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 12-11-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss talking to dead relatives through dimes, a commuter train sans driver, Kristina’s apology on behalf of the human race, a little tip about birthday fashion, naming driveways, the fun side of talking into microphones, a Parisian solution for bad breath, forgetting famous artists, the magic of carabiners, getting ready for the Wassail parade, Christmas light placement & Emily’s OCD, the bad electric stove (cont.), the nobility of eating out of cans, a sad story about inanimate objects, how long to put off going to the dentist, a battery for Dr. Rhythm, problems with zip lock bags, thoughts about Facebook hangovers, going to Montana by way of the Ontario wilderness, a birthday Kewpie doll for the Christmas tree - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Three Jigs]; Mary McGinniss [Borderlands]; Nikki Matheson [Whisper I 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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:46pm EDT

11th Hour Radio 12-4-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss a unique sweater with pom poms and the best rummage sales, our favored mechanics who approach car repair gently, a post card business idea, desk lamp malfunction, giant pomegranate candy canes, a grandchild in real life, dreaming of a box turtle and making the world anew, roads that you haven’t been on, riding in the Woodstock Wassail Parade, a review of Vermont’s Memories by Dickie Drysdale, laughing out loud for real, tickling as an art form, taking the religion out of Christmas, our local Mormon monument & a four minute video, the unpleasant chore of pumping gas and tubes that ding, an electric stove that unfortunately electrocutes, strippers and the condition of money in Vermont, salting fruit and sanitizing whatever is full of germs, elves to the rescue - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hot Flannel[Sittin’ on Top of the World]; Hot Flannel [Rock Pile]; Hot Flannel [Ice on the Pond].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 7:42pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 11-20-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss anonymous haggling, what you might find when you clean your car, the hazards of twitching eyebrows, reasoning with folks under the age of 12, spousal hair aberrations & a Lyle Lovett haircut, spelling “rhinoceros”, a final phase of chimp liberation, more about leggings, riding pants and the people who wear them, pondering asymmetrical nostrils, how to move enormous terra cotta pots into small dark crawl spaces, downloading a musical education, deep & meaningful questions about dealing with repulsive personal characteristics & fringe friendships, a call from Duffy, the Syrian refugee crisis & societal issues of marginalization, how chewing gum affects family photos - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross [Buffalo Gals]; Mark Struhsacker [Sad and Blue]; Stefan Lundin [Helig vind].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:48pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 11-13-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss an aboriginal tattoo, chasing John’s stinky sheep, trying to get rid of most of your clothes, the Starbucks coffee cup controversy, hair implants close up and personal, sending a sponge to New York, waiting for the arrival of the “Death Star” waffle iron, all-you-can-eat in Tunbridge, a few odd anecdotes about undertakers, how we feel when listening to the radio in the car, singing to yourself as a defensive strategy, a bathtub rule-of-thumb concerning nipples and knees, vicious insect bites and inconvenient clay applications, vacuuming flies, the raking report, Ionic toothbrushes, getting painful massages every week & other first world problems, imagining the end of a lousy week, how much money we need - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hunter Paye [Creative Lights]; Julie James [Lives Entwined]; Merima Kljuco [Pajdusko Oro].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:12pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 11-6-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss LL Bean catalog shooting locations, determining the right kind of super glue, the stupidity of comparing butts, a post hole digger problem, the end of subway tokens, a big meditative day with hydrangeas, a disastrous miscalculation around chicken nuggets, dumpster diving for kindling, more on Subaru door latches, a legitimate use for Doritos, a plea for home visit car mechanics, techniques for overcoming anti-social behavior at a party, the incredible “buddy bench”, a stinky sponge story & approaches to sanitizing them, unpacking “the new dorky”, confusion concerning the term “stick season”, questions about Unicef’s cardboard coin boxes - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Charlie Shew and Pat Jones [Snow]; Rick Ceballos [Arepika Polka/Tiger and the Comet]; Brian Clark [Cairns].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:46am EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 10-23-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss crossing railroad tracks, selling maple leaves, Emily’s issues with private animal business, eating & drinking in the car, another sign in Tunbridge, hanging out with Turnip Truck, spreading gravel, a work around for spotty cell phone coverage, hypocritical Halloween costume ideas, cheap magazine subscriptions & tote bags, a definition for depression, burning toast in pairs, the oddity of birth, talking about the weather, bad ice cream flavors, simplifying our food vocabulary, television for dogs, fake fireplaces, amazing dreams that call to us, constant guilt … and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Anderson [River of Whiskey]; Davey Davis [It All Goes Better With a Beer]; Kristina Stykos [Three Jigs].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:43am EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 10-16-15

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss cutesy Vermont products, when a dog loves you, wearing stripes as an adult, disagreements about the color taupe, Emily’s freak out relating to scary testicular seedpods, a cardboard sign in Tunbridge, hating space, “an elderly dyspeptic Bilbo Baggins”, seasonal bee confusion disorder, Mr. Yuck stickers, a house cleaning rotation proposal - rejected, an engineering flow chart, wart remedies, disposing of roses, getting rid of Columbus Day, a pile of gravel, the indolence of riding horses and making seltzer, doing bad things on stage, New York City’s church dormitories for visiting business women … and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Wagtail [When the Sun Goes Down]; Wagtail [Let the Light In]; Wagtail [Martin Wynne/Caroe Roe/Connaughtman’s].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:40am EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 10-2-15

Kristina Stykos and guest host Kendra Colburn discuss a tractor in the parking lot, autumn & acts of desperation, the foliage report, a potholder analysis, the simple courtesies of driving slowly, a Personal Growth Friday insight relating to trusting the machinations of the unconscious, locating Peacham & the Route 2/Route 4 weather divide, a trombone playing farmer, rediscovering the child within, playing with sticks, the delights of bringing a thermos to work, giving up waitressing, gleaning vegetables & potting herbs, a few ideas about “charm”, narcissism and red flags, soup nights … and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [Carbon Neutral]; Bow Thayer and the Holy Plow [Way of the Gun]; Kristina Stykos [Forgiveness].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:14pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 9-25-15

Kristina Stykos and guest host Jay Stevens discuss the ins and outs of adjusting solar panels, staying calm, cool & collected in the face of car repairs, warped dampers, life as an audio compressor lifting the lows, seasonal affective disorder & light boxes, Mary’s family of stars in the sky of indigo, getting lost looking for Burlington College, another great Caballbreaker incubator party, wearing horned helmets as a way of life, notes on the Pope’s visit to the US and “moving the brand”, an evaluation of miracles, recapping some facts about chickens, the intimacies of various art forms, square dancing in Phys. Ed., cheering up Jeff, wedding dress-up … and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Mary McGinniss [We Rise Into]; Lizzy Mandell [Like It Like That]; Erin McDermott [Sometimes].

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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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:36pm EDT

11th Hour Radio Episode 9-11-15

 

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss messing up the same things in the same way, a premature disregarding of evil Santa, Emily’s Facebook post on being too busy verbatim, a repulsive but relevant white bread video, the three kinds of people, finding stray cats in a barn, news from the CEO of Vermont Electric Coop, a reflection on transgenderism, if god had a vagina, a family honeymoon & struggles with a 1940s bathing suit, king size flannel fashions, deviled ham as it relates to female anatomy, how to come to terms with your child’s bad choices, an awesome opportunity to work the Fire Dept. coin drop, a tennis game in Westport, cutting down ten foot compass plants, George’s call regarding a dark haired Mary McCaslin  look-a-like… and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Steve Mayone [High Lonesome]; Mary McGinniss [Ooh Ooh It’s You]; Doug Perkins and Patrick Ross [Late night Jam: Flop Eared Mule].

