Guy Fieri
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I was taking it seriously. I wasn't taking it seriously. Yeah. The whole beginning line was such cool.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. Listen, I had one. I did it in one take. That was it. Here we go. You guys happy? Shit's done.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
First showed in air to 2006. But yeah. So I send it to him. And I sent it on a DVD because my buddy that filmed it worked at the TV station. And he put it – he burned it from the camera and put it on DVD.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
So I sent it in. That's it. I did my deal. I said I would do it. I did it. So it gets in. About three days later, late at night, 10 o'clock at night, Lori and I are sitting – my wife and I are sitting on the couch watching TV. Home phone rings. She goes, no. She's from Rhode Island. She's from North Providence. So she's a little bit tough on the phone at 10 p.m.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
You know, like, who's calling at 10 p.m.? No, I don't know where he is. No, he's not here. I'll take a message. No. Yes. No. She finally covers the phone. She goes, it's the Food Network. Bullshit. Food Network. It's one of my buddies being a jerk-off. So I pick up the phone. I go, hello, Food Network. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And they said, is this guy Ferrari?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I'm like, OK, I know it's not because it was one of my buddies. They would have said, you know, Fieri. So she goes, yeah, we got your DVD and we'd like to talk to you about it. We want you to be on the show. I said, OK, what does that entail? Well, there's a contract to be on your door tomorrow morning. We FedEx it. So I get the FedEx and.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I think that's really – it's fair of you. And the way you interview, the way I see it from doing a few interviews, you let people talk. You let them speak their piece. You continue to help them through not getting stuck on one thing. You navigate them pretty well.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I look at it and I give it to one of my attorney buddies. Like, man, they own your ass. If you sign this, I can own you. So he redlined a bunch and I sent it back to him. They called me back and they said, you can't redline the contract that we're sending you. This is like you want on the show or you don't want on the show. What is it like when you say they own you? Like, what do you mean?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Oh, you know how a contract goes when you get into TV. I mean, there's like, you know, we've got you for 36 months. You can't do any other production. You know, whatever.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't know. Don't quote me on any of it. All I know is... I had never signed an entertainment contract at that point.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
So that's where it kind of – my guy said to me, he goes, you have your own restaurants. You're doing your own thing. What are you doing? What are you getting on TV for? Right. And so long story short, I went. Lori and I were pregnant eight and a half months. You were pregnant too? Yeah. Well, that's what I call it. I held the baby weight. But we were pregnant. We got the kid coming.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Hunter was four. Hunter was – Did you name after Hunter Thompson? Yes, I did. Oh. Did you know that, or are you just saying that? No, I didn't know that. Oh, that's 100%. No. Because I saw all the Hunter Thompson in the hallway, and I saw the Bill Murray interview. I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I don't read a lot, but I read that book probably five times. That's a great book.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Such a great book. And when I got out of college, I lived in a town I didn't know anybody. I lived in Long Beach. I didn't know anybody. I just worked at this restaurant. Yeah. I'm not a big TV person, so I just read the book. And I read it in college and I read it again and I read it again. And it's funny, when you read something again, I got that from the Dale Carnegie book.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I read Dale Carnegie. You know, you have to read it a hundred times or how many times. I just like, man, this guy owns it. This guy lives it. This guy just, you know, what a character. And then the more I read about him and the more you kind of learn about him. And so I told my wife, so we have Hunter and Ryder. Riders freshman in San Diego State.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Hunter just graduated with his MBA at University of Miami.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's great. Yeah, thank you. And my nephew Jules, who's in the middle of the two. We raised Jules. My sister died when Jules was really young. And so Jules just is graduating this Sunday with his degree from Loyola in law. He's in EDM music. He's an agent. Oh, cool. So anyhow, I got on the show. I got there. And everybody's standing there buttoned up in their chef coats.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I walk in and I'm in New York. I've never been to New York. I'm in flip flops and shorts and a yellow leather jacket. And I walk in and everybody's like, you know, all puckered. And I'm like, oh, this is not going to go well. This is going to be a shit show. And I just said, you know what? You got to give it a shot. So I just went in. I was just me. Did what I do. I won. So I won the show.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
And it's really, I mean, it's from a guy that's, you know, in the business, not to this level, but guys in the business, it's respectful, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
And what this show, what you win is a six episode cooking show, which they ran at 7 a.m. on Saturdays. I mean, it was the worst time slot in the world. But they gave me the show and I did good. They gave me another show and I did the show and I hated it. I did the pilot and I hated it. And I'm like, I can't do this. What was that show? It's called Gotta Get It.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't think you're going to find him. You're not going to find this thing. He'll find it. No, Jesus, please. It was never aired. So what it was, it was a show. He'll find it. It was a show about kitchen gadgets.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
It wasn't even that good. I mean, it was like avocado slicer. I'm like, if you can't slice an avocado, don't eat it. I mean, you got a problem. But there was a cool one. There was an oven that talked Bluetooth to your phone. And that was way before Bluetooth stuff was really going on. There was a two-stroke weed eater mower with a blender on it. And that was the coolest one.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I made margaritas in that. But the one they gave me that sucked the worst or the one that I wasn't excited was they gave me a ball, like a hamster ball. Remember the hamster balls? You put the hamster and run around the house. But you'd pour cream and vanilla and sugar and all this in a ball and then throw ice cubes in it. And then you would roll the ball around, kick it around.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Go kick it when you're in flip-flops. So I did the whole thing, and they called me a couple weeks later, and they said, hey, congratulations. The show got picked up for 13 episodes, primetime. I gotta be honest with you, I'm not gonna be able to do that show. I'm like, what? Like, no, I just, it's not.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's all, it's all has history. Just kind of like as I toured the museum today. Chef's hat with a skull. Started with that tattoo. One of the first tattoos I ever had. Culinary gangster. So my buddy Joe Leonard, monkey wrench tattoo, great friend of mine, did my first tattoo. And he made that. He says, I have this drawing for you. I want to show this to you. And it's pretty, you know, skull chef.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So it went through a series of people, like executive, executive from a production company, the owner of the production company yelling at me, telling me he wasted all his time and his money. I said, hey, nobody told me that if this got picked up, I had to go do the show. I thought it was a discovery for you, a discovery for me. I don't know shit from steak sauce about how this all works.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Which I quickly turned that. I was not going to be inside of the TV business and not be really aware of what goes on. So finally, the president of the network called me and she said, you're burning a huge opportunity. Brooke Johnson, you're burning a huge opportunity. I said, Brooke, it's all about to me about authenticity.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I said, I don't need the paycheck and I don't need, I said, I'm happy with my life. I love what I do. I like my cooking show called Guy's Big Bite. You know, I cook food the way I want, call it what I want to call it, make it the way I want to make it. And I said, I just don't, me and gadgets for cooking is just not a thing. She goes, well, you might not ever get a shot like this again.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I said, I really appreciate the opportunity and I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I just don't want to do it. And she said, OK. And that was it. But fortunately, six months later, they called me back and said, we're going to give you one more shot. You're going to be a food critic. I said, no, thank you. Hold on. Why not? I said, I'm not a food critic. I'm a cook.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
Last thing I'm going to do is go in and tell people they're doing it right and wrong. That's like someone going and telling somebody they don't like their arts wrong. Bullshit. That's not my style. So they said, well, okay, it's not that. It's not that. You go around. This was the key word. You go around to mom and pop joints and you just eat the food and talk to the people. My God, I can do.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's my style. I said, what's it called? diners, drivers, dive-ins, and dines. I said, what? They couldn't get the name right. No one ever gets diners, drive-ins, and dives right. That's why we call it Triple D all the time. I said, I could do that. I could do that. That sounds like dives. I love dives. I don't know a lot about diners because we don't have many of them on the West Coast.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
And drive-ins, I love. That was always special to me to go to the A&W drive-in when I was a kid. We didn't eat fast food when I was a kid. So when you went there, that was like big, big deal. Yeah. And so I got it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I deal with a lot of them. Yeah. But you know what? I think that everybody – when you get people comfortable as – you know, you get people comfortable. You get them talking about themselves. You get them in a zone where they feel good and they relax. It's very – it's what you do here. I mean I watch. It's –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
People have a gift of storytelling or have history, and what can people talk best about themselves or their history or their passion? And that's what I did with Triple D is I just went in. I remember the first one we ever shot. I'm standing there talking to the guy about the thing, and I'm pouring coffee behind my back.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I heard about it today. It's legit. My pilot calls me and says, you know, someone's got your brand out there. I'm like, what's it called? He goes, Knuckle Sandwich. I'm like, go figure.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
People are bitching at the counter because we're right in the middle of an active service in the diner. I'm pouring coffee, and pancake's burning, and I flip the guy's pancake. And I'm like, so how long have you been making? Yeah, hang on a second. He needs an order back here. And I asked all my questions I was supposed to ask. And the producer at the end goes, cut, cut, cut, cut. Come here.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
What the hell was that? I said, slow your roll, bro. I said, I asked every question you asked me to ask. I said, I didn't stand there and do it like PM Magazine. I was in the mix with the dude, but I asked all the goddamn questions. And he's like, can you do that again? I said, I just stand on my head. This is what we do in the restaurant business.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I said, we work and we talk and we joke and we laugh and we bust balls and we do, you know, that's what we do. He throws his clipboard on the ground. We've got a hit. And then we went around the country for the next three weeks and shot more locations and put that together into the pitch. So I don't understand. Was he pretending to be upset or was he upset until you explained it to him?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Let me check it out. So I don't put a tattoo on until he draws it on first. I have to have it on for a while. Like I have to look at it for a couple of days. Like, does this resonate with me? So that's how it started this way before TV, way before any of this. And, um, When I got on TV, when I got on Food Network, they were going to send me my first paycheck.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, and the thing is, especially people that don't understand TV, so when I started Triple D, I just treated my fellow chefs, restaurant owners, like we were in the kitchen. Have fun. I tell them all the time, I want you to say whatever you want to say. If you want to drop 50 F-bombs, if you cut yourself, if you drop a thing on the floor, if you shit, God damn, if it's not right, don't worry.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
