decide her fate, giving her either life or death. >> i'm going to rub it all over my body. >> that's how you get pregnant. >> i can't feel my legs. is that a bad thing? >> we don't know what we don't know. >> that money will somehow trickle down. >> no way. i share my toilet with no man. move it along.

>> i am a man of simple needs.

>> okay. >> so, dad, it's been two years on the road with "parts unknown requests." 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, just when you think i've had enough of this, something interesting happens. interesting things happen to me all of the time. i still feel i have the best job in the world. and it's still fun. more importantly, it's still interesting. and it's still challenging. in a good way. who wouldn't do this if they couldn't? on your mark, get set, go.

this may surprise you, but i am not a 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 a alcoholic, i'd hang here. >> i love nature. >>. >> it's a sizable beverage. >> oh. >> tastes like boner medicine. >> six more of these, please. >> so, i had a couple cocktails. maybe we should totally get, like, tat tooed tomorrow. >> time for bed.

>> so i woke up in a state of

confusion and deep concern last night. i was spiral led into some identity crisis, inadvertently, i might say. it was very dramatic. i need to go to a strip club, watch a football game, mow the lawn and barbecue at the same time. >> people are very concerned and interested in the state of my lower gastrointestinal system. they asked, are you sick all of 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

guilted litter by robot butlers or something. actually, the best parts of the show, for me, are the spaces fween here and there. >> i feel it. looking over the precipice, like that one, i feel it in my knees. if my knees could vomit with terror, they would be. they would be vomiting with terror right now if they could be. they should get a fresh pair every couple of miles. oh, that one is scary. >> squeeze your cheeks tight and close your eyes. love the enchantment of india. the night train to st. petersburg is one of the great, fun things to do in russia.

>> i just want to state for the record, just because you're in the top bunk, that's no indication of any relationship that we may or may not have. >> you and me have to be very careful, my man. if we bring up sukts like this, there could be some different repercussions. tolerance never existed in russia. that's why when people just started to come out in russia, like lesbians and gays, they were either fired from the jobs or given hard time to exist. >> but what about tchaikovsky? >> they try not to acknowledge it by saying he was a great musici musician? >> they try not to acknowledge it by saying he had sex with other men. >> that's what people are taught not to learn in school. >> the roaring of a powerful engine. off we go.

two-horsepower classic. >> no power steering, huh? >> you're kidding. >> it's like a toy car. >> some passers by are less appreciative of fine automobiles than we are. >> this is going to be suboptimal. yeah, i think this reclines.

good thing they have a laxed attitude with prescription drugs. before you're ton way to the himalayas, you better self medicate. as my brightly-colored little train climbs up to the gateway to the himalayas, my world view starts to improve. the naturally bright colors of india starts to pleasurably saturate my brain. >> it's, well, breathtaking.

>> do you ever vomit? is that interesting? answer, it's been, like, 14 years of this and, you know, twice. it's a pretty good average.

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one of the things i'm proudest of about this show is that we are able to move very freely from serious subjects to sort of silly subjects from very personal ones to political ones. things i watch you, 23 at all possible, to enjoy the way i enjoy them. things i like you to see the way that i saw them. >> so, we were supposed to be

dining at another restaurant this evening and when they heard you were joining me, we were uninvieted. should i be concerned? >> this is a country of corruption. you are in a very unsafe situation. everybody can press you and destroy your business. >> kritices of the government. bad things seem to happen to them. >> yes. unforchew flatly, it's existent to represent russia in 19th century. not the 21st. >> sitzing here in the booths, the curtain, it seems lost in time. >> we got a long history. but it's one of the things that i love about this place. you can't deny the burden of the past. it's right there. america chooses to deny.

>> i'm not hereby on this planet to do the same thing every week, given the opportunity. i had 30 years of doing the same thing every day. eggs benedict, eggs benedict, eggs benedict. so given the opportunity to tell different things 234 different styles, i'm going to do that. and the freedom is a fantastic privilege that i'm really grateful for. very aware of and very grateful for. but what that means is maybe, really like last week's episode and this week you will be deeply o fernded by my half form point of view. the week after that, you might agree with me completely. mexico launched a war on drugs.

a seemingly untouchable war on drugs. >> no, the war against the cartels was the fox. so just followed that instruction. but he didn't really do anything new. he just did his worst since the beginning. the planets, the government

protect protected the cartel. >> of the 7 major mexican cartels, the sinaloa cartel was the most pervasive, extending deep into every corner of public, banking and private sbus ri. its rivals, the tijuana cartel, the jaru sderks, and the particularly murderous lo zetas. >> you've uncovered what had to be some association between very highly elected officials and entire administrations and acts of incredible criminality.

how would that change your life? >> i really understand, i have to say that it wasn't really a surprise for me. what happened. what i didn't expect was that the threats came from the federal government. >> annabel says that one of the most highly-placed, most senior law enforcement officials in mexico had ordered her killed. >> in my book, i put his name and showed some documents that proves that he was involved, he was on the payroll of this cartel. to me, the weak links are the bankers. his neighbors think he's great,

his kids think he's wonderful. but he's got something to lose. >> the leaders know. the businessmen. the people have to know who are these people and name by name. >> you've been a journalist for how long? >> 20 years. >> your father was killed in 2000? >> my father was a businessman. in that year, many gangs used to kidnap businessmen just for money. so when we went to the police and asked 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 what i'm doing what i do. i think that corruption is the worst problem in mexico. the drug cartels are maybe the worst face of that problem. but the problem, in the deep, is the krupgsz. the corruption is the mother of all of our problems in mexico. >> and you pointed out that 88 journalists, how many journalists 1234. >> 90. 90 now. >> 90 journalists have been killed or disappeared over the last few years. here? >> yeah. >> you could kill a journalist and get away with it. >> why are you still here?

>> i have lost many things 234 my life. my father was the most important thing in my life. i lost everything. i don't have a life anymore. i don't have a social life. i don't have anything. i just have my work and my family. i really believe that good journalists can change the world. >> i have received many offers to go outside. i don't want to do that. that's my choice. my choice is fight. creeping up . fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... smoothies! only from tums.

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my choice is fight. 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 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. 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 bearnaise 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. >> the peasant classic.i'd >> the peasant classic.i'd >> 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 greatest hits of a glorious and fabled career. for the first and probably the last time i sat next to the great man himself, and daniel and i were served a menu that chefs will look back on in a hundred years and smile at appreciatively, respectfully, and sentimentally. y get in shape. not to be focusing, again, on my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. so i finally made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance on humira. and the majority of people were clear or

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i'll never forget it. chiapas. live it to believe it.

>> 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 ruhlman 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 flay 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 zamir, what can i say about zamir, there's always challenge involved. involved.now

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. >> zamir. 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, zamir, 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. there comes a time in everyone's life when you want more. like a new meticulously engineered german sedan. finely crafted. exactingly precise. desire for such things often outpaces one's means. until now. hey matt, new jetta? yeah. introducing lots of new. the new volkswagen jetta. isn't it time for german engineering?

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. ♪ ♪ oh baby won't you please come on home ♪ baby won't you please come home ♪ >> next sunday on "parts unknown," the bronx. >> it's where the men are tough, the women are sexy, and the food blarng who work with portfolio management experts that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration.

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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 china. 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? if not now, when? and will there be some left for me?