Latest / I Am All In with Scott Patterson / Luke’s Diner: Let the Battle Begin
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I Am all In again.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Let's just.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Luke's Diner with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
- 0:22Speaker 1: He Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
- 0:25Speaker 1: eleven productions, iHeart Radio Media and iHeart Podcast. We have
- 0:29Speaker 1: another episode of Luke's Diner one on one with Mark
- 0:34Speaker 1: A dec.
- 0:35Speaker 4: Costcos very well pronounced.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Not bad, right, not bad?
- 0:39Speaker 4: You got it.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I am gonna tell you a little bit about Mark.
- 0:47Speaker 1: He's a renowned actor and martial artist with over forty
- 0:50Speaker 1: film credits including Brotherhood of the Wolf, Cradle to the Grave,
- 0:54Speaker 1: and Drive. He's best known for his roles as Wolf
- 0:56Speaker 1: Fat in the Hawaii five Oh and the chairman on
- 1:01Speaker 1: the Food Networks Iron Chef America. While he doesn't cook
- 1:04Speaker 1: or judge on Iron Chef, he brings intensity and flare
- 1:07Speaker 1: to the show as it's charismatic overseered to Costcos. Has
- 1:11Speaker 1: also starred in the Crow series and appeared Agents of Shield, Chicago,
- 1:15Speaker 1: p D, Lucifer Hallmarks, The Perfect Bride Films. Yes, Mark,
- 1:19Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. Nice to have you.
- 1:23Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. Scott.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Your father, Yes, is a
- 1:32Speaker 1: renowned martial artist. He is and he was inducted in
- 1:37Speaker 1: ninety nine or you were inducted, and so.
- 1:40Speaker 4: My father, I believe that my mother were both inducted
- 1:44Speaker 4: into the black Belt Hall of Fame and then I
- 1:47Speaker 4: was last year.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Oh congratulations, thank you, thank you so much. My son
- 1:52Speaker 1: is a green belt white stripe. Oh fantastic tangs sudo. Yeah,
- 1:57Speaker 1: he's been going at it a couple.
- 1:58Speaker 4: Of years, and he tried to practice on you.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of stopped that. He's he's ten years old.
- 2:05Speaker 1: He's hitting too hard.
- 2:06Speaker 4: Now, yeah, yeah, big and strong.
- 2:09Speaker 1: He's you know, he's not even seventy pounds yet, and
- 2:12Speaker 1: he's just like he's he's like a bar of iron, and.
- 2:16Speaker 4: They know the targets to hit, you know, I.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Say too.
- 2:21Speaker 4: As your voice goes up.
- 2:26Speaker 1: So yeah, so you were raised in this discipline, and
- 2:30Speaker 1: so when did you discover martial arts? I mean right away, right,
- 2:33Speaker 1: your mom and dad had you in the dough sho.
- 2:36Speaker 4: You know, in one way, I would have discovered it myself,
- 2:40Speaker 4: but I didn't.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Oh.
- 2:43Speaker 4: My father was the founder of his own style. I mean,
- 2:47Speaker 4: his his base style was kadu kempo. He'd also boxed,
- 2:52Speaker 4: did some judo, and then he got into uh style
- 2:55Speaker 4: he's from Hawaii called Kadu Kempo. From Kadu Kempo, he
- 2:59Speaker 4: formed his own style which had more of a Chinese
- 3:02Speaker 4: and Filipino influence. My stepmother raised me along with my dad,
- 3:08Speaker 4: and she was my mom was his first black belt,
- 3:15Speaker 4: female black belt in his style, and those two raised me.
- 3:19Speaker 4: So I have pictures of me at four years old
- 3:24Speaker 4: doing stances in some moves that at six six years old,
- 3:30Speaker 4: mom and dad put my brother and I in our
- 3:32Speaker 4: first tournament. It wasn't like we said, oh, we want
- 3:34Speaker 4: to we want to go fight guys we don't know
- 3:37Speaker 4: in a stinky, sweaty gym on the weekend instead of
- 3:39Speaker 4: riding our bikes with everybody else in the fields. We
- 3:43Speaker 4: found ourselves in this big tournament and my brother was
- 3:46Speaker 4: on one side of this huge line of little kids
- 3:50Speaker 4: and I was on the other. And that's how we started.
- 4:00Speaker 1: How did you go from this very very unique background
- 4:05Speaker 1: to Iron Chef America. I mean, do you come from track?
- 4:13Speaker 1: You know, It's like, no, I know you had a
- 4:15Speaker 1: big career in film and TV, but here you are.
