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Hosted by Joel Johnson & Alex Roy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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Exponent of radical reindustrialization in the U.S.A. A weekly podcast with the people forging the future of American manufacturing. www.toolordie.com
Joel Johnson & Alex Roy hosts TOOL or DIE Podcast - Reindustrialize, Rebuild, or Retire, a business show with 30 episodes published.
🎙️ Maneva is building video-based AI agents that plug directly into real-world manufacturing environments and deliver real-time insights across safety, uptime, quality, and process improvement without changing the floor
Kevin William is a car journalist. He keeps going to China to drive new Chinese cars, write about what he sees and experiences and feels with his own two hands. But his reports about the rapidly increasing quality of Chi
🎙️ Not every manufacturing company is a giant or a startup. Some are still family-owned companies slogging it out, making key components that look simple but involve detailed problem solving every single day. Numberall
🎙️ Magnets without rare earths. Didn’t even know it was possible. Yet Niron Magnetics is making them in Minnesota and very soon the rest of the world.Simply put, what Niron has done is one of the most exciting and impor
🎙️ It’s easy to think America doesn’t manufacture anything, but it’s simply not true. But one of the open questions around manufacturing in 2025 is simply: what if American manufacturing were more connected? What if the
🎙️ Global trade data used to be buried in bureaucratic sludge until Dave Applegate turned it into ImportYeti, a tool for transparency (if you’re a shopper) and competitive advantage (if you’re building a competitor). It
🎙️ America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging—and out of sight can’t keep meaning out of mind. But what if we could see inside the systems that keep our cities alive to make smarter and more timely repairs? Motmot
🎙️ We want more factories in the U.S. For better products, for growing the middle class, for national pride and national security.But not everything America once made is coming home—and certainly not immediately. So how
🎙️ Austin Bishop, co-founder of the New American Industrial Alliance (NAIA)—known by most as the people behind the REINDUSTRIALIZE conference—joins TOOL OR DIE to explain how an engineering kid from Cleveland ended up h
🎙️ Nate Ames helps run a very clever program at Ohio State University. While the “Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence” is an official arm of the school, it functions more like a paid internship. Hundreds of s
🎙️ Matt Puchalski, founder and CEO of Bucket Robotics, joins TOOL OR DIE to explain how building defect-detection cameras for self-driving cars led him to modernize factory inspection systems. Bucket is attacking the qu
🎙️ Jim Belosic, co-founder and CEO of SendCutSend, joins Tool or Die to explain how a small side hustle making car parts turned into one of the most important new manufacturers in the U.S. SendCutSend reinvented custom
🎙️ I met Cameron because he DM’d me and said “Would you ever want to talk to a guy who just started working as a machinist?” To which I replied (professionally) “You bet your ass I would.” Cameron Schatz is 25, didn’t (
🎙️ Industrial designer and former auto journalist Peter Holderith joins Tool or Die to talk about… well, we should be talking about the hybrid kit sports car he’s designing and building from scratch with no hard tooling
🎙️ Ted Feldmann (@teddyfeld), founder of Durin, joins Tool or Die to discuss how his startup is tackling one of the most overlooked but vital problems in American reindustrialization: the lack of modern drilling rigs fo
🎙️ Tool or Die welcomes three fine gentlemen from IACMI – The Composites Institute, who are leading national efforts to rebuild America’s manufacturing workforce from the ground up. Justin Brooks oversees workforce deve
🎙️ Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder of Osh Cut, joins Tool or Die for a loose conversation about the viral video that hit a nerve in U.S. manufacturing circles. The video—posted by a frustrated entrepreneur—calls out Ameri
🎙️ Gabe Elias, CEO of Material, joins Tool or Die to discuss his journey from Honda engineer to Formula One designer to battery manufacturing innovator. We explore how Gabe's determination to work in F1 led him to quit
🎙️ Gavin Stener, founder of 67 Designs, joins Tool or Die to discuss his journey from ERP software to building a U.S.-based manufacturing company focused on high-quality off-road vehicle mounts and accessories. We explo
🎙️ Barrett Ames, CTO of BotBuilt, joins Tool or Die to discuss how his company is revolutionizing home construction with robotic framing technology that dramatically reduces build time. We explore how BotBuilt's approac
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Justin Brooks
workforce development initiatives overseer · IACMI – The Composites Institute
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