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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Astra and we have the bad Boy of
the Ballroom who we all know from Dancing with the Stars,
Maxim with us here on Hollywood Hamilton and the KT
Morning crew. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I love that name. Yeah, the bad Boy of the Ballroom.
I didn't come up with that. It's like a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No one knows who came up with that, but it's
it's it's stuck, and then it's unstuck and now it's
like slowly coming back a little bit. But it's cute. Listen,
I'm gonna take it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'll take it too. I think it's I think it's
it's sexy. It gives you like that like sexy but
yet tough guy type of like feel.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Like it's all dark handsome.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Types exactly exactly what you are.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I get it. Look, I understand now, I'm a father
of three, so this whole thing is humorous more so.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But I know we're gonna get into family life too.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Then Dancing also celebrated twenty anniversary, So talk about how
this stuck around. Oh, I mean, I can't hate I
think this is great.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I mean, you spent majority of your career on that
I know that you switched over to So you Think
you could dance kind of went to a whole new network.
I know, let's talk about that one really because we're
gonna get into Dancing with the Stars. But so you
think you could dance? You were working alongside Alison Hulker
and Jojo Siwa. How was that?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It was great? I mean, I know the girls from
a while ago, from their previous lives, if you will.
So no, it was like friends reconnecting. It was a
great product project for us because it was coming back.
It was taken off the air, and this was the
first time coming back we had started. The panel included
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Nigel and then he had this dramatic exit out of
the project, and so I was sitting there going, oh
my god, this is both the most incredible experience because
I get to be this judge figure you're in charge, right,
but also like this is so dramatic with Nigel going
and Jojo coming in replacing. Now we have to reshoot
redo some things, and so you know, it was hectic,
(01:51):
but I had an amazing time at a blast.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, how do you like being behind the judge's table
as opposed to being on the dance floor, because I
know dancing is your passion.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's a lot easier on the knee. Let me tell
you no, I think it's every professional dancers dream, you know,
of that sort of career path where you go from
step to step, and it makes sense. I think judging
after having a dance career like mine is very normal
if you will, right so, But to strive to have
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that TV judging gig, that that's the that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh my gosh, it's like you made it to the
top now. Jojo Sie, you know, she just came out
that she has a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh man, JoJo's coming out with a lot of stuff,
doesn't she. I love her. She I like a little
baby sister, I promised from her time on dancing. It
starts with Jenna. I mean, we go way back. She's
a homie, and so she'll forgive me if I say it.
She's coming out with a lot of things, you know,
just every couple of months, there's something new. You know.
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We had some funny conversations about all of the things
you know, to do with that as well, and I
was shocked. Let me tell you this can't be on
the record. I was shocked, given what I know, and
how we spoke and what we spoke about to be like, bam,
now she has a boyfriend. I'm like, you know what, boo,
enjoy life?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I know, right, life.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
An amazing time, experience it all, and I'm now sort
of embracing it, VI everything vicariously through her. I'm like,
what else is she going to do? You know? Now
I'm like enjoying this whole process. Before I was confused,
I'm like, wait, what's happening now? Look? And again, she's
such a you know, that's another thing when we see
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someone on the screen and we can be a fan
of and know a lot about them, and I know
personally from me as well. Right, It's one thing when
you know the person, it just takes it to a
different level. I'm so happy for her happy you know
she scored and that too, and that too.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now is the show we're going to get renewed for
another season.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So you think I have no idea? I hope, I wish.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I mean, I think it should.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I think Dance should stay on TV. I think Dancing
with the Stars, this re re emergence, I think it's
like what it's second iteration of the wave of up
and down of Dancing with the Stars and now it's
going into season thirty five or something.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's up there.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Something I've lost track. Last week they celebrated twentieth anniversary.
I mean that's why even the show like so you
think had a chance and has still has a chance.
I think so. I really believe dancing should stay on TV,
should stay in like a forefront of our entertainment. It's
not you know, you don't really think about let's fight
(04:39):
over chatcha. How about that? You know the world is
on fire, let's.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I always feel like dancing always brings out the love
in somebody because you could feel somebody's dance moves. You
kind of can. Like a lot of people fall in
love dancing, Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I mean, has a lot of fell in love on
our show?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
A lot of fell in lust with our show. No,
I think, yes, you're right. It's the it's the close proximity.
Is the connection that you make, is the partnership you know, yes,
both ways, the partnership and the relationship things and the
shoulder to cry on during the season, and you know, yeah,
it's you experienced things for the first time for some
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and something that they haven't experienced in a long time
for others, and so I think that's why the celebrities
are always welcomed that as well. It's difficult, But.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Are you surprised when the dancers start dating their partners.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, I'm not. That's what I was trying to insinuate.
And then I was like, you know, let me get
out of this topic altogether. It's like saying this topic no,
look at what you know. Case in point with with
with Kim Johnson and Robert Hershewick. I mean, I keep
bringing this up because it's not it's like made in
in storytell fairy tales and then happily ever after, Like
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that's the couple.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I mean, look, you and your wife. I know you
guys were both pros.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But you guys, yeah, but we wait, we went you know,
we met on Broadway. We kind of we met off
off off the show, and the show just kind of
put us in close proximity together. You know, we worked
with bump shoulders. I was like, she's so hot. They
don't want to say it to her.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
For I love you guys together. Peter Murgertroyd, By the way,
in case you guys aren't familiar, Oh, she's just so beautiful,
absolutely beautiful. And you guys are always up on TikTok
doing dances together. I think that is the most cutest
thing ever. Are you teaching the kids to dance too? No?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Why no? Because I want them first of all, maybe
to have a more profitable professions is not profitable? Oh
my god, it's so hard. It's so hard. Listen, it's
hard to be at a at a financial top. It's
it's easy to be present to present your art. No,
it's not. You have to earn your audience and it's
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very difficult. But anyway you can get there. But to
get there consistently and to you know, it's very difficult. Again,
you know, Kura is dancing with the stars for giving
us all, you know, food to put on the table.
