Hey everyone.

Stephen Pinker presents hundreds of pages of evidence that life is better today than it ever has been in history.

So now it probably feels dumb to complain about egg prices, huh?

Your biggest problem used to be dying at 27 of old age.

Today's book is Enlightenment Now.

And this is the book pile.

I'm Kellyn Erskine.

I'm a comic, a father, and compared to most of history, living on borrowed time.

And I'm David Vance. I'm thinking of one day doing a political comedy show, so I keep a list of

topics to cover. And the worst thing about me is that sometimes the social issue gets solved,

and I feel slight disappointment that I didn't get to do an episode about it.

I'm just imagining you jumping out of your easy chair, throwing a newspaper to the ground going.

Great. Now that's been eradicated. There goes my chimney sweep maltreatment episode.

All right, just like every week, check out this episode on our YouTube channel, link in bio.

We'd love to hear what you think.

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We do admire the people who said, Spotify doesn't let me leave a review, so here's me emailing

you my compliments.

Cressless PBJ says, oh man, well, they've already said that they're nine years old.

The Book Pile is one of my favorite podcasts, second only to reason and nonsense uh which is hosted by three of my friends

i uh i don't care mr sandwich i already loved kellen and his dry bar comedy specials

all right dave so now he's winning me back so enjoying this was a no-brainer you're the best

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