A restaurant's best dishes tell stories.

Their flavors embed themselves in our memory like song lyrics or lines from a movie.

So much so that a little slice of a restaurant story can become part of our own. I'm Danny Chow and this is shift meal.

A new video podcast from The Ringer where we're sharing a bite and chopping it up with chefs and restaurant people during their off hours.

Look out for episodes of Shift Meal on Ringer Food starting September 18th. I'm a Oh, What's up everybody? Welcome back to the pod has spoken. It has been far,

too long.

Very, very happy to be back,

to be talking about Survivor

and we have some very exciting things

and guests in the works.

But for now, until those exciting guests are here,

we have my co-host Riley.

Thanks, Mann. It's like it hasn't been long at all. We're right back into the swing of it. You still got your fastball. This is great.

Good. I haven't lost my touch yet. No, no, no. I just went on a that was like mid season form. Yes. Thank you. I just went on a midlife crisis trip to Norway. So I was like maybe I've lost a step, but I haven't I saw that you you have been all over you were in Norway you were in Bance what's going on? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just yeah midlife crisis. No, it wasn't a midlife crisis.

No, not really, but like I was just like I should take some trips for my, like,

once my kids were born, I just like quit doing stuff because I wanted to watch them grow up

so it wasn't like oh I'm getting like handcuffed to this it was like I want to be

here for the moments and now there's part of me that's like teaching my kids to go out and have adventures and do other things and be independent is also like showing them that I'm doing stuff and that Rachel's doing stuff is also probably a lesson in itself.

So I was like, I've got to take care of myself and, you know,

take care of number one.

How old are your kids now?

Nine and six.

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