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

Season 4 Episode 160

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

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An iconic 1980s underdog story
An iconic 1980s underdog story

Season 4 Episode 159

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

5 years ago

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

Season 4 Episode 159

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

5 years ago

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Remembering baseball's Negro Leagues
Remembering baseball's Negro Leagues

Season 4 Episode 158

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

5 years ago

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

Season 4 Episode 158

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

5 years ago

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Philosophy and travel
Philosophy and travel

Season 4 Episode 157

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

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5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

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Travel and home (with Pam Houston)
Travel and home (with Pam Houston)

Season 4 Episode 156

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

In this episode of Deviate, Pam discusses her interactions wi…

5 years, 1 month ago

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

Season 4 Episode 156

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

In this episode of Deviate, Pam discusses her interactions wi…

5 years, 1 month ago

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Long-haul hiking (at home)
Long-haul hiking (at home)

Season 4 Episode 155

“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 a 20-mile hike out of our back door?’”…

5 years, 1 month ago

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