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The Most Emotional Night Ever (DWTS S35 Ep 7 Recap) · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous Podcast with iHeartRadio. Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the most dramatic dance floor ever. It's
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  Speaker 1: your hosts, Trista and Deanna. And this week was dedication
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  Speaker 1: week on Dancing with the Stars. And holy tearjerker, right?
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  Speaker 1: I was like crying through the.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I have to say I'm like hooked on
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  Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars now.
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  Speaker 3: Like maybe it just took me a few episodes, but
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  Speaker 3: this week I was like, oh yeah, like I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. It was like this week's episode was
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  Speaker 3: so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Just all of like the.
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  Speaker 2: just the memories and the dedications and seeing everybody close to,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously it's everything that I want to see. Our producer,
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  Speaker 2: Heather predicted Julia Stiles. I loved seeing, yeah, I just like,
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  Speaker 2: I loved it, Trista.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought about crying.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't because I think I'm cold and dead inside,
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  Speaker 2: but like I thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was crying. I even, I posted on my
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  Speaker 1: Instagram story and Blakeslee was at dance and she came
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  Speaker 1: home and she was like, Mom, like, what is wrong? Like,
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  Speaker 1: you just posted you were crying over Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, because it was really sweet and sentimental
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  Speaker 1: and sad and just so powerful.
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  Speaker 3: It was really special.
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  Speaker 1: I love Dedication Week. And I feel like we both
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  Speaker 1: like it because we're sentimental people, but I... Just every
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  Speaker 1: single dance. So... Well, we're going to get into it
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  Speaker 1: for sure. We had so many things going on. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: our first tens, we had.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of surprises, Trista.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of surprises. There is a baby coming. We're having
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  Speaker 1: a baby. The fact that they did a gender reveal
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  Speaker 1: on Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 3: We're having a baby.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. It was so epic. So freaking epic. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get into it because I know we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot to cover. And I want to say
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  Speaker 1: Kim Johnson was the guest judge.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so should I have known Kim Johnson?
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  Speaker 1: You have never watched the show before, so you shouldn't have.
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  Speaker 1: She has been on, she's a champion twice over. And
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  Speaker 1: she is just a beautiful human being. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: she was a perfect choice to... for dedication night because
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  Speaker 1: she's a mom. She's like, she just has a kind
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  Speaker 1: heart and she knows what she's doing. So I loved
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  Speaker 1: that they brought Kim back into the ballroom. She actually
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  Speaker 1: married her partner, Robert Herjavec. He is one of the,
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  Speaker 1: on Shark Tank. They were partnered together and they are
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  Speaker 1: since married and have had, I think they have twins now.
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  Speaker 2: She was the pro, he was the celebrity, and they
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  Speaker 2: ended up married?
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they were partnered together, if I think
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  Speaker 1: back to watching. And I know he posted, he popped up, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they were partners together, and they got married because their
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  Speaker 1: chemistry was just palpable, and they fell in love.
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  Speaker 2: I love when love works out that way, like it's
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  Speaker 2: just meant to be, you know what I mean? Like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I feel like we get off, off track with
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  Speaker 2: our path, but sometimes it's just meant to be.
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  Speaker 3: And like, they just needed to meet on Dancing with
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  Speaker 3: the Stars. You know what I mean? And that's their story.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So last week we talked about how, like, I
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  Speaker 1: conjectured that Ezra was going to be first because he
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  Speaker 1: was last the past two episodes before, which I thought,
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  Speaker 1: this is really strange. I had talked to Danielle Fischel's
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  Speaker 1: husband about it. we both were like, this is weird.
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  Speaker 1: Why are they putting him at the bottom or at
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  Speaker 1: the last spot two nights in a row? I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like that's normal. And I was like, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get the first 10. He got the
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  Speaker 1: first 10. It was so exciting. I was so happy
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  Speaker 1: for them. That dance just like Out the gate, I
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  Speaker 1: was crying. And you know this. I love him. I
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  Speaker 1: love his family. We got to meet his mom and
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  Speaker 1: his dad. His mom is so sweet.
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  Speaker 2: And then to hear him share about how she pretty
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  Speaker 2: much did everything. Those old videos, when they go back
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  Speaker 2: to her telling him to walk when she gets there.
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, oh my God, it's the sweetest.
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  Speaker 1: And as a mom, right? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: That pulled on all of my heartstrings. And then to
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  Speaker 2: see her show up for him and just like.
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  Speaker 1: The pure joy.
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  Speaker 2: We know this as mothers. The pure joy and excitement
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  Speaker 2: and just pride.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? She was beaming.
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  Speaker 3: I loved that.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that. You could feel how special it was
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  Speaker 1: for her to be in the ballroom. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: my notes from last night because I had to take
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  Speaker 1: notes on my notes app because I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to remember everything. I need to take notes.
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  Speaker 1: But you can tell. So I was scrolling this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And do you know the podcaster Jay Shetty?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love his podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He had Ezra on and he shared this letter that
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  Speaker 1: Bahar had written to, Bahar and her husband had written
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  Speaker 1: to the parents of his elementary school when he was
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  Speaker 1: starting kindergarten. I have cold chills, Trista.
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  Speaker 2: I literally like, I'm like already, I'm like dying.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I know. And just the support for him and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has challenges, like whether they're physical or emotional or
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  Speaker 1: intellectual or, you know, everyone has challenges. His are physical.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not letting that stop him. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: the baseline to be moved for him. You know, he...
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  Speaker 1: Just the support. And I was literally thinking, was I
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  Speaker 1: a good enough mother? You know what I mean? Like
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  Speaker 1: she seems to be just, they seem to be incredible parents.
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  Speaker 1: What did she say?
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  Speaker 2: You walk into every room with your hand held high.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter about your foot or your hand or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Like you don't let any of that. You walk into
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  Speaker 2: a room with your head held high. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: good job, mom. Good job. I say it to Addison.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, we choose flame keepers, not flame blowers. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like I feel like I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to like Make good humans here. And like his mom,
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  Speaker 2: his mom did a great job. Like when he was crying,
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  Speaker 2: talking about his mom, I was like, oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: did it. I hope she like puts her head down
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  Speaker 2: every night and is like, I did it.
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  Speaker 3: I did it. He's a good person.
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  Speaker 1: Totally agree. And to be able to dedicate the dance
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  Speaker 1: and have her be part of it. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: love this night so much is just how special it
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  Speaker 1: is to be able to dedicate the dance. on Dancing
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  Speaker 1: with the Stars, share the stage with you, welcome you
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  Speaker 1: on into the ballroom, like onto the ballroom stage and
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  Speaker 1: be able to express that love and appreciation in front
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  Speaker 1: of the world is so meaningful and they freaking crushed it.
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  Speaker 1: Dani's choreography was amazing. Like when she climbed up, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, people are gonna be doing that. I was
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  Speaker 1: just like blown away with the choreo. Oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to say. You cannot tell. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not specifically looking at his prosthetic, you cannot tell that
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  Speaker 1: he has a prosthetic. No.
