Speaker 1: So wait, where are you now exactly? Do you know
Speaker 1: the state?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wait, no, I we just left Boston and now
Speaker 2: we are in Maine.
Speaker 1: Oh you're in Maye.
Speaker 3: Wait you went from Boston to Maine. I thought you
Speaker 3: were in upstate New York at one.
Speaker 2: Point I was.
Speaker 4: We went from Ohio to upstate New York to Boston,
Speaker 4: to Maine, to Maine and next to Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Okay, all on the bus.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, but we had hotels, like, we had a
Speaker 4: hotel in Boston. We have not flown like we've all
Speaker 4: through the bus, but we do. We did, like have
Speaker 4: two nights in Boston.
Speaker 1: So well.
Speaker 3: But thank god you didn't fly with us the snow.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't have been able to with the storms, I
Speaker 3: mean no.
Speaker 4: And we we did have to just stay. We got
Speaker 4: stranded in Boston.
Speaker 5: Yay.
Speaker 1: So did you miss it was one of the shows
Speaker 1: canceled because of the storm.
Speaker 4: No, but the Sunday storm, the like the big storm
Speaker 4: in Boston. We moved from a seven pm show to
Speaker 4: a one pm show because the biggest part of the
Speaker 4: storm was Yeah, when the show was over, so nice.
Speaker 1: How many of you share a bus?
Speaker 2: Nine?
Speaker 1: So who's there?
Speaker 2: So on my bus?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So Pasha, Danny, Pasha's mom Tatiana, and then
Speaker 4: their daughter Kiki. That's the four of them, and then
Speaker 4: myself and then one of the producers from faculty, the
Speaker 4: people who are like do the production. Her name is Jordan.
Speaker 4: She's on our bus. One of the crew guys, Ray
Speaker 4: is on our bus. And then there was a guy
Speaker 4: named Joe who was doing social media. He's on the bus.
Speaker 1: Wait, does every dancer get their own bus?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, as a matter of fact, on the other bus.
Speaker 4: So the way it works is there are four tour buses.
Speaker 4: One is like a crew bus, and then the other
Speaker 4: three are a split of dancers and crew.
Speaker 2: And the way the reason they do.
Speaker 4: It that way is because each bus has like a
Speaker 4: big suite hold on.
Speaker 2: A big yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Each bus has a slightly bigger room in the back,
Speaker 4: and and that's like the you know, there's like a
Speaker 4: slightly bigger bed, there's a some closet space, there's a
Speaker 4: couple of drawers and maybe a place to sit outside
Speaker 4: of the bed. Because four of the dancers on the
Speaker 4: tour are married and have a child who's on the
Speaker 4: tour with them.
Speaker 2: On two of the buses, they get that back room.
Speaker 4: So like on my bus, Danny and Pasha have the
Speaker 4: back room with their daughter Kiki, and then Pasha's mom
Speaker 4: Tatiana has a bunk. I had the option of going
Speaker 4: on the others the bus that has the back room
Speaker 4: free and that's the room for the celebrity, or I
Speaker 4: could take a bunk on Danny and Pasha's bus. And
Speaker 4: I chose a bunk on Danny and Pasha's bus because
Speaker 4: I am obviously you guys know me and my vibe.
Speaker 4: I'm more of a family, chill, go to bed early,
Speaker 4: you know, more of a vibe than like a young
Speaker 4: party bus vibe. And the bus that give me gave
Speaker 4: me the back room was Alan and Emma, who are
Speaker 4: in a relationship but are you know, not married and
Speaker 4: are young and fun, and then Britt and Brandon and
Speaker 4: I love them, but I just knew for sure what
Speaker 4: kind of a vibe I was gonna get on Danny
Speaker 4: and Pasha's bus. And where we travel mostly I say this,
Speaker 4: but now because of the storm, we've had two days
Speaker 4: where we've had to travel during the daytime hours, but
Speaker 4: otherwise we travel overnight. We do a show, we end
Speaker 4: the show at ten, We take a shower at the venue,
Speaker 4: so like you know all these little places that we
Speaker 4: did pod me to revive at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing showers there.
Speaker 2: Showers there, getting ready for bed there.
Speaker 4: So like every time we arrive in a place, we
Speaker 4: have to get our luggage off, not all of our luggage.
Speaker 4: Like you have your giant suitcase that's full of all
Speaker 4: your clothes. Then you have like a carry on size
Speaker 4: and then a personal item size and you bring those
Speaker 4: with you. Because we're doing our own hair and makeup too,
Speaker 4: So I have to like bring.
