Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
: Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Webhamster Henry: Break out your soldering iron and sewing machine! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
joe mulligan: Lo Bob! (that's Weebl speak for hello everybody!) ♥ 6:01pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good evening Mark and fellow technophobes. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
ultradamno: Mark! Techtonristas   6:03pm
?: please repair america 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Deano de los Muertos: Oh, hi Mark! ♥ 6:04pm
Krüll Sagan:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:03

I put that at the end of a pledge to Carol & Cullen & Mark (the Trumpet Guy) yesterday! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Spikey BXL: Hello Mark, luddites 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
tim: Hey Mark and gang! Congratulations on the Marathon success!

Tonight's episode is gonna be great!

♥ 6:05pm
Krüll Sagan:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:03

Oh, hiii maaahhhhk   6:05pm
Greg from ZONE 5: Badgersbadgersbadgersbadgersbadgers 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
bravedelay: I still have my iFixit toolkit I bought 7 years ago when I was replacing an iPod battery and that thing has saved me so many times from buying new crap. Every bit, every size, high-quality. Even helped me fix a tire valve stem. 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Krüll Sagan @6:05

wazzap Krull 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Bas NL: A friend of mine step up two repair cafes in Utrecht..   6:07pm
Bea: Hello Mark and friends! 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry: Out Here In The Fields crossover! 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
joe mulligan: i think I just saw a vid clip of a repair cafe here in oakland ♥ 6:08pm
HyperDose:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:03

hehe 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ bravedelay @6:07

I love iFixit! Their tools are good, especially to fix glue-filled modern computing tech. ♥ 6:09pm
Mark Hurst: Hi WtSG, webham, joe, Peter, Bas, ustra, ?, Deano, Krüll, Spikey, tim, Greg [badgersbadgers], bravedelay, Bea, Hyperdose - welcome to all! 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark and friendies. The Clapp paragraphs you cite are kind of sobering. Yikes! ♥ 6:09pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:09

Hi KfHP - yes - very 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyons!

I fixed my rotary phone a couple of weeks ago!

🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
JeremyB: Can we get an encore performance of the Badger song, please?!?!!?! Watch it here: www.wfmu.org...
set #2! 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "A visit to Repair Café El Barrio"

the heck with those traveling roadshows about appraising antiques, Repair Cafe is the TV show I want to watch ♥ 6:10pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:10

Hi Handy! ♥ 6:10pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ JeremyB @6:10

Good cardio workout, too 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
JeremyB:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:10

yeah... the internet used to be fun! 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
JeremyB: Mark, have you seen Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die? the opening monologue that launches the silliness is totally your jam! 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Spikey BXL: These are not the resistors you're looking for ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ JeremyB @6:12

I've been meaning to see it - thanks for the reminder 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:10

BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER

Mushroom!

🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
joe mulligan: a friend of mine buys all sorts of broken small appliances dirt cheap at thrift stores and sells them for 10x on craigslist 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
chresti: Mark and markers! ♥ 6:13pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:12

missing one mushroom 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:13

Always leave 'em wanting more! 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
bravedelay:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:12

kenya believe it? 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
JeremyB:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:12

I will send you a clip of the monologue... prob tomorrow. 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ bravedelay @6:13

it's never ghana work ♥ 6:14pm
Greg from ZONE 5: God bless these folks. My dad would have been super into this. ♥ 6:15pm
Tome: during "covid" I went dumpster diving, got 5 pc towers ,, 4 of them still in use 3 I gave away,, one I'm still using now ,, the "BIOS" if from 2011! 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
JeremyB: Request for next year: The Ultimate Showdown by Lemon Demon. 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "A visit to Repair Café El Barrio"

I support this 1000% for all of the reasons 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Bas NL: I have done hundreds of repairs and i have been teaching doing electronic repairs and the basics. So much fun! ♥ 6:16pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Bas NL @6:15

That's great, Bas - are there online instructional materials you would recommend for anyone who wants to learn?   6:16pm
yippie: it reminds me a little of the bike kitchen in LA where you could learn to fix bikes, and at night we played "bicycle polo" 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
joe mulligan:

↳ yippie @6:16

super fun!! 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
Handy Haversack: K8 has an old Ipod that she really misses. Maybe we'll head down to the one in Bed-Stuy. 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Webhamster Henry: Rethink
Refuse
Reduce
Reuse
Repair
Recycle

In case you need to know how useless plastic recycling is:
www.beyondplastics.org

🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Bas NL:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:16

I recommend the YT channel 'Mend it Mark' (hehe) He takes you through the process of doing repairs. Highly recommended! 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Webhamster Henry: My apt. is full of busted equipment that I'll repair sometime.   6:21pm
Danny: This is so inspiring.... Thank you, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
chresti: Can you get a cup of coffee at the repair cafe? 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Handy Haversack: Mark, did you get the latest Luddite Dispatch? I checked and found listener McGroovey's daughter's name signed on the Oberlin letter! 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Cp304: How bout them coaches. That's cool! 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Deano de los Muertos: I dunno if Todd is in the chat, but it was nice meeting him too 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
bravedelay: People with the will to repair do astounding work. I squeaked 2 more years out of a 6 year-old iPhone after I botched a battery replacement. Turns out I bent a motherboard pin the size of a hair follicle. My local repair shop brought me into the back room and showed me through a large microscope what the issue was, and they fixed it within a day. ♥ 6:23pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Danny @6:21

