Abby’s Federal FRAUD Indictment Finally Hits Dance Moms... And The Show Was Never The Same | Back To The Barre

Back to the Barre

Christy and Kelly dissect a pivotal Dance Moms episode where Abby Lee Miller's federal fraud indictment becomes public, fundamentally shifting

Key takeaways

• Abby faces up to $5 million in fines across 20 counts of concealing assets and fraud
• Melissa Gigel breaks from her passive role, directly challenging Abby's authority over Mackenzie's training

Main topics

• Federal fraud indictment and legal fallout
• Mother-teacher power struggles

Notable quotes

"Abby is the queen of double standards."

Conclusion

This episode serves as a turning point where off-screen legal turmoil dire

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) Baby, let's just dance, dance Let's just dance, Speaker 1 (0:03) baby I just wanna dance, dance, dance, dance Can you feel it? Speaker 1 (0:22) Hello, little bitchettes. Welcome back to the bar. It's bitch number one, Christy. Bitch number two, Kelly. Oh, me or mom. That's all right. Look, I mean, I was like, okay, we're going to do this. And then I'm sitting here getting lost reading the field notes before we begin because, like, I need to know what's happening. Because this is the episode we find out that there are pending legal charges. So I'm very... Yeah. Yeah. This is a juicy one. I Speaker 2 (0:59) might like this episode. Speaker 1 (1:03) Meanwhile, I thought way back when, I thought Stomp the Yard was about this. Meanwhile, it was about you. Speaker 2 (1:11) It was? Speaker 1 (1:12) Yes, when Paige filed her, like, and I'm using that loosely. Oh, my God, yes. When Paige filed her $5 million lawsuit or whatever, everyone thinks you're rich from PS. Yeah. Yeah, mm-hmm. That's Stomp the Yard. I always thought this was Stomp the Yard. What little do I know? Yeah, I Speaker 2 (1:30) would have thought that, too. Mm Speaker 1 (1:31) -mm, no. They would have just held on a little tighter for a little longer. They had way better legal shit coming. Speaker 2 (1:39) Yes. Speaker 1 (1:39) Juicier. So this I was looking at. So this was filmed October 14th through the 17th, 2015. So... I was trying to remember. I mean, maybe we should talk about this when we get to that part. But I was trying to remember where I was and what I was doing at that time. Because obviously, we heard the news. Are Speaker 2 (2:04) you going to be asking me that? Speaker 1 (2:07) No, no, no. I'm going to ask you it in a different way that you might remember. Okay. But before we do that, we are, let's see. Oh, I think when this airs. We will be the week out after Connecticut and New York. So make sure if you're in, oh, I don't remember all the other cities. Make sure, go on, where were all the other cities we were going to? Speaker 2 (2:31) Atlanta, Speaker 1 (2:34) Toronto. Oh, I can't remember. Kelly, where are we going? I think I found them. I read notes. Yes. Speaker 2 (2:42) Okay, Atlanta, November 12th. St. Louis, November 13th. Columbus November 19th, Toronto November 20th, and New Orleans December Speaker 1 (2:51) 4th. Come on see us! How about I had that? I know. I'm very impressed. I slept today. Mm-hmm. Speaker 1 (3:01) All right. Are you drinking anything? Speaker 2 (3:04) A Baroni. Speaker 1 (3:06) Oh. Oh, and this little thing. Somebody brought those. Yeah. Did you ever end up doing all your stickers on your laptop? Not Speaker 2 (3:18) yet. Speaker 1 (3:18) Okay. I still Speaker 2 (3:19) have Speaker 1 (3:19) a Speaker 2 (3:19) couple to collect. I get them from mom. Speaker 2 (3:28) gosh, I don't know, some company I order clothes from sends me them. And I'm saving those and I have a few more coming. So I don't want to like stick them on and then I'll take them off. Speaker 1 (3:39) You ordered stickers? Speaker 2 (3:41) No, I ordered clothes. Oh. They send you clothes. They put a little sticker in there. Speaker 1 (3:46) I got to. I was like, are they Lisa Frank? Remember Lisa