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00:00All right guys, welcome back to One More with Dana Beers. Just wrapped up an
00:04unbelievable episode with my guy Chef Donnie. I don't know if you can tell, I'm
00:09a little bit buzzed. Me and Chef had some brewskis, we talked all about his
00:13history here at Barstool, told some awesome stories. You probably see a lot
00:17of his recent stuff here on the Yakkin in Chicago, but he started here way back
00:21in 2018. He has a great story, the dude is electric, he's one of the funniest
00:27guys I've ever met, and we sat down and chopped it up and had an awesome time.
00:31Check out Chef Donnie on YouTube, on Instagram, on Twitter, wherever you need
00:36to find him, he's the best. But for now, check out this episode of One More with
00:41Chef Donnie. Have an awesome time. Welcome to One More, Episode 2 with Chef Donnie.
00:47I was gonna do a thing, I'm not gonna do it. You can't, you've been saying this since I got
00:51here.
00:51I was gonna intro you in French and then I don't know the words.
00:54I don't know the words, dude. I don't know the words. You gotta do it.
01:01That's not bad. What did I say?
01:02Welcome to the show, my friend, my very talented friend, Chef Donnie.
01:05Wow! Yeah!
01:06I mean, you basically said all the words, none of that was really French, but...
01:09No, it was words.
01:10Merci beaucoup, bienvenu.
01:11What?
01:12Enchanté.
01:13What's that?
01:14Enchanté means nice to meet you, I don't know why I said that.
01:18All right, Donnie.
01:19Yes, Dana.
01:20I feel like a lot of people don't know your background.
01:23Okay.
01:23And you started basically for free a long time ago.
01:27I was junior in college and all my friends went abroad and I decided not to go abroad.
01:31I was like, I'm gonna stay because I was running my own little pop-up restaurant and doing burgers
01:36at a local bar.
01:37They let me take over the food menu.
01:39But then all my friends packed up and left for abroad and I looked around second semester
01:42like, there's no one here.
01:43Like, this is gonna suck.
01:43Where were you at?
01:44Wisconsin?
01:44In Madison, yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:45I had no friends.
01:46And I had the idea, I said, what if I switch all my classes to online and just go backpack
01:51and do my own abroad.
01:52I had a friend that was working in the Olympics, Winter Olympics that year in Pyongyang.
01:56Pyongyang.
01:56Pyongyang.
01:57Yeah.
01:57In Korea.
01:57He's like, if you make it to Korea, you can sleep for free.
02:00I can get you in the Olympics for free.
02:01Like, all that.
02:01I was like, perfect.
02:02I have enough money to get to Korea and back to Thailand where I was at the time.
02:05Take a sip.
02:07So I got to Korea and I had been following him and he tweeted, any Americans at the Winter
02:13Olympics in Korea let me know.
02:15Just dropped out of college.
02:17Was a year away from graduating.
02:18At Madison, Wisconsin.
02:19Good school.
02:20So fuck it.
02:21I think I have a job at Barstool Sports.
02:23I'm not exactly sure.
02:24So I met him at the bar.
02:25We went to speed skating.
02:27We washed it.
02:28And then we got hammered at the bar after.
02:30He goes, I'm not gonna lie, that was the most boring Winter Olympic event you could have
02:33taken me to.
02:34Like, that sucked.
02:35It was like the long.
02:36Yeah.
02:36He's like, that sucked.
02:37Hey, how are you?
02:38From the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
02:39I'm here with Chef Donnie.
02:42And we're about to throw back some, I don't know what this brand is, but it's pretty damn
02:45tasty.
02:46Donnie squared.
02:47Cheers.
02:47I could use an intern if you know how to shoot and edit.
02:50I could use a full, like an intern in China.
02:52Wide through my teeth.
02:53I had Premiere.
02:53I had the software.
02:54But you didn't actually know.
02:55I never even opened it.
02:56Yeah.
02:56I just got back from Barstool meeting.
02:59Everything went well.
03:00I got the job.
03:02Thank God.
03:02I'm going back to China.
03:03College cook.
03:04How did that start?
03:05College cook started.
03:06I did my freshman year.
03:09What?
03:09Looking at your watch already?
03:11It was a nervous tick.
03:12What the fuck, bro?
03:12I did my freshman year.
03:13I was in Vermont for a year.
03:14No, no.
03:14You can't be looking at your watch.
03:15It just started two minutes ago.
03:17I wasn't looking at my watch, dude.
03:18That was like, I want to get out of here.
03:19Yeah, I'm going to do a replay.
03:21It's a nervous tick.
03:21You're getting like that.
03:22It's a nervous tick.
03:22Oh, we have no time to talk about the college cook.
03:24It's a nervous tick.
03:25You don't want to talk about the fucking college.
03:26Alright, yeah.
03:26Let's move on.
03:27No, no, no.
03:29The college cook, freshman year I got to college and I was so fucking sick of dorm food.
03:33I went to University of Vermont freshman year.
03:35You did?
03:35Yes.
03:36What?
03:36I was a catamount.
03:36You were up in Burlington?
