Having The Most Fun w/ Rylee Arnold

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• 1:09Connor Wood?

  Hi, guys. Welcome back to Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast.

• 1:12Brooke Averick?

  Hey.

• 1:13Connor Wood?

  We are in the studio today. Do you feel that? Do you feel like we're outside because of the sun hitting us? Because of the rays of sunshine hitting us from the left side?

• 1:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:23Connor Wood?

  Are you feeling rays from your left side?

• 1:24Brooke Averick?

  That's a really good way to put it.

• 1:25Speaker 05

  Wait, that's so nice.

• 1:26Connor Wood?

  We have.

• 1:27Speaker 05

  You've never said that nice of things to me, Connor.

• 1:30Connor Wood?

  We have Riley Arnold today.

• 1:34Brooke Averick?

  I'm so thrilled.

• 1:35Connor Wood?

  Just like.

• 1:36Brooke Averick?

  Thanks for coming, Riley.

• 1:37Speaker 05

  Yes, I'm so glad we figured this out. I've been waiting to come on the podcast.

• 1:42Brooke Averick?

  We have been dying to have you.

• 1:43Connor Wood?

  We have.

• 1:43Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:44Brooke Averick?

  We have so much to talk about. You're on my favorite show.

• 1:47Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:47Brooke Averick?

  So I'm like super.

• 1:49Speaker 05

  I love that.

• 1:49Brooke Averick?

  I'm fangirling. Like, you guys are on my favorite show.

• 1:54Connor Wood?

  I know. When I go home and I lay in bed and I watch our dance over and over, I go, I love those two.

• 2:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 2:02Brooke Averick?

  No, when I'm in the audience, it's like I'm really like, I feel like I'm like at the Glee concert in like 2010.

• 2:09Connor Wood?

  Like removed a little bit?

• 2:10Brooke Averick?

  This is like, no, it's just like this is, these are like my favorite cast members of my favorite show. And it's so crazy to be looking at them in front of me. Yeah, you've really ignited something in me. So I'm very, and I just love loving things. So thank you for bringing this into my life.

• 2:27Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 2:27Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 2:28Speaker 05

  Brooke, we need to get you on the show.

• 2:29Brooke Averick?

  Well, I like being in the audience. I love being in the audience. I hope to be there every week if you'll have me.

• 2:35Connor Wood?

  You're a good commentator, too, of the show.

• 2:37Brooke Averick?

  Really?

• 2:38Connor Wood?

  Yeah. You bring, you bring really well-rounded feedback.

• 2:41Speaker 05

  You really do.

• 2:41Brooke Averick?

  That's so nice.

• 2:42Speaker 05

  You understand it. Like, you absolutely do. I listen to your guys' podcasts every week after the show.

• 2:47Connor Wood?

  Do you really?

• 2:47Brooke Averick?

  Oh, Riley, that's very sweet.

• 2:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 2:49Connor Wood?

  How do you still hang out with me every day?

• 2:50Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 2:51Brooke Averick?

  I know. You know who told me they listened to the podcast? And I was like, don't, like, don't do that.

• 2:57Connor Wood?

  Who?

• 2:57Speaker 05

  Who?

• 2:58Brooke Averick?

  Oh, well, Jenna's fiancee was like saying Jenna listened. I was like Jenna Dewan is too, like, she's, she shouldn't be, like, she's royalty.

• 3:06Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 3:07Speaker 05

  No, we're like in the team dance and I'm like, I'm like looking at her. I'm like, Connor, she's sweet.

• 3:12Brooke Averick?

  I know. I was like Jenna, like, this is not.

• 3:15Speaker 05

  So perfect.

• 3:16Brooke Averick?

  Might I direct you to Amy Poehler? Like.

• 3:18Connor Wood?

  Right, right?

• 3:19Brooke Averick?

  Like, this is just.

• 3:21Connor Wood?

  Take my hand, baby.

• 3:23Brooke Averick?

  It's really sweet, but it's also like.

• 3:25Connor Wood?

  When someone like.

• 3:26Brooke Averick?

  Girl.

• 3:27Speaker 05

  Girl.

• 3:28Connor Wood?

  When someone like Jenna, when I learned that someone like that listens to podcasts, I like can't, I like can't make eye contact.

• 3:33Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. No, it is very, I know you weren't supposed to, I know. That was private. It was private.

• 3:39Connor Wood?

  Private conversation.

• 3:40Brooke Averick?

  I sent that into a microphone and uploaded it online, but it was extremely private.

• 3:44Speaker 05

  Absolutely.

• 3:45Brooke Averick?

  So I'm obsessed with her. I really like, you guys are incredible. We, you danced last night. This comes out on Wednesday, but today is Tuesday and you danced last night.

• 3:55Speaker 05

  Uh huh.

• 3:57Brooke Averick?

  Like incredible.

• 3:59Speaker 05

  It was so fun.

• 3:59Brooke Averick?

  I really like, I don't even, I know you said I could give good feedback, but I don't have any, I don't. I just, all I have to say is like, that was awesome.

• 4:07Speaker 05

  You loved it?

• 4:08Brooke Averick?

  I loved it.

• 4:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:10Connor Wood?

  It was beautiful.

• 4:11Brooke Averick?

  It was beautiful.

• 4:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:13Brooke Averick?

  And then the group dance. I feel like usually when I'm like becoming obsessed with something, it's more of a delayed reaction. Like I'll see something, I'm like, oh, that was amazing. And then I'll be going to bed that night and I was like, oh, that changed my life.

• 4:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:26Brooke Averick?

  But I was having the, this is actively changing my life.

• 4:29Speaker 05

  In the moment?

• 4:30Brooke Averick?

  In the middle of the dance, which is kind of rare.

• 4:33Speaker 05

  I love that.

• 4:34Brooke Averick?

  And I was standing up like Pledge of Allegiance and I was in the back three row where you're not allowed to stand up, but I couldn't sit down.

• 4:40Speaker 05

  I love that.

• 4:41Connor Wood?

  I didn't even let you guys stand up for the group dance.

• 4:43Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:43Connor Wood?

  I was looking, I was looking down at one point, I was like, oh, but everyone in front of you is standing up.

• 4:47Brooke Averick?

  No, so in the back three, you block the cameras if you stand up, but if I stand up, I don't get in trouble.

• 4:53Speaker 05

  I see.

• 4:54Connor Wood?

  411.

• 4:54Brooke Averick?

  411.

• 4:55Speaker 05

  That's how that works.

• 4:56Brooke Averick?

  411 privileges.

• 4:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 4:57Brooke Averick?

  But you guys are just amazing. Gets more fun to watch every week.

• 5:02Speaker 05

  Oh, thank you.

• 5:02Brooke Averick?

  Very blessed to be living in your timeline.

• 5:05Connor Wood?

  What did you say just now when I said that Val sent us a really nice message last night as a group last night, like said, it was an honor to work alongside all of us. He tagged us all.

• 5:18Speaker 05

  On, he posted.

• 5:20Connor Wood?

  Instagram.

• 5:20Speaker 05

  Oh, I thought you meant he texted us. He didn't.

• 5:23Connor Wood?

  No, he doesn't have a number yet, but.

• 5:25Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I was actually gonna ask, like, whose numbers do you have? Like, I'm curious about that.

• 5:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:30Brooke Averick?

  Like, who are you?

• 5:32Connor Wood?

  I don't have any.

• 5:32Brooke Averick?

  One-on-one texting.

• 5:33Connor Wood?

  Any pros numbers.

• 5:34Brooke Averick?

  No pros?

• 5:35Connor Wood?

  No.

• 5:35Brooke Averick?

  Okay, interesting.

• 5:37Connor Wood?

  I don't.

• 5:38Brooke Averick?

  But do you have all, most of the stars?

• 5:39Connor Wood?

  Britt and I are planning to hang out.

• 5:41Speaker 05

  Britt?

• 5:41Connor Wood?

  Britt and I, yeah.

• 5:42Speaker 05

  Oh, nice.

• 5:44Brooke Averick?

  I'm obsessed with Britt and her lore with Daniel and everything. This is my show. Like, I know, I've gone way back.

• 5:50Speaker 05

  I love that.

• 5:51Connor Wood?

  So many layers to the show.

• 5:52Speaker 05

  There really is.

• 5:53Connor Wood?

  Wait, what happened with?

• 5:55Brooke Averick?

  With, oh, I had a moment with Val that I was really excited about.

• 5:57Speaker 05

  Okay, wait, what happened?

• 5:58Brooke Averick?

  Like also, like all the, like Mark, everyone, I'm like, I'm obsessed with these people now, which is crazy because I was like at the welcome party before the show started and like I was just, I was surrounded by all of these pros and I just didn't know. And now I'm like, I wish I could go back in time when I was having a conversation with Mark and just tell myself, hi, you're talking to Mark Ballas, like.

• 6:22Connor Wood?

  It's better, though, that.

• 6:23Brooke Averick?

  Like, I know, at least I was able to talk then. But Val, have you seen, you know, the episode of Heated Rivalry where Scott Hunter like calls Kip onto the stage or onto the court?

• 6:35Connor Wood?

  Onto the ice.

• 6:36Brooke Averick?

  Onto the ice.

• 6:37Connor Wood?

  Onto the courts of the ice.

• 6:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, this is what I felt like was happening with me and Val last night.

• 6:41Connor Wood?

  What do you mean? What happened? You and Val last night?

• 6:44Speaker 05

  What happened with Val?

• 6:46Brooke Averick?

  He was like getting ready to go onto the, into the group dance and then he pointed in my direction and I was like looking around like, hi, like Val's trying to get someone's attention, like, hi, someone, please look at Val. And then he kept pointing and I was like, Kat and I were like looking around like, hello? And then he was like, you, you. And I was like, me? And I'm.

• 7:10Connor Wood?

  And he was talking to you?

• 7:11Brooke Averick?

  My heart, heart stopped in my chest. My heart stopped in my chest. He goes, you do, and then he started singing into, like, talking into a fake microphone. And I was like, is he asking if I'm a singer? And I was like, I was like, hi.

• 7:26Connor Wood?

  Hi, Troy.

• 7:28Speaker 05

  Troy.

• 7:30Brooke Averick?

  And then he was like, you do the podcast with Connor? And I was like, yes, yes, yes. And then he was like, awesome.

• 7:38Speaker 05

  Your moment?

• 7:39Brooke Averick?

  And I was like, I love you, man. Thank you. And he was just, I mean, can you believe that?

• 7:45Speaker 05

  That's so cool.

• 7:45Connor Wood?

  No.

• 7:47Brooke Averick?

  Imagine Val shouting you out from the stand.

• 7:48Speaker 05

  Of course Val knows who you are, though. Like, he sees all your videos. He is so plugged in.

• 7:53Brooke Averick?

  It was awesome.

• 7:55Speaker 05

  That's, I love that for you.

• 7:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, because it really, it was a cast member of my favorite show, just like doing a personal one-on-one.

• 8:01Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 8:01Connor Wood?

  Personal cameo.

• 8:02Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, it was, it was, yeah, it really was cool.

• 8:04Connor Wood?

  So sweet.

• 8:05Brooke Averick?

  It was cool.

• 8:06Speaker 05

  That is sweet.

• 8:06Brooke Averick?

  Can I ask you guys a crazy question?

• 8:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:09Brooke Averick?

  Who do you think I would be paired with?

• 8:11Speaker 05

  Ooh.

• 8:13Connor Wood?

  Who do you think?

• 8:15Speaker 05

  I think she would have a lot of fun with Brandon.

• 8:18Connor Wood?

  I was gonna say Brandon.

• 8:18Speaker 05

  Really? Yeah, yeah. I think you would really vibe with Brandon. Like, he's so funny. He's so fun.

• 8:25Brooke Averick?

  I love that.

• 8:26Speaker 05

  And like, you guys.

• 8:27Brooke Averick?

  I wish I could have known him more.

• 8:28Speaker 05

  Oh, my gosh, they would actually be really funny together.

• 8:30Connor Wood?

  Really, really funny.

• 8:31Brooke Averick?

  Okay, I love that.

• 8:32Connor Wood?

  You would really enjoy some Brandon time.

• 8:34Speaker 05

  You would have, you would have a good time. Like, that's, most importantly, you'd have a good time.

• 8:38Brooke Averick?

  That's all that matters.

• 8:39Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 8:40Brooke Averick?

  In a parallel universe.

• 8:41Speaker 05

  Absolutely.

• 8:42Connor Wood?

  We were talking about Brooke going on previously and she just said, there's not a world.

• 8:49Speaker 05

  Is it too scary?

• 8:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 8:51Speaker 05

  That's fair.

• 8:51Brooke Averick?

  Like, I get, like, I have stage fright right now.

• 8:54Speaker 05

  Really?

• 8:54Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm.

• 8:55Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 8:56Brooke Averick?

  And I just, yeah.

• 8:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:57Connor Wood?

  Throw-up-y?

