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meg
Dec 8, 2020
Love this podcast. I first came across Rolf Potts via his Vagabonding book many years ago. He is relatable and well spoken, and his episodes fill the void during covid since we can't travel to far away places. Thanks Rolf!
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Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand
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Apr 16, 2024 |
Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy
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Mar 12, 2024 |
What it’s like to spend a full year traveling within a day’s radius of your home
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Tim Ferriss and Rolf discuss travel, time wealth, and “success management”
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Jan 09, 2024 |
The best journeys explore mindscapes as well as landscapes (book club remix)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Going abroad for love, and travel writing that says something new about a place
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club redo)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
Travel memoir lab: Truth, luck, & multi-genre storytelling (with Tom Bissell)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club remix)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Vagabonding audio companion: A life in (and philosophy of) long-term travel
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Sep 19, 2023 |
A train isn’t just a vehicle; it’s a place (a remix encore, with Monisha Rajesh)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Travelers experience more when they slow down and ask lots of questions
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Aug 22, 2023 |
“Dare to do Dirt”: Seeking rural places (and how to best experience them)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Vagabonding audio companion: Why (and how) travel souvenirs matter
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Travel can return you to a kind of childhood (online book club remix)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
What museums reveal about places (and what they have to offer travelers)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
Vagabonding audio companion: How to study abroad (even if you aren’t a student)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
Fear, family, and walking the Camino de Santiago (live with Andrew McCarthy)
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May 30, 2023 |
Travel burnout is a real thing (and it’s OK to feel it sometimes), with Matt Kepnes
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May 16, 2023 |
The Mystical High Church of Luck: Decoding Las Vegas (with Ari Shaffir)
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May 02, 2023 |
How travelers create quests and find community (online book club remix)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
Art introduces us to places before we go there (live from the Faroe Islands)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
Travel can be a way to see the future (and experience the past), with Kevin Kelly
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Mar 21, 2023 |
The best age to travel is whatever age you are now (an online book club remix)
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Mar 07, 2023 |
Seek out global connections while you’re still at home (with Kristin Van Tassel)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
A Native American football team beat the 1927 NFL Giants: The story of John Levi
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Feb 07, 2023 |
Why you go someplace is less important than just going (with Tony Perrottet)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
Integrating love of travel & love of home (with philosopher Chloe Cooper Jones)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Travel contracts your possessions and expands your life (with Eric Weiner)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
Travelers create their own distinct global culture (with anthropologist Pegi Vail)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
The travel industry is here to help you; feel free to ignore it (with Seth Kugel)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
Deviate Live in NYC: The Vagabond’s Way (onstage at KGB Bar with Ari Shaffir)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
Reinvent what it means to be an “explorer” (with Kate Harris)
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Nov 20, 2022 |
The subtler risks of travel carry rich rewards (with Carl Hoffman)
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Nov 13, 2022 |
Uncertainty makes for the truest adventures (aka Tim Cahill’s Travel 101)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
Traveling solo opens up new possibilities in a place (with Stephanie Rosenbloom)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Keeping a journal helps you make sense of the journey (with Lavinia Spalding)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Seeking real crowds beats crowdsourcing (from The Vagabond’s Way book launch)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
Preconceptions can blur what you see firsthand on the road (with Eddy Harris)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Travel deviations can be as appealing as travel plans, with Ari Shaffir
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Sep 20, 2022 |
The Vagabond’s Way: An audio introduction to Rolf’s new book
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Aug 23, 2022 |
Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories
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Aug 16, 2022 |
“On the Ice”: What it’s like to live and work at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station
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Aug 02, 2022 |
A Critical Race Theorist’s guide to writing smut novels, with Dr. Kevin Harrison
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Jul 26, 2022 |
Traveler ideals, hospitality, and the disappearance of an Italian priest in Syria
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects
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Jun 28, 2022 |
Marcia DeSanctis on revisiting places, souvenirs, and travel as self-reinvention
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Jun 14, 2022 |
Chris Guillebeau on life goals, work, and travel as alt-university [encore]
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May 31, 2022 |
Hitchhiking for pastries: The art of structuring a journey with an obsession
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May 17, 2022 |
How to embrace uncertainty and redefine success by taking a “pathless path”
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May 03, 2022 |
What travel teaches you about the human body, with Dr. Jonathan Reisman
