HALF-ROAST: The Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
The Book Pile
Kellen Erskine and David Vance
4.8 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Today's Stephen Kingbook is a mix of two great storytelling genres, Pixar and |
| 0:05.9 | murder. In these short stories, people get killed by a toy, a smart rat, some bugs, |
| 0:11.4 | a foxy truck, and a redhead. Today is our half roast of skeleton crew, aka Coco. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I've now decided that one of these nights |
| 0:25.5 | when my boys haven't been well-behaved, I'm going to slip this book into the cover of Harry |
| 0:30.0 | Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when it's time for a bedtime story. |
| 0:36.2 | And I'm David Vance. |
| 0:37.6 | I also can't wait to read these to Kellyn's kids. |
| 0:42.2 | Skeleton Crew is a collection of horrifying short stories by Stephen King, |
| 0:46.2 | none of which are about skeletons. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm even more let down than the time I bought a ticket to see Skeleton at the Olympics. |
| 0:53.0 | And this is the Book Pile. All right, quick reminder to please And this is the bookpile. |
| 0:55.9 | All right, quick reminder to please rate and review the book pile while you can, because |
| 0:59.7 | as this book shows, you never know when you might be killed by sand. |
| 1:06.7 | Stephanie V10 said, which I'm assuming is a Roman numeral. I listened to a lot capital letters of podcasts, and this one is my favorite. |
| 1:19.1 | I started listening because I've heard Kalin Erskine as a comedian, and I think he's literally laugh out loud funny. |
| 1:24.7 | So I expected the podcast to be funny, but I honestly didn't |
| 1:27.5 | expect the book reviews to be as interesting and insightful as they are. And Dave, I wonder how |
| 1:34.0 | Callen's going to read this. I already knows that I can't take any compliment. Rereading. She |
| 1:43.2 | first says, I love Cal, I think he's funny. |
| 1:46.5 | Did not expect this to be interesting. |
| 1:52.3 | At this point, I can't always tell if it's a bit or not. |
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