403: Josh Smith--From First Blood to Last Bite

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to work ethic, Master Bladesmith Josh Smith self-identifies as “the guy Mike is always talking about.” At age 11, Josh was taught how to build knives by his little-league baseball coach. By age 19, he was the youngest bladesmith to ever pass the Master Smith test of the American Bladesmith Society. Today, he owns and operates the Montana Knife Company. Josh talks about giving up the security of a six-figure journeyman lineman job to start his own knife company, how he changed the way contestants are treated on Forged in Fire, and what it was like to build a sword for a sheik in Abu Dhabi.

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0:00.0	It is the way I heard it and the title of this episode comes from the logo of the
0:09.8	Montana Knife Company which reads reads, and I quote,
0:14.0	From First Blood to Last Bite.
0:17.2	Chuck as logos go, as slogans and mottos,
0:20.9	that one's not bad.
0:22.1	It's pretty good. I like it a lot. I like it better than any
0:24.6	other title we had. When in doubt, look at a company's logo. See if you can't use
0:29.5	their motto. This guy Josh Smith, who you're about to to meet has just become one of my very favorite guests of all time
0:36.4	It began a couple of months ago before I actually met him when somebody else who I had never met presented me with a gift from the Montana knife company.
0:45.6	It was, as you might imagine, a knife.
0:47.8	Really? But not just any knife. Okay.
0:50.0	So this chef's knife. And it was unlike any other blade.
0:54.1	I had had the pleasure to grip,
0:56.0	gliding as it did through various surloins, various,
1:02.0	oh, I think the first thing I used it on was a whole chicken and I just cut it to pieces.
1:08.0	Did you? Like a laser beam.
1:10.0	Wow. It's such an amazing knife.
1:12.0	And so I came home from this event and I went to this guy's website and I read about his story and I called him to thank him for the knife.
1:22.9	And we had a conversation and found ourselves
1:26.6	in violent agreement on a great many topics.
1:29.4	And he actually said to me, and I think he says in this conversation conversation I'm the guy you've been talking about
1:35.2	yes your whole life yeah a whole life yeah exactly which is a little stalkery and maybe even a tad
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