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By Order of the Faithfuls: Chica Is Here! w/ Stephani Sosa (DWTS: The Next Pro) · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

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Speaker 1: Welcome in, all you Faithfuls and traders for another episode
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Speaker 1: of By Order of the Faithfuls Dancing with the Stars
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Speaker 1: the Next Pro Edition. Well's here solo Dolores is doing
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Speaker 1: housewive things. But don't worry. I've got star of Dancing
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Speaker 1: with the Stars the Next Pro with me right now.
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Sosa, who's professional dancer from Utah who competed on
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Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars Next Pro after previously serving as
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Speaker 1: a troup member on Dancing with the Stars Season thirty three.
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Speaker 2: Her brother Ezra is a current.
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Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars pro and her brother Tristan is
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Speaker 1: also a professional dancer. Stephanie and Ezra made history together
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Speaker 1: as the first brother sister duo to reach the top
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Speaker 1: ten in the same season of So you Think you
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Speaker 1: Can dance? Welcome to the show, Stephanie, How are you good?
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Speaker 2: I'm good?
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Speaker 3: How are you? I'm so excited to be here.
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Speaker 2: Does anyone not dance in your family? Like, what's happening here?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy because actually my parents are soccer players,
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Speaker 3: so it's kind of crazy that we all ended up
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Speaker 3: dancing and that like making it our career. So it's great. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I definitely thought I was going to be a soccer
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Speaker 3: player when I was little.
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Speaker 2: Were you a good soccer player?
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Speaker 3: I was? My dad said I was a really good defender.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it makes sense, though. You need to have
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Speaker 1: good footwork when it comes to soccer. You need to
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Speaker 1: have quick feet, You need to have really good balance,
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Speaker 1: and you need to be athletic and fast, and you
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Speaker 1: have to be all of those things and much more
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Speaker 1: to be a dancer. Talk to me about getting on
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Speaker 1: the next pro you know, I come from the reality
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Speaker 1: TV world. I love just like the kind of behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes casting stuff. How did you find out you
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Speaker 1: to be on the show? Who called you? And how
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Speaker 1: did it all come about?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? So it was crazy because I got an email
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Speaker 3: in November and I had like heard of the show,
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Speaker 3: like briefly, like some gossip. They're like, there's this new
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Speaker 3: pro show, and I honestly thought it was like a scam.
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Speaker 3: So when I got this email, they were like, are
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Speaker 3: you interested in auditioning? And I sent it to Ezra
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Speaker 3: immediately and I was like, what is this? Is this
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Speaker 3: it's a scam? You know, because sometimes you get those
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Speaker 3: like weird emails that are like Love islandcasting, like you
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Speaker 3: never know so as it was like, it's definitely not
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Speaker 3: a scam, and I'm like, first of all, why did
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Speaker 3: you tell me about the show? And then second he
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Speaker 3: was just like, do you want to do it? And
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Speaker 3: I was like, you know, absolutely, Like any chance for
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Speaker 3: me to come back and just show my growth and
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Speaker 3: just come back stronger, I'm like one hundred percent in
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Speaker 3: and send in my audition tapes. There was a couple
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Speaker 3: of round of auditions and then I found out that
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Speaker 3: I booked it when I was in rehearsals for the
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl, so definitely was a couple of months process,
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Speaker 3: but it was It was crazy.
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Speaker 1: And I guess it's like, this was your your super
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Speaker 1: Bowl coming on the show. What was it like going,
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Speaker 1: like you guys film it in Australia. Was it fun
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Speaker 1: to go to like a completely different part of the
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Speaker 1: world to go do what you love to do, which
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Speaker 1: is your craft and dance.
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Speaker 3: It was honestly kind of scary because, like I, I'm
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Speaker 3: very much a family like homebody, so the fact that
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Speaker 3: we were gonna be filming it away out of LA
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Speaker 3: out of my comfort zone, was really terrifying, but also
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Speaker 3: excited because I've never been to Australia. And from like
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Speaker 3: what like Robert Irwin like says about Australia. I was like,
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Speaker 3: I'm so down, but I was always a little scared.
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Speaker 2: So what was it like working with the entire cast?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Robert's now coming into this hosting world,
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Speaker 1: but he, you know, really was a celebrity on the
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Speaker 1: last season. Then you have Mark and his mother there
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Speaker 1: who seemed like they're always fighting. What was what was
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Speaker 1: the energy like with the judges and the hosts?
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Speaker 3: It was it was honestly so entertaining for the dancers,
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Speaker 3: Like when we weren't dancing and we were listening to
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Speaker 3: like the judges' comments, it was like my favorite part
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Speaker 3: because there was that like a little back and forth
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Speaker 3: with Shirley and Mark and that is like, honestly like
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Speaker 3: so me and Ezra Codd. So I was just giggling
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Speaker 3: inside because I was like I relate to that so much.
