VIDEO: Lost Spirits and Bryan Davis' time machine TEDx talk goes live.

It would surprise some people to learn Salinas native Bryan Davis wrote his TEDx talk, which appears below, in less than two hours.

Those people would not be very familiar with Davis.

His topic, craft distilled spirits, is something he thinks about and enthuses over relentlessly, and has since for nearly two decades—since he made rum in a bucket when he was in school at Salinas High.

View a slideshow of Lost Spirits' slick Silicon Valley headquarters with "PHOTOS: Lost Spirits Technology's surprising new liquor mission."

He knows it inside out—like the copper-and-log still he hand-built in his front yard—and has been explaining things like esters and amino acid chain formulation in aged spirits for years.

“To do the science we’re doing you have to have a crystal clear communicator,” he says. “That’s part of my role. Otherwise no one knows what the hell you’re talking about—or someone can refute you and you can’t explain why they’re full of sh**.”

So it's not all that outlandish he was able to plan a PowerPoint and deliver a speech about his patented technology, with the help of his first distillery partner, rather quickly.

Better yet, he connected his competitive liquor-aging advances with what ever-accelerating technology means but for another race. 

The human one.

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