All right , can you believe it ? It is 503 on day four . We have another about hour less ago . We are still live in Dallas . This is recorded in Dallas , live at the World Food Championship . We have another , michael Hogan , who has just got done literally just got done doing the fight , fight , fight , fight , fight , fight , fight , fight club , fight club .
That's my club , that's what it was . We just got done eating for the first time . We'll talk about that MRE first , and then we'll drop right over to Michael . What did you think about that contest and what does tell the listeners what that contest was about ?
So the contest was our veterans today's veterans day and it was very clever and asking them to use an MRE a meal ready to eat , as it was usually when they're out in the field and kind of converted with their own ideas and spices and other proteins and things , but at the same time having to incorporate .
The more they incorporated the kind of the more credit they got for what they utilize on the MRE , which seems kind of easy in certain ways , but those things are packed with so much salt so you're having to balance a lot of different things out . So I really thought they both did .
Both teams executed really really well yeah , definitely one team that I would have eaten , the whole meal three or four times in a row . Yeah well , carl had one too . I literally had to tell Carl they're bucky . I'm like , hey , I tapped him on the shoulder . I'm like slow down , slow down . I .
I would .
I can't imagine eating . I had some good , some really good tacos earlier .
Actually I had a couple of those tacos as well and it's a charcoal company .
Yeah , texas barbecue . Yeah , texas charcoal yeah , I called even made booted yeah , yeah , which was so cool , which is the Louisiana thing for these Texas boys that are really really well yeah , and that's coming from you . That's a big time , because you know how to make that . Now it's just pure episode on that , geo . Yes , that's awesome , chef .
I'm sitting here staring at you and I'm seeing like 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2021 , 2022 , you need more room yeah , I got .
I actually have a new chef code coming awesome , it's all the gals posted dropping out there with a little bit , so it's got my new logo on it too , so that's all .
That's so the on your hat is the new logo .
Yeah , so so the C stands for chef , the M is for Mike , and then our Michael , and then the H is for Hogan and then , if you notice , there's four little dots and our old logo was about our old name , was spiced your life from your meats and so . But we had a full over .
That's slower again , because I thought I heard my sure life , your meats .
I wanted that so I could sell a t-shirt that said rub your meat on the back of it . And I sold it to you , so our logo . I might still have some of home , I ship it to you . But our logo was a poorly clover , so the four dots on the hat represents that poorly clover . So I brought that old thing to the news . So so that's what it stands for .
So so chef yes we could too . Before WFC , I'm looking at my phone , you know , on Instagram , and I see you got the bit . You're putting your arms up in the air , doing the muscle flex thing and I'm like Michael Hogan's coming back , he's inspired , he's ready to go . You know , it was this year seven , year eight , all the above .
And then I see you and you tell me about these , the spiral downhill that you had health wise . So , like , tell us and we don't have to get into detail what was going on . But I mean you , you really had to pull yourself . You debate , or whether the night it was .
It was two months , so , like Labor Day weekend , I actually got dehydrated , passed out and cut my head open . So I actually had two staples and I have the scar in the back of my head because I'm almost bald . You can see it pretty good . But then I got a bad case of food poisoning that I had for almost a week and a half .
I woke up one morning , passed out , woke up I'd take one of those aluminum catering pans into the bathroom with me . I fell on it , completely crushed it that's how hard I fell , ended up having some internal bleeding , called 911 , went to the hospital , was intensive care for three days and that was back on October 11 .
So I've been kind of healing up from that . I had some low hemoglobin and some iron blood issues and the doctors like no-transcript , you can tell me I'm not going , but when I get home there's nothing you can do to stop me . But also , what happened when I fell ?
I fell on my shoulder , so right now I can't lift my arm above the bottom of my chest and I can't extend it out . And so with the MRI that they did , they said well , I don't think it's your rotator cuff , but you have some torn muscles , some tendons in there and when you get back from rural food we'll look at it and see if we can reevaluate it .
But then , because I've been on short-term disability and not working , I didn't get a disability check . I didn't have the money to come . And the week before I got here well , actually last Thursday , last week I had my brother and sister-in-law from Texas sending $300 . I had the Nebraska Park producers , which I do a lot of stuff for , they sent me $500 .
And then a gentleman who used to sponsor me and pay for our condo , basically he called me out . He had sold his business , so I thought that money was gone . Literally . Last Thursday he called me up let's do coffee and he has me a check for $1,500 . So I was able to make it here , and so I was able to come .
I heard you say that gentleman's name because he deserves the recognition . Unless he wants to be anonymous .
Well , his name was John Matthews . Thank you , john Matthews . He had a company called Justman Brush but he sold it so there's no longer around . But even the Nebraska Park producers they were like . You know the lady idealist goes . You know Mike does so much for us , he helps us out , he creates recipes for us .
You know he's really a rock star and we need to help him . So sorry if I tear up a little bit .
That isn't awesome .
You know , it's just amazing . And then when I got here , there's so many people that I didn't even know were paying attention and they're like Mike , you're here , like yeah , dude , that's the hell of a story that you made it . So yeah , that's what happened .
