The Three Questions with Andy Richter - “Dancing With the Stars” Tour Diary w/ Emma Slater

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

As Andy wrapped up his first leg of the DANCING WITH THE STARS live tour, performing in venues across the country, he checked in with his tour buddy and DWTS partner Emma Slater - live from the road! The two discuss the surprises of tour life, Emma’s future with the show, stories from the tour buses, and much more. It’s a conversation for both DWTS die-hards and folks who have never seen the show! Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story (about anything!) or ask a question - leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We're recording. Hi, Andy. Hi, I'm. How are you? I'm good. I'm really good. We're on the road. We're on the road. We're in Rosemont, Illinois. Uh-huh. In a hotel here. We can't tell you which one. No, for security reasons.

For security reasons. I feel like people in the lobby would swamp you. Right. Well, I mean, even, but no, next year, they'll know which hotel to attack. So, but, but, but, no, next year, they'll know which hotel to attack. Yes. To attack. So, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, But anyway, yeah, this is, I'm about ready to go home for my first leg of the tour. I hope you've enjoyed it. I have. Okay.

I have. Are you enjoying it? See, that's the thing. I am. I am enjoying it. So, as you know, I was sick recently and I had this whole sinus thing, which was, it's not fun. Like, when you're in the cold and you have to, you know, perform physically with your body every day. If you're sick, it's like, it's hard.

but now I'm over that I feel great and I love tour like I am partial to this life I love the suitcase life I love performing I love meeting people so for me this is fun but I get nervous because I'm like well I just I want you to have such a good time oh don't worry about me it is well you know I have had I was a little bit in the beginning I mean I just was worried because and I told I talked to you about this I did a tour with Conan in between the tonight show and the TBS show yeah And I did find myself like getting just kind of bummed out by just the time away from home and just and then hotel room to bus to hotel room to bus. Yes. And it was, but I also too is like at a different place in my life. Right. So helpful. I think that I'm just like I'm better equipped to deal with it. And it's been.

And also I got a cushion. I do have it pretty cushy I know other people which is just for people to know is that the and this is not something I ask for but I'm glad that they

do it for me You can be a TV you can get what you want because our schedule our schedule is show up to a town we usually get there in the morning and then what the production

usually does for me because we show up on the bus is gets me a hotel room for the day Yeah. And then so I have a hotel room during the day that I can hang out and shower in and often catch up on sleep because I, I sleep okay on the bus now, but it took me a couple of weeks. Did it? Yeah, yeah.

I was, I was only sleeping like an hour and a half at a time and then being up for a couple hours and then it's sleeping, you know. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, it's not the end of the world. But then I would just come and I would just use these hotel rooms to catch up on sleep. in the middle of the day. And whereas you guys, you get the bus and the venue.

Yes, exactly. And you have to shower in the venue, which varies from nice new casino kind of thing to like shitty BFW hall. Yes. You know, like ancient ones. The variation is massive. And people don't realize that like,

yeah, we don't get a hotel room during the day. It's the true tour life. So it varies on very. venue to venue on like, you know, oh, how's my, am I going to wash my hair today? Like, am I going to put break tan on today? Like, because you don't want to be doing all of that if it's not in the right, you know, if you don't feel like it's like a nice place. Yeah. But for the most part, you know, it's been worse on tours. So, you know, we've kind of come up. You mean it's been worse in previous years? Yeah, yeah. In what way? Well, we had smaller venues now, you know, with this,

we've grown so much and we can command a. which actually is funny enough are usually not the best venues because they're not equipped for artists performances they're really equipped for like you know locker rooms yeah so there's not oh right yeah yeah sometimes yeah we're at iowa state and it was like we were a basketball team yes yeah which is which is fine and they usually have great catering there but but we don't you know i love that you guys are like oh that's where the food is good or oh catering Remember that coffee shop or? Yes.

Yeah, yeah. It's great catering. You were like, oh, this place has a good, a good charcutory board. Yes. And you know what? We were right. It turned up. That was St. Louis.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, there's certain people that like turn up in certain cities that provide those charcutory boards or bring a coffee cart and we meet the same people. Yeah. We had catering in, in MGM Casino, which is near, It's Oxon Hill, but it's like basically Washington, D.C. Yes, it's D.C.

It's in Maryland technically, but it's D.C. Yes. We know the catering lady, and she's the one that made you the jacket with your name on it. She makes a splash every single year. And it's like, it's really nice to go. I don't know if I posted that jacket. I have to do like a photo dump. You should.

But yeah, they made like a jacket. It was like an airbrushed denim jacket. Yeah, and it was really cool. Yeah, with all the names and stuff. But, I mean, it was like, my name in huge letters on the back, which is like, I like, maybe if I was like a member of a hair metal band.

Yeah, I would wear that, but with a mirror ball. Yeah, with a mirror ball and Andy Richter in big letters. Like, what the hell am I going to do with that? It was great.

Yeah, yeah. I think I left it there, though, for them because I think that they, they, somebody told me they put them in glass and then, like, display them.

So, like, that's better. It wasn't for, it wasn't for, taking, even though I really wanted you to have that jacket. I knew. What am I going to do with it, though? I know, no, it's better because that way every year would go back.

That's the type of thing we'll be like, oh, the jacket, you know? And we've done that. Like, we've gone to so many places now. I mean, I don't know if you know this, Andy. I'm the OG. So out of everybody on tour, and it's been like this for some years now. I'm the only one that's done all of them since I was 26. I think I was 26.

And you're 28 now. 28 now, so two years. But yeah, so that's over 10 years that I've done every single tour. And they've gone every year, we missed a COVID year. We missed 2020, I believe it was. Yeah, 2020. 2020. 2020, 2021, I believe that there's the one year that we didn't do. But other than that, we've done a winter tour every single year. And sometimes we've even done summer tours. So I think we've done two or three summer tours. So it's like, I lost count, but I believe it's around. 13 tours that I've now done. And I was thinking about that yesterday as I was walking backstage and I was like,

I have completely changed as a person. I've completely evolved on the show and on the tour because it was very soon after I joined the show and became a professional, the tour started. So it's really, it's been synonymous. Are you the like, did anyone do it before you? Like, did any of the other pro, like was Val here before you and doing? Because I know Val is Val did the first one with me.

He's going to be 40. Yes. Is he the oldest of the dancers? He is on this tour, yes. So we've got older. So Gleb is older. Gleb is I believe 42. Okay.

