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Shining Just For You with Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson Chmerkovskiy · Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad

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  Speaker 1: Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya rt An iHeartRadio podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello everybody, we are scrubbing.
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  Speaker 3: In scrub adub dub with two tub atub tubs.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you know why because we have a tub and
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  Speaker 4: then our guests have a tub.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I see, Yeah, two tubs, one.
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  Speaker 4: Podcast, one O R you like that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am so excited about our guests today.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me I have been wanting them on the podcast
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  Speaker 5: for a few weeks now.
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  Speaker 4: No more than that, because you were getting Joey for
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  Speaker 4: like a month.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted Joey since he was a Bachelor. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 5: now that he's with Jenna, I wanted them as a duo.
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  Speaker 4: And now today we have them as a duo. They're
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  Speaker 4: in the.
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  Speaker 3: Ballroom, They're on the dance floor. On the dance floor,
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  Speaker 3: Jenna is always on the dance floor. Joey is right
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  Speaker 3: off of his stint on The Bachelor. Not right off,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, it feels feels right off.
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  Speaker 2: It's fresh enough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very fresh.
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  Speaker 2: And they are crushing it this season.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I cannot wait to ask them all the questions.
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  Speaker 3: So please welcome Jenna Johnson Schmerkovsky and Joey Grosseta.
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  Speaker 1: Started.
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  Speaker 5: We are so excited that y'all are here today because
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  Speaker 5: I've been dying to talk to y'all and I'm so
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  Speaker 5: happy what made this happen.
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  Speaker 6: Very excited to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, where do we begin?
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  Speaker 4: It's tough.
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  Speaker 5: Before we started, you were saying that Jenna is superstitious,
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  Speaker 5: and she kind of scoffed. But there seems to be
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  Speaker 5: some repetition in rituals, and I was curious what those are.
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  Speaker 7: There's just like a bunch of little things that, again,
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  Speaker 7: like if you're in a sports background, anything like superstition
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  Speaker 7: is a normal thing. But we put on grips on
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  Speaker 7: the bottom of our shoes to help with dancing. And
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  Speaker 7: if I ever would give her my left foot first
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  Speaker 7: to put the grip on, she would kill me because
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  Speaker 7: it has to be right foot first. Every time she
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  Speaker 7: puts a battery and mike pack on, if it's not
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  Speaker 7: on her right side, she will tell the team, hey,
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, not left side has to be right side.
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  Speaker 6: Therapy. It's just little details of things that.
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  Speaker 7: Again, I think she's just in a routine and needs
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  Speaker 7: the repetition and needs to feel comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm just along for the ride and making sure,
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  Speaker 6: I don't mess with what the routine and the rituals are.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: I'm here for you.
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  Speaker 2: Have you joined her in the superstition?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, it's if it works, we're sticking with it.
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  Speaker 6: Never give you the left shoe first, it's always right
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  Speaker 6: shoe first.
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  Speaker 5: Is it as extensive as like wearing the same like
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  Speaker 5: underwear and stuffery you pretty.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not that crazy, but no, it's just like little
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  Speaker 1: routines that have become part of this experience for me
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  Speaker 1: on the show that I'm like, that works for me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stick with it. Also, I married a
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  Speaker 1: Russian and they're like severely, severely superstitious, like everything is
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  Speaker 1: a thing, Like if you even have a good thought,
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  Speaker 1: you have to like knock on your head and say too.
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  Speaker 1: It's the thing in Russian. Yeah, so like my mother
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  Speaker 1: in law like heaven forbid you jinx anything good.
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  Speaker 4: It's weird.
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  Speaker 7: I'm also extremely sarcastic, and we'll say like dumb things
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  Speaker 7: a lot of time, like I hope I don't roll
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  Speaker 7: my ankle today, and she will just like.
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  Speaker 6: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 7: So it's been a funny kind of dynamic that we
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  Speaker 7: have because I say the wrong thing almost every day
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  Speaker 7: and then it just gets her a little bit off,
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  Speaker 7: as you can see from thee.
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  Speaker 3: But so you're saying you do it because it's like
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  Speaker 3: your family, it's your mother in law.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just in the ballroom like you know it
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  Speaker 4: every day.
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  Speaker 1: It intensified when I married my husband. Yeah, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know they're Ukrainian, but like just Europeans in general,
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  Speaker 1: I think they have the superstitious nature and so it's
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  Speaker 1: become part of my life. I should see somebody about that,
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  Speaker 1: maybe basically, yes, yeah, maybe Vell needs to Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like as a viewer I have been so
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  Speaker 5: I was shocked at how good you are.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that you had it in you?
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  Speaker 7: Not entirely, I've said it a lot, like I played
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  Speaker 7: drums growing up, as people found out, and like I've
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  Speaker 7: always really loved music, so I've always been really good
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  Speaker 7: at listening and understanding music. I guess I think back
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  Speaker 7: to when we did the first like part of the experience,
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  Speaker 7: we did some type of bumper for the show and
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  Speaker 7: we had to actually freestyle dance, and.
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  Speaker 6: It was horrible, Like I was so bad.
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  Speaker 7: But the one thing Jenna did say to me, was like, no,
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  Speaker 7: but like you're even though you're doing it bad, you
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  Speaker 7: were hitting the beat every time of when you're supposed
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  Speaker 7: to move, and she's like, there's something in there, and
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  Speaker 7: now I can really just listen to her and find
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  Speaker 7: out what I'm supposed to do when the beat actually comes.
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  Speaker 7: But I've always been at least able to like hear
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  Speaker 7: and listen to it, and I think that probably is
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  Speaker 7: the thing I brought into play. And besides that, I'm
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  Speaker 7: just really listening what she says. But I didn't know
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  Speaker 7: how I was going to perform. I didn't know a
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  Speaker 7: lot of things, and I'm just very happy that it's
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  Speaker 7: been going well so far.
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  Speaker 5: Was it hard for you because you're a co your
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  Speaker 5: tennis coach, so like being the one who's typically teaching
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  Speaker 5: everyone in the right form and how to do it.
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  Speaker 5: Was it hard for you to kind of let that
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  Speaker 5: coach mentality down?
