185: Salute to Pizza Drivers, Manchester Vampires and the Derby Little Drummer Boy

On this week’s show:

• Happy National Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation Day
• Joe's Pond officially iced out early Sunday morning  + Danville man winner
• Warning: ‘Cicada-geddon’ is only a month away (wcax.com)
• Vermont’s elderly workforce 
• Restaurant owners say Burlington police failed to respond during vandalism
• ER visits increase due to e-bikes
• Fatal car crashes finally trending down
• Welch sighting - he’s a real Senator, y’all
• Finally, a new kid prison in Vergennes
•  VT data privacy bill unlikely
• Manchester vampire

(56:49) Break music: Sleepy Spectre - “Tumble Bus”

https://gatchi.bandcamp.com/track/tumble-bus-feat-john-francy-windross95 

• Alzheimer’s memory cafes are popping up
• New Miss Vermont crowned
• Castleton University sex assault art installment
• Weightlifters set state record
• An alley is getting revitalized in Waterbury
•  Panton is getting a big-ass solar array
• We missed a momo eating contest
•  Brattleboro art smash party
• Essex flea market
• Mystery cash in Winooski

(1:48:36)  Break music: Bergadler - “Solid Veronica”

https://bergadler.bandcamp.com/album/solid-veronica 

• Scumbag Map
• Vt. police arrest teen in connection with multiple homicides 
• Hardwick man gets knife pulled on him by passenger
•  Derby gun thief
•  Whatchu know ‘bout Derby, VT?
•  Saint albans RV arsonist
•  Thieves target convenience stores for vapes
•  Kid thrown out of truck
•  Alleged dog feces flinger 

Thanks for listening!

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What's up, Vermont? On this week'show, we salute pizza drivers, talk about the cicada craziness, why we prefer our meat faceless, the mystery cash in Winooski, Glow'shaman cake makers, and a deep dive in the Lil' Drummer Boy. Waffle house plate Kick back, relax and put us in your ears Like VPR with a couple of beers Get caught up, get caught up Welcome to Vermont Ketchup with Matt I'm Matt Glow I'm Glow And I'm Adam We are a weekly rundown of everything happening in the Green Mountain State Happy National Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation Day Wow The true heroes Yeah It's through sleep, through whatever they get to your door. They're more dependable than the post office. Also a lot happier to see them, right? You never know what the postman's bringing you, the pizza guy. Probably pizza. Yeah, and they're friendly because they want a tip. Doesn't mean our postman is friendly. Oh man, just a quick sidebar about our postman. I had a bit of a reflective moment. I was walking out and I saw our family who's just listening, we have the angriest postman in the world. And so I walked out, and I was like, there's the angry postman. So I was like, I'm not even gonna look at him. I'm not even gonna acknowledge him, cuz maybe that's what he prefers. And so I gave him the cold shoulder. But then I was like, well, maybe I somehow started this. Maybe he thinks I'm the angry resident, and he's actually a really nice guy. You know what I mean? So what happened then? Did you go back and say, I'm sorry, I meant to say hello? I had a nice day. Of course not. I was committed. I mean, this is like, all this happened in like a second and a half, you know, crossing our paths. He was walking up and I was walking out. But you know, like, if he was a nice person, I would have held the door for him, I would have said hi, you know, but I think your first, he's not friendly at all, you know, I've been friendly to him, but he's never been friendly to me. Everybody knows him too, for that reason. As soon as you mention him, everybody knows him. I don't even know his name. I don't either. No, and I used to be really buddies with the other mail carrier we had. The other guy would deliver you mail when you were pet sitting at other places. And not even put in for a transfer of mail. He just thought it was so, you know, he knew exactly where I was because I told him so. I don't like that guy because he lied to me once, the angry guy. He lied to you? Well, I asked him if the post office on Pine Street was still open. He said, yeah, it's open. So I went down there to get something you were waiting for and they were closed. Yeah, I mean I found him down it down in around Glen Road, you mean like they're closed forever. There's no that close that day The hours maybe didn't know he delivers man back there Whatever mail he doesn't delivered. He has to take it back there. That's true when he's done It was like 2 30 in the afternoon or 3 I don't know. Anyway, he went chasing after a post truck, a mail truck. Oh, you chased down a post truck and gave it to him? No. They probably don't like that. No, no, I chased him down. I saw his truck, so I pulled up in front of him. He was out delivering mail, so I parked. And as soon as he came walking up, I slowly got out of my car, like, non-threatening. Hands in the air. And I said, you know, my wife was expecting something. and, you know, some blah. And he says, well, I've already taken it back to the post office. I said, where, on Pine Street? He goes, yeah. I said, is it still open? He says, yeah. Men of little words. Right, yeah. And few. I wonder what this guy's really like in his day to day. Like, does he have a family? Yeah. Are there people in this world that care about him? I don't know. Like, what does he love? What drives him? I'm just glad he's not a pizza delivery guy. He would never cut it. The angry pizza delivery guy. That would be such a mind F. You're like, oh great pizza. You're like, oh this guy's a jerk. How do I feel in this moment? So y'all ever do the pizza delivery on the app? No. Never. Because you can choose to like, you can pre-tip them or whatever. And you just leave it outside, don't even knock. And you just get like a ding. That's the way to go. When it's ready, when it's there. I don't know, I kind of like having a person hand it to me, but we never order pizza. That's the first thing. I don't need more, I don't know. I almost picked one up on the way here today from the Meyers. Oh, yeah, I'm curious. They're selling them now, Thursday and Friday. Huh, yeah, if you try one, let me know. I'm really curious how it is. Yeah, I'd like to give it a shot. I thought you were going to say you were going to pick up a Little Caesar's Hot and Ready. No, I've never had Little Caesars. Really? Yeah. I don'think so either. We didn't have one around where I live. I mean, it's not good. No. But if you're in a jam, you're driving by, and you're like, damn it. I don't have anything in the house for dinner, but I have $8. You get a pretty big pizza. What's the best chain pizza? Chain? Man, I have a lot of nostalgia for Pizza Hut. Yeah, Glo's giving me a face, he said chain, he said chain, all right? So I'm not driving five counties over to get Pizza Hut, but they had the, I don't know what it was, everything about it. They had these red cups, and their Coca-Cola mixture was just right. and yeah they have like the big greasy crust deep dish that was great how are you around here I think Leonardo's no is that a change that a national chain that's not a national chain but it's a chain here there'several of them in Chittenden County but as national chain I don't know if I've ever really eaten much you know yeah what's more of them I don't even know Well, Caesars, dominoes, some people are like Papa John's, ride or die. Yeah, that's a chain. Papa John's? Yeah. I just wouldn't buy that. Hungry Howie's. Hungry Howie's, that stuff is terrible. Where did that come from? I don't know, some trashy city in Florida? Yeah, any trashy city in Florida has a Hungry Howie's. It's awful. Yeah, when you can't afford Little Caesars, you go to Hungry Howie's. Yeah, it's the cheapest. Godfathers? Yeah. Is that around here? No. We don't have enough chains around here. Or maybe down south they do. That's a good thing. I know, I didn't mean to say it like that. I wasn't sure if you... CC's? What's CC's? That's another bad one. CC's, when I was a kid, I mean like a teenager, all you could eat pizza for like $4.99. So what happened, you'd go in there and devour a pizza or two, all to yourself? Well, no, because they would have like, it was buffet style. So you would have maybe six or seven pizzas under the heat lamp that are pre-sliced. You just walk up, you're like, oh, maybe a little pepperoni, maybe a little Supreme. You put them on your plate, you walk back and- I have been there, because my brother liked it. My brother, Jim, he and his wife, they're probably cheap bastards. It's probably the worst pizza ever. It was a lot of food for a little bit of money. Yeah. It was terrible. Oh, it's no longer? I mean, they are in Florida. I don't know. Yeah, I think they still exist. What's the name again? Hungry Howies. Oh, CC's. Oh, CC's. How do you spell it? Just C-I-C-I? Oh, C-I-C-I? Yeah, try to make it authentic Italian. Oh, then it should be Chi-Chi, because that's I know they pronounce a C and an I together. We don't want to get too ethnic. It'still Florida. Yeah. He's up on the chi-chi. Well, yeah, big shout out to anybody who delivers food. It's a tough job. That's about the only thing I haven't done. Really? Interesting. Nuclear scientist. How did it go when you were a nuclear scientist? You know, I never did it either. You ever do it, Matt? No. Oh, there you go. I had a buddy who was like, the guy who used to live with me. He had like a million jobs from like age 15 to now. And he was a pizza delivery driver for several different places. Many wrecks. I don't even know that he had a license when he was doing it. It was just like willy-nilly, man. It was crazy. And now he does Uber Eats, like kind of just on the side. If he has a couple hours to kill, he'll just pick up some cash doing that. He probably had to get a license for that. I mean, he has a license, but I'm talking about like back in high school, or like, you know, 20 years old, he probably didn't have a license. He's delivering pizza, but you know. Small town Florida, everyone at Domino's is stoned. Your manager sells you weed. I mean, it's pretty loosey-goosey with the rules. That's the place you want to work. Yeah, pretty much. Get free food. There's a Little Caesars in my hometown. The manager sold weed. Older, I say older. You know, were 16, he's 26, right? Only hired very hot women. That was all he would hire. Smart guy. Like, going to Little Caesars, you're like, everyone here is gorgeous. Like, what the heck? and then also like later then later you're like oh he's a big creep yeah um all right moving on vermont stuff joe's pond it's officially spring this is our groundhog that's right yeah the ice went out and the clock dropped at on april 14th i think which was just a few days ago 402 Is that Monday? That's five days ago. Did you say the 14th? Yeah. Okay, yeah. Today's the 19th. Wow. Good math. I never really get a delivery driver. I'm like, I can't do the change. Couldn't have figured that one out myself. So, some guy from Danville won, and he won 7 G's.