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The Book Pile

Do You Talk Funny? by David Nihill with guest David Nihill!

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In Do You Talk Funny?, Dave Nihill (our special guest!) went undercover, posing as a popular Irish standup comedian in order to get better at public speaking. Listen to his hilarious insights and stories, including truly crazy things he’s done in Colombia. Also, Dave has some retractions and Kellen cheats in a comedy competition. * To buy the book, Do You Talk Funny?, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/3OF6rrJ

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Want to get better at public speaking? No, then shut up. Today's book is Do You Talk Funny by David Nihil?

0:09.1

I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I've known Dave Nyhill for years, and I've always been

0:16.0

jealous of his Irish voice, which in America after shows, people will ask him if his accent is real,

0:23.5

and I don't blame them. And I'm David Vance. I grew up with the sexy metropolitan

0:28.7

southeast Idaho accent. In Do You Talk Funny, David Nihil goes undercover undercover pretending to be a stand-up comic so he can get better at public speaking kind of how kellyn pretends he's been on conan so he can get better at having fans that was real i love the commitment to the bit and this is the book. And this is the book pile.

0:57.2

And this is the book pile.

0:59.6

That's my Irish take.

1:01.0

I think it's Scottish.

1:02.0

I have no idea.

1:05.1

This review is from Well Pleased.

1:09.0

I had a pile of laundry and I was listening to this podcast.

1:11.3

I folded the entire load and there was even a moment where I was disappointed I had no more laundry to fold because I wanted to finish the episode.

1:17.0

So if you have a pile of something you want to get done, turn on the book pile.

1:21.7

I think that review was written by Mari A Kondo and she was disappointed because laundry is her

1:26.8

friends.

1:29.5

If you'd like to join our email list and or recommend a book, just email us at the bookpile

1:36.8

podcast at gmail.com. Also this episode, we're introducing a new feature called

1:42.6

retractions in one breath. It goes like this.

1:45.9

O-type blood is not the universal donor. That's O negative. The Hamilton Dorsquake didn't inspire

1:49.6

the done that. Dada-da-da-da-d-d-d-and-microsoft is actually doing very well worth $1.7 trillion.

1:54.8

We were only making fun of their products. Okay. Also, every one of those was pointed out to me by my family, my dad and my sisters,

2:04.2

in case you're wondering how exhausting a family of me is.

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