{"id":6297,"date":"2025-06-30T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:51:54","slug":"episode-268-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-268-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 268 &#8211; The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hitchhikersguide.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6298 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hitchhikersguide-184x300.webp\" alt=\"The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy\u00a0by Douglas Adams\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hitchhikersguide-184x300.webp 184w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hitchhikersguide-135x220.webp 135w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hitchhikersguide.webp 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Panic! We&#8217;re continuing Flashback Summer by revisiting the classic that formed the core of a million nerds&#8217; personalities: <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780345391803\"><em>The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>\u00a0by Douglas Adams<\/a>. And we were joined by a hoopy frood who totally knows here his towel is: Jay, of the late great <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ideotv-podcast-archive\/\">I Don&#8217;t Even Own a Television<\/a> podcast. So long and thanks for all the pods!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-268-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/towelday.org\/\">Towel Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/searchforsenna00appl\"><em>Search for Senna<\/em> (Everworld #1) by K. A. Applegate<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5682\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6297-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/268H2G2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/268H2G2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/268H2G2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/268H2G2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=6297-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/268H2G2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"268H2G2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Panic! We&#8217;re continuing Flashback Summer by revisiting the classic that formed the core of a million nerds&#8217; personalities: The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy\u00a0by Douglas Adams. And we were joined by a hoopy frood who totally knows here his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-268-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1433,850,6],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-douglas-adams","tag-flashback-summer","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}