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Andrew Zimmern

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Name: Andrew Zimmern

Hometown: St. Paul, MN by way of NYC, you can never take the NYC out of the kid...Fuhgeddaboudit.

Been with FM107 since: June 2007

What is your role at FM107?: Show host, Colleen Kruse's go-fer, official Manolo Blahnik suede mule slipper organizer for the Lori and Julia show, sole station DIVO, lunchroom consigliere

What do you wish your role was at FM107?: Sports anchor and resident political wonk

Share a favorite FM107 moment: If there is a greater pleasure in the world than connecting with our listenership, really connecting, I don't know what it is. When the call banks fill up with Cheese Steak chatter, I get weepy. My fave moment that I ever had was the first time that my Dad joined me on air for an hour of food talk. I am a paler version of him and he is responsible for all of passion for food and travel so closing that circle and having him on my show was the thrill of a liftetime.

Share some behind the scenes FM107 gossip: Lori and Julia do not talk to each other in real life and have a blood feud going back to the late 70's. Ian and Margery are not their real names and they are HSA witness protection program tranplants from New Jersey.

List all of the "hats" you wear in your current life: Dad, husband, son,  

Describe any past fashion fads that you at the time embraced but now regret: I had a pony tail in the early eighties as I was losing my hair, combed straight back and slicked with Tenax. Oy vey.

Name a television character past or present that best describes your personality: Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction, Fish from Barney Miller, Napoleon Solo from The Man from UNCLE. Maxwell Smart on Get Smart, any male character from Love, American Style.

What's your favorite comfort food?: My wife's Tater Tot Hot Dish, open faced turkey or brisket sandwiches, Matzoh ball soup.

If there was an FM107 reality show who would get kicked out of the house first?:
Me. I am the new guy after all, and my alliances are weak.

Do you believe in love at first sight?:
Absolutely, and I married her.

First celebrity crush: Diana Rigg on The Avengers

Latest celebrity crush: it's a tie between Scarlett Johannson (Sco-Jo) and Myself

Name another person on this earth you would love to trade places with for a day (and why): Michael Bloomberg because running the Greatest City in the world is a dream job of mine. Derek Jeter, because captaining the Yanks is the second greatest job in the world. My wife's, so I could see my son and I through her eyes.

Name the last good movie you saw: Michael Moore's SICKO! Genius.

Name the last good book you read: William Boyd's Ice Cream War. A brilliantly crafted piece of historical fiction from one of my favorite writers.

What TV show(s) are you currently hooked on? :The Closer, 24, The Unit, First 48, Man vs Wild, Hell's Kitchen, The Office, 30 Rock, Soprano's, Head Case.


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