• 8:59Brooke Averick?

  I'm not gonna throw up right now.

• 9:00Connor Wood?

  Would you throw up if?

• 9:01Brooke Averick?

  I would throw up on Dancing with the Stars.

• 9:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 9:03Brooke Averick?

  I would throw up, yeah. And it's just like, no one wants to see that. I don't want to go through it.

• 9:06Connor Wood?

  I thought that during the cha-cha, I would probably throw up.

• 9:09Speaker 05

  You were very nervous for that one.

• 9:10Connor Wood?

  I thought I would probably throw up.

• 9:11Speaker 05

  But like, it's gotten better, right?

• 9:13Connor Wood?

  It's gone away completely.

• 9:14Speaker 05

  What, really?

• 9:15Connor Wood?

  The throw-up, yeah.

• 9:16Speaker 05

  Oh, okay, that's good.

• 9:18Connor Wood?

  The rest?

• 9:19Speaker 05

  No.

• 9:19Connor Wood?

  When I sneak off right before the dance, like.

• 9:22Speaker 05

  Same, though. Like, even as a dancer, like, it's very stressful.

• 9:27Connor Wood?

  When Riley tells me little things, I'm like, oh, those clicks. Those clicks before the dance start, when I, ding, ding, do those show up on TV?

• 9:36Speaker 05

  No.

• 9:36Connor Wood?

  When you watch back, no? Oh, my God, you guys.

• 9:38Speaker 05

  You can't hear them.

• 9:39Connor Wood?

  These freaking clicks. I will hear these for the rest of my life.

• 9:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:43Connor Wood?

  I hear kind of similar things to these clicks. Stomach drops.

• 9:46Speaker 05

  No, they make my tummy turn, genuinely.

• 9:49Connor Wood?

  But Riley will tell me, like, oh, yeah, that never goes away. Oh, this week you were like, I'm really nervous for this dance. And then right before you were like, I'm actually not nervous. I'm usually really nervous for the dance. I'm like, you're nervous before a dance is usually?

• 10:02Speaker 05

  Always, Connor. Well, I'm nervous for myself, obviously, because I'm like, I need to dance good and I need to be good, but then I'm also nervous for you, you know? Like, I want you to be able to like feel good and like do well. But no, I get like, I get nervous for opening numbers. I get nervous for everything. Like, I get nervous for little tiny shows, like tour shows. I get nervous before every single one. And I may look confident, but like inside, I'm kind of freaking out, always. Yeah.

• 10:34Brooke Averick?

  That's amazing that you push through that.

• 10:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 10:36Brooke Averick?

  You guys are.

• 10:36Speaker 05

  And I try to like compose myself because I don't want to stress you out if I'm nervous. But like, without a doubt, it doesn't.

• 10:42Connor Wood?

  It doesn't.

• 10:43Brooke Averick?

  I was gonna say, do you feel?

• 10:44Connor Wood?

  You know that opposite cycling thing?

• 10:45Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 10:46Speaker 05

  That's good.

• 10:46Connor Wood?

  When you get stressed out, I'm like, hey.

• 10:49Speaker 05

  We're good.

• 10:50Connor Wood?

  But then when you're like, like last night, you were so calm. You're like, I'm usually stressed, I'm not stressed. I was like biting my nails, I was pacing, I was like, can we go over this? And that was like the thing that I do that I don't like.

• 11:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:00Connor Wood?

  When we start rehearsing the dance in this like narrow, narrow hallway.

• 11:06Connor Wood?

  And there's like people genuinely trying to do their job. Extension cords everywhere.

• 11:11Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:11Connor Wood?

  And I'm like, move. I need to do the opening line. And then, and it doesn't matter. Like, we have it down, like, doing it

• 11:19Speaker 05

  Doing it.

• 11:19Connor Wood?

  Two more times right before the dance does not matter.

• 11:21Speaker 05

  It's not gonna do anything.

• 11:22Connor Wood?

  I was doing that last night.

• 11:23Speaker 05

  You were very nervous. You kept being like, can we go over this? Can we go over this? And I was like, oh no, he's nervous.

• 11:28Connor Wood?

  Well, this is, that was one of the dances last night where it's like the first step really, truly, that was like a grading step.

• 11:34Speaker 05

  Yes. Well, and it was right in front of the judges. Like, it was first step if you dipped your, like, chest at all.

• 11:39Connor Wood?

  Did I dip?

• 11:39Speaker 05

  No. I actually didn't think you did.

• 11:41Connor Wood?

  When I dip, you dip. I dip. When I dip, you dip. We dip.

• 11:44Brooke Averick?

  Is dip a matter of framing?

• 11:45Connor Wood?

  Dip is a matter of framing. It's in the shoulders. If you go back and watch, like, my foxtrot or anything, I feel sick. I feel sick.

• 11:52Speaker 05

  You're in a straight fart line.

• 11:55Brooke Averick?

  But how great is that, that you've improved so much?

• 11:57Connor Wood?

  Oh, it's fabulous.

• 11:58Speaker 05

  Exactly. Like, I look back at her, even her tango, like, Connor.

• 12:03Connor Wood?

  Sick in the head.

• 12:03Brooke Averick?

  What was the first dance?

• 12:05Speaker 05

  Cha-cha.

• 12:06Brooke Averick?

  Cha-cha.

• 12:07Connor Wood?

  Ooh, I just got chills when you said tango.

• 12:08Brooke Averick?

  That's still one of my favorites. It's your first dance.

• 12:10Speaker 05

  Honestly, same.

• 12:12Connor Wood?

  We, you know, it's funny to think, I was like, oh my God, how do we do that first one? Now, three weeks, we had to plan that one and practice.

• 12:19Speaker 05

  Oh, guess what, Connor? I don't know if I can include this, but we're going against Mark and Maura for the relay, and we're doing cha-cha to a Cheryl song. So it's country. Yes.

• 12:29Connor Wood?

  Cheryl Crowe is playing live at the show next week.

• 12:32Speaker 05

  What?

• 12:33Connor Wood?

  She's gonna be at the show next week playing live.

• 12:34Speaker 05

  But it's a country song, so we can, like, do, we're literally gonna just do our cha-cha.

• 12:40Connor Wood?

  Oh, the way that God has a plan and I'm laughing along with, along with him.

• 12:45Brooke Averick?

  That will be so great.

• 12:47Speaker 05

  But Mark and Maura are very good.

• 12:48Connor Wood?

  They are very good.

• 12:49Speaker 05

  We have to lock in.

• 12:50Connor Wood?

  And very sharp. Country, I'm, I'm happy with whatever happens. That's a, pretty much a, a layup in my book in terms of just, like, fun.

• 12:58Speaker 05

  Yes, it'll be so fun.

• 12:59Connor Wood?

  And, and we, I think we, we blossom, if you will.

• 13:04Brooke Averick?

  Fair.

• 13:05Speaker 05

  We blossom.

• 13:06Connor Wood?

  We blossom, if you will, when we're having fun. And country, like, that's fun.

• 13:10Brooke Averick?

  That's so fun. Yeah. I'm excited to see Maura do country. I love her.

• 13:14Speaker 05

  Yeah. Maura is so cute.

• 13:16Connor Wood?

  The best person on the planet.

• 13:17Speaker 05

  Genuinely. And she's just so real.

• 13:19Brooke Averick?

  She is so real. I was laughing so hard at her commentary after her scores or before her scores, but she was like, I hated that.

• 13:26Speaker 05

  Yeah. Like, I love everything about this show. I hate the jive.

• 13:30Brooke Averick?

  Really well said. Yeah. Have, you guys haven't done the jive yet, have you?

• 13:34Speaker 05

  No, but it'll be coming up.

• 13:36Brooke Averick?

  Do you have a least favorite that you're like, if I don't have to do that, I won't?

• 13:40Speaker 05

  Um, Samba.

• 13:43Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 13:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. I like, I like.

• 13:48Brooke Averick?

  Hey, that is the hardest one everyone said.

• 13:50Speaker 05

  But Connor, it clicked at the live show. Honestly, like, it was great.

• 13:56Brooke Averick?

  That was the orange pan.

• 13:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 13:58Brooke Averick?

  And that was everyone's Halloween costume.

• 13:59Connor Wood?

  I mean, we're not being graded on how, how we touch culture.

• 14:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:04Connor Wood?

  If we were, it'd be done and dusted.

• 14:06Speaker 05

  10-10 all across the board.

• 14:08Connor Wood?

  Yeah. I mean, that was a fabulous, that was a fun performance.

• 14:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 14:11Connor Wood?

  Technically.

• 14:15Brooke Averick?

  I love that one.

• 14:16Speaker 05

  I loved that one, too. It was really fun.

• 14:19Connor Wood?

  And also just, like, going out to Hip's Don't Lie by Shakira, like, it is bone chilling.

• 14:24Speaker 05

  It is.

• 14:24Connor Wood?

  In, in a similar sense, as, like, we were all in this together. It was like.

• 14:29Speaker 05

  Hip's Don't Lie.

• 14:30Brooke Averick?

  Do you ever, I don't know if you were thinking about this at all, but like, sitting there and watching, Riley, I don't know if you know, but like, I'm like, very, like, obsessed with High School Musical, and like, that's a big part of, like, my childhood and, and Broadway and just, like, movie musicals, like, that is, like, my life.

• 14:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:48Brooke Averick?

  And so, I've spent so much of the past five years of this podcast, like, trying to get Connor, like, even like, a little bit interested in that. He'll go on, so, you'll notice he's on his phone.

• 14:58Connor Wood?

  I'm checking my notes. I'm checking my notes. I'm checking my notes.

• 15:00Brooke Averick?

  It's like, he, like, it's just, I can't, it, it just has never clicked.

• 15:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 15:05Brooke Averick?

  So to be sitting there last night.

• 15:06Connor Wood?

  Oh, I'm not kidding. That, that made me, like, that, that dance made me get into Broadway. Like, I'm like.

• 15:12Speaker 05

  Yeah. He, like, suddenly really loves High School Musical.

• 15:14Brooke Averick?

  To be sitting there last night with him in his Wildcats' uniform on the ballroom floor with his pom-poms in hand.

• 15:21Connor Wood?

  Straightened hair.

• 15:22Brooke Averick?

  After changing out of his Flynn Rider costume, I was just like, what universe have we just been?

• 15:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 15:29Brooke Averick?

  Launched in. Like, if you told us last year that, like, one of us is gonna be on TV cosplaying a Disney star and dancing in High School Musical, I would have said, wow, I'm glad I got the balls to do that.

• 15:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 15:43Brooke Averick?

  But it's you, and it's so amazing.

• 15:45Connor Wood?

  I, I'm.

• 15:46Speaker 05

  He was very passionate about High School Musical. He came into that rehearsal, be like, do you guys understand we're doing High School Musical?

• 15:52Connor Wood?

  None of it, none of the stuff I really wanted to make it to TV made it to TV last night.

• 15:58Brooke Averick?

  Say more.

• 15:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:00Connor Wood?

  I mean, I was just like, people will die when we dance to this. People probably died last night.

• 16:04Speaker 05

  Maybe. Wait, I.

• 16:07Connor Wood?

  May they rest.

• 16:09Brooke Averick?

  Did someone die?

• 16:10Connor Wood?

  They probably died when we came out and the first couple beats were boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Like, I, yeah, yeah, somebody, somebody probably died.

• 16:16Brooke Averick?

  Okay, got it.

• 16:17Connor Wood?

  When they, when we had the pom-poms and we're not looking up. And that, you know what? Like, yeah, I get it.

• 16:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:24Brooke Averick?

  You slay.

• 16:24Connor Wood?

  Bone chilling. No, there was, it was a slave factory.

• 16:28Brooke Averick?

  It was my favorite performance of this entire season that anyone's ever, that anyone's given, from anyone.

• 16:34Speaker 05

  So fun.

• 16:35Brooke Averick?

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• 17:18Brooke Averick?

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• 17:58Brooke Averick?

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• 18:07Connor Wood?

  Yep. I feel like subscriptions are especially easy to forget about, like the Stargazing app that I, I need to cancel that. You sign up for something, like the Stargazing app, and you think you'll use it all the time, and then months go by and you're like, oh my God, I'm still paying for that. Rocket Money helps you see all your subscriptions in one place, so you can figure out which ones you're actually using and which ones you don't need anymore. Eh, and if there's something you want to cancel, you can do it in the app in just a few taps.

• 18:32Brooke Averick?

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• 18:52Connor Wood?

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• 19:37Brooke Averick?

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• 20:02Connor Wood?

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• 20:16Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 20:16Connor Wood?

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• 20:27Speaker 05

  Completely.

• 20:28Connor Wood?

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• 20:45Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 20:46Speaker 05

  The team dance is always the best. Like, I was like, Connor, if we're gonna make it to a week, it better be team dance.

• 20:50Brooke Averick?

  Is there another one or no? That was it?

• 20:52Speaker 05

  No.

