Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 349. 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, Ambition and the Purs pursuit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau once said,

we must walk consciously only partway toward our goal

and then leap in the dark to our success. I am Batman. The world is full of risk. It's

basically an endless black ocean of suffering out there.

Jenny McCarthy's giving everyone measles.

Our planes are just fucking disappearing,

and without ambition, we would never be happy in the first place.

Ambitions the backbone of progress and capitalism

and wanton diluted manifest destiny ideology.

And I mean, that never really caused anything too.

Scholastic achievement invention.

Without ambition we wouldn't have warm buildings or vaccines or waffles or oil spills or waffles

Alexander Graham Bell never would have invented the taco, and Bertrand Kay Hot Dog would have never stuffed a handful of pig assholes

into the first dick-shaping gin.

Ambitions really nothing but self-respect and how's that a bad thing?

You like you enough to think you deserve better and want to go after it.

Nothing wrong with that, right?

Nothing wrong with being happy.

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