Drama too. Yeah, but no, with Peter, it's cute. We
fell into this. It's you know, it's the where the
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world is at now. We are those we are that
couple with Yes, we dance in a living room, but
on camera it's cute because we try not to overwhelm
ourselves with that. We do it once twice and we
call it a day. If if it's more than that,
now it's something else, and it shouldn't be that. It
should be just just this, you know, because it's in socks.
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It's semi pro. You know, we're not really sweating, but
it's it's nice, you know. Shy jumps in. He loves that.
The other two a little too small now. But I
wouldn't promote dance. I wouldn't not promote. I wouldn't push it.
I promoted, So I keep keep Shy in it since
he was three, and he kept saying, Papa, I don't
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like it. I don't like it. So like if I
asked him myself, like what wouldn't you what would you
want to quit? He would say dance really yeah. And
then around like maybe a year and a half ago,
he comes back. He's like, hey, so, and we're changing
schools and we're moving and through that time. So I like,
you know what, let me put him into this one
and this one is really good anyway, So he like,
(08:18):
I need pants and shoes. I'm like, what need pents
and shoes? I'm like, you don't even like it. So anyway,
I came over and I see like, yeah, the girls
added to the class. So now you know he was
in the sort of by himself. Thing. I was in
a group class and group is him and three girls
of all kinds, ages, heights, and so my man sort
(08:41):
of realizing something, and I know exactly what he's realizing.
He's realizing that the percentage is incredible. I mean it's
one two hundreds.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's gonna be a little ladies man, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What do you mean? This is where I come from?
I stuck around. I was like, wait a minute, you know,
do you know how they keep asking us me and
my brother Val And they'll another one early in the day, like,
so were you guys bullied in high school and through
school growing up? And I'm like, you know, to be honest,
even if we were, I would go back. I'm like, okay,
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I go into dance studio and it's me and again,
it's just an unfair advantage. And so I've never really
felt bullied for that reason because I didn't really understand,
because I knew that they just don't know what they're
talking about, right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I do remember when we were kids, it's like, you
see a boy dancing, it's like.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Right, right. So now with my son, it's like, oh
so if he shows interest, I'll support it. I like that,
but if he doesn't, that's cool. But I'm afraid that
he'll show interest because the girls and especially their parents.
So I came, came over and all of a sudden,
this parent came this apparently, and I'm like, I'm out
(09:50):
of the game for a little bit. So I'm like,
wait a minute, what's happening. Oh my god, they want
my son to dance with them.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, that is so cute.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Imagine he ends up on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh jeez, no, Well then, yeah, then the show will
have been going into seasons sixty five.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, exactly, sixty five, seventies somewhere up there. What would
it take to get you back on that show? Would
you have to maybe be brought back as a judge,
would you want to be brought back as a dancer?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, I mean again, the judging bit is the pinnacle, right, absolutely,
I'll put it out that you don't have to spell
it out for us. I never really considered dancing, you know.
I felt like, but you know, you've we have kids,
you know, a lot of things are happening, and for me,
the body, the body is a big deal. And so
(10:38):
if the body is supposed to be then yeah, absolutely,
And so today I'm like, yeah, absolutely, let's do it.
We've worked out, we have a we have a different flow.
We know exactly how Peter and I operate when we
when we're busy, you know, So those things matter, and
and yeah, I would love to I would love to
shake the tail feather if, if, if there's a need
(10:59):
for it. I said, the cast is fantastic. They're doing
a great job. I do believe, and dare I say it.
I believe the show is missing still still missing a
little Max still, I think so.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I think you're onto something.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That one has got a great character, but I think
it's still it needs that little pop and.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
We got to get you in, got to get you
back in there. What are your thoughts also on Gleb
and Brooks, because that was like the big talk of
the town all last season with them and their relationship.
What are your thoughts on that? Is this like a
PR stunt or is this like the real thing?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh? No, day one, day four together off the show?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yes, but do you think do you think they're actually
on the low together right now but acting like they're
not together.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
For the fourth time? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You think it's done, well, I.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Don't know if it's done. I know that they're not together,
although you know with Gleb, you never know he's a homie.
Though Gleb was a great dude, great guy, very nice.
But you know, he's doing this thing. I think he's
a sweetheart. I think he doesn't really know yet what
he wants to be honest, just being as a close friend.
(12:09):
But he and Brooks were real. I thought they weren't,
and then they wore, and then I thought they weren't again,
and then they were again, and so now they're broken up.
I'm like, you know what, let's give it. Let's give
it a bigger, bigger timeline. See what happens over the
last five years. Clebn Brooks broke up seven times. Like
you never know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Now, I know you das a lot of celebrities who
surprised you the most with their dancing skills because you
danced with Auton and I saw the whole list.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh my god, I need I need the list to
refresh my memory.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
These are the ones that stood out to me. Melby, yes,
she was amazing. Okay, Brandy, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's the one Yeah, No, Brandy's awesome. Brandy and I
had a great time. That's that's the one that keeps
being brought up because of Bristol. Bristol. Palin was that
season and we didn't make the finale. Bristol did, so
everybody's like, oh, Max, you said you hated Bristol. Never
did that, never said that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
She just happened to be, I guess a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But we we didn't make that spot. No, let's call
it that anyway. But Brandy was dope. B RockA I
remember our team name.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh I like that. What about Vanessa she?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I mean she we I don't know if we had
the best time obviously, but you know she was, Uh.
