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Who would you want to see come together in a dance challenge? We paired teens and their parents to work together in a dance challenge… can they choreograph a 60 second dance in only 30 minutes?
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– [Producer] We’re actually gonna to bring out
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a couple more dancers to add to your team.
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– Okay
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– Oh my gosh!
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– [Producer] We brought two seemingly different
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groups of people into our studio,
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to see if they can unit in a one of a kind, dance challenge.
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– [Producer] What is your favorite dance move?
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– Oh gosh.
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– I have no idea what this one is called,
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but I go like.
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– Harlem Shaking
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– There you go.
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– It is called a ‘Wave Woah’
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– My family, we’re famous for the sprinkler.
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oh god.
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– There we got
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and then.
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– It’s see.
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– Go after me.
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– There you go.
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– [Producer] Do you know what you’re doing here today?
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– I’m not really sure what we’re going to be doing
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in front of the cameras.
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– Well we’re going to play a trick on our kids.
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– Yes, I’m here to embarrass my son.
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– [Producer] Today you’ll be choreographing
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a sixty second dance routine
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to a song that I’ll be giving you.
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– Oh okay.
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– [Producer] You’ll only have thirty minutes to choreograph
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and practice before your final performance.
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– Okay.
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– My confidence has to rise a lot for this.
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– This is definitely gonna to be a challenge.
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– [Producer] Are you ready to go surprise your teens?
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– Absolutely
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– Yeah, let’s do this.
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– [Producer] Before you start,
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we’re actually gonna bring out a couple more
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dancers to add to your team.
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– Okay
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– Oh!
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– I was expecting some like, professional dancers
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or something.
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– I did not think for any second,
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that it was gonna be our parents.
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I honestly don’t know how we’re gonna
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do this in thirty minutes.
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– I was worried because I was like
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what if we have completely different dance styles,
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and I thought there was gonna be a little bit of
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fighting or disagreeing, you know?
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Did you know?
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– Mhm, yeah I knew the whole time.
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– [Producer] All right team,
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this is your song.
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– People have made friends with me,
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and they found out that I’m like shy,
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and then they don’t really wanna hang around me anymore.
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I wish people knew that I am shy,
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but once you get to know me, I can be fun.
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– What do you know about this.
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– I don’t know anything, I’m counting.
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– What are you counting?
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– I’m counting the counts.
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– She danced for like ten years,
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five years old and she just like
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start wiggling her hips really hard.
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I’d be like “you don’t do that.”
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it’s hard to see the little teeny baby that was there,
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you know, now growing up.
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Cause she lives with her mom, and me sometimes.
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You know we go back and forth.
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It’s definitely difficult.
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– Okay
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– Okay, I have something in mind.
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– [Producer] Timer begins in three,
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two,
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one.
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– Okay so like, should we have kids in the front
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or like in the back, and then we have like
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the kids split up and like move forward and move back?
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– You guys wanna do like soul train line?
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Where everyone comes out and does that.
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– You guys what if the kids were like this,
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and they went like this,
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and they went like this or something.
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– There you go!
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– Perfect, that’ll work.
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– Can we hear the song?
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– All right, now I’m feeling it.
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Now who’s feeling it to most?
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All right, okay we can start with that.
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I felt we should leave it up to the kids to figure it out.
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– I didn’t honestly think I would do that well,
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but my confidence kicked in as soon as my mom came on.
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She’s just a great overall person,
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and her being in our dance group,
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really just made me feel better about myself.
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– What move do you guys wanna do all together?
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[Everyone] Um
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– I don’t know.
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– That’s not so bad.
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– I’m coming with ideas here.
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– That’s good, that’s good, that’s good.
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– Maybe we can do something like.
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– It seems complicated.
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– Or you can do that and they can do the other one.
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for real! For real!
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– It was harder having my dad there
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cause he’s kinda stubborn.
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But it’s okay, like I’m stubborn too,
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like I get that from him.
