This is fucking awesome. Somebody post the whole thing.

I have clear memories of seeing this whole thing, including the story of Paul Bunyan, as a wee lad.

"John Henry's dead!" he told the audience directly.

"No! Not John Henry!" replied the audience.

Yeah, it was perfectly fine for blue collar workers to lose their jobs to machines. The "educated" people sneered, secure in their office jobs.

Then, cheap fast computers came along.

After watching him whallop those spikes with a giant fuckin' hammer in each hand I'm really confused as to why we needed so many Irish and Chinamen to build the railroad. Seems like a couple of guys coulda hammered that shit together over a weekend.

Then they would've died, and nobody would've had to pay 'em. So, I mean, cigars all around.