Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-05-22

Books mentioned on Short Stuff: Hobo Signs

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By definition hobos are people who travel from town to town taking odd jobs as they go. But some towns are friendlier than others, and hobos developed a system of symbols they left one another to know what to expect from a town.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   “Yeah, so yeah, John Hodgman, uh, writer of Books and and podcaster of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, uh, very famously, um, created uh 800 hobo names, uh, in one of his books and I figured we could just go through a couple of these.”

   Speaker Short Stuff: Hobo Signs 2024-05-22 Listen at 12:15

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