🎙 Hosts: Sura Hadi | Mike Ouren | Elizabeth Rodziewicz
🎧 Series: Unfiltered Brew – Helical Brew Intermission
☕️ Lab chaos, cool cars, and even cooler stories.
This unscripted intermission episode gives the Helical Brew crew a chance to go off-the-rails (and off-the-record) about robot mishaps, automation bloopers, and the biotech grind. From coolant caps that won’t budge to janitors shadowboxing $250K robots - this is one for the automation folklore books.
💥 What you'll hear:
- The difference between open vs. closed APIs (and when your chair disappears mid-rant)
- Lab automation horror stories: stacked trash, overheating samples, and lost experiments
- Throwbacks to Velocity11, Dynamic Devices, and the lost glory of the Flipper
- Why San Diego feels like a post-biotech apocalypse
- DIY car repair, dishwasher regrets, and... tea shooters?
🎁 Bonus: An ode to International Lab Automation Day - and some serious nostalgia.
👇 Hit play, share a laugh, and remember: every day is Lab Automation Day.
🔔 Subscribe for more automation tales → / @helicalbrew
📌 CHAPTERS
00:00 – Car trouble & tiny tea cups
01:50 – Coolant cap vs. acrylic nails
02:41 – Dishwasher destroys favorite mug
03:53 – Memories & automation throwbacks
06:22 – Open APIs, Dynamic Devices, XML wins
08:13 – Lab Automation Day = every day
10:02 – TikTok spam & merch requests
10:32 – Velocity11 nostalgia & Flipper comeback
12:37 – Robot mishaps & lab disasters
15:32 – AC off = ruined experiments
18:30 – SLAS/LRIG recap & regional shifts
23:50 – Future segments & wrap-up
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