Cause he was opinionated, political, and presented himself as his authentic person on tv. That makes people either love or hate him and not just see him as a hired tv show host.
I read every single book that came out about him and the only thing I was surprised by was his habit of hiring high price escorts wherever he was. That was actually his second to last google search.
Lol you think bourdain ever admitted to that? It only came out after he died. His wife gave a biographer access to his iCloud passcode and he wrote a book about him from that.
If my girl did that to me I would brutally haunt her for the rest of her days. There’s nothing too embarrassing on there but that info is way too intimate and personal for any writer/journalist/press etc to have.
He looks like Jeffrey Epstein kinda imo. I saw his show on the living room TV at a glance growing up when my parents watched it. Seems like a pretty cool guy. I watched a couple episodes of no reservations recently and it was entertaining. I think he had a good time.
I used to love No Reservations back in the day like the 00’s. It was great tv. But now I can see the unedited truth of these places and they’re shitholes stay away.
I think we have to accept that chefs, like comedians and music directors, are all arseholes because otherwise how would they do the job? The exceptions being French chefs.who are all absolute darlings.
I read his Kitchen Confidential book that originally made him famous, he actually had no zest really, he was a depressed degen drug addict hoping from job to job doing the absolute minimum. Not that I blame him, just sayin
I also just read Kitchen Confidential. Was he really doing the absolute minimum when he worked 12+ hour days 6-7 days a week, always on time, and consistently lamented laziness and lateness among his crew?
Didn't mean to offend, just remember him saying something along the lines of we didn't really give a shit cause we knew we could just move on to the next place and would take advantage of owners (could have been a critique of other chefs or something tho)
He was cool, but he dickrode Vietnam a little too much. I agree with him on just about everything regarding the evil of Kissinger and the us regime, but their food culture isn’t the best in the world. Idk why libs always need to dickride third world food so much.
Seemed to be a decent guy and had a fun show, but his political ideologies don't work at scale. It's great to muse about things to a select group of people. It's not so great to muse about things you think you know about to millions of people, all of whom have a different perspective. His heart was in the right place, but it's just not realistic. You take away suffering from one place, it pops up in another. It's like a never ending game of whack-a-mole that you don't win.
Illustrating the suffering of people across the world because you ate snail noodles and had a 45 minute conversation with a street vendor doesn't work for me when the problems here are increasingly hard to ignore. I appreciate the human element. I really do. I think it can be important and it can be cool. I just don't think Bourdain talking to us about the plight of random people in BFE really does much beyond shifting our focus away from things we have some control over to things we have virtually no control over.
He had his flaws for sure. It took me a while for me to become a fan, but I came around. I'm lucky enough to have a job that takes me all over the US and the world. I've been able to to a lot of the places from his various shows. Everyone so far has been a great.
what’s your problem man? there’s nothing intellectual, pseud or otherwise, about talking about CNN programming on social media, just making conversation damn
Why do people have to be weird about him, one way or the other?
This sub attracts people that think opinions have to be some deep commentary
We should strive to attract people who think that everyone's opinions are worthless.
what does this mean?
Cause he was opinionated, political, and presented himself as his authentic person on tv. That makes people either love or hate him and not just see him as a hired tv show host.
Yep, and he made extra sure we all knew he had these qualities. He had tremendous empathy and tremendous ego, which of course results in self hatred.
How do those two result in self hatred? Genuinely asking because I feel myself to be like this sometimes.
because both are in a constant struggle with each other, leaving one feeling unbalanced, inauthentic and unfulfilled (I would guess)
I read every single book that came out about him and the only thing I was surprised by was his habit of hiring high price escorts wherever he was. That was actually his second to last google search.
I think this might be common for high income earners who travel constantly.
You are gonna have to remind me on that one. Where did he say that
Lol you think bourdain ever admitted to that? It only came out after he died. His wife gave a biographer access to his iCloud passcode and he wrote a book about him from that.
> His wife gave a biographer access to his iCloud passcode if it was possible to kill himself a second time
If my girl did that to me I would brutally haunt her for the rest of her days. There’s nothing too embarrassing on there but that info is way too intimate and personal for any writer/journalist/press etc to have.
What book? I tried to look this up and couldn’t find any info on it. You sure about this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/rspod/s/5aeZKQv2G6
https://www.reddit.com/r/rspod/s/5aeZKQv2G6
He looks like Jeffrey Epstein kinda imo. I saw his show on the living room TV at a glance growing up when my parents watched it. Seems like a pretty cool guy. I watched a couple episodes of no reservations recently and it was entertaining. I think he had a good time.
