Rod puppets are controlled by a stick or wire attached to the puppet's main body parts.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

He performed using the names "The Wizard of Waukesha", "Hot Rod Red" and "Rhubarb Red."

VOA: special.2009.09.27

You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Rod revisits the golden age of soul with a blues-rock rendition of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25