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The Book Pile

Contagious by Jonah Berger

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you have some kind of product you want to spread to the world, check out this podcast, unless your product is Nazis. In Contagious, Jonah Berger gives great tips for improving word-of-mouth. Plus, Kellen name drops the Today Show many times, and Dave has great news about Baby Shark. * To buy the book, Contagious, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/3OA7b1u * TheBookPilePodcast@gmail.com * Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central,...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. We all have that project we want to spread to as many people as possible.

0:04.7

It could be a book or a company, or in my case, I'm going to be honest with you, a cult.

0:09.5

Well, today's book can help. Praise to our Lord, Agar the Bloodthirsty.

0:13.3

The book is contagious by Jonah Berger.

0:16.6

I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, a member of a new cult that I can't talk about.

0:23.8

And before this book, I had not heard the word contagious every day for the last three years.

0:31.6

And I'm David Vance. My career actually started in viral marketing.

0:35.9

Today's episode is sponsored by smallpox.

0:42.2

Contagious gives amazing tips for making something more popular, and you can bet I'll use all of them to make you share my podcast.

0:49.1

And this is the book pile.

0:52.0

All right, quick reminder that if you share this podcast with your friends, you will look so

0:57.0

cool.

0:58.0

Am I doing that right?

1:02.1

NC Jensen says, just found this podcast a week ago.

1:05.5

I went back and started at the beginning and it's so fun.

1:08.4

Oh, I'm glad he kept listening if he started at the very

1:10.9

beginning. And it's so fun to listen to. I haven't listened to anything else. Kellan is hilarious,

1:17.0

as always, as is Dave. Well, thank you, NC Jensen. Now, if you want to see me live, I'm going

1:23.6

to be in New Jersey this week at Bananas Comedy Club this Friday and Saturday, June 24th and 25th. Go to Kellanerskin.com for tickets.

1:32.3

I actually have a story about actual bananas in this episode. Also, I recently got to be a part of a fantastic podcast, Musical Monday, with Zach Atherton and Shay McCombs, their brilliant musical

1:46.1

improvisers. And every Monday, they come up with three full songs of a made-up Broadway

1:50.7

musical. As a guest on their show, I got to contribute the name of the musical and the

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