
Speaker 1: was just like, Okay, I guess we're here now.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, no, no, yeah. So I went to
Speaker 4: school over there. I was a naughty boy. I got
Speaker 4: kicked out of that school as well. So I had
Speaker 4: to do my final exams in a tent because my
Speaker 4: parents were.
Speaker 2: You were like, really bad.
Speaker 4: I was just so naughty. I just like wanted to
Speaker 4: make everyone laugh.
Speaker 2: Riley, has anything changed?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got kicked off the show. Yeah no, But
Speaker 4: because I was so bad, my parents they were like, well,
Speaker 4: we've already spent enough money on your boarding school, so
Speaker 4: you're just gonna have to figure it out. So I
Speaker 4: just had to sleep in a tent and to do
Speaker 4: my final exams. And then I also pretty much got
Speaker 4: kicked out of that school because I streaked at the
Speaker 4: Sister College. Yeah, I thought what we got told I
Speaker 4: was seventeen. But what we got told is that it
Speaker 4: was like the because it was like our final year.
Speaker 4: We're like about to leave school, and we got told
Speaker 4: that was like just the year. Thirteen girls there that
Speaker 4: were like gonna like just saying goodbye to each other
Speaker 4: whatever else. We come out from behind this curtain and
Speaker 4: there was police, the mayor was there. It was a
Speaker 4: whole school assembly and wearing like pink te strings and
Speaker 4: belly clover's and I was just like, oh, we're done.
Speaker 4: And one of them, one of the boys, gets tackled
Speaker 4: by a police officer and then we went loud with
Speaker 4: the meads at school.
Speaker 2: I was like, you're an angel as a child, I
Speaker 2: take away.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, And then I went to university and then yeah,
Speaker 4: I had a few things that went went off of
Speaker 4: my life and ended up on reality TV.
Speaker 3: So yeah, crazy and your first reality show.
Speaker 4: So it was cool to it's cool to show Heartbreak Island.
Speaker 4: We actually filmed it in Fiji. It was a New
Speaker 4: Zealand show. But that kind of like scratched the itch
Speaker 4: of like trying to make people laugh and like entertainment.
Speaker 4: And then after that show, like because it was only
Speaker 4: in New Zealand, it wasn't really a big show, and
Speaker 4: it was kind of like a weird combination of like
Speaker 4: Survivor across was like a dating show across like Big Brothers.
Speaker 4: So I kind of didn't like we didn't really know
Speaker 4: what we're doing or how it made sense, but like
Speaker 4: we have to win the challenges. But then the challenge
Speaker 4: like they were super rigged, so then we ended up
Speaker 4: like winning, but it was just a crazy thing. And
Speaker 4: then I was like, Okay, well I just.
Speaker 2: Don't don't tell people it was rigged.
Speaker 4: It it was so long. It was definitely rigged, like
Speaker 4: they're like, you guys don't have twenty minutes to do
Speaker 4: his challenge and I'm pretty sure we've been here for
Speaker 4: two hours to it, but yeah, they and then we
Speaker 4: ended up winning. It was really cool. And then yeah,
Speaker 4: I was just like I want to do more of
Speaker 4: this stuff. I just want to make people laugh. And
Speaker 4: I was applying for every single show on the planet.
Speaker 4: I was like looking for Love Island out a UK passort.
Speaker 4: I was trying to get on that and then it
Speaker 4: was the same people that were casting Love Island UK
Speaker 4: as to at the handle and then they just said, look,
Speaker 4: we can't tell you who it's for, we can't tell
Speaker 4: you where it's going to be or what the premise
Speaker 4: of the show is. You just have to trust me
Speaker 4: that you're the perfect person for this show. And then
Speaker 4: it was just been crazy ever.
Speaker 1: Since how old were you when you did your first show?
Speaker 1: And then because I feel like, what was your big break?
Speaker 4: It was too hot to hand because it came out
Speaker 4: in COVID and it was kind of wild. But it's
Speaker 4: also weird because like you don't really feel it. It's
Speaker 4: just like I was in my apartment with my friends
Speaker 4: here in LA and my phone's on fire. Everyone's telling
Speaker 4: me like, oh, this is crazy, Like you check this,
Speaker 4: this person's watching it. I remember when David de Brick
Speaker 4: posted on Snapchat or his Instagram sorry it was like
Speaker 4: a photo of me on the story on his story
Speaker 4: it was like the show's crazy or something like that,
Speaker 4: and I remember I was like, this is this is wild,
Speaker 4: Like I can't believe I made it. At that point,
Speaker 4: I was like, wow, maybe like maybe people know who
Speaker 4: I am. And then when I went out because we
Speaker 4: all the gyms were closed, so we used to run
Speaker 4: at UCLA. Yeah, there was one girl there. Her name
Speaker 4: is it sided with the X. I'm going to say
Speaker 4: wrong if I said, but she was the first person
Speaker 4: that ever recognized me. And then I kept asking her
Speaker 4: questions about her life and she's like, why do you
Speaker 4: ask me questions about me? Like I just want a photo?
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, but why do you know me? Like
Speaker 4: how did this happen? And then I saw paparazzi there
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, maybe maybe I should like think
Speaker 4: a little bit more about being outside, like what's going on?
Speaker 4: And that was when it first I kind of clicked.
Speaker 4: But it was that was it? Yeah, that was the biggest,
Speaker 4: the biggest thing. And then it's just crazy were.
Speaker 3: You when you did your first show? And then how
Speaker 3: old were you when you did Too Hot to Handle?
Speaker 4: I was nineteen on the first show and then Taught
Speaker 4: to Handle? I was twenty one, but I was about
Speaker 4: to turn twenty two.
Speaker 2: It was quick for you.
Speaker 4: It's quick?
Speaker 2: Was it wild?
Speaker 1: Going from because at nineteen, right, you can kind of
Speaker 1: like you're not even nineteen, right, You're only eighteen, like,
Speaker 1: and so you can remember your life, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So is it weird thinking like you had
Speaker 1: a whole life before you were in the spotlight.
Speaker 4: So strange?
Speaker 2: Is it strange?
Speaker 4: So strange because I was just like my friends and
Speaker 4: everything's like different. How I used to talk was very different,
Speaker 4: and like I just didn't care about anyone else. And
Speaker 4: now I'm like, obviously people watch me, so I have
Speaker 4: to be a little bit like more careful with my influence.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: But it was just so strange, Like it was just
Speaker 4: really it's weird to think about. It was like I
Speaker 4: used to have head down to my shoulders, like it's
Speaker 4: crazy you had hairdy.
Speaker 1: I'm always fascinated by by by that, like when somebody
Speaker 1: had a whole life before the spotlight like that, that
Speaker 1: blows my mind. And I feel like, right now, Riley,
Speaker 1: you're in that, like you're literally in the midst of that,
Speaker 1: like you're.