• 20:52Brooke Averick?

  Can you also explain to me what it means that Harry is excluded from something or immune to something?

• 20:59Speaker 05

  Basically, because it's an odd number next week, we can't all go against each other. So the person who got the highest score last night gets immunity and they don't have to do the relay, which is, would be really nice.

• 21:12Brooke Averick?

  I thought that, I thought that he was immune.

• 21:15Speaker 05

  No, it'll be fun. It's gonna give us more screen time.

• 21:18Connor Wood?

  Wait, will Cheryl sing our song we're doing?

• 21:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, she's singing.

• 21:22Connor Wood?

  Cheryl singing our song?

• 21:24Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 21:25Brooke Averick?

  Cheryl singing for you.

• 21:25Speaker 05

  She's gonna be standing on the stage while we dance.

• 21:27Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 21:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:28Brooke Averick?

  That is nuts.

• 21:29Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's gonna be so fun.

• 21:31Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's, that's bananas.

• 21:33Speaker 05

  Isn't that cool?

• 21:34Connor Wood?

  That's Savannah bananas. Yeah.

• 21:37Brooke Averick?

  Did you feel, like, connected to Cynthia's presence as a judge last night? Like, to me, that was, like, Cynthia Rivas in the ballroom.

• 21:45Speaker 05

  That was crazy. Like, actually seeing her in person and, like, next to my, to me, and then, like, talking about me dancing, and like, she saw my work. That, like, is insane.

• 21:57Connor Wood?

  And she was touched.

• 21:58Brooke Averick?

  And she was touched.

• 21:59Speaker 05

  Cynthia is like, a list.

• 22:01Connor Wood?

  Like, you can, you can watch all of her press interviews, you can do whatever you want, and you see these performances. When she's looking at you, shh, that, that is a real, real feeling that she gives. Like, she's, she's feeling these things she's saying.

• 22:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 22:16Connor Wood?

  It is not fake. She's looking at me? And it was as if she had was entering my body and telling me these things from inside of my body.

• 22:25Brooke Averick?

  She's so powerful.

• 22:26Connor Wood?

  No, she, she, her eyes like.

• 22:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 22:30Connor Wood?

  She was, she had like actual, her eyes are probably just like healthily wet. But like, it looked like she was tearing up and I was telling myself, oh, she's tearing up because of her dance.

• 22:38Speaker 05

  She's definitely not tearing up because of her dance.

• 22:40Connor Wood?

  She was not, you think, I think it was, I think it was an emotional dance, but I think that she might just be healthy.

• 22:44Speaker 05

  I was tearing up.

• 22:45Connor Wood?

  Yeah. Oh, during rehearsal, I heard you. And I was like, oh, she's about to yell at me, I miss the staff.

• 22:51Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 22:52Connor Wood?

  I think you're just clearing your throat.

• 22:54Speaker 05

  When?

• 22:54Connor Wood?

  During rehearsal, dress rehearsal, because we nailed it.

• 22:57Speaker 05

  Yes. No, I, during dress rehearsal, I almost cried. I cried the morning of camera blocking. And then also, it wasn't really shown in our package, but like, I was very emotional when I came that day. We had a really cute heart to heart.

• 23:10Connor Wood?

  They decided.

• 23:11Brooke Averick?

  Cut it.

• 23:11Speaker 05

  They cut it.

• 23:12Brooke Averick?

  I love it.

• 23:13Connor Wood?

  Move forward.

• 23:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 23:16Speaker 05

  Which valid, um, but yeah, it was kind of like, it was a cute moment this week. I feel like we hit like a, we've hit a stride. And now we're like at the end and we're just gonna push and hopefully make it to the finale.

• 23:30Brooke Averick?

  I like, I know you will.

• 23:32Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 23:33Brooke Averick?

  There's not a doubt in my mind that you will be in the finale. And I've made my Thanksgiving plans around it.

• 23:39Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 23:40Brooke Averick?

  You guys kind of.

• 23:41Connor Wood?

  That's the manifestation.

• 23:42Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 23:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 23:42Brooke Averick?

  I know you will.

• 23:43Speaker 05

  That's so sweet.

• 23:44Brooke Averick?

  I've been waiting to, to book my Thanksgiving stuff and I, last night I was like, okay, I'll book after the finale.

• 23:49Speaker 05

  Oh, that's so sweet.

• 23:50Brooke Averick?

  I'm really excited.

• 23:51Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 23:52Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I mean, no, thank you.

• 23:54Speaker 05

  It like actually makes me like nervous.

• 23:56Connor Wood?

  We can say, we can talk about next week, by the way.

• 23:58Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 23:58Connor Wood?

  Cause it comes out before this comes out.

• 24:02Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 24:02Connor Wood?

  This, okay.

• 24:03Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 24:04Connor Wood?

  Do you want to do it? I think Riley should.

• 24:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, next week it's Grammy night. And so we were like going into the drawing board, like, what do we do? And then Connor had mentioned he wanted to maybe do Justin Timberlake and his songs on the show always are just so good.

• 24:19Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 24:19Speaker 05

  And we're doing Sexy Back.

• 24:22Brooke Averick?

  It's.

• 24:23Speaker 05

  I was so excited. I.

• 24:26Connor Wood?

  We're doing Argentine Tango.

• 24:27Speaker 05

  We're doing an Argentine Tango to Sexy Back, but I worked with these people, they're called District 78, to make it like more Argentine Tango.

• 24:36Brooke Averick?

  It is done in Argentine Tango that I can like reference.

• 24:39Speaker 05

  Val and Jenna did one for Halloween. So it's like a bunch of flicks and like.

• 24:43Connor Wood?

  And then like, it don't even, like.

• 24:45Speaker 05

  No, the song, like, I don't think I've ever danced to a better, like, creative song in my life.

• 24:50Connor Wood?

  It is, it is like bone chilling. I listened again last night and I'm like, oh, this is.

• 24:55Speaker 05

  It's so good.

• 24:56Brooke Averick?

  I am so excited.

• 24:57Speaker 05

  It's not like just the original Sexy Back. It's got, it's got flavor to it.

• 25:01Connor Wood?

  It has so, it, it, it sounds like its own original piece.

• 25:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm very excited.

• 25:06Connor Wood?

  It's haunting. That's how I can, it's haunting.

• 25:08Brooke Averick?

  I'm so excited.

• 25:09Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 25:10Brooke Averick?

  So then after that, it's semifinals.

• 25:12Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 25:12Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 25:13Brooke Averick?

  Which, what do you, what's the, I guess it's different every year.

• 25:16Speaker 05

  There's no theme for like semifinals, but it's just one Latin dance and one like ballroom dance, so frame dance. And it's just like one final that you haven't done yet. And it's like two minute and a half dances.

• 25:30Brooke Averick?

  Whoa.

• 25:30Speaker 05

  That's the hardest week on this show, I would say, because the finale, you have a lot to do, but it's like, it's the last week.

• 25:37Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 25:37Speaker 05

  Let's freaking go.

• 25:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 25:38Speaker 05

  We only have five more days of this. But in semifinals, it's like, this is really hard. We may make it to finale. We don't know.

• 25:46Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 25:46Connor Wood?

  Oh, amazing.

• 25:47Speaker 05

  Wait, Connor, you're just saying, oh, amazing, because you're nervous?

• 25:50Connor Wood?

  No, I'm just thinking about having done two dances last night and just like.

• 25:54Speaker 05

  Barely making it through.

• 25:55Connor Wood?

  No, I like couldn't breathe at all.

• 25:58Speaker 05

  And jiving.

• 25:59Connor Wood?

  I'm sweating so much that people in the audience, like, I think that they thought that I was passing out, but it's just because I was so wet that the camera people like sent in the big guns.

• 26:07Brooke Averick?

  Sent in like 45 people to block you.

• 26:09Connor Wood?

  Dry me off. Someone brought a beach towel.

• 26:13Speaker 05

  Really?

• 26:13Connor Wood?

  Yeah. And I was like, thank you, but like, please bring one of the small ones.

• 26:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, like.

• 26:17Connor Wood?

  There's so many people looking at me.

• 26:18Speaker 05

  You don't need to bring a beach towel.

• 26:20Connor Wood?

  Please bring a small towel next time.

• 26:21Brooke Averick?

  He gets that from me.

• 26:23Connor Wood?

  My dad bragging about how much he sweats.

• 26:25Brooke Averick?

  I love him so much.

• 26:26Speaker 05

  I love your parents.

• 26:28Brooke Averick?

  I do too.

• 26:29Speaker 05

  They're so fun.

• 26:29Brooke Averick?

  They've been so fun to sit with.

• 26:31Connor Wood?

  I saw, I saw a cute video last night when we got the team dance stands and he turns around to the people behind him. It's like, like we're at church. Turn to the person on your right and introduce yourself. Yeah. Yeah.

• 26:42Speaker 05

  Oh, that's so.

• 26:42Connor Wood?

  Oh, yeah. He has plans with Caleb's family to go to the Giants game.

• 26:46Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yeah.

• 26:47Connor Wood?

  One, you don't live in New York. Live in Texas? How are you going to the Giants game?

• 26:52Speaker 05

  My favorite thing about him on dedication is it was like, we couldn't find your dad and he was just talking to someone new.

• 26:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah, he had golf plans with one of the guys on security.

• 27:00Speaker 05

  Yeah. No, I love it. It's amazing.

• 27:03Connor Wood?

  It's really special. We were talking about the lore of the show.

• 27:07Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 27:07Connor Wood?

  At the very beginning. I think it's, I think it's interesting that Lindsay, Riley's older sister, was, how, how long was Lindsay on the show?

• 27:17Speaker 05

  Like 10 years. Yeah.

• 27:19Brooke Averick?

  So you were like a baby when she started.

• 27:21Speaker 05

  Oh, my gosh. Like I, so you can't go to the tapings till you're eight years old. And so like, when I was officially of age to go and like watch these shows, I remember being there and being like, this is gonna be me. Like, there is literally nothing that is gonna stop me from being here. Like, I watched that and just like, fell in love with it. I also just like, I've always loved teaching, like as much as I love dancing, I love to teach. And so I just saw that and I got to see firsthand like what it actually is like. And Lindsay is, I mean, Connor, you know, I call her for literally everything.

• 27:55Connor Wood?

  I'm about to call her.

• 27:56Speaker 05

  Well, yeah. We'll be in rehearsal and I'm like in a pickle and I'm like, I'm just gonna call Lindsay. We'll figure it out with her. But she has been like, literally my guiding light.

• 28:06Connor Wood?

  It is so funny when we call her too, because obviously she's busy.

• 28:09Speaker 05

  She's a mother.

• 28:10Connor Wood?

  Mama bear.

• 28:10Speaker 05

  Sure. Three.

• 28:11Connor Wood?

  But she'll, she'll answer in pajamas, folding, actively folding laundry and be like, and be like this.

• 28:17Speaker 05

  She'll stand up in her closet.

• 28:20Connor Wood?

  Folding laundry, busy, busy, busy. And she's like, okay, so I think if you guys maybe went here and then back.

• 28:29Connor Wood?

  I think that that could really fit well into this.

• 28:31Speaker 05

  No, literally.

• 28:32Connor Wood?

  And it's like, yeah, but like.

• 28:34Speaker 05

  Like, she's right.

• 28:35Connor Wood?

  Turns it on. Such a show.

• 28:37Speaker 05

  No, Lindsay was like, honestly, one of the best of her time, like in my opinion. I mean, she's my sister, but like, she was really good.

• 28:46Brooke Averick?

  She, like, she knows what she's doing. I guess it's in your blood. Like, do your parents dance? Like.

• 28:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, my parents never danced. My mom showed horses growing up. My dad played football.

• 28:57Brooke Averick?

  There's movement in both of those things.

• 28:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but like we all as girls were just put in dance. My mom had a dance studio all growing up, so we like all went to the same dance studio and like, our family time was at dance. And yeah, we just like grew up loving it. It was the best. That's what's nice about having all sisters.

• 29:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 29:14Speaker 05

  Like, we had a common ground.

• 29:16Brooke Averick?

  That's amazing.

• 29:17Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's so fun.

• 29:19Brooke Averick?

  I wish I was one of you. I really do.

• 29:23Speaker 05

  You can be.

• 29:24Brooke Averick?

  If I could dance.

• 29:25Speaker 05

  It's never too late.

• 29:25Brooke Averick?

  I would, it, it's too late.

• 29:27Connor Wood?

  What would you?

• 29:27Brooke Averick?

  I would just never stop moving. I guess it's like if I could like sing really well, I'd never stop.

• 29:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, I say that about singing.

• 29:33Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 29:33Speaker 05

  Like, I wish I could sing.

• 29:34Brooke Averick?

  I'd never stop. I would never stop.

• 29:36Connor Wood?

  Oh, I'd be insane.

• 29:37Brooke Averick?

  I'd be so horrible. Yeah.

• 29:39Connor Wood?

  What would you, what would you do if you weren't dancing?