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  Speaker 2: He moves very elegantly on the dance floor. I almost
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  Speaker 2: forget that he... Oh, God, I don't want to sound
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  Speaker 2: like an idiot with what I'm going to say, but
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  Speaker 2: I almost forget that he has a prosthetic.
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  Speaker 3: The way he moves on a dance floor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't think you sound like an idiot
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  Speaker 1: at all. I think he is proving... that your physical
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  Speaker 1: challenge really don't mean squat. Like get up, get moving,
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  Speaker 1: like show the world that you can do it because
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  Speaker 1: you can. He's proving that. I just, I am blown
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  Speaker 1: away by his abilities, especially because of his physical challenges.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he is my favorite. I'm gonna say it again.
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  Speaker 1: He's my choice for winner. There is no doubt in
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  Speaker 1: my mind that he will be in the final. I
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  Speaker 1: have a very strong opinion that he will win, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that he deserves to win because he is
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  Speaker 1: throwing all of these, like, you know, judgments aside, I'm
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  Speaker 1: blown away by them and their partnership.
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  Speaker 2: When I watch the show now with friends of mine,
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  Speaker 2: they act like I'm this expert now because we're doing
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  Speaker 2: this podcast. Like, so what do you think? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I know absolutely nothing, but Trista believes he is picked
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  Speaker 2: to win. So he's going to win.
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  Speaker 3: Like she's the expert. I'm just here for keeps, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: But like, it's fun to watch it with other people
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  Speaker 2: because now I feel like because of you and our producer, Heather,
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  Speaker 2: I have so much like insight now on the show
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  Speaker 2: and And I saw it last night, Trista.
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  Speaker 3: When he danced, I was like, aw. Yeah, you guys
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  Speaker 3: might be right. He might be in it for the win.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh. I hope so. I think he deserves it.
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  Speaker 1: And I just love their love for each other, the partners,
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  Speaker 1: Danny and him.
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  Speaker 3: Their chemistry, it's really, every bit of it is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: They got a 37 out of 40 last night.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's really great.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I was like, oh my gosh, I have been
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  Speaker 2: waiting for 10s and perfect scores.
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  Speaker 1: And all of this thing.
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  Speaker 2: It just kind of like makes the excitement there with
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  Speaker 2: the show.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. I do think that he should have gotten
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  Speaker 1: more than 110, but that's okay. I think that the
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  Speaker 1: the everyday judges, not Kim Johnson, were like holding back
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  Speaker 1: so that they could give their 10s, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: if someone did better. I don't know who could have
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  Speaker 1: done better, but I felt like he deserved, he definitely
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  Speaker 1: deserved the 110. I thought he deserved more, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's fine. I don't think that that matters
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  Speaker 1: for next week.
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  Speaker 3: I am, hopeful.
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  Speaker 1: Love, love, love, love, love, love.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Love, love, love.
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  Speaker 1: So much love. So much love. Okay, so Tatiana was
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  Speaker 1: next with Jan, and this week she dedicated the dance
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  Speaker 1: to James Avery, who was the dad on Fresh Prince.
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  Speaker 1: He acted like a father figure to her and to Alfonso,
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  Speaker 1: who she brought into the dance, which I thought was
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  Speaker 1: so special.
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  Speaker 2: Trista, I literally almost shed a tear. This one, like,
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  Speaker 2: really pulled.
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  Speaker 3: At my heartstrings.
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  Speaker 2: I guess because, you know, it's my era. I grew
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  Speaker 2: up watching Fresh Prince of the Bel-Air, and they looked
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  Speaker 2: like a family.
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  Speaker 1: I love that you just called it Fresh Prince of
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  Speaker 1: the Bel-Air.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Such an old lady.
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  Speaker 3: Such an old lady.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, people. Get on board. I grew
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  Speaker 2: up watching this show, and they always looked like a
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  Speaker 2: close-knit group of people. You know, some people, you just
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  Speaker 2: get it on set. They don't mesh well, whatever. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting to see some, you know, succeed
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  Speaker 2: more than others.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this.
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  Speaker 2: Moment was so special and the fact that she brought
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  Speaker 2: him in to dance with her.
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  Speaker 1: And she sang the song. That was her recording the song.
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  Speaker 3: And she was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: So I was paying attention to all the different aspects.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought that was really special.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. And I thought she did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I actually wrote, Tatiana is growing on me. Me too.
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  Speaker 1: She's so well-spoken. She's so kind-hearted, it seems, and so
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  Speaker 1: like funny. She has a great sense of humor.
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  Speaker 3: Her energy is so chill, Trista.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure I would be that chill, but
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  Speaker 2: like every time they see her, they show her like.
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  Speaker 3: In her back, her back package, backstage package.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what we call it? Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And even on the dance floor, her energy is so chill.
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  Speaker 2: Like I want to grow up and be just like her.
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  Speaker 1: She's, I love her. She's definitely, she definitely grew on
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  Speaker 1: me last night. And, you know, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: much longer Trista She'll be around, but I do enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: I am enjoying watching her more and more.
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  Speaker 3: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she did great last night.
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  Speaker 2: She got all eights. I mean, she got a 32
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  Speaker 2: out of 40. Like I thought that was, I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was very fitting. I thought it was well-deserved. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a great score for her. I enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: every bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: Totally agree. Totally agree. It was their best score of
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  Speaker 1: the season. And I thought it was very well-deserved. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: I love Tatiana and I love that she brought it
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  Speaker 1: in Alfonso. Okay, Mara was next, and she has been
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  Speaker 1: one of my front runners. I thought it was really
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  Speaker 1: interesting that she dedicated her dance to Ireland, to an
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  Speaker 1: entire country, which, you know, I think that's, like, that
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  Speaker 1: is really an incredible thing to be able to dedicate
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  Speaker 1: it to, like, you know, a country full of people
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  Speaker 1: who are watching you and supporting you. I just felt
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  Speaker 1: like maybe the dedication to the personal people who were
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  Speaker 1: able to be in the routines with the celebs and
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  Speaker 1: the pros were just, they came across as a bit
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  Speaker 1: more special to me, a bit more sentimental. Not that her,
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  Speaker 1: not that the thought of her dedicating this dance to
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  Speaker 1: her entire country of origin was not special, but I just,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like I just, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily as personalized as.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the others who have gone before her
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  Speaker 2: so far in the show, it really touched our heartstrings.
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  Speaker 3: I actually really love.
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  Speaker 2: That she dedicated it to Ireland because she is so Irish.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 3: So much a part of her.
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  Speaker 2: I actually feel like, Trista, I would have been more
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  Speaker 2: confused if she dedicated it to someone or something else
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know that as a viewer, I know
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  Speaker 2: a lot about her personally, but I actually kind of
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  Speaker 2: really love that she dedicated it to her people.