$7,000? He split it with, he gives half of it to charity, I believe. Oh, does he get to choose what charity? No, he does get the whole thing. Okay, this is a 57 word story from WCAX. Stuart Ramsdell from Danville. Wow, that's a children's book waiting to happen. So Ramsdell from Danville, he got a check for $6,974. Wow. Yeah, so where does the other half go? Well, I don't know because there's 15,000 tickets sold. Somebody got some money. Yeah. So they split it, I guess, or gave him a good percentage. That's pretty good haul. Yeah, he goes to the pond So what do you uh? So how's this work? You get like a ticket, a dollar ticket, I'm assuming I'm sure You write down a date and a time and so he So it was 4, he guessed 409 a.m. And it was 402 a.m. So he was the closest And there was 350 other guesses for that day Yeah So it was that close Wow That's pretty cool It's pretty bold to get so early in the day, you know? It's gonna be the colder time of the day. You would think you'd wanna go around noon. Somethin', yeah. You think this guy's a high-level mathematician and did the calculations and figured it out? He's probably gotta figure it out. Good job, Stewart. He probably dipped his toe in the lake. It's comin' soon. It's cold. Alright Matt, speaking of natural phenomenon, Cicada Gettin' is only a month away. I didn't realize because when I saw that headline I just put it on here. It doesn't have anything to do with Vermont. Nah, we're totally fine. But our friends to the south have to deal with STD ridden zombie cicadas. Cicadas? Cicadas. Cicadas. It's made of tomato. Glo, are you familiar with these little creatures? Oh, yeah. Have you ever run into them? I don't see them ever in New Jersey. I was in Staten Island, and it sounded like planes were landing in the backyard. That's how loud these little monsters could be. Yeah, they're such a weird thing, right? Like, they come out every, there's like a, it's a clockwork how they come out, right? Every like 13 or 17 years or something? And this is the first time, there's two kinds. And it's the first time since 1803 that they came out together. Oh no. That's why it's gonna be chaos. Yeah. Thankfully, it's not here. And how long are they here for? They're here for like, basically all summer? I don'think they last that long. They'll eventually die off, and it'll be another 221 years before those two groups pair again. Oh, you're right. After they emerge and molt, the males will start buzzing to find a mate. And the noise can be louder than a plane. Wow! Okay, I mean, now I feel better now. Okay, I was pretty sure I heard a plane. It's a bird, it's a plane. No, it's a bunch of horny cicadas Man, it's crazy that this just is part of they live for about six weeks. It says Imagine being around them for six weeks. Yeah, I mean like if you're outside you just talk louder Like I say, well, thankfully they're not here. Well when you say further south where you don't see this map in this All through the south and up through Iowa. See, I know geography. Iowa, is that Arkansas? So what is the one that's like Illinois? What's going on in Wisconsin and Indiana? What is that Illinois? That's Illinois and Wisconsin. What's the blue ones? What is that? They must be two different kinds. There's blue ones for one. There's the liberal cicadas. Yeah, those are the liberal ones, but you know, but they don't say on this map. Yes, they do. It says Brood in Roman numerals 8 is shown by blue dots and Brood. Okay. That's Roman numeral X. 19. Is shown in red dots. How do you see? I don't see that at all. It's right underneath the map. The map shows where. Oh, it's in words. It's not like a legend or a key. Yeah, yeah, well, see, first I didn't see the map, and now you didn't see the map. Together, we'll figure this thing out. Yeah, that is, it's a nightmare. You know, good for y'all. Good luck. Yeah, especially in those areas like Illinois is just getting blasted. Shouldn't any travel around those states be banned? Banned? You can't go in there's cicadas. But they're like STD zombie ridden cicadas, they are not normal. Really? Yeah. Are you talking about maybe some radiation? Yeah, they're fighting Godzilla next. Hold on, cicada STD. Some of the red eyed brood are expected to surface with a fungus that turns them into hypersexual, frantically mating zombies that spread the fungus like an STD and keep going until their genitals fall off. Oh my god! It's like high school. Yeah, high school. What a way to live. Yeah. Just have sex until your genitals fall off. I guess that's it. Tonight, baby, we're gonna do it Cicada style. Yeah, that is disgusting and weird. Moving on. Vermont is kind of relying on seniors to plug the gaps in the workforce. Look at the grocery stores, full of them. Is it? I've seen a lot. I'm not going back to work. No? Not at all? Nothing? Nothing could bring you back? No, I really don't want to go back to No. I mean, what if... Gloria didn't want to go to work when she had it. Yeah, exactly. I wish I was out there in all those woods, just throwing pots. No. No. But I mean, with the money, the extra money people are making these days, I mean, why not? If for some of these people, they have, you know, it helps. Yeah, I mean, like, Medi... like, was it Medicare? Medi... Medicare. Medicare doesn't cover everything. No. No, but these people may be poor enough where they then get Medicaid. And that is limited to only a certain salary. Yeah, you can't make too much money. People 65 and older represent fast growing of Vermont's labor force. 65 and older, that's crazy. Yeah. Like, it's also revealing of like, a problem with our society? Like, why do we create such a situation where people who are that old need to continue to work? Maybe they don't need it, maybe they just want to. I mean, a lot of people like working. A lot of people like, yeah, go to a Publix in Florida. Everybody there's, they're either 19 or 60, you know? I mean, some people just like to work. they like something to do, they do it part-time maybe, I don't know, it helps them? I think so, that's what it seems like down there. You know, and maybe, yeah, they didn't do well in life and have to do it, but... Yeah, so a fifth of Vermont's population is 65 or older. A fifth? 20%, right, wow. That seems high, I wonder how that compares nationally. Well, Vermont's one of the oldest states in the Union, too, so that's another thing, You know, people, the younger people are leaving. They can't afford to live here. So in 2005, the number of seniors with jobs, 15,000. Last year, 36,000. I also think a part of it is our generation, I think, we're in better shape than our parents' generation when they were 65. Right. When my mother was 65, she could barely walk, you know. And I think we've taken care of ourselves a little better than the past generation. We're, you know, people who are now 70 are still able to work. Where before, maybe they couldn't. We're getting close to that. We're still taking care of pets. Yeah, he'still doing stuff. Yeah, we have a job. We're in the workforce. That's true. Yeah. Wait, you say, shh? You think Uncle Sam's listening for tax purposes? Yeah. The NSA just heard us. They're going to turn us in. You may want to cut that out. No, no. Do you think part of this is also like older people over 65, like having to support children that are still living with them, or grandchildren, or like their children's children? You know what I mean? I'm 65. I have a kid who's 35. But my 35-year-old kid is a complete mess up. and I'm having to raise his child because he's on opioids or whatever, you know? Like, there's a lot of that, too, right? There could be a lot of that, too. Oh, yeah. You have that in your family. I think you're talking to me. No, no, me. Matt, I'm referring to Matt's family. Yeah. Not me. Right. No, no. Matt is free and clear of opioids, as far as we know. Free and clear of kids. Yeah, he's free and clear of kids, that's for sure. Yeah, and also, so my mom is 70, my mom's in her 70s. And I was struggling to try to find work that she could do from home. So I wonder if some of these seniors are doing data entry stuff from home. Yeah, I would think so. If you're somewhat tech savvy, there's a lot of stuff you could do. And she is? She's not because she refuses to learn new things. She can take a photo with her phone. We're good. She can't send it. She can take it. Moving on. This is downtown Burlington. Restaurant owners say Burlington police failed to respond during vandalism. Did not read this, Matt. Well, it's a place called Thorn Plus Roots. No idea. Sounds delicious. Right. Thorns? Thorn plus root. Oh, that's being sarcastic. Okay. Owners say a person approached their restaurant Saturday night throwing a patio chair at their front window. Several employees were closing up the restaurant when the window shattered. They called Burlington Police who said they directed them to file a police report. Owners say they are disappointed the police didn't respond to the scene and follow up with the staff. This guy'slamming, so it says throwing a patio chair at their front window. So that makes me think it took more than one throw to break it. And the police are like, you're fine. Well, this isn'the first time it's happened. They say it's the latest of several recent vandalisms of the restaurant. That particular restaurant? Somebody doesn't like their smoothies or power bowls or avocado toast. You call this a blueberry smoothie? This is garbage. Well, I'll see. I can't... Oh, Glo's reading the window. I'm not him. I'm reading the broken window. Oh, that's not very broken. Is this on Church Street? I think so. I don't know. Of course it's broken. What do you mean? There's a big hole in the... Well, not quite in the middle, but if you look down a little bit... It's not big. It's not big. It's not like Charles Barkley threw someone through the window. Well, okay, you're right, but there is a hole. There is a hole. It's on Church Street. Yeah, it's on Church Street. How about food they got at the old Thorn and Roots? I wonder what their main thing is. This is in the evening. You don't get a smoothie in the evening, do you? You could, yeah. Oh, is this a franchise? This is a chain? Grain bowls and salads. That was a chain. They got one in Saratoga. Smoothie bowls, avocado toast, smoothie juices, that's it. I mean, buffalo chicken cob salad. Let's all guess, what do you think avocado toast at Thorn and Roots costs? Eh, eh. Glow, you go first. 16. Damn, that's good. Why? I think you're right in, I was like, I don't know if I should go over or below you. I'm gonna say $14.75. I'll go a little lower, $13.50.$13.50? Matt, do you have the answer in front of you? I don't, because I can't see any prices. That means it's maybe over. It's even more than $18. If they won't... Are you looking at their website? Is that what you're doing? Yeah, I am. There's a menu, but it doesn't have prices. See? Now that'scary. I mean I don't even see that on the menu. Am I missing some of their menu? Oh, avocado toast, there we go. Well, it depends on what you get. What do you mean, what I get? Avocado toast! Avocado toast. What the... You open a restaurant that serves all this avocado stuff? I guess, I don't know. Is that not a good business model? You would think that after a few years it would die. Yeah. Because things change. Yeah, I think so. Those people will find something else weird to eat. Exactly. Then you'll be square if you're caught eating any of this that's listed on the window. Okay, here we go. I got it. Woo, it's actually quite reasonable. Avocado toast, $8.25. Matt wins. Yeah. Now... I know how to get the prices right. You want some olive on that. now up to $12. Okay, when does it get to 18? The highest I can go is if you want avocado and smoked salmon $14.25. Damn, okay. Actually sounds pretty good. BLT? Oh, I just, sorry I just closed the tab. That's alright, it doesn't matter. It was less than that, there was a BLT option. Alright, so police do I'll just tell you. I.R.'security guard. Man, that'sad. The police just, they've just given up. That's true. I don'think they've given up. I think this is their time to walk around like, Oh, wanted to defund us, did ya? How'd that work out? I'll get there when I get there. You figure this is like 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock on Church Street. Yeah. Aren'they on Church Street? They should be They probably watched it happen and walked off It's taking this guy a long time to break this window We'll come back when he breaks it Can you imagine the... I'm just trying to imagine the employees at this place are probably not... The cream of the crop? I'm just saying they're probably not... They've been eating a lot of avocado too You know, you go different places, you see different kind of employees, right? Right, right. Like, if this was like an axe throwing bar, it's like a different person, right? They wouldn't need to call the police. Well, they would have called the coroner. You throw chairs, we throw axes. Yeah, there's no vandalism at the axe throwing bar. So I just, you know, feel bad for the employees, like, you know, I'm sure there was a lot of trauma that night. All right, moving on. Speaking of trauma, the ER is getting busy because of all these e-bikes. People don't know how to handle the e-bikes. They are dangerous. What makes them dangerous? I think they surprisingly fast for some people. They don't really. Yeah, I've heard now twice that as soon as you just touch or turn it on, it takes off. Oh, really? Yeah. So you better be ready. You fall off, you know. So these bikes, I'm not pedaling, I'm just going, I'm just riding? I think you pedal first. I think as soon as you start pedaling, but then if whatever, I don't know. But yeah, I can understand why there's been a problem with these, from what I've been told. They can get people moving 20 miles per hour. That's pretty fast. That is. And if you're not wearing a helmet and you crash, right? That could hurt. You're on a bumpy sidewalk, you're like, oh! So in the US, ER visits, due to e-bikes, there's been 45,000 visits over the last five years. That's a lot. Globes, no reactions. Look to me like, OK, whatever. I hope they're dead. Has anyone ever used the, you've never used them, right? Has anyone? No? Like the bird bikes that are out here? No. Oh, no. I rode one about 30 years ago when they first were made. 30 years ago? This guy was making them. I mean, you could haul ass on these things. An electric bike 30 years ago? Wasn'that called a moped? No, it was an electric bike. You'd pedal, get going really fast, and all of a sudden the engine would kick in. Yeah, and they were fast. Where was this? San Francisco? No, this was in