DCC Podcast: Jalyn & Miranda

Jalyn and Miranda sit in for this week's DCC podcast with guest hosts Kristi Scales and Courtney McKenna.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The Dallas Cowboys Present. These boots are made for talking,
the official podcast of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. No, your hosts,
Courtney McKenna and Shannon Gross. Well, today it's not Courtney
McKenna Shannon Gross. It's Courtney McKenna and the one and

(00:24):
only Christie Scales and the house. I think people tuned
in and thought, oh, Shannon must have shaved the beer.
We can only hope since I've Metam, that's what I've
been praying for. But you know, three seasons later, it's
Stillana Space. Thanks for letting me stub in for Shannon.
We are so happy to have you. So we've got
Christie Scales, Hi Presley, We've got Christie Scales co hosting

(00:47):
with me, and today we have returning at Miss Miranda,
and for the first time on these boots are Pala
And then the first time on these boots are maybe Talking.
We have Jalen Welcome, Welcome, welcome, So excited to have
you both. But before we dive into everything about you guys, Chrissy,
can you give everyone listening a little bit about information

(01:09):
about yourself in case they don't know who you are.
Oh well, I just finished my twentieth season as the
sideline reporter for the Dallas Cowboys. So I'm on the
sideline with Miranda and Jalen on game day and then
my twenty eighth season overall with Dallas Cowboys Radio Network.
I was the producer in the booth starting in nineteen
ninety one through the ninety eight season and have been
on the sideline since nineteen ninety nine and have been

(01:31):
a judge for DCC auditions. This will be my eighteenth
season coming up. So yeah, So you know, when we
talk about auditions and things like that, if anybody has
questions about from a judges standpoint or anything like that,
would be happy to share some of the behind the
scenes going on the audition process from the judges point

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of view. And if anybody ever had any questions if
they reached out to on Twitter or something, could you
respond sure at Christy Cowboy, KRII STI Cowboy at Christy Cowboys.
So everybody listening if you're thinking about auditioning and want
to know the ins and outs our girl, Christie, we
love her, She's a good judge. We'll get Miranda and Jalen,
so we'll get their perspective today. So yeah, on the

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audition process. So first old News, Miranda, new News, Jalen, Welcome, Welcome, welcome,
thank you for having me. And again before we dive
too crazy, and let's get your background. Tell us a
little bit more about yourself, and then your dance background,
and a quick synopsis of your journey that led you
here to the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Yeah. So this is

(02:34):
my rookie season. I'm originally from Princeton, Indiana. I grew
up dancing and cheering out there, and then I moved
to New York City, where I attended Marymount Manhattan College.
I did their dance program for four years and then
have the opportunity to cheer for the Jets for one
season and then made my journey down here to Texas.

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And it's kind of hard to put into words what
this rookie season has been. It's been more than I
could have even imagined. Nobody's lying when they say that
each time you step on the field it is just
like the first time, truly unbelievable and an incredible experience.
And I'm looking forward to getting back out there and
starting to train for this next audition season. Yeah, but

(03:16):
you know, Jalen says, Oh, my journey down to Dallas.
The way I heard it was you drove from New
York to AT and T Stadium with a mattress strapped
to the top of your I did, indeed. I after finals,
I went back up to New York. I walked through
my college graduation that weekend, and then went out to
Queens on the subway, bought a car because I did

(03:38):
not have one in New York, loaded up all my
boxes in the back of the car, strapped my mattress
to the top with about fifteen bunch accords and ropes,
and thirty six hours later, finally made it down here
to Texas. And that was for prelimbs. That was yeah,
that was right after going into training camp at right
after training, after you found out you made it. Well,

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Miranda now from Fayette Well not a star of a drive, no,
So I actually moved down here after I tried out
the first year and I didn't make it to training camp.
I decided to go ahead and move my life to Dallas. Anyway.
Well won my now fiance got it his job after
college down here, so it just worked out well. And
two I knew I still wanted to become a Dallas

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Howie cheer later and wanted to be able to give
it my all, and so in order to do that,
I decided to move here, and I was a dancer
for the Texas Legends. They're the d League team for
the matt Actually, I guess I'm not the dealad anymore.
What are they tell him? The g lead, Yes, it's
a development. Was for the Dallas Mavericks, right for the NBA,
Yes exactly. And so I cheered for them for a
year and then went to all the classes possible while

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I lived here in Dallas, and then I was lucky
enough to make it the second year. So I was
already here when I made it, so I didn't have
to strap a mattress to my car. I literally can't
even imagine thirty six hours. Should you make that drive alone?
My boyfriend actually drove most of it. We laugh and
say we split it fifty fifty, but I think I
drove five thirty six hours, so he did a little
bit more of the driving. But I watched the mattress

(05:02):
from the mirror to make sure everything was still attached
up there. Your job was very important. It was very important.
I didn't want to flying off on the high or
anything crazy. Was very expensive, I know, and I had
it once I got here. A training camp started the
next day, and I at least had somewhere comfy to
go sleep at night after a long night of rehearsals.
Do you have a DCC roomy? I don't. I end
up getting a studio apartment down here in Frisco. And

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after four years of living all over New York City,
I had a couple roommates here there. One time there
was four of us living in about five hundred and
fifty square feet. Nope, So I has my journey down
to Texas. I decided this was my is my chance
to get my own little space. But right around the
corner from a lot of the girls on the team. Yeah,
but Mary Mount there in Manhattan. I mean, this is

(05:47):
like exclusive territory that where the university is located. Because
it's the upperast side. It's like in the seventies, you know,
seventy first, seventy first straight there you go anyway and
I see expert. I don't even know what any of
this means. Let me just say, hoity toity, go up
to levels from that that's an exclusive area. But I'm

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sure the students all come in, like you say, from
Queens and other areas, but there are a lot You
both studied dance at university, But were there a lot
of New York dancers or people that we might recognize
from Broadway that you knew, or that maybe I wouldn't
be field trips, but that would come over and do

(06:31):
classes with you, or maybe you got to visit theater
and pursue and pick the brains of the people who
were working in the industry. Yes, so all of the faculty,
I would say over ninety percent the faculty all still
working in the industry, whether it's still dancing in different
companies or choreographing. So not only were we kind of
learning from the best, surrounded with different dancers from all

(06:53):
over the country. That audition process was almost as crazy
as the DC audition process. You know, there were thousands
of applicants and then they narrow it down, UM, invite
a couple hundred over there to audition in person, and
it's one of those um throughout the day, they'll keep
putting lists on the door. So those you know, all
those New York Dance audition movies, it's definitely just like that. Um,

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so people from all over the country. And then, um,
some of you guys might know the young lady who
did Hairspray Live. She was Tracy and Hairspray Live. She
was in my class but in the acting world. Very
awesome that we got to kind of watch her rise
to fame over there and now she's doing tons of stuff.
So Andrew Rynolds is Mary moul Yeah, he's x Marlungs

(07:40):
so many loves. Okay, I know her. That's first name
that I've known. Yeah. Yes, And so sometimes they come
over and do um cool little classes and seminars with it.
It's nice to see people that have made it through
the program. And um made it in New York City. Huh, Well, Miranda,
didn't you. Weren't you just in Arkansas? You went back
to do some instruction, so you kind of did the
same thing that Jalen benefited from there in Manhattan. Yeah, definitely.

