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On this week’s show:
(1:17:39) Break music: Wool See - “Praying for Thoughts”
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Welcome to Vermont Ketchup with Matt. I'm Matt. Hello. I'm glow and I'm Adam We're we could run down of everything happening in the Green Mountain State Happy National eat a red apple day Kind of late, isn't it? What do you mean? That should be in September when it's apple season Are you doubting the National Day people's calendar skills? Yeah Well, you know there must be an apple growing somewhere in the world right now. I Would think so probably some Chinese laboratory Okay. When I was growing up in the 90s, there was two kinds of apples, red and green. Right. Now there's like honey crisp. Oh, Rome. Well, Rome's been around for a while. Lady something. Like a little lady or something. Anyone call it like a lady? Oh, I know. And when we went to Florida, the whole row of fruit was nothing but apples. Right, Matt? Right. And they looked almost plastic because there was not one more no You know anything all the same size. They look like they came out of a machine But that I'm like, I'm in Florida and I'm looking now at apples. You got to be kidding me I don't have to eat this stuff when I have that stuff right here Florida Apple stuff. Yeah, versus Vermont Apple stuff and there's no other fruit It was right man. I mean maybe if Oh, you're going to an outing? Publix is nice. Publix, they have a row of fruit, you know, a row of apples, a row of orange-type products. It's very boring. You know, there's really not much variety. What do you want? I feel like there's more now than ever. Of apples, but not ... Oh, I think everything. Oh, yeah, but not down there. That's what I'm saying. They wasted a whole aisle for just apples. Oh, so you're just particularly shitting on a Florida right now? Yeah. Okay, fair enough. And I was so disappointed. I mean like, you know, where's the Florida oranges, where's the pineapples? Where's papayas? Okay, first of all, let me defend Florida for a second I'm sure I'm almost certain there's oranges there like at Publix. There was oranges. No, I mean, Florida grown oranges That's where most American oranges are, California and Florida, I guess, right? I don't know. Not anymore. Not in Florida. No, that's what I'm saying. Look it up. So many orange groves have been plowed under. Plowed under? Not over? Plowed over, plowed under. For developments. The one in my town, the biggest one in my town, Mixon Fruit Farm. It's been there since way before I was a little kid. They just closed. They're looking to develop. Most of it comes from Brazil, I think. So, when will... Yeah, most of the, most of the, I think most of the oranges that Tropicana, which is also in my old hometown, I think they come from Brazil now or other places. Brazil. So, the oranges get shipped there from another country and then they squeeze the juice? Yeah. Squeeze the juice. Because that's their trick on the carton. It says Florida squeezed. Right. Exactly. Doesn't mean it was grown in Florida. It was squeezed in Florida. Yeah, if they were smart. I mean, they didn't have to do that. they would build a factory down there in Brazil, make it and ship it here. Yeah, that's true. Maybe they're done it already. So it's Florida, California, Texas, and Arizona. What about it? It's where most of the oranges are coming from. And it looks like Florida produces the most. They're still? Okay. I thought it was California. I think he just went some backwards ass janky Publix, There should be tons of stuff there, as far as fruit goes. No papaya? No. Papaya's another fruit that didn't exist when I was a kid. Me neither, but. I was like, that's like what Aztec kings ate or something. I didn't know what a papaya was. They grow off just right there in Belize very easily. I mean, they're just on street corners. You know how we have hot dog stands? They have papaya stands. Get your papayas! Get your hot papayas! Is that where the papaya king comes from? I have no idea, but that was like one of my favorite parts of going there. Hey kid, how do you like your papaya? It's just fresh off the tree. I don't even know if it's a tree or a bush or what it is. Do you buy apples? Not anymore. I don't buy fruit really anymore. Fruit's not the greatest for winter. If you're going to look at the whole body thing, fruit is normally more a summer because it's cooling. Fruit is cooling. That's exactly what I was thinking, Matt. I can't. Not the right time of year to eat fruit. I was like, my body probably needs to be heated, not cooled. I should probably be buying spices. Except for bananas. Bananas are heating. And you know what the weirdest thing is? When I went to see my aunt in Portugal, she said to me, I can't eat bananas, they're heating. I know, I'm like, huh? You mean to tell me, cause that's, what is that? That's Ayurveda type stuff. Is she that in touch with her body? She can like feel like, I had half a banana and my temperature rose like a degree? No, I think it's, well, India has Ayurveda and that's what they look at. They look at the weather, the season, your body type. And usually fruits not the good thing to, well not, it's not that it's bad, it's just not as good as it is for you in the summertime. This is gonna sound terrible, and maybe I will delete this part, but I don't know that India is the model for the world. Why not? They're almost a third of it. I mean, they're so big. Hey look, that's true. But what I know of India, I've never been there, but what I know of it from stories, media, I don't know that that's what the world should be. Well, I've always liked my Indian coworkers. Now I'm not saying, I have nothing against Indian people, I'm just saying like maybe the way they do things over there isn't, maybe that's not the best way. Yeah, I know. Maybe they have some good ideas. I know. But that's not the best way. But I do vibe with their vegetarianism and that kind of thing. Yeah, except one minute in India, you'd be like, okay, we need to eliminate about 500 million people. Oh yeah, you think we have a lot of people here in Vermont. A lot of traffic on South Prospect Street. Try New Delhi. And they're very cozy. Very cozy. They sit right on top of each other. No problem. You know that that wouldn't work with me. I think you call it cozy You have a favorite Apple man, I'm sorry, I don't eat apples at all No, I haven't I don't look at them when I go to the store and I want to I'm not an apple person I mean glory brings apples there all day, you know, they're in us during the I only eat fresh apples to me That those that's just like a tomato fresh on the tree not a tree or even if it just dropped or whatever but I know that it came from that tree and that's the only kind of apple I like I mean fortunately we have Macintosh back here and those are my favorite I think that's what all there was when I was a kid was Macintosh when I was a kid there was just Red Delicious and then Green yeah oh those were I don't like delicious that's today today's the eat a red apple day but for me Red Delicious is the apple flavor Mm-hmm. That's actually, that's, I don't know, that's like the Woolworth's level of apple. Compared to what? Macy's? I got like top 40 apple flavors, but you got some like indie apple band that you just discovered. Like, check out this Macintosh, check out this Honeycrisp. Well, if anybody did eat my apples back here, they would get hooked on them. You don't like it, I know. I'm gonna be I you ever do an apple fast No, you just eat apples for a few days. No, I do that one time for three days. Really? Yeah, what purpose? I had a wedding coming up and I had to fit a suit Well, that should do it that would help no did you lose weight Um, I think so. I wasn't like I didn't have a scale. So I wasn't like weigh myself. It's more like Yeah, the suit fit so that was good Yeah, that's great of you to do that for a wedding. Yeah. What a guy. Was it your wedding? Yes. Sorry, the groom's going to be a little late, he's got to go buy some different pants. Why does the bathroom smell like apples? I think the only fruit we buy are occasional bananas and lime for margaritas. Or we like lime on food, too, so we squeeze lime, especially on things with chili garlic and things like that. Back to oranges, though. They have them growing all over Bradenton on people's lawns. So many times I'd be walking his friend's dogs or our friend's dogs and just pluck an orange right off a tree. That's how I grew up. I grew up like you'd walk on the sidewalk. They're so abundant, you just grab one and no one cared. Now, there's fewer trees, but also like I'm worried that someone's gonna shoot me. For stealing their orange. Right, yeah. People just want a reason to get angry, you know what I mean? Right. Oh, I know. Well, does that segue into our first story about the shooting here on Earth Prospect? Yeah, we'll jump into that. Like, yeah, so, breaking news, if you didn't hear, this happened like last Sunday or Saturday afternoon? Saturday, about 6.30, I think. And it's really focused a lot down in New Jersey and the Philadelphia area, because one of them is from Philadelphia. So man, it's like, everybody knows by now. No, that's a national story. Biden mentioned it, you know, it's been talked about quite a bit. Yeah, it's national because like, the way I heard it framed by the news was like, can you believe in Burlington, Vermont, there was a shooting? and it's like, we all listen to the show. Shooting zero all the time. All it takes is one nut. Yeah. You know, it takes just one nut to just, you know, put a, you know, a look to a town. But I don't get it, like I don't get, again, I'm not like, I'm not consuming a lot of media around like the Israel-Hamas conflict, so I don't know like what, I don't understand like how it's being like, slanted or whatever but like is Fox News like just running with like kill Palestinians is that kind of their vibe? They're definitely on Israeli... But I thought they hated Jews also? Well I guess they picked their poison for them. Right they're on the Jewish side they're big fans of Netanyahu or whatever. Oh right they like dictators. Yeah they like dictators so they like it yeah but I mean there's a lot of protests, a lot of big Everyone's all over the country. Yeah, all over. Really? About violence? No, like there's anti-Israel army protests. There's anti-Hamas protests. You know, it's just a bunch of them. There's anti-Zionist Jews who are protesting. And it's just, I avoid it. Me too. I'm like we talked about this in my office. I'm like, I'm just gonna sit this one out like I'm not an expert I don't have anything interesting to say about this. I know matter what you say, it's gonna be wrong. Yeah, so, you know what I Don't have a dog in the fight for lack of a word, you know, that's why I don't Not that I don't care, right? But I it's too complicated for me to understand because I don't have a dog in the fight And people say like, well, we don't want any innocent people to be hurt. It's like, okay, I also, yes, I agree with that. I'm not saying that, it's just, yeah, it's like if you don't see something now, you're pro-violence, I don't know, it's such a bad thing. But we have a story like that. Yeah, Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's. Are we gonna segue into that now? Yeah, we're segueing like a mofo over here. People are pissed off at Ben and Jerry's because they haven't said anything. About what? This? Yes. What's that? Oh my gosh. See, now I know why I don't listen to the news besides not having an interest. I wouldn't understand what was going on. I'd be, what? I don't get it. An ice cream manufacturer? Not really, but yeah. Because they're a big corporation. Well, they've taken a lot of political stands over the years, but they're sitting this one out, I think. It's been so funny people like I I look to my ice cream manufacturer for my political guidance. Yeah, who gives a fuck? Oh my gosh, is the chocolate fudgy good? That's all you need to know. Yeah, I was reading some of the comments. It's like Fuck shut up. I don't know who they are. I guess they're progressives. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like oh, sorry Go ahead. No, I just said shut up Tired of it like the first I knew of like when you know Like what a business stands for the first time I kind of like was aware of that was like Chick-fil-a you know super religious anti-gay or Quote-unquote used to be and then like that goes all the way up to like, you know, Bud Light with like the trans thing It's like Why do we expect? Corporations to take political stances. Why do we care like their stance is money. You know to me, right? Like I don't know. It's just it's weird to like it's like I mean when I'm you know You know, I have a white claw right here. I'm like, I wonder what the people of white claw think about the state of American democracy. It's like, they don't give a fuck money. They want tax cuts and money, right? That's the job of a business. That does sound odd to me. If I go into business, does that mean now I have to know politics? No, you're better off without it. Yeah, you shouldn't do anything. I think you should, yeah, I agree. Michael Jordan famously, like years ago, when he started his Jordan brand, they were like, because you know, people expect that he's a progressive Democrat because he's a, you know, he was a, like a, what is it, like a barrier-breaking like black man in sports or whatever. And they're like, so why don't you ever come out and like, you know, say anything political or what are you thinking? And he's like, Republicans buy shoes too. Yeah. That's it. What's that supposed to mean? He sells shoes. Oh, that's right. So he doesn't care who's there. I don't care who buy the home so buy my shoes. I don't care what you think Yeah, I got a little bronze kind of doing the same thing with China. Oh That's another whole can of worms. Well, yeah, he would be better off saying nothing right then like saying a little bit and then like Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So what did he say? Is he selling shoes too? Yeah, he's on shoes. He's selling a lot and And so this was when, well not when, it's still happening, when the Uyghurs are being genocided in China. Who? Uyghurs are like a Muslim ethnicity in China. Really? How long has that been going? 10 years-ish. Really? Yeah. They're just like disappearing. China controls China media, so you don't want to like, huh, where'd they go? Yeah, huh, some people took my aunt and uncle on a train, and they never came back. So yeah, they're being killed, or they're in these working camps. It's very Holocaust-y. But there's no accounting of how many people are gone, because they control everything. So anyway, that was happening. And I think he was playing a game in China, or selling shoes in China, or his shoes were made in China, something. And he has a huge, obviously, there's a huge NBA following in China. So he gets a lot, like yeah, Chinese kids love the NBA. And so he was, he said nothing. Or he said something that was like very like, milk toast. Yeah. And it's like, what? That's your statement? So yeah, so now he's learned. Don't even say anything. Don't say nothing. So he was benign, like towards the China side? People were expecting him to come out stronger against it. But he knows where his bread is buttered. With all the money these people have made over the years, you think they would have a nice big pension savings account so that they wouldn't have to be doing things like this. But it's the disease of more. Yeah. That's a great way to put it. Yeah, it's a disease. It really is. It's an affliction. Yeah, I mean, just like even a smaller example, I have a buddy who's making probably $200K a year. and he's like, he never takes vacations or anything because he's like, well I should just keep doing it as long as I can because eventually I'll stop and then I won't be able to make any more. So I should just make as much as I can now. And I'm like, yeah, but like, are you having fun? Are you enjoying your life? But, I don't know. Yeah. It's. He's a millionaire, so, maybe he is. But anyways, back to this story. