August 13, 2024 • 23 mins
Whether it be an ex-girlfriend or a celebrity mentor, there are so many people that changed JoJo's life (for worse or for better)... Join us this week for a deeper look into the life of JoJo Siwa and the people that pushed her to be the person, and artist, she is today.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Joja see one Now with me jojo
seua An iHeartRadio podcast. Oh everybody, and welcome back to
jojo sewe now Ah. I feel as if it is
time we actually get real and I feel like I've
been very controversial recently. I still can't fucking say that word.
If you listen to the last week's episode, you know
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what I'm talking about. I feel like I've been very
messy recently, and I know last week I was being
a sassy a sassy girl about people that I don't
want to have on my podcast and people I won't
have on my podcast, and so I feel like this
week I really wanted to switch it up, and I
wanted to talk about some of my favorite people in
the world and about some people who truly came into
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my life, changed my life for the better, made me
realize things about myself, made me realize things about family,
about friendship, and really give you the rundown on five
people that changed my life. Now, before I get into that,
I just wanted to say that this world I'm living
in right now is actually Nana's guilty pleasures finally out
in the universe doing all these performances. It is so real.
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It's interesting. This whole plan of this EP has changed
so many times when I was doing the posts that
we're like, look like I'm changing my plan. I truly
was changing the plan. The original plan was to have
Choose a freighter come out. Then it just like it wasn't.
I never wanted choose a fighter to come out first,
but my team, you know, thought it was the best idea.
And I tried to tell everyone. I was like, no,
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it's it's guilty. It's guilty. It's guilty, like that has
to be the vibe, that has to be the leading force,
and no one really believed me. And then finally one day,
literally my label called was like we believe you, Like
let's switch gears, and I was like, let's go. And
then I figured out the game plan. We got guilty.
We did the EP, and like now that is just
all out and it's all in the universe. It feels
so good, Like it feels so free, it feels so nice,
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it feels so fun. I'm like, fuck yeah, like we
made it, we did it, and like I am your
guilty pleasure, and whether you like it or not, I'm
your guilty pleasure like that is it ended up being
so perfect, even though like the fact that I have
the writer's credit on this song and a couple of
other songs also on the EP, like it just kind
of takes everything that the world is said in the
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last six months and been like look here you go,
you know what I mean, And it makes me makes
me happy to see the response to it and to
see where we're at now versus where we were six
months ago. And I just I'm truly grateful, I really am.
I and at this weird point where you know, obviously
publicly I'm very wild right now and I'm on stage
doing wax shit and drinking alcohol and touching and doing
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all the things. But like, deep down inside, when I'm
doing all of that, there is this other side to
me that, ah, fuck, I shouldn't reveal this to y'all,
but like there is this other side to me that
like truly just like sits there, and it's just like
looking at all this and just like whoa, Like this
is so surreal to me, Like this is everything I've
ever wanted. These crowds that are showing up, I mean
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the crowds that are showing up with the performances are
crazy and it's so awesome, it's so fun, and I just,
I don't know. I just think a moment of gratitude
was much needed, because as messy as I am nowadays,
like there is this other side to me that the
world doesn't know and the world doesn't see, and I
keep it messy. My job is to entertain you, and
you are entertained when I am messy, So you're welcome again.
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I'm your guilty pleasure. But I yeah, I don't know.
I just I'm having a great time. I'm grateful for everything.
Thank you for getting me to do this shit without you,
without me being your guilty pleasure, would never works, So
I appreciate you for that one. Anyways, let's die freaking
right in. We got five people that changed my life now.
The first person that is on this list honestly changed
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my life in so many ways that I could ever imagine.
And that is my first girlfriend. If you followed me
for a couple of years now you know who this is.
She's honestly still one of my very good friends of
the day. But she she made me realize a lot
about myself. She she literally texted me this prible was
like happy Pride month. You're welcome for making you realize
you're gay like that, like are like literal joke. But
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the thing is, it's not a joke. She did make
me realize that I was gay. She was my like
official gay awakening. Of course, I had my gay awakenings
when I was a kid that was like, oh wait,
what's this And now that I look back, I'm like,
that's what it was, you dingis. But yeah, she she
definitely came into my life and she changed it. She
was my first like teenager friend, if that makes sense,
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and I don't know, I kind of got an insight
onto like normal teen life and that was a very
cool thing. And then when I realized that I had
feelings for her, she was the first person that I
came out to. And it was very hard to tell
her that I had a crush on a girl because
she was the girl that I had the crush on.
And I never thought it was gonna go anywhere. I
thought she was gonna stop me my friend, because you know,
she used to ran to me being her best friend
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about being like, hey, like all my friends have crushes
on me, Like I hate this, And so I was
like yeah, that's so annoying. Uh oh, like I have
a crush on you? What fuck? Anyways, but it ended
up being fine. She ended up becoming my first girlfriend.
We had so many great times together and I don't know,
I think she taught me the value of love. I
would say she was my first love for sure, and
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whether that be love love, puppy love, any kind of love,
it was love and it was very sweet and very innocent,
and I am forever grateful for that. I'm forever grateful
for that realization. I'm lucky that she's the person I
got to come out with. I think without her being
so chill up with things, like he said, it was
very scary. No one knew what to expect with me
coming out, and I didn't expect it to be as
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big as it was, Like I didn't realize that it
was gonna be a thing, I guess. But she was
very good about no matter what at the end of
the day, like she never cared about like the world.