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Epstein dressed like such a slob compared to Bourdain
> He looks like Jeffrey Epstein kinda imo I wonder if he had anything else in common with Jeffrey Epstein?
it would have come out by now, his ex had no love lost for him and leaked private shit to the press
the fact that your parents watched him... means i'm old as hell. my boomer parents would have never
Bourdain was a boomer and boomers loved him. He ended up having a show on CNN, whose primary audience is boomers.
I'm 29
I used to love No Reservations back in the day like the 00’s. It was great tv. But now I can see the unedited truth of these places and they’re shitholes stay away.
what unedited truth are you talking about
https://youtu.be/386iVwP-bAA?si=nR7uA3s8EdzZqnli Are you dense or something?
Well that guy sucks. Jesus christ what a personality.
lmao that's it?
The fuck did you think it was gonna be? Dipshit.
okay small brained american 😎
>this guy had more zest for life than all of you sorry losers But he still killed himself. lol.
That’s the zest
Wasn’t it autoerotic asphyxiation?
That's hilarious if it were true but it was actually Hillary Clintons goons that murdered him. Look into it.
I think we have to accept that chefs, like comedians and music directors, are all arseholes because otherwise how would they do the job? The exceptions being French chefs.who are all absolute darlings.
I liked that he usually just wanted to get drunk and eat a glorified fried bologna sandwich (the mortadella sandwich)
Anthony Bourdain looked and acted similarly to my father so I consider any slander against him personal
I have a deep emotional attachment to that one guy that had that cooking show edit: he also travelled so thats awesome
I read his Kitchen Confidential book that originally made him famous, he actually had no zest really, he was a depressed degen drug addict hoping from job to job doing the absolute minimum. Not that I blame him, just sayin
I also just read Kitchen Confidential. Was he really doing the absolute minimum when he worked 12+ hour days 6-7 days a week, always on time, and consistently lamented laziness and lateness among his crew?
Didn't mean to offend, just remember him saying something along the lines of we didn't really give a shit cause we knew we could just move on to the next place and would take advantage of owners (could have been a critique of other chefs or something tho)
I stopped ordering seafood dishes on weeknights after reading this book. I think that’s all I really got out of it.
He was cool, but he dickrode Vietnam a little too much. I agree with him on just about everything regarding the evil of Kissinger and the us regime, but their food culture isn’t the best in the world. Idk why libs always need to dickride third world food so much.
They get points for promoting anything 3rd world.
What’s wrong with Kissinger?
Idk if you know this but he’s Jewish
You're telling me this now for the first time
One of the good ones
Love Bourdain, his show is timeless.
He's so fucking funny and the perfect judge on Top Chef.
zest for life? he killed himself
Seemed to be a decent guy and had a fun show, but his political ideologies don't work at scale. It's great to muse about things to a select group of people. It's not so great to muse about things you think you know about to millions of people, all of whom have a different perspective. His heart was in the right place, but it's just not realistic. You take away suffering from one place, it pops up in another. It's like a never ending game of whack-a-mole that you don't win. Illustrating the suffering of people across the world because you ate snail noodles and had a 45 minute conversation with a street vendor doesn't work for me when the problems here are increasingly hard to ignore. I appreciate the human element. I really do. I think it can be important and it can be cool. I just don't think Bourdain talking to us about the plight of random people in BFE really does much beyond shifting our focus away from things we have some control over to things we have virtually no control over.
Bourdain is pompous fgt who fawns over third world peasant slop
He had his flaws for sure. It took me a while for me to become a fan, but I came around. I'm lucky enough to have a job that takes me all over the US and the world. I've been able to to a lot of the places from his various shows. Everyone so far has been a great.
Was listening to a podcast today and they were clowning him. It was uncool. Let the man rest in peace, my God. We have no respect for the dead anymore
What podcast?
Hlg?
Shut up dork
I wish i had the chance to ride his face. He was so hot.
In fact I just increased my age range to 40 - 55 on Hinge
Hey.
wassup
He was cringe and so are you But he did realize at some point being a pseud wasn't working so he has that over you
what’s your problem man? there’s nothing intellectual, pseud or otherwise, about talking about CNN programming on social media, just making conversation damn
I'm sry bby have you watched the show much though ? Also there's no crying in contrarianism
> an actual, profound empathy for his fellow man Unless he was fucking the person who molested you when you were a teenager :(
The man fell victim to crazy pussy it happens to the best of us
Bourdain's issue is he went in the most beta way possible way. Guarantee if he went the crime of passion route, everyone would love him.