Unpacking The Ballroom

0:00You ready? This is gonna be a good one. Are you ready? Yeah. I'm like, oh sorry. I can't but like, to me, this is like the start of something new. Because like now I'm podcasting with like a cast member of my favorite show. And I feel like crazy. Hi guys, welcome back to Working Connor, make a podcast. Yeah, we're in a different studio today because we had to schedule. The scheduling has been just. Well, we had to recap nights one and two of the ballroom and we couldn't do that with

1:04our regularly scheduled programming. So we are recording on a different day, which brings us to a different studio. Right. Totally fine. Right. Anything, literally anything, anything for DWTS. That's so fun. Like genuinely. Yeah, not to accidentally shift gears into a dancer, the star's podcast. That is what it is. That's what it's going to be for the time being. Sometimes things are out of your control. This is a dancing with the stars recap podcast. We have tried. Welcome to the dancing with the stars recap podcast starring Connor Wood and his co-host. My partner. And his partner in double-centred. Good. Which we'll get into all that. We're going to unpack all of that. Yeah, things you can look forward to in this episode. Shit like that. Yeah, we're going to. Yeah, you think we're going to leave it in the box. We're unpacking it. I want to take us back way before that. Sure. I guess I kind of want to take us back to just. I mean, you freaking major national TV.

2:08I guess you were on Good Morning, Larry. When did we do this? We did this. When did the last time we recorded this podcast? Well, it's last week here, right? Yeah. Yeah. But I'm just saying you may. On TV. And since we recorded this podcast, you've made your debut on like a massive platform on national television. Yeah. Excluding your appearance on Good Morning America. Yeah. Your TV star. Beloved by the nation. The young. It is sweeping the young nation. You've completely swept inside of the hearts of the young nation since we last spoke. How does that tell me how that feels? Did you say that flicking the beans of the young nation? Wait. You can see. I don't want you to place yourself just because you flicked the beans of the young nation. All right. Screw it. Yeah. Yeah. I did it. Yeah. I did it. And I don't care who knows it. You like, okay. How, just like very quickly, like how are you feeling?

3:12There's no time to, there's no time. There's no time to talk. You'll have to email me. I feel like you haven't even been like on your phone. You've been on your phone a lot. What are you? Yeah. Oh, I just feel like you've even viewed my Instagram stories. Oh my God. No, we're probably having one of those things where it's just like, it's not coming up. It's not coming across my desk first. Like I'm already shadowed into the guy. Wait. Wait. I'm completely like, wait. First double tennis now, shadowed band. No, that was out of my control. Do you want to just, should we just do that first, that part first? Double tennis. Yeah. It's not doing it. Tell us. Okay. So number one. Yeah, no. Ever. Tell them what happened. Well, they don't know. Let's just do the whole thing. We'll just start when that comes chronologically. I feel horrible for the people that are tuning in for the first time for like an organized chronological recap. Yeah. Okay. If you're tuning in for the first time, first of all, welcome. We're shoes off household. Yeah. No, we're not. Leave your shoes on. Do whatever you want. We're a do whatever you want household.

4:13But like some people might take off their shoes sometimes. They might fiddle with their toes. If they want, I'm not sure if you're having a lot of fun or is doing Javianas. I'm not sure if you're having a lot of fun. Yeah. I have a flip-flops on today. You got to put yourself first. Also, people like Javianas are coming back in. I do want to say I was, I was on the forefront of the Javianas Renaissance and the flip-flops are coming back in. It may be uncomfortable for you, but that has nothing to do with me completely. I totally agree. I think you can wear jeans and Javianas now and maybe even pants. I think so too. And I also think you have nice feet in terms of the kind of feet that men have. So I think you have some leeway. Thanks. I appreciate it. Yeah. For so long, I had been in foot jail because I wouldn't allow myself to be out in public because truly since college, actually, since I busted my toes. Oh, yeah. Remember when I busted my toes? And then I go to class, I could only wear Javianas flip-flops on my left foot.

5:15And they had wrapped up almost in like a cartoonish way my bloody toes. I about sit open. And I remember getting on Yic-Yac if you know, you know. And this girl that was definitely in my class and yesterday, there's this disgusting guy that only wears one flip-flop and his toe is bleeding every day. Which he can do. I was like, baby, you think I'm putting my bloody toe in? And a slip-on checkerboard van? No. No. No. No, no. Wheeling, but I'm uneven. Completely. And so I had this big like genuinely, it looked like when Tom would drop like an Ann Villanjari's toe and it would go boom, boom, boom, boom. I mean, I'm sure you're going to get some more busted toes as the season goes on. Yeah. Such as in addition to when I the night before the premiere. I think we should start chronologically. Okay. All right. So the night before the premiere, how you were feeling during rehearsals, et cetera, and

6:18shit like that. Okay. I'll just say like we've been in, even when we were like not announced yet, that's when we were going to the studio every single day. And I had to wear this freaking Addison Ray visor mask every day driving in. And I do want to also really quickly say like the everyone's like, oh, they leaked. Like why do they even do that? I was undercover. I don't know who the whisperings of like me being on it was definitely someone in the industry. It was not me. I mean, yeah, you were good and you were like first to know. But I was so good because I was mostly because I was like, I know people are going to be like, and who is that? You know, like wild card. It's okay to have a wild card. It's fun. It's okay to be the wild card. It's okay to be the wild card. And I want to touch on being the wild card. Having zero expectations is a beautiful place to live. Yeah. Not an athlete never claimed to be one. Do you know to answer questions? Never said I did. You can only exceed expectations. What an amazing like this is what I said last week.

7:20I think they had a lot to lose by having me on. I had only gain. Yeah, you know, you can only meet or exceed. Yeah. And I wanted to like, because I knew people were going to be like, and why did we do that with this young man? And I want to be like, I'm going to show you. Yeah. And show us all you do. I've proved to you that I'm in there every day working. Might took us off. Yeah. But anyways, we were showing up every day. It was 115 degrees. I didn't get into my hot card and they made me wear a hoodie. Covered my face and then the visor and it was and sweats. So I was just like, for instance, sweat pulling in. Finally, Dumois, Leaks, Conor Wood, Leaked. And I was kind of like, you know, party was like, I'm on Dumois. Yeah. I'm on Dumois. I was like, this is 100% Conor Wood. My name Conor Wood. I look at it closer. Everyone's like, how do you know this Conor Wood? His hand. His hand. Completely couldn't be more of a woman's hand. It wasn't your hand. It had French tips. It didn't have French tips. But it wasn't your hand. French ass tips. Anyways, it was a woman's hand. It couldn't be more of a feminine hand.