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, it's alright. We still talking about the three people? Yeah, I mean this guy's a nutcase. It came out today as his ex-girlfriend had the police come and grab a gun years ago from him, you know. And where was this, here? No, it was somewhere else in out west. I thought you said Idaho. Someplace he was at. Yeah The police came it took a gun from him years ago His girlfriend was was afraid because he was gonna shoot people They came in and got it and took the gun away from him, but they're like we're gonna take this one He's like, I'll just buy one. I've I got one tomorrow He probably has it within the walls. You know, he probably has a bunch of them. Just I got coming out of the walls Yeah, this is terrible. It's a terrible story No matter what side, if you take a side, you know, it's a terrible story. And it happened right up, you know, close to us. Yes, it did. Yeah, it was pretty close. Yeah, with this, he just walked up, didn't say anything, just shot three people, just walked up. Apparently, he just walked off, right? Then the cops came. You know what he said to the cops? What? I've been expecting you. No. Yeah, they came the next day. He wasn't home when they canvassed that night. They came the next day, and they knocked on the door, and he goes, yeah, I was expecting you. How did they find him so quickly? He was right, he lived right there. But how did they find him? Like, how did they know? Like, how did they? He admitted it, I guess. No, he's pleading not guilty. Yeah, but they took the, he had a gun, same size. I know, but like, how did they know that he had the gun? Like, I just, I'm curious about the police work, and I'm sure they're not gonna publish it, because then people can get around it, but. Me too, that's, yeah. It's amazing how quickly they found him. Well, there's no witnesses. She said it was luck luck. They just ran into him. What they ran into him and he goes I've been expecting you what for No, I thought they went to his house and knocked on his door. Yeah, how do they know who he was? Or what door to knock? answers Matt House I know but Knocked on the door, but I'm saying like if if someone shot out here I wouldn't think that one of us did it. You don't mean Well, maybe glow. But I'm just saying, like, you know what I mean? Like, it just, like, I understand, like, the shooting happened, the guy walked off, but they found him so quickly, there's no witnesses. Like, how did they know, like, are they using, like, some sort of, like, cell thing? Like, I know, like, the bullets in the victims matched the bullets in a gun he owned, but they didn't know that until they went to his house, you know? I'm just curious how it happened, like, the actual detective work. It's impressive. We're not getting in because I don't know the detail the police chief said yeah, we're kind of lucked out. Okay Maybe everyone's like, oh this guy definitely I assume they already know about this person You think this even this guy's on a rate on like a list somewhere? Maybe maybe he's one of those that gets out the next day But maybe now because we have so much public. Yeah, he's not getting out. Yeah, he's not murder Oh, yeah, cuz they all lived they all lived, you know still that's his intention was for them not to live if he was shooting At them. Yeah, she's a bad shot. I Just read the rest of the story. I didn't realize Sarah George chimed in She's like let him go Said law enforcement officials do not have enough evidence to support a hate chime. Oh my god Which under Vermont law must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt I do not want to be, I do want to be clear that there is no question that this was a hateful act. It's a hateful act, but it's not a hate crime. Okay. Wow. Thanks for that distinction, Sarah George. She's the worst. She's the worst. Sarah George is the worst. God. Anyway. Yeah, so Peter Welch, he's calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. This is after Becca Blitt did the same. Maybe they'll listen to Peter Welch. He's so stupid. Who cares? Should we call for a ceasefire? Should we get a press release out to VT Diggers? Actually, Vermont Ketchup is calling for a ceasefire. Or maybe we should call for more fire. Yeah, go the opposite. You want attention. Go the opposite. Well, Bernie's got some plan, too. The problem with Bernie is that he's such a polarizing character that even his good ideas get ignored. Like people just go, he's crazy. That's Bernie, he's crazy. Yeah, because he's been spouting a lot of good ideas over the years. I mean, he gets some crazy ones, but, you know, he's... But yeah, people just laugh it off. Ugh, Bernie. Yeah. Two-state solution. Whatever. Yeah. Alright, anything else you all want to say about that? I feel like, I mean, this story happened like a day after. Yeah, it was last. We recorded it. We recorded it last Friday and it happened on Saturday. So if anyone's listening now, they're like, wait, what happened? Please Google it, because this is a pretty big deal. It is. All right, there's a story in, I think it's Digger. It is Digger. Where the flood money is going for all these charities. And the thing that drives me crazy about this is that they kind of say, like, they don't really know. And this reminds me a lot of the, I think it was called the American Rescue Act, like during COVID, where they just started giving people money. And like, they gave like billions of dollars. Then they're like, actually, we don't know where that went. And we think a lot of people just stole it. And then they said, you don't have to pay us back. Right. Like, how would they get it back? I know, right? That's why they had to say that there was absolutely no enforcement in getting it back. I would hope that someday we get a just somebody write a book about that. Like a full accounting of what happened. A full accounting of what happened because that's the biggest money grab ever. I think so. I think there's like what we say like last year there's 21,000 millionaires. I think before COVID there was 15,000. Could be. I mean people like people in Congress got money. Margaret Taylor Greene had a hundred and eighty something thousand dollars she got and they told her she didn't have to pay her back. You know we had this could have been in business at the time we could have gotten some some funds if we were unscrupulous. Yeah I couldn't live with myself yeah. I do. What you live with him? Yeah. I don't even know what to do with that. I wasn't sure which way it should go. Yeah, I don't, no, it's just like hair. It's like throwing money out from a balcony at Mardi Gras. Yeah, and the people who have the most are the most willing to fight over it and grab it, you know? Yeah. It's like rich people are rich for a reason. What'd you say, the Moore syndrome, or? Yeah, the disease of Moore. The disease of Moore. So yeah, so this story, it's kind of got two things stuck out to me, one being that they don't really know where the money's going. They know, like someone knows. Like, you just write in checks and just, I guess we'll never, no copy of this is going anywhere. And then the other thing is that the money is, unevenly being distributed. Like there's a lot going to Montpelier because that's got the name. But like Barrie is like, actually. We could use some help. They're getting like half. Yeah, they're getting half. Half of what Montpelier's getting. Really? And they're both had the same amount of damage I would expect. I don't know about that. Maybe, but then again, Montpelier is a capital. So I would think they would get more. I mean, they are, you know, where I would think a tourist would want to go to, to check out. No? Shots fired at Barrie. What's that? I said, you're taking shots at Barrie? No, no. You don't think a tourist is like, I'm gonna go to Barrie. No, it's only because I think it's the capital, and that's all, I'm just using common sense as to why the money went more to. Yeah. Oh, I get it, it just seems a little. I know it doesn't seem right, because Barrie, Yeah, it gets flooded maybe as badly as Montpelier, I'm not sure. Which place has more homes, do you think? Montpelier is like what, 7,000, 8,000 people or something like that? Yeah. I think it's Barrie. Yeah. I think Barrie is. Yeah. Barrie is a lot bigger. Yeah, I think so too. Even the downtown seems a little bit bigger in some ways. Yeah. No, it's just one street, so it's kind of this. Anyway, but Montpelier, wow, It gets flooded so easily We drove through Ludlow a few weeks ago and you can see where the the the water came up to You know, it was incredible. Dang Ludlow, that's I guess the same area. I just don't know that further south near a Killington. See Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they get they were one of the first hit that day. That water came swooping in there really early that day. I mean, I remember seeing pictures, you know, that morning on Twitter. It seems like it caught everyone really off guard. Yeah. And that just reminds me, because it wasn't due to a hurricane or a tropical storm, and that's what put, once again, Vermont on the map, because if this happens, if floods like this happen in Vermont for no reason, then what's going to, that shows that the rest of the country is screwed as well. There is a reason. Why? Global warming. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah, there's going to be more of those at weird times. I mean, we talked about it, but we drove through that storm. What the hell was wrong with us? We had to get to a very important doctor's appointment. That was knuckle-driving there. That was a white knuckle. Hopefully the roads were empty at least. There wasn't a lot of people. And we never had any trouble. You just couldn't see. Oh, well. Because there was no ice. There was none of that. It was just really... And no floods. Yeah, there was no flooding of the interstate at that time. It did later. They had to close it later. Oh, right. They did? Yeah, between Montpelier and Stowe. I think or middle middle middle sex. Yeah. Yeah, it's so funny. It's not the right word But it is kind of funny how like I woke up that next day and I was like You know, I mean like it's so it's not that far if it was like totally disconnected you really don't see anything Do you know I don't I don't have like the news on local news on TV, you know Like it wasn't raining here very bad at all. No. No once we got to Richmond. Yeah, that's when it hit So I'm just saying like it was like living here was like a very different experience It was like it was like nothing happened versus, you know Obviously the devastation that happened the next day when we drove back you could really see it With a different even in Richmond. I've never seen that area Feels just flood it like it couldn't see the crops anymore there were ponds well speaking of global warning it's gonna be a wet and heavy winter. Oh yeah? Is that what they're forecasting? Wet and heavy. Well, we're going to miss some of it. Yeah. I hope it happens all in January. I hope it happens all in December. Actually, I should say that because, anyway. Yeah, so yeah, it's gonna be, um, so I guess like last weekend was also rough, or a couple days ago was rough for weather wise people. Yeah, some places had eight inches of snow. Yeah. Again, here, nothing. Yeah, it was crazy. I didn't I didn't realize until I read this. Oh, you don't really knows anything. Do you Matt? But I didn't realize how it feels. I know it snowed East of us, but I didn't know they got a 80 inches. Yeah, I know so they had a lot of trouble in the interstate wet and heavy Couple shovels hanging in the carport hopefully We won't need them. I hope not to ever have to shovel snow again but until we move out of here, there's no guarantee. There is no guarantee. Well, we don't have to do very much of it. That's true. Just usually in front of the... Car ports. Or the door. And the garbage shed door. No. Then it melts and it freezes and no one can open it. That's why we do it. No. Okay, anyway. So, keeping in the vein of weather, climates, big eclipse happening next year. Are you all excited? Wow. What's that? Are you making fun of me? We've known about it for a long time. I know, but like. Oh, oh, okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought for once I knew something. My brother might come up for that. My brother might come up for that. Really? Big brother weekend. Well, I don't know. Once in a lifetime, total solar eclipse in April glow. Sorry, what were you saying? You know, we could probably rent our units out for quite a bundle. Oh yeah, there's the hotel rooms going for a thousand bucks. Wow, that's taking advantage. Yeah. Wow. What were you gonna rent it for? I don't know, I mean, I didn't give it a second thought. I just started playing around in my head, like if we happen to be pet sitting then, hey. Yeah. And it really works out. Yeah, y'all just come crash on our couch for a night, Rented out, split the difference. Yeah, I don't know if he's coming or not. I don't know. They don't seem to be coming now. I think so. My brother was looking over the summer and he was having trouble finding campgrounds because he's gonna rent an RV and come up. He's gonna do like his big family trip, which I can't imagine would be enjoyable for anybody. You mean with your mom and dad? No, with his, I hate saying this, because there's no easy way to say it. His baby's mother, his child, and her children. Okay. There's no good shorthand for baby mama. This is one of those trips that could make a movie. Well, I think it's one of those movies that ends in murder. Either they rebel against him, or he kills them all. Well, did you read the story a little bit? Yeah. As much as I read any story, man. Yeah. The guy, Jay Peak's almost all sold out already. Because he got a call from a friend of his in Idaho when they had it in 2017. He says, there might be thousands of visitors on Eclipse Day, so get ready, kind of thing. He got warned. So what are we going to do? We're just going to walk in the backyard, right? Like, that's our? Yeah. It's going to go right over Burlington. Yeah, UVM is shutting down classes. They never shut down public schools are sending their kids home at noon. Yeah It's very convenient for parents. Hey Traffic jam, right? There's thousands of extra people in the city. We're sending your kids home at a time. They normally aren't and you have to work Good luck Yeah, I think that I think everything else shut down that although it's you know, it's dark at four o'clock now So, I mean it's supposed to happen like 320 or something in the afternoon Yeah, it's 424, it's a pitch blackout right now. Yeah, this thing is going from Mexico to, it's kind of splitting Austin, Dallas, going over Little Rock, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Burlington, and Banger. We should go to Austin and rent out the place. It'd pay for our trip. Yeah, you probably could. We have a friend down there. You could probably, yeah, you could, yeah. A couple days here, you can get a thousand bucks for this place during Eclipse? A thousand bucks a night is what I meant. Okay, yeah, oh definitely. And the longer you wait, well there is always that breaking point, the prices just keep getting higher and higher until everybody decides screw that, it's too much. Have you ever seen an Eclipse? Has anyone ever seen it? I've never actually even. I don't know if it was total. So it was in 1995 in June, or late May, and they told you to wear those. You had to make like special glasses or something. They're giving those out in Vermont. Are they? Yeah. OK. Yeah, and not to look up, straight up. And I remember, yeah, it got very dusky at like around 12 or 1 or something like that. It got dark. And then? But not black pitch dark. How long does it last? That one, I don't know, I think it was about maybe an hour. Okay. Something like that. So what do we do? We all go outside, we have our little glasses on, we look up, it happens, and we just go, wow. Yeah. Wow, for like 45 minutes, then we just go back inside and turn on TV or whatever? Yeah. Okay. You don't find