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Speaker 1: some questions. Let's go Sophia Underscore Sophie twenty one. Hey, Jojo,
Speaker 1: do you have any regrets like a movie or TV
Speaker 1: show that you turned down? And why? Okay, So I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a regret, but I do have
Speaker 1: like a like ooh, I turned down doing They did
Speaker 1: this fucks did this incredible show called Stars on Mars
Speaker 1: and it was the first season of it and it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a really fun show again secluded from
Speaker 1: the world similar to Special Forces for a longer chunk
Speaker 1: of time, and it was a competition show as well,
Speaker 1: and they asked me to do it. I'm so stoked.
Speaker 1: And then it was actually one of the first projects
Speaker 1: that my team was like, no, you can't do this,
Speaker 1: and at the time, I was like, well why not,
Speaker 1: and they there was a bigger picture why I couldn't
Speaker 1: do it, and I was like, all right, that's fair, valid,
Speaker 1: I will trust you on this one. But like I
Speaker 1: was mad. I was angry. And then about a month
Speaker 1: later is when I got the offer for Special Forces,
Speaker 1: which is also a Fox show. And so if I
Speaker 1: would have done Stars on Mars, I wouldn't been able
Speaker 1: to do Special Forces, and then I wouldn't have my
Speaker 1: family that I have now with my boys and my girls,
Speaker 1: my sisters on the show. I wouldn't have my fellow recruits.
Speaker 1: So I'm very very At the time, I was very
Speaker 1: sad that I had to say no, it's doing Stars
Speaker 1: on Mars. But then I was very happy that I
Speaker 1: got to do Special Forces because without that, I'd be
Speaker 1: still the same old, same old joker that I always was.
Speaker 1: Oreo's bestie, Who's your favorite X? Lol? What a question?
Speaker 1: Like I love that. I was like, Hey, ask me
Speaker 1: a question, and Oreo's bestI was like, I want to
Speaker 1: know who your favorite X is? Like that is baller?
Speaker 1: I don't, I mean, I don't, I mean I do
Speaker 1: I do have a favorite it's kind of like when
Speaker 1: you have kids, you know you don't have a favorite,
Speaker 1: but like you do have a favorite. I don't know
Speaker 1: I of my true exes, that's hard of people that
Speaker 1: I've talked to not actually dated, though I I've been
Speaker 1: able to kindle a friendship with somebody. Actually, two people
Speaker 1: that I've talked to have been able to kindle a
Speaker 1: friendship with that has been super nice and pure platonic,
Speaker 1: which has been so incredible. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: cool because you know, at some point you realize, like, look,
Speaker 1: we're all young. It literally doesn't matter. Like we never
Speaker 1: did anything. We never dated, we never even went on
Speaker 1: a date. We just kind of like flirted over texts
Speaker 1: like that's all. And so now that we're able to
Speaker 1: have like a true friendship is pretty cool. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet you want to know who my favorite of
Speaker 1: my axes is. I mean, it's not that hard to
Speaker 1: figure out. When you want kids from reptisarus oh four
Speaker 1: two five? When do I want kids? Literally yesterday? I
Speaker 1: want babies so bad. Little Freddy, Eddie and Teddy will
Speaker 1: be coming to town as soon as possible. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I want to have babies. I think I want to
Speaker 1: be pregnant when I'm like twenty three or four, and
Speaker 1: then have babies when I'm like twenty four or twenty five.
Speaker 1: I think, like early twenty four or super late twenty
Speaker 1: three or and then you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the right timeline for me, or
Speaker 1: like pregnant early twenty four having babies. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I A lot will depend on my career.
Speaker 1: I really do love my career. I love performing. I
Speaker 1: do want to carry my own children within a few years.
Speaker 1: Though I decided not carry my own children. I think
Speaker 1: I would have kids younger. But if I if I
Speaker 1: want to carry children, I think I would wait a
Speaker 1: little bit so that way I can perform a little
Speaker 1: bit more, enjoy my career a little bit more, then
Speaker 1: have babies and then continue. But I will have to take,
Speaker 1: you know, a bit of a break while i'd be pregnant.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, my babies will becoming everywhere with me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, little Peanuts on tour, Freddi, Eddie and
Speaker 1: Teddy will be running around those arenas. They will be
Speaker 1: having the best time. What are your last thoughts in
Speaker 1: the wings before you go on stage? Just from Karen
Speaker 1: dot Knight Underscore, Underscore. My last thoughts, I go crazy
Speaker 1: before I go on stage. I am either so calm
Speaker 1: and just like yeh, here we go, whatever is going
Speaker 1: to happen, or I am like psycho running my dance
Speaker 1: over and over and over and speed running and doing
Speaker 1: all my rituals. You know, I do a special prayer
Speaker 1: every time. Then I do my dance moms one of
Speaker 1: through Fust seven eight Kis Cassini Knock Knock. And then
Speaker 1: I say I'm prepared. I'm excited to have myself, because
Speaker 1: that's something Jenna and I you say. We did say
Speaker 1: I'm prepared, We're prepared, We're excited, and we have each other,
Speaker 1: you know, I have all my fun little rituals that
Speaker 1: I do. But yeah, like right before that moment before
Speaker 1: I'm just like all right, here we go. Whatever happens happens,
Speaker 1: like no turning back now, Sweet and sassy in Texas,
Speaker 1: do you see yourself moving out on your own? Student?
