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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on June 17, 2011, 01:54:45 PM

Title: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 17, 2011, 01:54:45 PM: Have to make another 13 hour drive early next week and then return later in the week. Give me your audio book or music tune recommendations for the drive so I don't fall asleep and kill myself.

And for bonus points when I get back, I will tell you whether you have good taste or not when I get back.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 17, 2011, 01:55:50 PM: Load up on Planet Money, This American Life and Radio Lab episodes.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Mupepe on June 17, 2011, 01:59:21 PM: The Da Vinci Code audiobook or Stephen King's The Tommyknockers audiobook. Dave Matthew's Band Discography. Enjoy.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: T234 on June 17, 2011, 02:10:18 PM: Do you like the blues at all, Stoney?
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 17, 2011, 02:13:55 PM: Quote from: T234 on June 17, 2011, 02:10:18 PM
Do you like the blues at all, Stoney?

I'm more a jazz guy but go ahead and recommend away. I'm open to anything.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Brehvolution on June 17, 2011, 02:39:23 PM: Buy a Sirius radio and return it when you get back.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 17, 2011, 02:41:39 PM: Load up on episodes of The Cruncheons
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: tehjaybo on June 17, 2011, 03:07:40 PM: Seasick Steve.

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c67EX8kcpcc[/youtube]
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: tehjaybo on June 17, 2011, 03:13:27 PM: Also:
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7fajFa1bNw[/youtube]
and
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13loR0i2RrY[/youtube]

Currently obsessed.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: T234 on June 17, 2011, 03:29:17 PM: Robert Cray

[youtube=560,345]xKvCmwOVMbQ[/youtube]

(skip the first 30 seconds of this one.)
[youtube=560,345]h53va2AIuYU[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]w2ipSkpTv5c[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]nZj4pQgB5EQ[/youtube]
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 17, 2011, 03:34:36 PM: Quote from: Mupepe on June 17, 2011, 01:59:21 PM
The Da Vinci Code audiobook or Stephen King's The Tommyknockers audiobook. Dave Matthew's Band Discography. Enjoy.
(http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/gifs/dumbwhatyouvedone.gif)
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Brehvolution on June 17, 2011, 03:35:33 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on June 17, 2011, 02:41:39 PM
Load up on episodes of The Cruncheons

Also a good choice.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 17, 2011, 03:38:20 PM: these: I'm sure you can get the audio only somewhere. You don't need to see them.

http://www.justiceharvard.org/2011/03/episode-01/#watch
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 17, 2011, 03:39:51 PM: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show:

http://www.sadena.com/BBC-Radio/H2G2/
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 17, 2011, 04:34:55 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on June 17, 2011, 03:39:51 PM
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show:

http://www.sadena.com/BBC-Radio/H2G2/

I thought it was known that I'm the resident Douglas Adams fanatic. :P

But if I hadn't already listened to these hundres of times, they would be a given.

Maybe I'll put on the Dirk Gently audiobooks. Only a real freak are into those two and I've only listened to them dozens of time by comparison.
Title: Re: Another long driving tip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: drew on June 17, 2011, 06:14:51 PM: Quote from: Zero Hero on June 17, 2011, 02:39:23 PM
Buy a Sirius radio and return it when you get back.

i would say do this but you probably won't want to return it
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Akala on June 17, 2011, 11:20:47 PM: The book of Mormon. Either one, really.
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 18, 2011, 12:20:29 AM: Book of Urantia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book) audiobook.
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 18, 2011, 12:55:53 AM: that's probably long enough for Game of Thrones (etc) audiobooks...although I can never stick with audio books, too damn slow compared to just reading the thing.

If you want to get your larnin' on, try the 'In Our Time' series of BBC podcasts. They address a vast range of topics, everything from the latest developments in quantum physics to medieval literature to archaeology to pop culture. The archives go back years, and literally every episode is guaranteed to make you smarter on the topic in question, even if you studied it at a college level. Having said that, it's approachable too, thanks to the masterful chairing by Melvyn Bragg (no intellectual slouch himself...).

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330895
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Dickie Dee on June 18, 2011, 01:12:27 AM: The Ricky Gervais XFM radio shows. Pants will be shat.
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 18, 2011, 01:27:37 AM: Quote from: Mamacint on June 18, 2011, 01:12:27 AM
The Ricky Gervais XFM radio shows. Pants will be shat.
They are great and I definitely recommend them to be anybody who hasn't listened to them but I'm nearly as big into Gervais as I am into Douglas Adams so I've listened to them many times also.

British humor.

:bow2
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 18, 2011, 02:29:24 AM: in that case, maybe try:

http://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/richard-herring-as-it-occurs/id334663849
Title: Re: Another long driving trip. Give me your audio recommendations
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 18, 2011, 04:16:09 PM: Quote from: Cormacaroni on June 18, 2011, 02:29:24 AM
in that case, maybe try:

http://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/richard-herring-as-it-occurs/id334663849

Never heard of him. I'll try it out.