>> and in rich's case, taylor has given him a reason to want to stay young. >> it's tasty. >> and in many ways, that's better than sex. >> bless me father, for i have sinned. >> i haven't tasted that before. >> by the third sip, it's where are my pants? i will be buying more things. >> they don't show this in the viagra commercial. >> i want to rub it all over my body. >> that's how you get pregnant. >> i can't feel my legs. is that a bad thing? [ laughter ] >> in the words of donald rumsfeld, we don't know what we don't know. >> that was the beginning of the erosion of our society as we know it. >> i make lots and lots and lots

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>> can you hear that over here? >> i got to begin with the softball questions. >> okay. >> so dad, it's been two years on the road with "parts unknown," how do you feel about the show? has the experience changed? is it still fun? >> that's a hard question! you know, one of the great things about travel is just when you think that i've had enough of this, something really interesting happens. and anything things happen to me all the time. all the time. i still feel i have the best job in the world. and it's still fun. more importantly, even, i think, it's still interesting. and uh, it's still challenging. in a good way. who wouldn't do this if they could? >> on your mark, get set, go!

♪ >> cheers. >> this may surprise you, but i am not an alcoholic. i don't drink at home ever. there's no beer in my fridge. if i'm not working, i'm not hanging out in bars. but if i was an alcoholic, well, i'd hang here. >> i love nature and cap reinia. >> i think you know what you're doing in life then. >> sizeable beverage. >> cheers. >> oh, taste like boner medicine. >> i'll have six more of these, please. ♪ >> so, i've had a couple cocktails. i think we should like totally get like tattooed tomorrow. [ laughter ]

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>> so i woke up in a state of confusion and deep concern after inadvertently making out with ernest borg nine last night. ♪ >> i've spiralled into some identity crisis. inadvertently making out with ernest borg nine, i'd like to say. it was very dramatic. i need to go to a strip club, and watch a football game, mow the lawn and barbecue all at the same time. i'll mow somebody else's lawn. and i don't mean that in a figurative way. i can't talk. >> people are very concerned and interested in the state of my lower gastrointestinal system. they ask, are you sick all the time? do you ever get sick? how bad was it? another common area of interest, or, i guess an assumption is that i am somehow helicoptered

from location to location, or carried aloft on a gilded litter by robot butlers or something. actually, the best parts of the show for me are the spaces between here and there. >> i feel it, like looking over a precipice, like that one, i feel it in my knees. cool. you know, like, if my knees could vomit with terror, they would be. they'd be vomiting with terror right now. they should have underwear stops on this road where you could, like, get a fresh pair. every couple of miles, it's like, that was scary. >> squeeze your cheeks tight and close your eyes. >> oh, the enchantment of india. ♪ >> the night train to st.

petersburg is one of the great fun things to do in russia. >> did you put on your jammies? >> i just want to state for the record, just because you're in the top bunk, that's no indication of anything relationship that we may or may not have. >> you and me have to be very careful in public, and if we bring up subjects like this, there could be some different repercussions. tolerance now exists in russia. that's why just recently people started to come out in russia, like lesbians and gays, they were either fired from their jobs or were given hard time to exist. >> what about chi kof ski? >> they try not to acknowledge it by saying he was a great musician. >> he was a great musician who liked to have sex with other men. >> that's what people are not meant to learn in school. ♪ >> the roaring of a powerful

engine, the screech of rubber, and off we go, kings of the road in our two horsepower classic. >> no power steering, huh? >> no kidding. >> it's like a toy car. ♪ [ cranking the engine ] ♪ [ laughter ] >> a brief respite by the side of the road and some passers by are apparently less appreciative fine automobiles than we are. [ horns honking ] >> all aboard.

