Speaker 1: Welcome to Danielle with the Stars.
Speaker 2: I am Danielle Fischel, a TV director, a podcaster forever.
Speaker 1: Topanga, and a mom of two.
Speaker 2: But right now I am an aspiring ballroom dancer competing
Speaker 2: on season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, airing
Speaker 2: every Tuesday night on ABC and Disney Plus. And throughout
Speaker 2: the process, I am recording a podcast chronicling my journey
Speaker 2: to win my.
Speaker 1: Very own mirror Ball.
Speaker 2: And along the way, I am hoping to chat with
Speaker 2: other contestants and professionals from not only the current iteration
Speaker 2: of Dancing with the Stars, but it's past and today.
Speaker 2: I am honored to welcome true ballroom Royalty to Danielle
Speaker 2: with the Stars. This mirror Ball winner appeared on seventeen
Speaker 2: seasons of the show, becoming one of the most recognizable
Speaker 2: fan favorites of all time and a major reason I
Speaker 2: kept up with the show four years. His trophy came
Speaker 2: in season eighteen, alongside partner Meryl Davis, and it's worth
Speaker 2: noting he also has two second place finishes, and I
Speaker 2: don't care what they say, close does count. I'll accept it.
Speaker 2: He is synonymous with the show that I'm hoping to conquer,
Speaker 2: so this might just be my key to the finals,
Speaker 2: or if I fall short, he can supply the booze
Speaker 2: since his Tetya Kappa Vodka, made right at home in
Speaker 2: Napa Valley, is taking the Spirit's world by storm and
Speaker 2: soon Calabasas where. On Thursday night, September twenty fifth, he
Speaker 2: will hold Kappa Knights at the Mulholland, an event you're
Speaker 2: going to want to attend. I am thrilled to welcome
Speaker 2: to the show the Legend Maxim Schmerkovski. Max, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for coming on my podcast. I am a
Speaker 2: huge fan of yours. I've been a fan for decades.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, crazy.
Speaker 2: You are one of the main reasons I started watching
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars, and I know that you have
Speaker 2: a more strict approach to teaching. It was always my
Speaker 2: absolute favorite to watch.
Speaker 3: That's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 4: You're part of a You're part of a specific time
Speaker 4: in an immigrants life. I am yes, because when I
Speaker 4: came in ninety four, yeah, all right, and there was
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 3: Of things that I was in privy to.
Speaker 4: You know, I was fourteen already, so the foundation wasn't
Speaker 4: set here. It was set somewhere else. So the that
Speaker 4: cartoon that Tom and Jerry, the blah blah blah, like
Speaker 4: I didn't I didn't have that right, right, But so
Speaker 4: I have this sort of the BCA D right, but
Speaker 4: I have the before us and then after. And so
Speaker 4: my foundation was set in late mid late nineties, huh,
Speaker 4: with whatever was available to us, which wasn't internet based.
Speaker 1: There was few channels and prime time television TV.
Speaker 4: And my primetime is what like after I come from school,
Speaker 4: so it's like three you to six seven. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: that's the you know, that's family matters. That's Batman on
Speaker 4: Channel eleven back then, that's you guys.
Speaker 3: That's all this.
Speaker 4: You know, I can name couple of shows that are
Speaker 4: fundamental for me. Your show was a fundamental time. I
Speaker 4: didn't speak English. I was not understanding I saw this
Speaker 4: hot shick when I was a teenager.
Speaker 1: Who is that you? Okay, it's amazing, the whole thing.
Speaker 4: And then I you know, it took me later years
Speaker 4: to understand what the show was about because it was
Speaker 4: like it was literally like coming of age and you know,
Speaker 4: growing up, and I didn't understand the verbiage, but I
Speaker 4: understood the vibes right, so you know, having Tapanga tell
Speaker 4: me she's a fan?
Speaker 3: Are you crazy? Are you crazy?
Speaker 4: And also like I don't know how I I know
Speaker 4: how I come across I shouldn't, you know, twenty years later,
Speaker 4: But that's not me, you know, I've essentially that's not me.
Speaker 4: It's me, but it's not I'm just not, you know,
Speaker 4: the right mold for the public, you know, TV and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, Like I would be an awful politician,
Speaker 4: you know I would just you know, I'm not the
Speaker 4: person you want to. I guess high if you just
Speaker 4: want him to be very quiet and say exactly what
Speaker 4: you sup?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like that sort of mold
Speaker 3: is not my thing?
Speaker 2: So what is your thing? How would you describe yourself?
Speaker 2: You're very straightforward, You're super honest.
Speaker 1: What is it? What are the things that you would
Speaker 1: say are make you who you are?
Speaker 4: My Dancing with the Star's career, that's what we're referencing.
Speaker 4: For the most part, is started in a way that
Speaker 4: didn't work for me. Now that I'm an older person,
Speaker 4: an older person, how to say it. But I'm a
Speaker 4: father of three boys, and so I'm trying to do
Speaker 4: my best, you know, regardless of what I did in
Speaker 4: my past. I want to make sure that this part
Speaker 4: is not you know, it's perfect and uh. And so
Speaker 4: now I'm watching all these things and I'm analyzing a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff is probably.
Speaker 3: I wasn't doing in my twenties. Who should?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know so. I remember when Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 4: started for me. It was a conversation with executives at
Speaker 4: that time, and I asked one simple question, what is
Speaker 4: my job? You know, as I would, I just want
Speaker 4: to know what's my direction? And I was told, your
Speaker 4: job is to give celebrity the best chance at winning
Speaker 4: Dancing with the Stars. Great, right, yes, awesome, that's not
Speaker 4: the job. No, you're right, that's not the job. Are
Speaker 4: you crazy? How would you say that to a pro
Speaker 4: dancer who's like ripping ground trying to win.
Speaker 3: It's not the job.
Speaker 4: The job is to give the celebrity the best time
Speaker 4: on Dancing with It's not the best chance at winning
Speaker 4: the chance whether they win or not, it's up to them.
Speaker 4: Their background, the dance background. It's not how fast they learned,
Speaker 4: because nobody learns how to dance in a week. You know,
Speaker 4: if you had it as a kid, you're going to
Speaker 4: have enough leg up. If you are you know, older
Speaker 4: and age, you're gonna have a you.
Speaker 3: Know, disadvantaged. You know. So these things are simple.
