Episode 1: The Good News

By: Brett Neichin, John Scott Dryden

Narrated by: Geoffrey Arend, Annie Parisse, Jon Gabrus, Karibel Rodriguez, Theo Ogundipe, full cast

New York Times science writer Damon Ellis (Geoffrey Arend) crashes—literally—into a story that just might resurrect his career…and change the course of human history. A small bio-tech company in Boston called Calypso claims to have cracked the secret of eternal youth. Surely a hoax? Or is it?

©2022 Brett Neichin (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC

Great Story! Great Performance

The podcast is a true theater of the mind. Great acting, great effects, and great story. I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend.

Good acting, bad story

The story starts off strong, and the cast is great. The first episode or two I was hooked. But then it just flat loses its way. It goes from being a fairly decent thriller to a horrible comedy. And I found myself wondering if the characters were just stupid or if the writers were trying to make a joke. Specifically, it was extremely annoying when the writers tried to force in little bits of drug use in a clumsy, attempt to seem cool, or edgy. They didn’t serve the story, but felt like someone was trying to wink at the reader and say “I know about edibles, I am hip, right?”

A comedic masterpiece

Takes itself seriously in first few episodes then the comedic banter hits full force every minute until the last episode. Had me rolling with its wit and smart playful unending dead-ends that present the next comedic scene. So different from other comedy spoofs where the series makes you want to finally know “what really didn’t happen” in its conspiracy farce of eternal youth.

Dragged On

Sorry, I couldn’t finish this. The main character and his best friend were over the top in the whiny department.

A lead you love to hate

The plot is good and thrilling, mildly predictable but what isn’t nowadays, especially considering the plot is actually less fictional then one may believe. Thousands of years of life extension not as likely as a hundred or two. I mean have you seen Jared Leto he’s like 60 and looks 20 or the fact that Jennifer Aniston admitted to doing micro needling with the stem cells of babies being pushed into her skin as a serum it was on Ellen if you’re curious. Using young blood and particularly plasma to cure ailments is pretty mainstream now.
The only issue that I would have to consider with the book is that the main character is such a narcissist, that you just kind of hate him. Whether it was intentional that he was so narcissistic and whiny I don’t know, but other than that it was a good listen. Hope you all enjoy it.