We'll stop. We'll fix it. We'll go forward. But I'm never going to make you look bad. I promise you that. I'll never make you look bad. You'll look great. Sometimes we stop. I go, hold up. Let's hold up. Let's hold up. What do you drink? Jack, can we get him a shot of Jack, please? You know, he'll sit there and shoot the shit about his favorite team or talk about it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I always start talking about people's family right off the bat. Talk about family kind of puts people on the same playing field. Hmm. Not a game. It's just a reality.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
There's so many stories, so many... We've done, like, almost 1,600 locations. And it's just...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
mind-blowing to be in the restaurant business and to watch these people what they put into it and how many sacrifices they've made and then how many success stories we hear and it's just it is probably one of the most fulfilling things i've ever done in my life you know it's really i would have been done by now i had it not i mean a matter of fact when we first started the show i thought oh this would be fun to do for a couple years i'll probably run out of places
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
We're shooting right now. We're shooting in town right now. In Austin? Yeah, we just shot this morning. Where'd you shoot? Shot a place called the Bolden Creek Cafe. Vegan joint. And I shouldn't even say it like that. I should just say Bolden Creek Cafe, an awesome restaurant. No, you should say vegan. You should let everybody know. But here's the thing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
I think when I say vegan, people are like, oh, so you kind of got to give them their shot.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's so good. I'd just go eat there as it is. And that's what I – when I interview people at vegan restaurants or vegetarian restaurants, I'll say, do your non-vegan vegetarian friends come here? Or I'll ask people. Usually 50 percent of them that I'm talking to aren't vegan. They just go there because the food is great.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
You wouldn't believe how much I made that first episode. It was huge money, $1,250 an episode. You know when you get started. And I wasn't playing on TV. But anyhow, I came back and I had all my buddies around my table. My house was kind of like a soup kitchen. All my buddies come by and someone will bring crabs, someone will bring some steak, whatever. And so I'm sitting there with all my buddies.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I want to eat great food. I want to eat food that's prepared correctly. So it's kind of like saying, I didn't mean to throw the vegan thing on it because really what it is, it's about great restaurants with really great people that own it or people that have a good story and then people that want to talk about what the food, they talk about what they do.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
She's vegan. And she had a coffee shop, started with a coffee shop and then was doing a little bit of food on the side and then just continued to grow and make it bigger and bigger. So funny, I drive up and they got a big neon that says, caffeine dealer. That's my kind of energy. That's my kind of smart ass. You got to have fun with yourself. You got to laugh about this shit.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And just great character. I'm actually probably getting my ass kicked from the network right now going through telling about this ahead of time. But, no, there's great – like I haven't been to Austin in a few years shooting Triple D. But I'll come back to a city and new places have popped up or we start to find out more about them. Have you been to Travis Barker's place?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's the thing about it is people have this stereotype about vegan food. For a good reason. You and I like – listen, you and I like wild game. You and I like meat and so forth. But if you really look about it, you're – Well, there's just enough vegan people that are really annoying. Yeah.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, and especially when they start – here's the thing. Proselytizing. Yeah. Don't push yourself into somebody else's lane. Do what you want to do and do what you love. But don't go and – I'm not into preaching. I'm not into trying to change – have your opinion, have your attitude, have your energy.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I think that happens in a lot of different sections. I mean, there's people about heavy metal. You don't like heavy metal. You're an idiot. Exactly.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, I get it. Well, I'll tell you a funny story. I was running restaurants down in Long Beach. And then I was in Redondo Beach. And I'm running a little restaurant down there called Louisa's. Tiny little pasta joint. Pizza and pasta. And there was a bunch of them in L.A. at the time. And then I eventually became the district manager for them. And I was young. I was very young in my career.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2323 - Guy Fieri
But Boyce Gracie used to come in. The Gracie family was right down the street in Redondo Beach. And I remember somehow through a manager, through one of the guys, we got –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
tv like my other business because my restaurant business had a business partner and i didn't want the checks to come to the business so i said what do you what do you think my one buddy dirty says my nickname is guido he says how about you make us something to eat and that'll give us like some food for knowledge and then uh and i said you know and i'm serious i want to come up with a name for the company i gotta get this i gotta get my 1200 check sent to me and i go hey dirty how about i give you a knuckle sandwich and he goes that'll be a good name
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
a UFC videotape VHS someone had I don't know what it was I'd never seen it I hadn't even heard of it and that was the first time that we ever came aware to you know this and then uh who was it Tank Abbott was down in Huntington Beach and we used to go down I used to live by Huntington so we used to go down there and the Tank Abbott thing and the T-door thing you know this whole thing
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But you know, I mean, you're so ingrained in it. You're such a massive part of it that, you know, if anybody wants to start getting on a high horse about stuff, I'm like... As soon as you know enough about it and as soon as you have a platform that you really can say something, then speak your piece. But don't shove it down people's throat. I mean I'm just not – you can do about anything.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. I just choose not to listen to annoying people. I just tune it out. I don't have fucking time for it. I really don't have time for it. I mean, there's so much else going on in my life and so much else going on in this world. I think why don't we start focusing all the good shit we can do? We can do so much great shit. If everybody would pivot themselves 10%,
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
and just go and look at it and say, okay, take everything you love and then go do that more. And be worried less about what somebody's saying about you or what's going on on social media or whatever this other shit may be. Just go do something positive. This is social media contagion. It's a problem. It's a real problem. When will it break is the question.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Like when will it stop being the center of shit? When people just start looking and go, okay, we're done. We've had enough of it. It's run its course. It's been poisonous enough. I mean there's positive things to it. Don't get me wrong. I think there's some really good information that you can get from it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But the negative side of it, just because you have a – I always say to these young chefs that are on my shows, I'm like, oh, yeah, somebody wrote about me. And I'm like, A, quit reading about yourself. B, look at the source. Now, if I come up to you and I tell you that your food sucks, or I tell you that you're doing something that's wrong, you know, we're friends.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You can maybe take my opinion with some credit. But the jerk-off that's writing about you in his mom's basement eating Cheetos in his underwear, you know, clucking away, telling you how much you suck. So do you really care what that guy thinks?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, it's what media used – I mean it still is. You don't hear the front page of the paper talking about all the good that somebody does and all the money they've raised or all the benefit they've given or all the experiences they've offered. What you hear about is the – The death.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And how much can we spit, regardless if it's true or not? I mean, that's, what's been killing me is all of the truth, non-truth. Where is the, like, where's the medium? Like who's the governing body? Like, is anybody going to hold anybody's feet to the fire on this? And could there not, I wish there could be a punishment.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's it? That was it. And it was originally that. It was originally a sandwich with a ring on it and a sandwich made out of money, and that was Knuckle Sandwich. And then it just kind of all evolved from there. So all my companies go under the brand of Knuckle Sandwich, but I never put a product of wine or tequila or anything I ever did.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
No, it's poisonous, and it poisons the culture. Unfortunately, we're moving away from it, but there still is. Are we? Well, I think there's a mass group that is still buying into it and being the sheep and going along with it. You're not following it. I'm not following it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But I hope – and again, I don't have any prescription to it. I follow the same mantra you're saying. Quit tuning in. Quit paying attention. Quit passing it along. Quit reading the bullshit. You don't know if it's true or not. Just talk about what you know and talk about what you believe and be who you are and quit trying to – just keep – quit negative shit. Just keep it out of your mouth.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I hate when they say Twitter, X, fully known as Twitter. Okay, it's been two years, three years.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard they're amazing. My buddy has one.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And we started making these cigars, and this guy that I'm partners with is such a guru, a guy named Eric Espinosa. And... We sat there and talked about it, and I have another brand called Flavortown. Flavortown's too whimsical and too, you know, it's got to be something. I didn't want to call it Guy Fieri. I didn't want to have my name on it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Because if you look at those- I've heard a lot of reasons they've stopped. More EPA issues.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
My favorite movie is that Buddy Holly movie. Oh, yeah? With Gary Busey. Remember that? Buddy Holly and the Crickets and Gary Busey. Oh, it was great. That was a great flick. No, I brought the Triple D Camaro. I drove it over yesterday. What is the Triple D Camaro? 68 Camaro. Oh, nice. It's a 68 Camaro on an LT4. It's basically a 2022 Corvette with a 68 body on it. Oh, okay.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't want to do stuff that, like, buy this because it's my name. I just wanted to do something, you know, and we all thought about it. We said, cigars are that good, and he's such a badass. It's called Knuckle Sandwich.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
