Review of Road Hard (2015) by N F — 22 Apr 2015

Anyone who has traveled extensively for work could feel Adams misery at yet another night in a not quite quality inn, jostled and coughed on and talked to my lunatics next to you in coach. The shoot me face smile conversion as he gets on stage in the small clubs is classic sales rep. The hate being there they don't even like what their product is but they give the customer a smile and go into their performance with some gusto. Why? Because this is how they eat. How many realtors or bank commercial lending guys that were printing money 10 years ago can relate. Every realtor sitting an open house even when it's raining on a weekday and every 8 figure loan writer now processing the auto loan for their dealership client will see something they can relate too. Hell all the GM forklift operators that used to make 70-80k are now positions that didn't get full benefits. As a regular listener to the podcast the standup material.

Wasn't new but to hear a rant that actually was stopped after less than a minute was clearly movie magic that shits all digital now. I really enjoyed the visual catharsis of actually seeing another human scuffed daily by the sandpaper of life slowly rubbing us all raw. Oh and thank god he got out of the rat race found a nice woman and was happy at the end. Otherwise it was 90 minutes of the audience commiserating / laughing at the more entertaining ways Adam could have simple things go wrong but no escapism. Adam getting the girl (MBA she's an earner!) fresh air and to make his hobby his job. That little bit of sugary fluff made it and my feelings about everyone less pessimistic at least until the next time I'm in traffic or am on hold with the cable company etc.