anthony bourdain had a way of making what was so foreign sofa millier by the time he was done weaving his ways around the story. he's mourned by those who knew him best and those who didn't really know him at all because he leaves us all with a gift, his gift of revealing through his stories, his travels, his meals, our shared humanity. the fact that what we have in common is still so much more powerful than our differences. to remember anthony is to never forget this, it is always people who matter the most. without them, the perfect meal can never become the perfect

moment. tonight, i am honored to introduce the final episode of this season of "parts unknown." bhutan, a place few of us will see, remote unfamiliar, a land of soaring mountains and haunted forests, newly open to the west but home to ancient teachings about peace and karma, life and death. ♪ ♪ >> darren: you think animals are sentient? >> anthony: i think pain is pain. if you don't respond to that, there's something seriously wrong with you. >> darren: that's very buddhist of you, i think. >> anthony: when i worked in cape cod, my job was to load the steamer with lobsters. and they don't scream, but you hear them scratching against the thing.

i have dreams that i'm in a sauna and i look through the window and there's a giant lobster. a bib with a chef on it, you know? ♪ ♪ ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ ♪ sha la la la sha la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la sha la la la la la ♪

>> anthony: bhutan. a remote, relatively rarely visited kingdom of myth and legend, high in the himalayas, known as "land of the thunder dragon." one of the reasons it's not on the tourist trail is it's hard to get to. flying in, you hang onto your seat as the plane negotiates some alarming maneuvers through narrow mountain passes, before dropping into the country's only international airport, said by some to be the most dangerous in the world.

located between india and tibet, bhutan, about the size of switzerland, is caught between the old world and the new. thimphu is bhutan's capitol and largest city. it has a rapidly growing population of 100,000 as bhutanese have begun the inevitable move away from a rural agrarian lifestyle. tourism was only allowed starting in the 1970s. the amount of foreign visitors each year is strictly limited to protect bhutan's culture and environment.

there are no starbucks, no kfcs, no king or clown. basically, they don't want you to come here, at least en masse. >> darren: watch your head. >> anthony: yeah, right. wow. >> darren: what do you think of the altitude? how you feeling? >> anthony: i'm here because of this guy. my friend, the film director, darren aronofsky. fresh off the unjustifiably horrified reaction to what i think is his masterpiece, "mother." >> anthony: i don't know if you've studied the effects of high altitude, you know your blood gets thicker. thicker till it's like freaking marmalade. we'll be dying slowly here. >> darren: awesome. >> anthony: "mother" is an angry and thinly veiled warning that we are destroying our planet and policy-wise, bhutan is something of an environmental wonderland. >> anthony: they want to protect the country from being overly influenced by foreign valued culture, you know, all of the bad stuff that happens.

has anyone made a film here? >> darren: i don't know. it's got to be hard to work here. >> anthony: yeah, plus talk about contaminating the values of the local culture, i mean, that'll -- >> darren: hollywood doesn't do that. >> anthony: our first meal becomes our go-to favorite for the rest of the trip. if i'm not on camera, chances are i'm somewhere eating these bad boys -- mo-mo's. plump, flavorful, often quite spicy dumplings, filled with meat, cheese or veg. did i mention darren is a vegetarian? >> anthony: goddamn these are good. >> darren: they are really good. pardon? >> waiter: cheese mo-mo? >> anthony: cheese mo-mo? >> darren: chili cheese. >> anthony: wow, everybody is smiling. >> darren: all right, here we go. that's excellent. >> anthony: yeah. >> darren: that's spicy. >> anthony: that is. yeah, i'm feeling that. >> darren: i feel it in the back of my head.

>> anthony: it's enlightenment. it's your third eye opening, man. >> darren: i can't even tell what we're talking about i'm like so high from the altitude. >> anthony: morning in bhutan's capitol, a kingdom that has existed contentedly in a state of self-imposed isolation for centuries. >> anthony: some form of buddhism is very much, "this life does not matter at all. it's about the next." now the other extreme -- "it's all about today, right now." the form of buddhism practiced here is the middle path. >> dasho: middle path. mahayan tantric buddhism.

>> anthony: buddhists consider the next life. >> dasho: yes. and always it's your karma. >> anthony: and karma. >> dasho: whatever tragedy fall on you, death in the family, karma. it's all about an attitude. pick up and move on. once his holiness the dalai lama told me, "every day when you rise up you try and be a good human being as possible. that's more important than being religious."