And yeah, Vow's, I think, is Val not 40 already? I think he's just turned 40. No, I think he said, oh, I don't know. I think he said he was going to turn 40. He is at the end of this month. That's right. His birthday is coming up. I don't know.

he wants that spread around. No, he's fine. I mean, look at him. He's got all the love. I love to see that. Like, he deserves it too. Like, I'm really happy to see at the end of the show. You know, people love Val.

And he's really his complete own brand in the show, which is awesome. So, yeah, so some of the guys are, you know, in the 40s. And Mark is, I believe, same age as Val. Derek is, I think, a year old. He can't remember. He's a judge now. He doesn't count. Exactly. But does that give you, I mean, does it give you a certain gravitas among the rest of the cast?

I don't, at least I don't think of it that way. I think I am comfortable in the brand. And, you know, my big thing now is, is I love it so much. Like, I would like to morph into, like, so I hosted the Danceville Stars Tour. I absolutely love doing that. Yeah. I want to, you know, when the podcast came out, you know, I was really pushing for that podcast to happen, which came out last year.

The Dancing with the Stars podcast. They Dancing with the Stars podcast. Joey Grazie Edzzi. Yeah, my friend Joey. Grazie Azadezadez. Yeah, I was really a big advocate for that. I've been a big advocate for the TikTok lives that happened simultaneously and now starting this year because that was me and Ezra that,

was there at the birth of that a year ago, I think, two years ago. And then last year it did so well that they picked it back up. And we did a TikTok live backstage at every. And now I'm seeing it. Now they're doing it in other places. I know I'm not going to mention, but you've got potentially something coming up like that. No, I mean, this will probably.

But yeah, I'm doing one for the Oscars. Incredible. I'm doing a TikTok live at the Oscars, which I'm not exactly sure. or what that means. I just think I'm going to be running around with a camera and bullshitting and having fun. 100%. So it sounds like, oh, you know, yeah, I'll do that.

Which is what you do, like in the best possible way. And that brings me to like, I was saying to you the other day, I love hosting this tour and co-hosting this tour with you when you're here because I get to experience you as a host, which is really in the best way possible. It's just you being you. And I find that so admirable. You are just easy. And I love that you host differently to other people

because you react to what's going on around you. And it's not necessarily like put together or anything like that in the best possible way. So I want to be more like that. I really like that. It's just it's hours and hours and hours of practice. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have.

I don't have that kind of time, Andy. No, I know. I know, but I mean, it's a combination of just talking. Talked a lot. Of just having sort of the gift of gab, as we say, to start with. And then when you put that on thousands of hours of Conan and then doing a podcast and doing lots of live shows. Yeah.

And, you know, like my improv experience in most of my grown-up life has been doing monologues in long form. improv shows. It's just being yourself and talking. So I never, like, I don't have anxiety about that anymore. And part of not having anxiety about that is that it's not that I like, well, first, I just don't worry about like, oh, is it going to be good or oh, is it going to be funny? I feel like, we'll find something fun. Yeah.

We'll find something interesting and we'll find something good. And I also find that just as a housekeeping, And it's just like a, the anxiety doesn't help. No. If you can, if you have the ability to shove it away, shove it away. Yeah. Because if you, the idea is to make the best product, stressing out about it does not help. Yeah.

It seems counterintuitive, but the less you care. Yes. The better it usually is. Yes. The more sort of, you realize like, and also, what are the stakes? Right. You know, like there's a clunky moment. Yeah, whatever, you move on.

You know, it's not, nobody's, you know, nobody's going to get fined. Right. You know, there's not, and I mean, you know what I mean? For this show, too, you know, there's no judging. There's no judging this. There's just an audience that's really happy to be here. So, yeah, it's really fun. And I mean, and it's interesting.

I've been feeling, too, like, I mean, like, I can host a show of dancing, which is like, where the fuck is there any other shows like this? Right. This is the only show there is that's, you know, a bunch of dancing and a bunch of dancers and then sort of patter. I mean, literally, like, there's no word for it other than the old fashioned show business. It's patter. Like, you and I go out and there will be patter. Yes.

You know, and I mean, some of it's, some of it's so corny. But I mean, but it's like the context. It's dancing. It's dancing with the stars. And, you know, like there's some comedy. things that we do here that I, and I've said this, like, if I had suggested that at the Conan show, people would be like, what? Right. What the fuck are you talking? Like, no, we can't do that. Right. Here, it's great. It works perfect. Yes. Yes. And that's, and that is just a reality that,

especially in comedy, there's contexts and different material works in different ways and different things, right. Right. Exactly. I feel like on this stage show, the more that you reference kind of like the brand and what people just saw in the in the TV show it gets you know a laugh because people want to be reminded of you know what they just saw and why they're here and yeah it's uh it's unique in the sense that um it's not just a standalone show it's a show based off of a season that you just saw yes and and the fans are they know what they're doing they oh yeah you know they they they got t-shirts with your name with your face on it well and like it's because we do um we do

every show. The shows are usually 7.30. And our day, you guys off, the dancers often have a rehearsal that I don't need to be at. Yes.

But that's usually kind of a short thing in the afternoon. Yes. Because, and the main reason that you do that is because there's subs coming in and out.

Yes, exactly. It's to fit other people in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We don't always have that. Yeah. But yes,

right now. But lately, yeah, there's been a few substitutions, which we'll touch on why that is happening. later. Yeah.

But we need to be there by five for the 730 show. And there's a half an hour. People have paid more money to be in the theater and watch us do. It could be a Q&A kind of thing. Yes. But it's the form that it takes on this show, which is smart, is a game show that we play among the cast. Yes.

And it's, and Alan hosted. And it's usually, you know, like a name that tune kind of thing. or it's based on, you know, like quizzes about, about dancing with the stars, trivia. But I'm always amazed by, because there's usually 100, 150 people there. Right. 200, a lot of the time. Sometimes, yeah. Yeah.

But I'm always amazed when Alan will ask, who's watched the show since season one? And more than half of the people raise their hand. Yes, yes. Like, these people have been invested in this thing. Oh, yeah. And they do not seem to be casual viewers. No, no. They consume every second of it, you know.

That's what I do find is I don't think that Dance of a Star's audiences are casual. I feel like they have their favorites and they like what they like and they're opinionated, which is, I think, part because of the competition aspect, like you get to watch the dancing and decide whether you like that and whether that's your favorite. And then you get to watch the judges and disagree with them or agree with them. And it's a really big conversation piece. But at the end of the day, it's entertainment. And that relief is what I think people like.

