Joe Rogan Experience #2323 - Guy Fieri

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. GFGuy Fieri0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music)

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      Um, Knuckle Sandwich is a sandwich shop in Austin.

   5. GFGuy Fieri0:16

      I heard about it, today.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      It's legit.

   7. GFGuy Fieri0:18

      My pilot, my pilot calls me and says-

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      (clears throat)

   9. GFGuy Fieri0:20

      ... "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."

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       Well-

   11. GFGuy Fieri0:26

       But I hear-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       ... in all fairness-

   13. GFGuy Fieri0:27

       ... I hear it's good stuff.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Yeah, it's real good. Uh, some Michelin star-

   15. GFGuy Fieri0:30

       Can we smoke in here?

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:30

       What's that?

   17. GFGuy Fieri0:30

       Can we smoke in here?

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   19. GFGuy Fieri0:32

       Everything goes in here?

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you wanna do.

   21. GFGuy Fieri0:36

       So that-

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       Just don't shoot heroin on camera. (laughs)

   23. GFGuy Fieri0:39

       I think we're gonna be able to pass that. (clears throat)

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       So what's happening, man? How are you?

   25. GFGuy Fieri0:44

       Well ...

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       There we go. I got one, thanks.

   27. GFGuy Fieri0:54

       I, uh, really appreciate the invite.

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       My pleasure.

   29. GFGuy Fieri0:57

       This is, uh, this is long time coming. I've been waiting for this.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       Yeah?
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Why did you think…

   1. NANarrator15:00

      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?" 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? You see, my idea about it is, 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.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:40

      Why did you think that would be ridiculous? That seems pretty straightforward.

   3. GFGuy Fieri15:43

      It-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:44

      We're having problem with Jamie's switch. What's the matter, Jamie? It's fucking up. Oh, your switch is fucking up again? I can't get this thing up to screen on the tablet. Uh ... You gotta reboot again? Yeah. Go ahead, reboot. Sorry. No worries. No, you guys can still talk though. Okay, okay, okay. (laughs) That seems pretty straightforward. I don't know why you would think that that would somehow or another, like, that there was no way they were gonna pick you.

   5. GFGuy Fieri16:05

      Yeah, it was, I was taking it seriously I wasn't taking it seriously.

   6. JRJoe Rogan16:07

      Yeah, but that's-

   7. GFGuy Fieri16:07

      The whole beginning line was such bull-

   8. JRJoe Rogan16:09

      ... that's that TV personality. That's like ...

   9. GFGuy Fieri16:11

      Yeah. I, listen, I had one- I did it in one take. That was it. Here we go.

   10. JRJoe Rogan16:16

       Seems good.

   11. GFGuy Fieri16:16

       You guys happy? Shit's done. Let's say-

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:18

       I don't why, I don't, uh, know why you would think that that would be something they would never pick you from.

   13. GFGuy Fieri16:22

       Well, I didn't know back then what I know about TV now. So-

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:26

       Oh, you thought you had to be, like, super professional? Right.

   15. GFGuy Fieri16:30

       I thought if I talked some shit, and I kinda made it a joke, and I told them (laughs) what are they doing-

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       Oh.

   17. GFGuy Fieri16:34

       ... you know, I thought, like, "Hey, I'll be so ..." You know. I mean, that is pretty true to who I am anyways, I mean, it's-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:40

       What year was that?

   19. GFGuy Fieri16:42

       2005?

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:45

       Mm.

   21. GFGuy Fieri16:45

       Yeah, 2- yeah, two- ... We shot in 2005. Yeah, 2005. First show didn't air till 2006. But, um, yeah. So I send it to them, and I send 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.

   22. JRJoe Rogan17:04

       Back in the old days.

   23. GFGuy Fieri17:05

       So I sent it in. I said I did my deal. I said I would do it, and I did it. So it gets in, what, three days later, late at night, 10 o'clock at night, Laurie 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 N- North Providence, so she's a little bit tough on the phone at 10:00 A- at 10:00 PM. You know, like, "Who's calling at 10:00 PM?" 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, and I go, "Hello, Food Network," blah, blah, blah, you know. And they said, "Is this Guy Ferrari-"

   24. JRJoe Rogan17:48

       Ugh.