8:20Do we know whose hand it was? I think Tatiana on us. But 100%. Are you being curious? Yeah. That one was me. This one was me because I wore a different color hoodie every day because I didn't get the box with all the gear to be hidden the whole time. I was bringing my own hoodie to work. I didn't know that with everyone else was given a free hoodie. But I brought my own. And I appreciate Dumois. Always been here since the beginning days. They have been always been there for you. And they called me comedian, which I appreciate. And said, because I know that I'm the influencer on the season, which I take pride in. There's nothing wrong with being an influencer. I feel like Sarah. Sarah? No, no, no. Oh, never mind. Sarah Jane. Yeah. She's like reality. She's starting to model. Okay. They have their own Hulu love that day.

9:20I feel like there's no true influencer this season. Like there's no Alex or all. Yeah. You're the comedian. You're the comedian. Well, yeah. So that happened. What was I, what were we talking about? How did this end up? I was just asking you about like what rehearsals were like, what you were feeling the night before, like how you felt like you were doing, how was dress rehearsal? You saw. I think you should tell us about what happened during dress rehearsal. Yeah. And I'm glad to be because of where we're at. Yeah. Tell us what happened during rehearsal. So we practiced the stance so much that like Riley made this video right before that was just like day one rehearsal versus now. And you see this day one version of us practicing this dance, which was like no dance experience. I don't know how Riley got up the following day and was like, time to go to work only Riley could because I was a lost cost, really. Like I was stepping on my foot when I saw your footage of very early practices. I didn't think you were bad at all, but seeing them compared to where you landed was insane.

10:24I know. It was bizarre to see that. Yeah. Cheap hosted that. We have been working on the stance for like three or like two and a half weeks. And then some most lead up you get like for a dance. It's the first dance you get two and a half weeks. And we had it nailed like a genuinely, I sent you rehearsal, but I was like, this is like nuts. I can't wait to do this on the stage. Right. Now when we're practicing the studio, we don't have the mechanical bull was a late ad. Sure. We don't have the mechanical bull in the studio, you know. So that adds, if you think about the song that we've been practicing to nailing it to the beats. We've got an additional four seconds added to the top of the song. So now it's like every second matters. And then so in that what you don't hear on the TV is it goes click, click, click, click. And it's like, I'm getting off the bowl. I have to think of where I have to be per click. And it's at the beginning of the sun. It's only got two days on the bowl. And then the stairs, which we don't have stairs in the studio and then the hat we never we weren't practicing with the hat. So it's like four things before the dance started.

11:24And then you have to hit that first beat on the floor, on the flow, on the way to the liquor stove. So it was like all new stuff. So we go in for camera blocking is what it is. And that's when like what you guys see on TV, it's like there's 12. I don't know how many get there's 12 cameras. And so when you look, you cut and you look and they're close on your face this way. And then you cut this way. And this is a far out. I'll you to look at the cameras. They're like dancing. It's I think it's it. I'm making this up by the way that I didn't ask any questions. But like I think it's a two for they don't want to show bad dancing on TV. That would just be like a nothing burger, you know TV like no one wants to watch bad dancing. I think it would want to show someone mess up if they mess up pretty badly, no? I don't really. I don't think that that would benefit them at all. People would be like, I'm not, you know, like this is not this person that's picking it seriously. I know like if someone falls or something, that's good TV. That's like, it's replay. That is good TV. Yeah. But like just messing up, flopping a whole dance like which is I'll just get there.

12:27So you you get three tries on the Saturday leading up to it was Saturday this week. I don't know when it's going to be, but moving forward because it was a two for two two nights special. But the camera blocking one, you get to be like, okay, for this, this is a close up on my face. I really want to look because that's everyone watching and voting is like, you know, if I'm going, I like it. I want to go. I like it. I like it. Boom. And then two, I like it here. I love it here. And then what if I want some more of it? I agree. So that would be like kind of a workout. And then there's also like spinning around you. So there was that I you guys, we got three tries. There is not a chance on the planet. I couldn't have, I could have messed these up more. By the way, these, like I'm missing the first beat. I'm skipping like, I don't know how many move, how many like sections of the dance there were, probably 15.

13:27I was missing like seven. Like of this dance that we have nailed to perfection. 100 times. You got the yips for the yips. I got the yips. Badly for dress rehearsal, etc. Camera ball. And like I don't have for performance anxiety. Like I've never had that in my life. There was not even that many people in the room when I did this. I messed it up and that gets sent out to everyone. And I'm just like, oh, they're all going to get this and they're going to be like, we made a pretty massive mistake. And then we come in day of the show after practicing. I'm like, okay, that was like, that was it. It was the day after my birthday. So we had done karaoke and stuff. And like, I'm like, maybe it was a sleep thing. Like, I don't really know. But that wasn't until late afternoon. It definitely wasn't like a, okay, like early morning wake up. It was late afternoon. So like, it wasn't like a, I was just trying to like make up an excuse of why that could have happened. And then the day of the show, we go in and we had a couple tries not in our costume.

14:29And I nailed it. I was like, oh my god, it was the, it was the yips. And where was, where were you? This is in the ballroom. This is in the ballroom. You're practicing the ballroom. Okay, you nailed it in the ballroom. Nailed it with the stairs with the ball with the hat. And then we put our costume on. Where did you go wrong? Ten second tom. Like genuine 51st dates. Drew Barrymore. Hi, where am I? Hi, Connor Riley. He's like, why are you introducing yourself? One hundred percent brand new to me. Dressers. So we do it. I'm like, I mean, there's, when you get up, there's always like, we have one more. We're here. So like, I'll just get it that time and then I'll feel good. It's making me sweat again. Even thank you about it. There was no more, one more tried. The next try was five TV. You're in the crowd. My parents are in the crowd. I was like, oh my god, like I blew it. You know, like, he had texted me this that like he, he completely messed up.

15:34I couldn't, I was so sick. To my stomach. I'm sorry to say this for the new listeners, but like I was, I was, I was made, I couldn't get off the toilet all day. I was sick to my stomach. We started leaving to go to the bar room, kind of read the turnaround as I was extremely sick. No. I was sick in my chair at the bar room. You came out. You couldn't look at me. I couldn't look at you. Like it was like, I was sick. I mean, I was just like, this isn't even funny. You know, like, I was like, you know, like a lot of times you're like, oh, if I mess up, it's like, oh, you know, that one time I blew it round, you know, round one of dancing at the stars, but it wasn't funny. I was like, I don't think I'm gonna look. I don't, truly like, I've never been to war. Totally. I was on the line of fire. Like I, I was genuine like, I feel like everyone I meet lately is trying to be smarter with money. My self included cash back here, coupons and points there. But why does it take so much effort? We all just want to make our money work a little harder.

