>> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. jerky neck oh. >> ichk everybody listening to the open of parts unknown is suddenly like a pavlovian syndrome really electrified and prepared through the sound and music for something really different. >> tony was o orange. that's very rare in this business. and not only did he have such a cool existence. but he had his own theme, which is a huge thing and he sang in the song.

it was just such an affirmation of what he was all about, the organic nature, the originality, the cutting his own path. ♪ >> i was in my office. it was about 4:45 a.m. i was getting ready for new day was guess on the air at 6:00. i turned around and my boss was standing there looking ashen. and he says, i have to tell you something. no unelse knows. but we're going to have to report this. anthony bourdain is dead. i was shocked. i think i actually screamed, oh, no. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we have some terribly sad news to report this morning. heart breaking and devastating >> once we were sure all of his

family members had been notified that's when we went on the air with the news >> world renowned chef, our friend anthony bourdain has died. >> anthony was found dead this morning in his hotel room in france. he had hung himself in his hotel room. >> the idea that he was suffering somehow is really heart breaking. >> honestly it's hard to talk about him in the past tense at this point. it's -- it's -- it's really -- yeah, it's hard to imagine. i mean, you never know what goes on in anybody's head. you never know what goes on in anyone's heart, but certainly, you know, the pain he must have been feeling at least in that moment or in those moments and the loneliness he must have been feeling, it's just terribly sad

to think about. and makes me very sad for him to have -- to have given in to that. >> somebody as vital, passionate, alive, warm and human as tony bourdain. i couldn't imagine a, that he was gone. and b that he was gone in this manner, that he took his own life at this time in our history. it's left a massive hole in i think our world. >> i lost a brother to suicide. so i know the shock that people feel and the shock that loved ones feel. it's something i thought about for 30 years. and i don't have any answers about why somebody does it. >> anthony's life changed in 1999. that's when he wrote the famous article for the new yorker. don't eat before reading this. he was letting us all inside the kitchen, revealing the secrets of the chef world, the restaurant world. and it quickly became a book,

kitchen confidential. that came out in 2000. we are talking about it 18 years later. that led him to the food network, the travel channel and to cnn. >> this is a world of fresh, delicious, spicy, meaty, salty, sour, sweet, bitter. >> "parts unknown" started on 2013 in cnn. it was a bolt of lightening. >> the give of life, sticky rice. >> i said anthony bourdain, on cnn, what the hell is that about? i didn't quite get it. we don't do -- that's not what cnn does. and then he did it. and then i got it. and i said this guy is genius. he is brilliant. >> what's the famous greet something have you eaten yet or have you had rice. >> both. literally it means have you had rice yet but it means how is it going. >> when he brought parts unknown to cnn and i interviewed him

about his mission he basically said i want to go to familiar and less familiar places to tell the american people about all these places but through the medium that they will be able to relate to. so food everybody can can relate to food, right. he was also telling about culture and politics. and history. and the geoography through fied. >> welcome to the provis tucked up near the border. all of them left their mark on the food. >> another episode that i love was his episode about pittsburgh. just because you say anthony bourdain parts unknown travels the world, and he is going to pittsburgh? right? >> uncle jane this is anthony bourdain. 103 years old. >> looking good.

>> this is awesome. he talked about social issues, the boom and bust of industry, and how automation has left cities behind. >> money is definitely coming in is it lifting all boats. >> no, it is not. >> so the episode in talking about the -- the reemerging food scene in pittsburgh was little about the food. >> cheers. >> and more about society and people and people down on their luck, and how they fight their way back up. >> why did you decide to stay. >> i wanted to cook. >> and the economy then that leads to government policy. and everything in between. >> a lot of people in this country are angry- they feel their anger has not been acknowledged in any which. frankly i think they're right. >> yup. >> and all encompassed in just an episode of parts unknown.

it's a rare talent to be able to put it all together sflo for me the word that best describes tony is passion. he just felt so much passion for what he did and what he saw. and i don't think he ever had no opinion on something. it was wasn't lake, whatever. >> a little bridge out of nova scotia. >> cheers. gentlemen. >> to the queen. >> now i hate the rich man sfla he was funny, sarcastic, had a dark sense of humor. he loved nothing more than if you went out to meals with him -- if i went out to meals with him he enjoyed getting me to eat bizarre foods that i would never in a million years eat because i have a pallet of a 5-year-old. >> what's triep. >> it means good.

