The Michael Berry Joe

What is it about America that cultivates a nation of inventors researchers

adventurers?

Individuals of a particular spirit driven by an unyielding quest for the novel and unprecedented.

What makes America such a fertile ground, a rich environment, an incubator of exploration, discovery, and the launch of groundbreaking innovations.

Those are the questions that Kevin Baker asks in his book,

America the Ingenius, how a nation of dreamers, immigrants and tinkerers

changed the world.

This is one of our archive podcasts.

Chances are you don't remember it when it came out the first time.

But I talked to Kevin Baker almost eight years ago about this book and about once a year I'll get an email from someone who may or may not

remember all the details of the name of the book but they'll remember I had a

conversation with a guy and they'll remember things like that. So again the book is called

I hope you enjoy this and I hope more than a few of you are inspired.

Folks almost every day and some days more than once, we get either Chad Nachanishi or I get pitches

from book promoters, from publishers, saying, interview this person about this book.

And truly 95% of the time or more, we don't do it.

Because unless it's something that we think fits in

with the values of our show,

and unless it's something that peaks our interest, frankly,

something that we're

we're very curious about we just don't do it so I hope you know that when we have a

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