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  Speaker 7: No, because I actually love the process of learning something
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  Speaker 7: new as like a teaching pro for tennis too. A
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  Speaker 7: lot of times I'm a lefty, so a lot of
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  Speaker 7: times I teach people like, yeah, I'm rioty, okay, So
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  Speaker 7: then you have to teach people a lot righty so
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  Speaker 7: I actually early on we kind of noticed as like
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  Speaker 7: a trick for tennis is like I would actually try
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  Speaker 7: to hit the ball a lot of times, ready to
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  Speaker 7: know what it feels like for that person and try
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  Speaker 7: to use my opposite hand, and like, I enjoy the
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  Speaker 7: idea of feeling uncomfortable because then you actually understand what
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  Speaker 7: it's like as someone coming and trying to do something new.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a very like take that and like take
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  Speaker 3: that into like a little bit of like a microcosm
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  Speaker 3: what a great partner now, Like.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why I think he is so great. There
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  Speaker 1: isn't ego involved, and I don't like to learn something new.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think many people enjoy being like not good
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  Speaker 1: at something immediately. So he's really great at taking it
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  Speaker 1: all in and being able to receive feedback and loves
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  Speaker 1: the idea of repetition and knows that the progress is
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  Speaker 1: going to happen if we keep doing it, if he keeps,
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  Speaker 1: you know, listening to feedback. So I think that's why
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  Speaker 1: he is such a great student. Maybe that teacher background,
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  Speaker 1: I think, but also yeah, musicality, there's there's so many
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  Speaker 1: great things about it.
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  Speaker 4: Are you like that in your personal life.
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  Speaker 7: I think I've always enjoyed trying new things. But I think,
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  Speaker 7: as everyone else, like once you get good at something,
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  Speaker 7: you kind of keep doing it. So I like, golf
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  Speaker 7: is my new thing that I love so much, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm great some days. I suck others, and it's not
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  Speaker 7: fun to be bad at something, but I do enjoy
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  Speaker 7: trying to do new things and dance with something I've
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  Speaker 7: always been interested in. So yeah, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 7: think just this process, and I really will say it's
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  Speaker 7: having her as a coach, Like it makes it so
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  Speaker 7: much easier to have her every time be the one
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  Speaker 7: that's helping me through it because I don't know, we've
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  Speaker 7: kind of figured out a way to like Wednesdays and
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  Speaker 7: Thursdays are hard, and we know they're hard, but then
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  Speaker 7: I just see us kind of build each day and
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  Speaker 7: it's it makes it feel like you can actually trust
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  Speaker 7: the process of it.
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  Speaker 3: No, But I mean, like when you said that you
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  Speaker 3: like to see things from other people's perspectives and like
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  Speaker 3: do it that way. I'm like, that's like the dream,
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  Speaker 3: Like that's what anybody wants like their partner to say,
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  Speaker 3: like in your romantic life too, Like I want to
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  Speaker 3: see this from your perspectives.
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  Speaker 4: Put myself in your ship.
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  Speaker 6: I think about others a lot more than myself.
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  Speaker 4: That's just that's double edged sword.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it works good.
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  Speaker 5: And so yeah, yeah, Jenna, did you when you met
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  Speaker 5: like how?
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  Speaker 2: Oh this was my question. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: can share this. But in terms of who your partner is,
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  Speaker 2: do you have any say in it?
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  Speaker 4: I wish really you don't get any even like seniority.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I mean I think they tried to mix
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  Speaker 1: it up. So if you've had like an amazing couple
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  Speaker 1: of seasons, you know they'll distribute, so everybody has an opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no say it's really our casting director has
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  Speaker 1: everything to do with it. So yeah, the luck of
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  Speaker 1: the draw. When you walk in there, you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: well this is what this is what I'm dealing with
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  Speaker 1: for the next couple of months. So you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: that terrible word.
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  Speaker 7: But like, well, I think the other part that's crazy
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  Speaker 7: too is every season they don't really even know how
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  Speaker 7: the celebrities are going to be too. Like people could
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  Speaker 7: come and being like yeah I can dance, or like
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm going to be good like
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  Speaker 7: no one knows until you get to start the process,
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  Speaker 7: so it is kind of hard to also match up.
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  Speaker 7: They do know, like obviously this season chan they're coming in,
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  Speaker 7: I think they knew that girl knew how to dance, right, But.
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  Speaker 6: Then everyone else they don't know how they're going to
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  Speaker 6: kind of go through the process, which is hard.
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  Speaker 1: Our casting director, Dina Cat she's incredible and she knows
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  Speaker 1: all of us pros inside and out. She knows our personalities,
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  Speaker 1: our heights. You know, there's so many variables that go
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  Speaker 1: into it. But she really really.
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  Speaker 4: Blessed me this season, so forever grateful.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they say, like, do you just take a deep
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  Speaker 5: breath when you like get who you're gonna Yeah, you
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  Speaker 5: saw him doing his freestyle, even though he says it
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  Speaker 5: was not good horrible, but you were like, I see
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  Speaker 5: potential that this could this could really work.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I So we met and I didn't watch the season
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  Speaker 1: of The Bachelor, so sorry, you know really I know, Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I heard the same thing from so many people,
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  Speaker 1: and my sister is like a mega Bachelor fan, and
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  Speaker 1: so she was like he is the greatest guy, like
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  Speaker 1: the nicest guy. Everyone loved him, and I was like okay, awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and he's athletic, you know, he plays tennis. I'm like, sick.
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  Speaker 1: Does that translate?
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  Speaker 4: Let's try.
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  Speaker 1: And then we met each other and the same day
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  Speaker 1: we had like our big Dancing with the Star's promo shoot.
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  Speaker 1: And it's such an uncomfortable day because it's like nine
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  Speaker 1: hours stuck together. I'm in full spray Tan Ryan Stones.
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  Speaker 1: We're just like and they're like just like dance together
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  Speaker 1: and it's so awkward and vulnerable, and he had such
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  Speaker 1: a great attitude about it. He just kind of like
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  Speaker 1: giggled the whole time. And then they made him freestyle
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  Speaker 1: by himself like ten times as a professional dancer, I
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  Speaker 1: would get uncomfortable freestyling for as long as they made him.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like kind of hitting the time and
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  Speaker 1: like doing fun, groovy moves, and I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. So I got really excited then, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we just immediately like clicked as well. We have
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  Speaker 1: a similar i don't know, not personality, but we just
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  Speaker 1: kind of got along VI yeah, yeah, good vibes. So
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  Speaker 1: it made me really motivated. And then I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to like shock people because they had no expectations for him.