Speaker 4: So it's not about winning, because if I get given
Speaker 4: you know X, and she has no chance, you know,
Speaker 4: now what, I'm just pulling that dead body across you know,
Speaker 4: she's she's not even you know, helping.
Speaker 2: Very similar to my leg right now, you know, so
Speaker 2: pulling this dead body behind me.
Speaker 1: I really can relate to it.
Speaker 4: But I feel like just just to say, first of all, no,
Speaker 4: because you didn't look it honestly.
Speaker 3: But we'll get that.
Speaker 4: But also it's not so the halfway through my experience,
Speaker 4: towards the end of my experience, actually not halfway through,
Speaker 4: I was told that that's not the job, you know,
Speaker 4: And so my my view changed, My outlook changed, My
Speaker 4: personality didn't change. It's you know, still attitude and all that,
Speaker 4: but I definitely looked at it different.
Speaker 3: And then another point.
Speaker 4: Of awareness came when I realized that the show can
Speaker 4: also be looked at as curtain up two hours you know,
Speaker 4: stage performance that you're watching as if view were and
Speaker 4: you're seeing all this stuff happen, and all these things
Speaker 4: happen and then curtain down and you walk away with
Speaker 4: this feeling of what you just experienced.
Speaker 3: You it's not about this one thing.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I'm a big part of but I'm
Speaker 4: a big part of bigger thing, you know.
Speaker 3: So my part.
Speaker 4: Is limited to seven what I count at seven and
Speaker 4: a half minutes of live TV. But this is not
Speaker 4: a MAX show by any means. You know, when when
Speaker 4: I said that nonsense, it was part of a longer
Speaker 4: sentence it yet anyway, that's how I feel now it's
Speaker 4: a sort of full circle. I now, yesterday I was
Speaker 4: watching you guys and or whatever, let's just call it,
Speaker 4: at a premiere at a great time. Did you completely on, unaffected,
Speaker 4: unrelated on you know, no, no, sort of like you know,
Speaker 4: historic attachment to this particular thing or that or the person,
Speaker 4: you know what, just just chill time with Peter.
Speaker 3: Outside the house.
Speaker 1: Did you What did you think of the premiere?
Speaker 2: I mean, you've now but you've been a part of
Speaker 2: You were at seventeen seasons on the show, so you
Speaker 2: did seventeen premieres yourself. There have been thirty four seasons,
Speaker 2: so I'm sure you've seen all the premieres. At this point,
Speaker 2: what did you think of last night's premiere compared to others.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just honestly, you know, it's it's dancing season.
Speaker 4: You know, it's festive that it's back. It's like Christmas,
Speaker 4: you know, it's coming back, and then it's gone, and
Speaker 4: then you're like, oh, this wasn't a good Christmas.
Speaker 3: This was not the This wasn't the best Christmas.
Speaker 1: Eve been a part of get what I wanted, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like, but it was still you know, it's that every
Speaker 4: year and it keeps coming back.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that it wasn't a good premiere.
Speaker 4: I mean we've had premiers that were just you know,
Speaker 4: through the roof of excitement, just you know, skin crawling
Speaker 4: and just the people and the buzz around it. I
Speaker 4: feel like I may not have felt that these levels, okay,
Speaker 4: but me personally, I was just to be there, you know,
Speaker 4: and the fact that it's still there and it's still around. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it's having a resurgence. You know, the numbers are
Speaker 4: announced and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: It's cute.
Speaker 2: Does it surprise you at all that there's been a
Speaker 2: resurgence or do you think social media is just the
Speaker 2: best help Dancing with the Stars could ever have.
Speaker 4: I mean, the biggest platform in social media history, and
Speaker 4: the same history is short but you know the TikTok
Speaker 4: and all that. It was bounded on short form dance videos, right,
Speaker 4: So like you got, how are you going to borrow
Speaker 4: my industry, make your industry and then use your industry?
Speaker 4: I have to might help my you know what I mean? So,
Speaker 4: like you know, dances through line and I think Dancing
Speaker 4: with the Stars has to stick around. It was part
Speaker 4: of you know, strictly Come dancing. British version that birthed
Speaker 4: it all was what running sixty years and you know
Speaker 4: every Saturday, Yeah, people would tune in and why it's
Speaker 4: that So I'm hoping that Dancing with the Stars will
Speaker 4: be around for a long time.
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts of my dance?
Speaker 4: It was great, I have to admit, I you know this,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna repeat a bunch of times. I think it's
Speaker 4: one of the strongest dance level wise casts for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and so and you know you you say it because
Speaker 4: you have to. Everything is very close near sighted for you.
Speaker 4: I get I'm priving now to a little wider spectrum,
Speaker 4: and but I just I have to admit. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's everybody can dance. And so when when you cast people,
Speaker 4: and you know, miss Miscats does an amazing job every season,
Speaker 4: but I guess you kind of you can now see
Speaker 4: like fill in the blank type of vibe. Right, so
Speaker 4: we're gonna have this one the dancer, this one, the
Speaker 4: dark horse, this one, the maybe. This was the like
Speaker 4: real big maybe. Yeah, he's probably gonna go first this.
Speaker 4: I feel like everyone who on the board was a
Speaker 4: maybe turned out to be they can dance.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: You know, at least they put on the show. So
Speaker 4: testament to the pros that know what they're doing one
Speaker 4: hundred percent. Everybody's sort of like where some new pros
Speaker 4: got a lot to you know, live up to. I
Speaker 4: think the bars raised very high. You're specifically danced. When
Speaker 4: you came out, I was like, damn, she can dance you.
Speaker 3: So you have that.
Speaker 4: Reaction, you know, you got the same reaction. But again,
Speaker 4: it's a big pool. I'm just telling you the reality
Speaker 4: here is that as the pool starts to get smaller,
Speaker 4: the eyes are becoming a little more focused on individuals. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: you're not going to have that for a second, but
Speaker 4: you just got to live through these few weeks and
Speaker 4: get into the first week, there's going to be a
Speaker 4: big test, which is week three. So this one, you've
Speaker 4: already had your dance kind of mapped out at the
Speaker 4: very least. And I'm not saying everybody. Some people start
Speaker 4: the second dance just now, you know, in reality, but
Speaker 4: a lot of us would have had two dances done
Speaker 4: by the premiere, and so you'll be cleaning and the
Speaker 4: next dance will be the first time you get to
Speaker 4: do something in three days, four days, whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's gonna be a big test, and then let's see
Speaker 4: whose levels are gonna.