(08:04):
So I just went back to Fayville, which is my hometown,
and I was fortunate enough to work with the Fayvale
High School dance team. Their coach reached out to me
a couple months ago. She said, whenever you come home
to visit, just whenever it's convenient, we would love to
work with you. So I went and worked on high
kicks with them and did some technique and then just
taught them a fun combo. But most importantly at the

(08:24):
end we did a Q and A, and I just
tried to inspire them. They lost state this year by
a tenth of a points, oh my goodness. And you
know it's kind of the two team them and the
team that won. It's always a back and forth battle
between the two of them, and so I was just
really trying to encourage them that, you know, no matter
what happens, you just try to get back into saddle
and push back on. And I spoke to them about

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my journey with DCC and how I didn't make it
my first year and even in college, I didn't make
it my first year, and you know, sometimes things don't
work out the first time around or the second time around,
but she just keep pushing through. Were you on that
high school team or yes, yeah you did ye so um,
whenever I went to school that you only were in
high school tenth through twelfth grade. Ninth grade was still
junior high and so I was one of only two

(09:08):
girls who when I went to high school. My first
year I made the varsity team. So I was fortunate
enough to be on varsity all three years. So that's
who I Okay, Okay, what compelled you guys to come
to Dallas and to choose the DCC because Jalen, you know,
I don't know if if Broadway or that kind of
dance or joining Alvin Ailey Dance Company, if that, you know,

(09:32):
was the ultimate thing or maybe still is. Or Miranda
you know a little closer to Dallas and you know
a little more cowboy country there. But but why from
Indiana to New York to Dallas and then Miranda from
Fayetteville to Dallas. Let's start with Miranda, Okay. Yeah, So
for me, I thought college was going to be the
end of dancing for me and that I I was going

(09:53):
to start teaching dance because I had my degree. One
of my degrees is an education, which your other business, Okay, continue,
And so I always wanted to teach, you know, was
my Lspen Drol. I feel like I have a drid
heart for teaching. I just feel like that's kind of
where my passion lies. And so I thought I was
interesting to know straight to teaching in schools, but teaching
dance in school after college. But then when I was

(10:15):
cheering for Arkansas, we play A and M here every
year at at and T Stadium, and when we came here,
we met a couple of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and
that's when I decided. I was like, oh, no, I'm
not going to be done after college, Like I want
to strive for this next level. And if I'm gonna
go for a professional team, why not strive for the
best of the best. And it ended up working out
of my favor second time around. Yeah, so kind of

(10:38):
similar story. I besides, I after college, I definitely knew
I wanted to do something in the dance world. I
have a lot of friends that are in different modern
dance companies up in New York, and when I kind
of shared with a lot of them kind of where
I wanted to be and where my goals and passions
and dreams lied. And then being down in Dallas, everybody

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you know, and it was a little skeptical at first,
but growing up there's always been one of the dreams
of mine to come down here. And I have to
say that there's not many things that I haven't chased
in life. Usually when I set my mind to something,
I'm definitely go after a one hundred and ten percent.
So the same way, I woke up one morning and
told my parents, you know what, I'm not gonna go
to school Indiana. I'm gonna leave out one hundred and

(11:21):
twenty kids. There was not any of us really that
branch too far from Indiana, and I took the leap
and kind of moved to New York. I got the
dance training that I was looking for up there, and
then it was kind of the right time. I felt confident,
ready physically, mentally, ready to come down here in audition,
and I'm so grateful that put me here today. Courtney,

(11:41):
we got a little pipeline going from the New York
Jets shared leading squad from the flight crew to Dallas.
I think Jasmine and dan Yelle were among the first
we've had Tara, you know, I mean we actually had
Savannah so uh Denise Garvey, who was a former DCC.
She's still with the flight crew. Did you lean on

(12:03):
her in in terms of coming to this decision. Yes,
she definitely helped mold and create me and get ready
for this audition process. I had a great season with them,
and I was kind of ready for a change, not
only in scenery. I was, you know, very completed with
my New York experience. I was ready kind of get

(12:23):
out of the city the cold winters. I would just
there this past weekend and we had an eight degree Monday,
so I was ready to come back to Dallas. But
she definitely runs the program. She's taken a lot of
what she learned as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and applied
it to the program that she's created up there. So
it definitely, you know, from appearances to game readiness to cleaning,

(12:46):
all of that. I think it definitely helped us take
preparation for coming down here for this audition. So what
do you think the biggest difference between the Jets and
the Cowboys has been on the cheerleading aspect, especially since
your director was a DCC so there's some similarities, but
what's the biggest difference. I think, if you're looking from
a dance perspective, one of the biggest differences from the

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Jets down to the Cowboys here when we come down here,
the Dallas Cowboys definitely take the routines and everything that
we've learned and put a little bit more stylistic approach
on it, you know, with some hip hop approaches and
some of the dances and more jazz approaches up there.
She's really looking for a uniform, a clean what's going
to read well on the field. So I think letting

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go of some of those, you know, some of those
things that you kind of install in your muscle memory,
letting some of those things go, and really putting it
into the DCC style, because it is a very unique
style down here. So you you know, you take what
you've learned and all the cleaning aspects and really put
it into the DCC style down here. That'd be one
of the main differences. And then also from a cheerleader's experience,

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travel up there is crazy. So their facility is out
in New Jersey, and if you don't live in Jersey,
you are probably in the city, and that means you
probably don't have a car. So my trip to games
on Sunday would include an uber ride at four in
the morning to the subway station, the subway station to
the New Jersey Path the Path train to Hoboken, New Jersey,