So it's like me. I got completely hooked on traitors this season. It was like, oh, I could just talk for hours to somebody about the strategies and what's happening. Like, you know, people like what they like. And I love that people are really into dance and stuff. Can't you tell my loves to grow? Ballroom dancing once upon a time was not cool. Yeah, I mean, well, and I don't know that if there was a show that was just, and this is something that, you know, when people were getting bitchy about me still being on the show when I went as long as I did, I don't, my thing was always like, well, fine, put on a show that's just like live from Blackpool.

You know, that's like just straight up technically perfect ballroom dancing and see if American audiences, well, why? watch that. Yes. Because I don't think they will. No, not for two hours. Yeah. It's the hook of fish out of water. Yeah. People and, you know, and I think now it's become not just fish out of water. There's, you know, fishes that like people that are known for one thing, but they also are fish. Yes. You know, like Whitney from the last year, you know, like different people that have had some dance experience. Yes. That are going to be really good. Yes. Or, or, Or, you know, athletes like Jordan, you know, who are going to be good, you know. So physically.

Although you told me, you did mention to me, too, that sometimes gymnasts have a hard time because there's not a flow to what they do. Yeah. Well, I mean, they have their floor routine. And so really they should be more equipped. But it's actually the ice skaters that I personally find more artistic with their, God, that sounds. But I hope that you take that with a pinch of salt. I find them to be more expressive with their arms because they have to make it look effortless on the ice. And they're doing all these tricks.

Yes. But there's a lot of beauty in what they do. With gymnastics, they are immaculate at hearing those lines and being super athletic and doing all these tricks. But the dance movement from A to B, I don't think is necessarily what a lot of them focus on. And again, I say that with all the, this is just my opinion. And so sometimes we've often found with gymnastics, with gymnasts coming into the show, they have a little bit of a hard time being fluid, being natural.

It's more, they hit positions really well, and then they go from position to position. instead of it being like a consistent movement. So yeah, so that's what they've mostly had to work on. There's exceptions. Like I found Nasty Luchin was really good with the flow. And she was a great dancer. Jordan obviously. She did really well.

She was amazing. Jordan's like whole thing was she was just about the best performer you can get. And and dancing too. And she was famous. So hard. She worked so hard. Yeah. And Ezra told me that early on, like, she broke her foot. Did she? Yeah. She had like a airline fracture in her foot. And she just was like, it's fine. Whatever. Oh my God. Just the Olympian. And her like, fuck it. No, it'll be fine. Yeah, exactly. Which is just unbelievable. Yeah. As I sit here, massaging my calves.

Both of us have got shoes off. And I went from massaging my foot to massaging my calf. Well, that's, you know, that is something that I don't think people appreciate about you guys is like, and the way I put it is like, you guys are playing a basketball game every night at least. You know, like you are, you are exerting yourselves in a way that it's, it's like any other like two hours of athletic activity, you know, and so, you know, there's a physical therapist that travels with everybody and you guys. you know, rely on her a lot and have, you know, therapy, but also like, you know, serious warm-ups in order to get ready to do it. And I'm amazed, too, like, to see, because I'm in the, I'm on, and I also love it, it's boys and girls. There's no men's and women's. It's boys and girls. So I'm in the boys' side in our, like, we have like a changing tent, a quick change tent that we're all in. And to see the guys come in after just, after doing it. And, just after doing dance and just be gassed.

Just be heaving. Like, you know, like they just sprinted. And that's every night. And then catch your breath because two minutes later, you've got to be back out there to do it again. Yeah. It is grueling, you know. It's very physical, very physical.

And the tour is more so than the TV show. Like I would think of it like the TV show, because we have. to choreograph, it's quite mental and it's extremely, you have to be creative in every aspect. And so that's more of an endurance mentally, the TV show. When it gets to the tour, that's physical endurance. So we don't have to think about choreographing every week, let alone every night because the show is the same. You'll do the same choreography.

You'll go on. It might be little adjustments here and there, but you're doing the same dances every night. So we don't have to think about that. We just have to think about how is my body feeling? You know, if my shoulder hurts, I might have to modify a move here or there. If my feet are hurting, I might have to wear different shoes. But then it's essentially just like physical. Yeah. That's it. I would like you to talk about how the show is developed. Oh. Because I know like you were kind of, it seemed like because the season, the television season, and ended right before Thanksgiving.

Yes. And it seemed like you guys immediately went into working on the tour. Yeah, pretty much. And what were those, what are those days like? Because Mandy Moore choreographs it. Do you guys, is it sort of like a lab where you guys go in and mess around with stuff with her? Or does she pretty much plot it out? Well, it's kind of a little bit of both.

So Mandy Moore, who is the director and the choreographer, and she's, known for a few things. She did La La Land, the movie. And then she also is the choreographer for Taylor Swift and the ERAs tour that just happened. She's... I mean, most... She's choreographed most things. Oh, yes.

Yeah, most things that you know of now are, you know, she... There's like three big choreographer that just seem to do everything. Yes, exactly. And she is one of them. Yeah. And so she will have thought for months... before even the TV season has happened, she'd be thinking from the summer onwards,

or even longer, about the seam of the show. And so for this specific show, we have, like, the added camera, and we've never had that before. So we've had these massive screens, and we've had screens like this before, but we now have, like, this door that opens

and the door is made of screens. And so the whole back wall is a screen, you know, of different panels. Yeah. There's, for people that haven't seen, there's, I think it's six or seven or six or eight big LED flats that, you know, that are like a jumbotron. Yeah, giant. And two of them slide open to, and there's a door in the back of the stage. Yes.

And then there's a guy named Pat and he has a camera on a rig that is live fed into those big screens. Yes. So it's really cool, you know, because you're what, you can watch the. You can sit and watch people dancing or you can look at the screens and watch them dancing. Yeah. And we go from performing out to the audience to performing to the camera, but you can see it happen. And I think there's like a lot of magic in seeing how things are done. And so that was all Mandy's sort of thinking and Mandy's idea. So she would have started thinking about that from months and months and months ago. So then she'll start arranging. a set list of music that she really likes because music is super important. So the tour will have, she will gather kind of like her team together

because she has people that will help her with scheduling and music and then also choreography, prep and all kinds of things. They will start to put together on like a whiteboard, they'll break it up the axe. They'll start to put together groups of numbers that have the same type of theme. So it might be like, you know, New York style. You're right.