I think that we did well. We had some couple
of dances popped up recently that I saw there was like,
oh wow, that's that's a great piece. But yeah, no,
they're they're doing fantastic now post show.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Mm and Denise Richards, that's another one.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's NONI the niece knows. She she could be here
right now. She would, she would concur She was not
a good dancer. It was hard for her.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So when they pair you guys up, do you get
it like a choice as to who you want to
be with her. They're just like, this is who you're
going to be with. This is the celebrity you get.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, No, we get paired up based on factors, you know,
maybe same same height, maybe same personality. Maybe personalities will clash.
This is gonna be great TV. Maybe it's you know,
some comedy in there. I think, you know, I think
that the pairing overall over the seasons, if you look
at it, like you know, blanketed View is fantastic. Okay,
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you know, I don't know what the percent is rate
would be for like failed, but it's very little. I
think they're doing it right. You know, we don't get
to say unless you bring somebody to the show, Like
if I recruit someone on the street, I'm like, oh
my god, or in a restaurant, you should be on
this room stars like give me a number, I'll you know,
I'll connect the dots. I did that once. Not gonna
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name names, but it was a bad experience for me,
and the show was not not bad experiences show. The
season was not a good season, and I was like,
I'm never doing it to myself again. Just give me someone,
don't tell me who it is, you know, and then
let me go to work. Otherwise I'm like, I can
blame myself.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You did get lucky with the one mirrorball trophy that
you did win, Merl.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Davis, that's the best. I mean when asked about who
was your best partner, you know all of the you know,
Kirsty and mel and you know Brandy, Like I had
a fantastic time and we had some great dances and
all that. But you know, my flowers go to Merrill
because that's my win. That's those you know dances. I
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hang my head on like this is this is like
if I'm represented by a season, this is this is
the one.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And where's that mirror bold trophy? Now? Where do you
keep it in the house?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
In between Peter's mirror balls?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's just stuffed in there.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's just stuffed in there. She's got more of My
brother has more, his wife has more, so like my
you know, it's like everyone in my family has more.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Beat you out.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But yeah, but I've left the mark.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You're still an incredible dancer, whether you get the ball
or not. To me, you're always a winner.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, I appreciate it, but this is why I love
you know, sort of perpetuating that, like I'm not I
go away and then I come back with a production
or like with not a Valley when Valen I sat
down for a residency. You know, I like that, and
I like to push my body still because again it's
you know, if I do it, I want to do
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it on a decent level. So yeah, there were periods
of time when I'm like, no, we're done, this game
is over. We're hanging our shoes literally and metaphorically, and
now we're focusing something else. But today, not yet, for sure,
Today I'm still I'm still looking forward to the next
gig at the moment, you know, the few opportunities, but
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like I said.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
What opportunity got.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I mean, we always work on some other productions outside
of Dancing with the Stars. Pete Don't forget is also
a you know, she's a person again not a celebrity,
but she's a working dance professional and her right, she's
a great person to do stuff with. And I happen
to be related, you know, so we do a lot
of you know, we have some projects on table together
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as well. I do want them to be dance projects too.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Well, we got to talk about what you're doing tonight
Elsie Rooftop right here in Midtown Manhattan. You're going to
be there for their Salsa Fridays, which is something that
they do every Friday. But you're going to be there
not only overlooking New York City, but teaching everyone sells
some moves.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, I'll be part of their night. It's fantastic though,
you know, I own dance studios, that's my other gig.
And just to know that there is a big social
community still and now again coming back because for a
second there was none. And so I think Elsie is
one of the only places in Manhattan, in New York
City where you can go and actually have that social, chill, relaxed,
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non dance studio related vibes. Right. It's one thing. I
invite you to my class where we're going to learn
some salsa in the dance studio. It's another thing. You're
in a you know, beautiful space rooftop, gorgeous views with
the sexy drink.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, we got to talk about that. Sucks. Great you
have right now because I know that they do have
an open bar for an hour which starts at eight.
I feel a little liquid courage always help anybody start
moving to, especially sauce is very difficult to dance.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
They also have fantastic teachers, these two ladies that do
an incredible job. They run you through some basic stuff.
They make it fun. I'm going to be part of
the night. We're going to have a great time. I
have a lot of my friends comment who are also
from a dance community. It's gonna be a get together. Yeah,
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It sounds great. And tell us about your vodka, because
I know you've been promoting it. I'm I don't want
to butcher the name, but is it tet Ya Kappa?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, we try to. We try to focus on Kappa.
But like Chorchia, isn't his aunt in my Yeah? But
but by the way, the way you say that, as
long as it just rolls off roller over the tonguecha
Kappa toa Kappa. She's actually a real person who passed
away a long time ago. But she was my aunt
about ten to eleven years old. I remember she taught me.
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She gave me a little secret of like how to drink.
I remember I asked her. I think you know she
would be My culture is going back to all these
celebrations you know, everything is always vodka. I haven't seen
a different liquor until we immigrated, and it was like
ninety five ninety seven. I'm like, oh, there's also some
other stuff. I don't think I've seen a glass of
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wine until I was in my twenties. Wow, And I
remember vividly somebody poort it. It was a celebration of
me turning professional, like it was yesterday, and we cheered
and I went like goop, and I go the whole
like shot. I remember thinking that's a lot of liquor.