Speaker 2: In my curling eye. I have to bring in all
Speaker 2: my makeup.
Speaker 4: I have to whatever clothes I'm wearing, then I have
Speaker 4: to have a change of clothes because after the show,
Speaker 4: I take a shower, you know, get unready, wash my
Speaker 4: makeup off, get ready for bed, bundle up again, and
Speaker 4: then go back out to the bus and put everything
Speaker 4: back on the bus and then we travel overnight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're mostly sleeping while you just sleeping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, we're mostly just sleeping.
Speaker 3: Do Pasha and Danny first put you down and then
Speaker 3: put their little one down ers it the other way
Speaker 3: around them here.
Speaker 1: They talk like you're all good.
Speaker 2: She stays up later than I do.
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Say good night to Japanga good night. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have been staying up a little later because
Speaker 4: it takes me some time to come down after the show.
Speaker 2: You what that's like?
Speaker 1: Oh sure always so yeah.
Speaker 2: It takes me some time, but it's it's fun.
Speaker 5: We like on the have you been like more nervous
Speaker 5: than like a Pod Meats World show? Like?
Speaker 1: What is the like the comparison?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, writer, there's really no comparison.
Speaker 1: Way more nervous to do pome.
Speaker 4: So fearful.
Speaker 2: About the stars tour than I do.
Speaker 4: No, It's it's more that, you know, if it were
Speaker 4: just me hosting, if it were just that I got
Speaker 4: to go out, I would have had I would have
Speaker 4: had just as much quote unquote nerves as I do
Speaker 4: for God Meets World, which is not It's like that
Speaker 4: I'm familiar with. Put a microphone in my hand, send
Speaker 4: me out in front of a crowd of people, and
Speaker 4: even before I go out there, I'm not sure what
Speaker 4: I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: Once I'm out there, it just it flows and it happens.
Speaker 4: This is me dancing multiple numbers, and even if I'm
Speaker 4: not fully dancing, like there's a number we do called
Speaker 4: Putting on the Ritz, which is aptly named because it's
Speaker 4: to putting on the Ritz. And I come out at
Speaker 4: a part of it, and then I walk off, and
Speaker 4: then I come back out in another part, and then
Speaker 4: I walk off, and then I go around the corner,
Speaker 4: and then I do something else, and then I walk off.
Speaker 4: Then I come back, and then I walk off and
Speaker 4: I come back. Well, a woman here named Kaylin, who
Speaker 4: works on Mandy Moore's team, was with me for the
Speaker 4: first couple of days to like hold my hand, but
Speaker 4: she's leaving the tour, and so I have to know
Speaker 4: obviously on my own where I enter for everything. And
Speaker 4: the only way to know how to do that is
Speaker 4: for me to count the music. And I have to
Speaker 4: count the music by either visual clues or music clues.
Speaker 4: The beginning, I walk out on the one of the
Speaker 4: eighth eight count.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the easy one.
Speaker 4: So the music starts and I count till I get
Speaker 4: to the eight and it's slow, so it's one two,
Speaker 4: it's one, two, three, four. When I get to this
Speaker 4: eight one count, I'm supposed to be coming out. Then
Speaker 4: I walk down for the eight eighth count. Then a
Speaker 4: diagonal for the nine, then a ten eight count down.
Speaker 4: Then I bought my hips for a little bit. Then
Speaker 4: I walk off. Then I go off and I look
Speaker 4: for val walking on a diagonal. I start counting. When
Speaker 4: I see that, I walk out on this one of
Speaker 4: the two eight count. When that happens, then I give
Speaker 4: a high five. Then I go around the corner. Then
Speaker 4: I bring them out. Then I do a little drama
Speaker 4: moment and I walk off. Then when I hear lyrics,
Speaker 4: I start counting again, and I come out on.
Speaker 2: The five of the fifth eight count.
Speaker 4: On that one, then I toss a then I toss
Speaker 4: a cane, and then I walk out. And then when
Speaker 4: the piano goes crazy, I walk out on the one
Speaker 4: of the fourth eight count.
Speaker 1: Then it sounds like a trader's challenge.
Speaker 4: Okay, exactly, it's like a trader's challenge where you're in
Speaker 4: a front looking for coins and not coin doesn't work.
Speaker 5: But this is for people that have danced all their lives.
Speaker 5: This stuff is like second nature. I bet you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, because they musicians and like, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: this is what like musical theater. People are just geniuses
Speaker 5: that and they do it like the first time and
Speaker 5: it did never have to think about it, but man,
Speaker 5: it would terrify me.