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20:42That's NutriFull.com spelled N-U-T-R-A-F-O-L dot com promo code BNC. I mean, in terms of like fight or flight and what I've experienced, I've done with Jake Shane, Radio City musical. Like I've done crowds. I have never felt what I felt that there's no. I can't imagine. There's genuine like, I think that I could have been a heavy, heavy smoker for my, for since I was six years old, and I think that I would have lived longer than whatever, yeah, whatever Chaudet did to me on my longevity of my life. Anyway, I really can't imagine. Come out, I'm talking to everybody. It's just like, I was just like, I went nonverbal. I was like, I had accepted that. Okay, like, it didn't look that bad on camera blocking because they didn't help me out, but like, you know, like, I don't know the stance that I know.

21:46You think you know someone, and in terms of you don't, five? Turned on me. Yeah. And then you're like, oh, what's that next part? Because you're thinking of it in your head, and then I'm like, oh, now I'm going to think of it when I get out to that part. And then when you're thinking of what's the next part, you miss the part that you're doing. Yeah, it's pretty gnarly. And the Chacha that we were doing is like a very, it's a harder dance. That's why like, I think people like to do that one at the beginning when expectations are lower. Can you explain like, did they tell you to do the Chacha? Or you pick it? No, the songs, you know, a song lends itself to a style of dance. Okay. I didn't even know that. Yeah. So like, if I tell Riley, this, you know, all I wanted was you by Paramore. Yeah. What's on? What is that? She's like, oh my gosh, that's a Samba. Like she can just be like, whoa, beat in her head and do that. And now can you do a Chacha again? Or you're done with doing Chacha? I hope I never have to do it. I'm just kidding. No, it was fun. I enjoyed it. I will never listen to Tim McGraw again.

22:48No fault of his own. But I think it would genuinely like PTSD me. One of my favorite songs. The other thing that happens is the live band plays the song. So it's not the song that you've been practicing. Right. It's a live band. And it like, you're in a room with different acoustics. And because of the adrenaline, you feel like they're playing slower. And so you're going faster. It's very bizarre. But got out there on the bowl. Yeah. Well, rewind for a second. How are you feeling like as all the other guys were performing before you? Because you were sick. I didn't care for that. Like I wanted you to go pretty early because the anticipation was like really. What a logic on first. How was the anticipation for you and like watching all the other guys? It was fine. Riley's in a really good job of being like, say in your lane. Like there's nothing. That has nothing to do with you. Everything scoring is all things considered. You know, like someone that comes in that's a professional dancer. They're considering that. They're going, how are you elevating that and how are you getting better? And what are you bringing presentation? Right. All this. For some of no dance experience, they're like from where you came to now.

23:52That's what they're judging and like what you did out there. So they are grading on a curve. It's curved per individual. It's not. I don't think it's even like blanket statement curved. I think it's like based on it's like pretty tailored. Yeah. Okay. I'll just tell you. So it went out there and I walk by you. I throw it's like closes. Yeah. I know how the story ends. I know how the story ends. Oh. So walking out there and like I'm looking at right. We're walking out together and then we get up on the ball and I'm looking at it. But the package is playing. It's my first time seeing the package and honestly truly about the packages. Voice to God. Me being like, hey, I'm Connor and this is me in Riley meeting and it's on the screen and playing. Oh, that's the package. And you have to watch that well for the first time while you're going out there and I'm just going out there like shut up for a second. Like I'm feeling like surrendering like whatever or like you were still like nerves to the gods. There wasn't a better situation that had to happen where you truly were like what you're like letting go and letting God right there. Being like whatever happens right now just like is going to happen.

24:52Like that is just it. And the best thing you can do is be like just like stand up. Sometimes if I'm like, oh, there's a big crowd. I'm like, it's 7 p.m. right now. You've 40 minutes at or whatever by eight you will be heading home and getting in bed. That's strategy. And I'm thinking about dancing with the stars. I'm like, in one minute, you will be you will be backstage and people will have moved on. Yep. Now with everything, I don't think people move on as quickly as you would like to think. Especially the people that watch dancing and how online everyone is and seems like everyone is actually recording the show on TV. Yeah. Like they're like filming their concert. Yeah. Which is just like, okay, the cha cha is very individual. So like there's a lot of parts where you know, I'm moving in my own right and then Riley and I will meet up and then we switch. You're just switching. It felt like switching into different styles every single time. But I'm up on the bowl. Up on the bowl. I look straight to see my dad. He's laughing, which is just like, come on. Don't laugh.

25:52He was so proud of you. I know. It was really amazing to be in that space. I'm sure it was great for my dad that was in the military to watch his son dance. It was. It was like it genuinely was. And he has known that you have been able to work this crowd since you were five years old in the school play. That's what I'll say about that. What did he tell you? That when you were five years old in the school play, not only did you memorize all of your own lines, you memorized the lines of everybody else. Yep. Yep. And then he knew you're born and entertained. And entertainer. And I completely agree. That's my entertainer. There was. So we're doing the dance. The part of the dance floor where if you said today, like you caught the beat, did you say that today? I caught the beat. No, that like I was. Oh, no. I don't think I've ever said that. Well, I don't have a sense of beats. There's a part where like I kind of lost it for a second. I slipped my toe slipped. And like I'm supposed to do a sharp stop.

26:53And I did a sharp stop. And my toe took like six more inches and was out. And then I ended up in my boot. You're healed. Snakes can cowboy boot your toe. And in my true Mayflower stepas, I slipped a little bit and I told them to. This part is I'm slipping every single time only right here. And no one was really using that portion of the dance floor. Seriously, seriously. No, I'm just they were. But like I think I might have just been like using so much of my toe that it was actually my top of my shoe that was catching. But caught it and we got to like the towards probably like 75% of the dance. And I smiled it right. I was like, I was like the bad start laughing. I was like, this is like the one that we get all the way through. And I know there was some like timing issues and stuff. But like I was truly just like overjoyed to have gotten through the dance and on joy on your face when you finished like it was it was mirrored in the crowd. Like it was like you could tell how happy you were that you did it. It was I mean, it was so good Connor. But I I smile. I didn't even catch one second that you were off by the way.

