found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ ♪ sha la la la sha la la la ♪ ♪ shala ♪ >> 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 l

found something good ♪ in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la shaa la la la la ♪ ♪ >>> anthony: everything old is new again, maybe not. i come close sometimes to believing nothing actually ever changes. back in the beginning fresh out of the kitchen when i first went out into the world to figure out how to make television, i came to northern portugal. little did i know what i would find. up until then for 30 years spent working in kitchens, meat had come wrapped in plastic, i'd order it in boxes. i had never seen an animal die because i was making dinner. >> market lady left: good morning. >> anthony: hi, how are you guys doing? >> anthony: portugal, sandwiched between spain and the atlantic ocean, and tiny as countries go, has had an outsized impact on the world. during the age of discovery the portuguese went to sea in great numbers, gained fame as navigators, ship builders, explorers. they conquered a large part of the world. their empire stretching from brazil to africa to the east indies. the city of oporto is a reflection and a creation of tha

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ ♪ sha la la la sha la la la ♪ ♪ sha ♪ [ engine revving ] ♪ >> anthony: there are parts of america that are special. unique, unlike anywhere else. cultures all their own, kept close. much loved but largely misunderstood. ♪ the vast patchwork of saltwater marshes, bayous, and prairie land that make up cajun country is one of those places. while the rest of the usa got stitched together by super highways, southwestern louisiana remained relatively isolated. i-10 wasn't completed until the 1970s, finally connecting this part of the state to new orleans, houston, and the rest of the nation. with that came chain restaurants, drive-thrus, and strip malls. but fear not, it's still magnificently weird. ♪ take for example, cajun mardi gras. ordinarily, i loathe the idea of mardi gras. any kind of group celebration. anything festive involving dancing fills me with self-conscious dread. thousands of happy drunks crowding into the french quarter for instance, not for me. but cajun mardi gras is another thing entirely. closer to the

something good ♪ in this ♪ beautiful world ♪ i felt the rain ♪ getting colder ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la ♪ [ boat engine ] ♪ >> anthony: last time i saw all this, i think it's fair to say i was at a turning point in my life. i promised some people i'd come back, and i am back. my life has changed a lot. how much have their lives changed? ♪ kuala lumpur. happy to be here, but brimming with mixed emotions. surrounded by all the sights, smells and flavors i remember so well. this is where a wandering soul, such as myself, can dive right in and get some of that straights chinese food i've been missing. first order of business -- dinner. been on a plane for like, i don't know, it was long. very long. saw like five mark wahlberg films. i can't tell you how excited about the prospect of getting some black pepper crab, some char kuey teow, and some pork related noodles. and a regional beverage. reasonably cold. i don't even know what this is. i love you, noodles. don't want to get all heavy and philosophical at this point. like why i'm here, what my mission is, what i expect to find. basic

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 la >> good morning, how are you? mike? >> start my day. wake up at 2:00. take the bridge, take the bridge. okay, short time. >> just across the east river from manhattan where i live, just over there is an enchanted wonderland, a stew pot of neighborhoods filled with the languages, cultures, traditions and flavors of many lands. my morning ritual like this. regular coffee, a donut, a kruler if i feel wild and crazy but just across the river, the options are endless. seven trains over main queens like a cable. another country, another region. get off at roselle avenue, and you'll eat well for sure. this cart sells ecuadorian food. roast pork with sublime crispy skin straight from heaven. oh, that's is sound of victory right there. m morcilla, blood sausage with potato cakes. >> that's really good. a word of advice for people coming to and from work. how often do you think the average person eats at one of these things? >> like the day laborers, the men here, they might be in t

