January 15, 2024 • 38 mins
Adam Carolla traded in his stand-up mic for the mambo on Season 6 of DWTS, and he is spilling all about his time on the show!
The comedian joins Cheryl to talk about calling Carrie Ann Inaba the 'B' word, a backstage pep talk that went awry and was made even more awkward by Penn Jillette, and all the details on that unicycle performance!
Plus, a fun and unpredictable DWTS rapid-fire Q&A with Adam!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Sex, Lies and spray Tands with Me Cheryl
Burke and iHeartRadio podcast. My Next Guest is a living
legend in his own right who is a very well
known comedian, podcast host, actor, and author. He gained fame
as a co host alongside Doctor Drew of the radio
and television show Loveline and became a prominent figure in
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the podcasting world, being in the Guinness Book of World
Wreckers with the highest number of downloads for his podcasts,
where he often touches on controversial subjects. My Next Guest
is known for his candid and unfiltered approach and proved
all of that during season six when performing his pasodoblay
with his partner Julianne Huff as his grand entrance goes
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down in history when he wrote in on his unicycle.
He did that with his Latin Cuban heels tied on tightly,
his Pasado blay cape tied around his neck, with a
Zoro mask over his eyes, and let's not forget he
also sported that memorable mustache on his face. If you
don't know who I'm talking about yet, then shame on you.
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But in all seriousness, please welcome Adam Carolla to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Welcome to sex Lines and spray Dance. It's been a
long time since we've seen each other. Season eight six
was in two thousand and eight, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't know what season I did six oh six,
but two thousand and eight sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Wow wowow wow.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Okay, First off, why do you think comedians find it
hard to ballroom dance?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Comedians in general aren't good at other things other than comedy. Okay,
so they were never the jocks in high school. They
they're not welders. They don't fix transmissions. Almost every comedian
I know just goes like, oh, you know, my car
won't start and I'll go pop the hood and they'll
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go why, and I'll go, I don't know, maybe the batteries.
Then I don't know what that is like. They they work,
as you know, bartenders and waiters and stuff like that,
and then they get into comedy and they become comedians.
But as a group, they do not possess other skills,
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whereas other professions they many people have other skills, their
hobbies or something like that, trades. None of them worked
in the trades. None of them played football in high school.
Like it just it's very rare that comedians possess other.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Skills, but you do.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, I started off as kind of a jock, and
then I turned into a carpenter, and then I just
drove a truck, and you know, I just worked, you know,
and then comedy sort of came later. But by the
time I found comedy, I mean, by the time I
was able to make a living doing comedy, I had
been a boxing coach and a carpenter and had had
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all sorts of other jobs, you know, sort of manual,
kind of blue blue collar stuff. Yeah, but and I
did it for you know, it wasn't My situation wasn't
like a lot of comedians or a lot of people.
They'll go like I used to work with my uncle's
construction firm, you know, during the summer when I was
going to Dartmouth or something, and I go, Yeah, but
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I didn't go to college. I just work full time as.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A He never went to college. Same, never went to college.
You know, who knew ballroom dancing was going to make
it primetime TV?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So speaking of when, how long did you know prior
to Dancing with a Star? So did you meet how
did this whole thing lead up to you walking into
the rehearsal space.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I got a call from my agent after doing a
morning show shift which I was taking over for Howard
Stern out on the West Coast and some other markets
as well, and I just got the call and I
just sort of said, yeah, all right, And I didn't
ask any questions, or I didn't I didn't lobby for
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working with this person or that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Person, or have you seen the show before.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'd seen the show? Yeah, my recollection. I mean, the
show is pretty ubiquitous. You had to have seen it,
you know. Did I watch it and you know, tune
in every week? Probably not, but I probably watched it enough,
like I knew. I definitely knew what it was and
I'd seen it, and I was frightened, but I had
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no conditions. I was just like, when do we start?
And I'm like, you know, two weeks or something.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I was like, Okay, did anyone in your team or family, friends,
your circle people say do not do the show.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, I've never had that kind of relationship with family
members or team members or any members.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'll tell you what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well, it's not that they My medium family doesn't really
know what I do, So they weren't really be neither
here nor there to them. I mean I don't think
they would watch it anyway. So they were nice enough,
but just not really into stuff I was doing. So
nobody in my intermediate circle would have had an opinion
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had an opinion about it now, so I wouldn't have
asked and they wouldn't have had one.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So well, that's not.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I mean a lot of people give their opinion regardless,
but you seem to have a great, solid group of
people around you that that doesn't need to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
The only person in my life that ever would be like,
don't do this, or you shouldn't do that, or why
are you saying this or doing that or something would
be Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And he was in the audience supporting you.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and he was the show that everyone went to
when they got booted, you know, so he could hardly
be the one to tell me not to do it
since he was so.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Involved old ye know, so.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, nobody said he never said anything.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
She just said, you know what power to ABC more power?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, Like I said, he's got a lot of hot
takes about what I should be doing, and shouldn't be doing.
And he's mostly right, because my thing is isn't I
don't really have I shouldn't say a filter. But like
if someone goes in once you do this person's show
or that person's show or whatever, I'm just like, yeah, okay, yeah,
easy going ish in this sense that I'm not that important.
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You know, if you're nice enough to ask for me
to come on your show, then I would do it.
Like if if someone I've never heard of said, could
you call this guy's radio show in Spokane tomorrow morning
at eight a m.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'd go, yeah, okay, you're not want to like how
many downloads does this person have?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You're like, oh, no, that's good.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's just talking. And you know, I used to work,
you know, I used to work on roofs and bust
out stucco and stuff like I worked, you know, and
so I never looked at show business is work per se,
you know. So like even now I'll go out and
they'll go, oh, the two Naples shows are sold out
on Friday when I had a third show, and I'll go, yeah, okay,
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and then soon will go three shows in one day,
and I'll go, it's just talking, do you think.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That's your secret to success because you're not so results oriented.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I don't know that I have as you know, a
secret secret, Suss. And I don't even know what success is,
you know, exactly. It's hard to define right myself.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm still working success.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I work a lot, and I've always worked, and I mean,
I you know, I was thinking about it was like
I'm being I'm coming up on thirty years in comedy
and I've never missed a day. I mean, and I'm
not the most motivated person, but it's a it's a
business that's you know, here today and gone tomorrow. And
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there's a lot of people you can't remember from ten
years ago who were doing pretty good. And I just
brought a kind of blue collar kind of work ethic
to it. Just get up, put your boots on, and
go to work, right, And that's what I think of Yep, yep, yeah,
I just I just did. I did four shows in
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Phoenix over the weekend, and then when I got home
Sunday Southwest Bourbank Airport, I had two shows in San
Diego last night and I just I just got home,
took a nap, cleaned myself up a little, got in
the car, drove to San Diego and got home at
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one thirty in the morning last night.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So Dancing with the starts as schedule, what was pitched
to you versus what was reality?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't remember what the pitch schedule was. I remember going,
how many hours a day do we got to go?