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  Speaker 1: She's very Irish. I think that's super cool. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I do. I thought it was really cool. I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like compared to the others that It just didn't
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  Speaker 1: land as special as some. I will say also that,
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  Speaker 1: you know me, I have been a fan of Maura
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  Speaker 1: since the beginning. I have felt like she is just
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  Speaker 1: showing off, you know, like not showing off in a
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  Speaker 1: like egotistical way, but she is really stepping up to
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  Speaker 1: the plate and showing all of us that even without
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  Speaker 1: any dance background, she is a beautiful dancer. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that the tango was my favorite dance for her. No, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that the Paso Doble was my favorite
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  Speaker 1: dance for her. I felt like her footwork was just
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  Speaker 1: a little, not sloppy is not the word, just not on,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't clean. So maybe it was sloppy. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: the opposite of clean. And it was really interesting to
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  Speaker 1: me that none of the judges said anything about her technique.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like- I don't know. I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening? Because usually Derek would... Carrie Ann did point
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  Speaker 1: out a lift. And she does attack all of their
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  Speaker 1: notes that they give her every week. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: she's super passionate. At the beginning, I loved how they
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  Speaker 1: started with Mark behind her and kind of like peeking around.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was really powerful. But technically... I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like it wasn't her best dance compared to the
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  Speaker 1: other dances in frame where she is perfection. And we
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  Speaker 1: know she does that so well.
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  Speaker 2: We have talked about until we're blue in the face
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  Speaker 2: how beautiful her arms and her hands and the placement
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  Speaker 2: of each.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: It was nice to see her do something else because
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  Speaker 2: we have seen her do that from week to week,
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  Speaker 2: different dances and look so perfect with her hand placement
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. You know, it's interesting that you say
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  Speaker 2: all of that, Trista, because I'm with you, but the
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  Speaker 2: scores don't necessarily reflect that.
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  Speaker 1: She got very high scores. She got all nines.
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  Speaker 2: I know, she got nines and won eight from Carrie Ann.
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  Speaker 2: She got a 35 out of 40.
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked that she did better than Tatiana, to
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  Speaker 1: be quite honest. I felt like it didn't, the nines didn't,
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  Speaker 1: really land for me in this episode. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: she's deserved her scores up to this point and maybe
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  Speaker 1: even deserved higher scores in the past. But... I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh gosh. And then after watching the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the show, I was like, oh, I really
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  Speaker 1: hope she's in the finals because I do think that
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  Speaker 1: she is showing all of us that what it looks
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  Speaker 1: like to be a non-dancer transformed into a dancer. So
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  Speaker 1: I think she deserves it. But I just felt like
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  Speaker 1: the nines to me, I don't know, just they weren't
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  Speaker 1: as deserved this time. I still love Mara, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was just, that was my take. Okay. Jackson and
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  Speaker 1: Emma are up next. And last week it was considered
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  Speaker 1: a breakthrough for them. And he dedicated this dance to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: his mom. I thought it was really sweet that she
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: was on the stage too. The same kind of thing.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like this was like a Mother's Day episode.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, for moms.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Everywhere, I'm sure we're all like, oh my God, like
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I hope my child, you know what I mean? Like
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: for moms everywhere, because it is one of the best
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: yet most selfless jobs that you will ever have. So
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: for moms everywhere watching, were we all on the same
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: page with these?
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? It was the sweetest. It
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: was absolutely the sweetest.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: So sweet. And I did notice, you know, in the beginning... Julian,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: or maybe it was Alfonso, said that, you know, they
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: will be judged, you know, the judges will be judging them,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: but they will not be judging the people who are
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: guests on the ballroom floor. Could you imagine?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: No. Give our people a break.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sure people would have been like, yeah, no, this
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: is really special, but I am not getting on that
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: dance floor.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: But I also thought for the people that showed up
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: with our celebrities, they did a great job. None of
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: these people are trained dancers except for Jenna and Harry, right?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: What's his name? Shum. Yeah. To have their family, their moms, whomever.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: It is, show up and be able to do a
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: little bit of dance, I all did such a great job,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: but that goes to credit the pros.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Not only are the pros doing this with our celebrities
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and teaching them to dance and become what looks like
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: a professional dancer, but now they're taking their family members
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: or their friends who are coming in for what, like
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: one week to practice?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And I thought they all did such a great job.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Like that's, to me, that's really cool when you watch
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: this show.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I totally agree. And it's funny that you say that
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: because knowing the timeline of things to happen like in
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: my season and things have changed a lot since season one,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: but you know, you start practicing the dances for the week,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the next week, not right when you finish, you're already practicing.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that they probably had already called
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the people that they were dedicating their dances to. Like
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Guillermo probably had already made that phone call and started,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: they started already choreographing the numbers, you know? So I
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: feel like they probably gave them a little bit, you know,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: extra time in terms of it doesn't happen like the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: second that you finish the episode on Tuesday night. I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: think they probably have just a little, who knows if
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it's a day or what, but I think they probably did.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: had already made those phone calls.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to give them props where it is
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: due because, you know, could I do that?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I'm really unsure.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But either way, they all look great out there. This
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: has been my favorite episode so far.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Same, same.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he got, Jackson got 32 out of 40.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It was the best score that they had received yet,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: but they were at the bottom of the leaderboard, which
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, as we were texting last night,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's either between Jackson or Connor to go home.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That's going to go home next.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, next week.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And there are two celebs that will be leaving next
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: week because they didn't... Oh, actually, we don't need to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: go there. We're not going to talk about that just yet.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But yeah, two celebs will be going home next week.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if it will be Jackson and Connor.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like as we're starting to see these dances
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: get really good and the scores get bigger, it's now
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: we're weeding out the best from.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: from the good.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I hate even saying that because they've all done a
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: really great job, but now we're getting above the bar
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: with the dancing.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Totally. And I think you can see the difference is
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: becoming more and more exposed. Yes. Yeah, totally. Totally.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Our next couple.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Trista, I love this.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And I will have to admit, I was not on
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: board at first in our first couple of episodes, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Amber and Pasha were like, blew me away last night.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And listen, as an athlete, you know what I mean?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Like she showed promise from the first episode. I just
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: don't know why I didn't jump on board at first,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: but like last night, I am like a full-blown like fan.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: fangirling out over here. It, for me, this was the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: best dance of the night. And I have so many
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: people on this show this season that I am really
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: attached to because I like, I have this like emotional
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: attachment from like childhood or something. But yeah, last night,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Amber and Pasha like blew me away. I am huge,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: huge fans now by their, their dancing.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I just, I love it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: I love it. Same.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Same. I wrote down that may have been one of
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: my favorite dances on dancing with the stars ever.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Like ever.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yes. And, and not just because like, yes, the, the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: choreography was amazing. The, the execution of the choreography was amazing,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: but also I, something that I love about dance is
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that it tells a story. Some routines tell a story
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and they pull you in emotionally. They evoke an emotion.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: This was such a clear story on the dance floor. Like,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think we even needed to see the package
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to know that she went through all of this stuff
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: if we hadn't even seen the package, right? And known...
