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Mick Unplugged is a thought-provoking and inspiring podcast that invites listeners to embark on a transformative journey beyond the conventional concept of 'Why' and into the empowering realm of 'Because.' Hosted by the engaging and insightful Mick Hunt, this podcast is perfect for those who are not just dreamers but doers, leaders, and anyone aspiring to make a significant impact in their personal and professional lives.
Each episode of "Mick Unplugged" delves deep into how understanding and embracing your 'Because' – your core driving force – can turn aspirations into actions and dreams into realities. Listeners can expect to gain practical advice on how to identify their own 'Because,' learn to make it a daily focus, and understand how it can fuel their journey towards success and fulfillment.
Whether you're looking to find deeper motivation, set meaningful goals, or simply seeking inspiration to overcome challenges, "Mick Unplugged" offers valuable insights and tools to help you on your path.
Are you ready to change your habits, sculpt your destiny, and light up your path to greatness? Welcome to the epicenter of transformation. This is Mick Unplugged. We'll help you identify your because so you can create a routine that's not just productive, but powerful. You'll embrace the art of evolution, adapt strategies to stay ahead of the game, and take a step toward the extraordinary.
Intro:So let's unleash your potential. Now here's Mick.
Mick Hunt:Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged where we delve into the stories of remarkable individuals who transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. And today is a bucket list for me. We have the honor of hosting a true legend, not just a chef. He's a force of nature, a relentless advocate for fitness, and a true leader. With a heart as big as his culinary expertise, he's touched countless lives through his mission driven work and unwavering dedication.
Mick Hunt:Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming chef Robert Irvine. Chef, how are you doing today?
Robert Irvine:Stop. I love the shirt.
Mick Hunt:I'm representing.
Robert Irvine:I love it.
Mick Hunt:I am representing. I have the book which we're gonna talk about. I got this 2 weeks ago. It's changed my life as a business leader. I just want and need you to understand that.
Mick Hunt:For those that think chef is just a chef, this book has changed my life. I've been posting about it all day on social. This book, if you're a leader, is a must have, and I mean that. So, chef, I'll make unplug. I like talking to individuals about something that's deeper than their why.
Mick Hunt:And I like to call it your because. Right? Like, I think that your because is what drives you and what fuels you. Your why to me is very superficial. If I were to ask chef Robert Irvine today, what's your because?
Mick Hunt:What's that thing that keeps you going and driving and and that thing that keeps you at the top of your game?
Robert Irvine:Because there are people out there that need my help, and that's a true statement. For me, I'm in a blessed position, although I've had to work to get there and fight the good fight, as they say, like everybody else. But now I have a platform. I wanna continue to use my platform for the betterment of other people that are less fortunate, Whether you've been in military, whether you have a restaurant, whether you're just down and out of luck, I feel that I've been given a blessing to be able to pick you up no matter what walk of life, what revenue stream you have or don't have, whether you live on the street, whether you live on a tent, whether you live in a mansion, whether you're a Fortune 500 CEO, anybody, really. And I think that's what drives me every day to get out of bed.
Robert Irvine:Money does not drive me. It never has. It never will. It's about how do we make a difference in people's lives that are lost. And I use this as a great statement because I just had yesterday a 30 year veteran of the airport call me because he's lost.
Robert Irvine:Service above south, doesn't know where to go. And I find that happening a lot to service members, firefighters, police officers, all those that have been in service that when they retire have lost that sense of purpose.
Mick Hunt:That's so deep. And you talk about all walks of life. You connect really well with people. One of the things that I love about watching you obviously on TV and then researching you and getting to know you over the last several years and now reading your books is that you were one of the most relatable people I've ever met. Meaning, you can give someone tough love, but then you're gonna pat them on the back and encourage them to get through it.
Mick Hunt:Like Yeah. Why why and how do you do that?
Robert Irvine:I come from a very tough upbringing. You know? We've lived without a house. Right? So I've been there.
