205 - Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Added 2025-09-03 06:00:09 +0000 UTCThe lads take a walk through this beautiful world and feel the cool rain on their shoulders as they cover Anthony Bourdain’s award-winning CNN travelogue: Parts Unknown. Topics include Bourdain’s rise to prominence, his successes and failures as a documentarian, and the complex legacy of one of the most prolific observers of the modern world.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Season 2, Episode 2: “Jerusalem”
Season 2, Episode 9: “Detroit”
Season 6, Episode 7: “Borneo”
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Season 1, Episode 4: “Malaysia: Into the Jungle”
Kitchen Confidential: Adventure in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain. Bloomsbury Press. 2000.
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain. Ecco. 2010.
“Anthony Bourdain obituary” by Tim Hayward. The Guardian. June 9th, 2018.
“Don’t Eat Before Reading This” by Anthony Bourdain. New Yorker. April 19th, 1999.
“New Yorker Editor David Remnick on Anthony Bourdain” by Matt Buchanan. Eater. June 8th, 2018.
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Interstitial: “Anthony Ditty: Parts Known: Escondido, CA” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring A.J. Ditty as “Anthony Ditty/Producer/Dustin Bendin”
Comments
I'm already crying 12 minutes into the episode. I've been putting off listening to this one since it dropped because of that. Hearing you all talk about your "Ratatouille moments" is so touching and I think would have made Anthony so happy to hear how food makes an impact on you. I could blabber on about how important this man has been to me, about all sorts of things but I know it won't compare to what you guys have to say so; thank you. Seriously thank you for the work you do to put this podcast together. I think the world is a better place because of this podcast and the hope you all spread, even through the shit. Smoke or drink one in his honor and go eat some strange food, it's what makes us human I just finally finished this and have to say thank you again. AJ, you summed up all my feelings for this man at the very end. We never knew him, but just about everyone in the food industry misses him. He spoke about us with the respect and appreciation that he spoke about food in general. He is a Saint. He will be missed.
Bridger Young
2025-09-12 01:58:47 +0000 UTCBourdain was and is an influence on my life. I first learned about him when I was an undergraduate at Edinburgh in the mid-2000s. He perfectly bridged the teenage, macho facet of my personality with the more introspective, creative side I was beginning to get in touch with. I clicked with his voice completely, even though we were from different generations with different cultural touchstones. He inspired me to get into cooking. As a TCK, I also saw myself in the way that he traveled and seemed at home almost everywhere he went. That ability is rare among travel show hosts and rarer still among people that were raised in one country. As an adult, I took a job that kept me on the road for about 3 weeks every month. For years. Then I understood the constant drain of never sleeping in the same place more than 2 nights in a row and treating “home” as just a place to do my laundry. I don’t know how much pain a person needs to be in to leave a preteen daughter behind. Then again, I don’t have any children. If and when I ever do, maybe I’ll understand that part of him better. RIP, Tony. You changed my life.
Mitch T
2025-09-11 00:16:32 +0000 UTC
