Andrew Zimmern | Ambassador of Culinary Connections

This is, this is what's so great about life.

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Andrew Zimmern: Someone says to you oh, have you been to

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Andrew Zimmern: the place next door?

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Andrew Zimmern: It's like, well, no, I haven't because I

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Andrew Zimmern: don't live there.

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Andrew Zimmern: So whenever I go, I go to R&O's.

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Andrew Zimmern: I'm not going there to go to the place next

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Andrew Zimmern: And now I'm like check out the place next

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Andrew Zimmern: door.

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Announcer: Welcome to story and craft.

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Announcer: Now.

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Announcer: There's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Hey, how you doing?

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Marc Preston: Welcome back another episode of story and

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Marc Preston: Craft.

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Marc Preston: Hey, if this is your first episode, welcome.

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Marc Preston: My name is Marc Preston and today a Great

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Marc Preston: episode with a very intriguing guy.

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Marc Preston: He is a chef.

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Marc Preston: He is a James Beard and Emmy award-winning

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Marc Preston: television host.

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Marc Preston: He's a world traveler.

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Marc Preston: You've seen him in bizarre foods the

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Marc Preston: Zimmern list what's eating America?

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Marc Preston: Andrew Zimmern is our guest today.

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Marc Preston: Really great chat.

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Marc Preston: We cover a lot of ground about his career,

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Marc Preston: his early life.

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Marc Preston: He has a great story about kind of

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Marc Preston: overcoming some adversity and finding a way

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Marc Preston: to create something really special In his

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Marc Preston: personal and professional life.

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Marc Preston: Always love those good stories.

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Marc Preston: Now, of course, we also chatted a little

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Marc Preston: bit about Anthony Bourdain, his

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Marc Preston: relationship, his friendship and kind of a

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Marc Preston: friendly Competition he had with Anthony.

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Marc Preston: Of course, if you listen to the show, you

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Marc Preston: know loves him, anthony Bourdain.

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Marc Preston: It's gonna be a great episode with Andrew.

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Marc Preston: If you are hungry, I suggest getting a

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Marc Preston: snack.

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Marc Preston: I did this show without having a bite to

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Marc Preston: eat for lunch and I was so hungry when I

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Marc Preston: was done Just talked a lot about food.

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Marc Preston: All right, let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: Today it is Andrew Zimmern Day, right here

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Marc Preston: on story and craft.

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Marc Preston: What are we eating today?

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Marc Preston: It's a grilled cheese sandwich.

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Marc Preston: It's always.

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Marc Preston: It's always the, the comfort foods or

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Marc Preston: whatever it.

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Marc Preston: Whatever have you?

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Andrew Zimmern: nothing that I like better, and I eat it at

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Andrew Zimmern: work so I can hide my shame from my family.

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Marc Preston: I Work from home, so it's kind of like I

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Marc Preston: have a hard time doing that, although I'm

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Marc Preston: very proud of myself.

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Marc Preston: I was in Jamaica with my kids a few weeks

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Marc Preston: ago and I I don't know how I forgot I have

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Marc Preston: bought a bag of that Blue Mountain coffee.

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Marc Preston: It was in my pants, in my pantry, I was

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Marc Preston: like I've been making my regular coffee.

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Marc Preston: It's like, wait a minute, there's you ever

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Marc Preston: have one of those days like, oh, today's

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Marc Preston: gonna be A good day.

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Marc Preston: I found the good coffee.

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Marc Preston: Yes, I'm all proud of myself here.

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Marc Preston: So you're, are you in the Twin Cities right

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Marc Preston: now?

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Marc Preston: Are you in New York?

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Marc Preston: Sure, am, no, I'm in the Twin Cities.

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Marc Preston: How often are you in Minnesota?

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Andrew Zimmern: Well, it depends.

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Andrew Zimmern: As bad as a hundred days a year, as good as

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Andrew Zimmern: most of the year.

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Marc Preston: I tell you it's so funny.

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Marc Preston: If it wasn't for you now, I've had friends

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Marc Preston: that lived in Minneapolis I know he lived

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Marc Preston: in St Paul I would have never learned about

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Marc Preston: Ludifisk, or Was it hot dish?

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Marc Preston: I would never known about these culinary

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Marc Preston: Treasures of Minnesota one awful, one awful

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Marc Preston: and one superb one of the things I was

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Marc Preston: admired is is how somebody can travel as

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Marc Preston: much as you do and Maintain a sense of

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Marc Preston: sanity.

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Marc Preston: I love traveling, but after about a week

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Marc Preston: I'm like you know, I'm kind of looking for

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Marc Preston: my own bed here after after a while.

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Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, big time, big time real quick.

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Marc Preston: Just gonna touch on a little origin story

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Marc Preston: kind of the inception when you started

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Marc Preston: working with the Scripps Networks, the Was

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Marc Preston: it travel channel or was it food network

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Marc Preston: that you first kind of debuted your show on

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Marc Preston: travel channel.

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Andrew Zimmern: And yeah, it was, it was Scripps.

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Andrew Zimmern: And what was discovery?

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Andrew Zimmern: Then it was when I don't know its own, then

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Andrew Zimmern: it was Cox, then it was Back to discovery

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Andrew Zimmern: again.

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Andrew Zimmern: So I've been one way or another Taking a

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Andrew Zimmern: check from the same people for a long time.

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Marc Preston: I've had I've had shows on food network,

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Marc Preston: but it's mainly travel channel what I'm

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Marc Preston: fascinated by is by how, depending on the

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Marc Preston: era, where we may see any name, any one of

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Marc Preston: your shows, maybe on food or maybe on like

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Marc Preston: Magnolia, now you know so.

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Marc Preston: But but the thing is that this shows are

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Marc Preston: out there and I think you do such a

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Marc Preston: wonderful job and of course that's just not

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Marc Preston: kissing up right now More than kind of any

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Marc Preston: other time, at least in American culture.

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Marc Preston: I think having those shows, that kind of

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Marc Preston: show you were more alike than Than

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Marc Preston: in my mind more important than ever.

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Andrew Zimmern: I don't know, I don't know how many minds

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Andrew Zimmern: were changing.

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Andrew Zimmern: I hope it's many, but yeah, it's, it's

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Andrew Zimmern: really important for, I think, for everyone

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Andrew Zimmern: to see you have a son, correct?

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Marc Preston: I do?

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Marc Preston: You just have the one son.

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Marc Preston: How old is he now?

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Marc Preston: I'm gonna ballpark.

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Marc Preston: Seventeen and a half anybody it's listening

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Marc Preston: to this nose is like, of course I'm a fan,

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Marc Preston: you know.

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Marc Preston: I remember one episode.

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Marc Preston: I think you're in Africa, I Think it was

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Marc Preston: Africa.

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Marc Preston: You, your wife, was on on the trip with you

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Marc Preston: and I remember there was a rite of passage

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Marc Preston: for a young child and I remember you were

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Marc Preston: tearing up a little bit because it was

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Marc Preston: correlating between his breasts or is it's

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Marc Preston: kind of?

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Andrew Zimmern: I think there was some kind of a ritual you

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Andrew Zimmern: were.

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Andrew Zimmern: It was a little circumcision, the the the

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Andrew Zimmern: difficulty for me was that it was done when

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Andrew Zimmern: the young boy was five, which is different

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Andrew Zimmern: than several days old.

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Andrew Zimmern: As is typical here in this country.

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Andrew Zimmern: But, but more importantly, the, the plan

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Andrew Zimmern: was for the most honored guest to Consume

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Andrew Zimmern: the foreskin.

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Andrew Zimmern: Now, this is typically in the Sakalava

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Andrew Zimmern: tribe, believed to be the paternal was the

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Andrew Zimmern: grandfather?

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Marc Preston: wasn't the grandfather's best father?

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Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, and he Act, we.

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Andrew Zimmern: You know he wanted to Step aside and allow

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Andrew Zimmern: me because he felt I was.

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Andrew Zimmern: I had been in the village with them for

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Andrew Zimmern: five or six days and he wanted me to take

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Andrew Zimmern: his place.

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Andrew Zimmern: And I was extremely nervous as the because

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Andrew Zimmern: that, as this Circumcision is going on, I

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Andrew Zimmern: know that in a matter of minutes I'm

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Andrew Zimmern: consuming human foreskin and you know it's,

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Andrew Zimmern: it's sitting there.

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Andrew Zimmern: So many thoughts are going through my mind.

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Andrew Zimmern: I want to be a good guest, but is this a

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Andrew Zimmern: bridge too far, as they say?

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Andrew Zimmern: And At the moment I, you know, I got up.

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Andrew Zimmern: The maternal grandfather insulted that he

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Andrew Zimmern: was relegated to third banana instead of

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Andrew Zimmern: second banana because he believed if

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Andrew Zimmern: paternal grandfather issues said foreskin,

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Andrew Zimmern: he should, and and he grabs it out of

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Andrew Zimmern: someone's hand and throws it in his mouth

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Andrew Zimmern: and like so there and and stomps out.

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Andrew Zimmern: And that was it.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I remember something went, went not

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Marc Preston: as planned, not to plan, but I thought it

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Marc Preston: was so endearing because I think I think in

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Marc Preston: your VO on it you were.

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Marc Preston: You were correlating or maybe you were

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Marc Preston: discussing it with your wife, I forgot but

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Marc Preston: you were correlating the experience you

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Marc Preston: were having with your son, who was very

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Marc Preston: young at the time, and you were, and I can

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Marc Preston: only imagine like a moments like that

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Marc Preston: just from my own personal experience, I

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Marc Preston: know after a while that kind of wears on

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Marc Preston: you.

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Marc Preston: You know, whenever you see somebody else's

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Marc Preston: kid, you know they're interacting with her

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Marc Preston: kids you miss your own kid.

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Marc Preston: Oh, of course maybe not, maybe not

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Marc Preston: interacting with the foreskin as much, but

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Marc Preston: you know.

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Andrew Zimmern: Correct it is.

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Andrew Zimmern: It is a constant reminder that you're gone,

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Andrew Zimmern: you know, and it's in then.

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Andrew Zimmern: The flip side is that you know now, with

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Andrew Zimmern: family dinner, with Wild Game Kitchen that

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Andrew Zimmern: premieres in just a couple of weeks on

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Andrew Zimmern: outdoor channel, with Iron Chef on Netflix,

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Andrew Zimmern: my I miss and and react to different things

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Andrew Zimmern: there or Celebrate the games that I've made,

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Andrew Zimmern: I I've.

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Andrew Zimmern: I come from a, a big family.

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Marc Preston: We used to celebrate a lot of different

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Marc Preston: things together and that's me, I'm using

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Marc Preston: big families like you're, your, your, your

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Marc Preston: mother, father, you you had like a sibling,

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Marc Preston: yes, cousins and extended family.

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Andrew Zimmern: So we celebrated quite frequently as a

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Andrew Zimmern: family and did a lot of stuff at my

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Andrew Zimmern: grandmother's house.

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Andrew Zimmern: And Then, you know, divorce is death.

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Andrew Zimmern: So all of a sudden it, you know, vanished

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Andrew Zimmern: in the blink of an eye.

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Andrew Zimmern: And so now, with family dinner, I get to,

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Andrew Zimmern: you know, be in 30 different family homes a

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Andrew Zimmern: year and Enjoy their celebration.

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Andrew Zimmern: So, even though I'm the discreet observer

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Andrew Zimmern: and, of course, obviously, participant, I'm

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Andrew Zimmern: cooking a dish for them, they're cooking

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Andrew Zimmern: for me.

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Andrew Zimmern: I get to, you know, get all of those Itches

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Andrew Zimmern: learning something.

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Andrew Zimmern: Now, I learned something new every day, so

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Marc Preston: Is that accurate in your experience?

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Andrew Zimmern: I actually think it's an understatement.

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Andrew Zimmern: Now, as when you've been through the fire,

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Andrew Zimmern: is, it's universally true.

477

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Andrew Zimmern: And I think, for you know, some people have

478

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Andrew Zimmern: to go through what I did.

479

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Andrew Zimmern: That was a pretty low bottom.

480

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Andrew Zimmern: Other people don't need to have as low a

481

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Andrew Zimmern: bottom, but it is a transformative

482

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Andrew Zimmern: experience and if it doesn't make you more

483

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Andrew Zimmern: I'll just use your words empathetic with

484

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Andrew Zimmern: the human condition around the world, more

485

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Andrew Zimmern: in tune with the trials and tribulations of

486

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Andrew Zimmern: your fellow man, I think you've wasted

487

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Andrew Zimmern: life's greatest lesson.

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Marc Preston: Now, you had all those experiences, but

489

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Marc Preston: travel was something you were doing even

490

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Marc Preston: when you were younger.

491

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Marc Preston: I seem to remember an episode of your

492

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Marc Preston: father.

493

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Marc Preston: He went somewhere in France, or it could

494

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Marc Preston: have been in Spain.

495

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Marc Preston: It was somewhere and, you see, your father

496

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Marc Preston: would had taken you there when you were

497

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Marc Preston: younger and, and I believe you'd even

498

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Marc Preston: brought him back, if I'm not mistaken on my

499

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Marc Preston: memory.

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Andrew Zimmern: you're correct that, no, no, no, you're

501

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Andrew Zimmern: absolutely correct and you know I

502

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Andrew Zimmern: referenced this a lot.

503

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Andrew Zimmern: I was lucky enough to travel around the

504

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Andrew Zimmern: world several times with my dad.

505

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Andrew Zimmern: He was one of the people responsible for

506

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Andrew Zimmern: running an international you know

507

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Andrew Zimmern: advertising agency and we traveled a lot

508

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Andrew Zimmern: and he loved to travel, to eat and eat to

509

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Andrew Zimmern: travel.

510

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Andrew Zimmern: So even when we weren't working although I

511

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Andrew Zimmern: went on a lot of work trips with him, it

512

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Andrew Zimmern: was, you know we also went on a lot of fun

513

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Andrew Zimmern: trips as well.

514

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Andrew Zimmern: Every year we love to ski, so we would go

515

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Andrew Zimmern: every year to Europe, ski somewhere for a

516

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Andrew Zimmern: week or 10 days, then go visit a city for

517

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Andrew Zimmern: four or five days.

518

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Andrew Zimmern: So, and yes, very famously, as a five year

519

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Andrew Zimmern: old, I've sat in you know the place for all

520

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Andrew Zimmern: the seafood trading where the boats came in

521

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Andrew Zimmern: in Paris, on the river, you know, picking

522

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Andrew Zimmern: big or no and drinking pasties.

523

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Andrew Zimmern: At eight or nine years old, while my dad

524

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Andrew Zimmern: was doing a, having a business dinner three

525

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Andrew Zimmern: tables over, reading my book and not

526

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Andrew Zimmern: understanding why I was so flushed and

527

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Andrew Zimmern: giddy, I sat with him in a humble taverna

528

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Andrew Zimmern: outside of Valladolos Cayetos in Spain

529

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Andrew Zimmern: where, ironically, franco is buried now,

530

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Andrew Zimmern: but this restaurant under the Roman

531

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Andrew Zimmern: Aqueduct there, and you know, they walk up

532

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Andrew Zimmern: to you and they basically ask you lamb or

533

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Andrew Zimmern: pig, and you pick one and then all the

534

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Andrew Zimmern: other courses come before it, but at the

535

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Andrew Zimmern: end out comes a newborn lamb or pig, piglet

536

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Andrew Zimmern: and cooked, and you eat the whole thing.

537

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Andrew Zimmern: That's your portion is this small roasted

538

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Andrew Zimmern: animal.

539

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Andrew Zimmern: And what preceded it were Angulas, these

540

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Andrew Zimmern: tiny little Elvers, baby eels that swim

541

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Andrew Zimmern: from the Sargasso Sea up into the rivers

542

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Andrew Zimmern: where they will grow and become very large

543

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Andrew Zimmern: freshwater eels.

544

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Andrew Zimmern: And you know, this was the experience of my

545

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Andrew Zimmern: childhood.

546

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Andrew Zimmern: My father gave that to me on trip after

547

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Andrew Zimmern: trip after trip after trip.

548

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Andrew Zimmern: So it's no wonder why I eventually got into

549

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Andrew Zimmern: doing what I do, because I'm just a paler

550

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Andrew Zimmern: version of him.

