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Hi!
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My name is Andy Richter and I feel resentful
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that it took me to be on Dancing with the Stars for Conan O 'Brien to remember that I'm his friend.
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Oh and I'm not offended at all
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that there's a hitch in your voice after Conan because you were searching for my last name.
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After we've known each other since the summer of 1993.
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I know, I know.
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After Conan O 'Connell.
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It's just because it's, it's, it's just an Irish thing.
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I understand.
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They all look alike.
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You, I'm gonna keep this.
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This is a very special episode.
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Yes.
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Where we talk about kleptomania.
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No, this is a very special episode because you're on Dancing With Stars.
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I am fascinated with what goes on at these reality shows.
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And this is one of the big ones.
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And I know I've brought in, I wouldn't even allow, I fired Matt Gourley and I brought in, I brought in David Hoppin because David loves all reality shows.
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Well, something good has already come from this.
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He's not...
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Fuck you, Gourley!
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Oops.
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Who's gonna force James Bond into the conversation?
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Me talking to an A -list star.
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I understand you just had a battle with cancer.
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Yeah.
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The third James Bond?
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Terrence Billick?
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Yeah.
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Tropic of Cancer was an alternate title for Moonbreaker.
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It was originally Jawbreaker about a candy, but they changed it.
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Listen, you're gonna listen to me.
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I am.
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We have been good friends and Confederates.
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I like to use the word Confederates.
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Yes, yes.
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Because we've been involved in many, many heists.
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It's my secret Confederate, Andy Richter.
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We've known each other a long time.
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You're doing this show, and we can talk about other things as well, but I brought you in here cause I thought, I said, get me Andy Richter.
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And they said, he doesn't want to come on.
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And then we met your friend.
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I'm here twice a week.
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I know you're here all the time.
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It's ridiculous.
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But anyway, I want to know, first of all, I was watching you do your routine the other night and I was thinking,
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I couldn't remember all of that.
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I just couldn't remember.
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You could.
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I would go, my mind would go blank.
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Whenever I've had to do any choreography, I've told them, you need to keep it to three moves.
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Like I'm an old pony.
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On Andy Richter Controls the Universe, they had, and it was very, and I objected to it because I just thought it was kind of hacky and overdone.
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They had a fantasy musical sequence that they wanted to break into.
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And I was like, really?
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Okay.
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And they said, yeah, we're going to have and it'll be choreographed dancing.
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And I said, and just because I was exploiting being number one on the call sheet, I was like, I will come in at the end and do jazz hands,
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but I will not do anything else.
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Because anytime I had had to learn choreography, Hulk smash, I'd get so mad,
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you know, like, oh, I've seen Hulk smash.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I just, I'd get so furious because I couldn't get it from here to there.
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Yeah.
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And also, Jen, my wife, reminded me that on our wedding, she said, like, you know, what about our dance together?
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And I was like, shortest song possible.
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And that was my only, there was no, like, let's go to Arthur Murray and learn something.
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I was like, no, I don't want all those eyes on us for that long.
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So don't you feel, I know you're not.
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You went on dancing with the stars.
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I know.
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That's what I'm thinking right now is that there is a God, and he watched all that and said,
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He shall go on Dancing with the Stars Here's your hubris It's an email from your agent Oh no
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Yeah no in April I got I got an email
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About doing it About being
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Here's your invitation to be on Dancing with the Stars
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And I was home at the time It was in the morning
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And honest to god my first reaction was Turn it down
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and don't tell anyone Like don't let anyone know
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That I've been asked like because they'd be like why wouldn't you do it
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and it's like
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because you know crabby baby does not want to be pushed out of his comfort zone basically is the long
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and short of it
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but of course like within two seconds i was like i
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have to do this yeah i have to do this it looks like fun it is pretty fun yeah
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and i'm also it's like i'm 58 years old i got
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problem knees i you know uh all kinds of stuff going
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on as a side note just you should be dancing on television yes exactly
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i got but but and also too what's even better is
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that like in this was april i said yes
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and then like in july they figured out what all the leg pain
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and stuff had been going on is
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because i need a hip replacement oh wow so i need a new left hip But, and I was like, hey, you know, the minute I was like, I'm supposed to be doing Dancing with the Stars,
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which was a violation of the NDA.
