October 29, 2025 • 38 mins
Halloween took over the ballroom tonight, and so did one very angry ghost bride!
Danielle and Pasha danced the Viennese Waltz to “Die with a Smile” and left nothing on the dance floor - but their blood!
Find out how Danielle and the rest of the cast found out about Elaine and Dylan’s injuries and how the concept of her routine took shape in the first place.
Plus, Danielle speaks on both the negative, and positive, nature of the internet this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hello from home. That's right, new location. But I'm still
Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director, mother of two, vengeful, murdered bride,
and to most anyone between the ages of thirty to
fifty to Panga from Boy Meets World, But most importantly
(00:34):
right now, I am just one of the hard working
contestants pushing my body and spirit to the limit on
season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, and I'm
not gonna lie. I am currently tired as heck. It
was Halloween night, which we will get to. We then
drafted dancers for next week's team dance, and then I
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did a press line, and then I went to Julianne
and Alfonso's Halloween mid season party. It was a dance party,
and then I ate lots of food and I had
a milkshake on the way home. And now here I
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am in my office recording this podcast for you. I
absolutely love this crazy schedule. I mean, I got up
this morning at five am. I left my house at
about six forty five, got to work at eight, went
right into makeup, was in makeup for about an hour
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and a half and then went right into hair. Was
in hair for about an hour and a half. As
you can see here, I have taken down my hair.
It was really beautifully done today. It was bridal hair
because I was supposed to seem like a beautiful bride
on her wedding day. It ended up because it's Halloween night,
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it ended up with there being lots of blood. And
the blood is very sticky and very crunchy, and it
is all over my hair. I actually am not sure
how I'm going to get it out of my hair.
I'm going to start with my Beefree by Daniel Official
leave in conditioner. That's always the first thing to do
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with the kind of hair spray and like stuff they
use to make our hair make sure it doesn't like
fall out while we're dancing.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is so.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Intense. It's like straight up glue. And one of the
tricks they told me when I was like, how am
I supposed to get this stuff out of my hair?
One of the tricks they told me is that you
start with conditioner. You put conditioner all over it. So
I will use my Beefree by Daniel Fishal leave in conditioner.
I'm going to spray it all over. I'm going to
try to brush through it as much as I can.
Then I'm going to get in the shower. Then I'm
going to use the Beufree by Daniel Fisher hair mask.
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I'm going to put that all over my hair, and
then once I feel like I have most of the chunky,
sticky blood out of my hair, I will do two
rounds of shampoo and we'll go back to conditioner. Anyway,
I digress. That was quite a workaround, but I'm going
to be distracted by this blood in my hair for
quite a while. So this week Halloween Night, Pasha and I.
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You heard us joke last week about the fact that
we had a very close call during our camera blocking
where I almost slipped out of his hands, And that
close call was not even the closest call. We had
a real close call in rehearsals, which I should post
the pictures of because it's pretty crazy. And we joked
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last week that if Pasha did drop me on my face,
which he would never do, but if he did, he
said he would pay for my nose job. And we
joked about that, Oh haha, worst case scenario, You pay
for my nose job, wouldn't you know it. Just a
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few days later, Danny, Pasha's wife, incredible pro on Dancing
with the Stars, Daniella Kara gosh Uh broke Dylan's nose.
Pasha and I were in the room next door and
we were we finished up, we went and we're having
a conversation with some other people who work there, and
then Pasha and I said, let's say goodbye to Dylan
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and Danny, and we opened the door and Dylan was
sitting on the couch with his head back and an
ice pack on his nose, and Danny looked at us,
just horrified, and we went, what's wrong. And we found
out that they had been working on something and Danny
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was like on the ground and Dylan went to go
lift her up, and Danny accidentally elbowed him in the
nose and it made a sound. It sounded like a slap,
and Danny actually thought like her bicep or her tricep
must have hit Dylan's cheek because it just made such
like a slap sound, and he was like, that's not
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my cheek. So anyway, we sat there with Dylan and
you know, we filled up some paperwork and I was like,
I'll take you to the emergency room right now, like
I've got you know, I'll take you, and then Danny
and Pasha were like, we will take him too, Like
everyone was fighting over who was going to take Dylan
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to the emergency room. We didn't want to leave his side.
We uh. It's just that when that kind of stuff happens,
it's it's crazy how much you are just like, no,
we're your family, we're your people. We're not going anywhere,
not leaving you alone. You're going to be You're with us.
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Just crazy. And then today during camera blocking, Pasha and
I were going right after Alan and Elane, and so
we were in the area we call the breezeway, which
is the pass through area where the elephant doors are
and it's where close by where press sits when they
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watch the show from the press area, and where we
have our touchups, our get our hair and makeup touch ups.
And then right on the other side is the stage
and we were warming up there because immediately when Alan
and Elaine are done, it's going to be our turn
for our camera blocking. So we walk out there to
go warm up, and I look up on the monitor
and I see that Elaine is standing in the middle
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of the ballroom and she's got her arm around our
stage manager and She's holding onto Alan and everybody looks
pretty stressed, and I'm like, what's going on? And everyone
kind of assumed it was about her foot, because you know,
she did a contemporary last week and she was barefoot
and she's got a titanium rod in her foot, and
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so everyone was like, ooh, like her foot must still
be really bothering her, like some must have happened. And
then she was in that position for just what felt
like a really long time, like thirty minutes. I think
it was like thirty minutes, and then I realized she
still had her shoes on, and I was like, if
this is about her foot, why would her shoes still
be on? And then she laid down and you could
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just tell that she was in like so much pain,
and everybody backstage was just standing around with baited breath,
like what's going to happen? What is happening? And is
she okay? And what are we going to do? And
everybody was just so worried about her. I mean, this
is such a close knit cast. Everybody really does love
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and encourage and support each other. But it would not
be crazy for me to say that Elaine is one
of the most beloved people like, she's just she's so
kind to everybody. She's so sweet, she's really funny, she's
so hard working, she loves being there so much. So
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everyone was just, you know, everyone was just worried about
her and hoping that she was going to recover, and
then we didn't know until they made the announcement during
the show that her doctor had cleared her to continue.
