Pod Meets Twirl'd: DWTS 3402

It’s “One Hit Wonder Week,” with a double elimination, on Dancing with the Stars, so our REAL judges, Will and Rider, are to ready to chime with the only opinion that matters…

 

We get an update on Danielle’s brutal injury from week 1, and find how she’s training like a pro athlete to recover and stay on the dance floor until she can’t walk again. 

 

Plus, Will and Rider admit how much they DON’T know about the show. Like how do contestants pick their songs? How does voting work? Do votes from the West Coast even count? Does anything even matter? WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE ANYWAY.

 

All these questions, and some signature dance critiques from 2 sitcom stars, on the second Pod Meets Twirl’d!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to pod meets Twirled, the Dancing with the Stars
recap hosted by two guys who can't dance don't want
to dance, and I have now seen exactly one episode
of Dancing with the Stars. But since our best friend
Danielle has joined the cast for season thirty four, we're
going all in. We're Wilfred Oh and Ryder Strong aka
the two dudes standing next to Tapanga aka Danielle Fishal's

(00:42):
backup aka the dan Yettes.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
How you doing, Will, I'm doing great, rider, other than
the fact that I've got a little bit of a cold,
but I think it's a dancing cold.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
What are your legs doing? My legs are okay.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I found that as long as I don't leave my
home or do any exercise whatsoever, my legs.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Are pretty fine. How are your legs? My legs are fine.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I could not believe un when Danielle sent me the
photos crazy bruises, crazy, you know, days before, I was like, well,
she's gonna have to cancel. That's what I thought to
do this, And then she did it. Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I sneezed once and I've been in bed for three days.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I don't know how she's doing it. I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
She did incredible, and I you know, you you talked
about how last week you could kind of tell she
was nerves. This week, I could tell she was in pain. Yeah,
I could.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Because she's obviously I mean, I mean she's having trouble walking.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't know how she's dancing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
So, apparently, just to update everybody there, she has seen
all kinds of experts. She is undergoing all kinds of treatments,
some things I've never heard of, but for the most part,
they're just managing pain, which apparently does not mean any
good actual pain pills. And she's grinning and bearing it.

(02:08):
And I thought she did incredible and she's never gonna
need surgery, which is great news.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's a pretty common torn hamstring.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
She does more damage to it, which you know, dancing
and rehearsing every week.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
In a really good way.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, the doctor literally told her he's treating her
like an athlete in the middle of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yes, you're going to keep going.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, I mean I texted on our little text chanin,
I was like, low kicks this week, and Jensen immediately
wrote back, like this is Danielle. And sure enough she
was doing the splits this week. Oh yeah, she was
jumping around like the best of them.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I believe, just ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
She's still going to go and compete. That's just that's Danielle. Yeah,
she's she's not going to stop.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, you know that's funny because that's something that I
didn't think about when she first told us she was
doing the show, you know we are.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Our first question was like, do you know how to dance?
Why are you doing this? Just in terms of your
your your life and your time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Uh. And then there was this moment when we were
talking about the show before it started, you know, two
or three weeks ago, and uh.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I remembered she is very competitive. Danielle has a hugely
She's one of those people that, like if you're playing,
you know, a game of pickup or baseball or one
of these other sports ball things, but anything, she wants
to win. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And I realized, like, oh, this is that's like adding
a whole new wrinkle to this endeavor. She's not just
doing this, you know, as a fun romp or you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's she's actually into it for the competition.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Which is a percent and not just that, but she
also she we we know Danielle very well for thirty years.
Danielle likes to be in control, and so something like
an injury, yeah that's just out of her control. Is
just that I sends her into a tailspin because she's like, no, no, no, no,
this is not part of the plan. The plan was

(03:57):
I do this, this, this, this and this and this
thing out of my control.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
No no, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
So she'll ignore it for as long as she can,
and I just hope she doesn't end up doing more
damage to her leg because she's she ain't gonna stop.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's not gonna happen. Yeah. So all right, well let's
get into episode two. Week two. The theme this week
was one hit Wonders.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
You know, I have to say because I actually knew
a lot of the songs this time.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
As much as I like that there's live music, sometimes
I wanted to hear the original, I don't disagree with you.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I also some of the song picks to me were like,
these are the one hit wonders you're picking. There's some
classic one hit wonders that like right fell by the Wayside, sou.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
But also, how do they define one hit wonders, like
they couldn't have another hit, like they had to be somebody.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Who, yeah, you have one hit, you have a one
hit wonder. Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
So it was there were some some music choices where
and I still.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Don't know enough about are they picking? Is it like
they get it they get a big pool.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Of songs and they each have to pick one. Who
gets to pick first? There's so many questions, dude.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I I have questions about that because it seemed like
when the people when the stars showed up, the dancer
was telling them what's song. But then another time it
looked like somebody came in and said I picked this,
and I write and then.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I still don't understand the judging. Oh don't get me
started on the judges. I have no idea because they
say we add the judges numbers.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I mean what you also can't vote on the West coast? Okay,
So yeah, I know I noticed that.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
So it's like, I don't understand what's going on with this.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
So if there's somebody out there who can tell us
the math of the judging numbers, how you go from
having a seven seven seven and then that combines with
millions of votes, I would love to know how they're
actually doing this, thank you. I feel like they're they're
playing it a little loosey goosey. But Jensen did inform
us that there's somebody like on set who's actually like

