We're attending Sheer Talent in Phoenix, Arizona.
[cheering and applause]
Phoenix is tough.
I say that every time we go.
Everyone is in the group routine.
The piece is contemporary.
The name of the routine is "Food For Thought."
It's about veganism.
I have a friend of mine who has written a song.
He's going to come in later and share it with you.
All right, let's go!
You're out.
Spread apart, warm up.
HOLLY: Why is he promoting his music when she also has his--
I know she's his fried.
She has how many kids in there that sing?
HOLLY: But-- exactly.
She's never done that for any of the other girls.
There he is!
What's going on?
ASHLEE: Hey, how are you?
STACEY: Oh, and he brought-- are they vegan cookies?
These are vegan cookies. Where's Ab?
Where's Ab? yeah, yeah.
ABBY: Girls!
KENDALL: Hi. - Hi.
How are you? - Hello.
You got a haircut.
I did.
MAESI: Jordy Is Abby's very close friend,
and they've known each other forever.
[laughs]
Miss Abby said I can't.
[laughs]
[music playing]
JORDY: This is a very meaningful song for me,
so please bring your heart into it.
ABBY: All right.
Thanks for coming in.
I appreciate it.
Do it well.
You guys got it.
All right.
JILL: How do you feel about people who do eat meat?
Like--
JORDY: It's like they're blind.
I see a dead animal.
And I see the dead animal flesh laying on the table.
And I think about the children who are starving and dying
because we want to make the choice to eat animals.
The most destructive thing to our Mother Earth
is industrialized animal agriculture.
Number one cause of global warming,
number one cause of species extinction,
number one cause of world hunger.
Not all scientists are going to agree with you on that.
This is what they were put on earth for, was to nourish us.
That's so false.
I can love a dog, at the same time eat my chicken.
ASHLEE: If there was an apocalypse,
I might just eat my dog, just saying.
CAMILLE: [laughs] Just saying.
You can love animals and eat them at the same time?
ASHLEE: Absolutely. - It's a bloody contradiction.
To be honest with you, there are
lots of things which are conflicting and are walking
contradictions.
As in what?
Please, say-- say anything.
Please.
For instance, there are things as far as institutionalized
racism in a dem-- democratic society.
I understand.
But, yet, that's a contradiction in and of itself.
Yes.
Racism exists.
Let's not try to put racism with-- with animals.
It's just that-- JORDY: With species-ism?
[laughter]
CAMILLE: Oh, my god.
Species-ism, just like racism and sexism, exists.
HOLLY: And, you know what, Jordy?
Whether we believe the same philosophy or not,
I think it's really important for someone
to believe in something.
Your mission doesn't have to be my mission.
Because, guess what?
I'm walking in my own footsteps and I
can't take on all the social causes in the world.
I can't take on another burden.
CAMILLE: Yes.
I'm tired.
I mean, the thing is--
JILL: I just love that you're passionate about it.
I hope you stay--
CAMILLE: Yes, you are.
--passionate about it.
Oh, I will.
I'm passionate about chicken, so--
JILL: It's hokey. It's stupid.
Seems really gimicky.
JILL: Say it-- Say it-- what it is.
KIRA: Oh, my god.
HOLLY: I'm quite annoyed with Abby right now because clearly
her focus is on her boyfriend and promoting his new song.
And it's not about providing the best possible dance routine
for our girls at competition.
This could be their last chance to dance with Abby.
And this is how she wants to be remembered?
Why aren't eggs vegan?
Because you don't kill the chicken to get eggs.
Actually, that's--
I can't-- you know, that's a good point.
I don't know. [laughs]
It just poops it out.
[laughter]
Ham is my favorite meat.
Ham-- is ham a red meat? ELLIANNA: I have a question.
KENDALL: Is ham a what meat?
Is ham a red meat? ELLIANNA: I have a question.
CAMRYN: No. - No.
- No. - No, it's not.
Wait.
Do you guys think that Abby's going to actually go vegan?
MAESI: No way. - No.
All she eats is hotdogs--
She probably had steak last night.
--and burgers, and ribs.
She probably ate a steak last night.
Probably.
She-- when she's around Jordan she says she that she can do it
but then she doesn't.
MAESI: But then she doesn't.
And she's like, I will skip a meal.
I'm like, you will not skip a meal--
NIA: Yeah, you're not going to skip a meal.
--to save your life.
We are doing a group dance called "Food For Thought,"
and we're dancing to Abby's boy toy's song.
Gag.
Ugh.
Disgusting.
ABBY: So, girls, you understand that you
are animals protesting.
So these lyrics--
"Speaking up against the wrong, I ain't scared of no friction.
Peace is all it is.
It does not have to be fiction."
HOLLY: I do not think Jordy will be winning any Grammies
for this song.
ASHLEE: We're going to look so stupid.