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And I could have been fired to tell my doctors.
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But they're like, yeah, you should be all right.
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And they, you know, I got like some kind of injection that was supposed to sort of help.
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And it did help.
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But like, I'm going to, this is like a big bond voyage to my old arthritic hip.
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You know what I think?
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Because this is what comes to mind
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because I'm always trying to game the system and I very much want you to do well on this show.
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You've got judges that are looking at you.
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Yes.
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And I think you should begin every number with us.
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There's a silhouette of someone walking out and it's your orthopedic surgeon.
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Yeah.
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And he has actual imaging of your decrepit hip.
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On the big screen.
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On the big screen.
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It's my MRI.
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It's your MRI.
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And he says, as you can see here, there's the flaring of the joint where the bone slips into the socket and we've lost too much calcium there.
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It's cracked.
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And so this man, and that should be like a golf handicap.
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They should add 15 points.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Like instead of the tape package about me and Emma practicing, it should just be like,
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his hip bone has always, or his femur has always had an impingement, which means that it's not spherical.
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It's egg -shaped.
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So his entire life, it's been like building up and like, you know, like bone on bone rubbing against each other.
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But also, your surgeon should be doing commentary as you're dancing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, that's a major load -bearing move.
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The pain he's reaching now would be at least an eight.
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Yeah.
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If ten is visibly uncomfortable, he's at an eight.
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Right now, he's at a nine.
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Now he's at a two.
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Because he's just twirling around the dance floor.
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Yeah, he's twirling.
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And I mean, do you think about it?
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That would I think that would be a hero.
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I just seem like powering through it and just and it does.
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I do take solace in the fact that like the people who are much younger than me, which is everybody, but the ones that are even much younger than me in their 20s are like my legs hurt.
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My knees hurt.
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I go home and, you know, and just ache.
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And I certainly do at night.
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It's like I lay in bed and it just hurts, you know, so it's just lots of Advil and ice and, and, um, and that's it, you know, but I, uh,
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I, I, I didn't want to do it, but then I thought, no, I need to do this.
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I need, I need to do this like just to get moving.
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And, and I, it got me to go to the gym and do cardio, which I loathe, uh,
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started to do a lot more stretching just to kind to prepare myself and
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and then like the week before i met my my partner
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i was like having stress dreams i was just dreading it
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and just felt like crap for the whole week before just like
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like kind of crabby to my family and stuff
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but i signed up for it i was going to do it um was terrified
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that i was going to get injured that i just wouldn't be able to do it like you said.
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Yeah.
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Like, I'm not gonna be able to remember all that.
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I'm not gonna...
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Yeah.
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And then would have to like pull out and be embarrassed as one is when one pulls out.
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And I didn't think you'd go there.
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I did though.
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I thought, nope.
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Andy's before.
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I thought of it and I...
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You know what?
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I thought of it and I let it go.
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Oh, that is bad.
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That's how low this is.
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That is bad.
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Thought of it and pulled out.
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Sounds like my wedding night.
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You did it though.
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Pulled out and I was embarrassed.
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You still did it.
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I did it afterwards.
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I know.
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So now I win.
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Oh, exactly.
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I'm guilty and you're innocent.
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That's right.
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Enjoy your jam while I get on my victory yacht.
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This is all happening in my head.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But then I luckily was paired with just a sweet angel of a ballroom dancer.
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Her name is Emma Slater.
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Emma Slater.
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She seems lovely.
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She's fantastic.
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And there were so many people around there.
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like from promo people to security guards to different people, like stagehands are like, Oh, you got the best one.