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: all of the struggles that she went through mentally and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: being admitted to a mental health facility and going through.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I have my second set of cold chills right now, Trista.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I love it. Oh, my skin is crawling.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I love it so much. No, I don't love it
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that she went through a mental... Obviously, we don't love
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that part, but the fact.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: That she's sharing it, we all love that story that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: comes full circle.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: We love that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And the fact that her sister was basically there to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: save her life and remind her that she was worthy
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and she mattered. And it was just so freaking powerful.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: That's why I love dancing because it evokes emotion and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: She executed it perfectly. That part of the dance where
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: he was holding her upside down and then he flipped
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: her out of it and she stuck it, like stuck
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the landing. I was like, that's going to be repeated
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: on social media today and like all this week. I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: was blown away. And same as you. And maybe you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: thought this because... Maybe I've been outspoken about it. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: know I have been outspoken about it from the beginning.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: But I hadn't really connected with her. And there were
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: little things like her feet and those kind of things. Obviously,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: she's an Olympian. She's an incredible athlete. And she has
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the talent. But I thought last night's dance, I'm forever
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: now eight. 100% fan.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It was that softer side that we needed to see.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: It was that softer side.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, I needed that. We've been talking about connection with Jenna, especially,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and with Amber.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I wanted to.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Hear about how.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: She's not just an Olympian, that she's just like us
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and she struggles. And she obviously showed that last night.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And she got two 10s for it. Love it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, yes! And they were from Carrie Ann.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Tell me if I'm wrong, but a 10 from Carrie
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Ann Inaba, I feel like has to be really hard
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to get. Like she seems like, I love all of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the judges, but Derek, you know what I mean? He's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: real technical.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Bruno is just like a party all the time.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I feel like it must be hard to get a
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: 10 from Carrie Ann. And last night, it just, like,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: very well deserved. Like, I was super excited about it
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: and very well deserved.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: But, like, holy smokes. Holy smokes. Yeah, holy smokes. The
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: best scores of the season. The best scores of the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: season and hers, obviously. Almost a perfect score. I was
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: sitting in my living room. And it's not like this
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: happens all the time. I'm sitting there watching. I was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: clapping to my television. I love it. I love it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: It was a very beautiful dance, beautiful story.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: We evoked the emotion that we have been looking for
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and just that connection to her that was needed.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: It was really like, so far, oh man, it's tough.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I was going to say my favorite of the entire
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: season so far, but man, there's been a lot of
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: good dances, but she's on up there for me this morning.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: With Ezra.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. She's in the final two. Yeah. For sure. Like,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: when I was talking about Mara, because she happened before Amber, I, like,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Amber definitely has squeaked ahead of Mara in my mind.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You know? After last night, I was like, whoa.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Well, she absolutely should. I mean, she got a freaking
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: 38 out of 40. Like, that's pretty close to freaking perfect.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And then Pasha got announced as the People
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Magazine's Sexiest Dancing with the Stars pro. And the part
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: about it that I loved the most was Danny freaking
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: out and being like, I told you. I told you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: He's mine. I told you. They're super cute.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I guess because I'm watching the show now.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: They're so cute.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Sometimes their videos will roll into my feed.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And I just like to see that real life version
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of them. And they're so.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Cute on social media.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I love it. I love love.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So cute. I love love. Have you seen that they
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: opened like a coffee and treats or something like that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: store in Miami? I feel like it's in Miami. And
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: they just put out this video. You have to go
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: look at it. It's so funny. It's like her personality
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: shines through because like someone asked like a kind of
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a stupid question and like the look that she's giving
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the client, the customer, like it's, I love them on
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: social media. I love them in person. I love watching
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: them on my television. I love them. And I'm really
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: hopeful that this is her season.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Like either of them.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: They could win, and I'd be so happy. So anyway, yeah. Okay,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: so Jenna is up next, and she was partnered with
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Alan because of the drama that happened last, After the episode,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: do you remember in the episode, I was like, we're
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: going to see this play out on social media.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Listen, you are just rocking my world because you are
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: predicting things. That's why I tell people, I'm like, I'm
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: not the expert here. Trista is the expert. And I
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: remember you talking about this. And then because of our
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: text chain, I'm like gasping, you know, separately after we
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: watched the episode. So this drama we cannot avoid.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: It was almost like, Fel's been on this show for
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: a long time.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: It kind of seems like an unfortunate thing to have
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: happened because now I feel like it changes the taste
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: for me for the entire season, which is unfortunate because
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Jenna is the one who will pay the price for that.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Like Val will come back.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: He'll have a job and he'll dance and he's going
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: to be just fine.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: But I almost feel like can they really crown them
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: champions of the season after that?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, here's the deal. I was never thinking
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that she was going to win anyway. I mean, I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: didn't even know. I've said I don't even know that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: she'll be in the final. So, you know, I guess
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: because that's my mentality or has been my mentality since
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the show began that it's six and one half dozen
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the other. Like, you know, it probably won't affect things
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: because I didn't think that she was going to end
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: up in the final anyway. Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: So for the people who do not know, run it
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: out real quickly, Trista.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: You know, the snarky little comment on social media for
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the people who do not or might not know about
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the drama.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: And we'll also bring in the fact that Fresh Prince
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: kind of stepped into the ballroom tonight, too. So last week,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Carrie Ann gave Jenna Johnson, Val's wife, some criticism that
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I feel like was unexpected. I don't think that Jenna,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it was about a lift, which is Carrie Ann's thing, right?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: at least mostly about a lift. I think she gave
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: her some other criticism during the feedback, but Val was
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: not happy with that feedback. And on social media, he
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: went on and he said, you almost saw Fresh Prince
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: step into the ballroom. And I think what people took
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: from that was, it's interesting because I was talking to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Blakeslee about it. And she's like, I don't think that
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: they everyone was thinking about the slap. I think that
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: people were thinking that he was talking about... Do you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: remember in the Oscars when Will Smith was saying that,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you know, take my wife's name out of your mouth.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Don't talk about my wife. And I think.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: My effing wife.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that that's maybe where Val was coming from.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Just knowing Val, I feel like he is so kind-hearted. Yes,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: he's going to stand up for his wife who... you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he loves more than anything in the world. I think
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: it wasn't as dramatic as that. But I will say,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: from Carrie Ann's perspective, I would have taken it a
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: different way in that Will Smith stepped up on the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: stage and smacked Chris Rock.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: So that's exactly where my thought went, Trista. It wasn't
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: about what was said. I immediately referenced the slap. I
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: don't always remember exactly what Will Smith said on the stage.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I remember the slap that was heard around the world.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Around the world, yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: And out of a serious, like... just out of like respect.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: For the judges, just out of respect.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: My guess is Val thought he was being funny, maybe.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: In a tasteless joke. I agree.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: That's what I probably think.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I agree. But it was tasteless. I agree.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: And then it's also like, Almost like, respect your elders. Like,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I realize Carrie-Anne may not be older than him, but.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: She's the judge of the show. I totally agree. Have
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: some human decency for your coworkers.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't go to the office and tell HR that
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: you're going to slap your coworkers. Well, wait.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So, I have to back up a little bit because
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in past seasons, it has not always been kumbaya between
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the pros and the judges. Oh, okay. Like, his brother...
