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This is Love

The World According to Rick Steves

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Never check a bag, always bring a journal, and consider duct tape: a conversation with Rick Steves. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get to listen to This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery without any ads. Plus, you’ll get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Taylor Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, has only been out a week, and the discourse could not be more divided.

0:06.4

Some critics are calling it fake and cringe, others are giving it five stars, but almost everyone assumes its autobiography.

0:14.6

What if they're all wrong? What if every Easter egg, every lyric is just part of the performance?

0:20.5

I'm Charlie Harding from Switched on Pop. Join us as we listen closely to reveal how to the Every Easter egg, every lyric is just part of the performance.

0:22.5

I'm Charlie Harding from Switched on Pop.

0:28.3

Join us as we listen closely to reveal how the life of a showgirl is in confession, it's craft.

0:31.3

Hear it on Switched on Pop, wherever you get podcasts.

0:40.4

What do you think is better to sit on an airplane in the aisle or the window?

0:43.2

Used to be the window, but now it's the aisle.

0:46.4

I go to the bathroom more often.

0:48.8

This is Rick Steves.

0:52.8

He's been called America's most beloved travel guide.

0:56.0

He's been doing it for more than 40 years. How many countries have you been to in your life?

0:59.0

I've never counted. I don't like it when people say I've been to 75 countries.

1:03.0

That has no bearing on what they learned from that experience.

1:06.0

They could have been to 75 airports.

1:09.0

I don't have a bucket list.

1:11.6

What's one sign that a restaurant is for locals versus tourists?

1:18.6

If it's a low-rent place with a handwritten menu in one language that is small, and if it has a boister's crown you can bet it's a good value the

1:31.8

menu handwritten because it's shaped by whatever's fresh in the market this week one language

1:37.2

the local language because they're targeting a local clientele tourists are welcome but they're all

1:41.6

about keeping locals happy and you can stand at the door and feel

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