She cared about me, and that was I mean, she
was the most genuine love that I've ever felt, for sure,
besides from like my parents and my brother and like
close close friends, but in a relationship standpoint, she was
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definitely the most She is definitely the most genuine love
I've ever felt before, and so I will forever cherish
the way that she's made me look at things, the
way that she made me realize I was gay, The
way that we are able to be friends now, I
think that's so fucking inspiring for people out there, like
it is okay to be friends and just except like, hey, look,
we don't want get in a relationship, but like, yes
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we could be friends, like we have fun together. Ah,
that is the best thing ever. I'm so grateful for that.
All Right, now we're gonna flip a little bit. We're
gonna talk about some friends in my life. So I
got two friends that I'm gonna talk about. First. One
is mister Tyler. Mister Tyler Cameron. Now me and Tye
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we met on Special Forces and Tye is like literally
my family without like if I didn't have my family,
he would be my family. And I was Actually I
was on a plane the other day this guy sitting
next to me was asking me like, oh, where you from?
And so I'm from California. Now I used to live
in Nebraska and he was like, oh cool, and I
was like, Oh, where are you from. He's like, oh,
I live in Florida. I was like, oh cool, what
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part of Florida? And he was like northern Florida, Like
you go there often? And I was like, Oh, I
have family down in Florida. I was like, so, yeah,
actually I do go down there often. And he was like, Oh,
where's your family at And I was like, well, I'm
a brother up in Orlando and I have a brother
down in Jupiter. And I stopped myself and the guy
was like, what's going on? And I was like, he's
not my he I mean, he is my brother, but
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he's not my brother in Jupiter. And I was like wait.
I was like, he's literally my family. I was like,
but he's not my family. And I was like, this
is crazy. My brother lives in Orlando. I was like,
my brother's there. I was like, but I have a
best best friend Tie and he lives in Jupiter and
so I go down there all the time to see them.
And I was like, clearly his family. Like it just
like flew out of my mouth fast, like a grab
it ted gives me a lot of reassurance within myself.
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He's such a good best friend. He's such a good like.
He keeps me young and lively for sure. I mean
we obviously we have a ten year age gap, but
he is he's just a fun best friend for me,
and he's really been there for me in times that
I need. We met on Special Forces and he was
the first person on Special Forces that kind of gave
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me a shot. And on Special Forces we would get
in trouble all the time for our wardrobe if we
weren't match again. So I decided I was gonna become
the wardrobe police because I could see if one button
was undone, and I would tell everybody be like Jack,
your button, Tom, your shoe tight tight is different, and
like they wouldn't and then we get in trouble for that.
And so Tyler was the first person I was like, wait,
she's right everybody, and everybody loved Tie and so everyone
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kind of jumped on board with that, and I'll never forget.
It was like day five of Special Forces and I
used to be the wardrow police and like bug all
the boys and like they were all get annoyed by it. Finally,
Tie is the day five comes up to me. He's
like hey, Jojo, and I was like yeah. He was like,
you check my off it for me, and I was
like absolutely, I can't. That is right. I would be
delighted too. It was just cute. Men. There's this grown
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man coming out to me like can you look at
my help at police? And I was like, I got you.
But ye know, He's given me some of my most
fun times. I'll never forget. My twenty first fucking birthday
with ty was so fun. We were planning on because
my birthday's on the nineteenth, so the eighteenth at midnight
when it switched the night, we were planning on having
like a drink cause the next day we were gonna
go to Disney World drink around the World at Epcot,
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and so we wanted it to be like a chill night,
like you have to have a drink at midnight, but like,
let's go to sleep. Tyler comes in the room. This
man had brought cowboy hats, he bought streamers, He brought
more alcohol than we already had. He brought a pool
noodle that we could use a beer bong. He brought
water guns they could squirt shots into my mouth. Like
this boy came prepared and I was like, oh, we're
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doing this tonight. He was like, Yeah, we're doing this
tonight and I was like, all right, here we go.
And this this fuck he he put like the worst
whiskey in his water gun that he squirt it into
my mouth and his aim was spot on. It went
all in my mouth. It was so nasty, but I
mean it was the best laugh and we all had
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the best time. And then the next day at Disney,
we all had the best time. He truly is just
such a good boy. He's such a good friend. I
we always talk about our future together and how excited
we are to like just do life together, and it's
it's cool. I don't think anybody would have predicted that
him and I would become like as tight as we are,
but he, he truly is one of a kind. We
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have a joke that we're gonna get tattoos of each
other on our foot and I'm gonna get a picture
of his face and He's gonna get a picture of mine,
Like we just he's just he's just that one for
me and I I fucking love that dude with all
of my heart. He wanted to do this thing where
we did a roast on my twenty first birthday and
I let him roast me. I'm not gonna say what
he said to me, but that boy had a good
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roast and I have a damn good roast for him
and I will use it when I need to, but
I don't need to yet. We haven't done a roast yet.
We were going to, but we did it, so I'm
gonna hold onto it. So another person, And this is
kind of funny because this this story kind of intertwines
that I'm about to tell with these two people. They
actually intertwined really interestingly Tyler. And then the next person
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that I'm gonna put on this list of top five
people that change my life is g Flip. Now, Flip
has become such an important person in my life since
my first birthday. I didn't realize how missing that friendship
was in my life with them, but they, I mean
they they they made me realize something about my life
that I didn't necessarily realize. And I'm gonna tell that
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whole story because I think it's a very interesting story
and it connects to Tyler. It's very fascinating. Then we
got to spend Disney together again with ty It was everybody.
Flip was there in Disney and spending my birthday with
g was fucking awesome. Got to meet their best friend, Herbie,
and now we all became best friends. Were literally true.
