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.
ADAM RICHMANIf 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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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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It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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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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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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There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
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I’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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. You don’t have to come at me like that.” But yeah, I’ve tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.
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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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The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael – and we actually cut class to get tickets – was INXS at the Garden.
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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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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.
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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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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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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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Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.
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So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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Now I’m on a mouth-watering journey to find America’s greatest pig-out spots.
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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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Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
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