Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 398. 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.

Jokes and Punch Lines on this week's show.

You know, one of the many things Drabblecast has always tried to do,

aside from, you know, ask you to donate and tell a friend and not commit mass

genocide and not crap your pants in a bad way is to make you laugh. I think that's natural for a

weird fiction podcast since most things that we find funny are at their core

weird or out of the ordinary.

I remember one time going through a Taco Bell drive-thru and opening my bag to find a banana

along with my order, a perfectly ripe, perfectly fine banana.

You don't always have to laugh out loud to find something funny.

Sometimes it takes the form of sincere confusion for a second or two.

Either way, it makes a moment for you

that you'll never forget because something different happened.

And if you're listening out there,

Taco Bell employee, you have my thanks.

Our story this week explores some of that idea, along with other stuff, but first, a hundred- words story.

Trapples are stories exactly 100 words, and they're the name of the game around here. Little appetizers before your main story. This week's comes to you by Swami Nona, and it's called

estrangement counseling, was pulled off our forums at forums dot treblecast.org, where we pick our weekly drabbles.

Give it a shot there in the drabblecast section.

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