Guy Fieri is a restaurateur, bestselling author, vintner, philanthropist, and award-winning host of multiple television programs, including "Diners, Drive-ins, & Dives, " "Guy's Grocery Games," and "Guy's Ranch Kitchen."Ā www.guyfieri.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Knuckle Sandwich and how did it start?
Yeah, my mind's been blown out. It's kind of overblown at this point.
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.
And I think that's really ā 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.
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.
Thank you. Thank you very much. What is knuckle sandwich business? You even have a, your chain is a knuckle sandwich chain.
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.
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.
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.
I said, hey, I got to think of a name for my ā
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Chapter 2: Did Guy Fieri always plan to be a TV chef?
Lick lighter.
Looks like he'd be trolling for prostitutes, too. Just saying. I mean, maybe he did. Of course he did. I'm sure he didn't. It looks like one of those guys. It's just a very tumultuous time because the change is coming so fast and no one knows what to do with it. You know, and there's not enough laws to really stop it. And even if you did have the laws, China's not going to stop.
Russia's not going to stop.
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.
I mean, it's not going anywhere.
Well, this is all surface-level stuff. The really crazy stuff is control of the power grid, alternative technology, alternative power sources. It's going to get very, very, very strange inside of our lifetime. But people are always going to need food, bro. You know, AI is not going to make you a yummy sandwich.
Give him time.
You think? Nah, I don't know. There's something about handmade things that people are always going to enjoy. Human beings know that someone ā it's like when you go to a nice restaurant and you have a nice meal, one of the things you know is that a person did this. It's part of it. Like, damn, they nailed it. You know, when you're eating a perfectly cooked steak, oh, this guy nailed this.
Well, it's listening to ā 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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Chapter 3: How did Guy Fieri land his first cooking show?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm like, Jesus Christ.
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.
But he lived for six years with it.
You had a lot of cancer in your family. It sucks, man.
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