Dancing With the Stars Premier last night. How about that kind of snuck up on me. I mean, we’ve always known when the premier date was. I guess I just lost track of what day it was and what the date was and all this stuff. But when I saw people posting last night and just seeing stuff on my Twitter feed and Instagram stories, I’m like, oh shit, that’s tonight.
So the first thing we found out yesterday afternoon was that Carrie Ann and Abba was sick and she was not gonna be there for Premier night, and it was just gonna be Bruno and Derek that were gonna be judging fine. This isn’t some conspiracy, this isn’t some where she’s being silenced. Just she was sick, so she wasn’t there.
Now, overall. Good show. Lot of likable contestants on this season. Some good dancing for the first episode, and we know we’ve talked to Cheryl Burke in the past, and we know that the first episode, I believe you only have to have a 45 or 62nd routine, and then obviously as the season gets longer, the routines come a little bit more in length.
I can’t remember if last night was 45 seconds or 60 seconds. I wasn’t timing it, but they’re always short in the first episode ’cause they’re not gonna make you learn a 90 to 120 second routine on your first routine outta the gate. I’m not gonna go through every single performance. You watched it.
Maybe you didn’t, maybe you did, but I I, there’s just a few things that I want to go over that stuck out to me. Number one, Derrick Huff is still Derrick Huff. I feel like he’s never gonna change his judging style. And for a guy who is probably the backbone of this franchise, probably the guy that is most liked in this franchise, whether as a dancer or as a judge.
Great dancer, unbelievable choreographer. I heard his show in Las Vegas is unbelievable, but as a judge, Derek Huff sucks. He just does. I’m not saying he needs to be Simon Cowell up there, and I’m not saying he always has to insult people, but every single critique that he has when someone dances is always followed up.
That followed up with. But besides all that, what an unbelievable first dance. Well, it couldn’t have been unbelievable if you had that many critiques about it and his critiques. You know, in the first episode, I don’t expect Derrick to jump down these people’s throats. I’m fine with that. You know, he’s correcting posture.
He’s correcting balance, correcting the straightness of your arm, your shoulders st. He does it all the time, but what I’m saying is he follows ev. Everybody’s the best dancer ever. Well, you know what I mean? Not the best dancer ever, but everybody. He just cannot say, you know what? You didn’t bring it tonight, and I was disappointed in your performance.
It’s okay to say that, Derek. No, not on night one. I didn’t expect him to say it last night. But you’ll see, I’ve talked about this ever since I’ve had this podcast, and Derek’s been a ho judge. This is what he does. He just refuses. He will criticize, he will constructively criticize. I think he’s a good judge in that aspect, but he just cannot tell somebody, not a good night.
And I, I, I get it. We’re in a, we’re in a society now where you feel like if you say something negative, I just feel like Derek is pandering to the crowd. Because he doesn’t want to get criticized for saying, why did you criticize that person’s dancing? They’re just trying their best, you know? But if you live your life for what people say about you online, you’re never gonna be happy, ever.
You don’t need the validation of strangers to be happy. And I feel like Derrick Judges, because he doesn’t want heat from people online, it’s okay to say, you know what, so and so, I didn’t think that was a good dance tonight. I expected more from you. And I’m looking for an improvement next week, but tonight wasn’t good.
He has never said that and I just wish he would, but a man can wish ’cause he ain’t gonna ever say it. So they bring in a new dancer who is one of Taylor Swift’s dancers on the ERAS tour. His name is Jan Nik. And the second. I mean, I knew this because when they announced the pros, I’m like, Hey, this is a new guy.
And I had read that he was on the ERAS tour, but then spending more time watching him last night, I’m like, who the hell does this guy look like? It’s bothering the shit outta me. And there’s a part of me who you have to remember, I’ve watched Dancing With the Stars in season one. Like this is one of my shows.
So. I’m aware of a lot of people that have been on the show and when I saw him here is my take of who he reminds me of now. ’cause it took me about five minutes. ’cause I was racking my brain. I’m like, who does he look like? And he basically looks like a younger, more filled out. Tony Dovolani, who was Melissa Rycroft partner when she won on the All-Star season and who was on the early seasons for a long time, one of the, more liked pros back in the day, who was the one that he totally brawled with? Not Brawled, but Oh, with He had Kate Goslin, and you could tell Tony Dovolani hated Kate Goslin more than life itself. Like he absolutely could not stand Kate Goslin. Then again, is he in the minority? But. I just remember, and even in interviews post, you knew who he was talking about.
