WEBVTT - #147 - How Bobby Cancelled Dancing with the Stars 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:08.440 M h. I, welcome to episode of the Bobby Cast. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.119 From the hotel in Los Angeles. We are at the 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:17.600 what's the place called Millennium Built More, Millennium Builtmore. It's 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.040 in downtown Los Angeles and it's where they had a 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.119 bunch of Hollywood Week for American Idol. So there's a 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.320 theater and then there's um, the hotel. And since this 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.080 is a hotel that we were working out I'm shooting, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.400 I thought we'd stay here. UM and I don't pretty 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.720 much pays for the giving a stipend up front for 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.360 all hotel, all everything, and this place is pretty nice. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.440 And I ordered some breakfast and there was a banana 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.560 and the bananas eight dollars. I didn't know that until 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.559 they came. It says sliced fresh banana eight dollars and 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.440 it wasn't even full banana, was only a half banana. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.120 So that's a sixteen dollar banana. So I'm actually looking 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.600 at the food right now. I'm gonna order because I 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.880 want to talk about the Dancing with the Stars controversy. Um, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:03.240 there's no phone, phone, it's gonna order some food. UM. Yeah, 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.840 we'll come back to that second. UM for me. I 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.280 wanted to come on. 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Is that? 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.040 And I guess this was not news to me because 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:37.720 I already knew. And I think we're gonna title this thing, um, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.760 how Bobby canceled Dancing with the Stars or something like that, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.880 which is an overly dramatic thing because that actually had 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.960 nothing to do with it. But so the big news 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.600 came out yesterday. I think they say Dancing with the 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.560 Stars is skipping it's spring season. And then a lot 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.840 of the news out let's decided to continue the story 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.840 by going because of controversy, see'll win by Bobby Bones 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.880 and talking about how some people were upset and that's 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.400 why this show is skipping a season, which I'm mere 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.560 to tell you it isn't. And I don't know what 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:12.919 I'm supposed to know when I supposed to know it. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.480 But I'm in a weird place because I work on 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.919 the show that's on ABC in the spring now, which 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.679 is American Idol. And so even last year, Dancing with 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.120 the Stars did not do a full spring show because 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.360 of American Idol. They did a um, they did uh 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.280 an abbreviated athletes season, and I think even talking with 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.280 people on the show, and you have to also know 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.640 that I love that show. I didn't love the show 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.240 before I did it because I didn't spend enough time 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:40.760 with that I don't know, you know, I had seen 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.000 it in clips and watch parts of it. But now 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.240 after being a part of Dancing with the Stars, like, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.240 I'm such a big fan of the people there that 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:48.760 run the show and that put me on the show. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.640 So again I'm biased because I'm such a fan of 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.400 that whole organization. So no that as I'm talking about it, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.960 but you know, I am part of the ABC family 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.760 because I did idle last year. I did Miss America. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.440 They put me on Dancing with the Stars, and they 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.000 knew I was going to idle full time this year. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.400 So I'm very much part of ABC. So I've been 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.320 privy to hearing conversations about scheduling for months and months 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.720 and months. And I remember last year when I don't 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.720 came on for the first time. I believe it took 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.960 Dancing with the Stars off in the springtime, so they 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:18.800 only had a short time before they got to the 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.880 fall season. So they did the sports the athletes this year. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.840 That's basically all they're not doing is that abbreviated athletes 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.479 season and so, but the big headline is Dancing with 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.720 the Stars canceled the old show, no one will ever 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.640 dance again in America, And there's your face, yeah, and 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.520 there's my face. And so it's just people bashing me 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.760 on every website, which is fine. Listen, I got bashed 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.760 loot anyway for being on this show. But first things first, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.600 them from every indication I've had from both shows I'm 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.279 working on, and for the last months, this was already 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:56.480 happening before I finished twelve or first. Much happier that 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.400 I finished first. I'm actually in my Dancing with the 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.960 Stars robe right now. It was just returned to me 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.960 from my dressing room. Was very nice with them to 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.880 do UM. So it had nothing to do with the 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.960 controversial ending. It had everything to do with Idle coming 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.840 on in the spring. UM. I don't know if they 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.520 felt like they were able to do that the show 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.720 justice in a short period of time with the athletes, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.280 because I feel like they thought they had a great 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.760 cast and just from talking to the dancers, like I 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.080 know all of them and even the producers that they 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.120 felt like they had something really special with that Athletes show, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.479 but they did not have enough time to actually do 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.240 it justice, and then it was rushed, and I just 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.120 don't think they wanted to rush it again. And it's 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.200 exactly the same as last year except for that one 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.640 rushed season. But not if you like at the Internet. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.400 I feel like the Internet. I canceled Dancing with the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.400 Stars because I won. The shocking thing to me about 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.320 all of this with Dancing with the Stars and me 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:54.160 is a lot of times if I do something controversial ish, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.640 which at this point I'm not even controversial, there was 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.760 a time in my career where I was just piss 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.440 and bee go off because I'll be like let's just 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.240 see what happens. I don't feel the need to do 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.440 that now because I actually have things that I'm working 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.200 for instead of things I'm working against. But I did 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:18.200 nothing on this show actually create this anti Bobby because 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.080 there's a large anti Bobby crowd from Dancing with the Stars. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.599 I I mean, I did nothing except go to practice 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.720 every day, dance as hard as I could, and just 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.440 be me on that show. Like I didn't not take 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:37.080 it seriously. I think I actually embody what that show 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.880 is meant to be someone who doesn't know how to 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.640 dance and gets better as the season goes. And I 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.159 was walking on American Idol today because we're taping Hollywood Week, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.600 and people were coming up to me like feeling sorry 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.680 for me, like apologizing because they had seen the Internet, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.479 and they were like, hey, man, are you okay, Like, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.640 don't because some of those guys switched shows too. They 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.200 just went over to American Idol from Dancing with the 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.880 Stars and they were like, man, I hope you don't 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.520 see that and think that that everybody hates you. And 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.560 I was like, I didn't think that. I do now 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.960 maybe I kind of do think that a little bit um, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.160 but even the dancers. And I can tell you just 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.800 from from me with Sharna, she knew there wasn't gonna 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.640 be like everyone's known for such a long time that 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.720 it had nothing to do with me winning that show, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.120 and so I kind of just wanted to come on 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.600 and say that because people won't leave alone, like news 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.600 people are reaching out to me. Um, I get the 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.440 stray comment now like congratulations costing people their job? Like 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:35.400 what are you talking about? And secondly, um, what about 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.840 all the jobs that opened into other shows? I didn't 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:42.120 think about that. That's just logically, But no, Aman Dancing 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.600 Stars will not be on the Spring because American Idol 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.200 will be on Sundays in the Mondays in the Spring 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.200 in that spot, and so I know that because I'm 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.040 on that show too. So I think that's that part 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.600 that I just kind of wanted to address, is that 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.400 actually had nothing to do with it. I wish that 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.120 I had the kind of power that they would cancel 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.800 the show, because the whole world was so shocked that 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.080 I wanted a reality show. Yeah, for anyone to even 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.800 think this obviolutely an article at Good Housekeeping and they 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:13.080 have written so many bad articles about me, just trying 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.880 to stir stuff up, and it's been so difficult for 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.080 me to not jump back at them because they've just 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.200 written stuff that isn't true, like they've been clickbait central 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.920 and Good Housekeeping of all plays people wouldn't buy Apron there, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.920 you know, look at apple Pie by Apron. But man, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.400 they are die hard, and I'm glad they're die hard 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.920 dancing with the stars because now I am. But man, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.400 they have been on my balls all year except for 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.040 like one article. One time they were like bi bones 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.680 talk smack to Alexis Wren and other people because saying 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.439 they're not working. No, that's not what I said. All 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.880 I said was I didn't get to go to Disney 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.360 World because I had to work a job, and my 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.760 job literally would not let me go to disney World. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.319 And I would have loved to went to Disney World, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.760 but we had up be in a radio studio five six, seven, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.720 eight hours and we were traveling across the country. So 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.280 I don't know why Good Housekeeping has a beef with 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.040 This may be the wimpiest beef of all time. Bobby 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.160 von is Good Housekeeping. They went hard today. They probably 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.520 the meanest article, but it's consistent with kind of how 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.440 they've been treating me. But I'm a big boy. I 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.719 won the show. I didn't win it that everyone keeps 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:27.680 saying controversial. I won the show by the rules. I 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.800 played the game exactly as it was supposed to be played. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:36.640 There was nothing in my favorite, my my favorite um 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.600 part about it all as people that are demanding that 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.560 they change the rules. That's like someone now again not 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.280 to get political. And I made the reference before go 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.040 you know what, I didn't like an election went which 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.960 changed how that people vote. Just because it didn't end 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.600 the way you wanted to end doesn't mean to change 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.559 the rules. That's what they've been highlighting in some of 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.560 those articles like oh, and now they're looking at changing 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.000 the vote because because I want no, they're looking at 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.439 highlighting it because the person who's writing the article's favorite 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:07.080 didn't win so obviously at a bunch of votes more 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.360 than anybody else. And if you're listening to this, you 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.199 probably vote it. And I appreciate that, because man, we're 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.080 basically the same. But today has been a nutty day, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.640 a nutty day of people just beating me up for 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.600 literally trying as hard as they could at something and 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.160 that's all I have to go. I'm going to Dance 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.080 with the Stars tour. Uh tomorrow I' fly to South Carolina. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.640 I've been so sick and like I got really really 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.079 sick or um even you could tell at work, but 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.240 I just haven't been able to shake it. And I've 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.360 been able to work and do American ido what I 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.480 just cough like crazy and it's gross. But I've been 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.640 so sick that I haven't able to practice the dancing. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.480 So not only did I get the show canceled, I'm 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.680 gonna go out and bomb dances on the live show too. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.560 And I was you were with me and I was 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.439 watching tape in the car and I was like, oh 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.760 my god, I don't know I'm gonna do this. I 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.480 haven't done it. Yeah. Uh. So I got to South 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.120 Carolina and I do like three or four days, and 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.560 I'm really looking forward to seeing the people because I 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.120 loved it. I love that whole experience, and I'd be 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.040 such a good ambassador for that show and to get 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.400 people who because here's the thing to like people that 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.880 are will say celebrity ish, because listen, I'm not a celebrity, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.720 but I have some notoriety It's hard to get people 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.440 to do that show at times because they go, why 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.000 would I do Dancing with the Stars? The only really 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.520 great dancers that ever win. But I think with me 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.480 coming on and winning, it does show that you usually 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.200 go on to get better and show the people how 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.560 much you love it and how much fun you're having 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.160 and you actually have a shot at it. I'd have 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.959 been a great ambassador and I still will be for 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.520 that show. But those people, those die hard Dancing with 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.960 the Stars people maybe are the meanest people I've ever seen. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.600 And I watch a lot of troll groups and in 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.240 times there's they're trolling me in good housekeeping too, what's 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.080 the um? Let me talk about sleepbuds for a second. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.400 I'll say this, I do love these sleep buds from Bows. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.439 By the way, Mike, when a pair of bowstadphones I get, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.559 aren't those the most legit headphones ever? Sound amazing? And 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.200 I didn't pay Mike to say that, And they're the 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.439 best headphones maybe I think I've ever had, which is 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.520 why I got them. Everybody, uh, the sleep buds. 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Also 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.199 have a a little Best Buy and Amazon. I wanted to 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.600 say that about Dancing with the Stars. I haven't even 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.679 addressed it on social media. I haven't copied, retweeted. I 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.640 was just like I was talking about it on the podcast. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.839 I had nothing to do with the cancelation. I wish 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.160 that I had that kind of power that I did. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.080 I wish the show was actually coming back quicker, because 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.560 I just I would like to watch it now being outsider, like, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:23.199 I wish that they would put it on a different night. Um, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.120 but they're not. But it has nothing to do with me. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:29.199 Anyone that says otherwise and followed them don't even really 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.040 good housekeeping. I want to see what out the articles 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.319 they have, how to boil your chicken in seven different ways, 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:40.200 go to page to buy bones sucks. He's the devil. Um. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.600 But yeah, we're in a hotel uh in downtown Los Angeles. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.640 And Los Angeles is crazy for Mike and I both 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.120 because we come from very small towns, and even for me, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.280 I come out here a lot, but I never do 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.599 Los Angeles. I come out here and get in a 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.920 hotel and then go to work. So people like, go, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.959 l A. I think you know more l A than 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.600 I do it around him because you go and like 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.880 when I'm doing TV shoots and stuff, you actually gonna 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.640 explore a little bit I tried to, just because it's like, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.679 I've never thought I'd be in Los Angeles at any 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.120 point in my life, and now that I'm here, I'm like, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.319 all right, I have a little bit of time, I'll 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.040 go check it out, and I don't come if I 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.200 have extra time. Like i'm here, I started, I do 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.720 the time, and I get out of here, and so 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.160 I don't get to see any of the crazy stuff. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.800 What today? What were you like? A copee player was 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.400 at Starbucks right by the hotel, and I'm sitting there 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.800 and like, out of nowhere, I just see a car 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.880 coming down a one way the wrong way, the wrong way, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.600 and it comes up and pulls up right in front 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.640 of the Starbucks. Guy gets out of the car and 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.000 just takes off running and abandons his car. So two 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.240 things happen. One, the car is coming the wrong way, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.240 which you like, holy crabbing. The two he stops and 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.440 jumps out of his car, jumps out of his car, bolts, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.320 and then takes off running, leaves his car right there 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.760 in the middle of the road. Did you pull on 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.200 and try to get on your story? I tried to, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.080 but then everybody else got and they were blocking And 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.600 then I don't want to leave my computer back at 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.240 the table, so I got up to see what was happening. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.280 And I think he might have like hit some buddy too. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.080 He's probably drunk. Huh. Yeah, I mean you had to 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.520 be even driven the wrong way down it one way. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.520 Oh I have, Yeah, I mean I have. And it 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.560 wasn't like a super busy spot. I think I was 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.920 in outside of Dallas and I remember driving down this 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.720 road and these people were waving at me really hard, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.240 and I was like, wow, this is a real friendly town. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.080 They were like doing two hand waves. They were like dude, hello, wait, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.240 and I was like, well, hello, back too, And I 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.880 realized I was going because it was a two lane 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.360 one way and I was just in the wrong I 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.400 just drove right by them, going down the wrong way 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.280 one way, and what they're waving was hey, turned around, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.840 pay attention. I was like nineteen, I wasn't drunk, but 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.080 I was just an idiot. Um. So that happened. I 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.760 give you a little bit about um what happened. By 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.440 the way, had that end? They the cops came, They 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.280 moved the car, and then I don't think they found 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.640 the guy. They loaded someone up in the back of 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.800 like the ambulance that I think he he hit and 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.440 that was it. Yeah, he hit somebody. I didn't see 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.120 that part of it. Wow, And you didn't get any 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:57.960 that on instan story The first thing asked Mike Way 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.600 told me, did you get that in your story? Um, 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.520 We've been out here all weeks taping American Idol. I 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.240 would have been taping earlier, but it was back um 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.880 from Dancing with the Stars. They ABC was nice enough 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.800 to go, hey, just focus on dancing, and I didn't 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.000 do the auditions, which is I was supposed to. I 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.040 was supposed to do every episode. Um. So this is 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.760 the first time that I've been doing the show this season. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.800 It was Hollywood Week and I'd only ever seen Hollywood 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.240 Week on TV before, where they put everybody in the 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.400 room and then they stay up all night and they 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.200 go sing. That's you know, that's what the show kind 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.720 of looks like it is, but man, it is it's 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.080 so much like we we got here and they do 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.720 rosa tin. I think they were like almost two hundred people. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.440 They pull them out and rose a tin and you 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.320 sing and they go like four or five or six 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:43.880 and you moved to the forward and we move back 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.800 and they go back row. You're going through our front row, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.720 you're going through. And then at the end of all 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.120 of that, it's like a mad dash at the end 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.040 of the night because they've been singing for like eighteen 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.440 hours and they go, Okay, find your group. You can 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.400 be in groups of three or four or five. And 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.680 it reminds me of with me, no way everyone to 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.080 pick me as on a team. And there were some 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:03.880 kids who didn't want to get who weren't getting picked. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.240 There were some kids who had. It was wild to 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.480 watch everybody's like pick groups and they have to run 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.400 and pick songs, and all the minors like UM sixteen 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.560 and below maybe seventeen, maybe seventeenes of minor on the show. Um. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.439 They can only sing so many hours, so they have 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.879 to get in first. And they actually got decent sleep 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.600 because they can only work so many hours, so they're 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.879 all practicing their groups. UM. I think we shot for 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.000 like thirteen hours yesterday up until almost two in the morning, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.719 and so ever, it was exhausted, and then we went 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.639 back and watched them as sing in the groups. By 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.400 the way, the last four days feel like one day, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.959 one continuous day. But then they all went, they practiced 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.480 their group dances, and they were all so tired. I 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.600 watched half of them forget their words. They would get 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.560 up and they play the music. You only got one shot, 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.040 and they'd be like, all right, here we go, and 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:57.480 it's like shuga pa hunt and it's like uh, one 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.480 after the other. They would just forget their words, and 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.120 I was like, oh, they were nervous, they were tired. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.199 It was like musical boot camp. And I think for me, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.719 what they brought me in to do is actually go 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.080 in and talk to people and find the drama and 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.120 find the awesomeness and find the people's stories. And like, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.760 basically I was infiltrating what they really hadn't been able 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.480 to do with just producers. And I think it'd be 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.399 pretty cool, um, because I was with him the whole time. Like, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.080 if they were awake, I was awake. Is it? It 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.680 wasn't tough my stet that worked at the sawmill, right, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.920 but it's tough. It's tough for me. Then doing the 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.080 radio show too was tough, but it would be interesting 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.200 to see how it turns out. And Luke and Lionel 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.159 and Katie then show up and they just judge them, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.280