What is the difference between a Hobo, a Tramp, and a Bum?
Em Jiang and I head down to the train yard to ask around.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO BUT SOMETIMES THAT LINE MOVES, THEN BLURS.
buZ Blurr • Colossus of Roads
Bill Daniel’s Who is Bozo Texino?
Em Jiang co-produced this episode and wrote + performed the poem in the middle. And a huge thanks to Luka Starmer, whose encounter with buZ in Elko Nevada, subsequent acquisition of his book, gifted to myself at the Santa Fe Hotel in packaging masquerading as a postal delivery gave me the idea to conduct the interview via USPS. Picons on me.
Further reading:
Night Ride V30 with Wes Modes / Trainhopping
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