No one's going to get that it's a vegan dance.
I mean, even listening to the words you don't get it.
There's so many things wrong with this right now.
Yeah.
It's bad.
I don't want this nonsense to be the last dance that our fans
remember.
Because she's too lazy to put thought into anything that's
going to benefit her team kids that are moving forward.
And she's like, they're all going to be working and getting
jobs.
Not with this [bleep].
Nope.
[music playing]
GIANNA: Can I see the four--
four people do the group?
JILL: All of us moms are pretty annoyed.
It's the last day of rehearsal before our first competition
of this season, and Abby isn't even here yet.
We've got two duets and a group dance.
It's a really busy day today.
And the winning duet gets solos next week.
Abby needs to be here.
All week she's been pretending like everything
is just wonderful.
But we know she's in denial of her upcoming sentencing.
I think the other shoe has just dropped.
That's way better.
Take a break.
NIA: OK.
Take-- take a break.
JILL: Let's go to lunch.
It is-- it is really weird here, the weather.
I can't believe there hasn't been, like, a nice day.
Yup.
I put on my sweater. - They--
HOLLY: I put on my sweater.
JILL: Someone told me it's been raining since mid-December.
That's what I heard-- all the month of January.
KIRA: Look who's decided to show up.
I don't know where Abby's been, but I'm
pretty sure Abby is wearing the same exact thing I saw her walk
out in last night.
[music playing] - Hey.
Hi, Abby.
Nice to see you this morning--
Good morning.
--or afternoon.
I left here last night and went straight out to two events
and then dinner and then--
And walked straight in.
--and walked right back in.
Oh, my god.
It all makes sense now.
The walk of shame.
[laughs]
[phone ringing]
Hey.
Abby's giddy.
She's over the top.
She's happy.
I'm happy she's happy, but this is weird.
Do you have, like, preparations for court
and wrapping affairs up-- - No, no.
JAIME: --or trying to get things done?
No, no.
Are you feeling good that there's not
going to be time served?
Oh, no.
There will be.
Yes, absolutely.
[music playing]
KIRA: I'm confused about your mood.
I know.
You seem very elated.
Like, I would be so just scared.
JILL: Yeah.
It's like you--
You're, like on this high and you're so happy.
I think maybe, like, I'm just going to be positive and look
at it as a way to--
JILL: Is there anything we can do?
--have a little vacation.
Bizarre behavior.
Jail is not a vacation.
And the fact that you even try to equate the two tells me you
are fully not prepared for it.
Abby is going to implode, I know it.
It's just a matter of time.
There was no hiding that.
[music playing]
JILL: Abby!
You're diabetic.
You should not be eating those cookies.
I know.
I-- [laughs]
What are you giggling about?
This woman has lost her mind.
ABBY: [laughs]
GIANNA: All right.
Well, girls, get into makeup.
[laughter]
Weird.
I look like a businesswoman on a Halloween party.
JILL: No.
The shirts were to be the corporate side of the beef
industry or the chicken industry.
This, to me, is starting to look like a high school talent show.
And Abby is not even here.
Guys, come over here.
OK.
Sell the story.
Because if you don't believe it, they're
not going to believe it.
OK, guys, go ahead. Go ahead.
Go ahead. [chatter]
Bye.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the stage, "Food For Thought."
[applause and cheering]
[music playing]
JORDY: (RAPPING) One of my sleepless nights.
Speaking on the topic, getting blocked out the media.
Take it out my pocket, drop it on the media.
Forget that advertisement's what they're trying to feed us.
Strapped, locked and loaded, shooting camera.
Thankful for life lessons spreading knowledge,
'cause it's power.
Thank you, Mommy.
Love your mother.
Let's take care of her.
She's ours.
Homo sapiens are ordinary in our ways, came about the dark.
I think we almost went extinct.
We just don't hear their cries from the outside.
So keep out.
You're small.
We treat them fine.
Cows saying, "Eat more chicken," lying advertised.
Made by human hands, no prints on their crime.
I want to see you live.
I just want to see you live.
Eating animals while loving them-- bloody contradiction.
Say what you need.
I understand you're feeding an addiction.
Speaking up against the wrong, I ain't scared of no friction.
Peace is all it is.
It does not have to be fiction.
[applause and cheering]
[music playing]
They knew! JAIME: Amazing.
They knew. Vegan.
They figured get it out.
I can't believe that they got it.
I'm just praying that the judges did, too.
ANNOUNCER: All right.
We ready for some rewards?
Yes?
The overall high score for [inaudible] production,
"Food For Thought."
[cheering and applause]
HOLLY: I am eating crow right now, which I
know is not on the vegan diet.
I cannot believe they won.
[music playing]
[cheering]
JILL: Oh, girls, I'm so proud of everybody!
Although not my favorite dance,
I would say this is the best from our team
that this eight danced together.