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By Order of the Faithfuls: The Next Pro Is… (DWTS: The Next Pro) · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another episode of By Order of
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  Speaker 1: the Faithfuls. And we have an amazing co-host today. It's
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie Sosa by Dancing with the Stars, the next pro.
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  Speaker 1: She was amazing. We loved her. Stephanie is a professional dancer, choreographer,
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  Speaker 1: and actress from Utah. She began performing at age five
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  Speaker 1: and grew up alongside her brothers who share her same
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  Speaker 1: passion for dance. Stephanie and her younger brother, Ezra... made
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  Speaker 1: history together on So You Think You Can Dance season 16,
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  Speaker 1: becoming the first brother and sister duo to reach the
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  Speaker 1: top 10. In 2024, Stephanie joined Dancing with the Stars
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  Speaker 1: season 33 as a troop member for one season in February, 2026.
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  Speaker 1: She danced alongside Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: And later that year, she appeared as a contestant on
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  Speaker 1: the spinoff series Dancing with the Stars Next Pro. Beyond dance,
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie is also an accomplished singer and a vocal advocate
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  Speaker 1: for fitness and mental wellness. She's amazing. So we'll bring
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  Speaker 1: her in now and she is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: best co-host ever. I am so excited. Hi, Stephanie.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: You're so pretty. I'm so excited. Don't tell me that.
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  Speaker 3: You're pretty.
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  Speaker 1: I love the glasses.
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  Speaker 3: They're so cute.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's because I can't see, Stephanie. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm blind, too, but I wear contacts.
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  Speaker 1: I can't put them in and out. I can't do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that you can do. Dancing is
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Thank you. I enjoyed you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You were amazing. the hard work, the dedication you've put
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  Speaker 1: in this your whole life. You've been dancing your whole
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  Speaker 1: life with your family. I was rooting for you and
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  Speaker 1: you are a winner. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That means a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. So thank you for coming on
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  Speaker 1: with me. I love that you're the co-host. I know.
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  Speaker 3: I was so excited when they sent me your Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I'm so down.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Okay. And you watched the finale.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to hear what you think. So
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  Speaker 1: the finale is taking place in front of a live
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  Speaker 1: studio audience. So I watched the whole season. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize this was the first time it was a live
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  Speaker 1: studio audience. I felt like it was live the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. We didn't have any audience. We just have the judges.
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  Speaker 4: So it's crazy. Like they actually got experience, like what
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  Speaker 4: it's like on the show when you, you know, go live.
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  Speaker 1: So, right. I don't, I don't feel like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel it would be much different in front
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  Speaker 1: of an audience? I feel like you guys never get
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  Speaker 1: nervous or frazzled or, You're to me, my whole Instagram
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  Speaker 1: is dogs, kids and dancing, dancing and professional dancing. I
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  Speaker 1: just stare at it like I want to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but I never do it. So what does it feel
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  Speaker 1: like to be on that stage? It must have been
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  Speaker 1: amazing and surreal.
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  Speaker 3: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It was definitely, for me, very nerve-wracking because it felt
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  Speaker 4: like life or death.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of was, right? Yeah, no, it literally was.
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  Speaker 4: But it was, yeah, it was amazing, especially to perform
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  Speaker 4: for the judges. But I do wish that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we had a live audience the whole time because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it would have made a difference.
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  Speaker 3: Like, just feeding off.
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  Speaker 4: Of people clapping and just, like, it would have felt
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  Speaker 4: like Dancing with the Stars, like, fully.
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  Speaker 1: So you feel, okay, so you feel that it would
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  Speaker 1: have been... better for you if there was a live
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  Speaker 1: audience yeah I wouldn't have made you more nervous no
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  Speaker 1: no I would have been excited yeah got it because
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  Speaker 1: some people it makes them more nervous.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah I I love performing live so I was
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  Speaker 4: like I would have it would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay well you've done it a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure So dancers take the stage and warm up
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  Speaker 1: the crowd before introducing Mark and Shirley Ballas, who dance
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  Speaker 1: across the stage together. I have never seen them dance together.
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  Speaker 1: Have you?
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  Speaker 3: No, my first time ever.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It was so cute, too. And of course, she looks great.
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  Speaker 3: She's so good.
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  Speaker 1: Recently on Instagram, because I doom scroll all day, I
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  Speaker 1: have to stop and break this habit up. So the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, I saw her dancing in 1991. Did you
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  Speaker 1: happen to come across that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, on like her old videos of her competing.
