- 274
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 189
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Deviate
Rolf Potts veers off-topic in this unique series of conversations with experts, public figures, and intriguing people.
- Publisher
- Rolf Potts
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Nov 2017
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 274 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sense of place in cinema: Las Vegas Never Plays Itself, with Tod Goldberg
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Travel memoir lab: How your journeys can inspire fictional adventure stories
4 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Best of Travel: Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of meaningful journeys
Inside a recent episode
Sense of place in cinema: Las Vegas Never Plays Itself, with Tod Goldberg
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a super Jewish town, huge Jewish community, as I wrote about. But it is truly an amalgamation of every American city because it has an aspect of every place because no one really is from there. Well, that's not true anymore. People are being born there now. But for the longest time, it was just people coming there on a transient basis and building some aspect of the thing that they found familiar in San Francisco or Kansas or whatever. And so it didn't have its own culture outside of gambling initially because it was so much of other people's cultures. There's a big period of time where they called Las Vegas like the other Hawaiian island because the the tourism between Vegas and Hawaii was profound because there were all these deals for locals in Hawaii to fly to Vegas on Hawaiian air. […]
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- Tod Goldberg
- Luke Richardson
- Paul Theroux
- Chuck Klosterman
- Michael Weinreb
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 164 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 25 ratings
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