1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: This is Unbreakable with Jay Glazer, a mental health podcast 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: helping you out of the gray and into the blue. 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Now here's Jay Glazer. Welcome in Everybody Too, Unbreakable a 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: mental health podcast with Jay Glazer And this podcast. It 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: allows me to kind of run the gamut on guests, 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: but it also allows me to bring my best friends on. 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: How cool is this? I get paid to talk to 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: my best friends, And when I say best friends, I 9 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: truly made it. In the case of this man, he 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: and I became friends a long time ago. We've kind 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: of had a similar journey as far as we didn't 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: do it the conventional way. We did it different ways. 13 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: But man, when I tell you all that I have 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: battle buddies that I kind of lean into a reach 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: out to when I'm having a bad day, and a 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: lot of times they don't know that's why I'm reaching out. 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: This is one of those guests. He is on every 18 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: show on the Food Network. He is everybody's favorite restaurant 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: tour and but he's also one of my favorite humans 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: on the planet because I've leaned into him on many 21 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: occasions when he just thinks I'm calling for a laugh, 22 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: for he thinks I'm calling just to funk around with 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: him over something, but it's it's really for something a 24 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: lot deeper than that. It is the one and only 25 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: got Fieri. What has happened to my brother? Now? I'm 26 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 1: calling you by your proper name because you fucking finally 27 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: got my name right after twenty years of friendship. Listen, 28 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: Jay Glaze. I'll tell you it's funny that you say 29 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: it that way, that you that you reference the friendship 30 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: that way, because we met right around this time super Bowl. 31 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: It's Super Bowl, and I knew I could tell in 32 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: five minutes whether or I'm gonna be friends with somebody 33 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: and what level of friends will be. And I don't 34 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: meet people as as crazy as me very often, and 35 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: you're crazy, you're unfortunately. But now it's been a it's 36 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: been a great friendship. And I think that that he 37 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: goes both ways in terms of needing support and and 38 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: that shoulder and that confidence and that you know that buddied, 39 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: it's been through the good, the bad, and the ugly. 40 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: And if you haven't been through the good to bad 41 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: and the ugly, I don't you really have the Sometimes 42 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: you don't really have the ability to understand. Sometimes the 43 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: depth of issues that people are facing. But you've You've 44 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: done it for me, You've done it for everybody that 45 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: I've known you to be. Everything that you've been around 46 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: so well, you know, it's interesting to like the two 47 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: of two of us met at the Dallas Super Bowl 48 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: whatever year that was, you know, years and was sent 49 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: along those lines. We're doing a show him where he 50 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: was on the pregame show with Fox. But then I 51 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: saw him out at a party. I think I was 52 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: with the cast of Sons Anarchy, and you wouldn't let 53 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 1: me leave the party because You're like, dude, I've got 54 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: to talk to you the way you've done your career, 55 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, the way you're doing your career. 56 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: And you and I think we're kind of at the 57 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: same point, like people are kind of like almost trying 58 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: to figure us out at that time. We're too crazy 59 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: men that we're just doing it different than everybody else, 60 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: and people are almost trying to figure us both out. Right, 61 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: I think that was it. Um, I don't know who 62 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: is not letting who leave the party, But that's not 63 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: getting the semantics right now. Let's where we can talk 64 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: about you me, Sean Payton and Snoop Dogg in New Orleans. 65 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: But all right, I want to hit your career. And 66 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: you know, people see what you are now, they have 67 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: no have no idea how you started. And so I 68 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: want to go back to the beginning, like how did 69 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: you get even break into where you were? Where you 70 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: Kim Chef, Like, bring us back to the beginning. It's incredible. 71 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: I love I like how you just dropped in break 72 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: in Ja. That's really nice because I know you can 73 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: end up telling people and that's I'm not gonna I'm 74 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: not gonna talk about that. I'm not gonna talk about 75 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: you breaking into my house at four o'clock in the morning. 76 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I just won't. You won't. 77 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: I'm not the one that lost the key. You cannot 78 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: your assistant. That's your fault. You almost got me killed. 79 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: I didn't almost get you killed. You decided to be 80 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: batman and scale my house twenty feet and break into 81 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: my house, and I didn't forget my key, otherwise, forgot 82 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: the code outside otherwise outside, and I forgot my We're 83 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: gonna do that anyway. I knew I was getting druging this. 84 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: Let's talk about something possible. So any how I grew 85 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: up in northern California. You ever saw the movie Outbreak 86 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: with Dustin Hoffman. That's a little town that I was 87 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: raised in, a little town called Ferndale. Amazing place. Do 88 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: you ever get a chance to go see it? Amazing place. 89 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: I just shot a show about it, a one hour 90 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: show on Network. Guy's hometown, Flavor Town to Ferndale, that's 91 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: the name of town. But so I go up to 92 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: this town. My parents both worked, they had a small business, 93 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: uh Western clothing store, and both really hard working people, 94 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: both good cooks, and in nineteen seventy six, I was 95 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: eating sushi and spinach pasta, and I mean it's really 96 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: advanced and food at that at that age or my age. 97 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: So long story short, the deal and my family was, 98 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: whoever cooked got to make a decision what we were eating. 