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shala la la ♪ >> anthony: in bahia, you find yourself in the heart of the heart of brazil. where the magic comes .from if you wanna get there, just follow the sound of the drums. this is salvador de bahia. city of 3 million people. first capital of brazil. the wellspring for everything african and spicy. where things seem to just sway and move constantly. it's a place where everybody is sexy. where even the ugly people are hot. unsurprisingly, this is where artists come from. african spiritualism, occult magic, candomblé, capoeira. caipirinha? and caipirinhas. did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here too. i like them. i like them a lot. what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste. it's like, i don't know man. it's a little too something. and then like that second sip, it's like, aw, that's kinda good. then the third sip, it's -- where are my pants? fortunately food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shala la la ♪ >> anthony: what do you need to know about tokyo? deep, deep waters. the first time i came here, it was like -- it was a transformative, uh, experience. it was a powerful and violent experience. it was as if -- it was just like taking acid for the first time. meaning, what do i do now? i see the whole world in a different way. um, i often compare the experience of going to japan for the first time, going to tokyo for the first time, uh, to what -- what eric clapton and, uh, pete townsend must've gone through. the reigning guitar gods of england. what they must've gone through the week that jimi hendrix came to town. you hear about it, you go see it. the whole -- a window opens up into a whole new thing. and you think, "what does this mean? what do i have left to say? what do i do now?" ♪ welcome to tokyo. you are not invited. this is the other tokyo. 12 hour flight, and i'm baked. no sleep. might as well -- must go out. ♪ the kabukicho district near my hotel has the advantag

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: cuba has been sitting here 55 years now, half an hour away, basically giving the biggest superpower in the world the stiff middle finger. 50-plus years of animosity, embargo, rationing, and fidel castro is still hanging on. but recently, there are powerful indications that everything is about to change. we are in a little fishing town. this place is where two brothers go out and fish every morning and bring fresh seafood. >> anthony: okay, humble fishing village. traditional fishing family? >> hugo: yes. >> anthony: what about the sushi? what's going on in this country, man? >> hugo: things are changing, anthony, what can i say? my name is hugo. i was born in cuba. i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a business man. i'v

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ shaa, la, la, la, la ♪ [ man in street speaking greek ] [ ferry horn ] [ man speaking greek ] >> anthony: people who come here, stopping in naxos, are they island hopping, or are they coming is this the destination? >> lambros: well, i mean, island hopping happens a lot during the summer. so, you know, as someone who's arranged to have like a two-, three-week vacation in greece will probably want to visit like at least two or three islands. >> anthony: mm-hmm. so how many islands in this island group? >> lambros: the cyclades? >> anthony: cyclades. >> lambros: is it about 15. maybe more. there's andros, tinos, mykonos, syros, paros, naxos, um -- >> anthony: tito and jermaine. [ lambros laughing ] >> lambros: and more. >> anthony: right. and the rest. >> lambros: and the rest, yes. >> anthony: a lot of history here in the greek islands. on naxos in particular, where zeus himself was said to live. where his son dionysus frolicked and presumably drank and threw orgies and dropped e, and danc

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shathony: armenia is a small, landlocked christian nation surrounded by mostly non-christian neighbors. azerbaijan over there, iran down there, and turkey right there. turkey, and relations with turkey, and the armenian people's terrible history with that country being the central and defining issue of armenian identity. and a present-day political reality 103 years after what just about anyone would call genocide. turkey has always adamantly denied that, saying it was simply a messy war. yerevan is the capital of armenia, a city of about one million people. mt. ararat looms over it, a cultural touchstone and a constant reminder of what was done on the other side. think of armenia and chances are you think instead of an armenian. maybe someone you know, or maybe someone on tv. these guys for instance. famous armenians. we needed an armenian. i needed an armenian to push me over the edge, help me find a window, a lens with which to look at a country which for some reason i'd manage to not

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shaanthony: armenia is a small, landlocked christian nation surrounded by mostly non-christian neighbors. azerbaijan over there, iran down there, and turkey right there. turkey, and relations with turkey, and the armenian people's terrible history with that country being the central and defining issue of armenian identity. and a present-day political reality 103 years after what just about anyone would call genocide. turkey has always adamantly denied that, saying it was simply a messy war. yerevan is the capital of armenia, a city of about one million people. mt. ararat looms over it, a cultural touchstone and a constant reminder of what was done on the other side. think of armenia and chances are you think instead of an armenian. maybe someone you know, or maybe someone on tv. these guys for instance. famous armenians. we needed an armenian. i needed an armenian to push me over the edge, help me find a window, a lens with which to look at a country which for some reason i'd manage to no

rain on my shoulder ♪ in this something good beautiful world ♪ getting colder ♪n ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shala la la la la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: all of us when we travel look at the places we go, the things we see, through different eyes. and how we see them is shaped by our previous lives. the books we've read. the films we've seen. the baggage we carry. years ago when i first watched the stunningly beautiful films of director wong kar-wai it shaped forever the way i see hong kong. from that point on, my hopes -- my expectations of this city would be seen through that lens. a lens that was in nearly every case pointed by -- focused by this man -- [ laughter ] christopher doyle. long time resident of hong kong. known by his mandarin name "dù k?f?ng." his earlier works with wong kar-wai were distinguished by unspeakably gorgeous images of beautiful people moving through spaces both unfamiliar and yet painfully intimate. alternately jagged, frenzied, innovative, languid, composed, chaotic. i obsessed over his work. fetishized it. longed to see hong kong like the characters in so many of his films lo

