Hitchhiking

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4.7 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

we look at hitchhiking, its history, could it make a comeback? Killer on the Road - Ginger Strand; Carsick: Hitchhiking Across America - John Waters; BONUS SEGMENT -- Sonic Sidebar: John Waters' Hitchhiking Playlist; Anywhere - Mishy Harman; Dangerous Idea: Put America Back to Work; On Our Minds: Joshua Ferris.

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0:12.6	More at LPTrust.com.
0:18.3	It's to the best of our knowledge.
0:20.2	I'm Anne Strain Champs. Today, hitchhiking.
0:23.6	It didn't take very long for these dream ways to be recast as highways to hell.
0:39.3	Now I'm not one to pick up hitchhikers. You never know. Might be a hijacker.
0:44.3	I think the danger of hitchhiker is a little bit of the appeal. It's always like a joke about sex to hitchhike.
0:49.3	It's always a joke about danger.
0:51.3	My mother told me never to do this. You wish he'd taken his mom's advice.
0:57.0	Hitchhike to hell.
1:01.0	He opened the doors of hell.
1:06.0	Hitchhike to hell.
1:10.0	There's no such thing as a free ride.
1:14.9	If you watch enough horror movies, you get the feeling that hitchhiking can be hazardous to your health.
1:21.2	Very hazardous.
1:23.0	But does anyone still hitchhike?
1:25.2	Today we'll hear from cult film director John Waters. At age 66,
1:29.5	he recently thumbed his way across almost 3,000 miles of American highways. And Israeli radio
1:35.6	producer Mishi Harmon tries to heal a broken heart by hitchhiking around the world. But first,
1:42.5	was hitchhiking ever really as dangerous as the movies made it seem?
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