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45:03DAVE THE DIVER Let's Play: Living the Double Life of Sushi Bar and Diving All the Way to the End
By day, he dives into the sea to catch fish; by night, he works the floor of a sushi bar. This video is a let's play of the hybrid ocean adventure game DAVE THE DIVER, played through to the ending wit
45:32Automating Intuition: Concurrency's Nathan Lasnoski on How Manufacturers Should Approach AI
This episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour was recorded at Central Waters Brewing in Milwaukee. The taproom sits in a former chapel on the old Pabst Brewery grounds, a short walk from the Marquette Univ
8:40Taking on All 20 Floors of Crypt of the NecroDancer as Hatsune Miku
This video is a playthrough of all 20 dungeon floors in the Hatsune Miku character DLC for Crypt of the NecroDancer, a roguelike in which you move to the rhythm. With a different Hatsune Miku song pla
9:59Darcy's Ten-Minute, Five-Floor Escape to Save $250,000
The premise is stated in the first seconds. A ten-minute timer has started, and when it reaches zero, a room "full of money" a short distance away will explode. The only person who can stop it is Darc
39:46Canvus: Turning Decommissioned Wind Turbine Blades Into Park Benches and "Functional Art"
Every year, thousands of fiberglass wind turbine blades come down, and they are hard to recycle by conventional means. On this episode of the Manufacturing Happy Hour podcast, Brian Donahue of Canvus,
40:02How 100 Contestants Aged 1 to 100 Chose Who Won $250,000
In this video, MrBeast puts 100 people, one for every age from 1 to 100, into individual cubes and has them compete for $250,000. The format differs from earlier "last to leave" challenges: the contes
43:14Following the Story of Hallownest, a Dying Kingdom of Bugs, Through a Hollow Knight Playthrough
This video is a commentary playthrough of the 2D action game Hollow Knight, played all the way to the ending. While introducing the major boss fights in order, the narrator pieces together fragments o
37:59Natan Linder on Tulip, Composability, and Why Lean Needs "Augmentation"
On Manufacturing Happy Hour, Natan Linder, co-founder and CEO of Tulip Interfaces and chairman of Formlabs, explained what a "frontline operations platform" is and why he thinks manufacturing software
20:32A Parasite Researcher Fighting with Just One Arm: A Playthrough of Endoparasitic
This is a let's play video of Endoparasitic, played through to the ending. It is a survival horror game in which you control a man who has lost his limbs and must act using the one arm he has left. Th
1:02:07Cutting Turnover by Respecting the Front Line: Mike White on the Road to Secchi
Mike White, founder and president of Secchi, sat down at a Milwaukee bar for an episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour to talk about frontline leadership, and about why he thinks tracking data on hourly
27:45Beating the Bosses of Touhou Luna Nights with Only Knives and No Time Stop
This is a gameplay video of Touhou Luna Nights, a 2D exploration action game and fan work of the Touhou Project, in which the player fights six bosses using only thrown knives, without the protagonist
37:07Beyond Shipping Boxes: Nate Bucklew on What an Industrial Electrical Distributor Actually Does
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, recorded in the warehouse of E&H Electric Supply in Louisville, Kentucky, with a wire spool serving as the table, the host speaks with district manager Nat
10:36Playing DORONKO WANKO: Turning a Mansion Into a Muddy Mess as a Pomeranian
This video is a playthrough, all the way to the ending, of DORONKO WANKO, an action game in which you control a Pomeranian and make a mess all over a house. The premise is that a dog, ignored by every
20:42Seven Days Stranded on a Deserted Island: Shelter, Bug Bites, Storms, and a Third Chance for Mack
In this video, Jimmy (MrBeast) and four companions, Shawn, Chandler, Nolan, and Mack, are dropped on a deserted island and left there for seven days. The boat that brought them was, in Jimmy's words,
2:12:05Following a No-Damage Run of FF7 Rebirth's Boss Fights from Start to Finish: How the Synergy System Changed the Feel of Combat
This video is a playthrough of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second installment in the full remake of FF7. With commentary by A.I.VOICE Kotonoha Akane, it follows the journey of Cloud and his compani
34:15Automating Kentucky Bourbon: Opus Integration's Co-Founders on Data, PlantPAx, and the Modern Distillery
Recorded over bourbon in the library room of Watch Hill Proper in the Louisville area, this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour features Don Ault and Scott Feldmeier, co-founders of the systems integr
40:34Culture as Alignment of Values: Jim Mayer on Manufacturing Culture, Automation, and Reluctant Podcasting
In this episode of Manufacturing Happy Hour, host Chris talks with Jim Mayer, founder of TCO Strategies and host of the Manufacturing Culture Podcast. The central question is what "company culture" ac
18:53Bullets, a 100-Foot Drop, Flaming Cars and a Train: How Blake Kept His Lamborghini on the Third Try
MrBeast (Jimmy) opens the video with a quarter-million-dollar Lamborghini parked on railroad tracks and a train heading toward it. Before the impact, he gives the car to Blake, a contestant from the c
1:30:35A Let's Play Walking Through FF7 Remake's Boss Fights in Order: From Guard Scorpion to Sephiroth
This is a Let's Play video of Final Fantasy VII Remake, played up to the escape from Midgar with a focus on the boss fights. Prompted by the release of the sequel, it briefly follows the story while e
46:35How a Former Navy SEAL Bought a Wisconsin Machine Shop and Built It Around Upskilling
Bill Berrien acquired Pindel Global Precision, a precision machining company in New Berlin, Wisconsin, in 2012. In this interview with host Chris, Berrien covers two things. The first is how he search
