How does being an expat affect your politics? Host Tiffany Parks discovers that her politics in Italy are different from her politics in the United States. Do political views remain changed if you move back to your home country?

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Why do you like what you like? Journalist Tom Vanderbilt joins us to explore how our likes and dislikes are formed. His new book is You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice.

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We share our bucket list goals (and yours!!) as our series on goals concludes with part 3.

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Learn how to keep yourself safer by studying fine art. Our guest, Amy Herman, has trained police, doctors, military and special operatives to see the world in a richer way in art galleries. We offer you her secrets.

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Author Jess Walter (National Book Award finalist & winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award) joins us to talk about his novel Beautiful Ruins. We also talk about writing in a language you don't speak, what it is like to have your writing translated, and how a book forms slowly over 15 years.

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It feels good to accomplish goals, even tiny, silly ones. Hosts Katy Sewall and Tiffany Parks talk about the goals they've accomplished and those they no longer wish to do. Listen to Goals, Part 1 before this episode.

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Clare Brown recently moved from London, England to Split, Croatia hoping to explore and write. Instead her life is full of new friends, adventure, and very little quiet time. She joins us with her hilarious and insightful impressions of life as a single woman living abroad for the first time.

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A discussion about "bucket list" wishes turns into all the goals and dreams that will never happen. Not as depressing as it sounds. Or is it? New to the show?

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New York Times best-selling author Hope Jahren, writer of "Lab Girl," changes how we experience the plants of the world. She also tackles the difficulties of being a female scientist and why us laymen feel intimidated by people who study the natural world.

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Tiffany and Katy describe the sights of Rome and contemplate Katy's death in this rebroadcast of Episode 24. If you've never heard our series on the five senses, don't miss it. Look for Episodes 21-25.

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