Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 343. The Drabble

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.

This week on the show, Superhero Superstressers. Superhero'sressers.

Super-Hressers. Superheroes put on their pants one leg at a time,

just like the rest of us.

Alfred, my bat balls, they're stuck in my bat zipper bat help

And even though those pants may be spandex, superheroes get stressed out all the time, just like the rest of us.

In fact, even as children, superheroes usually come from situations of great stress.

Think about it.

Superman, Spider-Man, Daredevil, tons of the X-Men.

They're all orphans.

It's pretty much a death sentence having a superhero kid, which is one reason why Batman and catwoman never had one, I'm sure.

That and they'd have to call it something like Bat Cat or man woman.

But without those situations of stress and anxiety,

those events that render kids, not just orphans, but heroes. What do you get?

Cinderella never meets Prince Charming. David Copperfield never lives with his

eccentric great aunt. Voldemort prevails in taking over the wizard kingdom,

and a new era of black magic is ushered in,

setting the stage for a muggle apocalypse.

A muggle pocolips, if you will you will and you will oh yes every single one of you will

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