Odyssey Unscripted Episode 14: The End of the Season!

Join Ian, Natalie, and Athena for one final episode of the season as they sit down together before heading their separate ways for the summer. From hilarious memories and unexpected Odyssey moments to heartfelt reflections on their journey as dancers, this episode is a little bit of everything. The trio reminisces about their time with Odyssey Dance Theatre, shares what they’ve learned throughout the season, and talks about what’s next for each of them. It’s unfiltered, nostalgic, chaotic, and the perfect send-off before summer begins.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:17

One, two, three, four, six, seven, and one, and two, three, a five, six, seven, and one, and two.

SPEAKER_03 0:25

Okay, it got a little cake. I know I got a little nervous at the end of it.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

I got a little nervous at the end.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Well, hey guys.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Welcome back to the Odyssey Unscripted Podcast. My name is Ian. I'm your lovely co-host for today, and joining me are my other lovely co-hosts Natalie and Dathina. Yay! Wow, guys. Uh, what a season it has been. Truly. So maybe I should deliver the news now. I should just leave it alone.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

So unfortunately, this is going to be the last episode of Odyssey Unscripted that's going to come out for a while. We're closing our season because our actual dance season has ended. Um it's definitely very bittersweet. You know, like I love doing the pod. I think it's so much fun. I love being the host. I love talking. I mean, you know I love talking. Right. That's obvious. We all do. Right, right. That's why we all do it so well together, obviously. So yeah, this is gonna be our last episode that we're filming all together. Um, it's very sad. I've really enjoyed it, but you know, it's time. It's time.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

It started to get a little complicated towards the end, unfortunately. Everyone started to like break away and kind of do their own things because we didn't have the consistency of Odyssey like we usually do. Um so we just thought one last hurrah from the three of us, your lovely, lovely co-host, and that's gonna be about it. You know?

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

So, how are we doing, everyone? Let's go down the line.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

Good. Tired.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

I know, you'd think that the grind would stop and it doesn't. It does not. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 2:02

It's just been like, what have I been doing? You know, applying for some new jobs for the summer, finding where I'm gonna work. I'm doing great, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

But I love that you're applying for jobs and doing your thing, you know. Yeah, it is so weird that like you have to take into account that you need a dancer job, but you also need a people job a lot of the time. You know, like I that's something that I have grown to understand as we've moved through the professional world these past few years, that like there's always going to need to be some kind of stream of income, and you're just gonna have to be okay with the fact that it oh it just like hit her head on my phone. It was hard. Are you okay, girl?

SPEAKER_05 2:45

It looked like she wanted to, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Like, she's rubbing up on me. Oh no, she's chewing up the carpet. Uh oh, I scared her away. Anyways, yeah, it's really weird. It's really weird. I've also been doing some applying to jobs and stuff like that, and you know, but yeah. Well, that's good that you're doing good. I love to hear it, not that I haven't seen it at all. Right, because we don't live together every single day. Right, Athena.

SPEAKER_04 3:09

Um, I'm doing good. My grind has completely stopped. I haven't been doing literally anything.

SPEAKER_05 3:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:21

You can ask them.

SPEAKER_05 3:22

Uh it's true.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

Um I haven't doing, but honestly, like that's just how I like to live my life. Like that's beautiful. Especially because we do so much for so long with Odyssey that like once I'm done, I'm like, I'm done. Right. I'm not, I'm not talking to anyone. I'm gonna stay in my room literally all day. You're not gonna see me. And it's true. It's true. I j I don't leave my room, I just stay in bed all day. And that's lovely. Right. But you know, I have I have been in my like um like hot Pilates bath. Yeah, it is. So we went this morning. We went this morning. Oh my god, Ashley's first class was really hard. Was it really cow? It was insane.

SPEAKER_05 4:02

I was dying in the first five minutes. No, it was really good though. Those abs.

SPEAKER_04 4:06

Oh my god. No, she did good. It was amazing. It was but that's that's just what I've been doing. That's been my form of physical activity. Hello.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

I love that. That's wonderful. So I wish that I could be like that. Like I just I need to do stuff. Right. You know, I wish that I could sit down and not do anything, but low-key, I really haven't had the opportunity to, actually, I'm literally the opposite.

SPEAKER_04 4:30

The set like if I have more than like three things to do in a day, I like am gonna explode. Even if those three things are like, I need to go to the store, and then I'm gonna get lunch with my friend, and then me and my mom are going to see the movie, see a movie. I'm like, I I can't do anything else.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Like I like nobody texts me.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

I can't do nobody texts me.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

Because you get awesome. Right, you do triple in the amount of that every single 20 minutes, I'm like, yeah, no, literally, literally.

SPEAKER_04 5:02

I know I'm being lazy.

SPEAKER_05 5:03

I just sit there and I'm like, oh, this is so nice. I feel like I'm a good in-between of both. I love my sit-down time. Like, I will take it if I can. Yeah. But like, sometimes I do feel like I've been sitting on this freaking couch for eight hours. Like, I'm gonna go drive around in my car. And then to feel productive. Right. Yeah, you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I do like if I ever have moments like that where I'm like, I need to do something. Like, I will literally just take myself to the mall. And I've like to see what my bins, you know? Like, and if I end up walking away with something, not my problem.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

And then I end up spending like$400. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Right, of course. But that's just collateral you need to be willing to work with.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

Like, you have a problem.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

No, I was actually just talking to one of my teacher friends about that the other day because they were asking me about like what is going to be next for me. More on that later. And I was like, I don't know, but packing my entire life away, like I have a shopping addiction. I literally, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm so scared. Minimum three garbage bags.

SPEAKER_05 6:04

We're gonna help all three of us together. We're gonna have a day and we're gonna start packing because all three of us are moving in a span of two weeks.

SPEAKER_04 6:13

Yeah, but we're moving at like different times, you know. That's what makes it so like because you're moving and then like a week later I'm moving, and then a week later you're moving.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

So it's like well, that means that we can all be together to help each other. That's true. Right. Uh but I also feel like I have such a specific way that I like to pack away things and like organize my life that like sometimes it is just easier for me to stomach it and just realize it.