We didn't know what the update was. So I'm really
looking forward to seeing her next week and just having
her back out there and hopefully killing it for us.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
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Speaker 1 (09:38):
So the show tonight Halloween Knight, As I mentioned, Pasha
and I danced to Viennese waltz to Die with a
Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars one of my
favorite songs. I just love it so much. And I
don't normally consider myself to be like a huge Goga fan,
like I love who doesn't love Lady Gaga Like she's
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in credible But I'm not. I don't know like every
song of hers, I don't have every album, but this
song is just one of my favorites. And because it
was a Halloween theme, we wrote a story me Pasha
and husband of the podcast, Jensen, and it is a
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ghost story about a ghost bride returning to visit her husband,
and though it may look like a love story at first,
it was anything but that. Halfway through you realize Pasha
has blood on his hands. It's revealed that I am dead,
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I have blood in the middle of my dress and
I'm actually a ghost, and he murdered me, and I'm
there for revenge. And it is a really fun week
of being able to be collaborative and talk about ideas.
Pasha always choreographs with a backstory. He always comes to
a dance with an idea in his mind of what
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the story is, so the fact that this backstory was
so detailed really helped him just choreograph something beautiful. He
loves a Viennese waltz, and so do I. I mean
now after having done them like Argentine Tango, I think
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is still my number one favorite dance, and then followed
very closely with a Viennese waltz. I just I loved
it so much. I love being in frame but being
able to be very powerful and glide across the floor.
I know it's not something the judges had really mentioned
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to me, but I have seen so much feedback from
those of you online about wanting to see me breathe
more and be more expressive in my face. And I
generally have a very expressive face, but it hasn't necessarily
been expressive in my dances, and so it was something
I really brought to this week that that was like
my number one goal. My number one goal for this
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week was to just emote and express with my face
and to really breathe. And I one hundred percent feel
like I did that. I accomplished my goal for the week.
And like I said, I know it wasn't something the
judges have said to me that they felt like, although
they have said that they didn't feel like I was breathing,
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but nobody none of the judges have mentioned not seeing
me emote on my face. But so then today when
you know, the new feedback is kind of now about
like my arms or moving from my body. I am
looking forward to implementing that next week. Next week, I
don't know if I'm allowed to say what dance we're
doing yet, so I'm not going to. But we've got
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a really good dance next week for me to be
able to put their feedback into play, which which is
always my goal. My goal has been from the beginning
to take one or two or maybe even three things
that I can improve on, and there are endless numbers
of things I can improve on because I'm not a dancer.
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I don't have any dance experience. If I were to
take all of the things I have to improve on
and try to work on them every single week, I
would be very overwhelmed and probably wouldn't look very good
out on the dance floor. So my goal has been
this whole time to just improve on a couple of
little things and take their feedback and try to make
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those some of the things I improve on. So next week,
I'm going to try to take up more space, even
though I don't have that much space to take up
because I'm only five to one, But I'm going to try,
and I know Pasha will help me, and I'm just
gonna continue to do what I have been doing, which
is listen to him and you guys, guys, thank you
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for continuing to do what you guys have been doing,
which is supporting us and voting for us. As you
can tell, without you, there is no show, there's no show,
there's no contestants to stick around without your votes. And
you know that's evident by the fact that I'm still
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in the competition, that Andy's still in the competition, that
we're all still in the competition. Without your votes, we
could all be gone. So if you want to continue
to see us every week, keep voting for the people
you want to see because that's your power. That's how
you're a part of this show. I was really excited
for tonight's dance. I love Halloween. I love Halloween Night
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on Dancing with the Stars. I think it's always so interesting.
I think some of the pros do some of their
best choreography on Halloween. I thought it was really great
this night the Monster thon, which added a whole new
element to our rehearsal because now on top of our
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four hour rehearsal where we had to learn whatever our
current dance was, so in my case, the Viennese Waltz,
we would have to then add extra time to learn
two other dances because you don't know how long you're
going to be doing those dances. There, it's like a
four minute window of two dances. One is the Hustle
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and the other one is the Lindy Hop. And if
you make it through the first round of dancing the Hustle,
then you have to know the Lindy Hop, so you
have to prepare as if you're going to be there
until the very end, and those dances are done at
the end of the night, and those rehearsals are done
at the end of your rehearsal day, and you're just exhausted.
You're total, You're physically exhausted, and then okay, time to
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put on a big happy face and lots of energy
and jumping around and your feet hurt, and you're sweaty,
and you're tired, and you're probably hungry and you're thirsty.
It's a lot. It's a This is definitely a physically
demanding and physically grueling show. I happened to love it
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because I don't know. I had no idea how much
I enjoyed being this physical. I just love it. I
feel like I was in another life. I would have
been an athlete if I had any of that talent.
Does that make sense? Like I'd be an athlete if
only I had talent. I know that sounds crazy, but
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that is how I feel like. If I could have changed,
like shifted courses and not been an actor now, I
would have been an athlete of some kind for sure.
It's just so much fun. Overall tonight, I was really
happy with our dance. I know Pasha was really happy
with our dance. There's one moment that bums me out
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that I missed the timing on, and I think it
had something to do with my dress reveal. During dress rehearsal,
I couldn't get my dress reveal undone, and then during
the live show I did it. I got it undone.
And then when Pasha jumps up from his knees and
I grab him by the neck right before we waltz
across the floor, the timing of me grabbing him by
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the neck was so precise, and during all of our
rehearsals it had been so good, and then the timing
of me grabbing his neck just didn't happen on the
right time, and I think I was just late to it,
which kind of stinks. No one would ever know without
me telling them that. I mean, unless they were just like,
oh yeah, and you go back and watch it, and
then you'll be like, yeah, that would have been better
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if it had been on the beat when it was
supposed to be. But so that bummed me out. That's
like the one thing I look back at the dance
cup and I go, yeah, I mess that up, and
I don't know. I hadn't messed that up basically all week,
but then something always falls out out. You never know
what it's going to be, and in this case, that
was the one moment that I was like, oh, watching
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it back, I wish I could have done that better.
But like I said, going into this week, my number
one goal was just feeling more comfortable emoting and using
my face, and I feel like I did that. So
if I'm going to just look at my own personal goals,
I feel like I accomplished that. Of course, I wish
I would have kept four nines or even had more
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of a mix of eights and nines instead of three
eighths and one nine. Thank you Bruno for your one nine.
As always, I really do appreciate their feedback. Though I
appreciated Cheryl starting it off by talking about my body,
and you know, Derek and Carrie Anne contributing. I do
always appreciate it. If they didn't give me any sort
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of feedback, it would just seem like they didn't care.