Yeah, we have one section in this show that's orchestra. So it's very like, there's some classical pieces in there and it's orchestra and it's, and it's beautiful. And dramatic. And dramatic. So we wear similar sorts of colors and everything flows. So it's all thought about like that. And she'll, and it's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle where musical slot in and out.

And from there, she will, you know, arrange the dance. before we've even stepped into the rehearsal room. Okay, so this couple, I need two people to do that and I want it to be Danny and Alan. Or I want this to be Valenzhena and they're going to dance to this piece of music. And then when we get into the room, there is definitely a collaborative. She knows us so well, nothing. So she knows what we would want to do. She has like preemptive conversations with us about how do you feel?

Do you want to do more of this? Do you want to do more of this? Then she'll kind of slot it and present it. to everybody. Like, this is the tour. This is the theme. This is what you're going to do. This is the music. And then, of course, we all have a voice. Like, if we're not feeling something or if we want to explore different music choices, everything is a conversation. Everything is super collaborative and it's a very healthy environment. And of course, you've got, from Mandy Moore's perspective and the production company's perspective, you've got 10 to 12 pros on, well, currently

it's 10, pros that are on tour that are all like little creative directors and they're all own their own brand. And so we all have very strong personalities that fit into, that we like to sort of direct ourselves. So, you know, we find like a happy medium on where each of our show lands in the tour. And then we get into the rehearsals. That's a really long answer, sorry. That's all right. No, I mean, it's a kind of involved process.

It is. We'll get into the rehearsal space and then the schedule will be made per day on, okay, we're going to work on this, this and this. And then by the end of the rehearsal, we would have created and molded the whole show. And then it goes from the rehearsal room to like the tech. And then everybody gets involved and there's special shoots and stuff like that. But that's basically how it's done. Yeah. I'm always amazed and I still don't fully. I mean, I kind of understand from being around you guys. and from, you know, learning dances. But just like Mandy sitting and choreographing and thinking about it. Like, to me, it makes sense.

If you're writing a song, you write notes down. If you're writing a play, you write words down. Right. What the fuck do you do? Like, how do you describe it? How do you... It's a concept. Yeah.

So now, like, if you're choreographing something, this is going to... I'm going to give you, like, a real rough breakdown. Yeah. If you're kind of a bit of a new choreographer or not extremely experienced or maybe you're just kind of not great, you're going to be thinking about the steps. As you progress in choreography, you listen to the music and you start to think about concepts. And that will be like shapes. And so instead of thinking about what the footwork is doing and what the arms are doing, you're thinking about. you're thinking about the staging of it

and you're thinking about well it feels like I want to have three people come from here and then I want to morph into one person and then I want to highlight them and you start to think about visuals and you start to think about concepts and then above that, to me at least as you progress even further

you think about the feeling and the message first you think about what am I portraying what do I want people to feel and that is my motivator I want to start with a feeling and then either the music will come before or after that. So it's feel, it's music and then you think about what do I want the message to be. And then you think about, well, what does the music sound like? How does the music support a certain visual at this point?

So you get kind of in your mind, in your mind's eye, you can visualize what the dance will feel like with certain people and how. many people and fast or slow and where they come from. And so then the steps, the footwork and the choreography literally becomes the very last thing that you do. And there's a whole structure for that. So people then that start off with footwork often miss the entire message. And then at the end, they wonder why it didn't land. Didn't work. I see. Because they didn't start from the heart. They didn't start from the feeling. Can't you tell my loves it grows? Do you see yourself like becoming a choreographer as time goes on? I,

it's an interesting question. I guess I do and I don't. I think that I really love to create and I love to do what I'm doing on the show. I think I like to create and I think yes, probably. When the time is that I finish dancing, I think I will miss it so much. I'll be like, oh, I want a choreograph.

I want to do those things. but I think that my actual life will take me in a direction of creating in different ways and I like writing, I love to write. And I think it'll take me more in that direction. I would love to write a musical. Yeah. And I would love to, I want to create products and I want to create things that are slightly outside of the, just the dance related arena.

Yeah. But I'm not sure. And I would love to. I'd love to create big pieces like that. Do you think how long, well, I'm going to just be blunt. Do you? How long do you think you have left? Yeah, I'm dancing with the stars because dance is a cruel business.

Oh, it is. Yeah. And ageism terms. Totally. And for women, too, for women. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, yeah. It's hard.

I think for me, I had to think about this today. I want to go for as long as I can go for. Yeah. And I've had the most incredible career. Actually, someone came up to me the other day and was like, is the rumor is true? And I was like, what rumor? What rumor was that?

And they said, are you retiring this year? And I could see how a rumor like that would be started because most people are probably looking at me going, gosh, she's the old girl now. So after me, where do you go? Exactly. I've asked myself that question. Yeah, you've been to the peak, the mountaintop. I want to be...

Granted, we didn't win a mirror ball, but fuck that mirror ball. We did much better than that. Oh, we certainly did. And that's how I measure success, by the way, is this kind of, you know, getting to dance with you is like, I'm being serious. It's that, that to me, I don't know where I'm going to go from it. I don't know how I'm going to get another season like that, but I will embrace my next partner's authenticity.

I'll embrace their walk of life. I will embrace everything about them. And that's really, that's what I want to do. I like that. So as long as people enjoy whatever me and my partner put out there, and I think that's probably my secret is that I will embrace them and make my entire world about bringing them forward and making them feel amazing. And that's probably the lifeline that is saving me from, you know,

and this is to be super blunt because I'm kind of insecure about it. I would love to be like, you know, I'm still hot and young and my body doesn't ache and I can like hang with with all, you know, all these new ones. It's, it is different. Yeah. I do enjoy social media. That's a big part of it. But my social media is different from, I think, other people's on the show. I really just, I like to be funny and and sometimes I like to be emotional.

And sometimes I like to word from it. But I'm not, like, you know, doing the dance trends and stuff like that. It's not necessarily my bag. It just feels weird to me. So as long as I feel authentic and comfortable, I want to go for as long as possible. And then when it feels like I'm going to be chucked out, I'm going to then pull out the, what the ages I'm seeing like,

this is what Hollywood does. Yeah, yeah. How dare you. Yeah. Emma, you have a walker now. You can't dance anymore. I'll put wheels on it. Yeah, I'll be fine.