Speaker 2: Stay up then, right, Yeah, I really feel like this season,
Speaker 2: maybe more so than other seasons I've paid attention to,
Speaker 2: where it feels like it's very split between zero dance
Speaker 2: experience and a lot of dancing because there was.
Speaker 4: A middle ground set with all the maybies and they
Speaker 4: all tend turned out crazy.
Speaker 3: Alan's partner I forgot the.
Speaker 1: Name, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she was, I mean, I was shocked, but
Speaker 4: she also kind of like when that question came up,
Speaker 4: She's like, well, actually I started my career as a dancer.
Speaker 4: Everybody's like, wait a minute, and then she whipped it
Speaker 4: out and it was like, holy wow, that was amazing. So
Speaker 4: that was that maybe that you know what, possibly probably
Speaker 4: she may may not. And then it's bam, now it's
Speaker 4: everybody's like, oh damn, yep, everybody can dance to tell
Speaker 4: you if you if you want, if you care, you danced,
Speaker 4: and then I was watching, I was like, she used
Speaker 4: to roll out her tea bends and I'm not, I'm not,
Speaker 4: I'm not, I'm just First of all, did you feel
Speaker 4: the pain.
Speaker 1: When you Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the adrenaline obviously, the adrenaline got me through.
Speaker 1: The actual day.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you were when you were doing steps,
Speaker 4: let's say it with side whenever you were stepping laterally,
Speaker 4: did you feel any discomfort or you were just kind
Speaker 4: of going through it.
Speaker 2: My left hip keeps locking up, like in my iliacis
Speaker 2: and my so as okay, so inside that hip bone,
Speaker 2: you know, like and that's because my rondez, my kick,
Speaker 2: and my lunges were all with my right leg, so
Speaker 2: my right leg was being extended and my left leg.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, you guys definitely like heavy on one side. I
Speaker 4: did that with one partner and she had the same
Speaker 4: exact I swear to god, I did the same exact
Speaker 4: lunch down. I was like, and you're going bam and
Speaker 4: she and then again and then time. Yeah, and two
Speaker 4: day's later it's like, look, I know.
Speaker 2: Well that was That's what I said, truthfully, was that
Speaker 2: we had too much time with this dance, Like we
Speaker 2: were able to do full runs with this dance for
Speaker 2: four hours for probably.
Speaker 1: Eight days in a row of just like.
Speaker 2: Thirty two hours straight of high kicking and lunging, and
Speaker 2: even if you're going to like try to market, it's
Speaker 2: hard to.
Speaker 4: Not go on I know, cleaning, but you also, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to step in on Pasha Sturff at
Speaker 4: all because you guys have having conversations and he has
Speaker 4: a plan, but you're going to have a lot of repetition,
Speaker 4: which is the right thing you need to be cleaned. Yes,
Speaker 4: you know, there's so much Oh you did that, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, and then it's a big thing out of
Speaker 4: really nothing, to be honest, but like you have to
Speaker 4: show zero that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, listen, I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2: I've never had more fun doing anything ever in my
Speaker 2: entire life. If someone said to me, he Danielle do
Speaker 2: you want this to be your full time job from
Speaker 2: now on, I'd be like, yes, thank thank you.
Speaker 1: Take that like it's insane.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm actually I'm physically dissolving, and I'm like, when
Speaker 2: can I do it again?
Speaker 1: Like you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, if you feel welcome it and if you
Speaker 4: if you like that process, you're gonna have an incredible benefit. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it is physically. You know, you guys melt into shapes
Speaker 4: you've never had. I'm just being honest. You know, I've
Speaker 4: I've been pretty to some of my partners that would
Speaker 4: go through crazy transfers. I had some athletes that didn't
Speaker 4: need to lose anything or tone anything either, you know.
Speaker 4: But I've had some people that definitely had life changing,
Speaker 4: life altering experiences on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm trying. I'm trying to avoid a
Speaker 2: tummy talk. So I've been Dancing with the stars, you know,
Speaker 2: this is that was my plan. I was like, have
Speaker 2: two children and then tummy talk or dancing with the stars,
Speaker 2: and I chose dancing with the stars.
Speaker 3: Oh man, you chose wisely. Is great.
Speaker 2: What do you remember about your very first show? Did
Speaker 2: you feel like you fit right in? Did you feel
Speaker 2: like there were a bunch of mistakes you made. What
Speaker 2: did you think of your performance after your first Uh?
Speaker 4: I felt great. Tia Carrera, Damn, I just saw her.
Speaker 4: I just saw her in uh in the New le
Speaker 4: lu and Stitch. I was like, where did I just
Speaker 4: see her? I just played my eighty year old just
Speaker 4: had that movie play. I'm like, oh my god, that's
Speaker 4: let's tea. He's like, Papa, who's see you. I'm like,
Speaker 4: this is you know, mama, mama of work. He's like, yes,
Speaker 4: Dancing with the Stars. I'm like, so that was my
Speaker 4: first part of this Stars. I mean, it was just
Speaker 4: like computing going.
Speaker 3: On in his head.
Speaker 4: He's like, oh, oh, I remember. I was just you know,
Speaker 4: she was amazing. I remember this the the where they lived.
Speaker 4: She just had a baby, she just had a kid.
Speaker 4: And so it was her friend who was a tango
Speaker 4: dancer that she was having lunch with when she's like,
Speaker 4: what do you think should I do this?
Speaker 3: And he's like are you crazy? Hell yeah? And this
Speaker 3: was season two, mind you.
Speaker 4: Season one nobody saw, you know, it was a pilot
Speaker 4: season and then season two was kind of like the
Speaker 4: first big thing. So yeah, it was just a dancer.
Speaker 4: It was like, you need some dancing in your life.
Speaker 4: You just had a baby, go do that, unbeknownst that she.
Speaker 3: Was going to get me.
Speaker 2: How do you know what to do in your first
Speaker 2: season as a pro court? Yes, Like, how do they
Speaker 2: don't give you a book that.