No, I took an old 68. Here it is. Oh, nice. That's me driving it out, too. So we just made that car. I made two of them. No, that's not the picture of that. But it is that car. So we made two of them. I had that one for the longest time. So you put a different chassis in it and everything?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Detroit Racing's chassis. Oh, okay. Great. But it's just a monster. LT4, Tremec 5-speed. But my boys were sitting there.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Those are stupid. Well, it's so funny to think. I have a Trans Am, a bandit car. And it's great, and I love it, and it's a great car. And you drive it, and it's so nostalgic to drive, and it feels so good, and it doesn't rattle and all that. But, boy, my assistant's Camry can probably take it from the line.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. You go on and you can – I fell for the Scarface 2 movie. Yeah. Oh, did you? Yeah, there was something going on. Maybe I had a couple shots of Santo. I was drinking a little bit. But I was like, Scarface, too. And they did this whole AI thing. And I'm like, no.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
The things we were just having a security discussion the other day about... you know, having so many words of mine on the internet or on TV or whatever, and then someone could put together a whole sentence. And, you know, the security person said, you know, what would you do if they sent a message to your wife and made it sound like you? I travel a lot.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm, you know, so-and-so and, you know, I need such, I'm in Mexico and I need a hundred thousand bucks. I'm locked up. What would you guys do? And I'm like, that's a real thing? No, that is a real thing. They're starting to extort money from people. And granted, they're usually doing it to older people and so forth. But it's a real – this AI threat is a real thing.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Not no shit. You didn't mean Steve Jobs. No shit. No shit on both of them.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. That was the first one I ever saw. No, it's – and we're just on the cusp of it. I think it's even deeper and more convoluted, more screwed up than we know. But it's going to become something we're going to have to face because they're just – They're so far ahead of our legislation that's even interested in trying to control it. I don't even think they know what to control. It's scary shit.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Okay. Okay. We're a little bit of the same age. Do you not trip out that Dick Tracy had a square watch that looked like an Apple watch?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Okay. So did we – all right. This is like we should be drinking or something should be going on. What happened? Did Apple just – did we influence enough Apple people that they just decided to make it a square watch and make it look like Dick Tracy's watch?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Or did the Dick Tracy thing – did we already make the watch and did somebody go back and – I mean do you ever sit there and trip on shit like that? I definitely don't.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So, okay, we'll go back to Matrix then. Because I think of the Matrix things all the time. Like, how... How real, how possible is that? We used to watch that cartoon. There was a movie my kid watched when he was little about the people that all went and lived. It wasn't too long. It was maybe 10, 15 years ago.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
About the people all lived in a spaceship and the little robot and the plant grew and everybody was heavyset. Nobody walked. They were all in space. What was it called? Was it WALL-E? About the little robot thing? Oh, the movie, yeah.
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And you sit there and look at that stuff and you're like, wow.
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Okay, so you didn't buy my Dick Tracy idea, but I think that the other stuff is, I don't know.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't know. She was really it, right? Yeah, and that was PBS. That was PBS. That wasn't people really blowing it up. I mean, I watched it because I loved it. I was in love with food at a young age. I mean, I just was – one, because I didn't really experience and like exactly what my parents are feeding me. My parents are really good cooks. They weren't in the cooking business, but –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. Essentially what The Matrix was. Similar. But that's that same thing I was saying about Dick Tracy Watch. When – Where did that come from? The Chasey watch seems kind of obvious.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Most watches were round, then all of a sudden it became a square. I don't know. Anyhow, not to get stuck on that.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's sci-fi. Look, it's a square. Like, look at the Jetsons. But I go back to the thing with the... Somebody... I mean, you were talking about people doing drugs and designing cars. Who sat around and said, okay, let's make up this movie where... Where you take the pill and you're in the system, you're out of the system. We're plugging in the back of the head. You grow energy.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You are the energy source now. Like we use cows for grinding grain. Are we going to become that and so forth? Do you think about that? What was that, Matrix 20 years ago, 25 years ago? At least. That's pretty advanced.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
What we know about AI we can look at and go, makes sense. March 31st, 99.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But yeah, this whole food thing, before I got on Food Network, I had never watched the Food Network. And not because I don't believe in it. I mean, food's my epicenter of what I do. But the last thing I was going to do, working seven days a week, 12, 13, 15 hours a day in the restaurant. Come home and watch more food. It's going to watch somebody make me, you know, a pot pie.
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And who do you go to for an answer? I mean, it's like there's so many people that are so susceptible to it. And it's just free will. I mean, it's just... It's out there, and people don't even know how to harness it or even understand what they're getting duped into or whatever the case may be. It's like the things that people are putting on the internet, and it lives in perpetuity.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, it's listening to – it depends on your kind of music. But listening to music when somebody is up there riffing a guitar versus somebody making a guitar sound.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm like, I got enough. Plus, I also didn't really have a true understanding of what was going on. Knew who Emeril was. I mean, you couldn't. He's another one.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I think the big thing in food, like one of my positions on it – and I always tell people, you know, like, oh, you're the guy that does that show about deep fried cheeseburgers and pizza. I'm like, no, no, you don't watch the show enough if that's what you think because I'm –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
super opinionated about not opinionated, but I have a real responsibility, I think, to show the profile of food in the world or, you know, in the United States. And we've got to get our shit straight about what we're eating. We're just we can't eat this, this processed food. I mean, processed food is you're not eating it. I mean, we got to
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
eat the basics and eat great food and eat great food made correctly but something that was made a long time ago don't get me wrong there's a place for everything there's a place for fast food there's a place for you know things that are pre-made and so forth but it can't be all of one thing but people need to eat better and you know you being a hunter and myself i talk to people all about it all the time you know this is a reality that if you eat things that are
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I'm not saying genetically modified doesn't have a place, but it can't be all the same stuff. And if we don't watch it, we're going to get ourselves in some deep shit. And we're already in deep shit. Cancer is – where's the heart attack? Where's the stuff that was plaguing us for so many generations? And now this cancer thing, I lost my sister to cancer. I lost my dad to cancer.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I run into more people on a daily basis that are stricken with cancer. And I think food has – the type of food and what's put on the food has a big – big play.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
We just had that conversation the other day. Yeah, we just had that conversation. But Emeril's the OG. I give such – Appreciation and accolades to everybody that did it before me. There were so many people that helped pave the way in one style or another. And some in TV, some literary, some just keeping the energy of the industry alive.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Scary shit, man. You think about the other countries. We don't talk about it a lot in our country, but what they ban in other countries of our products.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And just how they're holding the line. I remember when I lived in France. I lived right outside of Paris in a town called Chantilly. We'd call it Chantilly. Where's that term? Chantilly-lay, Chantilly cream. That comes from. But I remember I was there. I was 16. And... I wrote my parents, and I'm like, food just tastes different here. I mean, I don't care if it's a steak and a potato.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It was crazy. It was good. Everything tasted – and we didn't have – it's funny because we go to school. The lunch that we had at school was the – because I lived in kind of this boarding house. I rented a room from this family and they were terrible cooks. You'd think you'd go to France. Everybody cooked good. But anyhow, I went to high school. I looked forward to lunch at school.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It was the best school lunch in the world. You'd sit at a table like this. They were eight kids and they would come by with a cart and they'd put down a hotel pan full of, you know, the whatever vegetable, whatever starch, whatever meat. We'd sit there and we had all the French bread we could eat. And it was just like I looked forward to it so much. It was such great food. And I just never got it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, and then I got older and started cooking and I kind of went, oh, really? So that funny thing was I went back to France. 25, 30 years later, took my oldest son Hunter with me. We did a whole tour through Europe when he graduated high school. I took him to seven countries and 14 cities in 30 days. And we did this whole tour of where food came from.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But I took him back to Chantilly and I went to the grocery store. Because my best friend from school still lived there. And I walked into the grocery store. And what had been a grocery store full of huge aisles of fresh produce and breads and everything you could imagine was now just freezer, freezer, freezer, freezer, freezer, freezer. Really? And I said to Vince, I go, his name is Vincent.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I said, Vincent, what? And he's like, going to be more like Americans. That was his kind of joking. But it had changed so dramatically. I was like, this is like, it was shattering.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Because if you're not from the industry, you don't quite exactly get what it is. But it's a pretty – it's like understanding UFC. You know, the bigger fan you become of something, the more you start looking at it and just going, it is so much more than what you're watching in the ring for the, you know, next 20 minutes.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, and I think that there is circumstances. Not everybody has the same budget and so forth, but I do believe that... The reality of it is education is a big thing. You know, education for people about what to do with real food and how to handle it and so forth. And, you know, I remember home ec was a great class when I was a sophomore in high school. Home ec, I took home ec.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It was, you know, almost all girls. But I was in it because I wanted to, you know, see what the – I didn't want to sew. But I did want to learn how to make a blackberry pie. And I just think those simple fundamentals should still be something that are taught in schools, like just how to make a roasted chicken. Give them six months of roasting chicken. How do you cook a potato?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Just the basics because there's a lot of people that – my son included, my son Ryder. We did a crash course. I always made him cook with me in the kitchen, but it was usually begrudgingly – He'd make things that he'd like to make pizza. Let's make pizza. Tacos. But even that little thing like how to sear a steak, what's done, what's not done, what's overseen, those things. We're missing that.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But it goes hand in hand because when you start thinking about this cancer thing – And how devastating it is. I'm like, we can't really solve this? And then you listen to some other sides that will say, big business. You don't make money securing people. It's one and done. It's over. I don't know. It weirds me out. But I think that we have...
