1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,840 Hi everyone, welcome to potluck food talks. 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,840 Today we're going to talk about the bear season two. 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:12,840 So you finished it. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:13,840 Yeah. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,240 Am I late to the party again? 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:16,240 Oh yeah. 7 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:17,240 Oh yeah. 8 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:23,680 So like season two, just to narrow it down. 9 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,520 This one ends at the day of the opening of the restaurant and it goes through the whole 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,800 opening process of a restaurant. 11 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:31,800 Yes. 12 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:33,800 And I think it portrayed pretty well. 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:41,000 I've worked in a few openings and it's a very stressful situation, like an opening, 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:48,460 you know, where you have to pick up the dishes, the decoration, developing the dishes, doing 15 00:00:48,460 --> 00:00:53,520 also some market research, going around to the neighborhood restaurants and see what 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,160 they're doing, tasting a lot of things, figuring out the palette of the audience you're going 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,160 to have. 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:05,440 Setting free rats in the cellar of your competitors, bribing local producers to bring you the prime 19 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,000 stuff first before other restaurants. 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,520 Stealing chefs from good restaurants. 21 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:10,520 Oh yeah. 22 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:11,520 Yeah. 23 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:12,520 That's an important one. 24 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,520 That happened. 25 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,280 Like there was a scene like that, no, where Sydney is kind of going, she's like, Hey guys, 26 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,000 you're looking for... and then the guy comes on and she's like, really? 27 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,160 You're stealing, you're poaching right in front of my front door? 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,160 Fuck off. 29 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:25,160 Have you stolen chefs? 30 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:26,160 Oh yeah. 31 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,160 Have you been stolen? 32 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,520 I am currently stealing chefs. 33 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:29,720 I have stolen chefs. 34 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,320 I am ruthless. 35 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:32,320 Okay. 36 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:33,320 And have you been stolen? 37 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:37,960 Let me think. 38 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:39,840 I was actually stolen from Bolivia. 39 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,000 I mean, yeah, kind of, kind of. 40 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Yeah. 41 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,200 But I mean, you know, business is business. 42 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,200 Yeah, sure. 43 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:47,200 It's a free market. 44 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,200 Yeah, it's a free market. 45 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,760 Chefs have gotten stolen from me. 46 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:50,760 All right. 47 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:51,760 Yeah, of course. 48 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,760 Absolutely. 49 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,280 That speaks very bad from you. 50 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,280 Yeah. 51 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,920 Hey, you know, it's, loyalty is hard to find these days. 52 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:04,760 Loyalty is royalty. 53 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,480 And then we have like this, again, this binding narrative across the whole series that is 54 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:18,040 this dealing with addictions or this very complicated private life work balance that 55 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,680 you find in hospitality. 56 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,680 And like in this season, my favorite character becomes for sure Richie. 57 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:26,680 100%. 58 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,680 100%, right? 59 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:28,680 Yeah. 60 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,960 Honestly, for me, like I've also watched season three, which we're not going to go into right 61 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:33,960 now. 62 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,800 But over the whole of the series, by far my favorite episode is episode, I think it's 63 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,760 seven in season two forks. 64 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,760 Yes. 65 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,800 Because of, I mean, we'll get into it later, I'm sure in detail. 66 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,000 But yeah, what a beautiful, what a beautiful message inside of that. 67 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Yeah. 68 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 That's my favorite episode. 69 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,800 And I also want to go deep into that one. 70 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,000 But before that, so it starts with Sydney having struggles with her family about if 71 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,400 it's worth going into these lifestyles. 72 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,400 And this is also something like cooks need to be a little bit crazy. 73 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:11,120 You know, like if you do like the pros and cons, it usually, many times the cons are 74 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,760 bigger but you do it anyway, because it's just out of passion and love. 75 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:20,360 And you know, it just fills you like whatever you're doing in this industry, you know? 76 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:21,360 Yeah. 77 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,920 But like at the same time, I found that like tricky because like, you know, I think we 78 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:29,640 all have had this experience of like one family member being like, hey, sure you want to do 79 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:30,640 this? 80 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:34,960 Like, oh, the pay is not good hours along the work is hard, etc, etc. 81 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:40,000 Or even like what and you work 16 hours a day and then and you're spare time, you're 82 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 reading cookbooks. 