99 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: And I I mean I was eating my friend's house 100 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: and they're having things like meatloaf and meatballs and so forth, 101 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: and we weren't having that. We're having steam, salmon and 102 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: vulgar and and you know, broccoli and a spirit. I mean, 103 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: it was just a very different world of food in 104 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: my house. So they're so they were really your first 105 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: teachers then yeah. But the thing was is I knew 106 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: I had this craving. It's so funny because my craving 107 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: then was meat and all that kind of stuff. And 108 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: now I'm back to where my parents started me as 109 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: a kid. I'm a huge vegetable grains fan and raw 110 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: food fan and so anyway, so I started cooking, and 111 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: I remember the day I cooked my first dish. The 112 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: about nine and I cooked a steak nine years old. 113 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: Years old. My parents worked, so I knew that if 114 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: I could do something to help the family, that it 115 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: would be a really cool thing to do. So I 116 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: cooked a steak and all I knew was butter and 117 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: soy sauce. I mean, those are just two things I loved. 118 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: And I cooked the steak and I put it there 119 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: and my parents sit down and they were so amazed 120 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: that I had made dinner. They walked in. My dad goes, 121 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: what are you doing, and I go, Mom said I could, 122 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: and my mom looks as he goes, well, he was 123 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: complaining that we didn't need any meat, and I said, 124 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: if you know, if you want some, if you want 125 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: a steak, then you cook it. So I went to 126 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: the store, got the steak, came home and I cooked it. 127 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: My dad takes a bite of the steak and I'm like, 128 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: he's gonna kill him, and he looks at me goes, 129 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: it might be the best steak I've ever had. Wow, 130 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: done zo. That was it. Wait a second. If I cook, 131 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: I don't have to do the dishes. If I cook, 132 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: we get to eat meat. And if I cook, I 133 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: make people happy. I'm like, man, this is my this 134 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: is my damn. And so that became the that was 135 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: the genesis of it. And then as time went on, 136 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: and I mean I cooked jay, I would stay home. 137 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: I would fake six. From school, we got the Julia 138 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: Child's or I don't know, it was one of the 139 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: cookbooks and I was just reading and I'm like, wait 140 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: a second, they give you the answers to make this stuff. 141 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: HiT's right here, just foll overto I mean, I'm like, 142 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: this is this is awesome. And so I started cooking 143 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: anything I could get my hands on. When I was 144 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: about fourteen, we had exchanged students from Norway and we 145 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: had exchanged students the next year from Sweden. I want 146 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:29,559 Speaker 1: to be a change student. But my high school didn't 147 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: teach language until you were a junior, and senior in 148 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: the only top Spanish. So we had a friend of 149 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: a friend came to Thanksgiving and he was a wine 150 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: cork salesman from France and his name was Pierre la Choux. 151 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: And I sat next to Pierre Thanksgiving and I said, Pierre, 152 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: I want to go to France. Can you get me there? 153 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 1: And he's looking at this, and maybe I was thirteen. 154 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, maybe I could have you speak French. 155 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: I go no, and he goes speak French and then 156 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: talk to me. So I went to my parents and 157 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: said I want to speak French and Dad's okay. He 158 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: says why and I said, I want to go to France. 159 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: It would be in a shame suite. He says, I'll 160 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: make you a deal. If you could pass at one 161 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: one year of conversational French at the junior college, then 162 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: I'll let you go. So I wrote Pierre. I said, Pierre, 163 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take French at the junior college and if 164 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: I passed, my dad will let me go to France. 165 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: Pierre says, if you pass, I'll get you into a 166 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: high school in the town called Shanty. We would say Shantilly. 167 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: That's with a Shantilly race. Tracks Antilly cream. That's things 168 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: here there. So yeah, I'm working this deal. I'm fourteen, 169 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: so I'm working the deal. So I get I get 170 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: to my sophomore year in high school. I registered for 171 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: the class at the junior college. And my mom has 172 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: to drive me at lunch from high school to the 173 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: junior college because I can't drive. I don't have driver. 174 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: I go to the class. I take the French class. 175 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I passed with a beer. All I had 176 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: to do was passed with a beer better. And then 177 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: I got to drive the second sepentsiter I got drive, 178 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: I passed. I can't speak a word of French when 179 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: I got When I passed, I just gotta take the test. 180 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: And but I understood the concept of the language and 181 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: maybe haud of vocabulary about five or six words. But 182 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: I could pass the clops And so my parents said, yes, Pierre. 183 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: Pierre knows an old guy that fought with the Americans 184 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: in the war. He's a principal of the high school. 185 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: He says, yes, you can come to my high school. 186 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: I live in a boarding house. I go to the 187 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: high school and and that was it. Man, and I 188 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: got on that plane. You know we talked about unbreakable. 189 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: I got on that plane. I was sixteen. I just 190 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: turned sixteen. I just got my driver's license. I was 191 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: so excited to drive and in France, get drive to 192 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: your eighteen. And I got on that plane and I cried, 193 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: what am I doing? I'm sixteen, I'm leaving my mom, 194 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: dad and my little sister for a year for your 195 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: passion though, But I I mean, I mean, like take 196 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: off a big bite and then have to do it. 197 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: And I but I got there, and you got thrown 198 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: right in the deep end. What you're saying, yeah, huge 199 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: deep end. Didn't speak the language, learn how to speak 200 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: the language when I was there. I mean I just 201 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: I had there was you know, a line of how 202 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: do you say that? Kept a note of patent pay 203 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: for someone would saying it work to me. I'd write 204 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: the word down. I'd get home at night to the 205 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: to my room because I didn't live with the family, 206 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: didn't reporting him, and I would conjugate the verb and 207 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: conjugated past future tents and and and then I put 208 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: it on the wall. And if it was a now 209 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: and I'd make