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Xavier Rudd: Xavier Rudd's 'Part of Life' Is the Pep Talk You Never Got from Your Dad

August 23, 2026

Xavier Rudd's 'Part of Life' delivers the kind of plain, warm, and unflinching advice that

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August 23, 2026

Shaboozey's 'Good News' finds its footing in a specific kind of exhaustion: not the dramatic

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Hangtime: He Stayed at the Worst and Best Rated Vacation Spots in America. The Gap Was Smaller Than Expected.

August 23, 2026

Mikey from Hangtime booked the worst rated resort in Myrtle Beach and the royal suite

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World Wild Hearts: The 10 Most Beautiful Places to Visit in Madagascar, Ranked by Two Travelers Who Spent Three Weeks There

August 23, 2026

Zac and Ine of World Wild Hearts spent three weeks crossing Madagascar and came back

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Ryan Shirley: Ryan Shirley Ranks the Top 10 Places to Visit in the Seychelles and the Results Are Stunning

August 23, 2026

Ryan Shirley biked to the most famous beach in the Seychelles at sunset and thought

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Ryan Shirley: Ryan Shirley Ranked Every One of His 100 Favorite Places in Europe and Mont St. Michel Came Out on Top

August 23, 2026

Ryan Shirley spent a decade visiting 100 places across Europe and ranked them all, from

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Top Gear Classic: Top Gear's Most Gloriously Chaotic Budget Car Tests Ever Put on Film

August 23, 2026

Jeremy Clarkson drove a 100cc microcar onto one of Britain's busiest dual carriageways at 34

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Malini Angelica: Alexandria, Egypt's Mediterranean City Where Greco-Roman Ruins Hide Beneath a Living Neighborhood

August 23, 2026

Three hours from Cairo, Alexandria holds Egypt's only Greco-Roman amphitheater, ancient catacombs listed among the

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Everything Explained: How Black Rock City Gets Built From a Single Gold Stake in 29 Days

August 23, 2026

On August 1st, a 12-pound sledgehammer drove a gold-painted stake into an empty Nevada desert,

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Drew Binsky: Drew Binsky Drove Into Appalachian Virginia With No Contacts. Here's Who Let Him In.

August 22, 2026

Drew Binsky drove into southwest Virginia with no contacts and a single goal: meet the

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Rachel Pizzolato: Rachel Pizzolato Booked Liliana Montoya at Miami Swim Week and Her Crocs Got Stolen

August 22, 2026

Rachel Pizzolato navigated Day 5 of Miami Swim Week on $9.99 Walgreens flip-flops after her

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Malini Angelica: Italy's Best-Kept Secret: How Liguria's Cliffside Villages and Heroic Vineyards Quietly Outshine the Rest

August 22, 2026

On a terrace high above the Ligurian coast, a former academic and his wife have

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