Our guest hosts what he calls “The Dumbest Cooking Show on the Internet.” A well-seasoned man-of-the-meat, Pat Dawson AKA Chef Pat (‘Cookin’ Meat with Chef Pat’), is ready to take on InTALLerable’s smoked chicken wings & tell us about his crazy life that has led him to his place as an integral part of the Denver Comedy scene.
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After dropping out of high school in Los Angeles, Pat traveled to Puerto Rico’s “Pork Highway” to learn how to make ‘lechón’, roasting whole pig in their traditional style. Whether working his first job as a dishwasher or opening his own restaurant, Chef Pat’s unbeatable work ethic & unmatchable positive attitude led him to share his gift of great meat, with even better people. He is the ‘Forrest Gump’ of cooking, always finding another box of chocolates amongst the “kitchen people” whom he loves.
Thankful to get to hang, eat, & learn from Pat.
There’s parts to this seasoning-of-life thing, and Chef Pat has all the right ratios.
EATIN’ w/ Chef Pat (including insider Meat-knowledge) available to supporters at Patreon.com/InTALLerable — $2/month lifetime access to all our bonus content.
FO & BW
0:00 - Guest Introduction
1:00 - Cookin’ Meat Origins
3:00 - Welcoming Denver Comedy Community
4:00 - Making Movies with His Friend
6:00 - Grant Lucas Speaks for the Kids
7:00 - Pat is part of the scene
7:30 - Forest Gump of Cooking
8:00 - High School Drop-Out
9:00 - Turning Point for Pat
10:00 - Only Comic on the Music Open Mic
12:00 - Being Among Kitchen People
13:00 - Climbing the Kitchen Hierarchy
14:00 - THE BEST ________ (insert role)
15:00 - Puerto Rico’s Pork Highway
17:30 - Right Place, Right Time, Right Attitude
19:00 - Wings are Important
20:00 - Speciality Meat Request
21:00 - Christensen Ranch - Cookin’ Meat Sponsor
22:00 - Green Room Spread
23:30 - Half a Cow Every Spring 25:00 - Mowing Back to USA
26:30 - Can’t Teach Old Dogs New Tricks
27:30 - Move to Denver & Opening 2 Restaurants
29:00 - Artisan Ice in-restaurant
30:30 - Working for a Fraudster
33:30 - Shady Dude
34:00 - Great Salesman
35:00 - Stealing Through his Secretary
35:30 - Leaving Restaurants to be a Stay-at-Home Dad
37:00 - Dad Jokes
38:30 - Coming back to Cooking
40:30 - Finding a Home for ‘Cookin’ Meat’
41:30 - In-House at Dude IDK
42:30 - 20 years later, Living The Dream
43:00 - Chef Pat Advice
44:30 - Meeting his Wife on Tinder
45:30 - Doing Things Out of Order
48:30 - Lechon
50:00 - Pig Streaks
51:00 - Human stories in Food
52:30 - Getting Too Lit at Work Function
53:30 - EATIN’ w/ Chef Pat
54:00 - WING REVIEW!
55:00 - Meat Tips & Tricks
57:00 - Pat’s Early-Days “Foodcart”
59:30 - Bad Banquet Experience in Puerto Rico
1:01:00 - Cooking For Old Jewish Grandmas
1:02:30 - Nightmare Situation
1:04:30 - No More ‘Grandma’s Cooking’
1:07:00 - You Won’t Eat the Bad Food
1:08:00 - Plugs & Go Follow/Support
1:09:00 - OnlyHams
1:09:45 - HEIGHTING