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>> all right, let's do this. >> are we good? everybody good? so first thing i want to do is list of the shows that are in this prime cuts. i want you to look at lists, say the name and give a quick sort of like french alps, snow, cheese. >> that's the last season. >> yeah. if you could look at that and say it, give a beat on it. >> okay. >> i come here to eat. >> funny i recognize every place here by food. >> you have to finish that.

>> you put that on man versus food, who wins? >> that's the compliment. >> this is truly one of the greatest things on earth. incredible. >> i'll take a shot at that. cheers. >> i'm not driving after this. >> that will do it. >> i'm so hungover i just want to crawl in the bushes and die. >> we have to have more food. >> ribs, coconut gravy, fried rice noodles, pickled shallot, salad, pigs heart, to potato, lobster, pepper, nutmeg, chilies and an egg.

>> i thought et we would maybe do something a little bit different this time around. i think we did it a couple years ago where we did viewer questions. these are random and these are from viewers and from people in the office. >> okay. >> are we rolling? random questions from fans. no, i do not want a pic. >> i guess the other stuff i do, writing books and going out on the road or doing public appearances telling jokes. what scares you the most? what's the thing that keeps you up at night. i have recurring restaurant dreams where i'm back in the kitchen and i can't read it.

. it's written in far sit and i'm just moving terribly slowly, i'm not keeping up. the dreep fryer is overheating and the threatening to explode. it's the chef's nightmare. i think a lot of chefs or former chefs have this same nightmare where you're losing control of the environment. >> 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, that needs someone who is not adamant, but a little mad. >> you're telling me. >> a little bit mad. >> cheers to that. >> the nondescript looking building some smart people are looking into things like how to stop hurricanes before they happen. ending ma llaria and how to mak the perfect hamburger. nathan is the former chief technology officer of microsoft.

a genius, inventor and very wealthy man. most noticeably for cooking and all things food. over the last years, he and his team published a lavish and authoritative series of books. dedicated to debunk. ing popular misconceptions and documenting the results with the best high-tech photography and graphic art imaginable. the head chef is leading the team into a new mission now. demystifying bread for all of us. >> people like me, someone who has cooked his whole life, i live in terror of bread. anything that rises, in fact. like a horse, senses my fear. and this behaves. i'm ten wous with any dough. i see people that work and slapping it around like it's

nothing. like this and it always goes wrong on me. it never quite right. will your work help me? >> it will help you. bread is amazingly robust. >> what is going on here? >> this is the kind of sick thing et we do. we wanted could you can bread. by god, you can. this is a bread in the sense it uses yeast and we canned them and now watch what happens when et we open it up. isn't that awesome? >> really good. how long will this stay in there? >> nine months. >> so i'd have fresh bread in nine months if i just popped the top on that thing. jaded cooks and chefs like me,

they still find their uncertain unknowables or things that cause them to pause in the kitchen and gaze with wonder at the magic of something like bread. aren't you afraid in some way you're doing satan's work by quantifying magic. food is a romantic thing. usually it's raised at best in an emotional way. >> absolutely. >> by explaining it. >> absolutely it's emotional. it can be art. but knowing how to do it right doesn't diminish that. >> i come here mostly to eat because that's what they do here. they arguably do it better with more diverse affordable food options per square foot than just about anywhere on earth. my godfather and mentor for

singapore has always been and remains the guru behind the food guides and an advocate for the kind of democratic, affordable casual chaos of the hawker r world. >> thank you. so wet and dry. >> noodles seemed a good place to start. >> she's one of the new heroes, the new generation heroes that's out to protect and preserve our food. >> i know you want to see traditional recipes and preparations preserved. >> i'm here to preserve what's traditional. progressive heritage food has a

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nobody ever did this movie about us. procesperity is productivity, not just hard work. you can be hard working and be broke if you're not productive. >> nigeria's mega city. one of the most dynamic ask energetic expressions of free market capitalism and do it yourself entrepreneurship on the planet. >> when you have a place of 20 million people, they have to eat. they have to wear clothes. they have to do all sorts of things. louisiana gos is is a testament of the resilience of the spirre. >> make your own way, any way you can. >> nobody does any one job. >> they say you have to have

three hustles. >> you see people making watches from scratch. there are people who make shoes. i'm wearing something made by a nigerian. i provide my own water. i provide my own power because i have a generator. there's an energy in lagos. >> to do well in business, be hard working and full of ideas, you need all these to birth a real miracle. >> with a ridiculously overburdened infrastructure and history of leadership, they long ago learned ta ain't nobody going to help you in this world. pick up a broom, hammer, buy a taxi or a truck, build a bank or a billion dollar company and get to work. >> this is a big oil rich country. why doesn't it look like dubai? >> i hate to be on this show and

