If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.

I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.