>> anthony: beautiful day today. >> dasho: winter days are normally like this every day. in the good old days we used to have snow falls about 4 or 5 times a year, but over the last decade or so it's decreased a lot. >> anthony: noticeably, really? >> dasho: some glacial lakes have disappeared completely. >> anthony: "dasho" benji dorji is known as bhutan's godfather of environmental conservation. >> darren: and in tantric buddhism is there a respect for nature? >> dasho: there is a lot of respect. >> anthony: you don't mess with nature. >> dasho: yeah, you don't mess with nature. this is a traditional welcome drink as an ara. it's raw alcohol. the normal toast is "tashi delek." >> darren: tashi delek. >> dasho: tashi delek. "may good fortune be with you." i'm a retired alcoholic, so i will not join you. >> darren: pretty good. >> anthony: yeah. >> darren: kind of a warm sake, but made out of wheat. >> anthony: yeah. >> dasho: yes. >> anthony: could you tell us a little more about the chef?

>> dasho: oh, she and husband are both colonels in the royal bhutan police. >> darren: oh, wow. >> kesang: you have to use the finger, touch. so that the flavors come out. >> anthony: these recipes, where did they come from? >> dasho: they come from the farmers, from all the local houses. just passed down. >> kesang: these nine grains have a very historical and spiritual significance, because there was one saint called drukpa kunley, he's known as the madman. >> dasho: the divine madman. >> kesang: yeah, divine madman. so when he came to bhutan, he carried the nine grains. this is the hide, the yak hide. >> anthony: yes. >> kesang: hot szechuan pepper. lots of tomatoes to turn down the pepper. here is the yak hide. it's a delicacy. and then this is -- the green one is the orchid flower. >> dasho: i always think it's very exotic, the orchid. they say it's good for your health. >> darren: that's really amazing. >> anthony: can you tell us

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♪ ♪ >> anthony: it's a two and a half hour drive from the capitol to the picturesque mountain village of punakha. this is a must-see destination and one time home to bhutan's revered and beloved drukpa kunley, known as the divine madman. >> anthony: okay.

here you go. >> darren: wow. see, i mean -- >> anthony: i really kinda got nothing to say. >> anthony: now, dear viewer, bhutan is a very devoutly buddhist country. and in such circumstances, i always do my very best to be respectful and restrained, shying away from my usual toilet humor. >> anthony: never in the history of television has a host faced a greater challenge. how to talk about what's happening without -- well -- without making the obvious joke. >> anthony: god give me strength. as we wander through the valley of the low-hanging dick jokes. >> anthony: i'm trying to be respectful of a five-century religious tradition here. >> anthony: for centuries, bhutan has celebrated the, um, phallus. >> anthony: i'm not sure about the teeth. >> darren: this is the necklace ones. >> anthony: i'm trying to think of a circumstance you should wear that around your neck.

>> anthony: you see them everywhere here. >> anthony: oh, jeez. it's a cock-alanche. >> darren: you could make a chess set out of them, though. >> anthony: really, my dick takes your schlong. now that's a little, that's -- >> darren: that's making a statement of some sort. >> anthony: yeah it is, it is. >> darren: all right, i'm going to go for the sad one. and you're going for sort of -- >> anthony: sort of a rainbow. rainbow dick. i want to see this appearing on the budget by the way. >> darren: exactly, how do you write this off? do i add a little tip? >> anthony: can we have a bag? can i pass this along? i'm not walking around with this. you know what i mean, i'm holding two -- i feel like i'm -- >> darren: so when are they -- tell me what they represent? >> anthony: uh, embarrassment. >> anthony: all this is the legacy of drukpa kunley -- a llama and holy man who lived 500 years ago, and spread the tenets of buddhism, along with

