Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-02-15
Books mentioned on Like, here's the episode on "like"
Like is a very divisive word. Purists think it's like, a filler word born in the 80s that's like, destroying the English language.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Road
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is a seminal Beat Generation novel that captures the spontaneous cross-country travels and countercultural ethos of post-war America.
Discussed“Yeah 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.”
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