SPEAKER_04 6:37

I just saw a TikTok of it was like it was like type B girls moving out of an apartment, and this girl takes just the the shower caddy off of the like um shower head and then just puts it straight into her trunk with all the products in it.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

I was like, what's your problem? That is my biggest thing here. That I like I have chills. Like I literally chills. That's awful.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

That is awful.

SPEAKER_04 7:03

I saw that, I was like, Why why did you do that to yourself? You don't, you even like even just taking it and putting it into a cardboard box is better than do that. But she literally took it, and you know she didn't try it off either.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Like she literally just probably know she probably took a shower that morning, too. Yeah. That's sick.

SPEAKER_05 7:20

I have to say. Okay. Um boy. I have done that before. But not my shower caddy. It's just like, you know, my little like two drawer thing that's in our house. That's fine. That I just put it in the show.

SPEAKER_04 7:34

Because that itself is like storage, you know, like you have your things in there. Like that's that's fine. That's not as like um what's the as like criminal as the shower caddy and the loose shampoo and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Yeah, it's gonna be a whole thing. Like, wow. Very true.

SPEAKER_04 7:53

Anyways, it's really good. I was talking about this, but our podcast is like really killing me.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

That's so funny. I definitely am like the most type A person to ever exist. I'm like, I am. It's really bad. Type B could not be me.

SPEAKER_04 8:13

I you know, I've explained to you like my germ obsession with my bed. Like, you can't get under the covers unless you are head-to-toe completely clean, no outside clothes under the covers, and like no shoes on them. No shoes on them, and like I'm very specific about it. I literally rub my the bottom of my feet like a cricket before I get into my team. The hardwood floors, yeah. But like I'm so in that way, I'm very aware of like where my hands have been, and then especially if I'm gonna touch my face, I'm like, I need to wash my hands before I do that. So that's like very type A of me, but I'm type B in like ways of I'm going to leave laundry in a basket for two weeks and it's just gonna be there. That's what I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 8:58

What's the what's the in-between? Is it type C?

SPEAKER_00 9:00

I've heard that type C, but I also feel like it doesn't really exist. Yeah. Like you're either one or the other, but I mean sometimes you can be both. It's whenever you can. I'm definitely type A. But you know, anyways. Um I didn't share how I was. I'm I'm doing so I'm doing so good, you know? I like you said, the grind doesn't really actually I said that. Yeah, you didn't.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

And I agreed too, as if I haven't been laying in bed for 12 hours today. I was like, yes.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

Oh my god, you're so right. Oh my god. Help me with that. Um, the grind doesn't stop. It doesn't. Um, but I've really been loving, like, just being in my dance teacher bag has been really nice. Like I've been connecting with my kids a lot and we've been hanging out, and I've been teaching here and there, and everything like that. It's it's been really sweet to see them and everything. Um and other than that, I kind of just wake up at 12 p.m. and then I teach at like four, and then that's really about it. We've been doing a lot of like people people things though, which is really. I feel like during um like all of our shows and stuff, we don't really get the opportunity to like hang out with our friends and go out to dinner and go to a trampoline park, take a vacation. You know, like it's been so nice to kind of, you know, step away from the world of it all for a little bit. I definitely feel like I'm in a place right now where that feels very imperative. I need to like um sever the ties just for a second from who my dance Ian is to people Ian. And I just, you know, I need to do a little bit more um work on like what I want as a human, not as much as a dancer. Yeah. Because I know what I want as a dancer. I've been thinking about it since I was like literally seven years old. Like I know what I want to do. I just sometimes it can be easy to get caught in the the web of what your job is when it's so closely tied to who you are as an individual. Yeah. So I've been trying to work on that a little bit. Again, the grind never stops. I'm still a dance teacher, I'm still dancing, I'm doing but like I don't think that I could live if I wasn't dancing. Right, yeah. It's kind of like I'm a shark. If I stop women, I'm done. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 11:05

Actually, so true. I was thinking about this the other day. Like, I've never not known dance, you know? Like, there's like there were there was like a couple moments, like a few years ago, like when I graduated high school and I was like getting ready to like become a professional dancer or whatever. And I was like, I just kind of decided one day that this was gonna be my career. Like, do I really love it that much? And then I was thinking, I was imagining a world where I like took a year off and didn't dance at all. I was like, that's impossible. Like that's literally like no, like I've been like improving in my room since I was literally three. Like I wouldn't be able to help it if you told me, like, Athena, you can't dance at all in any way, shape, or form for a month, I would stab you.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

No, yeah, no, literally.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Wait, what's your problem? Why would you tell me that? So it's so weird how it's just like embedded in us, like as a person, you know?

SPEAKER_00 11:56

It is something that like you you do kind of need to make a decision about, right? Like, because it is, I mean, when you zoom out and you kind of solidify what that means for you, it's like this is the same way as people deciding they want to be a nurse. Right. They want to be a librarian, you gotta be a doctor, they wanna, you know what I mean? Like, it's a career path in itself, regardless of whether it's art or science or whatever. Yeah. Um, I definitely had a moment where I wasn't really sure if I wanted to become a dancer because I knew how unstable it can be sometimes as someone who craves constant stability and security. That was really hard for me to accept. But I first of all, it has gotten a lot easier. So if there's anyone out there who's kind of feeling that, don't worry, you'll be fine. But I like I remember a very distinct moment where I was like, I just gotta do it. Yeah, I just gotta pull the trigger and I just have to accept that this is what I want to do. Yeah, I need to leave all of the fears behind, I just need to kind of go for it because that's gonna be the only way that I can commit myself to it. Yeah. So but again, going back to my first point, you also cannot live, breathe, die, dance all the time because you do need to have that separation. Yeah, you know, it's it's really difficult to kind of figure that out.

SPEAKER_04 13:05

That's when like burnout happens, you know, is when you're just like only doing that all the time. It's like that's why that's why like all the like dance moms girls, like literally none of them dance anymore. There's like maybe four of them that still dance, and it's because they were so like like they didn't do anything else, you know, so they got burnt out by age 12.

