Poverty seems antithetical to Japanese culture, but after more than two months in country the crew is beginning to find their niche just in time to leave it…

Making this episode sucked.  As you’ll notice, Episode 205 is airing almost a week late.  I think there are 4 separate and almost complete versions of this episode featuring radically different content sitting on my storage array.  The draft I had planned out with the crew a month ago disappeared somewhere around the second revision never to be seen again.  Almost none of the original footage made the episode.

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I actually won a heart shaped box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day, at a bar, in a raffle that I didn’t enter, and there was not ONE SINGLE LADY AT ANY OF THE BARS I WENT TO UPON WHICH TO USE THE LINE “I guess I got lucky tonight; want a chocolate?”

Also, screw you, Molly Daniell. You’re an idiot. And, screw you, attractive, happy couples.

Actually, that last bit was a cheap shot. I’m just jealous of you, couples. You rock on with your bad selves. Instead of cutting my losses and going to bed, I will now have myself another 3 beers and make some nachos while playing Beyonce’s Single Ladies at full volume ad infinitum. God I wish the bars stayed open later here.