These tennis balls glide well. Yes. Well, I mean, do you worry about like being the difference between not being asked back and deciding to hang up your dance shoes yourself? Yeah, I worry about that because I would ultimately like it to be my decision. Yeah, on your own terms, I would think. Right, right, exactly. But I've just decided that I'm going to expect to be. there and then if and when they're like, yeah, well, you're not so much embedded anymore,

then I'll kind of conquer that when it happens. But, but yeah, I guess in my mind, you put limitations on yourself thinking, oh, you know, how many years do I have? Well, I'm just going to keep going. I'm just going to keep going and then try to like take out that restriction and limitation on myself until I don't have the use of what they're looking for. And then I'll probably try to like, I don't know, stick around in some other form. Because the brand is doing so well. And, you know, I like to produce. So maybe I'll be like, oh, right, make me a producer then or something.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I, well, I mean, you don't have to speak to this. But from my perspective, like, sometimes it's brutal. This show can be really brutal to the pros. It can be. Where it's like you, I mean, and I hear, I hear, you know, different stories from people about, you know, I was a pro. Then they put me back into troop. Yeah.

And then leaving people hanging until the last minute and then saying, okay, you are going to do this season or, okay, you aren't going to do this season. And that's like, that's rough. Yeah, it is. But, I mean, I think, like, I appreciate. as we said, you know, yes, ballroom dancing has captured people's imagination, but kind of just through dancing with the stars. Yes. And there's not, like, this is, this is the NFL.

This is it. This is major league baseball for, you know, like. And so it is kind of like they do, you are sort of at their mercy. Yeah. Because it's, yeah, what are you going to do? Be like, no, I, you know, I insist. like, no, you can't insist. I know.

Go away. Yeah, and there's a ton of people that would love to be in your position. And it's definitely hard because you do have to compete for your job every single year. Yeah. And the measures of which you've been successful is not just strictly how far did you get on the last season. It's also, well, did you maximize your partner's potential? Did you exceed it? Did you underachieve in the eyes of where?

they think you probably should have gone. Yeah. And, you know, what is your brand? How well do you do on social media? It's all kinds of things that have so much value to the show that it can be a really, it can be, a lot of energy can go into that. Yeah. But to your point, there isn't really higher for a ballroom dancer.

I mean, there isn't. We have, there's like a lot of different territories have dancing with the stars. I believe it's like 70 plus. So like Romania has dancing. Oh, I see. France. So you could go to Romania and be a, wow. Oh, yeah, I can go and do that.

Wow. Or even, you know, there's even instances of people going and judging other territories of Dancing with the Stars. Sure. And because they're from that country or whatever. Yeah. Like Kleb, for instance, has done Dancing with the Stars in Australia, in Russia, in England, and in America.

Wow. Yeah. which is really cool because he speaks Russian, he's Russian. He used to live in Australia. He went to England because they just had him on the show. And England is where it all started and then came to America. But what I will say is it's really England and America that have the two franchises of Dancing with the Stars where you're at the top of your game. Except they're strictly ballroom, right?

Is that the same show? Yeah, strictly ballroom. So same show, different name. exactly the same thing. But if you're on one of those two, you're on, you know, that's the highest you can go as a ballroom dancer. You just can't go any further.

So I can't believe that I'm here. I can't believe that I've been here for like 14 years or 15 years or something. It's crazy. I think there's something else unique that I have noticed too is that that's different than other. And I'm no expert on different kinds of dance, but I mean, I've known dancers.

Yeah. Just being in show business and stuff. But like, there is the competitive nature of ballroom dance that doesn't really kind of exist in other dance forms, as far as I know. Yeah. Like, there is, like, you got, there is a sort of athletic sports competition kind of vibe. Yes. Yes. That, and even, you know, like, you know, one of the dancers, uh, cut his thumb on.

There's this rough wire brush that you rubbed by. bottom of your shoes with so that, yeah, so that your shoes are tacky and they have some grip to them. And he cut his thumb on it. And one of the people said, you can tell he wasn't a competitive ballroom dancer. Because that happens all the time and you would just be in here, you know, playing hurt. Yes. So it's just there is that different. And you can see the difference between the people that have done that. And I've seen it, I mean, I won't go into, but like I've seen the competitiveness in you. I've seen the champion in you in different episodes where you were challenged in some way.

And like the Emma that I know sat down for a minute. And then the Emma, the champion who's like, fuck that. That's not true. I can, you know, that came out. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, that's good. No, I like to, I like the fact that competitiveness is still there. And we all grew up competing pretty much.

Yeah. So there's some pros that that did. and they are what we call cross-trained dancers. A lot of them are from Utah because they grew up doing jazz. They did Boreham very much and competed in Boreham too, a lot of them. But they grew up doing jazz and hip-hop to such an incredible level because the kids in Utah are just, that's what they do. They're like, they're competitive dancers and they do it all. And so when you do like jazz and hip-hop and ballet, not everybody,

but the normal is when you kind of get to like college, that generally stops and then you go into your profession. With ballroom dancers, I think it takes on like a sport aspect because of the partnership between the two people. You travel around the world and you do it up until you can't physically dance anymore. So it becomes your occupation as well. So yeah, and you can be a ballet dancer. Absolutely. you can be a jazz dancer. I mean, there's tons of Broadway dancers,

and you can do that as an occupation. But you don't really compete in your 30s doing that. You compete. You compete for jobs. Yeah, compete for jobs. But you don't show up somewhere for a podium. Yeah, for complete, like, fighting for a trophy. Yes, exactly.

Where there will be a winner and then there will be losers. Yes. You know, like, yeah, you get a job dancing in Swan Lake. Yes. You've won that job and the people that didn't get the job lost, but it's not the same. It's not the same because you're not doing the every day, sorry, every year, like you're not doing the same competitions and going. And so ballroom dancers will make that their entire life being competitors. So it becomes, you know, your identity.

And then to be able to afford that because it's only, it's, you know, when you turn professional, which you can do at any time, you can make money teaching. If you're an amateur, you're not allowed per the Federation. You're not allowed to make money. So you might teach on the side and sort of like not, I guess, report it, I guess. But you've got to then do another job to support your competitive ballroom career. But most people would identify, you know, if you're really doing ballroom dancing, it takes over your life. So you identify as a ballroom dancer. I think that it's, I mean, I don't know.