Robert Irvine:I've lived without food. I've lived without clothing as a young man when I grew up. Then I joined the military. Then I was the youngest at this and the youngest at that. So for me, there has to be even in the shows, and and you said it quite eloquently there, I'm me.
Robert Irvine:I had some tough teachers. My father was one of them. Not a very, I don't know, loving, yes, but not outwardly showing that, more of a tough character. My mother, the opposite, you know, loving to death. We didn't have much.
Robert Irvine:So growing up for me was an adventure. That's not an understatement. You know? The early years of TV for me were very different because I was very, like, in TV, 48 hours, fix it, don't listen, either failing, but I can read a p and l, and I can see why you're failing at a service in a nanosecond. But what I've learned over the years, is after self reflection is listen more.
Robert Irvine:So if you notice the shows the last, I don't know, 5, 6 years, it's a completely different switch for me to listen to people, compute what they're telling me, and then go back with the answers. P and l is still the same, and the service is still the same, and the people are still the same. But if I can understand them a little bit more, it helps me to solve their problems. And early on, I wasn't all about that. I was about luck.
Robert Irvine:I know how to fix it. Be quiet. Let's let me do my job, and you learn. So I think it's self reflection of me in my business life, in my personal life, in my TV life, which, by the way, are all the same because they intertwine so much. And I think it's that reflection of you know, when you become a TV personality, I won't say star because I hate that word and I hate celebrity, a personality.
Robert Irvine:People look up to you. You know, we're human. We make mistakes. And and anybody doesn't believe in that, then they're just stupid. You know?
Robert Irvine:We make mistakes. That's just life. And for me, to be able to put my life experience into everything I do, my all my, you know, 13 companies, my TV shows, my 75 100 people that I employ, I now understand that's what that book was all about, you know, how to lead and build great teams. And that's through experience and my failures.
Mick Hunt:One of the things, and I'm just gonna go to the book, Overcoming Impossible, because this isn't fluff. It is literally changing my life starting with chapter 1 where essentially you told me to stop micromanaging. And what's crazy is I feel like most leaders today will tell you, oh, I don't micromanage. But the reality is if you were to ask their staff, if you were to ask their leadership, micromanage is is is what they do most of the time. Right?
Mick Hunt:Like, I will tell you, I probably micromanaged, and I use past tense because I changed, through p and l statements every day. Looking at EBITDA margins, looking at income coming in, and then I realized after reading your book, that's not leadership. Starting chapter 1, stop micromanaging.
Robert Irvine:It's interesting. We need to talk about the book. And the reason I wrote this book is because, look, I think 28,000 restaurants all be told, 350 on restaurant impossible, 93% success after the last 3 years after COVID. But 100 and 100 of of restaurants call us every week, you know, 1,000, 2,000 to to help them. And I can only do 1 a week.
Robert Irvine:Right? So I wrote this book not only for restauranteurs and hospitality, but also Fortune 500 company leaders and families. Right? Because it crossover the crossover is very intimate. And there's 4 things that I write in that book, and you talk about chapter 1.
Robert Irvine:Well, you know, we talk about empathetic leadership. What does that actually mean? It means that I know that, for example, you have an autistic son or daughter or a grandmother that fell down or a wife that's got, you know, heart disease or or whatever those things are. I have to understand why you're coming to work every day, and you're not the best you can be. And my job as a leader is to alleviate those pressures some way, shape, or form to make you feel good that, hey.
Robert Irvine:I'm taking an interest and taking care of you and your family because that's why we do this at the end of the day. And if you know that maybe I pay some medical bills, maybe I give you time off and still pay you. Maybe I whatever that case may be, you're gonna give me a 100% loyalty and a 100% work, and I'm gonna be a 100% invested in you and your problems and your family regardless. That's number 1. Then comes into leadership is trust.
Robert Irvine:Number 3 is ego. Mine as a leader and yours as a person that works with me. You're not an employee to me. You're a partner to me. And I think that's the difference.
