What's up guys? Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess and I am so excited to be here with

Isaac Calpito aka Isaac, as he's better known. What's up Isaac?

Hi baby.

Hi. Tell me everything.

Of course, I've known Isaac for years at this point because I used to take your class in Soul Cycle.

Yes, yes, I remember and you were damn good. You're good what a compliment it's sure I want to get

into like your whole like history and like your story but to get people up to current do we have a few

hours you know so I met you with Soul Cycle and, you know, we'll basically flash forward and then work our way

backwards, but I met you at Soul, was a huge fan of your class, the Soul Annex opened which was basically this sort of

companion studio to Soul Cycle and that was where I first took your Torched class.

Yes. It was kind of a cool avenue for me to to bring

torch to the masses, to bring torch in a group environment. I had cultivated it basically, I think, like 2010

when I was in West Side Story on Broadway.

And I literally created it on the Palace Theater stage.

For me, the intention was not to make it this global thing. The intention

was okay Isaac you're in the theater all day long because you're doing arguably

the hardest and most visceral

dancing show on Broadway.

I mean, it was Jerome Robbins original choreography.

It was, we took it very seriously.

And how did you first meet John Hill back in the day?

John Hill is one of my babies.

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