Brent Weathers: Soul, Sound & Sustenance

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And I can’t believe we never thought of this ad in the pre in the pre-production. Who’s the greatest black chef of all time? Oh [ __ ] that’s a great question.
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Well, you you dropped his name earlier.
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So, you have Patrick, but you also have um Edna Lewis. I got a book up on my shelf right here. I got Dookie Chase’s boots.
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Uh books. Yeah.
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So, there’s legends of course. Um there’s the the chef that cook for that was a chef for what? Thomas Jefferson. Is that guy, right?
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Yeah. But then he have like who’s that that that we would So his his uh I believe his name is Carver, but he’s the he’s the the chef that invented macaroni and cheese.
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Shut the [ __ ] up.
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Yeah, that’s crazy actually. Okay. Yeah, straight up.
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Who’s the first guy that you guys said like if you want to educate people real quick on that? Um, yeah, Patrick Clark
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uh is is larger than life um chef of he used to be the chef of Tavern on the Green as well as a couple of the
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restaurants in in New York City and um his son actually w up going to CI2 um and following in
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his in his dad’s footsteps. He was a he was he was the guy like he was way ahead of his time and uh specifically in
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New York City. Um, and then my mentor, I mean, uh, he’s not an American black chef, but he’s still still black, uh,
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Marcus Samson. So, I again, I was I was with Marcus when we was at Aquav. So, completely different. Completely
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different. So, I was I mean, you I we rocked I I was with How old was he then? Was he? So, I was 17, he was 25.
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Wow. He was 25. So he’s still the one of the youngest chefs to ever win the the rising star chef award in period.
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Do this sauce. It’s just a fluid chef. I’m here to remind y’all I’m sick with it. My name is
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meaning it’s one of the simple and plain. I’m all about my paper. The bacon cheddar and pain. I got these lames running for the border. The talent. Keep
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it flowing like it’s water. But here we go. There we go. Creeping to a low speed. Is it him and his friend sitting
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in these playing cool? He just acting like they know.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of the Taste Music Here Food Podcast Show. I am your host Ed Porter
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and this is the place for food, music, and culture and how they all connect.
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Today I have a guest on that we talked about actually when this first when I first started to talk about
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putting this together. He was actually one of the very first people that I told that I had to have on the podcast
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because of the type of content that he post and just we had a a hour and a half two hour conversation. That was our
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first introduction to one another. And so, you know, very much very much a kindred fellow uh uh uh brother from
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another mother. And before we get started, I have to pay this brother the
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proper respect by giving him his just do just do flowers with this intro. So, here we go.
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Today, we’re thrilled to have the dynamic force behind the social accounts Brett Eats Food. From spinning records
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as a DJ to lending in Michelin starred kitchens leading, he brings a unique blend of humor, authenticity, and
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culinary excellence to the table. His journey from the dish pit to fine dining epitomizes resilience and creativity.
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Known for his candid insights and infectious enthusiasm, he is a refreshing voice in the culinary world.
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Please welcome to the Taste Music Here Food podcast show my friend, my brother, Miss Brent Weathers.
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How you doing, man? Like clapping.
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Yeah, I like clapping.
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I mean, thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you.
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No, no, no problem, man. Um, it is again, like I said, it’s it’s great to have you on and we we also talked about
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having you. We gonna get you in studio, too. Don’t this is not the not the this is not the last time you’ll see my guy here. Um, you will see him at
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this table at one point in time, but we I had to get this in, though. This had to happen and um I’m glad that you took the time to do such. So, let’s jump
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right in, man. Let’s let’s talk about Yeah.
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Um it’s it’s always interesting to me to talk to other uh uh chefs and to know their origin story, how you got into it. And yours is
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a lot like mine is this was you didn’t choose that. This wasn’t like the initial choice for you. No.
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So let’s talk about how you got into food and you know your journey.
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Yeah. So um I didn’t know what I was going to be when I grew up or when I was a kid. I’ve always wanted to be a uh
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man, I was enjoying the uh the businessmen in the movies with the in the 80s. They had the big old brick phones with big old tie and they had
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suits and and they were like, you know, businessmen. I I like the way that looked. I was like, man, briefcases and you know what I’m saying? Like I just
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like the idea of being a businessman, but I didn’t know what that meant. I didn’t know what was in that that briefcase. So, um junk bonds. Long story short, I guess I
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and I’m bad at academics. Terrible at school. I’ve been trying too. It just wasn’t there’s a wall there. I just can’t get past like why we need to learn
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the the battle of the red flag for like this makes more sense to me. I can’t there’s a wall. I can’t learn. Anyway,
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so um I failed all all these tests really bad. Like the the PSAT my scores
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is mad. kids. Anyway, um I was trying to be in the Marines and I couldn’t pass that ASVAB test. All you had to do was
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just make a 28 or 29 on I couldn’t pass it for nothing. I can’t but God didn’t want me to pass it cuz if I pass I in San Diego and I wouldn’t be cooking and Okay.
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Absolutely.
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Um so I left a I was at a Christian school and I was roommates with a friend of mine. He said, “Hey Brent, we should work at a restaurant.” And he said, “We
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we could be bus boys. It’s like, you know, free food. it’s it’s easy money and it’s you can look at girls or whatever he was saying. I’m like cool
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done. And so we went to um someone’s home and they after church and they invited us cuz we’re college kids and
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they say hey you should you should go to uh work at this place called Deus Spaghetti uh in Steakhouse or whatever it’s called. And um we both went there.
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He had experience. I didn’t have any experience. He didn’t get hired. I got hired because I didn’t have any
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experience and they wanted you to be green. Yeah.
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And even the, you know, Thomas Keller got the blue in the the French catch, you got the blue aprons, which represents, you know, you’re a calling, you’re learning, and you’re a student or whatever.
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The the the um the apron that we had over there was green. So, it was kind of cool that we’re all green and we have these green aprons and you know and so I
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started um busting to I started uh washing dishes and and uh putting up dishes and eating free food and that was
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a life for me. And then after that we went to um uh uh I think 6 months later uh Scott,
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his name was Scott, he goes, “Hey Brent, today you’re on the oven.” I’m like, “Oh, wow.” And I was like, “I don’t have to wash dishes.” He’s like, “No, you’re you’re cooking on the oven. All I got to
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do is he showed me when to put the chicken in, when to put the cheese bread in, when to put the the rolls in, and the do’s and don’ts and the potatoes and
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whatever. And uh they said, “Brent, good job.” And and uh we like it here. From now on, you’re working the oven. So now I’m not washing dishes no more. You grab.
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So they seen now I’m cooking for real. I was like, “Oh my goodness, I’m a whole cook now.” And I love I always love food, of course, right?
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I always had a sweet tooth. So I was always cooking regardless, you know. So, um, and that’s how I kind of started
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out. Um, ironically, because I don’t because I grew up in Naples, Italy, and in Ismer Turkey, right? But I never was always in
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the kitchen. The very first thing I’ve ever made was soft scrambled eggs. And so, that right there is a whole the average chef has a problem doing that.
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Yeah.
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The fact that that was my first thing that my mom taught me. Yeah.
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Yeah. And then and then and then like me making my mom gave me a pancake recipe and and I had to call her years ago. I
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said, “Mom, you didn’t teach me how to cook.” My mom is amazing cook, right?
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I said, “Mom, you didn’t teach me how to cook, but you gave me the two jewels I kept with my whole life, right?
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Soft scrambled eggs, the the art of heat, the art of whatever.” Um, and uh pancakes. And I learned how
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to not be afraid of flour and eggs and baking soda and b I started like learning I start I tried to figure out like okay when you put baking soda in
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why what’s the difference between baking soda and baking powder? Why is the clarified butter in there? Why is the And then it got to the point where I was following a guideline
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and then I was like I don’t feel like looking for the recipe. Let me just put it together.
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And then when I was like I forgot the clarified butter. I was like man why does this pancake look this way? Oh that’s what the clarified butter does. I
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was like, “Why is um why is this so so uh weird tasting? Why is it so baking soda?” Yeah.
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And I was like I started and I tasted the better. I was like, “Okay.” You know, cuz I I eyeballed it, but I realized that a little goes a long way. So, I started
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understanding all the basics of like what makes a pancake. Yeah.
