season nine. thanks for spending your weekend with us. good night and have a great week. are we good? >> you're looking at me. >> i'm going in. do not resuscitate. >> cool. >> moon shine. >> black eyed peas. >> okra. >> whoa. >> we have to. >> somebody is hitting it. >> so what brought you here? ♪

♪ >> said something that really upset me. he talked about human beings are essentially tubes into which we shove food. this is my job. i travel around the world with these people and they turn on

the cameras and then for a certain period of time my job is to shove food into my face. >> what's wrong with that? >> i guess my question to you is have you been impacted by all these years of eating on camera constantly in a negative way when you don't eat on camera or a positive way? >> yes, i've been eating on camera now for 17 years i've been shoving food and liquor into my face as a profession. and i can't keep living like this. i'm going to have to make some changes in my life or alter my behavior. please understand as a former chef who is on tv, i am relentlessly in my social life prone to called being food. all i want is a denver omelet and they want me to eat the whole menu.

so it is a challenge. i would like to live a little longer being a bloated, puffy, alcoholic gas bag does not appeal to me. i like being able to see my penis in the morning. >> nice. this is the greatest thing ever. >> e we use three cooking techniques to make this one dish. >> i don't know that 50i6 ever had one. i've heard of them. >> delicious. who invented this? >> it stabs you. if you eat it at the wrong time, it poisons you. >> those are cute little squid. those are tender. my mother always said never eat anything bigger than your head.

that's about the size of a human head. >> how many times do you eat a day? >> when i watch that show, i think about it. wow, you have had like seven males and it's only 1:00. >> sushi, and not just sushi, but made of one of the oldest, most iconic, respected, best establishments in the world. the place where it all began. not just here, but generations of young, predom innocently shoely apprentices who went on to open their own places all over the world. this is the original. 130 years old. >> seven years to learn. that's a lot of time.

>> his father was very tough. his grandfather was here too. very tough. >> he was first hired here as an aparen dis. this is his son who runs sushi cult today. the fourth generation to uphold the standards ask family tradition. >> something should stay the same. >> over a green onion and ginger drizzled with house made soy. >> love it. >> what happened it if you did a bad job? >> just punishment.

you don't go home feeling good. >> it's fighting spirits like this. >> this moment, do not miss. then eat. >> you got to eat quickly. 30 seconds. >> it's dying. >> it's swimming, very fast. amazing. this momentum is in there right there. it's very important. >> sea eel and fresh crackling seaweed.

wow. in uncertain times, i always look for the comforting ask the familiar. the things that always for me made england great. >> this restaurant helped make a per situative argument that there is some kind of merit to yiddish cooking. >> it's absolutely true. >> henderson, the most influence shl chef of the last two decades, even though you have likely never heard of him. he changed everything. it seems an instinctive thing to cook old school, english country cooking but it started a quiet revolution. >> st. john, i love you.ut >> is a on the plate speaking for itself. and so you can get lost. >> my dinner companion is jay reigner a man never with a shortage of opinions. roast bone marrow with caper salad, a dish that would become

iconic. it you have ever eaten bone marrow it's likely because they did it here first. >> thank you. >> it's a simple good thing, but it's one of the most influential dishes in the last 20 years. >> you see his imprint everywhere. >> what's interesting is it gets pass ed down in other ways you don't expect. >> as i have become older, the food that i yearn for is food i react to in an emotional way. >> the problem is it's so very, very rare. >> i'm looking for a suspension of logic and reason. this is something that i got here from the beginning. >> they are so pretty. how are these kidneys done, sir?

>> seasoned flour and then sizzling. >> done? thank you. >> pigs head and potato pie, the head brined slowly, strip ped away from the bone and seasoned and baked in pastry with potatoes. yes, please. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> all right. >> look at that. that's working. >> is this a hot water pastry? >> it makes it.

>> gorgeous. oh, god, that's good. >> you look at this and it's almost like something out of a children e's book. it's something very special. >> you go back in history to the roast beef of old england. actually we were far ahead of the french in the preparation of beef and roasting of meets. a lot of it was over our side of the channel. this is no reason to leave the european union. so ammara, you're a verizon engineer, tell me, what's one really good reason

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i'm good with my daughter. an 8-year-old is about my level of communication skills. so that works out. >> no way. those are jeans. >> who would you rather see in a speedo? >> there's an easy answer. >> this act is going to be about eric and your relationship with him. as i was reilooking at it, drac had ren field. you have repair. >> everyone who appears on television should be so lucky to have him in their life.

he's a good friend. he's a great chef. but he has a sense of humor about himself that's makes it fun for me to torment them. he gives them back to me. i'm sure he will have a good opportunity to do just that. >> that's what you've been waiting for. >> the evil part of my brain, i have been secretly looking forward to this moment. the tasy snack famous and love ed around these parts. i'm talking bunny heads, yo. tasty, tasty bunny heads. >> i could do a little prostate exam. . look at its teeth. yank the jaw right out.

oh, that's good. that is delicious. >> seriously, spicy, delicious, fresh still thinking to thumb per's skull, look at those teeth. after you rip off the jaw and split the skull, the tasty chick let-sized brain. >> suck that brain right out. >> i'm not a fan of brains, but i'm going to try. >> rabbit brains are different. >> right into my mouth. >> crack that thumb in and pry it apart. >> or would you just pound it on the curve.

