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>> they don't inecessarily have to be in tune. they like to sing. >> we've been listening to music from a very young age. >> at 10:00, a original series, united shades of america and the premiere is tonight. i'm pamela brown. have a great week. delve into another subject? i was thinking about a show about topiary? i was thinking japanese flower arranging. watercolors. no, actually i wasn't thinking of anything. ♪ ♪ >> first order of business, dinner. ♪ ♪ >> oh, yeah. black pepper crab, right here.
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♪ ♪ oh, today just got better. lovely. thank you. >> they're not dicking around. >> dude. ♪ >> somebody throws this away. stupid people. >> it's like unicorn juice. ♪ ♪ >> chocolate -- charquaychow, bitches. >> this is just incredibly beautiful. >> would you like a drink? >> i think i would like a beer and maybe a shot of something. ♪ ♪ i feel leak a college party or something like that is perfect. ♪ ♪ all right. the frenzy is over and now i need a more relaxed phase.
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borneo, istanbul, bay area. >> uh-huh. >> do you have any recollection of any of these? >> it's all a blur. >> it's all a blur. >> a long line of airports and strange toilets. >> beyond, that does anything else stick out? >> there are a few golden moments that do come to mind. >> yeah? >> that stick out from the blur. >> they do? >> yes. >> are you just saying that or do you really have golden moments? >> no. there are a few moments that i look back on that mean something to me. i mean -- flavors and smells are powerful things. you know, the -- your girlfriend -- your first girlfriend's perfume 25 years later whiffed in the street still has a powerful effect. >> let's start somewhere different. let's talk about the food first. in that set of shows. >> right. >> just for your -- >> yes. >> edification, we're going to
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hit on the noodle breakfast in qaaching. >> right. >> and on the cheese in marseille. >> okay, yeah. >> don't tell me what we're going to do. let's do it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i sat at this same table last time. i look at my life as a continued trail of noodles. going round and round the world until it comes right back to the same, spicy bowl. ♪ >> oh, yeah. ♪ ♪ >> that is -- can i say to tombescent on cnn? >> before we go forward on this, can you please define tombescent. >> it means engorged, plumped, filled with blood or other fluid, about to blow, so to
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speak. it's just a magical dish. >> i don't know. two types of noodles, i think. chicken, prawn, coconut, chili. you know, the main event to this is the broth. the wisdom of the ages is contained in there. it's like super complex. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> best breakfast ever. >> you -- you -- that sort of scent memory of the perfume or the scent of that girl. did you ever have a girlfriend that smelled of stinky french cheese. >> did i ever have a girlfriend that smelled of stinky fresh cheese. no, that's an appalling suggestion. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> cheese. oh, god, the cheese. >> oh! >> i've got to tell you, i don't
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care how many naked breasts are on that beach right now because that is much more exciting. ♪ ♪ >> look at it. it's beautiful. >> yes. oh, look at that. >> oh, man! ♪ ♪ >> oh, i love it. >> cheese like this. that is just incredible. >> merci. yes. ♪ ♪ >> oh, yes! ♪ ♪ >> oh, yes. ♪ ♪ >> oh! >> life is good. >> life is good. >> marseille. >> it is very good in marseille. >> sean brock, in the scene that you guys did at the waffle house, was there a moment there when he sort of -- the admission of this is the first time as a kid i sat in a restaurant like
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this, and i got to watch people work. >> jean brock one of the greatest chefs in the country had his first i want to be a cook epiphany at a waffle house. his love for the place is utterly without irony and it is genuine. at a time when everyone is shouting at each other in a political discourse and it's just horrendous, a place like the waffle house becomes all the more rare and enchanted and important. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it is, indeed, marvelous. an irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. where everybody, regardless of race, creed, color or degree of inebriation is welcomed. its warm, yellow flow, a beacon of hope and salvation inviting the hungry, the lost, the seriously hammered all across the south to come inside. a place of safety and nourishment.