27:55I smiled so big and she goes, not yet. And we got there and then she fell down the ground because she really Riley's the most positive person in the world. She was kind of like, yeah, stone face like. You know, next season will be my season. Yeah. She thought you're unfortunately this season is your season because we're going all the way. Baby. Oh my God. You're going all the way. We're going to yeah, we're going to go all the way. Oh, I know that you are going. How was the crowd? Connor, I was like legitimately like I don't know. Like I was so in my own body only and like so freaked out and like only looking at you. And just like experiencing probably not all of the nerves that you were, but like pretty much all of them make sure I say like I don't know how the crowd was. I think good. Really? Probably good. If I had to guess, yeah, probably great. I'm so scared. There's this girl that keeps posting. I was in the crowd at the dance with the stars premiere. There's the real crowd favorites.

28:56And I'm like, oh, I can't watch that. I don't want to know. Oh, no, I'm sure the crowd loved you. I think we were screaming. I do want to say to I can't explain to you what it feels like to mess up the dressers on being like and they're all watching and they're like, what are you doing? You know, and just being like, I know I can do this dance to I'm feeling fine. And then like right before our dance while we're getting ready, I get a push notification on my phone. I signed up for push notifications from Google. The app. I don't need an internet push notification. What did she say? Page six. Tim McGraw falls on stage while performing. I like it. I love it in Las Vegas. I have an image. I screenshot it. Tim McGraw takes hard fall on stage at Cincinnati concert after arriving 40 minutes late. I like that is a horrible. Oh, man. That is bad. That's bad. Honestly, that's bad.

29:57But you didn't like it. You down? No, I did let it get me down. I was really in my head. But um, wow, living all of that just like no. And then watching last night and just picture like when we went to get our scores, I was like, they could give me one. So I'm okay with that. Like we got through the dance and that's what we, well, that's what I wanted to do. I'm a part of the dance. Oh, yeah. Like you were like sexy, sexy. Really? And I don't use that word lightly. Wow. Like the way when you were behind Riley and you were like, hey, you had your hand like going up her leg. When I was slaying. You were like slaying the house down. Snazzy and booth slipping your toe out. Like that. I was like, oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. That was funny. It was like Connor. I was like, like freaking out. Oh. And I keep thinking about like if I was in an alternate universe where like, I didn't really know you. Like I would be like, I like him.

30:57I would be like texting Connor W like pretty, pretty freaking frantically. But you know me. Yeah, but I'm just saying like if I didn't, like I would have, I would have latched in that. But I would have latched, which is pretty scary to think about from my couch at home. I would have been latching onto you from the ballroom. Like it's scary to think about like what could have happened in that alternate universe. Wow. And like what my DMs to you could have looked like in that space. Oh, that's like, isn't that scary? That's bone chilling. Isn't it bone chilling? Yeah, that's like kind of like the movie in time. It's like the movie in time. And then you called me last night and I was like, oh my god Connor, what is calling me? Stop, bro. I'm serious. Oh my god. Really crazy. Stop it. I'm serious. Well, seeing you guys in the crowd, that was just like that was nice. Good. Except I can't ever look at you guys again. Totally fine. Because I can tell you guys are freaking it. You guys were doing this smile like this. Well, now I'm going to be fine because I know what you're capable of.

31:58Yeah. And I know the way you can act under pressure. Our dance next week is going to be really fun. Like I'm, I could have performed our dance next week today. Are you doing any sexy move next week? Move next week? Pretty sexy. Is it sexier? The whole thing is sexy. Like it's like, I, and like I keep seeing sexy. It's just a more sensual dance. Awesome. I'm so excited. I do want to say it's really like when I really started getting in my head about the dance, it was when Riley was like now a time to look at time to use your face. And like someone like Jackson Olsen, the Svana Banana, he can, he's like a big like, oh yeah, smile like wink. So I'm like, I got a wink. I got to get a wink in. I look right in during that freaking line dance at Karyanna and I go, and I wink at her. And you did not give her the echo and you did it. Okay. We got to talk about the delivery on that line. I love to get into that. So wherever the judge first found that we talked is Karyanna.

33:00Usually when people move their body in a strange way. That I've never heard her deliver a score like that. Usually this is literally why your tooth brown. I've never heard of it. I'm serious. Speak like that. Usually when someone moves their body in a strange way and I'm like this. Y'all hearing this? Yeah. I'm like, what could she say? Can I hear both sitting there going, okay, okay, okay. Yes. It gives me the ik and I'm so like, how are we going to land this planet? Yeah. We land this planet together. She goes, did not give me the ik. But what I'm hearing out there is like, when someone moves their weird body like you are moving your strange weird body, you know, like that's what I'm hearing when I'm up there. Like usually that would have been it. But the way you did it. You know, I'm sure they hear like whispering of the dress rehearsal and the rehearsals that like I wasn't performing well at.

34:01And so I'm sure that she was ready to deliver like a different message. And then so I think that she was like, I was pleasantly surprised because she was basing it. And then Derek also said, I was pleasantly surprised. Like I think that they were like, oh, we got to change our tune because of turn it on. I don't remember what Bruno said. Oh, did you rewatch and watch the judges? You should. I don't think I will. I think you should. They were like loving it. Really? Yes. Um, the funniest thing I ever hear about, I was talking to him on the side because we were going up together at the beginning. And I was like, he was like, I don't know anyone's name, man. And I was like, do you know the judges? He's like, carry in. I was like, yeah. And then I go, what's the guy's name? And he goes, Darryl Hugg. I think it, yep. Uh, he's in a first good time, not a long time. I love fucking it. I don't know. Like, people are kind of Andy Richter and his ass. I don't, I don't think so. As much as I love him. He liked deeply. He jokes around a lot. He's like proud of himself. It's very awesome. He literally comes up and he goes, you know, when you're down there and like, you get

35:04up and like, then you hit it, you know, like, and then I looked at him the other day and I saw him down the hallway and he was practicing. Oh, he wants it. No, he's working hard. He, I think he's got a definitely few more shows left. Yes. Yeah. I love him. Let me just see. Yeah. And then so, I mean, I was sweating out of my head, which I, I've never really done. I want to look into sweating out of the head. Like, what do you mean out of your head? It was coming from here down it was, it was literally like in a movie when someone's nervous when they're like counting cards at a casino. It was sweating from here. Yeah. My noggin from your scalp. My scalp. Yeah. Um, everyone was so good too. But in terms of like watching people, obviously like Ezra is my brother on the show. Like, that is who I like spend like a lot of my time with. Yeah. And we just hit it off like day one in the lot when we were doing my promo shoot. And he was just phenomenal. Like, he's a phenomenal. One I want to say he's, he's phenomenal.

