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Guaranteed Human. Oh, my God. Guy Fieri's here. Clean up this mess. Last time I came, I said, I wanted a gold bike. Oh. You need your own gold. You know what? Can we order a gold bike for Guy? Yes, I'll go, you know your show is expensive and well-produced when you don't have to wear headsets anymore.

No, no.

Guy, it's good to have you here all times.

Thank you.

Did you know your first visit to our show was April 21st, 2006?

I was just telling my wife about that.

Every time that we run at each other, he reminds me of how he was the launch pad for my career, which I really appreciate. No, it was. But I did chicken parmesan. You did. And we picked yours as the winner. Right? And you were then chosen as the next big superstar at the network. That's the title. That's what they call it. It was called the Next Food Network Star, but I like that title a lot. Much better. Much more exciting. Well, Guy, it's good to see you. We just, of course, saw you down in Miami at the South Beach Wine Food Festival. Right, right. Do you enjoy doing those things? It's a lot of work. We were just talking about it. Out of all the activities and events we get invited to, that is still hands down my favorite. It really is. it's a great time to see everybody which we went to that big luncheon over at shows um but it's my wife's favorite all my friends favorite

everybody loads up you know we all come in and now we're you know we have a house down in

florida so it gives us a chance to go to the house and do that but what it's i mean the weather's

great i think that lee shregor and the southernacier team put on a great show. And every superstar chef is there. By the way, he just mentioned Lee. Yes. Lee's on our show a lot. All the time. He's the biggest pain in the ass on this show. He invites himself. He invites himself and insists on Harry Naker. And you better let him in. He is Lee Ryan Shreger, right? He's coming in whether invited or not. But you just said very kind things about Lee and none of us have ever said one nice thing about it. So you're sort of just... I'm on Team Lee. That if I want to have my demo, it's when people are awake. You know, it's nice to take care of the king. Did you have a

chance to go to my TOC event on Friday night? I did not. Oh, I was not invited. Okay, let's just

get this clarified. I think we've said this. I brought gifts, by the way. I think I just lost

our gifts. Flavored town barbecue sauce, hot ride wine, and Sonto Tequila. If you consume the majority of these throughout our talk today, I promise this, we will get super high ratings.

So tournament of champions is, you know, the big hot shot show on Sunday for the Food Network.

And I made that show because I've got all these brothers and sisters that are super chefs.

And I wanted to give them their UFC of competition. And these are the biggest chefs. These are the ones that are super chefs and I wanted to I wanted to give them their UFC of competition

and these are the biggest chefs these are the ones that are already tried and true some aspiring

some you know some that are fighting in for their chance what we call the play ins so they're fighting

for a chance to get in then there's some really established chefs and so we've just got this whole mix

and it's real cutout I mean it's sudden deathout. I mean, it's sudden death. It's one and done. It's that NCAA tournament style. These chefs come in, a ton of money on the line, and most importantly, a title. They get to be a champ, and they're a champ in perpetuity forever. And by the way, tournament of champions this season premiered Sunday. It's done. It's out. It's out. It's up and it's rolling. And

there's tears. There's jubilation. There's frustration. There's some language. It doesn't get, you know,

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