Speaker 1: Freaking out, guys freaking out. I don't feel good, so
Speaker 1: of course I obviously have COVID. It's running through my brain.
Speaker 1: But I think it's the case. I really haven't been
Speaker 1: around anybody, and I passed the COVID test a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. I did make for breakfast bagel and locks,
Speaker 1: and the salmon smelled weird. I was like, it smoked salmon.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fine. It's cured. I don't even I
Speaker 1: don't know the rules on it, but it did smell weird.
Speaker 1: And now it's just like at the bubble guts, I
Speaker 1: gotta rumble in the tumble. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: the rhone. I think it's a salmon. I think it's
Speaker 1: a salmonella sal salmon. No, just a salmon, not the salmonella.
Speaker 1: The salmon. All right, let's just let's start the show
Speaker 1: where the salmon comes up, do it. This is a
Speaker 1: Wells Cast with Wells Atoms and I heart radio podcast.
Speaker 1: Pretty food poisoned myself. It's fine, no worries, dude, super
Speaker 1: pumped about today's episode. We have our second guest from
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore, Grace in the air waves of the Wells Cast,
Speaker 1: he was on The Mass Dancer. He just put out
Speaker 1: a cookbook called the Keto Guido Cookbook, which is that's
Speaker 1: a funny name. I gotta be honest with you. He's
Speaker 1: on a little show called Jersey Shore. Now, he's on
Speaker 1: another show called Jersey Shore Family Vacation, not a show
Speaker 1: called Revenge Prank, on a show called Double Shout of Love.
Speaker 1: He's got a clothing line. Actually did a travel show
Speaker 1: with his mom. I mean, like literally, the guy's done
Speaker 1: every freaking TV show that's ever been created. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you what what you see on TV isn't all
Speaker 1: that is our guest today. When you think Jersey Shore,
Speaker 1: you think big dumb, lovable Italians. Right, big lovable Italians
Speaker 1: they may be, but dumb isn't what's happening with our
Speaker 1: guests today. This dude graduated college with a three point
Speaker 1: nine g p A in three and a half years,
Speaker 1: was a poly side major, look going to become a lawyer,
Speaker 1: and then things happen, gets thrown on a show while
Speaker 1: like delivering pizzas for his uncle and bing bang boom,
Speaker 1: got seven million TV shows. He's on now. Really excited
Speaker 1: to have this guy in the show. Have been a
Speaker 1: fan of his for a very long time. This is
Speaker 1: one episode you guys are not going to want to miss.
Speaker 1: On the Wells Cast today it's Vinnie Go Out Anino.
Speaker 1: There's the guys Don't Go Anywhere. You're gonna love this one.
Speaker 1: Back at the Wells Cast, I have one of the
Speaker 1: stars of Jersey Shore Family Vacation. He was just on
Speaker 1: The Mass Dancer. He's got a cookbook out, He's got
Speaker 1: like three other reality shows that we'll get into. But dude,
Speaker 1: I'm very very excited. I've been a fan of yours
Speaker 1: for a very long time. But I wonder, like, Vinny,
Speaker 1: do you have any idea who I am? Watch The Bachelor? So,
Speaker 1: I mean that makes sense because, um, I feel like
Speaker 1: you're on a You're on like a spinoff of of
Speaker 1: that show. Yeah, I've been on like the ratchet version
Speaker 1: of The Bachelor. Um, I don't really have like the
Speaker 1: jawline to be on the real show, you know, but
Speaker 1: we're on the little ratchet version double shot. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: because uh, like I don't have the abs for the
Speaker 1: real Bachelor, but I got on that show. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you're pretty handsome. Um, But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, right, Those guys are like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're feeding, those guys from like
Speaker 1: Minnesota that are like twenty two years old and look
Speaker 1: like giant lumberjacks. It's crazy. It's a lot of protein,
Speaker 1: a lot of protein powder. I won't name names, but dude,
Speaker 1: there was a guy on my season that would eat
Speaker 1: bread and chew it and then spit it out because
Speaker 1: he just wanted like the feeling of bread in his mouth,
Speaker 1: but then didn't want the car. I don't know however
Speaker 1: that works, and he would just then he would just
Speaker 1: put a bunch of a scoop of protein powder and
Speaker 1: swallow it afterwards. Maybe these guys need to get the
Speaker 1: Keto Guido cookbook. I was gonna say, I kind of
Speaker 1: relate to that. Um I do have a a bread issue.