the healthy skepticism for the institutions of power. >> supe: we are sitting just below the chimi l'hakhang, which is a temple built in the honor of drukpa kunley. the temple is also known as the "temple of fertility." >> anthony: he reveled unapologetically in casual sex, the copious use of spirits and seduction. smiting demons and making frequent friends with what is referred to as his "flaming thunderbolt of wisdom." which is a term you and i are unlikely to get away with. >> anthony: people from all over the world come here to buy wooden penises and to hear stories. >> supe: and to get blessings from the palace. the phallus palace. >> darren: phallus palace. they bless you with a phallus? >> supe: with a phallus, yeah. >> anthony: kunga su tenjin dorji is a journalist and radio host who knows a few things about the divine madman. >> supe: the phallus has been a symbol in vajra and buddhism long before drukpa kunley came around. it's just that because he was such a character, it's come to be associated with him. >> anthony: the divine madman

was a rebel, questioned his own religion, his fellow monks. >> supe: so the monks hated him of course. the establishment hated him. but the people took greatly to him because he was a guy who came to your house. it didn't mean that like other monks you had to prepare a special meal for him. he probably wanted your latest batch of ara, the local rice wine. and maybe he'd hit on your daughter and your wife as well, in the process. so you could imagine in 16th century bhutan a person who was known to have performed miracles would strike the fancy of anyone. >> darren: what were his miracles? >> supe: well, things like shooting an arrow all the way from tibet and landed in a house that's about a few kilometers from here. >> darren: but he did exist, right? >> supe: yeah. the first thing he did when he got to the house where the arrow had landed was to hit up on the lady of the house. >> anthony: yeah, that wouldn't fly these days. >> supe: this is one of the most difficult things to understand about drukpa kunley, because he breaks our notions about what is right and what is proper. >> anthony: this man was

essentially saying, "we should make love. we should drink. we should feel pleasure." >> supe: oh, well not necessarily that. i think what he was trying to say is that, you know, all these things that you hold dear to your hearts, such as, you know, your wife and your kids, and your house, and all of this, in the end it doesn't really matter. >> darren: so you're saying, the divine madman was bringing people towards enlightenment. >> supe: yes. >> anthony: so should i be getting drunk more and having more casual sex? will i be more enlightened? >> supe: nah, not just because of that, i'm sure not. >> anthony: until about 15 years ago, the east-west highway was the only road in bhutan. bisecting the country, it twists through some pretty gnarly mountain passes with at times crumbly cliff face on one side and harrowing freaking drop-offs on the other.

the road is undergoing a major expansion, with plans to have it fully paved by, well, soon. >> anthony: just carving this out of the mountain. >> darren: unbelievable. how many workers did they say are working this? >> anthony: 40,000. >> anthony: respect for the natural world is fundamental to bhutan's spiritual identity. more than half the country is off limits to development or timbering. a whopping 50% of bhutan's gdp comes from hydropower. >> darren: amazing, huh? >> anthony: so where are we? what is this place? >> nawang: this is the punatsangchhu hydropower dam. so this is one of the biggest hydropower dams in bhutan. it's about 1,200 megawatts. >> anthony: how much is that? how much -- >> darren: that's a lot of refrigerators. i heard there's going to be a second -- >> nawang: second dam further down. >> darren: so they're going to capture power twice. >> nawang: if you have already destroyed one river, you might as well keep building. >> anthony: get the most out of it. >> nawang: get the most out of it. >> anthony: doctor nawang norbu is the director of the school for field studies -- bhutan program.

>> darren: and what country is building this? >> nawang: it's mostly india. >> darren: do the indians build it and then get the power to pay it? >> nawang: they get the power. we sell it to them, and then we sort of liquidate the loans away. we have five such dams that are operational, and i think six being constructed at the moment. obviously there's a lot of destruction. it will stop some of the fishes from migrating up and down. you're also talking about a lot of transmission lines. but obviously for bhutan, i think when we started on the path of development, i think we were left with few other options. and i think this was the best thing for us to do. >> anthony: the water that comes through this dam, is it an inexhaustible supply? >> darren: it's all glacial water. >> nawang: we hope so. there are many studies which are showing that the himalayan glaciers will disappear in about 50 to 60 years. >> anthony: whoa, whoa, whoa. that's soon. >> nawang: yeah, but nobody knows for sure. i mean, the science is debatable. >> anthony: are we talking about the difference of 50 years and 100 years, or are we talking about whether it's happening at all? >> nawang: no, it is happening, there's no doubt about it. >> anthony: there's no doubt. >> darren: yeah. >> nawang: and you're not only talking about energy production, but you're also talking about agriculture. you know, you have less snow

