WEBVTT - Dancing with…Maksim Chmerkovskiy 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.320 Welcome to Danielle with the Stars. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.880 I am Danielle Fischel, a TV director, a podcaster forever. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.439 Topanga, and a mom of two. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.920 But right now I am an aspiring ballroom dancer competing 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.200 on season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, airing 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.800 every Tuesday night on ABC and Disney Plus. And throughout 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.519 the process, I am recording a podcast chronicling my journey 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:37.479 to win my. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.599 Very own mirror Ball. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:41.760 And along the way, I am hoping to chat with 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.199 other contestants and professionals from not only the current iteration 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.400 of Dancing with the Stars, but it's past and today. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.159 I am honored to welcome true ballroom Royalty to Danielle 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.960 with the Stars. This mirror Ball winner appeared on seventeen 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.400 seasons of the show, becoming one of the most recognizable 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.399 fan favorites of all time and a major reason I 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.720 kept up with the show four years. His trophy came 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.440 in season eighteen, alongside partner Meryl Davis, and it's worth 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.679 noting he also has two second place finishes, and I 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.840 don't care what they say, close does count. I'll accept it. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.880 He is synonymous with the show that I'm hoping to conquer, 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.880 so this might just be my key to the finals, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.080 or if I fall short, he can supply the booze 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.040 since his Tetya Kappa Vodka, made right at home in 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.039 Napa Valley, is taking the Spirit's world by storm and 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.280 soon Calabasas where. On Thursday night, September twenty fifth, he 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.880 will hold Kappa Knights at the Mulholland, an event you're 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.000 going to want to attend. I am thrilled to welcome 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.680 to the show the Legend Maxim Schmerkovski. Max, thank you 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.520 so much for coming on my podcast. I am a 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.400 huge fan of yours. I've been a fan for decades. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:01.919 It's crazy, crazy. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.360 You are one of the main reasons I started watching 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.200 Dancing with the Stars, and I know that you have 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:13.920 a more strict approach to teaching. It was always my 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:15.440 absolute favorite to watch. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:16.960 That's it's amazing. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:18.040 It's amazing. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.000 You're part of a You're part of a specific time 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.800 in an immigrants life. I am yes, because when I 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.880 came in ninety four, yeah, all right, and there was 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:29.359 a lot. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.480 Of things that I was in privy to. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.600 You know, I was fourteen already, so the foundation wasn't 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.400 set here. It was set somewhere else. So the that 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.120 cartoon that Tom and Jerry, the blah blah blah, like 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.640 I didn't I didn't have that right, right, But so 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.600 I have this sort of the BCA D right, but 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.160 I have the before us and then after. And so 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.040 my foundation was set in late mid late nineties, huh, 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.560 with whatever was available to us, which wasn't internet based. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.679 There was few channels and prime time television TV. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.320 And my primetime is what like after I come from school, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.440 so it's like three you to six seven. Yeah, so 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.920 that's the you know, that's family matters. That's Batman on 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.920 Channel eleven back then, that's you guys. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:17.840 That's all this. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.960 You know, I can name couple of shows that are 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.320 fundamental for me. Your show was a fundamental time. I 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.000 didn't speak English. I was not understanding I saw this 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.800 hot shick when I was a teenager. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:34.240 Who is that you? Okay, it's amazing, the whole thing. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.560 And then I you know, it took me later years 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.520 to understand what the show was about because it was 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.160 like it was literally like coming of age and you know, 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.520 growing up, and I didn't understand the verbiage, but I 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.880 understood the vibes right, so you know, having Tapanga tell 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:49.680 me she's a fan? 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.920 Are you crazy? Are you crazy? 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.560 And also like I don't know how I I know 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.080 how I come across I shouldn't, you know, twenty years later, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.240 But that's not me, you know, I've essentially that's not me. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.240 It's me, but it's not I'm just not, you know, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.240 the right mold for the public, you know, TV and 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.839 all that stuff, Like I would be an awful politician, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.240 you know I would just you know, I'm not the 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.000 person you want to. I guess high if you just 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.760 want him to be very quiet and say exactly what 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:22.080 you sup? 