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But like we need to put stuff together;
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the parents and the kids can do.
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– Whenever we’re doing our moves,
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we should all be going the same way.
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Like, if I’m doing this,
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everyone should be going this way.
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– That’s gonna be hard.
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– We have twenty minutes okay?
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I’m pretty sure you can figure it out.
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– Wow.
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– Where’s the car keys at?
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– I’m about to go home.
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– You know what I think it could be a good idea
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if there’s like a dance off between-
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– Kids and parents?
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– Yeah cause she’s always said
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she could dance better than me.
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– I suggested a dance off only because
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the teens are always thinking that they know more than you.
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That you never did anything before you got to them,
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you know?
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To see who has better moves, would have been a lot of fun.
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– But if all that, that’s going to be
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more than sixty seconds.
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– You think so?
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– I just felt like, they’re trying to cheat.
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you know choreography’s about doing something together,
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not a bunch of solos you know.
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– We have seventeen minutes?
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– Yeah
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– Sixteen
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– Don’t look at the clock, don’t look at the clock,
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don’t look at the clock.
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– I felt like oh no, we’re not gonna make it.
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We may not like, do it in time.
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– All right.
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– We’ve lost two-thirds of our time.
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– Those thirty minutes of choreography were rough.
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Everyone had ideas.
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– Can we add line dancing or
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like the electric slide or something?
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– [Sally] Just trying to hear everyone out
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and then not look too crazy.
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– Doesn’t really go to the beat, huh?
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run it back one more time.
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The most frustrating part was like
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filling up the last six seconds of the dance.
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– Like this, kinda like how we do it at home, we go.
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– Isn’t that the end?
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– I thought that was the end.
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– Kay, we need more time, clearly.
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– Wait you spinning me or I’m spinning you?
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– It’s time.
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– Because I’m the gentleman, you said gentleman okay?
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I’m the gentleman here. Okay?
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– [Producer] All right so you guys are out of time.
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So we’re gonna go and get ready for our performance.
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– Oh Lord, I’m hot.
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Get out of here.
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– I guess I was worried that everyone forgets the dance
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or like I freak out and I do something wrong.
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– I was actually pretty nervous,
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cause I didn’t wanna mess anything up.
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Like what if I messed this up,
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what if messed this up for everybody.
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– All the butterflies, they have flown away.
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Like all right, we can do this, let’s get it done.
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♪Did you believe in I’ve been gone in a minute?♪
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♪It’s all about to happen too♪
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♪What do you say have you always in it♪
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♪Something that happened too♪
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♪But you would think I’m crazy♪
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♪But I have lost you so many times♪
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♪Happens every time♪
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♪Heaven is falling down♪
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♪will I go back time?♪
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♪Don’t you wanna know that in time♪
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♪Happens every time♪
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♪Oh♪
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– I think we did really well even with our parents.
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They were going all out,
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it’s really fun to see them just dance
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and having a good time.
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– I loved the dance a lot, it was really fun.
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I learned that your parents are
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like cooler than you think they are.
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– To actually dance to my daughter,
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it felt really good you know
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I felt like we got passed something,
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because I feel like she’s shy to dance in front of me.
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– You know I’d never been in front of a camera before,
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I mean I don’t even like taking pictures.
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For me to come together with my daughter
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and to be able to like have this experience
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that we’re going to have forever.
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It’s absolutely amazing.
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– Me and mom dances because we know that one of us
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may not be there the next day.
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So we treat everyday as if it was our last.
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– What I love most about Julien is the way he loves me.
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We have the ability to laugh, be goofy,
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you know, regardless if he’s a teenager.
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As we walked off stage,
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he said “I’ll never forget this moment mom”,
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I will never forget this moment.
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– We can do slower.
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– [Producer] You guys,
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I challenge you to do more group moves together.
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– Group moves together.
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– I don’t like your challenge.
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– [Producer] SoulPancake, Subscribe.
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