Speaker 1: This actually was a question that got asked a lot,
Speaker 1: and I saw this question a lot in a positive way,
Speaker 1: like hey, when you think you're moving out? And I
Speaker 1: also saw this question be asked in a negative way
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, oh you're twenty, move out already, or
Speaker 1: why do you still live with your parents? That's embarrassing
Speaker 1: and it's funny to me that someone cares that much
Speaker 1: that I still live at home. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: a beautiful family, I have a beautiful home, and I'm
Speaker 1: very lucky that we're all still able to live together.
Speaker 1: Talked about moving out, I have. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: conversation that actually comes up in my family quite often.
Speaker 1: The thing is is it's not really safe right now
Speaker 1: for me to live on my own, because you know,
Speaker 1: people find out where I live. People show up at
Speaker 1: my house as it is, and so if I was alone,
Speaker 1: you know, that'd be be different. And I think I
Speaker 1: will wait to move until I have somebody that I'm
Speaker 1: ready to move with. And there's also the option that
Speaker 1: I would stay here and my parents would move. You know,
Speaker 1: this house is kind of a shared house, and so
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we I mean, it's it's our
Speaker 1: setup is so great. My parents and I have the
Speaker 1: best dynamic ever. Our house upstairs is kind of divided
Speaker 1: into two, you know, so we have right where I
Speaker 1: am right now is actually on half of this side.
Speaker 1: And I have my room, I have my closet, and
Speaker 1: I don't know. I there's no reason for me to
Speaker 1: move out right now. You know. I go in my
Speaker 1: room and I close my door a lot, and my
Speaker 1: parents are very good at just like letting me do
Speaker 1: my thing. But yeah, no, I mean eventually I'll move out,
Speaker 1: for like, I love my family. I don't feel a
Speaker 1: need to yet. Lyvia Elizabeth, why do you think you?
Speaker 1: As in all caps? That's why I emphasized it. Why
Speaker 1: do you think no one else from Dance Moms talks
Speaker 1: to Abby? Like? Really? You know? This goes up back
Speaker 1: again to Everyone has a different experience, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think everyone left on different terms. I think Abby
Speaker 1: is a very prominent figure in everyone that has been
Speaker 1: a part of the show's life, whether they would like
Speaker 1: to admit it or not, at some point in time,
Speaker 1: everybody did respect the world out of Abby and wanted
Speaker 1: Abby's approval. And I think now that everyone's older, you know,
Speaker 1: it's for some probably is the best choice to just
Speaker 1: not have any communication to Abby. For me, the best
Speaker 1: choice is to have communication with her, and is to
Speaker 1: make sure she feels the love and respect that I
Speaker 1: feel like I should give to her. You know what
Speaker 1: everyone else from the show's journey was is different from mine.
Speaker 1: But for me personally, you know, I do want to
Speaker 1: have a good dynamic, a good relationship with her. She
Speaker 1: helped me get here, and I will forever be grateful
Speaker 1: and forever give her that respect and honor because she
Speaker 1: she deserves it. Kaylee's sixty four underscore coming and bat
Speaker 1: me again with the negative question. This is what I
Speaker 1: was talking about. Will you move out? When? You when?
Speaker 1: Will you move out? You're twenty? Be independent girl, Get addie,
Speaker 1: I'm the most independent person. Get out, Amanda underscore, Davis
Speaker 1: underscore danswer. Oh this question, I just love it because
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I'm going to read this word
Speaker 1: for word. Why will you guys not address what happened
Speaker 1: to the old Memi Emmy Emmy Bees b Ees of
Speaker 1: XOMG Pop? Why will you guys not address what happened
Speaker 1: to the old Memi Bees of XOMG Pop? I don't, Lily,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Don't know what me
Speaker 1: me bees is. Sorry, dude, would you want to tour
Speaker 1: your new music with a live band? Abs of freaking
Speaker 1: lutely my new dream. I know G Flip is their
Speaker 1: own artist, but like, imagine me going on tour and
Speaker 1: G playing drums the whole time. That would be so lit.
Speaker 1: That's like my new fever dream. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I definitely want a live band. Live answer is
Speaker 1: live band. That's like my It's my new vibe. I
Speaker 1: just love it. My best friend Kez asked me this question.
Speaker 1: She said, can you smell popcorn? I have literally no
Speaker 1: idea what this means. I feel like it's some inside
Speaker 1: joke between the two of us, and I just like forgot.
Speaker 1: But I'm like Keiz what She's probably a wake by
Speaker 1: now I should text her be like, what did you
Speaker 1: mean by this? I mean I can smell popcorn? Like huh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyways, JoJo's, I'll just go to love
Speaker 1: a fan, your favorite and most sold Jojo products. This
Speaker 1: is actually crazy. So the Jojo bos are a massive empire,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people think those are my number
Speaker 1: one products, But actually toys and electronics always outsold accessories.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's because there was more.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if because the value was more, I
Speaker 1: don't know, because there was just more. I mean, there
Speaker 1: wasn't more variety than there was bos, but Bo's would
Speaker 1: be considered accessory. And then my dolls were the number
Speaker 1: one driver of toy sales, so it's actually my toys.