Speaker 1: I'd be so bad at it.
Speaker 4: And then on top of that, they, all of these
Speaker 4: dancers who have been doing this their entire life, had
Speaker 4: weeks of rehearsal for the entire show, and because they're
Speaker 4: trying to make the lift light for the celebrity, they're like,
Speaker 4: we need you for three days. I essentially had three
Speaker 4: to four hours total of rehearsal for all my dances
Speaker 4: and everything I do in the show before we left
Speaker 4: for Tech, and then at tech rehearsal. I never got
Speaker 4: to do the whole show until the night before the
Speaker 4: first live show. And then it's like, Okay, now there's
Speaker 4: an audience out there and it sold out and you've
Speaker 4: just got to go out there. And I'm like, guys,
Speaker 4: I'm I need a solid week, one more week of
Speaker 4: just me, just me.
Speaker 1: Oh so odd.
Speaker 4: I finally now we've got like four show shows under
Speaker 4: our belt, and I finally feel like I get it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I get it. I know what I'm
Speaker 4: supposed to do now, but it took this long. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: I was just.
Speaker 3: Like, there is there a number that rider and I
Speaker 3: can come out behind you in solid black unitards with ribbons.
Speaker 1: Is there something where you could just run behind you
Speaker 1: to Whale.
Speaker 3: Song five to eight counts by the third Whale, Beach,
Speaker 3: third Whale, and then val Is in a lobster costume
Speaker 3: that the sky has said the third.
Speaker 2: Time exactly you we would find a spot. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you. It's uh, it's pretty great.
Speaker 1: Are they the same size theaters? It's like what we
Speaker 1: played with Comes World.
Speaker 2: It's a range. So sometimes they're theaters and other times
Speaker 2: it's arenas.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, damn have you sold out arenas?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Huh wow?
Speaker 1: That stage arenas must be.
Speaker 2: Nicer, right, Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've mostly been at casino arenas, so it's
Speaker 4: there anyway.
Speaker 2: Its exactly. So it's been it's been nice.
Speaker 4: I mean, and guys, you know we were at a casino.
Speaker 4: I didn't even go on the casino floor.
Speaker 3: That's when you know that when you tell your work something, yeah,
Speaker 3: something something wrong?
Speaker 1: What have you done with Danielle?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 4: And then now we're going to be going to We're
Speaker 4: going to be going to Mohegan sun In.
Speaker 1: It's a great It really is great.
Speaker 4: Maybe I have to I don't know when I'm going
Speaker 4: to find time to do that, but yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1: Instead of going to bed at seven thirty.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, first off, baby, stay up until
Speaker 2: eight fifteen. Guys. The show is still on at eight
Speaker 2: fifteen until ten.
Speaker 4: Right, You're not done until ten, and then I have
Speaker 4: to get ready for bed, and then I have to
Speaker 4: pack up my stuff and get back on the bus,
Speaker 4: and then I have to usually eat something because I'm
Speaker 4: not eating dinner right before I go out there. You
Speaker 4: we don't even like to eat dinner before Pod meets World,
Speaker 4: and all we do is sit on.
Speaker 2: A couch and covetch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is me and you know my cost you
Speaker 4: want to see, let me show you what one of
Speaker 4: my costumes looks.
Speaker 2: Like on the racohol.
Speaker 1: You know she's making all this upright, She's at a
Speaker 1: hotel Woodland Hills. She's just want to be to get
Speaker 1: away from us. Oh god, wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, Here you go. Here's a here's a costume I wear.
Speaker 1: Folding up.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's not enough to cover Moka.
Speaker 1: That's more like a.
Speaker 2: Cost so it's all sheer across the belly here.
Speaker 4: And then this is this is just underwear, underwear under
Speaker 4: here okay, and then there's some fringe and then that's
Speaker 4: for theesticle area.
Speaker 3: There you go, wait as each boob say Danielle, just
Speaker 3: in case you forgot, in.
Speaker 2: Case we don't know.
Speaker 4: That one says Danielle, and that one says Danielle f Yes, okay, just.
Speaker 3: Is that what one breast is just Danielle the other
Speaker 3: breast is daniel Fisher.
Speaker 1: I like it just in case which which one had
Speaker 1: the cancer?
Speaker 4: One that just says Danielle. Yeah, we could have less
Speaker 4: material on that one. God, some chunks have been taken out.
Speaker 1: Lost anymore.
Speaker 2: We just be damn, damn? Is this now?
Speaker 1: Is that technically fusia? Is that color? That is?
Speaker 2: I would say hot pink?
Speaker 1: How many changes do you have to do in the show?
