# By Order of the Faithfuls: Ballroom Battlefield (DWTS: The Next Pro)

An episode of [Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1477524410), 21 Aug 2026, 31 min.

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This week, the dancers are teaching influencers the ballroom basics… Dolores can hardly judge, considering her flexibility is slim to none (and she can prove it)! What is the most crucial skill to have as a pro on DWTS?! Being the best teacher or being the best dancer? Plus, which dancer would we prefer to learn from? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Welcome to all you faithfuls and traders. Another episode of
[0:03] Speaker 1: By Order of the Faithful swells here alongside the lovely
[0:07] Speaker 1: Dolores Catana.
[0:08] Speaker 2: Hi, wells, how are you?
[0:10] Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I actually my bank accounts a little lighter.
[0:15] Speaker 2: Why would you do? What did you purchase?
[0:17] Speaker 1: Oh? What I did? It's what my dog did yesterday?
[0:21] Speaker 1: What she owes me four thousand dollars? She ate an
[0:26] Speaker 1: entire can of baking cocoa powder. Oh, yeah, which you
[0:33] Speaker 1: know it's chocolate?
[0:36] Speaker 2: Is so you had to induce vomiting? Oh, in the hospital.
[0:41] Speaker 1: He's at the emergency room right now, right now. Don't worry.
[0:45] Speaker 1: She's okay. But she owes me a lot of money
[0:48] Speaker 1: because it was a lot. First of all, the carpet
[0:52] Speaker 1: is destroyed.
[0:53] Speaker 2: You know how you induce vomiting, Make them drink peroxide.
[0:57] Speaker 1: I did that. I I dipped some bread in some
[1:00] Speaker 1: peroxide and I made her eat it. And on the
[1:04] Speaker 1: way to the emergency room, she threw up so much chocolate.
[1:12] Speaker 1: She ate a hole?
[1:15] Speaker 2: What jar? What is it?
[1:17] Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like eight ounces of powdered chocolate that
[1:20] Speaker 1: she ate.
[1:20] Speaker 2: So bell could going down though, Yeah.
[1:24] Speaker 1: You know, I hope it was worth it. It was
[1:26] Speaker 1: the most expensive jar of chocolate in the entire world.
[1:29] Speaker 2: That's like gold leaf diva.
[1:33] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you look all you look all dulled up?
[1:39] Speaker 1: Were you were you filming today?
[1:40] Speaker 3: No, I'm doing some content, is what I was doing,
[1:43] Speaker 3: catching up on some things.
[1:46] Speaker 2: And uh yeah, so so that's that.
[1:49] Speaker 3: I'm actually doing some content for a pet food as
[1:53] Speaker 3: soon as I get done with you.
[1:55] Speaker 1: So chocolate flavored.
[1:56] Speaker 3: It is not chocolate flavored, but but it's Gabrielle Catana,
[2:00] Speaker 3: doctor Gabby approved.
[2:02] Speaker 2: Oh but it's very good. And I'll let you know
[2:05] Speaker 2: about it. I'll let you know how it is.
[2:07] Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me the brand. I love dog food.
[2:11] Speaker 3: Pets table, the pets table. Okay, yeah, so so she
[2:17] Speaker 3: loved it. She's actually keeping it for her dogs and
[2:19] Speaker 3: she'll be feeding her dogs with it.
[2:21] Speaker 2: For now on I do.
[2:22] Speaker 1: I do Farmer's Dog But if this is good, let
[2:24] Speaker 1: me know and I'll switch.
[2:25] Speaker 2: To the table. Is good, she said, the ingredients are amazing.
[2:29] Speaker 1: All right, I'm sure that all the listeners out there
[2:31] Speaker 1: don't give a crap about our dogs, but they do
[2:33] Speaker 1: give a crap about Dancing with the Stars. The next
[2:37] Speaker 1: pro we are in episode six and I feel like
[2:40] Speaker 1: this is kind of where the rubber meets the road. Dolores,
[2:43] Speaker 1: It's like.
[2:43] Speaker 2: Well, I never heard that saying before, but I'll be
[2:46] Speaker 2: using it now.
[2:48] Speaker 3: So explain the Robbert meets the road. What does that mean? Like,
[2:53] Speaker 3: I know what it means, but I explain it to me.
[2:56] Speaker 1: What like for this episode, right, it's the episode where
[2:59] Speaker 1: they bring in quote unquote what the celebrities would be, right,
[3:03] Speaker 1: which are novice dancers, and they have to teach them,
[3:07] Speaker 1: you know, how to dance, teach them the number, get
[3:10] Speaker 1: them ready, do all the.
[3:12] Speaker 2: Corey corey Yeah.
[3:14] Speaker 1: And so for me, like rubber meets the road, Like
[3:16] Speaker 1: this is where it gets like really serious, because if
[3:18] Speaker 1: you're trying, if the whole thing is you're trying to
[3:20] Speaker 1: find someone to become a pro on Dancing with the Stars,
[3:24] Speaker 1: you need to know that they're good at this thing,
[3:27] Speaker 1: which is teaching people who can't dance how to dance.
[3:30] Speaker 2: So they save this for last.