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is very well known for things that he has said
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to the judges. And they fight back, like, verbally. They
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: come back at the judges' comments, especially his brother. And
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: he has said, you know, Max is his name, and
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: he has said things like, I don't care what you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: have to say or, you know, like things like that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to the judge's face, like after they give them feedback.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: So it hasn't always been an arena where it's like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: rainbows and butterflies. Like they actually stand up for themselves.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And I was, I was saying this to Blakeslee last night.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like it, and, and mind you,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I do have to preface this by saying I am
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: fully in Carrie Ann's camp. Like if she felt at
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: all threatened because of the slap heard around the world
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and the, the fact that Val was alluding to that,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I am very thankful that the producer stood up for
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: her and her safety. And we're like, no, this is no,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: what's the word? Um, Non-negotiable. Like, this is non-negotiable. I
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: need to feel safe. So I am totally with Carrie
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Ann in this. But I will say that, you know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in our society, I feel like people use hyperbole a lot.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And you'll be like, Oh, I could strangle that person. Right.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Or you know what I mean? Right. And it can
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: be very misinterpreted.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: So I feel like I know Val, but I don't
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: know him very well. It's not like I'm his wife or,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you know, a good friend or whatever. But I do
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: feel like I know that he is a kind-hearted person.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And I just hope that this gets buried quicker. And
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I will say, last night... Yes, Alan brought it up
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: when Alan and Jenna Dewan sat down before they started
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: practicing for the week, and he addressed it, but very minorly. Like,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: they did not talk about this really at all last night.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Carrie Ann did not say anything. Nobody said really anything
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: except for during the package when Alan addressed it with Jenna.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: And they had to, because they couldn't just be like, okay, well,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I'm here to help you out, you know? Right. But
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like they are hopefully trying to brush it
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: under the rug. And I'm really hoping that that is
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: what happens.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Listen, as adults, I think it's hard to take constructive criticism.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Like, I believe that that's a skill we have to
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: learn in adulthood. It starts in childhood, but it's something
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: that we have to learn. And I would imagine, too,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: on a show like this where this is their, you know,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: expertise to be dancing. probably at times constructive criticism because
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I do not think that Carrie Ann was mean in.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: What she said.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: But sometimes, right, like we act like little unruly toddlers
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: when we don't like what we hear.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: And sometimes we stomp our feet and.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: We scream and that results in posting on social media
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: and you're like, oops, shouldn't have done that. And then
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: we have to deal with the consequences of our actions.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: And I thought that was a very appropriate statement consequence
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that he has to sit out for this dance I
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: don't think that he has to sit out any further weeks.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: No it sounds like he was just suspended from the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: ballroom for one week yeah the unfortunate part is that
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I believe that it changes for me and maybe when
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: we post this right people will let us know in
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: the comments for me I believe it changes the look
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: For the rest of the season And it probably does,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: but like I'm saying, or in my mind, it wouldn't
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: have affected things so much as to take her out
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: of the final because I don't know that she would
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: have been in the final anyway.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Even though she is clearly the one who showed up
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: on the ballroom floor with the most talent from the get-go.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: She is an incredible dancer. Right. Um, but I just,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: you know, the connection and last night I was really like, okay,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Jenna is who I've been talking about all season, how
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I really want to connect more with her, that I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: want to feel her humanness. I want to feel the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: raw vulnerable side of Jenna. And I thought, you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: it w it was her mom again, which I loved.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I love that her mom, you know, and her. Her
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: dad and her mom split up when she was just
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a baby. And that was really hard. And she, you know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: showed her mom on the dance floor how much she
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: loved her and appreciated her. I will say it was
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a great dance. And she did get 110 from Carrie Ann,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: her first 10, which was amazing. But I will say
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: what I noticed, the dancing was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Alan
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: was an incredible partner to her. They got up to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the skybox after the dance was over. And I cannot
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: remember exactly what Julianne asked her, but she didn't mention
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: her mom at all. So now that.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: You say that, and I did notice it, I'm with you.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Did you notice it? Yeah.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Was the dedication a little forced? Like, was she literally,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: and I'm just pulling, you know, out of the sky here, Trista,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I could be very wrong.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: And tell me if you agree or not, but was it, oh,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I feel even just terrible saying it out loud.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Okay. So just bear with me.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Was it a means to pull on heartstrings to get
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: votes by dedicating the dance to her mom? And it
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: was not a genuine dedication. Like, you know, some of
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the others that we have seen and talked about so far,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: it felt like a genuine dedication. Was this more of
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: a calculated move for votes or And I feel so
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: terrible saying it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel so terrible saying it. Well, see,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you sensed it, too, that when she
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: got up to the skybox that she... Really, there wasn't
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: any mention of her mom. And I feel like the question,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I would love to go back and hear what the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: question was. Because I just felt like everyone else, when
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: they're in the Skybox, has been talking about how special
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the week was and they loved having their mom or whatever,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: their sister or whoever.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: And tears, like they're crying and the pros are crying
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: There was a real lack of emotion. Like the connection,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: is that the right word I'm looking for? The connection
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: for me was lost with the dance and the person
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: that we saw.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unfortunate. Like I don't know if, you know,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: we don't know all of what's going on behind the scenes, right?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: So I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: And for her, I'm wondering if there was someone else
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: that she wanted to dedicate it to. And then- Like
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, she couldn't. And not to say that
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: her mom isn't a special person to her because I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: feel like she is and the story is genuine. But
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I just was like, oh gosh, like if she had
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: just mentioned her mom in the skybox, I feel like
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I would have been like. That was beautiful. And I
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: have no qualms, like no nothing. She deserved her incredible score,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: which she did. Her frame is gorgeous, like gorgeous frame,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: gorgeous execution of the dance. I love the choreography. I
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: just am still yearning for a little bit more connection.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: And I don't know why that is, but it's just,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: it is what it is.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: You know, I think it's also.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: we could absolutely circle it back with a lot of
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: the drama that surrounded the situation for from the week
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean and something that I want
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to make sure we we note is that Val did
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: make a public apology for his actions so I just
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: wonder for for them for the two of them for
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Jenna you know was it just a bit of a
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: week Was it just a bit.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Of a week?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: And now they're a little bit trying to save face, unfortunately,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: for what happened.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Was it just a bit of a week for them?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: You're right. That is definitely something that I'm sure played
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: into her week, is that she has built up this
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: chemistry with Val for six weeks so far. Were we
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: on the seventh week? Yeah, for six weeks so far.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: And then to all of a sudden have it stop, right?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: because of the drama and feeling bad for Val and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: wanting him to be there and wanting, like, there's so
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: much trust that you build up to of, like, guidance
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and all of that. So that wasn't there. So I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: will give her that benefit of the doubt. And she
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: still did great, Trista. She still did amazing. She got
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: her first 10 last night. Yes, yes. She scored a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: 37 out of 40. She still did great.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I will tell you that I was rolling through social
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: media this morning and there were a lot of, like,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: but behind the scenes clips of her with her pro
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: last night, Alan, just showing that there was genuine connection
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: between the two of them and genuine friendship. You know
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: So like, we're like.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Nitpicking here almost as we're talking about this, but it's
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: something that we cannot avoid.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: It has to be discussed.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: She still did amazing.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: And for someone to have to switch up in a
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: week like that and do a dance with a new
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: pro that she doesn't really have a background or a
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: history with, She still did phenomenal. 37 out of 40
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: is like something to write home about.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Like that's, you know, she still did great. I want
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: to bring up something that you just reminded me of.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: So on social media after last week's episode. There was,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: remember how we talked about how Justin Baldoni was in
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the ballroom? So there was a clip on social media.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know whose clip it was, but it showed
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: up on my feed. And they were saying it was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: a video of Jenna Dewan like going, ah, like to
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: someone in the audience, right? And they were saying, this
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: is the moment that Jenna Dewan noticed Justin Baldoni. And
