WEBVTT - What’s Cooking? 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority Life with 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:08.520 your hosts me Gia Judice, Davey Kent, and Jennifer Kessler. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.040 Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:21.560 and Happy Thanksgiving. So in honor of Thanksgiving, we are 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.960 going to be talking to a chef, not just any chef, 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.280 looking to Kevin Ashton, who is the house chef for 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.800 Pi Beta Pi sorority at the University of Nevada. So, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.559 Kevin has an unbelievable following. Some of you may know him. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.120 I think he has like five million followers on TikTok. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.400 He is a wonder and we're going to find out everything. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.480 We have a ton of questions for him. So let's 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:47.120 bring in Kevin. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.520 Hello, thank you for having me. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.120 I am very interested in all things Kevin Ashton and 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.880 what you do and why you do it and how 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:57.520 you do it. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:58.880 So cool. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.800 Let's just if you wouldn't mind just tell me a 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.759 little bit about how this happened. You are, well, there's 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.560 a lot to ask about. I mean, you have this 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.800 unbelievable following on TikTok, of course, but what made you 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.680 decide to want to be a chef for a sorority 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:15.840 that is. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.760 You know, there's such a long story behind that, but 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.120 it basically boils down to I've been in the restaurant 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:27.160 business my whole life. I've been food has been has 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.640 Food has been my life since I was a little kid. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:35.160 So I went to culinary school in nineteen ninety one 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.440 and I began my professional career after that, and I 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.679 was a chef for thirty years. And when the pandemic hit, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.640 all the restaurants got shut down, and so all the 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.720 chefs got to take a break for the first time 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.240 in their lives and for me, and after thirty years 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.680 in the kitchens, it's the first time I had a 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.320 couple months off, and I decided I really liked it. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.440 So I retired from the restaurant business and I started 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.520 shooting tiktoks and I did that for a little while, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.800 and then one of the alums reached out to me. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.040 She knew I wasn't doing anything besides shooting videos, and 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.600 she said, hey, we have this position our chef. You know, 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.240 we lost our chef. Would you be interested in just 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.760 coming down and talking to us about about the job. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.440 And it just like everything about the job just lined 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.040 up perfect. I got to take you mean, I got 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.400 I got to take summers off. I get the nights 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.960 and weekends off, I get like all these I got 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.360 a lot of time off. Essentially, That's what it boiled 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.840 down to. And that's what the hard part about the 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.080 restaurant business is is you uh, you know, if you 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.200 if you really want to commit to that business, you 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.320 you're working nights and weekends and holidays and you pore 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.960 your life into it. And I raised I raised four 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:53.040 daughters and you know, it's very few of their performances 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.200 at soccer games and events. And because my life was 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.000 committed to the restaurants, so I it was like it 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.880 was great to uh to have the opportunity to still 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.880 cook in a kitchen. But not but at the seem 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.720 I have all the time off. You know, I'm home 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.560 every evening now, I'm on the weekends, I'm home on 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.239 all the holidays. So and I take it a long 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.120 break over the summer. So it's it's just perfect for me. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.000 Wow, did it? 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:19.320 Kurk? 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.200 This was an opportunity in terms of your social media 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.760 career because I've not met somebody who does what you 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.919 do and who is not just works. You know, in 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.120 that house, but your professional chef. How lucky are these 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.800 are these girls? And I'm sure it comes with so 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.560 many challenges? Was that part of why you accepted the job, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.680 like this is going to be really interesting to people? 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.280 It was they told me, I could you know? They 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.119 they essentially handed me over the whole kitchen. They said, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.440 you can cook whatever you want. You write the menu, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.760 you do the shopping, you cook the food, you wash 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.760 your own dishes. It's basically I'm a one man show. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.560 And so I didn't have to worry about employees. I 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.720 didn't have to worry. I just like you know, every 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.960 every every weekend, I think about the menu for the 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.119 upcoming week, and I write it out and I send 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.600 it to the girls and they all reply with what 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.000 they want or don't want. We have alternative options if 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:12.880 they don't like something. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:14.920 There has to be You have them there asking people 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.520 to do this with you. How many girls are there? 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.520 I do it all alone. There's twenty twenty five girls 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.920 plus one house mom. So I cooked for like twenty 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.679 I cook her twenty six meals lunch and dinner. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.080 And yeah, I do you get your still have your home? 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.000 Your home at night? I'm surprised to hear that sounds 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.560 like the most work ever. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.880 Yeah. No, they eat dinner at five o'clock, so I'm 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.760 usually done by six and home by six thirty. And 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.440 that's a that's unheard of in the restaurant business. There 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.200 is one girl that works in house and she does 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.240 the dishes in the evening, and it's kind of like 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.080 a part time job for her, so she doesn't even 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.160 have to go out and get another job. This is 0:04:55.360 --> 0:05:00.200 they pay her to do the dishes, and they they've 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.520 been doing that for a couple of years. For me, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.200 when I started out, I did my own dishes and 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.760 I clean up along. As you know, throughout the day. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.080 As I go, I clean up. But at the end 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.120 of the night, they'll go through and they'll take care 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.320 of the last of the dishes that the girls. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.480 Everything having to deal with. First of all, girls that age. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.880 You have four daughters, so that must have come pretty naturally. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.560 But I just cannot imagine cooking and girls correct me 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.200 if I'm wrong. At while they're in college, they're very particular. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.960 They got a lot going on up here about what 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.880 to eat and what not to eat. I would think 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.360 that your job would be so challenging. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.000 It's you know, it's it is, but I like, like 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.480 I said, food has been my life's passion. So and 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.479 having raised girls, I understand how they think. And and 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.920 my daughters are the same ages they're they're in their 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.719 early twenties, so there, it's it's the same. It's like 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.680 I understand that they like to eat healthy, but at 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.440 the same time, they like to have cheap days. You know, 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.760 they like a nice Greek yogurt bowl, but they also 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.680 like cheeseburger and fries. And so there's a balance that 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.240 I that I have to do when I write them. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.680 Babe, do you have to be conscious of all the 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.839 dietary restrictions every meal? So like I can't write so 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.039 you're cooking multiple I would think options each meal. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.880 Well, I create a I create a menu, and then 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.400 we do have we do have some dietary restrictions and 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.200 every semester or every year, we've had some and I 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.760 adhere to those wholeheartedly. And I do my best to Like, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.040 if they're gluten free and I'm doing it at pasta night, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.279 I'll just get some gluten free pasta. That way, the 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.320 girls kind of feel like they're eating the same thing. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.440 I don't just make them a salad because everyone else 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.720 is having, you know, pasta with gluten in it. I 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.599 try to make them feel like they're part of the 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.960 same meal. And it's tough. Sometimes we have depending what 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.000 the allergies are. I've had everything from shellfish allergies, soybean allergies, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.960 nut allergies. There's just so there's different guidelines. I followed them. 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:02.800 I really do my best to. Of course, I don't 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.400 give them any you know, any allergies that completely adhere 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.480 to those, and and just I use just substitute items. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.920 If it comes down to, you know, we have some 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.280 girls who are dairy free and gluten free, and if 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.360 I'm doing like fanaccini alfredo that's pretty much all dairy 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.400 and gluten, then I'll say, you know, let's let's pick something. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.600 I have a whole list of alternative meals that they 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.960 can choose from, so they're never gonna They're never gonna 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.320 go hungry. If they can't eat what I'm actually making, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.040 or if they don't like what I'm making, they simply say, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.480 you know, I don't want the feteccini alfredo, I want 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.920 a burger to back, or I want a chicken Caesar tonight, I. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.320 Say it to you. So now they're down for dinner 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.480 at five o'clock. Someone tastes something you've made and they 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.239 don't like it, will you then prepare them something else? 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.080 Or like my mother, will you say, well I made it, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.480 you're eating it or you're going hungry? 