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where I would get in a car with some of
the other cheerleaders and then drive to the stadium. How
long would that take? It would take all of two
hours if you wanted to be cautious and be there,
you know, prior to them opening the doors for you
to go in the locker room and start getting ready.
And now here you are just show up to the
starting You have a bus. I am very thankful for
the bus that we're here that takes at least score yes, yes,
one percent. You were talking about the different styles, and

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I want to go back to something Miranda was saying
about from the time from your first audition to your
second audition and when you made it and you were
here and you talked about taking classes, and so I
wanted to talk about the prep classes that have been
going on and continue through auditions. There every Friday night,
some Saturday, some Saturday in the spring, some Saturdays, but

(14:59):
generally forty dollars if you preregister on Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
dot com forty five dollars for walk up. But you
took advantage of those classes. And oh, and I think
people if you're not in dance, you don't understand Jayless, like, well,
it's a different style. Hi, there's a lot so there's
a lot a lot to that, So could y'all maybe
expand on that a bit. Yeah. So, even my first

(15:22):
year when I was still living in Fayetteville because it
was my senior year of college, my sweet brother and
my sweet mom and my sweetboyfriend at the time my
now fiance, they would take turns driving me down to
Dallas on Fridays after school is over. We would I
would take prep class on Friday nights and then sometimes
we would drive back in the middle of the night,
or we would come back first thing Saturday morning. And

(15:43):
I came down for at least half the prep classes.
So between those three they took me down here. But
no matter what dance training you have, ballet, jazz, hip hop,
if like Jalen said, the style is so different that
you have to come to the prep classes through DCC
to be able to get that style down. Because, especially
in today's day and age, with all the resources you

(16:04):
have available to you, if you don't show up at
tryouts almost with you know, going in the right direction
with the DCC style, it's kind of hard to play
catch up. And so I think that's why the prep
classes are so important. You know, those or other alumni
have classes around town. I know Sarah does, and Jennifer does.
Katie Tarter's prep classes, Michelle Peys has gone to. Hers

(16:26):
were great, you know, just going as many classes as
possible to try to learn the different style because every
I mean no matter where you go in with in
your life with dance, whether it's a professional company or
a professional cheer team, everybody has their own style, so
you just kind of have to try to perfect as
much as you can in that style. Yeah, and the
people that you mentioned, like Jennifer and like they are

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guest instructors at these prep classes that Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders
put on. So whether it's Jennifer me a Greenhouse, you
know people like that, it's folks that who are watching
this podcast when they would recognize from their days with
the with the DCC MIA. Actually actually on March is
a March first. There's one that it's not Dance this week,

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and they invited me to Jennifer and Jennifer love Jennifer
all time favorites and she choreygraphs a lot of the routine,
so you can't get better instruction than from Jennifer. There's
one that's I think in March they're doing a football
one oh one to help with March. That test, everybody,
you want to come if you need to brush up

(17:29):
on your football knowledge. Christie is literally the encyclopedia of life.
She knows everything. I swear to you, So no if
you don't yes, no, I don't know dance, which is
why they invited me to do football one oh one.
I was kind of had my feelings hurt that I
wasn't going to get to teach a routine. Chris Humble,

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The football knows everything very important because you don't know
and you are trying out for DCC. There is a
written test that we take. It's multiple choice and in
the interview you have to know a lot of things
about football, cowboys, football, football history, different referee signals. You know,
there's a lot of things about football you need to know.
So as important as our style, you know, coming to

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the prep classes of our style, that will be a
great class for people to attend to learn some football
one oh one. Yeah, and the written tests that you
guys take as judges. When we get into the finals,
things it's very or they are razor thin margins. Sometimes
whether someone's going to make a squad or not or advance.
But anyway, with the written tests, it's certainly not the

(18:33):
determining factor. But but we see what the scores are
and now we understand that. I'm thinking back, you know,
when Janelle was from austro you know, was coming over
the first time from Australia, and yet she aces the
test and some of the because she had put in
all the study and everything. And then people who are
more local and you get a low score and you're thinking,

(18:53):
how seriously are they taking this? So it matters. The
panel interview is a huge determining factor and things like that.
But Jalen, how much did you know about the Cowboys?
Not the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, but the Dallas Cowboys and
just at and T Stadium and what we think of

(19:16):
as the game day experience growing up in Indiana and
then going to college in New York. Yes, so I
actually grew up in a household. My dad and my
brothers are all diehard Cowboys fans, so I will have
to give them a little bit of credit some of
those memories growing up. So I didn't know some of
you know, our Cowboys history, football history and everything from

(19:39):
At and t you know, which is our new stadium
down here to the Star that was just built a
few years ago. All of that when I was preparing
in New York, that was, you know, some of those
factors that you definitely you know, get on your computer
and you can look it up and you can study.
So I put in as many hours as I could
just review in all of those and then being on
a football field before um, you know, just reviewing, like

(20:02):
Miranda said, your referee signals, and it really does change
your game day experience when you really do understand what's
happening on the field beside you when you're looking at
the game. And I had the opportunity to go to
the game in La the Cowboys in the Rams game,
and it was I got to sit in the stands. Yeah,
how was that? You got to really enjoy it and
watch the game? I did. I am, me and Maddie.

(20:24):
We packed our bags and we went out there and
we're able to watch the games from from the end zone.
I think we're on the opposite in zone as Miranda.
And it was as sad as it was, it was
a very different experience getting to watch them from the stands. Um.
But like I said, just referring back to audition process,

(20:45):
Like if you know what's going on the game, you're
prepared with the dance classes and you study up on UM,
you know your history facts and the Cowboys and the cheerleaders.
That's all you really want to focus on, and just
spend those weeks leading up to auditions to really prepare
yourself so you can go in filling confident. Well, we
got to take our first break, but when we come back,

(21:05):
I want to talk a little bit more about your
trip to La and Miranda was also in La, so
we got to catch up with these two about La.
And then we also are going to pick Miss Christie's Scales,
judges Brain for some audition tips, tricks and advice when
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(23:38):
is out in Mexico enjoying some not freezing cold weather
and the beach and we're all jealous but like whatever.
And then today we have Miranda and Jalen joining us
on the show. And while we were on break, we
were talking about our trips. La all four of us
in this room went to LA for the Cowboys playoff game,
and it was a lot of fun. I had fun,

(23:59):
I mean outside from the game, but everything else was great.
So you went to the games, got to sit in
the stands, and you were with another DCC right. I
was Maddie and I were able to go to the game.
We got tickets that week, and we were sitting in
that end zone over there and cheering as loudly as