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shaa la la la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: it takes a special breed to live in a province like quebec. it gets cold in winter. and winters are long. ♪ it takes a special kind of person for whom frozen rivers, icy, wind-whipped streets, deep, seemingly endless forests are the norm. i will confess my partisanship upfront. i love montreal. it is my favorite place in canada. the people who live there are tough, crazy bastards, and i admire them for it. toronto, vancouver, i love you. but not like montreal. why? i shall explain. all will be revealed. in the meantime, check this guy out. what's the post office's motto? neither rain nor sleet nor driving snow nor plague of locusts will prevent the mail carrier from delivering my junk mail? here in montreal, the simple task of delivering the mail in winter comes with its own set of hurdles. icy hurdles. i gotta ask. do you have special equipment for this? >> mailman: we got, like, slip-on boots. we do have our boots when it rains. uh, sorry, when it gets icy.

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha la, la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: this is the restaurant "masa" in new york city, tucked away on the fourth floor of the time warner center on columbus circle. it is america's most expensive restaurant. dinner here costs around $600 per person before sake or extra pieces of the most outrageously high quality tuna on the planet. the raw ingredients are unparalleled -- often flown in from japan or grown specially to this man's specifications. this is masa takayama. to call him america's most respected sushi chef would be an injustice, as he is more than that. much more. what was it about him that set him apart, took him from a rather bleak farming community in rural japan to become first the toast of los angeles and later the king of new york? it is a fascinating story. kanazawa is the capital of ishikawa prefecture on the west coast of honshu island along the sea of japan. it's known for its untouched by time traditional districts -- one of the few cities in japan left relatively intact thr

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ >> anthony: it's the spicy, sensualist heartland of all the things i love about china. the collision between very, very old and very new. an exploding middle class. a lot of history. and food that can burn you down to a charred, smoking little stump. sichuan province, located in the southwest of china. over a thousand miles from beijing. a region so fertile and lush that it's been referred to as china's breadbasket. and its capitol, chengdu. despite its ever-growing skyline, it hasn't lost its deep culinary roots and traditions. >> man: heart. >> anthony: and i figured if i'm going back to sichuan i should bring a friend. someone unused to the, how shall i say, level of heat commonly found in the food here. someone who's never been to china before and is unused to its ways. i'm talking, of course, about chef eric ripert, of such three-star michelin restaurants as new york's le bernardin. so, welcome to china, eric. >> eric: thank you. >> anthony: first time to the mainla

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha la, la, la, la, ♪ >> nebil: addis ababa. [ speaking amharic ] ♪ >> anthony: admit it. you hear the name ethiopia and you think "starving children with distended bellies." you think dust and famine and despair so awful, you frankly don't want to even think about it anymore. but take a look. addis ababa, capital city of ethiopia. a cool, high altitude, urban center that will both confirm and confound expectations. fueled largely by direct foreign investment and a returning ethiopian diaspora eager to be part of the new growth, things are changing in addis. it's one of the fastest growing economies in the world. it's not the first time the place has gone through a growth spurt. in the 1950s, emperor haile selassie, known as "the king of kings," embarked on a similar program of massive public works. this was supposed to be the legacy of ethiopia. the future. but the next time ethiopia found itself in the headlines, it was for this. and for many of us, that was the end of the story. so i'm