Speaker 1: Says, okay, I told you that. I told you, asked
Speaker 1: what do I do? And they said, you're going to
Speaker 1: make her win?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So by by two thousand and five, I'm a twenty
Speaker 4: five year old right retired dance professional. I've done I've
Speaker 4: danced since I was five years old. I competed this
Speaker 4: entire time. I went through the entire of the career
Speaker 4: that a dancer has, from kid to kid who sucks,
Speaker 4: to young adults who's not very good either, to an
Speaker 4: under eighteen where I blasted into under twenty one where
Speaker 4: I had some really good results and I'm talking about
Speaker 4: you know, worldwide, to then I didn't do so well
Speaker 4: in amateurs, and then I just had a great career
Speaker 4: in professional Latin. And so by the time I finished,
Speaker 4: I went all the way to the world you know,
Speaker 4: final stage, top whatever, twelve six ten couples in the world.
Speaker 3: So I've done all that.
Speaker 4: But I also since twenty seventeen to two thousand and five,
Speaker 4: I had one of the best dance studios in the country.
Speaker 4: I produced a lot of talented ballroom specifically Latin dancers,
Speaker 4: including you know, I'm gonna claim val as you know
Speaker 4: my student. Yes, So you know I did a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff. I did a lot, you know, a couple
Speaker 4: of dance your favorite TV dance personalities as somebody who
Speaker 4: I taught as well. So I had that education in
Speaker 4: educating I just never had education in educating adults. And
Speaker 4: so I came in from like I'm gonna make your
Speaker 4: world champion, your eight year old prodigy, to this lady
Speaker 4: who is you know, significantly older than me and just
Speaker 4: had a child, and I'm like, lady, we're here to win.
Speaker 4: She's like, wait what wait, so hold on a second. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't my you know, my my ed actors don't
Speaker 4: work yet. I'm like, don't worry about it. It's a split.
Speaker 4: And was gonna start with Argentine Tango. I mean, wow,
Speaker 4: she got me at the worst. Oh, bless her heart,
Speaker 4: she was. She's a homie though, she's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's so great.
Speaker 4: Somehow, I have to admit somehow through the show there
Speaker 4: was ups and downs. Obviously, some people don't really have
Speaker 4: a good memory of me at all, and you neither
Speaker 4: do I of them. But Tia, Yeah, no matter what,
Speaker 4: no matter how like I remember I, it was, she
Speaker 4: must have been. It must have been difficult because I
Speaker 4: also wasn't really sure what we're doing, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're figuring it out as you go.
Speaker 4: And she and we still have a great relationship, and
Speaker 4: she really does remember me, you know, fondly, so it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just certain you know, you can't you can't
Speaker 2: pick chemistry.
Speaker 1: And some people learn.
Speaker 2: Some people are visual learners, some people are auditory learners.
Speaker 2: Some people respond really well to somebody who's going to
Speaker 2: be exacting and demanding and and drive a hard bargain,
Speaker 2: and other people are going to need someone who's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe you just need to walk around the block for
Speaker 2: a little bit. So yeah, you know, it's like, you
Speaker 2: don't have to be for everyone. You just need to
Speaker 2: be you, and the people who are meant for you
Speaker 2: will find you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just not the tiped if you're going to
Speaker 4: come to me and be excuse me, I need to
Speaker 4: walk around the block a little bit. I'll be like
Speaker 4: I'm leaving, you can go walk around. I'm not coming back,
Speaker 4: but you're right. Over time I realized like, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: you could have. You could have implemented a couple of
Speaker 4: things that would have made rehearsal easier in the time,
Speaker 4: more enjoyable. Like I said, man, incorrect information as sold.
Speaker 4: This is not the job description to be.
Speaker 2: Do you think they thought that that was the point
Speaker 2: of the show when it started? Okay, yeah, they were
Speaker 2: like the hook when they sold the show was we're
Speaker 2: going to make a celebrity wins.
Speaker 3: It's not their fault the way I said it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm just saying my interpretation is very simple,
Speaker 4: like yeah, there's a finish line crossed at first exactly
Speaker 4: when the show got it.
Speaker 2: And you're competitive, so of course you're like, no matter what,
Speaker 2: my goal is, to be the person holding my celeb's
Speaker 2: hand at the end of that finish line got me.
Speaker 4: At the time two thousand and five, I had no
Speaker 4: plans of being in LA, didn't want to do the show,
Speaker 4: didn't want to have anything to do with TV. I
Speaker 4: wanted to win professional Latin Championships, Worlds, whatever, British Open
Speaker 4: and I was scratching the I was in the fine
Speaker 4: I was scratching the top six, and so it's just
Speaker 4: a time effort. You know, I'm twenty five. I maybe
Speaker 4: I was the one of the youngest in the girl field.
Speaker 4: I was a baby, and so I had the ten
Speaker 4: years that I could spend on it. I looked at
Speaker 4: it when I got the call, and I thought about
Speaker 4: this dancing career and the fact that I've only danced
Speaker 4: and I've been to all these cities. Didn't see any
Speaker 4: of that. Just so the ballroom. Maybe I'm gonna make
Speaker 4: the right choice if I give this a chance. That
Speaker 4: was my train of thought. But when I got to
Speaker 4: LA and I saw this, I was like, this is
Speaker 4: definitely not what I want to do. So this was
Speaker 4: always like, okay, fine, I'll do one season. Okay, fine,
Speaker 4: I'll do one season.
Speaker 1: Wow. And then you just kept going back.
Speaker 4: Well kept not going back, and then coming back, and
Speaker 4: then not coming back and coming back, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, We're in a really unhealthy situation.
Speaker 3: Very unhealthy situation. Ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, make up my mind.
Speaker 1: Is there a strategy to winning Dancing with the Stars?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: What's the strategy?
Speaker 3: Politics? Tell me more, what do you think you're dancing here.
Speaker 1: A dance show.
Speaker 4: No, I think you're in a great position, to be fair.
Speaker 4: I think you're awesome partnership with you and Pasha, I
Speaker 4: think you guys fit well. I think he's a great
Speaker 4: partner for you, and I think and I think he's
Speaker 4: great for you to also shine. You know, Pasha is
Speaker 4: a great He's great at being a great foundation. You know,
Speaker 4: he's a pomp. I think he's one of the best
Speaker 4: teachers on the cast for sure, because of the way
Speaker 4: he approaches dance.
Speaker 3: And we grew up together.
Speaker 4: By the way, he's from my neck of the woods,
Speaker 4: so I know him since babyhood. But anyway, so Pasha,
Speaker 4: you know, and his career was that and his dance
Speaker 4: was that. So he's giving you exactly what I would
Speaker 4: want to give my partner to learn and dance quick.
