Hey everyone.

Did you know that there is more on the inside of the human body than just a skeleton?

Today's book is a compelling and uncharacteristically fun guide to our incomprehensibly complex anatomies.

This is The Body, a guide for occupants by Bill Bryson.

And this is The Bookpile. A podcast about the best of books and the worst of books. If this is your

first time to the podcast, welcome and may we suggest checking out our back catalog of over 170 episodes with as many books.

And most of which include my co-host, David Vance, but not today.

I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and the proud owner of 1,000 square feet of lung tissue.

As usual, Dave is out this week stealing license plate registration

stickers, but he'll be back next week when we cover the book, Excellent Advice for Living,

which is a book mostly full of freshly written wisdom, sprinkled with a few duds. So that'll

just be a fun one all around. One of my favorite

legit quotes from the book, though, is, quote, see that old person taking forever in line.

That is the future you. Have patience. All right, real quick, before we get to the book today,

if you want to see me live, I'm going to be in Grass Valley, California, May 18th, then Sunnyvale, California, Rooster T-feathers, May 30th through

June 2nd. Then I'm going to be in Winnipeg, Canada, at Rumors Comedy Club, June 11th, through

the 15th. I also hope that I'll be able to announce soon the night of May 3rd,

in which I will likely be in northern Los Angeles, so stay tuned for that, as well as other dates

around the country coming soon. If today's book ends up sounding interesting to you,

maybe consider buying it using the link

to our episode description.

That way you get the book and support the podcast.

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