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New ways to tell stories. >> for me travel isn't about taking a vacation, sitting on a beach or listening to some tour guide as we travel if packs from a day spa. traveling is going parts unknown. sharing a hype or shamen as the sun comes up. only then realizing you forgot to pack your toothbrush. i would describe myself as a lucky cook who gets to tell stories. i'm certainly not a journalist, not a chef anymore. i'd like to flatter myself by saying i'm an asaist but i'm a storyteller. >> this was a risk for cnn and anthony. >> myanmar, after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happ...

Becoming cynical. you shut yourself off from certain emotions that other normal people probably still feel. i've become harder in some ways. but some things always penetrate. there are things you can't push away or push out or shut your eyes to. i think especially when you're -- you know, when you're a parent, the kids will get you every time. >> what was interesting was that he could deliver something that was sad or tragic or very serious and then in an instant use a sense of humor to take you somewhere else. to weave this tapestry of story that only anthony bourdain could do. ♪ >> pork cr...

Structure is guy go someplace, eat a bunch of food and come back. that's what i do every time. this is not a food show, but there's food. this is not a travel show, but there's travel. i don't know what it is. >> anthony using food, it was a way to start a conversation. but his show, his life, he was really exploring the human condition. ♪ ♪

>> anthony bourdain really changed what cnn is. he brought this other way to learn about the world, this other way of asking questions. not through an interview, not through an interrogation but sitting down and having a meal. what he was doing was journalistic but so human. bringing people on a journey with him while he met people in their place, with their food, with their meals, with their culture. >> i think tony was trying to make the world a little bit more hospitable, a little bit more understandable, a bit more friendly. he was trying to show, yes, we come from different religions, but...

>> he i think up getting assassinated shortly after. anthony was not shying away in any way from serious political issues in the place. he embraced all those issues. the idea that bourdain would have met with boris in russia before he was killed, that's what bourdain was doing, was looking to tell stories of humanity and oppression. >> i remember asking tony bourdain what would be the buck list location to a guy whose been around the world five times. he said iran. low and behold several seasons later, there he was. >> he was interviewing the "washington post" at the time, jason and his wife. ...