 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

 

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss a strange perspective on female yoga instructors, baby drugs, mermaids & other birth defects, broken farm equipment, mutant hay bales, the reliability of apple products, the problem with peanut butter, walking to the barn, the local barber’s curbside service, what’s okay to throw out the car window, rose chaffers and bloomers, a nine hour mulching job, a psychological disorder brought on by looking in the mirror, a fairy house building workshop, car repairs not accomplished, lining up picnic tables with mathematical precision, an unwanted guest removed, a new editor for the local paper - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bob Kinzel and Jean Olsen [Demo]; Julie James [Something Kind]; The Holy Plow [Crooked Blaze].

 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_6-26-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:54pm EDT

Kristina Stykos and guest host Kendra Colburn discuss the working wet, a new way to preserve & harvest compact disks using agricultural methods, checking in on the local porta-potty way station, techniques for avoiding being responsible for large mowers and expensive tractors, benches versus hay bales, how conflict can lead to setting higher goals, Adblock, Facebook and midriff control, debunking the phrase “aging gracefully”, comparing prices of five-pack underwear brands at the hardware store, liking the pope and visions of his gumball machine pope-mobile, a new vocabulary word that goes beyond religion, things that make us miserable at work, conversion as it relates to a perennial flower bed & pending goutweed takeover - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [By the Minute]; Kristina Stykos [Tundra]; Twist of the Wrist [Poor Old Horse/Retour de Montaignac/Derriere Chez Nous].

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_6-19-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:15pm EDT

Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Jay Stevens discuss adopting dead plants, the deeper meaning behind “Eggs for Sale” signs, our fear of the great void, an open invite to Caballbreakeradio’s public/private incubator party at the Farmer’s Exchange in Windsor June 28, the lame math behind Spotify, an infamous rock god of Springfield, bailing out of baby showers and falling into magical kingdoms, a revelation concerning professional minglers & festal phobia, watering Pachysandra as a meditation, adult coloring books, a token stupid joke, the emotional toll extracted by Japanese knotweed & a ten year battle to eradicate it, the hives and emerald cities of Vermont, JayRaves, Starwood and a breakdown of the many wiccan tribes - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Chris Kleeman [Louise]; Doug Perkins [Three Little Jigs]; Bow Thayer [Born to Be].

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_6-12-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:35pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss polka music, a technique for rolling hoses, how Victorian dresses perform in the rain, a mysterious light bulb, driving cars in your sleep, falling in love on the job, an epic sheep fencing fail, single middle aged men in museums syndrome decoded, the ambiguous parameters of “looking good”, why to consider not listening to the news, a spelling challenge, a pretty good joke from Aunt Jan, a shout out to a few of Emily’s sadly moronic friends, Kristina’s car mechanic’s refusal to perform a Subaru latchectomy, a protocol violation - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Michael Oakland [Grand Design]; Bow Thayer [Get Lost Again]; Don’t Call Betty [Hideaway].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_6-5-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:08pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss squeaky swing sets, cute goats and the devil, offerings made to God under duress, a hummingbird feeder initiation, a truncated stop sign sighting, a town created for small people, a phone call from George followed by a phone call from Jon, when & how to wear corsets, a parental fracas over winning and losing, cow tipping strategies debunked, scoring points with an old Ford truck, a larger perspective on jealousy, hating parades and war by association, high maintenance house guests, defining a sausage-free zone, a circuitous route through West Newbury via Peach Brook – and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Paul Asbell [Police Dog Blues]; Smokin’ Grass [Sweet Marie]; Michael Oakland [Grand Design].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_5-29-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:54pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe and special guest Kendra Colburn discuss strategies for staying awake during commencement, secret buildings and the persistence of strange cult rituals, the origins of B.O., featured tee shirt “White River Junction: It’s Not So Bad”, the dangers of writing dirt in small towns & getting yelled at on the internet, a speculation on alien geologists of the future, the confusion surrounding chicken nipples, the IRS calls Kristina (not), a review of the daily trivia question on Emily’s phone message machine, the relationship between beagles and chain link fences in Vermont, high prices at the Salvation Army - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Christine Malcolm [Lucky Me]; Bow Thayer [The Bitters]; Robert Resnik [Beulah Land].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_5-15-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:53pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss how to say “Royalton” with an authentic Vermont accent, the documentation of a ripped shirt, a clogging block reveals an unexpected size differential between the genders, the dangers of flower gardening, kissing the ground and playing with worms, a drop and swap explained, demystifying Elmer’s glue, the universality & timelessness of cooties, another dead end road experience, a secret revealed about coffee grounds and after hours at the Tunbridge World’s Fair, Kristina’s complaint about brooms, Emily’s grandmother’s frustrated attempts to get on the internet at the ball game, a lecture about egg usage as it relates to vegetarians, putting the “fun” into fundraiser - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Lizzy Mandell [If You Love Somebody]; Pete Sutherland [The Moon Behind the Hill/The Baltimore]; Highwood Stringband [Roll On Buddy].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_5-8-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:15pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss Green Day vs. May Day, a visit from the anti-buzz patrol (Todd), bathroom access for landscapers, what to do with one sneaker, “large object” day at the Tunbridge transfer station, dingos, snakes and Emily’s imagination, porta potty traffic on Route 110, addressing the ongoing shortage of vegetarian sandwiches in South Royalton, why women wear “outfits” and how to get out of it, the beautiful awkwardness of Nina Totenberg on camera, being heard but not seen as a way of life, water hatred, the last almond croissant, Vermont offering up Bernie Sanders for President - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Jamo and Charlie Shew [Nicole]; Bow Thayer [10,000 Beer Cans]; Steve Mayone [Poor Heart].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_5-1-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 7:21pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss marking up the Gazetteer, rainbow ice, a secret wish for a phone booth, terrifying rhinoceros snakes  & penguin feedings at the Central Park Zoo, how bee die-out is traumatizing children, spews, slunks, slamps, swangs and a quacky, champions of A.D.D., how to mow your perennial garden into submission, “Untraveled Road Temptation Syndrome” (U.R.T.S.), Emily’s memories of riding in the back of Butch’s pickup truck, things lost in the fall reappearing in the spring, choosing a favorite all-terrain-vehicle, a few book reports - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Lizzy Mandell [If You Love Somebody]; Kristina Stykos [Let’s Cherish the Day]; Kristina Stykos & Bela Fleck [Apogee].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_4-24-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:06pm EDT