And I'm pretty busy and I'm working full time and
so on and so forth.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Do you have days off?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah? I was pretty busy, and so I just sort
of said to Julianne, We'll do two hours a day
and however far we get on tours a day, that's
that's what we'll do. And so that's that's kind of
how it worked for me.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What was your first impression of miss Julianne Huff when
you walked in through the door.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Did you know it was going to be her? Did
you know her?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I didn't know her. Obviously, She's very beautiful and she
was perky and you know, and she'd won, you know
the time that, you know, the year before whatever that
was Elio I think was yeah, yeah, Alio Castronez.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Follow anton On on one of the two.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I think Ilio was the
one that went next. But anyway, she's beautiful, and she
was fun and kind of nice, and I sort of
thought of her as a kid, you know, and I
guess she kind of was a kid back then. And
uh I was like, oh good, I got I got
the one on one the year before, you know, and
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and and she was nice and and all that. So
I was like, okay, and then we just started off, and.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
How is your communication?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Was it? Uh like when she was teaching you, because like, look,
you know, yes, you've played football, and I think that
you probably would be a dream to coach because you
could tell that you are also a good student, you know,
since you've been kind of around that.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, I wasn't a student in high school, but.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Not maybe book smart right.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, no, not book smart. But you could teach me things,
right if you told me. If you told me like, look,
walk down the street one hundred yards, go left, go
another one hundred yards, then go right. It'll be the
building on the third, building on the left, I would
just go and do it right, you know, I could
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always because all football was was that which I did
for a long time. And then after that, that's all
carpentry was. It was just being taught. It wasn't you know.
I became a carpenter and I never read a book
on carpentry, and I never saw a video on carpentry.
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It was just some dude named Ross and they told
you what to do, and you you knew what a
tech screw was, or a sheet metal screw or a
coarse thread bugle head drywall screw, you know, and they
just they just keep going and going. And I mean,
the thing about carpentry is it's like first thing you
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have to learn is like, what's the difference between a
pony wall, what's a king stud, what's a jack stud,
What's a header, What's a bottom plate, what's a top plate?
What's the difference between a choice and a rafter?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know what I mean? Like, and so because you
can't do carpentry, if you're like, what's the thingy right
over there?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's like same thing with dance aasa, Like what's a
chasha lock.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And a fan and an ala moana versus a New Yorker?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Now I'm confused, but.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's what you said. It like to be just but I.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Learned everything and it was because someone told me, And
so I just got used to listening to people who
knew what they were doing, and I would I would
listen to them.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Did you guys ever, was there any room for because
you said you only rehearsed two hours, right, which is
I think probably the world record for the least amount
of rehearsal and still being able to I'm not saying
this in a weird way, but it's like you were
able to execute actually really good dances for what you
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were giving as far as hours go. Because back in
the day, we used to not have limits, right, so
we used to be able to we want to book
this studio. Now they have Dancing with the Star studio,
so everyone's under one roof. Hence why they also can
only limit each couple for four hours. But back then
we used to go to studios in La Yes, and
they'd rented from like ten to six.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right, But you were very.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Clear that you only because you had another job. How
did you retain this information? You must have rehearsed in
your head.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Uh, Julianne, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Do we have cell phones back then?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm kidding, No, I'm not with cameras and stuff. But
I think here's what happened. I have had like a
little recording device or Julianne got it for me or something,
and it was like a little video something something. I
probably don't make it. We don't need him anymore. And
I would film doing the dance and then I could
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when I had some downtime or off time or whatever,
I could look at it and kind of go or
it's left foot first, and then follow with this and
go that and that. That's kind of.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What I get a smith when he would just actually
rehearse like that, because that's where the I feel like
that's where the foundation lies. Because without that, how do
you work on anything else?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, I mean there's a few things. One is I
am a I am a quick study. If you tell me,
you know, I've done some some car racing. And if
I get into a car and I've never been in
it before, and you kind of say that's a sequential
shifter and it's one up and it's four down or whatever,
and you do this, here's where that is. I'll know
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it in a couple of minutes and then I can
go race the car, like in a real race. Like
I'll be fine with it. I'm I catch up, I
catch on fast, and I sort of download fast. I
don't I don't really get much better. I have this
weird thing where I'm real good at stuff fast, but
I don't get better much past the first day.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's been a weird, weird prove not to you by yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, my sort of way I do things is I
will learn something like someone else took a week to
do it. I'll do it in a day, and then
you would assume that it'll then when a week goes by,
I'll be so much better. But I only improve like
ten percent after the first day. I get it, I
get it fast the first time.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So your first dance was a fock strut?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh? It was?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And what was your feeling so like? Did you ever?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I don't think you ever forgot your care because I
can tell by just watching what I watched when I
when during your time?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
But what was it like right before you know?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You hear the click click click before the music starts?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, what was the feeling going through your body?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I had I had a thought. I remember being in
the makeup trailer or something like that. I had some
had a few, had a little time before it was
time to dance, and I remember going, all right, I
should kind of go over this in my head a
little bit here, and I kind of stood in this
space and I went, all right, let's see click click click,
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and I like stepped forward with my right foot and
then I pulled it back and I went, wait a minute,
was it the right foot or the foot? And then
I went, oh, my god, that's the first step. It's
the first step. You're not sure one step into this
dance whether which foot you step out with. And I
remember kind of thinking at that point like, oh man,
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that's not it. That's eerie harbinger. That's not a good sign.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I was like, is it like the yips?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, it's like the yips in baseball? Okay, And if
that's what you're the yips.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I only saying that because I heard some you
say this just recently.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But yeah, the yips in baseball happened to one or
two players I can't remember who was. It was a
famous Dodger, I think second basement and he one day
after playing, you know, his entire life, because you know,
you don't get into the major league baseball. Ulet's you
start playing when you're five, you know, right, And he's
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five years into the league or whatever, and like a
ground ball gets hit to him and he does this
kind of double clutch and like bounces it to the
first baseman who was like fifteen feet away. And then
the next time he did it again. And it's called
the yips. It's like when you're in your.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Head, it's the worst and.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You're not able to do something you've been doing your
whole life, or the truth comes naturally or whatever. You
went all the way through high school and college and
semi pro and whatever. Now of a sudden, he's eight
years in the league and he's bouncing the ball to
the first base and he's in his head.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So fair I know that feeling.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, I think I think we've all I think we've
all been there.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is that what happened to you for the premiere?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The premiere was I got the yips in the trailer,
But then when it came time to just sort of
be on the dance floor, I just went, well, the
music's going to fire up, and you're just gonna do
what you're going to do. And I'm not really sure
how that's going to turn out, but you're gonna do
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what you're gonna do. And I did so much like
boxing and football and stand up and stuff that I
kind of knew I wasn't. I've never been worried about
the lights in the stage and the moment being like
too big or too exhausting or too devastating emotionally.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I was always like, you know, I used to play
colleges with Doctor Drew, like way back in the day,
and we'd play venues that were five thousand seat venues,
you know, and I just I'd be standing backstage like
just going when an't we starting? And I didn't have
any feelings about it, you know, And I just walk
out there like and it just didn't feel like anything
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to me. And I've always I have been that way
most most of my time, So.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Even with eighteen million or whatever, because it was pretty
the I mean, the ratings back then were definitely different
than now. Obviously TV's changed, but it was a million,
multiple millions of people at least like at least twenty
I think is something I read.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, No, I have many thoughts about it.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So you didn't feel any nervousness. You were just like,
you know what, I was gonna let my muscle memory
take over.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I felt energy, you know. It wasn't like, well, this
is an average Wednesday night. You know, I understood what
it was, and I understood that there's no way you
could be in this environment and not feel, of course something,
you know, But that's kind of where it ended. I
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didn't think about people home watching or how many people
were watching, and I didn't I didn't get the yips,
and I felt like I always felt sort of I
was a bad student. And you know, if you would
have asked me, you know, when I was twelve, you know, Adam,
come up to the chalkboard, let's see how your spelling is,
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I would have been like, oh God, no, please, dear God, no,
you know. But when it came to anything physical, I
was always just kind of like, yeah, let's do it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's kind of the way I felt. I didn't feel
like I was a good dancer. I just felt like
it's something physical and I could I could do this.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Did the judges?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay, so back then the judges were pretty harsh. And
actually I'm doing these rewatches on the podcast and we're
starting I starting from like all the way back to
season one, and they were even worse then. Did you
get affected mentally by how there? I guess their comments
sometimes weren't of constructive criticism. M M no.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I was like, but I was covered because I was
under no illusion I was a good dancer or even
an experienced dancer, any competency at all in it. So
I was sort of like, you know, a supermodel who
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had to drive in a go kart race. I was like,
no one expects Claudia Schiffer to win this race, right,
she's fairly And so it was like I had no
pressure because I was a comedian from The Man Show.