talk nigeria down. because you hear all these things all the time. so there is corruption. it is about corruption. it's about the fact that it the resources that are supposed to be used for people aren't being used for people. >> she's a progressive journalist, editor and tv host who moderates the presidential debates. >> years of military rule meant that people were brutalized. there was a fight against thinking. >> there was an anti-intellectual movement where you were punished -- >> shamed. >> shamed for reading, for having an education, for aspiring for those things. >> you saw a decline in education that continued for 30 years. >> thiis a very i.t. savvy country. internet scammers were world reno renowned. it may not be a legitimate enterprise, but you have some

smart, hard working people. >> they are very talented. imagine if they were well educated if they had access to finance. i believe if you're a black person, whether you're african, african-american, you're never going to get any respect unless there's a successful black nation. >> your loir or even the government accountable for your success. >> that's the only way people are going to respect you. >> you must do it yourself. >> right over there, victoria

island, that's the nigerian dream, right? if i hustle enough, if i figure out a way, i have a master plan, god's help, ooii'm going to end overthere. how do you get from here to there? >> it's impossible. the government and the people we empower -- >> this is the other lagos. a city within a city. >> this community has been in existence for over a hundred years. >> this started being a fishing village. build your own house. how many people live here? >> 100,000 people. >> there's electricity, there's

the water. all of this you provide. >> he's a musician and activist. >> they want to get you out. they like to build hotels. >> yes. >> he is a neighborhood leader. >> but they have been forced to stop. >> they are not stopping. we have been able to halt them. two or three weeks ago, there was on the other side of the island was demonished. the people living here, the fish are here. if you take them to the

mainland, you're taking the fish out of water. >> will they stay here and take up the family business? >> what would it do when there's no food? most of the fishes that have been sold to the rich men in government. were actually taken from this village. >> everybody needs everybody. >> where will lagos be in ten years? or 20? change is inevitable.

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>> ahh nature. the rustic charms of the farm. the smell of fresh grass, manure, livestock. i love it. no actually that's eric. >> i don't mean to be presumptuous but i whipped up a little pat ta for us. anitis cheese selection tr this very farm. a process we'll be helping along today. >> i'm excited about that. it's an experience. everything is is an experience today. >> so is a colonoscopy. in the farming community in which you grew up, did kids at school ever brag about -- i don't know how you describe this for a family audience, but inappropriate contact with farm animals? >> no. >> if no one was watching. >> no one is watching.

this doesn't exist. >> don't do that while i'm milking you, man. the milking thing i have some concerns. i'm afraid. i'm a little afraid. >> you don't like tony? don't let him do it. kick him in the balls. i give you thousand dollars cash if you can get some milk out of this cow. >> you'll give me a thousand bucks? now we're talking. show me how it's done. >> you first. >> okay. >> here you go. >> we should be playing some

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so he goes out of the dining room visiting the table. overhears a conversation. >> and then? >> car chases, violence, big fight in the kitchen. we can shoot it there. it won't rupt service. you always have some little catch phrase. check please or how'd you like your dessert. dinner is is served. >> you got to take them off. dinner is served. you got to pretend i'm bleeding out on the ground. so put them off and then on. dinner r is served. >> dinner is served. >> you got to put the sunglasses on. it's called acting. is. >> in a world where the price of

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this is kind of a lightning round. >> here we go. it you had the opportunity to go it space for a year, would you? >> i don't want to go to space tr a year. i can't live with myself alone for a year much less two other people trapped like spam in a can, no. >> whawas your major in college? >> my major in college, i didn't really haveone. but film was really the only

class i showed up. >> what was the first concert you attended and who did you go with? >> my first concert was iron butterfly with chicago in the opening act. my father brought me. it was at the art center in new jersey. 20-minute drum solo, it was awesome. >> did you go to your high school prom? >> no, thankfully i missed that right of humiliation that so many people have had to go through. i was spared this torture. >> you're on your death bed. choice of cigarette and beverage? >> i assume i'm already on a morphine drip. >> if you're not, is that a choice? >> if i'm checking out, i'm on my death bed, addiction would not be. a concern at that point. i would think morphine and a cigarette would be ideal. the beverage i could do without.

