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00:00you know there's something unusual about this scene what what is odd about this scene holy cow
00:15this is a deep question it's not a quiz question it's not hard to solve look where we are we're
00:22at this most spectacular view overlooking this incredible lake in these mountains and yet
00:27strangely we're pointed in the direction of the lavatory I mean I don't know what your view is
00:35mine's of three ugly cameraman you amazing I thought about it when I came but then I thought
00:42okay obviously we want to show the beauty of the back I agree with you saddle up all right you ready
00:51to pull out so to speak I'm brimming with content so I'm ready anytime parts unknown I mean the title
01:14expresses the intention of the show unknown the unknown and new I don't know what parts unknown
01:24was hearts unknown was I can tell you what it wasn't it's hard to say because it certainly wasn't in my
01:36mind a food show yeah sure we'll sit at a table and we'll have a meal but really it's about culture
01:42politics comedy action movie geography history it wasn't a travel adventure horror
01:49you know I don't know it's hard for me to say what parts unknown was because I was so immersed in it
02:06that it was I mean it was definitely more than the job it was like such an incredible experience
02:13what is parts unknown is actually a really easy question because it was Tony
02:19oh yeah that is can I say too mesent on CNN yeah I'm pretty sure I can I've often been asked the
02:31question what was Tony like I feel like it's the first question everyone asks what you saw on screen
02:36it was and is that man that was the magic of Tony I think is that people who never even met him
02:43they would feel like they would know him he was just curmudgeonly funny dude he said something like
02:49if you can't smoke in a recording studio what the does this world come to candid raw difficult funny
02:55brilliant he was honest brutally at times is he nice he's not nice but that's okay even though you
03:03you felt like he maybe liked you and liked what you were doing you were very very very rarely ever
03:09going to hear it did Tony say thank you for what I remember an event in Lyon it was Tony Daniel
03:18Boulou and Bill Buford and we had gone in and pre-lit everything to seamlessly move from place to place
03:26and Tony notices the light that is on over their head that it's clearly not a restaurant light but one
03:32of our lights oh nice they've lit already Bill's like man like your crew's like pretty awesome
03:38you're an amazing team and I could hear Tony say only pet the baby when he's sleeping
03:45as we say in the kitchen only pet the baby when it's sleeping only pet the baby when it's sleeping
03:55so you'll ruin him he was a great motivator in that way only pet the baby when it's sleeping
04:01I should do more of that okay all right say when good
04:14I'm sure I did not write this line his soul was the soul of a writer and I think he was a beautiful
04:26writer and I think that kind of you know poetry and his his love came out through his words
04:33next time you turn off a news cycle filled with shouting bobbleheads convinced that America is
04:41devolving into a moronic inferno questioning the greatness of your nation maybe you should come
04:48here here are your purple mountains majesty I think when we really hit it right and why I think it's
04:58timeless it's Tony's voice that's why people responded so well to it right they wanted to hear what this
05:06man had to say about the world Europeans first reached West Africa in the mid 15th century bringing
05:15with them the usual things an industrialized slave trade subjugation the rule of the many by the very few
05:22the moment that Tony's voice actually gets into a show all of a sudden you have full picture you have
05:31the full perspective of this man who has an angle you know he knows how to point up a story first question
05:39he wanted to give a platform to people who would usually be ignored you know who would be forgotten
05:49people who wouldn't have a voice otherwise he he really gave those people an opportunity to shine
