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The Book Pile

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a thrilling murder mystery, an engaging character drama, and a profound examination of heavy topics, all written by Sherlock’s nemesis. Plus, Kellen misbehaves at a zoo and Dave comes up with a nightmare factory. * To buy the book, Big Little Lies, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/3KjPBML * TheBookPilePodcast@gmail.com * Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC's America's Got Talent, a...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Today's book is Big Little Lies by Leon Moriarty. I spent a long time on a joke about how

0:05.8

it's kind of like Schrodinger's cat, because the lies are both big and little. So pretend you're

0:10.5

laughing at my incredible joke. It's both funny and not funny. I'm Kellynerskin. I'm a comic, a father,

0:18.5

and for me, reading this book was a lot like watching the new King Richard movie

0:23.5

about Venus and Serena Williams' father. That is, at times it made me feel like an inadequate

0:29.6

parent and other times it made me feel like a great one. And I'm David Vance. If I ever start

0:37.2

turning into an ultra-masculine bro, just remind me I read this book till 5 a.m.

0:42.2

Weeping. Big Little Lies starts with the first day of kindergarten and ends with a murder, which is kind of how life is if you are murdered.

0:51.9

By the way, it's a masterpiece. And this is the book pile.

0:57.0

Also speaking of big little lies, today we're doing a special deal where if you rate and review

1:01.2

our podcast, you will never die. Podcast listener, I love this game 012, 19, 38, 465 says,

1:10.1

I respect that you read the whole thing.

1:13.9

So wanted to throw it out there in case they're, like,

1:16.3

hiding their social out in the open.

1:19.3

This is genuinely the best podcast I've subscribed to by far.

1:24.2

Excellent work, guys.

1:26.4

That's nice.

1:27.1

It also, again, shows my insecurity because

1:30.0

as I was reading it, I thought that they were saying the best podcast they subscribed to so

1:36.6

far. And I was about to be like, this is a bad review. Can someone please help Kellyn?

1:46.5

If you want to see me perform live, I'm going to be at Wise Guys in downtown Salt Lake

1:51.4

City, December 9th through the 11th.

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