Hey everyone. Have you ever wondered if the bridge you're driving across could suddenly break into pieces for no reason?

Or if there could be another Y2K, but this time for reals? Well, this book

answers those two questions. It's a very short book. No, it's got lots of stories about

crazy math mistakes with funny and or scary results. Today's book is Humble Pie,

When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, world by Matt Parker and this is the book pile

a podcast about the best of books and the worst of books if this is your first time to the podcast welcome

and maybe suggest checking out our back catalog of nearly 200 episodes with as many books I'm

Kellen Erskine I'm a a father, and my favorite pies are,

there's this sour cream blueberry and banana cream. And let me finish that sentence. I do hate bananas

in everything else, or even with nothing on them. But for some reason, they work for me in a pie. I don't know why.

It's sort of like how I hate olives, except for when they're on pizza. Man, now I wish this book was

about real pies. But again, if you're new to the podcast, my co-host, David Vance, is here

every other week, but he's also on every single episode up into about

number 150. Dave is off this week, shoplifting at TJ Max, but he'll be back next week,

asterisk, or possibly the week after. When we cover our first HP Lovecraft, the bizarre noir

slash monster novella, The Call of Cthuloo. And if you're wondering how to

spell Cthuloo, it's not what you think. You can find that on Audible as a book. And there's also this

fun radio play of it, which is also on Audible. So if you want to read or listen to it before we talk about it,

you can find the link for that and today's book in the description for this episode. They're

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Before I get to the book, I'm excited to announce some new tour dates and several more are in the works.

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