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to learn about alaska, so i packed up the bag and got the all-weather jacket and i went to alaska and bought some new clothes [ laughter ] >> my name is w. kamau bell, and as a comedian, i have made a living finding humor in the parts of america that i don't understand, and now, i'm challenging myself to dig deeper, i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all of the cultures and beliefs that have added color to the crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." alaska -- natives have survived this brutal environment for thousands of years. today, its unique wildlife, remote e locati location, and n beauty and severe winters all contribute to the reputation as america's last frontier, and as a californian, an avid indoorsman, the last frontier is the last place i want to be. but here i am in anchorage,

alaska, the state's biggest city to find out more about the culture and to get an experience more authentic than watching an alaskan reality show. maybe the locals can tell me if i am getting the real alaskan experience. what is your name? >> casey. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, kamau. >> this is my first trip to alaska and is this a typical alaskan experience? >> no. >> this is like any town usa here. >> this is tourist area. >> okay. so i'm in the tourist district. >> yes. >> this is my first time in alaska and i did not expect to see, and what is the word i am looking for -- black people. what is it like to be black in alaska? >> interesting, i guess. >> and walking around on the streets, how many black people do you typically see? >> three or four. >> and more if you pass mirrors. and what does it mean to ban alaskan native? >> handle the cold. >> clear ly. >> obviously.

>> if somebody asks where i am from, i lead with alaska, because the inevitable do you know sarah palin question comes up. >> do you know sarah palin? >> i have met her on a few occasions, and i know her s sister. >> they ask the dumb question if you know sarah palin, and you actually do know sarah palin. >> well, there are only so many people in the state. >> so you are a native alaskan? >> yes. >> and so now, alaska native means somebody born in the state of alaska? sgle y we are unique. >> and the natives are broken up into 11 regional and native tribes and most people think that you can call them eskimos but they are not, so you can't. and are you thinking of taking the pow e back? is there a revolution in? if there is, i want in. and when we turn on the tv and it is the alaskan show, and it is not this? when we think of alaska in the lower 48, we think of tundra and

polar bears, and where do i need to get that? >> far north. >> like where? >> barrow. you can hit up barrow for polar bears. >> so if i go to barrow, i will get the alaskan experience i see on television? >> yes, people shooting things randomly. >> well, we have that in the states. so i guess that i am leaving anchorage and going to barrow, and so now it is time for the recurring segment, kamau wonders why the hell he is doing this, and if youn are wondering why i am skeptical, here are some fact s no. roads in and out of town, and two, completely dark for two whole months of the year, and three, it is 320 miles into the arctic circle, which means that it is 320 miles past where i am supposed to be. landing in barrow is certainly looking like more like i'm on the path to the real alaska and also to the path to frostbite.

i often joke about being in the mid of nowhere, but this is actually the middle of nowhere. it is so cold that i'm afraid that my afro is going to break. i'm headed to the appropriately named top of the world hotel, and thankfully, this taxi line is not like the one at lax. hello. can you take me to the top of the world. >> okay. top of the world hotel. okay. welcome to barrow. >> okay. what is your name? >> c.j. >> my name is kamau. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. thanks for giving me a ride. now i can't say that a black man can't get a cab in alaska. where are you from? >> thailand. >> thailand? with what brought you here? >> work. >> and this is very different than thailand. >> yes are. >> it would it be bad if i decided to walk from the airport

to downtown? >> too cold. >> what would happy to me if i decided to walk? >> five minutes, you would be dead. >> is that thai for dead? >> what is this? >> this is downtown. >> this is downtown. okay. >> this is the top of the world hot hotel. >> yes, sir. >> thank you for the drive. thank you for the tour. >> have fun in barrow. >> oh, thank you. >> standing outside of my hotel and looking at the frozen tundra and thousands of miles away from home. there's darkness as far as the eye can see. my thoughts on barrow are crystallizing and all i can keep thinking is holy [ bleep ]. i'df the night.

