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00:00We have a con art.
00:00Yeah.
00:01We have very exciting news.
00:02Do we?
00:03You do, tell us!
00:05What do you want me to say?
00:06How should I word it?
00:06I haven't said it, I love it.
00:08Wait, okay, say it how you would tell,
00:10like the second you found out the news
00:12and you told the first person you told,
00:13how did you say it?
00:15I am bankrupt.
00:16I'm just kidding.
00:17I'm going on Dancing with the Stars.
00:19Wow!
00:19This is insane!
00:21Season 35.
00:22Season 35.
00:23That's major.
00:24Was this always kind of on the vision board?
00:26How did this opportunity present itself to you?
00:28It's hard to say that it was on the vision board
00:30when like I didn't know that this was a possibility for me.
00:33You know, it's like, this is like a pipe dream, you know?
00:34You don't say no to Dancing with the Stars.
00:36No!
00:36But it came across my desk and I was like, there's no way.
00:39So now, I mean, this is my new, this is my entire vision board.
00:44Are you-
00:44Dancing with the Stars, the miracle.
00:46Do you consider yourself a good dancer?
00:47How do we feel about our rhythmic talents?
00:51I've only really danced at weddings.
00:54Okay.
00:54That's a start.
00:55So that's where your inhibition goes out.
00:56Right.
00:57To date.
00:57To date.
00:58But then, I'm surprising myself a lot with practice.
01:01Obviously, all we've done is train.
01:03Every single day.
01:04You just, you practice every single day.
01:05And I've really shocked myself.
01:06The progress is-
01:07Really?
01:08Yeah.
01:08Okay.
01:09I mean, how, do you enjoy the training?
01:11Because I know it's really intense.
01:12Yeah.
01:13I love it.
01:13Okay.
01:14It's so fun.
01:15Okay.
01:16Yeah.
01:19Wow.
01:19That is a good-
01:20I think so.
01:21No, this is laminate.
01:23I got you.
01:23I got you.
01:24I got you.
01:25I love that you think this is granite.
01:26Oh my God.
01:27It's cold.
01:28So it's some sort of-
01:29We are obsessed with Riley.
01:30I love that you're partnered with her.
01:32How did it feel when you found out that she was going to be your partner?
01:34I mean, I had, you know, like I would have been stoked with anyone.
01:37Right.
01:37I love everybody on the team, but like seeing her, it was just like, oh, okay.
01:42We're going to be okay.
01:43Right.
01:43And I know I was going to-
01:44When we talked to-
01:45We've talked to Mark Ballas a few times and we always just love like the geek out questions
01:48about Dancing With The Stars about like, what music can you do and everything like
01:51it?
01:52And he's like, it always is changing.
01:53And like, sometimes you could do a song and sometimes others aren't available, but
01:56is there a dream song you'd love to dance to?
01:58Oh my gosh.
02:00I'll just say, without saying anything, one of our, one of my dream songs is We Will Be Dancing
02:05too.
02:06Wow.
02:07Oh my God.
02:07How fun.
02:09I love that.
02:10Oh, it's going to be so fun.
02:11Have you ever seen a full season of Dancing With The Stars?
02:13Like, do you know what you're getting yourself into?
02:15Oh yeah.
02:15Okay.
02:15Yeah.
02:16We've been watching, it's weird now being on it, but back before Netflix and Hulu and
02:21things, you know, it was just like on my TV when I get home from soccer practice,
02:24you know, and it'd be on my TV and my mom and to be watching my family, be watching
02:27it.
02:28And so it's weird.
02:29That's the same show.
02:30And now it's like a different world, but it's-
02:33It's crazy because Dancing With The Stars is going to open you up to a whole new audience
02:37who might not be familiar with you.
02:39How do you feel about that?
02:40Oh, I'm scared.
02:41Yeah.
02:42Are you?
02:42Yeah.
02:43I'm very scared.
02:44Okay.
02:44Cause it sort of, it opens you up to like, obviously you're going to have so many more
02:48new fans, which is exciting, but then people are also going to be like, you know, the judges
02:52are going to be judging your dancing, but the viewers at home, they are going to be judging
02:55your dancing too.
02:56I've been just saying he's going to be judging you.
02:57You know, that's what I just interpreted that as.
02:59Yeah.
03:00I'm okay with that.
