Jon Fasman
speaker
573 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Descendants of the pat mules or burrows that used to haul for the mining company roam the streets freely, stopping traffic and cagging food from tourists.
Every day a couple of amateur actors in cowboy gear stage a fake bank robbery and shootout in the main street, and then pass their hats for donations to local charities.
It's good, clean, extremely loud fun, and people love it, including this Chicago one I kept running into that day.
But what is it really that people love about the old west?
I doubt many of the tourists I met would come out of a gunfight unscathed.
I'd venturer guessed that people's fascination with the Old West is dealt to two things.
First, visitors to America flock to it for the same reason visitors to London go to Fortnums for high tea, or to Kenya go on safari.
They're connecting with the image of the country lodged in their minds from film, television, and literature.
And second, well I'll let one of my new French friends explain.
So what put the dream into your head?
What how did you hear about it?
What what are y what are your associations with it?
Okay.
Liberty.
There is a deep-seated association between the old west and freedom, escaping the old ways, and as Mark Twain wrote, lighting out for the territory.
Dust Bowl refugees and others took this highway to California to make new lives for themselves.
When Route 66 opened, fewer than five million people lived in California.
Today about eight times as many do, around one in nine Americans.
And for the first time ever, expensive, overregulated California is shedding residents.
While the inexpensive Midwest, long a place Americans have fled, is gaining them.
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