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- 0:00Speaker 1: I Am all In again, Luke Steiner with Scott Patterson
- 0:20Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
- 0:26Speaker 2: eleven productions. iHeartRadio Media. iHeart Podcasts. Luke Steiner. We're going
- 0:32Speaker 2: to be talking with Artem chignivs Sev. You know him
- 0:38Speaker 2: from Dancing with the Stars. He is a champion ballroom dancer.
- 0:42Speaker 2: But beyond the ballroom he has another love cooking. A
- 0:45Speaker 2: trained chef, he studied at the culinary school before fully
- 0:49Speaker 2: committing to dance, and to this day he still brings
- 0:51Speaker 2: the same artistry and dedication into the kitchen as he
- 0:55Speaker 2: does onto the dance floor. Welcome Artam to the show.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Hello, thank you so much for in writing me. I'm
- 1:03Speaker 3: so honored to be part of it. And I'm going
- 1:05Speaker 3: to put a slight correction to my little bio. I
- 1:09Speaker 3: didn't really study cooking. My love of cooking came from
- 1:12Speaker 3: my grandparents and my parents, and I can go a
- 1:15Speaker 3: little bit more into if you like.
- 1:17Speaker 2: So that's even a better training. That's a better culinary school,
- 1:20Speaker 2: isn't it.
- 1:21Speaker 4: It's because because it filled was love. That's right, That's.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Right, exactly exactly, So you are a Dancing with the
- 1:35Speaker 2: Stars Champion, How did you first get into dancing And
- 1:38Speaker 2: did you ever imagine and your wildest dreams that it
- 1:42Speaker 2: would take you that far?
- 1:44Speaker 3: Absolutely no, that's that's absolute negative. And I'll tell you a
- 1:47Speaker 3: little story how I even got into it. Finding enough,
- 1:50Speaker 3: It was my parents. I grew up in the Soviet Union,
- 1:54Speaker 3: and back then there was not really a lot of
- 1:57Speaker 3: option you can explore as a kid. That was actually
- 2:00Speaker 3: option you can explore as a kid. It was gymnastics,
- 2:03Speaker 3: it was hockey, and it was ballet. Funny enough, well,
- 2:07Speaker 3: actually the three things that back in the day so
- 2:09Speaker 3: Vieting was known for. And my mom she decided to
- 2:14Speaker 3: first put me in the hockey.
- 2:15Speaker 4: You know, I grew up with my brother, two boys,
- 2:19Speaker 4: let's go hockey.
- 2:20Speaker 3: That didn't work out too well because my mom saw
- 2:22Speaker 3: the beating you take while you play hockey, and the
- 2:25Speaker 3: pub frow to my face and I got like a little.
- 2:28Speaker 4: Market and there was blood.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Everyone was like, okay, no, mo hockey for you. You're going
- 2:32Speaker 3: to go to ballet. So next day it was ballet.
- 2:36Speaker 3: I was kind of going with the flow. Whatever parents say,
- 2:39Speaker 3: that's who we did, and they put me in to ballet. First,
- 2:42Speaker 3: and then teacher looked at me, and it's really strict,
- 2:45Speaker 3: you know, back in the day when people accept anybody
- 2:48Speaker 3: to participate into anything because they need to see if
- 2:51Speaker 3: you can be best you can possibly be, you know,
- 2:53Speaker 3: and if you have no talent, they rather not waste
- 2:56Speaker 3: your time. So it wasn't really much much about a
- 2:58Speaker 3: passionate about ability, you know. And they looked at me
- 3:02Speaker 3: and they're like okay, and then they placed in different
- 3:05Speaker 3: positions and like, you have a certain turnout, how totally going.
- 3:09Speaker 4: To be in all that stuff, all these factors, and
- 3:12Speaker 4: my turnout wasn't good enough.
- 3:14Speaker 3: So they said to my mom like, okay, we're going
- 3:16Speaker 3: to have to you know, like fracture his hips a
- 3:18Speaker 3: little bit by doing certain exercise.