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  Speaker 1: Like an old video. Have you seen it?
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  Speaker 3: I've seen those videos. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have never seen that. She was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She's the queen of Latin.
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  Speaker 4: Like even if you aren't like dancing with stars fan,
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  Speaker 4: like growing up, like ballroom competitors, like you wanted to
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  Speaker 4: impress really like she was like, she's the queen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is she nice?
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  Speaker 3: I have to ask.
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  Speaker 1: Like, is she? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I've known her for a long time, too. Like, when
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  Speaker 4: I was a baby, because she, like, knew my family.
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  Speaker 1: She's always been around, right?
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  Speaker 4: She's been in the ballroom world, especially in Utah. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love her. She's very, like, professional and knows who
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  Speaker 4: she is. But that can be scary. But I think
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  Speaker 4: she's so sweet. Like, she's such a great human.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you grew up in a dancing home also. Were
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  Speaker 1: your parents dancers?
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  Speaker 3: No, they were soccer players.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. I always wondered what it was
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  Speaker 1: like to become what your parent was like Mark becoming
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  Speaker 1: what his mom was like, what was breakfast like? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're going to dance.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my dad really wanted us to be soccer players,
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  Speaker 4: but we ended up being dancers.
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  Speaker 1: Three of you have three siblings and you were all
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  Speaker 1: in the dance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's pretty amazing. I want to come over for
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  Speaker 1: dinner one day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come over. We only talk about dance. So maybe
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  Speaker 3: you coming over would be a nice break.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to get into it. So Derek Huff
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  Speaker 1: is introduced as this week's guest judge. He gives Shirley
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  Speaker 1: a spin before joining the judges. Now, when you look
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  Speaker 1: at them, do you see the difference in like that
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  Speaker 1: they're like way above everyone else? Or do you say like,
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  Speaker 1: they're just the same as every other professional dancer. I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell the difference because I'm not a professional.
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  Speaker 4: Well, growing up, I idolized like Derek, like all the pros, Julianne.
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  Speaker 4: And so I definitely like put like, I'm like, they're phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: Because for me, they were like, what I wanted to be.
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  Speaker 4: So but now being able to like work with them,
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  Speaker 4: or even just like being the same room with them.
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  Speaker 3: It's an honor.
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  Speaker 1: Like they're, I'm sure like they you looked up to them.
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  Speaker 1: And now like, Yeah. What was it like?
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  Speaker 4: We're like, we want to be the next Derek and Julianne,
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  Speaker 4: but the Latin version, we would always just joke about that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just like, you know, it's so cool to
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  Speaker 4: just be in the same room as them and be like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: we really did idolize you guys so much.
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  Speaker 1: They all seem so lovely and they really wanted, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like they wanted everyone to win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they, they want everybody to become the
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  Speaker 3: best dancer.
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  Speaker 1: They can best as they can. Yeah. Yeah. So Robert
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  Speaker 1: does his entrance next. He's so cute. He makes me
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  Speaker 1: laugh all the time. flanked by dancers as they move
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  Speaker 1: across the stage Whitney Carson is lifted on to the
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  Speaker 1: stage and it's announced that she'll be Robert's co-host tonight
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  Speaker 1: they dance together they're like very close.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah because they won last season so right they're
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  Speaker 4: they're honestly to me it's like so cute like sibling
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  Speaker 4: like they're siblings.
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  Speaker 1: I see that they're they're still really close I think
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  Speaker 1: that you form a relationship when you go through something
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  Speaker 1: like this together that lasts like You know, it's got
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  Speaker 1: to be different to be able to win something and
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  Speaker 1: for her to be with it. I just love seeing
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  Speaker 1: them together again because I did watch last season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be watching Sierra this season. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: see her. You are?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're amazing. I'll be there watching.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you will? Okay, we'll have to make sure it's
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  Speaker 1: on the right time. Are you going to be there
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  Speaker 1: the whole time?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to try to because, you know, Ezra's on
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  Speaker 4: the show. So I was like, I need to be
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  Speaker 4: a good sister and support him in every episode. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to try to go to every episode.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. So finally, the three remaining contestants
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  Speaker 1: take the stage. Selena, Adele, and AJ are all introduced
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  Speaker 1: and they join the big group number. Robert tells the
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  Speaker 1: dancers that they will be performing two dances tonight. For
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  Speaker 1: the first round, they will be able to choose any
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  Speaker 1: ballroom Latin style to perform tonight. And for the second round,
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  Speaker 1: they'll perform a freestyle just like they'll do on Dancing
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  Speaker 1: with the Stars.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think they made the right choices all
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  Speaker 1: for each one of them?