(05:56):
a representative of some insurance organization or whatever, to like
monitor that it's legit, like that they're actually counting the
votes correctly.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Or that the call in votes are legit like the
testing votes. I guess that the number. I don't know, man,
I don't know how any of this works.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I still don't understand entirely how it's working. But my
best friend's on the show.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
The first couple the dance last night, Alex Earl and
Val Schmerkowsky, all right, their dance was the jive. They
did the song Mambo number five by lou Bega.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
What'd you think of this one?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
To be honest, I thought it was great that I
thought it was I loved their outfits.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I can't believe I just said that on a podcast,
but it's true. We should talk about the wardrobe. I
was in the wardrobe this week. Yeah, I thought this
week was.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Maybe I'm just like like the first week, I was
so dazzled by dancing but this week I really noticed
the wardrobe and how important.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
That is, hugely important, and I thought it was great.
It was vibrant. I thought the dance looked wonderful. They
really worked well together.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
It was she.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I think she really uped her game because she was
always she was good last week, but we talked about
how she had this sort of like lack of presence
or lack of personality when she did the Circus number.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, she had the whip.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
But this this week I was there. I was the thought,
so too, we're out of the gate. This is this
is a tough competition.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I thought the same thing, and I thought, really setting
the bar high to start the competition this week was
I will say.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
He started lip syncing the first couple of lines of
the song, and I do not want to see lip.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Syncing on the show. I realized that's like the I
was like, it's a dance show. It's not a singing show.
It's not and it's not like the performance. He was
camera and then someone else.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Lip synced later I forget who it was. Maybe it
was Corey Fellman. People do and I was like, lot, stop,
just use your body.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I don't know why that drives me crazy. It's like
a comedian laughing at his own jokes. Yes, it's the
same kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I'm not either.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
But did you notice in this d when this dance finished,
which I thought was fantastic, Yeah, there was a really
tepid response from the people in the audience.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I also thought the dance, if you watch it again,
because so I've been doing. I've been watching it through
one time, the entire show like a fan, and then
I go back and I just watched the dances again
a second time.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's smart. I should do that. I should do that.
Did it once this week.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
The thing that I noticed was if you watch this
first dance. I think one of the reasons why it
might have gotten a tepid response is it seemed like
they did not end on the beat. Oh the song ended,
and then there was a beat and they did their
big flourish and I was like, oh, I think they
were supposed to end on the beat, and then it
would have been a big hey, look at everything that

(08:39):
just happened. But I think they just ended offbeat, and
I think that might have thrown their responsible.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, because it was weird because I was we were
at home. I mean like, this was great, and then
it cut to the audience and they were just like.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Go clap.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
They had that a couple of times that the audience
it was a little bit kind of like hey.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Or the reverse. There were sometimes like when the audience
was going nuts and I was like, real, really is that? Yeah?
All right?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, the judges were pretty pretty effusive. Carrie Anne, who
is back this week.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I welcome back carry An.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
She was great, a great source of feedback and slightly
different than the guys. You could see there was some
tension there when they got to the gymnast. We'll talk
about that when we'll get there, yes, but anyway, she
said incredible. Derek called them a power couple, and then
they did this weird thing where they made the judges
only say one word.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Is this what they do every week? No?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think this was because it's one hit wonder, so
they did what you have to do it with one word.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I think they were trying to it. I felt like
the judges hated it. I just talked, just tell me
what you're thinking. Bruno, I think it was Bruno kept
cheating and just saying like three words.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
And then like it was like putting them on the
spot in a way that was not helpful to anybody.
It was like, just let them talk for a little bit.
I mean, keep them limited if you want to, but
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, no, I felt exactly the same way. It's like,
I get what you're trying to do, but just let
them go. And I've also, having watched American Idol for
as long as I have, you can kind to see
the roles that each of the judges are taking, and
you can tell that she seems to be like the
Paula kind of like she gives good notes, but she
also gives more generous scores than I think the other

(10:12):
two judges.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Do, which I kind of feels like.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I feel like there's scoring in general is pretty low
on this show, Like we have not seen anything above
an eight, and I'm literally it's I'm incapable of imagining
some of these dances being that much better, do you
know what I mean? I don't disagree, especially because the
girls are really good, Yeah, really good, So how much
better can they? I want to see a ten, I
guess now having never seen the show, like I want

(10:37):
to see a ten ten ten, And maybe.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I think the first person to do. That was my
fellow co host, Abrina Brian. I think she was the
first one to get the first perfect score.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
All right, I could google and watch that, but I
feel like the purity of our recap is that we've
never seen a shower.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I have not either. For the record, I've never seen
her do a dance there.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
I've heard about it, but I have not that I've
seen as much as you have at this point.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
So they ended up with a score of twenty one
out of thirty.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
And then next up Danielle Fischle and Pasha Poshkov.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
They were upfront about her injury.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
They were the pre show or pre dance package, and
they actually showed some photographs of those bruises. I was
holding my breath at hooom me too. I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
They danced the Chatcha to the Rhythm of the Night
by Corona, and I thought it was great. I did you, Yeah,
I thought it was.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I mean, it's hard to separate my feelings from knowing
she has her injury. But here's the thing, Danielle, it
is like for me and I am totally biased. Sure
she has more presence as a as a person, as
a personality than I would say any of the other dancers.

(11:51):
Like she moves into her she it's on her face
and when she commits to any little thing, she's feeling it.
There's her whole body and with her whole face, and
you believe it.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
It's that acting thing.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
And there's a lot of good acting and personality being
inserted by people. But from Danielle, it feels like fully
committed and so genuine to me, and it never feels ironic,
Like you know, there's a there's a tendency to Andy
Richter being the obvious example, but there's a tendency to
be a little ironic about like making a face doing
a thing. I'm committing to this. Danielle's committing and committing

(12:27):
to whatever I feel like that that kick or that
move or I don't know. All I can say is
kick because I don't know any other dance terms. But
whatever she's doing in the moment, she's committing to it
with her face, her body, her eyes. It's just wonderful.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
See, I felt like she was definitely in her head
last night, okay, and I think she's dealing with an injury,
and I think you just she's probably at this point,
like has to grit her teeth because of the pain.
She's literally doing splits and cartwheels. But it's so funny
that the note that the judges gave, because it was

(13:02):
the same exact thing.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
I was literally looking at her going like, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
She's breathing, yeah and so, and then at the end
she obviously they missed the slide where she she You know,
you could see she missed her hand.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Okay, So I watched it. I tried to.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
I couldn't do slow motion, so I kept watching it
and pausing because I was At first I was like,
that was his fault, he missed that. Then I went
back and watched it, trying to go frame by frame.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I think she, I think I think it was I
think it was her. I mean, he's the professional, so responsibility.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
No, I don't disagree. First of all, again, we know Danielle. Danielle.
If if her leg is bleeding, if her leg is
half cut off, she's still.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Going to go out there and dance every week.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
And I think, as awful as as this is to say,
she's going to get used to the pain to where
next week it's just going to be She's so used
to it that she can just go back to dancing,
whereas last night, I think she was in her head
about like I have to get through this, and I
think because of that, it came off as a little
bit stiffer than it was last week. And I can't wait,