551

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Andrew Zimmern: And yes, you are.

552

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Andrew Zimmern: You are also correct, we at one point.

553

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Andrew Zimmern: You know, when you start in television you

554

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Andrew Zimmern: don't call any shots at all, you just say

555

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Andrew Zimmern: yes to everything and show up, and then, if

556

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Andrew Zimmern: the show is successful, it all kind of

557

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Andrew Zimmern: flips around, everyone's asking you, and I

558

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Andrew Zimmern: think it was season two or three.

559

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Andrew Zimmern: I told the producers we're going to do a

560

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Andrew Zimmern: show in Portland, maine, and we're going to

561

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Andrew Zimmern: do it with my dad and let him show me his

562

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Andrew Zimmern: town that he was living in at the at the

563

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Andrew Zimmern: time and what was that we're from?

564

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Andrew Zimmern: or that's where he, no he spent the last 12

565

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Andrew Zimmern: years of his life there.

566

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Andrew Zimmern: He wanted to move.

567

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Andrew Zimmern: He was born in Bred, new York City in the

568

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Andrew Zimmern: late 40s, got a house out in Long Island so

569

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Andrew Zimmern: he had a summer place out there and then it

570

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Andrew Zimmern: just became too crowded for him.

571

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Andrew Zimmern: So in his 70s, you know, he and his partner

572

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Andrew Zimmern: moved up to Portland, maine, and lived

573

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Andrew Zimmern: there for 10, 12 years before both of them

574

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Andrew Zimmern: passed.

575

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Andrew Zimmern: And it was an amazing time to actually have

576

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Andrew Zimmern: a show where I got to shoot with him.

577

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Andrew Zimmern: And at the very end we're at this big party

578

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Andrew Zimmern: tasting a whole bunch of local strange

579

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Andrew Zimmern: things that we shot on.

580

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Andrew Zimmern: A friend of his friend of his has an island

581

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Andrew Zimmern: there.

582

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Andrew Zimmern: It sounds very bougie, but you know they're

583

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Andrew Zimmern: in Maine.

584

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Andrew Zimmern: There's a lot of little tiny islands and

585

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Andrew Zimmern: they're passed from family to family.

586

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Andrew Zimmern: And he knew someone who had a small humble

587

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Andrew Zimmern: place in the Bay and we shot there and I

588

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Andrew Zimmern: got my son in the show.

589

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Andrew Zimmern: So at one point my son, my father and I are

590

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Andrew Zimmern: all eating and I remember that vividly

591

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Andrew Zimmern: because I mean, if I got hit by a bus

592

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Andrew Zimmern: tomorrow, I've immortalized the three of us

593

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Andrew Zimmern: together chowing down.

594

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Andrew Zimmern: So I'm pretty happy with that.

595

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Marc Preston: You know, it kind of brings it back to what

596

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Marc Preston: you were saying about your Magnolia Channel

597

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Marc Preston: show.

598

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Marc Preston: It's it's like you can do all these really

599

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Marc Preston: wonderful, sometimes extravagant, or really

600

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Marc Preston: amazing, amazing opportunities.

601

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Marc Preston: But what re in my, my youngest daughter

602

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Marc Preston: gets so mad at me because I'm always taking

603

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Marc Preston: pictures like daddy, really, please, just

604

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Marc Preston: the one teenager on earth that doesn't post

605

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Marc Preston: to Instagram.

606

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Marc Preston: But anyway, the I'm like, I'm like I want

607

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Marc Preston: this.

608

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Marc Preston: You know, this is important to me.

609

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Marc Preston: You know we were on a cruise a few weeks

610

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Marc Preston: ago.

611

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Marc Preston: She gave me a little more latitude.

612

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Marc Preston: I was allowed to take more pictures, you

613

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Marc Preston: know.

614

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Marc Preston: But you know, getting the multi generation,

615

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Marc Preston: the family, together there.

616

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Marc Preston: Were you noticing that your son was into it,

617

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Marc Preston: or is he kind of like, oh God, here's dad

618

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Marc Preston: doing his?

619

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Andrew Zimmern: thing again.

620

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Andrew Zimmern: Three.

621

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Andrew Zimmern: Well, he was like three or four.

622

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Andrew Zimmern: He loved being in the show when he was

623

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Andrew Zimmern: little and I think if we tried today he

624

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Andrew Zimmern: would.

625

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Andrew Zimmern: He would not be.

626

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Andrew Zimmern: I said he's 1717.

627

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Marc Preston: So I got one of those.

628

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Marc Preston: Also just started his freshman year at

629

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Marc Preston: Loyola when you were kind of coming around

630

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Marc Preston: and and you're in Minnesota, you're hitting

631

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Marc Preston: the reset button.

632

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Marc Preston: What pulled you into the culinary world?

633

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Marc Preston: What?

634

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Marc Preston: What was the genesis of?

635

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Marc Preston: I mean, was that even your original plan

636

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Marc Preston: when you're going to college?

637

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Andrew Zimmern: Well, it had been.

638

00:24:24,610 --> 00:24:26,136

Andrew Zimmern: You know, I went to college because my

639

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Andrew Zimmern: father said, well, I'll back up.

640

00:24:29,687 --> 00:24:32,154

Andrew Zimmern: When I was four, I cooked with my

641

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Andrew Zimmern: grandmother as a young child, with my mom

642

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Andrew Zimmern: and dad as an older child, and I had an

643

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Andrew Zimmern: aptitude for it and, you know, my dad

644

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Andrew Zimmern: taught me what to do.

645

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Andrew Zimmern: You know that no one called it foraging you.

646

00:24:45,016 --> 00:24:46,604

Andrew Zimmern: Just, you know it was the 60s.

647

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Andrew Zimmern: You know you threw a line in the water and

648

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Andrew Zimmern: caught a striped bass.

649

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Andrew Zimmern: You went down to the jetty and pulled

650

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Andrew Zimmern: muscles.

651

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Andrew Zimmern: You, you raked clams on a cloudy morning.

652

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Andrew Zimmern: You know, we, we, I mean, this was what we

653

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Andrew Zimmern: did in the summertime.

654

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Andrew Zimmern: And so I learned how to do and loved food,

655

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Andrew Zimmern: so that when my father said, you know, when

656

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Andrew Zimmern: the spring were preceding my 14th birthday,

657

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Andrew Zimmern: which is in the summer, he said I hope, you

658

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Andrew Zimmern: know, there's no more allowance.

659

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Andrew Zimmern: You know what are you going to do for a

660

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Andrew Zimmern: summer job?

661

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Andrew Zimmern: And I said work in restaurants.

662

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Andrew Zimmern: I knew right away what I wanted to do and

663

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Andrew Zimmern: all my other friends were working at the

664

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Andrew Zimmern: landscape company or at the gas station or

665

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Andrew Zimmern: at the superMarcet, and I worked in

666

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Andrew Zimmern: restaurants.

667

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Andrew Zimmern: And we were lucky.

668

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Andrew Zimmern: We had a friend who owned a seafood

669

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Andrew Zimmern: restaurant who was willing to hire me and

670

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Andrew Zimmern: that's where I went.

671

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Andrew Zimmern: It was called the quiet clam on Montauk

672

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Andrew Zimmern: Highway, just as you entered the village of

673

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Andrew Zimmern: East Hampton and I worked there summers in

674

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Andrew Zimmern: high school and begged my parents to work

675

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Andrew Zimmern: odd nights during the school year in New

676

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Andrew Zimmern: York to be in restaurants and they let me

677

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Andrew Zimmern: do that.

678

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Andrew Zimmern: And so the dye was I knew when I was six

679

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Andrew Zimmern: years old I wanted to work in food.

680

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Andrew Zimmern: I mean, that was accepted by my family.

681

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Marc Preston: But how lucky, how lucky are you, though,

682

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Marc Preston: that that because I had the similar

683

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Marc Preston: experience.

684

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Marc Preston: I remember going I want to do this thing.

685

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Marc Preston: For me it was radio or acting or you know,

686

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Marc Preston: but I knew every time I tried to push and

687

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Marc Preston: go some other direction.

688

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Marc Preston: I went to a really good high school and

689

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Marc Preston: maybe medicine.

690

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Marc Preston: You know Jewish play.

691

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Marc Preston: You know be a good shot, be a Jewish doctor.

692

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Marc Preston: You know, I was like it just didn't light

693

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Marc Preston: my fire.

694

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Marc Preston: I just knew and I think I consider anybody

695

00:26:23,919 --> 00:26:26,084

Marc Preston: that's got that it can be a bumpy road, but

696

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Marc Preston: it's it's.

697

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Marc Preston: It's really lucky when you can bring that

698

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Marc Preston: to fruition.

699

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Andrew Zimmern: New, always knew what I wanted to do and

700

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Andrew Zimmern: you know, my father encouraged it in a

701

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Andrew Zimmern: sense, but he said don't pass up college.

702

00:26:38,602 --> 00:26:40,766

Andrew Zimmern: He said, even if you want to be the, you

703

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Andrew Zimmern: know the own restaurants, or be a chef or

704

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Andrew Zimmern: whatever you want to do, learning to read,

705

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Andrew Zimmern: write and think critically at a higher

706

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Andrew Zimmern: level is really important.

707

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Andrew Zimmern: And so I went to.

708

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Andrew Zimmern: I went to college and he was right because

709

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Andrew Zimmern: ultimately once I mean I wasted a lot of my

710

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Andrew Zimmern: time in college but ultimately my my

711

00:27:03,967 --> 00:27:09,661

Andrew Zimmern: storytelling capability, my style of

712

00:27:09,741 --> 00:27:12,670

Andrew Zimmern: storytelling, I learned studying art

713

00:27:12,730 --> 00:27:13,994

Andrew Zimmern: history at Vaster College.

714

00:27:15,167 --> 00:27:20,490

Andrew Zimmern: From the first day of art history 101, when

715

00:27:20,510 --> 00:27:23,526

Andrew Zimmern: Dr Susan Koretzki put the first slide up of

716

00:27:23,586 --> 00:27:31,713

Andrew Zimmern: the first class of my freshman year, I

717

00:27:31,814 --> 00:27:34,019

Andrew Zimmern: learned a way of deciphering the world.

718

00:27:36,065 --> 00:27:38,774

Andrew Zimmern: She put up a painting Northern Renaissance,

719

00:27:40,228 --> 00:27:42,595

Andrew Zimmern: late 16th century and she asked everyone in

720

00:27:42,615 --> 00:27:44,410

Andrew Zimmern: the class to write down what they saw in

721

00:27:44,430 --> 00:27:45,868

Andrew Zimmern: the painting and what it meant.

722

00:27:46,405 --> 00:27:48,812

Andrew Zimmern: And everyone wrote down chair, table, dog,

723

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Andrew Zimmern: bowl of fruit, window, hat, scarf, dress,

724

00:27:54,795 --> 00:27:55,237

Andrew Zimmern: necklace.

725

00:27:56,729 --> 00:27:58,173

Andrew Zimmern: And then she asked for everyone to read

726

00:27:58,194 --> 00:27:59,127

Andrew Zimmern: their list, three or four.

727

00:27:59,287 --> 00:28:01,247

Andrew Zimmern: Everyone had the same thing and you could

728

00:28:01,307 --> 00:28:02,492

Andrew Zimmern: tell halfway through.

729

00:28:02,565 --> 00:28:06,154

Andrew Zimmern: This was her class one slide, one setup for

730

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Andrew Zimmern: the year.

731

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Andrew Zimmern: And she then stepped back and spent a half

732

00:28:10,634 --> 00:28:14,254

Andrew Zimmern: an hour telling us everything about late to

733

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Andrew Zimmern: 16th century Flemish life there.

734

00:28:17,545 --> 00:28:20,798

Andrew Zimmern: You know, no one had noticed that in the

735

00:28:20,818 --> 00:28:24,050

Andrew Zimmern: fruit bowl was a banana.

736

00:28:24,211 --> 00:28:27,232

Andrew Zimmern: But bananas don't grow in what is now

737

00:28:27,312 --> 00:28:29,790

Andrew Zimmern: Holland, so it had to have come from

738

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Andrew Zimmern: somewhere else, right?

739

00:28:31,966 --> 00:28:33,873

Andrew Zimmern: And so it indicated the wealth of the

740

00:28:33,933 --> 00:28:34,274

Andrew Zimmern: family.

741

00:28:34,385 --> 00:28:37,147

Andrew Zimmern: And she just went on and on and on Sherlock

742

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Andrew Zimmern: Holmes.

743

00:28:37,528 --> 00:28:38,753

Andrew Zimmern: I mean, it was like a locked room.

744

00:28:39,567 --> 00:28:40,692

Marc Preston: I was literally about to say that.

745

00:28:40,732 --> 00:28:40,953

Marc Preston: Yeah.

746

00:28:41,546 --> 00:28:43,949

Andrew Zimmern: I mean, you know, it's like Hercules Poirot

747

00:28:43,989 --> 00:28:45,052

Andrew Zimmern: couldn't have done a better job.

748

00:28:45,866 --> 00:28:51,106

Andrew Zimmern: And I found myself 45, 40 years later, 40

749

00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:54,476

Andrew Zimmern: years later, no less, 35 years, whatever.

750

00:28:55,447 --> 00:28:56,832

Andrew Zimmern: I'm in a jungle in Nicaragua.

751

00:28:57,445 --> 00:28:59,231

Andrew Zimmern: I'm shooting the second season of Bizarre

752

00:28:59,271 --> 00:29:03,926

Andrew Zimmern: Foods and I'm in a jungle Marcet and

753

00:29:03,986 --> 00:29:08,397

Andrew Zimmern: someone puts a bowl of very rustic chanfina,

754

00:29:08,525 --> 00:29:10,871

Andrew Zimmern: which is a chopped stew made of organ meat,

755

00:29:12,315 --> 00:29:13,097

Andrew Zimmern: in my hands.

756

00:29:13,385 --> 00:29:15,613

Andrew Zimmern: And we're in a jungle, so I know that it's

757

00:29:15,653 --> 00:29:16,115

Andrew Zimmern: bush meat.

758

00:29:16,245 --> 00:29:18,914

Andrew Zimmern: It's not goat or chicken or whatever.

759

00:29:19,306 --> 00:29:22,635

Andrew Zimmern: It's made with animals that live in the

760

00:29:22,655 --> 00:29:22,976

Andrew Zimmern: forest.

761

00:29:23,706 --> 00:29:27,096

Andrew Zimmern: And these jungle Marcets spring up once a

762

00:29:27,156 --> 00:29:29,498

Andrew Zimmern: week where vendors are bringing all their

763

00:29:29,518 --> 00:29:32,431

Andrew Zimmern: wares or tribal people convene, and once a

764

00:29:32,471 --> 00:29:33,906

Andrew Zimmern: week or once every two weeks, people can

765

00:29:33,946 --> 00:29:37,745

Andrew Zimmern: trade, exchange news of the day, and

766

00:29:37,766 --> 00:29:40,229

Andrew Zimmern: there's always people cooking so that folks

767

00:29:40,269 --> 00:29:40,891

Andrew Zimmern: can buy food.

768

00:29:42,046 --> 00:29:46,566

Andrew Zimmern: And I started very naturally telling it was

769

00:29:46,626 --> 00:29:48,233

Andrew Zimmern: a real turning point for me in my career.

770

00:29:48,325 --> 00:29:50,252

Andrew Zimmern: I mean, I'm not saying that I sucked the

771

00:29:50,312 --> 00:29:52,670

Andrew Zimmern: first year, but I was nowhere near the

772

00:29:52,730 --> 00:29:56,331

Andrew Zimmern: storyteller I was prior to my experience

773

00:29:56,812 --> 00:29:59,531

Andrew Zimmern: with that bowl of chanfina that I am now.

774

00:30:00,045 --> 00:30:01,792

Marc Preston: Well, of course, if you think you're just

775

00:30:01,852 --> 00:30:03,935

Marc Preston: as good now as you were back then, or you

776

00:30:04,580 --> 00:30:05,827

Marc Preston: haven't grown at all, so now you can

777

00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:07,473

Marc Preston: actually recognize the growth, that's a

778

00:30:07,493 --> 00:30:07,714

Marc Preston: good thing.