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it never closes. it is always, always faithful, always there for you. >> now look. i'm look at my hash brown, and i am already confused and enticed. sausage gravy. >> you can't go all in. you want everything. >> i need to make a choice. >> so there is a balance and when you find your balance you memorize it. you can get other chunks. >> which means i scattered on the griddle, cheese and chunks of hickory-smoked ham. >> that's my style. i've been doing that since day one and i don't even know what that means. >> you know -- i don't want waffles at the waffle house. >> [ expletive ] you have to have -- >> waffles? >> the common waffle. what i devised as a chef is a tasting menu experience where you can sit down and really experience what this place does and you start out first thing
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you have, pecan waffle. >> really? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hi, gentlemen. >> oh, the pecan waffle. ♪ ♪ >> you just crush it and you put -- just slather it. >> i want it to be swimming in syrup and homogenized vegetable oil. >> oh, that's good. >> see? you don't come here expecting the french laundry. you come here expecting something amazing. >> this is better than the french laundry, man. ♪ ♪ >> and then, second course, patty melt, split. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> oh, the patty melt! >> oh! >> come on. that's not insanely delicious? >> oh, god. >> that's insanely delicious. would you rather have thin-cut pork chops or a t-bone?
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>> i would like both. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> after a few bites of waffle, a burger, a hunk of generic t-bone and some hash browns one feels drawn to the center of what makes our country great. in america, a moment that cloo makes he want to recite the star-spangled banner and o, say can you see, and i can't be the first. >> you know what owami means in japanese, actually? the literal translation? >> orgasm? >> no. >> umami means in japanese, if you -- literally means i will -- [ laughter ] that burger. [ laughter ]
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okay. this was -- this footage comes from an extended series of re-creations, historical re-creations. look, we try very, very hard all the time to be different. this is an example of something that was creative, sort of outrageous. the idea was to illustrate and give background to a very complicated okinawan story, okinawan history. ultimately, i just don't think it was right for my show, but a noble effort and beautiful.
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okinawa. what came next was what okinawans called a typhoon of steel. the fighting was brutal for both sides. the cost in lives, and resources for the allied forces was tremendous and when it was over, military planners looked at the mainland and looked at what okinawa had cost them and projected even more appalling losses. what is not widely known is that mre people died during the battle of okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. >> after the united states ships landed on okinawa, the okinawan defense forces ordered military people and the civilians you cannot use other than -- and you
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nobody abused. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the second part of this act is the lost scene that was done. we make our way back to the scent of a girl. >> really? >> was i comparing women to egg salad? that's a shameful metaphor is going on there, really? >> think you may have been. >> if anybody finds that offensive they have ever right to. really? >> yeah. >> look, i was in a vulnerable and emotional state, but i was very happy to receive my little pillows of love. god, i wanted egg salad sandwich right now. like, right now. actually three. i would like three. >> so i've given up many vices in my life, many shameful, filthy, guilty pleasures that i
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used to like that i will -- that i just don't do anymore, cocaine, heroin, prostitutes, the musical stylings of stephen tyler. i've put aside these childish things, as it were, in favor of a newer, more mature me, but there is one shameful secret. one thing i just can't give up. one thing i keep coming back to every time i come back to japan, one thing that still has a holy grip on me for mow reasno reaso can gather. it's the convenience store formerly of near akron, ohio, that mutated into a massive japanese chain, behold the wonder that is lawsome.
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every time i come here i gotta have it. i can't quit you, babe. let us explore. why? what is it exactly about this place that's got its tant akels so deep into my heart and my soul. ♪ ♪ ♪soul. ♪ ♪ ♪soul. ♪ ♪ >> where are you? i know you're around here somewhere. ♪ ♪ >> pillows of love. egg salad from lawson. i need a beverage. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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an identity crisis. >> this space turns into a space of politics, a space of hope against this system which seems to be, like, impossible to break, actually. >> enough of this nonsense. ♪ ♪ >> take the labels off and just look at me. >> in the beginning of the 20th century there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> they're taking our jobs, as usual. >> some of them are buying our land. >> a challenge to those who see the future and my past. >> young people have got to go out there and they've got to be progressive enough, not only to influence brutality, but to demand and know. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i see change with the patience of centuries.