the translation put on the wall. And 210 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: then that's how I learned the language, and by the 211 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,599 Speaker 1: time I left, I could speak at about it a 212 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: fifth grade level. I could read it about a second 213 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: grade level, right at about a first grade level of 214 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: second grade level. But I could get through it. I mean, 215 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,599 Speaker 1: I could go anywhere I want. It's when I ate 216 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: food in France. I was sixteen eight France and that 217 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: was it. Man, I knew. I wrote my parents and said, 218 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna be. I know what I'm 219 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: gonna do. Came back, never finished high school, went straight 220 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: into college, graduated college or how did you not finish 221 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: high school and goes through to the college, because I 222 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: should know again, Jay, It's just it's just like you, brother, 223 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: it's a little bit of the hustle. I had taken 224 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: the junior college classes with the permission of the school 225 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,479 Speaker 1: and my parents, so I was already in the system. 226 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: So I just went back to JUNI you just send 227 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: up more buses. So the high school calls my senior year. 228 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: Everybody's driving to school for the senior year, you know, 229 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: kind of the parade of cars going in, and I 230 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: just peeled off and drive and go to and go 231 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: to Eureka, which is the big town where I'm from 232 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 1: or Buy my town, and that the councilor in the 233 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: principal called my dad and said, hey, guy didn't show 234 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: up for the first day of school. And my dad's, yeah, 235 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: I don't think guys coming back, not coming back. What 236 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: do you mean he's not coming back? Yeah, I think 237 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: he's I think he's gonna go to college. He can't 238 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: go to college, he doesn't have And he's like, well, 239 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: I don't know. You have to talked the guy about that. 240 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: And by then I was enrolled in school. I had 241 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: a job working as a as a Flambay captain as 242 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: you know, as a cable side cook at a at 243 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: a fine dining restaurant. Went on to college and Sacramento College, 244 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: and then I went to un l V, graduated un 245 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: l V, came out of there again. It got into 246 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: running restaurants. That opened my first restaurant when I was 247 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: twenty six. Did the restaurants opened up? What was our 248 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: first What was our first restaurant? Johnny Garlics, You're in California, 249 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: so we got a wine country I wanted to be. 250 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: I didn't want to be quite back in Ferndale, up 251 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: in northern California. Well, I didn't want to be in 252 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Do you want to be in a big city. 253 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: I want to raise my family in a cultural environment 254 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: where we had good connection to the farms and the community, 255 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: and there were cultural you know, community events and street 256 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: fairs and farmers markets and and that kind of stuff. 257 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: I want to be very in touch with my kids schools. 258 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to be in a big little town. 259 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: But how did you get the money coping your first restaurant? Well, 260 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: that's another deal, Jay, um So. I went to college 261 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: in Vegas and I bet it all on red. Now 262 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: I'm just um So. I wouldn't put it past. I 263 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: went to Actually, I was not a gambler, but I 264 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: was the great. I was the great palm shop because 265 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: I always had money. I you know, worked my butt 266 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: off all through I paid me a way through college. 267 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: I was a deal. I didn't want my parents paying 268 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: me paying for college. As soon as I became as 269 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: soon as I was independent, I'm like, you did your job, 270 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I have the best parents in 271 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: the world. I love my mom and dad, and I 272 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: couldn't say thank you enough. But I'm like, I can 273 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: do this. I can do it on my own and 274 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: so I paid my way through college, and so I 275 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: was very frutable with my money. But I always had money. 276 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: My dad was always the thing about have money in 277 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: your pocket. So people would come to me in the 278 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: dorm or in the and say, hey, man, I got 279 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: this football back coming up, and you want to buy 280 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: a TV, Like, well, yeah, you know, I got twenty bucks. 281 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: I'll give you. No, it's just two and at all TV. 282 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: I said, I'll hold the TV. You win the money, 283 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: you just give me back. You double my money back 284 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: and good. Otherwise I keep They got J d J. Anyhow, 285 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: the point was when I opened Johnny Garlics with my buddy. 286 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: Here this this guy who was another manager in the 287 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: in a restaurant chain that I worked with. We found 288 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: a great deal on a restaurant. We tried to get 289 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: alone with the loan process was gonna take too long. 290 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: This was a got to get the deal done. Today. 291 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: Apparently have five thousand bucks to my name. Laurie was 292 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: pregnant with Hunter. We had a car with four in 293 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: a thousand miles on it, a pickup truck and two rottweilers. 294 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: I called my mom and dad, I said, I found 295 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: the ice. I got I got the deal. I can't 296 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: get this loan to go through, and I need to 297 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: make this happen. My dad does he hang out a 298 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: second penny, guys on the phone. He found the restaurant deal. 299 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: You're good, Yeah, he goes, all right, we're gonna mortgage 300 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: the house. How much you need? Wow. So my parents 301 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: are one year from retiring from their business, our home 302 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: that I was raised in, and my dad mortgages fifty 303 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: thousand bucks off it and gives me and lends me 304 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,479 Speaker 1: fifty tho. I paid him back in six months. Wow. 305 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: But that was started, okay, and then well, so that's 306 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: what's is great. I want people to understand this too. 307 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: Every time we have a guest come on and they 308 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: talk about success, it is about hustle. It's about out 309 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: work in the world. That's how your dreams come true. Right, 310 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: you're the luckiest guy in the world when you outwork 311 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: everybody in the damn room, is right. I walked in that, 312 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: I'll walk it. Well, I'm saying your luck comes because 313 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: you're the fucking guy out work in the world. That's 314 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It happens for you, Like I walked 315 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: in that giant locker room. I'm like, all right, I'm 316 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: gonna do a different everybody, and I'll be the last 317 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: motherfucker standing here. I'll work them, not by a little bit, 318 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: by a lot. And that's how that overnight success comes. 