03:37I was up in Burlington for a year.
03:38That's weed city.
03:39Yeah, it is weed city.
03:40Oh my god.
03:41I didn't know that.
03:42When Street came there, I was a boy.
03:43Really?
03:44Yeah, yeah.
03:44As a man?
03:47As a man?
03:48I was, you know, went in Rome.
03:49Dick out?
03:50Dick out.
03:51My R.I. saw my cock.
03:52Yeah.
03:53So I went to Burlington and the dining hall was called The Grundle and the food was so
03:56bad.
03:57It was like Sodexo, just like terrible.
03:59I had the idea.
03:59I was like, I can't eat this anymore.
04:01Like, I'm sure kids feel the same way.
04:02I'm going to start a catering business.
04:04I'm going to have a website where you could order a home cooked meal again.
04:07ChefDani.com, we do grad parties.
04:09We do bar mitzvahs.
04:10We do bar mitzvahs.
04:11Yes.
04:12There is a difference.
04:13One's for a girl.
04:14We do quinceaneras.
04:15I love quinceaneras.
04:16I'm half Cuban.
04:17It's a great festival.
04:18It's a great time.
04:19Weddings?
04:19We're not there yet.
04:20I didn't even find a cake guy.
04:21Either way, we do it all.
04:23ChefDani.com.
04:24T-shirts, merchandise, the whole nine yards.
04:27Thank you guys.
04:28I brought that to Madison.
04:29Madison really took off.
04:30Like, it really became a business.
04:31I was making money from it.
04:32And then I partnered with the college club, the local bar in Madison.
04:35They were doing no late night foods.
04:37So from midnight to 2 a.m., I told the bar owner, I said, look, you have a kitchen.
04:41You shut it down at like 11 p.m.
04:43All the kids are going to the food trucks when the bar close.
04:46I'll run the kitchen from midnight until 3 a.m.
04:48Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
04:50They're a great present.
04:51They're great for family.
04:52All right, maybe not your mother.
04:53Maybe you don't get this for your mom, but your uncle.
04:55Everyone's got that uncle that's, you know, everyone's like, what the fuck, Uncle Jeff?
04:58Perfect for Uncle Jeff.
04:59Perfect for Grandpa, too, who's getting a little too old, who has no filter, who's just saying shit.
05:03He's going to be in a home soon.
05:05He'll look great in this.
05:06Where did your love of cooking come from?
05:08My uncle used to own restaurants in New York City.
05:10So when I was a kid, I went out to New York and I went to one of his spots.
05:14It was called Bowen 111.
05:16And I remember I had this red snapper.
05:18I was probably, you know, seven or eight, like a young kid.
05:21And I saw, I've never seen a whole fish with the eye in it.
05:24And he showed you how to pick it off and eat it.
05:25And I went back in the kitchen, like, saw the cooks.
05:27And from there, I was just, you know.
05:29You just loved it?
05:29I just liked it.
05:30And then every Thanksgiving or every family holiday, he would always cook.
05:34I would always be in there helping.
05:35And then by like middle school, you know, seventh or eighth grade, I was cooking for myself.
05:39And I learned more in France in that, you know, five months, whatever, between New York and here in France
05:43than I did it and all the other stuff.
05:45And then I competed on Chopped.
05:46Chopped was like my biggest.
05:48You're taking all my fucking questions.
05:49Oh, fuck.
05:49Sorry, sorry.
05:49I won't talk about that yet.
05:51I got all the notes, bro.
05:52Okay.
05:52I got France.
05:53I got Chopped.
05:54I got New York.
05:55I got it all.
05:56Also, you're making me nervous that you haven't drank at all.
05:58Cut all that out and then.
06:00No, I'll put it in.
06:00And just like ask that again.
06:02Also, I'm nervous that you haven't been drinking.
06:03Also, the question started with how I got started at Barcelona and we never even got there.
06:07I understand.
06:07We're going to get there.
06:08But more importantly, I'm nervous that you haven't been drinking.
06:11Just take it.
06:11Yeah, there you go.
06:11There's a good gulp.
06:12I'll drink it all.
06:13Take some of that.
06:14It's fucking Thursday.
06:15It's Thursday Eve.
06:17It's Friday Eve.
06:18My doorman used to call that Friday Junior and I hated it.
06:21She was a woman.
06:28I liked her.
06:29You're a door woman?
06:30My door woman.
06:30Yeah.
06:31I don't want to be rude.
06:32I think you still call her a doorman.
06:33It's like an actor.
06:34You don't call her an actress.
06:35You call her actor.
06:36I don't want to be like misogynistic, but.
06:39What?
06:40No, she didn't let her do the night shift.
06:41No.
06:43It's like the daytime.
06:44She was like in the early morning packages.
06:46And then she got pregnant.
06:47And then I thought she was just fat forever.
06:49And she goes, I'm on maternity leave.
06:50And I felt really bad.
06:51She was great though.
06:54Woo.
06:55All right.
06:55Let's get back to it.
06:56All right.
06:56So I met Donnie at a bar in Korea at the Olympics.
