Speaker 1: I Am all In again, Luke Steiner with Scott Patterson
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Speaker 2: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
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Speaker 2: to be talking with Artem chignivs Sev. You know him
Speaker 2: from Dancing with the Stars. He is a champion ballroom dancer.
Speaker 2: But beyond the ballroom he has another love cooking. A
Speaker 2: trained chef, he studied at the culinary school before fully
Speaker 2: committing to dance, and to this day he still brings
Speaker 2: the same artistry and dedication into the kitchen as he
Speaker 2: does onto the dance floor. Welcome Artam to the show.
Speaker 3: Hello, thank you so much for in writing me. I'm
Speaker 3: so honored to be part of it. And I'm going
Speaker 3: to put a slight correction to my little bio. I
Speaker 3: didn't really study cooking. My love of cooking came from
Speaker 3: my grandparents and my parents, and I can go a
Speaker 3: little bit more into if you like.
Speaker 2: So that's even a better training. That's a better culinary school,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's because because it filled was love. That's right, That's.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly exactly, So you are a Dancing with the
Speaker 2: Stars Champion, How did you first get into dancing And
Speaker 2: did you ever imagine and your wildest dreams that it
Speaker 2: would take you that far?
Speaker 3: Absolutely no, that's that's absolute negative. And I'll tell you a
Speaker 3: little story how I even got into it. Finding enough,
Speaker 3: It was my parents. I grew up in the Soviet Union,
Speaker 3: and back then there was not really a lot of
Speaker 3: option you can explore as a kid. That was actually
Speaker 3: option you can explore as a kid. It was gymnastics,
Speaker 3: it was hockey, and it was ballet. Funny enough, well,
Speaker 3: actually the three things that back in the day so
Speaker 3: Vieting was known for. And my mom she decided to
Speaker 3: first put me in the hockey.
Speaker 4: You know, I grew up with my brother, two boys,
Speaker 4: let's go hockey.
Speaker 3: That didn't work out too well because my mom saw
Speaker 3: the beating you take while you play hockey, and the
Speaker 3: pub frow to my face and I got like a little.
Speaker 4: Market and there was blood.
Speaker 3: Everyone was like, okay, no, mo hockey for you. You're going
Speaker 3: to go to ballet. So next day it was ballet.
Speaker 3: I was kind of going with the flow. Whatever parents say,
Speaker 3: that's who we did, and they put me in to ballet. First,
Speaker 3: and then teacher looked at me, and it's really strict,
Speaker 3: you know, back in the day when people accept anybody
Speaker 3: to participate into anything because they need to see if
Speaker 3: you can be best you can possibly be, you know,
Speaker 3: and if you have no talent, they rather not waste
Speaker 3: your time. So it wasn't really much much about a
Speaker 3: passionate about ability, you know. And they looked at me
Speaker 3: and they're like okay, and then they placed in different
Speaker 3: positions and like, you have a certain turnout, how totally going.
Speaker 4: To be in all that stuff, all these factors, and
Speaker 4: my turnout wasn't good enough.
Speaker 3: So they said to my mom like, okay, we're going
Speaker 3: to have to you know, like fracture his hips a
Speaker 3: little bit by doing certain exercise.
Speaker 4: And I'm heard that's like absolutely now.
Speaker 3: So the next thing, I was like, well, there's bottom dancing,
Speaker 3: so why don't you go bottom dance, you know instead
Speaker 3: of sit at home. And I was like, okay, I
Speaker 3: guess there's at girls there, so why not I'm going
Speaker 3: to go to that, and thankfully it actually works out,
Speaker 3: so here I am.
Speaker 2: There you are. If you describe your cooking style in
Speaker 2: dance terms, would it be more of a fiery tango,
Speaker 2: an elegant walltz or something else.
Speaker 4: God, I feel like a mixture. It's going to be
Speaker 4: a salad. How about that?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 4: Okay, well, not.
Speaker 3: Meaning salad like greens and let sell means like there's
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of ingredients and it can be practicing.
Speaker 4: Ye, I think right now, like before.
Speaker 3: I used to try to cook this fine you know,
Speaker 3: fine meals to impress people, especially.
Speaker 4: At home gathering.
Speaker 3: I think right now, when I became a dad, it
Speaker 3: was more about challenging to feed my four year old,
Speaker 3: and I think my cooking skills and my cooking ideas
Speaker 3: went out of the window where I thought was great
Speaker 3: and useful. Now it's more about what's actually going to
Speaker 3: be nutritional, what's going to be fast, and.
Speaker 4: What my four year old will like.
Speaker 5: I have a four year old boy, his name.
Speaker 3: Matero, and he is my my world, so everything revolves
Speaker 3: around him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a ten year old.
Speaker 4: So there you go. You know what it is I
Speaker 4: cook for.
