Deviate

Rolf Potts veers off-topic in this unique series of conversations with experts, public figures, and intriguing people.

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June 11, 2024 00:53:42
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Wonder Year: The Art of Long-Term Family Travel and Worldschooling

“The parent’s job as teacher on the road is to just create surface area between your kid and yourself and the world.”  –Julie Frieder...

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May 14, 2024 01:19:36
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How Rolf Ruined the 1990s: A personal history of my grunge-bandwagon band

“Look at any photo from a moment of supposed zeitgeist in American history, and it will be clear that not everyone in that moment...

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April 16, 2024 01:09:30
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Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand

“Something about the motion of walking is conducive to generating both ideas and conversation. You can empty your mind and open your mind at...

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March 12, 2024 00:58:23
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Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy

“We 'massage' the truth to make it fit the narrative we need it to fit in our lives.”  –Andrew McCarthy In this episode of ...

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February 13, 2024 00:57:12
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What it's like to spend a full year traveling within a day's radius of your home

“Unless we explore our neighborhood, we can’t imagine what might be right under our noses, nor be able to celebrate it, mourn its demise,...

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February 04, 2024 01:24:47
Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix)

Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix)

“I hate the Kansas City Chiefs with a passion reserved only for things that I love.” —Tod Goldberg In this episode of Deviate, Rolf...

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