Robert Irvine | From the “UK’s Royal Navy” to “Restaurant: Impossible” | A Life of Food & Service

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Robert Irvine: Food is the initial equalizer.

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Robert Irvine: I don't care how much money you have, okay,

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Robert Irvine: what big house you have or you live in a

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Robert Irvine: car.

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Robert Irvine: We have to eat.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Hey, welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you back for another show.

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Marc Preston: If you're new, my name is Marc Preston and

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Marc Preston: I'm glad to have you here because, hey,

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Marc Preston: we're going to have some fun talking with

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Marc Preston: chef, tv host, entrepreneur, philanthropist,

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Marc Preston: robert Irvine.

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Marc Preston: You probably know him from his work on Food

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Marc Preston: Network dinner impossible, restaurant

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Marc Preston: impossible.

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Marc Preston: Very busy guy doing a lot of stuff.

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Marc Preston: We cover all that.

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Marc Preston: He's been a chef in the White House, he's

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Marc Preston: been in the British Royal Navy, he's done a

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Marc Preston: lot of work on the food network and he's

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Marc Preston: been a chef in the British Royal Navy.

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Marc Preston: Tons of energy, really great chat.

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Marc Preston: Enjoyed my time with him.

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Marc Preston: it because it's a new episode.

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Marc Preston: Want to have you come on back by Great

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Marc Preston: episodes coming up as we kind of wrap the

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Marc Preston: summer in head into fall.

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Robert Irvine: But right now let's get right into it.

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Robert Irvine: It is Robert Irvine day right here on Story

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Robert Irvine: and Craft helping veterans, I believe, is

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Robert Irvine: that what the okay?

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Marc Preston: So what, what brings you to San Antonio?

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Marc Preston: Is that just kind of?

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Robert Irvine: uh, I've done a lot here, um, with Sinise

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Robert Irvine: and my TVs and whatnot.

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Robert Irvine: So as a military town, usa is a great place

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Robert Irvine: to uh to hold a veterans tournament.

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Marc Preston: The you work with Gary Sinise you say I do

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Marc Preston: very closely.

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Marc Preston: What would that guy I tell you?

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Marc Preston: He is such a philanthropist and just um,

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Marc Preston: really.

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Marc Preston: You know he just seems like a real, as my

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Marc Preston: people say, a real mench.

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Marc Preston: You know he just seems like a really great

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Marc Preston: guy that y'all just came out with a new

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Marc Preston: season of um restaurant impossible.

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Marc Preston: You just kind of kind of rebooted it

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Marc Preston: recently, correct.

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Robert Irvine: We had three.

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Robert Irvine: We had three years uh, I hate us, um and

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Robert Irvine: then 13 years with dinner impossible.

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Robert Irvine: And then that came back.

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Robert Irvine: Uh, so, yeah, you know, after doing 300

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Robert Irvine: plus episodes, um, it was time to take a

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Robert Irvine: break and, um, I don't know, get some

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Robert Irvine: energy back.

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Robert Irvine: I think it's one of these things.

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Robert Irvine: I have a large company, the 4,000 employees,

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Robert Irvine: really, yeah, so, uh, to focus on a little

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Robert Irvine: bit of that, uh, give TV a break and uh,

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Robert Irvine: you know, we never took any downtime on

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Robert Irvine: that show, uh, so it was really the first

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Robert Irvine: time we'd been off air.

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Marc Preston: Of course you were doing different.

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Marc Preston: You were doing different concepts on

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Marc Preston: different television programs concurrently.

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Marc Preston: Yes, the fact you're traveling is that in

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Marc Preston: and of itself can be kind of exhausting Uh

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Marc Preston: travel for the last 10 years, 345 days a

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Marc Preston: year.

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Marc Preston: Now I'm curious that you see you got 4,000

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Marc Preston: employees, Kind of, what's the breakdown of,

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Marc Preston: uh, you have, uh, how many restaurants do

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Marc Preston: you have now?

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Marc Preston: So I have, I don't.

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Robert Irvine: I only have two restaurants one inside the

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Robert Irvine: Pentagon, one in Vegas.

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Robert Irvine: But I have a nutritional company, uh Fit

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Robert Irvine: Crunch.

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Robert Irvine: I have a distillery, the largest in

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Robert Irvine: Pennsylvania, uh boardroom Robert Irvine Um.

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Robert Irvine: I have a clothing company called uh Terra

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Robert Irvine: Armor Um.

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Robert Irvine: And I have a food company, robert Irvine

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Robert Irvine: Foods.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, my son saw something.

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Marc Preston: We were, where were we the other day?

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Marc Preston: Uh, we were a store and he saw yet a uh, a

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Marc Preston: bar, uh, nutrition bars, Like how did I not

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Marc Preston: know you had this out Seven years old, uh,

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Marc Preston: 95,000 retail locations.

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Robert Irvine: So yeah, it's a big company.

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Marc Preston: Uh, just kind of a little origin story.

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Marc Preston: I know you did the the Navy, but was that,

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Marc Preston: was that something that you come up at, a

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Marc Preston: military family where that was a

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Marc Preston: destination for you, or was it just?

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Robert Irvine: uh, well, it's kind of interesting because

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Robert Irvine: my father was in the army, my brother was

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Robert Irvine: in the army, um, at the age of 11, I joined

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Robert Irvine: the secret.

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Robert Irvine: Uh fell in love with uh, going to bases and

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Robert Irvine: warships and and the various other places.

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Robert Irvine: And at 15 and a half years old I was not a

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Robert Irvine: good student.

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Robert Irvine: My mother took me to recruit in her office,

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Robert Irvine: signed me up and, uh, I joined the Navy.

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Robert Irvine: I joined the Navy and, uh, they said well,

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Robert Irvine: when I took the test, the NAMMIT Navy,

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Robert Irvine: english Navy arithmetic test, uh, sorry,

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Robert Irvine: maths, navy arithmetic and math test and

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Robert Irvine: English test, I beg your pardon, nammit.

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Robert Irvine: Um, I got five, five, the lowest of both of

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Robert Irvine: those, and the recruiter said, oh, you can

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Robert Irvine: be a cook.

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Robert Irvine: And I said that's great, cause that's what

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Robert Irvine: I want to do Really.

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Robert Irvine: Yeah.

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Marc Preston: Now you mentioned your mother was was she

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Marc Preston: did she were you in the kitchen with her.

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Marc Preston: A lot Were you cooking.

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Robert Irvine: My mother was a terrible cook.

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Robert Irvine: That's why, yes, I did spend a long time in

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Robert Irvine: the kitchen, Um, but I grew up on a couple

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Robert Irvine: of boxes of cornflakes and a gallon of milk.

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Robert Irvine: Uh, I never used to eat that much.

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Robert Irvine: The only meal that my mother was good at

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Robert Irvine: was, um, a Sunday roast, where all our kids

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Robert Irvine: I have, uh, three other siblings and my uh

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Robert Irvine: mom and dad will sit down and that was our

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Robert Irvine: So, um, yeah, she was not a good cook and I

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Robert Irvine: wrote a book and I put the whole chapter

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Robert Irvine: about her, uh, being a terrible cook and I

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Robert Irvine: had to break it to her before the book was

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Robert Irvine: released.

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Robert Irvine: Hell, little heads up.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I grew up in a very similar situation.

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Marc Preston: I of course um kind of latchkey kid concept.

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Marc Preston: You know you're kind of on your own for the

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Marc Preston: most part and so it's either sandwiches or,

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Marc Preston: you know the parents weren't necessarily

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Marc Preston: what you would call uh uh culinarians at

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Marc Preston: all.

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Marc Preston: So, um, and one of the things I'm curious

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Marc Preston: about, especially with uh, dinner

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Marc Preston: impossible, were you just kind of geared to

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Marc Preston: cooking in large quantities and more of a

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Marc Preston: banquet style?

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Marc Preston: Was that kind of something you enjoyed, or

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Marc Preston: did you want to move in a more restaurant,

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Marc Preston: like you know, individual serving kind of

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Marc Preston: situation?

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Robert Irvine: No, I don't think the military, yes,

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Robert Irvine: there's.

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Robert Irvine: You know I was on warships and bases um,

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Robert Irvine: 260 men, uh, there was no.

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Robert Irvine: No, uh, females uh allowed on ships of it.

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Robert Irvine: And when I was in the Navy, obviously, um,

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Robert Irvine: so for me, I started uh, cooking for 22

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Robert Irvine: officers, uh, a wardroom uh, and, and you

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Robert Irvine: know I would go down and cook for the main

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Robert Irvine: crew.

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Robert Irvine: But you know, for me is, I can cook in any

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Robert Irvine: situation, whether it be 20 or 30,000, uh,

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Robert Irvine: which we've done, or for five presidential

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Robert Irvine: people.

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Robert Irvine: You know it is relevant to me, uh, the

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Robert Irvine: scale doesn't matter, it's the same

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Robert Irvine: processes Uh, and I think that's why, when

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Robert Irvine: I do now my companies or, or TV is, I can

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Robert Irvine: scale any, any education to any people,

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Robert Irvine: whether you're a CEO of a warship, a

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Robert Irvine: company or a mom and pop operation, it

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Robert Irvine: doesn't matter.

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Robert Irvine: And I think the military teaches you that,

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Robert Irvine: that leadership, uh, the skill set, um, and,

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Robert Irvine: and it's adaptable to most any business.

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Marc Preston: I was curious because I remember you did

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Marc Preston: one oh God, was it lost.

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Marc Preston: I think you went to the set.

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Marc Preston: I'm sitting there going.

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Marc Preston: What would I do in that situation?

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Marc Preston: I think I would be like curled up in the

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Marc Preston: fetal position next to a palm tree.

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Marc Preston: I think I would.

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Marc Preston: You know I granted, you're the pro at doing

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Marc Preston: that, did you?