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Speaker 3: And then Robert for me, was the best hosts, Like
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Speaker 3: he made it feel so like like dancing with Stars,
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Speaker 3: Like I felt like I was like kind of doing
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Speaker 3: dancement Stars again, just because like his posting and it
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Speaker 3: just felt like we were in a skybox. It was,
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Speaker 3: it was, it was crazy, Like that experience for me
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Speaker 3: was just something that I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: So my only complaint with the show right now is
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Speaker 1: I wish there was a live audience because I feel
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Speaker 1: like that different feel to the dances when it's just
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Speaker 1: you know, you and your partner and then the judges
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Speaker 1: like were you guys ever wishing that that people were
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Speaker 1: there experiencing it and feeling the emotion.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because I definitely feel like they're like cheering
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Speaker 3: and just having like people there to watch you and
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Speaker 3: like colop for you at the end, like it really
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Speaker 3: does like like I don't know when people are yelling
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Speaker 3: my name or cheering for me, I go I danced better.
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Speaker 3: So I really do wish that they had a live audience.
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Speaker 3: I feel like it would have made it feel more
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Speaker 3: like dancing with stars, but maybe like the whole point
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Speaker 3: was to kind of like scare us and be like
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Speaker 3: this is a competition. So yeah, I demly wish.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, have you ever seen like a clip of
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Speaker 1: seinfeld Er Friends when they take out the laugh track
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Speaker 1: and it's.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely what it felt like, especially when we
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Speaker 3: did something crazy and wow, like we just had to
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Speaker 3: wait for the judges to say anything like we honestly
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Speaker 3: didn't know how we danced until they talked to us.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, let's go back to the beginning. What's your
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Speaker 1: earliest memory of dancing.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's a good question. My earliest memory of dancing
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Speaker 3: was this thing called it's like a Mexican style dance,
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Speaker 3: And I mean, as we were enrolled in our church
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Speaker 3: and they put us in this like dance style, and
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Speaker 3: I remember just being like, this is fun. And then
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Speaker 3: after that we like slowly got into all the other styles.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it definitely was like really cool for me,
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Speaker 3: Like I that was like definitely my first memory, especially
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Speaker 3: being Mexicana, and it was just it was so fun.
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Speaker 1: Was there any sibling rivalry between you and your brothers,
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Speaker 1: because I mean, you guys are all really good dancers,
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Speaker 1: or did it did it help you guys push each
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Speaker 1: other to be better or did it spark fights?
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Speaker 3: Growing up, there was a little bit of competition like
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Speaker 3: between the like like when we do ballroom, especially because
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Speaker 3: we didn't get a dance with each other, like I
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Speaker 3: dance with my other brother for a couple of years,
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Speaker 3: but after that we all had individual partners and we
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Speaker 3: were kind of in the same age like groups, So
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Speaker 3: there was that little competition between me and Z. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: now that we're adults and like an entertainment business, like,
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Speaker 3: there's definitely no competition vibes like we're very proud of
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Speaker 3: each other, and I feel like because we are successful
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Speaker 3: in our careers, it really does help each other, if
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Speaker 3: that makes sense, Like I'll make connections with choreographers or
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Speaker 3: have projects and I'll introduce him, Like we definitely really
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Speaker 3: do help each other, and then vice versa with the
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Speaker 3: show and him mentoring me through this process. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: first it was competition growing up, and now as adults
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Speaker 3: it's not.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, rising tide raises aul ships, I guess.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely was there little like sibling rivalry growing up.
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Speaker 3: Now for sure, especially when we compete, I.
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Speaker 1: Feel like that makes you better, right, Like I think
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Speaker 1: the only reason why I was a really good athlete
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Speaker 1: and played like ball in college was because I was
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Speaker 1: having to go up against my brothers who were all
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Speaker 1: so much older than me and bigger than me and
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Speaker 1: stronger than me. And yeah, you know, yeah, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think that we're now like best of friends, but
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Speaker 1: like at the time, we fought and it made me
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Speaker 1: a better athlete, and I imagine that was the case
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Speaker 1: for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, especially because as just like the technician
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Speaker 3: of the family, like he's for me. I honestly feel
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Speaker 3: like he's the most talented dncer because he has like
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Speaker 3: the technique and the star like quality. So he definitely
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Speaker 3: pushed me a lot growing up. I was like, I
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Speaker 3: need to get better in my technique to match him.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, and don't tell him I told you this,
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Speaker 3: never let me live it out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what would he say about you?
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Speaker 3: He would tell me that I'm more of like the
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Speaker 3: star quality of the family, but I need to work
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Speaker 3: on my technique. But he doesn't need to know he said.
