I don't want to crush your dream, Robert, but it is doomed.
My lunch break date at Mukai was probably the best first date I’ve had. I’m not saying there were any sparks or love at first sight nonsense. But we sat in comfy armchairs and had comfy conversation, and my first dates are NEVER comfy, so this first date wins first place. I plan to see him again, but that’s not going to keep me from roasting him in this post.
Y’all know that I love to travel, but this man is off his travelin’ rocker. His goal is to get to 206 countries in the next two years (side note: the UN only recognizes 193 countries, so the 206 includes all disputed territories). I gently suggested he might burn out at the pace he’d have to hopscotch from country to country. That’s around nine countries per month. But that’s not all. He wants to be filming a TV show the entire time, with a different continent per season, so he’d be heading off to South America while his production team is airing the North America season (side note #2: he doesn’t have a production team).
I asked what his angle would be, how he’d be different from the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Rick Steves, and David Attenborough. He said it’d be more like The Amazing Race, with different challenges to perform in each country. “Oh, so there’d be multiple people competing, then?” Nope! Just him. He would travel to a destination with a cameraperson, and upon arrival he’d open up a surprise challenge (but why would it be a surprise? He’s the writer). The challenge would be specific to the destination, e.g., “In Tonga, I’d swim with humpback whales and try not to die” (side note #3: this is safe and available to tourists).
I was lost on why anyone would want to back this show, but he insisted he wouldn’t need to get a studio onboard, that he’d film the whole thing and commercialize it later. So maybe he is secretly Scrooge McDuck, because that is going to be SO EXPENSIVE. My trip to Southeast Asia included only five of those 206 countries, and it cost so much I tried not to pay close attention when I paid for it.
He might be a crazy dreamer, but in his defense, he actually has already made a movie. This was the first time I was ever able to IMDB a date. He wrote, produced, and starred in a depressing movie about an alcoholic, and I will not be watching it unless we do start dating, and then I guess I’d have to.
I feel a little bad that I shredded my date’s dream in this post. And if he invites me along on his Amazing Non-Race, I will absolutely be swimming with them Tongan whales.
Y’all know that I love to travel, but this man is off his travelin’ rocker. His goal is to get to 206 countries in the next two years (side note: the UN only recognizes 193 countries, so the 206 includes all disputed territories). I gently suggested he might burn out at the pace he’d have to hopscotch from country to country. That’s around nine countries per month. But that’s not all. He wants to be filming a TV show the entire time, with a different continent per season, so he’d be heading off to South America while his production team is airing the North America season (side note #2: he doesn’t have a production team).
I asked what his angle would be, how he’d be different from the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Rick Steves, and David Attenborough. He said it’d be more like The Amazing Race, with different challenges to perform in each country. “Oh, so there’d be multiple people competing, then?” Nope! Just him. He would travel to a destination with a cameraperson, and upon arrival he’d open up a surprise challenge (but why would it be a surprise? He’s the writer). The challenge would be specific to the destination, e.g., “In Tonga, I’d swim with humpback whales and try not to die” (side note #3: this is safe and available to tourists).
I was lost on why anyone would want to back this show, but he insisted he wouldn’t need to get a studio onboard, that he’d film the whole thing and commercialize it later. So maybe he is secretly Scrooge McDuck, because that is going to be SO EXPENSIVE. My trip to Southeast Asia included only five of those 206 countries, and it cost so much I tried not to pay close attention when I paid for it.
He might be a crazy dreamer, but in his defense, he actually has already made a movie. This was the first time I was ever able to IMDB a date. He wrote, produced, and starred in a depressing movie about an alcoholic, and I will not be watching it unless we do start dating, and then I guess I’d have to.
I feel a little bad that I shredded my date’s dream in this post. And if he invites me along on his Amazing Non-Race, I will absolutely be swimming with them Tongan whales.