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41:08He has a best family too. Conor I was sitting next to them and I was like sobbing, watching them, watching them. I know. I'm like always talking to his mom. His mom is like every is mom like most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Stunned. That whole thing. And then his brothers come up. Hi, we're as right. No, I know. They're looking. They all look the same. No, as their brother. I'm as their brother. I go, I thought you were as right. Yeah. I was like, how did you change so fast? I thought he was doing, I thought, sorry, now that I'm a dancer, there's a car horn going off and I'm like five, six, seven, eight. You hear your starting to hear the beat and everything. Yeah. But when I saw it, as his brother in the crowd, I was like, oh my god, is he doing like a secret crowd piece? Like is he doing like a flash mob with like lookalikes? Oh. I thought he had look like scattered with that through the crowd and those others. But I mean, that dance was the last dance I saw before I went out. So I was kind of like, oh, what if I fell down the stairs?

42:09Like, would that be so bad? And then I was like, yes, because they would play my dress rehearsal as my like, if you get hurt, they play your dress rehearsal as the thing they score for. And so I was like, no, I need to go out and kind of do this thing. And it happened. And then it was good. And then it was amazing. Thank you. That's very, very nice. Okay. So then we go to the press line. The press line is so funny. I obviously like, I'm sitting there. You're gonna be your interview up on the platform. That's what I want to talk about my interview. Yeah. Let's talk about the interview. I was so happy that we finished the dance that like everyone was like, this is the chance like for people to get to know you. And for jewels to be like, how is the competition? So where are they? I said, come to that. Jewels. You're doing jewels. Jewels and I, yeah. Okay. I didn't know your new jewels. Jewels goes, how's the competition been so far? But this is that your time to be like, I am here doing this for my daughter. Yeah. I'm doing this for this community of people. I am here because they said I couldn't be here. I go, she goes, how does it? I said good. I mean, you didn't lie.

43:11You didn't lie. No, I mean, I wasn't up there to lie. I was on such a high that like the questions being asked were just like, let me, let me go. Let me let you let me go. Let me let you let me go. I didn't let you let me go. Like the scores. I was like, I am so content with what we did out there that I don't, you can score me one. I could go home and I'm like, I'm good with it. But like the story that I'm telling was not told up there that last, that evening. Do you know the story you want to tell? I think so. I think, yeah. I'm excited to. You helped me with it. Yeah. I'm excited to see your next. Yeah. And I think I can start saying it here. It's just like everything that I've ever done has been kind of like a joke and I laugh at everything and this is something that I care about and I'm taking seriously and I think it's just like telling a different side of myself. Vulnerable and earning. Very vulnerable. Very earnest. You know, it was like weirdly validating for me the other day. What? Timothy Shalamet posted a photo, don't from his hike with his dad. Okay. And I was like, yeah. You connected to that? And the caption was, hike with my dad. Yeah.

44:11And I was like, yes. And I'm dancing. You know, like, yeah. Timothy Shalamet is hiking with his dad and I'm dancing and I'm working hard and I'm stretching and I'm lifting and I'm going to the physical therapist Timothy. That was weirdly like, this is the year of being earnest in our work. You know? And not just being like, I'm very stupid. This is the year of being vulnerable things. This is the year. This is the year saying I'm very capable. I'm very, very good at what I do and I can try new things too if I want to. I can. I can and I will. Yeah. Last year I was on the other side of that obstructing pole. This year I'm on the other side of the pole. On the floor. Tonight we're going to get on the floor. Yeah. Awesome. Anything else you want to address about the interview? Yeah. So address with the interview. One like, I totally see you and hear you about like being in the zone about the work that you have been invited on to promote and then the podcast coming up and saying like, let me get back to like, but like when someone was like, or whenever they brought up partner,

45:18I don't think they did sweetie. I think you brought up on your head. I never really brought up like, where's your head at? I was talking, obviously competitively. I think that this is the funniest thing in the world because now we're going to go to that in a second. But when they're like, where's your head? I'm like, I've just never had just thing you about how Riley is just as like in this competition. Tell them what you said and then sport and then I've never had a partner before, before like, except in double tennis. No, double tennis came later. Oh, well, okay. I don't remember what I said up there. Okay. That was black. Let's play it. No. Let's roll the tapes. I don't care about this. If you could even pull up his transcript, I don't care about what I said. I can't see myself from that night. Okay. It's like triggering. But I will say like, I am not, I was not, I was thinking in sport, you know, like I wasn't. And I've never, we've never called each other my, my, my podcast partner. I feel like I've called you my partner. I don't think we've ever said part. Well, I called you partner and like a life, my life partner. You are my safe space and you are my partner here in our home when we're sitting here. When we're working, you know, like this is great and like as in life as well, like

46:21great. But like we've never been in a competitive situation. I don't think we would. I knew what you meant. I know. You coming up right away and being like never had a partner and I was like, what are you talking about? Like I literally had no idea what you were talking about. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You were worried. You never make a joke about that. And I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like I genuinely had no memory of from the end of the dance. I remember carrying and then I don't remember being up at the sky deck and or anything after that. Like it's weird what blacked out. But anyways, now we have now we're even because I had done something similar. Simular and specifically when you were on Good Morning America. Yeah. Today show. Today show. And it was so now we have. So would you rather. Yeah. Uh, uh, oh, it's nothing. Oh, it's nothing daughter or I'd never had a partner. A partner or a son partner or a son. Someone said that that we didn't coin that. Someone said that on TikTok.

47:21Yes. Shout out to her. Yes. So even if we're going to do marriage, we have to do timely marriage for the first time ever. But the fun the funniest part about no partner to me was that you did a second interview where you also said I've never had a partner corrected yourself. And you said, oh, well, except for in doubles tennis. That was my favorite part. Yeah. So that's well now you understand like in terms of like you had a sport. Yeah. For my set. No, you and I also want to say like we are dream team truly like doing this. I don't think we would compete well together. Uh, uh, cause I just don't think that we would. I don't. Yeah. I wouldn't want to because like that's just not like I would it wouldn't be fun. And words are like and this has we're all about fun. Yeah. You know, I love you to death. You came up about 1100 times and other like in other parts of the interviews. Of course what they clipped was partner or a son. Because obviously and by the way, that was very, very fun up until the one person that needs to ruin it by being so strange.