Speaker 2: You had life and now it's like that all ended
Speaker 2: three months ago for you because now look where you are.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, it's insane.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, well pause on Harry's Harry's journey. Now I
Speaker 1: want to hear now, I want to hear your story.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me Riley up until now where are
Speaker 2: you from? What do you give me? Give me the
Speaker 2: run down. Okay, So I am from Promo, Utah, small
Speaker 2: town in Utah. I love it there, small town, but
Speaker 2: somehow every dancers literally, like if you know a dancer,
Speaker 2: they're probably from Utah. I have three older sisters where
Speaker 2: we consider ourselves to Arnold's sisters. It's a good family.
Speaker 2: Love my family so much. That is you, guys, I
Speaker 2: don't want to hear it. Okay, let me talk.
Speaker 1: You know Ezra obviously, anyone who doesn't know Ezra is
Speaker 1: honestly my best friend, y'all's best friend. Like he's a
Speaker 1: mutual bestie between the two of us. But he comes
Speaker 1: to me all the time and he goes like, I
Speaker 1: just wish I was an Arnold. I just wish I
Speaker 1: was an Arnold sister all the time.
Speaker 4: It's literally the best.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I yeah, I grew up in Utah. I've
Speaker 2: like danced throughout my whole life. I started when I
Speaker 2: was like four, but it wasn't until I was like
Speaker 2: eight years old when my oldest sister lindsay A and
Speaker 2: Ald got on Dance with Stars and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to do that one yeah, And like I
Speaker 2: had no doubt in my mind that I was going
Speaker 2: to do that, which is when yes, yeah, so I
Speaker 2: had like no doubt in my mind that I was
Speaker 2: going to get on that. When I turned thirteen, I
Speaker 2: got on Dance with Stars Juniors, and that was just
Speaker 2: like such a cool experience. So yes, no, it was
Speaker 2: so fun. It's a show. Oh my god, I loved it. No,
Speaker 2: the best show. It fulfilled like every single dream. I
Speaker 2: was like obsessed, but I was like, Okay, now I
Speaker 2: have to do the older one. So I kind of
Speaker 2: just like worked through that my whole entire life and
Speaker 2: just continued to train and dancing. I mostly did like
Speaker 2: the ballroom stuff and like competed in that. And then
Speaker 2: like two weeks before I moved to LA, I knew
Speaker 2: I was going to be on the show. So like
Speaker 2: my whole senior year of high school was kind of
Speaker 2: like I don't know what I'm going to do. Like yeah,
Speaker 2: always in the back of my mind, I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be on Dance with Stars, like somehow
Speaker 2: I always saw that, which was kind of crazy, but
Speaker 2: I had to like think of backup plans. I was
Speaker 2: gonna go to like esthetician school or some kind of college. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like yes, I was like kind of just thinking of
Speaker 2: Plan b's and then all of a sudden, I get
Speaker 2: the call that I was gonna move down and be
Speaker 2: a part of the show, and unreal, Yeah, now I'm here.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of crazy when you got that call
Speaker 1: knowing that it was your dream, your whole life. And
Speaker 1: also too, you're young, you're eighteen, and yeah, most of
Speaker 1: the pros are anywhere from exactly. I mean, Jenna's not
Speaker 1: thirty yet, twenty seven, twenty six, twenty eight, and so
Speaker 1: to go in you know, you're probably like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: want to do this, but it's probably not gonna happen
Speaker 1: when I'm eighteen.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna have around twenty four exactly. Mean, and
Speaker 2: what like you get the call? Did you audition? Oh?
Speaker 2: So I didn't audition. I like before I turned when
Speaker 2: I was like seventeen, I was compete. I was doing great,
Speaker 2: and Lindsay sent a video to the casting director and
Speaker 2: was like, this is my sister Riley. She's turning eighteen
Speaker 2: in a couple months, like God, have your eyes peeled,
Speaker 2: and she was like great, whatever. And then when I
Speaker 2: turned eighteen and I was kind of like done with
Speaker 2: all like my competing and like high school stuff. They
Speaker 2: set up a zoom. It was like an hour zoom.
Speaker 2: They kind of just talked to me, like catched up
Speaker 2: with me. I kind of like sold myself a little
Speaker 2: bit of course, make.
Speaker 3: Sure you're not boring?
Speaker 2: Yes, what can I do? How awesome? Whatever? And then
Speaker 2: then she called me like two weeks later, and I
Speaker 2: was just like chilling on my couch, literally did not
Speaker 2: expect it whatsoever. And I get the call. It was
Speaker 2: literally like the whole day just did not feel real
Speaker 2: because it truly, like I say this all the time,
Speaker 2: it really was my biggest dream. It's like I could
Speaker 2: die happy now like the fact that I do exactly
Speaker 2: I need so too, but like it's just like it
Speaker 2: was so surreal and so special that I got to
Speaker 2: do it, and it is it's crazy that I'm doing
Speaker 2: it at eighteen. That's unreal. To ask me to just
Speaker 2: like move to La by myself and try and live
Speaker 2: on my own, but also like get like a crazy
Speaker 2: big job that I've always wanted at eighteen years old
Speaker 2: is a lot to ask. But I feel like I was.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm very mature for my age, yes,
Speaker 2: and I like I grew up really quickly, which is
Speaker 2: good and helpful, but like it's crazy to ask me
Speaker 2: to age like seven years in this last few months. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2: Like the things I like learned about myself, I feel
Speaker 2: like would take people like ten years to learn about themselves.
Speaker 2: Like I learned so much. I was put in a
Speaker 2: lot of like stressful situations, high anxiety situations, but I
Speaker 2: learned a lot about myself and I feel like I
Speaker 2: really really grew up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I know, like just from when
Speaker 3: I did Stars.
Speaker 1: You watch the Pros as one of the Stars, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure, Harry, you can really relate to this, especially
Speaker 1: like you watch the Pros and you're.
Speaker 2: Just like, damn, I know I'm stressed, but they they
Speaker 2: have to be going down.
Speaker 1: I would just watch Jenna's brain crumble some days of
Speaker 1: rehearsals and like you want to help, but at the
Speaker 1: same time you can't.
Speaker 2: And you did such a good job, like.
Speaker 1: The thank you the product that y'all, I know you
Speaker 1: got crap for it every single week. And one of
Speaker 1: the thing things about Stars is I'm like, yo, it's not.
Speaker 2: A dance competition. Like it is not a dance competition.
Speaker 2: A lot of people think it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jenna actually times with me, would would restrict
Speaker 1: dancing because she would be like, it's not a dance competition.
Speaker 2: I will never ever forget it.
