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Danielle Fishel (0:00)
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Danielle Fishel (0:46)
Give me money for cigarettes.
Bowen Yang (0:51)
I'll never leave your cooking bed. I stay the night and one night.
Danielle Fishel (0:59)
Weekend, two or three years.
Bowen Yang (1:00)
The kids are not all right, but.
Danielle Fishel (1:03)
That'S okay cuz no one here is. Hello everybody. Welcome to a special episode of Teen Beat. I am your host, Danielle Fishel, a podcaster, a director, mother of two, and currently touring circus clown on the Dancing with the Stars tour. No, of course I'm not a circus clown, but I do very much feel like when we used to do the Pod meets world tour and we would go place to place and, and sometimes we'd be in venues that like, wouldn't necessarily be like the, like the back of the venue wouldn't be super nice. And I'd say to Ryder, like, ooh, wow, like this doesn't feel good. And he goes, no, I love it. I feel like carney folk. I feel a little like that, like going from place to place, never really knowing what I have in store for me that day based on where I'm gonna be. I have not up until this point really had to experience or gotten to experience the bus life yet. We are in a very tiny little town in Pennsylvania and we're at this incredible venue that really caters to rock bands and pop acts and any, really, any kind of massive show that you want to do. Huge space and all kinds of, you know, a beautiful stage and confetti cannons and lighting rigs and I mean, you name it, they can do it here. So it's been, it's been really nice to like fully be able to put on the show and to have a sense of what it's going to feel like when we're in arenas. But yeah, it's incredible. I just, I can't even believe I'm pinching myself every single day that this right now is my life. I can't believe it. Like, I wake up, I Go down to the studio where we're rehearsing and I watch 10 of the most incredible dancers on stage doing things that I just cannot believe a human body can do. And when you watch Dancing with the Stars, you get a sense for how talented they are. But it's such quick little snippets because no offense to my fellow celebrities on the show, but when they dance with us, even the best of the best, you, you don't realize it, but they're not dancing to their full potential. Like they are having to slow it down a bit. And you know, I don't want to say dumb it down because they're, it's, I don't not trying to be insulting to us celebrities who aren't dancers, but they're not really, you know, they're not able to dance the way they want to. They have to dance to your level or a little above your level to try and help you raise your game. But boy, to see them dance with each other for a two hour show and to see what they're capable of is amazing. I, during rehearsals before we went on the road, I came home and I told Jensen one day, I was like, this is, is insane to me that it starts with like nothing, you know, there's like nothing going on on the stage. And Mandy, Mandy Moore, the incredible choreographer and director who is just like, man, when I grow up someday I want to be Mandy Moore. She is a boss lady. She's so kind, so funny, such a great personality. Has a million and one things going on, keeps it all straight. And it never seems, never seems like she's gonna explode. Even though I'm sure on the inside she feels like she's going to a million times anyway. Like there will be nothing, you know, and they're creating something from nothing. And Mandy will say, why don't you walk over here? And then, why don't you walk over there? And then you. And then she'll go, nope, I don't like that. I hate it. Okay, let's start over again. And then she comes up with like a little bit of something. And then she's like, and then we need to do, you know, a couple of eights here. And her and the dancers work out something that they want to do. And within like 20 or 30 minutes, they have a gorgeous number. And I'm like, what? In what world, how does this happen? Like, really? I, I, the show has made me believe I need a full six days to learn how to do anything. But watching them, you really get a sense of like, wow, these people are incredibly special. So, anyway, it has been remarkable, and I can't believe I get to be on stage with them. It's a little intimidating because I am. I was going to say I feel. But it's not just that I feel I am the weak link. Like, of course, I'm the only one who's not a professional dancer. I'm the only one who's never done a tour. I'm the only one who has no clue what's going on. And I'm just trying to keep up, and I'm trying not to drag them down with me, and I'm trying to make sure that you are fantastic watchers and, you know, listeners of the podcast, but watchers of the show and voters on the show, people who love Dancing with the Stars, who come to this expecting the highest caliber and quality of product, that you get it and that. And that I contribute to it in some way. So we are working our butts off to make sure that you guys feel how special you are and how special you are to all of us and to the show and to this tour. I mean, the way all of these people talk about those of you who come to the shows and they hold you in the highest esteem, like, you guys are a functioning member of the Dancing with the Stars team. You just really are. We would be nothing without you. And we did a dress rehearsal today, and before the dress rehearsal, we all huddle up in the and hold hands. And Val led the speech today, and one of the things he mentioned was just how grateful we all are that we get to perform for you and that we still get to keep doing things that we love and that we get to do it on stage at this caliber with these kinds of resources