Self - Host: I'm always surprised when you show up because first of all, your very strong: your handshake alone is intimidating and basically, I'll say that I find it "off footing" that a chef is in such excellent shape
Gordon Ramsay: thank you
Self - Host: because the "message" to me is that I will not eat my own cooking
Gordon Ramsay: [laughs] no, come on, that's good point, I was a fat chef once
Self - Host: you were?
Gordon Ramsay: I was overweight once, I think we all put some weight at somewhere in our life, no?
Self - Host: [nods] yeah
Gordon Ramsay: how you ever been pudgy?
Self - Host: I am right now: you see me with my clothes off, it's a disaster
Gordon Ramsay: I suppose when you get to your forties, I'm always a bit more cautious, so I eat well, but I train hard
Self - Host: you do the triathlons, right, are you still doing that?
Gordon Ramsay: yeah, the Ironman. In fact, I managed to "coach" my wife into doing one because I found out it was a great way in spending more time together. We train in the hills in Hawaii and literally the day before I say "If you don't mind, I'm gonna do an Ironman"
Self - Host: yeah, that be annoying to her because your off training by yourself, spending hours a day I'd imagine
Gordon Ramsay: well, we train together now
Self - Host: oh, you do, ok
Gordon Ramsay: so, we do, in fact, last Sunday we took all the kids for a swim in Malibu. We have wetsuits on and had this amazing swim but Jack and I were hanging out by this boy and he said "Dad, where are the girls?" And it was like twenty minutes later, he saw Tana, Tilly and Holly, so, yeah, they're a little slow
Self - Host: [jokingly, referring to Ramsay's accent] can I be honest? I didn't understand any of the last sentences
Gordon Ramsay: we're going for this amazing swim in the ocean and you don't want to hang about in that ocean, right?
Self - Host: yeah, well because there's sharks in that ocean
Gordon Ramsay: so, yeah, a little bit awkward
Self - Host: how old are your kids?
Gordon Ramsay: so, the twins are fifteen, Megan's sixteen, and Matilda's thirteen
Self - Host: oh, I got you. So, they enjoy that? Exercising with you?
Gordon Ramsay: Yes, so, they don't curse
Self - Host: how is that possible, is that their way of "rebelling"?
Gordon Ramsay: [after the crowd laughs] I try to teach them some sign language. So, I say "Look, cursing is not smart, it's an "industry" language and sometimes daddy lets it slip, sometimes several times a day. So, I came up with some really nice "alternatives" to curse words