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Speaker 1: This, Okay, all right, hopefully doesn't listen to the show.
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Speaker 1: You ended up specializing in ballroom Latin. Why did you
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Speaker 1: gravitate towards those?
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Speaker 3: Well, first my brother started doing it, and I was
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Speaker 3: like kind of obsessed with just partnering and Latin music,
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Speaker 3: you know, especially thing Latina growing up, and I remember
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Speaker 3: like seeing salsa and all that. I was like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I want to do that, like it feels like natural
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Speaker 3: to me. So I think just it was sad because
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Speaker 3: like I gravitated towards it, like last, but it was
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Speaker 3: definitely like it's like what I'm like, easiest for my
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Speaker 3: body to do. But yeah, Ezra about roped in a
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Speaker 3: ballroom like a lot center than me because there was
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Speaker 3: no boys at my dat studio and basically ever girl
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Speaker 3: wanted to dance with him, so he kind of started
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Speaker 3: it and then I followed suit.
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Speaker 1: So speaking of you know, you guys were the first
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Speaker 1: brother sister duo in the top ten on the same season,
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Speaker 1: so you think he can dance. I got to know, like,
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Speaker 1: what was that experience like and was it fun or
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Speaker 1: stressful competing alongside your own brother.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. At first, it was like
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Speaker 3: because there had never been to siblings on the same season.
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Speaker 3: So when we auditioned together, in the back of our minds,
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Speaker 3: we kind of knew that like only one of us
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Speaker 3: was going to make it to the live show, Like
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Speaker 3: we didn't expect both of us to. So when we
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Speaker 3: did make it like the same time, it was like,
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Speaker 3: holy cow, like we just made history. My parents were
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Speaker 3: really proud of us. But it was definitely hard because
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Speaker 3: you know, we obviously wanted to go really far in
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Speaker 3: the show, but he made a father than me on
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Speaker 3: the show. And it was just cool to be able
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Speaker 3: to support him and just you know, see how far
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Speaker 3: he could go. And yeah, it wasn't any competition vibes.
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Speaker 3: I think we were both like very like stressed and
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Speaker 3: just had each other in that process, which I'm so
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Speaker 3: grateful because that environment can be a little scary.
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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated with the schedules that you guys keep, like,
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Speaker 1: like I imagine it's very regimented, Like can you give
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Speaker 1: us a day in the life of being a dancer?
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Speaker 1: Like wake up, work out, like eat, like work on routines, choreograph,
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Speaker 1: Like what how does like a normal day look for you?
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Speaker 3: Or like when I'm on like the show or Next
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Speaker 3: Pro or just in general.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, like, let's let's talk about the show.
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Speaker 1: When you were on the Next Pro. What were those
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Speaker 1: days like, because it seems like it must be overwhelming
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Speaker 1: how much you have you've got to do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy because we'd be our call time
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Speaker 3: was six in the morning, we'd eat breakfast, they'd have
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Speaker 3: us micd because they were filming everything in the house,
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Speaker 3: and then from there we would figure out our challenge.
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Speaker 3: So like let's say's like episode one or two, we'd
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Speaker 3: figure out our challenge, and then we'd go start filming
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Speaker 3: like that whole intro and then go directly into rehearsal,
10:49
Speaker 3: so we basically just like we're on go mode. We
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Speaker 3: rehearse for three hours and then as soon as we
10:54
Speaker 3: were done, we would do interviews, and then after the interviews,
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Speaker 3: we would head back to the house, do more interview,
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Speaker 3: have a rehearsal at the house because there's a studio there,
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Speaker 3: do more interviews, film live like live reality in the house,
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Speaker 3: and then get to bed by like maybe sometimes eleven
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Speaker 3: if we were lucky, and just repeat. So those days
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Speaker 3: were like you never had a chance to really like
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Speaker 3: sit and enjoy Australia, but that's just like a competition show.
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Speaker 3: And then the next day was kind of the same,
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Speaker 3: and then the next day was show day and we'd
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Speaker 3: get there really early, do camera blocking in the morning,
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Speaker 3: and then start filming the episode and then somebody went home.
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Speaker 3: So it was just like go mode, like really when
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Speaker 3: they tell like, I don't remember having a second to
11:37
Speaker 3: just like have a full day. But we did have
11:39
Speaker 3: one day off after like two a day episode, like
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Speaker 3: two episodes, and then we had one day off to
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Speaker 3: like recover and then we just go back right into it,
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Speaker 3: so definitely get safe.
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Speaker 1: Are you filming an episode a week or are you
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Speaker 1: filming two episodes a week?
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Speaker 3: Two episodes a week? Jeez?
