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It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest is Bob Powers. Here he is reading from his

Choose Your Own Adventure book. You are a miserable excuse for a hero.

This is called a note on being in your 30s and having accomplished very little.

In this book, you get to be the main character in an exciting kidnapping adventure that you want

no part of. You're a 33 year old struggling actor with very little hope of ever being successful

and you feel like time is running out for you to make something of yourself.

With every passing day, you are that much closer to giving up and every choice feels

weighted with the possibility that it will send you down a path to failure.

Your friends have all settled into lucrative careers that you resent and fruitful marriages

that you envy while you've done everything you can to commit to nothing for fear of limiting

your options. For you, as long as you choose to do nothing, anything is possible.

Enter Julia. She's the pretty girl you went out with last night and she's been kidnapped.

It's up to you and you alone to rescue her. The ensuing adventure will force you to make a

series of choices that will not only determine the life or death of an innocent girl,

but will force you to add focus to your career and your love life in ways that you've been

avoiding ever since you got out of college. Be very careful. You're directing the story and

the choices you make can result in murder, graduate school enrollment, torture,

...