Chad Robertson
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Sep 8, 2026
#1124 - Chad Robertson
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20:48Sean NewmanHOST
So by the time 12 years is in, did you have the packing plant? I want to keep calling it distribution center.
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20:54Chad RobertsonGUEST
Yeah, so we started that in 2009 with another firm in the area, and my uncle is actually one of the owners of that firm.
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21:18Chad RobertsonGUEST
It was owned by a company from Ontario, and we were sending some potatoes there to each of our farms every year, but we weren't getting great returns on it.
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21:32Chad RobertsonGUEST
They, I don't want to say threatened, but they basically said they were pulling out of the area.
6 MINS LATER
We Played Matthew McConaughey's Exodus! - Kinda Funny Gamescast
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38:04Chad RobertsonGUEST
But there's, like there are some moments in the game we hope where players are just, you know, y- taken aback by what happens.
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38:18Chad RobertsonGUEST
But I think the coolest thing for us in terms of having chosen to use, you know, this science fiction background with time dilation as part of it is, we talked about this a lot, but, and I think we mentioned it in the intro, is like we can play with ...
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38:35Chad RobertsonGUEST
The, the stakes of those choices are so much higher because of the time impact, um, being, you know, something that Jun can't control entirely.
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38:43Chad RobertsonGUEST
And without spoiling things, there are some moments where Jun realizes he can't control things entirely.
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Exclusive: Chad Robertson Talks About His New Brooklyn Bakery
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7:27Chad RobertsonGUEST
So but the other thing is, like, I would rather hand someone a hot loaf of bread.
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7:30Chad RobertsonGUEST
I mean, when people would say, like, "How did Tartine get so big?" Or whatever.
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7:37Chad RobertsonGUEST
But eventually it did, and a lot of it was just me traveling around, like, learning from other people and being kind of an am- ambassador for whatever, whatever it was I thought I was doing.
This Loaf Changed American Bread, with Chad Robertson
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12:51Chad RobertsonGUEST
And then I dec- well, it was like, it was one of my instructors was telling our class, um, about this, this guy, this crazy baker making really incredible bread like no one was making anywhere, and it was Richard Bourdon.
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13:06Chad RobertsonGUEST
It was maybe an hour and a half from the school, and so we sort of went there on a weekend to check it out, and I literally...
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13:14Chad RobertsonGUEST
I was very young, and this guy was totally, you know, he was, like, the coolest guy.
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13:19Chad RobertsonGUEST
Just, you know, he had his babies on his back and his razor blade cutting the bread and, and it was in a big brick barn with the Housatonic River running behind it, and it was all very new to me 'cause I'm, I was born in Texas and-
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16:27Chad RobertsonGUEST
And there was a stone mill, and so I was milling flour, and then the, the oven was in the backyard.