Vagabonding in Paris, France w/ Rolf Potts | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 182 minutes

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Follow Rolf on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/rolfpotts/ Don't forget to vote for your favorite Trippy nominees below!! https://forms.gle/g5VrsDRu5D5WwNii8 On this episode of You Be Trippin', Ari Shaffir meets up with travel legend Rolf Potts in Paris to take his writing class and wander the city. They roam to the Louvre, the Luxembourg Gardens, and even stumble into some spontaneous dancing. Along the way, Rolf breaks down his travel philosophies from The Vagabond’s Way: why wandering beats any rigid itinerary, and how picking a simple travel hobby (like hunting for record stores or chasing down the perfect fridge magnet) can turn any trip into an adventure. They dig into escaping the rat race, embracing freedom on the road, and letting curiosity guide your days instead of your calendar. Now get lost! You Be Trippin' Ep. 99 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Introducing Rolf Potts! 00:42:34 - Architecture & Language 01:03:08 - Food, Culture & Spontaneous Dancing 01:34:29 - Travel Rituals 01:54:08 - Creation of The Vagabond's Way 02:30:54 - Phone Addiction 02:42:53 - Get Out of the Rat Race 02:55:28 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where you've been and where you're going.
0:04.6	This is our East Travel Show, yeah.
0:07.4	We're going to talk about travel today.
0:10.0	It's you'll be tripping, yeah.
0:15.2	Hello, everybody.
0:16.2	Welcome, Rolf Potts back on the podcast.
0:18.9	Thanks for, I don't know, inviting me. This is our first post-pandemic conversation. Yeah. No, we had a remote conversation about Israel. That's right. That's been our only non-in-person conversation. That's right. I was thinking about that too. That was for your podcast? That was for my podcast. What's it called? Deviate with Rolls Pots.
0:37.6	Which I've been on twice.
0:38.9	Yeah. More than twice. Really? Yeah. I need to go back and listen to the one we did on souvenirs because I have this bag of rocks that I have to like mark and put in something and I've lost the memory of where they, where they've lost the memory of all my rocks. Yeah.
1:01.1	That one about travel has made me think about the root-to-do-whatever in Israel.
1:02.6	Oh, right.
1:02.9	Yeah.
1:10.1	No, I tried to walk from Nazareth to Jerusalem and almost made it. I had to start hitchhiking.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:12.0	But it got me thinking how there's like those hikes in so many countries.
1:16.1	Yeah.
1:16.8	These like multi-day hikes.
1:20.1	Yeah.
1:20.3	Just for a pilgrimage, but like just anything.
1:23.4	Yeah.
1:23.9	My Israel one was special because I sort of wanted to do it Jesus style.
1:44.2	Yeah. I would have loved to have seen those pictures of people carrying the cross the whole way. Oh, it was, it was so weird. Jerusalem is such a weird city. It really is. Yeah. And no, it was, there was Jerusalem syndrome. Do you know Jerusalem syndrome? Yeah, where you feel like Jesus once you're there?
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