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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority Life with

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Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia Judice, Davey Kent, and Jennifer Kessler.

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush

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Speaker 1: and Happy Thanksgiving. So in honor of Thanksgiving, we are

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Speaker 1: going to be talking to a chef, not just any chef,

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Speaker 1: looking to Kevin Ashton, who is the house chef for

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Speaker 1: Pi Beta Pi sorority at the University of Nevada. So,

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Speaker 1: Kevin has an unbelievable following. Some of you may know him.

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Speaker 1: I think he has like five million followers on TikTok.

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Speaker 1: He is a wonder and we're going to find out everything.

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Speaker 1: We have a ton of questions for him. So let's

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Speaker 1: bring in Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Hello, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I am very interested in all things Kevin Ashton and

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Speaker 1: what you do and why you do it and how

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Speaker 1: you do it.

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Speaker 2: So cool.

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Speaker 1: Let's just if you wouldn't mind just tell me a

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Speaker 1: little bit about how this happened. You are, well, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to ask about. I mean, you have this

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Speaker 1: unbelievable following on TikTok, of course, but what made you

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Speaker 1: decide to want to be a chef for a sorority

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Speaker 1: that is.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's such a long story behind that, but

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Speaker 2: it basically boils down to I've been in the restaurant

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Speaker 2: business my whole life. I've been food has been has

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Speaker 2: Food has been my life since I was a little kid.

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Speaker 2: So I went to culinary school in nineteen ninety one

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Speaker 2: and I began my professional career after that, and I

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Speaker 2: was a chef for thirty years. And when the pandemic hit,

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Speaker 2: all the restaurants got shut down, and so all the

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Speaker 2: chefs got to take a break for the first time

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Speaker 2: in their lives and for me, and after thirty years

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Speaker 2: in the kitchens, it's the first time I had a

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Speaker 2: couple months off, and I decided I really liked it.

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Speaker 2: So I retired from the restaurant business and I started

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Speaker 2: shooting tiktoks and I did that for a little while,

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Speaker 2: and then one of the alums reached out to me.

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Speaker 2: She knew I wasn't doing anything besides shooting videos, and

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Speaker 2: she said, hey, we have this position our chef. You know,

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Speaker 2: we lost our chef. Would you be interested in just

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Speaker 2: coming down and talking to us about about the job.

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Speaker 2: And it just like everything about the job just lined

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Speaker 2: up perfect. I got to take you mean, I got

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Speaker 2: I got to take summers off. I get the nights

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Speaker 2: and weekends off, I get like all these I got

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Speaker 2: a lot of time off. Essentially, That's what it boiled

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Speaker 2: down to. And that's what the hard part about the

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Speaker 2: restaurant business is is you uh, you know, if you

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Speaker 2: if you really want to commit to that business, you

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Speaker 2: you're working nights and weekends and holidays and you pore

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Speaker 2: your life into it. And I raised I raised four

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Speaker 2: daughters and you know, it's very few of their performances

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Speaker 2: at soccer games and events. And because my life was

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Speaker 2: committed to the restaurants, so I it was like it

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Speaker 2: was great to uh to have the opportunity to still

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Speaker 2: cook in a kitchen. But not but at the seem

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Speaker 2: I have all the time off. You know, I'm home

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Speaker 2: every evening now, I'm on the weekends, I'm home on

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Speaker 2: all the holidays. So and I take it a long

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Speaker 2: break over the summer. So it's it's just perfect for me.

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Speaker 1: Wow, did it?

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Speaker 2: Kurk?

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Speaker 1: This was an opportunity in terms of your social media

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Speaker 1: career because I've not met somebody who does what you

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Speaker 1: do and who is not just works. You know, in

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Speaker 1: that house, but your professional chef. How lucky are these

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Speaker 1: are these girls? And I'm sure it comes with so

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Speaker 1: many challenges? Was that part of why you accepted the job,

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Speaker 1: like this is going to be really interesting to people?

