Dinner Takes All ft. Chef Robert Irvine
The Jon Taffer Podcast
Jon Taffer
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
From friends to rivals, Chef Robert Irvine joins The Jon Taffer Podcast to break down the intense competition on their new show, Restaurant Rivals, now streaming on discovery+. Robert Irvine is a world renowned chef, entrepreneur, author, and my good buddy which made him the perfect opponent to go head to head in a winner takes all showdown. We break down what it takes to win and how hard we fought for bragging rights. Shut it down and listen to another amazing podcast… now!
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want to share someone else's thoughts. |
| 0:04.0 | I want to create my own original thoughts. |
| 0:06.5 | I want to create my own original solutions. |
| 0:09.4 | I want to look at situations and come up with my own phrasing, my own words, and do it my way. |
| 0:14.6 | This is the John Taffer podcast. |
| 0:18.3 | Shut it down. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the John Tafer podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | If you haven't subscribed, go click on subscribe right now and subscribe to this podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm in the middle of bar rescue season. |
| 0:29.7 | So we're only doing about one a month these days, but the ones we do are really important podcasts. |
| 0:34.8 | And if you'd like to be in a podcast or interact with me, just send an email to |
| 0:38.9 | podcast at john tafford.com. That's podcast at john tafford.com. And today, I have one of my |
| 0:45.6 | favorite guests. You know, today, the premiere of restaurant rivals hit Discovery Plus. And I am really |
| 0:52.5 | excited. You know, I've been doing Bar Rescue now for about 11 years. |
| 0:55.5 | I've done about 230 episodes. |
| 0:57.5 | And my fans and Roberts, Irvine's fans for many years have said, you guys got to work together. |
| 1:03.2 | You guys got to work together. |
| 1:04.3 | But we never could because he's on one network. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm on another network and due to contractual exclusivity and things like that, |
| 1:11.3 | we couldn't make it happen. But we always wanted to and we became great friends. Then Discovery |
| 1:16.4 | called me and said, John, would you like to work with Robert Irvin? I'm very excited, but I thought |
| 1:21.4 | I'd be working shoulder to shoulder with Chef Irvine, not in competition with him. Well, when I heard the format, I love Robert. The opportunity |
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