Jan 29, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 15 segments
Andrew Zimmern is an Emmy- and four-time James Beard Award–winning chef, creator, producer, and storyteller who has built a career on the belief that food tells the world’s most important stories…
And then the algorithms, I... stop and open up accounts that have like cool little spiritual sayings and like dogs and uh expensive collectible cars and so the algorithm literally for like the next day that's all that's sent my way and i must have clicked on something about the longevity and um physical wellness and things like that were involved in a project.
My company produces the Dan Buettner podcast and Dan created the Blue Zones amongst many other things and his podcast focuses on those issues.
So I clicked on a couple of things and I was looking at some of the clips that we had posted for him on social and I just I read something that said the average American man lives to the age of 74.
And I was like, do I only have 10 Christmases left or 10 Thanksgivings? Like, no way, no way.
And I had always reminded people as someone who had several start overs in life, a lot of which I, threw back at the universe and said, go fuck yourself.
Uh, I'm willing, let's start over, you know, thanks for the opportunity universe.
if I only have 10 Thanksgivings, where do I convince the family not to do the turkey and stuffing that I sort of want to change up every once in a while? They're always like, well, we can do that at Hanukkah or Christmas.
And, but do I only have 10 more of those with those people that I love the most? You know, if I only have 10 years, what do I want to prioritize? And everyone says, because time is the only thing no one can buy.
So how you spend it is very important and all the rest of that kind of stuff.
And then the algorithms, I... stop and open up accounts that have like cool little spiritual sayings and like dogs and uh expensive collectible cars and so the algorithm literally for like the next day that's all that's sent my way and i must have clicked on something about the longevity and um physical wellness and things like that were involved in a project.
My company produces the Dan Buettner podcast and Dan created the Blue Zones amongst many other things and his podcast focuses on those issues.
So I clicked on a couple of things and I was looking at some of the clips that we had posted for him on social and I just I read something that said the average American man lives to the age of 74.
And I was like, do I only have 10 Christmases left or 10 Thanksgivings? Like, no way, no way.
And I had always reminded people as someone who had several start overs in life, a lot of which I, threw back at the universe and said, go fuck yourself.
Uh, I'm willing, let's start over, you know, thanks for the opportunity universe.
if I only have 10 Thanksgivings, where do I convince the family not to do the turkey and stuffing that I sort of want to change up every once in a while? They're always like, well, we can do that at Hanukkah or Christmas.
And, but do I only have 10 more of those with those people that I love the most? You know, if I only have 10 years, what do I want to prioritize? And everyone says, because time is the only thing no one can buy.
So how you spend it is very important and all the rest of that kind of stuff.
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