>> it is it like brains or the penis of a shark. >> no, no not that good. it's the stomach lining of the cow. >> he loved cinema, music and all of that was incorporated in these travel journeys that he would produce. i -- i actually ended up taking trips to places he had been. i went to tangier after he did an episode there and i thought that's interesting. i want to see what he saw. >> one day tony and i were sitting off stage waiting for a segment to happen. and he looked at me and he said, so what are you about? what is your passion? i said fighting. i love to fight. and he -- his eyes. he had the hooded eyes went like this. and he had recently found bjj brazilen jujitsu. and he loved it so much. >> every morning, every morning,

7:00 a.m., i'm here. and for the next hour or two hours or sometimes more, i am just getting crushed. >> the most recent conversation i had with him was not too long ago. and he said you know what i love about it, the struggle. i love the struggle. i love trying to figure out how to get out of this and what to do next. and that struggle, no matter how much you think that's it i'm going to have to tap out, i find a way out of it. i love it. >> anthony earned practically everied award you can earn in the tv industry. five emmys for parts unknown. dozens of other nominations. the peabody in 2013 one of the most prestigious in television was presented his first year on cnn. >> we ask simple questions what do you like to eat, cook

everywhere we go and ask simple questions we tend to get some really astonishing answer. >> i've been getting emails from viewers saying they feel like they've lost a friend because they felt a connection with him through the television. >> whenever we would tape i would always like yell back at him, in my next life i'm coming back at anthony bourdain. and he would turn and look at me like okay -- i always took it as good luck with that one. but i think that's why -- that is not unique to me, right. everybody wanted to be a little bit of anthony anthony bourdain. traveling the world, having fun, connecting with people and getting paid to do it. >> oh enchanted land of my childhood. a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness. new jersey, in case you didn't know it, has got beaches,

beautiful beejs are beaches. and they're not all crawling with trolls with reality shows. i grew up summering on the beaches. and they are awesome. >> he just was a regular person. you know and his regular jeans and regular shirt. he had no protension, no interest in pretension. and it was one of the most compelling and endearing things about him. >> he was somebody actually introverted and just happened to have this very public job of being on television and being in the public eye. >> it was interesting because he was such a dichotomy. he was the swash buckling larger than life character, good looking, women loved and men wanted to be. and -- yes he was always kind of -- to me it always seemed like even though he was very confident or seemed very confident he was always i think -- he was always kind of

just winking at it all. he was in on the joke. we're all humble and fragile. >> jersey has farmland, bedroom communities where the woman from real house which was does for the live. or nonlike her. even the refinery, the clover leaves and turn picks at which timing in you knowable patterns are somehow to me is beautiful. to know jersey is to love her. >> i'm a jersey girl so i watched that with rapt attention what he was going to bring to life in new jersey from his hometown. >> he had humble beginnings, came from the jersey shore. but i think it was also the fact that he had such a rough life in his 20s. and in retrospect was amazed he had survived his 20s and didn't die then that i think must have gotten him in touch of not just the humanity of himself but

everyone. >> there is nothing like the north atlantic. it's majestic. i love the beach. pretty much had my first everything on a beach. you name it first time i did it, beach. i was miserable in love, happy in love alternately, as only a 17-year-old can be. this is where i lived a very happy summer in the early 70s. >> he drops out of vaster, goes to the cull near institute. has vivid stories about working in kitchens in province town. >> here at the tip of cape cod, provincetown massachusetts where the pilgrims first landed. and where i first landed. 1972, washed in a town with a head full of orange sunshine and a few friends, provincetown, a wonderland of tolerance, long time tradition of accepting artists writers, the badly, behaved, gay, different.