- 3:20Speaker 4: And I'm heard that's like absolutely now.
- 3:23Speaker 3: So the next thing, I was like, well, there's bottom dancing,
- 3:25Speaker 3: so why don't you go bottom dance, you know instead
- 3:28Speaker 3: of sit at home. And I was like, okay, I
- 3:30Speaker 3: guess there's at girls there, so why not I'm going
- 3:32Speaker 3: to go to that, and thankfully it actually works out,
- 3:36Speaker 3: so here I am.
- 3:38Speaker 2: There you are. If you describe your cooking style in
- 3:43Speaker 2: dance terms, would it be more of a fiery tango,
- 3:48Speaker 2: an elegant walltz or something else.
- 3:52Speaker 4: God, I feel like a mixture. It's going to be
- 3:53Speaker 4: a salad. How about that?
- 3:55Speaker 3: Ah?
- 3:56Speaker 4: Okay, well, not.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Meaning salad like greens and let sell means like there's
- 4:00Speaker 3: a whole bunch of ingredients and it can be practicing.
- 4:04Speaker 4: Ye, I think right now, like before.
- 4:06Speaker 3: I used to try to cook this fine you know,
- 4:09Speaker 3: fine meals to impress people, especially.
- 4:12Speaker 4: At home gathering.
- 4:12Speaker 3: I think right now, when I became a dad, it
- 4:14Speaker 3: was more about challenging to feed my four year old,
- 4:18Speaker 3: and I think my cooking skills and my cooking ideas
- 4:22Speaker 3: went out of the window where I thought was great
- 4:25Speaker 3: and useful. Now it's more about what's actually going to
- 4:29Speaker 3: be nutritional, what's going to be fast, and.
- 4:32Speaker 4: What my four year old will like.
- 4:34Speaker 5: I have a four year old boy, his name.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Matero, and he is my my world, so everything revolves
- 4:39Speaker 3: around him.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a ten year old.
- 4:43Speaker 4: So there you go. You know what it is I
- 4:46Speaker 4: cook for.
- 4:48Speaker 2: It's it's quite remarkable experience every single day, very much so.
- 4:56Speaker 2: So you didn't attend culinary store. You learn from your
- 5:00Speaker 2: parents and your grandparents.
- 5:02Speaker 4: Yes, tell us.
- 5:04Speaker 2: About that experience and what that was like in the beginning.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Did they start you off with certain easy dishes or
- 5:13Speaker 2: was it just through osmosis that being around it so
- 5:16Speaker 2: much that when you went out on your own and
- 5:19Speaker 2: had your own apartment or whatever, you just started cooking
- 5:22Speaker 2: for yourself because you you just learned those lessons, you know.
- 5:26Speaker 3: I think everything is based on survival in my experience,
- 5:29Speaker 3: so I believe and I always was speak for families,
- 5:36Speaker 3: you know, and it's a family gathering and majority of
- 5:39Speaker 3: the time when you participate in cooking as a kid,
- 5:42Speaker 3: it's when you know it's a certain holidays or it's
- 5:45Speaker 3: just Sundays because like you know, in U kid is
- 5:47Speaker 3: a famous Sunday roast.
- 5:49Speaker 4: Me growing up, like Sunday was.
- 5:51Speaker 3: A time where everybody gathered together in the kitchen and
- 5:54Speaker 3: had their own share of things to do, you know,
- 5:57Speaker 3: participate in as a family.
- 5:58Speaker 4: I didn't grow up and very wealth the family.
- 6:00Speaker 3: We didn't go out for food, and to be fair,
- 6:03Speaker 3: it wasn't really part of the culture that I grew
- 6:05Speaker 3: up and you know, and it was cooking every day
- 6:10Speaker 3: majority of the time.
- 6:11Speaker 4: Like I see my dad cooking. My dad's a.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Great cook, my mom's a great cook. Lots of experience
- 6:17Speaker 3: there over seventy years old, so you can imagine what
- 6:19Speaker 3: you can do over that time. And yes, we're just
- 6:24Speaker 3: gathering it in the kitchen and seeing my grandparents socializing
- 6:28Speaker 3: and having.