Frank stickers? The bright ones? No. I don't. Can't remember. Scratch and sniff. Speaker 2 (3:58) No, it's a clothing company. Speaker 1 (4:00) Kelly, I'm fucking with you. I'm saying like the ones that we had when we were little. I Speaker 2 (4:04) liked Scratch and Sniff. Speaker 1 (4:05) Everybody did. I love those. Okay, so wait. Before we get into it, though, did you collect stickers? I feel like our... Yes, so did I. Did Carrie? Speaker 1 (4:17) Okay. What kind of sticker collector were you? Did you put them in a book? Yes. Did you stick them in a book? Like, you took them off and stuck them? I could not commit to sticking a sticker anywhere. I kept them on the sheets. Speaker 2 (4:31) Well, I also did... Speaker 1 (4:35) Like Speaker 2 (4:35) a Speaker 1 (4:35) folder. You Speaker 2 (4:36) could slide them in the. Yes. Speaker 1 (4:38) That's what I did. Yep. Yeah. I Speaker 2 (4:41) did that too. And Speaker 1 (4:42) like if somebody wanted to trade a sticker. One Speaker 2 (4:44) that I could trade. Uh Speaker 1 (4:46) -huh. Speaker 2 (4:47) And you smell and use. And ones where I wasn't allowed to. Why Speaker 1 (4:52) are we so craft coded the exact same? Because that is exactly. That was exactly my strategy. I was like, these ones are mine. And I'm going to use these ones to leverage to get the ones I want. Speaker 2 (5:08) Voila. And I'm going to use these to trade. Speaker 1 (5:10) Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. Oh, God. Remind me when we're done. I am making my Halloween costume and I need... You keep forgetting. I know. I'll just tell you and then we can get into the episode. So I need to do like... You know how people will do like an arm bracelet, but it's like wrapped? Yeah. I need to do that. But I'm doing leafs around it because I'm being Poison Ivy. Like, Steven's being Batman. Like, we have other friends that are coming that are being superheroes. Anyway, I'm being Poison Ivy. So I need that to wrap. So I don't know if I just buy, like, a cheap bracelet and just cover it. But the other thing... And Speaker 2 (5:50) that would be the easiest. Yeah. But you could always just get, like, a wire. Yes. A gauge wire and wrap it. Speaker 1 (5:58) But the problem with that is that it's going to... Like, I would have to... fix the end so it doesn't scratch me and that you know what i mean like all of that so i'm like yeah do i just do a bracelet and i'm like yeah i'll see if you have any ideas that's kind of what mine was the other thing is i need a garter but i don't want it to look like a garter belt i almost want it to look the same buy Speaker 2 (6:17) that thing like a cheap gold one or whatever spray paint it green and then Speaker 1 (6:25) Do my leaves. The leaves Speaker 2 (6:26) and the stoning on that. Speaker 1 (6:28) Yeah. Speaker 2 (6:29) Like cover it with like a fabric or something. Speaker 1 (6:31) Yeah. And so for the garter, I want to do something similar, but I don't want it to look like a wedding garter. I just want to wrap, like I want it to look like a vine around my leg. Like the bracelet. Yeah. And that's not as easy. I'll Speaker 2 (6:47) have to go back and look at what I did. Brooke did a dance like that and had it wrapping down her leg. I'll have to look and see how Speaker 1 (6:58) I, like, what it was. Speaker 2 (7:00) Perfect. Speaker 1 (7:01) Because whatever it is, it stayed and it didn't pinch her. So that's exactly what I need. Okay, let me know. I knew you would know. Great. Thank you. Thank you for your service. You Speaker 2 (7:09) could always wear, like... even if you just did the one leg, wear like a tight. Yeah, and then just do it on the tights. And you could just sew it on the tights. Speaker 1 (7:19) Yeah. Speaker 2 (7:20) The fabric. I could do that. Going around your leg and coming up and then stone and glue the leaves on. Speaker 1 (7:29) Yeah, I might do that. Now, I will say, and I'm going to say this, and you're going to give me shit for this. For