319 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: That's how that quote that luck comes. It's not luck, 320 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: You're right, it's because we take manager into our own 321 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: hands and how work people are doing different. So now 322 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: then you want to talk about a different route, tell 323 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: people a second. I want to say something about that 324 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: because I want to I want to add to what 325 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: you're saying. So under this arm back in the day, 326 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: was just this tattoo of this horse shoe and I 327 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: put that horseshoe on my arm because everybody said I 328 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: was lucky. It's like guy always wins guy, oh you know. 329 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: And I used to go around talking about how lucky 330 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: I was. And an old guy who I have his 331 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: tattoo on my arms cat named Jack LaVar. Jack Lebar 332 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: was probably one of the biggest thing besides my dad. 333 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: Jack Lebar was probably the biggest influences. And we lost Jack, 334 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: but not too soon because he taught me a lot. 335 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: And one of the things he said to me goes, 336 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: stop stop saying You're lucky because it's not luck. He said. 337 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: You have spent your life working your ass off, educating yourself, 338 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: and most importantly, you surround yourself with great people. He says. 339 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: You have an army of friends, an army of colleagues, 340 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: and you make things happen. Things don't happen to you. 341 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: You make things happen, and that's very and that's what 342 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: you are. Ja. This isn't luck. This is determination and 343 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: drive and will and focus and never say die, attitude 344 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: and being unbreakable. And that's one of the reasons that 345 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: I think you and I are so close is that 346 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: nothing was ever given to us my parents, my parents made, 347 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: I think, but the most of my dad, my mom 348 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: and dad have made in their life was in one 349 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: year open doors. We checked doors down. That's the whole point. 350 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: So it's not it has nothing to do with luck. 351 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: What has to do with is setting a plan? What 352 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: has to do with this determination? What has so all 353 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: of those words all equal, getting the goal or having 354 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: the success, and and luck has nothing. Luck has nothing 355 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: to do with it. So I don't want people. Here's 356 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: the thing, Jay, I don't want someone to look back 357 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: at and say I'm unlucky. I lost my little sister 358 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: twelve years ago, my dad got pancreatic cancer five years ago, 359 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: and then just beat liver cancer two months ago. Do 360 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: you want to talk about luck? If we're gonna go 361 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: into a luck category, I got bad luck. I don't 362 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: play that. That's bullshit. I love that, dude, I love it. 363 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: So you open Johnny Garlics, but then you kicked another 364 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: door down. Tell us how you got onto the Food Network? 365 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: Because I love this story and most people don't know 366 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: this well. I read that story is not told enough. 367 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: I read that book called You Too Can Be on 368 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: Television by Jay Glazer. It's one page long and scratching, 369 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: stiff book, drawing by number. Yes, really well done. Forward 370 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: by Michael Strahan. Um, So here's the gosh. You want 371 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: to talk about this? So I'm always the one that's 372 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: encouraging people. I try to push people all the time. 373 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: You not talk about it, but to do it. And 374 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: you know, there's a great story of a guy that 375 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: wants to win the lottery and and wants to donate 376 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: all the money to goodwill and to people and helping 377 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 1: and he's finally so distraught after five years, ten years 378 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: of trying to win the lottery that he's gonna you know, 379 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: that he's gonna end at all. And he says, uh, 380 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: they can't believe that. You know, he's prayed for so 381 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: long and it's not happening. Sky's part in the booming 382 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: voice comes down and says, could you just at least 383 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: buy a lottery ticket, you know, don't don't talk about 384 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: it happening, don't think about it happening, don't wish it 385 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: was going to happen. Put it into action. And I've 386 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: always been that guy telling my friends, and I pushed 387 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: more my friends into business. Say one of my really 388 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 1: one of my best friends, r L has the salon 389 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: and I told him from day one, whenever this building 390 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: comes to show, you buy this building. They came for sale, 391 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: and he's like, how do I do this? I said, 392 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. However, we gotta do it, and 393 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: he persevered to it. He bought his first big building. 394 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: So I've always been that guy. Well, a show comes 395 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: on the Food Network and it's called the Next Food 396 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: Network Star. I don't watch TV quite frankly, I had 397 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: never even watched the Food Network, not one time. I 398 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: saw one five minute clip of Rachel Ray and I'm like, wow, 399 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: look at that girl. Go But I've never seen the 400 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: food because I'm a chef. I owned restaurants, and I 401 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: don't watch TV really a lot anyways, except for Fox Football. 402 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: I said it before you did, um, but I don't 403 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: watch off TV. So the second season is coming, and 404 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: everybody they told me the first season, and you guy 405 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: should go in the show. You should be on the show. 406 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:36,479 Speaker 1: I'm like, God, even don't get it. They said, it's 407 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: like it's like, uh, Food Network, American Idol. I'm like, okay, whatever. 408 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: So I get pushed enough and finally I sent in 409 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: a demo tape. And the demo tape is ridiculous. It's 410 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: such a I'm mocking it so bad because I don't 411 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: want to do it. I mean, really, why do I 412 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: want to go on TV compete with a bunch of people. 