Robert Irvine:And number 4 is authenticity. You can't be like a yo yo up and down nice one day and then then not nice the next day. And I think if you incorporate all 4 of those principles, look, in 15 years, I've lost 3 people because I decided to lose them, because they weren't a good fit for our organization. They didn't do their job. And there's one thing I will not stand for is somebody bad mouthing somebody else and standing on them to get to the next level.
Robert Irvine:That will never happen because I'm a military guy. We've got your front back, your left, your right, good or bad or indifferent. We've gotta take care of each other, And that's why our team has been so strong for 16 years is because of those principles. And it's funny. We talk about micromanaging.
Robert Irvine:Let's go back to that piece. I don't tell my guys when to take off, when to work. I have a strict rule that if I get a call from somebody high up in the military chain, chairman of joint chiefs or whatever, you get the call 10 minutes later. No matter what time of day, no matter where we are, which side of the coast or which side of the world, you have to pick up in that 10 minutes because somebody else's life depends on that. I don't tell my chefs or my people when to go on vacation.
Robert Irvine:You want 5, 6 weeks vacation? Go ahead. Just make sure that your work is covered, and that's really important. We have a program where the guys and I've got a chef right now in Switzerland. We're as busy as heck coming up with with d day.
Robert Irvine:We'll talk about that later, but I don't believe in micromanaging. As a leader, here's my goal. Here are the tools. Here are my expectations. Run, and I'm gonna follow-up.
Robert Irvine:That's it. It's as simple as that.
Mick Hunt:Wholeheartedly. And I love the 4 items you just gave because I actually have 5, and I have them written down here. Because, again, I've been taking diligent notes, and I'm gonna keep saying this about this book. This is a must have for all leaders. So I had written down, stop micromanaging, and then I have a dash, trust your team to handle things independently.
Mick Hunt:I got that from you. Second thing, embrace failure. But more importantly, learn from the mistakes and use them as stepping stones. You talked about building trust and authenticity. I mean, I can't tell you how much that resonates with me and who I am as a human being because I tell people no matter what with your team, you have to be you at all time.
Mick Hunt:Right? Because that's what your team is gonna see, and that's how trust is built. It's built through being authenticity and nothing else. Then the 4th thing I have that you talked about is adapting technology. And then I thought the most incredible moment in your book was talking about hiring exceptional talent.
Mick Hunt:Always hiring people that are better than you, that are more capable than you, and hire the talent versus hiring the position. And you don't necessarily say those words per se, but that's what I took from that. And that was so amazing to me, and it it totally has changed. I personally have stripped, like, job descriptions, and it's like, hire the talent.
Robert Irvine:You know, a lot of leaders or or so called leaders are afraid to hire people that are smarter than them. I've got 3 chefs that are 10 times the chef I will ever be, and I am not afraid of them taking the limelight. I'm not afraid to shine a light on them because they do the work. I'm talking about cooking for heads of state, you know, real heads of state around the world. And I know that if I get on a plane 3 days later and they've been prepping for a state dinner or whatever, I have no worries.
Robert Irvine:I come in, I taste everything, and it's gonna be perfect. Right? So for me, I do that in all our positions. We have 13 companies from drones to clothing to nutritional products to food products, and the list goes on. But I hire people that are in the industry, number 1, that can teach me.
Robert Irvine:I'm like a a sponge. I love to learn new stuff. You talk about technology. We have self ordering product. We have the change of the restaurant.
Robert Irvine:We're building, it opens in 2 weeks, a restaurant of the future with all technology, very little cooking, funnily enough, but it will hopefully do 3,000,000 with 2 people using technology.
Mick Hunt:Say that again?
Robert Irvine:You heard me right. $3,000,000 with 2 people. So when that opens in a couple of weeks, that's a test, and then we'll roll out after that. You know, there's gonna be some tweaks as we go along because it's technology. I'm not, a standstill human being that's happy with life just because we're doing so many things.
