Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 326. The travel cast is a weekly

audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to

strange listeners such as yourself. I'm your host Norm Sherman.

Retired on this week's show. Sure, kicking back and doing jack shit sounds awesome at first,

but boredom starts to quickly set in, and you begin to see the world in a different light.

Yeah, this Canadian bacon is just bacon with health

insurance. Black Forest ham is just ham that needs to chill the fuck out.

Cured ham please.

This ham still has a long way on the road to recovery for what its father did to it. We spend our whole lives trying to insert ourselves into stuff. How do we cope with

eventually trying to let go, allowing the game to pass us by, finding pleasure

in all the small things.

Or is that not how everyone rolls?

Maybe some of us want to leave our marks till the end, but how long can we keep it up,

out-compete the newest model? It's getting harder and harder. If you don't watch out, you might just wake from your nap to

discover you've been replaced, recalled, services no longer needed, thank you very

much. Please see your local organic tissue mulcher and recycling unit.

Have a nice liquefication.

Let's hit a hundred word story. This week's travel comes to us from Eric Marsh and it's called The Gift that Keeps on

Giving.

Eric's been featured on theble cast several times before.

He's retired himself and now mostly spends his time messing around

with his airplane, his motorcycles, and his opera lessons.

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