11th Hour Radio
Co-hosts Kristina Stykos & Emily Howe debrief the week with humorous banter relating to the ups and downs of being artist-types trying to make ends meet in rural Vermont. Each episode includes interludes of homegrown music from Kristina and friends. Based on their live radio show broadcast Fridays at 11 a.m. on Royalton Community Radio, WFVR-LP, South Royalton, Vermont.
11th Hour Radio Episode 2-26-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe, with two cents from Ira (8) and Eli (11), discuss the “at” symbol, mysterious rashes that you don’t want to talk about, burning your Christmas tree, the consequences of ignoring instructional diagrams, seeking out escalators, broken ski lifts & the origins of “Suicide Six”, becoming a pony after death, a cocktail umbrella injury in real time, strategies for dealing with bad neighbors involving glitter and balloons, a junk food check in, Eli’s construction of a sled for moving mushrooms, an icy mile long driveway and foray into the world of sap lines, evil cats that watch & wait for you at the bottom of the stairs, an ethical dilemma around money and knives, 12% spelling tests - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Derrick Semler [Blues - Untitled]; Senayit [Beautiful People]; The Peter Reed Family [Fare Thee Well]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-26-16.mp3
Category:Humor -- posted at: 6:13pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 2-19-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss coming to terms with disappointing winter weather, a lamb named Jim and his double baby gates, an exploration of men’s junk and party games that use a stick, reflections on the passing of a baby dolphin, the pervasive lack of civility in online comments sections, the why of radioactive water storage in plastic kiddie pools, friendly car waving lines of demarcation, a tale of a bartending daughter and her advice to Playboy readers, the potential misuses of chemical air freshener, some sticky situations brought on by adultery, texting while recording, the possible relationship between ego, guitar playing and blatant exhibitionism, being conciliatory to the point of dishonesty, defending animals, vegetables, minerals and Pope hats - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Turnip Truck [Cash on the Barrel; Jesus on the Mainline; St. James Infirmary]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-19-16.mp3
Category:Humor -- posted at: 5:34pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 2-12-16

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Randy Leavitt discuss his Superman costume and various rescues & other applications for it, gold mining in Vermont, an adventure in the Chateauguay wilderness on ice cleats, the perils of collecting rocks and pieces of wood, the rotation of the earth and a brilliant strategy for having longer weekends, why Cajun accordion sounds like sandpaper, several secrets about Barnard VT including the mysterious sunflower giveaway, a meditation on the docking of cows tails, the joys of playing at late-night wedding campfires, a text from Moscow, poems and advice relating to St. Swithins Day and Candlemas - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Jonathan Falby and Zac Johnson [Good Folks Behind You]; Kristina Stykos [Love the Distance]; Chris Kleeman [Big City Rag]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-12-16.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:36pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 2-5-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe and special guest Cindy Ross discuss how to cut an avocado, making crafts with empty Scotch canisters, a ski program with no snow, naming Planet Nine, avoiding golfers on dating websites, Patrick’s world tour of town halls, a lot of confusion about hamsters and gerbils, comedy night at Worthy Burger, more on lamb diapering, reviewing “scratch and sniff”, updating names for reluctant Grandmas, sex ed Fridays, cell phone addiction, iBird Pro, issues with air flow in Vermont houses, where to buy duct tape with ducks on it, baby wrangling - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musician Patrick Ross [Be Here Now; Pop Goes the Weasel; Ice Out]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-5-16.mp3
Category:Humor -- posted at: 4:45pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 1-29-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss dog hair in crackers, the “doodle” trend, good noses and intelligence, British cheese, little babies heads, several problems with plugs, being spit on by French people, terrible baby shower game playing and consumerism, a full-on discussion about corn, a few choice words for spiritual midwifery, a barn full of lambs, coping with burgers that are too big for your mouth, iPad crimes, an old bb gun & shooting tin cans, visiting the Twin State Typewriter Store, fake fingernails and playing “Taxes”, hating the outside, tomorrow’s fundraiser for Molly and Jim, a dumb spelling word, pricing a photo shoot, podcasting webinars, inching forward - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Val McCallum [Outlaws Song Demo 4]; Nikki Matheson [Lover of Salt]; Pat Jones and Charlie Shew [I Could Love You].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-29-16.mp3
Category:Humor -- posted at: 4:55pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 1-22-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss the perils of hot pink duct tape, the how and why of cold feet & the two brain theory, recollecting legends of U.F.O infamy, Sarah Palin as talented slam poet, the word girdle used as a verb, an armpit issue at dance class, planning trips to town to get good coffee, perfecting hovercraft, more on cat throw up, the question of microwaves & wireless internet traveling through your body, ongoing fears about candy dye, the efficacy of different sizes when buying pairs of things & a review of shoe horn options, living in “emotional parallel”, an irrational longing for hanging chads, the return of frost heaves, planning for lambs, a philosophical treatise on feminine garb, vs. animal skins, freeze dried banana chips as a metaphor for cognition - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross with the Matt Flinner Trio [Saint Anne’s Reel]; Jay Stevens [Woods]; Laughing Crow [Corinna].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-22-16.mp3
Category:Humor -- posted at: 2:56pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 1-15-16