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And and and those two things held me down. That’s why I did that sule the other day. No recipe whatsoever. I was just like I knew what what it needed and
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the foundational building foundational building blocks. Those are Yes, sir.
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you know. So your mother she she taught you how to fish and that’s really that’s it. Those two things. Yeah. That’s all I
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needed in and from the pancakes to that same thing applies to other cakes to it applies to um you like knowing the difference between like what
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is a cookie, what makes a cookie, what makes a brownie, what makes uh cornbread. And I think my cornbread’s phenomenal all because of I understand
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it’s okay to taste the batter. It’s okay to know what does what. Yeah.
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And you know what I’m saying? So yeah, my mom my mom held me down with those two things.
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The best book still the best book the best part of um for me my my culinary school days. The intro to
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gastronomy. So the book Yeah. Yeah, that that to me was my red pill, blue pill moment because that’s that was the this and this makes that.
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So it’s the difference between Exactly.
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That’s the difference between being able to follow a recipe or to create one knowing how and it’s all science.
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Knowing the reactions of certain ingredients with other ingredients and how they play along in the sandbox. So that’s that’s really what that was. So yeah, kudos kudos to moms, man.
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Why does it do what?
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Exactly. Kudos to moms. Yeah. Listen. So like when people ask me I told you I tell people all the time like you want to how you know if somebody can cook or
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not like if you ask them to make something simple like get make me some cookies.
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Somebody that knows how to how to bake will ask you you want them crunchy or you want them chewy so I know how much how much brown sugar
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I need some the molasses does something to the the the you know. So knowing that is the difference between being able to just follow anybody should be able to
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read and follow a recipe. Now yes and and and and anybody that knows something knows that you just can’t be grabbing on any old recipe off the line and thinking
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it’s going to pan out. It just doesn’t work that it just doesn’t work that way. No, forget about it.
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Exactly. So you know what? Right about now I like to play a little game that I call
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this or that. So, we gonna get into this or that right about now. Okay. All right.
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There is a slew I’m going to ask you a question and or a phrase
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and then you’re going to pick one or the other. All right. Okay. Straight forward. Straight forward. Okay.
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All right. So, first one.
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Yeah. Which anthem better captures the hustle and the vibe of the 90s? Would that be? Okay.
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Would that be Cash Rules Everything Around Me by Wuang or Okay. OP by Naughty by Nature.
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We Let’s go with um let’s go with uh uh Wuang Cash Rules. Let’s go with Cream. Cream. Cream. Cream. Okay. All right.
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Yeah. Cuz OP, man, it was it was you know what I’m saying? It was disrespectful. And you know what I’m saying? I mean, the 90s was pretty disrespectful. I don’t know. I The ’90s was pretty disrespectful.
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No, it was. No, you’re correct. No, first of all, music in the 20s is disrespectful. What Marilyn Monroe was doing?
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Yeah. And that’s in the 50s and 60s, but like there’s some old even Mozart and them, there’s some lyrics and like, man, what does how does this song come about?
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Like, oh, man.
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They’re like, you know what that song was about, right? Like, crap. It was about that and about people getting drunk and getting bent and and he started, you know, the guy wouldn’t have
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it with his wife. I was like, “Oh, we So, no, but that I I had to go with Wuang because like
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it was more like, you know, uh, back of the bus, 40 of us, life was a short couldn’t be so rough, you know, and it was just like the an
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individual choose like these guys had the the bags of money. They’re sitting at the table trying to build, you know, it’s a family setting. uh where OP is
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like you’re just loose and in and out of each other’s other people’s property and listen this the Wuang when they when this came out
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like look at the album cover like this they this you can’t see their faces right and but they’re this big
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very very very scary looking dudes and you couldn’t help but to pay attention so yeah Wuang came on with Avengers man
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like I remember those days like it was vividly yesterday Wuang was something else. Okay, next.
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Which film more accurately portrays the passion and challenges of the culinary world? Would that be Chef with John
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Favro, which is an excellent movie, or Ratatouille? Well, my guy Ratatouille.
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Um, man, that’s crazy because they both had that that Food Critic scene. Yeah.
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Um, good heavens, man. because one’s real, one’s animated, but at the same time, I felt like
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I don’t know what to tell you. I think Sheff was a little bit extra on some levels, but I like the way that Ratatouille Ratatouille holds held me down because Thomas Keller holds me
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down. I watched it majority the main reason I watched it because Thomas Keller’s French Laundry Cats oversaw that movie.
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And and the idea that anybody can cook.
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Yeah. Um, and then that scene at the end like, “Hey man, I guess the older I get, the older I get, I cry about I cry quickly.” And, uh, that that last scene
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where homeboy went back to his childhood.
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I mean, it wasn’t my fault, man. I tried, but it wasn’t my fault. It was the music they played. Yeah.
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The music had me crying, too. Was quite all my fault. If it was muted, I’d be I’d be all right.
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Yeah. But no, no, no audio. You would have You’d been fine. But it’s the fine hold me down.
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Yeah. chef was um there were some scenes in it where it was extra like if you don’t mind me saying I don’t talk this way so he was but like it was extra a
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little bit you can tell when a director and the writer was like hooked up with a chef and they they found out what a moose bush was. Yeah. And this one guy
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was like hey what’s going on here? I forgot the scene but he was he’s showing up and and then the other dude that was the empire is like oh come on you a
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moose gentleman a moose douche. It was extra like it wasn’t Yeah. It wasn’t authentic. Okay. It was Forex and I just didn’t.
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Plus, yeah, Remy Remy Remy was Rey’s a stud, man. I like like I I love Ratatouille. I like I
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don’t So, what Disney does great is they they can they can tell a a proper story. So, it doesn’t it doesn’t
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matter. You lose yourself in the fact that it’s animated. You don’t even think about that. It’s just like the storyline is so rich that you you you fall in love
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with the characters. And so yeah, I I mean I love that movie.
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Hey Disney man, that’s one thing you realize as a kid that life was no joke that anyone can get it. You watch Bambi?
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Yeah. Anybody?
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Oh they they listen that that Bambi and and Saving Private Raving Private Ryan start off the same way with death. So
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just saying how you doing with your mom in the beginning of the movie?
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At the beginning mother you know what I’m saying? And it’s like and then the father shows up. Not even checking. The father comes up like that and goes,
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah, son.
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Man, man has got her. Follow me.” That’s rough.
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And then the whole time I thought Bambi was a woman and turns out was a dude. I was like, “Wait, what?” Yeah, Bambi was a dude. I’ll stop. I’ll stop. My bad.
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All right. Next.
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Which movie offers a more inspiring look at a chef’s journey and personal growth?
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Julia. Julia. Julia and Julia, sorry. Or burnt.
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Uh, let’s go with burnt. Let’s go with burnt on that one. Yeah, because Yeah, let’s go with burnt. There’s uh really
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unrealistic, but there was the idea of um the idea that kind of got to stay up keep up with the times and then you have
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to be like on some um not everyone’s on your side and it’s competition and you can have goals, but if you can if you
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don’t have a good team, you ain’t going go nowhere. we all need each other.
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It’s okay to finesse a food critic. I mean, you know, I don’t know, man. It’s like there there’s some things um not okay to finesse the food critic, but um there’s some level of politics like,
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“Hey, man. So, the the food critics on table, you know, table nine, you know, there’s no harm in getting up and hey, it’s good to see or whatever, you know.” So, I don’t know. I think Julia Julia
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help was dope, too. But about it was a little bit different. I mean, it helped me. I got it. All those movies you talk about, I got it over here. But
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I think burnt kind of I agree. I agree. Unrealistic.
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Yeah, Brim was unrealistic, but but it was but it still had you, you know, and plus the the people that was consulting the movie held me down, too. So, you know.
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No, this that’s dope. And and I got to I got to apologize to Super Producer Gabe cuz I I skipped the whole question, but he uh in true in true culinary form,
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roll with the punches. So, we going back to it. So, next, which track gets the kitchen crew more hype during a busy service? Would
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that be House of Pains? Jump Around or Slam by Onyx?
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Onyx. Onyx. Onyx. Onyx. Onyx. Onyx. Jump around’s cool, but it’s is Jump Around’s dope. And the way it comes on, you can’t front. Onyx hands down.
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Yeah. That that that So, first off, all day long, I got Dude, there’s songs that they’ve done. I listen to Onyx on the way to work still. Everything from they have a song called Buck Beck.