Speaker 1: That's why I went keto. But um, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're keto. They're like the opposite. They're like protein and
Speaker 1: brown rice. Yeah, exactly, tell me how the fund does
Speaker 1: an Italian go keto. It actually makes more sense than
Speaker 1: you think, because the problem is my mother fed me
Speaker 1: pasta breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at a certain point
Speaker 1: my metabolism just didn't keep up with it anymore. And
Speaker 1: you know, I was overweight. I was walking around around
Speaker 1: like two hundred pounds sometimes and I couldn't find anything
Speaker 1: to do that I can still like enjoy my life,
Speaker 1: but like because I love to eat, right, So with Keto,
Speaker 1: you're able to like eat good food like steaks and
Speaker 1: fish and wings and cheese. So I was able to
Speaker 1: do that, enjoy food, enjoy life, but cut out the pasta.
Speaker 1: I eat it like once in a while now a
Speaker 1: couple of times a month. I gotta get this because
Speaker 1: I did the ancestry dot Com thing, and I definitely
Speaker 1: have an allergy to all that stuff, and I just
Speaker 1: like power through it. But I need to get your books.
Speaker 1: So yeah, right, like after you've done with that dish aposta,
Speaker 1: you want to kill yourself, but it's so worth it
Speaker 1: while it's going down. Um, I don't really go through
Speaker 1: that with the key too, you know, because like my
Speaker 1: body just knows what to do with meat and vegetables.
Speaker 1: But if I put like a pizza inside of me,
Speaker 1: like it tastes good, but then like I start to
Speaker 1: bug out. Yeah, I want to get back to the
Speaker 1: book a little bit later. But we got to talk
Speaker 1: about the fact that you were on the Mass Dancer.
Speaker 1: It was revealed that you were the Hammerhead Shark. Did
Speaker 1: you have fun on the show? Yeah? I had so
Speaker 1: much fun. Um. You know how it is like going
Speaker 1: from reality TV and you know, filming all that mess
Speaker 1: for ten years. Once in a while you do these
Speaker 1: other little shows. Um. You know, I've hosted my own
Speaker 1: shows before, but then some of them just like are
Speaker 1: fun and great experiences, and this was one of them.
Speaker 1: This was one of the most like best experiences that
Speaker 1: I did because I got to actually perform, um, learn
Speaker 1: how to dance, and put on a show for people
Speaker 1: as opposed to, you know, sit across from two girls
Speaker 1: fighting about the wedding speech or some ship. You know,
Speaker 1: I have a good friend who's one of the choreographers
Speaker 1: on that show, and so she gives us kind of
Speaker 1: like the behind the scenes of the craziness that is
Speaker 1: doing Mass Singer or Mass Dancer. They really keep you
Speaker 1: guys like shrouded from the world. Was it hard the
Speaker 1: Mass Singer. I'm like, Okay, I think I could still
Speaker 1: sing in in that costume because my mouth isn't being restricted.
Speaker 1: But you have to dance and so you're in a
Speaker 1: costume trying to dance. Was it the most difficult? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like borderline impossible. Um. They made the they
Speaker 1: made the suits a little more mobile for the dancers
Speaker 1: and need do on the mess singer. Um, but you
Speaker 1: know it's still tough, like you're you're doing it blind,
Speaker 1: you can't see, you can't feel anything. I was wearing
Speaker 1: like a twenty pound muscle suit. Um. And I'm not
Speaker 1: a professional dancer. So if you would have put me
Speaker 1: out there, um in a tank top, I probably would
Speaker 1: have had a challenge. But doing it in the suit
Speaker 1: made it more challenging. But yeah, you're right. Like the
Speaker 1: first day I showed up the set, I thought I
Speaker 1: was being smuggled and kidnapped, Like they put a hoodie
Speaker 1: on me. They're like, you know, move from move here,
Speaker 1: movie here. You can't move without being covered up. Um.