• 29:42Brooke Averick?

  Good question.

• 29:43Speaker 05

  Well.

• 29:44Brooke Averick?

  Teaching, you're so like.

• 29:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, maybe like, maybe I would have been like a school teacher.

• 29:48Connor Wood?

  You would be good at teaching.

• 29:50Speaker 05

  Elementary school. Like, I think that could have been fun. I mean, I like, when I graduated high school, I really wanted to get a job on the show, but like, they don't always just like add new pros.

• 30:01Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 30:01Speaker 05

  Especially like in older seasons, like if you're contracted, they, they keep you on. Like, they're very loyal. Um, and then I really wanted to get on, didn't know if it was gonna happen. And then I had like a Zoom meeting with Dina and Conrad, who are like the head of the show. And I just like sold myself, basically. I was like, I, I can do it. I can do the job. I'm only 18, but I can do it and I want it.

• 30:23Brooke Averick?

  Are you the youngest pro ever?

• 30:25Speaker 05

  I think so. I think I was. Yes. I mean, you can't be any younger than 18. So like.

• 30:31Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 30:32Speaker 05

  Legally. Um, but I was like hoping for the best. Like, two weeks passed by and all my friends are like, getting ready to go to college. And I'm like, I don't, I don't know what I'm doing. Anytime someone would ask me, I'm just like, I don't know. So I actually signed up for esthetician school. I wanted to become an esthetician and do like facials and all of that. I signed up and then literally within like hours, got the call that I got the job. And then I was like, thank goodness.

• 30:57Connor Wood?

  My gosh.

• 30:58Speaker 05

  I'm so glad.

• 31:00Connor Wood?

  You could still, you could still, look at your skin.

• 31:02Brooke Averick?

  I know, I was just about to say that.

• 31:03Speaker 05

  Thank you. I really was into that kind of stuff. I also like did Accutane. So I was like really into like skin things, really?

• 31:09Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 31:10Speaker 05

  When?

• 31:11Brooke Averick?

  I think I was 22 and it was, I was teaching. It's poison. I was teaching and I remember like I was always sitting on the ground.

• 31:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:21Brooke Averick?

  With the kids, but my joints were so stiff that I needed like six of them to help me up.

• 31:25Connor Wood?

  You guys.

• 31:27Speaker 05

  You're like, kids, help me.

• 31:29Brooke Averick?

  Y'all, teach your brooks on Accutane, please help.

• 31:31Speaker 05

  You're like, I'm 22, but I can't stand up by myself.

• 31:34Brooke Averick?

  And my lips were like bleeding down my face.

• 31:38Speaker 05

  I was literally.

• 31:39Connor Wood?

  Crypt keeper.

• 31:40Brooke Averick?

  I would go on it again in a.

• 31:42Connor Wood?

  Why?

• 31:43Brooke Averick?

  It changed my life.

• 31:44Speaker 05

  I got another pimple.

• 31:45Brooke Averick?

  Accutane. It changed my leg.

• 31:48Connor Wood?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 31:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:49Connor Wood?

  I can't even believe it's allowed to be like distributed.

• 31:53Brooke Averick?

  People, there are people that go on it. I think you can go on it three times. There are people that go on it three times and it sucks because it doesn't work sometimes for people.

• 31:59Speaker 05

  Like you, after five years of doing it, your acne can come back. And so I've been trying not to let that happen, but I guess you can't really control it.

• 32:10Brooke Averick?

  Actually, it's scary.

• 32:11Speaker 05

  It is really scary. Connor has perfect skin.

• 32:13Brooke Averick?

  I know.

• 32:13Speaker 05

  He wouldn't know.

• 32:14Brooke Averick?

  Perfect skin.

• 32:15Connor Wood?

  No, well, my, my skin, the way my skin works is I get the underground pimples is what I, like, I've always called them.

• 32:22Speaker 05

  Under the skin.

• 32:22Connor Wood?

  Under the skin and they're, it's cystic, I guess.

• 32:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:26Connor Wood?

  So like I was struggling in silence, you know, I was struggling behind the scenes. But then sometimes one of them makes it to the surface.

• 32:33Speaker 05

  I haven't seen a single white head on your face, not one time.

• 32:35Connor Wood?

  Well, because of my age, I don't really get pimples like.

• 32:39Speaker 05

  Forget you're kind of old.

• 32:40Brooke Averick?

  Senior's at it.

• 32:42Connor Wood?

  If I were to get a pimple now, I'd be like, it'd be due to outside factors.

• 32:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 32:47Connor Wood?

  Such as.

• 32:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:48Connor Wood?

  And not excluding.

• 32:51Connor Wood?

  Chin hair, mustache hair, prosthetics on my face, prosthetics on my forehead, prosthetics on my neck and back.

• 32:56Speaker 05

  See, I'm shocked you haven't broken out, like.

• 32:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I am too. Well, I have one under my eyebrow right now, but.

• 33:01Speaker 05

  Really?

• 33:02Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 33:02Speaker 05

  Oh, and then you also have that one right here.

• 33:05Connor Wood?

  That one has been, yeah, see, it's been there for.

• 33:07Speaker 05

  It's just an under the skin. It won't pop.

• 33:10Connor Wood?

  No, it won't pop. It's just with us now.

• 33:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:14Connor Wood?

  This is my life now. This is my new.

• 33:15Speaker 05

  It's good luck. It's okay.

• 33:16Brooke Averick?

  What is this?

• 33:17Speaker 05

  This is my brother.

• 33:18Connor Wood?

  What is it? What is it? I don't know.

• 33:19Brooke Averick?

  Oh, it's a flake.

• 33:20Connor Wood?

  Oh, thanks for getting, thank you.

• 33:22Brooke Averick?

  No worries.

• 33:23Connor Wood?

  Uh, just a flake.

• 33:25Brooke Averick?

  The good thing about Accutane 2, though, that you would like is that it dries you out. So like, you wouldn't be as shiny. You wouldn't sweat. And like, I could go like a week and a half without washing my hair.

• 33:35Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, because it would never get greasy.

• 33:37Brooke Averick?

  There's no oil.

• 33:37Connor Wood?

  What?

• 33:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, it sucks all the oil out of your body.

• 33:39Speaker 05

  That's why you get joint pain because it literally sucks the oil out of your joints.

• 33:42Brooke Averick?

  You know, like the old woman on SpongeBob, chocolate?

• 33:45Connor Wood?

  Chocolate?

• 33:46Brooke Averick?

  Chocolate. Like, that is who you become.

• 33:48Connor Wood?

  Just shrivel me up.

• 33:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I should show you a picture of when I was on it because you can always tell, like, my lips, like.

• 33:54Connor Wood?

  No, I mean.

• 33:54Speaker 05

  Always chapped.

• 33:55Brooke Averick?

  Corners, like, yeah.

• 33:56Speaker 05

  Always cracking.

• 33:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 33:58Connor Wood?

  Thinking back, I can think of the people from my high school that were on Accutane.

• 34:01Brooke Averick?

  Exactly. You just know, when you know, you know. I wish I went on when I was much younger.

• 34:04Connor Wood?

  Krusty, crusty. Bless her heart.

• 34:05Brooke Averick?

  So crusty. It was the worst of times and the best of times. Yeah.

• 34:10Speaker 05

  Like, pinky.

• 34:10Connor Wood?

  I, I think, I've said this before, the most unemployed thing about me is that I kind of like when I get a really good pimple. That I have to work on. It's like a fun, like, I look forward to getting home and being like, now I get to sit on my bathroom counter and like go to work.

• 34:24Brooke Averick?

  That is such pretty privilege.

• 34:27Brooke Averick?

  Like, you have to be, like, in a really good space to look, to want a pimple.

• 34:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:32Brooke Averick?

  You know?

• 34:32Connor Wood?

  I don't want a pimple, but it is like, it is like, kind of like, hmm, when you have a really good book.

• 34:40Brooke Averick?

  Sure.

• 34:40Connor Wood?

  Can't wait to read your, get home and read your book. I'm like, can't wait to get home and go to town on this pimple.

• 34:46Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:46Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 34:47Connor Wood?

  When you.

• 34:47Brooke Averick?

  I, I get that, but like, if you had said that to me, like, when I had really bad acne, I would be like, check your privilege vibes.

• 34:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:54Brooke Averick?

  But I do get it now. Yeah.

• 34:57Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 34:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 34:58Connor Wood?

  Right. Well, I don't.

• 34:59Speaker 05

  I love that.

• 35:00Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that's, that's just like where I'm at right now. Like, I haven't had one in a while. So I would, you know, like, a big, big pimple to pop on.

• 35:07Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 35:08Speaker 05

  Like Whitehead to disco.

• 35:09Connor Wood?

  Sometimes you pop it.

• 35:10Brooke Averick?

  You need to get one of those fidgets.

• 35:11Speaker 05

  No, remember when you squirted one in the mirror at rehearsal? He popped a zit and genuinely squirted in like three different directions.

• 35:19Brooke Averick?

  Ooh, that gave me chills.

• 35:19Connor Wood?

  It was awesome. Like, sorry, it was awesome. Like, I smiled.

• 35:23Speaker 05

  You were so happy.

• 35:24Connor Wood?

  I turned and I was like, Riley.

• 35:26Brooke Averick?

  That is awesome.

• 35:28Connor Wood?

  She, it, like, lets me, and I wouldn't, I don't even talk as gross as.

• 35:35Brooke Averick?

  She gives you a large leash.

• 35:36Connor Wood?

  She gives me a big leash, but I, like, don't talk that gross. We don't.

• 35:39Brooke Averick?

  Uh huh.

• 35:40Connor Wood?

  You know, and she's like, you gotta poop? I'm like, yeah, I do, but don't say that.

• 35:46Speaker 05

  I don't know. I've just always been open about that stuff. I've never like.

• 35:50Brooke Averick?

  Hey, we're open to being open about it.

• 35:52Connor Wood?

  It's like teacher vibes. It's like teacher vibes.

• 35:53Speaker 05

  You gotta poop, everyone's gotta poop.

• 35:54Connor Wood?

  Well, we can stop.

• 35:55Brooke Averick?

  Yeah. You're so, you're such a lady with Riley.

• 35:59Connor Wood?

  I'm a lady.

• 36:00Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 36:01Connor Wood?

  I'm a lady in general. Look, I'm sitting.

• 36:03Speaker 05

  I feel like I'm sitting.

• 36:05Brooke Averick?

  I feel like less so in the space.

• 36:07Connor Wood?

  I don't think so.

• 36:09Brooke Averick?

  You don't think?

• 36:10Connor Wood?

  No, I don't think we like.

• 36:11Brooke Averick?

  You can be gross. No?

• 36:13Connor Wood?

  We're, we, we have reins, we have a, we have boundaries.

• 36:17Speaker 05

  He's never farted.

• 36:18Connor Wood?

  No, and I don't.

• 36:19Speaker 05

  In front of me. He'll step outside.

• 36:20Brooke Averick?

  I, I.

• 36:21Connor Wood?

  You've not known me to fart.

• 36:23Brooke Averick?

  Connor. Hey, guys, we want to take a break to thank a sponsor of today's episode, Newly. I'm really excited for fall fashion because I feel like that's when I actually want to get dressed again. But I also love trying trends, and I don't necessarily want to buy something I might only be obsessed with for one season. Newly lets me have way more fun with my wardrobe and try pieces that are a little outside of my normal style without having to fully commit to them.

• 36:45Connor Wood?

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• 36:55Brooke Averick?

  I do.

• 36:56Connor Wood?

  You adore Newly.

• 36:57Brooke Averick?

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• 36:59Connor Wood?

  No, I'll have to look into it.

• 37:00Brooke Averick?

  You will.

• 37:00Connor Wood?

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• 37:11Brooke Averick?

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• 37:23Connor Wood?

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• 37:40Brooke Averick?

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• 38:00Connor Wood?

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• 38:26Brooke Averick?

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• 38:56Connor Wood?

  Goodles.

• 38:57Brooke Averick?

  Hi, I feel like we've both been so busy lately, and when I get home after a long day, the absolute last thing I want to do is spend an hour cooking dinner, and that's why I love Goodles. It's genuinely one of my favorite things to make when I want something quick, easy, and comforting that actually tastes good.

• 39:12Connor Wood?

  With how busy our schedules have been, personally, I, I need meals that require zero effort. I have been eating, kind of reverting, regressing a little bit back to childhood.

• 39:22Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 39:22Connor Wood?

  Goodles is perfect for that. Low-key, it's like, your favorite mac and cheese are possible, but it's leveled out. It has, it has protein, more fiber, essential vitamins and minerals. So you're getting something? You know, I love, like, justifying things. You don't have to justify this mac and cheese, okay? You're getting something that tastes amazing, but also has actual nutritional benefits, which I love.

• 39:42Brooke Averick?