413 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: I've seen some reality TV stuff and then all the 414 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 1: all the bullshit and then get kicked off. And I said, 415 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: I'm successful. At that time, I had four restaurants. I 416 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: was doing great, and I one day I said, okay, 417 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 1: I push everybody else. I'm trying to set the example 418 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: for my son's um writer hadn't been born yet, and 419 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: I said, all right, I'll send the tape, and so 420 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: I sent that. I started DVD and so I said that, 421 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: and I get picked. So I go out of the 422 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: show and I go onto it with this attitude and 423 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, you know what, I'll just take 424 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: this positive opportunity. Never been to New York, never met Emerald. 425 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: Let me just see what this is like. I show 426 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: up in a leather jacket, shorts and flip flops, middle 427 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: of November and New York snow on the ground. And 428 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: I walked into a room and everybody's buttoned up in 429 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: white chef coats. I'm like, oh boy, you ain't Northern 430 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: California anymore. And I didn't squeeze it too tight. I 431 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: just did what I did. I just who I am 432 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: wasn't going to change. And he said, jump up on 433 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: that rock and look at the camera and say and 434 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: the next Foe network start And I go, f you, 435 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, because I know what you guys 436 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: will do with that. You'll take that and put it 437 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: out there and I'm gonna look like the biggest, you know, 438 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: jerk in the world. I said, I'm not saying any 439 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: of that stuff. I said, I'm just here. You want 440 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: me here, here's what you get. And I ended up winning. 441 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: So I end up winning the show. And I had 442 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: a show called Guys Big Bite, which they did great. 443 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: Now it's called Guy's Ranch Kitchen. It's been running for 444 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: a long time. There's been sixteen years now. But the 445 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: next show they gave me, they gave me a pilot show. 446 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: And I did the pilot and it was called Gotta 447 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: Get It. And there was a show about kitchen equipment 448 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: and gadgets, like you pour cream and sugar in a 449 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,959 Speaker 1: ball that's frozen and you're kicking around the yard and 450 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: makes ice cream. Or you have an oven that's you know, Bluetooth, 451 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: and think fifteen years hego sixteen years ago. Bluetooth talks 452 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: to your phone. You can turn your oven on from 453 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: you know, your office. So I did the thing and 454 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: the pilot they did this pilot. I don't know what 455 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: the pilot is. And they did it and they said, uh, 456 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: the pilot got picked up for ten episodes. And I'm like, 457 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 1: oh man, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna be able 458 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: to do that. Like what I'm like, now, I I 459 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: can't I can't do that. You did the pilot. I said, well, 460 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what doing a pilot means. I thought 461 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: you got I think the show suck. I said, I'm 462 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: not a gadget chef. I'm just a regular guy. You know, 463 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a avocado slicer when you 464 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,360 Speaker 1: peel it kind of thing. I just do the way 465 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: we're supposed to do it. So then the president of 466 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: that production company calls me, rips me. I'm sorry, I'm 467 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: not doing it. Then the finally, the president of Food 468 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: Network calls me. Brook Johnson calls me. She says, you're 469 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: turning down a primetime show. Why did you apply for 470 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: our show? I said, because because I had to do 471 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 1: it to prove that I could do it. She so, 472 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: you don't want to be sorry, I said, I would 473 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 1: love to do a show, but if the show has 474 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: got to resonate with me, you're not gonna fake this. 475 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: I'm not an actor. She says, you know you could 476 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 1: be losing your whole future with Food. I said, I apologize. 477 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be somebody I'm not. I'm not, 478 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: which authenticity is huge to me. And so that was it. Man. 479 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: Everyone was pissed and I didn't have an agent at 480 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: the time, and but everybody around me was like, whoa 481 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: you crazy? And then they came back six months later 482 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: and said, Okay, we're gonna give you one more try. 483 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: We have a show called Diners, Drive Ins, and Die. 484 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: That's that sounds like me dives, I'm down, and that's 485 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: what started. Wow. Could you ever imagined like when when 486 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: at one point did you realize like, oh my god, 487 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 1: my life has changed. When I was in Dallas for 488 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: Rich Crackers, standing on the Fox stage with this bulldog 489 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: that's working me over faster, quicker, funnier, wittier than me, 490 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 1: I went, wow, and I'm actually going somewhere with this stuff. 491 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: I don't know, Jay, it's it's been when I look 492 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: at the things that you know. I did an event 493 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: the other day or a couple of months ago with 494 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: Tim McGraw. I loved him, a great guy, and we 495 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 1: did a fundraiser raising money for veterans, active military, and 496 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: first responders. I did a food and wine side of 497 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: things in an auction. Tim did a concert. We only 498 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: did it for five people, and then we had a 499 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: celebrity softball tournament the next day, just a small group 500 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: of people. We raised over a million dollars, but more importantly, 501 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: we raised a ton of awareness. And as you know, 502 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: because you work with veterans a ton and and you 503 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: know what is needed inside of this. It's just it's 504 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: if the world could really comprehend what veterans go through, 505 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: they would be they would stop in their tracks and say, 506 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: wait a second, I want you to go back to 507 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: Donner's driving Dodge. At what point when you're doing that 508 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: show you realize, oh my god, I'm not just the 509 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: guy from Johnny Garlics anymore, like oh my god, ship 510 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: has changed. None of it really hit me right between 511 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: the eyes, like really got me. Doing Make a Wish Foundation, 512 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: which was probably my favorite thing that I've ever done 513 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: with my career, working with kids that are terminally ill, 514 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: having my sister lost my sister to cancer. That was 515 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: something like when these kids could go do anything, they 516 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: could go anywhere, they could meet anybody they want, I 517 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: would you would assume I'm surprised how many celebrities won't 518 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: participate in Make a Wish. That still blows my mind. 519 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: But for me, it was like they want to be 520 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: with me, They want to you know, so these kids 521 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 1: would come to Triple D and I was so that 522 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: was probably one of the big like wow moments, like 523 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 1: that's you know, but I'll be honest with you, and 524 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: this not to sound hollywoody, but when I got my 525 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: star in Hollywood, I had restaurants right around the corner 526 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: from Hollywood Boulevard and from where all the stars are, 527 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: and I remember walking by them going to the band. 528 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: When that happened, my dad would just be pancreatic cancer. 