Speaker 1: But soon you fall in love with the process and
Speaker 1: you learn why they're doing it because it makes that
Speaker 1: reveal so much better. Like I don't know who the
Speaker 1: hell is on the show because they didn't let us
Speaker 1: see each other when we're there. They didn't guess it
Speaker 1: was you. They thought it was other people from Jersey
Speaker 1: Shore and then like I saw Kevin Hart was thrown out.
Speaker 1: There was there anyone that offended you that they guessed for?
Speaker 1: You know, they were actually all compliments, um, you know.
Speaker 1: They they went from like Ryan Seacrest to Kevin Hart,
Speaker 1: Zac Efron, Eminem. There were a lot of people. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I funk with those guys, Like those guys are pretty cool.
Speaker 1: At a certain point, the clues did get very Jersey
Speaker 1: Shore related, but that was part of the master plan
Speaker 1: because they still didn't know it was me. They thought
Speaker 1: it was one of my like meathead cast members. But
Speaker 1: I know how to play a meat head without actually
Speaker 1: being one. So that's why I was still able to
Speaker 1: surprise people. Would you do it again, dude? I would.
Speaker 1: I I miss it so much, like I wanna you know,
Speaker 1: I got really competitive, and I thought I would only
Speaker 1: last like one week doing it. But you know, if
Speaker 1: you have like a big work ethic, you want to
Speaker 1: just keep going and keep going. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: like I can surprise people on the Mass Singer now
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, I feel like they're gonna
Speaker 1: make a bunch of like different iterations of this show.
Speaker 1: Like obviously the blueprint works very very well. Just get
Speaker 1: Ken's young to do whatever the funk he does, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, ratings just go crazy. So
Speaker 1: my whole career is just gonna be hidden identity. Reality
Speaker 1: competition shows keep popping up. Have you counted how many
Speaker 1: reality shows you've done? That's a good question. Um, No,
Speaker 1: I've never counted. And it's not just reality. It's like, uh,
Speaker 1: I've like hosted a lot, Like I had a show
Speaker 1: after Jersey Shore called The Show with Vinny where I
Speaker 1: had a talk show and celebrities would come to my
Speaker 1: house in Staten Island, like Little Wayne flew to my
Speaker 1: house in Staten Island and my mother cooked for him. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I had this like I have another like
Speaker 1: a prank show airing now. Um. I had a show
Speaker 1: with my mom where we traveled the world, you know
Speaker 1: with this business Like you know, like I said before,
Speaker 1: you just never know what you're really gonna get into. Um.
Speaker 1: But this is just another notch to add to the belt.
Speaker 1: And it was one of my favorite ones. Do you
Speaker 1: just go to like Viacom headquarters and you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: MTV got an idea, I'm gonna be traveling around with
Speaker 1: my dog and I don't know someone else and they're like,
Speaker 1: do it make the fucking show? This kid is gold?
Speaker 1: Like is that how it works for you? Pretty much?
Speaker 1: I mean, um, you know whenever, Like right now, I'm
Speaker 1: busy and doing you know, like three shows on MTV.
Speaker 1: But when I'm not doing that, I'm just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's next? What are we gonna do? So we have
Speaker 1: to think of new shows to to to make and
Speaker 1: you know, what's gonna have a longevity, what's gonna be
Speaker 1: something to actually like to do? Um? So I always
Speaker 1: kind of have I'm sure you do too, Like we
Speaker 1: always kind of have that like what's next kind of feeling. Um,
Speaker 1: whenever we're doing whatever we're doing, Hey, what's next? Because
Speaker 1: I need some ideas for some shows? You got anything?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, right now, I'm I'm I'm on
Speaker 1: like enough shows right now, so I'm trying to I
Speaker 1: think I'm trying to like be on lest shows. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Revenge Prank. That seems like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I grew up watching Ashton Kutcher do Punked, and
Speaker 1: I always thought like that would be the fun show.
