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Push Button People

Aired On: Jan 04, 2023
Push Button People
ABOUT This Episode

In Episode 3: Push Button People, hosts John and Libby Modern consider the scene of Lancaster, PA reflect upon their encounter with the Amish encounter with machines. Who are we in this push button age? Honing in on the devices of domestic bliss and the algorithms of religious tradition, this episode features segments on the trade in raw milk between Amish farmers and Orthodox Jews (Rachel Feldman), breast pump telepathy (Emily Ogden), the thinghood of dishwashers (Annette Aronowicz), the war on dandelions (Lancaster Conservancy), push button parasites (Kerry Mitchell), mechanized intimacies (Tomas Matza and Nicole Heller), and the comforts of big brother (Nielsen Family Band). Composed of original music, lo-fi beats, and cutting edge scholarship, Machines in Between is sponsored by Infinity 88. Public humanities never sounded so good.

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Dishwasher
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Annette appreciates it when her plates remain plates.

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Breast Pump

Emily listens in to the ghosts in the Medela

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Baby Charming

Our Sponsor, Infinity 88, introduces Baby Charming (™)

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Raw Milk, part one

Rachel explores the Amish-->Hasidic raw milk connection

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Raw Milk, part two

Part two of the raw milk exploration

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Worthy Foe

Our sponsor, Infinity 88, introduces the Worthy Foe ™

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Nature Time: Dandelions

The Lancaster Conservancy's Daniel and Fritz chronicle the war on dandelions

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The Increasingly Techno-Mediated Hetero-Normative Family

The domestic technology of the classic sitcom takes over the Heller-Matza family.

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Push Button Parasites

Kerry discovers the voracious appetite of the machine surround.

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