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's really deep and there's so much more and there's so much – it's not just lifestyle. It's attitude. It's energy. It's connectivity. It's family. It's community. It's all that kind of stuff. Yeah.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You just got such a massive platform, and you heard my little pitch there at the beginning of Food Network, real food for real people. I'm not saying these restaurants I shoot on Triple D should go eat every single day because not every one of them is always the healthiest situation. I think you need to have a good balance between things, but it's okay to have indulgence.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's okay to have your pizza experience, but we just need to get back to some – balance of it because we're imbalanced is my feeling.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Moderation is my favorite thing that I talk about. I got into – I don't know, about three or four years ago I got into cold plunge. Thank you, by the way. You're a great advocate and you're a great – you were a great inspiration on it. I started doing it and then everybody would tell me that you're doing it. So I listened to some of the things. I do it in the morning. It's great.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Just like you said, it is – It's a life changer. Some mornings it sucks. I mean, I really have to force myself.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm going into this. This is bullshit. Okay, I'll just get through five minutes and I'm good. I'll just listen to Paul Harvey. I listen to Paul Harvey in the morning. That's my favorite. Really?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Why Paul Harvey? The rest of the story. Why Paul Harvey? Because I love history. And I love to learn the little nuances of how things came about. And it was something that reminds me of my childhood. You know, we'd listen to it in shop class when I was in high school. And it was always that quick little in-between break. You know, they were syndicated. Pretty, I don't know, interesting guy.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
There's a whole bunch out there. Oh, he was great. I listen to music, too. I have my set of music that I listen to that I know this is I'm going to do a 10-minute plunge or 12-minute plunge, depending on the song, and if I can keep myself out of it. Because as soon as I start worrying about it, just thinking I'm cold. But I don't do it at your temperature. You do it crazy temperature.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's just cold. It's just cold. It's no different. I was telling your buddies earlier. So I have friends that will come and do it. I started with my cold punch. I started with a watering trough and put ice in it. So that was the way I started. You know, you get that little thermal barrier around you. It's awesome. Yeah. Okay. And then you have to, you know, you got to move or something. Okay.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You move. Now you're cool. Then I went to a freezer and built one out of a freezer.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, Big Westinghouse or whatever it was. Freezer, a little filter in it, had a little thermostat. You'd plug the freezer into the thermostat and then the thermostat into the wall, and then you'd put a little temperature in there, and it would regulate itself so it didn't turn into a block of ice.
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But every time I got in, I had to unplug it because they're not UL rated for humans to be in them, you know, with the water. Right, right. So then a buddy of mine, this guy Jamie Weeks, sent me one from Sweathouse, his company. And then I got in real cold punch. Well, that water circulates.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, there's no barrier. Yeah. No, this one is called Plunge. They're out of Sacramento. These guys, great tub.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I push people on this. And so they'll get – I was telling you guys. So a buddy would come over and – I'm not doing it. Just do one minute. If you do one minute, I'll get off it. I'll quit busting your balls about it, about you being – Okay, get in there. So then I'll start talking to them. Okay, I got a timer going. And they'll go, okay, talk about this. And I'll freeze my ass off.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Okay, give me your favorite song. Which favorite song? Then I'll look the song up, take my time. Hank Williams, Country Boy Can't Survive. Okay, okay. Ready? I'm going to play it for you. You're doing good. You got like 30 more seconds. It's already been two minutes. Play Country Boy Can't Survive. Okay. How many of the words do you know to this song? All right.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Besides the hook, what do you know of the song? Okay. You know, I'll sit there and just mess with them. They'll go four minutes. And I'll say, okay, and stop. They go, that was a minute? Bullshit, that song's over. And I'm like, no, it was like five and a half minutes, you see? It's mental. It is mental.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I fucking love it. Yeah. I love ridiculousness. I went on there. To me, Dyrdek's comments are the funniest. Stilo Brim, all those guys, they've cracked me up. And, you know, except for having to fight through a commercial here and there, because that'll remind you that you're still on the elliptical.
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That motherfucker's the shit. That thing is the shit. And is that the tensioner in the front?
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Now can you do just one or two, or do you house the plate?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So addictive. I find the more I stay away from them, the less addicted I am to them. Oh, for sure. And then as soon as I have them, I find myself gravitating back into, you know.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And there's something about walking into a deli. In Rhode Island, in New York, whatever. It just smells different. The floor creaks. They're fresh cut in the slices.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
The meatballs taste different. Yeah. No, the whole thing. So Federal Hill in Rhode Island is a real famous Italian place. I've shot shows up there a couple times, but it's not too far from where my wife's family lived.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I just remember going up there and going to the delis and getting those cherry pepper stuff with prosciutto and provolone and just, you know, I'll take six of them and I'll take 18 to go. I would always bring them all back to California. Just can't find anything like it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But the question I have about that, that's what people ask me all the time. When I first started Triple D, you could only get true Tex-Mex or great Mexican food really in this Texas, Arizona, Nevada, California, down in this pocket. But I will say that now I'm starting to find, because typically it's the people migrating to these different areas.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I went to a Mexican joint on Triple D in Minneapolis. And it's a Mexican market, canisteria, it's the whole thing. And it was better than 85% of the joints that I've tried in these regions I was just talking about. So I'm starting to find this better cross-pollination of foods in different regions.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
This is about the most whacked story in the world. So, all right, so never graduated high school. dropped out of high school when I was 16, went to France, was an exchange student. I'm going to give you a little bit more of the backstory than you probably want, but I'll kind of give you the quick version.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, exactly. But you've got to have the market. See, the market is the key because who are they going to sell it to if people don't get it? Because a fatty brisket from Cat's Deli is just a different – you've got to have the mindset. I've taken people there so many times. I'm like, it's this much meat and there's little pieces of bread and I'm eating meat the whole time.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm like, yeah, it's part of the idea. Shut the fuck up. I got a good one for you too. You ruined it for me. First time I went to Cat's Deli. So I'm in there filming Food Network Star. I had a day off. My buddy lived in New York. The guy that was on the show with me. He said, I'm going to take you to Cat's Tele.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Do they have any fucking sandwiches? No, I wish they did. So I thought I was going to bring you food today when I went and did the thing. And I'm like, nah, I'm not taking Joe the vegan food. I'm not going to take this. Yeah, please don't do that. I'm not going to take the beating.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And they're such good dudes. Great guys. And I'll eat more snacks over the counter by the time I get to my sandwich. Yeah, they give you a little piece.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So if people haven't been to Katz, when you go into Katz, you know, but I'm telling you.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. You ought to pay in cash. Okay. So they give you the ticket. So don't take credit cards. You better have cash. So you pass the ticket over the counter. They mark off what they gave you. So then you take a ticket and you sit down and you eat your food. And then when you leave, you go out and you check out with your ticket. So my buddy and I go and I order up. We order up all the stuff.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm paying. So we put it all on my ticket. So we had a bunch of sandwiches, a bunch of beers. So we're leaving, and I turn my ticket in, and I pay my bill. And they look at my buddy, and they say, where's your ticket? And he goes, I didn't get anything. I put it on his ticket. I said, no, no, no. You've got to turn your ticket in.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And it says right there, lost ticket, $300 or whatever the ticket would be worth if it was all checked off. Right. And I'm like – but he didn't have anything. It's all – you can see it. And they're like, you got to have your ticket or you pay – and I'm like, what the – I mean, I've never been to a place like this. So we go back over to the table where he'd been sitting.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So when I came back from France, I was supposed to go to my senior year in high school, and I wasn't really super interested in going back to high school. I just lived in France in a boarding house and went to high school and I didn't even speak French, but my parents were really open-minded and I'd saved my money.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, they'd already turned the table and it's all gone and done. And now there's four big construction dudes sitting there, huge, in the yellow vest, hard hats on, total New Yorkers. My buddy wasn't from New York. And he goes – And we're like, excuse me, fine sirs. Hello. You know, and I don't have, you know, again, still in the same yellow jacket, bleached hair.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And my buddy's standing there and he's from like Iowa. You guys see a ticket and like, what the you want? Like, get out of here. You're interrupting their meal. Yeah, exactly what we're doing there on a lunch break. We're looking for a ticket, and my buddy happens to see the ticket on the floor underneath the biggest guy's boot, like halfway. He's like, ticket's right there.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm like, I'm not getting the ticket. You're the dumbass who lost the ticket. Get the ticket. So I think we had to buy the guy. We had to buy him something or pay the tip or whatever for the guy to move his boot, and we got the ticket. Oh, God. It was a tumultuous experience. I go with people now, and I'm like, take the ticket, put it in your wallet right now.