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like as a dancer, your strategy is to
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  Speaker 4: showcase what you're best at.
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  Speaker 1: Your best.
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  Speaker 4: So I think Selena did great by choosing contemporary because
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  Speaker 4: that's her bag. And then the other two, they're more
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  Speaker 4: ballroom trained. So I like that they were able to
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  Speaker 4: create numbers that had mixed styles. But I definitely feel
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  Speaker 4: like they chose correctly because I don't see them doing
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  Speaker 4: any other freestyle.
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  Speaker 3: They nailed it. They all nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: It's so....
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  Speaker 1: Hard to judge and it's down to the wires so
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  Speaker 1: robert tells the contestants that they'll be paired with celebrities
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  Speaker 1: who were able to reach or win dancing with the
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  Speaker 1: stars finale selena's paired with the olympic figure skater and
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  Speaker 1: champion of the 2018 athlete season adam ripon he's so nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he's so cutie too like he just seems like
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  Speaker 4: a ball like it's so cute.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this is honestly the most stressful because
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  Speaker 1: if you get paired with someone that you really don't
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  Speaker 1: have that chemistry with, it could be really, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like by now the judges were pretty sure who they
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  Speaker 1: thought was going to win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But anything can happen. Anything can change. And it was,
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard that you have a partner you didn't
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  Speaker 1: pick that's going to kind of make.
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  Speaker 3: Determine your fate.
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  Speaker 1: Determine your fate. So Adele's paired with 2020 finalist and
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  Speaker 1: co-host of Catfish. AJ's paired with the 2022 Dancing with
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  Speaker 1: the Stars champion and social media influencer. Charlie D'Amelio who
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  Speaker 1: we all know is an amazing dancer TikTok queen she's
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  Speaker 1: a TikTok queen she's been dancing her whole life I
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  Speaker 1: know she was she danced when she was younger.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah competitive like jazz contemporary dancer so yeah she's phenomenal
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  Speaker 4: And she nailed it on Dancing with the Stars with Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Like that pairing was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: The thing with this is, which made me nervous for Adele,
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  Speaker 1: even though they've been calling her the Rolls Royce, they've
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  Speaker 1: been kind of setting her up to win. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like when he got there and he was at, like
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  Speaker 1: he had jet lag and he was tight. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, she got like a kind of a dud.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like he was the least trained dancer of
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  Speaker 1: the three. And I wondered if they gave her that
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  Speaker 1: to make it harder for, or that she could handle
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  Speaker 1: it better. I don't know why or who they picked
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  Speaker 1: to go with who, but it worked out for her
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  Speaker 1: in the end. He really came through. No.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And Adele is such a great teacher. She knows
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  Speaker 4: her materials. So if anyone were to be able to
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  Speaker 4: figure it out and like have like some sort of obstacle,
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  Speaker 4: it'd be Adele for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So, well, the fact that they only had three days
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  Speaker 1: to make this work.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And two dances. And two dances. So he definitely nailed
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  Speaker 1: the second one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But he came through. I wasn't sure. So Selena chose
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  Speaker 1: to perform the jive for the first round. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: my least favorite of all of them. Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it worked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She, I think she did phenomenal. Like the jive was
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  Speaker 3: so entertaining.
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  Speaker 4: Like she has that performance that like, you can't keep
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  Speaker 4: your eyes off of her.
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  Speaker 1: I love her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I, yeah, it would have been super cool to
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  Speaker 4: see her do maybe like another, another sort of Latin style,
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  Speaker 4: but she nailed it.
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  Speaker 3: She nailed that jive, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That it wasn't that it wasn't the greatest dance. I
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  Speaker 1: don't love the jive. So that's how I, that's how
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  Speaker 1: I say, but she, she was a very nice teacher.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like when I saw Adele teaching her, until
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  Speaker 1: now she was nice to Neve, but in the past,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that she was a little hard on when,
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  Speaker 1: on the, you know, her partner, when she was teaching,
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  Speaker 1: when they had the people that had no idea, did
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  Speaker 1: you watch that episode?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's, it's more of like a, I think
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  Speaker 4: switching from that ballroom world into like the commercial TV
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  Speaker 4: world is so different. And so I feel like she
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  Speaker 4: did a really good way of like navigating that. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: at first it's, you know, we're not used to seeing
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  Speaker 4: those type of strict teachers anymore, dancing with stars. So,
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  Speaker 4: but I think that she's, you know, finding it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: cause you're also dealing with someone that's done this for
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  Speaker 4: the first time and they want to have fun in
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  Speaker 4: a good experience. So it's like finding that balance, but I'm,
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  Speaker 4: I'm positive, like she'll find it. And, but at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, her results, they look phenomenal. So
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  Speaker 4: just find the process to, you know, becoming a pro
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  Speaker 4: is hard too, because you learn so.