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and welcome to the arctic ocean and here in barrow, mostly cloudy skies and the highs today are 5 above and highs of thursday and friday are 10 belows and the rest of the lows for the week are 15 below. >> i'm from the bay area and when i hear 15 below, i am thinking 15 below 60 degrees. oh, god. just ride up ahead a little bit. that is going to be a great

place to lay down and die. great for ratings. dying. oh, god. my first stop is the local weather station, and if this is the real are e alaska, i want to find out how cold it gets here, and even though i know that the answer is you don't even want to know. >> welcome to the weather service in barrow. >> it is cold outside, sir. >> yes, it is, but are you enjoying the weather? >> no, not at all actually. and most people when they don't enjoy the weather, they are blaming the weatherman. >> that is what we are here for sfwlmt and why else do you get blamed for the weather by random people walking into your office. >> we have aviation observations, and one of the more important and fun things that we do is to launch a weather balloon. >> can i launch a weather balloon? >> rey, we are all set up to do it. and now we want to inflate the balloon and get it set up. we are using helium gas to do

this. the balloon is going to get about 21 miles high, and it is going to be 40 feet across. >> 40 feet across. and what is that made of? >> it is made out of totex and this is made out of latex rubber. >> i am not mature not the laugh at you calling this latex rubber. what is that doing? >> sending back the information on temperature, humidity and pressure, and this is the beginning of the weather forecasts right here with this balloon. >> i live in northern california, and it is not really the kind of weather that you are dealing with up here. >> no, quite a bit different, and the coldest that we have had up here has been 55 below with about a 90 to 100 below windchi windchill. >> whoa, wait. when it is that cold, people still go outside? >> still go outside, and the activity does not start up here. >> all right. dave, let's launch this bad boy.

>> all right. let's get this set up. >> left hand? >> yes, and here we go. >> while this is not exactly nasa launching apollo 11, a countdown is appropriate. the-minus three, two, one! >> all right. >> go! >> there she goes. that's it? >> yes. >> and this is a good time in the town? >> yes, this is our exciting time of the day. >> it is still cold. don't die. don't die. don't die. finding out that the locals remain active when it is 90 de greece below zero brought several questions to my mind though most of them i cannot say because they have too many curse words, but still, i want to know

what drives people to live in barrow, and not barrow. i have to talk to the locals. this is so ridiculous. i'm so cold. how long have you lived in barrow? >> this is my home and i was raised here and i choose to live here. i >> i like how you say that you choose to live here, and ignorant people like me come in here and say, how do you do it? >> my mother and father did and my grandparents did it and so i am doing it. >> so does the cold weather bother you? >> no it is balmy weather and i am wearing my shorts. it is the arctic and you have to be tough or crazy, okay. >> and so, how long have you lived here in barrow? >> 42 years. i came up at 19 and i'm 611. >> what is good here? >> well, you will meet some of the nicest people here. >> how long have you lived here in barrow? >> i moved up here october 2009. >> you are a newbie? >> yes, and we are originally from american samoa.

>> so this is completely different? >> yes. >> and you moved up here for the cold? >> well, we worked up here for the ministry. >> and that is funny that you said ministry, because i felt like dying. >> and -- >> this is funny. >> and i can get you a job in california. >> well, it is different, and culture shock, and i like it, but it is different. >> and we should all move to barrow, because the median household income is $25,000 higher than ours, but it is due to the costly reliance on sea and shipping. and it is also to entice workers to the leading industry, oilfield production and passenger air transportation, and selling overpriced coats to show hosts.

and this has people braving the cold. >> we are a melting pot. we have tongans and filipinos and little bit of everything. >> trinidadians. >> how about black? >> dewayne. he is good. >> and 75% of the time, dewayne is a black guy. >> when i came to barrow, there were 75% nonnative and now 62% native and the rest everybody else. it is multi cultural. >> so multi cultural that in the last five decades the population has tripled and ethnic diversity has expanded from the natives to 26 races that call barrow home today. >> and it is only 62% native and how do you feel about that? >> well, the mighty dollar is bringing everybody in. they come and they go, but for us, we are here to stay. this is our home. >> thank you for talking to me, beverly. and now, go put some pants on. laugh laugh