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Speaker 2: It was they told me, I could you know? They

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Speaker 2: they essentially handed me over the whole kitchen. They said,

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Speaker 2: you can cook whatever you want. You write the menu,

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Speaker 2: you do the shopping, you cook the food, you wash

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Speaker 2: your own dishes. It's basically I'm a one man show.

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Speaker 2: And so I didn't have to worry about employees. I

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Speaker 2: didn't have to worry. I just like you know, every

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Speaker 1: There has to be You have them there asking people

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Speaker 2: I do it all alone. There's twenty twenty five girls

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Speaker 2: I cook her twenty six meals lunch and dinner.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I do you get your still have your home?

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Speaker 1: Your home at night? I'm surprised to hear that sounds

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they eat dinner at five o'clock, so I'm

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Speaker 2: usually done by six and home by six thirty. And

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Speaker 2: that's a that's unheard of in the restaurant business. There

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Speaker 2: they pay her to do the dishes, and they they've

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Speaker 2: been doing that for a couple of years. For me,

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Speaker 2: when I started out, I did my own dishes and

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Speaker 2: I clean up along. As you know, throughout the day.

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Speaker 2: As I go, I clean up. But at the end

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Speaker 1: Everything having to deal with. First of all, girls that age.

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Speaker 1: You have four daughters, so that must have come pretty naturally.

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Speaker 1: But I just cannot imagine cooking and girls correct me

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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's it is, but I like, like

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Speaker 2: I said, food has been my life's passion. So and

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Speaker 2: having raised girls, I understand how they think. And and

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Speaker 2: my daughters are the same ages they're they're in their

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Speaker 2: I understand that they like to eat healthy, but at

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Speaker 2: the same time, they like to have cheap days. You know,

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Speaker 2: they like a nice Greek yogurt bowl, but they also

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Speaker 2: like cheeseburger and fries. And so there's a balance that

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Speaker 2: I that I have to do when I write them.

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Speaker 1: Babe, do you have to be conscious of all the

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Speaker 1: dietary restrictions every meal? So like I can't write so

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Speaker 1: you're cooking multiple I would think options each meal.

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Speaker 2: Well, I create a I create a menu, and then

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Speaker 2: we do have we do have some dietary restrictions and

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Speaker 2: every semester or every year, we've had some and I

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Speaker 2: adhere to those wholeheartedly. And I do my best to Like,

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Speaker 2: if they're gluten free and I'm doing it at pasta night,

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Speaker 2: I'll just get some gluten free pasta. That way, the

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Speaker 2: I don't just make them a salad because everyone else

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Speaker 2: the allergies are. I've had everything from shellfish allergies, soybean allergies,

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Speaker 2: nut allergies. There's just so there's different guidelines. I followed them.

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Speaker 2: I really do my best to. Of course, I don't

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Speaker 2: If it comes down to, you know, we have some

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Speaker 2: I'm doing like fanaccini alfredo that's pretty much all dairy

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Speaker 2: I have a whole list of alternative meals that they

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Speaker 2: go hungry. If they can't eat what I'm actually making,

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Speaker 2: or if they don't like what I'm making, they simply say,

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't want the feteccini alfredo, I want

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Speaker 2: a burger to back, or I want a chicken Caesar tonight, I.

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Speaker 1: Say it to you. So now they're down for dinner

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Speaker 1: at five o'clock. Someone tastes something you've made and they

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Speaker 1: don't like it, will you then prepare them something else?

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Speaker 1: Or like my mother, will you say, well I made it,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Generally that that doesn't happen because they sign

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Speaker 2: up ahead of time. They sign up for the whole week,

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Speaker 2: so they see what's on the menu, and they know

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Speaker 2: if they don't like something coming up, then they choose

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Speaker 2: for that particular day an alternative meal. So at the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the day, I know what everybody's going to have,

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Speaker 2: and I've never I've never had somebody come up and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: I don't like this. If they did, I'd make them

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Speaker 2: something different. Though I always have lots of food on hands,

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Speaker 2: so I could I could do a quick burger or.