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: they were saying that she was doing that to Justin Baldoni.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Baldoni like saying, oh my God, I love you, you know, blah, blah, blah.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I was sitting behind Danielle Fischel and it was Danielle
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Fischel who she was doing that to. Like literally, I
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: remember the moment going, oh my gosh, they have such
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a beautiful connection. I wonder how they know each other,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: you know, like thinking that in the ballroom. And then
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: when that video came out, I'm like, that was not
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: about Justin Baldoni. So you know what I mean? Like,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: there's only so much that we can, as viewers, we
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: are seeing all of these things play out. We don't
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: know the full story. Like you're saying, we're nitpicking and whatever.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: We don't know the full story. We're just seeing what
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: they're showing us.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we always appreciate your behind the scenes stories.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: things and details, Trista. You're behind the scenes with Danielle.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Now we know she was not blowing kisses to Justin Baldoni.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: We always appreciate everything that you add to the conversation here.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: So now we know.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson are up next.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I love this.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I love this. I loved it. Okay.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: We've seen all the moms. We've seen them like honor
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: their parents.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: And the fact that he dedicated this dance to his
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: wife of 20 years, like as a divorced woman, you
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: are married, Trista. You know that marriage is not easy.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: It ebbs and flows. It's never 50-50. Someone's giving 80.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Someone's giving 20.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: 20 years is a long time to be with someone.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Like I love, love, love. That he dedicated this dance
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: to his.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Wife, Shelby. I do, too. And what I also love
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: is that his whole family was on the dance floor.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: His parents, he started off with his parents, and then
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: he got to dance the dance with his wife, who
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: is a beautiful dancer.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: She is a beautiful dancer. And then they brought their
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: daughter on stage at the end. Like, it was totally beautiful.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I have cold chills again. I'm not lying. I have
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: cold chills again.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I'm, like, so happy.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I loved this dance. And... But what made me so
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: mad is he didn't get any 10s. He deserved 10s.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I was like, 9s?
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry. What? He deserved at least one 10.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. You know what?
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I found it interesting because last week we had Joe
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: who gave some really high scores.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: And then with Kim, albeit I did not know.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Who she was, I guess I just expected her to
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: hand out some generous scoring this week.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: And she really, she didn't. She gave 10s.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Good, appropriate scores.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: But I guess just reflecting on last week, I expected
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: her to give some pretty generous scoring. She had some
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: really wonderful notes to say, but I guess I just
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: wanted her to be the generous guest judge.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: The Joe Buck. How Joe Buck was last week. How
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: he was like, oh, whatever. I don't care what you
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: guys have to say. I'm giving a nine or whatever. Yeah. Um, yes,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I loved this dance from start to finish. I loved
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the choreography. I really truly feel like the ability of
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: his wife and their chemistry and the humor in their relationship.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Like it just shined through, um, the camera. I loved
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: what Kim Johnson had to say that she didn't see
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a hip hop dancer in the ballroom. She saw a
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: ballroom dancer doing a beautiful Foxtrot. I was like, that
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: was perfection. Like a perfect, perfect dance. Comment. And he
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: got all nines. I really do feel like he deserved
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a better score.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: It was his best score of the season so far also.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Like we saw that a lot last night. Everybody got
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: their best score of the season. I was there for it.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, this is what.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Totally. Amazing, amazing, amazing.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: And next up we had Connor and Riley.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, these little cutie pies. They're so cute.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: But I heard you say it earlier on in the episode,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: you know, that you are seeing the time nearing for
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: either Connor or Jackson. And I think that, you know,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: as a viewer watching it, when you saw all of
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: the incredible dances of the night, and then we get
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: to a Jackson or Connor, I'm kind of like, huh, okay.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: You know, he still did great.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: We have seen improvement with him. I just think for me, Trista,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: I'm all done.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I'm all done. Yeah. You know, it was funny because
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Watching him this week was very different for me because
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: last week going to the ballroom and seeing him in
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: person and seeing my daughter and her friends freaking out
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: because they love him, like love him. it definitely changed
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: my thoughts on him. And I felt like I was
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: watching him this week with more like love from my
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: heart instead of just like the critical dancer. I am
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: because they just look up to him so much. So
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I saw that love through the girl's eyes, you know? Um,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I will say the story of his father and how
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: he has battled lymphoma. Just, oh, wow.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say the same thing. I
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: love to see everyone dedicate to their moms, but I
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: love that he dedicated to his dad. And there was
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: this moment for me that was very.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Fitting for my own life.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: You know, he talked about how his dad still attended
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: all of his tennis matches. And I thought of that
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: because when I tell people about my mom, you know,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: she passed when I was 12. And when Connor shared
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: this about his dad never missing a tennis match, it
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: like pulled on my heartstrings because I remember that my
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: mom on her deathbed and she never missed a softball game.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Whether she was like sitting in the bleachers or like
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: laying down on a lounge chair, my mom was at
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: every single game.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: And so this for me created connection and just.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: you know, just love that like unconditional love that our
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: parents give to us.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: I'm so happy he dedicated this.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: To his dad. Yeah. Yeah, I was too. I was
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: happy to see the variety. I was happy to hear
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: his dad's story and, you know, his fight and his
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: struggle that he's still, you know, fighting hard. And And
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: that he showed up. And I love that you could
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: relate to that story. That if you're relating to it,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I guarantee there's so many people at home, too, who
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: are relating to it.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like there's this whole part of the
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: connection with adults, people, children who have lost a loved one,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: but a parent.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Grief is so hard on many levels. But just, and
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I realize he hasn't experienced that Whatever. I'm just the
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: connection for me. You know what I mean? Like it
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: just creates that bond between people, whether you know each
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: other or not, when you've experienced the same situation and
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: walk through the same thing in life.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I, I like loved it. I thought he
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: did a great job.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: It's just for me, it's just when we are comparing
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: it to the other dancers, but we have seen improvement
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: in him every single week. He is taking notes of
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: the judges. He is listening to what they say. He
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: is improving.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: And I love that.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: He got, looks like all eights last night. You know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: that was also his best score so far, 32 out
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: of 40. They're just cutie patooties, those two.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: They are. Yes. I love, them together. But yeah, I
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: wonder if this will be his week next week when
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: he'll be going home. Okay. So next dancer. Oh my God.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I was crying from start to finish. I I mean,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: just the package alone, him talking about how he lost
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: his mom to a brain aneurysm. And I knew that story,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: but hearing him talk about it and the really special
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: moment where Sharna got closer to him on the couch
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: and put his hand on his and just the support
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: there was.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, so powerful. I have cold chills again, Trista. I
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: was like, I like love this episode. I am so
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: happy with this episode.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: I like love, love it, love it, love it. I
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: can't stress it enough, but like, That was really sweet.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: It was really sweet.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: One of my favorite parts, given everything that was so
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: wonderful last night, was like his reading over his song.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: They did Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran, but the letter
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: that he read over the music to his mom. I mean,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I did not cry, but like I could cry right now.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: I was like, that is just one of the most special.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, maybe I might cry.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: That was like one of the most special things that
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: I have ever seen really in a long time. Him
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: reading that letter to his mom while we're watching him
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: dance with his fiance, who we now know is pregnant
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: with his baby.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: I was just like, I love them.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: I love them.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: This story is going to go down in history as
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: one of the best ones ever told on Dancing with
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the Stars. Like truly, I feel like the fact that
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Tate is a beautiful dancer. And then you have him
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: lifting her up with her belly to the heavens to
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: his mom to say, Mom, we're having a baby.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, it was cold chills again. This is getting ridiculous,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: but I like loved it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: And when she, the moment where I don't know what
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: the move is called, where he kind of spins her
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: around and her dress opens and she puts her hands
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: on her belly.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Trista. I was like, Oh my God, I love them.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe have you seen the picture?