(14:17):
because again we know Danielle. Danielle likes to be in control.
She likes to be in charge. She likes to know
what's going on. So something like an injury like we
just talked about, is very much out of her control.
The week where she actually feels good, where she's one
hundred percent, where it's not the first week because oh
my god, the nerves you must be feeling, but where

(14:38):
she just lets go, that's going to be the week
where people are really going to see Danielle.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I think she I.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Think her first dance the first week was better than
last night, and I think it's because she was in
her head about her injury. And with the injury, she
I thought did a phenomenal job with what she had,
but she had a couple bobbles and she had the
little slide at the end, and I think she was
just so in her head. I mean, again, she's like
when she jokes. Thank God for body makeup. We did
podmets Wirl with her this morning. She showed us her leg.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Her leg is like black.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, so this is not like, oh, she's got a
slight thing going on, she has a tear. This is
like a massive thing. And she's still doing what she
did last night. So better I thought the first week
than the second week. But she didn't have the injury
the first week, so it's this is where it's tough
to judge these things. And I think she's gonna make

(15:29):
it through gotten knocking what as I say this, I
think she's gonna We all voted, everybody I know voted.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
I think she's gonna make it through to the next week.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
And when she does, and I think she's kind of
used to the pain, because the pain ain't gonna go away.
So when she's just more used to it and can
get out of her head about whether her leg's actually
gonna hold up underneath her, then I think we're gonna
see it a much better Danielle next week.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I think she was just in her head.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
She wasn't breathing and was like, oh, dear God, let
my leg hold up through what I have to do
here all.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right, Well carry anet verse seven Derek A six Bruno six,
which I thought was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
I do too, until the later scores were really high.
As the show went on, I was getting a little worried.
I was getting a little worried as well.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And I frankly, and this is where, And we'll talk
about it when we get to people like like.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Efron.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Dylan Efron, Yeah, because how do you judge something where?
And again we'll I know, we'll get into his dance more.
But for something like that, since we're talking about Danielle,
I thought Danielle's dance was better than Dylan Ephron's dance. Yes,
I agree, but Dylan Efron improved from week one to
week two, and I thought Danielle did not do as well.

(16:47):
So even though her dance was better, he showed improvements.
So how do you score that?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
That's a good call, man, Well, maybe her journey is
going to be about the injury and that'll help her
next week.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right maybe? Yeah, who knows.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
But as you know that, since we are talking about Danielle,
and because of my encyclopedic knowledge, we always do a very.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Brief Will's history of dance.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I don't know exactly the song that I sung last time,
but it was very similar to that, I believe, And
once again just using my encyclopedic knowledge, this week, Danielle
did the Cha Cha Cha, which I don't know if
you're a ware writer, but it originated in Cuba in
the late nineteen forties early nineteen fifties as a simpler,
more accessible evolution of the mambo and the dan zion.
Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Yurin developed its distinctive less.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
And told me this, I can't sure watch for featuring
a prominent triple step, which was named after the sound
of dancer shuffling feet.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I'll shut my eye sorry.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Popularized in Havana and then the United States, it quickly
became a global ballroom dance craze due to its infectious
energy and straightforward steps.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
So it started It started in Cuba, huh, Yeah, in
the forties and fifties. Yeah, just as a just off
the top of my head. I thought you'd be interested
in knowing that, So there you go, all right.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Next up was Andy Richter and Emma Slater. Andy seemed
like he was really kind of going for it. Yeah,
like trying to up his game because I think he
felt a little bad about last week, which didn't really
help him all that much.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I also don't do social media at all, but I
think I think they are following their journeys on social media.
They talk about it when people think he's gonna have
a heart attack or something.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
No, I just wouldn't do that if I was.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
I mean, I guess you have to maybe to sort
of see what the storyline has been, but I would
probably put somebody else in charge and be like, just
give me.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
The cliff notes on the internets. All right.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, they danced the tango to It's Raining Men, which
I thought was a funny choice and really leans into
him his personality and and you know, going for kind
of a comedy version. This was you know, once again
I like Andy, I like his personality, but this time
I really was just like, the legs just aren't there.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
No, I know, I know I felt the same way.
And again I think he's doing exactly the right thing.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
He's leaning it.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I mean, them starting where it's like a weather report
and they pull off his rain slicker and his dance partner.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
I mean, you kind of have to get gimmicky.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yep, if you can't dance like Danielle or like Alex
or like these people that are that have the legs
underneath them. Yeah, and so you know, he survived this week,
so he did.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I think there's a chance that he could keep winning
on sheer personality. But I was watching his legs at
this time, because you know, he's he's made an issue
out of his legs when he's talking about it and
watching it, was like, Oh, they're just not keeping up.
They're you know, it's like they're just not there. It's
like they're not and that's going to get harder and harder, right,
Like I mean, maybe he can get stronger. I don't know,

(19:51):
but I was like, man, you're doing a lot of
standing and holding, which is great, but like you're not
keeping up with her.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
I have knowing nothing about the show, I have to
imagine that what they do is every dancer who remains
has to do a different style.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
So they all do the cha cha cha, they all
do the tango.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
So when he gets to something like the jive talked
about is all legs And what was.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
The new one that somebody did this week that we
hadn't seen last week that I was like, that is all?
Was it a fox trot? Is that the Fox t
I think it was the Fox? It was like so
much crazy legworker.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, I mean, there's there's gonna get to be somewhere.
You're You're only going to get so far with having
your professional dancer dance around you while you hold their
hand kind of thing. And he is personable and it
is funny and it is tongue in cheek, but I
think eventually it's going to be about the dancing and
that's where he's gonna fall short.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
All right, So they got a six five five, which
is fair I thought, totally, Yeah, totally. I mean, actually
to your point that you made earlier carry one does
seem pretty generous.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, right right. Next up Lauren Hereggie and Brandon Armstrong.
These guys did very well last week. We saw in