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having dinner with you? >> this is a country of corruption. if you have business, you are in a very unsafe situation. everybody can press you and destroy your business. that's it. this is a system. >> critics of the government, critics of putin, bad things seem to have to them. >> yes. existing power represent, let i say, russia of 19th century, not of 21st. ♪ >> sitting here, the booths, the curtains, the whole ring bell for service thing, it seems lost in time. >> we have a long and ugly history. but one of the things i love about this place, you can't deny the burden of the past. it's right there. america chooses to deny its problems, in many ways. it declares itself a post racial society. that shit doesn't fly in mississippi. you can't claim that.

>> i'm not here on this planet to do the same thing every week. given the opportunity. i had third years of doing the same thing every day. eggs benedict, eggs benedict, eggs benedict. so given the opportunity to tell different sdrs in different ways and in different styles, i'm going to do that. and the freedom to do that is a fantastic privilege that i'm grateful for. very aware of and very grateful for. but what that means, i don't really like last week. maybe somebody this week will be deeply offended by my point of view. the week after that, you might agree with me completely. this bus makes many stops. you don't have to enjoy all of them. >> under former president felipe calderon, mexico launched a concerted war on drugs. ostensibly against the notorious and seemingly untouchable

cartels. absolutely no one can say with any credibility by the way, that mexico's war, or our trillion-dollar war, has had any effect in diminishing the flow of drugs into our country. one very brave journalist has uncovered exactly how deep the rot of corruption and dirty money has penetrated into every level of mexican institutions. >> do you think there was ever a minute when the calderon war on drugs -- >> yeah. >> was it ever genuine? >> no. who really start the war against the cartels was visent fox. he followed that strkz, but he doesn't do anything new. he just did it worst. since the beginning, the plan of the government was protect the sin on lowa cartel and fight against the enemies of the sino

lowa cartel. >> of the seven major mexican cartels, the sina lowa cartel is considered the most powerful, with the farthest-reaching and most pervasive tentacles, extending deep into every corner of government, banking, and private industry. it's rivals, the tijuana cartel, the gulf cartel, the juarez cartel, the belta leifia, la familia mish la canna and the particularly murderer rosettas. >> in your work, you've uncovered some embarrassing and incriminating associations or connections between very high elected officials. the presidents and entire administrations and acts of incredible criminality. how did that change your life? >> well, when i start to make this investigation in 2005, and

i really understand that it would be very dangerous, i have to say that it wasn't really a surprise for me what happened after i publish my book. what i didn't expect is that the threats came from the federal government. >> anna bell says that one of her sources said that the biggest threat was from within. that one of the most highly placed most senior law enforcement officials in mexico, had ordered her killed. >> because in my book, i put his name. and also showed some documents that proves that he was involved, that he was in the payroll of the sina lowa cartel. >> to me, the weak link are the bankers. a banker launders money, he's got a reputation, he's got a family. his neighbors think he's great. he's got something to lose.

so i'd be prosecuting bankers. >> the name of my book is -- that's because they're not only a book with the leaders of the cartels, no. it's also these, the politicians and bankers and the businessmen. the people have to know who are these people, name by name. >> you've been a journalist for how long? >> 20. >> 20 years. your father was killed, kidnapped and killed in 2000? >> my father was a businessman. in that year, and many gangs used to kidnap the businessmen just for money. so, when we went to the police and ask them to investigate, they said, well, if you pay us, we will make the investigation. so, as family, we decide to pay,

because you cannot buy the justice. since that, i really tried to fight against corruption. that's why i'm doing what i do. because i think that corruption is the worst problem in mexico. the drug cartels are maybe the worst face of the problem. but the problem in the big, is the corruption. the corruption is the mother of all our problems in mexico. >> it should be pointed out that 88 journalists -- how many journalists have been killed in this country? >> 90 now. >> 90 journalists have been killed or disappeared over the last few years. >> yeah. >> you could kill a journalist here and get away with it. why are you still here? >> i have lost many things in my life. my father was the most important person in my life. i already lost everything, i don't have any life anymore.

i don't have a social life. i don't have a cent mental life. i don't have anything. i just got my work and my family. and my work of journalist is everything for me. i really believe that good journalists can change the world. i have received many offers to go outside, to france, switzerland, other countries. i don't want to leave. it's my choice. my choice is fight. all the way until the am. new aleve pm the only one with a safe sleep aid. plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. ♪

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you eat roughly 400 meals during the course of a season of production. do you have a top five list? >> i eat a lot of meals off and on camera. many of those meals are good. many are really bad. a few are epic. truly epic. they do come along probably with more regularity in my life than in yours. and i will gloat about that on instagram whenever possible, by the way. ♪ >> when you have a dish this legendary, this iconic, there's no escaping it.