Speaker 1: When we did my Halloween, jazz I was like, finally
Speaker 1: I can do jazz I was like, Jenna, please let
Speaker 1: me do a turn. Let me do a good turn,
Speaker 1: because I mean, I'm a dancer, it's my background.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Home Girl was like, you can do a double,
Speaker 2: a double. You can let me do a double. Jenna
Speaker 2: like six, let me give me something. I'm on the
Speaker 2: ballroom Florida. Jazz I can give you ten. You do
Speaker 2: a double. It's not a dance competition. And I was like,
Speaker 2: I will do a double and it will be the
Speaker 2: best double you've ever seen. No, it's though, like it's
Speaker 2: a reality show and it's about like like just seeing
Speaker 2: people's experience doing something vulnerable and like crazy, like that's
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: And you had zero dance background right never, it was
Speaker 1: like one of my biggest fears.
Speaker 3: Y'all just went streaking. You didn't go dancing.
Speaker 4: Like I wish I had time to like practice or
Speaker 4: like take classes and stuff, but like I was filming
Speaker 4: another show. I filmed three shows in those four months.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So I went from filming Amazing Race and this other
Speaker 4: one and The Dead and it's filming that one. I
Speaker 4: came here and then it was like straight into rehearsals.
Speaker 2: Got it? Where do you live now? Do you live
Speaker 2: here now?
Speaker 4: Yeahah, I've been here for a minute.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you didn't have time to Like, no, I
Speaker 4: wish like when we're filming the first Amazing Race, when
Speaker 4: we're filming that, I got the call for this and
Speaker 4: then I'm like, oh, I don't know if they'll like
Speaker 4: me whatever else. And then as I was away for
Speaker 4: this second show, that was when the contract and stuff
Speaker 4: came through and then I was like, damn, I should
Speaker 4: probably really like figure this out. And then I landed
Speaker 4: and it was like okay, first lesson and looking back
Speaker 4: at the first day, I'm like, damn, Like riting must
Speaker 4: have been so stressed, unless she was like oh yeah,
Speaker 4: because I've never had a complimenting me. I'm like, I
Speaker 4: didn't think that I deserved that. A couple of.
Speaker 2: Them up a little bit. Yes, No, he was like
Speaker 2: he wasn't bad and for his first day, like he
Speaker 2: was moving, but like.
Speaker 4: I was also like in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Maybe there was no day like where Riley would have
Speaker 1: been like, all right, use your plea and you were like,
Speaker 1: what what's a plea?
Speaker 2: That was literally that every day, Yes, yeah, until the last.
Speaker 2: Remember the first time I was like, okay, you have
Speaker 2: to He's like, what the heck is a plea? Yeah?
Speaker 4: When she said whatever it is, I was yeah, I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm just running sideways. She's like. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we do this in rugby. She's like okay, but like
Speaker 4: why give it a silly name?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's like it's all the fancy terminology that
Speaker 1: I can't imagine because you would just.
Speaker 2: Say that, you know exactly, keep on relevant? What does
Speaker 2: that mean? Yeah, tippy toes, you know what exactly.
Speaker 4: Even when they were when we did a team dance
Speaker 4: and they're like, oh yeah, bowl change, I'm like what
Speaker 4: I was just I was watching his feet and then
Speaker 4: O heay doing it? Well, I'm like, did I do it?
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: I had no idea. I was just like, Okay, it's
Speaker 4: like learning another language.
Speaker 2: I mean really, it really is. Most of it's French? Right, Yeah?
Speaker 2: Am I making that up?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Most of the French?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, learning French hold up yeah, wow yeah, couple of
Speaker 1: girl that was like, I'm in front of the Eiffel
Speaker 1: Tower and the only French words that I could say
Speaker 1: tom pod.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all at answers, like when you would step
Speaker 2: on your right foot then like put your left foot behind,
Speaker 2: then your right foot and then your left foot in front.
Speaker 4: Have we done that?
Speaker 2: Okay, we didn't get there yet.
Speaker 1: All? Right?
Speaker 3: Day one you walk in? Were you set in the
Speaker 3: room before he walked in?
Speaker 2: Yes? I was set? You were set? Yeah, you didn't
Speaker 2: know who your partner was going to be? Right, I
Speaker 2: did you? I figured out like a couple of days
Speaker 2: before I did figure it out.
Speaker 4: Sneaky, I know, Yeah, how did you figure it out? Again?
Speaker 2: So Emma was the one actually who kind of got
Speaker 2: Harry like familiar with the casting director and kind of
Speaker 2: like with the show because she wanted him to be
Speaker 2: a part of it, and she found out that he
Speaker 2: was castid. But they were like, he's not your partner,
Speaker 2: He's going to be somebody else's partner, and so she
Speaker 2: was like, if he's going to be anyone's partner's going
Speaker 2: to be Riley's.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then she told me and I was like Okay,
Speaker 2: all the stars are aligning because there was like music,
Speaker 2: people asking me about like music and like what styles
Speaker 2: would work with the music, and there was got to
Speaker 2: Keep your Head Up. They like asked me what style
Speaker 2: I could do with that? And then I literally watched
Speaker 2: Harry's podcast talking about got to Keep Your Head Up
Speaker 2: with Andy Grammer literally like ten minutes before I got
Speaker 2: that to and I was like, no way, Like, oh
Speaker 2: that makes Harry is going to be my partner, which
Speaker 2: was like actually kind of crazy but stoked, Yes, well,
Speaker 2: yes I was. No, No, I was stoked because, like
Speaker 2: I was like, Harry seems funny, He's like awesome. I
Speaker 2: think he's so cool. But I knew, like I watched
Speaker 2: a couple of episodes too hot to handle, you know,
Speaker 2: it seemed like an interesting guy. I didn't know what
Speaker 2: to expect interesting. I just didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 2: I was like, is he going to be? Like I
Speaker 2: just I didn't know what to answer exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was a fan.
Speaker 2: I'd say I was a fan of Harry. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: I followed him already on like TikTok and stuff. Yes
Speaker 2: I did. Oh wow number one right here, she's covering
Speaker 2: this whole time.
Speaker 1: Okay, now now your turn. When you walked in and
Speaker 1: you saw Riley, what was your like? What were you
Speaker 1: Did you know it was going to be her before
Speaker 1: you walked in or were you no?
Speaker 4: No idea? I was googling the pros, yeah, and I
Speaker 4: wasn't one of them. One of them was my boy.
Speaker 4: I was sitting there like, okay, like I think, well,
Speaker 4: I know I'm not getting an Emma because she messaged me,
Speaker 4: so I'm going through it. I'm like, okay, probably this one,
Speaker 4: like I don't know. And then I walk in and
Speaker 4: Rise I was like yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, who did you want to see
Speaker 3: when you walked in?
