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 9-4-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss a fire drill, microbeads & all things micro, Acorn, emptying strange things out of your pockets, Emily’s continuing washing machine trials, giving up on your garden, pumping gas in a hoop skirt, a shirt named “Bob”, being grouchy on your birthday, a solar barn party at midnight goat farm, a global magnesium deficiency, NPR off the rails, going behind the ropes at the Park-McCullough House, slacktivism, being woken up by cats and pigs, a new identity as “the blond one”, sibling secrecy as it relates to parents feeling left out and old, a new word created at the manicurist, a bad time with chintzy K-mart picture frames, how to manage dead Facebook friends, advice for pruning your hydrangea – not! … and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: The Cousins Project [Rescue Me]; Stefan Lundin [Aldrig nansin foll jag ner i bon]; Kristina Stykos [Remembering].

 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_9-4-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:53pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 8-28-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss “blowtox” the newest way to keep your composure, spontaneous dreadlocks aka bad grooming, the “almost” futility of getting mad at your bank, the long trail your local mail is likely taking, a handy but dirty way to drive off Jehovah’s Witnesses, a frustrated attempt to move a picnic table, some odd misconceptions around the definition of “bushwacking”, hallucinating wilderness, ending up at Jim’s house, eating road kill at conservation camp, the challenges of hanging a huge photography exhibit in a day, pretending to know the other DJs names, complaints lodged against Kristina’s dusty blankets, the problem with today’s lunch boxes - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Davey Davis [Zen Cowboy]; Julie James [Daydreamer]; Smokin’ Grass [Track 7].

 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_8-28-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:45pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 8-21-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss WFVR’s official DJ protocols, blueberry stains and birds on the clothes line, the big orange thing in North Tunbridge, how a chemical smear of color upsets an ordinary M&Ms breakfast, a new use for Cheez Its, “A Man With a Lamb” photo exhibit, the ins and outs of rolling a hose while stoned, things that “men on the job” say, the absence of ringing telephones at Vermont Public Radio, obnoxious pink toolsets for women vs. an objective need for smaller drills, a brilliant potluck offering made from soybeans, how to rock an out-of-style park ranger outfit, a child support non-conversation, new problems with school shopping, Emily’s remembers a bully who threatened her mother in the 1940s, disappearing into the Chateauguay - and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Brian Clark [Over On Me]; The Stephen Wentworth Band [Can’t Catch Me]; Will Patton [November].

 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_8-21-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 2:25pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 8-14-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss Spider Web Farm and “memory spin”, the oldest jail in the country still in use, avoiding the Perseid meteor showers, drooling on Myra, a brief series of digressions touching on sibling jealousy, pedophilia and potato salad, a statistic on cake smushing, a new Twitter follower let-down, old fashioned flowers, the “I Have Not” game, blogging vs. blathering, a Froggy & Miss Mousey themed wedding, nose-bonking kissing, plans for a mac & cheese explosion, some satisfying noises, contemporary problems arising from the use of pencils, books as decoration - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Nick Cowles [Sensitive New Age Redneck]; Susannah Blachly [Raven King]; Robert Resnik [Sand and Foam].

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_8-14-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:19am EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 8-7-15

 

Host Kristina Stykos and guest host Kendra Colburn discuss Emily Howe (absent due to her impending wedding), a visit to Fresh Roots Farm, “Personal Growth Friday”, fortune cookie advice scotch-taped to the wall, who to turn to in extenuating circumstances, absorbing Jon Stewart and/or dating people whose qualities we covet, genius weeding wisdom, wood pile woes, sibling secrets & duping parents, the strange intimidating effect of “Real Bitch Face”, the health benefits of dirty knees & a dearth of summer showers, a sad story involving sleeping in the driver’s seat of a car, the joys of being a wedding musician in Vermont, navigating rather than merely surviving your life, tan line issues, eschewing Jane Lindholm’s advice to tuck your pants into your socks, testing your manners at a public event - and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hot Flannel [Ice on the Pond]; Pete Sutherland [Will the Circle Be Unbroken]; Hot Flannel [Ashokan’s Farewell]