Robert Irvine:I want to be on the cutting edge of something and a leader in in my industry, but also a leader just like, and it's so funny because I tweeted last night about Chris Cuomo having a story on his show about a chip for the brain that connects neurons to disabled folks. It was absolutely unbelievable. And I talk about technology and this young man who couldn't do anything because his body, he couldn't raise his arms or his legs or, you know, he's in a wheelchair. And all of a sudden now, they put this chip in, and the neurons that he thinks work on a computer. It it's just fascinating to me when technology is used in the right way, how it can save mankind.
Robert Irvine:And those people that are, again, less fortunate, they've had happened at birth or an accident or whatever, and technology is changing their life to give them back their life. And I love that. So I'm always looking about what's next. And, again, not for money. How do we use technology in the food industry, in the clothing industry, in the you know, what what is next?
Mick Hunt:That's awesome. So the title of the book, Overcoming Impossible, I know that that obviously, reading the book, I know where a lot of this is coming from. But one of the questions I wanted to ask you, Overcoming Impossible, you personally have had to do that in your life and your career. What's, like, one particular tough moment that stands out for you that you had to overcome? But then more importantly, how did you overcome that one?
Robert Irvine:I think, look, the over the decades, like, I'm 59 years old almost. There's always been failures and things. You know, I had one in 2008 when somebody said, oh, you didn't do what you said you did. Right? Your resume was fake.
Robert Irvine:And, basically, that I was working with the royal family, which I did. But, you know, them days, we never had any pictures. Right? So only my service record would show you, but but I can show you right there. That's me right in the in the middle there next to Prince of Diana.
Robert Irvine:Right? And that came to me last November on a website. Right? Somebody, the official photographer, sent me the pictures. But Food Network suspended me.
Robert Irvine:They did all those kind of things, so they did their their due diligence and then found out it was it was all true and and whatever. But the ridicule, I was actually in the presence of United States office when that story broke on CNN Headline News. Right? He's like, you know, what is this? So I've been there.
Robert Irvine:I've been adversity. I overcome it, and you have to have faith and belief in in who you are and what you stand for, and I don't think I've ever changed that. A failure of a restaurant. You know what? I talk about that a lot in the book, failure of a company.
Robert Irvine:You know? Beyond your control, I used to sell meat to the military that was that was tossed in in seasonings. And then Tops, the hamburger company who used to do it for me, went bankrupt because they had a a recall of £90,000,000 of of hamburgers. Right? That wasn't my fault, but I had to deal with it.
Robert Irvine:So I think there's a lot of tests, and I and I use that as a great segue to what I'm gonna say next. And it's I think that whether you believe in god or not, that's up to you. That's your own personal thing. I think for me, god gives me a test to get me ready for the next thing, whatever that is, and I don't know what that is. You know?
Robert Irvine:He'll give you as much as you can handle, and some people don't like it when I say that, but it's the truth. I think you get what you can handle. And when you've overcome that, something better comes. And I truly believe that. That's what I believe in my heart.
Robert Irvine:And if you follow me on social media, you see what I put out. I try and help everybody and give them hope because food to me is hope. I don't know. I'm blessed at this this point in my career that I wanna help other people overcome their adversities.
Mick Hunt:And you're doing that every day. I promise you. I promise you you're doing that every day.
Robert Irvine:I wake up every day trying to do that. You know? And that's what drives me. Not there's not much that drives me anymore except that. Right?
Robert Irvine:It's not money. It's not fame. My wife and I, Gail, when we met 15, 16 years ago, one of the things we said, well, look, no matter what happens, and she's a hall of fame wrestler, you know, famous in her own right, and I was on Food Network. Whatever happens, we've always got each other, and we can cook hamburgers on the beach. You know?
Robert Irvine:That that's if we lost everything we had, that would be you know? And I'm okay with that. You know? You have to grow up knowing and as I grow up, not not age wise, but grow up in in maturity knowing that this could all be gone tomorrow. And if you if you grow up like that, then it's okay.
Mick Hunt:I love it. One of the other things I love about you
Robert Irvine:I I should hire you from our publicist.