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  Speaker 1: To be a dancer, and he's not a dancer, but
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  Speaker 1: I think he's just like that perfect candidate for this
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  Speaker 1: show where he's just going to embrace it. And each
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  Speaker 1: week I feel like you've done that where you kind
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  Speaker 1: of just shocked people and we're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: how did he do that?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I feel like that's the fun part of watching
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  Speaker 5: the show is. And it's fun to watch someone who's
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  Speaker 5: a really good dancer dance obviously, but it's really fun
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  Speaker 5: to watch someone that has no background in dancing come
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  Speaker 5: on and surprise everybody to where you're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: you just needed a coach, you just needed a good partner.
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  Speaker 1: It's like that beautiful Cinderella story where you like watch
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  Speaker 1: the journey and see the transformation you're like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's why people also are really drawn to
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  Speaker 1: you on the show, is seeing his growth and seeing
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  Speaker 1: him even from week one, I feel like he's gotten
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  Speaker 1: so much better as a dancer naturally, So you're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Is it like such a crazy kind of like vortex
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  Speaker 3: that you're thrown into because it's like you you both
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  Speaker 3: have lives, like you're in relationships, you have lives going on,
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  Speaker 3: and then you get thrown into this like this almost
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  Speaker 3: like a bootcam.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bubble for sure. It's a big three
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  Speaker 1: months worth of a bubble.
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  Speaker 7: It's a big like a lotted amount of time you
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  Speaker 7: just get It's it just takes all your focus too, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I'm dreaming about dancing now, I don't even dream like
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  Speaker 7: I'm just going to bed. I'm like think about the
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  Speaker 7: dancer the night before, and it's just yeah, it just
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  Speaker 7: it takes up a lot of your mental space and everything.
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  Speaker 6: But it's so much fun.
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  Speaker 7: They do such a good job on this show making
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  Speaker 7: everyone feel so comfortable. There is this kind of family aspect,
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  Speaker 7: So as much as you're getting pulled out of your
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  Speaker 7: normal lives, it's so nice to have the actual process
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  Speaker 7: be so enjoyable too.
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  Speaker 5: Which has been harder was The Bachelor being the Bachelor
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  Speaker 5: or Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 7: I would say they're just different. It's hard to compare.
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  Speaker 7: I think the Bachelor, as you know, is such a
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to use the word invasion. It's just
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  Speaker 7: like it's your personal life, Like you're putting yourself out
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  Speaker 7: there and talking so much about your feelings and you're
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  Speaker 7: possibly going to end up with someone that could be
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  Speaker 7: your forever partner. So there's so much that is at
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  Speaker 7: stake with something like that that puts a lot of
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  Speaker 7: pressure on yourself. But then this is so different because
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  Speaker 7: it's the competition side, the performance side.
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  Speaker 6: You're you're finding.
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  Speaker 7: Out new things about yourself, You're doing something so uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 7: something that you've.
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  Speaker 6: Never done before.
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  Speaker 7: I'd say the physical and mental part of this is different,
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  Speaker 7: but it is almost harder because the nice part about
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  Speaker 7: the Bachelors I could just be myself and just hope
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  Speaker 7: that what I was doing was going to at least work,
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  Speaker 7: and I didn't have to think as much. I would say,
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  Speaker 7: like I just kind of just did me and just
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  Speaker 7: hoped it worked out.
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  Speaker 6: I'm thinking every day.
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  Speaker 7: Doing this, whether it's dancing, whether it's like, Okay, now
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  Speaker 7: I have to actually go perform, and like ignore the
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  Speaker 7: fact this is live television.
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  Speaker 6: Is so much harder to do, so much harder to do.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I feel like would be the really hard
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  Speaker 5: part is that in a rehearsal room, you're like, I've
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  Speaker 5: got this down, like I know it like the back
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  Speaker 5: of my hand, and then you put an audience and
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  Speaker 5: cameras and the live element to it, and it's just
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  Speaker 5: like this unparalleled sense of pressure and performance. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: curious about because you brought up chemistry. Have y'all had
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  Speaker 5: chemistry as soon as you know y'all met and you
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  Speaker 5: know it's gonna be good vibes. Have you had a
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  Speaker 5: situation where you met your partner and it was you
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  Speaker 5: were just like, we don't have it, but I'm gonah.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, for sure, And that is so scary because
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that happen live in
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  Speaker 1: our performance. Like I feel like every time we've danced
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  Speaker 1: on the show, something has happened, like something new has happened.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't have that trust, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: that like, oh, we we'll fix this and we'll just
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  Speaker 1: and we'll trust each other because we both know that,
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  Speaker 1: like we're on the same page. So if you don't
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  Speaker 1: gel or vibe, it's really hard to have that trust
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  Speaker 1: in such a high pressure, intense situation. We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make this work because I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: where his head's at.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like we have we have that like yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean connection where we're like, okay, yeah, I slipped, but
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna grab me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: We can use this last week as an example too,
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  Speaker 7: Like we going into that dance, it was it felt
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  Speaker 7: so great during practice, like it was probably the most
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  Speaker 7: confident we've ever been going into like a Monday and
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  Speaker 7: Tuesday we started doing practice runs and it just never
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  Speaker 7: hit something was wrong with it, and we were like
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  Speaker 7: trying to figure out why it didn't feel good when
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  Speaker 7: we got on the ballroom dance floor and it started
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  Speaker 7: to get better on Tuesday, but there was just something
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: about we knew that there was something there that we
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: could fix. We talked about in the trailer before we
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: got out there, and we're like, we're gonna figure it out.
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: Like regardless, we trust each other, We're going to figure
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: it out. And that makes a huge difference because if
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: we didn't have a good relationship and connection, I probably
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: was gonna be in my head so much going into that.
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: But I do remember that moment right before we just
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: like look at each other, we smiled and let's enjoy
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: this dance.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: We know this dance we can do it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: And that is huge to have before you get out
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: there because it's scary, it really is.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, y'all are like throwing like you're throwing her around,
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: and y'all are jumping all over each other.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: And honestly, I could never do it.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Besides, just like the two of you being in this
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: wartex are you do you hang out with the other
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: cast members or do you like look at them like
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: you're my competition stay away or are you like more friendly?