(21:16):
their h they're behind the scenes, that she's happy, her
her hard work is paying off, and she talked about
her grandmother who had passed away, who she's used to
watch the show with, and they danced the foxtrot first
time we saw this to the song love Fool, What
do you.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Think hate the song Always have? But the dance was good.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
I mean again, I thought I thought it was the
Having never seen this show before, I don't know if
this is kind of par for the course where it
comes to the talent of dancer and you know, from
dancer to dancer to dancer. But there there are some
really good dancers out there.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah. She was another one. Yeah, she was great. I
was really impressed with her last week. Yeah, and I
felt like this week was falling a little flat for me,
maybe a little boring.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, there was something just a little like Okay, Derek
compared her to a willow tree. Bruno's one word was classy,
and I think, you know that's all true.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Like she Yeah, she is good. I thought they were
scored a little high. They got seven seven seven. I
think a six could have been thrown in there. Interesting.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
I thought I kind of agreed with the seven seven seven.
I thought it was it was fun to watch. It
might also be because of I think our first fox trot.
So maybe it was just that I hadn't noticed the
dance before.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
But I thought she was good. I thought they were
both good. Next up Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa. This
was they were doing the jive to Maniac classic.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, I thought this was super fun. Me too, I'm
me too.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yep, just what a way like she I feel like
she really took the notes from last week and really
just danced her off like it wasn't it wasn't just
the athleticism that she had brought last week, but you know,
she still brought this week doing the jumping over him
and the forward role.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
But man, she was just dancing so well. And this
was where I loved the wardrobe choices because those little wants,
the white pants really worked for her, and I was like,
you know what, this this dance is made better by
that wardrobe. I also, I literally I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I had to stop and rewind it and watch again
and again and again. She jumps over him and then
does the role in high heels.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Do you not understand how these women are doing these
things in high heels?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's unreal.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
How she's even landing a jump like that in high
heels is crazy to me.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, she's so strong too. It was just rat though. Yeah.
All right, so they got eight, seven and seven, which
this is our first eight, right, this is our first
eid of the competition. I would have I would have gone,
it's across the boarder. I would have too. I thought
this was low. I thought this was low. I thought
this was low.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
And I feel like that's happened to her twice now
because I thought the first week she really.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Got screwed because carry the same thing. Yes, And this
is where the tension came in, because I was like, yeah,
like this is a five. She got fives last week,
Like come on, yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
It was just it was the first dance, and like,
I didn't think they had to like recalibrate. But even
with this one eight seven seven, when I saw some
of the eights that were going out later, I was.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Like, how is this not? I would have given triple
eights for this one. I would absolutely would have. This
was a very very engaging dance.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm with you, man, And if it had gotten triple eights,
it would have been the highest score scoring dance of
the night.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, and yeah it wouldn't be. I'd be okay with that.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
I don't disagree. I think it could have been. It
absolutely could have been. It was so much fun to watch,
it really was.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Next up, we had Corey Feldman and Jenna Johnson. Uh,
it was interesting how Corey seemed like he was really
affected by his score last the week, last week's score,
and I feel like he, you know, was giving it
as all they did the chop chaw to Babies Got Back,
which not a great song choice none. This is just

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why I'm wondering, are they given these or do you
picked out it got? You think they picked Baby Got Back.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I think Corey Felderman probably thought I need to just entertain,
I just need to and so he went for a
song from when.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
He was a teenager or a young he was probably
what he's a little bit older than me.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
I just feel like it's one of those I think
he was maybe going for a little bit of the
nostalgia vibe and by picking a hip hop song maybe
he could just sort of bring more personality to it.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
But this was not great.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
No, I agree, And I'm actually a little surprised because
Corey's known for dancing. I mean again, it's like thing though,
right right, But if you can dance like Michael Jackson,
and he can, I've seen it, I mean we've seen
him do it. He did it in License to Drive,
he did it in some of his movies, he's done
it on stage. If you can do any kind of dancing,

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then you've got to have some sort of rhythm.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
And he noticed that this one even had all those
other dancers on stage.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yes, question dancers. I was like, is that happy? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I think he's really used to being a front man
who also dances, you know, because he does music, like
his own music performances where he's dancing, and I think
that's his wheelhouse, maybe having a partner not having to
share the spotlight to the same degree, and I just
it's just it's it doesn't fit, you know. It's too
bad because I could tell that he kind of wanted it,

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you know, and he.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Left it all out there. He tried. He seriously, he wasn't.
He wasn't happying yet. He wasn't.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
He didn't make it look like, oh god, I don't
want to be here. I mean he really, he really tried,
but it was it wasn't great.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah. Yeah, So fives across the board and they were
booted off at the end of this episode. Yeah, I
think that was fair. The fives across the board.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Frankly, Yeah, next up Jen Affleck and Jan Rovnick.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Wait very quickly Yeah, one of the things I think
we need to talk about Jenna Johnson. Okay, so last
season she won the Mirror Ball. So this has got
to be really tough for the professional dancers too, because
I'm sure they want to go as far in the
competition as they can, and they want to they want
to win if they can.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Oh, and she was trying, you know what I mean,
Like you could tell she was doing everything she could
that dance YEA.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Almost to a fault. Like it was like it almost
hurt it.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I know why she tried so hard, but it almost
made it even worse because it was like he's still
just kind of standing there and lip.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Saying, and she's trying so hard.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
But I felt bad for I felt bad for them
both obviously because they're both trying. But I mean, when
you've got a champion from last season he wants to
maybe repeat and then it's it's kind of like.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
It just doesn't work with the partner. That's gonna be tough.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
And I think, you know, props to Corey for calling
that out too, because he says that where he's like,
it's not fair to her because you know, she's she
was the champion, and I thought that was very classy
of him to kind of call out his partner and
how hard she worked and that, yeah, it's gotta be
that's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Tough, all right.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
So Jen and Jan were doing the quick step, which
that's the one that I.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Was like, what is that? Stay there, you go, That's
what it is. It's literally so much quick stepping. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I was like, oh, this is the kind of and
Andy Richter is just not going to be able to
do right.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Right, But I thought this was really good.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
It was a little bit of a downgrade from last
week for me because I thought they were great last week.
And I also it was interesting. Did you notice that
Carrie Ann gave Yan a note?

