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The Book Pile

The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This book looks at morality through the lens of evolutionary psychology. Which sounds boring, but we promise, there’s murder and cannibalism! Plus, Kellen sings the REAL Lion King, and Dave is such a Gemini. * To buy the book, The Righteous Mind, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/3rLcYZ8 * TheBookPilePodcast@gmail.com * Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC's America's Got Talent, and the Amazon Origina...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you think that people from all political parties share the same fundamental foundations?

0:08.9

Do you think our sense of morality evolved with our brains?

0:12.2

Are you a social psychologist with the middle name David?

0:14.8

If you answer yes to all three, then you probably wrote today's book, The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Hate.

0:23.5

Haidt.

0:24.5

And this is the bookpile.

0:27.5

I'm Kellett Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and as a kid from the 90s, I can't read the title of this book without hearing it like it's coming from a ninja turtle.

0:40.0

And I'm David Vance. The author is an atheist, so I assume the angel and devil on his book cover evolved.

0:50.3

All right, again, if you want to give us an early Christmas present, rate and review us.

0:57.3

Jolier Bear 87 says, I don't listen to podcast that much, but I am a fan of the bookpile.

1:02.9

Both of the hosts work off each other really well for an entertaining experience.

1:06.9

Dave makes me laugh quite often.

1:09.2

Kellyn is just okay, I guess.

1:12.1

Oh no, what have you done?

1:13.5

But here's...

1:15.3

Because I have this long history of taking compliments the wrong way.

1:20.4

Now when I get something that seems insulting, I honestly could just convince myself that it's people trying to trigger me.

1:29.1

So I think I've like, I've eaten my way through to the other side.

1:33.7

Wow.

1:35.5

What a weird growth story.

1:39.2

Make no mistake.

1:40.5

It's still very unhealthy because now whenever I receive criticism in our comments,

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