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Oh, nice.
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Yeah.
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Because she is just so much fun and you are, you rehearse four hours a day, seven days a week.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So I'm going to bring up something that I think is your secret weapon.
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Yeah.
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Which is you've been making these videos and Emma Slater is in a bunch of them.
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She, no, Oh, she's the Cecil B.
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DeMille of our TikTok presence.
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You've been doing a bunch of videos, and I started watching, I started looking at your videos.
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I don't know how to access these things.
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Right, no, I know someone showed them to you.
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David brought me this.
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Your dog.
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My dog brought me what's, I think, called an e -phone.
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But I was looking at it, I was like, Andy's really funny, and he's making these funny videos, which, you know.
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did at our late night show thousands of times.
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And I'm looking at you just be super funny.
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And I was like, oh, this is great.
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I mean, if there wasn't, if you didn't even get to do the rest, if they somehow said, no, no, no, we're canceling the dancing part, you're just going to make these videos.
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I think this is a home run.
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Yeah.
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Oh, thank you.
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Well, I just, you know, I went into the thing, as I said, dreading it, but still resolved to be open, resolved to saying yes, resolved to being compliant.
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and which is really in these days. But I started...
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I will not have political commentary on this show.
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Back to how much Advil you're having and what kind of inflammation you're suffering from.
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This is a medical show, not a political show.
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But so, you know, I started doing the rehearsals with Emma and it was like Hulk Smash was there.
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Like she was trying to just show me like the basic steps
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and I'd watch her do it and then try to do it myself.
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And it really was like I couldn't do it.
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But then slowly as you with repetition and commitment and dedication to not just throwing, you know, throwing a fit and running out.
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It's like the wiring starts to be built up whether
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or whether it's like wiring that was there
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that was like somehow crusted over like it's now you know
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we're going from the first dance into the second dance
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and from a cha -cha to a tango
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and it's easier much easier to learn the second one
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and i'm assuming it's going to be easier to learn the third one god willing
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and america willing
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if you people vote me off you're making a big mistake yeah you know i always find i always find
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that if you want people to vote for you it's really good to threaten them.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I know.
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You should do it on the show.
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Yeah.
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Oh, you better.
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You better.
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I know who you are.
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The doctor can also do that part.
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The doctor can do that part.
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My partner on Tuesday, because Bruno, one of the judges gave me a four and they mentioned that.
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I don't know, four out of what?
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Four out of ten.
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Right.
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It was, I tied with Corey Feldman for the lowest score, but I'm like, I'm 30 years older than fucking everybody.
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What do you want from me?
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but when we were up in the skybox with Julianne afterwards
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and they gave the scores and he gave a four
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and everybody in the place went boo and I went yeah get him
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and she said no one has ever done that get him never done
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that before like told the crowd yeah get the judge yeah you know
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so I was like oh okay you always know what to say in those situations it's funny you brought
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that up and you always know what to say in the right situation
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and I remember one time we were in this studio and you know, we're in 30 Rock and we're in our studio and there's no windows or anything.
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And it suddenly the power went out and the lights just went, the lights went out and it went like pretty black.
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Just was like the lights went out, went black and Andy without missing a second went, my pearls.
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And like old 1930s movie.
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My pearls have been stolen yet, but you just said my pearls.
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That's what comes to mind now.
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Now would you say, get him?
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Those are the things that are just gonna come out of you.
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There's nothing that can be done.
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No, it's like, I don't even, it's not like I sit around going like, now when the lights go out, remember, save my pearls.
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Right.
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It just comes out.
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Yeah.