But I wasn't a drinker. It was a shooter, right,
okay and so and so. Now culture it's always like
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shot before you start the dinner for life or the
you know, meeting for like, oh I've be't seen you. Hey.
You know, cheers at least the.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Reason everyone happy, though it gets the edge off, you know,
everybody has a bad attitude sometimes, but.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
On the fourth, you know, your your second kicks in,
on the seventh, your fifth, So have to be professional
at it. Anyway, my aunt, she taught me how to
drink and not get drunk. Every couple of shots, you
take something oily with its scoop of butter. If it's
at a table. Some literally an oily substance. It coats
your digestive tract. And eighty percent of why you get
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drunk is on vapors going to your bloodstream. And so
this way, the alcohol just goes straight down. I can't
believe I'm giving this stuff over the radio, you know
what I mean. But you guys go straight down, you
peet out. The alcohol effect isn't as strong, but you
participate in the in the festivities. And so I remember
in Napa, you know, I met all the locals and
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my partner in this in this in vodka and I
were talking and I said it, It's like, listen, if
I'm going to do anything, it's probably going to be vodka.
I gave him all these stories. You know where I
come from from here from Brooklyn. You know, I was
dancing in Eastern European restaurants. I was the show in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
What was your favorite favorite radio station while hanging out
in Brooklyn?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Listen, I told you before we came in k to
you is there is my bad? Is my history? I mean,
like you guys started, I think while I was already
in US. And so for me, anything that I was
a part of, and it's sort of inception in the beginning,
like I carry it with me. You know. It's love
that I think all immigrants do, to be honest, some
of these things that we hold on to, Like, oh,
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I was there when King to You just began.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I even remember the difference in musical styles because it
was like just one radio station we're not going to
name what, and it was predominantly all of the music
in New York City coming out of that. And you
guys started and you were just like everything I wanted
to hear.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh, I love it nice. So when you're in New
York you just listen to us, I hope.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, you know, you know nowadays, first of all, I
don't know the last time I heard a radio, but
I do.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I try to, especially when you're in the ubers tell
them to put on k to you. When you're in there,
there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Everybody got their own play.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
When you're in now where can anywhere can everybody pick
up the vodka week.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Kappa No. I've had an incredible opportunities here in New
York City. You know, I have amazing distributing company resorts
of and so I've been introduced and now we're in
you know, a lot of restaurants that you would know
with the Serafina group. When you know, hopefully Chipriani's we'll
see we're avre so you can start exactly. Yeah, oh
(22:26):
my god, oh my god. It doesn't pinch me moment.
Also Ava in Beverly Hills by the way. But yeah, no,
I'm working on more accounts. When you go to cha
Kappa dot com or any kind of my social media,
anything we see Kappa you can click on it and
we'll update it as soon as I'm done with the strip,
because it's going to be a lot of stores, a
lot of restaurants. It's it's it's it's really taking off.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh that's incredible. You know we're bringing back beat Stock
this year. We should have to.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Wow. A lot of things have to come back now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Absolutely. You know, we got to get you back on
Dancing with Stars. We got to get this vodka out
and about. We got to get dancing with you tonight
at Elsie Roof. There's a lot of things we got
to do.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes, No, Elsie is gonna be great. I'm looking forward
to it really. Also, also because I haven't done. I
haven't been a part of a you know, a night
an event in New York City in a long time.
We were in LA. Now we do a lot of
things on the West Coast off off TV and then
television work blessed, you know, whatever we do also is
(23:29):
over there. So New York has my heart always have
you guys had a tough runt with the with the knicks.
Everybody needs sticks next year, you know, so I need
to lick some wounds. Come out to Elsie tonight.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Well, thank you so much, Maxim for stopping by KTU
and Hollywood Hamilton and the kt Morning crew, and Hollywood
is a big fan of liquor, and especially any liquor
from any celebrities, so I'm going to have to make
sure that he gets a little taste.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But I just want I just want to make sure,
you know the thing that the best thing out this
is not me. I hate to say it because you
know I love me, but but this is my product.
I designed the label. I put you know, my my, my,
one of my favorite people's name on it. The top
is you know, designed after a bow tie. Bow tie
(24:17):
and the best part is it's an incredible product. This
is the only vodka in distribution that's made in Napa Valley.
There's no other product. So when I go into a
store and they show me this massive shelf of like
a hundred vodkas, I'm not intimidated because this literally has
its own space. It says made in Napa.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Is there vodka parts different than the others.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
We are part sauvignon blanc grape single vineyard or you know,
local Napa Valley grape and part winter grain. And I
they sent me out a lot of versions of the
of the formula through the blind tasting and then try
to confuse me a bunch of times. So we actually
(25:04):
had a lot of tasting and the version that this
is is the smoothest, is the most on, not volatile,
like you know when you take a shot and you
take a sip, but it's hard. Yeah, and you gotta
be like really mix it with a drink. This is
the only vodka you can actually chill and sip. It's
just you know, like you would sip a high end mescal.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So yes, now now you're speaking my language.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
This used to be my drinker choice too, But I
love this product. You also like it's tried and tested,
no hangover, I mean obviously in moderation, do it right,
you know, scoop some butter in between.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Perfect. Well, we're about to try something just a bit.
Thank you so much for stopping by. We appreciate you
and can't wait to sell so with you tonight, at Elsie,
let's do it.
Hey, it's Astra and we have the bad Boy of
the Ballroom who we all know from Dancing with the Stars,
Maxim with us here on Hollywood Hamilton and the KT
Morning crew. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I love that name. Yeah, the bad Boy of the Ballroom.