So I appreciate that they care and that they think
I'm capable. Cheryl Burke was there tonight as the guest judge.
I thought she did a really great job. I thought
she delivered exactly what I thought she was going to deliver,
which was very honest feedback. She knows her stuff, having
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been a ballroom dancer, having been a Dancing with the
Stars pro for as many years as she was, having
been a Mirror Ball champion. She knows her stuff, and
she doesn't hesitate to tell you when and why. Maybe
she's docking you a point for something, which I expected
from her and I appreciate. I thought she gave really
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good feedback. I thought she was great. I thought she
did a great job as a judge. Seeing her in
that fourth chair was really good. I loved Robert and
Whitney's dance. I know Roberts fans are thrilled, thrilled that
he got his first tens. He deserved it. It was
so great. I loved all that seeing I'll have blood
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on It's like, no, not our sweet Robert with blood
all over his face. That was really great. I thought
Andy's dance was really good when I saw it earlier
in the day. Actually I think I did wasn't earlier
in the day. I saw it the day before, and
then I saw Emma in the hair and makeup room
and I congratulated her and I told her what an
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incredible job I thought she did, and that I really
felt like for Andy, this felt like kind of a
breakthrough week. It really felt like he improved. I thought
I was really super impressed, and I told Emma that
I was really just really proud of them. I also,
I really liked Jena and Yon's dance. I thought it
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was really good. Yan's contemporary is obviously, I mean, his
choreography for contemporary is just out of this world. I
think you guys probably saw the dance he did with
Jenna during one of the bumpers. It's like just unbelievable.
And I really when I saw Jen in her rehearsal
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dance yesterday, I said the same thing to her. I said,
this was your week. Last week, you know, Carrie Ane
told me I had a breakthrough dance, and I said,
this is really your week, and I thought that that's
how it was going to go. I really did. I
was kind of then shocked when I saw and heard
the feedback, and I hope that Yan doesn't allow kind
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of the negativity that has been floating around online this
week on the internet, Like I hope it he doesn't
let it taint this season and this experience for him,
cause I know that the negativity that can be found online.
And listen, I'm going to talk a little bit about
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negativity and then I'm going to follow it up with
talking about that. There's also a lot of positivity, but
I'm going to stick with the negativity for right now.
There is quite a bit of negativity online and it
can really be very noisy, and if you aren't good
about setting boundaries for yourself about how much of it
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you take in, it can really affect you. It's affected
a lot of the cast and a lot of the pros.
And I just my wish for Yan and I told
him this is that he makes a decision about what
whether or not he loved this experience based solely just
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on his feelings, like his feelings of having a partner,
and his feelings of being on the ballroom floor and
his feelings about putting together a dance every week, and
you know it's a reality TV show. Of being a
part of that and not let the outside noise of
what people on the internet say kind of ruin the
experience for him, because it would really make me very
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sad if he ended up walking away from it and
thinking like I could never do that again because it's
just too negative. So I will look forward to seeing
Yahn's future and I think if he comes back for
another season and he's paired with somebody, I know he
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is going to bust his butt as he did every
week this first season, his first season, and he's only
going to get better. That's what happens. You know, you
work and you get better week after week, and you
get better season after season. There's no pro who comes
in is their first season and is like, well, that's it.
Even if you win your first season, you're not a
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perfect pro. You're not a perfect pro. You don't the
stars aligned, and you may have won your first season,
but it doesn't make you perfect or you know, an
a plus coach or pro just because you win. So
we all have room for improvement. I would also like
to mention about the negativity that if you are a
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fan of any person on this cast, I promise you
they want you to be kind and supportive of the
rest of the cast. You can have your favorite, you
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should have your favorite. Who's your favorite who you're voting for.
How many favorites do you have? How many people are
you voting for? You should be doing that. You should
be curating who you want to see in the finale,
and then vote for all those people. We don't know
if it's a four person or a five person or
a three person finale, We have no idea. But vote
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for everybody you'd love to see in the final, and
then vote for those people every single week. Go for it.
Do it. But if you are a giant fan of
let's just use me as an example. If you're a
giant fan of me, you know for sure I do
not want you going after any other contestant if they
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score better than me, or if they win something that
I don't win, Like, no way. I love everyone on
this cast. I would never want anybody attacking anyone. If
you're a fan of Robert, if you're a fan of Whitney,
if you're a fan of Alex, we all love each
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other truly, and we support each other and we get
along very well. If you are a fan of anybody
on the show, support your fave without putting down anyone else.
It's just it's kind of we are not doing it
amongst ourselves, and we don't want to see it on
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the internet. We're trying really hard, We're working. We're all
working really hard to make good TV, to put on
good dances, to change our lives. All of our lives
have been changed by being a part of this experience.
And the only real painful part is some of the
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you know, really nasty stuff that's out there on the
flip side. I have to tell you, guys, how funny
and sweet and thoughtful so many of you are. I
have been told by every pro and every celebrity contestant
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that I know that has been on this show. I
have been told, do not read comments at all, don't
read comments, and also, whatever you do, stay far away
from Reddit. So I have been doing that quite a bit,
not the comments. I read a lot of comments on Instagram.
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I go through and I try to like as many
of your comments as I can, especially when we post
like a funny TikTok or something. I like to go
in and see what you guys have said. Again, it's
you guys make me laugh so much. Your comments crack
me up. And so I've been liking a lot of comments.
I've been reading comments, but I am not a Reddit person,
so I've just stayed away from read it. And then
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the other day, I don't know what, little bug crawled
in my ear and told me to go to the
Dancing with the Stars reddit and I just went there
and I scrolled through the different topics and I don't
even remember what the story was or what the topic
was that I clicked on, but I opened it up.
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And when I tell you, I was so touched by
so many of your comments and so many of the
sweet things you were saying and talking about all of us,
and you know what your favorite dances were and why
it was your favorite dance, and who you're planning to
vote for and why you're planning to vote for them,
And I was just blown away by how many of
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you said me that you were voting for me every week,
and it's it's just when you when you find kind
and nice pockets on the internet. It's it was really overwhelming.
I literally like, I welld up. I took a screenshot
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of a of a part of it, and I sent
it to Jensen and I said, I'm parked outside my
wardrobe fitting. I had like five minutes before I was
supposed to be there. And I just was reading read
it and crying, and not in a mean way. I
was reading read it and crying because you guys were
so unbelievably kind and lovely. So it's not all negativity.