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So you slowly, and that's why I said to you, I did slowly learn it and I did slowly kind of get a handle on it
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and you would be able to do it, but you know, but it is like, I wouldn't be doing this for fun right i'm doing this
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because i got hired to do it
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and it's a good you know i've said this too over
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there you know a lot of you know like a lot of these people you know they're reality stars
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or they're you know athletes and things
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and it's like for me this is a tv job i
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i take all different kinds of tv jobs i've been on all different kinds of tv
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and i and i'm doing basically the same thing in all of them
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but i mean not so much when i'm when i'm acting
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but certainly with these kind of live
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and live shows i know like okay i understand how all this works i understand how it's put together right
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and i'm here to serve a purpose of making of adding fun
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and value to this production right like we'd be doing you know these rehearsals
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and in some of them should be like you know you gotta sell it more
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and i was like honey don't worry about me selling stuff you know it's like when we get there, we'll get there.
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And I know when to make the faces and stuff.
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But it's like, I'm not going to waste the faces when we're doing it for the 17th time on Thursday.
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Right.
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we went into the camera rehearsal on Monday and I saw a tape of it.
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And what I thought was given them the camera version of selling it, I realized was nothing.
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It didn't look like anything.
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So I was like, oh, okay.
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Tomorrow.
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Bigger.
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Got to really go big, big, big without my, my daughter, my older daughter did say, dad, don't smile too much.
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She's like, don't, you know, like, and I, I know what she means.
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Well, she's probably saying, because then you're not you.
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Andy Rickard as you walk around like She's kind of saying that But you also have seen people You know, like They give the 10 ,000 megawatt Like Lawrence Welk dancers
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Like they always were grinning Like they I don't know You know, like they were in the afterglow I think he would shock them
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If they didn't He had a big generator out back So, um How scary is it You know, when you're standing there And you're in silhouette
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And you're facing away from the camera And you know this music's kicking in Is it fight or flight kind of stuff?
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No No, it wasn't.
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Can you redo it if something goes horribly wrong?
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No, it's live.
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It is really, truly live.
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It's live.
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That's scary.
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They give you a little talk beforehand that like, and I mean, the direction was like, you know, if you're hurt, keep going.
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Unless like you're really hurt and then you'll put your hand up and then I'll cut away from you.
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But until you, if you hurt yourself or fall, like, he's like, I want to keep the camera on you And I'm going to keep the camera on you.
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He said, but if you're like really hurt, raise your hand.
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And then I'll know to cut away to somebody else.
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Someone being sawn in half.
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Somebody eating a human hand.
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Yeah.
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But one day, about a week before all four couples that were there at that point, we all did our dance for each other.
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They call it a show and tell.
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And it was Baron Davis, Jen Affleck, Danielle Fischel and me.
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So it's NBA all star, a reality star, one of the Mormon housewives.
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Danielle was on Boy Meets World and is like was like everybody's teenage crush and me.
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And so it's like people from different accomplished backgrounds, all being scared kids in front of each other,
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doing this thing for the first time for somebody other than just their partner and it felt like
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everyone you know we all cheer for each other
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when they were all done cheering i was like i said i feel like i've joined a cult yeah
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because like my heart was singing and i was just like i did it yeah
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and somebody said now you're gonna have to do
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that in front of the studio audience
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and then for on tv in front of people
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and i kind of felt like well this is this was the bubble being burst like this.
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I did it here.
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And so like, okay, now I'm, and I did it right.
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And I did it, you know, that's the thing.
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Did I do it right?
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Did I screw it up?
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Did I forget anything?
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And no, I didn't.
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So I was sort of already ready.
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And then you get to the ballroom and you have all day Monday where you run it a bunch of times.
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And then Tuesday, you're in that thing from like 10 AM until 10 PM.
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Cause afterwards there's all kinds of press and stuff to do.