779

00:30:08,426 --> 00:30:11,055

Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, and you see, I held up the soup and I

780

00:30:11,095 --> 00:30:12,721

Andrew Zimmern: said if you look at the soup, you can tell

781

00:30:12,822 --> 00:30:14,451

Andrew Zimmern: everything about the people here buy it.

782

00:30:15,346 --> 00:30:21,089

Andrew Zimmern: And I started to do what Dr Koretsky did in

783

00:30:21,571 --> 00:30:24,120

Andrew Zimmern: that art history class long ago, which was

784

00:30:24,180 --> 00:30:26,248

Andrew Zimmern: tell my audience, look into the camera and

785

00:30:26,288 --> 00:30:28,589

Andrew Zimmern: tell them everything about this people and

786

00:30:28,609 --> 00:30:30,927

Andrew Zimmern: this time and this place in this country

787

00:30:31,669 --> 00:30:34,036

Andrew Zimmern: through this bowl of stew.

788

00:30:35,006 --> 00:30:40,270

Andrew Zimmern: And it was a real turning point for me and

789

00:30:40,771 --> 00:30:41,312

Andrew Zimmern: it still is.

790

00:30:41,372 --> 00:30:44,807

Andrew Zimmern: My favorite form of storytelling is being

791

00:30:44,927 --> 00:30:47,855

Andrew Zimmern: able to, even if it's a cheeseburger at a

792

00:30:47,895 --> 00:30:50,872

Andrew Zimmern: local shop, you can tell a lot about a

793

00:30:50,912 --> 00:30:51,915

Andrew Zimmern: place and a culture.

794

00:30:52,746 --> 00:30:54,111

Andrew Zimmern: I have famously said this.

795

00:30:54,788 --> 00:30:55,805

Andrew Zimmern: It's been quoted a lot.

796

00:30:55,946 --> 00:30:59,683

Andrew Zimmern: I love museums, but I can learn more about

797

00:30:59,703 --> 00:31:01,956

Andrew Zimmern: a country by going to a local Marcet and

798

00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:04,171

Andrew Zimmern: eating and talking to people that I can by

799

00:31:04,212 --> 00:31:05,505

Andrew Zimmern: going into their local museum.

800

00:31:05,625 --> 00:31:06,128

Andrew Zimmern: That's for sure.

801

00:31:07,206 --> 00:31:08,410

Marc Preston: Yeah, one of the things I think you're a

802

00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:11,169

Marc Preston: Jedi knight doing which is, I mean, for

803

00:31:11,189 --> 00:31:13,668

Marc Preston: your vocation is essential is communicating

804

00:31:13,708 --> 00:31:16,195

Marc Preston: the moment, what it's like aesthetically,

805

00:31:16,745 --> 00:31:17,288

Marc Preston: what it tastes like.

806

00:31:18,045 --> 00:31:20,553

Marc Preston: I remember you got the little shelfish, the

807

00:31:20,573 --> 00:31:22,889

Marc Preston: OPI, I think, kind of like a salty

808

00:31:23,209 --> 00:31:24,353

Marc Preston: something, gummy bear.

809

00:31:24,734 --> 00:31:25,576

Marc Preston: How have you described it?

810

00:31:25,605 --> 00:31:27,011

Marc Preston: I'm like, OK, I get a feeling for what?

811

00:31:27,065 --> 00:31:28,812

Marc Preston: That it's the most random description.

812

00:31:28,865 --> 00:31:31,426

Marc Preston: But I think what you do wonderfully is

813

00:31:32,229 --> 00:31:34,047

Marc Preston: really transport people and I think that

814

00:31:34,107 --> 00:31:35,372

Marc Preston: kind of going back to where you're

815

00:31:35,392 --> 00:31:37,691

Marc Preston: discussing before, is how much is it moving

816

00:31:37,711 --> 00:31:40,169

Marc Preston: the needle culturally on, kind of opening

817

00:31:40,189 --> 00:31:42,195

Marc Preston: people up to other people and ideas?

818

00:31:42,605 --> 00:31:43,550

Marc Preston: I think it certainly helps.

819

00:31:44,267 --> 00:31:46,053

Marc Preston: I think being able to be a very capable

820

00:31:46,153 --> 00:31:48,873

Marc Preston: storyteller is your part and parcel.

821

00:31:48,925 --> 00:31:49,528

Marc Preston: That's what you do.

822

00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:52,312

Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, but a lot of people do.

823

00:31:52,666 --> 00:31:53,791

Andrew Zimmern: This is what's fascinating to me.

824

00:31:54,405 --> 00:31:57,145

Andrew Zimmern: So many other folks forget that there is

825

00:31:57,225 --> 00:32:00,032

Andrew Zimmern: someone on the other side of the camera

826

00:32:00,533 --> 00:32:05,672

Andrew Zimmern: watching six months later and they're not

827

00:32:05,692 --> 00:32:07,645

Andrew Zimmern: going to hear the rain in the distance or

828

00:32:07,766 --> 00:32:13,357

Andrew Zimmern: smell the loamy, earthy, mildewy smell of

829

00:32:13,397 --> 00:32:14,018

Andrew Zimmern: that jungle.

830

00:32:14,525 --> 00:32:16,813

Andrew Zimmern: They're not going to taste the food,

831

00:32:17,285 --> 00:32:19,893

Andrew Zimmern: they're not going to see the smile on every

832

00:32:19,973 --> 00:32:20,895

Andrew Zimmern: person who's in there.

833

00:32:21,325 --> 00:32:25,075

Andrew Zimmern: So you have to, it's your responsibility to

834

00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:26,889

Andrew Zimmern: tell them You're the avatar for the

835

00:32:26,970 --> 00:32:27,251

Andrew Zimmern: audience.

836

00:32:27,565 --> 00:32:29,212

Andrew Zimmern: I think a lot of people forget that.

837

00:32:30,187 --> 00:32:32,370

Andrew Zimmern: I really do and, by the way, I'm lucky to

838

00:32:32,410 --> 00:32:35,509

Andrew Zimmern: have had amazing mentors and great teachers

839

00:32:35,689 --> 00:32:37,645

Andrew Zimmern: and folks who told me to pay attention to

840

00:32:37,685 --> 00:32:38,147

Andrew Zimmern: that stuff.

841

00:32:40,446 --> 00:32:45,786

Andrew Zimmern: And, yes, is a certain part of it Dye's

842

00:32:45,806 --> 00:32:47,472

Andrew Zimmern: already cast by the time they picked up the

843

00:32:47,512 --> 00:32:49,468

Andrew Zimmern: first camera, because of what happened to

844

00:32:49,488 --> 00:32:52,135

Andrew Zimmern: be the first 33, 34 years of my life.

845

00:32:52,945 --> 00:32:55,108

Andrew Zimmern: Yes, to a certain degree, but some of it's

846

00:32:55,168 --> 00:32:55,931

Andrew Zimmern: actually learned.

847

00:32:56,305 --> 00:32:58,572

Andrew Zimmern: Some of it is paying attention, having

848

00:32:58,632 --> 00:33:01,067

Andrew Zimmern: someone remind you that not only is there

849

00:33:01,128 --> 00:33:05,427

Andrew Zimmern: someone who one day and it could be the

850

00:33:05,467 --> 00:33:05,909

Andrew Zimmern: same viewer.

851

00:33:06,905 --> 00:33:11,835

Andrew Zimmern: So one day, Marc, you're coming to the show

852

00:33:11,915 --> 00:33:12,817

Andrew Zimmern: I make, whatever it is.

853

00:33:13,965 --> 00:33:15,873

Andrew Zimmern: You just had a tough day and you pop a beer

854

00:33:16,025 --> 00:33:17,069

Andrew Zimmern: and you just want to sit down and be

855

00:33:17,109 --> 00:33:17,632

Andrew Zimmern: entertained.

856

00:33:18,065 --> 00:33:20,431

Andrew Zimmern: And then some days you're eager to like,

857

00:33:20,571 --> 00:33:24,529

Andrew Zimmern: hey, whoever's in the house, come take a

858

00:33:24,569 --> 00:33:25,031

Andrew Zimmern: look at this.

859

00:33:25,265 --> 00:33:26,812

Andrew Zimmern: And you sit down and you learn something,

860

00:33:26,845 --> 00:33:28,732

Andrew Zimmern: because it's just really cool and

861

00:33:28,812 --> 00:33:30,872

Andrew Zimmern: fascinating, or maybe just beautiful.

862

00:33:30,985 --> 00:33:32,933

Andrew Zimmern: And you learn a lot about the Faroe Islands,

863

00:33:32,945 --> 00:33:35,013

Andrew Zimmern: because I'm about to die in freezing water

864

00:33:36,308 --> 00:33:39,176

Andrew Zimmern: while Orca's circle our Zodiac boat.

865

00:33:39,926 --> 00:33:42,706

Andrew Zimmern: But no matter what it is, you have to be

866

00:33:42,827 --> 00:33:47,952

Andrew Zimmern: there for all people all the time and not

867

00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,362

Andrew Zimmern: ostracize members of your audience.

868

00:33:50,703 --> 00:33:52,230

Marc Preston: Oh, certainly, but I think, with the way

869

00:33:52,250 --> 00:33:53,668

Marc Preston: people come, like you said, the guys just

870

00:33:53,689 --> 00:33:56,136

Marc Preston: maybe pop in a beer, maybe another day

871

00:33:56,177 --> 00:33:57,568

Marc Preston: watch the same episode, maybe he's more

872

00:33:57,689 --> 00:33:59,287

Marc Preston: actively watching it and he's going to pick

873

00:33:59,307 --> 00:34:00,572

Marc Preston: up on something I know for myself.

874

00:34:01,045 --> 00:34:03,285

Marc Preston: I think and I don't want to conflate, I

875

00:34:03,325 --> 00:34:04,845

Marc Preston: know I mentioned Anthony Bourdain before, I

876

00:34:04,865 --> 00:34:06,932

Marc Preston: don't want to conflate y'all have two very

877

00:34:07,033 --> 00:34:09,751

Marc Preston: unique voices, but there are so many

878

00:34:09,831 --> 00:34:12,168

Marc Preston: parallels that I think had y'all not had

879

00:34:12,188 --> 00:34:14,647

Marc Preston: the life y'all had, I don't think y'all

880

00:34:14,667 --> 00:34:17,375

Marc Preston: would be as effective and as memorable.

881

00:34:17,465 --> 00:34:19,131

Marc Preston: And I think that you're making all these

882

00:34:19,492 --> 00:34:22,432

Marc Preston: jewel boxes of experiences for people, for

883

00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:23,776

Marc Preston: even the future.

884

00:34:24,347 --> 00:34:27,054

Marc Preston: And I just I always sat down as, like

885

00:34:27,074 --> 00:34:29,790

Marc Preston: thinking I truly enjoy both these guys for

886

00:34:29,830 --> 00:34:32,156

Marc Preston: their own special sauce.

887

00:34:32,485 --> 00:34:34,187

Marc Preston: You know what you have to offer, but there

888

00:34:34,308 --> 00:34:36,728

Marc Preston: are beautiful, wonderful parallels in what

889

00:34:36,748 --> 00:34:37,591

Marc Preston: you're kind of like.

890

00:34:38,005 --> 00:34:39,932

Marc Preston: Did you ever ever speak with Anthony

891

00:34:39,972 --> 00:34:41,389

Marc Preston: Bourdain and go, ok, how are we going to

892

00:34:41,409 --> 00:34:42,393

Marc Preston: differentiate our shows?

893

00:34:42,465 --> 00:34:44,492

Marc Preston: We're out there sort of doing something

894

00:34:44,552 --> 00:34:46,669

Marc Preston: similar and he gives you these wonderful

895

00:34:46,729 --> 00:34:49,229

Marc Preston: gentle ribs going OK, and then I show you

896

00:34:49,249 --> 00:34:50,388

Marc Preston: he's like god, this is something more for

897

00:34:50,468 --> 00:34:50,810

Marc Preston: Zimmern.

898

00:34:51,285 --> 00:34:54,012

Marc Preston: You know, you can tell Kind of Kind of.

899

00:34:54,406 --> 00:34:55,791

Andrew Zimmern: It was actually even better than that.

900

00:34:57,205 --> 00:34:58,571

Andrew Zimmern: You know, we both grew up in New York.

901

00:34:58,825 --> 00:35:03,510

Andrew Zimmern: We both were smartasses, we both had, you

902

00:35:03,550 --> 00:35:07,057

Andrew Zimmern: know, different types of addiction issues.

903

00:35:08,365 --> 00:35:10,230

Andrew Zimmern: We both worked in New York at the same time

904

00:35:10,290 --> 00:35:11,072

Andrew Zimmern: as Line Cooks.

905

00:35:13,046 --> 00:35:14,572

Andrew Zimmern: We had both gone to Vassar College.

906

00:35:14,906 --> 00:35:15,823

Andrew Zimmern: He was there a couple years.

907

00:35:15,965 --> 00:35:17,331

Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, he was there a couple years before I

908

00:35:17,371 --> 00:35:17,786

Andrew Zimmern: was Well.

909

00:35:17,906 --> 00:35:18,951

Marc Preston: I know even his father.

910

00:35:18,991 --> 00:35:20,149

Marc Preston: I remember he used to travel with his

911

00:35:20,229 --> 00:35:21,486

Marc Preston: family when he was younger, you know.

912

00:35:21,506 --> 00:35:22,791

Announcer: I know there was this that's right.

913

00:35:23,285 --> 00:35:24,108

Marc Preston: So please don't.

914

00:35:24,168 --> 00:35:25,733

Marc Preston: I'm certainly not saying y'all are just

915

00:35:25,774 --> 00:35:26,014

Marc Preston: alike.

916

00:35:26,105 --> 00:35:27,709

Marc Preston: I'm not saying that, no, we're very

917

00:35:27,770 --> 00:35:28,134

Marc Preston: different.

918

00:35:28,365 --> 00:35:29,470

Andrew Zimmern: We're very, very different.

919

00:35:29,685 --> 00:35:30,931

Andrew Zimmern: This is what was fantastic.

920

00:35:31,447 --> 00:35:36,249

Andrew Zimmern: We became friends, but he loved I mean, I

921

00:35:36,329 --> 00:35:39,486

Andrew Zimmern: think he took more pleasure giving me a ton

922

00:35:39,526 --> 00:35:40,449

Andrew Zimmern: of shit about stuff.

923

00:35:42,325 --> 00:35:44,733

Andrew Zimmern: That was his favorite thing because, as he

924

00:35:44,873 --> 00:35:47,429

Andrew Zimmern: often would say, he said, you know, we go,

925

00:35:48,191 --> 00:35:50,797

Andrew Zimmern: you know we both go to the Congo.

926

00:35:51,625 --> 00:35:55,875

Andrew Zimmern: We both eat the same Warthog meal with two

927

00:35:55,915 --> 00:35:56,757

Andrew Zimmern: different tribes.

928

00:35:57,145 --> 00:35:58,810

Andrew Zimmern: I don't know how he does it, because at

929

00:35:58,850 --> 00:36:02,908

Andrew Zimmern: least I get to drink Right, the implication

930

00:36:02,948 --> 00:36:04,785

Andrew Zimmern: being it's easier to eat that stuff if

931

00:36:04,825 --> 00:36:05,548

Andrew Zimmern: you've had a few.

932

00:36:07,986 --> 00:36:09,430

Andrew Zimmern: And you know.