Speaker 1: And it seems like you're kind of getting to do
Speaker 1: like the next iteration of that, is that fun or
Speaker 1: do you feel bad doing it? No, it's definitely fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, me and PAULI are always looking
Speaker 1: for where can we take our strengths what we love
Speaker 1: to do on Jersey Shore and put them in different
Speaker 1: places in different shows. So the pranking was right in
Speaker 1: our wheelhouse. Um, but there is like a revenge element.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that it's not really us that
Speaker 1: are pulling the pranks, it's we're helping them think of them.
Speaker 1: We're more like the we're like the resources for the people.
Speaker 1: So they have an idea and we're like, yo, you
Speaker 1: said you've got the big dogs. Now we got MTV
Speaker 1: money behind us. This thing is gonna be epic. Um.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I do feel bad though, but I just know
Speaker 1: that like it will be worth it in the end.
Speaker 1: Like I've had like pranks, like I had a security
Speaker 1: guard in my pranks who was just supposed to be
Speaker 1: there to like bodyguard me and instead like like not
Speaker 1: like like I need a fucking bodyguard, right, but instead
Speaker 1: like he had to keep being inserted into the pranks
Speaker 1: because there was so many like fights breaking out. You
Speaker 1: know my my trashy reality experience and said, you know what,
Speaker 1: if security has to be there, that's a good thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that means ratings are going to be very good. Uh, exactly,
Speaker 1: Devil Shot at Love. As I get this question a lot,
Speaker 1: it's like, you really go on the bound threat to
Speaker 1: like get engaged, And I always come back with I
Speaker 1: went for the experience. Hey, if I got engaged at
Speaker 1: the end, I just kind of like icing on the cake.
Speaker 1: But how many times do you get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go to film this weird show and travel around and
Speaker 1: and meet all these cool people? Were you really going
Speaker 1: in there to find love? Were you going in there
Speaker 1: for the experience? Kind of had the same sentiment like
Speaker 1: I I'm very picky, and uh, I was like, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. Like that's what a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't think like they think that they think that, like
Speaker 1: you're even if even if I was just saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm only doing this for the money. I'm only
Speaker 1: doing this for the TV show and the exposure. Right,
Speaker 1: if you put the love of my life in front
Speaker 1: of me, I'm not gonna say no to it. So
Speaker 1: I go in there. Of course, for like the you know,
Speaker 1: doing the show. But if you put the girl I
Speaker 1: really like and in front of me, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go after her, you know. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a That's how it becomes like a mixture for
Speaker 1: me and becomes real and family vacation is back. Will
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore ever end or it is? It gonna be
Speaker 1: like the Simpsons. They'll just keep on going forever and
Speaker 1: then they'll be like your kids are on some reality
Speaker 1: TV show. Yeah. I always say we're gonna be like
Speaker 1: in a nursing home somewhere doing like the Jersey Shore
Speaker 1: Nursing Home edition. Um, I don't know, man, people like
Speaker 1: watching us grow up and you know, they grew up
Speaker 1: with us. They they lived with us in our twenties
Speaker 1: now our thirties and forties and all those experiences. It's
Speaker 1: like the just the it's the it's the central hub,
Speaker 1: like the mothership of like everything else that we do.
