Hey everyone. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is a brief history of humankind and is way more

interesting than the prequel, Homo erectus.

I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I found out that I agreed with half of this

book. I wasn't convinced about the other half. And anyway, the entire thing, it's just a bunch

of ideas printed as letters on a page,

which are really just arbitrary symbols that we have collectively decided for,

warns that we agree of specific meanings that if we take a step back,

none of them actually exist except for the idea of them in our minds.

So this book isn't real, but does imagined reality matter if it reduces how much we kill each other as a species.

Blurg Blurka, David Vance.

And I'm David Vance.

This book inspired me to create a species of hook-nosed, greasy-haired hominids called Homo Snapiens.

And this is the best joke I've ever told.

In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari claims everything from money to laws to morality was just made up by humans.

So we encourage you to steal his book.

And this is the book pile.

All right, quick reminder to please rate and review the bookpile,

or else we will be out-competed and driven to extinction by stronger, smarter podcasts.

Finally, our next two books are Sense and Sensibility and Talk Like Ted, so we can cover

sexy Jane Austen leading men like Willoughby, Edward Ferris, and Ted.

All right, without further ado, here are our five favorite lessons from Sapiens.

All right, lesson one, gluten isn't nearly the scariest thing about wheat.

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