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There's also so much positivity out there, and I appreciate it.
So our monster on the floor was divided into a
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grid of nine people, and I don't know how they
determine where everybody goes. There's a there's not like a
you know, pulling a number from a hat and then
you get to decide where you're gonna stand. It's just
kind of like they put you in a certain spot
and then you just dance there. And it's a little
weird because you're like, who am I dancing too?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Am I dancing to camera? I'm not even sure I
was ever even on camera? Maybe I was, Maybe I wasn't.
I have no idea. Are we supposed to be dancing
to the judges? Are we supposed to dance to the
audience that's kind of right next to us. It was
all just a little bit weird, and there wasn't a
whole ton of explanation. It was just kind of like, Okay,
here's where you guys are gonna be and you're gonna dance,
and you don't get the actual edit to the song.
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You know what the song is, they told us what
the song is, but you don't get the specific two
minute version you're dancing to until Monday night, which was
after already after camera blocking. So it's not like you
get to actually choreograph a full dance. It's kind of like,
here are some hustle steps and here are some Lindy's steps,
and then you're allowed to do lifts in both of
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them because that's just the rule that they created. And
then you know, your pro choreographs something and you kind
of have a plan. But you could dance your butt
off for four minutes and if the judges look at
you in a three second portion where they don't think
you're fully committing, you can just be axd. So it's
a little interesting. I don't necessarily know that I love it, Like,
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I don't really know that. I was like, well, that
was super fun. Like next week is Team Dance. I
love this idea. I'm very excited about it. I think
it's going to be super interesting to see how we
all work together. I think it's going to be super
interesting to see how we dance on the floor together.
I'm excited about that one. This this marathon dance challenge,
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I'm not quite sure I love. It's just like, Okay,
we did that, all right. I hope we don't necessarily
have to do it again. But we'll see Jen. You know,
a spoiler alert if you haven't already watched the show.
Jen and Yan went home, and I'm sad to see
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her go. I'm sad to see everybody go. Anytime someone's
been eliminated, it has felt a little like a like
a gut punch. And you know, she works so hard,
and she was sick last week, and then Yan was
sick this week, and she's got three babies, just had
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a baby. I really do think she's you know, she's
a little bit of a superhuman. I don't know how
she was doing the things that she was doing. And
I know that she's going to be missed by everybody,
the same way Scott is missed and Baron is missed,
and you know, everybody's everybody's energy is the place just
feels different when with one less person there. So yeah,
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it's gonna be weird for me in the audience, tonight
was Jensen of course, and then my boys Adler and
Keaton were there. Also are unbelievable, wonderful nanny, Miss Delia
and her boyfriends they Sar, they were there. I was
so happy to have them in the audience. Delia has
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been working late every Tuesday night so that Jensen is
able to come to the tapings, and she stays home
with the kids. And then when the kids came for
the premiere, Jensen just brought them and Delia went home.
We only get six tickets every week. I think you
guys have heard me say that before. We only get
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six tickets, and so it's hard to you know, I
have a mom and a dad, and my dad's wife Christine,
and my brother, and I have husband, and I have
two kids, and then I obviously have friends, and I
have my aunt and uncle, and I have, like you know,
a lot of people who like to come. So I've
been trying to rotate it and spread it around, and
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tonight I was really happy that I was able to
invite Delia and Sasar as my guests. They weren't working,
they were just there with us as guests, and it
was really nice to have her there. And then Tara Sudbach,
producer of this podcast and of Podmeats World and of
I don't know, like nineteen other podcasts. She was there
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as my guest tonight too, so great to have her.
And then Kieranan Shipka was in the audience for me
as well. I love Kierenan. I have known her for
a really long time. We worked together on a Funnier
Die sketch years ago, and then we still have mutual
friends and so we've just been in each other's life,
which is really cool. And she brought her friend Phoebe.
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I got to wear a really beautiful wet dressed tonight
that had a tear away belt that had blood underneath it.
The sash the belt part of it was also supposed
to have blood on the other side, but the material
was so thin. If I put blood on the inside,
it was going to completely show through the outside, so
we ended up not doing that. But it was beautiful.
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And I got to wear a gorgeous watch, a Patek
Philipe in eighteen carrot rose gold with a salmon dial.
Just beautiful. It was courtesy of Eric Wind from Wind Vintage,
and I was also wearing this gorgeous graduated necklace from
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my dear friend Jamie at Forever Fine Jewels. Just gorgeous.
I love it so much. It's an eternity necklace. It's
graduated though, so it's like the bigger stones are kind
of here in the middle, and it goes all the
way around to the back. She also sent me a
beautiful pair of earrings to wear, and for whatever reason,
one of the earringbacks would not stay closed. I think
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when I took the price tag off, I may have
pulled the earring back apart a little bit, and so
it wouldn't stay closed. And I was way too nervous
it was going to go flying off in my dance,
and so I decided not to wear those earrings. So
I was just wearing a watch and this beautiful necklace tonight.
And now we look forward to the next week. Week eight.
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Oh my gosh, Week eight. The whole thing is only
eleven weeks, guys, The whole thing is only eleven weeks.
And next week is Week eight. It's crazy. Next week
is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Night, which will
not only include a big dance that I am very
much looking forward to, but it will also include this
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season's team dance, and we picked the teams tonight. I
don't know when they will make the announcement about those,
so I'm gonna I'm not gonna do it here because
that's a Dancing with the Stars thing for them to
be able to do. I really, finally just want to
say and make sure you know truly how much I
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appreciate your votes and how much I appreciate you guys
supporting me in every way, not just in the podcast,
but with your comments and your likes and your shares,
and yeah, it just it really means a lot to me.
I my life has truly been changed by this show.
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I mean not to quote Wicked, which we just did
last week, but my life has been changed for good
because of Dancing with the Stars for so many reasons,
not just because I have a new friend for life
in Pasha and Danny and Dylan and Robert and Jen
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and Whitney and Jordan literally can name everybody on this
cast Elaine like, not not just because of that, but
because I just feel like a whole new love of
dance and expression and storytelling and connection has been opened
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up inside of me and I don't ever want it
to stop. I don't ever want it to stop. I
can't believe I get to do this week after week,
and I want to keep doing it until until the
very very end. So thank you from the bottom of
my heart, because we couldn't do it without you. That's it.
Thank you for listening to this episode of Danielle with
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We will see you next time. Danielle with the Stars
produced and hosted by Danielle Fishl. Executive producers Jensen carp
and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer,
editor and engineer Tara Sudbasch. Theme song by Justin Siegel.