Speaker 1: I think we're like the longest original cast in a
Speaker 1: reality show to keep to keep doing it. So I'm
Speaker 1: down for it. It's fun. It's just being myself. But
Speaker 1: I definitely want to branch out and do like these
Speaker 1: other shows like We've been talking about what do you
Speaker 1: like watching back more like the original Jersey Shore or
Speaker 1: this kind of new mature iteration. The original one was
Speaker 1: fun to watch now because like at the time, I
Speaker 1: was living it, so I wasn't really watching it as
Speaker 1: a fan. Now I get why it became such a
Speaker 1: social phenomenon. Um, But I like who I am now better.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm thirty three, and you know I figured
Speaker 1: out how to like dress, and how to like work
Speaker 1: out and and ship, and how to like you know,
Speaker 1: be funny and not take things so seriously and be
Speaker 1: more humble like you do when you're older. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: So I like who I am better, but I understand
Speaker 1: how funny and crazy the original was. It is a
Speaker 1: testament to your fans because when you think about it,
Speaker 1: and I was talking about this earlier, is when you
Speaker 1: think of the original Jersey Shore, it's just like kind
Speaker 1: of like trashy wanting to see people get picked up.
Speaker 1: And then now it's much more evolved, and you'd think that,
Speaker 1: like the fans of Jersey Or would be like, this
Speaker 1: is not what I signed up for. Guys like I
Speaker 1: want fist bumps and like ragers, you know, and want
Speaker 1: you guys to fight whatever. I want you guys to
Speaker 1: just go out and everybody ever. Yeah, it's like it's
Speaker 1: like you guys have matured in your audience has too.
Speaker 1: It's like kudos to everyone involved as well, because literally
Speaker 1: the same exact thing happened to the audience. They got older,
Speaker 1: they got married, they had kids. They but to me, like,
Speaker 1: all right, I get that, like Ronnie and Sammy fighting
Speaker 1: about you know, she didn't call him back. I get that.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. But now like motherfucker's are going to jail
Speaker 1: for eight months. Yeah, everybody is getting There's like a
Speaker 1: new divorce every week. Someone's having a kid. There's baby
Speaker 1: mama drama. Ronnie's a mess. This is real life drama.
Speaker 1: So if you don't like that, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. Normally, this is where I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: go watch The Mask Dancer Wednesday, State seven Central and Fox,
Speaker 1: and make sure you buy the Keto Guido cookbook on Amazon.
Speaker 1: You have so much just can you rip through all
Speaker 1: the stuff that I will promote for you before we
Speaker 1: flip over to my part of person of the Show.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, even though I don't like talking about
Speaker 1: myself but basically Jersey Shore is airing right now. Revenge
Speaker 1: Prank airs after Jersey Shore. Um, you can go back
Speaker 1: and watch me on the Mass Answer because I'm off
Speaker 1: of it now because I got revealed, and always keep
Speaker 1: up with my Keeto Guido lifestyle, Keeto Guido cookbooks and
Speaker 1: where do you will follow you on social media? At
Speaker 1: Vinny Guadino my long ass last name, it'll pop up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone told you, but the the
Speaker 1: idea behind my show is just origin stories, like to
Speaker 1: find out how people became successful. I know you gotta
Speaker 1: go soon, so we're gonna do this kind of quick.
Speaker 1: Are you down for just a quick kind of like
Speaker 1: cliffs notes version of how the hell you got so
Speaker 1: many television shows in your belt? Of course, let's do
Speaker 1: it all right quick, bright, we come back Vinny Guadalino
Speaker 1: here on the Welles cast back in the Wales. Guess
Speaker 1: I got Vinny guada Nino on the show you just
Speaker 1: revealed as the Hammerhead Shark on Mass Dancer. You of
Speaker 1: course have family vacation going on Revenge Prank Double shot
Speaker 1: at Love the Kedo Guido Cookbook. Am I forgetting anything? Okay?
Speaker 1: It's funny because obviously I come from this reality TV world,
Speaker 1: but I had this radio background, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people that come into the reality world asked me, how
Speaker 1: do you continue to perpetuate the positive momentum forward from
Speaker 1: the flash in the pan, the fifteen minutes of fame
Speaker 1: that you get from whatever reality TV show you do.
