Episode Feb. 26, 2016

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe, with two cents from Ira (8) and Eli (11), discuss the “at” symbol, mysterious rashes that you don’t want to talk about, burning your Christmas tree, the consequences of ignoring instructional diagrams, seeking out escalators, broken ski lifts & the origins of “Suicide Six”, becoming a pony after death, a cocktail umbrella injury in real time, strategies for dealing with bad neighbors involving glitter and balloons, a junk food check in, Eli’s construction of a sled for moving mushrooms, an icy mile long driveway and foray into the world of sap lines, evil cats that watch & wait for you at the bottom of the stairs, an ethical dilemma around money and knives, 12% spelling tests - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Derrick Semler [Blues - Untitled]; Senayit [Beautiful People]; The Peter Reed Family [Fare Thee Well]

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 Feb. 19, 2016

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss coming to terms with disappointing winter weather, a lamb named Jim and his double baby gates, an exploration of men’s junk and party games that use a stick, reflections on the passing of a baby dolphin, the pervasive lack of civility in online comments sections, the why of radioactive water storage in plastic kiddie pools, friendly car waving lines of demarcation, a tale of a bartending daughter and her advice to Playboy readers, the potential misuses of chemical air freshener, some sticky situations brought on by adultery, texting while recording, the possible relationship between ego, guitar playing and blatant exhibitionism, being conciliatory to the point of dishonesty, defending animals, vegetables, minerals and Pope hats - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Turnip Truck [Cash on the Barrel; Jesus on the Mainline; St. James Infirmary]

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 Feb. 12, 2016

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Randy Leavitt discuss his Superman costume and various rescues & other applications for it, gold mining in Vermont, an adventure in the Chateauguay wilderness on ice cleats, the perils of collecting rocks and pieces of wood, the rotation of the earth and a brilliant strategy for having longer weekends, why Cajun accordion sounds like sandpaper, several secrets about Barnard VT including the mysterious sunflower giveaway, a meditation on the docking of cows' tails, the joys of playing at late-night wedding campfires, a text from Moscow, poems and advice relating to St. Swithin's Day and Candlemas - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Jonathan Falby and Zac Johnson [Good Folks Behind You]; Kristina Stykos [Love the Distance]; Chris Kleeman [Big City Rag]

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 Feb. 5, 2016

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe and special guest Cindy Ross discuss how to cut an avocado, making crafts with empty Scotch canisters, a ski program with no snow, naming Planet Nine, avoiding golfers on dating websites, Patrick’s world tour of town halls, a lot of confusion about hamsters and gerbils, comedy night at Worthy Burger, more on lamb diapering, reviewing “scratch and sniff”, updating names for reluctant Grandmas, sex ed Fridays, cell phone addiction, iBird Pro, issues with air flow in Vermont houses, where to buy duct tape with ducks on it, baby wrangling - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musician Patrick Ross [Be Here Now; Pop Goes the Weasel; Ice Out]

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. 29, 2016

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss dog hair in crackers, the “doodle” trend, good noses and intelligence, British cheese, little babies heads, several problems with plugs, being spit on by French people, terrible baby shower game playing and consumerism, a full-on discussion about corn, a few choice words for spiritual midwifery, a barn full of lambs, coping with burgers that are too big for your mouth, iPad crimes, an old bb gun & shooting tin cans, visiting the Twin State Typewriter Store, fake fingernails and playing “Taxes”, hating the outside, tomorrow’s fundraiser for Molly and Jim, a dumb spelling word, pricing a photo shoot, podcasting webinars, inching forward - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Val McCallum [Outlaws Song Demo 4]; Nikki Matheson [Lover of Salt]; Pat Jones and Charlie Shew [I Could 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 Jan. 22, 2016

Co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss the perils of hot pink duct tape, the how and why of cold feet & the two brain theory, recollecting legends of U.F.O infamy, Sarah Palin as talented slam poet, the word girdle used as a verb, an armpit issue at dance class, planning trips to town to get good coffee, perfecting hovercraft, more on cat throw up, the question of microwaves & wireless internet traveling through your body, ongoing fears about candy dye, the efficacy of different sizes when buying pairs of things & a review of shoe horn options, living in “emotional parallel”, an irrational longing for hanging chads, the return of frost heaves, planning for lambs, a philosophical treatise on feminine garb, vs. animal skins, freeze dried banana chips as a metaphor for cognition - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Patrick Ross with the Matt Flinner Trio [Saint Anne’s Reel]; Jay Stevens [Woods]; Laughing Crow [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 Jan. 15, 2016

Host Kristina Stykos and guest co-host Jim DiStefano discuss a dog sled full of Xanax crossing the Canadian border, how to meet the locals and effect of cooking Cajun chicken wings, what to do when your house burns down, how to feed your soil, art school students, sudden death and the phases of David Bowie, new fangled picture phones and an ever-expanding interweb, an alternative to buying lottery tickets, television binge watching, looking for pocket change, the Viola story, an ambulance chasing auto body shop owner, how to deal with triggers that will wreck your day, a fire-induced memory game, issues with snow plow hydraulics, a revelation about Walmart - and so much more!

Featuring music from Vermont musicians and friends: Don’t Call Betty [I Can Dream]; Julie James [My Girlfriend’s Mad at Me]; Lizzy Mandel [Desert Wind].

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. 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