Money Travels: Does Travel Really Broaden the Mind?

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of Slate Money Travels, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss whether traveling can really “broaden your mind.” They dig into the distinction between ‘traveling’ and actually living somewhere; why you need to do more than tick places to see off a list to really have an experience; and how you can travel within the US and still have a mind-bending experience. Plus, Emily builds an army of Straw Men and somehow Elizabeth and Felix agree on something? Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.8	Hello and welcome to Slate Money Travel.
0:40.8	I am Felix Salmon.
0:42.3	I am here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:44.9	Hello, hello.
0:45.7	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times.
0:49.2	Hello.
0:50.1	This week we are going to debate the proposition, travel broadens the mind.
0:57.9	I have heard this since I was a wee berne, as they would say, in Scotland.
1:03.8	But I don't know if it's true or not.
1:06.4	And I'm going to take a quick sort of vote at the beginning here.
1:11.7	Emily, yes, no.
1:14.0	Elizabeth, yes, no.
1:15.9	It depends person.
1:18.0	So I would say broadly yes.
1:24.1	Broadly, yes.
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