(24:20):
we could. You know, I don't know if the players
could actually hear us from where we were sitting, but
we were screaming. It was quite the experience, I will say,
for at least the cheerleaders. When we're going to a
game here at and T Stadium, you know, we're there
hours before. We don't really get to see the fans
coming in and leaving the stadium. But I kind of
got to be on the other side. And I stood

(24:42):
in the lines outside and waiting to go in. And
I will have to say Cowboys fans are truly the
most you know, entertained or energetic and entertained fans out there.
They were having dance parties. The ones over here tailgating.
They were screaming, waving towels and then we had Rams
fans that were obviously cheering too, but I will tell

(25:03):
you the Cowboys fans were much louder, much more, much
more energetic out there. And even after the game, after
the loss, I was looking around as I was walking
and the Rams fans, you know, everybody's getting in their car,
they're uber and walking through, and the Cowboys fans still
had the most energy and they were yelling. They're like,
we'll be back, We'll see you, see you next year.
So that was that was fun to see and be

(25:23):
able to be in the crowd with a bunch of
Cowboys fans, first game as a fan, first game as
a fan. I wish we would have win the other
way as the game, but I'm definitely gonna have to
get out to some more away games because it was
quite the experience. It was awesome. Just maybe never to
LA again. Yeah, maybe not reason. But Miranda also went,
but she went as a DCC. Yes to tell us

(25:45):
about your fun appearances and what all guys got to do,
because you got to do some cool stuff. We did.
So six of us were picked to go to LA
and I still remember the moment I read on our
team map that I was chosen. My mom started trying.
I was with her and she was like, oh my gosh,
you're enough the best time. And she was like, oh,
we have to go shopping. We had to get you
some outfits. You need something around the plane. And so

(26:06):
we were nonetheless very excited that I got to go.
UM and so on the first day we drought there.
On Friday night, we both of our appearances were with
the Jones family. The first night was a more exclusive
appearance for us UM. So that's where we saw Chris
Jenner and Post Malone and a couple other, um, just
celebrities out in LA that were there. And oh, just

(26:28):
I mean it was the squinky West Hollywood Hotel at
the A. Yeah, I mean that Jones does know how
to throw a party, and it was a place where
should I say this, I think it's okay, We're Vanity
Fair has their pre like like their oscars, the Oscar
party stuff like that, so or oscars are golden globes
or something. But let's let's let's just say they know

(26:50):
they know how to throw a party. The gent well,
and it was at the hotel that that ride in
Disney World is designed after the Hollywood The Tower, The
Tower of t Yeah. Yeah, so we were in that hotel.
You didn't get in the elevator, did you? Oh no? Oh,
thank goodness. And so we had that appearance that night,
and that was just so cool to see all of
those people, you know, up close, and we just welcomed

(27:12):
them and then went around made some small talk with them.
And then the next day it was a small talk
with Chris Tenner. Same. Oh my god, she was so amazing.
So she walked in and I at first, I was like,
is that Chris Jenner? I had, you know, because you
aren't expecting to see these famous people in real life.
You're used to seeing them on TV and in magazines,
but in real life it's completely different. And she actually

(27:33):
wanted to come back through and take the video of us.
You know, she was excited to see us. So I
think that was the most exciting part of the whole
thing is that she even noticed us, you know, that
we were there. We were like us, us little peasants,
you want to take another video of me? And then
when she was leaving, we got a picture with her.
So that was really awesome. I was definitely starstruck. And
then the next day it was for all the sponsors

(27:55):
and head people at the Cowboys. That was just a
little pre game I guess, like like the gate party.
Yeah party okay, yes, and the same thing, just streating
everybody and making small talk with them. All the Jones
Joneses were there at both parties, so that was It's
always amazing to be around them, and we were so
grateful to be at both of those things. And then
we also got to experience the game as fans. Um.

(28:17):
They drought a sweet for us, which was really nice,
and we shared the suite with Piermou from Jimmy from
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Show Kimmel. Sorry, he's at last sidekick, Yes,
and I love him. He's just so sweet and he's
always jiggling. Um. He kept our hopes up during the game.
And so yeah, it was just a great trip overall.

(28:38):
And then we came back the next day really sad.
We were really thinking we had to. I mean, you
just could feel the energy in there. Like Jalen said,
the Cowboys fans were significantly louder than the Rams fans.
I mean, even when the Rams had their arms up
with their rally towels it seemed like maybe a fourth
of the stadium had their arms. That was the smartest
thing that the RAMS marketing did was they handed out

(28:59):
yellow towel that were on the seat so the RAMS
fans could weigh those because if they you didn't have
these little yellow towels. And because it was it, they say,
you know that it was going to be forty percent cowboys,
sixty percent ran No, No, it was over fifty percent
cowboys for sure. For sure. You were talking about how

(29:19):
you know, like a celebrity notice as it comes up
to you because you're wearing a DCC outfit. And it
was Robin who first used this term over a few
years ago. But Rock and Robin, Yeah, she'd she said,
you know, when I put on the uniform, it's like
it's like putting on a superhero outfit, you know, just
the way that people view you. And so um, this

(29:43):
past summer, Jalen was your first time when you had
your first fitting and then the first time you got
to wear it. So I don't know, do you do
you think that that's an appropriate description and how you
view not just yourself, how people view you when you're
wearing the DCC uniform. Yes, I think Robin hit it
definitely on the on the head there with that one. UM.
I think every time we get the opportunity to put

(30:05):
it on, it truly is a very rewarding experience, from
the first time we got the uniforms handed to us
at the end of training camp to appearances that you know,
just like Miranda was in La last weekend, m being
able to put that on and you know, meet people.
I know, we have some appearances coming up soon, some

(30:25):
read across America, days with some school children, UM, some
hospital visits, and each time we get to put that on,
it is, you know, incredible and people look at you know,
you know, whether it's celebrities or if it's children. When
Mattie and I were at the game, we weren't even
in uniform. And I think that's a good thing to
always keep in the back of all of our heads,
is you know, even when we're out of uniform, you

(30:46):
know people still do you notice that people recognized and
people recognized and wanted to you know, we had a
couple of girls, a little younger girls that came up
and wanted to take pictures and I think, so, you know,
it's a it's your superhero costume that you get to
put on um, but I think you know part of it.
You don't ever really get to take it off. Like
you know, as a Dallas cab Wish cheerleader, you know
you're part of the legacy and it's always going to