Burlington. Really? Yeah, this guy, when I worked for a teddy bear company, people used to approach the owner with ideas. And this is one of his ideas, and we all went... This will never work. We were like texting when I said that'll never work. Two things Matt doesn't believe are gonna have a long shelf life. Texting and electric vehicles. So, you know, it can be pretty scary because it all of a sudden, it's boom. The brakes don't work? Yeah, but I don't know. I don't really know what these are. I mean, I'm sure the technology is a lot better than 30 years ago. Let's hope. Yeah. But yeah, I found one laying down in our parking lot the other day. Yeah, it just tossed. Or it could have been blown over. It was very windy. My favorite thing about the e-bikes is, a couple months ago, some lady on the front porch forum was like, Someone left their blue bike in front of my house, I don'think you're ever going to come get it or not. That's funny. She had no idea what was going on. I love it. Okay, moving on. So, that's bad news. Good news? Oh, wait. Do I have the wrong link? Let's just pretend we know what the story's about. So fatal car crashes in Vermont are finally trending down. That's good news. Yeah. Is it, Glow? For your agenda? People getting murdered is way up, it seems like. Oh, really? I don't know, you know, we read these papers because, you know, we read all the papers for the show You know, you get out in the Northeast Kingdom, people are getting murdered up there like crazy. Drug killings. Drugs. It's either drugs, women, or money, but it's usually two of the three. I'm putting a new link to this story on the rundown, so it should be good to go. Here we go. So, yeah. So, Matt, you say you get inundated with murder stories. Maybe that's your algorithm. them I get inundated with car crash stories I think there's always a car crash like mm-hmm I feel like in the last four or five years in Vermont people just forgot how to drive yep I don't know they never knew how to drive but the reality is it's gone down I know so I think the news is there'some bias here Vermont had fewer car crash fatalities in 2023 than in the previous two years. So I guess that's good. So in 2023 there was 69 people in the state killed. That's a good day on I-4 down in Florida. So the previous two years it was 74 and 76 respectively. If you look at this chart, it's wildly, it swings pretty wildly. Right. Like 2014, maybe 45. Yeah. 2012, close to 80. Like what the hell's going on and then 2019 it's back down to less than 50 probably 48 so it just it's very sick what do they call it the cicadas everything you do with this you might have it throw out on the road look at me driving over those things I think they crunch I think so well you look crunchy would you eat a No. I don't even really like the idea of eating beef, but I like it though. But it doesn't make any sense. You don't want to eat it because it's alive or just because you like cows? Yeah, I prefer cows over cicadas. Yeah. I'm not into eating bugs. Have you ever eaten a bug? Let's define bug. Not on purpose. Okay. I mean, yeah, I may have, but not on purpose. I mean, I've had like a crawfish. Is that a bug? No. It looks like a bug. I know. Sucking heads and pinching tails. Where did that... That's how you eat a crawfish. Say it again. Sucking heads and pinching tails. You break it like this. You suck the head and then you pinch the tail and it comes right out of the... These are things that you just... These are expressions you just know growing up in Florida. I don't know. You just know that. Silkworm larvae was something that people would cook at like any kind of outdoor event in Korea. I've had it's gross as hell, but like the smell is something I can, like if I smell that, it makes me wanna vomit and it takes me immediately back to like South Korea. Yeah, so I've had that. That's probably the buggiest thing that I've eaten. I think I've had crickets. Yeah, I feel like I have, too. I think I've had crickets somewhere. Chocolate-covered crickets? Chocolate-covered crickets, or just crickets, just crunchy. You just... Yeah, like potato chips. The potato chips of nature. Barbecue crickets, please. I'd eat a cricket. I don't know. Depends on how it's cooked. Yeah, I just don't like... I mean, as long as it doesn't have a face. Faces are as well... Wait a minute, a cricket has a face? Well, let's cut it off. You know what I mean? You're not going to lose much, right? It's just this little tiny thing. I only want faceless crickets. That's my gourmet taste. Because like a cow, you don't ever eat a cow face or a pig face, right? Because that would be too unappealing. Even when I go to a restaurant and they do the fish, and it kind of curls around and is looking at you, I'm like, ugh, I don't like that. What are you talking about? That's what I grew up around. I know, and look at you. Traumatized. See how they think? And now you won't eat beef, see? At the time, we used to have two live poultry, where you'd walk in, you'd pick out your chicken, or rabbit, or duck, or whatever. And you had it killed right then and there, and you brought it home, a nice warm bag to your... That's what I grew up with. But they still didn't have a face when you got them home. They take the head off, right? Yeah, they did that part for us. But I got to see it looking in my eye first before I had to, you know, what happened? I had to take over after my brother got too old to be doing it. What do you mean he got too old to be doing it? Doing what? He got too old to be doing what? Well, that was his thing. That was his chore. He was the one who'd go and pick up and get, I mean, pick out the chicken and have it killed, blah. And so it was his duty at first. But he got too old, he had other things to do. So what was the criteria of picking out a chicken? I don't know because what I did, I learned from my brother, that what you do is you call, they all know us, pick out any chicken you want, have it ready for us. And so it's just kind of like you're running in and you're running out. It's because- You never really get to see the chicken with its feathers and all that stuff. Nope, nope. Like you have free whatever choice. Okay, I have a lot of questions. Do they take the feathers off for you? So you don't have to go home and like- No, no, they do that part. Do they do that before they cut the head off? No, you cut the head off first. And then take the feathers off? How long does it take to de-feather a chicken? It's pretty, oh, it's raw, man. I mean, it's like, I actually saw a woman do it on a farm. And yeah, you're just like, you're pulling away. I think that's how they did it. Don'they dip it in like warm water first or something? I don't know, like I said, I try to avoid that as much as possible. Did you get the feeling that the person who was doing the chopping was like enjoying it at some level? Like, that's Benny, he's a little bit. My gosh, you just brought up Rose. Rosa, Senora Rosa, our third floor tenant. She liked to make blood rice. And I ate it quite a bit as a child because of eating upstairs with her and her husband who kind of took me in as they didn't have children, but so they took me in as their kid. Anyway, so she loved it. I mean, she really got into chopping that neck and draining the blood. She was just so... She just wished she could have done it to little children. Was she like staring at her husband like, chop? Okay, here it is. Have the bird hanging upside down and start on the drumsticks and work your way down. If the bird has been harvested and scalded correctly, the feathers on the breasts and legs will basically just wipe off. So he's doing hot water. Okay, so that's probably what he did. Wow. So it's like, yeah, I don't know. That's, I don't know, like you're, I mean, they're dead, right? But it's like they do still run around with her head though. That's what they do. Yeah, my cousin Becky used to like cutting chickens heads off, too At least I hope I didn't get to see that could be one of those repressed memories Throw me down a brick stair case stairwell And hitting my head on the neighbors. At least you still had your head The chicken didn't. Alright, moving on. We had a Peter Welch sighting. Wow. Where was he? He was in Barrie checking out flood damage. Really? Wow. He was like, you know, in a suit probably. Probably like doing senator stuff. I don'think he was standing next to Bernie or Becca Boleyn, just kind of on his own. Did he let him go out by himself? All by himself, really? All by himself. You get to walk around and he got to speak. So that's nice that Peter Welch is doing some big boy stuff. So we're all impressed. Nice. Way to go, Peter. Yeah, Peter Welch is doing big things. Ever since he's become a senator, we hear about him. This guy, man, he is the cop that can't get fired. He's just failing upwards. Love you, Peter. Never change. So he's helping out Montpelier, or Barrie, I guess. Yeah, still having problems down there. They're kind of like the stepchild down there, compared to Montpelier. I think Montpelier gets more money. Than Barrie? Yeah. Well, it is the capital. Yeah, that's true. It is the place that lawmakers have to drive through. You know what I mean? If the State House wasn't buried, guess where money would go to? Probably buried. I guess FEMA's gonna buy some places out, so... Don't build here anymore. Yeah... This is the third time you've been flooded. Yeah, I just worry about this next upcoming summer. Is it gonna be just as bad? It seems like it's been pretty wet already. Yeah, last few weeks, pretty damn wet. We're lucky it's not cold. Yesterday, were very lucky it wasn't cold. It was raining pretty hard. We're moving to Virgin's. We're building a kid prison over there in Virgin's. So Matt, if you look at this sketch, what's it going to look like? It's a 14-bed facility. That's it? Yeah, if I look at this, I'm like... It looks like a resort. I'm like, okay, I can kind of imagine where the beds might be, but like... And then you also need a kitchen. in, there's like a little, there'some recreation areas it looks like, but like what else are these other buildings? I don't know. Doctor offices or something, I don't know, do they actually like that? That's a good point, maybe some kind of a medical thing? Maybe they just have a really big staff. But for 14 kids? I know, it's like. I mean, like this building has 16 beds, right? And that's one eighth of this sketch, right? Yeah, there was like three beds. Oh, uh, what is it? Oh, South Burlington. There was a place in South Burlington they were looking at. Meadowlands Business Park. Uh, 20 acres. What do you need 20 acres for? Nobody wanted this, do they? Do you know anybody who would? I thought they were going to build it somewhere else and the town said, uh-uh. We don't want it. Was that like in Woodstock? Yeah, somewhere around Woodstock. Yeah, where the money is. But this just seems like overkill. I mean, I'm not trying to be an ass or anything, but Do the kids need all of this stuff? Like, they just need a place to sleep, a place to eat, medical facilities. There's probably some admin office. Could have school, maybe. I guess. No, they're not sending these kids to school outside. No, no. But like a regular prison, they do their classes in their cells. Like, people come to them. I didn't know that. Maybe these kids are, but prisoners opt in. that maybe these kids are required to go to schools maybe but i mean you know what that's one that's one more room it's not like we need a schoolhouse this just looks like it's crazy expansive i don't know is it like 1,800 square feet over 1,800 that's 18,000 okay 18,000 square feet that makes sense with 14 beds what it's crazy this is like a mansion of you know some wraparounds, you know, this PDD's estate, so yeah, like do they make it so big so that it's more like palatable to the residents? It's like, look how nice it's gonna look, right? And this is for juveniles who are not bad enough to go to prison, but not good enough not to go somewhere? Yeah, From what I understand over at Woodside, where it used to be, which they closed, they had 30 beds over there. Some of these kids belong in prison, but they're not old enough to be there. They will be in prison someday, some of them, which is too bad. But yeah, nobody in the state really want it. And they don't give a price, do they? I didn't see anything. I did not either. Well. It's just so big. I just can't get over how big, I mean obviously that's like a plan, but like, it's massive. These need one quarter of this. Also looks pretty nice. You know, maybe they're saying 14, just so that the neighbors don't, like, you know. And there's really 60. Yeah. Just taking kids from other states. Yeah, maybe that's possible. Because 14 people, 14 beds. Do you think they have bunk beds? So that's really just like seven rooms like Yeah Maybe but then again, that means all the rest is some form of I don't know education training hopefully medical offices They probably got 30 people that work there, right? More than they have kids You would hope I just a couple more things Vermont was going to pass a landmark data privacy bill, but girlfriend, turns out Senator Hinsdale is not a big fan. All right, so she's kind of jamming it up. Let'see, what did she say that struck me? She said, there are unintended consequences. We talk about a strong law that impacts businesses primarily. You're exposing them to litigation from anyone in the country who wants to look at a small entity that could be an immigrant business, could be a small non-profit, it could be a number of really small vulnerable entities brought under this bill, and they could sue them. And they should if they're violating the law of the bill. And she went on to say, so this bill is aimed to not let businesses take your data so they can give you all the spam calls you were mentioning earlier. She said, what did she say? She said, the data will be used to serve up subsequent targeted advertising. Which of course, no one wants. But she says, businesses have always conducted targeted advertising in some way. Online data collection and targeted advertising, she equated online data collection targeted advertising to a customer walking by a storefront and looking at a dress in the shop window. Shop owners would want to talk to the prospective customer. That's not the same thing. No. It's not the same thing as me like buying something and now I'm getting endless spam and phone calls. When's the last time you were walking by a window and was looking at something in the window and then the owner came out to talk to you? I was thinking the same thing. Never. Never. Yeah, when did she go shopping? 