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Yeah. Yeah. Listen. So, hold on. this this this back the [ __ ] up album. So when this came out when this I remember
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vividly when this came out and being in high school and Sticky Fingers was was an amazing his
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energy when he came on it was it was Yeah. I’m like yeah this is different.
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This No, he had that he he there’s a few rappers that had a certain type of energy all the time and every time we saw him that unpredictable energy too.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Um, and and the thing too is like those Onyx cats, like I reached out to Fredo Star before, Truman. I was like, you know what? It’d be kind of cool
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because I to this day I I want to see what I want to see is a movie with Onyx.
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I want to see Fredo Star and maybe maybe Sticky Fing sticky fingers they came up together like cooking and then they kind of split and maybe
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they’re com the restaurants are in competition with each other or something or it’d be kind of cool to see um Fred Star and Sticky Fingers and some Chef Weiss. I would love that.
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Yeah. Well, I mean because in real life there’s some people that look like them that that are beasts in the kitchen. So he’s like, you know, and I reached out to Fredo Star. He was
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like, “Yeah, that sounds dope.” You know, so if I just get that if I can get some chicken together and reach out to him cuz he’s I’m just saying like
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So check so check it out. So check it. I don’t know if you noticed or not. I don’t even know if it’s anywhere else outside of New York, but there’s a chain of restaurants called Sticky Fingers.
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I didn’t know that. And and that’s that’s a for those who know those in the know knows that that’s a direct nod to
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Onyx. I’m like that’s how that’s how popular they were that they got a whole line of chicken finger joints and it’s a bomb name too.
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It’s a bomb name.
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Sticky Fingers is a bomb name. I don’t care what anybody says. How what do you what do you what do you think about the the the logo? How you think it how do you think that did it age properly? I
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there’s certain logos that it did. Right. There’s certain logos that that So, do you know that to date there’s only like two logos in the NBA
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that have never been changed from his first inception. And one of the main one is the Chicago Bulls bull. It’s been the same Bull ever since day one.
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Since day one. Every other logo has changed in some iteration.
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They changed a little bit. Yeah, they changed it. And and a small fun fact, I don’t know, hope the ratings don’t go off. Well, then turn the channel off.
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But one time the the the Dallas Mavericks hired Sean comes to redo the uh Oh, they’re out.
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Oh, they they to get the they did he find the the the the Dallas Mavericks.
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Yeah. No, I I forgot. But yeah, they they Yeah, I forgot if they cuz they cuz he was big into fashion. Yeah.
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And the Dallas Mavericks, they wanted Sean Combmes to help him out and Yeah.
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Playboy. I bet I Yeah, he was doing that. Yeah, it’s way too soon.
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I don’t know if it went down or not, but yeah, I’m I’m sure they they baby them uniforms. Anyway, uh who do you who would you say, this is off the cuff, but
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who would you say has the best logo in hip-hop? Cuz back in the So, it was if you notice it was just looking at these two these two album covers, the logo was very, very, very important.
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Like, it was also the it was it was branding like and at its highest point.
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This is when Cass used to read the line of notes and we used to stare at the album covers and all this. You know, Cass ain’t doing that no more. But who would you say?
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No.
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Since mental reasons, I’m a sucker for RandMc and EPMD. Yes.
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But people love Wuang a lot because it it represents family. It represents brotherhood.
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Yep.
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So, you know, there’s a bunch of logos out there. One of my and my top favorite um uh rap groups of all time is the
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Beasty Boys. But the cool thing about them is they always change it up. Every album they come out with their logo changed. I think I think that’s dope. So
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you can’t really pin one on them. But the idea that Wuang my cuz my brain’s not really moving around right now. I’m not I that just
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stands out to me right now like oh well my goodness. Is it a gangster or Wuang? Okay. One.
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Okay. Mine Mine is and it’s the one that whenever I think of a logo and this is going to be funny when I say this because
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because of reason you’ll see when I so Jay with the damager that that that that the cartoon of his head which I mean could could almost be
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you so with the beard and everything. Yeah. No, that’s why I do it. Yeah.
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I love damage to that. I love his style and that whole entire triggered it that whole entire like that cartoon of of him
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and with with with with the dreads and the beard like I man it’s one of it’s one of the dopest ones and that silhouette of it like you know who that
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is when you see it. So it’s do it’s so dope. What was it? Return the prophet.
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Return of the prophet. That whole video with the cartoon was was was insane.
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Yes. Yes. And there was one where uh when I lived in Tampa, Florida, um one of those hip-hop uh shops, they had um
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it was like him with the afro. It had him with a fro and a small little beard with a side shot. I was like, I kind of get that. But that was mad years ago.
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And they don’t discontinued. And okay, Jamag Damage. That was I love that logo. That that was Yeah, that was that was okay.
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Yeah, you can’t fret.
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Next. Which song is your go-to for setting the mood in the kitchen? This is how we do it by Montel Jordan or you
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can’t touch this by MC Hammer. You got to be one of these two though. You got No. No. Can’t touch this. I’m not Michael Jordan. That That song annoys me. I’m happy for him and his success
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and all that kind of stuff. I do not want to hear on a Tuesday morning. It’s Friday night. I don’t want to do that.
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You know what I’m saying? Like, no. I give can’t touch this because the thing with MC Hammer is, you know what’s crazy, man? Everybody in hip hop was dancing. NWA wasn’t dancing like that.
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Um, what do you mean like that? You got you got you got some footage of them dancing?
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What do you mean like you got footage of of of NWA dancing at all? You said like that. Okay. They wasn’t dancing at all.
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Yeah. I like No, no, no, no. I said NWA was was not dancing. Everybody in hip hop was dancing like 1991 90 on down.
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Everyone did something. Eric B Eric B and Rock Kim didn’t dance too much.
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No. But there is, look at El Cool J and Jingling Baby. He was dancing. Yep.
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He was doing all this right here doing all that. And then um but everyone was dancing and they they hated on MC Hammer because like
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maybe he took it too far and too not too far, but he was just serious about it and more organized about it. But his pin game was straight. Every single thing that he said on his first two, three
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albums was well thought out. It made sense.
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You know what I’m saying? He was fearless, too.
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That first album MC Hammer. I just I just got through spinning. I just got through practicing. I was doing the um to get get to touch this. I was I was I
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had the two copies of uh my turntable. I was doing I was doing the can’t touch this joint just just now. I was playing around. I was doubling up and everything. So So
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I’d rather I don’t want to hear Montel pick up the Montel, but I don’t want to hear that in the kitchen.
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So to be Let’s just take a little quick history lesson. So Hammer’s first album was called The Holy Ghost Boy that most people that most people miss. Most
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people didn’t didn’t most people never even know that came out. So, never heard.
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Yeah. Go back and get that. It wasn’t as critically acclaimed as as Please Hammer don’t hurt him.
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But that album and Hammer Hammer’s one of those guys, too. So, I I I met Hammer twice.
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Um and and and back when I lived in the Bay. And um really solid dude. Really solid. Really solid dude.
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Um but well respected, bro. Like like no Cass don’t you know Cass don’t mess Hammer is connected. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Man listen what you think you think Hammer would ever have another moment
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the music uh you know how they say everything comes everything comes wast nothing nothing’s too dude if Tom
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Jones is still performing in 80 in in Vegas yesterday. Thank you. Oh my trouble
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stream. Thank you. Far away. Yeah. If if Tom Jones is still doing that in his 80s, I’m sure Hammer can still because
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people love good music, man. You can’t front. When the song comes on, it’s jamming. You can’t front on the song.
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And what he’s saying in his lyrics is, yeah, maybe it was catchy. Yeah, it did go pop. Maybe. Yeah, it did cross over, but he was still hip-hop at heart. He
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was still making sure it made sense. And he was dancing like everybody else dance. He just better at it.
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Maybe. Maybe he was just better at it.
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He was dancing. He was just dancing. He took it seriously. I don’t know. I mean, I I the the one thing and I’ve said this before, but the one thing I think that
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we as in hip-hop does to slight the the elders in the game is
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Errol Smith is going to be on tour next year. I’m pretty sure and Rolling Stones and you name the group. Uh and some of them don’t have
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any of the original members. It’s just that the brand has become so big that they can do that and travel and for whatever reason in hip-hop we tend to
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throw out, you know, we don’t rever the the elders in the game. It’s just because this is such a become a young man sport. True.