[3:32] Speaker 3: They save this where you are so mentally yeah and
[3:36] Speaker 3: physically drained, and now you're down to the wire and
[3:41] Speaker 3: you're kind of scared, like who's going home next? And
[3:45] Speaker 3: they did they this is where the rubber meets the road.
[3:49] Speaker 3: For sure, and it did.
[3:52] Speaker 1: It did for someone, It absolutely did. So the show
[3:55] Speaker 1: starts with Robert welcoming Shirley and Mark out. Bob reminds
[4:01] Speaker 1: the five contestants that the finale just right around the corner.
[4:05] Speaker 1: And this week's judge is one of my favorite of
[4:08] Speaker 1: the pros, Whitney Carson. She's a lovely person. I've gotten
[4:10] Speaker 1: to meet her before, and she's very pretty.
[4:12] Speaker 2: She looks like Madison Lacroix a little bit.
[4:15] Speaker 1: She doesn't look real. She's like, you know, she looks
[4:18] Speaker 1: like a supermodel.
[4:20] Speaker 2: Do any of the pro dancers look real to you? There?
[4:23] Speaker 2: The beauty.
[4:24] Speaker 1: What's crazy is she had a kid not too long
[4:26] Speaker 1: ago and she looks.
[4:27] Speaker 2: Out, So did you have to really ruin it for me?
[4:30] Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't even know how, Like physically,
[4:33] Speaker 1: I guess if you're dancing every single day and doing
[4:35] Speaker 1: that much cardio, that's why you have like zero body fat.
[4:38] Speaker 1: But anyways, Whitney's awesome. She's obviously like one of the best,
[4:41] Speaker 1: and obviously very near and dear to Robert's heart. Because
[4:45] Speaker 1: did they.
[4:45] Speaker 3: Say they will they danced together? And did she win twice?
[4:48] Speaker 3: Did I hear them say that?
[4:50] Speaker 2: Yeah?
[4:50] Speaker 1: She's won twice, I believe. Yeah, and she won with Robert.
[4:53] Speaker 3: Yes, and uh, he gets so excited about everything like
[4:59] Speaker 3: his father.
[5:01] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[5:01] Speaker 3: And you know, sadly his father left him us all
[5:04] Speaker 3: too soon, but he was such a baby. It's amazing
[5:09] Speaker 3: to me that he is so much like him in
[5:13] Speaker 3: every way. And the enthusiasm is right there.
[5:18] Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can see so much of Steve
[5:21] Speaker 1: shining through in Robert, which is which is really nice.
[5:24] Speaker 1: And yeah he is he's like, I got a zest
[5:26] Speaker 1: for everything. And this hosting thing is is very very good.
[5:30] Speaker 1: So this this theme this week is teaching an amateur.
[5:35] Speaker 1: They will be dancing a ballroom routine with social media
[5:39] Speaker 1: influencers that are fans of the show. This is I
[5:42] Speaker 1: think a little bit of like boxing with kit gloves, right,
[5:47] Speaker 1: Like these guys are all one very very familiar with
[5:51] Speaker 1: the show and to their kind of like all TikTok dancers,
[5:54] Speaker 1: So they're kind of good at dancing, not.
[5:57] Speaker 3: Real they're not formally really formally trained in any way. Yeah,
[6:01] Speaker 3: and you can tell, like sometimes people lie about it.
[6:05] Speaker 2: Sometimes people have.
[6:08] Speaker 3: Some type of you know, dance training or something in
[6:12] Speaker 3: their backgrounds. You can tell that there was not that
[6:16] Speaker 3: wasn't the case here, so it was really hard for them.
[6:20] Speaker 3: I think when they chose who was going to be
[6:24] Speaker 3: their partners for their hardest challenge, I believe they chose
[6:29] Speaker 3: well because they really gave it to them.
[6:32] Speaker 1: Yeah, but like, think about it, when you become a pro,
[6:35] Speaker 1: you're going to be paired with people who have absolutelyslutely
[6:39] Speaker 1: no dance acumen or background, like you'll have like a
[6:42] Speaker 1: basketball player who like has never danced other than.
[6:45] Speaker 3: Always though wells And I've said it before, just one
[6:49] Speaker 3: per Charlie d'milio.
[6:51] Speaker 2: Yeah, even our Gabby Wendy.
[6:53] Speaker 3: She was a cheerleader for you know, many years, and
[6:58] Speaker 3: she was able to remember steps and keep her movements
[7:02] Speaker 3: tight and do that.
[7:03] Speaker 2: That's more than me.
[7:05] Speaker 3: As you'll see. Stay tuned for next season. I hope
[7:09] Speaker 3: you watch the show.
[7:11] Speaker 1: What Housewives Are Dancing with the Stars.
[7:13] Speaker 3: Housewives like you did do something this season that will
[7:18] Speaker 3: show you how I absolutely never had any training and
[7:23] Speaker 3: there were girls in the group that did.
[7:26] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[7:27] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's very hard starting from scratch.