You know that that just wasn't the.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Burden of go wasn't in the way.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah. Like, for instance, I've done the Toyota Celebrity Grand
Prix like five times and I've won two times. And
when I did that, I was like, you are capable
of winning this goddamn race. Let's hope you do. But
there's twenty other people who want to do it too,
you know. And the last race I did, I was
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in first place for a minute, then I wasn't. Then
the little incident, A couple incidents happened and I came
in fourth. I was goddamn miserable about it because and
still am, and it's been ten years. And the reason
I was miserable about it. Is because I'd won it
twice and I knew I had the ability to do
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it to be better, and I didn't finish how I
wanted to finish, but I knew that I was.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Capable of it because you had done it.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, everyone else who was in it also won themselves,
so it was kind of an all star cast. So
it's a lot of pros and stuff. So it was
my work was cut out for me. But I still
should have done better and I didn't, and I kind
of beat myself up on.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It a bit, and you're still upset after ten years.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If you were to ask me, what is a negative
thought that I put in my head and I sort
of look back on it was definitely the all star
Celebrity Pro Grand Prix.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And that's just the.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Self talk obviously, you mean, because like, no one else
probably thinks that you could have done better.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're not thinking about it.
I was just beating.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Uh yeah, you're beating yourself up, as we all do.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, I was just I was just beating my
beating myself up.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Did you ever do that on Dancing the Stars? No,
because there was no like it's not like you had
the mirror ball in your hand.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No, I I no, I never did that because I
was like, uh, I'll be happy if I make it
through my first dance, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Okay, So did you call Karriana bitch?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I did? And I forgot I did it, and I
was television, yeah, and they told me I did.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, and I was like, no, I didn't even see
you do that.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I didn't say it, and they're like, yeah, you said it,
and I was like I did out loud, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Or was it a reaction from like a five And
you're like bitch?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I I called her a bitch? Wow? And I didn't
have a recollection of it.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
They they didn't bleep you.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
No, I don't. I don't believe they did, but I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's amazing because I was like, I was watching the
second week and I was like, she was referring to that,
and I was like, wait, what, I didn't even see
that at all. Anyway, It's interesting that they paired you
with someone like Julian because back then, you know, she
was very she was like that girl next door, you know,
she came from. She was definitely you kept harping on
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her about the whole Mormon thing with Sabatha Harris back
in the day, and it was I was crying, laughing.
I think we all were behind you guys, but those
were those moments. I always say, you know, this is
the order of importance. I think on Dancing with Stars,
it's never the dance. I think first, it is the
package that they air because people do vote and people
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want to be a part of that journey with you,
and they don't. This is why the most talented dancer,
I believe, never wins, because it's like, this is why
Emmett Smith won versus Mario Lopez, because who wants to
You're not supposed to have any dance experience, right like,
and if you do, great, you just get from a
great dancer to great dancer. But like with Emmett, he was,
you know, it's always the underdog. And I believe after
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the package comes that interview with Samantha Hair and I
think that for me watching it back, it's like, Wow,
I really got a chance to see you as well
as a person, and I see why your time. I
mean you lasted pretty long compared to most people with
no dance. I mean you were about halfway through.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think I did four dances and then I did
the Dance of the night thing, which is weird because
I got booted. I know they used to. I know
they still do. They go our favorite dance from last
week or whatever whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh, yes, because we had results shows back then. There's
more result shows.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So so I was like, and then you got the boot.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, I said, it has to be rare. You would know.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That before.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I remember thinking it's got to be feeling far between
where you get the Dance of the night and the
boot for that dance.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well, I mean, let's just be real.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I'm no longer on the show, but like they knew
already you got the boot, but they still voted.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
The judges voted for you to have that dance.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Does it happen often?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Well, that dance?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I mean, first of all, that never happened. Hasn't happened
since over a decade because we don't have results shows,
But that has happened once. I think with Pamela Anderson,
I'm pretty sure. But you know your dance was freaking entertaining.
We're talking about when you basically did the Pasa doble
and you there you go like on your unicycle. Yeah,
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you do that huge reveal and then you seamlessly. This
is I'm not even joking transition from the unicycle to
doing chess a capes and twist turns, and no one
said anything like meaning like the judges were.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Just harping on you for whatever, but nobody. That is hard.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I remember, got it. Maybe it was a land got
rest of Soul. I can't remember or who it was,
but I remember it was funny. Everyone they must not
possess unicycles in England, because I was like, you were
on the bike with the one wheel like.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
A unicycle. Maybe maybe Bruno.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Maybe it's Bruno. Yeah, they didn't seem impressed.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I was definitely not.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I was like, hey, riding unicycle something and it was
hard in that environment because.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But you're in a ballroom, for God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was not. You know, I rode the unicycle when
I was a kid, but I hadn't been on one
in a while, so I had to kind of tune
myself up a little.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Bit muscle memory.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The reason that was a little bit hard for me,
as I recall, is dance shoes are smooth leather on
the bottom and they're not good. They're not good for
unicycle and your foot will slide off the pedal. But
I needed to wear the dance shoes to do the dance.
But unicycle shoes, like running shoes are the best, or
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something with some grip and some tread, you know, for
the unicycle.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I didn't think about that. So you had your Latin
Cuban heels on too.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He had my heels on. So I was like this,
this is going to be tough to ride this year
because your foot's gonna slip off that pedal and it's
not gonna be good. So I do have a recollection
of going you should work this out, like, don't just
practice in your tennis shoes, you know, get your dance
shoes on again on that unicycle and get the feel
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for it. And I think I even took like some
black grip tape and wrapped it around the pedal so
I could just get a little bite, I could feel
it a little better. And then I also remember that
I was gonna be off in the wings and I
was gonna have to launch from the dark or it
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was dark where I was, because I need it. Yeah,
I needed it dark where I took off from. And
also things you don't think about before you ride a
unicycle and dance with the stars. The stage is built
on a slab and it's raised like three inches, and
there's a little ramp. There's a little rubber thing, you know,
so you don't trip on it or whatever. But I
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had to launch from the lab, so I knew my
first thing was going to be getting up this hump
onto the stage. And I was like, you could eat
shit right as you're entering the stage, because you're not
on the stage. I started off the stage.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Right from like downstage left or right.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, if you were facing the audience would be the
right corner, right down. And so also other weird little
unicycle things fascinating. I mean, I was used to sort
of hopping up and getting up on my unicycle, but
I didn't do a lot of starting from being up.