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Apr 19, 2022 |
The creative art of making a living as an adventurer, with Alastair Humphreys
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Apr 05, 2022 |
The strangers we meet on the road, and how they can deepen our journey
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Mar 22, 2022 |
Vagabonding audio companion: What it’s like to come home after a long trip
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Meghan Daum on career-reinvention, flyover country, nuance, and Gen X
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Paul Theroux on reading, teaching, and slow travel in Mexico [encore]
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Feb 08, 2022 |
How inexpensive countries are the secret to prolonging the journey [encore]
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Jan 25, 2022 |
Lost in the Valley of Death: The life and disappearance of Justin Alexander
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Jan 11, 2022 |
A mixtape (of sorts) about mixtapes: Music as intimate communication
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Dec 28, 2021 |
Holiday Special: Celebrating the Sears Christmas Wish Book [encore]
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Digital nomadism [bonus]: How technology has changed the way we travel
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Nov 30, 2021 |
Van Life before #VanLife (encore): Revisiting a classic USA road trip
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Tales from the vagabonding trail: Discussing “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”
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Oct 12, 2021 |
Vagabonding audio companion: Travel brainstorming, with Ari Shaffir
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Maintaining creative fitness: How my podcast augments my writing career
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Sep 14, 2021 |
Finding the best places to live: Searching for home in America [encore]
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Aug 31, 2021 |
Travel writing in the “Mad Men” era: The myth and legacy of Holiday Magazine
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Aug 17, 2021 |
The Olympics started out as a travel fest: All about the ancient Greek Games
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Experiencing Japan the slow way (on the 750-mile Shikoku Pilgrimage)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
Vagabonding audio companion: How your earliest journeys transform you
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Jul 13, 2021 |
Digital nomadism: A history and future (from a documentary film in progress)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
Travel in the “Mad Men” era: Stewardess work at the dawn of the Jet Age
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Jun 15, 2021 |
The curious case of a con-man who infiltrated the world of elite travelers
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Jun 01, 2021 |
Memories you didn’t know you remembered: A deeper dive into nostalgia
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May 25, 2021 |
What a 20th century monk can teach us about living (with Sophfronia Scott)
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May 18, 2021 |
Life changing travel experiences: Epiphanies of expatriate life in Korea
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May 04, 2021 |
Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of immersive slow travel [encore]
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Apr 20, 2021 |
Triumph in the middle of nowhere: The most 1980s underdog story of the 1980s
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Apr 07, 2021 |
On the road with the superstars of Negro League baseball, 100 years on
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Apr 01, 2021 |
Notes on the philosophy (and deeper meaning) of travel, with Emily Thomas
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Pam Houston on home, and the beauty of our pared-down lives [encore]
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Mar 09, 2021 |
Long-distance hiking at home: The art of journeying out of your own back door
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Feb 23, 2021 |
Pico Iyer on the creative task of travel across the world and deep within [encore]
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Feb 09, 2021 |
What it’s like to take your kids on a three-month journey in the Himalayas
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Jan 22, 2021 |
The joys and idiosyncrasies of global train travel (with Monisha Rajesh)
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Jan 12, 2021 |
Five Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home (a road-trip intro to Deviate Season 4)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
Life changing travel experiences (with Ari Shaffir): Walking across Israel
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Dec 14, 2020 |
How to write a travel memoir (and how failure is the best teacher)
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Dec 08, 2020 |
Strategies and arguments for the simple life (from an off-grid perspective)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
American Pilgrim: Revisiting Rolf’s lost Travel Channel Thanksgiving special
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Nov 24, 2020 |
Solo travel: Celebrating the pleasures of (and strategies for) journeying alone
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Vagabonding audio companion: Time Wealth and the spiritual texture of travel
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Nov 10, 2020 |
Coming-of-age on the road as a dirtbag backpacker (with Pam Mandel)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
On penis theft, creepy clowns, anxiety, and how culture tells us what is real
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Pandemic love, cheating death, & cassette tapes: A personal history of nostalgia
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Oct 13, 2020 |
A folk history of Satanic Panic, backmasking, and rock music in the 1980s
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Oct 06, 2020 |
What it’s like to travel 37 countries (and counting) in a wheelchair
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Sep 29, 2020 |
20 lessons learned from 20 years as a travel writer: A TravelCon keynote
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Sep 22, 2020 |
Sex, travel, and the art of being a better bad tourist (with Suzanne Roberts)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
Drunk in China: A vicarious Middle Kingdom adventure via its favorite booze
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Sep 08, 2020 |
Growing up racially diverse: A not-so-politically-correct roundtable
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Sep 01, 2020 |