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Marc Preston: Did you find that, when you moved into

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Marc Preston: doing the restaurant, impossible?

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Marc Preston: You're working with people who have just

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Marc Preston: sunk all their life savings into a

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Marc Preston: restaurant?

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Marc Preston: When you go into that kind of a situation,

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Marc Preston: what is your thought about those folks who

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Marc Preston: have not a really a lot of restaurant

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Marc Preston: experience and they put all their money

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Marc Preston: into a restaurant and there's no other

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Marc Preston: business I can think of where people do

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Marc Preston: that as frequently as the restaurant

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Marc Preston: business.

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Robert Irvine: It's interesting because you talk about the

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Robert Irvine: lost episode.

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Robert Irvine: Uh, I have never in my entire career wanted

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Robert Irvine: to know any facts about anything.

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Robert Irvine: Uh, that's why the show is a real and I

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Robert Irvine: mean real unlike any reality show on

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Robert Irvine: television.

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Robert Irvine: Um, and I can tell you that and you can

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Robert Irvine: read online that the folks that have I've

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Robert Irvine: invited over the years to to participate

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Robert Irvine: and watch and see, and from all levels of

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Robert Irvine: business and whatever, um, you're given a

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Robert Irvine: set of situations, just like the military,

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Robert Irvine: and you have to figure out the end goal.

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Robert Irvine: What is the end goal?

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Robert Irvine: Um, and then we're backwards to the steps

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Robert Irvine: to achieve that goal.

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Robert Irvine: When I walk into a restaurant and it's the

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Robert Irvine: same thing, I have never um in the whole

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Robert Irvine: time we've been doing this show in 320

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Robert Irvine: something episodes, um, I don't want to

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Robert Irvine: know the story of the people because I want

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Robert Irvine: to find the story out by myself.

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Robert Irvine: They will tell me based on the questions I

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Robert Irvine: ask, which is almost like an interrogation,

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Robert Irvine: if you like, um, and I can find out more in

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Robert Irvine: five questions in three minutes than than

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Robert Irvine: you can tell me in eight hours, and I think

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Robert Irvine: that's the fun part.

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Robert Irvine: You know, mom says oh, you make great

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Robert Irvine: sources, you make great barbecue, you make

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Robert Irvine: this.

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Robert Irvine: So what do you do?

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Robert Irvine: You're going to get a restaurant.

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Robert Irvine: Who's in charge?

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Robert Irvine: Now, the biggest thing for me is watching.

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Robert Irvine: Yeah, it's funny.

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Marc Preston: You said it because we've just watched an

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Marc Preston: But what do you think that is?

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Marc Preston: Because, hey, we have a kitchen in our home,

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Robert Irvine: It's the same as when you want to be an

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Robert Irvine: You can't get an acting job, so you've got

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Robert Irvine: The food business is a very cutthroat

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Robert Irvine: The biggest group of restaurants is Italian

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Robert Irvine: Yet the average American eats out 4.2 times

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Robert Irvine: So how can they fail?

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Robert Irvine: Well, bad management, bad food, overpricing,

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Robert Irvine: Hiring your family Hiring your family, it's

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Robert Irvine: It's not your kitchen at home.

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Robert Irvine: You have a responsibility to people that

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Robert Irvine: You have a responsibility to your people,

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Robert Irvine: And that can be a clothing store, it can be

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Robert Irvine: That's why people do it.

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Marc Preston: You know it's funny.

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Marc Preston: You said the thing about Italian

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Marc Preston: I was curious.

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Marc Preston: And flip side of that, what do you think we

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Marc Preston: Like it would really do well.

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Robert Irvine: Listen, we are creatures of habit and I can

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Robert Irvine: Yeah, we've done it.

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Robert Irvine: So there are certain cities that have

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Robert Irvine: or but I always say this in interviews that

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Robert Irvine: right, and once we understand the food and

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Robert Irvine: There will still be problems, but very few

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Robert Irvine: Food is hope.

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Robert Irvine: Food is the initial equalizer.

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Robert Irvine: I don't care how much money you have, I

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Robert Irvine: And food opens the tough conversations.

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Robert Irvine: You sit people around a table and really

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Robert Irvine: What are we doing?

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Robert Irvine: Why are we doing this?

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Marc Preston: I think Anthony Bourdain was really good

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Marc Preston: about illustrating that it's a one-leveling

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Marc Preston: We all sit down and have a meal and we're

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Marc Preston: Did you ever have a chance to spend any

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Robert Irvine: I think they do, but they really don't.

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Robert Irvine: Anthony Bourdain will tell you he wasn't a

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Robert Irvine: He grew up in a good family, but in a

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Robert Irvine: I was in Grand Cayman at the Cayman

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Robert Irvine: He didn't have a good relationship with

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Robert Irvine: Food Network.

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Robert Irvine: He didn't have a good relationship with

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Robert Irvine: Food Network talent.

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Robert Irvine: In fact.

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Robert Irvine: I'll never forget one day in Miami, south

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Robert Irvine: and he said oh, robert, irvine from dinner

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Robert Irvine: Well, and I invited him to come and there's

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Robert Irvine: He didn't come, but four years later he

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Robert Irvine: The show is really real and is intense.

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Robert Irvine: So I ended up going to Cayman with him.

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Robert Irvine: He was there with Eric Repaire, daniel it

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Robert Irvine: And it was so funny because I had so much

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Robert Irvine: I would walk behind and Eric Repaire would

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Robert Irvine: always put his hand on my back and move me

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Robert Irvine: forward and I said, like you know, I'm just,

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Robert Irvine: I am in awe at the talent in this place and

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Robert Irvine: it's so funny.

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Robert Irvine: I did a demo on the beach and Anthony was

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Robert Irvine: in a what do you call it?

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Robert Irvine: A swing.

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Robert Irvine: Not a swing, but laying down in a I forgot

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Robert Irvine: the name a hammock.

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Robert Irvine: A hammock, thank you In a hammock.

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Robert Irvine: And he came up to me after it and said that

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Robert Irvine: was the most amazing demo I've ever seen

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Robert Irvine: and that was kind of my interaction.

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Robert Irvine: Within that week and I went to Scotland

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Robert Irvine: actually the YAMP, where we take a thousand

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Robert Irvine: that meeting was you know, hey, anthony

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Robert Irvine: And I mean I was so shocked because, you

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Marc Preston: Yeah, my daughter was in Los Angeles and

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Marc Preston: see?

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Marc Preston: And they know that I drew.

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Marc Preston: I've always adored him, since his very

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Marc Preston: Tour and I and I was like no, that's like,

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Marc Preston: it's just, it's.

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Marc Preston: guard, you know, and that, but it was.

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Marc Preston: I always want to sit down.

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Marc Preston: He's one of those guys I always want to sit

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Marc Preston: But you were talking about being with him

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Marc Preston: Do you run it?

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Marc Preston: And then the traditional style of you know,

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Marc Preston: You know, how do you, you know?

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Robert Irvine: are you different?

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Robert Irvine: I don't like noise in my kitchen, I don't

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Robert Irvine: like break.

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Robert Irvine: You know I remember when we opened

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Robert Irvine: That was our first opening and I like dead

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Robert Irvine: silence.

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Robert Irvine: Automation.

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Robert Irvine: You should know the job because we trained

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Robert Irvine: you well, you know.

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Robert Irvine: You know the equipment, you know what I

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Robert Irvine: And I'm really intense, I expect.

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Robert Irvine: I mean, before we opened the restaurant, I

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Robert Irvine: I trained our people for four months

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Robert Irvine: because I want not only to know their job

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Robert Irvine: I did.

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Robert Irvine: That I like and dislike.

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Robert Irvine: Irvine really like?

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Robert Irvine: I bought my daughters in, I bought my wife

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Robert Irvine: in so they can ask questions.

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Robert Irvine: I really wanted them to understand what I

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Robert Irvine: stand for and that's helping people, not

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Robert Irvine: only great food.

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Robert Irvine: Listen, I'm not the best chef in the world.

515

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Robert Irvine: I'm not Erica, I'm not.

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Robert Irvine: I'm not a three star mission chef or

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Robert Irvine: Dominic Cren or I.

518

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Robert Irvine: Listen, I'm Robert Irvine.

519

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Robert Irvine: This is what I do.

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Robert Irvine: But listen, you can put me in a restaurant

521

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Robert Irvine: or in the Pentagon or for the president of

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Robert Irvine: the United States.

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Robert Irvine: We're in the middle of Afghanistan feeding

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Robert Irvine: 30,000 people.

525

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Robert Irvine: Not many people can do that.

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Marc Preston: Like you said, it's scale and adaptability,

527

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Marc Preston: and I think that's something I think you

528

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Marc Preston: have to learn in the military certainly.

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Marc Preston: And I'm curious what brought you to having

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Marc Preston: that be the philanthropy that you it

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Marc Preston: definitely sounds like you lean into that?

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Marc Preston: How did the military philanthropies, how

533

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Marc Preston: did that come to pass?

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Robert Irvine: I was in the military when I came to the

535

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Robert Irvine: States I got a chance to work in the guest

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Robert Irvine: chef program at the White House and I still

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Robert Irvine: do that.

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Robert Irvine: We've done so many events.

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Robert Irvine: And then it's so funny I was about to go to

540

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Robert Irvine: Honduras with the Special Forces for the

541

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Robert Irvine: July weekend and I tweeted.

542

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Robert Irvine: Gary Sinise tweeted me and I tweeted back.

543

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Robert Irvine: He was in Alaska to do a Lieutenant Dan

544

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Robert Irvine: Band event and we end up tweeting each

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Robert Irvine: other and I said is this the real, gary

546

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Robert Irvine: Sinise?

547

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Robert Irvine: And he said is this the real, robert Irvine?

548

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Robert Irvine: I watch your shows, I love your shows.

549

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Robert Irvine: And I said well, if there's anything we

550

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Robert Irvine: never do, let me know.