06:59Yeah.
06:59We got hammered.
07:00He goes, I could use an intern.
07:01Do you know how to film?
07:03Do you know how to edit?
07:03And I lied through my teeth and said, yes, I'm proficient in all that.
07:06I can do it all.
07:07He goes, meet me in China in like a month and a half.
07:08Say hello to Donnie.
07:10Hi, Donnie.
07:12Perfect.
07:13Okay.
07:13Thank you for that.
07:14Yes.
07:14I'm Donnie.
07:15And I am from the United States.
07:17So without further ado, let's get started.
07:20What is air pollution?
07:21Is it, is it ghosts?
07:24No.
07:25Smog busters.
07:31What are Saturdays for?
07:33My brother told me to put all my money in this thing called BitConnect.
07:35He said it's generating 20% interest a day and you can take it out.
07:39I was like, no way.
07:40I could live off the interest.
07:4120% of five grand is enough to live off of in Thailand.
07:44It's like a couple of thousand.
07:45Yeah.
07:46No, it's not.
07:46It's a couple of hundred.
07:51What's to say?
07:52Two and a half, two weeks in my brother calls me.
07:54He goes, yo, pull everything.
07:55Like take all your money out.
07:56It's a scam.
07:57Pull all your money out of BitConnect.
07:58I go on BitConnect.
08:00Doesn't, it can't get on anymore.
08:01Gone.
08:02It's gone.
08:03Everything's gone.
08:04I was going to give up and go home.
08:05It's like, I'm not going to do that.
08:06So I found this farm that I, so I worked on this farm for about two weeks.
08:10So I would stay in a hostel and I was like, I can't really afford to stay here.
08:13Like what if I cook every, every one of the American style breakfast.
08:17It's like, what if I cook breakfast?
08:18I'll do, I'll do, I'll do an American breakfast.
08:20I'll work breakfast.
08:21If you let me stay for free.
08:22Finally, I found this monastery in the mountains of Thailand.
08:25I had heard from other travelers.
08:26Like there's a monastery you can stay.
08:28They'll let you stay for up to like 14 days.
08:30Absolutely free.
08:31They'll feed you only twice a day and it's all vegetables, but they'll feed you.
08:34Ooh.
08:35All right.
08:36Last day at the monastery.
08:38We survived.
08:40Fuck it.
08:40I'm going to talk as much as I want.
08:41No one's here.
08:43Ooh.
08:43We're out here in the jungle though.
08:45Look at this.
08:47Middle of the jungle.
08:48Nice trail.
08:49Happy sign.
08:51We out tomorrow.
08:53We are going back to Bangkok.
08:55Oh, never thought I'd be so happy to say that.
08:57How are you finding this stuff?
08:59Travelers, word of mouth.
09:00Just people talking?
09:00Word of mouth.
09:01Yeah.
09:01And they were like, we'll feed you twice a day.
09:03They'll feed you twice a day.
09:04But in order, you know, or like to stay there, you have to do everything the monks do.
09:07You have to like help out.
09:08You have to clean, do chores basically.
09:09And you can't talk.
09:10You gotta be silent.
09:11Finally, I tracked down.
09:12I have this uncle.
09:13I tracked down my uncle on Facebook.
09:14He moved to India years ago.
09:17Haven't seen him.
09:17No one's seen him in a while.
09:19I messaged him on Facebook.
09:20I say, hey, bleep his name.
09:22Say, hey, uncle.
09:23Hey, uncle.
09:25What's his name?
09:25His name is .
09:26He said, hey, weird question, but I'm out in Thailand.
09:30Can I come stay with you in India for a month?
09:33On a barley truck.
09:34We're leaving on top of a bus.
09:36Doesn't get better than this.
09:38Peace.
09:38Did some wild shit in India.
09:40Just like I lived next to a goat.
09:41I slept next to goats.
09:42What's like the, give me one.
09:43I don't know.
09:44We hitchhiked to Nepal on the back of a barley truck.
09:46I can't even fucking.
09:48I don't know why.
09:49You're talking a million miles an hour.
09:51I love it.
09:51I can't even say a word and you're just fucking going.
09:55What's like the, give me one.
09:56I don't know.
09:56We hitchhiked to Nepal.
09:57I gotta slow down.
09:58No, don't slow down.
09:59Keep going.
10:00Well, this is such a long story.
10:01I love it.
10:07This guy's got a shirt off.
10:09It's electric.
10:09We know any of the fuck.
10:10We love it.
10:11It's great.
10:11It's great.
10:12Yeah.
10:12I like that joke.
10:13I like that joke.
10:17Please, please, please.
10:18Did you eat anything like crazy?
10:21Dog.
10:22But that was in Cambodia.
10:23That was a different trip.
10:24That's after I met Donny.
10:25Um, in India.
10:29What?
10:30Have you said that?
10:30I don't think I had.
10:31Publicly?
10:31No.
10:32We saw like a roasted dog on the barbecue.
10:35I don't know if I ate it.
10:36We ate something mysterious.
10:37It's not like confirmed I ate it.
