November 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Britt Stewart sits down with Bart Johnson to talk about being a dancer on High School Musical and now being a pro dancer on Dancing with the Stars!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Wildcats, this is Bart Johnson and you're listening to
get your head in the game. Hi. Everyone, welcome to
get your head in the game today. My guest is
the incredible dancer who you've seen in all the amazing
musical numbers in the High School Musical franchise. Please welcome,
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be beautiful, be talented. Brit Stewart. I can't can't believe it.
I can't believe you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, I'm here, and I was so excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yes, oh my gosh, we haven't seen each other for
I don't think since High School three. I guess the
premiere probably sure, but the premier is so crazy. I
feel like I haven't really seen you since we were
on set shooting, Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Which was what I mean. We were shooting in two
thousand and eight High School three. Yeah, it was wild, yeah, wild.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh my gosh, I'm so I was so excited to
see you. Just got the best memories and it's been
so fun watching you do all that you're doing. Yes,
we always talk about all that UF, but we gotta
we gotta like we started the beginning though.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, well let's start at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Let's just back this and when we don't have a
whole lot of.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Time, so we got we gotta get into Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So I'm just so excited, just so exciting. You look
amazing by the way. You look so good. I saw
you when you walked down the door, and I was like,
oh my gosh, she looks exactly the same. And then
we watched the little video and I was like, oh, hey,
I was I know, you were a baby in that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That was a bit of a jump scare scene like
me was braces and yeah, I know that was. I
think that was because I was fifteen in the first
high school music Hall fifteen, and then I was sixteen
in the second high school musical and then that one,
that one, I mean I had braces on, like I
was fully in my like kid teenager.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow, let's let's back up before before that, tell me
what how do you got in the business and you
start doing when you start dancing?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, absolutely, Well, so I started dancing at the age
of three. Three and I know, like the majority, the
majority of the dancers and most of the cast is
from Utah, but I'm actually from Colorado, and so dancing
from three and then you know, we'll skip some years
up until fifteen. But you know, I trained in everything vallet, tap, jazz,
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life my whole life.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You were serious, like you knew you wanted to be
a dancer, Yes, I did.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I also thought I wanted to be a doctor, Like
I had this fascination with like medicine and all that stuff,
and I thought I wanted to be a doctor until
high school musical. And high school musical is what really
changed my whole perception on what I wanted to do
when I grew up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But what was it about, I'll let you like just yeah,
like make a movie is like being on set, the
whole whole experience or that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I think it was literally taking my passion and me
seeing at a young age at fifteen, me being able
to see that I can have a successful career in
dance and something that I love to do that I
have fun doing. And you know, I think high school
musical at the age of fifteen to be able to
get that experience. And also we I mean it's also wild,
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like we all became a family and still twenty years
later we have connections and we're finding you know, this
like thread between us. And so there was something special
about the cast and about the group of people and
even the crew and you know, Kinney, and there was
something special about that moment of time that kind of
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just I think it ignited a lot for many different
for many people, for almost everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, okay, so fifteen, Yeah, you're really like, I mean,
you're really thinking about your career at that point. You
don't know, you don't know what you're going to do yet.
So how how did you get the audition? Like how
did that happen?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So this is wild. I actually don't know if you
know this story. I did not audition, Oh I know,
so yeah, I really don't think you know this story.
The story, okay, so body story. One of our one
of our co choreographers on the movies, her and her
daughter Kelly. We were all at a national dance competition
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in New York. And this was probably two weeks, maybe
less than two weeks before we started rehearsals for high
school musical and to by knowledge, they had booked all
of the dancers. But still we're looking for one more
female dancer. This is what Bonnie told me. And so
you know, Kelly and I are the same age we
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started to We weren't there at the national dance competition
with our big studios. We were just there as individuals,
so we kind of found friends of friendship in that experience.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You met there, we.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Met there, and so Bonnie saw me dance, and I
think like halfway into this national dance competition, she approached
my mom and I. We happened to be on we
had a late night rehearsal. We happened to be on
the same subway back to our individual hotels, and she
approached my mom and I and said, you know what,
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I'm filming this movie in Utah. It's Disney. You know,
it's Disney Channel. It's not an no big deal. It's
directed by Kenny or Tega, and we're looking for one
more female dancer. And I've already called Kenny about you,
and we think that you are it. We would love
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if you would come to Utah and film high school musical.
And me and my mom are like, uh oh, I
mean maybe sure, Like let's get some more information about this.
And you know, my parents were not in the dance world.
They're not in the entertainment industry. They're both very creative,
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but not artists.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So this whole path probably is what they were thinking.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
They loved it, loved it. Yeah, and so they were
very I don't want to say skeptical, but they just
didn't really they didn't have the knowledge about the industry.
So what they did was they really created this amazing
circle of mentors in the dance community around me so
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that they could also get advice from people that are
going down the same path as me. So they reached
out to one person and his name is Brian Friedman,
and you know, I was supposed to be assisting him
in this masterclass workshop series for the next week at
the same time that I was supposed to be finding Utah.
And I was like, well, I don't want to let
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you down. This is a commitment that I made to you.
And fun fact, Brian Friedman his first job, as I
think he was like fourteen, was being a dancer in Newsies,
which is which was choreographed by Kenny Rotega, and he
was like, this is meant to be. This is divined.
The fact he was one of the Newsies, Oh my god.
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And he was like, you have to There's no question
of it. Kenny or Taga is a legend. You need
to get your booty on a plane and go to Utah.
And that's what I did. I finished the competition in
New York and I went to Utah. I danced for Kenny.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Okay, you mean like they set up a Pheossal space
or something, a Bonnie studio or something.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, I actually know. It was where we had rehearsals. Oh,
it was in the studio where we had rehearsals and
I and you know, it's so I mean, it was
twenty years ago. Like I don't even know if I
remember exactly what I did. I think Bonnie taught me
a little, you know, a few eight counts of choreography,
and it was just thank god, I was naive and
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had no idea what I was getting myself to. No,
because it was literally me, Bonnie and Kenny and I
don't even I don't remember if Chucky was there during this,
but it was us and I was dancing by myself
or Kenny Ortega. And then I booked the job. I mean,
thank god, could I had already flown to Utah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, And how soon before actual filming was that?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That was like we started rehearsals that same day.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So you jump right in.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I jumped immediately into it. Gosh, my parents, both my
parents were in New York with me, but they had
to go back and work, so I ended up I
actually lived with Bonnie for all of for all of
the firs I did.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I can't believe. I don't know this, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean it was a whirlwind. It was also very short.
It was only what we were in production for like
six or nine noes like six or production was six?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Production was I think like officially five weeks. Yeah, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So maybe like a week of rehearsals.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And then yeah, yeah, it was only like, yeah, it
was such a small budget. They couldn't afford a big
long rehearsal. They needed it, right with all those ambitious
numbers and dances and the basketball and everything else, but
they only had to like to do that in a week. Yeah,
you guys had to learned that fast, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Which is wild. And we were all kids, yeah, which
is also insane to think about it. Yeah, Like I
think Kelly and I were fifteen, and then I think
Molly and Bailey were the youngest. Yeah, I think they
were only thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wild babies baby high school age.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah that's wild. No, So okay, so you get so
did he tell you on the spot.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
He told me on the spot. On the spot, yeah,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Said like, you got it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I actually don't. I wish I did.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You know what's interesting is I can see it. I
can actually see myself in the room with like light
brown wood floors, I can see the mirrors, I can
see Kenny in a chair like I can see it all.