933

00:36:09,471 --> 00:36:11,787

Andrew Zimmern: We explored the world telling our stories

934

00:36:11,807 --> 00:36:17,528

Andrew Zimmern: in much different styles, but we basically

935

00:36:17,568 --> 00:36:21,390

Andrew Zimmern: did the same job and he would sometimes

936

00:36:21,470 --> 00:36:25,645

Andrew Zimmern: call me or send me a text or an email with

937

00:36:25,685 --> 00:36:28,956

Andrew Zimmern: like, yep, I'm going to such and such,

938

00:36:29,025 --> 00:36:30,550

Andrew Zimmern: because he knew that we were trying to get

939

00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:33,967

Andrew Zimmern: in to that country too, and he took

940

00:36:34,308 --> 00:36:38,169

Andrew Zimmern: tremendous pleasure it actually became an

941

00:36:38,269 --> 00:36:41,891

Andrew Zimmern: epic part of his story in landing the

942

00:36:41,972 --> 00:36:44,966

Andrew Zimmern: Beirut show while we were trying to, and I

943

00:36:45,027 --> 00:36:47,374

Andrew Zimmern: took great pleasure in beating him to Cuba

944

00:36:48,006 --> 00:36:51,310

Andrew Zimmern: and to Syria, and he took great pleasure in

945

00:36:51,390 --> 00:36:55,731

Andrew Zimmern: beating me into Iran, and then it closed

946

00:36:55,771 --> 00:36:56,052

Andrew Zimmern: down.

947

00:36:56,185 --> 00:36:57,550

Andrew Zimmern: We were actually on our way.

948

00:36:58,225 --> 00:36:59,990

Andrew Zimmern: We're using the same fixer there, jason

949

00:37:00,031 --> 00:37:02,367

Andrew Zimmern: Rezaian, who is now with the Washington

950

00:37:02,428 --> 00:37:06,430

Andrew Zimmern: Post, and three weeks before we were

951

00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:11,447

Andrew Zimmern: leaving for Tehran, the country closed to

952

00:37:11,468 --> 00:37:16,408

Andrew Zimmern: Americans and Jason was imprisoned, so we

953

00:37:16,449 --> 00:37:17,774

Andrew Zimmern: had a lot to talk about.

954

00:37:17,825 --> 00:37:20,854

Andrew Zimmern: Then we were both parents of kids the same

955

00:37:21,094 --> 00:37:23,169

Andrew Zimmern: age who traveled and never saw our kids.

956

00:37:25,105 --> 00:37:26,852

Andrew Zimmern: We both had experienced divorce.

957

00:37:27,005 --> 00:37:28,952

Andrew Zimmern: We both had experienced so many of the same

958

00:37:29,032 --> 00:37:29,333

Andrew Zimmern: things.

959

00:37:29,845 --> 00:37:32,755

Andrew Zimmern: So as the years went by, we became closer.

960

00:37:32,965 --> 00:37:35,653

Andrew Zimmern: He was an amazing person, the most

961

00:37:35,673 --> 00:37:37,367

Andrew Zimmern: charismatic human being I've ever met.

962

00:37:38,165 --> 00:37:39,350

Marc Preston: I think that the things we talk about

963

00:37:39,410 --> 00:37:41,268

Marc Preston: storytelling and I always kind of reference

964

00:37:41,309 --> 00:37:42,826

Marc Preston: him as sort of like one of those guys would

965

00:37:42,846 --> 00:37:44,728

Marc Preston: be a big brother, one guy it's always

966

00:37:44,748 --> 00:37:46,354

Marc Preston: trying to there's wisdom.

967

00:37:46,665 --> 00:37:48,812

Marc Preston: There is that kind of like storytelling

968

00:37:48,912 --> 00:37:49,695

Marc Preston: referencing books.

969

00:37:49,845 --> 00:37:52,669

Marc Preston: I've never read With you.

970

00:37:52,689 --> 00:37:54,595

Marc Preston: There's this infectious enthusiasm.

971

00:37:55,267 --> 00:37:56,691

Marc Preston: It's a definitely have your own brand,

972

00:37:56,752 --> 00:37:58,909

Marc Preston: without a doubt, but I found so many

973

00:37:58,989 --> 00:38:00,869

Marc Preston: parallels and I think that your shows and

974

00:38:00,889 --> 00:38:03,087

Marc Preston: this is not just, in fact, I know your

975

00:38:03,148 --> 00:38:06,090

Marc Preston: shows are important Because if somebody

976

00:38:06,110 --> 00:38:09,167

Marc Preston: sits down and watches it and goes, oh yeah,

977

00:38:09,207 --> 00:38:10,753

Marc Preston: the food is the common denominator, no

978

00:38:10,793 --> 00:38:13,829

Marc Preston: matter what the culture and the irony is.

979

00:38:13,849 --> 00:38:17,408

Marc Preston: You've done US-based shows, but you've been

980

00:38:17,428 --> 00:38:18,706

Marc Preston: all over the world, but I really think

981

00:38:18,787 --> 00:38:22,846

Marc Preston: right now doing the family dinner idea, I

982

00:38:22,906 --> 00:38:24,031

Marc Preston: think that people watch that.

983

00:38:24,105 --> 00:38:25,801

Marc Preston: I think there needs to be a lot more of

984

00:38:25,841 --> 00:38:27,149

Marc Preston: that right now, at least in the US.

985

00:38:28,166 --> 00:38:29,510

Andrew Zimmern: I agree 100%.

986

00:38:31,006 --> 00:38:32,129

Andrew Zimmern: We've never been.

987

00:38:33,191 --> 00:38:36,448

Andrew Zimmern: I don't hide my age at all, I'm 61.

988

00:38:37,726 --> 00:38:40,395

Andrew Zimmern: And there's never been a time in my life

989

00:38:40,465 --> 00:38:42,612

Andrew Zimmern: where I've been more scared about the

990

00:38:42,672 --> 00:38:44,808

Andrew Zimmern: divisive nature of our culture, our

991

00:38:44,888 --> 00:38:48,206

Andrew Zimmern: politics, every factor of American life, or

992

00:38:48,246 --> 00:38:50,113

Andrew Zimmern: the divide between haves and have nots.

993

00:38:50,165 --> 00:38:52,605

Andrew Zimmern: I mean, it's just division and divide, or

994

00:38:52,646 --> 00:38:54,573

Andrew Zimmern: words I could use so much.

995

00:38:54,625 --> 00:38:58,386

Andrew Zimmern: So anything that I can do, I think it's my

996

00:38:58,446 --> 00:38:59,751

Andrew Zimmern: responsibility in a sense.

997

00:39:00,526 --> 00:39:02,446

Andrew Zimmern: When Magnolia came to us and said we want

998

00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:04,493

Andrew Zimmern: an intuitive content show.

999

00:39:04,533 --> 00:39:06,269

Andrew Zimmern: That's my production company, I immediately

00:39:06,329 --> 00:39:07,193

Andrew Zimmern: said family dinner.

00:39:07,265 --> 00:39:10,032

Andrew Zimmern: Because we put a family dinner in every

00:39:10,112 --> 00:39:11,255

Andrew Zimmern: episode of Bizarre Foods.

00:39:12,465 --> 00:39:14,392

Andrew Zimmern: We didn't label it or circle it, but we put

00:39:14,532 --> 00:39:16,049

Andrew Zimmern: one in there Because I felt it was

00:39:16,089 --> 00:39:17,850

Andrew Zimmern: important and I knew it worked.

00:39:17,885 --> 00:39:19,091

Andrew Zimmern: So I said let's do family dinner.

00:39:19,125 --> 00:39:20,149

Andrew Zimmern: And then they came back to me a couple

00:39:20,169 --> 00:39:21,887

Andrew Zimmern: weeks later and said well, we can't imagine

00:39:21,907 --> 00:39:23,793

Andrew Zimmern: this being hosted by anyone other than you.

00:39:23,833 --> 00:39:24,435

Andrew Zimmern: Would you do it?

00:39:24,885 --> 00:39:29,353

Andrew Zimmern: And I said, sure, and it's a fantastic show

00:39:29,393 --> 00:39:29,775

Andrew Zimmern: that way.

00:39:31,549 --> 00:39:33,434

Andrew Zimmern: And is it at times a little bit saccharine?

00:39:33,635 --> 00:39:38,815

Andrew Zimmern: Sure, is it at times extremely revelatory

00:39:39,416 --> 00:39:41,850

Andrew Zimmern: about who we are and why we do what we do

00:39:41,930 --> 00:39:44,487

Andrew Zimmern: as human beings, absolutely, and everything

00:39:44,527 --> 00:39:45,110

Andrew Zimmern: in between.

00:39:45,525 --> 00:39:48,111

Andrew Zimmern: But I do think it's a show that's ideally

00:39:48,211 --> 00:39:50,436

Andrew Zimmern: suited for now.

00:39:51,665 --> 00:39:54,092

Marc Preston: And speaking of the creation, and of course

00:39:54,172 --> 00:39:57,450

Marc Preston: I narrate TV shows and I understand a lot

00:39:57,470 --> 00:39:58,434

Marc Preston: of the production process.

00:39:58,525 --> 00:39:59,946

Marc Preston: I understand the other sizzle reels Trying

00:39:59,966 --> 00:40:02,849

Marc Preston: to get a show off the ground how many ideas

00:40:03,110 --> 00:40:04,908

Marc Preston: do you sit down, I mean throughout?

00:40:04,928 --> 00:40:07,867

Marc Preston: They'll say the span of a year, and I don't

00:40:07,887 --> 00:40:09,672

Marc Preston: want to say the Marcet's saturated with

00:40:09,813 --> 00:40:11,990

Marc Preston: food programming, it's just there is a lot

00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:13,615

Marc Preston: of options and a lot of different flavors

00:40:13,685 --> 00:40:14,730

Marc Preston: no pun intended out there.

00:40:15,265 --> 00:40:16,691

Marc Preston: How do you come up with your ideas on the

00:40:16,711 --> 00:40:17,233

Marc Preston: span of a year?

00:40:17,325 --> 00:40:18,870

Marc Preston: How many ideas are you coming up with for a

00:40:18,910 --> 00:40:19,994

Marc Preston: concept for a show?

00:40:20,685 --> 00:40:22,773

Marc Preston: And how do you know, like, yes, this one's

00:40:22,825 --> 00:40:24,068

Marc Preston: where I'm going to put my heart into this

00:40:24,189 --> 00:40:24,570

Marc Preston: one thing.

00:40:30,311 --> 00:40:33,458

Andrew Zimmern: Well, I'm blessed to own a production

00:40:33,478 --> 00:40:35,510

Andrew Zimmern: company that's a real screen international

00:40:35,610 --> 00:40:36,413

Andrew Zimmern: 100 company.

00:40:37,365 --> 00:40:41,334

Andrew Zimmern: The development team that is overt

00:40:41,394 --> 00:40:45,712

Andrew Zimmern: intuitive, churns ideas on a weekly basis.

00:40:47,725 --> 00:40:50,347

Andrew Zimmern: Some weeks it's three or four, some weeks

00:40:50,427 --> 00:40:50,990

Andrew Zimmern: it's 10.

00:40:51,565 --> 00:40:54,093

Andrew Zimmern: Because a network has asked for a bunch of

00:40:54,153 --> 00:40:56,850

Andrew Zimmern: log lines on a certain type of show by

00:40:56,930 --> 00:41:01,411

Andrew Zimmern: request, and so we will come up.

00:41:02,805 --> 00:41:04,873

Andrew Zimmern: I mean, look, some get discarded the day

00:41:04,945 --> 00:41:07,908

Andrew Zimmern: after you come up with them, but they will

00:41:08,048 --> 00:41:12,175

Andrew Zimmern: develop 200 ideas across the course of a

00:41:12,235 --> 00:41:17,453

Andrew Zimmern: year beyond someone in a meeting saying,

00:41:17,473 --> 00:41:18,336

Andrew Zimmern: hey, what about this?

00:41:18,545 --> 00:41:20,392

Andrew Zimmern: I mean, science is just one step further

00:41:20,432 --> 00:41:25,690

Andrew Zimmern: than that, but it's discussed and we're

00:41:25,790 --> 00:41:28,557

Andrew Zimmern: lucky if five or six of those become shows.

00:41:29,385 --> 00:41:34,305

Andrew Zimmern: No-transcript.

00:41:36,572 --> 00:41:38,356

Marc Preston: Just one last question regarding Anthony

00:41:38,396 --> 00:41:38,817

Marc Preston: Bourdain.

00:41:39,046 --> 00:41:41,615

Marc Preston: I was curious and naturally, of course, it

00:41:41,656 --> 00:41:42,619

Marc Preston: was sad, it was difficult.

00:41:42,639 --> 00:41:45,470

Marc Preston: But how did you find out and how did it

00:41:45,510 --> 00:41:46,313

Marc Preston: initially land?

00:41:46,525 --> 00:41:47,788

Marc Preston: Because I know my daughter called me and

00:41:47,829 --> 00:41:49,974

Marc Preston: told me I was like it was a very odd day,

00:41:50,375 --> 00:41:51,687

Marc Preston: to say the very least.

00:41:51,727 --> 00:41:53,914

Marc Preston: But how did that affect you that day?

00:41:54,525 --> 00:41:58,334

Andrew Zimmern: Oh, it was, I mean, horrific.

00:41:59,785 --> 00:42:01,909

Andrew Zimmern: So the night beforehand we had been

00:42:01,989 --> 00:42:06,097

Andrew Zimmern: shooting until 11 midnight in Philadelphia

00:42:07,847 --> 00:42:10,233

Andrew Zimmern: and you know we have to give the crew a

00:42:10,253 --> 00:42:11,396

Andrew Zimmern: certain number of hours off.

00:42:12,045 --> 00:42:16,514

Andrew Zimmern: So my call time, instead of being 7am, was

00:42:16,894 --> 00:42:20,389

Andrew Zimmern: 11.30 or noon and so I was sleeping in.

00:42:21,885 --> 00:42:23,529

Andrew Zimmern: And you know, my alarm goes off at 10,

00:42:23,630 --> 00:42:24,351

Andrew Zimmern: 10.30.

00:42:27,227 --> 00:42:30,576

Andrew Zimmern: And you know you hit your, you know my

00:42:30,676 --> 00:42:31,097

Andrew Zimmern: iPhone.

00:42:31,158 --> 00:42:33,925

Andrew Zimmern: I hit the off button and up pops my home

00:42:34,066 --> 00:42:40,313

Andrew Zimmern: screen and there are what appear to be

00:42:40,333 --> 00:42:45,046

Andrew Zimmern: hundreds of alerts and messages and I

00:42:45,106 --> 00:42:49,187

Andrew Zimmern: immediately panicked Because the only

00:42:49,248 --> 00:42:50,734

Andrew Zimmern: reason I could think of that there would be

00:42:50,854 --> 00:42:54,086

Andrew Zimmern: that much traffic on my phone would be if

00:42:54,126 --> 00:42:55,510

Andrew Zimmern: something had happened to my child and

00:42:55,550 --> 00:42:56,653

Andrew Zimmern: people were trying to get a hold of me.

00:42:59,007 --> 00:43:02,294

Andrew Zimmern: And I grabbed it and there's like phone

00:43:02,314 --> 00:43:04,185

Andrew Zimmern: message, phone message, phone message, and

00:43:04,386 --> 00:43:05,854

Andrew Zimmern: some of them were friends of mine that were

00:43:05,914 --> 00:43:08,105

Andrew Zimmern: reporters, and I was, but they were food

00:43:08,346 --> 00:43:12,134

Andrew Zimmern: side, and then I saw that, then the see it,

00:43:12,174 --> 00:43:13,801

Andrew Zimmern: then the alerts from the news.

00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:15,169

Marc Preston: And your brain's trying to put together

00:43:15,229 --> 00:43:16,853

Marc Preston: quickly what is going on in this.

00:43:16,874 --> 00:43:17,475

Marc Preston: What's going on?

00:43:18,446 --> 00:43:21,310

Andrew Zimmern: And I saw that you know I think I forget

00:43:21,631 --> 00:43:26,699

Andrew Zimmern: which news group I subscribed to so many

00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,909

Andrew Zimmern: came up, were the first line, because you

00:43:28,929 --> 00:43:31,796

Andrew Zimmern: only see a little snippet said Anthony

00:43:31,836 --> 00:43:33,228

Andrew Zimmern: Bourdain, dead at age.

00:43:34,726 --> 00:43:39,566

Andrew Zimmern: And I, I just I was in shock and so I

00:43:39,726 --> 00:43:42,893

Andrew Zimmern: opened up my phone and I saw that several

00:43:44,075 --> 00:43:45,619

Andrew Zimmern: reporters that I knew had called me.

00:43:45,725 --> 00:43:52,516

Andrew Zimmern: I called one of them back and I said you,

00:43:52,677 --> 00:43:54,059

Andrew Zimmern: you left me a message.

