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Peter Lorrie stopped by for a bit. Great guy. Totally misunderstood. On the show this week: 

• Happy national Mutt Day
• Happy national Bartender Day
• A dozen 7-year-olds in a bar watching World Cup
• The “third rail” in the housing crisis
• South Burlington weighs new policy on homelessness camps 
• Ambassadors to keep downtown Burlington safe
• What’s with the QR code on inspection stickers? 
• Pipes keep bursting in Montpelier
• Unpaid parking in Barre
• Frontier pulls out of BTV
• Nut job Randy Quaid buys house in Burlington 
• Fiddlehead named brewery of the year

(51:20) Break music: Adnan Djozo (essex)  - “91 A/D maj” from The album On to the Next https://adnandjozo.bandcamp.com/album/on-to-the-next 

•  I’m telling you, I could run a museum
• BTV fines for food program is back
• Beefin over free clothing bins
• Creepy Williston Select board member 
• Trouble in Norwich 
• Whatchu know 'bout Norwich? 
• Man shoots himself at traffic stop 
•  Antiques roadshow announces air dates for VT episode
•  Neighbors don’t like proposed sculptures at Burlington waterfront
• Dementia card game

(1:30:15) Break music:  Efficacious - “2000 one” from the album All the Best Things (in life) Come from Your Mom https://efficacious.bandcamp.com/track/2000-one 

•  Scumbag Map
• Barre perv 
•  Robbery with a fireplace poker
• Record number of stolen vehicles in SoBu
• Wreaths and garland stolen from church
•  Vermont man charged in Springfield, MA case. 
• Swanton man gets 20 years for murder 
•  Route 91 Bandit
•  Woman bites kids
•  Burlington peeper identified 
• FL woman sues Kraft mac n cheese for taking too long

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Sorry! - I messed up the sound. Glo is super loud and you can barely hear Matt (but trust me, he is super funny). Ugh, this will be fixed by next show. 

On this week's show:

• Happy national Buy Nothing Day
• Happy national Flossing day
• UVM hospital has 90 million $ loss 
• Vermont disputes FCC 
• New regulations for gas-powered cars
• Franklin new sheriff may be impeached 
• 50,000 words in 30 days
• SoBu walking bridge plans finalized
• Salvation army needs bell ringers

(55:47) Break music: Transitory Symphony - Ben & Jerry Live in My Hometown
https://transitorysymphony.bandcamp.com/track/ben-jerry-live-in-my-hometown-2 

• Ranked choice is back on ballot 
• Pods delayed 
• Sustainable violins
• Saint Johnsbury looks into homeless student policy
• Selectboard deliberating dog complaint
• One dead in Newfane explosion
• A gun in the Orleans County courthouse
• New mural on the bike path

(1:34:27) Break music:  Jarv - “Blue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBufdz-mIPQ 

•  Trooper lies, gets away with it 
• Scumbag Map
•  Two cars stolen from same driveway
• Sheriff deputy shot in NY
• Saint Johnsbury woman flees police
•  2 day crime spree 
•  The ultimate snail mail 
• Frenchie wins National Dog Show 
• Cat stowaway

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• Happy national Substitute Teacher Day
• BTV bike thieves make NY Times 
• Weed advertising rules
• VT Min Wage increases
• Move to VT incentives ending 
• Update: Ugandan man gets reprieve  a 
• Work finally begins on Gloria’s pit 
• Moran plant - wtf is it even supposed to be?
• Winooski music grants
•  Snow plow name update 

(1:03:45) Break music: Saturn’s People’s Sound Collective - Reflections Part 2 https://saturnpeople.bandcamp.com/album/saturn-peoples-sound-collective?from=hp 

•  Pop-up toy store coming to Church Street
• Wheeler park development blocked
•  Milton nudist camp closing 
• A Colchester pharmacy is liquidating
• Saint Alphonsus gets new windows
•  Seminars help Vermonters get Italian citizenship - take that, Portuguese!
•  Pho Vo
•  Public spat in Chelsea
•  What do you know about Chelsea? 

(1:52:50) Break music:  Night Protocol (feat Justin Goyette) - Pieces of Midnight https://nightprotocol.bandcamp.com/track/pieces-of-midnight-feat-justin-goyette 

• Scumbag Map
•  Stamford man arrested in stabbing 
• Randolph man faces charges 
•  Barre man used gun in burglary 
• UMall Samurai
•  Thrift shop groping
•  Return of the purple crowberry
• Parasites in foxes
•  Boots the Cat
•  Top travel destinations for 2023

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On the show:

• Happy national Heavy Metal Day
• I guess we have to talk about the election? - less than 12 miniutes
• Lasting solutions on homelessness - beyond shelters?
• A death sentence for one Ugandan man
• Vermont to get new standardized test
• Brattleboro Principal fired Brattleboro Union High School fires principal without reason
• Forest service selling permits to cut down Xmas trees
• Winning lottery ticket in Newport
• VT murder rate highest in 3 decades Vermont homicide rate highest in 3 decades 

(59:38) Break music: Angelica Del Campo  - Você Vai Ver https://angelicadelcampo.bandcamp.com/album/vejo-voc-em-meus-sonhos 

• Apparel manufacturing returns to BTV 
• Efforts to transform the Moran Plant
• Saint Albans got a pool
• Department of duh: Tik Tok has negative effect on body image of young people
• Dangers of driving high
• What are your winter fashion essentials?
•  Another cop decertified 

(1:41:54) Break music:  Nift Riffers - “Geek Graffiti” (Newfane) https://niftriffers.bandcamp.com/album/nift-riffers-issue-1?from=hp 

• Scumbag Map
• School janitor has child porn
• Body found on Montpelier bike path
• Man crashes car into Jericho home
•  Woman breaks into SoBu home with knife
•  Man steals booze in Pownal
• Man who attacked hospital workers sentenced 
• Archery season on pace with record
• Cat rescued in Essex 
• Jaguars return 
• “Snuggle class” on airlines

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On this week's show:

• Happy national Candy day 
• Turn back those clocks and safety first
• The Vermont Brewery Draft
• The weird church conspiracy books
• House candidate thinks he found a loophole 
• He really is a top-hatted conspiracy theorist
• A new racial equity person for the BTV
• Push for just cause evictions
• Landlords charge application fees despite law against that
• UVM to be tuition free for some families
• State snow plows will be named by kids

(1:18:35) Break music: Fattie B (featuring Rivan, ILLu, Urian Hackney, and Rico James) - “Groove Gladiators” (BTV) https://equaleyesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/groove-gladiators-ft-rivan-illu-urian-hackney-rico-james 

• Barre has clean water again (probably)
•  The Shelburne Road roundabout is ready - are we?
• Keep your trucks out my Notch
• VT releases “most promising jobs” list
• New job for Matt 1?: Lack of driver’s ed instructors
•  New job for Matt 2?: Radio DJ
•  A hyper-focused steelband
•  No Darn Tough sale 

(1:57:47) Break music:  Jarv - “Getting You Up to Speed” (Windsor) https://jarvmakesmusic.bandcamp.com/track/getting-you-up-to-speed 

• Scumbag Map
• More non-profit embezzling
• BTV downtown assault
• Castleton man beats landlord with bat
•  Wells man jailed for keeping his guns
•  Roxbury man threatens to set woman on fire
• Whatchu know ‘bout Roxbury, VT?
• Wheeler Dog Park reopening
• Stability in VT turkey prices
•  Bats on the move
• Bear attacks

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On this week's show:

• Happy national “Black Cat” Day
• Happy national “American Beer” day
• The Vermont Brewery Draft
• Adam needs a ruling: am I the jerk
• We need some firewood
• The Internet never forgets
• John Klar, culture warrior
• Banned from coaching a soccer team
• Is DCF too quick to take kids?
• Bernie hosts the Finnish ambassador in VT
• Free tooth cleaning for Ukranian refugees

(50:58) Break music: Genderdeath - “Want 2 be” https://nofunvt.bandcamp.com/album/cant-deny-ep 

• Women are the future of the funeral biz
• Ooooh weeee, we gettin a Tesla dealership
• Elementary school club embezzlement
• Stacking up on salt
• Wrong way drivers
• Civil War re-enactors in Milton
• New Fleming director (Adam thinks he could run a museum)
•  We need Shark Tank pitch for Woodstock
• Vermont teen movie-musical
• Burlington beautician named Born This Way stylist of 2022
• Jr’s goes back to Italian
• Coffee championship prelims come to VT

(1:36:33) Break music:  James Kochalka Superstar (featuring Rough Francis and Jello Biafra) - The Mummy’s on the Loose https://kochalka.bandcamp.com/track/the-mummys-on-the-loose 

• Scumbag Map
• Over 200 gravestones overturned in Bennington
• Teenage murder suspect arrested  in July shooting
• Hinesburg man tries to run over gf
•  Springfield Mass man Alleged mastermind of kidnap-for-drug-debt case arrested
• I guess these are good wasps - what could go wrong?
• High end dog restaurant
• Where to look if grandma goes missing 

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Back after a brief pause due to sickness and surgery. On this week's show:

• Happy national “Witch Hazel” Day
• International Nacho Day
• Dispatches from Boston / Health check in
• My final Worthy Burger
• Yankees check in
• Does Vermont feel more methy to you?
• Leaf Peepers need crowd control
• No Vacancies at the ER
• Mad water scientist resigns
• City Place Permits 
• Blasting in the South End
• Airport upgrade
• VT hears sports-betting proposals