(31:07):
be part of you. And I think that's how, you know,
everybody kind of continues to live their life after this experience.
So rookie season is done. What's been the most surreal moment?
The most surreal moment we'll definitely I'll have to put
in there when the team was finally announced. We kept waiting,
We kept waiting, we kept predicting. We were like, I

(31:28):
think it's going to be this day, and then it
still wasn't. And then we were like, I think it
maybe Monday, and then it still wasn't. So that experience
when finally the team was announced was incredible. But I
will have to say my favorite memory for my rookie
season would have to be the playoff game coming out
of the tunnel with all of our fans and their
rally towels. That is the loudest I've ever heard a crowd,

(31:52):
the biggest crowd I've ever seen, and you know, seeing
everybody up on their feet, you know, waving those towels
around and getting rabbed up for a game that was
an incredible game and advances to the next round. It was.
It was pretty insane setting down there in the tunnel
waiting to come out for us to do um thunder
at the beginning of the game was was amazing. I

(32:13):
was looking around taking it all in and that will
definitely be a memory I will never forget. Was that
your favorite, too, Miranda, Or is there something from your
rookie season that stood out more? Or what about what
about both? Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah, I think, um, rookie
season would have to be well, let's say something outside
of just the games. So I think going to calendar

(32:35):
shoot for my first time, that was just an experience
as a whole, was something that I've never I've never
even really been to a beach before, you know, just
experiencing that as a whole and another moment that you
feel like a superwoman, supermodel, you know. Um, It's just
such a great experience for that whole week. But overall, yeah,
I just I have to agree with the playoff game

(32:56):
because there was just nothing like it. I mean, usually
when we are getting set up and ready for Thunder
our pre dame show, the trout is maybe about half full,
and by the time we do the jump split, I
notice it's much more filled. But that playoff game, everybody
was already in their seats. Everybody was ready to go.
I mean, you didn't find an empty seat in the crowd.
And so it's just so exhilarating the whole game and

(33:17):
then winning at the end. It's honestly, it's been a
while since the Tawboys have won the playoff game, and
so I think even though we didn't end the way
we wanted to end, the fact that we won a
playoff game this year it shows that we're going in
the right direction. And so just I think it gives
Cowboys Nation as a whole. It gives us hope, Joe
and moving forward. Absolutely, and you could feel that in
the air. Yeah, And to borrow a jerryism, their arrow

(33:38):
was pointed up right effort for this team. But can
I want to go back to something that Jalen was
singing about the different events that you do, like you
have rid across America with the young kids. There's something
that's coming up on February second, it's a Saturday at
at and T Stadium. It's good because there aren't that
many opportunities for full squad performances or events where all

(33:59):
of the DCC are together. But the Spirit Celebration, which
is the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders National Championship, takes place that day.
It's something that's open to the public. It's twenty dollars
general admission. I think it's ten for seniors and students
and military. But I know you guys do autographs and Miranda,
I wonder which you remember about that from last year,

(34:19):
because they're like going to be ten thousand people there
over five thousand competitors with these youth cheerleaders from around
the country. But did you get an opportunity to work
with some of those special needs cheerleaders last year? I
understand that you get lots of opportunity to work with
the kids at these kinds of events. Yeah. So I
was fortunate enough to be because we're there throughout the day,

(34:40):
and I was fortun enough to be there during the
slot that the one team that was there that they
were all special needs, they came up to get photos
with us, and so I had the opportunity to interact
with each and every one of them, and we kind
of changed things up. We went down so we could
take pictures with the ones and wheelchairs and whatnot. And
they were the most excited from the whole day, at
least from my whole shift. They were the most excited

(35:02):
to be there. They were just so happy and gracious
that we were wanting to spend time with them. We
definitely took out the time to get to know them,
learn their names, where they were from, and you know,
and it was just so cute to see them perform.
You know, we stopped what we were doing to get
to watch them shine down on the field, you know.
And those are just moments throughout our DCC career that
you can never take back. Read across the air today,

(35:25):
the hospital visits, I mean, that's what really warms your
heart and what mates getting to wear the Superwoman outfit
so special, because that's when you get to see on
those kids' faces or the elderly's faces, how important and
fun it was for them to experience that, and they're
actually so The DCC work with Spirit Celebration. It's a

(35:45):
cheerleading company that basically puts on competitions throughout the US
and all across, but the DCC host two every year,
so they had a spring in our winter, fall or
spring one of the two seasons, so they had one.
They do one every year at four Center and then
one every year at eighteen te Stadium as well. So
did you get the opportunity to do anything at Forward

(36:05):
Center this year? Did? I was fortunate enough Rachel and
I were able to. We got that last little shift
of the night, so it was fun to see. Some
of the younger teams were kind of wrapping up because
they kind of go by the age, so they were
kind of wrapping up, and we got to take pictures
with all of them and sign autographs, and later in

(36:27):
the evening that was most of the junior teams and
the senior teams, and I actually had an experience. I
was seen in there and one of our security guards
as I was switching shifts and coming in, he said,
you know, Jayalen, there has been this little girl and
she's been coming. She's been back in for three or
four times all day. And he was like, I don't
know if she's still here. She's been here for a while.
And about ten minutes later, I see a mom come

(36:48):
through and she you know, got inline to take a
photo and she came up and she was like, I
didn't want a photo, but my daughter loves you and
she wants to take a photo with you. But she's
backstage getting ready to compete. So we sent her a
little video and it was like Hi Reagan, like, you know,
good luck competition, and the mom was able to kind
of show her before she went on stage. And about
an hour later, I saw the mom kind of come

(37:09):
back through and she had the little girl with her
and they got inline, and as it was her turn
to come up, she couldn't even hardly walk forward. She
was crying so much that she couldn't see. And she
was so excited to come up there and take a
photo with us, and it's been nice. She actually reached
out to me on Twitter and we're friends on Twitter

(37:30):
now and we tried back and forth and her team
won that day, so she was so excited. And I
think those are the moments that really touch your heart
and make it really special. You know, everybody I think's
had experiences like that, and that's what makes appearances that
much more amazing. Little good let me go ahead and

(37:50):
give the website where people can go and learn more
about Spirit Celebration, the one that's open to the public
at at and T Stadium again all day event on Saturday,
February second. If you go to Spirit Celebration dot Com again,
that's Spirit Celebration dot Com. You can click on the
part for Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader National Championship and get all

(38:11):
the information about tickets. It's free parking, and again, you
guys are there throughout the day, different at different points
with some performances, but mainly with opportunities for autographs and
again not as many opportunities during the offseason. It's during
the season to meet the DCC, so we want to
share that with everyone. So can I go back to