So I'm here and I'm fighting , and I had to fight yesterday and I'm fighting today and luckily I have PJ and Stephanie , my sous chef to this yesterday just really helped me , because I can't lift my arm to do hardly anything , but I was able to chop with one hand and do some things , so it was good . But that's the story .
You know , at the end of the day , a chef is a chief . So even if you delegate and be a leader , and how they execute the food , how you want to be executed , that's even better .
And the thing about it is is we had talked about it for a while and so they knew exactly what needed to be done and all they did was make a prep list and they went right through it and it was just . I mean , it was just like I was actually kind of bored . But yeah , we did it .
We got on the bubble , we got seventh place , but because of the new scoring this year , we were on the bubble . So we had to do the bike club today and we'll find out the results of that in a little bit .
I hope that you can continue to keep stacking those years on , as you keep on going .
Well , this just means the years that I participate , doesn't mean that those are the years I won . But last year we got sixth overall in the bacon category , so I'm looking for that second medal .
That's in the world , people you know . You might think , okay , well , that's sixth , and then he's not number one , that's in the world , that's out of everyone in the world . He is the sixth ranked number six in bacon . Not bacon , bacon , that's a big deal . Yeah , the magic it's the duct tape of all foods .
what that's called , that's food group . The food group . Bacon Bacon's a food group .
Yeah , it's its own magical food . So I want to point out something to those nerves , and what we've heard from several of the competitors is that we've always heard the story about community involvement and how the restaurant industry is . And you know we're competing against each other and we all know chefs have no ego whatsoever .
So to see someone like you need that helping hand and what the community did for you , it's a volume for what kind of individual you are . So that's often the case .
So even like today you know You've been like today there were some issues where I had a lady come in from California who wanted to be part of the group . She came in and helped me serve the bike club . I just met her , mary Lee . Yeah , just met her over here yeah and then my buddy , Ben , who I do some oils and vinegar stuff with .
He came in from Michigan and he helped me at the bike club because PJ and Stephanie had some other people they needed a sous chef for and literally we ended up having three or four people kind of tag in and out during the bike club so that I had support and all I could do was talk to the people and promote myself .
It was really great how everybody's coming around . So the world food championship is more like More than a restaurant . We're like family here I mean , you know a lot of each other and we just always support each other . So if you need something I got , I give it to you .
Is what I've seen . Yeah , you know , being a part of the American Color Federation For like 28 929 years .
I come here and I'm seeing this and I'm seeing people like hey , what's going on ? I walked past him and he's like he hugs somebody's like I haven't seen you and what's going on ?
And I'm like , wow , this is . And the camaraderie of the restaurant or the service industry , of people that love to put it's just John pause awesome .
He's always been one of my competitors in bacon and so Uber driver . I've always competed against him in bacon and we always wish each other the best of luck because you know , that's kind of is .
You know , at the end of the day we're all friends , but when it , when it comes down to competition , I mean really , I tell people I'm competing against myself in the clock , nobody else matters , because I can't control what they do . I can only control what I do . So that's the way my attitude is about it .
So I have it's it might be kind of an off-question .
You're very calm , right You're ?
oh , I've only seen you very .
It's the drugs , medical drugs , but do you do , you come alive when you , when you start cooking .
Oh yeah , I'm like that's where all of your energy , yeah .
I'm a .
Herod chef , and it might be the bourbon that's in my glass , you know .
I think the reason why he's kind of relaxed right now is because it's over .
I remember I saw you earlier this morning . He's like I can do it now , but I only have to .
This time I'm like I rather your head be in the game and not looking at your clock or your watch . I'll come by later , I'm like and I'm glad we did this announcing right now .
They're not seeing . I get a text from super , super fight make sure I fight for a bike club . I guess for the people that got to do by club tomorrow night club . Thank you , yeah yeah , my brains right .
Yeah , I'm waiting to find out if I make the seventh person for so cook tomorrow , and if I do , I got to go shopping tonight and cut first thing in the morning , so now you did , you get a golden ticket or you had to go from , like the opening day Actually actually because , because I play six , last year I got automatic birth .
For this year I just had to pay my entry fee . So so what I made last year went to my entry fee was a sexing amount .
Chef , we're gonna have to wrap up .
No problem .
All the show , no matter when you think you're down , there's always if you're a good person .
There's always gonna be good people that you up and you're a testament to that . I have a shoe and it says hands of love Services .
You are going for public vote .
We are going for public vote . That is how this will be decided . So make a break by the food Entertain . Make them want to vote for you because this is done by fans . So make your way over to the pantry right now .
Alright , shout out . Hello , I'm just here for you .
Alright , if you want to start off with I have a Sang . You can edit that in Five four , three , two , one .
So I have a scene and it's hands down and people go I think all your competitive chef , you think you're this egotistical chef there's a lot of them out there . But hands down tells about me never giving up and everything I've been through in my life , just my little story .
There's so much more to it , but I push through everything and even , like you know , right down , I'm not giving up . I'm going the world for you and that's the way it is . So that's my mission , hands down never surrender .
Hands down the world .
Thank you , you can catch me on Chef Michael Hogan on Facebook Pleasure meeting you . Thank you so much .
Bye tomorrow man , definitely , you're definitely going to be here .
Alright , y'all , you have a great day you guys are out for the rest of your day .
More to come . Thank you .