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LET IT OUT

Waiting for a Ride: Christopher DeLoach, Artist & Bumper Sticker Legend on the Stories That Shape Us

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9826 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

LA-based artist Christopher DeLoach and I talked about his path from class clown to intrepid traveler—walking the Appalachian Trail—to becoming an artist and creating the iconic bumper stickers you know and love. He tells a story of how a series of surreal encounters while hitchhiking changed him. Our conversation covers: identity, American culture, sustaining a career as an artist, superstition, doubt, belief, and even death.

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I mean, we're all hitchhikers.

0:04.0

We're all waiting for a ride.

0:06.0

And this story has really compounded my ability to understand exactly what I believe.

0:11.0

While at one point in my own that gave me a lot of certainty, I've realized through lived experience of my certainty was hubris.

0:17.0

And I don't really know what's going on on this planet or at all.

0:20.0

And it feels apt to let it out and, like, share.

0:27.9

And it's a long series of stories to get up to the story.

0:33.0

Them digressing from the actual fabric of the narrative

0:36.6

and then being like, how do the stories that we

0:38.9

perceive that have a big influence on our identity how does keeping them in or sharing them

0:47.0

like affect our day to day life okay hi welcome. Welcome perhaps for the first time. This is Let It Out, my podcast. My name is Katie. This week I talk to artist Christopher Deloche. You may know him from his incredible paintings or his famous bumper stickers. He has made the best bumper stickers that I've ever seen in my

1:15.2

life. You perhaps have one on your car. Or maybe you're driving and looking ahead at the road and

1:23.7

at someone else's bumper sticker. Maybe you're honking at a sticker that Christopher has made

1:29.3

as we speak. And there's many more minutes of this podcast to come, so you might see one

1:35.8

while you're listening. This episode is a little bit different than usual because

1:42.3

Christopher has this story that he tells that we weave through

1:49.5

the episode and we end up having a conversation I really, really loved about it and around it,

1:58.8

and I can't wait for you to hear it. So what you're about to hear

2:04.0

is him setting up this story and he gives a bit of his background and how he got into art. He

2:09.6

tells the sticker story and we went on some tangents and I asked some questions and I honestly

2:16.1

cut a decent amount of those out but they

2:20.8

really made me laugh so to be honest it was tough to kill the darlings and I put them all in a

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