{"podcast":{"title":"Hacking State","slug":"hacking-state-6414128","podcast_index_feed_id":6414128,"rss_url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16289709/Profile_Picture_Stacked_Dark_under_25mb78oll.jpg","author":"Alex Murshak","episode_count":58,"summary":"Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T02:23:02.509613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128"},"episode":{"title":"56 - The Machine that Makes the Machine with Matt Parlmer","slug":"56-the-machine-that-makes-the-machine-with-matt-parlmer","published_at":"2026-01-13T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128/56-the-machine-that-makes-the-machine-with-matt-parlmer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128","url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com/e/matt-parlmer/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8c5856dfr8gzeiia/matt_parlmer_edited_audio74o2q.mp3","summary":"Matt Parlmer is the founder and CEO of General Fabrication Company, a self-reproducing factory company. We cover the origins of Gen Fab in the realization that we now have the tools to build machines that build themselves (see: The Von Neumann Constructor), the possibilities created by small modular manufacturing in electronics, robotic wet labs, and more; building a vertically integrated industrial company, light industrial parts farms, the need for American industrial policy to include civilian industry in re-industrialization strategy, levers for re-shoring American manufacturing, the unexpected passing of our good friend, Nick Simmons, and the future of General Fabrication. Links: Support Nick Simmons' wife and family's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-nick-simmons-life-and-legacy Matt Parlmer's memorial post for Nick Simmons: https://mattparlmer.substack.com/p/remembering-nick-simmons General Fabrication website: https://www.genfab.co/ Matt Parlmer on X: https://x.com/mattparlmer General Fabrication on X: https://x.com/genfabco SIGN UP for the Hacking State newsletter: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe If you enjoyed this talk, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml","meta_description":"Matt Parlmer is the founder and CEO of General Fabrication Company, a self-reproducing factory company. We cover the origins of Gen Fab in the realization…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7463,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hacking-state-6414128/episodes/56-the-machine-that-makes-the-machine-with-matt-parlmer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128/56-the-machine-that-makes-the-machine-with-matt-parlmer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}