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host writer Jay Stevens discuss the writing life, creemee stand openings, a pop quiz on pickled honeycomb tripe, maple cotton candy and grapenut pudding, the culture of Vermont’s giant old farms & their resident Sunday painters, dump-challenged towns, 20 pages of Harvard sentences, a collaboration with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, more mythology about the Chateaugay, auxiliary inventions, found devices and the Commander’s motto: “Use it up, wear it out, do without”, a new regional music streaming service: Caballbreaker Radio, the relationship between being a music professional and unemployment, Vermont’s hippie incursion - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins and Patrick Ross [Fiddle Tune Medley]; Bow Thayer [Chateaugay]; Kristina Stykos [Broken Wings].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_4-17-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:18pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss color rules, “the Call of the Ziplock”, funny pants as they relate to baseball, a scourge of pythons, why paninis are bogus, the best diapers for lambs, a naked wedding cake, “The Cloud” debunked as it relates to Bruce Springsteen’s place of origin, Emily dowses for insurance premiums, a new idea about roombas & firewood, the fire department and too many easter eggs, a futures market of baby jesi buttons - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Horse Thief]; Julie James [Mud Season Minuet]; Hot Flannel [Temperance Reel].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_4-10-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:47pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss smoking on the job, the universal wish, pagan Easter, melting ice theory, evaluating bump signs, a plan for reviewing John’s invites to the wedding, an awesome twitter handle, a birthday lecture on the Armenian genocide, Emily’s contemplation on going to jail instead of doing her taxes, trying to park in Burlington amidst a plethora of “Tow Zone” signs, a secret party in Weathersfield Bow, the uselessness of cell phones, chatting with the road commissioner, a spring skunk episode & recipe, anticipating time with the button maker - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Steve Mayone [Poor Heart]; Mark Struhsacker [Blind Eye]; Hot Flannel [Sitting on Top of the World].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_4-3-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:56pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss cosmic delivery, National Joe Day, how John ran the Green Mountain Film Festival Video Slam while deathly ill, a hole in the floor, two musicians changing a flat tire, a clarification about long underwear, new techniques for walking your dog with 30 feet of cotton braided rope, debunking the marshmallow recipe, 3rd grade lunchroom politics & gender reassignment, the powerful force of rural radio, Emily’s attempt to say ADHD, the strange anomalies of orange juice, a disclaimer about the wholesale spread of misinformation, when your children text back & when they don’t, over-riding the ink cartridge scam, the many problems with cat litter - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Susannah Blachly [Your Voice Calls Me Home]; Laughing Crow Band [Corrina]; Brian Clark [10 am].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_3-27-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:05pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss more tips on lamb diapering, Emily’s thrift store discovery of a special recipe book featuring the Schwann’s truck frozen foods, questions about late night coffee & an amazing discovery linking Greeks to the Cumberland Farms convenience store chain, the mysteries of mascara, wearing glasses as it relates to dodge ball, a trip to New Zealand and what to expect from fishing trip photography, the dangers of free-standing toast and electric fences, Andy the runt, Butch’s year-round air conditioned long underwear, fear of flying and valium in conflict, the myth of cut worms, the wisdom of washing the dishwasher, sugar-on-snow parties & using up old syrup, the science of when to take the plow off, why Henry is sitting in the corner - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [Stoned Kid]; Erin McDermott [Louise]; Spencer Lewis [Change Is].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_3-20-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:47pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss whether or not Emily’s microphone is on, irrational fear of electric shock, a battery watering episode, Kristina’s attempt to rename Friday-the-13th “Good Fellows Day” which leads to a discussion of Odd Fellows, Masons and Rebeccas, the slot in boy’s underwear, used vacuums & broken light bulb toxicity, pretending not to be sick, a new definition for god, a bed & breakfast moose rack in the sink, life-sucking mud, a depressing realization about Girl Scout cookies, how to go out to eat in Vermont villages without restaurants, dinner party issues, talking in fake accents, turning nouns into verbs, dog jobs - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer and the Holy Plow [Snake Bite]; Jamo and Charlie [Joker is Wild]; Doug Perkins [Snowflake Jig].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_3-13-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:02pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss catching some air on frost heaves, a snowy owl sighting, washing lambs with Woolite, the dangers of cutting open Pampers, a photo caption contest, some confusion over Shakespeare and Columbus, Emily’s ugly pie & attraction to a pink one, town meeting shame, questions arising from the giving of historic monuments as gifts, tips on winter driving short-cuts, the sap moon, pine sap and the smell of dirt, exercising graciousness as an alternative to blindly following a moral code, fish hatred, a local eggplant, feta & spinach pizza, new policy for circus elephants & the oppression of artist elephants, penguin sweaters, the uselessness of songwriting, an cattle incantation from the Carmina Gadelica, laundromat names, a glass of wine equivalency - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross [Arkansas Traveler]; Chris Kleeman [Magnet to Steel]; Bow Thayer [Windsor County Wind].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_3-6-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:10pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss a confusion over lamb coats, “The Pollyanna Principle” unpacked, an unexpected marriage proposal, the phenomenon of being eyeballed whilst walking into small town diners, bizarre arguments at Vermont town meeting, phone calls from Duffy, George and someone’s uncle, fake violence a la Monty Python & move rating inconsistencies, Emily’s unbridled surrender in the super market to Tyson’s dinosaur chicken nuggets, bad geography 101, a test involving Vermont’s most famous turnip festival, reflecting on bog fanaticism, stress from feelings of inadequacy and the inevitability of emotional needs not being met, guilt over too much time spent writing song lyrics in one week and tips on how to do that - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Charlie Shew and Pat Jones [Marie-Lise]; Bow Thayer [Cowgirl Madonna]; Stefan Lundin [Aldrig nansin foll jag ner i bon].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-27-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:21pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss encountering cop stink-eye, a lamb visit to the Tunbridge School, the relative merits of having Chex Mix & Heineken for dinner (again), adventures in bookkeeping on paper ledgers vs. Quickbooks, being super-honest as a liability & hereditary neurotic condition, duct tape for last-ditch weatherization, snow in the house, why men can start vehicles, a great polenta bread, Ben’s dream of a recording studio next to hot springs, chalk boards and breweries, moving firewood with a Subaru & a radio, how to say the word “Appalachia”, crinkling plastic as a trigger for anger in cats - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Joe Hemingway [Song from Sandy Hook]; Dream [The Stephen Wentworth Band]; The Lake [Brian Clark].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-20-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:25pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss germy children, special daredevil stunts only suited to winter, shoveling as an art form, zit obfuscation techniques, a phone call from Patrick & Ophelia, the pros and cons of saving broom handles, meditational chores for coping with anxiety, an explanation of karma radar and the fallacies of falling in love, why Valentine’s Day is a lousy holiday, a spare tire surprise that halts the plow, the macho power of ramps, colored electrical tape availability issues, a spam folder “expose”, the devolution of shopping malls, spelling “rhinoceros”, how to manage used Kleenex in your pockets - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Robert Resnik [Mad Tom]; Dayve Huckett [Babe, I’m Going to Leave You];