that fascinating or exciting or? I mean, it's a once in a lifetime thing. I'll never see it again. I'll definitely walk outside. but I kind of put it in the category of like, you know I grew up on the space coast. Like the first time I saw the shuttle go up, that was amazing. The 35th time I was like, I'm not even going outside. It's like, I heard it. You know, it's like, I don't know. Well you're missing the biggest points. You get time off. You get sent home, right? Well, yeah. Now you should be happy for that alone. You should be thanking that eclipse. Thank you planetary objects for rotating in such a way and moving and gravity and all that stuff Very thankful, you know what? I think I think it because you had a childhood and I didn't that now I am now living my childhood and you've seen it All yeah, I've been there done that. Yeah It's like it clips off Back to the football game. Yeah, go go go steal a car smoke some cigarettes and watch your Eclipse glow. Have a childhood rebel Steal a car? I don't know, well actually don't. That's the worst crime you could ever perpetrate. I have been told though, I have to do something that, Yeah, break a window. But I can't do it. So it has to be something that I could do without, and still being sort of rebellious, is that possible? It's like, I don't want to break anything, and I hate broken glass, because I usually, I am the one who pick it all up, so that's the other reason. Is there anything you don't like paying for that you could maybe get without paying for it? Yeah, but I wouldn't recommend it. Okay. Are we gonna take this off, Mike? Or is this a caper that we got? Are we cooking up a caper? No, not really. Actually, it's at Florist there on Swift Street, and our friend told us that at the end of the day, they just throw all the second-hand flowers into the dumpster, and that's where he fills up his whole house full of freshly cut flowers. You're rebellion is stealing second hand flowers out of a dumpster? Like, okay, like. That ain't breaking a window, honey. That's fixing a window. You're doing someone a favor. You're doing the job of a garbage man. So you're actually, they're gonna open that dumpster and go, oh, there's no flowers, perfect. My life's easier. Except what our friend didn't tell us is to wait till the place is closed. Cause I didn't think I was doing anything wrong. Next thing you know, the owner comes out screaming at me, accusing me of selling them on Church Street. Were you dressed like a homeless person? No. Okay. I may have been covered in dog hair, but not, I mean, I don't think I look like a homeless person. And- What was the hat situation? The hat? Did you have a hat? No. Okay. No, no, he was just the owner of the company. No, you- Oh, did you have a hat? Oh, what do you mean? Could you wear these hats? You know your hats that reflect different identities and sometimes you look like a Sometimes you're at the Kentucky Derby and sometimes you're maybe dumpster diving, you know, so No, I don't think I had one of my big floppy hats But cuz no homeless person wears a big floppy hat That's what you should wear Throw them off the scent. They'd be like who's that out there? Oh But wait a minute, would you buy? Flowers I'm a homeless person or from me if you saw me on Church Street What's the deal? Is it a better deal? What's the same price? What's okay? Well, what? Tell it to me. Give me your spiel Well, a homeless person is usually kind of scary to people. They're not they don't they try to ignore them Like they're not there. They're just kind of walking by. Yeah here you see me with my big and I'm clean but I just have my big floppy hat on, I'm pretty goofy, and... But what are you saying? Maybe the homeless person's got some good, like, maybe he's rapping to me, and he's like, you know... First of all, he's probably gonna stink. So, you wouldn't want to even get that close. Well, you know, that's what the flowers are for. Some people might feel that it's a good thing to buy it from the homeless person, to give them money. Yeah. Yeah. Some people. Some people. Not everybody. This guy this guy's looking for a deal Yeah, I was just by for hours it has the cheapest so anyway my don't go dumpster diving at the floor supply place Before they close I Never went back. I was traumatized What what like the person came out yelling at you? She's like did you freeze and drop the stuff and just scram? No, no, I was just in it like cuz I didn't think I was doing anything wrong first of all I think anything goes into the dumpster from watching all those police shows, it's no longer your property. I don't know. Right, right? We need a lawyer. We need a lawyer on the show. Oh no, that's what cops do. They'll sit there and sit there and come. Well, that's cops. Cops can do whatever they want. But citizens, like, I don't know. Like, if someone was going through, okay, hmm. Because we have like a kind of a public trash area. That, I would say, is not personal. But if I have a home, and I have a trash can outside, are you saying that's also up for grabs? I think so, I don't know. Maybe I'm just watching too many cop shows that are only one-sided. Well, like I said, the cops can do what they want. The cops are doing it, it's fine. They make the laws. Anyway, what were we talking about? Global warming. We were talking about this eclipse that's happening. So you're not excited, all right. No, I mean, look, I guess I'll walk out and see it. Like, I don't know what to expect. Maybe it'll be the most impressive thing I've ever seen in my life. But I think it's gonna kind of just be like being in Norway where like, oh, it's dark, but it's kind of light and it's midnight. You know, or something like where it's like, oh, it's weird. Oh, that's right, I forget you went to Norway. Yeah, it's kind of like the time that I was traveling in Bergen and I said to my wife, wife, isn't this atmosphere a little bit unusual? Commander McAdam. Moving on, what is next, man? Where are we? Phone scam. Oh, did you read this? Yeah, it's only three sentences. I got that long of a tension span. That's about it, though. So apparently, the police are warning people that some people are calling people pretending to be the police. And they are saying that their identity has been compromised. So what are the police saying on the supposed police saying on the phone? What are they asking for? or are they responding to something? Well, they're saying like, oh, your identity's been stolen, but the number that shows up is the Westminster Police Barracks, so it looks legit. But everyone should know, the police don't call, the police are not gonna call you. The police will never call you. It's like. The police will never call you. Yes. Never. They'll come knocking on your door, I hope, first. Yes. They will not call you. The police will never call you. Yeah. Could you mind coming in for a little talk? How's it going? Yeah. Hi. Yeah. So, yeah, that's going on. Just, you know, got to make sure the public is aware. Matt, maybe we have a serial killer? Had a serial killer? Yeah, this is... I think I read a book about this. Not a book, but like a long story about this guy, a long time. You know in a magazine. He walked out pretty far back. No, I get my murder mysteries mixed up. But yeah, there was a serial killer around Springfield. I think it was in the late 70s. I don't know when this guy was. Based on his outfit, he looks... Oh, 83. So it could have been him. But there was a series of killings. There was even a couple over in New Hampshire. But they all were very similar, but they never caught the guy. They think this is the guy. Yeah, now they think maybe this really how I mean, why? DNA well, he just died. Oh He died in Kentucky at prison because we don't have a maximum Prison here security prison here in Vermont. Oh, we should do it. Hold him. It's a Kentucky. Yeah, so he died there. He killed He abducted and murdered an 11 year old girl. He rolled up to these two girls and said get in the car I'm gonna kill you one girl ran and the other girl got in the car. Guess which one died, right? Terrible story. But yet another. So he admitted to it, or how did they know? No, they just think, they don't have the evidence. I don't think they even have DNA, I'm not sure. But they just think that he, now that his secret died with him, that they'll never know. But they suspect him of a lot more than that. I hate that. Right. Like, just let it all out, man. Like, give us all the info. I hate when people take stuff to the grave. It's frustrating. Well, was he put to death, or did he die on his own? He died on his own. So how would he know? He didn't know, maybe, was he ill? What are you waiting for? You're in prison, in 72, like. Maybe he's hoping that he's gonna get let out. Yeah, there was three girls killed in the Springfield area in the late 70s and early 80s, and he was a suspect of all of them. And we don't have any DNA from then? From those years? I think that would be in the story, but I don't see it. Maybe not, it's WCAX. They described him as a sexual psychopath. I wonder what causes that. It's gotta be genetic, right? Yeah. Cuz no one would choose that life, right? Like the pedophile kind of thing, you know? Like that's just always just, I almost have pity for pedophiles. Yeah, me too. It's almost like they're, but yeah, I just don't get it. I just don't. Yeah, I have no idea. Could be a lot of different things, probably. You would think by now we would be able to identify a child that may have that at around three or four, you know, that, and then maybe. Oh, we got like a future pedophile on our hands? I don't know, I don't know. Is it large, is it true that a large proportion of pedophiles were molested themselves? Oh yeah, there's a lot. Oh, okay, so it's, yeah. So. Yeah, it's more nurture than nature. Right, yeah. All right, moving on. Is this really the next thing? The diversion. It's a hard turn for pedophilia. Are y'all up to date on what's happening in the Colchester exit by Costco? The diverging diamond? I know they cut down some of the walls or the stuff underneath there that was you could they were doing that this this fall so apparently this is this picture is what it's gonna eventually be actually it's really pretty from the sky it is too bad it's not gonna really look like that why not well maybe roads but anytime we've been to any architectural type of things to convince the public, the residents, that this is gonna be a good thing, doesn't come out to look anything like it. Which is, an example is right here, the apartments on UVM, the lofts, that blue, yellow, black, brown, something or other. She hates the multicolored apartments. So does everybody else. I don't have any opinion on it, but like Glo brings up every show. Like any time there's an apartment, she always mentions how they're multicolored. We were talking to somebody the other day about that. Yeah, he couldn't stand it, and he's an engineer. That doesn't mean his opinion is any more valid than... Well, you're right, but I'm sure he's been exposed to more ideas than... This guy hates it, and he's a dentist. What do you think about it? This golf probe doesn't approve either. So what do you think of this, then? Okay, Glow, what I thought you were going to say is like, all the green seems fake. That's what I thought you meant about the picture. Like it's like yeah, what really is there right as a matter of fact. That's Ireland over here to the left And that's where he's been taken down a mountain right that's a big gravel pit. That's an industrial area, right? They sort of got the start of the pit at the top of the yeah Because that yeah, it's gone. Yeah that whole area behind and there's not one twig of grass I guess I'm confused about this whole thing like so let's say I am exiting like I'm on the right side of the picture, I'm going north on 89 and I'm gonna exit. It's very obvious if I'm gonna turn right, that's fine. But if I'm trying to turn left. Where? How does that work? It looks like there's gonna be two to the right and one to the left. But like where do I go? I don't know, it just looks, maybe it works in theory, but it requires maximum awareness of all humans at all time. I can't wait for when it's snowing. And all those lines are gonna be covered up. This will be Mad Max. Colchester Fury Road. Oh God, it's gonna be terrible. We'll see. It looks good. It looks nice. It's pretty. Also, it was a fun name. Diverging Diamond Interchange. Diverging Diamond? Yeah, it sounds even better than the circle, right? It's like we've improved the circle. We got a circle, yeah. The thing that caught my eye, and I'm not sure what they mean by this, they talked about the project's cost was 14 million dollars. That actually seems low based on what we've learned last week. That's what I'm saying, last week we had a lane change for 2.5 million dollars or whatever, but I don't know if they mean the first phase one. Phase one, I think we seriously got to get in the concrete business Matt because that seems like where the money is concrete. Yeah, because you know everything's gonna be paved over eventually. Yeah. Right. It's a very nihilistic way of looking at it. Or maybe by then we'll have those like little planes we could fly around instead of on the road like the Jetsons. What year was the Jetsons set in? 2016 I I think, oh damn it. No it wasn't. It wasn't ever said in a year, was it? No, I think it was. Hold on, I'll look it up, let me get our research department on it. It's like the book 1984. And here it is, it's come true. Yeah. Oh, 2062. In the year 2062. I'm gonna be. It's a song. Named by you. She didn't get the years right. Oh, okay. In the year 2525, if man is still alive. Who's that? Never heard that? No. One hit wonder. Okay, who is it? In the year... Zager and Evans. Zager and Evans? How I remember that. They only had one hit, and it was in the year 2525. Yeah, in the year 2525, parenthesis exordium interminus, by Zager and Evans. How do you not remember this? I don't know. It's a catchy little tune. What's our code word for when one of us dies so the other one knows there's a ghost? He asked me this time. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what just happened? Persnickety. What is it? Persnickety. You got it. Is it okay if everyone, should I cut this out? No, no, we have a signal. If one of us dies before the other. And we come back, one of us, the one who's dead, and we whisper persnickety, and then we know that there is life after this life, in this form, somewhere still contained in this earth. Then I'm off to hell. This song has been covered at least 60 times in seven languages including a Jewish parody. Wow. Yeah you gotta give it a listen. It was included in a list of 165 songs with questionable lyrics that was published by Clear Channel Communications after the 9-11 attacks. Oh my god. Clear Channel. I'm just telling Yeah, they must have some is it like is it like a biting commentary year 20 and they go up more years in the year 2164 And it gets worse of course with every other Decade or century or whatever it was number one on Billboard for six weeks and you've never heard I've never even heard of it what year was it 69 it was a that explains I mean 69 we were going up in space and you know so we were already at that cusp of okay looks like and we had survived well no we were still in Vietnam mm-hmm things were grim let's put it that way we just we lost Martin Luther King. We just lost, you know, all these, the Kennedys. I mean, it just goes on and on. So, of course, Vietnam, nobody. I mean, Nixon is in power. Yep. Tricky Dick. Kent State. Yep. Kissinger's bombing everybody. Yeah. And this. Okay. Also, Kissinger is a person who like doesn't really register for me. But Matt posted something like, like, see you in hell Kissinger or something like that. I said too bad I don't believe in hell because it'd be a great place that's him for him for him to spend eternity. He's just like a compendium of like neoliberal asshole. Yeah, and he killed a lot of people, had a lot of people. He's got a lot of blood on his hands. In different countries. Cambodia, Chile, a lot of different places. Anthony Bourdain said, you know, coming to Cambodia makes me want to, you know, kill Henry Kissinger with my bare hands, you know. But you know, everybody's like, hey, what a great guy. It is funny how like, let's just forget stuff, you know? It's like. Let's just forget stuff? No, we just forget stuff. We need to be collectively like human beings. Eh, Kissinger, eh, oh yeah, just a couple of wars. Yeah. I think we're too adaptable. That's our problem. You know, we just keep putting up with more and more shit because we adapt to it. And because, again, the lobster in the pot thing that I've mentioned before. You know, if it had happened slowly, like not real slowly it's speeding up quite a bit but we just get okay we didn't like it the next day you know we're on to something else but they're getting shorter and shorter and short now it's like you know there's hardly not much time span between all these kind of like disasters I mean then the 60s was just you know a horrible decade of well stuff that we could argue that like it's just gotten worse, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, the 60s was the era, though, and the 50s of people who could, you know, actually pretty even in terms of economics, you know, where people can now buy their own home and a car. Yeah, a lot of good came out of the 60s, and some bad. A lot of good. Yeah, a lot of good did come out, but for us it was, you know, very tour, What's the word? Torrential a lot of turmoil turmoil. That's it. Yeah Yeah, tumultuous tumultuous. That's the word. It's worse now. I Think feels like it. I think I mean just the I think it's unsettling government shit. It's worse What's a glows point we've adapted so it's worse, but we react less Exactly. I mean look at you know, what was happening on campuses all across the country in the 60s. Protest, constant protest. Like you even mentioned just a couple weeks ago, what do you see over here at UVM? Nothing. Nobody, they're just walking to the class or their dorm and that's it. Smoking weed and looking at their phone. Yep, everybody's looking at their phone. Yeah, right, and not just students. I didn't mean to call out, I didn't mean that only college students are looking at their phone, everyone's looking at their phone. Myself included. Do we care about fly gals, fly fishing? Well, give them a shout out. There's an organization called the Fly Gals, VT Fly Gals. They are into fly fishing, a predominantly male pastime. Something that just seems absolutely miserable to me. Like, being wet but not totally wet is like one of my least favorite things. Like, I hate being partly wet. So this is I was like, Oh, um, so yeah, they, they love it though. Um, a couple of, a couple of gals, they were involved in something in Tennessee, something similar. They kind of took that idea and ran with it. They got an organization up here. So if you are, um, fly fishing, curious, Google the VT fly gals. And yeah, there's, um, yeah, they're doing it. I'll put a link to it on the podcast in the notes or whatever it's called. Yeah. It said, a lot of women tend to fish hesitantly. Like they don't fish because they're scared to fish alone and they don't know enough. Why are they afraid to fish alone? Because of predators like another man or a man? Maybe. I can imagine if a woman's fishing alone, a man seeing that as like, I'll go tell her how it's done. You know what I mean? Like I can see that very happening. I would think most fly fishing is done in really wooded areas, you know, brooks and streams and rivers and stuff. Not a lot of people around. Your screams don't travel very far. I wouldn't want to fish alone. You get one hand on your reel, one hand on your mace. It's no way to live. It's no way to fish. People who like to fly fish, they just love it. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't either. Maybe it's knowing how to whip it. You notice how it's like a lasso, the way they kind of just... It's on the wrist glow. It is, yeah. You gotta make the fly dance on the water, right? Right. But like... Then what? I wouldn't want a fish! Then what? You wait. I don't want the fish in the first place. So, but yeah, then what? Then you reel it back and you do it again. A hundred times or more, you know, it's just yeah, I would get I'd go nuts Yeah, people say like it's like it's like a Zen thing, right? You just got there in nature. He's really feeling it. It's like come on Yeah, I don't get it. That's not me rubber suit and your boots like Getting eaten by mosquitoes. Yeah No, also I whenever you see like someone with a hole in a really big fish they're never in a creek You know, I mean like they're on a boat Anyway, fly gals, good luck. We support you. Glow, the ugliest man in Vermont, or whatever you called him. I just saw him. I mean, never mind. I think he's looking pretty good with his sunglasses, his glasses, his beard, his hat. Hey, we saw someone. Uh oh, who'd you all see? A celebrity at market 32. A very narrow audience on that celebrity thing. It was the oldest brother of Oak Island. The Curse of Oak Island? It's a show on History Channel? You don't know that? No, I don't know that. No one knows that. The oldest brother on the Curse of Oak Island? There's two brothers who have been treasure hunting on this island in Nova Scotia. And they're Portuguese. For years. Okay, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger operation. They keep finding they found a lot of stuff on that About the treasure. Yeah, there's been a lot of people there. But yeah, you know the Knights Templar, of course the Portuguese the Vikings That's what they think that who buried the treasure there, okay Okay, I know pretty soon They're gonna hit the ocean because they've been digging and digging it this hole must be the size of a biggest quarry. So this dude was shopping at Price Shopper? Yeah. Why? I don't know. I walked in, I looked right at him. I said, oh, this is the guy from Oak Island. I said, hey, Oak Island. And he kind of looked at me like. Yeah, I don't think he was very happy. I called his sister a bad name. Are you sure it was the right guy? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely. I think so, yeah. And he has that same demeanor on the show now that I saw it after that. I saw the show with and he always has a very kind of serious look. So when he said, Oh, Gylan, you know, kind of he just totally ignored us. Yeah, he just looked at me like I called his sister a bad name or something. You know, it's just like, wow. I don't know, but I enjoy. So it's but it's one of those history channel shows that repeats everything. It could be 20 minutes long. Yeah. Every time there's a commercial break, even though there's no commercial, but there's that slit. They repeat the same thing. I just, well it's been 10 times now. It's going on the 10th. Do you wanna know why? Why? Because the people who watch those shows are old and they forget. Yeah. That much? That's crazy. Look, my father watches those shows and he's a little bit older than you, Matt, but he's not as. Spry. Yeah. Mentally spry. Well, yeah, I'll just let you say that. Yeah. Yeah, he's not as like With it, I guess I would say hmm. So I think that he would probably he's really go They did that It feels time yeah, you know, it just feels time. Mm-hmm. Yep 20 minutes of content in one hour show I mean, they've been filming for like six days. They got to cut that down to an hour so I I mean, I enjoy it, I enjoy a good treasure hunt. What was he buying? What section was he in? He was in the fruit. He was in the fruit? Getting some shitty apples? Yeah, I didn't dare want to see what he was doing. We annoyed him enough. So, back to Luis Guzman. Luis Guzman, he was on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. Not Jeopardy, but okay. Yeah, he won 30 Gs and he's passing it on to a charity in Cabot, where he lives. Nice. He's a good guy. It seems like it. Yeah, he seems like, yeah, totally like a good citizen and seems cool. Yeah, I talked to him once at the airport. Yeah. About the Yankees. It was right after the Yankees won in 2009. He was there like the day after that. He's a big Yankees fan? He had his Yankee cap on. And I said, hey Louis, big Yankee fan. So he came over and talked. He was really nice. Was he like, I don't know we're doing with the pitching. They just won the World Series. Was he like, was he like talking about like the players and the team? Yeah, he was just saying how much he enjoyed, you know, this team and the players and stuff like that. But yeah, it was as nice as could be. I wonder what his life is like in Cabot. Like, I wonder if he gets, I wonder if it's like the whole town is like, let's all just agree to leave him alone or if he does get those like, love you in the limey, you know, stuff like that. I don't know. I think people just, he's respectful, they're respectful. He used to live in Sutton, where my aunt and uncle lived. They used to see him every once in a while. Yeah, because his wife had horses. It's interesting that he lives up here. I guess we live up here, so it's not that interesting. But it's just like, he could live anywhere. I mean, he's not rich rich, but he doesn't have to work anymore. Well, he's from the Bronx originally, I think. Okay. Uh, he was up here for... Was he one of those... open and... the fresh air kids? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Somebody was. Some celebrity was. But, no, he... but he just loves it up here. You know? His family's got... I thought he lived in Pechum. Yeah, I thought so too. Yeah. Well, maybe... Is Pechum close to Cabot? Like, is it one of those things where it's like... No. Pretty much. You live in a town that's, you know? No, Peacham's by, is south of, a little bit of east, east, I don't know, of, say, Barnett, or, yeah. Whatever. Close enough. Okay, if we were wrong, it wouldn't be a whatever situation. It would be a dissertation about how you don't even pay attention to where you're driving, how do you not know this, there's mess, like, it wouldn't be like, ah, whatever. Okay, so Ross are like, okay, cool Glow we lost a record in Vermont. We used to be home of the largest grilled cheese sandwich in the world These fucking Wisconsin youtubers took our record I say we get it back to cabbage cheese What they used cabbage cabbage creamery. No, they had they had the old record. Oh Yeah, creamery has since 2000. They had the record. They got a little lazy resting on their laurels These fucking Wisconsin YouTubers came in and swooped it up. They increased the size by 35%. That's no joke. That's big. They didn't just do like, you know, like I clapped a thousand times in a row, I'll do a thousand in one. No, they just, they went overboard. What did they do with it after they get their, you know, proof that they've done it? What happens to the grilled cheese sandwich? I'm sure they did something with a video with it Like eat it. Maybe is there like is that what they do with it? You would think they would almost have to Is it give it out? I don't know. That's it. It's like well if it's not edible, then it's not the real thing Yeah, well, it's edible. I mean it's food It's see it wasted. It's one point eight nine meters wide three point three two meters long and and seven centimeters thick. That actually doesn't seem very thick. Seven centimeters, that's like. It does look thin. They skimped on the cheese. Yeah. Or the bread. They used focaccia bread. Is that how I say that? That's a word I've never said out loud until just now. Focaccia. Focaccia. Sounds good. Whatever. Easy going glows. Like whatever, it's fine. Yeah, so. Yeah, they have a crowd. I don't know. All right, Cabot, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Cabot needs to step up and be like, actually, we were actually just holding back. That sandwich from 23 years ago, that was a whole different Cabot. They should be able to top it. We're going to make the Fuck You Wisconsin YouTuber sandwich. Wisconsin YouTubers. Can you imagine a worse? All right, Glow, time for a new segment. Hopefully it's continuing, it's ongoing. It's my turn now. I don't know what you want to call this. I put Glow's public notice. I was thinking like Glow's, you're on notice. Okay. Glow's event calendar, whatever you want to call it. We were in South Hero and I saw this poster and the Island Arts 40th season of Celebrating the Arts in Grand Isle County. So it's basically all those islands, North Hero, South Hero, and what they're doing is they would, they're looking for people to either suggest an event or a class or join a committee and or even perform during their 2024 season and their website is islands island arts org we say perform what are the parameters there doesn't say would you like to perform for our 2024 season that's what it says would you like to suggest an event slash class or join a committee so anyway if any but artists are out there and I don't know what they have in mind but who knows maybe somebody will come up with something interesting different what made you choose this event to be your inaugural because that's when Matt reminded me that I promised to be putting these events I've been busy true true all right the Island Arts 40th season of celebrating arts in Grand County I don't love the name me neither it's a little long yeah they could use an editor over the Island Arts but it's got a pretty poster blue red barn I mean blue sky red barn and that's it well thanks well you're welcome are you going to suggest or give a class or me let's the three of us come up with something no what would you okay what would you like to do Nothing Now we're down to two Even less than Gloria. I mean Chloe of all the three of us You are the most artistic as far as like visual arts go I know but I was hoping you guys would jump on it instead of I mean Qualified to teach any kind of artistic class we go do the show there we go sit outside and record it by too cold Well, I don't know. I have no qualifications. Me neither. Oh, man, I forgot. Today is also like appreciate your bartender day. I think we did that one before. That's why I didn't put it on. Yeah. You are sometimes my bartender and you used to be a bartender and you have the bartender demeanor. So, I forgot to call that out. I was good at it. Yep. You do. You do have that good bartender persona. You ever think about getting back in the game? Oh, I did it back in the early 2000s. There's got to be some bar that has like a lunchtime shift or something, right? Like, I don't really know. I do it now. It's a whole different game these days. No, I just I don't want to, you know, if you're a bar at lunchtime, those people can be a little. Really? No. Interesting. I feel like they would love you. Yeah. And you probably love them. Yeah, it'd be like cheers. Yeah, sad cheers. I guess cheers is kind of sad, when you think about it. These people come here every day. I've suggested that he do just private parties or weddings, those kind of things. We got to get you a persona, like maybe like a top hat, a bow tie or something, or a different, it doesn't have to be that. Maybe like you're the hippie bartender, but you need a gimmick. Oh my god. Play some music. Just jam out. I just bought a couple nice shirts at the West Coast Surf Shop. Okay. A couple of nice shirts at the West Coast Surf Shop. The nicest of beachwear? Yeah. They button up? Oh, yeah. Hawaiian? Yeah. Long sleeve, short sleeve? Short. Short. Yeah, you could be like the island bartender. Yeah. A couple of tiki stuff going on, just do island-themed drinks. and that's what I've been saying all along we should have a tiki bar in the backyard I don't think we can do that maybe we can make a portable one I don't think we can sell alcohol we can't we just give it away donations only how's that? Maybe that's a loophole, I'm not sure. We don't have enough parking. They'll have to come on their bicycle. We'll just be serving students. Okay, no ID required. That will make it popular. Yeah. All right. I think we are getting close to committing a crime on air. All right, we went long. The got a Vermont hip-hop. The artist is Woolsey and the the song is Praying for Thoughts. Conventions, one dimension. All I'm seeing is invention. Vying for attention, dying for a mention. Might lose my mind to dementia. Might arrive early unlike any other time I've been scheduled. Might be gunned down in my prime. One minor contention is probably behind me unless I'm exception timeless extension branching out from the tree of life like i'ma need the light something to quench my thirst fuck who these henchmen serve dropping from the sky like a danger bird hits different when the air was a blazing furnace hits different when the ground is a station surgeon slow as if he is the case below the church of the holy sepulchre according to some face research many years ago they shared parables we interpret our agenda saying where to go against social creatures the most cohesion Is it love and forgiveness, or law and punishment? Golden rule, offer an eye, flip side of the coin Unless vengeance isn't the point When lovers destroy what gets deployed Is it compassion or blame? Can we blast it away? Iron dome, I don't know It's not enough cages It's not for lack of trying hard Enough bullets so everyone could die From our own firing squad Yeah, I'm a cop Too serious, I should rhyme like Prof I should bring sexy back, but I'm a slob Inside job, the only type I want If I go out there, I'm signing off Inside job, the only type I want If I go out there, I'm signing off Zoom in though They want me stuck in that limo limbo Lotto tickets and paychecks It's all dreaming for days next If I'm truly being present Even the hunger pangs rest Mega tag says made in Bangladesh Real, a strange mess In amazement of this whole arrangement Arrogant to think I should change What I do through the music of language, the language of music Art is just life imitating itself, remind us the galaxy appreciating its blueprint God's image in the shape of a toolkit, still get legos from my dad for holidays and it's too lit I'm thinking how many years I'll remain of his tutelage Truth is, I felt like I surpassed him long ago, such unsavory hubris I still hit him up first in a crisis, and thankfully accepts the call So, our first Vermont story of this section takes us to Puerto Rico. Oh, that's no big deal. I bet it's Culebra, the island. Without even reading this, I've been there. No, you're wrong. Yeah, nice assumption. Aguada? It's Aguada, Aguada. Aguada, Aguada. Aguada, Aguada. But this is off of Puerto Rico. Right? Right. Well, so is Culebra. It's like those little tiny islands. No, I believe it's there. But you just named the wrong island. Well, okay. Sorry. But anyway. Yeah, there were actually tanks and they used these islands, sadly. Well, hold on. Let's say what this is about. So a couple found bombs in their vacation home in their backyard. Yeah, again, okay. It's because, I don't know when, but in the 40s, 50s, 60s, I'm not sure. Or maybe all of them? The US used these islands as target practice. Wait, wait, wait. The US is using islands? Yes. That other people live in as target practice? Before then well, this is an outrageous scandal that everyone must have been shocked at the time. No Nobody said a thing. Okay, there's these are islands with no people. No, there are yeah, I mean I mean, I'm not sure when did they stop? This is a guada guada Anyway, I saved tea sea turtles they needed people to guard the beach at night and They got sea turtles to do it They have people volunteer to stay up all night with flashlights, and we signal to each other, and that's how we, from one end of the beach to the other. Okay, now, we? Well, other volunteers, such as myself. You've done this in Culebra? Yeah, in Culebra. So the sea turtles can get it on? They can do their thing? No, because what happens, poachers show up, and they kill all these sea turtles, these monster big sea turtles. And so in the morning, we have to also when besides the night in the morning You see these baby sea turtles is the most adorable thing. They go running into this ocean and there's like Thousands of them just thousands coming out of each one of these nests because that's what the mother does She goes and that's you know at night she comes out but then in the morning the babies take off So it was cool Yeah, my hometown, there's a beach there, Play Linda, and the same thing happens. And people go out there and they don't fight off poachers, but they sort of make sure it all happens the way it should happen. They do that on Anna Maria, too. Do they? Oh yeah, yeah. They have a watch, big organization that does that every year. So I have maybe a stupid question, but what do sea turtle poachers poach them for? Meat. People eat turtle. What kind of fucking Chinese millionaire is eating sea turtle, wild sea turtle? Actually, I had a tiny little bite of it and, um, you got a taste of sea turtle, but you can't go back. It's the most delicious meat of all time. I didn't want to, I just, I don't even know if I did really, but people were eating sea turtle in Belize. Is it good? I liked it. It was Belize though. So I've had it, I had it in Jamaica. Is it good? No one's answering the question. To be honest, I don't know. Maybe I, I bet I didn't taste it. It was like dark meat. Yeah. That alone, I bet, now I know I didn't eat it because I do not like dark meat. Is it gamey? Salty? A little bit gamey, but I mean, it was fine. I mean, it was in a, you know, they had stuff on it. You know. Some sauces and some seasoning. Okay. Look, I'm not judging. I ate dog in Korea and it was not good. Don't recommend. But anyway, the beaches are littered with stuff from World War II. But not on this island. This is only the second time they've, I think, something like that. Oh, really? So Culebra got hit the worst, or hit the whole time. Yeah, they said they found something 11 years ago, and this is the second time. Wow. And it wasn't very deep. They said they were covered by a bunch of leaves and palm fronds, and it's sort of a yard debris, you know? So these are just like bombs that dropped but didn't explode? Right. Our bombs used to be shit. They must be better now, right? Oh, they're a lot better now. Now they definitely explode. They all explode now. I don't know. Man, bomb technology has really come a long way, I guess. So I guess it was a big deal to have, you know, people come in and take them away. Well, they said it wasn't a big deal. They were like, it was pretty casual. we just went down the street and chatted with our neighbors and the US government came and the SWAT team and the robotics team, whatever, all these people came. Oh, that's why I made that. Oh, that is a big deal. That is a big deal when everybody shows up. When to them, they just, it was very casual. You know what got me the most about this story? This guy is doing yard work in his vacation home. Yeah. Like, I don't know their financial situation, but I assume that you own the vacation home and someone's taking care of it while you're not there. Why don't you just have them keep doing the yard work while you are there? Like, you know what I mean? Like, this guy likes doing yard work. You would think. I mean, yeah. But at least what I saw there, they're very small, modest, little, tiny cottages. And that's what I stayed in. I stayed in, found the ad in a New York Times newspaper. And there was the ad for this. It was pretty cool, sounded cool. The only thing is, the only way to get to the mainland in is, I mean, Puerto Rico, is by boat. So there's only, like, the veterinarian comes once a week on the boat. There's absolutely, the grocery store had not one little bit of oil or fat or anything to cook with. Because we had a little kitchenette. What do they cook with? I don't know. I'd like to know. But you know, I lost a lot of weight just because there was absolutely no fat. Does Puerto Rican food have a lot of like pork? I think so. Yeah, I think they do. But this was just, you know, a tiny little town with a little tiny grocery store. Very limited and absolutely no fat. Whenever Bourdain went to Puerto Rico, he ate a lot of pork and a lot of fish. Yeah. But that's the mainland. I mean, island, I should say. I keep saying mainland. Yeah, I feel like whenever I have like Puerto Rican or like Cuban food, I'm like, I'm really underwhelmed. I'm like, ah, you're such a fun culture, but your cuisine is so like, yeah. It's not that spicy. No, it's not. Not compared to the way you're used to. No. So Glow, did you vibe with the Puerto Rican people? Yeah. Yeah, I liked it. I mean, now I'm thinking, shit, I should have bought a vacation home when I was out there. But here's this, though. There was an albino horse sitting out and his son cooking. And I could not stand watching his poor horse anymore, so I brought him water. And I started asking around town. As it turns out, somebody borrowed the horse and then just left it hitched on the other side of the island. But because of me asking around, the owner came and got his horse. So they treat horses like we do these blue bikes? Exactly. They just grab one and take it and drop it off? That was a problem. I could see that being a problem. I'd be the probably the humane society. Oh, it's very cool of you to do that though Yeah, and it got me around it got me talking to people saying, you know, there's this albino and he's out in the Sun So I moved him at least into the shade. I mean it was like horrible. I couldn't stand was the horse like gracias But she won't get near a homeless person because they smell. Homeless person out cooking in the sun. You look the other way, hold your nose. Now buying a horse, suddenly you're all around town trying to find help. Good point, Matt. Milton Artist Guild. Record-breaking day of sales. We love it. We all love it. Yeah, it's the best guild. It's my favorite guild. I brought my friend there. I quit all the other gills You know, we're one guild show But you know what an artist but after that we went to the Red Mill I don't know what they call themselves, but it's weird Brewery. Oh that one sucks the one in St. Albans. Yeah. Yeah No, Bentley Snowflake. It's in that mill that every time we go through that Jericho and I always say to you, there's a bit, and then you say forget it, Gloria. Yeah, because you convinced me that it was a black man, but I found out it was some old white guy. No, that's a guy in Brownington. How did I tell you it was black? I didn't tell you it was black. Didn't we think that Bentley Snowflake was a black guy? I thought he was. No, he wasn't. He's a white guy. I don't think so. I mean, anyway. I think when I first went many, many years ago, many years ago it was just nothing but his displays like all the snowflakes, all the photos he's taken. Are we talking about Milton Gild or something else? Now I'm sorry I jumped tracked. I'm talking about this place in Jericho. Okay. I didn't want to forget it. The mill something something. Yeah it also has crafts made by Vermonters like paintings and along with the historical stuff. So before yeah you know you walk through it and yeah once was enough you know and that kind of but now it's got a cute little... But they're not a guild. I don't know, I don't think they're a guild. They're an unassociated bunch of rabble-rousers, I would say. But I just wanted to throw that in. Yeah, sure. You should stop there too, I bet you would like it. As I said before, I'm a one guild kind of person. This isn't a guild! Well, I don't know. Wait a minute, it's not a guild, it's not a guild, so you gotta go. I feel like it's, I feel like the Milton Guild would not approve of me stepping out onto them with other artists. I think we should be a one guild show. This is what we got at the Red Mill. My friend got it for me. Oh, it's a little cock. Yeah, it's a cock. Where is the cock? What does it do? Nothing. It's just made out of either wool socks or sweaters. That's like the latest thing now, is repurposing wool sweaters and socks and stuff just to make little crafty things like this. And being, I'm a rooster in many ways, that she got me this. Isn't that cute? Yeah, it's very cool. That is like an ornament? Or I don't know, it's a Christmas ornament? It could be Christmas. It could be just hanging in my kitchen, which is where it's hanging. Yeah, I guess ornament could be like any day, any purpose, right? Yeah. I mean, this is Christmas stuff up here over your head that's been there all year long. That never gets changed. I'm not changing it anymore. I've taken it down after Christmas once and that was enough. I would agree with that. So these Milton artists, who you are constantly trying to divert our attention away from, they had a record-breaking day and they just... Maybe it was the day we were there, Matt. No, it was nobody else. There was only like three people in the place. Well, you don't know after we left. What are you talking about? This was a special day they did. It's a special day. It was Art Fest, November 11th, Veterans Day. We missed it. Yeah. Well, if we had a glow event calendar, maybe we would have known about it. Okay, all right. I'll get to it. We love the Guild. I'm going to sign up for it. Let's get some Guild t-shirts. Yeah. All right, yeah, Guild. Milton Guild. Love it. Moving on. Great place. Slate Ridge, Matt. I'll let you run with this. This seems to be... Okay, he finally allowed some people to come and inspect this place. We don't know what they saw or anything about it yet. That's it? That's the story? Well, it's a continuing story, honey. This guy was one of the first stars of our show. Right? Banyai! Stars? Well, I mean, people we talk about a lot. This guy in Max Minch or whatever his name is, that racist dick face down in Bennington or whatever. Yeah, I mean, we have people that we talk about a lot, and this guy, I think we've talked more about him than anybody. So Glow, they went to inspect this property. They were there for 30 minutes. You're kidding. How big is this property? Like 200 square feet? I mean. It's way more than that. It is, let me see if I can find it, 30 acres. And I'm sure it's, what? So one minute an acre is what they spent. Oh my god. So there's that. They're obviously not, they're really trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt. Because as we've said many times, if this dude says, you know what, fuck you, come get my guns, now we have a standoff. And we have a situation where a lot of the law enforcement is probably sympathetic to this dude. And I'm pretty sure law enforcement knows that. And that's why they're being very cautious around this. Yeah this has been stalled for a long time because people, they don't want to take action. They had an arrest warrant for 60 days that was never executed. They know where this guy lives. They never knocked on his door and said here's your warrant. Never. He's probably friends with all the cops. Yep and they're scared of this guy. Right. Yeah they don't want to get their heads blown off. Yep. Wow. Where are assassins when you need them? We need ninjas. Right. Somebody can go on a property Really it during the cloak of night a little bit of maybe a ball of smoke Daniel Banye wakes up throat slid ninjas We're not saying Well, maybe we are that he should be dead. Oh, no. No, no. No. No. No, I was simply describing What a ninja might do in that situation. I'm not saying that it should happen. Okay, I just wanted to make sure no no No, no, no ninjas. Are you listening? if you have any family in Japan. Okay, moving on. Oh, skipping that one. Burlington resumes fines for food. If you're downtown Burlington and you park illicitly or park longer than what you pay for, good news. You're fine. Half of it, at least, is going to feed people in need. So, if you're on the fence of parking recklessly, go ahead and do it. Why not, why not? Some good money coming. It's a tax write off. Yeah, it's a tax write off. It's a charitable donation, so. Yeah, so just be a scoff law for charity. They've been doing it since 2021, and they've given almost $80,000. That's a lot of, that's a lot. It is. It seems like this is something that they should do more. I don't know, like all the time? Well, I don't know, I'm kind of like, well, the government is obviously not helping people. except for in this way, where they're actually, oh, well, let's actually divert this money to actually help people