#277: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost (@HenryRollins)

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🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Summary

Henry Rollins met me in a hotel cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland to talk about travel. Henry goes all over the globe. He really likes to get off the beaten path and explore new places. I thought I liked seeing things, but Rollins takes it to a whole new level. He goes places I've never even heard of, met people I didn't know existed, done things I'd be too scared to do. It was such a fun conversation and it filled me with wanderlust.

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0:00.0	And so what I learned about Central Asia is,
0:04.0	it's hard to even about Central Asia, it's about the human race.
0:07.0	And so that's why I traveled to these places, like, and come back with a story
0:11.0	that sounds like some prismatic, weird, non-sequitor,
0:15.0	some ricochet off where I've been.
0:18.0	Like, what did India teach me?
0:20.0	The times I've been there, the humanity's beautiful, even when it's
0:25.0	dipped in its own fecal matter.
0:28.0	When you see a body on a funeral pyre on fire, you watch it for like an hour,
0:32.0	so watch some old dude burn, which I've done a few times.
0:36.0	You just go, well, it's just life, it's just death, nothing to trip on.
0:40.0	Because the family's watching Grandpa burn, they're not crying, they're not tripping.
0:43.0	They'll see him later, you know?
0:45.0	They'll see him in another life.
0:47.0	They're not even sweating it.
0:49.0	As a Western, you're like, that guys are fire, damn!
0:52.0	They're looking at you like a tourist.
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	They don't care.
0:56.0	Life, and this is the wisdom of travel.
1:00.0	Because you can't get this from a documentary, because you can't smell it.
1:04.0	You can't get it from a book, because you're not walking over it.
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