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Robert Irvine: Well, sure enough, three or four weeks

552

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Robert Irvine: later he said I've got this great idea.

553

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Robert Irvine: And I said, okay, I'm in.

554

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Robert Irvine: And it was feeding 10,000 people at San

555

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Robert Irvine: Diego Naval Medical Center, which I got all

556

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Robert Irvine: the chiefs of the Navy and the Corpsmen and

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Robert Irvine: whatnot to help us.

558

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Robert Irvine: And we fed 10,000 people and never get it.

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Robert Irvine: It was an amazing event and Gary played the

560

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Robert Irvine: band and I did the food and we visited all

561

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Robert Irvine: the wounded and it was just, and that

562

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Robert Irvine: became a program called the Invincible

563

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Robert Irvine: Spirit Festivals and we would go to all the

564

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Robert Irvine: hospitals and do that every year, which was

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Robert Irvine: very special.

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Robert Irvine: And after seven plus years I'm like, okay,

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Robert Irvine: now I want a foundation because I think we

568

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Robert Irvine: can do more.

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Robert Irvine: You know, it was great.

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Robert Irvine: I'm not a musician.

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Robert Irvine: I don't play an instrument or I do with

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Robert Irvine: Gary on the stage, which is funny.

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Robert Irvine: I would play the maracas and cymbals and

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Robert Irvine: every time because I know we set inside out

575

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Robert Irvine: I would bang the cymbals.

576

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Robert Irvine: He would look around and like who was that

577

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Robert Irvine: crazy dude on the cymbals?

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Robert Irvine: But we are very close.

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Robert Irvine: I mean I talk to him every couple of days.

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Robert Irvine: He supports my foundation here in the golf

581

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Robert Irvine: tournament and I've supported him since day

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Robert Irvine: one.

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Robert Irvine: I just think he's an amazing guy and that's

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Robert Irvine: why I wanted to do more.

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Robert Irvine: Gary has a reach.

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Robert Irvine: He builds homes and whatnot.

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Robert Irvine: My foundation is all about mental and

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Robert Irvine: physical health.

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Robert Irvine: So we literally I don't know go hand in

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Robert Irvine: hand, I suppose you would say along with

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Robert Irvine: TAPS, tragedy Systems Program for Survivors.

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Robert Irvine: Gold Star Families.

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Robert Irvine: I just literally came back from Scotland

594

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Robert Irvine: six days ago straight to Michigan to shoot

595

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Robert Irvine: a show.

596

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Robert Irvine: Left Michigan went to Las Vegas and had 50

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Robert Irvine: Gold Star Families at my restaurant, then

598

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Robert Irvine: straight to another show back to Michigan,

599

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Robert Irvine: here to San Antonio.

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Robert Irvine: I just think philanthropy of our military

601

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Robert Irvine: and it's not just our military, it's our

602

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Robert Irvine: first responders also that we seem to

603

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Robert Irvine: forget about a lot.

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Robert Irvine: I think the country as a whole has

605

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Robert Irvine: forgotten about our military and what our

606

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Robert Irvine: first with the civil unrest and the last

607

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Robert Irvine: couple of years, and COVID and all the

608

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Robert Irvine: things that we still have military in Syria

609

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Robert Irvine: and Afghanistan and Iraq, but we don't hear

610

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Robert Irvine: about it because it's not fully fledged.

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Marc Preston: I think it's because so much of the news

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Marc Preston: cycle is so absorbed with all the nonsense

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Marc Preston: over the last handful of years.

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Marc Preston: Most certainly and I think you mentioned

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Marc Preston: something to mental health.

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Marc Preston: I think that's one of the things that me,

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Marc Preston: as kind of a layperson, it seems like we've

618

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Marc Preston: really underserved the military, the people

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Marc Preston: who just people getting out.

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Marc Preston: Maybe they didn't have an injury you can

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Marc Preston: see, but I mean knowing some of the people

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Marc Preston: I've known that have actually served and

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Marc Preston: come back.

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Marc Preston: They're definitely mental, and physical

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Marc Preston: health is something that we need to do more

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Marc Preston: of that.

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Marc Preston: That just seems like Now you mentioned that

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Marc Preston: you did the guest chef program at the White

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Marc Preston: House.

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Marc Preston: Now, which administration did you work in?

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Marc Preston: It was 1997, I've been doing that.

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Marc Preston: Well, I have to know when Trump did that

633

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Marc Preston: thing where he had all the McDonald's

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Marc Preston: brought in, what did you think about that?

635

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Marc Preston: I mean, you're thinking there's some of the

636

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Marc Preston: one most wonderful chefs here Now

637

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Marc Preston: somebody's bringing.

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Robert Irvine: McDonald's.

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Robert Irvine: The funny thing is I work for Trump for

640

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Robert Irvine: four years at Taj Mahal in Atlantic City as

641

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Robert Irvine: his executive chef.

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Robert Irvine: For me, it's when you get a chance to do

643

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Robert Irvine: this and I've worked with some amazing

644

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Robert Irvine: people it doesn't matter what they're

645

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Robert Irvine: eating.

646

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Robert Irvine: Listen, I could tell you stories I want,

647

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Robert Irvine: but I could tell you stories of other

648

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Robert Irvine: presidents that have been strange things.

649

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Robert Irvine: They say this is the presidents don't like

650

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Robert Irvine: each other.

651

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Robert Irvine: It's the smallest club in the world.

652

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Robert Irvine: Oh, indeed, yeah, I got a chance to glimpse

653

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Robert Irvine: into that.

654

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Robert Irvine: I didn't live there, I didn't work there

655

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Robert Irvine: 500 days a year.

656

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Robert Irvine: I got to travel, I got to do some amazing

657

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Robert Irvine: things, but I think food again is that

658

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Robert Irvine: conduit.

659

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Robert Irvine: I can sit in a place and say, oh, there's

660

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Robert Irvine: the president of the United States, joe

661

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Robert Irvine: Biden.

662

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Robert Irvine: We just did a big thing with Joe Biden and

663

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Robert Irvine: military folks.

664

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Robert Irvine: I sit on some panels of food, insecurity

665

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Robert Irvine: and health and fitness and all those kinds

666

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Robert Irvine: of things.

667

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Robert Irvine: I just think it allows me to be able to do

668

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Robert Irvine: the things that I love to do.

669

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Robert Irvine: I don't judge, but when you're 200 pounds

670

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Robert Irvine: overweight and then you've got a heart

671

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Robert Irvine: attack, I'm like, well, how do we get there?

672

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Marc Preston: Right, you know, I think Jamie Oliver did a

673

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Marc Preston: wonderful job pulling some attention.

674

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Marc Preston: I don't know where we're at on this, but

675

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Marc Preston: school lunch programs just the junk that

676

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Marc Preston: they're serving I know my kids when they

677

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Marc Preston: were younger in elementary were going.

678

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Marc Preston: This is barely passable as food.

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Marc Preston: I think that he had done one of the shows

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Marc Preston: he did.

681

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Marc Preston: He showed how, with only a slightly larger

682

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Marc Preston: budget, they could serve fresh, much better

683

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Marc Preston: food in schools.

684

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Marc Preston: Have you addressed that at all?

685

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Marc Preston: It is a thing.

686

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Robert Irvine: I think, with Jamie, never met him, don't

687

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Robert Irvine: know him, so I'm speaking in riddles here.

688

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Robert Irvine: Listen, jamie did really well with

689

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Robert Irvine: government back in England.

690

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Robert Irvine: He came to the States and he tried to tell

691

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Robert Irvine: moms and dads what to do.

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Robert Irvine: You can't do that.

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Robert Irvine: You have to get the buy-in of the people.

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Robert Irvine: I'm going to swing back slightly to the

695

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Robert Irvine: military, because up until this last couple

696

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Robert Irvine: of years the military didn't care about

697

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Robert Irvine: food.

698

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Robert Irvine: The military cared about equipment.

699

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Robert Irvine: I can tell you this last two years because

700

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Robert Irvine: I'm involved in it, they've done a great

701

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Robert Irvine: job of trying to figure out how do we make

702

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Robert Irvine: our servicemen and women more resilient to

703

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Robert Irvine: be able to use that $180 million drone or

704

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Robert Irvine: warship or whatever equipment.

705

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Robert Irvine: The same with schools.

706

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Robert Irvine: We have a long way to go with that because

707

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Robert Irvine: schools and federal and state people at the

708

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Robert Irvine: top don't value the schools.

709

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Robert Irvine: They don't value what we put in our kids.

710

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Robert Irvine: It's becoming tougher forget the inflation

711

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Robert Irvine: for a second it's becoming tougher to

712

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Robert Irvine: educate families about food and fitness

713

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Robert Irvine: equals fun.

714

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Robert Irvine: I believe that If we can and it's been a

715

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Robert Irvine: lifelong passion of mine to try and educate

716

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Robert Irvine: people how to eat, how to enjoy each

717

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Robert Irvine: other's company we're also the fitness part.

718

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Robert Irvine: Up until this year or this year.

719

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Robert Irvine: I should say there's not one state in the

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Robert Irvine: United States that we could take a young

721

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Robert Irvine: man or woman that would pass getting into

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Robert Irvine: the military.

723

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Robert Irvine: Really, yes, it's a national security issue

724

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Robert Irvine: Didn't they reduce the standards?

725

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Marc Preston: They had to lower the standards a little

726

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Marc Preston: bit too.

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Robert Irvine: They didn't reduce the Marines that haven't

728

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Robert Irvine: done anything like that, but they increased

729

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Robert Irvine: the training time, Costing more money.

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Robert Irvine: But now we're facing that.

731

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Robert Irvine: I can tell you right now, Planet Fitness,

732

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Robert Irvine: Chris Rondo, who's a very good friend of

733

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Robert Irvine: mine, I started this program the last

734

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Robert Irvine: couple of years where in the summer, right

735

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Robert Irvine: now kids can sign up and they can go to

736

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Robert Irvine: gyms for free.

