Escape Pod episode 1003 is a reading of Vanessa Ricci-Thode's "Billionaire’s Tears".

It's such a beautiful, fun, hopeful story!

This is the kind of speculative fiction that delights me. It's escapist fantasy, has stakes, demands redemption, and offers a pragmatic, real solution to our problems amid the outlandish story. Billionaires die or immediately become non-billionares! Musk and Rowling are dead before the story starts and it gets better from there!

https://escapepod.org/2025/07/24/escape-pod-1003-billionaires-tears/