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And the nicest people. The nicest people. And characters in that place, man.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Ah. So I love the thing they have on there. You see that one back wall. Send a salami to a – To a sailor. To a sailor. Yeah. That whole campaign that was going on still is something that needs to be done.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And they said, if you can pass a year of French at the junior college at 16 and you can pass the class and you can figure it out, I guess. So I went and lived in a boarding house and went to high school, came back my senior year. I just was not interested in going back to high school. So I went to junior college.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, and they're not always the cleanest, and the counters are worn out and the whole thing. Exactly.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You ever been to DeFaro's over in Brooklyn? No. Pizza? No. Old guy there cuts the basil with scissors. Oh, yeah. I remember standing there and just looking at the pizza come out. And it doesn't look like, I mean, it's just next level pizza. You've been to Rayo's? No, where's that? Raos is in Harlem. It's an Italian joint. How do you spell it? R-A-O-S. Okay. And it is the old school.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Wow. And I tell you. So you tell me when you're in New York next and I'll call my Uncle Bo. What street is it on? I don't know. Click on New York.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
The floor's all slanted. Like if you're sitting at the wrong part of the table, you're sitting having dinner kind of cockeyed like this. Everybody's on top of each other. It's all family. It's... It's an experience. Wow. But that's what you talk about. Because then I went to Rao's in Vegas when they put one in Caesars.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Same pictures on the wall, same all that stuff, but it just didn't have – it was good, but it just wasn't that Rao's.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't even eat the sides. I'm not. I mean, everybody else can order some.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Finished junior college, went to UNLV, got my degree, graduated a little bit early and went and ran restaurants for other people. And then, and I was 26, moved back to the wine country up to Northern California where I'm from, opened my first restaurant. Had a bunch of restaurants with a buddy. Things were great. Did exactly what I wanted to do. Wanted to be, you know, have a great wife.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Where's that? He's got them in Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati. Jeff Ruby's a character amongst characters. If you ever get a chance to go to one of his steakhouses, this guy, they crush steak. I mean, it's some of my favorite steak in the country. I was just at the Derby, and I was at his place eating steak and took Taylor Sheridan there, and they were pretty shit.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
He is. He walks the talk. There's no bullshit about that.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
He helped me with the fundraiser. We do. So I do a lot of philanthropy. That's my, you know, being a dad is my biggest job, my biggest responsibility. Husband, restaurateur, chef. But my end game is my philanthropy. Philanthropy to me, I mean, I have so much opportunity and there's so many good things coming my way. I try to divert as much of that towards doing it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So my philanthropy is about first responders. First responders, active military and veterans. But now that I have this program going where we can do things to raise money, and it's not just raise money, it's raise the money and then do things with it. Like when the fires happened in L.A., we went down with our team with a big rescue trailer that's 50 feet long.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
We can feed about 5,000 a day out of it. And I have a bunch of chef buddies, and so they all come and help, and we just pump out food for first responders. But I was doing—we had the fires in Maui and devastation. And I know the fire feeling because I was up there in Northern California in Sonoma County when we had our bad fires. And so we raised money. So I got 40 chefs together.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
We were all in town doing, I do a show called Tournament of Champions. They were in town for the tournament. And we put on a dinner for 150 people. So I called Taylor and said, hey, I'm doing this event. You want to come up? And he says, only if I get to cook. We're going to cook together. So we brought up all these four sixes, these tomahawk chops the size of a manhole cover. And we cooked.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I really appreciate the invite. My pleasure. This is... This is a long time coming. I've been waiting for this. Oh, yeah. I mean, especially all the influence you've had and things you've done. And I know the funny side of you. I know the UFC side of you. But watching the podcast and seeing all the characters, and I was just watching the Bill Murray interview the other day.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And so we sat there and we raised money. And we did all these different things like go to four sixes ranch. You can go have a culinary experience with Guy, blah, blah, blah, blah. And in one night, We raised $1.7 million with 150 people in the room.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And a big part of that was Taylor. I think three of the biggest packages sold were for over $100,000 to go down to his ranch. No, actually, it was to go up to Montana to Yellowstone to see the filming. Oh, wow. He's just that kind of dude, man. That dude, everybody, he gives everybody the time. I mean, we were just at the Derby walking around together. Just class act. Just love that guy.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, he's legit. And what the fuck? The shows he's making?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Oh, and he's the coolest. He's the best. I said to him, I go... Did you write that for him? I mean, it couldn't be Billy Bob any goddamn better. The one-liners are the best goddamn thing. I can't get enough of it. But I love Kings of, or Kings of, Mayor of Kingstown. That was great. That was another one. Remember the starting, the first episode? You didn't see that shit coming. Right.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Wanted to be a great dad. Wanted to have my own restaurant. That's all I wanted. Not that I was short-sighted and stuff, like big, big community person. Wanted to do a lot of, you know, community service and so forth. My parents were that way. So that was it, man. I had like three restaurants, owned a couple hot rods, bought my own house. I was living it, you know.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Right at the beginning, the guy that you thought was going to be the lead, you didn't think it was going to be Jerry. Spoiler alert. If you haven't watched it by now, you're missing it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I was bummed that Yellowstone ended the way it did, though.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Circumstances were fucked up outside of the show circumstances.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
What I read or what I thought I learned was that he had his own project.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So iconic. I know. The ending, I mean, even if you're going to leave, my bummer about it was even if you're going to leave... Well, I would go out better than the situation was. I mean, they did it the way they did it. I'm not discrediting the show by any means. But I'm just saying I just wanted it to be like the way it was from the beginning.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
From which side? Exactly. I'm not coming back? Well, wait until you see how you go. Yeah, exactly. And Taylor is a little bit. I mean, I wouldn't cross him.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
He told me, he says, listen, I know what you're doing up there in Northern California. You've done your fundraiser there a bunch of years. He says, come down and do it at my ranch. He says, I will bring you the people with the money that believe in what you're doing with these first responders. Because when we don't have disasters...
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
We just go do positive energy thank yous to different municipalities. We just did one in Florida, in South Florida. We just bring the trailer in, bring a bunch of chefs in, call up the local sheriff, call up the troopers, call up everybody, bring your families if you want. It's free lunch, time for you to celebrate and be recognized.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You know, we got people walking around the streets that don't understand why our country's free. They don't have any idea what it takes to be a free country. And they don't understand the sacrifice, not just the sacrifices that the actual individual makes, but the sacrifice the family makes. I'm not even talking about the loss of somebody.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
We're talking about just being deployed for seven months and not seeing dad for seven months or seeing your husband or your wife or whatever. And I remember I was on the USS Enterprise. And I was doing a philanthropy event. It was years ago. I was cooking for the sailors. And there were a bunch of Marines on there. It was like 5,200 people. And I'm on the line serving this young sailor.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And she came through and we were kind of talking for a second. And she says, I have four kids. I said, she wasn't very old. I said, how many? She goes, well, I have an eight-month-old baby. Baby's on the ship? She goes, no, baby's not. I said, how could you be away from your child at this age? And she's like, no, it's, you know, I'm deployed.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And a bunch of friends came up to me, actually a kid across the street came to me and said, you watch Food Network? I said, no. He said, we have a show on there called the Food Network Star. You should go on that show. I hadn't even seen Food Network. I saw Rachel Ray one time. I was at a bar. I saw Rachel Ray on screen. And I'm like, that girl's got energy. I mean, listen to her.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I'm like, what a commitment, you know, what a commitment to do. And the kids without. So I think, I mean, my mantra is we're talking about people pushing things on other people about their beliefs or their opinions or their attitudes. And I said, you know, I kind of divert from all of it. And, you know, if you don't want to like something, don't like it. That's your thing. But I am hell bent.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
on what goes on in this country about how we recognize our veterans and our first responders and our active military. We're missing some pieces. We got some people that have made the ultimate commitment, the ultimate sacrifice. It's like the stolen valor shit. Oh, I'll lose my mind on that because that's just crazy. The commitment that it takes, of course.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And so we put so much into putting the soldiers and the sailors and all these military folks into these programs. And then when they come back, I don't think that we put the same amount of commitment. And I think that we've got a lot of people need a lot of help. There's a lot of PTSD. There's a lot of shit going on. Yeah. So my interest is I'm not going to solve that situation.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm not the one that's going to be able to. But at least you could recognize and give them some love. Recognize. Talk about it. We carry challenge coins. I ran into one of your guys as a first responder. Also didn't know that he served our country in the military.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Please, when you see somebody in uniform, if you see somebody with a Vietnam vet hat, you see somebody that's in, you know, just take a moment. Just say thank you. Thank you goes so far. And people think, oh, there's nothing I can do. No, it means a shit ton to people. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't mean to get on my rant, but that's one of my hardcore issues.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But we're going to have a march, and we'd like you to be there to keep people from throwing shit at us. Yeah. What? Isn't that crazy? It's a defund the police march, but we need the police. We need you, so the people that are— So when we had the fires in Northern California, I was watching a lot of—we're there feeding them. Actually, we're up in Paradise. It was a devastating fire.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That was a crazy fire. Joe, I drove through it. I don't know what the surface of the moon looks like, but I can tell you it was as close to it because there was nothing standing. There was nothing there. The only thing that didn't burn down was the fire station. I mean, and not because they've defended it. All those people that got stuck on the road. Stuck. Cars gone. Everything gone. Bombs.