(38:34):
something that Miranda was saying about, you know, like you
did the prep classes right to learn and you've done
different instruction. Have you had an opportunity to do a
lot of the junior DCC clinics and camps and what's
that like in Jalen. I don't know if you got
a chance to do a lot as a rookie, but
we'd like to hear your perspective on creen of camps

(38:56):
over here. Yeah, I definitely let Miranda take it over.
I was fortunate enough to do one camp with Miranda
over the winter break, so but I'll let her tell
a little bit about about those and then give my
experience from that as well. So, like I said earlier,
I always thought after college I was just going to
go straight to teaching, and so I just feel like
camps is kind of where I've thrived as far as
DCC DROs. I just love camps. I would think I

(39:19):
was on every single camp last summer, which of course
that was hard going through that and training camp, but
it was worth every second of it. And I'm always
with the minis, the six, seven and eight year olds,
and they're just awesome. Three day camps so we have
throughout the summer and then we have a winter one
that's one day, and then a two day camp for
spring break that is coming up in March, so make

(39:40):
sure you sign up for that, and you know it's
just you get to spend the whole day with the
DCC We played games, we warm up, we do some technique,
we learn a cheer, and then of course they learn
a dance. And then at the end of whether it's
a three day camp or a two day camp or
one day camp. At the end of it, the boys
have been there who have played football, or we saw

(40:00):
lots of girls take at the camps two but they
play football in the field and during the timeouts and
during the tarter breaks, we perform just like we would
for our Dallas Cowboys at the game, and so they
get to put on a full game day experience for
their parents or you know, anybody in their family or
friends that want to come and watch them. And so
it's really special to see that. And you see girls

(40:21):
who come back year after year, and we do a
time every day where we talk about what DCC stands for,
and so we get to teach them, you know, character
and community and dedication, Thank you, dedication, and so we
speak about one of those each day and so they
get to you know, not only get to learn about

(40:41):
dance and build themselves that way, but they get to
build their character and really learn what it is to
work hard in life to be able to get the
things that you want to achieve in life. And then
also I've been able to substitute a few times for
the Junior DCC classes, so Junior DCC is different. That's
something you can sign up for at next step dance,
which is here at the Star in Frisco. Is it

(41:02):
still on Thursday evenings that they do the classes? I
believe so I think they have it's a week, Yes,
it's just once a week. And I think it's something
set up that you have to attend so many to
be able to perform at the next performance. So if
you can't do a performance or a certain class, you know,
you can always pick it up for the next one.
And they're always taking new kids over there, and so
I've been able to stab a couple of times for

(41:23):
that class. And that's really special too, because those girls
have a little miniature Dallas tabways cheerleader uniforms, and man,
are they something else. They are too kier you. And
I'm not gonna I'm not putting anything on the older
girls who are auditioning, but let me just say that
last year that in Courtney, you were there. You remember
the after the it's the finals of auditions, and so

(41:45):
you have the morning solo routine and then the afternoon
session it's on the field and that's when the hopefuls
take part in you know, you do your field combination. Yeah,
the field performance with the combination and then the kick line. Well, anyway,
after each of you had done your that part of it,
then the Junior DCC came out and got to perform

(42:05):
those Oh man, did they kill it. It was awesome.
We got to see them on the big screen and
it's like, oh man, I can't wait till they're eighteen
year older and want to try out to join the
DCC and not Junior DCC. Oh it was great. It
was so much fun. Well how was your experience, Jalen
with the with the work in the camp that you
got to work, It was an amazing experience. I was

(42:27):
able to do the one day Christmas camp and i
um part time work just down the road at a
dance studio and got the word that some of my
kids were receiving their camp package that was their Christmas present.
So I was able to actually run into some of
them and teach them throughout the day. And I think
just being able to see all the kids and you know,

(42:49):
some of them were looking forward to these camps for
weeks and months, and you know, that really is um
you know for the kids that I knew that was
their you know, their biggest and their favorite Christmas present
that they so it was really fun watching all of
them learn from all the all the cheerleaders and then
be able to show their friends and family out on
the field. Well, we got to take one last break.

(43:10):
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will be talking about auditions, gonna get judges perspective. We're
gonna talk to YouTube, find out if you're gonna re audition,
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and we've got a lot to get through. So there's

(46:09):
no dilly dallying, no small talk, ladies, but talking about
it and I think it's valuable. We'll talk auditions well
first and then we'll go to Christy. Are you two
re auditioning? Yes, yes, good, there's there's two yeses. They're
both planning on check check check. Now I have thirty

(46:33):
four more to figure out. Well, now we've been finding
something out on the show. Feel like I feel like
a lot of you are planning on re auditioning, so
that makes me excited. I'm sure you Chrissy's a big
supporter of the veterans well, but the thing is the
veterans are held to a higher standard and auditions by
the judges than the rookie hopefuls because you should know better.

(46:53):
You know you've been through it before and you know
what the um standards are. And mirandam sure that as
a returning veteran this past year that you knew that
or everybody had had talked to you about that already
or yeah, well, like we were talking about earlier with
the style, I feel like that's the biggest thing. You know,
after your first year, you're expected to have that down.

(47:13):
You know, if you're coming in as a rookie, they're like, oh,
well they'll have training camp to learn. You know, they've
never done it before. But as a veteran, if you're
not nailing that sideline dance at tryouts, you know yeah yeah,
and Jalen, you you know you had the head start
because Denise Garvey, the former DCC who was your instructor
with the Jets, could give you tips and things like that.