48:21Like you guys were having fun. Yeah, the rest easy knowing that we were we were laughing about it. We are not only we are not it is not only everything but partner full. Here's what I'll say about that. I did I've read I've did react live time and cat elbowed me so hard because I didn't realize there was a camera in our face. Oh, wait, is it on camera? No, it's not on camera, but if it was, you would have seen me go never to partner before. Like, okay, this is one of those things were truly like I like do not make that connection because I don't like I don't know competitively. We've never maybe we should try to be in a competition together. I think we could do something like we should do traders or something. Wait, I want to talk about traders because well, I think we could do something like are you smarter than a fifth grader together? No, we tried and that did not work. No, but I'm saying we wouldn't like hate each other based off of that. I think we would hate each other if if something like dancing the fact was your dancing

49:24starts part. Who was I? But like you're like going to be on traders. I don't know. That's just how that's how it works, baby. Like you're going to be on traders. I would love to be on traders, but I don't know. Would be fun. Like that's awesome. Speaking of more Hagen's dance lesson, it was amazing. Incredible. And we in Rob was there in Lisa. He spoke to Rob. Yeah. How was that? Rob's just like a nice, just like cutist little like I love that he. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but he's like playing a character. He's a very, very sweet guy like his like kind of like solemn like, yeah, what's up? You know, whatever. He's like a very nice outgoing. Is he like a like was there like bubble to him? Yes. He's a little bubbly. Yes, he's bubbly. Wow. So I judge her. See, well, she had so much kind, so many kind words to say about my dance. What did she say? She was just like, I was here in the ballroom. One, but two, I watched it on TV and I got home and like usually someone has like one

50:27or the other, you know, like they were, it worked really well on camera. She was like, you did both. And I'm hugging her and that was the first time I had done. Oh my God. Georgia. See what smells bad. And then I go later on I go, oh my God, it was me. It was my first time lifting my arms. They made us put our outfit back on from the night before and they didn't clean it. And remember how much I was putting. Why did they make you do that? The girls had two different outfits because the girls did an opening number for ours. And we didn't do an opening number for theirs. But I feel bad for even a millisecond of thinking, Georgia, see what smelled bad when I smelled like salt and vinegar chips for my armpits. It was just disgusting. I literally hugged her and I was like, whoa. No one's expecting you to smell good after. No, so you're wondering if they wash the outfit or like if it smelled bad. It was, it was rank. It was this guy. It was like sharp cheddar. I don't even know. You honor. It was like not like a, oh, this is B.O. It was like pungent. And then we went up and did the thing with Rob or one last night. And I couldn't lift my arms. I couldn't front of him.

51:28So like you'll see, I'm next to Ezra and Jackson. And these are like two like big broad shoulder guys. And I'm like this. I have a few questions to ask you. Okay. Well, first of all, I want to talk about loading. What? Also Kate Flannery in between me and Riley with P. And she's running out and she goes, grab me. You are fucking awesome. Oh my god. I was like Kate Flannery. That's Meredith from the office. That's awesome. Yeah, it was pretty amazing. This is just like the coolest thing in the world. Wait, what was the question? I just like just about the show in general, like the voting just like pisses me off beyond belief because the show airs live only on the East Coast. And airs at 8 p.m. L.A. time. And so the we have to vote assuming you're not in the ballroom without watching you. Yeah. So like for the women, like I didn't know, like I didn't have a fan favorite yet because like I didn't know them until I walked last night.

52:29So like I had like I couldn't vote based off of performance at all, which like is the only thing that I would have wanted to want to vote on. It's crazy. I didn't think about that. Like I completely, I didn't vote last night because I'm like, I don't what would I be voting on? I don't know. I can't answer that. I don't really understand. I should like, I should be able to base my votes off of the dance. Sure. Yeah, I think Whitney Carson said something really good about this. She was just like, you do, you do vote for your favorite. Yeah, but it should, you should be able to factor in the performance. Shortly, like it's not right to not be able to do that. I can't answer the question because I didn't ever think about it. I'm just like it makes zero sense. The other thing that I don't like, if you don't mind me shitting on the show that you're on for a second, which is, it is my favorite show, by the way, just a few qualms. You have been bad. I don't think that you should, there should be eliminations on the first night. I think everyone should get the chance

53:29to establish any fan base that they can on the first night. Let that marinate first. I can't have the chance to improve. Sarah Jane and Haley, like I was like, that's Haley's first year as a pro. Here's her first season as a pro. And I was just like, I was also like, oh, like based on the first dance in the first choreography. Like, I just thought that was a little crazy because I liked the dance. I did too. I don't think I don't think anyone should go home night one. I'll say that about that. Oh, by the way, when they put you in like the quote, unquote, bottom three, even though I know it's no specific order, like there's no, like you weren't in the bottom three, you just like, they placed you in the last three people that happened to be on stage. Did you think for one second that like, you were at risk? It's impossible to not think that I was at risk. I liked it truly didn't even cross my mind. Well, even from judges scoring, like it was not in no particular order. I think they do what they have to do. But like, like even judges score, we were we were forth.

54:32But they did that. I'm like for the Connor of it all. So they could be like Connor. I don't know what they reminded me of David and David, Archie Leda and Cook. I think he came to the show. David Archie Leda. Albert Chow. You should. Albert Chow to my buddy. Oh, you guys do need to reconnect. Happy. Yeah. Well, that's that. Now we got this week. Well, let me tell you my fan favorite. Oh, yeah. And oh, here's what I wanted to ask you. Can I give, like if I gave 10 votes to you and 10 votes to, I don't know, say, Esra, I can do that. Like I can give 10 votes to different people. I think I can, Connor. I don't think it's 10 votes total. I think it's 10 votes per cup. No, you have to split five and five. No, I don't think so, which is, which I don't understand. I think I could give. No, I don't think you do because I didn't understand this either. I could give 10 to you and 10 to Esra, I think. Is it crap on my sweatshirt? I don't know. There's no crap on your sweatshirt. Yeah, it's per couple. For a couple. So that doesn't make sense to me either.

55:33Oh, so someone could vote for every couple. Yes. Like if every person voted for every couple 10 times, like it would just cancel out their vote. I don't get it. But so like what me voting for you 10 times and then voting for Esra 10 times hurt you? It wouldn't hurt me because I want Esra to win. But like it would hurt. It would, it's tough because like obviously, I mean, I'm only voting for you. I mean, obviously if it was neck, if it was neck and neck, if it was neck and neck, that, I guess that's where it makes it. But I don't think it will be neck and neck and neck. Like unless I was, well, I mean, there's always a chance if I really, really messed up and I was at the bottom at the chopping block. I guess it wouldn't, I know. No, then it wouldn't matter. It would never matter if you voted for both of us. And I would, your vote would still be in counted for me. So I was just thinking if I was like at the tail end and you gave your the five. I think it does make a difference because it gives him more votes.

