Jon Fasman

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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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Tomorrow we'll look at the road's story commercial past and its delightfully kitschy present.

Last month I took a road trip on route sixty six. voice-verified

I did it for two reasons. voice-verified

The first is that I just love a good road trip. voice-verified

And second, Route 66, notwithstanding its fame, took me through a part of my own country that I had never seen before. voice-verified

Well, it was one of America's first major highways. voice-verified

And while the interstates that are set up now go from east to west or north to south, Route 66's shape was unusual. voice-verified

It goes south from Chicago into Oklahoma and then bends out west. voice-verified

It traverses eight states using paths mostly that settlers and Native Americans had used for centuries. voice-verified

It's also an all-weather highway. voice-verified

It's not too far north, so it's not impassable with snow in the winter. voice-verified

Winter. voice-verified

And it's a storied road. voice-verified

Refugees from the Dust Bowl in the 30s used it to find new lives out west in California. voice-verified

John Steinbeck called it the mother road in the Grapes of Wrath. voice-verified

He sent his protagonists, the Jodes, out from Oklahoma on Route 66. voice-verified

African Americans used it to migrate out of the South to Midwestern industrial cities like Chicago and St. voice-verified

Louis, as well as out west. voice-verified

And its heyday coincided with the rise of American culture. voice-verified

Car culture and pop culture dominance, which meant it became known throughout the world pretty quickly. voice-verified

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