Deviate With Rolf Potts

Lifestyle coach Tara Quinn on how to take time off from work to travel.

Comedian Ari Shaffir and Rolf have an open-ended talk on joys and idiosyncrasies of independent travel.

Rolf and novelist Aaron Hamburger talk about Nirvana, and how music can frame experience and memory

Rolf and Tod Goldberg unpack their youthful fixation with the band Jane's Addiction

Life changing travel experiences: A journey in Asia with my mom and dad

Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara fact-checks the dinosaur book Rolf wrote at age 7.

Matt Green walked across America, then walked down every street in NYC. This is his story.

A personal history of sports fandom (and watching the Super Bowl in distant countries)

Sgt. John Monk was an army veteran whose heroism spanned decades. This is his story.

On confronting discontent, travel as education, and how to write a Big Idea book

Author Rachel Friedman on non-linear career arcs

"Brief History of Indonesia" author Tim Hannigan on traveling the archipelago

A look at Noah Baumbach's cinematic debut, 25 years on

Rolf and Tod Goldberg recall the joys of the old Sears holiday catalog

Author Jeffrey Tayler on the consolations of Dante and Ecclesiastes

Author and therapist Hala Alyan on fine-tuning how we talk about our lives

"Here Lies America" author Jason Cochran on how history gets spun at tourist attractions

How to seek useful life-advice (and write a Big Idea book about it)

Why travel media shies away from certain kinds of fun people have on the road

How inexpensive countries are the secret to prolonging the journey