I didn't come up with that. It's like a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No one knows who came up with that, but it's
it's it's stuck, and then it's unstuck and now it's
like slowly coming back a little bit. But it's cute. Listen,
I'm gonna take it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'll take it too. I think it's I think it's
it's sexy. It gives you like that like sexy but
yet tough guy type of like feel.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Like it's all dark handsome.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Types exactly exactly what you are.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I get it. Look, I understand now, I'm a father
of three, so this whole thing is humorous more so.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But I know we're gonna get into family life too.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Then Dancing also celebrated twenty anniversary, So talk about how
this stuck around. Oh, I mean, I can't hate I
think this is great.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I mean, you spent majority of your career on that
I know that you switched over to So you Think
you could dance kind of went to a whole new network.
I know, let's talk about that one really because we're
gonna get into Dancing with the Stars. But so you
think you could dance? You were working alongside Alison Hulker
and Jojo Siwa. How was that?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It was great? I mean, I know the girls from
a while ago, from their previous lives, if you will.
So no, it was like friends reconnecting. It was a
great product project for us because it was coming back.
It was taken off the air, and this was the
first time coming back we had started. The panel included
(01:28):
Nigel and then he had this dramatic exit out of
the project, and so I was sitting there going, oh
my god, this is both the most incredible experience because
I get to be this judge figure you're in charge, right,
but also like this is so dramatic with Nigel going
and Jojo coming in replacing. Now we have to reshoot
redo some things, and so you know, it was hectic,
(01:51):
but I had an amazing time at a blast.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, how do you like being behind the judge's table
as opposed to being on the dance floor, because I
know dancing is your passion.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's a lot easier on the knee. Let me tell
you no, I think it's every professional dancers dream, you know,
of that sort of career path where you go from
step to step, and it makes sense. I think judging
after having a dance career like mine is very normal
if you will, right so, But to strive to have
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that TV judging gig, that that's the that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh my gosh, it's like you made it to the
top now. Jojo Sie, you know, she just came out
that she has a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh man, JoJo's coming out with a lot of stuff,
doesn't she. I love her. She I like a little
baby sister, I promised from her time on dancing. It
starts with Jenna. I mean, we go way back. She's
a homie, and so she'll forgive me if I say it.
She's coming out with a lot of things, you know,
just every couple of months, there's something new. You know.
(02:50):
We had some funny conversations about all of the things
you know, to do with that as well, and I
was shocked. Let me tell you this can't be on
the record. I was shocked, given what I know, and
how we spoke and what we spoke about to be like, bam,
now she has a boyfriend. I'm like, you know what, boo,
enjoy life?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I know, right, life.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
An amazing time, experience it all, and I'm now sort
of embracing it, VI everything vicariously through her. I'm like,
what else is she going to do? You know? Now
I'm like enjoying this whole process. Before I was confused,
I'm like, wait, what's happening now? Look? And again, she's
such a you know, that's another thing when we see
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someone on the screen and we can be a fan
of and know a lot about them, and I know
personally from me as well. Right, It's one thing when
you know the person, it just takes it to a
different level. I'm so happy for her happy you know
she scored and that too, and that too.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now is the show we're going to get renewed for
another season.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So you think I have no idea? I hope, I wish.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I mean, I think it should.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I think Dance should stay on TV. I think Dancing
with the Stars, this re re emergence, I think it's
like what it's second iteration of the wave of up
and down of Dancing with the Stars and now it's
going into season thirty five or something.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's up there.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Something I've lost track. Last week they celebrated twentieth anniversary.
I mean that's why even the show like so you
think had a chance and has still has a chance.
I think so. I really believe dancing should stay on TV,
should stay in like a forefront of our entertainment. It's
not you know, you don't really think about let's fight
(04:39):
over chatcha. How about that? You know the world is
on fire, let's.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I always feel like dancing always brings out the love
in somebody because you could feel somebody's dance moves. You
kind of can. Like a lot of people fall in
love dancing, Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I mean, has a lot of fell in love on
our show?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
A lot of fell in lust with our show. No,
I think, yes, you're right. It's the it's the close proximity.
Is the connection that you make, is the partnership you know, yes,
both ways, the partnership and the relationship things and the
shoulder to cry on during the season, and you know, yeah,
it's you experienced things for the first time for some
(05:17):
and something that they haven't experienced in a long time
for others, and so I think that's why the celebrities
are always welcomed that as well. It's difficult, But.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Are you surprised when the dancers start dating their partners.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, I'm not. That's what I was trying to insinuate.
And then I was like, you know, let me get
out of this topic altogether. It's like saying this topic no,
look at what you know. Case in point with with
with Kim Johnson and Robert Hershewick. I mean, I keep
bringing this up because it's not it's like made in
in storytell fairy tales and then happily ever after, Like
(05:53):
that's the couple.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I mean, look, you and your wife. I know you
guys were both pros.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But you guys, yeah, but we wait, we went you know,
we met on Broadway. We kind of we met off
off off the show, and the show just kind of
put us in close proximity together. You know, we worked
with bump shoulders. I was like, she's so hot. They
don't want to say it to her.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
For I love you guys together. Peter Murgertroyd, By the way,
in case you guys aren't familiar, Oh, she's just so beautiful,
absolutely beautiful. And you guys are always up on TikTok
doing dances together. I think that is the most cutest
thing ever. Are you teaching the kids to dance too? No?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Why no? Because I want them first of all, maybe
to have a more profitable professions is not profitable? Oh
my god, it's so hard. It's so hard. Listen, it's
hard to be at a at a financial top. It's
it's easy to be present to present your art. No,
it's not. You have to earn your audience and it's
(06:54):
very difficult. But anyway you can get there. But to
get there consistently and to you know, it's very difficult. Again,
you know, Kura is dancing with the stars for giving
us all, you know, food to put on the table.