- 6:29Speaker 4: Fun and baking and cooking, and.
- 6:32Speaker 3: It was just like a social environment that vividly imprinted
- 6:36Speaker 3: into my growing up, into my experience what cooking is about.
- 6:40Speaker 3: It's not just about being hungry and making a meal.
- 6:43Speaker 3: It's about sharing time with the loved ones, and it's
- 6:47Speaker 3: about an experience. Everyone participate and there's the result where
- 6:51Speaker 3: everyone in the end of the day enjoy having it,
- 6:54Speaker 3: you know, over a great conversation. And I think that
- 6:57Speaker 3: was it growing up. You know, my parents cook what
- 7:01Speaker 3: was available. Like I said, I'm probably gonna mention too
- 7:06Speaker 3: many times growing up in Soviet Union.
- 7:07Speaker 4: I went through a time where I.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Was staying in lines for food, you know, and staying
- 7:11Speaker 3: in line with my brother. My brother leave and I
- 7:13Speaker 3: stayed and come back.
- 7:14Speaker 5: I'll leave.
- 7:16Speaker 4: It was just not a lot.
- 7:18Speaker 3: Of produce you can cook with because there was not
- 7:21Speaker 3: a lot of things available, and you just make the
- 7:24Speaker 3: most of what I have or what we had. A
- 7:28Speaker 3: lot of stews, a lot of starch, a lot of potatoes,
- 7:32Speaker 3: a lot of Russian cuisine dumplings.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Not necessarily the most desirable.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Food, especially living in the United States, but again I
- 7:43Speaker 3: grew up on it, so for me, it has a
- 7:45Speaker 3: special place in my heart and special place in my taste. Butts,
- 7:48Speaker 3: you know, most of the time, like if I create something,
- 7:51Speaker 3: it would be more like that type of a cuisine
- 7:54Speaker 3: for me personally.
- 7:56Speaker 2: Have you started your son cooking with you yet? Oh? Yeah?
- 8:00Speaker 4: What is? What is?
- 8:02Speaker 2: What does he like to make? Is he making the burgers?
- 8:04Speaker 2: Is he doing We didn't.
- 8:06Speaker 4: Get into like dirty with meat stuff.
- 8:09Speaker 3: He's kind of been kind of funky. Hasn't had meat
- 8:11Speaker 3: when he was growing up till like maybe a year
- 8:14Speaker 3: and a half ago. I mean might so he's four,
- 8:17Speaker 3: but he's I mean, loves making pancakes, loves making any
- 8:21Speaker 3: kind of sweets you can possibly think of, cupcakes. He
- 8:26Speaker 3: loves making pizzas, you know, love like did the dough
- 8:30Speaker 3: and put in the shippings. Like actually, I think there's
- 8:33Speaker 3: only Stagram. I have a couple of videos. It's pretty
- 8:35Speaker 3: hilarious watching him do that. But he's he's obsessed with cooking.
- 8:41Speaker 3: He loves doing it. If he sees again me doing
- 8:43Speaker 3: something in the kitchen. He wants to see it. He
- 8:46Speaker 3: wants to flip it. Even if I pen pride, he
- 8:49Speaker 3: takes a little spatch on me try to flip. It's
- 8:51Speaker 3: like he's very much into it. And you know, sometimes
- 8:55Speaker 3: people say, like, well, you get something after your parents.
- 8:57Speaker 4: You know, I truly believe so, because.
- 9:01Speaker 3: He just has it so and I'm very happy that
- 9:04Speaker 3: he does, to be fair, because you know, I think
- 9:07Speaker 3: dietary nowadays is a huge part of life and a
- 9:11Speaker 3: huge part of healthy life, and I really want him
- 9:13Speaker 3: to to explore it to the fullest and really understand.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. So what's his favorite French toast?
- 9:23Speaker 4: French toast, fridge toast.
