Nick "Fiddly" Fiedler
March 13th, 2008Sorry Nick. That was a harsh Nick name.
We had Nick Fielder (from the Nick and Josh podcast) and his lovely wife Leslie over for a meal at our home last night. They are currently touring Australia, and we offered our home for a night or two. Circumstances are that my wonderful mother-in-law (Alice, are you reading this?) is also staying, so she took trumps. So it was dinner instead.
Nick and Josh are really two ordinary guys who have had the chutzpah to invite all sorts of ‘famous’ people (in some circles at least) onto their podcast for an amateurish but fun interview. Some names include (ripped direcley from their site): Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Shane Claiborne, Phyllis Tickle, Andrew Jones, Scot McKnight, Diana Butler-Bass, Damien Jurado, Derek Webb, Karen Sloan, Spencer Burke, Bob Price, Frank Viola, Zach Lind, Jim Henderson, Pete Rollins, Bishop John Shelby Spong, and AJ Jacobs. Our favourite here is Shane Claiborne, but I told Nick that I’d probably listen even without the ‘big’ names, because these guys are a hoot. They currently have some 280,000 subscribers.
Nick and Leslie were very gracious as we in all-too-typical Aussie fashion bagged out their president and Americans in general. I don’t think they minded too much. I hope.
Anyway. They were great company. Felt like catching up with old friends, though we’d never met them before. Check out the podcast.
thanks for the kind words man. wish i was there to bang on the president too.
Comment by josh — March 16, 2008 @ 1:44 am
We had a wonderful time as well. It did just feel like sitting around with people that we were already close with and Leslie is still raving about the vegetarian options.
Thanks for the link love and I hope to stay in touch. We are in Cairns right now but flying to brisbane tomorrow. Going to track down that Dave Andrews character.
BTW is that a flickr picture of your son peeing on a tree. Priceless!
Comment by Nicholas — March 22, 2008 @ 7:52 pm