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Route 66, a quintessential American road trip heavy on kitsch and history, turns 100 97%
4/8/2026, 12:00:51 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Appeal to Emotion, and Hasty Generalization, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 24.6% saturation with 79 hits. Analysis detected 792 faulty-reasoning hits from 321 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.5% and a BS Rank of 97% (635 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.20% of the video peer group.
Perhaps one of the most interesting things about Route 66 is officially it
doesn't exist. This highway hasn't
existed as a US highway since 1985.
And yet it's more popular than anytime in its history.
It played an integral part in development of American car culture.
Most travelers run Route 66 from east to west.
That means starting in Chicago and running to Santa Monica.
The Native Americans have all been impacted by every stage of this, good and bad.
Yeah, with the roads coming in and the train and Route 66, you know, that people just had to adapt, you know, but
it it brought more Americanization to our reservation.
Basically had to bite the bullet and just go with it.
Take advantage of, you know, our of the the commerce. And so that's what
we did and you know, to this day we still we still fight to keep our our reservation boundaries and our sovereignty.
By and large, uh the black traveler
>> didn't get a lot of kicks on Route 66.
And if they got some kicks, it wasn't the kind that you would think of.
The three service service station was the location that black travelers could come and [music] not have to be concerned about somebody coming up on you in the middle of the night.
When the interstate came through, travel along highway 66,
the volume just sort of >> [music] degraded.
Route 66 was never able to evolve fast enough to meet the changing traffic needs.
And as a result, many many communities, just like in the movie Cars, were [music] completely decimated, transformed into ghost towns.
It's not America's most uh scenic highway or most historic,
but it's become [music] an internationally recognized uh symbol.
It is the American experience [music] made manifest, the great American road trip.
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