   25. GFGuy Fieri17:49

       And I'm like, "Okay." 'Cause I know it's not, because if it was one of my buddies, they would've said, you know, "Fieri." So, she goes, "Um, yeah, we got your DVD, and we'd, (laughs) we'd like to talk to you about it, and we want you to be on the show." I said, "Well, okay, what does that entail?" "Well, there's a contract that will be on your door tomorrow morning. We FedExed it to you." So, I get the FedEx, and, uh, I look at it and I give it to one of my attorney buddies, and he's like, "Man, they own your ass." (laughs) ... (laughs) "If you sign this, I can own ya." So, he redlined a bunch and I sent it back to him. They called me back and they said, "You can't (laughs) redline the contract that we're sending you." This is like, "You want on the show or you don't want on the show."

   26. JRJoe Rogan18:22

       What is, like, when you say they own you, like, what do you mean?

   27. GFGuy Fieri18:24

       Oh, he says, "You know how a contract goes when you get into TV." I mean, there's like, you, your, "We've got you for 36 months. You can't do any other production." Da, da, da. You know, whatever this-

   28. JRJoe Rogan18:32

       36 months?

   29. GFGuy Fieri18:33

       I don't know.

   30. JRJoe Rogan18:33

       Really?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   It's so good, I…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      restaurant, I would take them there.

   2. GFGuy Fieri30:02

      It's so good, I 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, and usually 50% of them that I'm talking to aren't vegan. They just go there 'cause the food's great. And this food-

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:17

      There was a vegetarian place that I used to love to go to in, uh, Woodland Hills that was a, uh, Indian joint. Like v- super authentic Indian. It was, uh, in this little strip mall, and I would go in there and every, all the menu was in, y- you know, Hindi, everybody was speaking-... it was, uh, you didn't, you kind of looked at- at the photos that they had of the dishes and just like, "That one. Give me that one."

   4. GFGuy Fieri30:42

      (laughs) Spicy, not spicy. Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:44

      So it's all, all vegetarian, all, but like super authentic. And you know, that's not even necessarily what I'm interested in, but I- I would go there all the time.

   6. GFGuy Fieri30:53

      I want to eat great food.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:54

      Yeah.

   8. GFGuy Fieri30:55

      I want to eat food that's prepared correctly.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:56

      Yeah.

   10. GFGuy Fieri30:57

       Um, 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.

   11. JRJoe Rogan31:12

       Did you ask them why they decided to make a vegan restaurant?

   12. GFGuy Fieri31:16

       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. It's so funny. I drive up and they got a big neon that says, um, "Caffeine dealer," and I'm like, "That's my kind of energy. That's my kind of smartass." You gotta have- you gotta have fun with yourself. You gotta laugh about this shit. And, uh, just great character. I'm- 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... You know, like I've been in Austin 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.

   13. JRJoe Rogan31:55

       Have you been in Travis Barker's place?

   14. GFGuy Fieri31:57

       No.

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:58

       I've heard that place is phenomenal, and that's a fully vegan place in LA.

   16. GFGuy Fieri32:03

       It's-

   17. JRJoe Rogan32:03

       What is it called, Crossroads Cafe?

   18. NANarrator32:05

       Crossroads Cafe.

   19. JRJoe Rogan32:05

       Yeah, I've- I've heard from many of my friends, like Dana White went there. He's like, "Dude, it's phenomenal. You- you can't believe it's vegan."

   20. GFGuy Fieri32:13

       That's the thing about it, is people have this stereotype about vegan food.

   21. JRJoe Rogan32:17

       For good reason.

   22. GFGuy Fieri32:19

       You and I like-

   23. JRJoe Rogan32:20

       Eh. (laughs)

   24. GFGuy Fieri32:20

       Listen, you and I like wild game, you and I like meat, and so forth, but if you really look about it, you're-

   25. JRJoe Rogan32:24

       Well, there's just enough vegan people that are really annoying.

   26. GFGuy Fieri32:27

       (laughs) That I won't disagree.

   27. JRJoe Rogan32:30

       There's enough that are wonderful people.