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I think that’s turning though now though. I think really because substance is so far gone out of out of music in general
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and the the the the further and further you like telephone, we play telephones as a kids. the the further you get down
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the line, the less the message has been been communicated. And hip-hop has lost a lot of what it was based on and in.
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And I’m not I’m not throwing shots at any of the young cats. I think I I I I actually love some and it’s the same thing back in the
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days. There it was some of that that we when I grew up that was cool and some of that did not, you know, did not rock.
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Um, so it’s not that it’s not any shots on any of the young cats, but I will what I will say for this generation of
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of hip-hop cats is that as far as the independence and and the in the business side of it, they all they got that in
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space. They they figured the game out and and they’re running with it. But but because of that, the there was no there’s no gatekeepers in hip-hop right
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now. is the barrier to entry correct is if you can if you can afford a laptop and and some plugins then you too can be in the music music
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business and that so yes that is the crazy the crazy thing about it one thing one thing I noticed and it’s a
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fact when Master P came out that was when the that was when the dope that was when you can get equipment at the house you you can buy CD burners and stuff at
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the house so you didn’t have no one to tell you that you couldn’t put no no album out long time ago you had to make You know, cuz like El Cool tells a story about he
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had like mad demo demo tapes. He had to go to everybody and just hope that someone heard it, you know, and then someone that ran the company
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was like, “No, that’s not good. He sounds like cool G rap.” No. Or that’s not fine. He’s too whatever. We don’t like it. You had someone hold you
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accountable. Nowadays, ain’t nobody holding nobody accountable. You know what I’m saying? You can you can cuz what Master P did was he let people know
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like, hey, look look, take matters in your own hands. And the reason why he was decent because the people that he came up under, he did listen to Curtis
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Blow. He did listen to like Run MC, Fat Boys. Like Master P came from that public enemy cloth. You know what I’m saying? Scarface and all them.
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So it’s like he had a good upbringing.
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And then when M when Cash Money, there was no limit in Cash Money.
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And but they had a good upbringing. And then when people just found out they can just do whatever, you had more when hit wonders, you had more people copying
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each other. Yeah. Every single song they have the whole, hey, hey, whatever. Everyone’s coping that same format because it’s guaranteed money. Let me come out with a dance.
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Yep.
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Let me Don’t get me wrong, hip-hop, what EPMD did, Steve Martin, everyone did, you know, the Perman, everyone had dances, right?
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The Smurf, the Popeye, the Jared Lewis, everyone was doing that, right?
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But um there was something mag there was there was, you know, people depending on um nowadays they was coming up with dances because it’s automatic sales.
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Yeah. Automatic million something on YouTube.
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YouTube was paying your your CDs was paying your merchandise. You know what I’m saying? So, yeah. It’s just that’s just where we’re at now. It’s so easy to get on and no one’s going to hold you accountable.
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That’s why all these people was mumbling, right?
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And and and no one no one pulled them aside because I knew it was they was their own Yeah.
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I knew I knew we were in for a hell of a ride when I came across the deaf mute rapper. Have you seen this?
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Yeah. Oh, no, no. Uh, the guy the guy that’s in a wheelchair. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not that guy.
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There’s a there’s a de mute that is just making noise to beats. I’ve seen a few of them. Have you seen it?
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Oh, there was there’s one guy in Africa and there’s a guy. That’s the guy. The African guy.
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That’s the one I’m talking about. I was like, and so at first I thought it was a meme. I thought I I was laughing my ass off. I’m like, this this is hilarious.
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No, dude is serious. And he’s and he’s and he’s doing concerts and he’s selling out.
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He’s selling albums with him just Yeah. We going to put a side by side up.
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We going to in post. Oh yeah. He going to be with me.
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We going to do it together. So it’s insane the level of that would have never flown
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before like like it was. Now I this one thing I’ll give I’ll give him is it’s it’s definitely unique. He’s in the lane
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by himself. He has no competition. He’s he running the the the deaf mute rapper lane. He got I don’t know if you call it rapping.
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Yes. No no for real. But the problem the problem too is Yeah. You have people like cosigning and encouraging
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foolishness because that his the music video was packed.
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Yeah. Oh yeah. He got all Listen, that that music video showed you it is the the the the visual
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uh uh uh projection of Yesmen. This this dude had there’s about 80 90 cats that was in telling me he was the best thing since sliced bread.
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Also they can get on TV. You see what I’m saying? say, “Hey y’all, y’all want to get on TV today?” And or I’m speaking in African or whatever. “Hey y’all, you
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want to go on TV? You want to be in a video?” And everyone’s like, “Yeah.” And it was like I’m pretty sure that guy doesn’t have he doesn’t know all those people, right?
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And I’m pretty sure they had to do a couple of takes like he goes like and five 4 3 2 1 go.
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I had a yo. Yeah. Yeah. No, he bro his now. Check it out. Did you not you missed the two major parts? He’s
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a deaf mute. So he doesn’t hear the music.
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So yeah, he’s not hearing the music. So he’s definitely not in key to any like what what what do we what are we doing here?
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What do we Anyway, I I I I But but hey, but but nowadays we can get paid off of views and YouTube YouTubers
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in the in the business of making what’s ridiculous. Cool. Let’s film that. Let’s post that and let’s get money off of that. The name of the game is money.
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Yeah. So you don’t even have to have talent no more. like you just get up and just do who knows what and get paid off of you.
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It’s crazy. Well, you mentioned a little earlier about talking about DJing and uh you you you you post on your accounts um
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often about you DJing and let’s talk about how is being a DJ how has that spilled over into what you
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do in the kitchen? because I again we talking off camera um and which is why this whole thing exists the to me music
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and food are so synonymous in so many different ways the the the the symbiotic and share a lot of DNA together and for
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every any way you want to feel there is a soundtrack and a food to help you get there.
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So how do you pair the two? How are you mixing and mixing and mingling the two together?
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Uh, I mean, I’ve always wanted to spin record since I heard uh Run MC, Tougher than Leather, you know, and I heard
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like, you know, you know what time it is. You know what time it from Grandmaster uh Flash and that joint.
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So, um, I’ve always wanted to spin some records. I I had to do it. And as a matter of fact, I was working two I was
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working two restaurant jobs to to feed that habit. the more. But then what happened was I would be at work on the
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grill. I would take the grill scraper and come up with like scratch patterns and things I want to do when I went home. And then when I went home, I’m
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spinning record still thinking about food. Mhm.
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And they both rock crowds. You can both mix things together and blend and but not everything. Just because you can blend it doesn’t mean it needs to be blended.
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There’s a lot of things that that um are just like it’s the same. It’s a It’s so It’s a beautiful thing. Like just because even even just because things
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are the same beats per minute, it doesn’t mean it need to be mixed. The other day I was mixing um Shade and uh
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uh UGK and I think I think I called it um Cherish the Underground. Do you know what I mean? And and and but then like I
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tried to do something else and it didn’t quite work. So just because you have turntables, just because you have these types of food and this curry over here and this
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certain dish over here or this protein, doesn’t mean you need to force the mix.
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If something doesn’t mix right, don’t don’t bother. Um, no, but yeah, I just um music and food, they got the same
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properties, man. They from the dopamine to that feel good to that relaxational to that satisfactory to the to the adrenaline rush. I can sit back and play
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a mix and and people will just blow me up. Oh man, that’s so dope. And I can go go to work, put a dish together, and
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they can like, oh my goodness, that’s so I get the same reaction. And it’s it’s instant gratification.
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It’s one it’s it’s two it’s two forms of something that and the there’s no greater feeling than having somebody appreciate something that you created
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specifically if it’s for them. And also I think in in field of music um the the the other similarity to me the one
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glaring evident is that there is you can go to school or or or
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learn all you want about music and music theory and even about you know all the gastronomy and and your knife cuts and
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and the parts how to break down a a pig or a cow and all your five mother sauces. But from here to here, either
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you can do it or you can’t. And so it ain’t for everybody.
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It ain’t for everybody. It’s not for everybody.
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Uh membership has its privileges and its drawbacks. And the fact of the matter is that just cuz you just cuz you know you have
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a certain skill set as far as knowledge goes doesn’t mean you can physically do it. And so, right, like I mean I I you
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know, you look at DJing is one of those one of those mysteries of uh like they say, anything you do in repetition, you can get decent at it.
