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The Book Pile

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Among all the classic horror books dealing with horrifying supernatural terrors preying upon small children, this is the one with the prettiest poetry. Plus, Dave dumbs things way down, and Kellen tries to save the Berlin Wall. * To buy the book, Something Wicked This Way Comes, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/43TPRsy * TheBookPilePodcast@gmail.com * Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC's America's G...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. If you've got a feeling that something this way comes, but you're not sure what kind of thing, I have terrible news. Today's book is Something Wicked This Way Comes. I hope it's Idina Menzel. I'm Kellett Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and I've loved Ray Bradbury since I was a kid. He wrote the first big book I ever read and my first real nightmares.

0:25.2

And I'm David Vance. In this book, the dad fulfills what was legit one of my childhood dreams,

0:30.7

which is ruining someone else's magic trick. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

0:37.4

is a book about an evil traveling carnival, yet another American job lost to automation.

0:44.5

And this is The Book Pile.

0:47.3

So this book has the illustrated man who's covered in tattoos.

0:51.3

So our special deal this week is leave a review and Kellan will

0:55.0

tattoo it on the most sensitive part of his face.

0:58.0

My eyeballs.

1:01.0

It'd be great to go into a tattoo parlor with a prosthetic eye that was textured very realistically so then you could just tell them like yeah

1:14.1

I want a scorpion on my pupil they're like what and you just like pretend to hold your eye

1:21.1

open while they do it like ah um listener la la la la la la la banana says love this podcast could you guys Listener La La La La La La La Banana says,

1:29.9

Love this podcast. Could you guys do Red Notice or this is how they tell me the world ends?

1:35.4

Smart people are always telling me to read those.

1:37.8

Well, here's how smart I am La La La Banana.

1:40.5

I didn't know that Red Notice was more than a movie.

1:44.6

All right. And without further ado, here are five lessons that we took from

1:49.1

Something Wicked This Way Comes.

1:52.0

I feel like I don't have a deep enough voice to say this title.

1:58.1

I think you should compensate by going super high.

2:02.7

All right, lesson one.

2:04.3

When you remove the fear, this is a story about an evil carnival being totally owned by two little boys.

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