It's been a while since I paid attention to these podcasts (Woods' obsession with the movie is a bit creepy), but I really liked this episode. Rian isn't only a nice filmmaker, but a cool guy too, and listening to him talking with such excitement about Pynchon (I loved his Knives Out reference of Gravity's Rainbow, which I finished reading last month, or at least I think I did), Paul and Newsom was very refreshing.
I also have a nerd question out of curiosity. On the Filming Locations section of the IMDB, Las Vegas is referred amongst others. Does anyone know if they they actually shot the Las Vegas sequence of the book but apparently they decided to cut it off in the editing room?