56:35I confuse myself. I confuse. I confuse just in general. I'm very confused. But I think like dancing with the stars, like you guys need to think about like a few things that make no sense if you can, if you've time. It's been on the air. I'm busy, but if you've time, a lot of stuff makes sense. This show has been on the air for like 20 plus years, right? There's like a lot of people I've talked to, people that work behind the scenes and stuff that are like, I've been here for 17 years. I'm like, I can't imagine doing anything for 17 years. Yeah, that's a lot of years. Walking for 17 years. I'm like, I've been doing stairs for 17 years. Crazy. Let me just tell you my fan favorites really quickly because it's my favorite show. Yeah. You obviously, my, my mirror wall champ. Obviously, like I'm like completely addicted to Ezra that like goes without saying. Of course. I'm a little bit torn with Harry. Shum because he's like just like so good. And like, if you saw it, if you saw it, Panda, I'm I did Panda you. And like, that's Mike Chang. So I'm like a little bit confused because like in my mind, he could be one of the pros. But also at the same time, like, the absolute fabulous watch and like,

57:36greatest guy. I'm happy to be in the room with him. Sure. So, torn on that leaning toward like, I'm addicted to him. Of course, Mora was out of this world. Like that was like freakish. Like the way her face was angled, I was like, that's a, that's a dancer. That's a dancer. I think she was exceptional. Yeah, she was great. Who else am I obsessed with? I mean, I, everyone was fabulous. It goes without saying. But I think those are my, those are my big ones. I'm missing someone big, aren't I? I liked, I really liked Taylor Hanson. Yeah, he's great. I really liked him. Name a woman. Name one more woman, bro. Jennifer Dewan. She, she, I'm having another sort of like, hairy situation with her. That was, I mean, that was the big talk. Is that like, those are pro dancers? Yeah. The craziest thing in the world is like, it is impossible to feel competitive with these people because they are

58:36360 degree great people. Yeah, I enjoy their company. Total. There's like, I enjoy all these people. Amber. Glenn, she's, she's the ice skater. Yeah. She's fabulous. The women are just out of this world. I don't think anyone younger than I should be on the show. Agreed? As far as an exception, but like, you can be super young, but you can't be like 26, 27, 28. Like, that's to like, that's mean. That's too close. That's mean to be. But I mean, everyone's fabulous. Jada the chef. She's the one that during show until she broke her toe. And I was like, that is really unfortunate because I don't know if I could recover from broken toe. And she dance the whole, she did the whole dance, which I think she was stressed about, but she's awesome. I freaking love her. That's great. I'm kind of obsessed with Alan. Alan. Like, I feel like I never before, like, really thought about the pros. But now I am. And like, there's something that Alan like, I'm like really drawn to.

59:38He came all the way to my birthday party. Alan was at your birthday for me. I got really nauseous to hit Connor's birthday party. So I just, he's myself fairly early. So I didn't get to really meet anyone. I thought it was funny. Like, thank you for that. Taylor Hans Taylor Hansen gave to my birthday party. I didn't, I don't think I saw. Isn't that fun? And like, went up. We're at karaoke. And he's like, you need to skip the line. It's weird that Taylor Hansen was like, you need to get up. Taylor Hans was at your birthday party. Sing karaoke. And I go to Sing karaoke. It was must've been the mic or something, but I was horrible. It was the mic. It was the mic. And I had given the young man at the front $20. And he said, okay, I'll put you to the front. And Taylor Hansen was like, did you put, did you put you to the front? And I go, he said he would. But it's been three songs. He's like, uh, pushes his way. Pass his daughter up to the front. He was the brightest kids. That's awesome. She's 21. Oh wow. He looks younger than me. Wait, that's extremely confusing. To a girl like you. Yeah, he's, I don't know how, but he is a 20-way girl. I think he's 38.

1:00:38Just based off that I've Googled everyone's ages. He's a little bit older. But I don't think he is. He forced the guy to put my song next. And then I went up and not force, but he coerced. How old is he? 43. Oh wow. I'm wrong. Someone's 38, but I mean, he, not that 43 is like old, but like, I didn't know. He's young. He's my age. And he's very young. He's a young man. He's a very young man. I age. I love him. He also, he had a good idea on the side of the, when we were watching last night, he was like, there should be a TV show called, I'm an influencer. Get me out of here. And it's where you put a bunch of influencers on an island with no phones. So traders? No, it'd be like survivor, but like just surviving no Wi-Fi. Surviving was really good. I'm sorry. That's good. I mean, that's really good. That's sad. It would be love Island. To have a handle. Yeah. To have to handle. Never mind done. I want to go. I want to go with you to traders. Fuck boy and partnerless daughter, peninsula.

1:01:44I can't live. You're going to be on traders. Broke, what are you talking about? It's just like, I want everyone to know like this is in like, completely. It's just the pipeline, maybe unfounded, unfounded comments, I broke. I don't know what, I don't know what pipeline you're talking about. No one, I don't think anyone does dancer that's our two traders. Oh, everyone does. Well, I, most people do traders dancing. Most people do trade dancing. But you're, you're the exception. Mark Ballis, I guess. You're the exception. As far as men, you're the exception. On the, the, the, the, okay, what, anything else? I'm checking. I'm checking my notes. No. I mean, I feel like I probably had shit to work. I hope people want to hear this. They, they're, I mean, they're going to have to because they'll have to. Yeah. I make sure for our merch, it's getting

1:02:45dropped. That's going to be fun. Partnerless son, except for double tennis. And that's nothing, daughter. But I wrote, oh, that, oh, that's, oh, that's nothing. Oh, that's nothing. But I wrote a book and except for double tennis. Yeah. So front, front of the shirt and then back of the shirt. That's funny. Do we need to contact the girl who made that tick-tock and be like, we're stealing your idea. Thank you so much. Like, how does that work? Like, is it her intellectual property? Okay. But we will. Sadly. We'll credit her. Of course. We, yeah. We'll send her some merch. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we did, we did 55 minutes on DWS. Do you want to spend the next, the last five, talking about the girl that had diarrhea? That one legs? What are you talking about? That's, that, what's that called, is he high rocks? Oh, no, I don't want to talk about this. Really?

