The wonderings and wanderings of an occasional party boy
- Bourdain insisting on meeting food writer/tour guide/Cleveland booster Michael Ruhlman at fast-food institution Skyline Chili
- Collaboration with the American Splendor crew—Harvey Pekar, Toby, artist Gary Dumm
- Watching surfers in the freezing, filthy Lake Eerie; packing beers in a snowbank while doing so
- Zubal’s, a bookstore in a former Hostess factory complete with still-running pipes of Twinkie filling
- Ruhlman falling for Bourdain’s childish taunting, calling him a motherfucker, then being reprimanded by Pekar
- In fact, Bourdain’s endless tormenting of Ruhlman
- Bourdain showing he’s still got it and actually cooking
Bonus: episode comics
here; Bourdain and Ruhlman on the radio
here (direct mp3 link)