[7:30] Speaker 1: They're cheaters. So Robert reminds the dancers that they've already
[7:35] Speaker 1: made a random draw for their partners and announces each
[7:38] Speaker 1: of the partnerships. So you have aj and Bailey they're
[7:41] Speaker 1: doing the Waltz, Selena and Jeremy doing the quick step,
[7:44] Speaker 1: Alan and Zara doing the Waltz, Adele and Anthony doing
[7:48] Speaker 1: the tango, and Nina and Ja doing the fox trot
[7:51] Speaker 1: right off the bat, just from like looking at these
[7:56] Speaker 1: social media influencers, what team do you think is the strongest?
[8:01] Speaker 2: So I thought more.
[8:05] Speaker 3: Of Nina because she's talks about how she teaches, right,
[8:12] Speaker 3: So I said, oh, well, you know, I think that she's.
[8:17] Speaker 2: Going to do good. Yeah, but that wasn't the case here.
[8:22] Speaker 1: That was a big swing and a miss. I'll tell
[8:24] Speaker 1: you who I really liked.
[8:26] Speaker 2: Are you going to say a Dell again because you
[8:28] Speaker 2: say a Dell every week?
[8:29] Speaker 1: Well? No, she Well she's going to win this thing.
[8:33] Speaker 1: Let's stop pretending that she's not going to win this thing.
[8:35] Speaker 1: She is the best every single week. But I tell
[8:38] Speaker 1: you I did like. I really liked Jeremy. He was
[8:43] Speaker 1: Selena's partner on the quick Step. He's a bigger guy
[8:46] Speaker 1: with like a lot of flair and a lot of
[8:48] Speaker 1: exciting close calls.
[8:49] Speaker 3: She almost went home with him, but he was so
[8:52] Speaker 3: cute and I think his personality made up for.
[8:57] Speaker 2: The you know, lack of step that they had.
[9:01] Speaker 3: Yeah, the judges do not like when you do not follow,
[9:06] Speaker 3: it could go wrong.
[9:06] Speaker 2: Here's the thing what I've learned. The judges like.
[9:09] Speaker 3: If it goes good, the judges love it that you
[9:11] Speaker 3: took on your own. If it goes bad, the judges
[9:14] Speaker 3: are hammering you. And that is the excuse to get
[9:17] Speaker 3: rid of you. You did not follow directions.
[9:19] Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you think you know? This was a funny
[9:22] Speaker 1: episode watching all these guys dance because this was a
[9:27] Speaker 1: good example of me not really knowing what's good and
[9:30] Speaker 1: what's not good. Because I thought every one and I
[9:32] Speaker 1: was like, that was good, that was great, and then
[9:35] Speaker 1: surely would come in and be like you didn't do this,
[9:37] Speaker 1: or you missed the brief, or like you were slow
[9:39] Speaker 1: here or fast here. Where. I'm like, I'm really impressed
[9:43] Speaker 1: with everyone. They learned this in two days.
[9:45] Speaker 3: It's safe to say I don't think you and I
[9:47] Speaker 3: Wells will be getting called for this gig anytime soon.
[9:52] Speaker 3: I realized the other day I was giving myself a
[9:54] Speaker 3: vitamin shot in my butt.
[9:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, and I could turn all the way.
[9:58] Speaker 3: This way to do it, but I can it left, Like,
[10:03] Speaker 3: I'm not flexible enough to give it to me in
[10:06] Speaker 3: my left side, So every time I give myself a shot,
[10:09] Speaker 3: it's in the same spot. But I just thought you
[10:12] Speaker 3: wanted to know that in case I ever had to
[10:14] Speaker 3: be flexible.
[10:15] Speaker 1: All right, no shots in your left side.
[10:21] Speaker 2: I'd like, I can only go this far up. Yeah
[10:24] Speaker 2: it stops, but look at this, yoh yeah, like an.
[10:27] Speaker 1: Athlete, great motion going right.
[10:30] Speaker 2: I could be a golfer, Like, as long as I'm
[10:32] Speaker 2: only swinging like this.
[10:34] Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like a NASCAR driver. You can only go
[10:37] Speaker 1: one way.
[10:39] Speaker 3: I'd be driving in circles all day.
[10:49] Speaker 2: Rehearsal day one.
[10:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, rehearsal day one. This is interesting to see, like
[10:53] Speaker 1: everyone's different teaching style. Adele and Anthony get to work.
[10:58] Speaker 1: Adele hope and that he'd be her partner because he
[11:03] Speaker 1: looks like he can dance. Do you think he looks
[11:05] Speaker 1: like he can dance? Now? Really?
[11:07] Speaker 2: Did you see his tiktoks?
[11:08] Speaker 3: I wonder if they saw their tiktoks? His tiktoks were
[11:11] Speaker 3: like not like the other ones. Yeah, you know, I
[11:17] Speaker 3: think he was less of a dancer than anyone. But
[11:21] Speaker 3: I felt like she was being so mean when she
[11:24] Speaker 3: was teaching him, Like, if someone talks to me like that,
[11:26] Speaker 3: I'll walk right out.
[11:27] Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that this is that's an interesting take
[11:32] Speaker 1: because I think that I think that she's Russian, she
[11:35] Speaker 1: or some sort of Baltic situation, and I feel like
[11:38] Speaker 1: they're very stern. Like I know that my wife was
[11:41] Speaker 1: taught by Ukrainian dance teachers for ballet, and she was like,
[11:46] Speaker 1: they are rigid, they are serious, they are mean, and
[11:49] Speaker 1: I imagine that she's got like a little bit of
[11:51] Speaker 1: that in her.