who need it. I don't know, it's all fucked. My thoughts are not very well organized around this. And the organization is feeding Chittenden. Yeah. I don't know if we mentioned that, but yeah. I did not mention it. But, hey. That's a lot of people not parking correctly, right? I mean, look, it's, first of all, I think there's a large portion of people who are like, I got the correct change, I'm gonna fucking park where I want to, who gives a fuck, like what? You're gonna fine me 100 bucks, who cares? You're gonna get me one out of every six times, okay, I'll roll those dice. And then I also think there's people who park downtown and then the night gets away from them. Suddenly they're somewhere else with someone else and you know. Good point. Yeah. So those things happen. But yeah, feeding shit, I don't know what exactly that organization, I don't know. I know someone, and I'm not sure if it's feeding shit, but there's some organization where you can apply for these, you can get, not apply, you can request these coupons, or certain businesses around town will offer meals at a reduced price for certain situations. But there's no burden of proof of this is why I need this. I know someone who makes more than I do, and he gets it. I'm like, what? It really makes me not respect this person anymore. I'm like, come on, man. He's like, no, it's really hard. I'm like, yeah, but it's harder for other people. What the fuck is wrong with you? You got some bad friends. I didn't say friend. Moving on. There's a couple of Stowe stories that I don't totally understand, to be honest. I didn't quite understand this one, Matt. I don't know if you... Well, it's just, there's a problem with parking up there. And they're trying to go from 287 spaces to 373 at the top of the mountain. Stone Mountain Resort. And they're all paid. Right. So you have to pay to park. And they're saying that if people have to pay to park, there's going to be less traffic. This whole story seems scammy. It seems like the Stowe Mountain Resort is up to something. Yeah, because I think they were already turned down for the lower number. And now they've proposed this, and it's like they've taken it. They're looking at it. But yeah. But I don't know. I'm never up there during the winter. Yeah, I can give two shits about what's happening with the Stowe parking. But people who listen to the show might be people who don't live in Vermont but go to Stowe often. So, yeah, they're owned by Vale Resorts and they're just... I don't know, ever since they got bought by Vale, it just seems like they're... More. Well, it's a disease of more, right? They're just constantly like, how can we make more money here? What can we do, like... Which is what they should be doing, right? That's their function, but... I don't know, it just also feels gross. Yeah, it's like when Ben and Jerry's got sold to... Lever. or Unilever. There's no longer those big vats of free ice cream at different events and places like that. Yeah. Well, more and more and more. And the town of Stowe was in a legal battle trying not to divulge public records about disciplinary actions of a dismissed STO officer and they lost, so they had to pay for the legal fees of the prosecuting newspaper, the Vermont Community Newspaper Group. Middlesex Occasional was not represented in the lawsuit. The other paper, the Citizen and the Shelburne News and News and Citizen. I don't like News that says Citizen. You don't like that one? No, it scares me. It seems very right-wing. Oh, it sounds like some guy with Oakley's and an American flag in his profile picture? Anyways. So this story was a little bit convoluted because they never actually said what this person did, right? The police officer? That's the whole thing, yeah. But they lost the lawsuit, so shouldn't they have to repeal that? I don't think so. Okay, so, it's a little bit unclear, but they, anyway, they had to pay the suit, and they said something very weird here. This is something like, they weren't even trying to win the suit, they were doing it for some other reason. I can't find it. Anyway, it just kind of speaks to this general shadiness and corruption of Stowe. Right. Oh, I found it right here. Okay, go ahead. He added that the town never sought to win the public records case, but only aimed to ensure that it was complying with the law if it turned over to the paper the information about the internal investigation of Cabaretta that had previously turned over to the Vermont Criminal Justice Council. Clear as day. Right. What does that mean? So we still don't know what he did. Still don't know what he did. Not clear if we're going to know what he did. And this is being overseen by this guy Todd Shove who just quit. I like that his name is Todd Shove. What a great name. I like that your name, your last name is like an aggressive verb. It's like, go talk to my lawyer, Bill Headbutt. It's like, okay. Yeah, he should have been a Todd Shove. Todd Shove also sounds like a newscaster. Todd Shove for Channel 3 News, signing off. All right, Matt is gesticulating. Matt wants something. You want another beer? Yeah, what do you have it now? You can just say it. We're we're casual Glow walked out with a beer Matt wants a beer Well walked out with half a beer Matt's like why you just automatically give me the other half No, we're leaving it it's this part of the show part of the magic moving on This Toy Story thing you ever seen the movie Toy Story. Yeah. Yeah, I saw the original Richard Pryor. The first one. Yeah, the first one. Maybe the second one, I don't remember. But the first one was magical. It was great, I loved it. I mean, I was, you know, yeah, I saw it in Berkeley. Yeah, it probably came out in the late 90s, early 2000s, right? Late 90s. Goddamn. So, this organization in Burlington called the Media Factory. they put out a call for looking for submissions of people filming their own versions of different Toy Story scenes, and they took them all together, compiled them to recreate the movie. So one scene might be the three of us doing some jackass thing, then the next scene would be some totally other people, like some other totally different situation doing their thing. It's not the same scene, it's the whole movie. Wow. From start to finish. So that's pretty fun. That's pretty cool. They showed it last night over at Roxy downtown. Yeah, these are exactly the kinds of things that Palace Nine should have been doing before they shut down, but you know. Old school people, old school thoughts. This is a new company, I guess, a new organization that's doing some cool stuff. Speaking of Palace Nine, you know what their biggest, you know, they used to sell out operas that were shown from the Met in New York. Oh, really? Yeah. They stopped doing it? Yeah, well they stopped doing everything now, but they did stop doing it. I don't know why, but the place was packed. Would people dress up fancy? No, I mean just, you know, your... T-shirt and jeans? No, maybe a little, you know... Might have worn a sports coat? I don't know. I was never there. A blouse, Glo? A blouse? Or a tiara. Ah, it's your turn. We always make... we all make mistakes. No, this is a cool story. Yeah, it is cool. I'd love to see it. Me too. Let's go. It's in the next showing, honey? Manchester. Oh, that's tonight. Yeah. I don't think you're going to make it. Give me my keys and we'll head out now. You got half a tank of gas and a pack of smokes? Or what's the Blues Brothers line? It must be online somewhere after this, right? I'm sure. And I think they did previous movies. Castaway. Which is obviously easy, because it's a man and his volleyball. Did I ever tell you my story of watching Cast Away? No. No. So I went to Cast Away. I don't know why we did this, but a bunch of my friends, like dudes, were like, yeah, let's go watch Cast Away. I don't know why. One guy was incredibly intoxicated, and he brought in alcohol to the movie theater, which to me is always weird, because I'm like, why do you want to drink while you watch a movie? How do you remember it right like and he was he's really he's like he was drunk We got there, and then he was proceeded to like drink so Movies moderately crowded movie theater. We're sitting pretty close to the front There's a scene in Castaway where Tom Hanks urinates for a pretty long time My boy jumps up yells pointing at the screen Give that man an Oscar I thought you were going to say something else when he jumped up. No, just that. That's great. See, the thing about that story, why you remember it so much, is the line. The line. Give that man an Oscar. I'm pretty sure he said it many times. It wasn't just like one thing. He didn't just say it once and sat down. And we were like, yeah, come on. Anyway, so yeah, that's a cool thing. So check that out, that is, let me just say this again, this is the, do do do, Media Factory, a Burlington non-profit that promotes community-made radio, TV, and film projects. Perhaps we should talk to them, I don't know. All right, moving on. Oh, for us? Yeah. Oh, is that what you're implying? I was insinuating. Glow, we got this Afghan woman down in Broward making some bread. Cool. Bakes bread to sell at local co-ops. Her name is Shaima Hussainzadeh Aslami. Not bad. That was pretty good. I think it's pretty good. I have no idea how I would pronounce it either. That does look good. I mean I I love this kind of stuff, you know, the flatbread kind of. Yeah, I mean, this community is better for this woman being here making bread for them. Right. Right, like it's just. I mean, if I was in Brattleboro, I'd buy it. I bet she's making a killing. I hope so. Like, people will pay top dollar for stuff that seems foreign, for lack of a better word. Like, what do you think she's selling this naan for? No idea. No. Say eight bucks? Probably. What do you think she'd be selling it in Afghanistan? 20 cents? I don't know. I don't know what that means. I don't know what saying that means. She's got family still back there and stuff. But it's a great story. Yeah, she stuffs it with, was it potato mash? Which is a thing that does not sound bad at all. No. Potato mash and other ingredients. Also offers catering services, making traditional Afghan specialties for fellow refugee families. I bet they get a different price. Or those interested in experiencing the country's unique cuisine. That's the premium price. That's cool, very cool. So yeah, this woman, she came over here a couple years ago when they did that big push to resettle Afghanis into Vermont. So she is one of those so good for her. Yeah, it's cool. It's a nice. It's a feel-good story glow Yeah, we have terrible stories. It's a feel-good story. I agree moving on to more food I Don't know how to talk about the story. It's a weird story Have y'all ever been to Goku ramen? downtown No, is that a restaurant is Maybe not for long So that was my first thought when I read this story. The workers there, which, I mean, it can't be that many. 20 people, maybe? I don't know. They have decided to unionize. Just that one little itty bitty place? Yeah. I'm very pro-union, but this is weird to me. Because it's like, OK. Okay. How long has it been there? I don't even remember where it is. It's right on Church Street, the old scuffer. Oh, okay. I think. So it's not that many years. No. Union organizers point to a disconnect between upper management and those working in a restaurant. Well, no shit. Oh, your bosses don't, they're not line cooks? That's also how that works? They say the union will bargain for payment transparency, okay? Wages that meet the cost of living in Burlington good fucking luck and more training Okay Yeah, this this restaurants not long for the world. They say some employees are untrained in their positions and the union is also hoping for De-escalation and Narcan training to handle problems they face downtown. Well fair. That's very fair Yeah, I don't even know what a fair wage would be for someone living downtown, $25 an hour? Living downtown? How do you prove that they live downtown? No, no, just how much you would have to make. Oh, to live downtown, yeah, okay. I'm saying like, you know, like just. Definitely 25. Let's just imagine a world where you could live in the neighborhood you work. I think it's a fair idea. Well, it's a great idea. I think 25, definitely. Yeah, at least. Minimum, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh my god Yeah, this seems like a almost vengeance against the owner I'm not trying to any shade on Goku ramen Actually, I am I'm gonna throw shit in Roman. It's way fucking overpriced. It's not that fucking good. Really? Yeah, I would never go there again That's good to know. It's not a chain. I don't think so. Anytime you go to a restaurant and like It's hard to avoid this nowadays But like when you go to like like when you go to a Korean restaurant, and they charge you for like side dishes It's like fuck this place when you go to an Indian restaurant, and they charge you for non It's like fuck this place It's like the these are as part of the meat This is part of the experience right like when you go to a ramen restaurant, and they like charge you for like an egg Oh, we're like certain ingredients. You're like come on. This is the dish you know yeah, so real ramen, right? Yeah, yeah So I would yeah, I'm not a huge fan of them Um, but was the food good? Oh, you said not that much. It was all right fine I mean also I'm biased because I was already angry about the egg charge Yeah, so I was I was eating with like bitterness in my heart, you know So not a good way to eat. No Yeah, that's right. Not to but and I like a good ramen, of course To me, it's all macaroni Pretty much. That's what my mom would have said to my, to her Italian daughter-in-law. But when you have a good ramen, it's like, you can like taste the meat in the broth, you can drink the broth. Yeah, it's like. See, I guess I've never had it. Tempopo, tempopo. Yeah, I guess, well. Tempopo. Besides, I don't remember food like you guys do. Food is your number one thing that you, I mean, you love food. I don't think Matt likes it more than I do. Well, yeah. But I don't remember what I ate. Matt does. I always have to ask him, like when we were in Florida, what fish do I like? I have no idea. He remembers it. Not me. Mackerel? No. Nothing that has fish taste in it. Yeah. It has to be very bland. White fish, kind of. Cod would work, but not on Florida. You're not gonna have cod in Florida. It would be something, you know, really. It'd be off the boat. Grouper's good. Just that day. So I don't know my fish. I do know that cod is a light, fishy taste, so that one's pretty good. The only thing I care about when I'm on vacation is where to eat. I know, he does. We will spend hours just walking around. But it gets you to adventures. I love that. That's her MO. What? That's your MO, too. We'll spend hours just walking around. Yeah, so it works That's a good look to the Gakku Ramen Union. I think you are Not long for the world. Yeah, probably not Moving on speaking of not long for the world Denny's We're losing Denny's have you been there one time with your father no This Denny's or other Denny's I have been to a Denny's with my father, but not this Denny's But you have been to this Denny's. Yes, I went to this Denny's with our former... Neighbor. Yeah, neighbor. And that was his choice? Yes. Really? Oh, yeah. I didn't know he had such low-class tastes in food. He's got white trash roots that can't be ripped out, you know? Yeah. Yeah, it's not very good. It's not good. Oh, it's okay. But it's expensive. Listen, I haven't been in a long time, but I grew up in Denny's. I spent like every Friday and Saturday night in Denny's from like age 14 to 20. Doing what? Recovering, continuing, raging, like whatever the case may be. You were eating something there the whole time? Well normally we'd go there after a party and have some coffee or some eggs or like a moon's over my hammy. So what time was this? Anywhere between 11 and 4 a.m. In a small town, there's not much, is what I'm saying. Okay. And so this is what I'm saying about South Burlington or whatever, the whole Burlington area. There's probably not a lot of places