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Our American Stories

The Man Who Rescued Over 10,000 Stranded Motorists

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Thomas Weller, also known as 'The San Diego Highwayman,' shares the story of why he dedicated his time to helping people on the side of the road.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.6

Music or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

0:48.3

Up next, we have the voice of Thomas Weller,

0:51.1

aka the San Diego Highwayman.

0:54.3

Thomas is nationally recognized for doing something he simply calls playing on the freeway.

1:00.7

But what he does is truly much more.

1:03.5

Here's Thomas with the story of why he decided he would dedicate much of his life to helping people,

1:09.3

specifically stranded motorists on the side of the road.

1:17.6

Well, it was 1964, and I was out against my mother's wishes, Tom catting around in a snowstorm one night.

1:30.3

And I'm coming home about, oh, 1, 2 o'clock in the morning.

1:35.3

It was a blizzard, and it was a two-lane highway.

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