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So by the time, like it's my turn to to dance a i was like
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12 out of 14 i was i was just like let's get this over with
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and i'd been in the room all day
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so i was comfortable in the room and comfortable in front of the people
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so it was kind of just like it wasn't it wasn't hard
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and i and i knew
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that i knew what what i was doing there's there is like a moment of hope i remember everything
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but other than that it's just and i and i
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and i do love emma so much and we do have
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so much fun together and she's been so nice and
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so supportive that i'm also not alone in it like she
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and i have been cooking up these things for people
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and then making silly tick tocks on the side
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so it is it's all pretty fun you know is there a way to harm anyone else
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that you're competing against oh no because this is where my head would go
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and i'm not i don't mean physically harm them although
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if there's an idea for
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that we'll take it what i mean is is there any way to get in their head
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or somehow sabotage them
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or that's not cool i the only thing i've been doing
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is lead in lunches yeah just a little bit of lead in different lunches
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but you know it does it's been proven
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and your your doctor will tell you this it slows down
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the neural responses yeah yeah i would i would give them the poops what's
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that i would do something with their lunch and like give them the poops give them the diaries Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Cause they're all wearing really tight costumes.
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Oh, so you want that to happen, uh...
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On live TV?
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Yeah, I do!
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I want, yeah, I know, I'm, I don't know.
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Yeah, but then...
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Oh, but lead is good.
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Well, lead is...
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Let's do long -term poops.
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Well, lead is kind of funnier, cause they just can't, their brain isn't working right.
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Right, right, right.
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And it's, and this is long -term damage.
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Yeah, it's long -term.
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Oh, absolutely.
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The poops, they're over it tomorrow.
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You guys are talking about, like.. permanently impairing these people.
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But if you shit on TV in front of the millions of people, would you be over it the next day?
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No. That would scar you for life.
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But you'd get a sympathy vote.
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No, people would be just so horrified by the whole thing.
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Nobody relates to pooping.
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But they have to raise their hand to cut the camera.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Cut the camera!
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No!
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And the director yells out, what's wrong?
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The poops!
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It's a -coming!
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It's a -coming!
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They would zoom in!
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And that just cuts to the studio audience.
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It's a crane shot from outside the studio at ABC.
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And people are just streaming out, running for their lives.
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Yep.
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Well, thanks, Sona, for bringing it around.
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I'm helping.
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No. We did say one of the stars, and y 'all can look up who it ever does, just gave birth like four weeks ago.
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And we have been making jokes about, you know, like the strength of pelvic floor.
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Oh, boy.
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And is there urine being sprayed around during tossing?
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This is the stuff I wanted to get to.
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Well, I also will tell you, too.
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I mean, this is the good stuff.
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Dancers are, like, very physically oriented.
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And, like, there's not a lot of body shame.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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You know, so there's something almost kind of like animal.
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You know, it's like where it's just a bunch of, like, beautiful, incredible animals that are doing animal -y things, jumping and leaping.
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And there's no sort of, yeah, there's just very little personal boundaries.
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Well, they're athletes.
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They're just great athletes.
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Absolutely athletes.
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Yeah, definitely.
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And also you're holding on to somebody through this whole thing.
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There's a lot of physical contact, especially because Eastern Europeans, it's just another sport.
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It's just another, you know, you can be a gymnast or you could be a soccer player or you can be a ballroom dancer.
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And it is incredibly, you know, athletic and and and sporty.
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It is.
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It's you know, it's a it's all competition.
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So lay it out for me.
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This will this is going to come out when next was in a couple of days.
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OK, this is coming out six days from now.
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So what's your next hurdle?
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What's it going to be?
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What's your what's coming up that you have to overcome in order to stay on what I call DW?
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TS Wow that was good Yeah,
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I had a lead burger this morning So I'm doing pretty well Uh yeah, we'll have a pizza, lead pizza please?
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Instead of the pepperoni, yeah, giant lead coins Wait, what was the question?
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I don't know What's next?
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Oh, what's next?
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Yeah We are doing a tango to It's Raining Men, which will have already happened.
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But as we're speaking right now, how many days out are you from that?
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This is Thursday, and that'll be Tuesday.
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Okay.
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And you said this is airing Wednesday.
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Right.
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So my fate will have been decided by America then.