1945? Right. Like, I was at the hat store. So, also, the difference between what she said is that requires effort on the shop owner. It's not all automated, which requires zero effort. Right. Like, the shop owner's not gonna go out and talk to a thousand people. Right. But they can easily automate that if they have the customer data. That's the difference. Boy, she's becoming our least favorite person in Frontier. I long for the days of Molly Gray. Right. Where's Molly Gray? Where's Molly? Where's Molly Gray, actually? I don't know. I mean, Molly Gray is probably doing great. Right. She's probably on a boat somewhere. She's probably fine. But yeah, this data thing is going to get jammed up, so. Fail. All right, last one before the break. Like, do y'all know about the Manchester vampire? No. Never heard of it. Or him, or is that? No, you have gender bias towards vampires. Right. No, I was trying to think of all the other, yeah. Women are also vampires. Or, whatever. I mean, I mean. No, I agree. I'm gonna cut that and like just amplify it. I agree, women are vampires. So, in the early 19th century, the quaint town of Manchester experienced a peculiar phenomenon that gripped its residents with fear and fascination. The Manchester Vampire Craze. So this came from a lack of medical understanding, and they thought this woman was able to prey upon the living. So, I'm reading this now for the first time, so this woman Rachel Burton they thought that she was a vampire. So, the death of Captain Israel Burton in the early 1800s, he was a respected local figure. He succumbed to tuberculosis, but his demise was met with suspicion. They believed that his spirit had transformed into a vampire, returning from the grave to prey upon his surviving family members. Wow. All right. That's pretty cool. Guess he didn't like his family much. Well, you know, you always hurt the ones you love. So they started doing something called vampire exhumation. So this involved exhuming the bodies of suspected vampires and implementing various rituals to prevent them from rising again. So they would pierce the heart of the deceased with a wooden stake, often made from ash or hawthorn, to ensure their permanent demise. And you said it was a lack of knowledge, medical knowledge. I mean, look, people are dumb. Yeah. Let'see. As medical knowledge improved, the vampire craze gradually waned. Yeah, they just kind of learned more and they got, they wisened up. But it also happened in Woodstock. Again, someone died of tuberculosis and they believed he'd become a vampire. Why, what's the connection between tuberculosis and vampirism, do you think? So the guy who died, his father, ordered the exhumation of his son's body and the removal of his heart, which was subsequently burned. It sounds like different recipes, doesn't it? Different vampire recipes. And so if you look at the sign of this thing, there's a photo, it says Manchester vampire, thought to be a vampire Rachel Burton was exhumed and burned around 1792 at Jacob Meade's Forge. Her grave lies east of here. But this happened also in Stowe. There was a case in Stowe, there was a case in Highgate. There were a lot of vampires in Vermont at that time. Yeah. Or if they're still around. Hopefully. Hopefully. We need more vampires. Alright, y'all ready for a break? Yep. Alright, the song is from a somewhat kooky hip-hop collective from Newfane. This is Sleepy Spectre with the Tumble Bus. Here it is. I'm afraid to leave your inhibitions in the place I'mma be a monster, ripped out my own tonsils Through Monte Carlo, eating all your waffles Bust a three flip on your grave Continue to play shit, got time to save God save the queen and taste the flame Ya boy got ice cream, come and stay On the patio, I'm nasty like a scrappy hoe I'm going to go lock in the crib after I shat out a sloppy joke Sleepy Specter Banana's growing tick tock This song is just a mess, not the best I confess The rest of the beef's just the course it repeats It'short like mini-me but it's a short recipe See, we don't wanna stress our feet Not now, we got poorly written lyrics that caress the beat We don't want no trouble, we don't want no fuss, just a little scuffle on a tumble buss. Some guy set himself on fire today outside Trump's trial. What was his message? I don't know. I just saw it was a blurb on Twitter. Today is actually a very auspicious day in the world of right-wing extremism. Is it? Yeah, this is Waco Day. It's also the day Timothy McVeigh blew up the whatever building, what was it, the Oklahoma? What did he blow up? The federal building. Yeah. There's a bunch of stuff that happened on this day. Like, let's look at April 19th bombs. Do you think they're all in cahoots? No, it's definitely, yeah, they're all like. Let's all, like, they all called each other up and said, hey, let's all do this on April 19th. Yeah, 80 killed in Waco. Timothy McVeigh was at Waco. Oh, that's, oh. And 168 killed in Oklahoma City bombing. I didn't realize it was that many people were killed. I didn't know that either. Yeah, yeah. A lot of them were kids. Oh, cool. Yeah, so I'm not surprised that I chose this day, because it's definitely April 19th, tragic events. Oh, Boston Marathon bombing. Also April 19th. Wow. A killing spree in Nova Scotia. Compared to all the other days, how many, this kind of stuff, trauma happens? I don't know, but today's like a big headline day. Also, tomorrow is 420, which is like, you know, super chill day. But also it's Hitler's birthday, which is crazy shit happens on that day as well. Man, oh, I would not want to have a kid born on April 19th or 20th. You said Hitler was the 19th? 20th. Oh, OK. What horoscope sign is that? Let'see. What was Hitler'sign? He'such a cancer. No, I think that's June. I think his answer is March. What sign was Hitler? He's a Taurus. Bullheaded. I just read a quick thing that it had nothing to do with Trump. This guy's a conspiracy theorist on finances and all that stuff. They've already identified the guy. CNN was live when the guy did it. How did he do it? I don't know. Of course, they weren't going to show the video. Self-immolation is such a commitment. Yeah, exactly. Oh man, oh well, let's move on. So all the people filming this didn'try helping him, they just like, I can't miss it. You're not gonna get near somebody who's, I mean, gasoline. Yeah. Especially if you see him do it's not like he like, fell in a fire and he's rolling around trying to get himself out. He clearly had a plan. Yeah, it's not like a puppy in a house that needs to be saved. He did it on purpose. this. Phew. Hitler was a Taurus, sorry. What's the 19th? That's probably Taurus or on the cusp. So yeah, he'so he was born. So he's on the cusp between Taurus and Aries. Aries is the Ram. Yeah. So this person's conclusion is, he fits both. He's powerful. People listen to him. He's demanding. He wanted what he wanted. That's a way to put it, right? Yeah. Jesus Christ. He wanted what he wanted. I want the world. You know, Hitler, just a starry eyed optimist, you know, just going after a dream that all Jews would be exterminated. Are we taping? Yeah, we're taping. Oh, good. Confident, as was evident in the way that held himself. Hitler was a Jesus Christ, who wrote this? Some Nazi. I'd get off it if I were you. Yeah, government's tracking me now. Are you all ready to come back? Yep. Yeah. We're back. All right. So, yeah, weird week of news, lots of random things all over the state. So Alzheimer's cafes are popping up. Memory cafes is what they call them. It's catchier than Alzheimer's cafe. And so these are things that are just a time at local libraries where it's like an hour, hour and a half for activities, conversations, support for people experiencing Alzheimer's personally and importantly, tangentially. So if you're like a family member of someone, I will always read Alzheimer'stories. It's like one of my biggest fears. I'm almost certain that I'm going to have dementia. Why? I don't know, I feel like... You've done too many drugs? No, I haven't done that many drugs. I mean, more than you but less than Matt, I bet. A little acid never hurt anybody. Yeah, I probably took acid during the wrong time of my life. Like, my brain probably wasn't in its only form yet. See? Well, that could be one reason that you have this thought. Once I hit dementia age, maybe I'll just start doing acid all the time. Like, does he have dementia or is he just a funky dude? Now, what, as far as, if doctors told you have this, what would you do? Like, I have this now or I have this coming soon? If you were like 60, and they say you have early dementia, what would you do? I don't know. I would probably... Well, I've got a baby on the way, so let's add some thought there. I don't know, man. I would probably... I think some people would say I'd just kill myself or something. That's what my dad would do. But I probably wouldn't do that. I'd probably just try to record myself in different ways for my progeny, you know, like whether it's like through a microphone or like through written word or something just to like leave a record for stuff that like I can't I won't remember soon or that I can't express. Like memento. Yeah. Or like, who's that country singer that had it and like... Glen Campbell. Yeah, it was a song like I'll Never Remember You or something. He had some song that was like very sad. Yeah, it's one of the worst things anybody could have. It is. It's like, it just kind of undoes everything you did your entire life. Because you're physically, a lot of times you're physically in fine shape. It's just your brain doesn't work. We just watched a movie about that. Remember, oh, it has James Garner in it. Oh, The Notebook. The Notebook is about Alzheimer's? The romantic movie? Brian Gosling? James Garner? See, it's like when he's very young and now when they're very old. So when the movie starts, you don't even know that they were married. And so it's like the story is unraveling from the future back to all those... Gina Rollins is in a home, she's the older version of, I can't even remember who the woman was. Amy Adams. Amy, no? Rachel McAdams? Rachel McAdams. Yeah, the other McAdams. I always get my Adamses mixed up. It was that good? Ryan Gosling. Y'all are describing one of the most popular movies of the last 20 years. Really? The Notebook? Oh yeah. Really? What do you think The Notebook has earned worldwide gross? I didn't know. I mean... So anyway, but in the story, she's in a home, and he lives there too, and he reads her this thing out of a notebook. It's the story of their life. You don't really know that at first, although I knew it, because I figured it out very quickly. Yeah, it wasn't, you know, it wasn't a rom-com, but... No. It did have me in tears. Really? Did I? You? Did it? Wait a minute, I can't remember. Well, probably you too. No, I didn't. No? No, I didn't. I watched it one time during spring break. We went to Panama City Beach, but it was raining. So there was like a bunch of people stuck inside. And we put on the notebook, but I don't really remember it because I was on a bunch of acid. No, I'm just kidding. But were drinking, so I remember the gossiping parts, but not the whole thing. Yeah, it was okay. Yeah. Made you cry. It did. Not that's good, but okay. I liked it. I wouldn't want to see it again, though. Because I know I'll just start crying again. And that makes it worse, just knowing it's coming. 