it was paradise. >> we all did drugs acted young and crazy. and tony was -- he was probably a little wilder than some and not as wild as others. >> he was willing to show us all sides of his amazing life, the good, bad and ugly. we learned from him in the process. >> tony came raw to the picture. he came with his history of his own demons. he didn't hide he had the terrible problems with alcohol, heroin. and yet that's what made him so relatable. >> tony always owned his vugles one of testimony was drugs and heroin. which was largely a 1980s thing for him and he worked through. >> i know what the life of a -- somebody who wakes up in the morning and the first order of business is get heroin, having been through it myself, you know going to a meeting of addicts, you know, i -- they had something to say to me and i had

something to say to them. >> there was a vulnerability as cool as he was there is a vulnerability that he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. you know, something was missing in me whether a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw, i came up in a stable family, the suburbs. i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who talked me out of what i was doing. an intervention wouldn't have worked. i didn't have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now who i would never would have had i never thought. i looked in the mirror and i saw somebody worth saving. or that i wanted to at least try

real hard and save. you know, anybody can find them self look back on that situation. and i look back and think about what i will tell my daughter. that was daddy. no doubt but i hope i'll be able to say this was daddy then this is daddy now. thank you. >> he brought to cnn something that few others brought. that was a sense of- of knowing who he was, not being afraid of saying who he was, of not being afraid to relate his foibles, weaknesses as well as his strengths and unique ability to tell stories. he brought all that to people. >> he was really exploring the human condition, talking about what it means to be human, and what we share all around the world. obviously we share a need to

eat. but he was going so much further, talking about what we have in common. and what connects us. >> i have come to terms with the fact that in an earlier life i am probably responsible for at least one dead columbiaen due to my lifestyle in the 80s. there is a real effect on the ground. >> how does that sit with you? >> i -- i'm -- i question the drug -- i came back questioning the usefulness of the drug war. >> i asked him about his own life and his own drug use, which he has talked about. he has been so candid about it for years. and i don't know -- i almost caught him off guard. i just remember his response was something to the effect of he wondered if his own drug use from years ago, really heavy drug use contributed to the death of someone in the drug trade-in columbia or beyond. and he was so serious about it. i don't want to say -- it almost

felt like it still haunted him. but it was something he was aware of as a past demon. >> my drug addiction i hope is not the most interesting part of my life. in fact i don't find it particularly interesting at all. but there it is. it is part of my life. it changed me. and it allowed me to i think better understand some things about life, about myself and what i'm capable of doing. and it's given me a certain on one hand empathy for some people and a complete lack of empathy for others. that's something i felt i should talk about. i see this particular moment as a -- as a clear example of how we might change our drug policies. and i thought you should know why it matters to me.

it's that simple. >> i think he did everybody a real service by talking about his own addiction and how much he struggled with heroin and cocaine. i think that, again, the more that we can talk about the really hard subjects the more it removes the stigma. and to know that he had overcome those things i think is inspirational. it gives everybody hope to know that they could overcome something really hard. and that is why the pain of in i think is doubly compounded, because he had overcome it seems some demons in the past. and i guess that doesn't make you bullet proof. >> you know, i didn't know him well enough to know -- to know if he was still haunted by it. but i'm sure it never leaves you when you go through that kind of experience, it's always going to be there. you fight it, deal with it. you move on. i always thought he did an amazing job in moving on.

and in the process helping all of us move on. >> he was so real and so authentic and in the end maybe he was too real for his own seven. i think the real thing to know about tony bourdain he was a deeply deeply human human being. he was a unique individual but uniquely human. >> he was a defining hire for cnn. it was a strange move for cnn. people wondered why is cnn hiring this chef and author? it was because cnn executives decided to wrauden out beyond breaking news and headlines and bring in documentaries, bring in cultural programming and new ways to tell stories. >> for me traveling isn't about taking a vacation, sitting on a beach orp listening to a cheesy tour guide as we travel in packs from an all inclusive day spa. traveling is going to parts unknown. sharing a pipe with a shaman as