>> it's all about the technique. the moment you put the fish on the pan, the sauce, it's very important. to you, take about one minute. one minute is a time to have it perfect. >> perfect. >> it's really one of the great ideas of the 20th century. ♪ ♪ >> look at that. awesome. it's like a dream sandwich. >> what you go for here are smokes. smoked sausage sandwiches. and these magnificent beauties, pig ear sandwiches, called ears. >> everything we love, the texture, it makes a fatty lean -- oh, that's good. man, that is just hard to beat. ♪ >> vegetables, and like it.

chick peas. taste that, right here, my good man. >> that's good. >> if this was what vegetari vegetarianism meant, i'd be at least halvas less a [ bleep ] about the subject. ♪ >> so what did you order? >> grilled pig tail. >> so pig's brain. >> not a fan. >> then we ordered raw blood soup. >> really, that's like a horror movie. actually, that's completely delicious. let's see if we can change your mind about brains. >> delicious. i'm not lying. best meal. if you look at the meal with that, i am on the verge of tears. i am utterly intimidated. i am paralyzed with fan boyitis.

there's real hero worship going on there. absolute unapologetic hero worship. he's a titan. a true living giant, an institution, a hero. >> if you could just see how honored and grateful i am to be here. this say dream come true. [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> it is and was a part of the system. he came up with his own cruel and terrifying masters, and their faces are here. [ speaking french ] >> this was all the gang of the nouveau cuisine up there. '60s in new york. >> every great chef i've ever

met has nightmares of when they're still a young man, back in a kitchen and a chef is yelling at them. who are his masters? >> a woman. >> really? ♪ >> truffle soup elza. i can't tell you how many hours i stared at photos of this dish, how pathetically i tried to replicate it. never, ever did i think i'd get to try it. much less, like this. sea bass with a tomato bern az sauce baked in a meticulously crafted crust. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the fish is filled with a delicate lobster mousse, and wrapped carefully in pastry. notice, please, the careful and expert tableside carving and

service. >> he has been making the same thing for 50 years. he has an amazing respect for classic. >> the peasant classic. >> tony, get closer. >> you are totally sending me every one of those pictures, by the way. >> wow, look at that. this style of dish goes back long before cameras. but it's perfect. is there a more perfect assortment of colors and textures? >> in this one, a more luxurious version. all stewed long and at low temperature, then served with his own deeply rich broth. >> you think it's enough for the two of us? >> and then this. [ speaking foreign language ] >> as if the chef had been

listening to my deepest, darkest, secret yearnings, the legendary dish, almost completely disappeared preparation of wild hair. it's coated and sauced by its own heart, live, lung, that's been thickened with its own blood. after six hours of preparation, it's served as the chef prefers, whole on the bone. the rich glorious sauce finished with truffles, over and over until it coats like richest chocolate. >> everything great about cooking is encapsulated in this dish. >> many generations come forever. >> i will never eat like this again in my life. the meal of my life. >> today i was treated to the

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>> i've been really fortunate in that over the years i've gotten to know a lot of very interesting people. people very like me and people

very different from me. people with similar experiences, people with very different experiences. exactly the sort of people who are enormously helpful in introducing me to new cultures and new places. michael ruleman is one of those. michael's probably as different from me as anyone could be. i think he's a little more buttoned up than me, he's more sensible. he's all of those things i don't like. but i like him. and he knows a lot. ♪ ♪ >> there are places in vegas where the available rooms are not listed on any websites. places reserved for the whales, the high rollers, the 10 million a night gamblers who arrive by private plane. ♪

