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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast More what you Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. You
know Curtis Stone, Los Angeles based Michelin

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star chef, restauranteur, author and
culinary entrepreneur, and his television shows Crime

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Scene, Kitchen Top Chef, Iron
Chef, and many more. His newest

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is a Home Shopping Network series called
Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone. And Curtis

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in this show, you talked to
some of your good friends in and around

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the California and celebrity era and about
the connection between food and culture, because

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there is a definite direct connection between
those two, isn't there, ladies?

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Sure is. I mean, when
you sit down and break bread with someone

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and open a bottle of wine,
it's just like let that conversation flow and

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you don't rush it. That's the
key, right. Well, we find

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these people really open up some couse
all kinds of stories, and we've had

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some incredible access and musicians and comedians
and athletes and you know the things that

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we get to hear. I sat
down with Akbar from from the View from

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the From the Talk, who also
hosts American Ninja Warrior he was also an

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NFL player, and we get to
talk about being men, and we get

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to talk about being dads and the
pressure. And he's obviously, you know,

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we both come from from pretty unique
different cultures. But here in his

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trajectory in America, you know,
coming here from Nigeria as a family and

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then sort of learning how he approached
this place, and you know, so

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you hear stories like that. We
had Terry Hatcher who told us about,

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you know, everything about her dating
life and what she was, what it

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was like then on Desperate Housewives,
and you know, there really is just

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beautiful connections. So whether they're athletes
or musicians, we hear so many cool

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things on that show. And of
course I get to cook for him as

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well, which is pretty fun.
You know, I'm from crime Scene Kitchen

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at Top Chef, I Chef and
now getting grilled with Curtis Stone Chef Curtistone's

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weather. I've aged. You have
your own story too, coming from where

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you came from and then coming into
this big melting part of all kinds of

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different cultures in the United States.
Well, that's what's so cool about this

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show. Getting grilled. I get
to sit down with people and hear their

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stories but then also share some of
mine. And the interesting similarities of professionals

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no matter what they do, you
know, chasing a dream and pushing really

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hard so that it's pretty cool,
you know. And there's a chef who

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you know. When I started cooking, it was the least cool job on

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the planet. I remember my very
first day getting my uniform, and I

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had this long white apron that went
down to the ground, and I put

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on this neck of chief and I
had this big hat that was, you

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know, almost touched on the ceiling. And I looked at myself in the

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mirror and I thought, oh my
god, I've got to wear this for

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the rest of my life. I
look like a clown. But you know,

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of course, cooking more recently sort
of become cool and people to sort

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of look at it as like this
rock and roll seeing And of course nothing

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change. We just cooked for a
living. We cook people dinner. That's

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our jobs, and I think it's
such a beautiful, humble way to make

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a living. But yeah, I've
had a really interesting experience. I've lived

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in different countries and the all sorts
of cool people, and it's start to

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have them formed to be able to
talk a little bit about for sure,

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we're talking with Curtis Stone, chef
Curtis Stone his new series on home shopping

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that We're getting Grilled with Curtis Stone, which is out now talking to some

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of the biggest celebrities about their cooking
and their culture. I came from a

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Southern Louisiana culture, which, as
you can imagine, has had its delicacies

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going back centuries. Unfortunately, they're
not that good for you, chef.

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So one of the things that I've
tried to and still especially with people who

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like South the Louisiana cooking, is
yeah, go ahead and have it,

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just don't eat all of it.
You still want to taste the authenticity of

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the dish, but you don't need
to get unhealthy doing it. Made life

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is all about balance, and you
know, of course food is, and

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that's what we're always looking for as
a chef. We're looking for a little

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texture and a little salt, a
little sweetness, and a little this and

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a little that. And I think
when you're talking about what we should eat,

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you should have indulgent food. Sometimes
you can't cut yourself off from certain

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things you shouldn't about. You're absolutely
right you've got to control that somehow,

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and you know, one way to
do that is through portion control. Another

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way to do that is again it's
balance. You know. I sort of

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stay to people. Why don't you
try eating the healthy stuff first and the

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indulgent stuff that you really want laugh, you know, because then if you

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say to yourself, I'm going to
eat the green salad or the vegetable soup,

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but then that gives me the right
to taste that little bit of gumbo

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or have that little bit of something
else. But you've already got something in

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your belly, so you're not starving. They say you shouldn't shop when you're

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hungry. I don't think you should
ever let yourself get to that point that

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you're absolutely because when you're saviashed like
that, that's when you just go for

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it. An that's absolutely completely true. Chef Curtis Stone is with us.

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You know him from Iron Chef,
Top Chef and Crime Scene Kitchen. His

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newest creation Home Shopping Networks. Getting
Grilled with Curtis Stone. Have you had

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a in the process of producing the
show so far? Had a big surprise

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from one of your guests that stood
out among others. Oh, my goodness,

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we had so many. I mean, when Terry Hatschew was telling me

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about her dating life, it blew
me away because you think, to yourself,

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there isn't a guy on this planet
that doesn't want to date Terry Hatshaw

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that you know that that obviously is
available and whatever. And she was telling

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me how difficult it is for her, and she's like, you know,

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I went on a dating app to
try and figure that out. They actually

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kicked her off because she because they
thought she was a phony. There was

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somebody pretending that it was her.
And then you stop and think about it,

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and you're like, God, it
would be difficult if everybody knew you

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from a TV show, it would
actually be pretty hard. And I met

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people that were super famous when they
grew up. You know, Robin Sick,

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the musician. He was famous from
a really young age and around a

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bunch of famous people and the pressure
that that puts on you. I sat

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down with aj from the Backstreet Boys
the other day and learning his story about,

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you know, the complication of becoming
trying out for a band and then

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become an ultra famous all over the
world in a really short amount of time,

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and the pressure that puts on you
and doing that as we're sort of

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having something delicious to eat and sort
of talking, you know, openly about

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their experiences. I could go on
and on and on about all the guests

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that shared all kinds of interesting stories
with us. But you know, it

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is really really fascinating to get the
time to sit because we shoot for a

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few hours. You know, it's
not just a quick little interview. I

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sit down on a sofa with them. I cook for them, then we

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cook together that I try and cook
something that they have and aversion to and

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try and get them to fall in
love with it. So we played a

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little funny game. So there's there's
lots of little elements for the show and

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you really do get to know these
celebrities really well and it's a lot of

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fun and you can see it all
on the Home Shopping Network series Getting Grilled

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with Curtis Stone Chef Curtis Stone.
We will be watching and thank you for

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joining us. Thank you so much
for having me. Thanks for listening to

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