In the final installment of the how things are made podcast, how things are made tells tale of our sordid relationship with Radioshack. This podcast ship has sailed, but you can still keep up with our new releases on our bandcamp page: http://howthingsaremade.bandcamp.com (Barring a communication systems failure, hold for release till the end of the world confirmed)

Emily Rodgers and Erik Cirelli join how things are made for an improvised recital and then an unexpected live remix of all the material we might have, but didn't to fully use in the course of the podcast! We're going there!

Featuring text from "The Grass Dancer" by Susan Power

Albert Manders, inventor of the baroque flute, joins the how things are made podcast to explain how the baroque flute took over the world and caused the speculative butter futures market to explode. (reminder: Carl lives in a bag of chips).

music: "Kites"  featuring Derek Bendel, Albert Manders, David Matthews, and Kevin Sapp

It's winter here in Pittsburgh. The sky is permanently grey and the windchill drops lower everyday. The How Things are Made Podcast is coming to an end. However, in this episode we present our recently developed new cure for seasonal affective disorder. Part 1 of the final episode: electric panels. If you're listening to this podcast, you are probably near one. Are all your switches on? How things are made tells you how to get in tune with electricity. 

 

 Music recorded live at Brillo Box in Pittsburgh on 11/30/2017

 

(bummed that the podcast is going away? all the podcast episodes are being uploaded to our bandcamp page at www.bandcamp.com/howthingsaremade. also, we've got a new cassette that's just been released on Flag Day Records. you can buy your own Real-time duplicated high bias chrome tape here)

The dangdut cowboys performance on Indonesian national television is uploaded to youtube. In this episode, computers read poor translations of viewer comments while how things are made performs Mannequins. Also, the latest installment of the one minute contest; who will win this time?!?!?!?!?!

In spring of 2019, the US State Department dispatched a cadre of academics to tour Indonesia and perform classic and contemporary dangdut songs to an audience of millions. On this installment, advice for ordering fried rice and unrelated music about kitchen knives with Devon Tipp and Lu Han Li.

Most people don't know this, but how things are made is actually a genre of 19th century Russian literature. Featuring Lu Han Li!

Mr. Handy and Mr. Handy demonstrate a lightly understood principle of plant life.

Do we live in the height of the technological age or the bowels of a technocratic hellscape? There are only two options presented. How things are made investigates with Lu Han Li, but you decide. We can't stress this enough. You must make a decision. You won't catch us editorializing one bit. Thanks.

Lu Han Li joins how things are made to discuss technology and consumerism. Also, a big-time movie review for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).