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.

Host Kristina on her own, gives the morning traffic report from Vt. Route 110, talks about her trip to New York City and an ill-fated meeting with a celebrity producer there, details the deeper meaning of moving furniture, making mud pies, and fashioning careers from things we loved to do as children.

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [Extreme Situations], Kristina Stykos [Another Place, Another Time], Abrial [Just Need You], Bow Thayer & the Holy Plow [Suicide Kings], Mark Struhsacker [Little Mountain Road], Julie James [Down to the Bottom Side], Brian Clark [a.m.], Robert Resnik [Come a Long Way], Doug Perkins [Devil’s Dream].

Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or at 11 pm EST, for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_24.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:02pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Emily‘s opinions on wearing hunter orange and a possible “spear season” for Vermont, Kristina’s subsequent idea for a “petting season”, Teddy Roosevelt’s camping trip prior to taking the presidency, a whole CD of wedding photos still stuck in Emily’s computer to her client’s dismay, a dismally rainy apple fest, a trip to WDEV radio in Waterbury VT, Nutty Bars and coffee [please deliver immediately to the station], issues at the town dump, why the show is changing to Fridays and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Bow Thayer [Cowgirl Madonna], Doug Perkins [Snowflake Jig], Wagtail [Cold Quarters].

 Tune in Fridays at 11 am to hear this show live or 11 pm EST, for the rebroadcast, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_22.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 9:03pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including Emily’s problem with her glasses, a trip to the Museum of Everyday Living’s Pencil Exhibit, the mystique of Barnard, Vermont as experienced by Kristina, not feeling part of your rural town, Emily’s food issues & hatred of coffee, Tittles, “having fun” as a distant life goal, cluster fly attack, watching your kids play sports: pros and cons, definition of scummer, town-turnover as a concept, Emily shoots foliage and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Will Patton [Bebop in Pastel], Robert Resnik [Whistle Medely], Spencer Lewis [Change Is]

 Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-30-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 2:26pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including a paper bag full of apples, Emily’s kids' foot and mouth disease, stealing hydrangeas from the cemetery, hog feed buckets as planters, the problem of being a Red Sox fan while visiting New York State, Kristina’s melt-down in the catfood isle, digressions, Emily’s favorite babysitter, gender differences around pulling up sumac tree roots, the sad smell of the leaves falling and so much more! 

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Pete Sutherland [Tesfaye], Bow Thayer and the Perfect Trainwreck [Steady Diet of Worms], Doug Perkins [Three Little Jigs] 

 Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-23-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 8:55pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including grocery shopping in rural Vermont, just how bad is the birthday song?, Emily’s Facebook post about the Tunbridge Fair, breast-feeding dangers in airports, Eli’s model junk yard wins top prize, wild times at the Fair including bad weather, squishing worms in cider, pigs featured this year, dust mop complications, problems at Trader Joes, Emily legs relationship to each other exposed, chip breath, a year of “no” possibilities, apple fest in Strafford VT, google translates (badly) Kristina’s CD review, and so much more!

 Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross [The Hornless Cow], Highwood String Band [You Ain’t Talking to Me], Will Ackerman [Unconditional]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-16-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 2:21pm EDT

Host Kristina Stykos on her own, discussing: traffic report on Route 110, fun trip to the annual toxic waste pickup, Vermont Yankee nuclear plant closing announced, wind turbine fantasy design, looking across the valley for Ronni and Jean’s house, disappearing into the woods, “benign neglect”, Kristina’s naïve former voice, going to the The Moth at the Flynn theater, complicated fairy tales, the smell of leaf piles, excerpt from essay by Samuel Ogden in 1968 VT life magazine, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians Bow Thayer, [Karla Dupree], Michael Oakland, [The Grand Design], Kristina Stykos, [I Can’t Go Home], Kristina Stykos, [Wing and a Prayer]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-9-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including summer's end, school lunches, a wedding photography near-disaster, the scarcity of almond croissants in Vermont, New Hampshire's biggest rock and recent castle closings, mini-horse ownership, child snoring, how to gently drag children out of bed by the leg, hoop skirts and door jams, a trip to Moscow, still nights, training a dog to fetch a lobster, why we cook so much pasta, beach towels and gardening, the noise metal lockers make, corrections creations, and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians Michele Choiniere [Two Peas], Spencer Lewis [September One], Robert Resnik [Mad Tom], Don't Call Betty [Tell Me]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_9-2-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 5:25pm EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including peace symbol earring hand-me-downs, Emily’s Halloween costumes “through the years”, hippies vs. hipsters, Emily finds a Fischer Price gold mine, Myra’s driveway, making scarecrows for the fair, Emily’s photography exhibit at the Tunbridge library, reading the Gazeteer vs. GPS, Emily takes the kids to Clark’s Trading Post, adventures moving a recliner, Why God made Duct tape, Kristina finds the roll of Bitchathane, Ballpoint pen ventilation, the Wellspring School closing, Emily’s mom’s weird obsessions, cousin Steve’s gig with Kate Taylor, other cousins, tricks for driving by cement barriers and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians Abrial, [River Wide], Chris Kleeman, [Shake It], The Cousins Project [Stealing Away]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_8-26-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

Co-hosts Emily Ferro and Kristina Stykos discussing topics including weird positions while sleeping, why rehearsals can be better than performances, make-you-own-popsicle tips, going to the race track with boys, exercise and entrepreneurial yoga calendars, applesauce, mat cutters, stereo-types about vegetarians, Shelburne Farms wedding gig, taking photos as a bad habit and potential crime, Emily getting yelled at, buying underwear at the hardware store, setting Darn Tough socks on fire and so much more!

Music from Vermont musicians: Bow Thayer [Swimming Hole], Don’t Call Betty [Friend Like You], Erin McDermott [Louise], Julie James [Something Kind]

Tune in Mondays at 11 am or 11 pm EST to hear this show live, streaming online at: Royalton Community Radio

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Kristina Stykos on Facebook

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Direct download: The_11th_Hour_8-19-13.mp3
Category:Vermont Local Interest -- posted at: 11:00am EDT