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The Trip

Join Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh for a weekly 15 minutes travel story. Season 1 archives include long boozy global interviews and Bourdain-led deep dives. Always, though, beats hav... Read more

Ranked #1

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Episode 38: Africa, Fashion, Philadelphia

Episode 38: Africa, Fashion, Philadelphia

For the next two weeks, this show will be in Philadelphia, to give a taste of this fine American city.Over the past few ... Read more

13 May 2019

46mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 27: Japanese Love Hotels with Toko Sekiguchi

Episode 27: Japanese Love Hotels with Toko Sekiguchi

This podcast episode should have porn, right?” It’s an odd but necessary question to put to my old friend and former TIM... Read more

18 Feb 2019

46mins

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Ranked #3

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Episode 37: Growing Up in the Camps

Episode 37: Growing Up in the Camps

If you want to know the best thing about Gardena, in south central Los Angeles, I’ll tell you. I think it’s Diana’s, a M... Read more

6 May 2019

1hr 22mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 18: Japanese Energy Drinks with W. Kamau Bell

Episode 18: Japanese Energy Drinks with W. Kamau Bell

This year's Emmy Awards were a big night for the people who worked with Anthony Bourdain, with Emmys going to Roads &amp... Read more

17 Dec 2018

1hr 2mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 31: Francis Lam is on a Bleisure Trip to Thailand

Episode 31: Francis Lam is on a Bleisure Trip to Thailand

The morning after a wedding—any big party—is usually a little groggy. It’s not necessarily unpleasant, especially if it’... Read more

18 Mar 2019

43mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 28: Tokyo Fixing with Shinji Nohara

Episode 28: Tokyo Fixing with Shinji Nohara

Shinji Nohara has been making good things happen for visitors to Tokyo for almost two decades—ever since a lanky camera-... Read more

25 Feb 2019

41mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 64: Surviving the 60s Scoop

Episode 64: Surviving the 60s Scoop

In the center of Cabot Square in downtown Montreal, there is a high column topped with a statue of the spice trader John... Read more

20 Nov 2019

1hr 9mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 19: Punking the Paiche with Michael Snyder

Episode 19: Punking the Paiche with Michael Snyder

Journalist Michael Snyder writes about food, conflict, the environment, and fishing. That slurry of interests brought hi... Read more

24 Dec 2018

36mins

Ranked #9

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Episode 25: What Jason Rezaian Learned as a Prisoner in Iran

Episode 25: What Jason Rezaian Learned as a Prisoner in Iran

Iranian-American Jason Rezaian, native of Marin County, was just trying to report on the daily lives and hopes of the pe... Read more

4 Feb 2019

41mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 17: Tacos in Viking Country with Rosio Sanchez

Episode 17: Tacos in Viking Country with Rosio Sanchez

One of the great shortcomings of northern Europe—an otherwise pleasant place with soft sunsets and universal healthcare—... Read more

10 Dec 2018

34mins

Ranked #11

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Episode 16: San Francisco Happy Hour with Dan the Automator

Episode 16: San Francisco Happy Hour with Dan the Automator

Dan "the Automator" Nakamura is one of the great music producers of our time. Someone who, like Brian Eno or Phil Specto... Read more

3 Dec 2018

34mins

Ranked #12

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Episode 26: Yasmin Khan Cooks Her Way through Palestine

Episode 26: Yasmin Khan Cooks Her Way through Palestine

Chef, author and former human rights campaigner Yasmin Khan seems to have a mission statement very like our own at Roads... Read more

11 Feb 2019

57mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 55: Wanuri Kahiu

Episode 55: Wanuri Kahiu

Ah, chatting about the weather. A bit of timeworn small-talk, favored by fumbly podcast hosts everywhere. But that pleas... Read more

9 Sep 2019

1hr 5mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 20: Matt Orlando's Restaurant of the Future

Episode 20: Matt Orlando's Restaurant of the Future

Matt Orlando has worked at some of the great restaurants on this planet. Per Se in New York; The Fat Duck in the UK; Nom... Read more

31 Dec 2018

29mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 22: Jennifer Ching is Dismantling the System

Episode 22: Jennifer Ching is Dismantling the System

One of host Nathan Thornburgh’s New Year’s resolutions is to stop just stepping past all the human misery in New York Ci... Read more

14 Jan 2019

33mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 36: California+Kris = Night+Market

Episode 36: California+Kris = Night+Market

The last time I had seen Kris Yenbamroong, he and his partner Sarah St Lifer were giving me a ride into downtown Chiang ... Read more

29 Apr 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #17

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Episode 30: Naomi Duguid on the Charms of Chiang Mai

Episode 30: Naomi Duguid on the Charms of Chiang Mai

The Trip host Nathan Thornburgh would not be the first person to admit to falling deeply, darkly in love with the market... Read more

11 Mar 2019

27mins

Ranked #18

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Episode 35: Carolina Miranda in her East LA Eden

Episode 35: Carolina Miranda in her East LA Eden

 Los Angeles is a place that is too big, too deep, spread too thin under the marine layer and above the concrete culvert... Read more

23 Apr 2019

52mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 34: Dr. Howard Conyers is Reclaiming BBQ for Black Pitmasters

Episode 34: Dr. Howard Conyers is Reclaiming BBQ for Black Pitmasters

We are in mid-city New Orleans with Dr. Howard Conyers, host of the PBS show Nourish, a rocket scientist by day and whol... Read more

8 Apr 2019

46mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 33: Pepper Bowen is Laying Down the Food Law in New Orleans

Episode 33: Pepper Bowen is Laying Down the Food Law in New Orleans

New Orleans is so old, so fine, so big in the culture, and so vast in its disappointments and its triumphs, that it feel... Read more

1 Apr 2019

45mins

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