Ben Casper's dreams have bankrupted his family, and made his long-suffering wife contemplate leaving him. Ben has definitively failed at a series of would-be inventions for years... UNTIL he finally hits on a truly great product.

The only problem - he has to get it to a trade show in Nevada (despite having less than zero money, no working prototype, and no one who wants to go with him).

Ben forces his reluctant, skittish employee to come with him on a journey that will nearly land them in jail or kill them along the way, to reach a trade show in Nevada that could change their lives.

It's Napoleon Dynamite crossed withThe Hudsucker Proxy.

Recovering Idiot, from Voyage Media, is available right now, anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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