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Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's It was like Dancing with.
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Speaker 3: The Stars, but like squished into like yeah two things. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: dang without our botes.
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Speaker 2: Oh they took your phones away? Mm hmmm yeah. Sometimes,
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Speaker 2: you know, I've done enough of these shows.
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Speaker 1: Were like it's kind of nice to like unplug from those,
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Speaker 1: you know, but it is very stressful because you're like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening with my family, Like what's
12:20
Speaker 1: going you know, like whatever? Would they would they give
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Speaker 1: you guys time to like FaceTime someone every once in
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Speaker 1: a while.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, every two episodes we get our phones back for
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Speaker 3: like ten to twenty minutes and like FaceTime our loved
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Speaker 3: ones for you know, a couple of minutes. And then
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Speaker 3: that was a just check in, say we're alive and
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Speaker 3: we were in the next round, and then move on.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, they very they kept a tight shit with us,
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Speaker 3: which made the process very like isolating, but in a
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Speaker 3: good way because like we really had to just focus
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Speaker 3: on the competition. Like there was literally no distractions it
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Speaker 3: was it was either you stay or you go, So
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Speaker 3: it was it was good to like lock in, if
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Speaker 3: that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: I see when I think about you on this show,
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Speaker 1: I feel like you put so much pressure on yourself
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Speaker 1: during the competition, and I almost felt like you were
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Speaker 1: at a disadvantage because of your brother being on the show.
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Speaker 1: That like that, like you thought that everyone expected something
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Speaker 1: from you, and like I think Jenna even said, like
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Speaker 1: you need to get out of your own way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you wish he had done differently for
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Speaker 2: the next pro?
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Speaker 3: I that's like good que. I mean I I've thought
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Speaker 3: about this a lot, especially after seeing the episodes like
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Speaker 3: play out, and like you know, everyone knows the kind
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Speaker 3: of the result for me. My Yeah, my biggest regret
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Speaker 3: is definitely not like getting in my way, like in
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Speaker 3: my confidence going down that last week really took a
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Speaker 3: toll on me, and I just wish that I could
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Speaker 3: have kept that, like you know, that fight. I know
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Speaker 3: I still had it, but I felt like a little
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Speaker 3: part of Chico was gone, and Jenny even mentioned that,
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Speaker 3: and so like I definitely learned a lesson there just
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Speaker 3: to keep fighting and pushing. And I'm a fighter always,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, I definitely felt, you know, that that pressure
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Speaker 3: get to me. But yeah, it was a learning lesson
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Speaker 3: for me, and I just I really wanted it, and
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Speaker 3: I think that was like the biggest thing I took
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Speaker 3: away was how badly I wanted this job and how
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Speaker 3: badly I wanted to prove myself. And yeah, I am
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Speaker 3: Asra's sister, and I do have connections with the show
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Speaker 3: and they know me and everything, but I really really
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Speaker 3: just like wanted to earn my spot on the show
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Speaker 3: and like prove to them that I have quality and
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Speaker 3: I am an amazing dancer and choreographer and have all
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Speaker 3: of the skill sets that you need to be a pro.
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Speaker 3: And that was just like my mindset. So I think
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Speaker 3: sometimes when you have that much pressure, it can really,
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Speaker 3: you know, get to you. So that's something that I
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Speaker 3: like took away just being like, Okay, even if there
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Speaker 3: is all this pressure, like no, you belong there and
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Speaker 3: you just got to keep going.
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Speaker 1: The producers put you guys in a tough situation, right,
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Speaker 1: like the fourth grade pe dodgeball picking of t mates
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Speaker 1: thing is pretty brutal. So you know, we got to
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Speaker 1: talk about you know, Tristan wasn't your first choice. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 1: and and he was really hurt by like no one
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Speaker 1: picking him.
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Speaker 2: Take me through that day, what was going through your head?
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Speaker 1: You know? And then and then going forward, how are
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Speaker 1: you able to get Tristan out of his own way
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Speaker 1: to be able to do what you guys needed to
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Speaker 1: do and not be like I think he said he
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Speaker 1: was he was bitter or he was upset top that
15:37
Speaker 1: seemed like it was a it was almost unfair for you.
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Speaker 1: They put you in a really bad situation and it
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Speaker 1: just didn't work out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, me interested and got really close like episode one
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Speaker 3: and two. He was someone that I felt like, kind
15:53
Speaker 3: of like my brother, that makes sense, Like I had
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Speaker 3: a deep emotional connection with him because been through similar things.