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:23.880 You know what I mean? Like that sort of mold 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:24.880 is not my thing? 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.760 So what is your thing? How would you describe yourself? 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.920 You're very straightforward, You're super honest. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.479 What is it? What are the things that you would 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.600 say are make you who you are? 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.520 My Dancing with the Star's career, that's what we're referencing. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.880 For the most part, is started in a way that 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:45.200 didn't work for me. Now that I'm an older person, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.560 an older person, how to say it. But I'm a 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.400 father of three boys, and so I'm trying to do 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.080 my best, you know, regardless of what I did in 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.080 my past. I want to make sure that this part 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.520 is not you know, it's perfect and uh. And so 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.120 now I'm watching all these things and I'm analyzing a 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:02.560 lot of stuff is probably. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.760 I wasn't doing in my twenties. Who should? 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:05.239 Yeah? 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.720 You know so. I remember when Dancing with the Stars 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.400 started for me. It was a conversation with executives at 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.120 that time, and I asked one simple question, what is 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.159 my job? You know, as I would, I just want 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.120 to know what's my direction? And I was told, your 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.760 job is to give celebrity the best chance at winning 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.039 Dancing with the Stars. Great, right, yes, awesome, that's not 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.280 the job. No, you're right, that's not the job. Are 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.760 you crazy? How would you say that to a pro 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.680 dancer who's like ripping ground trying to win. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:37.240 It's not the job. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.960 The job is to give the celebrity the best time 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.719 on Dancing with It's not the best chance at winning 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.080 the chance whether they win or not, it's up to them. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.240 Their background, the dance background. It's not how fast they learned, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.960 because nobody learns how to dance in a week. You know, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.400 if you had it as a kid, you're going to 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.760 have enough leg up. If you are you know, older 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.080 and age, you're gonna have a you. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.480 Know, disadvantaged. You know. So these things are simple. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.440 So it's not about winning, because if I get given 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.039 you know X, and she has no chance, you know, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.680 now what, I'm just pulling that dead body across you know, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.120 she's she's not even you know, helping. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.960 Very similar to my leg right now, you know, so 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:22.960 pulling this dead body behind me. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.040 I really can relate to it. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.479 But I feel like just just to say, first of all, no, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.400 because you didn't look it honestly. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:31.880 But we'll get that. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.880 But also it's not so the halfway through my experience, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.880 towards the end of my experience, actually not halfway through, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.960 I was told that that's not the job, you know, 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.760 And so my my view changed, My outlook changed, My 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.520 personality didn't change. It's you know, still attitude and all that, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.520 but I definitely looked at it different. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.080 And then another point. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.080 Of awareness came when I realized that the show can 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.200 also be looked at as curtain up two hours you know, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.159 stage performance that you're watching as if view were and 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.440 you're seeing all this stuff happen, and all these things 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.960 happen and then curtain down and you walk away with 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.000 this feeling of what you just experienced. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.560 You it's not about this one thing. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.520 And so yeah, I'm a big part of but I'm 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.640 a big part of bigger thing, you know. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:23.640 So my part. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.400 Is limited to seven what I count at seven and 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.080 a half minutes of live TV. But this is not 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.840 a MAX show by any means. You know, when when 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.360 I said that nonsense, it was part of a longer 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.480 sentence it yet anyway, that's how I feel now it's 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.240 a sort of full circle. I now, yesterday I was 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.360 watching you guys and or whatever, let's just call it, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:51.280 at a premiere at a great time. Did you completely on, unaffected, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:56.040 unrelated on you know, no, no, sort of like you know, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.960 historic attachment to this particular thing or that or the person, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.800 you know what, just just chill time with Peter. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.559 Outside the house. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.600 Did you What did you think of the premiere? 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.200 I mean, you've now but you've been a part of 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.560 You were at seventeen seasons on the show, so you 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.600 did seventeen premieres yourself. There have been thirty four seasons, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.400 so I'm sure you've seen all the premieres. At this point, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.280 what did you think of last night's premiere compared to others. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.960 I mean, I'm just honestly, you know, it's it's dancing season. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.560 You know, it's festive that it's back. It's like Christmas, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.880 you know, it's coming back, and then it's gone, and 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.840 then you're like, oh, this wasn't a good Christmas. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.080 This was not the This wasn't the best Christmas. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:34.880 Eve been a part of get what I wanted, you 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:35.520 know what I mean. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.559 Like, but it was still you know, it's that every 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:39.760 year and it keeps coming back. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.960 I'm not saying that it wasn't a good premiere. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.640 I mean we've had premiers that were just you know, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.520 through the roof of excitement, just you know, skin crawling 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.440 and just the people and the buzz around it. I 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.080 feel like I may not have felt that these levels, okay, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.040 but me personally, I was just to be there, you know, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.760 and the fact that it's still there and it's still around. Yeah, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.319 and it's having a resurgence. You know, the numbers are 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:07.840 announced and all that stuff. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:08.280 It's cute. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.200 Does it surprise you at all that there's been a 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.800 resurgence or do you think social media is just the 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.560 best help Dancing with the Stars could ever have. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.920 I mean, the biggest platform in social media history, and 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.040 the same history is short but you know the TikTok 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:29.480 and all that. It was bounded on short form dance videos, right, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.400 So like you got, how are you going to borrow 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.280 my industry, make your industry and then use your industry? 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.280 I have to might help my you know what I mean? So, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.360 like you know, dances through line and I think Dancing 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.320 with the Stars has to stick around. It was part 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:48.199 of you know, strictly Come dancing. British version that birthed 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.400 it all was what running sixty years and you know 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.240 every Saturday, Yeah, people would tune in and why it's 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.240 that So I'm hoping that Dancing with the Stars will 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.280 be around for a long time. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.280 What were your thoughts of my dance? 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.920 It was great, I have to admit, I you know this, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.840 I'm gonna repeat a bunch of times. I think it's 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:16.280 one of the strongest dance level wise casts for sure. Yeah, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.920 and so and you know you you say it because 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.640 you have to. Everything is very close near sighted for you. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.400 I get I'm priving now to a little wider spectrum, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.080 and but I just I have to admit. Yeah, it's 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.880 it's everybody can dance. And so when when you cast people, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.640 and you know, miss Miscats does an amazing job every season, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.440 but I guess you kind of you can now see 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.440 like fill in the blank type of vibe. Right, so 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.960 we're gonna have this one the dancer, this one, the 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.080 dark horse, this one, the maybe. This was the like 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.680 real big maybe. Yeah, he's probably gonna go first this. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.360 I feel like everyone who on the board was a 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.280 maybe turned out to be they can dance. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:10:59.000 Wow. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.079 You know, at least they put on the show. So 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.800 testament to the pros that know what they're doing one 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.000 hundred percent. Everybody's sort of like where some new pros 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.679 got a lot to you know, live up to. I 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:16.800 think the bars raised very high. You're specifically danced. When 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.520 you came out, I was like, damn, she can dance you. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:20.319 So you have that. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.320 Reaction, you know, you got the same reaction. But again, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.920 it's a big pool. I'm just telling you the reality 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.240 here is that as the pool starts to get smaller, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.559 the eyes are becoming a little more focused on individuals. Absolutely, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.679 you're not going to have that for a second, but 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.679 you just got to live through these few weeks and 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.480 get into the first week, there's going to be a 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.360 big test, which is week three. So this one, you've 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.360 already had your dance kind of mapped out at the 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.959 very least. And I'm not saying everybody. Some people start 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.520 the second dance just now, you know, in reality, but 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.800 a lot of us would have had two dances done 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.120 by the premiere, and so you'll be cleaning and the 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:02.960 next dance will be the first time you get to 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.080 do something in three days, four days, whatever it is. Yeah, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.080 that's gonna be a big test, and then let's see 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.679 whose levels are gonna. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.000 Stay up then, right, Yeah, I really feel like this season, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.800 maybe more so than other seasons I've paid attention to, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.920 where it feels like it's very split between zero dance 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.000 experience and a lot of dancing because there was. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.679 A middle ground set with all the maybies and they 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.199 all tend turned out crazy. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:29.640 Alan's partner I forgot the. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.800 Name, I'm sorry. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.560 Yeah, so she was, I mean, I was shocked, but 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.480 she also kind of like when that question came up, 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.640 She's like, well, actually I started my career as a dancer. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.080 Everybody's like, wait a minute, and then she whipped it 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.199 out and it was like, holy wow, that was amazing. So 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.160 that was that maybe that you know what, possibly probably 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.400 she may may not. And then it's bam, now it's 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.280 everybody's like, oh damn, yep, everybody can dance to tell 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.920 you if you if you want, if you care, you danced, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.160 and then I was watching, I was like, she used 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:08.880 to roll out her tea bends and I'm not, I'm not, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.360 I'm not, I'm just First of all, did you feel 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:13.760 the pain. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:14.600 When you Yeah? 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.400 Yeah, I mean the adrenaline obviously, the adrenaline got me through. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:17.800 The actual day. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.960 Do you feel like you were when you were doing steps, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.040 let's say it with side whenever you were stepping laterally, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.120 did you feel any discomfort or you were just kind 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:27.800 of going through it. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:32.720 My left hip keeps locking up, like in my iliacis 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.720 and my so as okay, so inside that hip bone, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.480 you know, like and that's because my rondez, my kick, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.920 and my lunges were all with my right leg, so 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.959 my right leg was being extended and my left leg. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.360 Yeah. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.480 No, you guys definitely like heavy on one side. I 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.320 did that with one partner and she had the same 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.000 exact I swear to god, I did the same exact 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.360 lunch down. I was like, and you're going bam and 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.319 she and then again and then time. Yeah, and two 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.319 day's later it's like, look, I know. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.000 Well that was That's what I said, truthfully, was that 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.240 we had too much time with this dance, Like we 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.720 were able to do full runs with this dance for 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.880 four hours for probably. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.840 Eight days in a row of just like. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.960 Thirty two hours straight of high kicking and lunging, and 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.320 even if you're going to like try to market, it's 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.120 hard to. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.920 Not go on I know, cleaning, but you also, you know, 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.320 I'm not going to step in on Pasha Sturff at 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.120 all because you guys have having conversations and he has 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.800 a plan, but you're going to have a lot of repetition, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.160 which is the right thing you need to be cleaned. Yes, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.760 you know, there's so much Oh you did that, yeah, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.280 you know, and then it's a big thing out of 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.320 really nothing, to be honest, but like you have to 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:47.960 show zero that. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.800 So yeah, I mean, listen, I hope you enjoy it. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.840 I've never had more fun doing anything ever in my 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.920 entire life. If someone said to me, he Danielle do 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:58.320 you want this to be your full time job from 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.680 now on, I'd be like, yes, thank thank you. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.080 Take that like it's insane. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.040 I'm I'm actually I'm physically dissolving, and I'm like, when 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:06.840 can I do it again? 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:07.600 Like you? 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.840 Yeah, no, if you feel welcome it and if you 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:17.280 if you like that process, you're gonna have an incredible benefit. Yeah, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.080 it is physically. You know, you guys melt into shapes 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.800 you've never had. I'm just being honest. You know, I've 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.480 I've been pretty to some of my partners that would 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.160 go through crazy transfers. I had some athletes that didn't 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.680 need to lose anything or tone anything either, you know. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.680 But I've had some people that definitely had life changing, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.880 life altering experiences on the show. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.520 Yeah, that's what I'm trying. I'm trying to avoid a 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.960 tummy talk. So I've been Dancing with the stars, you know, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.800 this is that was my plan. I was like, have 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.200 two children and then tummy talk or dancing with the stars, 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.280 and I chose dancing with the stars. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.320 Oh man, you chose wisely. Is great. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.840 What do you remember about your very first show? Did 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.200 you feel like you fit right in? Did you feel 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.880 like there were a bunch of mistakes you made. What 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.440 did you think of your performance after your first Uh? 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.960 I felt great. Tia Carrera, Damn, I just saw her. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.000 I just saw her in uh in the New le 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.000 lu and Stitch. I was like, where did I just 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.840 see her? I just played my eighty year old just 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.800 had that movie play. I'm like, oh my god, that's 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.280 let's tea. He's like, Papa, who's see you. I'm like, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.160 this is you know, mama, mama of work. He's like, yes, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.520 Dancing with the Stars. I'm like, so that was my 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.200 first part of this Stars. I mean, it was just 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:46.440 like computing going. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:46.920 On in his head. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:53.440 He's like, oh, oh, I remember. I was just you know, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:59.680 she was amazing. I remember this the the where they lived. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.040 She just had a baby, she just had a kid. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.840 And so it was her friend who was a tango 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.439 dancer that she was having lunch with when she's like, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:11.679 what do you think should I do this? 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.560 And he's like are you crazy? Hell yeah? And this 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.080 was season two, mind you. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.879 Season one nobody saw, you know, it was a pilot 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:20.879 season and then season two was kind of like the 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.920 first big thing. So yeah, it was just a dancer. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.920 It was like, you need some dancing in your life. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.480 You just had a baby, go do that, unbeknownst that she. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.199 Was going to get me. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.000 How do you know what to do in your first 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.720 season as a pro court? Yes, Like, how do they 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.120 don't give you a book that. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.520 Says, okay, I told you that. I told you, asked 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.159 what do I do? And they said, you're going to 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:42.760 make her win? 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:43.120 Yeah. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.960 So by by two thousand and five, I'm a twenty 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:53.760 five year old right retired dance professional. I've done I've 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.320 danced since I was five years old. I competed this 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.760 entire time. I went through the entire of the career 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.520 that a dancer has, from kid to kid who sucks, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.480 to young adults who's not very good either, to an 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.200 under eighteen where I blasted into under twenty one where 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.359 I had some really good results and I'm talking about 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.160 you know, worldwide, to then I didn't do so well 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.359 in amateurs, and then I just had a great career 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.040 in professional Latin. And so by the time I finished, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.679 I went all the way to the world you know, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:34.159 final stage, top whatever, twelve six ten couples in the world. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:35.520 So I've done all that. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.560 But I also since twenty seventeen to two thousand and five, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.920 I had one of the best dance studios in the country. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:47.160 I produced a lot of talented ballroom specifically Latin dancers, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.439 including you know, I'm gonna claim val as you know 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.640 my student. Yes, So you know I did a lot 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.120 of stuff. I did a lot, you know, a couple 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.720 of dance your favorite TV dance personalities as somebody who 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.320 I taught as well. So I had that education in 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.320 educating I just never had education in educating adults. And 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.400 so I came in from like I'm gonna make your 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:13.359 world champion, your eight year old prodigy, to this lady 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.119 who is you know, significantly older than me and just 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.600 had a child, and I'm like, lady, we're here to win. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.880 She's like, wait what wait, so hold on a second. Yeah, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.600 I can't my you know, my my ed actors don't 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.879 work yet. I'm like, don't worry about it. It's a split. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.640 And was gonna start with Argentine Tango. I mean, wow, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.400 she got me at the worst. Oh, bless her heart, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.679 she was. She's a homie though, she's amazing. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:39.720 That's so great. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.399 Somehow, I have to admit somehow through the show there 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.800 was ups and downs. Obviously, some people don't really have 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.160 a good memory of me at all, and you neither 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.320 do I of them. But Tia, Yeah, no matter what, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.879 no matter how like I remember I, it was, she 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.919 must have been. It must have been difficult because I 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.600 also wasn't really sure what we're doing, you know. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:01.880 Yeah, you're figuring it out as you go. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.359 And she and we still have a great relationship, and 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.080 she really does remember me, you know, fondly, so it's awesome. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.320