>> after learning that people are moving to barrow for surprisingly robust economy, i set up a meeting with the long time resident and my new best friend mike schultz to find out how barrow has changed over the years. he told me to meet him at the e local pool hall behind the photo shop. maybe this sign post will send me in the right direction. >> haiti, peru, i just want to know what is the hell way up out of here. i found it conveniently located in between snow and more snow. >> this is the closest spot. >> is this the closest to sports bar in barrow? >> yes, and there is no alcohol, so it is sports bar light. you can own and possess alcohol within the city limits but you cannot buy it or sell it. >> when you moved here how many non-natives? >> six of us. and if i had come up here, i

would have been dead. >> three blocks from here, i would have been dead. >> i have lived from them, because they have been living out on the tundra for 10,000 years. >> so the reason that people move here is to get jobs in the oil industry? >> yes, the oil industry or the infrastructure jobs that make barrow the way it is. >> and what about the future of barrow and the future here? >> when i got up here kids would go out to hunt, and now they have lost the and to go out the fend for themselves, and have you shot a caribou? well, no. i can go to the store. and what about how about not falling through the ice? well, i don't know, because i don't want to play video games. and they don't learn the language from the adults or the elders and they are missing a big part of growing up. it is difficult to see a culture disappear, and it is not rightment i hope it works out, because it is an unblooelievabl

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barrow, alaska, it is way out there, and it is far. literally to get to barrow, you can't get there unless you go to the plane, and it is so remote that it feel like anything can happen there. and on the streets of barrow, it feels like you could run into tupac and amelia earhart and they are like, we have been here the whole time. nobody comes up here. it is part of the culture, because nobody tells you that they are there and it is the last american no-snitching state. nobody is talking. it is another beautiful but brutally cold day in barrow, and rather than walking around town risking high e poe thermia i decided to the reunite with a old friend. c.j., it is good to see you, but it is cold outside of this car. >> 7 below today. >> 7 below? and with the chill factor, it is

1 million below. c.j., you know what i am doing today? dog sledding. have you been dog sledding? >> no, no, no. >> wait a minute, the way you are laughing, c.j., it is a bad idea? >> i am going to wait for you to come back. >> okay. appreciate it. >> in my conversation with mike schultz he spoke how the native people of barrow are losing their traditions, so i discovered no better example of this than dog sledding. hello. i'm here at the home of joff carrow, the last dog sledder in town. sound like a movie. >> yes, i am the only one running a dog team. >> how long have you lived here in barrow? >> since 1986. >> were there other teams? >> yes, other teams, and guys

who spent half of their lives to run the dogs, but they switched to snow machines. >> you are the last dog slider, and i don't know how to say this, but you are not a native. >> it is ironic, because the natives were the ones who invented dog sledding and the dogs were vital to the culture. >> he is right, because the four-legged companions were used for nomadic traveling and carrying supplies for hunts and tracking prey, and keeping the owners alert for dangerous animals. and so, any tips for me as i get out there op my first dog sled? >> well, hold on tight, and i will teach you the commands and the yell gee and turn the right, and hoe and they go left. >> so gee is left, and oh is left and then you have stop.

>> yes. it is stop [ bleep ]. >> and what about these dogs? >> that is midnight with somal wild blue eyes. >> do the dogs like this? >> yes, this is what they live for. >> and this noise is this is going to be awesome. >> yes, yes. let's go. >> and are you sure this is not the surrounds of a dog revolution. wait a dog just peed on my cameraman. wait, aim the onim i am the onl can pee, on my cameraman. wait, whoa. okay. >> and go ahead. >> and there you go. next week, we will be coming to you from the beaches of aruba talking about which tequila tastes better. >> okay.

you take off. >> okay. >> oh, now, this part i like. >> okay. now, you say awe kita real loud. >> kita! woo-hoo!kita real loud. >> kita! woo-hokita real loud. >> kita! woo-hokita real loud. >> kita! woo-hokita real loud. >> kita! woo-hoo! >> oh, oh. i think that i lost my virginity on the last bump. gee. gee. oh, yeah, that is the life. as much as i love my canine chauffeurs, it is clear that they are not as practical as snow machines in terms of speed and energy, and hopefully the preindustrial man is not going to be left behind in a cloud of frozen dust. speaking of frozen, i still am

from yesterday so i am sticking with the comfy confines of my man c.j.'s taxi. you know, when you are inside of a heetd car where it is warm, it is a much nicer city. >> yes. >> and when you are walking everywhere, you start to get angry at the city, but now it is kind of pretty. and like jof carol, there are others speaking out the keep the traditionings alive and the loudest is native fannie who teaches customs to the school curriculum, and i'm meeting with her at the heritage center to learn more about her and her work. >> i would like for you to look at this, different hunting tools mainly for butcher iing the wha. >> in my neighborhood we call that, i wish somebody would knife. >> that is a raincoat made out of whale intestines. >> in my neighborhood, we just