Speaker 2: Did you have a pro that you were like?
Speaker 4: I don't want no idea? Yeah, because the only one
Speaker 4: I knew was Emma because I met her out a
Speaker 4: few times and that was the only person that I
Speaker 4: knew from the show. So then I was kind of
Speaker 4: just like, well, I'm sure it'd be the right person.
Speaker 4: When I come in and it was Riley, and then
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, well you're not on the list,
Speaker 4: so who are you?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 3: Tell me what went on in y'all's first rehearsal.
Speaker 2: What did you what did you do? What did you work?
Speaker 2: What did you try? What was did you try a lift?
Speaker 2: Like give me your day one rehearsal Judging.
Speaker 4: That first dance that we did, we probably didn't rehearse anything.
Speaker 2: We rehearsal a lot. I feel like the first meat
Speaker 2: is always like very produced because you like, of course well,
Speaker 2: and also it's kind of like, did you feel awkward
Speaker 2: vibes at all?
Speaker 4: No? I was just hungover, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Because you are polar opposite.
Speaker 1: We are polar opposite world, Like I didn't know that
Speaker 1: you were such a bad boy, but I know being
Speaker 1: Utah and going to understage, you were the most sweetest
Speaker 1: little girl ever, you know what.
Speaker 2: Sister, Yeah, yeah, and it comes with it.
Speaker 1: And so now all together it's just even the way
Speaker 1: y'all talk is so opposite, but it's so connected, so fun.
Speaker 2: But anyways, our first meet it's very like produced, and
Speaker 2: you like ask each other like a set of questions
Speaker 2: and then you're like, wait, what's next, and then they
Speaker 2: like tell you what to ask each other. So like
Speaker 2: we asked each other a lot of questions, kind of
Speaker 2: got to know each other, and then we were able
Speaker 2: to do like two eight counts of the chacha that
Speaker 2: I have prept and I taught him a little bit
Speaker 2: of it like a New Yorker Cuban breaks. You remember
Speaker 2: those steps, Yeah, committed, committed to the committed to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was like a pretty just like chill day, just
Speaker 2: like trying my best to get the most I could
Speaker 2: out of him. Yeah. Yeah, it was a little hectic, overwhelming. Yes,
Speaker 2: I could tell you were overwhelmed too, Like you were like,
Speaker 2: I'm tired.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I landed at three am that day and
Speaker 4: then we're like six, where are you coming in from Mexican?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I had to go through like a different
Speaker 4: city because I had to get this visa. Things stands possible.
Speaker 4: So it was like a big stressful time. Like I
Speaker 4: was already like yeah, redlining, Like I was so exhausted.
Speaker 2: And then you get to dancing with the stars. Did
Speaker 2: you expect it?
Speaker 1: For anyone who doesn't know, dancing with the Stars is
Speaker 1: a bubble and when you are in it, nothing pops up.
Speaker 2: Bubble. It is go, go, go, go go.
Speaker 1: It is so stressful. People ask me all the time, now,
Speaker 1: what was more stressful? Dancing with the stars are special Forces?
Speaker 1: And the answer is one hundred percent special Forces, but
Speaker 1: the difference was special Forces was eight days Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars.
Speaker 4: My journey special Forces eight days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, special Forces only eight days.
Speaker 1: Wow, but it's eight days, twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 1: always on, always brain, always on.
Speaker 2: It's always on, like you're removed from me.
Speaker 4: It was like a month.
Speaker 2: No, it's super quick. It's crazy, but it feels like
Speaker 2: at the halfway point I told everyone. I was like,
Speaker 2: guys were halfway. Then day five rolled around and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh god, it's so we're only a day
Speaker 2: passed halfway.
Speaker 3: Then day six I was like, oh my god, we're
Speaker 3: only three quarters.
Speaker 2: Like it's insane.
Speaker 1: God, I could go down a deep dark hole with it.
Speaker 1: But daybel the Stars is just so long, and it
Speaker 1: is every day. And so did you expect it to
Speaker 1: be as stressful as it was or did you think
Speaker 1: going into it, like, oh.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be like a chill all dance show.
Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be like yeah, I
Speaker 4: was just I didn't realize it was going to be
Speaker 4: every single day. Yeah, four hours a day, and just
Speaker 4: like the amount of like pressure and then also like
Speaker 4: your mentality going into it like it was because when
Speaker 4: I did an Amazing Race, it was the hottest thing
Speaker 4: I've ever done. Like it was every day you're running
Speaker 4: like fourteen hours a day trying to get to the
Speaker 4: next thing, then sitting down doing a challenge, trying to
Speaker 4: use your brain just to get to the next city.
Speaker 4: But like this one was just so different. Like it
Speaker 4: was good to have the routine and then going and
Speaker 4: I be hanging out with Riley, but it's also like
Speaker 4: stressful because I'm like there's so many like dance critiques now,
Speaker 4: like Amazing Race, no one really cares about your your
Speaker 4: technique whatever else. But then on this when you're doing it,
Speaker 4: like everyone is so like nitpicky and they want to
Speaker 4: see this and they want to see that, and then
Speaker 4: you also have to put on a brave face. And
Speaker 4: then I also didn't realize how hecktic the audience was,
Speaker 4: Like they're so cutthroat, like they're so passionate. Yeah, they're
Speaker 4: so like mean. They was so mean to us. There
Speaker 4: was like it went from like love love love, to like, okay,
Speaker 4: Harry's getting so many bad scores to just like hating
Speaker 4: us for some reason, Like obviously there was enough people
Speaker 4: that loved us to keep us in. But there was
Speaker 4: so many people that were just so angry, and then
Speaker 4: you're in that bubble and that's all you're thinking about. Damn,
Speaker 4: Like I must be terrible because all these people want
Speaker 4: me to die. It's crazy people.
Speaker 1: I obviously followed along with y'all's journey, and I didn't
Speaker 1: follow along with the comments as much as you would,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But I did see that shift of everyone was like yeah, Riley, Riley.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I would read comments
Speaker 1: on just like any of the Dancing with the Stars post,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, wait, why did everyone switch up?
Speaker 2: Like what's happening? Like really, last week everyone.
Speaker 3: Was like oh my god, and now this week they're
Speaker 3: like they need to go home.
Speaker 2: But yeah, crazy, Literally.
Speaker 4: I switched back. They're like, oh, we miss you should
Speaker 4: be on you guys got robbed.