Mick Hunt:We can when I tell
Robert Irvine:you Yeah. But anybody loves you is good.
Mick Hunt:When I tell you that I'm a huge fan of following, for those that are listening and you can't see, I have a Robert Irvine bit crunch bar, which from the moment that you introduced those, have been my favorite. Yes. The shirt. I love it. But let me explain to you my affinity with peanut butter and jelly.
Mick Hunt:And when I tasted this for the first time, I immediately bought the whole box from Target. Like, I bought all 30 because I said, I want these in my life. I have at least one of these a day, and it's always peanut butter and jelly. And you know how when you have something over and over again, after a while, your taste buds get used to it and it's not this. This every day is the most amazing moment of my my wife is around the corner.
Mick Hunt:Babe, I promise you I don't mean this. The most amazing moment of my day, Robert, is when I have this
Robert Irvine:Except waking up next to her and seeing her smile.
Mick Hunt:Right? That's right. That's right. Aside from my wife, this is amazing. So, again, you made a nutrition bar that actually tastes amazing, and not just the peanut butter, but the the cookie dough, like, all of them.
Robert Irvine:I think what you have to understand is this, and I'll get into that story in a second. Number 1, every product that we make, we own. We own the manufacturing. We own the distribution. The only thing I don't own is TV companies.
Robert Irvine:Okay? Everything else, we own. 11 years ago almost now, we started Fitcrunch, and I wanted to be different, so we baked the cookie on the bottom. It's the only baked 6 layer bar in the world, and we have the only machines that can make it. Right?
Robert Irvine:They're painted machines, 10 and a half $1,000,000 each, believe me, but we used to make them by hand. Used to be 18 line sorry. Three lines of 18 people putting stuff on and and coating with chocolate and then freezing and then, refrigerating and then packaging by hand. We used to do 70,000 a day, and now we do 300,000 a day. 95,000 retail locations.
Robert Irvine:And, again, it's like everything else. Chef curated is like our liquor alcohol. I am part of the recipe development, period. Nothing goes out without my okay, and I mean that every bar. So we just launched a new wafer peanut butter and a chocolate mint wafer, very different to what you're eating there, lighter, almost like if you've had a a Nutter Butter kind of thing, peanut butter wafers like that and then a chocolate mint.
Robert Irvine:We've got a vanilla and a strawberry one coming out soon. I wanna stay on the cutting edge of product. We've got a peanut butter pretzel one I've just finished. Right? So I'm in the r and d space on not only the bars, but also our liquor, our food that we sell all around the world.
Robert Irvine:And the beautiful thing about being a chef is, you know, I have taste I have taste buds. And if I like it, you're gonna like it. And that's how my mentality thinks. If I make, you know, we make our vodka and gin, the gin is made with 13 botanicals I use in the kitchen. We own the distillery.
Robert Irvine:We give everything that we make, A big portion of what we sell for goes into our foundation. We and we can talk about that later. So when I create something, it's because there's a cause. For example, our strawberry strudel bar, the money goes to Susan g Komen for cancer. Right?
Robert Irvine:So there's there's always something that I want to do for somebody. And if food can help that or nutrition or liquor or clothing, that's what I do. And and the the protein bar, if you'd have said to me 10 years later, we would do an x amount of 1,000,000, and I mean a big number in 1,000,000, I won't tell you what it is, but it's extensively big. We're the only bar manufacturer in the world that's owned by a single person. That's me.
Robert Irvine:Everything else is owned by conglomerates. 3 right now in the world in our category. So, you know, I wanna be the best in business practice. I wanna be the best in class, biggest by any way, shape, or form, but we try to be. You know?
Robert Irvine:We try to do the best we can do with the team that we have, and we enjoy what we do. Otherwise, you wouldn't do it. You know, we create products. There's a need in the marketplace. You know, we've got protein powder.
Robert Irvine:We got RTDs coming out next. There's a huge I think we have 212 SKUs total of of food and and liquor, you know, and all the other stuff. But, again, that goes to the end user, which is the men and women that wear the club foundation and our first responders and their families to help take care of their issues. You know? Is it food insecurity?
