Escape Pod, episode 743. Summer Flashback. Flash from the Vault. I'm going to do. Hello and welcome to Escape Pod Summer School where we post some of our favorite

episodes from the vault with a new perspective. I'm your assistant editor and

teacher for this class, Benjamin C. Kinney, and I've got three flash

episodes from long, long ago.

We bring you Paul Bunyan and the photocopier by Larry Hammer, Beach Comer by Mike Reznik, and Semi-autonomous, or

for whom the warranty tolls, by Jim Cling.

Our first author is Larry Hammer.

Larry Hammer is a person who exists.

Our narrator is Michael Manengue.

Michael was a co-creator and host of the podcast Slice of SciFi, the engineering chief at the

Draco Vista Studios in Arizona, and a published author of fantasy novels who began writing

in the late 1980s. He's received recognition from Writers

Digest in Forbes Publishing for his first book, Zach and the Valley of the Dragons, and his next book,

Mistress of the Dragon was released in 2001 and Dragons Fire Wizards flame in 2003.

Now aim your time machine for 2006 because it's story time.

Paul Bunyan and the photocopier by Larry Hamer.

Well, the time came, Paul Bunyan had a pretty successful thing going

with his lumber business. Fact is the first year his company went public, the stock price doubled,

and it went up 50% each of the three years after that.

Mind you, this made Paul a target for corporate raiders.

Why the battle he had with Bluebeard is a yarn and a half,

but that's another tale.

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