1:03:45Why would you not want to talk about that? Okay, sure. I mean, what do you mean? What do you mean? Well, why did this, why is this the thing that you were like, okay, let's do the last five minutes on this young woman? Oh, this was like my headline. What? This is like the only thing I've seen in the past week. Yeah. The young woman that had diarrhea. And Australian woman athlete, poops mid-racen, it's not poop, that is not poop. That's like a protein shake. Athlete poops mid-racen in China, but keeps going and finishing it anyway. You know what? There it's a level of like, it's okay, baby. You did too much, you're doing too much. My thing that I will say about this is, like imagine me middle of I like it, I love it being like, can't stop now. No, here's the thing. Like, you know, I'm the most like poop positive person in the world. Yeah. Especially when it's when it's liquid base. Sure. And even I am like, it gets to a point. Like if you have diarrhea running down your legs and slipping in your socks, you just got to, you have to excuse yourself. That's just what you have to do.

1:04:46Like you didn't really have to do. Especially because she was actually doing shared equipment. The motto should always be, do exactly what makes you feel good unless it affects other people. Negative. Negative. You are, oh, yourself. Yeah. When you're getting diarrhea on the equipment that other people have to use, that would be the definition of affecting someone. So, negative. So, she was in the, the hyrox is, you just like, I don't know exactly what it is. I do know there's like a shared equipment that is used. I agree with this. Australian hyrox athlete. And I'm going to say her name because you, this should be Joanna. No. Actually, I'm not going to say her name. Reportedly pooped during that. It's not poop. Hyrograph, women's race in Beijing on September 12th. Despite the incident, the Melbourne athlete continued competing across multiple stations and finished first. So, then that adds a new element. The young woman did finish first. Well, I'm sure like it did affect the other people competing in the sense that like,

1:05:50I'm sure it threw almost through them off a little bit. Oh, so that's why you finished number one and number two in the same race. Legendary. Perfect. What else? Not cool. Okay, so the people spoke in the shade. And then someone said, Jeet Parhug Dia, which is like, that's why I was going to say. So, Yeah. You have, when something like that happens, like you have to excuse yourself because you have to. Look at her, she's like, look at those like medicine balls on the ground. She's diarrhea in her, in her socks in her, on her arms. This feels to me like bioterism. It it okay. Well, I'm not going to grab that poopy, poopy, poopy dumbbell. Yeah. So I can't like, or if there's a moment of hesitation, you're now affecting others, you know. That is literally like, I'm going to poop all of his things that I went. Oh, are you saying that there's a chance it could have been intentional? That is like, you can't have diarrhea like that intentionally.

1:06:54Oh, I got it. You know, like that was, that was, that was a, that slipped out. You know, unless she took something to soil the competition, literally. Like, literally. She quite literally soiled the competition. You know, Joanna. I don't have anything to say to Joanna actually. I thought this is foul and really bad. Yeah, you have to do it yourself because you just have to. Let me try to think, let me try to play devil's hat. Can you take it? Look, my new favorite thing is like hating something and being like, I'm going to play devil's hat if I get it. I mean, if you, I don't know if there is one for this because you're getting poop on the equipment that other people are using, honestly. I think it would be different if it was like a track race. Right? What do people usually poop them? Oh, marathons. Yeah. I think that's one thing that's a little bit different. I'm just like, if you, if you, so she's obviously like a world class athlete. Hyrox is, what is this? But by the way, this is like a nothing burger, right?

1:07:55It's like a crossfit. This is like a, I've never heard of this. I think that this, no, you have to see what this stands for. And then you'll be like, oh my gosh. Hyrox is an indoor fitness race that combines eight, one kilometer runs with eight functional workout. No, it stands for something. Can we see what it stands for? What does Hyrox stand for? Hyrox stands for nothing. No, it does see fall for what is the acronym? Okay, that's not a, yeah. Okay, whatever. If this is a world class athlete, say you work for the brand team at New Balance, you have signed the number one Australian Hyrox competitor in the world. And she goes, take a photo of the finish line. Your New Balance and issues are completely shit covered. How are you supposed to be like, this is our girl? You know, like how are your brand, how are your sponsors supposed to be like,

1:08:56there's our poopy girl? I think they don't address it. I don't think there's a way to be like, that's our poopy girl. Like, like, unless it was just like a marathon that didn't involve shared equipment. The shared equipment's bad, really bad. Nike, just do it. Woman full of poop. Oh, that could work. Just free idea, free idea for Nike. They are looking for free ideas out here. That is not what Hyro, like I promise, is there another one? There's something, I think it's American. Because it's a hybrid, so I thought it was a hybrid. No, wait, maybe it starts with an R, I think there's an R in it. Oh my gosh, I got to figure it out. Hang on. What are you talking about? It's not, it's like it's supposed to be. Oh, Hyrox chance for hybrid rock star. But it keeps saying on the website, like it doesn't. Well, it's because they're probably trying to, Hyrox doesn't stand for anything. There are an originally most curious rock star.

1:10:02All right, whatever. So that's that. Who gives a rip? Who gets literally? We'll wrap it up, I guess. I have to, I for one, Joanna, take a page out of my book. I'm going to end the podcast so that I can stand up and walk to the bathroom. Good job. Because I'm wearing white linen, something Joanna hopefully does not. And we applaud you for your play. Joanna, Joanna, pull the max on the plane. Yeah. Okay, thank you guys for listening. If you're new here, it's not typically a dance in the stars recap. Like the way that it's working now is like we will have the competition on Tuesday. So it'll be kind of impossible not to touch on. It will be a dance with the stars recap out of cast for the time being. Yeah, but I don't think it will be to the extent it was. We haven't really touched in it like at length about stuff. And I don't, I don't want to bore anybody. He won't, you won't. But just a reminder also, we have a bonus promo code. So we do a bonus episode after every main episode. It's more of this BS plus we get to like,

1:11:04bro, can I get really comfortable? Yeah. Kind of let her hair down. We might like switch seats. But we have bonus promo code that's still active for new members at TMG. It's a dancing with the stars bonus promo code. This is at TMG Studios. That's TMG Studios.tv slash BMC MAP. One month free if bonus content with code DWTS. So that's pretty easy to find if you go to TMG Studios.tv slash BMC MAP. Okay, thank you guys. Yeah, I'm going to go use a little girl's room. Peace out. Oh, so next week if you want to vote, I know it's a little confusing, especially if you're in specific time. Just dumb as rock. It is. It's hard. But if you want to please vote for me, I believe at this specific time, it is just CONNOR. Connor to 21523 at 5PM PSE. You can start voting, which whether, you get that tattooed on my name, whether it makes sense to you or not,

1:12:06because you won't have seen it. If you love me, trust that I'm putting in the work every week to make sure that you, if you were just like walking across the street, you would be like, I want to vote for that based on the work that he's putting in because I'm heading out from here to go to the rehearsal studio. Trust me, you're going to want to vote at 5PM PSE and elsewhere. Connor, CONNOR to 21523. Thank you so much, seriously. Thank you.