eat those. you are literal areally using every part of the animal. >> yes, the ocean and the land is treasured and even thinks that it is so flat and cold and frozen. but to us, it is a living world that we live in. >> that is a perspective they did not have when i came here, and so tell me what part of the culture are you working hardest to keep? >> our language, yeah. my age group, and some older than me, we were sent away to go to boarding school. i came home not myself anymore. i almost lost the proper usage of our language. >> fannie is speaking of christian boarding schools opened up in the 1900s to bring knowledge no the north.

and missionaries working with the natives was not school. and in fact, there was a report by the government describing this practice as cultural genoci genocide. >> we were literally punished if i accidentally said something in inupiac, i got slapped in the hand. our fourth-grade teacher, and i accidentally blurred out in in pishgs iac and he put me a tall trash can and make me stand the there. that is when i realized. >> he was telling you that you were trash. >> yes. >> and what do you do today to keep the language alive? >> i i work with the local school district because it is important the e teach our children who they are so that they will always feel safe and be strong knowing that they are

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after talking with fannie, i have learned that barrow's native cultural is identified by a harmonious connection of nature and man. so to see this setting, i have enlisted john tidwell, a photographer, who sunled to take me to the northern most part of alaska for polar bar. >> are you john? >> i am not but you should be. >> okay. thanks, john. that is good. >> come on in. >> and good thing to be scared and i have a head start on fear. all right. >> thank you, john. >> okay. welcome aboard. >> this is an environmentalist's nightmare, chasing a polar bear in a humvee. >> we are going to be hitting

some rough terrain, so hang on. >> whoa! okay, oh! >> we are going to go over this. >> and what are the odds to survive? >> well, it is not survive, but don't tip over. >> okay. we have different goals. good thing that i got the life insurance renowed for active st stupid. >> we are good. >> i on the other hand have to get my long underwear dry clean ed. >> we will keep the eye out for paw prints going across the road. >> and this is maybe a spot where where a bear could be. >> yeah, they could be sleeping there. and i have explained to my children don't shoot the bear that gets me, because he is doing what is natural. >> that is how i feel about the poli police. >> and you see the bear paw print on top? >> oh, wow. >> and john, tell me where we are. >> we are almost to the end of the peninsula that is point

barrow, and little known fact, the point 500 years ago used to go 200 further than the route we have now. >> is that climate change? >> it has to be because what else would cause the ice to melt, and land to rise? >> homosexuality? that is what i heard on the 700 club. >> all land is south of here. >> i can see the beauty. >> and actually, if you are looking, there is the water right there. >> wow. >> all of these bergs along here are waves that have been pushed up. >> this is the northern most tip of north america? >> yes, and 20 years ago we could not be standing here, because there would be 20 bears to walk along the coast and now lucky to see two the three bears. and i'm not an environmentalist

by any stretch, but it is warming up, and they are a threat. >> alaska has the fair share of endangered an malls, but at the top is six species of whales. the whaling industry was internationally banned in 1986. but long before the commercial whaling existed, barrow's native tribes hunted the whales in subsistence whaling which is to hunt them for the survival of the population, and this way of hunting is still popular today, and in fact, crews can harvest 25 whales per year, because not one ounce is sold. tonight, i'm going to the home of herman ashik, a local whale boat captain to learn why whaling is still important in the modern whaling, and to sample a local delicacy, whale

blubber, hmm, the other white meat. >> we eat it raw and frozen, and it is the source of nutrition and keeps us warm in the cold winter months, and so if you want the try the skin and the blubber, there's the chance. >> okay. all right. >> you will see what it tastes like. >> tell me what i am about to the eat. >> the black part is the skin, and the pink part is the blubber. >> when i was a little kid, i said that i wanted to be a comedian and i never imagined that i would end up eating whale blubber. >> it is filled with omega 3s. >> it is good for me. >> yes. >> it tastes healthy. >> this is the meat part and we cut them in slabs this big. >> okay. let me try a little salt. as an african-american, we put salt on everything. so maybe if i put a little bit of salt on there, and oops, a lot of salt. that is how my grandmother would