Speaker 4: I change every time I leave the stage, So let's see.
Speaker 4: I I literally, so I come, I come out in
Speaker 4: that one, and then I put on.
Speaker 3: Are they all from the original show? Because that pink
Speaker 3: one looks like that's from the original show.
Speaker 4: The pink one is actually from the the photo shoot
Speaker 4: when they.
Speaker 2: Then that on the show. But I wore that in
Speaker 2: the photo shoot.
Speaker 4: And then I wear a silver dress, which is which
Speaker 4: is from They're all from this show, but not necessarily.
Speaker 4: My costumes got so like even this the reason it
Speaker 4: says Danielle on one boob and then Danielle.
Speaker 1: F on the other one another and yell had it.
Speaker 4: No, it was Emma's at some point, Emma wore this costume.
Speaker 4: So my Danielle f is written over the name Emma.
Speaker 4: Uh so that was something. This is a costume Emma
Speaker 4: had worn at some point. So that you know, they
Speaker 4: keep all of them, and they do reuse them. They
Speaker 4: can adjust it like they you know, they'll obviously make
Speaker 4: something smaller or add fabric somewhere.
Speaker 3: Now, it's not everybody that was on the show is
Speaker 3: on tour with you right now, right not every celebrity
Speaker 3: is there.
Speaker 4: No, as a matter, it's just me right now. The
Speaker 4: people are just stuck with me. I'm the only celeb.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3: So there's no like, none of the other you know,
Speaker 3: people that were there that were the quote unquote celebrities
Speaker 3: is not a single one.
Speaker 1: It's just you and the dancers right.
Speaker 2: Now, Me and the dancers exactly.
Speaker 4: So I'm the celebrity co host and dancer that is visiting.
Speaker 4: And then February fifteenth, which is my last day of
Speaker 4: the full run that I'm of. The first run that
Speaker 4: I'm doing is the first time we cross over and
Speaker 4: then and because that's at Radio City Music Hall in
Speaker 4: New York, Andy Richter is going to be there and
Speaker 4: Alex Earl is going to be there.
Speaker 3: So I know you're happy to be on the road,
Speaker 3: But are you a little bumm because I know that
Speaker 3: you and Dylan wanted to kind of coordinate so that
Speaker 3: you guys could kind of do a road thing together.
Speaker 4: I know we did want to do that, although now
Speaker 4: that I'm seeing how it works, I'm not we would.
Speaker 4: You know, you wouldn't really have that much time together.
Speaker 4: I don't think Dylan and I had any idea.
Speaker 2: I know I didn't what a massive production this is.
Speaker 4: I mean crazy, it's it is a show unlike any
Speaker 4: up you guys. You know my friend Joey who's in Ohio,
Speaker 4: who's come to a few pond me to world live shows.
Speaker 4: So Joey came to our Akron, Ohio show, the opening
Speaker 4: night show, and he was blown away.
Speaker 1: It shows me it's like real show showy YEA.
Speaker 3: Sabrina told me that she's like Danielle has no idea
Speaker 3: what she's about to do.
Speaker 1: Just think about the way the show is in production,
Speaker 1: when you're filming it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was like, if you're going to take
Speaker 5: that on the road, it's only going to be like,
Speaker 5: you know, a higher like bigger fireworks more, you know,
Speaker 5: like a I just know it's big.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so fun though.
Speaker 2: It is big.
Speaker 4: And to see these pros, you get to see them
Speaker 4: in the little snippets, you know, the interstitial interstitials after
Speaker 4: they get voted off, and so then they get to
Speaker 4: dance little bits here and there during the show, like
Speaker 4: for a minute at a time. Seeing them dance together
Speaker 4: on this tour is the first time I feel like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, now I see what they're really capable of.
Speaker 4: Like they are phenomenal athletes and dancers. And it's just
Speaker 4: like every single every single one it's and every number
Speaker 4: is better than the one before it. And the group numbers,
Speaker 4: there's tons of group numbers. Seeing them all dance together
Speaker 4: in the group numbers, the way they all shine as
Speaker 4: individuals but still like flow really well together as a group,
Speaker 4: it's just it's amazing. And of course I'm taking every
Speaker 4: I'm just watching. I'm like, I go last to eat
Speaker 4: I'm like, what do they all eat? That's what I
Speaker 4: want to eat. So I'm like looking at what everybody's eating.
Speaker 3: They don't they eat, oh do because they burn it off.
Speaker 3: They burn it all off while they're dancing.
Speaker 2: They're burning.
