bourdain: mining was always dangerous.e them, who built neighborhoods and schools and helped power the nation. - they loved their work. they raised their families. they worked all the time. bourdain: it was a destination with hopes and dreams of hard work leading to a better life. - you know, the company's a son of a bitch. let's face it. but they were our son of a bitch. so, you know, that's just the way it was. the community worked to support the people. here's the fun part. - cool. - well, how many holes do you usually drill to make a round? - oh, between 20 and 30. - what is a round? - this pattern has to be drilled out. and every time you advance the face, that is a round. you drill it. you load it. you blast it. you muck it. you bolt it. you drill it again. and that's a cycle. we're in the loading process right here. they call it collar priming or top priming this hole. pull it. still away. bourdain: back in the day, it was dynamite. but in the '60s, they started switching over to this stuff-- anfo, ammonium nitrate

anthony bourdain, parts s unkno is thehe next. the south is not a monololith. there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness, and then there's charleston. >>> the south is not important h . there are pockets of weirdness, awesomeness and then there is charleston. for some time now important things have been happening with food, a lot of them having to do with this guy. ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ >> [ music ] la la la la la what are we drinking? beer? harder stuff? what's going on? i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. budweiser and jagermeister. >> what are we drinking? beer, hard stuff? what's going on? >> i usually go with budweiser and yeager meister. >> any notion of going local right out the window. >> chairs. >> the first one is never good. the first one is never good. it gets easier after the first one. >> this is not my first time to charleston, as you know. i did a show here before and i am still taking heat about it and apparently i really upped the first time i came here. i made a numb

record, i mean that's the immediate, you know, back in the day when, you know, i published tony bourdain in 2000 and nobody knew who he was. and he was a failed novelist. and he hit the number on the new york times bestseller list with a print first printing of 11,000 copies. so that's just not happening really anymore. and that changed the course of publishing in the food space, right? so that that was one of those things you're going awesome if said you know dan halpern called me said how did you do that and i said i have no -- idea honestly, sorry c-span or whatever but what i would say is that what you do want to do with your authors, your clients is to is to not have them run after things that they can't that they're not they're really doing exactly like i a lot of they say, you know you know six a year before publication of the book working on you know and they go oh i'm going to hire a social media consultant and i'm going to, you know, build my social media camp know platform, know a year out is not going to do it. i mean, if you don't have over 500,000 followers already, you kno

anthony bourdain, parts s unkno is thehe next. the south is not a monololith.

[all speaking italian] - gene, uncle gene, this is anthony bourdain. - how do you do? good. - he was up in donnie's bocce courts faster than anybody else. - wow, that's delicious. this is a weakness of mine. you know, they have these street fairs in new york where they do sausage and pepper stands. i cannot walk past one of those things without getting them. all: ohh! [scattered cheers and applause] - so how long have you lived in this community? - 78 years. - so your whole life. - yes. - now, the first wave of italians who came here from italy, why did they come here? did they come here for steel jobs? coal? - actually, trade. i think they came here more for the trade. - yeah. - yeah, plumbers, bricklayers, any kind of trade like that. - some italians said that they were told to come over here and they were gonna find the roads paved with gold. they said, "they didn't tell us we had to build them first." - yeah. [laughter] [indistinct chatter] [scattered cheers] - how's the neighborhood changed over the years? still predominantly italian american, or...? - yeah, not a

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and i've read anthony bourdain's book as well.you got the skills or not? yeah, if it happens to be that these seven people in the photo are the most have the best skills for the job and maybe some light workers are coherent unit i mean. well i mean but that's what some of these people the i suppose the idea the criticism i suppose the idea that projects onto them that one projects that onto them because the same. because they all look the same. well is the thing is well this is the thing is there's some i believe there's some genuinely i believe like intonations here like racist intonations here because someone's saying that like, they're like, oh well they all they're all background and all the same background and whatever they all think same. it's know what? all it's like, you know what? all white men, it not, white men, believe it or not, aren't all the same. they might white men, believe it or not, aren'tfrom 1e same. they might white men, believe it or not, aren't from different they might white men, believe it or not, aren't