83 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 84 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 They don't get it. 85 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:50,160 But what I found difficult about about Sydney in this season was I like her better in this 86 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,600 season than season one. 87 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,240 I think she matures, she becomes a better leader. 88 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,720 You're not so much. 89 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,680 No, no, I think that she behaves in a really awful way. 90 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:06,800 Like she, you know, she gets promoted, like she gets hired as a sous chef, does that sort 91 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,760 of passively, then straight away gets promoted to be a head chef. 92 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,440 So Kami is the executive chef, which what the fuck does that mean in a restaurant that 93 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:15,440 doesn't exist yet? 94 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,040 You know, it's just titles thrown around. 95 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:25,240 And you see her go through the opening process, basically doing fuck all just walking around 96 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:31,920 eating and having constant struggles with trusting Kami. 97 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:37,200 And this, you know, this general process where I was kind of watching and I was thinking, 98 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,180 I'm sorry, but where is your entitlement coming from? 99 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:45,840 This guy is just giving you the head chef position and the potential to partnership 100 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:50,360 in a restaurant where he is putting his own name with three hundred thousand bucks on 101 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,400 the line. 102 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,880 What are you investing into this business? 103 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:53,880 Are you investing money? 104 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,960 Do you think this ever happens? 105 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,280 Like, do you think this happens a lot that you get made partner in something that you're 106 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:01,680 not invested money in? 107 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,320 That is not the real world. 108 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,680 And it's kind of like, what have you done to deserve this? 109 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,680 Well, I see the differently. 110 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:15,960 I see that Kami really trusts her and she also is kind of like the only person he really 111 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:21,520 listens to, like because she comes and tells him the things nobody tells him. 112 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:22,960 And he really values that. 113 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,560 And I think that that's kind of like like like that, like the value exchange they have. 114 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:28,560 Yeah, I get that. 115 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,560 I get that part. 116 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,960 But what I don't get is her reluctancy then, you know, because he is like, hey, I really 117 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:34,960 want to work this with you. 118 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:35,960 And he's giving her a lot. 119 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,520 He's giving her responsibility. 120 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,800 He's giving her possibilities. 121 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,520 You know, he's building this kitchen. 122 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,000 He's talking to her, you know. 123 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,840 I mean, and later on, it gets a little bit more difficult with like a decision making 124 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:46,840 process. 125 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:49,440 But she is constantly like, should I do it? 126 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:50,440 Should I not do it? 127 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,240 And it's kind of like, bro, like, like if you don't want to do it and don't do it, but 128 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,200 like, don't be so entitled about it, you know, because she's constantly having this like, 129 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,280 hey, I why are you not doing this? 130 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:01,280 I need this. 131 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:05,680 And it's kind of like, where's this this entitlement coming from of like forcing this thing? 132 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,840 You know, it's kind of like, hey, where is this? 133 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:08,960 I need this now. 134 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:09,960 Have you done this? 135 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,960 It's kind of like, bro, chill the fuck out. 136 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:12,960 Yeah. 137 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:19,080 But at the same time, like that's a very common relationship between chef and sous chef or 138 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,400 executive chef and head chef. 139 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:28,400 You know, like usually the executive one does less and the other one needs to be all over 140 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,920 the place doing everything on the top of everything. 141 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:31,920 That's true. 142 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,640 And there's many, many times like this relationship where the sous chef hates the head chef or 143 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,840 the head chef hates the executive chef because they feel I'm doing everything and he's not 144 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:42,840 doing anything. 145 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:44,840 That's very, very, very common. 146 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:45,840 That is true. 147 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:49,720 But with them, it's kind of like opposite because throughout the, like, Karmie is also 148 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,720 not doing what he could. 149 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:57,680 And that is an overlying theme in the second season because because he's got his relationship 150 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:58,680 with Claire. 151 00:06:58,680 --> 00:06:59,680 Right. 152 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,120 Which I think I thought was very beautiful. 153 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,280 Claire, the kind of character that anybody would want in their life. 154 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:08,080 Super supportive, super calming. 155 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,880 But he's conflicted because he knows that he's spending more time and more energy or 156 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,160 something else that does not work, which is new for him, which I think is something that 157 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:20,040 we can all relate to from this very efficiency driven job that we're doing. 