SPEAKER_05 13:25

Right, you know, so you gotta have hobbies. It's true. Do we have any hobbies that we would like to share? I and like fun little quirks that we do on the side that don't involve Nancy.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

See, and that's the problem.

SPEAKER_04 13:44

I don't think the answer is I don't think I do either.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

I would say, like, if I had to choose one, actually I can kind of think of maybe two, but I really like I love music. I love talking about music, I love um understanding music, I love um what's the word I'm looking for? I just love to analyze it and I love to put it towards more of a scientific um expression because it is such a solidified art form that I just I love to listen to music. I love to talk about it, I love to ask my friends about it. I mean, when we were on vacation recently, um I literally was just like coming up with random stuff to ask. I was like, what's your favorite Organa Grande song? Like I love to hear other people's opinions. I'm so intrigued by the way that other people tick around the world. But um I would say that maybe, but it's that's not like too viable, you know.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

But it's still something you're like interested in. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

I would low key love to like be behind the scenes in some capacity. Like to be a producer or like a songwriter or like something in that kind of vein. Like I feel like that's I this is my problem. I have so many aspirations, but I feel like I can never really commit myself fully to them because I have so many other things that I am doing in my life all the time that I never really can build up the the courage or the motivation to actually invest myself in a hobby. You know what I mean? Yeah, that I feel like is something I've been struggling with for a really long time, and that's why I think what needs to happen is I need to like put dance on pause for just a moment and do some Ian work and kind of figure out what that means for me, then maybe I'll like take up knitting. You know what I mean? Like, maybe right. Possibilities are endless. That's what I'm saying, you know. Not that I want to get rid of dance forever, right? You know what I mean. Yeah, there's a little bit of um that kind of um dichotomy of wanting and needing. And I feel like what I need right now is to take a step back for just a second. But like you said, it's it's always in me. Yeah, it's always in me in me. Yeah, but I also really like fashion. I think that's another simple one that I can Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. Sure, yeah. I mean, they did say that they liked my outfit today.

SPEAKER_05 15:54

It is really.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

I actually am really proud of this outfit. I was like trying to pick it out last night, and I was looking at myself in the mirror, and I was like, something's just not right. And then I woke up the next morning and I went, wait, I'm eating. Like I just was like, I wasn't sure for a second, but I was like, you know what?

SPEAKER_04 16:09

This is Were you not like cold in like the convention center? Really? Was it hot in there?

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Oh there was like it was like really, it's the the Mountain Expo Center that's in Sandy. Um I don't know. So it's huge, it's giant, and like there is a little bit of like wind gusting into like the big expo halls. Um, but like other than that, like you're up and around, you're chasing children, you're screaming, you're jeering, you're it's you know, so I was he was at a dance competition within that. I was that has been part of my duties as a dance teacher. It's been it's been a lot, but you know, it also is so much fun. You know, like I mean, we talked about it last week, you know, how the dance competition. So it's been really nice to uh be with my kids, you know, because this is their last competition that they're doing before the recital. It's next weekend is their recital, so it's really exciting. Anyways, do you have any hobbies? Do you have any hobbies? Going back to your question.

SPEAKER_05 16:59

Can I say my cat moon?

SPEAKER_00 17:03

That is like that is a responsibility. You know what I mean? Like it's a hobby, it's a responsibility, it's an honor, it's a privilege. It's you know what I mean. She takes up a lot of your time. She does. Yeah. My cat moon.

SPEAKER_05 17:17

We have offer you in. We had this, so I was making a hinge profile one day.

SPEAKER_04 17:25

Which she got, which she had for not even 24 hours and already had like 300 plus likes on, by the way. I just want to say that.

SPEAKER_05 17:32

Anyways. But we were like thinking of like my prompts and like what I'm gonna do and stuff, and every single answer was my cat moon. My cat moon. It applied to everything. It did in everything, and I almost put that on all of my.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

Actually, I was playing Jackbox the other night and was your name.

SPEAKER_05 17:49

That was my name.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

I will never forgive that. That was so funny. My cat moon. That's really my cat.

SPEAKER_05 17:55

I'll fall for you, and I'll fall for you if you buy my. We'll get along really well with you. For my cat moon. My favorite hobby, petting my cat moon. Petting my cat moo. Exactly. Anyways, but she's so darling. Yeah. That, or I've been wanting to get back into like painting again. I like painted all last summer, and so I want to do that again this summer. And I think it'll be really fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

And the supplies is cheap. Like, we did a little paint night one time, and it was super. I was not very good. But that's okay. You know, it's about the expression. Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 18:27

That's good either. I just like yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Well, I wouldn't say that. Those little paintings that we have on our little like desk that's in the living room, those are cuteness. I love them. The little sunrise, maybe it's a sunset above the water. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_05 18:40

I can't think.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

Something to do with the sun. Right. Something like that.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Love that. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

That was for you.

SPEAKER_04 18:48

It's for me and Harry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:50

Right. Okay, Athena, your turn. What do you got?

SPEAKER_04 18:54

I really like I do like journaling. I love journaling, but I only like I only ever do it when I feel like I really like have a lot of feelings I need to get out. Right. And it is like such a good like release to just like write it. And it help it like helps you process those emotions to like put it all down on paper because I my mind is going 24-7 and I have 10 million thoughts all the time. Right. And like I literally was like working myself into a frenzy the other night. Like, I was like, or no, it was the morning, and I was laying in bed. I had been awake for probably an hour at that point, and then I decided that I didn't want to be awake yet.

SPEAKER_03 19:31

So I just like laid in bed with my eyes closed.

SPEAKER_04 19:33

Mind you, I think it was literally 11 a.m. Like it was time to get out of bed, but I was like, no, I'm not doing that. So I just sat laying there with my eyes closed, and then I like started like thinking, like, oh my god, like, what am I gonna do? This and then this, and then I have to buy tickets to go to New York so I can see these concerts. And I literally was like, and then I got up and I was like, I just need to get out of bed.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

Like I was like, I need to wake up.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

And then I did, I did my skincare, and then I got right back.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

But there's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Yeah. But um, so I like am constantly thinking about everything, so I just need to put it all out on paper, and it's really nice. And also, my journal isn't just like writing feelings down, it's also like if I ever want to make a list. There's a page in my journal dedicated to just a bunch of stickers of Harry Styles because I had them, and so I put them all down and then filled in like the little space.