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Speaker 3: We experienced that rumba together. But I really just wanted
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Speaker 3: to dance with somebody else just because I wanted to
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Speaker 3: show the judges that I could have chemistry slash. I
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Speaker 3: can create magic with any partner I'm given. Like I
16:11
Speaker 3: think that's something that if you're a pro, that you
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Speaker 3: have to be good at doing, like being a great
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Speaker 3: dancer with anyone that you dance with. And I just
16:17
Speaker 3: wanted them to see different side of me. And I
16:20
Speaker 3: wasn't expecting him to be so upset at me, Like
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Speaker 3: I definitely did not want to hurt his feelings, and
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Speaker 3: so when I had to ultimately dance with him, it
16:28
Speaker 3: was hard because I knew as a friend that I
16:31
Speaker 3: like messed up. But at the same time, I had
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Speaker 3: that in the back of my mind, being like I've
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Speaker 3: worked so hard to be here. I need to put
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Speaker 3: myself first and I need to fight because this is
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Speaker 3: so much more than just a dance competition for me,
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Speaker 3: Like this is like my livelihood. Like I felt like
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Speaker 3: life or death. But I was able to kind of
16:50
Speaker 3: get him out of that funk and just remind him
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Speaker 3: of the why we're here. We's got to keep pushing.
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Speaker 3: And one thing that Ezra told me going into this
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Speaker 3: competition was whatever cards that you're dealt, you have to
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Speaker 3: just make the most out of it. And he's like
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Speaker 3: I learned that when he danced with Na delv Like
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Speaker 3: he was given some crazy cards and he was able
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Speaker 3: to just spin the narrative and just create just magic,
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Speaker 3: and he like blew up and he was just you know,
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Speaker 3: so I He's like, whatever cards are, like, Dell, it's
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Speaker 3: the universe testing you, and you just have to make
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Speaker 3: the most out of it and stay so positive. So
17:20
Speaker 3: even though I had to dance with him again the
17:23
Speaker 3: same dance I already did, I was like, Okay, this
17:25
Speaker 3: is my chance to show the judges that I can
17:27
Speaker 3: QUI graph a different type of rumba. You know, I
17:29
Speaker 3: can still create magic even though I'm given kind of
17:32
Speaker 3: the same thing. And that was my mentality just that
17:35
Speaker 3: whole week. And I you know, I know he was
17:37
Speaker 3: mad at me, and I'm like, there's if I'm ever
17:38
Speaker 3: a pro on the show, there's going to be times
17:40
Speaker 3: where my celebrity is going to be upset at me
17:42
Speaker 3: or I'm not gonna you know, the attitude isn't going
17:44
Speaker 3: to be the best, But I have to just learn
17:46
Speaker 3: how to navigate that. And I think that's how I
17:48
Speaker 3: approached that week, was just like, how am I gonna
17:51
Speaker 3: get the job done by so being respectful and just
17:54
Speaker 3: really just nailing it. So that was, Yeah, that was
17:56
Speaker 3: that week.
17:58
Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree with you, And I was gonna
17:59
Speaker 1: I was gonna to say, you know, if the mission
18:02
Speaker 1: statement of this show is to get someone to be
18:05
Speaker 1: a pro and have to deal with celebrity, and listen,
18:11
Speaker 1: I'm got around enough celebrities to know, like they're not
18:12
Speaker 1: the easiest people to deal with. I actually feel like
18:15
Speaker 1: I learn more about you as someone who should be
18:18
Speaker 1: a pro by that situation and how you handle it
18:20
Speaker 1: with him, because you could very easy. Like for me,
18:23
Speaker 1: I probably be like, dude, calm down, you know what
18:26
Speaker 1: do you want me to do? We already danced together,
18:27
Speaker 1: and but you didn't do that. You like, listen to him,
18:31
Speaker 1: you heard him, you flipped it around. And if I'm
18:35
Speaker 1: casting that show, I'm thinking, well, Stephanie is really really
18:39
Speaker 1: good with people even when things are going sideways, which
18:43
Speaker 1: is what you need for when you're doing the big show.
18:46
Speaker 1: I guess I want to talk about you mentioned it earlier,
18:50
Speaker 1: is like it kind of just threw it in there
18:52
Speaker 1: like a throwaway line. But you got to work on
18:55
Speaker 1: the halftime show with Bad Bunny. What was that experience like,
19:00
Speaker 1: because that must have been insane?
19:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was crazy. So many people asked me about it,
19:04
Speaker 3: and like the best word to describe it is just
19:06
Speaker 3: like so healing for me, especially just being Latina and
19:09
Speaker 3: just being around so many amazing Latino dancers that spoke
19:13
Speaker 3: Spanish and we're from all parts of Latin America and
19:16
Speaker 3: just coming together to stand for something that I feel
19:19
Speaker 3: like we all were just so grateful to be given
19:22
Speaker 3: that platform to do that. Shout out to bad Bunny
19:25
Speaker 3: for that. But yeah, I was crazy, and that whole
19:29
Speaker 3: process going into next pro I feel like for me
19:32
Speaker 3: was like meant to happen. I feel like I went
19:35
Speaker 3: into the show a different person after doing that by
19:37
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, and yeah, I think it was just divine
19:39
Speaker 3: timing and I was just so grateful that I was
19:41
Speaker 3: able to just be a part of history and you know,
19:44
Speaker 3: be Latina and just represent you know, my community. It
19:48
Speaker 3: really meant the world to me.