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: You can speak on this because of the show different
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: You talk about it from like your perspective of how
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: it usually is on the show, and I'll explain what
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: it's like being in my position, because I think that's
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: a little different.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's hard because we do have our own
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: individual lives and I'm also I've been with the pros
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: on the show for years and years and years, so
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: we have that like friendship. We've seen each other at
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: the best and the worst of times. We've gone on
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: tour together. So during the season, I don't feel like
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: we're like hanging out outside of practice. We see each
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: other every day. But it is fun to like get
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: to know the new celebrities each season and build those relationships.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I think you live at an apartment with some of them,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: so you probably see them outside of the studio more
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: than I do. But it is nice to build these friendships,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: in these bonds because they do last a lifetime.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: It's weird too, because we do see each other sometimes
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: where we stay and like you run into them and
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: you get to have these little hellos and sometimes you
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: get to hang out with them. But as you guys know,
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: there's so much time you put into it that the
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: time we actually see them hang out is during rehearsals.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: Because we're all at the same studio. You'll sometimes connect
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: and talk with them for.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: A little bit.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: I will say the coolest part about this show is
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: there's something about everyone doing something uncomfortable that there's not
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: really rooting against each.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Other energy, at least from this season.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: Like, yeah, you want to have the best score of
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: the night, but that's under your control, that's not under theirs.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: And when you see someone maybe have a falter or a mistake,
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: you can feel everyone being like, no, no, you got this,
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: like and pumping them up because when they come up
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: on that skybox and you can tell they're disappointed, the
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: last thing you want to do is rub it in
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: their face. You want to get them and tell them
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: how great it was, and like focus on this part
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: and that part, and I don't know, there's a camaraderie
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: that comes out of it that is really cool because
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: it is a competition show, but there's something about it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: That's just no though.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I think it is unique to this season as well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: not like we've had like villains on other seasons. But
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: there is the cast the season, for some reason, is
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: such a good cohesive group. Everybody's really positive. I think
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: maybe too because there's a lot of athletes, so there
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: is that like rooting for each other, yeah, and wanting
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to see each other succeed. But it's really beautiful because
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you don't get to see this part, but when a
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: couple's dancing, Joey mentioned this thing called the skybox, and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: that's where Julianne's standing where she gives the scores, but
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that's where the rest of us are watching, and we're
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: like watching on this balcony and we all collect and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: watch whoever's going next and cheer loud for them, and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: it's kind of special, Like I got she was thinking
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: about it. When else do you get to see that?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So it's really really sweet. But this cast in general,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I think is one of the sweetest all around sweetest.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: We've got a great group, and I will say I
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: think each week it changes, you know, like people are
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: starting to really pay attention to the scores. I think
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: everyone feels like they have a chance to win it
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: this year. So because of that, it is getting more competitive,
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: but it's been fun to still see that there's there's
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: some friendliness.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: To it still too.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, how do you avoid the competitional element
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: when it's such a tight race. You know, you literally
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: can't escape from the competition because you are married to
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: pro vow Yeah, and so you're in it twenty four
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: to seven. What is it like when y'all get home
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: and if it's is there, is it like camaraderie?
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Turn it off?
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Like is it something that you can just like turn
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: off and you're like, Okay, I'm home now, Like put
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: that hat away.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So you know, Valin I met on the show, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: there is no rule book on how to be married
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: or engaged to or dating somebody that you work with
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that is, there's no like guidelines to it. So we've
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: over the years had to figure out how we know
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: navigate it and how we separate the two. And I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: think at first we would take it home and we
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: would like really mentally go over it and be like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: so stressed and bring it into our personal life. Not
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in a negative way, it just like was constantly about work, work,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: And I think now that we've been married for a
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: little bit and now we have a son, there is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a turn off. It is when I'm home, I'm mom,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I'm dad. You know, we're really engaged with our son.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But he's vow so amazing. He always wants to see
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: my video so he can give me tips and pointers
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and things to like remind Joey about. And then when
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: he's at the studio at the same time, he'll come
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: into our rehearsal and like see how we're doing. We'll
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: do show and tells with him and Phaedra. So you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I think people are always like, oh, is it like
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: cut throat at your house and you're like, I want
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to win, But it's really opposite of that. But we've
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: had to have years and years of navigating that and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like trying to figure it out. But I love that
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: we are such an anomaly of like who else can
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: say that they compete on a television show against their
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: spouse year after a year.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: It's fun it's so cool.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: It's like I can't even imagine it because it's like
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: you think about you know, like you get home at
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the end of the day and you like ask your partner,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: like how your day was.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: It's like a totally different day. You know, I had
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: some business calls, you know, what did you do?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Like, Oh, my day was good.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: But it's like you guys are like in it. You're
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: like living and breathing the same thing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Similar days. Yeah, under high stress, Yeah, same timeline, like
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and we both then have to go perform live with
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: our partners. Yeah. It's pretty unique, but it's it's awesome. Yeah,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Is it does it help you being married being in
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: the same industry that helps with the I guess I'm
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: gonna get to the Kelsey of it all like with this,
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: because I personally would have a really hard time watching
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: my girlfriend but in this environment and like spending that
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: much time away and it's so intimate and you're like
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: with this person and you're doing these sexy dances. Does
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: it help you, like mentally being in the industry as him,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: knowing kind of what the process is like, do you
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: think it would be harder for you if you weren't in.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It, absolutely for sure, and I think people have to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: realize that I've also been on the receiving end of it,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: so you know, like even when we were dating or engaged,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: like beals had some hot partners. But I understand this
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: dance as a sport right right, and the artistry of it,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and I know that you have to have connection. And
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: then I've also had you know, really awesome partners where
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: he's been on the receiving end of it. So I
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: think it definitely helps that we're in the same industry
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and we understand what the end goal is, right and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: what it takes to get there. So I yeah, but
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I can I have a lot of empathy for people
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: who are girlfriends or boyfriends that come on the show
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and they are supportive and they want to see their
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: partners succeed because it does take a lot of strength
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and a lot of trust. But that's why you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I beginning at the season, the season with Joey, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: kind of said to him, like, the more open we
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: can be and involve Kelsey and make her feel part
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of it, so there's nothing like hidden, I think, the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: better like be part of this experience. So there doesn't
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: feel like there's this like hidden Oh what's going on?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And you know, the imagination goes to town, but like
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: be so proud to show her, so then she feels
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: proud and excited about it. So yeah, it's so hard
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: because I understand. I mean, we're kind of desensitized as
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: dancers to it because this is just our work and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we do this year after year with somebody and our
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: end goal is to make the best dance possible. There's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: no other motive, right, So it is hard, and I
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: think this is the ultimate question that we guess get
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: asked all the time. But I'll let Joey speak after, like,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: now having experienced it and understanding.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, what it takes, I think it's a really interesting
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: situation and something I knew coming in. As you said,
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: people have always talked about from the show. You spend
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: a lot of time with them, you get intimate and dances,
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: and it's like, how does that work with a relationship too,
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: And I'll be the first timuit that I'm still figuring
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: it out because I'm trying my best to be open
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: to share everything, like she said, but it still as
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: hard that I'm not able to be with Kelsey as
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: much as I would like to, because it's such a
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: time restriction that we're putting in. But yeah, she said
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: it perfectly. It's about being open, it's about talking through it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: Like every time I come home, Kelsey sees me so
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: excited about dance, and if I don't explain why I'm excited,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: it can, as you said, imagination can run forever.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: But I'm like, no, I'm just really stoked.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: We smashed our dance today and I show her the
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: wide that we took in the video and being like,
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: this is what it's looking like.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: We worked on this today, and I need to work
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: on this and that. And sometimes they'll pick her up
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: and I'll do the dance with her so like she
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: can feel what it's like, and it's just that kind
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: of stuff. I think the hardest part about this, truthfully
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: is ignoring the outside. It's just social media's turned to
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: its own beast nowadays, and it doesn't take anything other
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: than one person have a strong opinion and that can
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: go viral and that feels like it's everyone's opinion, but
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: it's not. It was just one person's. Yeah, really hard
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: to kind of separate and just know that we have
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: to be confident in what we're doing. We have to
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: be confident in what we are doing, and then we
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: have to let the outside be noise because we know
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: what we're doing and that's not easy to do. But
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: we're trying our best and just each week trying to
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: get more confidence in it because we feel.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Great where we're at, and I know I'm great where
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: I'm at with Kelsey.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like when I was on the show,
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: there wasn't TikTok so that that in itself is its
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: own beast.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, in my mind, I thought you meant dancing. I
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: was like, what did you do?
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: It's a short.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Stint, but it is like such its own because you're right.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: It's like one person has a video goes viral and
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: then other people are like, hmmm, it's almost like.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: A thought starter, which is not fair.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: And Kelsey's handled I am such a Kelsey fan, like
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: me too on the show. I know, I know, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: like when she was on the show, I just like
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: love her and she's handled everything with so much grace
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: and humor and honesty and vulnerability. And I saw like
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: a video where someone said that but something was off
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: and She's like it was a hard time because it
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: was dedication night and it made me think of my
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: mom and it's like, no one knows what anyone's going in.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: It's such an unfair like, it's so unfair that people
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: get to have that voice.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a glimpse.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: They get glimpses and then they make assumptions and majority
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: of the time it's going to be positive. But it
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: only takes one to kind of trigger what could be
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: a bigger.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: And not real problem. But yeah, it's again, it's all
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: new for us.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: People also need to forget that, need to not forget
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: that we came out of this in March of last year,
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: like we are not used to being a public couple.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: We were living normal lives.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: And I was more prepared than she was because, as
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: you know, going on the Bachelor, like you go in
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: just being like this is gonna be the experience of
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: a lifetime. I hope I find something out of this.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: You don't expect to end up with the person. You
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: don't put that in your head of what my life
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: is going to change, Like she never I think when
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: she did that, I thought she would move to la
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: and have to be in the crowd every week on
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: Dancing with the Stars and dealing with all of this,
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: so it's all new. It is a process, but she's
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: been amazing and I'm trying my best to help because
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: that's all I really can do.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think at the end of the day too,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: people forget that, like we're all humans, you know what
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I mean. It's like, I guess when you're you know,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: watching Dancing with the Stars, you're like, oh, it's a
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: TV show. It's not it's not reality. It's like these
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: are characters. And I think at the end of the day,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: it's like we're all human and like going through these things.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: And I it's so interesting that you said put myself
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: in someone else's shoes, because you don't really do that,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: especially when you're like watching a show or anything like that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, like we are
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: just navigating relationships, and like you said, you guys are
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: so new that it's like you're just navigating starting a
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: relationship and then being thrown into these like unreal situations,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So it's like we're all
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: everyone's just like doing the best that they can and
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: like it's.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's funny because even after like five years of marriage
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and almost eight years of being together THATLL and I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: still get that. Like recently we got bombarded with all
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of these comments because Val hasn't posted about me lately. Right,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: people are like, heaven forbid?
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Is everything okay?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, we are both full time working, we
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are in week six of Dancing with the Stars, we're
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: also parents. We also want time for each other. Like
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: sorry that our first thought is not to post about
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: each other everything on social media. So it's you know what,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: it's always going to be part of unfortunately, of your
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: relationship when you're in the public eye. But it's I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: love a secure couple, like I love a secure woman.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So like good for Kelsey. I love that she's outspoken
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: about it. We need more people like that in relationships.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So it's because it is, It's true.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: It's like a lot of people just put on this
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: facade and the like, you know, you don't really like
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: it's not they don't see the human side of it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's so human. I was gonna ask if
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: roles were reversed and let's say Kelsey was with.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Gleb oh Gleb, how would you how would you handle that?
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I think I've said this with Jenna too, and I'm
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: the first to admit I don't know, Like that's the
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: first thing I will always say, because I can't put
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: myself in that situation, and I can always try to
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: be in someone else's shoes, but I don't know what
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Kelsey's actually feeling because I've never done it, so.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: I need to first start with that.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: But I would love to think that I would be
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: a really big supporter because I love seeing Kelsey succeed,
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Like it's one of my favorite things to see how
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: excited she gets about stuff. So when I would picture it,
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: I would think about how much she'd be enjoying the process.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: I would be the first one wanting to try to
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: be there on the sidelines and cheering and trying to
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: find ways to kind of boost her and make her feel.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Confident what she's doing. But I don't know.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I can't I can't put myself in that role. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: just hope that I would be able to be as
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: supportive as she's been to me.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Jennah, this is why you missed one of the greatest
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: seasons of the Bachelor.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I already know that he would like be so supportive
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and love seeing her succeed like that at the end
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of the day is what it's about. And yeah, I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: could see you know.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: So Okay, I don't even know if you remember this,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: but before you were the Bachelor, I met you at
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a Jonahs Brother's concert, okay, okay, and so I remember,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: like the ABC publicists were there and they introduced me
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to you, and I hadn't watched The Bachelor a bauchel
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: arette and like, I don't I don't know at that point,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: so I didn't know that you were the Bachelor, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: they were like, oh, this is the Bachelor. So I
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: started talking to you and I was like, oh my gosh,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Like within like that ten minute conversation, I was like
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I love this guy. And I was there with one
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: of my girlfriends, and I was like, you need to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: go talk to him like he's single, like he's about
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: to say the Bachelor, like he hasn't feeled it yet.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: It was That was actually really funny because that Jonah's
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: brother concert was like the first time I was able
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: to do stuff a little bit in public, because you
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: know how before you go on, they like try to
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: protect you and they pretty much told me not to
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: do anything like I was in Hawaii when I was
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: first starting, and then I went to my sister's place
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: in a Philly area and I was just really just
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: spending time with family and friends and not going out.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: So that Jonah's brother was the first time I was
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: like intermingling with other people. And the amount of people
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: that came up that were still trying to get on
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: that season was actually hystair, but like.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: I got at least like it's never happened. I got
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: like six to eight passes.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: They're like, so like, if you were not going to
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: do the season, do you want to meet my friend?