Speaker 4: You know, he has the shortcut to like, Okay, well,
Speaker 4: here's what we're going to dance as a whatever. He
Speaker 4: is how I'm going to teacher dance, you know, the
Speaker 4: basic He's how I'm gonna introduce the I think he's
Speaker 4: doing all the correct things, so you're not a mess
Speaker 4: in your head. You're structured and the dance is presented
Speaker 4: well and you're not just learning steps, you're actually learning
Speaker 4: how to do a quick step or how to do
Speaker 4: a chatcha. So you have that advantage. It's a great partnership.
Speaker 4: You guys look great together. He'll let you shine. That's
Speaker 4: very important. You know, there's some dudes on the cast
Speaker 4: that you just can't help it, but like, look at
Speaker 4: the dude, you know, and same with the girls, right,
Speaker 4: But you don't want that as a celebrity on Dancing Stars.
Speaker 4: You want to be seen in the best possible light
Speaker 4: and way, and so I think that he'll provide that perfectly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Pasha said to me that his entire job is to
Speaker 2: be the frame and that I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 3: The right exactly. I looked at Tia Carrera said, Hi,
Speaker 3: my job is to make you win. Let's go. That's
Speaker 3: the difference. It's just like, what don't.
Speaker 1: Just do what I say?
Speaker 4: Do what I say exactly, Yeah, with this heavy accent too.
Speaker 4: I was like, damn, man, at least try a little bit. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: do you see how drastically different the experiences were.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So so if this interview is like, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: you have Tia and you know, and and and Danielle
Speaker 4: talking about dancing with the stars, Right, That's that's what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so outside of the fact that I have
Speaker 2: a wonderful teacher, part of the strategy.
Speaker 4: The dance, man, you just have to be all in
Speaker 4: to dance. A lot of people get lost in the
Speaker 4: source of this being a TV show. And so it's
Speaker 4: what you say, it's how you say it. It's an interview, babe,
Speaker 4: it's about It's about what you're doing on Tuesday night.
Speaker 4: That's it. You could say whatever you want. You can be,
Speaker 4: you can be. You know, you can do this. You
Speaker 4: can you know. There's a lot but people won't know
Speaker 4: right until you tell them. Is that this is just
Speaker 4: a tip of the iceberg, the show, the dance itself.
Speaker 4: I mean, the interviews have you done so far? The constant,
Speaker 4: the endless otfs and you know, we have to pull
Speaker 4: you for this, for that. You gotta fitting, you gotta this,
Speaker 4: you gotta dad. Yet I don't know what the setup
Speaker 4: is now. Maybe they'll come to you, guys, because if
Speaker 4: you got to go to them, it's a drive.
Speaker 3: It's this do you eat?
Speaker 4: When do you snack never you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: so like, and then the mood thing kicks in because
Speaker 4: you're hungry and you don't know that because you forgot that,
Speaker 4: you didn't eat since yesterday exactly. So all those things
Speaker 4: just got to be managed. And that's also key to
Speaker 4: this whole thing. You're competing against somebody who's younger.
Speaker 2: Potentially they don't have significantly younger, significantly hotter, significantly better.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be amazing. You're gonna show great progress. That's
Speaker 4: the biggest key. The last thing I'll say is it's
Speaker 4: not about how you start, it's how you finish. And
Speaker 4: this isn't a race, it's a marathon. And so if
Speaker 4: you show small incremental growth every week, you're going to
Speaker 4: actually trigger this emotional you know, emotional recognition from people watching.
Speaker 4: They may not be a Penga fan who's not.
Speaker 1: I understand what is wrong with you if you're not.
Speaker 4: But it's also it's also they're going to seem like, Wow,
Speaker 4: she's she's getting better and she's doing this and that.
Speaker 4: So you know, I think Pasha has a plan. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but anyway, Tea bends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is this? What do you mean I need
Speaker 1: to roll this out.
Speaker 4: Okay, well it just has to be it just has
Speaker 4: to be toned to where when you do these sort
Speaker 4: of lateral things and lunges.
Speaker 3: I've noticed that you you're kind of like and keeping.
Speaker 4: It small and now and instand that you probably knew
Speaker 4: that you had an injury. So when that goes away,
Speaker 4: just you know, allow the step to be a little
Speaker 4: bigger and you know, the foundation to be with you know, comfortable,
Speaker 4: so you look comfortent and comfortable and that when you
Speaker 4: did a run day and that kick, how impressive was that?
Speaker 3: Right? You saw your dance back, did you see what
Speaker 3: it looked like?
Speaker 4: And it was like and it whack and these this
Speaker 4: straat So that's that like fast twitch muscle like action. Right,
Speaker 4: So you got to do that every step. You know
Speaker 4: it shouldn't be soft. You know, I got there and
Speaker 4: you'll get there with you know, your muscles are going
Speaker 4: to get a little tone, your stamina is going to
Speaker 4: get a little better, You're you're you're going to be
Speaker 4: able to do more faster. You know, we're going to
Speaker 4: tone up a bit just because that's what it does.
Speaker 4: It's not necessity, it just was going to happen. Your
Speaker 4: body is going to change, you know, because of the
Speaker 4: amount of time you put into it. So you're going
Speaker 4: to feel it anyway. But just hone in on that
Speaker 4: and and and go after dance. Don't go after like
Speaker 4: the way I look on TV. You know, I always said,
Speaker 4: people don't realize this because you again you're in it
Speaker 4: and now cameras in your face and all these especially
Speaker 4: the likes that come from the TV world already, the
Speaker 4: the understanding is that that's the most important part, the
Speaker 4: way I look and all that, yes, but you know,
Speaker 4: but the most important part is the way you look
Speaker 4: on Tuesday. And it takes so much time to get there.
Speaker 4: You don't want to cut new corners and and and
Speaker 4: that's the most you know, kind of the biggest thing
Speaker 4: is just put an effort, you know. And also again
Speaker 4: this isn't a TV experience. You you have that, you know,
Speaker 4: this for you is a dance experience. So you just
Speaker 4: got to prioritize, you know, what it is somebody who
Speaker 4: don't have that job, you know, for them, it's different,
Speaker 4: They're like, oh my god, cameras, what else do I do?
Speaker 4: Like for them, it's a different strategy. Yes, you just
Speaker 4: focus on first of all your leg right now a
Speaker 4: couple of days because you have that because of the
Speaker 4: second it's just a second week. And then after that
Speaker 4: just just dance.
Speaker 3: Man. Yeah you got you got a good one to
Speaker 3: teach you.
