Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown

[GloryDayz]

Am I the only one who finds his/this show totally cool? And I guess it proves that I DO watch more than Fox News!

Much like Guy Fieri and Charlie Rose, but in totally different ways because the shows are totally different, they all have great jobs and do a great job with their shows.

It' Saturday, it's cold as all get-out, and I'm working on reasons to not rotate the tires....

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by DaveNull

He sure wasn't saying that on the Layover show that he did at the end of his Travel channel show. Pretty sure he was angling to get fired with some of the shit he was saying about it that made the airing episodes. I'll bet there was some priceless stuff that got left on the cutting room floor.

he was very pissed off at Travel Channel for using his show for product placement without his approval.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2083223.html

[GloryDayz]

Wow, I've never had any such take on the guy. He lways say he's lucky because he survived drugs, says his cooking isn't the best, and just is humble about himself when he meets the people in these distant places who usually live with less than the graces we enjoy.

[ragedogg69]

Oh right, the bodies in the trunk tweets. What is funny, Bourdain has had product placement in his show before, but with companies he gets paid by. Silly to be mad about the car and have no problem hocking lipitor and chase sapphire.

I like Bourdain for what he is and I also think his older shows are superior.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Oh right, the bodies in the trunk tweets. What is funny, Bourdain has had product placement in his show before, but with companies he gets paid by. Silly to be mad about the car and have no problem hocking lipitor and chase sapphire.

I like Bourdain for what he is and I also think his older shows are superior.

Silly? Because someone used his name and likeness without asking? He was very upfront about the limited amount he does and why. I don't blame him one bit.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

Silly? Because someone used his name and likeness without asking? He was very upfront about the limited amount he does and why. I don't blame him one bit.

My favorite Bourdain moment was when he went to... Sardenia maybe? Somewhere in Italy. The guy he is "fishing" with attempts to set up a photo op where they're supposedly catching their seafood by hand. He wholesale starts throwing frozen fish and octopus and such into the water, then pretending to go and gather them with fins and snorkel.

Tony, in the narration, completely busts the guy out and talks about how miserable the whole thing made him. He then proceeds to get wasted drunk because he's so dejected about it. He also narrates that and says, "I'm glad this is on film, because I have absolutely zero recall of how this evening turned out or the conversation I'm having with this couple."

It was just so refreshing for him to peel back the lens of how so many of those photo op "reality" shows stage crap and to see how much it depressed him when he was seeking an "authentic" experience. His subsequent alcoholic binge rang so true, and reminded me of something I'd do.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by NewChief

My favorite Bourdain moment was when he went to... Sardenia maybe? Somewhere in Italy. The guy he is "fishing" with attempts to set up a photo op where they're supposedly catching their seafood by hand. He wholesale starts throwing frozen fish and octopus and such into the water, then pretending to go and gather them with fins and snorkel.

Tony, in the narration, completely busts the guy out and talks about how miserable the whole thing made him. He then proceeds to get wasted drunk because he's so dejected about it. He also narrates that and says, "I'm glad this is on film, because I have absolutely zero recall of how this evening turned out or the conversation I'm having with this couple."

It was just so refreshing for him to peel back the lens of how so many of those photo op "reality" shows stage crap and to see how much it depressed him when he was seeking an "authentic" experience. His subsequent alcoholic binge rang so true, and reminded me of something I'd do.

that was hilarious. as was the spat with the place in Chicago that tried to pack the place with "extras". Tony said you know what, we don't need it fake, we'll go somewhere else.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by NewChief

My favorite Bourdain moment was when he went to... Sardenia maybe? Somewhere in Italy. The guy he is "fishing" with attempts to set up a photo op where they're supposedly catching their seafood by hand. He wholesale starts throwing frozen fish and octopus and such into the water, then pretending to go and gather them with fins and snorkel.

Tony, in the narration, completely busts the guy out and talks about how miserable the whole thing made him. He then proceeds to get wasted drunk because he's so dejected about it. He also narrates that and says, "I'm glad this is on film, because I have absolutely zero recall of how this evening turned out or the conversation I'm having with this couple."

It was just so refreshing for him to peel back the lens of how so many of those photo op "reality" shows stage crap and to see how much it depressed him when he was seeking an "authentic" experience. His subsequent alcoholic binge rang so true, and reminded me of something I'd do.

LOL

[blaise]

Originally Posted by NewChief

My favorite Bourdain moment was when he went to... Sardenia maybe? Somewhere in Italy. The guy he is "fishing" with attempts to set up a photo op where they're supposedly catching their seafood by hand. He wholesale starts throwing frozen fish and octopus and such into the water, then pretending to go and gather them with fins and snorkel.

Tony, in the narration, completely busts the guy out and talks about how miserable the whole thing made him. He then proceeds to get wasted drunk because he's so dejected about it. He also narrates that and says, "I'm glad this is on film, because I have absolutely zero recall of how this evening turned out or the conversation I'm having with this couple."

It was just so refreshing for him to peel back the lens of how so many of those photo op "reality" shows stage crap and to see how much it depressed him when he was seeking an "authentic" experience. His subsequent alcoholic binge rang so true, and reminded me of something I'd do.

Yeah I think that was the one where the wife is giving him dirty looks during dinner.

[PunkinDrublic]

Love Bourdains show. The layover is great too. Definitely somebody you'd like to have a drink with and listen to his stories. He comes from the real world. Bourdain admits he was flat on his ass broke when he wrote kitchen confidential and just had a lot of things go his way.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

Love Bourdains show. The layover is great too. Definitely somebody you'd like to have a drink with and listen to his stories. He comes from the real world. Bourdain admits he was flat on his ass broke when he wrote kitchen confidential and just had a lot of things go his way.

Most fans are aware, but I'm not sure everyone who watches the show knows Bourdain's background. His rough past was emphasized to me recently on the Bronx episode. He's hanging with his tour guide and they're discussing the neighborhood crackheads. Bourdain says something like, "I know it well. I spent quite a few years as a crackhead."

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Most fans are aware, but I'm not sure everyone who watches the show knows Bourdain's background. His rough past was emphasized to me recently on the Bronx episode. He's hanging with his tour guide and they're discussing the neighborhood crackheads. Bourdain says something like, "I know it well. I spent quite a few years as a crackhead."

But the part when he's eating in the park, looks across the water and says, "I can see my apartment from here but didn't know this place existed" was very interesting too.

I just thing the man is cool and hasn't sold-out to the man yet. At least not yet. And if he has, he's hiding it well. And his ability to talk about everything in his past from drugs, to his first job being in what is/was a gay town, to just how dam lucky he is to both be alive and doing so well is so cool. Add to it the nature of the show, using food to get to all these other cultures and their larger issues and a lot of history, is really something that makes me keep watching.

So, for a guy who usually doesn't like CNN, AB is certainly part of what makes me rethink some of that. And even their New Year's duo is the one I'm most likely to watch because they appear to be the "NY New Year's Eve" bash equivalent of AB's take on cooking and traveling.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

yeah, we has BIG into heroin. His fiction books aren't half bad either.

[GloryDayz]

Brazil is on now... Like!

[GloryDayz]

Just watched AB's Manila episode... Wow, the dude is awesome!

[eDave]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Just watched AB's Manila episode... Wow, the dude is awesome!

My favorite is when he visits Iran. Wish they had a better government. Iranians are just busting to go more western.