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Rumble Strip
by Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman
Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.
Episodes
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Magic the Gathering
This is a show about a game my son used to love that I never understood. It's called Magic: The Gathering, and it’s a card game that's sort of a cross between Dungeons and Dragons and chess. It involves spells and enchantments and creatures and math and strategy. The game was born in 1993, and...
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The Last Chapter
Rob Mermin and Bill Morancy lived in neighboring apartments in Montpelier, Vermont. They were best friends. And when Bill was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he asked his best friend to help him die. In 2013, Vermont passed the The Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act, or Act 39…our...
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Summertime and dead batteries
This is the third episode in a periodic series called Life of Kaye, which is about the life of Kaye, but also about what life mostly sounds like and feels like, day after day after day. This episode is called Summertime and dead batteries. Credits This show is recorded by Kaye Phipps, and edited…
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Places Go
Credits: "Places Go" was produced by Chris Attaway and Cristal Duhaime. The story editor was Mira Burt-Wintonick. The piece originally aired on CBC's Love Me. More episodes of Love Me are available everywhere you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/LMxRS
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Rest in Peace Bonnie Tyler
A few days ago we lost a power ballad hero. Bonnie Tyler is gone. She wrote my favorite song, Total Eclipse of the Heart. Years ago I forced people to listen to me sing this song and then I made a show about it and forced MORE people to listen to me sing it, and talk about turning fifty. So I'm...
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Let's make a show about the fourth of July
This weekend is the fourth of July. The 250th. LET'S MAKE A SHOW ABOUT IT. Record voice memos on your phone and send them to me at [email protected] and I will make a show that sounds like all our holidays together. Conversations, arguments, fireworks, temper tantrums, parades. I'd…
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Life of Kaye: Healthy Dollars
Credits Life of Kaye is produced by me and Kaye Phipps. Thank you karaoke singers! For more information about monthly karaoke in Montpelier, I think you can find information here. Otherwise, do an internet search for Saphen Von Cabbage karaoke and hunt around. Otherwise ask me and I’ll figure it...
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Life of Kaye: Some kind of a speaker
Welcome to a new, periodic series called Life of Kaye. This first episode is called: Some Kind of a Speaker. The series is produced by me and Kaye Phipps. Send us your comments if you have them and thank you so much for listening.
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A Day on the Road with a Visiting Nurse
Home health and hospice nurses provide all kinds of healthcare to people in their homes...day and night, and in mud and snow. I knew of these folks because I met some of them after my father came home from the hospital. A nurse came to help with his medications. A VNA therapist came to give him...
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Ladies' Day at Vermont Quick Lube
Vermont Quick Lube is where I've been getting my oil changed for years, because I love it there. They are fast and nice and they offer coffee. Everyone at Vermont Quick Lube is always in a good mood, even in November or January. Recently I went on a Wednesday and Mike, who runs the register, told...
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A Requiem for Larry Massett
From The Kitchen Sisters Presents: Pioneering radio artist Larry Massett, a producer's producer, who led listeners into unexpected worlds and influenced so many in public radio and beyond, died last year at the age of 80. The Kitchen Sisters were fortunate to work with Larry on our NPR series…
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I Eat the Marshmallow
This is a same-day reaction to this morning’s story called: A springtime show about how about the economy that partly explains why we feel ashamed. That story features a wonderful listener in Scotland who is a money manager and made some fascinating comments about the last class series. I asked…
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A Springtime Show about the Economy that Partly Explains why We’re Ashamed
This is a conversation with a money manager in Scotland who has given a great deal of thought to why many of us feel confused and ashamed about our financial lives. After the What Class are You? shows, I often receive interesting commentary, and I’m always frustrated that this commentary can’t...
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Hold On
This is a story about a song. Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Finn Rooney killed himself in his home in Walden, Vermont. A couple days later, his community held a bonfire in the parking lot of Hazen Union High school in Hardwick. Hundreds of people came. Tom Gilbert, who organized the bonfire,...
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What class are you, Habib and Arwa?
I met Arwa and Habib Meiloud because they’re Anne’s kids and Anne works at the post office in the village here in East Calais. They live in the house right across the road from the post office. Arwa and Habib’s father is from Mauritania and lives out of the country, but both Arwa and Habib were...