  Mm-hmm. And the flavors are so good. I love their Cheddy Mac because it's that classic creamy cheesy mac and cheese that you crave. It's also easy to make, and I love that I can have something delicious ready in just a few minutes without having to put in a ton of effort. Plus, every serving of Goodles Mac and Cheese has protein, fiber with prebiotics, and vitamins and minerals from a real plant source.

• 40:03Connor Wood?

  I love their mac and cheese cups.

• 40:05Brooke Averick?

  Yup.

• 40:06Connor Wood?

  You know that. You literally just pop it in the microwave. It's ready to go in minutes. No pots, no pans, no dishes. And almost all Goodles products are low glycemic index, which means you get more steady energy instead of that carb crash. They're also clean label purity award certified, meaning they've been tested for over 400 different contaminants, and they meet the highest standard.

• 40:24Brooke Averick?

  They also have so many different flavors and options, including vegan and gluten-free, so there's actually something for everyone. Whether you're looking for an easy lunch, a quick dinner, or just craving a really good bowl of mac and cheese, Goodles is such a good thing to have stocked in your pantry. If you haven't tried Goodles yet, now's the time. We know you'll love it. Pick up Goodles Mac and Cheese and Pasta on your next shopping trip. They're available nationwide at Target and Walmart, plus many other major grocery stores and retailers. You have absolutely ripped.

• 40:52Connor Wood?

  No, I have not. No, I have not.

• 40:54Brooke Averick?

  Yes, you have.

• 40:55Connor Wood?

  Okay, pull the, if it's been on camera?

• 40:57Brooke Averick?

  Sorry, I wasn't filming.

• 40:58Connor Wood?

  Jog my memory.

• 40:59Brooke Averick?

  Sorry, I wasn't filming it.

• 41:00Connor Wood?

  I have not, you guys, I don't.

• 41:01Brooke Averick?

  I wouldn't say you rip, like, regularly, but you've, you have.

• 41:06Connor Wood?

  We have to move on because this is gonna get flagged.

• 41:09Brooke Averick?

  Like Jenna Dewan, change the channel.

• 41:13Connor Wood?

  Jenna Dewan?

• 41:13Brooke Averick?

  Change the channel, though.

• 41:14Connor Wood?

  Please, I'm listening.

• 41:16Speaker 05

  Literally.

• 41:17Brooke Averick?

  If you've made it this far.

• 41:19Connor Wood?

  Everyone's like, do you think Jennifer Lawrence is listening to your podcast? I hope not.

• 41:23Brooke Averick?

  I sure hope not.

• 41:27Connor Wood?

  You guys want to hear something bizarre that happened to me yesterday?

• 41:29Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 41:31Connor Wood?

  Right before the show, I stopped at the grocery store I go to.

• 41:35Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 41:35Connor Wood?

  And I went to get oatmeal, and, because I had a later start. And I run into this man. He's like, Connor. He's an older gentleman in his 50s. And I was like, hey, I don't know who I've met and who I haven't met these days. I met you in 2019 in Long Beach and it all came back to me. I had stopped at this store in Long Beach to get a plant and I was loading it up into my car for my apartment when I moved to LA. Like the week that I moved to LA.

• 42:12Speaker 05

  Uh huh.

• 42:13Connor Wood?

  Didn't know anybody and this, this guy walks by, he's talking, he's just kinda like, "Nice day." And I'm like, "Yeah, it is a nice day, huh?" It's really like blah blah. And he's like, "You wanna get a piece of pizza?" And I went and got a piece of pizza.

• 42:25Speaker 05

  Oh, I remember this.

• 42:26Connor Wood?

  Random guy, which like, you probably don't do that, but I did that and we sat and had a piece of pizza. I also had no money, so I was like, "Free lunch." I paid. I think he was looking for a piece of pizza.

• 42:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:40Connor Wood?

  And we talked for a little bit and then I left. Him.

• 42:44Speaker 05

  That's amazing.

• 42:44Connor Wood?

  At the store.

• 42:45Speaker 05

  So cute. Did you guys like remember it? You had a moment?

• 42:48Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I was like, "Oh my God, pizza guy." I don't remember what we talked about.

• 42:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:51Connor Wood?

  At all.

• 42:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:52Connor Wood?

  But we were just talking and like, I was like, "Oh, I don't live here anymore. You know, I'm living here right now." Blah blah blah. But didn't ask him any questions about himself, which I, you know, I should work on that.

• 43:03Brooke Averick?

  But imagine that guy's POV seeing you on Dancing with the Stars and thinking like-

• 43:07Connor Wood?

  Oh, he doesn't watch.

• 43:07Brooke Averick?

  Wait, I went to pizza with him. I went and got pizza with him.

• 43:10Connor Wood?

  I don't think he watches. He doesn't strike me as like someone who's-

• 43:13Brooke Averick?

  Okay, imagine him walking in the Grove and there's your photo.

• 43:16Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 43:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 43:17Brooke Averick?

  And it's like, "Wait, that's my pizza friend."

• 43:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 43:19Connor Wood?

  That's my pizza friend.

• 43:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:20Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 43:21Brooke Averick?

  It's really cool.

• 43:22Speaker 05

  That is cool.

• 43:22Connor Wood?

  Oh, that's so funny. When I moved to LA. Mm mm mm.

• 43:26Brooke Averick?

  Like for your, like job job?

• 43:29Connor Wood?

  For my job.

• 43:29Brooke Averick?

  Post-college.

• 43:30Connor Wood?

  Sorry, I spit on you.

• 43:30Brooke Averick?

  It's okay.

• 43:32Connor Wood?

  For my job job, post-college.

• 43:33Speaker 05

  When did you move to LA?

• 43:35Connor Wood?

  2019.

• 43:36Speaker 05

  Oh, you already said that, sorry.

• 43:37Connor Wood?

  Did I?

• 43:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, you did say 2019.

• 43:39Connor Wood?

  It was a weird time when I moved to LA, cause I had like, no frie- I had genuinely no friends. Didn't know anybody in LA proper. Like I, I didn't know anybody.

• 43:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:50Connor Wood?

  Met my roommates on Facebook. And that was all I had. I was, I was going on, like I was training for the marathon because it would just like make me so tired that I could fall asleep.

• 44:03Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 44:03Connor Wood?

  No, it's not sad. It's, it's funny.

• 44:05Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 44:06Brooke Averick?

  Oh, huh?

• 44:08Connor Wood?

  And then right when I got here, I got mono and they told me I was the oldest person that they've seen get mono.

• 44:15Brooke Averick?

  There's no way.

• 44:17Connor Wood?

  At that point, I was.

• 44:19Brooke Averick?

  Oh, you were young. Yeah.

• 44:20Connor Wood?

  Younger.

• 44:20Brooke Averick?

  But no, you can get mono and well into your-

• 44:23Connor Wood?

  In your adulthood? Yeah, if you're like making out with a bunch of people.

• 44:29Brooke Averick?

  Or like sharing drinks and stuff.

• 44:30Connor Wood?

  I guess.

• 44:31Speaker 05

  You were probably doing that.

• 44:32Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 44:34Connor Wood?

  Yeah, well, I'd gone to, I'd gone to ACL and, and we were all like sharing a water bottle, like a Camelback or something.

• 44:40Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 44:41Connor Wood?

  But yeah, I got back, I had mono and I had my brand new job that I just got and I thought I was depressed and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm like, I, I remember being in a meeting and being like, "This is a great job. Show up." Like stay awake. And I was like, "Oh my God." My head's gonna hit the desk, like in the middle of the meeting. I was so heavy, heavy, heavy tired.

• 45:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:06Connor Wood?

  I was like, "Oh my gosh, I must be that depressed."

• 45:09Speaker 05

  He's just-

• 45:10Connor Wood?

  Full-blown mono.

• 45:11Speaker 05

  Dang.

• 45:11Connor Wood?

  Beyond. I go home on a Friday, get home, fall asleep at 6:00 PM, wake up at 11:00 and I'm like, "Wow, I took a five-hour nap." Mm mm. It was 11:00 AM on Sunday. I slept through a day.

• 45:27Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 45:28Connor Wood?

  Six P, like through, from 6:00 PM on Friday, woke up 11:00 AM on Sunday. And then I was like, "Wait, 11:00 AM?" And I look outside, it's dark. I go, "Something's so off." The fires had hit Santa Monica and so the sky was pitch black. People had evacuated. No one woke me up.

• 45:53Connor Wood?

  And then I go to call my mom. Mom, first time I've talked to anyone in several days.

• 45:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:58Connor Wood?

  My throat had swelled up so much from the lymph, the nodes.

• 46:02Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 46:02Connor Wood?

  My nodes were swollen.

• 46:04Brooke Averick?

  This is a really sad story.

• 46:05Connor Wood?

  Okay, it's funny to me.

• 46:06Brooke Averick?

  It is.

• 46:07Speaker 05

  It's really sad.

• 46:08Connor Wood?

  Oh, it's just one of those where like, I'm like, "Oh, how fun."

• 46:11Brooke Averick?

  This would be on our BNC bingo board, though, Connor's mono story.

• 46:15Connor Wood?

  Yes. My nodes were so swollen that I called my mom and she picked up, first time talking to someone in three days. "Mom, I don't know what." So I'm talking to her and she's like, "What?" So I walked to urgent care. No one's outside. I was like, then I had convinced myself that the world ended while I was asleep. I was the only one alive. I get to urgent care and I'm like, "Oh, this is not how I sound normally. I usually sound normal." The girl's like, "Sit down." I'm like, "No, you just need someone now."

• 46:47Connor Wood?

  And like, no one believed me that this wasn't how I sounded normally and I was like, "No, you have to understand. This is not me."

• 46:54Brooke Averick?

  I don't usually do this.

• 46:55Connor Wood?

  I don't usually like do this. I'm way out of my comfort zone right now. And I was just like, "Please." And they were like, "You have mono." And I was like, "Okay." And they were like, "And strap."

• 47:08Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 47:08Connor Wood?

  So the mono like lowered my immune system enough to where I got strap as well.

• 47:12Speaker 05

  That's so sad.

• 47:13Connor Wood?

  Shout out to antibiotics though, cause I took-

• 47:15Brooke Averick?

  Genuine shout out.

• 47:16Connor Wood?

  Genuine shout out.

• 47:17Speaker 05

  Antibiotics fix strap all the time.

• 47:19Brooke Averick?

  It's aw- like, I'm always so thrilled when I have strap, cause it's like fabulous. There's a pill for that.

• 47:24Connor Wood?

  You can fix it.

• 47:24Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 47:25Connor Wood?

  Yeah, mono, there, there is no test for mono either.

• 47:27Speaker 05

  Rest.

• 47:28Connor Wood?

  So it's just like rest and liquids and it was like, "Well, I just got this job."

• 47:34Connor Wood?

  So guess who got mono? Probably my whole team, cause I was gonna show up at work. I'm not gonna be the person that takes off work for, you know?

• 47:41Speaker 05

  I get that.

• 47:41Connor Wood?

  I wasn't making out with them or anything, like, or just, even though I'll say it time and time again, my manager pulled my side and was like, "Work is way more fun when you have a work crush." And I was like, "Are you telling me?" "What are you saying?" It wasn't that though.

• 47:57Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 47:57Connor Wood?

  We, we walked around the office and she was like, "Let's pick someone."

• 48:00Brooke Averick?

  Let's, okay.

• 48:00Connor Wood?

  And I was like, "This seems backwards and also we have work." No.

• 48:05Brooke Averick?

  Damn. She is right, sadly.

• 48:08Speaker 05

  Work is fun when there's a crush.

• 48:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, I haven't had a crush in like a few days. I'm deb- I'm miserable.

• 48:14Speaker 05

  Miserable.

• 48:16Connor Wood?

  If you, do you think that Val maybe took that, took a spot in your heart?

• 48:20Brooke Averick?

  It's like, that's my, that's my family.

• 48:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:24Brooke Averick?

  You know, it's a different, it's a different response.

• 48:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:27Brooke Averick?

  But be careful.

• 48:30Connor Wood?

  I think you can say it. It's okay.

• 48:33Brooke Averick?

  Say it and we'll bleep it.

• 48:37Brooke Averick?

  Oh yeah, but we can't say that.

• 48:39Connor Wood?

  I think you can.

• 48:40Speaker 05

  Wait, what?

• 48:40Connor Wood?

  It's okay.

• 48:41Brooke Averick?

  No, I don't, we walked in, Kat and I walked in about changing.

• 48:46Connor Wood?

  I don't get how you could've walked in.

• 48:47Brooke Averick?

  We didn't walk-

• 48:48Speaker 05

  How?

• 48:48Brooke Averick?

  Well, he was doing it with, cause he was doing it with the door open.

• 48:51Speaker 05

  Oh, like in his trailer?

• 48:52Brooke Averick?

  He was just in his panties.

• 48:54Speaker 05

  Oh, okay. He does that all the time.

• 48:56Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, it wasn't like, it wasn't a private moment for him, but it definitely felt like-

• 48:59Speaker 05

  It felt private for you too.

