How are bricks made?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Bricks are all around us: in walls, sidewalks, park benches, and more. How are these bodacious blocks made, and what makes them different colors? We asked construction and masonry expert Brian Trimble to help us find the answer.
Constructing a question? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help you find a solid answer!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:05.0 | Answering those questions to make you go. |
| 0:10.0 | Ah. |
| 0:11.0 | Moment of um, um, um, um, um, Um, um. |
| 0:21.6 | Um. |
| 0:22.6 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Paul. |
| 0:28.6 | The pig. |
| 0:30.6 | Um. |
| 0:31.6 | I've been the head of the little Pig Construction Company for a while now. |
| 0:40.6 | You've probably heard the story about how my two brothers and I first got started in construction. |
| 0:46.7 | For the record, I was the one who wanted to build houses using nice, secure bricks and solid craftsmanship. |
| 0:52.9 | But my brothers were all about fast construction. |
| 0:55.9 | They wanted to use cheap, shoddy materials like straw and sticks. Their first projects went, |
| 1:03.4 | shall we say, predictably poorly. We don't really like to talk about the big bad wolf incident. |
| 1:11.6 | Anyway, after that, we all agreed that I should be in charge of sourcing our building materials. |
| 1:17.9 | I got a guy who makes the best bricks in town, but he keeps his method secret. |
| 1:23.7 | So when Gracie asked how bricks are made, I found another expert to spill the magic beans on bricks. |
| 1:31.9 | Hi, I'm Gracie, and I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 1:35.6 | And my question is, how do you make bricks and why are they red? |
| 1:43.3 | So brick are actually made the same way they've been done for centuries. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm Brian Trimble, I'm Director of Industry Services and Technical Services for the International Masonry Institute, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lemonada Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Lemonada Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.