have done it. and now, i have never tasted anything like this before, and you can really taste thet meat. and now, is this a whale that you caught? >> it is the way we were blessed with. the way we look at whaling, we are not going out to catch it, but we are blessed by god. the wail will offer it up to the captain or crew who knows that it will take care of it by sharing with everybody in the community, and especially the ones that are unable to hunt for themselves, and so it is a really spiritual, spiritual thing. >> in the lower 48, a loft people have no idea about any of this and when they hear the word whaling they have negative connotations around it, and what about other people's connotations of whaling? >> i have no ill feelings towards people like that. coming all of the way to barrow, alaska, and experience it. you can't find any gardens and most of the meat, you can buy from the store that is quite expensive. just a person trying to survive.

>> i wouldn't have thought of it from the side of the people are do ing for 10,000 years and it is only when the commercial fishermen came in that it was messed up. >> yes. >> and that should not stop you from living your traditions. >> yes. this is what i learned from my father and his father and through generation to generation, that is what is handed down. i am going to be doing the same thing with my twin boys that are 10. >> i don't think that is a tradition in my family that i have been doing with my dad since i was 10, so that must mean a lot the you to take your sons ow out there. >> to my last dying breath, ri will instill whaling in them. >> yeah, it is a lot going on, but i think they would have to fry it up. [ laughter ] this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats

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i'm the a, shole at the restaurant who asks to tem ppur it. and so what they do is they go in to harvest the whales and they don't sell it. they pass it out to the community and everybody gets some of the whale and keep it together, and we don't do that [ bleep ] with pizza sometimes. i bought it, and that slice is mine. i bought it, and that slice is mine. after a long night of texting my berkeley hippie friends for apologizing for eating whale, it is time to catch up with c. jchj. last night, you won't believe what i ate. i ate whale last night. >> you like it? >> ugh. [ laughter ] >> okay, then. >> last night's meeting with whale boat captain herman has me feeling like i am finally seeing the real alaska. and i have been invited by a

young whaler to observe the seal skin to cover the whale boat or the umiak and my presence here is no small feat, because our cameras are the first to gain access to the sacred tradition. tell me about this, and this is the actual boat? >> it is the frame of it. >> and what is this that i am smelling? >> you are smelling the seal skin. >> seal skin, yes. and to me, it is smelling pretty strong. >> yes, it is strong. >> and i feel like my clothes are going back to california are going to be smelling a little bit like this. >> yes. every other year we have to re-skin the boat, and we use a bearded seal to skin the boat. >> and my guess is that the skin is waterproof. >> yes, it is tough, and pliable and stretches. >> how long does it take for this process? >> a couple of days to thaw it, scrape it and a day or two to sew it. >> it is always women who do the

sewing? >> yes, the men can't go out to the whale without the women preparing it. >> wouldn't it be easier to buy a boat? >> the way that they are doing it is the way that the people have done ut for thousands of years, and they want to adhere to the traditions as much as possible. >> you are a native alaskan? >> yes. i dwru up in the interior alaska, and i'm the abbaskans. >> so you said that even though you are from a different culture, from the sbeinterior, they have accepted you up here, and will take you whaling? >> yes, the way we live is not much different than here, and togetherness, and we want to live as a community and adhere to the old ways. >> and the community and certainly, you will see the people with the cars and the snow machines and the ipads, but clearly a plan to keep up with the traditions.

>> yes, it is a proven method, and it works. >> how can 10,000 years be wr g wrong. >> yes. >> and so while they were working on the boat, he took me outside to see the finished product. >> and this is the finished product. >> and your cruise boat? >> yes. >> and it has the new skin look. >> and the new skin smell. >> yes, the new skin smell. and it seems to me that nothing symbolize symbolizes the town of barrow more than whaling, because it wraps up the traditions and the languages and wanting to teach the youth and the next generation about what the ancestors did, and the whaling is the thing that summed it up. >> barrow is built around whaling, and it is a whaling community. >> and it is always going to be a whaling community? >> yes. >> and so he is embracing his native culture, but like many others barrow, he is also half ononnative so i want to know about the challenges they face

