BOURDAIN
HAS SHOCKED A LOD OF PEOPLE.
MTN’S JOHN EMEIGH TAIGS TO
PEOPLE IN BUTTE
WHO HAD A CHANCE TO MEET HIM
WHEN HE STOPPED THERE A FEW
YEARS AGO.
Emeigh: In October of 2015,
Anthony Bourdain stopped in n
Butte with a film crew
to shoot and episode of es CNN
travel show “Parts Unknown.” It
was
clear the late celebrity chef
and journalist made a lasting
impression on those
who met him.
Brian McGregor: And I found him
to be really interesting,
cynical to a fault, almost, he
had
a healthy cynisim, but he was th
the kind of guy I'd like to s th
spend more time with. Emeigh:
Amanda Curtis remembers speaking
with Bourdain about
Butte's labor history.
Curtis: He wasrtreat trttalk to
he was kind, he was really
interesting an
engaging I cenld have sat there
and drank whk key with him all
night. I was just
pleased with the way he
portrayed the Montana and the
Butte that I know anI I
felt just so proud to be from
here.
Emeigh: For Don Andrews,
Bourdain was his idol when he
was younger, becau
he wanted to be a chief. He met
him years earlier in Portland,
but didn't
have a piece of paper for an
autograph.
Andrews: And so I just took off
my hat and had him sign my head
and I was so excited I
ran home t tgh the Portland
orin and was goi tndtake a
picture of it, but by the time I
got home the rain had made it
just run and I just looked like
a deranged clown
Emeigh: Those how got a chance
to meet with Anthony Bourdain
during his visito th
Mining City said he was
genuinely intereed in Butte's
labor history. The
also said he had a bit of a zest
for excess and somewhat of a
dark said.
Andrews: I think he went through
a whole bottle of the Neversweat
during
that scene. Yeah, he couYe
definitely put them away.
McGregor: He was kind of dark,
u k,ow, whatever the subject
was he wou
pull out the most darkest option
of conversion. You talk about t
t
the history of the United States
and he'd start talking about
genode, that kind of thing.
Emeigh: Those who met this great
story- teller found his death by
suspected suicide
shocking, but Don Andrews won't
call it a tragedy.
Andrews: You know, I don't think
of his death as a tragedy,
because I think of his life as
such a magnificent thing. You
know, I think it's just the end
and all storiehave to
come to an end, it doesn't make
it a bad story.
Emeigh: In Butte John Emeigh MTN
News.
BOURDAIN WAS 61 YEARS OLD. HIS
DEATH HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS A
SUICIDE.
THE FATHER OF BRITTENY ROBERTS