He would never say it by name, I don’t think. But when, you know, a lot of times when these pro dancers do podcasts now and interviews, they’re always asked hell. I think I asked Cheryl, who were your, some of your favorite partners, who were the tough ones to deal with? ’cause that’s what we wanna know. You know, they spent so much time with these people.
We wanna know who was fun to deal with, who was fun off camera? Who did you just butt heads with? I don’t think Tony has ever mentioned Kate by name, but I do think that Tony has been very vocal and in his answers, you pretty much know he’s talking about Kate Oslan when he says not happy and not his most favorite partner.
The other person I wanna talk about is a Larry Baldwin, and here’s why E Baldwin has had seven kids with Alec Baldwin. The ironic thing about that, at least to me, is I could have sworn they’d been married for like six years. I was like, didn’t they just get married like couple years before COVID? Oh no, Steve, I had to go Google it.
They met in 2011. You met her at a yoga studio in New York, or she was a yoga teacher. I dunno if you met her during yoga and they married in 2012. Or maybe it was 13 and they’ve had seven kids since then and I’m just like, I knew they had a lot of kids together. I don’t think if you would’ve asked me before last night, I think I would’ve said five.
I didn’t know it was seven. I mean, this guy is just pumping out a kid every other year for Christ’s sakes. My gosh. Alec at the roast of Alec Baldwin. Didn’t Nikki Glaser say, is it your come just oatmeal now? Oh, wait, she said that she said that about Robert De Niro, not Alec Baldwin. But yeah, I, I wouldn’t have guessed seven kids and I wouldn’t have guessed they’ve been married for 12 years.
Gosh. They seem like they just not just got married, but you just lose track of time, I guess. I don’t know. Who’s going to win this thing just yet? I mean, I think we, it’s, it’s pretty safe to say we know that Whitney Levitt is getting to the finals. Alex Earl probably has a good chance to get to the finals.
It depends how many take they take to the finals. Four or five. If they take five, I think Danielle Official has a good chance to get to the finals. Aria could, I don’t know how she’s gonna come across to the audience. ’cause there’s just people out there that just don’t like Alex, so they’re just not gonna vote for her.
But you can one gazillion percent and not because he had the best score last night. You can one gazillion percent pencil in Robert Irwin for the finals and probably the early favorite to win this thing because the likability factor is absolutely through the roof. Who doesn’t want to cheer for this kid?
I mean, the, the facial expressions. The fact that he did put on the best performance last night. Producers knew he was gonna put on the best performance last night. That’s why they put him last. But I, I mean the how, how do you not root for that kid? How do you not cheer for him? He just seems like such a great dude.
So he’s absolutely in the finals and probably favorite, but again, I don’t know how big this mom talk world is. I know it’s a big show and I know a lot of people watch it. But are they gonna be getting behind? Whitney is. Whitney is the fact that Whitney and Jen on the show going to split votes? ’cause people are not gonna know who to vote for?
Well, I’ll just give five to Whitney and five to Jen. I don’t know, but Alex Earl is gonna do good, but you can pretty much, I can already tell you who’s not gonna win. Jordan Chiles is not gonna win. I think Elaine Hendrix could be a sleeper finalist. Baron Davis is not going to win. Scott Hoing is not gonna win.
I don’t think Jen Affleck is going to win. Cory Feldman is not going to win. Andy Richter is not going to win. And Lauren from Fifth Harmony, I, I’m gonna butcher her last name if I say it so I don’t wanna say the last name. She’s not gonna win, but she could be a finalist ’cause she was really good last night.
I just, I think Robert Irwin is probably right now the odds on favorite. So Big Brother tonight, two hour episode tonight where we’re gonna see head of household winner. We’re gonna see the veto competition or the veto nomination ceremony. Then the veto competition, who wins, and then if they use it or not.
We’ve gone over all of this. I don’t need to repeat myself ’cause I want to get to this grant and Juliana’s story, but two hours tonight and then two hours tomorrow night on a double eviction. The only thing that I heard yesterday was that Morgan had a crash out. The thing is, I don’t know what it was over, so I gotta go back and read at some point today.
What was Morgan crashing out about yesterday? But apparently it got really bad, so I, I don’t know, but I’ll look now. I want to get to this grant and Juliana stuff because Grant had some sponsored content with somebody. Where he was just answering questions on his Instagram feed, and one of the questions was, well, it was the most asked question because he put numerous screenshots of it up on the screen, basically asking why did you and Juliana break up?
So Grant, this was his answer on, I.
Juliana breakup. You know, it’s a difficult question when two people make a commitment. I feel like they’re supposed to do everything they can to try to make it work. But you know, that wasn’t the case. And I guess we just weren’t meant for each other. Why do we break up?