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-13-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 12:19pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss a unique north country pickup line, how not to put hemp milk in your coffee, advice concerning voodoo, loud colored houses, working on definitions for “corny” in the arts and culture, a compare & contrast on phobias, Kristina brags (again) about her plowing prowess, revisiting dresses as “tools of the oppressor”, Emily’s amazing sock buns, a new term for bad skiing: “skrudging”, pressure cooker paranoia, Jim’s ingenious device for thawing frozen pipes, more fascinating here-say regarding synesthesia, music as a plaything - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: The Stephen Wentworth Band [Bootleg Whiskey]; Katie Trautz & Kristina Stykos [Southwind]; Smokin’ Grass [Man of Constant Sorrow]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_2-6-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:28pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss “two kinds of people”, looking for pens in the car, how to deal with a “baby sloth child”, waiting for the blizzard of 2015, Kristina’s idea for a “Croissant Registry”, a ten million dollar job challenge, dancing with colors, throwing babies in swimming pools, what to do with too many calendars, how to impress a cat, releasing aggressions with a plow truck, making Ninja Turtle heads out of egg cartons, ins and outs of the Coffee Kup truck, a chick-a-dee murder, the advantages of being named Ted - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Me, Myself and Moi]; Steve Mayone [Everyone’s Insane]; Robert Resnik [Esperanza Set]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-30-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:22pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss strategies for passing logging trucks, their confusion googling bob shorts, a tale of pretzel rods and a duffle bag, kilt magic and an infamous contradancer, gig updates for Robert and the two Marties, Emily’s Youtube violations, a question about dog licking, a hectic schedule of baby dance classes, the ABBA fantasy revisited, a discussion of presidents and bat phones, playing for the grown-up team, walking across the world, more boundary issues, an excited Pavel's call to claim the mystery box of Russian books, Amish phone booths - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hot Flannel [Gentle on my Mind]; Michele Choiniere [Te Souviendras-tu de Moi?]; Lizzy Mandell [Isaac’s Song]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-23-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:27pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss life prior to new weather terms like “polar vortex” and “artic front”, the chaos of ski programs, a story of car battery replacement, the evolution of a home grown rope tow, riding in Butch’s conversion van to Connecticut, a Laundromat crime, reviewing defunct phone companies, cutting back on polar fleece, good tooth pulling technique, a mystery box of Russian books arrives, what to do with broken Christmas lights, Kristina’s adventures tuning the human biofield, looking for heat in the closet, what to do with old insurance policies, waiting for a propane delivery, long johns deconstructed, an Alzheimer’s cure from “Sanford”, the week’s review in kitten videos - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Cousins Project [Jealous Girl]; Doug Perkins [Fiddle Tune Medley]; Highwoods Stringband [Roll on Buddy]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-16-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:04pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe, guest Jen Loftus [Emily’s sister] and baby Joseph discuss orb sightings, conjecture as to why babies look behind you and laugh, Kristina’s posting of “Troll Party”, a New Year’s toast with wandering musicians, an unexpected party poisoning, sharing stories of when we “ran away” as children, archery vs. laser tag, doing trashy things to make your kids happy, missing the propane delivery, finding things to do without electricity, Jen's problem with Uncle Bobby Syndrome, fish bladders in beer, Ira’s imitation of a drunken sailor’s & Eli’s doctor’s appointment - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Mary McGinniss [We Rise Into]; Lizzy Mandell [Like It Like That]; Erin McDermott [Sometimes]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_1-2-15.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:11pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss eating edible bark, ironing holiday wrapping paper for future use, night skiing with the dog, glass blowing lessons, Emily’s longing for an extra hand, a 20 year old broken foot, snow machines vs. ski dos, an unexpected Christmas present of shingles, unwelcome lubricant advertisements, sardines as an improvement on wet cat food, a breakdown on hominy, Ira’s purchase of nerf balls, adults hiding behind electrons, fingerless gloves from the Army/Navy store, Emily brush hogging her legs, ushering in 2015 without resolutions, Kristina’s New Year’s advice to “leave a door open” - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: The Stephen Wentworth Band [Free My Soul]; Robert Resnik [Sand and Foam]; Doug Perkins [Chopin Waltz]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_12-26-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:23pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss why difficulties spelling Hanukkah might lead to a preference for Christmas, a Pinterest pretzel disaster, how to get the “right” fortune cookie & the folly of hording them, lying to children, a cheese theft hits close to home, things to feel guilty about, a case of the zoomies, where bad sledding weather intersects with daycare, Emily tricking her boys into shopping for Maxi-pads, best names for laundromats & car washes, the latest cat video sensation, how to shop at Walmart in Ohio with Kristina’s credit card & get away with it, something about Matt’s nipples & an new old Vermont expression, what to do with stale candy canes, a very small turkey that looked a lot like a chick-a-dee unfortunately - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [Tell Me]; Mary McGinniss [Jesus Christ What Were You Thinking]; Mark Struhsacker [Cricket on the Hearth/Tom and Jerry]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_12-19-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:20pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss Vermont’s major ice storm & power outage, Emily’s temporary refuge sleeping on the floor at her sister’s house, a fish-tailing adventure, Kristina rams a tree, wonderful Tammy at the DMV, what happens to your mailbox when you get a post office box, notes from a novice plow truck operator, the relationship between Matt’s bigger chain saw & his recliner, a press conference with Bo of “Eat More Kale” on the steps of the state house, an in-depth analysis of the best tofu club sandwich in Vermont, something falls off the roof in real time, how a colorful chef’s hat from Coffee Corner might change your future, Emily’s theory on why Kristina is not getting older - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Nick Cowles [Dark Door of Lonliness]; Bow Thayer & the Holy Plow [Way of the Gun]; The Cousins Project [Stealing Away]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_12-12-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:02pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss baby Jesi spottings, Emily’s worries about Catholic bishops making decisions to cut Christmas light displays, how divorce may affect house plants, hobbing jobs together, getting bored at meetings, a tirade against the Pilgrims averted, Kristina accusation that Emily is “a really white person”. Patrick Ross calls in to the studio, a white flour product obsession, the weird relationship between Fairy tales and bitter greens, an instructive moment at Panera, an argument for not bathing in the winter, the mysteries of lighting a professional photo shoot, the fact that Eli sat next to a girl on the bus on a field trip, sleeping on the couch as a way of life - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Stefan Lundin [De hogsta utav hojder]; Neal Massa Trio [Cute]; Chris Kleeman [Come on if You’re Comin’]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_12-5-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:06pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss the day after Thanksgiving, ordering personalized pencils from the back of comic books, a harrowing rescue, how to figure out the speed limit when there are no signs, how to make homemade album jackets, wearing braces as an adult, Vermont’s ties to the Bic family fortune, Emily’s upcoming winter job dusting curtains in a closed museum, revisiting hanging baby Christmas tree ornaments, a discovery of beautifully preserved antique clothing, drone shopping - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Heart in the Wreckage]; Robert Resnik [Delahanty’s Hornpipe/Cut the File/The Gold Ring]; Kristina Stykos [Road to Rostrevor]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_11-28-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:21am EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss belly button lint, sweater pills, baby ropes, static electricity, a favorite tempeh turkey recipe, a novel use for colanders, backing up cars, Kristina’s, somewhat unintentional exploration of the back roads of Calais, Emily’s adventures subbing in the local elementary school, saving coals to start new fires, marching captives north to sell them to the French, why amaryllis always fall over, early Christmas tree buying, how wrong if not cruel it is that children grow up, a Chinese food restaurant with sugar donuts and a cremee machine, garbled failures in dictation software deployment, a hedgehog in a cupcake tray - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Spencer Lewis [Vermont Resurrection]; Brian Clark [Over On Me]; Pete Sutherland [Streak O’ Lean/Swann River Breakdown]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_11-21-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:24pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss whether or not to spray vinegar on your car, why November can be a tough time, a poem from Kevin Macneil Brown, the annoying “devil’s advocate” guise, a photo of Johnny Clegg, a recipe for herbal chicken pox skin salve, rhinoceros vs. hippopotamus hide, the filthy, horrible chores of parenting, piling wood instead of stacking it, giving up padded bras as a way of life, not wearing your glasses, whether delinquent DJs who do not clean the toilets at their station can find business underwriters for their show, Emily gets a black eye while taking Ira to get his flu shot, bath toys, an unfortunate incident with the dog - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Smokin’ Grass [Opus 1]; Stephan Lundin [Beat Street]; Bow Thayer [Sandman’s Island]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_11-14-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:13pm EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss politics and the recent mid-term elections which they said they would not talk about, a trip to the snow geese of Addison County, a call from John in Austin & reminiscence on the late Vermont senator Jim Jeffords, a new concept in tent platforms, when snow is not really snow what you call it, a reflection on underwear, a long awaited diagnosis on Emily’s Subaru that reveals a pesky coil, shopping for jeans, avoiding loud music but not the social aspect of going to bars, Kristina’s advice on thermoses, a recipe for baking potatoes with olive oil and salt, one road in Weathersfield demystified - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Swing and Tears [Hobo’s Meditation]; Nick Cowles [Old Outlaws]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_11-7-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 7:44am EDT

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Ferro discuss topics including a slutty corn costume, druthers about attending Myra’s party, Emily’s failure to shut down the cabin in PEI, a meeting in the Home Depot Parking Lot, a true and classic scary story about dripping water, the great candy buy-back scheme, dressing the dog up as Beanie Baby, made-up conjecture about the Vermont mafia, cringing at ourselves, a strange clause emerges from deeds in the town of Graniteville, Emily’s drive in Burlington with PMS, a discussion about what broadcasting the show while floating in a sensory depravation tank would be like, a Schwann’s truck sighting - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins [Hang Glide]; Julie James [Daydreamer]; Kristina Stykos and Bela Fleck [Apogee] 

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_10-31-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:35am EDT

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host musician Bow Thayer discuss topics including all kinds of earplugs starting with Kleenex, the recent Bela Fleck show in Rutland & how it inspired Bow to put his banjo away forever (not really), a breakdown of “jackass of all trades”, the uke bass and noodle comparison, how Bow got home to Gaysville when Route 107 disappeared into the White River, shout outs to Jake Wildwood of Antebellum Instruments, Pete Weiss of Verdant Studio, and Don Carbino of River Bend Post and Beam, fear of getting up in the morning, a history of the Tweed River Festival, a brief discussion of “Why Guys Get Trapped in Soul Sucking Jobs”, how switching up instruments can affect the nuts and bolts of songwriting, a geeky yet somehow fascinating explanation of Bow’s new line of “Bojotar” guitars (or are they banjos? dobros?), a RGS grid tie installation goes up in support of Bow’s next album, the metaphysical deepness of Pro Tools - and so much more!