Eric Weiner’s journey into the ways philosophy compels us to live better
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Life changing travel experiences: The best hostel ever (in Cairo)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
Brian Koppelman on the intimacy of podcasting and the genius of Iron Maiden
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Aug 11, 2020 |
Vagabonding pioneer Ed Buryn on what indie travel was like in the 1960s
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Kevin Kelly on how travel has changed over the past 50 years [rebroadcast]
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Jul 28, 2020 |
Remembering Bettina Gilois (and what writers can learn from her work)
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Jul 21, 2020 |
Talking with my parents about how to handle it when your parents die
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Jul 14, 2020 |
Bonus: Unpacking the mission of travel-writing in the 21st century
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Jul 07, 2020 |
What the world’s last subsistence hunters can teach us about humanity
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Jul 02, 2020 |
Revisiting The Great Gatsby, high-school-style, in quarantine
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Jun 30, 2020 |
Why travelers visit museums (in places like Iceland), and what they find there
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Jun 23, 2020 |
Life changing travel experiences: Jumping freight trains in the Pacific NW
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Jun 16, 2020 |
Kate Harris on the way travel can lead us into deeper questions about the universe
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Jun 09, 2020 |
Andrew McCarthy on the Proust Questionnaire (and Brat Pack legacy)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
How to balance creative success with business success: An open chat
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May 26, 2020 |
How underground exploration is the perennial frontier of adventure travel
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May 19, 2020 |
Honeymoon without her husband: Maggie Downs’ uncommon world journey
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May 12, 2020 |
The win-win of being a mentor, with Cal Fussman and Alex Banayan
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May 07, 2020 |
Why a “Shelter in Place Film Festival” beats bingeing video right now
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May 06, 2020 |
Using your travel skills to make quarantine life better: An open chat
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May 05, 2020 |
Reports from my travels in quarantine: A Deviate Season Two coda
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Apr 28, 2020 |
Life changing travel experiences, quarantine edition: Paris and Prague
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Apr 23, 2020 |
How COVID-19 will transform the business of long-term world travel
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Apr 21, 2020 |
What fear is, how it works, and how to manage it (with Eva Holland)
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Apr 14, 2020 |
On losing one’s parents to COVID-19: A traveler-report addendum
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Apr 07, 2020 |
How COVID-19 will transform airports (and other pandemic considerations)
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Apr 02, 2020 |
Why the way we discuss (and interpret information about) COVID-19 matters
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Mar 31, 2020 |
What it’s like to travel during COVID-19: Reports from around the world
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Mar 26, 2020 |
How Nomadic Matt got COVID-19. Plus: Reports from stranded travelers
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Mar 24, 2020 |
How to make sense of health data in a time of pandemic (and beyond)
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Mar 19, 2020 |
How to enhance your career by becoming a better public speaker and reader
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Mar 17, 2020 |
On sabbaticals: How to take a career break without breaking your career
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Mar 10, 2020 |
Ari Shaffir and Rolf do a deep-dive on the finer points of indie travel
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Mar 03, 2020 |
Remembering Nirvana, and how music can frame experience (and memory)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
How music affects you when you’re young (or, the joys of Jane’s Addiction)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
Life-changing travel experiences: China and Mongolia with my parents
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Feb 18, 2020 |
Why dinosaurs matter (also: Rolf fact-checks the dino book he wrote at age 7)
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Feb 11, 2020 |
What Matt Green discovered by walking every single street in New York City
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Feb 04, 2020 |
A personal history of being a lifelong pro-sports fan (Super Bowl special)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
The power of small choices across decades: The Sgt. John Monk story
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Jan 21, 2020 |
Chris Guillebeau on goals, writing books, and travel as alt-university
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Jan 14, 2020 |
How to balance a life of artistic ambition with sanity and happiness
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Jan 07, 2020 |
Indonesia: An argument for (and essential tips on) traveling the archipelago
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Dec 31, 2019 |
Why Noah Baumbach’s “Kicking & Screaming” might be the best movie ever
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Dec 24, 2019 |
Deviate Christmas Special: Celebrating the Sears Wish Book [Rebroadcast]
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Dec 17, 2019 |
Bonus: On the therapeutic uses of reading classic literature and scripture
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Dec 12, 2019 |
What narrative therapy is, and how it can make your life feel more coherent
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Dec 10, 2019 |
America’s most solemn historical sites rarely offer an honest take on history
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Dec 03, 2019 |
Author Alex Banayan on seeking mentors for life (and writing) guidance
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Nov 26, 2019 |
On the under-appreciated reality of revelry, sex, and misadventure in travel
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Nov 19, 2019 |
The world’s cheapest destinations, and why (besides savings) they’re great
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Nov 12, 2019 |