03:00That's what I signed up for.
03:02What's funny is I, before it was, it was kind of soft launch release, you know, cause
03:07there's so many boots on the ground with these fans that I was going to be on it.
03:11And a lot of people were like, we're just theorizing that Connor would might be on
03:14it.
03:14And people are like, everyone be nice.
03:16This is my friend.
03:17You know?
03:18And then one woman, one woman came out and I clicked on her, on her profile picture.
03:22This is a mother.
03:23This is a wife.
03:24And she commented back and said, I don't care if this is your friend, I'm not going
03:30to go easy on him.
03:31Okay.
03:31But hey, okay.
03:33That's, that's a Disney way.
03:35These are the fans.
03:36They're holding me up to a very high standard.
03:37I'm okay with that.
03:38It makes me work harder.
03:39I was going to say, it does make you work harder.
03:41Yeah.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Now, have you seen, um, one of your, because some of the, like the names are just so iconic
03:46in it.
03:47Have you seen save the last dance?
03:48Have you seen what you're going up against?
03:49Yes.
03:50Yes.
03:50Yes.
03:51I've seen it.
03:52We met briefly.
03:54Okay.
03:54Uh, during practice.
03:55She's awesome.
03:56She's so sweet.
03:57Um, watching Julia Stiles make Tik Toks was really funny.
04:00Does she know what Tik Tok is?
04:01She, she was, she was making a Tik Tok to, um, he want to touch my Puna.
04:05Nah, nah, nah, nah.
04:07I can't remember the words, but it was like, Oh wow.
04:09This is like, this is, it's like, it's a fever dream.
04:13She better recreate her save the last dance dance.
04:16I don't know.
04:16I don't know what they're, you don't know what other people are up to.
04:18You know?
04:19Yeah, right.
04:19People are cooking.
04:20Cause that's like, can you, cause it is a funny thing where you're like, I mean like
04:22you were just, you were talking to Julia Stiles.
04:24Everything's so fun.
04:25Can you like talk to, cause you're like, we're competing against each other, but also
04:30like, I'm a super fan of all these people.
04:31So I want to be friends with them.
04:32Yeah.
04:32How do you go about that?
04:34Everyone's so cool.
04:35Oh yeah.
04:36I like kind of joke around.
04:37I'm like, this is my family.
04:38And it literally like, but now we go in, everybody, these are all huggers, which is crazy.
04:42Cause I'm like a hugger.
04:43Everyone's a hugger.
04:44Like every morning and it's early, you know, some mornings you get in there at like eight
04:4645.
04:47It's early to me and it's early for hugging, you know, everybody's hugging each other.
04:53Uh, everybody's like genuinely, as far as I know, genuinely wishing each other the best.
04:56I'm like, um, you know, I'm like, I am, I am like hoping they nail their dances.
05:01I think previously I'm pretty competitive.
05:03Usually I'd be like, I hope you break your ankle back there.
05:05But I like, you know, I do genuinely like hope.
05:07Not you and Guillermo fight.
05:09Oh my God.
05:10Guillermo.
05:10Yes.
05:11From Jimmy Kimmel.
05:12Have you, have you met Guillermo yet?
05:13Yeah.
05:13How is he?
05:14He's so funny.
05:15I'm like, I mean, I'm rooting for you, but I'm also really rooting for Guillermo.
05:19We have the same, um, splits.
05:22Okay.
05:22We can do the same amount of splits.
05:23Wow.
05:24Oh my God.
05:25I'm curious.
05:26I can't wait to figure out if that's a lot or a little.
05:28Stay tuned.
05:30Wait.
05:30So a lot of these names, I kind of feel like you're maybe friendly with a bunch.
05:34Like, I feel like you obviously know like Sierra and Sarah Jane and Tyler Cameron.
05:38Like, who did you, who do you know before going into this?
05:41And is it kind of like fun to do this with some of your peers and friends?
05:43Yeah.
05:44Yeah, definitely.
05:45Um, Tyler and I obviously are, are boys and, um, I see Maura like every day we have kind
05:50of the same schedule and she's, it's funny you seeing Maura every day and I'm, I'm walking
05:54out and I'm drenched.
05:56I look like I jumped in a pool leaving practice every day and we're inside.
05:59We're in AC.
06:00You wouldn't know.
06:01Um, and I'm sweaty.
