I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
ADAM RICHMANIt’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.
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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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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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. You don’t have to come at me like that.” But yeah, I’ve tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.
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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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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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He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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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’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.
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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 not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
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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 not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.
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I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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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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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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