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Jul 31, 2020

Our guest this week is Stephen Dubner. Stephen’s an award-winning author, journalist, and TV and radio personality. He’s co-author of the Freakonomics books, which have sold millions of copies in 40 languages, and he’s host of Freakonomics Radio, which gets 8 million global monthly downloads and is heard by...


Jul 24, 2020

Our guest this week is Cooper Bates. Cooper co-founded the world’s first designer breath mint company, Hint Mint. Cooper also created the TEDx concept, and then he co-founded and produced TEDxSkidRow. He's a playwright currently touring two award-winning solo shows, as well as being the founder of the card game: I...


Jul 17, 2020

Our guest this week is Matt Mullenweg, Co-Founder of the open source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 37% of all sites on the web. He is the Founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and Jetpack. Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the...


Jul 10, 2020

Our guest this week is Lux Sparks-Pescovitz. Lux is a 14-year-old maker, musician, writer, retrogamer, pop culture historian, and collector… of many things. Many many things. He also likes dogs and naps. For show notes: https://kk.org/cooltools/lux-sparks-pescovitz-teenage-maker/


Jul 3, 2020

Our guest this week is Len Cullum. Len is a woodworker living in Seattle, Washington, where he specializes in building Japanese style garden structures, architectural elements, and furniture. A perpetual student of craft, he's also an occasional teacher and writer of how-to articles. For show notes...