Speaker 1: Are you going to go back to short hair? This
Speaker 1: is a debate that I've been in for so freaking long.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I Uh. Some days I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I really want my short hair book. Other
Speaker 1: days I'm like, you know what, Nope, I like long hair.
Speaker 1: Other days I'm like, give me my mad hair. I
Speaker 1: want extensions. I I'm all over the place in my hair.
Speaker 1: I never know what I want to do. I never
Speaker 1: know if I like it or not. It's this air
Speaker 1: is a mess. Giselle Jaseel Jaseel j zel O don't know, Hey, Jazel,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite challenge that you did on Special Forces?
Speaker 1: My favorite challenge, okay, as hard and as torturous as
Speaker 1: the boat challenge was where we had to carry the
Speaker 1: boat for two miles. It was so satisfying when we
Speaker 1: were done. I mean, that car ride back to base
Speaker 1: and we were just sitting in the car all dead,
Speaker 1: was just it was so satisfying. Also, the backwards dive
Speaker 1: off the Hella off the boat when we had a
Speaker 1: backwards dive. I was so proud of myself. I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: freaking nailed it. Then he was like, miserable fail. I
Speaker 1: was like, I guess I didn't nail it, like I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then of course the damn wall. I'm
Speaker 1: running down the dam wall. I mean, when are you
Speaker 1: ever gonna get to do that? That's I mean, that
Speaker 1: was crazy. Alex underscore E nine. Do you miss being
Speaker 1: on tour? I do so much. I dreamed the tour
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite phases of my life. I
Speaker 1: think ever, such a fun face, is such a fun dynamic,
Speaker 1: such a fun vibe. I mean, there's nothing like being
Speaker 1: on tour for sure. For sure was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite phases of life. And I can't wait to be
Speaker 1: back out on the road. I really can't give him.
Speaker 1: Miss doing JoJo's Juice, I do. I think of jojo
Speaker 1: Juice when it was in its prime. You know, when
Speaker 1: I had first moved into my apartment, I feel like
Speaker 1: it was when Joja's Juice was really in its prime.
Speaker 1: But I remember doing Joj's Juice on Dance Moms, and
Speaker 1: it was always so difficult because Wednesdays were Pyramid days
Speaker 1: and Tuesdays were interviews. So normally what I would try
Speaker 1: to do for JoJo's Juice was film on Monday, edit
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, upload on Wednesday. But then what would happen
Speaker 1: is Monday would be our day off, and I would
Speaker 1: just be tired and not want to get ready, and
Speaker 1: so then I would be like, you know what, fine,
Speaker 1: I'll film it on Tuesday. Then Tuesday would come and
Speaker 1: I would have to do an interview and then go
Speaker 1: to the studio and dance. So I'd be like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll just I don't know, I'll do it tonight. And
Speaker 1: then i'd get back tonight and I eat dinner and
Speaker 1: I'd just forget. And so then Wednesday would come, and
Speaker 1: there would literally be some Wednesdays at eleven o'clock at
Speaker 1: night where I would just like the crap, I haven't
Speaker 1: done it yet. And I used to do what it's
Speaker 1: called JoJo's Juice live, and I just pop a live
Speaker 1: stream on YouTube and I would do it live and
Speaker 1: then like we just ended it. Jus was very stressful,
Speaker 1: but I loved it, you know, when it was in
Speaker 1: its prime, it was the best thing ever. Amanda just SPA.
Speaker 1: How old were you when you realized you were gay?
Speaker 1: Wish I would have figured it out sooner. I think
Speaker 1: I realized I was gay. I don't think I let
Speaker 1: myself realize it until I was seventeen, and because I
Speaker 1: kind of had a crush on this friend of mine
Speaker 1: before I got to see her again, and so like,
Speaker 1: I kind of knew because I was kind of jealous
Speaker 1: of her with other girls, but I didn't really know.
Speaker 1: But now looking back, I knew. But I mean officially
Speaker 1: when I was seventeen, but unofficially, I mean the signs
Speaker 1: were there when I was twelve eleven. Now knowing what
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know. I feel like everyone kind
Speaker 1: of figures out when they're gey at their own on
Speaker 1: their own timeline. But I think everyone always knows. I
Speaker 1: think it's just when you allow yourself to believe it,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be different for everybody. Unity Goal twenty four.
Speaker 1: Sticking on the gay subject, why are you gay? Fox?
Speaker 1: Squirrels are great? Man? I don't know. Anti underscore, social underscore, Goose.
Speaker 1: Do you regret being filmed from such a young age?
Speaker 1: This is something that I don't there There is no
Speaker 1: regret for me. I feel like it was what I
Speaker 1: always wanted. I always can remember being happy. I do
Speaker 1: see some kids and I'm like, you are not made
Speaker 1: for it, you know what I mean, Like you are
Speaker 1: not able to handle the stress and the pressure and
Speaker 1: the public life of what comes with working in the
Speaker 1: industry and being on camera. But I know that at
Speaker 1: the time I was. And so I think a lot
Speaker 1: of child stars, you know, have resentment to their parents
Speaker 1: because you know, parents should not put the kids in
Speaker 1: the industry. But I truly believe that, like I was
Speaker 1: meant for it. And I look back at me and
Speaker 1: I like, if I if I was, My mom asked me,
Speaker 1: She was like, if you were to raise your kid, like,
Speaker 1: what would like if you would raise you as a kid,
Speaker 1: what would you do? And I was like I would.