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>> the hope is the revolution, you know? if you lose your hope then there's nothing to do. ♪ ♪ >> time has not passed me by. it has protectioned me. ♪ ♪ >> i ask of you the same. >> you've said in shows and out of shows and interviews and stuff that there is a tendency after years and years and years of this traveling to sort of take on a certain numbness after having seen so much everywhere. >> right. >> in this particular case, when you went to cuba and you're talking to people who are really -- it's a new world for them. >> right. >> it's not a new world for you. >> oh, this scene -- this scene with the journalist. it's not easy to be a dissident in cuba. it's not easy to be a journalist with any aspirations of -- towards speaking your mind in
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cuba. that immediately makes you a dissident whether you identify yourself as one or not. so this is a very courageous young woman to have lived that the she chose and to say things that she's saying to us on camera without fear who is proud of her revolution and proud to be cuban, but who is telling us openly where she feels it has failed her and the cuban people. a rather extraordinary thing. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you see me. [ speaking spanish ] >> my mom is asking me if you would like to taste the rice. >> oh, it's fantastic. >> like a lot of cubans, yosemi
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rodriguez lives in the same, woing class neighborhood where she was born. >> i live with my mom, my sister and my niece, and of course, i would like to have my own bedroom, but there are people who don't even have a house. >> you were a translator, is that correct, and you are now a journalist? >> yeah, well. i've been writing for "havana times" and i write for cuba which is ago independent website. >> she struggles to eke out a living in an industry where the state firmly controls all media. >> what subjects in particular are of interest to you? >> the racial issue. >> racial disparity. >> this is something that the revolution promised to address. >> their main mistake was to state that they had eradicated racism, just like it could be eradicated just like that on the street, for instance, policemen, the first people they stop are black people. if you're black you are a
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potential criminal. >> you have a very highly educated public here. >> we are highly educated, as you said, but we are behind concerning -- even though we know that stuff, most have access to only the official media and the official newspaper. if internet comes, and i think the government is trying to delay it, if that comes many things will change. people who will have access to different points of view, and i don't think our government wants that. >> if everything goes well -- >> what will havana be like? what will this neighborhood be like in five years? >> you know, having a prosperous society doesn't guarantee that it is the same for everyone, you know. you see these people who have been able to use opportunities to open businesses and to open successful restaurants. those opportunities are there,
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but i cannot use them because i don't have money. i don't think it is possible to have a perfect society, but i think it is possible to try. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> okinawans may be easy going and laid back, but the island is also a hotbed of political activism and largely inspired or provoked by what okinawans see as high-handed treatment with historical traditions who don't consider their needs or priorities. and they're hugely disproportionate shouldering of the u.s.-military presence for the entire country. currently, there are close to 30 military installations on okinawa, and even though it's one of the smallest japanese prefectures in terms of livable area, they accommodate more than half of the foreign military presence. >> the military base issue, is
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this more important for older people or younger people? >> it's for the older people. >> it's for the older people. >> yes. so when you actually go to a place where they have a protest going on, i would say over 80% of the people are all retired persons. >> why do you think that is? >> because this is only my opinion, but japanese imperial army did a lot of brutal stuff on this island and war never ended for some people and the feelings that they got suppressed all of a sudden after they retired they kind of burst and they want to kind of -- >> act out. >> act out. >> it seems the anti-base sentiment also coincide with an anti-central government sentiment. >> yes. >> you do bear a hugely disproportionate burden of bases and isn't activism calleded for here? >> i think the young generation should decide what to do for our
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♪ ♪ it's basically greco-roman wrestling. just they're greased up. as i understand it, you can't choke with two hand, only one. >> yes. >> you can just slip your hand -- >> right down into some greasy ass crack. ♪ >> your wife's getting slammed up against the wall by a pack of -- she's not putting up much of a fight. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i always said you should have a truck. >> yeah. i'll do it with you. >> do you have pizza experience? >> never did a pizza in my life. >> does he know this? >> no, he doesn't know. i'm going to tell him. >> take another taxi because i talk too much. >> so this has failed. please spare me from another, tony tries to catch a fish, but doesn't, hilarity ensues or tony
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goes hunting and doesn't succeed. i do. i present myself as freakin' dinty moore, here? do i look like the brawny outdoors type? that ain't me. there is always the risk that i'm going to come up empty and often i do. [ shot fired ] >> i want the turkey ninja couture. i want to look cool. >> camouflage is the standard go out wear in south carolina. i'm bringing that look to new york. so pants, need those. >> all right. >> you know, in south carolina our state bird is the moss dittditt mosquito. >> so i need to be covered head to toe. >> next, we have to have your face covered up. >> go into a waffle house like this. >> this is totally me. ♪ >> we do have some turkey vest. >> a turkey vest, yes.