158 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,040 Yeah. 159 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,800 Also later in the series, it also happens and I've seen this many times where suddenly 160 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,520 the chef is saying, yeah, I had this conversation last night with Claire and blah, blah, blah. 161 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,040 And everybody's like, okay, and it's now your girlfriend part of the team. 162 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,120 But even worse, I've seen this where the actual the head chef and the maid were together and 163 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,080 they would come in the morning like, oh, we had this conversation last night, blah, blah, 164 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:44,080 blah, blah, blah. 165 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,720 Now we're going to do this and that change. 166 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,180 And it's really awkward, you know, because it's like you're being left out of the decision 167 00:07:50,180 --> 00:07:55,280 making process and they don't need, they don't give a shit, you know, like, and that's really, 168 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,840 I would say, unhealthy for a team environment. 169 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,480 It's very unhealthy and it's not cool. 170 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,800 And like, Carmen's not acting super cool there either. 171 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,520 And he's also like just neglecting. 172 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:09,360 I mean, this is a common theme until the very end of the season, that he's neglecting his 173 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,400 duties and he doesn't call the fucking fridge guy, for example. 174 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:13,400 Right. 175 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,320 But then at the same time, you know, what I thought was troubling is that Sydney basically 176 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:22,320 spends her entire time going around like visiting chefs and eating and cooking. 177 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,280 And like, what was really awkward for me to watch is that she was like cooking things, 178 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,680 trying things out and they were tasting them and they'd be like, oh, no, and spitting it 179 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:32,680 out. 180 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:35,880 And I'm like, man, that would like at a head chef level, that doesn't happen. 181 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:36,880 Yeah. 182 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,640 Like you try something, you're like, ah, doesn't quite work. 183 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,520 I'll do it again. 184 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,240 But you would never ever make something that you eat that's unedible. 185 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,760 You know, it's like, it's your black belt, you know, in your thing. 186 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:49,760 Yeah. 187 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,760 These are the things that don't happen anymore. 188 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:51,760 Yeah, I agree. 189 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,840 What I do like is during that whole creative process, also the imagery, like that there 190 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:02,480 are like this, I don't know, like this moments where you see dishes and memories and going 191 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,600 to restaurants and ordering everything in the menu just to get a taste of everything. 192 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,920 And I thought that that was really fun to watch. 193 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Yeah, absolutely. 194 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:11,920 Absolutely. 195 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,280 And I mean, like, I think we've all done that now, kind of like go somewhere, get inspiration. 196 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,280 I mean, yesterday was a good example. 197 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Well, we were yesterday at normal, by the way. 198 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,360 I don't know when you when you're listening to this. 199 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,000 Then openings, man, openings are really difficult. 200 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,360 It's like a really intense process opening a restaurant, you have to, because I'm not 201 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:39,680 only making a building, doing like the whole decoration setting up the space that has to 202 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:45,400 work, you know, for the next couple of years, it has to work from the very beginning, but 203 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,440 then you have to train, then the construction has to be on time. 204 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,160 And it's never on time. 205 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:51,160 That is the thing. 206 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,560 If you ever do an opening, just as kind of like like with events, it's like, oh, but 207 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:57,560 they're meant to start eating at 630. 208 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:00,280 It's like they're not going to start eating at 630. 209 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,760 Always remember, like always try to have the mentality it's always going to get delayed. 210 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,080 Construction is always going to get delayed at least three months. 211 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,120 Yeah, yeah, just have that in mind. 212 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,080 Don't you're an idiot if you're like, oh, well, the plan is that construction finishes 213 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,080 in February. 214 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,080 So we're going to open in March. 215 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,680 Don't exactly don't do that. 216 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:17,680 Yeah. 217 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:22,480 I mean, this hotel opening I participated in Latin America and the construction workers 218 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,080 were taking naps in the imported mattresses for the rooms. 219 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:34,600 Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's the same, you know, like when I was like, I think openings are 220 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:40,320 really fun because also, of course, they're very stressful, but they're also full of opportunity 221 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:41,800 because you can shape everything. 222 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:42,800 Right. 223 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,640 So for example, now we're like five months ago when I came into my current kitchen, everything 224 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,360 was a mess, but everything was kind of there. 225 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,480 And you look at the kitchen, you're like, man, this is weirdly designed. 