06:02I'm just defeated.
06:03And I walk out and I'm like, Maura, hey.
06:06And I'm like, you're just getting here.
06:08She's like, no, we wrapped, you know, like, and I'm like, oh, this is what I look like
06:12when I wrap.
06:12She looks perfect all the time.
06:13Yeah.
06:14Just completely looks like she just stepped out of a billboard.
06:16Oh my God.
06:17No, I know.
06:17She kind of looks like whenever, when I remember when I met her for the first time in person,
06:20I was like, oh, you just look AI in person.
06:23So this is just you.
06:24Just perfect.
06:24And I know that she can, I know she can move.
06:27So it's crazy that I look like this.
06:31She looks like that.
06:31And we did, we put it, she probably put in 10 times the effort that I did too.
06:34But we're, we're, I have a good feeling about her.
06:37She, she's out here talking about how she has two left feet.
06:40I just know she's hustling.
06:42Yeah.
06:42No, exactly.
06:43Right.
06:44She has her four leaf clover.
06:45I also think Sierra Miller is going to do incredible too.
06:48How have things been with Sierra?
06:49Cause like, you're obviously connected to the summer house crew.
06:52And I feel like people even like petitioned for you to go on that show at times as well.
06:55So it was a bit nice to sort of been, be able to like spend time with her.
06:58Yeah.
06:58No, I love Sierra.
06:59Sierra and I are very close.
07:00Um, I know, I know she's an athlete too.
07:03You see it in like Shabuzzi's music video.
07:05Like she can move.
07:06Right.
07:06Was there any awkwardness though?
07:09Because of course you were kind of in the West orbit, but is that kind of just like
07:11leaving that in the past?
07:12Like, no, no, no, no.
07:13Yeah.
07:14Nothing between Sierra and I.
07:15No, we love each other.
07:16Yeah.
07:16Very close.
07:17Um, and I'm excited that we get to like, be kind of, I guess we are competing against
07:21each other, but it doesn't feel like that.
07:22Yeah.
07:23And it is funny too.
07:23Cause people have been petitioning you to be on reality TV in some capacity.
07:28Yeah.
07:28Did you, I know you said dance with the stars was never on your vision board, but did
07:31you expect it to be like in a competitive ballroom landscape?
07:34I like this.
07:35I like how it played out.
07:36I, you know, we talk about the dance with the stars fans.
07:39Bravo is a different level.
07:40I don't think I can, you know, I don't think I can go there.
07:43The dancing, at least everyone here is like genuinely like we're competing, but we are
07:48like genuinely like family.
07:49Definitely.
07:49It does feel like that.
07:50Like you wish everybody the best.
07:52It doesn't feel like we're against each other.
07:54Yeah.
07:54Like, so there's that aspect.
07:56So like, obviously it's like good vibes, endorphins, you know, smiling faces.
08:00But then also I feel like dancing with the stars, you kind of came at a really good
08:03time because I feel like the show has been like going through a renaissance again.
08:07Like I feel like the past, like two or three seasons, like it's just like, once again,
08:11the most popular show on TV, which is really, really cool.
08:15Yeah.
08:16So the children yearn for cable.
08:20Yes.
08:20Yes, they do.
08:21They do.
08:23Give them cable and give them Connors because there's two Connors on this season.
08:25Yeah.
08:26Yeah.
08:26I get all of his mail.
08:28I actually didn't even know he was going to be on the show until I started getting
08:30all of his mail.
08:32Oh, you literally do.
08:33Yeah.
08:33Oh my God.
08:34Stop.
08:34Really?
08:35That's so funny.
08:36So that's cool.
08:37I haven't, I haven't met other Connor yet.
08:39I love this Connor ER.
08:41Yeah.
08:41Oh yes.
08:41So it's spelled differently.
08:43And he's a Whitney Levitt's husband and he is a TikTok dancer too.
08:46Yes.
08:47He actually, Riley and I, Riley's so good.
08:51She's, she's so young.
08:52She's 21.
08:53And so like, she's like, we got to do this trend.
08:55We got to do this trend.
08:56I have a, I have a TikTok sound that I was like, we have to do this sound.
09:00I can't remember what it was, but it was from my podcast, Brooke and Connor make a podcast.
09:04And it was, Brooke was like, what will you do when you're there?