where kids can go where they're like, ooh, that was a crazy night, let's go there and recap and regroup, have some coffee, laugh about it, and go home. It sucks for them, they're losing that. Yeah, we used to, when I was a bartender, we used to get off work and go to places like that. Yeah, it was like, you know, we just got off work. It's like somebody, they got off work at five o'clock in the afternoon. So we go to the, what we called the roach coach. It was called, it was a stage coach. And I actually had a rat die under my table. I swear to God. Are you serious? I swear to God. The rat's like walking, it's like, oh, this is it for me. He got it was like this thing and he's just crawling also he just collapsed I said Check, please No, I said my shrimp done Cuz he's he's sevens basket of fried shrimp, you know, so at three o'clock in the morning. I'm eating fried shrimp and and French fries, you know, it's there great. Yeah, that's what you need to do. That's breaking a window What what eating like a 3 in the morning 3 in the morning it's like a Denny's type place drink until midnight Get kicked out of someplace. He didn't even want to be in the first place and you don't go to Denny's you end up at Denny's That's the last stop You end up at some dude's house, that's great But yeah, yeah, I don't I can't think of any place in miles, it is open. There's no 24 hour diner around here, right? No. It's not New Jersey. Yeah, in New Jersey, yes. Here, no. But I feel like we're getting to become more of a 24 hour city. I think so too. Because Price Tappers is not even 24 hours, which is crazy to me. They used to be, didn't they? Yeah, they were. I remember that they were. I think they were. I'd hate that shift. Well, if you're making $25 an hour, no one's there, not many people, maybe it's the best shift. Yeah, that's true. They ain't making $25 an hour either. They ain't making $25 an hour. Not yet, no. Maybe they need to unionize. They got the sign up there now, $17 an hour. No way. It's kind of dropped. I think it was $18. Yeah, that was $18 or $19, yeah. Yeah, so. But yeah, losing Denny's fucking sucks. I mean, like I said, I haven't been to Denny's in years, But there was a time where it was the place to be like I remember one time Matt you appreciate this Me and my crew were there and we met this other crew and we all had like parallel doppelgangers in this Yeah, I was like what Seinfeld met the Seinfeld cast were like whoa you're like you're this guy you're that guy like it's so we All just like we all like you know like they were went to the other high school in town And we didn't know each other then we like kind of converged and like really we all like got along cuz we Oh, that's great. You know, the same like music and shit like that. But yeah, I can see that, you know. That's amazing, you know. Because if you've ever done psych, there's a lot of psychology on the family structure, and you can almost predict people. And if you have, you know, four people together, it's like a family structure, and everybody has their own little role, you know. I don't know. What a great story. My doppelganger was a kid named Johnny Best. Johnny Betts? Johnny Best. Best. B-E-S-T. Yeah. Have a picture of him? He didn't look like me, but he was like, oh, he's the Adam of this crew. You know what I mean? It just kind of worked. You see each other, you go, oh, okay. I know that guy. I was going to say, he's a cool guy, but obviously I'm talking about myself, essentially. The place we went to, believe it or not, was called Sambos. Problematic. Well, eventually it did become problematic and they closed them or they changed their name. What do you mean problematic? Little Black Sambos. Oh, the store. That's why. I think they had some, you know, on the side. Oh no, I can see it now. I'm guessing there were statues with features that were maybe exaggerated. And extremely dark brown skin. But yeah, we used to go there. It's like a David Lynch movie at 3 o'clock in the morning. Because they weren't really that busy. There'd be a few tables. And then I knew the guy who was cooking. His name was Charlie Brown. No. Yeah, he was this guy I went to school with. But he was trying, he wanted to make, he says he was going to become manager. He was really excited. And he's black. He's African-American. He's like, I'm gonna be Sambo. No, I'm gonna be the head Sambo. No, he was great. You know, he loved his job. He made a great breakfast. It was cool. But the coloring and everything of those places, it was kind of muted. Our waiter, for most of the time, was this guy named Paul. And he was like, he's a little bit older than us. He had long hair, shaved on the sides, definitely just like a metalhead guy. So we would vibe with him, he was nice. And we're always like, yeah, Paul, we gotta hang out sometime. We said this for years. Then one day, we're like, yeah, we gotta hang out sometime. Paul, he's like, well, I'm getting off now. We're like, fuck. So Paul's like, let's hang out. So we get in Paul's car, he goes and buys us some beer. We're just sitting in his driveway, someone's driveway. And he's just drunk and sad, and he's just like, I just thrashed, man, I just thrashed. I just wanna thrash. and me and my buddy are looking at each other like, what the fuck? Like, do we hug this guy? Like, it was like, he was having this like emotional kind of breakdown of like, I don't know, it was weird. And we're just like, yeah, how do we get out of here? I'd love to find out whatever happened to that guy. I think he's okay, you know? But yeah, that's wild. Yeah, that's what you get for being dishonest. That's true, you're 100% right. Yeah. Because, well, it wasn't like dishonest, it was more like, it's true, like, yeah, let's hang out, but like, we didn't expect him to like, call us on it like well exactly it's more like Paul come to like a party we're having now there's like not the four of us or three of us in your car you know that's different level of intimacy we weren't ready for that'll teach you yeah yeah lessons learned do we care about this magician nope all right moving on all right so I think it's time for a break huh yeah all right The music is from Rebecca Raskolcik featuring Katie Marie. The song is Carousel Mall.♪ I close my heart and roll the spaces I can't change ♪♪ With my mind ♪♪ I close my heart ♪Maybe it's all just in my head. Doesn't hurt to wander past. I open every door I should have left behind. Maybe it's just like it used to be. Maybe it isn't right for right now. 10 places I want to be tonight. Take me back to that old familiar, lying in bed with a memory. Don't feel sweet, but I don't feel bitter. Just trying to find the door to that key. Pictures painted on my eyelids It's like a brushwork of my life All the days gone by I close my heart And change with my mind It's all just in my head Doesn't hurt to want it back I'm in every door I should have left behind It's just like it used to be Maybe it isn't right But right now I'm chanting places I won't be denied It's just beyond my eyes That actually makes my life All right, we're back. Try not to lick loudly. Well. Maybe that was a little premature. No, let's keep it in. Let's keep it in. So, it's time for our America's Favorite segment where we run down the worst people in Vermont. The street urchins. That's a new one. These slouchers. I don't know what it is. It's out yours. Um, let's see. You put a lot of thought into this, right Glo? Is this to be the perfect answer? Um, scallywags. I think I've used that one before. We've all used them. Matt? It's the scumbag Matt. One, two, three, four. Kind of a weird scumbag Matt this week. Yep. So we start with the police of all places well not in a bad way well maybe bad way depending on where you sit on this kind of thing Rutland glow you may know this they have a problem with crime yeah who doesn't good point fair point yeah you know maybe we need a court team in in Burlington so Rutland has this place called the Cortina Inn, formerly the Holiday Inn, but I think that got too bad of a name, so they changed it to Cortina. Chloe, what does Cortina mean in Spanish? I don't know. Fair. I thought you would have made something up. The court, the little court. I bet they did. I bet it has nothing to do with Spanish. I think it's a Russian word. No, but. So, the police and the leaders of the management of the Cortina Inn have come to an agreement. The Cortina Inn is gonna pay them $22,500 per month to cover the cost of the extra policing that they had to do at the inn, because that's where all the crime is in Rutland. Wow. It's at the Cortina Inn. Not all of it, but most of it. Cortina, I looked it up. A research department checking in? I'm on the ball. In some toadstools, a thin like jelly extending from the edge of the cap to the stock. That's not. Wait, this is in English. Were we talking Spanish? You're supposed to be locking it up in Spanish. Oh, I understand. I did the wrong thing. It's a piece of cloth in a theater or a curtain. The curtain, which is fitting because they're putting the curtain over all these crimes that are happening. Or it's part of a toadstool. They're paying an amazing amount of money every month.$22,000 just for the police. And they're staying in business, that's what I don't get. Why? Who's going to stay there? Drug dealers, obviously. Yes. and no tourist is gonna pull in and wanna stay at this place. Well, you don't know that. You're right. I've been in some places that I had no idea. I mean, have you ever been lost in Rutland? Yeah, yeah. You saw a hotel? Yeah. Or you're desperate. I've slept in a car in Dorna night, just because I couldn't find a hotel place in Rutland one time. For some people, the drug dealing is a bonus. it's not a problem. It's a bonus? It's a market. Like if I'm coming from Springfield, Massachusetts, and I'm staying in Rutland, and I'm like, oh, the Cortina, I can get some weed there easily. I can just knock on my neighbor's door. You know what I mean? So some people are like, oh, that's where I wanna stay. That's my vibe, that's my atmosphere, that's my world. It's the draw. Yeah, it's the draw. So anyway, this is essentially becoming Hamsterdam, if you're a fan of The Wire. This is just where the police are like, okay, let's just have all the crimes happen here. We'll patrol it to a degree, but also if two drugged out people wanna shoot each other, then we're probably fine with that. We'll walk in when all the shots are fired. When we hear the click, click, click, click, click of the clip, that's when we'll walk in. Wow, that's actually a pretty good analogy to that show. And it's the walk-in part, that they wouldn't run in, they'd walk in. Shots fired. You finished your coffee? You want to... Still eating my donut. Let's mosey on in. So yeah, anyway, the Cortina Inn is still up and popping. Popping. Heading over to St. Albans. Got a lot of St. Albans stuff in here this week. Yeah, what's going on with St. Albans? Oh man, I thought it was a nice town. It is a nice town, except for... Except for all the criming. Sometimes, there's some criming. So, police in St. Albans respond to a family dollar store robbery around 7.15 p.m. Wow, you gotta be desperate to rob a dollar store. That's what I'm saying. Like, you definitely work there, right? Or shop there if you're robbing the dollar store. Most criminals are not imaginative, right? It's like, I rob the place I see every day. So, why would you rob a dollar store? It's like. Yeah. You get a lot of singles in your pocket. Yeah, that's it. People only pay with singles at the dollar store. But almost every other place would feasibly have more money. And who even has... Do people even pay with cash these days? Maybe the dollar store they do? Maybe that's the reason? A man wearing a dark waist-length jacket or shirt, light-colored hooded sweatshirt, black face mask, jeans, dark-colored sneakers, entered the store. The man in cash had a black and silver revolver, but he never drew it, he just had it in his waistline. He was keeping his pants up. Yeah, that's it. I don't know, yeah. If I'm in a dollar store and some dude walks in with a gun in his waist, I'm just like, I'm opening the drawer, I'm just like, amen. Whatever, take what you want. Take all of this. As they should. Yeah, why wouldn't they? I'm gonna get shot over protecting this one dollar store's integrity. me. Although the next story, St. Albans store clerk fights off the robbery with pepper spray and coffee. It's crazy. It is crazy. Um, the man, go ahead. So the man, the robber made up with cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other merchandise. Um, so he did get away, but he was thwarted. He had the gun and And, you know, the person behind the counter, you know, had coffee and pepper spray. So, I mean, how hot is the coffee, I guess, is the question. I was about to ask that. That sounds like stuff she would ask. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's no degree in the story of, like, the temperature of the coffee. Yeah. Is it freshly made? Was it a cup? Was it the whole urn? Was it iced? Did she boil off this man's face? Was it cold brew? I want to know. Was it ginseng? Was this a Guatemalan blend? Yeah, so then she pepper sprayed this guy. Well, the next story is they caught him. Oh, they caught the same guy? Yeah, it was an update. Yeah, they caught him and his accomplice, somebody who's an accessory after the fact, that was, I think this afternoon? Yeah, 2 p.m. Okay, there's two on the left, his beard looks fake. Yeah. I'm not on it yet, sorry. It looks like some Peter Sellers would wear or something. And the other guy's supposed to be like 39, he looks like 55, you know. He probably doesn't drink a lot of water. When he gets, that's the case. And also probably like drugs, drug use, but. But this guy had robbed several places, so they think. Up to eight robberies in five retail locations. Wow. In ten days. In ten days. That's crazy. I don't think of like, yeah, I don't think of, maybe I'm being super naive, but I don't think of like Robberies happening in St. Albans. I guess they I mean obviously they do but Happening here, I know it had a bad reputation for a while. Yeah a lot of the drugs running To and from Canada He would stop in take a piss But no, but there was a lot of shady neighborhoods in that area. We were at one at a ghost hunt You know made me very nervous But anyways, I don't think you were there. No, it was pretty bad. Yeah. I did not want him to go either. He insisted. What did you go to Hell's Kitchen of St. Albans? I mean, I got through it okay. It's on the other side. You know, you always come into St. Albans and then you go down to the other side of St. That's where it was and it's a pretty bad area back there. I'm just thinking that this is, it's like Rutland. You know, they just have people that are just robbing stores all the time and doing these kind of things Because they're drug addicted and they have no other choice It's gotta be such a small enough community like they know these people like oh, it's Billy right you would think I do think No, that's true People know what's going on up there. All right shooting back down to Rowland man is charged with fighting his entire family What a dream Didn't know that was possible, didn't know I could fight my entire family. How many people? Yeah, how many people did he fight? It was like two or three. He's got a single felony charge of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, so that's later. Four misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. So at least four people I would say. Police responded early Sunday morning to a call for disturbance. They were made outside there by two people who informed them of a family fight in progress. Like, yo, they're fighting in there. They're punching in there. A man emerged from the residence, followed soon after by the accused, who quickly charged at the first man shouting, let's go! So this guy was hyped up. This is early in the morning, I think these guys are fighting up all night or waking up early. What time? What was it? I think they'd been up all night. I think this guy came home from a bar or something. Yeah. Yeah, this guy just fought everyone. When are bars supposed to close in Vermont? Isn't there a curfew, like 1 p.m.? I mean, 1 a.m.? I don't know what it is. In Florida, it was two. But some places it was four. Yeah. So witnesses described this guy as coming home from a night of drinking with a relative, and then when he got home, he attacked a particular family member upon his arrival. So this dude walked in, was like, Clark, I'm beating your ass right now. And then other family members tried to intervene, he just beat them up too. Wow. But it says his whole family, I just imagine, was there a sister and a mom? I'm like, calm down. He's like, get off me. They don't say anything. Yeah, was it a grandfather or a grandmother? It sounds like it was all dudes. That's what it sounds like. Like it was Kung Fu fighting. Guys, you know, fighting four guys at once. Yeah. Sounds like this guy was a little bit hopped up on alcohol and aggression, and he just had more of that in him than they did. Too many Bud Lights. 