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Thanks for listening - In March, the shows will be a bit more sporadic as Adam is in Florida.  If you  miss us, check out Two for the Road: Movies with Matt and Adam.

On this week's show:

• Happy National Cold Cuts Day!
• Peter Welch says “Keep your nuts out of my milk!”
• Home milk delivery in Vermont
• Governor doesn’t like Affordable Heat Act 
• Christian basketball team forfeits instead of playing a team with a transgender player
• Abenaki are pro-Thunderbird
• Eskimo orgies
• City Place is green 
• Dept of Duh: Free college is popular in VT
• VT could get funeral pyres
• Matt’s thoughts on new MLB rules

(1:07:15) Break music: Fattie B - "Front Back" https://equaleyesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/front-back-ft-shauna-anderson-toyosi-babalola-fattie-bs-yagotta-raindrops-remix-instrumental-by-niamaj-kero-one-mashup 

•  Woodstock Inn alleges a whistleblower  
• Can’t demolish this Catholic church
• Fines for Smuggs “stuckage” 
• Amtrak train hits tractor trailer
• Vermonters hit Quebec for curling
• Bollywood coming to Williston
• Can we talk about Rockin Ron?
• VT Iron Chef Jr is back
• Comfort food cook-offs
• Vermont considers law against stealthing

(1:58:28) Break music:  Donncherie - “Spellbound” https://donncherie.bandcamp.com/track/spellbound 

• Scumbag Map
•  Woman kidnapped after selling AR-15
• Shelburne woman tried to kidnap a kid on bus
• Knifepoint abduction in Rutland
•  Embezzlement, the state crime
•  Body found at Oakledge Park
•  Attempted ATM break-in
• Happy national If Pets Had Thumbs Day
• In case you meet a bear in the woods...
• Japan finds new islands

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• Happy World Bartender Day
• Jerry Thomas - The Bartender's Guide
• Foxglove - digitalis
• Vermont border crossing death
• Burlington’s prop zero
• Special Ed violations
• And the killer was….VT’s oldest murder case solved
• VT Cannabis Russian oligarch ties
• TikTok gets banned in Montpelier
• State trooper Facebook case
• These mascots are out

• Fines for illegal noise
• Burlington city councilor plagiarism
• Wedding Shows
• Need bus drivers
• Betting on snow
• One of Vt’s last video stores is closing shop
• Winooski getting a boxing center
• Return of the $12 burger
• Good-ass buns
• Casper the friendly ghost
• Porky Pig
• Oscar Meyer Wienermobile
• Charlie Brown Comic books
• Ludacris is coming to the Champlain Valley Expo!

• Scumbag Map
• A one-man crusade against Lowe’s
• Former police chief charged with assault 
• Marshfield teen charged in stabbing
• Orleans man pleads guilty to murder 
• Human composting, yea or nea?
• Dogs looking for forever homes get flown in
• NYers freak out over a 4 foot gator
• Ok, so maybe we re-think the horseshoe crab stance
• Rabies on the rise?
• Super pigs coming from Canada
• Do our dogs really love us?
• Giraffe sex involves pee

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• Happy No One Eats Alone Day
• Happy Brazil Carnival!
• Judge orders Slate Ridge to be gone 
• Bill banning paramilitary camps is close  
• State settles Woodside suit
• Homeless campers miss court date
• Pod move in day
• Do you think you’d be a good homeless person?
• Housing solution? 
• Job subsidies may be over 
• Changes for assisted suicide law
• Questionable Headline: Earthquake in Middle East shakes Vermonters with Turkish ties
• Racist State Troopers 
• End of tipped minimum wage?

• Raise the marriage age?
• Thin ice take three 
• Wake boat regulations
• Just a bomb in Bennington home
• College libraries with no books?
• Roberto Clemente
• Update: Montpelier rabble rouser charges dropped (aka Adam's boy)
• First female pinball state champ
• Charlie-O's in Montpelier
• Burlington man attempts to ski length of state
• Hubbardton joins Highgate in Inclusion reversal
• Whatchu know ‘bout Hubbarton, VT?
• The Battle of Hubbarton Monument
• New job for Adam and Matt - Vermont film council
• The Trouble with Harry - movie filmed in Vermont
• What Lies Beneath - movie filmed in Vermont
• Wednesday - TV Series that pretends to be filmed in Jericho, VT
• Luis Guzmán
• Ryan Gosling

• Scumbag Map
• Bennington man guilty 
• Body found on Brattleboro sidewalk
• Sexual assaulter goes back to jail
• WALL-E - movie
• No bail for Rutland man 
• Burlington’s oldest murder solved
• VT police dog gets new body armor
• Get verified by the government before watching porn
• we all have the potential to be a criminal