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And because of the way the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Was timed out, your cape around your neck.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The cape that the mask was a little weird because
your peripheral vision is a little screwed up in the cape.
But I started up on the unicycle, I was holding
onto a camera rig I was holding.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Onto like am hanging on to.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
The crane, and so I was like up, and I
was on it and I was kind of my feet
under me, and I was on the unicycle and I
was hanging on with my arm to the to the
crane in the dark though in the black. You know
it's supposed to be dark back there. You don't want
to see the crane, right, So I was back in
the dark, and I knew I was going to take
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like three or four petals, and then I was sting
to make it up that hump onto the stage up
you know. Yes, it's like it's the kind of thing
that would use if they're running chords through something that
puts something over it. It's like a little ramp speed bump,
you know. But I was like, I'm going to take
off in these dance us in the dark, and I'm
going to hit that speed bump, and there's a chance
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I may not make it onto the stage on the unicycle.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It was grand entrance at him.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Once I made it. Once I made it onto the stage,
I was like, all right, now now I'm off and running.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I mean, you obviously did dress rehearsal and you did
camera blocking doing that same thing, correct.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, I mean I kind of remember going, look, I
should wear the mask and get used to holding the
cape out and and kind of get used to the
cape and the mask and the stuff because it's all
affects things and no one thing.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
It's so disappointed. So it is such that is hard.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I remember kind of at the time, I didn't haven't
thought about it well, but I remember the time going, yeah,
No one said like a nice job on the inside
or something. They just kind of went like.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
We do this thing called rapid fire on sex lies
and spray dans. Who falls in love first, the celebrity
or dancer?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Boy, I would say the celebrity.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Hardest dance you did.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't know the names of them.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That's okay, favorite judge.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh well, since you gone, We'll go with Lenn.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Least favorite judge, Carrie comedian dance off, who would win you?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Or Jeffrey Ross.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I would win jeff Ross. That's that's not saying much.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Nicky Glazier versus your favorite d l Hugh Glee.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh I can't. I hadn't seen either one of them dance.
But I'll go with nickis women or.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
More, Chris Catan versus Andy Dick.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Oh, Chris, Andy's heiac cat.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Matt Walsh versus Drew Carrey, Oh, Drew's lost a lot
of weight.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
We'll go true.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
One word that describes some of your fellow Dancing at
the Stars co stars Tom Bras run decent.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
He's a good man, Samantha Harris.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Fine didn't. I didn't really spend a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
With her, Lenn Goodman, good Carrie on go ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I didn't have a beef with Eddy. You know, I knew,
I knew what the job was. They knew with the
job was. I get it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Gay, Priscilla Presley Gayer, stop it. Jason Taylor Tall, so
freaking tall, Christy ham A, Gucci Fierce, Shannon, Elizabeth Fine,
Christian de la Hot, Steve, Steve Gutenberg, wherever that man?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, affable.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Do you remember when he used to spend the night
at the This is back in the day before rules.
He used to spend the night at the dance studio
because he would rehearse so many hours. Anya Tremon skuy At,
his partner would just leave him there.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Are you serious? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I thought that's why you you made a joke about
him during the live show when you were staying the
next time, I thought that was what you were referencing
but now.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I was maybe I was.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I give me sleep there.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He had a barbecue at his house and invited everyone over,
and I remember that.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Marley Mattlin.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh well, Marley Mattlin's interpreter is a dude, and I
don't like it. You gotta get a female. She has
a female voice. She's like I fell in love with
the dance. I fell in love with the dance. You
know it's no good pendulate, big.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Smart Monica sellis uh depressed. Last one Marissa Jarrett Minoker.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh, I got a story for her, God go ahead.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
She I got off stage and she was a ball
of nerves like she was really she was a bundle
bundle of nerves. And I got off stage and I
could tell she was just in a bad way, super
nervous about dancing. And so she was there and I
and you know, people come up to people when they're
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super nervous or wherever they go, Hey, man, have fun
out there. Come on, you got fun? And it's what
I'm not kind of fun. I want to throw up
freaking out about now, have any anxiety attacks? Have fun
out there? You know what I mean? So I walked
up to her because I see she was like struggling,
you know. And I thought, let's see if you can
bring some wisdom to this, to this, you know. And
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I thought, I don't know, it could be one of
those have fun out there. No, don't listen to anybody
and pretend everyone's in the underpants, or don't be nervous
or something that's none of that works. So I walked
up to her and I go and Pendulotte was standing there.
He was trying to help to He's the tallest, she's
the shortest, you know, And and I just go, look,
you're not gonna have fun out there, but you know
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what you're gonna have. You're gonna have an experience. You're
gonna have experience that you can trade for anything. And
he is such a crazy experience. And have fun. Yeah,
you got fun. Go see a movie, you know what
I mean, Go play lawn darts, have fun, you know.
But that's not gonna be fun. This is an experience.
Experience you can't buy. You know, this is incredible. And
I said, you know, childbirth, having a child, is it fun?
Speaker 4 (35:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Would you miss it for the world. That's experiences I
could That's what this is. This is childbirth is the
most important experience you ever gonna have, and she goes,
I just had ovarian cancer and I can't have, you know,
And Pendelette started laughing, like like the insane atheist he is.
Pendelate's like, whoa, my god, oh my god, Oh my god,
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oh my god.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
And I was just like, uh what, oh, I guarantee
if you if you look her up, she had some
sort of cancer something, and she had and she survived,
but you can't have kids.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
And Pendulotte starts screaming with laughter. He loved it.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I can't okay.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Two fan questions before I die at the James Bennett,
have you gotten fewer career opportunities since you got more
vocal about your political views?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
At him?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
It never helps to be too vocal in Hollywood. But
I've never based anything on career oppertus co unities. My
job is speak yes, make jokes, say what I want,
and that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
In two hours of Dance at Miss Stunning Gal, what
was your mindset going into dancing? Was it fun or
was it something for you to prove? Last one?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
It was a little not a lot of fun, because
I was, like I said, I was getting up at
five every morning and going to work, and it was
made for a long day. It was a real experience
and I wouldn't trade it for anything, and I didn't.
I didn't feel like I had anything to prove other
than I wanted to know that I did the best
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that I could do, which was not that good, but
it was still the best I could. Don't. I didn't
want to like screw the pooch. You know, I would
have been you know, if I popped up on the
stage and did a brody on the unicycle and fell off,
I'd be pissed totally and I'd be disappointed and I'd
be like, come on, man, you can ride a unicycle.
Why'd you fall off? You know, like it's easy to
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fall off for unicycle. But I felt like I'm good enough.