Speaker 2: What are some self care things I should be doing
Speaker 2: besides taking care of my leg?
Speaker 3: Icing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sing regularly. What about cold? Do you cold plunge?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even so for me, icing is not a thing.
Speaker 4: It's just to deflate a little bit, like I feel
Speaker 4: like if I'm really hot, but cold plunge one hundred percent,
Speaker 4: one hundred percent one of the best things that that
Speaker 4: I can heavily recommend if you in this wee hole area,
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Speaker 4: get free membership of the anywhere Voter Spolence Santa Monica.
Speaker 3: I highly recommend voter v O D eight.
Speaker 4: It's a place where I know you can walk in
Speaker 4: yet the hot traditional hot steam, not steam but hot
Speaker 4: hot sauna, but traditional heat. Right, it's a dry heat,
Speaker 4: so you get that exactly effect and then a really
Speaker 4: really really cold cold plunge. And I would do that
Speaker 4: if I could. I would do it after almost every
Speaker 4: rehearsal because you need to. You need to go into
Speaker 4: something really cold and get your body deflamed and have
Speaker 4: all these healing processes going and supplements.
Speaker 3: But you can't not eat. You cannot eat, but you
Speaker 3: have to supplement. You have to keep your.
Speaker 4: Energy level up. You can't cross. I mean, we could
Speaker 4: do this a fair you know, honestly, like you know,
Speaker 4: I'm into all of that. You know, there are a
Speaker 4: lot of things. Compression pants I would highly.
Speaker 1: Rec I work. I'm putting them on when my leave.
Speaker 4: Yeah, grade, So all this, by the way, you can
Speaker 4: go just to Tarragon. They have they have everything, you know,
Speaker 4: because they started with just a compression gun, but now
Speaker 4: it's everything there, the pens, the sleeves, the arms, whatever.
Speaker 4: Were highly recommend it. I would do it before bed
Speaker 4: with legs elevated and then just.
Speaker 1: You know, are you talking about like the norma tech.
Speaker 4: Normaltach pass out, but just like elevate your legs a
Speaker 4: little bit. But just run that and it'll, by the way,
Speaker 4: you can carry it with you. And so let's say
Speaker 4: halfway into your rehearsal in the middle of the season,
Speaker 4: when Shiit gets crazy and you want to put into three,
Speaker 4: four hours, four or five whatever you want to do
Speaker 4: and be like, okay, give me a second, put them on,
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes, another five to walk it off, and you'll
Speaker 4: feel like you have fresh legs for rehearsal.
Speaker 3: So you don't want to be.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't want to be fatigued at the
Speaker 4: end when you have to keep learning.
Speaker 1: Something, especially when you're doing like three dances.
Speaker 3: If you make it that far and you'll do that
Speaker 3: type of stuff, yeah, but that's later, you'll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that's significantly later. How about Robert Erwin's
Speaker 2: performance last night? What'd you think?
Speaker 3: Great? Great?
Speaker 1: Exciting? Right?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: I just I wouldn't be max if I didn't, you know,
Speaker 4: come on, Derek Cough with the best Forrest dance ever.
Speaker 2: Everyone seemed a little offended.
Speaker 3: I mean, he had better, you know, like.
Speaker 5: You know, it's not with us in the room at
Speaker 5: least let us leave, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 5: this bunch of us the way that wait a minute, bro,
Speaker 5: come on, he did a great job yesterday.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: I didn't understand why Carrie An couldn't couldn't know that.
Speaker 2: She's never missed a show, She's never missed a show.
Speaker 2: Yesterday was the first show she's ever.
Speaker 3: Missed, so that let's just leave in them.
Speaker 2: I mean, it felt very weird. It felt very weird
Speaker 2: and her and her presence was missed.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they tried to get a replacement
Speaker 2: and couldn't, or if they just made the decision not to.
Speaker 2: Would you have been available to have been a replacement
Speaker 2: if they asked.
Speaker 1: I was literally right there.
Speaker 3: To the left of Derek, you know.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean Bruno did look at me when
Speaker 6: he said when when Derek said that, Bruno looked over
Speaker 6: like this, I was like, partner, now.
Speaker 1: Buddy, you're on your own, sir, You're on your own.
Speaker 3: Come on, Derek cough.
Speaker 4: Not like I said it was when when he said it,
Speaker 4: I was like, we we almost made it to the
Speaker 4: end of the show without anything for me to talk.
Speaker 3: About, you know what.
Speaker 4: I'm did a sick job with him, I think representing
Speaker 4: what and again like.
Speaker 3: It was, it was you know what it was. It
Speaker 3: wasn't just having.
Speaker 4: Robert the celect but he you know, come and be
Speaker 4: part of Dancing the Stars. No, it was that Robert.
Speaker 4: You know, we all were there when when when Bindi
Speaker 4: was killing it, you know, and he was in the
Speaker 4: audience every day and he was a baby and it
Speaker 4: was so cute. And there's such an awesome, polite family.
Speaker 1: Right, I know, they're just he is the gem of
Speaker 1: a human being.
Speaker 3: Were but her, she's this.
Speaker 4: So it's the mom, the dad, rest in pieces, this
Speaker 4: the dad, it's the everybody. And so for him to
Speaker 4: come back that, I guess again with Derek and their
Speaker 4: connection and us and Bindi and all this stuff like that,
Speaker 4: we all.
Speaker 1: Felt it like it was emotional.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was somebody we really know, we so grow
Speaker 4: up and we kind of saw him now finally here
Speaker 4: now and he's killing it. So it's like elevated emotions.
Speaker 4: But you know, I don't know about the best dance
Speaker 4: of all time of the bad I am so proud
Speaker 4: of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm proud.
Speaker 4: I'm proud that he was prepped for this, for this.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that he was out there practicing dancing,
Speaker 4: but I'm saying that whatever he did.
Speaker 3: He's in great shape.
Speaker 4: He's in great obviously spirits and all that, and he
Speaker 4: has a fantastic partner and I think Whitney's gonna he's
Speaker 4: gonna pull it out.
Speaker 1: What did Meryl Davis have that made her.
Speaker 3: A champion Olympic gold medal?
Speaker 1: Okay, darn, I don't have one of those.
Speaker 3: Figure dancing, figure skating.