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  Speaker 3: Much while even on the job.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm excited to also see her just you know,
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  Speaker 4: keep growing and seeing like how amazing of a pro
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  Speaker 4: she can become.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's amazing. I don't know. I think she
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  Speaker 1: has a really big future. She's only 20 years old. Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, yeah, she's, she is young, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She's a star. She is. She's a star. And to
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  Speaker 1: think of the struggles that she had when she was younger,
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  Speaker 1: all their stories, all of your stories are, are unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: but during practice, Adam is very receptive to Selena's feedback,
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  Speaker 1: but she makes sure to include affirmations as well. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I, if somebody was teaching me, they'd have to,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise I go downhill real quick, Stephanie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And also everyone's learning styles are different. So when
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  Speaker 4: you're given like a celebrity, you kind of have to
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  Speaker 4: navigate their personality, see what they like, see if they
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  Speaker 4: love tough critiques, see if they like.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, really like we're encouraging like courage.
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  Speaker 1: You have to as a teacher, you do. You have
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how that person you're teaching learns. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Even when I was like doing, you know, the next
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  Speaker 4: pro and I was working with Tristan, like teaching him
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  Speaker 4: choreography and everything. I was trying to see what his
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  Speaker 4: learning style was. So even as a pro, you're constantly
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  Speaker 4: having to like navigate and switch things up so that
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  Speaker 4: your celebrity becomes the best they can be because every
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  Speaker 4: person is different.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So Adele is 24, still very young.
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  Speaker 3: She's very young.
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  Speaker 1: So they perform their jive Candyman by Christina Aguilera. I
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  Speaker 1: love Christina Aguilera. Mark calls Selena an electric dancer and performer,
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  Speaker 1: but he reminds her that the jive is meant to incline.
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  Speaker 1: Now explain to someone like me what that means.
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  Speaker 4: So the jive inclining, meaning the energy is supposed to
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  Speaker 4: like pick up. So the whole time it needs to
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  Speaker 4: be elevating instead of it being like one energy, like
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  Speaker 4: it needs to build. And it could be like a
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  Speaker 4: slip action and jive, which is very much like it
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  Speaker 4: looks like you're bouncing the whole time with a ball
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  Speaker 4: of energy, but it's actually like a technique that you learn.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think that was just missing like that,
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  Speaker 4: like incline. But it was very entertaining regardless.
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  Speaker 3: And she's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: So she is. So Shirley applauds Selena for taking every
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  Speaker 1: piece of constructive criticism they've given her and gives her
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  Speaker 1: the nickname Miss Wow. I liked when she gave her
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  Speaker 1: that they're like, well, there wasn't that wow moment and
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  Speaker 1: I needed another wow moment or we had one, but
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  Speaker 1: we could have had to, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of what the judges, I feel this
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: season we're looking for. Yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: She definitely someone that can just like, she wows you
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: the whole time. Like I can't, I can't get my
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: eyes off her when I dance. So, I mean, when
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: she's dancing, so I'm like, yeah, she's Miss.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Wow for sure. And she can do all these like
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: cool tricks and, She's, she's a commercial dancer.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: So like when you're a commercial dancer, you know what
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: looks good on camera. You know how to wow an
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: audience because that's a lot of your job is because
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: you know you're dancing on TV or on stage live.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: So she's very good at that because she grew up
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: training like, like in that way too.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: So yeah, she's Miss Wow for sure.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that, yeah, they gave her, they gave
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: her great reviews and I feel like it was good.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: She needed to hear that.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Competition is so hard right now. I'm sure they're all
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: looking at each other like, oh, that was better than me.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Is that how it feels when you're sitting on that
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: couch and you're watching it on the screen? You're like, oh, God.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Do you want to go first or last? I want
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: First because you set the standard perfectly. I don't know.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: I love just going first, getting out of the way
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: and then being able to enjoy everybody else perform because
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: like the nerves having to sit there and like watch
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: everyone go. It's like you're so supportive at the same time.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: You're like going through your moves in your head. It's
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: very stressful sometimes.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I can imagine. And yeah. So AJ and Charlie round one.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: AJ chose the Viennese waltz for this round. When Charlie
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: performed this style on Dancing with the Stars, she received
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: a perfect score of 40. They performed the Ebeneez Waltz
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: to the Golden Hour by Jake. And Mark calls it
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: a solid performance. I thought it was amazing. What did
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: you think of it?
