ONE CHANGE
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ONE CHANGE Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 5 min
Boulder and Los Angeles, 2007 to 2025, against a promise made in Concord in 1855 and printed wrong in Oakland in 1889. Steven Sashen cuts a sole out of rubber and threads a cord through it.
ONE CHANGE Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 50 min
The United States, 1990 to 2024. Aaron Krause leased a garage in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, to detail cars and ended up making buffing pads out of polyurethane foam.
ONE CHANGE Book 3
4 parts · 13 h 52 min
America, 1924 to 2024. Three businesses were built on a refusal to change the thing itself. Mitchell Gold sold an upholstered dining chair whose only novelty was a plywood side with no joint in it. Philip Krim sold a foam mattress poured in a Georgia plant that was already pouring foam mattresses for everybody else.
ONE CHANGE Book 4
4 parts · 12 h 29 min
Oahu, Manhattan, the San Francisco Bay and a factory floor in Guangdong, 2006 to 2026. Four Americans each altered one property of a container and built a company on the alteration. Travis Rosbach put a vacuum between two walls of steel. Sarah Kauss left the vacuum alone and changed the outside of it.
ONE CHANGE Book 5
4 parts · 15 h 3 min
South Edmeston, East Hollywood and Frankenmarkt, 2002 to 2026. Hamdi Ulukaya buys a yogurt plant Kraft is throwing away and adds one operation to the line: the fermented milk is spun until most of its water leaves.
ONE CHANGE Book 6
4 parts · 11 h 17 min
Clearwater, Atlanta and New York, 1958 to 2026. A woman cuts the feet off a pair of control-top pantyhose, finds that the cut edge rolls, and patents not the cut but the knitted-in band that stops it. Two men in New York read that socks are the item shelters ask for most, and spend two years moving a toe seam.