- 4:20Speaker 1: You know, there's this big resurgence for you and Iron
- 4:23Speaker 1: Chef America everybody. Everybody knows you. Now you're the Chef's chairman.
- 4:29Speaker 1: So how did you get that gig?
- 4:31Speaker 4: How did you Scott? I'm still trying to figure that out.
- 4:35Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's a crazy one. So you mentioned
- 4:40Speaker 4: the movie Brotherhood of the Wolf. So apparently that French movie,
- 4:46Speaker 4: period piece, French movie where I play Native American was
- 4:52Speaker 4: a movie that one of the executives at one of
- 4:55Speaker 4: the big corporations in Japan liked, and they happened to
- 4:59Speaker 4: have the original Iron Chef in Japan. They had that
- 5:03Speaker 4: franchise and it was coming to America and for them
- 5:07Speaker 4: to get the new chairman, they had approval or that
- 5:12Speaker 4: executive I guess had some power and apparently had some
- 5:14Speaker 4: approval on whoever the next chairman in America would be.
- 5:19Speaker 4: And because of the Brotherhood of the Wolf, because of
- 5:22Speaker 4: a French movie, I got on a Japanese list for
- 5:24Speaker 4: an American show. And when Food Network started to take
- 5:31Speaker 4: meetings for their new chairman, I was on the list
- 5:35Speaker 4: and they called me in. I spoke with them. I
- 5:39Speaker 4: was very upfront. I said, I've never taken a formal
- 5:43Speaker 4: cooking class in my life. I've never taken a cooking
- 5:45Speaker 4: class in my life. As matter of fact, I barely
- 5:48Speaker 4: even cook, but I do kick different, you know, one
- 5:53Speaker 4: vowel difference, but maybe it's you know, in the ballpark.
- 5:57Speaker 4: And we started talking about the Caro the chairman, how
- 6:00Speaker 4: he doesn't need to cook, and I said, you know
- 6:04Speaker 4: what we could do. We could play around if if
- 6:07Speaker 4: you invite me to the show, I could take my
- 6:10Speaker 4: passion for martial arts and that energy that I see
- 6:14Speaker 4: at martial arts tournaments, because you know, kitchen stadium is
- 6:18Speaker 4: a field for cooking. I could take that same energy
- 6:23Speaker 4: and you know, transfer it to Iron Chef. And so
- 6:27Speaker 4: we started play. The producers and director like that idea,
- 6:31Speaker 4: and we started playing with the character and giving him
- 6:34Speaker 4: some oof and you know, bring it up, bring it up,
- 6:37Speaker 4: do this, do that, until we final got what you
- 6:40Speaker 4: guys saw on on on the show.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Right, So what's your favorite what's your favorite dish that
- 6:48Speaker 1: you that you personally enjoy?
- 6:50Speaker 4: Okay, I have to say so I've had that question
- 6:56Speaker 4: a lot in terms of who's my favorite chef? Right?
- 7:01Speaker 4: And I have to say every because we shot oftentimes
- 7:06Speaker 4: two shows a day, that's two Iron Chefs and brilliant
- 7:11Speaker 4: Challenger chefs. Unless of course, an Iron Chef did a
- 7:17Speaker 4: double battle, which that happened every now and then. But
- 7:21Speaker 4: in terms of food, five that's twenty courses of food
- 7:26Speaker 4: for me every day. So to single out one in
- 7:30Speaker 4: particular is very difficult because I have to say most
- 7:33Speaker 4: of them literally were off well, they were just off
- 7:37Speaker 4: the charts fantastic. They were fantastic. Yeah, I've had I
- 7:44Speaker 4: remember Iron Chef Garcis did these ribs and it was
- 7:50Speaker 4: early in the morning. It was our first battle in
- 7:52Speaker 4: the morning, and I try to only eat one or
- 7:56Speaker 4: two bites of each course, even if they're fantastic, which
- 7:59Speaker 4: they often were, because one I didn't want to get full,
- 8:02Speaker 4: and two I didn't want the wardrobe to have to,
- 8:05Speaker 4: you know, get me new clothes for the shows. It
- 8:09Speaker 4: would have been very easy to put on weight with
- 8:11Speaker 4: all the food I was being served, Oh real quick.