Speaker 1: What it just kind of is like algorithm rules, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And it's it's so silly. I mean,
Speaker 1: y'all did do so good and you looked like you
Speaker 1: had the time of your line. Did you guys have
Speaker 1: fun so much fun? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was amazing. Yeah, we had like every day was
Speaker 4: just a joy. Yeah, there were some days when would
Speaker 4: be a little bit overwhelmed, need a little bit of food,
Speaker 4: But after that it was Yeah, it was good, and
Speaker 4: I felt like we really were able to bond because
Speaker 4: I guess you know, each team really bonds, but I
Speaker 4: feel like in that nature and her first season, like
Speaker 4: she really laughed onto me. I was also in a
Speaker 4: very uncomfortable situation with everything that was going on, so
Speaker 4: I was latching under her.
Speaker 2: Ye, like we just have each other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really hectic, Like I just I don't I
Speaker 4: don't think I would have wantedn't have done it with anyone.
Speaker 1: Else, Like it would have been if you had to
Speaker 1: if you had to pick another pro from your season,
Speaker 1: and you had to pick another star from your season,
Speaker 1: who would it be?
Speaker 4: Sha Yeah, I was going to say or female because
Speaker 4: we would have so much fun.
Speaker 2: You would have a lot of heat.
Speaker 4: Think him out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly for me. Oh, I don't know, maybe like
Speaker 2: Tyson just because he was so funny and he was
Speaker 2: like he was one of the guys slewries that was
Speaker 2: actually like super super nice. Yeah, so I thought he
Speaker 2: would be fun and.
Speaker 4: He wasn't that serious.
Speaker 2: Wanted to have fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people get really lost in
Speaker 4: it and they're like so serious about it. They never
Speaker 4: want to smile. They didn't want to crack a joke.
Speaker 4: Guys like you can't enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Who took y'all season?
Speaker 3: The most serious? Like who is that person that was
Speaker 3: like I.
Speaker 4: Think was taking.
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, he's so which is good, Like it's his passion,
Speaker 4: it's his craft.
Speaker 2: And they're doing great. I mean, I don't think is
Speaker 2: going to win. I think so Chi.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Sochio, Arianna or Ariana. Yeah, Ariana is
Speaker 4: so good. Yeah, and she's obviously go to following and
Speaker 4: people love it, right, people want to see you go through. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and obviously Sochi's just like it just looks like she
Speaker 4: grew up dancing, like she knows exactly what she's doing.
Speaker 3: She's never danced before, right, I don't think so crazy.
Speaker 4: It feels like she has it feels like she just
Speaker 4: like came out in the room dancing.
Speaker 2: Do you see her dance? Harry? And you were like,
Speaker 2: dang it, how did she not have a dance brock?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was looking at every else like, how do you
Speaker 4: guys getting this so quick? Do you even know the
Speaker 4: words for it? I just don't even know the steps,
Speaker 4: you know the steps and the woods?
Speaker 1: All right, everyone knows y'all had your viral TikTok moment,
Speaker 1: y'all's dance from your Week one to not even like
Speaker 1: a like mid season viral moment like week one show
Speaker 1: starting y'all's dance with viral over night on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wild, it was crazy. Did were you did you?
Speaker 2: Did you kind of make up that part being like, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's the like I want this to be a TikTok
Speaker 2: thing or was it just kind of like this what
Speaker 2: we're gonna do? No, not at all, Like it was
Speaker 2: just like a little groove section in our chacha that
Speaker 2: I felt was fun and Harry could do it well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like it's just so crazy smart because the
Speaker 1: thing about Dancing with the Stars is it's just like
Speaker 1: what like own what you got exactly, use what you
Speaker 1: have to your advantage exactly. That is a big thing
Speaker 1: with Dancing with the Stars. If you got a big boy.
Speaker 2: Lift me, I mean like I used your strength, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: strength yeah.
Speaker 1: And so I think for you that that was like
Speaker 1: that moment and you could tell watching your dance like
Speaker 1: at that part, the part that the part with that
Speaker 1: went viral.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that you were just Okay, now I can breathe
Speaker 3: and I can like have fun.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I think because I was in my head
Speaker 4: at the start. I remember when we're laying on and
Speaker 4: I've never been in front of a live crowd before,
Speaker 4: I've never danced before. I'm like, I was so out
Speaker 4: of my comfort zone. And I remember when we stood up,
Speaker 4: my leg was shaking, and then I was thinking about
Speaker 4: my leg and then I'm like, oh shit, that we
Speaker 4: have to do steps now. Oh no, there's people watching.
Speaker 4: And then by the time that she ripped my show
Speaker 4: up and was I went through like all the emotions mentally,
Speaker 4: and when she ripped my showed up and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh okay, I know this. I can just have fun now, yeah, relaxed.
Speaker 1: But it was just so scary and kind of blows
Speaker 1: up and then it goes viral and then you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: we are so cool.
Speaker 2: It was insane.
Speaker 3: When did you realize, like, oh my god, od Dan,
Speaker 3: this is the thing, Like what did someone do it?
Speaker 2: I literally remember seeing the first video and I was like, huh,
Speaker 2: I wonder if people will like catch on with this
Speaker 2: and like think it's actually catchy and like fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then like after like a good like maybe two
Speaker 2: thousand videos, it was like okay, yeah, like that's cool,
Speaker 2: you are going to start doing this.
Speaker 4: I remember the first video it was the girl doing
Speaker 4: it in front of the Eiffel Tower. I'm like, wait, oh,
Speaker 4: these people overseas doing it. Yeah, and then I was like,
Speaker 4: holy shit, Riley, like you've done something crazy. This is
Speaker 4: really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it just became a thing. No, it's
Speaker 2: everyone did it?
Speaker 3: Even stars did it?
Speaker 4: I as well?
Speaker 2: Yes, No, it's just insane, And it's like it honestly
Speaker 2: is like kind of fitting because like Harry is like
Speaker 2: big in like the social and like I feel like
Speaker 2: we're both like kind of in that realm a little bit.
Speaker 2: So it was like kind of fitting for like our
Speaker 2: pair to like kind of have something like that, like
Speaker 2: blow up a little bit. You know. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Now you're just gonna have a mission every season down.
Speaker 4: I hope it doesn't again. Yeah, no jealousy if she
Speaker 4: gets a big enviroler, like damn, my egoys so crushed.
Speaker 1: What about a partner next season? Will you be like no,
Speaker 1: I'd be excited for her, Yeah, because I can't relate.
Speaker 1: I literally told Jed I was like, for your sake,
Speaker 1: I hope he's great. For my sake, I hope he sucks.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm just I just wanted to do well. Yes again,
Speaker 4: it's like we got so close, Like she goes almost
Speaker 4: go to taste of the semi finals and the finale.
Speaker 2: I mean to make it to the quarterback Harry, yeah,
Speaker 2: completely fulfilled.
Speaker 4: Well I don't.
Speaker 1: For you.
Speaker 4: I'm like, damn, I should have actually figured out a
Speaker 4: bull change.