the sun comes up over a 3,000-year-old ruin. and only then realizing, you forgot to pack i don't wish toothbrush. >> i would describe myself as a lucky cook who gets to tell stories. i'm not a journalist. i'm not a chef any more. i'd like to flatter myself as saying i'm an essayist. but i'm a story teller >> this was a risk for cnn and for anthony. >> myanmar after 50 years of nightmare something unexpected is happening here and it's pretty incredible. not too long ago even filming here officially as an open professional western film crew would have been unthinkable. in 2007 a japanese journalist was shot point blank and killed filming a street demonstration. be seen talking to anybody with a camera and there would likely be a knock on the door in the

middle of the night. yet so far confrontwood our cameras, a few smiles and mostly indifference at worst. shocking, considering how recently the government started to relax the grip. >> i haven't been there sort of to official myanmar what's it like. >> i've been to a lot of places 20 years after the soviets left, 30 years and people still shy away from the camera, still don't want to talk. they see a camera and it's a bad thing. they close up at the approach of an outsider. here, myanmar, a prays where people just about a year ago you are tossed in jail for consenioritying with foreigners. everybody was incredibly open. i'm ames amazed how friendly and hope people are with us. it's easy for me to sit here and say what i want about the government. me can go home. our lives go on. we don't pay the price.

everybody who helped us could very well pay that price. it should be pointed out a lot of people did not -- a lot of people were nice to us but said, look, i've already been in jail. i really want to go become. it's a very real concern. what happens to the people we leave behind? but for the moment at least things seem to be notifying in the right direction. a country closed off to most for so long, sleeping, a 50-year nightmare for many of the citizens finally maybe waking up. to what? time will tell. >> he had been to myanmar which at the time was a full blown military dictatorship. and he went there and he said to me, here is what i can do with this program. when something big happens in a laboria or myanmar or an afghanistan or iraq or wherever

it might be, american viewers and viewers around the world will also be able to know about the people there, not just about the dictators, not just about the politics. but they will be able to get to know the people. and i really think that's important. because i think too often americans have a one dimensional view of a foreign country. and it's only told to them through the prism of breaking news. >> i thought he was a better journalist than many of us ever could be. because it came to him naturally. it was just curiousty. and isn't that really what being a journalist is all about, being curious? and he brought something to cnn that had never been there before and thus to the entire news broadcast news industry. >> it was really like a breath

of fresh air. and viewers loved it. the ratings on sunday night doubled. there were new viewers coming to cnn for the first time including younger viewers who didn't want to watch the news. but they wanted to watch the larger than life man, the hand some striking figure, explore the world and take them with him. >> this is triply after 42 years of nightmare. how to build a whole society overnight and make it work in one of the most contentious and difficult areas of the world is what people are trying to figure out.

>> allah akbar. >> outside tripoli center there is this. one time axis of all power and untold evil, a huge complex of sinister offices, bar acs residences, residences on top of a rabbit warren of underground facilities. ghafdy's enormous compound. and our august 23rd, 2011 it fell to the rebels. gafdy and his family having fled. this is what's left of ghadaffi's palace.

>> so when is the last time you were here. >> last time when the revolution was finished. the machine is going through fighting after that the people. you always have the guns. after that coming a lot of people, normal people. it was about something expensive here like the salt and the gold. stop now. stop now. >> they want to us stop filming. >> while talking we didn't notice several pickup trucks of local mill sha closed in on us. >> i've stopped. you stop. >> just relax. relax. >> relax. relax. >> this is their turf or their area of operation or somehow under their control. whatever the case, they're the group in charge today. an argument ensues between our guys and their guys.