05:56he always like joked about magical ponies and unicorns but like he truly was he was like a unicorn like
06:02coming into parts unknown the first season there was real mandate to make it different
06:12it was a lot of pressure if you really want to find something new you have to be willing
06:18to fully embrace that feeling of lost or I don't know what I'm doing and that's terrifying anxiety
06:26written and also the absolute most joy you can find when we hit CNN with parts unknown the show
06:34really manifested truly into what it wanted to be welcome to my life actual content b-roll dick jokes
06:47where do we come from how does it all work how far can we go
07:17what are we as sentient humans capable of and it's funny man it's not until you know someone's gone
07:25that you that you really really try to understand what made them tick
07:33and what made tony bourdain tick
07:37he talked a lot about being on the move
07:45and i think that tony you know obviously like a shark needed to be on move all the time
07:54and it wasn't that he was running from something he was always running towards something
07:59Antarctic was a you know it was the last continent tony had i mean literally i think been to the rest of the world
08:09there have been some very intense logistics on this show but getting a six-person crew into the south pole
08:19uh was one of the hardest oh chilly it is a long ass way down there you know lax to like
08:31sydney to christ church to mcmurdo station to the south pole you know days of travel
08:40my face hurts after this massive 60-hour journey and gets there and says it really is the asset of the world
08:50and walks away
08:53that was worth 60 hours
08:56best line ever
08:58you say that one more time no you're kidding me right
09:02take two we don't do take twos
09:06now
09:11i want to see one of those seals on penguin
09:15the show became a vehicle for him to um meet some of his heroes
09:22for him to to kind of live out some of his own dreams like some of his own you know fantasies
09:31i've had something of a multi-decade obsession with the congo
09:35it's been kind of a personal dream if you will to travel the congo river and now for better or worse
09:44i get that chance
09:46there's moments in this this series where watching tony truly experiencing something that's like
09:53life-changing
09:55it was an extremely selfish show it was very selfish he was really out to please himself
10:09and in doing so i think he pleased a big audience of people
10:14frankly this tv show has become an impediment to the smooth operation of this mission
10:27you might have to terminate your command
10:31so count how long do i have to do this
10:39there's this misconception that directing is actually telling someone what to say
10:51attempt to manipulate yes direct no
10:55you were a director on a parts unknown episode because you were directing everything around tony
11:07but you were never directing tony
11:09so production vehicles should not park in front of the restaurant let's let the motorcycles park in
11:14front of the restaurant
11:15did you want to be able to tell tony like you know could you just
11:19god could you get to this point please because you know
11:23we really do want to get to this point
11:25it was all
11:26freeforms true documentary
11:28filmmaking
11:29i would have about 15 to 30 seconds to kind of go over the main points
11:34just don't say action don't say cut
11:37they actually said action to me on the last shoot
11:40they were like action
11:42no really
11:44so everybody was like this the whole time was like
11:46probably don't look at him
11:50there were no second takes
11:52if it was really important you could beg or pretend to cry
11:55get over it man we'll catch it in post
11:57so stove piping have you talked about stove piping
12:01what's the definition of stove piping
12:03well very much like some of the questions you're asking
12:08here's some themes here's some ideas you might want to talk about tony
12:13so isn't this place da da da da da da da da da
12:17you didn't get to do that with tony
12:24hated hated hated it
12:27pre-sweetened
12:28stove piping content now jerry is that what's happening
12:33is that what's happening here jerry
12:35succumb to this
12:36i can't even trust you
