Hey everyone, what's your favorite podcast?

And while we're on that subject, what are the 10 best episodes of that podcast in the last full year?

Here to answer those questions today is me.

For our 150th episode, these are the top 10 episodes from our last 50 of The Book Pile,

a comedy podcast about the best of books and the worst of books. I'm Kalan Erskine. I'm a comic,

a father, and the biggest fan of my own podcast or so my recent download history would have you believe.

I recently relistened to episodes 100 through 149 just to make this episode.

When was the last time you listened to 25 hours straight of your voice?

It's not healthy.

As per our new usual, my co-host, David Vance, is out this week,

but he's back next week, and actually, he's back this Thursday for our Patreon subscribers.

If you haven't heard or haven't heard enough, we launched a Patreon, and we're so grateful to see

you joining, by the way. Thank you so much to

everyone who has so far. Our new community is quickly growing, and we look forward to engaging

even more with you through that medium. Speaking of which, real quick, here are a few of the

perks of being a Patreon subscriber. Weekly bonus mini episodes with me and Dave. I say many episodes,

but they're really at least half episodes. Periodic live stream hangouts with me and Dave, Dave and I,

exclusive voting on books for future episodes. Our first ballot will be available soon. Private community

comment forums, and of course, the benefit of just knowing that you're supporting Dave and I and

me as we continue to pursue excellence in reading books and telling great jokes about those books

to you. And speaking of comment forums, one of the

questions for the Patreon post on this episode this week is, if you were going to recommend

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