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, this is happening now, Okay.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: It was like literally within ten minutes of talking to you.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just got like good vibes, good, like good
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: just like solid human from you.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: I appreciate. It's the best compment I can get.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to talk about wedding planning. Mm hmmm,
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: because Tonya is in the midst of wedding planning and
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I wanted to see where where y'all are are their updates,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: What's what's the plan?
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's updating every day kind of still
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: because we're trying to knock out little goals each time,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: and our first goal is definitely figuring out where we
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: want to live, which sounds like the craziest thing to say,
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: but we just haven't had the ability to. We first,
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: we're coming off the show. Kelsey had a place that
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: she was staying at in New Orleans, and it just
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: made the most sense for me to kind of still
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: be where I was at in Philly, but come and
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: spend as much time with her as possible. She was
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: finishing our lease and we knew we were gonna go
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: somewhere after. But then I also knew at that time
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: getting off The Bachelor, that dancing was gonna be a possibility.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: So I was like, Kelse, I.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Don't think we can probably lock down a place because
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: we might have to go temporarily be in LA for
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: a little bit. And we thought we were gonna go
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: to New York, but then she's like, maybe i'd be
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: open to LA. I was like, well, perfect, We'll come
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: here for dancing and see what that's going.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: To be like.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: And all of this is just still built to the
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: point of Okay, now we might want to stay in LA,
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: and I think that's our first goal is. I think
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: we are going to stay in la I think we're
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: gonna go a place as soon as we finally have
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: our first official place together. Then we're gonna start figuring
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: out what we want to do with wedding, because it's
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: just so hard to decide where you're going to have
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: it if you don't even know where you're living and
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: what you're doing.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: At the time.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: And I know that sounds crazy to say o loud,
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: but I think people forget how wild it is when
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: you get off the Bachelor and how you just you
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: got to figure out small life things before. And that's
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: why I said from the beginning I wanted a long
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: engagement because I knew. I just knew that it was
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: going to be chaotic, and if I tried to make
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: promises like we're going to pick a date at this
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: time or do this, it was just going to be
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: met with disappointment.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: And I didn't want that to be the case.
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: I wanted to enjoy the planning process, and we just
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: haven't had the time to enjoy it just quite yet.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Well it's only been it hasn't even been a year.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: We are past the year where we met each other. Yeah,
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: when we met but we got engaged on November twelfth.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we're getting close to the year.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: I know, is that crazy?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: We'll have you back in like a year.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Is the easiest date ever to remember because it's eleven twelve,
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: twenty three.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Woah, that's cute.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: We added together in twenty days.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Forget peasure of the dates too, Like it's so funny.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: You don't even realize this stuff when you're like wedding planning.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: But I'm like I had a friend who like really
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: wanted to get rid of like nine to nineteen nineteen
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: ninety nine or not n sorry, nine nineteen twenty nineteen, okay,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: And like there's so much pressure on like the date,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh my gosh, like I don't
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: that's like the last thing that I thought about.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like you know, well, we
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: were just talking about like venues and stuff before this,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and we wanted this venue so bad, and we had
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a date that I was it was like perfect, it
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: was the perfect date, and then it fell through and
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the only day they had available was the day after
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: my birthday and I was like, I am not sharing
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: my wedding anniversary with my birthday. That's just like an
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: easy out for.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: You, and I thought, that's you didn't do that right.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: We did it, and I actually kind of love it.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: It's a great sealimtory weekend.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I was so but listen, I.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Was so pissed.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: I was like, it can't be this close to my birthday.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I was so mad. But then it was so cute
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: because we had like a birthday dinner, our rehearsal dinner
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: for me, and then it was our wedding and that
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: was just like such a special time. But there's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: lot of pressure and I was like, how could I
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: have four twelve and four thirteen next to each other
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: for the rest of my life?
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll be honest, I just want a date I
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: can remember. That's true that I am the worsted dates.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: And I was just so excited that when I found out, like, no,
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: I can, I can do this like eleven plus twelve
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: egles twenty three. I'm like, I got that one. So
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: WA just going to try to find date that I
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: can remember so I don't miss the flowers in the
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: car and the gates.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: I just need I need that. So that's the that's
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: the idea for me.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: You should just keep that as the date, like y'all
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: just do everything on that date.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: No, because then I'm sure she'll have the same reaction
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: that Jenna did. And she needs multiple days. I can't
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: combine them, so I'm probably gonna have to find another
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: one that I can remember.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: It's more pressure for Valve than anywhere, double double.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Tade every year since Wow, She's great?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: What has it been like dancing with Gin?
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: And can you share anything about Gin and Sasha because
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: I am rooting for them romantically, but I really just
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: find myself rooting for her happy, like I think after
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: I think there's something about watching what she went through
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: on being ab that felt so devastating and I felt
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: mad for her that seeing her thrive and find this
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: like confidence and joy on Dance with the Stars has
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: been so beautiful. But I am feeling nosy.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I get the nosey part.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: I think a lot of people are knows you on
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: that one. We can be the first to explain that
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: we do not know as much as we as much
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: as we intermingle with all the different couples on the show,
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: it's like it's impossible to really like, we're not going
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: to ask those type of questions as much.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: As you see, we see different. Yeah, how you shifting
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: it right now? Hey?
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: But as you said, for Jen, for her being on
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: the season, what we've always said and what I keep
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: focusing on is the fact of, like, that's so hard
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: to have what happened to her. That was my biggest
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: fear of being on the show is something not only
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: not working out, but then all the stuff that comes
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: along with it. And then I really i know from experienced,
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: like when you get off, you just sit in all
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: of your fields. Even when it works out, you think
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: about everything, you have so much time you're coming out
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: of the six experience that it's really hard, even when
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: it goes well, to like get yourself back to reality.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: And this was probably the perfect thing for her, just
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: to dive into something else, because you just need something
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: to do, You need something to distract, you need something
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: to get you excited about. And from experience a dancer
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: with the stars, it really isn't a better experience to
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: just dive into and have so much fun with. So
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: I'm so grateful she gets this, and I'm grateful that's
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: been going well for her, And as you can tell.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: She like really loves it and enjoying it and like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you see her like thriving, which I think is especial
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: after coming off the season.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: It's like, so it's so empowered. You'll really have such
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: a great cast of people this year.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: It's awesome.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Maybe you could like set up like a nice little
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: romantic picnic or something for that, like.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: A candle and a candle.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: Pick, and we'll write a card from all four of
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: the US.