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What class are you Kaye?
Kaye Phipps lives in Montpelier, Vermont. Right now she works as a custodian at a local grocery store. She’s also been a florist, a housekeeper, and a house cleaner. But even though she’s sometimes working multiple jobs, she often comes up short. In this episode, Kaye talks about how having a...
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What class are you Jules?
Jules Guillemette grew up on their family farm in Lamoille County, Vermont, which has been in the family nearly 100 years. Since then, Jules has worked as a chef, a meat cutter and now they're an electrician. In this episode, we talk about what it means to own land of enormous value but always be...
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What class are you Trudy?
What Class are You? is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public, which started back in 2022. I wanted to talk with people about growing political and cultural divides without talking about politics or cultural divides. I had no idea how to do it. Then one day I just drove around and asked…
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The Thanksgiving Show
This is a show about Thanksgiving, and what it sounds like. It is made entirely of your recordings. Thank you everyone for sending me recordings. We have made a show that sounds like the whole damn country. Or a lot of it.
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Thanksgiving show SAMPLER
A couple days ago I asked you to send me some recordings from Thanksgiving. I figured I'd give you a little better sense of what I'm looking for. Happy Thanksgiving all! Erica
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Let's Make a Show about Thanksgiving
Let's make a show about Thanksgiving. I have always wanted to do this, and the time has come. Anyone who is willing, I would love you to record a voice memo this week about your holiday. Stories, anecdotes, songs...I don't know. You don't have to speak in complete sentences. It doesn’t have to be...
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An American Life
Music for this show is by Brian Clark, who is awesome.
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The Party
Thank you Phil Edfors of Vermont Public for cleaning up the whale recordings. This was no small feat and I am grateful. The whales were recorded for an oceanic soundscape project at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
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Joslyn House Revisited
Credits Thanks to all the residents who talked with me, and the beautiful Arlene and Becky Wright, managers of the house. My friend Kelly Green produced this show with me. She’s great at this PLUS she’s a great defense attorney! If you're in trouble, call Kelly. Click here for more information on...
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A Barn Update with Forrest Foster
I stopped in to visit with Forrest Foster about his barn project. Here's our conversation.
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Tractor Pull
Williams Family Field of Dreams Tractor Pulls
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Susan Randall. Hold the Line
A couple weeks ago my friend Susan Randall came to visit. She’s a private investigator and we’ve been friends for thirty years and every now and then we get together and compare notes on our lives, and on what the hell is going on. Sometimes we talk about her work, sometimes our kids, once we…
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Zombie Snails
Bryan's substack, Chasing Nature Bryan's article about the zombie snails and some wicked video
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Jay Allison on Why We Should Save Public Radio
Links: Adopt a Station: Where you can donate to your local public radio station or find stations to support Transom: The place where good radio begins Recent New York Times interview with Bill Siemering about the fate of public radio Information on Transom story trainings Rumble Strip episode w…
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Ladies' Pond
The women in this show are: Clare Dolan, Holly Rae Taylor, Alison Bechdel, Deb Fleischman, Annie Greensfelder, Rosana Vestuti and Tamar Cole. Thanks to all the kids and families and dogs and loons and crows that were there that day on the pond. And the trumpet guy. Huge thanks to Chelsea Edgar…
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What class are you Susan Ritz?
This is the last episode in season 6 of What Class are You?, a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Susan Ritz grew up in a wealthy family in Minnesota. For the past 36 years, she's lived in central Vermont, where she writes books and is an active philanthropist. In this episode of "What...
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What Class are You Kytreana Patrick?
Today, episode 4 of season SIX of What Class are You?, a periodic series I make for Vermont Public about living in the American class system. In today’s episode, we revisit Kytreana Patrick, who was a guest from the first class series back in 2022. Back then, Kytreana was working as a cashier at...
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What Class are You Dan Sedon?
Dan Sedon has been working as a criminal defense attorney in Vermont, where he works with poor people and rich people and all the people in between. In this latest episode of What Class are You?, reporter Erica Heilman talks with Dan about what this line of work has taught him about the American...
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What Class Are You Sharon Plumb?