SPEAKER_05 20:29

Right.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

I do I like paper and having a pen.

SPEAKER_05 20:34

Right.

SPEAKER_04 20:35

Yeah, like I love writing. I love writing. And I like my handwriting has gotten so bad since I'm not in school anymore and I'm not like needing to write all the time. My handwriting is actually atrocious, it's really bad. And like, so whenever I'll write my journal, I'm like gripping the pen, and I was like, you need to make it look good. No one else is looking at this. I don't know why, but whatever. I like journaling. And then there is the occasional, like the little diamond painting things. Yeah, I love again. Love that. I need to get a new one. The no one was really sweet. I loved him. Yeah, but that's about it. I really I feel like a lot of dancers don't really have hobbies because dancing our career and our hobby. Like it's there, it's a two-in-one, you know. That's why when like whenever people who aren't dancers ask me, like, oh, do you have any hobbies? And I'm like, um, I mean, I dance, but that's my job. So and they're like, that's a hobby. Um it's not. That it's my job. Like, it's like my income, it's my career. Like, it is not a hobby. Like, trust me. Yeah, you don't put this much like time and effort and blood, sweat, and tears into a hobby. Right. You know, like I cannot compare diamond paintings and dance.

SPEAKER_05 21:49

Like, do you know what I also want to get into the summer? Is bedazzling random stuff.

SPEAKER_04 21:54

Yes, oh my god, I love bedazzling. That's lovely. I think it's because growing up. The studio owner at my dance studio, every costume was rhinestoned. Like it did not matter. Every single costume was rhineston. And so then, like, my mom hated it. So then she just passed the like job off to me, and I loved it. So I love rhinestoning things. I literally I went to see Niall Horn like two summers ago and I rhinestoned a tube top to be like his album cover.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Yay.

SPEAKER_04 22:23

And I put so much work into it.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

That's fears.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

Because it's fun. I just love, I just love sitting there. Oh, it's kind of like journaling. I just sitting there with something in my hand and then watching myself do whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

There are a lot of people like that where like sometimes hobbies are just like things you do to pass the time. Right. Yeah. I think you are very similar in that um aspect because like you love to have a show on, you love to just be doing something, and you love to just, you know, like zone out and completely like lose yourself in whatever you're doing. Yeah. And I think that is, I have a hard time doing that because I feel like if I'm doing something that's not taking up like a hundred percent of my productivity or my brain power, then I'm gonna just waste time. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think I just need to. Let it go. My dad is the same way. Like all while I was growing up, he would stand to eat dinner in case he would need to be up and do something. Like that, like I'm not even careful. Dad's like, no, it's true. It's I'm the same way. Just in case. Just in case. Like you never know. I get it.

SPEAKER_04 23:21

Yeah, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

It's true. It's true.

SPEAKER_04 23:24

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Yeah. Well, that was a good question, Natalie. That was a good question. You know?

SPEAKER_05 23:30

Get like, you know the coloring books that they sell on TikTok shop? And like I'm buying one, and there's one that's like naughty cats, and it's like cats being naughty all over the club. And I want to buy it for me and Lily for our new color together because I think it's so funny. It's so cute. Just like random little like things, right? Just to color is so fun.

SPEAKER_04 23:54

I actually have one, and I got it at a white elephant, and it's um like clean curse words. So it's like it's like fit, it's like H E double hockey sticks, you know?

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Like it's just full of that. Wait, that's cute.

SPEAKER_04 24:07

Yeah, that's cute.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Yeah. I'll get back to you. I'll let you know how my hobby hunting goes. Have fun. Yeah, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04 24:14

You're gonna pull up with like the most obscure hobby ever. I already know.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

I mean little chips and bottles.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:21

If it makes you happy, like how many people do that? I don't know. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

Anyways, we can't get on that. Okay. Um, well, I feel like now that we've kind of warmed the waters a little bit. Right. We went on vacation together, which was a lot of fun. That was super sweet. Because again, we never really get to like do anything. Yeah. And that was my one excuse to be like, all right, I'm doing nothing.

SPEAKER_04 24:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

There really wasn't a whole lot for us to do anyways. So we just kind of like laid out in the sun, got in the hot tub, played some games.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

Ian got really sunburnt. But I will say it like faded into a nice tan. Like you do, you do look good. But he was he was a lost it was bad. It was really painful.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

So painful. Yeah, it was really painful. And I haven't gotten sunburnt in like probably 10 years. Like that was the first time that it's happened to me in a long time. And I'm low-key, like, really peeling right now. You can see it like a little curve right here. My back, she was peeling the jet skin off my back last time.

SPEAKER_04 25:19

I heard that. I heard that whole thing happen.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

She was like, wait, can I do it? I was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:24

He stopped me because he's like, wait, no, it hurts. And I said, No, it doesn't. Let me keep going.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

Exposing the skin was really difficult. But it stopped really satisfying.

SPEAKER_05 25:33

It was like it was definitely gross for a second. I was like, wait, this is actually so gross. Remember when Kennedy peeled Nick's sunburn?

SPEAKER_01 25:40

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:43

Two people on our company, by the way. Nick got really, really sunburnt during our spring shows. And then one day in the green room, Kennedy just started peeling the sunburn off of him. She was like, wait, can I do it? And he was like, Yeah, I guess. And then she came back all proud. She was like, I let Nick just let me peel his sunburn. I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Yummy.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

And you know, I'm glad that they were at a point in their friendship where that could be. Right.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

I know I would have to, like, I'm like locked in with Natalie. I'm like, you, I will let you do it. No one else can do it.