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: This was just we talked about on the podcast.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's simple.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Are you watching Have you had time to watch Golden Bachelorette?
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: Are you watching gold She's a mom, She's just like
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: she can't watch my season.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: Because I'm helping you. So you don't even have to
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: say it's not wrong.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I am a mom. So when I get home, I'm
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: like doing bad time and bedtime and then.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: And then you plan stuff for me. I'm a child.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you watched T television right now?
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: No?
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Really, not well No, I am like so focused on
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: what's at hand of the week or next week.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: I imagine how much time we would all have in
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: our days if we didn't watch any TV.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Like I think about that often actually.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: With my son. That's about it.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: That's a good one, though it could be worse.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: I think people forget how much like they always talk
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: about how tough it is on the celebrities, how much
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: time they have to put in, but no one actually
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: thinks about the pros too, because not only are they
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: putting in the exact amount of time, but they also
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: have to plan a course. Yeah, they have to do
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: extra practices because they have opening numbers.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: Like her schedule is ridiculous.
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: That I'm shocked she doesn't have time to do all
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: the other things she does, So I don't take it personally.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: That's but your future father in law went home last
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: night and I was so sad.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: But does could there be a Golden Bachelor opportunity?
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Possibly, I think there always is a chance, you know
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: how it works. They take time to kind of make
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: that decision. And I think now that everyone knows that
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: Mark isn't with Joan, people are rooting for him, as
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: they should because he's just an amazing man. But yeah,
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: I think what I take from that experience for him
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: is he talked about in the most eloquent way possible
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: because it's Mark. It's just like he gained so much
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: from this and he was so grateful, and I think
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: it did more for him than he could have imagined.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: And I think he's ready to, as he said, like
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: kind of start his life again and really push himself
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: to be open to finding someone and just keep having
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: amazing experiences what that show does. So I'm rooting for
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: him whatever that means, if it's another opportunity with the show,
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: if it's just him putting himself out there and finding
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: someone and starting to go on dates and hopefully finding
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: someone to spend more time with.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: So what a crazy thing though, to be able to
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: experience something that your daughter went through, like your future.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just so crazy.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: She was the Golden Bachelor. You'd give him all would.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: I would they need to do this.
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: I would request to be like his assistant, like I
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: would go on it with him and I would sit
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: with him and just make sure someone was protecting him
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: in all.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: Foss because he just it's a crazy experience.
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: And I know they do such a great job, but
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: the golden side of the franchise is keeping it very wholesome.
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: So I would be all supportive of it if they
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: did choose to, But I'll do whatever Mark wants to do.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: Because that man deserves the world. So whatever he does,
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: I'm going to support it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: He's precious.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: No, he's the best.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: I do want to talk, though, Jenna, about your schedule
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: because I think that, No, I think that like a mom,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Like you're women now, like we're multifaceted, we're hype.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: What's it called hyper? What's the multi hyphen its? Thank
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: you so much?
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: So it's like you are You're a you're working, you're working,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: you're a mom, you're a friend, you're this, you're a wife,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Like you have all of these things on your plate.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Like what does I don't want to say an average
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: day look like, because I guess every day of the
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: week is probably different, but like, yeah, give us like
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: one of your busiest.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Days, Like what that kind of looks like today?
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, today that works.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: So today's unique. But today started at five forty five.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I had glam, we did press, we did KTLA this morning.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Then we're obviously doing this wonderful podcast. We have like
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: an hour and then we head straight to our own
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: individual rehearsal, which is one to five, and then we
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: are actually shooting something for our package next week, which
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: is a cute little double date. Uh, with me, Val
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Kelsey and Joey. So we're shooting something for that and
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: that's going to be after rehearsal, which is probably like
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: six to nine. All while, like my son woke up
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: at seven, I have to give him his bottle, you know,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: get him out of bed. I want to make sure
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: that I'm always the person to do that or put
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: him to bed. So it's just crazy. But then I'm
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: also having to do fittings, zoom call, creative zoom calls,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: we do interviews. It's just nuts us, absolutely nuts. But
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: and like I feel like my family sometimes they know
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: not to really text or call me and take it
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: offensively if I don't answer while I'm in season, because
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I just it's hard to keep up.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And like.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I won't respond to Joey's text if he texts
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: me at night, and then I'll like look at my
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: phone and it's ten pm and I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry I didn't see this that I was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: putting room to bed or i was doing bath time.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: So it's a lot to like try to feel like
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: myself and not like I'm spread too thin. But I'm
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: also so proud that I can do all of these
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: things and feel like I'm giving myself to all of
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: them because I love I love what I do. I
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: love working, I love choreographing, I love dancing, I love
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: being a mom, I love being a WiFi. I can
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: be so much better, but it's it's it's hard in
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: these three months. It's like a little bubble that I
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: just have to prepare myself, like this is going to
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: be insanity, but you can do it, and then it's
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: going to be Christmas. So yeah, I really enjoyed to say.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: You're an inspiration, like honestly, because I do think, like
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: you know, I think that as women, we do have
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: all of these wants, you know, like I don't have
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: a kid of my own.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: I want very soon.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: But it's like that is another thing that's like scary
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: because it's like I don't know what that means for
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: like my professional life, and like you know what I mean,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: it's like it's like this weird little dance that we
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: have to do, and so it's.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: You can do it, I'll see. Yeah, it's from what
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I've like, it's hard and sometimes uncomfortable and you have
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: to overplan. But I knew going into motherhood that I
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: wanted to still work, and that was really part of
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: my identity and something that gave me so much happiness.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: So I always know i'd be a working mom, but
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I've learned that you're able to accomplish so much and
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: somehow you have energy to do it. I don't know how,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: because I don't. I really feel like I don't sleeve
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a ton, but it makes all of these moments so fulfilling,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm so much more present in
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: life in all aspects because I really know, like I
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: don't want to take this for granted. I'm so grateful
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to have it. So, yeah, what is it?