529 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey came and spoke on my behalf Hunter spoke 530 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: on my bath. A bunch of my friends and fans 531 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: are there. That was the moment I kind of went, 532 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: unless they rip up the sidewalks in Hollywood, my grandkids, 533 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: grandkids will see that name. And it was that people like, 534 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: is this the dream come true? I said, I'm a 535 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: I'm a hippie kid from Firdale. Okay, I never even 536 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: a million years anticipated that that would happen. That morning, folks, 537 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: we talked about you know, I've talked to a lot 538 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: on this show about loyalty. I knew how important to 539 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: supposed the guy guy knows this now. I had a 540 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: back surgery that morning and I scheduled it for six am, 541 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: So here's a procedure so I can get to the 542 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: star to be there for my brother, right, And I 543 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: was all sorts of propofoled out, probably had more fun 544 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 1: than anybody, but I was there for you on your 545 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: big day. And that's what you want people to understand. 546 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: That loyalty is a dying art and it's beautiful and 547 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: that's what we need to do. And Man, to see 548 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: you up there that day with again, I was a 549 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: little hazy from the anesthesia, but I'm sitting up there 550 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: to him going, oh my god, Matthew McConney is introducing 551 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: him and like, look what he's become. But but the 552 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: difference is from the day I met you and now 553 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: you've never changed. The authenticity has stayed the same, and 554 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: that's where people you Again, I think they looked at 555 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: us a certain way of these fucking crazy guys who 556 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: were these guys, But we've never changed. So the authenticity 557 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: is what our equity really is. Just touched on something, 558 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: Jake that I think we have to flex on more often. 559 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: And I don't know why that my word these days 560 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 1: lean into flex on. We always assume that people know 561 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 1: how much we love them and how much we respect 562 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: them and how much we honor them, and how much 563 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: we would do for them. And unfortunately we have this 564 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 1: perception in our mind that we don't often explain or 565 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: share or lean into as we need to. And you 566 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: did that day. I mean you do all the time. 567 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: J J doesn't send me messages, you guys. Uh. He 568 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: doesn't send me text on us. He sends me recordings, 569 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: which are great. I mean, because you really can get 570 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: the sense, you can get the inflection, you can get 571 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: them on it. You can get all the different modulation 572 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: and the dramatic pause and the whole thing. I think 573 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: they're way better than a text message. And then when 574 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: I don't hear from your while, send them to you 575 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: just to make sure because I know you're so busy 576 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: that your head's on straight. But the thing is is 577 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: I think, and that's a great thing. It's it's part 578 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: of your book, Jay, which I've shared your book with 579 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: so many people, and it's so interesting because I have 580 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: you gave me like ten books and I have them 581 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: in my office and I think I'm down to like too, 582 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 1: because it will be every once in a while when 583 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: someone will be here and we'll be talking and they'll 584 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: kind of be giving me some of this because I'm, 585 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: you know, one of the older guys in my group. 586 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: And someone'll be talking about and say, Matt Cousins going 587 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,479 Speaker 1: through this thing, Go you know what I got this buddy. 588 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: You know Jay Glazier is he said, he wrote this 589 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: book and he does this program with these veterans. I said, 590 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: you haven't take this book, and like it's your copy. 591 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: I'm like, it's my only copy, which is also called 592 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: Unbreakable by the way, right, it's my only copy, but 593 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: go ahead and take it. And I've had more response 594 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: from doing that with people. But the point is lean 595 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: in and and share that message. So I'm sharing the 596 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: message with a great friend who's helping a cousin or 597 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: one of my great friends who needs help. And uh, 598 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 1: we have so much power. We don't exercise our power 599 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: as friends and family, I think as often as we 600 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: need to. We're so busy in their social media and 601 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: there's all all this stuff going on, and we really 602 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: do have the power to move the pendulum of energy 603 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: and spirit and mental health and so forth, more than 604 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: we know we do, or more than we exercise that 605 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: we do. And that's the whole thing with mental health. 