THE THING HE ALREADY DID
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THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 38 min
California and Utah, 1957 to 2010. Yvon Chouinard teaches himself blacksmithing to make pitons that can be taken out of the rock and driven again, and sells them from the back of a car to a sport with a few hundred serious participants in it.
THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 2
4 parts · 13 h 21 min
Chico, Boston and Rehoboth Beach, 1961 to 2019. Ken Grossman brews in a five-gallon bucket as a teenager, opens a homebrew supply shop in a California college town, and welds a brewery together out of dairy equipment and scrap.
THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 38 min
Southern California, Louisiana and the English Lake District, 1972 to 2026. Three men sit down at a bench to make a thing they already use. Bob Taylor is nineteen when he and two partners buy a failing guitar shop in Lemon Grove for $3,700.
THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 4
4 parts · 13 h 53 min
Santa Cruz, Bend and Seattle, 1974 to 2026. Mike Pfotenhauer sews backpacks to order for people who stand in his shop and are measured, and fifty years later the company he named Osprey is sold for hundreds of millions to a household-products conglomerate.
THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 41 min
Birmingham and Los Angeles, 2009 to 2025. Cassey Ho films a Pilates class for students she is leaving behind and finds an audience she never went looking for; Ben Francis, a teenager delivering pizzas in the English Midlands, buys a sewing machine and a screen printer and cuts weightlifting vests on his parents' floor.
THE THING HE ALREADY DID Book 6
4 parts · 13 h 6 min
London, Edinburgh and Brooklyn, 2011 to 2026. In a rented house in south London, Kristian Tapaninaho cannot get a domestic oven hot enough for the pizza he makes by hand, so he sketches a steel box on an iPad and pays a fence maker under a railway arch forty pounds to weld it.