[11:53] Speaker 3: So at one point in my life, that's how you
[11:56] Speaker 3: could have talked to me and I would have learned.
[11:58] Speaker 3: But now I'm going to be triggered and I'm going
[12:01] Speaker 3: to be nasty.
[12:02] Speaker 1: Yeah, And.
[12:04] Speaker 3: The other teachers weren't speaking to their students like this.
[12:08] Speaker 3: I noticed the other teachers were very complimentary. They're like, no,
[12:11] Speaker 3: you got this, you could do this. She was rough,
[12:14] Speaker 3: and here's where she was smart. She was teaching the
[12:20] Speaker 3: dance instead of teaching the posture and spending time on
[12:23] Speaker 3: the fundamental things that we teach, and like that's what.
[12:29] Speaker 2: Nina was doing.
[12:30] Speaker 3: Like Nina was worried about posture and things like that,
[12:32] Speaker 3: but never worried about teaching him the dance, and then
[12:35] Speaker 3: you didn't have time for mistakes.
[12:37] Speaker 2: You have two days to teach these people something.
[12:39] Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Selena's first time teaching a quick step.
[12:43] Speaker 1: Jeremy loves show stopping moments and he used to doing
[12:47] Speaker 1: lifts and tricks. He's a big guy who's very.
[12:49] Speaker 2: Ch I saw what the he picked up a whole
[12:52] Speaker 2: wheelchair chair, Yeah, and spun it around.
[12:55] Speaker 1: He's strong, I know, and you know he wants to
[12:58] Speaker 1: be able to do that, but unfortunately, I think I
[13:00] Speaker 1: don't think the dance really kind of allows you to
[13:02] Speaker 1: do that. But she kind of like says like, yeah,
[13:06] Speaker 1: let's throw something in.
[13:07] Speaker 2: Listen. That almost cost her the dance, the spot. She's
[13:11] Speaker 2: so lucky. If Nina did it go so bad that
[13:17] Speaker 2: she would have been the one to go.
[13:19] Speaker 1: Jeremy the partner, because he was so gagarious and enigmatic
[13:25] Speaker 1: and like fun to watch. I feel like that was
[13:28] Speaker 1: what tipped the scales for Selena not going home in
[13:31] Speaker 1: comparison to Nina.
[13:33] Speaker 2: But you know what, though Jay was so cute.
[13:36] Speaker 1: I know he was.
[13:37] Speaker 2: He was so cute too. He was just as just
[13:39] Speaker 2: as adorable.
[13:41] Speaker 1: Yeah, Alan's been teaching for many years so this is
[13:45] Speaker 1: kind of easy for him. He wants to keep the
[13:47] Speaker 1: routine simple so that Zara's dance skills can shine, which
[13:50] Speaker 1: they did. They did absolutely. Bailey notices that AJ's teaching
[13:54] Speaker 1: style is very fast. She has minimal dance experience from
[13:57] Speaker 1: her drill team, but she has no ballroom experience.
[14:01] Speaker 2: Well, she still has something more than I do.
[14:05] Speaker 1: Absolutely. What did you think about AJ's teaching style?
[14:10] Speaker 2: I think it was good.
[14:11] Speaker 3: I think it was I think that he gave her
[14:18] Speaker 3: a lot of confidence. He spoke very nice to her.
[14:21] Speaker 3: He didn't worry about the little things so much. Yeah,
[14:25] Speaker 3: and it showed because the people that were really worried
[14:29] Speaker 3: about that almost didn't do so great.
[14:33] Speaker 1: Here's my question to you, what do you think that
[14:36] Speaker 1: they're looking for more with their dancer. Do you think
[14:40] Speaker 1: they're looking for someone who's a really really good dancer
[14:44] Speaker 1: or do you think they're looking for someone who's really
[14:46] Speaker 1: really good at teaching people how to dance?
[14:49] Speaker 2: Well? Both, I don't think.
[14:51] Speaker 3: I think that the people here are such amazing dancers.
[14:55] Speaker 3: They're the best, and like do I want to say
[14:58] Speaker 3: the world I don't know, But you have to be
[15:02] Speaker 3: if you're in this, you have to be good just
[15:06] Speaker 3: as good at every single thing you're doing. Yeah, every
[15:09] Speaker 3: single dance, every single thing. There's no room to not
[15:14] Speaker 3: be good at something here.
[15:15] Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Nina's kind of the weak link here.
[15:20] Speaker 1: She places a large emphasis on the form of Jay
[15:24] Speaker 1: and their foxtrot, and she even you know, puts like
[15:27] Speaker 1: blocks on his elbows. She like fixes his posture with
[15:32] Speaker 1: like a rope.
[15:33] Speaker 3: This is where being a teacher and being taught something
[15:37] Speaker 3: hurts you, you know how like when you go somewhere
[15:40] Speaker 3: and they're like, we don't want you to know how
[15:43] Speaker 3: to do it, we want to teach you from the
[15:45] Speaker 3: like just from the ground up.
[15:47] Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's easier.
