Traveling Through with David Prior

JJ Martin has spent 25 years in Milan building the maximalist fashion label La DoubleJ — and along the way, a full philosophy of living. She joins David to talk about the sacred sites and energetic power points that fuel her: Volcanoes in Sicily, water temples in Bali, caves in Cappadocia, and stone circles in Ireland.

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At age ten, Flynn McGarry was cooking professionally and covered as a curiosity by publications around the world. Now 27, he runs the New York restaurant Cove and cafe-meets-farm-stand Gem Home. Despite the headlines accompanying his arrival onto the scene, his personal and professional evolution has been much quieter and more studied. Flynn joins the show to trace the stages, flea markets, design obsessions, and far-flung meals that have shaped his singular vision, and to make the case that a restaurant is always the sum of everything around it.

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Photo Credits:
- Misc. Designmuseum Danmark Installations. Courtesy of: Designmuseum Danmark
- Passalacqua hotel exteriors and interiors. Courtesy of: Designmuseum Danmark

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Deborah Needleman spent decades shaping how we think about design. She founded Domino and edited T: The New York Times Style Magazine before leaving it all behind to become a student of craft. She joins David to talk about what curiosity looks like when there's no magazine to fill. She explores textiles in India, broom-making in Japan, and basketry in Morocco, pursuing hands-on experience that exposes universal themes in human nature and drive.

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Photo Credits:
- Annemarie O’Sullivan. Photo by Alun Callender
- Jane Da Mosto in action preserving nice. Photo by Michele Gallucci (@Sailordreamer78)
- Weaving Between Land and Sea, Deborah Needleman, Photos by Giacomo Bianco and Celeste Soloman, Curated by Marina Marques, Residency: March – May 2025, Exhibition: 8 May – 8 August 2025
- Alexander Girard Works, Courtesy Museum of International Folk Art

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Interior designer Nate Berkus has spent decades turning objects into stories — first as Oprah's design authority, then helming his own acclaimed firm and product collections. He joins the show to talk about the places and things that have shaped him: from the antique markets of his Midwestern childhood to an 18th-century farm in Portugal; with a stop in Laos he almost didn't take, and a return to Sri Lanka that changed everything.

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Photo Credits:
- James Brown Portrait: Francois Hallard. Courtesy by Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne / Paris / St. Moritz
- Hacienda de San Antonio images: Photo: David Gerber. Courtesy of Hacienda de San Antonio

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Andy Baraghani is the internet’s favorite second-generation Iranian American cook, Bon Appétit alum, and James Beard Award-winning author. He joins the show to discuss how his multicultural upbringing and global travels, from Vietnam to Beirut to Sicily, continually shape and expand his culinary identity.

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Photo Credits:
- Souk El Tayeb
- Post Ranch Inn

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The designer who transformed J.Crew into a cultural institution and redefined American style? That is of course Jenna Lyons. In this episode, she joins David to trace the eye for color and texture she's spent a lifetime collecting on the road. From Milanese cafés and silk factories in China to karaoke nights in Tokyo and childhood summers in the French countryside that changed how she understood beauty.

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Photo Credits:
- Dries Van Noten. Dimore Studio. Photographer: Andrea Ferrari
- Modepaleis flagship store, Antwerp. Photographer: Tijs Vervecken

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David Remnick is a Pulitzer Prize winner and has helmed The New Yorker for 27 years. He joins the show not only to recount his own travels – from Moscow to Tel Aviv to campaign trails and tour buses – but also to reflect on what nearly three decades of dispatching the world's finest writers has revealed about history, cultural connectedness, and the vast breadth of stories to be found.

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Photo Credits: 

- Mona Museum Images (in order of appearance)

•  Museum of Old and New Art. Photo Credit: Mona/Stu Gibson. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Girls Rule, 2016-18, Tom Otterness. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artists and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Snack 1970 - 72. Sir Sidney Nolan. Photo Credit: MONA/Jesse Hunniford. Image Courtesy MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
• Siloam tunnels, Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
• Unseen Seen, 2017. Artist: James Turrell. Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artist and Mona, Hobart, Tasmania
• Museum of Old and New Art. Photo credit: Mona/Rémi Chauvin. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania

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Self-taught designer, cook, and creative force Athena Calderone — dubbed "the modern girl's Martha Stewart” by T magazine — joins David to trace the restless curiosity that took her from Long Island to New York's nightlife scene, and on to Ibiza, Morocco, and Rome, always finding beauty and inspiration just beyond the obvious.

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In Traveling Through, David Prior—travel writer and founder of experiential travel company Prior—sits down with friends and culture-makers like Jenna Lyons, David Remnick, Deborah Needleman, Athena Calderone, and more to trace the trips, objects, and encounters that shaped who they are. Because the most interesting stories aren't about where you went. They're about what stayed with you. New episodes every other Thursday. Find it on Youtube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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