Season 2, Episode 18: Dr. John A. Reily (Georgia: The Country/South Korea)

In which your host and his dearly beloved travel companion reconvene to discuss almost nothing involving travel. Instead, Andrei Tarkovsky crops up a lot, along with the perils of introducing Western hip culture to East Asian college students. The play Oedipus Rex, when taken literally, doesn’t seem to resonate well with Korean undergrads. Neither do The Beatles. The Irishman is mentioned only once or twice in passing (and is not dissected for twenty minutes at a time as in most episodes), which surprises both host and guest. Your burnt-out host (having interviewed three dudes in 16 hours) offers an apologia for a brilliant interview with a distinctive man that may never be heard — by host or audience alike. Not his fault, though. Blame Windows and the rotating purple ouroborous of information loss and death.