- 9:26Speaker 3: He's uh price, I mean kids foot he loves like
- 9:32Speaker 3: the typical what he can see on the kids menu
- 9:34Speaker 3: if you go to the restaurant. He's obsession grilled cheese,
- 9:38Speaker 3: good grilled cheese. He's obsessed with He's obsessed with bread
- 9:41Speaker 3: stuff like, he just loves bread.
- 9:44Speaker 4: And I can't blame him.
- 9:46Speaker 5: I cannot blame him.
- 9:56Speaker 2: My little guy, he uh, he's not so little anymore.
- 9:59Speaker 2: He's getting pretty all. He loves to make the burgers,
- 10:04Speaker 2: flip the burgers, amazing. He chops the onion. Uh, he
- 10:10Speaker 2: preps the condiment plate. What else does he do? Oh,
- 10:14Speaker 2: he loves he loves to do the pasta with me. Like,
- 10:19Speaker 2: so we make we make the we make the tomato
- 10:21Speaker 2: sauce together, nice and uh and he adds the ingredients
- 10:25Speaker 2: and he chops up a lot of the onions and
- 10:27Speaker 2: the herbs and all that kind of stuff. He's he's
- 10:31Speaker 2: and these are the best times that we have at home,
- 10:34Speaker 2: is cooking as a family. And uh, it's it's it's
- 10:38Speaker 2: my favorite time of day. Five o'clock rolls around and
- 10:42Speaker 2: that's when we prep.
- 10:43Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing, it's beautiful. It's honestly like, we
- 10:48Speaker 3: live in such a day and age where those experience
- 10:52Speaker 3: now becoming is so rare that you can get a
- 10:55Speaker 3: hold of those little things. It's it's so precious that
- 11:00Speaker 3: I mean even hearing you saying all these things, like I.
- 11:03Speaker 4: Can wait experience this with.
- 11:04Speaker 3: My son because it would be something that would be
- 11:07Speaker 3: with me forever and it's absolutely priceless. And you will
- 11:11Speaker 3: only understand if you're a parent and have a kid.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's it's every day. It's every day
- 11:19Speaker 2: we do this. Every once in a while. It's I
- 11:22Speaker 2: almost don't even like to go out to restaurants to
- 11:25Speaker 2: eat because we don't get to do that experience. I mean,
- 11:28Speaker 2: I I do just because, you know, because I cook
- 11:32Speaker 2: in the family and I really enjoy but sometimes I'm
- 11:34Speaker 2: a little late. Let's go, let's go to a restaurant.
- 11:37Speaker 2: But you know it's not we don't. We don't do
- 11:41Speaker 2: it a lot because the cooking experience at home is
- 11:43Speaker 2: just so so great, so great, and he enjoys it
- 11:47Speaker 2: so much. He has his own little recipes that he
- 11:50Speaker 2: makes up and he shows them to me on a list,
- 11:52Speaker 2: and I said, no, you can't really combine those and those,
- 11:55Speaker 2: but you can try it.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Why not explore?
- 11:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know where he read about it,
- 12:01Speaker 2: but he wants to add things. He wants to add
- 12:03Speaker 2: herbs and seasonings to the burger before I mash everything up.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Oh okay, he wants, he wants to add it. So
- 12:13Speaker 2: I'm gonna let him do that. That's probably tonight.
- 12:18Speaker 4: That's awesome.
- 12:19Speaker 2: Tell us about your experience with Gilmore girls. Are you
- 12:22Speaker 2: aware of the show? Did you to be?
- 12:25Speaker 4: Actually?
