Welcome to Charles's illustrated history of the fax machine.

This week, we'll be looking at toner.

So if you could open your manuals to page 294 and look at diagram B3.

That's the one next to the one-time offer for the Mary Queen of Scott's commemorative oyster shucker.

2399 plus tax and shipping not available in Nebraska, only available with a background check and a reference from your social worker in California.

I know that I've missed a couple of weeks, but I do have some exciting news for you that will hopefully make up for lost time,

which is that this episode and this episode only will be available in the form of a 600-piece jigsaw puzzle

that has been personally and lovingly painted by Luther Abel's own hand.

This puzzle will feature all of your favorite characters from this installation.

Bugsy the Piranha, Ed the Lonely Toaster, Ginterbrand mouse practice and friends.

It'll depict lions and tigers and waiters carrying mineral water.

And in the upper right-hand corner,

there'll be a vignette of Michael Brendan Dowardy writing a check for his latest water bill.

They say that Luther is an artist, but really he's much more than that.

He's an artist with two teas and maybe a coffee if the paint fumes begin to lull him to sleep.

This week's show is brought to you fully pre-assembled and lightly waxed by our two sponsors.

This is the How the World Works podcast from CEI and the new book, Full Time Work and

the Meaning of Life by David Banson. And of course, as you'll know, our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute are back

with new episodes of their breakout How the World Works podcast, hosted by author and political

commentator, and sometime guest on this show, and my former podcast partner, Kevin Williamson. If you're not already

listening to that show, you should be for each episode. Kevin sits down with notable guests for

candid conversations about the jobs they've had and the role of work in the economy and our social

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