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The Book Pile

The Old Man and the Sea--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Ernest Hemingway

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Chad Daniels joins Kellen and Dave to discuss his favorite book, The Old Man and the Sea. It's a story of perseverance, purpose, and skill (and fishing). A skilled storyteller himself, Chad brings insights from having read the book every year for the past two decades. Plus he's just hilarious. Check out Chad's podcast Middle of Somewhere, with new episodes every Monday (but start from the beginning, it's the best). To buy the book, The Old Man and the Sea, or listen to it free on A...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Picture an old man. Seems normal, right? Now picture the sea. Today's book is The Old Man in the Sea by John Grisham.

0:09.1

I'm Kellanersk, and I'm a comic, a father, and the first time I read The Old Man of the Sea, I was a teenager, and it was almost as boring as actual fishing. But I read it later and now it's one of my

0:24.9

top two favorite novels. And I'm David Vance. As a kid, I was horrified to learn about

0:29.4

catch and release fishing, where you catch a fish just to hurt it.

0:34.7

The Old Man in the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a modern classic about perseverance, mastery, and failure.

0:40.4

It was also Saddam Hussein's favorite book.

0:43.4

And this is the book pile.

0:46.4

All right, we are so excited to have Chad Daniels with us today.

0:50.5

I first heard Chad on Pandora. That's how I discovered him. I also discovered later that he has almost

0:56.7

one billion tracks listened to on Padora. He's got five albums in there. They are great. He also has a special

1:06.6

Comedy Central special, a special on Amazon Prime that you can check out called Dad Channels.

1:13.4

And of course, my favorite podcast, middle of somewhere.

1:17.0

Please welcome Chad Daniels.

1:19.2

Hello.

1:20.1

Hi.

1:20.4

Hey there.

1:21.4

How's it going?

1:22.4

Great.

1:23.3

I had just asked Chad before if there are any credits that he wanted mentioned, and he said,

1:29.5

basically, no thanks, which is so refreshing because I once worked with Chris Catan, and he gave me

1:37.6

10 things.

1:40.4

Yeah.

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