The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman

The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman

I recently listed to The Areas of My Expertise and would highly recommend the audio version over the text version primarily due to the addition of troubadour Jonathan Coulton. It takes comedic courage to devote a whole audio CD to a list of 700 Hobo names read to the strumming of Mr. Coulton's guitar with the audio quality slightly above that of a short wave radio broadcast. We are also treated to interesting but completely erroneous facts about each state coupled with a state song that spectacularly fails to capture the spiritual essence of member of the union.

In these overly politicized times, it was great to escape in the alternate history and alternate facts that    do not in anyway provide enlightenment. We learn about FDR's controversial strategy to end the hobo wars of the late 1930's to halt the hobo take over of certain branches of the US government.

All Animals vs. All Humans - 2 minutes

The theme of The Areas of My Expertise  - 2 minutes