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: It was very beautiful. I mean, Charlie's also phenomenal, too.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: So I think AJ lucked out on a very good.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Partner as well. It was a very good piece.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: He's a strict teacher, too. Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: So Shirley compliments AJ's technicality, but she wonders if he
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: got the most out of Charlie and her abilities. I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: agreed with her.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Did you agree with that?
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just because it is Charlie D'Amelio and just being
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: able to see what she did with Mark on her
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: season of Dancing with Stars. She's capable of so much,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: especially with her dance background. But it was a phenomenal piece.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it would have been nice to see like
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: some more wow moments, I'd say, or just something that
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: really elevated who she was.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I have a question. So you've probably never stopped dancing,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: but the, you know, I don't think the people coming
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: back dance every day. I don't know that that's something
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they do all the time. And you have to wonder, like,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: she's coming back after a year. Has she been dancing
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: every day? Has she been on TikTok every day? Like,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I know the extent of the way
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the professional dancers, the way you practice all day, nine
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: hours at a time, like you never stop. So I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: feel like maybe they were a little rusty. I felt
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like she was kind of a little stiff. I don't know.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It could be me because I can't even get up
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: No, I feel like she did a great job, especially
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: it's hard because it's a standard dance. So you kind
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: of have to be in frame the whole time and
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you kind of have to like, you know, navigate that
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: and make it exciting. You know, standard, you have to
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: stay closed frame. But I think she did a great job.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: And yeah, it's kind of hard to just put your
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: ballroom shoes back on after so many times, like so
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: much time. Right, that's what I'm, Even if you are
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: dancing like 10 hours a day, going back in a
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: ballroom is like a whole other world. And being in
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: the heels again for four hours, five hours a day
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: is a lot on the body. So yeah, having those
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: celebrities jump in that week in three days was crazy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: But they did amazing.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: They did amazing. And I told you, Neve surprised me.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So Adele and Neve. chose the samba for this round.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: That's her dance, isn't it?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: She loves it. She loves it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: She looks great doing, she looks very sexy doing samba.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely like Adele is samba.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Like that's her dance. When Neva arrives to practice, he
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: brings Adele a bouquet of flowers and never, he said
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: he never did the samba. I think the flowers were
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to cushion the blow of telling her he's never did
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the samba before. So this is a particularly difficult task
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: for Adele. Neve is jet lagged. So Adele stops practice
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: early so he can get some rest. I was like,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I honestly thought she was going to implode. She's like,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: we're going to give him a rest.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I will say Samba is the hardest dance to learn
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: slash teach someone that's never done Samba. It's like the
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: heart for me, it's the hardest of the five Latin dances.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Cause that, that dance is very difficult to do. Cause
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: there's like a bounce action. There's a bounce action. That's
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: like really difficult to teach and it's very rhythmical. So
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: if you're, if you're not a dancer, if you're not
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: a rhythmical person and you, even if you don't have
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: any rhythm, it is so hard, but, uh, And so
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I was very shocked that she chose Samba, but it
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: looked great. So I was like, yeah, I would be
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: nervous teaching someone Samba for the first time, like for
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: my finale dance.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I know. They didn't make it easy for her, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: feel like.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: No, but she did it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: So they do it. They pull it off. They receive
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a standing ovation from the judges. I always look to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: see if they're going to get up after a dance.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, very telling.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is very telling. Derek calls this Neve's redemption.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: He says he would like to see more creativity in
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the choreography, but the quality was there. Yeah. I mean,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Adele's quality. Would you agree with that?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Adele's quality is just out of this world. Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: And then just, I think, again, just having to navigate,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: you know, how you choreograph outside of TV film and
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: like there's no camera is very different than choreographing for camera.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: But I feel like she'll be able to learn that
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: along the way. And it's just a skill you have
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: to develop. So doing, doing next pro for her was
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: perfect because now she's learning that. And now that she's
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: a pro that she's going to continue to learn that
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: and like grow.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: So I'm excited.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Cause right now they go, how long ago was this filmed?