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I mean, it was... I don't know the term. But... So I'm standing there and I'm feeding people. And I know for a fact because I had just been inside. I just went to the fire. I went and fed people at the fire station that was the only building standing. And I said, why? Why aren't you guys over here eating? We're serving a bunch of food. Nah, let's stay over here. I said, you guys are fire victims.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And she could talk food. She does no shit. So that was whatever. About six, eight months later, my wife's driving home from the city. She says, hey, I was just listening to the radio station. They had that Food Network star show going on. She goes, you'd be great in that. I go, how do you know? You know, I've seen the show.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Your house is burnt down. Yeah, but, you know, you had all kinds of restaurants feeding people and all this stuff. And I'm watching these guys eat granola bars and eat MREs. And I said, come over and get some food. No, no, no. I said, okay. That's it. Next day, picked up my trailer. We moved. I said, we only feed first responders. Not that I'm not about the fire victims.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I think the fire victims is terrible. But the reality of this, we have a lot of people that we're focusing on the victims and giving them, which they need. But these guys were doing, these men and women weren't going to bed. They were doing 72 hour shifts, sleeping in the back of their patrol car. They drove their patrol car up from Riverside and they're up in Northern California now.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And so that's what I changed, I pivoted my whole foundation was when the disasters go down, we're gonna get there and we're gonna focus on the first responders. We were down in LA for 10 days, we fed 25,000 meals. Now, it's not going to feed everybody, and it's not going to take care of everything, but there is a point of them being recognized or knowing that we recognize them.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I had so many chefs in L.A. that showed up and jumped on the trailer and were cooking food, and we were almost cooking 24 hours. It was just rolling over, and people were so thankful.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But we all can do these things. We can do these things. We can make donations. Okay, maybe you don't have the money. Donate the time. Maybe you don't have the time. Do the positive reinforcement on social media. If you don't have the time, you don't have social media, you don't have the money, you don't have time, just pat somebody on the back and say thanks. I mean, we really can do way more.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And then if I do something, if I do something, I'm not going to get supported. Right. You know, because I'm going to get persecuted. Right.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
She goes, no, they're just talking about it, like, you know, the culinary challenges and all the things. And then if you do it, you win a show. what do I want a show for? You know, doing what? I've not been on TV. I made my own TV commercials for my restaurant. That was the only thing I ever did that was TV.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Every one of them. You go pull a buddy of mine who's a fireman, and I didn't really understand. I didn't think about it until he brought it up to me one day, and he said... His name's Jay LeVar, and Jay said, you know, you go pull kids out of a car. You go face side, and then you go home to your kids. Right. That's horrible. That'll just wreck you. But, you know, like I said...
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm so interested in what we can do. And we have so much. We're the greatest country in the world. We're finally riding the ship. We're getting into a better space. But gosh, let's start focusing on it. Let's start focusing on the fundamentals that made us the ass kicking, name taking center that made us the best. And we have to start ingrained. We have to start teaching that.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I was just talking about I just did a podcast for the Dale Carnegie Institute. And that was a book that changed my life when I was young, when I was – Thank you, Bro Rich. No, what is it? How to Win Friends and Influence People. How to Win Friends, yeah.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And it talks really about just human nature, about how you treat people and treat people the way you want to be treated and think before you act and think before you speak or before you light somebody up on a text. And I was going through this and I said, you know, this is like a course that should be taught – at freshman high school. Absolutely.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And we should teach civility and we should teach respect and responsibility. Back your mouth up. Don't go popping off. And do these things the way we grew up. I mean, I'm not saying that violence is the answer, but you definitely didn't have people running their mouth like they do now because there was hell to pay at three o'clock. You know, that kind of stuff.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So I think that we need to get involved in teaching our young America that they have a voice. They have an opinion. They're very worthwhile. And let's just do it the right way. But I think that Dale Carnegie Institute, that How to Win Funds, I didn't know how many things. They do it worldwide. And I just think – I was just telling my sons about it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I said you can all expect that you're going to be going to one of these programs or doing one of these courses. I made them all read the book.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
The number one. Critical thinking to me is, I mean, even say the term to somebody, critical thinking, and they'll look at you and go, but they don't know what it means. Critical thinking is solving situations, is evaluating the environment and and coming up with with calculating. It's not taking a risk. It's taking a calculated risk. There's just so many of those types of things.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
My dad was a huge critical thing. I mean, he was. So we had a rule when I was a kid, Joe would be driving down the road and my dad would say, what are you thinking? You're quiet over there. What are you thinking? One thing I was not allowed to say was nothing. He'd say, God, full of shit. What do you think? I mean, what are you thinking?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I wouldn't say it wasn't appealing. It just wasn't in my scope. Right. It wasn't in your plans. It wasn't like something I was seeking. We had talked about it. There had been many people that had come to me before and said, like my buddy that was the marketing manager for Flowmaster. Remember Flowmasters? The mufflers?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm saying, well, it's all grass, but under the telephone pole, there's no grass. And then we would spend the next goddamn hour talking about why there's no grass under the telephone pole. And why is there no grass under the telephone pole? Fire, you know, the ability to get to the poles. They have to be able to drive to them.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So you look at it because like you go to the wine country, you know, you look at all these mountains that have all these telephone poles going. If you find roads on top of mountains and so forth, it's usually fire break or access to the telephone poles. Um, but we would do this critical thinking thing. And it was so funny.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Um, my, my young, my nephew, my sister was dying of cancer and I took him away for the day and we're driving around in a Corvette and we're at the stoplight, manual Corvette and sitting there talking to him and Jules, Jules is about nine. And he says, you know, wait, he says, I really like talking to you. He says, you're fun to talk to. He says, it's a little bit different than talking to Jams.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Jams was my dad. He says, uh, I said, what do you mean Jules? And he says, well, you know, You know, sometimes when I ask champs, you know, like, what time is it? You know, I just want to know what time it is. I don't want to know how the clock is made. I slipped a clutch, man. The car burned down.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't want to know how the clock is. Because that was my dad, man. You'd ask him a question. I'd go, what time is it? Would you understand the difference between the analog? You got a digital. Me and my dad would go into this. He was a submariner during Vietnam. He was a piece of work. Oh, really? Yeah. I lost him right around my birthday a year and a half ago of pancreatic cancer.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I think that like I didn't until you're in that club, the club sucks. But when you meet somebody that is in the fight, the fight for their life, give them a hug. Give them a smile. Give them encouragement. And if they have battled and they have won, recognize them as a warrior, as a survivor, especially breast cancer and all these horrible cancers that people are stricken with.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
We need to have more empathy, more understanding. And I'll tell you, one of the greatest groups of people in the whole world, hospice. you, I don't know how much you know about them and what it is, but it is, if you don't have, if you don't understand what hospice does, they are, they're earth angels.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
They're people that come in when you're battling this, you're watching a loved one die and they come in and they're the people that help you with the meds and help you with the caregiving and help you. And they're just these incredible, and you don't even know them. And they, they come into your life and they leave your life once the cancer's But they stay.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You'll meet them on the street again or you'll see something. But hospice is one of the greatest programs we have in this country. I don't know if it's worldwide, but it is. Hopefully you don't ever need to know it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I've never been on a podcast where you can cuss. Really? I haven't been on many podcasts.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah, sure. So he came to me and said, you should do a hot rod show. You love hot rods. Let's do a hot rod show. I mean, I know enough to be dangerous, you know, about hot rods. I mean, I know just enough to get into the conversation where I bury myself. And so that was that. And so anyhow, the show, they say make a three-minute pitch. So all my buddies are like, you know, got to make the pitch.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't know. Listen, I come from the Food Network. We don't do a lot of cussing on the Food Network. But you get me all fired. I got fired up on my own about this shit.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I've asked them forever, could we please bleep just the show once in a while? They say no? Because sometimes I'll eat a dish. People say, I watch your show. They say no? You can't? Yeah, it's not really, it doesn't really get, it hasn't made it too bad. Fuck out of here. But it doesn't matter. It does.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It is authenticity, and it is the spike. It is the hammer. This dish is so fucking good.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's real. Like Cat's Deli. Maybe you're going to inspire me to push this button.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Because they can't get. Remember when we had a Playboy hidden? Kids now?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. Good family fun. Come on over for Friday pizza night. Yeah. Remember when you're a kid, they'll get in the VHS. You'd go, you know, ours, we'd have to go get at the liquor store, little town, you know, or you'd go all the way across the bridge and go get it. And you'd put your, you know, name down for the reservation to get it.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And you'll get faces of death and your friends would all come over and.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, Chris Hansen, you ever seen his Catch the Predator? Yes. So I love when they give the recap. You know, I guess that show stopped and now he's doing it on his own or whatever the case is and they give the recap. Yeah. And thank God he was doing that stuff. I know.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Got to do the thing. Got to do the thing. Got to do the thing. And I avoided it any way I could. And to the point where it had expired, like the entry time had expired. So... My buddy named Mustard, we were on a barbecue team together. We did competition barbecue and all kinds of crazy shit. And he says, did you ever send that demo tape into the Food Network? And I said, no.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
