{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":37.65,"endTime":40.53,"body":"Welcome to the Chefs Without"},{"startTime":37.65,"endTime":40.53,"body":"Restaurants podcast. I'm your"},{"startTime":40.53,"endTime":44.73,"body":"host Chris spear. On the show. I"},{"startTime":40.53,"endTime":44.73,"body":"have conversations with culinary"},{"startTime":44.73,"endTime":47.49,"body":"entrepreneurs and people in the"},{"startTime":44.73,"endTime":47.49,"body":"food and beverage industry who"},{"startTime":47.49,"endTime":51.0,"body":"took a different route. Their"},{"startTime":47.49,"endTime":51.0,"body":"caterers research chefs,"},{"startTime":51.03,"endTime":55.98,"body":"personal chefs cookbook authors,"},{"startTime":51.03,"endTime":55.98,"body":"food truckers, farmers, cottage"},{"startTime":55.98,"endTime":59.85,"body":"bakers, and all sorts of"},{"startTime":55.98,"endTime":59.85,"body":"culinary renegades. I myself"},{"startTime":59.85,"endTime":62.46,"body":"fall into the personal chef"},{"startTime":59.85,"endTime":62.46,"body":"category as I started my own"},{"startTime":62.46,"endTime":66.27,"body":"personal chef business perfect"},{"startTime":62.46,"endTime":66.27,"body":"little bites 11 years ago. And"},{"startTime":66.27,"endTime":69.0,"body":"while I started working in"},{"startTime":66.27,"endTime":69.0,"body":"kitchens in the early 90s, I've"},{"startTime":69.0,"endTime":72.36,"body":"literally never worked in a"},{"startTime":69.0,"endTime":72.36,"body":"restaurant. This week, I have a"},{"startTime":72.36,"endTime":75.9,"body":"quick mini episode with Brady"},{"startTime":72.36,"endTime":75.9,"body":"Lowe. It's another one of our"},{"startTime":75.93,"endTime":79.53,"body":"what is a chef mini episodes. If"},{"startTime":75.93,"endTime":79.53,"body":"you haven't listened to my whole"},{"startTime":79.53,"endTime":82.77,"body":"episode with Brady of taste"},{"startTime":79.53,"endTime":82.77,"body":"network, and formerly Cochon"},{"startTime":82.8,"endTime":86.61,"body":"555. Go back and check it out."},{"startTime":82.8,"endTime":86.61,"body":"It was just three episodes ago."},{"startTime":87.18,"endTime":90.15,"body":"I want to keep the intro short"},{"startTime":87.18,"endTime":90.15,"body":"this week, just to set up the"},{"startTime":90.15,"endTime":92.79,"body":"episode a bit for those who"},{"startTime":90.15,"endTime":92.79,"body":"haven't heard one of these. This"},{"startTime":92.79,"endTime":96.27,"body":"season, I've been asking my"},{"startTime":92.79,"endTime":96.27,"body":"guests what they think it means"},{"startTime":96.27,"endTime":100.65,"body":"to be a chef. As someone who"},{"startTime":96.27,"endTime":100.65,"body":"works with a lot of farmers and"},{"startTime":100.65,"endTime":104.55,"body":"sustainably raised meat. I kind"},{"startTime":100.65,"endTime":104.55,"body":"of expected Brady to veer in"},{"startTime":104.55,"endTime":107.31,"body":"that direction. But I don't want"},{"startTime":104.55,"endTime":107.31,"body":"to give away the episode"},{"startTime":107.34,"endTime":111.36,"body":"especially since it's only about"},{"startTime":107.34,"endTime":111.36,"body":"two and a half minutes. So let's"},{"startTime":111.36,"endTime":114.54,"body":"get right to it. 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And now on with the show."},{"startTime":235.05,"endTime":239.79,"body":"Thanks so much for listening and"},{"startTime":239.79,"endTime":240.57,"body":"have a great week."},{"startTime":240.96,"endTime":244.29,"body":"The last question I really like"},{"startTime":240.96,"endTime":244.29,"body":"to ask is, what does it mean to"},{"startTime":244.29,"endTime":247.38,"body":"you to be a chef whether you"},{"startTime":244.29,"endTime":247.38,"body":"know I'm not saying you are a"},{"startTime":247.38,"endTime":249.81,"body":"chef but when you think of a"},{"startTime":247.38,"endTime":249.81,"body":"chef, what is a chef?"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":250.62,"endTime":253.5,"body":"You got to know how"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":250.62,"endTime":253.5,"body":"to fucking cook. And I think"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":253.98,"endTime":258.24,"body":"that's important. I think there"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":253.98,"endTime":258.24,"body":"should be some humbleness to it."},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":259.29,"endTime":262.62,"body":"And then I think you have to"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":259.29,"endTime":262.62,"body":"have a mission. If you're just"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":262.62,"endTime":266.94,"body":"cooking and you're just having"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":262.62,"endTime":266.94,"body":"fun, then you're just cooking"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":266.94,"endTime":271.53,"body":"and having fun but if you if you"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":266.94,"endTime":271.53,"body":"can cook and get paid to cook"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":271.56,"endTime":276.33,"body":"and you're humble, and then you"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":271.56,"endTime":276.33,"body":"have a mission, then you know"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":276.33,"endTime":279.36,"body":"like you're on a you're on a"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":276.33,"endTime":279.36,"body":"you're on a path and I think"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":279.36,"endTime":284.07,"body":"that kind of like sells that"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":279.36,"endTime":284.07,"body":"sells it to me. And I think what"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":284.07,"endTime":289.47,"body":"I was always looking for were"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":284.07,"endTime":289.47,"body":"chefs who did what they said"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":289.47,"endTime":292.62,"body":"they were going to do and"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":289.47,"endTime":292.62,"body":"support and want to support as"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":292.62,"endTime":296.07,"body":"much as they can the small guy"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":292.62,"endTime":296.07,"body":"on the on the on the floor,"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":296.31,"endTime":300.54,"body":"which would be either having a"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":296.31,"endTime":300.54,"body":"voice for the farm or having a"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":300.54,"endTime":303.51,"body":"voice against ownership when"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":300.54,"endTime":303.51,"body":"dollars weren't right? 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But stewardship,"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":325.44,"endTime":331.65,"body":"meaning that you, you put your"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":325.44,"endTime":331.65,"body":"community first through food,"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":331.77,"endTime":335.76,"body":"and you cook with your art and"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":331.77,"endTime":335.76,"body":"you do what's right, when it's"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":335.79,"endTime":338.31,"body":"sometimes doesn't feel like"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":335.79,"endTime":338.31,"body":"financially it doesn't look"},{"speaker":"Brady Lowe","startTime":338.31,"endTime":341.43,"body":"right. 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