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But I mean, I kind of feel like I'm remaining very hopeful
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that I'll stick around for a little bit
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because I do think like it's a TV show and when people are voting and also, I mean, I, I am again,
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relying so much on Emma's online presence and her sort of military campaign to get people to vote for us.
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And I think I'll stick around because I do kind of feel like it is a TV show.
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And the question isn't like, who's the dancer?
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It's like, who do you want to see in the TV show? is ultimately what it ends up being.
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Like, if you're going to watch this show next week, who do you want to see in the TV show if somebody has to go?
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And like one of the EPs said at one point, and it struck me, was they're asking you to vote for your favorite dancer.
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Not the best dancer, the favorite dancer.
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So that can be whatever it means to anybody watching and anybody taking the trouble to vote, which the voting is weird.
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And I guess I knew this, but I didn't understand it you only vote while the show is on live, which is from eight to 10 on the East coast,
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seven to nine in Midwest.
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If you, so that also means here, you got to vote from five to seven, you got to vote three hours before the show airs in order to have your vote count.
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So if you're watching it on ABC or Disney plus or whatever here in Los Angeles, when you're watching it in the delete tape delay you can't vote
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so you it's like for people on the west coast
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and in mountain time if they want to vote they're voting based on their preference from last week, sorta, I guess, because you don't know what the dance is.
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I thought you were going to reveal that there's like an electoral college too.
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No, no, no. In some states, there's...
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People have more electors.
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Yeah.
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I was doing interviews today.
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We rehearsed and then I did interviews and they were saying like, it's a double elimination on Tuesday.
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How do you feel about that?
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And I'm like, I don't know.
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I mean, what can I do?
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I did as much as I could and I'll do as much as I can, which is...
468
Until every other dancer has diarrhea, you have not done all that you can do.
469
He's on board now.
470
He came on to the diarrhea train.
471
I have come around.
472
Come on, all aboard.
473
Every other dancer's family remains unthreatened.
474
You know, I have not done enough. Or remain...
475
No way.
476
You can always do more.
477
Colin and I can take care of it.
478
We can take care of this.
479
You take care of the diarrhea.
480
I've got some very soft Roman lead.
481
It's from the piping in Rome that brought down the empire.
482
And I am going to be sprinkling that in the other dancers' burritos.
483
You know what I was thinking about?
484
A lot of burritos backstage.
485
I was thinking about if I ever saw you do any choreographed dance, and I remembered your K -pop video, and how you just couldn't really get it.
486
What do you mean I couldn't get it?
487
I killed that thing.
488
I don't know.
489
What do you mean I couldn't get it?
490
Weren't you there?
491
He was having trouble.
492
He kept on like, I feel like you kept forgetting how to do the string dance.
493
I think, I will say, I think you did great in the K -pop video, but you did do an Irish dance where you kicked a girl in the face.
494
You did kick a girl in the face.
495
Well, first of all, she had a, I don't know.
496
What's more Irish than that?
497
Well, you're going to blame her?
498
I'm just saying, she had a little bit of an attitude beforehand.
499
See?
500
Irish.
501
That's how the Irish take care of things.
502
Yeah.
503
No, there is footage of me accidentally kicking a young girl in the head.
504
I remember that.
505
And then we showed it again and again in slow motion.
506
I did bring her out in front of a massive crowd at the Chicago Theater and kicked her again.
507
Such a good prank.
508
Andy, we wish you well.
509
Thank you.
510
And we're rooting for you.
511
How can people vote for Andy and Emma?
512
They can vote for us.
513
And again, you have to do it Pacific 5 to 7 p .m on Tuesdays, East Coast 8 to 10 on Tuesdays.
514
And that is your window for voting.
515
And you can text Andy, A -N -D -Y, it's with a Y, to 21523.
516
And you can do that 10 times per couple, per method of voting.
517
The other way to vote is online to DWTS vote, DWTS vote dot ABC dot com.
518
And there again, you can vote 10 times per couple.