Outgoing music track: Bow Thayer ["Stoned Kid" from Spend it All]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Episode_10-24-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:21pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including primordial stew, Emily's contemplation on outer space, breaking down a mash-up of the Vermont gubernatorial race, a missing gazebo, dogs eating packaging tape, Kristina’s trials as a waitress, confusion over whether or not Vermont has orange groves, scoring goals for the wrong side, saving up your junk food joneses, still loving the Barnard Store, dancing with two year olds, selling old skating dresses on eBay, a review of “bunting”, a reversal on spring cleaning, an expose on vacuum cleaner bags, Emily rants and refuses to makes her own maxi pads, hiding toast from the cat - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [Tango Rose]; Pat Jones and Charlie Shew [Snow]; Hot Flannel [Ice on the Pond]  

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:04pm EDT

October 10, 2014

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Bob Farnham discuss topics including how we feel about microphones, tweed and silk, upwardly mobile family farms in Vermont, Amtrack live and – almost - on schedule in South Royalton, a great invisible card trick, Kristina’s clip boards, early voting issues, Bob & twenty cords of firewood, Jehovah’s witnesses deflected, Phish as a search keyword for 11th Hour Radio, cluster flies again, a deconstruction of Half & Half, a live solicitation robo-call, Vermont’s lieutenant governor’s race, wood stoves we have loved – by name - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [Born to Be]; Kristina Stykos [Flowing West]; Will Patton [November]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:14pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including where the Schwann’s trucks go at night, why the sound of crinkling paper is so satisfying, how Emily’s problem opening jars leads her to search for a husband, the loud voices of soccer moms, eliciting responses from the universe, a long term relationship with hydrangeas explained, the limitations of electric lawn mowers, three men with good attitudes, Rusty backs his new truck into a rock, a human bulldozer - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Susannah Blachly [Canyon Dream]; Patrick Ross [Goldrush]; Brian Clark [The Lake]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_10-3-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:28am EDT

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Bob Farnham discuss topics including maple soft serve, the evolution of the species as it relates to Attention Deficit Disorder, knobby knees, a few jokes from Mitch the Hippie Martian Zen Genius Mitch Hedberg, Kristina’s disappointing last trip to the dump (or was it a transfer station?), a vicarious dip into the recent historic climate march in NYC, how toxins travel uphill, a ceremonial iPhone 6 defocking, Bob explains his relationship with Siri, an expose on sandwiches, documenting others documenting you, Tofurkey, road fixing in Chelsea, a wood splitting lesson from old Sabin Densmore, Sr., SunWood Biomass of Waitsfield VT to the rescue - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Highwoods String Band [Who Broke the Lock]; The Cousins Project [Stealin’ Away]; Will Ackerman [Last  Day at the Beach]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_9-26-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:06pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including energy dispersal, Emily’s “carma” & a cozy tow truck ride on a cold night, the trouble with hoar frost, more on King snakes, how cleaning your basement can make you sparkle and what you might find, a great experience at the recycling transfer station, using “Ethan Frome” as a verb, letting go of old light bulbs, how to deal with appliance paranoia, the word “corduroy as it relates to spelling issues in general, Butch’s ski hoarding and decorative ski display in the barn, why you can’t give away old car seats - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Thing for You]; Wagtail [Meet Me When the Sun Goes Down]; Don’t Call Betty [Long Way Fast]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_9-19-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:15pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos broadcasting live from the Tunbridge World’s Fair during Emily’s break from the Colonial Kitchen at the Antique House amidst the chaos of a makeshift radio studio located between the pig races and the petting zoo, discussing topics including making apple pie in a cast iron frying pan, horse blankets as outer wear, true confessions of a mother's kidnapper paranoia, Emily reveals her failed attempt to take a goat on the ferris wheel, Avery Crockett shows us her “Operation Iraqi Freedom” medal, a delivery of Vermont fresh chocolate milk, Emily uses hand sanitizer as deodorant in a pinch, worm water, Gifford Hospital representatives drive by in a golf cart, a PSA from the White River Valley Chamber of Commerce fundraising calendar, natural upholstery cleaner, Kristina's reminiscences of taking a gamble on a plastic duck, a request for “Barry White” from a civil war re-enactor, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: The Cousins Project [South of the Chelsea Line]; The Cousins Project [Come Around]; Bow Thayer & the Holy Plow [Catskill Stone]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_9-12-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:41am EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including Emily’s 17 layers of undergarments, air conditioning in grocery stores, humoring the dentist, Victorian prayer flags, how big your mirror should be, how to gracefully divest of scented candles, art modeling and eye stress, brain RAM, looking closely at holly hocks, if it’s not beige what color is that, Myra paints her piano red, Kristina examines the gender of knights, a discussion about wooly bears, cows following four wheelers, eating free food outdoors, a contention that all roads lead to cheese and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: The Cousins Project [Rescue Me]; Doug Perkins [Hang Glide]; Kristina Stykos [Three Jigs]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_9-5-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:28pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including Ira’s platypus, the ethics of literally dragging your child out of bed, finding out you have a tape worm, just cranky vs. unique, why we go to Burlington, bolted lettuce, who is in charge of adults, being a backwoods diva – or not, a fencing lesson, rainbow rocks with bible verses on them as related to gay pride, people wanting what they want, take-your-dog-to-work week, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [Carbon Neutral]; Bow Thayer [Suicide Kings]; Smokin Grass [09]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 12:02pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including TGIF, a late night visit to Walmart in search of birthday treasure hunt surprises, the donkey and the horse, disappointed Mormons, a road closure turns into a party, a Vermont tongue twister involving historic sites, trading earwig stories, trees turning early and how it is not just a made up thing, being “Vermont” famous, ignoring the cleanup sign-up, a mysterious humming noise, ponying up at last for Royalton Community Radio, how hard it is for some of us to say a very small word, nose hats, an explanation of “soul sickness”, what Kristina didn’t do this summer, the North Pond Hermit, a DJ gets stuck in Bethel, how time marches on, revisiting FEMA and route 107, Emily almost gets hired for a “real job” - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hot Flannel [Working on a Building]; Kristina Stykos [I Can’t Go Home]; Brian Clark [West]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_8-22-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 7:47pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including crumbs, magic stuff in baskets, a snake dissection at Silver Lake State Park, the summer days of summer, a Juicy Fruit addiction, several failed attempts to talk to callers, a buying strategy for the Salvation Army, Ira’s attempted removal of Emily in sections, dining out on Mondays in rural Vermont, a reverie on lobotomy, a trip to Shelburne museum and the secret to free admissions, the old Shepard Saw Mill, boat rides and marriage proposals, hover craft, annoying grammar issues, luffing departed comics, guilt trips and family life, hearing something tapping, starting each day afresh, a Fable Farm concert, love guns, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Susannah Blachly [Hope Begins in the Dark]; Charlie Shew and Pat Jones [Marile-Line]; Doug Perkins [Flop Earred Mule]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:42pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including why we won’t be running a daycare center anytime soon, Kristina’s description of her brain, secret societies and their secret buildings, random doll parts, a recipe for rice burgers inspired by not wanting to drive to Worthy Burger, decorating your house in “eclectic love”, music festival season as a precursor to feeling lonely, Emily’s exposure to Harold Pinter at Unadilla Theater and a case of cold pants, doing charades in lieu of speaking French, a dream of flying with mom and dad, a refrigerator check list that sheds light on the weirdness of collecting old food, observing people vs. judging them, the great park-like utility of the Tunbridge Fairgrounds off-season, a challenge to the commonly held belief of hiking as exercise, a complaint that the White River is not white - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Will Patton [Charanga]; Bow Thayer [Harpoon Song]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:33pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including a little lizard on a rock, Vermont Girls Rock & Kristina’s adventures at camp, kids crying incessantly at daycare, Emily’s blue cardigan, making your kids say “I’m sorry” and why it’s wrong, Ira and his candy addiction, a visit to Thunder Road and an uninspired porta-potty road race, amazing technological developments from Dunkin Donuts, tips on how to employ useless phrases such as “take down your pants and slide down the ice” to make a trip to Prince Edward Island endurable for children, lightning ghosts, a raspberry invitation and garlic harvesting advice from guitarist Doug Perkins, candy dots, hand splitting wood with an axe according to Eli plus a fallback plan utilizing pickaxes according to Ira, gypsy caravans in Vermont and a tie-in to national trends, hipsterism & how we might be “anti-snobs” - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hot Flannel