606 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: Because of social media, we all kind of think our 607 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 1: lives stuck. We're all comparing ourselves to somebody else. We're 608 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: all looking down at our phones constantly, and we're losing 609 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 1: that connection. So by me talking about this and giving 610 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: it words and showing other people, man, I struggle on 611 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: the top of my game, and I struggle now just 612 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: as much as I ever have, maybe a little less 613 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: now I'm about because now I understand how to open 614 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: up some people more and to show my vulnerability more, 615 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 1: knowing that their strength. That no one I can call 616 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 1: a guy Fieri when I'm struggling, and that man, I 617 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 1: got people there for me, and I don't have to 618 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: suffer alone anymore, and suffer in silence is huge and 619 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: that's what our that's what our jobs are, and that's 620 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: the thing that I think we have to get over. 621 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: And social media is honestly, there's really positive aspects of it. 622 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: It's awful, but then there's really negative aspects of it. 623 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: And what I always try to remind people of is 624 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: you have to do things. If you want your car 625 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: to run great, you have to do things to your 626 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: car if you want you if you want to if 627 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: you want to continue the life of your car, you 628 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: gotta wash it so it doesn't rust, you know, washing 629 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: action that change the oil so it runs properly, change 630 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: the brakes, change the tires. You gotta clean it. You 631 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: gotta give it some love. You gotta take care of 632 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: it if you wanted to perform. Well, we don't think 633 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: they've got the same thing with the with the brain 634 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: and the body. We need to exercise. And I'm not 635 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: saying every it has to be is ripped as J. 636 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: We have to eat properly, you know, we don't. Thanks 637 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: for the random flex J right in the middle. Random flex. Okay, 638 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: But my my seventeen year old son Rider, who was 639 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: a junior in high school, and we're talking and he says, 640 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: you know, I really want to get ready for my 641 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: senior year and playing ball. And I said, then let's 642 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: get focused on what you're eating. I said, because it's 643 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: like me putting bad gas in the car. So we 644 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: need to exercise, even if it's just getting out walking, 645 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: get out of the house. We need to eat properly 646 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: and eat in in proper increments at proper times. We 647 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: need to have the discipline of communication. We need just 648 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: step outside of our comfort zone of just sitting in 649 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: the house watching TV. You're playing on social media, and 650 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: make sure that we have human contact and interaction. There's 651 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: all these little simple principles. Basically, it's all the stuff 652 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: that taught you in kindergarten. And take care of yourself, 653 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: feel good about yourself, get your hair cut, shaved, wear clean, glow. 654 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: I mean, do these things that add to yourself value. 655 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: And I just look at this all the time when 656 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: I see someone spiraling or getting and I have a 657 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: good friend of mine who well, I'll watch him starting 658 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: to dip and I'll catch him and I'm like, hold up, 659 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: what is up? Uh? And I know what that means. 660 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, well, let's go right to the beginning. 661 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: Have you been going to the gym? Now? Okay, well, 662 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: let's go right now, you and me. It's three in 663 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: the afternoon and I had already worked out. Let's just go. 664 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: Let's go for a walk, Let's go for a hike, 665 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: positive endorphins going. Don't sit there and talk to him 666 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: about it. You know what do you been eating? Uh? 667 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: Let's go story. Okay, this is how you make far 668 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: oh far o chicken breast. You know, some green beans 669 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: eat this quit eating his sugar laden ship that sends 670 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: you on these spikes, that drops you down into these 671 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: The sugar that's in food processed foods probably the biggest headache. 672 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: We're giving air cells. But these things like energy drinks 673 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: and so forth. I mean in moderation when things are right, 674 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: But otherwise what we're doing is we put these chemicals 675 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: in our body, or people putting chemicals in their body 676 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: is messing with their head. And if you can think 677 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: about the hangover that you get from alcohol coming down 678 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: from that, how discombobulated feel the sugar hangover. Sugar is 679 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: the biggest drug in the world. So all right, before 680 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: I let you go here, two quick things. One, you 681 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: know I have having you on here a super Bowl 682 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: week as my guest because that's when you and I 683 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: met at the super Bowl. But man, you have kind 684 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: of you know, carved your own nicheer and the super Bowl. 685 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: Tellus where you got go on this week? Well, I'm 686 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: gonna be carrying Jay's bags and of course making sure 687 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,959 Speaker 1: that he's doing good, spotting me at the gym. And 688 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: again yeah, following Jim, I just stand there and make 689 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: sure I keep Jay with a granola bar and you know, 690 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: um no. So I love the super Bowl. I love 691 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: sporting events, and I love the crescendo. I went to 692 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: Wimbledon one time, amazing. I was the Olympics one time, amazing. 693 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: I want to go to World Cup. I go to 694 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: NBA All Stars, one of the greatest sporting events in 695 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: the world. But the super Bowl nothing like it. It 696 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,959 Speaker 1: is It's the big dance, It's everything in sports. So 697 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: for years so I was beyond thrill and I got 698 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: to go to my first Super Bowl. Go to every 699 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: super Bowl that I have since I've since I had 700 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: the opportunity. My kids love going. But this year, so 701 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: every year I've gone, and I've done a for the 702 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: last five years, I've done this great tailgate program, and 703 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: I've been talking to people, are like, I'm gonna take 704 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: it to the next level, and you know, I'm about 705 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: the people and trying to make fun ship happen. And 706 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: so I got with a group called Medium Rare and 707 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: we've done some amazing projects together. We did a project 708 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: project together last year called Restaurant Reboots, where we raised 709 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: a bunch of money and gave away scholarships to people 710 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: to get into the restaurant industry scholarships to help people 711 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: because we need industry professionals. We need people growing inside 712 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: of our industry to keep the restaurant business going. Just 713 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: to really and it was a televised thing that we did. 714 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: We had all chefs and industry professionals in talking about 715 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: rebuilding the industries right after the pandemic. So the group 716 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: is called Medium Rare and we're doing a tailgate. I said, 717 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: I want to do it tilgate and said, okay, what 718 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: kind of tilgate? So I wanted to ten people. They 719 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: go what I said, when you go to the Super Bowl, 720 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: you have the NFL experience, which is awesome, private parties 721 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: which most people can't go to, and then you go 722 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I said. The reason we tailgate 723 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: as football fans is it's the camaraderie of hanging around 724 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: the other fans. It's the warm up to the big game. 725 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: And that's what as a Raider going to the pregame, 726 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: going to the you know, sitting in the park line 727 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: and we would leave Northern County to get to the 728 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: Raiders State and we leave here at five in the 729 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: morning to get down to get a good spot. That 730 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: was the day it was, so it's fun. But you 731 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: can't ailgate at the at the super Bowl because most 732 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: people are from out of town. Don't have to tailgate 733 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: stuff parkings, you know, terrible. So I said, let's do this. 734 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: So they said, okay, great, So we're doing an event. 