We had the best day in New York together. Oh
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my god, I'll tell the New York stories. It's so fun.
But I want to explain the story on why they
changed my life, and I don't. I think I told
them this story briefly, but I don't really think Flip
knows this story very well because I didn't. I never
really like it's not like a story to tell. But
since I'm here and I get to yap and say
whatever I want on this podcast, I'm gonna tell it now.
So anyways, it's after Special Forces now. The reason why
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I tapped out on Special Forces because I wanted to
live my personal life more. I was like, fuck living
for my career, Like I am living for my personal
life only now. And I realized that that. Now, I
realize that that wasn't the right mentality, but in that moment,
that's how I was feeling. That was what I cared about.
So whatever. So anyways, I'm in rehearsal with my girl
group and I get a text from Flip and they
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were like, hey, and mind you. Me and Flip were
friends at this point. We were mutuals, like we somehow
had each other's number, but I genuinely don't remember how,
Like it was very just like we knew of each other, right,
And so they texted me and they were like, hey, like,
I'm doing a show in LA, like I would love
to have you come before. Now anyone who does know
g Flip, they are an incredible artist, so foking talented.
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They are a drummer, a singer. Their vocals are insane,
their drum skills are actually crazy, like just the most
talented person I know by a landslide. And so they
were like, I'm playing a show in LA and I
would love to have you come out on stage sing
gay for me with me the crowd of their minds
like would you ever be down? And I actually responded
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and I was like, hey, when is it? Like let
me know. They told me the day and I was
supposed to be in Florida with Tyler. I was going
to spend a week down there just to go have fun,
go be friends, go on his boat, go chill, like
just take a week for like fun personal life. And
I so they sent me the dates and I was like, ah,
I was like, I'm so sorry, Like I get to
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Florida and like that's on day two when I'm supposed
to be there, Like shit, I'm so sorry. I can't
move this trip, like cause in my head I was like, no,
this is a career thing with Flip, like do not
say yes to that because you're you're putting your career first, then,
like put your personal life first. This is what you
learned on Special Forces, right, so I take something. I
was like, man, I'm so sorry, like I can't do it,
like I would love to, but like let me know
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if there's another one. And they were like all good,
it's all good. Don't sweat, like there'll be another one.
And then about an hour passed and I literally like
my head got pulled out of my ass and I
was like jojo, what the fuck? You don't say no
to this? And so I went outside the studio and
I called Flip and I was like hey. I was like, first,
I'm so sorry that I said no. I don't know
what I was on. I was like, I'm gonna make
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it work. I was like I will be there, tell
me what time you get me there count me and
like I'm fucking there, let's go. And they were like
really like they like didn't believe that I changed my mind,
and I was like yeah, I was like and I
told them a little bit briefly, like I was supposed
to be in Florida for her friends, but like fuck that,
I want to do this fine, And so the universe
just kind of test to me. I still went to
Florida for twenty four hours. I was like, I'm not
missing this Florida trip. I will go for twenty four hours.
So I flew in, flew back home, got on a plane,
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went straight to soundcheck after the plane with Flip and
got there and I remember watching them do their sound
check before I went on stage and joined them, and
they were playing the drums and I was like, holy shit.
I was like, they are the coolest human that exists.
What are they doing right now? I've never seen somebody
like rip on drums like that, and I was like wow.
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So anyway, as we go, I do soundcheck. This is
our first time meeting in person. Like, they're cool. Laurence
Sanderson's also there. They're really cool. She's really cool, and
so I was like fuck, yeah, this is the best
vibe literally ever and didn't really think twice of it.
Happy that I made the decision to be there, but
honestly I was kind of regretting it, Like I just
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said bye to my friends in Florida. By the time
by to my brother, I was like this. I was
like fuck. And then I got mad at myself after
soundcheck and I was like, this is what I said
no to doing, Like I said no to putting my
career first, and that is exactly what I'm doing right now.
I'm putting my career first. Why did I do this?
I should be in Florida er And then it came
time for the show, and I remember watching Flip because
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gay for Me is very is the last song on
the set, second to last song in the set, and
I remember watching them perform their whole show and just
being like wow, like if I want to be anything,
I want to be them like that. They are so
so talented, and like fell in love with their music
that night, like just I mean, it was the greatest
non of my life. And then I went on stage,
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had fun like it was a ball. They were fun
to perform with. Went home that night and I was
like I want to become a drummer, like this is
my new hyperphixation, Like, let's go find a drum kit.
So I looked online whatever, YadA, YadA, YadA. Two days later,
Flip and I then had like texted, like talked like
that was a fun whatever fine anyways. Two days later,
Flip was like, Yo, if you ever wanted to learn drums,
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like I would for sure teach you. I'd for sure
give you a lesson, Like, then you want to help
getting a kid setting it up, like let me know?