♪ >> bobby fla probably lives like this all the time. >> i honestly never thought it would have come to this. >> i was dunking fries 14 years ago. >> you've made some steps up. >> making me better about all this luxury looking back at that. victory in our time. ♪ ♪ >> the villa at caesar's palace. how did i get it? i told the casino that wolf blitzer was coming, that he was expected any minute. i suggested that wolf might be hungry, and they sent up food. fortunately he doesn't watch a lot of television, and i plan to live large until they figure out that wolf ain't coming. >> i'll deal with the fall-out later. but for now, we live.

>> so, gentlemen, this is caviar. everything is in layers. from the bottom of the glass, vinaigrette, tucked with cream of caviar, then with puree, and caviar and with your finishing the dish with more caviar. >> ah, beautiful. look at that. >> it's rare that i say it's too beautiful to eat. >> i was just thinking that. oh, speaking of fantastically luxurious. >> this is the artichoke soup with fresh black truffle and shaved parmigiana cheese. >> oh, man. that's truffle. >> mmm. >> this is a combination of peasant, and duck. cabbage. please enjoy.

>> wow, look at this. that is beautiful. >> do you feel guilty eating this well? >> i do. >> you do? >> i do. >> wow. do you feel enlightened, and inspired by this meal? >> what are you asking? trying to get at something. >> trying to make myself feel better, that i'm down with the people, man, i'm still cool. >> this guilt keeps coming back. you keep bringing up the guilt. >> you're right, i feel guilty. >> then don't use the showers. what are you doing here if you feel so guilty about it? >> i don't, i don't. i feel guilty about not feeling guilty. >> that's more to the point. being honest with yourself. >> right. >> and then of course there's zam ir, what can i say about zam ir, there's always challenge involved. lots of alcohol, way more than i should drink. he's a complicated man, i'm not sure who understands him. he's not just my comedy sidekick. this is a very accomplished guy

who survived and landed on his feet through soviet times. you put the two of us together and let the weirdness begin. >> russia is full of characters with murky pasts and shadowy connections. but one of them i've called a friend for more than a decade. >> tony? >> wow. >> i guess i'm switching to vodka. >> zam ir. all right, brother. ♪ >> now, my concern is that back in the day, this place was famous for all of the rooms were bugged. >> not anymore, i'm sorry. >> oh, really? >> no. times change. >> as a born moscowite, want you to tell me frankly, in a week from now, zam ir, now i

understand what stereotypes sometimes send a bad message about russia. >> i have an open mind. russia is great, they do anything they want. >> why don't we just taste the awesomeness. welcome to russia. >> i'm trying to be kind of sober. >> i prefer this special for you, russian tapas. >> special for vodka drinking. >> small pancakes, then blintz. and this is white fish with salt and a little bit of pepper. >> thank you. >> i'm hitting the caviar. >> some more vodka. >> what do you think? what is the perception of mr. putin these days after 14 years he's in power?

>> my perception? do you really want to hear it? >> i'm not sure, but let's see. >> short. i think that's very important. he likes to take his shirt off a lot. >> let's be serious. >> he strikes me as a businessman. >> he is. >> a businessman with an ego, okay, so he's like donald trump but shorter. >> i think my friend needs some kind of booze. to you, comrade. ♪ >> like this. >> you can have that one. i'll get the next one. ♪ >> ooh. i'm sorry serious about your one-week stay in russia. i want you to enjoy every minute of it. i hope you'll get something new, positive, to share around the world. that's my mission.

