Sustainable travel consultant JJ Walsh (and everyone else in Hiroshima) gets a free PCR test! Here's hoping this saliva-filled undertaking amounts to more than just spitting into the wind.

Ollie recommends our first ever Fukushima based river cruise, with some pretty interesting side effects.

Bobby recommends a Ramadan cruise that should make things WAYYYYY easier for all of our practicing Muslim listeners.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• What Ollie did to pay his respects for Prince Philip's Passing
• JJ's super prolific content production schedule, and how she manages time differences
• Ollie finally getting kicked out of Malaysia
• What happened with Malaysia's pandemic visa overstay amnesty program
• How EVERYONE on the show is undergoing testing
• Pro's and cons of PCR tests types
• Quarantine Food
• What JJ misses about not being able to travel
• New JBRC Merch
• JBRC reporting from @ahnpankaahnman and @kumayama100 on Hideki Matsuyama's Masters Win
• Hiroshima's prefecture wide TEST EVERYBODY plan, and JJ's experience with it
• Why Hiroshima is doing this... now?
• How every little ailment these days makes us wonder whether or not we've got the virus.
• JJ's Covid Article series, and how it might actually be more effective than Japan's messaging
• What stands to be gained from the testing initiative.
• How Hiroshima citizens are responding
• What the PCR test actually measures, and how it actually works from (SURPRISE SURPRISE) one of us who got infected
• The trend for people all across Japan to want to buy homes or make their homes as comfortable as possible
• JJ's own experience and the people she's talked to about reforming homes
• Property buying and second-hand home buying culture (or lack thereof) in Japan
• Opportunities to pick up a super cheap house
• The negative effect of corona-related mortgage defaulting on the property buying
• Corona-discrimination against people who want to take out a home alone
• The legality of the above?
• Why Bobby can't get his unemployment insurance AND a home loan

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