10:39It was just-
10:39You either ate it or you didn't eat it.
10:41No, I don't think I ate it.
10:42It was on the grill.
10:43What do you mean you don't think you ate it?
10:44I don't think I-
10:44I didn't like outwardly like eat the dog and say that's good.
10:47Like, I don't know.
10:49There could have been dog-
10:49I saw a dog being barbecued.
10:51Is my point.
10:52And you ate it.
10:53No, I didn't.
10:54That's the thing.
10:54What are you talking about?
10:55I didn't.
10:55I ate it.
10:55But we ate at the same place.
10:57So like we could have-
10:58Oh, so you could have gotten like a bowl.
11:00You could have gotten a piece of it.
11:01Who knows?
11:02But like-
11:02I didn't like-
11:03Yeah.
11:04I don't think I ate it.
11:04I don't know.
11:06Take a sip, dude.
11:07Slow down.
11:08Take a sip.
11:09India was cool.
11:10You ate a fucking dog, Donny?
11:11I made like friends with like the local Indian boys.
11:13Basically, I was the first white guy that I could have ever seen besides my uncle.
11:16You ate a fucking dog?
11:17Dude, the dog is not-
11:19We're not even at the dog yet.
11:20No.
11:20I walked by a dog on a barbecue.
11:22Donny and I did not eat the dog.
11:24Was it skinned?
11:25It was-
11:26The teeth of it.
11:27I-
11:28It definitely was a dog.
11:29So anyway, I get through India.
11:31And then I-
11:32Finally, it's time to go work for Donny.
11:34And that's when I got to China.
11:35And that's when I started that barstool.
11:37And those are the original videos that you've seen of me like sleeping in Ikea.
11:40Ne-how are ya?
11:41Hey boss.
11:42Hey.
11:43How you doing?
11:44Climbed into a- to a cabinet.
11:46Nobody saw me get in.
11:47Perfect execution.
11:53My cabinet gets opened.
11:54It's a security guard.
11:55He's got a flashlight.
11:56And I- I played it off like just the dumb American.
11:59I was like, oh, yeah, you know, Donny said I could sleep here.
12:01He said it was cool.
12:02And then after my internship in China ended, Donny said, do you want an internship in New
12:07York?
12:07And I said, no.
12:08You're just like, no.
12:09You're just like, I'm all set.
12:09Well, I had a job.
12:10I was supposed to work on a ranch.
12:12Uh, for uh, who owns the Falcons?
12:14Robert- Robert Frank or something?
12:15Robert- Arthur Blank.
12:17Arthur Blank.
12:23He owns a ranch out in either- it was like Montana or Utah.
12:26He owned like an awesome ranch, like a resort style ranch.
12:29And I had gotten a job to work there as a ranch hand for the summer.
12:31And my older brother, the same one that talked me into the crypto scam, called me and was
12:35like, are you fucking- are you- how dumb are you?
12:37One of the biggest like up and coming media companies just offered you an internship and
12:40you were saying- you're saying no?
12:42It's like, fuck.
12:42So I called Donny back and I was like, actually, I'll take you.
12:45No wrong way to wrap a wonton.
12:48Uh, there's no wrong way to fry a goon.
12:51All right, you guys keep singing.
12:52I'm gonna go drink beer.
12:53There's no wrong way to wrap a wonton.
12:57Uh, uh, there's no wrong way to fry a goon.
13:02Did you still want this whole time to be doing cooking?
13:06Or was it more like, I'm- I'm down to do anything?
13:09I was down to do anything.
13:10I still had the division of like, doing a cooking show.
13:13That was still like the goal.
13:14It's like, there's no one really doing it here.
13:15Because at that time, there was- Chicago Heartland was a different company.
13:19Barstool Heartland, whatever.
13:21So there was cooking stuff going on, but there's nothing-
13:23There's nothing in the New York office.
13:24Exactly.
13:24So like, my first big assignment was Caleb and Roan filming them in France.
13:28Oh, yeah.
13:29Yes, yes.
13:29Which is to this day my-
13:31We're gonna talk about that.
13:32Probably my favorite video I've ever filmed.
13:34Hey, what are y'all doing, dude?
13:35Dude, I don't know if you're allowed to do that for real.
13:37Dude, I think you might get some pushback from the police on that.
13:54I only smoke when I'm in Europe or if I'm drunk.
13:56All right, let's back up a little bit.
13:58There was a war that went down.
14:00Yeah.
14:01What happened?
14:02It was the day after the Duncan Awards.
14:03Yeah.
14:04And that's when like, Dave had gone off on everybody.
14:06Oh, he ripped everyone.
14:06He ripped everyone.
14:07Feidelberg, nice outfit.
14:08Liz, lovely.
14:09YP, like you dressing up.
14:11KFC, like shit.
14:12Francis, you could use the 70 people that signed up for your comedy special to buy a night's
14:16outfit.
14:16We could've done that.
14:18The people who didn't dress up.
14:20It was up to me.
14:20We do a firing squad right now.
14:22It's like the lights, camera, action guys.