Speaker 4: Merrill had absolutely every attribute that I would hope for,
Speaker 4: Like if I were to, you know, put a list
Speaker 4: of things and all the check marks, and if you
Speaker 4: check off everything, dude, your winner. She had all of that,
Speaker 4: you know, the only problem was that that same exact season,
Speaker 4: it was like, oh, you know, I got Merril. I thought, no,
Speaker 4: there's there's got to be something here, like, they're not
Speaker 4: going to just give me a winner. I walked into
Speaker 4: the I swear to got this was our first meeting.
Speaker 4: Was I walked in, I was like, I'm definitely I'm
Speaker 4: in the wrong room because we all saw Meryll win,
Speaker 4: you know, and I'm already accustomed to I'm like, look,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get somebody I'm gonna really do my best with.
Speaker 4: But again, when I got when Aaron Andrews and I
Speaker 4: danced that same season, I met Aeron, was like, there's
Speaker 4: no way we're taking it down. And then oh, Derek
Speaker 4: and I got Nicole.
Speaker 3: Scherzinger was like wait a minute, and then Evan.
Speaker 4: Leisi check is on the show, who just warmed figure skating,
Speaker 4: you know Olympics as well, so you never know.
Speaker 3: I walked in, I saw Meryl. I was like, no, no, no, this.
Speaker 1: Has got to be true.
Speaker 4: And Derek has Amy Purty and she's a double MPTE
Speaker 4: and they have the most some of the most amazing
Speaker 4: dance performances that we've seen in TV. And I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: come on, Like, if I'm voting, I'm not voting for me,
Speaker 4: you know. So the whole season was all the things
Speaker 4: were checked, but it was probably most stressed that I've
Speaker 4: been although the dancing part was easy. I was like,
Speaker 4: you can you know, you never know? And if I
Speaker 4: can't win with Meryl Davis, you have no business being
Speaker 4: on the show.
Speaker 1: Well you did so congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 3: Somehow, I don't know how that happened. She was amazing.
Speaker 2: Now this year, as we talked about the season, feels
Speaker 2: like it's really split down the middle between people who
Speaker 2: have a ton of dance experience and people who have
Speaker 2: no dance experience. Where do you fall on whether or
Speaker 2: not it's fair to come in with a lot of
Speaker 2: dance experience.
Speaker 4: Just talked about We just talked about some seasons that
Speaker 4: I was a part of, and you're going to ask
Speaker 4: me about how I feel about this being fair or not.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. It's not me
Speaker 4: being cute and trying to avoid the answer. It depends
Speaker 4: on where you are. If you partnered with that, you're like, damn,
Speaker 4: this is awesome. And we have to have dance be
Speaker 4: represented by high level fashional performances every show because if
Speaker 4: you don't have that and everybody sucks, I'm just being
Speaker 4: black and white. Everybody is not good, the dance level
Speaker 4: is not good. People will turn out because it's so
Speaker 4: it's kind of like that, right, But at the same time,
Speaker 4: it's not about dance experience. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: you want to see a show that has great dancing
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 3: So which is it? People?
Speaker 1: The show is not.
Speaker 2: Called teaching teaching people how to dance. It's not called
Speaker 2: that because you can't.
Speaker 4: It's like, so you have a casting job, right that
Speaker 4: requires you to put on a show and also give
Speaker 4: people trajectory and also give people.
Speaker 3: Some sort of end results. So we know that Whitney
Speaker 3: and and and.
Speaker 4: Uh and Mark are going to be there in the end,
Speaker 4: you know, but who else is going to be there
Speaker 4: the end?
Speaker 3: What else will happen.
Speaker 4: In the next nine weeks, you know, who else is
Speaker 4: gonna you know, steal your attention? You know. I think
Speaker 4: my perfect example was, you know, my first season with CHRISTIALI.
Speaker 4: We were we were trying to win. Talk about the
Speaker 4: level of dancing that season, we were trying to win.
Speaker 4: And in the I think in the semi final, ah man,
Speaker 4: I just slipped my mind. The guy who won, he's
Speaker 4: a football player with with Kim Johnson and he in rehearsal,
Speaker 4: he fell on her.
Speaker 3: No, it was off Tom. He fell on Kim, and
Speaker 3: I guess they had a fall.
Speaker 4: She hurt her neck, and so for the next week
Speaker 4: and a half, leading into the finale, she's rehearsing with
Speaker 4: the neck brace rhinestones on it. Kimmy, I love you.
Speaker 4: She's not we you know I did. I'm not saying
Speaker 4: it like that, but what it did is it's created
Speaker 4: this this last second right before the finish line, where
Speaker 4: maybe Kirsty and I had the momentum. It took the
Speaker 4: momentum away. It's not like I'm like Kursty quick, hurt yourself.
Speaker 4: You know, like, we're not going to go that, so
Speaker 4: it right before the finish line. Things sometimes happen to
Speaker 4: so you never know. But again, the level of dancing
Speaker 4: is Hi. People that we weren't sure about are phenomenal.
Speaker 4: You know, you include it. Again, we weren't sure because
Speaker 4: we don't know, but the partnership works.
Speaker 3: You guys look great.
Speaker 4: I think also Daniela, Pasha's wife with Dylan, Dylan, what
Speaker 4: what she's doing for an amazing job, and she's like, look,
Speaker 4: we're not going to compete.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not going to compete with danceingbut.
Speaker 3: What we're going to do. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: she did that.
Speaker 4: What I've noticed is that Cha Cha is unusually hippie
Speaker 4: and this isn't how you We normally just do the steps,
Speaker 4: we introduce it, but not that much. So I think
Speaker 4: what she did was like, look, we're gonna make you.
Speaker 4: We're gonna hone in on all the things that you know,
Speaker 4: highlight him. So let's not run after Look, if everybody
Speaker 4: have to run and you're not a fast runner, let's
Speaker 4: not try to run, you know, let's just go this way.
Speaker 4: And so I think that's also strategic. She's a great pro.
Speaker 4: She knows what she's doing. You guys have these approaches
Speaker 4: that you could see this there's a strategy to it,
Speaker 4: And then you have a couple of new pros that
Speaker 4: that don't really seem like they have a strategy.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to say that. I don't want
Speaker 3: to go that far.
Speaker 4: I wish you know, Ezra and everybody else all the luck,
Speaker 4: But this show requires a lot of thinking, a lot
Speaker 4: of planning, and a lot of yeah, strategicization.
Speaker 1: Yes, strategic thinking. You're exactly right.
Speaker 2: So is there a universe where you would ever come
Speaker 2: back as a judge or maybe, like.