I just don't know exactly. I can't remember exactly what
he said, but I remember being again, thank god I
was naive, because yeah, now that was in that situation.
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If I had a dance Sollo for Kenny Otega, oh
my gosh, I would be losing my mind.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah. You think about all the all the all the
big movies. He's done, big musicals, and then like fourteen
years of Michael Jackson tourism, Xanadu and Dirty, all the
all the rehearsal rooms he's been into audition dancers, and
here you are.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Fifteen alone like dancing with for him, it's absolutely wild.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
For the longest time he said that he took credit
for discovering me, and I'm like, yes, I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I saw something he did. Because the proof is in
the pudding. You've gone on to do so many incredible things.
That's at aboutmy jicamo. Try not to jump ahead. So
do you remember who you met first? Like, did you
go meet the actors and the other dancers right away?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Think it was the other dancers. I think we all
started in the rehearsal space right away. And then again
it moved so quickly that whole process of the first
High school musical I think I have. I think I
have more core memories of High School Musical two in
High School Musical three because we were in it a
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bit longer, like especially High Schoomusical three. We were in
the rehearsal process for you know, a few weeks before
we even started filming. Yeah, and at that point, I
know I'm jumping ahead too. But in High School Musical three,
I was also already I was eighteen, so I was
all so like on my own, I was feeling like
an adult on a movie set.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Nonal no, no, because in the first two your your
family would be there, and.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The first two of my family were there. The second
one happened during the during my last semester of high school. Okay,
and so I had to go to school because you know,
if you're if you're under eighteen and you're still in school.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You have to you're the onset teacher.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You have the onset teacher. I had to go to school,
like I could only work a certain amount of hours,
and I had to go to school during high school musical.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Did you miss your did you miss your senior year?
Do you miss the last semester?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I missed the last semester I did.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I could walk with your class.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I did so basically, sorry everybody. So I technically graduated early.
I pretty much got everything finished, and I think I
had like one or two credits to finish online when
I was doing high school musical too. And I kind
of joke because I before High School Musical, I've been
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I'm really I'm an introvert. This industry has taught me
to be extroverted. And I am like way better at
networking and you know, being in social settings. But when
I was younger, I was not, like I get social anxiety.
I kind of have a hard time like going up
to people that I don't know. And so before high
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school Musical, I really didn't like I was not cool.
I was not popular. I was like we are like
I was the quiet kid in class. I always had
like my two best friends and that was basically it.
And then I just joked because after high school musical
came out, I like kind of became the cool kid,
and then I like started having friends. But then I
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didn't turn them away because then like I had friends,
like I knew why they were friends with me, but
I was comfortable.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Was comfortable to like you like now that you're a
little bit of an extrovert almost, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, because I think growing up my parents had given
me tools on like how to re energize myself, and
I still I'm also an only child, so like I
got that alone time at home or at dance or
in different settings.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So and you needed you still needed that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I definitely that yeah, oh yeah wow, yeah yeah I've
always needed that.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, that's actually something to new. I didn't know about
that until like in my like older age here like
of realize, like I said, wait a minute, if you're
with people, you get it sucks your energy and then
if you're alone, your charge your path. What y's the
biggest says to me, Like I'm the exact op So
I'm alone, I'll fall asleep and then like if I'm
around everybody, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Like, let's go.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm like totally charged out. It's so weird and it's
not a choice. It's just a thing that mm hmm.
It's crazy. Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It is crazy. I mean I don't know why. I
mean I could like.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Get really like you know, you could go deep on this.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, I could get like really existential and like really
go deep into it, but we don't have time for it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
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you for being here. You know it's the twenty year anniversary.
Can you believe? I just can't, Like, I.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Know, twenty years as a concept. I guess it feels
kind of like twenty years, but it also doesn't.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, yeah, it feels both.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It feels both. And then the fact that it's still
so I mean, we know, during the first high school
musical we did, we had no idea what it was
going to become clueless and then it became this like
cultural phenomenon, and the fact that it's global global, and
the fact that it's still so relevant today twenty years
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later is wild about.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Like it feels like it's it almost like like less
relevant ten years ago and has come back to being
as relevant as Yes, I was not expecting that.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, Like you know, I I wasn't an actor an actress, senate,
but I was a principal dancer and to still have
people like, you know, now that I'm on Dancing with
the Stars doing press and you know, going on interviews
and things, people still are like, so what about a
high school musical? I'm like, that was It's so I'm
so grateful for it because it was like, that was
my first time the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Biggest show on television, doing the big like during the
big biggest week of the show or weeks of the show. Yeah,
years ago this, but you know, the reason that I
really want to do this podcast was to say thank you,
To say thank you to the fans that have been
so good to us, provided us all the all the
relevance and excitement and everything else, and all the love
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online and and on social media. We you know, like
we appreciate that very much. So this is like a
little bit of a thank you to the fans. You know.
So I'm glad that you're here because you're such a
big part of the show.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah. So, I know, we don't have a lot of time,
so we have like get some good favorite moments, like
do you have some favorite times on any of the
three that you look back on and say, I mean,
I'm sure you have a hundred, but like, what are
some of your favorite favorite times? I have not one
specific one to ask you about.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Okay you do, Okay, Yeah, I would say in the
first one, that last big, I mean, we're all in
this together. Again, another core memory, like I can just
see us filming it. I can see us in that
space in that gymnasium, like just going for it, just
going for it. And I also think my parents were
there for that one or for parts of it, and
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so that is definitely so beautiful. And then to be
able to like see that back is just that joy
and that excitement that comes through the screen. I feel
like we all.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Felt that totally. You remember the energy in that room, yes,
like because that auditorium was packed, packed, things were happening everywhere.
It was so big and so much energy. Yes, that's great.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yes. And then definitely a one for me, dancing was
a night to remember in high school musical three. It
just like the dance moves getting ready for the prom,
I think it was. It's definitely one of my favorite songs. Yeah,
one of my favorite pieces of choreography. And so that
one was amazing. And then again like we were all
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such a crew yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And dancers and actors, like everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Was just it was just it didn't matter, like we
were just all in it together.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We were literally like this is so cheesy, but we
were all in it together, like we really.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah. That's what's so funny about like these songs with
these messages like we're all in this the other it's
like you feel like, oh my am I being corny
right now? But like like literally it actually yeah, but
actually it like totally resonates, and it's like it really
does feel that way. Night to Remember. Have you seen
like all the tiktoks that people are doing, like on
the day of their wedding, and they're all doing they're
all getting ready for the wedding and it's the Night
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to Remember.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's so good, it's so amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And to get the guys to do it too, the grooms,
Oh my god, job fellas.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's really good. Actually, my social media girl she did
send something to me. She's like, are you Because I
just got married, She's like, are you gonna do right?
You sent me that? Yeah, thank you? She sent me.
She was like, so do you want to do this?
I was like I probably missed a spectacular opportunity. But
we didn't do it. We didn't we didn't do it.
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Do it, No, we didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We'll find out for your anniversary in January. There could
be a couple of tiktoks and I will sign up gladly.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Let's go for it. Let's do it for the peoplest.