Hell right unicycle?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
So and transition into shasse capes a transition. Goddamn it,
you brought that up. Come on, I give you.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
A tad puts a smile on my face.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Thank you, Adam, Thank you for your time, Thanks for
having me.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Make sure you guys follow us at sex lies and
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Speaker 3 (38:27):
What do you all think Let me know
This is Sex, Lies and spray Tands with Me Cheryl
Burke and iHeartRadio podcast. My Next Guest is a living
legend in his own right who is a very well
known comedian, podcast host, actor, and author. He gained fame
as a co host alongside Doctor Drew of the radio
and television show Loveline and became a prominent figure in
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the podcasting world, being in the Guinness Book of World
Wreckers with the highest number of downloads for his podcasts,
where he often touches on controversial subjects. My Next Guest
is known for his candid and unfiltered approach and proved
all of that during season six when performing his pasodoblay
with his partner Julianne Huff as his grand entrance goes
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down in history when he wrote in on his unicycle.
He did that with his Latin Cuban heels tied on tightly,
his Pasado blay cape tied around his neck, with a
Zoro mask over his eyes, and let's not forget he
also sported that memorable mustache on his face. If you
don't know who I'm talking about yet, then shame on you.
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But in all seriousness, please welcome Adam Carolla to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Welcome to sex Lines and spray Dance. It's been a
long time since we've seen each other. Season eight six
was in two thousand and eight, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't know what season I did six oh six,
but two thousand and eight sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Wow wowow wow.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Okay, First off, why do you think comedians find it
hard to ballroom dance?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Comedians in general aren't good at other things other than comedy. Okay,
so they were never the jocks in high school. They
they're not welders. They don't fix transmissions. Almost every comedian
I know just goes like, oh, you know, my car
won't start and I'll go pop the hood and they'll
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go why, and I'll go, I don't know, maybe the batteries.
Then I don't know what that is like. They they work,
as you know, bartenders and waiters and stuff like that,
and then they get into comedy and they become comedians.
But as a group, they do not possess other skills,
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whereas other professions they many people have other skills, their
hobbies or something like that, trades. None of them worked
in the trades. None of them played football in high school.
Like it just it's very rare that comedians possess other.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Skills, but you do.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, I started off as kind of a jock, and
then I turned into a carpenter, and then I just
drove a truck, and you know, I just worked, you know,
and then comedy sort of came later. But by the
time I found comedy, I mean, by the time I
was able to make a living doing comedy, I had
been a boxing coach and a carpenter and had had
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all sorts of other jobs, you know, sort of manual,
kind of blue blue collar stuff. Yeah, but and I
did it for you know, it wasn't My situation wasn't
like a lot of comedians or a lot of people.
They'll go like I used to work with my uncle's
construction firm, you know, during the summer when I was
going to Dartmouth or something, and I go, Yeah, but
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I didn't go to college. I just work full time as.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A He never went to college. Same, never went to college.
You know, who knew ballroom dancing was going to make
it primetime TV?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So speaking of when, how long did you know prior
to Dancing with a Star? So did you meet how
did this whole thing lead up to you walking into
the rehearsal space.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I got a call from my agent after doing a
morning show shift which I was taking over for Howard
Stern out on the West Coast and some other markets
as well, and I just got the call and I
just sort of said, yeah, all right, And I didn't
ask any questions, or I didn't I didn't lobby for
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working with this person or that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Person, or have you seen the show before.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'd seen the show? Yeah, my recollection. I mean, the
show is pretty ubiquitous. You had to have seen it,
you know. Did I watch it and you know, tune
in every week? Probably not, but I probably watched it enough,
like I knew. I definitely knew what it was and
I'd seen it, and I was frightened, but I had
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no conditions. I was just like, when do we start?
And I'm like, you know, two weeks or something.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I was like, Okay, did anyone in your team or family, friends,
your circle people say do not do the show.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, I've never had that kind of relationship with family
members or team members or any members.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'll tell you what to do.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well, it's not that they My medium family doesn't really
know what I do, So they weren't really be neither
here nor there to them. I mean I don't think
they would watch it anyway. So they were nice enough,
but just not really into stuff I was doing. So
nobody in my intermediate circle would have had an opinion
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had an opinion about it now, so I wouldn't have
asked and they wouldn't have had one.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So well, that's not.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I mean a lot of people give their opinion regardless,
but you seem to have a great, solid group of
people around you that that doesn't need to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
The only person in my life that ever would be like,
don't do this, or you shouldn't do that, or why
are you saying this or doing that or something would
be Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And he was in the audience supporting you.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and he was the show that everyone went to
when they got booted, you know, so he could hardly
be the one to tell me not to do it
since he was so.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Involved old ye know, so.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, nobody said he never said anything.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
She just said, you know what power to ABC more power?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, Like I said, he's got a lot of hot
takes about what I should be doing, and shouldn't be doing.
And he's mostly right, because my thing is isn't I
don't really have I shouldn't say a filter. But like
if someone goes in once you do this person's show
or that person's show or whatever, I'm just like, yeah, okay, yeah,
easy going ish in this sense that I'm not that important.
(06:22):
You know, if you're nice enough to ask for me
to come on your show, then I would do it.
Like if if someone I've never heard of said, could
you call this guy's radio show in Spokane tomorrow morning
at eight a m.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'd go, yeah, okay, you're not want to like how
many downloads does this person have?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You're like, oh, no, that's good.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's just talking. And you know, I used to work,
you know, I used to work on roofs and bust
out stucco and stuff like I worked, you know, and
so I never looked at show business is work per se,
you know. So like even now I'll go out and
they'll go, oh, the two Naples shows are sold out
on Friday when I had a third show, and I'll go, yeah, okay,
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and then soon will go three shows in one day,
and I'll go, it's just talking, do you think.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That's your secret to success because you're not so results oriented.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I don't know that I have as you know, a
secret secret, Suss. And I don't even know what success is,
you know, exactly. It's hard to define right myself.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I'm still working success.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I work a lot, and I've always worked, and I mean,
I you know, I was thinking about it was like
I'm being I'm coming up on thirty years in comedy
and I've never missed a day. I mean, and I'm
not the most motivated person, but it's a it's a
business that's you know, here today and gone tomorrow. And
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there's a lot of people you can't remember from ten
years ago who were doing pretty good. And I just
brought a kind of blue collar kind of work ethic
to it. Just get up, put your boots on, and
go to work, right, And that's what I think of Yep, yep, yeah,
I just I just did. I did four shows in
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Phoenix over the weekend, and then when I got home
Sunday Southwest Bourbank Airport, I had two shows in San
Diego last night and I just I just got home,
took a nap, cleaned myself up a little, got in
the car, drove to San Diego and got home at
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one thirty in the morning last night.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So Dancing with the starts as schedule, what was pitched
to you versus what was reality?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I don't remember what the pitch schedule was. I remember going,
how many hours a day do we got to go?
