Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski Team: Top-20 Quarantine Movies, TV Shows, Books, Podcasts
The FIS Ski World Cup circuit typically sees Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski Team athletes traveling the world, often in new countries every few days. While traveling, athletes share countless hours spent traveling from point A to B. They're roommates who share their hotel rooms, dinner table conversations, and memories...but they also share their favorite movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, etc. with each other as a means to occupy their time off the mountain. For them, it’s a bit of a mental break where they can get their mind off skiing and find an escape in a movie or a TV show.
Since the athletes returned from Europe with their seasons cut short due to the COVID-19 outbreak, they’ve been spending more time than ever in one place, filling their time with home workouts to stay fit, learning new things—like baking, mask-making, and beyond, taking on new art projects, and more. On top of that, there’s been more time than ever to entertain themselves by binge-watching Tiger King or Formula 1: Drive to Survive, listening to the Joe Rogan Experience, diving into Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, or grabbing the extra buttered popcorn and cozying up to bae while watching a classic like Top Gun.
Behold the Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski Team’s list of favorite movies, TV shows (+TV show binges), books, and podcasts. Hopefully, these give you some ideas while you’re hunkering down and staying safe at home with your family or roommates.
MOVIES
- Top Gun
- JoJo Rabbit
- Dodgeball
- Forrest Gump
- Caddy Shack
- Ford vs. Ferrari
- Star Wars
- Blades of Glory
- Remember the Titans
- The Sun is Also A Star
- The Hangover
- Harry Potter
- Miracle on Ice
- Inception
- The Big Lebowski
- Pulp Fiction
- Lord of the Rings
- Fight Club
- Mean Girls
- Inglourious Basterds
TV SHOWS
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive
- Ballers
- The Good Place
- Stranger Things
- Narcos
- Game of Thrones
- Schitt’s Creek
- Friends
- All American
- How I Met Your Mother
- Tiger King
- Hunters
- Westworld
- Better Call Saul
- Parks and Recreation
- Poldark
- The Office
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
- New Girl
BOOKS
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Taxes for Dummies
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
- The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure by Jack Handey
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by Steve Jamison
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
- The MindBody Self: How Longevity Is Culturally Learned and the Causes of Health Are Inherited by Mario Martinez
PODCASTS
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- This American Life
- Ski Racing this Week
- Reply All
- Spittin Chiclets
- Hollywood Handbook
- Radiolab
- TED Radio Hour
- Freakonomics Radio
- The Meateater Podcast
- The Ringer NBA Show
- Meditative Story
- Revisionist History
- In the Dark
- 30 for 30
- TMG
- Crime Junkie
- How I Built This: NPR
- The Sideline Perspective
- Hidden Brain: NPR
Did you know that two-time Olympic Champion Mikaela Shiffrin is currently binge-watching Schitt’s Creek, or that 6’7” downhiller Bryce Bennett prefers Hunters to the recent hit Tiger King (no contest!), or that Alpine Development Coordinator Michael “Bing” Bingaman is a book fiend (he could have a list of 20 to himself)? Or how about the fact that two-time Olympian Alice McKennis loves F1: Drive to Survive and Keely Cashman, Emma Resnick, and Keely’s coach Katie Twible could sit and watch Friends all day long.
We hope you enjoyed this and snagged some ideas for your own quarantine entertainment list!
