Andrew Zimmern

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987 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 10 Nov

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Mick Unplugged · Breaking Bread and Barriers with Andrew Zimmern · 10 Nov 2025 podcast

Pat Young, the head of Travel Channel, threw me a laser pointer, hit a button, a map of the world came up on the wall in the Discovery boardroom.

There were 20 different executives there at the time and me alone at the other end.

And he said, take me through episode one and then season one.

And I just saw all I saw because I was standing on the North American side of the map and I could see the Philippines straight ahead of me.

I just hit the laser pointer.

I said, well.

We would go to the Philippines and try balut, which is a fertilized duck egg.

And then I just made my way around the world.

And I realized I was about two, three examples in.

I realized I had mentioned foods that for those people in the room were new.

They hadn't heard of them.

And they were exotic foods.

and different and unique and i was getting quite a reaction from them and i the only thing one of the few smart things i've ever done in my whole life was i read that room the right way and i just kept going and i put the pointer down and i think i named 30 foods in 30 countries and they were like okay go find a production company and let's make this show and the rest as they say is history

Because I...

spent 10, 12, 14 years being a user of people and a taker of things because I owe the world a debt that I don't think I can ever repay because I have such a lack of self-appreciation, I guess, that I continue to want to do more.

because I'm endlessly curious.

And so there's always something that I want to put out there in the world, another story, another idea.

another way of looking at something to try to make the world a better place.

And I don't say that in a Pollyanna sense.

I mean that really seriously.

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