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Jim DiStefano discuss a dog sled full of Xanax crossing the Canadian border, how to meet the locals and the effect of cooking Cajun chicken wings, what to do when your house burns down, how to feed your soil, art school students, sudden death and the phases of David Bowie, new fangled picture phones and an ever-expanding interweb, an alternative to buying lottery tickets, television binge watching, looking for pocket change, the Viola story, an ambulance chasing auto body shop owner, how to deal with triggers that will wreck your day, a fire-induced memory game, issues with snow plow hydraulics, a revelation about Walmart - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [I Can Dream]; Julie James [My Girlfriend’s Mad at Me]; Lizzy Mandel [Desert Wind].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-15-16.mp3
Category:Humor -- posted at: 4:04pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 1-8-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss fish spit, another annoying ski program orientation, celebrating bub day, Randy’s trip to Burlington in a superman costume, a saran wrap game and warding off depression with “bag bags”, an eyeliner experiment gone awry, a bad manners alert system, anticipating grandchildren in the abstract, upsetting tabloid stories about babies, pens that blob & the uselessness of mechanical pencils, the special sauce of an album review reworked by Google Translate, adventures in rewiring the studio, using the broom closet for meditation, a beautifully written obituary, health information and paranoia, getting the right snow shovel at Nelson Hardware, an unexpected digression into the world of anamorphic camera lenses, finding Lithuania on the map and other “anias”, cold toilet seats in the winter and problems stemming from being too busy to pee - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Dirt is the Color]; Ol’ Moose [Backslidin’ Lover]; Davey Davis [If I Could]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-8-16.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:19pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 1-1-16

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss Emily’s strange associations with the word “hoo-ha” and her chastisement of parents weirdly naming their children’s private parts, a creepy room filled with baby carriages, conjecture about the origins of half and half, strong opinions about commonly used paper products, celebrating New Year’s Eve at 4:30 pm, “the confetti guys” in Times Square, kissing relatives, a few annoying but seductive linguistic affectations, extra stuff that devalues other stuff, beating a dead New Year’s resolution horse, sharpening your tools including shovels, the awful truth about socks, using or losing your emergency brake, lawn chairs and blood donations, making photo albums for elderly friends, some interior decoration tips for single women and the strategic positioning of mirrors, bumble bee juice glasses - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Rick Ceballos & Twin Bridges [Home with the Girls in the Morning/Tamlin/Home Ruler; Exactly Like You; Charcoal Man/St. Patrick’s Day]

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-1-16.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:25pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 12-18-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss another socializing disaster, heading out of Vermont and “down into America”, Christmas shopping discounts in exchange for bible verses in New Hampshire, raw egg phobia, Emily’s untimely ejection from off a galloping Icelandic pony, an apple pie review and consequent prescription for success, a simple remedy for how to stop a toilet overflowing, black horses on a lonely ocean, dancing with secret Santa, a Kissing Balls malfunction, how to find a 3 volt battery in rural Vermont (continued), perplexing Star Wars movie ratings, the oddity of a nicely dressed woman in Chelsea, a few choice aphorisms from Butch related to donkeys, giving up and buying a Christmas tree at the gas station, fond reminiscences regarding the old studio console & masking tape, sitting through holiday performances & crawling on your knees holding a cellphone like an idiot - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Chris Kleeman [Hoodo Baby]; Timothy James [Life’s a Gas]; Bow Thayer [Thinner].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live on WFVR-FM South Royalton, Vermont 96.5 FM or streaming online & rebroadcast weekly at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_12-18-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:18pm EDT