and what made tony bourdain tick. he talked a lot about being on the move. tony, you know, obviously like a shark, needed to be on the move all the time. and it wasn't that he was running from something, he was always running towards something. >> erik: antarctica was, you know, it was the last continent. tony had, i mean literally i think had been to the rest of the world. there have been some very intense logistics on this show, but getting a six-person crew into the south pole was one of the hardest. >> anthony: ah. ah. chilly. >> mo: it is a long ass way down there, you know? you know lax to like sydney, to christchurch, to mcmurdo station, to the south pole. you know, days of travel. >> anthony: my face hurts. >> mo: after this massive 60-hour journey and gets there and says -- >> anthony: it really is the ass-end of the world. >> mo: and walks away. >> interviewer: and that's worth 60 hours? >> mo: best line ever. [ shivers ] >> can you say that one more time tony? >> anthony: no. you're kidding me right? take two? we don't do take twos. no. i want to

. >> andrew: there's a million of these tony bourdain stories out there of just how decent and how niceld feel self-conscious, or he could feel humbled, or he could feel unable to form a sentence, again, i think that's how most people felt around him. >> jason: and i think that iranians have that experience of feeling like, "hey, this guy saw the value of us." obviously people in africa have that experience. people that work in kitchens have that experience. >> andy: i don't know how he did it. i will never know how he did it. the ability to walk into any room in any country in the world and appear to be at ease, at least at ease without overcompensation, without overconfidence, and to make others feel that ease. to be able to break bread with anybody, to have a toast with almost anybody. >> anthony: to victory, ruhlman, victory in our time. don't be afraid. my first turbo. cheers! oh, yeah! just like old times. >> andy: i think that's probably the best way to understand tony bourdain on television is that he was not only the host of these shows, but he really was the ultimate guest. >>

. >> jose: i'd be living alone, and maybe one day my friend eric ripert and tony bourdain visited me seeing this -- you're dressed all in black, we shave your head, you're sitting in this dark cheese cave. eric ripert playing corporal willard comes to kill you, finds you surrounded by all these fantastic cheeses. i'd play the dennis hopper role, of course. >> jose: it's going to happen. i see it happening. >> anthony: have you ever seen a snail crawl across the edge of a straight razor? >> anthony: i could just see eric now dressed in fatigues saying, "they said your methods were unsound." >> jose: man, why you always finish your beer and i barely begin? >> anthony: professional. but i'm seriously liking this cheese. you export these right? >> jose: spain, oh yeah. big export. like this one is cabrales, which always was my favorite. >> anthony: that is like super funky, right? >> jose: cabrales, i love it. i do really love it. >> anthony: cabrales, this is really lovely. this is fantastic. it all depends on how far into the funk zone you go. >> jose: look at, look at, look at. look a

. >> jose: i'd be living alone, and maybe one day my friend eric ripert and tony bourdain visited me minute, i'm seeing this -- you're dressed all in black, we shave your head, you're sitting in this dark cheese cave. eric ripert playing corporal willard comes to kill you, finds you surrounded by all these fantastic cheeses. i'd play the dennis hopper role, of course. >> jose: it's going to happen. i see it happening. >> anthony: have you ever seen a snail crawl across the edge of a straight razor? >> anthony: i could just see eric now dressed in fatigues saying, "they said your methods were unsound." >> jose: man, why you always finish your beer and i barely begin? >> anthony: professional. but i'm seriously liking this cheese. you export these, right? >> jose: spain, oh yeah. big export. like this one is cabrales, which always was my favorite. >> anthony: that is like super funky, right? >> jose: cabrales, i love it. i do really love it. >> anthony: cabrales, this is really lovely. this is fantastic. it all depends on how far into the funk zone you go. >> jose: look at, look at, lo

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tony was such an incredible champion for us while we were in trouble, even more so when we got out. >> anthony bourdainy adamant that he was not a journalist despite having a show on a news network where he traveled the world to teach people about different countries and cultures. you disagree with him on that? >> i do. i do. i mean, he was one of our greatest foreign correspondents. he was going around the world telling the stories of people, places, and histories that sometimes we don't go and search for. and it wasn't always the place that was at the top of the news headlines, but often it was places that would become very prominent in our coverage in different parts of the world. he had his finger on the pulse in so many places and was able to cut through a lot of stuff and just help us see into all the societies he visited. his shows will be required viewing for many, many years to come. >> jason, good to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you, ana. >> make sure you don't miss a new episode of "parts unknown" premiering tonight at 9:00 p.m. pacific. >>> a new polio disease is spreading. w

and tony was kind of a pivotal person for my wife and i these last couple of careers. >> so this week's special episode of anthony bourdain'ss a preview. let's watch it. >> i've seen it on tv and read about it in the papers. it's a much bigger picture. let's put it this way. it's complicated. and i think it's going to shock the hell out of you. ♪ >> people couldn't believe it. iranians in iran and iranian-americans were genuinely really happy and appreciative that he would come and do this show there in a place like iran where visitors from abroad and especially visitors from america are few and far between. it matters. >> jason, why did his decision to go there matter so much? >> well, you know, iran is one of the countries that we have the smallest window into. you know, we know so little about that country outside of it, and it's so difficult for americans to travel there. and i think one of the feelings that the people of iran often have is that, you know, the american media, the american government often conflates the people with the government, and that couldn't be further from the truth. so it just meant so much that