00:43:54,926 --> 00:43:56,952

Andrew Zimmern: I said I just woke up what happened.

00:43:58,165 --> 00:44:01,587

Andrew Zimmern: And they filled me in and I wound up.

00:44:03,091 --> 00:44:05,055

Andrew Zimmern: I then called our producers who were with

00:44:05,135 --> 00:44:05,957

Andrew Zimmern: me in Philadelphia.

00:44:06,285 --> 00:44:07,491

Andrew Zimmern: They had, they knew it.

00:44:07,605 --> 00:44:09,313

Andrew Zimmern: They had found out an hour earlier when

00:44:09,334 --> 00:44:11,364

Andrew Zimmern: they got up and they were like, look, if

00:44:11,404 --> 00:44:13,350

Andrew Zimmern: you want to take the day off, we'll just,

00:44:14,212 --> 00:44:15,576

Andrew Zimmern: we'll just cancel today's shoot.

00:44:15,685 --> 00:44:16,869

Andrew Zimmern: And I'm like, absolutely not.

00:44:20,047 --> 00:44:21,210

Andrew Zimmern: And he had given.

00:44:21,470 --> 00:44:22,994

Andrew Zimmern: I gave him a lot of shit about some of his

00:44:23,054 --> 00:44:25,591

Andrew Zimmern: shoes and he had given me a pair of shoes.

00:44:25,645 --> 00:44:27,912

Marc Preston: I actually had them in my bag and I wore

00:44:27,952 --> 00:44:29,791

Marc Preston: the shoes he gave me Were the shoes in the

00:44:29,811 --> 00:44:31,283

Marc Preston: cowboy boots Because I know he had loved

00:44:31,303 --> 00:44:31,565

Marc Preston: cowboy boots.

00:44:31,565 --> 00:44:32,909

Andrew Zimmern: They weren't, they were desert, they were

00:44:32,949 --> 00:44:37,424

Andrew Zimmern: Clark's desert boots, which he had

00:44:37,464 --> 00:44:38,588

Andrew Zimmern: developed an affection for.

00:44:40,687 --> 00:44:44,494

Andrew Zimmern: And I, I called a lot of people back

00:44:44,614 --> 00:44:48,631

Andrew Zimmern: because we delayed our start and I, you

00:44:48,651 --> 00:44:51,043

Andrew Zimmern: know, I checked in with his, with his

00:44:51,123 --> 00:44:54,813

Andrew Zimmern: family, I mean, I was, I knew his wife, his

00:44:54,874 --> 00:44:58,050

Andrew Zimmern: daughter and then, of course, the you know,

00:44:59,435 --> 00:45:01,742

Andrew Zimmern: at 11 o'clock, 10 o'clock that night, we're

00:45:01,822 --> 00:45:03,308

Andrew Zimmern: shooting at Zahav restaurant in

00:45:03,368 --> 00:45:05,931

Andrew Zimmern: Philadelphia At the end of the day, where I

00:45:05,971 --> 00:45:07,580

Andrew Zimmern: was like half paying attention.

00:45:07,620 --> 00:45:09,168

Andrew Zimmern: Every other second I'm on the phone with a

00:45:09,208 --> 00:45:11,267

Andrew Zimmern: reporter or tech me, and part of the

00:45:11,307 --> 00:45:15,015

Andrew Zimmern: responsibility I felt was so many people

00:45:15,035 --> 00:45:17,348

Andrew Zimmern: are going to give the wrong impression, say

00:45:17,388 --> 00:45:20,536

Andrew Zimmern: the wrong thing, do the wrong thing.

00:45:21,185 --> 00:45:22,610

Marc Preston: But you're in a unique position to give

00:45:22,650 --> 00:45:23,673

Marc Preston: wonderful context.

00:45:24,866 --> 00:45:30,154

Andrew Zimmern: Well, and so so I I felt that it was okay

00:45:30,235 --> 00:45:33,079

Andrew Zimmern: for me to to respond to a lot of these.

00:45:33,660 --> 00:45:36,294

Andrew Zimmern: You know, everyone wanted my take on it.

00:45:36,425 --> 00:45:38,550

Andrew Zimmern: Now, you have to remember he's Tony's

00:45:38,590 --> 00:45:40,835

Andrew Zimmern: traveling with his best friend, eric Repair.

00:45:40,955 --> 00:45:41,938

Andrew Zimmern: Eric's not available.

00:45:42,486 --> 00:45:43,992

Andrew Zimmern: Eric, I mean, it's just, it's just horrific

00:45:45,548 --> 00:45:47,534

Andrew Zimmern: so, and the family's non responsive.

00:45:47,725 --> 00:45:49,028

Andrew Zimmern: So it it it.

00:45:49,469 --> 00:45:53,179

Andrew Zimmern: Then it falls to tier two, friends to sort

00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,147

Andrew Zimmern: of like put the kibosh in the right thing,

00:45:58,525 --> 00:46:00,369

Andrew Zimmern: you know, and do the, you know, make sure

00:46:00,429 --> 00:46:04,838

Andrew Zimmern: that that the right thing is done.

00:46:05,685 --> 00:46:08,375

Andrew Zimmern: And so, and I wound up going on a couple

00:46:08,415 --> 00:46:09,399

Andrew Zimmern: CNN shows.

00:46:09,660 --> 00:46:11,407

Andrew Zimmern: You know, that night they sent a live truck

00:46:11,467 --> 00:46:13,054

Andrew Zimmern: over to the restaurant that we were at and

00:46:13,115 --> 00:46:15,465

Andrew Zimmern: you know, I did a couple of a couple of

00:46:15,505 --> 00:46:19,895

Andrew Zimmern: those shows and it was just, it was a very,

00:46:19,976 --> 00:46:21,098

Andrew Zimmern: very, very sad night.

00:46:21,406 --> 00:46:23,310

Andrew Zimmern: I I can certainly say that not only was he

00:46:23,330 --> 00:46:25,135

Andrew Zimmern: the most charismatic human being I ever met,

00:46:26,125 --> 00:46:27,989

Andrew Zimmern: but I think he's one of the most important

00:46:28,050 --> 00:46:33,108

Andrew Zimmern: voices of of my generation and I think, you

00:46:33,148 --> 00:46:35,352

Andrew Zimmern: know, 50, 100 years from now, they will

00:46:35,392 --> 00:46:40,769

Andrew Zimmern: still be selling his books and talking

00:46:40,809 --> 00:46:42,254

Andrew Zimmern: about him in the same way that we do now.

00:46:43,107 --> 00:46:45,309

Marc Preston: I couldn't agree more and I think that it

00:46:45,409 --> 00:46:47,215

Marc Preston: will have to be, with time, that people can

00:46:47,235 --> 00:46:47,616

Marc Preston: look back.

00:46:47,957 --> 00:46:49,750

Marc Preston: Like I said, there were the same thing with

00:46:49,790 --> 00:46:50,533

Marc Preston: the shows you create.

00:46:50,565 --> 00:46:53,131

Andrew Zimmern: They do create not only insight, but it's

00:46:53,191 --> 00:46:55,356

Andrew Zimmern: also a time capsule and to a degree, I

00:46:55,416 --> 00:46:59,290

Andrew Zimmern: think that so he he wanted to craft art

00:46:59,370 --> 00:47:02,035

Andrew Zimmern: pieces out of a lot of his shows you know,

00:47:02,055 --> 00:47:05,071

Andrew Zimmern: and you know the black and white show and

00:47:05,112 --> 00:47:06,560

Andrew Zimmern: he let me know like all the different

00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,429

Andrew Zimmern: things that he would do to try to be

00:47:09,569 --> 00:47:12,977

Andrew Zimmern: creative was fantastic.

00:47:13,725 --> 00:47:15,371

Marc Preston: Did you think the Roadrunner documentary

00:47:16,777 --> 00:47:18,905

Marc Preston: for the, for the layperson, do you think

00:47:18,925 --> 00:47:20,829

Marc Preston: them watching that that they got it pretty

00:47:20,949 --> 00:47:21,230

Marc Preston: right?

00:47:21,310 --> 00:47:24,377

Marc Preston: As far as articulating the Anthony Borden

00:47:24,417 --> 00:47:26,909

Marc Preston: experience, Did the Roadrunner documentary

00:47:26,929 --> 00:47:27,511

Marc Preston: got that done?

00:47:29,525 --> 00:47:30,833

Andrew Zimmern: To be honest with you, and I've tried a

00:47:30,874 --> 00:47:32,323

Andrew Zimmern: couple of times, I've not been able to get

00:47:32,363 --> 00:47:33,428

Andrew Zimmern: more than halfway through it.

00:47:35,285 --> 00:47:39,635

Andrew Zimmern: I mean the and and and part of that is and

00:47:39,715 --> 00:47:39,935

Andrew Zimmern: I have.

00:47:40,376 --> 00:47:41,786

Andrew Zimmern: I'm not one of those people who has a, who

00:47:41,806 --> 00:47:43,048

Andrew Zimmern: has a problem with them.

00:47:44,731 --> 00:47:49,679

Andrew Zimmern: You know, using AI to have him narrate,

00:47:49,739 --> 00:47:51,670

Andrew Zimmern: hear his voice, narrating things he wrote.

00:47:52,926 --> 00:47:55,693

Andrew Zimmern: I, you know, I, you know I don't have

00:47:55,753 --> 00:47:57,878

Andrew Zimmern: quibbles with that kind of thing.

00:47:58,025 --> 00:48:03,791

Andrew Zimmern: I, I just, you know I knew him, I, I, he

00:48:03,811 --> 00:48:08,413

Andrew Zimmern: was my friend, I and so other people have

00:48:08,453 --> 00:48:09,656

Andrew Zimmern: to decide for themselves.

00:48:10,265 --> 00:48:14,854

Andrew Zimmern: My understanding is from a lot of people.

00:48:14,914 --> 00:48:16,336

Andrew Zimmern: For the most part, they did get it right

00:48:17,885 --> 00:48:21,053

Andrew Zimmern: and certainly gave enough of a taste of it.

00:48:23,126 --> 00:48:25,871

Andrew Zimmern: I you know, but I've not been able to to

00:48:26,512 --> 00:48:29,578

Andrew Zimmern: make it through it and I've tried several

00:48:29,598 --> 00:48:29,779

Andrew Zimmern: times.

00:48:29,945 --> 00:48:33,645

Andrew Zimmern: I just I run out of of emotional energy for

00:48:33,665 --> 00:48:33,725

Andrew Zimmern: it.

00:48:33,765 --> 00:48:35,451

Andrew Zimmern: It's not that I get upset and have to turn

00:48:35,512 --> 00:48:35,753

Andrew Zimmern: it off.

00:48:36,286 --> 00:48:39,305

Andrew Zimmern: I, I just I have no desire to watch and I

00:48:39,326 --> 00:48:42,317

Andrew Zimmern: know it's only one of a handful of people

00:48:42,337 --> 00:48:44,485

Andrew Zimmern: that may be able to, to say that, just like,

00:48:44,565 --> 00:48:47,366

Andrew Zimmern: I've no interest in in seeing it and it's

00:48:47,526 --> 00:48:48,571

Andrew Zimmern: not a knock against them.

00:48:49,045 --> 00:48:51,213

Marc Preston: There's only one episode of parts unknown I

00:48:51,253 --> 00:48:51,594

Marc Preston: haven't seen.

00:48:51,745 --> 00:48:52,865

Marc Preston: It's the New Orleans episode.

00:48:53,186 --> 00:48:55,373

Marc Preston: I guess I, you know I'm Texas boy but I

00:48:55,393 --> 00:48:56,015

Marc Preston: live in New Orleans.

00:48:56,095 --> 00:48:58,233

Marc Preston: Now I've been here for quite some time and

00:48:58,374 --> 00:49:00,705

Marc Preston: and I remember one of his episodes he went

00:49:00,725 --> 00:49:02,531

Marc Preston: to a restaurant that was the best muff lot

00:49:02,551 --> 00:49:03,114

Marc Preston: in New Orleans.

00:49:03,265 --> 00:49:05,573

Marc Preston: You know he, he was like you do the same

00:49:05,613 --> 00:49:05,754

Marc Preston: thing.

00:49:06,005 --> 00:49:07,771

Marc Preston: You're not doing the travel guide way of

00:49:07,831 --> 00:49:09,527

Marc Preston: doing things, you know, and I remember

00:49:09,547 --> 00:49:11,112

Marc Preston: thinking that's I just can't bring myself

00:49:11,132 --> 00:49:13,609

Marc Preston: to watch that episode, just the most.

00:49:13,649 --> 00:49:15,433

Marc Preston: The most recent episode on the the no

00:49:15,473 --> 00:49:16,215

Marc Preston: reservation show.

00:49:16,255 --> 00:49:17,277

Marc Preston: I watched the New Orleans.

00:49:17,866 --> 00:49:19,392

Marc Preston: He always got it right, and you do as well,

00:49:19,785 --> 00:49:23,097

Marc Preston: and when we were, you know, when I travel

00:49:23,138 --> 00:49:25,325

Marc Preston: somewhere I inevitably I'm going to look up

00:49:25,345 --> 00:49:26,409

Marc Preston: what did Andrew go there?

00:49:26,529 --> 00:49:27,572

Marc Preston: Let me go watch that episode.

00:49:27,592 --> 00:49:30,133

Marc Preston: Thank God for streaming and I've got

00:49:30,154 --> 00:49:31,079

Marc Preston: Discovery, which I'm a big fan of.

00:49:31,099 --> 00:49:32,989

Marc Preston: The Discovery Plus app I made five bucks a

00:49:33,029 --> 00:49:35,099

Marc Preston: month is not trying to sell them, but it's

00:49:35,220 --> 00:49:37,289

Marc Preston: it's, of all the streamers out there really

00:49:37,309 --> 00:49:39,075

Marc Preston: has got a lot of content.

00:49:39,205 --> 00:49:41,816

Andrew Zimmern: Well, massive, massive library, and now

00:49:41,836 --> 00:49:43,744

Andrew Zimmern: that they've added you know, now the Warner

00:49:43,764 --> 00:49:46,487

Andrew Zimmern: Brothers side is on there the movies and I,

00:49:46,808 --> 00:49:50,045

Andrew Zimmern: I I'm not going to disagree with you, of

00:49:50,125 --> 00:49:52,791

Andrew Zimmern: course, as someone who made four or five

00:49:52,851 --> 00:49:56,258

Andrew Zimmern: shows in New Orleans, I'm dying to know

00:49:56,298 --> 00:49:57,348

Andrew Zimmern: you're you're going to have to watch some

00:49:57,388 --> 00:49:58,953

Andrew Zimmern: of mine and tell me if I got any of it

00:49:59,013 --> 00:50:00,106

Andrew Zimmern: right, but I will.

00:50:00,286 --> 00:50:02,252

Andrew Zimmern: I will say this there is a restaurant that

00:50:03,736 --> 00:50:07,045

Andrew Zimmern: I subs, after being taken there and getting

00:50:07,165 --> 00:50:09,651

Andrew Zimmern: turned on to it by a chef friend, have

00:50:09,771 --> 00:50:12,557

Andrew Zimmern: visited on every time that I've gone back

00:50:12,617 --> 00:50:16,552

Andrew Zimmern: there and that's R and O's out on the levy

00:50:16,612 --> 00:50:17,213

Andrew Zimmern: and mettery.

00:50:17,513 --> 00:50:17,734

Marc Preston: What?

00:50:18,034 --> 00:50:18,776

Marc Preston: Okay, see now.

00:50:18,876 --> 00:50:19,537

Marc Preston: Now you're a local.

00:50:20,705 --> 00:50:22,065

Marc Preston: If you know R and O's, it's not sexy, it's.

00:50:22,085 --> 00:50:24,711

Marc Preston: You know it's not, you know it it.

00:50:24,811 --> 00:50:29,188

Andrew Zimmern: but it is a local's place, it's incredible

00:50:29,369 --> 00:50:32,399

Andrew Zimmern: that I actually, in an episode that I shot

00:50:32,459 --> 00:50:34,386

Andrew Zimmern: there, I got up and stood in the middle of

00:50:34,426 --> 00:50:35,591

Andrew Zimmern: the dining room at lunch.