• 49:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 49:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 49:02Brooke Averick?

  But he was more like a definite eye contact, like, but like he wasn't like necessarily wearing clothes.

• 49:07Connor Wood?

  Oh, he was in his underwear?

• 49:08Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 49:08Connor Wood?

  Well, you wore those walking around all day.

• 49:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 49:10Brooke Averick?

  But ju- like, but they were more of like a, what's the girl, like, um, Speedo?

• 49:16Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 49:17Brooke Averick?

  I think. I mean, I-

• 49:19Speaker 05

  Does he wear those?

• 49:20Connor Wood?

  He was in briefs on that.

• 49:21Brooke Averick?

  I think it was a tidy, maybe not.

• 49:23Connor Wood?

  No, he pulls them up.

• 49:24Brooke Averick?

  Okay, maybe they were pulled up. I don't know. I like-

• 49:26Connor Wood?

  No, I know what you're talking about. He pulls, he pulls, he pulls his briefs up.

• 49:28Brooke Averick?

  Okay, cool.

• 49:29Speaker 05

  Love that for him.

• 49:30Connor Wood?

  In that fashion. He's got a good body. I would do the same thing.

• 49:31Brooke Averick?

  I would do the same thing with my briefs.

• 49:33Connor Wood?

  I would do the same thing with my briefs.

• 49:34Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 49:35Connor Wood?

  I mean, I did on the show. I, I pulled my tearaways off and they wanted me to put my tearaways on over my sweats. I'm like, "You guys see how, like, there's gonna be no show if I rehearse in sweats and my tearaways."

• 49:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 49:49Connor Wood?

  I'll pass.

• 49:50Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 49:50Connor Wood?

  Away.

• 49:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, then you were just in your undies though.

• 49:53Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I was in my, "I'm okay."

• 49:54Speaker 05

  He's like standing at the judge's desk, like trying to hide the fact that he's in his underwear and then that one.

• 50:00Brooke Averick?

  But I'm so glad you were wearing underwear.

• 50:03Connor Wood?

  Right?

• 50:03Brooke Averick?

  Cause-

• 50:04Connor Wood?

  I said the same thing. That's all count our blessing.

• 50:06Brooke Averick?

  He, every time, he doesn't usually do that and-

• 50:09Connor Wood?

  Not right now.

• 50:10Brooke Averick?

  Whenever we have like a commercial to shoot or like any sort of thing, we-

• 50:13Speaker 05

  Ew.

• 50:14Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 50:14Speaker 05

  Why do you not wear underwear?

• 50:16Brooke Averick?

  Solid question.

• 50:16Connor Wood?

  It's our day off.

• 50:18Speaker 05

  Connor, that seems crazy.

• 50:21Connor Wood?

  It is really like-

• 50:21Speaker 05

  To just be going commando all the time?

• 50:23Connor Wood?

  Yes.

• 50:24Speaker 05

  Why?

• 50:24Brooke Averick?

  But we'll have like a shoot to do and we'll be getting fitted for something and he's telling the, and he's always telling the stylist like, "Oh, I'm not, sorry, I'm not wearing underwear." And it's like, you need to wear underwear when you're getting a fitting.

• 50:37Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:37Connor Wood?

  Sometimes I think that they might provide that.

• 50:41Brooke Averick?

  No, it's BYO.

• 50:42Speaker 05

  Undies?

• 50:43Brooke Averick?

  It is definitely BYO.

• 50:44Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 50:45Brooke Averick?

  Yes, you need to wear underwear to do it like a fitting.

• 50:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:48Connor Wood?

  My bad. When I feel really, really terrible, this is-

• 50:52Speaker 05

  You don't dance with no underwear.

• 50:53Connor Wood?

  No, I have, I have adopted underwear now because of the show. Cause I'm working out and I'm sweating a lot.

• 51:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. You need to protect.

• 51:01Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 51:02Connor Wood?

  Yes, I promise you I'm wearing underwear on this show.

• 51:07Connor Wood?

  That has never been a question or a hesitation.

• 51:08Speaker 05

  You always do talk about how tight they are and I'm like, "Is he not used to undies?"

• 51:11Brooke Averick?

  No, he's literally new. It's a new, it's a new sensation.

• 51:15Connor Wood?

  Okay, I'm also doing like a lot of different things with my body that I, like a normal man does not do. Also, hmm.

• 51:25Connor Wood?

  Two things.

• 51:26Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 51:26Connor Wood?

  One, I, it's, sometimes when they mic you up, they have to put their hand into your pants and I'm like, "Hang on, don't." You know?

• 51:36Connor Wood?

  And then the second thing is they have these like elastic things for shirts to hold them down, especially like in our contemporary when I had to, up, down, all around with my, so they put elastic things like-

• 51:49Speaker 05

  He had thought of his butt.

• 51:52Connor Wood?

  They have these elastic things that they attach to your shirt and so you have to actually step into your shirt.

• 51:57Brooke Averick?

  Oh, yes.

• 51:58Connor Wood?

  Those things will go right up into your ass.

• 52:00Brooke Averick?

  Sure.

• 52:01Connor Wood?

  And they did within-

• 52:03Speaker 05

  Trying to pick it.

• 52:04Connor Wood?

  Within seconds. On the show, I go, "All right."

• 52:10Connor Wood?

  I'm gonna show you the video.

• 52:11Brooke Averick?

  Uh, yeah.

• 52:11Speaker 05

  Show her the video.

• 52:13Brooke Averick?

  I wanna see it.

• 52:13Connor Wood?

  I'll send it to you.

• 52:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, show her the video.

• 52:16Connor Wood?

  Um, yeah, it, it was G-string vibes.

• 52:20Brooke Averick?

  I can't really picture it.

• 52:21Speaker 05

  No, it was like girl talk.

• 52:23Connor Wood?

  You won't need to picture it. I'll, I'll send it to you.

• 52:25Brooke Averick?

  Looking forward.

• 52:26Speaker 05

  It was just strings.

• 52:27Brooke Averick?

  Just, just the G-string.

• 52:30Connor Wood?

  This is, I had Riley film. I was like, "I can't imagine what this looks like."

• 52:46Brooke Averick?

  Okay, how else is that supposed to sit if not up your butt?

• 52:50Connor Wood?

  I think, I guess up your butt, but here.

• 52:54Speaker 05

  Just the white strings?

• 52:57Brooke Averick?

  I don't see how else that would.

• 52:58Connor Wood?

  It is a G string.

• 52:59Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 53:01Speaker 05

  I know, that was so annoying.

• 53:03Brooke Averick?

  That looks uncomfortable.

• 53:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 53:04Connor Wood?

  Yeah, yeah, but it kept the shirt down and that was probably my favorite outfit. The shirt fit really well. I think it's because of the G, because of the G. Yeah.

• 53:11Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 53:12Connor Wood?

  Holds it right in place.

• 53:14Brooke Averick?

  I have two more dancing questions. Is that okay?

• 53:16Connor Wood?

  Hit us.

• 53:17Brooke Averick?

  For Riley though.

• 53:18Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 53:19Connor Wood?

  Hit her.

• 53:19Brooke Averick?

  When, I, when you're choreographing, like how? Like do you just?

• 53:25Connor Wood?

  That's a good question.

• 53:26Brooke Averick?

  Do you just hear the song and see the steps in your head? Like how does it? How do you do that?

• 53:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, so I'll usually like, I'll get the song, I'll listen to it a bunch, I'll like count the eights. So I'll like count through the song of what it is and I'll just go through it and be like, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That's one, two, two. And I'll count it on a piece of paper and then I'll piece it. So I'll be like, this is the intro. This is the little section before the chorus. This is the chorus. This is the little trick section. This is the final button. Done. So I'll like piece it out.

• 53:57Brooke Averick?

  How long does that take you?

• 53:59Speaker 05

  Like 20 minutes.

• 54:00Connor Wood?

  No genuine.

• 54:01Brooke Averick?

  20 minutes to choreograph a whole dance?

• 54:02Speaker 05

  No.

• 54:03Connor Wood?

  Shocking.

• 54:04Speaker 05

  To piece it. But then I get with somebody, like I'll get with my best friend Carter. He's my roommate. Yes. He's my best friend. But I'll get with him and we'll like go to a studio or literally just do it in the apartment. And we'll just like, he'll help me with some moves, like if I get stuck, but we just piece it together. But then there's like sometimes like, um, if we have like a ballroom dance in frame, like I'll get with a ballroom coach that I've taught, like has taught me before and I'll like piece it together with him. And it's just, you can't choreograph a dance on your own. Like I couldn't just sit in a chair and be like, okay, we're gonna do this and it's gonna look awesome.

• 54:40Connor Wood?

  I think you could.

• 54:41Speaker 05

  You think so?

• 54:42Connor Wood?

  Yeah, 100%.

• 54:43Speaker 05

  Also, I want to like.

• 54:44Connor Wood?

  I know that you could.

• 54:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, I could if I needed to, but like I also want to come prepared.

• 54:48Brooke Averick?

  Sure.

• 54:48Speaker 05

  Like I don't want to like, I only have a certain amount of time with Connor. Like I want to get the choreography out. I don't want to be like thinking about like what's happening. Um, but it's just like second nature. I don't know, but it gets hard for sure. Like there's times like middle of the season, I'm like, I don't have any creativity left in me. Like, what do I do?

• 55:07Brooke Averick?

  No.

• 55:07Connor Wood?

  No worries. I got this one.

• 55:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 55:10Brooke Averick?

  It's really, like when I like take a step back, like from just like being amazed at you two dancing. It's like, well Riley made this dance. Like it's really, it's pretty mind blowing.

• 55:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's like, it's a crazy prep process. Like this week, I'll probably prep for next week, like in like two days or so.

• 55:27Brooke Averick?

  How do you keep two dances or more in your head at the same time and not get messed up?

• 55:32Speaker 05

  There's been times where I've literally known like 35 dances in one time in like a span of like, like I, one time I was stepping in for tour, like, cause the girls were leaving to Australia to film this show. And I was stepping in for them. So I learned like all of their tracks. So like all of their individual dances and like the different things they're doing in the group dances. And I learned like 35 dances in two days.

• 55:56Brooke Averick?

  Like it's just, I don't.

• 55:58Speaker 05

  It's like, I don't know how like our dancer brains do it, but it really, it stretches your brain, like actually. Like it, it's just how you're.

• 56:07Brooke Averick?

  Crazy.

• 56:08Connor Wood?

  I watched when we were in the room with the team dance, like watching, um, Jenna, Dwan and Harry, even Ezra, just like, it was as if like Val and everybody just kind of like airdropped them the moves of this dance. And like, what the hell did you guys, what did you guys just do?

• 56:28Speaker 05

  But it shows like how much work you're putting in genuinely. Like when I was in that room and yes, you're a little bit slower to pick up the choreography. Obviously, you've never done this before.

• 56:38Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 56:38Speaker 05

  But like, you've never done this before.

• 56:40Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 56:40Speaker 05

  But to see that actually firsthand and be like, wait, Connor has a road that he kind of has to go up with, with learning these dances, but he still shows up every week, like on the same level as these guys.

• 56:52Brooke Averick?

  On, you were on the, you were dancing with Ezra, Jenna and Harry at equals.

• 56:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, like you did not falter at all in that team dance and like, that just is a testament to how hard you're working genuinely.

• 57:02Connor Wood?

  Thank you genuinely so much. That's, that's the nicest thing to hear. Can I say that it took me until, until genuinely yesterday?

• 57:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:12Connor Wood?

  To realize Riley brought up the eight counts. One, two, three, four. I kept being like Riley, can you count me in? I forgot that I can count.

• 57:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:22Connor Wood?

  I can count.

• 57:23Brooke Averick?

  You don't have to carry everything alone though.

• 57:25Speaker 05

  Yeah. Put it on me.

• 57:28Connor Wood?

  You're right.

• 57:28Speaker 05

  Just make me do it.

• 57:29Connor Wood?

  When there was only one set of footprints, it was because Riley had me on her shoulders. But I genuinely was like, Riley, I, I, I don't know when eight is. I can count.

• 57:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:41Connor Wood?

  I can count.

• 57:42Speaker 05

  You can count.

• 57:43Connor Wood?

  And that sounds so stupid, but when everyone else is counting, Val's yelling, four! You know, like.

• 57:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:49Connor Wood?

  I can count four in my head. I am capable. I am strong.

• 57:55Brooke Averick?

  You are. You are smart.

• 57:57Speaker 05

  You are absolutely.

• 57:59Brooke Averick?

  You really can.

• 57:59Connor Wood?

  Oh, well, that was a cool realization that needed to happen eight weeks, two months into the freaking competition. Like, God forbid that happened week two.

• 58:06Brooke Averick?

  Never stop growing.

• 58:07Connor Wood?

  No, for sure. But that's like a pretty basic skill to remember that I can count.

• 58:10Brooke Averick?

