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Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood and outside of acting my two favorite things to do

are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast we're

going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel. I'll talk to experts

and the average person just like you and me. Today's guest is chef Andre Rush. Chef Rush is a

combat veteran and military advocate, a motivational speaker, master ice carver, and chef to multiple

presidential administrations. He can bench press 700 pounds and does 2,222 push-ups a day.

He's just an all-around incredible guy. You can find chef Rush at real chef Rush on Instagram.

Chef, hey, thank you so much for being here. It's my absolute pleasure. Yeah, so what got you

interested in being a chef? What started you on your culinary adventure? Honestly, my mother.

I'm from a small place in Mississippi, small town, my mother and father were two opposite

pay spectrums. My father was a brownie guy who just worked, worked, worked in all the boys.

He should do the exact same things. As soon as I could crawl, he put me to work.

And my mother was very caring and loving. She cooked. It was five girls and two boys, three of us

all together. She would just make that comfort food. When we came around a table and we ate,

it was just the most humbling thing because I finally met my brothers in the sisters for the first time.

Yes. Because everything was different. In the south, you eat different. Just like you

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