I mean, it's a vital part of why, of how dancing, with the stars operates in the way that we talked about the dancers not knowing and you you are kind of still competing with each other in terms of the slots that go on the show. Oh yeah. And whether the show is exploiting that or it just gives an energy to the show that keeps people like, you know, where nobody, I mean, as far as I know, I am not aware of people going, you know what, fuck this. I'm out of here very much. People are like, No, let me back in there. They want to stay.

God damn it. Let me back in there. It's a great opportunity. And it's a really wonderful thing to be a part of. Like to do what you love to do with a new person every single year. And for people to watch and be invested in your journey, it feels amazing. So yeah, you want to do it for as long as possible. And also, I've had conversations with myself like, what do I do when I don't do this?

I've been a boring dancer all my life. It's like I never prepared for a different occupation. So you want to stay for a time as possible. And then, but also provide value. And if I was really unhappy, I wouldn't, I would stay true to myself. Right, right. I've got to find something else. But I love it.

I love it so much. Yeah. So that's another thing that keeps me. Is there an aspect to your drive that is just you don't want to figure out the next thing? Like is that a big part of it or is that just a, incidental part. No, I do want to figure out what's next, but that's because I want to allow my career on Dancing with Stars to morph into whatever that needs to become without me feeling any kind of pressure of, oh gosh, I don't have anything else. Like right now I'm developing a beauty line that I'm

really excited about, but I'm not doing it just because I feel like I should and I just want to get something out there. Right. I want to grab some cash. Yeah, no, it's a creative process. I want to build something. I want to build something that I'm really proud of. I really like to build things. And whether that be like a dance portfolio that I can watch back and be like, oh, I did that. Or writing or a house that you renovate and decorate. Yeah. Yeah. I love doing that. I love interior design. I like to be creative no matter what it is. Can I draw? No. I can't do that. So I'm not an artist in that sense. But in terms of creating beauty in life. I think that's probably my underlying sentence is I love to witness and to admire and to

create beauty in my life. Well, I can tell you that, I mean, you direct a lot. And during our season, like, especially with TikToks, you would have an idea. And you, I mean, and I've said this about you before and I was talking, like, early on, I learned, like, if you're, looking at your phone, don't talk to you because you're, you can only, you're in the middle of something and you can't hear. And the same thing would apply when you would direct to TikTok. You'd have an idea that you wanted to do. And like nothing, and there would be times too where it was like, you guys have to go do an interview right now. And you'd be like, just a second. Just a second. Hold on. I've got to get this shot for this TikTok. But you also too would then like grab everybody that was on the floor. Like,

You go over here and act sad. You go over here and act excited, you know. And just, and it was so funny because people just let you do it. And it's because, and I said to somebody once where they're just, because they were saying like, yeah, when she, when she's got a head of steam up and then just, yeah, just do it. Just do what she says and go where she wants you to go and get it done. And I think it's two things. Number one, it's quality stuff.

It was like, I mean, it's TikToks, but they were funny and they were good. Thanks. It's funny. And also, too, you're just people love you. So you can get away with being a bossy asshole. Yes. You know? Because you're, because you're kind and good.

And if you weren't kind and good, people would be like, fuck you. I'm not getting out from behind this desk to do this. 100%. But, you know, thanks. It's like, no, no, because even when you're sort of like you can't hear and you're just driven and this stuff, there still is a nice person underneath that. And that's a big difference. Thank you. I enjoy those so much.

Yeah. I feel like make an occupation about like funny online videos. But I have to have you in there because I lose steam without you as I'm sure you've seen. No, I've told you. I've told you, well, me too with you. I don't, I haven't been doing much, you know. I actually, Zoe Clare who works for the show and or for a company that did the show social media. I actually have her, you know, I'm paying her a little bit of money just to sort of like,

me, TikToks, and I feel bad because I hardly do any of them. Yes. But I mean, but I do occasionally, but she's great. And I say to her like, you know, all right, I'm going to try and not be so lazy. But there are times that I do feel like I'm a 59-year-old man. Yes. Like I'm doing this shit that 22-year-old kids are doing. You know, I mean, I just feel silly sometimes.

Totally. But it's nice to have somebody like that, like Zoe, who I actually think I might like in message her and be like, hey, you know, let me, let me get on that and chuck some money towards you and she can send me stuff. Yeah. The nice thing about that is you don't have to spend hours scrolling to yourself because I don't like, I'm like trying to be really cautious also about falling down the rabbit hole of like doom scrolling. It's not good for my myself. It's not even doom scrolling either.

It's just time wasting scrolling. Yeah. And I found that a lot while I've been on the road. Yeah. I have just, and especially like in the last few days, I've been like, I just, I just. looked at Instagram for three hours. Yeah. Like I, I have, I have books in my luggage that I could be reading.

I could, I could maybe write something, you know, like, but I just, and I'm, you know, and I'm not even like, looking at trends. I'm looking at, you know, like dog videos and stuff like, like just videos of people cutting down trees, like just a half an hour of just people felling trees. You send me funny ones, which I love. Like, I feel like our algorithms are somewhat similar. Like most of mine, the most of the rabbit holes I go down are like funny videos. You know, and I did it last night.

I was in my bunk. We were driving and I was laughing away at these funny videos. Actually, Britt had to open her curtain and be like, can you keep it down? I was laughing away. So it's great for that kind of thing. But I'm trying to be, yeah, trying to be mindful about what I'm consuming. because it makes me feel either good or bad. Like, I don't, I can't be watching too much emotional stuff because if I want my head to be

right, I need to limit the amount of sadness that I see with my eyes, which might seem like very ignorant. But I know how I work. I know how I'm like, I can't, I can't, you know, I can't devastate myself and then go out and, and feel like I'm going to feel good. Absolutely. And I mean, and I, there is, there is a, there is a balance. Yeah. Because there is, there is like, there is the person that will say, oh, the news is just too

upsetting. I can't, I can't look at it, which is like an incredibly entitled, usually white thing to say. Yeah. But there is, you know, there also is the point where, oh, no, I'm keeping aware of things and I'm talking about things and I'm, you know, contributing to various campaigns. Yes. But I got to stop. Yes. I can't, you know, enough is enough. Yeah. Yeah. The world's on fire. I smell the smoke all the time. Yes. Give me a minute. I don't want to look at the flames 24 7. Exactly. Exactly. So yeah, it's hard. You brought up the bunks. I do want to talk about like, because I don't know if people really realize like how much time is spent in a little coffin. My little coffin. A little coffin with a curtain on it. There's, is it eight, I think? And there's eight. Yeah.