Speaker 1: I would be like like go keep going, like I
Speaker 1: would do the exact same thing. And so I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. I don't really regret it.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything besides it, so I can't really
Speaker 1: say fully. I mean, I only had eight years of
Speaker 1: life before my life was public. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't regret it at all.
Speaker 1: Becky underscore Roberts. How do you handle hate and speculation
Speaker 1: and gossip and drama and how do you stay happy?
Speaker 1: This question is is brutal. Hate and gossip and speculation
Speaker 1: and drama are some of the hardest things to deal
Speaker 1: with the things that I always try to remember is
Speaker 1: that hate all it is is speculation, gossip, and draw
Speaker 1: And you said those in your question, which is why
Speaker 1: I use those three words. Hate is not I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of this is gonna sound messed up or not,
Speaker 1: and I don't really know. Hate is not real. Hate
Speaker 1: and bullying is something that people do to think they're funny,
Speaker 1: think they're cool it. I do think there are some
Speaker 1: people out there maybe who do have bad intention, but
Speaker 1: I think most people in this world try to have
Speaker 1: a pure heart. And I think people bully, hate, make
Speaker 1: fun of cause gossip, the drama, bullying because because they
Speaker 1: think it's entertaining or fun or funny or cool. The
Speaker 1: reality is it's not. It's just an easy way to
Speaker 1: try to be cool, which is which is sad. And
Speaker 1: I think that is really changing nowadays, which I think
Speaker 1: is really special. I'm really cool that especially like the
Speaker 1: next generation is going to get to experience that for
Speaker 1: me to the people around me really are who and
Speaker 1: what keeps me happy. Normally for about three weeks I
Speaker 1: fixate on something. So currently I'm in the drumming phase
Speaker 1: where I'm drumming all the time. Working out really helps me,
Speaker 1: dance really helps me. In our skydiving really helps me
Speaker 1: stay happy. But yeah, the hating, speculation and gossip and
Speaker 1: drama part of that, It really just is like, just
Speaker 1: know that, like Susie hidden behind her phone making that comment,
Speaker 1: really doesn't affect you. If you are proud of what
Speaker 1: you're doing and you are happy, it is your life
Speaker 1: and that is that is the only freaking thing that matters.
Speaker 1: Oreganook said genuine question, how is your hair doing after
Speaker 1: all that damage? Honestly, it's doing great. This is a
Speaker 1: question that I was like, I gotta answer this because
Speaker 1: I'm really stoked about my hair journey. I had to
Speaker 1: stress for ash when I was little from dance moms
Speaker 1: that I picked at, So I killed all those hair follicles. Luckily,
Speaker 1: it's only on a small chunk of my head on
Speaker 1: the left side of my head, but that's the only
Speaker 1: place on my hair is damaged. Everywhere else is pretty solid,
Speaker 1: mentally underscore dot drained, Same girl. What's your favorite dance
Speaker 1: you've done with XFG so far? My favorite number that
Speaker 1: I've choreographed for them is either their new song on
Speaker 1: their Christmas album, Essay NTA, which is the cutest song ever,
Speaker 1: and also their dance to their song Party Like a
Speaker 1: Pop Star. I love both of those. I was just
Speaker 1: watching them do Merrawground Yesterday and Candy Hearts though, I
Speaker 1: was like, dang, those are good, Like I really like
Speaker 1: those two. I really, I really mess with those, like
Speaker 1: I really vibe with those. But something about this Santa
Speaker 1: one Essay s A NTA. It's so cute. There's this
Speaker 1: one part where they go, oh, and they do this
Speaker 1: little like kick and like little Sparker hands, and it's just, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's probably one of my favorites. Jody Godfrey, any regrets
Speaker 1: from your coming out story. Honestly, no, I don't think
Speaker 1: I really have any. I wish I would have posted
Speaker 1: on my instag feed inside of my Instagram story, but
Speaker 1: that's I mean, it's practically irrelevant, like literally doesn't matter
Speaker 1: at all. East dot m zero. How hard is it
Speaker 1: getting into a relationship while being in the public eye.
Speaker 1: It is practically impossible. I'm very proud because nobody knows
Speaker 1: the people that I've talked to on a relationship level
Speaker 1: this year. Obviously I haven't dated anybody this year, but
Speaker 1: I have. You know, I'm twenty nineteen, I'm twenty this year.
Speaker 1: I touch you chat around, and I'm very grateful that
Speaker 1: no one knows because in the past, everyone's been able
Speaker 1: to know prior to twenty twenty three, they've figured it
Speaker 1: out before I even figured it out. But this year
Speaker 1: it's really been under wraps. And I'm really proud of
Speaker 1: that because that was something that I said I was
Speaker 1: gonna do. I was gonna keep my relationships more pop
Speaker 1: private because you know, I have been in a few
Speaker 1: very very very public relationships, and my two relationships that
Speaker 1: were public taught me a lot about relationships in the
Speaker 1: public eye. They taught me that it's not just me.
