Colin McEnroe Show: Student Tinkerers Will Take Over The Planet
Kids today are building 500 mpg cars and doing experiments in space.
There are two kinds of young people in this world. The kind who can imagine themselves designing and building a hovercraft, a hyper-high-mileage car, a moon buggy and/or a zero gravity experiment.
And the kind who can imagine themselves writing an essay about the first kind. I am totally in that latter category.
The first kind, of course, are responsible for human progress, and in this show we talk to a whole lot of them -- including the hyper-mileage-car team and the zero-gravity people.
Our producer Patrick Skahill -- the first kind of person-- also provides an essay about his top secret hovercraft work.
Our final segment is about a site called Instructables, in which tinkerers of all ages share their ideas. I may not be able to do any of that stuff, but I can understand the impulse to modify your toaster so that it burns the images of video game characters into bread.
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I am a fan of the original theme song. The song is what first drew me to listen to your show.
Now I'm a bigger fan of the show than of the song, but I wouldn't want to lose that song.
Why do I like the song so much? Because the tune and words are zany but true -- like life.
Mostly, though, I want to be reminded in a humorous way that today today today today is the first day of the rest of my life.
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