From Buses on Bars to Self-Driving Cars | Ep. 6

04/16/24 • 29 min

Shifting into a faster gear from our last episode, Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi continue investigating how humans have hitched rides from each other over the last 250 years. From hailing hackney coaches on filthy mud streets to boarding trams to hitchhiking with your thumb out to hailing taxis to using ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft to a possible future of self-driving cars, this is a story of land travel, communication, and cartography. New episodes every Tuesday from March-June.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Rachel Pedreschi and Claritype
Link: claritype.com
Dr. Brian Taylor (UCLA)
Book: The Drive for Dollars
Darren Delaye (DoorDash)
Coastal Kites for the music you heard in our interlude.

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Story by Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi
Produced by Peter Furia, Noelle Gallagher, and Tim Berglund
Edited by Noelle Gallagher and Peter Furia
Original music and sound by Jeff Kite, keyboardist for The Voidz

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From Travois to Taxis | Ep. 5

Let’s travel back in time to explore the ways humans got around together (on land) from prehistoric times to the first taxis in the late 1800s. Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi begin this excavation of transportation history where it all started: with our own two feet. With the development of trade and cities, the hunter-gatherer mode of movement was inadequate for a species that needed to expand and travel. From the invention of roads to the primitive sleds known as travois to the all-important wheel to horse-drawn carriages to railroads and the first taxis, human civilization has come a long, long way in how we hitch a ride. New episodes every Tuesday from March-June.
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Rachel Pedreschi and Claritype
Link: claritype.com
Dr. Brian Taylor (UCLA)
Book: The Drive for Dollars
Thanos Sgouridis for his voice acting.
Coastal Kites for the music you heard in our interlude.

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From Covered Carts to DoorDash | Ep. 7

Isn’t it amazing that with just a few taps on your phone you can get a healthy, hot, delicious, multicultural meal prepared and delivered to your doorstep, all in less than an hour? And you can even track it, in real time, every step of the way. But how did we get here? And how are our eating habits changing as a result? In this episode of Keyboard and Quill, we journey through 250 years of history with Tim Berglund and Rachel Pedreschi as they explore how food preparation, consumption, and delivery have evolved from the first known food deliveries in Asia to the dawn of Domino’s Pizza in the 1960s to the global boom of real-time delivery apps like DoorDash, UberEats, and JustEat Takeaway. New episodes every Tuesday from March-June.
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Rachel Pedreschi and Claritype
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Dr. Rachel Laudan
Book: Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
Site: rachellaudan.com
Coastal Kites for the music you heard in our interlude.

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Keyboard and Quill - From Buses on Bars to Self-Driving Cars | Ep. 6

Transcript

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- Okay, all right. - Hi. - And then you're....

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- One more time. - You're listening to... - Keyboard and Quill. - From StarTree, creators of the Real-Time Analytics Summit. - And podcast. - Hey, I'm Tim Berglund. - And I'm Rachel Pedreschi. - This is Keyboard and Quill. In this episode, we're gonna continue exploring how we get around. We'll look at how land travel has expanded over time and how it's landed us in a world where we regular