14:24You guys are like movie guys.
14:25You dress like trash.
14:27You act like you got a million billion views.
14:29You guys are lucky to have jobs here.
14:31You dress like trash.
14:32Unbelievable.
14:33Latham had a morning show and he like called Francis out.
14:35Like initially, like Francis, he's like, yeah, I don't know what he said verbatim.
14:39You're a child.
14:40You're handling it childly.
14:41Look at how childish your little blog was.
14:44Take your L's and quit being a little bitch.
14:48How about that?
14:48So I gave Francis some ammo.
14:50I was like, well, by the way, like, you know, he kind of tried to shut down what I was
14:54trying
14:54to build cooking wise.
14:55So Francis was like, well, why don't you just come on and tell that story?
14:58And, you know, what you see ensued.
15:00I posted two cooking videos on the blog.
15:01They did very well.
15:02Chef, shut him down.
15:04He's the only one that can post cooking content.
15:05He went and complained to the higher ups.
15:07He DM Donnie.
15:08He circled around.
15:09I emailed him.
15:10I apologize.
15:10I reached out.
15:11I said, hey, man, I love to collab.
15:12I love to do other things to cooking stuff with you.
15:14Never replied.
15:15Didn't say one thing to me.
15:16And I went around and shut down anything I tried to do at this company cooking wise.
15:20Sean was the only one that could do cooking videos.
15:21You're a 22 year old punk that got a job as an editor, which you're doing good.
15:25Yeah, you're a punk because you think you deserve something.
15:27This is one of the most popular.
15:29You think you could just get a job at the fucking Food Network.
15:31And just because you hold a camera and work with other personality that you deserve a show.
15:36Earn it.
15:37You know what I mean?
15:39Fucking earn something.
15:40Sean and I have spoken and we've squashed the beef.
15:43Yeah.
15:43And he genuinely feels bad.
15:45So I have no animosity towards him at all.
15:48He's a good dude.
15:49Everybody has a moment where they lose their cool and regret.
15:52For sure.
15:53So people out there that are still tagging him in that video or going at him, knock it off.
15:57Like it's been long enough.
15:59He's apologized.
16:00You know, you're allowed to make a mistake.
16:01But also like, I do think it was good for me career wise, but like when he said, when
16:04that happened, because he in a sense was right.
16:07Like I, I just started out like, you know, who me getting my own show and doing this stuff
16:11at that young age, it would have, wouldn't have been good.
16:15You know what I mean?
16:15So like, it's nice to have to build up to something, whatever.
16:17So, you know, the fact that I got shut down and it didn't happen right away only made
16:21me like, all right, I got to work harder and try to build it up.
16:24Do you remember the process of trying to be the next Frankie?
16:28Yeah.
16:28That was a fun process.
16:29That was fucking crazy.
16:30We both did that.
16:31Yeah.
16:31That was nuts.
16:32This was a time when Dave hated when people behind the camera were content.
16:38Yep.
16:38What was that tryout like for you?
16:40I was supposed to go to back to China for another year.
16:42I really didn't want to go.
16:44So I figured the only way that I'm not going to get sent back to China is if I put
16:47my
16:47hat in the ring to be Dave's guy.
16:49Yep.
16:50So yeah, we got this guy.
16:51He's a badger too.
16:52He's a smart kid.
16:53I like him.
16:54He's a badger.
16:55He's a Wisconsin guy?
16:56Yeah, he's going, he's got his senior year coming up.
16:58I actually like him.
16:59He's the only one out of all the interns who waited one day for me to come outside.
17:03He's like, I want to be your guy.
17:05Whatever you want me to do, I'll do.
17:06He's got his own like little business.
17:07Remember you roasted him and he came in, he like shut you down.
17:10He did.
17:11I told you, I liked the kid.
17:12Hopefully the food's better this time.
17:13Oh yeah.
17:14Very good.
17:14That was very good.
17:18And that was the most stressful, whatever, like three or four months of my entire life.
17:22He hit me up with a text one time being like, I need $25,000 in Saratoga in the next
17:2824 hours.
17:29I don't care how you get it.
17:30Just get it to me.
17:32And I, dude, that was when I realized I'm not cut out for this.
17:35Yeah.
17:36I remember I hit up Ryan Whitney.
17:38I was like, Whit, I need 25K.
17:39Did he give it to you?
17:40I'm going to drive it to Saratoga.
17:41And he was like, I got you.
17:43Like, I'm going to give you the cash.
17:43And then I'm on my way to Massachusetts from New York city.
17:47And Dave texted me.
17:48He's like, nevermind.
17:48Figured it out.
17:49I'm like.
17:50Oh yeah.
17:50Yeah.
17:52That's crazy.
17:53I almost changed my name legally to Frankie Donner.
17:55I remember that.
17:56Oh my God.
17:57Went to court, filled it out.
17:58And the court, the lady's like, Oh Frankie, that's nice.
18:00Like why you want to change your name?
18:01I go.
18:01I've just always felt like a Frankie.
18:04My legal name was going to be Frankie Donnie Enriquez.
