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Into the street yesterday. i introduced my -- i have 12-year-old sons. they're one year older than tony's daughter. we are both men who had our first children once we were 50. and i showed them on sunday night their mother was away, and we stayed up watching tony bourdain on cnn. and, you know, they talked about him all week long. and then to wake up this morning, it was incomprehensible. it was just incomprehensible. and i'm trying to keep it incomprehensible. i've talked about it enough about it now i'm starting to accommodate it. i think the incomprehension is important because something ve...

Weren't quite seeing or otherwise that person wouldn't be dead now. so i'm replaying all these sort of moments, sort of glimpses and episodes where i think, oh, there was a much more complex person there than i was realizing. >> okay, so let's talk about that. because he was real, so let's keep it real. did you sense that he was going through some things recently? >> it was precious to see tony. i saw tony regularly over 20 years. i spoke to him pretty regularly. i e-mailed pretty regularly with him. i don't regard myself as an intimate friend. i regard myself as a friend.

I'm not saying russian bodies had anything officially to do with it, but it's mighty suspicious. you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to say whoever did this, wanted it. >> he was murdered, gunned down in the streets about nine months after that episode aired. and anthony spoke out about it after it happened. >> it's another great example. he had him on my show and i watched the whole interview. tony's is better because he was able to again communicate and reached people by using this vehicle of food which disarms you. which just makes everyone feel that they share something in common. t...

Thank you, my friend. i'll see you soon. >> an incredible person. thank you very much. >> carry it on, okay. and he passed the torch to you and many folks. so do him proud. thank you, sir. we'll see you soon. tonight, along with tony's family our thoughts are with his best friend who shared so many adventures with tony and who sadly found him this morning. here they are in better spicier times. >> what happens when america's favorite bad boy chef and up right french chef eric repargo to china? eric's never been to china before, nor is he used to the elevated levels of shall we say heat and s...

This is when he and obama had the dinner in vietnam. "the new yorker" reported a lot of obama's staff didn't realize the extent of this problem. that american bombs that were dropped in those countries that had not exploded. and it may have had something to do with the fact the administration then devoted $90 million to helping clean it up. so there was some real substance there. >> and tony talked plenty about food and culture. he wanted to educate. in one episode, he wanted to highlight diversity to show a side of the city many don't see. so, he feoff featured diverse communities. he was try...