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memory of life before 1985. >> here comes the good part. that's a rush, right. it's like a road to enlightenment right there. >> straighten out eric's neck while you're at it. that didn't sound good. look deep, deep into the murky depths of that iconic of dishes. it burns, it burns you down to your soul. >> this is eric's first time for sish wan. i think you're really going to enjoy this. this is particularly good. >> it's known for being spicy. >> not good news. >> i see it in my eyes already. >> the way it works is you order

a whole bunch of ingredients, vegetables, noodles, fish, whatever you like. a lot of different ingredients. ask you feed them into the pot. >> that's good, man. that's good. >> that was our first bite. >> awesome, right? >> yes. >> it only gets better. >> i think we should drink some beer. >> cheers. >> it basically well. my sinuses are open. so open you have no idea. sometimes we have for hours and hours. >> it gets stronger and stronger and the heat more intense.

a delicious, yet ub predictable spice gathering at the bottom of this river of hot lava. >> if you dig deep down to the sediment, the river bed, man, it's spicy. you feel enlightened yet? look how the colors change. >> is it what you kind of expected? >> yes, it is exactly what i expected. >> more beers? >> yeah, definitely. >> i cannot think anymore. >> you're out of it, man. it's all good, though. it's all good. >> okay. >> don't say okay. >> everything you had was appetizer. >> look at him.

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depression that can last for days. but it's like that with the good stuff too. i have a couple happy minute where is i'm thinking, ah, life is pretty good. definitely some highlights of the last season and one of them was sitting down with the president of the united states. who could ever have foreseen this. i certainly didn't. it was a conversation i enjoyed very much. i think i would have enjoyed the conversation whether he were president or not. this was a guy who loved southeast asia, was passionate about the smells ask flavors of southeast asia, efs enjoying his meal, had something to say, good chop stick stills and was nice to my crew. that's a good dinner companion.

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>> good to see you. >> mr. president, how are you liking vietnam? >> love it. markets like these i grew up with when i was a kid. these were basically the only markets available. you would buy pretty much everything in stalls like this. i wouldn't mind going in there and haggng and seeing what i could find. >> this country when i first arrived here smelled like a place that i would like. certain countries just just smell good and i know whether they are going to be good. do you kind of smell that? >> there are certain spices you can smell in it certain country it is a you don't smell back home. there's some smells that aren't as appealing as well. but that's part of the mix. >> there is no better place to entertain the leader of the free world in my opinion than one of

these classic, funky, family-run noodle shops you find all over. >> how often do you get to sneak out for a beer? >> very rarely. i don't get to sneak out, period. but once in awhile, i'll take michelle out on a date night. the problem is part of enjoying a restaurant is sitting with other patrons and enjoying the atmosphere and too often we get sheltered into a private room. >> i'm glad i could help. >> we share apparently the sentimentality about asian street food ask southeast asia in general. >> one of my favorite meals of all time. there's an area between jakarta and bondo in indonesia. st up through the mountains. you'd have these roadside restaurants overlooking the tea

fields. there would be a river running through the restaurant itself. there would be these carp that would be running through. they would grab the fish tr you and fry it up and the skin would be real crispy and serve it with a bed of rice. it was the simplest meal possible and nothing tasted so good. >> as a chicagoan, trickier question frout with pearl. ketchup on a hot dog ever acceptable? >> no, i mean that. that's one of those it things -- let me put it this way. not acceptable past the age of 8. >> my daughter is 8 and put ketchup on eggs. i didn't know what good parenting called for at this point. >> an intervention. i think you just got to say that's not ep isable. i'm sorry. >> are you at a point you seem

to be turning inwards. we're actually talking about building a wall around our country. and yet you have been reaching out to those who don't agree with us. gaza, iran, cuba, i just wish more americans had passports. you can see how other people live seems useful at worst and incredibly pleasurable and interesting at best. >> it confirms the basic truth that people everywhere are pretty much the same. the same hopes and dreams and when you come to a place like vietnam and see former e vets coming back, when you see somebody like john kerry or joh mccain, two very difrent people politically, but who were ab to bond in their experience of meeting with their former adversaries and you don't make peace with your friends. you make peace with your enemies.

