Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
ADAM RICHMANI’m not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me – but to say, “I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina’s wine country,”
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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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I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, “He knows where the good food is,” which is an awesome correlative. It’s an awesome simplification.
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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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I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain – I’ve always had a soft spot for this little club.
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I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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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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I’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.
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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.
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They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.
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It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.
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It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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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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“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.
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My mom always says, “Pack your smile,” but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food.
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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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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,
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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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I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.
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It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
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I said “I’ve had pho,” and then he goes, “Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?” I was like, “Come on, man
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I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”
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There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
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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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I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater.
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