Episode Jan. 8, 2016

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

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

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

Episode Jan. 1, 2016

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

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

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

Episode Dec. 18, 2015

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

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

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

Episode Dec. 11, 2015

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

Episode Dec. 4, 2015

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

Episode Nov. 20, 2015

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

Episode Nov. 13, 2015

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

Episode Nov. 6, 2015

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

Episode Oct. 23, 2015

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

Episode Oct. 16, 2015

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

Episode Oct. 2, 2015

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

Episode Sept. 25, 2015

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

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