Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 363

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.

This week on the treble cast, Self Discovery, The Asshole Within. There are jerks. Self-Discovery, the asshole within.

There are jerks, there are war criminals, there are people who clap at the end of movies,

but the word asshole gets tossed around willy-nilly these days folks, willy and somehow in complete tandem, nilly,

when we really should be reserving some basic healthy level of hate and cynical nihilism

for people that really deserve it.

Like Kevin James or people that call things ironic when they really mean coincidental or people

that get particularly hung up on silly shit like that, or the from Bernstein Bears, you know the mom bear

with a frock and dumb-flowered hat always talking about chores and coming down

on everyone like a total Nazi. Oh yeah, Nazis?

Kevin James.

A jerk is someone who steals your wallet with your Social Security card in it

while you're traveling overseas and just puts you on a road of exhausting headache

and immeasurable inconvenience with endless more to come.

An asshole is someone who decides that we have to have a thing called a Social Security card,

and it has to be tiny and it has to be made of paper and it has to last you

absolutely the rest of your fucking life. Don't laminate it you can't laminate it

that's not allowed you sad bunch of pricks. This week we bring you the totals by Adam Troy Castro.

But first, a hundred word story.

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