this costume, because I did it with my Marie Antoinette costume, I like wearing nude fishnets more than a tight. Stop. Stop. So I could still do it on there. I just, I prefer the way they feel. and they don't look like a like it's not like i'm wearing black fishnet that are like underneath Speaker 1 (7:57) Love that. Oh, um, Speaker 2 (8:01) yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 (8:05) So on to. Speaker 2 (8:06) I Speaker 1 (8:07) might just do a tight if I'm going to do that. Honestly, I just tend to always get like a nude fishnet if I'm wearing something because they actually weirdly keep you warm, which I don't understand the physics of it because I'm always cold. But I wore them last year out like in October in New Orleans and they were fine. And I was very. Speaker 1 (8:26) very upset about being cold and I was fine. Speaker 1 (8:30) Cool. Yeah, and now I have to figure out how to make my hair red because I'm not wearing a wig. Speaker 2 (8:36) hairspray. I Speaker 1 (8:37) know, but it's so chunky. It is gross. Speaker 2 (8:41) I Speaker 1 (8:41) think at Speaker 2 (8:42) Sally's they sell temporary hair coloring. Speaker 1 (8:45) It's almost like a... I was looking into it. It's almost like a wax or something. That might not Speaker 2 (8:55) be too bad. Speaker 1 (8:56) Yeah. Speaker 2 (8:57) If you look up online, my kids dyed theirs one time with... They just did a little piece. with Kool-Aid, and it worked very well, but it did not come out. Speaker 1 (9:10) No. I pay way too much money to make my hair blonde to, like, fuck it up with Kool-Aid. Speaker 2 (9:16) Yeah. Speaker 1 (9:17) Yeah. No. All right. So anyway, now that we're done with Christy's Halloween Costume Corner, shall we get into this episode? Yes. All right, so we are season six, episode two, Abby versus Melissa. Never did I think I'd see the day when it's called Abby versus Melissa. Yeah. But I told you my theory, and we're going to, we'll continue to unpack my theory as we go through this season of Jan's Moms. And this was filmed in October of 2015. So... Um, just some cute stuff. The girls, like, behind the scenes, they're going to Dancing with the Stars. Like, cute, cute, cute. Um... Some tweet, Jill Virg has got carded and she had to tweet about it. Speaker 1 (10:06) Oh my gosh. She's funny. She is funny. She is funny. Oh my God. Chloe was on The Doctors. This is after she had her eye surgery. She was a guest on the show The Doctors. I Speaker 2 (10:19) forgot Speaker 1 (10:20) about that. Oh, her boyfriend. Yeah, her and Ricky, the boyfriend tag. My God, she's so little. All right. So we're in studio. I don't even know what the studio is. We'll say Studio A. I'm always going to call it Studio A. And Abby is now wearing white plastic rhinestone crap today to go with her... The girls aren't... Wow. White, like, ballet-looking leotards and stuff. Speaker 2 (10:49) Yeah. It's weird, because two of them match perfectly. Speaker 1 (10:54) I guess it was White Wat Day. Speaker 2 (10:57) Yeah. They both chose to wear the same kind of leotard was odd, because I don't think I've ever seen Kalani in something like that. Speaker 1 (11:07) No. Speaker 2 (11:08) Especially white. I don't know. This doesn't look to be... Speaker 1 (11:14) Yeah. And honestly, Kendall and Mackenzie and the ALDC, like, branded leotard, I hate it. I don't mind, I don't mind the leotard. I just don't want, if I'm wearing a leotard. I get that the branding is fine on like bra top and booty shorts. I feel like it doesn't have a place on a leotard, but that's just my own personal preference. Speaker 2 (11:38) And I feel like a cut of that leotard is not very nice. Flattering? Yes. Like it needs to be a little higher. I don't know. Speaker 1 (11:48) On Kendall because we can see her leg line. Speaker 2 (11:50) Yeah, I don't think I like that leotard. Speaker 1 (11:54) Jill's going to hate that when I'm going to say this, but she's walking in with that Chanel bag. Speaker 1 (12:01) That Chanel bag looks fake. Speaker 2 (12:04) Oh my God, she's going to hate you. I Speaker 1 (12:06) know. And I'm sure it's not. But the reason I say that is because the one year that we were all in New York, we all bought fake bags that looked like that. Remember? I mean, you might not have, but like everybody in the studio did. Yeah. And Abby actually... Speaker 2 (12:21) Every Speaker 1 (12:21) fake thing you could think of. Tiffany jewelry. Maybe like turn your neck green. Speaker 1 (12:28) Oh, my. I just saw that they did a big bust in New York City on Canal Street. Speaker 2 (12:34) Oh, really? Mm Speaker 1 (12:35) -hmm. Speaker 2 (12:35) Yep. You know, we wouldn't have been able to buy any fake stuff anyways, probably. Speaker 1 (12:43) No. You know what else stands out to me in this scene? Abby doesn't have her nails done. Speaker 1 (12:51) Abby always has her nails done. Oh my gosh! Uh-huh. Always. Always. Speaker 2 (12:59) Maybe because she's been nervous, she's been picking at them. Speaker 1 (13:02) That's what I'm wondering. All right. All right. Well, it's funny because Ashley was like, I wasn't allowed to wear my shoes with my dress last week, so I'm going to wear jeans to Pyramid. Speaker 2 (13:13) What? Yeah. Speaker 1 (13:14) Yeah. That's Speaker 2 (13:15) ridiculous. Speaker 1 (13:16) Yeah. Get Speaker 2 (13:17) started on that. Speaker 1 (13:19) Look how little Melissa looks between Jess and Holly. It's like short. She's so short. Speaker 2 (13:26) She doesn't look that short. When I see her normally. Speaker 1 (13:30) She's wearing when she walks in those giant fuck me shoes. Like with the platform on them. She wears those a lot. Those ones. I'm always seeing her in those. Yeah. All right. Now that we have Speaker 2 (13:45) analyzed every element of what everyone is wearing, we're going to start. I want to talk about mine because like I have room to talk. Look at me. I'm like an orphan child. Have I been feeling good? My eyes are burning. Like I actually last night felt like my eyes were like. Like this big? Almost like bruised. Oh. Like the skin hurts. It's like raw. Oh, yeah. My skin is so raw. Speaker 1 (14:14) I wonder if there's something happening seasonally that you're allergic to. Speaker 2 (14:19) Yeah, I don't know because they're driving me insane. Speaker 1 (14:22) It's got to be an allergy. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 (14:25) And I've been coughing a lot. I'm thinking I have a cold, but maybe it's just allergies. Speaker 1 (14:30) Yeah, I mean, it's the time of year. Isn't it ragweed or is that summer? Speaker 2 (14:36) I'm allergic to ragweed, though. Speaker 1 (14:37) Yeah, I could be. I'm allergic Speaker 2 (14:39) to dust, which is why I asked you for the number. Oh, she Speaker 1 (14:42) said yes. She said, she said, she said, my birthday's next week, so I'm packed. But can you give her my number and I can look before the end of the month, please? Yeah, cool. Yep. Okay. Alrighty. So now you get to jump in here with Field Notes. Speaker 2 (15:00) dart with a field note. Oh, boy. It's three days competition. We're at the ALDC. And Abby, this is pre-pyramid. Speaker 1 (15:09) Abby switched one around being weird. She Speaker 2 (15:13) steps away from her hair and makeup transformation for a quick FaceTime with Maddie to check up on her star dancer. Speaker 1 (15:22) Oh, I didn't know this happened. A Speaker 2 (15:25) news reporter. arrives outside of the ALDC. Speaker 1 (15:30) The Speaker 2 (15:30) team arrives at the ALDC and the girls head outside to start stretching. Girls discuss Maddie being gone and JoJo points out that this is This will allow more girls to get leads and solos. The moms arrive ahead. And head inside for... and recap the last competition and they are still utterly buffered buff uh baffled by what happened with bda what Speaker 1 (16:05) are they baffled about they beat them like pretty why Speaker 2 (16:07) was it such a big yeah Speaker 1 (16:10) like what are they baffled about Speaker 1 (16:13) I know. Speaker 2 (16:15) So Ashley makes it evident that she's here to stay. She says Abby wants Brynn here and Ashley will put up with, she's not going to put up with any mistreating of her. That Speaker 1 (16:30) must be nice. Speaker 2 (16:30) The moms call Ashley out for being overconfident. But she argues that no one defended her while Jessalyn, I always say that wrong, right? Speaker 1 (16:41) No, you said it right this time. I like when you say Jocelyn. Jocelyn. Speaker 2 (16:46) She was attacking her all week. So... Speaker 2 (16:51) She has to be defensive about something. And Ashley is confident that Brian is Maddie's replacement. Speaker 1 (16:59) Brynn. Speaker 2 (16:59) Brynn. Oh my God, what is wrong with me? And maybe I shouldn't read it all. Speaker 2 (17:06) I Speaker 1 (17:06) mean, okay. I can help. You want me to help? Go ahead. All right. Holly, oh, the other moms are like berating her. They're like, these are the reasons why Brynn isn't the right fit to be the new Maddie. Why does it have to be the new Maddie? Why can't it be? Why can't it just be the new Brynn? That's what I'm saying. This like makes me crazy about it. Holly reminds everybody that Gia and Abby both considered the girls lost without Maddie last week. And Holly's like, that's unfair because... She was the one who was missing all last season, Abby, and didn't give them training. And the moms are obviously mad because the girls are being punished by not being allowed to go out and do anything, like the moratorium. But really, it's Abby's fault for walking away. She'll look up the word moratorium. Speaker 2 (17:57) I asked what it was. I mean, I figured it out once Speaker 1 (18:00) I... Yeah. But... Speaker 2 (18:02) Like, I think them kids were probably standing there like, what's she talking about? Speaker 1 (18:08) For sure. And I'm pretty certain that somebody like from production, like told Abby to use that word and to use it. Speaker 2 (18:19) Yeah, it's not something she would use in like a normal. I Speaker 1 (18:22) wouldn't Speaker 2 (18:22) think so. Speaker 1 (18:24) And then Ashley makes it a point that each of the moms need to step up and advocate for their own child because Abby is only going to use them to advocate for her brand and not their individual growth. She's not wrong. No. Speaker 2 (18:37) And but we all have advocated for our own children. Speaker 1 (18:41) Yeah. And Abby, like, look, we're at home. So you advocate. Yeah. And Ashley's like, why are we still have, oh, this is now in, you see this on TV. She's like, we're confused why they haven't started Pyramid. So the girls head inside and they start stretching and the moms are like waiting out on the stairs. And in her interview, we hear Holly say, last week, Abby made it clear that dance is a priority. So much so that she created a moratorium against all other activities. And yet one week later, she's late. And then Holly. very, very wisely tells us, Abby is the queen of double standards. So, cheers, bitches! Speaker 2 (19:23) That is my favorite line. I won't have it later. Speaker 1 (19:30) And then Jess is terrified. And she has said this a few times that. Speaker 1 (19:37) Abby's gonna go missing in action like she did last year. And just so we know, field notes, the moms are mad that Abby is late for Pyramid. So it literally says, are you ready? So Jill and Melissa go get her from her apartment in the back of the studio. So, Abby is in the back of the studio? Uh, that's what I'm pointing out. I did not know that. Am I? So, we're living on property. Speaker 2 (20:04) Well, she probably had that in the contract that she had to have a place. And so she wasn't like with the moms at the Grove. Mm. Speaker 1 (20:14) At the apartment. I'm sure it was decked out. Well, I'm wondering too, if she got, now hear me out. I'm not saying I know this, but if she got like a, like a housing allowance and she's like, I'll just