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Referenced as the source material for Disney's animated film, which Walt Disney was immersed in when he died of lung cancer in December 1966.

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Referenced as Kipling's stories about Roman Britain published in 1906, described as casting Hadrian's Wall as a monument to civilisation - Kipling is called 'the great laureate of the British Empire'

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Mentioned in discussion of Freemasonry in the British Empire. The hosts note that Kipling's story begins with a section about Masonry and features characters who use Masonic rituals to establish authority.

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Referenced alongside Heart of Darkness as an example of more morally complex imperial literature compared to boys' adventure stories

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Described as 'a very George R.R. Martin story' in discussion of Kipling's influence and British imperial writing about frontiers

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Hugh Wilford mentions that the early generation of CIA officers had all read Kipling's Kim and saw themselves in the same tradition of adventure and espionage, influencing how they approached their work.

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Tom reads an excerpt from this short story and both hosts discuss it extensively as a powerful work about grief following World War I. Tom mentions he reads it every November 11th and recommends it to listeners, saying it's available online and is 'one of the great short stories ever written.'