And I was like, wait, you have no idea, Like
I was literally like saying this and you have no
idea about it. And so then they helped me get
my drums set up. They helped me, they gave me
a first lesson. And what I realized as they were
giving me this drum lesson is I was like, holy shit, Jojo,
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you made the right choice. And that was when I
learned that life isn't about only your personal life or
only your career life, because I thought I could only
have one or the other. And so it was kind
of an interesting phase where from when Special Posts ended
in July to when I performed a flip in October
where I didn't necessarily give my career any attention and
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that wasn't okay either, you know what I mean. So
Flip really got me to find that balance. And they
don't even know this, but they found this balance with
me without even knowing it, and it ended up really
fixing a problem that I had of like saying fuck
all to my life that I knew right and just
now living to be a personal life, like I don't
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it's very confusing to explain. But then yeah, then they
they just taught me what a good human is. You know,
a lot of people shit on me because they're like,
you're trying to be g Flip and I was like, fuck, yeah,
everyone is trying to be g Flip. Who doesn't want
to be g Like literally, if you're all right, candid,
if you say you don't like everybody does. And they
came out and they did some interviews and people asked them,
They're like, what do you think about this? And they
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were like, look, I'm fucking honored, like Jojo like yes,
get it, do your thing. And then they ended up
coming to my twenty first birthday with me, and that's
when we all became really good friends. And that ever
since then. They helped me get over my last breakup,
which was very hard, and we had the best fucking
day in New York together. We had so much fun
we had yesterday lost my phone in the middle of
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the day in the fucking lake. Didn't care because we
were having so much fun it. Actually, it also is
Flippo's fault that I lost my phone. They knocked my
hand and dropped it straight in the lake. So that's
their fault. That's like my little leg. Yeah, it's so
your fault. Yeah, No, they're just they're great human being.
They got me to start drums, which are my fucking love.
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Like I anyways, rant about them for long enough, rand
about time for long enough. We all got to have
the best day on my birthday together. Those two friends
for me are like currently the friends that I have,
like really changed my life and really given me like
a big, big picture on life. Anyways, Next is I
got two more for you, Freddy Mercury. This is very
self explanatory. Freddie Mercury entered my life. Freddie Mercury is
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not with us anymore, unfortunately. But when I saw Freddy
Mercury for the first time in the movie Bohemian rhop city.
I was like, whoa this human. It's kind of the
same thing as Flip, Like this human, I want to
be this human. And I pull a lot of my
inspirations from different people, right for like my obviously for
drums like Flip, and then for performing it's like Freddy.
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But then for you know, like videos and shit and choreography,
it's Gaga, And for costumes it's Miley, and for personality
it's Miley. Like there's like a little bit of different
personalities that are trying to pull from my favorites and
from the greats, and I I definitely Freddy is absolutely
one of them. And this boy he used to be
very scared of singing live, And then I heard Freddy
say a quote he said, no one can take my
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songs better than I can. And I sense that I
sing live and fuck all what people have to say
about the vocals, like, I don't care. It's my song.
You can't think it better than me. It's literally mine. Anyways,
the last person on this list, I think you're gonna
love it, Miss Abby Lee Miller. Now, Abvi Lee, say
what you want about the girl. That girl changed my
life for the better. I would be fucking nothing without her.
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She taught me so many life lessons. She taught me
how to sink or swim. She taught me how to
fucking pick up choreography like no others. Taught me how
to be tough but not cruel. Now that is something.
This is something that I've realized over the last few
months with me is my experience on dance songs was tough,
not cruel. And a lot of people did have cruel
not tough, and that's tough, but like it is what
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it is, that's your journey. But for me, it was
tough and not cruel, and so I'm very grateful for that.
But yeah, miss Abby Lee, that girl. I text her honestly,
like twice a week. She's a massive person in my life.
I I don't know, I think, I just I will
always appreciate where I came from. I will always appreciate
the people that helped me. I will always appreciate the
people that were there for me when no one else was,
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or the people that went out of their way to
be there for me. And Abby has, trust me, had
her fairshop of not doing that, but she has had
her fair shof of also doing that, and I don't
know I Ever since I left Dance Moms, I've grown
a big, big, big love for her. On Dance Songs,
I was fucking terrified of her, obviously all of us were.
But after the show, I love that girl with all
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my heart. I always will. I will always thank her
for saying jo joo, Have you learn nothing? Because no, oh,
I fucking haven't, and I plan not to thank you
very much. Clearly, me learning nothing is doing me wonders. Ah. Anyways,
that was a lot of fun. Rants I think without
a doubt you can tell by this I love, I
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just love, and I love my people, and I care
about my people so much. And I have a bubble,
or as I have a bubble of probably like twenty
people that are my golden people. And these people are
my golden people. I say, there's a difference in like
best friends and golden people, and all these people are
people that are golden people. I know if I called
them they would answer. I know if I said I
need help, they would say, I'll be over. I know
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if I said I'm in trouble, they would say where
are you? And I also know this is this is
how I decide if somebody is a golden person or not.
If I called you and said I need help, right,
you would help me? And then would you hang up?
And would you call my mom? And if you wouldn't,
you're a best friend. And if you would, you are
one of my golden people. Because people know me, they
know my mom, and they know that she would need
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to know if something was going wrong in my life,
and so all of these people are people. Even Abby
the other day text her at two in the morning
and it was no, it was two in the morning
for me. It was four in the morning for her.
And I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry.
I thought you were on the East coast, like I
didn't realize it was this early for you, and or
some some somehow it was like different times ones like that,
it doesn't matter. And I was like, I'm so sorry
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I didn't resistiarly for you. But why are you awaking?
She was like, well, when you text, of course I'm
going to wake up. In answer, I was like, oh
my god, Abby, go to sleep like it's four in
the morning for you. But yeah, no, I know. I know.
If I called my first girlfriend, I know if I
called Abby, I know if I called Flippo. I know
if I called Tie and I obviously I can't call
Freddy Mercury, but I know if I called those four
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they would they would always have my back as I
would have. There's fucking love all these people. I love
all my people. There's a lot of people that I
didn't mention in this video, but we're not doing the
twenty people. We're doing the five people. So I had
to narrow it down, and I had to pick based
off of good stories that I have and good things
that y'all would want to hear, and I figured these
were these are a good top five. So you know,
I love y'all. Thank you for listening. Remember huggy people
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mess up, fix your mess ups, don't do anything stupid.
