Hall of Famer Morten Andersen talks kicking, comedy, and cuisine on Radio Row in Atlanta

The legendary kicker discussed coming to America and his earliest days in football with Nestor and Luke on Radio Row in Atlanta

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SPEAKERS

Morten Anderson, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome back, WN st Towson, Baltimore and wn St. dotnet. All of our WASD programming from here at the Georgia World Congress Center, brought to you by our friends at LifeBridge health Sports Medicine Institute, as well as our friends at Royal farms real fresh real fast. We got Hall of Famers, we’ve got beef jerky. We’ve got comedy Martin Anderson is here I have personally witnessed this man’s branded of unique comedy here for Wayne Gandy over here in Atlanta. And hoping fun. I hope that you were singing Elvis a moment ago so men only fools walk and kicking butt how are you?

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Morten Anderson  00:42

I’m great. This is fun. This is fun for me to do. I love radio, cuz they don’t have to look at my face.

Nestor Aparicio  00:49

But we’re on the camera that’s

Morten Anderson  00:50

why I say oh no, this is why I sit on this side of the camera what’s 10 pounds on apparently house mostly

Nestor Aparicio  00:55

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this is gold jacket if

Morten Anderson  00:57

we don’t get at least this morning. Yes, I did.

Nestor Aparicio  01:00

Oh my goodness. Are you gluten free?

Morten Anderson  01:03

No, hardly. I’m gluten. I’m hogging does. I’m finishing glade you

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Nestor Aparicio  01:13

you’re having fun. You’re even more fun than the rest of us. It’s killing me. Tony Bates is here. So first things first when I see you dude, walk through you’re on radio rope puts your bulk and I see him in a chef gear. That’s the guy I want to know because I usually bring in food. You know, I’m gonna turn that down for you. You’re right. A lot of talk in the morning Anderson he died on radio row Nestor show I can’t have that happen. I anaphylactic shock. I can’t have that on my head. Tony. So I see Dinah chef thing and I’m thinking that guy’s gotta come over here. So

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over here, we brought you some great certified Angus beef, beef steak strips and I hope you liked those. But more importantly, we’re here to talk about beef in Morton Anderson’s dish, a certified Angus beef, Chevrolet.

Morten Anderson  01:58

I’m a chef, you do comedy. You can’t comedic stylings of Chef and

Nestor Aparicio  02:04

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Europeans man they got it all nail. Hey, you know what I mean? You figured a renaissance man renaissance man. I can tell what brought you to America to begin with. And I flew over. I flew once the first time you saw an American football game didn’t even know what it was because you played soccer, football. 1877

Morten Anderson  02:19

This was my I didn’t speak English. I was 17 years old, didn’t know the game. And I wanted to play soccer. They didn’t have a soccer team on my high school team that said, hey, we need a kicker. Would you do that? I said I’ll try it. And then I realized the ball wasn’t round. And so it was kind of starting starting from scratch. But it worked out the ball flew high flew true

Nestor Aparicio  02:42

once the first time you held a professional football and you’re not probably not the easiest thing in the world to get in Europe in 1980. Right. I didn’t know anything. The ball maybe right a rugby ball hold different.

Morten Anderson  02:52

I knew nothing about the game. Absolutely nothing. So it my stories is literally the American dream of coming over here. From scratch from nothing. And actually, just with some hard work and a little bit of talent. Anything’s possible. This greatest country on Earth.

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Nestor Aparicio  03:08

What do you love about America?

Morten Anderson  03:10

I love certified Angus beef, baby. That’s what I love about America. That’s what I love.

Nestor Aparicio  03:16

Tony, tell me what you do here because apparently, you do handcrafted and smoked beef steak strips. And yeah,

Morten Anderson  03:26

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we do much more than that. Hey, we have

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to give a shout out to our local partner wise. All right, groceries. Wonderful brand partners and they sell our products sell

Nestor Aparicio  03:35

your products. Well, I got some friends Rob said Tony. Hey, Rob. Good morning. We’re selling there Rob. I wait. Make sure you find some for us up there and no Whitemarsh just French bar so. Okay, good. All right. The comedy that’s going out on the video right now is not being caught on the radio side of things here. As your life changed he’s a Hall of Famer.

Morten Anderson  03:56

The platform is bigger the bar has been raised a people actually listened to you let me people like you actually invite me into a chat and I can talk it’s beautiful. It is a beautiful

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Nestor Aparicio  04:07

talk about Europe and why when I go over there all the food looks better the food tastes better why is that

Morten Anderson  04:12

when you have the slim fit you can wear a suit a slim fit I can wear slim you know the cut the suits Listen, guys look really good and slim but I’m for everybody

Nestor Aparicio  04:22

who’s ever worn husky and I wore Husky much of my youth what is Husky Husky husky, bigger,

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Excel,

Nestor Aparicio  04:31

Excel big big bone. You know all the words you know as long

Morten Anderson  04:35

as it’s certified Husky

Nestor Aparicio  04:37

I spent a large stretch of my life being larger. I still eat all the same stuff like I love food I’m um you know I love to use at everywhere we go. We look for great places to eat here in Atlanta. The other night I found myself up in Port Calvin’s with a lobster, a stir fry me. I like food, but I just don’t eat as much of it as I used to without any I don’t think because I’m skinny, I don’t like food or I’m over vomiting in the corner, you