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>> anthony: as we head further and further east, road conditions get sketchy. >> anthony: whoa. >> darren: yeah. caught in a landslide. that whole thing collapsed. >> anthony: that's not encouraging. what if our car had been there?

that's a big freaking -- >> darren: oh, shoot, he's going to have to move that whole thing? >> anthony: i think we're going to freeze out here like rats tonight. whoa! >> darren: he's going after the big one, here he goes. whoa! >> anthony: hey, he's through. >> darren: i think that's it. >> anthony: saddle up. >> darren: the best song about the road. >> anthony: um. >> darren: what's that, "almost

heaven, west virginia, blue ridge mountains." "country roads." >> anthony: john denver? >> darren: that's where my head went first. >> anthony: wow. it is considered enlightening and therapeutic to think about death for a few minutes a day. >> nawang: yes. you are reminded time and again not to take things too seriously. this is in fact an illusion, isn't it? >> anthony: "life is but a dream." >> nawang: yeah. >> anthony: pele la pass, the

gateway to central bhutan. here, nomadic herders and their yaks come down from higher elevations to spend the winter months. >> woman: for as long as i can remember, my family have been

yak herders. as a child i took care of the yaks. this has been my life for 30 years or so. >> anthony: and from the yak you get meat, the fur. >> nawang: the fur, milk, cheese. >> anthony: butter. >> nawang: yup. this is butter tea. >> anthony: yak tea. >> nawang: yup, with yak butter. >> anthony: have you had this before? >> darren: never. >> anthony: you're either going to love it or you're not going to love it. >> darren: that's very unique. >> nawang: is this yak's meat? >> woman: yes, it is. >> anthony: yak jerky? >> nawang: yak meat and some spinach. >> anthony: you'll like these greens, man. they are spicy as -- >> darren: do i have yak -- is this yak meat right here? >> nawang: yeah, that's yak meat. >> darren: i gotta avoid the yak meat. >> nawang: and then these are dried chilies which are boiled. >> anthony: ah, the yak cheese with boiled dried chilies. >> darren: i'm all over that. this is excellent. >> anthony: yeah. >> darren: excellent. really good. so yak herding is dying, we're starting to hear? it's um --

>> nawang: people are giving up. >> anthony: why? >> nawang: better opportunities, i suppose. yak herding is a difficult life. she herself has given up now. who have you given your yaks to? >> woman: to my sister. >> nawang: so she has given all of her yaks to her sisters, so she now, she has a shop. she's gone up the ladder. are you the head of the family? >> woman: yes, i am. >> nawang: she is in charge of the business and she makes the decisions for the family. in bhutan, women are the boss. women inherit whatever the parents own, not the sons. >> darren: always? all inheritance goes to the women? >> nawang: yes, women. >> anthony: what is this? >> nawang: this is ara, with some cordyceps in it. >> anthony: is that a cordycep? >> nawang: that is the cordycep. >> anthony: which is? >> nawang: essentially the cordycep is a fungus which infects the larvae of the ghost moths. >> anthony: a caterpillar that has been invaded by fungus? >> nawang: yes, it eventually takes over the whole larvae, kills it, sort of mummifies the whole thing.

and then in the spring it protrudes out again. >> darren: is there any caterpillar left at the end or is it fossilized? >> nawang: it's just a fossilized thing. >> darren: meaning it's not meat. it is vegetarian. >> anthony: cordyceps are the new profit center for a culture that used to revolve almost entirely around the yak. >> anthony: this stuff costs how much a kilo? >> nawang: on average it's about $20,000. >> anthony: $20,000? >> nawang: dollars. >> anthony: that's a lot. >> darren: may i? >> nawang: yes, please. >> anthony: what does this do for you? >> nawang: supposed to increase your virility, it's supposed to cure piles. you know, even hepatitis. >> anthony: really? >> nawang: yeah. >> anthony: piles, eh? >> darren: what is piles? >> anthony: hemorrhoids. >> darren: oh. >> nawang: and the chinese athletes have been taking it for quite some time. >> darren: so they're doping on -- >> nawang: they're doping. >> darren: it's pretty tasty. >> nawang: yeah, it also says that you produce more semen. i don't know how far it's true, but.

