The New Disruptors Podcast
1) Consumption in the Age of Pandemic with Dan Frommer
In this episode recorded in early April 2020, Dan Frommer (Twitter) of The New Consumer joins host Glenn Fleishman. Dan is a long-time journalist. He’s been the editor in chief of Recode at Vox Media,...Show More
2) Picture Yourself on a Dress and Deliver with Jaimee Newberry
Jaimee Newberry is the co-founder of Picture This Clothing. Draw a picture or take a picture and get it put on a dress or a T-shirt. It’s that simple — well, it’s that simple for the maker, which is w...Show More
3) Race to Answer the Call of the Wild with Pat Race and Marian Call
Musician Marian Call appeared on New Disruptors back in October 2013. Her home was in Alaska, but she spent a lot of time away from it touring. With six more years under her belt, she’s trying to stic...Show More
4) What’s Your Latest with CW&T: Chi-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy
CW&T is Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. They combine art, technology, design, and manufacture into everyday objects that have nothing everyday about them, as well as unique expressions of industrial des...Show More
5) Grand Inventions: Weathering Time with Benn Bollay
Benn Bollay remembers that he knew as a kid that his grandfather was an early researcher into weather forecasting. But it turns out that Eugene Bollay was one of the founders of the field of meteorolo...Show More
6) Painting with Lasers with Dan, Shell, and Nick
This episode is recorded live at Glowforge, makers of a 2D laser cutter—but it’s not a sponsored episode and we don’t talk about the hardware much at all. Instead, it’s conversation about what people ...Show More
7) A Life in Letterpress: a Live Podcast
My love of letterpress printing is no secret, and in this episode, I speak to two designers who devote parts of their working lives to modern letterpress. This episode was taped live at Ada’s Technica...Show More
8) Grand Inventions: A Towering Monument with Dave Hamilton
Dave Hamilton’s grandfather invented the ubiquitous coin-operated binocular viewer you see at monuments and viewpoints worldwide, the Tower Optical Binoculars. Dave, an entrepreneur, writer, musician,...Show More
9) What’s the Three One One in Two Oh One Eight, Walt Hickey?
Walt Hickey is a data journalist who launched a newsletter for numeric nerds several months ago. He’s worked for Business Insider, FiveThirtyEight, and, currently, Insider (a sister company to BI), of...Show More
10) Grand Inventions: Counting Gears with Chris Higgins
“Grand Inventions” is a new micro-series within The New Disruptors in which I talk to people whose grandparents or great-x-parents invented something that’s still current or in use today. Two things s...Show More