all of whom fought against the same forces on this ground a year ago. >> i'm going to ask you guys to step backside. >> you have to delete what you've got. >> okay let's go. >> he wasn't afraid of going to a place like libya which was -- is a very complex, you know, all the different kind of nascent political parties and competing groups. and he was always very good at sort of being aware of the complexity of a place and not dumbing it down or not even trying to give a dissertation on it. >> another morning in tripoli and live goes on. vendors are out. people go about their daily routines. >> this is our traditional

breakfast. >> what is this dish called? swinz which is an overstretched doughnut. with egg. can you get them with cheese, chilly paste. honey. >> how do you like jurors gloo cooked to be honest. >> this was the first neighborhood to rise up. >> this is the first place it rise up. >> wu do you think that neighborhood. >> it's impoverished. always lied to by the regime. they made them feel like they are not from this country, to be honest. >> um-hum. >> we go for it. >> anthony bourdain really changed what cnn is. he beirut this other way to learn about the world. this other way of asking questions, not through an interview, not through interrogation but by sitting down and sharing a meal.

what he was doing was journalistic but more importantly so human. bringing people on a journey with him while he met people in their place with their food, with their meals, with their culture. >> i think tony was trying to make the world a little bit more hospitable, more understanding, more friendly. he was trying to show, yes, we speak different languages, come from different cultures, different religions but we are all people. and we have unique stories to tell and he wanted to share the stories. if the process he made the world a little bit smaller, more personal. and i'm sure his hope was maybe we could eliminate some of the abuses, the wars, the hatred, and in the process i think that was his goal. >> what do i do? every show -- i'm not going to say it's a formula but the basic structure is guide goes someplace, eats a bunch of food and comes back.

okay. that's what i do every time. ♪ >> this is not a food show. though there is food. this is not a travel show. though there is travel. i don't know what it is. ♪ >> anthony used food.

it was a way to start a conversation. but his shows, his life, he was really exploring the human condition. >> it's a food show, right? well, not really. >> it's like a concept in a lot of ways. if you look at the mix of people ethnicnessty and religioning all in close quarters here it's an extraordinary success story. let me try some of the octopus. hmm. chewy but tastymen only one of us is shitting like a mink tonight and it's not going to be you. >> it's a sophisticated complex bowl of food as any french restaurant. it really is the -- just the top

of the mountain. i'm getting kind of like the pepper residue at the bottom, nice burny feeling, flop sweat, happy. so we can cancel the rest of the show. i'm -- i've achieved the happy zone. it's really all downhill from here. >> any story we sit on television and argue about, have the heated discussions about, all you have to do is interject food and wine or whatever into it and a table. and it becomes much more civilized. >> korea, land of enchantment, contrast, land of drinking, a lot. >> you're korean because you can drink well and recover. >> we're going to find out, aren't we? >> i do not love myself this

morning. dried squid, m&m and mixing alcohols? >> yeah. >> the problem for me is i'm generally older in the country my glass is always full. >> he came and cooked asset my house. he ended up cooking, the only time my kitchen was actually used. some cuisine from south korea. >> you have pork, hotdogs and now spam? >> wit, kim chi. >> wow! >> oh, yeah. >> this is the last thing in the world i want to eat. >> you say that now. but just wait. >> all right. behold so. >> this is looking greats. i got to say. ♪ >> it's very good. >> see i've done -- i've done good in this world. >> i know people loved him because of the food and drink. but there were a lot of us that was almost beside the point.

it really was just about him. and his way of looking at the world. >> i come out of 30 years of preparing food for other people in a restaurant situation, most of those places had table cloths. and i enjoy from time to time of course very much eating in fancy restaurants. that said, i'm happier experiencing food in a purely emotional way. >> i loved, you know, watching him go into a restaurant or a home and just sort of becoming accepted in the process. >> we're here for a supra at the home. a supra is like a feast, supertraditional. a pig is dispatcheden broken into constituent parts. the neighbors pitch in, making three different varieties of a traditional cheese-filled bread. >> while i'm interested in what's cooking i'm more

interested in who is cooking, why they're cooking what they're cooking and what else they have to say. >> one of the scenes i remember in sicily when they were making some kind of octopus. and the fisherman said we're tiago taking you out and you get to catch your own. >> are these prime fishing waters? i don't know about thp but i am famous for optimism. suddenly there is a dead sea creature sinking closely it slowly to the sea bed. is this happening? but it goes on? one dead cuddle fush deceased okay put, frozen sea urchen after another droppings along the rocks to be heroically discovered by touri, i'm not

