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Another beautiful Sunday morning in Vermont.  Sometimes its easy to forget how lucky we are. 

On this week's show:

• Piles of rage and corporate speak
• Dog sits and COVID longing
• Juneteenth - how do we celebrate?
• Critical Race Theory is not the terror you think it is
• Saint Albans black face
• Vermont budget
• Post pandemic housing issues
• CityPlace beef
• Vermont theaters struggling
• Need a vax to visit prisons and the few states with conjugal visits
• CCV to not require a vaccination
• Creepy doctor sued again for illicit siring
• More refugees to Brattleboro (hopefully)
• Let's decriminalize hallucinogens
• Winooski's only black high school teacher resigns
• Montpelier toilet committee
• New 9-story building in Burlington
• Bellow's Falls has an island - who knew?
• Trees planted
• Church demolished
• Can we call it Susanna's Brook?
• Scumbag map
• Portugal - Vermont message in a bottle
• Rhino poacher gets got
• Crows understand nothing
• States with most postal worker dog bites
• Most diverse counties in Vermont
• Should Jeff Bezos eat the Mona Lisa?

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1st Break Music: Black Fly - Sign 2.  More music here

2nd Break Music: Bow Thayer - A Small Eternity. More music here

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We hit up Weird Window Brewery after recording, so yeah, I'll do the rundown later. Or not.

Thank you so much for listening! We really appreciate each and every listener.  You could do anything with your time, but you choose to spend it with us, and for that, we are so grateful.

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Break music: Dave Richardson -- first song -- Apology to Mouse (Recently Deceased)  ; second song -- Honey Leaf

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An early Friday show to kick the weekend off right. 

On today's show:

• Matt and Glo's trip to Brattleboro and Wilmington
• Calvin Coolidge museum
• Masks are coming off
• New vax incentives
• Pandemic turnover
• curbside alcohol is here to stay
• Phil Scott vetoes all-citizen voting
• Hosuing options worsen in the pandemic (duh)
• Hm, where should we put this high school?
• Students join some city boards
• Critical race theory is misunderstood
• Irasburg asphalt plant concerns
• Indigenous children's bodies found in Canada
• Cannabis board
• Fire chief can't staff his crew
• Police are reduced in Brattleboro
• Chelsea finds vigilante justice
• The Worst person in Vermont
• $530 speeding ticket
• Rutland finds Pride
• Waitsfield bridge damaged
• Albany general store reopens...and they got a fryer
• Scumbag map
• Tunnels for snakes
• Stowe pinnacle dog is ok
• Dogs have an innate ability
• Update on Canadian wildlife parts smuggler
• Dinosaur misinformation
• Don't trust the GPS

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1st Break Music: Illu and Drive – U Had Me

2nd Break Music: The Young Love Scene – California’s Alright 

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Our bocce league starts tomorrow, and we are......not ready. 

On today's show:

• Hot bocce talk (aka fear of our Bosnian demise)
• COVID looking good
• Vaccine arrogance
• Police shortage
• Burlington Catholic Diocese in the news for exactly what you think
• Burlington High School kids don't mix
• Let's promote Michael Harrington!
• Bernie gets it right
• "Theory of Change" corrections housing solution
• Ms. Dunster takes over
• Molly Gray is going to Macedonia because she can
• New asylum seekers in Rutland
• PFAs are everywhere
• Rail yard project
• Hartford select board is a tough job
• Rock Point School does it right
• Lake Monsters are back, baby!
• Mysterious firing of Stowe editor
• Illegal vape sales
• Scumbag map
• Be bear aware
• A Montreal witch
• Dog ticks
• Tiny pigs
• Cicadas
• What's on your road trip playlist?
• Woman speeds through vaccine site
• Loomis! and macaroons

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 Intro/Outro Music by B-Complex: http://www.bcomplexproductions.com/home.html

1st break music: Black Fly - "Green". Website: https://blackfly1.bandcamp.com/album/01

2nd break music: Bow Thayer - "This Thing Called God" . Website: https://bowthayer.com/ 

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I've been lazy about reaching to new Vermont bands. I'll get back on it next week. Enjoy some  music from some older favorites, from Burlington to Manchester, Vermont. Rock, rock on. 