Glad you're here with us, Danny ♥ 6:23pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chresti @6:21

Indeed there was coffee available! And some snacks, too. 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:12

🐍🐍🐍 ♥ 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:21

Got it, have to double-check for that ♥ 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Cp304 @6:22

The repair coaches are awesome. 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
joe mulligan: the lamp STORE only sells lamps. while manufacturers should still be accountable and have solutions for all the waste they make, it's wonderful communuity gets together and fights unessesary consumerism 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
Ken From Hyde Park: I successfully replaced a failing CD player in an old Wii machine for a family member. I guess I could've done even better by repairing the failing CD unit.   6:28pm
Bea: I love this episode! It’s so great to hear all the different voices. You really give us a feel for the place and lovely people. ♥ 6:29pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Bea @6:28

Thanks, Bea :)   6:29pm
LiXiviated Life: When I was young, there were television shops, radio and electronics repair shops, vacuum cleaner repair shops, you name it. We used to have a right to repair things. Happy to see it’s still out there. 🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:28

We recently took TWO five-CD changers that didn't work to the DSNY electronics recycling center. Wish I'd known about the Repair Cafe first! 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ LiXiviated Life @6:29

I know. We used a TV repair shop nearby a couple of times, but when CRT TV started doing really weird noises, there was not one around anymore.

I have taken two laptops to repair shops, though.

♥ 6:31pm
PaulRobeson1926: This is a great show 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
ultradamno: Oh course, big tech has long gone out of the way to make repairing devices impossible (if not a criminal act)...you're to take it to Best Buy for a gift card and buy a new one. 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "A visit to Repair Café El Barrio"

There's something so magical about hearing genuine emotion on the radio. Such a powerful medium for human connection when it's used right. ♥ 6:32pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ PaulRobeson1926 @6:31

Thanks, Paul ♥ 6:32pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:31

So true 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
Handy Haversack: K8 has a Mechen MP3 player. Its interface is kind of weird and hinky, but it it works and you can drag files off the computer on to it and it never updates or connects to a server or serves her an ad. 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
herb.nyc: Awww, the man was tearing up bec of repair cafes. Such a simple and make-sense idea. LES Ecology Center had a repair session; I’ll hafta ask if it’ll be a regular thing 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
joe mulligan: just yesterday I repaired bikes for a program that takes donated broken bikes and helps kids earn them for themselves:
marinbike.org... 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
bravedelay:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:29

There's an incredible story on Wired about Fisker car owners banding together to fight for 'right to repair' and the lengths they've gone to for sourcing parts and documentation. Hopefully this goes to court and sets a precedent: www.wired.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
bravedelay: @Handy not sure why that replied to you! Sorry about your CD changers... 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Instead of buying crap at Christmas time, send your family coupons for Repair Cafe.   6:38pm
Bea: Wow - good job, Todd! 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
tim: Nice work, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Bas NL: I once repaired the music player of Public Enemy.. got it just in time for their gig opening.. got me free tickets and a meet and greet with the band. :) 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ bravedelay @6:37

Well, I'd never heard of Fisker, so it got me to look it up at least!

Using a DVD player as our CD player right now, which is OK. I have an old RCA switcher, and I need to see if I can run it through that and switch back and forth from connecting to TV and stereo. I tried hooking the TV to the stereo, but that didn't work for some reason.

🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Cp304: I wanted to compliment that production, nice job fellas   6:39pm
LiXiviated Life: I have my old NAD receiver that I’m holding on to
hoping I can maybe one day get it fixed 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:39

!!!!!!!!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:39

Also, one last time until next spring: Ave Bas!   6:40pm
frenchee: great show! I love the whole aspect of repair cafes and community support and all that. There are some groovy young people in Bushwick who are tryna get this sort of thing going in Ridgewood and B-wick. They had a repair event last year. They also clear trash from the filthy streets of Brooklyn/Queens. (Clean Bushwick Initiative) 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
tim:

↳ Bas NL @6:39

That's super cool! 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
bravedelay:

↳ LiXiviated Life @6:39

Sometimes if it's not outputting any sound or powering on it can be as simple as a $1 fuse - I "fixed" a high-end B&K amp once by doing that. Or contact cleaning. Hang onto it! ♥ 6:44pm
Tome: Mend it Mark ,, cool yea recapped an old like 1994 Harmon reciever works like a charm , but best thing is ,, has a good FM tuner ! unike all the crappola recievers now ! even though I have a bare minimum now of bench tools , test equipment etc..   6:44pm
LiXiviated Life: @Bravedelay
Thanks for the tip.
I’ll see if I can find a repair cafe near me. 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
Webhamster Henry: Yesterday's project needed some WD-40 on a stubborn screw - yes, that stuff works! 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ LiXiviated Life @6:44

