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Post by twothousandonemark on May 16, 2017 3:15:24 GMT
Anyone else watch before I start typing to myself?
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Post by itsthatguyme on May 19, 2017 17:14:51 GMT
Yes. Well I haven't kept up with it recently but I've seen quite a few eps.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 8, 2018 15:07:02 GMT
r.i.p. the most interesting man in the world
I see he divorced in 2016 because 250 days a year travelling.
I would not mind the show proper try another go, maybe in 2-3yrs, perhaps with individual episode hosts so not to demand such a yearly grind. If it doesn't stick, at least they tried.
Over the years, I've 'bought' via iTunes my fav episodes:
Quebec, Congo, Detroit, Lyon, Shanghai, Cuba, Okinawa, Borneo, Laos, Antarctica, & Newfoundland.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 8, 2018 16:09:41 GMT
Anyone else watch before I start typing to myself? I watch it on Netflix.
It's my favorite travel show.
My favorites
Iran Vietnam Queens Detroit Israel
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 9, 2018 3:34:26 GMT
Over the years, I've 'bought' via iTunes my fav episodes: Quebec, Congo, Detroit, Lyon, Shanghai, Cuba, Okinawa, Borneo, Laos, Antarctica, & Newfoundland. For me, each of those offered up such key bucket list memories as it were... Quebec - the Canadian/Francophone comfort food blitzes on steroids. Congo - Tony's deepest bucket list destination, trying to de-feather & chop chickens with dull knives on the Congo river in pitch dark... capping that with mosquito infested chaos. That episode sold me on their dedication & passion. Detroit - the city, the grand idea, that America refuses to let die & rightfully so. Lyon - posh, sure... heaviest hitting French cuisine I've ever seen. Shanghai - love his intro: 'The one thing I know for sure about China is that I will never know China. It's too big, too old, too diverse, too deep. There's simply not enough time.' It's truth... China is the place with infinite history, past, present, & definitely future. I bet Chinese nationalists can't even wrap themselves around their own country & full place. Cuba - the great opening, or the pre-amble. One of the show's finest closing pans. Okinawa - The 'other' Japan, my preferred Japan... smaller island, more laid back. Borneo - Tony's deep dive back to an old Asian jungle haunt... with the f'n greatest drinking party on the planet. Laos - brilliant episode, historic deep dives, candid no holds barred. The finest outro the show's ever seen, the lantern float parade on river. Antarctica - this was the bucket list for me, like if he went there, the only place left would be the ISS or the Moon. Tricky experience cuz camped in science labs & dorms, & not really able to trek far outdoors cuz it's f'n Antarctica lols. Newfoundland - back to Canada, awesome outdoors & comfort foods & ppl. Wish he could've returned here again, he seemed to really love his time up here. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2018 19:13:05 GMT
I knew his name and I think I would have enjoyed his show, but I never saw it. My cousin who lives in Newfoundland and met him was so upset she cried at the news. He seemed to have what many of us would call the ideal job, so it seems extra sad and shocking that someone who seemed happy really, really was not.  |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 10, 2018 19:56:15 GMT
Yeah I watched the first season and then on and off afterwards.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 11, 2018 5:26:46 GMT
I knew his name and I think I would have enjoyed his show, but I never saw it. My cousin who lives in Newfoundland and met him was so upset she cried at the news. He seemed to have what many of us would call the ideal job, so it seems extra sad and shocking that someone who seemed happy really, really was not. What I admired most about him was he seemed to have life figured out - that nothing is ever as bad as it seems, ever, and in turn nothing is ever as great as you think it is either. Stop worrying, start living. Of course he'd joke nothing is as bad as it seems until the vegan menus come along, or nothing is as great as it seems until you find a Waffle House at 2am after a 12hr work day of nonsense. His situation 250 days a year on the road, perhaps he simply felt he'd played everything out he felt he was born to do. 61yrs old, perhaps he felt physically & mentally capped for his (daily) martial arts physicality fix, &/or the miles he would be logging into the future into his mid 60's & beyond as tv host... that maybe if that was all there was, he couldn't stand being repetitive, bored, or both. |
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Post by Morgana on Jun 11, 2018 12:21:58 GMT
Anyone else watch before I start typing to myself? I loved the show, but would usually pick and choose the more unusual places, which I thought might be interesting. He was such an interesting person and made the show. I don't think it would be any good without him. R.I.P. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 11, 2018 13:35:55 GMT
I knew his name and I think I would have enjoyed his show, but I never saw it. My cousin who lives in Newfoundland and met him was so upset she cried at the news. He seemed to have what many of us would call the ideal job, so it seems extra sad and shocking that someone who seemed happy really, really was not. You should still watch Parts Unknown.
He reveals some pretty amazing details about countries most travel shows care nothing about. It's a fantastic news show and Bourdain has md magically become one of the best reporters on CNN.
No Reservations is a more traditional show, but with him as host, it was still interesting and it plays on PlutoTV.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 11, 2018 13:41:26 GMT
Anyone else watch before I start typing to myself? I loved the show, but would usually pick and choose the more unusual places, which I thought might be interesting. He was such an interesting person and made the show. I don't think it would be any good without him. R.I.P. I don't think anyone else would pick the venues he did.
I mean he chose Detroit for one episode and it was amazing.
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Post by Morgana on Jun 11, 2018 13:45:04 GMT
I loved the show, but would usually pick and choose the more unusual places, which I thought might be interesting. He was such an interesting person and made the show. I don't think it would be any good without him. R.I.P. I don't think anyone else would pick the venues he did.
I mean he chose Detroit for one episode and it was amazing.
Exactly. He also chose Saudi Arabia. Who chooses Saudi Arabia??? (I watched it by the way. I actually met the woman that got him to go there.) |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 11, 2018 13:47:11 GMT
I don't think anyone else would pick the venues he did.
I mean he chose Detroit for one episode and it was amazing.
Exactly. He also chose Saudi Arabia. Who chooses Saudi Arabia??? (I watched it by the way. I actually met the woman that got him to go there.) The Iran one was truly eye opening (It is a better country than Saudi Arabia which isn't saying much except that the US is so much friendlier to a suckier country). |
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Post by Morgana on Jun 11, 2018 14:24:27 GMT
Exactly. He also chose Saudi Arabia. Who chooses Saudi Arabia??? (I watched it by the way. I actually met the woman that got him to go there.) The Iran one was truly eye opening (It is a better country than Saudi Arabia which isn't saying much except that the US is so much friendlier to a suckier country). I don't believe that I've seen the one on Iran. I will have to see if I can find it. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 21, 2018 11:07:57 GMT
Dan McMillan, owner of Joe Beef in Montreal, was on the Jay & Dan podcast last week. He & his Joe Beef crew had been friends with Tony for years now, they were together in the Newfoundland episode. Spoke to how much Tony had changed in the past year or so. For instance, Tony would nowadays start their drinking at 10am & go straight on through 10pm. The guys thought it was fun for a change yet seemed like Tony was in a different place, drinking like it was normal.
They all talked about how much Tony's travels were like a sports athlete's - on air doing the gig for a bit, the majority of off time spent in hotel/plane/train/automobile basically on their own. Place that on someone with a personal history that Tony had & it probably wasn't sustainable.
There was a fun anecdote where Tony invited/paid the Joe Beef guys along for a convention of sorts, 2 weeks in Miami. Turns out they only needed to cook & help out for a single night, the next 13 days they all sat around the pool, gloriously eating & drinking everything & anything they wanted.
Dan also mentioned how much tourism Newfoundland should expect next summer, after more ppl see the episode & dive into curiosity. Parts Unknown has been a boon for destination tourism.
btw the Jay & Dan podcast is Jay Onrait & Dan O'Toole of Canada's The Sports Network, who also had a 2-3yr fling with FOX Sports 1 in LA, some Americans may know them.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 3, 2018 15:51:01 GMT
Season 12 this fall. Likely 5 episodes or so. Manhattan, Texas, & Kenya for certain. Anthony's narration is only on the Kenyan eps, the others will be bits & pieces of others talking.
Producers haven't said if Paris was a location being filmed or not. I'd bet they'll add some of what was begun near the end of another, perhaps the Manhattan eps which I'd wager would be the finale.
Re-watching a couple of my favs (iTunes) recently, it's more noticeable how fatalistic his sense of humour really was. Nearly every half hour has a joke about death/how he wants to go/how he'd do it etc. 200+ days on the road, the travel maybe the one thing keeping him engaged, maybe he just ran outta feeling for that also. Alas, I do not think it was a sudden choice.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 24, 2018 4:30:26 GMT
Watched tonight's new episode from Kenya. Oddly, it answered one long time query I had - they were only 5 shows in before Tony's passing, & yet he had this fully narrated in the can.
I used to wonder, did they wait the full season before recording narration... guess not if tonight's was indication.
Hard not to miss some of Tony's verbiage & expression when they're at places like the Kenyan safari plains sitting in quiet. Even his narration was 'This is only my story, not Kamau's, or my production team's...it's just mine' almost foreshadowing that yes, this show that he acknowledged in the eps was the luckiest stroke of fate, there will always be stories to be told, & more ppl than he are out there to tell them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 1:57:04 GMT
I didn't mind his dry sense of humour and bleak disposition at times but he would sometimes start with his politics which bored me. Overall I am not surprised at all that he killed himself.
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