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 7:43pm EDT

11th Hour host Kristina Stykos talks with special guest Matthew Goguen discussing topics including “serendipity”, meeting strangers, unusual visitations, pennies from heaven, small town sameness, earning the trust of locals while doing historical research, random acts of kindness in the airport, a beautiful drop of sap, stalking or archiving?: a comparison, mercury-in-retrograde as a way of life, rock and roll camp for girls, days of minor inconveniences, hills, hollows and building summer fires - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [Hideaway]; Hot Flannel [Ice on the Pond]; Robert Resnik [Twa Corbies]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:24am EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including wearing aprons, bad breath gum, songs to swing by & hammock habits, money earning, retired federal workers’ visit to the museum, a woodchuck tussle, delphinium petals in production, stud-finders: a discussion, a thumb dislocation, free association, hydraulic symbiosis, evil blond stereo-typed associations, George Lisi, naturalist, passes away, the semipiturnal whirling of the stars, “What has become of my heart”, a time to rally, Phasghetti Western at the Randolph Playhouse, a.k.a. everyone learns in their own way, skunk smell, the power of common sounds,  and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Pat Jones and Charlie Shew [Rest Easy]; Mark Struhsacker [What Has Happened to My Heart]; Bow Thayer [Cowgirl Madonna]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_7-10-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:59pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including nicknames, wooden swords and shields, a fierce game of “Go Fish”, a brief Vermont geography quiz, recurring nightmares and Ira’s snake dream, Emily’s fear of “goose-eggs”, a peony photo-taking binge and Kristina’s new pronunciation dictionary for plant names, what’s happening in the parking lot (donuts), “throwing rods” or something like it, Eli explains what technology is, an iron guild from the state of Maine, dancing synapses or are we just stupid (a question), sealing wax debunked, Butch melts bullets on Emily’s leg, the color of the void, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Brian Clark [Wishes]; Julie James [Patience]; Miranda Moody Miller [Ghost Riders in the Sky]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 10:11pm EDT

Host Kristina Stykos is joined by special guest JP Lahens, Music and Performing Arts major at Lyndon State College, to discuss topics related to being a music professional and human being - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [The Bitters]; Abrial [Owned and Controlled]; Kristina Stykos [Angelino]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including running late & karma, the “Mary Poppins Wind”, snakes and a dream of childhood, a million dollars falling out of the sky, hidden nests, Emily’s messy day, going with self absorption, “who are these people?”, how we swear, squirting in 3-D, Kristina gets “gullible-ized”, accents & respect, Avery’s tantrums, the mushroom poster dilemma, handy plastic devices, the perils of being a practicing artist, agreeing we’re tired of money, barter including ducks, putting the crushing burdens of life on the back burner, “wonderground”, Emily’s letter opener, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Will Ackerman [Anne’s Song]; Doug Perkins and Patrick Ross [Flop Eared Mule]; Kristina Stykos [Broken Wings]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:36pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos enjoy a special visit from Vermont Public Radio’s Robert Resnik of “All the Traditions” as the conversation warps into a wonderful three-way and truly haywire discussion including topics such as Robert’s early radio career at WRUV, marble collecting, jingles we have known and loved, under-appreciated parts of Vermont, dressing up “ like a little doll” a la Emily, a nursing home avocation, the Somali-Bantu women of Burlington, the art of being a music reviewer, the art of being an outreach librarian, the most rare color of beach glass, Fabulous Vermont Radio, a good meal,   and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends:Mary McGinniss [Good Old Wilson]; Julie James [Going Home]; Robert Resnik [Mary Neal]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:36pm EDT

June 6, 2014

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including Magic Mountain, how Todd hated our last show, bathrobes, the math behind cows lying down and the possibility of rain, a child almost born in a fire truck, young boys and axes, why are they calling us “M’am”?, the hazards of drawing and driving, a dinky parade, broken pitchfork issues, partly cloudy vs. partly sunny, a strange dream sighting of aardvarks, “exquisite corpse”, summer interns and the heavy object removal, a new acquisition of Victorian footwear and hair bustles, finding a hidden bees nest at the gas station, a promo for next week’s interview with VPR’s Robert Resnik, vagina cakes, why not to get your tires changed at a tire store, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends:Wagtail [Wagtail/Daphne’s Ramble/Meadowdance]; Doug Anderson [Dance Floor]; Rick Ceballos [Shifting Sands]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:13pm EDT

A special edition of 11th Hour Radio, hosted by Kristina Stykos, featuring an interview with luthier Michael Millard, owner of/builder for Froggy Bottom Guitars, a Vermont company specializing in acoustic steel string guitars. 

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: John Gorka [Love Is Our Cross to Bear]; Louise Taylor [Katie’s Smile]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:46pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos in a rare phone conversation since they both hate talking on the phone. Pre-recorded a couple nights before broadcast, they discuss topics including how tired they are, Emily’s work with critical, uncooperative kids in public school dance classes, renovating an iris bed, lawn mower phobia, the challenges of recording a radio show while tethered to a wall phone, baby head size, a micro-cell adventure and bats in the studio, weekend entertainment at a rural road rally, the enigma of wanting to always leave parties early, brain pinching, using tennis rackets to trap errant wildlife, shamanic rebirth, Memorial Day confusion, driving illegally on studded snow tires in May, a tick-in-scotch-tape display,  and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hot Flannel [Temperance Reel]; Lizzy Mandell [Like It Like That]; Kristina Stykos [When You Love Someone]; Kristina Stykos [Three Jigs]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:02pm EDT

This week’s show is a special music edition, hosted by Kristina Stykos, who flies solo this week while Emily Ferro goes to work as a dance teacher in the local schools. The show features tracks from Kristina’s personal archive, including songs recorded by her Dad in the 1940s, as well as other off-beat and one-of-a-kind project recordings, captured in her studio [Pepperbox Studio, Chelsea, VT]. Selected segments from the 11th Hour’s flagship show in May of 2013, co-hosted by Emily and Kristina, complete the mix.

Featured tracks:  Joseph Stycos [three songs in Greek and Spanish]; Kristina Stykos [Ready for the Times]; Freya Yost [Time to Fall]; Anna Snipes [Take Your Hat]; Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out [Michael Millard]; Derrick Semler [Blues – Untitled/Twins]; Dylan Waller [Suzanne]; Josh Rivera [How Can I Feel]; The Barn Band [Listening to Levon].