Speaker 2: It's it's quite remarkable experience every single day, very much so.
Speaker 2: So you didn't attend culinary store. You learn from your
Speaker 2: parents and your grandparents.
Speaker 4: Yes, tell us.
Speaker 2: About that experience and what that was like in the beginning.
Speaker 2: Did they start you off with certain easy dishes or
Speaker 2: was it just through osmosis that being around it so
Speaker 2: much that when you went out on your own and
Speaker 2: had your own apartment or whatever, you just started cooking
Speaker 2: for yourself because you you just learned those lessons, you know.
Speaker 3: I think everything is based on survival in my experience,
Speaker 3: so I believe and I always was speak for families,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's a family gathering and majority of
Speaker 3: the time when you participate in cooking as a kid,
Speaker 3: it's when you know it's a certain holidays or it's
Speaker 3: just Sundays because like you know, in U kid is
Speaker 3: a famous Sunday roast.
Speaker 4: Me growing up, like Sunday was.
Speaker 3: A time where everybody gathered together in the kitchen and
Speaker 3: had their own share of things to do, you know,
Speaker 3: participate in as a family.
Speaker 4: I didn't grow up and very wealth the family.
Speaker 3: We didn't go out for food, and to be fair,
Speaker 3: it wasn't really part of the culture that I grew
Speaker 3: up and you know, and it was cooking every day
Speaker 3: majority of the time.
Speaker 4: Like I see my dad cooking. My dad's a.
Speaker 3: Great cook, my mom's a great cook. Lots of experience
Speaker 3: there over seventy years old, so you can imagine what
Speaker 3: you can do over that time. And yes, we're just
Speaker 3: gathering it in the kitchen and seeing my grandparents socializing
Speaker 3: and having.
Speaker 4: Fun and baking and cooking, and.
Speaker 3: It was just like a social environment that vividly imprinted
Speaker 3: into my growing up, into my experience what cooking is about.
Speaker 3: It's not just about being hungry and making a meal.
Speaker 3: It's about sharing time with the loved ones, and it's
Speaker 3: about an experience. Everyone participate and there's the result where
Speaker 3: everyone in the end of the day enjoy having it,
Speaker 3: you know, over a great conversation. And I think that
Speaker 3: was it growing up. You know, my parents cook what
Speaker 3: was available. Like I said, I'm probably gonna mention too
Speaker 3: many times growing up in Soviet Union.
Speaker 4: I went through a time where I.
Speaker 3: Was staying in lines for food, you know, and staying
Speaker 3: in line with my brother. My brother leave and I
Speaker 3: stayed and come back.
Speaker 5: I'll leave.
Speaker 4: It was just not a lot.
Speaker 3: Of produce you can cook with because there was not
Speaker 3: a lot of things available, and you just make the
Speaker 3: most of what I have or what we had. A
Speaker 3: lot of stews, a lot of starch, a lot of potatoes,
Speaker 3: a lot of Russian cuisine dumplings.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily the most desirable.
Speaker 3: Food, especially living in the United States, but again I
Speaker 3: grew up on it, so for me, it has a
Speaker 3: special place in my heart and special place in my taste. Butts,
Speaker 3: you know, most of the time, like if I create something,
Speaker 3: it would be more like that type of a cuisine
Speaker 3: for me personally.
Speaker 2: Have you started your son cooking with you yet? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 4: What is? What is?
Speaker 2: What does he like to make? Is he making the burgers?
Speaker 2: Is he doing We didn't.
Speaker 4: Get into like dirty with meat stuff.
Speaker 3: He's kind of been kind of funky. Hasn't had meat
Speaker 3: when he was growing up till like maybe a year
Speaker 3: and a half ago. I mean might so he's four,
Speaker 3: but he's I mean, loves making pancakes, loves making any
Speaker 3: kind of sweets you can possibly think of, cupcakes. He
Speaker 3: loves making pizzas, you know, love like did the dough
Speaker 3: and put in the shippings. Like actually, I think there's
Speaker 3: only Stagram. I have a couple of videos. It's pretty
Speaker 3: hilarious watching him do that. But he's he's obsessed with cooking.
Speaker 3: He loves doing it. If he sees again me doing
Speaker 3: something in the kitchen. He wants to see it. He
Speaker 3: wants to flip it. Even if I pen pride, he
Speaker 3: takes a little spatch on me try to flip. It's
Speaker 3: like he's very much into it. And you know, sometimes
Speaker 3: people say, like, well, you get something after your parents.
Speaker 4: You know, I truly believe so, because.
Speaker 3: He just has it so and I'm very happy that
Speaker 3: he does, to be fair, because you know, I think
Speaker 3: dietary nowadays is a huge part of life and a
Speaker 3: huge part of healthy life, and I really want him
Speaker 3: to to explore it to the fullest and really understand.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. So what's his favorite French toast?