Speaker 4: They're burning fifty times more than I am. But still
Speaker 4: like they eat. But they are eating exactly the way
Speaker 4: you'd think they would. They have, you know, a lot
Speaker 4: of protein on their plate. They have a lot of
Speaker 4: vegetables on their plate, nothing that's too saucy, not a
Speaker 4: lot of sugar.
Speaker 2: Maybe somebody will have like a bite of a dessert.
Speaker 2: So I'm eating very much like them.
Speaker 4: We also get to do bus stock, so they do
Speaker 4: like once a week they do a massive grocery shopping
Speaker 4: for our bus. And I just literally told Danny and Pasha,
Speaker 4: I was like, without like, if it's ever annoying, just
Speaker 4: tell me.
Speaker 2: But otherwise, just treat me like one of your children.
Speaker 4: So just you order whatever you would normally eat, and
Speaker 4: then prepare whatever you would normally prepare, and I'll just
Speaker 4: eat some of that. So I'm literally just copying whatever
Speaker 4: they do. And oh, I'm going to come home in
Speaker 4: the best shape of my life.
Speaker 1: Well that's great. Yeah, I just give weed and bourbon
Speaker 1: and then kick me off the bus.
Speaker 5: Tommy bears broccoli broccoli.
Speaker 4: Okay, I do have some good ideas for us though.
Speaker 4: Now from the we do a meet and greet, we
Speaker 4: do a VIP to her. One of the things that
Speaker 4: they do is they do a.
Speaker 2: Like a family feud style.
Speaker 4: It's a little harder for us because there's only three
Speaker 4: of us, all ten of us because Alan hosts it.
Speaker 4: So ten of us, the rest of the dancers and
Speaker 4: myself go out there and we do a family feud
Speaker 4: style trivia game and the audience just sits in the
Speaker 4: via ps, just sit and watch it. Then we do
Speaker 4: con style group photos, so we do a thirty minute
Speaker 4: trivia game. Then we have a step and repeat setup
Speaker 4: with a professional camera and some and they just walk in.
Speaker 4: They get right in the center. There's tape on the
Speaker 4: floor like at a con. They get right in the center.
Speaker 4: We all we take two photos per person or per group,
Speaker 4: and then they walk off. And then they have a
Speaker 4: third tier, which is called the Perfect Ten. And the
Speaker 4: Perfect ten people get to stand on the stage with
Speaker 4: their phones up and each one of us walks behind
Speaker 4: them individually and we take a selfie with them, so
Speaker 4: they get ten selfies with each person. Wow, and that's
Speaker 4: how those are the different tiers of their meet and great.
Speaker 1: It's nice that you're learning this after our tour has ended.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, well listen, I did not control when I
Speaker 4: get to go on.
Speaker 2: The Dancing of the Store's tour.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, we can always do another Pond Meets World tour
Speaker 4: now that we you know, now that I know this information.
Speaker 3: Now that you got it, because that's exactly what you're
Speaker 3: going to want to do, is you're going to want
Speaker 3: to go right back on tour when you're done.
Speaker 4: Not right away, No, not right away. My kids have
Speaker 4: so far been good. I don't know whether or not
Speaker 4: they're lying. We'll find out when when one of my
Speaker 4: sons tells this teacher that I died again. But they
Speaker 4: seem to be doing pretty well, and most days I
Speaker 4: have been able to talk to them both first thing
Speaker 4: in the morning when they wake up and at night
Speaker 4: before they go to sleep, which has been super helpful.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there was a spot team out in front
Speaker 1: of your house two days ago.
Speaker 2: Oh really, but.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was fine. I just heard it. You
Speaker 3: get a clear shot take them out. I didn't know
Speaker 3: who they were talking about. I didn't know what was
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 1: Thank you for looking. It was, yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was a buzz that way.
Speaker 2: Great, Well, we miss you. I miss you too. I
Speaker 2: miss you too. Writer. What's Hershey Park?
Speaker 5: Light?
Speaker 2: The kids are coming to visit me out.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love so much, You're gonna love the best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna kah.
Speaker 5: We We stayed at the hotel at the park, and
Speaker 5: there's a water park side too, which I didn't really
Speaker 5: go on, but Alex and Indy wan in the water
Speaker 5: park and then it's a I mean it's a big
Speaker 5: roller coaster, like lots of new ones.
Speaker 2: Why are you laughing? Will what.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about? A Hershey themed water park where you're
Speaker 1: just in brown water the.
Speaker 2: Whole time, sliding down chocolate.
Speaker 1: It's just the worst idea for a water to slide.
Speaker 5: It's just called the squirts, the sports, the.