[15:49] Speaker 3: I think being a teacher hurt her here because she
[15:52] Speaker 3: was so worried about what she was, how she was
[15:54] Speaker 3: taught to teach, or how she typically taught when when
[15:58] Speaker 3: she's doing that with her students, she doesn't all have
[16:00] Speaker 3: two days to make them a dancer.
[16:02] Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that her issue came with time management.
[16:05] Speaker 1: If they had a week to do, then yeah, great,
[16:07] Speaker 1: let's go over posture to make sure you know the
[16:09] Speaker 1: lines are correct and everything. But if you only have
[16:11] Speaker 1: two days, you got to learn choreo, right.
[16:15] Speaker 3: Which was Adele's thing. That was the biggest. That's what
[16:19] Speaker 3: Adele did.
[16:20] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[16:21] Speaker 3: Uh.
[16:21] Speaker 1: Back at the house, the five contestants talk about their
[16:23] Speaker 1: days and how rehearsals are going. Alan says that Zara
[16:27] Speaker 1: was able to pick up the choreo in forty five minutes.
[16:30] Speaker 1: Nina realizes that she was so focused on Jay's posture
[16:33] Speaker 1: that they are a little bit behind. You can see
[16:36] Speaker 1: it in her face.
[16:37] Speaker 2: So tell me, did you think they were going to
[16:39] Speaker 2: lose at this point?
[16:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent, you did.
[16:42] Speaker 2: It was so early to tell.
[16:44] Speaker 1: I mean, could us.
[16:45] Speaker 2: Turn that around?
[16:46] Speaker 1: It was going to be one of two things. Either
[16:48] Speaker 1: it was going to be a bad situation or it
[16:51] Speaker 1: was a misdirect to make you think it's her and
[16:55] Speaker 1: then it's going to be somebody else. But it did
[16:58] Speaker 1: seem in that moment that she was so much further
[17:01] Speaker 1: behind than everybody else.
[17:04] Speaker 2: Yeah, it did. They did kind of show that.
[17:07] Speaker 1: You could see it on her face of like oh shit, I.
[17:10] Speaker 2: Well she says it, She's like I'm behind.
[17:13] Speaker 1: Yeah. Day two rehearsals, Whitney, Shirley, and Mark observe each
[17:18] Speaker 1: of the dancers. Adele and Anthony. Shirley immediately notices that
[17:21] Speaker 1: Adele is a no nonsense partner, so she kind of
[17:25] Speaker 1: sees what you saw.
[17:26] Speaker 2: She's just noticing that now.
[17:28] Speaker 1: Yeah. Whitney notes that Adele has given Anthony a lot
[17:32] Speaker 1: of steps and she thinks she's trying to prove something.
[17:36] Speaker 2: Well she is, she's serious.
[17:38] Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I would I would hope that she's
[17:42] Speaker 1: only giving him that many steps because she thinks that
[17:45] Speaker 1: he can do it. You know, I would hate that
[17:47] Speaker 1: if if I was in that situation, that they put
[17:49] Speaker 1: me in a bad situation just because you want to
[17:52] Speaker 1: prove something, not because you think I could do it, right,
[17:55] Speaker 1: you know.
[17:56] Speaker 3: Yeah, No, no, like listen, uh, I don't know that
[18:01] Speaker 3: she taught he could do it.
[18:03] Speaker 2: I think it's just she was being a tough teacher.
[18:08] Speaker 1: Yeah, AJ and Bailey. AJ is trying to block out
[18:13] Speaker 1: the judges completely pretending that they aren't even there surely
[18:16] Speaker 1: and which which is good. It's very smart. That's got
[18:19] Speaker 1: to be very stressful, like to have someone just.
[18:22] Speaker 3: That's like when Bramo shows up to one of your
[18:24] Speaker 3: scenes when you know the big bosses are there, You're like.
[18:28] Speaker 1: Oh, like does Andy show up?
[18:31] Speaker 3: Sometimes not Andy, it would be the other bosses show
[18:34] Speaker 3: up to it all cast e ed, you better perform,
[18:39] Speaker 3: They better leave there going, Oh we got a show.
[18:41] Speaker 1: Yeah. The judges were very impressed with AJ's teaching style.
[18:47] Speaker 1: He's very very clear with his instructions to Bailey. I
[18:52] Speaker 1: think AJ would be a really good pro after me.
[18:55] Speaker 2: Yeah, what makes you think AJ's not going to win?
[18:57] Speaker 1: I used to think it was Allan's because he's had
[19:00] Speaker 1: a lot of really strong dances, But now I think
[19:02] Speaker 1: it might be. I think it might. What I think
[19:04] Speaker 1: is gonna happen is I think that Adele and AJ
[19:07] Speaker 1: might be the two winners.
[19:09] Speaker 2: You still think there'll be two?
[19:11] Speaker 1: I do. I think that's good TV. That's what I
[19:13] Speaker 1: would do if I was a producer. Okay, it's a
[19:16] Speaker 1: big misdirect of like, you know, Adele, you're the winner,
[19:21] Speaker 1: but guess what so are you? Aj? Like that would
[19:24] Speaker 1: be yeah, that would be fun to well, I mean
[19:27] Speaker 1: I would have I would appreciate that.