Speaker 1: They taught me that it's me and a person. And
Speaker 1: I think with my first relationship, it taught me, you know,
Speaker 1: that it's me and a person who has very pure
Speaker 1: intention with me, but is it didn't doesn't have this
Speaker 1: public lifestyle that I have, and so that taught me that, look,
Speaker 1: this is my life not hers. And then I think
Speaker 1: my second relationship taught me that maybe this relationship isn't
Speaker 1: with the purest intention, and maybe they're longing for this
Speaker 1: public lifestyle and that once I realized that that kind
Speaker 1: of got to me too. So now I try to
Speaker 1: keep my talking to is my relationships far far away
Speaker 1: from the Internet. I don't do that good of a job,
Speaker 1: like it's not that hard to figure out if you
Speaker 1: really wanted to. But I'm better about it, and I
Speaker 1: think now when I do get into my next serious relationship,
Speaker 1: you know, that could be tomorrow or it could be
Speaker 1: in twenty years from now, I think I will play
Speaker 1: it by ear because I really do think that it
Speaker 1: just depends on the person, It depends on the situation, circumstance,
Speaker 1: it depends on everything. And I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: firm believer, and everything happens, and you know, if it's
Speaker 1: if it's meant to be, it'll be in. If it's not, sure's,
Speaker 1: sure's heck won't Caitlin down Ashley underscore what's it like
Speaker 1: being a brand? Do you still have to uphold a
Speaker 1: certain esthetic for marketing? So this is something that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So my life I have been a brand. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been Jojo sewer products, There's been Jojosua movies, Jojasy
Speaker 1: with TV shows, Jersey with videos, Jersey with songs, and
Speaker 1: and it's it's become a brand and versus just human.
Speaker 1: And what's crazy to me is I've done something that
Speaker 1: people haven't done yet, which is take a real human
Speaker 1: and make a brand out of it. Nothing I ever did.
Speaker 1: I'm looking around in my room right now because I
Speaker 1: have all the Jojo products in here. Nothing I ever
Speaker 1: did was fake. Nothing I ever did was ingenuine, even
Speaker 1: even down to having my dog Bobo, Like that really
Speaker 1: was my dog. I really had a dog named Bobo.
Speaker 1: We really signed Bobo to Nickelodeon as well. Like it
Speaker 1: all was so real and every every bit of it.
Speaker 1: I said on my very first podcast, the only lie
Speaker 1: I ever told was that I don't that I liked candy.
Speaker 1: I really don't like candy. But everything was real, like
Speaker 1: the unicorns and rainbows, the sparkles, the all the color.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it all was who I was. All
Speaker 1: the videos were who I was, All the songs were
Speaker 1: who I was. They all came from my heart, and
Speaker 1: I you know, it was luckily enough to be able
Speaker 1: to write all my own music and come up with
Speaker 1: my own music video creative and everybody just went with it.
Speaker 1: And there was a few times where people would try
Speaker 1: to take my brand in a different direction on the
Speaker 1: corporate side, and I would slow to the brakes and
Speaker 1: I would be like, hey, look, you can do this,
Speaker 1: but if you do this, I'm out. And I will
Speaker 1: say publicly that I'm out, and I will say that
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with this and that you
Speaker 1: just took my image and ran with it. And when
Speaker 1: I would say that, I'd be like, okay, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: like what are we doing your own? Then I'd be
Speaker 1: like it was One time was when a doll had
Speaker 1: piggy buns and versus the side ponytail bone, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I've never worn piggy buns in my life
Speaker 1: at this point and goes like fifteen or sixteen. I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't wear piggy buns. That's not a
Speaker 1: Jojo doll. You can sell that doll, but you can't
Speaker 1: sell that as a Jojo doll because that's not Jojo.
Speaker 1: And everyone was like, no, it's like a character version
Speaker 1: of Jojo. And I was like, no, that's the thing is,
Speaker 1: there's not there's no such thing as a character Jojo,
Speaker 1: and they were like, well, what do you mean? And
Speaker 1: I was like it was a learning curve for everybody because,
Speaker 1: you know, being signed to Nickelodeon, they knew SpongeBob and
Speaker 1: pap Patrol, where it was a character. You know, you
Speaker 1: could put Paw Patrol, and you can put Chase, who's
Speaker 1: wearing a cop outfit. Typically, you could put him in anything,
Speaker 1: and it's Rab Patrol. It doesn't matter, right, it's an
Speaker 1: animated character. But for me, it was a human, and
Speaker 1: I was a human that was a brand for the
Speaker 1: first time, and so there was that disconnect of you know,
Speaker 1: you can't just do anything. I remember too, when I
Speaker 1: went to go film my movie The J Team, someone
Speaker 1: told me there was this big drama which maybe I'll
Speaker 1: get into one day. We can do a whole podcast
Speaker 1: dedicated to the J Team and all of that. There
Speaker 1: was this drama this right before we started filming, where
Speaker 1: I was getting told what my wardrobe was and what
Speaker 1: my hair and makeup was gonna look like. And I
Speaker 1: was like, absolutely not. And everyone was like, well, what
Speaker 1: do you mean, Like you're an actor in a movie,
Speaker 1: you don't get to say like, no, this is what
Speaker 1: the director wants. And I I remember being like, but
Speaker 1: this this isn't just a movie. This is the Ja team.
