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The Book Pile

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is a chilling book about the danger hackers pose to all of us. It is also a title with a super unclear pronoun. What is “this” referring to? The cause of the world ending? Or the way she’s being told? Until we get answers, we unfortunately cannot recommend this book...Also, Dave has some cybersecurity tips that will only take you 10 minutes, and that you still will not do. And Kellen loved the Stuxnet virus. * To buy the book, This is How They Tell Me t...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Today we're starting the episode with everyone's favorite, an explanation. We recorded

0:05.5

this episode a couple weeks ago, so that's why we talk a lot about Russia without ever mentioning

0:10.3

the invasion, which we obviously think is awful. All right, with that context, please enjoy the

0:15.4

episode, unless you're Putin. Hey, everyone, after today's episode on hacking, if there's any hackers who want to come after

0:22.9

Kellan and me, all I can say is go after our listeners instead.

0:27.6

We'll give you their emails.

0:28.8

Please spare us.

0:29.7

Today's book is This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Pearlroth, requested by a listener

0:34.4

who you should definitely hack instead of us.

0:38.5

I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and if you work for the NSA, then you probably knew that last one before I did.

0:48.6

I'm dying to know that backstory.

0:51.7

And I'm David Vance. This is my favorite book of life hacks, stories of people whose

0:56.3

lives were ruined by hacks. This is how they tell me the world ends, has a message about

1:02.8

cybersecurity that you may have already heard from Brune Brown. You're incredibly vulnerable.

1:08.8

And this is the book pile.

1:12.0

All right, in the spirit of this book, if you want to feel really cool, leave us a review,

1:16.5

and when you hit send, just sort of chuckle and say, just hacked the mainframe.

1:23.1

The lone sane person wrote,

1:26.4

This podcast is extremely funny yet also informative.

1:29.7

It introduced me to books I would have never read before.

1:33.6

Both hosts are funny, parentheses, especially the JFK jokes.

1:39.0

That is all the validation we need.

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