- 8:14Speaker 4: So Scott, this is the thing. The difference from my
- 8:18Speaker 4: life doing Iron Chef America, where they paid me to
- 8:26Speaker 4: sit and eat get excited about food. Have some of
- 8:30Speaker 4: the best chefs in America cook with some of the
- 8:34Speaker 4: freshest ingredients and I didn't even have to judge, right,
- 8:38Speaker 4: no comment. So twenty courses a day versus my life
- 8:44Speaker 4: in Taiwan when I was seventeen, where I was teaching
- 8:50Speaker 4: conversational English and German to business people to earn money
- 8:54Speaker 4: to pay my rent for my food transportation and kung
- 8:59Speaker 4: fu and Chinese class. Because of the no money, I
- 9:03Speaker 4: only ate once a day, every second day, and I
- 9:08Speaker 4: did that for six months. So every day that I
- 9:12Speaker 4: went to Iron Chef America brought up tons of emotion, appreciation, gratitude,
- 9:20Speaker 4: and how interesting an adventurous life can be. You know,
- 9:24Speaker 4: you make one choice or don't make a choice, or
- 9:27Speaker 4: don't do something, and things happen, you know. So every
- 9:31Speaker 4: day all that made me super grateful, for one having
- 9:36Speaker 4: a great job with incredible people that I was learning from,
- 9:40Speaker 4: and they were feeding me. I had foodst I had
- 9:44Speaker 4: food every day. It was crazy. And there's not one
- 9:47Speaker 4: day where I didn't sit there and look at these
- 9:49Speaker 4: brilliant judges and all these chefs and all this food
- 9:52Speaker 4: and go, wow, I am one lucky guy. I get
- 9:55Speaker 4: to eat. I get to eat great food. So all
- 9:59Speaker 4: that to say, ah, the food back to Iron cheff
- 10:02Speaker 4: garcis he made these ribs and I wanted to eat
- 10:06Speaker 4: everything on my plate. But I remembered I got another
- 10:09Speaker 4: show to deal and this and that. So after the show,
- 10:12Speaker 4: I told my wife, let's go to Let's go to
- 10:15Speaker 4: Iron Chef Garcius's restaurant and have that food, because a
- 10:19Speaker 4: lot of Iron chefs had restaurants in the city we
- 10:21Speaker 4: were shooting in New York. And she said we can't.
- 10:24Speaker 4: I said, why not because he doesn't have a restaurant here,
- 10:27Speaker 4: and he may not even remember the recipe, man, you know,
- 10:32Speaker 4: but it was that good that, I mean, all these
- 10:34Speaker 4: years later, I still remember it. I remember morimotos on
- 10:38Speaker 4: Iron Chef Morimoto making this one particular dish and the
- 10:42Speaker 4: sushi rolls when you cut it, it looked like stained
- 10:47Speaker 4: glass from a chapel, from a from a church. Amazing,
- 10:52Speaker 4: you know. And that was the interesting things. Not only
- 10:54Speaker 4: was the food delicious, but it it it looked, it
- 10:59Speaker 4: appeared the visions and the imagination to make these things.
- 11:03Speaker 4: It just visually it looked amazing. They it smelled. That
- 11:06Speaker 4: kitchen smelled amazing. With the exception of Battle Oval Halloween
- 11:12Speaker 4: Battle and I had I'm not even gonna say, who
- 11:15Speaker 4: meane this fried crunchy pork sphincter rings not onion rings
- 11:23Speaker 4: sphincter rings. I guess there's an audience for that. I'm
- 11:28Speaker 4: I'm not cultivated enough to like it yet.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I don't even know where to go with that. Yeah,
- 11:34Speaker 1: sphincter rings, okay, that I would say, it's spicy, Scott.
- 11:46Speaker 4: The camera was on me right there as the Shepherd's
- 11:49Speaker 4: describing it, right before I was starting to and I
- 11:52Speaker 4: already had an idea because of the aroma hits you
- 11:55Speaker 4: and cameras are on you, and I'm you know, right here,
- 11:58Speaker 4: and I'm trying to the character's position of being Switzerland, right,
- 12:03Speaker 4: So I'm crunching into this and I don't know if
- 12:07Speaker 4: it was just my imagination or the aroma or everything above,
- 12:11Speaker 4: but it was. It was a rough one.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let me ask you this.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Then. You know this show Gilmore Girls, it's all about
- 12:30Speaker 1: comfort food, and.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Yes, what is it on that show?
- 12:34Speaker 2: Oh?
- 12:36Speaker 1: I just tried not to knock into the furniture.
- 12:38Speaker 4: No, you were you were great. And by the way,
- 12:41Speaker 4: the episode I watched you talked about putting nutmeg in
- 12:45Speaker 4: your coffee. I tried that yesterday. It's really good. That's
- 12:51Speaker 4: something you made up or is that a thing?
- 12:53Speaker 2: Oh?
- 12:53Speaker 1: No, No, that's that's in the script.
