Andrew Zimmern
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Podcast Appearances
I've watched.
And, you know, it is that's something every parent around the world can relate to.
And then they were I could hear the mom whispering to the kids across the table.
I did not speak their dialect at all.
Right.
And in fact, in this part of Finland, they don't even speak the language that the people in Helsinki speak.
They have their own diversion of of Finnish.
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.
And you promised me, so just sit on your hands, try to be quiet.
You and your sister can whisper to each other.
Because that's what I would say to my kids.
right?
And so I didn't need to know the language, right?
So we are universally
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
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?
And which is why we cast this family.
And all of a sudden the kids are kind of liking me, right?
And so what starts off as an awkward, fidgety, awful thing, even grandma started to think that I was an amusing fellow.