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Um, we filmed in February. So, or March, February time.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: So it's been a couple months.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's been a couple months. And so it just ended, um,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: And so they just when was the finale like in
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: real time?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I think it was March, like like August. And I
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: was like March, end of March, March 30th.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: OK, so now she's getting ready and now she's going
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to do this season. So there wasn't a lot of
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: time off. I don't think Adele's ever taken any time
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: off to tell you.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, she's always dancing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. So so they call her the. The
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Cobra Queen. She struck again tonight and he starts crumping
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to explain what he wanted to see in their dance.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And Shirley says Adele's musicality is second to none. What
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: does musicality mean in this?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Musicality means being able to accentuate the rhythms and like
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: the beats in a song. So if you're able to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: watch a routine and you really hear the music, then
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: they're using the musicality correctly. Because the whole point of
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: choreographing to music is to really show the beats of
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the song. So like you'll hear them exactly hit, you know,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: choreography that like matches it and it brings the song
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: to life.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: So she has really good musicality. She's able to bring
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: that to life.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Robert sits down with the dancers and I really like
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: this because it showed Adele's the first time I saw
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: her vulnerability.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Selena came on the show to inspire girls that look
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like her and prove that this dream is possible. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: she did just that.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I really agree. Adele gets emotional telling Robert that when
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: she was 13, she had scoliosis and she had to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: wear a brace 20 hours out of the day. And
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: if she didn't, she wouldn't be able to dance again.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Having said that, the four hours that it was off,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: she would dance the whole time.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that made me cry listening to that because I
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: know what that's like to have dance be like your
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: everything or your way out of whatever situation you're in.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: So I just I saw a different side to Adele.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: And I'm just so happy that she's had the success
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: because she really she really worked hard for it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: She really did. And, you know, she doesn't get emotional
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: even when she won. Like, we'll get to that. But
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see her break. And I think by
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: now they're so tired physically. And I mean, I think
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you guys were tired like six episodes ago.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, we were.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It takes such a toll. And emotionally too. So AJ
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: says his family couldn't afford to fund dancing, but he
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: did mention that there was a wealthy woman that ended
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: up funding him so that he could do this. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the last conversation he had with her was take every opportunity.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: So I felt like, oh, there was just somebody that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in his life that gave him a chance that he
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have normally had. There's so much talent out there.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I've seen it so much, but they don't get that
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: one person that steps up to the plate and says,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: let me help you. And it was really like, I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: thought to myself, wow, look at where you are now,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: just because one person helped you. And he appreciates her,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you could tell. Selena and AJ round two. Selena calls
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: their freestyle a gritty contemporary fusion. During practice, Adam applauded
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Selena for how she handled the stress. He already sees
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: her as one of the pros. I love their chemistry.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were very fun to watch. Very cute together.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And this, I thought that this routine, this dance was amazing.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And I love, of course, this. Justin Timberlake yeah.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: That when I heard that song come on I was
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: like oh.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: That's a good freestyle song and here we get our
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: our standing ovation from the judges which I wanted them
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I was waiting during the the dance I'm like please
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: give them a standing ovation they're so good yeah so Mark.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Quotes Hamilton when praising Selena saying let's get this girl
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: in front of a crowd yeah Shirley's in awe. She says,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: if this was performed on Dancing with the Stars finale,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it would be considered one of the best. Derek said
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: she'd been an instant fan favorite if she were to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: join Dancing with the Stars tomorrow. I believe that. She
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: has such a warm heart. And she's so humble. And
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I just, I love the way she interacts with everybody. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And she dances amazing, too.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: She is so amazing. So I really hope to see
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: her in the future. You know, timing is everything. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see her. I feel like just making
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it as far as all of you guys have, you won.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Timing is everything on the show, too. So I feel
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: like when it's a line for her, it's going to
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: be she's going to be in such a great profile.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: AJ and Charlie round two, their freestyle is a combination
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of every single thing that AJ has learned throughout his process.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He made it as hard as possible, even for a professional.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: He's lucky he had Charlie to do that because she
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: was able to handle it. They're dancing to bad man
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: by pitbull. They received a standing, another standing ovation from
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the judges.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: So I was, I was totally in awe of this
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: dance too. Yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I was very, I liked the, they had extra dancers
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: in there too. Really did make it feel like a
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: free dancing with stars freestyle.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: And he did.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now weren't you also a dancer on dancing with
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the stars? Yes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I was on their troop two seasons ago. So yeah.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What was that like?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Oh my God. It was amazing. It was like living
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: my dream. Like I, it was crazy. Cause that was
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Ezra's first year as a pro.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: And then I was on troop and it was so
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: fun to be able to like do the, the bumpers
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: and do like, you know, duets. And I did a
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: lot of like little demonstrations with Ezra, with Derek. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: it was just, it was so, it was so, it
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: was like my dream. I was living my dream. It
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: was so fun.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Good for you. That must've been amazing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Shirley's always wanted AJ to jam pack a routine and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: he did just that. So he, he got the memo.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I know they've been telling him this the whole time and,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and he did get the most out of Charlie. Like
