Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins
Oct 4, 2026 · 54 min · 14 segments
When a doctor told me I might never cook again, I wondered what that meant for my livelihood and the life I knew. Shannon and I revisit the heat stroke that changed how we work, the demands of cooking…
Kent RollinsHost
Shannon RollinsHost
We're talking about actually a specific time when a doctor told you, honest to God, that you would never cook again.
And I want, most of you guys know, but I want to paint a picture for everybody that, you know, the saying, it gets hot in the kitchen.
Kitchens, you've got ovens going, you've got burners going, it's going to get hot in the kitchen.
And you would think that maybe being outside in the wide open in Mother Nature, that, you know, there's a breeze or you have a little more area to work with, it doesn't get as hot.
I would rather cook in 20 below any day of the week than cook in heat and humidity.
You can get warm eventually, but when you get so hot that things begin to happen to you, you can't cool off.
But you can't get cool because once you get to a certain point, you're outside.
If we're cooking in the summer, we've got the heat going, we've got the stove going, there's no place to escape to get cold.
No, it's probably because we didn't pay the electric bill and that air conditioner ain't working.
But so our setup, we've got the chuck wagon and no electricity, no running water.
We're talking about actually a specific time when a doctor told you, honest to God, that you would never cook again.
And I want, most of you guys know, but I want to paint a picture for everybody that, you know, the saying, it gets hot in the kitchen.
Kitchens, you've got ovens going, you've got burners going, it's going to get hot in the kitchen.
And you would think that maybe being outside in the wide open in Mother Nature, that, you know, there's a breeze or you have a little more area to work with, it doesn't get as hot.
I would rather cook in 20 below any day of the week than cook in heat and humidity.
You can get warm eventually, but when you get so hot that things begin to happen to you, you can't cool off.
But you can't get cool because once you get to a certain point, you're outside.
If we're cooking in the summer, we've got the heat going, we've got the stove going, there's no place to escape to get cold.
No, it's probably because we didn't pay the electric bill and that air conditioner ain't working.
But so our setup, we've got the chuck wagon and no electricity, no running water.
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