>> anthony: what about, what's his name? >> darren: the divine madman. >> anthony: maybe the guy was eating a lot of cordyceps. >> darren: exactly. getting hot in here. >> anthony: no, no it's not actually. it's you, man. what happens if you eat too many? >> woman: this is more than enough. what about him? let's do it. ♪ come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. at the mercedes-benz summer event. lease the glc300 for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

>> nawang: we are here on the east-west highway. after this pass, you are actually entering the black mountain forest. some of the most pristine forest in bhutan. but also supposedly connected to a lot of evil spirits. >> anthony: with the last remnants of sun still with us, and the views, spectacular, enthusiastic amateur mixologist darren suggests a pit stop. >> darren: this is a cool spot, no?

>> anthony: yeah. >> anthony: to fortify ourselves against the reputed horrors ahead. >> darren: so our main alcohol, ara, is that what it's called? >> anthony: let me take a whiff. oh, jesus. >> darren: we have this, which is a bitter. >> anthony: yeah, okay, it's like aftershave. >> darren: exactly. >> anthony: should we put some orange in there? >> darren: we do have oranges. >> anthony: spin in the air. catch in the other hand. hello, ladies! >> darren: oh, hold on. hold on, hold on. dude, it needs a yeti in it, the bhutanese pepper. no, no, no, go for it. >> anthony: with the seeds in it? >> darren: do it. let's do it, let's try it. it has a bite. did you get a little sting? >> anthony: i'm getting it, i'm getting it. >> darren: actually this is pretty good. >> anthony: yeah, i could drink a lot of these. >> anthony: we decide, as

travelers through demon-infested forests at night all too frequently do, to stop by a welcoming roadhouse, where a conversation with garab dorji, our government rep, does little to steel us for the journey ahead. >> anthony: what are we drinking tonight? >> garab: we are drinking k5. >> darren: it's called k5. >> garab: k5. the whiskey is dedicated to the present king, he is the fifth king in line. >> darren: do they still make k4, or no more? >> garab: oh no, we don't have k4, just k5. >> anthony: good, thank you. >> garab: okay. >> anthony: most of those guys are brought in from india? >> garab: most of them are indian. >> darren: where do these guys live? >> garab: they have small huts that were built at the construction site. >> anthony: in the mythology of the area, much of it likely predating even buddhism, demons

inhabit these forests. nasty demons. >> garab: buddha had 1,000 lives. in one of his 500 good lives, he was exiled to bhutan because this was the most graded place in the world. >> anthony: maybe that was why you were never invaded? >> garab: yeah. one of the evil spirits is called loro duem and she's supposed to be the commander-in-chief of all the evil spirits. one of the most terrifying things you could ever see is her face. if you see her, you die. you drop dead. >> anthony: so if darren has to take a piss and go out in the woods, that's not advisable? >> garab: ah, no. it's not advisable to go out at night. >> anthony: and no lumbering, no one's cutting down trees. >> garab: no one. as long as we know, the whole mountain range is virgin. >> anthony: what about putting a road through, i mean, that's why you hire indian guys. >> garab: the road is the other side of the mountain. we built it purposefully that way. >> anthony: really? so like nobody has got a house or -- >> garab: no, nothing. nothing on that. even if people lose cattle, whatever, they don't go into

that. >> darren: still? >> garab: yes. even to this day.

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>> anthony: here, in the mist-covered valleys and imposing peaks, it's easy to imagine what this place looked like before bhutan first opened the door to outsiders. bumthang is the end of the road for us. the spiritual heartland of bhutan. archery is the national sport --

an important community event that binds remote villages together in fierce competition, and in a rollicking good time. >> darren: thank you very much. >> anthony: today's the day of a match between trongsa and a rival village. but first? food. >> garab: eat with your hands, no? no, no, this way? >> anthony: bigger? >> garab: see this way? no, that's too big. >> anthony: too big. jeez. harsh. >> garab: when you put it in the mouth, you have to put it this way. >> anthony: oh, okay. >> garab: no. it's not bulging. is it bulging? >> anthony: oh, not bulging.

