Rick Steves
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Nov 2, 2026
Steven RaichlenGUEST
And I thought, man, that's the difference between our two countries.
Andrew ApplebaumHOST
Other major PBS personalities include Rick Steves and Joseph Rezendo with their travel shows.
Andrew ApplebaumHOST
Have you ever interacted with any of your fellow PBS television personalities?
Steven RaichlenGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Steven RaichlenGUEST
Terrific programmer.
Steven RaichlenGUEST
I mean, in general, I think the PBS food people, they're very much like me, and we try and do shows that are sort of thoughtful and educational and help lift people up, you know, rather than put people down.
Andrew ApplebaumHOST
Rick Steves in particular has really built a brand via public broadcasting that now encompasses travel books, travel television shows, travel lectures.
Andrew ApplebaumHOST
Although PBS and the public broadcasting system is not for profit, you, Stephen, are for profit.
Ismael AlvarezHOST
This is more of a contemplative, like, oh, we're doing something that's...
Ismael AlvarezHOST
It would be like Rick Steves' Europe... episode uh with a few high stakes and monsters involved but not it's
Jeff GreinerHOST
all it's almost a a studio ghibli cozy fantasy
Ismael AlvarezHOST
yes absolutely and though if you look at break um and i think i've posted in the discord a couple of times it has very decidedly that kind of uh vibe and i i
SmokeyHOST
was there anything that was on that level that was happening at that point?
Diane SchutzGUEST
Rick Steves.
Diane SchutzGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Diane SchutzGUEST
He's still going.
Riley SchreckHOST
fun instead of being gross.
Riley SchreckHOST
And at that point, the whole entire show had shifted into a Rick Steves episode.
Riley SchreckHOST
Like literally the entire cast was just running around there.
Riley SchreckHOST
It's very, very silly.
Josiah MackenzieHOST
I like to wind back the clock into, was there an early memory of hospitality, experiencing hospitality in some format that was influential to your life and your work? And if so, what was that?
Brandy CerneGUEST
As a child, my family didn't really travel a lot, but I was really big into Travel Channel and Rick Steves and all of those programs on TV.
Brandy CerneGUEST
And I would just be like, like they're in my house in Ohio.
Brandy CerneGUEST
But my real first interaction with the space of hospitality was right after college.
Jeremy LongHOST
I'm Jeremy Long, your host.
Jeremy LongHOST
I'm so glad you're here with us for another spooktacular episode of the number one travel show in the world outside of Rick Steves and Samantha Brown.
Jeremy LongHOST
and about 250 other travel shows, but that's okay.
Jeremy LongHOST
We're number one in your hearts.
Rick StevesHOST
Take my hand as we journey through a shadowy realm.
Rick StevesHOST
It's a spirited Halloween edition of Travel with Rick Steves in the Hour Ahead.
Rick StevesHOST
Come along.
Rick StevesHOST
I'm not sure what 12-foot-tall skeletons and inflatable pumpkins on the lawn say about American culture, but there are some interesting Halloween traditions and stories from the Old World that feed into superstitions and into the characters of Gothic horror novels.
Rick StevesHOST
Today, no one says they actually believe in them, but you wouldn't dare do anything to upset them either.
Rick StevesHOST
And listeners tell us about some of their most disconcerting moments when their European vacations took them closer to the netherworld than they had expected.
Rick StevesHOST
Let's start today's Travel with Rick Steves with a look at how the undead have long been a part of the legends and lore of Eastern Europe.
Rick StevesHOST
Jacob Michanowski examines the history of the lands his Polish and Lithuanian ancestors come from in his book Goodbye Eastern Europe, An Intimate History of a Divided Land, where, it turns out, vampires have been found for centuries.
Colonel MikeGUEST
You have to look at it.
Colonel MikeGUEST
I think it's 2018. rick steves the world traveler right rick steves pbs he's got a show traveling through iran greatest greatest show you're going to watch now they put a little tail at the end of it jeff years later oh by the way we were in conflict with iranian but before that you see all the iranian people in the streets yeah different he went to all different cities we love america we love america Basically, they wanted to be left alone.
Colonel MikeGUEST
Okay, they have the IRGC.
Colonel MikeGUEST
They have all this craziness, you know, beat you in the street sometime or throw you off a roof.
Mathias EichlerHOST
So this blows my mind.
Mathias EichlerHOST
I love Rick Steves and I love what he does.
Mathias EichlerHOST
Is he well known in Canada too? I don't know.
Mathias EichlerHOST
He's a hero.
Mathias EichlerHOST
But it was always very – how should I put that – Lonely Planet was the brand.
Mathias EichlerHOST
The specific travel writers weren't really known, right? Right.
Mathias EichlerHOST
Where in Rick Steves, it's all about him.
Mathias EichlerHOST
Like he is the main guy, even though obviously he doesn't go to every single place.
MikeGUEST
There's a there's a I think it's 2018.
MikeGUEST
Rick Steves, the world traveler, right? Rick
MikeGUEST
Steves, PBS.
MikeGUEST
He's got a show traveling through Iran.
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