Super Local

From a mountain home in Fayston, Vermont, Alex Budney is running online “open mic nights” for musicians across the state. He also makes a mean corned beef.

Virtual Open Mic Event • VT & Beyond • SUN 3-7pm & THU 7-11pm weekly!

LINK: Alex Budney (aka DJ Steal Wool)

Super Local 19: Jordan Grimaldi dishes on the Vermont HS hockey title and mozzarella sticks

Super Local 18: Casting choices for the "Tiger King" movie, and what's up with super-productive COVID-19 guy?

The latest Super Local goes down, yet again, with minimal planning and even less editing.

Perfect for the person in the Mad River Valley who’s sitting at home and wondering what it would be like to invite a couple of people over and have them eat your food, drink your beer, and talk about randomly connected things. This is PART 2 of an episode with special guests CHUCK GAIDYS and BRENDAN GILHULY who took time out of their very busy schedules to talk about jai alai and Tom Brady. (Full disclosure: The reason this episode was split in two was because my free ZOOM membership limits me to 40 minutes a session. Whoops. But it did allow us all to grab another beer).

With special guests Chuck Gaidys and Brendan Gilhuly, the latest edition of Super Local was so rambling and incoherent that we split it into two episodes. Yes, TWO. Lucky you. Good thing school just got cancelled for the rest of the year and you’re looking for something to listen to while you reorganize the garage. AGAIN.

Re-booting the SuperLocal podcast due to an abundance of time, Chicky and Drew drink a beer and talk about life in the Mad River Valley during the coronavirus.

Super Local gets some time with Matt Crawford, Vermont native, Colorado University graduate, former outdoor writer for Burlington Free Press, Vermont Life contributor and St. Albans beer expert. A few classic moments in this episode include impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy and Jim Douglas. As usual, the episode was recorded live at the Bridge Street Podcasting studios.

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What better way to celebrate the arrival of spring in Vermont than an extended interview with Meg Moffroid, co-founder of Broadleaf Landscape Architecture, talking about the steady march of green in the Green Mountains, about the upcoming legalisation of marijuana in Vermont on July 1, and about the influence of Frederick Law Olmsted. Links in the episode include:

Broadleaf Landscape Architecture http://www.broadleafvt.com/

WMRW radio (Warren, Vermont) http://wmrw.org/

East Warren Community Market https://www.eastwarrenmarket.com/

The Rolling Stone Guide to Legal Pot: Vermont https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-rolling-stone-guide-to-legal-pot-vermont-w519680

Worthy Burger https://www.worthyvermont.com/

Frederick Law Olmsted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted

With guest John Kidder, a Randolph local and professor of lots of cool stuff at Vermont Tech. The interview covers the latest moves toward a sustainable economy in Randolph, the challenges of driving over Roxbury gap in mudseason, RASTA's trail growth, and what happens after you hit a burro in the desert outside of Las Vegas.

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Local links in this episode include:

Vermont Technical College

RASTA (Rochester/Randolph Area Sports Trail Alliance)

Bent Hill Brewery (Braintree, Vermont)

THANKS to our sponsors ... this episode brought to you by The Sweet Spot, the Mad River Valley’s ONLY riverside coffeeshop and bakery, built on a foundation of locally sourced dairy and eggs, organic flour and organic sugar.