watching as huss kfrt in the next boat hurls them in the water. >> in a minute the dead octopus hit the wert, my sense of rage and self-disgust and just i'm not going to say i had a mental or nervous breakdown but i came close. >> it showed how passion he was. in that moment it was clear to me. >> and just when the brain threatened to short circuit with pleasure, descending as if from heaven itself. cheese, the god, the cheese. >> i got to tell you i don't care how many naked breasts are on the beach right now because that is much more exciting. >> all right. look at it. it's beautiful. >> it was a great show but then he had the unique ability to obviously eat very you know obscure remote different kinds

of foods. but he also liked all the foods all of us love. he could have a hotdog and speak about that for half an hour >> as i've gotten older i'm moving more and more away from fine dining. let's put it that which. and towards those foods and meals that make me happy. food i can eat with my hands. peasant food, home cooking, small casual businesses. i'm not suffering from fine dining exhaustion. there is always going to be aspects of that world that's the world i came out of. but i like to experience food emotionally whenever possible. and as i've gotten older you know it's a pork shank or a bowl of foodles making me happy a as opposed to to lashing's tongues in aspic. >> sometimes the best tasting food are from joints off the beaten path. >> food is worth talking about and fighting about about and

talking about all day long. but it's only a part of the spectrum of human experience without good conversation, without am beans, without love and company. it's worthless basically. >> when people came to sit down to watch parts unknown they knew they were getting something different even if it was about a place they knew, even if it went a part unknown to them. >> his stories weren't about food. food was the conduit. it was the thing that drew you in. once you were drawn in it was about the experience. it was about the connection. it was about his interaction, his interactions with people. >> it was the obama white house who reached out to cnn and i put them in touch with bourdain. they -- i mean that's who antingly bourdain was. obama wanted to go have food with him. not really the other way around. >> anthony's poif is basically i

don't want a fancy state dinner. it's got to be the scooter, the whole thing. and he got it his way. >> good to see you. >> good to see. >> you mr. president how you lying vietnam. >> love it. >> anthony said for him while the secret service were apparently very cool, they -- they are freaking out because they couldn't taste test the food. but obama had no problem coming in eating the local food and having a beer. >> how often do you get to sneak out for a beer. >> very rarely. first of all i don't get to sneak out, period. once in a while 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 end up shouldn'ted into the private rooms in the back. >> i'm glad i could help and

enjoy a cold beer. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> tony asked the president, do you ever just get to sort of do this to sit down and chill and have a beer which is a great question to ask. >> we are at a point where we seam to be turning inwards. if we're talking about building a wall around our country. yet you have been reaching out to people who don't necessarily agree with us. gaza, iran, cuba, i mean i just wish that more americans had passports. the extent to which you see how other people can live speems 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. when you come to a place like vietnam and you see former vietnam vets coming bab. john kerry or john mccain, two

different people politically and temperamentally but bonded in the experience of meeting with former adversaries and you don't make peace with friends. you make peace with enemies. >> as the father of a young girl, is it all going to be okay? it's all going to be working out my daughter will come here in five years, ten years have a bowl of noodles and the world will be a better place. >> i think progress is not a straight line. there are 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. >> there aren't a lot of chefs get to sit down and interview the president of the united states. but the reason i think that president obama wanted to sit down with tony in vietnam had nothing to do with the food. it was to talk about again, life. >> antingly interviewed a guy

named boris in an episode in russia who was a critic of the regime. he was good at picking people who were in the cross hairs of bad guys. >> so we were supposed to be dining at another restaurant this evening and when they heard that you would be joining me we were uninvited. should i be concerned about having dinner with you. >> this is a country of corruption. and if you have business you -- in a very unsafe situation. everybody can press you and destroy your business. >> that's it this is a system. >> meet boris. he was deputy prime minister under yeltsin and one of putin's most vocal critics. this restaurant was kind enough to take us in. but the chef is a brit so maybe he has less reason to worry. >> you a. >> critic of government, putin bad things seem to happen to