735 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 1: We have Diplo, Great Buddy of Mine, Low Cash, Christoph 736 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: Press with great Buddies Mine. They're gonna perform. We got 737 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: all kinds of food trucks, Triple D trucks and great 738 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:25,760 Speaker 1: Arizona restaurants and chefs coming in. It's free pretends. People 739 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: people come, They to thousands of people. They buy it 740 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: for the food trucks buy from the beer. But cash 741 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 1: app is one of the sponsors. They're giving away my 742 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: trash can nachos. Anybody that has cash app on the phone, 743 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: they're giving them free trash can nachos. There's games to 744 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: be played, prizes to be one, free entertainment. It's right 745 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: across the street from the super Bowl. And we raised 746 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: a bunch of money to put it on. And people like, 747 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 1: why would you do this. I'm like, because it's the greatest. 748 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: It's it's American pastime. It's everybody deserves to be able 749 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: to celebrate the super Bowl, whether or not you can 750 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 1: buy a ticket or not, They're gonna get the feeling, 751 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: the energy to you know, the electricity easy goes on 752 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Now, we do have a v I 753 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: P section over there where people tickets and do that 754 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,919 Speaker 1: whole thing. But the deal was is when you got 755 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: the opportunity and you've got the power of the people, 756 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,240 Speaker 1: and you got these businesses that want to be involved, 757 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: why not flex on it, get that shot, give give something. 758 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 1: That was the idea, So of the thirty to four 759 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: thirty right before the super Bowl, and it's gonna be awesome. 760 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,320 Speaker 1: The other thing I want to promote real crickets. My 761 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: favorite show in all season is tournam A Champions. When's 762 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: that air next? Let me tell you I built Tournament 763 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: of Champions again on the same premise of why you 764 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: do what you do to to help people. I've got 765 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 1: all these amazing chef friends that have all this talent. 766 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: It is my favorite show, my favorite show platform for 767 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: them to kick ass on. So I built Tournament of Champions. 768 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: Took me a long time to get the network to 769 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: understand it. Like not everybody's into sports. I go, yeah, 770 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 1: they're into cooking sports and this is what these are, 771 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: These are these are there's your culinary athletes. February nineteen. 772 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: We're going to kick ass and take names season four, 773 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: and I promise you it's gonna bloil your mind. The 774 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: stuff that comes. What the chefs that are competing are 775 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,919 Speaker 1: just next up incredible. And then I was with you 776 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: that we we can't tell the story unfortunately, but I 777 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: brought Sean mcveigha guy's little house over there while he 778 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: was filming, tourn him into champions one night and uh, 779 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: guy into a scoop before anybody else's we Uh we 780 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: we got into the booze a little bit there and 781 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,919 Speaker 1: uh he got he got something. He became the best 782 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: insider in America that night. But that's another story that 783 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: will never be able to tell you won't, but I'll 784 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 1: tell you what I have. I'm not a RAM, I'm 785 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: not a RAM. I'm a RAMS fan because of McVeigh. 786 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,400 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you something. What a neat guy and 787 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,800 Speaker 1: Jay you've introduced me. I gotta I gotta say this 788 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: about you. You are magnetic and the way you take 789 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,280 Speaker 1: your time and your energy and the way you share 790 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 1: with other people. I hope you've explained sometime on this 791 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: podcast about your son. It's probably when I try to 792 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: explain who you are to people, because everybody thinks they 793 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,120 Speaker 1: know who you are. People Magazine did a thing me 794 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: and they said, you know, I'm not the guy you 795 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: know or you think you know. If anybody gets to 796 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 1: really ever hear your story who you are and what 797 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,319 Speaker 1: and what you've done as a dad, it is the 798 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,879 Speaker 1: most tear jerking drop you down. You you you look 799 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: at yourself after you hear the Jay Glazier story and 800 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: you go that it's really amazing. So hopefully, and I 801 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 1: haven't to people don't know that I adopted my son. 802 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 1: I meant him when he was two and adopted him 803 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 1: years later, and yeah, he's but you're the sole person 804 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: in his life and you're not his biological father, and 805 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 1: you're not I mean, I don't want to give the 806 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,000 Speaker 1: story at the at the at the seasonality of your 807 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,359 Speaker 1: podcast we share that with people, because really, man, where 808 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: you dug that out of and appreciate that from that 809 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 1: inside of yourself is just another story. Sometimes in life 810 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: you just gotta do the right thing. So here's what 811 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I'm gonna have you on for a 812 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: second episode at some point here, because that's what we're 813 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: gonna do. Because I haven't asked you in your un 814 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,879 Speaker 1: breakable moment, we haven't gotten into the other deep stuff 815 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 1: we want to get into anything. Somewhere along the lines, 816 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: we're gonna have episode two year good any time anywhere. 817 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 1: Uh we're down, and uh, I love you and I've 818 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,439 Speaker 1: loved you, my brother. I hope to see you next weekend. Man. 819 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 1: I always appreciate you walking this walk with me, my friend. 820 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 1: Thank you, love and respect, Buddy,