Speaker 1: I'm being Jojo Seaway. I'm playing myself. Like, yes, there's
Speaker 1: a script and there's a director, and there's other casts
Speaker 1: that are my friends in the movie that aren't my
Speaker 1: friends in real life, although they became my best friends.
Speaker 1: Like I try. It took a second for everyone to
Speaker 1: kind of wrap their head around, wait, this is not
Speaker 1: a character. She is being herself, but there is a
Speaker 1: script to how does this work? And I was like,
Speaker 1: the script is based off of me. It's things I
Speaker 1: would really say. You know, I had meetings with the
Speaker 1: writer to help and this probably was pretty sassy with
Speaker 1: me at the time. I was almost eighteen. I was seventeen.
Speaker 1: I was old seventeen. Then I told them, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: then you can cast somebody to play Josia because Jojo
Speaker 1: Sia doesn't play Jojo Sia. Josi Way is Jojo Siwa.
Speaker 1: And they were like oh, and I was like, there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as a character Jojo Jojo. This is Jojo.
Speaker 1: We were a cide ponytail and bo, we're a bright colors.
Speaker 1: This is what it is. And it was I mean,
Speaker 1: it was small details of they didn't want me to
Speaker 1: wear Jojo Bo's and I was like, I've warned Jojo
Speaker 1: Bos the last nine years of my life. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do the j team where I'm playing Jojo see one,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna We're not gonna wear Jojo Bo's. Like
Speaker 1: what sense does that make? Guys? And so once I
Speaker 1: really got everyone's head wrapped around it, it just was new
Speaker 1: and no one had done it. But sometimes, unfortunately, what
Speaker 1: I've learned in the industry is you have to get
Speaker 1: aggressive and you have to get stern, and you have
Speaker 1: to stand your ground otherwise no one, no one cares,
Speaker 1: and no one listens, and it's it's something that we
Speaker 1: all do. And then after the fact you have that
Speaker 1: awkward leg Yeah, you know, we're good, We're cool. And
Speaker 1: it's happened to me where people have gotten aggressive with
Speaker 1: me to do the right thing, where people you know,
Speaker 1: we'll threaten things, and well, if you're not gonna do that,
Speaker 1: then final do it. All right, you know, we're cool,
Speaker 1: don't worry. I understand, Like you've just had to do
Speaker 1: that to get your point across, like it's it happens
Speaker 1: all the time, saman I thought on his score under school,
Speaker 1: would you date someone that is not famous? One hundred percent?
Speaker 1: I've dated somebody that is famous, and I've dated somebody
Speaker 1: that isn't famous. My two main relationships have been one
Speaker 1: in the industry one and the not. And uh, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have a preference. I think just
Speaker 1: your human as your human. Madeline thirteen, Why are you
Speaker 1: pretending that Sandoval isn't a roach? Because he's not. Sandoval
Speaker 1: is a human. Tom Sandoval is definitely. I don't think
Speaker 1: calling any human a roach is a good approach. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you can have your opinions on people, for sure, but
Speaker 1: I don't think we should call people roaches. I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty embarrassing. Think about me, is I met Tom
Speaker 1: in a very vulnerable state. I met Tom on Special
Speaker 1: Forces where we're all away from our families. I didn't
Speaker 1: know who he was. I never watched vander Pump. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what went on. I didn't know who Raquel
Speaker 1: was or Rachel or Arianna or I didn't even know
Speaker 1: there was another Tom. I didn't even know that was
Speaker 1: a thing. And then I found out there was a
Speaker 1: bar that Tom owned called Tom Tom, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, funny like Jojo, like he made Tom Tom.
Speaker 1: And then I realized it was another Tom Like I
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know anything about it, and I
Speaker 1: I hate it when people do that about things. But
Speaker 1: I genuinely didn't know anything about it. And so to
Speaker 1: be able to help Tom see a perspective of like, look, dude,
Speaker 1: not everyone in the world knows what's going on in
Speaker 1: your life. And he was like no, like you don't understand,
Speaker 1: Like you open Instagram and like it's right there, and
Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, that's because it's your Instagram.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's seven billion people in this world.
Speaker 1: All seven billion don't know what's going on on vander Pump.
Speaker 1: I promise now. I don't condone cheating at all. I
Speaker 1: am a very, very very loyal person. I would never
Speaker 1: and if any of my partners ever did, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's that's that's what you get. No shot, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, you get, you get, you get no chances,
Speaker 1: Like if that everyone was happening to me, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you next, and that's just something I
Speaker 1: would never do. It's not who I am, so I
Speaker 1: don't condone cheating. I do think Tom got put in
Speaker 1: a situation where his worst mistake got exded online. And
Speaker 1: do I think he handled it the best that he
Speaker 1: possibly could have? No, but it's again something you learn of.
Speaker 1: And there's not a book on how to deal with something.
Speaker 1: There's not a book on how to do life right.
Speaker 1: There's not, there's not, and this is all our first life.
Speaker 1: So I think thing to wrap it up, I will
Speaker 1: never ever, ever what is this question? Why are you
Speaker 1: pretending that stamp Tom Standaval isn't a roach? I will
Speaker 1: never think any human is a roach ever. I will
Speaker 1: think humans are humans, and I think that life happens.