19:50
Speaker 2: It did feel like history making stuff.
19:52
Speaker 1: Well at least when I watched it, it was like
19:54
Speaker 1: really impactful to me and obviously very timely with what
19:58
Speaker 1: was happening in the country and every thing. When you
20:01
Speaker 1: were rehearsing that, did you think it was gonna kind
20:04
Speaker 1: of be that thing or were you surprised when it
20:08
Speaker 1: became such a big topic after the Super Bowl.
20:14
Speaker 3: I was we were all the dances were hoping that
20:16
Speaker 3: I would like bring change and just you know, like
20:19
Speaker 3: give the world a big hug in the time that
20:22
Speaker 3: we were in Like that's that was like what we
20:23
Speaker 3: were trying to accomplish, and we didn't know the outcome
20:26
Speaker 3: because like obviously there wasn't many people happening with the
20:28
Speaker 3: Super Bowl either, and we just went in there being like,
20:31
Speaker 3: we're just gonna we're just gonna spread love and we're
20:34
Speaker 3: just gonna represent and see what happens and just we're
20:36
Speaker 3: really just that was the mentality. So I had no
20:39
Speaker 3: idea that it was going to like blow up in
20:40
Speaker 3: the way that it blew up. And I'm just so
20:42
Speaker 3: grateful that that happened. And I was even a part
20:45
Speaker 3: of it, and how I ended up in Casita like
20:47
Speaker 3: that whole thing too. It was just so divine for me.
20:50
Speaker 3: And I was like, this is so crazy, but that's
20:52
Speaker 3: like just more confirmation for you to trust the universe.
20:55
Speaker 3: And yeah, it was. It was. It was beautiful.
20:58
Speaker 1: I mean, you've done so much in your career, but
21:01
Speaker 1: I guess my question is, what's the one thing that
21:04
Speaker 1: you want to have happen. I saw this interview with
21:07
Speaker 1: Tom Hall on the other day where he was like, yeah,
21:09
Speaker 1: if I just say in an interview, it ends up happening.
21:11
Speaker 1: Like he said he wanted to date Zindeia and then
21:13
Speaker 1: that happened. Then he said he wanted to be in
21:14
Speaker 1: Spider Man for you, like, what what do you want?
21:18
Speaker 1: What's the next thing for you? Bye in the sky.
21:21
Speaker 1: You could you could have any job, any gig. What
21:24
Speaker 1: would you want?
21:25
Speaker 3: I mean obviously dancing stars, but I think above that,
21:29
Speaker 3: it's for sure to you know, be an actress and
21:33
Speaker 3: just star in a future film where I can dancing
21:35
Speaker 3: and act like those three are like I grew up
21:38
Speaker 3: doing that, Like I just would love to just be
21:40
Speaker 3: able to do that, And I think it's been always
21:43
Speaker 3: like my biggest, biggest dream. Yeah, so like a musical
21:47
Speaker 3: like greensor just being you know, be a pink lady
21:51
Speaker 3: and sing, dance and act and just you know, that
21:53
Speaker 3: is so amazing for me.
21:55
Speaker 2: Have you done much theater work?
21:57
Speaker 3: I have? Yeah, I've done a like so that the
22:00
Speaker 3: Broadaby people are going to crack me because I was
22:02
Speaker 3: like posting on TikTok and they were like, this is
22:04
Speaker 3: what it is. But basically the show it's paper Mill Playhouse.
22:07
Speaker 3: It's like an off Broadway, so if it gets picked up,
22:10
Speaker 3: then it goes to Broadway. So I was a part
22:12
Speaker 3: of the creation of a show called Take the Lead,
22:14
Speaker 3: and I was like undersetting one of the leads and ensemble,
22:18
Speaker 3: and that was like so amazing for me. And I
22:20
Speaker 3: was lived in New York.
22:20
Speaker 2: For a while.
22:21
Speaker 3: And yeah, I've I dabbled my foot into theater, but
22:25
Speaker 3: I haven't fully like gone that way because obviously my
22:28
Speaker 3: dance career. But yeah, I love TV film, that's like
22:31
Speaker 3: my my love anything on TV and film.
22:35
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this.