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yes? After I was like, yeah, so they get notes too.
I was like, well, this is I think Yan.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I think Yan is the guy if I listened to
my wife, which I do, my lovely wife, I think
Yan is the guy who was Taylor Swift's backup dancer.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
So this is his first season as a professional. Oh right,
they introduced him when we were there, that's.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Right, Yeah, so this is so he's so this is
only his second time dancing on Dancing with the Stars with.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Everybody too, So interesting.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
It's interesting that he's getting a note as well, but
he's he's a he's a rookie.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Too interesting.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, Okay, they got eight, seven and seven. So at
this point this is they them and Jordan and Ezra
are the highest scorers of the Night Right.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
And they're pushing Danielle down the leaderboard. And I'm going like, oh,
I don't like that. Now, I don't like this. I
was getting really nervous. It's like, I don't like this.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
And I kept going like, she says she's an injury,
she's an injury, Like, how do you factor that in?
She has an injury? I just I also think going
earlier is worse.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, I think the order, yes, the judges so much
because I think it really killed Jordan last week and
I think it hurt Danielle this week. I think if
Danielle had come particularly, I just think, you know, after
Corey for instance, you know, or after it would have
been so much more like I think the judges would
have been in a more giving mood.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Really, I don't disagree by mood because there were some
that got eights or seven's that got lower scores last week.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Then again, I thought Danielle did better.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Than yeah, so it was like, I don't I don't
fully get the scoring.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
All right, Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson, Uh, this is
the team to be, man.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent. It's the
team to beat. It's good.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah they did the tango to move your feet and yeah,
I was like, okay, this guy. And what I liked
was that they really were you know, they sort of
dialed back the fireworks from last week. Yeah, they just
are doing more of a just a classic tango and uh,
it was really good.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
It was.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
It's also, look, let's be honest, this is an incredibly
going back to Daniel's injury, an incredibly physical thing to
do all week, every week, dancing, dancing, dancing.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
He's twenty or twenty one.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I mean, it's like that the twenty year old body
is going to be able to hold up this more.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Than the fifty year old body. It just is I know,
so it but he's but he also is really bringing
it like great.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
And you know, my wife was watching with me and
she was like, because he said somewhere either in this
package or last week, that he hasn't been dancing his
whole life, and she's like, that guy's.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
A professional dancing.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
She's like, he's been dancing, And I don't think he's
a professional dancer, but I do think his sister won
this competition.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, so I think he's been practicing.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I think I think that there's a big part of
his adolescence that was like, well, someday, maybe I'll do
it because he is so out of the gate good
Carrie Anne pointed out his charisma, and I agree with that,
like that, it's.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Not just the dancing. I like them. You just like them. Yeah,
they're great together.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's and like I said, they Bruno pointed out that
they don't need gimmicks, and I think I was glad
to see that, right, because we were talking last week
about like where do you go from here?

Speaker 3 (32:03):
And then's like this is where you go. You put
on a classier tuxedo and you do it, yes, and
all the stuff.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
We talked about exactly the same thing last week, where
does he go from here? And I got well, then
he just danced and it was really really good. And
they look good together, I mean, daniel That's the thing
about Danielle and Pasha's they also they've got the good
height together, they look good together, they fit together, they're
looking at each other's eyes. That's I mean, I agree
with you one hundred percent. Robert and Whitney are the
team to beat. They just seemed to really have it

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going on right now.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
So they got an eight seven seven, matching the last
score I think they love. Maybe, yeah, they could have
had all eight.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
One hundred percent. It even could have possibly been the
first nine. But I know they're holding that off. But this,
to me is where I was like, Wow, they're really
they're really scoring low.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
For all of a sudden, all right, Elaine Hendricks, Alan Burston,
this was she was one of my favorites last week,
the actress.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
They did the jive to Mickey. You know, she's great.
I thought this was good. Just wasn't my style. I
don't know, I'm not a cheerleading person. I liked what
they did.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
I liked how they started with exactly the same way
the video starts. I mean they did they literally mimicked
the video, which is great. Yeah, you've got backup dancers. Also,
why for her dance does everyone in the audience get
pomp pomps too, So it's.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Like everybody's involved in this dance. I liked it. I
thought last week she I thought she was better last week.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
This is really superficial, but I'm kind of realizing it now.
I think part of the reason is, like I like
that she's classier and older, and to see her dressed
as a cheerleader and like it was like play acting
younger or something, and it just made me.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
I was like, no, this isn't you. This doesn't fit
you. You know, like, make me do your own version.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
You're like what she did last week with a hat,
and like, yes, like I want to see her sort
of playing to her age a little bit and like
and there was something about dressing up like a you know,
a high school cheerleader, which I guess is unfair because
there are older cheerleaders, I'm sure, but it's still something
that I associate with like young girls, you know.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
And I was like, uh, this isn't you, this doesn't
fit Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I mean that was again straight up taken from the
video from the music video. That's how that's how she's
dressed in the music video. They were dressed exactly the
same way. But the Yeah, the thing that was amazing
to me was I was watching her and I was like,
it's so funny, and a lot of her spin, she's
like tilting one way or another.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's things that I'm now starting to pick up little things.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
And then that's one of these One of the comments was, yeah,
holding your core because you're tilting, and I was like,
oh my god.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
And I noticed the thing you're getting good man, I
don't not at all kilter a little bit interesting.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, I still like her. She's still very personal. I
think she's going to go far in the competition. I
thought she was better last week.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
All right, seven's across the board. I think that's fair.
I think that's fair.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, but when I saw them get seven's, I was like, really,
Danielle only get But that's what started.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
To piss me off, is that's why I think Danielle
all should have been at the minimum triple sevens. And
I think that would have been fair for Danielle this
week if if she had three sevens. I thought they
were stingy with her, and I think you're one hundred
percent right.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
It's because she was at the start of the competition.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Baron and Britt heartbreaking that he had this wonderful reunion
with his coach.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah, It was a great pre dance package and was
really sweet to see his coach and his relationship there.
They did the samba to return of.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
The Mac Best song of the night, Yeah, the Turn
of the Mac Mark Morrison best song of the night.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I thought, Yeah, the judges, you know, I thought it
was a real improvement over last week.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Actually agree.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I was like, oh, I didn't give this guy enough
credit in week one, maybe he should stick around. He
was still kind of running after her, you know, yeah,
like trying to keep up with her. Yeah, And that
turns out the judges I think pointed that out. They
say they kept referring to a mistake, and I think
it was because he fell behind in the rhythm.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
And then although I think at one point she they
their arms, he was supposed to grab her arm and
missed her arm, and so her arm went one way
and then his went the other. So she then did
this big flourish thing, which is why they gave her
like a nod like, hey, you pulled.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
It out kind of yeah. Yeah, Okay.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
So because they didn't mention Danielle's fall, do you think
it's possible the judges couldn't see it from where.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
They were very if they're looking at they're not looking
at their monitors, and they're looking at them, and she's
she was right in the camera.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I mean obviously the TV her his back was too.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yes, the judges, so there are play You wouldn't know this,
but there's plenty of times in sports ball where the
refs don't see something that the audience sees on camera.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Because I was surprised they.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Didn't mention it, and I was just thinking about it
was so obvious to us, mostly because Danielle started laughing
and you know, had her like sort of recovery, which
I thought was great. But if if it happened so
fast that maybe they wouldn't might not have noticed, It's great.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Possible didn't didn't didn't carry Inn say something, Tara.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Do you think Carriyan said? I think she said I
saw a small thing there at the end, didn't she say?