You know what one thing too about High School Musical,
and I love that this whole podcast is like an
ode to the fans and also just like gratitude for
for it all is I really do feel like High
School Musical brought musicals back to the entertainment industry because
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you know, trends and all these things they have like
ebbs and flows when things come popular and when they
don't become popular. And I don't know, before High School
Musical it was probably I might be wrong, but like eighties, seventies,
eighties like Saturday and I Fever and all those different
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you know, types of movies, Grease, you know, with John Travolta.
I don't know if we had seen another like full
rush of musicals in film until High School Musical, and
then after that we had crazy, I mean, it was insane.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I don't know if people realize that, and I remember,
can you ever take You would say things like this,
like I want to bring the musicals back. I want
to bring musicals back. And then he made Newsies and
then like Newsy was amazing, but it didn't bring the
musicals back now. And then he did hocus Pocus and
he's like music that didn't really do it either. And
then High School Musical of all things, this little tiny,
little four million dollar movie, little Disney Channel movie. It
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just it struck a chord. It touched people around the world.
And like then you have Glee, and you have all
these other shows and.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Hair Spray, you have like everything.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Show let all these things come. Yes, but I don't
think people realize that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But it was like before high school, it was like
twenty years ago. So but before that, there wasn't up
on your right. There's not wasn't a bunch of stuff. No.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And I mean I talk about that too, because I,
you know, I teach kids and I mentor kids too,
dancers that are like coming into this industry, and I,
you know, there's I have to remind them. I'm like,
right now the industry is different, you know, And but
it will come back. It's always like, yeah, a rollercoaster
of different things, and I'm like, it's not going to
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be the same that it was when I started twenty
years ago, Like that was again the start of music
and dance, being back in film, being back in TV,
and you know, I feel incredibly blessed that I got
to be there in that time, in that moment, like right, right, age, right,
all of it. Like I was a dancer, I was
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in New York, happened to meet Bonnie there, Like it
was just right time, right place, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, Yeah, obviously Bonnie spotted talent, Kenny spotted talent, And
I think the proof is in the putting when with
all you've done since that, you've been recognized a million
times and how many seasons of Dancing with the Stars now.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We've been wild. So it's my eleventh season, total, eleventh season. Yeah,
I was on Troop for five seasons and then this
is my sixth season as a pro, a sixth.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Season as a pro. And by the way, being a
pro on the show pays off. I see you can
you can meet some really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
People, you know, Yes, okay for everybody I met my husband,
is that what you're refering to. Okay, yes, I met
my husband, which is hilarious because I always always no
judgment at all. But I was like, I will never
get with a partner. It's just like you know again,
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I started when I was fifteen. I'm like you just
I've always believed in like finding you know, separation between
work and love and home and life.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And Daniel's an actor, and so you know, as an actor,
you you can arrive, you might have like an intimate
scene with body, but then you go home and it's
like that's work. So both of us were like, that's
not what we do. Yeah, and then here we are.
We're married. So we've we met three years ago, and
then we've only been married for I think it's like
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seven weeks almost two months, Like I we're Newlywed's like, yes,
just married. That's amazing, thank.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You, it's that's so cool, cool congress, that's great.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So much.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I got to beat the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yes you do. He actually dropped me off. I should
have yeah, I should have come up here. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
That is awesome. Do you sign no? I do.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I'm now fluent in American side language, yeah, which is
also wild, which is wild and you know what Lucas
was at Dance with the Stars and for Disney Night,
right because uh Riley and Scott did Bop to the
Top of the Top. Yeah, they killed it in incredible
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And what's so interesting is Lucas actually worked with Daniel
like ten years ago on their series on Switched It
Birst And it's just wild that we were close. Did
they get to they were close? And Lucas still remembers
sign he was really yes. I mean he's forgotten a
few things, but he was, you know, with the help
of an interpreter, but he was communicating with Daniel when
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that's so cool and it's just so awesome again, high
school musicals like has been the catalyst for so many people,
so many things. It's so cool.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I love it. I love there so much. Like like
Hollywood is like such a small little town, you know
in so many ways, Like you're always crossing paths or
I've done a couple of movies Lucas, or you know,
we're like we just bump into each other, you know,
at different events or whatever. Disney Night. Tell me about
Disney Night and would you have done if someone said, like, hey,
maybe maybe a high school music.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So I actually with Daniel we did a quick step
to one of the songs from the High School Musical,
the musical the series. Oh we did we did that.
But yes, I would absolutely Oh yeah he has great taste,
great but absolutely I totally will lean into like the
(25:11):
High School Musical. I mean absolutely, well I'm going to
lean in.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I saw you do a dance on TikTok and I comment,
this is me like petitioning for myself to get you know,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The fans. The fans went wild.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh yeah, they went crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh they went crazy. Yeah, they went absolutely.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You know how many times people said, goat, you got
to get on sty got to dance a brit I'm like,
I'm in, I'm let's go heck.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah it is fun. I mean, Dancing with the Stars
is so cool because you get so many different people,
you know, so many different celebrities that come on the show.
You can have actors, you can have athletes, you can
have now it's like a whole new world has opened
up with content creators as well.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, Dylan, Dylan, I mean, I know, who have you become.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, he's so sweet and he's crushing it.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He's doing great.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Doing such a good they go insane. His pro Daniella
knows exactly what she's doing. She is, she's insane, insanely amazing,
and she is giving the people what they want.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's what we do. Is
we do for the people.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
We have to people have.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
To Okay, Well, Night to Remember was a was a favorite.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes, absolutely, Night to Remember was the favorite.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Stand out favorite.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I think it's a pretty great, It's amazing, and I.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Really love the song. It's like really sweet me too.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't know why. That one just really stuck with me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It resonated.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and I would say across all three movies that
that probably is my favorite. And then the classic We're
All in This Together.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So good. It was so good and everybody was there,
like literally everybody, everybody, the whole cast was there for
that one.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Also, High School Musical two was really fun.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Okay, let just keep about that. Do you have a
favorite out of the three movies, and do you have
a favorite that you are proud of or you like
and is it different than the one you enjoyed filming
the most?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh interesting, I mean I feel like the first High
School Musical it almost feels like I don't know if
you have the same experience, but maybe because it was
my first time on a movie set, first experience filming,
first job, almost and like not the best way, but
it kind of feels like a blur. It was really fast,
(27:50):
but I think I was so I don't want to
say overwhelmed, because I wasn't overwhelmed, but I was so
focused on just being great and being professional and being
there and being good, but that I don't know if
I took the time to like really appreciate Oh, yeah,
each at the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, and I got a lot of your head and like,
huh yeah, as this this work, like I got to
make the most not sit back and enjoying, like, oh,
let's enjoy the ride, right.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think I was just this like naive fifteen year old,
like I gotta get it done and I gotta be
good and you know this is but also it's super
cool that I'm here and and I don't know if
I really started to appreciate it until High School Musical too.