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la ♪ ♪ ♪ [ motorcycles revving ] >> anthony: the mediterranean sea itself trembles. the ground shakes beneath the wheels of our heavy metal thunder. back in beirut after all these years. the first time i was here did not end well, but it made no difference to me. i love it here. in spite of everything, i love it here. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: nice ride. woo! it's a good way to see beirut. >> ramsay: this is very similar to that place we went to years ago, barbar. this is rizk. this is your, you know, traditional chicken sandwich, shawarma. >> marwah: deep-fried, broasted. >> anthony: the broasted chicken was this guy's idea, my british-lebanese friend. born, "born to be wild" ramsay short, who i met back in those bad old days of 2006. apparently he's in with the lebanese chapter of the harley davidson group, or hog for short. so, when you roll into some religiously conservative village on these monster bikes in leather jackets. what's the reaction? >> suzan: two types: once, we were greeted

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ ♪ >> bondi: i can go to the desert, but i am not going to get there by accident. but that's part of the whole experience of the desert, is that you know, it ain't friendly, it ain't nice, it ain't good, you know? you're, you're out here, you know, a half a mile. it doesn't matter if you're a half a mile out or you're 20 miles out. you know, there's no reason to walk a mile further, because you're already in infinite desolation. sin city was true, it was real. part of moving out here was that you were never going to see the family again. i mean, that was it. i'm moving to vegas and you ain't coming to see me and i ain't coming to see you, and i mean, that's the character of the city. but it was really was the, you know the pit of the -- of america. it wasn't that somebody came out here because, "i want to make a million bucks." it was, "i'm going to come out here, i'm going to survive, and you all ain't going to bug me anymore back home." >> anthony: in vegas, there's win

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shaa la la la ♪ >>> a typical texas school just like the rest of them. nope, not even close. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. repeat after me, positive affirmations, today is a beautiful day. >> i will work hard. >> i am important. >> i am important. >> repeat, i will succeed. >> i will succeed. >> what percentage of your student body english is not the first language? >> i would say about 80% of them. >> at the end of the vietnam war, jonathan escaped to america on a raft and after getting a master degree becoming the principal of the school, the most ethnically did i veersed school in the city? >> just reflective of the community. >> it is well integrated. it is not -- >> one of the main reasons is the strong economic base. it allows for immigrants and families to come over and to own the own home or go to a better neighborhood and make a life for themselves. >> more than 40 languages spoken among the 1,700 students and many from the conflict zones. leave quickly or die.

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ shaa la la la ♪ >> anthony: what are we drinking? beer? we drinking harder stuff? what's going on? >> sean: i usually go with a budweiser and a jagermeister. >> anthony: budweiser and a jagermeister? so any notion of going local right out the window. >> sean: yeah. >> bartender: two jagers? >> anthony: uh, yeah, two jagers. yeah. cheers. good to see you again, man. >> sean: cheers, man. the first one's never good. the first one is never good. but it gets easier after the first one. >> anthony: so, look, um, this is not my first time to, uh, charleston, as you know. i did do a show here before and i'm still taking -- about it. apparently i really -- up the first time i came here because i made a number of errors, apparently none more egregious than going out for, like, doing oyster roasts and drinking champagne. >> sean: i'd never heard for such a thing. well, champagne of beers is okay with oysters. >> anthony: right, see that's what -- it must've been a typo. >> sean: maybe somebody got,

♪ >> gaucho: uruguayans are lik ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: i've been here before. this coastline. this city. i was looking for something then. but instead, i found this -- uruguay. the tiny, under-appreciated south american country tucked between argentina and brazil. only three million people live here -- half of them in the capitol city of montevideo. >> anthony: i love this city. i love this country. i mean, there's a vibe here that just is unlike any other place on the continent. it's the opposite of new york in a lot of ways, like people aren't pushy here. you know in new york everybody is like sort of hungry and pushy and moving. >> nacho: here, it's extremely laid back. the only competition is soccer. that's the only time that you get competitive and it gets extreme. ♪ >> anthony: ignacio mattos is the chef owner of three very successful restaurants in new yo city -- estela, cafe altro paradiso, and flora bar. he's been a new yorker for the past 12 years. but he comes from here. >> nacho: ur

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ shasha, la, la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: berlin is never berlin, they say. pounded into rubble by allied bombs and russian artillery in world war ii. surrounded, then hacked in two during the cold war. then reunited and reborn. berlin is a city of ghosts. an ever-evolving space where memories and new ideas live side by side. in between and after the wars, berlin has always been a place where you find what you want. or what you think you need. what you can't get back home. a place where fantasies could come true. it's all here. if you know where to look. it's no coincidence. it's a natural progression really that berlin's nightlife is excessive. completely and proudly uninhibited and never ending. there are clubs for everybody. and many are friendly towards whatever your personal lifestyle club culture is the pride of berliners. and draws millions of thrill seekers from all over the world. it is notoriously difficult to navigate, however. and finding the right place, with the right mix, that w

