#2323 - Guy Fieri

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Guy Fieri (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Knuckle Sandwich is a sandwich shop in Austin.

Guy Fieri (0:16)

I heard about it today.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

It's legit.

Guy Fieri (0:19)

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.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Well.

SPEAKER_4 (0:26)

But I heard it's good stuff.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Yeah, it's real good. Can we smoke in here? What's that?

Guy Fieri (0:30)

Can we smoke in here?

Joe Rogan (0:31)

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

Guy Fieri (0:32)

Everything goes in here?

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you want to do. So that. Don't shoot heroin on camera.

Guy Fieri (0:39)

I think we're going to be able to pass that.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

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

SPEAKER_5 (0:44)

Well.

Guy Fieri (0:47)

There we go. I really appreciate the invite.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

My pleasure.

Guy Fieri (0:59)

This is a long time coming. I've been waiting for this. Yeah? 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, and I just look at it and I go, man, to hear those stories talking about Hunter, and just all that, and all the nist- I mean, it's pretty, you got to have your mind blown by now.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Yeah, my mind's been blown out. It's kind of overblown at this point.

Guy Fieri (1:34)

It's huge.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

Yeah.

Guy Fieri (1:35)

I mean, I think about what you did with Trump and all that influence that you made, and you call 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, 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 in the business, not to this level, but got to the business. It's respectful, man.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Thank you. Thank you very much. What is the Knuckle Sandwich Basin? You even have a, your chain is a Knuckle Sandwich Basin.

Guy Fieri (2:21)

It's all, it all has history, just kind of like as I toured the museum today.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

Chef's hat with a skull.

Guy Fieri (2:26)

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, I did my first tattoo. And he made that, he says, I have this drawing for you, I want to show this to you. And that'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 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, just huge money, $1,250 an episode, you know when you get started. And I wasn't planning 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 crab, 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 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 think? My one buddy, Dirty, says, my nickname is Guido. Guido, he says, how about you make us something to eat? And that'll give us like some food for knowledge. And then I said, you know, and I'm serious, I want to come up with a name for the company. I got to get this, I got to get my $1,200 check sent to me. And I go, hey, Dirty, how about I give you a knuckle sandwich? And he goes, that'd be a good name.