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April 20, 2021 • 00:50:39

Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of immersive slow travel [encore]

“All writing is trying to destroy a stereotype, and the individual that you’re writing about — the figure in the landscape — is actually...

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April 07, 2021 • 00:32:36

Triumph in the middle of nowhere: The most 1980s underdog story of the 1980s

“If you put Harrison Ford, Sting, and Andy Chapman in a room together in Kansas in 1981, the girls of Kansas would have trampled...

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April 01, 2021 • 00:42:15

On the road with the superstars of Negro League baseball, 100 years on

“Baseball history needs to be looked at again. The statistics don’t make sense unless you understand the story that went behind those numbers.” –...

March 23, 2021 • 00:51:31

Notes on the philosophy (and deeper meaning) of travel, with Emily Thomas

“Asking questions about travel, and exploring ways philosophy has changed travel, can help us think more deeply about our journeys.” – Emily Thomas In...

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March 09, 2021 • 00:47:56

Pam Houston on home, and the beauty of our pared-down lives [encore]

“How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us.” – Pam Houston In this episode of ...

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February 23, 2021 • 01:19:25

Long-distance hiking at home: The art of journeying out of your own back door

“In COVID times it’s harder to get on a plane and go hiking in, say, Austria or Italy. So we said, ‘why not do...