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The ReForge Podcast
Conversations with the leaders reindustrializing America, from robotics and automation to policy, workforce development, and the future of U.S. manufacturing.
Episodes
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Five Thousand Robots a Year to Break Even (ReForge 032)
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ go without a guest to run the numbers on Agility Robotics ahead of its SPAC, and make the case that robot as a…
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Structural Steel Is Now the Critical Path (ReForge 031)
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ go without a guest to call two things: structural steel is now the critical path on American factory builds, and…
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Why Robot Motors Still Come From China (with Mason Hensley) | ReForge 030
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Mason Hensley (Managing Director at American Stator) about why the stator is the real bottleneck in…
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What to Fix Before You Sell Your Business (with Ryan Ray Sr.) | ReForge 029
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Ryan Ray (Director of Partnerships at Ad Astra Equity Advisors) about why so many small manufacturers…
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We Could Open Two Factories a Year (with Caleb Chamberlain) | ReForge 028
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Caleb Chamberlain (Co-Founder and CEO at OSH Cut) about building a fabrication company that competes on…
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Raw Material Prices Are Up Eighty Percent (with Will Alverson) | ReForge 027
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Will Alverson (Managing Partner at Accurate Metal Products) about running a second generation steel…
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Modernize or Close Your Doors (with Cole Studer) | ReForge 026
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Cole Studer (CTO at Miltech Manufacturing and CEO at Mericron) about what it actually takes to…
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We Went Looking for Duct Tape (with Daniel Scott Mitchell) | ReForge 025
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Daniel Scott Mitchell (Co-Founder & CTO at Takton) about what he learned touring 150-plus American…
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Reindustrialize? There's No Re About It (with Jack Watson) | ReForge 024
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Jack Watson (Business Development Manager at HFW Industries) about thermal spray coatings, the…
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Reindustrialization News Rundown: Chips, Ships, and Minerals | ReForge 023
In this episode, Colin Russ runs the ReForge reindustrialization news rundown: what moved this week across defense contracting, semiconductors, aluminum…
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What Survives to 2036 (with Const Ivanov) | ReForge 022
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Const Ivanov (Founder & CEO at DigiFabster) about what American manufacturing actually looks like in…
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Trucking Companies Are Going to Disappear (with Brittain Ladd) | ReForge 021
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ talk with Brittain Ladd (Supply Chain, Logistics, and AI Strategic Consultant at Ladd Strategic Advisors) about…
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What It Actually Takes to Build a Factory (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 020
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ walk through what it actually takes to build a factory from scratch, from the debt that funds it to the steel…
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What We Saw at the Reindustrialize Summit (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 019
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ break down Matt's takeaways from the Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit, from the government's Pax Americana…
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The Knowledge Is Retiring (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 018
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ dig into the part of the silver tsunami nobody is solving: the decades of irreplaceable technical knowledge…
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Who Speaks for the Small Manufacturer? (with Patrick Wolf and Ethan Copple) | ReForge 017
Who Speaks for the Small Manufacturer? (with Patrick Wolf and Ethan Copple) | ReForge 017 In this episode, Colin Russ sits down with Patrick J. Wolf, PhD…
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Dirty Power Is Killing American Factories (with Brian Keith) | ReForge 016
In this episode, Matthew Chang, Colin Russ, and Brian Keith break down why American factories are getting hit with dirty power, rolling brownouts, and rising…
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Humanoid Robots Are Not Ready (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 015
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ dig into the humanoid robot hype and why it doesn't match what's actually happening on factory floors, in…
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Billion Dollar Bets on American Manufacturing (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 014
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ break down four major manufacturing and reindustrialization announcements, dig into the capacity crunch hitting…
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Stop Trusting Your AI (with Brian Keith) | ReForge 013
In this episode, Colin Russ sits down with Brian Keith (CMO of Chang Robotics) to have an honest conversation about what LLMs actually do inside manufacturing…
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The Reshoring Checklist Is Getting Checked Off (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 012
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ break down four major reindustrialization announcements from the past week and explain what they actually mean…
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A Factory for Every Town (with Brian Keith) | ReForge 011
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ bring back Brian Keith (CMO of Chang Robotics) to talk about what an agentically augmented human can actually do…
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Faith, Technology, and the American Worker (with Shawn Maxwell) | ReForge 010
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ sit down with Shawn Maxwell (Chief Operations Officer of Church of Eleven22) to talk about what it takes to scale…
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The Case for the Gap Year (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 009
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ dig into the questions that flooded in after Episode 6, tackling the real decisions facing students, parents, and…
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Shielding the Space Race (with Adam Rossi) | ReForge 008
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ sit down with Adam Rossi (CEO of Total Shield) to talk about what it actually takes to acquire a highly…
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From Wall Street to Silicon Beach (with Jason Engelhardt) | ReForge 007
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ sit down with Jason Engelhardt (Founder of Silicon Beach) to talk about what it actually takes to build an…
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Is College Still Worth It? (with Matt and Colin) | ReForge 006
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ go head to head on one of the most debated questions in workforce development: is college still worth it, and…
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Simulating the Future of Factories (with Richard Schrade) | ReForge 005
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ sit down with Richard Schrade (President and Co-Founder of Automation Intelligence) to talk about digital twins…
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Training the Next Generation (with Nahshon Nicks) | ReForge 004
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ sit down with Dr. Nahshon Nicks (Founder and President of Team Nitro MMA) to talk about building the talent…
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The Renaissance Man of Manufacturing (with Colin Russ) | ReForge 003
In this episode, Matthew Chang sits down with co-host Colin Russ to trace his path from a Texas dairy farm to Erie, Pennsylvania, through presidential…
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Harnessing the Industrial Revival (with Matthew Chang) | ReForge 002
In this episode, Colin Russ sits down with Matthew Chang (Founder & CEO of Chang Robotics) to trace the path from building factories across five continents to…
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Introducing the ReForge Podcast (with Brian Keith) | ReForge 001
In this episode, Matthew Chang and Colin Russ, joined by Brian Keith, CMO of Chang Robotics, introduce the ReForge Podcast and lay out the core problem: nearly…