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Almost Famous OG: Last Minute Dances with Jenn Tran · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio almost Famous Ogs.
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  Speaker 2: We are back and I've got gentry.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so good to see you. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we have so much to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about since the last I.
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  Speaker 1: Saw you, I mean it was during the show.
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  Speaker 3: You were just crazy, so so crazy, just changed. I
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  Speaker 3: mean the first time I met you were just coming
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  Speaker 3: out in this like beautiful gown. You're like a fairy.
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  Speaker 1: They you called me the fairy got.
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  Speaker 3: That's really what it felt like when a don't pick up.
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  Speaker 2: You imagine that's the clip they're gonna be like trist
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  Speaker 2: told Jig, I'm making soup now. No, that day was
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  Speaker 2: so much fun. I loved hanging out with Charity, with
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  Speaker 2: da Zy, with Kelsey. It was and we actually got
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you. I think you probably did
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  Speaker 2: see The Wicked, The wand yes, so wond We got
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  Speaker 2: to take a picture with the actual wand that our
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  Speaker 2: Ariana Grande has in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Broom the stick.
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  Speaker 3: Did you not see it?
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  Speaker 2: It was sol It was back, you know, like underneath
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  Speaker 2: the like in the room that you walked out onto,
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  Speaker 2: the in the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like inside like the restaurant area. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, that's so it was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that night when we were at the stadium
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  Speaker 2: because it was still you and what was his.
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  Speaker 1: Name, Marcus, Marcus, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That was your date, And I have a video. I
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  Speaker 2: have to show it to you. I need to share
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  Speaker 2: it with you actually because it was so cute. You're
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  Speaker 2: in the big, huge pink dress.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that was like a princess that night.
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  Speaker 1: Hot pink dress.
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  Speaker 2: That was beautiful, and someone is following you like taking
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  Speaker 2: video and you're just like running like like the cutest video.
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  Speaker 3: It was. Actually, that date was one of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: dates ever. Something about being in a baseball stadium all
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  Speaker 3: by yourself, like that was on my bucket list to true,
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  Speaker 3: and it was so it was so romantic and so fun.
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  Speaker 3: But I remember my producer Maya was like, no, like
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  Speaker 3: we have to go, like you can't like step on
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  Speaker 3: the field, and I was like, Maya, look the other way.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus and I just started sprinting out on the field
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  Speaker 3: and I don't think we were allowed to because they
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  Speaker 3: were like it was already mode or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: They were like pristine condition, don't touch it. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna run around whatever. I'm sorry, opportunity, Like, what
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  Speaker 3: are you going to do? Arrest me that you did that?
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  Speaker 3: It was so fun.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so life has obviously changed. Everything went down on
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  Speaker 2: Bachelorette and then you get.
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  Speaker 1: Asked to do Dancing with that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Was how was that phone call? Like, tell me how
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  Speaker 1: you got asked?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a phone call. I was literally I was
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  Speaker 3: crying on stage and I came back to my dressing room.
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  Speaker 3: It was like the end of the show, and I
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  Speaker 3: remember like the executive producers were in my dressing room
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  Speaker 3: and they were like, Okay, you have forty five minutes
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  Speaker 3: to hop on a flight, like you're gonna be on
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  Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars. And I was like, uh, is
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  Speaker 3: this a prank? Like this isn't funny.
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  Speaker 1: Like you hadn't signed a contract or anything yet.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea. So I essentially met with the
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  Speaker 3: executive producer of Dancing with the Stars on a phone
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  Speaker 3: call like two three weeks prior, and we were like
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  Speaker 3: considering it because deede, I guess we were considering because
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  Speaker 3: I really wanted to go on. So I was like
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  Speaker 3: pushing all the buttons I could whatever and then after
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  Speaker 3: that phone call, she basically told me like, oh, there's
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  Speaker 3: no room, like we just like already set the cast whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So when I flew out to La for AFR, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Oh, there's no chance I'm being asked. I'm
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  Speaker 3: because I know in Bachelor World is always like a
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  Speaker 3: surprise when you get asked. I was like, there's really
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  Speaker 3: no chance because they told me that there was no room.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I got off the stage, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: there really is no chance because they they would have
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  Speaker 3: surprised me already, right. So then I went back to
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  Speaker 3: the dressing room and they were like, yep, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be on it. You have forty five minutes to get
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  Speaker 3: a flight. I didn't have a toothbrush with me anything.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of got back to night to hotel them
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  Speaker 3: and like pack nothing. They were just like, here's a
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  Speaker 3: dress that you were gonna wear for press the next day.
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  Speaker 3: Take this in a garment bag with you, take your
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  Speaker 3: purse and whatever you have, and that's it. Hop on
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  Speaker 3: a flight. It was like it was such a whirlwind,
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  Speaker 3: and I remember just being like this feels like a
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  Speaker 3: prank that just this doesn't feel real, because I was like,
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  Speaker 3: do people do this, like does this happen? Is that?