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• Happy International Brain Teaser Day
• Someone stole our recycle bin
• CVU & Enosburg Tik Tok controversy
• No one wants to work in public schools
• End of an era? VT Country store massive layoffs
• How old is a juvenile?
• Legos Robotics competition coming up
• Odyssey of the Mind
• Media getting turned away from hearings 
• Mayor/Progs differ on crime
• Sarah George towing cars 
• Childcare costs a lot 
• Milk premiums on the table
• Egg prices skyrocket

• Time for an Adam rant -  Second homeowners pay a lower tax rate than residents
• Shooting ranges getting an upgrade
• Hinesburg residents not getting mail
• Timely Tire
• The rocks are too sharp in Thetford
• Whatchu know ‘bout Thetford, VT?
• Benning Wentworth
• Camp Fire Girls
• Dean Conant Worcester
• Anne Lindbergh
• Annie Proulx
• Louise Woodworth Foss - elocutionist
• Farm-Way, Inc. in Bradford
• Highgate reconsiders inclusion
• Shaftsbury is pissed about solar panels
• Windsor street name controversy
• Wilson Castle - Proctor
• Rutland ups its digital services
• Kid gets lifetime free fishing
• Potential job for Matt - Wienermobile driver

• Scumbag Map
• Four arrested for St. Johnsbury murder
• Connecticut man charged with I89 kidnapping 
• Former cop pleads guilty to child cruelty
• Body found at recycling center
• Vandal or revolutionary?
• At Eternity's Gate with Willem Dafoe
• Guess which animal is about to join the Stone age
• Domestic chickens could bang their wild counterparts out of existence

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Korean American Day
• Happy National Gluten Free Day
• Cat show recap
• Rutland mascot name is…..Rutland
• ACLU defends man arrested in Montpelier town hall
• Green Mountain Transit to start charging bus fare again
• US Forest Service rejects Silver Lake hut project
• More Covid deaths than first thought
• Paid family leave
• Hey, maybe we should ban paramilitary camps

(56:00) Break music: Simmstrosity “Guide the Way” 

• No more parking minimums in Burlington, VT
• The diverging diamond interchange
• State homicide rate highest in decades 
• YMCA bought again
• Burlington Youth Hostel 
•  A big feature on Johnny Wanzer - his youtube page if you’re curious
•  Easier to fix your John Deere
• Andre the Giant in Burlington
• Jimmy Hart
• Honky Tonk Man
• Jake the Snake
• The Great Malenko
• Pak Song
• Where Bread and Puppet stands on Ukraine 

(1:42:00) Break music:  Tall Travis “Vampires and Poseurs” 

• Scumbag Map
• Two DUIs in one night
• Was it excessive force?
• Man lights cruiser on fire
• Barre Town man accused of assault
• Colchester man charged in murder
• Charlotte library vandalized
• Teacher shot with pellet gun
• Crew rescues dog from a Joe's Pond in Danville
• Ice Out Tickets
• Rutland gets a new K-9
• Newport Dispatch
• Most miserable US cities
• Newark, New Jersey
• Trenton, New Jersey
• Passaic, New Jersey
• Cleveland, Ohio
• Plainfield, New Jersey
• Union City, New Jersey
• Paterson, New Jersey
• New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Buena, New Jersey

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Sometimes there are too many damn possible titles for the show. Enjoy the odd and super-long Thursday show!

On this week’s show:

• Happy National Bird Day
• Happy National Screenwriter’s Day
• UVMMC welcomes baby new year! - Saint Albans gets shafted?
• Resolutions - or not
• Gyms are blowing up
• Oh, the sap is oozing
• Do we get a lot more Guzman now?
• Covid is still with us 
• Update; we know what the sheriff was stealing from evidence
• There’s a Burlington cannabis board? And it sucks worse?
• Vermont tops inbound migration list

(59:16) Break music: Northbound Creek “How Lucky” 

• Too late for Orange County sherrifs 
• Immigrants are quilting
• Efforts to save covered bridges in Lyndon, VT
• Ferrisburgh church to be repurposed
• Let dental hygienists do their damn thing
• Math anxiety
• What is a math proof?
• New vinyl restaurant
• KFC stops traffic in Rutland
• What do you think about this Rice High menu from 1965?

(1:53:13) Break music:  bark dog “Last House Party Ever”

• Scumbag Map
• Vergennes Quik stop robber wants White Claw
• Man arrested for trespassing, has other warrants 
• West Rutland kidnapping
• A boring embezzlement
• Rutland Days Inn is in the news 
• Dog rescued on icy bridge
• Livestock Vet shortage
• Calais horse case
• Don’t take supplements 
• Portuguese cod tips - bacalhau

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
• ChatGPT is the future - yall should play with this
• Gov. Scott might ban TikTok on state cell phones
• Change to clergy reporting law
• Vermont kids are back on that vape pen
• VT trooper suspended 
• Buy one, get one on Amtrak Vermonter tickets
• More confusing Abenaki park signs on the way

