BoltBucket

Harvard beats Yale 6-0! Kicking off with a nod to untested football adventures in George Plimpton’s 1965 book Paper Tiger, in this Boltbucket episode Ted explores the captivating history behind the technologies of the modern football helmet. The journey begins as helmet-less dead bodies pile up on the fields of 1905 Ivey League football games, with the founder of naval carrier aviation coming to the rescue (eventually). As football helmet manufacturers Schutt and Riddell ramp up on mid-century helmet technology, legendary Cleveland Brown’s coach Paul Brown invents even better gear to save his star quarterback. Ted also reveals who designed star NFL defensive end Justin Tuck’s bizarre face mask while he peers into the startling future of the American football helmet.

Consider the vinyl record. Ted Green uncovers the curious technologies that evolved into yesterday and today's vinyl record, while shepherding the listener through a pop culture reference festival of vinyl era recordings, LP jacket artists and record stores. Though often wildly irreverent, Ted sees fit to bookend this show with genuine, in-context tributes to late, legendary vinyl era superstars Lemmy and David Bowie.

It’s the BoltBucket Christmas special! Waaaay before the iPod there was another must-have hand-held electronic Christmas gift for kids. Strap in to Ted’s make-believe DeLorean and rocket back to 1977. Star Wars debuts. Nasa launches Voyager I & II. The Yankees win the Series during the Son of Sam murder spree all while the city rolled out its I Luv New York add campaign, and three unknown upstarts in a California garage incorporate a small biz and name it Apple Computer. But for Christmas that year one must-have, blockbuster technology gift begins what we now call the hand-held device revolution; what many tech historians now see as the first iPod, per the concept of mobile electronic entertainment. Gather ‘round the yule log now as Ted tells the story of… Well listen on, you holiday reveling hooligans!

Episode three… If Ian Fleming were still alive Bond would be driving an all electric Mercedes SLS. Ted proclaims gasoline cars stink, while courting the electric car. But it turns out electric cars might be worse. So let’s all just skateboard everywhere. Or simply ride horses sporting diapers. But then we’re back to the stinky thing again… It’s hopeless. Utterly hopeless.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! In this episode Ted tells you that a crew in Belarus has your credit card info, you don’t own your Instagram photos, and Obama’s iPhone might just be a prop. (And the Belarus thing is a joke you nervous ninny!)

On his inaugural podcast Ted rants on a tech writer's brain freeze, clears his throat with lemon water and discusses the history of podcasting.