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: What is your life when you're not on like when
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: this when Dancing with the Stars isn't airing or being
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: filmed or whatever.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: What does life look like for you?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: It's a lot more chill.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: No.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: My husband and I, you know, we we have different
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: things that we do. We also work for like conventions,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: so we teach on the weekends. We're constantly traveling. We'll
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: do gigs here and there. We've done the Dancing with
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the Stars tour, which is another beast. So yeah, it's
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: it's a lot different and we kind of get to
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: determine our own schedule, which is nice. So I think
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: that's why we we have the stamina to get through
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: these three months, because we know it's a bit more
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: chill once we're out of it.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: It's it's incredible that schedule just gave me so much stress.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: I thought about the few errands I have to run
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: today and I was like.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: The box and home goods today.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Relax.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: Wait.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: So I had a question about the songs. Do they
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: give you the songs or do you get to choose
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: the songs, Like as you're creating the dance, is it
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: like you choose the song?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: How does that work?
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: It's kind of a mix.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: It's it kind of depends on what the theme is
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: that we bring in a theme.
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: And then I remember when I first came on, they
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: like talked about some of the themes they had and
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: they're like, give us some ideas of like songs you
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: would like to do along with it. But it never
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: like works out perfectly. You can't just be like I
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: want to do Taylor Swift every week, like this doesn't happen.
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: You have to make sure it fits and then you
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: have to kind of find out a way to make
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: it meaningful. To you what we love so far, I
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: mean feel really good about the first like.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: Five songs we've done.
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: Is we've wanted it to be powerful, each one to
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: have something, and it's hard because it's I don't know.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: It's like when someone asks you, like, what's your favorite song,
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: Like that's so hard to come up with. It's the
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: same thing when you ask for like a theme. It's
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: just you got to find something that not only means
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: a lot to you, but then you feel like it's
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: gonna be powerful. I feel strong that she's gonna be
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: able to make good choreography to that. That's where she
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: comes in the most.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: So if it's if you say something good, you do that, yeah,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: so I don't think so, I know it's a weird thing.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: And if you knock on your forehead and you say, what.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: I almost started doing that, there you go at least day.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really depends well. Also, and you have to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: do a different style each week. Yes, so you want
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: to do a song that you love that fits within
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the theme, but then you have to do a different
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: genre of like we have to do a fox drop
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: or a tango or a Latin style. So it is
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: hard to find that something that fits all of those boxes.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: But we've we've been able to.
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: Do that so far.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: It so far.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel great about it, and it's it's just
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: it's a part of the whole process of trying to
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: make sure it all works out too.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: But it's mostly her. I just listen to what she says.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: What are you working on right now with dance?
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: Well, we have Disney Night coming up, so it's gonna
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: be a fun one.
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: We can't say exactly yet what song it is and
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: what movie, but I don't think we can.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: When does it get announced?
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: The color dress you wear?
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: I will be shirtless, that's what we can say. Yeah,
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: I'll be shirtless and I'll be wearing a wig. Have
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: you been two together.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Over?
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: No, not a lot.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: This is a full, a full shirtless moment, Tarzan. We
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: How does it feel to bear it all like that?
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: Did you ever think?
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: No?
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: I'll bring him back to week one because it was
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: Jenna's brilliant idea. She's like, there's a moment in this
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: dance where you could definitely rip your shirt off.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I was like, what, we just met each other.
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: He was like, I don't know what.
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: I've never done that before She's like, no, it's great,
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: they'll put a girl on your shirt. You'll just take
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: it out and it'll be awesome. Like okay, like let's
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: try to find.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: The time in it.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: And then you were a meme everywhere.
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: It was a great idea. But the funny thing is
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: I didn't get a chance to practice that until that day.
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: Remember we did it like that.
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: I think it's time to finally just the shirt off
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: because you would like do like the action of it.
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: And then she's like, no, you're gonna need to bring
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: a shirt in that you can actually rip off.
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: And and then then that I was gonna say that was.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Kind of when I felt like we knew, like, oh,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Joey's gonna be in this competition.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: He's like ready to embrace.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: You're like here I am.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: He's not just gonna get votes because everyone loves him,
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: They're gonna he's gonna get votes.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when all this is said and done, when this
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: season is done, who are the people that you're going
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: to keep in touch with for me on besides each other?
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, I honestly cannot wait to keep this friendship.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: But she's the best her in vow, I hope I
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: get to be in their lives for the rest of
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: it because they are amazing.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: Uh, Alona is the best.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: I love.
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: Alona is everything you would imagine she is and more.
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: I will annoy her for the rest of my life
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: because I just love her. Honestly, A lot of the
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: other pros to Brandon, Alan, everyone everyone on the show
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: has been great, but yeah, the first one that comes
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: in my own mind is I just love a Loe.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: We've grown a.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Weird connection with them, Like I feel like we're always
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: rehearsing at the same exact time, so they become our
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: rehearsal buddies where they'll come in Alan will help me
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: with showing Joey something, I'll help him with like a lift,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: showing alone of something. So we've really created this awesome
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: like friendship and bond with them that has been Yeah, special.
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: It's been awesome and everyone this season it's just truthfully
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: going to be. It's the same thing with the Bachelor
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: stuff too, Like the longer you're in the competition, the
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: more time you spend with them.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: So I don't know who we're.
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: Gonna get close with, because hopefully we're going to be
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: here for the long haul and those a gonna be
• 48:36
  Speaker 7: the people who are going to keep seeing So that's
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: just part of it.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I remember when I follow on Alona.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: I saw I clicked on her profile and TikTok and
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: it said follow back, and I was like, star strug.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: This was like when she first like went viral at
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: the Olympics.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: Yes and follow her first?
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: Well, no, she wasn't the best feeling ever when you
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: see the.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was stoked. So I hope she follows me.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: They didn't follow you first?
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate it.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, where can people follow you? Where can
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: people see what you're doing?
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: I feel like everyone's probably, I mean our listeners are
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: so I feel like this season specifically, people are like
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: obsessed this season specifically of Dancing with the Stars.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: They're like all in, But where can people who may
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: not be following you back?
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: The obvious is they can tune in every Tuesday to
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars and continue to vote Joey yes,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And then on socials, I'm at Jenna Johnson and I'm
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: at Joey easy peasy.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we love you, guys are rooting for you all
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: and hopefully the next time.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Good luck to Yeah, I'm so excited. I'm going to
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: start doing this all the time.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: YEAHAH can wait to see how your life.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: We're about to track our next podcast, so you watch out.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be allowed to tell Kelsey you had a
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: great time, because I would love to have her scrub it.
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: I guess we're going to be in l A, so
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: we'll definitely find a time we can all link up
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: with great tracking out.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: That's right, Thank you guys,