226 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:59,200 There's like there's like no oven on the social side, but there's an oven on the garden like 227 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:04,560 and like a warming drawer and stuff that would have been way better on the other side. 228 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:09,260 Like these sorts of things, you know, and actually kitchen planning and kitchen organization 229 00:11:09,260 --> 00:11:14,840 is a very interesting skill that also I feel like very lucky that I've been part of a couple 230 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,320 of openings, because if you have to do it the first time, you never did it. 231 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,680 There's lots of things to think about that you maybe didn't think about it, about, you 232 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:23,360 know, efficiency of movement. 233 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,960 It's like that scene where Kami is sort of like, he draws the plan and which is something 234 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,920 that I've done also, but he's like, he moves from station to station. 235 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,680 He's like, yeah, the dish has to be able to get finished in like, I don't know, like 10 236 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:35,680 seconds or something like that. 237 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,040 And it's kind of ridiculous, like no dish gets to finish in 10 seconds. 238 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:40,720 Like that's ridiculous. 239 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:46,600 But these sort of plans and this kind of like ergonomic, organic movement inside of a space, 240 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:47,600 that's super crucial. 241 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:48,600 Absolutely. 242 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:49,600 That's super interesting. 243 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,960 I really hated that I've been in some processes where I as a chef or the chef who was a chef 244 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:55,960 was not involved in the design process. 245 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,520 And I think that that's like a terrible mistake. 246 00:11:58,520 --> 00:11:59,520 Absolutely. 247 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:00,520 Yeah. 248 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:05,080 Like suddenly the owner took the decisions with the architect and then the chef, he can 249 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,960 just walk in and work there for the next years and then, you know, figure out what we thought 250 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:10,960 for him, you know. 251 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,440 It is such a huge mistake in general. 252 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:20,800 Like one of my old mentors and a friend of mine that you also know, Michael Hupfle, he 253 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:27,880 once said the best, like the best managers or chefs because they understand everything, 254 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:28,880 like all the stuff. 255 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:34,240 And it's kind of like if you as a business owner, you don't involve, you don't have a 256 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,400 good chef, a good head chef who knows what's going on, who knows the processes and you 257 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,840 don't trust, you don't involve them in the process. 258 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,720 You don't trust this person with their professional insight. 259 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:51,440 It's gonna, there's gonna be a lot of mistakes that are gonna impede your day to day business. 260 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,000 Like an example I can think of, Dos Palillos in Berlin. 261 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:00,160 This was a hotel, a restaurant at Casa Camper. 262 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:06,320 And I think it had like some kind of architecture prize, the way they build the restaurant. 263 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,360 But for me, they did two very stupid mistakes. 264 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:15,800 First of all, like they did this walls that were like metal, like, you know, kitchen metal 265 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,800 and you have to polish them twice a day. 266 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:25,400 And the floors of the kitchen were all white, you know, like, and I mean, like, it's not 267 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:30,640 that you don't have to clean, it's that you don't want it to look dirty if just like a 268 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,320 dot falls into the ground and you have to clean it right away. 269 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,280 And that's something like for sure, no chef decided. 270 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:38,280 Yeah, absolutely. 271 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,800 Because they'd be like, well, what the fuck, you know, it's like, you know, I mean, when 272 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,240 I came back to Berlin, I was involved in an opening also, there were so many things and 273 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,840 it's kind of like, and then I look at the kitchen, it's already half built. 274 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:55,400 And I'm like, what's, what grip do the floor does the floor material have? 275 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,240 And they're like, grip? 276 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:58,440 It's just tiles. 277 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,000 And I'm like, are you fucking retarded? 278 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,400 Like, how, like, how is that on something that you think of, you know, as I use like 279 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,360 small things, they're like, Oh, yeah, sure. 280 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,760 Yeah, there's like liquids and fats that can fall on the floor. 281 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,720 And it's like super dangerous and blah. 282 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,160 And it's like, man, seriously, yeah, please jail for you. 283 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:20,080 No, honestly, it's fucking life threatening these sorts of decisions. 284 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,080 Because also, like people don't understand, I had a very serious conversation, we're getting 285 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,720 a little bit of topic here, but I had a very serious conversation with a, with a kitchen 286 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,360 porter who's a little bit older, and he walked behind me a few times. 287 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,640 I was like, Hey, if you walk behind me to say behind, right, please, or like something, 288 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,200 you know, and he's like, yes, yes, yes, I know. 289 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:39,760 And he did it again and again. 290 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:40,760 And I stopped him again. 291 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:41,760 I said, Hey, look, please walk. 292 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,240 What do you say when you walk behind me to say something, everybody? 