(57:24) Break music: Kyle Chadburn - “Look What You’ve Done” https://kylechadburnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-direction-vol-1 

• Robots can’t make me tip
• Lily topples the world
• A cupola is a fancy gazebo?
• Barre schmuck
• Negro Brook (wtf?) in Townshend is now Huzzy Brook 
• Illegal parking lot appeal
•  93-year-old ginseng root
• Best all-you-can-eat restaurants in VT

(1:41:10) Break music: THUS LOVE - “Friend” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqxS8FONlr89Qkmgp7PvJFw 

• Scumbag Map
• Worker at hotel shot 
• Murder suspect arrested at S. Burlington library
• Dirtbag steals from vulnerable adult 
• 33 Year old murder solved 
• Pet costume contest winner
• Don't pet the racoons
•  Dog beer

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The hardest we have ever laughed on this show is when Glo tells the story of the time she bought the Middlesex town newspaper (1:48:00). 

• Happy national body language day
• Yankees check in
• Weed sales actually happen 
• Progressive BTV councilor resigns
•  Transgender student’s nightmare 
• Fentanyl O.D.’s in high school
• Covid still a thing 
• Teacher of the year
•  Screw Land mines - the Nobel Peace Prize 
•  Our next US senator? 

(50:53) Break music: Boomslang “Settle Down” (Montpelier)

• Essex is yes on panhandling, no on nudity
• The Waterbury adventure challenge
• Missing truck found in river…after 16 years
•  Overrated local restaurant closes
• Update: Legionnaires disease. 
•  Update: Murder for hire pleads 
•   Update: Richmond gets more flouride 
• Champlain Water District honored as best drinking water

(1:25:23) Break music:  Adam Henry Garci “Just An Enemy” (Burlington)

• Scumbag Map
• Two gunned down - whats the beef?
•  46 year old impregnates an 11 year old 
•  Woman badly beaten 
•  Trio try five finger discount 
•  Each state’s funniest town name 
• Glo bought a newspaper

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Chewing Gum day
• International Podcast Day
• Yankees check in
• Vermont UFO
• Water scientists guy controls fluoride levels in Richmond
• A record-breaking foliage season
• Replace Your Ride program
• Meals on Wheels cuts
• Sign of the times - Beta takes over Energizer plant
• Local online retailer
• Finally - Boston Tea Partiers recognition

(1:05:11) Break music: Jewelry Company - “Rude”

• Down with Dollar General in Royalton, VT
• Crossing guard shortage
• No tiny house for you
• Calais road commissioner big mad
• Ooooh, a public reprimand
• Pumpkin Chucking
• Expandable steel cabin
• Weed food and drink
• Kitchen academy
• Why do I keep missing chili cook offs?!!

(1:46:43) Break music:  Robbie Boney & the Fonque Magic Bloody Gang - “I wanna be your Porto Rico”

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• Creepy art guy pleads guilty
• Barre mom tries to get sex assault victim daughter to change story
• Springfield kidnappers Massachusetts man, woman held without bail in kidnap fo
• Springfield, Mass…again
• Armed robbery in Burlington Man Left Bleeding Heavily After Assault, Robbery in 
• Salisbury pair arrested for campground burglaries
• Whatchu know about Salisbury, VT?
• Pink church for sale
• Dispatches from Massachusetts

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• Happy Great American  Pot Pie day
• Yankees check in?
• Aaron Judge
• John Sterling
• Roger Maris
• Tracy Stallard - Boston Red Sox
• Mickey Mantle
• The Bambino - Babe Ruth
• Giancarlo Stanton
• Skunk protocol?
• Scott ready for Desantis’ immigrants drop 
• Who wants to go to city hall park? 
• UVM student assaulted and held at gunpoint downtown 
• A stolen vehicle was found burning early Thursday morning at Perkins Pier in Burlington.
• New anti-slavery bill. Would it affect prison labor?
• Taste of Vermont
• Deputy sheriffs unionize
• State finds money for rental assistance
• New airport director Big Dick Nic Longo
• Matt - new career in aviation?
• Catch me if you can - movie

• Don’t let your kids drink water at school 
• Closed school gets state’s attention 
• School in trouble for physically restraining students
• Cool Hand Luke - movie
• Alliance against Seclusion & Restraint
• Burlington approves 4 cannabis licenses 
• Vermont is having a garage sale
• Vermont man to fix democracy 
• Canada to be back open
• Update: Bolton hunter charged in Huntington shooting accident
• Update: Alleged slasher cleared 

1.  Former sheriff’s captain denies wrongdoing 
2.  Woman charged in assault of minor 
3.  Max Misch in trouble again 
4.  Phoney syrup and hay scam 
5.  Man charged with murder allowed to go on vacation

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