On today's show:

• COVID numbers
• Paying for new Vermonters
• New week; new reason to fire Michael Harrington
• Burlington electric raises rates
• Kurn Hattin stays open because....
• Missing Barre man gets fishy
• Guns in hospitals
• Weed Bill
• City Market masks
• Overdoses are up (and ignored)
• Hinesburg fire chief's homophobic comments are  unsurprising
• Craft beer sexism allegations
• 1st all-female ambulance crew in BTV
• Saint J coverts a jail
• What is an armory anyway?
• Birds vs Solar in Middlebury
• Proms come back
• The anti-Holiday Inn
• Camping outside for homelessness
• Get paid to quit drinking
• Saint Albans yard sale rules
• Scumbag map
• Swanton food trucks are back
• Clinic for low-income pet owners
• Do animals laugh?
• Angelina Jolie and bees
• Dolphins getting high on puffer fish
• Best summer travel destinations
• It's okay to kiss and hug your chickens

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 Intro/Outro Music by B-Complex: http://www.bcomplexproductions.com/home.html

1st Break music: The Couchsleepers – In My Head 
The Couchsleepers: Instagram, Tiktok, and Spotify .

 2nd Break Music: Tha Horsemen – Feel the Vibe
Tha Horsemen Music: https://www.facebook.com/thahorsemenent 
 

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We recorded an early morning show as a change. It was just too nice to stay inside all day. 

On today's show:

• Masking issues
• Howard Dean, staunch capitalist
• Racism is declared  a public health emergency in Vermont
• How hard is it to check for radon?
• No statute of limitations on physical abuse civil suits
• No longer suspending/expelling little kids
• Victims notified of offender's release
• Search for new police chief
• Dartmouth lets Adam know how poor he is
• Ferry won't be sunk
• Electric aviation in BTV
• More Koffee Cup shadiness
• Schools illegally use funds for resource officers
• Difficult to collect info on policing
• LGBTQ artwork vandalized in Hinesburg
• What's up with Granite City Grocery?
• Swanton kid is getting his ride pimped
• Scumbag map
• Owen Wilson to play a Vermont painter (filming in NY)
• Chinese products pulled from Amazon
• Some lockdown stats
• Good/bad dog stories
• 1000 feral cats
• Cat jumps five stories and survives
• Chinese overfish for arthritis cure
• A bad, bad BBQ list

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Intro/Outro Music by B-Complex: http://www.bcomplexproductions.com/home.html

1st Break music: Isabel Pless – Family Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_vTCXSCl_c  Check her music out here: https://linktr.ee/isabelpless

2nd Break Music: Luminous, Inc – Love Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBKD4Y3v6QY Check out their music here: https://luminouscrush.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-inc 

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Back and fully vaxxed!

On today's show:

• Zoom interview attire?
• Number 1 in vaxxing
• Colleges to require vaxxing
• New Burlington budget and predictions of who will be angry
• Oh wow, a living wage
• hard to find rentals in Burlington
• Electric bikes will pedal for you
• Vermont religious schools cannot discriminate
• North End Studios perv gets lease terminated
• A new crazy southern Vermont millionaire emerges
• Alpacas
• Sunflowers and hemp saving the soil
• What is a fire district
• Let them have their ATVs!
• Essex board insults public
• Rutland board member is a liar
• Moose lodge gets female leader
• Hunter in a wheelchair
• Scumbag map
• 31 cats rescued(?)
• Lab animals get forever homes
• Why do we like some dogs?
• America's favorite sandwiches
• Best sitcoms of all time
• Primal eaters
• Pie thoughts

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Intro/Outro Music by B-Complex: http://www.bcomplexproductions.com/home.html

Break music 1: The Young Love Scene: Little Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTr6bfBeiFE    + Their web site: https://www.theyounglovescene.com/ 

Break music 2: Fattie B Blends: https://fattiebblends.bandcamp.com/   +Fattie B’s web site:  https://fattiebee.com/ 

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We spend quite a bit of time catching up in the beginning after 2 weeks off. Newsy stuff starts at (32:40). At (1:13:00), Matt's mic cuts out for the rest of the episode. Sigh, I guess we're out of practice. See ya next week....if I don't throw my laptop in Lake Champlain. 