Robert Irvine:Is it home? Is it wheelchairs? Is it post traumatic stress? Whatever it is, we fix it, or we try to fix it. Is it psychedelic treatment in Mexico, right, for post traumatic stress?
Robert Irvine:We have a program there that really does help. You know, we're about to take 70 or 370 World War 2 veterans back to Normandy with American Airlines on June 3rd, do a dinner on 4th. The USS Normandy will be there. The heads of state will be there on 5th. And we do a memorial to the 80th anniversary of these amazing giants that we stand on their shoulders that are left.
Robert Irvine:Then we fly to Scotland to do a 56 mile march with a 1,000 coalition wounded, you know, double amputees, triple amputees, burn victim. You know? Again, I don't know how to tell you. It's it's so humbling to be around people that have done so many extraordinary things in their life, Vietnam veterans, World War 2 veterans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Medal of Honor recipients, firefighters that cut people out of cars and jump into buildings, police officers that protect us, EMTs, doctors, nurses, teachers, 911 operators. You know, all these people that get lost in the mix, and I wanna make sure we honor them.
Robert Irvine:And and, you know, through COVID, we were the 1st in the country, by the way, to make hand sanitizer. Not because I said so, because my distiller said, hey. We can do this. And it's so funny because I'd have to sign a big liability thing, but 6 50 foot trucks of alcohol in a residential neighborhood. You know?
Robert Irvine:We give the sanitizer away in the tristate area to National Guard, to doctors, to nurses, to police forces, firefighters, our FitCrunch brand, which you love and I love, the hospitals and and National Guard bureaus, and all those that were working, we took care of that. And I think, you know, that's why the brand is successful. We don't want nothing for it. I just wanna make sure that, again, we're doing the right things.
Mick Hunt:Totally agree. One of the most amazing things of all the things that you are and what you represent is what you were just talking about, you and your philanthropy. And here's what's amazing to me and why you personally inspire me. Most of the things that you do, being the personality as you referenced earlier, The personality that you are, you don't do it for that. I'm gonna say this on behalf of you.
Mick Hunt:There are a lot of people that are personalities that everywhere they go, there's a camera. Everywhere they go, there's an article written about it. Everything that they do, there's media. You don't give a damn about any of that. Everything that you do is from your heart, and you do so much that most people don't even know.
Mick Hunt:Yeah. And that's why you amaze and inspire me.
Robert Irvine:I know there's a lot of that out there. Only recently, we just started talking about the foundation because I was always nervous, and I still am. People feel that if it's in the media that it's about promoting you So for, you know, 8 years, we didn't even talk about the foundation and the work it does. It's only recently that I started doing it simply because, you know, the foundation program, we used to be a foundation that give money away to other foundations. Then we started I wanted to start my own programs.
Robert Irvine:So breaking bread for heroes, where twice a week somewhere around the world, Afghanistan, Iraq, Poland, Spain, Syria, Germany, Italy, we feed troops twice a week somewhere. Our reuniting the brave, we just put 750 First Battalion of 5th Marines back together after 20 years of war and the Gold Star Families and the Snipers in San Diego. You heard what I just said about Normandy. We're doing a big dinner for my foundation with with these amazing human beings in Normandy. We have a dog program.
Robert Irvine:We we have a wheelchair mobility device. It's not wheelchair. It was designed by Dean Kamen, the Segway, guy that brings you up to eye height so that nobody's bending down and talking to you. It can go up and down stairs on its own. All those kind of things that we do, we wanna be the best in class.
Robert Irvine:We just started doing bowhead bikes for for double amputees. You know, there are 1500 double amputees under war in terror, Afghanistan, Iraq. My goal is to make sure everyone of them gets a a bike, 20 mile an hour bike. It goes 45 degree angle. They can BMX kind of stuff.
Robert Irvine:So in Colorado, every year, there's 300 to get together. My aim is to get to get the 1500 together and get them out in 4 wars to stop that suicide rate. So I I have a mission here. Right? I have a I have a big mission.