Speaker 1: And Madeline, if I could give you any advice, go outside,
Speaker 1: go read a book, Go stop worry about Tom Standaval.
Speaker 1: And if I stop worrying about if I think Tom
Speaker 1: would stop worrying about you thinking that I'm not thinking
Speaker 1: that Tom Standerbal is a roach. I mean, come on home, girl,
Speaker 1: like you got there's way a better things to do
Speaker 1: with your time than that. I promise, would you ever
Speaker 1: date a guy? I mean, look again, I believe your
Speaker 1: person is your person. However, I've dated a man and
Speaker 1: I don't think I would ever again. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of boys i'm coming in to
Speaker 1: my life that I'm like, man, I really love and
Speaker 1: adore you, but I could never, ever, ever ever date you.
Speaker 1: I think that's why me and Tyler get along so well,
Speaker 1: because every girl in America wants to be with Tyler Cameron.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think even some gay girls would probably
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, nah, that's that's all. I'm mad. Like,
Speaker 1: if he wanted me, i'd go with him. But I
Speaker 1: look at Tay and I'm like, dude, I love you
Speaker 1: so much. The other day he was commimenting me so
Speaker 1: much on the podcast, and I was like, I'm the
Speaker 1: only girl that's gonna say this, but like, thanks, bro,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Like I don't know. I think that's why
Speaker 1: we're able to be such good friends. Those those those
Speaker 1: boys in my life are just like there might be.
Speaker 1: But I could never see myself every dating boy. I
Speaker 1: don't think never say never, but I just don't think so.
Speaker 1: The other day, I Liz has got about a funny story.
Speaker 1: I looked a mess. I mean, I I I looked
Speaker 1: like a hot mess. I had just gotten done working out,
Speaker 1: and I facetimed Nick from uh A Special Forces is
Speaker 1: Nick vile? And Nick's a Nick's also a beautiful man.
Speaker 1: He he was a bachelor bachelorette, you know what I mean. Anyways,
Speaker 1: facetimed him because it was his birthday and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at myself on the FaceTime. I'm like, I'm for sure
Speaker 1: the only girl that's ever called this man looking a
Speaker 1: wreck like this, Like you know, every girl that he's
Speaker 1: ever talked to is like ready for their FaceTime. And
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, he gets me post work out?
Speaker 1: Who runs? Oh three? Do you still talk to any
Speaker 1: of your ex'es? I do. I think a civil relationship
Speaker 1: is healthy. Obviously that gets tricky, uh when you start
Speaker 1: a new relationship. Some people don't like being friends with exes.
Speaker 1: I don't think friends is a fair word to say
Speaker 1: for me with my exes. I don't think I'm friends
Speaker 1: or could be friends with exes. I think there might
Speaker 1: actually be a question coming up about that, or maybe
Speaker 1: I just saw it and screenshot it. Somebody asked, you know,
Speaker 1: is it can you actually be friends with the next
Speaker 1: I don't think you can but I do think you
Speaker 1: can choose to be civil, and you can choose to
Speaker 1: be okay with each other and not eat each other's guts,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Lily, Underscore always Underscore comes
Speaker 1: Underscore back underscore. What's a favorite song that you made
Speaker 1: for me? Hides out, Shoes out of the Park, ah
Speaker 1: moost two songs will always be my favorites. We're almost
Speaker 1: done here. We got four more questions. Buckle up, Buckle up,
Speaker 1: Sadie underscore, How well, why did you get your teeth done? This?
Speaker 1: Actually I got my teeth done because I always say,
Speaker 1: like how baseball players by cleat singers and Bob stars
Speaker 1: by teeth? I don't know. I it was in COVID,
Speaker 1: and I was either gonna have to get brace to
Speaker 1: fix my teeth quick because viline wasn't gonna fix them
Speaker 1: as quick as they could. Braces would have been faster.
Speaker 1: So it's either gonna be brace face or which is
Speaker 1: nothing wrong. I actually think braces are really cute. I
Speaker 1: just didn't want to have to deal with like the
Speaker 1: eating of braces and the upkeep of them, or just
Speaker 1: get veneers. And I knew I was probably gonna get
Speaker 1: veneers when I was twenty twenty one, twenty two, and
Speaker 1: so I was like, yeah, whatever, we'll just get them now.
Speaker 1: So I got my veneers when I was seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 1: Well I was a baby, all right. Why did you
Speaker 1: cut your hair? Brittany Underscore Millwood wanted to know, honestly,
Speaker 1: just because I wanted to. I had always wanted to
Speaker 1: ever since I saw Miley Cyrus and I was like,
Speaker 1: now is time to shine. Let's freaking chop it. And
Speaker 1: I got the okay for my team because you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes into a big change like that.
