Short Stuff: The Guinness Widget

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Guiness beer is famous for its smooth and creamy texture, thanks in part to nitrogen, and also a simplistically brilliant little device called the Guinness widget.

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0:00.0	Do you want to see into the future?
0:02.0	Do you want to understand an invisible force that's shaping your life?
0:05.5	Do you want to experience the frontiers of what makes us human?
0:09.3	On tech stuff, we travel from the minds of Congo to the surface of Mars,
0:13.7	from conversations with Nobel Prize winners to the depths of TikTok,
0:18.0	to ask burning questions about technology.
0:20.6	From high tech to low culture and everywhere in between. Join us. depths of TikTok to ask burning questions about technology.
0:20.8	From high tech to low culture and everywhere in between.
0:24.4	Join us.
0:25.2	Listen to Tech Stuff on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.3	Hey and welcome to Short Stuff.
0:35.5	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're talking short stuff today.
0:38.7	We're talking widgets on short stuff, I should say.
0:42.2	Widgets that were first introduced as a concept from a play, right Chuck?
0:47.0	Yeah, I mean, there was the word, first of all, we need to thank our old buddy Brian Didsbury.
0:52.2	Oh, right.
0:53.9	The boom operator on the stuff you should know TV show.
0:57.1	So great.
0:58.2	Who comes to our live shows, still a friend.
0:59.9	He texts me all the time trying to get me to play Red Dead Redemption with him online.
1:03.8	He texts me Simpsons quotes.
1:06.0	Does he really?
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