Speaker 3 (37:04):
Did she? I didn't remember that.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
I mean, listen, I don't think they saw what the
TV audience saw at all.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
I do you think?

Speaker 4 (37:09):
I do think Carrie Anne mentioned it. I also think
a lot of people think it was like a very
minor issue.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Like almost like it was literally the last moment.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
What I was saying, yeah, it's almost like she slithered
out instead of slid out.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, right, and then had a big smile on her
face and it was liked made something out of it,
so it was still having a blast.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
So yeah, I mean, it wasn't It wasn't the end
of the world.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
I'll watch back, but I do think Harrien may have
said and I saw that a little slip at the end,
and she gave her.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
A all right.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well, Baron Brick got sixes, which seemed a little high. Yeah,
I think maybe a five could have.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
I think such an improvement from the week before.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
It was so personable. You want to see him go.
You wanted to see him move forward because he was wanted. Yes, tense, Yeah,
I know.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
And I guess that's a that's a question I have
for you guys, Like, let's say you were celebrity judges
for a week or something and you have to judge Baron.
Are you taking into consideration in your number though.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
He did last week?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I think so, yeah, because I think it's a it's
a show. I mean, the show is about people who
aren't dancers, right, who aren't doing it, And maybe they
were at some point, but I thought I think that
a conceit of the show is that they are getting coached.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
So seeing how they respond to coaching, and the judge
in is reward is that's part of what you reward.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Because I had Jordan, I had Jordan's dance of the night,
and I think and I think I have her as
an eight because her dance was was not as good
last week. But if she was, but if she was
Robert Irwin, she gets a seven from me because like
there's no true you know, you know what I mean,
like there's no the improvement is important.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
That's what That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
That's why again that's exactly what I said, Like the
perfect thing is is the Dylan Ephron where I thought
Danielle's dance was better than Dylan Ephron's, but he improved
from last week and I didn't think Danielle did.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
So how do you judge that in there? Even though
her dance was better.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
I think, and she got her tricks in this week,
so that's also you know that helped the score I
think too, which is you didn't see any last time.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, it's very yeah, very strange. Also to jump in
real quick, I went back and watched Carrie. Anne did
not mention the little thing at the apple. He just
said she asked if Danielle was breathing through the right right,
which which I think she might be right.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I'm not sure Danielle breathed like she wasn't go.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Back and watch. I watched it twice last night. She
clearly was not, I'm telling you. In her mind, she
was just praying that her leg held up like she
when she put weight on it, it wasn't gonna buckle
underneath her.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
She was scuba diving.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Whitney Levitt and Mark Ballast all right, they did the
cha chaw to play that funky music.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Us.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
It was good. I mean again, he's he's.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
I could you could argue that he's the best dancer
on the stage at any time. I mean, really, he's
he's really good. I mean you can tell this guy
is really really good.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
I think she's incredible. She's great, she's great. So yeah,
it was.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
So sexy yep, and she was just so in it,
and her body's moving the whole time. This was really
this was a really great dance. The two of them
danced very well together. I was with Danielle's aunt. She
danced so well that Danielle's aunt turned to me and said,
the guy is the pro, right, yep.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
I literally can't tell the difference between the pro and
the star. One hundred percent agree with you, you know.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
I also I realized watching the show, how much just
somebody's body, you know, like there's dancer bodies.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
She's tall, and she fits his body as well. It
just yeah, it's like you realize, like, oh right.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's not really a judgment on somebody's dancing ability, but
sometimes certain body types just do it better, and certain
types of dance.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I'm sure they do better. But for whatever reason, this
just work. I thought. I was shocked they only got
seven to seven eight.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I don't know how that happened that seven seven eight,
How this was not another triple A? I did not understand.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Can I ask a question, a hot, hot hot take question? Yeah,
is the fact that the Mormon wives aren't telling any
true stories about like their journey, like it's just kind
of happening and they're good dancers?

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Is that affecting?

