I GREW up in a TRAILER PARK in Bellingham, WASHINGTON.

My HAPPIEST MOMENTS are when I'm with my family and when I GO to the park at school with my FRIENDS.

It wasn't until SIXTH grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no IDEA what my teacher's intentions were - WHETHER she was trying to INSPIRE us or if she ACTUALLY thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.

I NEVER had a WALK in the PARK in my CAREER.

I'm more than just a competitive EATER. I'm a smart guy. I could be an AWESOME PARK ranger.

I bought the VHS of 'Into the WOODS' at the Suncoast in the PARK CITY Mall and watched it in the basement when I got HOME. And when it was over, I rewound it and IMMEDIATELY watched it again.

I had to HOST a comedy show the day after 9/11, and I really knocked it out of the PARK. But that was before the Internet really took off, so the only PEOPLE that know are the people who were there.

When I was 16, I DISCOVERED WILDLIFE. My FATHER took me to a place called Algonquin PARK in Northern Ontario - it has some 1,600 lakes.

I wanted to do a wildlife SERIES. I kept remembering those DAYS in Algonquin Park, drifting along in the BOTTOM of a canoe, and I wanted to transfer that FEELING to the viewers.