them. the pedenkop. stricken with a bout of radioactive plu tone yum. >> me about myself. >> yeah you're a pain in the as. >> tony i was born here 54 years ago. this is my country. russian people are in very big trouble. the russian court doesn't work. the russian education decline every year. and i believe that russia has a chance to be free. there is a chance. but it's difficult but we must do. >> he ended up getting assassinated shortly after. so you know, he -- anthony was not shying away in any which from serious political issues in a place. he embraced all those things. the idea that bourdain may have met with nemsoff before he was killed, that's what bourdain was doing looking for whiches to tell stories of humanity and

oppression. >> i remember anthony bourdain asking what would be the bucket list locations and he said iran. lo and behold several seasons later there he was. >> the he was interviewing the "washington post" reporter jason a and his wife. >> the official attitude towards fun in general seems to be ever-shifting. is fun even a good idea. >> there is a lot of security, lots of rules, there are a lot of people in place to make sure you do the right thing and not do the wrong thing. but a lot of push and pull. a lot of give and take. >> do you like it? are you happy here? >> look i'm at a point now after five years where i miss certain things about home. i miss my buddies. i miss burritos. i miss certain beverage was my

buddies and burritos. and i love it and i hate it. but it's home. it's become home. >> are you optimistic about the future? >> yeah, especially if there is no -- the nuclear deal finally happens. very much. >> shortly after jason was arrested by the regime and held. and i remember interviewing anthony actually about jason. and you know, anthony was trying to speak out forcefully on jason's behalf. >> these are two lovely blameless people who are not deserving of this -- of this fate. >> it was interesting to see anthony often winding up in the epicenter of you know very serious political situations. >> and i also loved the episode when he went to jerusalem, went to israel, met with palestinians, met with israelis and brought us his unique

vantage of that situation. that was a very powerful -- >> any story that we sit on television and -- and argue about, having heated discussions about, all you have to do is interject some food and wine or whatever into it, and a table, and it becomes much more civilized. >> fresh zucchini with mint. >> and the apricot the little sweet apricot. >> all of this food is intensely delicious. >> are you hopeful? of course, i have my children. i need to see them. >> i respect her religion. . she respect my religion, my family. together we can build something for our kids for our future country. that's what we think and we give the message for skpers. >> part of the attraction for the restaurant, the fact that it manages to do what not so many chefs to do try to do is the mix the jewish ethnicnessty or

background oh arab food. >> what he did even better than people who went to school for journalism was that he educated you. and i took you on a journey with him. and we all went along for the ride. ♪ >> africa. ♪ we africa. >> a few years back i got the words i am certain of nothing tattooed on my arm. it's what makes travel what it is. an enless learning curve, the joy of being wrong, being confused. africa, more than any other continent, needs to be seen by the world as both the place we

all came from and where we are going. >> one of his friends described him to me as a freak of nature, a force of nature, unexplainable and the world is lucky to have had him. >> he was a modern day adventurerer. and something with a unique voice. and there is not a lot of people like that left in the world to be honest. >> i'm revisiting some stuff. i was in a weird place in my head when i first came here. i was personallily, professionally everything in my life was changing. i was sort of in this no where land between previous life and whatever came next. i'm retracing my step to a lot of this to see if it still hurts. >> just because somebody is open about their illness in the past doesn't mean they're going to be as open about what is happening in the present. we have to learn more, because i would not be surprised if the demons that he had battled for

so, so long wound up being part of what wound up taking him from this world. >> there is a real danger of becoming sin uncle. you shut yourself from certain emotions that other normal people probably still feel. i've become harder in some ways. but some things always penetrate. there are things you can't push away or push out. or shut your eyes to. i think especially when you're -- you know when you're a parent, you know it's the sad or tragic or very serious and then -- and in an instant uses sense of humor to take you somewhere else to weave this tapestry of a story that only anthony bourdain can do. ♪