519
So you don't have to vote all for us, but you'd be an idiot not to.
520
That's true.
521
Yeah.
522
Well, Andy, good luck.
523
Thank you.
524
Keep enjoying it.
525
That's key.
526
And take care of yourself.
527
I am.
528
You know, I mean, I'm just worried about your your hip exploding.
529
No, no, no, it'll be fine.
530
And the doctor said, I did say like, yeah, but do I have to, I was like, I just said like, like, am I going to have to worry about like it's snapping at some point?
531
It's like, no, no, no, you'll be fine.
532
Yeah.
533
What does he know?
534
I know.
535
I know you, you didn't go to the best doctor.
536
I did.
537
I did.
538
It's like, yeah, it's a mobile clinic.
539
You tore a piece of paper off a lamppost.
540
Yeah, yeah.
541
Need a new hip?
542
And I, and I teach bass guitar.
543
Or a reupholstry?
544
Yeah.
545
uh no and i'm gonna i'm i'm saving
546
that for january uh that'll be my big new year's present to myself as a new hip
547
and right but everybody says that it's a wonderful thing to get done sure
548
that you heal up real well it lasts forever and
549
and the consistent thing that everybody says is i wish i'd done it sooner
550
so yeah i don't i'm not like i'm not somebody
551
when there's like a medical thing
552
that needs to be done i'm like do it i'm not i don't i'm not avoidant in that sense It's like, oh, okay, yes.
553
I'm that way too.
554
I'm not a guy that's like, you're 90 % blocked in your heart.
555
We'll get to that later.
556
Yeah, yeah.
557
Now I've got a mountain to climb and liquid cheese to eat.
558
Once I'm done with my cheese -a -thon on the Matterhorn, maybe I'll come back and see.
559
All right, Andy Richter, onward and upward.
560
Thank you, thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Andy Richter”. This video has 560 sentences and 5377 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:23. The speaker talks fast, about 183 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dancer noun | /ˈdænsəɹ/ | A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession. |
| poop noun | /ˈpuːp/ | The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched. |
| athlete noun | /ˈæθ.liːt/ | A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. |
| pearl noun | /pɝl/ | A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain… |
| ballroom noun | /ˈbɔːlɹuːm/ | A large room used for dancing and banquets. |
| diarrhea noun | /ˌdaɪ.əˈɹiː.ə/ | A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements. |
| rehearsal noun | /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/ | The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to… |
| smash verb | /smæʃ/ | To break (something brittle) violently. |
| resolve verb | /ɹɪˈzɑlv/ | To find a solution to (a problem). |
| burrito noun | /bəˈɹi.toʊ/ | A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc. |
| choreograph verb | /ˈkɔɹjəɡɹæf/ | To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet. |
| choreography noun | /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ | The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet. |
| crabby adjective | /ˈkɹæb.i/ | Relating to or resembling crabs; crablike. |
| silhouette noun | /ˌsɪluˈɛt/ | An artistic depiction, often of a person's profile, in the form of an outline without any other visual details, similar to a shadow, made by cutting a piece of… |
| twirl verb | /twɝl/ | To perform a twirl. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| pull out verb | To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| build up verb | To erect; to construct. | |
| bring down verb | To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power. | |
| bring up verb | To mention. | |
| come around verb | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You know what I think?
- I don't know, four out of what?
- What do you want from me?
- Can you redo it if something goes horribly wrong?
- What do you mean I couldn't get it?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been making · You've been doing · have been cooking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've known · I've brought · has already come |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | we've been involved · be choreographed · I've been asked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | impingement, which means · people who are · Men, which will |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 195 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, arthritic /ɑː(ɹ)θˈɹɪtɪk/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: smash /smæʃ/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: diarrhea /ˌdaɪ.əˈɹiː.ə/, choreography /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/, commentary /ˈkɑ.mənˌtɛ.ɹi/, inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dancer, poop, athlete.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.