{"id":533,"date":"2007-06-07T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/533"},"modified":"2007-06-07T20:42:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T03:42:24","slug":"hawkeye-pierce-on-the-zombie-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Hawkeye Pierce on the Zombie Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poking around the World War Z website<\/a>, I made a strange discovery – if you go to the world map and click on Tao, New Mexico, you’ll hear a snippet of the book as read by Alan Alda. The site doesn’t say it’s him, but trust me, it’s Alda. After 34 years of M*A*S*H repeats (lovingly, I should clarify), I’d know that voice anywhere.<\/p>\n

I can only assume that it’s taken from the audiobook version. I’m not a big fan of audiobooks – but given that this is an entire book collecting various first-person recollections of the war against the zombies, I think I might like this audiobook. I’ve downloaded their 10 part, expurgated podcast of the audiobook, so I guess I’ll know soon enough.<\/p>\n

Plus, y’know, Hawkeye Pierce is in it, so it’s kind of hard to resist. I wonder who else will put in a vocal cameo.<\/p>\n

[update] Thanks to Mark, I had to find out who the entire cast was. Max Brooks is on it, but then Brooks is a regular voice actor in Saturday morning cartoons, so that’s not a surprise.<\/p>\n

Max Brooks as Max Brooks
\nAlan Alda as Arthur Sinclair
\nCarl Reiner as Jurgen Warbrunn
\nJurgen Prochnow as Philip Adler
\nWaleed Zuiater<\/a> as Saladin Kader
\nDean Edwards<\/a> as Joe Muhammad
\nMichelle “Mrs. Max Brooks and playwright” Kholos as Jesika Hendricks
\nMaz Jobrani<\/a> as Ahmed Farahnakian
\nMark Hamill as Todd Wainio
\nHenry Rollins as T. Sean Collins
\nEamonn “Hey, It’s That Guy!” Walker<\/a> as David Allen Forbes
\nand Xolelwa Azania
\nAjay Naidu <\/a>as Ajay Shah
\nJohn Turturro as Seryosha Garcia Alvarez
\nDennis “Hey, It’s That Guy Too!” Boutsikaris<\/a> as General Travis D’Ambrosia
\nBecky Ann Baker<\/a> as Christina Eliopolis
\nSteve Park as Kwang Jingshu (I know the name, but a NASCAR driver is confusing google)
\nFrank “New York Theatre Dude – no good links” Kamai as Nury Televaldi and Tomonaga Ijiro
\nRob Reiner as “The Whacko”
\nJohn McElroy as Ernesto Olguin (not sure – Speed Network dude?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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