10 is okay, but 11 makes me fight my whole family. All right, so we've had a bunch of stories about these dudes who ever since our favorite fugitive about like what, like two months ago, this guy who was like on sea, on land, he's like swimming to an island, he's like eating flora and fauna to live, like he's just a dude who's just on another level, right? We got all these stories now, Like these other dudes who are trying to like get to that level, but they're just falling woefully short So they're committing crimes just to be able to do this I don't know if they're doing it just for that but they're they they're doing similar attempts, right? Yeah to evade the police But nothing on the scale of two months ago Thank you. One. Yeah, but you want to be this guy's a Obviously, I want to be so st. J man leads police on a 23-mile chase in a car That's it. He's not a foot. He's not taking a helicopter He's not renting a boat. It's just it's just a car chase But it's already boring to me. Okay, he's doing 80 in Lindenville, which is a lot. He's lucky. He didn't crash That's something. Yeah, but he eventually crashed in Glover That's a distance, isn't it? 23 miles. Wow. Yeah, he got away. He got away? No, he didn't get away. He got to Glover and then he crashed and then they found him. Unconscious? Unconscious. I wonder what he hit. What did he run into in Glover? I hope it wasn't a cow or a moose. There is a barn. A pizza spot. These ne'er-do-wells never learn. Moving on. A Massachusetts man used teens, I'm sorry, a Bethel man used Massachusetts teens to help him traffic drugs. Nice. Nice. So this is kind of like a bigger story of what seems to be happening. There's another story similar to this in, I think, Digger, that the drug trafficking situation does rely a lot on teens. So I feel like as a state we've reached a new level, a new low of like grimy-ness where now where we have like these teenage gangs. Yeah, they're all over. I mean think about whenever somebody gets arrested for one of these shootings, where are they from? Springfield? Philly? Bronx? It's the same thing. They're all like three separate gangs, I guess. I was at a lunch a couple of weeks ago with a woman who does a lot of social work and she was like, she's like, yeah, teen, teenagers are running drugs and involved in gang activity in a way that is very mis, or very under-reported in like the Vermont news. Wow, that's scary. That's what's happened, I mean, yeah, It's it's the root of a lot of everything. Yep While we're having problems Yeah, so this person Gage Gar Gage Gar Gary Gage Trent Gar Gage Trent Gar 33 plead not guilty by video What was he actually doing yeah, anyway, he got busted with drugs and it looks out that he was having a Like he had a bag of drugs where 17 year old were sitting, another 16 year old was involved. So yeah, it just looks like he's just using teens to move the drugs about. Just like any kind of movie that you would see. Yep. In any era, it's always the teens. Shitty. You're watching baseball. Matt. What? I saw you. You were watching baseball. Are you watching baseball over there? Matt, Matt, are you watching baseball over the show? There was a commercial on that. No, there was. This is a channel, channel three. So, Glow, baseball season's over. Oh, okay. I just saw a bunch of- There's no baseball? No, no baseball. Hey, just so you know, you are being watched. You better be on point. I can see both your screens from here. 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You know, I'm gonna look into this. All right. Only. I can see retirement right around the corner. How'd you buy that home in Puerto Rico? Oh, man. Well, I spooked myself on OnlyFans. You don't know how many guys would pay to see that. Yeah Martha Stewart, didn't she make the the front page of some magazine recently? Maybe not playboy not hustler either Don't be smurfs jugs Anybody wants to look it up playboy is tasteful When you say Hustler, that's like, whoa. Like my mind goes, whoa, that's like very, very, very, like, even as a kid, we'd look up Playboy, but if someone brought a Hustler, we were like, come on, man, that's gross. I loved Playboy at a time. I mean, it was great. I mean, because I'm gonna say I read a lot of articles. I did, you know, it's a very interesting magazine, but Hustler, you saw one, it was like, you didn't want to see another. It's like, it really like was, yeah, it was like. Did they actually like show the entire vagina? Hustler? Yeah. Hustler showed everything. Beaver. Oh, Matt, oh, oh God. Are we a family show now? No, it's just like, that word is so gross to me because it makes me think of that era of my life, of seeing that like in print and just being like, too young to know what it was, and like just being confused and grossed out, like yeah they were terrible. Do you know when uh Champlain College during COVID, remember they they said keep two beavers apart? Remember that? You don't remember that? Is that their mascot? The beaver is their mascot. Yeah. So they used it during COVID to make sure that Everybody stays apart, it's like keep two beavers apart. With a little, you know, a beaver. Keep them apart. No, it was funny, we saw it on the street there. Yeah, that was hysterical, I thought that. Anyways, Martha Stewart did Sports Illustrated in May. She was on the cover, is that what you mean? Yes, I told you. At 81. See? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Martha Stewart is older than Dolly Parton and Donald Trump and Bill Clinton? That's crazy. Those other three are all 77, that's why I put them together. Hanging out with Snoop? Snoop. Her best friend is like Snoop Dogg. They're good friends. Wait, Martha Stewart is friends and maybe more than friends? No, no, no. I'm sorry. I don't know. As Matt said, Martha Stewart is definitely banging Snoop Dogg. You did not say that. You just told me to not say that and now you're saying it. It's funnier to say it So that's what's happening. No, no, okay, but they spent a lot of time together. All right, so they're friends. That's great Yeah, but yeah, isn't that cool? Sports illustrator and they normally have this like slinky Well busted young Whatever and now and then they had her instead. Don't you think name? But she looks good, doesn't she look sexy? I mean... You know, when you're that old, your eyesight's not that good, so it doesn't really matter so much. Me? Or hers? Well, actually... Ours. Yours too, because I don't think you have the greatest vision. Thank you, I don't, um... No, you don't, I know. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Because you've told me. Yeah. You're driving at night... She's just on me now, suddenly. Like, I was talking about Martin Luther King Jr. being slinky and sexy, like... She's trying to convince you that your eyesight isn't what it once was. No, it never been. It was at one time. When I was six, I got glasses. When I was four, I could see everything. Four. How could you remember at four? Well, I don't remember. I forget. Yeah, she looks pretty good. I mean, you know, if I was a single man, perhaps I would. Banger? Um, yeah for the story Story around the bar was your friends. How was your night? Well, tell me more I don't know. I mean, there's a lot to tell me. It's like actually she's very weird and I could use them You know, maybe she likes being choked. I don't know We're getting a little kinky I know sled dogs Now, what's Bethel? Oh, what you know about Bethel, Vermont? It's off exit 3, and you're going through town, and then there's a light, and then you make a left, but most of, to get towards Killington. But if you go straight, that's route 12. Okay, we're not, okay, it's not Mac West. This is Mac West. You're not that woman on the... So, yes, that's where it is. Also is featured in I am legend. I am legend. Will Smith vehicle. Will Smith movie. Oh, really? Yeah, it serves as a fortified colonies of uninfected survivors from a cancer cure that mutates into a virus and becomes a pandemic killing over 90 thou 90% of the human populace of the world in the film's then future of December 2009. It also was the birthplace of three major league baseball players. No, these dudes dudes No, two of them. I mean one guy had one at bat. Oh Come on get off the list or one one inning. I think yeah. Yeah, you imagine The first inning you're better. That's your legacy first guy Harry Burrell He pitched in he was 24 years old. He pitched for the st. Louis Browns in 1891. Okay, Jesus Christ. Yeah, so he didn't pitch he pitched he was four and two There's 43 innings that was baseball invented 1860s, okay And but yeah one guy the Civil War is happening and they're like, you know what baseball is after this, okay Let's throw balls at each other instead of Cannonball, I remember the one guy Pat Putnam Pat Putnam. I remember him petty but but the other guy only had like one inning pitched in the major leagues. That's a tough life because you work so hard to get to that. That's all you have to show for it. Then it's like, for the rest of your life, everyone's like, we're never having that baseball thing. You're doing like, I don't want any, that sucks. Yeah, it's crazy. Better be a war hero. What about Kirk White, Masonic and Pagan lecturer? Yeah, I like that one. This dude is maybe the most prolific Vermont Pagan. Really? No kidding, Pagan? Tell me I'm wrong, audience. What's his name? Kirk White. He's the founder and past president of Cherry Hill Seminary. He's a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. Representing the Windsor-Addison district. They're voting a Pagan? Good for them. We need more Pagans. We need sacrifices. More blood sacrifices! More blood sacrifices! He founded the Church of the Sacred Earth, a union of pagan congregations. And this all happened in, what's the town? Bethel. Bethel, really? I always enjoyed going through there to get to, I think it was, yeah, anyway, but. It's like. Where we going? There's not a lot there. This guy has a master's degree in counseling Imagine like you're like, oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah Kirk. I'm having some problems with my wife and he's like have you thought about talking to the devil? How long ago though, we mean he's still going 61 he's more than 62. Wait, wait, wait 62 and he was what churches says the pagan what? He founded, God, I gotta say it again. He founded the Church of the Sacred Earth, colon, a union of pagan congregations. And when did he find this? He founded it in the past. They don't give a date. Wow. He looks like a nice guy. Also, maybe he's a free man. Yeah, so maybe I misspoke. He's not into Satan. He's into paganism. So, you know, that's too bad. That's like about like how like nature and shit all works together, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, all that stuff. All that good for him. All right, speaking of nature, sled dogs came to Echo. Glow. Echo? What do you mean? A dog named Echo? No, Echo Downtown Burlington. Oh, that Echo. Echo Center. Yeah. A pack of 10 Siberian Huskies came to introduce the sport of dog sledding. Really But I don't get it they brought the dogs inside the museum, yes, and Trying to put it all together We're trying to teach kids about the sport of dog sledding there are People what well, I remember there was one in the stove. That was her business. She used to run Snow dog, yeah, dog sledding, that was her business, dog sledding, and these people, you know, they get on a sled, they think it's gonna be a lot of fun, and then they freeze their fucking asses off, and it's not so much fun, but that was her business. Yeah, it was. How long is dog sledding? Like, if you were like, was it the Iditarod? Is it hours or days? Oh, oh, Iditarod, now that's, Yeah, that's hours. No, I did a ride is days. Days. The one. No, I mean, I'm talking about these are just our tours. Yeah. You know, an hour. You know, I just have fun going. It's just like the ones over there. So with the horse drawn carriages, the same thing. Don't you? I hate I hate horse on carriages because I'm like, oh, this horse should probably be like doing something else. I feel the same thing about sled dogs. Yeah, I did a sled dog once, I mean... They're just slave dogs, right? Yeah. Let's call them slave dogs. I did a horse-drawn one time. Oh gosh, this little tiny, another spot that we haven't spoke of, but it's around Adamant and Calais, Calais, sorry, Calais, whatever. I infected her. Dallas. And I decided to do this, it was the most coldest. Oh, we met at a some Protestant church. It had the like really stiff seats and all that stuff. What are you talking about? There, when I lived in Middlesex. You did a sledding, a sled dogging? Yeah, they had something in a town very nearby that you could do horse-drawn carriage rides and it was freezing. And you also there was like a Christmas thing too at that same. Did you pay for this? Huh? Did you pay for it? I guess I'm not, you know, I don't remember but it was like, you know, it was just That's one reason why I like that area so much. There was a lot of this stuff that it's just Yeah, you do it once and you're fine with it. You know, that's about it. Was it a Christmas time thing? Was it like a thing? I think it was in the fall and then I went back and I did yet another Christmas thing and they had like all those you know divided pews with the ball you know the church sorry the church yeah you're just dredging up memories that I've totally forgotten this is your Therapy, so they brought these sled dogs to the echo. Yeah, that's fine Last story the most cliche story of all time Burlington firefighters rescue a kitten stuck in a tree 50 feet near How's it up there? That's why I want to know That is what that is one industrious cat well Not the smartest either though Well, cats never think about the future. They're not long-term planners, right? They got nine lives. Not one. They're like, this one's, this is life one. It's pretty loosey-goosey. But like, cats never think about getting down from their structure, so they always want to be like high, and then it's like, now they're like, fuck. Yeah. Gotta get down. Oh, so cute, aw, that's adorable. You got a crane a crane. I actually got a crane To get this kitten how did this kitten get I mean get out or Yeah, there's not a detail there's not a detailed narrative like the kittens morning Remember your roommate's cat Lex. Yeah time he got out. Yeah wonder where he went. Yep right on the roof next door Yeah. They love getting up. They might want to see stuff. If my roommate is like, is that my cat on that roof? Well, like, yeah, that's that's Lux. They like to be above and looking down. They're like, they're like, shit, how do I get down? And that's the story of the cat. It kind of. Yeah, you're right. They're in the moment. Free spirits. So yeah, this one was saved, so happy ending, happy ending. That's good. All right, are y'all ready to get out of here? Yep. Peace. Bye. Bye. The last one minute and then the end. All life on earth as we know it will be totally destroyed and the earth itself will be blown out of its orbit. This, of course, is a situation we hope never comes to pass. 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