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But you don’t you can spend this you can spend $10,000 DJing and never never get it. You know, it’s just
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No, it’s a fact. Yeah, it’s a fact. You can you can pick up a guitar.
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Yep. I I you can pick up a guitar and and you might have looked at some guy do some classical guitar and he’s doing all
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this extra stuff and he’s very like you know and he or she’s just like really killing it and he’s like you know what I’m going to buy buy a guitar and do the same thing. You’ll get a guitar, you’ll
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learn chords and notes and stuff and you’ll realize like that’s not even in my that’s not here. So you’re probably going to be stuck with doing a few chords and that’s probably it at best.
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You know what I’m saying? And there’s a harmon there because he’s country artist and and a few other artists.
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Um like Bec Boy is uh Sabotage. It’s just it’s a it’s one chord the whole time.
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He’s like he’s playing the same chord the whole time. And look at that song just took off. And some of these country dudes it’s like this. It’s just C D and G or whatever.
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And you have people like slash that’s not good enough. Yeah. Give me paid. That’s not good enough.
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They want to do extra stuff because that’s how their brain works, right?
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Just because you see somebody else do it doesn’t mean you can do it. And it goes for all kinds of stuff like, “Hey man, this guy has a whole empire of
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restaurants.” And he’s like, “I want to be like that guy.” And you get your your first taco stand. He’s like, “You know what? This is all I can do. Let me just do taco stands. Let me just let me do
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some catering. Let me do some drop offs.” And that’s where I can. So, you have to, you know, be honest with yourself. And just because you
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see somebody do it or you love it doesn’t mean it’s for you.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Speaking of that, let’s let’s talk about how the service industry in general and this
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this this club that we have called, you know, called the service industry, how has it how has it helped to shape
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the Brent that we see? I mean, I I I know that uh this is uh first off this and we just said it, it’s not for
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everybody, right? This is a you have to be a a sort of massochist to take the abuse um and sometimes the abuse is not
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it’s it’s self self-inflicted but take take this and then you know get up every day and continuously
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show up to do it and um it takes a special breed of individual to to suffer through
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some of that. And it again it has it it has its benefits as well but there’s a lot of there’s a lot of downs to it and there’s not a lot of well now because of
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the internet and and and social media there’s a lot people are getting to see a lot of things before before that you know we had kitchen confidentials who
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put the industry on blast and it was people like wait a minute you can’t tell anybody about what we do back here no you know so did yeah
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so how do you how you know how has the kitchen life spilled off into life and DNA that is you today and and would never would never leave.
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Oh, we never leave. I didn’t know I was not hotheaded. I didn’t know I got
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annoyed easily quick. You know, there’s a lot there’s a lot of things that about the kitchen I didn’t know I had. I didn’t know was I remember I remember I was uh um ticket lady rung up a ticket.
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change. I’m reading it. I see it. I hang it up. I prepare it. Here she goes.
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Hi, Brent. Did you see my order? Um, I I ordered a Stop. Stop. Stop. I read it.
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I’m reading it. It’s cooking. I’m just communicating. I didn’t know I was a jerk. I didn’t know I was quick to be sarcastic until that happened. That was
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a You understand? It’s kind of like I didn’t know I was a jealous person. I had my first girlfriend, you know, which is like we’re watching Scarface and there’s a scene where Scarface is uh
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playing partner was walking away and he had these tight red tight leather pants on which I didn’t know he had on.
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So she pointed I was like, “Oh, I like his butt.” I was like, I know I was jealous until I had my first girlfriend until she started pointing out dudes
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with tight pants on. So um I didn’t know I I didn’t know I was sarcastic this much. I didn’t know I I learned a lot
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about me. you know, and I learned what I don’t like and what I do like. And I learned that I don’t have I have a short
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I learned a lot about me as far as who I really am. You know, like when people show up and they’re like this one,
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hey, Brent, tonight we’re going to be busy. We have 40 We have We have 45 on.
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I Hey, man. I said, don’t I said, look, look, work over there. I work here.
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Don’t bother me with that. I said I started doing my little rant. I was like, “Dude, the these 16-year-olds at McDonald’s ain’t worried about no five top and 10 top and they ain’t worried
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about no, you know, these 15 year old these 16-year-old kids at BaskinRobins ain’t worried about no um it’s going to be busy today. We in Texas and it’s and
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it’s hot in the summer. Yes, it’s going to be busy. It’s So, I didn’t know I was quick with responses. I didn’t know I was sarcastic, but it helped me re it
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helped me get to God more. So the more I was getting finding myself being annoyed, it I I was forced to read more
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Bible before I clocked in and to prevent being like, you know, sometimes bosses are not fair. Yeah.
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Sometimes sometimes uh things are really cruel. And so it forced me to go to the Bible to read about turn another cheek.
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If somebody wants to um take your shirt, give them a coat, too. There’s a there’s a scripture in I think Colossians and
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other spots where it’s like if your boss tell you to do it’s said master if your boss tell you to do something do it like I told you to do it. M. So, so like when
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when I go to work and I’m working with all these weird chefs, it I I’ve learned to like, you know, whatever they say, I
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mean, you can disagree and if they ask you a question, feel free to whatever, but like if they say, “Hey, Brent, sometimes today we need to pull that such and such behind and we need to
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clean up behind there.” And I’m like, I’m not even the one he knows. I don’t I’m not the one that’s even working over there and dirt. Why can’t he just tell Jerome, right,
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and Cynthia to clean up? Because that’s that’s their mess. I’ve learned to like chef and then just you know but I would
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I would be a mess if I didn’t I mean just working in kitchens with impossible people it forced me to read the Bible more. So uh the reason why I can do this
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another 25 years another 26 years is because of um I figured out who I am
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what the Bible says about stuff. So these people are crying for help. need us to like hold them down on some like if they’re stressing out about their
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hours getting cut, it opens up it opens the door for me to be like, “Hey man, did you pray about it? Why don’t you pray about it?” You know? Yeah.
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People coming to work talking about like, “Did you see uh that interview with Donald Trump? Did you see what he just said? Did you see whatever?” And you’re like, “Hey, just is there something you can do about it?” Just
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pray about it and move forward. Anyway, so yeah, I don’t know. with with working in the kitchen. That’s kind of it it helped me
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realize exactly what my core was and and now I can help more impossible people and I know how to deal with people and I don’t know.
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Yeah. I mean, let’s speak about and you just talked about it a little bit about your faith and how impactful and how
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much you lean on that in order to get through some of the some of the minutia.
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So let’s let’s let’s talk about also because the one thing about you and your platform and how you um do the things
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you do, you’re very you’re very fearless in the fact of being comfortable with who you are and
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and also um vulnerable in the same in the same way that takes a lot of courage in order to
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do such like let’s speak about um you you you made a post and this is not the first post, you you talked about Yeah. You talked about
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um about about abuse um and you had a personal experience about that and you then you quickly segueed into
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talking about friends of yours and how they have the stories that you’ve heard and so you it was you used your pain to
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highlight others and to show them that one they’re not alone and two none of that’s cool.
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Speak to me about what what is that that internal strength coming from to be able to, you know, be so vulnerable.
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Uh, first of all, I know for a fact I ain’t the only one. The more the more I talk to people, the more I hear these odd stories about like, you know, these
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these, you know, there there’s they all these kids got the same things. We we spent the night over some friend’s house. We didn’t want to spend the night. Our parents thought it was a good
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idea that we all hang out. So, we got these six-year-olds don’t even have chemistry with these other six-year-olds, but the parents see that they’re doing these kids a favor.
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Oh, let’s get them together. It’s it’s what kids need to do. No, cuz not all kids got the same chemistry. And a kid will let you know, but a kid can’t articulate that, right? So, every time
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these kids go to Donovan’s house, his weird uncle Kevin or his his dad and his stepdad and or whatever the case is, they walking around the house half
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naked, penis all swinging out in the living room. You know what I’m saying?
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Cuz he wanted all these kids to see how big he was or whatever. Then you have these stories about like all these kids got all these guys got to these weird stories. Hey man, the first time I got
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my suck was when I was um I was at Miss Geneva’s house. Say what? Yeah, man. Man, it was her and her what?
