Travel burnout is a real thing (and it’s OK to feel it sometimes), with Matt Kepnes
“The truth is that our travel anticipations, and our memories, have a way of holding only the most striking parts of an experience—the parts that don’...
Deviate with Rolf Potts
Share:
Listens: 1
About
Rolf Potts veers off-topic in this unique series of conversations with experts, public figures, and intriguing people.
The Mystical High Church of Luck: Decoding Las Vegas (with Ari Shaffir)
“Things don’t happen in Las Vegas. Things are happened in Las Vegas. All actions in the town are so meticulously predicted and orchestrated that spont...
How travelers create quests and find community (online book club remix)
“Nothing against bucket lists, but sometimes that interest that makes you weird and nerdy at home is going to make you vulnerable to all the weird ner...
Art introduces us to places before we go there (live from the Faroe Islands)
“You hear how there's many words for snow in native cultures in Canada; there are actually over 20 words for 'fog' in the Faroe Islands.” –Matthew La...
Travel can be a way to see the future (and experience the past), with Kevin Kelly
“"I wasn't partying. I wasn't relaxing on the beach. I was photographing – working – every minute of the day. That was a means to see as much as I pos...
The best age to travel is whatever age you are now (an online book club remix)
"Success is often about finding just enough material wealth to fund the life that makes you happy." —Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and T...
Seek out global connections while you’re still at home (with Kristin Van Tassel)
“Travel has become a way to remind myself how it feels to get lost, and then get unlost. It is a way to remember the discomfort of uncertainty and the...
A Native American football team beat the 1927 NFL Giants: The story of John Levi
"Running back John Levi is about as easy to stop as a 200-pound eel. With his speed, and his shifting, sidestepping style of running, tacklers slide o...
Why you go someplace is less important than just going (with Tony Perrottet)
“For ancient Roman tourists, the whole point of travel was to go where everyone else was going. Sightseeing was a form of pilgrimage.” –Tony Perrottet...
Integrating love of travel & love of home (with philosopher Chloe Cooper Jones)
“A willingness to fail is an important part of difficult beauty. Because difficult beauty will arrive first not as beauty at all.” –Chloe Cooper Jones...