- 12:26Speaker 3: You know what, I was just kind of thinking all
- 12:28Speaker 3: of the things that I've done. I actually have done
- 12:30Speaker 3: Gilma girlsrom. One of the episodes, I think there was
- 12:32Speaker 3: like an Argentine tangu scene and I can probably find
- 12:36Speaker 3: on my Instagram what I posted, but it was definitely
- 12:39Speaker 3: a few years back and we're filming in the studio
- 12:42Speaker 3: and I remember dancing on this on the table with
- 12:46Speaker 3: one of the dance partners and girls that I've actually
- 12:49Speaker 3: partnered before, and we're doing this Argentine tangusne funny enough,
- 12:53Speaker 3: So yes, I have had experience, but it was a
- 12:57Speaker 3: while ago, so I cannot to recall exactly what episode
- 13:00Speaker 3: it was, but yeah, I was actually I can call
- 13:05Speaker 3: myself was a little bit part of it. Is that, right, Yeah,
- 13:09Speaker 3: I can probably look and find it if you guys
- 13:12Speaker 3: like me to after them a second tent because I
- 13:15Speaker 3: do remember posting a picture and the kreographer was Margarite
- 13:18Speaker 3: Derek's and yeah, it was like a big tango.
- 13:21Speaker 4: It was like a tango club A year in the life.
- 13:24Speaker 3: It was the reboot a year of the life right
- 13:28Speaker 3: in when Yeah, twenty sixteen seventeen.
- 13:33Speaker 4: Probably, yes, that's that sounds more like that was the time. Yes,
- 13:37Speaker 4: that's the big tango scene, so you know, which I'm
- 13:39Speaker 4: referring to I do.
- 13:41Speaker 3: It's when Logan and Rory go to the Big Tango
- 13:45Speaker 3: Club and they're talking about, you know, him getting married
- 13:49Speaker 3: to somebody else than her.
- 13:51Speaker 2: But yeah, it was the reboot. It was the revival.
- 13:53Speaker 4: That's great, that's the one.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Adam. What are you working on now?
- 13:57Speaker 4: God? What am I working on? Working my kid? It's
- 14:03Speaker 4: it's it's as best job. It's the best job, the
- 14:06Speaker 4: most rewarding job. But I do a lot of teaching,
- 14:08Speaker 4: you know. I travel around the country and educate kids
- 14:10Speaker 4: and dance. What else.
- 14:13Speaker 3: I don't go to a construction to be honest, I
- 14:15Speaker 3: kind of try to explore a different.
- 14:17Speaker 4: Side to this life, you know. Finding I'm forty.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Two years old, and you know, being a dancer it's
- 14:25Speaker 3: kind of interesting because you go through these waves of
- 14:29Speaker 3: success and things and you.
- 14:32Speaker 4: You like and the pick up the career.
- 14:34Speaker 3: But obviously, like everything comes to an end at some
- 14:37Speaker 3: point of your life, you know.
- 14:38Speaker 5: And I'm kind.
- 14:40Speaker 3: Of just like thinking, Okay, what else in life I
- 14:42Speaker 3: would like to do that actually does interest me and
- 14:46Speaker 3: maybe I can make possibly career of it. So a
- 14:49Speaker 3: friend of mine, he owns a construction company. He's like, Hey,
- 14:52Speaker 3: why don't you come and you know, see what it's
- 14:55Speaker 3: all about. Because I was always curious what construction is.
- 14:58Speaker 3: And I know this is totally maybe interesting to a
- 15:00Speaker 3: lot of your listeners, but it was a big, big
- 15:04Speaker 3: change for me because I kind of redirect my because
- 15:08Speaker 3: you know, being a dancer, especially net in a desire
- 15:10Speaker 3: to choreograph, you have to teach, you have to work
- 15:13Speaker 3: with people, you have to there's it's like you have
- 15:16Speaker 3: to kind of have a lot of sets of different
- 15:18Speaker 3: types of skills that I never thought would be very
- 15:22Speaker 3: useful outside of the dance world because I've never done
- 15:25Speaker 3: anything outside of the dance world. And now I'm finding
- 15:28Speaker 3: myself like, okay, what else, how can I apply that
- 15:32Speaker 3: and doing construction?
- 15:34Speaker 4: And I started building kids furniture. I built stuff for
- 15:38Speaker 4: my son.