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And these guys are like kids are like mad young making out with these 20- year olds cuz these 20-year-old women are desperate. So, I knew that like the
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numbers were just getting too high. And then with with with physical abuse, every other woman I’ve ever talked to, they’ve not even every other woman, it’s
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it’s like 90%. You know, and I just found out recently my aunt, she used to get beat up. I had zero idea. They kept it from us. Anyway, so it’s nothing for
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me to say things cuz I I know I’m not the only one. And for the record, the gentleman just grabbed my butt a couple times like I was walking through this
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hill and he just he pinched it and then and he did it again, right? I don’t want people thinking like I gave him head or something. You know what I’m saying?
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Like he didn’t blow me nothing. He like I jerked him off.
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I didn’t do none of that. It wasn’t that crazy, but like it was just it was just like he made a move, you know? It didn’t
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make No, man. Look, my mom like dressed us in these tight What was that? It was these bugle boy joints.
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It was Yeah, it was these tight bugle boy joints. It was like these sweatpants um shorts and it was form fitness. So, I
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was like I mean, you know, the guy had good taste, I guess. I gave him a flashback to his childhood, I guess. I don’t know.
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But he just saw what he saw and reach out and grab. And my thing is like hold on cuz it cuz what happened is it stuck out to me when it happened.
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I blew it off. Pause. Um a little a little bit like I I kind of brushed it off and then like years later I was like
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wait a second he Yeah, hold on. I had to think about because I kind of brushed it off. I was like, because what happened
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was every time I go to church, not every time I go to church, I get in front of a a crowd. Um, they had Wednesday night invitations, I get up and I I preach and
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whatever for like five, six minutes. And he would call I think he saw how ruthless I was cuz I was calling people out in church. He was he was he’d call
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my he’d call the um the house and he’s like, “Hey, Brent, good job on that invitation. That was good work.” And that’s cool, man. that he was saying all
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because I knew he knew I had a mouth on me all again. But like he he knew that he knew that I had like like I was ruthless at a young age. I’m 15 years old in front of a crowd.
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Mhm.
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And I started talking about things that that was heavy. And I think he wanted to make sure he cleared he cleared his name. Yeah.
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And so he would call and my mom was like, “Hey, Brent, so and so’s on the phone.” I’m like, and the thing is, I love my mom. I don’t think she’s gonna
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look at this because she can’t. It’s a long story, but like, “Mom, I told you this [ __ ] done grabbed me a few times.”
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You know what I’m saying? And and she told a few other people and no one did nothing about it. Y’all going to let this [ __ ] call the house?
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So, I I still have a fury because of that. I’m 46 years old. I think I forgave him when I was 43. Like, on my own accord, like I heard he was in a
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hospital, nothing. I just stopped and I want to make sure that I’m good with God and I want God’s forgiveness, right? because I don’t I’m not I need to be forgiven. So, I just I prayed I had
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to think about all the people I’ve done wrong and people that have that done me wrong, including bullies and stuff like that and impossible shifts, right?
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And here I am. I’m praying for everybody, you know, and I and he came up. I had to forgive him and forgive me for not forgiving him, you know? So, um that that’s kind of
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recent. But, um yeah, I don’t dude I’m not the only one. So, that’s why I’m I’m not just fearless for the sake of being fearless. And I definitely people know
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me like I don’t use I don’t use trending sounds. I don’t use hashtags. I’m not dropping names. If people like me, they hit that follow button. They didn’t know
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on the court. I’ve never told no one to follow me. You know what I’m saying? U if they do, that’s awesome. And I hope we get to know each other. But yeah.
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Um speaking of that, I’m I’mma touch on one of y’all button. As a matter of fact, to show you, there was a point. So, do you remember this? you you you you uh you
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text me one day like, “Hey, I just want to I just want to hit you up before I before I before I hit this button. I’m about to make this post.
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This post is not about you, but Oh, yeah.
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But it’s not this post not about you, but I just want to give you a heads up. Just so you know, we good.
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We good. We we good. We good. You got a you got a hot button for for for the the celebrity chef.” And and I hate that.
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And I hate that. There’s only it’s it’s only five. Amen. When you say celebrity chef Mhm.
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our name should go to like people that you always see on Fox and NBC and food and they were like the main people, not contestants on chat that went home early. You see, you see what I’m saying?
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You got these guys on Cutthroat Kitchen. Be the first one. I’m a celebrity chef. You can see me. N you went home first. So what am I celebrating? You’re a chef.
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A celebrity chef. I’m se celebrating you. Why? Because at one point it was Wolf Gang Puck. Wolf Gang Puck was legit
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before Food Network. He was always, you know, catering to the stars and stuff like that. You know what I’m saying? These guys, he can actually say that.
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And he would never call him that. We would call him that, right?
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If you’re a really, if you’re a real celebrity chef, I’m pretty sure right now Guyetti, Bobby Fle, the woman that look like a cat. Um, Rachel Ray or what?
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I mean, I mean, let’s talk about chefs. Gaffieti, Bobby Fle, like legit chefs.
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Um uh even Wolf Gang Puck, I guess. Um and there’s somebody else. Um that you don’t
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have to call them celebrity. They don’t call themselves celebrity chefs. We did. Yeah.
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Because they live that life. They breathe it. But it’s the people that are hungry and thirsty that’s reaching. They they feel the need to put celebrity chef on their profile. I’m like, “Yo, what
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you want? You want you you put that on there so you can like charge me more?
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Who are you?” That’s my thing. You’re You said celebrity chef on your profile.
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Who are you? I just saw you pop up in the feed and I can tell that you b you paid for your followers. You paid for
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following because you got 130 something thousand and 88,000 uh followers or whatever. Unfortunately, when you post
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your reals, those numbers ain’t lining up. Mhm.
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You posted a food video, chicken and dumplings. The whole world like chicken and dumplings. 288 views six days ago. Uhoh.
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You forgot about that, didn’t you? Yeah.
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I just I just think it’s Is anyone doing anything wrong by saying celebrity chef?
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No. But there’s are pe there’s a lot of people that are reaching and they’re so desperate to get on. But dude, if there’s a lot of people in my church,
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there’s a lot of people if I drop a name, even if they’re on Top Chef, I just drop a name. They’re like, “Who’s that?” And they don’t know who you are. So, I just think it’s people should tell you
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that you’re a dope chef. People should tell you that like people should give you your people should nickname you something. My name is Brent Weather. I
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go by what’s up?
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Yeah. You don’t give yourself a nickname. That’s how that’s Don’t give let people give you that.
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Don’t get me wrong. Sometimes it’s, you know, but I just really like, you know, the fact that people would just One dude in high school, he was rapping and he’s
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trying to, you know, whatever. He said, “Hey, Brent, hey, hey, start calling me popcorn.” He’s dead serious. Stop calling me popcorn. Like, don’t call me Bobby Brown no more because his name is
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Robert Brown. Don’t call me that no more. Call me popcorn. And he was like I was like, “All right, cool.” now cuz I’ve been calling him his name for like
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the last four years. If you’re about to graduate high school, you talking about call me popcorn from now on. All right.
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And so I did it twice. It didn’t work out.
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Hey, popcorn, huh? Already. Okay, then fool. I mean it was extra just kind of let people because a lot of nicknames
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came from people calling them from people give you know they gave the nickname to the person or and then sometimes there’s no harm in be like hey I’m the you know
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I’m the evil I’m the microphone doctor like I love Eric Surman Perry Smith Keith Murray Reie Noble but they have like you know like Eric Eric Surman for
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sure they were like no this is my name Keith Murray this is my name if y’all want to call me you know then later on Keith Yeah, call
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me the chocolate boy wonders. You know what I’m saying? I’m the greeneyed bandit, you know, microphone doctor. I like that kind of stuff. It’s like have have your name and maybe people
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should call you and give you the title they want to give you. Yeah.
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You know, I don’t know. That’s just don’t be desperate.
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I get it. I get it. I get it. Speaking of, let’s talk about cuz I think it’s it’s important for for people to understand that, you know, you’ve worked
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in in in some some high flutin uh restaurants, mistrated places and, you
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know, uh knife and spoon and and um Commander’s Palace and things of that nature.
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No, I Yeah. Yeah. I never worked the Commander Palace.
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You know, you never worked Commander’s Palace?
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No, no, no. And if if any know what happened was somebody wanted somebody left commander’s palace. They wanted a
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sule at a spot in here in Dallas. And and I told them I told them that um they said hey they want to they don’t want to um the guy doesn’t want to go nowhere.