Follow us on Instagram at Danielle with Stars and vote
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for me
Hello from home. That's right, new location. But I'm still
Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director, mother of two, vengeful, murdered bride,
and to most anyone between the ages of thirty to
fifty to Panga from Boy Meets World, But most importantly
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right now, I am just one of the hard working
contestants pushing my body and spirit to the limit on
season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, and I'm
not gonna lie. I am currently tired as heck. It
was Halloween night, which we will get to. We then
drafted dancers for next week's team dance, and then I
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did a press line, and then I went to Julianne
and Alfonso's Halloween mid season party. It was a dance party,
and then I ate lots of food and I had
a milkshake on the way home. And now here I
(01:20):
am in my office recording this podcast for you. I
absolutely love this crazy schedule. I mean, I got up
this morning at five am. I left my house at
about six forty five, got to work at eight, went
right into makeup, was in makeup for about an hour
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and a half and then went right into hair. Was
in hair for about an hour and a half. As
you can see here, I have taken down my hair.
It was really beautifully done today. It was bridal hair
because I was supposed to seem like a beautiful bride
on her wedding day. It ended up because it's Halloween night,
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it ended up with there being lots of blood. And
the blood is very sticky and very crunchy, and it
is all over my hair. I actually am not sure
how I'm going to get it out of my hair.
I'm going to start with my Beefree by Daniel Official
leave in conditioner. That's always the first thing to do
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with the kind of hair spray and like stuff they
use to make our hair make sure it doesn't like
fall out while we're dancing.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is so.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Intense. It's like straight up glue. And one of the
tricks they told me when I was like, how am
I supposed to get this stuff out of my hair?
One of the tricks they told me is that you
start with conditioner. You put conditioner all over it. So
I will use my Beefree by Daniel Fishal leave in conditioner.
I'm going to spray it all over. I'm going to
try to brush through it as much as I can.
Then I'm going to get in the shower. Then I'm
going to use the Beufree by Daniel Fisher hair mask.
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I'm going to put that all over my hair, and
then once I feel like I have most of the chunky,
sticky blood out of my hair, I will do two
rounds of shampoo and we'll go back to conditioner. Anyway,
I digress. That was quite a workaround, but I'm going
to be distracted by this blood in my hair for
quite a while. So this week Halloween Night, Pasha and I.
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You heard us joke last week about the fact that
we had a very close call during our camera blocking
where I almost slipped out of his hands, And that
close call was not even the closest call. We had
a real close call in rehearsals, which I should post
the pictures of because it's pretty crazy. And we joked
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last week that if Pasha did drop me on my face,
which he would never do, but if he did, he
said he would pay for my nose job. And we
joked about that, Oh haha, worst case scenario, You pay
for my nose job, wouldn't you know it. Just a
(04:06):
few days later, Danny, Pasha's wife, incredible pro on Dancing
with the Stars, Daniella Kara gosh Uh broke Dylan's nose.
Pasha and I were in the room next door and
we were we finished up, we went and we're having
a conversation with some other people who work there, and
then Pasha and I said, let's say goodbye to Dylan
(04:29):
and Danny, and we opened the door and Dylan was
sitting on the couch with his head back and an
ice pack on his nose, and Danny looked at us,
just horrified, and we went, what's wrong. And we found
out that they had been working on something and Danny
(04:50):
was like on the ground and Dylan went to go
lift her up, and Danny accidentally elbowed him in the
nose and it made a sound. It sounded like a slap,
and Danny actually thought like her bicep or her tricep
must have hit Dylan's cheek because it just made such
like a slap sound, and he was like, that's not
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my cheek. So anyway, we sat there with Dylan and
you know, we filled up some paperwork and I was like,
I'll take you to the emergency room right now, like
I've got you know, I'll take you, and then Danny
and Pasha were like, we will take him too, Like
everyone was fighting over who was going to take Dylan
(05:33):
to the emergency room. We didn't want to leave his side.
We uh. It's just that when that kind of stuff happens,
it's it's crazy how much you are just like, no,
we're your family, we're your people. We're not going anywhere,
not leaving you alone. You're going to be You're with us.
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Just crazy. And then today during camera blocking, Pasha and
I were going right after Alan and Elane, and so
we were in the area we call the breezeway, which
is the pass through area where the elephant doors are
and it's where close by where press sits when they
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watch the show from the press area, and where we
have our touchups, our get our hair and makeup touch ups.
And then right on the other side is the stage
and we were warming up there because immediately when Alan
and Elaine are done, it's going to be our turn
for our camera blocking. So we walk out there to
go warm up, and I look up on the monitor
and I see that Elaine is standing in the middle
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of the ballroom and she's got her arm around our
stage manager and She's holding onto Alan and everybody looks
pretty stressed, and I'm like, what's going on? And everyone
kind of assumed it was about her foot, because you know,
she did a contemporary last week and she was barefoot
and she's got a titanium rod in her foot, and
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so everyone was like, ooh, like her foot must still
be really bothering her, like some must have happened. And
then she was in that position for just what felt
like a really long time, like thirty minutes. I think
it was like thirty minutes, and then I realized she
still had her shoes on, and I was like, if
this is about her foot, why would her shoes still
be on? And then she laid down and you could
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just tell that she was in like so much pain,
and everybody backstage was just standing around with baited breath,
like what's going to happen? What is happening? And is
she okay? And what are we going to do? And
everybody was just so worried about her. I mean, this
is such a close knit cast. Everybody really does love
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and encourage and support each other. But it would not
be crazy for me to say that Elaine is one
of the most beloved people like, she's just she's so
kind to everybody. She's so sweet, she's really funny, she's
so hard working, she loves being there so much. So
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everyone was just, you know, everyone was just worried about
her and hoping that she was going to recover, and
then we didn't know until they made the announcement during
the show that her doctor had cleared her to continue.
