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Pandemic love, cheating death, & cassette tapes: A personal history of nostalgia
“Nostalgia isn’t rational, and just like Warrant’s 1990 song “Cherry Pie” reminds me of 1989 more than the recorded sound of my own voice...
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A folk history of Satanic Panic, backmasking, and rock music in the 1980s
“There are the actual facts of what was happening in popular culture in the 1980s — and then there was this tantalizing notion that...
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What it’s like to travel 37 countries (and counting) in a wheelchair
“Face the fear, and go for it.” – Cory Lee In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Cory discuss what challenges disabled travelers contend...
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20 lessons learned from 20 years as a travel writer: A TravelCon keynote
“Embrace your travel mistakes. You can’t ‘fail’ at travel; you can only learn from travel.” –Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate, which excerpts...
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Sex, travel, and the art of being a better bad tourist (with Suzanne Roberts)
“Sometimes we do things for ourselves in the name of adventure, without thinking about how this affects other people.” – Suzanne Roberts In this...
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Drunk in China: A vicarious Middle Kingdom adventure via its favorite booze
“There is this arrogant assumption that the things we don’t know or understand must be bad, because if they were good, we would already...