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Marc Preston: My son's there right now my son and his

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Marc Preston: friend.

739

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Marc Preston: They told me about it and actually they're

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Marc Preston: working out at Planet Fitness right now.

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Marc Preston: It's funny he said that.

742

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Robert Irvine: They're amazing.

743

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Robert Irvine: I partnered with them a year ago.

744

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Robert Irvine: I've got to tell you, that's my big thing

745

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Robert Irvine: Right.

746

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Robert Irvine: How do we get school kids how old is your

747

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Robert Irvine: son?

748

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Robert Irvine: He's 17.

749

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Robert Irvine: What a great age.

750

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Robert Irvine: How do we get kids from 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,

751

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Robert Irvine: it's up to 19,.

752

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Robert Irvine: The program how do we get them into the gym,

753

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Robert Irvine: get them excited about working out, lifting,

754

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Robert Irvine: running, whatever it is that they want to

755

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Robert Irvine: do, because that then, in turn, not only

756

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Robert Irvine: makes them healthier, makes them choose

757

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Robert Irvine: better food, because they don't feel good

758

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Robert Irvine: when they eat garbage all the time.

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Robert Irvine: That's the whole cycle.

760

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Robert Irvine: We get kids invested in food and fitness

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Robert Irvine: and they can choose.

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Robert Irvine: What do they want to do when they get older?

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Robert Irvine: If they go into the military, they've got

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Robert Irvine: to be ready.

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Robert Irvine: I think that's a great program.

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Marc Preston: What do you think it is in the US that led

767

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Marc Preston: to this place we're in now where there is I

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Marc Preston: don't call you a centaire, but there is

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Marc Preston: just the available food.

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Robert Irvine: Yes, well, because it's an opinion, there

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Robert Irvine: are facts around it.

772

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Robert Irvine: But the average family doesn't make much

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Robert Irvine: money, whether mom and dad both work.

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Robert Irvine: I call it the living poor because we've got

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Robert Irvine: a feed so we can go to a McDonald's, so we

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Robert Irvine: go to a burger king, we go to it and get

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Robert Irvine: this amount of food, this amount of money.

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Robert Irvine: So it's within that budget.

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Robert Irvine: Listen, we have I think is one in five in

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Robert Irvine: our military.

781

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Robert Irvine: Is food insecure in our military?

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Robert Irvine: Really, that's a real number.

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Robert Irvine: As of yesterday it used to be one in eight,

784

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Robert Irvine: today it's one in four.

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Robert Irvine: A couple of weeks actually, about a month

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Robert Irvine: ago, I was in with NFAM, which is another

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Robert Irvine: great foundation that is feeding the

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Robert Irvine: insecure military folks.

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Robert Irvine: I was in Fort Hood, texas, feeding with

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Robert Irvine: Tyson and some other folks, 800 food

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Robert Irvine: insecure families of our active duty

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Robert Irvine: military.

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Robert Irvine: How can we do that?

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Robert Irvine: That's our active duty, we're United States.

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Marc Preston: You've been in the military, you know that

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Marc Preston: one of the friends of mine that have been

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Marc Preston: that are officers in the military.

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Marc Preston: Their primary thing is they want to reduce

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Marc Preston: the amount of stress that their enlisted

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Marc Preston: folks are dealing with, because if they

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Marc Preston: have a lot of stress at home, then it's

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Marc Preston: going to affect their performance at work,

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Marc Preston: and so I can't think of anything more

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Marc Preston: central than food.

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Robert Irvine: And this year, for the first time,

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Robert Irvine: Secretary of Defense is attacking that,

807

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Robert Irvine: which is great, but there's a long way to

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Robert Irvine: go.

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Robert Irvine: You know what it's like to move anything in

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Robert Irvine: the government right.

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Robert Irvine: It takes time.

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Robert Irvine: We spend $10 billion a year in

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Robert Irvine: obesity-driven disease at 1.4 million

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Robert Irvine: active duty men and women.

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Marc Preston: Eve and I who's my son?

816

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Marc Preston: Decided he wanted to go running last time,

817

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Marc Preston: like looking at my kids going, I need to

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Marc Preston: work out more, so I'm looking at my kids.

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Marc Preston: You know they're inspiring me at this point.

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Marc Preston: But one of the things that's curious about

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Marc Preston: what part of the country are you living in

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Marc Preston: now?

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Marc Preston: Are you because you're moving around so

824

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Marc Preston: much that I live in Florida?

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Marc Preston: Well, I have a house there.

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Robert Irvine: I spend 11 days a year there, but I love it

827

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Robert Irvine: when I go home.

828

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Robert Irvine: It's just.

829

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Robert Irvine: I love this.

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Robert Irvine: I'm not a cold animal, I love the war.

831

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Robert Irvine: So we're in San Antonio.

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Robert Irvine: It's 100 degrees.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I'm in New Orleans right now.

834

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Marc Preston: It's the same thing.

835

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Marc Preston: We got the humidity also, which is a lot of

836

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Marc Preston: fun.

837

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Marc Preston: But you it's funny you mentioned Grant

838

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Marc Preston: Cayman we're going, my kids and I are going

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Marc Preston: to jump on a cruise ship and head down

840

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Marc Preston: there here in a couple of weeks.

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Marc Preston: I just I'm a big tropical guy, but from

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Marc Preston: where you're from, you were in a much

843

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Marc Preston: cooler.

844

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Marc Preston: You're from a consistently cool part of the

845

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Marc Preston: world, so so wet and miserable.

846

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Marc Preston: Now you said you have daughters.

847

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Marc Preston: How old are they?

848

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Robert Irvine: So my one daughter is Annalise.

849

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Robert Irvine: She's 24 years old.

850

33:01 ,345 --> 00:33:03,101

Robert Irvine: She's trained to be a pediatric speech

851

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Robert Irvine: pathologist.

852

33:04 ,387 --> 00:33:07,253

Robert Irvine: In fact, she's got about a couple of months

853

33:07 ,313 --> 00:33:09,197

Robert Irvine: left and she's out in the real world.

854

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Robert Irvine: I have a 21 year old who name is Talia, who

855

33:13 ,293 --> 00:33:15,197

Robert Irvine: is working for the public defender's office

856

33:15 ,766 --> 00:33:16,529

Robert Irvine: in Philadelphia.

857

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Robert Irvine: She is trained to be a criminal lawyer.

858

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Robert Irvine: She went by the school two days ago at

859

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Robert Irvine: Rutgers.

860

33:23 ,145 --> 00:33:25,131

Robert Irvine: So yeah, they're both.

861

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Robert Irvine: It's amazing.

862

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Robert Irvine: I look at my life of service and then I

863

33:31 ,977 --> 00:33:35,065

Robert Irvine: have two amazing kids that have chosen the

864

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Robert Irvine: same thing, but in different formats.

865

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Marc Preston: I was about to say, did they kind of follow

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Marc Preston: in your footsteps?

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Marc Preston: I guess it was just in a different,

868

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Marc Preston: different, took a different shape, you know.

869

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Marc Preston: But the question is around the house when

870

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Marc Preston: they were growing up, were you?

871

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Marc Preston: I always wonder about chefs when they come

872

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Marc Preston: home.

873

33:50 ,250 --> 00:33:51,715

Marc Preston: Anthony Bourdain, just take it back to him.

874

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Marc Preston: He said well, I don't go home and cook

875

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Marc Preston: anything fancy.

876

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Marc Preston: He likes the kind of the utilitarian, just

877

33:56 ,315 --> 00:33:57,763

Marc Preston: kind of like a nice bowl of spaghetti or

878

33:57 ,824 --> 00:33:58,688

Marc Preston: something like that at home.

879

33:59 ,205 --> 00:34:00,410

Marc Preston: What were you cooking for the kids when

880

34:00 ,430 --> 00:34:01,053

Marc Preston: they were growing up?

881

34:01 ,145 --> 00:34:03,471

Robert Irvine: It was funny because I was never at home

882

34:04 ,273 --> 00:34:05,476

Robert Irvine: when my kids were growing up.

883

34:06 ,265 --> 00:34:06,847

Robert Irvine: I was working.

884

34:06 ,947 --> 00:34:10,266

Robert Irvine: I worked, you know, 18 hours a day and on

885

34:10 ,286 --> 00:34:13,259

Robert Irvine: my days off I would go to the White House,

886

34:13 ,319 --> 00:34:14,826

Robert Irvine: I would do charity events, I would go to

887

34:14 ,866 --> 00:34:17,073

Robert Irvine: food banks, I would do all these sort of

888

34:17 ,133 --> 00:34:17,373

Robert Irvine: things.

889

34:18 ,826 --> 00:34:22,173

Robert Irvine: So my kids up until the age of probably 12,

890

34:22 ,513 --> 00:34:24,437

Robert Irvine: you know, it's almost like a single parent

891

34:24 ,477 --> 00:34:25,926

Robert Irvine: family, even though I was.

892

34:25 ,946 --> 00:34:28,693

Robert Irvine: Yes, I was home every night, but at 11 or

893

34:28 ,753 --> 00:34:30,647

Robert Irvine: 12, one o'clock in the morning and I'd be

894

34:30 ,687 --> 00:34:32,012

Robert Irvine: leaving at six in the morning.

895

34:32 ,185 --> 00:34:36,311

Robert Irvine: So I think now and then we get.

896

34:36 ,892 --> 00:34:39,256

Robert Irvine: When my daughters or my oldest, I should

897

34:39 ,276 --> 00:34:43,669

Robert Irvine: say, annalise, was 21, she said dad, can I

898

34:43 ,709 --> 00:34:44,893

Robert Irvine: go for a drink with you now?

899

34:45 ,725 --> 00:34:47,992

Robert Irvine: And I said, yeah, it was Miami, food and

900

34:48 ,012 --> 00:34:48,233

Robert Irvine: wine.