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i've got to have it. ♪ ♪ >> this is your last day on earth, mr. turkey. you will die now. prepare to meet your maker. ♪ ♪ >> here's the thing about hunting. the likelihood of me successfully shooting even the stun iedest animal on camera are about the same as adam sandler making a good movie. basically, a magical unicorn is going to land in front of me and shower me with candy and vibing kin vicodins before i shoot a freakin' turkey on camera. that shot you heard was me shooting a producer in the calf and telling him to hobble over to the piggly wiggly for a frozen gobbler before he bleeds out. look. i'm not hunting in borneo. i'm dispatching.
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i don't enjoy killing or torturing animal, but on the other hand, it's a pig. it's delicious. the whole village is going to eat it and you hand me awe spear and say honored guest, it's up to you. i'll do the job with a minimum of force and pain. i mean, who wouldn't? well, you i guess. ♪ ♪ >> we will eat pork and unfortunately, that means, a pig must die. ♪ ♪ >> more awkwardly, custom and my personal history in this village demands once again that i do the job. ♪ ♪ i'd like to tell you that this is never easy, that i felt this time like i did the first time, sad, nauseated, complicit, but that would be a lie.
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>> we're going to work out some viewer email questions. >> viewer email -- >> i love viewer email questions. >> you do? >> oh, yeah. come on, let me have it upon. sally from london, england, says where did the passion come for karate come from? >> it's brazilian. >> you >> the sue, if you've never felt someone a third your age die in your arms and their will to live slowly drain out of them as you compress your carotid artery, you really haven't lived. ♪ ♪ >> i will never be young again. ♪ ♪ or any younger than i am today. ♪ ♪ >> i will never be faster or more flexible. i will never win competitions against 22-year-old wrestlers in my weight class, but none of that matters anymore. ♪ ♪ ♪
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♪ >> oh! ♪ >> now decapitate me. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> henry salesman has cats or dogs? i like cats. >> who doesn't like kittens? i like kittens. i like big old, nasty cats. i like cats in general. my personal sit though loyal like a dog and actiffect at, clearly, my personality is more catlike in the i don't give a -- department. stan of houston, texas, asks are you and eric the new glimmer twins or martin and lewis. actually, who would be dean martin and jerry lewis?
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>> i am clearly the debonair dean martin and that's why he is and always will be awesome. i'm just not funny like eric. eric, that guy is a laugh factory. don't be fooled by the french accent or the perfect hair. that is one funny dude. ♪ ♪ >> this car is sweet! >> yeah. >> it's totally '70s. hugh hefner probably had one of these, no? >> arlen probably had one of these. >> seth would probably bang jane bergen in the back of one of these. no, actually you need a little room. ♪ ♪ >> you like -- if i make a green salad are you going to eat it? >> no. >> this one's better. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> do you have a black tapenade with basil or the traditional
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one. >> no time to mess around here. >> we're going to eat like pigs. >> so what else is new? >> and the wine. a very, very expensive wine. ♪ ♪ >> we'll be needing that. okay. that's our cheese selection. here's our -- which i will be artfully plating. baking like a meat loef and you go from freezing to high heat and i tell you, this provence is -- >> it's rough, huh? >> it's not bad. >> by the time i get half way through this bottle, you'd think this is the finest -- and by the way, we are not suggesting, advising, recommending or in any way condoning the driving of a motor vehicle especially a high-powered italian-french hybrid while drunk because that would be wrong. >> no, we'll take a nap before. >> right. until our blood alcohol level is in alignment with all local regulations and laws. this is not like my show at all, actually.
