On the Road
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out! | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowWhether it's obviously Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a big one, or Tom Robbins even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The Gus Van Sant movie, the main character was born with an abnormally large thumb, so she obviously had a talent as a hitchhiker, and that's kind of one of the subplots of the book and film, right?
- Episode: Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones | Lex Fridman Podcast #425
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastUltimately, I wrote a book about my hitchhiking experience years later. And everyone was like, have you read 'On the Road'? And then, 'On the Road', I probably heard the title of that book every day at least 10 times for two years.
- Episode: Like, here's the episode on "like" | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowYeah and if you were into jazz at the time you were probably somewhat familiar of bop talk but um it filtered into the beats um who kind of introduced it to an even wider audience in the United States like it pops up here there and on the road from Jack Kerouac sure.
- Episode: Arcade Fire's Win Butler & Régine Chassagne on new album WE, Montreal, 1973, dropouts | SmartLess
Podcast: SmartLessBut that was like stuff you're saying here, like I read On the Road when I was 17 and I was like, I gotta leave where I'm at! But that wasn’t stuff I did in high school; that was stuff I did on my own.