[19:28] Speaker 2: I don't know, did you imagine that kind of a feeling?
[19:31] Speaker 3: Oh?
[19:31] Speaker 1: I know, Well, losing and then winning that's great TV.
[19:36] Speaker 1: Alan and Zara Whatney can tell that Alan has a
[19:40] Speaker 1: really good background in teaching. She thinks their routine looks solid,
[19:45] Speaker 1: so she wants him to amp up the details Selena
[19:48] Speaker 1: and Jeremy. You have Selena feeling like an underdog because
[19:53] Speaker 1: she's the only one who doesn't have experienced teaching ballroom,
[19:56] Speaker 1: and she's also so much smaller than what.
[19:59] Speaker 2: About Well Belle didn't have experience teaching either.
[20:02] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true Nina and Jay. Whitney points out that
[20:06] Speaker 1: Nina should be cleaning up the routine by now, she
[20:09] Speaker 1: shouldn't still be teaching the choreography. She was right, She
[20:13] Speaker 1: was very very right. I really enjoyed this night before
[20:24] Speaker 1: the performance thing when Whitney came and talked with all
[20:29] Speaker 1: the social media influencers. I thought this was a fun
[20:31] Speaker 1: wrinkle and gave you.
[20:33] Speaker 2: They asked about their confidence, Yes.
[20:37] Speaker 1: Because you got to think confidence is you know, especially
[20:40] Speaker 1: in show business and especially like stage dancing and stuff.
[20:43] Speaker 1: Confidence is everything I know. So yeah, it was. It
[20:47] Speaker 1: was really cool to have her sit down and ask
[20:50] Speaker 1: the all the social media influencers what they thought.
[20:53] Speaker 3: I wasn't surprised that Anthony didn't feel confident because he's
[20:57] Speaker 3: getting ripped every day all day.
[21:00] Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jeremy felt pretty good. He had like a
[21:02] Speaker 1: seven and a half.
[21:04] Speaker 2: He did go on there feeling confident.
[21:06] Speaker 1: I think that he's a confident person. Like just from
[21:10] Speaker 1: the few moments I saw of him on TV, he
[21:12] Speaker 1: seems like someone who carries himself with a lot of confidence.
[21:15] Speaker 3: He's cute, he's silly, he's like a puppy, he doesn't care.
[21:19] Speaker 3: He's happy to making tiktoks with his sister.
[21:22] Speaker 1: So let's go through what they all said. So you know,
[21:24] Speaker 1: Whitney asked them to close their eyes and hold up
[21:26] Speaker 1: a number to represent how good they're feeling, ten being
[21:28] Speaker 1: the most confident, in one being the least. Bailey went
[21:31] Speaker 1: with five, Jeremy went with eight, Anthony went with four,
[21:34] Speaker 1: Jay went with five, and Zara went with seven point five.
[21:39] Speaker 1: Whinny points out that four is really really low for Anthony.
[21:42] Speaker 1: At this point, are you thinking that maybe Anthony and
[21:45] Speaker 1: Adele will be going home?
[21:47] Speaker 3: I did not no, because she was a real stickler
[21:52] Speaker 3: about how she was teaching him. And when I realized
[21:55] Speaker 3: that Nino was spending too much time on I guess,
[21:58] Speaker 3: like the fundamentals, I want to go for a dance lesson.
[22:01] Speaker 3: I want someone to tell me just I don't know.
[22:04] Speaker 3: I'm fifty five.
[22:05] Speaker 2: I don't have time to learn how to be a dancer.
[22:07] Speaker 3: Just teach me the dance, yeah, and we'll work on
[22:11] Speaker 3: the other stuff later.
[22:12] Speaker 2: But let me know the dance and then tweak me.
[22:16] Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, show night. It's always interesting to see
[22:22] Speaker 1: what the order they go in. Nina and Jay come
[22:24] Speaker 1: out first. They're the ones that we're most concerned with,
[22:27] Speaker 1: because Nina really didn't show Jay the choreo until the
[22:31] Speaker 1: second day. They do the fox trot.
[22:34] Speaker 2: He didn't miss on the steps, they just didn't have
[22:36] Speaker 2: a lot of steps.
[22:37] Speaker 1: Yeah, surely notices some posture elements that were lacking. She
[22:40] Speaker 1: even pulls out some tiny ballroom shoes to show the
[22:43] Speaker 1: proper foot.
[22:43] Speaker 2: The way you should stand.
[22:44] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she had those this entire time. I need,
[22:48] Speaker 1: I want, I want props more often from Shirley.
[22:51] Speaker 2: I mean she should.
[22:52] Speaker 3: You know who she reminds me of every time I
[22:54] Speaker 3: look at her, the Ukrainian teacher in john Wick.
[22:58] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're talking.
[23:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, like that reminds me of her.
[23:04] Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah. Adele and Anthony goes second. They're doing
[23:08] Speaker 1: a tango. Mark was impressed with the dance and was
[23:10] Speaker 1: impressed with Adele's no nonsense teaching. Whitney was super impressed
[23:15] Speaker 1: with Anthony's dancing abilities as well as Adele's teaching skills
[23:20] Speaker 1: that you know, she corrects him kind of mid dance
[23:23] Speaker 1: because he got she slowed him down.
