From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

Answering those questions to make you go.

Ahm.

Moment of a, um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Paul. The pig.

Um.

I've been the head of the little Pig Construction Company for a while now.

You've probably heard the story about how my two brothers and I first got started in construction.

For the record, I was the one who wanted to build houses using nice, secure bricks and solid craftsmanship.

But my brothers were all about fast construction.

They wanted to use cheap, shoddy materials like straw and sticks. Their first projects went,

shall we say, predictably poorly. We don't really like to talk about the big bad wolf incident.

Anyway, after that, we all agreed that I should be in charge of sourcing our building materials.

I got a guy who makes the best bricks in town, but he keeps his method secret.

So when Gracie asked how bricks are made, I found another expert to spill the magic beans on bricks.

Hi, I'm Gracie, and I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee.

And my question is, how do you make bricks and why are they red?

So brick are actually made the same way they've been done for centuries.

I'm Brian Trimble, I'm Director of Industry Services and Technical Services for the International Macy Institute,

which basically means that I'm just a technical expert on masonry.

Basically, you take water and clay and mix them together, form them, and then you

dry them so that you can be stacked on a kiln in the kiln, and then they're basically baked around

2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and that makes a permanent solid material that lasts for generations.

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