SPEAKER_04 26:13

That's a new level. That's a new level.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

That happens when you get the three of us together. And we kind of went into this episode, like, not really with anything planned. We were just kind of like, this is like the season finale. Like, let's just get together one more time. We'll key a little bit and we'll see where this goes. Which, like, I I do want to say really quickly, like, I'm so appreciative for all the people that watch our podcast. Like, it we don't always get to see it because like numbers can be misconstrued and there can be things, whatever, whatever. But like, I've had so many people come up to me be like, no, like, I listen to the podcast and I love it.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

Like, I love you guys. Yeah. My mom texted me today and was like, um, she was like, Oh, like, wow, I learned a lot of things about your competition experience that I had no idea. And I was like, like, what? And then she was just going down the list of like like she didn't know how much I loved competition because the she was like my punching bag the entire weekend. Like she could breathe wrong and I'd be like, Mom, stop! Right. So she had no idea that like I loved it as much as I did. But yeah, so people do actually like listen and resonate with some of the things we say.

SPEAKER_05 27:15

Okay. So we were in Bear Lake all last weekend, and it was so fun. And it was at my family's condo, and it was very secluded, no one else was there, which is so nice because usually, oh my gosh. Wow. This is sage. We haven't introduced her, she's our podcast, she's so sweet. But yeah, Bear Lake was so fun and so it was it was so chill.

SPEAKER_04 27:37

Yeah, very relaxing. We went over so many movies.

SPEAKER_05 27:40

We watched we had movie marathon almost every single night.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

We watched two the last night. Yeah. That was I me sitting down and watching two movies. That's crazy. That is unheard of. Because it was just time. We really don't.

SPEAKER_04 27:54

Hello!

SPEAKER_00 27:55

She has never been this active.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

No, she said it's the last episode. I gotta go out with a bear. She's like, I gotta make a good opinion. Yeah, something on my lap.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

Um yeah, Bear Lake was great. It was super cute. And then, I mean, other than that, we've kind of just been like hanging out, and we're trying to like plan to do some like fun things, just the three of us over the next two days. Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

We need to me and Nat were talking about how we want to see the Michael Jackson movie again. So we can go again on Tuesday, but like late, so there aren't a bunch of children there. Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

Which that would work out better for me because I think I have to teach. Yeah. So that is perfect.

SPEAKER_04 28:28

I need to see it again. And I need to, I need to watch it again so I can like see hear the prince comment that I didn't get to hear because the little boy like tried to change. There was a little boy. Me and Matt, because the theater was so packed, we had to sit in like the handicapped seat, like the row. And I was on the very end, and there was this little boy walking from behind us, and he fell down the stairs and then grabbed the back of my seat for stability, but he like pulled it down. So I'm watching the movie, and I just went, boom! And I was like, oh my god. And he came up and he was like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I was like, it's okay, but I missed like I think he made a shady comment about Prince, and I missed it because a little boy. That movie was so good. I like I love Michael Jackson because he was so well. He really like did make such an impact, honestly. No, truly. And he was his like style of dance is like completely like unrecreatable, you know. Like he'll only be he will be the only one to ever like move that way. Right. But I will say, like, Jafar did an amazing job. Like he's so good.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah, anyways. And it's so beautiful that it ties into what our lives are. Exactly, like dance. He's everywhere. Michael Jackson will be everywhere everywhere. Everywhere forever.

SPEAKER_04 29:46

No one will ever, no one will ever reach that level of fame. It's like impossible.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I actually was talking to my mom about it on the phone earlier today. I said that like you guys are listening to Michael Jackson non-stop. But I haven't seen it yet. I'm so glad that we're planning to go now.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

See that girl.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

I can't stop. I need to stop. Am I gonna get copyright strike? That's not how that works.

SPEAKER_04 30:08

Are you okay? I can't stop. All right. So good. But like thriller. Right. Thriller lies in. It does, it does.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

It's everywhere. That's the whole reason that we have the show, truly.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Oh my god, true. I oh my god. When we were watching the movie, it was like the thriller scene, and like they were filming the day, or like it was the first time that the song played the music video. Yeah, and then I looked at Nat and I was like, and that's how Odyssey Dance Theater was born.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

It's true. So funny. It's true. Girl saw that, and he was like, Yep, need. Yep, I'm gonna do that. Wait, wait, wait, guys. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:42

He got out his pen and paper and he said, I've got it.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

As it so often does. All right, guys. Well, should we kind of talk about like what's next for us? We've been hinting at it all episode. I feel like we should probably start talking about what's going on. So, do you want me to start?

SPEAKER_05 30:57

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

I'll go. So um we finished out our season with Odyssey. I've just been teaching and do my thing, whatever. Um I am actually leaving like in like a week and a half. Like it's coming up, it's coming up soon. Um, our lease that we all have together ends um at the end of May. So we're all kind of like moving out within that span of time from now up until then. And um I'm going back home to Pennsylvania where I'm from originally. And I'm gonna see my family, I'm gonna hang out for a little bit, I'm gonna enjoy being unemployed and like maybe find a hobby like we're talking about. Um But I I mean, other than that, like I said, I I kind of just wanted to like take a take a step back for a second because after I um well when I got to college, like it was like constant dancing, like non-stop all the time. Lily is nodding her head, she agrees. And then like as soon as I graduated, I was so fortunate enough, obviously, to book Odyssey. So I've been doing that for the past two years. Yeah, you know. I've also like done some other professional stuff here and there that I I feel like I had a bit of a um a harsh transition into the world of professional dancing, that I like it just kind of been like a whirlwind and it just kind of happened to me all at once, which obviously I'm very grateful for. Like I said, I've been as fortunate as I am to be able to dance and do all the things that I love. Um but I think I'm I'm just really excited to sit down for a moment and then um I'm working on some other teaching gigs and stuff like that just to kind of keep the income flown a little bit. I know, uh, I know. And then, you know, my sister's gonna have a baby. Uh-huh and be an uncle, which is really exciting. And yeah. You know, it's been a while since I know. She literally like wrapped around my head like you're asked. They're attacking! It was really scary. But that's kind of really my plan. I don't my plan is that I don't really have a plan. Yeah, that's okay. And if you know anything about me, you know that my life is in shambles right now. Because I hate when I don't have a plan and I don't know what to expect. But I I'm trying to, it's like a it's like an exposure therapy exercise. And I'm like really trying to acclimate myself to being okay to be steady for a second. Yeah. I don't constantly need to be on the go if you allow me to get really vulnerable. But um, that's kind of my plan as of right now. I'm hoping to like make a move at some point. I might be a supervisor at a park. My mom called me the other day. Shout out mom. I know that she watches and she loves when I talk about her. Um my mom called me the other morning while I was asleep, and she was like blowing up my phone. Oh my god. Sending me all this stuff, whatever. And I woke up and I called her at probably 12 o'clock, and I was like, hey girl, what's up? And she was like, So, like, your dad probably just got you a job, so like you need to send an email in your resume, like right now. And I was like, Okay, totally. So I decided breakfast. I got ready real quick, and I was just like for like an hour, like typing up this really nice cover letter and sending in my resume. It's a park that I have worked at before, actually. When I was younger, I worked at um the park that's in my town that I grew up in. Very, very small, very, very small. And um, I worked in the shack, which was just this little like wooden tiny little house where we would run the mini golf course that was at the park, and then I would also go up and I'd run the carousel. That's like uh historic. It's I think it was built like in like 1892 or something like that. It's it's a really old. Um, but so I did that for like three summers consecutively. And then my mom saw that they were having like the borough of where I'm from posted the job posting, and she was like, Well, that'd be perfect. So that might be what happens to me. There you go. I do, am I qualified? I probably shouldn't say that.

