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The Dog Walk

Thursday 2/1/24 - How a Knife Sharpening Family Created a Successful Business

The Dog Walk

Barstool Sports

Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Johnny Maestranzi joins the show to talk about his career as a knife sharpener. We get into how his family started in this field, the craziest ways to test the sharpness of knives, which food is the hardest to cut, and more.


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0:00.0

Hey Dog Walk Listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.

0:06.0

Prime Members can listen to ad free on Amazon Music.

0:09.0

All right, but man, today is Thursday.

0:11.0

It is February 1st, welcome to the dog walk presented by

0:13.9

Barcelona sports I have a local job interview today I'm joined by Johnny

0:18.0

Miss Tranzi from A Miss Tranzi sons and Johnny you are a knife

0:22.3

sharpener you are part of a knife sharpening

0:24.7

empire, is that right? That is correct. So actually shout out to Dante, he put me

0:30.3

in touch with you years ago. And I have so many random emails and little spots

0:36.0

where I take notes or I'm trying to bring people in to do these.

0:38.8

And somehow you got shuffled by the wayside. So I'm to have you here I'm excited to talk about knife sharpening because

0:46.7

I always find it interesting like the little things like this

0:49.8

That just kind of people don't really think about.

0:52.6

Yeah.

0:53.6

And that this is like probably like example A of like a thing that just goes under look like

1:00.1

how are all these restaurants and grocery stores and whatnot having their

1:04.3

knives like ready to go on a daily basis and it's because of companies like yours.

1:08.3

Yeah exactly. So it's your who owns a company.

1:12.5

It's your parents company or what's how does it?

1:14.8

How did this begin?

1:15.6

How did that all go down?

1:17.4

Well, yeah, this company.

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