pocket that money and I'll sleep in my office. Yeah. You know? Very Speaker 2 (20:33) well could be. Speaker 1 (20:34) So she comes out licking those lips furiously, without a word, goes straight into Studio C and starts doing her hair. And she comes out, she's like, I need a teasing brush. I need a teasing comb. Melissa's annoyed. Speaker 2 (20:46) Why is Melissa annoyed? Speaker 2 (20:50) Any other season, Melissa would have been like, let me go get you a comb. I'll do your hair. Sit down. You want me to comb it for you? Why all of a sudden does that change? Speaker 1 (21:04) I'm thinking the reporter outside has something to do with it, but let's go on. Holly is like, Abby's finally here for Pyramid, but she's offering no explanation why she's late. Why she wastes everyone's time. Holly, you're smarter than that. Come on. So she's screaming for Dee. Dee makes a cameo on screen doing her hair. Speaker 2 (21:27) Or hair, too. Speaker 1 (21:28) Yeah, she never really did. And Abby's like, I have no eyebrows. Where are my eyebrows? In the mirror. Speaker 2 (21:35) Abby looks bad. I get them this week. Speaker 1 (21:38) Yeah, but she's like, where are my eyebrows? Where are they? And Jill tells us, this mess going on right now is a red flag. Something's wrong. Abby acted erratic last time we were here. LA makes Abby crazy. Speaker 2 (21:52) Is it LA? Speaker 1 (21:54) Last year, we had our worst record we've ever had because of her. And is it happening all over again? I Speaker 2 (21:59) don't really think it's LA that is making Abby crazy. I think it is Abby just has too much on her plate. Speaker 1 (22:05) Yeah. Like, Speaker 2 (22:07) she has took off. Like, she is bigger than her mom. What do you, how do I want to say it? Her brain thinks she's bigger than she can handle. Speaker 1 (22:18) Yeah. Kind of like how, what's the saying when you like. order too much food like your stomach's bigger your eyes are bigger than your stomach yeah yeah it's the business equivalent of that yeah Speaker 1 (22:31) So she starts right away. She's like, did you actually win? Or could you have had points taken off for delay of game? You don't want to win because somebody's being disqualified. Well, ma'am, I'm pretty sure it was you who was screaming disqualify them. Speaker 2 (22:47) Exactly. And making sure that they took points off. If you weren't worried about it, why were you doing that? Obviously, you were worried. So you either wanted them disqualified or you wanted points taken off so they didn't beat you. Speaker 1 (23:00) You know, yeah. I just realized that Dance Moms, Abby, is just one big ball of gaslighting. She gaslights those kids every week. You, you are to blame. And they're like, what? Like, we need to have our children checked. And then she goes. We can't count on things just to go south for the other team. We need to be on top of our game at all time. Speaker 1 (23:31) Again, rewind 20 seconds and listen to what we just said. It all applies. So field notes. Abby congratulates the girls on a job well done. But then she's like, wow, that competition was really chaotic because, you know, BDA was disqualified. And they have in the field notes, Ann competed then lost, depending on how we show it. So they did it both ways. Yeah. Speaker 2 (23:59) Mm Speaker 1 (23:59) -hmm. Speaker 2 (24:00) That's funny that they, I mean, that's right in black and white. Speaker 1 (24:03) Yep, depending on how we play it. So then she goes in on the solo. She's like, well, JoJo, you really didn't do that well, but you really didn't get a fair shake, so you didn't place. And, like, the whole rule-breaking situation was infuriating to Abby. Wasn't she the one who broke the rules there? Speaker 1 (24:22) Because remember, there was scandal with JoJo breaking the rules, like in the field notes. Yeah. She like came off the front of the stage or whatever. I don't know. But she's mad about it. But you did it. Speaker 2 (24:32) Okay. Okay. But. Speaker 2 (24:35) That