Paul Theroux on aging, slow travel, and the inherent complexity of Mexico
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Nov 05, 2019 |
Bonus: Storytelling for the screen: A lecture from the Paris Writing Workshop
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Oct 31, 2019 |
Benjamin Percy on how comics and movies teach the best lessons about telling stories
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Oct 29, 2019 |
Why travel guidebooks still matter (and how to best use them on the road)
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Oct 22, 2019 |
An insider’s guide to traveling America’s National Parks in the 21st century
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Oct 15, 2019 |
Van Life before #VanLife: Rolf unpacks his very first vagabonding journey
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Oct 08, 2019 |
Ryan Holiday on how to conceive, research, and write a “Big Idea” book
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Oct 01, 2019 |
“American Beauty” has not aged well: Reconsidering the film, 20 years on
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Sep 26, 2019 |
Wesley Morris on why Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” remains a classic
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Sep 24, 2019 |
Explore Europe on Foot: The hows and whys of trek-travel on the continent
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Sep 17, 2019 |
The case for why trekking on foot is the best way to embrace slow travel
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Sep 10, 2019 |
Pico Iyer on travel, impermanence, and what Japan can teach us about life
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Sep 03, 2019 |
A first- (or second-) timer’s guide to experiencing Paris at a slow pace
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Aug 29, 2019 |
How keeping a travel journal can transform your experience of the journey
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Aug 20, 2019 |
The Shawshank Redemption’s brilliant reworking of Stephen King, 25 years on
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Aug 13, 2019 |
Celebrating the subtle (and not-so-subtle) genius of Pulp Fiction, 25 years on
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Aug 06, 2019 |
Bonus: Nomadic Matt’s top-19 lessons learned from a decade of travel
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Aug 01, 2019 |
Matt Kepnes on how to travel for years (instead of days or weeks) at a time
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Jul 30, 2019 |
Alastair Humphreys on making outdoor adventure a more active part of your life
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Jul 23, 2019 |
Will New Orleans still be there in 100 years? Examining the fate of a city.
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Jul 17, 2019 |
Backpacker, Go Home: How Tourism Is Ruining Everything (or Not)
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Jul 16, 2019 |
Seth Kugel on how to (truly) get off the beaten path as a global traveler
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Jul 09, 2019 |
Sports-movie screenwriter Bettina Gilois on the art of depicting true-life stories
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Jul 03, 2019 |
Why David Lynch’s The Straight Story is a travel classic (and how it got made)
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Jul 02, 2019 |
Celebrating the best travel movies ever (and what, exactly, makes them good)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
Storming (and making sense of) Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Beach, 20 years later
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Jun 11, 2019 |
Author Dave Cullen on what the media gets wrong after mass-shootings
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Jun 04, 2019 |
How to travel lighter, safer, and smarter (featuring Sarah von Bargen)
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May 22, 2019 |
How to travel with no luggage at all (and what this teaches you)
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May 21, 2019 |
5 ways indie travel has changed (and stayed the same) since 1999
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May 09, 2019 |
How philosophy can (truly) improve your life, featuring Monica McCarthy
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May 08, 2019 |
Ari Shaffir unpacks Rolf’s experience of doing psychedelics for the first time
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May 07, 2019 |
Deviate Season One finale with Ari Shaffir
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Nov 13, 2018 |
An outsider’s inside history of the Beat Generation, as told by Charles Plymell
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Nov 06, 2018 |
Author Pam Houston on the joys of creating home amid a lifetime of travel
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Oct 16, 2018 |
Andrew McCarthy on storytelling, celebrity, and how travel changed his life
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Oct 09, 2018 |
Major Jackson on the poetics of time (and how best, in life, to spend it)
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Oct 02, 2018 |
White Zombie guitarist J. Yuenger on music, expat life, and long-term travel
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Sep 25, 2018 |
Traveling Russia onboard the Trans-Siberian express: A 2018 case study
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Sep 19, 2018 |
The great railway bizarre: A Trans-Siberian story (plus audio endnotes)
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Sep 18, 2018 |
Writer-producer LaToya Morgan on TV storytelling and creative self-discipline
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Sep 11, 2018 |
Punk icon Ian MacKaye on why we should question the official history of rock music
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Sep 04, 2018 |
How to survive a natural disaster (and recover when it’s over)
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Aug 21, 2018 |
Wesley Morris on podcast-fame, sports, and performing blackness in America
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Aug 14, 2018 |
Satanic backward masking changed 1980s rock (but not in the way you think)
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Aug 07, 2018 |
Celebrating the best places to live (and the quest for home) in America
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Jul 17, 2018 |
On American Highways II: A brief history of the Negro Motorist Green Book
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Jul 11, 2018 |
On American Highways I: A brief history of family road-trips in the USA
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Jul 10, 2018 |
How to break up with your smartphone (and rediscover your real-world life)
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Jul 03, 2018 |
Classic rock is not dead. Classic rock is undead. Long live classic rock.
