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• A little early, but Happy National “Whiskey” Day (Sunday)
• Adam met the NICEST drunk
• The muddiest mud season
• Miro blocks short-term rental law
• Where is tuition money going?
• State overpaid healthcare providers - oops
• Massive workforce bill - let 'em build houses
•  Free financial literacy program for VT teachers
• Dieng it is... I guess
• How the lady candidates compare
• TJ Donovan suing robocall maker
• Bill passed to save independent pharmacies
•  House approves commission to study Vermont’s history of eugenics

(59:10) Break music: Tall Travis “A Rabittish Night, A Rainy Day” from the album To Be in a Place

• Burlington is getting an Amtrak stop
• Lyndon and Lyndonville to merge
• UMall sold
• Winooski iron chefs
• BBQ world record
• Cyber security funding
•  Penguin plunge
•  DHART helicopter down in Bradford
•  Whatchu know ‘bout Bradford, VT?
•  Burn down the ol’ Inn?
• Adult-only resort in Barnard, VT
• Bummer of the week: Hammocking can damage UVM trees

(1:52:35) Break music: Brattleboro’s THUS LOVE “Inamorato”

• Scumbag Map
• Morrissville child porn
•  Scumbag hall of fame inductee
• Montreal man smuggling cocaine
•  Molotov cocktails in Colchester
•  Assault with a butter knife
•  Landlord’s trespass
• DNA tracing for dog poo
•  “Gay” dog dumped, adopted
•  UK road closed for migrating toads
•  Sex pheromones key to stopping murder hornets
• Brazilian singer hospitalized for holding in farts

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National “Awkward Moments” Day
• Where can a man get decent corndog around here?
• Adam predicted the future - Elon vs Putin
• Canada drops covid test requirement
• Peter Welch has COVID
• State switches to antigen testing
• VT to get 36 mil in opioid settlement
• Sianay Chase Clifford joins the race
• Dirtbag ex-fire chief wanted to get PAID
• Expunge all the crimes
• People don’t care about qualified immunity anymore
• Burlington police getting lots of use from their drones
• Vail raises minimum wage to $20 / hour
• Montpelier cops decide to go god-less because maybe the reverend is a dick
• Slate Ridge Foreclosed? 

(1:04:11) Break music: Dylan Patrick Ward from Vermont’s dirty south with “The Kid Who Lived Inside His Head” from the Lovable Losers album

• Vermont to legalize switchblades
• All Schools have to take special ed students
• Brattleboro votes for meeting day lunch
• Orthodontists buy village landmark
• New surgical centers allowed…kinda
•  New vehicle inspection stickers
• Put away the bird feeders
•  Pawlet library starts seed-lending program
•  Camel’s Hump 7th grader wins spelling bee
•  Vermont lady inventors celebrated + HInda Miller and the Jogbra

(1:53:29) Break music: Montpelier’s Lavendula with a cover of “Silver Dagger” from their s/t album

•  Scumbag Map
• Whatchu know ‘bout Westminster?
•  Rent-a-chicken (it took every ounce of my maturity not to make a cock joke)
•  Dog breed power rankings

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A little late on a Sunday because life kinda got in the way. 

On this week's show:

• Happy National “Daylight Savings” Day
• Happy National “Napping” Day (tomorrow)
• House approves money to Ukraine
• VT cops give old body armor to Ukraine
• Gov. Scott’s  package 
•  Quicker access to guns
• No trials in the Grand Isle
• The key to affordable housing….rich people?
• More weed shops everywhere
• Vermont to get a code of ethics

(54:07) Break music: My Own Sweet -  “Text Me When Its Over” from the Ghosts I Knew EP

• Not so fast, my friend - court challenge to Ali Dieng’s victory
• Nothing weird at all about your employer providing you housing
• VT students walkout to protest anti-LGTBQ measures
• Students rally to keep Middlebury prof 
• New BTV school board members are young af
• More racial equity board members to resign
• BTV YMCA still vacant
• Weird Southern VT newspaper owner is pro-war…kinda
• Organic Valley to buy milk from  90 local farms and shots fired at Oat Milk
• TSA needs workers
• Ok, Glo….you misled us about Snowflake Bentley
• Transit drivers reach agreement 
• The Parkway Diner
•  This social media harassment is just an addiction now, right?

(1:54:55) Break music: Donny Wanzer “Old North End Anthem” check out his Youtube stuff here. 

• Scumbag Map
• Whatchu know ‘bout Athens, VT? + town newsletter (scroll to bottom for a fascinating journal)
• Five loons rescued
• Spider invasion!
• An honor to be named after an octopus?
• AI knows how your pigs are feeling
• Pep talks from kindergarteners

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Adam messed up and deleted the middle part of the show. Oops - enjoy the shorter-than-usual show!