was in the rules. You didn't follow it. Speaker 2 (24:39) The other team. Speaker 2 (24:43) was over two Speaker 1 (24:44) minutes Speaker 2 (24:44) of doing their things, but she insisted on them getting penalized and not her. Speaker 1 (24:49) Mm-hmm. Speaker 1 (24:51) Drink. I'm gonna have one. Speaker 2 (24:56) Straighten this little brain of mine. Speaker 1 (24:58) Well, Kelly, I think you're better off not having it straight because if it makes sense, then you're on that level and it doesn't make sense to anybody else. Speaker 1 (25:08) Brynn was amazing, but clearly has miles to go before getting to the bigger picture. Now, Abby interjects and admits to Abby, or Ashley interjects, that's going to get me every time. And admits to Abby that the other moms have been giving her a hard time about Brynn replacing Maddie. She's a tattletale. And Abby responds, let her talent speak for itself. Speaker 2 (25:28) Did you think that they were giving Brynn a hard time? Speaker 1 (25:32) Off camera, it sounds like they were. Speaker 2 (25:35) Okay. I mean, from what I saw, I didn't think. Speaker 1 (25:39) No, she's saying off-camera. Because... Speaker 1 (25:43) According to all the field notes, she keeps saying, Brynn's the new Maddie. Brynn's the new Maddie. Let me tell you why she's the new Maddie. She needs to be the leader of the team. And they're like, uh, no. And so then she's like, they don't think Brynn's Speaker 2 (25:53) the Speaker 1 (25:53) new Maddie. No, they don't. Speaker 2 (25:55) No, because she's not. Speaker 1 (25:57) Exactly. But she's going to tell on them to Abby. Speaker 2 (26:00) Okay. Speaker 1 (26:01) So now we see Pyramid. Maddie's last. Melissa tells us Maddie's not with me for the next two weeks because she's filming a movie. So right now my focus is on Mackenzie. This is her time to shine. Speaker 2 (26:15) Which I'm sure everybody is like, it's about time for Mackenzie to shine. Speaker 1 (26:23) Mm-hmm. Oh, I thought you were going to say more, but it's just kind of funny because she's like, but right now my focus is on Mackenzie. Yeah. Speaker 1 (26:34) Okay. Kalani is next because she wasn't at competition last week. Remember, her dad got married. Then Mackenzie. Mackenzie struggles with her feet, line, and posture. You don't see any of it. And Melissa says, I think she sees it. And Abby's like, oh. Girlface. Speaker 2 (26:53) Why would you speak? Speaker 1 (26:56) And Melissa says, I'm her mother. I'm allowed to speak. And Abby says, why doesn't she fix it? I want her to realize it needs to be fixed. And Mackenzie's like, shut the fuck up, Melissa. All the kids are like, Mom, just please stop. I know. And then Melissa's like, no. Speaker 2 (27:12) They all get it. Speaker 1 (27:14) Yeah. And Melissa tells us, last year, the moms kept yelling at me because I didn't stick up for Mackenzie. This year, I'm not holding back. OK. So now we see. Kendall's fourth because she kicked the bubble. Big clear ball. Speaker 2 (27:30) Right behind Speaker 1 (27:33) her. Speaker 1 (27:36) Like, meanwhile, if she had, like, broken her fan kick, you know, like, she did it wrong. you can't, Kendall, you should have. Speaker 2 (27:46) Meanwhile, I think the ball was in her space. Speaker 1 (27:49) Oh, it was, but out of your peripheral. No, I'm saying, but Abby expected Kendall out of her peripheral vision to know that the ball was there, somehow levitate to the front of the stage, complete the perfect fan kick and not get out of line or miss a beat. That. Speaker 2 (28:04) Or mess up JoJo and the ball. Speaker 1 (28:06) No, at all. Right. So then. Nia's next because she really stepped up and physically tried to handle the ball. Because remember the zipper was in the dad? Yeah. So good for Nia. I'm Speaker 2 (28:18) glad for Abby pointing that out. Speaker 1 (28:21) Because we don't hear many positive things that Nia does. You got the zipper in the back to release JoJo. No one had to scream fire all as well. Speaker