How about getting called to play that guy in a movie? Oh, you can't. That would suck because it's that guy right there must be playing the guy in the movie.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Jimmy Coogan. Jimmy Coogan. I feel bad for Jimmy because he looks like.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Look what happened to the poor Boy Scouts. I mean, I didn't make it to Eagle Scouting and that stuff, but it was Boy Scout. Learned some great stuff. Not any idea that stuff was going on. I don't think anything happened in my troop. I never heard about it. But that's exactly what you're saying.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
These guys would just go find their avenue, what's going to get me close to them, and then we're going to start doing it. So where is the... Remember, who was the guy that shot the predator, the karate coach that took his kid and he waited at the airport?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
What a great way to fuck up a great program. You get these people that get in there and do that stuff and kids are so – I mean you have kids.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I just missed that window. And he goes, good, I thought you were going to say that. He says, because they opened it back up. There's another week. He says, let's go make that. I'm like, I don't want to do this. And he's like, don't be, you know, you always push every, you know, this is the truth. Because I push all my friends and like, open your own business. Go on that vacation. Have kids.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Well, what freaks me out is the people sitting in the courtroom listening to it. Right. And there's a wide spectrum of people that are getting subjected to it, and you just sit there and go, yeah, well, not only that, how about the fact that this guy was running this for decades?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's a really great way to say it because if you denounce – okay, so you say there's no devil.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You know, I'm always the one that's kind of, you know, go live your best life. And so I kind of had to walk my talk. The last thing I wanted to do, Joe, honestly, is go on TV. Because I never went to culinary school. I've just been cooking through my career and what I did as a passion and living in France.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
So then you're somewhat saying that there's no evil, but you're not branding evil with some type of identifying factor. Then you kind of glaze over it a little bit. I think that's what I'm hearing you're saying. And I agree with it because it gets a little too… I think people want tangibility. I think people like to be able to understand things and see it for real and so forth.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But when you start just talking about root evil, when you start looking at things – like I went to the Oklahoma bombing memorial. When you look at shit like that, you think about the hate on this country and the 9-11. And you think – or you just take it down to the Boy Scout troop leader. Or you take it to the – you take it to whatever. There is a common – there's a common denominator there.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And that is just what you call it, evil. So call it devil. Don't call it devil. But call it evil. The evilness is just – and not being aware of it or not –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Down there burning out. Outrageous. Get away. Yeah, so how do you – so where do you – so how do you – boy, this goes in a lot of goddamn – this goes down some rabbit holes.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Life is a lot of rabbit holes. But see, to me, this is when we talk about critical thinking. This is the stuff that when you really sit down and you have some conversations besides arguing whose team is better. You know, this is the type of stuff that you really have to get into some perspective. You can learn a lot.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
If you're willing to talk about things and you're willing to open up and you're willing to be wrong. It's one of the things I'm always into is don't go into something with a predisposed opinion about it and be so hell bent on it's your way. Because you might really get your mind changed or you might really learn something about it. But as soon as you lock down on it's this way, you know.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I was a very anti not anti preaching, but anti. So my mom believes that my wife does. Wasn't my cup of tea. Not saying bad, just wasn't my cup of tea. My sister died real close with my sister. And I kept getting this weird feeling. I mean, my wife's not telling me to go. My mom's not telling me to go. No one's saying a thing to me. Then this hawk is a representation of my sister.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I'm driving my big RV cross country with my family. Every year we do a big, huge road trip with the family. This hawk flies outside of my window. Five minutes. No shit. It was a real five minutes. Flew along the freeway with me as fast as I was going. Dirt road. So I asked my mom, who's the lady to call. So I went and had this thing. Didn't know me very well. Didn't know much about me.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I had the most mind-blowing experience, like mind-blowing. And I had to really sit there. I had to go back to my wife and my mom and say, okay, there's something out there that's going on that's going – that's bigger than us than I can comprehend. And the way I kind of – to make sense of it for myself because I have to make sense of it is if you're a baby laying in a bassinet –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And you can smell and you can breathe and you can poop and you can eat and you can sleep and giggle. But I can talk to you. I can talk to you, but the baby can't understand me. But there's some transmission of connection, you know, make it giggle.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
At this stage, am I the baby in the bassinet and my sister's trying to talk to me and like, I'm just kind of getting it, but I'm not, but is that possible? The older I get, the more I start to buy into, there's got to be something else. There's no way it can be all this and not be something more. It doesn't vaporize, go away. So the other day, maybe six months ago, I was in the hot tub.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I had my routine of hot sauna, cold plunge, hot tub, infrared. I do all that stuff. But I'm sitting there, and I keep getting this thing. I got to call this medium lady. And I text her, and I said, hey, can I come see you? And she goes, yeah. She goes, your dad's been hitting me up quite a bit. Your dad wants to talk to you.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's a lot that don't, though. I could really be off on that. When I do diners, drive-ins, and dives, 70, 60% don't go. A lot of the mom and pops. And that doesn't mean that they don't learn. I mean, some of the best chefs I know haven't been to culinary school and just are super smart at learning and dig in.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
To get in touch with me, to make... Does she know that your father's dead? She knows my dad's dead. Yeah, she knew my dad's dead. But the point was, and there was more intricacies about it, but she said, yeah, he's been talking about it. She goes, were you just in Mexico? I said, yeah. Should we do something about him in Mexico? Something about an owl?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
There's no way in a million years she would know this. An owl? Yeah, my dad comes back as an owl. That's what he said he was going to be, as an owl.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't know. Isn't that crazy? I don't know. I've never seen it. They're smarter than me. They scare the shit out of me.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
That's great. That's what my dad would talk about. Thanks a lot, Jimmy.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I hung up a stained glass owl where my dad used to sit in our house in Mexico. No way you know that. There's no way. So I don't know. I'm not cheating or preaching. There's something bigger going on there. Have you ever heard of the telepathy tapes? I know people are looking at me going, guy's fucking crazy. But it really is my – there's got to be something else.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
A lot of education, a lot of research, a lot of trial and error, a lot of putting yourself out there. You've got to be willing to fail. I don't really think you'd be a good cook if you're not willing to fail. I mean, if you're just – if you stay in your lane so much longer.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I've had this. Yeah, this thing has been going on. So it was funny because when I said to the medium, I said, I'm here. Where's my sister? She said, oh, she just she doesn't need to talk to you. I said, what the – I just made this whole thing to come here. She said – she talks to you every day. She talks to you all the time because I was raising her kid.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
My parents – he lived with my mom and dad, lived right next door to us. Lori and I have the two boys, Hunter and Ryder, but we're all big family and within the same acre. And I'm – It is happening. I do. I get all these things because I'm thinking about things I'm talking to Jules about and things I'm working with Jules about as a young boy and just all these things.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And a lot of it coming from things I think of my sister. And I don't know. This is way outside of the spectrum of anything I ever talk about. I mean I tell my close friends about it and probably people are watching this now and saying, isn't that guy that does the show about the pizza? Where is he coming off on this talking to his dad, the owl, the non-smart bird?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I just think that you get better chances to think about fighting, you know, think about things you've learned, all the education in martial arts and boxing and all these different perspectives that people take to to be in it. It's usually the one that has a pretty good, you know, narrow focus on something I really, really love. But then having that outside perspective. So for me as a chef.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I believe, well, we've seen the stories about somebody that's autistic and then they can just hear a song and play the piano. Yes. I mean, that's not hocus pocus. That's not fake stuff. This is really, our brains are so much more powerful than, you know, than we, it's like talking to people from, I have a buddy of mine that's from Germany. He speaks four languages.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
He's a pretty smart guy, but he speaks four languages. They all get taught English in school while they get taught German from a young age, from like first grade. So they all, you know, most of them all know how to speak a second language. But once you can learn a language and learn the, you know, how to adapt to languages, you have the opportunity to be more available to learn other languages.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I just look at it and I go, man, to hear those stories talking about Hunter and just all that and all the nostalgia. I mean, it's just pretty – you've got to have your mind blown by now.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I just you sit there and look at it and go, man, do we do we not utilize how much do we use?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I work with a program called Best Buddies. I've never heard of it. Working with intellectually disabled adults and kids. Had a cousin with intellectual disabilities. I just thought everybody had a cousin that was a little different, a little unique. And super major part of our family, Doug.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And so I learned about this program, Best Buddies, and it was started by Anthony Shriver, who's Eunice Shriver's son. Eunice Shriver started the Special Olympics program. And Sergeant Shriver was the star of the SEC. You know, the Shriver, Kennedys, that whole group. Do you know who I'm speaking of? So anyhow, I work with this program.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I work with these intellectually disabled adults and kids called Best Buddies. And when I got involved, it was Tom Brady hosting a celebrity football game at Harvard. And everybody would come and get involved. And the buddies that were athletic would participate. And I was just there because I was invited to go. So I had to do something. So I cooked. I made appetizers for the event. Yeah.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And it was so funny how these buddies would gravitate towards me. And they wanted to cook. You know, food's that common denominator of all people. And so we really have developed the program into this Best Buddies program where we got all the buddies partnering with chefs. And the buddies love to do the repetitive, love to, things that are laid out, organized, and put them together and so forth.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