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Morten Anderson  05:04

know what you’re so right portion control. It is all about that, like the protein, the size of the fist of your hand. And then greens around it. hang, hang, hang. With all hang tight, hang tight on the carbs, man, if you’re gonna eat carbs either early in the day, and eat the carbs that you can digest, it doesn’t turn into fats or sugar. And so you don’t spike that glucose. It’s all about maintaining a nice level of glucose through the timing

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to don’t eat after

Nestor Aparicio  05:36

six. My wife’s diabetic and it’s changed my life because she eats sort of on a schedule. So over the last 16 years, it’s been much easier for me to sort of get on a schedule, except when I go to the Super Bowl without her. And the first four days before she gets here, I leave in the refrigerator pizza blackforest cake which we’re about to pull that blackforest cake out pull it out. While I’m drinking my royal farms, let’s

Morten Anderson  06:01

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bring let’s wrinkle some certified Angus beef tips on that.

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We dip into this

Morten Anderson  06:10

dividend that is that

Nestor Aparicio  06:13

I’m skinny so I’m not going to eat your beef strips.

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Morten Anderson  06:17

I know you will. And you should. This will make your life better. This is a game changer.

Nestor Aparicio  06:23

What are you doing? Stand up comedy. What are you and I got to take the stage here.

Morten Anderson  06:26

I’ll be here all the Week. Try the veal. I’m here all the way. I’m here all the week.

Nestor Aparicio  06:32

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Oh, I wouldn’t have the veal I would go with the states the state trips here.

Morten Anderson  06:36

You know it’s been fun. I just if you can’t laugh at life. I mean what what do you have I not secret sauce is don’t take yourself too seriously. Number one. Number two, do good work. Number three, be passionate and pass it on to the next generation and do good for others. Why did

Nestor Aparicio  06:53

you you’re the outgoing kicker guy and you’ve lasted all these years in the league. You got all the fame Jagat, the platform for you to be able to go out and meet people and do your speaking everywhere because that’s part of what you do.

Morten Anderson  07:04

I love it. I absolutely love I mean, great guys like Tony, who is at the highest level in his business. This is one of the greatest chefs, where do

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Nestor Aparicio  07:12

you shake a gig? Give me your background. Tell me where are you? Where are you going to cook me a big fat steak that was better than the one I had last? Well, I used

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to. I used to be the chef for the royal family in Amman, Jordan. Queen Rania. All right, so the other part of the woods hands are magical that can cook certified Angus beef steaks. And if you want our recipes, go on certified Angus beef.com. Listen, pay attention certified Angus beef.com Baby

Morten Anderson  07:39

Real Deal is hanging out with us vandals here

Nestor Aparicio  07:43

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I want to I want to talk about cooking a little bit with you. Because it’s something we do it every day we shop. My wife is a two time leukemia survivor. So we buy a lot of organic now, you know, we talked about the Greens around the fist and all that. But believe me, we’ve been through all of that, right? It’s all but for modern day people like us in a kitchen, I am blown away by the amount of expertise that’s available, right that I can go online. And if I want to make a chicken piccata the way you would make a chicken piccata I can figure out how to do it. And if I if I learned techniques a little better, and heat and flame that I can cook in my kitchen for friends. Almost any I mean, it really is amazing with what Julia Child I had. And 40 years later, it’s

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amazing. You know, it’s amazing that in the last 20 years, maybe 15 to 20 years. There’s a there’s a huge food revolution going on in this country. A lot of people know what they’re eating now. And they care about what they eat, even if it’s organic if it’s beef, but I mean, can you can you imagine how many chefs are out there right now. And the folks that know food you go to New Orleans or you’re part of the you’re part of the country, and they know their regional cuisine. It’s just amazing.

Nestor Aparicio  08:56

Oh, there’s no I mean the poor Danes and the people that have opened the doors to explore food and say I’m going to try this when I’m in New York instead of that. We live our lives that way. We traveled a lot so we get a random pleasure to know you a pleasure that you would bring your hall of fame comedy to my stage Morton Anderson,

Morten Anderson  09:14

thank you so much for having us on. We had a blast and have a great day enjoy yourself. I had enjoy the madness. We would

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Nestor Aparicio  09:20

go right here we would kick some field goals together and my knee. I’m too busy kicking my competitors but down here My knee hurts. Warren Anderson here Tony Biggs on behalf of our friends here. Let’s get to all the BS strips aches and anything else we got to plug

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a certified Angus beef.com All your recipes. Thank you

Nestor Aparicio  09:42

get the deal. He’ll be here all week right there. Martin Anderson joining us here we are on radio row all the brought to you by our friends and like retail Sports Medicine Institute and our friends at Foundry row in Owings Mills and royal farms real fresh real fast, and the tasty coffee that I’m about to have with black for mistake that I got my wife because I’m a nice guy sometimes she sort of agrees on Nestor we are wn st dotnet am 1570 and wn st Towson Baltimore and we never stop talking Baltimore sports