Speaker 3: Fond welcome, the pup river, try not to pop up
Speaker 3: on each other.
Speaker 1: The skid mark slide.
Speaker 4: Go.
Speaker 3: Hershey water Park sounds like a weird text thing.
Speaker 4: Park.
Speaker 5: Terrible wait to take out, totally normal conversations.
Speaker 1: Just laughing. Sorry, it's terrible. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: One of the things that has been really fun for
Speaker 4: me and kind of makes me feel somewhat better about
Speaker 4: myself because as far as I'm concerned, these pros are
Speaker 4: just perfect specimens of human beings, and I would have
Speaker 4: thought never once would any of them ever make a mistake,
Speaker 4: Like you know, I just think like, oh, such pros,
Speaker 4: and I'll be the one who screws everything.
Speaker 2: Up, but not them.
Speaker 4: We have been dying laughing over some of the mistakes.
Speaker 4: So the hard one of the hardest parts of the
Speaker 4: show is how fast the quick changes are. So Brandon
Speaker 4: on the first night put on a black tank top.
Speaker 4: It's like a racer back black tank top, and he
Speaker 4: put it on backwards, so he comes running out in
Speaker 4: a tank top that's like all the way up to.
Speaker 1: A great bleavage, going.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: During a couple of our dress runs, girls didn't have
Speaker 4: a chance to get their dresses snapped in the back
Speaker 4: or zipped up in the back, so they were dancing
Speaker 4: with their dress just completely unzipped.
Speaker 2: It was like, Okay, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Multiple people have come out too early, so like they're
Speaker 4: also counting.
Speaker 2: Pasha came out extremely early one time that.
Speaker 3: Just did Jennifer Gray and dirty dancing when she like,
Speaker 3: this is the lift.
Speaker 4: Just Jenna Johnson like came out for her solo and
Speaker 4: and somehow hit herself really hard and she's like, I
Speaker 4: think I blacked out.
Speaker 2: She goes, I have no idea what I did after that.
Speaker 1: God, So wait a second.
Speaker 3: When you were doing the show, your body was like
Speaker 3: constantly breaking down. And now that you're on the roads,
Speaker 3: you're also traveling. How are you keeping up without I mean,
Speaker 3: are you getting massages and like.
Speaker 4: That travels with us? Okay, her name is Claire. She's amazing,
Speaker 4: so of course we are all. Jenna actually sliced her
Speaker 4: foot open one of the one of the shows she does.
Speaker 4: She was barefoot and she does like a slide on
Speaker 4: the floor, and she slid her foot across the floor.
Speaker 2: And just a whole flap of skin.
Speaker 4: Oh, just like right on the bone, the top bone
Speaker 4: of her foot, and blood was on the stage. And
Speaker 4: she went back into the quick change and she was like,
Speaker 4: I need Claire, and we all looked down and it
Speaker 4: was just like a stream of blood down her foot
Speaker 4: and onto the floor and one of the wardrobes. So
Speaker 4: we have wardrobe people that travel with us, and then
Speaker 4: in every city they hire locals to help to help
Speaker 4: us get out of our dresses, to help us get
Speaker 4: into our next dressers the dressers, and so one of
Speaker 4: the locals like turned and looked at her foot and
Speaker 4: she goes, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna pass out.
Speaker 1: She turns toward me.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I have to look away.
Speaker 1: Oh god, was she able to dance on that foot?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So then no joke.
Speaker 4: She had about twenty seconds to wrap this foot up
Speaker 4: while she also had to get into her costume. So
Speaker 4: Claire Pete comes running in with her kit, looks at
Speaker 4: it and goes, oh god, okay, starts fixing up her
Speaker 4: foot while Jenna's hopping around on one foot putting on
Speaker 4: the rest of her costume. They end up just putting
Speaker 4: smacking some tape over it. Then when she came out
Speaker 4: after the next number, they took the tape off and
Speaker 4: actually like properly, you know, sprayed antsectic and took care
Speaker 4: of it. And all of our feet are covered in blisters,
Speaker 4: and so you know, Claire comes in and she's got
Speaker 4: little little blister covers and tape to wrap up all
Speaker 4: of our feet. And then you know we Claire has
Speaker 4: like a Google doc going for thirty minute sessions, and
Speaker 4: we all just sign in and see when we can
Speaker 4: see Claire, and then we go in and tell her
Speaker 4: what's bothering us.
Speaker 2: She's been dry needling my neck.
