JB-  It does seem like quite a physically demanding routine.  You said there's quite a lot that goes into it.  You two almost look like you're out of breath sometimes by the end of it.

DM-  Absolutely.  Because you have to realize that we have just chosen a method through the years that's done with a lot of speed, you know what I mean?

JB-  Yes.

DM-  And when you see the full-length version, we're working on a 40-minute segment, and there's a lot more magic involved in that.  But she comes on the stage three different times and eventually when you're coming back that many times and there's ballroom dance involved and we've just chosen a very high tempo to work at.  It just seems to be us.  For sure, my God, it becomes exhausting.  Those costumes on like that, it becomes really hot, you get very tired.

JB-  It just seems so much fun too.  Dania's always got a huge smile on her face.  And I think that's probably what gets to audience so involved is that we're seeing two people who genuinely are having fun. 

DM-  As a professional, that's your job.  And I'll tell you, it's never been difficult for us to smile at what we do.  We've been fortunate enough to be so successful in the last 10 years.  God blessed us in that way.  If you went to work every day of your life and you were just so happy at what you did and somebody is telling you how terrific it was and what a pleasure it was to bring their kids and families and read the e-mails… it's kind of easy to smile when you're in that type of position.

JB-  You were saying you've performed on cruise ships and at sporting events and on television shows all over the world, what prompted you to go on America's Got Talent?

DM-  Initially we refrained from doing the show.  We had done one years ago (on the Fox network) they'd talked us into.  We didn't want to do it.  We've done television - and people say, "Wow, that's the first time we saw you" - but it's kind of odd to hear that from somebody because we've done hundreds of television shows, especially in Europe.  That's maybe why a lot of the Americans haven't seen things we've done. Anyway, the answer to that question is we had done the other show and won.  It was the same gentleman who called us up.  And although they kind of made up the rules as they went along because it was the first season.  When they told us what it was I said the airtime couldn't really hurt us on this one.  It's not like you're being zapped or thrown out (as on the previous show we'd done) the way they described every aspect of it.  So we figured as a variety artist we thought, "Well why not?"  You're trying to get in front of the camera all the time.  And it sounded terrific.  They had Regis (Philbin) hosting the thing.  We'd done several events with Regis and I thought if Regis is onboard then it's got to be a pretty good show.  And the fact that Simon Cowell was one of the executive producers on the show it wasn't going to be a small television show by any means, and it ended up being the number one show of the summer.  There's the answer to why we did it.  In the end, with no sour grapes.  The little girl that won it, she did an amazing job.  We, and most, if not all, of the artists disagreed with the way everything went as far as getting to the final round.  This wasn't supposed to be another American Idol. This was supposed to be a variety contest.  Eventually in the end, you don't know if they (the producers) tell them (the judges on the show) to be mean to you.  You don't know what they're saying.  We're the only act of its kind in that competition and the audience went out of their minds when we went out there.  But the British guy Piers Morgan chose to go nuts on us a couple of times.

JB-  Let's talk about that.  USA Today considered one of those moments the worst on the show, meaning it was just so low for him doing something like that.  So you fought back and…

DM-  It's kind of odd.  Let me say this before I forget, listen to this.  That night that it happened, Jeremy, when you say that, you're absolutely right.  They say that Kenny Warwick who was the other executive producer with Simon he ran to the back when Dania was in tears when he said, "Are you deaf? Are you dumb? Blah, blah, blah".  Do you remember?

JB-  Oh totally.

DM-  Then I fought back with him.  But I thought, "This negativity can't be good by any stretch of the imagination, right?

JB-  Right.

DM-  And the next thing you know, Kenny Warwick came running back there and said, "My God, the ratings just shot right through the roof.  Keep it up, keep it up.  Whatever you're doing, keep it up."  And I thought to myself, "What do you mean, 'keep it up'?"

JB- It makes good television.

DM- I think what he meant by that was just, "Stand up for yourself".  By no means were they telling you the show was fixed or what to do.  But then I thought to myself, "Wait a minute, do I really want to continue fighting with this guy?"  It's just for ratings, you know?  Then I really didn't know whether I wanted to do the wild card (round of the show) and then eventually did it and we won the wild card on the show.  No matter what I do, the guy's not going to understand it, that that's what we do.  We are a transformation of costumes.  You can't just go and keep changing it every time, you know what I mean?  That's what we do!  In a nutshell, it was very, very successful for us.  A lot of shows have contacted us now as a result of that.  I've been told that immediately we became the second or third all time highest hits in history.  It was something crazy, like over 40 million people went on there just to see videos from America's Got Talent.

JB- That's crazy. 

DM-  You'd have to have somebody check into that to make sure it's absolutely true.  But whether it's 40 million or not, it must have been an awful lot.