I think I during High School Musical two, I started
to allow myself to have a little bit more fun
(28:37):
and I definitely have way more memories starting in high
school musical two, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, and being down there at staying at the country.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Club, and like I mean, and in Saint George, it's
just gorgeous. This is so random. Oh, I know, we
were just so lucky that we got to be there
and film there and this is completely random. But there's
this I don't even remember the name. There's this ice
cream place that had these banana milkshakes. I was like
(29:07):
obsessed with.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That frozen custard. Was that was that the place?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Could you like drive through and get.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
A nod through?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, No, it wasn't a drive through.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wasn't drive through, but there was.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
And I've never had a better milkshake still to this day.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You taught us how to have milkshakes. Man, they know
their ice cream. You know, nobody drinks something.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Just you know, just sugar.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Okay with that, And then.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
High school musical three was again like I I was eighteen,
I had already been about not quite a year, but
like nine months, graduated from high school and I'd already
moved out to La I was actually in school. I
was at Loyal and Merrymount at the time, and Kenny
called me and was like, you have to audition. There's
(29:59):
like you just have to be the third one. You
have to come to Utah and audition. And actually, at
that time, it was too late to withdraw from my semester.
So if you were to go back and look at
my records, it looks like I flunked out of college
because it was I basically had to accept f's and
all my classes because it was too late in the
semester to withdraw. I know, artist, see see what I mean.
(30:21):
It's such a sacrifice, I know, but I remember that,
and I remember I was like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm
gonna give up school for at least for this semester
to go and do this.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And it was and that was just audition.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That was just an audition.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You have that big fat mess and not.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Absolutely no, absolutely, And so I you know, I had
I did have a good feeling about it because Kenny
had reached out and he was like, I really want
you to be there, but you do still have to audition.
So I still felt confident, but again it was still
a risk.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. And and by the way, for the people listening,
it's because it went from Disney Channel to Disney Pictures. Absolutely,
I mean it's like ten times as big. Yes, this
movie ten times the budget and totally different studio people
and everything else. So this was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's a huge deal, huge deal, and I think we
all felt that. Did you feel that?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it felt different.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It felt way different.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, it was much bigger. There's just so much more money.
Production was bigger. You had more time with the choreography
and everything in the basketball and all this stuff. Like
it was just like.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
There was like special effects and yeah it was amazing. Yeah.
So yeah that was also you know, it was my
first time filming and doing a professional job as an adult.
Like my family wasn't there. My parents they came and visited.
Of course, they actually came and visited while we were
filming at night. To remember that was yeah, that was
the scene. That was the time when they came to Utah.
(31:47):
Maybe I bet yeah, thanks mom and dad. Yeah, that's
how much we love you exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Friends away, who'd you power around? I kind of feel
like everybody everybody was pretty tight. I feel like I
remember you like being really tight with everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yes, I was really tight with everybody, And maybe that's
also because I was in all three Maybe that's.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
A difference, I think not. And there was a ton
in three that were not in one and two exactly.
It's just not the same.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, So I think that like core group of people
that were in all three movies, I just think that
we were tight. And but yeah, especially high school Musical
three maybe because again I was eighteen and a little
bit older, I really met some amazing humans that I'm
still friends with today. One of the dancers, his name
is Ahila Algeta. He was my first roommate here in La,
(32:40):
like from high school musical. We ended up deciding to
become roommates in La after the movie. Another dancer, Nick Lancessara,
we are still friends. I mean, Molly has been in
and out of my life for like for twenty years,
for this entire time. You know, my first a friend
was from high school musical, like.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
On the show.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, No, not until not.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Until we have really talked about somebody said, like, don't
say anything, but I still like I tread lightly.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, yeah, but no, we actually that sparked and came
from a group of us all hanging out after after
after the movies had finished. And yeah, I had that
nice really like core group of friends like Lucas was
in there, Zach would pop in and out sometimes, and
(33:36):
that in that you know earlier, you know, a little
bit later pasted, or I should say a little bit
like after we filmed High School Musical three, not so
much now, but yeah, yeah. And also Haley Haley Roderick Haley. Okay,
(33:59):
so Hailey, I feel like you guys are She's my
best friend. So I had two maid of honors in
my wedding and she was one of the Yeah, she
was one of them. She couldn't make it because she's pregnant.
She's doing about a month, like like she's doing like
six weeks.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
How excited, I know.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
But she's living in London. She met the love of
her life and she lives in London and she has
her life there. And yeah, she's incredible. Yeah I love her.
Look her, yes, please do she would love that. She's
just so Yes. Not only did High School Musical start
my career, but it started so many you know, like
core relationships in my life. Again, it's just something so
(34:40):
special about that time and place and all the people.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, Okay, so your life is full. You're super busy.
Obviously you're on a big, huge hit show. Must be
so fun on a show doing your passion. Yes, I
love the show.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
It's amazing. I love it. Yes, Dancing with the Stars,
I love it. I a bunch of other stuff. I've
done a bunch of other stuff. After high school musical,
I went on, you know, to do other I did
Teen Beach Movie, I did other TV shows. I danced
with Katy Perry for three years. It's Jackson, Janna Jackson,
id too.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Did you ever learn hynation? Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I did?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I did?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
And you know what, like when I danced for Janet,
I was like, I think I could be good. I'm
I'm good with backup dancing like I've I've done it
like she and she's so kind, like such a great human.
It was that is definitely a highlight in my career.
I cried after the performance because I was like, this
(35:38):
is so amazing. And then yeah, after I danced with
Katie for three years is when I got on to
Dancing with the Stars. And I've been there ever since,
and I've really I see, dancing with the Stars is
really like the cherry on top of my dance career.
Dance will always be part of my life, but like actually,
(35:59):
you know, dancing and all. I'm yeah, it really feels
like the cherry on top and it's it's just I
feel so blessed to be a part of it and
be a part of that show. We're also celebrating twenty
years of Dancing with the Stars this season two, which
is like also kind of kismet.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And cool amazing. Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, it's life is really good.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I feel very blessed, like what a dancers stream to
be on a show like that where it's like such great,
like they do great dancing on that show. Oh yeah,
I can't believe the stuff that's that I watch on
that show.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It's wild. And also I get the opportunity to choreograph,
and I get the opportunity to teach, get the opportunity
to speak and like use my voice as well. It is,
it is. It is literally a dancer's paradise.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
That's that's amazing. You're doing You're like giving back to
the community too, You're doing yeah things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I have a nonprofit called Share the Movement, and it's
basically we like to consider ourselves a huge hug of
support financially, inspirationally, education only all of that and we
focus on minority communities and just making sure that all
kids have access to dance because dance is really cool. Yeah,
(37:09):
it's it's really healing too. I mean, I know, like
it's cool, which it is cool. I kind of geek
out about dance, but dance has a lot of benefits
and we just want to provide the same access and
opportunity for everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
That's beautiful. That's amazing. Well, I'm sure you got your
what's it called, can.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
We Yeah, it's called Share the Movement, Share the movement, yes,
and we're sharing the movement now on Instagram and share
them movementnow dot org online. Okay, Yeah, this has been wonderful,
the best.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I just I have a thrilled This was so much fun.
I love it. You're the best. You are the best.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh man, you it just feels like you know, seeing
seeing old family.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I know it does. This has been awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Well, thanks, thank you, and thank you for doing.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
This for thank you to all the fans. Sat there,
Family's a Wildcat all only the podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yes, okay, thanks
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yes, thank you so much.