What Class Are You? is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public about our lives in the American class system. Sharon Plumb works for a statewide nonprofit in the outdoor recreation sector. She lives in East Montpelier with her husband and daughter. In this conversation, Sharon talks about the...
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Ralph Figures He Might Have to Work til he's Dead
This is a series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you to Vermont Public for allowing me to run this series on Rumble Strip.
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What Now Sounds Like: The Rapture
This is the fourth episode of What Now Sounds Like, a periodic series comprised entirely of your recordings from all over the world, in which we try to capture these strange times in audio. In this show you hear from Bryce in New York City, Stephanie in middle Appalachia, Tobin making eggs in…
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Hardwick State
This was the inaugural year of Hardwick State, a weekend long university in Hardwick, Vermont, organized by the Civic Standard, and designed to take place during the awfulest time of the year. People from around Hardwick become professors and students. Classes are free, and everyone’s welcome to...
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Death in Venice
Death in Venice is a story Larry Massett produced in the early 80s. Joe Frank narrates, and Larry wrote and performed all the music.
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A New Old Barn for Forrest Foster
We're raising money to rebuild Forrest Foster's barn. This is a very short story (plea) about it. And here is the GoFundMe!!
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A Night on Mount Shasta
Larry Massett was driving up through northern California toward Oregon and ended up spending a little more time at Mt. Shasta than he'd had in mind. Thankfully he had his flashlight in his trunk.
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Drag Out
This is the second show for LARRY MASSETT TRIBUTE WEEK. Larry Massett owned two Porsches, and he talked about them all the time. His friend, Joe Frank, in addition to being one of the greatest radio producers of all time, was a BMW guy. They decided to argue about this, and then have a drag race...
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The Eyes of Sibiu
Larry Massset died last week. He was my mentor and my favorite radio producer. His stories was insane and brilliant and heretical and sublime. I wouldn’t have become a radio producer without his guidance and his stories to inspire me. I’m going to run a series of his shows as a tribute to him.…
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The Haskell Library. A Story about Awful Behavior at the Canadian Border
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was intentionally built to straddle two nations and two communities. Three quarters of the building is in Stanstead, Quebec and one quarter is in Derby Line Vermont, and it's been the local library for both communities for over a century. The main entrance...
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Health Insurance is Hard
This is a show about the challenges of getting health insurance and understanding health insurance and paying for health insurance and using health insurance…even for those of us without major medical challenges. It stars my friends Justin Lander and Kaye. The show is sponsored by East Hill Tree...
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What Now Sounds Like, the AI Isn't Smart Edition
Recordings: In this show you hear from Carolyn and her neighbors on Coits Gore Road in Vermont, Amanda in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, dogs in Atlanta, Jeff Sharlet interviewing Pastor Pete in Holiday City, Ohio, Heather’s kids in Washington DC, Jarod in West Philly, Susan and Stella in...
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2 Seconds of Peace
T.O. got out of prison in Rutland a couple weeks ago, after a six and a half year bid. I met T.O. through my private investigator friend Susan Randall in May, 2017. He’d been a client of hers in a federal public defender case. T.O.’s been in and out of jail his whole adult life, and it’s become a...
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What Now Sounds Like Episode 2
Here is episode 2 of What Now Sounds Like, a show I make that is entirely comprised of your recordings. Desperate times call for desperate show methods. I'm hoping that shows made up of all of us will help us all feel less alone. In this show you hear from: Blake in New York City, James in Sussex...
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What Now Sounds Like
What Now Sounds Like is made by all of us. You send me recordings that sound like this time we're living in, and I make shows with them. It could be an argument, your thoughts in the middle of the night, your songs and hummings....a recording of being on hold with your insurance…
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Diffuse Despair
The world is chaotic. Systems are failing, towns are burning. If you need to make an appointment with your doctor you may have to wait til July. So it's time to make a show about it all. I implore you to record moments of your day and send me the audio and I will try to make a show that sounds…
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What Class are you Tankhun?
What Class Are You? is a periodic series about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives. Thankun Thongjunthoug’s parents each moved alone to the United States from Thailand in their early twenties to make a new life for themselves. They met in Los Angeles, and started a restaurant…
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