Speaker 3: The thing is is say you would have gone further
Speaker 3: than you guys did.
Speaker 2: Where would you have to go?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 3: I exactly you want to have some some goals, and y'all.
Speaker 4: Did so good.
Speaker 2: I mean you really did. Y'all were cind to watch.
Speaker 1: Thank you you you were even though the fan base
Speaker 1: swayed occasionally and they went back and forth between loving,
Speaker 1: loving you, hating on you, back to loving you, back
Speaker 1: to hating on you, back to wanting you.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. You were the talk of
Speaker 2: the town.
Speaker 1: You both wore the talk of the town, and whether
Speaker 1: people liked it or not, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you two were the people that they were talking about.
Speaker 1: They didn't and if they were mad that someone went home,
Speaker 1: they were happy that you stayed. And if they were
Speaker 1: happy that somebody went, they were.
Speaker 2: Mad you stayed. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You guys were always the topic. Is it weird to think, like, damn,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest shows and we were the talk
Speaker 1: of the town like that.
Speaker 2: It's insane, especially like for my first season and then
Speaker 2: like always wanting to be on the show and we
Speaker 2: were like one of the most popular couples. Is insane
Speaker 2: to think about. It's so crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that was the crazy thing as well. When
Speaker 4: people get eliminated this stop blaming us. I'm like, okay, sure,
Speaker 4: which is easy talk. Yeah, I was like, okay, like
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, like for else Okay, Yeah, it was really wild.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the fact that she did so much on
Speaker 4: her first season is incredible, so wild.
Speaker 1: I feel like I know the answer to this. But
Speaker 1: whose elimination was hardest? For you guys because you become
Speaker 1: such a family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, God, I think Les is like tough. Was like
Speaker 4: a hard one because you know, we were just so
Speaker 4: close and we had the team.
Speaker 2: We're protesting that right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Was apparently one of the workers went out and ask
Speaker 4: them and they're like, we're paid to be here. So
Speaker 4: I don't know, Harry, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 4: they I feel like it makes sense if they're protesting,
Speaker 4: but apparently they said to one of the workers that
Speaker 4: they're like, oh no, we're paid. I mean, look moment.
Speaker 2: Either way, it's awesome. Yeah, either way, I need protesters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, I saw it and I was like, if
Speaker 1: they hired that, that's genius. Yeah they didn't, that's cool.
Speaker 4: Genius twenty five coming next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should just make a post that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: protest for us. Do you know how many people would
Speaker 1: show up? Oh?
Speaker 4: My god'll do it?
Speaker 3: These concert? Did y'all go to y'all went to Tates concert?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I remember saying those videos like that was insane.
Speaker 4: It was really nuts.
Speaker 2: But that was like the first time that I was
Speaker 2: like whoa. But I also think like her whole demographic
Speaker 2: and the people that came to her concert was our demographics,
Speaker 2: because it was like the minute we left, like we're
Speaker 2: coming down, it was like a swarm. It was crazy,
Speaker 2: Like I was like, what the heck?
Speaker 4: We tried to leave early as well, like before the
Speaker 4: last final song, like okay, let's just get out of
Speaker 4: here really quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, when people spotted us, it was really nuts.
Speaker 4: I guess my problem is like You're in a room
Speaker 4: full of goes and I'm six or five. Yeah, They're like,
Speaker 4: there's a lighthouse, let's go towards him. But that was
Speaker 4: really like I just felt worried because I'm like, damn,
Speaker 4: I don't want to get crushed. And then I remember
Speaker 4: I was holding her hand and then I heard it
Speaker 4: like a trash can get knocked over, and it was
Speaker 4: like someone like fell in between us, Like can I
Speaker 4: get a photo? I'm like, yo, don't like knock her over?
Speaker 4: Like it was yeah, I'm like I would take a photo,
Speaker 4: but like we've got to keep moving us. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be crazy. It was really nuts.
Speaker 2: That was crazy.
Speaker 1: What was y'all's favorite adventure that you went on that
Speaker 1: what didn't have to do with the show. It's like
Speaker 1: a fun memory that went on mid season that like
Speaker 1: people don't.
Speaker 2: What did we do?
Speaker 4: Taylor the Taylor Swift was sick.
Speaker 2: That was really fun. We went to the premiere of
Speaker 2: Taor swiss eras. Yes, Taylor like came in, Yes, she
Speaker 2: came in our theater and we were sitting like the
Speaker 2: theater with her family and her band. Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that was really fun that we got to that.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, I feel like we just yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's a pretty good one. Yeah, that's a pretty
Speaker 2: good adventure. Yeah, it was a great one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now take me through a day and y'all's rehearsals you
Speaker 1: get there were your rehearsals three hours for Lucky Did
Speaker 1: you guys only get.
Speaker 2: Three We only got three hours?
Speaker 3: Yeah, three hours, no outside rehearsals.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's insane, brutal. Well, your sister during COVID too
Speaker 2: and doing so that's generally would tell me.
Speaker 3: During my season, she was like, this isn't Dancing with
Speaker 3: the stars.
Speaker 2: She was like, normally, it's so fun.
Speaker 3: It's so family. We do team dances, you hang out
Speaker 3: in the skybox together the audience.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't know what you talk about.
Speaker 2: This is great. I'm having so much fun. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then I came to watch y'all. It came to two shows.
Speaker 1: I went to Latin Night this season and Halloween Night
Speaker 1: this season, and I remember seeing the skybox and being like.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's an audience.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, seeing y'all's rehearsal tiktoks, Oh, I get it
Speaker 1: now when y'all did the team dance to gang themselves like,
Speaker 1: oh this is so good, so day and dayan y'all's rehearsals.
Speaker 3: Four hours of Riley and Harry in Studio one, two,
Speaker 3: three or four?
Speaker 2: What goes on?
Speaker 4: I will give you get Studio three. He always gets
Speaker 4: so angry.
Speaker 2: Which one was Studio three?
Speaker 4: It was like the may on the left.
Speaker 2: Yes it is one, yeah, but it's not that big
Speaker 2: for like like first standard it was terrible. Yep, I'd
Speaker 2: be so mad. Tiny box, yes, once a tiny box.
Speaker 2: Hate one, but they usually don't put us in there.
Speaker 1: Hated one.
Speaker 2: They usually don't put anyone in there unless if there's
Speaker 2: it's like a full house. But yeah, whenever us put
Speaker 2: in three, I'd be like, are you serious? Or you know?
Speaker 2: I hate that one? Okay, But anyways, our rehearsals, so
Speaker 2: we get there. Harry's always in really good spirits in
Speaker 2: the beginning of the rehearsal, like he's always got good
Speaker 2: energy and it's like awesome.
Speaker 4: So because I have food, Yes, you've got.
