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Rolf Potts

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

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  1. Sense of place in cinema: Las Vegas Never Plays Itself, with Tod Goldberg 59:22
  2. Travel memoir lab: How your journeys can inspire fictional adventure stories 47:39
  3. Best of Travel: Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of meaningful journeys 51:41
  4. The geography of sports movies (with Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb) 58:13
  5. Designing a creative life on your own terms (with Cedar Van Tassel) 53:48
  6. What movies (do and don't) show us about places before we travel there 42:02
  7. Exploring the idiosyncrasies of male friendship, with Andrew McCarthy 51:24
  8. Debunking the mythology of BEFORE SUNRISE, with co-writer Kim Krizan (in Paris) 37:52
  9. Super Bowl special: Why football kind of matters, with Chuck Klosterman (kind of) 45:51
  10. Time is your truest form of wealth (and travel helps you embrace your riches) 57:54
  11. Kansas Never Plays Itself: How movies lie when they take us places 1:14:11
  12. Traveling as a writer, and awkward book-tour experiences, with Anthony Doerr (from 2012) 41:43
  13. Talking with my parents about how to handle it when your parents die (in memory of Alice Potts, 1943-2025) 49:25
  14. An audiobook about how (not) to write a travel book: 9 lessons from my failed van-life memoir 1:11:41
  15. Vagabonding pioneer Ed Buryn on what indie travel was like in the 1960s and 1970s (encore) 52:36
  16. Why We Travel: Happiness, curiosity, wonder, sex, healing, and other motivations for hitting the road 54:47
  17. Before Sunrise (redo): Screenwriter Kim Krizan on what led up to the classic travel-romance movie 57:33
  18. Before Sunrise: Screenwriter Kim Krizan on what led up to the classic 1995 travel-romance movie 57:21
  19. Mars on Earth: The world's driest desert, and what travelers might find when they go there 49:22
  20. Why a chapter about "slum tourism" was edited out of The Vagabond's Way (with Chloe Cooper Jones) 56:25
  21. Long-term travel 101: Matt Kepnes on how to slow down and save money on an extended global journey 28:29
  22. Travel memoir lab: On blending travel narrative with a broader memoiristic life-narrative 37:07
  23. How a journey on the Hippie Trail changed Rick Steves' life (and influenced Rolf's travels too) 44:26
  24. A travel writers' Super Bowl special: Pico Iyer and Rolf discuss NFL football from the global perspective 38:55
  25. Pico Iyer on how solitude, stillness, and silence play an essential counterbalance to the traveling life 55:24
  26. Life changing travel experiences: Memories of traveling to Syria, 25 years on (with Ari Shaffir) 1:23:01
  27. Travel memoir lab: How to fast-track your travel book by working with a hybrid publisher 1:01:36
  28. HoneyTrek: A case study in making a full-time living as travel influencers and content creators 43:18
  29. Live from Bali: How tourists, influencers, and nomads transform destinations (for good and for bad) 38:59
  30. Vagabonding audio companion: Obnoxious travelers (and how to avoid being one) 45:40
  31. What you discover when you walk down every single street in New York City (encore) 1:30:57
  32. A history and future of digital and biological technology, with Jane Metcalfe 59:27
  33. Bicycling across the USA (with no money or food) looking for human connection 50:01
  34. Wonder Year: The Art of Long-Term Family Travel and Worldschooling 53:42
  35. How Rolf Ruined the 1990s: A personal history of my grunge-bandwagon band 1:19:36
  36. Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand 1:09:30
  37. Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy 58:23
  38. What it's like to spend a full year traveling within a day's radius of your home 57:12
  39. Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix) 1:24:47
  40. Tim Ferriss and Rolf discuss travel, time wealth, and “success management” 2:08:27
  41. The best journeys explore mindscapes as well as landscapes (book club remix) 41:56
  42. Going abroad for love, and travel writing that says something new about a place 35:40
  43. Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club redo) 27:56
  44. Travel memoir lab: Truth, luck, & multi-genre storytelling (with Tom Bissell) 58:13
  45. Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club remix) 27:05
  46. Vagabonding audio companion: A life in (and philosophy of) long-term travel 39:32
  47. A train isn’t just a vehicle; it’s a place (a remix encore, with Monisha Rajesh) 58:46
  48. Travelers experience more when they slow down and ask lots of questions 36:05
  49. “Dare to do Dirt”: Seeking rural places (and how to best experience them) 40:37
  50. Vagabonding audio companion: Why (and how) travel souvenirs matter 45:02