Speaker 1: And I will say this, looking at your resume, you
Speaker 1: have hacked the system and like you were able to
Speaker 1: take this flash in the pan and turn it into
Speaker 1: this in this crazy empire. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: much how you have enough time in the day to
Speaker 1: do all this stuff. I just do like three shows
Speaker 1: and that's enough for me. So but I want to
Speaker 1: go at the beginning because I was reading up on
Speaker 1: you and I think a lot of people would be
Speaker 1: shocked at the person you were right before you started
Speaker 1: doing Jersey Shore. So just real quick, where are you from.
Speaker 1: I'm from Staten Island, New York. And you are an
Speaker 1: only child. You have siblings, you have two sisters. You know,
Speaker 1: grew up here very not not with a lot of money,
Speaker 1: just little old Staten Island, that's it. And I was
Speaker 1: going to college. Um, I had just graduated my with
Speaker 1: my bachelor's when I got on Jersey Shore. What were
Speaker 1: you studying political science? Uh? To go into law school?
Speaker 1: So I was. I took my ls atz um literally
Speaker 1: like the week that Jersey Shore was premiering. But there
Speaker 1: was always a like performer side of me. Like I
Speaker 1: was in school plays. I was in the drama club.
Speaker 1: I was the lead in the high school play. So
Speaker 1: like after college, I said, you know what, I have
Speaker 1: to do the educational thing, but like I want to
Speaker 1: be famous, So I just like kept you know, I
Speaker 1: was like, this is my year to try to become famous.
Speaker 1: And literally Jersey Shore was like the first thing like
Speaker 1: I applied for and I just got it. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you're a POLYCI major. Were you a good student? Three
Speaker 1: point nine g p A. So yeah, I I applied.
Speaker 1: I've always applied, like not that I was good at
Speaker 1: political science. I was just like, okay, this was the test.
Speaker 1: I have to learn what's on the test and get
Speaker 1: an A. Like I just had to always get a.
Speaker 1: I read somewhere that you finished in three years. I
Speaker 1: did well, maybe three and a half. I took a
Speaker 1: semester off when I switched when I transferred schools, so
Speaker 1: I had to like but I still want to finish
Speaker 1: on time. I didn't want that to hinder my four
Speaker 1: year college degree. So, um, I still finished on time
Speaker 1: by like loading up on my credits, um, like in
Speaker 1: my last year and and still finished on time. And
Speaker 1: did you have any jobs that weren't Reality TV involved?
Speaker 1: I was. I was delivering pizza while Jersey Shore was
Speaker 1: airing like the first like three weeks. But I used
Speaker 1: to Um, I had a million jobs. I worked at
Speaker 1: Staples for a couple of years. I worked in a
Speaker 1: ton of Pizzaia's, delivering pizza behind the counter. Um, what
Speaker 1: else did I do? I had this weird job once
Speaker 1: where when somebody forgot to get their newspaper, like I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Like when their newspaper wasn't delivered to them, they would
Speaker 1: call me and I'd have to go and deliver the
Speaker 1: newspapers to them. So I'd like sit in my car
Speaker 1: with a stack of newspapers with a cell phone and
Speaker 1: then they would call me and be like, you have
Speaker 1: to go here that person to get that newspaper. I
Speaker 1: had a bunch of odd jobs. I read that you
Speaker 1: interned or something or shadowed for like a political person. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: like I was part of my political science degree. I
Speaker 1: had an internship for like a state assemblyman in Staten Island,
Speaker 1: so basically New York City. New York has its own
Speaker 1: like congress, you know, like its own assembly from each district,
Speaker 1: so I like just intern for the local guy. Did
Speaker 1: you pass the LSD um there's really no pass and
Speaker 1: fail and you just get a score, and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I did horribly. I knew I was gonna
Speaker 1: do horribly because I'm just really bad at standardized tests.