>> as a father of a young girl, is it all going to be okay? it's all going to work out? my daughter will be able to come here in ten years and have a bowl and the world will be a better place? >> yeah, i think progress is not a straight line. there's going to be moments at any given part of the world where things are terrible. but having said all that, i think things are going to work out. >> thank you so much. >> cheers. cheers. hisimpler for you. like, imagine having your vehicle serviced... from the comfort of your own home. introducing complimentary lincoln pickup and delivery servicing. because the most important luxury of all... is time. pickup and delivery servicing

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particular episode and what your impressions of it were. >> i think there are two very disb tingt visions of america, who we are and not just who we should be, but who we are. it's a real divide. i think the houston episode probably came as a surprise and even a rude one to a lot of people. this is what america looks like. this is what houston, a major texan city looks like. there are a lot of americans that feel that their america, whatever that meant, is slipping away from them. but i mean, it slip ped away a long time. it changed. everything changes. and i'm a guy who looked cynically at mien country and even with some hostility for much of my earlier life, now more ask more i look at my country with a particularly a place like houston with a great deal of pride and dare i siay

patriotism. isn't that what we're all about? the land of opportunity, freedom, safe haven tr the oppressed. i always thought so. >> something about this country, something about the openness, you get a chance to just be a new you. >>. >> it's very well integrated. >> houston is my home. >> first stop is the point. the town's general store. it's owned and operated by pillars of the community who separately came over from vietnam around the same time,

met, married and raised three children here. >> this is i found my dream. i came here with nothing. 17 years old. first job i work was wash dis s dishes. my boss said you a hard worker. maybe one day you're going to be the boss. after i get married, i open the restaurant and she say, no, you're crazy. so after all my kid went through college and got a good job, you say, okay. >> brisket, meat ball, tripe and tendon just like back home. and of course, tacos with eggs, jalapenos and tomatoes. >> the kids who grew up in the community. >> what are they doing? >> i'm a natural born citizen. working with my dad. shrimping, building boats, just

see whag they went through. it's a different type of life. >> i really feel fortunate we live in this town. we always see the generosity of people over here. >> my name is gertrude. i'm married. and we have four children. >> plan it forward,nprofit urban farming program provides refugees like gertrude access to land where they can make a living from the ground. >> it's my dream, i need to be boss and have my land. >> for sure we like the weather. it's good for planting and people are nice in houston. >> fellow transpants prepare an

outdoor meal for a group of friends ask fellow farmers. >> what do you all think when you heard you were going to be resettled in texas. >> that is many. >> do you feel welcome? do you feel the community is happier here? >> the first wasn't easy. even now. >> but you already speak how many languages? >> we have three languages. we have french,. >> don't feel bad. most americans struggle with one. it's okay. >> how african will houston be in 20 years? a lot, right? >> i want all my family over there, my mom, my sister.

>> you'd like them to come. >> i want them to come. >> a lot of first generation and second generation african babies going to be happening. houston is going to look real different. >> no problem. >> i'm not even going to try to explain the sport of cricket to you. there's a ball and there's bats. and i think you run to like base. now for a hot dog. oh, no,ight. >> what about welcoming, nice? >> in my experience, i move from singapore. we move to usa and welcome to houston and oous. and that made us very comforted. >> that's not the stereotype.

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been a lot more casual at one time. we seem frightened, we seem angry, we seem divided. what do i hear more than anything else? stick to food. make me a sandwich. i notice stuff, sorry. i find history interesting and worth noticing. but these are increasingly unpopular sentiments and i think you might kind of sense that, that feeling of loss or uncertainty in a lot of the conversations we have. it used to be an asset to be familiar with history. even recent had history. now, not so much. >> you said something interesting. e he said in times of trouble and stress when people are afraid or angry that people are in a buying mood. >> the church did something similar in the sense you are

greatly seen only if if you go there, it will be forgiven. >> what about fascism? very popular then. >> people say the romans was a good man. it did od. we build things and my grandma would say a good looking man. a real man, a manly man. >> so you're not optimistic about the political health of the world. >> i don't even care. i never voted. i don't go on the news. it's just like this italian way of let it go. as long as it doesn't both bother me. i care about my neighborhood, my children, my building, i care

about that. >> what happened again? >> he got hanged upside down in mulan. everybody would fwo there and throw stones. >> what a turn around. one time so popular. >> that's what happens with all the idols. you create them so you can destroy them. >> wow. >> i am very glad. the american nation, my fellow citizens, who i work to make america great. >> artists, author, icon, ralph steadman continues to make art every day. he was the visual expression of dr. hunter thompson's finest works. >> certainly pictured politicians filled with rage ask

disgust. there were some epic depictions of nixon as godzilla. >> he was a great subject. >> i'm not a giant shooting godzilla. you boris johnson here. >> boris trump. >> it is a super nova of incredibly bad hair. i mean, the two of them together. what's happening, what is going on in this country? is it going to be okay? >> not at the moment, no. >> it doesn't say anything about the country as a whole. >> i think it does. perhaps there's been a secret desire to really say, wait a minute, don't we like to be a great british isles again? i said, i don't know, 50 years ago i wanted to change the world, and i think 50 years later i succeeded. it's worse now than it was when i started. so, i changed it. >> this is great.

>> this is kind of emerging, you know, it's coming. >> the vast majority of this country don't remember the american war. they don't remember any war. >> yeah. >> you used to be a tour guide. >> yes. >> how many years? >> 15 years. >> 15 years. and you have to bring people over to the museum. the american war museum every time, right? >> yeah. >> in your lifetime, is there going to be a time when that's not going to have to be a stop? it won't be necessary, it won't even be important, no one will remember, or should people always remember? >> i think it's good to remember so we don't make the same mistake, you know. some people choose to be angry, to hold grudge. but then some people choose to let go and have the peace inside themselves. that's up to the person. i think it's good that, that --

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