18:06I told my parents.
18:07My mom was like distraught.
18:08My dad's like, I get it.
18:10Your dad was cool with it?
18:11My dad was like, I get it.
18:11Like, fuck yeah.
18:12My dad's like, you got a job to do.
18:13Like, I get it.
18:14But I had it called him that walking out of the building and told him,
18:16Hey, by the way, I'm changing my name tomorrow.
18:18I probably would have, I definitely would have done it.
18:20You'd be Frankie right now?
18:20I'd be Frankie right now.
18:21COVID happened.
18:22And he told me, he's like, look, I know, I know you keep saying you're not
18:25want to be in front of the camera, but I know that's what you want to do.
18:27There's no sports on.
18:28Just like, it's like this fucking, he finally like relents.
18:30He's like, just make your fucking, make your cooking videos.
18:33Like, welcome back to the college cooking show.
18:34We're here in the quarantine kitchen in a bunker.
18:37It's a very serious time, but everybody still has to eat.
18:41So today we're making chicken fricasse.
18:43It's fucking French.
18:45Let's get cooking.
18:45You had a series that I fucking loved.
18:48Yeah.
18:49Die trying.
18:50Oh shit.
18:52Oh shit.
18:54When did you become this type of adrenaline junkie,
18:57the stunt type of guy?
18:58When did that start in your life?
18:59Young.
19:01Super young.
19:01I have an uncle that was like that.
19:03So like, he's the only one.
19:04Uncle, no.
19:05Uncle older brother.
19:06Uncle .
19:07Brother?
19:08Yeah.
19:08Brothers.
19:09Yeah.
19:09So I don't know where I got, I got the adrenaline side from,
19:11but I've always just fucking like hunted for it.
19:15Yeah.
19:15And loved to do it.
19:20One of your terms is hounded.
19:22Can you describe what hounded is?
19:24God, I forgot all about, I haven't hounded in a long time.
19:26You're a hound.
19:27Hounding was this thing I used to do in New York City.
19:29I hounded with you once.
19:30Hounding is this thing.
19:31I don't know where.
19:32Oh, it came from this shoe.
19:34Wolf and I had these old, these.
19:35Wolf.
19:36Wolf.
19:36My best friend growing up.
19:38He's an adrenaline guy too.
19:40And he was a freestyle skier growing up.
19:42And like, so we'd always, as we go to monkey village together
19:45as boys and rough it up.
19:48That sounds like we had gay sex.
19:50Yeah.
19:52Fuck yeah.
19:56So no, we had these shoes called hounds and they were like shitty crocs.
19:59They were like Walmart crocs.
20:00I thought they were cool.
20:01So we went cliff jumping in the hounds.
20:04And so then from there on out, anytime we did something adventurous,
20:06we called it hounding.
20:08It's anytime you could find like an abandoned building or something with like graffiti,
20:11somewhere you shouldn't be.
20:12Is the keg out?
20:14Are you fucking kidding me?
20:15I don't know how many.
20:16We're on a beer show and there's no beer.
20:18Stop.
20:18There's no beer guys.
20:19Hold on.
20:20It's a disaster.
20:22Sorry.
20:22So hounding was basically, it became any, any, anytime I saw an abandoned building
20:26or like a scaffolding the climb, like the goal is urban.
20:29It was urban exploring.
20:30And I liked it.
20:31Now I gotten proficient at taking photos.
20:33So I liked to go and photograph graffiti.
20:35It was like my thing.
20:36And I'd bring, always bring a shoe string with me.
20:38Cause a lot of them had like closed off like only one way doors where you press it.
20:41On the other side, there was nothing else.
20:42But if you shake it, stick a shoe string through like the grate, you can pull it.
20:46And that would open the door and then you can push it in.
20:49You see what I'm saying?
20:49I do, but what are you thinking of this stuff, bro?
20:53I don't know.
20:54I just, it was fun.
20:56This beer is so warm.
20:58Can I get an ice cube?
20:58Can I get an ice cube?
21:00I mean, this is fishy that there's no beer left.
21:04Somebody has been using it.
21:06I've only used it once, twice.
21:09Yeah, but that's, that's.
21:10Yeah, that's, there's 40 beers in there.
21:12Yeah, that's weird.
21:14Whatever.
21:15Um.
21:15Who the fuck would have drank all the beers?
21:17Was it you?
21:18No.
21:19Are you doing funny business?
21:20Why would I do funny business?
21:21Are you doing funny business?
21:22No, I'm not.
21:23You definitely are.
21:24Now that I think about it.
21:25Check the tapes.
21:26You, cause this is you and Max.
21:28You and Max probably set this shit up.
21:30No.
21:30To make me look fucking stupid on my own show.
21:32No, no.
21:33Didn't you?
21:34Yes, you did.
21:35Come on your show and want to drink warm beer.
21:37No.
21:38This has you and Max.
21:39No, it doesn't.
21:40It doesn't.
21:40That's actually genius that you guys did that.
21:43Come on here and make me look stupid on my own show.
21:45I get it.
21:46Alright.
