Hey, everyone. So in junior high, I learned how to lose a dream in the bad way. The bad way is you read so many books about murder that all your dreams are now about murder. I basically turned myself into a precog. Well, today we cover a junior high classic Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, which has been adapted into

several successful nightmares.

And this is The Book Pile.

Basically, my 13-year-old subconscious read Angels and Demons and was like, yeah, we can work with that.

Welcome to the podcast, if this is your first time. time the book pile is a comedy podcast about the

best of books and the worst of books i'm kellen erskin i'm a comic a father and i think that of all

trains the orient express was the perfect choice for an unexpected mystery crime because I've ridden a few

trains. And if it were murder on the Amtrak, I think we'd all be like, well, yeah, it's Amtrak.

Like, I'm surprised murder isn't plural.

And I'm David Vance.

Since murder mysteries are so lucrative,

I've started making mysteries about the rest of the Ten Commandments.

So join us next week for our first,

Honor Thy Mother mystery.

If you combine murder with Honor Thy Mother,

it's basically just the Sopranos.

There really are lots of other mysteries out there, but for whatever human reason,

murder is the highest stake sort of mystery. I know. We're obsessed with the worst thing that can

happen to you. It's never like, the guy on the Orient Express who can't find his passport.

All right.

And now the moment we've all been waiting for.

In honor of our 149th episode, we have a couple of huge announces.

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