The Trip: Drinking with Exceptional People Around the World

The Trip is a podcast from Roads & Kingdoms, an online journal of travel, food, and politics. Started with Anthony Bourdain and foreign correspondent Nathan Thornburgh, now hosted by Nathan, each episode breaks the seal on a bottle somewhere in the world, from Havana to the Himalayas, to talk about everything from jungle hallucinogens to Andalusian cave cooking. New episodes drop each Monday. Illustrations by Daisy Dee. Beats by Dan the Automator. Artwork by Edel Rodriguez.

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Episode 107: Havana: Eme Alfonso December 29, 2020

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Episode 106: Havana: Nancy Cepero December 14, 2020

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Episode 105: Havana: Mónica Baró November 30, 2020

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Episode 104: Havana: Ailed Duarte November 16, 2020

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Episode 103: Havana: Telmary November 3, 2020

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Episode 102: Berlin: Anton Newcombe October 19, 2020

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Episode 101: Berlin: Simon Shuster October 5, 2020

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Episode 100: Berlin: Jennifer Neal September 21, 2020

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Episode 99: Berlin: Billy Wagner September 7, 2020

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Episode 98: Berlin: Musa Okwanga August 24, 2020

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Episode 97: Queens August 11, 2020

Three would-be guides to life in Queens:writers Laurie Woolever and Tiffany Langston, along with Astoria souvlaki legend Elpida Vasiliadis.

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Episode 96: Remembering Kim Wall July 27, 2020

Talking about how the gifted journalist lived, with journalists Caterina Clerici, Christina Ayele Djossa, and Ingrid Wall

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Episode 95: A New Album in Madrid and Other Good News July 13, 2020

Guests: Como Vivir en el Campo is a Madrid-based rock trio, and their drummer is Carlos Barros. He talked about the process of making the album, and about how they were aided by the great global collective subconscious. Also, a conversation with American artist Aaron Firestein in Bogotá about what the U.S. can learn from Colombia.

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Episode 94: Bali, Three Ways June 16, 2020

Guests: Bali, Indonesia, through the perspectives of a traveler (Travis Levius), an eater (Duwi Satrio), and a legendary pastry chef (Will Goldfarb).

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Episode 93: The American Diaspora June 9, 2020

Guests: Talking with three American women, writers all—Michelle Borok, Sarah Souli, and Ruth Terry—about what it’s like to be Korean-American in Mongolia, Arab-American in Athens, and Black American in Istanbul, watching all this nonsense from afar

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Episode 92: The African-American View, from Taiwan June 1, 2020

Guests: Reggie Robinson, a African-American native of Dallas who is a middle-school history and English teacher and a longtime resident of Korea and now Taiwan

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Episode 91: A Very Simple Pleasure May 26, 2020

Guests: Ioanna Morelli in Hokkaido, Japan, Alexa van Sickle in Vienna, Claudio Silva in Luanda, Angola

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Episode 90: In Defense of Wet Markets May 18, 2020

Guests: Ro Vasquez of Eat Like a Local in Mexico City, journalist Austin Bush in Bangkok, Paul Rimple of Culinary Backstreets in Tbilisi, and Auburn University food historian Xaq Frohlich

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Episode 89: Covid Vibe Vacuum May 11, 2020

Guests: Author Joshna Maharaj in Ontario, Writer/chef Tunde Wey in New Orleans, restaurateur Nud Dudhia in Oslo

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Episode 88: Plan B, or Maybe C May 4, 2020

Guests: Writer Drew Magary in Maryland, author Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan in Singapore, photo editor Pauline Eiferman in Paris

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Episode 87: A Death in Harlem April 27, 2020

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Episode 86: Rest Easy, Shokunin April 20, 2020

Guests: Journalist April Zhu, on the phone from Nairobi, talking about her feelings during this uneasy moment in Africa-China relations. Brian Ashcraft, an author and editor at Kotaku, who has lived in Osaka for almost twenty years, on the surreal pain of losing his father in Texas while he is stuck in Japan. Jason Rezaian on little lessons for quarantine that he picked up in solitary confinement as a political prisoner in Iran.

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Episode 85: The World in Lockdown April 13, 2020

Berlin-based author Musa Okwonga on what he’s going to wear to dazzle Berlin the day the curfew breaks. Saba Imtiaz calls in from Karachi in part to tell the story of a pigeon who became too bold in the empty streets. Alexis Meyners in Madrid on about falling in love with her neighbors during their long and harsh confinement, and chef Magnus Nilsson of Fäviken restaurant talks about disease and rebirth in his apple orchard in southern Sweden.

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Episode 84: The Writer’s Life in Barcelona April 9, 2020