Escape God, episode 639.

Me, and The Thing, by Jan Paul Bergeron. I'm going to Today's skate pod has swearing and references to mental illness.

Hello and welcome to Escape Pod.

I'm Mer Lafferty, this week's host and your co-editor.

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Today's story is the linguistically adventurous me, Meg, and The Thing by John Paul Bergeron.

John Paul Bergeron is a writer, poet, actor, filmmaker, and comedian currently living in Los Angeles. He graduated from Yale in 2017 and was a

finalist for the 2017 Dell Award for excellent and undergraduate science fiction and fantasy

writing. His humor writing has been published in McSwamy's Internet Tendency and the Higgs Weldon.

He owes mad props to George Saunders and Charles Yu, without whom he be an uninspired

Dullard who uses super super normal verbiage.

Find him on Twitter at G. P. Bergeron.

He's also the co-host of Don't Need to Know a comedy podcast that dives deep into anything peripheral and makes jokes about it.

It's read to us by Trendane's Barks.

Originally born in Texas, Trendane eventually escaped and wound his way

through a mystical series of jobs in the San Francisco Bay area, where he has worked as a software QA tester for both graphics drivers and video games, a freelance mascot performer, and several jobs on a PBS kids show.

For most of his life, people have told him that his voice is a pleasure to listen to.

But since being a werewolf phone sex operator can get boring, he decided to use his powers

to entertain a broader audience.

This is an escape pod original.

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