Speaker 4: I had some I was having some trap issues, so
Speaker 4: she dry needled me, which is like acupuncture, except they
Speaker 4: go deeper and they get to the point where there's
Speaker 4: a knot and then your muscle gives a little twitch
Speaker 4: and then it's supposed to like ease up over the
Speaker 4: next week.
Speaker 3: So they actually stick a needle all the way down
Speaker 3: into the muscle. Yes, isn't this horribly painful?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know. I'm a terrible person to ask.
Speaker 4: I have a very high pain tolerance. I say no,
Speaker 4: But I think some people do not like it, But
Speaker 4: it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: They don't like the needle in the right directly in
Speaker 1: the muscle. I can see some people don't like it.
Speaker 1: I get some people. Some people don't like anybody squeezing
Speaker 1: a muscle let alone poking it with like that's the
Speaker 1: only time I feel anything anymore. It's just a needle
Speaker 1: in my muscle, a needle right now, she's poking.
Speaker 3: While she got a little throw in the second time
Speaker 3: she did it when I asked her to call.
Speaker 2: Me a.
Speaker 1: That was the weird part.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 4: There's also one of my favorite parts of the show
Speaker 4: is this tambourine section that you guys are for sure
Speaker 4: gonna want me to teach you when you see the
Speaker 4: show eventually, Uh, you guys are gonna want me to
Speaker 4: teach you this tambourine section and it's it's a full
Speaker 4: tambourine dance moves and I was.
Speaker 2: I did not get it. The first three shows.
Speaker 4: I just completely would miss it and then just trying
Speaker 4: to catch up, and I would, i'd catch up and
Speaker 4: then finish. And now I feel like I finally got
Speaker 4: it down and it's so fun, but I'm not sure
Speaker 4: it's landing with the audience. I thought eleven of us
Speaker 4: doing a tambourine number would be like people would be like,
Speaker 4: WHOA cool, And I think the audience is just like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we've all talked about it. We're like, do they
Speaker 2: not like tambourines?
Speaker 1: I love It's a weird thing to pick.
Speaker 3: It's like we do an eleven person banjo special and
Speaker 3: it's like not everyone's into it, Like what.
Speaker 1: The type of thing just really isn't going over well.
Speaker 4: I guess when you have these dancers and you can
Speaker 4: see what they can do, them standing there with cool
Speaker 4: tambourines is like.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't really know that they need that.
Speaker 5: I mean, the tambourine players always like are you part
Speaker 5: of the band or they just allow you to hang out.
Speaker 1: So I feel like when you make the entire band
Speaker 1: that it's a little like exactly.
Speaker 3: Anti climates the lead singer's girlfriend on tambourine exactly, that's exactly.
Speaker 5: Wait it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I hate to put you on the spot,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on the spot
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Hanging out with all the dancers and being with all
Speaker 3: the dancers, is there now one more than another that
Speaker 3: stands out to where you're just like, that's the best
Speaker 3: dancer I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: I Mean, there's no doubt in my mind that Danny
Speaker 4: Daniella is on another level.
Speaker 2: As we saw that, like we saw that on the show.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just incredible.
Speaker 4: I mean, even just the way she picks up things,
Speaker 4: and you know, the way she moves and every person
Speaker 4: she dances with. She's it's not even just like oh,
Speaker 4: I mean obviously when her and when she and Pasha
Speaker 4: dance together, they've been dancing together for decades, they have
Speaker 4: they're married. They have such incredible chemistry, Like they.
Speaker 2: Have a duet that is.
Speaker 4: My favorite dance maybe I've ever seen anywhere. It's just amazing.
Speaker 4: But it's still it's still hard to say because then
Speaker 4: also Jenna Johnson is just incredible to watch.
Speaker 1: Is pretty damn good too, isn't.
Speaker 2: He vows amazing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 4: Lot of abs on this tour and I I don't
Speaker 4: have any, but I'm working on them.
Speaker 2: But I'm working on them. But yeah, Haley, Haley's also
Speaker 2: really great.
Speaker 4: I hate to just talk about the women because the
Speaker 4: guys are on the We mentioned val too, but it's
Speaker 4: it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's really hard to pick.
Speaker 4: But I think if I had to say who my
Speaker 4: favorite dancer to watch is, it's.
Speaker 5: Danny Okay, Yeah, she just like I mean, she just
Speaker 5: had these moves that would be.
Speaker 1: Like that's super natural.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you you can do something and but yet
Speaker 5: totally expressive and god.
Speaker 1: Just really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Are you in a bathroom right now.
Speaker 2: I don't like that. Look, this is not doing anybody
Speaker 2: any favors.