having the ability to understand Indian food, you know, there's such a depth there that I'll never hit the bottom. You'll never touch all the opportunities that there are. But anyhow, so back to that, I made the demo tape and I made it so ridiculous that there's no way. There's just no way they were going to pick me. What did you do on the demo tape? Do you have it?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But just an amazing group of people and huge hearts and huge energy and huge, never a bad day. Always a smile. Always happy. Always want to give you a hug. You know, there's just so many. But again, when we were talking about things that get glazed over, things that get, you know, you had school, you had the special ed group, and they went off to their space.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And we never really, I think, educated people how to work inside or work with or understand or have the compassion to understand, you know, people with disabilities. And fortunately, I think we're getting better at it. I think our country is our world is starting to.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But, you know, when we can look at that and take that appreciation and see that and not see that as weird, but take that and appreciate it and think and say, wow, yeah, here's somebody that's taking a difficulty or a major difficulty. And doing something with it. And I think that's – we need to be more – we need to open our minds up more to that stuff.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And how much are we not paying attention to? Yeah. How much are we not paying attention to? Like I was just saying, when that now becomes – because we can chronicle it and we can see the video of it and it gets on social media and we can be aware of it. There's the positive side of social media. But there's so many of these buddies like this young lady got up and sang the other day at this event.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And, you know, very non-communicative when you just see her on the thing. But once she got on stage, she just blossomed into this other person. So I think that we're hopefully starting to take some recognition to the fact that there's more potential and it should be recognized.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But then do we have some of these people that we don't call them savants or something? But there are some people that have invented some shit and created some stuff and took some recognition, some awareness to, you know, bacteria is becoming, you know, Louis Pasteur.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I mean, there's some people that have some higher thinking power that you've taken us down some paths that, you know, it's like the computer and all of that. I mean, I can lose – you can lose yourself in it. That somebody was able to – I do it with architecture.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
When I look at a building and you look at these gigantic skyscrapers and I'm happy when I can build a woodshed that's square, you know, that everything lines up correctly. But somebody is going to do this out of steel and cement and glass and all this thing and they just build that and it's perfect. And you just look at that and go – What goes on in their mind?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Because I'll make you a really good pasta dish right now.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's fostering. So what I try to do with when I speak to young kids or classrooms or schools or whatever I do, I say quit chasing the dollar. Quit looking at it thinking I want to make the money. Right. I just say – the first thing I say to them is what makes you happy? Right. What do you enjoy? Because if you enjoy it, it's not a job.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
If you enjoy it, you'll be able to put so much more time and energy into it without being tired. Go be your best self and go find what you love in life. And if you do that – It's going to come. See, the ability to survive, the ability to live and have a house, it will come to you.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Now, that's not to say just because you love art means that you're going to be Picasso tomorrow and you're going to do it. You might have to actually go put in some hard work and take an art class.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Welcome to Sonoma County, California, home of true wine country cuisine. Today I'm going to prepare a dish for you, not in fusion, but in con-fusion. I'm going to do a gorgonzola tofu sausage terrine that we served over a mildly poached ostrich egg. Now, since we're in the wine country, I'll be serving that on grape nuts and done with a delicious pickled herring mousse right on top.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But you got to – and that's the other thing we're missing. Hard work? Yeah. Let's remember that. Yeah. Anybody says that there's no such thing as nine to five job. I work every single day all the time. I mean, if I'm having fun, if I'm out ripping it up, I'm at stage. I'm having fun. But it's always going to be where it's always coming back to taking care of business.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But I just think that when people start getting lost with that, one of the things I hope that. the nucleus around these kids is that we foster imagination, foster critical thinking, back to what we were saying, and foster them into achieving their goals, help them write goals, help them have belief. You know, we can't just set them away.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
They're getting lost in their phone and believing that they're going to be a TikTok star.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Can I call him for research, by the way? Sure. I think there's like 160 million men in this country and 80 million of them are on OnlyFans or subscribing to OnlyFans.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Oh, I know, delicious. It sends shivers up my spine. No, seriously, folks, real food for real people. That's the idea. See, it's all getting messed up. People are trying to take everything off the shelf and jam it onto a plate, and that's not what it has to be. I learned how to cook out of survival.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I don't fucking want to go anywhere. This is fucking awesome. If you would, by the way, congratulations. I have to. Congratulations on not drinking. Thank you. I've listened and I applaud you. I think that you read yourself, read your body, read your mind, tell you – I heard you talking about it. I think that people need to listen to themselves and see how it makes them feel.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I talk about people, what they eat and how it makes them feel. But no, that's a big – No, I think this is weird. It's like there's so many other things. It's going to pick your brain about the dark web because that's another thing that I just sit there and go, what is back? I don't even want to know what's behind that door.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I don't want to know what's behind that door. And it scares me because I started talking to that tech security people. But it's like this OnlyFans stuff. I mean, I don't even want to know about it. I don't even want to.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You want to talk about living in perpetuity? Yeah, I know. You want to talk about letting that one ride for you because people are screen grabbing that stuff and people are recording that stuff. Yep, yep.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
For the little bit of scratch you're getting now and then how that affects you in your life. I mean, it's – yeah, we need – it's – I'm not –
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
know i don't have the answer for it but i really think that what i was talking about making a contribution to your community you know i remember how much how many parents used to come to the classroom and help in the classroom when i was a kid i don't know that still happens i don't know what goes on but this mentorship program i ran into a guy the other day with it was a big brother big brother big sister program and i was just so it was great to meet him like tell me about it man like
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You're doing that. I didn't even know the program existed anymore. That's awesome. So there's things like that that I just hope we still remember that we had some really core fundamentals. It doesn't mean our era was right or that we didn't do it without failure. We didn't do it without our issues, you know, as we were speaking.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
But I really hope that we continue to believe in ourselves because we can right the shit, man.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Yeah. Well, back to the beginning of, you know, you're not political. You're I mean, you've got your part. But the positivity in the conversation that goes on, John Krasinski during COVID, I did his show. He had this really cool podcast or I don't know what exactly you call the shows. Did you see it? It was all the right. It was about it was a whole pause. Oh, it's a great. It's a great.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I can't think of the name of it. It was an acronym. It was like all positive stuff or something along those lines. Help me raise some money. I was raising money for restaurant workers. And we just need more positive noise. We need more positive message.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
My parents are going through this macrobiotic cooking in the late 70s, and I had enough bulgur and steamed fish to kill a kid. So the idea in our family was whoever made the dinner got to decide what it was going to be. And being of Italian descent... And pasta was always one of the keys.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You're doing it, man. You're here. You too, brother. You set an example. You too. Thank you for having me. My pleasure. I've looked forward to this for a really long time. I think that my three boys are getting more of a kick out of this than anybody. Well, hi to them. Yeah.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
I went and studied in France and then came back and got my degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in restaurant administration. I've been a district manager in Los Angeles and moved up here to Northern California to open up three different concept restaurants. What I'd like to talk to you about and what I think I could do as a Food Network host is teach people about real food, real people.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
Get it to the basics. Great product, great equipment, great ideas. See, anybody can read a cookbook. Anybody can come up with a simple idea. But the idea is bringing it to the table. I take people's imaginations and put them on the plate. Let me show you one of my favorites. I was on my way back from Houston where I was down there learning about Southern-style barbecue.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And I came up with this idea about how to take Southern-style barbecue and mix it into Japanese cooking. See, in Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. And that's what people think it does. It means seasoned rice. So I take a little bit of seasoned rice, a little bit of smoked pork butt, and we put this together here.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
in a dish with a little of our American favorite, French fries, and mix this together with a little bit of the California favorite, some avocado. And I came up with this idea, and as I was doing this, a buddy came around the corner and he says, Guido, what are you doing? He says, you can't put that into rice. You can't make sushi out of barbecue. What are you doing, you jackass?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
It's huge. Yeah. I mean, I think about what you did with Trump and all that influence that you made. And you called it straight up the line. You want to come on the show? You want to do this? Let's do it. And took the time to do it. I think it was a huge impact. I think that we look at all the people that you've given a chance. You've given them a platform.
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
And that's what this dish is called. It's actually called the Jackass Roll. So we mix it up, we serve it over. The idea about cooking is not just about great food. It's about putting all the pieces. Do you have a sharp knife? Do you understand sanitation? Do you know where to get it from? And do you know how to tie all the components together?
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#2323 - Guy Fieri
You see, my idea about it is there's so much more to teach. As a restaurateur, people ask me all the time, how do you do it? I can take the restaurant and bring it to the home, and I think that would be something that would be sellable. My name's Guy Fieri. My friends call me Guido. You can now consider me your friend.