SPEAKER_04 34:36

They watched this and they're like, How could you?

SPEAKER_00 34:39

How could you? Um, I think that I'm pretty qualified to supervise, we'll see. But I mean, like teaching, supervising, yeah, okay. You supervise your children at all. Yeah. So I don't know, we'll see. But that's kind of that's where I'm at right now, guys. That's good. And I'm driving across the country in four days with my lovely mother, and we're gonna see how it goes. Oh, it's gonna take four days. Four days. It's gonna take four days. Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah. So that's pretty that's pretty much it, I think.

SPEAKER_04 35:09

Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Anyone else? Who wants to go next?

SPEAKER_04 35:14

You go. Okay, I'll go.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

You go. Um I booked another show at the Hale this summer. Yay! So I'm super excited for that. It's Joseph and the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Work. And um I got a featured dancer role. Actually, exactly. I get a whole little number to myself.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

A whole little number. Love that.

SPEAKER_05 35:42

But we start rehearsals actually, I think next Friday. Or two Fridays. Two Fridays. So two weeks from today. Wow. So getting ready for that. That's so exciting. I'm excited. Yeah. And then I'll be working at a restaurant all summer too, which will be fun. But I've already done that. I've already worked at a restaurant. And I was a busser, and it was kind of crazy. But now I'm a host. So I'm like, okay, it's a little chill.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Different ball game.

SPEAKER_05 36:13

Yeah. Just a little extra money. Cause you know, dancing can't make you so much unless you're booked booked. It's true. But um, yeah, I'm excited for Joseph. I think it'll be really cool. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

So you get like the best of both worlds, too. Like you get to, you know, have your normal person job and then you also can still be like a performer at night. Yeah. That's really fun.

SPEAKER_05 36:33

Yeah, I'm excited. It'll be good.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Yeah. And then and you're moving out.

SPEAKER_05 36:37

I'm moving out. I'm moving in with Lily. Yay! And there's gonna be three cats in the house. And I'm so excited. That is beautiful. Because Mooney has been bored out of her mind. Like I try to play with her and she's like, girl, I just I can't. Yay, right. And I'm like, girl, you'll have friends soon. Don't you worry. And so it's gonna be so so much easier on mommy and me and Mooney. So yeah, I'm excited for that. Yeah. It'll be fun. Yeah. We have a pool, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

I'm gonna be at the pool all day long. Oh my god, guys, when I called my dad for my birthday, he said that, like, for his birthday, not my birthday. He said that he was thinking about getting a pool. Wow. Which is huge because I'm from Florida and growing up living in Florida and not having a pool. Crazy. Literally, literally insane. And me and my mom were like begging him for some for my entire life. Let's get a pool, let's get a pool. And he's always like, no, we need to do this first. And then he calls me randomly. Well, I called him because it was his birthday, actually. He calls me specifically to tell me we're getting a pool. No, let me shut up. Anyway, I called him and he was like, I'm thinking about getting a pool. And I was like, Are you serious? How soon is this happening?

SPEAKER_00 37:55

Right.

SPEAKER_04 37:56

Is it gonna happen by the time that I am back for you pick it out? I already know that like it's gonna happen when I'm like moved out, moved out, and like not really coming home. Right. Whatever. Right. It's fine. Anyways, are you done? I just kind of took over.

SPEAKER_05 38:13

Yeah, I'm done. I gotta do it. That's my summer, it's nothing crazy. Yeah. Yeah. And then hopefully book another show right after Joseph.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

And that's it. There you go. We will see. We will see. Wishing you luck. We shall see.

SPEAKER_04 38:27

Okay. Now it's my turn. Um well I'm going home. I'm going back to Florida. I also will be doing a four-day drive across the country with my mom. Um, and that's in I feel like two weeks. Ish, yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I'm just going back to Florida for the summer, and I think I'm gonna be really, really brave, and I think I'm gonna try and get a normal person job.

unknown 38:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 38:53

But I don't know, I don't know, guys. Like, don't like, don't take my word for it. Like, I don't know. Like in a in an ideal, in an ideal world, I would like um I would finesse some things with like my studios in Florida and be like, let me teach, and I'm gonna do a lot of privates and like maybe some choreo and stuff like that, and like save up that money. Yeah. But like that's what that would be like ideal, because then I wouldn't have to get a normal person job. I don't really know. That's not really set in stone. So I'm like thinking because I've been in my hot Pilates bag. I'm thinking of if I could get a job as like not a teacher, oh god, I'm not interested in that like at like a studio, like like a hot works or something, so that I can get like free classes for the summer and stuff like that. Right. That would be really nice. But I don't know. I think because I want to save up money so that I can like go be a big girl and like go do things and stuff like that. So I don't know, but that's really my summer. I'm just gonna like try and train a lot and like get back in with Candace because I know she'll kick my butt. Um and just yeah, it's really all it is. I don't really have a plan like you. I'm just kind of going back home and like resetting and like reworking myself, you know, and then we'll see what happens from there. But maybe, maybe a normal person job. The last time I had like a normal people job was when I worked at a honey big ham when I was 17.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

And we've all heard that story.

