I think a lot of chefs do, you know, in the back of their mind, even if they, they deny it, there's always probably, you know, some part of them that wants to, to be on the show and see themselves on TV, so for sure.

Yeah, and for me, um, I think my first year of culinary school, um, is when Top Chef came out, so very into it.

Uh, anytime, um...

Well, uh, actually, I was in culinary school, because Harold Dieter won, and we went to his restaurant as soon as it opened-

Wow

... that was like, and that was super special.

And then it kinda became, like, just a thing that if we, if a New York chef had won and, you know, we were right there in Poughkeepsie, we'd, we'd go in if they opened up a new place.

So been watching it since day one.

MRI.Oh, Jesus

So they had just given me some sed- ...

I know.

And that, and that was like, you know, that was like the next step to see, like what was going on, 'cause they weren't sure.

And the tests weren't coming back any certain way, so they ...

Which was scary to me, because again, like it, this is, we're gone on hour like six, and nobody knows like what's happening.

Um, so when Justin, when they came and told me that Justin was gonna call, you know, I was thankful, because I'd been gone, um, you know, from the show for, I mean, I'd been in the hospital for hours.

That's true.