My listening material for my highway driving this Christmas.
- Nerdist Podcast: Bruce Campbell
- Nerdist Podcast: David Spade
- Nerdist Podcast: Daniel Radcliffe
- Nerdist Podcast: Quentin Tarantino
- Serial S02E01: Dustwun
- Serial S02E02: The Golden Chicken
- Serial S02E03: Escaping
- Audiobook: Born Standing Up (A Comic’s Life) by Steve Martin
Great, great choices to keep me mentally stimulated through 1600km worth of winter driving.
The Nerdist podcasts are always good, but the standout interviews this time around were of David Spade and Bruce Campbell. David Spade is always funny, but Bruce Campbell was surprisingly hilarious. He had a lot of great stories regarding his own celebrity encounters as a fan and had a wealth of old impressions.
Serial is off to a good start but definitely has a different vibe than the first season. This one is dealing with a US solder’s capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan, while the previous season was about a murder in Baltimore.
Born Standing Up was my first Audiobook experience, which was due to David Spade and Chris Hardwick’s recommendation during their Nerdist podcast. Despite being over 4 hours long it was awesome from start to finish and made my solo driving time a delight. Narrated by Steve Martin himself, the book describes the honing of his craft, his strive for success and his desire to retire from standup comedy after he achieved it. I’ll even admit to tearing up at one point when he talks about the death of his father. Elegantly written and perfectly narrated by the man himself, even going so far as delivering some of his bits as he did them on stage.