 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_8-7-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:53pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 7-31-15

 

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss slacker DJs, leaf blowers, suckers & rakes, Todd seen putting up a sign, ordering 100 bags of ice, several push mowers, the plural of “grilled cheese”, a gum chewing juggernaut, how to not have zits before your wedding, why we will not be doing a Ted Talk anytime soon, boycotting hipster music festivals, a visit to FRANK, Emily’s rediscovery of an underwear model, missing Howard’s Friendly Market, goat rentals as a possible income stream, platypus nursing details, introductions & name recall, how to stake tomatoes in a pinch, connectivity drones - and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Nikki Matheson [Whisper I Love You]; Don’t Call Betty [Tell Me]; Davey Davis [Music Meds]

 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_7-31-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:28am EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 7-24-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss weaning sheep & problems arising from the lack of breast milk, donut hair, a solicitation for the Miss Vermont pageant & implied swim suit issues, blow-by-blow toxic tooth whitening instructions, ghost writing love songs, weird romantic things and stale biscuits, the taste of dirt, a pure cheese diet, hail storms and colander head ware, a bat in the men’s room toilet & a meditation on sleeping upside down, talking about sex, debunking modge podge, a fable farm wedding, waking up at 5 a.m., being paralyzed in your sleep, a gardener’s journal and latin plant names, a white trash “throw down”, all quirk and no humor, a small bridezilla, garlic breath - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kris Gruen [This Time Forever]; Lizzy Mandell [Closer to Me]; Brian Clark [Two of Us]

 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_7-24-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 2:34pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 7-17-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss crooked buttoning issues, a raspberry surprise, Barbara’s beautiful winrows, time release wishes, a Dixie cup trap for trolls, checking spell check, Emily’s startling cream cheese confession & another bland sandwich complaint, a serious case of maggots, potluck stress, fighting off yawns at work, succumbing to Dr. Phil at the Subaru dealership, Helen’s “free advice” booth at the farmer’s market, another spelling challenge, a last minute rehearsal & botched processional, cameras crapping out, how not to stop a house from sliding down a hill, things being funnier in your head, a case of mistaken identity - and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Dayve Huckett [Very Large Medley]; Kristina Stykos [Redwing]; Hunter Paye [This Country].

 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_7-17-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:21pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 7-10-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss the woodchuck & the caterer, a close encounter with Arrowsmith, slacker hay baling, gardening with headphones, an earlobe issue and toe regeneration, spiders in the bathtub, hiding expletives, steering wheel waving debunked, not going on vacation, a shortage of stutterers & an analysis of stammering, Mr. Findley and the mowers, the possible bad effects of wearing shredded clothes, sweeping moss as a way of life, the smiling golfer of Quechee, buying spanks vs. spangers, a local album review gone awry, sleeping on the couch and a discussion of low self esteem, a garbage bag full of lupines - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Beth Telford [Fiddle Tunes]; Jon Falby and Zac Johnson [Good Folks Behind You]; Laughing Crow Band [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_7-10-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:45pm EDT

 Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss dogs eating grass, the mysteries of the Clivus Multrum, a dying calf named Mookie, night time injuries, using a pencil to weigh your postage, baseball caps, women’s hair & Velcro, an innocent encounter with giant hogweed, licking saltines, children buried in the sand, a woodchuck incident, saving dead stuff in the freezer for Jack’s fishing flies, sunglasses as a way to disrespect the world, Winkie cream & “new products” from the Vermont Country Store, a quiet dinner with Thomas Jefferson, complaining about the first sentence of Jeffrey Lent’s new novel, bell buoys & tinkling cows - and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Nikki Matheson [Lover of Salt]; Patrick Ross [Ragtime Annie]; Rick Ceballos [The Red Gate/Southern Breeze].

 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

 For more information:

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_7-3-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:54pm EDT