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.
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I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.
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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.
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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?
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I’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.
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In the early ’90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.
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Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.
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I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.
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I’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day
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. You don’t have to come at me like that.” But yeah, I’ve tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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And take on the country’s most legendary eating challenges. I’m no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.
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To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].
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He said, “For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they’ve seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that.”
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Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.
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