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jojo sewe now Ah. I feel as if it is
time we actually get real and I feel like I've
been very controversial recently. I still can't fucking say that word.
If you listen to the last week's episode, you know
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what I'm talking about. I feel like I've been very
messy recently, and I know last week I was being
a sassy a sassy girl about people that I don't
want to have on my podcast and people I won't
have on my podcast, and so I feel like this
week I really wanted to switch it up, and I
wanted to talk about some of my favorite people in
the world and about some people who truly came into
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my life, changed my life for the better, made me
realize things about myself, made me realize things about family,
about friendship, and really give you the rundown on five
people that changed my life. Now, before I get into that,
I just wanted to say that this world I'm living
in right now is actually Nana's guilty pleasures finally out
in the universe doing all these performances. It is so real.
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It's interesting. This whole plan of this EP has changed
so many times when I was doing the posts that
we're like, look like I'm changing my plan. I truly
was changing the plan. The original plan was to have
Choose a freighter come out. Then it just like it wasn't.
I never wanted choose a fighter to come out first,
but my team, you know, thought it was the best idea.
And I tried to tell everyone. I was like, no,
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it's it's guilty. It's guilty. It's guilty, like that has
to be the vibe, that has to be the leading force,
and no one really believed me. And then finally one day,
literally my label called was like we believe you, Like
let's switch gears, and I was like, let's go. And
then I figured out the game plan. We got guilty.
We did the EP, and like now that is just
all out and it's all in the universe. It feels
so good, Like it feels so free, it feels so nice,
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it feels so fun. I'm like, fuck yeah, like we
made it, we did it, and like I am your
guilty pleasure, and whether you like it or not, I'm
your guilty pleasure like that is it ended up being
so perfect, even though like the fact that I have
the writer's credit on this song and a couple of
other songs also on the EP, like it just kind
of takes everything that the world is said in the
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last six months and been like look here you go,
you know what I mean, And it makes me makes
me happy to see the response to it and to
see where we're at now versus where we were six
months ago. And I just I'm truly grateful, I really am.
I and at this weird point where you know, obviously
publicly I'm very wild right now and I'm on stage
doing wax shit and drinking alcohol and touching and doing
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all the things. But like, deep down inside, when I'm
doing all of that, there is this other side to
me that, ah, fuck, I shouldn't reveal this to y'all,
but like there is this other side to me that
like truly just like sits there, and it's just like
looking at all this and just like whoa, Like this
is so surreal to me, Like this is everything I've
ever wanted. These crowds that are showing up, I mean
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the crowds that are showing up with the performances are
crazy and it's so awesome, it's so fun, and I just,
I don't know. I just think a moment of gratitude
was much needed, because as messy as I am nowadays,
like there is this other side to me that the
world doesn't know and the world doesn't see, and I
keep it messy. My job is to entertain you, and
you are entertained when I am messy, So you're welcome again.
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I'm your guilty pleasure. But I yeah, I don't know.
I just I'm having a great time. I'm grateful for everything.
Thank you for getting me to do this shit without you,
without me being your guilty pleasure, would never works, So
I appreciate you for that one. Anyways, let's die freaking
right in. We got five people that changed my life now.
The first person that is on this list honestly changed
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my life in so many ways that I could ever imagine.
And that is my first girlfriend. If you followed me
for a couple of years now you know who this is.
She's honestly still one of my very good friends of
the day. But she she made me realize a lot
about myself. She she literally texted me this prible was
like happy Pride month. You're welcome for making you realize
you're gay like that, like are like literal joke. But
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the thing is, it's not a joke. She did make
me realize that I was gay. She was my like
official gay awakening. Of course, I had my gay awakenings
when I was a kid that was like, oh wait,
what's this And now that I look back, I'm like,
that's what it was, you dingis. But yeah, she she
definitely came into my life and she changed it. She
was my first like teenager friend, if that makes sense,
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and I don't know, I kind of got an insight
onto like normal teen life and that was a very
cool thing. And then when I realized that I had
feelings for her, she was the first person that I
came out to. And it was very hard to tell
her that I had a crush on a girl because
she was the girl that I had the crush on.
And I never thought it was gonna go anywhere. I
thought she was gonna stop me my friend, because you know,
she used to ran to me being her best friend
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about being like, hey, like all my friends have crushes
on me, Like I hate this, And so I was
like yeah, that's so annoying. Uh oh, like I have
a crush on you? What fuck? Anyways, but it ended
up being fine. She ended up becoming my first girlfriend.
We had so many great times together and I don't know,
I think she taught me the value of love. I
would say she was my first love for sure, and
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whether that be love love, puppy love, any kind of love,
it was love and it was very sweet and very innocent,
and I am forever grateful for that. I'm forever grateful
for that realization. I'm lucky that she's the person I
got to come out with. I think without her being
so chill up with things, like he said, it was
very scary. No one knew what to expect with me
coming out, and I didn't expect it to be as
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big as it was, Like I didn't realize that it
was gonna be a thing, I guess. But she was
very good about no matter what at the end of
the day, like she never cared about like the world.
She cared about me, and that was I mean, she
was the most genuine love that I've ever felt, for sure,
besides from like my parents and my brother and like
close close friends, but in a relationship standpoint, she was
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definitely the most She is definitely the most genuine love
I've ever felt before, and so I will forever cherish
the way that she's made me look at things, the
way that she made me realize I was gay, The
way that we are able to be friends now, I
think that's so fucking inspiring for people out there, like
it is okay to be friends and just except like, hey, look,
we don't want get in a relationship, but like, yes
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we could be friends, like we have fun together. Ah,
that is the best thing ever. I'm so grateful for that.