Drama too. Yeah, but no, with Peter, it's cute. We
fell into this. It's you know, it's the where the
(07:14):
world is at now. We are those we are that
couple with Yes, we dance in a living room, but
on camera it's cute because we try not to overwhelm
ourselves with that. We do it once twice and we
call it a day. If if it's more than that,
now it's something else, and it shouldn't be that. It
should be just just this, you know, because it's in socks.
(07:34):
It's semi pro. You know, we're not really sweating, but
it's it's nice, you know. Shy jumps in. He loves that.
The other two a little too small now. But I
wouldn't promote dance. I wouldn't not promote. I wouldn't push it.
I promoted, So I keep keep Shy in it since
he was three, and he kept saying, Papa, I don't
(07:55):
like it. I don't like it. So like if I
asked him myself, like what wouldn't you what would you
want to quit? He would say dance really yeah. And
then around like maybe a year and a half ago,
he comes back. He's like, hey, so, and we're changing
schools and we're moving and through that time. So I like,
you know what, let me put him into this one
and this one is really good anyway, So he like,
(08:18):
I need pants and shoes. I'm like, what need pents
and shoes? I'm like, you don't even like it. So anyway,
I came over and I see like, yeah, the girls
added to the class. So now you know he was
in the sort of by himself. Thing. I was in
a group class and group is him and three girls
of all kinds, ages, heights, and so my man sort
(08:41):
of realizing something, and I know exactly what he's realizing.
He's realizing that the percentage is incredible. I mean it's
one two hundreds.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's gonna be a little ladies man, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What do you mean? This is where I come from?
I stuck around. I was like, wait a minute, you know,
do you know how they keep asking us me and
my brother Val And they'll another one early in the day, like,
so were you guys bullied in high school and through
school growing up? And I'm like, you know, to be honest,
even if we were, I would go back. I'm like, okay,
(09:14):
I go into dance studio and it's me and again,
it's just an unfair advantage. And so I've never really
felt bullied for that reason because I didn't really understand,
because I knew that they just don't know what they're
talking about, right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I do remember when we were kids, it's like, you
see a boy dancing, it's like.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Right, right. So now with my son, it's like, oh
so if he shows interest, I'll support it. I like that,
but if he doesn't, that's cool. But I'm afraid that
he'll show interest because the girls and especially their parents.
So I came, came over and all of a sudden,
this parent came this apparently, and I'm like, I'm out
(09:50):
of the game for a little bit. So I'm like,
wait a minute, what's happening. Oh my god, they want
my son to dance with them.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, that is so cute.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Imagine he ends up on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh jeez, no, Well then, yeah, then the show will
have been going into seasons sixty five.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, exactly, sixty five, seventies somewhere up there. What would
it take to get you back on that show? Would
you have to maybe be brought back as a judge,
would you want to be brought back as a dancer?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, I mean again, the judging bit is the pinnacle, right, absolutely,
I'll put it out that you don't have to spell
it out for us. I never really considered dancing, you know.
I felt like, but you know, you've we have kids,
you know, a lot of things are happening, and for me,
the body, the body is a big deal. And so
(10:38):
if the body is supposed to be then yeah, absolutely,
And so today I'm like, yeah, absolutely, let's do it.
We've worked out, we have a we have a different flow.
We know exactly how Peter and I operate when we
when we're busy, you know, So those things matter, and
and yeah, I would love to I would love to
shake the tail feather if, if, if there's a need
(10:59):
for it. I said, the cast is fantastic. They're doing
a great job. I do believe, and dare I say it.
I believe the show is missing still still missing a
little Max still, I think so.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I think you're onto something.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That one has got a great character, but I think
it's still it needs that little pop and.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
We got to get you in, got to get you
back in there. What are your thoughts also on Gleb
and Brooks, because that was like the big talk of
the town all last season with them and their relationship.
What are your thoughts on that? Is this like a
PR stunt or is this like the real thing?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh? No, day one, day four together off the show?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yes, but do you think do you think they're actually
on the low together right now but acting like they're
not together.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
For the fourth time? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You think it's done, well, I.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Don't know if it's done. I know that they're not together,
although you know with Gleb, you never know he's a homie.
Though Gleb was a great dude, great guy, very nice.
But you know, he's doing this thing. I think he's
a sweetheart. I think he doesn't really know yet what
he wants to be honest, just being as a close friend.
(12:09):
But he and Brooks were real. I thought they weren't,
and then they wore, and then I thought they weren't again,
and then they were again, and so now they're broken up.
I'm like, you know what, let's give it. Let's give
it a bigger, bigger timeline. See what happens over the
last five years. Clebn Brooks broke up seven times. Like
you never know.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Now, I know you das a lot of celebrities who
surprised you the most with their dancing skills because you
danced with Auton and I saw the whole list.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh my god, I need I need the list to
refresh my memory.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
These are the ones that stood out to me. Melby, yes,
she was amazing. Okay, Brandy, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's the one Yeah, No, Brandy's awesome. Brandy and I
had a great time. That's that's the one that keeps
being brought up because of Bristol. Bristol. Palin was that
season and we didn't make the finale. Bristol did, so
everybody's like, oh, Max, you said you hated Bristol. Never
did that, never said that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
She just happened to be, I guess a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But we we didn't make that spot. No, let's call
it that anyway. But Brandy was dope. B RockA I
remember our team name.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh I like that. What about Vanessa she?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I mean she we I don't know if we had
the best time obviously, but you know she was, Uh.