7.8 IMDb. That's good, isn't it? That's very good. Very good. That'surprisingly high for that movie. Over 600,000 reviews. What was the take? Less than I expected, but this was 2004, so 115 million worldwide. That's pretty good. Yeah, budgeted at 29. I think I would be one of those people that killed myself. Yeah? I don't have any kids, you know, I mean Gloria, but she doesn't want me to... She wouldn't want to take care of me, right, if I didn't know where I was? What's the difference? I never know where I am. He takes care of cats and stuff. I don't know. I wouldn't want to be... I don't know. Would you kill yourself in a very thrilling way, like jump out of a plane or something? No, I wouldn't. That would be too scary. I don't know how I'do it. I say that, but I probably won't end up doing that. Right. Yeah, people say like, oh, I'll kill myself if I get to be 85. It's like, well, the day before you're 85, you probably don't want to do that. You're probably like, let's go to 86. Let's have dinner with friends. Yeah, right. I booked a vacation. Alright, so those are memory cafes. If you are struggling with Alzheimer's or some of your family is, so just check those out. This one is popping up in Middlebury and looks like they are all over the place. Barrie, Bennington, Enosburg, Ludlow, Rutland, Brattlemore, Chester and Wilmington. All right. Now for something completely different. We have a new Miss Vermont. They still have these things. Her name is Mira Siri, which is such a it's an old lady name. Mira Siri. It is. Hmm. Are you sure it's pronounced Mira? How do you pronounce it? Miura or Miyabara? It's definitely not Miyabara. She's not Transylvanian. Miura? Miura? M-I-A-R-A? Like Ann Miura? I don't know. Remember her? No. Who's Aunt Miura? No, I don't know who that is. What's his name? There's a comedy duo. and he was George's father on Seinfeld yeah and his son is a big movie star Jerry Stiller yeah Stiller and Mara were a comedy duo anyway so she competed three times whoa she failed twice now she got the third time is that a pity crown does she have a pity crown Or maybe they just wanted to get her out of there. I mean, she's 24. She's a little older than I like mine, Miss Vermont. This is more like Madam Vermont. Anyway, we're just joking. I'm sure she's happy. I don't know what she does. She's from Brattleboro. She went to George Washington University, earned a BFA in photojournalism. Good for her. Yeah. Ladies like taking pictures? All right, yeah, good for her. So we have a new Miss Vermont, in case you're wondering. And actually, yeah, if you think about it, she didn't walk away humiliated and never wanting to do it again. She just said, OK, I'll come back and better. Well, and then she did it again. And then she did it again. OK, so this is her story. So I'm glad you mentioned that, because she said that her first appearance, what did she say? Okay, so she said she didn't know what she was doing her first year, but she was super confident. So that's a great combination. I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm doing it great. And then, so she says she was lacking a bit of the polish. The next year, she said she was too polished and wasn't able to convey her personality. So, third time's a charm. She hit that Goldilocks moment. Fake it till you make it. She made it. She's Miss Vermont. We will not remember her name a week from now. Moving on. Castleton University is trying to raise awareness of sexual violence by adding some kind of, I call it an art installation, but maybe that makes it sound more fancy than it is. Just some banners, right? Yeah, just like a bunch of posters around the campus. This installation is called Against My Will, from Vermont artist and activist Tracy Molloy. So, it's just stories of people who are victims of sexual violence, just kind of putting it in a place where you can't really ignore it. Faces are, you know, whited out as you can see, and their story is below. Yeah, I think this is a great idea. It is a big problem on college campuses. Totally. Yeah, extremely. Good for her. I hope people look at it and think about it. But, I mean, sexual predators are... There's not a lot you can do about them. They're just young boys, young men, who are just full of themselves. Yeah, men who feel like, well, you invited me to your room, of course, I know what that means. So the exhibit is on display until May 31st. So if you want to be really bummed out, you're in the Castleton area, like drive on by and have a walk. I didn't realize that Castleton was still open. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, and a lot of those small colleges in the state have closed in the last 10 years. Yeah, they outlasted Goddard. Yeah, that should be their t-shirt. See? All right, something completely different. Again, we're all over the place in this next segment. Local weightlifters in Waterbury set a new state record. So, we got a couple of records here. This guy's got a squat of 435 pounds. That's a lot seems like it. Yeah, I want to see this guy's games a bench of 336 That's a lot. That's a lot. I think the mats verifying like Sounds like a lot deadlift of 217 Yeah, so he He's 181 pounds. So I guess if you do those three things they kind of add up the weight Oh, it's like, yeah, so he's in like the 1200 club, I think is how they phrase that, like do those three exercises. I need to. I'm so weak. So what's your deadlift now? So let's get going. Let me lift Glory over my head. Like a caveman? No, I've never been very strong. Well, you went to the gym a lot. At one time, I was alright. What about you? You still go to the gym. You're a weight guy. Yeah, yeah. I cannot... This guy'stats are way more than mine. I'll say that. I can't bench 325. I can probably do 245. That's great. That's good. I mean, that's like... You know, I haven't done anything for a couple of days. I go there, rip one off. I'm like, all right, I'm good. I can't do like 10 in a row or anything. He rips one off and then he does the weights. All right, moving on. Salute you local weightlifters. I put this story down when the week was looking pretty grim. It was a slow week. Staying in Waterbury, the Waterbury community is celebrating the groundbreaking on Stowe Street Alley. I put this on here because what the hell? This is right by the Stowe Street Emporium. I think that's the place you like. I love going there, yeah. So what is this? It's an alley. I don't know what this... I don't know. I've walked that alley. Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light. Okay, so when you walked the alley, what did you think? It's an alley. I mean, you know. Objectively. Yeah. Growing up in Newark, we had plenty of alleys. Did you feel like that alley needed some revitalizing? Yeah. You walk around and you're like, this alley is not quite up to New Jersey standards. It's an alley between the Stowe Street Emporium and the La Strada Bakery. The goal is to turn it into a fun, safe place for people to look at art, listen to live music and engage in others in the community. What a great idea! Yeah. Okay, so you feel like this place is gonna get some traffic? Because I'm looking at this photo and it looks like a... Drury? Yeah, it's like an alley. It is an alley. Like, looks like you walk in there, you're not walking out. Right? Unless you got a shovel like these people. Fight people up. Oh my god. Yeah. This is such a weird story, really. It is very weird. Well, more power to all. Not much going on. Speaking of not much going on, over there in Panton? Ponton? Panton. Panton? Panton. Paton. Peton? I mean, wait. Peton. It's Panton. Peterson. It's Addison County. It's Panton, I think. Panton. Because we don't pronounce certain letters here in Vermont. Panton. Oh, they're nasal. Yeah. Pantin. Are you sure? Pantin. It was in Addison. So, it might become home to the Vermont's largest solar array. Wow. 300 acres? Wow. Nearly 230 football fields. That's big. Wow. I mean, I guess I would say why not? Because the people who live there don't want it? To which I would say, why not? This person, right in her backyard, Cindy Cook's backyard. It's a crime. It's just tragic. I feel like it's tragic. I just think all those panels are going to be devastating, not only to our landscape, but to all the wildlife in the area. OK, so here's a question. Does it have to be? So I don't get the impression they're knocking down trees. This is just like an open area. Sounds like a big field that they used to pay. So if we put a bunch of panels, could they be elevated in such a way that the squirrels can still run around and stuff can still live? Do they have to be right next to each other? They can be kind of spread out? Am I being Pollyanna-ish about this? I mean, they're high enough where even sheep or something could come in there, which is probably what they want to do, It's going to eat all the grass around it, but deer and moose might not be able to move through the air. Moose with their antlers, you know, moose are just kind of, you know, they go where they want. If a moose wants to stop at that solar array, they'll stomp through the solar array. The moose has to go around. Go around, moose. Yeah. Go around, moose. But wait, maybe, you know, that's not right. Why? At least it's a route. Well, routes change. So moose have rights? I think they do. But moose don't know. If a moose is walking this way, you turn him and he's walking that way. I'm walking this way. Imagine a voice in a moose's head. I imagine it's just like a trombone. That's it. There's no words. No voice, the moose is not like, interesting, a solar array. I wonder why this is here, is this actually providing enough power to the residents to justify them damaging the landscape? Blocking my way? Yeah, I wonder how Sidney Cook feels about this being in her backyard. Well, I mean, this is another one of those things not in my backyard, you know? Yeah. I heard some people talking about, this is about Florida, it's not about Vermont, how when they, this is someone from a solar panel company, they said when they used to install solar panel in the 90s, people would always say, can you put it in the back, I don't want anyone to see it. But they're like, well, actually, it should be like north facing or whatever, like some directional facing, south facing, okay, yeah. Wow. I know that. Didn't realize that I really had a couple of sun experts in front of me. I lived off the grid for 11 years. Okay, so it should be south-facing, but now it's the opposite. People are like, can you put it in the front? Like they kind of want to show off that like, everybody should know it. Look how modern I am. If I'm putting these things in, I want everybody to see it. It's like having a satellite dish in the 80s or whatever. Yeah. Thank God those things are gone. No, they're not. I see them around every once in a while. Yeah, but they're probably not working. Oh, no, they're just sitting there rusting. So, Glo, you're anti-solar array? No, I mean, we've said, we've talked about this before. What's going to be worse, a solar array or the other thing that could happen? What's the other thing? Housing development. Right? Rather have solar. I'd rather have solar. I mean, if you have to choose between the two, You know, it'sorry, solar. I don'think it's on here, but did you see there's like a local people were like patting themselves on the back for like a new housing development? Like, I think it was like North Prospect Street somewhere around there. And like, oh, it's affordable. They did not say the price at all in the entire article. Wow. It's like, well, how affordable is it? You don't even say it's not really affordable. It's like those other ones that we talked about, you know, off on Spear Street. Yeah, that's like ruined. I mean, UVM is not going to farm there anymore because of them, you know, so they're encroaching upon any farming that's left anyway. Yeah, that's one of them. Moving on. Yep. Moving on. Oh, Glow. Uh-oh. Dang it. How did we miss this? We missed the first annual Momo eating contest. Momo? If we had Glow's events, you know, if she was keeping us abreast of all these important goings on happening around Vermont, we would have known. First annual Momo. Oh, is that like, yeah, like that. It's a dumpling. Yeah. How many momos do you think you could eat, Matt? I'm like right around eight. You do eight? Well, I mean, the ones we get from Costco. They're kind of, they're not the same. Yeah, yeah. You know, I don'think, maybe they're not even momos. Yeah, those are, how about you? Man, eight seems like a lot. Well, it could probably be maybe five. I'd like to think I could do eight, but I don'think I could actually do eight. Usually when my wife and I go to the farmer's market, I think we get six and we split them, and I'm pretty good after that. That's filling, I think. But if I was competitive, I don't know. I guess it depends on the size of the momo. That's true. Who in the hell is a competitive momo eater? So what do you do? I'm a competitive momo eater. By day, I'm a secretary, but at night, They didn't say how many the person ate or anything else. Thank you, WCAX, for hard-hitting reporting. Who won? And they each had two bottles of water. Oh, just only two people? Oh, two people? No, no Oh, how many do you think he ate? I have a number here. 27 minutes. How many? 32. I said 22. He's exactly 22. Wow. Matt, it'second time you're a winner tonight. Oh, man. Just play the lottery, man. You're nailing it. So this is on Williston Road, right by Al's French Fries. Oh, I know where that is. It's that little strip mall in front of the- Price Shopper? Price Chopper on Willison Road. The little tiny Price Chopper. Oh, oh, okay. There's a lot of people competing. Really? Well, I'd say a lot. I mean, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. 