JB-  In the act there is obviously a lot of interaction between the two of you because you're a team performing, but it doesn't really seem like there's much communication in terms of speaking.  How do you stay in synch when your routine is so fast paced?

DM-  Once again, I hope that goes back to what I was telling you in the beginning, that we needed to work as two people together.  We did accomplish that.  And the answer to the second part of that question is that, when we're doing this routine, and we've done it so many times it's like clockwork.  Every piece of music, every beat, every count of music from beginning to end, we know exactly where every foot, where every step, where every motion, where every gesture… we know where we're at, at all times, because we've done it so many times.  It just becomes like clockwork.  Like a dancer that's done a routine 4000 times, he's obviously going to know where he is.  There (are) times when we go out there and we improvise, but it just becomes natural after you've done it for so long.  But there are times when it happens.  We're not perfect, we are human beings.  But for the most part, it's how it happens.  That's how we describe it, just like a clock, we just tick along.

JB- When Piers was saying to change things up and be different… I mean, in my opinion the "Rappin' Granny" did the same thing over and over again but the judges seemed to love her every time.

DM- You're absolutely right.  The "Rappin' Granny" did nothing but rap.  I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this, and I hope it never gets me in trouble, but I think I speak for a lot when I say the "Rappin Granny" - who was absolutely wonderful, by the way.  She was adorable, a wonderful lady - but did a rapping granny really deserve to be in the finale of a million dollar talent contest like that?  You couldn't understand, but they bent the rules, they changed the rules. 

JB-  The same thing happened with American Idol.  I interviewed contestants from the first season and they said the same thing happened.

DM- After all, I have to say, thank goodness that we did (the show).  A lot of great things have happened since the show.  We walk into airports and people give us tremendous compliments.  But we're off and running onto bigger things!  As I told you before we are one the official acts of the NBA Halftime and we're one of the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and have been for many years.  As I told you before (the interview) we should be on The Oprah Winfrey Show on December 13.  On the fourth of December we're doing the Royal Variety performance in London, England.  Goodness, it goes on and on and on.  Over Thanksgiving we're going to be in Spain.  At Christmastime we're going to go back to London.  A lot of great stuff is coming our way.

JB-  For something like the England presentation (you'd mentioned to me that it is for royalty), do you get nervous before you go out there for something like that?

DM-  For an event like that, and in most cases we're doing an NBA event that we've done a million times, but an event like that, it's being televised for the BBC and any little mistake is right on the camera.  And goodness, (an event like that) it doesn't get any bigger than that, does it?

JB-  No.  And it's got to be quite an honour to get invited to things like that.

DM- You've got to be out there.  You've got to be at it.  It's been a long, long process, it's not like we just started yesterday.  A lot of years, a lot of airplanes… you give up a lot.

JB- Are you working on any new bits for the routine?  Can you give us a sneak peek at any ideas you have?

DM-  I can tell you that we're working on something new that's going to be a part of our show for the Royal Caribbean, we did a thing on the very last segment of America's Got Talent.  And the reason we did it was a couple of things.  If you go in and watch the very last show we did, we did a thing to the Jimi Hendrix song called "Fire".  We're going to do a 70s thing.  We're going to do a 1970s piece that's going to go six and a half-seven minutes long and it's going to be nothing but - well, 1965 through the 70s, I should say -- costumes like retro with a lot of action and psychedelic movements, things like that.  So we tried little bits of it on that America's Got Talent (episode) and I think it was a tremendous success.  We've been working on things for a long time.  You don't just take things and just change them around and it works overnight with what we do.  You could take a really good thing and make it a wrong thing really quick.  So that's going to be kind of cool to see that and there's going to be a little magic involved in that as well.  We're constantly working at it.  It's time to make some changes every once in a while.

JB-  And you enjoy a challenge, I'm sure.

DM-  Yeah, I do.