We didn't know what the update was. So I'm really
looking forward to seeing her next week and just having
her back out there and hopefully killing it for us.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
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Speaker 1 (09:38):
So the show tonight Halloween Knight, As I mentioned, Pasha
and I danced to Viennese waltz to Die with a
Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars one of my
favorite songs. I just love it so much. And I
don't normally consider myself to be like a huge Goga fan,
like I love who doesn't love Lady Gaga Like she's
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in credible But I'm not. I don't know like every
song of hers, I don't have every album, but this
song is just one of my favorites. And because it
was a Halloween theme, we wrote a story me Pasha
and husband of the podcast, Jensen, and it is a
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ghost story about a ghost bride returning to visit her husband,
and though it may look like a love story at first,
it was anything but that. Halfway through you realize Pasha
has blood on his hands. It's revealed that I am dead,
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I have blood in the middle of my dress and
I'm actually a ghost, and he murdered me, and I'm
there for revenge. And it is a really fun week
of being able to be collaborative and talk about ideas.
Pasha always choreographs with a backstory. He always comes to
a dance with an idea in his mind of what
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the story is, so the fact that this backstory was
so detailed really helped him just choreograph something beautiful. He
loves a Viennese waltz, and so do I. I mean
now after having done them like Argentine Tango, I think
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is still my number one favorite dance, and then followed
very closely with a Viennese waltz. I just I loved
it so much. I love being in frame but being
able to be very powerful and glide across the floor.
I know it's not something the judges had really mentioned
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to me, but I have seen so much feedback from
those of you online about wanting to see me breathe
more and be more expressive in my face. And I
generally have a very expressive face, but it hasn't necessarily
been expressive in my dances, and so it was something
I really brought to this week that that was like
my number one goal. My number one goal for this
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week was to just emote and express with my face
and to really breathe. And I one hundred percent feel
like I did that. I accomplished my goal for the week.
And like I said, I know it wasn't something the
judges have said to me that they felt like, although
they have said that they didn't feel like I was breathing,
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but nobody none of the judges have mentioned not seeing
me emote on my face. But so then today when
you know, the new feedback is kind of now about
like my arms or moving from my body. I am
looking forward to implementing that next week. Next week, I
don't know if I'm allowed to say what dance we're
doing yet, so I'm not going to. But we've got
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a really good dance next week for me to be
able to put their feedback into play, which which is
always my goal. My goal has been from the beginning
to take one or two or maybe even three things
that I can improve on, and there are endless numbers
of things I can improve on because I'm not a dancer.
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I don't have any dance experience. If I were to
take all of the things I have to improve on
and try to work on them every single week, I
would be very overwhelmed and probably wouldn't look very good
out on the dance floor. So my goal has been
this whole time to just improve on a couple of
little things and take their feedback and try to make
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those some of the things I improve on. So next week,
I'm going to try to take up more space, even
though I don't have that much space to take up
because I'm only five to one, But I'm going to try,
and I know Pasha will help me, and I'm just
gonna continue to do what I have been doing, which
is listen to him and you guys, guys, thank you
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for continuing to do what you guys have been doing,
which is supporting us and voting for us. As you
can tell, without you, there is no show, there's no show,
there's no contestants to stick around without your votes. And
you know that's evident by the fact that I'm still
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in the competition, that Andy's still in the competition, that
we're all still in the competition. Without your votes, we
could all be gone. So if you want to continue
to see us every week, keep voting for the people
you want to see because that's your power. That's how
you're a part of this show. I was really excited
for tonight's dance. I love Halloween. I love Halloween Night
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on Dancing with the Stars. I think it's always so interesting.
I think some of the pros do some of their
best choreography on Halloween. I thought it was really great
this night the Monster thon, which added a whole new
element to our rehearsal because now on top of our
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four hour rehearsal where we had to learn whatever our
current dance was, so in my case, the Viennese Waltz,
we would have to then add extra time to learn
two other dances because you don't know how long you're
going to be doing those dances. There, it's like a
four minute window of two dances. One is the Hustle
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and the other one is the Lindy Hop. And if
you make it through the first round of dancing the Hustle,
then you have to know the Lindy Hop, so you
have to prepare as if you're going to be there
until the very end, and those dances are done at
the end of the night, and those rehearsals are done
at the end of your rehearsal day, and you're just exhausted.
You're total, You're physically exhausted, and then okay, time to
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put on a big happy face and lots of energy
and jumping around and your feet hurt, and you're sweaty,
and you're tired, and you're probably hungry and you're thirsty.
It's a lot. It's a This is definitely a physically
demanding and physically grueling show. I happened to love it
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because I don't know. I had no idea how much
I enjoyed being this physical. I just love it. I
feel like I was in another life. I would have
been an athlete if I had any of that talent.
Does that make sense? Like I'd be an athlete if
only I had talent. I know that sounds crazy, but
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that is how I feel like. If I could have changed,
like shifted courses and not been an actor now, I
would have been an athlete of some kind for sure.
It's just so much fun. Overall tonight, I was really
happy with our dance. I know Pasha was really happy
with our dance. There's one moment that bums me out
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that I missed the timing on, and I think it
had something to do with my dress reveal. During dress rehearsal,
I couldn't get my dress reveal undone, and then during
the live show I did it. I got it undone.
And then when Pasha jumps up from his knees and
I grab him by the neck right before we waltz
across the floor, the timing of me grabbing him by
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the neck was so precise, and during all of our
rehearsals it had been so good, and then the timing
of me grabbing his neck just didn't happen on the
right time, and I think I was just late to it,
which kind of stinks. No one would ever know without
me telling them that. I mean, unless they were just like,
oh yeah, and you go back and watch it, and
then you'll be like, yeah, that would have been better
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if it had been on the beat when it was
supposed to be. But so that bummed me out. That's
like the one thing I look back at the dance
cup and I go, yeah, I mess that up, and
I don't know. I hadn't messed that up basically all week,
but then something always falls out out. You never know
what it's going to be, and in this case, that
was the one moment that I was like, oh, watching
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it back, I wish I could have done that better.
But like I said, going into this week, my number
one goal was just feeling more comfortable emoting and using
my face, and I feel like I did that. So
if I'm going to just look at my own personal goals,
I feel like I accomplished that. Of course, I wish
I would have kept four nines or even had more
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of a mix of eights and nines instead of three
eighths and one nine. Thank you Bruno for your one nine.
As always, I really do appreciate their feedback. Though I
appreciated Cheryl starting it off by talking about my body,
and you know, Derek and Carrie Anne contributing. I do
always appreciate it. If they didn't give me any sort
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of feedback, it would just seem like they didn't care.
So I appreciate that they care and that they think
I'm capable. Cheryl Burke was there tonight as the guest judge.
