Hey everybody, this is Spencer. As you may have noticed, this feed has been pretty sleepy over the past year and a half. Part of this was conscious - The Prepared has always been first and foremost a newsletter - but ultimately it just kind of

GE Additive

May 20th, 2019 43m 2s

We visit GE's Additive Technology Center in Cincinnati and hear the history of GE Additive.

s02e10 - The global scrap market with Adam Minter

May 3rd, 2019 57m 44s

Adam Minter is a columnist at Bloomberg and author of Junkyard Planet - Travels in the Billion Dollar Trash-Trade.

s02e09 - Anna Shedletsky, Instrumental

Nov 16th, 2018 1h

We talk with Anna Shedletsky about analyzing and identifying manufacturing defects.

Toyota City with Lucas Lappe

Nov 12th, 2018 32m 54s

A quick chat with Lucas Lappe about his tour of Toyota City. Lucas is design engineer at Doris Dev, and is currently traveling on the Magical Mystery Plant Tour.Listen and subscribe on iTunes, Overcast, Google Play and Stitcher!

A visit to Toyota City

Nov 12th, 2018 32m 54s

We talk about auto manufacturing & Toyota City with Lucas Lappe

with Zach Dunham, Centerline Labs

Sep 26th, 2018 59m 18s

Spencer and Zach recap ~10 months of US-based consumer electronics manufacturing.

s02e06 - Rony Kubat, Tulip Interfaces

May 8th, 2018 1h 3m

We talk with Rony about manufacturing engineering, industrial alphabet soup, and how Tulip is making operations faster and more flexible.

s02e05 - Kipp Bradford

Mar 25th, 2018 54m 28s

This week we talk with Kipp Bradford about low volume/high value manufacturing, the tradeoffs of domestic & international trade, and Kipp's varied & impressive career history.

Kipp Bradford

Mar 25th, 2018 54m 28s

This week our guest is Kipp Bradford. Kipp is an an engineer, inventor, and oftentimes-educator. We talk about low volume/high value manufacturing, the tradeoffs of domestic & international trade, and manufacturing your products in-house.Listen

s02e04 - Danielle Applestone, Bantam Tools

Mar 19th, 2018 53m 2s

We talk with Danielle Applestone of Bantam Tools about the state of desktop manufacturing, the gender gap in engineering, and doing business with DARPA.

s02e01 - Tara Pham, Numina

Mar 12th, 2018 57m 52s

We talk to Tara Pham about Numina, doing business with cities, and running a small startup.

Max Haot, Launcher Space

Mar 5th, 2018 1h 1m

We talk with Max Haot, CEO of Launcher Space. Max cofounded Livestream in 2007, and in 2017 founded Launcher. Launcher is developing rockets purpose-built for delivering small satellites into orbit.Subscribe on iTunes, Overcast, Google Play and

s02e02 - Max Haot

Mar 5th, 2018 1h 1m

We talk with Max about what it's like to develop rockets. Crazy, right?

s02e01 - Season 2 intro

Feb 27th, 2018 8m 22s

A quick intro to Season 2 of The Prepared's podcast! The first real episode of the season will drop in the next few days

s01e12 - Mo McBirney

Dec 11th, 2017 45m 3s

We talk to Mo McBirney about manufacturing engineering and her career working at Tesla and Makerbot.

Mo McBirney

Dec 11th, 2017 45m 3s

This week we talk to Mo McBirney, a manufacturing engineer now working at Fictiv. Mo started her career at Makerbot before spending about three years working at Tesla, primarily on battery products.Subscribe on iTunes, Overcast, Google Play and

s01e11 - Reilly Brennan

Dec 4th, 2017 47m 53s

Reilly Brennan is an investor, industry observer, and writer of the excellent Future of Transportation newsletter. In this episode, we discuss all aspects of innovation in transportation today.

CW&T

Nov 14th, 2017 54m 49s

We talk with Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy of CW&T about small scale manufacturing & running a family business.Che-Wei and Taylor both studied at the MIT Media Lab and NYU ITP. In 2011, they launched their first Kickstarter campaign in what woul