00:50:35,965 --> 00:50:37,686

Andrew Zimmern: There's 200 people in there, it's mobbed,

00:50:38,368 --> 00:50:40,513

Andrew Zimmern: lined of people out the door and I stood up

00:50:40,613 --> 00:50:44,129

Andrew Zimmern: all local, by the way and I and I stood up

00:50:44,209 --> 00:50:45,573

Andrew Zimmern: and I quieted everyone down.

00:50:45,693 --> 00:50:48,227

Andrew Zimmern: Cameras are rolling and I said is there

00:50:48,428 --> 00:50:52,274

Andrew Zimmern: anyone here who's not a local and a regular?

00:50:52,835 --> 00:50:55,847

Andrew Zimmern: And not a single hand went up and I just

00:50:55,868 --> 00:50:57,845

Andrew Zimmern: like raised my hand and everyone laughed.

00:50:57,986 --> 00:51:00,086

Andrew Zimmern: It was a great moment in the show but just

00:51:00,126 --> 00:51:02,091

Andrew Zimmern: to, there was no other way to illustrate to

00:51:02,131 --> 00:51:04,097

Andrew Zimmern: my audience how much of kind of like an

00:51:04,305 --> 00:51:09,278

Andrew Zimmern: insider's place it was and it's great.

00:51:09,465 --> 00:51:12,533

Andrew Zimmern: I mean fried seafood and gumbo and a beef,

00:51:12,914 --> 00:51:13,596

Andrew Zimmern: an unha.

00:51:14,305 --> 00:51:16,475

Andrew Zimmern: It's never on anyone's list of best po-boys,

00:51:16,957 --> 00:51:18,704

Andrew Zimmern: but they have a fried oyster po-boy, a

00:51:18,724 --> 00:51:22,095

Andrew Zimmern: fried shrimp po-boy, but their beef po-boy

00:51:22,175 --> 00:51:24,784

Andrew Zimmern: is what all my chef friends go there for

00:51:24,864 --> 00:51:28,248

Andrew Zimmern: because of their gravy, and I have one

00:51:28,328 --> 00:51:30,935

Andrew Zimmern: friend who does an oyster and it's a surf

00:51:30,976 --> 00:51:33,279

Andrew Zimmern: and turf, he does fried oysters and beef

00:51:33,359 --> 00:51:38,355

Andrew Zimmern: with beef gravy and I'm just it's mind

00:51:38,395 --> 00:51:39,378

Andrew Zimmern: bogglingly good.

00:51:39,606 --> 00:51:41,692

Andrew Zimmern: I just, I love everything about R&O.

00:51:41,732 --> 00:51:42,765

Marc Preston: Yeah, that is.

00:51:43,187 --> 00:51:45,314

Marc Preston: It's every ages in there too.

00:51:45,445 --> 00:51:46,871

Marc Preston: You know it's, you can tell it's a local

00:51:46,891 --> 00:51:47,012

Marc Preston: sport.

00:51:47,125 --> 00:51:48,791

Marc Preston: There's a place next to it called Deenies.

00:51:50,687 --> 00:51:52,293

Marc Preston: I think you may have gone to Deenies.

00:51:52,766 --> 00:51:54,873

Marc Preston: I seem to remember I did not.

00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:57,171

Andrew Zimmern: But if there's a place next, this is what's

00:51:57,191 --> 00:51:57,993

Andrew Zimmern: so great about life.

00:51:58,985 --> 00:52:00,009

Andrew Zimmern: Someone says to you oh, have you been to

00:52:00,029 --> 00:52:00,873

Andrew Zimmern: the place next door?

00:52:01,005 --> 00:52:02,571

Andrew Zimmern: It's like, well, no, I haven't because I

00:52:02,611 --> 00:52:03,233

Andrew Zimmern: don't live there.

00:52:03,525 --> 00:52:04,931

Andrew Zimmern: So whenever I go, I go to R&Os.

00:52:05,285 --> 00:52:06,952

Andrew Zimmern: I'm not going there to go to the place next

00:52:06,972 --> 00:52:07,112

Andrew Zimmern: door.

00:52:07,285 --> 00:52:09,413

Andrew Zimmern: And now I'm like check out the place next

00:52:09,433 --> 00:52:09,554

Andrew Zimmern: door.

00:52:09,605 --> 00:52:12,232

Marc Preston: I will tell you that very few things turn

00:52:12,252 --> 00:52:12,332

Marc Preston: me.

00:52:12,352 --> 00:52:13,415

Marc Preston: I mean living in New Orleans.

00:52:13,476 --> 00:52:15,188

Marc Preston: I will say this, being a Dallas boy, having

00:52:15,249 --> 00:52:17,034

Marc Preston: lived and worked in Los Angeles as well,

00:52:17,885 --> 00:52:19,435

Marc Preston: having been here about on and off about 20

00:52:19,475 --> 00:52:20,844

Marc Preston: years, I can tell you that two things.

00:52:20,865 --> 00:52:22,829

Marc Preston: I'm tired of seeing them open up or po-boy

00:52:22,870 --> 00:52:24,574

Marc Preston: places and daiquiri shops, because they're

00:52:24,654 --> 00:52:26,566

Marc Preston: everywhere, everybody does it, and once you

00:52:26,586 --> 00:52:28,189

Marc Preston: have a place that starts doing something

00:52:28,249 --> 00:52:30,896

Marc Preston: really well, it's, I imagine, philadelphia

00:52:30,956 --> 00:52:33,108

Marc Preston: cheese steaks A lot everybody starts doing

00:52:33,129 --> 00:52:35,355

Marc Preston: them, but they're the kind of elite few.

00:52:36,225 --> 00:52:37,408

Marc Preston: And there's this place, dinis, they do

00:52:37,469 --> 00:52:37,769

Marc Preston: something.

00:52:37,809 --> 00:52:40,525

Marc Preston: They do a barbecue shrimp po-boy and it's

00:52:40,686 --> 00:52:43,325

Marc Preston: not barbecue like barbecue sauce, it's a

00:52:43,346 --> 00:52:45,152

Marc Preston: buttload of butter, and oh yeah.

00:52:46,125 --> 00:52:48,248

Marc Preston: And you go there, and you go just take a

00:52:48,352 --> 00:52:50,486

Marc Preston: bottle of Lipitor, go to town on it,

00:52:50,590 --> 00:52:52,249

Marc Preston: because if you don't, you're missing out.

00:52:52,389 --> 00:52:55,432

Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, and I love, I love New Orleans style

00:52:55,773 --> 00:52:58,041

Andrew Zimmern: barbecue shrimp and a cast iron pan with

00:52:58,062 --> 00:52:59,755

Andrew Zimmern: lots of rosemary and butter.

00:52:59,917 --> 00:53:01,187

Andrew Zimmern: And you know, you know that's one of the

00:53:01,207 --> 00:53:02,511

Andrew Zimmern: things I wanted to ask you about is that

00:53:02,551 --> 00:53:03,233

Andrew Zimmern: you've been to New Orleans.

00:53:03,925 --> 00:53:05,189

Marc Preston: They cannot replicate what's in New Orleans

00:53:05,389 --> 00:53:06,894

Marc Preston: anywhere else on earth the way it is in New

00:53:06,934 --> 00:53:07,174

Marc Preston: Orleans.

00:53:07,805 --> 00:53:08,848

Marc Preston: But the thing is, if you want something

00:53:08,868 --> 00:53:10,433

Marc Preston: besides the unique fine dining the

00:53:10,533 --> 00:53:13,869

Marc Preston: Antoine's, galatois, things like that it's

00:53:13,929 --> 00:53:17,175

Marc Preston: a little bit more of a challenge to find

00:53:17,215 --> 00:53:20,147

Marc Preston: those ethnic kind of places that are not

00:53:20,428 --> 00:53:21,792

Marc Preston: and I don't know the phrase for it.

00:53:21,832 --> 00:53:23,035

Marc Preston: Maybe you can help me out, but I can't.

00:53:23,365 --> 00:53:26,697

Marc Preston: It's almost like gentrified food where,

00:53:26,737 --> 00:53:28,163

Marc Preston: yeah, oh, they have I'm not saying this

00:53:28,383 --> 00:53:30,010

Marc Preston: necessarily the case, but let's say African.

00:53:30,605 --> 00:53:31,794

Marc Preston: Well, it's going to be a little bit out of

00:53:31,814 --> 00:53:33,124

Marc Preston: the reach for the average person because

00:53:33,144 --> 00:53:34,007

Marc Preston: it's going to be a little bit more on the

00:53:34,068 --> 00:53:34,670

Marc Preston: fancy side.

00:53:34,690 --> 00:53:36,355

Marc Preston: Where you go to New York you want great

00:53:36,425 --> 00:53:38,110

Marc Preston: Indian to ask your cab driver, you're going

00:53:38,130 --> 00:53:39,835

Marc Preston: to go spend five bucks and have a full meal,

00:53:40,205 --> 00:53:40,426

Marc Preston: you know.

00:53:42,125 --> 00:53:43,391

Marc Preston: But that's the one thing about New Orleans.

00:53:43,465 --> 00:53:46,033

Marc Preston: I wish we had more stuff from elsewhere,

00:53:46,254 --> 00:53:46,555

Marc Preston: you know.

00:53:46,805 --> 00:53:49,491

Andrew Zimmern: Well, but people, new Orleans is the.

00:53:50,132 --> 00:53:52,377

Andrew Zimmern: There's only a couple cities in the world

00:53:52,617 --> 00:53:54,029

Andrew Zimmern: that I believe fit this bill.

00:53:54,685 --> 00:53:56,732

Andrew Zimmern: When you shut your eyes and you say the

00:53:56,752 --> 00:54:00,564

Andrew Zimmern: word New Orleans twice out loud, you can

00:54:00,644 --> 00:54:03,010

Andrew Zimmern: smell it and taste it, and you cannot say

00:54:03,050 --> 00:54:04,072

Andrew Zimmern: that about other cities.

00:54:04,553 --> 00:54:09,292

Andrew Zimmern: And the reason is is because the food is

00:54:09,553 --> 00:54:10,074

Andrew Zimmern: its own.

00:54:10,806 --> 00:54:13,771

Andrew Zimmern: I don't, you know, nobody goes to.

00:54:14,393 --> 00:54:17,158

Andrew Zimmern: I've had friends go to Beijing and ask me

00:54:17,278 --> 00:54:19,830

Andrew Zimmern: for a great place for a hamburger, because

00:54:19,851 --> 00:54:21,255

Andrew Zimmern: they don't want to eat Chinese food all the

00:54:21,275 --> 00:54:22,226

Andrew Zimmern: time, and I said why?

00:54:22,266 --> 00:54:23,709

Andrew Zimmern: The first of all?

00:54:23,730 --> 00:54:25,193

Andrew Zimmern: I think it's a ridiculous question,

00:54:25,334 --> 00:54:29,946

Andrew Zimmern: ridiculous supposition, and I personally am

00:54:30,146 --> 00:54:31,872

Andrew Zimmern: so offended when anyone I know asked me

00:54:31,892 --> 00:54:32,313

Andrew Zimmern: that question.

00:54:33,086 --> 00:54:34,650

Andrew Zimmern: But no one goes down to New Orleans and

00:54:34,710 --> 00:54:36,555

Andrew Zimmern: says, geez, do you know a good Japanese

00:54:36,615 --> 00:54:39,469

Andrew Zimmern: place for you know now, I'm sure, locals

00:54:39,549 --> 00:54:42,575

Andrew Zimmern: down there like you just expressed wished

00:54:42,636 --> 00:54:43,377

Andrew Zimmern: you had God.

00:54:44,385 --> 00:54:45,850

Andrew Zimmern: Sometimes I just feel like a great

00:54:45,890 --> 00:54:46,893

Andrew Zimmern: schnitzel, you know.

00:54:47,747 --> 00:54:49,414

Marc Preston: But God, that is almost like weird.

00:54:49,454 --> 00:54:51,082

Marc Preston: You say that I literally was watching

00:54:51,202 --> 00:54:53,389

Marc Preston: something a couple days ago of you you had.

00:54:53,550 --> 00:54:55,094

Marc Preston: It was some kind of a German thing where

00:54:55,114 --> 00:54:58,363

Marc Preston: they had oh God it was, I don't mean to

00:54:58,383 --> 00:54:59,569

Marc Preston: interrupt the schnitzel sandwich at the

00:54:59,609 --> 00:55:00,112

Marc Preston: State Fair.

00:55:00,787 --> 00:55:02,353

Andrew Zimmern: No, it was on my Instagram.

00:55:02,545 --> 00:55:08,018

Marc Preston: No, it was bits and pieces of shit.

00:55:08,385 --> 00:55:10,230

Marc Preston: Okay, I can't remember, but it was.

00:55:10,331 --> 00:55:11,273

Marc Preston: I was thinking schnitzel and.

00:55:11,293 --> 00:55:12,456

Marc Preston: Spatula and things like that.

00:55:12,485 --> 00:55:13,791

Marc Preston: I'm like, oh, those are kind of things.

00:55:13,925 --> 00:55:18,154

Andrew Zimmern: My point is my point is that you know New

00:55:18,214 --> 00:55:20,378

Andrew Zimmern: Orleans, like Portland Maine, where my dad

00:55:20,745 --> 00:55:22,150

Andrew Zimmern: retires, one of those cities that has a

00:55:22,211 --> 00:55:26,105

Andrew Zimmern: very small population yet has I mean, what

00:55:26,125 --> 00:55:26,867

Andrew Zimmern: does New Orleans get?

00:55:26,987 --> 00:55:28,491

Andrew Zimmern: 24 million?

00:55:28,531 --> 00:55:29,373

Marc Preston: visitors a year.

00:55:30,725 --> 00:55:31,710

Andrew Zimmern: It's an ungodly thing.

00:55:32,005 --> 00:55:35,793

Andrew Zimmern: And so, relative to the residential

00:55:35,853 --> 00:55:38,097

Andrew Zimmern: population, new Orleans has the most number

00:55:38,117 --> 00:55:38,699

Andrew Zimmern: of restaurants.

00:55:38,845 --> 00:55:42,011

Andrew Zimmern: This is, pre-covid, the most number of

00:55:42,051 --> 00:55:44,296

Andrew Zimmern: restaurants in any city in America per

00:55:44,356 --> 00:55:47,330

Andrew Zimmern: capita, because, just like Portland Maine,

00:55:47,510 --> 00:55:49,117

Andrew Zimmern: it fills up with people.

00:55:49,157 --> 00:55:51,345

Andrew Zimmern: Except New Orleans fills up 10 months a

00:55:51,385 --> 00:55:53,471

Andrew Zimmern: year, portland Maine only three months,

00:55:53,531 --> 00:55:56,367

Andrew Zimmern: four months a year, and so, consequently,

00:55:56,628 --> 00:56:01,147

Andrew Zimmern: everybody wants to eat there, and you also

00:56:01,167 --> 00:56:03,272

Andrew Zimmern: have to remember that even you know America

00:56:03,312 --> 00:56:06,986

Andrew Zimmern: is some of the most beloved food in America,

00:56:07,026 --> 00:56:08,248

Andrew Zimmern: which is Italian food.

00:56:08,989 --> 00:56:13,958

Andrew Zimmern: I mean globally a favorite has developed

00:56:13,998 --> 00:56:16,391

Andrew Zimmern: its own hybridized style.

00:56:16,565 --> 00:56:20,772

Andrew Zimmern: There is a unique aspect to the New Orleans

00:56:20,832 --> 00:56:22,495

Andrew Zimmern: Italian restaurants that can be certain

00:56:22,575 --> 00:56:22,715

Andrew Zimmern: style.

00:56:26,006 --> 00:56:29,313

Andrew Zimmern: And there's a lot of the Creole tinge,

00:56:29,333 --> 00:56:33,662

Andrew Zimmern: which is different than Cajun, has sort of

00:56:33,742 --> 00:56:36,849

Andrew Zimmern: flown in there, and you know it's.

00:56:39,193 --> 00:56:41,056

Andrew Zimmern: You take someone who says, oh, are we going

00:56:41,076 --> 00:56:42,098

Andrew Zimmern: to eat Italian food tonight?

