THE LIVE ROAST OF Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, by Alan Dean Foster
SUMMARY: Today we cover a Transformers book that is “more than meets the eye." Unless your eye looked at the book and was like, “It seems bad,” in which case, yeah, it’s pretty much what met your eye....
9 Sep 202425min
The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin, with GUEST Zoltan Kaszas!
Zoltan Kaszas joins the podcast to discuss unshaven music guru Rick Rubin's humble and surprisingly deep book about making art (the "surprisingly" is just based shallowly on Rick Rubin's looks). -Li...
2 Sep 202439min
Re-Issue: THE ROAST OF The Da Vinci Code
What's better than uncovering the mysteries of history? MAKING UP history so that it fits into a clue-based adventure! -Listen to the audio album of Kellen's new 30-minute comedy special "Negative Co...
26 Aug 202432min
THE ROAST OF: The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
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...
21 Aug 202437min
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
-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 SUMMARY: Look, we know. T...
7 Aug 202430min
Re-Issue: Goodnight Moon with guest Chad Daniels
With a new intro where we announce a live episode recording in Los Angeles (on 9/6/24)! With a new, smoother overall edit to our conversation, today we revisit an episode from 2022 where we break dow...
30 Juli 202433min
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker
Math is boring unless it ends in a disaster, right? Maybe? Well it doesn't matter how YOU feel about it, bad things happen and math is always to blame. This book proves it (even if it's not what the a...
24 Juli 202415min
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Have you considered letting the pressure off yourself to be someone you're not in order to feel truer belonging and inner peace? Brown encourages authenticity (*unless you're a big dumb jerk, then you...
18 Juli 202427min