293 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:46,240 Yeah, I know. 294 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:47,240 I know. 295 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:48,240 I know. 296 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,200 And then the next time I stopped and I was like, okay, listen to me, you don't start 297 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,200 saying something. 298 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,240 I'm going to throw you out of this fucking kitchen because you are threatening the safety 299 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:56,240 of everybody. 300 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,160 Like, it's such a small thing, but it's like fucking serious. 301 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,160 It's not a gimmick. 302 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:01,160 It's not a fucking joke. 303 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:06,680 Somebody who turns around with a hot pan of water and or oil or oil or a knife or whatever 304 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,640 and fucking slammed it in your face. 305 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,080 Like whose ass is on the line? 306 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:11,080 Mine. 307 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,360 You know, because I'm responsible for all of this shit. 308 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,480 And you either start doing it or you can pack your shit and go. 309 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:16,480 And he was like, Oh, I'm really sorry. 310 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,480 And he started doing it. 311 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,000 But like people don't understand this, that like a kitchen is actually like a dangerous 312 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 environment. 313 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 You have to take it seriously. 314 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,600 Anyway, back to the bear. 315 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,320 Well, also restaurant openings. 316 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,800 I also worked at this place where and that's also like an interesting part of the series 317 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:37,120 where they send people to train in different places like to culinary schools or the other 318 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:38,120 restaurants. 319 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:43,280 I work in this place where they said like the whole team abroad to the stashes and just 320 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:49,040 5% came back. 321 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,720 So imagine the level of asshole you have to be to get repaid like that for such an action. 322 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,040 Man, that happened to me one time. 323 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,800 Like when I was working in Ryugin, we had this guy and he when you were doing when you 324 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:05,880 were staging in Ryugin back in the day, they would pay for you to go to Ryugin Tokyo, Ryugin 325 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,120 Taipei and Ryugin Hong Kong. 326 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,120 I think it was no. 327 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,880 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that three Ryugins. 328 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:20,200 And you as a stash would get paid to fucking fly to Taipei to Hong Kong, have accommodation 329 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,760 there and work in the in the restaurants. 330 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:23,760 Amazing, right? 331 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:30,360 And this guy, he came to like Tokyo first and and he was kind of working and he was 332 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,660 kind of like meh. 333 00:16:31,660 --> 00:16:35,880 And then he they flew him to Hong Kong and he just disappeared. 334 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:41,640 I can just started working and living in Hong Kong and basically like a flight all expenses 335 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,520 paid, you know, like super shitty. 336 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,000 Yeah, I felt that that also happens on cruise ships. 337 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,160 They really take care that you have like a like a physical address where you live so 338 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:58,000 you don't run away, you know, like you just get somewhere in the world and never come 339 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 back. 340 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,760 So but yeah, like what's the name? 341 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:03,760 Tina? 342 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:04,760 Is it? 343 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:05,760 Yeah, yeah. 344 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:06,760 Yeah, I see. 345 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:07,760 And she sent the CUNY high school. 346 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:12,720 Marcus is sent here where we are right now to Copenhagen and he eats the chicken sandwich 347 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,000 we had yesterday at Poulet. 348 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Yeah, he does. 349 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 How was it? 350 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 You liked it? 351 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 It was a decent chicken sandwich. 352 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,920 It wasn't the best chicken sandwich I had in my life, but it was delicious. 353 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,920 I liked that it was like very nice and like a nice level of spice. 354 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:26,640 She goes very crispy. 355 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,640 I like the chicken sandwich. 356 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,840 The the tofu for me, it was not out of the sun. 357 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:32,840 It was nice. 358 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:33,840 Just nice. 359 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,080 It could have easily been a lot better. 360 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:36,880 Yeah, just a few seasoning. 361 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,040 Yeah, I agree. 362 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,960 I mean, is this something that if I'd lived here, I'd get every now and again, like from 363 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,720 walking by, I'm like, hey, you want to go, you want to grab a chicken sandwich? 364 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,560 But yeah, it was it was okay. 365 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:52,160 Yeah, like I really like that training that Marcus gets here in Copenhagen that he starts 366 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:58,440 seeing like really precision cooking with this mentor he has like this pastry that used 367 00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,440 to work with Karmie. 368 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:00,440 Yes. 369 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,360 You know what I liked about that episode is that like, you know, they meet Karmie, right? 370 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,360 And Karmie comes from this environment. 371 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:11,440 He has a certain mentality and Karmie comes into a very chaotic environment and he is 372 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:12,960 the alien there. 