(47:34):
But let's talk about some practical tips for hopefuls who
were thinking about maybe coming for the prep classes and
going to come audition in May. What's some practical advice
I would say one thing I would definitely tell anybody
who was auditioning. UM. I think that sometimes it gets
overlooked because you know, you know, however you prepare for

(47:58):
that type of audition. You know you're looking at you know,
is your hair and your makeup and are you in shape?
But I would say one thing you don't want to
underestimate is is your stamina up and that type of
in shape. Because I will say, once you get to
that final round and you're out there and you're doing
that routine a couple of times through, and you're doing
the kickline a couple times through, you can really start

(48:19):
to underestimate how m out of shape? Yeah how? And
you know, you may you may be like, oh my,
you know, my six pack is looking good right now,
But you really want to take that, you know, you know,
take that routine in those kicklines home and start now,
start building that stamina up because that day comes and
you don't want to run out of steam before the
end of the audition process. And as two people who

(48:40):
have seen the JumboTron and you guys standing up there,
you can definitely tell when girls are breathing heaven. Oh yes,
it's a tight shot on just each candidate. So if
you're if you're dying out there after doing a few
dances and a couple of kicklines, I don't think that
oh yeah, oh yeah, we noticed this, like who she
suck and wind after that? You know, And that's not

(49:02):
a no, because you should be you should come. You
should you don't use the summer training. If you make
it through auditions. You do not use training camp to
get in shape and be ready for the regular season.
For the preseason. You come to audition and optimal shape
because it starts right then. But you know, one thing, um,

(49:24):
you talk about the stamina. A lot of the people,
they're different dance backgrounds of the of the hopefuls, and
not all of it is high kicks or it may
you know, be cheerleading instead of dance, dance and or
drill team. What is stretching a big thing? Is it
that a huge thing to prepare for kickline? Oh? Yeah,

(49:46):
I mean we, like Jalen said, we do the kick
line twice, so at the end of the first one
you slide into your right splits and at the end
of the second one you slide into your left, you know.
And I think you always see it on the show too,
and you watch it. I mean they'll zoom in and
sp the spotlight on the one girl who's not sitting
in our splits all the way, you know, And not
only that, it's one thing to have your splits, and
then it's a whole other thing to try to hit

(50:07):
your face. You need to do the classic lacy and
literally kick your nose final, Yeah, your nose blade. But
they definitely they look at kits just as much as
they look at the dance, you know. And I mean
obviously a hitline is huge for us. We do it
every single game. And so if you don't have those
kicks up there, yeah, I remember my first year. We
have the judge's sheet, and so they're a different criteria
you go across and so wait that part of its appearance.

(50:30):
Tell us it's the physical part what the judge's sheet
looks like. Well, it's the hopeful's come out five at
a time, other than the solo portion, which is the
morning part of round three, but the other parts should
come out in groups of five. So um, But anyway,
you have a different um columns, and so you have

(50:51):
a beauty and appearance. Those are two different things because
one is you know, beauty and then appearances how they
look in the DCC uniform and the shorts are less
than a yard of fabric okay forgiving, Yeah, not at all.
And then you have showmanship, which can include things like energy,

(51:12):
you know, that's the routine. And then you have when
you get to the second and the third rounds when
they're doing a choreograph piece, unlike the preliminary first round
where it's freestyle and they can do whatever they want.
But when it's choreograph routine, you have a column for
ability to learn, and that's they don't have to do
it perfectly, but it needs to be pretty close. Or
if you get a little loss, don't get the deer

(51:34):
in the headlights. Look, just keep going, pick it up right,
make it, fake it till you make it, and then
you have kicks, and then you have splits. And I
don't have a drill team background, and so my first
year it's like kicks, it's either going to be check
or a minus. And then you see the different kicks.
You get these former Kilgore Rangerettes or Tyler Junior College,

(51:56):
the Apache bells and you know, the Laces of the
world who can kick their nose, and then people who
are wonderful dancers, but maybe that's not their background and
they've got the low kicks and they the inability to
kick is one of the main things that will keep
you off of the DCC. So when we talk about stretching,

(52:17):
we're not talking about that day or the week before.
We're talking about in the weeks and months leading up
to a staring starting now yeah yeah, yeah for you
guys too, so putting you on the spot. But as
a candidate coming through auditions, what is something that you
would want to know about auditions through the judge's eyes.

(52:39):
So it's your chance to ask Christy something and then
we'll go to fan questions because we only have like
eight minutes left. Um. I think everybody is always kind
of wondering the very first prelems when you go and
stand up, they're one out of time and introduce yourself.
What do you like to hear from them? Do you
like to hear a novel? Is name and age and
where they're from enough? I feel like people are always
worried about that part. I personally want to know a

(53:01):
little more than name and age. I would want to
know that Jalen was with the Jets flight crew, because
I'm going to make a note of that, Oh she
was with the Jets, or Alana was with the Lakers
or something like that. If I like to know background,
because I like stories. I'm a reporter and I'm already
thinking of, oh, there's a story that i can write about.

(53:24):
But mainly we want to know more. I want to
know more about like dance background and things like that.
And I also am writing stories about where people are
from and you know, oh, we have six different countries
and forty two or fifty different states represented at auditions.
So I do like a lot of information. And it's
not that you have to go long, it's how much

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can you how much information can you get into a
brief thing, and don't do something silly like, oh, I
can sing the names of all the states. Well, that's
a fun fact, but I think I'd rather know something.
So going along the lines of the introduction, what is
something that people should avoid and how much of an

(54:07):
impact does it have on the judges if they come
across nervous or anything like that. I think it's just
that if you make it to finals, then panel interviews
is really what you use to see if someone is
well spoken and can you know off the top of
their heads, you know that if they would be good
in interviews and be a good ambassador and representative of
the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. But yeah, one of the things

(54:28):
that you need to rehearse is your introduction because you
don't want to get up there and stammer through it.
And the main thing is it's your presence, and do
you seem confident and if you're not, nobody else's but
fake it till you make it exactly. What's your question
for the judge? I think this is one that would

(54:50):
probably be very different, you know, depic on which judge
we're asking. But since we have you here to pick
your brain, I want to know what your biggest in
any round of the audition process. What is your biggest
pet peeve when you're going through the audition process and
you see this the people who watch CMT when they
do the crowd I say, crowd shots of you, of
the hopefuls that are waiting, smacking, gum slouching. You need

(55:14):
to be up paying attention and encouraging your your fellow
hopefuls because if you're if you're there looking disinterested or
gum smacking or I mean it's like so they're watching
you even when you're not performing, absolutely, because we are
looking for ambassadors. To me. To me, that's that's a

(55:36):
that's a pet peeve of mine. That's a good one.
That's for sure. Everybody to remember anything. You know, if
you're not out there, you know everybody's looking at it,
and the other thing. Even if the judges aren't watching
you those there are several CMT cameras. The production crew
has lots of cameras set up, and so there's a
chance that you're going to be in the background of somebody,
specially on auditions. Yes, yes, so so um it's a

(55:59):
great question. But stuff like that matters, And so when
I there. There are times where even veterans, when we're
the judges, are debating, and sometimes you have to get
up there and advocate for someone and it's like, hey,
let me tell you you know this, this, this and this,
And it's like she's the one that's encouraging our teammates.