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_5-16-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:57pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including their reactions to the new, improved Royalton Community Radio [RCR] studios, aging gracefully or not, Kristina’s revelation of a decades-long struggle to control unbridled energy, how dancing at the nursing home earns Emily an unexpected compliment, four wheeler chit chat, sheep shearing day and a man in elf shoes, the truth about guitar tuners, another drunken bar gig, a horse radish science experiment, psychic connections reaching to the subterranean cheese room at Howe Cavern, how annihilating things can quickly become a little complex and philosophical, naked pressed fairies, Ira’s confusion around “peepers” and “creepers”, Jim’s impromptu visit in a red coat, Scilla explosions at the farm, something about an ionizing toothbrush, the golden afternoon song, a guy named “Bumbie”, hallucinogenic worms, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [Sweet Combustion]; Hot Flannel [Opus #1]; Lizzy Mandell [This Old House]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 12:21pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including: a shake-down of last week’s show, the latest in wine dispensers, an unfortunate descent into chit-chat hell, Kristina’s recitation of the names of all her great aunts & uncles, alternative “F” words and the “F” word dictionary, swimming in a sea of ignorance, the premature demise of a terrapin flotation device, philosophical musings on Emily’s trip to a battleship & submarine claustrophia, the perils of cooking in someone else’s kitchen, a discussion of IQ and what it means to be ordinary, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Paul Asbell [Blue Driver]; Ben Reed [The Waltz of Joy]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:30pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including inhibited passing due to frost heaves, hazardous use of scooters in Vermont, the short attention span of today’s readers, sharing your face on Facebook, a ten foot tatted “Last Supper” misplaced, a fun visit to the oral surgeon, Emily deejays for a middle school dance, what scares us about anesthesia, “Buck up little Camper”, how disaster reenactment in mud puddles helps children process tragedy, the oddities of birth order, the traumatic impact of animal movies with scary endings on children, goats as opposed to miniature cows, the power of commercial imagery to rob your imagination, the magical Schwann’s frozen food truck and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Brian Clark [Cairns]; Julie James [Mud Season Minuet]; Steve Mayone [What’d Ya Come Here For]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:42pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos are joined by Kendra Colburn and together discuss topics including trolls chewed on by rats, Todd drops off a flier, compressed air, the guy in the photo aka any friend of Rudy’s, Kristina’s obsession with wire, attaching miniature ponies to the dash of a car, pizza for Emily’s mom’s birthday, Kendra’s fact-checking skills, Chris brings hot beverages, white man overbite, a kangol, the smoke smell on clothing, mildew on a towel and other cleaning tips, implants for men, old dogs and fatty tumors, a fashion trend a la Kristina, the security of men’s undershirts and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Charlie Shew and Pat Jones [Snow]; Rick Ceballos [Arepika Polka/Tiger and the Comet]; Brian Clark [Cairns]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:09pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including the mysterious Schwan’s Frozen Food Truck, a quick review of why we don’t need math, possible tie-ins between a trip to the aquatic park and more puking at Emily’s house, conclusions concerning whether or not to show our negative reactions to others, really questionable wart remedies, annoying trends in online video presentation, Kristina’s opinion of this week’s new, fashionable term for divorce: “conscious uncoupling”, a trip over the mountain to a great gallery space in Bristol, VT, an expose of leg hair types, the origin of lanolin, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Ben Reed [Summer’s Dawn]; Rick Ceballos [The Red Gate/Southern Breeze]; Kristina Stykos [Wing and a Prayer]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_3-28-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 12:55pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including liking yourself, a sad farewell to snow, Kristina's certainty that her kids will listen to the show when she's dead, whether or not social media is making us lonelier, a run-in between wax-less skis & rising temperatures, a poem for World Water Day [Mary Collins], a discussion about making charitable donations when you can’t pay your bills, grocery shopping when you’re hungry: pros and cons, how to clean a rug with snow, details regarding a fundraiser for community radio, Emily’s imitation of the Michelin Man, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Dayve Huckett [So It Goes]; Neal Massa [It Might as Well be Spring]; Doug Perkins [Garlic Patch Rag]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:18pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including the magenta splotch over Tunbridge, a tiny snow machine, Emily’s “beautiful shiver”, the language of snow, more names for snow, the red carpet adventures at the pasghetti western opening, Emily’s ride in a limo with sugar-charged children, a game boy-refrigerator incident, tales of a near win from the Iditarod, a pancake breakfast opportunity, phone phobia, how to deal with a few late Christmas cards, Kristina contemplates succumbing to Youtube advertising, an ice cream delivery debacle, thigh-deep snow as it relates to getting to the compost pile, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Kristina Stykos [Forgotten Road]; Bow Thayer [Libby Digs It]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Episode_3-14-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:11pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including Emily’s secret advantage at lambing time, the challenges of being a math impaired newspaper reporter at Town Meeting, thoughts on the term “trailer trash”, why passing out on the floor by the woodstove may not be a good idea, premier details for “Pasghetti Western” at the Woodstock Town Hall Theater, a night out on the town in Ripton VT goes well despite all odds, Kristina’s discovery of Balsam products for sale at Eaton Sugar house, including “smelly kittys”, a cautionary tale about going shopping in big box stores for children’s size high heels with dilated pupils, discovering cheese curds for the first time in your thirties, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins [Three Little Jigs]; Kristina Stykos [Settle for Paradise]; Spencer Lewis [Change Is]

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Direct download: 11th_Hour_Radio_Episode_3-7-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:01pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including why we can’t say TGIF, an explanation of “wet” pie, a homemade luge run in Tunbridge, Emily’s report of her lame “puberty talk” that made Ira giggle and Eli roll his eyes, a check in to see if we are still loving winter – or not, a grumpy analysis of children’s museums, a discussion about whether it is possible to make a living as a photographer anymore, Emily’s dream of publishing a “coffee table” book, Kristina’s desire to perform her civic duty by going to town meeting is overcome by her self conscious aversion to walking into the school gymnasium and having everyone turn and look at her, things we did not click on, nor want to see in our mailbox this week, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Sophie Sunshine Mueller [No More Gravity]; Kristina Stykos [Forgiveness]; David Haupfleisch [Sunrise Serenade]

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Direct download: 11th_Radio_Episode_2-28-14.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:00pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including headphones as a possible surgical attachment, a Valentine’s Day blizzard, a shout-out to the local road crews, helping Filipino tech support with their grammatical errors, a pipe organ company in Vermont, Emily’s unfortunate glazed donut falling in the bath-tub incident, Vermont beauty secrets: how to improve your complexion in the sugar house, our sloppy way of talking, how Kristina reclaims her wood splitting skills but upsets Emily by walking in the stream with her Italian boots on, a brief discussion of the term “numbnuts”, dog snow-swimming adventures, a pretty ice storm, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Chris Kleeman [Ride and Roll]; Mark Struhsacker [Evening]; Hunter Paye [Kris]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:50pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including the whoosh of snow coming off the roof, a Viking sunstone discovery, Emily’s appeal to elephant poachers, Kristina’s new word, sitting on Butch’s dead appliances up at the sugar house, paper thin cheese cutting techniques and food aversions (again), so much talk about addiction & heroin, the ins and outs methane burning (Jim calls in from the car wash), the new Tunbridge cemetery placement (on top of the town landfill), dead poets as stimulant for Kristina to expound on why we all need to cheer up, doing math backwards at the radio station, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Lizzy Mandell [My Dog Blue]; Julie James [Mud Season Minuet]; Joseph Stycos [El Cumbachero]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:15pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including the vaccination issue, self-locking car problems, when emails “disappear”, anchor ice, the tiniest local ski slopes, obscure Vermont town names, Emily’s crying jags as they relate to the Budweiser commercials, wing night, cats and paper crinkling, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), the cardboard Bingo sign in front of the grange, color coordinating porta-potties, getting lost at Healthy Living, road kill as show-and-tell … and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Brian Clark [No One Hears]; Martha Seyler and Robert Resnik [Blue Skies]; The Cousins Project [Safe Passage].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:19pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Mercury in retrograde, Kristina's sale of 2 CDs at a gig, Emily's "tell-all" about what it means to be a professional pollyanna, colored river ice, Patrick’s insulated coveralls, the potato chip Jesus, Eli’s fungus, hedgehog ramps, trashing celebrities: pro and con, how to name fiddle tunes, Kristina’s recipe for vegetable soup, Jim calls in, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Susannah Blachly [Raven King]; Patrick Ross [Golden Slippers/Redwing]; Doug Perkins [Snowflake Jig].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:05pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including putting credit cards in the freezer as a money management technique, Kristina’s fashion angst, how we learn to swear, awkward moments as a photographer, adult acne, Emily’s eye spot, the pressure on the boomers to become spiritually enlightened, how not to pamper plants, bad memories of watching TV in the basement, tractor mailboxes, female comedians rocking the Emmy awards, you are what you click on, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Miranda Moody Miller [If I Lose God]; Highwoods String Band [Goodbye Miss Liza]; Holy Plow [Slow Train].