09:07And I was like, what do you mean?
09:08Shake ass, take names.
09:10It's nothing new for me.
09:11And this was years ago.
09:12Now it's so applicable.
09:13And Connor did it before we did it.
09:15So I was like, oh crap.
09:16He is like on top of your game.
09:18He's on it.
09:19Yeah.
09:19He's on it.
09:20What was Brooke's reaction to you doing this?
09:23I mean, she thought I was lying.
09:25She punched me square in the nipple.
09:26And I was like, I'm not joking.
09:28She's like, you're kidding.
09:29And I was like, no, I'm not kidding.
09:30And I told her, um, like when I was finally allowed to tell people, but I mean, it was,
09:37she was post rumors, you know, I don't know how stuff gets out there, but, um, she was
09:42like, I knew it.
09:42I knew it.
09:43She must be so proud of you.
09:44Yeah.
09:44It's cool.
09:45I think what's, what's really cool is that like people don't get that I cleared my schedule
09:49for this, you know?
09:50So like I am putting my back into the show.
09:52It's going to be very, are you going to be doing the podcast while you film dancing with
09:57the stars?
09:57Yes.
09:57Okay.
09:58Wow.
09:58So you're going to be a busy boy.
09:59So if you want to hear some behind the scenes stuff, tune in with the podcast.
10:03Yeah.
10:03And like you and an ice bath recording it properly because your feet are going to be
10:05so sore.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Oh, I am.
10:07Yeah.
10:07Parts of me are sore that I didn't know could get sore.
10:11Yeah.
10:11Um, which has been eye opening.
10:14When, like how all out are we going for the costumes?
10:17Like I need you in sequence.
10:19So Steven, who's on the costume team, he's like head of costumes.
10:23I'm sorry if I like Bosch's title.
10:24So he, we both went to UT Austin.
10:27We're like alumnus.
10:29Oh wait, cute.
10:29Yeah.
10:30So we both went to UT Austin.
10:31And so we hit it off right away.
10:32And I told him, put me in whatever you want.
10:35I want to go all out.
10:37I want it to be, I want it to obviously play into the dancing, but I almost kind of want
10:41it to be like grandoise.
10:43I'm throwing in a lot of words I've never used before.
10:44I don't know.
10:45Grandois.
10:45I don't know.
10:46And I was like grandioise.
10:48Okay.
10:49I did every other.
10:50That's a version.
10:51Yeah.
10:51Grandioise.
10:52And so the first shoot was a promo shoot.
10:56And someone walks out and is like, you're going to be doing your own little thing for
10:59the promo shoot.
11:02And they bring me feathers that are about my height, but they connect on your neck.
11:07And I'm wearing like a double breasted suit.
11:09Uh huh.
11:10And now I've got these feathers this big and they're like, you said you were down to do
11:14this.
11:14And now we've penciled you in as like the costume.
11:16Wow.
11:17And I am also.
11:18That's amazing.
11:19That's kind of sex.
11:19I like that.
11:20Yeah.
11:20I'm a dad, but my, all of my friends in college, we all call each other dabs.
11:24It's down ass bitch.
11:25I don't know if I can see.
11:27Oh, of course.
11:27Yeah.
11:27No, let it rip.
11:28And it's like, yeah, I'm down to do this because, and this is a notification I put in
11:33my phone.
11:33I set my reminder every day for this specifically.
11:36This show has opened up something in me where it's every morning.
11:40My phone goes off at 8 45 AM and it just says in all caps, lean in.
11:43Okay.
11:44I like that.
11:44That's good.
11:45If you're here and you're doing it, I've cleared my schedule.
11:47If I'm not putting 100% into this, like what, why am I here?
11:50And then also, especially cause you're partnering with a pro.
11:53So you're like, this is their literal like job every year.
11:55You're like, I have to give my all so they can do their job too.
11:58Right.
11:59Do you know what I'm so jealous of is that you get free weekly spray tans.
12:03Did you know about this?
12:04Are you excited for this?
12:05Why didn't anyone tell me about the spray tans?
12:06Are you now you're having him go up to like, I'm so jealous.
12:10Like to get, I've never done a spray tans.
12:11Oh my God.
12:12This is going to be a new experience for you.
12:13Are you, oh my God.
12:14Are you excited?
12:15I've been pretty strictly just sun.