22:36
Speaker 1: My wife's an actress and she does wow film, but
22:39
Speaker 1: she's in Broadway and she's about to go to the
22:42
Speaker 1: West End. And I will say this about theater compared
22:48
Speaker 1: to television. You made a TV show, right, you made
22:50
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Start as the next pro I imagine you
22:52
Speaker 1: did that six months ago or whatever.
22:54
Speaker 2: It probably was a while, like Cook say, I had
22:55
Speaker 2: edited it up.
22:56
Speaker 1: And then when you when it comes out, then like
22:58
Speaker 1: you're onto the next thing, and it doesn't feel as
23:01
Speaker 1: fulfilling as live performance does. Yeah, and theater, like you know,
23:08
Speaker 1: Sarah will go and make a movie and then it
23:09
Speaker 1: won't come out for a year and she'd be like,
23:11
Speaker 1: I'm on to the next thing. I don't even thinking
23:12
Speaker 1: about that. But you know, after every Broadway show, you know,
23:15
Speaker 1: feeling the energy in the room, going out and signing
23:18
Speaker 1: playbills and everything.
23:20
Speaker 2: It is really really impactful. But yeah, you can. Obviously
23:23
Speaker 2: you could do anything you want.
23:25
Speaker 1: So I like, I like saying that you're gonna You're
23:27
Speaker 1: gonna be the next Grease, which, by the way, they
23:29
Speaker 1: need to like revamp that.
23:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the chicktok comments were saying after my week
23:34
Speaker 3: when Samba that I would make a good shot shot
23:37
Speaker 3: from Grease. I don't know if you know that character.
23:39
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'll take it, but yeah, I
23:43
Speaker 3: definitely TV film anything.
23:53
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen Dancing with the Stars the next pro
23:55
Speaker 1: Obviously you can't do you know what happens?
23:59
Speaker 2: Do you know who? Yes, I won't ask you who
24:04
Speaker 2: you think wins.
24:05
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what I think happens, okay,
24:08
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna see I'm gonna see your reaction
24:12
Speaker 1: and see if I'm right or not. Okay, So we're
24:18
Speaker 1: inching down to it. Seems like the only one person
24:21
Speaker 1: is going to be chosen.
24:23
Speaker 3: Okay.
24:24
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I believe that. What I think
24:27
Speaker 1: is gonna happen is that someone will be the winner.
24:30
Speaker 1: Right now, I think it might be at Deeley. I mean,
24:33
Speaker 1: she keeps on getting nicknames like Rolls Royce and Diamond
24:36
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. So it's just but
24:37
Speaker 1: also I can see that being a misdirect for me.
24:41
Speaker 1: And then and then I think it's gonna come down
24:42
Speaker 1: to a guy and a girl. And then I think
24:45
Speaker 1: that that Adele is going to win, and then I
24:47
Speaker 1: think the and then so then the guy effectively wouldn't win,
24:50
Speaker 1: but then they're gonna be like, no, you guys both win.
24:52
Speaker 1: You guys both get to go. And then I think
24:54
Speaker 1: it's gonna be either Alan or a J. But I'm
24:58
Speaker 1: leaning towards Alan stones am I crazy?
25:03
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, gonna be very words.
25:11
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's my that my theory. When you watch
25:16
Speaker 1: it back, what was something that surprised you that you
25:18
Speaker 1: didn't realize what's going on? Or you know, was was
25:22
Speaker 1: either cut or added in that that surprised you when
25:24
Speaker 1: you watch the show.
25:27
Speaker 3: I think we filmed so much in the house, so
25:30
Speaker 3: I was like kind of surprised to cut so much
25:32
Speaker 3: of that. Like, so hopefully if they do another season,
25:35
Speaker 3: they'll be able to have more of that reality life
25:38
Speaker 3: in there, because that was really fun, Like you really
25:40
Speaker 3: got to see all of our personalities. You got to
25:41
Speaker 3: see who our roommates were because we had roommates, were
25:44
Speaker 3: lived in bunk beds, Like there was a whole dynamic
25:46
Speaker 3: there and just like us being by the pool and
25:50
Speaker 3: talking like a lot of like it felt like kind
25:52
Speaker 3: of Love Island a little bit sometimes because they'd be
25:55
Speaker 3: like in case to have copultures for a chat and
25:58
Speaker 3: talk about rehearsals like we did a lot of those.
26:01
Speaker 3: I was excited to see those because those are so
26:03
Speaker 3: fun to shoot. But yeah, I think that was something
26:07
Speaker 3: that surprised me was that was kind of missing a
26:09
Speaker 3: little bit.
26:11
Speaker 1: Was there ever a time that someone thought there would
26:12
Speaker 1: be a show mance that happens on the show?