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>> i don't even understand what's going on. everybody dances and sings. i don't get it. ♪ >> oh, yeah. wow.

i like music. it's an important part -- very important part of the show. it's a very important part of the preproduction of the show, as we're figuring out what we're figure to do, i'll spend a lot of time talking about the soundtrack. plus, i really and truly believe that whenever possible, less me, more beef. the less i have to be on camera jabbering witlessly to the lens, the better. ♪ >> come ye lords and princelings of douche dom. here my clarion call. anointed thigh self-with gel. let there be high-fiving and hugging of many bros. for this is the kingdom and the power. now frolic and maketh it to rain. ♪ what's rock'n'roll supposed to be about, other than cars and girls and aggression?

about dissent, about rebellion, right? in russia, where everything is supposed to be just fine, that could be a dangerous position. >> uh-oh. >> and then, there will be, yes, singing. and no doubt, the telling of lusty jokes, followed by serious official business. ♪ [ singing in foreign language ] >> karaoke scene in the thailand episode, we're referencing a very obscure film called "city of ghosts" that just had a very effective scene in it with a debauched looking american guy singing in -- i forget whether

it was thai. we wanted to do that. we can, so we did. ♪ [ foreign language ] ♪ [ singing in foreign language ] >> this guy's good. >> that could be me someday, i'm thinking. things go just a little wrong, i go off the rails, that would be all too attractive. i could well see myself singing

happy birthday in german to tourists at a hotel bar in jakarta or bangkok. ♪ ♪ you should be thankful the party's not over ♪ ♪ we won the race i'm over here cooking victory ♪ ♪ you want a taste ♪ >> he's a proud son. owner of a marketing agency and hip-hop artist. >> any movement in the world has a soundtrack. regardless of what it is. so that's our job. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> this coming season is going to be a mix of very -- a couple of very personal shows, like really personal shows. other ones are going to be probably very controversial and timely. this season, like every other season, it's how do we do something different than the week before? let's do that. whatever it was last week, let's just do the opposite of that. let's always push forward. let's always challenge ourselves. let's always do the hard thing, even the stupid thing, as long as it's a different thing. ♪ ♪ shanghai. whatever you think of china, whatever you think you think of china, there's no way around it. it's one of the most dynamic, exciting, fast-changing places on earth.

♪ >> i'd like to know a lot about chaina. i'd like to know everything about china. if i've learned anything, it's that there's not enough time to be reasonably conversation on the subject. >> i've already learned something important here. >> it's just too big, too old, too deep. when you're confronted with this impossibly steep learning curve, that's fun. oh, and the food. did i mention the food? what do i know about chinese food? really? i know nothing. other than it's really, really tasty. delicious. and i want more of it. lots more. >> this is the bronx. you've probably heard about it. you may even have a pretty solid image in your head of what it looks like, what it is like, or maybe you can't picture it at all. certainly the south bronx sounds familiar. as a dangerous place.

for the most part, the bronx is overlooked, the never visited borough in new york city. which is a shame. because the bronx is a magical place with its own energy, its own food, vibe, and rhythm. you've been to brooklyn. maybe it's time you took a look at the bronx. >> i can't lay off this pork. it's insane. ♪ ♪ >> when we talk about africa, we sadly tend to think of it as a country. africa is not a country. africa is a continent, an incredibly diverse and complicated one. whatever image we have of africa, tends to be formed by whatever filmed we've seen.

♪ ♪ all of those romantic notions of, i want to see magnificent landscapes, incredible animals, and extraordinary vistas, and magnificent people, the other and all of its diversity and beauty and strangeness. tanzania has got that. all that stuff you thought you wanted, the most jaw-dropping moments, it's here. ♪ ♪ >> iran. finally. i've been trying to get in this country five years now. it's been the big blank spot on my things to do list. ♪

♪ >> the iran i've seen on tv and read about in the papers, it's a much bigger picture. let's put it this way. it's complicated. and i think it's going to shock the hell out of you. ♪ ♪ >> at the end of a shooting day, what do you like to do? >> i like to sleep. my favorite thing to do, and i don't know whether this is tragic or not, sit down with people who make the show and talk about what we're going to do on the next show. we'll have a few beers and we'll talk about music, movies we love, and what's the most

[ muted ] thing we can do next week. trucked up. did i say trucked up? ♪ what are our expectations? which of the things we desire are within reach?