On this week's show:

• Happy National “Grammar” Day
• Middlebury cancels Russia study abroad program
• Scott pulls Russian vodka off shelves in VT
• Burlington cancels Russian sister city Vermont and City
• Scott vetoes charter to lower voting age
• Police budgets actually increasing
• St. Albans approves second crisis worker 
• VT has 7th highest rate of LGBTQ in the country
• Essex Manifesto candidates lose 
• Freedom convoy departs from Vermont
• Fastest growing counties - any surprises here?
• Cannabis retail expands 

(1:09:22) Break music: Rivan C "Like Woah" - more music here.

• Scumbag Map
• Hospital parking lot shooting 
• Bank robbery shut down polling location
• Victim not a victim 
• Clever thieves
• Rutland man….
• Police seeking litterers
• Gov dickhead does a dickhead thing
• A possible move to UK for Matt and Glo?
•  NJ may change gas pumping law?
• French Fry perfume 
• Portuguese Toilets 

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Nothing much going on this week, huh? We try not to get too distracted and bring it back to VT. On this week's show:

• Happy National “Skip the Straw Day” Day
• BTV maintains sister city status with Russia 
• Adam solves the Ukrainian crisis
• VT National Guard going to DC trucker convoy
• All-resident voting has worse turnout than citizen voters
• We got a couple of Cosbys around UVM
• UVM sex assault and social media faux pas
• We kick around the idea of ethical non-monogamy 
• Oh jeez, a manifesto is never a good thing
• Green Mountain Transit strike?
• Just cause eviction bill clears house
• The Kibosh on BTV short-term rentals
• Fight over who gets to do eye surgery  

(1:07:30) Break music: Lil ranch “Another Rap Track” 

•  A plea to stop child marriage in VT
• Ummm, where is the Bennington sheriff?
• Illicit side chats
• The House goes “Business Professional”
• Montpelier buying a country club
•  Bellows Falls train station?
•  Let’s learn about Bellows Falls!
•  Where does Alec Baldwin rank on famous Vermonters list?
•  Haunted bridge in Stowe - Emily's bridge
•  Cream cheese shortage in VT

(1:50:26) Break music: Spacey Jones & B. Divine “Feels So Good” off album with the same name    

• Scumbag Map
• Victim died - sex assault charges dropped?
• Murder investigation
• Stolen, cashed lottery ticket
•  Pushing phony paper in Barre
• Car chase
•  We hunting moose now?
•  Bear “Hank the Tank” on the loose!

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National Drink Wine day - now we have an excuse.  On this week's show:

• The Danes crack non-alcoholic beer
• Big story on national division coming to VT    
• Bill to Disallow migrant arrests outside courthouse
• Turns out there’s lots of crazy in Saint Albans
• Bove Brothers doing their shady business
• Burlington Racial Equity director resigns
• BTV reparations task force
• UVM nurses get big raise
• Bill aims to curb medical debt    
• Waiting for medical appointment too long
• Should teachers be able to look for other jobs?
• Enosburg student disciplined for racist language

Break music: Jim Will Yell at You “Second Shot” from the album Montreal Town Hall

•  Ben & Jerry’s wilin’ out
• Afghan refugees in Rutland 
• Canadian border relaxed
• Burlington Town Center closes Burlington’s downtown mall closes for good 
•  VT forces hunters to eat what they kill
•  Mobile parks on the come up
•  Buy the Tunbridge World Fair
•  Let’s learn about Tunbridge!
•   F-35 bitterness
•   Karen’s gonna Karen

Break music: Jacob Green “Boogie Soul Movin Music” 

•  Scumbag Map
• Car thefts in Burlington 
•  Lady arsonist
•  A ruckus in Bolton Valley
• Molesting Teacher arrested 
•  Parents leave kid in car to ski
•  Koalas now endangered
•  Beekeepers overwhelmed by kindness
•  Rescue dogs coming to Vermont
• Wild West of service dogs
• Kids going to Hell? 

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Recorded Friday night, uploaded Saturday morning. Adam forgot everything we talked about...
On this week's show:

• Happy National Visit a Shut-in Day
• Happy National Inventors’ Day Or….
• New homelessness policy in VT
• Public Works labor shortage
• Child tax credit in VT?
• Vermonter truck convoy protest?
• Inclusion committee includes guy who hates inclusion
• It’s probably a bad sign that we’re talking about the Holocaust so much
• VT lady trying to find crash survivors
• More access to EV charging stations for renters
• Gloria will be happy - her favorite hole is getting filled
• Swanton getting its act together

(1:08:28) Break Music:  Good Morning Teleporter “Golden Threads of Consequence” - album: Training Wolves with Flare Guns