Speaker 2: Food, You've got some good sleep. And then we start rehearsals.
Speaker 2: It takes well, it takes like fifteen minutes to like
Speaker 2: get in the group and like actually start rehearsal. Yeah
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then we start rehearsal, and then we do like
Speaker 2: a good like hour of rehearsing, and then we lose
Speaker 2: Harry a little bit, okay, just like brain. So then
Speaker 2: we take like a good like fifteen minute like food
Speaker 2: pee he peas like every ten minutes, naturally.
Speaker 4: A gallon every day, yeah yeah, and then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then like by like hour two, it's like
Speaker 2: getting pretty good. Maybe he's had like a couple of
Speaker 2: energy shots. So we're like feeling good about things. Our three,
Speaker 2: we're losing ourselves a little bit. Our four brutal. We
Speaker 2: don't even want to talk to each other.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, we're not even talking.
Speaker 3: We just dancing real yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And then we leave and we're like okay, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And then we started all over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you come in in as fresh day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, biggest fight y'all got in.
Speaker 2: Often.
Speaker 4: No, No, we would get frustrated. Yeah, we definitely, like
Speaker 4: Frosty Thursdays would be frustrated.
Speaker 2: I want to hear like when she frustrated you most,
Speaker 2: and when you frustrated her most, because I feel like
Speaker 2: those are going to be what frustrated you most, and
Speaker 2: then we'll go biggest fight.
Speaker 4: I think the biggest thing that would frustrate me the
Speaker 4: most is when I didn't know the steps and she'd like,
Speaker 4: you have to do with confidence, and then she's like,
Speaker 4: we're gonna do it with music right now. I'm like like,
Speaker 4: but I would just be overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: You're like, we're going to do what with me?
Speaker 4: And then and then she'd be like, well, we have
Speaker 4: to get the wide end, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: there's so many There'd be so many things that would
Speaker 4: like I already be overwhelmed, yeah, uncomfortable, But then I
Speaker 4: would be like, oh, now I feel guilty because I
Speaker 4: know there's a lot of pressure on her to get
Speaker 4: this wide en and there's also the pressure on her
Speaker 4: to get the dance done. So then I would be
Speaker 4: stressed out that she's stressed out, and then I'm like, god,
Speaker 4: I just would just drive me crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think about Harry is like he's so sweet,
Speaker 2: Like he's just so sweet, so so like when I'm
Speaker 2: like asking him to do things, I like feel bad,
Speaker 2: like genuinely inside. I'm like, oh, like he's trying, Like
Speaker 2: but yeah, you're not doing it, but you're trying. The
Speaker 2: thing that frustrated me most was probably like just like
Speaker 2: he would get h in his head about the steps
Speaker 2: and then just completely like shut shut down, Like I
Speaker 2: would just lose.
Speaker 4: Him, and then I'm like, yeah, I just wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was that was like the most frustrating thing
Speaker 2: is when I would lose him and I'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Was there a time mid season that you were like, oh,
Speaker 1: this person has my back or like oh this person
Speaker 1: is Like if I didn't have this person right now,
Speaker 1: I'd be screwed.
Speaker 4: I think, Brandon, are you talking about me?
Speaker 1: Like whenever you felt like I had a hard day
Speaker 1: and like if you didn't have right if Brandon would
Speaker 1: come in and help me with the steps, and I'm
Speaker 1: like he generally got my back?
Speaker 4: Wait, what was the question?
Speaker 2: When did I When did you ever feel like I
Speaker 2: like had your back or when you were like, oh,
Speaker 2: I like really need Riley in this moment.
Speaker 4: I think anytime we get terrible schools and you're like
Speaker 4: it's fine, it's not a big deal. It's not about
Speaker 4: the schools, it's about like people voting. Yeah again, it's
Speaker 4: a TV show. Yeah, it's not a dancing competition because
Speaker 4: you know, obviously I wasn't the best, and then I
Speaker 4: would compare myself to other people and then like a
Speaker 4: fair few of that other people have had a lot
Speaker 4: of dance experience, so it came naturally to them, So
Speaker 4: I was like I would get overwhelmed, like why don't
Speaker 4: I look like them when I'm dancing? And then she
Speaker 4: would just like talk me out of it, like hey,
Speaker 4: like it's it's really not that deep, Like it's fine.
Speaker 4: So there was so many moments like that, especially on
Speaker 4: the live show day.
Speaker 2: Because it's like why am I not a good deal?
Speaker 4: So why get it? But because the emotions are rollercoaster,
Speaker 4: like the all day, and if I didn't have heard
Speaker 4: like telling me that stuff, I probably would have just
Speaker 4: like walked out. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: For me, I feel like, I mean there's a lot
Speaker 2: of times where you had my back, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: like he always just like wanted to, like I feel
Speaker 2: like I was always protected by hair. Always wanted to
Speaker 2: make sure that I was like safe and protected from
Speaker 2: like people saying stuff, and like, obviously, like my first
Speaker 2: season came with a little bit of hate because it
Speaker 2: was like people questioned if I was ready or if
Speaker 2: like I was doing good enough. He always like made
Speaker 2: me feel really happy about that showed anybody who said
Speaker 2: that that you were thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah I was. I was saying, like, I feel
Speaker 4: like some of the other pros might be worried now
Speaker 4: because yeah, how like she fully changed the trajectory of
Speaker 4: the show by like now they don't like the pros
Speaker 4: don't have to worry about the dances. I have to
Speaker 4: worry about the dances and social media stuff. Yep, because
Speaker 4: it's really dance.
Speaker 1: And I think you also now set a standard for
Speaker 1: anyone else knew coming in. Yeah, you came in and
Speaker 1: you let the show on fire. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You brought you brought your your dancing obviously, but you
Speaker 1: brought a presence as well, and a presence on social media,
Speaker 1: but also an entertaining presence on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think a lot of that was y'all's dynamic.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of it was that.
Speaker 1: But I think Riley you deserve a lot of credit
Speaker 1: for that. You you came in and brought a fun
Speaker 1: energy to the pro side of things, even and opening
Speaker 1: numbers and stuff like it was fun.
Speaker 3: To watch you.
Speaker 1: And now obviously there's gonna be new pros, maybe not
Speaker 1: this season, maybe not next season, but maybe the next
Speaker 1: season or maybe tomorrow you never know. Yeah, but there's
Speaker 1: now like a standard because there hasn't really been. I
Speaker 1: guess they added Coco last year, but that was kind
Speaker 1: of just like nonchalant. She just kind of like showed up.