Speaker 2 (41:34):
It is hurting, meaning there's no like there's nothing really
about them yet in the you don't know anyages's don't
mean yet exactly.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Well, isn't that because people already know them? Like, well,
I think it's part of it.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
I think it's part of Like they're telling stories, like
Jordan's story is clearly right now, redemption, right, she redeemed herself,
she's truly athletic, she's now she's on her way back.
We have Alane who kind of has a story building
I can see it coming. Obviously getting hit by a car.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
A car, yeah, huge, you know.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
And they're pushing how many kids Hilaria has, you know,
there's all these things sort of going on. Danielle obviously perfectionist,
and now the injury. Like, there's these stories being told.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
I love.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
The Mormon Wives as people behind the scenes. Whitney is
really one of my favorite people. I'm bummed they don't
have any sort of real story right, It's just they're
good dancers and that's great. But I really hope that
we start to get to know them as people because
I think it's affecting the way people see them as dancers.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
It may one of the things that amazed me from
the prepackage to this one was seeing how far they
have to come because from the prepackage, she's like stumbling
and I can't do a spin and I can't do this,
and then she goes out and does that four days later,
and you're like, what the hell.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Well, I think that's a little manipulative editing.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
I'm sure, but it was manipulated me perfectly because I
was like, oh my god, you got to that from that,
So it was.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
But right, there is nothing personal really about it.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
I guess it's more about their children and the fact
that they have a lot of kids that that I
think it.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
But it's also such a good bad story when someone
else on the cast has seven I know.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I know that also might be part of the reason
that there was a feeling that we couldn't tell the
difference dween.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
The pro because she's a little like she's just blending
in with the dancers.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Was also like early twenties something like that, I mean,
mid twenties.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
It's yeah, it's makes a difference, man, all right. Hilario
Baldwin and Gleb Salfchenko. This was the tango to What
Is Love. I thought she was one of the better.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
If not best dancer last week, and I was thought
it was just.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Solid this week. It was a little a little bit
bland for me. Yeah, I don't disagree.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
She has and again I'm learning, Oh my god, I'm
learning all the phrases and everything.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Please.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
She has a good frame, like she looked like she
it doesn't. It looks like to me, she spent most
of her her life dancing, maybe even professionally dancing. However,
she's been dancing and now she's on Dancing with the Stars.
That's what it looks like to me. It doesn't look
like she's learning any of this. It looks like she's
showing everybody what she learned when she was fifteen.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Ah, that's a good call, man. I think that's what
it is.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Because last week it was it had a revelatory quality
to it because you had the story and right not
dancing and kids and now dancing and knowing more, knowing
that story.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Now, it was just kind of like, yes, you can
do this.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Yeah, And I wanted to see more personality, a little more.
I don't know, and maybe it's nitpicky, but.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
It seemed like it seemed like dance by numbers, right,
like it was you you hit the steps, You definitely
hit the steps, You looked great, hit but there's nothing
kind of memorable, memorable about it. There's nothing special about it.
It was like you, you danced the way you were
supposed to dance.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Right, they got sevens across the board. It's fair. Oh see,
I think that's fair because again, it wasn't special.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
When I compare it to everybody else, I'm like, but yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Still I still think Daniels and again totally biased. I
still think Daniels were low. I really do think Daniels
were low. And I think you're right, they would have
been higher if she was Later in the in the program.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Dylan Efron and Daniella karagoch he chose the Makarina.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Goodly song from He chooses the Makarina Writer the Makarena
chooses you.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
I love what he was like.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
You couldn't pronounce the word choreography, choreography?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
What do you think you're doing right now? How did
you get invited to this? I love that it's the
first choreography I ever learned.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah, I again, I think she's the best dancer in
this entire thing.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
I love her.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
I just I just love everything about her. I love
watching her just like yes, and I really like him.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
I feel too.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
I'm coming around like he's trying. He's trying, and I
thought it was fun.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Definitely, it seems like he's becoming like America's little brother totally,
where it's like, you know, hey, come on, you know,
let's he had Kelly, He's doing great.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
My little brother's out there. Dad Like, that's the vibe
he gives off, and it's a great vibe. Is Can
I tell you something?

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Andy Richter is on the Conan O'Brien podcast this week
talking about his experience, and he makes a really good point,
which is that early in his rehearsal, a producer told
him and reminded him, they don't ask you to dance
to vote for the best dance. They ask you to
vote for your favorite dance.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Oh yeah, I guess that's true. That is two different things.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
And that is and Dylan last night showed that he
could be voted for, and so did Andy Richter and
Danielle all all showed that you can vote for your
favorite dance. Can I think that Dylan really succeeded last
night in that way?

Speaker 3 (46:42):
He was great.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
He also did the thing that I think is super
important where he showed progress.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
I mean he looked he looked way better than he
did in the first week. He just looked more.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Comfortable and he was getting there and he just it
looked better.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yep. He's also young, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Earlier point and you can see that he you know,
he's not used to moving, like he has a good body,
like he's fit, but it's not used to being moved
in this way, right, And I felt like it's getting.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
More used to it, do you know what I mean?
Like he's literally.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Adjusting and I feel like the muscles are growing or
whatever is happening. So I was like, oh, by like
week four or five, you're gonna be really good at
this if.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
He could put it together. She shows improvement every week.
I mean, that's what you got to show. And he's
personable and you like him, and he's just yeah, and
he's got a great partner, and.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
I think you're real contender. You're rooting for him, all.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Right, seven six and seven from the judges, and then
we rounded it out with Scott and Riley. That's Scott
Hoyne and Riley Arnold. Yeah, this one didn't really do
it for me.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
It didn't for me. She's adorable, she's utterly adorable. He's fair.
I like both of their personalities in terms of like
the effort and but yeah, there I don't know. Did
they seem mismatched to you?

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yes, what they do?

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yes, it is right.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, And he's going back to the sort of you know,
potentially unfair criticism.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
About body types.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
He's very tall, and he's you know, I just feel
like there's something. There's something not quite happening that I
I just I think maybe it's a different partner and
it's not a knock on her or him. I just
think there's something because I think they're really trying with
the style and the approach.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
But I don't know, it's not landing for me. I
don't think he's work.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
I can't put my finger on why, because again, personality wise,
he seems like he's a fun guy.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
He's the whole guy and they get.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
And he is a performer, right, he has music. So
it's interesting that it's just not like falling into place.
I think they're really on the bubble this week.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Like I think so too. I think there's nothing for
a body his style.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
There's nothing fluid about the way he moves it, right,
it's it's it's I don't want to use the word clunky.
It's almost robotic the way he used his body, and
there's nothing like like Dylan Effron's a perfect example where
he might not be hitting all the moves, but there's
a there's a sinewy like a sinew we miss to
his if that's even a word, to his body. There's
like a litheness the way that he kind of flows,

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which I don't think Scott has. It just seems more clunky.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Which is another you know, to your point about Corey Feldman,
who should be able to dance because he is a dancer.
It's really just like there are different body types for
different types of dances too, right, yeah, right, I mean
it seems like this really leans towards a certain like
broad you know, holding your shoulders up, broad shoulder like
basically the you know, Dylan's body, you know, or like