>> garab: it should not bulge. >> anthony: no bulge. oh yeah, i'm down with that. >> darren: that's pork? why is it translucent? >> anthony: they braise it rather than fry it so it becomes clear. this is like unbelievable. >> garab: we eat everything. we don't throw it out. this is the bone on the leg. chop it and boil it. >> anthony: that's good, man. that's just so good. >> darren: i'm going with the pepper. >> anthony: that's setting my hair on fire. >> garab: this is dried turnip leaf. >> anthony: oh, turnip greens. >> garab: turnip leaf is a delicacy in bhutan. a little bit of butter and milk. now, this is a yak leg. >> anthony: yak leg. >> darren: does meat eating go all the way back? or were people vegetarian? >> garab: all the way back, all the way. in fact, the bhutanese were

cannibals. >> darren: say that again. >> garab: bhutanese were considered cannibals. the only vegetable we had was potatoes and radish, that's it. nothing else. >> darren: wow. >> garab: people don't kill, but they would eat one another if somebody dies. we are not supposed to eat it. >> darren: you're not supposed to eat yak? >> garab: no, we are not supposed to eat meat. >> darren: you're not supposed to eat meat. >> anthony: buddhism, i mean -- >> garab: buddhism. but culturally because of terrain we have no choice. >> darren: is that beet nut? >> anthony: betel nut. >> darren: oh, can i try? >> garab: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: i'm not having it. >> darren: have you had it? >> anthony: yes, yes i have. you asked for it. >> darren: you chew up the green? >> garab: yeah, everything chewed together. >> anthony: like -- >> darren: whoa oh, man. >> anthony: getting a buzz? >> darren: my whole mouth is numb. i gotta do something about this.

totally high off of that thing. >> anthony: ah jeez, just stepped into a fresh loaf of >> anthony: ah jeez, just stepped into a fresh loaf of shit. right here, yeah that's good. >> darren: oh, jeez. that's a serious distance. >> anthony: the rules are simple. shoot your arrow the length of one and a half football fields, high in the air, in this case, across the east-west highway, all the way, hopefully, into a small target. >> anthony: good luck with that. you need a .50 caliber to hit that target. >> darren: i could barely see it flying through the air. can you see the arrows? >> anthony: no. whoa, close.

>> anthony: what's interesting is the other team is often standing by the target and hanging out looking cool for as long as possible as an arrow flies in your general direction is standard practice. when points are scored, there's singing and dancing and a fair amount of what can only be called playful taunting. the bhutanese version of in your face. >> darren: brag dance. >> anthony: what could possibly go wrong? >> anthony: they're drinking, man. one in a million shot. i love the little kid over there with the juice box ten feet from the line of fire. >> darren: what were they screaming?

>> karma: distract, you know? distract. >> darren: why? >> karma: not to hit the target. >> darren: so they're anti-cheerleaders. >> karma: yes. >> darren: what are they saying though? >> karma: oh, the short guy can't hit. >> darren: they're calling him short? >> karma: yeah. or bald head, or anything.

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>> darren: this is a very religious site. it's called "burning lake." >> anthony: burning lake? or burning river? >> darren: the burning lake, but i think it's actually a river. >> anthony: i see people are leaving prayer flags and these things. >> darren: these are called tsa-tsas. these little offerings. sometimes they're made out of clay and sometimes they're made out of actually the ashes of the dead. wow, it's pretty awesome. >> anthony: it's beautiful. >> darren: an old pile of incense.

where do you think this country is headed? >> anthony: i honestly don't know what i believe. i don't know if it's good or bad. it seems like shangri-la. but for the place that invented the gross national happiness, they're content at under $2 a day. >> darren: yes. >> anthony: i don't want my child herding yak. and i don't know that a lot of parents do. even here. >> darren: having a fully paved road across this entire country, this country is going to be a very, very different place in five years. the question is do they stay committed to happiness and not to consumption? getting off the plane when we got here, there were many flat-screen tvs. >> anthony: first comes electricity, then comes the television, then comes pop stars, and materialism. but maybe that's arrogant. maybe that's just easy for me to say. >> darren: i don't know. a lot of the people we talked to there is a tremendous amount of respect of what they have. we're finally seeing the effects of climate change in a terrifying way. which they're all going to be able to witness on their flat-screen tvs, you know, i think people are going to really hold on to treasures like this. >> anthony: i know it's beautiful.

i'm glad it hasn't been [ bleep ] up yet by the world.

>> darren: you're supposed to put them somewhere where they'll last for a while and make a prayer.

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