Marc Summers on the Birth of Food TV

Eater's Digest

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Comedy, Food, Arts, News Commentary, Improv, News

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

According to Marc Summers, the beloved game show host, Food Network OG, and powerhouse producer, his whole career arc was a mistake. The magician and pizza fanatic went from a life of judging wet t-shirt contests and selling wholesale smoked salmon to being one of the architects of modern food television—but of course, he claims he's never worked a day in his life. Check out his conversation with hosts Greg Morabito and Helen Rosner on this week's episode of the Eater Upsell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the eater upsell a food podcast that's not always about food.
0:10.0	I'm one of your hosts Greg Morobito, I'm the editor of New York.
0:16.0	And I'm your other host Helen Rosner, the executive editor of Eater.
0:19.0	And on today's podcast, we are talking to Mark Summers.
0:24.3	Mark Summers?
0:25.3	Like I'm not messing with you.
0:27.5	We are talking with Mark Summers.
0:29.2	From Double Dare?
0:30.2	From Double Dare?
0:30.8	And what would you do?
0:32.1	And the reason he's here the host and
0:35.0	executive producer of countless food TV shows. Wait you mean the architect of
0:40.4	modern food television game shows Mark Summers?
0:44.2	He is right here in the Eater Uppsill Studio and we were going to talk to him in just a minute.
0:47.6	So we arrived in the Eater Uppsel studio today with a surprise from our AP Dan and that are some that are some unusual snacks here what do we have here?
1:05.0	Well I feel I feel ungenerous talking about this because I hate them.
1:10.3	I hate them.
1:11.6	I love our AP Dan, but you know what I hate is Green Tea Kitcats.
1:15.8	No way.
1:16.8	They're so disgusting.
1:17.8	No way, dude, I thought you loved them because I thought you brought some back from somewhere right?
1:23.6	Other people like them and they're wrong but I choose to indulge that.
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