Speaker 1: Like I've always had almost like a three point nine
Speaker 1: g P a like perfect student, but if you looked
Speaker 1: at my sanderdized test score, you would think I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, not smart at all, because it's more of
Speaker 1: like an a d D thing that kind of like
Speaker 1: kicks in and anxiety while you're taking those tests that
Speaker 1: I struggle with, But they don't really judge it too
Speaker 1: much anymore. On that, I heard you want to go
Speaker 1: to law school. You take the L set, but you're like,
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm gonna see if this show hits. Are
Speaker 1: your parents like, what the are you doing? You need
Speaker 1: to be a lawyer? Well, my parents never actually thought
Speaker 1: I should be a lawyer. They thought that was crazy
Speaker 1: because no one in my family has ever done anything
Speaker 1: except like maybe like on a pizza rea. You know,
Speaker 1: so that was crazy in itself. And then yeah, when
Speaker 1: I told my dad, like because Jersey Shore back then
Speaker 1: didn't even have a name. It was just a concept
Speaker 1: and they were just casting it. So I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: I'm going to LA to meet with this producer. It
Speaker 1: seems legit, you know, and I could have got killed.
Speaker 1: But um, it ended up being legit, thank god. And uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they didn't know what the hell I was doing.
Speaker 1: Looking back, Are you happy with the decisions you made?
Speaker 1: H Yeah, for sure. Man. You know, Um, like I said,
Speaker 1: I used to sit in my bed at night, you know,
Speaker 1: when I came home from school growing up really poor
Speaker 1: in Saten Island and saying like I want to be
Speaker 1: famous one day. I want to be famous. I know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be famous. I know. Like I used to
Speaker 1: say it, I didn't know how it was going to happen.
Speaker 1: And I can sit here and say, like I wish
Speaker 1: it happened different ways, Like I wish I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, the lead in a Marvel movie right now.
Speaker 1: But I'm working backwards, you know, I'm i I got
Speaker 1: on this crazy show that I can't control, and now
Speaker 1: I'm trying to like do all the things. And that's
Speaker 1: why I applaud you. Like to use you as an
Speaker 1: example too, because you know some people are more than that.
Speaker 1: The reality show is fun. But like I said, like
Speaker 1: I'm always in some kind of acting school. I've done
Speaker 1: improv school for like seven years during jury be sure,
Speaker 1: just to kind of like get those skills. I just
Speaker 1: moved out to l A and I want to continue
Speaker 1: to do all the ship. Improv class is one of
Speaker 1: the things that I would suggest everyone do. I've never
Speaker 1: like barely laughed as hard as when I've when I
Speaker 1: did improv classes. What's amazing about improv The funniest guy
Speaker 1: in the room usually isn't the funniest guy in the class.
Speaker 1: It's always like the quiet guy who like makes everyone
Speaker 1: just roll out. It's the best I did UCB for
Speaker 1: literally seven years improv sketch comedy. It's not about like,
Speaker 1: improv isn't about being funny, like you said, It's about
Speaker 1: following the rules. So you know, you might just follow
Speaker 1: the rules and all of a sudden, some crazy funny
Speaker 1: thing happens. Unfortunately, though, improv isn't something that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: fans can go watch you do, Like if you do
Speaker 1: stand up comedy, then like you you you're in business,
Speaker 1: you know. So I try to like pivot into that
Speaker 1: a little bit um but I just love the art
Speaker 1: of improv. It's so fun. Well, hey man, I'm running
Speaker 1: that time with you before I let you go, do
Speaker 1: you have time for some rapid fire questions? Let's do
Speaker 1: it all right? Rapid are questions in the Welles cast
Speaker 1: with any Guada Nino. First one favorite pizza topping? I'm
Speaker 1: just like a plain margharita pizza, just freshmanzarella, marionaro, sauce
Speaker 1: and basil. What's your favorite book? Power of Now at Kartol,
Speaker 1: do you remember who your first kiss was? Yes, I
Speaker 1: got my first kiss and my first hand job all
Speaker 1: on the same day, at like seventeen years old. I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna lose my virginity at the same
Speaker 1: time as my first kiss. That really escalated. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a podcast, we can we can curse, right of course. Yeah,
Speaker 1: normally like who is it? But now I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: ask that question. What was your first job my uncle's
Speaker 1: pizzeria at thirteen years old. I'm pretty sure that was illegal,
Speaker 1: but I used to go and help out behind the
Speaker 1: counter there. First car, your make model toy Yota Selca like,
Speaker 1: uh don't know the year, but just the thing was
Speaker 1: falling apart and my uncle just like gave it to
Speaker 1: me as my first car. Biggest pet peeve when people
Speaker 1: brushed their teeth. And to you, who's the most famous
Speaker 1: person in your phone? Um? Little Wayne, But I think
Speaker 1: he changes his number if you want an oscar? Who
Speaker 1: is the who'll be the first person? You think? Probably
Speaker 1: my mom? What was the first record? Consider c D bought?