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_10.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:33pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including coffee drinking and cheese eating, killer insomnia, a Vermont cranberry bog, lamps made of wine bottles filled with lentils, ideas for the new year, tabloid reading at the super market check-out, how to play bagpipes with your arm, Emily’s abandoned twitter handle, hang nail and soggy legs, a discussion of the portable toilet business; Aunt Jan calls in & a machine malfunctions, Emily creates a photo op of Flat Juliette for the local Girl Scout troop, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Hunter Paye [This Country]; Pete Sutherland [Catch up on my Sleep; Calum’s Dream]; Bow Thayer [Jump Before the Train Wreck].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:17pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including clothing choices for sub-zero weather, a horrifying revelation involving scotch tape and flashlights, Emily’s tales of a summer hallucination brought on by mowing the lawn, thefts from the Tunbridge Chuch’s Christmas creche & a brilliant linguistic discovery in which the plural of baby “Jesus” is illuminated, Kristina’s nutritional advice and admonition to “just eat”, a run-in with automated bathroom faucets at Smugglers Notch, a miraculous New Year’s Eve celebrated in a vacant parking lot in Montpelier, generator break-downs over the holidays, a snow hike without snow shoes, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Mark Struhsacker [Light in the Window]; Wagtail [One Clear Moment]; Julie James [Going Home].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:12pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Emily’s dream to record an album of ABBA covers, the Howe Family Christmas gathering, twerking at the nursing home, a pocket history of clogging, who made Santa [a futile discussion], Myra’s olive oil purchase at TJ Max, Emily’s improved ginger bread house-making & sobering pie contest defeat, a recollection and confession of terror concerning the Nutcracker’s five-headed mouse king, Kristina recitation of a table grace about moles & hedgehogs, an honest discussion about Hansel and Gretel, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross [Soldier’s Joy]; Bow Thayer [Born to Be]; Kristina Stykos [Valleys All of Blue].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 3:26pm EDT

December 20, 2013

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos enjoy a brief, impromptu visit from sugarmaker Mark McKee from Vershire who talks about his new non-profit and future plans to broadcast "Live from the Sugarhouse" T.V. and his mission to show how climate change is affecting Vermont; after Mark leaves, the discussion continues with topics including Emily's mysterious 1/2 hour disappearance from the studio, strange disco interludes from the all night playlist, what's been up at Pepperbox Studio this week & the intricacies of recording acoustic guitars, a horrific ex-husband attack on all of Emily's internet accounts, what's up with the Holiday spirit this year & the weather, a cute video gone awry, the joys of roof shoveling, an ill-fated birthday party at the end of a dead end road in Vershire, Emily getting chewed out by an authority figure, so much more! 

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Martha Seyler and Robert Resnik [Baby Rose; Blue Moon of Kentucky; Your Cheatin' Heart]

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:17pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including wool knickers, the kissing balls for sale on Route 110, inappropriate giggling & squirming at the Royalton Radio fundraiser, restless leg syndrome, garbage bags in the road, the “cool” towns of Vermont, deer season’s cramping of Kristina’s hiking urge, a sewing machine injury, Kristina’s cyber birthday vs. the real one, unbridled passion and Carhartts, dresses as tools of the oppressor, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Highwoods Stringband [More Pretty Girls Than One]; Bow Thayer and the Perfect Train Wreck [Noreaster Snow]; Brian Clark [Wishes].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:30pm EDT

December 6, 2013

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including a fascinating excursion to the Christmas tree farm and the tree shaking machine, Kristina's trip to Rite Aid and consequent metaphysical meditation on crappy Chinese-made Christmas junk, a former English major's confession concerning detective novels, why Emily stopped doing landscape photography, Patrick Ross calls in to tell of a chance meeting with Emily's father at deer camp in the forest, home taxidermy, a misplaced car registration, an instructive tale of killing time at the local diner, a discussion of the pros & cons for going back to finish your degree in which Kristina reveals a bad attitude and several gross over-generalizations about both music and college and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins [Jill’s Waltz], Robert Resnik’s [Mad Tom], Kristina Stykos [Wing and a Prayer].

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Category:general -- posted at: 3:16pm EDT

November 29, 2013

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Kristina’s analysis of who the slowest drivers really are, a comparative exploration on how to organize colored pencils, Emily’s bag lady fashion sense and its applicability to winter wear, shopping for lettuce on Black Friday, Scandinavian mythological creatures,  Emily’s visit to an epic-bad-motel-room and a mosquito themed Bed and Breakfast, how to tell when animals are annoyed, Holiday cheer, grocery shopping with kids, hanging canoes, negative family trends in dinnertime conversation, and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Doug Perkins [Jill’s Waltz], Julie James [Something Kind], Keith Murphy [The Stormy Scenes of Winter].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 1:27pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discuss topics including a deer hunting marvel of the over-90 set, dragging kids to museums, Kristina's challenge to the idea that exercise is productive, lunch lady hair-nets, frog shaped humidifiers, Vermonter mind-set a la “don’t get too big for your britches”, Emily's worries about being sued by the Salvation Army, their first live call on-the-air from Jim Abbott who talks about school buses, more talk about mini-horses Dexter and Jelly, the “free-range” bunny at Tunbridge Elementary, Emily's gets run-in with the authorities over licking her knuckes, Kristina makes bookmarks and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Lizzy Mandell [Isaac], Robert Resnik [Whistle Medley], Miranda Moody Miller [Ghost Riders in the Sky].

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_11-22-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 4:48pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including improv. theater, head gaskets, deer-related car accidents, carhartts & male objectification, wood stacking complexities, brownies shaped like the United States, a walk in Victory Bog, magic tricks using live rabbits, a visit to the local nursery, Happy Birthday to Rusty, Emily’s first day teaching ballroom dancing classes to high school seniors, the pilgrims’ tall hats: an analysis and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Mark Struhsacker [Blind Eye], Bow Thayer [Born to Be], Pete Sutherland [Will the Circle Be Unbroken]. 

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:28pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including flying dreams, a bad night’s sleep, who owns that building in S. Tunbridge, Emily as sub for the PE teacher almost annihilates the first grade class, girl scouts & flag folding, an epic gardening week, how to use your wood stove to improve your health, Emily’s aversion to washing the dishes, bowling with bumpers, Kristina’s mission to save the recording industry, stuffed animals we have know, jealous cats and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Scott Campbell [Nancy in the Mud Bog], Bow Thayer [Got My Attention], Susannah Blachly [It All Goes By].

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Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 6:10pm EDT