and this kind of team behind us, and that you guys support us the way you do. And it. That is. That is just something that needs to be said, that all of this is only because of you and your love for the show, and it just continues to grow. I am having the time of my life, but with that said, haven't had to spend a lot of bus time yet. As a matter of fact, I've spent no bus time. We've been in a hotel. We're in this, you know, small town in Pennsylvania, like I told you, doing tech rehearsal. And we've been in hotel life, which is kind of nice because we've got plenty of space. Our bag are all unpacked. And I. Let me tell you, I am packed within a millimeter of my life. I used to be. I think I used to be a little more low maintenance. I used to have less things. To be fair, I usually don't travel when I have to do my own full glam hair and makeup. On this tour and on all the tours, we have to do our own hair and makeup. Wardrobe is provided by Daniella, the costumer from Dancing with the Stars. So wardrobe is provided for us by Daniella and Steven. Steven does all the men's stuff, but hair and makeup, we are on our own for, and I'm not used to having to do that by myself on the show. We have the world's best hair and makeup team and they make sure we look perfect for this. We still want to look good. Obviously, we're on stage. We want you guys to feel like you're getting the high quality of Dancing with the Stars that you're used to, but we have to do it ourselves. So I had to bring my. All my makeup stuff. I had to bring some hair stuff. I had to bring my hair dryer. It's. I'm get. I'm just now starting to, like, learn what the day to day is going to look like. So let me tell you what my day to day is soon going to look like. Basically, you do a live show. You put on, let's say, the performance of a lifetime. I'm manifesting it, I'm bringing it. I'm bringing it to me. You put on a fantastic show. Then at the venue, you have to get ready for bed because there are no showers on the bus. So you have to go into the venue with all of your toiletries, not only the toiletries that you're going to use to get ready for the show, like your makeup and your hair stuff. But now you have to get unready for bed, and so you have to take a shower. If that means you're washing your hair, you're washing your hair. If you need to dry your hair, that means you need to dry your hair there. So I had to bring my hair dryer, my brushes, a curling iron. I brought a beach waver because I wanted to be able to do some waves. I brought a little flat iron. I had to bring multiple palettes of makeup because who wants to wear the same palette of makeup for an entire month? Not me. So I brought multiple palettes of makeup. We are also responsible for. For maintaining our spray tans, which, having seen the lights that are on stage and they are very bright, you know, you want to have a little bit of a glow or some sort of body makeup. To the lights are not doing our legs any favors. I gotta be honest. I looked down at my legs and was like, what on earth is this? And then I stepped out of the light, and they were. They were fine. It's just, you know, just the. Just the lighting. But so I had to bring my own body makeup. I have my brushes. Yeah. So I have to bring all that stuff onto the bus. Then when you leave, you want to put on your comfy clothes, like, at least your loungewear, if not your pajamas. But you still got to get bundled up because we're on the East Coast. It's. It's freezing and snowing, so you have to get bundled up. Then you go back to the bus. Our giant suitcases. Well, I guess I should tell you what I packed with me, because I didn't explain that very well. You bring one giant suitcase that's filled with basically, however. However many clothes you think you can bring with you. For me, I'm only gone a month, which I say only. It's the longest I've ever been away from home. It's the longest I've ever been gone from anywhere. But I brought enough things that I wasn't going to feel like I was too terribly sick of all the things that I brought. And then I brought, like. And most of those things were sets, because your girl loves a set. I'm your girl. So I brought, like, a blue sweatset. I brought, of course, my nowhere brand sweatset that I'm obsessed with. I brought another one that was a gift to me from Will Friedel's wife, Susan. I brought that sweatset. I brought a black sweatset that I actually just bought for this trip. And then I also brought some things that I might want to wear on my day off. We get one day off a week, and I figure I might want to get out of sweatsets on that day just to kind of feel a little human. So I brought two pairs of jeans, and I brought a few cute sweaters to wear under jackets. Then I brought one coat that's more of like a, you know, cute coat, and then a big puffy coat. And then I brought a pair of gloves, and I brought two pairs of tennis shoes. One that are like trainers for when I go to the gym, but I also wear them, you know, out of the venue and stuff. And then another, like, more like fashion pair of sneakers, and then a pair of snow boots, and that is it. And of course, shower sandals. But I didn't bring shower sandals. They provided them to me when I arrived Here, which was very kind. So we all got shower sandals. So I packed my big suitcase and then I had a carry on size suitcase because from what I understand, all of the suitcases live at the bottom of the bus. They go under the bus in storage. The only thing you're really allowed to have with you on the actual bus is like a small duffel bag. And that's because while the buses are big, there are like eight people staying on the bus and there's one bunk that's empty and that becomes your junk bunk. And that means all of us can use it to put our small duffels in.