Episode Sept. 11, 2015

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

Episode Sept. 4, 2015

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

Episode Aug. 28, 2015

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

Episode Aug. 21, 2015

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

Episode Aug. 14, 2015

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

Episode Aug. 7, 2015

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

Episode July 31, 2015

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

Episode July 24, 2015

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

Episode July 17, 2015

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

Episode July 10, 2015

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

Episode July 3, 2015

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

Episode June 26, 2015

 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

Episode June 19, 2015

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

Episode June 12, 2015

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

Episode June 5, 2015

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].

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

Episode May 29, 2015

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].

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

Episode May 15, 2015

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].

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

Episode May 8, 2015

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].

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

Episode May 1, 2015

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].

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

Episode April 24, 2015

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].

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