How to pronounce “wax” in English

Let's just dive right in.Wax Trax-- when it first began as a store, before the label, when Jim and Dannie were just first starting out, could you tell us a bit moreabout what the music scene in Chicago was even like?

you it's uh some cheeses are covered inwax or uh cheesecloth um and even those cheeses if you try that and you go ohGod that's wax it's not going to hurt you so don't be shy about rinds try them give them a chance and let your palette

But in terms of inspiration, I get it from a couple of things.Wax Poetics magazine is one of my all-time favorite magazines.It's incredibly well done, well researched.

So we'll start off with clothing.Wax like this will really help to minimize that.

we go. More importantly, 'cause you're probably at my generation, Mr. Miyagi taught Daniel-san in the Karate Kid, what movement?Wax on, wax off. And what is "wax on, wax off" really just about? External rotation and flexion. So if you understand that you're gonna see these strong principles over andover again, and in fact, if we're in a self-defense class and you grab my hand--. Grab my wrist like you're holding me.

baking it's something you kind of reach for it's really terrible I would say that I mean there's really strange things in this Baker's shop includingwax I believe to keep it from melting properly you want to go something that you know which is like a Callebaut orValrhona Scharffen Berger we don't work for any of these brands but we do use them and when you're using dark chocolate you want to look for something

You know, it's got a lot of work to do.- The wax is then melted out, and the mold is fired.Oh, yeah. That is wild.

But some oils were extremely flammable and prone to spontaneous combustion.And wax or tar would eventually crack with movement.Similarly, there were no real good flexible materials at the time.

although it's questionable whether it was the technology that failed or whether it was human error-- it's usually represented as having been Icarus' problem and not the problemthat wax was the material that was being used.So we have all of these kinds of stories that we've grown up with.

This one's really interesting, because initially we had it such that the wax would just sit right inside the sleeping bag and the baby would lie on top of that.The wax is food grade, it's completely nontoxic, that would be totally safe.But there is this perception of fear from mothers of the wax leaking onto the baby, and so that led us to create a

in a horror movie, would be the first, nearly overlooked sign of impending disaster. It was a leg sticking out of the wall, about a foot above the floor. Made of strangelytranslucent wax and covered meticulously with leg hair, it had a shoe and sock on one end and a trouser leg disappearing into the wall at the other. The sock and trouser hem framedthat snippet of skin you would see if someone in a suit was wearing short socks and crossed his legs. Before I had time to process this image fully, we wandered into the Jeff Koons

house film stars and pop singers suround themselves luxury items such as ribboncream wax sturgeonand this is a selection of

I think I went a little too far, he says.I waxed my chest, too.It hurt. I waxed too.

characteristic colors for every month of the year. We then arranged them on a circle. Let's actually see if I can get that. So here are the colors and created a kind of graph ofthe waxing and waning colors of Boston. In fact, we can go to our interactive version here. And you can see on this graph we go from December and we have like the cold, coldphotos of the snow and the icy sky. And then gradually, spring comes. You can see flowers and the colors there. Then a bulge of green in the spring and the summer. You get a little

- What you will see through our tour today is that, actually, it's a really highly technological process.This is our wax pattern die.This is how a turbine blade starts its life.

- Every surface here has to be perfect because this wax is what will become the blade.- So Kim is our wax pattern assembler.So she's responsible for taking the product straight from that die, making sure that things like die lines have been removed.

- Would you like a go? - No.Once the wax assembly is perfect, it's ready for the next stage.- Everything that is wax is gonna become air, it's gonna become negative space, right?

Once the wax assembly is perfect, it's ready for the next stage.- Everything that is wax is gonna become air, it's gonna become negative space, right?It's gonna become our cavity.

And then we're gonna fill that air with metal.So we take that wax assembly, and we've gotta build a shell.Shell is made of many different layers.

So this is a brand-new era.And I could wax on, especially also about countries like Russia that have been traditional space superpowers that don't seem to have a place in this new worldand how they react to that.

It's made with wax and other stuff.

She makes the wax.

So I could wax on that for a while.

I said "butt." So how did Wax Trax connect to that?How did Wax Trax connect to it?As it was emerging.

That's about 45 in there.So being raised around Wax Trax and being so intimately familiar with all the music, do you have any favorites-- any favorite records,

That's about 45 in there.is next for Wax Trax?

You carve teeth and wax, you know?

sealed with blood-colored wax and the impression of a wolfsbane flower, lacked the customary sender's marks, the demon on duty believed this merely

wax or uh cheesecloth um and even those cheeses if you try that and you go ohGod that's wax it's not going to hurt you so don't be shy about rinds try them give them a chance and let your palettetell you whether you should eat any more of the Rind or not yeah all right so just to finish up this

They get the mustache wax.

The temperatures wax and wane, but our mean annual temperature in this area is, like I said, about minus 10 degrees C. So that's not so bad.

And then you put wax over the whole thing.

And where the wax used to be, you pour molten bronze in.

So this is a pouch of what's called a phase change material.It's a wax like substance.You can heat this either with boiling water or with an electric heater.

And this is an interesting story.So on the wax pouch, what you'll see is a temperature indicator that tells you when the pouch needs to be reheatedor when it's too cold or too hot.

to apply a wax strip to it that you're going to rip off as hard as you can to try to get as many of those little hairs

Unless you're waxing your car and then this water gets on and it beads up.

And he waxed really lyrical about this and says "let there be granted to the science of pleasure what is granted to the science of energy.

So from Icarus's waxed wings to Frankenstein, we're continually warned in our mythology, in our culture,

His name is Michael Waxenberg.

I could get waxed.

you're Johnson Waxman. My son looks at me with a horrific look on his face, so that's the bad side of it.

So where the die box come together and leave a small amount of flash, the operative word in all of wax assembly is smooth.- Every tiny imperfection in the wax would become a flaw in the metal.So this takes an incredible amount of skill.

They also don't experience wax moths.

And then it was the '80s started, and that was like a whole new whirlwind of kick butt music.I said "butt." So how did Wax Trax connect to that?How did Wax Trax connect to it?

There was nothing he could kind of like, I want to do this, this, whatever.Plus he knew nothing about Wax Trax.At all. He knew none of the story and this was his first feature.

I mean, it's like, whatever, people.But-- He was inspired by Wax Trax.He had been there.

That's about 45 in there.because you put it out under Wax Trax, you know?

And I wasn't trying to wax philosophical, I was just taking in thinking, are they reporting on a war or trying to sell me a war?