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  Speaker 3: How is that how this works? Like can you just
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  Speaker 3: like throw people on a TV show like the night
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  Speaker 3: before it's now It's like, I don't know if that
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  Speaker 3: happens without.
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  Speaker 1: Signing a contract, Like that's kind of amazing to me.
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  Speaker 3: I sign the contract like on the plane. No, like
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  Speaker 3: right before I went on stage for Good Morning America,
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  Speaker 3: and I basically it was like this long and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I'm just gonna sign it, not going
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  Speaker 3: to read it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's stressful. It was going to contact that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, you know what, I trust you guys. It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: That is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it has been going on for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know I was on the show. I did
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  Speaker 2: not very first season. Wait really, I was the very
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  Speaker 2: first one ever kicked off the show.
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  Speaker 3: What No, that's something though, That's like pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy well, and it's funny because you said,
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  Speaker 2: like I don't. I feel like no one is surprised,
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  Speaker 2: you know when they get asked for a batuation. My
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  Speaker 2: phone call was from one of the ABC execs and
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  Speaker 2: they were like, you're doing the show.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like wait, wait, wait, what is the show.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a show, like it wasn't a thing. So
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea. You don't even know what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. We had no idea.
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  Speaker 2: There were only six of us and like a very
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  Speaker 2: little budget. It was anyway, Louis van Amstell, he's not
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't done anything. And I feel like a few
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  Speaker 2: years of experience for you. It was very funk, very fun.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could have stayed longer.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we should just bring you back.
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  Speaker 2: I would love that, but honestly, I wonder I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it would be very stressful. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you know this either, but I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: on Special Forces season three, like.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up, like you've already filmed it, already filmed it.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of almost would rather do Special Forces again
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  Speaker 2: than Dance with the Stars.
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  Speaker 3: You're kidding, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Dancing with the Stars I was a dancer. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: okay what And I feel like the pressure would be
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  Speaker 2: more on Dancing with the Stars and Special Forces was
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  Speaker 2: like a whole new thing that was just a personal competition.
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  Speaker 2: It was like me against me, not me against five
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  Speaker 2: other celebrities.
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  Speaker 3: Voting exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, getting to Dancing with the Stars, Bob and I
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  Speaker 2: my co host who's not here. We miss you, Bob,
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  Speaker 2: but we because I was on Dancing with the Stars,
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  Speaker 2: we recapped every episode of this season on the almost
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  Speaker 2: famous ojiback uh and obviously raved about you and how
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  Speaker 2: well you did.
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  Speaker 1: We were so proud of you. You were amazing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I have.
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  Speaker 2: A very specific question. Oh okay, Well I have a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, yes, the like reels tiktoks that you guys
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  Speaker 2: put out, Yes, where do you get those?
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  Speaker 1: Like the original audios?
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  Speaker 3: Like who does that on TikTok? No?
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  Speaker 1: But like I feel like you guys were putting out.
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  Speaker 3: It was really insane this season. Yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 3: good season.
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  Speaker 2: Was it just the like Dancing with the Stars like
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  Speaker 2: publicity team that would send you like how would that
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  Speaker 2: all work?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they so Dancing the Stars had their own
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  Speaker 3: social team and they had great tiktoks that we did
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  Speaker 3: on their page too. But then for me, at least,
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  Speaker 3: my creative process was scrolling on TikTok on my off
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  Speaker 3: time when I'm recovering from dancing and I saw something
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  Speaker 3: I liked, I'd save it. I had a whole Dancing
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  Speaker 3: with the Stars folder.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I need to hire us. Not that
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  Speaker 1: you don't, not that you have time, but it's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I feel like Alona, it's really well this
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  Speaker 3: season with all this sounds. I was like, where did
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  Speaker 3: you find these sounds?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Are you coming up with them? Out of thin air? Sasha? Though?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes well out of like out of thin air. He'll
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  Speaker 3: be like, I remember this movie line exactly, this moment
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  Speaker 3: from this blah blah blah, and then just like google it,
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  Speaker 3: like find it on TikTok and then I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: that's the perfect sound for this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, wait a second, so I can tell me like
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  Speaker 2: how that works, because honestly, I am like, if you heard, like, say,
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  Speaker 2: you heard something from Wicked, yeah, and you want to
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  Speaker 2: pull it from the movie, how do you actually do that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you would just go to the search bar on
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  Speaker 3: TikTok and be like this scene where Glinda says this
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  Speaker 3: or like this exact line, and then you would just
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  Speaker 3: search it for real and it would just comes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're teaching me. It's the old gal, sy I'm
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  Speaker 1: a og old gal and.
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  Speaker 3: I need to be taught these things, but not all
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  Speaker 3: the time. Like if it's popular, popular and it'll come up.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes people create their own sounds. I know. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I want to know you. How do you do that?
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  Speaker 3: I think you. I don't know that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I still I would be worried that it would be comproment.
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  Speaker 3: The same thing, the same thing. So that's why I
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  Speaker 3: haven't done one. But I think people can do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So that was number one. Question. Number two question, tell
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  Speaker 1: us the tea. What is going on with you and Sasha?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I know this was going I don't know
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  Speaker 2: because everyone is talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I think I have to go my limnos here. It's
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  Speaker 3: gonna take me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I am old for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm bringing up the last post that you did,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe it was I don't know how many posts
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  Speaker 2: you've done any afterwards, but you literally like all the
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  Speaker 2: pictures that all of you been waiting for, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, wait, we're still waiting because where is it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: We get we get the hymn kissing you on the cheek.
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  Speaker 3: You got a little cheeky moment.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we got a cheeky but not a smoochie moment.
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  Speaker 3: I need a smoochi moment. You and the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the world listen. All I'm gonna quote is Taylor Swift's
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  Speaker 3: song and the crowd were chanting more. And what can
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  Speaker 3: I do but be myself. That's that's all you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 2: So until we stop shooting, then maybe she'll tell me
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  Speaker 2: in real life.
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  Speaker 3: I love him. He's just the best. So You're just
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  Speaker 3: We're having so much fun and I'm just waiting for
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  Speaker 3: him to teach me a real dance again, so that.
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  Speaker 1: The other dances were not real.
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  Speaker 2: They were real, but.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I want to be back in the simulation. I
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  Speaker 3: want to do dances every week again. And he's refusing you.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to do it for a show.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I'm waiting. No, I'm actually going to take
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  Speaker 3: some dance classes. I think you are.
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  Speaker 1: You ever danced before?
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  Speaker 3: I've never danced before, but I really love it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we're trying to dance classes like ballroom or
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's like of adult ballroom classes
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  Speaker 3: around here. And also feels weird dancing with someone that's
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  Speaker 3: not Sasha. I think maybe some hip hop or some
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  Speaker 3: heels classes.
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  Speaker 1: I have great heels classes for you.
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  Speaker 3: Do you do? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Literally, Blakesley, my daughter, Yes, came to LA. She's a
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  Speaker 2: she's a competitive dancer and one of her actually you
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  Speaker 2: might know Amanda Clutes. Nope, Mia Masterwell was one of
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  Speaker 2: the dancers on the finale, but also I think on
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  Speaker 2: another episode. So she used to dance at Blakesley's dance studio.
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  Speaker 2: She's a professional dancer. She does a heels class. Or
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  Speaker 2: look for Brian Friedman's classes. He's amazing. Anyway, she is
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  Speaker 2: choreographing Blakesley solo for this season. But she was at
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  Speaker 2: the Dancing with the Stars finale. She was one of
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  Speaker 2: the She was in the Barbie number.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay her, she was she was what.
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  Speaker 2: What do you call it where Julianna is always like
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  Speaker 2: that little.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, she was in for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And she was in another dance too, white. I remember
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  Speaker 2: her being in white. Someone's dance was white and you
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  Speaker 2: remember how fun World.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a heels class that she.
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  Speaker 2: Does out out for you, for sure, if I wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: I love that. And then people are going to show
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  Speaker 2: up and be like Jen Tran was supposed to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take to the heels class.
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  Speaker 3: See that. That's my other thing about taking these dance
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  Speaker 3: classes is that then people will actually have to see
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  Speaker 3: me attempt to dance, and let me tell you, like,
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the process, I look horrendous, like
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  Speaker 3: I like, no, it's like it's actually really embarrassing. So
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  Speaker 3: that's the other thing that I have to overcome is
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  Speaker 3: having people watch me attempt to dance. Because once I
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  Speaker 3: practice it, like five million times, then I get good.
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  Speaker 3: But the beginning is like, like, what is she doing here?
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  Speaker 3: No talent, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the beauty of the show really truly,
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  Speaker 2: it's that they can these professionals who.
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  Speaker 1: Are so freaking good, so good, so good, so good.
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  Speaker 2: They can hern people who have never danced before into
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  Speaker 2: ballroom dancers like, oh my gosh, I know you're close
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  Speaker 2: with Chandler.
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  Speaker 3: Chandler so beautiful, like so mean, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is she doing anything after this?
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  Speaker 3: She's gonna go on tour. She's going on tour.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, are you going on tour?
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't sorry, I really wanted I'm sorry, that's okay, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, don't count it out for not doing anything in
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  Speaker 2: the dance world.
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  Speaker 1: Totally could.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I'm going to try to. Okay, I love
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  Speaker 3: to come to the class with me. I would, although
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  Speaker 3: you're going to shine, I can't take. You're gonna got
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  Speaker 3: to stand far away compared to you. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: I would.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we need to get like a dance class together,
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  Speaker 2: bachelor people, yes, and.
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  Speaker 1: Just do something fun fun?
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  Speaker 3: How fun would that be? Okay, we're putting it in
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  Speaker 3: the books.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to chat. I always talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in almost famous. Oh jeez,