“I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.”

Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

If it’s a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it’s hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.

He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button

Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It’s surreal.

I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.

It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.

What they’re saying is, “I know who you are. I watch your stuff.” What’s better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing. What am I being pissy about?

This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.

I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.

I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.

I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –

It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.

It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

Generally speaking, there’s a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage.

To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].

I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.

I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.

I got the name Lil Baby because I always hung around older dudes.

If you’re a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.

There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say,

“Okay, that’s kind of conceivable.” If you’re talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that’s fine, no problem with that.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor