He wore a Ramones cutoff tee while boating down the Mekong River in Vietnam in another episode, and later dedicated his 2006 book "The Nasty Bits" to Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee Ramone. Throughout the course of his decades-long on-screen career, Bourdain used his platform to further elevate his favorite musicians, dining with Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and breaking bread with Iggy Pop.
"I had no place to live; I was sleeping in laundromats, and I was depressed, I think to the point of almost being psychotic. So I figured, 'That's it. I don't want to live anymore.'"