I fully don’t know, but I know there were some issues and we just, just couldn’t make it work. Have you guys spoken since the breakup? No, we haven’t spoken. You know, I reached out a couple times, but we haven’t spoken and I haven’t spoken to her family, but I hope that they’re doing well.
Okay, so that’s what she, that’s what he said.
There were a couple things in that answer that we want to go over. Number one, he did say, I don’t really know why we broke up. And then number two, he said, I have not spoken to her since the breakup I’ve reached out to her family. I’ve not heard from them. So of course, because this is the way it works in the reality TV world when you have a breakup as you’re the bachelor and the bachelorette, Juliana posted on her Instagram story.
A screenshot of something that said, what do you mean? I didn’t try? I stayed even when I felt unloved. And then under that, the shrugging woman emoji, and then she wrote, we have talked after the breakup multiple times. He reached out to my family and friends multiple times. They always responded. He also knows why we broke up.
He just doesn’t want you to know why. So again, I don’t know anything more than what those two just said yesterday. Grant said, I don’t really know why we broke up. Haven’t spoken to her since the breakup, nor have I spoken to her family. She’s like, he absolutely has spoken to me since we’ve broken up. He has spoken to my family and my friends since we’ve broken up, and he knows absolutely why we’ve broken up.
He just doesn’t want you to know why. So I almost have the same response to that, that Juliana put in her Instagram story, which is the shrugging woman emoji. I don’t know. But when they released their breakup and they said what they did, I said at the time, look, one of these two is going on a podcast, or one of these two is going to say something on social media that we’re gonna get a better picture of why it happened.
We still don’t know why. Grant seems to not know why. Juliana says he knows damn well why? He just doesn’t want you to know why. But we don’t know what that reason is. But I guarantee you it won’t be long before it gets out. Right? I mean, this is just the way it works. We’re gonna find out about it. ’cause one of these two is not gonna be able to not talk about this.
I mean, look, grant did a sponsored. Content where he was answering questions and the first like five or six questions he answered on that was just generic stuff. Why didn’t you do Dancing with the Stars? Would you ever go on a reality dating show again? Like it was completely edited. So clearly, even though we all know and he showed it to us.
That that was probably the most asked question. He didn’t have to even show that that was the most asked question. He could have just answered a bunch of other stuff, but he chose to put that answer in there, which then in turn made Juliana choose to respond to what he said. So he wants something out there and she wants something out there.
Both of them are dying to say something. And I’m guessing they will at some point. I don’t know who it’ll be, and I don’t know what form it’ll be on, but it’s coming because that showed me yesterday that both of them want some sort of message out there about their breakup, because while Grant did what he did, Juliana, not that she, she can do whatever she wants, but she could have chosen not even to respond.
But her response was very, very telling, basically saying, he’s lying to you. He knows exactly why we broke up. He just doesn’t want you to know why we broke up, whatever that reason may be. And he’s lying about saying, he hasn’t spoken to me since the breakup or my family. Like she could’ve just left that alone.
And he’s been like, look, I’ve moved on. I’m not even gonna address this, but I’m guaranteeing once Grant said something. Juliana got hit up with a bunch of messages that said, Hey, did you see what Grant said? Are you gonna respond to this? And she chose to. She has every right to choose to do that. That’s what she wants to do.
But just like Grant could have chosen to not answer that question on his Instagram, she could have chosen to not respond to him answering that question on his Instagram and she didn’t. So this won’t be the end of it. Stay tuned. Somebody’s gonna say something on a podcast or on social media again. This won’t be the last, the the last of it.
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What am I missing here? And if it is October 7th or October 8th, is there some sort of significance to why, if this is the only days of the year that Amazon does a big deal day? Is there a reason it’s only those two days? Because I thought, D isn’t Amazon, don’t they do a big thing on Black Friday? Isn’t that a big thing for Amazon Prime?
I thought it was then. I thought it was the day after Thanksgiving and that weekend it was Prime Big Deal, weekend, whatever, nonsense. I mean, I’m a huge Amazon Prime guy. I am a, a, a member. I pay the, whatever it is, 1 29 a year so I can get pre shipping. ’cause I order a shit ton of stuff on Amazon Pride, but it’s usually groceries, doggy treats at times.
Things I need for my house. It’s never like splurging on clothes or something like it’s just constantly getting boxes delivered for, for whatever reason. But man. I get confused on Amazon Prime Day. ’cause I feel like we get 15 of them a year, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I have no idea. You wanna know the 50 best deals ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal days.
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