00:56:42,138 --> 00:56:46,735

Andrew Zimmern: Sure, and you take them to Chujox and it's.

00:56:46,956 --> 00:56:48,541

Andrew Zimmern: You watch their eyes roll back in their

00:56:48,581 --> 00:56:50,251

Andrew Zimmern: head and they're like this isn't Italian.

00:56:50,565 --> 00:56:53,132

Andrew Zimmern: And you're like, well, right, but it's New

00:56:53,212 --> 00:56:54,786

Andrew Zimmern: Orleans, right, I mean.

00:56:54,806 --> 00:56:56,136

Andrew Zimmern: So there's so many places like that.

00:56:57,288 --> 00:56:58,633

Andrew Zimmern: I'm a big fan of that town.

00:56:58,885 --> 00:57:00,175

Marc Preston: People understand Jefferson Parish.

00:57:01,226 --> 00:57:04,193

Marc Preston: Yeah, jefferson Parish is very.

00:57:05,635 --> 00:57:07,179

Marc Preston: They even have the Irish Italian parade

00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:07,319

Marc Preston: here.

00:57:07,345 --> 00:57:09,697

Marc Preston: I mean Italian, a lot of influences.

00:57:09,737 --> 00:57:11,164

Marc Preston: But I will tell you the next time you're in

00:57:11,184 --> 00:57:11,325

Marc Preston: there is.

00:57:11,345 --> 00:57:12,549

Marc Preston: We're kind of wrapping up here, but I do

00:57:12,589 --> 00:57:13,673

Marc Preston: have to tell you next time you're in New

00:57:13,733 --> 00:57:14,987

Marc Preston: Orleans I wouldn't be a.

00:57:15,689 --> 00:57:17,674

Marc Preston: Well, I think I've been through Katrina and

00:57:17,775 --> 00:57:18,456

Marc Preston: all the hurricanes.

00:57:18,565 --> 00:57:19,969

Marc Preston: I feel like I've earned my stripes here.

00:57:20,009 --> 00:57:23,828

Marc Preston: You know, sure, anthony Bourdain went there

00:57:24,249 --> 00:57:25,351

Marc Preston: and I knew he got.

00:57:25,933 --> 00:57:27,436

Marc Preston: He did what the smart people do in New

00:57:27,476 --> 00:57:29,327

Marc Preston: Orleans and get a cab driver.

00:57:29,367 --> 00:57:30,810

Marc Preston: It's kind of old, maybe a little crusty.

00:57:30,931 --> 00:57:32,715

Marc Preston: Ask them where they eat, because it's

00:57:32,755 --> 00:57:33,156

Marc Preston: always great.

00:57:33,176 --> 00:57:35,150

Marc Preston: Sure, I mean, there's a lot of sandwich

00:57:35,210 --> 00:57:36,177

Marc Preston: place called Norgeo.

00:57:36,197 --> 00:57:37,204

Marc Preston: It's an old metteried.

00:57:37,606 --> 00:57:39,169

Marc Preston: Everybody goes to the French Quarter to get

00:57:39,209 --> 00:57:39,249

Marc Preston: it.

00:57:39,891 --> 00:57:43,318

Marc Preston: But this is just, it is unique.

00:57:44,148 --> 00:57:46,562

Marc Preston: It's got that olive dress, all of salad,

00:57:46,582 --> 00:57:48,614

Marc Preston: the kind of thing it's just I'm thinking

00:57:48,634 --> 00:57:48,754

Marc Preston: about.

00:57:48,815 --> 00:57:50,021

Marc Preston: I mean, you tell I haven't had anything to

00:57:50,062 --> 00:57:50,645

Marc Preston: eat today so far.

00:57:50,867 --> 00:57:51,877

Marc Preston: So, because I'm now I'm thinking about

00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,974

Marc Preston: eating one of those, but it is truly the

00:57:55,335 --> 00:57:57,384

Marc Preston: one of the best sandwiches I've ever had,

00:57:57,584 --> 00:57:57,745

Marc Preston: you know.

00:57:57,926 --> 00:58:00,177

Marc Preston: So my, actually, in the way they New

00:58:00,217 --> 00:58:01,986

Marc Preston: Orleans makes it unique is the street I

00:58:02,006 --> 00:58:02,910

Marc Preston: used to live on an old man.

00:58:02,950 --> 00:58:04,597

Marc Preston: It was like the three doors down from it

00:58:05,220 --> 00:58:07,187

Marc Preston: and literally down the street is Is

00:58:07,247 --> 00:58:09,293

Marc Preston: somebody converted their garage into an

00:58:09,413 --> 00:58:10,557

Marc Preston: actual functioning bar.

00:58:11,226 --> 00:58:12,370

Marc Preston: So that's one of the things you find in New

00:58:12,470 --> 00:58:12,811

Marc Preston: Orleans.

00:58:12,831 --> 00:58:15,287

Marc Preston: You know you're gonna have somebody In

00:58:15,308 --> 00:58:17,075

Marc Preston: there and their garage is converted.

00:58:17,216 --> 00:58:18,481

Marc Preston: Now people come and drink there.

00:58:18,521 --> 00:58:21,430

Marc Preston: It's just bizarre, yeah, but um, it was a

00:58:21,470 --> 00:58:22,853

Marc Preston: wrap up, one of the things I love to do as

00:58:22,893 --> 00:58:24,737

Marc Preston: my my my quick seven questions.

00:58:24,837 --> 00:58:28,012

Marc Preston: As to the first one, I'm talking probably

00:58:28,032 --> 00:58:29,816

Marc Preston: number one person on planet Earth right now

00:58:29,836 --> 00:58:31,734

Marc Preston: when I ask this question what is your

00:58:31,795 --> 00:58:32,825

Marc Preston: favorite comfort food?

00:58:33,467 --> 00:58:35,934

Andrew Zimmern: It's my grandmother's roast chicken that I

00:58:36,014 --> 00:58:36,295

Andrew Zimmern: make.

00:58:36,816 --> 00:58:39,383

Andrew Zimmern: Now that my father made it, then I make it,

00:58:39,664 --> 00:58:43,134

Andrew Zimmern: and I Still eat it twice a week really a

00:58:43,194 --> 00:58:46,529

Andrew Zimmern: whole chicken mm-hmm, with pan gravy and

00:58:47,151 --> 00:58:49,076

Andrew Zimmern: it's I mean, it's chicken, little two and a

00:58:49,116 --> 00:58:52,132

Andrew Zimmern: half pounder, you know, but it feeds two or

00:58:52,172 --> 00:58:52,754

Andrew Zimmern: three people.

00:58:52,815 --> 00:58:54,482

Andrew Zimmern: But I have to make my grandmother's onion

00:58:54,522 --> 00:58:55,185

Andrew Zimmern: pan gravy.

00:58:55,807 --> 00:58:58,136

Andrew Zimmern: It has to be done her way, seasoned, her

00:58:58,197 --> 00:58:58,478

Andrew Zimmern: way.

00:58:58,558 --> 00:59:00,104

Andrew Zimmern: Now have I refined it a little bit?

00:59:00,204 --> 00:59:05,171

Andrew Zimmern: Sure, but I haven't chef-y did up, as some

00:59:05,211 --> 00:59:07,140

Andrew Zimmern: people like to say, it's still her chicken.

00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:08,526

Marc Preston: Where are your people from, though I've

00:59:08,546 --> 00:59:10,474

Marc Preston: always been curious about that Germany,

00:59:10,534 --> 00:59:11,117

Marc Preston: germany, okay.

00:59:11,157 --> 00:59:13,145

Andrew Zimmern: Well, they came over here in the 1840s, so

00:59:14,126 --> 00:59:16,132

Andrew Zimmern: you know it's it long time ago.

00:59:16,312 --> 00:59:19,008

Marc Preston: Okay, cuz my word, the Ukrainians, actually

00:59:19,028 --> 00:59:20,799

Marc Preston: everybody, they say, you know, jews from

00:59:20,980 --> 00:59:21,201

Marc Preston: Europe.

00:59:21,221 --> 00:59:21,905

Marc Preston: They all came through New York.

00:59:21,985 --> 00:59:23,690

Marc Preston: No, there's a big contingent.

00:59:23,750 --> 00:59:25,615

Andrew Zimmern: Came through New Orleans or a mobile

00:59:25,675 --> 00:59:28,061

Andrew Zimmern: Alabama, or you know mine came through

00:59:28,102 --> 00:59:30,647

Andrew Zimmern: Charleston, south Carolina, and that's why

00:59:30,688 --> 00:59:32,771

Andrew Zimmern: they wound up in Atlanta and then, after

00:59:32,852 --> 00:59:34,475

Andrew Zimmern: the Civil War, walked to New York.

00:59:35,016 --> 00:59:35,497

Marc Preston: Yeah, we were.

00:59:35,817 --> 00:59:36,939

Marc Preston: We came through Galveston.

00:59:37,005 --> 00:59:37,828

Marc Preston: So yeah, that's it's.

00:59:38,630 --> 00:59:40,256

Marc Preston: It's an interesting documentary called

00:59:40,965 --> 00:59:41,847

Marc Preston: Shalom y'all.

00:59:41,968 --> 00:59:43,231

Marc Preston: The Odyssey is sometimes kind of funny

00:59:43,251 --> 00:59:43,772

Marc Preston: about all these.

00:59:43,993 --> 00:59:45,296

Marc Preston: Oh yeah, no, love it.

00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:47,109

Marc Preston: Second question I got, you got a table,

00:59:47,209 --> 00:59:50,048

Marc Preston: four seats, you, three other people you

00:59:50,068 --> 00:59:51,375

Marc Preston: want to talk story for a few hours.

00:59:51,455 --> 00:59:53,325

Marc Preston: Who are those three people, living or not?

00:59:53,666 --> 00:59:55,172

Marc Preston: Who would you love to kind of get together

00:59:55,855 --> 00:59:57,822

Marc Preston: and just talk about life with for a while?

00:59:58,484 --> 01:00:00,492

Andrew Zimmern: Wow, well, I'm just gonna.

01:00:00,693 --> 01:00:02,278

Andrew Zimmern: I have to give myself boundaries, otherwise

01:00:02,339 --> 01:00:03,463

Andrew Zimmern: it's an endless.

01:00:03,884 --> 01:00:05,670

Andrew Zimmern: You know I'm one of those people who has

01:00:05,730 --> 01:00:07,475

Andrew Zimmern: collected detail for so long.

01:00:07,535 --> 01:00:07,996

Andrew Zimmern: I can't.

01:00:09,167 --> 01:00:12,347

Andrew Zimmern: It would be staggering, because I do have a

01:00:12,407 --> 01:00:14,552

Andrew Zimmern: historical set, but I'll just go with a

01:00:14,592 --> 01:00:15,434

Andrew Zimmern: contemporary set.

01:00:16,015 --> 01:00:19,609

Andrew Zimmern: I'd like to have dinner with David Simon,

01:00:21,327 --> 01:00:26,577

Andrew Zimmern: who created the wire, amongst other, in in

01:00:27,005 --> 01:00:31,367

Andrew Zimmern: Incredible, incredible shows, james

01:00:31,428 --> 01:00:44,115

Andrew Zimmern: Carville and David Simon, james Carville

01:00:45,259 --> 01:00:49,892

Andrew Zimmern: and I'll go with.

01:00:53,792 --> 01:00:55,936

Andrew Zimmern: I'll go with Tony Blair really okay.

01:00:56,236 --> 01:00:57,318

Andrew Zimmern: Well, here's why.

01:00:57,659 --> 01:01:02,510

Andrew Zimmern: Here's why Simon from Baltimore and and

01:01:02,530 --> 01:01:05,155

Andrew Zimmern: brilliant, by the way is his finest social,

01:01:05,255 --> 01:01:07,239

Andrew Zimmern: my favorite social commentator perhaps,

01:01:07,299 --> 01:01:07,840

Andrew Zimmern: with his work.

01:01:08,726 --> 01:01:09,107

Marc Preston: We did it.

01:01:09,147 --> 01:01:11,192

Andrew Zimmern: He did from a, also, I think, on HBO,

01:01:11,212 --> 01:01:17,788

Andrew Zimmern: didn't oh yeah, phenomenal, yeah, and you

01:01:17,828 --> 01:01:21,776

Andrew Zimmern: know James Carville because I adore him and

01:01:22,036 --> 01:01:23,659

Andrew Zimmern: I just would like to be able to break bread

01:01:24,766 --> 01:01:25,167

Andrew Zimmern: With him.

01:01:25,567 --> 01:01:28,513

Andrew Zimmern: But I need someone for all of us to ask

01:01:28,593 --> 01:01:31,218

Andrew Zimmern: questions of who would fill in blank spots

01:01:31,458 --> 01:01:36,627

Andrew Zimmern: and from an international, a non American

01:01:36,708 --> 01:01:37,390

Andrew Zimmern: perspective.

01:01:37,832 --> 01:01:43,149

Andrew Zimmern: And I'm lucky enough to work Sometimes with

01:01:43,189 --> 01:01:45,274

Andrew Zimmern: David Miliband, because I do work with the

01:01:45,294 --> 01:01:46,937

Andrew Zimmern: International Rescue Committee and he was

01:01:46,997 --> 01:01:49,451

Andrew Zimmern: Blair's secretary you know, foreign

01:01:49,491 --> 01:01:53,191

Andrew Zimmern: secretary and you know I get chance to talk

01:01:53,211 --> 01:01:55,562

Andrew Zimmern: to him sometimes and Tony Blair is just a

01:01:55,663 --> 01:01:57,148

Andrew Zimmern: fascinating guy but he knows where all the

01:01:57,188 --> 01:01:57,891

Andrew Zimmern: bodies are buried.

01:01:57,911 --> 01:02:00,809

Andrew Zimmern: I want to talk to him about Then and now

01:02:00,889 --> 01:02:02,293

Andrew Zimmern: you know Tony Blair is great because he was

01:02:02,334 --> 01:02:02,354

Andrew Zimmern: a.

01:02:02,895 --> 01:02:04,942

Marc Preston: He was the prime minister when we were

01:02:04,982 --> 01:02:06,005

Marc Preston: going through from.

01:02:06,466 --> 01:02:08,731

Marc Preston: You know different political swings in the

01:02:08,852 --> 01:02:09,954

Marc Preston: US but he did.

01:02:09,974 --> 01:02:11,458

Marc Preston: He come in right after Margaret Thatcher.

01:02:11,545 --> 01:02:12,933

Marc Preston: I'm trying to remember my okay.

01:02:13,436 --> 01:02:14,965

Announcer: So he, you know she had her thing.

01:02:15,046 --> 01:02:17,809

Marc Preston: She was a Reagan era, you know, but he he

01:02:17,849 --> 01:02:20,317

Marc Preston: kind of wrote a lot of our modern history.

01:02:20,397 --> 01:02:22,524

Marc Preston: You know, I could definitely but a James

01:02:22,564 --> 01:02:22,885

Marc Preston: Carville.

01:02:23,326 --> 01:02:24,208

Marc Preston: I saw him the other day.

01:02:24,809 --> 01:02:26,192

Marc Preston: I wish more note news folks would be

01:02:26,212 --> 01:02:28,578

Marc Preston: getting him on giving commentary because I

01:02:28,598 --> 01:02:31,612

Marc Preston: mean it's Theatrical common sense, you know

01:02:31,632 --> 01:02:32,034

Marc Preston: he's guys.

01:02:32,074 --> 01:02:34,163

Marc Preston: Just I love the way he articulates himself.

01:02:34,283 --> 01:02:34,705

Andrew Zimmern: He's the best.

01:02:35,947 --> 01:02:38,051

Marc Preston: Now next question who is your first when

01:02:38,071 --> 01:02:38,432

Marc Preston: you were kid?

01:02:38,452 --> 01:02:39,835

Marc Preston: Who was your first celebrity crush?

01:02:40,316 --> 01:02:47,289

Andrew Zimmern: My first celebrity crush, oh my gosh.