Speaker 4: French toast, fridge toast.
Speaker 3: He's uh price, I mean kids foot he loves like
Speaker 3: the typical what he can see on the kids menu
Speaker 3: if you go to the restaurant. He's obsession grilled cheese,
Speaker 3: good grilled cheese. He's obsessed with He's obsessed with bread
Speaker 3: stuff like, he just loves bread.
Speaker 4: And I can't blame him.
Speaker 5: I cannot blame him.
Speaker 2: My little guy, he uh, he's not so little anymore.
Speaker 2: He's getting pretty all. He loves to make the burgers,
Speaker 2: flip the burgers, amazing. He chops the onion. Uh, he
Speaker 2: preps the condiment plate. What else does he do? Oh,
Speaker 2: he loves he loves to do the pasta with me. Like,
Speaker 2: so we make we make the we make the tomato
Speaker 2: sauce together, nice and uh and he adds the ingredients
Speaker 2: and he chops up a lot of the onions and
Speaker 2: the herbs and all that kind of stuff. He's he's
Speaker 2: and these are the best times that we have at home,
Speaker 2: is cooking as a family. And uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: my favorite time of day. Five o'clock rolls around and
Speaker 2: that's when we prep.
Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing, it's beautiful. It's honestly like, we
Speaker 3: live in such a day and age where those experience
Speaker 3: now becoming is so rare that you can get a
Speaker 3: hold of those little things. It's it's so precious that
Speaker 3: I mean even hearing you saying all these things, like I.
Speaker 4: Can wait experience this with.
Speaker 3: My son because it would be something that would be
Speaker 3: with me forever and it's absolutely priceless. And you will
Speaker 3: only understand if you're a parent and have a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's it's every day. It's every day
Speaker 2: we do this. Every once in a while. It's I
Speaker 2: almost don't even like to go out to restaurants to
Speaker 2: eat because we don't get to do that experience. I mean,
Speaker 2: I I do just because, you know, because I cook
Speaker 2: in the family and I really enjoy but sometimes I'm
Speaker 2: a little late. Let's go, let's go to a restaurant.
Speaker 2: But you know it's not we don't. We don't do
Speaker 2: it a lot because the cooking experience at home is
Speaker 2: just so so great, so great, and he enjoys it
Speaker 2: so much. He has his own little recipes that he
Speaker 2: makes up and he shows them to me on a list,
Speaker 2: and I said, no, you can't really combine those and those,
Speaker 2: but you can try it.
Speaker 4: Why not explore?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know where he read about it,
Speaker 2: but he wants to add things. He wants to add
Speaker 2: herbs and seasonings to the burger before I mash everything up.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, he wants, he wants to add it. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let him do that. That's probably tonight.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Tell us about your experience with Gilmore girls. Are you
Speaker 2: aware of the show? Did you to be?
Speaker 4: Actually?
Speaker 3: You know what, I was just kind of thinking all
Speaker 3: of the things that I've done. I actually have done
Speaker 3: Gilma girlsrom. One of the episodes, I think there was
Speaker 3: like an Argentine tangu scene and I can probably find
Speaker 3: on my Instagram what I posted, but it was definitely
Speaker 3: a few years back and we're filming in the studio
Speaker 3: and I remember dancing on this on the table with
Speaker 3: one of the dance partners and girls that I've actually
Speaker 3: partnered before, and we're doing this Argentine tangusne funny enough,
Speaker 3: So yes, I have had experience, but it was a
Speaker 3: while ago, so I cannot to recall exactly what episode
Speaker 3: it was, but yeah, I was actually I can call
Speaker 3: myself was a little bit part of it. Is that, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can probably look and find it if you guys
Speaker 3: like me to after them a second tent because I
Speaker 3: do remember posting a picture and the kreographer was Margarite
Speaker 3: Derek's and yeah, it was like a big tango.
Speaker 4: It was like a tango club A year in the life.
Speaker 3: It was the reboot a year of the life right
Speaker 3: in when Yeah, twenty sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 4: Probably, yes, that's that sounds more like that was the time. Yes,
Speaker 4: that's the big tango scene, so you know, which I'm
Speaker 4: referring to I do.
Speaker 3: It's when Logan and Rory go to the Big Tango
Speaker 3: Club and they're talking about, you know, him getting married
Speaker 3: to somebody else than her.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was the reboot. It was the revival.
Speaker 4: That's great, that's the one.
Speaker 2: Adam. What are you working on now?
Speaker 4: God? What am I working on? Working my kid? It's
Speaker 4: it's it's as best job. It's the best job, the
Speaker 4: most rewarding job. But I do a lot of teaching,
Speaker 4: you know. I travel around the country and educate kids
Speaker 4: and dance. What else.
