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Overliquored overfed, traveling the world having fun connecting with people and getting paid to do it. >> oh, enchanted land of my childhood. a culture petri dish, from which regularly issued forth greatness. new jersey in case you didnt know it, has beautiful beaches. theyre not all crawling with raging trolls with reality shows. i grew up summering on these beaches and they were awesome. >> he just was a regular person, you know in his regular jeans and regular shirt. he had no pretension or i...

I love the struggle. i love trying to figure out how to get out of this and what to do next. and that struggle, no matter how much you think thats it, im going to have to tap out, i find a way out of it, i love it. >> anthony earned practically every award you can earn in the t.v. industry. five emmy awards just for "parts unknown." the p-body in 2013 was presented his first year on cnn. >> we asked specific questions, what makes you happy wharks do you eat wharks do you like to cook. and everyw...

Stigma. to know he had overcome those things i think is inspirational. i think it gives everybody hope to know they can overcome something really hard. and that is why the pain of this, i think is doubly compounded, because he had overcome, it seemed, some demons in the past. and i guess that doesnt make you bullet proof. >> you know, i didnt know him well enough to know -- to know if he was still haunted by it put im sure it never leaves you. when you go through that kind of experience its alwa...

Points. >> where is home? most of us are born with the answer. others have to sift through the pieces. >> and he touched on the basic ingredients for all humanity no matter where it exists, and thats why no place was too remote, no people too obscure, no cuisine too exotic. he could make everything familiar. what a gift. what a blessing that was. the tragedy is that it wasnt enough for tony to know his own self-worth. >> i hope that our world can take just one more gift from tony bourdain and re...

Still talking about it now. thats what led him to the travel network, to cnn, and "parts unknown." >> the savory meat. >> "parts unknown" started on cnn in 2013 and it was like a bolt of lightning. >> the give of life, sticky rice. >> i said, anthony bourdain on cnn, what the hell is that about, right. i didnt quite get it at first. i was like, we dont do, thats not what cnn does. and he did it, and i got it. the guy is genius. its brilliant. >> have you eaten yet or have you had rice? >> both. ...

>> cheese, god, the cheese. >> i got to tell you, i dont care how many naked breasts are on that beach right now, that is much more exciting. look at it, its beautiful. >> he was a great chef, then he had the this unique ability to obviously eat very obscure remote different kinds of food, but he also liked all the foods that all of us loved. he could have a hot dog and speak about that for half an hour. >> as ive gotten older im moving more and more away from fine dining, lets put it that way, ...

>> his stories wasnt about food. food was a conduit it drew you in. once it drew you in it was about the experience, connection and interactions with people. >> it was the obama white house who reached out to cnn, and i put them in touch with bourdain. they wanted -- thats who anthony bourdain was, obama wanted to go have food with him, not the other way around. >> anthonys point was, i didnt want some fancy state dinner, its got to be the scooter and the whole thing. and he got it his way. >> h...

Would produce. i actually end up taking trips to places he had been because -- i went tanjeera after he took a trip there, i thought, wow that was interesting because i wanted to see what he saw. >> one day, tony and i were sitting off stage waiting for something to happen. he looked at me and asked, what are you about, what is your passion? >> and i said, fighting. i love to fight. and his eyes -- i remember he had these hooded eyes -- and he recently found gjj. and he loved it so much. >> ever...

Heaven itself. >> cheese, god, the cheese. >> i got to tell you, i dont care how many naked breasts are on that beach right now, that is much more exciting. look at it, its beautiful. >> he was a great chef, then he had the this unique ability to obviously eat very obscure remote different kinds of food, but he also liked all the foods that all of us loved. he could have a hot dog and speak about that for half an hour. >> as ive gotten older im moving more and more away from fine dining, lets pu...