22 momos in how long? Seven minutes. That's three momos a minute. I'm always amazed by these people who eat these things for a living. I'm amazed they want to do it. I mean, really. Ugh, I can't even think about it. I don't even want to watch them. I can't watch it. Your day before and your day after must just be miserable. I mean, just like, not even just like the size of the food, but like, I'm guessing this stuff is full of sodium. You know, like, I'm guessing like you're... Ugh. And then you can't drink water, because you'll blow up. Like Monty Python. Gloria with a Monty Python reference. Wow. I didn't have that on my bingo. I get these videos of people who, that's what they do for a living, is go to these restaurant challenges where they eat 72 ounces of steak in an hour or something. I don't know how they do it. One of them is a woman. Miki, Miko, Mika something. No, this is an American woman. Yeah, I know. She's American. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is a blonde. Oh, you know her boyfriend or something both do it Joey chestnut man. Yeah My hero. Yeah, he's the king the hot dog king Joey chestnut. Yeah What you like the name? I love the name It's amazing that we know somebody who eats hot dogs a A lot of hot dogs for a living. His name is Joey Chestnut. Oh really? What's he do? Besides eat hot dogs? He does a lot of competitive eating. He's known for hot dogs. Is he skinny? Yeah. I figured. He'skinny? I knew it. I didn't have the answer, I knew it. I don't even know why I asked. Yeah, they're not large people. No. They're generally small people, or thin, who can just, I don't know what they do afterwards. Purge? Yeah, can you imagine, like, just the... I don't want to get gross, but like... Vomit? I was thinking more like the other end. Really? Yeah, get the stick out. This thing's... Get the breakdick out. Oh my gosh. Yeah, if you have 22 momos in 7 minutes, your bathroom time is going to be unpleasant, to say the least. And anybody else who uses that is going to be unpleasant. I was also thinking that. Thank God. Anyway, Momo. Moving on, Brattleboro is doing a community art installation thing. And so in Brattleboro, they asked community members to bring pottery, chipped plates, trinkets, tiles, mirrors, and other weather-resistant objects to Pliny Park to smash. Smash. Why do you wanna do that? Because they're gonna take all the pieces and make a mosaic mural. Oh, I see. So people get like that cathartic release of like, these are my mother's pots, I hate them, My mother smash! Okay. So it's actually the people bringing this stuff that get to do the smashing. Yeah, they said over 200 people of all ages showed up. Really? People just like to break things. Yeah. Really? I have no desire for that. They have a reason for it. Really? I can break things. They want me to break things. Yeah, I feel like if you like if you like, you know, like homes do like if you're watching like HGTV There's always like demo day where they break up the home and stuff. Yeah, I feel like you could charge people And they would do it They would versus paying people to do it Like if it's like imagine it's like a bachelor party and I'm like, hey guys Before you are like, okay, you've had like one you've gone to one brewery in between stop at this home Everyone gets a sledgehammer and just demo. Oh, you know Yeah a bachelor party with 25 year olds just get oh, here's your sledgehammer is your sledgehammer, you know Blow things up. Maybe whatever. Yeah Wow, you don't have the urge to smash glow. I don't I have the urge to fix No, I think you've had the urge to smash me Cuz you can't fix it. Yeah, games can't fix me. So yeah, this is a kind of a fun thing in Broward Borough. Moving on. Essex is hosting a gigantic indoor flea market. It's WOKO. I don't know what WOKO stands for. Do you have any idea what WOKO is? Is that a radio station? It's WKO. It's a country station. WOKO. That seems like not what you would want to name your country station. WOKO. Woke. The Woke. Oh, oh yeah. Woke. Woke-o. Yeah, so, you know, just a bunch of vendors, and it says inexpensive price, we'll see about that. And so this is happening indoors, Essex, every, once a month, April, October to April? So it just ended. Where the hell is this story from? Okay. Damn it, Glo, if we had known about this- I know! I know, I know, I'm slacking. Wait, it costs $3 to get in?$3 to get in? I can pay to shop at your flea market? No. Not like this. The tables are rented for $30 to $35. Can you imagine the garbage that's on the tables? No. When my wife first visited, my wife is from South Korea, anyone who doesn't know, when she first visited Florida, I took her to the Frontenac flea market. Wow. She was just like, what is this? All I could see was people just selling their stuff. Revolted, huh? Yeah, she's like, she couldn't understand. She's like, well, who would buy it? I'm like, you got people selling crap, you got people buying crap, and they're the same people. And then we walked down this one aisle, and it was just guns for like probably six tables. And she's like, I can just buy one? I was like, well, you can't, but I could. She's like, no. She's like, you just buy a gun? And I'm like, yeah, like, why couldn't you? And she's gonna wrap her head around it. It's true. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah, I'm not. I used to go to a flea market in Berkeley, but it was a block from my house, but I never really bought much. I feel like a Berkeley flea market is a higher level. Yeah, it was. I mean, I really wasn't looking for anything, you know, buy shit. Put my house, you know, baseball cards, if I can see those, you know, what do I want with a lamp or a plant? People selling plants. I don't know, I'm not buying any plants. I barely keep myself alive. That's why you have me. That's right. She keeps me alive. Constantly repressing the urge to smash you. All right, moving on, Matt, we got a mystery. Yeah, somebody is mailing Winooski residents $200. In cash? Yes. Do they take it to the bank first to have it checked? No, it's bills. It's bills. It's cash. Bills, dollar.$200 bills. Yeah. What they're asking you to do is take one and give somebody else the other. Couldn'that somebody be my wife? Could be. Here. Loophole. No, the reason I put this on is a woman that I know, this happened to her. She got $200 in the mail. No. She's a lifelong Winooski resident and for some reason somebody sent her $200. Take one and pass one. If you really need them, keep them both. Who do you think is doing this? I have no idea. What a good question. You? Yeah. So each envelope postmarked from Burlington Oh, maybe it is me. Contained the same amount of cash and the brief message printed on a small sheet of paper headlined Ripples. Okay. So another, let'say, one person posted a photo of their letter on Reddit, which led to speculation about its origin. Another user guessed that the message was referencing the classic Grateful Dead song, Ripple, which has lines, Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty, if your cup be full, may it be again. So some deadhead is out. What a weird thing. Grateful Dead are like Bob Dylan, where it's like, if you like it, you... No one's like, I kind of like them. No, it's either you hate it or you love it. Yeah, I can't stand Grateful Dead. I like that one song, Touch of Grey, it's okay. But that's probably the one that everyone goes, oh, that's their commercial hit. Like all the other stuff, it's like, where's the song? Y'all are just going, it's like... Yeah, I don't know. But, it's kinda cool. It's very cool. Mystery 200 bucks in the mail. I wonder why 200 bucks, I wonder how many people they've mailed it to. Like, what's the endgame? Is this some kind of a social experiment? What's going on here? Could be a social experiment. To see what happens. That's interesting. And how do they get their names? How do they choose the people? Nobody knows who's doing it. How do they keep track of who has sent a letter with another, with a 100? 200. 200?$200. So am I supposed to, I get 200, I keep 100 and then I mail 100 to somebody else? That's weird, I- Just give it to somebody, give it to somebody who needs the money, some person you know. Like if I had a nice mailman, I could give it to him. I get it now, okay. Pass $100 on to somebody. Oh, so it dead ends. I kept thinking, oh, it's almost, you know, like, to keep it going. You remember the old friendship cake thing? I guess. You're about to get weird. Friendship cake? There was a cake that you needed a starter. It had the right bacteria and yeast and whatever it was in it. And the only way to keep it going was to pass it along to your friends. So, yeah, I did friendship cake for... And it also, every time, came with a recipe on how to make a cake, but also how to keep the batter and keep it going. That sounds gross. I've never heard this. You never heard that? No, I'm not... It's like spitting in a cup or something and passing it, right? I didn't hang around with shamans. You and your shaman cake making friends. Alright, another break. Okay, yep, let me pull up the music real quick. Oh, what do we got? Wait a minute, breaking news. Dee dee. Glow with a breaking news I looked up friendship cake and it even popped up Friendship cake starter See? Starter for friendship fruitcake recipes Oh, it's fruitcake Well, mine wasn't fruity but Was your friend? Haven't heard that in a while Yeah, I mean, it's a 30 day French, did I miss something? I was going to say, my father used to tell me this is one of his go-to jokes. California, the land of fruits and nuts. And that's a ignorant man describing a place he's never been. He doesn't listen to this, does he? This podcast. I know. I mean, I haven't lied yet. So he can't get mad. Yeah, there's like Amish friendship cake starter. See? I mean, I'm teaching you something. Look, I'm teaching you something I really care less about. Amish friendship cake? Sounds like a euphemism for some kind of dirty sex move. Yeah, you don't expect them to have any pleasure. The Amish? Yeah. Maybe they do. Maybe it's from eating fruit cake. Maybe they have the ultimate pleasure. That's why they're like, we don't even need electricity, we get so much pleasure in the bedroom. Yeah, it's always dark, right? Kids can't come in and turn the light on. Yeah, we got those Amish down pat now. We know exactly how they live. It's always dark. No such thing as candles. Batteries. Can Amish use batteries? I have no idea. No, I didn'think. I was like, there's no way they can use batteries. Like, that would be such a loophole. They're like, no electricity, but solar power. Glow, have we broke the news, which is actually not breaking the news. Oh, you want me to get the, oh, what is the origin of the friendship cake? I hope it's Attila the Hun. Yeah, yeah If it wasn't for the religion, you know what I mean? You know, during like the, like, okay, so there was this time in the pandemic where like, the NBA shut down, Tom Hanks had COVID, like, and for like a week, people freaked out. We were all Amish for like a week. Like, no one was driving, no one was going anywhere. Yeah, we used electricity, but like. Yeah. And like, what was it, like dolphins came back? It was just like one week of like inaction, like brought the world, like healed the world. So yeah, were Amish for a short time, kind of, were half Amish. Not even close. We were Amish-ish, Amish-ish. Close enough. More like Mennonite. Okay. I think they're like not the buggy so much as. Mennonites can drive. Yes. Mennonites have golf carts. And they have restaurants in Florida. Oh, right. They