- 15:39Speaker 3: I built like tables and chairs and bookshelves and actually
- 15:43Speaker 3: built him an easel where he can write things. And
- 15:47Speaker 3: that's what's been going in my life. But besides that,
- 15:50Speaker 3: of course, a lot of things as to do with dancing.
- 15:52Speaker 4: I teach him.
- 15:53Speaker 3: The big convention that I travel over the week in
- 15:55Speaker 3: different states and teach a.
- 15:57Speaker 4: Lot of kids.
- 15:58Speaker 3: It's probably like seven eight hundred. It's in a classroom
- 16:01Speaker 3: and you just educate them. And as far as that,
- 16:04Speaker 3: I love doing that because you have the knowledge, you know,
- 16:08Speaker 3: and you kind of want to pass to next generation.
- 16:11Speaker 3: And bothroom dancing is such a unique type of style
- 16:14Speaker 3: of dance that majority time in the United States, it's
- 16:18Speaker 3: like tab jazz, hip hop, ballet, like it's more based
- 16:21Speaker 3: than that. But when Dancing with the Stars came to
- 16:24Speaker 3: this big success, you know, all of a sudden those
- 16:29Speaker 3: type of dand schools start to like try to see
- 16:32Speaker 3: what that is like. And there's really not a lot
- 16:35Speaker 3: of people who can teach bothroom dancing. And yeah, I
- 16:40Speaker 3: was invited to in one of the convention. It's been
- 16:42Speaker 3: start doing that a lot, beautiful.
- 16:43Speaker 2: Well, yeah, whatever you do, we're glad to have you on.
- 16:48Speaker 2: We wish you a ton of luck. It was wonderful
- 16:52Speaker 2: getting to know you a little bit. And thanks for
- 16:56Speaker 2: sharing your stories about you and your little guy. Thank you.
- 17:01Speaker 2: You know, the best thing that ever happened to me
- 17:05Speaker 2: and my wife was was.
- 17:06Speaker 4: Our son, and uh it really it.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Just completely transformed our lives And isn't an amazing that.
- 17:16Speaker 2: You know, if you ever questioned what life really was
- 17:20Speaker 2: all about, that answer comes the day your son is born.
- 17:24Speaker 2: So oh that's what it's about.
- 17:26Speaker 4: You know.
- 17:26Speaker 3: I think it's just your priority completely shifts. Like everything
- 17:32Speaker 3: that you thought was this life is about completely change.
- 17:36Speaker 3: And you know when people what a lot of like
- 17:40Speaker 3: before me having Materio, you know, you obviously talk to
- 17:43Speaker 3: a lot of parents out and it's like, well, how
- 17:45Speaker 3: is it, like what is it like to.
- 17:47Speaker 4: Have a kid?
- 17:47Speaker 3: You know, and it's scary because you kind of understand
- 17:50Speaker 3: how other people's lives shifts and changes.
- 17:52Speaker 4: You know, You're like, I don't know if I'm ready
- 17:54Speaker 4: for this, Like I.
- 17:54Speaker 3: Still want to you know, explore and still want to
- 17:57Speaker 3: do things for myself. But which you don't realize, and
- 18:00Speaker 3: I think that's really changed my mind is that it's
- 18:02Speaker 3: not that you're forced to change something. You want to
- 18:05Speaker 3: change that because your priority shifts and change, and you're
- 18:10Speaker 3: doing it because you want it, not because you're having
- 18:12Speaker 3: a kit and it's like, oh now I.
- 18:13Speaker 4: Have to do this.
- 18:14Speaker 3: No, no, you do it because of that because I
- 18:15Speaker 3: actually want to do it. So I think that was
- 18:19Speaker 3: the biggest lesson for me to learn, like being from
- 18:21Speaker 3: non parent to become a parent.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Beautiful, Thank you, my friend, Thank you so much for
- 18:26Speaker 2: having me with you. I'd love to have you back
- 18:28Speaker 2: on here. Thank you so much, and thank you everybody,
- 18:33Speaker 2: lets fans on the planet. Where you lead, we will follow.
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