José Andrés
speaker
675 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
José Andrés’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because his way of telling stories, he waits to listen to the people telling those stories. And him becoming the medium of making sure that we will learn that the world was a beautiful place. Yeah. I remember the story he did about Iran. He went to Iran. Like sometimes you think about Iran and if you read the news, it looks like the people of Iran, they are... And you see the show.
They're like, man, Iranian people are great people. Blame the leader, maybe, or the leaders. But the Iranian people, they're good people. They're like you and like me. Maybe look different. Maybe they have a different language. And obviously we know a lot of Iranians who are here in America. And they're wonderful people. So he showed what he did. The legacy of Tony is that he showed us that
The world is not such a scary place that it's okay to open yourself to the world. What we were talking before about people that they get into their cocoon and they don't want to move beyond their comfort zone. Tony, show us that the people that are not like us, they're actually okay. They're just different people that they're going to span our horizons and our thoughts about life.
That was Tony, and he did it through foot, and he did it through his amazing, amazing poetry.
Yeah. Yeah, that's perfectly said. It took a long time for me to be able to watch his show after he was gone.
I love the painting you have in the entrance. Yeah. I didn't cry because lately... I've been trying to hold my tears, not because I feel a man should not cry. I'm a guy that cries easily. And I love it. But when I saw it, first thing, I come out of the, I open the door and there is this beautiful, big portrait of Tony. And I'm like, okay, I have a feeling I'm home.
Yeah. I've got a couple. I've got another one I'll show you that's in another part of the studio. I've got a lot of art in the studio, luckily. It's nice. I love art. I just love being around people's expressions, different things that people have created. I just love things that people make. If there's anything that I couldn't live without in this world... I need to be around people's creations.
It's very important to me. I like seeing it. I like it to be all over the walls. I like it to be everywhere. I like to touch it. I want to see it. And when I found out he was gone because my friend Maynard, he's the lead singer of Tool. And Tony had really gotten into jujitsu.
And that's how, one of the ways, I was friends with him before that, but that's one of the ways that Tony and I got closer is that, you know, he knew I was a black belt. I've been doing jujitsu for decades. And so he would ask me questions. And when we were doing the show together, it was really funny. When I did one episode of No Reservation, we went pheasant hunting in Montana.
And part of the day, he's asking me how to finish darts chokes. So he and I are on the ground, on the dirt. And I'm saying, now, when you're in this position, I'm showing him how to strangle people in the dirt. So we're wearing hunting clothes and boots and everything like that. And I'm like, no, no, no, this way, and then trap the head here and turn it like this. So we're like...
Now do it to me. Do it to me. Like we're working with each other like on the ground. And he's like fascinated by this martial art. And I thought it was wonderful because like he's this sensitive, creative, poetic guy. But he found the beauty in jujitsu, which is like to the outside person who's the uninformed. It looks like this brutal caveman activity, but it's not.
It's a very complicated, intelligent thing. creative martial art, and he was obsessed with it. And he didn't start doing it until he was 58 years old, which is kind of crazy. But he really got obsessed with it, entered into tournaments, age-appropriate tournaments, and did really well, and was training every day, sometimes twice a day. He was taking private lessons and really got obsessed with it.
I can tell you that because when we were shooting in Asturias and a few other places, Cayman Islands, one of the things he always did is finding out Where was the local jiu-jitsu hanging place? And it's very funny. In Oviedo was a place, and he would go there. And for one, two hours, he would be fighting against local guys.
So it was fascinating to see how, even on weeks that he was supposed to be concentrated on shooting, he always found time. To do what he loves.
So Maynard got his black belt recently. And Maynard was also very into jiu-jitsu. And he was joking around like maybe one day he and Tony would have a celebrity jiu-jitsu match. So I'm in Chicago. I'm doing shows in Chicago. And I get a text message from Maynard and it says, so much for that celebrity jiu-jitsu match. And I'm like, what does that mean?
And so I'm like, I don't even know what that means. That was the moment. And then I Google, and I have this feeling, and then I just, the news, and then it all hits me. I'm like, oh, fuck. There's moments when people take their own life where the worst feeling is, I feel like if I was there, I could have stopped him from doing that. That's the feeling, eh?
You know, the feeling like he just was alone, right? You know, sometimes you just need to know you're not alone and you're going to be okay. Like whatever you think is going to be the worst thing that's happening here, it's not. You're loved. You're loved. You're an amazing person. There's so much more to see. You don't want to leave these people behind. You don't want to hurt them.
You don't want to hurt these people in your life. You don't want to hurt your family. You don't want to hurt your daughter. You don't want to hurt your wife. Don't do it. I know it feels impossible, but it's because you're alone. And it's, you know, sometimes... I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't have been able to do anything. Maybe I'm wrong.
But there's that haunting feeling that you... I could have talked to him. I could have said, man, that feeling fucking sucks. That feeling of... If I just had a... If I could have... If I was there with him, I think we could have had some laughs. we could have joked around about some stuff, and we would have been okay. That's, you know. I bet you feel the same way, right?
And I think that's something I didn't close yet. Obviously, I'm not going to talk on behalf of Eric, but Eric was always strong, and Eric obviously was shooting with him in France when that happened, and and actually is the one that found him in his room. And I understand that feeling because I'm still going through it.
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