SPEAKER_04 40:18

That was a nightmare. Yeah, that was a nightmare. Because imagine the turkey truck getting set on fire on Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

That's like one of my favorite stories, literally.

SPEAKER_04 40:31

Genuinely what happened to us. It was Thanksgiving Day, and our truck delivering all of our food, turkeys, hands, everything, caught on fire. And so we didn't have anything for them. We only had all of the leftover stuff that we were just handing out, and then by the time we it hit like it hit like 11 a.m. And I had been there since like six. It was 11 a.m. and we had nothing left. Nightmare, nightmare. I literally I will never work in food service again because of that. Like people don't play about their food. And I just I am too stress, I am too much of an anxious, like stressed out person to be able to deal with someone yelling at me because like their steak wasn't cooked medium well.

SPEAKER_05 41:11

I'm like, no, I'm like actually. It's weird about that at the restaurant. You'll just be you're a host though, so you shouldn't have to really do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I bring them their waters and like drinks.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

True, true. Hopefully, you'll just be delivering compliments to the chef.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

Yeah. Yes, yeah, right. And that's all we need, you know. My compliments to the chef.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

My compliments to the chef. Um, that's wonderful. I really do hope that you uh b build up the courage to get a normal person job. If you feel like that could be really good. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 41:45

I guess like three classes, like I could do that this summer too. Yeah, that's a dream scenario, like if that worked out for me, you know. Like that would kind of be the or even just like working, like I would work at a gym. I would I work out at the gym? No. But I would like be the front desk, but that's kind of a dream. Like, you know, to just like be the receptionist. Yeah, I can do that. Yeah, you know, like I can like it was nice when I just like me working at a tanning salon and I am as pale as a ghost.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

I'm like, yes, girl, your tan looks so good.

SPEAKER_04 42:14

So I think you could go a little bit darker.

SPEAKER_05 42:17

And he's like, what do you know?

SPEAKER_04 42:20

I'm like, no, no, no, you don't get it.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

That's actually like a really funny bit though, to like me working at like Victoria's Secret. Oh my god. You know what I mean.

SPEAKER_04 42:28

That just reminded me, the Victoria's Secret in my mall in Pensacola. When I was in like seventh grade, there was a guy that worked there. And to this day, I don't think like his whole thing was like that he was gay and he was like for the girls. And like there were a bunch of girls at my dance studio that were like obsessed with him and like would take pictures with him because they're like, oh my god, the gay guy that works the Victoria's Secret. And I was like, okay. But like Loki, like, I remember seeing pictures of him and being like, I don't think he's gay. Like, I think he's just like a weirdo. I don't know. Like, I think he was just trying to like look at women. Like, oh my gosh. I also could be just be making this up. Either way, you spin it, it was weird. Yeah, yeah. Like, there's nothing wrong with like a man working in the Victoria's Secret, but like this is like it was like his whole thing that he was like gay.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

And he was like, Yes, girl, I look so good on you.

SPEAKER_04 43:20

That's gonna be me at the dancing salon. Of course. Somebody walks out way too dark, and I'm like, oh my god, yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 43:29

Wow. Okay. That's beautiful. I love it. I'm glad we sold that.

SPEAKER_05 43:34

Have you guys seen um Bring It On? I have tears in my eyes already. But there is a there is a guy, cheerleader, on the team, and he's acts gay for like all three movies, then at the end he's like, I'm not gay. I just you guys just started changing in front of me and I never corrected you.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

Whoa, whoa I'm like, you know what? I don't even know if I've ever seen any of the other ones. I think I've only seen the first one.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

I have never seen any of them. Yeah. They're good. I like them. I'm really bad about watching like the classics. You know, like I've never seen Devil Wars Prada. And I've never, like, there's just so many movies that I just haven't seen.

SPEAKER_05 44:12

Have you seen Step Up though?

SPEAKER_04 44:14

No. And I've never even I've never watched any of the dance movies.

unknown 44:18

Dirty Dancing?

SPEAKER_04 44:20

I have seen Dirty Dancing. I haven't seen that one. I've seen Dirty Dancing.

unknown 44:24

That's my favorite movie. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 44:25

I've seen Dirty Dancing because it's Candice's favorite movie, and she just like put it on one day when I was like at her house.

SPEAKER_05 44:31

See, I need them to remake Step Up so I can be in it. Well they already in it. Oh my god. Holy frick.

SPEAKER_04 44:38

See, this is why I need to get my I need to get myself to LA because like I wanted to be an extra in the Michael Jackson movie so bad. Imagine being like a thriller zombie in the Michael Jackson movie. Literally. I also just learned that they clap with the back of their hands. You know the part where they go, they clap with the back of their hands. They don't clap this way. Why? Yes. I don't know. That's so interesting. Because MJ was always doing something different. He was always reinventing the way.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

Uh-huh. So inventive. But yeah. Wow, that's so interesting.

SPEAKER_05 45:09

I know that kind of hurts.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 45:11

I mean, like, don't wear rings while you do it, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

Zombies cannot wear rings. No, they can't. Wow. Wow, guys. I almost think. Like, that's kind of the wrap-up.

SPEAKER_04 45:24

It's kind of a whole lot of nothing, but.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

Just a little bit, but it's okay. You know, it was nice to kind of get together one last time. As if we don't see each other all the time. Get together one last time and just kind of like put a period on it. Yeah. We're hoping that we're going to be able to start this up again next season. Unfortunately, if you can probably infer, Avina and I's plans are not really to come back for another season. So we're going to try and find some new hosts. Um, we're gonna hold some auditions, we're gonna see what happens. Yes. And we're gonna see what goes on. But I mean, I I trust that Lily and Carson have the podcast. Yeah. I think whoever steps up to the plate to be a host is going to be very wonderful. I'm looking forward to seeing who it is. Because I love a podcast and I won't always listen to a podcast. So true.

