Andrew Zimmern: 5/24/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Zimmern is best known as the creator and host of the Bizarre Foods franchise on Travel Channel. New episodes of Bizarre Foods begin June 21st at 9PM and his new show, Driven By Food, premieres in August. On today's show, Andrew talks about the transformative power of travel (7:00), a life changing trip to Madagascar (15:00), and the decision he made to be himself, rather than a character of himself, on Bizarre Foods (27:00). Plus, Andrew and Brian discuss his love of tussling with the network (35:00), a story behind the first episode of his new show, Driven By Food (47:00), and how show business is the perfect business for Andrew to grow spiritually and artistically (55:00). Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hey, this is the moment.
0:10.0	I'm Brian Koppelman, Thanks for listening. I've been really
0:14.8	looking forward to this. I really have. Because I've slipped off my loafer and I've placed
0:20.5	it between your legs because you're only about three feet away from me on the other side of that desk.
0:24.3	Well that's, I'm looking forward to that too, our special time afterwards.
0:27.4	What I'm really looking forward to, what I've been looking forward to is, uh, I've watched like, my guess today is Andrew Zimmer and great chef
0:36.8	I've never eaten anything you prepared I'm just assuming you're a great chef I've
0:40.1	heard friends of yours say you're really good at cooking.
0:43.4	You look like...
0:44.4	I got a good resume.
0:45.4	On television it looks great.
0:47.4	But on TV, as I know, you shoot the bird,
0:50.0	supposedly you're the one shooting it,
0:52.0	and then you'll grab it and be like you know you'll we'll see you
0:55.3	pluck the last feather out someone else has done the pre-plucking and then we'll just see you kind of
1:00.7	with a tongue in it as it's finished.
1:02.6	Like oh this is great the way that we...
1:04.4	And then I swallow.
1:05.4	And so the intimation is that I've actually, we green screen all that shit in.
1:09.4	I mean I'm not even really there.
1:12.4	But it seems, but also a renowned and terrific television.
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