Hey everybody, I'm Bryce Abel, the co-host of Need to Know with Ross Colthart.

We try to keep the podcast straight ahead and businesslike, and from what we're hearing,

that's the way you like it. But besides being a journalist like Ross, I'm also a writer-producer

out here in Hollywood,

and sometimes I just need to say things in a way that might not fit into our podcast.

This is one of them.

I call what you're about to experience a profane rant about modern euphology.

It's full of swear words, so get the kids out of the room.

And don't blame me for all the opinions it expresses.

It's written in the voice of a character, a guy who's heard and seen it all and just explodes.

He's got some Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, touch of Hunter Thompson from

Fear and Loathing, plus a bit of the classic outspoken comedian George Carlin and even

some Howard Beale, the anchor who's not going to take it from anyone anymore in the film

network. The actual voice you're going to hear isn't me either. It's Ed Hall, who many people

remember as the announcer and comic sidekick on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He does a great job.

And apparently all the profanity and the swearing becomes natural to him.

Okay, then, here it is, a profane rant about modern euphology.

It's 13 minutes of, well, that's for you to decide.

If you really want to hear about it, the problem is that just when some poor bastard starts to think to himself,

Jesus fucking Christ, this shit is real, the goddamn enormity of it all, the implications of the entire craptastic house of cards falling down,

and the fact that there really might be actual aliens flying around our

tortured spinning blue ball of life, well, that's what pulls the entire frayed, wine-spilled,

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