The ad man turned TV personality on his tough upbringing, praying with UFO worshippers and why he chooses to talk with people ‘at the edges’

A warm and gusty afternoon in Sydney’s Chinatown. Todd Sampson is looking for a restaurant that no longer exists.

“This is roughly where it was,” he says, gesturing at Dixon Street, where he and his future wife, Neomie, went on their first date. It was a dumpling joint. The waiter described one particular dumpling as a “combination”, he recalls.

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