Everybody is showin' up for this one.
He's done so much for restaurant relief,
all of our food service friends and neighbors.
You know, it is wonderful that as
part of the COVID 19 package that's just been passed,
that restaurant workers are a part of it,
but it's not as big as we had hoped, right?
And this person literally took the issue on all by himself.
He really did.
He started his Employee Relief Fund,
and it's raised over 21.5, just gave myself chills,
million dollars for more than 43,000 restaurant workers.
(John applauds)
I can't even say it without getting chills.
Like, my head is all tingly,
but we want to celebrate him,
and he has some big news to share about an upcoming event,
and John just wanted to say hello
and welcome Guy Fieri to our show.
Yay, what's up, man?
Hello.
I get goosebumps also, Rach.
As soon as I talk about that money
and all the people that got involved
and helped raise that.
We got that number close to 25 million.
You're up around-
There was trickle after.
No, no, I'll take 21, 23.
Listen, let's not argue the numbers.
The National Restaurant Association
was an awesome partner with that,
because once we started to get the money, right,
how do you send money to the world,
or to, you know, to the United States?
And they were just amazing.
Can you imagine sending out 43,000 checks?
I don't even know how to put that together.
You're going to share some big news.
What are you doing next?
Barstool Sports.
I think everybody knows about Barstool Sports,
and what they do, and Dave Portnoy.
He's been doing a fantastic Barstool Fund,
where he's been going to businesses that need help,
not businesses that are failing,
but businesses that are gonna fail if they don't get support
and we're not talking just restaurants.
You know, that's always, my focus,
is the restaurant side of things.
His is on young entrepreneurs,
is entrepreneurs, families,
small businesses, all different shapes and forms,
and he has raised so much money.
And so, we started talking about
another way to raise some money,
and a good friend of ours, Rach,
the one and only Lee Schrager
at Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits,
stepped in and says, "Guys, I've got an idea.
Let's put a collective together
of the greatest wines in the world,
coming from celebrities, coming from wineries, so forth.
Let's put this together.
Let's put a live auction together.
You and Dave host it,
and let's raise millions."
And that's getting ready to happen,
April 9th, 6 to 10 Eastern Time,
is going to be this virtual auction.
Matter of fact, folks could go on right now to Zachys,
Z-A-C-H-Y-S.com and start to login now,
and start to bid on some of these packages.
But we're hoping to raise between another two to $3 million
for the Barstool Fund.
Amazing.
Absolutely amazing, my friend.
And it sounds like so much fun,
and who doesn't want to go to a wine auction?
Yay.
And Lee Schrager, he's a love of my life.
You know, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you guys.
And hopefully, well, it looks like it's going to happen,
because this is, guys, just for everybody,
there's only a few times I get to see Rach.
One I'm missing right now because I'm not in New York
and I'm not hanging out with her.
So, that's one down.
But hopefully, we will be together at
South Beach Food & Wine, which got moved to May this year.
So, I think it's the weekend of the 22nd.
That would be great. (laughs)
'Kay, it's gonna happen.
So, I'm going to find you,
and where we're actually going to hang out.
But, you know what, I'll tell you something,
Lee is such an amazing person,
raised millions of dollars every year,
and let me tell you the auction items.
We've got, here you go, Rach,
'cause I'm bidding,
and I've told Lori, she's going to have
to bid on these while we're doing the telethon.
Sting has offered up his place in Italy and dinner for 10.
Bon Jovi, he and his son, a dinner with them,
and tasting their water, their wine,
their water, Hampton Water. Their water.
If you know what they're doing, they're blowing up.
Mary J. Blige.
Matt Damon is going to be doing a movie
and he's inviting people on set.
We've got a Lakers tickets, signed LeBron jersey,
I mean, the list goes on and on.
Dave is doing a thing, you know,
he does this great pizza report from the street.
He's inviting people to come, you know,
to bid on that auction package.
We're doing one to invite someone
to Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,
and also a case of our signed Santo Tequila.
So, everybody is showin' up for this one, Rach.
That is amazing, oh my gosh.
It's so exciting just to even hear
about the offerings at this thing.
My goodness.
Yeah, I think you may be low-balling
how much money you guys are going to earn with that,
I mean.
Well I know much I'm going to spend.
So, I'm already,
Lori is going to go in as my proxy,
but I don't know how to let her go bid on this stuff, Rach.
It's like you bidding.
Oh, yeah. (Rachael laughs)
Some of it, yeah, okay,
we'll bid another five, 10,000,
oh, just go.
It's for charity.
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