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i'm going to get [ expletive ] if are this, you're not keeping it real anymore, man. it looks like a wine label. as a buddhist, does this worry you? >> i'm sorry? >> as a buddhist does this worry you considering how well this turned out for you. >> no. it's good karma from my last life vr life. >> the next life can't be better than this. it will probably suck. the best case scenario if you sit in a sub shot in asbury park, new jersey, that would be the best day of your life. >> the most challenging -- >> most likely you end up, you know, a mime. >> a -- >> a diseased, i tin rant mime wandering the streets scrounging for money or worse. >> you're a desperate case. >> how much better can it be than this? enjoy every minute of this now, eric and pray, pray, pray that this is it, that at the end of the day they roll you into a hole in the ground and you're diet for worms because if you're
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right and there is a next life we are -- my friend. it is to be enlightened and come back and help as many people as you can and all phenomenons of life there and what you perceive as reality is ultimately one. let's leave it at that. >> serenity now. but the specialists at ford like to show off their strengths: 13 name brands. all backed by our low price tire guarantee. yeah, we're strong when it comes to tires. right now during the big tire event, get a $120 rebate by mail on four select tires. when your ford needs service, these are the specialists. at ford. don't go to paris. don't tour paris. and please, don't "do" paris.
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♪ hey, welcome! live in paris. when you airbnb in paris, you have your own home. make your bed. ♪ cook. ♪ you know, the stuff you normally do. don't go to la, don't go to new york, don't go to tokyo. live there. live in malibu, live in the east village, live in shinagawa. feel at home, anywhere. do your regular routine. ♪ wherever you go, don't go there. ♪ live there. ♪ even if it's just for a night. ♪ they give awards for spelling but everyone knows cheese.s. cracker barrel has won awards for their delicious cheddar and they put that cheddar in a new macaroni & cheese. can you spell delicious?
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you're done. >> you're done. i have just one word association for the upcoming season. >> can we just do a word association. >> word association. >> i love word association. hot, cold. >> chicago. >> chicago, come on. it ain't no second city. that is -- it's -- it's every other city you go to outside of new york you tell them you're from new york and they have to -- they seem to feel compelled to compare themselves in some way either favorably or unfavorably to new york. chicago feels no such need. it's really -- it might be the capital of america's, like, no
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bull shit zone. it's chicago. how could you not make a good show in chicago? it's a lot of pressure, but we tried. >> okay. this is not word association. >> well, good. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> chicago. it's the kind of city that sinatra should have sung songs about, actually. i'm pretty sure he did sing songs about chicago. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey, chicago! ♪ ♪ >> in my view, just about everything about chicago is awesome. they have great art museums. they've got great music, they've got fantastic high-end restaurant, beautiful parks, incredible architecture. we are doing none of those
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things on this show, by the way. there's no delicate way to eat this. >> she was a segway tour guide. i'm serious. >> this is the food that speaks to my soul. >> their pizza, however -- ♪ ♪ >> this is a problem. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in the best of circumstances, how could you do a philippines show that's going to make anybody happy? ♪ ♪ >> i mean, there's, like 7,000 islands. ♪ >> and due to typhoon-related problems this time out we were confined to one of them. ♪ ♪ >> but is it even a manila show?
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i don't know. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i think we got a little slice of the filipino character. ♪ >> which maybe what this show is all about. >> merry christmas, everybody! >> here in georgia they drink something called cha cha. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and they like you to drink a lot of it. it sounds innocuous enough. it's not. it hurts. it hurts a lot. ♪ ♪ >> you're becoming a georgian. be careful. ♪ >> chances are you don't know a lot about this country. i don't like the word charming, but i am utterly charmed by this place. ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> everyone here is really nice. the architecture is beautiful. the food is extraordinarily delicious and complex. ♪ ♪ >> you should come here. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> numberville, land of encha enchantme enchantment. >> we are not doing nashville. >> we're not doing that now? >> no. that's not until next time. >> excellent. >> i hate travel minutes. >> i'm complicit because near the end i've had it and maybe i'm aware that we haven't done a travel minute and maybe i'm not saying that i would be, but maybe, possibly i wouldn't mention it if nobody else brings it up like it really willn't occur to me. wait a minute, guys before you take off the mike.
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