(56:21):
She's the one that is has her arm around the
person and is trying to console them or help them.
So things like that matter. All right, now, we only
have a few more minutes, so I want to ask
some social questions and there are some good ones, and
I like this one, and I feel like you both
will appreciate it. Oh gosh, okay, what's their actual name?
Steve with a lot of ease at the end, he said,

(56:41):
you both had hair stories on DCC making the team.
Have you guys finally figured out your hair colors? And
how often you have to get them color touched up?
Have you figured out the hair drama? I think we've
figured it out at this point. We were just chatting
about this, and you know, I think we went through
several different coloring and cuts and styling. I know a

(57:03):
lot of my hair circulation that happened over the summer
was on the show, so everybody got to see all
kinds of crazy shades of red and orange and everything
in between. But I think we're finally to a color
that everybody likes. No Kelly even does a similar color now,
so I'm hoping that if she likes it on her head,
she's enjoying it. Yes, And I had to get mine

(57:26):
done almost every four to five weeks because this is
I'm actually naturally more of Christie's color over there. Oh wow,
So I can't even picture it because you came in.
I came in and dark, Yeah, dark and red, and
so you know which, it's good. If I have to
do it every four and five weeks, it means the
hair is healthy and it's still growing. So we'll take that.
There you go. Yeah, I think well, I think mine

(57:47):
was more just the part where it was and but
last year, my rookie year, I was given a center
part at rookie makeovers, and so of course I'm the
type person who's gonna do what my teacher tells me
to do, and so I just left the center part,
you know, for the next rounds for the next year,
and then they decided to give me a side part,
which I am thrilled about. I love the side part
on me. I've always had a side part and then

(58:09):
just added more blonde and I like it. But I
don't have to get mine done as often like twice
a year. Oh good, Yes, all right. I don't know
what their first name is, but someone on Twitter it
wants to know if Jalen would ever marry a Cleveland
Browns fan. I saw that one earlier. I knew you
were going to probably ask me that that was a
funny one on there. Unfortunately, I have to say, I'm

(58:33):
a pretty diehard Cowboys fan grown up live here, so
I'm gonna have to you know, whoever I'm marry. I
do have a boyfriend, by the way, he's gonna have
to like the Cowboys and definitely support the Dallas Cowboys
and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Ye now, what if they
root for the Browns for AFC and then Cowboys for NFC.
Would that be a good compromise. It would be a

(58:55):
little better of a compromise. They would still have to
be over here. I think at some of these Cowboys
games they got to experience at and T Stadium and
see what it's really all about over here, then maybe
their ideas were changed. All right, Phil Baggiley, I think
as how you pronounce it, he is from the UK
and he wants to know what the strangest thing you've
done as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Strangest. M Wow, that's

(59:20):
a good one. That's a hard one. It's a hard one.
I don't usually get stumped, and I'm stumped strangest random
appearances or like any weird things you guys are just like, huh. Well,
I remember last year when I started doing my first appearances,
I was very surprised by how many super fans we
have that come to every single appearance. I was very

(59:41):
shocked by that. And you see the same ones that
every single one, so I think that was just the
most shocking to me. Yeah, I'd have to agree with that.
And sometimes I think when people come up to us
or one autograph or want a picture. It's very fun
and entertaining for sure. Sometimes what they say, Um, I
kind of associate it when you're watching like the Bachelor

(01:00:03):
or the Bachelotte and they're coming out of the limo
and they have their first little like thirty seconds to
like wow you or like make a connection. And I
think sometimes when they come up to, you know, an
autograph table and they're saying something, you kind of maybe
look to the cheerleader next to you. Afterwards you're like,
I don't know if they really meant that or if
they you know, they got nervous happen. So sometimes, but
we do appreciate everybody that comes out and you know,

(01:00:25):
comes to take pictures and you get autographs. We love
our super fans. We do. Hey, we want to be
anywhere without our super fans, So we love y'all. Keep comming.
That's right, all right, We got one last question and
then we're gonna have to get out of here. Um.
Nikki wants to know how do you deal with watching
the show and seeing comments from the judges or Kelly
and Judy which may not always be positive. I think

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the first time you are rewatching this show, or you're
watching it for the first time and you see a
negative comment about yourself, that's the hardest blow. But I
also like to live my life by all all those
things are what makes you stronger and being able to
everything that I saw was I had already seen to
my face. I know, I don't remember ever seeing something

(01:01:08):
really that was behind my back that I didn't already
know was you know that they said to in front
of me at training camp and so, but just rehearing
it and it was almost like reiterating it just reminded
me to keep improving. And you're never one hundred percent.
You always have more room for growth, and so it's
just a constant reminder to keep being better for yourself.
And you're never going to have a hundred percent of

(01:01:29):
the people support you, and you just have to remember
all the people that do support you, your family and
your friends, and you know, leaning on them in those times. Yes,
I have to agree with Miranda. I think watching some
of it, you know, ninety percent of the time we've
heard it, it's usually a comment that Kelly Judy have
said to us, And I think you have to remind
yourself that in that moment or when you're watching it

(01:01:51):
on the show for the first time that Kelly Judy
really are trying to put the best squad that they
can together. And so if they're saying, you know, Jalen,
like that left kick is all low, you know at
the time, it may be a little frustrating, but they're
saying that so that you can push yourself. You can,
you know, get that leg higher, or you know, get
the style of that routine better, or work on your
memory on something, and it should just be fuel to

(01:02:12):
your fire and you should be able to use that
and to push forward and hopefully get to where we
all wanted to be in and make the team. At
the end of training camp, well, it's been a fun hour, ladies.
We could do it quickly. It very quick, always does,
and we could do another hour, but we've got places
to go, people to dance. Also, oh my god, your
students are supposed to be watching, yes, yes, So if

(01:02:35):
you're watching, hi, they were all getting a break from
ballet classes. Wow, very class, very cool. So shout out
to everybody. So what you said about when people are talking,
you know, it's constructive criticism. It's you know, if anybody
says something it's to make you better, exact team better exactly,
So we got a scrat ottle. I was trying to
find the list of who's going to be here next
week and I can't. I recently deleted all my text messages,

(01:02:58):
so probably wasn't. But it's gone. But we will have
two new DCC next week on a fresh new show,
and Christy, thank you so much for filling in. Thanks
for having it, and if you guys again have any questions,
reach out to Christy Scales at Christy Cowboy on Twitter.
She said she would love to answer them, so definitely
take advantage of that. Miranda and Jalen, thank you guys

(01:03:20):
so much for coming on and we will see you
all back here next week on These Boots are Me
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