Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - Joe Rogan Experience Review of Anthony Bourdain

Episode Date: June 21, 2019

Classic JRE 138 with Anthony Bourdain.  Anthony Bourdain was a chef and great television presenter to his hit show Parts Unknown. His narration and adventurous spirit comes through in his conversation with Joe. It was a really good podcast to go back and listen to and I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments on it. Cheers!!!   Enjoy my review folks! Follow me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/joeroganexperiencereview Please email me here with any suggestions and questions for future shows..

Hello guys, welcome. Thank you for downloading. Thank you for the follows on Instagram and support. You can follow the show there at Joe Rogan Experience Review at Instagram or whatever the thing is, but the link is in the kind know description for this show and you can email me whatever you want Questions comments you name it so Last week Joe was hunting in Lennife Axis dear which sounds fucking badass and I would love to do that. I don't know how he got on I'm sure he got something usually does but seems like a good time and and what I've been doing but seems like a good time and what I've been doing when he heads out on kind of like a week off vacation or whatever is I go back and I look at some classic JREs to review. I've only done one before and that was the very first episode, the very first JRE

and this time around I wanted to do podcast 138 with Anthony Bourdain. Obviously Anthony has passed. He committed suicide. I think was it this year, earlier this year? I'm not sure exactly, but he passed away. And I just wanted to do a bit of a tribute to him because it was an excellent podcast. I really enjoyed it. And it was the first time I got a really intimate close look You know to listen to what the man had to say anyway, let's start the review All right classic J.R.E. review time. Again, for people that have not listened to this one, it's a very old one, it's podcast 138.

I recommend going back and listening to it. It is really good. And I try to find that there are always my very favorite episodes when I'm doing a classic and I have a list of like five that I'll pick forward on but if anyone out there wants me to do one in particular from the past that they really enjoyed and you know just to throw my two cents at and see if it lines up with yours or maybe I picked up some things that you didn't see of Ice Versa. Let me know, shoot me a message and I can always check one of those out for sure. I love listening to any ones of the old ones

from the past. Anthony's an interesting guy because he didn't really get famous until he was like 44 years old, right? Which is a lot later in life and especially for how famous he got, how well known he became that's fairly unusual and pretty inspiring stuff. I know it's rarer that people will have that happen to them, but very cool. So even up until that age, he really hadn't traveled all that much in the world and I mean his life and experiences after that point would just I mean exponential change

and just wow good for him you know he had a show that was out he had a couple very very good what were the names that he shows without borders and then the other one, shit, blanking. But both of them were fantastic and so different than any other type of cooking show. I mean, it was, it really was like Hunter S. Thompson ask with like his delivery and his narration, his narration was always incredible. I mean, there was no way you could ever replace him on that show. There even was some talk after his suicide that they would see if Gordon Ramsay would want to do it and just it was immediately shot down. I mean, it just wouldn't have made any sense at all. You couldn't have even got close, you know. And I don't want to take anything away from Gordon Ramsay.

Just a completely different character to play that. What was really nice about his show is that the producers left him alone. They really gave him a lot of freedom and he talks about to just kind of do his own thing. And obviously Joe loves that. It's a big part of the inspiration

that he had to make his podcast and kind of create his life the way that he's done. So it resonated with him and the podcast 138, I think was back in maybe 2010. I think is when they did that podcast, maybe 10 or 11, I guess if he started in, I don't know when it was, it wasn't that long into the life of Jerry though, really. And though he wasn't doing as many back then, so maybe it was a couple of years in. But either way, it was when his podcast wasn't

that big and Anthony's show was huge, one of the biggest ones on TV, so for him to have the freedom that he did was very unusual. Most shows were nothing like that, had a lot of producer input and just there was no level of freedom like Anthony had, and with that freedom he was able to make his show just brilliant just absolutely brilliant. Close team of people that he worked with real close even after his death. One of the camera guys contacted Joe and came on the JRE to discuss it and I did a review of that and that was that was really enlightening and a sad one. But basically how he would figure out where he was going to go and get hooked up with the local people is he would reach out to food bloggers. So every country has food

bloggers and he would just reach out to them, say he was coming and they kind of set everything up with the best restaurants, the people to meet, what the culture was, and that's what was so beautiful about his show is it wasn't just the food it was primarily the food but I mean also how the food wrapped into the culture and what the history of that placement and his narration really brought it to life I mean it just created it just added so much color that it was almost like you'd been there when you watched the show. And it definitely always made you hungry.

For sure. For sure. Joe does what he always does, or mostly does in classic fashion, brings up some giant ape story called a Bondo ape that is like six foot tall in each jaguars and it just kind of pops out of nowhere but what was good about it is it brought up that Anthony sometimes on his show wore hunt and shoot animals and then they use the meat and etc and people would get a little mad at him he said it wasn't too bad you know the the outcry of hate wasn't great it wasn huge, obviously Peter would get upset and some things like that,

but he kind of like would shoot guns on the show quite often, and especially with a hunting Porsche, I mean, it kind of makes sense, like if it wouldn't be weird to have a show where you're cooking some fish and you go fishing for it first. I think I saw Gordon Ramsay show once where he was doing that catfish fishing and then later on the show they cooked it. Now sure it's not as dramatic as shooting a deer and then cooking that but I mean it's all kind of like the same thing. If that's that culture's way of getting the meat, isn't it the most honest representation? it's just to show that? You can always choose not to watch the show if you don't like it.