Speaker 1: Eminem slim shady LP. We're just superstition you have, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean every time I fly somewhere like text my mom,
Speaker 1: I love you, Like I don't think that's weird, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm acting like it's the last time
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to him. One thing on your bucket
Speaker 1: list go on like an African Safari. One thing that's
Speaker 1: always in your fridge bacon. Last one, how would you
Speaker 1: describe your high school self? Um? Very quiet, nerdy to himself,
Speaker 1: not social at all. Um. I was never like a
Speaker 1: crazy nerd, but like I also didn't fit in with
Speaker 1: the cool kids. Yeah, then Iguadanino, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for taking the time and uh and hanging out with me.
Speaker 1: I would just say, maybe don't work so hard, you know,
Speaker 1: because they're there are other people that that would also
Speaker 1: like to do some of the shows you're doing, you know.
Speaker 1: So it sounds a lot more impressive when you read
Speaker 1: him off like that. But in my real life, like
Speaker 1: I just kind of like sit home most of the day,
Speaker 1: like with my dog. Last thing, what's the one piece
Speaker 1: of advice you kind of live by that has helped you,
Speaker 1: like with your career, Probably to never seek perfection. I
Speaker 1: read a really good book once called The Pursuit of
Speaker 1: perfect And, um, you know when you kind of just
Speaker 1: like live life and you kind of you might you
Speaker 1: might just have a bad day, you might have a
Speaker 1: bad week, you know, like you still just go out
Speaker 1: and do it and don't get mad at yourself. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of times I tried to be a perfectionist,
Speaker 1: and you're never gonna be perfect, So you're just gonna
Speaker 1: keep setting yourself up for failure after failure after failure.
Speaker 1: But if you live like you know what today, I'm
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. You know, tomorrow you'll be
Speaker 1: and the next day you never know. Um, but that
Speaker 1: really helped me change my whole life as a whole
Speaker 1: with everything that I do. Love it, man, Again, Remind
Speaker 1: people where to follow you on social media at Vinniguadanino
Speaker 1: on Instagram, Twitter, all that. Then at Kedo Guido I
Speaker 1: have another page. Go by the book Keto Guido. Go
Speaker 1: watch Revenge Prank, Go watch Family Vacation, just go watch
Speaker 1: all the stuff that he's on. If anythinks so much, man,
Speaker 1: this has been a pleasure. Thanks brother, big fan, Take
Speaker 1: care all right. That dude's awesome and that was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I've been a fan of his obviously
Speaker 1: for a long time. Come on, kind of grew up
Speaker 1: with Jersey Shore, you know, and like a weird way,
Speaker 1: it's been a part of the fabric of my life
Speaker 1: for a while. And then getting to have him on
Speaker 1: my show, it's very cool. Keto Guido cookbook is I
Speaker 1: don't know, can up with that name? That's that's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Excited about next week. I do believe we are going
Speaker 1: to go away from a television star and pivot to
Speaker 1: a sports star. Someone who won a championship for the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah, next week is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun one. I think you guys are really gonna like it.
Speaker 1: If you guys have any suggestions on who we should
Speaker 1: have on the show, of course, you know, tweet to
Speaker 1: me at Wells Adams or d m me on Instagram
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Speaker 1: then I make more money. And that's it. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go throw up some old salmon because I still
Speaker 1: don't feel that good. Well We're good. Subscribe to Wells
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