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Rumble Strip
by Rumble Strip
Erica Heilman invites herself into living rooms, barns, bars, restaurants and offices to record intimate, surprising conversation about people's lives.
Episodes
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Carl A Different Breed of Cat
Directions to Carl Blaisdell’s house: Go about seven miles down this road. Then there’s a road that kind of goes up to a Jersey farm on the left and then there’s a pond. But there’s no sign to the pond. So after the pond, drive past the pull-off and Carl’s trailer sits way up in a field at the…
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After the Forgetting: A Tribute to Greg Sharrow
This is a show I made back in 2008. I’m running it as a tribute to my friend Greg Sharrow. Greg was one of the first people I met when I came back to Vermont in 2003. I didn’t have many friends, I didn’t have a job or really any plans, and it was the middle of winter. And then I met Greg at his...
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Driving Around With Susan. Again!
This winter Susan Randall worked with the defense on a sentencing case for a high profile multiple-murder here in Vermont. A sentencing is the time for considering the pain caused by a crime. It’s also a time to ask, How did we get here? What happened in the life of this person that led her to do...
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Son Lux
Son Lux is a band that doesn’t live comfortably in any genre. Their sound is massive, anthemic, but it’s also strangely intimate. The rhythms are incredibly complex, and it’s shot through with bright details of sound. The project started in Ryan Lott’s brain in Cleveland, and then it grew by...
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Learning the Trade
The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is mostly small towns separated by miles and miles. Sometimes it’s featured in trout fishing magazines. It also has some of the highest unemployment and lowest wages in the state. Its beautiful place. And it’s a hard place to live. I was up at the St. Johnsbury...
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Four Jobs and Still No Money...
Beth is from Orange, Vermont. She’s 38, she’s got four jobs, and like a lot of Vermonters, in fact a lot of Americans, she’s not making enough money. There's not enough money for food, and there's certainly not enough for her own place. How can a person have four jobs and not enough money? And…
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Emergency
There’s been a huge spike in the number of people with mental health crises visiting emergency rooms. People who are suicidal, homicidal, psychotic. But ER nurses are not trained to treat mental illnesses and the departments are not designed to comfort, to calm or to keep people safe from...
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A Good Death
My friend Tim Kasten died two weeks ago. Ever since I met Tim, he's been preparing for his own death. Partly because he had significant medical issues. But I think mostly he was preparing for his death because he wanted to. Thinking about the impermanence of life gave his life meaning. He was one...
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Sylvan Esso is a Great Band
The first time I learned of Amelia Meath was in an email exchange. She’d written me a nice note about Rumble Strip and at the end she wrote--in rather an understated way--'P.S. I’m in a band. It's called Sylvan Esso.' And because I'm old, I'd never heard of Sylvan Esso. So I looked her up online...
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Scott's Nature
I’ve been reading the news too much. I read every version of the same story in every news outlet, and sometimes I forget I’ve read them and I read them again. I think a lot of people are feeling concerned and even scared. But I thought it would be good to remember some of the important things…
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Police Log, Burning Lawn Chairs Edition
It’s been some time since we’ve heard reports from the police about criminal activity here in Vermont. And I’m sorry to say that so far this summer, it’s been…busy. There’s pretzel-related violence and lawnmower theft. And more trouble at Dunkin’ Donuts. Here’s your summer report from Vermont...
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Police Log Summer 2015
Summer is coming to a close here in central Vermont. It's been awhile since we've heard from the local police logs. This summer there were some problems with odors. A machete also was seen. Here's Scott Carrier reading a sampling from the last couple months' reports to the Times Argus and the…
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Erica Heilman invites herself into living rooms, barns, bars, restaurants and offices to record intimate, surprising conversation about people's lives.
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