Hey, Wildcats, this is Bart Johnson and you're listening to
get your head in the game. Hi. Everyone, welcome to
get your head in the game today. My guest is
the incredible dancer who you've seen in all the amazing
musical numbers in the High School Musical franchise. Please welcome,
(00:21):
be beautiful, be talented. Brit Stewart. I can't can't believe it.
I can't believe you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, I'm here, and I was so excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yes, oh my gosh, we haven't seen each other for
I don't think since High School three. I guess the
premiere probably sure, but the premier is so crazy. I
feel like I haven't really seen you since we were
on set shooting, Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Which was what I mean. We were shooting in two
thousand and eight High School three. Yeah, it was wild, yeah, wild.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh my gosh, I'm so I was so excited to
see you. Just got the best memories and it's been
so fun watching you do all that you're doing. Yes,
we always talk about all that UF, but we gotta
we gotta like we started the beginning though.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, well let's start at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Let's just back this and when we don't have a
whole lot of.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Time, so we got we gotta get into Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So I'm just so excited, just so exciting. You look
amazing by the way. You look so good. I saw
you when you walked down the door, and I was like,
oh my gosh, she looks exactly the same. And then
we watched the little video and I was like, oh, hey,
I was I know, you were a baby in that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That was a bit of a jump scare scene like
me was braces and yeah, I know that was. I
think that was because I was fifteen in the first
high school music Hall fifteen, and then I was sixteen
in the second high school musical and then that one,
that one, I mean I had braces on, like I
was fully in my like kid teenager.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow, let's let's back up before before that, tell me
what how do you got in the business and you
start doing when you start dancing?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, absolutely, Well, so I started dancing at the age
of three. Three and I know, like the majority, the
majority of the dancers and most of the cast is
from Utah, but I'm actually from Colorado, and so dancing
from three and then you know, we'll skip some years
up until fifteen. But you know, I trained in everything vallet, tap, jazz,
(02:17):
life my whole life.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You were serious, like you knew you wanted to be
a dancer, Yes, I did.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I also thought I wanted to be a doctor, Like
I had this fascination with like medicine and all that stuff,
and I thought I wanted to be a doctor until
high school musical. And high school musical is what really
changed my whole perception on what I wanted to do
when I grew up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But what was it about, I'll let you like just yeah,
like make a movie is like being on set, the
whole whole experience or that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I think it was literally taking my passion and me
seeing at a young age at fifteen, me being able
to see that I can have a successful career in
dance and something that I love to do that I
have fun doing. And you know, I think high school
musical at the age of fifteen to be able to
get that experience. And also we I mean it's also wild,
(03:10):
like we all became a family and still twenty years
later we have connections and we're finding you know, this
like thread between us. And so there was something special
about the cast and about the group of people and
even the crew and you know, Kinney, and there was
something special about that moment of time that kind of
(03:31):
just I think it ignited a lot for many different
for many people, for almost everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, okay, so fifteen, Yeah, you're really like, I mean,
you're really thinking about your career at that point. You
don't know, you don't know what you're going to do yet.
So how how did you get the audition? Like how
did that happen?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So this is wild. I actually don't know if you
know this story. I did not audition, Oh I know,
so yeah, I really don't think you know this story.
The story, okay, so body story. One of our one
of our co choreographers on the movies, her and her
daughter Kelly. We were all at a national dance competition
(04:08):
in New York. And this was probably two weeks, maybe
less than two weeks before we started rehearsals for high
school musical and to by knowledge, they had booked all
of the dancers. But still we're looking for one more
female dancer. This is what Bonnie told me. And so
you know, Kelly and I are the same age we
(04:29):
started to We weren't there at the national dance competition
with our big studios. We were just there as individuals,
so we kind of found friends of friendship in that experience.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You met there, we.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Met there, and so Bonnie saw me dance, and I
think like halfway into this national dance competition, she approached
my mom and I. We happened to be on we
had a late night rehearsal. We happened to be on
the same subway back to our individual hotels, and she
approached my mom and I and said, you know what,
(05:03):
I'm filming this movie in Utah. It's Disney. You know,
it's Disney Channel. It's not an no big deal. It's
directed by Kenny or Tega, and we're looking for one
more female dancer. And I've already called Kenny about you,
and we think that you are it. We would love
(05:23):
if you would come to Utah and film high school musical.
And me and my mom are like, uh oh, I
mean maybe sure, Like let's get some more information about this.
And you know, my parents were not in the dance world.
They're not in the entertainment industry. They're both very creative,
(05:46):
but not artists.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So this whole path probably is what they were thinking.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
They loved it, loved it. Yeah, and so they were
very I don't want to say skeptical, but they just
didn't really they didn't have the knowledge about the industry.
So what they did was they really created this amazing
circle of mentors in the dance community around me so
(06:14):
that they could also get advice from people that are
going down the same path as me. So they reached
out to one person and his name is Brian Friedman,
and you know, I was supposed to be assisting him
in this masterclass workshop series for the next week at
the same time that I was supposed to be finding Utah.
And I was like, well, I don't want to let
(06:34):
you down. This is a commitment that I made to you.
And fun fact, Brian Friedman his first job, as I
think he was like fourteen, was being a dancer in Newsies,
which is which was choreographed by Kenny Rotega, and he
was like, this is meant to be. This is divined.
The fact he was one of the Newsies, Oh my god.
(06:57):
And he was like, you have to There's no question
of it. Kenny or Taga is a legend. You need
to get your booty on a plane and go to Utah.
And that's what I did. I finished the competition in
New York and I went to Utah. I danced for Kenny.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Okay, you mean like they set up a Pheossal space
or something, a Bonnie studio or something.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, I actually know. It was where we had rehearsals. Oh,
it was in the studio where we had rehearsals and
I and you know, it's so I mean, it was
twenty years ago. Like I don't even know if I
remember exactly what I did. I think Bonnie taught me
a little, you know, a few eight counts of choreography,
and it was just thank god, I was naive and
(07:40):
had no idea what I was getting myself to. No,
because it was literally me, Bonnie and Kenny and I
don't even I don't remember if Chucky was there during this,
but it was us and I was dancing by myself
or Kenny Ortega. And then I booked the job. I mean,
thank god, could I had already flown to Utah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, And how soon before actual filming was that?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That was like we started rehearsals that same day.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So you jump right in.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I jumped immediately into it. Gosh, my parents, both my
parents were in New York with me, but they had
to go back and work, so I ended up I
actually lived with Bonnie for all of for all of
the firs I did.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I can't believe. I don't know this, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean it was a whirlwind. It was also very short.
It was only what we were in production for like
six or nine noes like six or production was six?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Production was I think like officially five weeks. Yeah, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So maybe like a week of rehearsals.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And then yeah, yeah, it was only like, yeah, it
was such a small budget. They couldn't afford a big
long rehearsal. They needed it, right with all those ambitious
numbers and dances and the basketball and everything else, but
they only had to like to do that in a week. Yeah,
you guys had to learned that fast, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Which is wild. And we were all kids, yeah, which
is also insane to think about it. Yeah, Like I
think Kelly and I were fifteen, and then I think
Molly and Bailey were the youngest. Yeah, I think they
were only thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wild babies baby high school age.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah that's wild. No, So okay, so you get so
did he tell you on the spot.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
He told me on the spot. On the spot, yeah,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Said like, you got it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I actually don't. I wish I did.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You know what's interesting is I can see it. I
can actually see myself in the room with like light
brown wood floors, I can see the mirrors, I can
see Kenny in a chair like I can see it all.