01:02:48,266 --> 01:02:52,327

Andrew Zimmern: Well, I mean not to not to put two Fine a

01:02:52,387 --> 01:02:56,189

Andrew Zimmern: point on it, but you know I'm 61, so the

01:02:56,350 --> 01:02:59,604

Andrew Zimmern: first celebrities that I ever saw that I

01:02:59,684 --> 01:03:03,634

Andrew Zimmern: was Attracted to were in the Playboy

01:03:03,714 --> 01:03:10,627

Andrew Zimmern: magazine's annual movies issue, and Movies

01:03:10,767 --> 01:03:14,575

Andrew Zimmern: you know the sex in movies issue, and so

01:03:14,655 --> 01:03:18,769

Andrew Zimmern: they, they always had, you know, incredible.

01:03:19,110 --> 01:03:21,375

Andrew Zimmern: You know that it was, and they were screen

01:03:21,395 --> 01:03:25,469

Andrew Zimmern: grabs of topless actresses and and, and so

01:03:25,630 --> 01:03:27,236

Andrew Zimmern: there were, and there were.

01:03:28,179 --> 01:03:28,982

Andrew Zimmern: I mean this was.

01:03:29,002 --> 01:03:30,728

Andrew Zimmern: I mean you have to see, this is through the

01:03:30,788 --> 01:03:34,887

Andrew Zimmern: lens of a 13 year old boy, right, it was

01:03:35,248 --> 01:03:36,851

Andrew Zimmern: which is a very vibrant lens.

01:03:36,992 --> 01:03:38,154

Andrew Zimmern: Yes, it is.

01:03:38,415 --> 01:03:44,327

Andrew Zimmern: It is a very vibrant lens and 1974

01:03:44,347 --> 01:03:48,516

Andrew Zimmern: Jacqueline Bissette was about as as good as

01:03:48,596 --> 01:03:50,059

Andrew Zimmern: it got for me at that time.

01:03:50,486 --> 01:03:51,590

Marc Preston: Yeah, I, yeah.

01:03:51,610 --> 01:03:53,015

Marc Preston: Somebody the other day brought up something

01:03:53,035 --> 01:03:54,681

Marc Preston: which I don't think many guys might.

01:03:54,721 --> 01:03:56,148

Marc Preston: I'm a little younger than you are, but I,

01:03:56,251 --> 01:03:57,990

Marc Preston: but somebody brought up Haley Mills.

01:03:58,093 --> 01:03:59,821

Marc Preston: I was like, oh man, but anyway, I was

01:03:59,924 --> 01:04:01,604

Marc Preston: thinking as when I was young, well, I

01:04:01,624 --> 01:04:03,491

Marc Preston: didn't realize shows that were shot in the

01:04:03,672 --> 01:04:04,194

Marc Preston: 60s.

01:04:05,507 --> 01:04:06,933

Marc Preston: You know, before you get a little older,

01:04:07,726 --> 01:04:09,010

Marc Preston: you know 9, 10, 11, you know you start

01:04:09,050 --> 01:04:10,755

Marc Preston: realizing, oh, wait a minute, this person's

01:04:10,795 --> 01:04:11,216

Marc Preston: much older.

01:04:12,586 --> 01:04:13,931

Marc Preston: One last questions is if you're gonna be on

01:04:13,972 --> 01:04:15,678

Marc Preston: an island for a year, an island you love

01:04:15,738 --> 01:04:17,505

Marc Preston: being on, but there is no streaming.

01:04:17,826 --> 01:04:20,252

Marc Preston: You can only bring one DVD to watch a movie,

01:04:20,552 --> 01:04:24,027

Marc Preston: one movie, and you can only bring one CD or

01:04:24,047 --> 01:04:24,428

Marc Preston: an album.

01:04:24,769 --> 01:04:25,531

Marc Preston: You know what?

01:04:25,671 --> 01:04:26,914

Marc Preston: What's that movie, what's that album I'm

01:04:26,934 --> 01:04:28,778

Marc Preston: gonna be for you to hang on to for a year?

01:04:28,825 --> 01:04:32,877

Andrew Zimmern: the movies gotta be Godfather parts one and

01:04:32,994 --> 01:04:35,635

Andrew Zimmern: two, because they are sold together on a

01:04:35,753 --> 01:04:37,068

Andrew Zimmern: single DVD set.

01:04:37,185 --> 01:04:39,249

Andrew Zimmern: So I'm going to, I'm gonna twist, I'm gonna

01:04:39,269 --> 01:04:40,192

Andrew Zimmern: tweak that a little bit.

01:04:41,786 --> 01:04:43,692

Marc Preston: Have you seen the offer on a Paramount Plus

01:04:43,712 --> 01:04:44,233

Marc Preston: by chance?

01:04:44,273 --> 01:04:44,614

Andrew Zimmern: brilliant.

01:04:45,035 --> 01:04:45,517

Andrew Zimmern: It's brilliant.

01:04:47,007 --> 01:04:51,774

Andrew Zimmern: So you know, I think that's the movie.

01:04:52,055 --> 01:04:56,671

Andrew Zimmern: And then For music, that is just.

01:04:56,911 --> 01:04:59,577

Andrew Zimmern: That's painful for someone who is such a

01:04:59,717 --> 01:05:03,389

Andrew Zimmern: music geek Like I'll see the guitar behind

01:05:03,409 --> 01:05:03,529

Andrew Zimmern: you.

01:05:03,609 --> 01:05:05,233

Marc Preston: Is that for decoration or do you play?

01:05:05,453 --> 01:05:06,095

Andrew Zimmern: I do play.

01:05:06,536 --> 01:05:08,967

Andrew Zimmern: That's actually a Paul McCartney Signed

01:05:09,027 --> 01:05:12,235

Andrew Zimmern: guitar that I got four or five years ago

01:05:12,255 --> 01:05:13,277

Andrew Zimmern: when he was in Minneapolis.

01:05:14,187 --> 01:05:16,291

Andrew Zimmern: Um yeah, it's a nice flex, right?

01:05:16,892 --> 01:05:18,937

Andrew Zimmern: Oh yeah, that's my, that's my Paul

01:05:19,217 --> 01:05:25,892

Andrew Zimmern: McCartney autographed Guitar very nice,

01:05:25,972 --> 01:05:27,617

Andrew Zimmern: which I which, which I'm a big.

01:05:28,986 --> 01:05:30,089

Andrew Zimmern: I'm a big fan of that one.

01:05:30,310 --> 01:05:32,375

Marc Preston: Well, it's a baseball bat, so I'm imagining

01:05:32,455 --> 01:05:32,616

Marc Preston: it's.

01:05:32,636 --> 01:05:34,270

Marc Preston: You got the music, you got the sports you

01:05:34,290 --> 01:05:35,979

Marc Preston: know I got that, I've got the whole thing.

01:05:36,019 --> 01:05:39,470

Andrew Zimmern: But you can see I I Think well, it's hard

01:05:39,510 --> 01:05:42,316

Andrew Zimmern: to pick up, but he signed it in silver on

01:05:42,336 --> 01:05:43,579

Andrew Zimmern: the black edging there.

01:05:45,346 --> 01:05:47,153

Andrew Zimmern: So I think I'll tell you the.

01:05:50,666 --> 01:05:54,314

Andrew Zimmern: This is gonna sound a little goofy, but I

01:05:54,354 --> 01:05:58,107

Andrew Zimmern: would go with the band's last waltz Because

01:05:58,127 --> 01:06:00,334

Andrew Zimmern: it's got a lot of the music that I love and

01:06:00,394 --> 01:06:02,662

Andrew Zimmern: I can sing along with every song and it.

01:06:02,983 --> 01:06:04,988

Andrew Zimmern: It's got quiet, tender moments and it

01:06:05,068 --> 01:06:06,832

Andrew Zimmern: stomps like a son of a bitch when you

01:06:06,872 --> 01:06:07,373

Andrew Zimmern: wanted to.

01:06:07,854 --> 01:06:09,538

Andrew Zimmern: So I'll go with the band's last waltz.

01:06:10,186 --> 01:06:11,672

Marc Preston: Well, yeah, I'm thinking with the area

01:06:11,692 --> 01:06:12,314

Marc Preston: you're going up in.

01:06:13,126 --> 01:06:15,533

Marc Preston: You were like I was born in 73.

01:06:15,794 --> 01:06:16,336

Announcer: Yeah, now so.

01:06:18,586 --> 01:06:22,036

Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, well, I noticed that the 70s kind of

01:06:22,056 --> 01:06:23,567

Andrew Zimmern: passed me by a little bit, but you were

01:06:23,808 --> 01:06:25,435

Andrew Zimmern: right in the thick of it, you know, as far

01:06:25,475 --> 01:06:27,563

Andrew Zimmern: as music, oh, I was we would go on weekends

01:06:27,644 --> 01:06:30,553

Andrew Zimmern: to see you know Pink Floyd, one weekend Led

01:06:30,593 --> 01:06:32,439

Andrew Zimmern: Zeppelin, the next weekend at the garden,

01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,390

Andrew Zimmern: and then on Thursday night You'd go see the

01:06:35,430 --> 01:06:39,956

Andrew Zimmern: Ramones or you know whatever other punk

01:06:39,976 --> 01:06:40,137

Andrew Zimmern: music.

01:06:40,177 --> 01:06:42,144

Marc Preston: I'm married when I saw you're, you're,

01:06:42,164 --> 01:06:43,975

Marc Preston: that's right, you're all the nights I saw

01:06:44,136 --> 01:06:45,183

Marc Preston: all the night around zero.

01:06:45,203 --> 01:06:46,917

Andrew Zimmern: Oh yeah, I saw all the nights of you know

01:06:46,937 --> 01:06:49,833

Andrew Zimmern: the clash at bonds, I mean, I mean just on

01:06:49,873 --> 01:06:50,556

Andrew Zimmern: and on and on.

01:06:50,656 --> 01:06:53,206

Andrew Zimmern: It was so you're a CBGB once or twice yeah

01:06:53,326 --> 01:06:55,551

Andrew Zimmern: no many, because all our older brothers and

01:06:55,611 --> 01:06:58,416

Andrew Zimmern: sisters of my friends would take us to

01:06:58,456 --> 01:07:02,011

Andrew Zimmern: those places when we were 10, 12, 13, 14.

01:07:02,747 --> 01:07:05,807

Andrew Zimmern: So first first Concert I saw without my

01:07:05,867 --> 01:07:08,773

Andrew Zimmern: parents was 72, the brown sugar tour that

01:07:08,833 --> 01:07:10,116

Andrew Zimmern: the Stones did.

01:07:10,176 --> 01:07:12,967

Andrew Zimmern: Because my friend's older sister took us In

01:07:13,007 --> 01:07:15,154

Andrew Zimmern: where Mick was riding the giant inflatable

01:07:15,215 --> 01:07:18,353

Andrew Zimmern: tongue On stage and I thought I died and

01:07:18,373 --> 01:07:18,855

Andrew Zimmern: went to heaven.

01:07:19,326 --> 01:07:20,931

Marc Preston: I do envy folks a little bit.

01:07:21,192 --> 01:07:22,896

Marc Preston: You know the folks are a little bit older

01:07:25,285 --> 01:07:27,471

Marc Preston: Gen X, you know, to a little bit older than

01:07:27,491 --> 01:07:27,993

Marc Preston: that they got.

01:07:28,073 --> 01:07:29,457

Marc Preston: They got a good musical hit there.

01:07:30,446 --> 01:07:32,592

Marc Preston: Now the next question is if you're gonna be

01:07:33,053 --> 01:07:34,296

Marc Preston: from the time you wake up, time you go to

01:07:34,337 --> 01:07:36,188

Marc Preston: sleep, definition of a perfect day, or the

01:07:36,228 --> 01:07:37,451

Marc Preston: component parts for you.

01:07:38,153 --> 01:07:39,376

Marc Preston: You're like this was a good day.

01:07:39,777 --> 01:07:40,378

Marc Preston: What's that for you?

01:07:44,217 --> 01:07:46,163

Andrew Zimmern: Well, I had one Friday I went to.

01:07:46,203 --> 01:07:48,219

Andrew Zimmern: I went to work, had a decent morning,

01:07:48,865 --> 01:07:49,809

Andrew Zimmern: bugged out and did something I really

01:07:51,095 --> 01:07:51,497

Andrew Zimmern: wanted to do.

01:07:51,557 --> 01:07:53,003

Andrew Zimmern: It spent a couple hours at the State Fair

01:07:53,044 --> 01:07:54,848

Andrew Zimmern: but doing Something to help advance a cause

01:07:54,868 --> 01:07:55,932

Andrew Zimmern: and was stumping with a candidate here and

01:08:00,665 --> 01:08:01,770

Andrew Zimmern: Went home, took a nap on the couch because

01:08:01,810 --> 01:08:05,223

Andrew Zimmern: I don't interrupt you, but can we get Al

01:08:05,283 --> 01:08:05,564

Andrew Zimmern: Franken back?

01:08:07,321 --> 01:08:07,705

Marc Preston: Is that my friend?

01:08:07,986 --> 01:08:09,308

Marc Preston: I don't interrupt you, but can we get Al

01:08:09,348 --> 01:08:09,930

Marc Preston: Franken back?

01:08:10,190 --> 01:08:11,272

Marc Preston: Is that possible?

01:08:11,292 --> 01:08:11,914

Marc Preston: We're gonna try.

01:08:11,954 --> 01:08:13,738

Andrew Zimmern: I just interviewed him this morning for my

01:08:13,798 --> 01:08:14,319

Andrew Zimmern: sub stack.

01:08:16,246 --> 01:08:17,993

Andrew Zimmern: Yeah, andrew Zimmer dot sub stack.

01:08:18,034 --> 01:08:20,283

Andrew Zimmern: Calm, we're starting to do a lot of video

01:08:20,323 --> 01:08:20,845

Andrew Zimmern: interviews now.

01:08:20,925 --> 01:08:21,868

Andrew Zimmern: I just talked to Al.

01:08:21,948 --> 01:08:23,653

Andrew Zimmern: He's a friend of mine, so we just we just

01:08:23,693 --> 01:08:24,997

Andrew Zimmern: spent some time with him this morning.

01:08:25,727 --> 01:08:28,350

Andrew Zimmern: One of our first guests Took a little nap

01:08:28,390 --> 01:08:30,239

Andrew Zimmern: with the dogs and woke up to find out that

01:08:30,299 --> 01:08:32,107

Andrew Zimmern: some musician friends of mine we're coming

01:08:32,167 --> 01:08:35,580

Andrew Zimmern: into town and landing at seven and I just

01:08:35,620 --> 01:08:37,106

Andrew Zimmern: convinced them to come over for dinner and

01:08:37,166 --> 01:08:39,994

Andrew Zimmern: I made everyone a big meal and sat around

01:08:40,094 --> 01:08:42,690

Andrew Zimmern: bullshitting with them till Midnight and it

01:08:42,730 --> 01:08:42,850

Andrew Zimmern: was.

01:08:43,293 --> 01:08:44,760

Andrew Zimmern: I went to bed that night just thinking well,

01:08:44,781 --> 01:08:46,090

Andrew Zimmern: that was a perfect day, what's not?

01:08:46,192 --> 01:08:48,913

Marc Preston: great in the great, it's just you, just

01:08:49,074 --> 01:08:50,320

Marc Preston: when you can stop and go.

01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:51,164

Marc Preston: Okay, this is I.

01:08:52,367 --> 01:08:53,632

Marc Preston: When I was out of town with my kids few

01:08:53,653 --> 01:08:53,994

Marc Preston: weeks ago.

01:08:54,014 --> 01:08:55,602

Marc Preston: I just had one of those moments, just like

01:08:55,642 --> 01:08:56,325

Marc Preston: this is just perfect.

01:08:56,527 --> 01:08:56,951

Marc Preston: I'm loving.

01:08:56,991 --> 01:08:58,926

Marc Preston: I want to kind of breathe this in Now.

01:08:58,966 --> 01:08:59,608

Marc Preston: Last two questions.

01:08:59,689 --> 01:09:01,694

Marc Preston: And if you weren't doing this, doing things

01:09:01,754 --> 01:09:03,407

Marc Preston: like what you said, the United Nations, or

01:09:03,448 --> 01:09:06,394

Marc Preston: with all the things you do and with

01:09:06,675 --> 01:09:08,427

Marc Preston: creatively what you're doing, what would