373 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:13,960 Right. 374 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:20,080 So they don't really pick up on this, but once they step out of this environment and 375 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:24,760 they go into an environment where they're the alien with their lack of this attitude, 376 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:25,760 he starts to understand it. 377 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,840 You know, he starts to be like, oh, hold on. 378 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:28,840 Yeah. 379 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,680 And then he comes back and the same thing happens then later with Richie that he comes 380 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,680 back and then they're like, I understand them. 381 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:34,680 Yeah. 382 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:35,680 Yeah. 383 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:36,680 Yeah. 384 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,520 So in between there is this, which is one of the best episodes of the season, the fucked 385 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,000 up family episode. 386 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Oh my God. 387 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,480 That was, that was rough to watch. 388 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,120 The mother is so crazy. 389 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:48,120 It's so bananas. 390 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:49,120 Jesus Christ. 391 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:55,000 I have to think about that sometimes with such a heart wrenching moment with her daughter 392 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,920 trying not to say, are you okay? 393 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:03,320 The whole night and you can, and when she finally does it, it's like a, it's like a 394 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,320 compulsion. 395 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,360 Like she can't help herself because it's her way of kind of relating to her mother. 396 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,360 And everybody's like, oh no, she didn't. 397 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:11,360 Exactly. 398 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:16,360 But I feel so bad for the daughter because you can see that it's like this genuine, you 399 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:17,360 know? 400 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:18,360 Yeah. 401 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:22,640 But also this way of coping with it and trying to sort of like have like a supportive role 402 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,800 for her mother because of like this like weird harshness between them. 403 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:27,800 Like, I don't know. 404 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:32,560 That's how I interpreted it anyway, but still her not being able to help herself saying 405 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,080 that even though she knows what effect it will have, which is the mother completely 406 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:37,080 freaking out. 407 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,600 It's like the worst Christmas I've ever seen in my life, man. 408 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:43,200 It's like everything I don't want to see in a Christmas dinner. 409 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,440 You know, I got my mom to start watching the bear and we watched the first couple of episodes 410 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,080 and then she like, after I left, like when I was visiting her, she like kept sending 411 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,360 me messages about the show. 412 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:53,960 She was like, Jesus Christ. 413 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,260 And then she wrote me about the Christmas episode. 414 00:19:56,260 --> 00:19:58,320 She was like, I could not watch it. 415 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,620 I had to turn it off because it's so stressful. 416 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:02,620 It's stressful. 417 00:20:02,620 --> 00:20:05,080 All the episodes are good. 418 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,120 I've heard a lot of people say to me, people from the hospitality industry, they told me 419 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:13,000 they can't watch the bear because they get anxious. 420 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,480 You know, like it's not like something fun for them. 421 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,760 It's like post-traumatic disorder. 422 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,360 Like, yeah. 423 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:24,840 But if that's, I would say that if that's the case, like I get it, but I feel like that 424 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,640 speaks of some unresolved issues that maybe people should look at because you need to 425 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,760 be able to detach from this sort of shit. 426 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:36,120 Then if you, if you can't watch it, it's like, it's like, maybe do you still have some trauma 427 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:37,200 kicking around, you know? 428 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:43,560 I really like how they bridge that episode where, what's the name of the brother? 429 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:44,560 Mikey. 430 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:45,560 Yeah. 431 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:46,560 Yeah. 432 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,040 Where he, he throws the fork, this whole fork situation. 433 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,520 Uh, Richie, you mean? 434 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,840 No, no, no. 435 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,480 Like, um, Karmic's brother. 436 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:53,480 Yeah. 437 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,480 Uh, Mikey. 438 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,480 Yeah. 439 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,720 Where he throws this fork to this asshole that is messing with him. 440 00:20:58,720 --> 00:20:59,720 Did you think he was the asshole? 441 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,040 Do you think the brother was the asshole? 442 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,680 I think that that guy was the asshole. 443 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:03,680 Really? 444 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,840 Because I was like, I was kind of like, I kind of got the stepdad because Mikey was 445 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,640 being that was a stepdad. 446 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,640 Yeah. 447 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,200 Because Mikey was a fucking asshole. 448 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,200 Like the whole night. 449 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,200 Yeah. 450 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,200 Also, also. 451 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,200 Yeah. 452 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:17,200 All of them were being so horrible. 