The Laborious Hour

The Laborious Hour

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The Laborious Hour episodes

  • Sara's Radical Smallholding

    Listen to young, queer farmer of color Sara finish all her morning chores while sharing sturdy wisdom about what it means to work alone in rural America.

    Hear equipment sterilization, bucket filling, livestock feeding, chuckling and milking all while Sara shares her radical land reclamation philosophies.

    Enjoy!

    59 min
  • Seitaning

    This month on a ๐Ÿ’ฏ% plant based Laborious Hour, hear Andrew at The Be-Hive season, steam and slice wholesale batches of the finest seitan this side of the Mississippi.

    And hear me eat a sandwich made by Diana.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Manuel the Luthier

    Tune in and hear third generation Luthier Manuel Delgado plane, sand & iron away one of two-hundred hours it takes them to hand craft a concert classical guitar.

    59 min
  • The Chair Sits

    This month Belmont University Motion Picture Department Chair & Head of Screenwriting Will Akers prints, proofreads, emails, dictates and reprints while we share a bit of the wisdom they've learned teaching students over the last three decades!

    1 hr 1 min
  • Indy Patina

    Tune in to get fired up with Sean Neil of Sincerus bronze as he and team give final touches to the Knoxville Burn Memorial. Hear ferric nitrate, fire and water transform bronze for the last time and all time.

    1 hr 1 min
  • 2018 End of Year Special

    This month!... The First Annual End of Year Clip Show ๐Ÿ”ง๐Ÿ—“๐Ÿ“ป๐Ÿ‘‚๐Ÿฝ

    A special double-hour of six remastered and one never heard before set of sounds ๐ŸŽค๐Ÿ–: )

    Tune in. Slow down. Do you know who the mystery worker is? ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ”ง๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿพโ€๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€โœˆ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฟโ€โš–๏ธ๐ŸŽ…

    2 hr 1 min
  • Glass & Bills & Candy Barking pt. 3

    A special trilogy of laboriousness as David of Bre starts up his glass shop and warms up an old barn. Ben at BillFixers uses his favorite machine to maximize the ability of BillFixing. And Sarah (almost) finishes a batch of popping chocolate.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Candy Barking Pt. 2

    Return to Sarah of Bang Candy Company's "Little Dungeon in the Sky" and hear her cutting, crackling & weighing to get an hour closer to a finished batch of their famous "Firecracker Bark."

    1 hr 1 min
  • Candy Barking Pt. 1

    Join Sarah of Bang Candy Company in her "dungeon in the sky" whipping up sounds of Firecracker Bark being tempered, sloshed about, and poured over her giant slabs of stainless steel. Enjoy!

    1 hr 1 min
  • Washing Gravier with Stone
    Within spitting distance of the historic banks of the Mississippi River, hear Mike Shoriak of Cypress Building Conservation and his friend Michelle shoot limestone at a brick wall to remove 150 year old paint that should never have been there in the first place.
    1 hr

About The Laborious Hour

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Presenting realtime field recordings of tradespeople and their tools, The Laborious Hour seeks to raise empathy for the manufactured world while meditating on the committed focus of a job well done.