embrace the past or fall in line with the future. so talk about why hold iing on e traditions are important to you, and there is an argument of saying that i will learn the tradition for the rest of america. >> i'm an american, but native american and i'm proud of that. >> what does it mean to go whaling, that process? it is a family thing that we do as a community and brings us all together, and it is not like we are ostockpiling it and trying to make money off of it or anything, and everything is distributed evenly. >> in the lower 48 if somebody hunts or kill s s a deer, they t take it home. we are selfish is what i am t trying to say. so why does it automatically come back to the community? >> i amt no going to be sitting there to eat and watch my neighbor starve. that does not feel right. >> yeah, man, you are rig. >> and even if i don't know the person. >> and you see in the lower 48, if i know you, and if you my friend -- >> then you might get something. >> and i'm not busy, maybe i

will help you. and you is the good fortune that despite everything that you can hold on to the traditions. >> yes, that is what is so important because barrow is a melting pot, and there are people who would rather watch tv shows. >> hey, what is so wrong with tv show shows. >> and emulate what they see on tv, and if you were in a city, you could live like that and do that, but to do that here and succeed is going to be difficult. you know. >> yeah, yeah. >> like, when there are a lot of people who think like that i do, and want to see the culture succeed and see the kids out there whaling and doing what the elders want us to do, we are all going to be teachers because we have an opportunity right now, and we have the opportunity to see the next generation. when it is gone, it is gone. if i allow my kids to let it go, it is going to be goern. >> it would be tragic. >> yes, it would be tragic and it could suck. >> that is it. it is would suck.

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♪ it is my last night in barrow. and since i have spent most of

my trip learning about the traditions past, nok offered me the opportunity to the new school of travel. >> you do all of your oown stunts? >> i know. nok, when i p met you two days ago i said i hope that i end up with my life in your hands. oh, god. i just lost feeling in my nose. >> it has to be 20 below. >> i am actually frozen in this position now. >> almost there. >> yeah. >> we are headed out for one last authentic alaskan experience, seeing the northern lights, that is if my eyes don't rip out. >> i think that i froze the part of my brain that remembers my birthday. so thank you for taking me out on the snow machine, i appreciate it.

>> it is a blast. >> when i first came to alaska, i went to anchorage and it is a small town like any town usa and on tv, when you turn on the tv in ak ak, it is not a small town. and i kept saying, is this the real alaska, and they said, go to barrow. so i came up here and i did dog sledding and tried whale and went snow machining and thank you black jesus i did not find a white polar bear, but there is people like me who xot fi the place and make it feel magical, but there are special things happen i happening here, but it is a totally different thing than i was expecting, and that is not living here, but what is living in this part of the world mean to you? >> living in this part of the world is tough. it is not easy. you run out of stuff and you might have to wait a couple of days and you accept that. >> you have to remember how you are living. >> yes, you have to maybe not know a person, but you have a responsibility as a community member to look out for one

another. make sure that everybody survives, and that is why we continue the whale to try to preser preserve that. >> yes. >> and that sense of community, and one-ness. >> i hope that you continue whaling and continuing that sense of community. >> thank you, i hope so, too. >> i appreciate your talking to me, but where are the northern lights? don't i have the right eyes to to see them. >> yes. >> and nok, through the magic of tv i can just go like this, and say, ah, look at those northern lights. man, that is beautiful. aren't they beautiful? >> yes. >> and wow. we got so lucky on the last night that we were in town that we saw the most beautiful northern light show ever. >> and except maybe to see a polar bear. >> no, i'm good. i'm good. >> all right. so these northern lights may not be real, but in barrow, i feel like i saw the real alaska and sure partially defined by the

weather and the remoteness, but it is not the last frontier at all, and it is an increasingly multi ethnic population that sees what diversity bring, and while there is a struggle to hold on the tradition, bar row has a beauty that is unrivaled by the rest of america. >> good-bye. >> c.j., i will miss you most of all all. >> good luck, and you come back to barrow again. >> okay. >> and now, it is time to go back to regular old california. where, sure, i'll be lucky to get some help on the side of the road, but the wi-fi is fantastic. i am not going to miss you, cold. ♪

this is nicer than my hotel room. portland, portland, oregon. a city i hate to love! [ laughter ] portland is an amazing city. you could have a nascar race at a tuna noodle convention at a khaki pants festival. and portland used to have a thriving black community. why has that changed? and who has replaced those people? and the answer is hipsters. when you walk the streets, you feel like you are in a mumford and son contest.