I think that we did well. We had some couple
of dances popped up recently that I saw there was like,
oh wow, that's that's a great piece. But yeah, no,
they're they're doing fantastic now post show.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Mm and Denise Richards, that's another one.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's NONI the niece knows. She she could be here
right now. She would, she would concur She was not
a good dancer. It was hard for her.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So when they pair you guys up, do you get
it like a choice as to who you want to
be with her. They're just like, this is who you're
going to be with. This is the celebrity you get.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, No, we get paired up based on factors, you know,
maybe same same height, maybe same personality. Maybe personalities will clash.
This is gonna be great TV. Maybe it's you know,
some comedy in there. I think, you know, I think
that the pairing overall over the seasons, if you look
at it, like you know, blanketed View is fantastic. Okay,
(14:19):
you know, I don't know what the percent is rate
would be for like failed, but it's very little. I
think they're doing it right. You know, we don't get
to say unless you bring somebody to the show, Like
if I recruit someone on the street, I'm like, oh
my god, or in a restaurant, you should be on
this room stars like give me a number, I'll you know,
I'll connect the dots. I did that once. Not gonna
(14:43):
name names, but it was a bad experience for me,
and the show was not not bad experiences show. The
season was not a good season, and I was like,
I'm never doing it to myself again. Just give me someone,
don't tell me who it is, you know, and then
let me go to work. Otherwise I'm like, I can
blame myself.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
You did get lucky with the one mirrorball trophy that
you did win, Merl.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Davis, that's the best. I mean when asked about who
was your best partner, you know all of the you know,
Kirsty and mel and you know Brandy, Like I had
a fantastic time and we had some great dances and
all that. But you know, my flowers go to Merrill
because that's my win. That's those you know dances. I
(15:27):
hang my head on like this is this is like
if I'm represented by a season, this is this is
the one.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And where's that mirror bold trophy? Now? Where do you
keep it in the house?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
In between Peter's mirror balls?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's just stuffed in there.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It's just stuffed in there. She's got more of My
brother has more, his wife has more, so like my
you know, it's like everyone in my family has more.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Beat you out.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But yeah, but I've left the mark.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You're still an incredible dancer, whether you get the ball
or not. To me, you're always a winner.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No, I appreciate it, but this is why I love
you know, sort of perpetuating that, like I'm not I
go away and then I come back with a production
or like with not a Valley when Valen I sat
down for a residency. You know, I like that, and
I like to push my body still because again it's
you know, if I do it, I want to do
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it on a decent level. So yeah, there were periods
of time when I'm like, no, we're done, this game
is over. We're hanging our shoes literally and metaphorically, and
now we're focusing something else. But today, not yet, for sure,
Today I'm still I'm still looking forward to the next
gig at the moment, you know, the few opportunities, but
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like I said.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
What opportunity got.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I mean, we always work on some other productions outside
of Dancing with the Stars. Pete Don't forget is also
a you know, she's a person again not a celebrity,
but she's a working dance professional and her right, she's
a great person to do stuff with. And I happen
to be related, you know, so we do a lot
of you know, we have some projects on table together
(17:03):
as well. I do want them to be dance projects too.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Well, we got to talk about what you're doing tonight
Elsie Rooftop right here in Midtown Manhattan. You're going to
be there for their Salsa Fridays, which is something that
they do every Friday. But you're going to be there
not only overlooking New York City, but teaching everyone sells
some moves.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, I'll be part of their night. It's fantastic though,
you know, I own dance studios, that's my other gig.
And just to know that there is a big social
community still and now again coming back because for a
second there was none. And so I think Elsie is
one of the only places in Manhattan, in New York
City where you can go and actually have that social, chill, relaxed,
(17:43):
non dance studio related vibes. Right. It's one thing. I
invite you to my class where we're going to learn
some salsa in the dance studio. It's another thing. You're
in a you know, beautiful space rooftop, gorgeous views with
the sexy drink.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, we got to talk about that. Sucks. Great you
have right now because I know that they do have
an open bar for an hour which starts at eight.
I feel a little liquid courage always help anybody start
moving to, especially sauce is very difficult to dance.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
They also have fantastic teachers, these two ladies that do
an incredible job. They run you through some basic stuff.
They make it fun. I'm going to be part of
the night. We're going to have a great time. I
have a lot of my friends comment who are also
from a dance community. It's gonna be a get together. Yeah,
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It sounds great. And tell us about your vodka, because
I know you've been promoting it. I'm I don't want
to butcher the name, but is it tet Ya Kappa?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, we try to. We try to focus on Kappa.
But like Chorchia, isn't his aunt in my Yeah? But
but by the way, the way you say that, as
long as it just rolls off roller over the tonguecha
Kappa toa Kappa. She's actually a real person who passed
away a long time ago. But she was my aunt
about ten to eleven years old. I remember she taught me.
(18:59):
She gave me a little secret of like how to drink.
I remember I asked her. I think you know she
would be My culture is going back to all these
celebrations you know, everything is always vodka. I haven't seen
a different liquor until we immigrated, and it was like
ninety five ninety seven. I'm like, oh, there's also some
other stuff. I don't think I've seen a glass of
(19:21):
wine until I was in my twenties. Wow, And I
remember vividly somebody poort it. It was a celebration of
me turning professional, like it was yesterday, and we cheered
and I went like goop, and I go the whole
like shot. I remember thinking that's a lot of liquor.