   28. GFGuy Fieri32:32

       No- (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan32:32

       Don't get me wrong, but there's a- there's a percentage of-

   30. GFGuy Fieri32:34

       (laughs)
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Oh, okay. …

   1. GFGuy Fieri45:00

      2022 Corvette with a '68 body on it.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      Oh, okay.

   3. GFGuy Fieri45:05

      I made, I made two of them. Uh, I've had a few different cars inside of the show.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      Did you take, like, the o- the new Camaro and cut the body panels off and put the new ones on?

   5. GFGuy Fieri45:12

      Nope, nope, took an old '68. Here it is.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      Oh, nice.

   7. GFGuy Fieri45:15

      That's me driving it out too. So we'd just made that car. I made two of them. Nah, that's not, 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.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:27

      So you put a different chassis in it and everything?

   9. GFGuy Fieri45:29

      Yeah. Detroit Racing's, uh, chassis in it.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       Oh, okay. Great, great.

   11. GFGuy Fieri45:32

       But it's, uh ... I mean, it's just a monster. LT4, Tremec 5-Speed. It's just ... But my boys were sitting in it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:37

       That's what I like, restomods.

   13. GFGuy Fieri45:39

       Oh.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       I don't want to drive something with drum brakes that doesn't stop. Those are stupid.

   15. GFGuy Fieri45:44

       What's so funny to think ... I have a, uh, Ba- I have a d- a Trans Am, and, uh, you know, a Bandit car. And it's great and I love it, and it's a great car, but y- and you, you drive it, and it's so nostalgic to drive and it feels so good and it doesn't rattle and it's all that. But boy, you know, my assistant's Ca- Camry can ... (laughs) You know-

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       Dust you.

   17. GFGuy Fieri46:03

       He could, he could probably take it from the line.

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       Oh, yeah. A Model 3 will leave you in the dust.

   19. GFGuy Fieri46:07

       (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       A Tesla?

   21. GFGuy Fieri46:08

       Those Teslas are fast as shit.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       Yeah. That's ... I mean, as far as p- pure performance, there's nothing like those things. Everything else is stupid. But I'd ... Oh, is this what it is?

   23. NANarrator46:19

       This is, uh ... I mean, there's nothing-

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       Is this real?

   25. NANarrator46:20

       ... official has been announced about the Celica, but, uh-

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:23

       Damn. That looks good.

   27. NANarrator46:24

       ... 400 horsepower, six-c- six-, uh, speed manual transmission.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:29

       Really? Oh, that's Forbes, dude. Click on Forbes.

   29. NANarrator46:31

       I- it's not showing up. It's eve- I've tried to click on it a million times, and I'm only getting ... Uh, I have to get the ads out of it, and then there's no pictures that show up.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       Well, the one below it looks like ... That one that says 2025, that looks like a Dark Horse Mustang. That doesn't even look like a Toyota.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:08:14

   It's definitely a factor.…

   1. GFGuy Fieri1:00:00

      place for, you know, things that are premade 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 a- and myself, I talk to people a- about it all the time. You know, this is a reality that if you eat things that are modified ... 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 gonna get ourselves in some deep shit, and we're already in deep shit. Cancer's w- where ... you know, where's the heart attack? Where's the, 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. Had some ... I run into more people on a daily basis that are, you know, stricken with cancer, and I think food has a ... you know, the type of food and what's put on the food has big, big play, so ...

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

      It's definitely a factor. There's a lot of factors. There's environmental factors. There's toxins, herbicides, pesticides. There's a lot of different factors. I was just reading this thing about golf courses, that if ... or watching a video, rather, on golf courses, that if you live within a certain radius of a golf course, you're, you have a much higher possibility of getting Parkinson's disease.

   3. NANarrator1:01:08

      Oh, shit.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

      Yeah. Oh, here it is. "Parkinson's risk higher for those living close to a golf course." What does it say, 126%?

   5. GFGuy Fieri1:01:16

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:01:17

      Wow.