  Well, you can, now you can do that.

• 58:12Connor Wood?

  No, now moving forward, of course.

• 58:13Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 58:14Connor Wood?

  With our Venetian Waltz.

• 58:15Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 58:15Connor Wood?

  I mean.

• 58:16Brooke Averick?

  No, you've already done that.

• 58:17Connor Wood?

  Argentine Tango.

• 58:18Speaker 05

  Venetian Waltz.

• 58:20Brooke Averick?

  I love the Venetian Waltz.

• 58:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:22Connor Wood?

  Oh, it's a really special dance.

• 58:23Brooke Averick?

  Wait, which one, what was, which one was the, your dad? That was.

• 58:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:27Brooke Averick?

  Okay, that was my favorite. Yeah.

• 58:28Speaker 05

  That one's really pretty.

• 58:30Brooke Averick?

  I'm really, at the end of, well, actually, would you get mad if at the end of the season, I ranked my favorite dances from favorite?

• 58:36Connor Wood?

  No.

• 58:37Brooke Averick?

  But I'm not gonna, I'll do top five.

• 58:38Speaker 05

  What's your favorite?

• 58:40Brooke Averick?

  My favorite so far besides high school musical group dance?

• 58:46Brooke Averick?

  Hmm. I like, there's a, I have a, well, obviously dedication night. I think, oh my God, contemporary, but that doesn't count.

• 58:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:54Brooke Averick?

  Contemporary doesn't count.

• 58:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:57Brooke Averick?

  Dedication night was gorgeous.

• 59:00Connor Wood?

  Really?

• 59:00Brooke Averick?

  And stunning. Yeah, I just, I love what you did and your relationship with your dad is very beautiful. Um, I liked week one.

• 59:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:09Brooke Averick?

  I think week one really had such a special place in my heart.

• 59:13Speaker 05

  We were so happy after that.

• 59:15Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 59:16Speaker 05

  Like so happy.

• 59:16Brooke Averick?

  You should have been. And I also think just like watching that was the most like wow moment I've ever had in my life. Like, what do you mean?

• 59:26Connor Wood?

  What?

• 59:26Speaker 05

  He's doing it.

• 59:27Brooke Averick?

  It's like he's really up there.

• 59:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:29Brooke Averick?

  So that was really special.

• 59:31Connor Wood?

  It is, I don't remember a time when I wasn't on this show.

• 59:34Brooke Averick?

  I don't either.

• 59:36Speaker 05

  But before you know it, it's gonna be over. It's so sad.

• 59:41Brooke Averick?

  It can't be over. You have to be one of those like kids who can't say goodbye to their teachers at the end of senior year. Like you need to go back in the ballroom like every year.

• 59:50Speaker 05

  He's gonna be a senior senior for sure.

• 59:52Connor Wood?

  They're gonna have to put a picture of me up and say, do not let him in.

• 59:54Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 59:55Speaker 05

  He's gonna.

• 59:55Brooke Averick?

  You need to reserve a table.

• 59:57Speaker 05

  He's gonna be the podcast.

• 59:57Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 59:58Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 59:58Brooke Averick?

  Please. You need to reserve the table to the left of the judges or right.

• 1:00:03Connor Wood?

  Five top?

• 1:00:04Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, the five top.

• 1:00:05Connor Wood?

  Can we get some chicken tenders?

• 1:00:06Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:08Connor Wood?

  I'm fully eating dinner at the, at the show. I live here.

• 1:00:11Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:12Connor Wood?

  Oh my gosh, like when.

• 1:00:14Speaker 05

  I can't even like, even fathom not being your partner. Like what? There's gonna be a different season?

• 1:00:22Connor Wood?

  That's what I don't get. You guys do this every.

• 1:00:26Speaker 05

  Like you're just like a chapter in my book and I'm your whole book.

• 1:00:33Connor Wood?

  I almost, the mic went fully into my mouth.

• 1:00:36Brooke Averick?

  That's so crazy.

• 1:00:38Speaker 05

  I'm just kidding.

• 1:00:40Connor Wood?

  You're just a chapter.

• 1:00:41Speaker 05

  You are my whole book. You are my whole book. But it's kind of crazy. It's like, we do this every.

• 1:00:47Connor Wood?

  And you have to put that much like emotion effort into every, like, I do not fault you.

• 1:00:53Speaker 05

  I will say Connor.

• 1:00:54Connor Wood?

  I'll see, I'll see your next partner in the parking lot for sure.

• 1:00:56Brooke Averick?

  About to say something special.

• 1:00:57Connor Wood?

  But.

• 1:00:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm about to say something special. I will say Connor, this has been my favorite season.

• 1:01:06Speaker 05

  And that's because of you, genuinely.

• 1:01:08Connor Wood?

  I mean, same. I, if genuine.

• 1:01:11Brooke Averick?

  It's his favorite season too, right?

• 1:01:13Connor Wood?

  It's my favorite season that I've ever been on. No, I, I told her, I was like, I would have self eliminated week two if, if I had anyone, yeah, if I had anyone else.

• 1:01:21Speaker 05

  Genuinely, we are having more fun than anyone else and I will say that with my partner.

• 1:01:25Connor Wood?

  We were divinely matched because I, I said last night, I'm a giver upper. Like I have no, I have no pride. Like if, if things are hard, why are we doing, if I don't have to be doing something that's hard, I see you.

• 1:01:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, but like you're pushing through.

• 1:01:38Connor Wood?

  Bye.

• 1:01:39Speaker 05

  You have not complained one time.

• 1:01:41Connor Wood?

  It's because you've made it doable, you know, and that's a huge, doable sounds like a throwaway word, but it, it has weight here. Cause it wouldn't have been, it wouldn't have been doable, frankly. Or, and then let alone enjoyable.

• 1:01:53Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:01:54Connor Wood?

  And now we've hit a stride, which is, I'm, I'm loving this, I'm loving the stride.

• 1:01:57Speaker 05

  Like even when things get tough, like when I get sassy and you get sassy, we come right back to where we need to be. Like always. Yeah.

• 1:02:06Brooke Averick?

  How much of a say did you have in your partner?

• 1:02:08Speaker 05

  None.

• 1:02:09Brooke Averick?

  None?

• 1:02:09Speaker 05

  We get no say absolutely at all.

• 1:02:11Brooke Averick?

  Really?

• 1:02:12Speaker 05

  Yes. But I like, I had a feeling it was Connor and.

• 1:02:17Connor Wood?

  Well, you thought it was Lil Huddy.

• 1:02:19Speaker 05

  I thought I had Lil Huddy.

• 1:02:20Brooke Averick?

  What made you think you had Lil Huddy?

• 1:02:22Speaker 05

  Well, so I heard from somebody, I heard from somebody that he's like on the shorter side and he's slim.

• 1:02:30Connor Wood?

  Fantastic. Thank you so much.

• 1:02:32Speaker 05

  I heard, I heard they were like, he goes by, he goes by something, not his actual name. And so I was like, his name is Chase Hudson, but he goes by Lil Huddy. And I was like.

• 1:02:43Brooke Averick?

  Oh.

• 1:02:44Speaker 05

  And I like put in all the like clues that I've gotten and Connor.

• 1:02:48Brooke Averick?

  Who's giving you these clues?

• 1:02:50Speaker 05

  Um, just like random whisperings from people.

• 1:02:53Brooke Averick?

  Okay.

• 1:02:53Speaker 05

  Like pros find out, like it literally just like, we all try to figure out who we have.

• 1:02:58Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 1:02:58Speaker 05

  And we don't obviously know till they step in the room, but like we all.

• 1:03:02Brooke Averick?

  So you really don't know until the reveal.

• 1:03:03Speaker 05

  Yeah. And then I stalked you and I was like, wait, that would make sense. Cause he goes by Fibula. His real name's Connor. And so I was like, it could be him, but I was like, I don't know. And then it was.

• 1:03:14Connor Wood?

  Yeah, I couldn't.

• 1:03:16Connor Wood?

  What's really funny is I didn't get the call to be on the show until three days before we started filming.

• 1:03:22Speaker 05

  That's crazy. Oh, so you were a.

• 1:03:25Connor Wood?

  I just had a very open schedule.

• 1:03:28Speaker 05

  They were waiting, they were waiting for my shining star.

• 1:03:31Connor Wood?

  Yeah, someone, they have died or something and I, they were like, he's open, he's, he's free for sure. So.

• 1:03:37Speaker 05

  Goodness. Wait, I shouldn't have said that.

• 1:03:39Connor Wood?

  Thank goodness. No, it's okay. Um, yeah, so I had no mental prep. I had nothing.

• 1:03:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:49Connor Wood?

  It was like genuinely moved into my new apartment in New York, left two days later.

• 1:03:52Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:53Connor Wood?

  Slept there twice. I have slept in my apartment that I'm paying for in New York. That's for the past three months, twice.

• 1:03:59Speaker 05

  Well, you know, it's gonna feel so good when you bring home that mirror ball into the apartment.

• 1:04:03Connor Wood?

  There's plenty of room.

• 1:04:04Brooke Averick?

  What's the first thing you're gonna do after that mirror ball win?

• 1:04:09Speaker 05

  Manifesting, obviously.

• 1:04:11Connor Wood?

  Thanksgiving.

• 1:04:14Connor Wood?

  I don't know. I haven't, I hadn't really thought about.

• 1:04:16Speaker 05

  Honestly, if we make the finale, it's gonna be Celebration Nation, for sure.

• 1:04:20Connor Wood?

  I know people say.

• 1:04:21Brooke Averick?

  Is there a party?

• 1:04:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, there's a end of season party. So, we'll go to that.

• 1:04:27Brooke Averick?

  Is it, so is it just past?

• 1:04:28Speaker 05

  If we make, no, you're invited.

• 1:04:30Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Speaker 05

  But we do go, if we make the finale, I think we go to GMA, like, on a plane that night.

• 1:04:37Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:38Speaker 05

  But I don't know. I don't know if they're doing that this year.

• 1:04:41Brooke Averick?

  Finale private jet.

• 1:04:42Speaker 05

  Hopefully. I hope.

• 1:04:45Brooke Averick?

  I wanna go in the.

• 1:04:46Speaker 05

  I wanna be in the finale so bad.

• 1:04:49Connor Wood?

  The sto- the sto- storage bin? No, there was a plane crash like, two days ago.

• 1:04:54Speaker 05

  Okay, don't put that in there.

• 1:04:55Connor Wood?

  Sorry. I'm scared of flying. I don't, that's why I have those pills.

• 1:04:59Speaker 05

  I hope we make the finale. I have a really good idea for our freestyle.

• 1:05:02Brooke Averick?

  I am, I am, I am positive you will. And I like, I can be a little bit of a witch.

• 1:05:08Speaker 05

  Okay, please.

• 1:05:09Connor Wood?

  She is very witchy.

• 1:05:10Brooke Averick?

  I'm really positive you will. And if I don't, I'm holding this, like, my witch powers will be revoked, like, in the space. And I would, I don't take that lightly.

• 1:05:19Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:05:20Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:20Speaker 05

  Perfect.

• 1:05:21Brooke Averick?

  I care a lot about my witch title.

• 1:05:22Connor Wood?

  Weird powers.

• 1:05:23Speaker 05

  Really?

• 1:05:24Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:24Brooke Averick?

  Little.

• 1:05:25Connor Wood?

  Halloween.

• 1:05:26Speaker 05

  Do you have, like, really good intuition?

• 1:05:27Brooke Averick?

  I don't know what it is. It's just like, there's like, so much of my life and the stuff around me that I've just, like, willed into.

• 1:05:34Connor Wood?

  OCD.

• 1:05:35Brooke Averick?

  Space. Maybe.

• 1:05:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:05:37Brooke Averick?

  But that actually sucks to have OCD and be somebody whose thoughts do come to fruition a lot. What is, like, have a really bad intrusive thought and be like, it will come true because I.

• 1:05:47Connor Wood?

  What is a weird one that?

• 1:05:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:05:49Connor Wood?

  Has come true? Or like, in some way?

• 1:05:52Brooke Averick?

  I mean, I just think, like, my whole existence of, like, growing up in, like, just like,

• 1:06:01Brooke Averick?

  being Lady Efron and now being here is so weird.

• 1:06:03Connor Wood?

  Yeah, that is funny.

• 1:06:05Brooke Averick?

  You know, my, like, screen name, my AOL username was, like, Lady Efron, because I was obsessed with Zac Efron, and now I've got my own Wildcat. You know?

• 1:06:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, you do.

• 1:06:14Brooke Averick?

  Got my Wildcat to my right, and got Dylan Efron to my left, and I've made it.

• 1:06:20Speaker 05

  On your team, you've genuinely made it.

• 1:06:21Brooke Averick?

  I've really made it.

• 1:06:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:06:22Brooke Averick?

  But that's not a good example. I don't know what I've done.

• 1:06:25Connor Wood?

  There's been, is it?

• 1:06:26Brooke Averick?

