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**The Trip**

Join Roads & Kingdoms and host Nathan Thornburgh for this evolving travel podcast, currently mostly on hiatus. Archives include long boozy interviews around the world and Anthony Bourdain-led deep dives. Always, though, beats have been by Dan the Automator, artwork by Daisy Dee, show art by Edel Rodriguez. All advertising proceeds go to NYC’s Let Us Breathe Fund for which this show has raised thousands, even in hiatus. So thank you for listening.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 52, SF's Mission District: Vero Majano Nov 19, 2020

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The artist behind the Remember Los Siete projecttalks about the resilience of her native Mission District.

Remember Los Siete video

Rememberlos7.com

Brava! For Women in the Arts Bio Page

Vero Majano on Instagram

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Episode 104, Havana: Ailed Duarte Nov 16, 2020

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Ailed Duarte is co-founder of La Marca studio, which has helped bring tattoo art, once illegal throughout Cuba, into the mainstream. She and host Nathan Thornburgh talked at the first-ever international tattoo convention in Havana, about the robust art and precarious commerce of Cuban tattooing.

Links:

La Marca Instagram

La Marca Homepage

Huck Magazine feature on Mike Magers’ tattoo photography

Mike Mager’s bookstore

Doctor Lakra tattoo artist IG

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Episode 51, Iraq: Ahmed Najm Nov 12, 2020

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My final Iraq episode is a necessarily intense conversation with Ahmed Najm, whose life changed when ISIS kidnapped his brother Kamaran Najm, co-founder of Iraq's Metrography Photo Agency, in 2014, Kamaran still hasn't been found, but his brother has become an invaluable guardian of his brother's life work and legacy.

Links:

Episode excerpt on R&K

Metrography IG

Metrography Website

Rough Translation: The Search, a two-part series on Kamaran and Ahmed

Roads & Kingdoms IG, Metrography Takeover

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Episode 50, Iraq: Sangar Khaleel Nov 05, 2020

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Behind almost every great piece of war reporting is a local fixer. In Mosul, that fixer was Sangar Khaleel, whose LandRover and endless contacts kept him and the journalists he worked with safe through Iraq's darkest days.

Show notes:

Sangar Khaleel Instagram

West Mosul Music in the Ruins

Sangar and Jane Arraf’s NPR report on Syrian ISIS nostalgia

NPR’s Rough Translation podcast with Sangar: DIY Mosul

Kurt Schork Award page

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Episode 103, Havana: Telmary Nov 03, 2020

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Telmary Díaz is one of the most innovative Cuban artists of the last two decades. She's also a really good person to drink rum with in Havana to talk about music, migration and more.

Show notes:

Telmary: Libre (music video)

Telmary & HabanaSana YouTube channel

Annia Linares: A Mi Manera

Santiago de Cuba Rum

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Episode 49, Iraq: Basima Abdulrahman Oct 29, 2020

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Drinking tea and talking about long-term thinking in Kurdistan's capital city with civil engineer and sustainability expert Basima Abdulrahman.

Show links:

Basima Abdulrahman’s KESK Green Building Consultancy

Basima Abdulrahman profile on Auburn Website

City of Erbil website

Basima Abdulrahman’s TEDx Nishtiman speech

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Episode 48, Iraq: Cengiz Yar Oct 22, 2020

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Cengiz Yar is an acclaimed American photojournalist and photo editor, He is also a longtime colleague and, for this podcast, our guide to northern Iraq, during Ramadan in 2019. He mixed us some excellent Old Fashioneds with Black Jack Jordanian whiskey and talked about war, peace and growing up Jersey.

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Episode 102, Berlin: Anton Newcombe Oct 19, 2020

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Drinking deeply in Berlin with Anton Newcombe, talking about growing up in Newport Beach, making his way to San Francisco, and everything in music from contracts to creativity.

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Episode 47, Appalachian Roadtrip: Katie Button Oct 15, 2020

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Chef Katie Button and her husband run an Asheville, NC restaurant group that includes Cúrate, one of America’s finest Spanish restaurants. In this interview recorded in 2019, she talks about making bagels in biscuit country, and how restaurants can be better workplaces for women.

Show notes:

Cúrate Restaurant

Katie Button’s Announcement about the Closure of Button & Co. Bagels

Vegetables Unleashed

El Bulli Foundation

Asheville’s Downtown Welcome Table

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Episode 46, Appalachian Roadtrip: Kevin Forrester Oct 08, 2020

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A deep conversation about moonshine and life in Appalachia between host Nathan Thornburgh and his longtime Appalachia-whisperer Kevin Forrester outside of Damascus, Virginia

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Abingdon Vineyards

Channels State Forest

Damascus, VA

Kings County Distillery “Moonshine”

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