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: they've told him to, she's a great dancer. Get the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: most you can. Derek says their side-by-side look like something
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: out of a Broadway play. Did you believe that?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so cute. Like very cute.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: And Mark's impressed by what they were able to accomplish
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in such a short amount of time. I mean, he
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was a very close second here.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I have to say. Adele and Neve round two. Adele
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: tells Neve that she was a hardcore introvert before this.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: So the show has really changed her for the better.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I have to say, Stephanie, she grew on me.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she grew on me too.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Like living in the house, like first week altogether, she
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: was very closed off. So I didn't really know her
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: energy and her vibe. But I feel like every single
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: week she started to open up to us and she
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: felt comfortable. I think people forget that she came from
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: the ballroom world and that is very cutthroat and competitive.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: And you kind of have to like watch your back
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: because it's scary. Like everybody's like wanting to win.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So- Like the housewife shows. Yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: No, actually. Yeah.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: So like I go back to sometimes I'm like, do
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I want to compete again? I'm like, I don't know
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: if mentally I could do that because it's very scary.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: But yeah.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: You could do it. I know. I'll have your back.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Do it. Definitely do it.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: So I think just like being on the show, like
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: she's she she realized like, I don't know, like a
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: lot about herself and all of us. We were also
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: like welcoming each other. We really did like create this
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: like family bond. And I think she started to open
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: up and then the dancing on top of it is
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: so intimate that And you're telling your story through dance.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: And that's just so healing.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: And I think she's starting to figure out who she
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: is outside of being a ballroom dancer, which I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: is so beautiful. So I think you guys were able
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: to actually see who she really was. And I love her.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: She's been so sweet to me even after the show
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: and everything. So I'm very proud of her.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so happy. And I'm so happy that we
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: all finally got to know her and got through that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: tough exterior because... I wanted to really like her more
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: because she's so beautiful. She's an amazing dancer. I'm like,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: don't be so tough, but I get it. Now that
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you explained that I get, I understand why she was
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like that because she's always had to be like that. Yeah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Especially if she grew up competing from when she was
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: baby till now, like that's all she's ever known.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: So. And it's probably very lonely too. There's no time
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: for friends. There's no time outside of this life. If
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you want to be the best, The sacrifice people don't
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: understand is that your whole life is just that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's nothing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: And then sometimes for people like her, that's all she has.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: So it's like life or death for her.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, she treated it like it was. So Adele is
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: having them do a Paso with a twist. They're dancing
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to natural by imagine dragons, which was amazing. They also
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: receive a standing ovation from the judges. Derek loved their
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: style of dance because it made them stand out. He says,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: if Adele were to join dancing with the stars, she
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: would elevate the rest of the cast. That was a
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: huge compliment. Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I think it's her quality too.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Like just being able to have somebody fresh off the
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: competition floor is amazing. It's very it's nice because she
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: her quality is just like fresh and ready to go.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Right. Exactly. Yeah. And I feel like she made him
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: an amazing dancer when he showed up. I was like, yeah, he's.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Like, I'm not buying it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, geez, she's she's not sleeping tonight thinking,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: what did I get? She made him good.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: So I'm sure that's a good teacher.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's a good teacher. So I'm curious to see this
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: will be her first year. Yeah. I'm excited.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited to see like, yeah, this is going
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: to be amazing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: It is going to be amazing. Mark says Adele's giving
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: them hell. He loved both dances she showcased tonight. Mark's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the biggest fan of her.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Mark has Maura Higgins this year. Oh, yeah.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Her accent is perfect.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It is so funny. You know, my my fiance is
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: from Dublin. Oh, really? I know that accent. Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: It's like so cute. I'm like, please keep saying Mark's name.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Just keep saying it like all of rehearsal, please.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's she's so cute. Shirley recognizes that Adele forces
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: her partners to work hard, but it's all paid off,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: just like you said in the beginning.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: It's it's the payoff is everything. So sometimes the process
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: can be scary to get there. But learning that process
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: is going to be her.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: She's going to do great.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like what would she do with me? That
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: would be the biggest challenge of her life.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, no, you need to dance with us.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Like he'll bring out the best in you.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Really? Yes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: He will.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: But you guys would be so good together.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to find him.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: I'm going to, I'm going to reach out to him.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I will reach out to him. So finally Shirley announces
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: that the third place winner is Selena. I kind of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: thought so.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: But she handled it so well.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: And I think it's hard to, because the other two
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: are such trained ballroom dancers. And I think that's like,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: if she's able to just go back and train and
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: like really learn the technique and know it's enough to
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: translate it and just really, you know, elevate somebody like,
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: and even though she did that already on the show, like,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: I think she's going to be so unstoppable. So yeah,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: but I thought she killed it and I loved her freestyle.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: It was, it was, it was so good.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I loved it too. Um, and I, and I do
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: think we'll see a lot more of her.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: No, for sure. Yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: A lot of her dances too. Like I couldn't stop
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: watching online too. They'd go viral. And I was like, that,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: that's a good choreographer. That's a good, that's what makes
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: a good pro.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: So do you feel like she's been dancing the least
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: amount of time out of the three of them?