[23:25] Speaker 3: Yeah, and they said that's the sign of a real professional.
[23:29] Speaker 2: And you might be right by the end of.
[23:30] Speaker 3: This, she like, you wouldn't know she was like slowing
[23:34] Speaker 3: him down unless we were told, right.
[23:35] Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it seemed like to me, I was like,
[23:38] Speaker 1: that's part of the dance, and then.
[23:39] Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
[23:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, AJ and Bailey they do the waltz. Whitney tells
[23:45] Speaker 1: Aj she would have loved an emotional moment in the
[23:49] Speaker 1: dance somewhere. Mark could tell that Bailey felt comfortable with Aj,
[23:52] Speaker 1: which is very important for a teacher, and surely thought
[23:55] Speaker 1: that what Aj did in the last two days was
[23:58] Speaker 1: amazing and calls him a star. Is he now like
[24:02] Speaker 1: the leader in the clubhouse when it comes to at
[24:04] Speaker 1: least the guide dancers.
[24:06] Speaker 3: Well, I feel like when she says it, it means something.
[24:09] Speaker 1: I know, right, her words carry more weight than I
[24:13] Speaker 1: think her son's or whoever the guest judge is.
[24:16] Speaker 3: I feel like that too, and I just think it's
[24:19] Speaker 3: out of pure experience and age and you know, like
[24:23] Speaker 3: a wise person.
[24:25] Speaker 1: Yeah, and also you know, this was the first episode
[24:29] Speaker 1: where Surely and Mark don't fight, which made me sad.
[24:33] Speaker 1: I want that every episode. I like when they fight.
[24:37] Speaker 3: I like when they fight too, and I love that
[24:39] Speaker 3: we know why they fight.
[24:41] Speaker 2: That's mother and son.
[24:43] Speaker 3: So like what I was looking at when I saw them,
[24:46] Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, say they're in the kitchen to
[24:48] Speaker 3: have a little talk, like does he just bust out
[24:50] Speaker 3: her dance? And then just they get in a fight
[24:52] Speaker 3: over whether or not he did it right?
[24:55] Speaker 2: Like what goes on? What went on in that house
[24:57] Speaker 2: growing up? I want to out.
[24:59] Speaker 1: Yeah, Like they're in the kid making a sandwich and
[25:01] Speaker 1: she like critiques him about how much mayonnaise he's putting.
[25:07] Speaker 1: Alan and Zara do the waltz. Surely love it. She
[25:11] Speaker 1: tells Alan just needs to tighten up the basics and
[25:14] Speaker 1: then he'll be a force to be reckoned with. Whitney
[25:16] Speaker 1: gives Alan props for building up Zara's confidence, and then
[25:20] Speaker 1: the last dance is Selena and Jeremany. They do the
[25:24] Speaker 1: quick step. Whitney tells Jeremy that he lit up the room.
[25:28] Speaker 1: Whitney tells Selena it was lacking some quick step content.
[25:32] Speaker 1: Though Mark felt like it needed to move around the
[25:35] Speaker 1: floor more and surely wanted the character of the quick step,
[25:39] Speaker 1: she didn't necessarily see it in the dance. This is
[25:42] Speaker 1: a thing that like, I'm amazed that they haven't figured
[25:45] Speaker 1: this out yet, which is, you need to stick to
[25:47] Speaker 1: the brief.
[25:49] Speaker 3: Right and like I said, if it comes out great, amazing. Yeah,
[25:52] Speaker 3: it's a risky move to not stick to the brief.
[25:55] Speaker 1: I think that there is a little bit of blame
[25:57] Speaker 1: to be put on Jeremy shoulders for that, because he
[26:00] Speaker 1: really wanted to do something else. And I think that
[26:03] Speaker 1: Selena was trying to kind of acquiesce to his desires
[26:07] Speaker 1: to be able to throw her around or spin her.
[26:10] Speaker 3: I felt like she was trying to acquiesce to what
[26:14] Speaker 3: he was able to do. Good, yeah, which is not
[26:20] Speaker 3: the point of a great teacher. But the fact that
[26:23] Speaker 3: they had two days to get this right. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
[26:27] Speaker 3: so exaggerate what they're good at.
[26:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. The two dancers that are in jeopardy are
[26:33] Speaker 1: Nina and Selena. This didn't surprise you.
[26:36] Speaker 2: Did it?
[26:37] Speaker 1: No?
[26:37] Speaker 2: I was able to tell right now, And to be
[26:41] Speaker 2: honest with.
[26:42] Speaker 1: You, I think that Nina knew as well. I think
[26:44] Speaker 1: I could read it on.
[26:45] Speaker 3: Her Shade didn't know she did? She took it well,
[26:48] Speaker 3: she did. Jay felt so bad? Did you see? Could
[26:52] Speaker 3: you not read the look on their faces? They get
[26:55] Speaker 3: one of them were own home, like my partner might
[26:57] Speaker 3: go home because of me?