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He wants to stay here at the hotel.
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Brent, can you make him a sule? And you made him he just came from he just came from commander’s palace and he said that my sule was better than theirs. That’s what happened.
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Okay. So check it out. I’m going to show you the power of the internet. This is how crazy that goes. So right now if you you you pull up as that’s in your profile, bro.
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So it’s that.
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So that’s it’s crazy. That leads to my point. My point is this. You you have on
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many occasions spoken about how chefs can become some chefs can get a big head
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and be full of themselves for um for a numer
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curing cancer. We’re we’re making food, right? And these a lot of people’s ego.
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I used to always say that you could tell that this cat was not cool in high school cuz he’s just he’s just he just peaked dude just peaked right now and
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he’s going to use Yeah. He’s he’s getting all his cool points out right now and and he’s he’s living his best life
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at at 45, you know, and so and so speak to me about what it’s like
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and what it is to to be first off a great teammate and a great leader first and I love I love all of your wise, bro.
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Those are the some of the that because because I know and I’m in the know and and I’m I’m I’m I’m a kitchen guy when
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like we’ve all seen that. We’ve all seen the empty container, you know, with a little bit of cheese in it and it be the misspelling things drive me crazy, too.
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Oh my goodness. Um and and and and you know, people just not doing their job, you know, and the the crazy thing to me
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is how and I they some of these casts got to follow you. They have to.
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And yet I’m I’m starting to think I’m starting to think they’re doing it on purpose for for content because they’re not. No, they’re not. Nothing’s staged.
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No, no, I don’t think it’s stage. I just think they’re like, “Okay, you know, it’s crazy.”
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No. So what? So we I told someone this today and it sounds weird.
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It’s not their fault. We chose not I not me. They wouldn’t be there. Yeah. But like the people that’s above me, they hired them. And the way they got hired
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was just like, hey, you know, cuz we had three strong people leave. They got replaced by six or five to six other people and they just grabbed the first
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people that they and one guy was like, hey, I got five people. All of them were hacks. One guy has a heart of gold and he wants to do better. One guy is addicted to this. Yeah.
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And then the other three, they’re just not worth a quarter. Right. And they all getting paid more than I am. Dead serious. True story. Mhm.
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Um I found out how much one was getting paid the other day. I was like what? That guy.
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I was like, dude. And I was like, you know what? Making money. I don’t want no one doing that to me, but like making money. So, it wasn’t their fault.
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We chose whatever happened to stding.
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Whatever happened to interviewing correctly?
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You got to interview. Well, same thing when girls go out with these dudes, you know, and sorry, when when boys and girls get together, we all we we go on
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dates. Dude, you were hanging out with her. Y’all supposed to have a date with you you two going bowling. She decides
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to wear the shortest skirt possible with her no slip. You can see her thong and stuff at bowling. She’s doing a bunch of extra bouncing around and wiggling her
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butt, whatever. Hey, those are Are you doing this for me or for everybody else?
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You know what I’m saying? Like interview. Well, look at the red look at the um look at the red the red light red flags. You know what I’m saying? When when a woman’s with a dude and the
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dude’s like looking at every single woman that walk by, that’s supposed to be a red flag. Well, you know, that’s what guys do. And I just want to give
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him a chance. And I love his eyes. He has great dimples. All right, great. But now you chose to keep on going out with a guy that kept on looking at your
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breast the whole time. Well, they are they are lovely, aren’t they? Look at my girls. Woo. Okay. You you chose to to
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date that guy. You chose to date that kind of a person. And now you’re going to get those those, you know, if you they they date these trick daddy looking
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dudes and they end up getting trick daddy results. I should have said trick daddy. Who knows? Cuz he Anyway, but no, you know what I’m
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saying? Like like interview well like ask proper questions. You know what I’m saying? Like and then we didn’t do that with these last five these five dudes
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that showed up. No one asked nobody’s question. Every now and then we get lucky that there’s that one guy that says, you know, OCD and yeah, he still loves to cook cuz his mom, you
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know, makes the best empanadas and they that’s what he’s known for and but he wants to learn more stuff and hey Brent, if you have something to teach me, please I want to learn. And every time
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he messes up something, I can say, “Hey man, you know, you got to do this, don’t do that. Reason being reason why your mering did meringue because there’s a little bit of egg egg yolk in there.”
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You see that little bit right there? Oh man, you know what? Yes, chef. I’ll start over. Thank you.
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And that’s what I’m looking for. or someone to say thank you and I’m I want to learn right these other five.
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Yeah. Yeah. It’s well staging the whole entire thing like when I I’m pretty sure you’re the same way. When I when I came
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up under the ranks, man, there was it was uh it was it was Beirut. Like the chefs could do was no HR was I don’t
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I’ve never seen it inside of a HR office. And Chef could say anything and everything and would throw anything
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around him at you because it was his name on the marquee and not yours. And so at the end of the day, you’re going
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to do anything he wants you to do or you going to pay the consequences. And you can do any of that. And staging is is
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quote unquote illegal because working for free is is not that that’s called slavery. But
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so this things have changed.
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But well but well but well but well but
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well but well but well but well but well but well but here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. Yeah. What a difference a day makes. But uh but at the end of the day there’s in most states like here in
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Minnesota it’s a outwill state. So you can get just fired with no excuse. like we don’t have to give you a reason to
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let you go. You your your your output sucks really what it is. And so there’s nothing wrong with that. And not everybody everybody’s trying to make a
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lot of people feel good. And it’s it’s at the end of the day either you’re doing the job or you’re not.
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All right, bro. Before before I let you get out of here, we got to play a little game that I like to play called the lightning round. It’s close out fun.
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It’s going to be fastpaced, quickfire.
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I’m gonna ask you a question and you’re gonna say the first thing that pops into your mind. Oh crap.
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All right. All right.
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All right. Here comes the lightning round. All right. What’s your go-to? No
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better but chef meal. Like something you know that you shouldn’t be eating anyway, but you still do. We all have it. What’s your go-to?
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French fries all day long.
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French fries all day long. I I love a good French fry. What’s your favorite fry? Favorite commercial fry?
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Um, uh, crap. I like, um, I like the way the I like bronze. The way the I don’t know if y’all have bronze in Minnesota.
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The the the waffle the waffle fry the the waffle cut.
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The or not waffle cut, but the cringle the cringles. Okay.
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Whatever. And if and if done right, those hold me down. I’m a sucker for um the waffle fry, too. So, yeah. I just love anything potatoes really, man.
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Fried fries. Yes.
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Yeah. Fried potatoes and salt. Potatoes and salt go. Yeah, it’s delicious. Okay.
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What song best?
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No, that’s not the question. What song What song best describes the soundtrack of your journey as a chef?
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Um, the lyrics are different, but I like beat nuts. I love it. I love that. I love the beat nuts. Bring it, man. Um,
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and that’s just me. I’ve never even thought this is lightning round, so I just that’s the first thing that came to mind. But yeah, I don’t know. I Yeah.
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Okay. All right. Nuts. I love it. Yeah. Okay. What is your culinary Mount Rushmore?
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Who’s on it? Got four chefs.
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We got four of them. Uh, you can’t front. I have to do for sure go Thomas Keller because he he helped people rewrite their cookbooks. see how people
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view things different. So, Thomas Keller. Um, man, I don’t want to be cliche, man. I I
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have to go with um Gord Gordon Ramsey holds it down because in real life, he’s a like I like how on Hell’s Kitchen, he ain’t flirting with all these girls.
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Everyone gets the business, he’s very fair. Yeah.
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You know what I mean? Um, even when girls be flirting with him, he ain’t checking for it.
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And in in real life, he cooks. He cook for real like that. So, the TV don’t let the his business sense. I would say Gordon Ramsay, Thomas Keller.
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Um, crap.
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Um, I I I like the way um Why did the frame hold it down? I like
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the way he um he’s a nice good guy in real life and he he um the vision that he had in his head and and the idea he’s like, “You know what?
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Yeah, you guys, I’m done making salads.
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Y’all want to do that for first course?” Not me. We’re not having lettuce in here. I love that. So, okay, a friend helped me out quite a bit.
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Let me look at my uh man, there’s a whole bunch of chefs, too. There’s some honor honorary honorary mentions, too.