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Jun 26, 2018 |
Remembering Bourdain, and what we talk about when we talk about travel writing
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Jun 19, 2018 |
Why 1980s coming-of-age movies matter
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Jun 12, 2018 |
How to talk to someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one
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Jun 05, 2018 |
Paul Theroux on the art of listening, and the necessary obstacles of deep travel
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May 29, 2018 |
The way we grow food has been broken for 10,000 years (but we can fix it)
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May 22, 2018 |
Kevin Kelly on the lost world of 1970s Asia (and why you should travel now)
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May 15, 2018 |
Kink Doctor Dulcinea Pitagora on sex therapy, BDSM, and dominatrix work
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May 08, 2018 |
Sarah von Bargen is here to help you correct your bad self-help habits
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May 01, 2018 |
The way we teach and learn has been broken for 300 years (but we can fix it)
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Apr 24, 2018 |
How we die in America (and why it’s important to talk about it)
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Apr 17, 2018 |
Deviate Live in New York City: Travel Stories and Souvenirs
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Apr 10, 2018 |
How romance novels reveal the secret history of life in America
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Apr 03, 2018 |
Ari Shaffir on travel, memory, and the odd psychology of souvenirs
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Mar 27, 2018 |
Unsane writer James Greer on the death of Cobain and birth of Gen X
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Mar 20, 2018 |
The Epic One-Against-Five Foul-Out Basketball Game of 1964
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Mar 13, 2018 |
Adventure writer Tim Cahill on fear, and what it’s like to be dead for ten minutes
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Mar 06, 2018 |
Filmmaker Rod Pocowatchit on Native American zombie movies and DIY film
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Feb 27, 2018 |
Baseball writer Rany Jazayerli on fandom, and growing up Muslim in America
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Feb 20, 2018 |
Sophfronia Scott on God, mid-life career change, and defining a generation
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Feb 13, 2018 |
The weird and complicated history of America’s national anthem
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Feb 06, 2018 |
What it’s like to be a Latino police officer in America
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Jan 30, 2018 |
What it’s like to be a black police officer in America
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Jan 30, 2018 |
A Shadow History of Rock Music in the 1980s
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Jan 23, 2018 |
Novelist Tod Goldberg on murder, and why sports is so emotionally affecting
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Jan 16, 2018 |
Sharknado producer David Latt on how the B-movie sausage gets made
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Jan 09, 2018 |
Novelist Cynthia Sweeney on getting your big creative break at mid-life
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Jan 02, 2018 |
Bookslut Jessa Crispin on Keanu Reeves and the joys of celebrity fixation
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Dec 26, 2017 |
The Sears Christmas Wish Book was (truly) great American literature
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Dec 19, 2017 |
Comedian Ari Shaffir on ‘shrooms, hugging, and quitting smartphones
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Dec 12, 2017 |
Disaster Artist writer Tom Bissell on bogus authenticity and violence in art
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Dec 05, 2017 |
Everest mountaineer Alison Levine on introversion and finding mentors
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Nov 28, 2017 |
Hollywood composer Rolfe Kent on the joys of throwing out quality work
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Nov 20, 2017 |
TV host Ernest White II on black/white, gay/straight male friendships
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Nov 20, 2017 |
Bestselling author Tim Ferriss on how to create a successful podcast
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Nov 20, 2017 |