Simpson's Writer Mike Reiss on Extreme Tourism | Really? no, Really?

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It’s an understatement calling it adventure tourism, at minimum its extreme travel, more accurately it’s insanely dangerous. Diving to crushing depths to glimpse the Titanic, sightseeing hostile dictatorships, postcard-shopping in active war zones - increasingly, people are choosing to go to these places…for vacation. Really, no really!
What could possibly possess a person to willingly put their lives in danger for a few photographs and an unusual stamp on their passport? You might expect these reckless tourists to be former Special Forces or folks with cultural ties so deep that it neutralizes the danger. Well…maybe those people exist but today Jason and Peter are talking to Mike Reiss, a middle-aged, Emmy-winning, Simpsons writer-producer whose wife compelled him to visit 136 countries, including Iran, Syria, and even North Korea!
Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his twenty-eight years writing for The Simpsons. He ran the show in Season 4, which Entertainment Weekly called “the greatest season of the greatest show in history. And Mike claims to be happily married for over thirty years. We believe him…?
00:00 Introduction
08:36 North Korea Kidnaps Filmmakers
11:43 Mount Kilimanjaro
12:16 Mount Everest Base Camp
15:04 Took 3 Dives to Hudson Canyon
16:05 Took the Titan to the Titanic
23:29 Stranded in the Namibian Desert
26:42 No working toilets in Cuba
30:20 Tummy trouble in Syria
35:25 How he almost went to Mars
38:16 The Simpsons.
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