Robert Irvine:We're helping the military modernize their feeding platform across the joint force now, which has been my program for 15 years, and we're finally getting it done. There's one thing you can say about me. I'm very persistent, and I don't care who you are. I'm gonna bark at you until I get what I think is right for the people that that we need to get it right for. Every day is an experience and a challenge because I challenge me and my team to do more than what we're doing now.
Robert Irvine:And that's what excites me the most. You know? We're we're we're heading out tomorrow to the Bahamas for a fishing tournament with Michael Jordan where our foundation is doing a dinner on Saturday. Hopefully, we'll raise funds for that, for the foundation. So, you know, again, opportunities come.
Robert Irvine:My team this week were the nationals in DC. They were in Cincinnati with disabled, American veterans teaching entrepreneurs how to start their own businesses and run their own businesses correctly. You know? We have a program called Let's Chow. It was developed by a a a lieutenant commander in the navy.
Robert Irvine:He's a JAG officer, where we put veterans into food trucks. We train them how to run businesses, and then we put them in brick and mortar when they actually figured it out. You know? So there's a lot of great things on the horizon coming up in the next couple of years and, again, in the vein of doing something. And we support so many other charity.
Robert Irvine:You know, TAPS, tragedy assistance program for survivors, Gold Star Families, you know, Senes, Fisher House, all those those great charities that are doing different things. Our foundation is all about mental and physical health. I don't build houses. Gary does. You know?
Robert Irvine:I take care of this and this. That's it. We'll try to, anyway.
Mick Hunt:You do it well. So getting you out of here on this, number 1, I appreciate you being so gracious with your time. And, again, this is a bucket list day and moment for me. Where can people follow you, donate, contribute? Where do you want people to know about chef Robert Irvine and the foundation and the organizations that you're a part of in helping?
Robert Irvine:Well, I think they can go to robertervinefoundation.org. But if you do, here's a warning. Make sure you have some tissues. There's some amazing heartfelt stories there. You can donate time.
Robert Irvine:You can donate money. You know, be involved. You can see me on Twitter. And by the way, you'll know it's me because there's no punctuation. It's a 140 letters characters straight.
Robert Irvine:You'll get the message, but I get some Twitter police that like, Robert, you can't spell. Nope. I don't want to either. I'm not changing my life for you. So you can hate all you want.
Robert Irvine:At Robert Irvine. Instagram is at Shep Irvine. Facebook, at Shep Irvine. You'll see what I'm doing. If you're on LinkedIn, you'll see on LinkedIn.
Robert Irvine:Again, we do so much. You think it's kind of interesting if you think what we do in a week is what most people do in a year. So, yeah, they're all the places, but I I really like to drive people to the foundation website, robertiraminefoundation.org. And if you wanna talk to me, the only way you talk to me is on Twitter, at Robert Irvine because I'm the only one that does that. The the the other guys do, Facebook and Instagram and all that because I'm not that smart.
Robert Irvine:I can't do Twitter or x or whatever they call it now. But
Mick Hunt:There we go. Well, I will have all of your social links and a a link to the foundation on the show notes, and I'm gonna post everywhere. And if you are a listener, follower of me and Mick Unplugged and any of my other brands, I'm challenging you to donate, to get involved, to help out. And he's correct. When you go to the website, be prepared to be moved.
Mick Hunt:Now I'm gonna leave it at that. Be prepared to be moved. Chef, I appreciate you more than you know. Thank you for spending time with me today. It has made my year by spending time with you.
Mick Hunt:So I appreciate you
Robert Irvine:so much. Living? Where do you live? What state?
Mick Hunt:I'm in Greenville, South Carolina.
Robert Irvine:So next time I'm in South Carolina, because I have some military bases that I take care of, we'll get together. We'll have a cup of coffee or a beer or dinner or something. We'll break bread.
Mick Hunt:You got it. And for all the listeners, remember, your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.
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