'Learn From The Storm Of Your Life' - 6⧸8⧸18
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 50 minutes
Words per Minute
147.18315
Summary
Bourdain was a gifted storyteller who took CNN viewers around the world. His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food, and remarkable stories of the world made him a unique story-teller. His talents never cease to amaze us and we'll miss him very much.
Transcript
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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Anthony Bourdain, gifted storyteller, the writer who took CNN viewers around the world has died.
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He is, he was 61 years old. He died at his own hand.
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CNN confirmed, it is with extraordinary sadness we confirm the death of our friend and our colleague, Anthony Bourdain.
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His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food, drink, remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller.
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His talents never cease to amaze us and we'll miss him very much.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and his family at this incredibly difficult time.
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Bourdain was in France. He was working on an upcoming episode of Parts Unknown.
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His close friend, Eric, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive at his hospital room early this morning.
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Kate Spade took her own life, hung herself with a scarf.
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By the way, please, if you're in this situation, please hear my voice.
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I know how tired you are of hearing people say,
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Why don't you start doing more of what you like to do?
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and how tired you are of screaming in your head.
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If you are thinking that, please call 800-273-TALK.
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The lines are staffed with paid professionals, unpaid volunteers.
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I can't tell you how many days I honestly thought
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that I have looked at my wife with tears in my eyes
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because this one's going to hit close to home to the press.
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He was doing the job that they would all love to do.
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Well, there's stories out now that are saying, no, it
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It is just one Reddit user that is, let me, let
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dedicated to document and observe the disturbing
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And now the inkblot test, the average AI sees a
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Uh, Norman sees the AI, uh, man gets pulled into a
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Where did they, where did they, where did I see
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and, and it's anger building upon anger, building
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that's part of the problem is we're gazing upon
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feeding them this garbage, eventually don't, isn't
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single person that watches violence is going to
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So starting, I think it actually starts Thursday,
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And are I doing a dinner of where there's a special
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I'm doing a I'm doing a special dinner and a film
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It is the screening of Operation Toussaint with a
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Underground Railroad team and the Nazarene Fund.
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And I believe there's also a dinner involved, perhaps.
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So a week from tonight at 630 here at the studios.
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You can find them now at mercuryone.org slash TNF June 15th.
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If you do it Friday, are you doing it Friday or Saturday?
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Because I just realized I'm not leaving until Saturday morning.
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Do you know that we have the Gettysburg Address coming?
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Also, we have an update on Venezuela coming up in just a minute.
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We also had another suicide, famous suicide yesterday.
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You know, Kate Spade killed herself a couple of days ago, and now it is Anthony Bourdain
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He's, you know, not my favorite person, ideologically speaking, and he attacked a lot of conservatives,
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um, but it's sad to see anybody, you know, suffer like that and take their own life.
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He was a kind of a show that everyone in cable news, all the, like, left-wing sort of journalists
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loved because, number one, they all fret about, oh, we're not spending enough on newsrooms
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It was really highly produced, really well done.
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Yeah, and that was kind of great at the beginning.
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Yeah, well, it didn't seem to fit to me, but...
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They made a move for CNN a few years ago to try to do more, like, documentary-style stuff.
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They've done a bunch of documentaries, though, since, and, you know, some of them have...
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Everybody else's culture was kind of better than ours, too.
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Journalists look at that show in a little bit of a way of, like, a Hunter S. Thompson
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or, you know, these sort of journalists that go and get in the middle of it, and they
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go explore their cultures, and they just, you know, they drink a bunch of, you know,
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drinks, and they sit back, and they try crazy foods, and they, you know, it's not about
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And sadly, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, and Anthony Bourdain, all same characters,
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Like, I mean, you're kind of always looking for the crazy chicken foot food that's going
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to taste better than the last chicken foot food that you had.
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So, whatever spider you're about to eat is going to be the one thing that puts you over
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And so, you're kind of chasing something without...
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It's a great food, great drinks, great friends.
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There's nothing wrong with a night like that, necessarily.
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You know, if that's what you're chasing as your life goal, I think it's got to be somewhat
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I think the only one who has conquered this that I know of that could have been this way,
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who lived this kind of life, is Anderson Cooper.
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I mean, the reason why he goes and travels around is because he's trying to, you know,
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solve the riddle in his head, you know, on his father and his brother's death.
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I will survive, no matter what is thrown my way.
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But he is able to then stop and be at home and be a normal person.
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I mean, you know, Ernest Hemingway wasn't able to do that.
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Well, if you combine a real clinical depression with this, you know, sort of world, I feel
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And it turns into a really dark place, I guess.
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I haven't seen many people discuss whether or not he had, you know, real dark demons.
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See, I have seen he's talked about depression and alcoholism and things like that in the
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I mean, I don't know what stage he was in with that stuff now.
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I mean, the show was pretty successful for them, I think.
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You know, losing another alcoholic, there's not a problem there, though.
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Well, other than me, I'm the one that is different.
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So, Pat, what's on your mind before we let you scoot off to your own, you know, radio
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Well, I'm about to talk about the West Alabama prohibition on harsh text messages.
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West Alabama University has banned harsh text messages.
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You know how the left has always said, oh, you know, these parochial schools that are
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cracking down, and you can say this, and you can't say that, and you can't live this
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I guess the West University, West Alabama University administration does.
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But if I send you a poop emoji, is that too harsh?
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You send it to me with the eyes, like, squinty, like it's angry, like it's an angry piece
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If your tummy hurt before the angry piece of poop, then that's harsh.
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You know, how about we teach our kids how to deal with a little bit of adversity instead?
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I know we're trying to stop the bullying thing, and I'm all about that.
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But banning harsh text messages is not helpful.
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I will tell you, I am in the middle of writing our next book, which is Addicted to Outrage.
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And I'm really having a hard time on one thing, because I'm trying to say, look, here's why
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You have to be really careful, because I'm not saying, let's all just get along.
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So it's not like, hey, we all just got to not be addicted to outrage.
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We've got to stop the participation trophy mentality.
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We've got to stop dumbing down curriculum and stop changing the grading system.
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What kind of emoji did you send with that message you just said?
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Is it possible that these colleges are just looking for something to do?
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Because with Cory Gardner banning birth control, the sex on campus, you're not spending
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I heard an interview on TV where the woman was asking how this happened.
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The Pell Grants my little brother was counting on for college?
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Climate change that everyone knows is weirding our weather.
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This guy has no idea what's going on in the real world.
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Vote by mail today or vote in person November 4th.
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It's trying to appeal to progressives in the middle.
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Every time I hear Cory Gardner, I will say this.
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It's worked to the point that I completely associate him with banning birth control.
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Something darker and scarier than the deepest parts of the ocean.
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A house shackled by darkness because there isn't any electricity.
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But then again, that's not the dark I'm talking about.
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The real dark is the dark part that lives inside of you.
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The things that you now have to do on a daily basis.
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Around the corner, you hear the bestial shouts from a Caracas jail.
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They feel they can do a better job of controlling themselves than whoever has been doing it lately.
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It was a hundred years ago that this country was lavished in wealth.
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You were healthy in that chubby 19th century Russian diplomat way.
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You cruel just thinking of the tender shredded beef and the carrot and oregano tinged broth.
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You strode through steakhouses on special occasions.
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Not because you were a drunk, but because you could.
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Because you enjoyed the sprouting goodness that life had to offer.
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Man, that life, it seemed like it was never going to end.
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At times, you think about all the energy you waste just breathing.
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Eggs that fall out of the backsides of chickens.
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Your mouth quivers at the thought of a fried egg tender.
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So tender it pops open with just the prod of a fork oozing onto the fried papaya and rotisserie chicken.
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You've lost 120 pounds since it all started going to hell.
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Although there was always the cinderblock hovels that you can see from the plane as you land in Caracas.
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The office, where you used to work as an accountant, is now empty, abandoned, overtaken by squatters.
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Who limp a little more each day toward their death.
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Men all in black now patrol the streets with shotguns.
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Black bulletproof vests and black tarp-like shirts and black pants, black military boots.
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People hamper cars in the street because there's nowhere to go.
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Gasping a bit, you rest below a crucifix statue.
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The left tilting head of Christ emblazoned in a soft and sad light.
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The burnished rise of daylight breathing into a new day.
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Looking at Christ, perhaps for the first time you understand suffering.
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The look of hopelessness and violence and death.
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Everybody was going to be able to live the high life.
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And they are the ones that live behind the gates.
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This, you think to yourself, this is the socialist utopia they promised all of us as Venezuelans.
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As you sit there under the statue, you begin to replay it all in your mind and wonder,
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Where are all those Americans, those celebrities, those from Hollywood that praised our leaders
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and helped convince us that this was the road to prosperity?