12:38if he got the sense that you were trying to sway a conversation
12:44one way or the other or get him to say something
12:46it was a wrap
12:48i mean it was like you get the dagger eyes
12:51or like the inevitable wides
12:56which essentially meant that
12:57the scene's over
12:59go wide
13:00want to go wide
13:01you want to go wide
13:02yeah you go wide
13:03he called me
13:05tony just called me
13:06well food was a brilliant device
13:14because interview can just feel awkward or formal
13:17whereas if you share a meal with somebody it opens up so many doors
13:20the food that we ate on the road
13:24yeah sometimes we got to eat incredible things
13:26this is the number one question i get at parties
13:28did you eat all the stuff that tony ate
13:31it was never awful it could be weird
13:34skinned lamb head
13:35sheep balls really that good
13:36boar innards
13:37you may throw up a little bit in your mouth while trying to get it down but it was never awful
13:41i definitely did not eat all the stuff that tony ate
13:44oh liver sandwich
13:48that's encouraging i offer some to my producer and he goes literally running
13:52i did not eat all the weird things tony ate
13:55i ate a lot of things that tony didn't want to eat
13:58on the rare occasion tony would offer us some some treats
14:02helen do you like this stuff
14:05there you go helen come on
14:08we're filming a scene at uh pojang matcha and they had uh silkworm stew
14:13she hasn't been here since she's four years old
14:15really
14:16yeah
14:17the crew obviously meant a lot to him
14:20yeah it was uh
14:23it was uh
14:25it was a trip i won't forget you know
14:28you know
14:35we were his best friends
14:38we were the people that were with him all the time and we like
14:41had amazing conversations about our favorite movies
14:45we would have a conversation about our favorite movie
14:47and we'd try to create an episode that was based on that
14:50so we approached each episode like a singular film
15:02we all shared a love of film and music and that stemmed from tony
15:07i think he drew a lot of inspiration from music
15:11if there's anything that's comparable to the way he worked
15:15it was punk essentially
15:17this is a guy who had just an incredible sort of filmic knowledge base to draw off of
15:26tony would give us movies or books and uh we would often just run with it
15:32we all got to like experiment in each episode
15:38did we want to shoot that in a very controlled like something coppola would have shot or something from a 70s italian film
15:50you know we did this trailer for the french alps episode like a john wick movie trailer
15:55the first shot is him like this going
15:57uh
16:02why would we do it like on cnn we're showing this
16:04we did things on this show that were unbelievable
16:07but that can get expensive
16:09are we talking about budgets?
16:11next question
16:12what's a budget?
16:13tony had no concept of what our budgets were like
16:16budgets? he didn't even know what a budget was
16:19he didn't even know what a budget was
16:20tony never thought about budgets
16:21no
16:22no
16:23no
16:24no
16:25no no
16:26not for a second
16:27how much is it? is it expensive enough?
16:28yeah
16:29you know the budget only stayed at a certain level but the creative push
16:35was greater
16:36it was greater
16:37when i first started working on these shows
16:39it was essentially a
16:41a case and a half of gear per person
16:44this has
16:45gradually changed over time
16:47we would carry 30 cases of equipment with us
16:51strangest thing i've ever experienced
16:53i can't really talk about it
16:55camera bodies
16:56lenses for said camera
16:57monitors for the camera
16:58okay let me just see how many lines this is
17:00you can't necessarily get a receipt for the goat you just sacrificed
17:03will cnn accept an endangered species receipt?
17:06scrim gym kits
17:08clamp adapters
17:09oh the magic gadget
17:10240 volt quick dimmer
17:11a little pillow
17:12should we really be spending that much on an alpaca?
17:14i was like well i don't know how much does an alpaca cost in you know this part of the world
17:1815 millimeter rods
17:2019 millimeter rods
17:21dana dollies
17:22um
17:23gosh where does it end?