serve Amish friendship cakes. It's a, I used to go to a Mennonite restaurant in Bradenton, Florida. It was, now that I look back on it was very bland food. I was gonna say, what was your go-to? You got a lot of good, you know, like a piece of fried chicken and mashed potatoes and green beans or something. And the pie, they were most famous for pies. But it was generally no salt, no pepper, nothing. It was just like, I don't know. So Mennonite's not big on flavor? It's not flavor- No, there's no, they're not big. Yeah, it wasn't very flavorful. They were busy, but I heard they closed, so people gave up on it. Anyways. All right. Well, I think we're done. There's no interruptions. We can introduce our break music. This is a duo, I'm probably gonna say this wrong, Bergadler. You want me to pronounce it? Yes. Bergadler? Okay, that's not what I said. The only way I know is because the way you pronounced I can't pronounce it. I just can't pronounce words. If you can't pronounce it, I can't. This is Burg Adler, Matt and I are in agreement. This is a duo out of Montpelier. The song is Solid Veronica. Curtains of pale green and blue Cooled on the floor Ugly old ceiling fan I'm going to make a small chest of drawers. The sun is just coming up. Two screens of glow. They think that I'm solid. They think that I know. A crooked, cold apple tree Piled up with snow. You are invisible Initial death flow Threatens to drop a branch And never bears fruit They think that it'solid Have not seen its roots But she is me She is me I'm going to make a strawberry tart. Well, I guess we're back. All right, Matt, it's time for America's favorite segment, where we run down the worst people in Vermont for the week. The lowlifes. The ne'er-do-wells. It's always the same. It's like, I'meaning to write it down, I can't. I'll never get to do it. So anyway, hold on, hold on, let me give me something. I already used assholes, so. No. Okay, you made me want to skip. You don't want to say anything? Like all that build up for nothing? At least say something. You can just curse if you want. Do like it's fine. No, no, just can't. Come up with about scuzzball. Please. Oh, sleazeball. Maybe slime ball. Okay, slime ball. Back in Jersey. There's a little some little kid outside some teenager messing with stuff you Hey, get out of here you fucking kid. All right. Dirtbag. Alright, Matt, it's time for... The Scumbag Map. Alright, so we start with... Whoa, a fucking kid. A New York teen wanted in New York. Murder. Arrested in Vermont. Now, I need a point of order from the scumbag committee here. Do we claim this one? Yep, because he's been He's been investigated for murders in Burlington and Enosburg, or Burlington and other places. Yeah, I guess we do. Yeah, he's, uh, where was it, something, uh, has ties to Burlington. He was taken into custody in Enosburg, he's wanted for a murder in New York. Yeah, but I also think he's being investigated for some stuff that was going on in Burlington. Okay. He's 16 years old. He's got kind of a cool name. Christian Concepcion? mm-hmm doesn't make him cool well you know I'm guessing he belongs to a gang and man 16 fucking killing people that's just that's giving up I'm just saying like there's other things in life besides okay you grow up in New York City you end up in Enosburg Vermont to murder someone to murder something you I think he took the bus. I guess he could drive himself. It's quite a drive. Yeah, so he will be hopefully charged as an adult. He's charged as an adult in New York. So hopefully Sarah George does not decide that. Keep him here. Oh, we can't extradite him. This guy seems like he'd be a really good firefighter. A good police officer. Oh yeah, he's a good police officer. All right, moving on. Hardwick man gets a knife pulled on him by the person he was giving a ride to what some guys hitchhiking you pull over give him a ride he tries to knife you I mean there's no honor among thieves anymore like let's not do that so it don't really say if he was a hitchhiker right oh it's a big ride he pulled out a knife I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. What do you think? Do you think it was like some kind of a... Could have been a... Some kind of... A little bit like that. A little bit near the rest stop. I don't know. A little toe-tapping on the rough side? Yeah. Sorry, I'm chewing all this delicious licorice that Glo gave me, which we're not gonna talk about. Panda licorice. Yes. And went through great extents to get to it. Oh, yeah, were... Yeah. So, wait, is this a lady? Brooke? Brooke is never a man's name, is it? Brooke is a woman's name. I just want to make sure, like, they know if, like, this is, like, a Shannon Courtney situation where, you know, it changes. Maybe this guy got a little handsy. Brooke pulled a knife on... Oh, now we're victim-blaming. She did steal his car with him trying to... and dragging him behind, but uh... Dragged several feet before letting go of the door handle. I think with stories like this, there's always some information that is left out that we don't know. So you think he went for the reach? He could have been for the reach. It's a whole switchblade. I mean, good for Brooke. I mean, if you're hitchhiking, you should probably have a knife on you. Yeah, mace or something. Something, right? Laser gun? Or taser gun? Laser gun. Are you a storm trooper? If you're a storm trooping hitchhiker. When do you ever see hitchhikers? Not much anymore. No, I usually don't anymore. Because I think Republican Adam thinks the vagrants are getting lazy. They take the bus. Yeah, I think that's right, man. They don't have that check. They don't walk. The bus is free now, right? No, they just started charging again, I believe. But it was free for a while. When you used to see hitchhikers, I'd be driving with my wife, we'd pass a hitchhiker, I would always make the same joke, oh, let's pick him up. And she never, like, I think she thought I was serious 100% of the time. No, no! Of course you're not going to pick him up, like what the hell? Were you a hitchhiker? I don'think I've ever hitchhiked. I know Glo hasn't. I did. Did you hitchhike? Yeah, in Portugal. I went from all the way south to all the way north, either. All the way south. I've already told that story. I'm sorry, I didn't remember that story. Have I ever hitchhiked? I don'think so. I mean, I've been walking and someone I know has picked me up, but I've never been hitchhiking. I got picked up by a teacher one time. And that's where that story ends. I used to hitchhike a lot when I was young. Really? Yeah. I grew up just on the island that I lived on. We knew everybody. We'd hitchhike, people would pick us up. So they wasn't really hitchhiking because you knew the person? Well, I mean, we could be walking, nobody would stop. But if you stuck your thumb out, you know, it's too hot to walk. Yeah. Yeah, definitely too hot to walk. But I don't really see every once a year, I might see somebody hitchhiking, if that. Yeah, I think it'so there must be such a low success right now, Versus like the 60s or something, you know, yeah, I people used to really get around the country doing it, right? Yeah, that's what it was like riding the rails, which they don't do anymore probably but yeah It's you stick your thumb out. You could pitch I go away from New York to California or something like that Especially like if I had a pickup truck, I'd be like, yeah, I get the backup care. Yeah, you know Like so is it bad manners if I say, okay? This was my hitchhike scenario in my mind Like if I was with my buddy, sometimes he would want to pick up a hitchhiker. And I would say like, okay, if you want to pick up a hitchhiker, you got to get in the back seat, we'll get him in the front seat, and you have to tell him that you have a knife on him. Is that rude? Did you actually say that? We never did it, but that was like the plan. Like, is the guy going to be like, whoa, okay, maybe I'll not hitchhike? Or is that like, the hitchhiker's like, I understand. I get it. I'm a hitchhiker. I have a knife. I also have a knife. So I didn't know like what, like is that a deal breaker for a hitchhiker? Or are they like, yeah, that's part of the deal. That's why I carry a knife with me so I could pick up hitchhikers. I don't carry a knife to pick up hitchhikers, but if I see a hitchhiker, and I'm with my buddy, like, we want to let the hitchhiker know like, Don't get wild here. Don'think we are just sitting prey. Right. The guy behind you has a knife drawn. Is that too far? I'm looking for your verdict, Glo. You're the final say in this. Am I the judge? Yeah, you're the judge, jury. Judge Glo. Yeah. Can you imagine Glo in one of those judge shows? Oh, God. Execution! It was a simple civil matter, execution! She would find both people guilty. Double execution! Get out of my court! I hitchhiked from Miami to Bradenton once in Florida. That's about a six hour drive. Any weird stuff happen? Yeah, we got dropped off in Fort Myers. Is it we? It was my buddy and I. We came back from Jamaica. and I don't know I guess we decided not to take the bus we're gonna hitchhike and we got dropped off in Fort Myers and we're just standing out there hitchhiking and this guy pulls up and like he was a plumber or something he pulls up rolls down his window says what the fuck are you two guys doing in this part of town? He says hop in yeah you know I don't know what he meant I guess It was an African-American section of town. I was gonna say, I know it. And I was like Johnny Winter. I had this really long white hair and stuff, so. But that was the furthest, I mean, and I don't like hitchhiking. Too many weirdos. I don't like sitting next to strangers on the subway. I definitely don't wanna hitchhike. Yeah. So we don't know what happened here. Maybe we're on Brookside. maybe not I don't know I think there's more to the story you never know always is okay going over down up to Derby that's it's right at the border yes it is well so way up there Derby line yeah yes and I've mentioned the library that was built half of it was in Canada and the other half in Vermont so there's actually a line at one time I'm not sure it was the library bibliotech right it was what that's how you in French oh yeah one side if you crossed over the yellow line you were in Canada at the other side and then upstairs was like with the old-fashioned opera thing you know shows they have a stage with a seating for anywhere. Really? Yeah. But since 9-11, I'm sure. Since Al-Qaeda? What do you mean? Yeah, yeah. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, now I have no idea. What did they do? I don't really know how they work that now. I accidentally walked into Canada in the dark, just walking down some nice streets. I had no idea I crossed into Canada at the time. This was a long time ago. This was before 9-11. What happened to you? They put the dogs on you? No, I just turned the corner and realized I was on the wrong side of the customs gate. So I had to walk back the way I found my way. Go right to the library. And go right. Why go through customs when you go through the library? Alright, so this story from Derby. 10 guns stolen from a Derby gun shop. A gun shop and derby? That'surprising So this person showed up wearing a zip-up hoodie and muck boots and put 10 handguns in a shopping bag That's quite a durable shopping bag Why only 10? They're heavy? Yeah Was there only 10 to begin with? So this person, 1145, broke through the front door of Wright's Sports Shop community drive with a pry bar, what's a crowbar? I guess? Yeah. Smashed a shelf holding handguns and made off with a total of 10. So maybe just smash one thing, grab what he could. Smash and grab. Yeah. Put him in a reusable grocery bag, which is an interesting look. Oh, so he's environmentally concerned. What a nice person. I think so. Yeah. See, we're on his side. There's two things he hates, the government and global warming. Yeah, this guy's got a, he's opened up a nice little gun shop of his own now. Selling it to people who shouldn't have guns. Yep. So, which brings me to, what you know about Derby, Vermont? Well, I just told you some. Yeah, I know. About the library. With theater upstairs. Oh, and I remember, at the time you could just walk all around, didn't matter. They, what would happen is they'd have actors or somebody, sometimes there was people running away from the law, that they, all they did was cross over the line in order to avoid capture. Anyway, like, that's it. Wait, they were, they were actors? I'm not sure, actors or anybody. People running up to the library like, oh, now I'm in the historical fiction section. You can't catch me, Copper, because I'm in Canada. Like that? Something like that. Yeah, only upstairs in theater. And Glo, the population of Derby is? 2,932. Close. Not really. 