453 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,200 Yeah. 454 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,400 But I mean, like, you know, you're telling a story and somebody interrupts and say, are 455 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,400 you already told that story more than once? 456 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:24,400 You're a fucking idiot, man. 457 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,600 Like, you know, like shut the fuck up. 458 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:28,600 It's Christmas. 459 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,600 Let him finish his story. 460 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,520 The thing is that like Mikey already like two or three times said like a shit thing 461 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,520 to him. 462 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,800 So then it was like his turn and then Mikey can't take it. 463 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,240 You know, he's like, he keeps making like a joke and blah. 464 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,800 And then suddenly it's his time to tell a story. 465 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,360 He gets interrupted, he gets all upset. 466 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:43,600 And the dad is like, no, you know what? 467 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,600 Fuck you. 468 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:45,600 And I got it. 469 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,440 And then it's like, yeah, yeah, all of them were. 470 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,760 I really like that. 471 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:51,760 That's super funny. 472 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,480 Like this guy that is who, who's that? 473 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,440 Like he's like, I don't know. 474 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,640 He's a, uh, he's not from the family. 475 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,840 He's somebody's boyfriend or fiance. 476 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:05,240 Uh, the posh one with the, he's the boyfriend from his sister. 477 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,240 Exactly. 478 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,240 That is like, okay. 479 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,240 Now you say the blessing. 480 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,640 He's like, we are very thankful that we're here. 481 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:14,640 Yeah. 482 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,800 He's like full of Labrador energy. 483 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,800 Yeah. 484 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,160 I really like how they bridge this forks episode with the next episode. 485 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,160 That was my favorite episode. 486 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,680 A hundred percent, a hundred percent. 487 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:30,720 I mean, um, with Richie arriving at the restaurant, which I guess it was supposed to be like 11 488 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:31,720 Madison park. 489 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,720 No, was it? 490 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:38,360 No, I really, like I thought maybe the kitchen, but I, it felt like a linear to me somehow. 491 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:39,360 Yeah. 492 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:44,280 And there was also this, you know, the head chef from next somewhere in the background. 493 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,440 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 494 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,440 True. 495 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,440 And that's a fictional chef. 496 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,440 This Terry. 497 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,440 Yeah, yeah, of course. 498 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:50,440 Of course. 499 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,440 I mean, they're all fictional. 500 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,440 Not all. 501 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,240 I mean, they're all blue and, uh, and stuff. 502 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,240 Yeah. 503 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,640 But you know, like he arrives there and he has to polish forks and he doesn't get it. 504 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,120 And he's like, Bob, and he's doing a really shit job. 505 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,720 And then one of the guys is sort of like, he's like, yeah, you just gotta be polishing 506 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,360 forks for a week here, you know? 507 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:05,360 And he gets really pissed off. 508 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:09,360 He just wants to, he thinks that Kami sent him there to get rid of him. 509 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:11,840 And then this guy, he's not polishing a fork correctly. 510 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,520 Like he's not doing it properly. 511 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,160 This guy takes him out and he's like, man, like, what the fuck? 512 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,160 Do you not want to be here? 513 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,440 Like, and he's like, wow, I'm polishing forks. 514 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,440 What the fuck? 515 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,440 And he's like, no, you don't get it. 516 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,120 This is part of like a whole thing. 517 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:26,800 This is a small aspect of this whole thing that we all want to be great. 518 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,320 And that means that we need great forks, which means we need them to be clean and polished. 519 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,480 And the guy's like, no, I, I love that. 520 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,320 It was sort of like, Hey, look, don't, don't bullshit me. 521 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,200 I know how hard it is to find good stuff. 522 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,040 And he's like, we don't have that problem. 523 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,260 We don't have that problem here. 524 00:23:40,260 --> 00:23:41,760 People are lining up to work here. 525 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:43,480 And he's like, Oh, you really zip this cool later. 526 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:44,600 And he's like, yes, I do. 527 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,720 I fucking love it here. 528 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:46,720 I love being here. 529 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:47,720 I love working here. 530 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:48,720 I love seeing the people come here. 531 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:49,720 I love seeing their face. 532 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:55,240 And that's like amazing, like hospitality is like this, like obsessed mindset of just 533 00:23:55,240 --> 00:24:01,280 striving for excellence and how Richie bit by bit sees these little glimpses of what 534 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:07,000 makes this job special, you know, and it catches onto him and he gets completely transformed. 