  There's been a few weird things.

• 1:06:27Connor Wood?

  It's been like.

• 1:06:29Speaker 00

  There's one that sticks out to me. You wore a sweater on here that said Dump Him.

• 1:06:33Brooke Averick?

  That was so weird.

• 1:06:35Speaker 00

  As a message.

• 1:06:36Brooke Averick?

  My friend was dating someone that I was like, this has, this has to stop.

• 1:06:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:06:40Brooke Averick?

  But like, there was no signs of stopping anytime soon. And I was like, this is horrible. So I bought this, I was being petty. And I bought this sweater that said Dump Him with a Dump Truck. And I was like, I'm gonna wear this in the manifestation space, which is here, because like, maybe like, one day, God willing, like, the universe will get the sign. I get a text, like, while I'm sitting here, that my friend's boyfriend broke up with him. And I was like, that's crazy.

• 1:07:08Speaker 05

  Wait.

• 1:07:08Brooke Averick?

  The Dump Him space.

• 1:07:09Speaker 05

  That's amazing.

• 1:07:10Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:10Speaker 05

  I love that.

• 1:07:11Brooke Averick?

  Thanks.

• 1:07:12Speaker 05

  That's good.

• 1:07:12Brooke Averick?

  Yeah, if you ever need to get in a breakup, I can wear my Dump Him sweater.

• 1:07:15Speaker 05

  Okay, perfect.

• 1:07:17Connor Wood?

  Do you wanna manifest anything while you're here?

• 1:07:22Speaker 05

  Mirrorball.

• 1:07:22Brooke Averick?

  Mirrorball.

• 1:07:23Speaker 05

  Manifest a mirrorball.

• 1:07:24Connor Wood?

  Wow. Lock in.

• 1:07:27Speaker 05

  Connor's like, crap.

• 1:07:28Connor Wood?

  That's a twofer. If that's dependent on me.

• 1:07:30Brooke Averick?

  Buckle up.

• 1:07:32Speaker 05

  We can, I have faith. We can do it.

• 1:07:34Connor Wood?

  I have faith too. Trusted the process this long.

• 1:07:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:07:37Connor Wood?

  I, I watched the dance back. We got a bunch of, we got the feedback on frame. And I watched it back.

• 1:07:48Connor Wood?

  There was a, I'm not kidding, half a second where the frame dropped. I'm not kidding, it was a half a second.

• 1:07:54Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's okay. That's what they're gonna look at.

• 1:07:57Connor Wood?

  I know, but that, like, to have a half a second of a, a droop in a frame?

• 1:08:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:08:03Connor Wood?

  I'll take that all day. Derek has good eyes.

• 1:08:06Brooke Averick?

  It's fun to watch Derek during that, because he was just going like this the whole time.

• 1:08:09Speaker 05

  Like, frame, frame.

• 1:08:10Brooke Averick?

  But he was having a blast. Everyone loved him watching.

• 1:08:13Speaker 05

  Our dance was really pretty.

• 1:08:14Brooke Averick?

  It really was.

• 1:08:15Connor Wood?

  Really, really pretty.

• 1:08:16Speaker 05

  And our costumes and the set, like, the fog, the candles, like, it was.

• 1:08:21Brooke Averick?

  I loved when you guys were in the canoe.

• 1:08:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was so cute.

• 1:08:25Connor Wood?

  Got sun on your chin.

• 1:08:26Brooke Averick?

  Fine.

• 1:08:27Speaker 05

  On my hair. You, like, kinda like, got stuck on my, like, hairspray hair. I was like, ow.

• 1:08:31Connor Wood?

  That's what happened. Something, yeah, oh, I ripped it, uh, two or three pieces of your hair.

• 1:08:35Speaker 05

  Oh, did you?

• 1:08:36Brooke Averick?

  I don't know if you guys saw, but Danny's dress got so stuck in Ezra's prosthetic.

• 1:08:43Speaker 05

  Daniella's?

• 1:08:44Brooke Averick?

  Yes.

• 1:08:45Speaker 05

  Oh, that's so stressful.

• 1:08:47Brooke Averick?

  For, it was like, the most stressful moment of my life. It was stuck in there.

• 1:08:52Connor Wood?

  I didn't see that.

• 1:08:52Brooke Averick?

  It was stuck in there, and it, I thought they were just gonna have to finish the dance like that, just like, really, really close together.

• 1:08:58Speaker 05

  Did she just, like, pull it?

• 1:08:59Brooke Averick?

  But it just, it just magically unraveled. But it was, like, it was almost a moment in time. My heart dropped to my ankles.

• 1:09:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's actually so scary. That's my, a costume malfunction is my worst nightmare.

• 1:09:11Connor Wood?

  Well, when we did, our first step is in between your legs, and you had that dress on, I was like, and how would this work?

• 1:09:19Speaker 05

  And it did.

• 1:09:19Connor Wood?

  And it did. How about that guy in the opening number that slipped, fell, and pulled it off? Did you see him?

• 1:09:26Speaker 05

  Magically recovered. Yes, that's Diego.

• 1:09:28Connor Wood?

  Coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.

• 1:09:30Speaker 05

  In the newsie section, he slipped right at the start, and he was like, an extra dancer, but he's like, he's danced with, like, Tate McCray, like, he's like, a very, like.

• 1:09:40Connor Wood?

  Diego?

• 1:09:40Speaker 05

  Yeah. He's like, a very well-known dancer, but he did the newsie section and he slipped. But the way he effortlessly, like,

• 1:09:47Connor Wood?

  It landed flat on his ass.

• 1:09:49Brooke Averick?

  I didn't even notice.

• 1:09:50Speaker 05

  And, yeah, look.

• 1:09:51Connor Wood?

  It made the dance cooler to me.

• 1:09:53Speaker 05

  No.

• 1:09:53Connor Wood?

  Like, his recovery was.

• 1:09:57Speaker 05

  Like, right into it!

• 1:09:58Brooke Averick?

  Oh, I thought that was on purpose.

• 1:10:00Speaker 05

  Yeah. No, it kinda did, and then I was like, oh no. But like.

• 1:10:04Connor Wood?

  Like, pointed toe.

• 1:10:05Speaker 05

  Pointed toes of everything!

• 1:10:07Brooke Averick?

  And he didn't, he's not missing a beat.

• 1:10:09Speaker 05

  No!

• 1:10:10Brooke Averick?

  Has a pro ever messed up, like, during a, like, fallen, or like, something horrible has happened, like, during?

• 1:10:16Speaker 05

  Oh, yes.

• 1:10:17Brooke Averick?

  A dance?

• 1:10:18Speaker 05

  Absolutely. Happens all the time. Like, all the time. A pro falling, a pro getting caught in their dress, or, like, my sister Lindsay, she, they had, like, a towel on her dance, and she, like, she, like, dropped her towel on accident, and her partner slipped on her towel. And it was like, a whole thing.

• 1:10:33Brooke Averick?

  And how do you recover?

• 1:10:34Speaker 05

  You just feel bad, because you're just like, when they mess up, it's like, whatever.

• 1:10:38Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:38Speaker 05

  But you're not the person that's supposed to be messing up. So like, you really take it to heart.

• 1:10:43Connor Wood?

  Have you messed up any of the dances?

• 1:10:45Speaker 05

  I did in dress rehearsal for Halloween. I genuinely, like, I.

• 1:10:50Connor Wood?

  I loved, when she messed up, I was like, get your act together, girl.

• 1:10:56Speaker 05

  No, we were in dress rehearsal, and we're doing the dance, and I'm just like.

• 1:11:00Connor Wood?

  Every other run.

• 1:11:00Speaker 05

  I forgot an arm, like, I don't, okay, I was thinking about Shirley Ballas in her dressing room, like, if you know, Shirley is, like, my coach. Like, I would go to her all the time.

• 1:11:12Brooke Averick?

  Obsessed with Shirley.

• 1:11:13Speaker 05

  Yes, me too. No, she's the best. Like, if I needed to be whooped into shape and, like, good for a competition, I went to Shirley. But comes with nerves, obviously. Like, she's like, I wanna impress her.

• 1:11:22Brooke Averick?

  Right.

• 1:11:22Speaker 05

  Like, I really wanna impress her. And I messed up thinking about that. Like, genuinely messed up thinking about Shirley.

• 1:11:28Brooke Averick?

  Did you notice Riley messed up, Shirley?

• 1:11:30Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:11:30Brooke Averick?

  Really?

• 1:11:31Speaker 05

  Well, I.

• 1:11:31Brooke Averick?

  What did you do?

• 1:11:32Speaker 05

  I like, there's a part where he has to grab my wrist and, like, put it over, because I'm a doll. I can't move my arm by myself. And I just moved it on my own. And then it was, like, kinda awkward between us.

• 1:11:43Connor Wood?

  It is weird when, like, one, one piece is off, like, your other pieces can move, but like, like, me not doing the arm and getting up, her arm already being there, like.

• 1:11:53Speaker 05

  It really threw us off.

• 1:11:54Brooke Averick?

  Interesting.

• 1:11:54Connor Wood?

  I didn't have her hand for the spin, but like, we did this stuff. Untrained eye, it would be fine. It's just like, the details matter.

• 1:12:01Speaker 05

  I was like, I'm sorry, Connor, I, I did that one bad. He was really good at the contemporary. He's better than me at the contemporary.

• 1:12:07Brooke Averick?

  That, that dance was.

• 1:12:09Connor Wood?

  It was so.

• 1:12:09Brooke Averick?

  That will go down in history.

• 1:12:11Speaker 05

  He did really good.

• 1:12:12Connor Wood?

  She's got an Emmy coming her way, I fear.

• 1:12:15Speaker 05

  That would be insane.

• 1:12:16Connor Wood?

  That's what we're manifesting. Yeah.

• 1:12:18Speaker 05

  Wait, let's manifest.

• 1:12:19Brooke Averick?

  Let's manifest the Emmy.

• 1:12:20Connor Wood?

  An Emmy for your contemporary.

• 1:12:22Brooke Averick?

  An Emmy nomination.

• 1:12:23Speaker 05

  I'll take a nomination. I don't need an Emmy.

• 1:12:25Brooke Averick?

  That'll do, yeah.

• 1:12:26Speaker 05

  That's a good manifestation.

• 1:12:27Brooke Averick?

  That's a good one.

• 1:12:28Speaker 05

  Because that's already.

• 1:12:29Brooke Averick?

  In the works?

• 1:12:30Speaker 05

  Yes, already in the works.

• 1:12:31Brooke Averick?

  That's awesome.

• 1:12:32Speaker 05

  Yeah. That would be crazy.

• 1:12:34Brooke Averick?

  Can't believe we're all gonna win an Emmy.

• 1:12:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:37Connor Wood?

  Just fabulous.

• 1:12:39Brooke Averick?

  Wow. Well, I mean, like, thank you to the two cast members of My Favorite Show for coming on the pod today.

• 1:12:47Connor Wood?

  Oh, my God. I didn't even realize.

• 1:12:49Brooke Averick?

  I'm so glad we could do this. You're the best.

• 1:12:52Connor Wood?

  Yeah, thank you for coming in.

• 1:12:53Brooke Averick?

  I love you. I love you. My favorite, my favorite, um, couple of the season. Seriously, love you so much.

• 1:13:00Connor Wood?

  Thanks for having us.

• 1:13:01Brooke Averick?

  Of course, anytime. You're welcome back anytime. Yeah.

• 1:13:04Connor Wood?

  No, you are, it's, it's been a long time coming. I'm glad that we finally did this.

• 1:13:09Speaker 05

  Come back anytime.

• 1:13:10Connor Wood?

  I know. Maybe we'll have something with us next time. Either the, the printed out Emmy nomination or otherwise.

• 1:13:16Brooke Averick?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:16Speaker 05

  Maybe, hopefully.

• 1:13:18Connor Wood?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:18Speaker 05

  Put it in the air. Yeah. This is a good room to manifest.

• 1:13:21Brooke Averick?

  Sure is.

• 1:13:23Connor Wood?

  Thank you, Riley.

• 1:13:24Brooke Averick?

  Thanks, Riley.

• 1:13:24Connor Wood?

  I'll see you this, I'll see you this afternoon.

• 1:13:28Speaker 05

  Ding it.

• 1:13:29Connor Wood?

  Bye, guys. Thank you for listening.

• 1:13:31Speaker 05

  Bye!

• 1:13:32Brooke Averick?

  This week on Close Friends, this is something to think about.

• 1:13:41Connor Wood?

  That is what I'm looking for.

• 1:13:42Brooke Averick?

  That's what I'm talking about!

• 1:13:44Connor Wood?

  But I'm, now it's a medicine bag.

• 1:13:47Brooke Averick?

  I said yes!

• 1:13:52Connor Wood?

  Pussy's on the sidewalk.

• 1:13:54Brooke Averick?

  At least you bear puss on the stoop.

• 1:13:57Connor Wood?

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