FOLKS - Strong Sense of Place
Guests: Melissa Joulwan & David Humphreys, Strong Sense of Place podcast
Books can entertain, inform and even make you want to travel. My guests today run the Strong Sense of Place podcast out of their flat here in Prague which combines the best of reading and travel in one jam-packed website. Go all over the world without ever leaving your home.
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SECTIONS
01:49 - The Strong Sense of Place podcast
03:37 - The purpose of the podcast
06:50 - A world tour from home
11:10 - Nerdy organization & gold stars
14:55 - Becoming a reader
18:27 - Kindle a flame for reading
21:40 - Transcribing for empathy
28:22 - Lots of work
29:44 - Cookbooks & roller derby
34:24 - SSOP Reading Atlas. theme episodes, apocalypse novels
39:10 - Favourite books of 2021
40:51 - Telling lies to tell the truth
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More info:
- Strong Sense of Place website
- Goodreads
- BBEdit 14 Bare Bones software
- Oprah's Book Club
- Sonix transcription software
- Sara Nović website
- Secret Prague by Martin Stejskal
- Atlas Obscura - The definitive guide to the world's hidden wonders
- Well Fed paleo cookbooks
- Living Paleo for Dummies by Melissa Joulwan & Kellyann Petrucci
- Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track by Melissa Joulwan
- The Hotrod Honeys on Texas Rollergirls
- Station Eleven
- Termination Shock
- The Sentence
- Our Country Friends
- The Kingdoms
- Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- Hell of a Book
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