535 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,280 He gets completely transformed. 536 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,840 And then he, and then he wants to involve himself. 537 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,560 He sees it's like infectious and it is infectious. 538 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,040 And then he's like, can I please do this? 539 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,040 And they're like, okay, you do it. 540 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:16,480 And he does it and he fucking sees it. 541 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:17,480 He gets it. 542 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,480 He enjoys it. 543 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,360 And then he's like, I'm in a rush and the scene where he then drives home listening 544 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,200 to Taylor Swift is so beautiful. 545 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,720 I had to cry when I watched that. 546 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:31,480 It was so nice, you know, because it's this spark that lit the fire that was dead inside 547 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,960 of him for such a long time. 548 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:33,960 Yeah. 549 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,840 And he was looking for something for some meaning. 550 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:42,080 And this episode reminded me a lot of two books from Charlie Trotter's Lessons in Excellence 551 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:43,360 and Lessons in Service. 552 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:48,440 For me, those are like the best books on service or excellence in restaurants that I have ever 553 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,440 read. 554 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,280 And like philosophical books about these kind of things. 555 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,800 And I see these things expressed over and over again across this episode. 556 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:56,800 Yeah. 557 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:57,800 What about the last episode? 558 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:03,160 Yeah, I thought honestly, like when I watched it the first time, it kind of hit me hard 559 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:09,440 because it's like so many things happen in a way that are like, I could relate in a way, 560 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:15,160 you know, to like what was happening because I also have been where you find a chef smoking 561 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,160 crack in the backyard. 562 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,160 Yeah, constantly. 563 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:22,080 No, honestly, I mean, it's not long ago that I've had that experience, honestly. 564 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,760 And I fired that person also straight away. 565 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,760 It's relatively common, actually. 566 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:27,760 Yeah. 567 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,760 But I have, you know, been in a situation where I feel like I have sacrificed something 568 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:38,560 for the profession, you know, and for this drive and obsession that you have of striving 569 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:39,600 for something. 570 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:45,240 You mean that moment with Carmy's, he retires having a relationship just to put everything 571 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,920 for the fuck everything. 572 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:48,920 I just want this. 573 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,520 And he said like, when he says, he's sort of like, nothing is worth me feeling like 574 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,440 this right now that I failed, you know, in this thing. 575 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,960 And I really felt that. 576 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,400 I really felt that. 577 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,240 Feeling failure is like the worst feeling in our restaurant. 578 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,920 And you know, like how many times I still have that sometimes where I like I walk home 579 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,880 and I had a shit service and I can't switch off. 580 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,320 And I it's just it's like this wave of depression that crushes over you because of like if you 581 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:21,840 take your your job really seriously and what you do and the quality and you identify with 582 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:27,520 it, you kind of make yourself worth dependent on what it is that you're producing and the 583 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,880 standard that you're doing it that day. 584 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,120 And I've had that very recently that I walked home and like I had a really shit service. 585 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,240 It was shit in a lot in a lot of levels. 586 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,420 I wasn't happy with the quality of the food. 587 00:26:38,420 --> 00:26:42,640 And no matter how hard we tried, we weren't able to get back on point. 588 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,240 And you feel horrible, horrible. 589 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:51,080 And and also that Marcus's mother dies, you know, while he's there, which is also, you 590 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:57,120 know, just a showcase of he's there pushing and other things are staying on the line, 591 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,200 you know, and you're missing out on things. 592 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,120 I really liked this new Richie on that episode. 593 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,760 Yeah, the way he deals with everything. 594 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,760 Yeah. 595 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,760 But that was heavy. 596 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:08,760 That was really, really heavy. 597 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,200 A good, good season overall. 598 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,200 Yeah, good ending. 599 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,800 Setting the tone for the next season. 600 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,280 Have you watched it yet? 601 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,520 Two episodes so far. 602 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,520 All right. 603 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,280 Yeah, I watched the we went yesterday to have dinner at Norma and I watched the first episode 604 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,280 and Norma comes in and I was I just watched three episodes in a row in the airport and 605 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,280 fly. 606 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,280 And so I was really into it. 607 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,480 And suddenly, no, I mean, they're there tonight. 608 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:36,000 Yeah, exciting. 609 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:49,440 That's it for this week's episode of potluck food talks.