But I wasn't a drinker. It was a shooter, right,
okay and so and so. Now culture it's always like
(19:43):
shot before you start the dinner for life or the
you know, meeting for like, oh I've be't seen you. Hey.
You know, cheers at least the.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Reason everyone happy, though it gets the edge off, you know,
everybody has a bad attitude sometimes, but.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
On the fourth, you know, your your second kicks in,
on the seventh, your fifth, So have to be professional
at it. Anyway, my aunt, she taught me how to
drink and not get drunk. Every couple of shots, you
take something oily with its scoop of butter. If it's
at a table. Some literally an oily substance. It coats
your digestive tract. And eighty percent of why you get
(20:18):
drunk is on vapors going to your bloodstream. And so
this way, the alcohol just goes straight down. I can't
believe I'm giving this stuff over the radio, you know
what I mean. But you guys go straight down, you
peet out. The alcohol effect isn't as strong, but you
participate in the in the festivities. And so I remember
in Napa, you know, I met all the locals and
(20:41):
my partner in this in this in vodka and I
were talking and I said it, It's like, listen, if
I'm going to do anything, it's probably going to be vodka.
I gave him all these stories. You know where I
come from from here from Brooklyn. You know, I was
dancing in Eastern European restaurants. I was the show in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
What was your favorite favorite radio station while hanging out
in Brooklyn?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Listen, I told you before we came in k to
you is there is my bad? Is my history? I mean,
like you guys started, I think while I was already
in US. And so for me, anything that I was
a part of, and it's sort of inception in the beginning,
like I carry it with me. You know. It's love
that I think all immigrants do, to be honest, some
of these things that we hold on to, Like, oh,
(21:23):
I was there when King to You just began.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know, that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I even remember the difference in musical styles because it
was like just one radio station we're not going to
name what, and it was predominantly all of the music
in New York City coming out of that. And you
guys started and you were just like everything I wanted
to hear.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh, I love it nice. So when you're in New
York you just listen to us, I hope.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, you know, you know nowadays, first of all, I
don't know the last time I heard a radio, but
I do.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I try to, especially when you're in the ubers tell
them to put on k to you. When you're in there,
there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Everybody got their own play.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
When you're in now where can anywhere can everybody pick
up the vodka week.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Kappa No. I've had an incredible opportunities here in New
York City. You know, I have amazing distributing company resorts
of and so I've been introduced and now we're in
you know, a lot of restaurants that you would know
with the Serafina group. When you know, hopefully Chipriani's we'll
see we're avre so you can start exactly. Yeah, oh
(22:26):
my god, oh my god. It doesn't pinch me moment.
Also Ava in Beverly Hills by the way. But yeah, no,
I'm working on more accounts. When you go to cha
Kappa dot com or any kind of my social media,
anything we see Kappa you can click on it and
we'll update it as soon as I'm done with the strip,
because it's going to be a lot of stores, a
lot of restaurants. It's it's it's it's really taking off.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh that's incredible. You know we're bringing back beat Stock
this year. We should have to.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Wow. A lot of things have to come back now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Absolutely. You know, we got to get you back on
Dancing with Stars. We got to get this vodka out
and about. We got to get dancing with you tonight
at Elsie Roof. There's a lot of things we got
to do.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes, No, Elsie is gonna be great. I'm looking forward
to it really. Also, also because I haven't done. I
haven't been a part of a you know, a night
an event in New York City in a long time.
We were in LA. Now we do a lot of
things on the West Coast off off TV and then
television work blessed, you know, whatever we do also is
(23:29):
over there. So New York has my heart always have
you guys had a tough runt with the with the knicks.
Everybody needs sticks next year, you know, so I need
to lick some wounds. Come out to Elsie tonight.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Well, thank you so much, Maxim for stopping by KTU
and Hollywood Hamilton and the kt Morning crew, and Hollywood
is a big fan of liquor, and especially any liquor
from any celebrities, so I'm going to have to make
sure that he gets a little taste.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But I just want I just want to make sure,
you know the thing that the best thing out this
is not me. I hate to say it because you
know I love me, but but this is my product.
I designed the label. I put you know, my my, my,
one of my favorite people's name on it. The top
is you know, designed after a bow tie. Bow tie
(24:17):
and the best part is it's an incredible product. This
is the only vodka in distribution that's made in Napa Valley.
There's no other product. So when I go into a
store and they show me this massive shelf of like
a hundred vodkas, I'm not intimidated because this literally has
its own space. It says made in Napa.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Is there vodka parts different than the others.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
We are part sauvignon blanc grape single vineyard or you know,
local Napa Valley grape and part winter grain. And I
they sent me out a lot of versions of the
of the formula through the blind tasting and then try
to confuse me a bunch of times. So we actually
(25:04):
had a lot of tasting and the version that this
is is the smoothest, is the most on, not volatile,
like you know when you take a shot and you
take a sip, but it's hard. Yeah, and you gotta
be like really mix it with a drink. This is
the only vodka you can actually chill and sip. It's
just you know, like you would sip a high end mescal.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So yes, now now you're speaking my language.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
This used to be my drinker choice too, But I
love this product. You also like it's tried and tested,
no hangover, I mean obviously in moderation, do it right,
you know, scoop some butter in between.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Perfect. Well, we're about to try something just a bit.
Thank you so much for stopping by. We appreciate you
and can't wait to sell so with you tonight, at Elsie,
let's do it.
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