21:46Whatever.
21:47Alright.
21:48Die trying.
21:49What was your favorite episode?
21:50The scariest one was bull riding.
21:52That's something I'll never do again.
21:53Like that show is a dream of mine.
21:54And like the fact that I was able to do that.
21:55I wish I could do it again.
21:57I mean, I can.
21:58I don't know.
21:58You can probably.
21:59Like die trying was legitimately like a brainchild I came up with.
22:02And like the fact that I was able to like get it sponsored and do it was like, I'm probably
22:05the most proud of anything I've done is die trying was so much more.
22:08It's such so much.
22:12Do a season two.
22:14Oh yeah.
22:14Yeah.
22:15I have a list of dude.
22:16I have a list.
22:17I have a list.
22:18Give me like one or two things.
22:20Okay.
22:20There's a guy in the Bahamas that you swim with sharks and he puts chain on and he tapes
22:23a dead chicken to your arm.
22:25Shark comes up, bites you.
22:27You feel like the pressure of a shark attack, but you don't lose your arm because you have
22:30chains on.
22:31I'm getting drunk dude.
22:33Good dude.
22:34That's the point of the show bro.
22:35You just getting ganked?
22:38Ganked?
22:39Is that a thing?
22:40I'm about to say tank.
22:41Did you do a joke on Dan and drain the keg?
22:43No.
22:44He ran out of beer on the beer show.
22:45Oh that's awesome.
22:47I have changed the keg.
22:48I did change the keg and I cleaned the line before my episode with Tate two weeks ago.
22:53How is all the beer gone?
22:55Someone's in here drinking all my beer.
22:57It's you.
22:57No it's not.
22:58It's probably you.
22:59You probably fucking hose it into the trash.
23:01I wish I, I mean that would be great.
23:03That would be a great idea by me.
23:05I wish I did.
23:06Ridiculous.
23:06All right.
23:07You moved to Chicago.
23:08What was that?
23:08What was that process like for you?
23:10Fucking called movers and said, Hey, I'm going west.
23:14Um, no, no.
23:18Fuck you.
23:18You know, dude, I'm done with it.
23:20I'm done with trying to get your backstory.
23:22Fuck you.
23:23I'm saying we're all, we're getting to the present day.
23:25So what do you, the backstory is done.
23:26I'm trying to, okay.
23:27Okay.
23:27No, fuck the backstory.
23:29Okay.
23:29The move is important.
23:30I want to know how.
23:32Donnie.
23:33Yes.
23:33Listen to me.
23:34I want to know how cool it was for you to go from this tiny fucking apartment.
23:38Yes.
23:39With a GoPro on top of your stove to a fucking full kitchen in Chicago.
23:43Is that a better question for you?
23:45No.
23:45Fuck.
23:45I asked big cat.
23:46I said, can I move to Chicago?
23:47He said, yes, absolutely.
23:48I said, do you, when you're put in the office, like, will there be like a kitchen?
23:52He goes, we'll make a kitchen happen, which is unreal.
23:55When you got here, did you have a new plan or was there some more like, I'm going to have
23:59guests.
23:59I'm going to.
24:00I don't know if ever, if I've ever said this on any of any Barstool show before.
24:05When Dave bought the company back, he was, there was a lot of people on the chopping block.
24:08I happened to be on the chopping block.
24:10Hank and big cats suck their neck up for me.
24:12They're like, give Donnie six months.
24:14Like we're building, we built the kitchen in Chicago for him.
24:16Like give him at least a chance to use the kitchen.
24:18Yo, Jameis.
24:19Yo, Brandon Marshall.
24:21Yo, Julian Edelman.
24:22Yo, Boomer.
24:24Yo, Dan.
24:25But yeah, Hank was like, by the way, like, I don't want to scare you.
24:29Dave, Dave is like giving you a six month kind of like prove it contract.
24:33Like you're not fully out of the weeds or whatever.
24:35Wow.
24:35That was kind of what I needed though.
24:36That lit a fire under my ass.
24:38Like it was like do or die.
24:40It was like, all right.
24:41Like, uh, now that I know I'm either, I have six months.
24:44I'm either going to make it and this is going to work or I don't have a job anymore.
24:48It's like, it gave me all the fuel I needed.
24:50So like we hit the ground running as soon as the kitchen opened.
24:53And it also helped out that big cat and Hank did believe in me and support me.
24:57They, A, told Dave that.
24:58And then B, every time they got the big guests on PMT, the cat would be like, hey, we do
25:02Donnie's cooking show.
25:03So like that was huge.
25:05The first six months it crushed.
25:06And then Dave, this is the first time Dave's ever like, you know, you don't get a lot of good
25:10jobs.
25:10But he said, I remember we had a phone call and he goes, he finally found something that worked.
25:14Like you finally, like the cooking works.
25:15I'm like, I appreciate that.
25:17I was like, yes.
25:19I was like, I've been doing it for a long time, but I am glad that you said it worked.
25:23That's all I need.
25:23Like that's the biggest to hearing that from Dave was like, you know, like I was like the happiest I've
25:30ever been.