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: It could be like me and Tate and Tyler, like
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: the three of us, because they're just adorable.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, and then he put his hands on her
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: belly too. I'm just like, I've, They're so cute. I'm
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: so happy for them. Seriously. I mean, here's the picture.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Hold on.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh, it's not there. Oh, man, I'm so mad.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: There's a picture of. them standing there with the lights
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: behind them um like holding the belly and.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: So cute oh they're so cute i i seriously i
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: love them i i love this story i love that
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: he was able to share it with america.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: And have a freaking gender reveal with um confetti blasters
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: blasting peak confetti they will have that for the rest
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: of their lives like this baby girl is born they're
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: gonna be like baby we've revealed you on dancing with
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the stars the percentage what is that like one percent
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: can ever say that they did that he is the
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: one percent you know what i mean like that was
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: one percent.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Thing yeah coolest thing it was really.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Awesome So cool. He did get a 32 out of 40,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: which I thought he deserved better scores. Um, and it is,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: it was a contemporary dance and contemporary dances are dances
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: that evoke emotion. That's kind of the purpose of contemporary
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: dances or a lot of them is to evoke emotion.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: And he definitely did that. I was so thankful. He
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: had a contemporary number for this piece. Because I felt
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: like if it would have been the Paso or something
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: like the Samba, obviously it wouldn't have worked. So the
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: fact that he had a contemporary piece to be able
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: to really bring us into his emotions was really so cool.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: But he ended up with a 32 out of 40.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: He was at the bottom of the leaderboard. Oh, and
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: this was really weird. Okay, so after they have a
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: gender reveal.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: I was wondering if you were going to say this.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, they have a gender reveal. It's the most special. Like,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: I'm bawling my eyes out. And then they have this
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: cat in the hat number where people are wearing blue
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: wigs and like, wait, what? Like, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know. The placement of that just felt a
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: little odd to me. Let us all cry for a moment.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Give us that moment.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Like, why didn't they cut to a commercial break there
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: while we all sob and get our tissues? Like, we're
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: so happy for Tyler Cameron. Let us be happy.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: It was so weird. I don't know. It was weird.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: And I love Sochi. She is so cute. And all
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: of the dancers on the... on the dance floor during
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: the Cat in the Hat number were great. It was
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: a fun number, but I was like, really?
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: It just was very unfitting.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: People in TikTok are already mocking this already.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? They're already like poking fun
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: at this little tidbit. It was really, it was missed.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: It was missed.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: It was missed.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, last dance, Julia and Ezra.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: And.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I'll let you take this one because since I have
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: never seen... No, I just love her. Well, I've never
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: seen 10 Things I Hate About You, so... Charista, we
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: have got to do a movie night. You didn't see
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Save the Last Dance.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: You did not see 10 Things I Hate About.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: It was like... That was like.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Save the Last Dance was really like the start of
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: her career. But 10 Things I Hate About You is
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: where we fall in love with Heath Ledger.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: Like, this was like his breakout role. And we all
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: know that he has since passed. And this.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I can't believe you haven't, tonight your assignment is to
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: go and watch 10 Things I Hate About You.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: It is such a fun, you could watch it.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: With Blakely, uh, Blakeslee.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: It's such a fun movie. She loves that movie. Yes,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: she loves it. It's about like teenage love, you know
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Actually.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: That first crazy love that you have.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: How cute is this story? Max, you know how they
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: do homecoming like proposals, Hoko proposal or whatever you call them.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: He did his to Maggie, their first homecoming together. It
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: was 10 Things I Love About You. Oh my God.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: That's just horrible. I don't know. Maybe I am a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: hopeless romantic.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: I say that I'm not, but like, Those were my
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: first sets of movies, like when I was a teenager
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: and I did have.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: A first love. Not 16 Candles or Animal's Fire?
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: No, I liked those, but it wasn't that connection that
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: I had. Like I still remember watching 10 Things I
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Hate About You and it being like, it affected me.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Like it was that like crazy teenage love. Like I
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: had a boyfriend in high school that I dated for
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: five years and it was that crazy teenage love, like
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: the butterflies, like you can't live without him. And there's
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: a scene in 10 Things I Hate About You where
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: she's telling him like, I don't hate you.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: I can't hate you. Like, you know what I mean?
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: It's that part, like that first time that you experience
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: love with someone.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: And it's Heath Ledger. We're all turned on to him.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: And that's like his breakout role. He's so great. She's
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: so great. What we have discussed multiple times is that
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: our producer, Heather, predicted that Julia would dedicate this dance
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: to Heath Ledger.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: And she did.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: She dedicates it to her co-star. I was just like
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: here for every bit of it. And at the end,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: when her other co-stars come onto the dance floor and
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: they're all holding hands, most of which we know who.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: They are today.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: They have had very successful careers and recognizable names. For me,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: it was like nostalgia at its best, Trista. I was like, okay, okay.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: This episode has made everything for me. It was....
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: It was an iconic scene from the movie, Trista. And it.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: I'm just, like, all up in all of my feels
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: right now. I, like, loved it.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: It was, like, a cult classic, and I get it. Like,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: if this was Breakfast Club or 16 Candles or something,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I would totally be buying into all the hype. Do
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So, I know I'm probably
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: going to get bashed for this, but I... It just wasn't, like, technically...