And I'm pretty busy and I'm working full time and
so on and so forth.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Do you have days off?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah? I was pretty busy, and so I just sort
of said to Julianne, We'll do two hours a day
and however far we get on tours a day, that's
that's what we'll do. And so that's that's kind of
how it worked for me.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What was your first impression of miss Julianne Huff when
you walked in through the door.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Did you know it was going to be her? Did
you know her?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I didn't know her. Obviously, She's very beautiful and she
was perky and you know, and she'd won, you know
the time that, you know, the year before whatever that
was Elio I think was yeah, yeah, Alio Castronez.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Follow anton On on one of the two.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I think Ilio was the
one that went next. But anyway, she's beautiful, and she
was fun and kind of nice, and I sort of
thought of her as a kid, you know, and I
guess she kind of was a kid back then. And
uh I was like, oh good, I got I got
the one on one the year before, you know, and
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and and she was nice and and all that. So
I was like, okay, and then we just started off, and.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
How is your communication?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Was it? Uh like when she was teaching you, because like, look,
you know, yes, you've played football, and I think that
you probably would be a dream to coach because you
could tell that you are also a good student, you know,
since you've been kind of around that.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes, I wasn't a student in high school, but.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Not maybe book smart right.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, no, not book smart. But you could teach me things,
right if you told me. If you told me like, look,
walk down the street one hundred yards, go left, go
another one hundred yards, then go right. It'll be the
building on the third, building on the left, I would
just go and do it right, you know, I could
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always because all football was was that which I did
for a long time. And then after that, that's all
carpentry was. It was just being taught. It wasn't you know.
I became a carpenter and I never read a book
on carpentry, and I never saw a video on carpentry.
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It was just some dude named Ross and they told
you what to do, and you you knew what a
tech screw was, or a sheet metal screw or a
coarse thread bugle head drywall screw, you know, and they
just they just keep going and going. And I mean,
the thing about carpentry is it's like first thing you
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have to learn is like, what's the difference between a
pony wall, what's a king stud, what's a jack stud,
What's a header, What's a bottom plate, what's a top plate?
What's the difference between a choice and a rafter?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know what I mean? Like, and so because you
can't do carpentry, if you're like, what's the thingy right
over there?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's like same thing with dance aasa, Like what's a
chasha lock.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And a fan and an ala moana versus a New Yorker?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Now I'm confused, but.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's what you said. It like to be just but I.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Learned everything and it was because someone told me, And
so I just got used to listening to people who
knew what they were doing, and I would I would
listen to them.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Did you guys ever, was there any room for because
you said you only rehearsed two hours, right, which is
I think probably the world record for the least amount
of rehearsal and still being able to I'm not saying
this in a weird way, but it's like you were
able to execute actually really good dances for what you
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were giving as far as hours go. Because back in
the day, we used to not have limits, right, so
we used to be able to we want to book
this studio. Now they have Dancing with the Star studio,
so everyone's under one roof. Hence why they also can
only limit each couple for four hours. But back then
we used to go to studios in La Yes, and
they'd rented from like ten to six.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right, But you were very.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Clear that you only because you had another job. How
did you retain this information? You must have rehearsed in
your head.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Uh, Julianne, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Do we have cell phones back then?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm kidding, No, I'm not with cameras and stuff. But
I think here's what happened. I have had like a
little recording device or Julianne got it for me or something,
and it was like a little video something something. I
probably don't make it. We don't need him anymore. And
I would film doing the dance and then I could
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when I had some downtime or off time or whatever,
I could look at it and kind of go or
it's left foot first, and then follow with this and
go that and that. That's kind of.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What I get a smith when he would just actually
rehearse like that, because that's where the I feel like
that's where the foundation lies. Because without that, how do
you work on anything else?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, I mean there's a few things. One is I
am a I am a quick study. If you tell me,
you know, I've done some some car racing. And if
I get into a car and I've never been in
it before, and you kind of say that's a sequential
shifter and it's one up and it's four down or whatever,
and you do this, here's where that is. I'll know
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it in a couple of minutes and then I can
go race the car, like in a real race. Like
I'll be fine with it. I'm I catch up, I
catch on fast, and I sort of download fast. I
don't I don't really get much better. I have this
weird thing where I'm real good at stuff fast, but
I don't get better much past the first day.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's been a weird, weird prove not to you by yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, my sort of way I do things is I
will learn something like someone else took a week to
do it. I'll do it in a day, and then
you would assume that it'll then when a week goes by,
I'll be so much better. But I only improve like
ten percent after the first day. I get it, I
get it fast the first time.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So your first dance was a fock strut?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh? It was?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And what was your feeling so like? Did you ever?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I don't think you ever forgot your care because I
can tell by just watching what I watched when I
when during your time?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
But what was it like right before you know?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You hear the click click click before the music starts?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, what was the feeling going through your body?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I had I had a thought. I remember being in
the makeup trailer or something like that. I had some
had a few, had a little time before it was
time to dance, and I remember going, all right, I
should kind of go over this in my head a
little bit here, and I kind of stood in this
space and I went, all right, let's see click click click,
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and I like stepped forward with my right foot and
then I pulled it back and I went, wait a minute,
was it the right foot or the foot? And then
I went, oh, my god, that's the first step. It's
the first step. You're not sure one step into this
dance whether which foot you step out with. And I
remember kind of thinking at that point like, oh man,
(15:59):
that's not it. That's eerie harbinger. That's not a good sign.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I was like, is it like the yips?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, it's like the yips in baseball? Okay, And if
that's what you're the yips.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I only saying that because I heard some you
say this just recently.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But yeah, the yips in baseball happened to one or
two players I can't remember who was. It was a
famous Dodger, I think second basement and he one day
after playing, you know, his entire life, because you know,
you don't get into the major league baseball. Ulet's you
start playing when you're five, you know, right, And he's
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five years into the league or whatever, and like a
ground ball gets hit to him and he does this
kind of double clutch and like bounces it to the
first baseman who was like fifteen feet away. And then
the next time he did it again. And it's called
the yips. It's like when you're in your.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Head, it's the worst and.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You're not able to do something you've been doing your
whole life, or the truth comes naturally or whatever. You
went all the way through high school and college and
semi pro and whatever. Now of a sudden, he's eight
years in the league and he's bouncing the ball to
the first base and he's in his head.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So fair I know that feeling.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, I think I think we've all I think we've
all been there.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is that what happened to you for the premiere?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The premiere was I got the yips in the trailer,
But then when it came time to just sort of
be on the dance floor, I just went, well, the
music's going to fire up, and you're just gonna do
what you're going to do. And I'm not really sure
how that's going to turn out, but you're gonna do
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what you're gonna do. And I did so much like
boxing and football and stand up and stuff that I
kind of knew I wasn't. I've never been worried about
the lights in the stage and the moment being like
too big or too exhausting or too devastating emotionally.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I was always like, you know, I used to play
colleges with Doctor Drew, like way back in the day,
and we'd play venues that were five thousand seat venues,
you know, and I just I'd be standing backstage like
just going when an't we starting? And I didn't have
any feelings about it, you know, And I just walk
out there like and it just didn't feel like anything
(18:24):
to me. And I've always I have been that way
most most of my time, So.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Even with eighteen million or whatever, because it was pretty
the I mean, the ratings back then were definitely different
than now. Obviously TV's changed, but it was a million,
multiple millions of people at least like at least twenty
I think is something I read.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, No, I have many thoughts about it.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So you didn't feel any nervousness. You were just like,
you know what, I was gonna let my muscle memory
take over.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I felt energy, you know. It wasn't like, well, this
is an average Wednesday night. You know, I understood what
it was, and I understood that there's no way you
could be in this environment and not feel, of course something,
you know, But that's kind of where it ended. I
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didn't think about people home watching or how many people
were watching, and I didn't I didn't get the yips,
and I felt like I always felt sort of I
was a bad student. And you know, if you would
have asked me, you know, when I was twelve, you know, Adam,
come up to the chalkboard, let's see how your spelling is,
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I would have been like, oh God, no, please, dear God, no,
you know. But when it came to anything physical, I
was always just kind of like, yeah, let's do it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's kind of the way I felt. I didn't feel
like I was a good dancer. I just felt like
it's something physical and I could I could do this.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Did the judges?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay, so back then the judges were pretty harsh. And
actually I'm doing these rewatches on the podcast and we're
starting I starting from like all the way back to
season one, and they were even worse then. Did you
get affected mentally by how there? I guess their comments
sometimes weren't of constructive criticism. M M no.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I was like, but I was covered because I was
under no illusion I was a good dancer or even
an experienced dancer, any competency at all in it. So
I was sort of like, you know, a supermodel who
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had to drive in a go kart race. I was like,
no one expects Claudia Schiffer to win this race, right,
she's fairly And so it was like I had no
pressure because I was a comedian from The Man Show.