•  I love a good write-in campaign
• Racial slurs at a high school game
• South Burlington restricts development
• Brattleboro saves a schoolhouse
• A hemp store is coming to Barton
•  Let’s learn about Barton! (we need a sound for this - suggestions?)
• VT skier gets gold, still in mom’s shadow
• Wildlife bills…slow news week so far
• NIMBY solar panels
• Old bombs in Georgia
• Lingerie for all body types
•  Stores struggle to keep up with Valentine’s demands
• Shelburne Magazine stops printing 
• Montpelier wants law regarding school mascot names 

(2:01:21) Break Music: Eric George “Joe Hill” from the Mostly Ghosts album

•  Scumbag Map
• Danby shooting victim from…..yep
•  And another Mass man shot 
• The route 91 bandit
• Creepy doctor
•  Statewide vandalism spree
• Man steals from school PTO 
• Bald eagles - fair game
• Chimpanzee witch doctors
•  Cockatoo’s can golf

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Quite a raucous episode. On this week's show....

• Snowpocalypse 2022
•  Come on, man, pick up after your dog - a Matt rant
• Happy National Homemade Soup Day Or….
• Happy National Thank a Mail Carrier Day
• VT does NOT appreciate postal carriers
• Composting I can get behind
• Are we excited about environmental justice?
• Spoke too soon - BTV rejects top cop
• Legal notices can be posted digitally
• Quechee renters get screwed
• Idk, maybe just don’t test the schools
• Easier to document your preferred gender

(1:08:56) Break Music:  Never Say Die -  “Thirty-one” from the Home Sweet Home EP 

•  Ex-Governor Shumlin and EB 5 fraud 
• BTV company wins award for bringing smell to virtual reality
•  Ripton - free, but wanting to come back
•  Let’s get all up in Ripton!
• Tunbridge - now a two-store town
• Evansville Trading Post not sold
• Breweries close….more to come?
• Windsor doesn’t want a juvenile detention center

(1:59:51) Break Music: Former Lives -  “Alderson Loop” from the upcoming EP Ceremony of Leaving

•  Scumbag Map
• Rutland (where else?) drug bust 
•  Saint J shooting
• Man found dead in Swanton
•  More kids threatening schools
• Pownal child sex assault
•  AAA warns of warm-up thefts
• Why are we never talking about Milltown Mel
• Other weather-predicting animals 
• Two dog breeds banned in Norway 
• More research on “dog years”
•  Cats brains are shrinking
•  Gay penguins become parents

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This week's show:

• Happy Kazoo day!
• Are these parents dicks or pricks?
• New bill raises mandatory age of VT school kids
• Burton has a China problem
• Should life insurers have access to genetic info?
• Ban of guns in hospitals
• Free speech issue
• Uproar over cartoon

(42:06) Break Music:  StayGold & the PonyBoys (Burlington) “Spaceships” from their self-titled album

• Break in at the mayor’s house
• Weirdos who jump in Lake Champlain
• Teen organizes Holocaust memorial
• Cell tower gets mixed reviews in Chelsea
• Mascot wars continue
• Two dozen Olympians have VT ties
• South Burlingtonian wins the Caldecott medal
• Antique roadshow coming to VT
• Old sewing lady retires
•  Inmates crochet
• Ornaments to be returned in Essex Junction

(1:38:53) Break Music: Ira Virus ( Brattleboro) - cover of “Add it Up ” from the Chippunk Munk album

• Scumbag Map
• Accused killer released to parents
• Man shoots into Bridgewater home
• Violent fugitive picked up at local VFW
• Driver in deadly crash sentenced
• Catalytic converters stolen
• VT state police dog retires
• Small dogs rule In Dog DNA, Small Size Has an Ancient Pedigree 
• Owls feel comfortable around fake poop
• Adults only hotel in New Hampshire
• Four Quarters brewery skating rink 

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• Dogs in the cold
• Glo's garden
• Litter boxes
• Squirrel love (and hate)
• VT to decriminalize a "personal amount" of drugs
• Champlain Parkway
• Some concern for the NEK
• Where will the garbage go?
• Homeownership for marginalized people
• VT lawmakers to repeal slavery - heroes or not?
• Shumlin is hady
• Winooski superintendent peaces out - does he return?
• Man sues state troopers
• State troopers sue everyone
• Elmore might lose a post office
• Legalize kratom?
• 154 cars towed in Burlington -cheers?

• Stubborn Danish dairy farmers
• Is BTV headed for a laundry apocalypse? 
• We take a moment to diss Don Sinex 
• VT National Guard soldier saves kid on ice
• Illicit salvage yard
• Bill for single cyclists
• New doc about VT speed hiker
• Fairlee wants to cluster residents
• Rutland recycles houses
• Jericho on the come up?
• Scumbag map
• Deer rescue
• Cat food shortage
• Birds needs our help
• Meet the Kungas!

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