17:25we brought a lot of stuff to make it look pretty
17:33i think it was really about
17:35um
17:36trying to achieve
17:37accomplish what he wanted
17:38i mean
17:39he knew that he was lucky
17:41to have this opportunity to do these things
17:47and so
17:48we were always trying to do it within our budget
17:52so the miami episode
17:58i got one note from tony
18:01he's like the great beauty
18:03watch it
18:04the party scene in that movie is absolutely extraordinary
18:11and massive in scale
18:13we have a certain amount of money to make the show
18:17and that's like a high high production value
18:19so our you know immediately the mind's like how are we gonna do this
18:22there's a scene with a woman dancing in the great beauty and so we needed to kind of articulate this idea
18:37i think it worked pretty well considering
18:38i think it worked pretty well considering
18:39i don't know
18:40i don't know
18:41you look at that
18:42and that it's hilarious
18:43first of all
18:44but then it's like
18:45it really points at the passion right
18:46and you look at that
18:47that we actually pulled this thing off
18:48and it's not quite as exaggerated as Mo wants
18:50so there's this shot of Mo sort of going back into the window with her
18:55and flipping his knot hair back and just doing this whole thing
19:02i think it actually worked pretty well considering
19:04i don't know
19:05you look at that
19:06and that it's hilarious first of all
19:08but then it's like
19:09it really points at the passion right
19:11and you look at that
19:12we actually pulled this thing off
19:14say when boys
19:40we're up
19:41Roger
19:42caught in the landslide
19:46we're gonna freeze out here like rats tonight
19:49Tony lives on camera and off camera
19:56a magical, magical journey
19:59and there was chaos swirling around him at all times
20:05we lived and died with what can go wrong
20:12will go wrong
20:14things went wrong
20:15they want us to stop filming right now
20:16okay
20:17on the one side you have control
20:20on the other side you have chaos
20:22and always between control and chaos is where the show is moving
20:26sometimes
20:27sometimes
20:28it collapses
20:29political unrest bird flu
20:33then there's leptospirosis which is an infection carried by rat urine
20:41i mean every shoot had things go wrong
20:43i think it was sh... yeah it was shanghai
20:45my heartbeat is like going up right now even thinking about it
20:48we decided to visit the hollis building in iran
20:52within a minute or two we were completely crushed by this sandstorm
20:56obviously ruining the scene we're all running inside
20:58oncocoriasis
20:59ooh a.k.a. river blindness
21:01the chance of like a government shutting me down
21:03earthquake train wreck
21:05the whole building starts moving like this
21:08pieces of the roof ripping off
21:10stay away from the glass
21:11jaundice
21:12liver function problems
21:14and something called man flu
21:16we landed on the ground and i met the fixer
21:19she said great to meet you guys
21:21also josh everyone has cancelled
21:23oh and we got all our gear stolen
21:25there was something about parts unknown
21:39and i think it was just the nature of the show
21:42that embraced chaos
21:46if there wasn't this element of chaos and intensity to the shoots
21:51then i don't know they're just
21:54there was some intangible energy that came from that
21:57without a doubt we succeeded at
22:00the the ability to
22:02quickly veer off plan a
22:04and find our way to plan f
22:07and make something of it
22:09that's why the show was good
22:21all right are you up
22:24are you filming
22:25the music is started
22:27i guess that means it's time to get all killy in this
22:32Borneo is another example of everything going absolutely wrong
22:36tony's supposed to dispatch this pig with a big spear
22:42they've got a pig stuck in a wooden like box that looked like it had never been opened
22:48and it's raining some more and we're rolling waiting on a pig
22:59oh my god where's the pig
23:01it's coming is it is it arriving by magical package
23:05is it a magic is it arriving by unicorn
23:07someone translate
23:14he's wondering what the f**k's going on
23:17tom's on the walkie screaming
23:19sitting next to tony saying where's the pig where's the pig
23:22i'm up in a totally different section of the village
23:25and since it was in the middle of a torrential downpour
23:27the pig escaped immediately
23:29oh the f**k
23:31now you're joking right
23:36the pig escaped
23:40the pig escaped
23:42it was so intense
23:55i don't think i've ever seen tony look more pissed
23:58and when he has a spear in his hand
24:01that's not the look that you want to see
24:03it was pretty awful actually
24:06but fun and awful
24:08sort of the same thing
24:13where is he now?
24:15ok copy thank you
24:16they caught the pig in a net
24:18and now they're tying it up
24:20so he'll be here very soon
24:22that's like 15 minutes away
24:24no no no no
24:25yeah
24:26you ever tried to drag a struggling pig down to a river?
