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The Book Pile

THE ROAST OF: The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Look. It’s just possibly the worst book we’ve ever read. This is the maddest you’ll ever hear us. -Listen to the audio album of Kellen's new 30-minute comedy special "Negative Comments"! Available by joining The Book Pile's Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/TheBookPile See us LIVE in Los Angeles (adjacent...) on Sep 6th! Tickets here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kellen-erskine-stand-up-comedy-the-book-pile-podcast-tickets-952036465697?aff=Website -Dave’s book / game The Starlings is her...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Did you know that if you want something like lots of money, love, weight loss, or a mansion, all you have to do is imagine that thing and the universe will give it to you no matter who you are or what

0:22.6

living conditions you've been born into without exception well it's not true but this

0:27.8

baseless empty misleading mystical pile of cow poop still made 300 million dollars today

0:34.1

we're roasting the secret by Rhonda Byrne.

0:38.3

And this is the bookpile.

0:40.3

A podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.

0:43.5

If this is your first time to the podcast, welcome and maybe suggest checking out our

0:47.7

back catalog of nearly 200 episodes with as many books.

0:52.2

I'm Kalan Erskine.

0:53.4

I'm a comic, a father, and I can't even finish my regular

0:57.8

intro today. I'm so mad about this book. Out of those 200 books that I just mentioned

1:04.5

that we've covered, this is the worst one. Yeah, it's the one that made me the maddest for sure.

1:11.0

And we've had some duds.

1:12.7

Like, Twilight was dumb, but still inadvertently fun.

1:16.7

The alchemist was just a fluffy fairy tale.

1:19.4

But I believe that Quailio still meant it, like, from a good place.

1:23.6

At least he never wrote anything like, if you just believe, then quantum physics will

1:29.3

understand your thoughts and grant all your wishes every time because that's the law.

1:35.9

I mean, the premise of this book is, if you want to get the stuff you want, have you tried

1:40.2

wanting it?

1:44.0

This is the only book I've ever asked a refund for on Amazon.

1:50.2

I don't know if you've done that before, Dave, but I just put, I hated it.

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