All Right, now we're gonna flip a little bit. We're
gonna talk about some friends in my life. So I
got two friends that I'm gonna talk about. First. One
is mister Tyler. Mister Tyler Cameron. Now me and Tye
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we met on Special Forces and Tye is like literally
my family without like if I didn't have my family,
he would be my family. And I was Actually I
was on a plane the other day this guy sitting
next to me was asking me like, oh, where you from?
And so I'm from California. Now I used to live
in Nebraska and he was like, oh cool, and I
was like, Oh, where are you from. He's like, oh,
I live in Florida. I was like, oh cool, what
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part of Florida? And he was like northern Florida, Like
you go there often? And I was like, Oh, I
have family down in Florida. I was like, so, yeah,
actually I do go down there often. And he was like, Oh,
where's your family at And I was like, well, I'm
a brother up in Orlando and I have a brother
down in Jupiter. And I stopped myself and the guy
was like, what's going on? And I was like, he's
not my he I mean, he is my brother, but
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he's not my brother in Jupiter. And I was like wait.
I was like, he's literally my family. I was like,
but he's not my family. And I was like, this
is crazy. My brother lives in Orlando. I was like,
my brother's there. I was like, but I have a
best best friend Tie and he lives in Jupiter and
so I go down there all the time to see them.
And I was like, clearly his family. Like it just
like flew out of my mouth fast, like a grab
it ted gives me a lot of reassurance within myself.
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He's such a good best friend. He's such a good like.
He keeps me young and lively for sure. I mean
we obviously we have a ten year age gap, but
he is he's just a fun best friend for me,
and he's really been there for me in times that
I need. We met on Special Forces and he was
the first person on Special Forces that kind of gave
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me a shot. And on Special Forces we would get
in trouble all the time for our wardrobe if we
weren't match again. So I decided I was gonna become
the wardrobe police because I could see if one button
was undone, and I would tell everybody be like Jack,
your button, Tom, your shoe tight tight is different, and
like they wouldn't and then we get in trouble for that.
And so Tyler was the first person I was like, wait,
she's right everybody, and everybody loved Tie and so everyone
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kind of jumped on board with that, and I'll never forget.
It was like day five of Special Forces and I
used to be the wardrow police and like bug all
the boys and like they were all get annoyed by it. Finally,
Tie is the day five comes up to me. He's
like hey, Jojo, and I was like yeah. He was like,
you check my off it for me, and I was
like absolutely, I can't. That is right. I would be
delighted too. It was just cute. Men. There's this grown
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man coming out to me like can you look at
my help at police? And I was like, I got you.
But ye know, He's given me some of my most
fun times. I'll never forget. My twenty first fucking birthday
with ty was so fun. We were planning on because
my birthday's on the nineteenth, so the eighteenth at midnight
when it switched the night, we were planning on having
like a drink cause the next day we were gonna
go to Disney World drink around the World at Epcot,
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and so we wanted it to be like a chill night,
like you have to have a drink at midnight, but like,
let's go to sleep. Tyler comes in the room. This
man had brought cowboy hats, he bought streamers, He brought
more alcohol than we already had. He brought a pool
noodle that we could use a beer bong. He brought
water guns they could squirt shots into my mouth. Like
this boy came prepared and I was like, oh, we're
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doing this tonight. He was like, Yeah, we're doing this
tonight and I was like, all right, here we go.
And this this fuck he he put like the worst
whiskey in his water gun that he squirt it into
my mouth and his aim was spot on. It went
all in my mouth. It was so nasty, but I
mean it was the best laugh and we all had
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the best time. And then the next day at Disney,
we all had the best time. He truly is just
such a good boy. He's such a good friend. I
we always talk about our future together and how excited
we are to like just do life together, and it's
it's cool. I don't think anybody would have predicted that
him and I would become like as tight as we are,
but he, he truly is one of a kind. We
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have a joke that we're gonna get tattoos of each
other on our foot and I'm gonna get a picture
of his face and He's gonna get a picture of mine,
Like we just he's just he's just that one for
me and I I fucking love that dude with all
of my heart. He wanted to do this thing where
we did a roast on my twenty first birthday and
I let him roast me. I'm not gonna say what
he said to me, but that boy had a good
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roast and I have a damn good roast for him
and I will use it when I need to, but
I don't need to yet. We haven't done a roast yet.
We were going to, but we did it, so I'm
gonna hold onto it. So another person, And this is
kind of funny because this this story kind of intertwines
that I'm about to tell with these two people. They
actually intertwined really interestingly Tyler. And then the next person
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that I'm gonna put on this list of top five
people that change my life is g Flip. Now, Flip
has become such an important person in my life since
my first birthday. I didn't realize how missing that friendship
was in my life with them, but they, I mean
they they they made me realize something about my life
that I didn't necessarily realize. And I'm gonna tell that
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whole story because I think it's a very interesting story
and it connects to Tyler. It's very fascinating. Then we
got to spend Disney together again with ty It was everybody.
Flip was there in Disney and spending my birthday with
g was fucking awesome. Got to meet their best friend, Herbie,
and now we all became best friends. Were literally true.
We had the best day in New York together. Oh
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my god, I'll tell the New York stories. It's so fun.