901

34:49 ,145 --> 00:34:51,230

Robert Irvine: And now my little ones said to me oh, dad,

902

34:51 ,270 --> 00:34:52,894

Robert Irvine: can I go to Miami food and wine now?

903

34:53 ,736 --> 00:34:54,237

Robert Irvine: And now they're old.

904

34:54 ,277 --> 00:34:57,431

Robert Irvine: Now I spend more time with my kids now than

905

34:57 ,491 --> 00:34:59,375

Robert Irvine: I ever have and it's the most important

906

34:59 ,416 --> 00:34:59,636

Robert Irvine: thing.

907

35:00 ,565 --> 00:35:03,550

Robert Irvine: I don't think when you have a family and

908

35:03 ,570 --> 00:35:04,572

Robert Irvine: you've got to work, you don't.

909

35:05 ,914 --> 00:35:10,671

Robert Irvine: I certainly felt what's the word guilty, I

910

35:10 ,711 --> 00:35:12,860

Robert Irvine: suppose, because I wasn't spending that

911

35:12 ,880 --> 00:35:16,991

Robert Irvine: much time, but I was playing money in a

912

35:17 ,071 --> 00:35:18,754

Robert Irvine: house and the things that we do.

913

35:21 ,545 --> 00:35:22,107

Robert Irvine: But now I.

914

35:22 ,509 --> 00:35:24,939

Robert Irvine: It's so interesting because both my girls

915

35:24 ,979 --> 00:35:27,026

Robert Irvine: love to cook, they love to hang out with me,

916

35:27 ,126 --> 00:35:28,669

Robert Irvine: they've been on stage with me, they've been

917

35:28 ,730 --> 00:35:32,016

Robert Irvine: on trips on the road, on buses, and it's

918

35:33 ,425 --> 00:35:36,653

Robert Irvine: just so good when they're old enough to

919

35:36 ,693 --> 00:35:38,497

Robert Irvine: have an opinion and they voice their

920

35:38 ,517 --> 00:35:40,708

Robert Irvine: opinions very quickly, like me pretty much,

921

35:40 ,768 --> 00:35:43,433

Robert Irvine: but, and they don't always gel with my

922

35:43 ,453 --> 00:35:44,796

Robert Irvine: opinions and I like that.

923

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Marc Preston: You know?

924

35:46 ,465 --> 00:35:46,786

Marc Preston: Well, it's always.

925

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Marc Preston: It's always interesting when you get

926

35:47 ,849 --> 00:35:49,434

Marc Preston: challenged by your kids and they end up

927

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Marc Preston: being right.

928

35:50 ,285 --> 00:35:51,168

Marc Preston: You know, that's always kind of a

929

35:51 ,228 --> 00:35:52,191

Marc Preston: revelation, isn't it?

930

35:52 ,211 --> 00:35:55,429

Marc Preston: Yeah, but you know, one of the things I was

931

35:55 ,469 --> 00:35:57,034

Marc Preston: curious about when it came to, when you go

932

35:57 ,094 --> 00:35:59,048

Marc Preston: into a restaurant and one of the things I

933

35:59 ,128 --> 00:36:01,095

Marc Preston: love about the show is the sociology of it,

934

36:01 ,385 --> 00:36:03,049

Marc Preston: like you mentioned, who's running the

935

36:03 ,109 --> 00:36:06,256

Marc Preston: restaurant, who's in charge is the way you

936

36:06 ,296 --> 00:36:06,456

Marc Preston: put it.

937

36:07 ,585 --> 00:36:08,728

Marc Preston: When you go in somewhere and you've asked

938

36:08 ,749 --> 00:36:10,574

Marc Preston: the questions and you watch it run and then

939

36:11 ,165 --> 00:36:13,211

Marc Preston: you help them make changes that you are

940

36:13 ,351 --> 00:36:14,675

Marc Preston: pretty confident are going to help them,

941

36:15 ,645 --> 00:36:17,350

Marc Preston: and then you do you ever go revisit it and

942

36:17 ,370 --> 00:36:17,571

Marc Preston: go?

943

36:18 ,233 --> 00:36:18,734

Marc Preston: How are they doing?

944

36:18 ,775 --> 00:36:18,955

Marc Preston: Now?

945

36:19 ,325 --> 00:36:22,232

Marc Preston: You know a case in point we go down to

946

36:22 ,272 --> 00:36:24,778

Marc Preston: South Padre Island every year and you did

947

36:24 ,798 --> 00:36:27,732

Marc Preston: something down there and I remember going

948

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Marc Preston: to the restaurant down in New Orleans.

949

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Marc Preston: I was evacuated for a hurricane a couple of

950

36:30 ,667 --> 00:36:32,071

Marc Preston: years ago and I decided to go down there

951

36:32 ,693 --> 00:36:35,269

Marc Preston: and it didn't look at all like what you had

952

36:35 ,289 --> 00:36:37,014

Marc Preston: done and they had kind of adjusted it.

953

36:37 ,185 --> 00:36:37,366

Marc Preston: Does that?

954

36:37 ,406 --> 00:36:39,051

Marc Preston: Does that frustrate you ever, whenever you

955

36:39 ,091 --> 00:36:40,965

Marc Preston: see somebody not really sticking with a

956

36:41 ,005 --> 00:36:41,768

Marc Preston: program, as it were?

957

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Robert Irvine: In the last.

958

36:44 ,147 --> 00:36:47,373

Robert Irvine: So the early days of the show I think it

959

36:47 ,433 --> 00:36:49,297

Robert Irvine: was so different because people wouldn't

960

36:49 ,377 --> 00:36:52,008

Robert Irvine: change and the last three years of doing

961

36:52 ,028 --> 00:36:55,274

Robert Irvine: the show, where 96% successful, of the

962

36:55 ,354 --> 00:36:59,488

Robert Irvine: restaurant's return during COVID and after

963

36:59 ,509 --> 00:37:00,874

Robert Irvine: COVID, I think, is.

964

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Robert Irvine: I think what I say is look, I'm going to

965

37:03 ,425 --> 00:37:05,850

Robert Irvine: put a menu in that I believe will help you,

966

37:06 ,452 --> 00:37:08,476

Robert Irvine: based on the talent you have in the kitchen,

967

37:09 ,265 --> 00:37:10,508

Robert Irvine: based on the equipment you have in the

968

37:10 ,569 --> 00:37:13,866

Robert Irvine: kitchen and the terms of the tables, and

969

37:13 ,886 --> 00:37:16,814

Robert Irvine: that's how I strictly look at food.

970

37:17 ,565 --> 00:37:19,410

Robert Irvine: But it doesn't mean that you have to keep

971

37:19 ,430 --> 00:37:20,132

Robert Irvine: with that menu.

972

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Robert Irvine: You can do whatever you wish to do.

973

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Robert Irvine: But what I always tell them is hey, the

974

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Robert Irvine: minute you go back to what you're doing,

975

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Robert Irvine: you're going to fail.

976

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Robert Irvine: You teach you labor cost and food cost and

977

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Robert Irvine: management of seating in sections of the

978

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Robert Irvine: restaurant and leadership and all those

979

37:38 ,471 --> 00:37:41,250

Robert Irvine: things, but the minute you go back to your

980

37:41 ,351 --> 00:37:43,606

Robert Irvine: old ways, that's when you fail, and we've

981

37:43 ,626 --> 00:37:44,730

Robert Irvine: had a lot of people do that.

982

37:44 ,770 --> 00:37:47,308

Robert Irvine: By the way, all my customers and I always

983

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Robert Irvine: say my customers need educating.

984

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Robert Irvine: If you Marcet to the same people for the

985

37:56 ,513 --> 00:37:59,519

Robert Irvine: rest of your life, sorry, people die.

986

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Robert Irvine: If you don't expand your Marcet and bring

987

38:03 ,311 --> 00:38:07,138

Robert Irvine: in younger generation, you're going to die

988

38:07 ,158 --> 00:38:09,130

Robert Irvine: in a bite, and I say this all the time and

989

38:09 ,190 --> 00:38:12,063

Robert Irvine: food we're looking at, healthier we're

990

38:12 ,083 --> 00:38:13,948

Robert Irvine: looking at, farm to table we're looking at.

991

38:15 ,832 --> 00:38:17,716

Robert Irvine: I just finished one in Michigan yesterday

992

38:18 ,745 --> 00:38:20,332

Robert Irvine: and in the middle of Michigan, in a

993

38:20 ,452 --> 00:38:22,882

Robert Irvine: beautiful place where fresh food and fresh

994

38:22 ,922 --> 00:38:25,852

Robert Irvine: food is easy to get, there wasn't one fresh

995

38:26 ,012 --> 00:38:26,975

Robert Irvine: item on the menu.

996

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Robert Irvine: It was all canned and frozen.

997

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Robert Irvine: And I don't understand that.

998

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Robert Irvine: Hold on, this is what our people want.

999

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Robert Irvine: Well, let me just assess that.

Speaker:1000

38:37 ,705 --> 00:38:41,151

Robert Irvine: Your first year, or last year before COVID,

Speaker:1001

38:41 ,212 --> 00:38:45,419

Robert Irvine: was $360,000 in revenue in a small town and

Speaker:1002

38:45 ,485 --> 00:38:47,816

Robert Irvine: now you're at $150,000.

Speaker:1003

38:47 ,825 --> 00:38:51,454

Robert Irvine: And you're putting $8,000 a month into your

Speaker:1004

38:51 ,514 --> 00:38:51,955

Robert Irvine: business.

Speaker:1005

38:52 ,945 --> 00:38:55,373

Robert Irvine: By the way, you're $220,000 in debt.

Speaker:1006

38:56 ,185 --> 00:38:58,752

Robert Irvine: So tell me why you still do the same things.