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Um, man, right now, Matt Horn. Matt ain’t lying. Matt Matt Horn. Okay.
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Matt Horn cuz what he’s been doing, he’s had this truth in his soul and his mind all these all these years. He just started doing this like 10 years ago.
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And the things that he’s accomplished in a small amount of time. Yeah. Especially after after the fire that that that that that took him out for a minute. Yeah.
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Yeah. But he still had a you know he’s still promoting his faith when he when he writes when he does uh he makes posts he there’s some intent behind it.
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He’s a I got some stories I got to tell you. I can tell you off camera but like I like the way that Matt Horn moves like his business sense. Yeah. the way that
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he’s um he has a certain power, certain way he talks, and he’s very friendly and he knows how to but and the things that he’s done in a small amount of time, he’s like legit.
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Um for me right now that’s making me move, I’ I’d have to say those. Um Okay, I like that. Those four. I like that. Yeah.
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All right. What’s your go-to kitchen gadget that you cannot live without? Crap, man. That Vitamix, I guess.
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We if we didn’t have that to blend stuff, man, what would we do? You seen You’ve watched Can you blend? Does it blend? You watch that, right?
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They put everything in the in the in the Vitamix. Everything. Nothing safe.
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Including that including that uh that that Android phone. You throw that in there. That’s powder. Powder.
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That’s funny. That sounds familiar, but I I think I think I’ve seen something like that at one point.
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Yeah, they putting everything in it. All right. And lastly, what is your number one pet peeve as a leader in the
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kitchen? And so this is from subordinates. Okay.
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Yeah. Um I don’t know, a list of excuses maybe.
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Um you know, when when when if I say, “Hey man, um make sure you you need to
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make sure this is over.” Here we go. Hey man, this is over reduced. And then the guy was like, “Well, the reason why it’s over reduced
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because I’m setting up this other guy’s station and it’s not even my station and I have to do this and I have to do that and and it’s not even my job. I’m just
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I’m just helping him out.” And hey, man, you over reduced it. That’s it. Yeah. Yeah.
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And I’m here to like, you know, cuz you you you got here saying, “Hey, Brent, I want to learn with the best and and whatever you have to teach me, please
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share it with me.” Cuz I’ll ask anybody quick. Hey, man. Why are you do you want to this is this you? You want to do this for for a living? Oh, man. Man, that’s
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all I want to do is cook. I love cooking. All right, cool. And I’m trying to give you some tips on how to cook better. Hey, man. I’ve been doing this since y’all was in T-ball.
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I was doing I was doing this when when some of y’all was like in, you know, um uh second grade gymnastics, like on the line yelling out calling out tickets.
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And anyone that’s older than you, feel free to stop and just listen. Mhm.
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Because I got years on you. And even it could be your 15 to my 26 or it could be it doesn’t matter. It could be 25 to 26.
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The fact that I got I still got an extra year on you.
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And so if I’m trying to give you a point of view, let’s be open to open to listen. Yeah.
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You know, and if you want to disagree, that’s one thing. But making excuses about why why you oh, we didn’t have any tasting spoons. That’s why I kept on
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double dipping. Dude, take that paper towel and do this. Don’t just use your fingers. Anyway, that’s my excuses and
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saying that you want to learn and be the best and then I spit games to you. You ain’t checking for it. Yeah, that drives me crazy. Okay, got you. Mine is Mine is uh CFS.
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Can’t can’t find [ __ ] No, I don’t I say it’s in there. Look, I I can I can pretty much tell you where
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it’s at from from my house. I I have a visual burned in my memory where things are. I can tell I know it’s in there. Oh, it
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ain’t there, Chef. I can’t see. I ain’t I don’t find it. It’s not in there, Chef.
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If I go if I get up and go in there and get it, we got a problem. CFS. Everybody got it.
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Dude, that same that same guy, he I made mushroom stock one day and the thing is with him is if it’s not on this
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certain rack or if it’s not on a certain area, he just assumed that we don’t have it. And so, uh, he said, “Hey, man.” Um,
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cuz he tried to r me out saying, “Brent, it was on the board.” I said, “Make, you know, Bonte, it was on the board, but he didn’t want to he didn’t make it. Y’all need to get on his, you know, y’all need
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to get on to him.” And some guy text me that. I ran right up to the job. I ran straight. I didn’t say hello to everybody. I went straight to it and I got the whole 22 courts of it. And then
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uh where was it at? I said, “Was it a walk-in?” You know, I told you guys like, “Look around.” Yeah. And a jump such and such. What do
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you mean 86? Are y’all two manly? Y’all grown men talking about like what fights you were in and how many girls you done slept with? Y’all afraid of that cooler?
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That freezer? Yeah, man. My neighbor I almost had to knock him out because he was making so much. Okay, cool. But you can’t knock out the freezer. Then the freezer’s right here. You didn’t have
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even you didn’t have to go in. All you have to do is open up the door and just do this and see. Okay, here it is.
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I got There’s grown men I’ve worked with that are afraid of the freezer. I’ll stop right there.
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I said, “Did you check the freezer?” And I was condescending one time on a on a um on a board. I was like, “Uh, I
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forgot. I think I wrote like a note like hi I’m the morning what I say I was like um man we it’s it’s so cold in the
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freezer brunch to ours and I’m afraid to go in there it’s probably in there but you know cuz on the prep list what they
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would do is they would say on the prep board they would say hey pull such and such out the freezer [ __ ] pull it out
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yourself you and I’m petty too because if they don’t pull something I if I leave at 3:00 and
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before they get there, I pull it right before they get there.
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I was like, “Look, y I just pull.” No, no, y’all want to be really weird and petty. I love being Let’s do that.
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And that’s not mature of me, but at the same time, I can’t I have to make it fun because I can’t have these guys have my heart rate messed up because a few times
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I walked I walked into work a few times where I had problems breathing because of over I’m overwhelmed with so much stupidity.
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You know what I mean? And it would hit me all at the same time. And so that’s how those why videos came about. Yeah.
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That’s how those Y things like all this stuff right here. Yeah. This right here.
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Yeah. I put that on stuff. Yeah. I was like, dude. Yeah. I just I can’t do it. I had to make it fun.
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And I share I share it with the world.
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People think that like, hey, Brent, you should be more of a leader and fix it.
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Like I don’t know the the the half of it. I don’t know the the prequel. I was always doing it fixing it for years. Anyway, I stopped. Yeah.
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I can’t. I can’t. I’m bad enough. All right, bro. Man, listen. It’s been a blast having you on, man. I I definitely um
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this has been so so dope, man. So, tell everybody really quick how they can follow you and and be attached to
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whatever you got going on. Give me your socials and everything.
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Um I was I was going to do a Shannon Sharp stationation, but it’s not there. I was I was going to do the whole like uh for
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drinks and conversation uh you know, but no. Um yeah, like uh Brent eats food is my Instagram, you know, and if they type in Brent Weathers, my YouTube and other
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stuff will pop up. But, um yeah, if they want to reach out to me and see what I’m about, but I post on a regular basis, yes, Instagram, Brent Eats Food, cuz my
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regular name was taken. So, you know, Brent eats food and you’ll see me pop up on a chessboard and with a Dr. Spock shirt on. So, yeah.
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Yeah. That’s how you can find me.
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Absolutely. All right. Again, thank you for having you. Thank you for letting this happen in the manner this happened.
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I appreciate you always, man. I’m going be looking again. You need to put some kind of warners on the videos, though. I can’t be out there with the with the volume on and and and and being
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somewhere where it’s quiet and not trying to laugh like I on on a couple of occasions laughing out loud uncontrollably because
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the shit’s so funny to me. I I didn’t expect to do that when I did the fancy chef impersonation.
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Oh my god. Listen, that had me weak that because Yeah, that that that he’s a he’s funny as hell, too. I mean, but I think he’s serious.
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It was supposed to be a voiceover. That just like that started doing things out of nowhere. It was like 4:00 in the morning, too. I was supposed to be sleep. I was like, how am I supposed to,
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you know, I started I just I just let it go and I I did the whole, you know, that’s crazy. Beautiful night by the show. Yeah. So, yeah.
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Again, this has been the Taste Music Hear Food podcast. Until next time. Peace.
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I’m on my sauce. Chef I need to remind y’all I’m with it. My name is ubiquous.