It just seems reasonable. He did talk about a really cool bar in Cambodia where you can go and drink and get hammered and shoot guns. You just kind of pay for it all and it just happens. And that to me sounded like a great time. Dangerous, obviously. I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but what a wild little place that Cambodian bar must be. Little nuts there.

It was interesting to hear what his favorite meal was. His very favorite meal is a bone marrow and bread, like cooked bone marrow and bread, like cooked bone marrow and bread. If you've never had that, I've had that a couple of times. In fact, my girlfriend's father is a huge fan of it, and I think that's because he's Vietnamese, and I think it's a Vietnamese dish, which is something that Bourdain brings up later, like his two favorite countries are really Spain and Vietnam and Vietnam especially just for the culture and the food and He had a really interesting thing to say about Vietnam, which I I liked a lot because Joe was like it

They still mad at us, you know the us being Americans and the You know because of the war and Anthony said something that I'd never really even thought about but it was just like no because since then they've been in war I think with like the Russians and maybe like the Chinese twice and there's just a lot of shit going on over there they're a war of the time so they're not they're not hung up on it and I think that adds to the beauty of what that place is and I would love to go I I really would love to head over there and yeah, eat some bone marrow. That would be great. Some personal stuff about Anthony, his wife is a huge Giu-Gitsu practitioner and a fan

of UFC and all the rest of it. Later on in his life after this podcast, he did get Anthony Inter, Jiu-Jitsu, of which he was really a big fan of. He loved it and was a massive Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, much later in life and just obsessed, I'm sure his wife was the motivation behind it. It's just cool to see that he gets inspired in that way. And like I said earlier with his narration for his show, Hunter S. Thompson was a huge influence for Anthony, you know, growing up and being a writer and influenced his writing. And you can definitely hear that with the way that he narrates his show. And you know parts on told and just how he kind of wraps everything together. It's

it's such a beautiful poetry with the way that he described things which is makes sense because the the art there's art in the food you know like Jo even says he never really looked at food as art before. It's like temporary art that you eat. So why shouldn't it be told and described with a kind of poetry, which is pretty awesome. Some they get into some foods on there. Alchemy, the likes Alchemy, he likes Alch liver for sure, some foie gras, which is the duck liver one where they kind of force feed him. I don't think I've ever had that. I don't really eat that type of super fancy places anyway, but they said that it was delicious, they love it. And I guess they were saying that they were banning it in California too.

And since I live in California, maybe I can't eat that now, but I'd like to try it after he said that. I would like to. Any vegetarians out there, I apologize. I'm sure you're not loving most of this conversation, but yeah, they even talk about vegetarianism and what it is and and what it is. And then they just go back to talking about how great steak is. And, you know, just saying just eat meat. They're not, both Joe and Anthony and not vegetarians obviously, can be, do it if you want to. I was a vegetarian for the first 14 years of my life And then basically I moved to America and I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico

And they didn't have a lot of vegetarian choices So it just slowly became something that I just started eating some meat. I mean it was more kind of a necessity I mean I I found myself eating french fries like every day just It's just like pretty much all the time. I was like, I don't know why else to have. Yeah, but we're not limited now. There's plenty of vegetarian options. Go eat some. One thing he talked about, which was cool,

is the breaking of bread was someone like, you connect over food like nothing else. And maybe that's a bit of an art form that we've lost. Like we don't connect all that much anymore over food. It's kind of skipped over. And I think that that is a beautiful thing, a beautiful way of describing things. A funny thing that he talks about is if he had the power, like became president or whatever, one of the first things he do is create an in and out out get in and out into New York City. I don't know why in and out is just on the west coast. I mean, I'm very fortunate. There's one

just like a bad a mile from my house. I absolutely love them. They are, it is delicious. If you've never had in and in and out and you get to a place where they have them, I think Arizona has them along the freeway like the I-40 or whatever whatever runs across that I know Nevada does because they got them in Vegas and Then California not sure where else, but you got a trick if you're in the burgers try those for a fast food burger It really is the best. I'm a huge fan of that and Yeah, it's it's so good It's it's so good Bourdain is

Was very popular in his life and he even back in this time He wasn't a comedian, but he wrote books and he would go on booktours And one thing he said is is that he is booktours the crowds got so big They started booking in like larger places and like theaters like not auditoriums Well, maybe but like a theater space and it just became this huge Q&A With like a bit of a maybe like an hour of what he described the stand-up and then followed by you know a bit of a Q&A And it's like similar to what Joe did does and I love that transition I love that he just kind of fell into this and that people were willing to go and watch.

I know if he had come to town, I would have definitely gone. He's such a fascinating guy. Would have loved to have got a ticket for that. And how fascinating a talk that must have been with such a cool dude. But anyway, thanks for downloading this one. Check it out if you're interested. It's podcast 138 and you know it's an homage to the man Anthony Wu Mishu. You are missed and you were

a fantastically cool and fucking awesome dude. So thanks a lot guys. Have a great day. Peace. day peace.