I can meet you in East Harlem!   6:45pm
yippie: personally, i've been getting pretty good at fixing records that skip 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
bravedelay:

↳ Tome @6:44

How satisfying did that feel to breathe new life into it and hear how it sounded once you powered it back up? Aside from saving money, it's such a fulfilling human experience to pull that off!   6:46pm
LiXiviated Life: I’ve fixed lawnmowers, snow blowers even bathroom exhaust fans but I’m ascared to open up that receiver. 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Deano de los Muertos: I fixed the wiring in a little Bluetooth speaker, it was a great feeling. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:44

that's awesome! yesterday when we were refurbishing bikes someone told me to replace a rusty chain, but instead I dripped some tri-flow and it was good as new/no need to replace ♥ 6:48pm
ClayBeFree: Hello everyone. Just got in from work, wanted to jump on here and say - that was an excellent rendition of "Badgers" last night 🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🍄🍄🐍🐍 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Bas NL: Or bring devices to the repair cafe for PARTS. Very valuable. 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Webhamster Henry: I have used proper plumbing tools, and they make a big difference! Stem wrenches may have only one job, but they do it well. ♥ 6:49pm
Tome:

↳ bravedelay @6:46

honestly even a new reciever "topend" costing 4 digits now , I DOUBLE it has a decent class AB amp circuit(s) , and decent fm am( if it even has AM probably not!) , yes it's a good feeling knowing that IT CAN BE DONE! and you do not need to be a super tech or engineer to do it ! just read read and take caution when workign with anythhing that plugs into the wall , 90% of the time ? the problem is "easy" to fix really ! 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:48

Bas, I met listener HugoNL in the phone room. He'd come all the way here to volunteer and experience Marathon. Really nice fellow! And apparently is in Utrecht!   6:51pm
convoy_pt2: Feature a repair cafe snippet every week on this show so it begins to embed into listeners reflex memory😎 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Bas NL:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:50

Really?? I didn't know; we should meet! ♥ 6:52pm
PaulRobeson1926:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:20

Cradle to Cradle, baby. It’s true. Recycling plastic is really down cycling. Plastic becomes some amorphous sound barrier on the side of the road, etc and eventually ends up in landfill. A solution is to design products with future lifecycles in mind mcdonough.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
regina j: My dad was a machinist and mechanic who lived in the Bronx for many decades. He frequently found sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, busted bicycles, and other machines and appliances that people had discarded. He would always take them home, repair them (and even made the missing parts if he was able) and distributed them to neighbors, many of whom were recent immigrants. Some of them were able to set up little businesses of their own out of their apartments, and others were just happy to have a bike, vacuum cleaner, lamp, etc. that was lovingly restored by my dad. He was such a great guy. I still have a vacuum cleaner from the 1940s that he restored and it works perfectly well.   6:53pm
P-90: I’m not sure they calculated this correctly… 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
joe mulligan: I'd love to read Waste Wars, that and Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York to see how things have changed so drastically since even 2000 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: Mark bringing us back down to earth, with this closing 😁 great episode!! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Plastic waste in the oceans — www.blueparadox.com ♥ 6:56pm
Tome: the waste on ie.. clothes , furnture even ,,,, disgusting ! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
regina j: We have a Repair Cafe at Grace Church in Jersey City!   6:57pm
Rhianna: I had no idea there was a repair cafe in Sussex County! When I heard this story I thought no way would there be one by me - thank you for the story and glad I looked it up! ♥ 6:57pm
Tome:

↳ regina j @6:57

that's great , loved your dad's story too ! bless ! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Threemoons 🌒🌕🌘: Heyo. Missed some of the show, will catch up in archives. I very much want to hit a repair space; wish there were some in Queens. Is there a listing of books quoted in this episode anywhere? 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:51

I think he DJs on an internet radio station. He told me some about how hard it is to get an FM license in the Netherlands. Really nice guy -- you should meet! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
joe mulligan: Thank you Mark!! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ regina j @6:53

Amazing.

A friend of ours in his eighties collects and repairs antique electric fans from the extremely early 1900s. Keeps 'em running!

🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark Hurst!!! ♥ 6:59pm
bleubombersune: Mark Thanks all stray safe and be well 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Bas NL:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:58

For sure; i'll send him a PM. 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Threemoons 🌒🌕🌘: Thanks for the show! Clickystarred. 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Handy Haversack: This was a great episode, Mark! Inspiring in all kinds of ways!

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "Badger Badger" by "MrWeebl"

Lo Bob! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Bas NL: Thanks for the inspirational show Mark! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Threemoons 🌒🌕🌘: BADGER BADGER 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Deano de los Muertos: 🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡
🍄🍄 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark ♥ 7:00pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
chresti: Thanks Mark!