In today's modern world, we are always in such a hurry. We rarely stop to think about the things that “keep the gears turning”. On this podcast, we explore the people, technologies, items, or processes that, while at one time were considered outstanding, have today become so commonplace we take them for granted.
This Podcast is an extension of the Youtube Series “How to Make Everything.” In that series, we show how difficult it can be to make an everyday item from scratch if one person, Andy George, had to do everything himself. We expand on the themes of the series by zeroing in other everyday subjects that were easily overlooked and find out how complex they really are. We also revisit and dive into our past projects and share behind the scenes secrets we’re unable to show on screen.
Refrigerators are everywhere - in the kitchen, climate control, bombs, supercomputers, and spacecraft. In this episode, Andy, Taylor, and Brian, with the help of science writer and author Tom Jackson, explore the explosive history of deadly fridges, ice harvesting empires, and how the science of refrigeration is leading the way to quantum computing, teleportation, and immortality.
Coffee helps millions of people wake up in the morning but rarely do we consider the complex process that transforms the subtle flavor differences of coffees around the world. In this episode, we take a deeper look at the flavor of coffee, interview an expert in coffee roasting and sourcing, and talk about Andy's journey to Mexico to make his morning cup of coffee completely from scratch.
On our premiere episode, Taylor and Andy revisit the time Andy attempted to make candy corn from scratch. As with most projects Andy takes on, making candy successfully is much more difficult than it appears. So the guys call professional Confectioner and YouTuber Greg from Lofty Pursuits to find out what Andy did wrong and to learn just how complicated artisan candy is to make.
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