25:31And then from there.
25:32Yeah.
25:32That's how what's her launch started.
25:33And like it became what it is now.
25:35And it's people see, see it now.
25:37It's successful.
25:38Now it took a long time.
25:39It took eight years of it not being successful.
25:41Like crushing it.
25:42You're getting all these guests.
25:43And then it feels like you're fucking, you just go on the act one day.
25:47And then you gotta add another name.
25:49No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
25:51No, no, no, no, no.
25:51Now you have to add another name because you have to.
25:53Now it's the only chance.
25:54This is your chance.
25:55You have to undo it.
25:57Alright, do it again.
25:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:59Go.
25:59Go.
26:00How does it stop?
26:01How does it stop?
26:01How does it stop on me?
26:02How does it?
26:04$10,000 bonus bet.
26:06Number two.
26:06Oh, i did less.
26:11No, no.
26:12What's what?
26:14Trevor.
26:19God, it felt so good to finally rip the bandaid off.
26:22It must have been relieving for you to just feel like, okay, I could be myself.
26:26Yeah, it was nice.
26:27I here believe that it surprised people who were just like, yeah, Donny's not really funny.
26:30The only thing I've always heard is like.
26:31Yeah, I guess he's good cooking. He's not really like entertaining or funny
26:34So I was like it's nice to be able to show like I guess a different side just do everything
26:37with passion
26:38It's just the only way to live diggy V. Yeah, diggy. No
26:46Yeah, did you say diggy V what?
26:48No, no, no, no, no, diggy V what?
26:50The speech that was the famous
26:53That's not him, dude. That's not fucking him
26:55You should laugh fucking clearly
26:57That's so good. You were almost out of here. Oh my god, you were so close
27:01You're asking somebody who doesn't know how that it works, but I know what it does
27:07That's not funny, Mark
27:10It was such a relief for that. Cause I know you, you're fucking hilarious like you've always been hilarious
27:15But I even didn't know the level of like Donny, Donny-isms that were out there
27:21He's done it
27:23He's done it
27:24That's a nice, I look good as a baseball
27:25Jeff
27:28You can't stop what things could it be the Chinese girl?
27:33It might be
27:35Okay, oh you say it was exactly your type of chick. No, that's because she had a studded belt
27:43If you give me a mic on live air and you let me talk long enough, I'm gonna say something
27:47fucking dumb
27:48I love that dude
27:49It's like if my brain does generally just work faster than where my mouth goes faster than my brain
27:53You talk really fast
27:54Yeah, I'm doing it now
27:55But it's not a bad thing, it's funny dude
27:58Yeah, I think I finally figured it out. I think I have a dyslexia. I never knew it about it
28:02I never knew it was
28:03You never knew it about it?
28:04I never knew it as a things of like
28:08Rudy told me I have a dyslexia, Rudy diagnosed me with dyslexia and it was a relief
28:11I'm not good at making up names on the spot and real people are getting their names called out
28:14Try to do a fake name at the spot, ready?
28:17Who was your uh, who was your high school girlfriend?
28:19No, see you're trying to-
28:20No, he's asking you to make up a name
28:22We're trying to get you better at making up names
28:24Who was your high school girlfriend?
28:25Jefferner Stern
28:28What did you-
28:29Jefferner Stern?
28:30You say something sick in French
28:32But we're here, we're drinking in French and we're not French and it's very good
28:38You're doing a great job here
28:40And man, this new beer station station, it's magnificent but there's nothing beer
28:48It's full
28:49Stop!
28:52It's finished!
28:53It's finished!
28:54Yeah, it's good
28:55It's a great deal. Nique ta merde, c*****
28:57You're going to fuck it!
29:00Fuck?
29:00Fuck it!
29:01Just go f**k your- go f**k yourself
29:04Enculé corner
29:06What about-
29:07What is-
29:08That's just how they make noises, they love to do the noises
29:11Yeah?
29:11Ehh, ehh, ehh
29:12Yeah, it's very- it's a very guttural-
29:15Ehh, ehh
29:15Gutter, but I've lost like my- my French is not as good as it used to be by any
29:18means
29:18Final, final!
29:19Rapid fire questions until we get out of here
29:21Someone we want to do more content with
29:22Francis
29:22Dream, what's for a lunch guest?
29:24Billy Strings
29:24Favorite food ever?
29:28Roast duck
29:29Favorite food and drink pairing?
29:30Pepsi and, uh, rice
29:32I mean, I love the Pepsi part, but-
29:36How do you spell Millennium?
29:38M-L-M-N-M-M-M-M-U-M-I-L-L-N-I-U-M
29:46Yes
29:46Last question, do you want to chug?
29:48Yeah
30:01That's just all water, brother
30:04That's the ice
30:06Alright guys, that is Chef Donnie, that's one more
30:09I thought there was a last question
30:11That was final, final
30:12Oh, the last question was, do you want to chug?
30:14Yeah
30:14Love you, brother
30:15That was fun, love you too, man
30:16Appreciate you
30:17Appreciate you
30:17Appreciate you