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The Book Pile

Humans, by Brandon Stanton

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

To buy this book (Kindle or hardcover!) and support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/43U0dZr * Kellen and Dave were very sad when this book became a best-seller, since we had already published a book of the same title (ours was a cookbook). Join us as we dive into the poignant, heartfelt, hilarious, honest, tragic stories within this book. Also, Dave becomes a better interviewer (his go-to first question is “Who is your mistress?”) and Kellen takes wisdom from everyone, even the ones ...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone.

0:09.0

Humans of New York is a fictional Instagram account that imagines what the world would be like full of average ugly people, rather than the perfect, stunning models you see in daily life.

0:20.2

Today's book is Humans by Brandon Stanton.

0:24.5

And this is the book pile. I'm Kellanersky, and I'm a comic, a father, and after reading this book,

0:32.4

I feel like a really good father.

0:39.2

And I'm David Vance.

0:44.0

When I'm in New York, I spend an hour walking around Central Park with my brow furrowed,

0:45.6

like I have a story to tell.

0:48.9

If I see a man with a camera, I make myself cry.

0:58.3

All right, we have an exciting new way that you can support the podcast since you guys have been asking nonstop for two and a half years now.

1:10.6

If this book or any of the books that we talk about seems interesting enough for you to buy with money or to listen to on Audible, which is how I get through 90% of my books, please check out the new

1:12.5

Amazon link that we now have in every episode description.

1:16.8

Callan, how badly would it hurt your feelings if the books we sold the most were the roasts?

1:23.9

I think I'd be okay with it, like, from here on out.

1:28.4

If Stephanie Meyer's going to make more money, I get a few pennies from her as well.

1:35.4

So, yeah, if you like the books and you want to support us, click on the link.

1:40.8

All right, so this book is very beautiful.

1:43.2

For those of you who haven't seen the Insta account,

1:45.7

he goes around taking photos of people on the street and asking about their stories. And in

1:50.3

this book, he does it all over the world. It's very personal. It's a very popular account.

1:56.5

And Kellan, for sure, some other guy in New York has taken advantage.

2:03.4

Like, hey, I'm the humans of New York guy.

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