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.040 Yeah. No, Generally that that doesn't happen because they sign 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.280 up ahead of time. They sign up for the whole week, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.560 so they see what's on the menu, and they know 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.160 if they don't like something coming up, then they choose 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.680 for that particular day an alternative meal. So at the 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.960 beginning of the day, I know what everybody's going to have, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.400 and I've never I've never had somebody come up and say, hey, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.080 I don't like this. If they did, I'd make them 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.680 something different. Though I always have lots of food on hands, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.840 so I could I could do a quick burger or. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.760 A Q So even tempered, and it's just from the 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.080 very short amount of time that we're speaking, and I 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.960 think that's probably so conducive to what you do. I mean, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.560 I think you would have to be even tempered. Is 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.439 there anything hard though about what you do? These girls, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:38.600 their personalities it's you make it sound very easy. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.000 You know what. For for me, I feel like it is. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.360 The girls are inspirational. They are they they're so kind 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:48.480 and they do so many kind things throughout throughout the year, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.280 and I just watch them and they inspire me to 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.280 to be on my best behavior. And you know, I 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.680 just I'm kind nature as it is, so it's easier 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.400 to get along with them. In four years, I've never 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.360 had a single argument with any of the girls. Just like, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.360 if they don't like something, I say, hey, no problem, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.080 let's let's do so let's fix it. And you know, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.679 sometimes they'll come up and say, you know, I want 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.960 this meal, but I don't want that particular part of it, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.200 so we'll leave it off for them. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.160 I mean, I've never had an argument with any of 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.280 these girls. There's never been trouble of any kind. You 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.720 are an amazing man. No, No, I just have to 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.559 tell you that's I find that fascinating. I can't imagine 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.920 being with that age group of girls every day lunch 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.199 and dinner and speaking so highly of them and kindly 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.200 of them. I think I would go crazy, maybe because 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.440 I also have a twenty three year old duster. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.160 So yeah, it's funny. It's I see it like these 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.240 these girls have a they like I say, they're very 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.520 busy through throughout the year. They're always doing a lot 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.199 of philanthropy. They're always giving back to the community. And 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.400 when they're not doing that, they're studying and they're going 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.520 to classes, and they work so hard. And to actually 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.400 take a break from all of that and just sit 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.679 down and enjoy a meal, that's sometimes they're only downtime 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.280 in the whole day. And oftentimes if they if they're 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.199 a long ways from home, which a lot of them are, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.560 then that's kind of like that one time when they 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.800 can kind of get that feel and they have a 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.320 comfortable meal and the last thing they need is some 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.560 sort of negative vibe going coming out of the kitchen. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.880 When makes them not you know, that's the one peaceful 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.360 moment they have in the day. I want to make 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.440 it just perfect for them. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.600 I love that. It's lovely and I shouldn't say this. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.400 I was about to say, you make me want to 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:37.720 become a chef. I absolutely do not want to ever, ever, ever, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.199 ever do that. But I'm a little bit in awe 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.160 of you, my friend. What do you put on social media? 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.400 Well, I just film. I film what I do for 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.040 them every day. So I just film what I did 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.440 social media for a couple of years. So going into 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.000 the job, I had a I had a small following, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.960 and it of course they grew over the years. And 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.280 I think that's just because of the the the mystery 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.080 of a sorority house. Nobody really ever gets to see 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.800 inside a sorority house and know what goes on. They 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.800 all have ideas of what goes on in there, but 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.360 really I didn't even know what it was like going in. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:16.200 And it's it's so different than than what you like. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.760 I say. These girls work hard, they raise money for 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.079 the community, they're all going to school. They just it's 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.200 and and so it's a it's an aspiring place to work, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.520 it really is. So my videos are just like what 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.840 I do on a daily basis cool. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.440 I don't know that. I wonder if the chefs feel 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.960 the same way, because I think you probably know this 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.360 the poor girls, but sororities, you know, they're they come 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.040 in all different shapes and sizes, right, But it sounds 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.120 like you're maybe in a house of girls that are 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.240 more studious, and so there's a lot of mischief going on. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.240 I don't. I don't want to say they don't. They're not. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.280 They're not typical college students because they are and it 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.319 is a it is a dry house, so of course 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.640 there's no alcohol allout in the house. But a lot 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.360 of girls, they are over twenty one, and they're welcome 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.880 to go out anytime they want and go to the 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.680 bars or go party, and they do that and every 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.200 now and then I'll see them on Friday morning because 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.560 most of them don't have class Friday morning. That's the 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.680 one morning I do brunch. The rest of the week, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.480 they kind of do their own breakfast. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.880 It's like on Friday mornings, I'd. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.479 Mix it up. I've done everything from like eggs benedict 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.920 to like a nice Greek yogurt bowls. I've done chicken 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.960 fried steak, and I like last Friday, I did pumpkin 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.840 pancakes for them. So I just I make it different 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.000 every week I do it. I like to incorporate a 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.440 lot of different fresh berries and fresh fruit, depending what 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:36.920 we're doing. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.360 Do they have a favorite? Is there something that the 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.480 girls just love when you may you have a specialty. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.199 Lunch or dinner dinner wise, they like the case Saberia 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:51.040 tacos that's their It's it's a it's like a stewed 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.080 meat that's stewed all day long and then it goes 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.200 in these tacos and you kind of dip it in 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.800 this uh in this consumme. So it's like a taco, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.160 it's dip in a weird sort of way, and they're 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.679 just absolutely delicious. And the girls that's that's their all 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.400 time favorite. They that's my most requested meal. And it 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:14.720 takes a lot of work. Yeah, the uh So, I 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.760 have a little I have a little suggestion box so 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.520 they can put suggestions in it and I take those 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.160 and incorporate those into the menus that I write every week. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.040 Is there been ever like a wild suggestion any of 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:26.000 like anything? 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.280 Was just uh, There's just sometimes there's things I can't 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.439 do only because I am by myself. They'll like, don't 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.760 They'll want certain types of pizzas or something, and I 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.440 can't really do pizza for like individual I can't do 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:44.200 twenty five individual pizzas. It's just too hard. And so 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.560 so there's there's certain things that I that are just 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.520 a little beyond beyond my byreach. But as a chef, 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.600 I understand that, and so I just don't put it 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.320 on the menu. I know what my capabilities are, and 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.880 I try to I try to stretch those limits a 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.960 little bit sometimes, but I I definitely never get myself 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.360 in deep water to where where you know, because they 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.080 have to they eat, they sign up to eat at 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.120 a certain time five or five fifteen or five point thirty. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.840 And I know a lot of them have classes. So 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.720 I don't want to. I don't want to be so 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.160 behind that they're you know, they have to leave and 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.120 don't get food because they have to go to class, 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.280 or they're going to be late to class because I'm behind. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.640 So I again, it's just that balance of like, you know, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.400 not overstepping my balance and knowing knowing what my limitations are. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.600 Have you had, you know, reformed relationships with some of 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.720 these girls a dad or a brother. Are there something 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.120 that you keep in touch with it are no longer 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:51.000 living in the house. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.720 Well, I don't keep in touch with any of them, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.120 but I have run into some of them locally, and 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.560 it's always like, hey, how you doing. You know, long 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.120 time no see And it's just like it's really great 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.080 to see them because I do I do friends form 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.520 friendships with them. It's it's kind of like like your 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.240 work family, Like they just live in the house. I'm 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.720 just the chef. But to me, these are the girls 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.800 I see every single day when I go to work, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.520 So they're like my work family. And I talk to 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.680 them and I, you know, I quick, Hey, how you doing. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.360 Oh I'm a little stressed. I got a test today. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.080 Oh what class are you in? And we just have 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.240 little conversations and and so I I learn about them, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.120 where they're from, when where they're going home for the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.560 holidays and uh so, so it is nice to uh 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.760 to form these friendships with them, But yeah, I don't. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.760 I don't really keep in touch with any of them. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.840 But it's always great to see them outside of the house. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.760 Even if I'm just at the grocery store on a 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.320 Saturday and I run into a couple of them. You know, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.840 it's it's it's not awkward, it's it's very friendly and warm. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.000 It's a it's just a warm how you doing, And 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:56.840 it's really nice. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.120 It's awesome. These girls, These are very lucky girls. I 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:00.680 hope they know how lucky they are. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.560 People say that I always feel like I'm the lucky one. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.000 You know, it's it's it's the best job in the world. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.880 It really is. Wow. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.800 I I love hearing that. I haven't heard anyone say 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:12.880 that in a very long time. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.600 Yeah, it's a I'm blessed. I am. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.440 I want to follow you now on TikTok. Where do 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:18.960 we find you? 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.840 Old school Chemo across the board TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, old 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.240 school it's old old DS cool, c O L Kemo. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.040 I always say that because old. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:35.200 Cool, old is cool. And what about keV Mo? 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.960 So Kemo's just what my friends always used to call 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.680 me when I was when I was like starting in 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.960 high school, they always called me Kevmo instead of Kevin Kevin. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.960 So it became old old school Chemo, all right, And 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.520 it just it just kind of stuck. And I wasn't 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.440 even sure when I had to pick a user name. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.640 It's just when I threw out there and then my 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:55.880 accounts kind of blew up. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.360 I mean they really have, Like, am I right? Do 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.440 you have like five million followers something? 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.000 I do? On on I have like eight On TikTok, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.199 I have like five and a half million followers. I 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.520 have about eight million followers across the board total, and 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:10.399 it's just been. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.040 A eight million followers. I mean, what do you think 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:14.439 that is? 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:14.560 What? 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.199 I mean? Yes, I think people want to see what 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.080 goes on I guess in a sorority house, but can't 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.240 be it. I mean, is it what you're cooking? Is 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:25.920 it your personality that people just find very charming and calming? 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.960 What is it that is drawing all of these people 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:28.159 to you? 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.760 I think I think a lot of it. People tell 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.639 me it's my voice. They say they could listen to me, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.520 you know, read the phone book. I always used to 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.119 try to sing when I was younger, and I was 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.080 terrible at singing because I can't carry a tune. But 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.000 I guess just speaking, I never you know, I just 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.919 assumed even speaking it was because I had a bad voice. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.439 But when I started doing my videos, they say, I 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.920 love your voice. I love your voice. And I always, like, 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.320 was told you're a terrible singer. You're a terrible singer. 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.800 So it's like it was really hard for me to 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.520 to make make that connection of like it's okay to 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.119 be a bad thing of but maybe I do have 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.320 a good speaking voice. Yes, so that's what people tell me. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.600 Maybe that's part of it. I really do put a 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.040 lot of it on the fact that people are curious 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.000 what goes on in the sorority house, and they don't 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:16.960 see anything that goes on in the house. They see 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.760 the kitchen and that's all. I don't show any parts 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.400 of the house. Come on, no, I try to keep 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.640 them out of the videos as much as I can. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.920 You might just catch the back of one of them 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.520 their head as they walk by, like in the background, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.320 But I try to try to keep their privacy to themselves, 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.639 try to make it about them, but more about me 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.840 and the food I'm serving. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.000 I feel like you would be watching watching would be 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.760 like watching what is the guy's name, Bob Green, the painter, 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.640 Bob Roster, Bob Rost. Yes, I feel like it would 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:46.600 be like that a little bit. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.960 People have compared me to him as the Bob Ross 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.439 of cooking, so I do too, And I don't mind that. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.560 You know, he had a he had a very cool. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.080 Vibe, spromizing way about him. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.840 Yeah, and I and I do the same thing with 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.159 you know, a little bit of salt here and just 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.000 a little bit of garlic over there and whatever. So 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.000 it's it's I suppose I. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.960 Love that, very grateful that you can't talk to us. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.680 Yeah, me too, this is this is cool. I love 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.840 sharing my story. I love telling everybody about it, just 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.399 because it is. I think it's a unique situation. And 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.439 it's a like before I before the pandemic, and actually 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.159