Speaker 3: I don't go to a construction to be honest, I
Speaker 3: kind of try to explore a different.
Speaker 4: Side to this life, you know. Finding I'm forty.
Speaker 3: Two years old, and you know, being a dancer it's
Speaker 3: kind of interesting because you go through these waves of
Speaker 3: success and things and you.
Speaker 4: You like and the pick up the career.
Speaker 3: But obviously, like everything comes to an end at some
Speaker 3: point of your life, you know.
Speaker 5: And I'm kind.
Speaker 3: Of just like thinking, Okay, what else in life I
Speaker 3: would like to do that actually does interest me and
Speaker 3: maybe I can make possibly career of it. So a
Speaker 3: friend of mine, he owns a construction company. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 3: why don't you come and you know, see what it's
Speaker 3: all about. Because I was always curious what construction is.
Speaker 3: And I know this is totally maybe interesting to a
Speaker 3: lot of your listeners, but it was a big, big
Speaker 3: change for me because I kind of redirect my because
Speaker 3: you know, being a dancer, especially net in a desire
Speaker 3: to choreograph, you have to teach, you have to work
Speaker 3: with people, you have to there's it's like you have
Speaker 3: to kind of have a lot of sets of different
Speaker 3: types of skills that I never thought would be very
Speaker 3: useful outside of the dance world because I've never done
Speaker 3: anything outside of the dance world. And now I'm finding
Speaker 3: myself like, okay, what else, how can I apply that
Speaker 3: and doing construction?
Speaker 4: And I started building kids furniture. I built stuff for
Speaker 4: my son.
Speaker 3: I built like tables and chairs and bookshelves and actually
Speaker 3: built him an easel where he can write things. And
Speaker 3: that's what's been going in my life. But besides that,
Speaker 3: of course, a lot of things as to do with dancing.
Speaker 4: I teach him.
Speaker 3: The big convention that I travel over the week in
Speaker 3: different states and teach a.
Speaker 4: Lot of kids.
Speaker 3: It's probably like seven eight hundred. It's in a classroom
Speaker 3: and you just educate them. And as far as that,
Speaker 3: I love doing that because you have the knowledge, you know,
Speaker 3: and you kind of want to pass to next generation.
Speaker 3: And bothroom dancing is such a unique type of style
Speaker 3: of dance that majority time in the United States, it's
Speaker 3: like tab jazz, hip hop, ballet, like it's more based
Speaker 3: than that. But when Dancing with the Stars came to
Speaker 3: this big success, you know, all of a sudden those
Speaker 3: type of dand schools start to like try to see
Speaker 3: what that is like. And there's really not a lot
Speaker 3: of people who can teach bothroom dancing. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: was invited to in one of the convention. It's been
Speaker 3: start doing that a lot, beautiful.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, whatever you do, we're glad to have you on.
Speaker 2: We wish you a ton of luck. It was wonderful
Speaker 2: getting to know you a little bit. And thanks for
Speaker 2: sharing your stories about you and your little guy. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You know, the best thing that ever happened to me
Speaker 2: and my wife was was.
Speaker 4: Our son, and uh it really it.
Speaker 2: Just completely transformed our lives And isn't an amazing that.
Speaker 2: You know, if you ever questioned what life really was
Speaker 2: all about, that answer comes the day your son is born.
Speaker 2: So oh that's what it's about.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I think it's just your priority completely shifts. Like everything
Speaker 3: that you thought was this life is about completely change.
Speaker 3: And you know when people what a lot of like
Speaker 3: before me having Materio, you know, you obviously talk to
Speaker 3: a lot of parents out and it's like, well, how
Speaker 3: is it, like what is it like to.
Speaker 4: Have a kid?
Speaker 3: You know, and it's scary because you kind of understand
Speaker 3: how other people's lives shifts and changes.
Speaker 4: You know, You're like, I don't know if I'm ready
Speaker 4: for this, Like I.
Speaker 3: Still want to you know, explore and still want to
Speaker 3: do things for myself. But which you don't realize, and
Speaker 3: I think that's really changed my mind is that it's
Speaker 3: not that you're forced to change something. You want to
Speaker 3: change that because your priority shifts and change, and you're
Speaker 3: doing it because you want it, not because you're having
Speaker 3: a kit and it's like, oh now I.
Speaker 4: Have to do this.
Speaker 3: No, no, you do it because of that because I
Speaker 3: actually want to do it. So I think that was
Speaker 3: the biggest lesson for me to learn, like being from
Speaker 3: non parent to become a parent.
Speaker 2: Beautiful, Thank you, my friend, Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: having me with you. I'd love to have you back
Speaker 2: on here. Thank you so much, and thank you everybody,
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