[26:59] Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh, I know. Yeah. For the social media influencers,
[27:02] Speaker 1: that's got to be heartbreaking for them. It was also
[27:05] Speaker 1: seemed like it was heartbreaking for the other dancers, like
[27:09] Speaker 1: the pros, because I think at this point, everyone's so
[27:14] Speaker 1: good that like anyone can go home, you know. I
[27:18] Speaker 1: think Nina, even though she has been kind of on
[27:23] Speaker 1: shaky ground in previous episodes, I think she's a really,
[27:26] Speaker 1: really strong dancer, and I think everyone's really surprised that
[27:29] Speaker 1: she was the one who went home. That's the end
[27:31] Speaker 1: of episode six. Well, who do you think is gonna win?
[27:36] Speaker 2: Who do I think is gonna win? I don't know.
[27:38] Speaker 3: It's between Adele and Alan, I think, yeah, right now,
[27:46] Speaker 3: that's how I feel.
[27:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, right, I got Adele Allan maybe AJ.
[27:53] Speaker 2: He's good, but I lose him sometimes.
[27:57] Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought he just showed that he's really good
[28:01] Speaker 1: at the thing that you need to be good at Yes,
[28:03] Speaker 1: which is teaching. So anyways, I am excited to see
[28:09] Speaker 1: how this whole thing shakes out.
[28:11] Speaker 3: Adele was just because her her client did well doesn't
[28:15] Speaker 3: mean she's a good teacher.
[28:16] Speaker 2: I didn't think she was great. Yeah to mean, sorry,
[28:19] Speaker 2: I'm talking about your buddy, but.
[28:21] Speaker 1: She tell my buddy. I just I just think she's
[28:23] Speaker 1: going to win well, and don't want to be right.
[28:28] Speaker 2: I feel like Alan's going to win.
[28:32] Speaker 1: You do who? Well, you know what's going to happen
[28:35] Speaker 1: is that they're both going to win.
[28:37] Speaker 2: You're still stuck on that there's going to be two winners.
[28:40] Speaker 2: I don't know that. I don't know.
[28:42] Speaker 1: I don't know, But we want to know what you
[28:43] Speaker 1: guys think out there. Hit us up on social media
[28:45] Speaker 1: by order of the faithfuls, tell us who you think
[28:47] Speaker 1: is going to win. We'll read some of the comments
[28:50] Speaker 1: in the next episode. I think only two episodes left,
[28:53] Speaker 1: and then after that. You know what's going to be happening, Dolores.
[28:56] Speaker 2: Oh Traders, baby Traders, what is it? Blood? I have
[29:01] Speaker 2: theories already and it didn't even start.
[29:04] Speaker 1: I know September seventeenth is the first episode, so I
[29:07] Speaker 1: got a feel and we'll have an episode either that
[29:09] Speaker 1: day or very very soon thereafter. Make sure you have
[29:13] Speaker 1: your Peacock subscription ready to follow along with us.
[29:17] Speaker 2: I feel like it's going to be a hard game.
[29:19] Speaker 2: They're going to make it hard.
[29:20] Speaker 3: I feel the people coming in have spent more time
[29:23] Speaker 3: studying the game shows and how to win. Because they
[29:28] Speaker 3: have more time, They're not like crazy like us. Sometimes,
[29:31] Speaker 3: you know, they have different lifestyles. Like I went in
[29:35] Speaker 3: there never even knowing what the hell I was doing.
[29:38] Speaker 1: I wants the show on the plane, that's all.
[29:43] Speaker 2: Right, Like they gave me a burger phone.
[29:45] Speaker 3: I got to watch like episodes on the way in
[29:47] Speaker 3: so well, I was stuck in my hotel room. But
[29:51] Speaker 3: these are people. I feel like they're dangerous.
[29:56] Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's real killers. I think it's gonna
[29:59] Speaker 1: be a really fun season, and I think it'll do
[30:02] Speaker 1: really well and it'll prove that you don't really need
[30:04] Speaker 1: celebrities in the castle.
[30:06] Speaker 2: Yeah, do you need one to come back?
[30:09] Speaker 1: That would be Yeah, they need to have an all
[30:11] Speaker 1: star season. Yeah, Dolores, have a lovely rest of your day.
[30:17] Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the vet and pick up this
[30:20] Speaker 1: dog that owes me four thousand dollars.
[30:22] Speaker 3: That dog owes you four thousand dollars for real?
[30:27] Speaker 2: Well, don't you better pick him or her her? What's
[30:31] Speaker 2: her name?
[30:32] Speaker 1: Boo?
[30:33] Speaker 2: I had a dog named Boo.
[30:35] Speaker 3: Really yeah, the best, one of the best. Yeah, so
[30:40] Speaker 3: Boo Boo's in trouble.
[30:43] Speaker 1: He is in trouble, and no more chocolate for her. Okay,
[30:47] Speaker 1: all right, all you faithful and traders out there, thanks
[30:50] Speaker 1: so much for listening. We'll be back again next week,
[30:53] Speaker 1: wrapping up Dancing with the Stars the next pro only
[30:55] Speaker 1: two episodes left, and then after that we'll be recapping Traders.
[30:58] Speaker 1: If you're not following us, please you over on social
[31:00] Speaker 1: media at by order of the Faithful, the Lords you
[31:04] Speaker 2: Bye mm hmm

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