#298: Vagabonder (@RolfPotts)

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Ari Shaffir

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🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 279 minutes

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Summary

Rolf Potts met me in Tompkins Square Park to talk to me about travel. Rolf wrote one of my favorite books of all time called Vagabonding. It's all about long term travel. It influenced the hell out of me. And I was so stoked to be able to talk about getting out there in the world with such a well worn traveler like him.

Also, my special "Double Negative" is on Netflix right now! Go watch it!

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0:00.0	If you only are judging your trip by fulfilling your expectations, then that becomes the standard for...
0:06.0	Anyone talk to your expectations?
0:08.0	What works in your travels?
0:10.0	That basically you have won the title of Best Consumer.
0:13.0	That you've made a plan, the plan has delivered, you get the gold star and you get to go home.
0:18.0	Whereas if you're bleeding outside of your plan, then suddenly you're getting the gift of what you had never dreamt was out there to begin with, right?
0:26.0	Yeah.
0:27.0	And then also...
0:28.0	You have no idea.
0:29.0	And you're fucking up and it's like, is this the only toilet in the village?
0:32.0	And then suddenly you're thinking about things.
0:35.0	You're not just fulfilling consumer expectations.
0:38.0	You're trying to figure out if you can actually take a shit.
0:41.0	Bend your six foot three frame over this hole in the floor.
0:44.0	And then suddenly it's more interesting in many ways.
0:48.0	I'm a traveling man, made a lot of stops all over the world.
0:55.0	And in every corner I own the heart of at least one lovely girl.
1:03.0	I have a pretty scenery waiting for me.
1:08.0	Down in old Mexico...
1:10.0	Okay, picture this.
1:12.0	I'm on an island.
1:14.0	I'm on an island in Cambodia.
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