Dean Moriarty

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EPISODES

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PODCASTS

Aug 23, 2026

Inner West Sermons

Inner West Sermons

Psalms of Ascent - The Journey

Aug 23 · 1 Mention

Chris PorterHOST

11:37

Throughout On the Road, Kerouac describes sort of a bone weariness of life.

Chris PorterHOST

11:46

As each act of the book comes to an end, the characters become more and more exhausted, more and more tired of this life on the road.

Chris PorterHOST

11:56

And eventually their energy dissipates.

Chris PorterHOST

12:00

They kind of settle down for a while.

Flight 815: A LOST Podcast

Flight 815: A LOST Podcast

73 - S4E3 - Send That Little Piggy To Market

Aug 20 · 3 Mentions

Anthony DiFeliceHOST

34:54

His

Shelby FryeHOST

34:54

passport, the name in it was Dean Moriarty.

Anthony DiFeliceHOST

34:57

I saw that.

Anthony DiFeliceHOST

34:59

I had nothing for you.

17 MINS LATER

Anthony DiFeliceHOST

51:54

We don't dislike them.

Shelby FryeHOST

51:57

Oh, okay.

Shelby FryeHOST

51:58

Dean Moriarty is a character in On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

Shelby FryeHOST

52:01

I was going Doyle.

Unknown podcast

Ken Kesey: From Champion Wrestler to Psychedelic Pioneer

Aug 19 · 1 Mention

Chuck BryantHOST

11:52

Which is such an amazing crossover.

Josh ClarkHOST

11:54

Cassidy, who is the real life inspiration for Dean Moriarty and Kerouac's On the Road, actually drives the further bus for a while.

Josh ClarkHOST

12:01

Kesey is literally linking up the old counterculture with the new one.

Chuck BryantHOST

12:05

And then when they return to the Bay Area, Kesey scales up this vision.

The Delta Flyers

The Delta Flyers

Statistical Probabilities

Aug 18 · 1 Mention

Garrett WangHOST

7:16

the series, yep.

Garrett WangHOST

7:17

Uh, also, the character of Jack is based on Dean Moriarty, one of the main characters of the 1951 Jack Kerouac novel, On the Road, a wannabe philosopher who talks a mile a minute.

Robert Duncan McNeillHOST

7:29

He did feel very Jack Kerouacy.

Garrett WangHOST

7:31

Did you feel that too?

Unknown podcast

Neal Cassady: The Skid Row Muse Who Drove Two Revolutions

Aug 18 · 2 Mentions

Chuck BryantHOST

1:51

Yes, Neal Cassidy.

Josh ClarkHOST

1:53

Now, if you are a fan of mid-century literature, you probably know his highly fictionalized counterpart, right? Dean Moriarty, the wildly impulsive, fast-talking protagonist of Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road.

Chuck BryantHOST

2:05

The ultimate bohemian hero.

Josh ClarkHOST

2:06

Exactly.

7 MINS LATER

Josh ClarkHOST

9:27

Wow.

Chuck BryantHOST

9:27

He fed it into the machine and typed furiously, channeling Cassidy's voice.

Chuck BryantHOST

9:32

And in that original unedited scroll, the main character wasn't named Dean Moriarty.

Chuck BryantHOST

9:37

His name was Neil Cassidy.