I thought she did a really great job. I thought
she delivered exactly what I thought she was going to deliver,
which was very honest feedback. She knows her stuff, having
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been a ballroom dancer, having been a Dancing with the
Stars pro for as many years as she was, having
been a Mirror Ball champion. She knows her stuff, and
she doesn't hesitate to tell you when and why. Maybe
she's docking you a point for something, which I expected
from her and I appreciate. I thought she gave really
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good feedback. I thought she was great. I thought she
did a great job as a judge. Seeing her in
that fourth chair was really good. I loved Robert and
Whitney's dance. I know Roberts fans are thrilled, thrilled that
he got his first tens. He deserved it. It was
so great. I loved all that seeing I'll have blood
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on It's like, no, not our sweet Robert with blood
all over his face. That was really great. I thought
Andy's dance was really good when I saw it earlier
in the day. Actually I think I did wasn't earlier
in the day. I saw it the day before, and
then I saw Emma in the hair and makeup room
and I congratulated her and I told her what an
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incredible job I thought she did, and that I really
felt like for Andy, this felt like kind of a
breakthrough week. It really felt like he improved. I thought
I was really super impressed, and I told Emma that
I was really just really proud of them. I also,
I really liked Jena and Yon's dance. I thought it
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was really good. Yan's contemporary is obviously, I mean, his
choreography for contemporary is just out of this world. I
think you guys probably saw the dance he did with
Jenna during one of the bumpers. It's like just unbelievable.
And I really when I saw Jen in her rehearsal
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dance yesterday, I said the same thing to her. I said,
this was your week. Last week, you know, Carrie Ane
told me I had a breakthrough dance, and I said,
this is really your week, and I thought that that's
how it was going to go. I really did. I
was kind of then shocked when I saw and heard
the feedback, and I hope that Yan doesn't allow kind
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of the negativity that has been floating around online this
week on the internet, Like I hope it he doesn't
let it taint this season and this experience for him,
cause I know that the negativity that can be found online.
And listen, I'm going to talk a little bit about
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negativity and then I'm going to follow it up with
talking about that. There's also a lot of positivity, but
I'm going to stick with the negativity for right now.
There is quite a bit of negativity online and it
can really be very noisy, and if you aren't good
about setting boundaries for yourself about how much of it
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you take in, it can really affect you. It's affected
a lot of the cast and a lot of the pros.
And I just my wish for Yan and I told
him this is that he makes a decision about what
whether or not he loved this experience based solely just
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on his feelings, like his feelings of having a partner,
and his feelings of being on the ballroom floor and
his feelings about putting together a dance every week, and
you know it's a reality TV show. Of being a
part of that and not let the outside noise of
what people on the internet say kind of ruin the
experience for him, because it would really make me very
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sad if he ended up walking away from it and
thinking like I could never do that again because it's
just too negative. So I will look forward to seeing
Yahn's future and I think if he comes back for
another season and he's paired with somebody, I know he
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is going to bust his butt as he did every
week this first season, his first season, and he's only
going to get better. That's what happens. You know, you
work and you get better week after week, and you
get better season after season. There's no pro who comes
in is their first season and is like, well, that's it.
Even if you win your first season, you're not a
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perfect pro. You're not a perfect pro. You don't the
stars aligned, and you may have won your first season,
but it doesn't make you perfect or you know, an
a plus coach or pro just because you win. So
we all have room for improvement. I would also like
to mention about the negativity that if you are a
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fan of any person on this cast, I promise you
they want you to be kind and supportive of the
rest of the cast. You can have your favorite, you
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should have your favorite. Who's your favorite who you're voting for.
How many favorites do you have? How many people are
you voting for? You should be doing that. You should
be curating who you want to see in the finale,
and then vote for all those people. We don't know
if it's a four person or a five person or
a three person finale, We have no idea. But vote
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for everybody you'd love to see in the final, and
then vote for those people every single week. Go for it.
Do it. But if you are a giant fan of
let's just use me as an example. If you're a
giant fan of me, you know for sure I do
not want you going after any other contestant if they
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score better than me, or if they win something that
I don't win, Like, no way. I love everyone on
this cast. I would never want anybody attacking anyone. If
you're a fan of Robert, if you're a fan of Whitney,
if you're a fan of Alex, we all love each
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other truly, and we support each other and we get
along very well. If you are a fan of anybody
on the show, support your fave without putting down anyone else.
It's just it's kind of we are not doing it
amongst ourselves, and we don't want to see it on
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the internet. We're trying really hard, We're working. We're all
working really hard to make good TV, to put on
good dances, to change our lives. All of our lives
have been changed by being a part of this experience.
And the only real painful part is some of the
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you know, really nasty stuff that's out there on the
flip side. I have to tell you, guys, how funny
and sweet and thoughtful so many of you are. I
have been told by every pro and every celebrity contestant
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that I know that has been on this show. I
have been told, do not read comments at all, don't
read comments, and also, whatever you do, stay far away
from Reddit. So I have been doing that quite a bit,
not the comments. I read a lot of comments on Instagram.
(26:50):
I go through and I try to like as many
of your comments as I can, especially when we post
like a funny TikTok or something. I like to go
in and see what you guys have said. Again, it's
you guys make me laugh so much. Your comments crack
me up. And so I've been liking a lot of comments.
I've been reading comments, but I am not a Reddit person,
so I've just stayed away from read it. And then
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the other day, I don't know what, little bug crawled
in my ear and told me to go to the
Dancing with the Stars reddit and I just went there
and I scrolled through the different topics and I don't
even remember what the story was or what the topic
was that I clicked on, but I opened it up.
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And when I tell you, I was so touched by
so many of your comments and so many of the
sweet things you were saying and talking about all of us,
and you know what your favorite dances were and why
it was your favorite dance, and who you're planning to
vote for and why you're planning to vote for them,
And I was just blown away by how many of
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you said me that you were voting for me every week,
and it's it's just when you when you find kind
and nice pockets on the internet. It's it was really overwhelming.
I literally like, I welld up. I took a screenshot
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of a of a part of it, and I sent
it to Jensen and I said, I'm parked outside my
wardrobe fitting. I had like five minutes before I was
supposed to be there. And I just was reading read
it and crying, and not in a mean way. I
was reading read it and crying because you guys were
so unbelievably kind and lovely. So it's not all negativity.
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There's also so much positivity out there, and I appreciate it.