24:29all right
24:36travel minute right now
24:37one two three
24:38one
24:39ah the travel minute
24:41travel minute
24:42the travel minute essentially was an extra deliverable that CNN wanted
24:46almost like a preview of the show
24:48Indonesia
24:49New Jersey
24:50Astorias
24:51Japan
24:52he would basically distill and encapsulate a place in a minute
24:57the Scottish Highlands
24:58one of the most savagely beautiful places on earth
25:01it was like his absolute like the antithesis of what he was all about
25:04he hated these
25:06tropical wonderland
25:08the beaches
25:10did i mention the beaches?
25:12Tony was a little hesitant
25:14it's only a travel minute
25:15we can't encourage them with quality
25:17it promotes the show
25:19it's for us
25:20it's not like a snap in that nobody's ever going to see except in Romania
25:24here we go travel minute
25:26all non-essential personnel can leave
25:29set up a shot
25:30he starts talking about Uruguay
25:31this guy comes out of the background
25:33just dragging a garbage can
25:35i fell in love with this place
25:36i fell in love with it first day
25:38Tony's like how's that?
25:39and i'm like
25:40you know
25:41yeah i got it but in the background
25:43i got a guy dragging a trash can
25:45perfect
25:46yes
25:47i got it
25:48yes
25:49those are the kind of production values we like
25:50Todd
25:51perfect metaphor for these travel minutes
25:53now f*** off
25:55thanks
25:56that was it
25:57that's what you've been complaining about for like an hour?
25:59yeah
26:00it's my integrity man
26:02so you phoned that in
26:04yeah
26:05but i still feel like i'm jacking off a hobo
26:07conventions of television making had to leave the room
26:20and it was actually really wonderful to find ways to work around those parameters
26:28the great thing about this series is that you're given this unbelievable support structure to take chances
26:39doing the same thing every week was frightening to him
26:46and i think it was always a challenge like can you take this idea which may seem shocking
26:53and actually you know convey it in a very artistic way
26:57as long as we could get it past standards and practices
27:01the tokyo episode is a great example of that
27:04yeah i had no idea what tentacle porn was so
27:08this is the first season with cnn
27:15and they were surprised
27:18at what we brought back
27:20it was spitting in the mouth
27:23nipple clamps
27:25you know there were a lot of things that cnn wouldn't normally put on the air
27:31i think we didn't know kind of where the boundaries and limits were
27:35i think cnn didn't know either
27:38if he thought your shows were mediocre that was the end
27:52there was no i think that was like the magic of the show too is like it just pushed all of us to like
27:59do something weird
28:01like the korea episode
28:03the camera department was really giving free reign
28:07zach and todd decided to come up with this new camera system
28:10so these cameras they were very small which you think would be great except it had to be attached to a giant backpack
28:20we looked like the ghostbusters
28:23at that point in time that's all we had but it was breakthrough for what it was
28:27yeah tony found them innovative he was excited about how it was different
28:34but like you know he made some crude jokes about it
28:37with those cameras they're too tiny
28:39i don't get these cameras do not get a lot of respect i gotta tell you right now
28:43you really need the glove for that
28:46no you know what it adds no authority to this process
28:50no i'll talk soon don't worry i'm gonna have food in front of me
29:06i think shooting wise i always really enjoyed the solo scenes
29:10oh hell that's good
29:11solo scene is what we would do when we ran out of good ideas
29:14we would put him in front of food and hope he would say something amazing
29:17but the truth is a lot of times he just talked shit on whoever was directing
29:20think of all the opportunity for uh practical jokes with the vipers
29:24note to self by rubber snake for jeff
29:27solo scenes with tony they worked it was a fantastic opportunity for tony to just unload
29:32not suggesting there are anal glands in a chicken nugget
29:35i mean here was a guy in tony bourdain
29:38the master of the monologue
29:40man that guy could talk
29:42he was just trying to make us us behind the camera laugh
29:45he would kind of deliver a line and kind of peer
29:48you know over the camera to see what kind of reaction he would get
29:52i hate mascots