- 12:55Speaker 4: Yeah, no, okay, but I mean, do other people do
- 12:57Speaker 4: that or just your character because i've before.
- 13:01Speaker 1: No, I think it's a you know, it's a fairly
- 13:07Speaker 1: commonly practiced in the northeastern United States, maybe in the
- 13:13Speaker 1: Midwest too, Okay, I think in the West coast they
- 13:16Speaker 1: probably used pineapple. I don't know.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Uh.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Well, I tried your nutmeg and know it was really good.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Thank you, thank You're welcome. That's that's so from your childhood.
- 13:29Speaker 1: What would you say is the the comfort food from
- 13:34Speaker 1: your childhood? If you were to remember one dish that
- 13:38Speaker 1: brings you back to all those great memories from.
- 13:41Speaker 4: Childhood, probably Ramen Simon in Ramen. Yeah, we had that
- 13:47Speaker 4: in Hawaii, and then I used to make it for
- 13:53Speaker 4: my mom and brother in Colorado. We didn't have it
- 13:56Speaker 4: anymore in Humburg, but as a kid, I remember Roman
- 14:03Speaker 4: Roman noodles.
- 14:04Speaker 1: I'm in So, if you were to if you were
- 14:05Speaker 1: to come into Luke's Diner, yes, I have two questions
- 14:11Speaker 1: for you.
- 14:12Speaker 4: Okay, what would you order?
- 14:14Speaker 1: Where would you sit?
- 14:16Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, okay. One, I'd sit at the counter
- 14:21Speaker 4: because your characters seem really cool and I'd want to
- 14:23Speaker 4: figure out because I haven't watched the whole all of
- 14:27Speaker 4: the seasons. I would. I want to know about where
- 14:30Speaker 4: Luke came from, what his dreams were, what happened to him. Yeah,
- 14:37Speaker 4: and two I watched that whole episode, and you guys
- 14:41Speaker 4: talk about the cheeseburger or the burgers and the fries,
- 14:44Speaker 4: but I didn't get to see them. So I would
- 14:47Speaker 4: order what I didn't get to see.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Okay, burger fries, all right, fries A right.
- 14:53Speaker 4: Get at the counter and I'd cut you up.
- 14:56Speaker 1: There you go, man, I don't know. I don't know
- 14:58Speaker 1: if I could interact with you very much much because
- 15:00Speaker 1: it's always busier in a bad mood, right, So you
- 15:05Speaker 1: know we could have talked. We'll talk martial arts. Do
- 15:08Speaker 1: you know about time sudo? We'll want to talk a
- 15:10Speaker 1: little bit about that.
- 15:12Speaker 4: I only know what from seeing I've never practiced any
- 15:15Speaker 4: I learned some.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Very interesting techniques because I studied.
- 15:21Speaker 2: A little bit.
- 15:21Speaker 4: Did you study too?
- 15:22Speaker 1: A little bit? Not a lot, not a lot, but
- 15:25Speaker 1: I but I but I dabbled, let's say, and there
- 15:30Speaker 1: was some very interesting concentration focused techniques that my teacher
- 15:35Speaker 1: taught me. Where you recreate the flame, you stare a
- 15:41Speaker 1: flame twenty minutes a day, wow, and then everything just
- 15:46Speaker 1: seems to you know, around it get hazies, but that
- 15:51Speaker 1: focal point stays clear, that flame.
- 15:54Speaker 4: Where would you where did you watch the flame?
- 15:57Speaker 1: I just, you know, I'd set it up in my
- 15:59Speaker 1: room and okay, you know, get in the lotus position
- 16:03Speaker 1: on the floor and light a candle and stare at
- 16:07Speaker 1: the flame. And because I was a professional baseball pitcher,
- 16:13Speaker 1: were you really Yeah? I did that for seven years,
- 16:17Speaker 1: and I wanted to be able to just sort of
- 16:21Speaker 1: block out the crowd and block out everything except the
- 16:25Speaker 1: catcher's knit and where he wanted me to throw the ball,
- 16:29Speaker 1: because the catcher would give you the signal, and then
- 16:30Speaker 1: he set up inside outside high you know, whatever it was,
- 16:34Speaker 1: and I didn't even want to notice the presence of
- 16:36Speaker 1: the hitter or the umpire or I just you know,
- 16:40Speaker 1: it's like a movie that you see that everything is
- 16:42Speaker 1: just you and the catcher communicating. He sets up his
- 16:46Speaker 1: mit where he wants it and then recreate the flame
- 16:50Speaker 1: inside that mit and then everything else fades away. And
- 16:54Speaker 1: it actually worked. Yeah, it actually worked. So it was more,
- 17:01Speaker 1: you know, what I got out of was more of
- 17:03Speaker 1: the psychological stuff, which was fascinating to me, absolutely fascinating
- 17:07Speaker 1: to us, and I've applied it to certain situations in life,
- 17:11Speaker 1: which very helpful.