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somebody who just like, yeah, it's a certain type.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
He could Scott could have the perfect type and the
perfect partner to kill something like the tango, where he might.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Have that big, square body.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Type where he can kind of maybe he has the
frame for something like that, but so far it's been
it has it's been a little I don't know, Rusty.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
And for more of your point too, like he's doing
really well in the side by sides, yeah, but he's
not doing well when they're connecting.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Like the problem yes, yes, and it's and and and
it's not what like what they're doing with Corey or
Andy where there's well Andy's uh. With Corey, you know,
they're sort of just putting him in the middle and
letting him to stand side by side by himself or
you know, and have her dancing dancing around him. He's

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really trying, and I appreciate that, but it's still yeah,
when you're right when they're dancing together, it's a little
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
And she's adorable, by the way, she's absolutely adorable.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Six is across the board. And then we went into
the elimination, which was.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Like hard to watch. I felt bad for Corey.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I think that for all, I mean, first of all,
the idea that I have to imagine. Obviously they don't
know who's going to go and who's going to stay,
so you're just got to be standing there with a
big lump in your throat wondering if America hates you,
which has to.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Just be the worst feeling in the world.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
But I mean some of those people could have died
back their surprise a little bit. I mean right, I
mean there was there was everybody who got through.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
They were like, and I'm like, you got eight yeah,
like let it just be.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
That's also that's one thing I was thinking about Danielle
because God lover and we know Danielle.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
We love Danielle.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
She had a giant smile on her face all night
for every contestant. Her face must have hurt so much
by the time the show was over, just from sitting
there at the giant smile on her face because they're
all trying to be supportive of each other and doing everything,
and it's like she must have just.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Her face must have killed. I wish I could tell
you that behind the scenes, some of that is fake.
I'm like, wildly surprised because even last night I was like,
I was like, man, you're really you know.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Excited for everybody. She's like, yeah, this is the best.
These people are the best.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Like I'm waiting for her to say, like, you know,
who's a real pos But she liked.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
She's liked everybody. She said she liked everybody. Yes, she
really has, Yeah, she really has, which is awesome.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
But yeah, that was tough and it was so nice.
I've got to be again totally biased, but so nice
to hear her name first.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
All Right, any predictions on who's out next week? Uh?

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, I think Scott and Riley are going to be
on the bubble. I think Hilaria is going to be
on the bubble again. Interesting, and I think there's a chance.
I think there's a chance that it's gonna be Andy

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again on the bubble.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
I don't think so. I think Andy's going to make
a comeback. He could. I told your point about Hilaria
is interesting. I think she might. She could somewhat unfairly
be kicked.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Off, you know, because I think she could if she
could turn this around, if she gets sticks, if she stays,
and like next week, I guess she'll dance before she
gets kicked off.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
But I'm kind of with you.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
I think there might have been something a little like
flatlining or like let downy about her dance compared from
last week to this week, and maybe some of that,
like you've got seven kids, you're married to Alec Baldwin,
like there might be some blowback there.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
There's also apparently some hot goss going around, as the
kids say, about the fact that she like lobbied to
be on the show.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
So it wasn't like, oh there's a bit hey, what
are the hey wow, I got picked for Dancing Stars.
Like she's been pushing and pushing and pushing.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
I don't know if that's true or not, but apparently
that's a big thing and some people don't like that either.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Okay, so is that those are the three? We think? Yeah, possible.
I think so I'll be the bottom three, I think so.
Do you have a question for me? I do have
a quell.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
I do have a question for you, because, as you know,
every week, we are doing what we like to call
the Strong Incentive. Now, if you remember, this is a
piece where we are going to be asking riders strong
every week what it would take to get him to
be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. They've asked
me to be one of the professional dancers. I've turned
down several times. It wouldn't be fair but for a
rider to come on and actually be a contestant. If

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you remember, last week, somebody showed up at Ryder's house
with a suitcase filled with five hundred thousand dollars in cash,
and Rider said no. So the incentive that we're going
to be adding this week a lot not in lieu of,
but along with.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
The five hundred thousand dollars in cash.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Is also a one twenty five Airstream Atlas Murphy suite
retail value three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, which is
on sale right now for two hundred fifty dollars. No,
it is the world's one of the best family camper
vans on the market.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Oh, you bastard. It opens up. It is this beautiful, gorgeous,
top of.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
The line airstream camper van where you can take your
entire family anywhere you'd like with these suites that pop out.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
It's really a gorgeous rider.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
How big are we talking? It's like, would you like
to like to school RV size?

Speaker 2 (54:35):
It's it's it's not like it's like bigger than yours,
but not crazy bus size.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
So it's it's something that you would be able to
But it's.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Still a camper van more than it's an RV. Correct,
I'm not a fan of RV's.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
No, no, no, it's a camper van, but it's an
airstream camper van. You're okay, No, no, no, you're still
at You're still at it.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
No, you're still at it. Know you realize at this
point you might have gotten me.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
You might have me if you just took like a sprinter,
like a regular sprinter campra van and decked it out
with like all.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
The awesome stuff. This is so much better.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
But the idea of something bigger than like my campra
van not that much bigger.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
It's not that much bigger. But I don't keep some rooms.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
I want more like bells and whistles in a small campus.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
So you're telling me it was just as style or caravan. Yeah,
because the camper van was a very good call. That
might have gotten me. But y'all messed up, buddy. I
go look it up. Go look it up. Look up
the twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Five, say a Mercedes sprinter van with X y Z
pop top, and I would.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Have been like, uh, this is I'll look it up.
But uh, I'll just say no, okay, well that's dancing.
That is two now.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
So far, he has turned down five hundred thousand dollars
in cash and a twenty twenty five Airstream Atlas and
Murphy sweet unbelievable. Okay, we will see you back here
next week as we sweeten the.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Pot for the Strong incentive.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
All Right, that's it for the episode of Podmets Tworld.
Join us next week as we continue watching season thirty
four of Dancing with the Stars. We may not know
a cha chaw from a chimney changa, but we know
what we learned way back in Phoenie's class. Danielle Fischel
is the star of the show.

Speaker 6 (56:16):
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