Speaker:1007

39:00 ,785 --> 00:39:03,674

Robert Irvine: It's really about showing them, taking them

Speaker:1008

39:03 ,794 --> 00:39:07,244

Robert Irvine: out of their shell and seeing what's

Speaker:1009

39:07 ,264 --> 00:39:08,811

Robert Irvine: happening in the big, wide world.

Speaker:1010

39:09 ,105 --> 00:39:11,352

Robert Irvine: Why do people go to restaurants to spend

Speaker:1011

39:11 ,392 --> 00:39:12,435

Robert Irvine: their hard earned money?

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Robert Irvine: Well, because they like the food, they like

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Robert Irvine: the service, they get a great meal for a

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Robert Irvine: quality price and they go there three or

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Robert Irvine: four times a week.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's so funny you were talking about

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Marc Preston: more ethnic food.

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Marc Preston: How great would that be.

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Marc Preston: But that's one of the things that I do miss

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Marc Preston: about living in a big metropolitan area is

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Marc Preston: that diversity, where you can have a little

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Marc Preston: something different.

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Marc Preston: And I think the thing is, and I want your

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Marc Preston: thoughts on this do you think that when you

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Marc Preston: look at some of the ethnic foods in some

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Marc Preston: smaller places that typically seems to be a

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Marc Preston: little pricey restaurant you may go at

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Marc Preston: least in where we are?

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Marc Preston: You have an oh, there is an Ethiopian

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Marc Preston: restaurant or whatever but it's going to

Speaker:1031

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Marc Preston: end up being out of reach for people who

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Marc Preston: just want to, financially out of reach for

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Marc Preston: family of four.

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Marc Preston: Let's say, what do you think needs to

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Marc Preston: happen?

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Marc Preston: Kind of like, like you said, food's that

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Marc Preston: kind of great common denominator.

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Marc Preston: What do you think that people aren't doing

Speaker:1039

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Marc Preston: now when it comes to food and trying food

Speaker:1040

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Marc Preston: and experiencing things that they probably

Speaker:1041

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Marc Preston: should do but they're not doing?

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Marc Preston: I mean beyond just health concerns.

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Robert Irvine: And again I think it's yeah, sometimes the

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Robert Irvine: education of folks.

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Robert Irvine: Right, when I first came to the States, I'm

Speaker:1046

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Robert Irvine: used to, you know, back bacon in England

Speaker:1047

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Robert Irvine: and here we have streaky bacon which is

Speaker:1048

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Robert Irvine: just you know the skinny bit of it.

Speaker:1049

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Robert Irvine: Education of people and that's you know.

Speaker:1050

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Robert Irvine: There's a world outside of your general or

Speaker:1051

40:44 ,177 --> 00:40:45,019

Robert Irvine: what you grew up with.

Speaker:1052

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Robert Irvine: You know I say this in a military right

Speaker:1053

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Robert Irvine: when we bring kids from all over the

Speaker:1054

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Robert Irvine: country and they're so used to one thing my

Speaker:1055

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Robert Irvine: wife is Korean, canadian Korean.

Speaker:1056

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Robert Irvine: She grew up on rice and sushi and Calbee

Speaker:1057

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Robert Irvine: and all these other things.

Speaker:1058

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Robert Irvine: I grew up on eggs and fish and chips and

Speaker:1059

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Robert Irvine: steak and kidney pies.

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Robert Irvine: It's an education of.

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Robert Irvine: I got her to try other food.

Speaker:1062

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Robert Irvine: I mean, she's a world traveler, by the way,

Speaker:1063

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Robert Irvine: she's a professional, used to be a

Speaker:1064

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Robert Irvine: professional wrestler now, really it's a

Speaker:1065

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Robert Irvine: great education, but she would never.

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Marc Preston: You say she was a professional wrestler.

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Marc Preston: You say yeah, she used to be a professional

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Marc Preston: wrestler.

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Marc Preston: I guess you and Anthony Borenade have even

Speaker:1070

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Marc Preston: more in common.

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Marc Preston: His wife was, you know.

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Robert Irvine: She was a Hall of Fame wrestler.

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Robert Irvine: And she was a Hall of Fame wrestler and she

Speaker:1074

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Robert Irvine: got me to try things that I would never try.

Speaker:1075

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Robert Irvine: And I got her to eat dessert because she

Speaker:1076

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Robert Irvine: would never.

Speaker:1077

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Robert Irvine: She's a fitness fanatic who would never eat

Speaker:1078

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Robert Irvine: dessert.

Speaker:1079

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Robert Irvine: And then now we go everywhere.

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Robert Irvine: We love Vietnamese food, I love Indian food,

Speaker:1081

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Robert Irvine: I love Moroccan.

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Robert Irvine: I love all those things because there is a

Speaker:1083

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Robert Irvine: very similar flavor.

Speaker:1084

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Robert Irvine: Right, we are not going to create any

Speaker:1085

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Robert Irvine: dishes that are new ever in this world.

Speaker:1086

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Robert Irvine: Why?

Speaker:1087

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Robert Irvine: Because for hundreds and hundreds and

Speaker:1088

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Robert Irvine: hundreds of years, spices have been used in

Speaker:1089

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Robert Irvine: different cultures in different ways, and

Speaker:1090

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Robert Irvine: we just get this kind of regurgitation, if

Speaker:1091

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Robert Irvine: you will it's a terrible word to use in

Speaker:1092

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Robert Irvine: food, but of the same thing, but slightly

Speaker:1093

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Robert Irvine: twisted, right?

Speaker:1094

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Robert Irvine: So for me, I want to try those holes in the

Speaker:1095

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Robert Irvine: wall.

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Robert Irvine: And I love New Orleans, by the way I do.

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Robert Irvine: I've got some great friends there great

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Robert Irvine: hole in the walls.

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Marc Preston: Oh, the hole in the wall, that's what makes

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Marc Preston: the city.

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Marc Preston: It's not the place.

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Marc Preston: You go on like you know the real nice, fine

Speaker:1103

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Marc Preston: dining, which are wonderful, don't get me

Speaker:1104

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Marc Preston: wrong but those holes in the walls, that's

Speaker:1105

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Marc Preston: where you find some magic.

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Robert Irvine: I think I totally agree and I don't want to

Speaker:1107

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Robert Irvine: go and be in a chef and they say, oh,

Speaker:1108

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Robert Irvine: you're going to.

Speaker:1109

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Robert Irvine: We got this great restaurant, great

Speaker:1110

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Robert Irvine: restaurant, great restaurant.

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Robert Irvine: When I got married, I went to Athens and

Speaker:1112

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Robert Irvine: Mykonos and the Greek islands and my COO

Speaker:1113

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Robert Irvine: his wife is a, his mother, sorry has a

Speaker:1114

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Robert Irvine: travel company.

Speaker:1115

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Robert Irvine: She booked me to all these three star

Speaker:1116

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Robert Irvine: mission places and my wife, after the first

Speaker:1117

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Robert Irvine: day, said absolutely not, we're going to do

Speaker:1118

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Robert Irvine: local, you know, whatever, whatever.

Speaker:1119

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Robert Irvine: And that's what we did and I got to tell

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Robert Irvine: you I made some amazing friends which I

Speaker:1121

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Robert Irvine: still talk to today, 13 years later, and

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Robert Irvine: had some of the best food.

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Robert Irvine: My wife bit into an apple in Santorini and

Speaker:1124

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Robert Irvine: said, oh my God, this is the most amazing

Speaker:1125

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Robert Irvine: apple.

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Marc Preston: That's on my bucket list.

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Marc Preston: Santorini is a place I must go.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's now.

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Marc Preston: You're wetting my appetite for travel here.

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Marc Preston: Again, I appreciate you taking time out

Speaker:1131

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Marc Preston: with me and as we wrap up, I have a seven

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Marc Preston: questions.

Speaker:1133

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Marc Preston: It's kind of a little bit more of a get to

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Marc Preston: know you kind of a fun thing I do, but one

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Marc Preston: of the things I always ask folks,

Speaker:1136

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Marc Preston: especially with you.

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Marc Preston: I definitely want to know this answer what

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Marc Preston: is your favorite comfort food Could be your

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Marc Preston: cheat food, a thing that just if you've

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Marc Preston: actually had a day you just want to sit

Speaker:1141

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Marc Preston: down and munch on this thing.

Speaker:1142

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Robert Irvine: So there's two different things to me.

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Robert Irvine: Comfort food and cheat food are two

Speaker:1144

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Robert Irvine: different things, oh, okay.

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Robert Irvine: So comfort food to me is roast chicken,

Speaker:1146

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Robert Irvine: mashed potatoes and roasted onions and

Speaker:1147

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Robert Irvine: broccoli.

Speaker:1148

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Robert Irvine: That's my comfort, that's my go to, no

Speaker:1149

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Robert Irvine: matter where I am.

Speaker:1150

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Robert Irvine: Last meal on death row, that's my meal.

Speaker:1151

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Marc Preston: Roast chicken and mashed okay.

Speaker:1152

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Robert Irvine: Why mashed potatoes?

Speaker:1153

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Robert Irvine: That grew up in England, obviously a poor

Speaker:1154

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Robert Irvine: country, quote unquote for my world when I

Speaker:1155

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Robert Irvine: grew up, because my parents didn't have any

Speaker:1156

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Robert Irvine: money, so roast chicken and mashed potatoes

Speaker:1157

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Robert Irvine: was a big deal.

Speaker:1158

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Robert Irvine: My dinners used to be two slices of white

Speaker:1159

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Robert Irvine: bread, butter and sugar.

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Marc Preston: So yeah, go figure that one.

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Marc Preston: Oh no, no, no, no, I remember that.

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Marc Preston: I mean I throw a little cinnamon sugar on

Speaker:1163

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Marc Preston: cinnamon on it sometimes so you feel like

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Marc Preston: you're a fan.

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Robert Irvine: I'm not a fan of cinnamon, oh my goodness.