Speaker 1: Yours was like a big appearance, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: adding a new pro this season, Yeah, and it was
Speaker 1: a big deal. And so now I think there is
Speaker 1: that standard yea. And it's gonna be hard for people
Speaker 1: to marry.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you. No, it's seriously, like it's crazy to
Speaker 2: think about. And I just got so lucky, like too,
Speaker 2: to be paired with Harry. Yes, I feel like we
Speaker 2: just made such splash together and like people really like
Speaker 2: to see our relationship together, and so I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just got lucky with how everything happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I have to ask because we are
Speaker 1: about to wrap up this podcast.
Speaker 3: As a fan on the Last Dance, y'all, did.
Speaker 2: I noticed something in the middle.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's the thing. That's what's hilarious. I'm like, if
Speaker 4: we were going to kiss in the dits, why would
Speaker 4: it be in the middle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, why was it in the middle?
Speaker 4: The guys we kissed?
Speaker 2: But I was like, yeah, you did, so that we
Speaker 2: probably was the out out out lean in what was it?
Speaker 2: I literally just got close to his face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I even in rehearsal it was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get close, but with this shadow, with this shadow, it
Speaker 4: looked like that. But I was also like, when people
Speaker 4: are asking me in the in the press side of
Speaker 4: the end of it, I'm like, guys, why would we
Speaker 4: do it in the middle? Why not in the end
Speaker 4: when there's a confetti and it's a big moment, like
Speaker 4: why just let's keep going? Like I was like, that
Speaker 4: would make.
Speaker 2: Sense because it was sentimental in the middle. Well, y'all
Speaker 2: are crushing my dreams. So I gonna pretend I didn't
Speaker 2: ask that.
Speaker 4: Do you have a different answer? Yeah, we made out,
Speaker 4: Yeah we kissed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I will say watching that, dude, it was
Speaker 1: so fun to watch people on TikTok be like did it?
Speaker 2: Did it happen? I know the videos it's this slow
Speaker 2: with the red circle. Yes, I saw my free page.
Speaker 2: I'm like, come on, I was like looking.
Speaker 4: At him, did we wait? It looks like we did. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it does.
Speaker 3: Happen, like when you're dancing that close to somebody.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've never told anybody this, but on accident, Jenna and
Speaker 2: I touched lips one time, on full accident.
Speaker 1: It was in our contemporary. It's when I'm releasing to
Speaker 1: the floor and I mean, you're dancing this better, and
Speaker 1: it never had happened before, and then it happened. And
Speaker 1: then we got into the finals, and so that rehearsal,
Speaker 1: we showed.
Speaker 2: Up and we were like that that happened. Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 3: Okay, I noticed that happened. You notice Happenkay, let's not
Speaker 3: talk about it ever again.
Speaker 2: Great? Cool, Like that's literally how it went down. I
Speaker 2: was like, you felt that. I felt that.
Speaker 3: Just wanted to make sure that like neither of us cared.
Speaker 3: You're fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: Great, So it did happen basically for y'all. I saw.
Speaker 3: The camera angle made it look like it happened, and
Speaker 3: I will I will accept that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, would you recommend doing special Forces because sister
Speaker 4: really wants to do it Lindsay.
Speaker 2: Lindsay wants to do it so bad.
Speaker 3: Okay, can I make a hitch?
Speaker 2: I don't think she can do it together. I want
Speaker 2: them so bad.
Speaker 1: No, I want them so bad if they do, if
Speaker 1: they do a season three, I was gonna I was
Speaker 1: gonna talk to casting over there some sort of pair
Speaker 1: because you become such a family with these strangers. But
Speaker 1: I think the dynamic if a husband and wife was there,
Speaker 1: or a brother and sister, brother and brother, sister and
Speaker 1: sister cousin. I think the dynamic of that would be
Speaker 1: so interesting because you become such a team, and I
Speaker 1: would be intrigued to see how a sister would push
Speaker 1: another sister.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I think like if if you did it with
Speaker 1: Lindsay and Lindsay was gonna quit, you'd be like, don't quit,
Speaker 1: or you'd be like, yeah you quit.
Speaker 2: I'm staying. You know what I mean? Like, what would
Speaker 2: that dynamic become? You should do it?
Speaker 4: I tell everybody that, yeahs but that fell through.
Speaker 2: You do But yeah, I was supposed to do this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we could have been there together.
Speaker 2: I'll playing fell through for both of us. I felt
Speaker 2: through because if it did, and I would have had
Speaker 2: to say no to Forces.
Speaker 3: So then I was like, thank god, it's a gnarly show.
Speaker 2: Highly recommend all. Right, where do y'all? Where do y'all
Speaker 2: go from here? You're what's what's happening now? In your future?
Speaker 2: Stars is done?
Speaker 3: Y'all crushed it? What's next for both of you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm going on tour a You're going to have
Speaker 2: the best time. I'm very excited. I think to be
Speaker 2: really exciting for me. And then after tour I just
Speaker 2: chill and then hope I get asked back for the
Speaker 2: next season. You better if you don't. If you don't,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Riot, we will ride it. Please paid.
Speaker 4: I'm in a film that should be coming out next
Speaker 4: year hopefully, and then another show, but hopefully just just
Speaker 4: hosting stuff, and then more TV shows like I really
Speaker 4: love entertaining people.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get you on Special Forces.
Speaker 4: I'll do Special Forces, but I won't dance again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if yelled, so you'll be fine on the tour.
Speaker 4: Maybe we're talking about that. Yeah, it's up in the
Speaker 4: air right now, so we'll see. It could be fun.
Speaker 4: Never been on tour, never really been in front of
Speaker 4: a live crowd, so it could be kind of cool
Speaker 4: to do that, especially with these guys because there's so
Speaker 4: much fun.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, nothing, nothing crazy. You just want to keep
Speaker 4: working and keep the momentum moving.
Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah, thank you freaking both so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you being on this podcast. I adore you forever,
Speaker 2: will forever. We'll be supporting both. Everybody follow Harry and
Speaker 2: Riley everywhere. Can they find you both? Riley Arnold one
Speaker 2: on Instagram, Riley Arnold on TikTok, Riley Arnold on snapchatchat.
Speaker 4: Crazy in there.
Speaker 3: Yep, I'm just Harry Jousey everywhere, Harry Jousey everywhere.
Speaker 2: I'm Heavy Jousey everywhere everywhere. It was hard for you
Speaker 2: to not do his accent back.
Speaker 4: She does it every day.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a joke, like I never, okay do it.
Speaker 2: I just always like make fun of him.
Speaker 4: So always makes fun.
Speaker 2: It's impossible, it's so fun. We love accents in America.
Speaker 2: We think they're the coolest thing ever. It's cool. It's cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is all right. Thank you so much for listening. Now,
Speaker 2: thank you for being here.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you both so very much. And uh, I'll
Speaker 3: talk to everybody.
Speaker 2: Out there, another time next week.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening. Everybody.
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