But I want to explain the story on why they
changed my life, and I don't. I think I told
them this story briefly, but I don't really think Flip
knows this story very well because I didn't. I never
really like it's not like a story to tell. But
since I'm here and I get to yap and say
whatever I want on this podcast, I'm gonna tell it now.
So anyways, it's after Special Forces now. The reason why
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I tapped out on Special Forces because I wanted to
live my personal life more. I was like, fuck living
for my career, Like I am living for my personal
life only now. And I realized that that. Now, I
realize that that wasn't the right mentality, but in that moment,
that's how I was feeling. That was what I cared about.
So whatever. So anyways, I'm in rehearsal with my girl
group and I get a text from Flip and they
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were like, hey, and mind you. Me and Flip were
friends at this point. We were mutuals, like we somehow
had each other's number, but I genuinely don't remember how,
Like it was very just like we knew of each other, right,
And so they texted me and they were like, hey, like,
I'm doing a show in LA, like I would love
to have you come before. Now anyone who does know
g Flip, they are an incredible artist, so foking talented.
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They are a drummer, a singer. Their vocals are insane,
their drum skills are actually crazy, like just the most
talented person I know by a landslide. And so they
were like, I'm playing a show in LA and I
would love to have you come out on stage sing
gay for me with me the crowd of their minds
like would you ever be down? And I actually responded
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and I was like, hey, when is it? Like let
me know. They told me the day and I was
supposed to be in Florida with Tyler. I was going
to spend a week down there just to go have fun,
go be friends, go on his boat, go chill, like
just take a week for like fun personal life. And
I so they sent me the dates and I was like, ah,
I was like, I'm so sorry, Like I get to
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Florida and like that's on day two when I'm supposed
to be there, Like shit, I'm so sorry. I can't
move this trip, like cause in my head I was like, no,
this is a career thing with Flip, like do not
say yes to that because you're you're putting your career first, then,
like put your personal life first. This is what you
learned on Special Forces, right, so I take something. I
was like, man, I'm so sorry, like I can't do it,
like I would love to, but like let me know
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if there's another one. And they were like all good,
it's all good. Don't sweat, like there'll be another one.
And then about an hour passed and I literally like
my head got pulled out of my ass and I
was like jojo, what the fuck? You don't say no
to this? And so I went outside the studio and
I called Flip and I was like hey. I was like, first,
I'm so sorry that I said no. I don't know
what I was on. I was like, I'm gonna make
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it work. I was like I will be there, tell
me what time you get me there count me and
like I'm fucking there, let's go. And they were like
really like they like didn't believe that I changed my mind,
and I was like yeah, I was like and I
told them a little bit briefly, like I was supposed
to be in Florida for her friends, but like fuck that,
I want to do this fine, And so the universe
just kind of test to me. I still went to
Florida for twenty four hours. I was like, I'm not
missing this Florida trip. I will go for twenty four hours.
So I flew in, flew back home, got on a plane,
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went straight to soundcheck after the plane with Flip and
got there and I remember watching them do their sound
check before I went on stage and joined them, and
they were playing the drums and I was like, holy shit.
I was like, they are the coolest human that exists.
What are they doing right now? I've never seen somebody
like rip on drums like that, and I was like wow.
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So anyway, as we go, I do soundcheck. This is
our first time meeting in person. Like, they're cool. Laurence
Sanderson's also there. They're really cool. She's really cool, and
so I was like fuck, yeah, this is the best
vibe literally ever and didn't really think twice of it.
Happy that I made the decision to be there, but
honestly I was kind of regretting it, Like I just
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said bye to my friends in Florida. By the time
by to my brother, I was like this. I was
like fuck. And then I got mad at myself after
soundcheck and I was like, this is what I said
no to doing, Like I said no to putting my
career first, and that is exactly what I'm doing right now.
I'm putting my career first. Why did I do this?
I should be in Florida er And then it came
time for the show, and I remember watching Flip because
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gay for Me is very is the last song on
the set, second to last song in the set, and
I remember watching them perform their whole show and just
being like wow, like if I want to be anything,
I want to be them like that. They are so
so talented, and like fell in love with their music
that night, like just I mean, it was the greatest
non of my life. And then I went on stage,
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had fun like it was a ball. They were fun
to perform with. Went home that night and I was
like I want to become a drummer, like this is
my new hyperphixation, Like, let's go find a drum kit.
So I looked online whatever, YadA, YadA, YadA. Two days later,
Flip and I then had like texted, like talked like
that was a fun whatever fine anyways. Two days later,
Flip was like, Yo, if you ever wanted to learn drums,
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like I would for sure teach you. I'd for sure
give you a lesson, Like, then you want to help
getting a kid setting it up, like let me know?
And I was like, wait, you have no idea, Like
I was literally like saying this and you have no
idea about it. And so then they helped me get
my drums set up. They helped me, they gave me
a first lesson. And what I realized as they were
giving me this drum lesson is I was like, holy shit, Jojo,
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you made the right choice. And that was when I
learned that life isn't about only your personal life or
only your career life, because I thought I could only
have one or the other. And so it was kind
of an interesting phase where from when Special Posts ended
in July to when I performed a flip in October
where I didn't necessarily give my career any attention and
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that wasn't okay either, you know what I mean. So
Flip really got me to find that balance. And they
don't even know this, but they found this balance with
me without even knowing it, and it ended up really
fixing a problem that I had of like saying fuck
all to my life that I knew right and just
now living to be a personal life, like I don't
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it's very confusing to explain. But then yeah, then they
they just taught me what a good human is. You know,
a lot of people shit on me because they're like,
you're trying to be g Flip and I was like, fuck, yeah,
everyone is trying to be g Flip. Who doesn't want
to be g Like literally, if you're all right, candid,
if you say you don't like everybody does. And they
came out and they did some interviews and people asked them,
They're like, what do you think about this? And they
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were like, look, I'm fucking honored, like Jojo like yes,
get it, do your thing. And then they ended up
coming to my twenty first birthday with me, and that's
when we all became really good friends. And that ever
since then. They helped me get over my last breakup,
which was very hard, and we had the best fucking
day in New York together. We had so much fun
we had yesterday lost my phone in the middle of
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the day in the fucking lake. Didn't care because we
were having so much fun it. Actually, it also is
Flippo's fault that I lost my phone. They knocked my
hand and dropped it straight in the lake. So that's
their fault. That's like my little leg. Yeah, it's so
your fault. Yeah, No, they're just they're great human being.