So our monster on the floor was divided into a
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grid of nine people, and I don't know how they
determine where everybody goes. There's a there's not like a
you know, pulling a number from a hat and then
you get to decide where you're gonna stand. It's just
kind of like they put you in a certain spot
and then you just dance there. And it's a little
weird because you're like, who am I dancing too?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Am I dancing to camera? I'm not even sure I
was ever even on camera? Maybe I was, Maybe I wasn't.
I have no idea. Are we supposed to be dancing
to the judges? Are we supposed to dance to the
audience that's kind of right next to us. It was
all just a little bit weird, and there wasn't a
whole ton of explanation. It was just kind of like, Okay,
here's where you guys are gonna be and you're gonna dance,
and you don't get the actual edit to the song.
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You know what the song is, they told us what
the song is, but you don't get the specific two
minute version you're dancing to until Monday night, which was
after already after camera blocking. So it's not like you
get to actually choreograph a full dance. It's kind of like,
here are some hustle steps and here are some Lindy's steps,
and then you're allowed to do lifts in both of
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them because that's just the rule that they created. And
then you know, your pro choreographs something and you kind
of have a plan. But you could dance your butt
off for four minutes and if the judges look at
you in a three second portion where they don't think
you're fully committing, you can just be axd. So it's
a little interesting. I don't necessarily know that I love it, Like,
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I don't really know that. I was like, well, that
was super fun. Like next week is Team Dance. I
love this idea. I'm very excited about it. I think
it's going to be super interesting to see how we
all work together. I think it's going to be super
interesting to see how we dance on the floor together.
I'm excited about that one. This this marathon dance challenge,
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I'm not quite sure I love. It's just like, Okay,
we did that, all right. I hope we don't necessarily
have to do it again. But we'll see Jen. You know,
a spoiler alert if you haven't already watched the show.
Jen and Yan went home, and I'm sad to see
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her go. I'm sad to see everybody go. Anytime someone's
been eliminated, it has felt a little like a like
a gut punch. And you know, she works so hard,
and she was sick last week, and then Yan was
sick this week, and she's got three babies, just had
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a baby. I really do think she's you know, she's
a little bit of a superhuman. I don't know how
she was doing the things that she was doing. And
I know that she's going to be missed by everybody,
the same way Scott is missed and Baron is missed,
and you know, everybody's everybody's energy is the place just
feels different when with one less person there. So yeah,
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it's gonna be weird for me in the audience, tonight
was Jensen of course, and then my boys Adler and
Keaton were there. Also are unbelievable, wonderful nanny, Miss Delia
and her boyfriends they Sar, they were there. I was
so happy to have them in the audience. Delia has
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been working late every Tuesday night so that Jensen is
able to come to the tapings, and she stays home
with the kids. And then when the kids came for
the premiere, Jensen just brought them and Delia went home.
We only get six tickets every week. I think you
guys have heard me say that before. We only get
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six tickets, and so it's hard to you know, I
have a mom and a dad, and my dad's wife Christine,
and my brother, and I have husband, and I have
two kids, and then I obviously have friends, and I
have my aunt and uncle, and I have, like you know,
a lot of people who like to come. So I've
been trying to rotate it and spread it around, and
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tonight I was really happy that I was able to
invite Delia and Sasar as my guests. They weren't working,
they were just there with us as guests, and it
was really nice to have her there. And then Tara Sudbach,
producer of this podcast and of Podmeats World and of
I don't know, like nineteen other podcasts. She was there
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as my guest tonight too, so great to have her.
And then Kieranan Shipka was in the audience for me
as well. I love Kierenan. I have known her for
a really long time. We worked together on a Funnier
Die sketch years ago, and then we still have mutual
friends and so we've just been in each other's life,
which is really cool. And she brought her friend Phoebe.
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I got to wear a really beautiful wet dressed tonight
that had a tear away belt that had blood underneath it.
The sash the belt part of it was also supposed
to have blood on the other side, but the material
was so thin. If I put blood on the inside,
it was going to completely show through the outside, so
we ended up not doing that. But it was beautiful.
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And I got to wear a gorgeous watch, a Patek
Philipe in eighteen carrot rose gold with a salmon dial.
Just beautiful. It was courtesy of Eric Wind from Wind Vintage,
and I was also wearing this gorgeous graduated necklace from
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my dear friend Jamie at Forever Fine Jewels. Just gorgeous.
I love it so much. It's an eternity necklace. It's
graduated though, so it's like the bigger stones are kind
of here in the middle, and it goes all the
way around to the back. She also sent me a
beautiful pair of earrings to wear, and for whatever reason,
one of the earringbacks would not stay closed. I think
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when I took the price tag off, I may have
pulled the earring back apart a little bit, and so
it wouldn't stay closed. And I was way too nervous
it was going to go flying off in my dance,
and so I decided not to wear those earrings. So
I was just wearing a watch and this beautiful necklace tonight.
And now we look forward to the next week. Week eight.
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Oh my gosh, Week eight. The whole thing is only
eleven weeks, guys, The whole thing is only eleven weeks.
And next week is Week eight. It's crazy. Next week
is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Night, which will
not only include a big dance that I am very
much looking forward to, but it will also include this
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season's team dance, and we picked the teams tonight. I
don't know when they will make the announcement about those,
so I'm gonna I'm not gonna do it here because
that's a Dancing with the Stars thing for them to
be able to do. I really, finally just want to
say and make sure you know truly how much I
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appreciate your votes and how much I appreciate you guys
supporting me in every way, not just in the podcast,
but with your comments and your likes and your shares,
and yeah, it just it really means a lot to me.
I my life has truly been changed by this show.
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I mean not to quote Wicked, which we just did
last week, but my life has been changed for good
because of Dancing with the Stars for so many reasons,
not just because I have a new friend for life
in Pasha and Danny and Dylan and Robert and Jen
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and Whitney and Jordan literally can name everybody on this
cast Elaine like, not not just because of that, but
because I just feel like a whole new love of
dance and expression and storytelling and connection has been opened
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up inside of me and I don't ever want it
to stop. I don't ever want it to stop. I
can't believe I get to do this week after week,
and I want to keep doing it until until the
very very end. So thank you from the bottom of
my heart, because we couldn't do it without you. That's it.
Thank you for listening to this episode of Danielle with
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We will see you next time. Danielle with the Stars
produced and hosted by Danielle Fishl. Executive producers Jensen carp
and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer,
editor and engineer Tara Sudbasch. Theme song by Justin Siegel.
Follow us on Instagram at Danielle with Stars and vote
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for me
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