You know that that just wasn't the.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Burden of go wasn't in the way.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah. Like, for instance, I've done the Toyota Celebrity Grand
Prix like five times and I've won two times. And
when I did that, I was like, you are capable
of winning this goddamn race. Let's hope you do. But
there's twenty other people who want to do it too,
you know. And the last race I did, I was
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in first place for a minute, then I wasn't. Then
the little incident, A couple incidents happened and I came
in fourth. I was goddamn miserable about it because and
still am, and it's been ten years. And the reason
I was miserable about it. Is because I'd won it
twice and I knew I had the ability to do
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it to be better, and I didn't finish how I
wanted to finish, but I knew that I was.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Capable of it because you had done it.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, everyone else who was in it also won themselves,
so it was kind of an all star cast. So
it's a lot of pros and stuff. So it was
my work was cut out for me. But I still
should have done better and I didn't, and I kind
of beat myself up on.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It a bit, and you're still upset after ten years.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If you were to ask me, what is a negative
thought that I put in my head and I sort
of look back on it was definitely the all star
Celebrity Pro Grand Prix.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And that's just the.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Self talk obviously, you mean, because like, no one else
probably thinks that you could have done better.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're not thinking about it.
I was just beating.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Uh yeah, you're beating yourself up, as we all do.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, I was just I was just beating my
beating myself up.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Did you ever do that on Dancing the Stars? No,
because there was no like it's not like you had
the mirror ball in your hand.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No, I I no, I never did that because I
was like, uh, I'll be happy if I make it
through my first dance, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Okay, So did you call Karriana bitch?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I did? And I forgot I did it, and I
was television, yeah, and they told me I did.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, and I was like, no, I didn't even see
you do that.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I didn't say it, and they're like, yeah, you said it,
and I was like I did out loud, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Or was it a reaction from like a five And
you're like bitch?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I I called her a bitch? Wow? And I didn't
have a recollection of it.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
They they didn't bleep you.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
No, I don't. I don't believe they did, but I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's amazing because I was like, I was watching the
second week and I was like, she was referring to that,
and I was like, wait, what, I didn't even see
that at all. Anyway, It's interesting that they paired you
with someone like Julian because back then, you know, she
was very she was like that girl next door, you know,
she came from. She was definitely you kept harping on
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her about the whole Mormon thing with Sabatha Harris back
in the day, and it was I was crying, laughing.
I think we all were behind you guys, but those
were those moments. I always say, you know, this is
the order of importance. I think on Dancing with Stars,
it's never the dance. I think first, it is the
package that they air because people do vote and people
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want to be a part of that journey with you,
and they don't. This is why the most talented dancer,
I believe, never wins, because it's like, this is why
Emmett Smith won versus Mario Lopez, because who wants to
You're not supposed to have any dance experience, right like,
and if you do, great, you just get from a
great dancer to great dancer. But like with Emmett, he was,
you know, it's always the underdog. And I believe after
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the package comes that interview with Samantha Hair and I
think that for me watching it back, it's like, Wow,
I really got a chance to see you as well
as a person, and I see why your time. I
mean you lasted pretty long compared to most people with
no dance. I mean you were about halfway through.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think I did four dances and then I did
the Dance of the night thing, which is weird because
I got booted. I know they used to. I know
they still do. They go our favorite dance from last
week or whatever whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh, yes, because we had results shows back then. There's
more result shows.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
So so I was like, and then you got the boot.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, I said, it has to be rare. You would know.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That before.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I remember thinking it's got to be feeling far between
where you get the Dance of the night and the
boot for that dance.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well, I mean, let's just be real.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I'm no longer on the show, but like they knew
already you got the boot, but they still voted.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
The judges voted for you to have that dance.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Does it happen often?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Well, that dance?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I mean, first of all, that never happened. Hasn't happened
since over a decade because we don't have results shows,
But that has happened once. I think with Pamela Anderson,
I'm pretty sure. But you know your dance was freaking entertaining.
We're talking about when you basically did the Pasa doble
and you there you go like on your unicycle. Yeah,
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you do that huge reveal and then you seamlessly. This
is I'm not even joking transition from the unicycle to
doing chess a capes and twist turns, and no one
said anything like meaning like the judges were.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Just harping on you for whatever, but nobody. That is hard.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I remember, got it. Maybe it was a land got
rest of Soul. I can't remember or who it was,
but I remember it was funny. Everyone they must not
possess unicycles in England, because I was like, you were
on the bike with the one wheel like.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
A unicycle. Maybe maybe Bruno.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Maybe it's Bruno. Yeah, they didn't seem impressed.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I was definitely not.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I was like, hey, riding unicycle something and it was
hard in that environment because.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But you're in a ballroom, for God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was not. You know, I rode the unicycle when
I was a kid, but I hadn't been on one
in a while, so I had to kind of tune
myself up a little.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Bit muscle memory.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The reason that was a little bit hard for me,
as I recall, is dance shoes are smooth leather on
the bottom and they're not good. They're not good for
unicycle and your foot will slide off the pedal. But
I needed to wear the dance shoes to do the dance.
But unicycle shoes, like running shoes are the best, or
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something with some grip and some tread, you know, for
the unicycle.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I didn't think about that. So you had your Latin
Cuban heels on too.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He had my heels on. So I was like this,
this is going to be tough to ride this year
because your foot's gonna slip off that pedal and it's
not gonna be good. So I do have a recollection
of going you should work this out, like, don't just
practice in your tennis shoes, you know, get your dance
shoes on again on that unicycle and get the feel
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for it. And I think I even took like some
black grip tape and wrapped it around the pedal so
I could just get a little bite, I could feel
it a little better. And then I also remember that
I was gonna be off in the wings and I
was gonna have to launch from the dark or it
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was dark where I was, because I need it. Yeah,
I needed it dark where I took off from. And
also things you don't think about before you ride a
unicycle and dance with the stars. The stage is built
on a slab and it's raised like three inches, and
there's a little ramp. There's a little rubber thing, you know,
so you don't trip on it or whatever. But I
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had to launch from the lab, so I knew my
first thing was going to be getting up this hump
onto the stage. And I was like, you could eat
shit right as you're entering the stage, because you're not
on the stage. I started off the stage.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Right from like downstage left or right.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, if you were facing the audience would be the
right corner, right down. And so also other weird little
unicycle things fascinating. I mean, I was used to sort
of hopping up and getting up on my unicycle, but
I didn't do a lot of starting from being up.