>> just have a few more. >> when you stay us in a hotel, do you take the mini shampoo bottles? only at the chateau. i take a full line of the shampoo bottles because if you line up the conditioner, shower gel and shampoo they read chateau marma, which makes me feel at home. >> do you line them up like that in the shower at home? >> yes. >> so let me get this clear. and those bottles weren't lined up to spell that the correct way, would you put them in order? >> interesting question from a fan. a follow up question. yes, it is true to say that if i were to find my chateau bottles, which i don't use those shampoos. >> they are just there for display?

>> they are just there and i keep them lined up. if you were to reverse them. i would fix that. that would upset me. that would eat me all day. >> is a hot dog a sandwich? >> no. a hot dog is is not a sandwich. it is a delivery vehicle for a two-shaped meat product. end of discussion. what toiletries would you bring to a desert island? i'd like a toothbrush. that's important. deodorant, nice. you never know. wet wipes, so important. a large supply. i don't want to be wipe iing mys with a leaf from a tree. they shave. what household chore do you hate

doing and which one do you enjoy doing? oddly enough i have a thing for doing laundry. i love doing laundry. as soon as i get back from a trip, i happily take all my dirty laundry, shove it in the machine and it gives me a warm, safe, fuzzy feeling of accomplishment hearing the clothes going around and around. and the drier cycle is even more deeply exciting. do you find that disturbing? some might. since i started working on your show, this must be from somebody who works on my show, since i us started working object your show, all my friends and family want to know if you are nice. so are you? please identify this person. hunt them down. terminate their employment and sterilize them to make sure they are not passing their genes on to future generations. yes, i'm really nice. unless i'm disappointed.

i'm indulgent. i push people to be creative. but if they turn incompetent work, i'm hard on editors. i'm brutal on editors. i think the editors get the worst of it. but generally, i think i'm pretty nice. i don't throw cofe cups at people if i don'tet my mocha frappuccino just right. i'm pretty low demand. i think i'm pretty nice. i'm not bad. i don't think. that's a crucial question. i don't want to answer that. do you ever have an office job? what do you think? >> you never had an office job? >> i have never had an office job. >> not even a summer job?

>> i have never spent fife minutes in an office job or a service job when i had to interact with normal people. like for a supposed communicator, i'm actually pretty anti-social and dysfunctional when it comes to dealing with the public. office, no. can't do it. couldn't do it. i sense this about myself very early on. i was a very happy dishwasher. not a single day. i have painted murals in a fun house. i have been a bicycle messenger. i washed dishes. i have cooked. i catered. some other less legitimate activities. but never, ever in my life for even five minutes have i sat at a desk and, you know, talked to chad from human resources. or whatever people in offices do. (vo) at pro plan,

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she has my lips. but they look good on her. >> up in the mountains, you find tiny villages. the paternal family roots of this man, francis copela. one of the greatest film makers of all time. >> you have deep root here's. >> my grandfather always told the stories and oddly enough he had never gone back once he left as an american immigrant. but it became mythical to me. the story is that the family originally came from lech. and someone got the sister pregnant and killed him. and then they became so they were one step ahead of the law. then they settled down and became laborers. and that's really origins of the family. >> so you may have some history

with this house. your grandfather was bone iing hp here? >> my grandfather was girl. craz he would go. up on bhe roof and fwo down to where the maid was and then conduct this affair. so when i found this place years later, there was the roof leading to a house maid. i fantasized that perhaps that was where it happened. >> we're dining at the not the ancestral home, but might well have been the one-time manner house of those who lorded over them while they worked in the fields. >> every town had an official of the fascist party. and this family was the to decemb podeta. the ladies were so snobby.

we are low class italians. they were more high class. >> it took years and a lot of money converting the once grand. but decaying mansion >> when you bought this place was there a sense of vengeance. >> by then, the god father had come out 40 years ago. >> it's not about the film. it's not -- a historical correction. >> there is a saying. you know what italian amaze heimers is? you know what it is. you forget everything but the grudge. this is the only internal garden in this area. i don't think the normal people ever were permitted to visit it. so i was happy that normal people were going to be here. >> the god father was a weird experience in my life. because it was so much more successful than i could have ever anticipated so that i became well-known around the world in ways that was almost

embarrassing. and so when i came here they made me an honorary citizen. and they had the school children out in a parade. if i think about it as a new kid in a school my greatest fear was embarrassment. here is frans sis a the new student. francis is a girl's name. i was embarrassed in front of everyone. and a total outsider. when i became on the other side i was an outsider. i've always been an outsider. what's in there. >> some lamb chops. >> lamb chops. >> and the cabutella. >> look at this. here we go. come on at me. >> there. >> that's fantastic. >> come here, little one. hello, sweetie pie. this is my friend. we went last night and is so great. we wento the localrcus, the

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