(48:00) Break music: Scott Phree and HAZE HOLIDAY - “Art of War”
https://obsidianfluxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phree-speech 

• Driver’s Ed doesn’t stop in Vermont
• Immigrants driving school buses
• Swanton Winter Wonderland
• Whatchu know ‘bout Swanton, VT?
• Hartford Redemption center struggling
• Crime rising in Rutland
• Cannabis Control Board finally does the right thing 

(1:32:10) Break music:  Ariel Zevon - “Knaves & Dupes” https://arielzevon.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-fringe 

• Scumbag Map
• Man turns himself in after stabbing
• Brattleboro man robbed 70 businesses
• Woman arrested for shooting in Burlington bar 
• Brattleboro hospital staff rescue owl
• 12 animal facts we learned in 2022
• Google search trends of 2022 -
• Pornhub search trends 2022 

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• Happy FESTIVUS!! - did you know its real?
• Jerry Stiller
• A Visit from Saint Nicholas, aka The Night Before Christmas
• Power outages persist
• 500 crashes
• UVMMC creates more apartments for staff & Woodstock Inn does the same
• Vermont closer to legalizing sports betting 
• Jury reduces award in Vergennes employment case
• Not so bright now, are ya, Law Boy?
• Vermont black history marker - Pates Hotel
• The Negro Motorist Green-Book
• Make a Wish kids visits “North Pole”
• Cannabis tax right on track 

• Burlington High is evidence according Monsanto 
• This is my favorite Policy Academy movie - Brattleboro BRAT
• Middlebury baker elevates edibles
• New Burlington recycling rules
• Vermont has too many non-profits? 

• Scumbag Map
• The Danville Murder for Hire Plot explained
• Teacher perv pleads out 
• West Virginian identity theft
• Fatal accident gets man time 
• Ex St Albans cop sentenced 
• Update: Williston perv selectman resigns 
• Kubo, police dog, retires after one last job
• A case for cannibalism

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Thanks for listening - on this week's show:

•  Happy national Chocolate Covered Anything Day
• Snow-pocalypse!
• Migration trends toward wildfires
• Highgate port of entry upgrade
• Therapy dogs return to BTV
• Hartford parking crackdown
• Santa has a chopper
• Update: Vermont will lose money if broadband maps aren't accurate
•  Made in Vermont? buyer beware 
•  Its the least you could do: Abenaki get a sign
• Manure spread ban
• This is getting out of hand - another vehicle runs into building, Babes Bar

(49:27) Break music: Catherine Viner - “win&lose” from the hypothetical happiness album https://catherineviner.bandcamp.com/track/win-lose 

• Babaroosa - this has to be a scam, right?
• Gardener’s Supply founder dies 
• Pushback on proposed youth prison facility
• Burlington high school principal peaces out
• Scandinavian sauna experience comes to Vermont
• What the heck is a columbarium?
• Brattleboro second worst crime rate 
• Vermont's safest and least safe cities
• Diversity leader needs anger management 
• Brandon, VT gets weed
• Whatchu know ‘bout Brandon, VT?

(1:41:32) Break music:  Dylan Mac - “Midwest After School” from the Community Breakfast album https://dylanmac.bandcamp.com/track/midwest-after-school 

Scumbag Map

•  Suspects in the wind after drug bust
•  Cant bring a gun to a family fight
•  Holdups piling up in Rutland
•  Burlington tabbing victim was breaking up fight
• Jewelry thief
• A $4K Lowe’s heist
• Vehicle sideswipes school bus
•  Told ya so - snakes have clitorises
• NYC bans sale of pets in pet stores

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Pastry Day
• Or, Happy National Llama day
• Vermont winter getting hotter
• NY is out-Vermonting Vermont on the weed front
• Bullying Council - huh, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing
• Bennington Elementary can’t handle its kids
• Jury duty scam
• Front Porch Flim Flam
• What to do with the Burlington Auditorium?
• We lost a VT trailblazer - Fatal McNeil’s brewery fire

(57:50) Break music: Jarv - “Victrola” from the Amalgam album https://jarvmakesmusic.bandcamp.com/track/victrola 

• Don’t tread on my poop
• Non-cow dairy
• Bread and Puppet theater expands
• Rutland opens a remote work space
•  Tesla showroom coming soon
• Windsor man says “screw it, I’ll make my own leg”
• New welcome center near Canada
• Stolen veteran grave markers recovered
• The Champlain Club is reopened aka German Dance Hall

(1:48:00) Break music:  genderdeath - “Business Suit” https://genderdeath.bandcamp.com/track/business-suit 

•  Scumbag Map
•   Driver crashes into chocolatier AND Truck crashes into store in Essex
•  Ex-deputy road rage 
• Have you ever wanted to stab a roommate?
•  Man charged in Burlington stabbing 
•  Rutland vigilantism 
• Indonesia is not for lovers

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