29:54you know they fart in those suits
29:56like at one point i think one of the editors said
29:59you know the camera's moving a lot
30:01and i'm thinking well it's because i'm laughing
30:03this guy he would start riffing and
30:06we would just fall apart
30:08it was amazing
30:09it was as close as a glimpse as you could get to our relationship with him
30:20one of the great things about going to japan is lawson's
30:24we had you know the greatest intention to go to lawson's and eat an egg sandwich
30:29a little solo meal tony on the street eating his beloved egg sandwich
30:34we don't talk about the lawson's incident because it's an ongoing investigation
30:37what is it exactly about this place that's got its tentacles so deep into my heart and my soul
30:48the coup de grace
30:50the golden goose of sandwiches at lawson's is the egg solid sandwich
30:54the fluffy egg solid sandwich
30:56it's a masterpiece
30:58where are you i know you're around here somewhere
31:05wait a minute
31:09i see potato and egg
31:11where's the 100% egg
31:13where's the egg salad
31:15no really
31:19where is the egg salad
31:21there were no egg salads
31:23of tony's
31:25preference
31:26five minutes before there were like six egg sandwiches
31:29to be fair that was my responsibility
31:31and things deteriorated quickly
31:34where are the egg salad sandwiches
31:36they were in there
31:37no there are potato and egg salad sandwiches in there
31:39potato ham and egg
31:41you couldn't possibly have bungled that
31:45could you
31:47what can you say sometimes we up
31:55it became it became frantic
31:58i was effusively going on and on and on about how i can live without prostitutes and heroin
32:05but that but that the egg salad sandwiches at lawson
32:08this is the one thing i can't the what would you call it the raison d'etre
32:12of this scene seems to have
32:15either evaporated or possibly never existed josh
32:19i understand i mean when you when you want an egg sandwich and you expect an egg sandwich
32:26an egg sandwich should be there so i get it
32:29i don't ask a lot but really there's one thing i do need josh one thing i need desperately
32:42and that is uncut 100 pure fluffy pillows of love the egg salad from lawson that's why we're here
32:54well luckily in okinawa there's a lawson's on every other block so we have a crew member
33:01an island wide dragnet needs to be established right away
33:07you see the store egg salad on the street
33:14prior preparation prevents piss poor performance
33:20we're doing an egg salad scene is there egg salad
33:23look at my look at this highly trained professionals fanning out across naha in search
33:29in search of egg salad sandwiches
33:34and i say good luck with that because they're amazingly popular and for a reason
33:39there was like a harrowing and frantic run down the street to the next adjacent lawson's
33:46to try to find the correct sandwich
33:49is this the egg salad yes
33:52go for josh go for josh
33:54this is a crushing a crushing disappointment
34:01my heart sank
34:03my heart sank like a stone
34:05we all felt that moment
34:07i got faith in josh he's got a lot of
34:10he's got a lot at stake here
34:12i think that he's gonna come through
34:14yeah i got a lot of faith in him too
34:17i had a lot of faith in uh... i mean and uh... president mobutu
34:20before they drove whole nations into the ground
34:23because this is a monstrous abrogation of our relationship
34:27and the trust uh... the bond of friendship and professionalism
34:33that we all share
34:35i'm not saying i'm disappointed
34:37more like devastated
34:39i'm waiting for my man
34:42twenty six dollars in my hand
34:44tony
34:51so they stopped packaging the egg salad sandwiches in whole containers so it's split with a tuna sandwich as well
34:59the egg salad is still there
35:01they're they're my eggs are commingling with tuna
35:04yes
35:05you can't actually bring outside food in there and put it on their shells and then we'll pretend that i'm actually finding these is that what was that your hideous plan
35:13well it wasn't a hideous plan
35:15okay go do that and then they'll never know
35:17fantastic
35:20so we're paying two different lawsuits for the same sandwich
35:24oh look
35:26how fortunate
35:27i'll take all three of you
35:30oh
35:33oh
35:34oh
35:36I raised a little talk
35:37oh
35:38oh
35:39oh
35:40oh
35:41oh
35:43oh
35:44oh
35:45oh
35:47oh
35:48oh
35:49oh
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35:52oh
35:53oh
35:54oh
35:55oh
35:56oh
35:57oh
35:58What's a job fun?
