Jack Kerouac

The idea to travel the country arose early in my senior year of high school.

A teacher suggested I read On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

I became so engrossed in the book that I was already planning my trip less than halfway through reading it.

Originally, the idea was to take the trip once I'd finished college, but after some sage advice from my dad, I decided to move it up.

And because of my involvement in the lifestyle, I knew a lot of people wanted to do that.

I mean, this is at the same time as Fifty Shades of Grey come out, which I call the most socially influential book in American history since Jack Kerouac's The Road.

Because everybody was suddenly talking about all this kinky stuff, doing all sorts of weird stuff.

But they didn't have access to to the information how to.

So, like, if you read, like, Naked Lunch by, like, William S. Burroughs or whatever, like, the whole medium is, like, the whole writing is different.

Where you read, like, I read, like, I was obviously a big fan of, back in the day, of, like, Jack Kerouac on the road.

It's a whole different way of writing, right? And we're like, Now, okay, like, I've been reading, you know who I've been reading? I've been reading, what's his name? The Irish writer, one of the most famous ones, the iconic ones, with the, come on, I can't, I...

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And the constant cultural references.

In the first episode alone, they mention Jack Kerouac, RuPaul, West Side Story, Britney Spears, Stephen King, Rosemary's Baby, and more.

Did the actors get all of those references?

No. Oh, no, no, no, no.

He would have

like, yeah, he would have these really interesting, he had a Kerouac on there and he had like hippies on there and he would like debate them and just very interesting kind of debate discussion culture.

But now it's like, if you wake up in a bad mood, you can send a shit tweet to some poet you're annoyed with that day.

Does that count as a feud? I don't really think so.

It's astonishing.

Raymond Carver, Jack Kerouac, who wrote On the Road, which I've never ever read.

That book is literally one that sat on my shelf.

I mean, it's 25 years it's been there and I've never read it.

Because he's like one part fucking Hunter S. Thompson.

And he's like one part like Jack Kerouac.

And he's one part...

I don't even know what's the last part.