Excerpts

1.CAN’T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER

In the middle of an epic journey through India, Ted and his wife Aurora take a jam packed hell ride on a public bus through the scorching and desolate plains to visit one of the world’s greatest and most misunderstood treasures; the 1000 year old sex temples of Khajuraho. When they get there, they discover the heat coming off those temples is hotter than the weather. read it

2.“PURORESU, KAMPAI!!”

Ted Lerner travels to Japan for the sole purpose of checking out the weird, very violent and wildly popular world of Japanese Pro Wrestling.  Sumo? No, pro wrestling. Or ‘puroresu’ as the Japanese pronounce it. In this excerpt, Ted meets Tiger Jeet Singh, a popular Indian wrestler who competes regularly in Japan. After watching Tiger beat and get the crap beaten out of him in a match in Tokyo’s Karakuen Hall, we follow the big Indian into the parking garage, where hardcore Japanese fans pay for the privilege of getting physically abused by their hero. read it

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