Yeah, and you can get buses that have 12. It's like three stacks of three, so they're even narrower. They're even narrower. So you could potentially have someone above you and below you. Yeah, that's real coffin. It's real, yeah, you can't sit up in those. So we have what they call condo bunks. So you can sit up in those.

So I remember in the coffin, sorry, that sounds bad, but the thin ones, I would sometimes jump up and hit my head. Because those were, we used to be in those towards the. the beginning of all these tours. Because they're cheaper. They're cheaper, you know, and we would have less buses, so they'd have to fit more people in. With the condo bunks, yeah, we spend a lot of time in there. And, you know, with the show, sometimes there are nights where I'm just like, I'm just going to go to bed.

So I'll take myself off and I'm at the top. You know, there's either a bottom bunk or a top bunk. And I'm across from Brit, as I have been for years. We always get the same ones. I'm on like back right, driver side, you know, on the top. back. And if you go towards the... Take note, assassins.

Yeah. If you, if you, I do hear though, if you get towards the back of the bus, you hear kind of like the, and it's a bit more bumpy. It is. Which is where you are. I'm in the back room. There's a back room and I have like, it's got to be like a double bed, not, or, you know, or whatever, full size or whatever.

Yeah. It's not a twin. It's a little bigger than that. Okay. But it is, I do, like my feet do touch the wall. They do. Yeah, yeah. It's not, it's a, but anyway, it's like luxurious compared to you guys.

Yeah. But yeah, I'm on the axle. Yes. So fucking every. Sometimes I'm like, are we going off road? I know. I know. And it makes me think, I, you know, because we're on interstates.

And it's like, I've been on interstates and I haven't like been jostled around like I'm on a country road in the back of a pickup truck. I know. What the fuck is going on? I know. It's literally the placement of where you're. But also I think the suspension of the bus helps. Like we've had a bus one year that was freaking awful. Like I mean like the whole time.

Like it would just be, and sorry, that noise is not like accurate. But like it would literally be, it was like driving on potholes. Like you're on a country road. Yeah. Horrible. And the noise it would make. And you just couldn't. You couldn't.

So luckily, like even though this feels probably bad for you, is like not that bad from what we've had in the past. Oh, yeah. No, and I don't, and I actually don't, I find it sort of, I sleep better when the bus is moving. Really? Yeah, it's like a cradle being rocked, I think. Well, you know when you were a kid. And the white noise, like, oh my God, it's the best white noise chamber.

Did you hear all the rain last night? Did you like that? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I love the rain. I woke up and it was 7 a.m. and we were still moving because we, normally,

for whoever's listening, we have like maybe a three-hour, four-hour drive. Last night was nine hours. I don't even know that. So, maybe a little less. I don't know if there were,

bosses were like really rolling down the highway there. But we had a long drive and it started to rain. Oh, it was so nice. It was nice, yeah.

And of course, you've got a roof for me on the top bunk. I've got a roof run for me. It was like too big. It was like too big. The nice patter, yeah. The other night,

It was, I don't know if you noticed this. I noticed it. And I, you know, I sleep with a CPAP machine. So I have like a mask over my nose. And I woke up and I was like, what the fuck is that smell? And I was like, I was like, what is. And I was like, is somebody getting high? Like, and it was a skunk.

And I, and then the next day, and I was up and it was super strong for a while. And then I, you know, I went back to bed or went back to back to. We drove back asleep. We were in, it was the middle of the night. It was probably three o'clock in the morning driving. And then the next day, Jen and I were just talking about the ride or something. And I said, did you guys, did you smell skunk last night? And she was like, oh, my God, yes.

Oh. And then I asked our driver and he said, yeah, because they were caravanning. And the first bus hit a skunk. And then every bus passed it got to run over it too. So we all got a little bit of skunk. But I mean, I guess you had to just. be awakened by it. I wonder which boss that was.

He said a name, but I don't know which drivers do which. Oh, no. Yeah, but yeah, I know, I know the smell very well. Yeah, yeah. No, but my, it's luxurious for me compared to you guys. Yes. It's nice. You have a table.

I have a little table. Yeah. It's like sort of like a two top that next to it. I mean, there's no leg room. Yeah. It's like if I stand up, you know, like the back of my cat. hit the bed and my balls could rest on the table. It's like that tight.

But it's still like I can still stand up and move around and sit or lie down, whichever one I want, you know. I've got a confession to make. So today it's confusing when you open. So they have these like automatic doors. Yeah, which are in the middle of the hallway, which don't make sense. It doesn't make sense. It's obviously electrically wise.

they didn't want to do two places of electrics. They wanted to just make it easy and do one. And even the buttons are not like electrical buttons. It's like switches. So I'm like, okay, they tried to do it on the cheap. Well done. But it's confusing for me because I'm a 37-year-old who still doesn't know left and rights.

And I still have like really bad, cannot learn a pattern. In some ways I have really good pattern recognition if I'm thinking about it. But left and right, forget about it. Oh, yeah, no, you constantly, while we were choreographing, you'd go left foot first, and then you'd put your right foot out and I'd be like, that's your right foot. Exactly. Right, right. Okay, yes, right.

Right foot. That's what I mean. Yes, exactly. And I just can't, or I'd literally say it in our dance. I'd say the exact wrong thing. And you'd still do the right thing, but I would just prompt you incorrectly. So I opened your door trying to get out to the kitchen and the living room today this morning. And it was like, oh, yeah, I was up, though.

Oh, you're up? Yeah, yeah. I didn't turn around and see. I didn't want to be like looking at what. But so I closed it. When I noticed, I was like, I have a six cents. The door behind me is open. So I quickly closed it.

Yeah, no, I was up. This morning I woke up. I woke up because this is another thing. I don't know if people know. There's no pooping on the bus. No, no no pooping on the bus. Which I did tour before. And so I was, I'm familiar with this.

And it does seem to be an industry-wide sort of. rule. Yeah. And I wonder sometimes if it's just, because I feel like if you owned your own luxury bus and you were traveling around, you could poop on your bus if you wanted to. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Because it's basically a garbage disposal.