26:16
Speaker 3: I was convinced, and there were there were people that
26:19
Speaker 3: like left and ended up like dating, So I was like, period,
26:23
Speaker 3: I'm like, where was this? And that was? Where was
26:25
Speaker 3: I didn't notice? But yeah, I know for sure like
26:29
Speaker 3: Eric and Briar are together, so that's like public knowledge.
26:34
Speaker 3: So I'll say that one.
26:36
Speaker 1: Oh, well, the producer, screw you for not having that
26:40
Speaker 1: shit in there, because that would have been great. Who's
26:44
Speaker 1: someone on the show that you didn't get to dance
26:46
Speaker 1: with that you wish you could have Alan.
26:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got a dance with Aj for the
26:53
Speaker 3: group stuff, and then obviously danced with Tristan and uh yeah,
27:00
Speaker 3: and then Aj, Yeah, I gotta dance in the group stuff.
27:02
Speaker 3: And then oh Benji too?
27:04
Speaker 1: Why justice for Benji? Did he just get like a
27:08
Speaker 1: bad partner or what happened there?
27:10
Speaker 3: No, I just think that whole situation was just like
27:12
Speaker 3: really sad because like they're both my friends and I
27:16
Speaker 3: know them, and I know Benji's potential too because he
27:19
Speaker 3: did so I think he dance with me season sixteen,
27:21
Speaker 3: and I go to do assalsa with him on tour
27:24
Speaker 3: and that was so fun, Like he was my favorite
27:27
Speaker 3: partner to dance with, and I think being a good
27:29
Speaker 3: partner is like really important, and I thought like he
27:31
Speaker 3: was a great partner when I danced with him. So yeah,
27:33
Speaker 3: I just it made me sad because I was like, oh, Benj,
27:36
Speaker 3: I just know him from like for a very long
27:38
Speaker 3: time and he's a really close friend. So yeah, but
27:41
Speaker 3: I would have loved to dance with him or Alan
27:44
Speaker 3: or basically any of the other boys too, because.
27:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, Stephanie, this has been so much fun to hang
27:49
Speaker 1: and talk with you. Last question of the people who
27:54
Speaker 1: have gone home. Who are you most surprised went home before?
27:59
Speaker 3: Like the finale, Eric, Yeah, I think he Growing up,
28:05
Speaker 3: I would compete against him and he would always went
28:07
Speaker 3: like he was like top dog, like really good dancer,
28:10
Speaker 3: very good ballroom, knows his technique down, like knows standard
28:14
Speaker 3: as well, like very ballroom. And I feel like he
28:17
Speaker 3: was like learning and growing along the show. And I
28:19
Speaker 3: was I was really shocked that he went home to
28:21
Speaker 3: be honest as soon as he did. So, yeah, it was.
28:25
Speaker 2: It was interesting. I had Brit Stewart on last week
28:28
Speaker 2: and we were talking about who I thought was like
28:31
Speaker 2: really really like a standout and I and I said Eric,
28:35
Speaker 2: and and she agreed with me.
28:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then him going home was like, oh, either
28:41
Speaker 1: she was messing with me or like or we missed something.
28:46
Speaker 1: And I think that that I think was the latter,
28:48
Speaker 1: not the former in that situation. Before you go, where
28:52
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you, find out more about you,
28:56
Speaker 1: all that stuff and if there's anything you want to promote,
28:58
Speaker 1: go for it right now.
29:00
Speaker 3: Thank you, so thank you for having me on. I
29:02
Speaker 3: love talking about this stuff and you can find me
29:06
Speaker 3: on Instagram and TikTok at Stevichka and yeah, just follow
29:10
Speaker 3: my TikTok. I post a lot of my life on
29:12
Speaker 3: the air, and yeah, sometimes it's awkward me man, I'm
29:16
Speaker 3: like answer, but yeah, that's good.
29:20
Speaker 1: All right, everyone go follow Stephanie over there and you'll
29:22
Speaker 1: be seeing her in the live remake of Greece coming
29:26
Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty nine. Stephanie Sosa, thank you so much,
29:31
Speaker 1: congratulations on all success and good luck going forward. If
29:35
Speaker 1: you guys aren't following us on social media, please do
29:38
Speaker 1: ap by order of the faithful dm us questions, concerns,
29:42
Speaker 1: or anyone else you'd like to have on the show.
29:46
Speaker 2: Stephanie, thank you again so much.
29:48
Speaker 1: And was I right? Is it Dell and Allen? Are
29:50
Speaker 1: they both the winners at the end?
29:52
Speaker 3: Let me let it down out. I can't sell you.
29:56
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's you get out of here. Thank
29:57
Speaker 2: you so much for coming on.
29:58
Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
29:59
Speaker 2: Bye.
30:05
Speaker 3: Yeah,