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And because of the way the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Was timed out, your cape around your neck.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The cape that the mask was a little weird because
your peripheral vision is a little screwed up in the cape.
But I started up on the unicycle, I was holding
onto a camera rig I was holding.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Onto like am hanging on to.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
The crane, and so I was like up, and I
was on it and I was kind of my feet
under me, and I was on the unicycle and I
was hanging on with my arm to the to the
crane in the dark though in the black. You know
it's supposed to be dark back there. You don't want
to see the crane, right, So I was back in
the dark, and I knew I was going to take
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like three or four petals, and then I was sting
to make it up that hump onto the stage up
you know. Yes, it's like it's the kind of thing
that would use if they're running chords through something that
puts something over it. It's like a little ramp speed bump,
you know. But I was like, I'm going to take
off in these dance us in the dark, and I'm
going to hit that speed bump, and there's a chance
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I may not make it onto the stage on the unicycle.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It was grand entrance at him.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Once I made it. Once I made it onto the stage,
I was like, all right, now now I'm off and running.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I mean, you obviously did dress rehearsal and you did
camera blocking doing that same thing, correct.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, I mean I kind of remember going, look, I
should wear the mask and get used to holding the
cape out and and kind of get used to the
cape and the mask and the stuff because it's all
affects things and no one thing.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
It's so disappointed. So it is such that is hard.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I remember kind of at the time, I didn't haven't
thought about it well, but I remember the time going, yeah,
No one said like a nice job on the inside
or something. They just kind of went like.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
We do this thing called rapid fire on sex lies
and spray dans. Who falls in love first, the celebrity
or dancer?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Boy, I would say the celebrity.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Hardest dance you did.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't know the names of them.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That's okay, favorite judge.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh well, since you gone, We'll go with Lenn.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Least favorite judge, Carrie comedian dance off, who would win you?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Or Jeffrey Ross.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I would win jeff Ross. That's that's not saying much.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Nicky Glazier versus your favorite d l Hugh Glee.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh I can't. I hadn't seen either one of them dance.
But I'll go with nickis women or.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
More, Chris Catan versus Andy Dick.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Oh, Chris, Andy's heiac cat.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Matt Walsh versus Drew Carrey, Oh, Drew's lost a lot
of weight.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
We'll go true.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
One word that describes some of your fellow Dancing at
the Stars co stars Tom Bras run decent.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
He's a good man, Samantha Harris.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Fine didn't. I didn't really spend a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
With her, Lenn Goodman, good Carrie on go ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I didn't have a beef with Eddy. You know, I knew,
I knew what the job was. They knew with the
job was. I get it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Gay, Priscilla Presley Gayer, stop it. Jason Taylor Tall, so
freaking tall, Christy ham A, Gucci Fierce, Shannon, Elizabeth Fine,
Christian de la Hot, Steve, Steve Gutenberg, wherever that man?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, affable.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Do you remember when he used to spend the night
at the This is back in the day before rules.
He used to spend the night at the dance studio
because he would rehearse so many hours. Anya Tremon skuy At,
his partner would just leave him there.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Are you serious? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I thought that's why you you made a joke about
him during the live show when you were staying the
next time, I thought that was what you were referencing
but now.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I was maybe I was.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I give me sleep there.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He had a barbecue at his house and invited everyone over,
and I remember that.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Marley Mattlin.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Oh well, Marley Mattlin's interpreter is a dude, and I
don't like it. You gotta get a female. She has
a female voice. She's like I fell in love with
the dance. I fell in love with the dance. You
know it's no good pendulate, big.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Smart Monica sellis uh depressed. Last one Marissa Jarrett Minoker.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh, I got a story for her, God go ahead.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
She I got off stage and she was a ball
of nerves like she was really she was a bundle
bundle of nerves. And I got off stage and I
could tell she was just in a bad way, super
nervous about dancing. And so she was there and I
and you know, people come up to people when they're
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super nervous or wherever they go, Hey, man, have fun
out there. Come on, you got fun? And it's what
I'm not kind of fun. I want to throw up
freaking out about now, have any anxiety attacks? Have fun
out there? You know what I mean? So I walked
up to her because I see she was like struggling,
you know. And I thought, let's see if you can
bring some wisdom to this, to this, you know. And
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I thought, I don't know, it could be one of
those have fun out there. No, don't listen to anybody
and pretend everyone's in the underpants, or don't be nervous
or something that's none of that works. So I walked
up to her and I go and Pendulotte was standing there.
He was trying to help to He's the tallest, she's
the shortest, you know, And and I just go, look,
you're not gonna have fun out there, but you know
(35:31):
what you're gonna have. You're gonna have an experience. You're
gonna have experience that you can trade for anything. And
he is such a crazy experience. And have fun. Yeah,
you got fun. Go see a movie, you know what
I mean, Go play lawn darts, have fun, you know.
But that's not gonna be fun. This is an experience.
Experience you can't buy. You know, this is incredible. And
I said, you know, childbirth, having a child, is it fun?
Speaker 4 (35:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Would you miss it for the world. That's experiences I
could That's what this is. This is childbirth is the
most important experience you ever gonna have, and she goes,
I just had ovarian cancer and I can't have, you know,
And Pendelette started laughing, like like the insane atheist he is.
Pendelate's like, whoa, my god, oh my god, Oh my god,
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oh my god.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
And I was just like, uh what, oh, I guarantee
if you if you look her up, she had some
sort of cancer something, and she had and she survived,
but you can't have kids.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
And Pendulotte starts screaming with laughter. He loved it.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I can't okay.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Two fan questions before I die at the James Bennett,
have you gotten fewer career opportunities since you got more
vocal about your political views?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
At him?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
It never helps to be too vocal in Hollywood. But
I've never based anything on career oppertus co unities. My
job is speak yes, make jokes, say what I want,
and that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
In two hours of Dance at Miss Stunning Gal, what
was your mindset going into dancing? Was it fun or
was it something for you to prove? Last one?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
It was a little not a lot of fun, because
I was, like I said, I was getting up at
five every morning and going to work, and it was
made for a long day. It was a real experience
and I wouldn't trade it for anything, and I didn't.
I didn't feel like I had anything to prove other
than I wanted to know that I did the best
(37:40):
that I could do, which was not that good, but
it was still the best I could. Don't. I didn't
want to like screw the pooch. You know, I would
have been you know, if I popped up on the
stage and did a brody on the unicycle and fell off,
I'd be pissed totally and I'd be disappointed and I'd
be like, come on, man, you can ride a unicycle.
Why'd you fall off? You know, like it's easy to
(38:02):
fall off for unicycle. But I felt like I'm good enough.
Hell right unicycle?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
So and transition into shasse capes a transition. Goddamn it,
you brought that up. Come on, I give you.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
A tad puts a smile on my face.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Thank you, Adam, Thank you for your time, Thanks for
having me.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Make sure you guys follow us at sex lies and
sprayed hands on our Instagram handle and make sure your
comment let me know who you want me to interview.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
What do you all think Let me know
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