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: lagos, nigeria's mega-city. one of the most dynamic, unrestrained and energetic expressions of free market capitalism and do-it-yourself entrepreneurship on the planet. >> kadaria: when you have a place of 20 million people, they have to eat. they have to wear clothes. they have to do all rts of things. i mean lagos is a testament to the resilience and to the ingenuity of the nigerian spirit. >> anthony: buy, sell, trade, hustle and claw. make your own way, any way you can. >> kadaria: nobody does any one job in this country. >> anthony: is that what they say? you have to have three hustles. >> kadaria: yes. you see people making watches from scraps. there are people who make shoes. i'm wearing something that's made by a nigerian. i provide my own water. i provide my own power because i have a generator. i have an invertor. there's an energy in lagos, the hustle and the bustle. >> man on the street: hi julia. here's your boy anthony -- >> anthony: wi

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: it's where nearly everything american and great came from. the things the whole world wanted, made here. the heart, the soul, the beat of an industrial cultural superpower. a magnet for everyone with a dream of a better future, from eastern europe to the deep south. american dream? you came here. the one straight ahead with the green roof? >> charlie: yep, the big rococo building, completely empty. >> anthony: empty, unbelievable. >> charlie: the white one is being rehabbed. there's some money coming in. the one next to it, on the right, is completely empty. the gray pyramid with the spire on top sold for five million dollars. >> anthony: five million for that? that's -- you can't buy a garage in the hamptons for that. >> charlie: five million! for a skyscraper. >> anthony: it is post-apocalyptic. i mean it's -- it's like a science fiction film. what the hell happened here? >> charlie: well it is post-apocalyptic, except for the fact there's several hundred

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ shaha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: i'm in peru with this guy, eric ripert. >> eric: the guy was looking at us. he went into the tree. >> anthony: that's funny. chef of the world-famous restaurant le bernardin in new york, to look at where chocolate comes from, particularly our chocolate, the very expensive, limited-run, designer chocolate bar business that eric got me into last year. so that's why we're in peru. but before we get all indiana jones, we're spending some time in lima, as we like the capital city just fine. and we have, both of us, from previous trips, friends here. lima is the cultural hub and culinary capital of a country that has exploded in the last decade with scores of world-class chefs, cooks, and restaurants. it has long been considered to be one of the best food scenes in all of south america. let's do it. >> eric: how far away is the house? >> coque: that's it. so, it's -- >> eric: over there? >> coque: yeah. five minutes. >> anthony: one of our friends here is

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ shaha, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: at first you see what you see in so many places in africa --the noisy streets, busy markets, the controlled, consensual chaos of daily commerce. but look just a little bit longer, a little bit deeper, and you'll see it's so different here from its neighbors --from anywhere, really. a rebuke to those who'd paint a whole continent as a monolith of despair, or islam as something to be feared. senegal turns simple minded assumptions and prejudice on their heads at every turn. >> anthony: how did you come to know and like and love this country? >> ofeibea: i think it was just listening and watching and thinking, "gosh, this is quite different to all the other countries i know." for a start, the languages. you've heard wolof? >> anthony: yes. >> ofeibea: [speaks wolof] sometimes you think people were quarrelling. >> anthony: right. >> ofeibea: and they're not, they're laughing. they're laughing. >> anthony: ofeibea quist-arcton is the npr africa corresponde

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ shasha, la, la, la, la, >> anthony: in yangon, capital city of myanmar, it's dark. blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow/orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections? they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman, where he'd first grown to despise the apparatus of a security state, became more orwellian than even he could have imagined, a nation where even having an opinion could be dangerous. >> president obama: i am very honored to be here at this university and to be the first president of the united states of america to visit your country

