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20 Year Anniversary of the Travel in 10 Podcast with guest Chris Christensen

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Tim opens the anniversary conversation with David Brody and Chris Christensen. Travel in 10 is marking 20 years since the first upload. Brody remembers starting the show while he and his wife were living and working in Southeast Asia and Japan. Back then, podcasting was still so new that hardly anyone knew what it was. Christensen says joining as host in the last couple of years has been inspiring. Brody отвечает with the kind of surprised gratitude that comes from looking back at two decades of steady work. The show is now one of the world's top travel podcasts. The discussion keeps coming back to the idea that the show has helped millions of listeners travel and explore with a little more confidence. They talk about practical advice that reaches people everywhere, including the sort of specific tips that help someone find sushi at 3 a.m. in Tokyo. Brody says the chance to inspire travel is the best part of the whole run. He jokes that the podcast hall of fame is one of the stranger honors he has picked up. The list of odd milestones keeps going. He recalls an invitation to the White House. He mentions being named Travel + Leisure's best independent travel journalist. He also tells the story of Oxford asking to use the show's materials in education. Another strange note comes from the Thailand foreign ministry, which at one point reportedly required two episodes for an English proficiency exam. The whole thing stays funny because it really does sound improbable. Still, the conversation never drifts far from the center of the show. It keeps returning to practical advice, listener reach, and long-haul persistence. Chris Christensen's presence adds another host's view of that success. The episode closes as a loose, affectionate anniversary portrait of a travel podcast that grew far beyond its first upload.

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A 20-year travel-podcast milestone shaped by origin stories and a few unlikely honors.

Travel in 10 looks back at 20 years by returning to the show's beginning, when podcasting was still new territory. David Brody revisits the first episode, shaped by the year he and his wife spent living and working in Southeast Asia and Japan, and that early chapter gets room to…

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A 20-year travel-podcast origin story with genuinely bizarre milestones.

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