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Andrew Zimmern

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
506 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

I've watched.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And, you know, it is that's something every parent around the world can relate to.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And then they were I could hear the mom whispering to the kids across the table.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

I did not speak their dialect at all.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

Right.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And in fact, in this part of Finland, they don't even speak the language that the people in Helsinki speak.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

They have their own diversion of of Finnish.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

She was saying, I told you I'd give you that candy and cookies when you just have to be nice while the strange people from the other part of the world are gone.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And you promised me, so just sit on your hands, try to be quiet.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

You and your sister can whisper to each other.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

Because that's what I would say to my kids.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

right?

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And so I didn't need to know the language, right?

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

So we are universally

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

humanized by that experience i was and so were they because i didn't react to them right i just let them do what they wanted to do i didn't lean over and say it's okay or anything like that i just let it happen i'm just there to experience their life i don't i don't want to impact it i don't want to ruin anything magical that might happen on the tv

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

Once we start eating and the kids are eating, they're occupied and we're telling jokes and things are being translated because the dad spoke English, right?

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And which is why we cast this family.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And all of a sudden the kids are kind of liking me, right?

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

And so what starts off as an awkward, fidgety, awful thing, even grandma started to think that I was an amusing fellow.

Mick Unplugged
Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern

Now,