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Same as Mara. And I have loved Mara since the beginning.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I just felt like she got all nines. And I
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: think that was the same as Mara. She got all nines.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: And I felt like there were technical things in the
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: dance that they didn't bring up because they were so... Like,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: because they bought into the story so much. Because they
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: probably all are huge fans of the movie, too.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: I bought into the story, Trista.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: I am that person.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: I bought into the story. I did not.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: See any of the technical things that you're talking about.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: I was so thrilled with her all nines. I'll have
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: you know that they used... I'm just like, I bought in.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: I bought in.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Her hair was a throwback to the movie. Her dress
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: was based on her prom dress from the movie. it
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: was all in the details for me. Like I sold,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: you sold the whole story for me dancing with the stars.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: I bought in, I'm with it.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't even care about her feet or the
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: timing or anything.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: You're like, whatever. That's what I mean. Yes. Which is
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: great because it was a contemporary piece, just like I
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: said with Tyler. But the fact of the matter is like,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: I bought into Tyler's dance because of the storyline and
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: he got all eights. Do you know what I mean?
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: So it was like, the cult classic definitely won out
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: over the sentimentality. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that you haven't seen that movie,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have to just like text you after
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: this and scold you.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Like that's your assignment for the day.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because Kim Johnson was saying, I hadn't
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: seen the movie and I just watched it this week.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I probably should have watched the movie. You
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: probably should go right now and watch the movie because
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: it's amazing. I've watched it with Addison and it's like,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: All of those things, they just, they do. Like, she
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: could have had the worst dance of her life last night,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: and I would have still been like, it was amazing.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: They included Heath Ledger, like, her dance, her hair, because
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: I have such a connection to that movie.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Like, all of those people.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my God, they're so cute.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: That's all I needed, hook, line, and sinker. I was
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: just like, I'm blown away.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: I hear that. I hear it. And it's totally valid.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: It's all good. We end the show with them going
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: over the leaderboard. Amber and Pasha are at the top
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: of the leaderboard. They should have been at the top
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: of the leaderboard. Like I said, I think it was
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: one of my all-time favorite Dancing with the Stars dances.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: And then at the bottom, we had a four-way tie.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: with Connor, Jackson, Tatiana, and Tyler. Like I said, I'm
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: thinking that it's time for Connor and Jackson to go
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: home next week. They had us on the edges of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: our seats. Like, we're texting, and you guys didn't have
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: the feed live yet. So I'm saying, oh, we're at
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: the end of the show, and it looks like they're
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: going to send somebody home. And Heather was like, no,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think they do that during dedication night. And
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, they're getting ready to right now. Like
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: the music is like, dun, dun, dun, you know? And
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: then they're like, nah, no one's going home. We're just
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: going to send two people home next week. So that
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: was a moment that I was thankful for because I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: was like, how hard would it be? I mean, How
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: hard is it for the judges to judge this night anyway?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Who do you send home?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: You can't possibly send home Tyler Sharna and their baby.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Like, you can't do that. You can't send Julia.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Stiles home because she dedicated to Heath Ledger, our beloved
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Heath Ledger. Like, they obviously cannot send anyone. Oh my gosh,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: they're dedicating it to their moms and their dads. We
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: can't send anyone home.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I know. But you know what's interesting is, yes, we
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: have a four-way tie for the bottom with Connor Jackson, Tatiana,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: and Tyler. But actually, I took a picture of the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: leaderboard because I wanted to reference back to this. Maura
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: is next. Maura had a 35, and then Julia had
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: a 36. She was tied with Harry Shum. I don't know.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I'm really hopeful that Maura doesn't go home because she's
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: not at the bottom, but she's two points away from that,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: three points away from that. I do— my guess is that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: it will be Connor and Jackson's time.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: You heard it here, people. I mean, I'm probably wrong,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: but it's fine. No, you're not. I don't think you've
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: been wrong so far. Well, yes, I think I have, maybe.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: But whatever, it doesn't matter. It's not about right or
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: wrong in this. I just love watching the show. I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: will say that even if Connor and Jackson don't go
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: home next week, I think maybe the week following will
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: be their time, you know? Yeah. Next week is Halloween week,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: which is always really fun in terms of costumes and makeup.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: They do such a good job.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: In the hair and makeup department and the wardrobe department
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: on this show. And Shirley Ballas, Mark's mom. Did you
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: watch The Next Pro?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: No, no, I don't have, I don't have any clue.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: I know who Mark Ballas is, but I don't know
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: who his mom is. I'm not sure like what we're all,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not, what am I going to get?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: What am I going to get?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: So Mark comes from a long line of, well, his
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: parents were both pros. Corky was actually on the show,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: on Dancing with the Stars as a pro back in
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: the day. I don't know that he was there for
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: very long. Maybe it was one or two seasons, but
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I believe he was a pro on Dancing with the Stars.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: And now Mark is. And now his mom is coming
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: on the show as a judge. And she was a
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: judge on Next Pro, which was the show that gave
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: us Adele, who was the pro that they announced this season.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: She was a brand new pro. She won the Next Pro,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: which is what Robert Irwin hosted this show, like right
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: leading up to Dancing with the Stars, where they were
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: trying to find the next pro for Dancing with the Stars.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: And she was a judge. And she's definitely hardcore. She
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: does not hold back in her commentary. She will tell
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: it like it is. If you have pancake hands, if
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: your footwork is horrible, I can't remember the words that
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: she used, but it will be actually fun to have
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: her in the ballroom just to hear what she says
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: because she doesn't hold back.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: You know, Julianne Hough, I know we're wrapping up. Julianne
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: Hough posted a photo this week of her and her brother, Derek,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: and Mark when they were kids. I knew that they
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: all knew each other. And I do, even though I
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: hadn't watched the show, I knew that they trained together,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: but I thought that was really cute, especially given next
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: week that Shirley is going to be on there as
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: a guest judge.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: I thought that was so cute.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: I love little things like that when, you know, especially
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: with a show that I'm just really like getting attached to.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: I loved that little piece of them. They must've been
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: like six or seven years old. They were such kids.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: And it was a shot of them when they were
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: just like, they're just like the cheesing, like in the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: early nineties.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: It was like, I was like, Oh, they're cute.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: I love the throwback pictures. That's amazing. And just knowing
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: that they grew up together with Mark is just really sweet. Yeah.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to next week. I don't
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: know that any week can top this last night's episode
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: for me.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: No, this is it for me. I'm sold. I'm sold.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Although the finale. So during the finale, as we've talked about,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: I think I talked about it last week or the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: week before. In the finale, they do... a freestyle routine
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: all the pros do a freestyle routine and that are
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: still in the finale and the freestyles are really fun
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: because they can make them either really emotional and sentimental
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: or they can make them like a huge like Broadway
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: show performance you know Whitney Leavitt's dance last year with
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Mark Ballas oh my gosh I'm still thinking about that
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: routine so anyway yes this was Such a fun episode.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Such an emotional episode. We're so happy for you, Tyler
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: and Tate. And I'm really excited to see, oh boy,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season. I don't want it to end.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Even I'm really happy for Tyler and Tate.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I know you are. Oh, God.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: I love it. Okay. Thanks, everybody, for listening to The
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Most Dramatic Dance Floor Ever with me and Deanna. We
• 1:05:31
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• 1:05:41
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• 1:05:45
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• 1:05:50
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• 1:05:54
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• 1:05:58
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• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: We have to go.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Trista's got to watch 10 Things I Hate About You.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, bye, everybody.