I just don't know exactly. I can't remember exactly what
he said, but I remember being again, thank god I
was naive, because yeah, now that was in that situation.
(09:41):
If I had a dance Sollo for Kenny Otega, oh
my gosh, I would be losing my mind.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah. You think about all the all the all the
big movies. He's done, big musicals, and then like fourteen
years of Michael Jackson tourism, Xanadu and Dirty, all the
all the rehearsal rooms he's been into audition dancers, and
here you are.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Fifteen alone like dancing with for him, it's absolutely wild.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
For the longest time he said that he took credit
for discovering me, and I'm like, yes, I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I saw something he did. Because the proof is in
the pudding. You've gone on to do so many incredible things.
That's at aboutmy jicamo. Try not to jump ahead. So
do you remember who you met first? Like, did you
go meet the actors and the other dancers right away?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Think it was the other dancers. I think we all
started in the rehearsal space right away. And then again
it moved so quickly that whole process of the first
High school musical I think I have. I think I
have more core memories of High School Musical two in
High School Musical three because we were in it a
(10:43):
bit longer, like especially High Schoomusical three. We were in
the rehearsal process for you know, a few weeks before
we even started filming. Yeah, and at that point, I
know I'm jumping ahead too. But in High School Musical three,
I was also already I was eighteen, so I was
all so like on my own, I was feeling like
an adult on a movie set.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Nonal no, no, because in the first two your your
family would be there, and.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The first two of my family were there. The second
one happened during the during my last semester of high school. Okay,
and so I had to go to school because you know,
if you're if you're under eighteen and you're still in school.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
You have to you're the onset teacher.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You have the onset teacher. I had to go to school,
like I could only work a certain amount of hours,
and I had to go to school during high school musical.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Did you miss your did you miss your senior year?
Do you miss the last semester?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I missed the last semester I did.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I could walk with your class.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I did so basically, sorry everybody. So I technically graduated early.
I pretty much got everything finished, and I think I
had like one or two credits to finish online when
I was doing high school musical too. And I kind
of joke because I before High School Musical, I've been
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I'm really I'm an introvert. This industry has taught me
to be extroverted. And I am like way better at
networking and you know, being in social settings. But when
I was younger, I was not, like I get social anxiety.
I kind of have a hard time like going up
to people that I don't know. And so before high
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school Musical, I really didn't like I was not cool.
I was not popular. I was like we are like
I was the quiet kid in class. I always had
like my two best friends and that was basically it.
And then I just joked because after high school musical
came out, I like kind of became the cool kid,
and then I like started having friends. But then I
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didn't turn them away because then like I had friends,
like I knew why they were friends with me, but
I was comfortable.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Was comfortable to like you like now that you're a
little bit of an extrovert almost, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, because I think growing up my parents had given
me tools on like how to re energize myself, and
I still I'm also an only child, so like I
got that alone time at home or at dance or
in different settings.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So and you needed you still needed that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I definitely that yeah, oh yeah wow, yeah yeah I've
always needed that.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, that's actually something to new. I didn't know about
that until like in my like older age here like
of realize, like I said, wait a minute, if you're
with people, you get it sucks your energy and then
if you're alone, your charge your path. What y's the
biggest says to me, Like I'm the exact op So
I'm alone, I'll fall asleep and then like if I'm
around everybody, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Like, let's go.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm like totally charged out. It's so weird and it's
not a choice. It's just a thing that mm hmm.
It's crazy. Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It is crazy. I mean I don't know why. I
mean I could like.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Get really like you know, you could go deep on this.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, I could get like really existential and like really
go deep into it, but we don't have time for it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
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you for being here. You know it's the twenty year anniversary.
Can you believe? I just can't, Like, I.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Know, twenty years as a concept. I guess it feels
kind of like twenty years, but it also doesn't.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, yeah, it feels both.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It feels both. And then the fact that it's still
so I mean, we know, during the first high school
musical we did, we had no idea what it was
going to become clueless and then it became this like
cultural phenomenon, and the fact that it's global global, and
the fact that it's still so relevant today twenty years
(15:32):
later is wild about.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Like it feels like it's it almost like like less
relevant ten years ago and has come back to being
as relevant as Yes, I was not expecting that.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, Like you know, I I wasn't an actor an actress, senate,
but I was a principal dancer and to still have
people like, you know, now that I'm on Dancing with
the Stars doing press and you know, going on interviews
and things, people still are like, so what about a
high school musical? I'm like, that was It's so I'm
so grateful for it because it was like, that was
my first time the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Biggest show on television, doing the big like during the
big biggest week of the show or weeks of the show. Yeah,
years ago this, but you know, the reason that I
really want to do this podcast was to say thank you,
To say thank you to the fans that have been
so good to us, provided us all the all the
relevance and excitement and everything else, and all the love
(16:27):
online and and on social media. We you know, like
we appreciate that very much. So this is like a
little bit of a thank you to the fans. You know.
So I'm glad that you're here because you're such a
big part of the show.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah. So, I know, we don't have a lot of time,
so we have like get some good favorite moments, like
do you have some favorite times on any of the
three that you look back on and say, I mean,
I'm sure you have a hundred, but like, what are
some of your favorite favorite times? I have not one
specific one to ask you about.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Okay you do, Okay, Yeah, I would say in the
first one, that last big, I mean, we're all in
this together. Again, another core memory, like I can just
see us filming it. I can see us in that
space in that gymnasium, like just going for it, just
going for it. And I also think my parents were
there for that one or for parts of it, and
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so that is definitely so beautiful. And then to be
able to like see that back is just that joy
and that excitement that comes through the screen. I feel
like we all.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Felt that totally. You remember the energy in that room, yes,
like because that auditorium was packed, packed, things were happening everywhere.
It was so big and so much energy. Yes, that's great.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yes. And then definitely a one for me, dancing was
a night to remember in high school musical three. It
just like the dance moves getting ready for the prom,
I think it was. It's definitely one of my favorite songs. Yeah,
one of my favorite pieces of choreography. And so that
one was amazing. And then again like we were all
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such a crew yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And dancers and actors, like everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Was just it was just it didn't matter, like we
were just all in it together.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
We were literally like this is so cheesy, but we
were all in it together, like we really.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah. That's what's so funny about like these songs with
these messages like we're all in this the other it's
like you feel like, oh my am I being corny
right now? But like like literally it actually yeah, but
actually it like totally resonates, and it's like it really
does feel that way. Night to Remember. Have you seen
like all the tiktoks that people are doing, like on
the day of their wedding, and they're all doing they're
all getting ready for the wedding and it's the Night
(18:45):
to Remember.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's so good, it's so amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And to get the guys to do it too, the grooms,
Oh my god, job fellas.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's really good. Actually, my social media girl she did
send something to me. She's like, are you Because I
just got married, She's like, are you gonna do right?
You sent me that? Yeah, thank you? She sent me.
She was like, so do you want to do this?
I was like I probably missed a spectacular opportunity. But
we didn't do it. We didn't we didn't do it.