Yeah. It goes to like a septic tank. Yeah. And it goes to like a septic tank. I just think mainly it's the drivers don't want to deal. They don't want to deal. They don't want to deal with it. And also, too, it probably does.

It'll stink. It'll stink. Yeah. Yeah. tracked flies apparently. And sometimes, I don't think it's an issue of it getting stuck, things getting stuck or anything like that. I think it's just they don't, they don't probably empty it as often as they should.

I knew, I knew when I was on tour with the Conan Show, I knew that rule. And I had been, I was drinking. I had, uh, he's like vodka soda with a little piece of lemon peel. Right. In it. And I went in to take a leak. and my drink was finished and I just threw the lemon peel

into the toilet. Yeah. Not even thinking about it. Yeah, that's not a... Four hours later, we're pulled over at the side of the road. Water is gushing in over all of the luggage because of the lemon peel.

No. Yes. The lemon peel jammed up the fucking works. No. And made water go all over people's suitcases. Oh, no. Did you run up to it? Yeah.

I was like, what's the fuck of a lemon? lemon peel? Oh, no. This is, you know, these buses are hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah. They would have technology that could handle a lemon peel. Yeah, exactly. No, no. Yeah, but anyway, this morning, we stopped for gas at about 6 o'clock.

Okay. And I got up to go out, to go to the truck stop to poop, basically. Yeah. And then also, but, because we were in Illinois, but to Illinois refrigerator magnets, because there's just something hilarious to me about. And because my wife has refrigerated magnets from all her travels, but it's like Portugal, in Spain, in Japan. And then I just, I'll be able to.

Illinois, Illinois, land of Lincoln. That's so fun. But yeah, so I was up, I was up this morning early. Just kind of, I don't know what I was doing. Yeah, yeah. My favorite is when we go to like a Buckees or something like that. Yeah, yeah. As an English person, I've never experienced that until.

The truck's up. Like I could have spent an hour in there. Yes. Some of them are like that. They're such weird shit in truck stops because it's, it is like this incredibly transient lifestyle. And then you like, you know, the number of headsets with microphones. Yeah.

You know, all these weird trucker specific stuff. Yes. And, yeah, no, I, I love truck stops. Yeah, me too. But I had to, you know, I was like, I got to go. I can't keep hold them up just by, because I'm shopping. Right. Wait, I'm buying a magnet.

Yeah. Well, now you've got, how many months left? We go until May 13th. So currently we have like a couple of months left. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And there's no dread in you for that. No, no.

Honestly, when they, this is the longest tour that we've done. They even extended it already up to May 13th because it was initially going to finish on May 3rd. Yeah. I thought I was ending it up. Yes, you were. And then I didn't even realize that they'd added another 10 dates onto it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. And to me, I'm like, great. Like, you know, what's another 10 days? I do have plans for my summer, like, first of all, relaxing, for sure. And my bathroom is getting done, and I'm so excited about that. I have to show you pictures. And so all fun things happening in the summer. And I'm very excited and eager to dive into all of those.

but like I'm happy. I'm not trying to rush the end of the tour. And I, there's a lot of safety as a dancer. Yeah. Because I'm still, you know, way back in the deep of my gut, I'm still a dancer that was once freelance.

I'm still freelance technically. Yeah. But like I was trying to go from contract to contract. Yeah. And now I have like this cushy gig that keeps me employed for like, I don't know, seven, eight months of the year, maybe even nine months of the year.

And so I'm, like this is great. So I'll have fun in the summer and I'll do all my fun things, but I'm happy to be here for sure. Do you think being in a relationship with someone on the tour, because Alan is your boyfriend and he's here? Yeah. Does that make it easier?

Yeah, definitely, definitely. And, you know, I've, you know, done that. Obviously, I've been married. I was married to Sasha, who was a pro on the show, and he would come on the tour with me as well. And so I've kind of not known any different, which it, it, it's, it's. That's just my life. I'm just destined to, I think, work and be in a relationship with someone who does the same thing as me.

And I've always been with dancers. And so, Alan, it's great. We get to go on the same tour. We don't have to miss each other. We've got Jeff. The dog is with us. It's nice to have that. And also, like, Danny and Pasha do the same thing.

And then Val and Jenna do the same thing. And lucky for that. There's two kids on tour. We were able to bring the kids to. Two married couples with children that have kids on the tour. It's great. And we love the kids. And the kids love us and we play.

And it's such a family community. Even Pasha's mom is with us because she acts as nanny for Nikita, who's their daughter. So it's really, it's great how we have a family support. And sometimes, like, you know, my tour wife on the road is Brit. And she is married to Daniel, who she met on the show. That was one of her celebrity partners. and they have this beautiful got married. They have this beautiful life together.

And sometimes I give her extra hugs because I get worried that she misses like, you know, her husband and it can be hard to be away for that long period of time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's. As I'm sure you feel with like Jen. Yeah, definitely. No, I mean, I will have been out now.

I go home in a few days and then I'm home for about a month. And then I come back in mid-April. and go from mid-April to the beginning of May. So it's kind of like three and a half weeks and three-and-a-half weeks, kind of like that, something like that. Yeah. And like I said, I was kind of worried about the loneliness of it and stuff, but that's been fine.

Oh, yeah. And I mean, because I'm not lonely because, I mean, you guys are a lot of fun to be around and you're great to me. The show is great to me. Yeah. You know, and I feel very appreciated. But I did a few days ago. I was, I don't know, it's almost like I woke up and was like, okay, ready to go.

Yeah, ready to get out of here. Yeah. This has all been fun. Yes. But come on. Yes. I got, you know, I got strawberry and blackberry plants that just got delivered. I got to get put in the backyard.

I need to go home. I'm so excited about that. I want to know, I want to know how they go and how they grow. Yeah, yeah. Because that interests me a lot. I would love black fruit plants. That's the third episode. episode that I do with you.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I need to, I need an update on your plans. And I'll be, uh, plantings. Yes. Uh, all right. Well, Emma, thank you so much for doing this. You're welcome. I love chatting to you. Yeah, yeah.

It's great. Yeah. Oh, I hope people have enjoyed this episode. Yeah, no, they have. Yeah. And if they didn't, well, then fuck off. They probably switched over by that. Yeah.

What the hell? What more do you want? Oh. This is quality content people. 100%. How can they not enjoy listen to you? Oh, no. You too.

Oh, no. No. Love you. Now we're in the buttering up stage. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for listening to everybody. And I'll be back next week with more.

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