36:00What's it fun?
36:04I wouldn't call it fun.
36:06We had fun.
36:08We were deep into Iran.
36:10I'm in a bar in the Philippines.
36:12And the besieged held us for a day.
36:14Filming a cover band.
36:16Thirteen years later, now I'm pinching myself.
36:18Three beers deep.
36:20Does having the experience of your life and of your career, like, fall under the category of fun?
36:27There are moments of fun, for sure.
36:29Are there any local militias we can befriend?
36:31Is, like, playing kickball your definition of fun, you know what I mean?
36:35The backbending of the camera guys and the producers.
36:38Not that much sleep.
36:39And the constant sort of, like, what is Tony gonna think?
36:42If that falls into the category of fun, then the answer is yes.
36:46If your definition of fun is, like, easy going and, like, everything, everyone's smiling and, like, having a great time and, like, can write home about it, then no, it wasn't fun.
36:57You know, when I think back on those early days, and I do remember that joy and the laughter and the heartache and everything that went on there.
37:05If I need to feel that again, that joy, I go back and I, when I look at the Waffle House scene.
37:14So what I love about this scene is, again, that Tony is truly experiencing something new and unexpected.
37:23You know what I know? I don't want waffles at the Waffle House.
37:27Bullshit, man. You have to have...
37:29Waffles?
37:30First thing you have, becon waffle.
37:33Really?
37:40You get it in many episodes, but this one in particular, that was a very, very authentic Tony.
37:46You know what umami means in Japanese?
37:48Actually, literally, it means, I will your for a bite of that...
37:54With that...
37:58That burger.
37:59Oh my god, Tony!
38:02I have to go pick over my face...
38:04I sure were want to be so proud.
38:05Tony had so many different sides to his personality.
38:24I mean, he could be tough.
38:25He could be a raconteur.
38:28He could also be incredibly kind, big-hearted, and emotional person.
38:33And sometimes, all in the same interaction, which was sort of crazy.
38:38I remember in our Philippines episode, Tony joins for a family meal.
38:43The family scenes were some of the most magical moments that we captured in the show.
38:50One of the most incredible ones for me was with my grandmother, a Filipino woman named Aurora Medina, who raised me.
38:59And this is, I think, the first Christmas Aurora's been back in the Philippines.
39:02In 40 years.
39:05After the meal, Aurora came over to Tony and started singing Edelweiss.
39:09This is the song that she sang to Eric as she was changing his diapers, I believe.
39:15Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
39:22And everyone is pretty emotional.
39:34It was one of the few moments that I saw Tony, you know, start to tear up.
39:38You can see, if you look closely, you can see Tony totally tearing up.
39:46He's just on the verge of crying, which he doesn't do.
39:50Forever.
39:51Forever.
39:52Forever.
40:00Yeah, it was really special to see Tony that vulnerable and see Tony, you know, connecting with someone as beautiful and, you know, selfless as Aurora.
40:13The show itself was, like, a tremendous gift.
40:23We got to work with somebody who was incredibly creative, obviously, but also let us experiment.
40:34The amazing thing about it is that the challenge has never really stopped any of us.
40:44We've met these challenges.
40:45I don't want to say we've met these challenges.
40:46These challenges have inspired us to do great things.
40:51He said to Chris and I, this show is my legacy.
41:03He said, that's why I'm so hard on you guys.
41:05You know, every show, I want it to be better than the next.
41:13It really was the adventure of a lifetime.
41:15And that's not making an excuse for his dickish behavior because he was certainly, could certainly be a dick.
41:27But he was our dick.
41:45And that's good enough.
42:11Should we start drinking now?
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