SPEAKER_04 46:08

And I, one thing about me is I love being nosy.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

Of course.

SPEAKER_04 46:13

So, like, especially like with things like from my past, like things that I've moved on from. I always love to check back in and be like, so what's going on? Right. You know, I will be tuning in because I want to hear everything that's happening. And then I will be texting Lily. I'm like, okay, so who was annoying this week? Like, yeah, what's going on this week?

SPEAKER_00 46:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:34

What happened in front of I want I want like a full like who's Frank is who? Oh my god, a Frank partner. That's huge.

SPEAKER_05 46:43

Who's Cindy Lou who? Oh my god, it's Cindy Lou. Cindy Lou.

unknown 46:53

It's in the grinch.

SPEAKER_01 46:55

Oh my gosh. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 46:57

If Carson doesn't come back, they just have to cut it. They do. There's there, he no one will ever like be able to do the Grinch that he like he did. Yeah. Cindy Lou, who like is pretty like it's like just get like a tiny little girl that can like put her leg next to her head. It's not that hard to find, but like the grin, no one will ever be able to do that the way that Carson did. Like he was so good.

SPEAKER_00 47:16

It's true.

SPEAKER_04 47:17

But yeah, I am very curious. I know.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

It is definitely really weird. That to me feels like really strange to do because this has been our live or our lives for so long. That like thinking about and wondering, being curious about like what it is when we've moved on from it, like that's kind of been something that I've been traveling with just a little bit. It's it's odd to think that life moves on without you. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah. Not to get too like morbid or exercise or anything, but it's something that I've been thinking about a lot lately because like I have so much love for this company, and I'm so proud of all the work that we've all done on it. And it really has shown me um so many great things about like my life and dance and everyone around me and whatever that um the fact that it's going to continue and grow like brings me so much joy. Like I I want this company to continue on forever. Yeah, and like it's just it's done so many wonderful things for so many people and it's just you know it's the same way like when I graduated from college, like that was definitely a moment where I had that too. Like there are gonna be people who graduate in like 2065. You know what I mean? Like and it's gonna get it. Let's not put all of our eggs in any baskets just yet. But uh, like it's still it's such a it's it's such a strange thing to kind of think about. Yeah, right. Yeah. I do like, I mean, same thing with the pod, like it will continue on, most likely, you know. But we were the founders. That's what matters. We're the OGs. We have to come back somehow. We have to come back. Oh, we will zoom moment. Right, right. Yeah. All right. Well, is that it, everyone? I know. Any last remarks from either of you? I kind of shared my piece, but you know.

SPEAKER_04 48:54

I mean, I don't know. Like you said, it's like it's like bittersweet. Yeah. Because obviously, like we can't like stay in this one place forever, you know? Like, so you like you have to move on, like at some point, but it's still like, you know, I like look back and I'm like really happy. Right. You know.

SPEAKER_00 49:13

It was definitely a good chapter that I feel like that's how I kind of really like to think about my life, like specific chapters in a way that it served me at that moment in time. Yeah. I feel like if you sit in something for too long, then like it's not gonna serve you anymore. Yeah, you sit in the familiarity, you get used to your surroundings and everything like that. That I feel like the the past two years of being on this company has really shown me a lot about myself, and I think I'm ready to kind of, you know, flip the page and move on to whatever is next.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

And you know, I don't really know, but yeah, I'm not a person that can be in one place for too long, you know. Like because we not to bring him back up, but we saw the Michael Jackson movie. I was like, not to bring him up again. I was like, oh like thriller, like they're doing MJ next season. Like, uh, like I wonder, like, what if I what if I did just come back? I was like, no, right, I just because I just I do love it so much, you know. But I'm like, I I want to make the most out of like my 20s as possible. Like I want to do as much as I possibly can. So I'm like, I just need to, I leave, I need to leave it on a good note because I know the longer that I stay here, the more like I it'll I'll start to see it as a more negative thing because I like I know I spent too much time here, so I'm like, I need to just leave it where it is and move on. Uh-huh. No, that's gonna be so hard to do too. It really is, especially because I do love this company just like literally with my whole entire heart, and like it's so amazing, but yeah, it's gotta put it to rest. Uh-huh. And like, like we talked about, like it will move on without us. It will, it will, it will, and that is beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 50:43

It is, uh, it's so beautiful. Yeah. Natalie. Do you have anything you want to say? Wrap it up.

SPEAKER_05 50:48

Uh, I don't know. You guys kind of said it all. It's just like, yeah, Odyssey has just been such a huge part of all of our lives, even just for the small amount of two years that we were on it, like it was our whole entire life. Uh-huh. Yeah. And it was just like so inspiring. Like, in every single show, like it's so cool how Daryl puts everything together and like brings these people in and like to work together. Yeah. And I just loved how we're all like from different places. Yeah. Come from something else. Yeah. And like that brought us together. It's like so. Right. Yeah. Like, what if like we didn't do Odyssey? We would not be best friends. Right. It's true. We didn't know each other. That is like crazy.

SPEAKER_00 51:32

I almost didn't come to the audition.

SPEAKER_05 51:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

I literally did not go. Yeah. And you wouldn't have gotten here if it wasn't for Lily making that poster. And I wouldn't have been here.

SPEAKER_04 51:39

I literally didn't do that Instagram post. Like, it's true. Like it is.

SPEAKER_00 51:44

It really is so nice that the work of it all transcends so much more of what it actually means for us. Right. Yeah. Like it it has shown us such a sense of community. And it's shown us how we can integrate ourselves into a place that we might not be familiar with. And like Ivina and I moved to your autoimmune. We like didn't know anyone. Yeah. We just kind of were hoping for the best. And now like I've made like lifelong friends that I wouldn't trade those memories for like anything. Yeah. Like it's just that's how it goes. And it's part of saying goodbye. You know? Yeah. So with that, goodbye.

SPEAKER_04 52:19

Goodbye. Thanks so much for watching. We really appreciate you guys. We love you.

SPEAKER_00 52:23

We'll see you at some point soon.

SPEAKER_04 52:25

Bye bye.