(19:13):
Do it, No, we didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We'll find out for your anniversary in January. There could
be a couple of tiktoks and I will sign up gladly.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Let's go for it. Let's do it for the peoplest.
You know what one thing too about High School Musical,
and I love that this whole podcast is like an
ode to the fans and also just like gratitude for
for it all is I really do feel like High
School Musical brought musicals back to the entertainment industry because
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you know, trends and all these things they have like
ebbs and flows when things come popular and when they
don't become popular. And I don't know, before High School
Musical it was probably I might be wrong, but like eighties, seventies,
eighties like Saturday and I Fever and all those different
(20:03):
you know, types of movies, Grease, you know, with John Travolta.
I don't know if we had seen another like full
rush of musicals in film until High School Musical, and
then after that we had crazy, I mean, it was insane.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I don't know if people realize that, and I remember,
can you ever take You would say things like this,
like I want to bring the musicals back. I want
to bring musicals back. And then he made Newsies and
then like Newsy was amazing, but it didn't bring the
musicals back now. And then he did hocus Pocus and
he's like music that didn't really do it either. And
then High School Musical of all things, this little tiny,
little four million dollar movie, little Disney Channel movie. It
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just it struck a chord. It touched people around the world.
And like then you have Glee, and you have all
these other shows and.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Hair Spray, you have like everything.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Show let all these things come. Yes, but I don't
think people realize that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But it was like before high school, it was like
twenty years ago. So but before that, there wasn't up
on your right. There's not wasn't a bunch of stuff. No.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And I mean I talk about that too, because I,
you know, I teach kids and I mentor kids too,
dancers that are like coming into this industry, and I,
you know, there's I have to remind them. I'm like,
right now the industry is different, you know, And but
it will come back. It's always like, yeah, a rollercoaster
of different things, and I'm like, it's not going to
(21:24):
be the same that it was when I started twenty
years ago, Like that was again the start of music
and dance, being back in film, being back in TV,
and you know, I feel incredibly blessed that I got
to be there in that time, in that moment, like right, right, age, right,
all of it. Like I was a dancer, I was
(21:46):
in New York, happened to meet Bonnie there, Like it
was just right time, right place, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, Yeah, obviously Bonnie spotted talent, Kenny spotted talent, And
I think the proof is in the putting when with
all you've done since that, you've been recognized a million
times and how many seasons of Dancing with the Stars now.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We've been wild. So it's my eleventh season, total, eleventh season. Yeah,
I was on Troop for five seasons and then this
is my sixth season as a pro, a sixth.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Season as a pro. And by the way, being a
pro on the show pays off. I see you can
you can meet some really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
People, you know, Yes, okay for everybody I met my husband,
is that what you're refering to. Okay, yes, I met
my husband, which is hilarious because I always always no
judgment at all. But I was like, I will never
get with a partner. It's just like you know again,
(22:43):
I started when I was fifteen. I'm like you just
I've always believed in like finding you know, separation between
work and love and home and life.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And Daniel's an actor, and so you know, as an actor,
you you can arrive, you might have like an intimate
scene with body, but then you go home and it's
like that's work. So both of us were like, that's
not what we do. Yeah, and then here we are.
We're married. So we've we met three years ago, and
then we've only been married for I think it's like
(23:15):
seven weeks almost two months, Like I we're Newlywed's like, yes,
just married. That's amazing, thank.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You, it's that's so cool, cool congress, that's great.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So much.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I got to beat the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yes you do. He actually dropped me off. I should
have yeah, I should have come up here. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
That is awesome. Do you sign no? I do.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I'm now fluent in American side language, yeah, which is
also wild, which is wild and you know what Lucas
was at Dance with the Stars and for Disney Night,
right because uh Riley and Scott did Bop to the
Top of the Top. Yeah, they killed it in incredible
(23:57):
And what's so interesting is Lucas actually worked with Daniel
like ten years ago on their series on Switched It
Birst And it's just wild that we were close. Did
they get to they were close? And Lucas still remembers
sign he was really yes. I mean he's forgotten a
few things, but he was, you know, with the help
of an interpreter, but he was communicating with Daniel when
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that's so cool and it's just so awesome again, high
school musicals like has been the catalyst for so many people,
so many things. It's so cool.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I love it. I love there so much. Like like
Hollywood is like such a small little town, you know
in so many ways, Like you're always crossing paths or
I've done a couple of movies Lucas, or you know,
we're like we just bump into each other, you know,
at different events or whatever. Disney Night. Tell me about
Disney Night and would you have done if someone said, like, hey,
maybe maybe a high school music.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So I actually with Daniel we did a quick step
to one of the songs from the High School Musical,
the musical the series. Oh we did we did that.
But yes, I would absolutely Oh yeah he has great taste,
great but absolutely I totally will lean into like the
(25:11):
High School Musical. I mean absolutely, well I'm going to
lean in.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I saw you do a dance on TikTok and I comment,
this is me like petitioning for myself to get you know,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The fans. The fans went wild.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh yeah, they went crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh they went crazy. Yeah, they went absolutely.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You know how many times people said, goat, you got
to get on sty got to dance a brit I'm like,
I'm in, I'm let's go heck.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah it is fun. I mean, Dancing with the Stars
is so cool because you get so many different people,
you know, so many different celebrities that come on the show.
You can have actors, you can have athletes, you can
have now it's like a whole new world has opened
up with content creators as well.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, Dylan, Dylan, I mean, I know, who have you become.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, he's so sweet and he's crushing it.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He's doing great.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Doing such a good they go insane. His pro Daniella
knows exactly what she's doing. She is, she's insane, insanely amazing,
and she is giving the people what they want.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's what we do. Is
we do for the people.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
We have to people have.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
To Okay, Well, Night to Remember was a was a favorite.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes, absolutely, Night to Remember was the favorite.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Stand out favorite.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I think it's a pretty great, It's amazing, and I.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Really love the song. It's like really sweet me too.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't know why. That one just really stuck with me.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It resonated.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and I would say across all three movies that
that probably is my favorite. And then the classic We're
All in This Together.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So good. It was so good and everybody was there,
like literally everybody, everybody, the whole cast was there for
that one.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Also, High School Musical two was really fun.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Okay, let just keep about that. Do you have a
favorite out of the three movies, and do you have
a favorite that you are proud of or you like
and is it different than the one you enjoyed filming
the most?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh interesting, I mean I feel like the first High
School Musical it almost feels like I don't know if
you have the same experience, but maybe because it was
my first time on a movie set, first experience filming,
first job, almost and like not the best way, but
it kind of feels like a blur. It was really fast,
(27:50):
but I think I was so I don't want to
say overwhelmed, because I wasn't overwhelmed, but I was so
focused on just being great and being professional and being
there and being good, but that I don't know if
I took the time to like really appreciate Oh, yeah,
each at the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, and I got a lot of your head and like,
huh yeah, as this this work, like I got to
make the most not sit back and enjoying, like, oh,
let's enjoy the ride, right.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think I was just this like naive fifteen year old,
like I gotta get it done and I gotta be
good and you know this is but also it's super
cool that I'm here and and I don't know if
I really started to appreciate it until High School Musical too.