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Speaker 1: A Q So even tempered, and it's just from the

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Speaker 1: think that's probably so conducive to what you do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think you would have to be even tempered. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything hard though about what you do? These girls,

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Speaker 1: their personalities it's you make it sound very easy.

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Speaker 2: You know what. For for me, I feel like it is.

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Speaker 2: The girls are inspirational. They are they they're so kind

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Speaker 2: and they do so many kind things throughout throughout the year,

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Speaker 2: and I just watch them and they inspire me to

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Speaker 2: just I'm kind nature as it is, so it's easier

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Speaker 2: had a single argument with any of the girls. Just like,

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Speaker 2: if they don't like something, I say, hey, no problem,

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Speaker 2: sometimes they'll come up and say, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've never had an argument with any of

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Speaker 1: these girls. There's never been trouble of any kind. You

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Speaker 1: are an amazing man. No, No, I just have to

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Speaker 1: tell you that's I find that fascinating. I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: of them. I think I would go crazy, maybe because

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Speaker 1: I also have a twenty three year old duster.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's funny. It's I see it like these

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Speaker 2: these girls have a they like I say, they're very

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Speaker 2: busy through throughout the year. They're always doing a lot

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Speaker 2: of philanthropy. They're always giving back to the community. And

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Speaker 2: when they're not doing that, they're studying and they're going

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Speaker 2: to classes, and they work so hard. And to actually

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Speaker 2: then that's kind of like that one time when they

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Speaker 2: sort of negative vibe going coming out of the kitchen.

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Speaker 2: When makes them not you know, that's the one peaceful

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Speaker 2: it just perfect for them.

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Speaker 1: I love that. It's lovely and I shouldn't say this.

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Speaker 1: I was about to say, you make me want to

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Speaker 1: become a chef. I absolutely do not want to ever, ever, ever,

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Speaker 1: of you, my friend. What do you put on social media?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't keep in touch with any of them,

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. These girls, These are very lucky girls. I

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Speaker 2: People say that I always feel like I'm the lucky one.

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Speaker 2: Old school Chemo across the board TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, old

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Speaker 2: those jobs and like get themselves a sorority house job

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Speaker 2: or a fret house job. You know, they want to

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Speaker 2: they want to take it easy on the weekends, they

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Speaker 2: want to take the summers off, and they want to

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Speaker 2: they want to get out of that. It's a grind

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Speaker 2: working in the industry. It's a tough shot to be

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Speaker 2: and you know, as for cooks, dishwashers, servers, the whole industry,

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a hard business. To be in. So

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Speaker 2: I feel like I got lucky and I can still

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Speaker 2: cook and I can still share my passion, but I

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Speaker 2: don't have to deal with the whole restaurant industry anymore.

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Speaker 2: So it makes me feel good. It's not it's it's

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Speaker 2: my heart goes out to everybody still doing it. It's

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Speaker 2: a tough business and it's like where I spent my career.

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Speaker 2: So I I love all the people in it, and

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Speaker 2: I really try to treat them all well and take

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Speaker 2: care of them. But on the other hand, I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 2: look at me now. You know. It's like you guys

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Speaker 2: might be a.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I started something here, you're starting. Who knows there's

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Speaker 1: going to be a new wave of Greek house chefs.

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Speaker 2: It's so cool, I think. So I think people are

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Speaker 2: seeing that it's a it's a pretty cool gig, and

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Speaker 2: I just, you know, I was a little I was

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Speaker 2: a little curious when I took the job, how other

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Speaker 2: people were gonna look at me as a chef, you know,

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Speaker 2: working in a sorority house. And it didn't. It didn't.

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Speaker 2: Not that I have a great reputation, but it didn't

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Speaker 2: take my reputation at all. They all just absolutely followers.

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling like people like looking at you, so I

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Speaker 1: think I suppose all right, keV Moo, well, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Absolutely really cool, so interesting.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate