what actually happens to my physical remains is of zero interest to me. i don t want anybody seeing my body. i don t want anybody i don t want a party. reported dead. unless they can provide entertainment value in a perverse or subversive way. i mean, if you could throw me into a wood chirp, spray me into har rod s in the middle of the rush hour, that would be pretty epic. i wouldn t being mind being remembered in that way. one, two, three four five six with the radio on i m in love with massachusetts and the neon when it s cold outside and the highway when it s late at night with the radio on what the [ muted ] am i doing here? i shall explain. one minute i was standing next though a deep fryer. the next, i was watching the sunset over the sahara. i realize that one thing led directly to the other. had i not taken a dead-end dish washing job, i would not have become a cook. had i not become a cook, i would never have become a chef. had i not bec
future in a tough business. with rules that i m not completely familiar with and when i become familiar with them, i you know, i don t know whether i like them that much. we hit the road together. just the three of us. lydia and i had just gotten married. and then we had tony, a guy who we barely knew. so, it was like three idiots trying to figure each other out. the first shoot was japan. we didn t know what we were doing. he definitely didn t know what he was doing. and tony immediately became uncomfortable and awkward. what we would find out very quickly is tony is actually a very shy human being. and to get him to make eye contact or to interact wasn t his natural state.
the first shoot was japan. we didn t know what we were doing. he definitely didn t know what he was doing. and tony immediately became uncomfortable and awkward. what we would find out very quickly was tony was actually a very shy human being. and to get him to make eye contact or to interact wasn t his natural state. that compounded by the fact that we were in japan, being sort of led into scenes where there was a lot of kind of formality involved. you know, all of those factored in to him being quiet, which was like the worst possible thing. oh, wow. spectacular. i mean, chris and i went back to the hotel and basically looked at each other and said,
he was doing. and tony immediately became uncomfortable and awkward. what we would fwind oh out very quickly was tony was actually a very shy human being. and to get him to make eye contact or to interact wasn t his natural state. that compounded by the fact that we were in japan, being sort of led into scenes where there was a lot of kind of formality involved. you know all of those factored in to him being quiet, which was like the worst possible thing. oh, wow. spectacular. i mean, chris and i went back to the hotel and basically looked at each other and said, like, we re [ bleep ]ed. nope. no way. but then helen went from no to know.
married. and then we had tony, a guy who we barely knew, so it was like three idiots trying to figure each other out. the first was japan, like we didn t know he definitely didn t know what he was doing and tony immediately became uncomfortable and awkward. what we would find out very quickly is tony was actually a very shy human being. and to get him to make eye contact or to interact wasn t his natural state. you know, life on the road with tony bourdain, just it isn t all it s cracked up to be, you know what i mean? the man can be a royal pain in the ass sometimes. in fact i got this cold sore on my lip now and it s due to