I think I during High School Musical two, I started
to allow myself to have a little bit more fun
(28:37):
and I definitely have way more memories starting in high
school musical two, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, and being down there at staying at the country.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Club, and like I mean, and in Saint George, it's
just gorgeous. This is so random. Oh, I know, we
were just so lucky that we got to be there
and film there and this is completely random. But there's
this I don't even remember the name. There's this ice
cream place that had these banana milkshakes. I was like
(29:07):
obsessed with.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That frozen custard. Was that was that the place?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Could you like drive through and get.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
A nod through?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, No, it wasn't a drive through.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wasn't drive through, but there was.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
And I've never had a better milkshake still to this day.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You taught us how to have milkshakes. Man, they know
their ice cream. You know, nobody drinks something.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Just you know, just sugar.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Okay with that, And then.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
High school musical three was again like I I was eighteen,
I had already been about not quite a year, but
like nine months, graduated from high school and I'd already
moved out to La I was actually in school. I
was at Loyal and Merrymount at the time, and Kenny
called me and was like, you have to audition. There's
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like you just have to be the third one. You
have to come to Utah and audition. And actually, at
that time, it was too late to withdraw from my semester.
So if you were to go back and look at
my records, it looks like I flunked out of college
because it was I basically had to accept f's and
all my classes because it was too late in the
semester to withdraw. I know, artist, see see what I mean.
(30:21):
It's such a sacrifice, I know, but I remember that,
and I remember I was like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm
gonna give up school for at least for this semester
to go and do this.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And it was and that was just audition.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That was just an audition.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You have that big fat mess and not.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Absolutely no, absolutely, And so I you know, I had
I did have a good feeling about it because Kenny
had reached out and he was like, I really want
you to be there, but you do still have to audition.
So I still felt confident, but again it was still
a risk.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. And and by the way, for the people listening,
it's because it went from Disney Channel to Disney Pictures. Absolutely,
I mean it's like ten times as big. Yes, this
movie ten times the budget and totally different studio people
and everything else. So this was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's a huge deal, huge deal, and I think we
all felt that. Did you feel that?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it felt different.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It felt way different.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, it was much bigger. There's just so much more money.
Production was bigger. You had more time with the choreography
and everything in the basketball and all this stuff. Like
it was just like.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
There was like special effects and yeah it was amazing. Yeah.
So yeah that was also you know, it was my
first time filming and doing a professional job as an adult.
Like my family wasn't there. My parents they came and visited.
Of course, they actually came and visited while we were
filming at night. To remember that was yeah, that was
the scene. That was the time when they came to Utah.
(31:47):
Maybe I bet yeah, thanks mom and dad. Yeah, that's
how much we love you exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Friends away, who'd you power around? I kind of feel
like everybody everybody was pretty tight. I feel like I
remember you like being really tight with everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yes, I was really tight with everybody, And maybe that's
also because I was in all three Maybe that's.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
A difference, I think not. And there was a ton
in three that were not in one and two exactly.
It's just not the same.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, So I think that like core group of people
that were in all three movies, I just think that
we were tight. And but yeah, especially high school Musical
three maybe because again I was eighteen and a little
bit older, I really met some amazing humans that I'm
still friends with today. One of the dancers, his name
is Ahila Algeta. He was my first roommate here in La,
(32:40):
like from high school musical. We ended up deciding to
become roommates in La after the movie. Another dancer, Nick Lancessara,
we are still friends. I mean, Molly has been in
and out of my life for like for twenty years,
for this entire time. You know, my first a friend
was from high school musical, like.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
On the show.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, No, not until not.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Until we have really talked about somebody said, like, don't
say anything, but I still like I tread lightly.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, yeah, but no, we actually that sparked and came
from a group of us all hanging out after after
after the movies had finished. And yeah, I had that
nice really like core group of friends like Lucas was
in there, Zach would pop in and out sometimes, and
(33:36):
that in that you know earlier, you know, a little
bit later pasted, or I should say a little bit
like after we filmed High School Musical three, not so
much now, but yeah, yeah. And also Haley Haley Roderick Haley. Okay,
(33:59):
so Hailey, I feel like you guys are She's my
best friend. So I had two maid of honors in
my wedding and she was one of the Yeah, she
was one of them. She couldn't make it because she's pregnant.
She's doing about a month, like like she's doing like
six weeks.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
How excited, I know.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
But she's living in London. She met the love of
her life and she lives in London and she has
her life there. And yeah, she's incredible. Yeah I love her.
Look her, yes, please do she would love that. She's
just so Yes. Not only did High School Musical start
my career, but it started so many you know, like
core relationships in my life. Again, it's just something so
(34:40):
special about that time and place and all the people.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, Okay, so your life is full. You're super busy.
Obviously you're on a big, huge hit show. Must be
so fun on a show doing your passion. Yes, I
love the show.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
It's amazing. I love it. Yes, Dancing with the Stars,
I love it. I a bunch of other stuff. I've
done a bunch of other stuff. After high school musical,
I went on, you know, to do other I did
Teen Beach Movie, I did other TV shows. I danced
with Katy Perry for three years. It's Jackson, Janna Jackson,
id too.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Did you ever learn hynation? Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I did?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I did?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
And you know what, like when I danced for Janet,
I was like, I think I could be good. I'm
I'm good with backup dancing like I've I've done it
like she and she's so kind, like such a great human.
It was that is definitely a highlight in my career.
I cried after the performance because I was like, this
(35:38):
is so amazing. And then yeah, after I danced with
Katie for three years is when I got on to
Dancing with the Stars. And I've been there ever since,
and I've really I see, dancing with the Stars is
really like the cherry on top of my dance career.
Dance will always be part of my life, but like actually,
(35:59):
you know, dancing and all. I'm yeah, it really feels
like the cherry on top and it's it's just I
feel so blessed to be a part of it and
be a part of that show. We're also celebrating twenty
years of Dancing with the Stars this season two, which
is like also kind of kismet.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And cool amazing. Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, it's life is really good.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I feel very blessed, like what a dancers stream to
be on a show like that where it's like such great,
like they do great dancing on that show. Oh yeah,
I can't believe the stuff that's that I watch on
that show.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It's wild. And also I get the opportunity to choreograph,
and I get the opportunity to teach, get the opportunity
to speak and like use my voice as well. It is,
it is. It is literally a dancer's paradise.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
That's that's amazing. You're doing You're like giving back to
the community too, You're doing yeah things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I have a nonprofit called Share the Movement, and it's
basically we like to consider ourselves a huge hug of
support financially, inspirationally, education only all of that and we
focus on minority communities and just making sure that all
kids have access to dance because dance is really cool. Yeah,
(37:09):
it's it's really healing too. I mean, I know, like
it's cool, which it is cool. I kind of geek
out about dance, but dance has a lot of benefits
and we just want to provide the same access and
opportunity for everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
That's beautiful. That's amazing. Well, I'm sure you got your
what's it called, can.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
We Yeah, it's called Share the Movement, Share the movement, yes,
and we're sharing the movement now on Instagram and share
them movementnow dot org online. Okay, Yeah, this has been wonderful,
the best.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I just I have a thrilled This was so much fun.
I love it. You're the best. You are the best.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh man, you it just feels like you know, seeing
seeing old family.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I know it does. This has been awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Well, thanks, thank you, and thank you for doing.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
This for thank you to all the fans. Sat there,
Family's a Wildcat all only the podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yes, okay, thanks
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yes, thank you so much.
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