I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.
ADAM RICHMANGratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
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I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.
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I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –
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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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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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You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.
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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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I’ve always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.
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This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is 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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If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
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I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
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He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.
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I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
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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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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’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.
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