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The Book Pile

THE ROAST OF: Jaws, by Peter Benchley

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Before it was a great movie, it was a un-great book. And this shark book would have been much better if it stuck to writing about sharks. Instead, it is about the “shark” of adult life: extramarital infidelity. It is also about the “shark” of the mafia world – the mafia. Plus, Kellen says there’s no such thing as too much conflict, and Dave says there’s no such thing as too much adultery. * To buy the book, Jaws, and support the podcast, click here! https://amzn.to/3Y2LudD * Messag...

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0:00.0

Sharks, adventure, law enforcement, business regulation, extramarital conflict, marine biology, real estate.

0:15.2

It's like the author came up with nine plots and was like, we're going to need a bigger book.

0:20.6

This is Jaws by Peter Benchley.

0:24.5

And this is the book pile. I'm Kellanerskin. I'm a comic, a father, and my father had this movie on

0:33.3

one Saturday afternoon when I was nine, and it terrified me.

0:40.0

It didn't scare me out of swimming at the beach.

0:43.6

It just made me afraid of watching movies with my dad.

0:51.0

We're just so impressionable as kids that you learn one lesson, and you can never unlearn it.

0:54.8

When I was a little kid, I snuck down while my uncles were watching a movie,

1:01.3

and this guy hides in the shower and sneaks out and strangles a woman. And to this day, I open showers before I use the bathroom. And I'm David Vance. When I was in college, I planned to become a doctor

1:08.9

and save lives and give families a little more time together.

1:12.2

Today, I'm going to make jokes about why this shark book has so much adultery.

1:18.6

All right, as usual, feel free to subscribe to the podcast so you don't have to download every episode manually and give us a review.

1:26.2

Our latest five-star review comes from Juvre, who says,

1:31.1

Get again before the Gillian Flynn pronunciation girl flays you for the Little Prince series episode.

1:38.0

Hilarious show and above all, accurate. Well, thank you, Jouver. Thank you. I'm not sure what they're referring to, but I have a

1:46.2

couple of ideas, Dave. Either they're saying that the pronunciation girl is going to wrongly

1:51.1

accuse us again of miss saying a word, or it's probably more likely that they're going after me

1:56.8

for pronouncing Machiavelli at least three different ways. But here's my argument for that.

2:03.0

So when I lived in Brazil, I remember one time having a conversation where two Brazilians were

2:07.8

arguing about if Disneyland was pronounced Jiznilanz, or Disneylandi? And I was like, well, you're both

2:17.4

wrong. And I'm also guessing well, you're both wrong.

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