They got me to start drums, which are my fucking love.
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Like I anyways, rant about them for long enough, rand
about time for long enough. We all got to have
the best day on my birthday together. Those two friends
for me are like currently the friends that I have,
like really changed my life and really given me like
a big, big picture on life. Anyways, Next is I
got two more for you, Freddy Mercury. This is very
self explanatory. Freddie Mercury entered my life. Freddie Mercury is
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not with us anymore, unfortunately. But when I saw Freddy
Mercury for the first time in the movie Bohemian rhop city.
I was like, whoa this human. It's kind of the
same thing as Flip, Like this human, I want to
be this human. And I pull a lot of my
inspirations from different people, right for like my obviously for
drums like Flip, and then for performing it's like Freddy.
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But then for you know, like videos and shit and choreography,
it's Gaga, And for costumes it's Miley, and for personality
it's Miley. Like there's like a little bit of different
personalities that are trying to pull from my favorites and
from the greats, and I I definitely Freddy is absolutely
one of them. And this boy he used to be
very scared of singing live, And then I heard Freddy
say a quote he said, no one can take my
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songs better than I can. And I sense that I
sing live and fuck all what people have to say
about the vocals, like, I don't care. It's my song.
You can't think it better than me. It's literally mine. Anyways,
the last person on this list, I think you're gonna
love it, Miss Abby Lee Miller. Now, Abvi Lee, say
what you want about the girl. That girl changed my
life for the better. I would be fucking nothing without her.
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She taught me so many life lessons. She taught me
how to sink or swim. She taught me how to
fucking pick up choreography like no others. Taught me how
to be tough but not cruel. Now that is something.
This is something that I've realized over the last few
months with me is my experience on dance songs was tough,
not cruel. And a lot of people did have cruel
not tough, and that's tough, but like it is what
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it is, that's your journey. But for me, it was
tough and not cruel, and so I'm very grateful for that.
But yeah, miss Abby Lee, that girl. I text her honestly,
like twice a week. She's a massive person in my life.
I I don't know, I think, I just I will
always appreciate where I came from. I will always appreciate
the people that helped me. I will always appreciate the
people that were there for me when no one else was,
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or the people that went out of their way to
be there for me. And Abby has, trust me, had
her fairshop of not doing that, but she has had
her fair shof of also doing that, and I don't
know I Ever since I left Dance Moms, I've grown
a big, big, big love for her. On Dance Songs,
I was fucking terrified of her, obviously all of us were.
But after the show, I love that girl with all
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my heart. I always will. I will always thank her
for saying jo joo, Have you learn nothing? Because no, oh,
I fucking haven't, and I plan not to thank you
very much. Clearly, me learning nothing is doing me wonders. Ah. Anyways,
that was a lot of fun. Rants I think without
a doubt you can tell by this I love, I
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just love, and I love my people, and I care
about my people so much. And I have a bubble,
or as I have a bubble of probably like twenty
people that are my golden people. And these people are
my golden people. I say, there's a difference in like
best friends and golden people, and all these people are
people that are golden people. I know if I called
them they would answer. I know if I said I
need help, they would say, I'll be over. I know
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if I said I'm in trouble, they would say where
are you? And I also know this is this is
how I decide if somebody is a golden person or not.
If I called you and said I need help, right,
you would help me? And then would you hang up?
And would you call my mom? And if you wouldn't,
you're a best friend. And if you would, you are
one of my golden people. Because people know me, they
know my mom, and they know that she would need
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to know if something was going wrong in my life,
and so all of these people are people. Even Abby
the other day text her at two in the morning
and it was no, it was two in the morning
for me. It was four in the morning for her.
And I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry.
I thought you were on the East coast, like I
didn't realize it was this early for you, and or
some some somehow it was like different times ones like that,
it doesn't matter. And I was like, I'm so sorry
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I didn't resistiarly for you. But why are you awaking?
She was like, well, when you text, of course I'm
going to wake up. In answer, I was like, oh
my god, Abby, go to sleep like it's four in
the morning for you. But yeah, no, I know. I know.
If I called my first girlfriend, I know if I
called Abby, I know if I called Flippo. I know
if I called Tie and I obviously I can't call
Freddy Mercury, but I know if I called those four
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they would they would always have my back as I
would have. There's fucking love all these people. I love
all my people. There's a lot of people that I
didn't mention in this video, but we're not doing the
twenty people. We're doing the five people. So I had
to narrow it down, and I had to pick based
off of good stories that I have and good things
that y'all would want to hear, and I figured these
were these are a good top five. So you know,
I love y'all. Thank you for listening. Remember huggy people
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every day, be a good person, have fun, live life,
mess up, fix your mess ups, don't do anything stupid.
And I love y'all. I'll see you next time. Go
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