- 17:14Speaker 4: Yes, I love that.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:17Speaker 4: So you were a professional baseball pitcher for seven years.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but I dabbled and I have some martial
- 17:26Speaker 1: arts stories and I'm not going to tell them now,
- 17:29Speaker 1: but but I got back into it with my son's
- 17:35Speaker 1: teacher because he's a renowned black belt. He's he's like
- 17:40Speaker 1: a nineteen time world champion. He's still you know, he's
- 17:44Speaker 1: forty two or something at.
- 17:46Speaker 4: This He knows what he's doing.
- 17:47Speaker 1: He did, right, But he's just so great with the kids.
- 17:51Speaker 1: He's so great with the kids, and he's got some.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Great kids over there.
- 17:54Speaker 1: He's got such talented kids. My son doesn't compete yet, okay, ten.
- 18:01Speaker 1: He just does it for the forms, right right, he
- 18:04Speaker 1: loves the form.
- 18:05Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great. Good, good technique and breezing great.
- 18:07Speaker 1: He's great at that stuff. And I think he's going
- 18:09Speaker 1: to start competing because mister B as they call him
- 18:13Speaker 1: at the karate school, he's always taking kids to the
- 18:17Speaker 1: world championships of the national championships and they come back.
- 18:20Speaker 1: World champions are national champions and you know they always
- 18:23Speaker 1: come back with five or six medals. You know, what
- 18:26Speaker 1: are you doing now? What are you currently up to?
- 18:29Speaker 1: What projects are you working on? Okay?
- 18:32Speaker 4: I was in Mongolia for seven was in Mongolia for
- 18:38Speaker 4: seven weeks prepping a show which we opened in the
- 18:42Speaker 4: English language in Singapore live theater show called The Mongol Khan.
- 18:49Speaker 4: And I'm one of the leads of that show. And
- 18:53Speaker 4: I love being back on stage. We are bringing it
- 18:57Speaker 4: to Los Angeles and Broadway. We're not sure this year
- 19:02Speaker 4: or next year. We have dates in Japan going back
- 19:05Speaker 4: to London. So I'm back on stage after many, many years.
- 19:10Speaker 4: But I love it. Exciting.
- 19:12Speaker 1: That's exciting.
- 19:13Speaker 4: Oh, Scott, I love it. I love it. And this
- 19:16Speaker 4: particular show, may I show you our program? Sure, it's
- 19:20Speaker 4: done in two languages, in the Mongolian language and in
- 19:25Speaker 4: the English language. This is our Mongolian language cast.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Oh boy, look at that.
- 19:31Speaker 4: It's a period piece and this is our English language cast.
- 19:36Speaker 4: And I'm in the blue.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Are you playing a Genghis Khan?
- 19:40Speaker 4: I am playing. I don't want to give it away,
- 19:43Speaker 4: but I'm not playing the con ron Yuan. Up here
- 19:47Speaker 4: is our con I'm this guy right here. I am
- 19:54Speaker 4: playing second in command and it's a really fun character.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Does Marco Polo have a cameo in the play? You could? Well,
- 20:11Speaker 1: that's exciting. So you're gonna be on Broadway, You're going
- 20:13Speaker 1: to London.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Yes, So we're working on that and I'm doing a
- 20:18Speaker 4: couple of indies in between. Okay, so still moving, still working.
- 20:24Speaker 4: I still train Shakespeare and presence and voice with my teacher,
- 20:28Speaker 4: Patsy Rodenberg. She's out of London, and uh, I still
- 20:32Speaker 4: work in the craft, you know, trying to get.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Mark de Coscas. Thank you so much. Look out for
- 20:38Speaker 1: Mark's new play, big production, The mongol Con, which will
- 20:44Speaker 1: be coming to Los Angeles and New York Broadway in
- 20:47Speaker 1: New York London, So go check it out here next year. Mark, Uh,
- 20:54Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time and good luck
- 20:57Speaker 1: with the films, the indies and and this wonder will
- 21:00Speaker 1: play that you're in.
- 21:01Speaker 4: Scott, thank you for having me and protect your growing.
- 21:05Speaker 1: I always do. It's the first thing I do when
- 21:07Speaker 1: I wake up. I Hi, buddy, have a good one.
- 21:13Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you.
- 21:14Speaker 2: All right, hey everybody, and as again.
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