One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
ISBN: 9780670526048

Ken Kesey

Brought up on The Megyn Kelly Show, Lex Fridman Podcast, Stuff You Should Know and Modern Wisdom, most recently on 2026-09-02 — 4 shows, 4 episodes.

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Where it came up

The Megyn Kelly Show · Lindsay Clancy Jury Intimidation, & Tyler Robinson's Lawyer LIES About Charlie Kirk Being "Hateful" · at 38:23 · 2026-09-02

“We got rid of these facilities. They used to be, you know, like one flew over the cuckoo's nest situation”Mentioned
Lex Fridman Podcast · DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 · at 37:25 · 2026-08-26

“Can you steel man the case that you are in fact experiencing in a state of delusion, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and can you argue against it?”Mentioned
Stuff You Should Know · Isn't It Ironic, Dontcha Think? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW · at 26:49 · 2026-08-19

“Randle P. McMurphy, Jack Nicholson's character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is considered uh philosophically ironic by being a sane person in a mental hospital”Discussed
Modern Wisdom · “We’re At The Beginning Of A Revolution” - Jimmy Carr · at 1:44:33 · 2026-08-10

“we shut down all the asylums in the 80s because we saw one floor of the cuckoo's nest and we decided asylums were terrible places”Mentioned

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