On today's show:

• Glo is a Portugal citizen
• Matt and Glo get lost in Boston
• Museums can sell out?
• Naked people on TV at the gym
• Fed beefing with VT over unemployment
• How do you prove the work search?
• Koffee Kup shuts down
• The kids get to eat lunch
• Turns out some VT businesses are terrible
• What crimes should be expunged?
• Gov. Scott wants to name teenage offenders
• Moving the homeless.....where?
• Hatred of robocalls can unite us all
• State legislators are being weird about the consent bill
• Are you familiar with forever chemicals?
• Kiah Morris settlement
• Nice antifa logo you got in your art, commie
• Fairs coming back
• Scumbag map
• Cookie love
• Props to Hannford
• Musical in Addison County
• Pizzly bears
• Smuggling songbirds
• Was Babe Ruth black
• Oldest whiskey ever
• Josh Fight
• Paddington Bear 2, a perfect film?

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Break music - Burlington's own Rivan C. Check out his music here: https://rivanc.bandcamp.com/  

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I don't know when we went off the rails, or if we were ever on the rails. Who needs rails? Stick around at the end of the show for an interview with Burlington indie rock frontman Harrison Hsiang of The Couchsleepers. 

On the show:

• Prince Philip - not a nazi, but nazi adjacent
• Looser quarantine rules
• Matt's MLB rant
• Gov. Scott's infrastructure plan is boring
• St. Johnsbury gets weed shops
• Free school... breakfast?
• No cops at schools
• Recycling seems like kind of a scam
• Saint Albans redoing the downtown
• Winery owner sex assault allegations
• People are getting interested in divorce
• Matt's R-rated headstone idea
• Bennington interracial couple harassed
• Small town principal beef
• They shooting guns in Brandon
• You wanna off-road a Ford Bronco, tough guy?
• A beloved bartender passes
• Scumbag map
• Mayor Murfee not getting it done in Fair Haven
• Why gorillas beat their chests
• Hummingbirds: the perfect killing machines
• New Jurassic park?
• Fondue and eight track tapes

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Intro Music by B-Complex: http://www.bcomplexproductions.com/home.html

Break music: Isabel Pless - Burn Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMFVhpu8F8 

Check her music out here: https://linktr.ee/isabelpless

The Couchsleepers: Instagram, Tiktok, and Spotify .

The Couchsleepers – Best Intentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dnlo4m6KW8

 The Couchsleepers: - All I Want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1dla03HyZM 

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We start off with some beefs and some rants, but then settle into our regular groove. 

On today's show:

• Vaccine beefs
• BIPOC eligibility
• Easing restrictions
• Bad ideas for pension reform
• Homeless people need checks (and Turbo tax is awful)
• Vote Matt for Cannabis Board
• Fair Haven school shooter going free?
• Hoyt - alleged sex offender and the Streisand Effect
• Buprenorphine - let's just go full Portugal and legalize it all
• Barre and Montpelier - weird siblings
• Some empty apologies from cities
• Oh yeah, St Joseph Orphanage was awful
• State court clerk discrimination case - a ballsy lawyer
• Short-term rentals to be regulated
• Some suicide possibilities
• Hardwick police get the boot
• Brandon replaces maverick animal control officer
• We can't handle murals
• Scumbag map
• Brass knuckles and slingshots are illegal
• Let Montgomery have their ATVs
• Biden's dog update
• Vax your pet? Russia's got you, dawg
• Biggest dinosaur ever
• Mysterious blobs explained (spolier: squids rule)
• The Japanese continue to study/hate cats
• Lil Nas X's Blood Nikes

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Intro/Outro Music by B-Complex: http://www.bcomplexproductions.com/home.html

 1st Break Music: The Young Love Scene – SUNNYCIDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWN2AjIVwY 

2nd Break Music: Illu and Drive – U Had Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibO8g7Zdh0s 

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