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: if you've been to france, chances are you haven't been here. france's second largest city, the oldest city in france. it sits right by the mediterranean. the food is famously good. yet, it's a victim of bad reputation, bad history. marseille. as it turns out, exactly the kind of place i like. but, this is a buddy picture, isn't it? eric ripert is the chef of the three-star la bernardin in new york, a chevalier of france. i think that means he's some kind of knight or something, and my friend. this causes him some problems. he, i like to remind him, has a reputation to protect. i do not. welcome to marseille. >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: you've never been here. >> eric: never. >> anthony: how is this even possible? you grew up how far from here? >> eric: like, uh, 50 miles. a hundred miles. >> anthony: a hun -- you grew up a hundred miles from here? what prevented you from coming to this clearly beautiful city? because it's clearly beautiful. >> eric: it's a fant

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ shaa, la, la, la, la ♪ >> anthony: what is it exactly about this place? over the past century, the system here, the tradition, whatever it is that took hold here, churned out a tremendous number of the world's most important chefs -- point, chapel, troisgros, bocuse. and as importantly, influenced nearly all the rest of them. why lyon? why is this such a gastronomic capital though. i mean, why bocuse here, why troisgros here, why all of these great chefs? >> daniel: because lyon is -- it's really positioned between the north and the south. you are locked in between burgundy and rome. >> anthony: lyon, it's the second largest city in france, situated in the southeast of the country, midway between the alps in the east and the mediterranean to the south. >> daniel: this was also a bottleneck when cars began their mode of transportation. >> anthony: it goes right to the heart of the idea of the michelin. driving -- the destination on the way to the -- >> daniel: completely. >> anthony: out o

found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: there's 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 inove, alternately. as only a 17-year-old could be. this is where i lived. very happy summer in the early '70s, and that was my room on the left. it's an amazing spot if you think about it, a bunch of knuckle heads working as dish washers, waiters, pizza servers. we could live on a beach like this. you know, happier, stupider times. you know, i can still hear the play list -- strawberry letter and the brothers johnson. if you put on marvin gaye right now, i'd burst into tears. ♪ what do you do? you're young, you go to the beach. you know, you get laid, and you get high. it was here, all the way out at the tip of cape cod, provincetown, massachusetts, where the pilgrims first landed. and it was where i first landed. 1972, washed in a town with a head full of orange sunsh

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ shasha, la, la, la, la ♪ >> woman: i've been coming to the ale house forever. >> woman: what can't the ale house tell you about chicago? >> man: yes, my father did come here. i do a lot of cross word puzzles. >> anthony: as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago's old town, it's time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime is time for a drink at the old town ale house. >> woman: another favorite of mine, is anita. >> man: the difficult ones are the people who -- >> anthony: the chorus assembles, to give their opinions on matters of the day subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this true metropolis. >> bruce: but there's no shortage of characters in here. you know, i've lost a couple of really great ones, john fox the comic, died a few years ago. we just lost ruben four toes, this 400-pound mexican guy. we just called him ruben and then when he got his big toe cut off then he became ruben nine-toes. then when he had his other big toe c

something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: 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 beaches, and they're not all crawling with roid-raging trolls with reality shows. i grew up summering on those beaches, and they are awesome. jersey's got farmland. beautiful bedroom communities where that woman from real housewives who looks like doctor zaius does not live, nor anyone like her. even the refineries. the endless clover leaves of turnpikes and expressways twisting in unknowable patterns over the wetlands are, to me, somehow, beautiful. to know jersey is to love her. ♪ fort lee, you may have heard of it. some of governor christie's minions allegedly conspired to jam up traffic for a few days. it's a town with a jokey history of corruption. it's also where my beloved hiram's is. open since 1932, and pretty much unchanged ever since, my dad started bringing me and my younge

. ♪ sha, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ >> i was in my office, it was about 4:45 a.m., i wasng ready for "new day" which goes on the air at 6:00. i had my back to the door and i heard my door shut. i turned around and my boss, jeff zucker was standing there, looking ashen. and he says, i have to tell you something, no one else 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, heartbreaking and devastation. >> once we were sure all of his gotten the numbers had been notified that's when we wen on the air with the news. host of "parts unknown" and our friend anthony bourdain was found dead. >> anthony hung himself in his hotel room. >> the idea he was suffering somehow was heart breaking. >> honestly, talking about him in the past tense it's, it's really -- yeah, it's really hard to -- hard to imagine. i mean, you never know what goes on in anybody's head or heart. but certainly, you know, the pain he must have been fe

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