   7. GFGuy Fieri1:01:18

      Wow.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:18

      So, they "Found people living within one mile of a golf course have 126% higher risk of develing, developing..." What happened? Uh, "126% higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared to living more than six miles away," said cor, co-author Dr. Ray Dorsey, a neurologist and the director of the Center of, for the Brain and the Environment at Atria Health and Research Institute in New York. This isn't the first study that links Parkinson's disease with pesticides. This just adds additional evidence that this isn't just happening among farmers. This is happening to people living in suburban areas that have an increased risk of getting Parkinson's disease simply because of where they live. That's crazy. Um, but they're not the ones to bring the pesticides. It's like secondhand smoke. They're just basically breathing it in or consuming it in the water that they're drinking. Uh, I met a guy once that he had bone cancer, and he had to have one of his bones in his legs replaced with a rod, and, uh, he said that there's a, a, an enormous percentage of people in his neighborhood that had bone cancer and all kinds of different cancers. And it was all linked to this golf course. The runoff from the golf course had gotten into the water table, in the water supply with all these people. Yeah, it's dangerous and that shit's not even legal in a lot of countries. That's what's crazy. That's glyphosate, and that is not the... I think they're linking this golf course thing to glyphosate as well, aren't they?

   9. NANarrator1:02:51

      Uh, it's just pesticides in general. I haven't... I'm even looking at it now because there's like a, this is a contentious new study, which obviously it would be, but I'm trying to see what the contention is or why.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:03:00

       You know what's spooky, man, is like there's a lot of rich folks who live on golf courses and they think like, "Hey, what a great life." And are you opening... I wonder what, how many more of those fuckers are getting Parkinson's disease because of that. Scary shit, man.

   11. GFGuy Fieri1:03:15

       You think about the other countries, we don't talk about it a lot in our country, but what they ban in other countries-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:03:20

       Uh-huh.

   13. GFGuy Fieri1:03:21

       ... of our products.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:03:22

       Oh, yeah.

   15. GFGuy Fieri1:03:22

       And just how they're holding the line. I remember when I lived in France, it was, I lived right outside of Paris in a town called Chantilly. We'd call it Chantilly, which that term Chantilly lace, Chantilly cream, that comes from. But I remember I was there, I was 16, and, uh, 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, it just tastes different. I mean, like, sh-

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:03:45

       Because it's grass-fed steak.

   17. GFGuy Fieri1:03:47

       It was like-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:03:47

       Yeah, they don't have grain-fed steak over there. I, I noticed that the first time I went to Australia. I had a steak, I'm like, "This tastes like game."

   19. GFGuy Fieri1:03:55

       Who created it? Everything tasted-

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:03:57

       Like this, it was good.

   21. GFGuy Fieri1:03:57

       And we didn't have... It's funny because we'd go to school, the lunch that we had at school was the... Because I lived in this, kind of this boarding house. I rented a room from this family. They, they were terrible cooks. You'd think you go to France, everybody cooked good. But anyhow, I, I went to high school. I looked forward to lunch at school. It was the best school lunch in the world. You'd sit at a table like this. There 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. And 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. (laughs) It was such great food. And I just never got it. Well, and then I got older and started cooking, and I kind of went, "Oh, really?" So that... The 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 s- uh, seven countries and 14 cities in, uh, 30 days. And we did this whole tour of where food came from. And I took him back to Chantilly and I went to the grocery store, 'cause my f- 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.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:05:12

       Really?

   23. GFGuy Fieri1:05:12

       And I said to Vince, I go... His name's Vincent. I said, "Vincent, what..." Qu'est-ce que... What... And he's like, "Going to be more like Americans." That was his, you know, kind of joking.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:05:22

       Mm.

   25. GFGuy Fieri1:05:23

       But it had changed so dramatically. I was like, this is like not... It was shattering.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:05:27

       Yeah, I think-

   27. GFGuy Fieri1:05:29

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:05:29

       ... fresh food is really the only thing that people are supposed to be actually eating all the time. Real food. It's, I mean, the more that you can get to a farmer's market, the more that you could have relationships with ranchers and, and people that actually provide your food, the healthier you're going to be. And the further you get away from the source, the more you're gonna have preservatives, the more you're gonna have processed food. Stay away from the inside of the supermarket. All that stuff on the inside. I mean, there's condiments and stuff, but most of it's bullshit.

   29. GFGuy Fieri1:05:58

       I, I-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:05:58

       The outside.

Episode duration: 2:23:44