2y ago

On Anthony Bourdain

Never meet your heroes that you learned about from a couple of quotes online and never think about until you're watching the Vietnam-Obama episode with your family and getting increasingly skeptical and nervous.

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- One who's been dead for years, no less
- Counterpoint: he's right
Against all odds, the son of a music industry executive and a New York Times editor managed to get his foot in the door of the media world.
lol
Anthony Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America
Culinary
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Culinary Institute of America
Yeah I read theory
Yeah I learned about him a long time ago. I guess we should’ve said something when people were quoting him after Kissinger croaked lol. I sorta assumed everyone knew
All Anglo travel hosts are sus. Their whole shtick is "look at how EXOTIC and STRANGE these backwards foreigners are!!!".
There's worse people on TV, thats for sure. I usually enjoyed 'No Reservations'.
- Yeah, I kind of give anyone famous enough for mainstream media some slack in terms of the whole "having boring approachable politics" factor tbh. Not gonna turn the world upside down, and that usually never really was the point

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