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I feel like, um, she's been training dance her whole life,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: but specifically ballroom in Latin.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Because the other two had been doing that their whole life.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: So she just recently caught on to Ballroom. And if
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: she's able to do that with a little amount of time, imagine.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. For the two remaining dancers, AJ and Adele,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the judges not only took tonight's performances into account, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: they're looking at the entire competition. Shirley announces that the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: next pro is Adele. I was like, oh, I was
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: happy and I knew it. But I knew like AJ,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I really felt he thought he was going to win.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: He definitely has that confidence in him.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: That's right. And he should, as he should. Yeah. AJ
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: received second place. He loves being able to perform in
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the finale with Charlie, but he admits he's devastated. Adele
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: feels like all of her sacrifices have paid off for
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: this moment. I mean, it was so beautiful. And Adele
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: was so calm about winning.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I know if it were me, I'd be like crying.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I dropped it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I was like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be shaky. Like,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: but she, she just held it together. Very classy, very demure.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: I was like, yes.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: In her Adele fashion.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: She just went, won the biggest thing of her life.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And she's just like, so cool about it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's, that's a very, just put together girl.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So this week we found out who her
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: partner is. So it's the Connor Levitt from Secret Lives
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of Mormon Wives. He's Whitney Levitt's husband and she competed
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: last season.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: That's nice that they have him now. Let's see how
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: he does. But he got the Rolls Royce.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he got like the fresh Rolls Royce.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: And on top of that, he did dance a routine
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: last season. He did like a trio on the show.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: They invited him to for one of the dedication nights
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: and he looked like a dancer. So I think those
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: two are going to look amazing. Like if he was
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: able to do that contemporary routine and look amazing, like
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: I'm excited to see what Adele can do with him
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: and just transform him as a dancer. Like I'm so,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: I'm so genuinely curious and like rooting for her too.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: So I love it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: So who do you think knowing anything or knowing what
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: you know, who do you think is going to win?
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Could you say yet?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Cause you have like Jenna Dwan on there. You have
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: the guy from Glee. I forgot his name. There's so
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: many front runners.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I feel like after the first like premiere episodes, we're
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: going to have like more of an understanding of like, okay,
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: front runners. But right now it's like, I have no idea.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Cause there's like, like half of them are big dance.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: So it's going to be so interesting. And yeah. I,
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: you know, Ezra and Julia, I feel like they're going to,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: I've seen some little clips and I'm like very excited
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: for that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Really? Okay.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I'm like, you guys are going to be genuinely, I mean,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: you guys are already going to be excited and, but like,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: I think you guys are going to be very, very surprised.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: So I'm excited for that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, Steph. I am so excited.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It's going to be my first time at Dancing with
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the Stars. So I really hope I see you. We
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: have to stay in touch. Yes, please. So that I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: get to see you there. We'll have you on again
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and we'll have to talk about what's going on.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Yes. Thank you so much. And I, again, thank you
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: for coming on. Where can we find you? Where can
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: everybody here find you?
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Stephie Chica on TikTok and Instagram.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: All right, Steffi Chica.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Gotta rub the Latinas.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we will. We will see you soon.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Bye.