♪ >> clams. how could that not be good? ♪ ♪ >> this is the way so many of the great meals of my life i enjoy. eating something out of a bowl that i'm not exactly sure what it is. scooters going by. so delicious. where have you been all my life? fellow travelers, this is what you want. this is what you need. this is the path to true happiness and wisdom. >> a lot of people try to do first person wanderlust travel work and show you things in places, but it doesn't really take off, why? because you don't really care about what that person thinks about thing, but with tony bourdain you cared about what tony thought. >> i think we've learned something here today in chiang mai, i can't summon exactly what

that might be right now. muhammad said don't tell me what a man knows or what he says. tell me where he's traveled. >> language is storytelling. language is culture. language is civilization, and he used it to maximum effect. >> it's morning in the arabian desert. the place explorer bertram thomas called the abode of death. ♪ ♪ >> but it's a beautiful place, the kind of place i look for more and more these days. stark, empty, clean sand that stretches out seemingly forever. >> i was staggered by the breadth of his ability to bring new dimensions to the stories of

a world that some of us think we know so well. others don't know. >> as the evening progresses, the bourbon flows and the fire burns down to coals. a late-night vape with joe and the world seems to shift on its axis. later i find myself no longer vertical, looking up, up at a magnificent bewilderment of stars. >> as somebody who spent a lot of years traveling, it takes a toll and it's hard. you're in hotel rooms and you're on planes and you're away from loved ones and you're in places, you know, you're far out on the edge and often it's very lonely, and you're away from your life, and you come back and other people have, you know, continued on with their lives and it's hard to readjust.

>> my rented villa is pleasant enough, but to be perfectly honest, lonely. is it worse to be some place awful when you're by yourself or some place really nice that you can't share with anyone? >> he was generous in how he treated the rest of the world, how he respected the rest of the world, how he never considered anybody or any country or any ethnicity to be either beneath him or beneath the dignity of having their story told by him. >> i just turned 51, and i remember thinking, wow, if i can age like he is aging. he was, what? 61? and you know, he was getting tattoos and doing jujitsu, and he was just -- he actually -- he actually -- i was actually thinking about this two months

ago that i looked at him as somebody who gave me hope for what one's life could become, you know, at 61. >> any hopes and dreams, some security, and maybe our children, the opportunity to be proud of something. we all have that in common. >> everyone has demons, and i'm sure he dealt with them as much as anyone else and just because he's on television, he's successful and he's famous, it doesn't mean that he didn't have a life that was tough and hard, yet fulfilling and happy at points. >> where is home? most of us are born with the answer. others have to sift through the pieces. ♪ >> and he touched on the basic ingredients for all humanity no matter where it exists, and that's why no place was too remote, no people too obscure, no cuisine too exotic. he could make everything familiar.

what a gist, what a blessing that was. the tragedy was that it wasn't enough for tony to know his own self-worth. >> i hope that our world can take just one more gift from tony bourdain, and really, really, really try to explore in all its facets the problems of mental health.

this has to be a moment where we take this epidemic and this crisis seriously. >> tony bourdain is the guy that you just want to hang out with. like, through osmosis, you hope to learn a thing or two about life. losing tony was losing a member of your family, our cnn family. >> another tattoo is never going to make me younger or tougher or more relevant. it won't reconnect me ten years from now with some spiritual crossroads in my life. no. at this point, i think, my body is like an old car.

another dent ain't going to make a whole lot of difference. at best, it's a reminder that you're still alive and lucky. another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you've been. [ speaking foreign language ] >> a final, long gaze at the river. take in probably for the last time in my life the slow rhythms of the village. ♪ ♪ >> one more thing to do. ♪ay good-bye to an old friend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

the following is a cnn special report. >> the best way to destroy an enemy, abraham lincoln once said, is to make him a friend. president lincoln, meet kim jong-un. >> anybody said we'd be sitting here today talking about kim jong-un sitting down with president donald trump. >> he's like a maniac. >> you would have thought we were insane. >> in just months, we have gone from schoolyard taunts. >> he's a sick puppy.