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, an editor and writer at Quartz, and helped

Picture Yourself on a Dress and Deliver with Jaimee Newberry

Aug 13th, 2019 1h 27m

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 what Jaimee is all about. She and her partner

Race to Answer the Call of the Wild with Pat Race and Marian Call

May 28th, 2019 46m 23s

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 stick closer to her community in Juneau. One of

What’s Your Latest with CW&T: Chi-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy

May 22nd, 2019 20m 49s

What’s Your Latest with CW&T: Chi-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy (Episode 111)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

Grand Inventions: Weathering Time with Benn Bollay

May 13th, 2019 12m 33s

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 meteorology and television weathercasting! He even pr

Painting with Lasers with Dan, Shell, and Nick

Apr 12th, 2019 45m 42s

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 are trying to make and how to get started as

A Life in Letterpress: a Live Podcast

Feb 6th, 2019 54m 26s

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 Technical Books and Café in Seattle on January 23.P

Grand Inventions: A Towering Monument with Dave Hamilton

Jan 21st, 2019 24m 25s

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, and founder of The Mac Observer, joins host

What’s the Three One One in Two Oh One Eight, Walt Hickey?

Dec 21st, 2018 59m 6s

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), often writing about the intersection of cultur

Grand Inventions: Counting Gears with Chris Higgins

Dec 10th, 2018 17m 3s

“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 sparked this micro-series idea for me. First,

What’s Your Latest? Dave Kellett’s Drive Act Two

Nov 29th, 2018 44m 4s

Dave Kellett is the guest on my latest installment of the podcast-within-the-podcast, “What’s Your Latest?” I talk to experienced creators about their latest project. For Dave, that’s the second volume (“Act Two”) of his Drive webcomics series

104: What’s Your Latest? Dave Kellett’s Drive Act Two

Nov 29th, 2018 44m 4s

Otherworldly Artistic Creation with Shing Yin Khor

Nov 20th, 2018 55m 42s

Shing Yin Khor is a multi-dimensional artist, almost literally. She’s a cartoonist, illustrator, sculptor, and installation and experimental artist. She works across many media, technology, and ideas. She says she’s entered a new phase of her c

What’s Your Latest? Studio Neat’s Mark One Pen

Oct 9th, 2018 29m 29s

Welcome to a mini episode of The New Disruptors, “What’s Your Latest,” in which I ask creators just about the most recent thing they made. Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, independent industrial designers and app developers for nea

Shipping Is Violence with Jesse Genet and Stephan Ango of Lumi

Sep 27th, 2018 1h 8m

Jesse Genet and Stephan Ango co-founded Lumi almost a decade ago. It first made wallets and prints and dyed material, then developed and distributed a light-sensitive fabric ink. Now it's a company that manages the production and ordering of pa

Draw Outside the Lines with C. Spike Trotman

Aug 29th, 2018 1h 2m

In this inaugural episode #100, the return of the podcast to regular production, I’m pleased as punch to have C. Spike Trotman as my guest. Spike founded Iron Circus Comics in 2007, and it’s risen through her hard work and excellent curatorship

99a: Embrace Your Inner (Cute) Demon

Jun 12th, 2018 44m 10s

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Re-New Disruptors

May 30th, 2018 2m 15s

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Hugs and Kisses Goodbye: Live from XOXO 2014

Oct 2nd, 2014 1h

Jen Bekman, Zoë Salditch, and Mike Merrill were our guests live on stage at the XOXO 2014 festival in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Story evening that also featured Hrishikesh Hirway's Song Exploder, featuring a song by The Thermals; John Ro

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Sep 25th, 2014 1h 15m

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Plug Me In with Mara Zepeda

Sep 18th, 2014 1h 1m

Mara Zepeda is the co-founder and CEO of Switchboard, a site that lets you ask for what you need and offer what you have within a trusted community. It's a way to more efficiently interconnect generosity, and is sometimes described as Craigslis

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Sep 11th, 2014 53m 36s

Sara Benincasa is an author, comedian, writer, and outspoken advocate of LGBTQ youth, among many other hats she's worn. She is an expert impressionist and parodist of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Sara is the author of the novel Great and t

Nice and Neat with Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt

Sep 4th, 2014 1h 6m

Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, a small design and software group that produces nifty products. They began with the Glif, and when I talked to them last over a year ago, they had launched their second software product and were dee

Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn

Aug 28th, 2014 1h 12m

Jesse Thorn is a polycast — a polymath of podcasts. He helped define the form by taking a show that he developed with others on a college radio station and making it into a podcast in 2004. That show, the Sound of Young America, now called Bull

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Aug 21st, 2014 1h 11m

Garrett Murray is the founder and creative director of Karbon, an app-development firm. But software isn't his whole life; he also happens to be an award-winning filmmaker. His firm developed the apps Scratch, a quick-input notepad for iPhone,