Speaker 1: I know, would have so much?
Speaker 4: Is so easy as a Mexican come sit like yeah,
Speaker 4: upsit and show continues. I would love to as a pro.
Speaker 4: It's just it has it has to be. I don't
Speaker 4: know how Mark does it.
Speaker 3: You know who he knows, But.
Speaker 4: It has to be great connection, you know, with a
Speaker 4: partner and awesome partnership, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because you're saying you'd want a ringer, why not? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Who doesn't who wouldn't want that? I want to talk
Speaker 2: to you about your vodka because I might need it soon.
Speaker 1: I don't even drink, but I might.
Speaker 3: Start no, thank you appreciate it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, how do I pronounce it?
Speaker 3: Cha churches? Aunt?
Speaker 4: You know? Yeah, so it's aunt coppa. It's a love child.
Speaker 4: I've designed everything about this. I can't you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not in alcohol industry at all. VALAINI, my brother Val
Speaker 4: and I we were doing a show in Napa A
Speaker 4: couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: We started a wine.
Speaker 4: Tasting immersive experience written and directed by a good friend
Speaker 4: and and so we had this awesome like immersive production
Speaker 4: where we have a flight of wine and we introduce
Speaker 4: you to it's a wine tasting experience. And so instead
Speaker 4: of telling you like the taste that the working title
Speaker 4: was tasting notes, we ended up calling it Savor after
Speaker 4: Hours and you come in, you have a flight of wine,
Speaker 4: and through the show we dance you. They will show
Speaker 4: you how it makes you feel instead of telling you.
Speaker 4: And we spend three months being Napa Valley locals. I
Speaker 4: met a lot of incredible people. What a community or
Speaker 4: an amazing part of the world. And I met my
Speaker 4: partner in the swodcast, he's a local. My claim to
Speaker 4: fame here is that on the shelf, amongst the category
Speaker 4: I'm the cleanest product with the least amount of well,
Speaker 4: at least we don't add anything.
Speaker 3: It's a.
Speaker 4: Blend Sauvignon blanc and winter grains to represent my Ukrainian
Speaker 4: roots and of how we made it, you know, Napa.
Speaker 4: I designed the label, I designed the bottle, I designed
Speaker 4: all the elements about this and most importantly, like I said,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a hypocrite. I also don't
Speaker 4: advocate you know, that lifestyle anymore. But I think that
Speaker 4: we're also got and I was thinking about how to
Speaker 4: promote vodka of all things, at the time when alcohol
Speaker 4: sales are down and.
Speaker 3: You know, we've all changed our ways and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: But I think that what needs to happen is we
Speaker 4: shouldn't be canceling categories. We should be canceling the additives
Speaker 4: and you know, things that make these products what they
Speaker 4: ended up being, you know, causing sort of you know,
Speaker 4: health issues and all that stuff. So you know, this
Speaker 4: is vodka, yes, but it's handmade, it's small badge. I'm
Speaker 4: the only I have a wonderful partnership with Napa Valley Distillery.
Speaker 4: I'm the only spirit in distribution that has a maiden
Speaker 4: NAPA label on Earth, and I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 2: You also have an event coming up in my neck
Speaker 2: of the woods. You're going to be at.
Speaker 1: The Holland, at the More Holland.
Speaker 2: I live in Woodland Hills. You're going to be right
Speaker 2: down the street for me. So the name of the
Speaker 2: event cap of Knights, capa Nights at the More Holland.
Speaker 2: And you have your first is it going to be ongoing?
Speaker 2: I know your first one September twenty fifth.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're going to try this, try this South.
Speaker 4: This is this is what I used to, you know,
Speaker 4: this is what I'm used to in terms of like
Speaker 4: off screen. You know, I have my dance studios. We're
Speaker 4: always catered to a lot of clients I've done. You know,
Speaker 4: my professional career started in Eastern European restaurants, right, and
Speaker 4: you know, dancing for money. So like we know how
Speaker 4: to entertain, how to put on shows and venues of
Speaker 4: that sort. By the way, I just said it on
Speaker 4: an interview here, but it just came to me like
Speaker 4: some of the more you know, personable and you know,
Speaker 4: enjoyable experiences that I have on stage, probably like in
Speaker 4: somebody's butt mitzvah or yeah, you know, dancing somebody's wedding,
Speaker 4: you know, because and I always thought about that base
Speaker 4: by the nature of the event, they would want it
Speaker 4: to be so special, you part of something really special. Anyway,
Speaker 4: with this event at the Moholland, the idea is that
Speaker 4: when I come to promote vodka, I'm not there to dance,
Speaker 4: people expect dancing. So instead of confusing the message, Oh,
Speaker 4: you're not going to dance for us today, No, lady,
Speaker 4: I'm here with the vodka. You know, a shot, have
Speaker 4: a shot? Yeah, She's like, oh, you know what, I
Speaker 4: love you from that thing. So I decided we're going
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Speaker 1: That's k A p A. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being here with me.
Speaker 2: I just feel like I've learned so much from you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna roll out my t bands if you had
Speaker 2: one one final piece of advice for me, or even
Speaker 2: a couple CBD cream CBD cream Okay, great, I've been
Speaker 2: using that on this like as pain reach.
Speaker 3: Which one.
Speaker 2: It's one my chiropractor gave me. It's a five milligram
Speaker 2: so it's not an over the counter one. It's like
Speaker 2: a I don't know what it's called though, I mean,
Speaker 2: do you have one you recommend? Okay, well, you give
Speaker 2: it off area, you give it to me, Okay, great,
Speaker 2: it's a.
Speaker 4: Local witch up and I'm just kidding. No, no pop
Speaker 4: up POPA and Barley. I think that's the brand, and
Speaker 4: they're you know, very much a CBD you know lead.
Speaker 4: But again it's soft tissue, so you you it's it's
Speaker 4: the I mean, there's some some real big injury treating processes,
Speaker 4: but you don't need that your muscle just shocked. You know,
Speaker 4: you strained it with with whatever. But like I said,
Speaker 4: we have done this to my partners before, it'll go away.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 4: But but again with treatment with gold plunge, I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to think of like some brothy things, you know,
Speaker 4: bone beef, bone broths and stuff like that. It will
Speaker 4: always help, Okay, but yeah, oh fair, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: some of us.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, thanks.
Speaker 2: Great, Thank you all for joining us for this episode
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