The hitchhiker myth lives at the center of the American imagination of the road. It is ground zero for our tradition of urban legends.
Not everything that claims to be road movies is in fact a road movie.
Fury Road! Not a road movie.
Take a deep dive into the subject on our substack page.
https://gaugeilluminations.substack.com/p/the-rules-of-the-road-movie
Jimmy Mac
Storyteller, playwright, and performer Jimmy Mac spent a decade getting up far too early to talk to truckers on SiriusXM 146 Road Dog Trucking's legendary Dave Nemo Show. What he really wanted was to keep overnight drivers company. As it turns out, he should've been more careful what he wished for. He's held just about every job imaginable, visited all 50 states, and somehow found time to earn a PhD from a perfectly respectable university along the way.