4,579. Ah, damn. More than you think. It just keeps growing. I know. That's what everyone in Derby is saying. All these effin' people, traffic. Derby has four towns, unincorporated villages. BB Plain, Clyde Pond, Lake Salem, and North Derby. They also have the most miles of any road or any town in Orleans County. With 103 miles. But they haven't really... the notable people, which is where I always go, nobody notable. I mean, nobody we've ever heard of. You know, I have a Medal of Honor recipient in the Civil War. Willie Johnson, known as the Little Drummer Boy. Gotta look this guy up now. The Little Drummer Boy. Oh, look at him. He was born in 1850, so he wasn't even 15 years old. That's why he was little. And he won a medal of honor. For drumming. He must be the youngest medal of honor winner ever. When his division was routed during the seven day battles, during the Pensacola campaign, you know me with words, he was the only drummer to come away with his instrument his superiors considered his this a meritorious event given that the regiment's other soldiers had thrown away their guns and equipment to lighten their loads as they retreated as a result he received a Medal of Honor at age 13 he remains the youngest recipient of the award now I'm impressed okay let's actually break this down Right. So he was running, but he wouldn't let go of his drum. But let's also the drum is probably strapped to him, right? Right. Yes. Yes. He got the thing around his neck. Yeah. Oh, you thought the whole time he was running, he was like playing a tune. He's playing faster because he's running. But like, OK, so like the floutist threw his flute and ran. And they're like, oh, that fucking guy, like a coward. But the drummer, like, what the hell? It makes no sense. Well, my question is, how does a 13-year-old get into the army? That kid's got rhythm. Back then? I guess so. They'll take anything. I guess they would. Maybe he's just really good at drumming. Yeah. He was a Gene Krupa. The Neil Peart's of the Civil War. But isn't it dumb that we even had a drummer? Yes, it's like, here we are! Here they come. Oh, you're that drummer? They must really be on top of their stuff. What about the redcoats? They're all dressed in red to stand out, and then with the plumes on their hats. They look like some pimps. Yeah, they didn't really do a good job with it. What is it? The Fife? Is that like the... Yeah, yeah. It's like a... That's the flute. Yeah, what is a Fife? Is it F-I-F-E? How do I spell that? Yeah, it is. Well, now I'm a little bummed because now I realize this guy was born in New York. So he's not really in... They moved to Salem, Vermont, which... Oh, now part of Derby. Ah. So we have a Salem here, too. That's pretty cool. Not anymore. Okay, that's why it's become derby. Fife. The fife is a diatonically tuned instrument commonly consisting of a tube with six finger holes and an embouchure hole that produces sound when blown across. I also produce sound when blown across. Cut that out. No, I don'think so. So anyways, this is how, my question was, how does somebody like this get in the army? That young. His father enlisted in the 3rd Vermont Infantry in 1861, mustered in St. Johnsbury. Willie Johnson was formally enlisted in Company D as a drummer on December 11th, 1861, but was originally denied pay because the regiment's officers thought he was too young. He was 11. In June 62, he was approved to receive pay, which was backdated to his December 1861 enlistment. The regiment's roles at the time of his enlistment lists him as 11 years old and 5 feet tall. 11 years old. That's actually a very interesting life, you know? I wonder what he did with his life. Um, post-war years. Oh, he was wounded. Invalid corpse. He was mustered, I love this word, mustered, out of the service in 1865. Wow. You never know what you're going to find. Because when I looked at the list of people from, notable people from Derby, nobody that really stood out. And then I saw that little drummer boy thing. Wow, that's pretty cool. Well, this is, he's born in St. Johnsbury. Oh, really? On Wikipedia. Look at this photo of him in 1863, so he's either 12 or 13. Looks like a little badass. Right. Oh, it looks like he's carrying the drum. It's not strapped to him, but maybe that's just for the photo. This is such a funny job, like I'm not a soldier, but I keep pretty good rhythm. His rank was musician. Yeah, I didn't know they had that. Wow. He went to Norwich. Makes sense. That all checks out. Nice. All right, moving on to some scumbags. A man arrested in St. Albans arson for lighting an RV on fire. And he's a very handsome guy. Very cheery, would you say? He looks like you'd want him as a waiter. He looks like one of the commanders in Star Wars. One of the aliens. I think he's wearing lipstick. Maybe. So, while a suspicious fire involving an RV was being put out, a nearby home was burglarized. They say that he was identified as a suspect by the homeowner. So, I don't know if the RV fire was like a distraction? Could have been. To burglarize the home? So maybe this guy is just, you know, thinking outside the box. He's like, I light the RV on fire, they run out, I run in, the jewels are mine. Yeah, he's a genius. He's a genius. Yeah, he's a genius, we should celebrate this man, we should respect him in many ways. There will be songs sung about Thomas Lapine, 37 of St. Albans, Leslie Torsh and RV. All right, moving on, there's a problem with thieves and vapes. This is like Supermarket Sweep, when you have like two minutes once you break through that window and all you steal is vape pens instead of turkeys. Yeah, if Supermarket Sweep happened now, I'd be getting like razor blades and vape pens. That's all you need. But you'd have to break into the razor blade. Well, I'm Supermarket Sweep, I'm gonna wrap my fist in an old bandana and punch through the glass. So they said these people, so dozens and dozens of vapes, so these broke into a store in Bristol, and they sold $5,000 worth of Loon vape products. That's all they took. They knew what they wanted. That's a lot of money of vape products, like, I have no idea how much, like, a vape pen, a vape refill, a vape whatever else you call them thing is I don't even know the words for it I know how much weed vape pants cost. That was my next question vape but for marijuana? That's a little more expensive. Yeah. So it happened again earlier this month in St. George where they sold $15,000 worth of vape stuff. This sounds like an organized thing. I don't know maybe I mean it means because It's right by the front, right? Like, mostly most cash registers are by the front. So it's just very quick to grab it. And somebody's buying it. There'somebody that's. I'm guessing if you, like, if I'm a 16-year-old and I break into a store and someone wants to vape shit, I can probably sell that at my high school pretty easily. And, you know, like, be done with it in a couple of days, I'd imagine. Yeah. Kids are vaping, man. It's crazy. This is a weird Yeah Imagine us or imagine me What do you think about vaping glow yeah, I don't get it Yeah, it just hurts my throat. I tried it once and with the vape that we got from the Dispensary Oh with marijuana not with like whatever they use like flavored tobacco No, with marijuana and it burned my throat so bad that for like two months I had a sore throat. But what if it tasted like bubblegum? Two months. I almost died. Please stop. Alright, moving on. We have some potential child cruelty charges coming. After in Berlin a child was thrown. Excuse me. Oh, do you like a tissue? I'm good. A child was thrown from a pickup truck. And then the juvenile got back in, and the truck drove away. Yeah, so when I first read this, I thought, kid's in the back of the truck takes a corner, kid flies out. Then I was like, or was someone in the back that threw the kid out of the back of the truck? How do you read this? I think they flew out. I don'think somebody threw them out. It's illegal, first of all, to have the kid back there. Well, come on. Or anything. Because they only arrested... Even livestock. They only arrested the driver. Right, I mean... They only arrested the driver. Not the thrower. If somebody had thrown somebody out, then the thrower would have been arrested. Yeah. Well, I mean, that kid's got to hold on, right? Right? That's on the kids. Hey, that's pre-2000s stuff, you know, get in the back of the pickup truck. Nobody cares. Yeah, we used to ride in the back of those things all the time. I used to, I always think about this. I used to, 1996, I used to always drive around in my Volvo with at least two punk rock kids in my trunk because we couldn't all fit in the back seat. These kids would be in the trunk. Like, how dangerous was that? Like, if I got rear ended, these kids are dead. I didn'think about that, obviously. Well, you were young. Yeah. But yeah, so, I mean, look, if you get thrown out of a pickup truck, either the person driving is going crazy, or you learned a lesson that day. Like, wear a heavier coat. Hold on. Yeah, hold on. yeah cuz this is just like regular growing up stuff like mm-hmm you're in the back of the truck that's just where you sit Chuck's got two seats guess what the bed is unlimited seats yeah it's not illegal wasn't is where I think it is that might be for kids I don't know I think it is how old is this kid is that all such matters doesn't say cuz the kids three I have a whole different take I think on this, if he's 17, like yeah, if this kid's like above, God, probably seven. I'm trying to think like when I was in the back of a truck. Yeah, if you're older than seven, you're probably fine. Right, Chloe? Yeah. You ever in the back of a truck? You grew up back of a truck? No? No. I think once in Portugal, hitchhiking. Yeah. Yeah, actually, yeah. But you were not a kid then? No. All right, last story of the week. Glow, I have a question for you. Got a question for you. Yep, as soon as you walk away. Yep, get back, get back, if I'm cashed. All right, so, let's imagine this is interrogation, right? Okay. I got two questions for you, just tell me yes or no. Okay. Have you ever flung feces at your neighbor or your neighbor's yard? No. Have you ever wanted to? No. Inconclusive. I think that's half true. Oh, you're saying I would like to. I think about it. Not dog feces. That's kind of sloppy. What kind of feces? No feces. Find something else to throw. What if there's nothing else around? Yeah, so it's compost. Okay. I mean, in somebody's bin. Sorry. This bag's making a lot of noise. I think yours will be fine. Enjoy your cashews. So this woman is accused of flinging dog feces on her neighbor's lawn. She was charged with five counts. What's her beef? Okay, so that is a good question. These are her five counts real quick. Trespass, simple assault, disorderly conduct, unlawful mischief, oh wait, there's more than five. Unauthorized use of a vehicle, and aggravated disorderly conduct. So she got disorderly conduct and aggravated disorderly conduct. Wow. Yeah, the double, right? Yeah. We get that very often. That's like double dipping. Yeah. Isn't it really the same? I mean, how much do we have to break it down into a whole category? So she apparently took her neighbor's car and started driving it up and down the road. Yes. When the neighbor confronted her, she knocked him to the ground and stood over him laughing. So she's obviously a crazy person. The next day, she picked up dog feces from her own lawn, not that makes it better, flung it on the neighbor's lawn, then also hung a bag of dog feces from the neighbor's lawn chair. That's gone too far. Okay, now we're too far, now we're too far, okay. Even for you. Um, yeah, so that's when she got arrested. The cop said she became quote-unquote dead weight and he had to kind of like, drag her. Took her to the street on her stomach and she began to spin herself around on the ground and tell the officer she was going to do it all day. So, something happened where this lady was like, I'm done. Like, checked out. Like, I'm not part of polite society anymore. I'm now the car-stealing feces lady. Yeah? Well, her name is Brittany. He's close. Yeah, she sounds a little, um... She has some mental problems, I think. I think so. Anybody who throws shit has mental problems, right? Unless they're monkeys. Well, even monkeys. It's just, well, they're just monkeys. She flung it. Like, do you think it was in a bag? Do you think it was on a stick and she just flung it? Maybe she used her hand? Why not? Because if it was her hand, it would be she threw it, right? Flinging indicates a separate emotion. Some sort of like... sticker. Yeah. Like David taking down Mighty Delight. Why are we talking about this? She's a scumbag. It's in the news, what we do. What else are we going to do? Alright, are you all ready to get out of here? Yep. Alright, peace! Bye. Bye bye. The button is the most dangerous button in the world. You mean this button? Oh, I'm sorry.