150 David Sedaris: An American in Paris and Tokyo

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🗓️ 21 September 2008

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Humorist and frequent traveler David Sedaris tells us how he's settled in as a 50-something ex-pat in Europe on the next Travel with Rick Steves. And he shares a few surprises about what he found in Japan - where he went to learn to quit smoking. David helps us tackle the gender of French nouns - sort of - and compares notes with Rick on the most irritating things about tourists in Paris, staying in hotels, and a dirty little secret about some flight attendants. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	America first got hooked on David Sideris in his distinctive voice narrating his American life
0:06.0	when NPR first broadcast The Santaland Diaries back in 1992. Since then, Sideris has become a best-selling essayist with a trademark wicked sense of humor.
0:17.0	Even though he's crossed the 50-year mark now, David's razor wit is as sharp as ever.
0:22.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:23.0	Today on travel with Rick Steeves,
0:25.0	we're getting acquainted with the real David Sedaris,
0:28.0	a real traveler at heart who spends most of his time living in Paris,
0:31.0	Normandy, and London.
0:33.5	David will tell us how he quit smoking by spending a few months in Japan of all places.
0:38.4	I like all the things you don't know when you live in another country.
0:41.8	You watch the other people and do what they do and
0:44.7	it makes you more observant.
0:47.2	And he'll offer us some fresh observations about all those quirky little things that
0:50.5	carbonate travel and everyday life.
0:53.8	It's a close up look into the world of David Sedaris,
0:56.2	coming right up on Travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:14.0	He has a rhinac for describing the eccentricities of everyday life
1:18.0	and looking at the mundane through a personal lens that feels more familiar than you might like to admit.
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