Kristen Kish on Uplifting Community By Being Yourself from Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell
Kamau sits down with chef-turned-host Kristen Kish to talk about her stepping up as host of Top Chef after the departure of Padma Lakshmi, b...
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Not Lost
When both his popular culture podcast and long-term relationship come to an end, journalist Brendan finds he has the time — and freedom — to pursue his dream: a travel podcast where he goes...
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Athena Calderone on Aspiration | Traveling Through
Where have you been, what did you find, and who did it make you? On the new podcast Traveling Through, host David Prior, travel writer and f...
From Medal of Honor: James Fleming’s Impossible Vietnam War Rescue
In 1968, in the dense jungles of Vietnam, a team of Green Berets was pinned down by an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army force. Their last...
Decoding Psychedelics with Dr. Grace Blest-Hopley from Decoding Women's Health
What if psychedelics could transform the way we treat trauma, chronic pain, and insomnia? This week, neuroscientist and psychedelic research...
The 25 Most Exciting Places to Travel in 2024 from Unpacked by AFAR
We're a few months into the new year. Maybe you're a freshly minted, idealized version of yourself. Or maybe your new year's resolutions are...
Not Lost Chat: Paradise City (Pico Iyer & Reggie Watts)
No piña coladas were consumed during travel writer Pico Iyer’s quest for paradise. Instead he found himself communing with guides and locals...
Not Lost Chat: Wild Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)
Brendan finds the perfect Not Lost Chat guest in author Cheryl Strayed, who not only wrote the bestselling travel memoir “Wild,” but is also...
Not Lost Chat: Traveler Not Tourist (Geoff Dyer & Colman Domingo)
Brendan receives a postcard from the only registered US historical landmark outside America and then talks with the great essayist, novelist...
Not Lost Chat: How Do You Say “Love”? (Kristin Newman & Paul Feig)
Brendan speaks with Kristin Newman, author of “What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir,” about falling in love in a different lan...
Not Lost Chat: Further Than They Appear (Marius Kociejowski & Jessi Klein)
Brendan visits Japan on a trip that puts the “junk” in junket. Then he speaks with Marius Kociejowski, author of The Serpent Coiled in Naple...
Not Lost Chat: Where Am I? (Jessica Nabongo & Tegan and Sara)
Brendan talks with Jessica Nabongo, the author of “The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World” about the mys...
Not Lost Chat: Road Work (Andrew Sean Greer & Jay Pharoah)
New York Magazine described “Not Lost” as having the “slight energy of Andrew Sean Greer’s Less ” so Brendan calls the Pulitzer Prize-winnin...
Introducing: Not Lost Chat
Who do we become when we travel? Who are we allowed to be? And where is everyone going? Brendan Francis Newnam is on a mission to find out....
Postcard from Portugal
After wrapping up Season 1 of Not Lost , and a few odds & ends at home, Brendan heads to Portugal and experiences an emotion he can’t quite...
The Final Destination: Season 1 Finale
It’s the Saturday before the final episode of Not Lost is due and Brendan still doesn’t know where he is going. Will he escape New York and...
Big Sur: In the Soup
Two years have passed since Covid brought production of Not Lost to a screeching halt. In that time, Brendan has turned norm-core: he gets a...
Las Vegas: Mother Cabrini
Against the backdrop of Valentine's Day weekend, Brendan and his friend Luke Burbank explore the Hoover Dam, Vegas's Chinatown, and the nigh...
Mexico City: Mi Casa, Mi Casa
With Not Lost's executive producers breathing down his neck for an actual dinner party, Brendan and Danielle Henderson head to CDMX to see i...
New Orleans: Anybody’s Gumbo
Brendan and Danielle Henderson head to the Big Easy and discover that it's anything but. Carousel bars, gospel choirs, voodoo readings, and...
Portland: Pizza Party
Brendan has never been to Portland, Maine, but that hasn't stopped him wanting to live there. This episode he and Danielle Henderson head to...