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Listen now: Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala

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TED

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

You don’t need to travel to feel thrilled about a new place; if the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the ideas, cultures, and charm of our world can reach us wherever we are. This season on Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala, we journey across the globe to bring you incredible, unique and imaginative stories— from the unbelievable suspended bridges that connect Nepal, to hidden underground tapes that capture the culture of Somalia, to a museum that stores and exhibits… wind!? Get to know new amazing places and the ideas that flow from them–and pick up that awe-inspired, travel-bug-feeling with just your headphones.

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0:00.0

Woo! What is happening in my mouth? My tongue is fizzing. It feels like pop rocks

0:05.4

and lemonade, and now it's salty, and now it feels like I'm eating meat.

0:08.9

Now I'm tasting cheese. I have no idea what's going on about golf.

0:11.9

I'm Salim Rushimwala, and coming in June are 10 new episodes of Fire Flung.

0:18.4

Over the past few years, not many of us have been able to really travel and explore.

0:24.9

One of the things that starts to happen is you can lose touch with that weird

0:29.6

but wonderful feeling of being changed by new people and cultures.

0:35.1

On Fire Flung, we recapture some of that vibe. This season, we collaborate with local producers

0:41.2

in 10 more locations around the world to understand ideas that flow from those places.

0:47.6

You'll journey to very tiny suspension bridges, 400 feet up in the air,

0:53.2

uniting people living in the mountains of Nepal.

0:56.4

It's one thing to see it in papers read about it, see videos, but it's completely different

1:01.2

thing to do that. It just goes on and on and on and on and it becomes like smaller and smaller and

1:06.8

almost disappears in the horizon other side. You'll hear tapes of Somali music that were hidden

1:12.0

away, buried underground for years in an attempt to make sure that they are never forgotten.

1:18.9

Meet journalists who have taken to city buses to deliver the news behind a cardboard cut out

1:28.4

of a television set. And learn about how Iceland is struggling to strike a balance between

1:36.7

keeping its language alive while still staying actively engaged with our constantly changing

1:43.3

global culture. Sometimes it just comes out of pickable air because I'm thinking in one

1:48.1

language and speaking in another. It gets kind of confusing sometimes.

1:51.6

Come with us and see what the world is dreaming up as we all try to get that feeling of

1:56.0

traveling and getting hit by a new idea at the same time. That's all part of a new season of

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