Speaker 1: But it's not. Are you in your backstage.
Speaker 2: I'm backstage at the venue in I.
Speaker 1: Just love how backstages look so different, aren't they. Like
Speaker 1: sometimes there's just like luxury cozy places. I like how
Speaker 1: it's a two shot with Danielle in the trash can.
Speaker 1: That's the only real thing in the background. It's just
Speaker 1: the two of you there. Normally it's our baseball cards
Speaker 1: right exactly. But it's like she framed herself so that
Speaker 1: the thing is there.
Speaker 4: Perfectly with it here no I So it is funny
Speaker 4: when as part of the deal that the like in
Speaker 4: my contract for this, which is not something I asked for,
Speaker 4: it's just the way it's built into the contract. If
Speaker 4: there is a separate dressing room, I get a different
Speaker 4: dressing room from the rest of the dancers.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 4: In this case, it worked out well because I have
Speaker 4: to podcast and so I'd be really annoying them right
Speaker 4: now if they were having to walk around naked behind
Speaker 4: me getting ready, So that would be annoying. So in
Speaker 4: this case it did work out. But normally what happens
Speaker 4: is I have my own dressing room. I bring my
Speaker 4: stuff in here, and then I like kind of get
Speaker 4: ready in here, and then I just go sit in
Speaker 4: their room.
Speaker 3: We never sat in our dressing rooms on point me
Speaker 3: throw and we were always with each other.
Speaker 1: I don't think I knew where my dressing room was.
Speaker 3: Seventh season exactly, No, id, have you seen everybody naked?
Speaker 1: Have you all seen each other naked.
Speaker 4: At this point?
Speaker 2: I mean the women, Yeah, we were just we just.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you just it's like backstage at
Speaker 3: an old school play where it's just everybody in our
Speaker 3: dressing room.
Speaker 4: Yes, because also we're you know, putting on lotion and
Speaker 4: putting on our body glow and helping each other tan
Speaker 4: our backs, right, and then the guys will get undressed upstairs,
Speaker 4: like in the quick change, because then we also have
Speaker 4: to change really quick in a tiny little tent on
Speaker 4: the side of the stage, and the guys will get
Speaker 4: undressed and then just wear their little black andyes, just walk,
Speaker 4: just walk. So we've all seen each other any in
Speaker 4: our underwear, all right, I mean not not the ladies.
Speaker 4: The ladies wear their robes because we're sure we have
Speaker 4: some decency.
Speaker 1: But the guys.
Speaker 2: Just you're walking around in their little wondies.
Speaker 3: Just like just like Podmets World Live. Just I don't
Speaker 3: think we wore clothes until Minneapolis. So yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: We're finding so many similarities between Bobby abswhere.
Speaker 1: The nudity varies. The tambourine section.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm going to teach you this tambourine section.
Speaker 4: And if we ever go on tour again, promise me
Speaker 4: we could do a tambourine section.
Speaker 1: You can do a tambourine. You can be in the band, Danielle.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 4: Listen, this is this is my kind of dance. Tambourine dance.
Speaker 4: I can do it. You guys could even do it.
Speaker 1: Dance. That's a Bob Dylan song.
Speaker 4: I know's daniel favorite part of the number, is it really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So anyway, if you haven't had a chance to
Speaker 4: see Dancing with the Stars Live, also the merch you guys,
Speaker 4: I want you guys to check out some merch.
Speaker 1: Who does your merch? Call? Does the Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars live merch call?
Speaker 2: There's no merch.
Speaker 1: What you've got eleven tambourines and no merch.
Speaker 2: Call, no merch. The show is this, it's we're lacking.
Speaker 2: You need to come on tour with us.
Speaker 4: God, but the Dancing with the Stars merch is pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Just give a tambourine and let them stand in the
Speaker 5: back of the stay and do a merch tambourine call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could throw in a triangle to a multifacet.
Speaker 4: Multi So if you haven't been out to see Dancing
Speaker 4: with the Stars live, I highly highly recommend it. I
Speaker 4: want to take you guys to maybe one of the
Speaker 4: LA dates or something. I think think you would really
Speaker 4: enjoy it. It'd be fun, even though I'm not not
Speaker 4: in that one. But anyway, if you haven't been, definitely
Speaker 4: check out the website see if there are still tickets
Speaker 4: available near you. It is really a show unlike anything
Speaker 4: I've ever seen before. You're guaranteed to have a great
Speaker 4: time and maybe just give yourself like two hours to
Speaker 4: forget some of the absolute terror and insanity that's going
Speaker 4: on in the world. So thank you all for joining
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