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Robert Irvine: So then my cheat meal can be anything from,

Speaker:1167

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Robert Irvine: you know, and I don't eat burgers very

Speaker:1168

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Robert Irvine: often, but when I do, it's a cheat for me

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Robert Irvine: because I work out and I'm very particular

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Robert Irvine: about junk food.

Speaker:1171

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Robert Irvine: Or it could be a, you know, a Jimmy John

Speaker:1172

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Robert Irvine: sandwich, which tuna sandwich on that bread,

Speaker:1173

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Robert Irvine: and that's a cheat meal for me.

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Robert Irvine: And I did a whole show called Robert's she

Speaker:1175

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Robert Irvine: Day.

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Marc Preston: Oh, that's right.

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Marc Preston: That's right.

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Marc Preston: You know I still you have to catch up.

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Marc Preston: I want to see that it's some crazy food,

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Marc Preston: you know.

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Robert Irvine: So, depending on what the day is and where

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Robert Irvine: I am, it could be.

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Robert Irvine: I've eaten every kind of ethnic food that I

Speaker:1184

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Robert Irvine: would never normally on a cheat day.

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Robert Irvine: And there's a great place and I forgot the

Speaker:1186

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Robert Irvine: name of it and I'd have to get it to you in

Speaker:1187

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Robert Irvine: New Orleans, which is a pop-up went there.

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Robert Irvine: I just had the most amazing meal.

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Robert Irvine: I will get you the name of it?

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Marc Preston: Oh, definitely.

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Marc Preston: Now I'm curious.

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Marc Preston: My daughter goes to school at Loyola, which

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Marc Preston: is in the Garden District uptown area of

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Marc Preston: New Orleans, and she takes a streetcar and

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Marc Preston: she's just going up and down, she goes a

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Marc Preston: subway.

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Marc Preston: I'm like maybe you gotta, you gotta, you're

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Marc Preston: right there, but for me it's funny.

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Marc Preston: So the cheat day For me, being from Dallas

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Marc Preston: originally chicken, fried steak, mashed

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Marc Preston: potatoes, gravy, those flat green beans

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Marc Preston: cooked in a ham hock.

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Marc Preston: I mean my doctor.

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Marc Preston: I just had a recent visit.

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Marc Preston: He said, you know, you cluster all this

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Marc Preston: little bit up.

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Marc Preston: I need to introduce you to the

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Marc Preston: Mediterranean diet, you know.

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Marc Preston: So that's kind of where I'm at now, you can

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Marc Preston: tell him it doesn't work.

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Robert Irvine: And I'll tell you why it doesn't work.

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Robert Irvine: I just really need to go into the sun.

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Robert Irvine: It's like going to China or to Korea or to.

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Robert Irvine: We are different human beings and the

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Robert Irvine: pyramid of food is completely different.

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Robert Irvine: So it's just because he says this is what

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Robert Irvine: you should do it's like intermittent

Speaker:1218

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Robert Irvine: fasting and all these other things.

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Robert Irvine: It worked for some.

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Robert Irvine: It doesn't work for others because we're so

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Robert Irvine: individual.

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Robert Irvine: I'm not a starchy guy.

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Robert Irvine: I don't like rice, I like baked potatoes,

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Robert Irvine: but I'm not a French fry and all that kind

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Robert Irvine: of pasta kind of guy.

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Robert Irvine: I don't eat that and it keeps my weight.

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Robert Irvine: I've been the same weight since I mean, I'm

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Robert Irvine: 212 pounds.

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Robert Irvine: I've been the same weight since I was 16

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Robert Irvine: years old.

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Robert Irvine: Really, yeah, I'm envious.

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Robert Irvine: So you know, again, it's the fitness that

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Robert Irvine: you do, Whether you walk or you have to do

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Robert Irvine: is walk up and down the stairs 20 minutes

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Robert Irvine: and raise your heart rate.

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Marc Preston: You know it's funny.

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Marc Preston: I had a wonderful physician back home in

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Marc Preston: Dallas and he said you know, Marc, not

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Marc Preston: everybody's got a gym membership, but

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Marc Preston: everybody's got a front door 15, 20 minutes

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Marc Preston: outside walk every single day.

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Marc Preston: It'll change so much.

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Marc Preston: It's something small like that.

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Marc Preston: But now the next question I got for you in

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Marc Preston: my seven here is three people you're going

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Marc Preston: to sit down talk story.

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Marc Preston: You're going to have coffee with them,

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Marc Preston: living or not.

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Marc Preston: Who would you love to sit down and share a

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Marc Preston: conversation with for a few hours?

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Marc Preston: Three people.

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Robert Irvine: Three people?

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Robert Irvine: Wow, good question.

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Robert Irvine: I've never really thought of that.

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Robert Irvine: I think the old prime minister what's his

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Robert Irvine: name?

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Robert Irvine: And I just answered his question or the one

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Robert Irvine: person would be the South African president

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Robert Irvine: that passed away oh, nelson Mandela.

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Robert Irvine: Mandela yeah, because he intrigued me of

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Robert Irvine: all the years in prison for something he

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Robert Irvine: believed in and I think that would be an

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Robert Irvine: amazing conversation.

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Marc Preston: I mean, I remember the prison guards were

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Marc Preston: calling Mr Mandela and this his

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Marc Preston: relationship to humans.

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Marc Preston: You know this, the way he connected to

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Marc Preston: people, I think him.

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Robert Irvine: I think Oprah would be a great conversation.

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Robert Irvine: I can't think of anybody else I would like

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Robert Irvine: to sit down, because I'd like to sit down

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Robert Irvine: with every head of state around the people,

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Robert Irvine: but, as I told you, and share food with one

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Robert Irvine: another.

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Robert Irvine: Yeah, but I don't think there's anybody,

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Robert Irvine: because I get to sit with a lot of people

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Robert Irvine: that I've admired.

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Robert Irvine: I mean, I got to meet Clint Eastwood my dad

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Robert Irvine: was the hugest fan of Clint Eastwood and I

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Robert Irvine: got to do a dinner.

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Robert Irvine: I cooked a dinner for Sineason and him and

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Robert Irvine: Tim Allen and a lot of other folks who I

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Robert Irvine: grew up watching, and I think that's

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Robert Irvine: something.

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Robert Irvine: Really I put his way.

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Robert Irvine: Marc, I love people who use the platform

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Robert Irvine: for good.

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Robert Irvine: Ask who I want to sit down with.

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Robert Irvine: I want to know more and when I go on these

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Robert Irvine: bases military bases all around the world I

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Robert Irvine: want to sit down.

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Robert Irvine: I want to meet and talk to you and tell me

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Robert Irvine: why you joined the military, what was

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Robert Irvine: behind it, and tell me about your family.

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Robert Irvine: I'm just very inquisitive about people in

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Robert Irvine: general.

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Marc Preston: Well, that's one of the reasons why I

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Marc Preston: started this podcast.

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Marc Preston: I mean, I had a syndicated show on ABC

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Marc Preston: Radio years ago and I was like man, I just

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Marc Preston: really enjoyed the part of it where I got a

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Marc Preston: chance to talk to people.

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Marc Preston: You know, that was it.

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Marc Preston: Well, now another question.

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Marc Preston: Who was when you were young, growing up,

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Marc Preston: teenager, whatever who was your first

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Marc Preston: celebrity crush?

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Marc Preston: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Marc Preston: Arnold Schwarzenegger, oh, you know, I

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Marc Preston: remember shaking his hand once and not

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Marc Preston: realizing.

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Marc Preston: I never thought about it.

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Marc Preston: I had to.

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Robert Irvine: I guess I wear large gloves, but I never

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Robert Irvine: felt how small my hands were until I shook

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Robert Irvine: his hand, you know it's funny I got my

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Robert Irvine: first set of weights at 11 years old and an

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Robert Irvine: old muscle and fitness from a doctor's

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Robert Irvine: office.

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Robert Irvine: And it's so funny because I tell the story

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Robert Irvine: at the time because I was making his power

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Robert Irvine: bars.

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Robert Irvine: He has his and I got to meet him and work

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Robert Irvine: for his foundation and do some work with

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Robert Irvine: his foundation and I used to see him every

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Robert Irvine: year at events Again, a really great guy

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Robert Irvine: doing great things for kids and you see him

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Robert Irvine: in a gym in California and it'd be like

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Robert Irvine: your senior old buddy.

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Marc Preston: Well, you ended up being on the cover of

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Marc Preston: Muscle and Fitness once, didn't you?

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Marc Preston: Yes?

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Robert Irvine: I did yeah.

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Marc Preston: That was kind of a nice full circle there.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you were, you and the wife and the

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Marc Preston: daughter is going to be just a beautiful we

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Marc Preston: love tropical stuff, right.

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Marc Preston: So beautiful island a year, but no

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Marc Preston: streaming, no internet, no nothing.

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Marc Preston: But you can bring one album, you can bring

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Marc Preston: one DVD of a movie, something you'd like to

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Marc Preston: see over and over.

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Marc Preston: What would that album and what would that

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Marc Preston: DVD be?

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Robert Irvine: I think the album would be Abba's Greatest

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Robert Irvine: Hits or Selenion.

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Robert Irvine: I'm an old guy.

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Robert Irvine: I listen to Abba and Selenion and military

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Robert Irvine: music, which is kind of fun.

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Robert Irvine: So what would the movie be driving, miss?

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Marc Preston: Daisy.

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Marc Preston: That was the first movie I think that

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Marc Preston: Morgan Freeman really came on to see in

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Marc Preston: that movie I love him.

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Robert Irvine: I love the movie.

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Robert Irvine: So I spent a lot of time on the road so I

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Robert Irvine: watched.

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Robert Irvine: Every program on Netflix I watched and when

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Robert Irvine: the new comes out, I watch it immediately.

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Robert Irvine: And Apple is saying because I don't want to

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Robert Irvine: work when I'm on the road, I don't get on a

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Robert Irvine: computer.