Speaker 1: And so I got the okay and I took the
Speaker 1: scision in my head and never looked back. Keep me
Speaker 1: Underscore vandor how do you stay motivated to eat healthy
Speaker 1: and work out? This is an incredible question because it
Speaker 1: is very difficult at times. There will be times when
Speaker 1: I am feeling so good and so healthy, and there
Speaker 1: will be other times where I'm like, I just want
Speaker 1: to donut right now. That's the only thing that will
Speaker 1: make me happy, and I think something to remember, so
Speaker 1: that's okay. I've learned that sometimes you know, your mental
Speaker 1: health house come first and whatever whatever, whatever is going
Speaker 1: to make you happy. That's what you got to do
Speaker 1: to get there. I see my future. I see what
Speaker 1: I want my body to be able to do performance
Speaker 1: wise and working out, honestly, I mean, the hardest part
Speaker 1: is getting out there. But once you're once you're at
Speaker 1: the gym, or once you're in your workout off at
Speaker 1: your house like whatever it is, wherever it is. The
Speaker 1: hardest part is getting started. But once you're there, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's easy to keep going. I really do find
Speaker 1: fun in working out. I find enjoyment in getting to
Speaker 1: exude that energy. Uh, I don't know, I I thoroughly
Speaker 1: actually enjoy working out, all right. Last question, Metaline, Madeline
Speaker 1: g Stout, good Stout, Matt my dayling Scouts. Clearly, I'm
Speaker 1: never going to know how to say your name. What
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest things you took home with
Speaker 1: you from Special Forces. I thought this would be a
Speaker 1: good question to end on because it comes just with
Speaker 1: some advice, and that is that life is precious. And
Speaker 1: I think on Special Forces, all of us, all of
Speaker 1: the recruits, got to our mentally lowest point we've ever
Speaker 1: been at. You're away from everyone, you know, you're doing
Speaker 1: the hardest thing you've ever done. You're having these massive
Speaker 1: celebrations anytime you finish something, but then you have no
Speaker 1: one to celebrate it with. You become family with strangers.
Speaker 1: It is the furthest thing from your normal life than
Speaker 1: you that the day that you could imagine, but it
Speaker 1: makes you realize that your people that are valuable to you,
Speaker 1: what is valuable to you and could be things like
Speaker 1: a car, and it could be things like a hug.
Speaker 1: You know, what is valuable to you and whatever that
Speaker 1: is is okay. So I think it just brought home
Speaker 1: with me that, like, look, life is short, and it
Speaker 1: really put that into perspective, that life is short. And
Speaker 1: so I think now I've been living definitely a better life,
Speaker 1: definitely a healthier life. And I'm I'm very stoked to
Speaker 1: say that I loved being a recruit. It was very
Speaker 1: fun and also gave me, i mean, such a higher
Speaker 1: respect for our military and and and I think that
Speaker 1: people that serve our country are some of the bravest, strongest,
Speaker 1: and most respectable people out there. Just getting a taste
Speaker 1: one percent of what they do is is was actually insane.
Speaker 1: And then I love discipline, and I brought that home
Speaker 1: with me. You can always go a little bit further
Speaker 1: a warrior. A warrior doesn't get ready. A warrior stays ready.
Speaker 1: All their all their quotes that they taught me while
Speaker 1: we were there, Uh, the DS means business. And they
Speaker 1: held you accountable and they held me accountable and they
Speaker 1: don't lit you slack. And I think I've kind of
Speaker 1: kept that with me, which is something that I'm very
Speaker 1: very very proud of. And the last thing that I
Speaker 1: really do apply in everyday life is failure doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's over, and failure doesn't linger. Something about me is
Speaker 1: when I failed at something my whole life. Say you
Speaker 1: lose that a dance competition. You go back in the
Speaker 1: studio and you lost. So now your whole goal is
Speaker 1: to work to beat that loss. Right, that is your
Speaker 1: whole goal and to do better. And that's in my life.
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in the competitive dance world.
Speaker 1: But something that Special Forces taught me is you fail, Okay,
Speaker 1: you move on and you you I was always worried
Speaker 1: we were going to talk about that fail again or
Speaker 1: get punished for that fail. So say, you know I
Speaker 1: failed the backwards dive off the helicopter. There's a misserbo fail,
Speaker 1: I go up, you failed, great go in the dry tent.
Speaker 1: We never speak about it again. We never spoke about
Speaker 1: a failure after the fact. It was that moment you failed,
Speaker 1: you know, you failed where you're going to go now?
Speaker 1: And that is something to me that was like, failure
Speaker 1: doesn't linger. It happened and it's over. You can choose
Speaker 1: to let it linger, or you can choose to pick
Speaker 1: up and move on. And that was something I was
Speaker 1: always so afraid of failure, but now it's actually kind
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite things that is failing. And
Speaker 1: I know that sounds crazy, but it's like, no, if
Speaker 1: you fail, like it doesn't it doesn't matter. It really
Speaker 1: doesn't because no matter what, Dave's gonna keep going and
Speaker 1: if it lingers, that's on you to eliminate it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And so I've I've really I've
Speaker 1: become less afraid of failure. I've become kind of more
Speaker 1: interested in failure because it kind of spices it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I feel like that's a pretty
Speaker 1: pretty solid place to end this Q and a thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening. If you've been enjoying Jojsu
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Speaker 1: whole drill. You can follow me everywhere at It's Jojo Ciua.
Speaker 1: I really do love y'all, and I really do appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening, I appreciate you supporting, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate sending in your questions. That means the world to me.
Speaker 1: Keep your eye up because I'm sure we'll do another
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