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The Future According to Me

By: Rob Kutner
Narrated by: Emo Philips, Rob Kutner, Jane Wiedlin, Kurt Andersen, Cecil Baldwin, Kipleigh Brown, Eddie Pepitone
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Summary

Hipster aliens! Existentially aware smart toilets! Instant genital swapping! The future will be all of these things and so much more in Conan/Daily Show writer Rob Kutner's collection of "quick hits" on what could be but probably shouldn't.

Includes never-before-seen primary source documents like:

  • The official memo of the triumphant Jewish/gay/lizard-people conspiracy
  • The diary of a time-travelling garbage man
  • The unearthed prophecies of the great Seusstrodamus

If you listen to this book, you are guaranteed to start traveling into the future.

©2011 Rob Kutner (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

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Thankfully, it was free! I really fail to see the point.

Just 57 minutes I’ll never get back!

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amazing

great satirical work! this was one of the best things i've listened to all year. could not stop laughing.

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Not Even Cecil Baldwin Could Save This

An interesting writing exercise that might have been better to stay in notebooks and drafts.

This is a collection of short pieces on possible futures that I unfortunately found ranged in quality from extremely mildly amusing to painfully cringeworthy. The most appropriate descriptor of these micro fictions is wacky said with one's whole chest with no positive qualifications.

One of the possible futures is transphobic in its bioessentialism around genitals, which I don't think was the intention. However, it does smack of a cishet guy being silly about sex and gender with all the tact one might expect.

I truly don't understand this coming from a successful and respected comedy writer. I also have no idea how so many fantastic performers were convinced to narrate the audiobook. Unfortunately, the dulcet tones of Night Vale's own Cecil Baldwin and intense ranting of the Bitter Buddha were enough to bring this to life.

I feel like I'm being really mean, but it feels like so very little thought or care were put into this. I'm genuinely not knocking this as a creative exercise and think things like this can be great, but that doesn't mean they should be published. I am certain of anyone without the history in the business, and connections Kutner has made any attempt to publish this they would be laughed out of the publisher's office.

I'm glad it was free on Audible and I hope all the narrators got paid.

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Atrocious.

A series of poorly disguised bigotry, atrocious short stories. Genuinely shocking that the writer is arrogant enough to suppose his work is comparable to P.K.Dick's.

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