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Robert Irvine: On the plane, I literally put headphones on

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Robert Irvine: and watch downloaded films.

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Marc Preston: Well, as much as you go, you definitely

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Marc Preston: need to give yourself that mental breathing

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Marc Preston: space you know, without a doubt.

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Marc Preston: Last couple of questions here.

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Marc Preston: What if you could define, from the time you

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Marc Preston: get up till time you put your head down on

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Marc Preston: the pillow at night, what are the component

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Marc Preston: parts of a perfect day for you?

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Marc Preston: What would, if you had any could, do

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Marc Preston: anything you want.

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Marc Preston: This is, this is a solid day for you.

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Robert Irvine: Yeah, I don't have any solid days, and I'll

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Robert Irvine: tell you why because they're all so unique.

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Robert Irvine: I could get a call from Japan, I could get

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Robert Irvine: a call from the Pentagon, I can get a call

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Robert Irvine: from my foundation.

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Robert Irvine: My days are jam packed.

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Robert Irvine: Not one day is the same as the other and I

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Robert Irvine: think they're all perfect.

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Robert Irvine: Because I don't have a job, I have a

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Robert Irvine: passion that everything I do melds into

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Robert Irvine: that passion.

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Marc Preston: I love that, that you know what that's

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Marc Preston: optimal right there.

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Marc Preston: I really, I really like that idea.

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Marc Preston: So every day can be different.

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Marc Preston: And you know, like you said, in service

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Marc Preston: sounds like you've passed that down to your

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Marc Preston: daughters as well, you know.

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Marc Preston: So that same kind of passion.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you weren't doing what you're doing

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Marc Preston: for a living, simple, but what else would

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Marc Preston: you be doing if they said no more, no more

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Marc Preston: Sheffing, no more doing vocation wise, what

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Marc Preston: you're doing, what else would be your

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Marc Preston: vocation?

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Robert Irvine: Early on, when I was younger, it would have

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Robert Irvine: been a firefighter or a truck driver.

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Robert Irvine: Now it's philanthropy.

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Robert Irvine: If I had to drop everything, if I lost

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53:45 ,240 --> 00:53:48,707

Robert Irvine: everything, tomorrow I would put a shack on

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Robert Irvine: the beach and make hamburgers, but my

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Robert Irvine: philanthropy would say the same.

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Robert Irvine: I think I would give everything up to do

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53:57 ,323 --> 00:53:59,768

Robert Irvine: the foundation 24 hours a week, seven days

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53:59 ,788 --> 00:53:59,948

Robert Irvine: a week.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, you mentioned the thing on the beach.

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Marc Preston: And one last mention of Anthony Bordagni.

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Marc Preston: I said food always tastes better with sand

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Marc Preston: between your toes.

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Marc Preston: Always agree with that.

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Marc Preston: Now the last question I got for you if you

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Marc Preston: could jump in a DeLorean and you can cruise

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Marc Preston: back to when you were 16 years old and

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Marc Preston: you've got a couple minutes with yourself,

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Marc Preston: what piece of advice or guidance would you

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Marc Preston: want to give 16 year old Robert Irvine?

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Marc Preston: Listen?

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Robert Irvine: you know one thing I, when I was a kid, I

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Robert Irvine: never I thought I knew everything and I

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Robert Irvine: could do everything and try to be

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Robert Irvine: everything.

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Robert Irvine: And I think the one piece of advice was hey,

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Robert Irvine: listen to, just be yourself.

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Marc Preston: Again, chef, I appreciate your time more

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Marc Preston: than you know.

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Marc Preston: It's been wonderful.

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Marc Preston: And before we get going, is there anything

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Marc Preston: you're working on now you'd like to let

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Marc Preston: folks know about that in a project,

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Marc Preston: anything upcoming coming out on TV,

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Marc Preston: anything at all?

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Robert Irvine: We've got a lot of new store, new shows in

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Robert Irvine: the pipeline.

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Robert Irvine: We've got one last show in season 21 of

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Robert Irvine: restaurant and barzoline shooting next week.

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Robert Irvine: And then we've just got into the clothing

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Robert Irvine: business with Terraama, which is a veteran

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Robert Irvine: owned clothing fitness that you'll start

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Robert Irvine: seeing pop up all around.

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Robert Irvine: I think that's really exciting.

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Robert Irvine: But we're looking at some shows on HCTB,

Speaker:1447

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Robert Irvine: all surrounded by servers and veterans.

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Robert Irvine: So just an exciting time for me right now.

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Robert Irvine: You know I've, I'm about to reach 57.

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Robert Irvine: And I think I'm like 27.

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Robert Irvine: The food company is doing amazing, the

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Robert Irvine: liquor company, the bars, and everything we

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Robert Irvine: do is geared towards giving back.

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Robert Irvine: So really focusing on the on the liquor

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Robert Irvine: right now and the health stuff.

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Marc Preston: What kind of liquor is it?

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Robert Irvine: Bourbon or we have.

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Robert Irvine: We have Baudrill Distillery is my company,

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Robert Irvine: but we've got Irvine's Gin and vodka that

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Robert Irvine: we've just branded to to go in.

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Robert Irvine: We're in 42 states right now, but the money

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Robert Irvine: will go towards veterans.

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Robert Irvine: Just like Fit Crunch, we created a

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Robert Irvine: strawberry strudel where all the money for

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Robert Irvine: a year goes to Susan G Coleman.

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Marc Preston: So wonderful.

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Marc Preston: That's effective.

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Marc Preston: That was started by the drinkers, I think,

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Marc Preston: down in down in Dallas, I think.

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Marc Preston: If I'm not mistaken, I know that was the

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Marc Preston: guy started Chili's.

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Marc Preston: I believe wasn't.

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Marc Preston: That is Susan G Coleman.

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Marc Preston: I think it was a sister-in-law.

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Marc Preston: It's a wonderful foundation, most certainly.

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Marc Preston: But again, next time you're in New Orleans,

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Marc Preston: be happy to grab you, grab you a proper

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Marc Preston: beverage.

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Marc Preston: But if you could slow down but it doesn't

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Marc Preston: sound like you're doing that anytime soon,

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Marc Preston: so normally, so never is in a good meal.

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Marc Preston: You know, actually my daughter Lily, you

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Marc Preston: can come in honey.

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Marc Preston: This is, this is my college kid, lily.

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Announcer: Hey Lily how are you?

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Announcer: Good, how are you?

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Robert Irvine: What do you, what do you want to be when

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Robert Irvine: you get older?

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Marc Preston: I'm not really sure yet.

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Marc Preston: I'm currently undecided.

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Marc Preston: Well, listen.

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Robert Irvine: There's a whole world of stuff out there

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Robert Irvine: and this is what I tell my daughters.

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Robert Irvine: Let me keep telling them and my wife if

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Robert Irvine: it's work, don't do it.

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Announcer: Yeah.

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Robert Irvine: You're going to love it every day, like

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Robert Irvine: your dad.

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Robert Irvine: You're going to love what you do because it

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Robert Irvine: becomes second nature and you don't have to

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Robert Irvine: work for a living.

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Robert Irvine: You get paid for doing something you're

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Robert Irvine: passionate about and you see the little

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Robert Irvine: doggy there.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, he's our, he's our golden retriever

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Marc Preston: here, so he's he runs the show.

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Robert Irvine: Check out our foundation rubber band

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Robert Irvine: foundationorg.

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Robert Irvine: And we have dogs, so we buy dogs as puppies.

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Robert Irvine: We try to be here and we give them away.

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Robert Irvine: All golden retrievers.

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Marc Preston: Really.

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Marc Preston: Oh, they're the best breed.

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Marc Preston: I'm biased, you know they're great breed,

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Marc Preston: but we'll put the links up on the site as

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Marc Preston: well and anything else we can do to help

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Marc Preston: get the word out.

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Marc Preston: Please just shoot a note or have your folks

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Marc Preston: send me a note with whatever links and

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Marc Preston: we'll put them up on the site.

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Robert Irvine: And by so those if we can help you in any

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Robert Irvine: way.

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Robert Irvine: And, lily, good luck, whatever you decide

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Robert Irvine: to do.

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Marc Preston: Thank you, thanks so much.

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Marc Preston: You take care now.

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Marc Preston: Bye, bye, all right, there you go.

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Marc Preston: Robert Irvine really enjoyed chatting with

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Marc Preston: him.

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Marc Preston: Lots of energy Trying to get my head around

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Marc Preston: all the things he does, both not just being

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Marc Preston: a chef and a TV host, but the

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Marc Preston: entrepreneurial endeavors he's doing, the

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Marc Preston: philanthropy he's doing for the military.

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Marc Preston: He is kind of nonstop and reminds me I need

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Marc Preston: to get in the gym and work out again or at

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Marc Preston: all time to get after it.

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Marc Preston: Thanks again for stopping by.

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Marc Preston: Appreciate you being a part of Story and

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Marc Preston: Craft.

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Marc Preston: Don't forget the website.

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Marc Preston: All things about the show are at

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Marc Preston: storyandcraftpod.com.

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Marc Preston: Once again, storyandcraftpod.com.

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Marc Preston: And do me a favor if you would.

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Marc Preston: I know different podcast apps do it

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Marc Preston: any of them.

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Marc Preston: We got some great ones coming up as we kind

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Marc Preston: of wrap up the summer here shortly and head

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Marc Preston: into fall.

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Marc Preston: But thank you again.

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Marc Preston: I really appreciate you being here for

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Marc Preston: another episode and let's connect next week

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Marc Preston: right here on Story and Craft.

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Announcer: That's it for this episode of Story and

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Announcer: Craft.

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Announcer: Join Marc next week for more conversation

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Announcer: Preston Productions LLC.

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Announcer: Executive Producer is Marc Preston.

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Announcer: Associate Producer is Zachary Holden.

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